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  1. Re: needs frontend/ui on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    He said voluntarily, not unknowingly

  2. Re: they should ban all phones... on The Pentagon Bans Huawei, ZTE Phones From Retail Stores On Military Bases (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Full loot PvP. Let's see who has the expensive phones, now....

  3. Re: The Apple 1 Was A Great Design on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't very thorough in the above. The idea of not including the power supply transformer, since it would add a great amount of shipping weight,nand every customer could source one locally, but still incuding the linear regulators on the single circuit board, that was great design, too.

    Creating the Apple 1 to be a single circuit board, easily shippable, to which common off-the-shelf components, namely a parallel-strobe ASCII keyboard (with inverters if needed), a power transformer, a video display, and a cassette recorder for mass storage. That was a great design.

    A radical evolution beyond just selling pushbutton oscillators that allow foreign students to steal long distance from the phone company.

  4. The Apple 1 Was A Great Design on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    At the time, a single-board computer, one that you could just solder a keyboard onto and plug in a monitor, was a great design.

    And Woz did great work refactoring the spare gates on the TTL chips, using locic simplification to pare the design down to the least number of chips.

    Since then they've done a few other clever things that weren't just the application of zen to marketing.

  5. Re: Sorry, don't own any Apple products on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    d) There will be plenty of insanely great adjectives in the courageous marketing.

  6. Re: 'Tude on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "They are making lots of money!"

    Guess what? You just described Microsoft of 2002.

  7. Re: Yes the article is a massive troll on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    GP is using the newer definition of troll: 'icky things I don't want to read about.'

  8. Re: Should check out linux desktops... on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Millions of options is the opposite of clear intuitive interface dedign.

  9. Re: Flamebait-y, not flamebait on Apple is Really Bad At Design (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it downgrades to Mac OS 9.1. With cooperative multitasking ('we all crash together') and all the arcana you can eat!

  10. Re:Every. Single. Time. on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    When a cult has degenerated to the point where they have to circle the wagons and call anybody who doesn't disagree with them a 'hater' it's time to think about what you might be getting sucked into if you hang around with them.

    Dude 'Fakestevejobs' is far gone, but other people reading this might want to note what a pernicious nasty motherfucker he is and avoid going that way themselves.

  11. Re:Nothing to see here on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, if I had $90 million I don't think I'd care if people thought I was a douche. My friends at the country club likely wouldn't care if the peasants thought so either. It most certainly is business as usual in Americana.

    What if it mean you could never, again, walk safely down a public street, or go to a beach without a team of 'muscle' security following along. Never go to a concert except in antiseptic 'box' seats.

    Yeah, that has some appeal, for awhile.

  12. Re:Do you want a civil war? on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No, civil wars generally involve balanced sides in conflict.

    This is more just a matter of sloughing off some scum up at the top.

    This guy isn't finished yet, there are bound to be continued inquiries. 90M can buy a lot of lawyers, but lawyers can only go so far.

  13. Re:Still a kick on the bum on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more of an assassin team with glass or ceramic knives.

    No metal ripping required.

  14. Re:Still a kick on the bum on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Retractions don't matter. People read the headlines. Zealot propagandists cite the headlines.

  15. Re:You're my only hope, Mint Linux on Ubuntu To Stop Offering 32-Bit ISO Images, Joining Many Other Linux Distros (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The current release of NetBSD will still run on a 68030 Macintosh like the SE/30.

    Just sayin'.

  16. Re:Every. Single. Time. on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't explain WHY it is doing it. Why do images on my phone need to be tagged and categorized? If there's metadata in the images, it was put there when the pictures were taken. So. What The Fuck. Why?

    Also, not all of us drool over keynotes and spend our days poring over the marketing shit that Apple spews out.

    And: You use Google? I thought you Apple fetishists were still hating Google.

    Fuck off, by the way, shill.

  17. Your tagline cannot be the truth, btw. An ASR-33 is upper case only. Unless you have some really fancy filtering going on in a proxy between your terminal and the modem.

  18. Broadcase TV is wireless! Not like that old-fashioned Cable Internet that most people still use.

  19. "Designed in California by Apple."

  20. You can also probably just disable the screen lock feature entirely.

    It's possible you can even use the new Applephone without ever connecting to the Apple servers or having an account with Apple. You can probably use it as a dumbphone.

    I might be wrong on this second part, of course.

  21. Re:Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell kind of comment was that?

  22. Re:Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What happened is 1 or more people looked at the phone in its locked state backstage and it rolled over to passcode only, it was actually a good demo of how secure it is.

    So users of this phone will have to be careful not to allow the camera to see other people's faces or it will 'false negative' on them and automatically lock? That makes little sense.

    I bet, though, that when the face recognition feature failure occurred during the demo, they were ready, Apple probably had a team ready and waiting to fabricate whatever the most plausible explanation would be for any on-stage incident during the presentation. They probably have focus groups ready and waiting to bounce their stories off of. The marketing shit is really, really important at Apple, because it's the basis of their high markups.

  23. Re:The loss of touch ID is a fatal flaw on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Too many compromises, too many security holes.

    Apple promote Touch ID has having 1 in 50,000 chance of false positive, while Face ID is 1 in 1,000,000

    "Promote" is an odd word to use, almost like it's marketing and not real statistics based on experiments or even predictions. Is there a white paper or published study (preferably peer-reviewed) behind those numbers, or is it just insanely incredible marketing?

  24. Re: Irrelevancies aside, SW non-freedom is the is on Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And you then submit your patches where??

  25. The tapes are 9 track, actually.

    I remember when the high density tapes we mounted were 6250 bpi.