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mrseb

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About mrseb

http://www.mrseb.co.uk

Photographer, traveler, was an editor at Download Squad until AOL rudely shut us down. I was the editor of ExtremeTech for four years; now I'm the editor of Ars Technica UK.

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    Comment #49064540

    I am also getting these on my mobile Chrome new tab/discover feed. This one is for an Ars Technica story about Neuromancer… https://discover.aigc/?id=12944643404484710755

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    Comment #12209443

    Hi. Do you have any more info on that? A screenshot maybe? And ideally the URL that's being called. Will help us find the bad ad (if there is indeed one).

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    Comment #12128376

    We've updated the story - did some more investigation. Definitely looks like it was Telecity.

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    Comment #10115728

    Yeah, I don't think we have such a public statement at the moment - and maybe that's something we should rectify. All I can tell you is that native content/advertorial would be ver…

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    Comment #10108588

    Heya. I'm the editor of Ars Technica UK, where this story was originally published. It's not native advertising. The author just really likes the 911. Ars doesn't do native adverti…

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    Comment #8526381

    Author here. I was being ironic :) I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I w…

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    Comment #2782457

    Ditto. The OP probably just visits Wikipedia a lot, so Google is bumping it up to the top.

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    Comment #2780428

    It's a bit of a leap to go from 'Zynga must tell Facebook about any games it's about to launch' to 'FACEBOOK CAN VETO ZYNGA GAMES OMG!' Facebook probably just wants a little warnin…

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    Comment #2778073

    Yea, I actually played with that sentence a few times. I thought about making it clear that Firefox and Thunderbird weren't called Firefox and Thunderbird when they were part of Mo…

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    Comment #2777726

    Yep, very good point. Inserted a paragraph about it on page five ("Firefox 1.0") - thanks :)

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    Comment #2763941

    Aza Raskin has written about the Home button before: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-problem-with-home/ And other iPhone buttons, too: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/in_my_rec…

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    Comment #2752396

    I'm blushing :) Yes, I actually got to the last paragraph and realized that I could then dive into Google Fiber and Chrome OS... but I had to wrap it up! There's definitely more to…

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    Comment #2750385

    re: 6 -- there were very few performance tweaks in FF6. Mostly CSS3 and HTML5 additions. FF7 is the 'performance' build (Azure, first round of start-up, smaller memory footprint). …

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    Comment #2750377

    Can echo that Nightly (8) is very stable on Windows, too.

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    TouchPad teardown: it costs $328 to make, $10 more than the iPad 2

    iSuppli breakdown is here: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HP-TouchPad-Carries-$318-Bill-of-Materials.aspx

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    Comment #2729856

    I thought about throwing 'silver' in before the 'surfer', but now I'm glad I didn't.

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    Comment #2729530

    Thanks, I'll put that into the story.

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