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The ones I have used on Android just use the /etc/hosts file.
There is no hard-and-fast rule to determine if something is vegan or not. You could just as easily argue that figs are vegan because the figs do not suffer.
> As a hack for existing CPUs, it's just about tolerable â as long as it > can die entirely by the next generation.

> Certainly it's a nasty hack, but hey â the world was on fire and in the > end we didn't have to just turn the datacentres off and go back to goat > farming, so it's not all bad.

Off-topic, but what is with the "â" in these sentences? Is that just some weird encoding error, or does it actually have meaning?

Re:Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:29PM (#15875363)
Article is from June 20, 2017.
Re:ESPN Can’t Afford Monday Night Football Any More on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:41PM (#15589160)
I've yet to find any. If you look at attendance for the last decade there seems to be no indication that it is actually declining.
Re:2017 Top Programming Languages on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:31AM (#14820358)
The name Arduino refers to a platform. This platform has its own programming language. The platform is actually a fork of Wiring[1]. It seems there is really no better name for the language other than "the Arduino language."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform)

Re:Bitcoin Falls Below $2,000 on Monday July 17, 2017 @03:48PM (#14791763)
There are a few exchanges that let you short sell.
Re:Oculus Rift or HTC Vive – Which Should I Get? on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:23PM (#14748599)
Valve's new Knuckles controllers look very promising and will offer far better hand presence than the Touch controllers.

https://www.vrheads.com/valve-knuckles-controllers

I find it fascinating that the packets per second chart resembles an RC circuit's step response. I wonder if there is a good electrical circuit analogy for packets, packet size, and bandwidth.