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  1. Yep on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    Linked in and Facebook apps are complete crap written by no talent hacks. When the Mobile version of the site is significantly faster and has a better UI than your app? you fire your entire app developer team and hire some that understand efficient and fast.

  2. Note: only for the non atypical republican. on Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Every person that has had this happen has been brown. It's just an excuse to be more racist at the airports.
    Let's also ignore the fact that monday all of Orlando International skipped the security checks dod not have to take laptop out of the bag, dont remove shoes or coat, just walk through.

    Airport security is theater and an attempt to be racist to those that are not white.

  3. Well known band? on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 1

    Then they can afford buying a mobile hotspot with 60gb of data on it. If they are well known then $1KUS per month is chump change to them.

  4. 100% useless. on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Yes it is only for a shoulder surfer. honestly if you want people to use complex passwords you have to show them the freaking string as they type
    ASDq3fwtevybtynsR&56@%^25tqer7gRT*Ubt&tferyweF
    for their password

  5. Most of the shit ONVIF cameras wont let you turn that crap off.
    I dont care if the username password is "admin admin" My cameras are 100% hackerproof because they are on a private locked down network. The only gateway to the internet is the single recording PC, and even then you have to VPN in to that network to see them.

    Basically if you are dumb you put your IOT stuff on the internet. The smart people treat all of it as dangerous and put it on a network that is segmented and protected because you can not know what these damn things do because every company has to hide their own secrets inside them.

  6. Comcast cant deliver any of the bandwidth they promise. Their infrastructure is well over 10 years old and they REFUSE to upgrade it all over the place.
    They can barely deliver 50mbps to customers regularly and reliably, they have ZERO chance of getting anything wireless working for self driving cars.

  7. Asking congress to do what? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait 2 years, the current congress is a shitshow. and I am betting the "calculations" are really far off and in reality there is a "nothing to see here".

  8. Re:Look At The Other Hand on Border Patrol Says It's Barred From Searching Cloud Data On Phones (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Normal people have a smart phone with history. Normal people show what is on their phone and the details go back years in an average and normal way."

    no they don't. Most people do not transfer absolutely everything to their phone every time. Even Photos and videos do not auto transfer and all the apps only a handful you tell to do a "cloud sync" will transfer any data.

    Also most people use their phone replacement as an opportunity to clean house.

    If you think there is years of data on there then you have zero clue as to how the majority of smartphone users deal with getting new phones. NONE of them do a full backup and then a full restore on the new one. That is far to difficult for the masses.

  9. Those assholes should not be able to search phones in general.

    Hoping that even more is taken from them to restore our rights once more.

  10. Duh... on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's see, Intel and AMD's offerings have been complete shit until very recently. your 10 year old i7 is absolutely fast enough and in some instances as fast as a i7 computer from 6 months ago.

    Only recently did both chip makers get off their asses and offer any kind of a performance boost that will make a difference and get people interested in buying a PC.

    Watch sales to double in the next 12 months.

  11. Re:Fantastic on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine last 20 hours on a single charge, Bose 35 and have been out for over a year now, only time I have a problem is international flights over 20 hours.
    My daughters "skull Candy over the ear BT headphones go at least 12 hours on a single charge, those were a lot cheaper.

  12. Because crackheads love cash and need it for more crack.

  13. Re:Not servicable on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Not made to last..... Wife's iphone 4 STILL WORKS just fine 7 years later.

    My HTC ONE M8.... replaced TWICE and then finally died because the battery swelled and cracked the display.
    My One X did not last more than 12 months before it started having problems. I have been through 6 android phones in those same 7 years.

    I think you dont have a clue at all about iphones and longevity.

  14. Re:Fantastic on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't used wired headphones for 3 years now. Bluetooth is so much more convenient and even in my car it's automatically connected.

    Honestly, give up the cheap wired things and try the wireless stuff. It's extremely convenient. Both android and iphone are fantastic without wires. there really is no real reason to have to search for a cable to plug in or even dig the phone out of my pocket anymore.

  15. Re:Slashdot is the wrong audience for this questio on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple solved this. A stolen iphone is 100% useless on the black market as they cant register it or get into it without the owner releasing it from icloud. And so many people are getting burned on that.

    Pawn shops refuse to take an iphone if you can not prove it has been full released and reset. Even the craigslisters are asking for proof that it's released before purchase..... well the ones that have a brain are.

  16. Re:No way on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    It is just him... Including the fact he has never touched an iphone in his life but acts as if he is an expert.

  17. Re: No way on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Plus at that price point it will absolutely lose 50% of it's price in the first 120 days. The higher the entry fee the greater the fall on the used market or even the new market after release.

  18. Re:Future proof on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    MOST large cities have an income tax.

    I don't see rich people fleeing Chicago or NYC.

  19. Illegal? on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sounds like the rich assholes are whining... It is absolutely legal for a city to collect income tax. MANY cities do just that.

  20. It's expensive, Underwhelming, and requires a $2500 PC to run it.
    On top of that almost no games support it, and even less software.

    Duh, no wonder it is not selling.

  21. Doesnt matter. on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Airport security is all theater anyways and designed to indoctrinate americans to accept being inspected and have people carrying automatic weapons around you for your "protection".

    we are as safe without all this invasive BS and M16 toting militarized police.

  22. Re:Something doesn't smell right. on RED Launches a $1,200 Smartphone With a 'Hydrogen Holographic Display' (phonedog.com) · · Score: 0

    If you think that RED cameras are "obnoxiously expensive" then you have zero clue as to the cost of an Arriflex digital cinema camera.

    Yes cameras for cinema should cost more than your econobox car.

  23. Why an outright ban? on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not simply ban Crap bikes that dont have fuel injection and a Catalytic converter? Modern bikes (if you have carbs your bike is NOT modern, even if you bought it new in 2017) do not pollute very much at all because they now use decent engine systems.

  24. Re:Tech Industry Robber Barons on Ubuntu Disputes 'Ads In MOTD' Claims (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    Except it's not happening in Slackware, Debian, or Gentoo..

    ubuntu is NOT all linux distros, but simply the only one that is heavily marketed. It doesnt even have the lions share across all linux installs.

  25. Re: As an American... on NSA 'Traffic Shaping' Can Divert US Internet Traffic For Easier Monitoring (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That and they have guns, lots of guns. THAT is how you do this and it's how citizens are forced to pay taxes.... you dont, the guys with guns will come and take you away to pay for daring to go against what they want.