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  1. Re:Shit components assembled by the lowest bidder. on Some Pixel 2 Users Are Complaining About A High-Pitched Whine and Clicking Noises (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More to the point this stuff is getting more and more general purpose. These Smart Phones are more small tablet computers with telephone as one of its features in it. These new devices in a 5" screen have a 2k multi-touch display, advanced camera's, bio-metric readers, GPS, motion and gyroscope sensors multiple forms of wireless stuff, with a CPU and GPU which can rival modern mid range laptops. . A battery big enough to keep it running all day. In a form factor that is thinner then the plastic of the case covering my first computer.

    The rush to get features in such a small form factor to make it to snub their noes at their Competition showing how they have on paper the better device means a lot of trade offs That Quality DAC could have cost an hour of battery life (with extra size, and may need more power) or add a few bucks to the total cost.
    Being that Google wants to show that their phone is just as good if not better as the upcoming iPhone X but cost less they will need to to be picky on some of the lesser components. It appears that they may had went too far with the DAC.

    However never fear Android Fans, the iPhone X will be released in a couple weeks and what ever problem it has will allow you great rejoicing in the knowledge that you had made a wise purchasing decision. As the Apple Fans will greatly rejoice knowing that Android phones have their own sets of problems reinforcing their belief that they had made a wise purchasing decision. While in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't make much difference, because they are actually both equally averaged specked products at about the same price. It is just some features are better then others depending on how you use the device.

  2. Re:Too good to be true on Anti-Aging Stem Cell Treatment Proves Successful In Early Human Trials (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    I expect other factors (non medical) are coming into play that are counteracting it’s benefits for some people.

    The people who are in their 70’s and 80’s who are active and involved are actually in better conditions then they ever been in. However for the people the same age who have been more or less isolated and inactive are in worse case.

    I think the problem isn’t Health Care but general Caring.
    As the boomers who grew up in the Hippie culture to the yuppie culture to the hot mess that Trump personifies. They have grown up in the Me culture and didn’t spend time actually caring about other people. And now they are older not so many people are caring about them. Medicare is great we can lock up the elderly and we don’t need to directly pay for it and we don’t need to face older people or bother being considerate of the inevitable fate that we are destined to have as well.

  3. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    NPR
    Don't believe reputable fake news, about a copy of the original source?
    National Archive

  4. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well remember the key demographics of this Article is 8 and under.
    So this is normally children who are in second grade or less. And not all kids are put in front of technology, they may be in an environment where they have other kids to play with, or a sitter and given more wholesome activities to be involved with, you could have a super parent who took care of you at the point of mental breakdown. But the point is, most parents need some sort or activity to keep a child relaxed as they recharge themselves.

  5. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Most kids will go to their favorite site and play a game or watch a movie.
    You can probably find porn if you are browsing message boards, and user generated content, but kids under 8 will not be into this stuff, Larger sites like You Tube will actually have filtering on by default.

    However back to the key point, You don't just give them a tablet and leave the room, it still needs to be monitored. As an 8 year old may be searching for pictures of their favorite cartoon character and may reach some questionable fan art. However it allows time for the parent to passively monitor the child.

  6. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    As opposed to Great Briton, France, The United States, Soviet Union, China...

    Eugenics was a popular idea globally at the time. In the United States, children of poor people or criminals were sterilized at birth. We are still inflected with nationalism, where by virtue of or Race, culture, religion, or where we were born, we somehow are better then someone else.

    Sadly enough the side that won WWII were guilty with their own crimes against humanity, as trying to exterminate inferiors was a popular notion of the time. It is just that one side won, and was able to cast judgement on the side that had loss. At least on the bright side, after casting judgement there was some insight to adjust their own moral code to prevent from being too hypocritical.

    Now Germany seem to do things worse then the Allies did. However the Allies were not that far from it, just some small changes could had pushed us over the edge.

  7. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Most kids under 8 will not be searching for Porn, at this age it doesn't really interest them the same way it does say a 12 year old.
    2. Tablets are in general safer to browse then PC.
    3. Kids under 8 mostly have very poor reading and writing skills, and will not be able to fill out an online form to sign up to particular sites.

    As well just like TV, Video Games... The child still needs to be monitored not just blindly abandoned, but the parent doesn't need to be actively participating in the child's activity for this time.

  8. Re:A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The kids on the the side that lost WWII were beaten as well.

  9. Re:commentsubject on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    [different form factor] = Robotic slugs implanted in the brain

  10. A modern pacifier on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not too surprising. Just as the Boomers, were suck in front of the TV, Gen X were given Video Games, Menials have Cell Phones. It makes scene that today's kids have the newest technology to pacify them. We can tout bad parenting... But in truth having an outlet where the child is out of your hands for an hour or so, it overall beneficial. Kids before that technology were just beaten if they were too much of a problem... So having a kid, watch a movie on a tablet in terms of perspective is a good thing.

  11. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    A solid show, but is it really worth it?
    There isn't enough stuff on CBS that makes me want to go out and pay for this.
    Streaming Companies like Hulu (for TV Shows) and Netflix (for movies) Already offer 90% of what I am wanting and I get a bunch of different broadcasters. Because I want to watch a show, and I don't have much if any loyalty to the broadcast company. Perhaps CBS wants to create broadcast company loyalty, but once the show stops, people will just stop paying for CBS all access. Also it may be like TOS and ENT and get canceled prematurely, only to be more popular once it is has been rerelased. So we will be stuck with a broken story, just because CBS wanted to find new ways to get people to pay to watch their stuff.

