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Comment Re:Oh good (Score 1) 57

Let me offer you my own take on this: I've been trying DuckDuck Go and Bing as options to Google, but I still (generally) get better result with Google, so it's been hard to switch.

That said, the thing about google is that you have to craft your search with very specific terms, and then on the results you must skip the first five or so "adds disguised as results", and then either you have what you're looking for in the first few "real" search results, or it won't be there at all and you have to modify your search.

I have NEVER found anything relevant in the next few pages, so I don't even bother clicking "next"

(only exception to that is perhaps image search, but even with that, next pages are more of a curiosity than useful content)

Comment Pepperridge farms remembers (Score 0) 122

Anyone else remember when Apple claimed (to the govt (FCC?)) that jailbreaking the iphone was going to lead to terrorists taking down the cell network?

The mobile space is a damned mess for users, and that's by design. (nearly) Any other computer that would be otherwise considered multi purpose, allows the owner to separate management functions from daily functions (i.e. admin/root vs unelevated). This phantom menace created in the mobile space is one wholly of teh design of the mobile OS vendors.

Comment Nothing new here (Score 1) 53

Paypal has long been fighting (and winning) that it it not covered under bank regulations.
https://www.cnet.com/news/feds...

"PayPal does not physically handle or hold funds placed into the PayPal service," the FDIC said in its letter.

This is from 2002, now nearly 20 years ago. This distinction has become more and more meaningless as the years go on. Its high time that paypal fall in line with banking regs.

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