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Frank Luntz said it on Fox News on Friday.
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iOS keyboard does that regardless of where you type.
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We have range sliders, <input type=“range”> [0]. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
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My only purpose was to get a webcam above my monitor and I had all these parts. I don’t know what part Apple played with Intel in the design of FireWire and Thunderbolt. I’m glad that over ~20 years of marked improvement, it’s still possibl
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I’ve used an unmodified iSight camera since working from home, it’s fine, no one needs more pixels of my face on calls. Its FireWire 400 cable is connected to a powered drive enclosure to convert it to FireWire 800. That cable is connected
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Another example of relative success: I don't know how it started but I and many others still remember to cut the plastic rings on six-packs before throwing them out to avoid turtles from getting stuck in them if they end up in the ocea
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When IE5 for Mac was released 20 years ago, it was the best web browser, period. But it was the last version Microsoft made for Mac, IE6 was Windows-only. While IE6 might have been better overall than IE5 on either platform, IE stagnated, A
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Visiting the BFI site now, it looks the same in Firefox and Chrome. Maybe the problem you experienced was not due to a failure on the site designers' part or Firefox but elsewhere; a temporary "glitch" in its delivery to your
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Even if the specific act of letting the extension run is the fault of each user and presumably means they each violated Facebook's ToS, they can probably sue the extension makers for bribing the users to violate the ToS. Each user only
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I bet they do. Even if most of what is scraped is more properly considered as belonging to their users and customers, I'm sure at least some of what's scraped truly belongs to Facebook. Even if the specific act of letting the exte
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The issue not so much the extensions scraping the individual user's own data (or data about them) but scraping data about advertisers and about other users. Facebook is harmed through resource consumption by the scraping, the infringem
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> users should be having automated tools to scrape for their own use. I agree but that's not happening in this case.
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> Whether or not the scraper is infringing would hinge on what they did with those facts. I don't think the scraping companies could mount a successful fair use defense so they'd definitely be found to be infringing and could b
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Yes, there's harm to Facebook, the other users whose data is scraped, and probably to organizations advertising on Facebook. The masses of users and organizations are unlikely to be aware this is going on or to be able to organize and
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> the scrapers are acting as agents of individual users. According to the article, it's the reverse, the individual users are acting as paid agents of the scrapers, a proxy giving scrapers access to data through the users' acce
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> What are they suing them for? Under what law or legal principle? The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) allows for civil cases. The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization. This isn'
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SwiftWebUI [0], "write SwiftUI Views which display in a web browser." HN discussion [1] from last year of SwiftWebUI. [0] https://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/swiftwebui/ [1] https://news.ycombinat
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A sculpture made out of Lego is not a recipe for making that sculpture. A photo of the sculpture is not a recipe. You can't "clean room" copyrighted works, if you coincidentally made an identical plane (same parts) without h
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> Lego bricks are a system. Their website footer says LEGO System A/S, DK-7190 Billund, Denmark. And that in the US systems are not copyrightable Having the word "System" in the company name doesn't mean anything. But
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Recipes for food dishes are not copyrightable, I'm not certain all instructions for making things are treated the same but let's assume for the moment they are. If the instructions for assembly are in the form of photos or diagram
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The company has a copyright on the sculptures shown in the examples provided but are clearly meant to be replicated for your personal use and enjoyment. If you built a lot of sculptures matching the example and attempted to sell them, the c
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The neighbor got divorced because they discovered their spouse’s infidelity. The unusual method of discovery is incidental.
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Yes, Chrome had some MathML support but removed it (I think as part of their forking of Blink from WebKit).
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They do. Microsoft people were largely responsible for the improved default focus ring and input elements. There have been other notable contributions.
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Do you mean “Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls?” That’s in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
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It doesn't say to make the -webkit-appearance value 'button', that's the default. Change it to 'none'. Look at the first embedded Codepen, note it also has a -moz-appearance: none, it's not just Safari. I
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No browser consistently applies HTML standards and nothing but HTML standards. In this case, your complaint is probably about the browser prefixed property and value, -webkit-appearance: button. This is a good article about Overriding Defau
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Tabindex=0 means you can tab to it but you still can’t press Enter or the space bar to activate it like a real button. So now you have to bind a keypress listener. Use a real <button>! You can style it.
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A bathroom stall big enough for a wheelchair is also big enough for someone who can manage the stairs but needs assistance with the toilet. Regulatory requirements can have justifications beyond the most apparent one.
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If you can still boot a Mac from the recovery partition or an external drive, it’s not bricked.
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