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  1. You can't trust the data as soon as it leaves your computer. If it hasn't been encrypted by that point, it doesn't really matter if AT&T encrypts their transmission lines.

  2. That list is cool, but incomplete. Sure, it's nice that Chrome implements the ping attribute in links (a feature used for trackers), but meanwhile, it has trouble with basic positioning CSS, like a relative positioned div with a column flex display.

    It's nice Chrome is making features advertisers want, but I really wish they would get the basic positioning right.

  3. Without ad blocking the web would be useless

    There are a number of non-ad ways of funding websites these days. Wikipedia obviously manages well, but a lot of people are making enough money to pay for hosting and more with Patreon (Existential Comics being one of my favorite)./

    Without ads, some websites would go away, but that could be a good thing. Fake news is mostly funded by ads (and I mean the utter lies, not the stuff you see on Brietbart).

  4. Those photos are probably accurate, but it's probably worth mentioning that these days, a photo doesn't really constitute proof.

  5. Forking Chromium and customizing it to follow Mozilla's philosophy would free up lots of resources currently dedicated to copying Chrome UX/functionality, and keeping up with the latest W3C standards.

    Firefox is ahead of Chrome in standards. Chrome is catching up.

  6. Re:monocultures suck; long live the open web! on Microsoft Project Manager Says Mozilla Should Get Down From Its 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Firefox Development (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    3.) As of early 2019, Firefox Significantly Outperforms Chromium: Has Auchenberg even tried Firefox in the past year? Ever since the release of Firefox Quantum, Firefox has been blowing the pants off Chrome.

    It follows the standards better in my experience, too. Still waiting for Chrome to catch up.

  7. Re:Typical Microsoft Employee -- Arrogant on Microsoft Project Manager Says Mozilla Should Get Down From Its 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Firefox Development (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    firefox is pretty much doomed at this point as they will almost certainly never recover marketshare at this point and it only gets worse from here as no one tests sites for firefox anymore.

    Why don't you put a "Best viewed with IE" blinking-GIF on your homepage?

  8. Re:Fingers Crossed! on Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    a) the question is much better;

    It's not, I've read their petition, and it's crap. The appellate court came up with a logical, consistent way to apply copyright law, and the Google petition is not.

    It's not that "declarations" have some special powers

    Yes, that's exactly right.

  9. Reports are they have the code in place, if you make the request.

  10. Re:Sex Robots on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 1
  11. Quitters quit. It's what they do, they don't see other options and it seems irrational when other people don't.

  12. It comes from a lack of data. If I force you to make a hypothesis about something you know little about, you will also come up with bad ideas. Old anthropologists weren't able to travel much, so mainly hypothesized based on what they had (which strangely, often turned out to be Marxist theory). Of course, some people hypothesize willingly and emotionally out of ignorance. If you want to see that in action, ask them if they think a fence is more effective then a wall. Then ask them which works better, brick or concrete. Should walls have windows? The vast majority of people with strong opinions on these points are ignorant.

  13. Re: No big anatomy advantage for human throving on Neanderthals Were Likely Able To Hunt Over Significant Distances With Spears, Study Finds (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    What cave was painted by Neanderthals?

  14. It's amazing how many arguments are merely arguments over definitions.

  15. 2. All protocols utilize end-to-end encryption.

    If it goes through a central messaging server, the government will still see who are contacting.

  16. After the California Privacy Act goes into effect (in 2020), you should be able to get them to delete all that information about you.

  17. Oh that's cool to know, thanks

  18. We are currently in the transition to a middle state, where the TCO of an electrochemical storage system is approaching the TCO of the petroleum-derived internal combustion fuel system. It is not currently known whether or not this middle state will ever be stable.

    If electric cars become cheaper than gasoline powered cars, there will be a massive drop in oil consumption around the world. This is true, whether we switch to nuclear or not.

    The important thing is that there are two modes of power usage: transportation/shipping, and electricity generation. At the moment they are not interchangeable, and people forget that.

  19. Re: The experts on Those Opposed To Scientific Consensus Bolstered By 'Illusion of Knowledge' (edmontonjournal.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    However, glyphosate (Round-Up) is used on these GM crops by the millions of tons and it is toxic. It ends up in all of our food. It causes cancer and endocrine disruption in humans and is decimating insects.

    Learn some science. Almost everything you said there is false. Insects are not being decimated by glyphosate, neither in the literal nor the figurative sense.

  20. The financial hit to Saddam's oil revenue would have done about the same damage to him as the war did,

    Not really.......oil is mostly used for transportation. Cars, trucks, ships. In the US, something like 1% of our oil use goes to making electricity.

    Nuclear can replace coal, but it can't currently replace oil without Mr Fusion (or everyone switching to electric cars that are charged on the grid, of course). In 2003, if everyone switched to nuclear immediately, it would have had basically no impact on Saddam's income.

    That said, it would have been a better use of funds than the war.

  21. Heat is usually the result of inefficient energy conversion. If you're generating heat, you're doing things inefficiently. Unless you're trying to heat your house.

    (We're talking about infinite energy here, why not talk about perfect efficiency at the same time? About as realistic)

  22. Re:Fingers Crossed! on Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    For the line you provided, you've got to choose names and then order the parameters.

    I also chose what it inherited from, which gets embedded in the compiled product.

  23. Re:They're still safer even with mistakes on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nuclear is the safest power source man has ever invented [nextbigfuture.com]. Even with the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, it has killed fewer people per TWh generated than any other power source.

    Note the margin of error in that link is rather large for solar, so solar could be safer.

  24. Let me tell you about my mother.

  25. Re:Fingers Crossed! on Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from the naming, there is no creative element to it.

    Apart from the naming, organization, and deciding what the functions will actually do.