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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:45PM (#10343695)
I guess if you can install a Linux OS on those nice devices, it would be a different story.
Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:11PM (#10343558)
I don't think it was true in 2007, but it appears to be true in 2015.
I probably will get down-voted for my ignorance, but is this as meaning-less as the Nobel Peace Prize?
Re:What Zillow doesn't want you to know about its listing gap on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:26PM (#10342090)
Another advice is to go drive around the neighborhood that you are targeting and find by-owner listings and such...
Why use TSV when you can use an sqlite3 file?
Re:Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:04PM (#10321629)
Even though it is far from ideal, usually we have an agreement, me an Comcast, that the price will stay the same for a whole year (and I still could cancel service at any time with no penalties)
Re:Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:49PM (#10320848)
Both, with Comcast and AT&T, you usually have to call back yearly and threaten to cancel to keep the same rate (or to get the current new-customer rate which is probably even lower, or faster).
Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:36PM (#10320387)
yes.
Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:37PM (#10319999)
This is one reason why Google should stop asking you to update all software automatically (and they are asking you, what seems like, multiple times a day?).
Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company on Friday October 02, 2015 @01:31PM (#10319953)
> Can't recommend it anymore

would be positive or negative?

Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company on Friday October 02, 2015 @12:11PM (#10319406)
or just stay with Adblock Plus which isn't affected by this change...
"Amazon probably wants to teach Apple and Google a lesson about not making their devices more compatible," Grunes said.

(Allen Grunes, a lawyer at Konkurrenz Group in Washington)

Re:Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:34PM (#10313483)
or just don't use CDNs... they are just another privacy issue on top of all other problems...
Does that mean that it is Google and Apple that don't want to implement Amazon Prime on their devices? and not the other way around
Re:Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @11:09PM (#10308998)
next thing you know, they will say that it belong into an extension... but Firefox is still my favorite
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:11PM (#10308808)
Are those safety tests accounting for electric cars that carry large Lithium batteries? Those can be very dangerous...
Re:Google and Microsoft make patent peace on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:07PM (#10308796)
They make patent peace with themselves but not with the small guys?
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for” on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @07:49PM (#10308269)
They should show the shadow banned posts by default... they are so light anyways that you can barely see them if you don't highlight them with the mouse