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  1. Re:Web apps dont work on 'A Fresh, Clean Look.' Gmail Is About To Get a Makeover (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Email is perfectly fine as asynchronous if you have a good caching client.

  2. Re: No wonder on Late To Bed, Early To Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner (livescience.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Both cocaine and caffeine constrict your blood vessels. It does eventually self-regulate to a more normal state. That's why caffeine withdrawal headaches happen - the body over-dilates the blood vessels in the brain to compensate for caffeine that isn't there.

  3. *injoined

  4. Re: Reported to the FBI on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The crime had already occurred by that point. How are you getting that idea?

  5. Re:Except they do on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you click the brand web site, you might hit that site's own tracking and remarketing system. And if that brand site has a Facebook like button or pixel, then you're easy to tie together.

  6. Re:"We do, while you are taking a video" on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Mojo Jojo, is that you?

  7. Which they could easily have informed the user of or published it in the release notes of the update. The fact that they didn't is very telling. It's not like they don't offer battery replacement - it's just not as profitable.

  8. if you are one of the statistically-unlikely few to never even crack your phone's screen, you beat The Man.

    I dunno. You disagree with yourself.

  9. Re:True of every industry on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    when the OEM has the 'audacity' to issue an update for the device that does not take your 3rd party hardware into account.

    Oh, they take it into account. You really think they don't try to break this stuff with their updates? The same company that got caught slowing down old hardware to make you buy a new phone?

  10. Insurance is based on statistics. You're statistically likely to save money or the insurance would not be offered or profitable.

  11. Re:Are we sure the replacement chip is to spec? on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are still specs, even if they have to be reverse-engineered to be publicly available.

    By that definition they were already following specs.

  12. Re:It's not a repair if isn't fully functional on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't have even worked for Error 53.

    But with screens/digitizers, the cost would be outrageous to the consumer by the time you clean all the glue off the item.

  13. Re:Due Process on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's called a preliminary injunction.

  14. Re:Reported to the FBI on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "virtually every dollar" is intended to prove that they absolutely knew they were facilitating a crime. I'm sure you know that aiding and abetting a criminal is also a crime.

  15. Re:Are we sure the replacement chip is to spec? on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spec? What spec? Apple does not release specs. They will release OEM parts if you pay huge money to be an authorized repair center. That's it.

  16. Re:Why should Apple QA your garbage screens? on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    follow the specs that Apple releases

    Sarcasm? They don't release any such thing.

  17. Re:Why should Apple QA your garbage screens? on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What this really is, effectively, is DRM against repair. How is it "shady" to do everything imaginable to match non-standard specs created by Apple? This is the best that is possible, and Apple blocks it.

  18. Re:True of every industry on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right to repair, which should be the law. You can't get OEM parts because Apple won't sell them.

  19. That plus the insurance premiums likely come close to the cost of the repair or exceed it on average. And if a phone is more than a few years old, Apple will call it obsolete and won't repair it even at full price.

  20. Re:You do realize it was going to change anyway? on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 1

    True. But we're accelerating the end of an ice age and humans are an ice age species. Our own ability to survive may go rapidly downhill on a relatively short timescale.

  21. Which is precisely why they see so little immediate effect from the policies they support.

  22. 1. Why is a for-profit organisation entitled to destroying a natural right in the name of profit.

    Wouldn't they be doing the same in finding out they're a pedophile? Isn't free speech (of news agencies) a natural right?

  23. Can't concede what I don't understand. You're writing became incomprehensible.

  24. Re:**? (because Slashdot is afraid of HTML) on Did Harvard Scientists Predict The End of the Universe? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're already being pedantic, please call it the caret symbol.

  25. What are you citation for for crimes

    What are you for for the talking?