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Reuters version -- "applicants who have ever been present in territory controlled by the Islamic State" * (link)
Verge version -- "applicants who have ever visited ISIS-controlled territory" (link)
Parent version -- "applications from people who like to hang out with ISIS" (above)

* Comprised in the majority of citizens who were victims, prisoners, kidnapped, abused, forced slaves and wives, i.e., any brown-skinned refugees.

A while back Microsoft made the announcement that Skylake will be the last CPU generation they will support with Windows 7 and 8.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...

Not exactly a surprise they actually followed through on their promise.

Paper and copper network was from:
https://arstechnica.com/inform... (8/15/2014)
The FCC has changed the definition of broadband ( Jan 29, 2015)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...
IMSI catchers from
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0... (FEB. 11, 2016)

let's just hope that as many manufacturers as possible survive as long as possible to avoid establishing one of them as the WD of NAND.

I thought SanDisk was the WD of NAND since May 2016

Some people are saying that @realDonaldTrump is definitely a bot. But I wouldn't want to tell you that, you'll have to make your own mind up about it.

yup http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...

Here's the law. They can stop Uber from using the Google technology (mainly the LIDAR afaict) until it becomes common knowledge (and then they have to wait a little longer to make up for the head-start they got by stealing the secret). They can use civil seizure to ensure Uber doesn't secretly continue using the technology. They can make Uber pay damages (profits lost by Google + profits gained by Uber).

There is also the issue of patent 8,836,922, which Google claims is being violated. It is also related to LiDAR. Also 9,368,936 and 9,086,273.

Google is also claiming that Uber's business practices were unfair, fraudulent, and illegal. They don't really go into detail why, except to say that reasonable people would have been deceived by misrepresentations and omissions coming from Uber.

So those are the claims. Also worth noting that Google has asserted their right to a jury trial. Here's the original lawsuit, it's fairly readable.

Today, most firms in the self-driving space purchase LiDAR systems from third-party providers. Waymo, on the other hand, uses its own LiDAR systems that are carefully tailored – based on Waymo’s extensive research and testing – for use in fully autonomous vehicle

The just finished a similar project in Hawaii, just scale it up a bit. http://www.theverge.com/2017/3...

That is nonsense. The IT guy that wiped her server, after the investigation began, posted on this very site asking for advice on how to destroy the evidence.

He posted on Reddit, not here, and his inquiry didn't read to me like an attempt to destroy evidence. He was trying to figure out how to redact email addresses from a large corpus of archived messages. This is standard practice during electronic discovery and document production, and isn't a sign of anything nefarious.

Jeb Bush performed the same scrubs on his email archives, after first releasing them unredacted and causing an uproar because they were full of constituents' personal data.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

If Apple is wrong about their bet that people don't really care about the headphone jack then it will cost them business. They already know that they're right. They have the sales figures to prove it.

Wait, I thought that Apple's iphone sales revenue actually went down when corrected for the extra week in the quarter. Certainly not stellar results. From where I sit, most people detest the idea of a phone without a standard stereo jack.

Uber executive casually threatens journalist with smear campaign
Uber driver tells MPs: I work 90 hours but still need to claim benefits
Uber is ignoring California rules on self-driving cars, and the government is pissed

I assume, given the 'rampant agendizing(sic)' accusation, you have evidence to refute the above? It would be interesting, as Uber themselves did not refute any of it, nor did they take legal action against anyone printing it.

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/ssi-sis-eng.html

under the heading "what to expect" while it doesnt say that they can force you to unlock it, i provide a second piece of evidence:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/6/8162337/iphone-unlock-border-agents-canada

they can detain you for hindering their duties (which is a very general charge and most border agencies have such a law)

Oh and i have personally been requested to unlock my phone. Mine was for tax reasons as they wanted to make sure that i was correctly declaring the value of what i was bringing across the border. Border agencies EVERYWHERE have more power and less rules than the police simply because they are there to protect the border and thus the country which is why this is more prevalent in western countries than other countries. the root of the problem is that law has yet to catch up to technology and given that at the border they already have you in a tough place (you clearly have places to go) they can see what interpretations they can justify from overly broad rules and guidelines.

finally:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/commuting/can-us-customs-officers-legally-search-my-phone-when-driving-across-the-border/article34100953/

To quote: "âoeCBSA officers have the legal authority under Section 99 of the Customs Act to examine personal baggage, including personal electronic devices, and conveyances and goods upon arrival into and on departure from Canada,â a CBSA spokesman said in an e-mail."

