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  1. Re:Just like the DNC an GOP on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.. Every "Bernie" fan, including Bernie and Warren, who votes for Hillary is a complete hypocrite. For a minimal alternative option, the Green Party candidate is much more "progressive" than HRC, who is essentially not progressive in the ways Bernie and Warren claim to be.

    Once again, The Left will vote for what they consider the lesser of two evils, or push for "strategic" voting, and consequently self-disqualify until the next election, which will be a repeat.

    So let me get this straight, Democrats voting for their candidate when they are against Big Money is bad, because it's hypocritical and they know it, while Republicans against Big Money voting for their candidate is okay, because clearly they are too dumb to notice the rhetoric that Trump is against Big Money is an obvious lie. Whatever you say.

  2. Re:Of course on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's just jump to attacks... "Why do people like you...?" What am I like.

    Like somebody who takes a question as an attack. Why are people like you like you? Are you off your medication? Do you have no other way to win an argument?

  3. Re: Duh on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The more smug you are the higher resolution the screen will have..

    You two are going to get 16k resolution, easily.

  4. Re: Duh on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    But that doesn't actually help with the problem.

    A port that has multiple roles and identities doesn't actually help the consumer,

    Let me guess: that doesn't keep you from advocating USB?

  5. Re: And Their Headphone Jack Will Fail Too on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It still much much better than having a Lightning connector or USB-C getting smashed in your pockets. The only drawback of the 3.5mm jack its its length, which translates to torque, but it is offset by its mechanical simplicity, large electrical connectors, availability and ease of maintenance. 3.5mm are easy to fix and replace.

    It's more likely to jam the 3.5 mm jack deep into your thigh than having a Lightning connector smashed in your pocket.

  6. Re: And Their Headphone Jack Will Fail Too on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Please explain why the new headphone jack is better or even necessary

    Somebody suing Apple for connecting a headphone to a smartphone good enough a reason?

  7. Re:Of course on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, go back to the Lisa in 1983 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Lisa_Keyboard_.28A6MB101.29), they had a proprietary keyboard connector. They followed up with the Macintosh 128k that had a connector that looked like an RJ-11 cable, but customized that so it couldn't be easily replaced. Great technology, far beyond the PS2 connector. Over 30 years they have been developing proprietary stuff that dies out relatively quickly.

    So which connector should they have used? The 5-pin DIN for IBM compatible PCs? You are aware that the interface protocol for that was patented by (and had to be licensed from) IBM? Or as some call it, "proprietary"? And the PS/2 connector - that came out with the very proprietary IBM PS/2 computer 3 years after the Macintosh. Why do people like you always complain that Apple didn't use some open standard that wasn't even invented until years after Apple brought out their evil proprietary solution - and probably wouldn't even exist without it?

  8. How far away from Carlisle, Plymouth or Inverness are they, you stupid cunt?

    Funny how among those you named, the city closest to "a thousand miles away" actually liked it to stay that way.

  9. Re:So now it's reason enough for praise not to spy on Apple Won't Collect Your Data For Its AI Services Unless You Let It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    So Apple says they'll do voluntarily what Google does only after having been forced and fined in the EU: Adhere to existing data protection laws, and at least ask for consent before selling your data?

    So you are saying Apple will voluntarily do outside (and inside) the EU what Google has been forced to do inside the EU but most certainly still wont do outside?

  10. Florida Man sues everybody on Florida Man Sues Apple For $10+ Billion, Says He Invented iPhone Before Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Florida Man sues everybody sitting in the front seat, because in 1993 he called "shotgun".

  11. Dude, the Newton, it had square corners so it doesn't count and that would be according to Apple's own patents ;).

    Let's ignore the whole tired "rounded corners" argument - he applied for a utility patent. How the drawings in an utility patent look like matters jack shit about what violates it - that's what design patents are for. IOW we don't even have to look at the drawings whether they "look exactly like" or not at all.like something.

