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  1. Apple = Expensive Junk on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Over the years, Apple went from innovative robust hardware to overpriced junk.

  2. Re: Times Square on NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You've been trumped.

  3. Re:Times Square on NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >> What's wrong with being a tourist?
    Tourist = Terrorist.

  4. Re:Makes sense, they're cheap. Hopefully a 6-8 pro on NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fly a big drone over 2 million people.
    A heck of a good idea.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Decapitation of some random people, anyone ?

  5. Cisco = Huawei on Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cisco does exactly the same.

  6. Use a real phone instead. on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 0

    Use a real phone instead.
    Think Different, Think Real.

  7. Boycotting Apple is only the beginning.

    In unrelated news, I eat apples every day.

  8. MS is Bad. Lenovo is Bad.
    Who thought the combination would work ????

  9. That'S a very low rate. on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    >> A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds
    That'S a very low rate, considering hte number of tweets published every second (6000)

  10. Re:I don't. on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't have that basic hardware, it's not a premium phone.

  11. Wrong Headline. Lamenting. on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    >> 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port'

    That's a hell of a wrong headline, it should read :

    "Two Years Later, I Still Buy The Wrong Phone For My Use Case And Lament"

  12. >> "How do you describe a license that lets you run, modify, fork, and redistribute the code and do virtually anything other than...

    Yeah, like "I write a server for X. You can use it for anything except for serving X"
    Thanks guys. That's not free software.
    Software is either free or it isn't.
    If you want proprietary, you're free to write your own proprietary software.

  13. Yeah. It's this newfangled religion called "Science"
    Who believes this kind of nonsense ?

  14. Re:I feel it in my gut that this is a hoax on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You ARE a hoax.

  15. Blaming others. on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everybody blames the next guy.
    We are all responsible.

  16. >> You've lined up a bunch of standardised lithium cells in a box and then sold them at cost? Yeah, of course it'll work

    If it was that easy. There's much more involved
    - Logistics for hundreds of tons of Li Battery. The horror of any shipping and insurance company.
    - Interconnections at 3 levels
    - Packaging
    - Cooling
    - Protection
    - Battery management over lifetime
    - Equalization of batteries
    - Network management
    - Building and site management
    - Fire safety equipment
    - Electrical safety equipment
    - High power Wiring
    - Huuuuge Inverters
    - Protections
    - Maintenance concept
    - Redundancy concept
    - Safety concept
    - Grid interface with high-power reversible transformers
    - Transmission lines and connections
    - Communication and synchronization with the grid
    - Managing Grid Economics
    - Daily operations

    >> They're all buoyed up by huge investment and break even at best
    Stop complaining.
    That's good for society, and for Tesla who grows instead of feeding directly fat investors. And even they like the "company growth"

  17. >> Microsoft's Designers Are Working on the Future of Windows

    Call me when Microsoft's Designers Are Working On The Future Of Linux
    Then it will be relevant news.

  18. The tech is already there since 10 Years on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >> if the tech doesn't get there on time, they won't happen.
    The tech is already there since 10 Years.
    Now, the scale is coming.

  19. Yeah. but who embraces what ?

  20. MS will soon port Wine to Windows in 2020

  21. Re:Nothing Bizare about IPv6 on Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks (duo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> but to regular users, the address format is the biggest hurdle to adoption.
    That's OK.
    Regular users don't need to do anything with an IP address.

  22. >> So where is the deception?
    Hmm.
    Less taxes for the rich.
    Necessarily more taxes for everybody else.
    That's not good.

  23. The whole point of the cloud is data access on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole point of the cloud is not to have good service.
    The whole point of the cloud is to hand over your data to a third party, and to NSA, not to let your users acess it.

  24. Safety ? you don't need THAT feature ! on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Safety ? you don't need THAT feature !

  25. Macron tries to justify himself staying in to power despite deceiving the population.

    Macron demission !!