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  1. Re:Is Mozilla snooping if data never leaves device on New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What's your solution? Have all extensions automatically installed with Firefox?

  2. Re:Same thing on Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    I wasn't talking about Netflix, but what the employees (and most people like you) think are Netflix competitors

    HBO and Amazon suddenly have a lot of generic cop/medical dramas?

  3. Re:Technical issues. on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Possible fix: Cloud-connected landing pads that double as charging stations. Amazon could give them away to Prime Members who'll set them up at their homes, and you'd earn Amazon credit each time a drone makes a pit stop.

    Nah... they'd add a side benifit for their users and charge their users for the privilege. Such as the locks and cameras at you home that lets Amazon drop packages in your house so they don't have to replace a stolen package.

  4. And yet has the most progressive treatment of women.

  5. Depends on where you live. In Texas, you are carded if you look under 40.

  6. So now you know better. Good thing you're here learning.

  7. Re: Massively overpriced on Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    Power saving uses too. Do you need to turn on all the lights in the chandelier or just one when your by yourself?

    The home automation stuff really shouldn't be visible if done correctly. I'm not sure why a house would lose character

  8. Re:Never Heard of this Shit on Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    And I'm in Lowe's quite a bit.

    Plus.... ZigBee, Z-Wave, Orchard Supply, Alacrity, Iris ??

    WTF is this shit? What does it do? You sure as hell can't tell from the names.

    The surest way to not succeed in business is to shroud your products in mysterious names that do not convey their purpose and obscures how they work.

    If your interested in this stuff, you do research and know - same for most other DIY projects. If you don't want to learn anything, you go with one of the all-in-one home automation kits offered buy your cable company, Sams, costco, etc

  9. Re:Massively overpriced on Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Amazon bet big on zigbee incorporating it into their echo plus so it will be an interesting battle.

  10. Re:From Netflix/HBO to network TV model on YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I enjoy a lot of CW shows, some fox ones, and a few on other networks.

    The ratio of good original content will be different since 60-90 of what you get from Netflix and HBO is reruns of movies and shows. They don't need to pad out a 24 hr day schedule.

    Also, different people like different things. The shows that you and I see as crap, other people love.

  11. No - That's what you assume a conservative would say based out your bias

  12. Re:Cordcutting isn't cheap on Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I do laugh at people who still spend endless hours watching whatever shows.

    Often? Are you sitting in your chair at home just laughing and laughing?

    I'd say be less concerned with what others are doing and read a book, but this seems to bring you more joy so keep at it :)

  13. Re:TV=Waste of money on Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We should add more laws. Because government is not the reason for these monopolies... (hint, even Google can't break through the government barriers.)

  14. Re:Let the of topic bickering begin on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah.. because I'm American.

    I understand European liberalism would be different - hence the qualifier.

  15. The person is lying or speaking about an old plan
    http://mobile.free.fr/

    Per there site it cap
    19 € 99 / month
    15,99 € / month
    for Freebox subscribers

    100 GB Internet

    SMS calls, unlimited MMS

    Abroad :
    25Gb internet (in 3G)
    from + 50 destinations
    Calls, SMS, unlimited MMS
    from Europe, DOM, USA, Canada
    Australia, South Africa,
    Israel, New Zealand.

  16. Re:Let the of topic bickering begin on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I love watching these liberal CEO and coorps get targeted for stuff like this.

    Google and Amazon are great at advocating for employee rights for companies that are not theirs and do not affect their profits.

  17. You're cherry picking. We can throw out so cheap, no named mobile companies in the US as well

  18. Yeah. They should never change a price to free or have sales or anything like that

  19. I'm fine for with that. Bling wouldn't be bling if it were free.

    It doesn't actually change game play

  20. Re:Why bother? (bootloop of death) on Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he rates it a 10/10 for himself. Not everyone cares about that stuff.

    The removable battery used to be key for me since I always managed to break the charging port. Wireless charging has changed how much that matters to me now.

    Most of the phones that take an sd card now put the sd card in such a difficult location that even that means less to me now.

  21. Re:Three years, pathetic... on Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Anecdotally, most people I know buy a phone and keep it until it stops working properly.

    True. I know the buzz at my job is when our phones will get Oreo. It's almost all we talk about. Several people already went out and bought new phones just so they could have bragging rights! Wait... No one I know that isn't a nerd like me thinks or cares about that when deciding on a new phone.

  22. Re:Where's the Proof? on Australian Intelligence Knows Huawei Was Used in Espionage, Report Says (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you'd get similar results from Democrats

  23. Re:How pointless is that on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it is "highly popular."

  24. Re:It's amazing that this is a problem on Equifax Extends Free Credit Monitoring -- But Outsources It To Experian (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    That's unfair. You are trying to put up barriers to poor people and minorities from getting credit cards to try to build their credit.

    Expecting a bank to be able to verify someone's identity for credit is akin to the old Jim Crow laws of past

  25. And even worked in sheepsumer! I wish we could all be like you