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  1. Re:Where does the money end up? on Joking About Giving Money To ISIS Can Cost You Money (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably this is the way to go. Find out the government organization that should be responsible, and write a polite letter asking for your money to be returned. Hopefully someone human sees it, realises that it is obviously not terrorism funds, and starts tracking internally where the money went. When they find out that Venmo kept it for themselves, they don't just have an irate customer, who is going to have to spend more than the money is worth to get it back, on their ass, they have a government department.

  2. Android has incremental updates now. My last system update was about a 6MB download.

  3. Servers generally don't have major issues with upgrades, but desktops - definitely around the timeframe where they switched from XFree86 to Xorg there was some breakage where for a few versions every new release would break booting to the desktop for one reason or another, until Xorg reached the point a couple of years later where it worked in pretty much all situations without a config file.

  4. Re:Not really a "cable" any more, is it? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1

    The problem is that as charging currents and data rates have increased, it is no longer sufficient to just have a bunch of thin wires twisted together connected to some pins on a standardised plug. The data wires need to have the right capacitance between them, and the power wires need to be able to handle the current that is flowing over them as your phone is high-speed charging.

  5. Re:University of Minnesota on Variation in Depiction of Same Emoji on Different Platforms Can Lead To Miscommunication · · Score: 1

    It has me wondering whether I can get grant funding for a study into my thesis that the use of emoji in and of itself is what is really causing the confusion, and whether or not my phone's fon has a depiction of steam coming off of U+1F4A9 doesn't mean shit.

  6. Re:Really? on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed this starting about 2 years ago, I don't know what has taken Facebook so long. But I always thought it was a result of the way Facebook is filtering the newsfeed, and possible kickbacks from "viral" spam sites. Now, very few of my friends are posting anything original, and when they do, it seldom makes it into my feed. These days I check Facebook about once a week, selecting "I want to see less of things like this" for most of the posts in a fruitless attempt to make my feed more relevant.

  7. Re:MY daighter is schedule to go on school trip... on Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' (the-japan-news.com) · · Score: 1

    A society that is patriarchical, that looks down on women and considers them useless if they don't marry before 30 ?

    Japan is still very patriarchal, but has one of the highest ratio of single women in their late 30's and beyond of any country, and such a low birthrate that it is causing house prices to plummet around Japan as the population shrinks. It is perfectly acceptable in Japan for women to pursue a career above marriage, even if the glass ceiling is very much still there and very solid.

  8. Re:MY daighter is schedule to go on school trip... on Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' (the-japan-news.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan has zero crime

    Keep telling yourself that. I've travelled extensively throughout Europe, US and Asia, lived in some dodgy parts of London, rural Japan and a largish city in South East Asia, been targeted unsuccessfully by pickpockets in Barcelona, Milan, Rome and London. My wallet was stolen exactly once. It was taken from my kitchen table in my apartment in rural Japan while I was sleeping in the next room. Sometimes complacency is not a good thing - Japanese locals are all very paranoid about crime, to an even greater degree than you see in most countries where the perception of crime is higher.

  9. Re:Opt for Swift, not Kotlin. Please! on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    when they are opinionated it's because they're right.

    Isn't that true for any community (for their own definition of right).

  10. Standard Terminology Please on New Windows 10 Preview For PCs With Bash, Cross-Device Cortana Released · · Score: 1

    Instead of just calling it a "Preview", will someone at Microsoft please clarify whether Windows 10 is an Alpha or Beta test product?

  11. Re:11.6 MBps over 3G ??? on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Not just wireless either. When my fibre connection was 50Mbps, I used to routinely measure it at between 60 and 70Mbps - it was as if they were giving me a minimum guaranteed speed of 50Mbps and bumping it a bit to make sure. After they upgraded it to 300Mbps, I now get about 70-80Mbps most days, the 300 is definitely a theoretical peak burst speed.

