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  1. Re: Android did that about ten months ago+, yay on One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the timing of that is rather interesting, isn't it? And there is the small detail of Google giving Android away for free...

    Anyway the point is that it's disingenuous to group all Android devices together against Apple simply because they happen to run the same OS. Business doesn't work like that. Samsung is selling lots of devices but the rest are also-rans that barely appear on sales charts next to those two, and Apple's overall industry profits eclipse those of all others combined.

    Apple is doing very well and Android is on a lot of devices. I'm not sure why you have to be upset about either of those things.

  2. Re: Android did that about ten months ago+, yay on One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, so clearly comparing installs to sales is irrelevant.

  3. Re: Sheep. on One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Phones are sheep? Cool story bro!

  4. Re: Android did that about ten months ago+, yay on One Billion iPhones Have Been Sold, Apple Says (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Android is an operating system. Apple is a company. Slight difference.

  5. or capitalist.

  6. All about the information on MasterCard Is Buying the Core of the British Payments Infrastructure (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    This sounds to me like a play for user/transaction data. They already use such data for marketing purposes with companies like Facebook so I guess the more the merrier.

  7. On the plus side, none of these were more tasteless than the burgers themselves.

  8. Back to pirating on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian who recently switched form pirating to Netflix here. Guess I'll be making an exception for this. Bell or Rogers probably locked up the rights.

  9. "We look forward to supporting DORCs" Indeed.

  10. Re: Power? on Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points for this but the effort spent logging in and a hearty HELL YA will have to suffice.

  11. High end bikes not ideal for snowboarding. News at 11.

  12. VoIP on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 1

    You can set up such a system in about 5 minutes with something like voip.ms

  13. I don't see the news here - The NSA, GCHQ, CSEC etc. do most of that every day. They might not sell or post the data but it certainly feels threatening knowing they have it.

  14. Artificial superintelligence on Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I recently read that a fairly large swath of top AI researchers were polled about when we may be likely to see human- and superhuman level artificial intelligence. The median was around 2060. It seems to me that once computers are perhaps millions of times smarter than we are, seemingly insurmountable problems such as this one will be rapidly solved. When that happens I question whether humanity will even remain biological as there are clearly disadvantages to this format.

  15. Re: what a pushover on The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    While doing the same thing, more like.

  16. No on BlackBerry Launches Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    They didn't launch it. Nice clickbait.

  17. Remember kids... on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    When you assume you make an ass out of you and Hitler.

  18. No it doesn't on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    The "dream" of VRML was to have a standard file format for virtual rendered environments. A 360 video does not deliver that at all.

  19. Re: Start over on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? · · Score: 1

    Or from a reseller. See recent news.

  20. Could be worse on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    At least he didn't take it on a plane.

  21. Great name on Intelligence Start-Up Goes Behind Enemy Lines To Get Ahead of Hackers · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Useful? on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    If I wanted my entertainment PC to always be listening I'd leave it on, but I suppose there is power to be saved doing it this way.

  23. Useful? on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    So touching the mouse or a key is too difficult I guess?

  24. Paper on Transparent Paper Produces Power With Just a Touch · · Score: 2

    Neat, but why call it paper? No part of this is paper.

  25. No. on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 1

    18 year JS programmer here. Learn JavaScript proper (well) first, then a framework such as Angular.