  12. Re: Strange days indeed.... on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately our insane boy leader of the US doesn’t know how to deescalate these problems. They are both trolling each other until one side hits first. Neither will be the adult and back down. Our only saving grace is that both sides are big cowards and want to have the other guy strike first.

    Neither leader cares about the loss of life, nor the effect these weapons will have on the world. They just want everyone to like them, and are hopping they get attacked first so they look like the poor victim.

  13. Re:False Priorities on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is a for profit company. High performing products get attention low performing products don’t. Even if the low performing product is profitable. If you have resources and you can use a resource to double your money or use the resources to triple your money the resources will go to where it is tripled.

    Apple could put more resources in the Mac but they won’t because it is a slowing market. They are doing just enough to keep the ecosystem in place in case something big happens to its mobile market.

  14. Re:One of these is different on Microsoft's Market Value Hits a Dot-Com Era Milestone: $600 Billion (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem was AOL implied that they were the internet. When people switch to broadband and realized many of the AOL features were actually free or not part of AOL they never bothered going back.

    AOL downfall was with the downfall of dialup. Its main money came from subscription. The services it offered were just good enough to be useful. While Facebook makes its money off of adds so hey ray harder o make heir features better to keep people on he site. While AOL was happier to get them to pay for services that they don’t use.

  15. Re:Too harsh on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Apple had moved a lot of resources away from the Mac teams towards the mobile teams a few years back. I am sure those guys at Apple who are working on the next generation Mac and OS X more or less already have a foot out the door. Much like that team at most businesses who are in charge of the legacy systems. If they say the product is now dead they will just retire.

    While Apple could put more resources in their Macintosh products, I doubt that it will effect their bottom line yet. I am actually surprised that they haven’t made it so you can build and publish iOS apps in Windows and Linuxjust so they get out of the big old computer market.

  16. Re:Hope... on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    My biggest problem is that iOS is too locked down. And we need a computer even if it is less powerful to do some real work that the iOS devices have no technical reasons can’t.

    For the most part I would be happy with an iPad Or an iphone as my only computing g device. If only it would be open enough to allow me to do development and install apps that may not meets apples standards. If I want to run a website off my iPhone and kill my data plan I should be able to do such. You can jailbreak iOS or root an android device, but that is t the same as having permission o do dangerous things when you wan too.

  17. I don't get CR process. on Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why bring up a recommendation when you haven't tested it.

  18. A professor getting to the lecture hall early, decides to use his time to do some grading. Also he will normally need to log in (most places have single sign on or they will use the same password) to get into the network to show his presentation.

    The system may had a change date, next to the grade, making it easy to spot. or just the professors knows the grades he gives. Such student who had to raise their grades may have been noticed as an under performer.

    Schools are notorious for poor IT Security practices. Being that the student actually went out of his way to do this, pre-planned... The school will probably get more credits for being hard on POS student like that. Then having a security flaw with all the bigger names having huge hacks it no big deal anymore.

  19. The problem seems more complex then that.
    For nearly a decade Tesla was mostly an R&D shop who did low volume production. This created a well defined culture. Now they are moving to a higher production environment, the culture is changing, and there are people there who do not know how to adapt to such changes. The off the cut rude comment once made to team members of like minded people are no longer tolerated, as you now have a larger team of people that you need to work with, and you need the diversity of skills for further growth. This diversity in skills is also a diversity of people, which their differences and personal quarks and personalities are now in play, and what was once a joke, is now harassment.
    While you can sue the offender, and he would probably get fired, however Tesla needs to be proactive in changing its culture has it business model has changed.

  20. Re:One of these is different on Microsoft's Market Value Hits a Dot-Com Era Milestone: $600 Billion (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Services that was once covered by Email, Newsgroups, Instant messaging, Blogs, and Personal Web Sites. Have coalesced into Facebook. So Facebook really manages much of the worlds communication. So year it has some influence and money.

  21. Desktop and Laptop OS Market: Microsoft is still the #1 player. Businesses are still using these devices even though the personal use market is shrinking.
    The Sever OS Market: Still in businesses there is a preference towards Windows Server and SQL server, Active Directory... Being that they are using still using Windows in the Desktop and Laptop Market for businesses. Staying in the same Vendor Echo system unfortunately makes life a bit easier, even though it makes some tasks much more difficult.
    Tablet Market: The Surface is a rather strong seller.
    Phone Market: Yea this is rather dead.
    Office: Which includes outlook. Is still rather strong, Most businesses will not switch off what they know, schools still teach with it.

    Microsoft has cornered the business market on their products, while the home market is much more competitive, Microsoft does good in areas where it doesn't need to be cool, or cater for Hipster values.
     

  22. Re:I think you may be confused... on Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    He is a republican. However the Republican Party is split by different groups.
    You are probably being pissy because of the Obamacare recall votes.
    However do you find it odd that they had just enough votes to fail it and by politicians who have enough political capital to weather the action.

    It is like Repealing Obamacare is a bad idea. But they don’t want to admit that they don’t have a better idea. Because it was based on the republican plan back in the 1990 s

  23. If you don’t like it. Then it is a violation of free speech. Nearly every law that could that has a punitive action in it. Will stop someone from doing something they want to do. And if that freedom of expression will often be called free speech.

  24. Wait a minute they are more word.
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    It doesn’t say that the speech needs to anonymous or if paid the donors should be shone.

  25. Actually the the people who actually knew Hillary liked her. Her problem is she was rarely genuine in front of the camera. So she always seemed hardnosed and uptight.
    I have heard the same response from people on both sides of the political spectrum who actually met her and worked with her.
    The more media press on Clinton is actually bad get her because she puts on her tougher then the guys persona.