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  1. Go ahead on Huawei Says It Has a Backup OS In Case It's Cut Off From Android (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " Now, with Huawei suing the U.S. government and the U.S. saying it might punish Germany if the country works with Huawei on its 5G networks, those worst-case scenarios might not be too far-fetched." Punish away, but retaliation will come from 27 countries.

  2. "Government's Cyber Security Company" - what else could you expect?

  3. In America, a politician accepting a bribe is front page news.

    Not since bribes got renamed to 'campaign contributions'.

  4. Every damn thing requires verification by SMS code. And of course foreign phone numbers usually don't work.

  5. Re:This is exactly what the crazy people have said on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask them how the hell vaccines exist then and watch half of them go non-verbal and the other half start ranting about autism and conspiracies to poison us all.

  6. Re:Adblocking on Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are an idiot. Install ublock origin on chrome, open devtools (network tab), load some page and see how many network requests do not get executed (they fail immediately with net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT error).

  7. If they keep calling me after I told them to stop, it is spam.

  8. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, they are free to pursuit their happiness somewhere else. Could you point to the place where it grants everybody in the world the right to come and mooch from US?

  9. Re:lolz cyber response to nuclear tipped missile on The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    UK has no nukes. It just pays for privilege of carting US nukes around. They believe they are able to launch them without confirmation from US, but it is not like they can fully test it.

  10. Unless you happen to belong to a protected group. Then any attempt to deny you a service might be grounds for a discrimination lawsuit.

  11. Re:And what if I need to change my number abroad? on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're blatantly spreading FUD, but I guess I'll bite. Your unlocked phone is linked to whichever service it's initially activated with. Even an unlocked phone, you can't take out an AT&T card and swap in a Sprint card and just turn it back on and have it work. The activation profile is still AT&T until you do either a phone erase from the settings menu or through iTunes. There are some very specific exceptions, like if you're using an AT&T phone and put in a SIM card that is an MVNO that uses AT&Ts network.

    That sounds pretty weird . Is this Apple problem or American problem?
    Because I definitely can throw a random SIM into my sony handset and it just works - Orange, Virgin, anything else, does not matter. That's the whole point of having SIM as a separate, removable component.

  12. I had the same problem - much slower speed over wifi. It got solved by one call to technical support - they started with a standard line 'we do not guarantee speeds over wifi' but immediately followed it with 'but we will replace your router with dual-band model, it should help'. And it helped a lot - on 5GHz I always have full speed.

  13. Re:What a disappointment on Sony's Mobile Business Is Shrinking Out of Existence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was replacing Z3 Compact about 3 months ago and decided to get XZ1 Compact instead of newest version. For the exact reasons you are listing (except for headphone jack that I don't use anyway)

  14. Here goes the last source of compact, but full-spec phones. I guess I will hold to my XZ1 Compact for a long time.

  15. Employees of a scummy company are also scum. News at 11.

  16. Re:I'm confused on Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Police officer to be exact. Which makes is pretty much a model case for advocating gun control.

  17. Re:And the related question on Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    They can just grab your finger and forcibly push it to the phone. Less mess and paperwork to clean up. And what are you going to do when cops testify that the phone was already unlocked when they took it?

  18. Re:I'm confused on Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are very confused. His 'mowing down group of people' and 'stabbing spree' caused only injuries. The only person to die was Artan who got shot. Now compare the body count with typical shooting spree.

  19. Re:Worming a pitch in on Researchers Create Simulation Of a Simple Worm's Neural Network (tuwien.ac.at) · · Score: 1

    Zero ads is cool, nearly zero users is not.

  20. Solved problem on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "After years of pressure, wireless carriers and Silicon Valley companies are finally starting to work together to solve the problem. " - woohoo, multimillion grants all around. Or they could just use AML which is already implemented in every android phone and supported in several EU countries (with others in process of implementing it).

  21. Re:Are microkernels vulnerable to Meltdown ? on Google Says Almost All CPUs Since 1995 Vulnerable To 'Meltdown' And 'Spectre' Flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the whole point of meltdown is bypassing the isolation.

  22. Re:The Space Aliens Are Not Coming on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    In order for aliens to reach earth, they will have to, at a minimum, perfect faster-than-light travel or perfect a way to travel for thousands of years at sub-light speed, conquer the long term biological effects of space radiation and weightlessness, and master extreme long distance space navigation. All of this just so they can come to earth and . . . what? Say hello? Steal our water? That just doesn't make sense. So why *WOULD* aliens come to earth?

    ... said native Americans right before conquistadors came and f*** them up.

  23. Re: Firmware updates on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it is a random guy who happens to fart a lot.

  24. Re:Newspeak on Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Using that logic, shouldn't almost every American get his sorry ass out of the country? We are all illegal. We stole this country from the people that lived here.

    You logic is faulty. Yes, we stole this country and put its previous owners into reservations to waste away. It is ours now until somebody else manage to steal it from us again. Why in the bloody hell would you want to help them?

    When it comes to Trump and a great many of his voters, well, they are just happy they finally found who to blame, since it could never in any small part be themselves. I grow to hate every one of them and their weaselly excuses on why Trump was a good idea. I just talked with one yesterday. He was an intelligent guy, and he told me, as if it was obvious, that all politicians lie, as if the way Trump acts is in no way exceptionally bad and far above all others in the scope of lying, as if the fact that many politicians told some lies justifies Trump telling exponentially more. It doesn't.

    In the end it is all the same. Obama made it. Trump broke it. Trump blamed it someone else, then told people to fix it. Even now they are about to give the really rich a massive boost in income, the rest of us a tiny bit, and toss us massively more into debt.

    Seriously, just months ago they were blaming Obama for inflating the deficit, when much of that was originated in the bush tax cuts that Obama didn't manage to get rid of, and now we are going to double down because why again?

    I just can't see why any rational person would believe in this bullshit, nor why we have to hate on kids.

    Trump, blah, Trump, blah blah, some more Trump.

  25. Newspeak on Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    âoeDreamersâ , what a stupid name. Deport their sorry asses and let them complain to their criminal parents for dragging them to US.