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  1. Re:Not surprising on Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case the ecosystem might start to fall apart if app developers run away. I worked for a company that did both Android and iOS development and the stupid Apple rules were a real headache.

  2. Re:Not surprising on Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know which European country you were in but most EU countries have country wide coverage, including the most rural areas. A provider with the coverage I hear about in the US would go bancrupt because no customer would accept that.

  3. Re:Not surprising on Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, "normal" calls is a thing I mostly do professinally. Privately I use WhatsApp, Signal or Viber for making calls. Part of the professional communication is also done with Skype.

  4. Re:Time to look for a viable alternative on Facebook's New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ypu're probably from the US, the only country where telco's introduced affordable unlimited sms plans in time to prevent WhatsApp and others from taking over the market. When WA came, sms costed here $0,10 per message and MMS $0,50. Now, SMS is cheaper but hardly used and MMS is phased out because noone uses it anymore. WA is abundant.

  5. Re:A lesson they all should learn on Facebook's New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They donated $50M of that money to competitor Signal.

  6. Re:That's The THing About All of This... on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Metal 3D printing like here: https://www.designboom.com/des...

  7. You have actually time to go to a local cafetaria each day? That would take far too much time for me. Fortunately the culture here is that you either eat at the local cafetaria of bring your own sandwiches and drinks. I usually eat them behind my desk working at 25% normal speed or doing some casual surfing. That's a lot cheaper too.

  8. Re:A small donation to the Trump Org on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    No it won't. The deep state is not fond of Trump, he has not (yet?) started a single war in 2 years. They counted on Hillary for their income.

  9. What value? More profit for the CEO's because they keep the wages low?

  10. Re:Easy Fix on Shareholder Sues Facebook After Stock Plunge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because people might otherwise switch to VKontakte perhaps? And the latter has no problem with naked tits as well, so nu prudish US censorship anymore.

  11. Re:Progressives or patriots? on Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I defend my country by not letting the warmongers destroy it in a (potential nuclear) war with Russia. Fortunately one of the most important warmongers who wanted to start attacking Russia in Syria lost the 2016 US presidential election.

  12. Re:Nope. Lowest unemployment for Blacks was... on Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    F*ucking slave owners, without them there would not be so many blacks in the western countries.

  13. Re: More evidence Trump is just a planted cunt on Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary tried to eat my hamster but she nearly choked in her false teeth.

  14. Re: More evidence Trump is just a planted cunt on Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia isn't the enemy of the US after the cold war, but warmongers like Hillary seem to forget that and threatened to start WW3 in Syria. Fortunartely she was not elected and the world survived.

  15. Re:Clueless editor about singularity on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    0 / 0 can be anything. lim_{x->0} x/x = 1,lim_{x->0} x^2 / x = 0, lim_{x->0} x/x^2 = +/- infinity.

  16. Re:Wrong direction on Now LinkedIn Will Let You Leave Voicemail Messages (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it in your country not possible to deactivate voicemail completely? Providers here are sometimes making it hard to find but it can be done. If I don't pick up you get no connection at all.

  17. Compare the result with other theories of gravity on Star's Black Hole Encounter Puts Einstein's Theory of Gravity To the Test (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That Newtonian gravity is imprecise is already well known, milions of people who use GPS, Glonass or Galileo already use the general relativity calculations in practice. It is far more interesting to know how the results compare to alternative theories of gravity, like for example Verlinde's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:Trump Knows Economy on Qualcomm Ended NXP Acquistion After Failing To Secure Chinese Approval (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Your story is a nice theory but in practice it works the other way around: can we invent a story based on the law to allow or block this merger, whetaver the desired outcome is.

  19. The Chinese learnt from the ZTE case that yu should do as little as possible buisiness with American companies. NXP is now a Dutch company, but it would become a US company subject to their idiot sanctions. Trump tried to prevert sanctions against ZTE but congress didn't let him. So now the US gets repaid for the congress decision.

    As a Dutch national I'm disappointed that it required action from the Chinese to block this merger. The Dutch government itself should have prevented that US companies would buy up our national treasures.

  20. Re:side with the authorities here on WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the value of a warrant if they are rubber stamped like in the US?

  21. Re:side with the authorities here on WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The US is a shithole country with a police force that acts no differentthen the German SS during WW2. And that same police force (most notably by the FBI) is waging a campaign against encryption too so they can more effectively attack anti-elite activists.

  22. Re:side with the authorities here on WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    It would help a lot more if the US police stops acting like the German SS during WW2.

  23. Re: Exactly. The states and people delegated powe on Open Gov't Advocates Fear that Private Messaging Apps Are Being Misused by Public Officials To Conduct Business in Secret (pbs.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's the theory. In practice, the deep state holds more power than either the president AND the constitution. Trump is now facing their wrath because he didn't start a war in Syria like Clinton would have.

  24. Switch to embedded on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 1

    In webdevelopment there are way too many crappy programmers. He should switch to embedded where such things are not tolerated.

  25. I disagree, I prefer the story arcs like Babylon 5 had, and Deep Space 9 a little.