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  1. Or at worst think their laptop rebooted for some reason.

    And if it's Windows 10, there will be no suspicion at all.

  2. Re: Physical access to PC on Almost 'All Modern Computers' Affected By Cold Boot Attack, Researchers Warn (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So an extra-cold boot, then.

  3. That would further reduce latency, but at the expense of having actual trees, mountains, etc. being in the way.

  4. Nobody wants more aerial distance. That just increases latency. What matters is the useful transit distance from the ground station. The balloons are 12 miles high vs. about 22,000 miles high for geosynchronous satellites. Balloons decrease latency by several orders of magnitude.

  5. Re: Here are my questions. on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Yes they are more expensive than, say an iPhone 5. But they are objectively better.

    They have objectively higher performance. That's not necessarily better. We've just about peaked on how much performance I need in a mobile device. I'd rather have less expensive and a replaceable battery. I have a dedicated computer, separate game console - the only thing I need a phone for is decent web browsing and communication apps.

  6. Re:Indeed on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 2

    Now that you've spelled it, I get it. An iPhone X Plus would be an iPhone XP. This is all about Microsoft.

  7. Re:Critical Hour on EU To Give Internet Firms 1 Hour To Remove Extremist Content (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if you remove it at 59:59, it has almost all the impact of that window while 100% compliant. Doesn't make any sense at all. It's allowed to be online for the whole critical window, so what's the point?

  8. Re:A waste of time on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Only when used in a commercial environment.

  9. 11 Must be an unlucky number on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Most things never have a version 11. Neither Windows, nor MacOS, and now even the iPhone. It just stops at 10. Or you pull a Firefox/Chrome and your version number is over 9000.

  10. They're just adding new features for their most popular use case. That's where most companies add new features.

  11. It's really power efficient at hardware-offload video playback. Which has little to nothing to do with Edge. That's what I remember from their earlier ads anyway.

  12. You mean like for the on-board DAC to translate and amplify the audio? Yeah, that doesn't use power.

  13. The assault is not offering it free to every Google phone owner that is plagued with reliability problems on the included adapter.

  14. Re:Milking It on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow I never realized it might be the license plates too. That makes it even dumber to not do something about it.

  15. Re:I thought they were safe on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Breathing PG vapor is a health concern. Much safer than smoke, but not a good daily habit with no long-term studies to know just how bad.

  16. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty. Probably not as addictive as caffeine.

  17. Re:A waste of time on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    People that sell liquids for fog machines are always talking about how their ingredients are all approved by the FDA. That doesn't mean the FDA regulates those at all, but I just thought it was an odd thing to advertise. There is no one that regulates the health of vaporized chemicals, especially propylene glycol. This is one thing where you have to do your own research if you don't want long term health problems rather than counting on a government agency to issue warnings.

  18. Re:Milking It on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    with the bass on the radios shaking the town

    You know, that never bothers me. But what does bother me is not bothering to put basic dampening on your trunk. It's the rattling metal that's annoying.

  19. Re:Compelling them to sell you parts on Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Their equipment has DRM to prevent 3rd-party parts, I believe. They SHOULD be forced to because those are the terms they wanted.

  20. Re:And yet, it still happened. on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    And every single window is grouped on the taskbar under a single Firefox icon (in Windows, Mac, and Unity/Ubuntu). If web apps that are in a dedicated window for their own icon and spot, that would be a start for usability.

  21. Re:And yet, it still happened. on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if web apps we're good enough for everything, the UI is nowhere close to handling multitasking efficiently. I use desktop email and desktop word processing primarily because I can alt-tab and easily have multiple windows up on my screen at once. I believe if Chrome crashes, it only restores tabs for one window.

  22. Re:Sounds like a product on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    What good is a projected keyboard when fast typing requires that you don't even look at it?

  23. Re:What's a computer? on The 'Post-PC Era' Never Really Happened... and Likely Won't (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you missed the joke, see the current iPad ad where a kid says exactly that: https://youtu.be/sQB2NjhJHvY

  24. Re:Why this "war on passwords"? on Worries Arise About Security of New WebAuthn Protocol (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't say their whole head was gone. Just that password.

  25. Re:Mobile devices vs full-feldge computers on Should Webmasters Resist Google's Push For AMP Pages? (polemicdigital.com) · · Score: 1

    Having a site that loads in 50ms versus 20ms won't really matter to a typical end-user

    If only load times aimed low. It took 300ms just to load the HTML for this page. Nothing else loaded until then. The Javascript on the page took 1.17 seconds and the last resource didn't finish loading until almost the 4 second mark. The page did start rendering by about 1-2 seconds, so it didn't feel slow. But Slashdot is actually on the nice end of load times compared to especially news sites.