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Re:Seems like non-Apple people care more about loo by thegarbz · 2017-09-19 19:30 · Score: 1 · on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org)

The iPhone X is so tall that the notch is not really imposing on the usable area

Oh I agree with that. I don't think it is taking anything away functionally. It's just purely a visual ... blemish in my eyes. An otherwise rectangular screen with something that I would historically have associated with an area of failed pixels. It's either subtle OCD on my behalf or conditioning of expecting a rectangular screen to show all the pixels within it's border.

Either way I can't get past it. The essential phone has a similar notch and I can't help wondering (even though I know better) if that notch is obscuring a notification icon.

Re:No mobile != resisting technology by tepples · 2017-09-18 05:40 · Score: 1 · on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com)

if you want your bank account to be equally insecure, then you can't blame the bank when your online bank account gets taken over by someone else.

Instead, you blame your mobile carrier when intruders exploit SS7 flaws?

Somebody filmed this by thisisauniqueid · 2017-09-13 21:07 · Score: 1 · on Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving (techcrunch.com)

Somebody noticed this and filmed it.

Re:Anybody know what this means? by HuguesT · 2017-09-12 16:24 · Score: 1 · on 'Operational Limitations' In Tesla Model S Played a 'Major Role' In Autopilot Crash, Says NTSB (reuters.com)

Exactly, when Tesla advertises the self-driving ability of their cars as fun and the self-driving problem as easy and soon solved.

Facebook free internet is a walled garden by bowersox · 2017-09-02 08:30 · Score: 1 · on Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth (cnbc.com)

Facebook says it will use its map data to help bring free internet access to un-served communities. BUT the 'Free Basics' internet service only provides restricted access to certain websites!

That prompted "65 advocacy groups from 31 countries [to] release an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, calling then-Internet.org a 'walled garden' in which the world’s poorest people only have access to a limited set of online services approved by Facebook and local carriers," according to a Mashable report* in 2016.

In a final shot of irony, if you want to read that open letter, it is hosted on none other than Facebook itself**:
https://www.facebook.com/notes...

* "Just bringing Facebook's internet to Africa won't be enough" http://mashable.com/2016/11/04...

** Actually, some of the 65 advocacy groups posted their own copy of the letter, and some groups such as Open Media wrote follow-up letters with specific policy recommendations for Facebook to help keep the internet open: https://openmedia.org/sites/de...

Re:Kafka said, you Become what you hate. by LetterRip · 2017-09-01 04:29 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Abused Its Power By Quashing a Report Critical Of Its Service, Reporter Says (gizmodo.com)

The amended version, after their plant on the apple board stole the iphone idea

Another person clueless about history,

IBM did the first smartphone (touch screen phone with applications) in 1992, the 'multitouch' features of the iPhone were from the acquisition of FingerWorks in 2005 - a company that a variety of phone companies had been interested in.

The LG Prada had been released the year before to wide applause by industrial designers for its capacitive touch screen.

Samsung and Nokia both had touch screen smart phones, but were worried about cost, so hadn't released them yet, because they didn't think people would pay 'that much' for a phone.

So the 'iPhone idea' wasn't Apples idea at all and being on Apples board almost certainly didn't impact androids development. Apple simply provided the most refined version of the smartphone idea, one that was being simultaneously pursued by all major phone companies.

http://mashable.com/2012/11/09...

Re:Intelligent man loses his mind by Rei · 2017-08-08 00:40 · Score: 2 · on Tesla Seeks $1.5 Billion Junk Bonds Issue To Fund Model 3 Production (reuters.com)

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

This is what India does as well by pkphilip · 2017-08-03 01:59 · Score: 1 · on China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet (vox.com)

This is exactly the approach that the present Indian government is also using. Their intent is to use propaganda, lies and an army of trolls to control dissent, distract people from what is really happening and also to suppress any hint of an opposition.

One of the former members of this huge paid army even released a book on it:
http://www.amazon.in/Am-Troll-...

The Prime Minister Modi himself follows some of the worst members of this troll army who use rape threats, murder threats and whatever else against anyone engaging in any form of dissent.

The BJP party which is in power is the primary backers and the ones who run this troll army:
http://mashable.com/2016/12/27...

Re:Not a protest by mnemotronic · 2017-07-27 07:24 · Score: 1 · on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com)

There are no innocents at a riot, just co-conspirators. Lock up all the scum.

Are you siding with the brutal regimes that were in power during the Arab Spring protests, riots and revolutions? Are you siding with the English during the original Boston Tea Party and American Revolution? Are you siding with the "segregationists" (a politically correct term for "Klan" or "racists") and state and local governments during the racial protests in the 60s? Are you siding with Nixon, J Edgar Hoover and the military/industrial complex (the original "swamp") during the anti-Vietnam protests?

True change sometimes requires more than peaceful letter-writing campaigns and grandmothers having cookie bake sales. Even Trump has advocated for the use of violence against those who disagree with him.

