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Comment Re:What about Mozilla's unwanted horseshit? (Score 1) 75

There is an about:config setting to prevent Firefox from loading a new page on every new version. So I set that setting and then Firefox reverted it on upgrade.

Have you tried making a setting in user.js in the profile directory to force it every time you start Firefox? Check out the arkenfox link at the bottom of my post.

Firefox on Linux doesn't let you set scrollbar width, citing CSS control over that element. But on Windows, you can.

Try setting:
- widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled to false
- widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to the size you want

In the old plugin model, extensions could write to disk. Therefore you could save a webpage as displayed, with edits from other extensions and such. Pocket doesn't do that. They spent $20M on Pocket, which is a tool for keeping track of what webpages users find important. Mozilla is now a PII-harvesting organization that generates unwanted page loads in order to collect your information.

I cannot help you there. Pocket is one of the first things disabled for me.

You should take a gander at https://github.com/arkenfox/us... to minimize the junk in Firefox.

Submission + - Maryland To Become First State To Tax Online Ads Sold By Facebook And Google. (npr.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: With a pair of votes, Maryland can now claim to be a pioneer: it's the first place in the country that will impose a tax on the sale of online ads.

The House of Delegates and Senate both voted this week to override Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of a bill passed last year to levy a tax on online ads. The tax will apply to the revenue companies like Facebook and Google make from selling digital ads, and will range from 2.5% to 10% per ad, depending on the value of the company selling the ad. (The tax would only apply to companies making more than $100 million a year.)

Proponents say the new tax is simply a reflection of where the economy has gone, and an attempt to have Maryland's tax code catch up to it. The tax is expected to draw in an estimated $250 million a year to help fund an ambitious decade-long overhaul of public education in the state that's expected to cost $4 billion a year in new spending by 2030. (Hogan also vetoed that bill, and the Democrat-led General Assembly also overrode him this week.)

Still, there remains the possibility of lawsuits to stop the tax from taking effect; Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh warned last year that "there is some risk" that a court could strike down some provisions of the bill over constitutional concerns.

Submission + - SPAM: Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, has died at the age of 70. 6

Submitted by reporter
reporter writes: A report at Fox News states, "Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced. ...

Limbaugh is considered one of the most influential media figures in American history and has played a consequential role in conservative politics since 'The Rush Limbaugh Show' began in 1988."
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Submission + - EU's refusal to permit GMO crops led to millions of tonnes of additional CO2 (cornell.edu) 4

Submitted by wooloohoo
wooloohoo writes: Europe’s refusal to permit its farmers to cultivate genetically engineered (GE) crops led to the avoidable emission of millions of tonnes of climate-damaging carbon dioxide, a new scientific analysis reveals.

The opportunity cost of the EU’s refusal to allow cultivation of GE varieties of key crops currently totals 33 million tonnes of CO2 per year, the experts say.

This is equivalent to 7.5 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the entire European agricultural sector, or roughly what might be emitted each year by 10-20 coal-fired power stations.

Given that farmers in North and South America adopted GE crops from the late 1990s onward, this analysis implies that over subsequent decades the additional carbon emitted due to the EU’s opposition to genetic engineering will likely be in the hundreds of millions of tonnes.

Comment Re:The rest of the story (Score 1) 294

I am not sure how to put that into perspective. In the U.S., an estimated 12% of people will develop a thyroid disease. This paper makes it sound like that COVID hits those people a bit harder.

On the other hand, there are many types of thyroid disease and symptoms. Is it going after those with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism symptoms more often? Perhaps, it is hitting primarily those with thyroid cancer? Thyroid issues can cause cardiovascular issues. Maybe, COVID prefers those with chronic heart disease caused by thyroid disease. I lack access to the paper, assuming I could understand it :), so have plenty of questions about what the paper is finding. I am not questioning if they are wrong; I am just full of questions about what it means.

So many variables; so little time. ;)

Submission + - SPAM: Paleontologists find evidence of new mass extinction 233 million years ago

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The extinction event, which scientists dubbed Carnian Pluvial Episode, was characterized by significant reductions in biodiversity and the loss of 33 percent of marine genera.

In a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers suggest the episode may have created the ecological space for the emergence of a variety of important modern plant and animal lineages — including conifers, insects, dinosaurs, crocodiles, lizards, turtles and mammals.

