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rbag··on CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history
I don't understand how growth is not a problem. The earth is a finite world, sustainable or not you won't be able to grow indefinitely.

Also we already consume more than we should, if we go back that would impact the GDP.

rbag··on It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
My same analogy with cars would be : "Would you drive a car produced by Exxon".

Google interest is not the web, it's its own profit.

rbag··on Spotify Form F-1
You can take a look at Deezer, same service, same or even larger catalog than Spotify and IMHO better indie music collection.
rbag··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
Something nice is also the fact that the people impacted by the breach must be told 72 hours max after the company is aware of the hack.
rbag··on Qwant: A European search engine that respects privacy
There's a lite version for that:

https://lite.qwant.com/

rbag··on Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
You can try the lite version that should be the default version IMHO: https://lite.qwant.com
rbag··on Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
I introduced it to my nephew when he was 12 and he succeded to create pretty efficient flying bombs. A kid can grasp the concepts involved at 10, they can surely have fun before but probably more by exploding rockets and messing around with kerbals.
rbag··on VESA HOTAS Mounts for IKEA Markus Chair
The X52 is a lightweight one. I'd like to see that same solution with a HOTAS Warthog ( 6kg / 13.2 lbs).
rbag··on Site requests bank logins for online purchases
In France we have 3D Secure, when you make the paiement you are redirected to a page that belongs to the bank, you receive a SMS with a one time code to validate the paiement and are redirected to the merchant with the validation.

Quite efficient, but I think there's fees for the merchant in this case.

rbag··on Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008)
Worked with this kind of tech for a few years... And trash it to go with Aspose components.

It's slow, and really hard to debug when it's not working (not only pdf output but merge fields).

rbag··on Tor Project Loses 12% of Entry/Exit Bandwidth Because of Heartbleed
Can you provide a source for the NSA cracking anything ?
rbag··on Programming languages influence network
C# is a small node. it influenced java a lot.