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  1. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto on Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to Apple's restrictions on free accounts, any IPA files sideloaded using a regular Apple ID will need to be sideloaded again every seven days. Legitimate Apple Developer ID users need only to reinstall once a year, but we'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it's worth the $100 price of paying Apple for developer privileges, when sideloading is relatively fast and pain-free.

    Great UX, resembling that of legitimate Apple software.

    Still less painful than using Lineage.

  2. So let me guess on Why Alexa Won't Light Up During Amazon's Super Bowl Ad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Will Echo call home to tell Amazon you watched the add?

  3. Re:Yeah but just install it outside of the app sto on Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you have to jailbreak it, which comes with a whole huge swarm of other problems. Good luck with that.

    Of course you don't have to jailbreak it - click the fucking link, you moron. Second sentence:

    Hope is not lost, however, as there's still a way to install modded and unofficial apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without any jailbreak.

    Do you know what that means? That you don't have to jailbreak it.

  4. What can be inappropriate about a messenger app?

    You didn't RTFA, did you. No, I'm not going to QTFA, RTFA yourself.

  5. There are new features in iOS 11.3: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/01/ios-11-3-features.html - heck people have complained about some of the new features here on Slashdot already https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

  6. Re:And here's the problem... on Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine that your are terminally stupid. Now stop pretending to imagine, because you are.

  7. Re:so... now Apple will have all your med records on Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How will a nurse get your iPhone passcode to unlock your medical records if you are unconscious?

    https://support.apple.com/HT20...

    Press the Home button.
    Tap Emergency.
    On the Emergency call screen, you can make a call or tap Medical ID to see emergency medical information stored on the device.

  8. Re:Tim Cook says a lot of shit. on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because the CEO of Apple says something doesn't mean he's not totally full of shit. Does anyone honestly think removing the 3.5mm jack from the iPhone was about courage?

    Well, since it wasn't Cook but Schiller who said that, maybe you are the one who is full of shit?

  9. Re:But there is one problem I see on Apple's Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Kindle is platform independent. I don't know why anybody would lock themselves to Android or Apple for media.

    Because locking yourself into Amazon's dungeon is much worse?

  10. Fake News Ticker reports on 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of North America Found Sticking To Australia (livescience.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    President Trump demands immediate return of American property. Unnamed private investor will be building a golf resort on it.

  11. Re:Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I care where the manufacturing happens. The Chinese are very far behind on their environmental regulations, not mention worker rights.

    Good thing then that Trump is working hard to get them ahead in both regards, eh?

  12. Re:Not surprising... on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What you missed was an upmodded Jew joke about train to concentration camps. Ms Serious is serious lol, AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY, Shirley!

    Errm, yeah, Hedy Lamarr. Because the Concentration Camps famously were in London and Moscow.

  13. Re:Impossible. RUSSIANS. on Apple Gives Employees $2,500 Bonuses After New Tax Law (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    More probably than not they're just trying to get all the EU profits they didn't pay any taxes on back home as quickly as possible on now after the EU knows about this after someone blew the whistle on their illegal and secret deal with the Irish.

    What kind of idiot would come up with the idea that you wouldn't need to pay taxes if you moved the money out out country (or continent)? Not to mention that the EU doesn't tax anybody nor anycorporation.

  14. Reminds me of that Star Trek TOS episode on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The attacks are virtual, the people calculated to be dead will "disappear" soon.

  15. Re:Released by Steve Jobs on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, considering a "phablet" should have a larger than "normal" screen, less than 10% of all Androids are. And that number would also include tablets. https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html - so yeah, Phablets not made by Apple are a flop. Deal with the failure.

  16. Re:Airbus didn't predict the rise of the big twins on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been saying that 270 A380's where necessary to break even in the past. Current orders + already flying don't meet that so they lost money on the A380.

    Did you know that "alternative facts" is Germany's "unword" of 2018?

    Let's see, 317 orders total - that seems to be more than 270, doesn't it?

  17. Re:General lesson - same problem as the Concorde on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    At the time, Boeing was looking into making a larger version of the 747 (extending the upper level all the way to the tail instead of having a bump). They looked at the numbers and determined that there wasn't enough demand for planes with that capacity to justify the investment. It looks like their judgement was correct, no?

    dom

    So if nobody wanted those planes, why did Airbus sell over 300 of them? That's more than twice the amount of 747-8s that were sold (and more than 6 times the number of the passenger version) - a plane Boeing obviously thought would sell, else they hadn't build it.

  18. Re:General lesson - same problem as the Concorde on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What US airlines have found, however, is that it's a heck of a lot cheaper to fly back and forth between regional airports than to have a hub and spoke model because congestion at one regional airline only affects flights back and forth between that airport.

    Well, that may have been before Trump cut back on funding for the Essential Air Service (EAS) program to and from local airports.

  19. Re:Not surprising... on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nothing compared to the weird routing I got from the German rail site when I wanted to go from Berlin to London. The route went straight into Belgium, pivoted down into France via some tiny little port I'd never heard of, Dunk-erg or something, and then headed for Paris. Never did make it to London on that trip.

    Mind you that's nothing compared to the tortuous route I got when I wanted to go from Berlin to Moscow..

    Your problem is that you went to the old site www.3rdReichsbahn.de - you need to go to www.bahn.de

  20. Re: Trump will cease being president in days. on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone know how his round of golf went today?

    As always: 5 under par. On every hole.

  21. Re:Released by Steve Jobs on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They were expected to sell over 34 million units in the first year. Last figures I found were 33 million units after 2.5 years.

    IOW they sold more Watches than "phablets" were sold in that time, something that supposedly is the hot shit to have which everybody buys. Typical flop.

  22. Re:quit repeating the same fake news on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    there where several notebooks thinner than a MacBook Air long before it came out. Sony Vaio had a few in 2004

    Ohh? They made another one but the X505 in 2004? Because that was .38-.83 inches thick while the the MacBook Air from 2008 was 0.16 in to 0.76 in thick.

  23. Re:Released by Steve Jobs on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Says who? Apple won't release their sales numbers for the watch, they don't break out that product category. The valuation is high because of phones, not watches.

    Ahh. Let's say you owned the Apple Watch business - would you shut it down to stop the losses? Or be happy that you had one of the most profitable companies in the world? Don't compare it to the iPhone, compare it to everything else.

  24. Re:Released by Steve Jobs on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire smart watch market is a flop.

    Compared to what exactly? Fidget spinners?