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This is going to be easily overturned. The ad blockers use the dns service and that is not part of what copyright protects. Modifying the results of dns requests is not protected b…

Philosophically, the "thundering herd problem" actually CAUSES congestion. There are 2 ways to handle it. 1 Stop the thundering herd.(make all the clients do something different). …

Well one other aspect of this research springs to mind. Most "bug zapper" design are wrong. It should consist of a light source and a single grid perpendicular to the light source …

>Insects use the moon as a celestial compass cue to navigate, and mistakenly use artificial light sources instead I think that was one of the theories being investigated by this re…

Firstly, the conflict in the GAZA strip is war. Pure and simple. Realistically this war is being fought politically in the worlds media. The fight is for public opinion. So the ord…

Buy a home "cryovac" machine like food saver. Prepare cooked meals such as pasta sauce, stews, curry etc in meal size portions. Cryovac and put in the freezer. To use them put, sti…

Do a search for "13yo beats tetris". Now read each search result in order and take note of the DIFFERENCES in each article/website. So what happened? Well one of the very early rep…

Trust Crisis for AI? What after we see the board/CEO of one company fired/changed apparently for allegations of lies or manipulation that nobody is clear on? If Dropbox derives dat…

Who is driving the company (companies)? Certainly not the board, when it can be ousted on the whim of one person. Might as well just get rid of the board (all boards in this organi…

Battery Technology is a bit of a handy distraction. The only solution is to move the "Duck Curve" to later in the day. So use batteries? well yes if you use them at the household W…

absolutely correct, but Firefox takes notice of ideas. They can be influenced by what is proposed as fixes or contributions. "Everyone knows" that Firefox may break some websites, …

Sort of... But Firefox is open source, so anyone can contribute. Mozilla accepted money from google to "just make google the default search engine". But they also accept contributi…

I know the post above was long, but I must mention the contents come from personal experience. One thing I found, sadly, was that people I love and trust including family often bec…

Power of attorney- no real help, you are dead. Depending on your country.... When you die your estate "owns" everything and only your estate can operate it. But any property in joi…

I am more a lurker than a poster... What I have noticed is wander. Comments start to wander off topic and "evolve" into comments on some consensus comment rather than the subject o…

Is this a concerted effort to kill browsers in favor of proprietary apps? With proprietary apps the owners have all the power over privacy, advertising search results...basically e…

Depends what you define as progress. On a purely philosophical view point the answer is most certainly no. From a speed/operational/deployment perspective probably yes. How and wha…

Been there done that and reversed. Manual labor (of any sort) can be very fulfilling, particularly if you enjoy it. You can do manual labor that you love, its easy. But when you lo…

And when you add a new account you have to do that for all the folders individually. That doesn't apply to a folders sub folder either. There is a method to copy all settings to a …

Well it looks like Betterbird war is having an affect on Thunderbird itself. While not the same logo, it has a similar "feel" to the Betterbird logo. Now if Thunderbird will finall…

The last line in the argument reads: assuming that Stephen wasn't playing games with me, GPT-4 not only gave the best possible answer to my query, it even knew somehow that I was r…

Perhaps its because of the history and culture of self determination. Dog eat dog if you prefer. No one else was going to help you, you need to help yourself. Individuals must have…

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Fully agree. I like the concept, but the concept itself produces multiple instances of any particular subject. You have to wade through a plethora of almost the same instances and …

Perhaps, perhaps not. Is this a way for Google to add new sites to their search data and advertising infrastructure? When you go to the link "Chrome and Other Browsers"(from the we…