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It's commonly called bait and switch. They invited in foreign investment under corporate friendly rules and once sufficient foreign investment was bound, they altered the rules to give back advantage to local businesses, they got Darth Vadered https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... The rules will continue to change, until Indian businesses have replaced Amazon and Wallmart, oh yeah.

Let Lil' Wayne educate you about waterproof 3.5mm jacks...

1. Or you could put a jack in it

2. No licensing (3.5mm TRS has been around forever) and the cost for 10MM jacks is about $0.07 each. Meaning it would save about $0.35 per phone, to the consumer.

3. See number 1 - I guess Apple's engineers aren't as smart as a lone hacker in Hong Kong?

4. Because apparently lots of people - including the author of this article - want it?

5. Mine has a serial port - of course, it has bog-standard USB OTG, so it does RS232 over USB. Oh wait, an iPhone doesn't have a USB port, does it - at least, not without a custom dongle...

That's funny. Santa brought Chris a camcorder to replace his iPhone 6S for his YouTube videos.

The thing to do: post more videos :)

And yet thinner phones (2mm thinner) already existed - and kept the 3.5mm jack. Not to mention a hacker added 3.5mm jack internally to an iPhone 7. Clearly it can be done, and clearly thinner phones can be made. It was dropped because Apple was spending $3.2 billion buying one of the biggest Bluetooth headphone brands in the world - Beats.

That's why I did not buy a new iPhone, and I just tweeted it this morning, too: https://twitter.com/renebln/st... guess my next phone will by a Samsung Galaxy or so –can even run my desktop Linux on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA

Skinner doesn't know what he's talking about. Just ask Superintendent Chalmers. Who ever heard of calling hamburgers steamed hams?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If quantum computations are happening in the brain's micro-tubules, rather than classical computations in the neurons, we are very very far from that kind of computing power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's this widespread mistaken belief that radiation is not normal, and is only created by nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Radiation is completely normal and is everywhere around you.

The highest radiation dose most people receive in a year actually comes from their own bodies. There's a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of potassium, and our nervous system needs potassium to function. Likewise, foods high in potassium can give you an elevated radiation dose. The radiation sensors at our border checkpoints designed to detect terrorists trying to smuggle in a dirty bomb are forever being triggered by cat litter, tiles, and foods high in potassium like bananas, nuts, etc..

After that comes rocks - mainly granite, but also things like beach sand. They have trace amounts of natural uranium which is radioactive. Having granite countertops in your kitchen substantially increases your annual radiation dose. The radon which can build up in your basement if you live in the mountains comes from rocks. Radon is one of the byproducts of uranium's natural decay chain.

After that is cosmic rays from space. Living at higher altitudes increases your exposure to this radiation source, since there's less atmosphere above you to absorb it. A transcontinental flight exposes you to about as much additional radiation as a medical x-ray. All the people who fled Japan after Fukushima by flying home unwittingly subjected themselves to more radiation during the flight than they would have received from Fukushima if they had just stayed in Japan.

Anyhow, uranium is water soluble. As a result, seawater has a much higher concentration of natural radionuclides than you normally encounter on land. So if you're that paranoid about radiation, you shouldn't swim in the ocean (you shouldn't even go to the beach, where the sand and sun will irradiate you). The increase in radioactivity from pre- to post-Fukushima is tiny compared to natural levels. The reason we know it's coming from Fukushima is not because the water has suddenly become radioactive. It's because the radioactivity is coming from certain isotopes which have short half-lives so have long since disappeared as a natural radiation source. Fukushima was the only recent event which created a bunch of those short-lived isotopes, so we know that if we detect radiation from those isotopes, that they must have come from Fukushima.

Their batteries are great. Maybe they are only Zinc low capacity ones, but for stuff like remote controls that's fine

Their batteries are garbage. They have no quality control whatsoever, and they don't keep whether you use them or not.

That sounds like an indictment of carbon-zinc batteries to me, because it has been shown multiple times that the only thing that matters is battery chemistry and (to a lesser extent) construction. A Sunbeam battery from the dollar store is identical to a Sunbeam battery from the pharmacy that costs three times as much.

As for rechargeables, I don't want my NiMHs outside where they can disappear or walk away. Also, I use all the ones I have between the various wireless input devices, the laser pointers, remote controls, Wiimotes (yes I still have and use a Wii console), etc. To me, the cost of committing Eneloops to temperature sensor duty exceeds 50 cents a year. They also get thermally cycled by being outdoors, which some sources indicate reduces the number of charge cycles available.

I also have some voltage-sensitive devices such as a camera that really wants to see 3.15V out of two AAs. Eneloops should in theory work fine, but in practice they don't. When the camera declares them dead and shuts down, they will work a treat in some other device for quite a while longer. Even carbon-zinc batteries function for longer, although it's really only happy with alkaline or lithium. Still, if I find I don't have a set of just-out-of-the-charger Eneloops, I'll reach for the carbon-zinc for the camera because it will get through the event. A couple months later when I need the camera again, it will have sucked the batteries dry and forgotten its settings, regardless of what kind they were. Why should that be $2 worth of alkalines instead of $0.50 worth of carbon-zinc?

