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Not sure I get the point - Netflix with Chrome on Linux just plain works. I use it all the time.

Stop trying to make Firefox happen. It's a rapidly dying browser. I see less than 10% of the hits on the sites I manage from FF.

Yes, and no less than 3 of my former jobs required a photocopy of the card itself. You can argue legal requirements, or you can shut up and be paid.

Sometimes it's better to be paid than right. (Especially on your first few jobs)

For "social security" benefits. Yes. And look how that's turned out. It's deemed proof of citizenship (and a vital document) despite being just a poor quality piece of paper.

The data is misused in just about every way. From colleges using it as a student id number to people committing crimes with it.

I'd argue "A citizen should _never_ have to register with the government" should really be the entire statement.

Things like aid and whatnot should really be isolated and broken off to prevent mass collection dbs.

Wow, someone has no freaking sense of humor.

Getting flagged for a Danger 5 quote? Someone just lost all their nerd cred.

Yes - looks like from his followup he's going with a D750.

So, yeah, body swap. I guess the war continues :)

The one he was referring to in his post is 12MP.

Ups for google fit. I can tie my Pebble into that (at the moment), so it'd give me a leg up.

So to speak.

To me HN is more like 1999-2004 era slashdot. Certainly not like reddit.

The concept is nice but I have a real issue with this part:

Why do they need pixel tags for tracking, and why don't they support DNT? No 'new' website should put up with this. I'll cut some slack to the 2010 and before era sites, since they've got a lot of legacy to work with.

Pixel Tags. In addition, we use "Pixel Tags" (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to Cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that we are sending only messages that are of interest to our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to our users’ Personal Data. How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. We do not currently respond to "do not track" signals or other mechanisms that might enable Users to opt out of tracking on our site.

That's what I would think. Just keep swapping out bodies to keep pace with the tech

My kids were also pretty bright, so I just taught them how to access info they were interested in... and got out of the way.

When they came to me with tough questions, we would learn together. It was fun, and they seem to have turned out ok.