Mozilla is no longer what it used to be - one that placed users first. All they've been doing is dicking around with the UI, and getting rid of all the customizability that attracted people to it in the first place(XUL and XPCOM support is going away - so many popular extensions that modify the interface and add features are going to go away), to make it a pale copy of Chrome. The only browser today that follows the charter of the original Mozilla is Pale Moon, which was forked off Firefox 24 and will continue to support XUL and proper extensions, and provide a full blown desktop UI instead of a dumbed down touchscreen/mobile friendly one.
All this will result in is people being more careful about how they word their emails. Even now it is an incredibly stupid thing to rant on corporate email - it gets recorded for posterity and can be used against you at appraisal time, or get you fired.
AFAIK, Jews weren't asking for special rules and privileges for themselves that went against existing laws and culture, nor was there anything like the Rotherham rape scandal perpetuated by them, so enough with invoking Godwin already.
I wish there was a black list phone app that would block (as in not even trigger the phone circuitry) any phone number I flag, but I'm sure such a thing would ironically (or regulatory captured) be expressly forbidden by said FCC.
Truecaller comes close. It has a crowdsourced blacklist of spammers (both telemarketing calls and bulk SMS senders) and can silently block incoming calls/divert spam SMSes. When you get a spam call, you can mark it as such and it will be added to their global blacklist.
Be prepared to kiss goodbye to the XUL based extensions that made Firefox popular in the first place as they deprecate it and slowly turn it into a copy of Chrome. Or try Palemoon, which is what Firefox would be if they had stayed honest to their original goal of putting user choice first.
India was always a Nokia bastion since around 1998 till the company's unwarranted demise(in the mobile space). Nokia launched their first phone with an FM radio around 2002 - a feature phone, mind - and since then millions of people listen to FM on their phones (and continue to do so with the latest Androids at various price points from dirt cheap to unlocked iPhone level expensive). It is asinine to have to use up data bandwidth for streaming when there's a perfectly good radio chip disabled for no reason.
Annotate it was supposed to let you add highlights and annotations to a webpage and share them with others using a custom URL. It's a hit and miss though, since it doesn't work on https webpages. This could be the foundation of a much better kind of social network - allow people to highlight and share comments or commentary directly for a webpage.
I have always liked ES File Explorer and so given I've been using it for the last 4 years, I decided to get the Pro version. Funny that this move comes just now. I'm not really affected now, if they start showing ads in Pro that's another story.
Airships can carry much more weight than a 747 even if they fly slower. An airship covered with solar panels could possibly generate enough electricity to propel itself through the air, and as a substitute for cargo sent by ships rather than as a substitute for passenger traffic. Or they could build one like a luxury liner. Getting enough helium is the stumbling block though.
the whole architecture of android prohibits piecemeal upgrades. I can't just apt-get update and upgrade. I can't install JUST an ip stack fix or JUST a kernel fix. I have to upgrade a whole monolithic image and that's just SO STUPID its beyhond belief. linux was not that way and you had to do WORK to fuck up linux that badly.
Nokia had their own full strength Linux OS for mobile - Maemo, which later was merged with Intel's similar venture and renamed Meego. It was a regular Linux distro for ARM and had Nokia not committed suicide by Elop, they could have been a powerful, independent, open source alternative to the 2 horse race that is the mobile market today. The first and last Meego based phone from Nokia, the N9, shows what could have been. Interestingly, there is an alternative, a phone made by the same team from Nokia under the brand Jolla, which supposedly can emulate Android for apps as well..
But didn't Apple manage to do that, by incorporating in the Cayman islands or somewhere? I recall reading about how they've managed to avoid paying taxes this way.
Kerala's example of "land to the tiller" redistributes private ownership to guarantee ownership of the minimum tools and resources necessary to be self-sufficient
And Kerala's economy survives entirely on remittances from locals who work in the Gulf countries. Decades of rule by Communist parties have left it (and West Bengal which is in worse straits) bereft of any local industry since everything is controlled by politically affiliated trade unions. You'll find people from Kerala all over the globe on work, anywhere but their home state because there are no jobs or anything there. Tourism provides a little cash for the state exchequer, but that's about it.
Palemoon has a mail client of its own similar to Thunderbird (probably forked from it) called Fossa., which, like Palemoon itself, uses Goanna, their Gecko forked rendering engine.
Got this last year, same size as a Paperwhite, nice soft backlight for night reading, microSD slot for expandable storage and native epub support. The store is quite limited compared to Amazon, but I torrent my ebooks anyway, and they're distributed as epubs, so no extra step of conversion via Calibre.
