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  1. My guess is that on When China Hoards Its Hackers Everyone Loses (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they don't get anything out of it that they don't already know and don't want to show everybody else how far out they are.

  2. Consider not working for these companies.

    And consider not using their products^w^w being their product.

  3. Use the money to get the documentation in order.

    It's currently non-existent, as far as I can see.

  4. If you elect an ex-CIA boss to president in the next elections, the US would finally have someone to match Putin (more or less).
    At least, they could talk shop quite easily.

  5. The only clock I have the relies on this is the one in the stove. And it's too fast, yes.

    All other clocks are either sync'ed by NTP (macOS, iPhone, Linux/BSD) or directly via radio (long wave receiver).

  6. Problem solved!

  7. I'd rather use yandex on 'Microsoft Should Scrap Bing and Call it Microsoft Search' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Their image-search is top-notch and often has more results than google. At least for "obscure" images.

  8. No problem on Google To Kill Off 'View Image' Button In Search · · Score: 1

    I'll just use Yandex' image search.

    Its results are far less censored anyway.

    https://yandex.com/images/

  9. There is no oversight on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The courts are secret, the decisions are secret, the evidence is secret, the verdicts are secret. And no jury.

    Lawmakers however would like you to think, that copyright-violations are bringing our countries to their knees and threatening their foundations.

  10. Universal = least common denominator on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with these kinds of standards is that they usually settle on the cheapest, crappiest thing. MicroUSB is the perfect example, exploding/burning/shorting chargers are another one.

    Lightning, Thunderbolt and especially USB-C are better examples, with companies behind it that have at least some level of QC.

    There's nothing somebody else in China can't manufacture a bit cheaper and a bit crappier and a bit more dangerous for the end-user.

  11. Re:This is crazy on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to the larger theft (the lot of 300 iPhones) and the publicity behind the heist, some ADA probably wants to make a name for himself.

    If people are looking for who to blame, this is where I would start.

  12. Re:Because they've told everyone they don't need t on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Get used to USB C.

    The Pro Towers (or lack of) are a bit of a problem. But the fact that HPE's workstations are great is not going to save the company. Nor is the lack of a Pro Tower going to kill Apple.

  13. Really? Alexa? on Apple's Indirect Presence Fades from CES (techpinions.com) · · Score: 2

    I can't imagine how people want a device in their homes that listens to everything they say and sends it to a server, somewhere. It's probably archived, too.

  14. Re:They'll finally reveal on Some Hopeful Predictions for 2018 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It was close, though. At least, from a number of votes point of view.

    The problem was Hillary being Obama's side-gig for a while and messing up too much at that job and then having that aura of being entitled to the presidency, like it's some sort of throne and she's the heir. That doesn't run too well with the general public not in the US and not so much elsewhere.
    You can be a heir - but then you have to have a spotless job-record.

    Also, the makers probably underestimated the divide between large cities and the rest of the country (economical, intellectual, political). This gap has only been growing in the last two decades. Also, they completely overlook the potential that lay in "angry voters" who ultimately led Trump to victory. He's a genius, from that perspective.

  15. They'll finally reveal on Some Hopeful Predictions for 2018 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    the Alien spaceships they've been hiding all the decades.

    If not that, 2018 will show a trickle of news-stories that will help sink in the notion to the general public that there's something out there, but as long as there's stuff on Netflix and breakfast-TV, people can carry on...

    Why do you think there's been this recent surge of superhero films?

    In 2001, when "24" showed a black POTUS, I read a story where somebody was quoted with the sentence "The American public can only imagine what they already saw on TV".
    They could only elect a black president because they saw it on TV.

  16. Can't Uber just raise prices? on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, I thought the reason people use it convenience?

    I live in a country and an area with functional public transportation (actually, it's sometimes considered the country with the best public transportation system in the world), so I usually use that.
    The number of taxis I've taken in my life can be counted on two hands, probably.
    And I never really found anything objectionable about them.

  17. Re:If the signature itself is tampered with on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Switzerland is not in the EU.
    Its application for membership was laying dormant since a public vote in 1992 failed to gain the necessary support and was finally officially retracted in 2016.

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Europe!=European Union ;-)

  18. Re:If the signature itself is tampered with on Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The web was invented in the UK. No export restrictions on crypto at the time.

    It was invented in Switzerland, at CERN.

  19. Yep. I agree.
    I also want to check for accounts of my co-workers.

    Fun fact: Found one co-worker in the Ashley Maddison dump. He's now hooked up with a female co-worker and is divorcing his wife.

  20. Yes, but the Watch is the best on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    That, or the Garmin ViVo and its related models mentioned elsewhere.

  21. On the other hand, if we didn't have to fund prison cells, hospital beds, and school seats for illegals and their progeny, we could reallocate that money to transportation, and not have to pay tolls at all. Maybe we could even afford nice things like bullet trains, like the anti-immigration Japanese were able to build decades ago.

    Illegal immigration is not a net positive. If it was, Mexico would be building a wall on their northern border to keep all their people in.

    I would agree that your sentiment that illegal immigration not being a net positive is probably true.
    But the assumption that if it didn't exist, the money would be available to more reasonable use is absurd.

    That is not the way things work. At least not in most parts of the world.
    And certainly not in the US.

  22. Re:Children of Thalidomide on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've read it is very effective battling leprosy.

    Women who have it prescribed must take extraordinary measures though to not get pregnant.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. People complain to Apple about this? on Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Complain to the government!
    Oh, wait, this is China. They don't really have a process for handling complaints beyond the
    "Thank you for your message. We'll put you on a list. When our thugs have a bit of spare time, they'll look into your complaint and might beat you up to discourage you from logging more pointless complaints"..

  24. I'll just assume that it helps to have a multi-billion dollar research budget...

    Bringing this to a prototype-stage is one thing - getting it into volume-production is something completely different.

    Does Foxconn also make the PCBs - or do they just assemble them?

  25. https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

    Apple is the first to market with new, dense circuit board design called Stacked SLP, often referred to misleadingly as a "stacked logic board". Today's phones use 10 layers of copper on the PCB. Stacked SLP uses 20. This permits for a higher density of components in a given surface area. The iPhone X had also been tipped to have a 10-layer AP board, eight-layer RF board and two layers of interposers.

    Even The Register is impressed. That must mean something.