Bingo. Since installing Adblock I haven't seen a single one. Particularly nice on those 20- or 30-minute videos where they cram an ad in every 2 or 3 minutes. I used to HATE that, now I just laugh as the progress button just moves right past the little yellow "here's an ad" line without a hiccup.
I think its possible that killing the extension ecosystem may have a positive effect on the memory leak problem because at the very least the mozdevs will not be able to blame the extension devs for the leaks anymore. AFAIK the mozdevs don't recognize that there is a memory leak problem. I think they think they fixed it sometime in 3.x or earlier.
I think you're right. They're oblivious to it because they can't admit there's a problem.
It may be a moot point for me, since I just installed Pale Moon and am giving it a try. So far, so good. And it works with the key two must-have extensions I use: Adblock and NoScript.
Will the new version still have memory leaks? Because it just isn't Firefox if it doesn't have memory leaks that grow to crippling proportions in 24 hours or so.
Hopefully this new-fangled multi process mode will allow for multiple, simultaneous memory leaks so the browser will become unusable in 2 or 3 hours instead of having to wait a whole day.
Facecrap wants to be the new everything. Soon it will achieve critical mass and spawn the Singularity.
This is just another way for Facecrap to mine more of your data and suck you dry while it blurs the line between your work life and your personal life. No thank you.
It's easy to make batteries replaceable, but it comes at a cost. The phone will be structurally weaker and have less battery life to start with.
Oh please, phones these days are plenty rugged for the most part. The only thing that usually breaks is the glass face after it's been dropped. Complaining about structural integrity is just silly. And since batteries are way more efficient than they've ever been, the "less battery life" argument doesn't really carry much weight either.
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The batteries last a long time. If you're looking for iPhone obsolescence, look at the software.
They may last a long time, but you basically just admitted that they don't outlast the phone. It sounds like you're making my point for me.
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Also, you're pulling prices out of your ass. It's a quick google to find that Apple charges $80
Why should I have to pay them anything? I don't have to pay anyone to replace the batteries in my TV remote or my smoke detectors or my flashlight (or my Fleshlight!) or my clocks or my kid's toys or my power tools. If you had to pay people to replace the batteries in any of those things you'd be outraged. But a phone, oh my goodness, that's different. We can't have replaceable batteries in a phone for god's sake!
Blame this on the environmentalists all you want but the Obama admin. tried to get infrastructure reform done for 8 years and the GOP blocked it for no purpose other than spite and a Machiavellian effort to further the interests of the GOP and make Obama look bad. If anybody is to blame for this it is Mitch McConnell and his predecessors. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Bingo.
Mitch McConnell was instrumental in blocking proposed bills that would have started addressing the aging infrastructure. Not just once, but over and over again.
This from the company that leaked a billion accounts last year:
"...at Yahoo, we have a deep understanding of the threats facing our users and continuously strive to stay ahead of these threats to keep our users and our platforms secure,” the spokesman said.
All I can say is, "strive harder", cuz yer doin' a shit job of it so far.
If you don't care about the size of the device, and are willing to use batteries that make inefficient use of volume, they're easy.
But you just got done telling me that new batteries are thinner and more efficient...which doesn't preclude making them replaceable.
Among other things, this is also about making it hard for people to keep a device without resorting to an expensive service procedure to repave the battery. They want people to upgrade, not keep the thing for years.
So if it costs $100 or $200 to change the battery a lot of people will just opt to plow that money into a new device, especially since the manufacturers will sometimes incentivize the purchase of a new device.
To be clear are you talking about malicious people
Mostly malicious actors, but also the simple-minded doofus who doesn't give a damn.
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As someone who's job it was to approve these devices on two different sites.... It does not rank even remotely on my list of concerns,
And this is exactly how this kind of thing manages to occur- because the people who are in charge (like you) dismiss the idea as not worth worrying about.
Frankly, though, I doubt this thing will ever be produced except in some super-limited application. If it was being widely produced, then I'd worry.
Because for 50+ years I've used thousands of devices that had battery compartments (including mobile devices) and 99.9% of them consisted of a simple plastic enclosure that worked fine and didn't require a Masters degree to design.
In fact, for decades the default design was a battery compartment with removable batteries- it's only recently that manufacturers have started fucking shit up by sealing batteries in the device and making it non-replaceable.
If anyone thinks that advances in technology have somehow made it harder to build battery compartments then they're simply mistaken.
