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Comment: Re:Over 1000 (Score 1) 300

by darnkitten (#43721039) Attached to: Browser tabs I have open right now ...
My browsing is similar--I average 100-400 tabs at any time (firefox), and I don't weed as often as I should.

It would help if I knew a way of saving a tab group, so I could group a research subject I'm not actively working on, save/export it, and then open/import the group in whichever instance or profile I was working on at the moment I needed it.

+ - European Watchdogs Prepare Probes Over Google Privacy Policy

Submitted by twoheadedboy
twoheadedboy writes "Google is in hot water over privacy again. This time it is facing the wrath of no less than six regulators in Europe, after it failed to do enough to stop CNIL, the French privacy watchdog, ordering Europe-wide investigations. France, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain will all look into Google's policy changes of 2012. Those amendments caused a furore amongst privacy advocates, largely because, by lumping all of its different services' privacy policies into one document, it effectively said it could transfer data across different divisions without asking users' permission. EU commissioner Viviane Reding said they broke EU law. Meanwhile, Google's privacy director Alma Whitten departed yesterday, but it's unclear whether the exit is related to the saga. Google itself said in February that CNIL was in fact the one not responding to questions adequately..."

Comment: Re:You're not going to get that loop (Score 1) 206

by darnkitten (#42971385) Attached to: USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing
Yeah-UPS' location database is screwed up. In my town, they have a whole street listed as being in the next town over. There seems to be no way to correct it--the drivers have reported the issue, the residents have reported it, even the Box Store people have tried to change it, to no avail. The new address reverts within a month.

Comment: Re:and they wonder why they dont make money... (Score 1) 206

by darnkitten (#42971251) Attached to: USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing

Last I checked USP and FedEx will deliver packages anywhere in the country, not just in profitable areas.

For some values of "deliver" and "anywhere"

For deliveries outside my rural town, Fedex just dumps the packages at the local office store or at the post office. UPS usually delivers to the door, in and out of town, but I've lately noticed a certain amount of package-dumping as well--probably because their location databases for this area are screwed up.

Comment: Conscription (Score 1) 525

by darnkitten (#41985669) Attached to: My relationship to military service:
Agreed. I would add the caveat that both the military and civil conscripts at least go through some form of basic training - preferably in another part of the country. It would give everyone a common experience of dislocation, privation (and probably sleep deprivation). It would introduce them to people outside their normal circles. It could also be used to teach basic skills, such as first aid, and basic self-defense, that could serve both in service and later in life. Finally, it would give us a larger pool of manpower in the aftermath of the disasters that routinely strike us, and maybe allow us to effectively project manpower for disaster relief internationally, which might improve our reputation on the world stage, for once.

Comment: Re:Yet Another Missing Option (Score 5, Insightful) 525

by darnkitten (#41985309) Attached to: My relationship to military service:

which is how I voted, but:

someone in a military family has a distinctly different relation to the military (and often to the surrounding community and to society at large) than does an equivalent person in a civilian family. Certain rules&regs apply to families of military personnel and certain privileges apply to them as well. I recall going through a checkpoint to go to school, or having to carry my ID going to the pool or the beach, because I had to go back through the main gate to get back home. I remember dreading my father being transferred, and feeling both sad and guiltily relieved when he was sent overseas by himself, because it meant that I wouldn't have to leave my friends and home again. On the other hand, unlike most citizens of the US, I had free medical care - until my father retired. And really cool parades. And hands-on time in a tank.

Even today, when I doubt I could adjust to military life, I find some aspects of the civilian world irrationally chaotic. I tear up when I see a "missing man" flight overhead, or a military funeral. I even miss the sound of "Colours" at sunset.

My life is no longer bound up with the military, but my memories and emotions still inextricably tie me to it, and I greatly appreciate those who serve.

Comment: Ravensburger has a point, no? (Score 1) 409

by darnkitten (#41982673) Attached to: Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names

I searched "memory" both for Apple and Google: in the first few pages of results, everygame that had "memory" in the title was a Memory/Pairs/Concentration clone. They have to be worried about trademark dilution.

Removing the non-game apps with "memory" in the title is a bit overboard, as is the ban on search keywords, but I don't see a problem with requiring designers to use a bit of imagination in their titles.

PINoM - "Pairs is not Memory" or YACC - "Yet Another Concentration Clone" spring to mind.

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