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  1. Re:For a phone? on The Motorola Razr Could Return as a $1,500 Foldable Smartphone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You can think like that, but only if you use productivity tools and nothing requiring any real computing power. A dock with a bigger CPU and more RAM might be in the future for continuity, but right now, there's little contest between a real desktop and a phone for real work.

  2. It's $80, but the Apple keyboards are somewhat portable and a lot more durable than most. Depends how small you really want it.

  3. Re:It isn't 1995 anymore -- text messages on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    So what makes you read text messages, then? In a world of MMS, they can be just as long as an email, but we'll the downside that it's locked down to a single device with a touch interface.

  4. Not the roads in question.

  5. Roads were always for carriages. Motorized or not.

  6. Re:Just block spam on T-Mobile Begins Verifying Calls To Protect Against Spam (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This requires some infrastructure on the carrier side to determine whether the number should be allowed to be set by the PBX.

    And numbers can come from more than one carrier. This infrastructure doesn't exist yet. I own a phone number through Google Voice, but I spoof that number when calling out from my home PBX so that return calls hit my cell phone too.

    Google Voice, in turn, spoofs the numbers of the caller when forwarding incoming calls to my cell so that I know who the forwarded calls are coming from. Google does not own the numbers at all here, but it's still a legal use case for spoofing the numbers.

  7. Re:Just block spam on T-Mobile Begins Verifying Calls To Protect Against Spam (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Caller ID spoofing is still required by a lot of business telephone systems - especially regarding outgoing calls on an MLTS. They can really only vet their own numbers right now. And that probably isn't even enough to stop local number spoofing because of the number of wireless and landline carriers in a given area.

  8. Re:Been Available For A Long Time on T-Mobile Begins Verifying Calls To Protect Against Spam (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    An app does not have access to carrier ANI data that's routed with the call. So if you're spoofing using real local numbers, they can't mark those as spam. Otherwise that actual customer being spoofed would show as spam when they make outgoing calls.

  9. Re:Supply and demand on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    It's objectively less funny, though. If you could come up with an objective measure, it would certainly rank lower on creativity and style.

  10. You're remembering wrong. I would still get blue screens every month or two with 98SE. The NT kernel is a lot more stable - even with all the junk getting piled in on top.

  11. These "patches"are getting to be almost as complex as the feature updates. Why would security updates be changing so much? Even mitigating a complex attack shouldn't require a registry hack to fix broken functionality.

    Looks like Home and Pro users are guinea pigs for more than just the semi annual updates now. How did this even make it out of testing?

  12. Re: 6 percent margins on Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Even a dumb TV needs a UI and control board. Something to adjust color settings and switch inputs. If there's a tuner, a few more functions. But a smart TV requires a lot more work to get everything to run.

    Having a dumb TV be a separate device would increase development costs because you're developing multiple product lines where there could be just one. The hardware is already there to run the UI for the most part. That 6% also has to cover advertising and any other expense needed to make the sale.

  13. It's even cheaper to just run fiber to a cell tower and tell everyone that's their new landline - no matter how unreliable.

  14. Re:Just say "No" to Trump 2020. on AT&T Preps For New Layoffs Despite Billions In Tax Breaks and Regulatory Favors (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a pretty good argument that both were bad moves. Is that what you're arguing? Trying to impose privatized socialized medicine is just a big mess of an idea and should never have been pushed forward. Single payer wouldn't have prevented all of the mess, but it can't have been as bad as what we got.

    Most of the "growth" that the economy has shown were just big moves by big corps for show to help prop up the idea that the tax cuts were a good idea - just so that they can keep them. Nothing has cost them more than the tax cuts have gained them.

  15. Re:6 percent margins on Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as they sell enough to cover R&D. And don't forget all the R&D expense developing the UI to consume their post-purchase monetization...

  16. Re:Oh Lord no, on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, mostly people born after WWII or too young to be scarred by it.

  17. In Other News on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, water is wet.

  18. Re:I'm Guessing That... on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    It's just a buffer/capacitor for food supply and food prices.

  19. Re:burger sauce on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    You tell me that a mornay sauce made with cheddar and beer doesn't beat that.

  20. Re:Supply and demand on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Woosh, wooshity woosh.

  21. When did salt start being made of protein?

  22. Re:You mean literal Nazi propaganda? on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Captain America, for sure. Spiderman? Not so much.

  23. Re:I joined LinkedIn circa 2006... on Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    They definitely asked for access to webmail credentials.

  24. Re: Something WRONG ! on Possible Superconductivity In the Brain? (springer.com) · · Score: 1

    I could have used quotation marks around the original article text: "The estimated critical temperature of superconducting network in the brains is
    rather high: 2063±114 K. "

  25. Re:Something WRONG ! on Possible Superconductivity In the Brain? (springer.com) · · Score: 1

    The original article says The estimated critical temperature of superconducting network in the brains is
    rather high: 2063±114 K. Not sure what it means, but doesn't match the summary at all.