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  1. Re:Any Android phone on Xiaomi Unveils Budget-Friendly Mi Drone, $460 For 4K Or $380 For 1080p (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The only benefit for this arrangement is on an Inspire where you can have two controllers - one for the drone and one for the camera.

    Even then, couldn't the software compensate completely and give you the illusion of separate control over drone and camera? The DJIs have an "out from center" flight mode where it doesn't matter which way the drone is physically facing.

  2. Only Mi smartphones? on Xiaomi Unveils Budget-Friendly Mi Drone, $460 For 4K Or $380 For 1080p (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and a remote control that uses [a] Mi smartphone as a viewfinder.

    Only Mi phones?

  3. Re:Nouveau marketing on Google Built an Escape Room, Making People Use Its Apps To Get Out (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    As in Stockholm, Finland.

  4. Re:Documentary on this on Google Built an Escape Room, Making People Use Its Apps To Get Out (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I preferred the movie.

  5. Came here expecting someone to link to an over-simplified, shallow sci-fi story with appalling characterisation and terrible dialogue. I see I was not let down in that regard.

  6. Re:Malware trick on Microsoft Backtracks On 'Nasty Trick' Upgrade To Windows 10 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The summary on this is really misleading, claiming it automatically upgrades

    Unless you cancel, it will upgrade. That's pretty automatic.

  7. Could be? Or is? on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls

    Facebook is not just looking at [...] your private conversations

    Dodgy grammar aside, they either could be or they are. Which is it? If you sure enough to state it as fact in the summary, why not do so in the headline?

    revealed a new report.

    Reveals. It's news, not olds!

    According to NBC report, this maybe

    May. Be. Two words.

    the case as Kelli Burns a professor at University of South Florida states

    Take a breath!

  8. "Equally as power-efficient" on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    equally as power-efficient

    which I assume is marketing speak for "also uses zero power once the image is set."

  9. Headlines, again on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes

    That makes it sound like debt collectors are checking down the back of the couches in the lobby and repossessing luxury office items to pay the bill.

    They're not being raided for unpaid taxes. They're being raided for information relating to the possibility of unpaid taxes.

    Google could face up to a $11.14 million fine if it is found guilty.

    There you go. Not yet found guilty.

  10. However, a number of bioethicists and scientists frown on the creation of interspecies embryos which they believe crosses the line.

    Oh, well that's easy to settle, if there's a line. And not just a line, but the line.

    Honestly, I don't know what all the fuss is about. Regard the line, people!

  11. Re:Apple is copying...Lenovo? on Apple To Launch Thinner, Lighter MacBook Pro Models With OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID In Fall (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can take my 17 inch MBP away from my cold, dead hands.

    Well, I could try, but I probably wouldn't get far before calling a taxi.

  12. We just had this story, more-or-less:

    https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

    The headline's an improvement on last time, though.

  13. Your your your on Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    Scientists Discover Why Your Dirty Laundry Stinks

    Yup, gotta stick the word "your" in there. Can't just say "dirty laundry." It has to be "your dirty laundry" because people are idiots and can't infer how a story might apply to them without being specifically told.

  14. Fox News tell you that?

  15. Exactly. Like the iPod shuffle can't be too random or it annoys people because it isn't random enough.

  16. Re:I always thought we'd go the way of the dinosau on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, get smaller and grow feathers?

  17. September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home

    All releases will still be available via the usual free channels, worldwide, downloadable without streaming, and likely to work on any device you might care to copy them too.

  18. How is it fake? on Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware

    What's fake about it?

  19. Wow! 85 upvotes! on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    drawing 85 upvotes

    Telling the world you accidentally pooped out of a window would get you a hundred times as many on Reddit.

  20. Re:Unfirst post on Google Appeals French Order For Global 'Right To Be Forgotten' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:So not "a third of cash" at all, then on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My point was that it's "a third of cash held by U.S. non financial companies" not "a third of cash."

    Big difference between those two.

  22. A former engineer at one of Germanyâ(TM)s

    Germany is a trademark now?

    Oh, no, wait, Slashdot is just still absolutely fucking shit at Unicode and the editors aren't doing their job. My mistake!

  23. Hah, fail on TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail (deepdotweb.com) · · Score: 1

    TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail

    Yeah, they are teh suxx0rs alright.

  24. So not "a third of cash" at all, then on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies

    roughly 30% of the $1.7 trillion in cash and cash equivalents held by U.S. non-financial companies in 2015

    So actually it should be:

    A third of all cash held by US non-financial companies in 2015 is held by 5 US tech companies

  25. Were you monetizing the video? The people affected by this are usually making money off of it.

    Nope. There was already a copyright match in place for some music (held by the publisher of the soundtrack CDs), which I had acknowledged, so I couldn't monetize it (and wouldn't have if I could have), but that didn't put any viewing restrictions on it. Then months if not years later came the video matches from BBC Worldwide, which took down the videos. Since my counterclaim, those matches are still showing "Appeal rejected dispute" but they've not followed it up. The previous music matches remain in place, but only mean I can't monetize.