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  1. Re:Pale Moon is very nice on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1

    I've been considering Palemoon more and more lately, but I have to admit. I've come to like Australis. (I didn't mean to. I started using it at work. The menu bar is gone unless I press alt. I have the nav buttons, address bar, a few indicator and high use icons and the hamburger button. In the hamburger button I have a few lower use icons. Everything I don't use is gone. It's easy to tweak.) I do wish I could keep that so I wasn't eager to try PM.

    Firefox has killed a number of things I like. It sounds like most of the addons I depend on won't be there (at least any time soon) when XUL is removed. If I'm going to be left to rebuild a work flow, I figure I might as well try other alternatives. I can't trust Mozilla anymore. They've given up on Extensions. They gave up on open (non-proprietary) web standards with EME/DRM support. They don't respect users any more. They really have no purpose anymore.

  2. Sound like something a pedophile would say.

  3. All this "Cheeto" name calling is childish, worn out and frankly just lame. But I think I could get behind "Mango Mussolini", at least for a while.

  4. Re:But isn't a machine scanning your email bad? on Cortana Now Reminds You To Do the Things You Promised in Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not true. The Swear Jar app isn't coming until a much later update.

  5. But never fear. The next update (or maybe the one after that) will correct this.

  6. Re:"Once stuff is installed the jobs are gone." on There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Your explanation reminds me of people who where trying to turn our town into a shipping hub for sand to be used in frac mining. They were promising riches from a booming market. When asked they would say the demand was unlimited as they get a thousand yard stare and start talking about the promise of millions to be had for the town. A year later we were reading about about the ship yard on the river being backed up with mined sand because the frac miners learned how to decrease their "unlimited" demand.

    I expect we'll have to switch over to something renewable and at the moment, solar+batteries seems the most plausible. But you're making it sound like a too good to be true sales pitch.

  7. Re:Solar jobs deliver just .6% of American energy on There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why are a marked off topic. These numbers make it look like fossil fuels are more efficient even in the number of people they require. If these numbers are false (I haven't fact checked you) then it's a number of other things, but not off topic.

  8. Re:XP should be supported on Google To Force Basic HTML Gmail On Older Chrome Versions (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately these browsers all support HTML5. We're good. That's why we count IETF and the good standards they bring.

  9. Re: But don't worry... on Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In 2014 expected life for a phone given the subsidy model was 20-24 mo.

    Which is why people are complaining about the forced upgrades. Now I'll complain about unnecessary obsolescence. I don't care how often someone else wants by to buy stuff. I won't buy anything where I know the vendor with force updates that will needlessly cripple the product. (Which is why I have never bought apple.)

  10. Re:99.9% perfection X 14 million lines = 14,000 fl on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't trust Rust. It's written by those same error prone programmers who haven't got the brains to write secure code. How many lines of code is in the Rust compiler & library. How much of that must be flawed? That'll get passed on to every program that uses it. We need to stop using buggy software written by mentally deficient programmers to write security critical software. It's the only way to be sure.

  11. Re:Assembly language is good enough for anyone... on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In college we used to find twisted ways to blame anything on civil engineers. I would guess that blaming SJWs wouldn't be any more difficult. Not sure if it would be as much fun.

  12. Re:Wasted Effort on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    So you're rather have a lunatic President with daddy issues and a fragile ego instead of a few stupid protesters who get out of control?

    Seems only having one of the two would be an improvement. We have both.

  13. Re:If the publc and protectees weren't harmed... on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    ... and I didn't have my sarcasm meter with me ...

    Was it hit by ransomware?

  14. Re:Police aren't interested in small-time theft on Canadian Police Identify Suspect From Remotely-Accessed Stolen Laptop (cochraneeagle.com) · · Score: 1

    In Columbus Ohio someone went down the alley breaking into dozens of cars (100 wouldn't surprise me) busting windows, stealing radios, speakers, CDs, etc. The police couldn't be bothered to come out. If we'd have told them there was a loud party at a near by apartment complex we'd have had a swat team and helicopters there in a half hour.

  15. Re:Why not wake up word of your choice? on Amazon Updates Echo, Echo Dot To Let You Address It As 'Computer' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If I get one, I want to be able to call it "Big Brother". Or maybe "Orwell".

  16. Re:Users Are Not Customers on Vivaldi CEO: Stop Your Anti-Competitive Practices With Edge, Microsoft! (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that what it actually said on the tin? Sounds like that's not what people are actually getting.

  17. Re:They are right by the current definition of AI on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So, only AI is a threat to humanity?

  18. Re:Better to spend on education than salaries on Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code (ala.org) · · Score: 1

    There's a similar shortage in construction. I can't find someone to rebuild my from porch (for $1k total), to redo my baths rooms (for under $500 each) or to put a few good size rooms in my attic (what, $1.5k should be reasonable, right?). I also have a 2 story carrage house that need to be rebuilt and modernized with better wiring and wider stairs. (That should $3k tops, right?)

    We clearly need more people trained in construction in this country.

  19. Re:This will never happen, even if I want it to. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, nobody had a majority. That ought to mean something itself.

  20. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Won? I thought no one even got 50% of the popular vote. And we are first-past-the-post here. How much do you intend to rewrite the election rules after the fact?

  21. Re:Let's see Watson get it *wrong*. on IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis (businessinsider.co.id) · · Score: 1

    Define "wrong". Watson might make 10 recommendations. For each it provides the information, references and "reasoning" it used to come to the conclusion. In the end the doctor always makes the choice. When a doctor doesn't take the top recommendation and goes with say recommendation 2, you ask the doctor what Watson had wrong and add to Watson's reference information.

    The important point though is the doctor is still the one who decides the diagnosis. Watson is just a tool to help find more pieces of information that fit together well.

    This goes in your mouth ... this one goes in your ear ... and this one goes in your butt.
    Hang on a second....

  22. Re:Cue the hipocrisy... on NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to be crying "Russians!" and I have a lot I'd like to say on the topic of the NSA. On the other hand, I've a planned vacation coming up and I'd hate for the family to be denied boarding passes as retribution for saying something too negative about the wrong people. It's already bad enough that I read Linux Journal as a part keeping up on topics for my job.

    But screw principles. We need to believe in Paladins with absolute power to make somebody feel safe.

  23. Re:Enterprise customers benefit? on Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That benefit has just increased in value. Money well spent?

  24. Re:Fascinating to watch on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I hadn't heard of them until I heard Chris Matthews mention them as evidence that the mainstream media wasn't mostly liberal. On a later night he slammed them as not being a legitimate news source. I can't say I know anything about Breitbart, but I think I learned something unsurprising about Matthews.

  25. Re:Change the law on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eliminating the electoral college wouldn't not require candidates to run a nation wide election. Quite the opposite. Politicians could focus on California, New York, Chicago and maybe urban areas in Texas. The rest of the nation wouldn't matter.