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  1. Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a good thing Windows 10 updates never break anything.

  2. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 2

    DisplayLink is not Displayport, which any Thunderbolt-capable USB-C port supports. This is for video over USB with a proprietary (and convoluted) protocol. They originally started as a way to use an idle iPad as a secondary screen for a PC or laptop. I have no idea why they have such a following.

  3. Re:Stop giving them personal information doofuses! on Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customers Records (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the heck would anyone give your name, email address, physical addresses, or birthday to Panera bread

    Same account includes loyalty program.

    email address: get rewards info, order confirmation
    physical address: get delivery, card billing info
    birthday: get birthday rewards

  4. Re:Are you any safer w/o credit card #? on Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customers Records (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    NFC from the actual, physical card can send the full track 1 data, including 16-digit account number (Apple Pay shares a virtual number). It's a real card number and could still be potentially used online - just can't be cloned to a magstripe card and used, and can't be used online without the 3-digit code off the back.

  5. Re:Best chip designers? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    the last 10% takes 90% of your resources

    If those resources can be bought with cash, Apple has more than 10x the amount Intel has.

  6. Re: Best chip designers? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And before someone else comes along claiming that text boxes need to turn off smart quotes so you can properly express feet and inches, the proper symbol there is prime and double prime - not straight single and double quotes.

  7. Re:Unanswered questions on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Given how many of Apple's own (unsupported) pro apps broke between 10.12 and 10.13, maybe not porting but loads of patches.

  8. Re:Unanswered questions on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All Apple Pro apps except the new FCP X and Logic Pro require not just Intel, but 10.12 or earlier (no High Sierra). So you won't be buying new equipment at all, just repairing it.

  9. Re: Best chip designers? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    That's Slashdot's problem, really. No one else needs backward compatibility on that. UTF-8 supports it just fine.

  10. Re:Good, because Obama was unrealistic on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not anywhere near 2025 yet - why quit trying so early?

  11. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's safer. If you're the one killing the other person. Drive a tank and run them over, I guess.

  12. Re:They need a partner here... on Huawei Commits To Bringing Its Products To the US Despite Government Security Concerns (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Their first step should be a requirement to have an American company be their partner in order to do business here. This includes manufacturing the product here as well.

    What domestic brand even makes their phone here? They can just have a US subsidiary based here and they'd really be no different from Apple or Samsung.

  13. Re:Big corporations stepping on artist's rights on 'GTA V' Character Doesn't Resemble Lindsay Lohan, Court Rules (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't she have a career as an escort in Dubai? Or at least did?

  14. The post office is going to be smaller than it was...email.

    They're just shifting from letters to commercial bulk mail and packages. If anything, their revenue is growing.

  15. Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read what you posted, then indeed they are not funded by taxes. They have incentives that you can try to place an economic value on, but it's really all speculation to assign a number to it.

  16. Re:I think you need to learn to read on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you look at it. Visiting every mailbox in the US is sort of a fixed cost. Yes, it varies by a small percentage. But a 50 cent letter does not even come close to paying for a mailbox visit.

    Delivering just a letter vs. a letter and a package adds up to a *smaller* loss on fixed costs even if the two together are not profitable.

  17. Front Door Access on Amazon Takes Fresh Stab At $16 Billion Housekeeping Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they've already got the keys to the front door. Now they're just letting more people in.

  18. Re:This is obvious on Most Tech Workers Would Ignore a Call From Their Boss Outside Work Hours (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    A lot of tech jobs are working on products that are going to be released and delays mean product is not released on time.

    This is solved in the planning phase. That is when you decide that a timeframe is unreasonable. If at that point, I'm expected to stick to an unreasonable schedule that's when I'm out the door.

  19. Re:apple will just drop lightning cables in next p on State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What and standardize on the USB-C connector that they helped popularize? Ironically, I really doubt it.

  20. Look at a photo of iPhone 8. Where the notch would be, there is no screen at all. The notch is not because of Face ID. It's because Apple wanted the screen bigger.

  21. Re:Is there a mechanism for lost cards? on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For one time use and then throw it away, sure. But it would be the max fare for the route.

  22. Re:Is there a mechanism for lost cards? on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original card's entire history was tied to a real person with one single card transaction. That's the big loss.

  23. Re:I'm just a bill, stuck on capitol hill..... on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How it really works now:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=JU...

  24. The notch has nothing to do with FaceID and everything to do with Apple wanting the screen to go edge to edge from top to bottom. The front-facing webcam was already there in previous generations.

  25. Precisely. I wouldn't be surprised if they were open to SQL injection attacks with that level of security-mindedness.