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  1. Re:Chromebook build that had Windows on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Cheap Linux-Friendly Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Is $27 really such an awful amount of money for a laptop where you live?

  2. Agreed. What phone doesn't already have wireless charging in 2016?

  3. Re:Am I missing something? on Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    So, like WhatsApp, except it doesn't work with Android mobiles or anything with a web browser, and you need some obscure third party login ID for your contact, instead of just their phone number.

  4. Re:Of course there is. on Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart people usually spend slack-ish time examining things they *might* want to do. It doesn't mean they *do* want to do those things

    No, actually, it does mean they want to do those things, otherwise they would not spend their slack time doing it. What it doesn't mean though is that their marketing dept is going to let them release it into the wild.

  5. Blows my mind on Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    One of the biggest features on iOS that isn't available on Android is iMessage, an instant messaging service that allows users to send information over Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, and other forms of internet access to other iOS or OS X users.

    How is such a thing possible? As an Android user, that just blows my mind.

  6. Re:Resonating with Americans on AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want change, vote for Trump.

    Even if you think America isn't exactly doing great at the moment, you have to ask yourself whether the path that Trump wants to take the country down actually leads to greatness. I don't think anyone actually wants change for the sake of change. They want change that leads to positive outcomes.

  7. Re:The three debates on AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To me it wasn't so much what he said, but the timing of it - right after she'd said she was going to raise the taxes of billionaires like him.

  8. Re:Is our society ever going to stop being so prud on Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What is even more absurd is that circles used for educational purposes could be considered sexual.

  9. Re:Lighten up .... the people reviewing the photos on Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure most nations find breast cancer and chemical warfare offensive. The problem is the policy, not the definition of the word. What Facebook wants to block is titillating images, not offensive ones. But then they really do come across as prudes if they call it what it is.

  10. Re:Account Recovery on 'Adding a Phone Number To Your Google Account Can Make it Less Secure' (vijayp.ca) · · Score: 1

    The answers are almost always easy for an attacker with a little bit of information about you to find,

    Which is why I always give false info to answer the questions. The problem is you don't need to answer security questions very often, so when recently, for certain types of transaction my bank suddenly started requiring an answer to a randomly picked security question from the 5 I had to give them 8 years ago when I set up internet banking on that account, I had to start visiting a physical branch to do my regular banking again.

  11. Re:And yet on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean a middle finger to Sweden and the UK, right? While I wouldn't set foot in the US in his shoes, he has never been charged with anything there, and despite his paranoid rantings on the subject it is unlikely that he would be extradited there from Sweden (staying in UK on the other hand is a risky decision for someone who thinks they are out to get him, especially if they start withdrawing from EU human rights agreements and form a stronger bond with US)

  12. Re:Your data is out of date... on Plaintiffs From Seven States Sue Comcast For Misleading, Hidden Fees (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    I so want to do this with the extra hotel taxes that are added.

    This worked for me (kind of) in India recently. I made an internet booking, which included taxes, but on checking in, they upgraded my room "at no charge". On checking out, they tried to charge me more because the tax was higher on that room. They tried to claim it wasn't them, it was the government and there was nothing they could do, so I claimed it wasn't me, it was the beancounters at my company who had preapproved the advertised rate and wouldn't pay a cent more. Eventually they backed down and Hilton ate the extra tax.

  13. Re:Gil Scott Heron Was Sooooo Wrong! on Tomorrow's Wars Will Be Livestreamed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The revolution Gil Scott Heron was talking about was more like the revolution in Ethiopia, or in North Dakota right now, where the people revolting are not the ones with the power to feed you a one-sided propaganda view of what is going on, or at least block your view of the other side's one-sided propaganda.

  14. Re:Does it really matter? on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    There is still a difference between the address bar and "going to google" these days? Is this in IE, because in all the browsers I use, the address bar is the search bar for at least 5 years now.

  15. Can you believe the mythology that built up around the story of the sole survivor, her pet snake and the refugee from Mars they met here though? Incredible that people would come up with such a ridiculous story to hide the obvious truth that humans are from Venus and Mars.

  16. Trust in the Samsung ecosystem on 1 In 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Switch To iPhone 7, Says Analyst (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that I ever used it, but my TV annoyed me with a notification this evening about the Samsung Link service ending on November 1. The timing isn't exactly great for a company that needs to instill confidence in its ecosystem in the wake of its flagship smartphone becoming a complete disaster.

  17. Life without Jobs isn't so bad. At least we got our disabled parking spaces back.

  18. Unless... on Tomorrow's Wars Will Be Livestreamed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Future wars will be livestreamed...unless the war is in Ethiopia, in which case see the next post.

  19. Re:Building wealth on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To take a clear example, Clinton wants a 65% estate tax.

    You do realise that the proposal to raise the estate tax does not come with any proposal to lower the exemption limit, which currently stands at $5.45M. This tax is simply not affecting ordinary citizens, you are being misled by the very people who are taking your wealth and lining their pockets with it.

  20. Re:Maybe on Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Talking about things flipping around:

    "This tension, this stress, of trying to balance newly emerging technologies with the established patterns and rituals of our lives is extremely common

    I think for a lot of the young people starting to have families now, the smartphone is the established patterns and rituals, and the baby is the newly emerging technology in this story.

  21. Re:OK but misses a larger problem on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh, so because his Republican opponents preferred to keep his closet door closed for fear of their own skeletons being exposed in retaliation, it is wrong for Hillary to go digging in there now?

  22. Facebook is about providing a personal echo chamber experience to each user. If a Washington Post journalist gets a lot of fake news stories in their personalized feed, what does that say about the Washington Post?

  23. Re:hah! "may" ... yea right. on Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They were aware of many other back doors, just not this specific one.

  24. Re:Mail-only voting on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to learn something about how mail-in ballots work. It's not "voting with your name on it".

    So how do you know that all the ballots have been filled by registered votors?

  25. Re:Ok, we've added. Now let's subtract. on Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's say a poke go user spends an average of 1 hour/day for 3 years playing the game.

    To say that, you'd first have to eliminate the 90% of players who get bored with it after the first two weeks.