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  1. You download it to ensure that you have the latest version when it is reenabled. Because any updates were deleted, and the app was not tracked for updates while you had it disabled.

  2. That "only 160MB" is 1% of the total space on their low end devices, and means an extra 30-40 photos or MP3 files that would fit on the device, for those who mostly use it as a camera or MP3 player.

  3. Re:Obama's officials covering up their failures on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you keep reading, you'll see that it isn't just gays that God disapproves of, he also doesn't want the blind, the lame, the disfigured defiling his alter by approaching it. It later goes on to describe the formation of a caste based society under God's orders.

  4. Re:Car analogy please on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's like when your mechanic hears your car drive up and says "ohh, it's going to cost you" before he's even seen your car.

  5. Re:Play music at the same time on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Forgive my ignotance, but is this encryption running on a separate CPU with separate power supply coils etc from the mp3 decode?

  6. Re:I think I am in trouble on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, I was lost at "As startup culture has gone global and transcended stereotypes"

  7. Maybe - except that Microsoft already take it as "OK" if you close the window.

    That must be a side-effect of the "we see you pressed the roman numeral X, indicating that you want to upgrade to Windows 10" that never made it out past QA..

  8. Re:Backwards nation that is dying on Uber Raises $3.5 Billion From Saudi Arabia (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    They're trying to squeeze small US and Canadian producers out of business as well as hit Russia.

    If that was their intention, they would have done this long ago. They are actually trying to squeeze Daesh, who get a large portion of their funding from the oil fields in Iraq and Libya which they've taken over, and are a much bigger threat to the Saudi regime if they are allowed to expand further.

  9. Re:Hey guys! on Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Applespaces... spaces where the sheeple will come and stare at awe at our high-resolution advertisements playing 24/7 in our stores. And a space where they can sit down and recover from all the shocks their wristband will be giving them as they overspend to further increase the size of our vast offshore cash reserves.

  10. Mediatek does seem to have donated an FMRadio app to the Android Open Source Project, and since Android 5.1 it has been moved out of the platform specific source, presumably to encourage other chipset manufacturers to commonize their APIs to work with it. A lot of cheap Android phones use Mediatek chipsets, so quite likely they are taking advantage of this. It still doesn't help the phones using Broadcom chipsets, which also feature an FM receiver and transmitter but only very basic open source drivers are available for one older IC. And with Broadcom rumoured to be getting out of the WiFi business, manufacturers are moving en-mass to Qualcomm/Atheros who do not put FM in their WiFi/Bluetooth combo ICs.

  11. Re:Nelson "Ha Ha" pointed at me on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Is Microsoft still using that ActiveX control to detect if your Windows license key is blacklisted before letting you download updates?

  12. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    I actually require the tests for people that work with me. Drugs that effect mental processes... Effect mental processes.

    It starts with the spelling. That's what gives it away for me, no chemical test required, just give them a spelling test to see if their mental processes are affected.

  13. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    As long as there is nothing wrong with your job performance, don't expect to hear anything. They don't actually need you to be drug-free, it's just an insurance policy for the company.

    "Your honor, the plaintiff has a documented history of drug abuse which was detected in a drug test back in 2016. We request that his claims against us be summarily dismissed."

  14. Re:Religion is what's 'immoral' on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It would have been a legitimate criticism to accuse Israel of operating an apartheid regime, had that accusation not been based on completely and utterly incorrect facts, and the people making that accusation usually being unwilling to discuss those base assumptions, often redefining what "racism" and "apartheid" mean.

    OK, I'm willing to discuss. Israel exercises control over the land and maritime borders of Gaza and West Bank, severely restricting the movement of goods and people. They continue to build and extend settlements in the West Bank, and build separate roads linking them to Israel which Palestinians are not allowed to use. They also strongly oppose any attempt to recognize a Palestinian state at any international level. But on the other hand, they do not give residents of Gaza or West Bank any of the rights of Israeli citizens, which would at least be consistent with the view that the Palestinian state is not legitimate and the land part of Israel. That looks pretty close to apartheid to me.

  15. It will need the drivers as well as the app. The biggest problem with FM Radio on Android is that there is no standard API, so every phone comes with its own custom solution which is incompatible with other phones (even from the same manufacturer if the hardware is different and a different team was called in to get the radio working, deciding that it was easier to start from scratch than to try to figure out the undocumented mess from the previous model).

  16. Re:Let Me Get This Straight... on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    But outside of defense and aerospace, how many industries routinely vet every subcontractor they hire?

    Automotive does. And with all the regulations surrounding conflict minerals and child labor these days, pretty much anyone making a consumer product that cares about their brand does now too.

  17. Re: To play the devil's advocate... on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Western numerals"

    Does that come with a side of "Freedom Fries"?

  18. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect she didn't KNOW it was math and assumed it was Arabbic

    You mean there's a difference?

  19. Re:Paranoia strikes deep on Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Please look up the definition of paranoia in an authoritative dictionary

    Don't bother with those authoritarian dictionaries, the Illuminati have already censored them so you won't find the words you are looking for.

  20. Re:It's not just cartography anymore. on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's like the guy took a road atlas from 1978 and started complaining that it didn't indicate as many submerged rocks as his the chart his forebears sailed to the US with. And this is what passes for front page news on slashdot these days...

  21. Re:The 'real market value of his work' is irreleva on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only a short term license, but a short term license for internal use only... 4200 euros seems a bit much for some photos which you can't actually show anyone. It makes me wonder if that clause was hidden somewhere in the middle of what otherwise seemed like an innocuous contract, that got hastily signed so the afternoon of work could go ahead without spending another afternoon worth of lawyers fees on top reviewing the contract.

  22. Re:Great. No positive comments. on Microsoft Flow -- An IFTTT Alternative -- Aims To Connect Your Online Apps (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    IFTTT is basically ending

    Where did you get that info? It is somewhat surprising given that the last news about them was Google releasing new routers with built in support yesterday. There were a lot of negative comments on that story too, and quite rightfully so. If there is one thing worse than routing all your device interactions through a single cloud company though, it is routing all your device interactions through a single cloud company that is Microsoft.

  23. Re:Times and tech are changing on Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Property is overvalued in Silicon Valley because of the over-inflated salaries, not the other way around.

  24. Re:How is this different on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's about being honest with the advertisers. 90% of viewers skip the ad after the first 5-6 seconds, so you might as well make the ad 6 seconds long (most ads don't actually say what they are for until the end, so this has apparently not occurred to advertisers until now).

  25. A hidden webcam also has the benefit of providing useful footage to aid your masturbation sessions after the divorce.