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-52.6/FullText.html

"Examination of goods

        99 (1) An officer may

                (a) at any time up to the time of release, examine any goods that have been imported and open or cause to be opened any package or container of imported goods and take samples of imported goods in reasonable amounts;

                (b) at any time up to the time of release, examine any mail that has been imported and, subject to this section, open or cause to be opened any such mail that the officer suspects on reasonable grounds contains any goods referred to in the Customs Tariff, or any goods the importation of which is prohibited, controlled or regulated under any other Act of Parliament, and take samples of anything contained in such mail in reasonable amounts;

                (c) at any time up to the time of exportation, examine any goods that have been reported under section 95 and open or cause to be opened any package or container of such goods and take samples of such goods in reasonable amounts;"

Your phone can easily bee seen as a container of goods, Worst case senario is they say that it had something to do with duties and they will get away with it.
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Before you buy a curved TV, please read this detailed and thoughtful review by a consumer electronics viewer's wife of the Samsung curved TV:

I hate it so much

Dice buys Slashdot, and there was not much rejoicing.
Even weird 4chan's been bought from its founder, and yet is running out of money in spite of being flooded with ads.
This is not a good trend. Has web site hosting just gotten too expensive to keep a good site alive anymore? or is it just a matter of getting too big and popular to keep costs down? DeviantArt is (was) a pretty cool site and community, but experience suggests little hope Wix is going to keep it that way... Wix has to make its ROI. That means the artists probably have to move somewhere else, which is fine I guess, unless it's only a matter of time before the new site gets too expensive to run and either dies or gets sold off.

The safety and security of the homeland trumps your so called privacy every time

Maybe, it would have if it actually helped. But it is so trivial for anyone to bypass the entire problem — such as by resetting their phone when the plane is landing and restoring from the cloud after checking-in to their hotel — that no terrorist will be thwarted by this.

If any, the safety gain will be temporarily while the lost liberty — substantial. Do the words I just used remind you of a quote by one of the Founding Fathers? They better...

STAY HOME.

During Obama's last fiscal year, the practice quintupled — and is targeting not only foreigners, but US citizens as well. Surrendering your privacy to a random guard's unfounded suspicions or hunches shall not be a condition for returning home.

How soon before people wear masks outside, just do go about their business around town?

Now you know why trump hates the muzzies and trans people so much.
Hijabs aren't just about modesty, they are about privacy too, protecting us from surveillance while out in public.

Also, these anti-facial recognition glasses might help in case you don't want to go full niqab.

Walmart recently ditched its Prime competitor, shipping pass, that offered free two day shipping for $49... half the cost of a Prime membership.

But Amazon Prime gives you a lot more than just free shipping. You also get free movies, ebooks, etc. Even if you just get Prime for the movies, it is cheaper than Netflix.

They also recently purchased online retailer Jet (for $3 billion cash and $300 million in stock) to compete with the Amazon juggernaut.

Amazon has fended off the other giant retailer very effectively, thus far.

Eh? There are more developers than ever.

But developers are not where the money is. Unless you're a Mac or iOS developer, you're probably looking at a PC anyway. Right now, Tim Cook and company want to sell Macs to people who are ogling at iPhones and iWatches, and they think that means smaller and lighter, rather than beefy and powerful.

I don't like this trend. But people getting paid a lot more than I am believe that this is where the money is (read: market-share growth). There's some truth to this, as for a long time the quality of PC laptops have sucked and sucked more, with a few recent notable exceptions like the Dell XPS 13 and the HP Spectre . But there appears to be little profit in desktops like what a developer would want, and if you're a developer or gamer, you're often better-off rolling your own anyway. All that results in the Apple marketing-gods believing that there are lots more casual users open to buying a Macbook than there are developers considering an iMac or Mac Pro. For better or worse, Apple puts their mouths where they think the money is, and so far, compared to HP, Dell, and Lenovo, that strategy has worked, even while power users and their Mac Pros feel screwed, year after year.

Twitter's stock symbol is TWTR.

There is another company called "Tweeter Home Entertainment Group" that trades under TWTRQ. Lots of people bought TWTRQ by mistake:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...

Compared to any other wearable, it's a runaway success, but people don't think about it in those terms, because it is an Apple product.

Actually, it's NOT a "runaway success" "compared to any other wearable," which should be part of the metric. In particular, compared to a fitness tracker like FitBit, Apple's sales are a LOT smaller. (And, notably, Cook didn't reveal sales numbers here, but the Apple Watch has been trailing FAR behind FitBit sales last year.) Now, you might say, "That's a flawed comparison -- the FitBit is a lot cheaper and it's not a full-blown 'smart device.'"

And that's true. But when the Apple Watch premiered, Tim Cook argued emphatically about how the Apple Watch would replace other health and fitness trackers. That was a major part of the initial discussion and marketing.

