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Comment She is not asking anyone to pay (Score 0) 223

Their business model is free services in exchange for your data. The paid alternative which does not exist yet is an alternative nobody would want. Users who do not like Facebook can leave or stop providing it data. Facebook or anyone else collecting private data of non-users is a crime and legislators or courts should outlaw it.

Comment Re:I haven't found one (Score 0) 490

People ask me if I am on Facebook. I tell them I don't have to because I have my own site. This seems to confuse them as they don't know what that means. Most people are not sophisticated or cannot be bothered with hosting sites or maintaining blogs. Facebook is on the phone and can be accessed from a desktop. That's it for them. Some years ago there was a report of a woman who had to send photocopies of her driving licence to Facebook or risk page deletion and the loss of all her business contacts. Facebook was not sure she was really who she claimed she was on their site.

Comment Re:No, no it didn't (Score 0) 242

You're exactly right.

I took a brief look through the paper. Table 3, glia (rightmost columns) seems to sum up this study nicely. Control group had 817 mice, 3 malignant brain tumors. Highest dose had 409 mice, 3 with malignant brain tumors. Not a significant difference in this entire...

Cancer incidence had doubled... quite significant.

Comment Re:Is any of this a surprise? What you do..? (Score 1) 106

I m still using Ubunt 10.10 the last great version to use Gnome 2. The now-obsolete and broken Firestarter firewall works fine it and I have no problem what I do. Binaries of some programs don't work but LibreOffice latest version works fine. Whatever programs they released 8 years ago are more than sufficient & advanced for my needs. When I check the task monitor, I know what those programs are for and what they are doing. With Windows now, hundreds if not thousands of background services would be running. Microsoft had something good going on for a while. Now it is an oppressive prison for application software.

Comment Re:RSS for the masses? (Score 1) 109

RSS can be monetized in two ways. One - publish only snippets in the RSS so that users will see the ads when they visit the site for the entire article. Two - publish ads directly in the RSS. Most RSS readers use a web browser component which can display ads in addition to images and videos.

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