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  1. Or maybe America's idea of centre is fucked up.

  2. And this guy, for that matter...

  3. Re:Had this same issue with my 6s in the USA on Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's the phone telling you that the iPhone 7 is out, and it's time to upgrade already you cheapskate. As an Apple user, you owe the shareholders their profit, so pay up.

  4. Re:Here's how to beat this game... on Charter Customer Sues Over Hidden Fees, Claims 'Massive Billing Fraud' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "try not having cable when you have kids."

    Next time someone attempts that argument, you should thank them for their very sound advice.

  5. Re:no end to the cheating on VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It won't matter soon, because President Trump told us he will get rid of pesky regulatory bodies like the EPA.

  6. Re: That is not mocking on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That looks more like a cheque deposit machine to me. Where does the statement come out from?

  7. Re: Implementation not protocol on 1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is all over https so presumably mitm is already very unlikely.

    Unless apps are trusting self-signed certs or something along those lines.

  8. Re:It's the transition team, people. on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump chose his vice-president to lead his transition team.

    To be fair, it was only because his first choice for the position is in the process of being impeached.

  9. Re:time to invade england on UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    much of what is in them is not very useful to a terrorist because the books often assume that you have access to military supplies like blasting caps and C4.

    Because western arms dealers avoid dealing with corrupt and unstable governments, so such items could never fall into the hands of terrorists...

  10. 43 quintillion? on Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the math here that makes it 43 quintillion combinations? There are 8 corner pieces with 8 possible positions and 3 orientations, and 12 edge pieces with 12 possible positions and 2 orientations. Not all combinations are possible.

  11. Re:Not a puppet. on Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He is no longer a puppet. If he was, Russia would never have revealed this. He has served his purpose for the first stage of Russia's plan to screw up America, and now they are moving onto the next phase - discrediting the incoming president.

  12. Re:Wow the brainwashing!! Greenpeace activist? on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy is a geologist

    Really? Is that the capacity he was working in at Phillip Morris? Or was his BA in Geology? I know it wasn't his MSc, because that was in political theory.

  13. Re:Can't wait to see the H1B caps on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    She'll just come on a tourist visa and start working like his last one.

  14. Re:No, no, no. on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    because it limits the damage done by voter fraud.

    It either limits it or amplifies it, depending on where the fraud happens. But mostly it is going to happen in the swing states where it can actually make a difference, and the electoral college will amplify the effect.

  15. Otherwise, it'd be a line through some landmark in Paris.

    2.336934E to be exact.

  16. Last few years? on Scientists at De Beers Fight the Growing Threat of Man-Made Diamonds (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    In the past few years, lab-grown diamonds have become indistinguishable from natural diamonds to the naked eye...

    This looks suspiciously like a story I read in Wired magazine 13 years ago. Lab grown diamonds have been indistinguishable from natural diamonds for a long time now. The price of diamond should be a lot lower than it is, even without the competition from artificial diamonds, but De Beers has been allowed to abuse their monopoly position to stockpile the output of their mines and control the flow into the market to maintain artificial scarcity, and threaten not to supply jewellers who work with artificial diamonds.

  17. Re:Don't worry guys... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahhahha, stop with the jokes already, you're killing me.

    There was a reason I put the word train in bold. It was to highlight that the excuses of management are clearly a lie.

  18. Re:Don't worry guys... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sorry but your skills are just out of date. The H1Bs have up to date skills that we need to run modern systems to keep costs down. By the way, we need you to stay on for 6 months to train your replacement.

  19. The best feature to come out of the trend for ever bigger screens will be the death of the selfie. With nowhere left to put a front facing camera, people will have to start taking photos of things other than themselves again.

  20. Definitions differ on Facebook Deletes Music Piracy Groups Following Complaints (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the early days of the internet, users would post links to pirated content on dedicated file-sharing sites.

    I'm not sure what the disconnect is, but the submitter seems to be using different definitions of some words than I am used to.

    Is alt.binaries.warez a dedicated file-sharing site? Or is 2000 (when the first filelocker sites started appearing) considered the early days of the internet?

  21. Re:And I keep coming back to my same question on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    Pro tip: It is not the scientists or the politicians who listen to them over their donors who are ideologically wrecking the lives of millions of people.

  22. Better Explanation on People Who Use Facebook Live Longer, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only old people use Facebook.

    This study is biased in that people who die young are unlikely to reach the age where thefacebook.com is the place to move your myspace activities to.

  23. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, the parent got modded to +5 during Asian and European daytime, but now that US has woken up, the Troll mods have begun to roll in.

  24. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Abstinence has a much higher failure rate than any other form of birth control.

  25. Forget about the analog audio path. Ultrasonic will get through that, albeit at attenuated levels, as analog audio reproduction equipment doesn't have sharp cutoffs at the edge of the limits of human hearing, it just doesn't have any guaranteed performance outside that range, and most likely falls off gradually. More convincing would be an analysis of how the perceptual coding of AC-3 treats audio between 16kHz and 24kHz when the maximum sample rate of 48kHz is in use, since that is the lossy codec used for broadcast TV in the US. And do the broadcasters actually use 48kHz sample rates, or do they squeeze more out of their bandwidth allocations by using 32kHz, since hardly anyone can hear the frequencies above 16kHz anyway?