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  1. And they got money over years for all of that. So why block this community effort? It takes nothing away from the current version.

  2. No kidding.... on FBI Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what Volkswagen is trying to tell everyone, their cars emission control software has been hacked!!!

  3. Nothing, keep it on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    I assume yo are on Windows since you talk of Outlook. Well, in the last 4 years, I tried and bought most of them. IMO, all the open source one developed on linux primarly look butt ugly on windows(GTK and all simply does not blend well with Windows Native UI) and are a pain to navigate. Plus, they do crash alot on that OS. I also bought and tried Mailbird Pro. For simple emails and social stuff it's good, the unified inbox work nicely but it uses alot of memory and doesn't support 10% of Thunderbird features that you can get through it's plugin system. They are also insanely slow to add requested feature like PGP or s/mime support.(even though they say they are working on it, they have nothing to show for it after 2 years now...) You can add "app" to it, but not sure if the API is public, I doubt it. I also acquired EmClient 6 2 years ago: Stable, fast, but outdated security(support SHA-1 certificate only), no support for PGP, no plugin system and always has trouble with Gmail sync every few months(probably due to changes on Google side) that requires an update to fix. Also very slow development. Version 7 should come out in 2016 when it was supposed to arrive in Q1 2015, but it looks like it will still be stuck with SHA-1 and no PGP. I hope I'm at least wrong about SHA. So, honestly, save money and stay with Thunderbird. It's not perfect, and the interface is dated(especially with no real unified inbox) but it's way more features rich than anything else commercial out there right now.

  4. Not the right focus on Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    I've been asking them for years to get back their focus. Obviously they didn't understand my request.

  5. Re:The farther left you go, the more you lose on Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The bathroom question is to know how many off us they can eventually piss off simultaneously

  6. Nothing new , really on Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog · · Score: 1

    They have been redoing their back catalog since forever! How many remake of FFIV are out there already?

  7. knowing Russia... on Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles · · Score: 2

    Knowing the way Russia works, they probably actually cracked it but wants to appear like they didn't. Honestly, who is gonna follow up on that news to see that the negociation to get out of it truly happens? Exactly.

  8. Eth..what? on VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Ethic? Wasn't that word removed from the dictonnary this year for lack of use in the modern language since it had lost all meaning?

  9. Do No Evil.. on Google Facing Fine of Up To $1.4 Billion In India Over Rigged Search Results · · Score: -1

    Remember the time where google motto "Do no evil" was actually true? Now they're simply another incarnation of M$/Apple.

  10. "This could help extend the lifetime of the phone" on Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You mean Samsung would know when to tell the phone "not" to open as per their planned obsolescence policy.

  11. Title capitalization need to die! on New Horizons Phones Home After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded · · Score: 1

    Goodness I'll never understand why in english all the first letter in an article title sentence are capitalized. I was reading the title and kept wondering why the heck Horizons new phones were "home" after the Pluto flyby.

  12. Re:My Plans for Firefox on Mozilla's Plans For Firefox: More Partnerships, Better Add-ons, Faster Updates · · Score: 1

    That' exactly what I did yesterday after it updated to FF39, and I wrote to FF to tell them why. Simple, websites like amazon are a burden to load in FF while they are still speedy in chrome and opera. And these days, even extensions built primarly on FF run better in chrome, so I made the decision to switch(but to opera, I don't trusth chrome)

  13. Current-gen? Shit! on Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 · · Score: 1

    It won't run on anything I have either. According to marketing, everything I have is either "old hardware" or "next-gen" No current-gen at all.

  14. Re:How about fixing https printing first on Mozilla Rolls Back Firefox 37's Opportunistic Encryption Over Security Issue · · Score: 1

    Tons of bugs about this opened already by many users. They are really quick to flag them as duplicate, but never about fixing it An exemple: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

  15. How about fixing https printing first on Mozilla Rolls Back Firefox 37's Opportunistic Encryption Over Security Issue · · Score: 1

    Before integrating all the newest protocols, how about fixing decades old bugs to basic functions, like printing...? Since forever, when you print https pages, firefox will print the first, and last one, and nothing in between.(it's not on all https pages, but it's on enough that it's a major anyoance) Other browsers have no problems with the same pages, so it's a FF problem. Bugs related to this have been opened since 2004, 11 years ago! And again, you get answer to the bug to the likes of "we got too much on our plate right now to take a look at this" If mozilla is looking for money, how about allowing us to pay, say, 40$ for one year where we get the privileges that the bugs we report are actually WORKED on?

  16. Re:I've been using Adblock Edge since Plus sold ou on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    years ago. Please explain how uBlock is better.

    I *NEVER* see ads (or get the malware from them) on the machines that use Adblock Edge in Firefox, how does it get better than that?

    Well, he DID explain it to you, if only you'd take the time to click the provided link that is.

  17. Valve's time on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 4, Funny

    If he's working on "Valve's time", then he'll produce the first draft about possible solutions around 10 years after Greece has ceased to exist as a country.

  18. Re:Stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    I have an SSL certificate from PositiveSSL, and I had to remove it, simply because Chrome and Firefox would put a HUGE warning that the site wasn't ID'ed. Yeah, you can put SSLfor cheap but unlesss you PAY premium for the identification, they still put a huge warning that scare people away. For a hobby website like mine it's worthless to pay for identification. I hope LetsEncrypt will solve that problem

  19. Sad they chose Yahoo over Bing on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'm sad at this. If they wanted to swtich, I'd have prefered Bing at the least. In term of quality search, as far as I'm concerned it goes Google->Bing->Yahoo->DuckDuckGo As an example, I was doing a search to see what are my options to check Boardgamegeek on a mobile without using the main website as it's not mobile friendly at all. So I did this search on all 4 engines: "boardgamegeek on mobile" Google and Bing showed as first result the bgg wiki page on mobile access which has all the relevant information. Yahoo, even though it's using Bing tech, never showed that search result anywhere in the first page, neither did DuckDuckGo, and their search results didn't gave me any answer I was looking for. So, useless in the case of this search. So, pretty sad that they chose Yahoo :(

  20. The same speech all over again... on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    And this new Thor isn't a temporary female substitute — she's now the one and only Thor, and she is worthy! They said the same thing back then for the new Spiderman, the new Green Lantern(DC), the new ... you get it. When sales plummet for a few months(like they always do, because comic books oldies only like their sacred Statu Quo), they'll bring back the old Thor fast enough.

  21. EFF release an alpha of Privacy Badger on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good day for the EFF to release the alpha of privacy badger that blocks tracking cookies http://www.pcworld.com/article... https://www.eff.org/privacybad...

  22. I understand Broussard on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 5, Funny

    I understand Geroge Broussard being againt this; If games would fall in public domain after X time passed, Duke Nukem Forever would have actually entered public domain before ever being published.

  23. Re:Not enough application success stories on FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later · · Score: 1

    Apache is a good counter-example. There is basically only one way to be the Best Web Server Ever, so Apache has no significant FOSS competitors. Persons who see a way to make a server better contribute to the Apache project.

    Nginx maybe?

  24. Re:Excessive greed. on Gaming Legends Discuss Using Kickstarter For Their Next Projects · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed, it is following the same path as Ebay, which was once an awesome place to find and sell older stuff, but these days it's populated at 98% by Ebay Stores with set prices, and lost it's usefullness as an auction site. Kickstarter is going that way too, it started as a great place for new, small projects, but is being overrun now by corps who uses it as a launch platform for their next product.

  25. That will teach them on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    They had the nerve to demote Pluto, so now it's pluto-nium offsprings are leaving in protest!