Comment Re: Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 1) 317
wrong, the covid vaccines didn't prevent infection or shedding of viruses, only gave much better odds of survival and less damage to the body after infection. A vacinated infected person could spread the disease. The benefits are to the vaccinated person.
Ah. Not exactly. Even with Omicron, it did prevent some infections. ~30% for a month or so..., ~20% for a few months. The percentage was bigger for the original strains. There were statistics for those too in earlier reports. (I think there was also a page listing related papers)
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Comment Re:Not the worst mobile OS (Score 2) 82
After all these years, I too miss some of the features. Especially the tiles for specific persons were lovely. A combination of person specific notificatios, previews, and if I don't remember incorrectly, photos, was rather nifty.
Yeah, I can get a separate icon for my wife for opening Whatsapp conversation currently. And it shares the notifications with the Whatsapp process. Meh.
Comment Re:makes no sense (Score 1) 103
So the punchline is that since competition is not possible, it hasn't been stifled.
Comment Re:Grammar (Score 1) 68
Why should it be "support" and not "be supporting," ?
I'm pretty sure the person cannot read, and missed the word "be" every time.
Comment The work laptops are sturdy (Score 1) 1
I drag the laptop around holding it from the top bezel. No laptop has ever failed me.
Comment Re:While unpopular, I'm not 100% against (Score 1) 449
Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well. There is no free, everyone is paying for it
Wouldn't it make more sense to promote industries that produce actual productive work? Having an industry that takes money from people on top of the taxes just because they can doesn't really make sense. Especially, as noted here, the actual functionality still needs to exist in IRS. Having a pre-filled suggested form which you correct as needed would save everybody's time.
Comment Re:Countless (Score 1) 279
In Finland there's an app for emergency services. "The 112 Suomi application enables the automatic delivery of the caller's location information to the emergency service dispatcher (in Finland)."
And the app shows your coordinates, so you can tell them to the emergency services if there's no data connection available. Not quite as good as automatic location information sending built into the phone, but better than nothing.
Comment Re:one side only (Score 1) 279
Comment Damn it. (Score 1) 3
I've been doing it for free until now.
Comment Re:If you truly care about great photography (Score 1) 408
Sure, but if the specs I found were accurate, Nokia 1020 had 2/3" sensor and iPhone 7 has 1/3" sensor. Of course both are a long way from DSLRs.
Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 561
This may sound like the usual iHate, but having a single iPhone in an otherwise non-Apple household is a chore. Just having it sync media with the various other devices requires many extra steps not to mention installing iTunes, etc.
Yeah, there's now an iPhone in our house. So long sharing images via NFC or bluetooth to SO. A minor dissappointment. Nothing that can't be worked around, but since the capability exists on the phone, the walled garden is somewhat tangible.
Comment Re: Rank reputable sources (Score 1) 183
it's not consensus, its *expert* consensus
Experts according to consensus. I rest my case.
Definition of expert : having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience
Consensus not exactly mentioned in the definition
Comment Re:Censorship. (Score 3, Insightful) 405
The Daily Mail is the exactly opposite of what you describe. A typical story starts with several paragraphs of reaction and outrage, before right at the end on page 7 mentioning the facts.
I came here to post this. This is exactly my experience with Daily Mail. The articles (and I am using the word loosely) start with pure distilled lying shit, and IF you happen to read the end, there is (if they lied enough) their 'get out of jail' card where they briefly state what actually happened (quite contrary to what they wrote above), so they can't be sued.
Comment Re:Why I like Firefox: Extensions (Add-ons) (Score 1) 319
Extensions are the reason Firefox is popular with me. I'm happy to have any suggestions for improvements of the list.
My favorite: Tree Style Tab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... ).