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  1. Re:Firefox really has improved a lot... on Firefox Marketing Head Expresses Concerns Over Google's Apparent 'Only Be On Chrome' Push (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Heard of Pale Moon a couple times, never looked into it much. But if FF is going to is going to prevent my favorite extensions, like Tree Style Tabs, from working soon I figure I better start looking soon. So far so good with Pale Moon, been using it all of 10 minutes and other than the default color its just like FF was when I last liked it.

  2. Re:TreeStyleTab on Firefox on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    Ditto.

  3. Re:1and1.com and Linode on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    I also have had 1 and 1 for well over 10 years, and have never had a problem. And, I have also never missed a payment. My credit card did expire one me one year. They sent me an email informing they had tried to bill me and couldn't, and gave me a bit of a grace period (a week I think). I paid it immediately and never lost service. Now, I hardly do anything on there any more, it's all static crap except for my step-father's business site. Well, that's pretty static too but doesn't quite fall into the "crap" category. The only other service I have experience with is GoDaddy, and that was just to help a friend who had hosted there. The problems I had there were in no way GoDaddy's fault, so I would think you will be safe there as well. If it is just a simple site to have some content out there, I'd say you have plenty of options and just need to pick one. Now, once you get into running your own servers and such, best to listen to these fine Slashdot folks and then do some more homework on your own.

  4. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 0

    Hey, give the guy a break. He is not an idiot, "just a regular software writer or farmer".

  5. Re:*cough* bullshit *cough* on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 2

    he, he, you said "cooler". I see what you did there!

  6. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Ditto from Omaha.

  7. Start with RSS on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    What I do if I find a site that might be interesting is subscribe to their RSS feed, that is free. All you get is a summary, but after hitting it for a few days/weeks/months I get a feel for if the subject matter will keep me interested. It's certainly not fool proof, but help weed out some places. For instance, I am doing this right now with Rivals.com. I am thinking about subscribing to get more in-depth news about my Iowa Hawkeyes. But I want to see how they spread the news across the different sports, as I am mainly interested in football and basketball. I have done this to help select some sites (pay sites and free sites), as well as weed out sites that sounded good or maybe had one interesting article, but then turned out to be mostly crap.

  8. Re:3dnewsen article - auto translated? on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, that is bad.

  9. Re:Accenture? on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can only speak from personal experience, but to me the big difference is that IBM is at least technically competent. I guess as an opponent of Obamacare I should be happy, as this will undoubtedly allow the problems to continue. But I feel for the people that may be depending/hoping for this to come together. Accenture? Really?

  10. Re:I can't imagine bringing out a "new" magazine.. on Omni Magazine To Reboot · · Score: 2

    The article said it will live on the web, with weekly updates. I am pulling for them, but I too am skeptical of the viability of print for a product like this. Nostalgia is great, but it doesn't usually make money in the long run.

  11. Re:Not a colony on Meet a Group of Aspiring Mars Colonists · · Score: 2

    Yep. They just need a 3D printer and a really long cord.

  12. Re:Reviews on Play are hilarious! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    OMG so true. Stop reading slashdot and read those reviews. Hilarious indeed!

  13. Re:an annual event on Toxic Green Algae Takes Over Beaches Off Yellow Sea In China · · Score: 1

    "Exponential" growth? From 2008 to 2013 it "doubled in size". I'm no math wizard, but "exponential" does not quite seem appropriate here. Now, if we were talking about the size of my penis....

  14. Re: Dumbwatches on Developers Rolling Out Pebble Smartwatch Apps · · Score: 1

    I have one of these as well. Been using it for over 10 years, still going strong.

  15. Re:312 km coast to coast on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are Americans.

  16. Brief on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    The Brief plugin for Firefox. Look at them aggregated, look at them separate, your choice. Been using it for a long time. It's simple, and it works. At least for me.

  17. Re:Interesting on NASA Discovers Third Radiation Belt Circling Earth · · Score: 1

    This was more funny when I read it as a reply to the "Old Man Earth..." comment above it. I thought you were carrying on the old-man funny-ness, with "coronal mass ejections" implying an old man spending too much time on the toilet. And the "solar wind" a reference to him farting. Now I realize you were serious, that's too bad. And no, I am not 10 years old, I merely think like one.

  18. Re:Simple Fix on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 1

    Anything will draw money and interest if you just label it as "green".

  19. Re:Think you may want to look at his logs on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    They must print the money first, then spend...

  20. Re:The Taliban blames the victim on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 1

    While I agree that the victim is not at fault here, they nonetheless hold a degree of responsibility. If I go to a crack house, and get robbed, while I am a victim, if I had never been in the crack house in the first place, I would never have been robbed. I don't blame the victims at all, and I do find that what Karen did to be a despicable act and deserves to do some time behind it. But, we as a society also need a good dose of "reality" when it comes to crime. If you don't want a dui, don't go to the bar and then drive home.

    prescient http://news.yahoo.com/pipe-theft-report-leads-lincoln-police-pot-bust-185522957.html This was next on my tabs of news to read

  21. Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 2

    I agree, this is extremely frustrating. Why wouldn't a site supposedly into security limit my passwords to not even be able to use special characters that are readily visible on a keyboard. I can understand if they don't allow all unicode characters, but if I can type it in with nothing but my qwerty keyboard, using at minimum the shift character, then it should be allowed.

  22. Re:Global Dimming on Soot Is Warming the World — a Lot · · Score: 1

    Because they were produced by Livestrong.

  23. About Time on An Open Standard For Wireless Charging? · · Score: 1

    This is going to make comparing bills across carriers so much easier. Now we can compare apples-to-apples on the hidden "charges" in each company.

  24. Re:I think that's all college students on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    You had me right up until that crack about Bose. Obviously you don't know anything about speakers, so don't know anything about people.

  25. The Bad News is on Google Gets Into Politics With Civic Info API · · Score: 1

    But if this is run on iOS6 it might show total inaccuracies. The API might return valid voting locations if I put in the address of my local cemetery, or if I pass the API more than one address at a time. And we know that dead people can't vote, and that people can't vote more than once. Wait...what?