Basically, Apple INTENDED for this device to because a replacement for generic fitness trackers. It was also marketed as a device that would enable new features -- new types of communication, payment systems, etc. Like the iPhone, which greatly expanded the desirability of a "smartphone" in the market (rather than just a standalone phone or media player or whatever), the Apple Watch was intended to create a mass market for smart watches.

It has failed to do so. So, by Apple's own initial marketing expectations, it's a bit of a flop. Without knowing internal expenses on development, marketing, etc., it's difficult to know how profitable (or not) it may be -- but Apple has moved its own goalposts for success here.

So be it ... it is not a device for everyone, but it is an excellent device for people who want to wear a watch that does more than tell the time.

And that's precisely why in Apple's own terms the device is somewhat of a failure. They wanted to create a large market for smart watches, in the same way that they significantly enlarged the market for smart phones and tablets. But that hasn't happened.

None of this is to say it may not be a great product for many people in its niche. But the standard of "success" is generally dictated by the expectations of the company that produced it. A Hollywood film can earn $100 million at the box office these days and be a "flop" if it spent $150 million on production and marketing. The film can be a "runaway success" compared to a lot of independent films that come out in terms of the box office earnings... but it may not meet a studio's expectations. I think it's demonstrably true that the Apple Watch has not achieved Apple's own explicit original marketing expectations. Forget about what OTHER people may say about Apple products and expectations -- look at what Apple said.

A direct comparison with products like the iPhone 6/6s are specifically excluded. All we can say from that comment is that the ratio of iPhone Plus models was higher than previous iterations, not that the iPhone 7 sold more.

Not sure that's accurate. ASP went up to its highest ever: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...

Plex today bought Watchup, which means soon you'll be able to get over a hundred channels of news streamed to any Plex client associated to your Plex Pass (or some similar deal) -- no need to tie it to a single silly screen plugged into your Roku. Expect more of this. Day by day, the cord cutters are winning and the Comcasts of the world are losing. They don't want you to time shift, cut commercials out, or consume content on anything but their Comcast-approved device, all "supported" by the worst customer service ever seen. Fuck them and their obsolete business model -- they are reaping decades of thumbing their collective noses at their customers.

Mossberg: Lousy ads are ruining the online experience:

Last Saturday, as the New England Patriots were sloppily beating the Houston Texans 34–16 in a playoff game, I wanted to look at the highlight video of a play using the NFL app on my iPad. To watch that 14-second clip, I had to suffer through a 30-second ad for something so irrelevant to me that I can’t even recall what it was.

...

But the world has changed as journalism and entertainment have been disrupted by technology. Great power has shifted to the advertisers. I learned this almost immediately after I left the Journal in 2013 and co-founded Recode on January 2nd, 2014.

About a week after our launch, I was seated at a dinner next to a major advertising executive. He complimented me on our new site’s quality and on that of a predecessor site we had created and run, AllThingsD.com. I asked him if that meant he’d be placing ads on our fledgling site. He said yes, he’d do that for a little while. And then, after the cookies he placed on Recode helped him to track our desirable audience around the web, his agency would begin removing the ads and placing them on cheaper sites our readers also happened to visit. In other words, our quality journalism was, to him, nothing more than a lead generator for target-rich readers, and would ultimately benefit sites that might care less about quality.

Yes, this advertiser was bold (no, balled) enough to basically tell Mossberg he will screw him over, and he would not be able to do anything against it, because the only way to oppose him was to get no money at all. As long as they have this power, they will give you more and worse ads. Period.

And this is your fault - because you felt entitled to get everything for free.

Lol.

Keep dreaming.

This factory will be 90+% automated.

At most it will be 500 jobs for people with 4 year degrees.

Their goal is to automate all jobs in current chinese factories Any new factories are going to get state-of-the-art automation from the very beginning.

This is the face of trump's america — massive tax breaks and deregulation for robots.

According to this article, not only should he have been able to see the truck for 7 seconds, but the truck driver said he was watching Harry Potter:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...

It's tragic, but at least he didn't hurt anyone else.

There's a company working on exactly that.
http://www.theverge.com/circui...
https://www.getfove.com/

I can't remember where, but I think I saw a hands-on review that said that it actually works really well.
I found it slightly hard to believe, given that raising the detail after you've moved focus to another place (especially with saccades) is going to have some delay.

You will fail if only because there is always some other Chinese company ready to give people what they want.

Will they fail?

Apple dropped the headphone jack.
Samsung dropped the headphone jack.
HTC drops headphone jack.
Moto Z and Moto Z Force lack jacks.
Google Pixel, however, has the jack.
LG V20 has the jack too.

