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  1. Good (or bad) for Geocaching! on Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming To Smartphones In 2018 (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hidden "caches" are harder to find thanks to current GPS inaccuracy. Next year, new caches will be so easy to find the game will lost interest ...

  2. > Find My iPhone on iCloud.com can be used to "lock" a Mac with a passcode even with two-factor authentication turned on

    iCloud is nice and all but suffers from security concerns. Such a powerful tool needs a stronger security implementation, and has to offer users the way to see when and where connections do come from. Gmail has been doing that for a long time, and Apple is still lagging behind.

  3. Apple can lock your mac anytime they want.

    Apple doesn't do that and the feature can be useful (especially for an iPhone that you forgot somewhere)

  4. How does it perform in older iPhones? on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it perform in older iPhones, like the 6 for instance? It seems Apple devs focus on newer devices, so I'd wait a bit before installing 11 on my 6.

  5. Re:And The Arms Race Continues..... on Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, since it's an embedded feature and not an extension, sites will not be able to determine if the browser is actually muting the video.

  6. Re:1.2 Million Euros? on Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a lot for Spain!

  7. Re:Is this humane? on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the PETA people are all vegetarian, they don't kill animals, ants or mosquitoes. Whenever they walk somewhere they always ensure no insect, spider or other small creatures would be harmed in the process. Their house is opened in winter to give shelter to all those poor creatures who would freeze to death otherwise. Obviously they don't use antibiotics to prevent the killing of innocent bacteria.

  8. Re:Only in soviet Russia on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    .bat make Windows crash.

    They should definitely open Windows.

  9. Re:Is this humane? on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    PETA will sue, for sure.

  10. Re:Birds also crash into large glass walls on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    yes but the matter here is that bats use a sonar, you don't.

  11. Not surprising on Huawei Surpasses Apple As the World's Second Largest Smartphone Brand (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > Huawei, surpassed Apple's global smartphone sales for the first time in June and July

    Why would most people and Apple fans purchase an iPhone in June or July, provided that the new iPhone is to be announced a few weeks later?

  12. Large size? on Solve a 'Simple' Chess Puzzle, Win $1 Million (st-andrews.ac.uk) · · Score: 2

    "once the chess board increases to a large size no computer program can solve it"

    How large is that? Many algorithms for simpler problems would fail if the size is multiplied by a big number.

  13. Airbnb also on Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Airbnb asks for a few things to verify your identity, including login to Google or Facebook... However, Google warns you that "Airbnb wants access to your address book" ...

  14. They could let you reply to their emails on Modest Proposal To Companies: Let Your Customers Respond To Your Emails - Kill no-reply@ (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    but nobody would read them.

  15. For once I do believe the 2 ACs are different persons!

  16. Because that's not (only) Facebook on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, whatever page you load that has, for instance, a small embedded iframe that connects you to Facebook... So maybe they won't tell you how, because you don't have the necessary technical skills to get it?

  17. 2 M GB to transfer, even at a continuous flawless idealistic 100Mbps, about 10 MBps, would take more than 6 years ...

  18. Does the World Need Polymaths? on Does the World Need Polymaths? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on where.

  19. Re:Most likely they'll encounter interstellar debr on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Space is very, very, very empty.

    It's actually filled with a lot of energy.

  20. That's good news. Usually, the malware is inside Windows ; now it's outside.

  21. Why doesn't Apple create a challenge like the GCJ, Google Code Jam. To deal with that amount of data and infrastructure, elaborated algorithms are required ; this is the way (one way) Google finds talented devs.

  22. Glad I'm using only LTS releases, because the new coming 17.10 seems likely to get a messy GUI.

  23. Re:10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Nope, people knew how to program in assembly at the time.

  24. "four kilobytes of memory" ... and was running Windows 0.00000010

  25. Theresa May on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Or May Not