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> Huberty said that Apple's online services are underappreciated by investors because they accounted for less than 6 percent of the company's revenue over the last 12 months. http:…

Most users would prefer if there would be no ads at all. I don't think putting ads in Firefox will reduce ads on websites.

From your first link: > This is still one of our early steps towards our goal of improving the state of digital advertising for the Web – delivering greater transparency for advert…

In 2012 they had a surplus of more than $100,000,000 though... And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I…

> But that's not good either? Indeed, it's not a binary decision, there are other ways than just sell you user's data. For starter, Google (and now Yahoo) were giving hundreds of m…

Who in their right mind would push such a thing? How can they think it'll will win them any user? I have no words.

Speaking about pizza, does anybody has the perfect recipe for the pie/whole pizza? I saw once here from a obsessed chef but can't remember the link. Thanks!

You forget that mandatory voting also mean that minorities and other "difficult" groups also don't have to make excuses as to why they are voting and also that everything is done t…

In Vimperator you can do this: :set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs (it will remove tabs and the navigation menu)

APNG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apng ) is the answer, but Chrome doesn't support natively.

Except an Incredible Journey is not a normal shut down, it's the shutdown of a company, because the buyer took the thing it was interested in and then ran away. So in your case, it…

From Predictive Edge website: Many thanks to you all for your feedback & support, and here's to a new chapter! From Our Incredible Journey ( http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/…

Because for all the tech progression in the last 20 years, a javascript heavy page is still really slow to load and use if you have more than a few tabs open.

> Of course, when a 9-figure exit happens to someone who can't code as good as you and didn't go to as good a school as you–then it was most definitely luck. Or maybe s/he had a be…

I have to say, this[1] looks downright impressive. Congrats everyone! Edit: To add a bit more to the conversation, does the change from Canonical to Blue Systems[2] changed much to…

> If you check out these hyperrealists (they don't say photo 'cause that's a bad word) you can sometimes catch them with a laptop, image on it squared off, sometimes even zoomed in…

> Paying to other European countries isn't great via the banks How so? With SEPA[1] it's both easy (European wide bank account number) and free (might not be the case if both accou…

> Is Hurd useful as anything other than a research project? Bear in mind that a research project can be interesting in its own right, not everything has to be about large scale use…

> (Most prominent: not to limit the future chances of the children). Did they specify a reason? There is quite a lot of good schools there IIRC.

Because we tried to look for them? I bought a gift card for my ipad and I have no idea how to spend it. Most games on it are bad (I'm tempted to say all of them, but I liked The Ro…

Notes taking, GPS, music, to-do lists, calls(!), etc. To me it's especially the "don't make sense without the cloud" bit that I find egregious.