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  1. They're not. They never said they would. As the text you quoted says, they're removing an incentive for someone to re-post someone else's content.
    RTFTYQ - Read the Fucking Text You Quoted

  2. Re:Hooray for Lineage OS on Android Devices Can Be Fatally Hacked By Malicious Wi-Fi Networks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Lineage OS still give you the Moto X gesture features?
    Like shake for flashlight, twist for camera, turn on screen when hand approaches?

    It was my understanding these are controlled by a secondary processor and the Moto app.

  3. Re:stoopid once again. on Android Devices Can Be Fatally Hacked By Malicious Wi-Fi Networks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary says Apple use these chips. It also says they've been patched with iOS 10.3.1

  4. Are you going to release this security patch? My 2nd gen Moto X is still on the August patch level.

  5. The summary is written like they weren't already analyzing all your messenger conversations.
    They would have been doing it since they rolled out Facebook Messenger.

  6. No, the drug test suggestion for your kids goes to Social Services.

  7. Re:Destruction of property on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That a great story you made up there, based on no facts what so ever.

    Amazon is the shop front, Softcomplex is the company that sells it.

    Price: $99.00 & FREE Shipping
    In Stock. Ships from and sold by Softcomplex.

    They're also the company that makes it.

    What an asshole, he's decided that his company has to pay for the device and get nothing.

  8. Re:Destruction of property on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He cut off the unit's service and told the customer they can get a refund.
    Nothing was destroyed.

  9. Re:Most coders on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    That comes down to smart people realise they don't know what they don't know, so they know they don't know everything,
    Stupid people people don't realise this. Once they know a bit, they think they know it all.

  10. Re:Never mind that, just ban the goddamned things on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    So also ban kites with strings longer than 50 feet?

  11. ID sent out via RF? on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not so good at identifying a specific drone.
    There would always be a defense of "yes I was flying in the area, no that's not my drone the complainant saw"

    Before anyone says "but commercial aircraft have RF transponders" - Commercial aircraft also have big numbers printed on them too, so a picture can positively identify them. They're scanned by radar and their transponders send out GPS coordinates too. Their signals are constantly monitored and their flight paths recorded.

  12. Re:BFD on Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a Javascript blob, that's a zgip or deflate archive.

  13. Re:No sympathy for Microsoft here on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:You don't want this to succed on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1

    If a SQL Server database was lost because the hard drives happened to fail, how is Microsoft liable for the failure of some random manufactures hard drive?

  15. I haven't seen a Windows upgrade (note: UPGRADE) destroy data in a meaningful way in.....I don't even know how long.

    The Windows 7 -> Windows 10 upgrade made one of my customer's computers unable to do anything but an infinite reboot cycle.

    So in other words, no data was destroyed? Any other Windows 7 or later OS (possibly earlier as well) would still be able to read and write data to the drive and any Linux distribution would be able to at least read it.

  16. Re:BFD on Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked JavaScript was transferred in character format, not binary

  17. Re:Work OS Still Win 7 on Microsoft Locks Ryzen, Kaby Lake Users Out of Updates On Windows 7, 8.1 (kitguru.net) · · Score: 1

    No one said this is an issue with the corporate licensed Windows versions, or when using WSUS.

  18. If this saves battery power... on Chrome 57 Limits Background Tabs Usage To 1% Per CPU Core (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Microsoft going to stop spamming me with notifications to use Edge on my laptop because my battery will last 30% longer when ever I open Chrome?

  19. Re:Play a song, complete your mile walk faster on It's Possible To Hack a Smartphone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not executing code.
    That're manipulating an accelerometer with sound waves.

    The extent of the impact is applications that use accelerometer input can get false readings - like steps in a fitness app or steering control for a remote control toy car.or game.

  20. In China and Saudi Arabia, the government doesn't just control the media, it is the media.

  21. All rape and no recourse.

    That's because he's hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy

  22. Most people don't care. They never did, not even back in 2013.

    The difference now is back in 2013 the media needed headlines. Now they're more focused on Trumps spelling mistakes in his tweets.

  23. Re:Do they need Infrastructure People? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did I say per second? It's 100 millibits per nanosecond

  24. Re:Dear Google... on Google Increases Gmail Attachment Limit To 50MB For Recipients (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, let's say I send an email with a 100MB attachment.

    I put 100 email addresses, all at different domains in the To field.

    The server now has to send out 10GB of data.

    Meanwhile, it has to send everyone else's email too, in a reasonable time.

  25. Re:-20C is not extreme, it is monday on Li-Ion Battery Inventor Creates Breakthrough Solid-State Battery, Holds 3X Charge (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 2

    A lead acid battery will freeze at -20C when it's below 60% charged.

    Other types of rechargable batteries should not be used at all at that temperature.