Seeing it's not the airfield but it's the airplanes that have a problem with the drones, I would suggest giving the planes ways to defend themselfs. Get a couple of passengers in gun-turrets and let them combat the skies of England once more! Sort of like this passenger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh please! Give AI a chance.

I am sure it can't be worse than this:

Here is an MRI of Chris' brain while in use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"White flight," implying that white people have all the money and don't wanna be around those pesky brown people with their total lack of money. So tired of hearing this bullshit phrase. The real riot is when you combine it with so-called "gentrification." Here's how it works: white people are somehow more successful so black people start stealing from them and making their homes unsafe - white flight - "WHITE PEOPLE COME BACK" - gentrification "ruins black neighborhoods" by replacing their barely livable shitholes with decent housing but they're still uneducated thug culture psychos who refuse to work on improving their economic situation...so they start making the white peoples' homes unsafe again - "WHITE PEOPLE PLS GO" - and the cycle goes on and on and on.

We need to admit that so-called black "culture" is the biggest problem that black people face. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are the biggest enemies of black success, not white people. White people are just a scapegoat, a poor excuse to avoid responsibility for choosing to be shitty.

is companies like Apple locking things down, to hinder third party repairs, users installing their own software, or even worse people porting Linux to their iDevices, and making sure nobody can make revenue out of the controlled wallet garden. So instead of amazing new features, they spend so much efforts on lock down and pseudo security, that they more often than not start to randomly break fragile things for normal users. On the MacBooks they even lock the iGPU away from Other OS, not to mention the T2 chip hiding the SSD, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This sums up you and Amazon.

The interview is here. It doesn't look to me like Trump saw through the act. He looks more like he's fed up of having his time wasted by an idiot and wants to leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You are a lying sack of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Go back to sucking Trumps dick... it seems the only thing you're good at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You are a worthless lying sack of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's amazing that you're an even more worthless piece of shit than Trump is. I honestly didn't think there were that many around, given that it's so low of a bar.

Unfortunately lying little cunts like you have to make up strawmen arguments, then post articles that, while you think they prove you right, don't actually do that. you're as much of a lying useless cunt as melted is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Conservatives are nothing more than nationalist fascists now days. Tell me, why is it you cunt fascists are all such lying sacks of shit? Did it start with your parents not teaching you about integrity?

Nat E. Dred - 'The Rasta Claus'

When i think of Christmas movies, the first thing i think of is coked up hookers swan diving off the penthouse balcony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A lot of government sites currently publish data that can be easily downloaded, but the average user has trouble making sense of it. For example, the city of Chicago has a website where you can download crime data https://data.cityofchicago.org... for the last 18 years. You can pick from formats like CSV or XML (but they don't have Json yet) to download. Their website visualization tools are getting better, but I wish they were much more flexible.

I am building an analytic tool that makes it really easy to create relational tables from CSV or Json files and do all kinds of analytics using it. See a quick 4 minute demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?... to see a few things we can do with that Chicago data. It is just as easy to do similar things against any data you can download. In this instance, trying to load the 6.5 million row table into Excel is not very practical.

For a high-resolution simulation of the taking of the photograph, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Narrated by Andrew Chaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon".

Have you seen Michael's (I mean Michelle's) package? Barak's the receiver - every single time. Barak's married to a dude and whines when he gets plowed every night...

80ms gaming machine? were they using office grade 10 year old LCD monitors and gameport joysticks? Normal PC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

re Shadow Play - streaming to another pc in the house? 5ms difference is impossible, unless again someone was using TV as his main monitor. NVFBC adds 16-25ms delay alone, locally, then you need to factor network and used monitor.

With regards to Operation Paperclip, you used the word “brave” in place of “opportunistically”.

As for the rest of the ramble...

And here's the dumbest fucking thing you'll watch today.

Nope, he yelled "Get off my plane!"

Like from Henry Rollins hates dating - funny, so I'll leave it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am heartened to see how many readers are here - even this small amount is encouraging after seeing all the grammar and spelling errors usually here and obviously made by people who came along after dead tree media was cool...or maybe after seeming to know your own language became passe. For me, demonstrating ignorance and illiteracy pretty much means I won't hear your argument. Yes, I cut plenty of slack for people for whom English is not a first language, especially when the errors they make are natural constructs in their mother tongue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How was the ending?

Of the Holy Bible? There is no "ending" since i always re-reading it because it is a constant revelation - something that i may have read many times and think it has nothing new to offer me... offers me something new!

