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  1. Re: At least it wasn't 'social justice' on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Trump fag?

    I came here looking for some intelligent conversation, but I got you.

  2. Re:At least it wasn't 'social justice' on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh dear. And here you are, all out of tissue. Not to worry, I'm sure they can patch you up in your next cognitive therapy session.

    I dunno - It really is a different tack, with Disney expounding on Lando's pansexuality. i mean, whatever two consenting adults do is cool, but I really can't get into a character that wants too have sex with my little girl or my mailbox or my lawnmower.

    Disney trying to branch off into where characters want to stick their pecker or fig is an annoying and irrelevant side trip that wrecks their story line.

    Mostly because it turns the movies into clumsy propaganda pieces. "The Last Jedi" was exactly that Apparently Solo wasn't actually too bad, but in the aftermath of TLJ, Kennedy et al told the old fans they were not needed, and called them misogynists. and other derogatory names.So it tanked

    Perhaps when dealing with people who give you their discretionary money for entertainment, you shouldn't tell them you don't need them. https://screenrant.com/star-wa...

    And make no mistake - The Last Jedi has a specific third wave feminst agenda "Offers the harsh condemnation of mansplaining we need in 2017" https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

    No problem if you want to make political films catering to third wave feminists. But so far, they are happy that the films are becoming openly misandryic. But t appears the ladies they now consider their target audience neither watch the films, nor do they buy the promotional mechandise.

  3. Any bets on what the first things to be "squeezed" will be?

    Bewbs?

  4. "I locked my phone in the car"

    Presumably they prevent that in the same way that they prevent you locking the key in the car. I've done it a couple of times and the car just beeps to let me know the key is still inside.

    What if I want to lock my phone in the car? This might sound like heresy to the under 35 set, but some of us are not welded to our smartphones. There are times, like going to a restaurant, that the phone is off, or better, left in the car.

    You use the backup key..

    But you've seen the posts. Having to carry that yuge key is a major imposition.

    To me, the technology is okay except that it adds three problems two likely, and one less so:

    First - the dead smartphone battery. Common

    Next - Just adding a layer - So we had a key. Now you need the smartphone and a key. In case of problem one. Any bets on how many people will forget their key and pul out that dead phone?

    Three - The Internet of Things has a well earned reputation for utter lack of security. My money would be on this system being cracked in maybe a day, and the ransom notices going out to send bitcoin ASAP to regain access to the car.

  5. Re:What was wrong on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest issue is that that's something you need to have on you. Not having a key is one less thing to carry around.

    Damn man - that' a hellava first world problem. Not to mention just how much space does a key take up?

    As well, there is a really big flaw in a phone based system.

    Batteries. Now I don't abuse my batteries, but from gas station and convenience store displays of batteries to plug into your dead smartphone, and my experience with my son and his phone that is always on the verge of dying, and his girlfriends and now wife.....

    What exactly do you do when you want to get into your car, and you pull out a dead smartpphone?

    Even for myself, I've had two occasions when I was in a fringe area and the phone maxxed it's output power to maintain contact with a tower, and drained itself.

    Don't worry, if your phone goes dead and you cant get into your car, you can just call someone to pick you...... oh.....wait..

    Oh, one quick note.Many (most) modern car keys are two factor. You have the mechanical key, then there is a lot of stuff inside the key handle that the car senses. Merely copying the key won't work..

  6. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That fingerprint authentication is bullshit. A few years ago I discovered that my daughter added her fingerprint to my authentication just so that she didnâ(TM)t have to type in the pin number to unlock my phone. She was 10. Then they started rolling out fingerprint purchases out of the App Store. They didnâ(TM)t even have the foresight to require you to enter in your Apple ID and password to add a new fingerprint. They simply record your phone to be unlocked from a simple pin. And there in lies the fundamental flaw. What good is all this super security if the mechanism to add new trustees has no security. And there in lies a fundamental flaw. What good is all the super security if the mechanism to add new trustees has no security?

    There was a a gaping, almost impossible to fix flaw in that ecosystem. That would be you.

    Letting a 10 year old access your phone, and allowing her unsupervised access to boot is the biggest security flaw.

    And you deciding to blame it on Apple just shows that you'll defeat anything they can come up with

  7. Re:Let me get this straight: on Facebook Groups May Soon Charge Monthly Subscription Fees For Access (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You people are having all your very personal data scraped, surveiled, logged, analyzed, categorized, profiled, and sold to whoever can pay Zuckerberg for it, and on top of that you're going to pay for access to parts of Facebook?

    In a world where people pay to install little surveillance devices in their houses - think Echo or Google home - it isn't too surprising that they would pay Facebook.

    Imagine the intense orgasm that outfits like Cambridge Analytica would have over access to the data from that group of paying tools. And make no mistake, CA was just the group stupid enough to get caught.

