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  1. Usually a 5120x2880 pixel display.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Apple replace GPU. You won't believe what happens on New MacBook Pro's Dedicated AMD Graphics Chips Are 'Significantly' Faster and Support Dual 5K Displays (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Newer, more powerful GPU offers superior performance compared to old ones!
    More at 11.

  3. perhaps they shouldn't have shut down all their USA based manufacturing plants and fired all the workers?

  4. Information is a form of payment on Telco CEO: Consumers Have 'Double Standards' Over Data Privacy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    People give their information in exchange for the use of services.

    If the telco wants to do that, it needs give the option of charging money OR selling customer data.

  5. Re:Depends who is using it on CBC Threatens Podcast App Makers, Argues that RSS Readers Violate Copyright (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    Just because something is freely available for downloading, doesn't make it legal to use for any reason you want.

    I would get in trouble if I made and distributed my own proprietary OS based on the Linux Kernel and didn't abide by the terms in the GPLv2 license.

  6. Re:Punish people that read your content? on CBC Threatens Podcast App Makers, Argues that RSS Readers Violate Copyright (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Probably, if your HTTP reader displays the content in violation of the license you agreed to by accessing the content.

    Perhaps the license says you're not allowed to view it in an application that inserts ads.
    If that's the case I guess their argument is these RSS reader developers are producing software that includes advertising, therefore there is no way for a user to avoid copyright violation when accessing their content via the app?

  7. They can also be a means of concentrating a large sum of money in to a small package in order to show off how much money one used to have, before they spent it all on diamonds.

  8. Re:Stupid. on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your Google-Fu is lacking.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/the...

  9. Re:Stupid. on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Some states allow you to vote more than once. They only take your latest vote. In those states taking a photo of a ballot paper doesn't prove who you voted for.

  10. Re:What's shipping? on Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    6 probably

  11. Re:I have a name for it on Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a lot more shattery though. Glass is reasonably strong when you compress it, but lacks tensile strength.

    With a layer of glass and plastic or metal, when bending the plastic or metal stretches or compresses while the glass just bends.
    With two layers of glass, one layer is compressed and the other stretched. It won't flex nearly as much, but it will break with less flexing.

  12. No client certificates, only domain verification certificates.

  13. Re:I have a name for it on Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    and now they're so bendy the flexing lifts the touch screen controller chip from the board, aka "iPhone Touch Disease"

  14. I have a name for it on Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    The one with the curved edge to edge display could be called the iPhone 8 Edge
    They could increase the screen to phone size ratio by making the home button shorter

    I've even got a mock-up for them: here

  15. Where's the punishment? on AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't ATT be punished for not knowing which regulations they need to abide to?
    Have they been non-compliant in 20 states?

  16. Is there an app for that? on Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, to add a low-pass filter to the mic input.

  17. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The money kept in a mattress loses its value due to inflation, so there are losses there too.
    Cash handling also has a labour cost, counting it, keeping a float, reconciling it, etc.

  19. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Retailers usually lease the terminals, along with a flat-rate for eftpos transactions.
    20 odd years ago, the customer's bank used to charge about 20c per transaction, but not any more. It's been around for about 30 years.
    The rent/lease model for terminals has turned out to be good. The only merchants that don't accept NFC payments do so because they don't want to pay the merchant fee. Every terminal around now has the capability. No banks issue cards without a chip on them either and the terminals won't accept a mag swipe from a chip card.
    Cuts down on fraud quite a bit.

  20. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a metric crapton? An imperial crapton is about 16% more.

  21. Re: Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    10c won't even cover the Apple transaction fee.

  22. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If your Android payment app uses SecureElement, some phones will still work for payments with no battery.

    Unfortunately that's mostly Samsung devices and HCE appears to be winning the race as it is much more prevalent

  23. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When there is a credit card fee, I pay with a debit card.
    Does the Land of the Free not have any free electronic payment systems?

  24. I must be a nobody on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to carry around a bit of cash.
    Not everyone accepts electronic payments.
    Not everyone likes paying the electronic payment fees for parking and other small expenses either.

  25. Re:$3000 BASE PRICE?!?!? on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That $2000 screen is apparently a bit shit if you look at some of the Amazon reviews.