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  1. Re: Allows you or forces you...? on Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    of course they have your location, the little location icon in my iOS task bar tells me that. but my snapchat friends list does not.

  2. It's as simple as a swipe on Steve Jobs Wanted the First iPhone To Have a Permanent Back Button Like Android (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    You just swipe from the left side of the screen to the right. It works great, I would rather that than lose screen real estate to a row of buttons or add another button to the phone. Fanboys will always be fanboys.

  3. So hot right now, Ansel.

  4. Re: Slashdot sucks on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Please contribute posts because that's the Slashdot I want to visit.

  5. 5 minutes of research will show you that SwiftKey is free with no ads. The only in-app purchase is for different themes if you want them.

  6. SwiftKey (as well as many alternatives) have offered "glide typing" for a while now.

  7. Nothing.

    Your passwords are safe provided you only type them into password fields (as the default iOS keyboard is the only keyboard you can use to type in password text boxes or whatever the technical name for them is).

    I use SwiftKey on iOS which was recently acquired by Microsoft so it was only a short amount of time before Google brought out their alternative.

    But I am well aware that anything I type can be and is probably used by the developers (Apple make a point of announcing this when installing a third party keyboard).

  8. Re:Why do they hate the CoD trailer? on 'Battlefield 1' Trailer Most Liked In YouTube History, 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer Most Disliked (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the internet told us to.

  9. How does it work? on FBI Bought $1M iPhone 5C Hack, But Doesn't Know How It Works (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "I do not recall."

  10. Apparently I'm the only bloke here who thinks that this looks really cool, as far as hair dryers go anyway.

  11. Re:Gubmint: We's keepin' dis SEKRIT! on FBI Director Suggests iPhone Hacking Method May Remain Secret (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't keep anything ELSE secret

    How do we know? I guess that's the thing about secrets, if you know about them then they're not secrets.

  12. Algorithms on Facebook Might Finally Kill Clickbait With New Algorithm Tweaks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish social networks would stop trying to prioritise my news feeds and home pages for me. I want every post by every page and person I follow and I want it in chronological order. I want to know that when I scroll back to a certain point I have read everything that has been posted since now and that point in time. I understand advertising and monetising and all that jazz but it really puts me off using social networking sites like Facebook.

  13. Re: lol on Mitsubishi Motors Pulls a Volkswagen; Shares Drop (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Thanks for letting us know you smoked up with him, really added substance to an otherwise unbelievable story.

  14. I don't see this being a problem once I get my hands on a virtual reality headset, I'll just go to a virtual cinema.

    Hopefully they don't try to replicate the experience by putting in a bunch of virtual teens who are on their phones.

  15. Re:The world just got a bit nicer. :) on Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers · · Score: 1

    We'll be dead by the time the Year of Linux will be around.

    oh wait

  16. Re:HTML 5 Apps on Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Prism?

  17. Re:You're seeing the problem on Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill · · Score: 4, Informative

    I went there, CTRL+F "shelburn" and found this article on the home page.

  18. Sounds like the next Summer blockbuster on Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nintendo Takes On Pirates: IN 3D!

  19. Re:Yeah, I realize this is a joke, but... on YouTube, Now In Text Mode! · · Score: 1

    Are you KIDDING ?!

  20. Re:But what happens when... on The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph · · Score: 1

    It's not what happens when it hits 88 ... it's when it drops under 50 that you should be watching.

  21. Re:I'm pretty sure on Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    I tried to find information on this (and failed -- it's hard using google to find stories about google) until then I'm going to tag it as * Citation needed

  22. Re:Ah, yes, one of the modern evils... on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 0

    Maybe the fauna, but the Government is doing everything it can to increase the population, from the baby bonus and all the constant city expansions, to everything related to the Government (council, trains in Queensland, etc.) being so critical about safety that it impacts on the employees ability to complete their job better than usual, and insists on everyone taking twice as long to get a job done, to ensure nobody gets hurt. Either that, or so when somebody does hurt they can raise their hands up and say "hey hey, we put all these restrictions in place -- it's not our fault". It's a shame, there are a LOT of great people working for the Government, but with the shit-house managers that are put in place (appointed from outside of the workplace -- something that should NEVER happen for a managers/supervisors position), morale is at an all time low. What do you do though? They all (managers) look after each other. Basically, if you're not in the "club" -- then you're a nobody, and a nobody is worth nothing apart from the money they are forced to pay you fortnightly.

  23. Re:Uh, no. They didn't. on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Thank you for speaking on behalf of me when I've never played any of those games. You know what I do like to play though? Scrabble and Monopoly. But then again, I don't "sit around" playing board games, they're more of a last resort kind of thing.

  24. I've tried playing at all hours of the day, and I constantly join US hosted games, even with the majority of the other players being Australian, it still manages to fuck us over. The best way to play in an Australian hosted game is to get enough people in our lobby and start our own game, but even then it's sometimes picked the single US player out of the other 7 of us.

  25. Geographical location? Well then why the fuck do I still join US games when I'm in Australia?