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  1. Re:It's the lack of upgrades on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That has nearly the same effect with more added evil than I could imagine up for them.

  2. Re:It's the lack of upgrades on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You really think Apple sells traded phones as refurbs? I really think they probably throw them straight into a shredder. Take them off the secondary market and they'll make more money selling the newer models.

  3. Re:If anyone makes Amazon look bad, it's AMZN on 'Making Amazon Look Bad': Microsoft Is Backing a Major Tax On Itself and Amazon (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more than that. They want everyone else to help pay for a higher standard of education in the tech sector. Yet for their relatively small share of the cost, they will reap a larger share of the rewards by recruiting the very best of those. It might drive down wages, but haven't the H1Bs done that even more?

  4. The restaurant principle. If I'm in the restaurant and I can enjoy my meal, you all can stay. If you're being disruptive in a way that makes people want to stop patronizing, the restaurant will boot you and not because they care one way or another about your beliefs.

  5. Re: Who will be the judge? on Facebook Says it Will Now Block White-Nationalist, White-Separatist Posts (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was their bike.

  6. They want to MITM the whole web. This will be around for a long time.

  7. Re:In other words ... on Google Makes Emails More Dynamic With AMP For Email (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Even for major web apps that send email notifications this is a bad idea. For the AMP interactivity to work you probably need to be assumed to be logged in by virtue of being logged into email. Now you don't need to reset passwords to attack accounts from already having an email password.

    Or worse, this uses third party cookies already in your browser. So now instead of a tracking pixel you have Facebook and everyone else tracing your email reads.

  8. Re:Email and "experiences" on Google Makes Emails More Dynamic With AMP For Email (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Goes back earlier. Reminds me of "Active Desktop" in Windows 98 SE. It was so successful that the idea came back as live tiles in Windows 8/10.

  9. Re:Unbelievable on Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The same book also says that Earth was given to Man to care for. And yet somehow worrying about global warming is anti-God because nobody actually thinks that responsibility means anything.

  10. Re:Unbelievable on Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That REALLY should be causing a lot of questions to be raised about what process could be forcing all the models to agree.

    Unless you're crazy, the obvious answer is that this is a repeatable scientific study.

    Weather models are totally different because they're past the macroscopic level and into the turbulent details.

  11. There was probably more piracy during the 56k era. I think they realized that their Spotify revenue isn't high enough and they want to blame it on piracy. They should have just stopped with DRM-free MP3s.

  12. Re: Contaminated polio vaccine. on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck figuring out which veggies have salmonella. Are you being intentionally dense?

  13. Re:Why was this possible again? on Google Fixes Chrome 'Evil Cursor' Bug Abused by Tech Support Scam Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Paint brushes with variable size and hardness.

  14. Re:System-defined resize cursor on Google Fixes Chrome 'Evil Cursor' Bug Abused by Tech Support Scam Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Cursor can also be set by CSS

  15. Re:This Was Apple's Plan All Along - Media Company on Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this is satire or lunacy, but it's still 10/10 entertaining.

  16. Re:Looks little different from Netflix to me... on Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just think if they had bought Pixar from Jobs instead of Disney.

  17. That's a huge step in the right direction for Apple. They make the games Google and Amazon play against each other seem almost tame.

    Apple needs a lot more interoperability if they want to stay relevant, do it's good that they're starting to try.

  18. Re:Why was this possible again? on Google Fixes Chrome 'Evil Cursor' Bug Abused by Tech Support Scam Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    How do you know when you're at a resizable corner of an object? Your cursor changes. Designing web based software, you need these sorts of things as part of your visual language. The only thing that needs fixed is the security of it.

  19. Re:de facto standard on Google Fixes Chrome 'Evil Cursor' Bug Abused by Tech Support Scam Sites (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Win32 apps change your cursor. And it's functional, not just cute crap. A web-based photo editor needs dragging handles, I-beam cursor, brush size indication, etc. The problem isn't the existence of the feature.

  20. Re: Contaminated polio vaccine. on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse, there's a history of food being contaminated. Why don't you just play it safe and stop eating food.

  21. Re:But ...there IS a link between autism and vacci on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Statistically, children with a higher IQ have parents with a higher IQ. Parents with a higher IQ are less likely to be too stupid to vaccinate. Children of parents with higher IQ have a higher chance of autism. You don't know the difference between correlation and causation.

  22. Re: Contaminated polio vaccine. on 'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    SV40 continues to cause infections in the human population today.

    Sure, but it doesn't continue to contaminate vaccines today. And the incident led to a lot more safety procedures and testing so it's unlikely to happen again.

  23. If you value your leisure time at the same rate as your work time, then you can't afford to buy your leisure time.

  24. Re:How is this different on New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry everybody. There was a guy in the back who sneezed and missed something. Please stand by as we restart the 15 minutes of ads again.

  25. Because they spoof numbers outside of their network.

    You'll note that this new system doesn't mention anything about verifying the caller ID data being sent by the call originator, it only mentions verifying the networks the call traverses.

    No, this article doesn't mention it. AT&T's own press release does.
    https://about.att.com/story/20...