  8. Re:Could have left off "if you try to break up" on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    "Facebook will harass you mercilessly" is pretty much all that need be said.

    But you do have to wonder what kind of candy ass calls 17 emails in 9 days "merciless". "OMFG! Facebook sent me an email once every 12.7 hours!!!! THE HORROR!!!"

    I have some users of email lists I administer that get pissed off if they get an email that doesn't interest them. Its like they want to be a member of the "club", but don't want to get any club news.

    Its mostly older guys. I've taken to just shadow unsubbing them when I get complaints. It seems t make them happy.

  9. Re:Can't read TFA without agreeing to spying by Sl on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh well, Slate has a lot of company that way, few have bothered to implement GDPR properly so far. Of course, they'll cry a river when the fines start coming...

    Or just GeoBlock y'all.

  10. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why'd you snip out my observation that the iPhone's usability is measurably poor?

    Why, because it was a waste of electrons. What means apparently more than anything else in the world to you, means nothing at all to me.

    It makes phone calls, it surfs the internet and it runs apps. I don't need it to do anything else, because if I want to do real computing, I have a lot of them. It's a toy, Your Android is a toy as well. They are toys, and you are very excited about this toy.

    Me? I have better things to do than bask in the glow of running metrics on my iPhone One of them is trolling android phone users. Not because the Android is poor, or banchmarks one way or another, but because their fans get really excited about them. Its just one more smartphone.

  11. Re:A common refrain from Musk on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be an early adopter then. There are plenty of people who are perfectly happy buying things that are fixed on the go.

    Fools and their money are soon parted.

    In your world, there is zero innovation, becaus no one willl buy anything new.

    You are welcome to wait untill something has had 50 years of proven service. But your idea that anyone buying anything new is a fool is merely uou looking in the mirror.

    In order to have any sort of progress, there needs to be three groups.

    Early adopters, so that there is any progress at all.

    Middle adopters so that the progress can be sustained

    Late adopters as a repostory of history, and so that there can be resale value. Everyone works together. The mistake you make is that you assume somehow that everything that is good has somehow always existed, and now the newcomers are going to upset your world. When in fact, a world where everyone was like you, we'd all be living in mud huts and using rocks as hammers And none of that newfangled flint stuff either.

    hahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahaha

    You're easily amused. There are not many vehicle manufacturers with as bad a reputation for QC as Tesla.

    Surely you jest. Ford with the flaming Ignition switches and the Pinto gas tanks, Chevrolet with the Corvair transaxle locking, Toyota with the out of control acceleration problem, The Ford Pinto "Park to reverse" slip killer, the Almost every Asian car seat belt jam, The Ford Explorer flaming Cruise control, the Audi throttle control problem when a bad design caused the throttle to fail open.

    And for most of these problems, the automakers denied denied, denied. Especially interesting was after a woman killed her kid when the Audi she owned failed full throttle open and she crushed her to death, Audi claimed she had accidentally stepped on the throttle. The prosecution and jury took into consideration that there wer brake marks up to th epoint of the child's death, and didn't buy the Audi claim of simultaneous part failure plus the woman stomping on the accelerator.

    Yes people seem to often not think things through, especially when it comes to comparing car manufacturers or understanding the motivations of others.

    Actually I did think things through. The situation for the model 3 was completely predictable.

    Actually, you have a really faulty memory. Youo scream like a banshee because you hate progress, while conveniently forgetting all of the deaths and injuries and safety recalls caused by your beloved car manufacturers, who apparently can do no wrong.

  12. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh calm down. No threat is being made. Just a snide comment.

    Note that I was writing that it might be construed as such, and a little reminder that Internet anonymity isn't what lot of people think it is.

    Call it a Public service announcement.

  13. Sold to Republicans for top dollar, duh!

    Indentured servants perhaps.

  14. So actual science is a waste of millions by NASA when putting guns in space is fine. This guy...

    Well, the debris field will make for fun displays as it de-orbits - over the next few hundred years or so.

    Wanna really have some fun? Just send a few non-nuclear fragment loaded rockets into retrograde orbit at around 35,786 km (22,236 mi) and release simply release them them. Do it just right, and you've destroyed some of the most useful reall estate in space.

    Hell, just send up some of the same fragmentary load rockets into LEO, and clear the field for a few hundred years. The awesome thing is every new satellite you destroy creates more debris to destroy more satellites, and other Rockets. Carrying the Elite Space cadets. A glorious space destruction positive feedback loop. Any doubters need to learn a little orbital mechanics. One little explosion will contaminate a large number of orbital planes.

  15. What happens to the United Space Force after the first glorious and patriotic war in space?

    Will they sit on their asses to wait a few hundred years until the debris de-orbits? Our first war in space will be our last one for a long, long time.