Through analysis of both paleontological assemblages and geological evidence, researchers confirmed that biodiversity declines coincided with stark chemical changes in the ocean and atmosphere.

Scientists suspect these changes were triggered by massive volcanic eruptions in what's now Alaska and British Columbia.

"The eruptions peaked in the Carnian," lead study author Jacopo Dal Corso said in a news release.

"I was studying the geochemical signature of the eruptions a few years ago and identified some massive effects on the atmosphere worldwide," said Dal Corso, a researcher with the China University of Geosciences at Wuhan. "The eruptions were so huge, they pumped vast amounts of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, and there were spikes of global warming."
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Submission + - Tesla Wins Lawsuit Against Whistleblower Accused of Hacks (cnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The US District Court of Nevada awarded Tesla a win in its lawsuit against a former employee, filed two years ago. You may recall CEO Elon Musk referred to this incident in a previously leaked email calling on employees to be "extremely vigilant." Martin Tripp, who worked at the company's Nevada Gigafactory, was accused of hacking the automaker and supplying sensitive information to unnamed third parties. Reuters reported Friday the court ruled in Tesla's favor and dismissed Tripp's motion to file another reply to the court. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but according to Reuters, the court will grant Tesla's motion to seal the case.

Submission + - DuckDuckGo Is Growing Fast (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, announced that August 2020 ended in over 2 billion total searches via its search platform. While Google remains the most popular search engine, DuckDuckGo has gained a great deal of traction in recent months as more and more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet. DuckDuckGo saw over 2 billion searches and 4 million app/extension installations, and the company also said that they have over 65 million active users. DuckDuckGo could shatter its old traffic record if the same growth trend continues. Even though DuckDuckGo is growing rapidly, it still controls less than 2 percent of all search volume in the United States. However, DuckDuckGo's growth trend has continued throughout the year, mainly due to Google and other companies' privacy scandal.

Submission + - Why passenger jets could soon be flying in formation (cnn.com)

Submitted by ragnar_ianal
ragnar_ianal writes: Look at the V-shaped formations of migrating ducks and scientists have long surmised that there are aeronautical efficiencies at play. Aerbus is examining this in a practical manner to see if fuel efficiency can be enhanced.

Building on test flights in 2016 with an Airbus A380 megajet and A350-900 wide-body jetliner, fello'fly hopes to demonstrate and quantify the aerodynamic efficiencies while developing in-flight operational procedures. Initial flight testing with two A350s began in March 2020. The program will be expanded next year to include the involvement of Frenchbee and SAS airlines, along with air traffic control and air navigation service providers from France, the UK, and Europe.

"It's very, very different from what the military would call formation flight. It's really nothing to do with close formation," explained Dr. Sandra Bour Schaeffer, CEO of Airbus UpNext, in an interview with CNN Travel.

Comment Level playing field. (Score 2, Funny) 96

Good. That's what I expect from the EU. They should make sure that the playing field is even and that everyone has the same opportunity. And they should probably do more. Why isn't there a european Facebook? Or a european Google? Or Amazon? Apple? Microsoft?

Why isn't there a single european tech company on the top 10?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Yammer? (Score 1) 30

by haeger (#58426364) Attached to: Google's New Currents App Is Its Enterprise Replacement For Google+

What's the use? I mean, really?
This looks like a limited social media app, much like yammer. I don't use yammer and I probably won't use this. An email seems easier to use, and it gets pushed directly to the recipients inbox.

I really hate the "Someone said something on some network that we'll have you visit just to find out that it didn't interest you anyway" emalis that I get. Which is probably why I stopped using social media.

Yeah. Good luck with G++ google. I think is has the life expectancy of an antivaxxers kid.

Comment Netfix+ (Score 1) 205

by haeger (#58317006) Attached to: As 'Subscription Fatigue' Sets In, the OTT Reckoning May Be Upon Us

I'd actually pay a little extra, say 1-2EUR on my Netflix account if it allowed me to view shows from some other network. Pay a little extra to Netflix and get 3h of viewing of another providers content, delivered through the same account/subscription I already have.
I'm sure they could work out a deal if they only wanted to.

But alas, Popcorntime is still a better experience. Or so I'm told.

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