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  1. Re:500 charges is not enough on Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If you keep it hovering around the middle instead of charging to 100% there is a lot less degradation. Is why I pull mine off the charger at 80-90% and try not to let it run all the way down. All of this would be a non issue if they gave us back swappable batteries. We are all idiots for supporting these built in battery phones.

  2. Re:Long standing rules ? Courts making legislation on Tim Wu: Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    When regulatory bodies completely ignore the will of the public you have a much bigger problem. Courts seem like the perfect entity to deal with that, though it should be a treason case.

  3. Did you think this was a hardware thing? on Apple Could Have Brought a Big iPhone X Feature To Older iPhone But Didn't, Developer Says (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure we ALL knew that applying a little post processing to an image wasn't tied to hardware. Not unless it made use of some added instructions for better performance and even them the lock would only be on that implementation.

  4. In 10 years it will be just as worthless as the standard one. Even while its good no one will know or care that you have it. About the only place you'll get to show it off is in your signature on forums. Might as well just lie and say you have one rather than pay the $1200 to feel justified in your signature bragging.

  5. Re:Who buys TVs anymore? on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that its such a cheap feature to add. Its becoming the norm.

  6. Re: Metal and Plastic on 3D Printing Doubles the Strength of Stainless Steel (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patents killed is mostly. It cost to much to do anything with the stuff because the patent holders were harsh. Isnt that great? if you think of something first, you can hold the whole human race back if you're a jerk.

  7. Re:..and the deniers will keep on denying. on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a downside. Earth as we know it is doomed. Nothing we can do about it. That's just how the universe is. Our goal should be to make it to the stars before we die out. Stiffling our industry is not helpful to that cause.

  8. Logically speaking... on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not a judgement by the AI against the people, it's a judgement about how others react and behave towards those them. Stop apologizing for your AI being able to perceive human behavior. "I'm so sorry my AI figured out you have a flat tire".

  9. Re:Not a surprise Tesla is winding down SolarCity on Tesla's Mass Firings Spread To SolarCity as Employees Say They Were Blindsided (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not saying he didn't, but if you are trying to save a faltering company, culling the workforce of non vital positions and underperforming employees is a start.

  10. I stopped using them when their automatic inventory pricing algorithms made them too irritating to deal with. If they had the best price on an item, it would only be until a couple people noticed then the computer would jack the price up.

  11. Re:live together... on Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's been there for a few billion years despite the surface getting pounded, it's probably pretty stable.

  12. I think everyone is so used to manufacturers lying about specs that they probably expected exactly what they were getting and it was all business as usual.

  13. Re:Elon Musk is a hypocrite on Tesla Faces Lawsuit For Racial Harassment In Its Factories (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 0

    Cant do much of anything if the unions bankrupt him. Don't get me wrong, I like unions... But the UAW is a little notorious.

  14. Re:Builders vs Buyers on Traditional PC Sales Continue To Slide (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't put power supplies capable of running decent video cards in most mass market PCs. They also rarely use full width cases anymore.

  15. Re:longer lifetime on Traditional PC Sales Continue To Slide (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can blame that on Intel and their sandbagging. Why would I build a new PC when it would be less than 25% faster than my 5 year old one. Especially if you overclock. The new stuff is not going to blow away my 4.8ghz 3770k.

  16. Re:Builders vs Buyers on Traditional PC Sales Continue To Slide (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Buying is more cost effective if you want a workstations or web browsing PC. If you want something fast you have to build yourself or you get gouged. Especially if you want a decent video card. They won't just sell you fast guts in whatever you want. They try to make it like buying a car. You have to go on up to the expensive model before you can get a real V8, etc..

  17. Re: How many are pissed Hulu ex-subscribers? on Netflix Adds 5.3 Million Subs In Q3, Beating Forecasts (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Never met anyone either a Hulu sub. No one wants to pay for ads.

  18. Darn? on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Seems slightly non tech related.

  19. Re:Waterproof is great but ... on Amazon Finally Makes a Waterproof Kindle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Would be great for browsing the web too. Web doesn't need full color.

  20. Re:We suck for allowing this on FCC's Claim That One ISP Counts As 'Competition' Faces Scrutiny In Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly like that.

  21. Re:We suck for allowing this on FCC's Claim That One ISP Counts As 'Competition' Faces Scrutiny In Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Google auto corrected swaths of land to deaths lol. That works too though.

  22. We suck for allowing this on FCC's Claim That One ISP Counts As 'Competition' Faces Scrutiny In Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Super obvious this guy is basically a plant / spy. We know it. He knows we know it. No one is doing a thing about it other than going wahhh wahh wahh. Me included. Russia should take note. They could plant some politicians and probably give deaths of the US to Russia and propose we pay taxes to Russia. We would sit here and bellyache but do nothing.

  23. Re:I'm a bit of an AMD Fanboi, but... on Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but we are under no obligation to buy from a company that behaves in a manner we don't agree with. I'll always buy AMD when its a valid option because of all of intels past behavior. Sand bagging is just a drop in the bucket.

  24. I miss my audio port! on Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My car has aux in. They talk about how 3.5mm Jack's are crap and wear out. Well now I'm going to wear out my charging port and turn my phone into a paper weight. I think about it every time I plug my phone in to it.

  25. Regardless of how hard it is, having a readily available service to put it together extends their customer base. Could your grandmother put one together?