  16. Re:Ol Olsoc projecting his problems? Yes on Senate Votes To Reinstate ZTE Ban That's Nearly Shut Down the Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    See my subject & letting you f yourself dumbass https://linux.slashdot.org/com... you inferior moron. * Don't try "patronize" me BOY when I can show you are less than ZERO fucker... easily. APK

    Now you're just repeating yourself darling. Come on - step it up. Make me laugh like you used to when we were young.

    P.S.=> Your DIM brains are blatantly inferior evidenced by your FAKE NAMES online for FAKE lives of being "ne'er-do-well" scum having the AUDACITY to even TRY "F" w/ me & ones like you you INFERIOR swine as I cast PEARLS before SWINE like you... apk

    And more of the repetition. You need to keep better track of the awesome posts you make. You don't want to dilute your message, darling.

    But you can do it. I believe in you - we all believe in you. Cho Hoces?

  17. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I like iPhones because, paradoxically (you know, since Apple is ONLY about "money, money, money"), they typically get OS upgrades for five years or more, whereas most Android phones are lucky to have supported upgrades for longer than six months past their intro date. So if you want a phone that the manufacturer will have supported OS upgrades for a few years, Apple is your only choice. Funny how that works ...

    That is true. In the length of time that my Samsung Galaxy tablet has been updated twice, I've received a lot of iPhone updates. And Samsung is one of the better Android makers for updates. My wife's tablet has never been updated.

    This by the way, is what you lose when rock bottom dollar is the most important purchase decision. Yeah, the Apples often cost more. But part of what you are paying for is OS support. Since Android isbuilt around cheap, the profit margins do not allow for updates on most phones.

  18. But... Obama has already left office. Why are you still repeating your mantra?

    As Mrs Clinton said, "But my emails!"

  19. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You should be more concerned about keeping your few remaining teeth. Don't forget to stock up on food stamps.

    You should be more concerned about making foolish statements that might be construed as threats of physical harm. Always a wise move, for Anonymous Cowards are not beyond law enforcement - it's all a matter of how hard they want to go after you.

    Not sayin', just sayin'

  20. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So now is their going to be a contest for the "strangest apple zealot around" because man you have a lot of competition. Their are some outright nutjobs just on here.

    That's okay. If I stand up for Android in a group of Apple fans, they ll tell me I hate Apple and am a Android fanbooi.

    It's a funny, hate driven world. Gotta pick one, exalt it as perfect, and hate the other. If oyu hav eot make up reasons, its okay, because you love the right one.

    To hell with that crap. I'll just use things that work. In further outrage to the faithful, I've owned both Ford , Chevy, and Mopar.,and at present own Jeeps. And foreign cars. And Pickup trucks. They all worked too.

    But the real zealots have one thing over me. They can make up their minds first, on things that have nothing to do with the actual performance of the device. So the person who buys the cheapest Android device riddled with spyware can know he is superior to the Hipster assholes that think they are so superior by buying iPhones. They are more alike than they would ever admit.

    And I tease the Android user zealots more just because there are more f them.

  21. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Usability is not subjective, its objective and can be measured empirically.

    If that's the case, why has usability been going downhill ever since someone decided to rename UI to UX?

    Respondent is full of it. iPhone is as usable as Android which is as usable as iPhone. Using both, I kinda figured that out.

    I chose iPhones because I use a Mac as my main computer because the software I need to use on the Mac is not available on anything else. IOS is tightly integrated with MacOS and will be even tighter soon.

    For the same reason, I have some Windows machines because there is software I need to use on those that isn't available on the Mac.

    I try to always use what works, rather than schoolboy Ford Versus Chevy stuff. I must confess though, I get enjoyment out of yanking some zealot's chains to watch them squeal in outrage.

  22. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure - but how much do you think they care about you? There are a number of people that like the iPhone because of it's usability.

    My wife has one, its usability is crap.

    um - huh. My wife and I have iPhones, and not had a failure yet. Testimonials aren't worth shit. Yours or mine.

  23. Remember that you support this 110% when a congress kneecaps the next democratic president, after all "what is good for the goose".

    Here's your Whoosh!

    Whoosh!

  24. Re:How dare they? on Senate Votes To Reinstate ZTE Ban That's Nearly Shut Down the Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obey the President. Anything but total fealty is treason.

    Can't wait to hear from Peter Navarro about the "special place in hell" for Senators that go against President Donald J. Trump. [ I imagine they will find Justin Trudeau to be very polite company ... :-) ]

    I'm getting out my popcorn popper ...

    Speaking of special places in hell, the Trumpvilles of little children separated from their parents are showing a rather disturbing side of the Republican party.

    Someone did ask a rather troubling question though - where are the infants and little girls in these Trumpvilles? They were taken away from their parents, but are nowhere to be found.

  25. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet you post a response.

    Yet you do as well.