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  1. Re:The government can't just shut down like this on FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The republicans always get what they want. Just like they got to deny Obama his Supreme Court appointee even though he still had a year left in his presidency. Get used to it because it's only gonna get worse.

  2. You need to look up what a circular argument is. I'm stating the fact that you couldn't upgrade the RAM regardless of how easy Apple made it for you. Arguing they should have designed the entire computer differently is utterly ridiculous since that's not what the OP was suggesting.

  3. OP is an idiot on Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ALL 15" MBPs come with 16 GB of RAM. The device can only take LPDDR3, and Skylake only allows a max of 16 GB for LPDDR3, so you couldn't upgrade it even if Apple gave you a fucking button you could push to eject/insert the RAM out of the side of the machine.

  4. I have three Macs and I have no issues with FileVault. Earlier versions did suck though.

  5. Re:$250 per user? on Snapchat Files For IPO (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, it's amazing how a company that has yet to make a dime of profit is worth $25 billion dollars. I'm guessing that, like all chat apps, it will never make a profit. Chat apps are a black hole for money.

  6. Snowden isn't a whistle blower anymore than Assange is. He leaked a mountain of top secret information (which is now probably available to any half decent intelligence organization in the world), the vast majority of which, is for completely legal programs. He threw the baby out with the bath water. Put another way, he's a traitor. Full stop. You have to be completely blind to reality to see it any other way.

  7. Most of the 650k emails have nothing to do with Hillary. It was Weiner's laptop. They are the communications of Weiner and his wife. Only a small portion of the 650k were between Huma and Hillary. Why would Huma use code names to communicate with Hillary? It doesn't change her email address. Seriously, did you think this through AT ALL?

  8. Re:Slack is terrible on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're retarded. My link is current. Your's is from two fucking years ago. Why is it so hard for you to imagine that they've added encryption in two years time? It's not that fucking hard.

  9. Re:Slack is terrible on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    1) I'm no fanboy. I don't even use slack.

    2) The link I provided was to slack's own website where they explicit state the data is encrypted at rest. Learn how to read.

  10. Re:Slack is terrible on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's from 2014...

    Nice try.

  11. Re:Slack is terrible on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to Slack, data is encrypted in transit and at rest: https://slack.com/security-pra...

    But feel free to make shit up.

  12. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "My screen isn't shitty. It's 17 inches."

    Compared to the MBP, it is. I don't have anything against the System76 laptops per se, but acting like it's on the same level of a MBP is just a joke.

  13. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Enjoy your fat, heavy, low battery life, shitty screen, cheap looking System76 then. Personally, I'll take the MBP, (with a much higher resale value) over that pos any day of the week.

  14. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had several Apple laptops and never had a hinge break. If your hinge breaks, it's because you're abusing the shit out of it. The hinge is quite sturdy.

  15. Re:why am i not surpised on Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The provide data when warrants are issued. They don't get a choice in the matter. Every other company does the same thing.

  16. The only thing he created, in reality, is HTTP. HTML already existed in the form of SGML (invented by IBM), and hyperlinks were invented may years before and used by Apple in HyperCard before the web existed. Lee just provided a protocol to load something already created by others.

  17. Re:That will piss off developers and power users on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a big assumption that just because there's no physical ESC key, that there's no ESC key. That remains to be seen.

  18. They have 2000 engineers. I find it hard to imagine what twitter needs 2000 engineers for.

  19. Wow, your anecdotal experience from 13 years ago is so relevant today...

  20. "The darn thing cost her 2500 USD and didnt even come with an SSD in 2016."

    The hard storage used in 2016 MBPs uses PCIe, which is far superior to SSD.

  21. Fair point. I would expect most Microsoft shops to ultimately go with Azure for the reasons you outlined.

  22. I hate to break it to you but Amazon still has a huge fucking lead on cloud market share. It's not even close.

  23. Re:Phone on Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, every intelligence agency in the US told him that.

  24. Re:I hope Apple Pay will die on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, your numbers are way off. The .15% is not the full swipe fee. Those start at 1.5% and go up from there.

  25. Re:I hope Apple Pay will die on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) You may be indemnified against fraud but it doesn't mean the banks or merchants are. Generally, merchants end up eating that fraud.

    2) The reported fee for Apple Pay is about .15%, which is vastly lower than any credit card (or debit card) and banks are fine with it because the reduced fraud more than pays for it.

    3) Contact-less payments already existed but were nowhere near as secure.