It's the result of trying to save money in parts and the breathless pursuit of a thinner case.
FACT: Most people don't give a shit if their phone is 1mm thicker or thinner, and many would happily trade a millimeter or two of thickness for a larger battery. But somehow the Powers That Be have decided that what people want isn't as important as saving a dollar in production costs.
Seriously, please don't give me this stuff about "battery compartments are really difficult". They're not.
We've walked on the Moon, and we routinely replace hearts, livers, and hip joints. Thousands of people go in to have their eyes lasered into 20-20 vision every day. We've landed a fucking research probe on a comet. We can put 1.7billion transistors on a chip and sell it for $30.
In light of all that, somehow the "battery compartments are really difficult" argument just doesn't wash.
& this is why bill gates is, after 25 years, the so-called richest man on the planet.
The group Kiss was one of the biggest selling bands on the planet for a while....and they still sucked monkey balls. Having huge sales isn't always an indicator of quality.
Because every day thousands of devices that have a potential to ignite an atmosphere are released, and the entire industry has responded to this through white listing making the addition of this one to the market the biggest non-event in the industry.
And every day people ignore the whitelist and the safety rules either through ignorance or because they just don't care.
If this thing ever sees the light of day it'll only be a matter of time until something goes wrong, either by accident or through malicious activity.
I'm not against it per se, I'm just calling it as I see it. Everything gets misused.
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Latin is older than English, but a thousand times better as a language.
Which must be why it's used so today. Oh, wait....
Wait, there are adverts on youtube?
Bingo. Since installing Adblock I haven't seen a single one. Particularly nice on those 20- or 30-minute videos where they cram an ad in every 2 or 3 minutes. I used to HATE that, now I just laugh as the progress button just moves right past the little yellow "here's an ad" line without a hiccup.
I think its possible that killing the extension ecosystem may have a positive effect on the memory leak problem because at the very least the mozdevs will not be able to blame the extension devs for the leaks anymore. AFAIK the mozdevs don't recognize that there is a memory leak problem. I think they think they fixed it sometime in 3.x or earlier.
I think you're right. They're oblivious to it because they can't admit there's a problem.
It may be a moot point for me, since I just installed Pale Moon and am giving it a try. So far, so good. And it works with the key two must-have extensions I use: Adblock and NoScript.
Will the new version still have memory leaks? Because it just isn't Firefox if it doesn't have memory leaks that grow to crippling proportions in 24 hours or so.
Hopefully this new-fangled multi process mode will allow for multiple, simultaneous memory leaks so the browser will become unusable in 2 or 3 hours instead of having to wait a whole day.
"Accenture said on Friday it would create 15,000 "highly skilled" new jobs in the United States"
I'll believe it when I see it.
"Facebook Wants To Be the New LinkedIn"
Facecrap wants to be the new everything. Soon it will achieve critical mass and spawn the Singularity.
This is just another way for Facecrap to mine more of your data and suck you dry while it blurs the line between your work life and your personal life. No thank you.
It's easy to make batteries replaceable, but it comes at a cost. The phone will be structurally weaker and have less battery life to start with.
Oh please, phones these days are plenty rugged for the most part. The only thing that usually breaks is the glass face after it's been dropped. Complaining about structural integrity is just silly. And since batteries are way more efficient than they've ever been, the "less battery life" argument doesn't really carry much weight either.
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The batteries last a long time. If you're looking for iPhone obsolescence, look at the software.
They may last a long time, but you basically just admitted that they don't outlast the phone. It sounds like you're making my point for me.
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Also, you're pulling prices out of your ass. It's a quick google to find that Apple charges $80
Why should I have to pay them anything? I don't have to pay anyone to replace the batteries in my TV remote or my smoke detectors or my flashlight (or my Fleshlight!) or my clocks or my kid's toys or my power tools. If you had to pay people to replace the batteries in any of those things you'd be outraged. But a phone, oh my goodness, that's different. We can't have replaceable batteries in a phone for god's sake!
Only terrorists need javascript. We must ban it to prevent it from sapping and impurifying all of our precious bodily fluids.
(My apologies to General Jack D. Ripper)
In other words, we've created CPUs with instruction set architectures so sophisticated that they can't be made safe from exploitation.
I may not understand the solution (if there is one), but I certainly admire the problem.
