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Traffic / Re: Google to punish websites using pop-ups
« on: August 23, 2016, 10:05:19 PM »
The article is badly written and the author does go on about mobile sites, but the way I read it, it seems to apply to all sites. 

In any event, whatever puts a damper on pop ups and interstatials I'm all for.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: US to hand off control of the Internet
« on: August 17, 2016, 08:24:08 PM »
> based in Los Angeles

Can't get safer than that.  Wait...

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Google working on a new OS?
« on: August 16, 2016, 11:49:34 AM »
You can always run your windows tools on a windows vps. Can be a little pricey and large amounts of data can be a pain, but for smaller jobs it works great.

If MS keeps getting worse, I can see myself converting to a 'nix shop of some flavor and doing this for win tools.

Agreed. This would be the way I would go: run either a Mac or Linux with Windows in emulation or a virtual machine.

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Hardware & Technology / Google working on a new OS?
« on: August 12, 2016, 11:20:51 PM »
Called "Fuchsia" (you can't make this stuff up) the OS could be a combination of Android and Chrome or then maybe not.

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/08/google-may-new-os-called-fuchsia-works.html

They better hurry, while W10 is still screwed up.

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Web Development / Re: Washington Post to autogen Rio Olympics articles
« on: August 08, 2016, 09:53:22 PM »
You can't. I'm ignoring ALL sports, so I need you to critique WP bots.

They ought to do okay - it's just sports scores which are pretty cut and dried, not like news which you have to make up.  hhhh

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Traffic / Re: Common Search: large-scale, nonprofit search engine
« on: August 08, 2016, 12:42:16 PM »
At least somebody is spidering the web besides Bing and Google.  I guess we will wait and see.

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Web Development / Re: Washington Post to autogen Rio Olympics articles
« on: August 08, 2016, 01:17:13 AM »
Thanks for the tip, I will autoignore WashPost Olympic articles. 

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Water Cooler / Re: New sighting: "duck-duck" as a verb
« on: August 04, 2016, 01:27:26 PM »
> Startpage

Basically it's un-personalized Google, which I like better anyway.  This is what I use when I need to search Google. When I need backup for duck-ducking.   ;)

> Searx

Wow, great find!  I never thought I'd see a meta-search engine that got me excited these days.  I do like the way you can choose what engines you want to use (Heck even old Gigablast is there.)  Thanks bill!

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Water Cooler / Yahoo Spam during death convulsions
« on: July 31, 2016, 06:45:57 PM »
Remember way back to the First Internet Bubble, when Internet companies started going down suddenly they ignored their own TOS and started email spamming their own users and some even sold off users emails to third parties despite their privacy policies?  That became sort of a early warning sign to me that a company was getting desperate.

So now, suddenly, Yahoo is sending me emails out of the blue.  I've never subscribed to any Yahoo marketing emails. Got one, unsubscribed promptly, now I get another.  I've used Yahoo mail since at least 2000 and this is a first.  Can't say I've ever read all the fine print in the latest TOS but I'm sure they have the right to do this, but it just seems odd. 

Anyone else seeing this?

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Water Cooler / Re: New sighting: "duck-duck" as a verb
« on: July 31, 2016, 04:20:50 PM »
>tricks

These are good. Thanks.

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Water Cooler / Re: New sighting: "duck-duck" as a verb
« on: July 26, 2016, 09:38:18 PM »
> Worst

I thought the same thing, but I remembered it.

>Duck-Ducked

I'm gonna steal borrow that!  Thanks.

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Traffic / Re: Verizon & Yahoo
« on: July 25, 2016, 06:08:51 PM »
Verizon could make all the Yahoo apps be the defaults, that would drive a lot of traffic.  And like you say Yahoo search would be good too.

I don't expect Verizon to put any money into developing their own crawling search engine though.

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Traffic / Re: Apple Lays Groundwork to Kill Online Ads
« on: July 25, 2016, 11:36:45 AM »
If it breaks Google's monopoly on search and ads then I'm for it.   ;D

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