Basically, with just a phone, you have the choice between cranking up the volume on notifications and having them be super-loud when you're in a quiet environment, or turning them down and miss missing them if you're in a loud environment
Don't know if iOS has evolved yet to allow automation apps like Tasker (and many others like it) that can automagically make your phone stay silent during meetings and return to regular volume afterwards (besides automating many other things, like starting my music app when I plug in headphones)
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Mozilla is no longer what it used to be - one that placed users first. All they've been doing is dicking around with the UI, and getting rid of all the customizability that attracted people to it in the first place(XUL and XPCOM support is going away - so many popular extensions that modify the interface and add features are going to go away), to make it a pale copy of Chrome. The only browser today that follows the charter of the original Mozilla is Pale Moon, which was forked off Firefox 24 and will continue to support XUL and proper extensions, and provide a full blown desktop UI instead of a dumbed down touchscreen/mobile friendly one.
Get rid of that as well, and you'll see the count of torrented movies drop significantly.
But how will you vote on an anonymous post if you can't see it?
All this will result in is people being more careful about how they word their emails. Even now it is an incredibly stupid thing to rant on corporate email - it gets recorded for posterity and can be used against you at appraisal time, or get you fired.
AFAIK, Jews weren't asking for special rules and privileges for themselves that went against existing laws and culture, nor was there anything like the Rotherham rape scandal perpetuated by them, so enough with invoking Godwin already.
The original ad - was it for Robert Scott's South Pole expedition?
The 640KB quote was perfectly valid in 1981 when he said it, note that he didn't add 'for all time to come'.
Truecaller comes close. It has a crowdsourced blacklist of spammers (both telemarketing calls and bulk SMS senders) and can silently block incoming calls/divert spam SMSes. When you get a spam call, you can mark it as such and it will be added to their global blacklist.
The word is actually spelt 'dogie.'
Be prepared to kiss goodbye to the XUL based extensions that made Firefox popular in the first place as they deprecate it and slowly turn it into a copy of Chrome.
Or try Palemoon, which is what Firefox would be if they had stayed honest to their original goal of putting user choice first.
India was always a Nokia bastion since around 1998 till the company's unwarranted demise(in the mobile space). Nokia launched their first phone with an FM radio around 2002 - a feature phone, mind - and since then millions of people listen to FM on their phones (and continue to do so with the latest Androids at various price points from dirt cheap to unlocked iPhone level expensive). It is asinine to have to use up data bandwidth for streaming when there's a perfectly good radio chip disabled for no reason.
Annotate it was supposed to let you add highlights and annotations to a webpage and share them with others using a custom URL. It's a hit and miss though, since it doesn't work on https webpages. This could be the foundation of a much better kind of social network - allow people to highlight and share comments or commentary directly for a webpage.
I have always liked ES File Explorer and so given I've been using it for the last 4 years, I decided to get the Pro version. Funny that this move comes just now. I'm not really affected now, if they start showing ads in Pro that's another story.
..because they couldn't be Ars-ed?
Airships can carry much more weight than a 747 even if they fly slower. An airship covered with solar panels could possibly generate enough electricity to propel itself through the air, and as a substitute for cargo sent by ships rather than as a substitute for passenger traffic. Or they could build one like a luxury liner. Getting enough helium is the stumbling block though.
Nokia had their own full strength Linux OS for mobile - Maemo, which later was merged with Intel's similar venture and renamed Meego. It was a regular Linux distro for ARM and had Nokia not committed suicide by Elop, they could have been a powerful, independent, open source alternative to the 2 horse race that is the mobile market today.
The first and last Meego based phone from Nokia, the N9, shows what could have been. Interestingly, there is an alternative, a phone made by the same team from Nokia under the brand Jolla, which supposedly can emulate Android for apps as well..
But didn't Apple manage to do that, by incorporating in the Cayman islands or somewhere? I recall reading about how they've managed to avoid paying taxes this way.
You will run out of rich people to tax though, as they will transfer all their assets and citizenship to friendlier jurisdictions.
And Kerala's economy survives entirely on remittances from locals who work in the Gulf countries. Decades of rule by Communist parties have left it (and West Bengal which is in worse straits) bereft of any local industry since everything is controlled by politically affiliated trade unions. You'll find people from Kerala all over the globe on work, anywhere but their home state because there are no jobs or anything there. Tourism provides a little cash for the state exchequer, but that's about it.
What utter bollocks.
Palemoon has a mail client of its own similar to Thunderbird (probably forked from it) called Fossa., which, like Palemoon itself, uses Goanna, their Gecko forked rendering engine.
There's an unofficial tool by the people behind the Spybot anti-spyware tool called Spybot Anti-Beacon.
Got this last year, same size as a Paperwhite, nice soft backlight for night reading, microSD slot for expandable storage and native epub support. The store is quite limited compared to Amazon, but I torrent my ebooks anyway, and they're distributed as epubs, so no extra step of conversion via Calibre.
Don't know if iOS has evolved yet to allow automation apps like Tasker (and many others like it) that can automagically make your phone stay silent during meetings and return to regular volume afterwards (besides automating many other things, like starting my music app when I plug in headphones)
I know, I was referring to their way of thinking.