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  1. Re:Useless on WhatsApp Now Has a Desktop App, Available on Windows, OS X · · Score: 1

    Also, native device encryption is less common on PCs.

  2. Re:No thanks! on WhatsApp Now Has a Desktop App, Available on Windows, OS X · · Score: 1

    You mean like XMPP with server-to-server federation? Or maybe someone could fix the mess that was Google/Apache Wave.

  3. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they'll Sue Googe. It's right in her name.

  4. Re: The joy of closed source on Microsoft Unlocks Framerates For Smoother Gameplay On Windows 10 (pcper.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? In the stock contacts app, you can share a contact via Bluetooth or Android Beam. I have Barcode Scanner installed and it actually turns the contact into a vCard QR Code.

    Or do you mean share all my contacts? If I wanted to do this, I use an app called CardDAV-Sync to pull contacts from a CardDAV server. But I don't want to do this.

    You can install apps on vanilla Android, you know. You just get to choose.

  5. Re: The joy of closed source on Microsoft Unlocks Framerates For Smoother Gameplay On Windows 10 (pcper.com) · · Score: 0

    I have all sorts of garbage apps that just show up by magic

    Get a Nexus phone. Just pure vanilla Android and no vendor apps or auto installed 3rd-party anything.

  6. Re:So, pay Three Bucks and get the ad-free version on Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen (xda-developers.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't trust them once they cross into adware territory. And the "Pro" version appears to be even more bloated.

  7. Re:Scanning apps to make sure they're safe on Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen (xda-developers.com) · · Score: 1
  8. The only person with a standing in court against this commentor is the person whose property was seized - and that's only if it really was libel.

  9. example of a somehwat cognizable threat.

    How? If you say you think it's likely, you're not threatening to be the one to do it.

  10. Re: Behind 7 proxies on Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Techdirt Over The Identity Of A Hyperbolic Commenter (boingboing.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The comment says that someone will probably do it. That's not a threat. If I say that "if Trump is elected President, he'll probably be shot", that's a prediction - not a threat. It's completely protected speech.

  11. Re:Its as secure as the programmer does .. on Huge Number Of Sites Imperiled By Critical Image-Processing Vulnerability (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That just shifts the burden and enables novices to be less likely to leave gaping holes. It doesn't really make much difference to people who know what they're doing.

  12. Re:WooHoo! Of course, I'll believe it when I see i on Microsoft To End Nagging Windows 10 Upgrade Notifications In July (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What do HTML5 and CSS have to do with Windows support?

  13. Re: They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for....repeating me? A pulsed signal only helps if it's a high, constant ERP that could cause damage. Microwaves are non-ionizing, so intensity wouldn't be the concern.

  14. Re:They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The other recent study that disagrees with this one says it's more to do with the pulsing nature of the signal and how it physically disrupts the repair of already damaged DNA rather the damaging it. It can't damage the DNA directly, but while it's being spliced and repaired, it can induce physical interruption. I don't know how much credibility to give it, but it makes more than no sense and less than a lot of sense. CDMA and GSM are both a very heavily pulsed signal (sharing time with other phones) and localized heating of water in the body by a tiny amount, but in bursts could potentially do something physical, but still not ionizing.

  15. Re:UWP is Microsoft's future on Microsoft To End Nagging Windows 10 Upgrade Notifications In July (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The first part, letting Win32 stagnate, is something people have been hoping for for years. The end of OS updates breaking old applications. It's that last part that's the killer.

  16. Re:WooHoo! Of course, I'll believe it when I see i on Microsoft To End Nagging Windows 10 Upgrade Notifications In July (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What kind of valuable support does Microsoft even offer outside of security updates? The updates are it.

  17. Votes in a real election are far more important and far better considered when cast.

    Then how do you explain Trump?

  18. Depends on your plan. The standard (HD) plan gets 2 screens simultaneously. There are bigger plans.

  19. I'm mobile, so I'll decrease the quality of my devices at home that someone else might be watching...not a great plan.

  20. And each quality setting has its own queue? Doesn't sound ideal.

  21. REIGN is something a king or emperor does.

    Which describes how Netflix handled bandwidth prior to this - they're the king and you get no choice.

  22. Re:Its as secure as the programmer does .. on Huge Number Of Sites Imperiled By Critical Image-Processing Vulnerability (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    but rather because so much code is still around that was built against early APIs

    How old? Even with the old APIs, you rarely seem to find custom PHP code where somebody bothered to do so much as addslashes() and that's been around since PHP 4.

  23. If anything, blame the FDA. They would have had to approve the software that requires this configuration.

  24. Re:What's changed since '92 in this regard? on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't really disagreeing. Just expanding.

  25. Re:My favorite dirty Windows 10 trick on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    do you want to upgrade to Windows 10 now, or later

    reminds me of that great Bugs & Daffy cartoon quote:

    Bugs Bunny: Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home?
    Daffy Duck: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
    Bugs Bunny: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
    Daffy Duck: He does so have to shoot me now!
    [to Elmer]
    Daffy Duck: I demand that you shoot me now!
    [Elmer shoots him.]