If you mean "the way of a pilgrim" it ends like this: Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me the sinner

Greetings from Greece

Venezuela is kleptocratic populism, not socialism.

It's funny: Venezuela sure was lauded as a success story of socialism a few years ago. See, for example, here: Jeremy Corbyn, the UK opposition leader and hard-line socialist, in 2013, praising Venezuela for showing the world "a different and a better way of doing things: it's called socialism, it's called social justice".

You'd think that, after the many, many disasters of socialism - Mao, Hitler and Stalin as the big three, but with far too many more - people would stop falling for the "That wasn't real socialism!" line.

Even then, people might still cheat. There was a nice video of a CS/Go player being caught red handed cheating in a LAN tournament. Ah, here it is

Print it out and you could use it as a paper weight. Or just talk about it for a while I guess.

Print it out and you could use it as a paper weight. Or just talk about it for a while I guess.

Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

creimer isn't human!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!
--
the biggest looser on Slashdot

Doing music on one. And there's a vibrant homebrew game scene. A lot of little indies find it easier to write for old computers than to compete on Steam with the 900,000+ asset flips out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The time is now !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But Creimer went to a Shake Shack and only had a strawberry milkshake.

He posted this under the video. I believe him, as I've been watching his channel for years and he produces a lot of great content.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Note about 2 missing the reactions in the video- I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the video. These were reactions that were captured during a two week period while the device was at house 2 hours away from where I live. I put a feeler out for people willing to put a package on their porch and this person (who is a friend of a friend) volunteered to help. To compensate them for their time and willingness to risk putting a package on their porch I offered financial compensation for any successful recoveries of the package. It appears (and I've since confirmed) in these two cases, the “thieves" were actually acquaintances of the person helping me. From the footage I received from the phones which intentionally only record at specific times, this wasn’t clear to me. I have since removed those reactions from the original video (originally 6:26-7:59). I’m really sorry about this. Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here. I can vouch for that the reactions were genuine when the package was taken from my house. Having said that, I know my credibly is sort of shot but I encourage you to look at the types of videos I’ve been making for the past 7 years. This is my first ever video with some kind of “prank" and like I mentioned in the video it’s pretty removed from my comfort zone and I should have done more. I’m especially gutted because so much thought, time, money and effort went into building the device and I hope this doesn’t just taint the entire effort as “fake". It genuinely works (like all the other things I’ve built on my channel) and we’ve made all the code and build info public. Again, I’m sorry for putting something up on my channel that was misleading. That is totally on me and I will take all necessary steps to make sure it won’t happen again.

It's normal for the newer ones because they're too THIN, obviously. The Apple reality distortion field is now being relied upon to try to violate certain physical laws. How much force can be resisted before permanent deformation or breakage occurs given a certain size and shape of material is not altered by slapping a bitten apple logo on the back side of it. There is a LIMIT to how thin something can be made that will be able to resist the bending forces it will encounter during routine use.

I guess Apple COULD argue that users are being too rough with the things. Or Apple could argue that you're EXPECTED to purchase and use a case, and that CASE must provide a portion of the stiffness, strength, and rigidity to confer resistance to bending and breakage, but that's kind of like the problem with polititians using gerrymandering to PICK their voters, rather than allowing voters the freedom to pick who represents THEM.

Apple is basically refusing to bother to make their products FIT FOR USE, and instead trying to ALTER the use-cases to which their products are PUT, trying to FORCE users to use the devices they make only in certain ways, because... APPLE.

Actually, what's happening is Apple is trying to pretend to innovate when they have only one idea at this point... THINNNNNNNERRRRRR.

The iPad at this point would be justified in hissing through clenched teeth that it's, "being ERASED"!

Apple is deliberately making defective products, by making them too weak to withstand NORMAL use, trying to ALTER the way their users USE their products, charging EVEN MORE MONEY for them, and if you help them by buying their defective-by-design SHIT, you're party to their fraud, as an accessory after the fact. Same if you buy one of their shitty uPhones that's missing required things, like A HEADPHONE JACK, for example. Reward Apple's continuing insistence that you COUGH UP money to buy their new shit every 6 to 12 months, and they'll continue to treat you like shit, because CLEARLY that's what they think you are. Shit.

I won't do it, personally. I own several iPhone SEs because I like them and was BETTING that the greedy, stupid fucking assholes would DISCONTINUE it and I was RIGHT. Now as I use them up, when they die, I will just go from one to the next. When the last one dies, I will go back to a fucking pair of tin cans and STRING before I buy another uPhone, now that they're all missing their headphone jacks. No headphone jack, NO SALE, Apple.

If everyone did this, we could bring the jack back. Bring back the jack! Also, the home button, reasonable bezels, do away with that STUPID GODDAMNED FUCKING NOTCH!

Apple's best designs are in its past. Don't reward shitty design, folks!

Apple. The new Microshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSvaXLd3SLs

creimer!!!

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