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Seconded. Does anyone know if the phone home "feature" has been removed from CyanogenMod?

<strike>I'm running uBlock Origin and still getting the notification about adblocker. They seem to be running some sort of detection mechanism.</strike>

I was running standard uBlock and didn't realize it. Origin seems to bypass the detection.

The government needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just build more A-10's. Infantry guys across the board swear by them - they are one of the most popular pieces of air support in existence for a reason.

The A-10's are a a heavy chain gun with a plane built around it. They are armored up and can take serious flak while still completing the mission. Its amazing what the A-10's can go through and come out safely on the other end.

They are a known cost (not a budgetary blackhole/f-35). We have plenty of pilots to fly them and techs to repair them. Fact is, the F35 was/is not designed for the close air support (CAS) mission.

If user growth and mainstream adoption are your goals then calling the product 'Signal' is the better choice by leaps and bounds.

Axolotl is cool in a techy/underground sort of way (if your into that) but completely misses the boat on being 1) Easy to spell, 2) easy to pronounce, 3) easy to understand.

Mainstream users would just say "wtf" and move on to whatsapp/telegram/facebook messenger.

Honest question here - why not just rent and wait it out?

edit/from the article; Rentals are hard to come by, and just as unaffordable. The vacancy rate of 0.8 percent is one of the lowest in the country, and the average monthly rent of C$937 for a bachelor suite is tied at highest with the cost in Toronto, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Rents for newly built units and renovated basement suites are pricier.

stop using repeat offending website

Also, its hard to see that same Foundation that is used to 300M checks being successful for very long after the revenue dries up.

My wife was complaining about the performance of her computer. Shes running a MacBook Air, Chrome, Firefox and Quickbooks. Ran a system check and Firefox running 7 tabs (2 spreadsheets, 1 email, 1 pinterest and browising 3 ecom sites) was taking up over 1.4gb of ram. Seriously.

Killed Firefox and the system responsiveness was considerably better. Its amazing that the memory bloat in FF has been allowed to go on for so long. But hey, IoT!

Use and performance of its core product, Firefox.

The fact that we are still talking about Pocket being integrated in 2016 amazes me. Especially considering that Mozilla was designed and intended as a community project.

Are you suggesting that the smart move for Apple is a stock buy back?

As opposed to investing in more R&D? Or, perhaps acquiring start ups with exciting new products or technologies?

"Lets not worry about the banks, the failed surveillance state, government supported terrorism, corruption or sound money supply. Nor should we focus on affordable living, tax evasion by corporations or decreasing unemployment through sound policy. Lets focus our attention on the entertainers!"

Fun times we live in. Speaking of, wonder what the Kardashians are up to..

The reality of bottled water profit is that unless you are a retailer, the only way you can make any money is based on insane volume. That requires cash to cover production, machines, warehousing, transportation (this is huge) and terms for your customers. Big box loves to pay in 60-90 days. Try that on for size when you are making pennies on the dollar.

Similar to many other categories, the bottled water industry is experiencing a transition into automated manufacturing. This is putting a ton of the mom and pop bottling businesses out. Its become too difficult for them to compete against 24/7 automated production lines that the big dogs are running. The margins continue to be driven further and further into bare minimum/cost threshold by the buyers as they leverage it to drive in customers(door busters). There is a ton of pressure here and its not letting up. The smaller guys can't afford to put the cash up to secure the new hardware and are closing up shop left and right.

Costco sells bottled water at near break even as a door buster. This strategy is very similar to what you see in traditional grocery stores where Arrowhead or semi-generic brand is selling for $3.50 a case of 24 bottles.

Don't get me wrong - folks like Nestle, Fiji, Smart Water etc. all do well but there is serious cash invested in those efforts. The small and mid size players basically struggle to carve out an existence.

While Nader realized he would lose the election, he made a big point of trying to capture 5% of the vote and also trying to raise additional awareness of his core agenda.

Winning 5% of the vote would have enabled the party to qualify for Federal Election Funds in the following election. http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/fund.shtml

Dont forget that these days $$$ = share of voice.

The argument that a vote for nader is a vote for bush is flawed. The basic premise of voting is that you vote to support a candidate and or a set of ideas you align with. Its a step better than voting "none of the above" as it provides an idea of what you would prefer.

