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  1. Re:This will not last forever on Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller (broadcastingcable.com) · · Score: 2

    And yet I'm not sure I disagree with this. I'm inclined to believe an non-neutral net is preferable to no net at all. However non-neutral has no place in a well connected world.

  2. Re:What does Barry Diller know? on Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller (broadcastingcable.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly nothing. He doesn't think it can be violated while actively ignoring all the examples where it has been violated already. E.g throttling and data caps on video services not owned by the ISP.

  3. Re:Firefox Quantum much slower on Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The performance sucks

    You fundamentally broke something. User error. There's just no way around it. In every metric in every way across a massive install based by every tester the new Firefox is faster than the old.

    You can start by Refreshing your profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en...
    If that doesn't work export your bookmarks and password file and nuke your entire profile.
    If that doesn't work then maybe set your computer on fire, pour salt on it and chant in some long lost language until the spirits of slowness vanish.

  4. Re:Don't care on Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Both are equally fast at not loading something so who cares about your little metric.

  5. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, no true Scotsman would ever run this kind of reactor.

    That's not a no true Scotsman fallacy. You just wouldn't build a reactor like this anymore period. It wouldn't pass any government regulators, IAEA regulations, or any hazard analysis. The only reason these shitty old things are still running at all is because the entire industry was hamstrung into being unable to modernise by greeny psychopaths.

  6. Re:try eating less salt on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there isn't. But there are also no foods that contain "reasonable" amount of salt.

  7. Re: Chang your diet, change your life on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What the fuck are you talking about. It's exactly perfectly in the middle of the healthy BMI range. The fact that you think otherwise it's quite telling.

  8. Re:Well... on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    To be clear no one has ever questioned the American healthcare's efficacy at keeping people physically healthy.

    The only black mark against it is it not only fails to keep them financially healthy but it is outright financially crippling.

    Like everything in America, fantastic if you have the privilege. Now give me another prescription, I have insurance baby!

  9. Err, start with not on a tablet, or then go with what I originally said: Buy the one with the killer feature advertised, like most tablets premium which don't run Oreo, or Nougat.

    You're complaining about a very very specific problem experienced by a very small subset of power users and even smaller subset of which may have been silly enough to buy the wrong device or unlucky enough to be gifted one.

    If someone gives me a Ford Mustang, my first reaction is not that I can't take it to the beach. Manufacturers are not out to solve every problem for every person which kind of points to why this feature took 14 versions of Android to appear in the core OS in the first place. It is not a "killer feature"

  10. Heck, make it 1000. So, 12,000 devices with faulty speakers in a batch of 10,000,000 first-run models? Somewhat lower than average for any device actually.

    And you dismiss 12000 customers as not a systematic problem? If you were running companies they'd never get that low to begin with. 12000 of the same issue is enough to bridge a variety of user related issues and points towards quality or design, and hence a problem that needs to be investigated.

    Mind you 12000 in the worlds most expensive and highest margin cell phone is ludicrous regardless of how many units are shipped.

  11. Re:Why Hate Tesla on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they're subsidized out of our wallet. Tax breaks for rich people sit poorly with the working class.

    You're complaining about government implementing policy and that policy working (subsidies creating new companies and bringing new products to the market)?

    Well fuck me sideways. Do you not know how the world works? Like what the purpose of government is, or the fact that there's not a single thing you do or touch that hasn't some how been influenced by the very thing you are complaining about?

  12. Re:Who cares if it's faster? on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The people who whine about slowness and memory leaks are the same ones who would leave their car running day in and day out then complain it's using too much fuel.

    Err no. Like do you even analogy man? Fuel is an expendable resource. Your comparison would be more like a car that you start driving on a road trip, but about half way through it refuses to go more than 50km/h on the freeway, and you too would bitch about that.

    Do I care which is faster Chrome or FF57? No. I'm just glad we finally got to a stage where we can genuinely ask that question without it being a foregone conclusion.

  13. Re:Usability down the drain on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    So someone moved your cheese?

  14. Re:Firefox Won Me Back on Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they can port over these improvements to FF on Android

    Firefox on Android can be blazing fast and come with free blowjobs, but I still won't use it. It's ability to determine content of interest and zoom the screen to it with a readable text size in desktop mode is non-existent.

    This is really saying something, but Chrome browser on Android doesn't have an adblocker, and I prefer it to Firefox.

  15. On that forum, among the subset of users who a) scrutinize their device and b) care enough to post about it.

    Shit the number of times I've had a problem with a device and decided to post on some forum about it stands at zero, despite a very long list of devices I've RMA'd for various faults over the years.

    This is especially important for a company which offers a bar full of "geniuses" to solve your problem. Why the hell would you sit and post on a forum?

  16. Re:Over two dozen users affected! on iPhone X Owners Experience 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Reported, not affected. Knowing the difference can elevate you out of the status of ignorant fool.

  17. Because tablets are still being sold with Marshmallow or earlier. Someone who receives one as a birthday or Christmas gift has no opportunity to specify a particular model.

    So someone missing a feature that wasn't advertised would bitch about it when getting it as a present? Again, my Galaxy S Tab had split screen back in the Kit Kat days. If it were a killer feature to you, then buy accordingly, or be one of those people who complain about a present, at least you won't get another one that way. In general it just isn't a requirement, especially with fast application switching having been a thing since the early days of tablets.

  18. Major mobile operating systems only recently got the ability to show multiple applications side-by-side on one tablet screen.

    Not quite. Firstly multitasking on a small phone is a pointless, and tablet devices have had this functionality for a long time. It just wasn't part of default Android.

    Anyway that feature was introduced in Nougat, so why would you worry about not having Oreo again?

  19. Re:I call bullshit on FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to transmit anything back. The tracking is done entirely by the directionality and selectivity providing different content to different people and monitoring the results.

  20. Re:X.0 was buggy, the rest not on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People griped the same about 9.0 and 10.0. This isnâ(TM)t much different

    People griped far less.

  21. Re:CEO Responses on iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    So iOS is now another thing I can blame on David Wolfe.

  22. Re:Cars of the future on Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine NYC if the sound of engines were taken away.

    Horns and angry shouting over the sound of a background drone will just be replaced with horns and angry shouting?

  23. Re:Summary fail on Windows 8 and Later Fail To Properly Apply ASLR (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You are assuming we are all Microsoft/Windows nerds

    ASLR has nothing to do with Windows. It was introduced 16 years ago in a hardended version of Linux and has been discussed multiple times on Slashdot including the time when it was introduced in Windows, in Linux, in Android, and in iOS.

    There's been multiple stories in the past 2 years with ASLR in the title, not to mention a shitload more with it in the summary.

  24. Re:Does it matter on Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Consumers seem to be perfectly fine with an older version of the OS or they don't actually care at all.

    Mobile phone OSes are approaching computer OS levels of interest. They are mature, feature rich, and quite frankly upgrades lack killer features which make them enticing. In the early days of mobile OSes we used to get excited for these due to lacking features and functionality in the existing OS. But really I have yet to see a feature that makes me want Oreo enough to care about not having it. Same goes for Nougat, I'm actually a few versions behind and just don't give a shit.

    The important part is security, and security has been decoupled from OS versions since Android 4.4 meaning you can still be running a Kitkat system and be fully up to date with all security patches.

  25. Re:Cue the Musk haters in ... on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I did the fucktonne once myself, she was called your mother.

    Oooh a your mum is fat joke (she is), and I had sex with her (you have horrible taste) joke. Witty. Did you find that in a Google search?