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  1. Which is why planes don't have autopilot... on Tesla's Autopilot Mode Reportedly Saves Pedestrian's Life (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    if they did then distracted pilots would be crashing planes left and right. The airline industry figured this out years ago, it's sad that we have to relearn the same lessons now in the automotive industry.

  2. Can someone explain the appeal of this game? on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

  3. That's what a "grand plan" is. on Tesla's 'Master Plan, Part Deux' Includes Trucks, Buses and Ride-Sharing (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "grand" implies "ambitious" and "plan" implies "future". If you just want a quarterly update then google for that.

  4. Those pictures are not from Tesla. on Tesla's 'Master Plan, Part Deux' Includes Trucks, Buses and Ride-Sharing (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you seriously unable to tell the difference between an official company sponsored concept and some fanboy renderings?

  5. Which is why planes don't have autopilot. on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    when will cars relearn that critical lesson from aircraft?: "make sure you increase the cognitive load on the pilot as much as possible to keep them from daydreaming".

  6. If people care they will buy something else. on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 2

    it's not rocket science. No one is being tricked into buying an iPhone, and other manufacturers aren't being tricked into copying the iPhone. If people really want a 3.5 mm headphone jack then other manufacturers will keep it and people will buy those instead of an iPhone. If not, then I guess it doesn't really matter and we'll add this to the list of legacy technologies that Apple has taken the lead on EOLing, causing mass hysteria from the technoratti and complete indifference from everyone else.

  7. Apple music has no DRM. on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    so...I guess you're a fucking idiot.

  8. Apple has $200B in the bank on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 2

    specifically because they *don't* design macbooks like thinkpads and imacs like HP pcs.

    Don't you idiots ever get tired of being so consistently fucking wrong about Apple all the time? Seriously? Do you enjoy looking like a fucking moron on the internet?

  9. Yes, Apple is totally the same as North Korea on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 0

    Fucking moron.

  10. Is someone forcing you to buy an iPhone? on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if you don't want one then don't buy it.

  11. You are protected by irrelevance. on Smartphone Users Are Paying For Their Own Surveillance (truth-out.org) · · Score: 0

    No one is snooping on your private life, mostly because your private life is hella boring.

    If you don't want to carry a cell phone then don't, but for the love of god please stop pretending that every three letter agency in the world is obsessed with seeing your lame dick picks. They really, really, don't care.

  12. A secure computer is a non-networked one. on The Average Cost of a Data Breach Is Now $4 Million (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern computer security is the equivalent of implementing bank security by distributing all the money from the vault into the cash registers of every store in a mall, and then hiring an army of mall cops to patrol all the cash registers.

    IT professionals are the "mall cops" in this scenario, and unsurprisingly they keep telling us that we need to hire more mall cops and buy them all really nice Segways.

  13. Your tiny little brain can't understand this, but: on New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones (pix11.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Apple pays all taxes required by law, and they play by the same rules as any other company.
    2. Apple didn't break any laws by refusing to crack the encryption on one of their phones, if they had then the FBI would have pursued it rather than giving up--and Apple is innocent until proven guilty.
    3. The FBI doesn't have the right to unilaterally refuse to investigate crimes just because they don't like the victim--that would be pretty fucked up.
    4. By all accounts this was a local crime and will be investigated by the NYPD, not the "feds"
    5. EVERY product can be decrypted, it just takes time & money.

  14. It's fine if you don't understand technology on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I just don't understand why you want to post to a tech blog if you don't understand tech. If you have trouble understanding this article then you can probably get the neighbors 9 year old to explain it to you:

    http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/apple-apologizes-and-updates-ios-to-restore-iphones-disabled-by-error-53/

  15. It's for people who have a life. on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    and (a) don't need to spend their life fiddling with their electronic devices to get them to work, (b) can afford to purchase a decent product, and (c) don't feel the need to mock other peoples' choices in electronics.

  16. and then released an updated that unbricked them. on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The update included additional security checks of the secure enclave (including the fingerprint sensor) and thus unintentionally bricked devices with third-party replaced fingerprint sensors.

    Apple released an update to unbrick those phones once they knew about the problem.

    But, yeah, if it makes you feel better to lie on the internet then please feel free.

  17. So, you're a delusional liar. on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    but it doesn't matter because there are enough other delusional liars to +5 your comment. And this is why Donald Trump exists, because truth doesn't matter anymore. You just need enough ignorant assholes who are willing to agree with whatever made-up shit you spout off and the lie becomes the truth.

    Please, please try to make the case that Apple is "helping the government spy on everyone" instead of, you know, doing the exact opposite of that.

  18. You must really hate your microwave. on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    and your washing machine, dryer, dish washer, toaster, blender and car.

  19. Or maybe those people are already smarter than you on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, they know that Apple recycles their products--there's no pileup of toxic waste.

  20. The world will certainly notice your protest. on Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    unless we get distracted by someth

  21. What are you talking about? on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The president is the commander in chief, he has absolute control of the military. Congress can remove him from office (by a 2/3rds majority in both houses)--but it would have already nuked Mexico by then.

  22. Ummm, are you fucking kidding me? on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    1. He's been sued twice by the Justice Department for not renting to black people.
    2. He was fined $200K because his Casino would regularly remove black casino dealers at the request of players
    3. He is quoted as saying the following: “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
    4. He was the original birther.
    5. He defended his supporters attacking a protester: “Maybe [the protester] should have been roughed up,” he mused. “It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
    6. He called his supporters that roughed up a homeless Latino man: “I will say that people who are following me are very passionate,” Trump said. “They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
    7. Speaking to a Jewish audience: “I’m a negotiator, like you folks,” Trump told the crowd, touting his book The Art of the Deal.
    8. “You know, it doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
    9. When a lawyer facing Trump in 2011 asked for a break to pump breastmilk for her infant daughter, The Donald reacted very poorly. “He got up, his face got red, he shook his finger at me and he screamed, ‘You’re disgusting, you’re disgusting,’ and he ran out of there,”
    10. Referring to Carly Fiorina: “Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?! I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not s'posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious? ”
    11. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her — wherever. ”

  23. Which "La Raza" group? read up a little... on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    and then report back.

  24. That's absurd. on Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    There were C++ implementations going all the way back to the early 1980s. Do you really think it was a programming language on paper only for 20 years?

  25. Ummm, no. C++ was nearly 20 years old by 1998. on Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It started out as "C with classes" in 1979 and by 1985 there was a book called "The C++ Programming Language".

    There were lots of code-breaking changes between 1979 and 1985, it just wasn't a widely used language at the time.