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Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:33PM (#20753655)
Me too but it only seems to affect the address bar. The "new tab page" search bar still defaults to Bing.
The concept of human rights says that every human who is born is entitled to this list of rights. I think that's silly for many reasons. Most important is that that list of rights is completely skewed to a Western, liberal view of the world. It's basically imperialism.
I don't believe in human rights. But about the second part: by "humans" I also meant the mentally ill. (By helping them, you're protecting them from themselves, too.)
Re:'Matrix 4' officially a go with Keanu Reeves on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:18PM (#20752283)
I don't know if that guy was trolling, but I only saw the first one, and I thought of watching the other two. Now I guess I don't have to.
>In which case you have to ask yourself, are you so brilliant that you’ve found an important topic that no one has considered yet, or have all the brilliant people already figured out that topic isn’t worthy of study?

Imagine how many inventions we would have missed if all inventors had shared your mindset.

Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:35PM (#20751798)
I don't like that the start page is so "Microsofty"--it contains MSN News and you can't disable Bing.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:25PM (#20750259)
I support Eich, but I don't like the idea of Brave. I want a neutral browser. Brave is not neutral, since it comes bundled with software that blocks ads and some crypto crap. I want to block ads, but I want to do it my way and to be in control.
Re:Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:08PM (#20750025)
Does this have a level of telemetry comparable to that of Google Chrome? I've been looking for a Chromium-based alternative to Chrome and I'm still waiting. Vivaldi looks like it, but it's still a bit too rough around the edges to be used as a daily browser.
Re:Off-Facebook Activity on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:05PM (#20749990)
Or they simply don't care about Facebook building a profile of them to show them ads because they are happy with the value they get from Facebook.
Re:Wolpertinger on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:13AM (#20744780)
I have one in WoW, they gave it to me for doing the brewfest quests.
Re:Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#20742755)
If you keep getting pwned by APTs and you need to build a WAF then the security of your codebase is, er, poor, to say the least.
Re:Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:51PM (#20742745)
Slightly related--it was amusing the first time I went to /r/China to find it completely full of anti-China posts. I mean, it makes sense since Reddit is an American website, but it would be like going to /r/potato and finding dozens of posts on how people hate potatoes.
Re:Updating our advertising policies on state media on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:28PM (#20740954)
>So quite probably no, since the BBC is an independent public broadcaster (much like NPR in the US) - it is state funded but not directly controlled by the state; it maintains editorial independence.

I don't work in the BBC but it usually works like "you have editorial independence but if you don't say what we want you'll see what happens to your budget"