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  1. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, probably because GM didn't decide to limit your Corvette to 50mph to ensure you don't notice the missing ponies.

  2. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And I could not refill it to the original amount of fuel? That's outrageous! I would definitely expect a recall if the tank gets smaller and smaller with every time I fill it up!

  3. Well, if you don't run any antivirus at all, who is there to set the registry key in the first place?

  4. Re:Possible research on Ibuprofen Linked To Male Infertility, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    If so, rest assured the religious nutjobs will try what they can to keep it from becoming widespread. You can't just screw around without fearing at least consequences if you can't be swayed to fear their imaginary buddy.

  5. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's for a moment imagine that tech reviewers find nothing worth mentioning with the new phones and know that if they don't find anything to praise, they will not be among the select few next time that get a preview model to review...

  6. 1. Find a country where such a license limitation is not legal.
    2. Move your datacenter there.
    3. Profit.

  7. Re:Nice. When can I do this from Android tablet? on Nvidia's GeForce Now Windows App Transforms Your Cheap Laptop Into a Gaming PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When the input devices for tablets improve past the ability to play tap-like-crazy-to-win games.

  8. Re:What Apple was doing was opposite, going longer on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And there is no reason to at least TELL the people? Instead just degrade their phone's performance, but of course not to convince them they have to buy a new one.

    C'mon. If you believe that, I have a nice bridge for sale with a clear view of the San Francisco skyline.

  9. Re:What Apple was doing was opposite, going longer on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. About 4 years ago. Funny enough the battery is replaceable and still in good shape.

    Ok, it's neither a Samsung nor an Apple product, it's some cheap model I never heard about before, but when cheap crap offers better service than brand names, it's time to reconsider.

  10. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yay for car analogies. Especially if they fall flat on the face because any car that can for some odd reason due to its manufacturer's decision no longer reach the top speed would be subject to recalls...

  11. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    By dropping it.

  12. Re:$$S on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Market delivers what customers are asking for.

    Could you please point to the market that thinks that thinner and thinner phones are more important than stability and battery life?

  13. Give it time, the EU is working on it.

    Quotas mean by definition that at some point you will be forced to hire a person based on something other than their qualification. Do you have any idea how insanely difficult it is to get a woman in the IT security field? They are really few and far between. I'd guess we're talking 1:10 and when you get out of the academic field and research it gets even worse.

    Imagine a quota in this area. This would essentially mean that I'd be forced to hire unqualified people just so I can hire more qualified people.

  14. So are they paying women less or are they not hiring enough women? Which is it?

    Both makes NO sense at all from a capitalist point of view.

  15. It's another climate change story on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Popcorn time!

    And before anyone gets their moral outrage panties in a knot, let's be honest here: The amount of hot air in this thread alone is good for another degree or two warming. From both sides. I don't even want to know how many global warming proponents here get irate over the ignorance of the deniers while at the same time burning kilowatts mining bitcoins.

    Talking here won't change jack shit. Mostly because there are exactly three groups in here: Those that are convinced that global change is a fact and there is nothing to convince them otherwise, those that are convinced global change is a myth, out to get their SUVs, and nothing would convince them otherwise and the increasing number of people, like me, who just don't give a fuck because it's not going to happen during their lifetime that this planet will become uninhabitable, who don't have kids and who simply can't be assed to care about yours anymore.

    If you don't want this planet to be hospitable to human life when it's your kids' time to clean up the shit you leave them, why the hell should I care?

  16. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, "stay" isn't quite the word I had in mind. It's more like "the lord giveth and the lord sweepeth away"...

  17. Re:The I'm-feeling-lucky department? on Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If I was your mom I'd be wanting your life back.

  18. We were considering paying people by their productivity. Until we noticed that if we did it, CEOs would qualify for food stamps.

  19. Equal? No. Having to hire women instead of men if qualifications are equal? Yes.

  20. Talk for your own office.

  21. And the job worked. I kinda have a hunch that high voltage electrician is better paid due to not really needing a pension plan if you ain't one of the more careful people on the planet is better paid than, say, hairdresser.

  22. Re:Waiting for suppository version on Alexa is Coming To Windows 10 PCs From HP, ASUS and Others (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried that, but the sound was kinda muffled.

  23. Re:The article didn't state on Alexa is Coming To Windows 10 PCs From HP, ASUS and Others (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it's time to cancel my Prime...

  24. Re: The article didn't state on Alexa is Coming To Windows 10 PCs From HP, ASUS and Others (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Erh... the problem is, I WOULD look like a little ignorant bitch in front of my friends if I DID buy it...

  25. Re:Good idea -- decentralize on Can Mesh Networks Save a Dying Web? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we first do world hunger? It's logistically easier.