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Comment Re:The federal gov't can just go away now (Score 1) 690

The House introduced and passed 448 bills last year. 85 of those were passed by the Senate and 2 failed in the Senate. Another 9 are still bouncing back and forth as differences are worked out. That leaves 352 bills that have been ignored.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/searc...

Mitch needs to go if we ever want to see things getting done again.

Comment Navigator Communicator Firefox Vivaldi... (Score 2) 254

I went from Navigator to Communicator in the 90s, then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox around 2002/3.

As my work started to demand more and more tabs be kept open around 2006, I became dependent on Tab Groups (first an addon, then integrated, then back to addon). Once the API change came and that functionality was lost, I struggled to find a suitable replacement, but eventually landed on Vivaldi. Vivaldi's tab stacks let me keep a similar process to what I had with Tab Groups on Firefox, and I was content with that for a couple years.

Then I switched to Linux on the desktop at home last year, and found Vivaldi frequently crashed. Worse, it usually lost my session in the process, so the 30-50 tabs I had open were all gone including any work-in-progress.

I went back to Firefox at this point and made use of multiple windows on virtual desktops to "group" my tabs. It wasn't as nice; and it's really irritating that the windows don't reopen on the same virtual desktops when closing and relaunching the browser (not a Firefox-specific problem); but it was good enough. Still, Firefox has long felt like it was just about to become a really polished browser in its next release, but never got there.

Lately I've been using Brave which I rather like. The built-in Tor and Bittorrent clients are great. The privacy controls work well and are easy to use.

That said, philosophically, Firefox is my home. I may yet end up back there down the road.

Comment Re:Yeah but..... (Score 1) 172

No, my pockets aren't big enough to fit any of the latest monstrosities, but I happened to want a new Nexus phone. I've still got a Galaxy Nexus, which is about as large as I can comfortably fit in my pocket, and it's getting a little long in the tooth.

I was hoping for a Nexus 6 mini, but no such luck.

Education

Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools 649

sandbagger sends this news from io9: In what's being heralded as a secular triumph, the U.K. government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all existing and future academies and free schools. The new clauses, which arrived with very little fanfare last week, state that the "requirement for every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school." So, if an academy or free school teaches creationism as scientifically valid, it's breaking the funding agreement to provide a "broad and balanced curriculum." ... In addition to the new clauses, the UK government clarified the meaning of creationism, reminding everyone that it's a minority view even within the Church of England and the Catholic Church.

Comment Re:Search engine misfeature still there (Score 2) 167

The workaround here is to use keywords:
Click the engine dropdown in the search box and choose Manage Search Engines.
Create keywords for the search engines you care about (eg. 'g' for google, 'wp' for wikipedia, 'd' for dictionary.com, etc).
Perform searches in the Awesome Bar by typing "<keyword> <search terms>" and ignore the search box (except to configure more search engines and/or keywords).

Comment Re:Favorite moments (Score 1) 211

I must admit, though, one of the best moments is when BBC revived Dr. Who and had an episode (maybe the first episode) where the Doctor takes Rose billions of years into the future, with the sun about to engulf the earth.

You're describing the opening scene of s01e02, The End of the World.

News

Gunman Opens Fire At LAX 520

McGruber tips news that today at 9:30AM PST, a man removed an assault rifle from a bag at Los Angeles International Airport and opened fire. The shooter moved into the screening area, and then further into the terminal. One TSA agent was killed; roughly six more people were injured. The gunman was a ticketed passenger. (Early reports suggested he worked for the TSA — this does not seem to be the case.) Police engaged him in gunfire, and he's now in custody. His motive is unknown at this time.

Comment Re:Placebin (Score 1) 291

This is why you can actually say [homeopathy/snake oil/Magnet Therapy] etc. all are "scientifically proven to improve your outcomes" and be telling the truth.

Actually, you cannot say anything has been scientifically proven and be telling the truth because science has no proof mechanism.

Comment Re:They also shoveled Ask.com search in. (Score 1) 365

The context menu search has always defaulted to the engine selected in the search box. Mine has remained set to Google and Ask.com is not even one of the options I have, so I'm thinking maybe something else has hijacked your settings. Either that or you've changed it yourself without realizing.

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