The concept of voting for the "lesser of two evils" just further perpetuates the mess that we find ourselves in today.

Possibly related: Bruce Schneier - "The Rise of Political Doxing"

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/the_rise_of_p...

Backstory; This service was launched in Q3 of 2014 and competed directly against Square & Paypal. Mobile app, card reader and access to reporting data on transaction history etc.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/13/amazon-local-register/

FTA: Effective October 30, 2015, we are no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers can continue to use Amazon Register until February 1, 2016, when we will discontinue to service. We regret any inconvenience that this may cause.

That my friend is called Democracy. When a majority rules..

Tor browser 5.0.3/latest(based on firefox 38.0.3) is not listed. However, it does have .dhe enabled/"true" set in the config file. For those of you running - it might be good to add this to your disable "to-do" list.

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For those out there looking for a developer edition/or to run linux, rumors are these refreshed/new units are no longer carrying the troublesome Broadcom components that were causing kernel panics. These units were designated as "9343/XPS 13 Early 2015".

If your considering picking up a used XPS13 9343 on the cheap and plan to install Linux - be forewarned, we are waiting on BIOS A06 to fix the keyboard jumping issue.

A great source of insight on the Dell XPS13 / Linux program is available at Barton Georges blog - http://bartongeorge.net - he is the founder/lead of Project Sputnik (Dell's internal effort to create the ultimate Linux/Ubuntu developer laptop).

Not sure, but with the promo code 10BUCKSNOW and no membership fee/free ship/free returns all the sudden it looks very enticing.

Not affiliated or any of that jibber jabber.

The campaign in question was referenced in a book "Trust me I am laying" by Ryan Holiday and is an excellent read on media manipulation strategies.

Its fascinating to read how they never actually "ran" many of those ads, but the shock journalists had a field day and created a huge PR blitz for them on a few strategically placed sham ads on the file server.

Exactly. It furthers the spread of information which is a core goal of the library. Check out the freedom to read statement: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/freedo...

Further, the Core values of the ALA address these points as well;

"Intellectual Freedom We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources. ALA Policy Manual, B.9.16 (Old Number 54.16) ( ALA Code of Ethics, Article II)"

"Social Responsibility

ALA recognizes its broad social responsibilities. The broad social responsibilities of the American Library Association are defined in terms of the contribution that librarianship can make in ameliorating or solving the critical problems of society; support for efforts to help inform and educate the people of the United States on these problems and to encourage them to examine the many views on and the facts regarding each problem; and the willingness of ALA to take a position on current critical issues with the relationship to libraries and library service set forth in the position statement. ALA Policy Manual, 1.1 (Mission, Priority Areas, Goals)"

Source: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/coreva...

Please provide sources to support your argument.

Edit: Why would I be modded down for asking someone making claims (questionable ones at best) to provide sources?

This is a very interesting site - nicely done! First I've seen of it and definitely bookmarked. Curious (did not see an about on the site etc) - what did you build this on?

I think the original poster was referencing recent events ie the movie and selling out. The wrestlemania portion I think was in relation to Suge Knight running over 2 dudes during filming of NWA and killing one of them. Ref: http://newsrty.com/surveillance-video-suge-knight-running-ov...

As far as upper middle class record industry insiders - Sure, Dr Dre net worth is projected to be $810 Million. He did Beats and Death Row Records etc.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest...

Ice Cube at $140 million http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest...

Easy E was estimated at around 8 million. http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/rappers/eazy-e...

etc.

This is an interesting feature for content and brand marketing.

The url might be challenging for audiences. Is there a way to use our own shortners (ie mybrand.com/RGPp) so this whole service is white label?

In 2008-2011 a 40-60% swing took place in many parts of the US. Arizona, Nevada, Florida all being at the top of the list. The number of foreclosures was devasting to those areas. Vegas, Phoenix etc. were hit extremely hard. Many folks placed keys in the mail box and just walked away from properties -- leading speculators and savvy home buyers to come in at rock bottom and buy their homes on the cheap.

History may not repeat itself but it definitely rhymes.

Dwindling customers - numerically speaking, sure. But volumes they seem to be ok on. Especially when you consider all of the last mile work they are doing for UPS & Fedex.