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  1. Except when the prices of already too expensive phones rise because there's no competition in the design/fab space.

  2. A welcome change.... on iOS 13 To Feature Dark Mode and Interface Updates, Report Says (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    "Undo gesture: With iOS 13, Apple is introducing a new standard undo gesture for text input on the iPad. The gesture starts as a three-finger tap on the keyboard area, sliding left and right allows the user to undo and redo actions interactively."

    Whoever came up with "shake to undo" should be condemned to use Android for the rest of their life as it's one of the two most un-Apple-like GUI misdesigns in recent history (the other being MacOS Safari in full-screen mode and the jumping clo

  3. question on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Does "confusing the hell out of" really mean "playing with like a cat plays with something it's gonna kill?"

  4. ...how do the taxpayers feel about it?

  5. I just bought a Vizio 40" smart tv...and don't have it plugged into my ethernet, and the ad-free AppleTV is.

  6. Where's PJ to explain this to us when we need her?

  7. I repeat, HELL no.

  8. Re:Cop can stand by the side of the road. Every 5m on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "If this was about busting people for texting and driving, a cop could stand by the side of the road while his partner is two blocks up in the cruiser and they'd probably get somebody every five minutes. You and I see it constantly while we're driving around. Just watch people start at their phone, doing the thumb dance as they drive by. For bonus points, have a camera that shows what the cop saw."

    I got pulled over once because I still had the phone in my hand after looking at it at a stoplight.

  9. On simple question... on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Law enforcement officials argue that distracted driving is underreported and that weak punishments do little to stop drivers from texting, scrolling or otherwise using their phones. Adding to the problem, they say there is no consistent police practice that holds those drivers accountable for traffic crashes, unlike drunken driving.

    What would this tech do to change the above?

  10. Inspires joy? on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It inspires me to want to poke my eardrums out with a pencil.

  11. Re:This is why.... on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I hope they change what I consider a design flaw.

  12. ""None of the people I photographed had any idea their images were being used in this way," said Greg Peverill-Conti, a Boston-based public relations executive who has more than 700 photos in IBM's collection, known as a "training dataset." "

    Why are you whining? YOU explicitly made that possible. YOU had to elect for each image to be licensed under CC. If the people you photographed are upset by this, they should sue YOU.

  13. This is why.... on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...my Vizio tv isn't connected to the internet, nor will it ever be, except for firmware upgrades.
    My AppleTV isn't trying to monetize me.

  14. In this era of very low unemployment, doubtless there are other non-Whole Food options for workers (even unskilled) to move to that aren't quite so shark-like.

  15. "At least some of the workers who were alerted about layoffs will continue to work at PepsiCo until late April as they train their replacements in the coming weeks, the two workers told Business Insider. "

    then

    "At least some of the workers who were alerted about layoffs will continue to work at PepsiCo until late April as they train their replacements in the coming weeks, the two workers told Business Insider. "

    They're training the robots or the other automation? Uhhh....

  16. Almost like the movie on Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    "Huawei, phone home."

  17. Her voice gives me the creeps on Inside Elizabeth Holmes's Chilling Final Months at Theranos (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Every time I saw her speak I'd look to see if she had a visible adam's apple. /me shivers

  18. Something tells me that using Google Home inside of a Nest device would allow Google's "Anything Goes" (lack of) privacy policy to supersede Nest's much more restrictive one.
    I won't be enabling this Trojan Horse, thank you. I'll do things the old-fashioned way and push the damn button myself.

  19. The answer to that scenario:

    "If I can screw them (current/former company) like that, what's to stop me from screwing you like that?"

  20. ...the Kansas House is redefining pi as 3.0, and wants warning signs at the edge of the earth lest anyone falls off.

  21. I'd have more sympathy for Amazon if they were paying taxes instead of sucking on the public tits everywhere they want a physical presence.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  22. This doesn't make sense on Apple Removes Siri Team Lead As Part of AI Strategy Shift (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    in an attempt to shift the Siri program toward research rather than incremental updates.

    You need to have both.

  23. Only one China? Wonder what the Dalai Lama or the Taiwanese think about that.

  24. ...word on the street is China already stole the plans so there will be some heavy-duty plagiarizing going on.

  25. This isn't a bridge collapsing; this isn't even a crack in the sidewalk.