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  1. Re:Tape? on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reliability, portability, and length of time the data can be stored, possibly speed. LTO-4 and lower is definitely going to be slower. LTO-5+ might be faster for writing depending on the RAID setup.

    Pretty much the reasons you would use tape in the first place.

  2. Re:Yes, we're getting fucked on If Data Is the New Oil, Are Tech Companies Robbing Us Blind? (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Man broad platitudes are awesome and great. Claps to your misguided typing

  3. The same place where they have dating apps to confirm you aren't fucking your cousin? Please bring this study to some place normal like eastern Kentucky or a West Virginia holler. No way you could replicate it there!

  4. I'm glad we got another of these stories. on EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    I might have been confused at the first mention of EFF resigning from W3C consortium because of the DRM standardization.

    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  5. Re:Infrastructure is a dead end street on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    A good technology person in forty hours cannot replace hundreds of billable/man-hours in a fixed time. It's simply not possible.

  6. Re:Target has a good consumer site on Target's Sales Floors Are Switching From Apple To Android Devices (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    How many isle locations do they have? I wouldn't mind leaving on an island with a Target

  7. Re:What scanner? on Target's Sales Floors Are Switching From Apple To Android Devices (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An iPod is not a touch is not a PC. Kinda wondering why they didn't give it a power-supply case but I don't know if that's possible because of the barcode scanner. If an app could not have sufficed, I am guessing that inadequate testing went into entire process anyway. Android has been far more open with third party accessories and apps than Apple devices -- I say this as an owner of both but a user of primarily iPod/iPhone tech. I really really hope that Target is bothering to test. Many of my clients never bother to.

    I develop develop/enable mobile barcode scanning for a few platforms as a developer, so this is not a subject I'm alien to. There is a very good chance that the app they use is less stable or more power intensive than the ones I develop for. Then again, that would just go back to shitty testing (much to my surprise).

  8. Re:Intentionally poor headline on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You are. Maybe I should write potentially liable instead of liable. Literally everything else is correct. You asked why they were suing. I explained it to the troll. Didn't really take though apparently.

  9. Re:Intentionally poor headline on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The solutions offered are not accepted by the people in the lawsuit. The touch disease and bend disease are almost certainly part and parcel.

    If you want me to lay my point out again, people are suing because apple is liable for defective products and their redress was found non-existent or wanting. There is a class action suit in Canada too. Then you get the anonymous genius bar people saying apple was selling refurbished units with the same propensity to fail.
    If you want to stop being a failed troll, you can even read the lawsuit: https://www.scribd.com/documen...

    Of course this is all explicitly mentioned and would easily be extrapolated or inferred by someone with a human-sized brain and the ability to breathe through the nose instead of the mouth

  10. Re:Intentionally poor headline on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No but they did make defective iPhone 6 and 6s models. That is what the class action lawsuit is about. I don't particularly care about the phone contract vs apple warranty argument -- though I do think it would be smart for apple and ATT/Sprint/et al to address that -- as much as I care about defective products. If the axle on an out-of-warranty car cracks during normal use because of a casting/fabrication error, the manufacturer better damn well replace it.

    We know this because Apple is currently fighting a class-action lawsuit over the widespread premature failure of tens of thousands of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices due to a design flaw that's become known as "touch disease."

    That's in addition to the structural defect that let them bend so easily. The phones clearly have an issue caused either by the design or by the manufacturing. Apple doesn't want to bite the bullet here, but I would be very surprised if they didn't end up being liable.

  11. It's not unrivaled severity on Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even close. US has been too harsh (Far too harsh) in prosecuting hacking but there have literally been people executed for hacking. To my knowledge, we as Americans have yet to match that.

    To my ignorant, flat world, black and white, American eyes at least.

  12. Humans are morons on Neural Networks Can Auto-Generate Reviews That Fool Humans (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    Glad to know that computers can output trash as quickly as humans can.

  13. Re:solid proof on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not at a premium if this guy can cram more shit inside to enable an audio jack to work (albeit partially).

  14. Re:A serious case, but reality for many to some de on How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We own them. Turn off the f*cking notifications unelss you're paid to have them on and are willing to do so.

    There I solved the great philospphical question of the 21st century. Don't worry I require little in the way of compensation. People like the article writing STFU is all I ask. That and a case of beer a week for life

  15. Turn off the alerts and notifications, set to sile on How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had to go to rehab for things you literally thought of on your own, the problem isn't the electronics. It is the person who refuses to do so. If you have genuine mental infliction preventing you from doing so, rehab is barely going to help. You'd need psychotherapy, medication, and maybe rehab for impulse issues.

    So congrats for devising an almost certainly ineffective, obvious treatment a child would have thought of. Go to a psychiatrist and work on that impulse control.

  16. Re:Data mining not needed on To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3

    No they don't want to be spied on. Indifference is entirely different than desire

  17. This just in on To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Businesses adopting data mining practices

    The rest of the news from 2006 will be forthcoming shortly

  18. Re:Census Records on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you just have no idea how or why facebook, the platform and the company, work.

    Don't dwell on it. You're clearly heading into lunatic rant territory, even if your base presence isn't wrong (it's definitely not right).

  19. Re:Census Records on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are public records? It's data to consume. Is that a serious question?

    I don't mean that in a playful rhetorical way. I mean that in a serious way.

  20. Consumer Reports on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    Real fucking easy. Go to Consumer reports and look for the highest rated non-smart TV. Failing that go to Google

    Why do these submissions get greenlit?

  21. 99% of the people in the US with a TV use it as a monitor. Few people actually use OTA signals

  22. Re:Feeding the tort lawyers on Let Consumers Sue Companies (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Better than an arbitration where rule of law is a suggestion, not a requirement. I'd rather get a company nailed to a cross and get $10 than go to arbitration and the company isn't required to do anything since the mediator is of their choosing.

  23. No shit on Let Consumers Sue Companies (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And amen. Forced arbitration clauses should not be legal in lieu of class-action lawsuits.

  24. Absolutely shocking on People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35, Study Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As people age and have a lot more responsibility and less flexibility in their social, mental, and emotional lives, they start enjoying work a lot less and start treating it as more of an obligation! How much did Robert Half spend on this?

  25. Re:Article assumes too much on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get overwhelmed watching a Roku stick?