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  1. Re:I'm not upgrading until L5 GPS chips are availa on People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, it throws out obvious junk data. Secondly, that blue radius grows and shrinks more based on how recently it grabbed GPS data combined with its confidence with the algorithm rather than how strong the signal is. Google Maps also uses cell tower triangulation part of the time to keep up with position because it's cheaper battery-wise.

    Anyway, just read Google's own patent application that explains how snapping to roads works and what the prior art is:
    https://patents.google.com/pat...

    Especially looking at where they use the accelerometer and gyroscope data.

  2. Re:Comcast won't give a static IP without their mo on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It'd be like AOL saying you can't use any HAYES compatible on their dial up.

    It wasn't until 1968 that AT&T allowed you to use any modem/phone/device but theirs on the telephone network.

  3. Re:I used to work for Comcast. on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Java 6 =~ Java 1.6. They changed their version numbering scheme, so it's only 3 revisions newer. Of course it is still a 6-year gap.

  4. Re:Comcast won't give a static IP without their mo on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Charter (Spectrum) is worse. No static IP without a business account. No customer-owned modems allowed for business accounts at all. They claim it's to "maintain the quality of their business network" as if they're using different channels or nodes for business customers.

  5. Re:I used to work for Comcast. on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No one really knows but it's between $750 and $1200 per box.

    Ha! No.

  6. Re:Does that mean I get to.... on Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is more something you see if you're using a VPN or Tor, because there are a lot more queries coming from one IP than just your own computer.

  7. Re:Cos they don't want to buy a suitcase for it on People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Phones are getting bigger - want was called phablet size is now phone size.

    They should use the edge-to-edge screens to reduce the size of phones

    This is how the above happened. Same huge screens but in the previous gen's smaller form factor.

  8. Re:I'm not upgrading until L5 GPS chips are availa on People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    People say "why do you care?" but the answer is for lane-level navigation with google maps.

    Google Maps doesn't even really use GPS to figure out what road you're on (Interstate vs. frontage road). They still use some of the same clever tricks as this ancient navigation system that didn't even have GPS. Compass and momentum sensors are matched to the shape of the road. Turns are mostly detected the same way. Location is calibrated by GPS only occasionally, because it's a huge battery hog.

  9. Yeah, it's not that easy on most phones these days.

    Sure, you start by snapping the back cover off, but being careful not to shatter the glass and hoping there's no glue, remove a PCB or two with #000 screws, remove any wiring glued to the back of the battery and you can maybe simply unplug the battery and replace at that point. By the time you've done that, your battery could be at 40% with a rapid charger.

  10. Re:Modest Proposal on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Separation of powers here. If federal governments could regulate this type of intrastate commerce then it would end this shopping around, but it would erode some fundamental aspects of our government.

  11. Re:I'd rather we take half that on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Give what away? These are tax credit subsidies. Money the state never had and won't have because it won't be collected from Foxconn.

  12. Re:No doubt on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Picking a side is divisive. Stepping back and saying that the whole thing is broken is a start.

  13. Re:Because... on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That's mostly down to centuries of selective breeding rather than fertilizer use. You would see a much better comparison between heirloom varieties and modern commercial varieties. Though some foods have higher per-fruit yield and nutrition through selective breeding - e.g. avocados.

  14. Re:There are many sub-issues, as I said in my comm on Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    I understood it just fine. Maybe don't treat complex subject matter that you don't understand as obfuscation.

  15. Re:But on FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Well sure, but the scientific method precludes going straight for the double treatment, as does the FDA. If it's made by a different drug makes than Tamiflu, then they have no interest in promoting that either. And even if the patent expired on Tamiflu, they probably want to patent the (obvious) combination drug several years down the road rather than give a more effective treatment now. Longer patent dominance.

  16. So in other words, you're still angry that you have no idea what words mean. The Nazis were not fascist. You're just being lazy with words. Their entire economy was run differently under the Nazis than it would be under fascist rule. And the *primary* differentiater between all of the totalitarian government ideologies is how they handle the economy.

  17. Re:Fix, not upgrade on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't rip with Handbrake. I use MakeMKV. But then I re-encode the video stream with Handbrake.

  18. It might not be their philosophy

    So the definition of the word doesn't apply...at all, since this is a philosophical system....why exactly did you decide to make this dead-end argument?

  19. Re:Fix, not upgrade on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy and convenient. Even with Blu-Rays. They all sit on a storage server and my original discs are stored away safely in a closet where I never touch them. I use MythTV but there are a multitude of players that will handle MKV files with H.264 video and AC-3 or DTS-MA audio, which is what I transcode to in Handbrake.

  20. Re:WOW, What's this mean for the PS3 on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And the US Air Force

  21. Re:Fix, not upgrade on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh, good. I have a stack of DVDs where the advertised purpose is to have a license to watch a movie. Format shifting it is just correcting an implementation bug.

  22. The equivalent feature now is to hover the ribbon button and see the shortcut. But you can also access the ribbon by keyboard by hitting the alt key.

  23. Re:Rollable? on Samsung Says It's Working On Foldable Laptop Displays (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be really cool to have satellite image of where I'm standing come up whenever I unroll my map.

    That's easy enough to approximate. Just a clear vinyl sheet will do nicely.

  24. Except that communists and socialists have been against fascism since the beginning. You're trying to equate the worst of all 3 of these groups, but they are different and opposed to each other.

  25. With 5G, they literally have to have more towers due to signal propagation issues. That will make it much harder, though not impossible to have very congested nodes. Some places in the city are so thick with people that even 5G won't deliver much per-user (they might finally get what was promised by 3G).