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  1. Re: Contrast this with the incoming administration on Two-Thirds of Americans Give Priority To Developing Alternative Energy Over Fossil Fuels (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 0

    Trump is refusing a salary and is working for $1 per year.

    That's contradictory, but let's see, why should I care about that? That's a mere 400,000 a year. A pittance of the federal budget.

    The carrier deal alone costs more than he would get in two terms - but that's Indiana's taxpayer's problem

  2. It's amazing that we embrace wireless simple on the annoyance of wires? When in fact nothing is more reliable than a wired connection. I have had nothing but trouble with wireless connections

    Well, my headphones never have been torn from my head because my wireless got caught in something. Nor do I have to untangle my wireless every time I want to use it - or carefully coil it up after use.

  3. On what FACTS (as opossed to OPINION) do you base your "worse version..." Statement?

    He did extensive listening tests in his echo chamber.

  4. I have a pair of headphones that I thought were pretty decent. Then I forgot an audio cable one day and went into bluetooth mode. Most of the nuance of the music disappeared. Gone were all the fine texture of the instruments. I honestly couldn't listen to it and switched to an audiobook. Maybe the new bluetooth is better but not currently economical compared to wires.

    That's because Bluetooth doesn't use the tube-amplifier in your phone. Phoney.

  5. Looks like Google already has a patent on screwing up wired headphones. Sorry.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3vuwdx/headphone_jack_constantly_losing_connection/?st=iybc8j2o&sh=ee0e1b14

    Moneyquote:

    i would try this as well. i heard a lot of people having problems with music stopping because of this

  6. MAGA? Make Americans Grope Again?

    Monica Lewinsky called. She wants her blue dress back.

    Kenneth Starr wore it to Trump's inaugural ball.

  7. Re:A problem without a good solution. on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    So basically, fuck all developers that don't write trivial programs.

  8. Problem solved.

    So how does installing Linux make proprietary software that costs a lot of money and runs on Linux disappear?

  9. Re:At this rate... on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Keep on denying it.

    Keep talking to yourself. Just add "I have to kill myself" to your other ramblings.

  10. Re:At this rate... on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Except it's been used by everyone to tell 'deniers' that it's really happening. Climate change has been constant and consistent.

    No, it hasn't.

  11. Re:At this rate... on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I distinctly remember being told multiple times that the ice caps would be gone by 2012.

    With all due respect, we know your memory is worth shit, Mr. President, Sir.

  12. Re:What about what Apple stole? on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy. Every use of the word stolen is an emotive statement not based in fact or law unless you also show us where the courts upheld that view.

    Oh, my incompetent noob. Go back and read the thread, and point to the place where I used that word.

    ThatÄs easy: https://slashdot.org/~drinkypo... - find one that was modded down to be sure.

  13. Re:The damages weren't enough on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    What a completely idiotic troll. Apple phones have been looking more and more like Androids every generation, why is that?

    Because it's actually the other way around.

  14. Let me guess on Amazon Patent Hints at Self-Driving Car Plans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The car costs $500, but you'll have to deliver goods for Amazon on your way?

  15. Re:What about what Apple stole? on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I have been told using Apple products proves you are wrong - so what's your point? That you are wrong? Yes, we already told you. That you continue to be wrong, or are in fact even more wrong than before is completely your problem. Stop whining.

  16. Re:Just how much of the phone on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of Samsung being the knock off Rolex watch of cellphones.

    Since when is the superior product a "Knock off"?

    Exactly. And that's why Samsung makes "Knock offs" - thanks for the confirmation.

  17. Re:What about what Apple stole? on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    So, mods, the +5 Insightful rating for the Parent simply points out (once again), the unbridled Apple Hate that manifests itself in Slashdot's asinine and broken "moderation" system.

    Dry your Apple-flavored tears, troll. Approximately every time I say bad things about Apple here I get moderated down by Apple fans who are crying about the resulting sand in their arsecrack.

    Yeah, it has nothing to do with your claims being wrong. Facts be damned.

  18. Re:What about what Apple stole? on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention also stealing their stealing of the fingerprint authentication idea from Motorola. I feel like that is pretty significant. What did Motorola get for that?

    Oh, you mean from the Moto phone where the fingerprint scanner was on the back, and you had to swipe your finger across it and the camera lens right next to it? Yeah, Apple totally stole that - only that there were fingerprint scanners decades before, and Apple actually did it in a way that wasn't literally a mess.

  19. Re:What about what Apple stole? on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Large touchscreen phone idea -- stolen from me

    Considering people complained the screen of the original iPhone was too big, they obviously stole the idea from themselves.

  20. Re:Violence: Profitable for the conficted & ig on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    And Hillary and Obama destabilized Syria so they could build a pipline.

    Why would one destabilize a country to build anything? You are confusing the theme of your conspiracy theory: they supposedly did it to stop a pipeline.But I wonder how they managed to create the drought at the heart of the destabilization- back when Dubya was still PotUS. . Or how they forced Assad to gas his people.

  21. Re:The damages weren't enough on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a 'design patent'. Not something about technology or production, but rather about looks

    IOW something that can be very easily be avoided to violate. Thanks for confirming Samsung is guilty as hell.

  22. Re: The damages weren't enough on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about. The iPhone was a copy of the LG Prada with a few differences

    A phone that was officially announced a week after the iPhone. And was immediately called an iPhone copy. . To be fair - they actually didn't look that much alike. As for the differences: One was an overpriced, underpowered fashion accessory, the other one the iPhone.

  23. Re:The damages weren't enough on Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true, then why did Apple have to fake images of a Samsung phone to look like the iPhone?

    They didn't so they didn't.

  24. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The App Store doesn't just deal in apps. It also deals in in-app purchases, which includes subscriptions. When you add those in, no link in your chain breaks down.

    So Apple is a monopoly because only Netflix can sell Netflix subscriptions. Yeah, makes sense.

  25. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... having control over your own platform does not mean you have a monopoly, since they look at the market as a whole ...

    I reject that assertion from a legal perspective. An app for Android is not fungible with an app for iOS. It requires spending many hundreds of dollars for a consumer to switch from one platform to the other, which would be required if you want to run apps from the other store.

    So your argument is that Apple has an monopoly because Android phones actually cost a lot of money.