The WhatsApp exploit revealed on BBC Radio by RDW · 2017-04-29 10:39 · Score: 2 · on Encrypted WhatsApp Message Recovered From Westminster Terrorist's Phone (indiatimes.com)

Clearly our Home Secretary Amber Rudd has now found some people who "understand the necessary hashtags": http://mashable.com/2017/03/27...

Rockstar Not too Happy with this by neoRUR · 2017-04-22 13:44 · Score: 1 · on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com)

It turns out that Rockstar is not so happy about them using their software with out asking first:

http://mashable.com/2017/04/21...

“We welcome discussions about the use of our technology to help further academic research, but it’s obviously not appropriate for corporations to take our work and use it for their own financial interests or for researchers to distribute unlicensed copies of our code as part of their work without first seeking our permission,” the company said.

Sorry not that impressive by wisebabo · 2017-04-16 20:15 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Russia Wants To Send A Gun-Shooting Robot To The ISS (mashable.com)

In the video it was just shown holding some pistols and shooting them at some targets. Very little body movement, didn't walk anywhere. Looked like a locked down animatronic (hydraulic powered robot) from a theme park (I should know, I used to design them - theme parks).

While the reality of it might be much more impressive, I didn't see it on (this) video. However, there was a link on the page which led me to some official footage (after there was a leak) of Boston Dynamics' fantastic (and scary!) wheeled/legged robot. You've really got to see it:

http://mashable.com/2017/02/28...

Since Boston Dynamic's robot can apparently easily handle a 100lb. object, it wouldn't be too hard for it to wield a really serious gun. When A.I. becomes sentient we'd better hope that they're friendly. Anyway, if they could adapt this robot for zero-gee (replace the wheels with grappling hands? A tail? Like Doc Oc?) I would imagine it would be much more useful (and terrifying) on the ISS.

Re:BK = BLACKLISTED by Anonymous Coward · 2017-04-14 11:45 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com)

"Your" digital devices? Yeah, right.

http://mashable.com/2017/03/23/google-home-cia-paranoia-confused-stoner/#Of0s9AiJmPqh

Re: What updates? by tepples · 2017-03-30 04:38 · Score: 1 · on Verizon To Force 'AppFlash' Spyware On Android Phones

Microsoft has Bing, Bing Maps, and Hotmail.

It used to have Soapbox.

Doubtful by Arkham · 2017-03-16 08:38 · Score: 2 · on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com)

Level 5 takes full autonomy to "all driving modes." That means the car is fully capable of driving itself anywhere in any condition, from a snowy, moonlit road to an unmapped desert. It should be noted that, at this point, Level 5 is theoretical. One Audi representative went so far as to describe it as "mythical." It's unlikely we'll see Level 5 autonomous driving in our lifetimes.

http://mashable.com/2016/08/26...

Level 4 is definitely obtainable though.

Wait till you see the other 99% of Vault 7 by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-11 03:33 · Score: 0 · on Intel Security Releases Detection Tool For EFI Rootkits After CIA Leak (pcworld.com)

WikiLeaks says there's still a lot of CIA documents to come

WikiLeaks's "Year Zero," the first part of the "Vault 7" trove of alleged CIA documents, is 8,761 documents big, but it's just a tiny part of the entire stash.

According to WikiLeaks, the documents released Tuesday constitute "less than 1%" of the total Vault 7 files.

This is a scary proposition for the CIA, which weighed in on the leak with a pretty angry "no comment" statement.

WikiLeaks has released less than 1% of its #Vault7 series in its part one publication yesterday 'Year Zero'.

â" WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 8, 2017

Password Guessing hasn't been the problem! by Fringe · 2017-03-10 03:08 · Score: 2 · on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com)

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time, and I've followed it for years, because password complexity hasn't been the problem in the big breaches. We are just making it harder on normal people, who then write them down, lose them, use the same one everywhere.

Think of the big breaches, which I tracked until about five years ago... In the Zappos breach, hackers broke into their system and stole their database. They didnt guess passwords, just stole them.
In May 2005, GMail was hacked... via JavaScript, exposing contacts, personal data without cracking (or exposing) passwords.
When CardSystems Solutions (a payment processor) was hacked and 40 million credit card numbers stolen, it was by SQL Injection. Fust full names, addresses and passwords exposed without any password guessing.
TJX (TJ Maxx, a retailer) lost 45 million credit card records in a hack... by unprotected WiFi and unencrypted records.
Google's AdWords system by surrupticious files being installed. User passwords were stolen.
About ten years ago, Internet Explorer (yeah, I know...) facilitated look-alike sites to steal Hotmail (Microsoft), GMail and Yahoo passwords... but complexity or guessing were not the issue.
When Epsilon Data Management was hacked, it wasn't via guessed passwords, but they were stolen, compromisingcustomer accounts on Citibank, Chase, Target, Walgreen and Best Buy.
LinkedIn, the professional networking site, had six million passwords cracked-and-leaked in June 2012. The process was an attack on the server storage encryption, not on password strength.

