>> NBC doesn't trust what viewers say when asked for their opinion on shows.
They shouldn't trust people's expressed opinions. How many people have you heard say naive things like "I'm not influenced by advertising" or "I do my own research"? And yet, advertising works, particularly because advertisers know where prospects go to "research" and get their pitches in there.
>> "Do not track" is an option which MUST be off by default.
Then you should be happy - it appears to be OFF in Vivaldi. If you follow the thread, though, you'll see that I was responding to an AC who said that it was ON by default.
(I really don't care one way or the other because no one really seems to take the Do Not Track option seriously, least of all web sites.)
This project appears to specifically be after Opera users, whoever they are. From the "our story" page: "In 1994...Opera was born...Fast forward to 2015. The browser we once loved has changed its direction. Sadly....we came to a natural conclusion: we must make a new browser."
>>>> Do not track is off by default >> At least this statement is wrong
On a Mac, under my privacy settings, on a fresh copy of Vivaldi (which I'd never installed before), the "Preferences | Privacy | Do Not Track | Ask Websites Not to Track Me" is UNCHECKED. I'd post a screenshot if I could, but doesn't that mean "do not track is off by default?"
>> what do you mean by "bookmarks were prepopulated"?
When I opened my bookmarks on my virgin Vivaldi browser, they already had "Speed Dial", "Technology" and a bunch of other categories that I didn't put there, each which a bunch of named links (e.g., Local | Open Table...") I'd never visited. I don't have these bookmarks in Chrome or Firefox, so it didn't get them from there, and the default bookmarks in Safari are different, so it didn't get them from there. From there, I easily concluded that Vivaldi is bringing its own set of "prepopulated" bookmarks with it. Does that make sense now?
Me too. My notes on Mac: - Bing is default search engine. - The colored bar at the top changes from red to orange to blue to ??? (who wrote this, the Melnorme?) - Videos loaded and ran automatically (Booooo!) - Asked to use my Chrome Keychain upon connect. - Integrates with Google Phishing/Malware and Safe Browsing interfaces - Do not track is off by default - There's some kind of "Vivaldi Mail" sidebar ("coming soon") - do not want - There's some kind of notetaking facility (independent of current page) built in - for what purpose I do not know - The bookmarks were prepopulated with US-based (and New York / San Francisco centric) items
>> Vivaldi is taking a more feature-rich and customization-heavy approach
No thanks - we already have this from Firefox (yuck) and to a lesser extent Chrome. Give us the ability to shut off Flash animations and HTML5 video by default on our browser and you'll have millions of downloads.
OK, I'll bite. It looked like the audience from a gun show, crammed into a hotel that Murph and the Magic Tones might consider turning down. What did you see?
So...some company signed a distribution agreement with IBM to revive an old operating system and the OS/2 community reacted by taking up philosophy instead of developing or porting any software? Seems about par for the course to me.
>> I know lots of state IT workers and the universal refrain is that they don't even have budgets for the basics. I think that a lot of the reality is that the money goes to outsourcing giants >> This is a big departure from the right wing meme of government being awash in tax dollars and lavishly spending
Actually, if you order your sentences like this, you AGREE that government IS awash in tax dollars and IS lavishly spending. Welcome to the Tea Party, friend!
First of all, post a whiny, inept description to SlashDot. Make it sound like it was written by someone who just got an offshore contract, only don't finish it with "Help quickly!"
Yes - I'll bite. I currently pay $8/mo for Netflix and my family watches perhaps 5 episodes of something off it per day. That's about 150 episodes for 800 cents, or $0.05-0.06 per episode. For a new Star Trek? That's probably worth a good $0.10/episode to me. Otherwise, yeah, it's coming down the same I get GOT.
If you need to be in the "top four" (TFA) to make a six-figure income, that's not getting rich. If you're in IT security and not pulling down six figures just showing up to the office by nine, it's probably time for the next job.
From today's SlashDot "Paid Post" entry: >> Do you know how APIs enable the stream of transactions that let users receive alerts, make deposits and purchases – even use bank loyalty points from their mobiles? We didn’t think so.
Um...this is SlashDot. We probably wrote those APIs. Five years ago. CA, please FOAD.
>> a political union that works to prevent a repeat of the march to war that led to world wars 1 and 2
No, I think that was NATO. I thought the EU was about a common currency and set of laws that would allow it to function as a united bloc against powers like the US and China.
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>> NBC doesn't trust what viewers say when asked for their opinion on shows.
They shouldn't trust people's expressed opinions. How many people have you heard say naive things like "I'm not influenced by advertising" or "I do my own research"? And yet, advertising works, particularly because advertisers know where prospects go to "research" and get their pitches in there.
>> 15 times cheaper than a Mexican on a bicycle?
Considering how many Mexicans there are in London, then yes, the robot might be cheaper.
>> debated the efficacy of using drones as airborne improvised explosive devices
congrats you invented the "missile"
>> "Do not track" is an option which MUST be off by default.
Then you should be happy - it appears to be OFF in Vivaldi. If you follow the thread, though, you'll see that I was responding to an AC who said that it was ON by default.
