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  1. Who'd go sit in an arena watching a bunch of sweaty dudes bump into each other.

  2. thinks being a sleazebag is totally cool yo.

  3. Re:I wonder about alternatives on Florida Citrus Trees To Be Sprayed With Thousands of Kilograms of Antiobiotics (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't entirely the same as bananas spread through vegetative reproduction so they are genetically the same plant.

  4. about that syntax though. death to postfix types, I don't care if its easier for you to parse it, the point of higher level languages is to make it easier for humans not the computer.

  5. I mean they did also try selling music then later movies.

  6. Re:If Only Popup Layers Could be Destroyed on Firefox 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Blocked by Default, Smoother Scrolling, and Better Search (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    For me I take the interstitial pop-ups my cue to leave the site. Though I'm not sure that this is more annoying than every site on the internet wanting to show you notifications now or your geo-location.

  7. For one thing its not owned by a private Chinese equity firm with unknown motives.

  8. Consumer Group? on Consumer Groups Want To Tax Facebook To Save Journalism (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably more likely a group funded and run by a major publisher, much like how the coal industry runs numerous anti-nuclear groups portraying themselves as grass roots movements.

  9. Well, they were able to whine their way into Flickr cancelling selling prints of Creative Commons works - https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...

  10. I think its nuanced. I don't think its good that a dictator like Putin has the entire Russian populace under his thumb. But as a Canadian, I also don't want my data subject to bullshit American politics either.

  11. Re:First Against the Wall on Facebook is Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

  12. First Against the Wall on Facebook is Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the revolution came

  13. I feel like his comment about data localization misses the purpose - the whole purpose is to ensure it is subject to local laws, not foreign powers.

  14. I half agree with you, but you're missing the fact that he's also director of the w3c

  15. Re:Alt+Tab - most common thing I use on Microsoft Asks Users To Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How is it quicker when there is a slow animation to show it.

  16. Re:Alt+Tab - most common thing I use on Microsoft Asks Users To Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The Windows 8/10 snapping is broken. I used the Windows 7 version constantly but almost never use the Win10 one. Frequently meta+left will snap windows to the right, and vice versa, combined with the useless corner snap making side-snap take more keypresses.

  17. Humanity on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    needs to do it first....

  18. I thought the point was that people should look at their finances because it might also be a scam.

  19. It wasn't, the shills were simply out in force. Cryptocurrencies were the biggest pump and dump of all time.

  20. Those are not normal web APIs, those are for their installed apps and won't work while browsing the web. Note how it also says that support is being removed from Mac/Win/Linux.

  21. Re:The problem with terms and conditions. on Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They're also written in a way that the average person won't understand. It would be better if they'd have taken the $10k and invested it in writing plain language explanations of the terms.

  22. The BuggyCow vulnerability was been pretty broadly covered by the news which is probably the source that people on twitter are looking at. Wouldn't scanning news sites?

    Anyone who has observed or worked with NIST/Mitre would know their process is often slow so its hardly shocking that there are news stories before the CVEs are marked as disclosed.

  23. Telcos on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Separate the networks and prohibit them from selling to users, or having exclusive contracts. Then we have competing networks (though sometimes it might be cable vs dsl), and competing providers on top of the networks.

  24. Re:And the actual artists will get... ? on Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Go To US Appeals Court To Overturn Royalty Increase (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that this is the writer, not necessarily the musician, from my hazy memory they get this amount directly which dates back to radio days. Its always seemed strange to me that there was an external entity setting the rate that song writers got per play instead of a contract while its fine for the musicians to get shackled by unreasonable contracts and MPIAA accounting.

  25. The article is wrong though, IE was a problem because it did a bunch of random shit that wasn't a standard or was entirely proprietary like ActiveX. Chrome to date has not done this, however the issue is that developers don't bother to test anything else. Microsoft & Apple have made their own bed there as they don't have easy ways of using them in automated tests (e.g. no selenium docker image) and both are significantly slower than Firefox & Chrome at implementing new features.

    The other odd thing to me is from everyone I've asked there isn't a standard web build tool which can identify browser compatibility.