How did so many of these corps arrive at the same decision at the same time? Possibilities:
#1. Each corp sees the same need for this.
#2. Each corp is watching the others and copying their moves.
#3. Collusion.

#1 is unlikely. Dropping the headphone jack adds user expense and eats battery life for a trivial space savings.

#2 is unlikely because more corps would have broken ranks to keep the headphone jack and scoop up the segment of the market that wants one.

So, how did so many of these corps. manage to do the same thing at the same time?

Does this mean that Facebook wins this round, with their solar powered internet drone?

Or, does this mean that Google is now laughing at Facebook , after sending them on this wild goose chase.

Greenpeace has lost all credibility. They are out for their own aggrandizement, and their primary goal is to perpetuate themselves. If they actually have any positive effect on environmental or conservation causes, it is entirely by accident.

HP added the thickness to their 15" laptop and not a 17" only to cover the increased need to power a screen that has more resolution than what someone will notice. I don't call that a design accomplishment so much as obligation to account for a 4k display that no one really is going to need in a 15" screen. verge article. Apple dumped 17" laptops years ago. Very few people give a shit about 17" laptops.

Did you perchance get a so-called "Smart" TV? I guess the smarter they are, they better than can show ads. Now I shall double my efforts to avoid them, and to ensure that they never get a live internet connection if I do end up with one.

Samsung is adding new obtrusive ads to your old smart TV

> Apple used to be is a luxury brand.

FTFY.

I love my MacBook Pro (Mid 2014), but lately Apple has jumped the shark and moved from a luxury brand to full iHipster.
i.e.
Every so often they come up with a great idea (MagSafe) but then they go full retard and remove it (!) Along with them soldering the memory to the motherboard, while I understand they are trying to cut costs, is a full dick move.

Apple has lost their way.

I knew there'd be some self-centered person in the US who'd figure out some way to spin this to make it about America.

How about this?

Republican lawmakers have proposed fining Congressional representatives who stream live video or post photos from the House floor, in an apparent attempt to stop a repeat of last year’s Democratic live-streamed sit-in protest.

Now can we talk about how this applies to America, too?

Looking at the recommended minimum specs for VR gaming on the Windows 10 Creators Update it seems they will need to be as efficient as possible to keep end users from getting motion sickness.

I, for one, welcome our new VR overlord's efforts..

All of this after Apple had a complete monopoly in this market just 5 years ago

That never happened. See e.g. this page for a nice summary of how the market developed. Apple's market share never went over 30%.

Six million Alexa installs... compared to?

A billion Apple devices with Siri... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...

Uh, who owns it again?

As one of those 6 billion, my anecdotal experience with Siri is it's easier to do things myself than rely on Siri. Simple things, like dialog the phone, becomes a series of questions if there are multiple numbers (even when I append Mobile to the end) or names Siri thinks are the similar to what I said. Foreign names are no starter, for example it doesn't recognize the SH sound of an X in a Portuguese name so I have to pronounce the X to get it to recognize the name. Siri's fin when it recognizes all the words but struggles with some accents and pronunciations.

Six million Alexa installs... compared to?

A billion Apple devices with Siri... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...

Uh, who owns it again?

Someone else posted this automatic charger:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6...

The electronic guidance needn't be any more complex than the Lego Mindstorms line/ligght following robot, recommended for kids 10 years old and up.

This kit does essentially the same thing and costs £16.50.

https://www.kitronik.co.uk/219...

Gruzen envisions a future in which EV owners can send autonomous cars to charging stations remotely, a future that would only be possible with wireless charging stations.

This dude and his garage begs to differ http://www.theverge.com/2016/6....

GM if anyone would have the engineering resources to put together a reliable and automatic physical charging connection.

/greger

Fortune is just rehashing the story from The Verge.

The twit who sent the tweet with the strobe gif in it also attached the message "you deserve a seizure". That is what the plaintiff said the message said, the rest of us can't check because the account "@jew_goldstein" has been suspended.

In case it wasn't clear, the strobe gif did cause Eichenwald to have a seizure. Harm was done.

Source: The Fucking Article.

...did the tweet actually cause him to have a seizure? Or did it just hurt his feelings?

It caused him to seize! The person responsible should be brought up on assault charges at the very least...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...

Look people, this sort of tech has been around for decades now.

I don't think most people know, but for some of these automated restaurant ideas and industrial food machines, you read "it has been around for years"... you'll think something like early 2000s, but it's actually more like back in the 60s or 70s. You know that conveyor belt sushi thing? It was invented in 1958. It had a huge boom, then it fell out of fashion, then it started becoming popular once again in early 2000s. But here's the deal: restaurants with regular non automated parts are still the majority and the most popular.