(I really don't care one way or the other because no one really seems to take the Do Not Track option seriously, least of all web sites.)
>> Nobody needs a new browser.
This project appears to specifically be after Opera users, whoever they are. From the "our story" page:
"In 1994...Opera was born...Fast forward to 2015. The browser we once loved has changed its direction. Sadly....we came to a natural conclusion: we must make a new browser."
>>>> Do not track is off by default
>> At least this statement is wrong
On a Mac, under my privacy settings, on a fresh copy of Vivaldi (which I'd never installed before), the "Preferences | Privacy | Do Not Track | Ask Websites Not to Track Me" is UNCHECKED. I'd post a screenshot if I could, but doesn't that mean "do not track is off by default?"
>> what do you mean by "bookmarks were prepopulated"?
When I opened my bookmarks on my virgin Vivaldi browser, they already had "Speed Dial", "Technology" and a bunch of other categories that I didn't put there, each which a bunch of named links (e.g., Local | Open Table...") I'd never visited. I don't have these bookmarks in Chrome or Firefox, so it didn't get them from there, and the default bookmarks in Safari are different, so it didn't get them from there. From there, I easily concluded that Vivaldi is bringing its own set of "prepopulated" bookmarks with it. Does that make sense now?
Me too. My notes on Mac:
- Bing is default search engine.
- The colored bar at the top changes from red to orange to blue to ??? (who wrote this, the Melnorme?)
- Videos loaded and ran automatically (Booooo!)
- Asked to use my Chrome Keychain upon connect.
- Integrates with Google Phishing/Malware and Safe Browsing interfaces
- Do not track is off by default
- There's some kind of "Vivaldi Mail" sidebar ("coming soon") - do not want
- There's some kind of notetaking facility (independent of current page) built in - for what purpose I do not know
- The bookmarks were prepopulated with US-based (and New York / San Francisco centric) items
>> Vivaldi is taking a more feature-rich and customization-heavy approach
No thanks - we already have this from Firefox (yuck) and to a lesser extent Chrome. Give us the ability to shut off Flash animations and HTML5 video by default on our browser and you'll have millions of downloads.
>> where is the OS for the Transgendered African-American-Polynesian Differently-abled community?
I thought that was Ubuntu. Remember the "Nongendered Noncontinental Nubian" release (v11.31)?
In Soviet Russia, Amiga, er, Amiga sticks to, um...well, you play a shit-ton of Tetris on it anyway!
OK, I'll bite. It looked like the audience from a gun show, crammed into a hotel that Murph and the Magic Tones might consider turning down. What did you see?
So...some company signed a distribution agreement with IBM to revive an old operating system and the OS/2 community reacted by taking up philosophy instead of developing or porting any software? Seems about par for the course to me.
>> The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism
WTF is "positivism"? It sounds like a drug advertised during football games.
>> this book shows the reader how to build a lab to mimic a real world environment
>> inexpensive networking equipment at budget prices on eBay
Well, which one is it?
>> I know lots of state IT workers and the universal refrain is that they don't even have budgets for the basics. I think that a lot of the reality is that the money goes to outsourcing giants
>> This is a big departure from the right wing meme of government being awash in tax dollars and lavishly spending
Actually, if you order your sentences like this, you AGREE that government IS awash in tax dollars and IS lavishly spending. Welcome to the Tea Party, friend!
First of all, post a whiny, inept description to SlashDot. Make it sound like it was written by someone who just got an offshore contract, only don't finish it with "Help quickly!"
>> $1.50 an episode is a bit much?
Yes - I'll bite. I currently pay $8/mo for Netflix and my family watches perhaps 5 episodes of something off it per day. That's about 150 episodes for 800 cents, or $0.05-0.06 per episode. For a new Star Trek? That's probably worth a good $0.10/episode to me. Otherwise, yeah, it's coming down the same I get GOT.
>> U.S. government is spending way more than it has to on IT outsourcing.
I thought this was by design.
>> climate change can be expected to reshape the global economy by reducing average global incomes roughly 23 percent by the year 2100
OK, I can see my taxes easily going up 23% in the next 2100, but how else will my income be reduced?
If you need to be in the "top four" (TFA) to make a six-figure income, that's not getting rich. If you're in IT security and not pulling down six figures just showing up to the office by nine, it's probably time for the next job.
From today's SlashDot "Paid Post" entry:
>> Do you know how APIs enable the stream of transactions that let users receive alerts, make deposits and purchases – even use bank loyalty points from their mobiles? We didn’t think so.
Um...this is SlashDot. We probably wrote those APIs. Five years ago. CA, please FOAD.
>> coming up with a practical way to collect solar energy beyond our atmosphere...down to the Earth's surface
That's easy! You just run an big orange extension cord down the space elevator.
>> a political union that works to prevent a repeat of the march to war that led to world wars 1 and 2
No, I think that was NATO. I thought the EU was about a common currency and set of laws that would allow it to function as a united bloc against powers like the US and China.
The EU continues to be short for "bedwetting pansies" (French translation).
>> What is a Journos?
It looks like a Mentos, but it always tilts slightly to the left and has a yellow tint.