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Facebook being a little bit more open would go a long way, RWX like a good old FTP-server. I'm not active on Facebook and I can't even read the posts of my wife without becoming a member or signing in. A read-only mode would allow me at least to read her posts - or other. I completely understand that Facebook requires you to become a member to post messages and upload stuff on its platform (write), let alone execute things, but now it's way too closed.

Never attribute what Microsoft does to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.

People tend to forget what a blessing Flash was when it first arrived on the web, how horrible other plugins were, like the awful Java mess. Everytime a Java-applet tried to run, you could only pray it wouldn't crash your browser and take your whole system down. Or the terrible experience called RealPlayer! Sure, Flash has a bad security reputation, for good reason, but it made the web more beautiful, interactive,fun and usable at the beginning of the new century. All you had to do was click on "Skip website intro".

Nice upgrade. One minor change I would have liked is the relocation of the led lights. I've placed a wireless trackpad in the middle and it covers the led lights, so I don't always notice immediately that I've (or my cat) accidentally activated the Keypad. But I suppose the new non-rubbery MX function keys will eliminate such accidental keystrokes.

Oh, and wireless would have been nice too.

Missing: the 2-port usb hub on the back?

What's the problem with the shift button? I'm using the first model for several years now and never noticed a problem with the shift button.

What's idiotic about the right to be forgotten?

Trade with whom? There aren't that many regions the world with a similar per capita income like the EU. The UK already trades extensively with the US and Canada, so that's an unlikely growth engine. Granted, the UK is a large economy, and may have some bargaining chips, but it needs the EU more than vice versa.

I wouldn't call someone who needs a nationwide referendum to silence opposition within his own party a very good leader.

That's why Twitter also plans to acquire Magic Beans. Guaranteed to grow instantly up into the sky!

Don't make it free, charge for it. If it's valuable, people will pay for it.

Often forgotten is the incredible increase in drug consumption. Popular drugs like painkillers or antidepressants can have a significant effect on body weight. For the pharmaceutical industry it's like having a cake and eating it too: develop new drugs to fight weight gain, weight gain that can be caused by other drugs.

But it would make it even more incomprehensible for potential and new Twitter users. Twitter already has a big problem with attracting and retaining new users. Creating two types of messages, short ones and long ones, only adds to the confusion. Just be like Facebook (JBLF): one text box fits all. Ditch the 140 char limit, it's 2016.

You have to sign up for OneDrive Preview to keep your current (free) storage limit. OneDrive Preview adds the storage back to your account.

Thanks to the customer unfriendly terms and conditions, a family plan is not always an option, even if a family subscription is available in your country. In my case, I have cell phone plan with a Spotify Premium subscription included, and because of that, I can't get or upgrade to a family plan.

So it may be true that Spotify has a family plan, it's not available to all their subscribers. The situation is a bit similar to Google Hosted Domains customers who can't get a Google Play Music Family Plan: unnecessary complicated terms and conditions and exclusions.

Probably because the brand recognition on a pair of jeans is too low to even bother. A logo on a shirt is instantly recognizable: it's right in front of you.

Putting the company name on a jeans only works for short names. Even a relatively short name like Facebook is challenging to keep it readable from a short distance, let alone from a few meters.

Similar for logos, with the additional challenge of logo placement. Where will you put the logo on a jeans? On the back? That will cause a lot of uncomfortable situations. On the front? Now you have to look down in front of the person wearing the trousers, making it even more uncomfortable.

Maybe jeans in the exact company color could work, but you need a lot of different sizes. People are very picky about the fitting of a jeans, so you'll end up with a huge number of sizing combinations. Shirts a far more easy: from XS to XL and you're done.

Sorry boss, the name is Wheeliz. Looking forward for even more competition in this wacky race of Uber-like services.

Apparently there's a framework for experimentation at Twitter, but it looks like few experiments actually succeed to turn into new features. What goes wrong there? Or is Twitter really a prime example of analysis paralysis, as others suggest here?

A few years of their lifes, an extremely limited and finite resource.

Why exactly a 30 day rotation schedule? To me it puts a lot of pressure on the subscriber to view a particular movie within that timeframe. Sometimes you're too busy or on vacation and you don't have enough time to view all the movies you're interested in. How about a hybrid model that combines the 30 day streaming service with a 3 month VOD service? Or a plus version of the regular subscription that offers a 90 day window for a slightly higher monthly fee?

On Android you can download a movie and view it offline for 7 days. What are the obstacles to offer something similar on other platforms?

Don't forget Evernote Market, where you can buy - for unknown reasons - light purple business socks from Evernote. Talk about losing focus if you have too much VC money.

In some European countries, Koga (formerly Koga-Miyata, http://www.koga.com/ ) has an excellent reputation.

> I think the push towards vegetarianism, low-fat, low-carb, etc as fads combined with industrialization of food has done a lot of harm to the public.

What's wrong with vegetarianism? I would think it has lots of benefits. It's better for the environment, you don't risk eating very processed meat filled with hormones and additives, from animals often kept in horrible conditions. The meat industry is a textbook example of industrialization, which you consider very harmful. So what's the beef with vegetarianism?

That's why I create backups of my Evernote databases regularly. You never know.

I use it for everything I want to remember, on all the different platforms I use, stored in one place and easily retrievable. Interesting articles, web pages, quotes, network settings, mails, recipes, shopping lists, to-do lists, pictures... It's available on Android, iOS, Windows, in different browsers, in different apps or software. Everything is searchable, even images thanks to OCR. And I can keep a local copy of my data.

Once you're hooked, you just keep using it, like extended memory.

> I only get a header and a footer.

Maybe your browser is in Fetish Mode?

"Wen you use an ad blocker, that’s stealing. It’s no different than ripping music. It’s no different than pirating movies.” Adverisers and publishers still don't get it. They see adblockers as some Napster-like problem: people use it to get free content. Block the adblockers and the problem will go away.

Never mind the issues visitors have with intrusive adds, bandwidth hogging ads and excessive tracking and invasion of privacy. Their solution is some magical self-regulation. Yeah, like that gonna work.

They turn a blind eye to eye the real problem: people don't trust online advertising anymore. And why should they? Everywhere they go, they get bombarded with useless, "targeted" ads that stalks them from site to site, questionable calls to action to trick them into clicking and a user experience only sadomasochistic vusitors would enjoy.

There's no shame in using adblockers. It's a matter of staying sane.

Some people wrongfully believed the elevator cabin was fixed to the chain. So at the top or bottom the cabin would turn upsidedown, including the passenger, rather than moving horizontally.

Ghostery has its own mobile browser on Android, blocking ads and trackers.

Another possibility is that users of the extension reported the fake reviews, even used the examples of the extension page, forcing Amazon to ban the sellers.

At the bottom of the Store page is a link to the Commercial Store for commercial licenses. No initial launch discounts there. There's also an Education Store.