Wanna see something older? Try restaurants that serves food using vending machines only. One of those existed back in 1902, and it was in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A prototype restaurant is far from replacing jobs in a large scale, and if this is about robots replacing fast food workers in a smaller scale, this isn't news. China and some countries in Europe already used adapted industrial automation systems, robots and robotic arms. The fact that one restaurant is opening does not mean that it's economically feasible as a regular thing, doesn't mean that all restaurants will copy the concept, and it doesn't mean it'll work at all.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4...

Remember this Nuremberg restaurant from 2007?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How about this japanese restaurant from 2009?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Eatsa opened last year, but it's basically the same idea as the previously mentioned Automat that had an initial boom only to disappear years later:
https://techcrunch.com/2015/08...

Right now, these automated systems are on average extremely expensive, single purpose, hard to maintain, and mostly seen as novelty both by clients and from a marketing perspective. We're still probably over a century away from a multipurpose humanoid robot that can do everything human staff do, in an ideal condition where the price, maintenance costs and usefulness counterbalances paying minimum wage or so. By the time miraculous robots like those appear, we'll be more prepared for the switch, and it'll happen gradually. And even then, it's hard to imagine robots completely replacing fast-food and restaurant staff unless we're talking about a future where robots are replacing humans. Because there will always be people willing to pay for a restaurant that has humans preparing your food and serving it.

The base logic why things like that don't suddently happen out of nowhere is easy to understand: even if by some miraculous circunstance we managed to produce perfect robots that would work flawlessly and require no maintenance in all restaurants in a city, this would automatically put so many people out of a job that these restaurants would end up having no costumers to serve, closing down before all the investment put into it had any return. But of course, we can't magically create thousands of robots out of thin air overnight, most robots and automation systems nowadays have limited functionality that's not usually adequate for fast food kitchen environments, and culturally people are not used to and will take a long time to get used to automated restaurants.

Perhaps far into the future we'll pay more to go to restaurants with an all human staff that will only be there simply because they enjoy working with that... but here I'm entering utopia territory. If we ever reach an age where robots can do most things for use at reasonable costs, we'll either have already implemented the universal basic income, or governments will be responsible for most of the upkeep of basic population needs. I mean, you have a damn army of multipurpose robots,

ref: http://www.theverge.com/circui...

"In October, Samsung announced a voluntary recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 when it was discovered that all available devices could overheat and pose a safety risk to customers. Since that time, a vast majority of Verizon customers who purchased the Note 7 have replaced their phones with other models.

        Today, Samsung announced an update to the Galaxy Note 7 that would stop the smartphone from charging, rendering it useless unless attached to a power charger. Verizon will not be taking part in this update because of the added risk this could pose to Galaxy Note 7 users that do not have another device to switch to. We will not push a software upgrade that will eliminate the ability for the Note 7 to work as a mobile device in the heart of the holiday travel season. We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation.

        Verizon and Samsung have communicated the need for customers with a Note 7 to immediately stop using their devices and return or exchange it where they purchased it. Verizon customers with the Note 7 have several options, including an additional $100 from Samsung when purchasing one of their other devices.
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As does Hello Barbie

I searched on Google. Found this in under two seconds. Took me more than that to write this reply.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9...

Reddit still remains a free speech zone

Sure it is.

Plus laws pertaining to State Security are a bit sharper there and less encumbered by checks and balances. http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...

From the desciription It sounds as if the French authorities were careful to collect evidence that might allow one of their judges to decide whether the suspect was merely curious or a sympathiser (and hence in breach of their anti-terrorism laws). It looks as if that evidence led their judge to decide that man was a sympathiser. Hence the sentence.

Internet is a main source of radicalisation. Given that dragnet internet surveillance will show such browsing, it offers an opportunity to go after people engaging in it.

Not exactly what would have been done in the US as it is today, but not unreasonable either. Given mr. Trump and his right-wing radical cabinet appointees I guess this will become policy in the US too. Perhaps with appropriate window-dressing and executive orders.

Those who are counting on the House to block that, think again. Those who are counting on the Supreme Court to put a stop to that ... consider that mr. Trump has one vacancy to fill there already. And there may be more before his 4 years are done. Personally I don't think any judge who doesn't see eye to eye with radical right wing policies will stand a chance.

Therefore the way towards implementing precisely this measure in the US seems clear. Ironically the advent of mr. Trump seems to mean that the US will become a bit more European in this respect.

I believe that people are going to get what they voted for. Good and hard.