The stupid thing was, when Zappos was hacked (again, not via password theft), they then decided to impose stringent password requirements. Amazon doesn't have such stringent requirements, so just for ease I've switched most of the purchases (about four a year) I used to do from Zappos over to Amazon.

Re:"Will" by David_Hart · 2017-03-06 05:47 · Score: 2 · on IBM Will Sell 50-Qubit Universal Quantum Computer In the Next Few Years (arstechnica.co.uk)

I expect quantum computing would be like battery improvements: something people continue to complain about being hype, even while at the same time it migrates into their everyday lives without them noticing. I mainly expect that should quantum computing chips make their way into consumer processors, your average programmer would never touch them - but backend system library calls that they make would increasingly use them without the frontend developer ever being aware.

Given that the quantum computer requires super-cooling, it's highly unlikely that it's going to migrate into our lives any time soon...

"In order to function as a quantum computer, it has to be super-cooled at all times. The system sits at the bottom of refrigeration system where the temperature is roughly 0.015 degrees above absolute zero."

http://mashable.com/2016/05/04...

Re:Fantastic, really. by jdschulteis · 2017-03-03 04:53 · Score: 1 · on Li-Ion Battery Inventor Creates Breakthrough Solid-State Battery, Holds 3X Charge (fossbytes.com)

Maybe the headphone jack could be added back in with all the space savings! It's innovative!

The word you want is "courageous", not "innovative"

Re: But don't worry... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-02-03 22:46 · Score: 0 · on Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime (appleinsider.com)

That's a stupid lie. Apple improves the performance of older devices by upgrading the OS.

-jcr

Wrong. Of course the unthinking devoted Apple fanboys like yourself aren't capable of their own thought and just parrot whatever Apple tells them. It's mental defectives like you that give Apple users such a bad name.

Re:ad? by ClickOnThis · 2017-01-29 08:19 · Score: 1 · on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber

So this is really just a big old ad by Uber right? Various news agencies has fallen for it completely and spread it for free.

From TFA, mis-linked in TFS:

The Frito-Lay-owned brand partnered with Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to pull off the stunt, which was orchestrated by San Francisco ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

So, promotions all round, not just for Uber.

Correct link by stevel · 2017-01-29 07:46 · Score: 3, Informative · on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber

http://mashable.com/2017/01/25...

Re: Nefarious uses? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-24 10:56 · Score: 0 · on China Is Splashing $168 Million To Make It Rain (fortune.com)

Unless the polls were hacked, then the election wasn't hacked.

Grima Wormtongue, um, sorry, Sean Spicer, has already stated that the President BELIEVES the election was hacked, that the President has SEEN reports and documentation of it. It happened today from the Mouth of Sauron, I'm sorry, Trump, Sean Spicer, himself.

Who are we to argue with Lord Hee-Haw, himself, if he wants to say that the 2016 November Elections are illegitimate? That's fine, I am entirely comfortable with accepting his determination that he was illegally elected. He has even told us how we should respond.

Re:Who cares? by Coren22 · 2017-01-11 09:22 · Score: 1 · on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com)

http://mashable.com/2016/01/05...

Your post made me doubt my memory. 3d without glasses exists, I don't know if any current products have it yet though.

Instagram is Facebook. Avoid Facebook. by Futurepower(R) · 2017-01-11 05:16 · Score: 3, Informative · on Instagram Stories Hits 150M Active Users, Adds Advertising To Instagram Stories (techcrunch.com)

One of the stories: Facebook just ruined Instagram. (2016-08-06)

It amazes me that Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Adobe Systems believe they can use most people's ignorance of technology to abuse customers.

Another story: "The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer.".

Another quote: "The offer was even more impressive given Instagram's size and age. At the time, it had just 13 employees, operating out of a cramped space in the South Park section of San Francisco."

Re:Slower than a smartphone? by Rolman · 2016-12-20 06:27 · Score: 2 · on Nintendo Switch Uses Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, Clock Speeds Outed (arstechnica.com)

You do remember smartphones are usually sold with a contract, right?

Without a contract, a standalone iPhone 7 (not Plus, no controllers, no HDMI output, no docking station and certainly no Zelda) today goes for a whopping $649- Hardly the amount Nintendo would ask for any piece of hardware.

At Nintendo's traditional target of around $300, this is actually a fairly good deal.

Re: No More Muslims by MisterSquid · 2016-12-03 03:52 · Score: 1 · on Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump (theintercept.com)

These alt-left stories do nothing but galvanize the other 60% of the country that voted for Trump.

Are you looking to build a fake news story because with those numbers you're off to a good start

Almost 50% of eligible voters in the US did not vote in the 2016 General Election, and Trump captured 46% of those votes which comes to about 23% of all eligible voters.

23% of the country is 160% less than the 60% you claim.

Re:One question by SuiteSisterMary · 2016-11-23 06:23 · Score: 1 · on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com)

For the answer to this, check his tweets back in 2012.

Article from 2012
Snopes.

Re:Poor Liberal Nazis by KozmoStevnNaut · 2016-11-18 02:09 · Score: 1 · on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com)

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
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