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  1. Turn anything you can into a tool to fix things you think are wrong with the world? Perish the thought.

  2. ReOnly:added bookmarks, not deleted ones on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Worse, they can go, "Oh, I see that the browser you deleted a bookmark from is missing it. Let me add it back into your browser.

  3. Back when Web directories could keep up with changes or something like that, I tried a lot to use them. My bookmark collection is practically one of those sites. When I find a bookmark where the link it is pointing to has disappeared, I go to archive.org and plug it in to see if it got the site. If it does, I update the bookmark to point there. I start out with a alphabet sprawled across the bookmarks toolbar, and then topics under that letter So I have P on the toolbar and under that I have Programming, and under that Game for game programming. I also have a G which has a Game folder for more general game playing topics. I would like most of my bookmarks to sync across all browsers but there are some sites that won't render very well with how I have a given browser set up, so I want those links exclusive to the browsers that they work right in. None of the search engines index archive.org and under A I have an archive folder that points to various collections on archive.org.

  4. Re:Put some effort into it on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? · · Score: 2

    Little is said about real management features like making certain bookmarks exclusive to one or a set of browsers or devices, checking for dead links and maybe even looking them up on archive.org.

    Are the features I want, but to say that the reviews said little about such features may be generous, because they actually said nothing at all about it.

  5. Thanks. You write well by my measures. It is possible for there to be router firmware that makes the routers work together to pass data around all the DSL lines. I'm not sure it actually exists yet, but I've been trained on non-wireless Cisco routers, so Cisco's another place to look into. I'm not sure there are competitors at the level of Cisco that can provide the solution you are looking for. You can even bond the cellular connection, but depending on your plan you may not want to do that if you might run out of data during an emergency.

    What works for me with bookmarks is that I have letters across the bookmarks toolbar and topics are filed under the letters. Games is under g, but game programming is under P|Programming|Game. Places that sell steam games is actually under B|bundles, though I think a link to store.steampowered.com is under S On Chrome and Firefox Slashdot is under "/." but it isn't in the Microsoft browsers because they won't import directories that contain characters forbidden by filenames.

    I get phone service from MetroPCS and the terms and service has said in the past that torrents were not to be used. MetroPCS now offers free tethering for the $40 plan. I had to manually switch to the upgraded $40 plan from 2GB to 3GB at 4G speeds before it switches to 2G speeds. The $60 plan has unlimited data at "up to" 4G speeds, which means that data at any speed counts against that total. I had a 3G phone previously but could only get a 2G signal with that in a location I frequent. When I bought a 4G phone, in that area I discovered I would sometimes get a 4G signal and sometimes a 2G signal but never a 3G signal.

  6. Re:Not stupid persons. on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Eveerybody is stupid when it comes to a vast number of things. It's not sufficient to uncategorically say that a group of people aren't stupid when it comes to making a point. From my perspective your description of how addiction works is so lacking details and seeming to get some of the details it does present wrong to be completely useless. That goes for how overdoses happen as well.

  7. Re:Simon & Garfunkel on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re: Black boxes on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    The black box situation ebbs and flows. The car diagnostics apparently used to require a specialized apparently rather large computer at a mechanic to run through paces or maybe just for the code, I'm not sure, but now a car parts store will hook a handheld device up to the car to read the codes stored in the car and give you a printout of their values and meaning for free. My brother-in-law said he could fix her Kia based on the codes and explanations, what he already knew and what he could read off the internet. She had to pay $160 bucks for two coils, but look what a search turned up. I even just put in kia coil and it offered the other search terms.

  9. Re:Getting a car repair on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Oh, want your car serviced? No problem, just conveniently schedule an appointment for 3 - 6 weeks out with our friendly regional call center representative in Bangalore. His name is Steve. Oh, and your service center will be conveniently located someplace within 50 miles of you where we can get cheap rent too. I hope the car will make it that far needing a repair and all. If not, I'm sure towing is pretty cheap too, right?

    You sound like you've never heard of the independent mechanic that as far as I can tell, practically everyone who buys a used car takes it to. If it's cheap enough for someone who buys used and might not have the money for better, then it's cheap enough for someone who has the money to buy a new car too.

  10. Communicating in one direction? on New Wearable Tech Translates Sign Language Into Text (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This may help deaf people send a message. but it's one way and it seems to me that the options already available may be slower but both sides can use it. Both sides can learn how to type.

  11. Re: Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    I think you have theology confused with philosophy.

  12. Re: Nazi association with science on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it was rocketry

  13. Re: Blocking everything is hysterical overreactio on Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    *maybe most jobs someone with an internet connection that would run afoul of this would have?

  14. Re: Blocking everything is hysterical overreaction on Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly he doesn't have a job where access to the internet is a requierment, which most jobs (not apparently being a judge) requires. Many companies (maybe mainly temp agencies and aides) require that a time sheet be filed over the net.

  15. Re: Nor is HDCP 2.2 on Intel Broadwell-E, Apollo Lake, and Kaby Lake Details Emerge In Leaked Roadmap · · Score: 1

    That makes it sound like all existing media would stop existing. If all existing media would be freely available, I wouldn't have a problem with major players closing up shop.

  16. Tick you're alive; tock it was nice knowing you.

  17. So far you've been doing quite well. I think the novella could be quite good.

  18. Re: Fuck Mozilla on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I probably have thousands of bookmarks and when a site disappears "forever" I go to archive.org and link to the last viable version.

  19. Re: internet connectivity on US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To the common man perhaps, but the military brass will find ways to ensure the people they want to have connectivity will be it microwave line of sight or radio, or something. Just a few hops til it reaches a non-war-zone.

  20. No, from what I gather they used 'Dictionaries' properly. I don't know if it is the whole company or just a division, but apparently it is part of the name of the organization that is responsible for all the different dictionaries the company publishes.

  21. You're right. Thinking that learning more glyphs wastes brain cells is retarded. I don't have any studies to cite, but it seems to me that it would make the brain more nimble. Though to cite either position definitively might be retarded without said studies.

  22. Re: Hate emojis ... on The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji (oxforddictionaries.com) · · Score: 1

    So, I guess the Chinese and Japanese have been wrong all this time, then? The Japanese variant is called Kanji and I am on my phone just now so I don't feel like looking what the Chinese is called at the moment. What? You think these emoji are somehow different?

  23. Ready, Steady, Go.

  24. Re: Bill Nye PR Fail on How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    While calling NASCAR the anti-NASA ignores all the science NASCAR does and all the rules it has about what must and must not go into a car for safety and environmental reasons, Bill Nye didn't do the things you just said. Bill Nye says he likes to watch races, but he has shown that he resembles the stereotypical NASCAR racer a lot more than he lets on by focussing on the value that determines what wins the contest without looking deeper into the science that makes it come about. I don't care about watching the races but I at least am aware of the science that goes into it, because it's not like they are keeping it a secret. They even sacrifice some speed for safety and environmental reasons.

  25. This just in: Studies show sports celebrate old "technology". Technonogies celebrated include bipedal physiques with some celebrating something called a biological brain.