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  1. Re:Trying to stave off right to repair on Apple Launches Program To Repair Old Devices Like the iPhone 4S (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    And the parts aren't available because instead of reconditioning and disassembling old devices to get serviceable parts out of them, we grind them into a powder.

  2. Steve Jobs was fired. He was 'the founder' and often in many growing businesses, 'the founder' becomes an encumbrance.

    I've worked at companies like that, I am sure a lot of us have. Dude pops in on meetings and totally disrupts the ability to have productive discussions.

  3. Cheap satellites sounds like a looming space junk problem. We don't need it to become cheaper to launch satellites.

  4. Bets are all off, then. There have gotta be six extra mics buried in there. In fact, this mystery laptop you describe probably has a robotic arm hidden in it to implant the anal probe after you fall asleep.

  5. They quit using quartz based clocks?

    Why?

    Oh, I know there will be some clever reason why the change is superior. This story just points out where 'clever' sometimes leads.

    So we can discreetly pop a canister of helium on the bus to kill all the iGadgets?

  6. Re:What's the term ... on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Men's Wearhouse?

  7. Not without an amplifying element to pick up the signal the speaker's voice coil generates.

  8. What is this 'jack' thing you refer to? Is it something Apple hasn't invented yet?

  9. Re: Conflicted on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Washington is not run by a dynasty of Washington family members.

  10. How much do you want to bet it will also be used as a Hackintosh Defeat Device?

  11. Yet somehow enough people enjoy watching them that they're commercially viable, and continue to be produced and maintain a broadcast slot.

    I agree about the decline in quality of the program.

    But a lot of people still enjoy the show.

  12. Re: Amazeballs... on Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    That's application-layer programming. He didn't design any of the algorithms. He makes cookbooks that other people can use.

    One would hope that when somebody writes cookbook examples that he doesn't fully understand himself, that they would be peer reviewed.

  13. Re: Conflicted on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Saud is a family name. It's a little like calling a country "Kennedy's Massachussets."

    It wouldn't sail in a more civilized region.

  14. Turned the Corner? on Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    People all around me still smoke.

  15. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, a position which arguably traffics in more security critical state secrets than the top level position of President.

  16. Re: Amazeballs... on Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Schneier has never been an expert in security. He is just a popular media journalist who wrote a popularized book on cryptology when said book was disapproved by the rather closed crypto community of the time. I bought his book when it came out. It was the nerd equivalent of buying Salaman Rushidie's book 'The Satanic Verses' when it was almost banned.

    Schneier has spent decades muckracking around to become a 'security expert' though he has few academic credentials in cryptology or information security to back him up. He could be fairly be called a crypto/security journalist. The kind of guy qualified to write an article for Wired magazine on crypto. The word gadfly also comes to mind.

  17. Re: Free Market, RIGHT? on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    The big multinationals have the media channels sewn up.

    It has nothing at all to do with a free market.

  18. Re: How a car works ... on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    There are fewer points awarded for trolling an A.C.

  19. Enjoy your cartoons, then.

  20. Re: swatting is really cruel on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ten bucks is a lot of hot pockets.

  21. Re: "Punch a Nazi" is a Call to Violence on Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The crapflooding has gotten really weird around here.

  22. Re: If this is a vulnerability; my programs have a on Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Having the server run on client hardware and the client run on server hardware is just damned confusing.

    X applications don't and generally haven't run on this 'server' hardware you speak of. Even way back in the era of X Terminals the machine an X application was run on was more likely in a peering relationship.

  23. Re: "Punch a Nazi" is a Call to Violence on Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does who you advocate copulating with warrant discussion here?

  24. Re: China has Apple by the balls on Ex-Facebook Security Chief Calls Out Tim Cook and Apple's Practices in China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "Discussions with China about changing their law????"

    China has close to 1,000,000 people of Islamic background in re-education camps today, right now.

    I suppose there could be a "People's Friendship Association" that Apple could participate in. Perhaps Apple could work to promote recycling, or unisex restrooms in China.

  25. Re: I believe that's because it's ILLEGAL on Ex-Facebook Security Chief Calls Out Tim Cook and Apple's Practices in China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are also banned in Canada.