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  1. Re:apple with force you to buy an $29.99 adapter on Microsoft and Apple Helped Build New Braille Display Standard (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That are also USB 3.1 ports (type C connector). No adapter needed if you buy a brand new (not even designed/built yet) device that should already have the more recent connector.

  2. Re:I'm not up on all the jargon on Intel Launches Optane DIMMs Up To 512GB (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    However in a server environment it really has no practical use unless it's being used as network storage.

    I dunno. If you could suspend an entire VM to optane storage (RAM copy) until a network request comes in, and you could switch quickly, there is some real power savings potential. Especially if you could execute directly from optane while paging back to RAM. This would only work for intermittent use VMs, but you could shut down entire cores on a server that would otherwise be wasted.

    You could argue that any server that could use this was under-provisioned anyway. I'm not so sure.

  3. Re:$699 + $7 per month? on California Begins Trial Rollout of Digital License Plates (caranddriver.com) · · Score: 1

    Using the vehicle's built-in GPS (basically any modern car) would be cheaper, because it's already there instead of $700. I assume most of them have a special program for rental/fleet - if they didn't, they would be crazy.

  4. Re:Can you say on California Begins Trial Rollout of Digital License Plates (caranddriver.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't reading the odometer during inspection be more reliable? Any idiot can buy tires across state lines and pretend they haven't driven at all. It takes a little more work to modify a digital odometer.

  5. There's a difference between one under control of a private company and one under control of the state. It's not much of a warrant veil, but it's something.

  6. Re:Just when you thought lawyers couldn't get wors on Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms · · Score: 2

    From the article:

    The data comes from applications that smartphone users have given permission to capture location.

    The hospitals can't cooperate, because that would certainly violate HIPAA. Basically install an app that request location permission (and just happen to share it with the ad network), and they'll get your whereabouts 24/7 whether the app is open or not, and they can match that against the geofence coordinates. Any app that uses the same ad network could potentially display the ad.

  7. Re:Ads via what app? on Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms · · Score: 2

    From the article:

    The data comes from applications that smartphone users have given permission to capture location.

    And likely any apps that use the same ad network would display that ad.

  8. Good for Fire TV on FCC Asks Amazon and eBay To Stop Selling Fake Pay TV Boxes (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon was just looking for an excuse to get rid of one more category of competitor anyway. It's not like the Chromecast is a huge seller on Amazon.

  9. Re: Why no "Idiots" tag? on How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's the difference between centralized and decentralized. Bitcoin is decentralized. Vehicle registration is centralized.

  10. Re:Welcome to 2013! on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Normally, tapping a printer on the NFC before installing the app will direct you by URI to the appropriate app (where the URI also identifies the printer to be discovered). I think. Or at least that's how it should be designed.

  11. Re: Another wonderful Apple innovation on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's how great their iPhone is with its unicode-requiring "smart" quotes.

  12. I had a customer last week where every time they switch user or log off, the entire graphics subsystem shuts down and the monitor goes to sleep instead of showing the login screen. Turns out it was caused by Avira antivirus.

  13. Re:Trying to figure out the point on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Or is genetic engineering just not that sophisticated yet and the best we can do is cut and paste a DNA sequence from cockroaches and hope it does it the same thing in yeast?

    This. We're about as close to understanding the language of DNA as we are to communicating with penguins.

  14. Re:Units on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    These are the units used in nutrition labeling in the US. Serving sizes in imperial measurement, nutrients in metric.

  15. Re:Good, throw the book at them! on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    And how do you differentiate a bystander from a psychopathic murderer (or terrorist) posing as a bystander?

    By their actions.

  16. Re:What's this "Thin Smartphone" shtick anyway? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it come with free spyware?

  17. Re:Meaningless on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    7.2 times more likely is more like 1:1000 vs. 1:140. Not a minor difference.

  18. Re:Meaningless on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or not wearing cargo pants with knee-length pockets.

  19. Worse, Netflix buries the watch list - and on Roku, the position is constantly changing.

  20. Re:It's not a bug, it's a feature? on YouTube Is Messing With the Order of Videos In Some User Feeds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh. The "recommendations" just being variations on the last 3 videos I've watched is just making YouTube worthless as a quick stop entertainment medium. Recommendations are to help find new things, not what I already know about (although a single category of related would be fine).

  21. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 2

    There is some middle ground between ignoring a call and going in guns blazing. If that's too much nuance for you, you're already a lost cause.

  22. It's still better to live in a world where criminals are killing people than cops.

  23. Re:swat = licence to kill on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    It's possible for multiple people to be fully at fault here.

  24. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is how you get shot for "walking while black." Police should never 100% trust allegations that come in over a phone call. Never.

  25. Re:Good, throw the book at them! on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And in this case, the victims were bystanders. Try again.