  12. Re:Not so much about morality on Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Which would be why the prostitute in this case was immediately charged and sent to prison while the client is out on bail waiting for the DA to decide whether to prosecute, and the pimp is nowhere to be seen.

  13. Re:The lack of technical precision in TFS is annoy on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you strip out all the underlying kernel, libraries and utilities from Ubuntu, what you have left is the privacy destroying "Unity Lenses". That seems like a perfect fit for Windows 10.

  14. Re:Wonder if it's censorship on Why ISIS Is Winning The Online Propaganda War (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the usual kind of censorship, but that of the news not showing anything that might be upsetting.

    It's more like the news not showing anything that might not be sensational enough.

    There is apparently a group of 400 British citizens negotiating with the British government to be able to return to the UK without being deported (if they are dual citizens) or thrown in prison (if they are not). They stupidly went to Syria or Iraq thinking that they would join in a Holy War to form an Islamic Republic. Now they realise they are just caught up in someone else's gang warfare, killing fellow Muslims. How they couldn't figure that out before they went, I don't know, but apparently there is no shortage of fools to join Daesh. If the news spent more time telling their story instead of glorifying Islamist attacks against the West, how would that affect Daesh's recruitment?

  15. Re:Theory is backing up nand chip on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Why desolder and risk damaging the IC? Does the iPhone not have JTAG test points on the PCB?

  16. Re:"either shadow or fog" on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    The guy is in Seattle. The cloudy sky is the problem.

  17. Re:âoeWarningâ? on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's Inuktitut for "It's snowing rocks, let's get the f**k out of here!"

  18. Re:Yes, they burn lots of coal on India Aims To Become 100% Electric Vehicle Nation By 2030 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    And I would imagine the noise levels will go way down.

    Most of the noise from Indian traffic comes from horns, not engines, so I can't see it having any effect until they get self driving cars that can actually drive in an orderly fashion.

  19. Re:India taxi on India Aims To Become 100% Electric Vehicle Nation By 2030 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    China has already converted a large proportion of its 2-stroke motorcycle fleet to electric, so it isn't inconceivable. It's not like the Tesla Model S is the only choice they have.

  20. The media seems to want people to believe the world will end if Trump is elected.

    For some reason I find that a more rational belief than the belief that Trump will be somehow better for America than the other candidates.

  21. So what is it that makes Trump supporters so ashamed of their beliefs?

  22. Re:No thanks on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    On a phone or tablet, you can help by using the device in different orientations or upside down - the software doesn't care, and only the position of the physical volume buttons changes (the screen off button doesn't really matter with AMOLED since it doesn't have a backlight to turn off). Heck, I grab my phone upside down half the time anyway.

    Except the standard Google Launcher does not rotate at all, and a lot of programs only work in 3 of the 4 possible orientations (usually not upside down portrait mode).

  23. Re:No thanks on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really only a problem for a TV if you spend most of your time watching the same channel, so leave your TV susceptible to logo burn-in, or bottom bar burn-in if it is a news channel.

  24. Re: What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    Changing it to "All Lives Matter" completely disregards...

    Changing the words doesn't disregard anything. The problem is that the people who are using "All Lives Matter" are not just changing the words, they are using it as a counter-argument against "Black Lives Matter" in an attempt to whitewash and silence their valid complaints. About the only other group that is mistreated at the hands of police in the same way as Black Lives is Transsexual Lives, and I don't think the people that are arguing for "All Lives Matter" are doing it for them.

  25. Re:They wanted something easy to maintain on Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Upstart development ended because Debian made the decision to move to systemd, and Ubuntu subsequently decided to follow them, since numerous packages were suddenly going to start depending on systemd, and it was too much effort to fight the combined momentum of Debian and Red Hat on that. Upstart was Ubuntu's answer to moving away from sysvinit - limited in scope to the init functionality, and still with text files for configuration and syslog for logging. A much less radical change, but similar performance gains and dependency management for the startup phase.