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  1. Re:Please use 'bokeh' in a more useful way on Apple Releases iOS 10.1 With New Portrait Mode For iPhone 7 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    'Bokeh' is used when referring to the quality of the out-of-focus background (or foreground) of the image, not the fact that it is out of focus.

    Eeeh?! The term comes from the Japanese word "boke" and is blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image .

  2. Re:News that matters. on Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Make your own distro with upstarts...

  3. Next? on Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Planets? Constellations? LOTR characters? Or more modern GoT characters?

  4. Re:Ghostery = 'souled-out' & inferior vs. host on Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (propublica.org) · · Score: 1
    On this very wiki page

    Ghostery blocks sites from gathering personal information.
    But it does have an opt-in feature GhostRank that can be checked to "support" them

    so, don't check it ! (or uncheck it)

  5. Re:Thank but no thank you on Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Ghostery might be a good option if you disable the 2 Sharing options.

  6. Re:Alternative? on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I'm still looking for a good reason they jammed the regular GPS in the 1st pl.

  7. Alternative? on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that mean the Russians have an alternative working and secret GPS that only the top guns use (and military)?

  8. It's legal. Attaching a Samsung Note 7 to your bike to repel thieves is illegal, though.

  9. he's shown the door.

    People are waiting at the door.

  10. That happens.

  11. Re:there news, Apple's stock crashes on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw this Sci-Fi movie too. Fortunately iPhone owners just want an iPhone. Whatever the outcome of it.

  12. Re:"8 times slower"? on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    t = timeToMakeAStorageOperationOn32GB()
    t' = timeToMakeTheSameStorageOperationOn128GB()
    ASSERT(t / t' >= 8);
    Just look at the iOS code.

  13. People don't buy iPhones based on performance on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as the phone is not remarkably slow, does it matter if the storage is slower than the upper model? People buy the iPhone for iOS and its ergonomics.

  14. Don't shoot the ambulance!

  15. Re:Including a Mac Pro tower, right? on Report: Apple To Unveil New Macs At An October 27th Event In Cupertino (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why people continue to buy their stuff.

    The only reason some people buy a Mac (and not a Windows to be converted to Linux) is because iOS dev is only possible on a Mac.

  16. Re:Intransigent on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to look it up. :D

    because you're a grasshoppa :-)

  17. Re:https://google on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    www.google ...

  18. Re:https://google on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    DNS is fine. Some applications, however, require an public domain on the Internet to have '.' inside... A regex that requires a '.'!

  19. $30,000 for a TLD on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Provided that you can "rent" subdomains the same way we do now for ".com" and the like, $30,000 is not that much (just need 3,000 subdomains applicants)

  20. Re:https://google on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What i'm trying to say is that would be classy to have a page on a TLD (but that may not work)

  21. https://google on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What a luxury! Having a domain being only a TLD. But will that work, using the TLD without any subdomain, i.e. no '.' dot? That's likely to break a lot of applications.

  22. When the phishing mail is that elaborated, and you don't fall into the trap, maybe that would be wise to warn others around...

  23. The emails were sent to 108 members of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign and 20 people clicked on them

    and why the 88 non-clickers didn't warn the 20 clickers is beyond me.

  24. Re:Quantity vs Quality... on China Has Now Eclipsed The US in AI Research (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    TFS

    The quality of China's research is also striking. The chart narrows the research to include only those papers that were cited at least once by other researchers, an indication that the papers were influential in the field.

    So quantity _and_ quality. With a population 4 times as the US population combined with an important growth, demographics show that China is on the verge of being number one, everywhere.

  25. Wait for December on NASA's Plan To Put Juno Closer To Jupiter Delayed (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Better wait for December, weather will be less warm in winter.