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Comment Re:Who is going to write the mod? (Score 1) 119

Who needs a mod? FF has "First Party Isolation" (Not enabled by default, use the about:config setting "security.firstparty.isolate" to enable it), which doesn't set or send cookies for any third party items loaded on a page. They can load their tracking images and the like just fine, but there's no id attached to them, so every time is a "different user".

Comment Really kill those third party user trackers (Score 5, Interesting) 119

FireFox inherited a small security update from the Tor project called "First Party Isolation". It's in newer versions of FF, but isn't turned on by default as it can break some authentication systems.

What it does, is only allow cookies to be sent and received by the site in the page's URL. So, for instance, while visiting YouTube.com, images and the like from google.com can load, but have no cookies attached, and do not receive those cookies.

To enable it, go to about:config and find "privacy.firstparty.isolate". Set it to true and restart the browser, and enjoy surfing the web knowing that you're not being tracked from site to site.

Comment Re:Linux support? (Score 1) 209

Here you go: https://github.com/RasPlex/Ope... Pre-compiled packages for Debian Jessie (x86 & x64), Ubuntu Trusty (x64), Ubuntu Xenial (x86 & x64) and Ubuntu Yakkety (x86 & x64), along with RasPlex for Raspberry Pi v1 and v2, embedded builds for several architectures, and installers for Windows and MacOS.

Comment Re:Welcome to the turn of the century (Score 2) 75

Also, MythTV (by default) uses an Edit List, which is a separate piece of data that contains "commercial start" and "commercial end" flags, so when it's playing and it encounters the start, it'll jump to the end (or you can define remote buttons for "Skip to next commercial flag"). If it's been misflagged, you can hit a button and jump back to watch whatever it classified, as it's not removed from the file. This is seriously something that Plex should look into. And also, as per a comment above, there's a user script you can run that will flip the classification for the "Big Game", so you can watch all those great commercials without the pesky sportsball getting in the way.

Comment Let's run the numbers, shall we? (Score 2) 270

Okay, so let's break this down.

  • General Motors receives $3.58 Billion in subsidies every year.
  • Royal Dutch Shell receives $2.04 Billion in subsidies every year
  • Blue Origin received $3.7 Million in subsidies

On the other hand, from the text of the summary:

[...]Had received $4.9 billion in government subsidies [by 2015]. By now, Musk's various ventures have sucked well over $5 billion from government coffers.

So, in the 2 year gap between the 2015 article and now, Musk had received a further $10 Million ($0.1 Billion) in subsidies. That's really not all that much.

The government rebates for buyers of EVs (which goes to the buyers, not Tesla) goes to all buyers of any EVs. Chevy Bolt, Mitsubishi iMIEV, BMW i3, you name it. It's also a fraction of the rebates received for buying larger vehicles.

Comment Get a cheap PC that 10 years old, add PFSense (Score 5, Insightful) 320

It's a fantastic router platform, supports oodles of hardware, and can run on cheap machines. For instance: Start here use a 5600 series Xeon and the smallest amount of RAM and HDD you can get, and you've got a killer router capable of handling much greater than gigabit traffic. If you need Wireless as well, you can either add a low-profile 802.11 card, or buy a cheap home "router" and run it in Access Point only mode, which will put it behind your firewall (and thus safe from internet-based hack attacks), rather than it being your firewall and vulnerable.

Comment Re:Thoughts on it... (Score 1) 145

Unfortunately, Zillow aren't going for Wagner under the terms of copyright infringement, they're going for them under the auspices of "Breaking the Terms of Service" of Zillow's website, as copying the photos from their site is explicitly called out as not allowed. However, as it is a "by using this service you agree to..." style EULA, which is shaky legal ground at the best of times, this would be an interesting challenge.

In other words, they're trying to forestall the fact that copyright law allows it by challenging it with contract law instead.

Comment Re: No. (Score 1) 65

Rogers include a subscription for one of the services (Spotify, Showmi, NHL GameCenter - your choice) with your pre-paid monthly fee. You still have to pay for the bandwidth it uses. Though I believe they own Shomi and the rights to NHL GameCenter, so that may be considered part of their network.

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