  12. Re:Texas Man Florida Man on Florida Man Sues Apple For $10+ Billion, Says He Invented iPhone Before Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that Texas Man has been making a strong move to overtake Florida Man, as this story of courage and determination demonstrates:

    http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/...

    The man in question, Tommie Woodward was known in Texas for his taste in clothes.

    http://cdn.unilad.co.uk/wp-con...

    Optimistic, and self confident...you gotta give him that.

    The perfect VP for Trump.

  13. So can it stop people from reporting old news? on Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re: I'm trusting Apple more each day. on Apple Won't Collect Your Data For Its AI Services Unless You Let It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    comments like this are why you cant take apple or their zealots serious. apples big new recently has been the innovative move of them removing the headphone jack to "push the industry" forward and yet Google collecting, analyzing and distributing timely and relevant information is "a race to the bottom"

    What do you mean "recently"? So far nobody has actually seen it happen yet (at least not on iPhones, but on Androids) - apart from the people who claimed the exact same thing 2 years ago. Since then, neither the iPhone 6/6+ nor the iPhone 6s/6s+ nor the iPhone SE lacked the headphone jack. Neither did any iPads, iPods or Macs, for that matter.

    Even if that had anything to do with data collection.

    And this is why only Apple Haters can take themselves (all too) seriously.

  15. Re:Web. Petition. on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    But did young people vote? I think most of them stayed home, at least much more than the other age groups...big mistake!

    Well, the Boaty McBoatface election proved their vote would be ignored.

  16. Re:This is fucking dumb on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    IOW you admit your Windows laptop has terrible battery time, which is why you only use it at your desktop at work.

  17. Re:Helps your battery life on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    No, your battery will drain much faster than that. Because the phone is serving the music as well,

    DUH. Yeah, but the headphone, even when drawing the maximum allowed power (which it will of course never do, any idiot will realize that), it would change the battery depletion by as much as you try to imply.

    In case you didn't notice, I'm calling your claim dumb bullshit.

  18. Re:Don't even bother bitching about this. on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The monopolies aren't listening anymore. Consumers lost the ability to provide feedback that would result in action long ago.

    What monopolies? There's like a hundred different phones you can buy, for anything from $50 to $700. You've got more choice in quality smartphones than ever.

    The vendor in question here was Apple, in which you're left with little or no choice.

    What does that have to do with monopolies? Words have meanings, often several, but you just can't make up new meanings because you fucking don't have a clue how to use a dictionary.

  19. Re:Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Ho on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The receptacle is much larger then what gets shoved into it. You should know.

  20. Re:Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Ho on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite possibly. But when you ask people, what they say they want isn't a thinner phone, it's more battery life, which you get by making the phone thicker.

    Actually, it's by making the phone heavier - which they don't want.

  21. Re:And as a side-line on Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted -- Nobody Knows Why (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Congress has voted to make April 20th: National Brownies Day, National Pizza Day, National Cheetohs day, National Open-Source iOS Day, National Pie Day, National Clown Day, National Hassenpfeffer Day, National DeadPool Day, and National Psychics Day in an unprecedented flurry of add-on clauses to the National No-Government-Snooping Day Bill....

    They forgot National Hitler's Birthday?

  22. https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/22/apple-unencrypted-kernel/

    “The kernel cache doesn’t contain any user info, and by unencrypting it we’re able to optimize the operating system’s performance without compromising security,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.

  23. Lol. They've demonstrated they DO NOT have a test framework worth a damn.

    Gotofail

    Gotofail? Wasn't that in an Open Source part of the OS? Considering it was called for the actual code snippet that contained the bug - yes it was. So make that another fail for Open Source.

  24. The entire point is that a critically-serious bug lay latent in OPEN SOURCE bash code - distributed all over the place - for 25 years.

    But it was found eventually and we're all safer now as a result. Could such a vulnerability have been found at all in a closed-source OS like Windows? Certainly not by a third-party researcher as was the case in Shellshock and Heartbleed.

    So a bug in an Open Source project that is widely exploited is better than a bug in closed soured software that is never found and thus never exploited. Because OPEN SOURCE.