Blame this on the environmentalists all you want but the Obama admin. tried to get infrastructure reform done for 8 years and the GOP blocked it for no purpose other than spite and a Machiavellian effort to further the interests of the GOP and make Obama look bad. If anybody is to blame for this it is Mitch McConnell and his predecessors. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Bingo.
Mitch McConnell was instrumental in blocking proposed bills that would have started addressing the aging infrastructure. Not just once, but over and over again.
This from the company that leaked a billion accounts last year:
"...at Yahoo, we have a deep understanding of the threats facing our users and continuously strive to stay ahead of these threats to keep our users and our platforms secure,” the spokesman said.
All I can say is, "strive harder", cuz yer doin' a shit job of it so far.
(http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/15/yahoo-warns-users-about-malicious-activity-in-their-accounts/)
If you don't care about the size of the device, and are willing to use batteries that make inefficient use of volume, they're easy.
But you just got done telling me that new batteries are thinner and more efficient...which doesn't preclude making them replaceable.
Among other things, this is also about making it hard for people to keep a device without resorting to an expensive service procedure to repave the battery. They want people to upgrade, not keep the thing for years.
So if it costs $100 or $200 to change the battery a lot of people will just opt to plow that money into a new device, especially since the manufacturers will sometimes incentivize the purchase of a new device.
which if brought in maliciously would be incredibly ill-conceived
My point exactly.
To be clear are you talking about malicious people
Mostly malicious actors, but also the simple-minded doofus who doesn't give a damn.
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As someone who's job it was to approve these devices on two different sites. ... It does not rank even remotely on my list of concerns,
And this is exactly how this kind of thing manages to occur- because the people who are in charge (like you) dismiss the idea as not worth worrying about.
Frankly, though, I doubt this thing will ever be produced except in some super-limited application. If it was being widely produced, then I'd worry.
Bullshit. Ask me how I know.
Alright. How do you know?
Because for 50+ years I've used thousands of devices that had battery compartments (including mobile devices) and 99.9% of them consisted of a simple plastic enclosure that worked fine and didn't require a Masters degree to design.
In fact, for decades the default design was a battery compartment with removable batteries- it's only recently that manufacturers have started fucking shit up by sealing batteries in the device and making it non-replaceable.
If anyone thinks that advances in technology have somehow made it harder to build battery compartments then they're simply mistaken.
It's the result of trying to save money in parts and the breathless pursuit of a thinner case.
FACT: Most people don't give a shit if their phone is 1mm thicker or thinner, and many would happily trade a millimeter or two of thickness for a larger battery. But somehow the Powers That Be have decided that what people want isn't as important as saving a dollar in production costs.
Seriously, please don't give me this stuff about "battery compartments are really difficult". They're not.
We've walked on the Moon, and we routinely replace hearts, livers, and hip joints. Thousands of people go in to have their eyes lasered into 20-20 vision every day. We've landed a fucking research probe on a comet. We can put 1.7billion transistors on a chip and sell it for $30.
In light of all that, somehow the "battery compartments are really difficult" argument just doesn't wash.
It's the end of intelligence as we know it.
Autoplaying videos? As if I needed another reason never to use Facebook.
Battery compartments are really difficult case design for mobile devices.
Bullshit. Ask me how I know.
We can't have the peasants who buy our stuff fixing it themselves or taking it to someone that might fix it for less than we'll charge!
& this is why bill gates is, after 25 years, the so-called richest man on the planet.
The group Kiss was one of the biggest selling bands on the planet for a while....and they still sucked monkey balls. Having huge sales isn't always an indicator of quality.
Facebook TV?
That's another channel I'll never watch, but thanks for the warning!
People bought media and counted on Plays for Sure
As soon as it came out people started calling it "Fails For Sure", and whaddya know, they were right. It lasted, what, 3 years?
Microsoft is the Shit Show that never stops and never fails to disappoint.
Microsoft: "We couldn't figure out how to pour the piss out of this boot even with the instructions written on the heel!"
Because every day thousands of devices that have a potential to ignite an atmosphere are released, and the entire industry has responded to this through white listing making the addition of this one to the market the biggest non-event in the industry.
And every day people ignore the whitelist and the safety rules either through ignorance or because they just don't care.
If this thing ever sees the light of day it'll only be a matter of time until something goes wrong, either by accident or through malicious activity.
I'm not against it per se, I'm just calling it as I see it. Everything gets misused.
"She was really, really drunk, drove way too fast and crashed and it's your fault."
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Sounds totally reasonable.