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  1. Got mine free on Apple Replaced 11 Million iPhone Batteries in Its $29 Program (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Took my 6s in to take advantage of the $29 replacement, turns out my battery qualified for free replacement. No idea why.

    I'm happy though, cuz now my phone lasts the day instead of two hours to dead. It's, what, 5 PM now, I would have unplugged my phone at about 8 AM, and it's at 57%. Much better.

  2. Re:Irresponsible idiots, holy hell! on German Police Ask Router Owners For Help In Identifying a Bomber's MAC Address (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But they can't link the MAC address directly to IMEI or SIM or phone number, most likely, or they'd have already done it.

    Or the have, but knowing that the device in question was sold at a given corner store or whatever is one piece of the puzzle; knowing that the person who owned the phone at the time frequented certain locations is another piece of the puzzle.

  3. Hoping that random people will (a) see you request, (b) understand what it means, (c) own a router with open access, (d) know how to look at their logs, (e) be bothered to do so, and (f) have logs that go back at least nine months, seems to be a long shot.

    It's absolutely a long shot. But it costs them, what, five minutes to type up a press release and hand it to the department media liaison. They'd be stupid not to put out the request.

  4. Re: A Difficult Situation For Both Sides on 'Star Control: Origins' Pulled From Steam And GOG Following DMCA Claim (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Stardock never claimed to own the IP. They claimed to own the name.

    Think of it like this: "You can make a 'Star Wars' game, but you CANNOT use Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, or any other character, or vehicle, shown in any of the movies, nor can you use the Empire, the Rebellion, or any other named character."

    So what do you do? You make Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

    StarDock is trying to make Star Control: The Old Republic.

  5. wrong idea on Ask Slashdot: An Android or iOS App For Boosting the Volume of Speech-Impaired Person? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Get him a subvocal, or 'throat' microphone, and don't worry about trying to figure out how to boost the noise you want (his voice) while throwing away the noise you don't want (background.)

  6. Re:Target of 100% may be impossible on Almost a Third of New Cars Sold In Norway Last Year Were Pure Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or have faith that the free market will take care of things. "This apartment looks great, I love the location, but does it have enough EV charging points? No? Ok, thanks for your time."

  7. Re:Amazon didn't kill Sears on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In some cases, yes, but in most, it's a perfectly reasonable response to labyrinthine and contradictory local, state, and federal tax policies, which generally have a ridiculous amount of exceptions, gotchas, and other stuff insisted upon by special interest groups.

    In other words, hate the game, don't hate the player. This is an argument often used for various flat tax systems.

  8. Re:A couple on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    I read Uncompromising Honor, it really suffered from 'wrap it up' syndrome, I thought.

    The thing to remember about the Vatta universe is that it's Moon's Traveller campaign written down, much like Deed of Paksennarion is her D&D campaign written down.

    I like Fung's work; make sure you read The Obesity Code too, for his take on the science and research into this stuff.

  9. That said, Web With Out Browser, or WebWob, might be a good alternative.

  10. Re:Money talks, I guess? on Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is Canada's way of gracefully bowing out of the whole thing. "Gee, Donald, sorry, we didn't think she'd take off, eh? If she ever comes back to Canada, we'll arrest her again, eh? Sorry. Here, have a double-double and a honey-glazed."

  11. Re:Its a ticket to power apparently on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's, by and large, a result of networking and class, not academic performance.

    Put another way, it's not that Harvard grads tend to become politicians, it's that people in a position to become successful politicians tend to also be in a position to go to places like Harvard.

  12. Holy shit! You're right! I'd better call A-M right away, for surely their engineers haven't taken ANY of this into account!

  13. I believe it's a combination of licensing, and lack of hardware support.

    That said, I do believe Netflix routinely keeps different encodes of the same content for different clients, so if they don't already have HEVC versions, they will, once they figure it's worth the bother, and as more people acquire devices which can play it back, they'll be used automatically.

  14. Caruana's strength is his preparation of openings

    Caruana's strength is in his ability to memorize openings that supercomputers have plotted out. It's telling that without the supercomputer support, he was simply crushed.

  15. After the rapid, they'd have five rounds of blitz, IIRC, and after that, if still no winner, one game of Armageddon; basically, White gets five minutes, Black (the challenger) gets four minutes, and a draw gives the championship to the challenger.

  16. Re:Cut and Paste saves you a lot of time too on Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, the 2A isn't 'assholes wanting to threaten your life because their 10 mb/s broadband is only testing at 5 mb/s, despite the fact that somebody else in the house is streaming HD Netflix, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

  17. You know how I know you don't know what 'reminiscent' means?

  18. Re:My favorite one on Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? · · Score: 1

    I still have fond memories of playing the original Mean Streets and marveling at the speech clips being played on the PC speaker via RealSound.

    It even came with instructions for wiring alligator clips onto speaker wire, and vampire tapping the PC speaker's wires to play via a stereo rig.

  19. but what it really amounts to is laziness

    You say 'you're too lazy to find something 'good enough' or to make your own tool to do what you want, I say 'it's more efficient to just use the tool that already works.'

    Do you suggest that people who need to nail two pieces of wood together learn blacksmithing so they can forge a hammer and nails?

  20. Re:Jaywalking = Weak governance? FFS. on In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    The very term 'jay walking' is an old slur, and the idea of 'jaywalking' is 'anybody who gets run over is an idiot who deserves it.' Look up the history, and look at the parallels with the modern NRA's campaigns.

  21. Re:The Orville on Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes it does. That's unfortunate.

  22. Re:The Orville on Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but in The Orville, they're 'flawed' as in 'they're people,' not as in 'they're war criminals.'

    That said, I liked Discovery too, and I think it suffered from it's tumultuous pre-production woes. I'm hoping it finds it's footing and improves.

  23. Re:Another stupid bloomberg article ... on Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That there are, indeed, other western countries with very little reliance on non-renewables.

    Hell, up here in Canada, milk comes in bags, and electric power is commonly referred to as 'hydro,' as in 'we just got the hydro bill' or 'after that bad storm, there was a four-hour hydro outage.'

  24. Re:Another stupid bloomberg article ... on Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1