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  1. How do you authenticate authorship though? on Unsent Text On Mobile Counts As a Will, Australian Court Finds (abc.net.au) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The purpose of having a signed and witnessed will is proof that it was authored or approved by the individual. Even with an unwitnessed handwritten will you can authenticate the author from handwriting analysis. How can this be accomplished for a document typed on a Smartphone, when anyone could have picked the phone up and typed it in post hoc?

  2. I'm not a fan of Google but how is this abuse of dominance? The smartphone makers/partners weren't coerced or forced to make Google their default search engine - they did so willingly in exchange for compensation. How is this any different than Norton paying computer makers to preload their software?

  3. Smartphones damage cognitive ability even when off on A Small But Growing Group Of Silicon Valley Heretics Are Disconnecting Themselves From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Other reported side effects from smartphones being off include diminished cellular reception, darker display, and a less-responsible touch-screen.

  4. How many bots saw these ads as well? on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only ameliorating factor in this is how millions of those ads were probably never seen by a human but instead rendered onto an offscreen bitmap in video memory by a fraudulent ad bot designed to extract the most funds out of unsuspecting advertisers, in this case Russia but usually clueless Madison Ave. companies.

  5. Relative utility vs other useless consumer junk on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the target market of the iPhone X, the smartphone is their most used possession by a large margin. Considering how people buy tons of (expensive) crap they don't use, I can see how one might rationalize $1k for a smartphone, even with less expensive (and suitable) alternatives available.

  6. New billion-dollar deal for Apple with Google? on Apple Replaces Bing With Google as Search Engine For Siri and Spotlight (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember when Cook gave a speech about how evil Google's business model was in terms of privacy, all while Apple was collecting billions of dollars from Google in a secret agreement between the two companies to make Google the default search engine in iOS?

    Based on this news it looks like Google just sweetened that deal.

  7. Maybe iOS 11 users more active because it's new? on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I upgrade to a new version of iOS I always spend extra time looking around to discover and use its new features. I wonder how much of this report's battery-drain difference can be attributed to that?

  8. That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A 2-liter of Coca Coca cost pennies to make.

  9. Re:Something must be wrong if they removed support on Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think you need to dial up your coherency quotient because your post makes absolutely no sense.

  10. Something must be wrong if they removed support on Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You don't provide device support with a filesystem in a beta and then remove it in the GA release unless something significant was found wrong with it. Like fundamentally wrong with it rather than just a collection of bugs. If I was a beta tester with a fusion drive I would be rather worried now about the state of my data.

  11. And that's only when being smog tested on Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The amount is 10x that when the pollution abatement algorithm of the car's ECM sn't running :)

  12. Negligence or malfeasance - you pick on Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of US Criminal Probe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So either these top-level executives were negligent in not knowing of a major security breach that others in the company likely knew or they broke securities laws by selling shares with material insider information.

  13. Re:Hyperloop is safer as a function of its speed on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Because when 500 tons of metal moving at 700mph hits something that something tends to break.

  14. Hyperloop is safer as a function of its speed on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Because even if it derails it has enough momentum to still reach its destination. Granted it might bring a long a few unintended payload items, such as some cars and city buses.

  15. Re:Can it clean it's own malware though? on Avast's CCleaner Free Windows Application Infected With Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    correction: "its own malware".

  16. Can it clean it's own malware though? on Avast's CCleaner Free Windows Application Infected With Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be a cool trick - identifying itself as malware and then deleting it.

  17. Alternate submission title suggestion: on Sedentary Lifestyle Study Called 'A Raging Dumpster Fire' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sit down for this - study about sitting doesn't sit well."

  18. Forget multi-core - single-core is where it smokes on Apple's A11 Bionic Chip In iPhone 8 and iPhone X Smokes Android Handsets In Early Benchmarks (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The most impressive aspect of Apple's ARM chips is in their single-core performance, which is arguably a more useful, real-world metric since many common tasks in apps are principally single-threaded. By that measure Apple is more than 2x faster than Samsung's S8.

  19. From the same company who lies repeatedly on Apple Explains Face ID On-stage Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reception issues? You're holding it wrong
    You iPhone 6 display touchscreen stops working? You must have dropped it
    Video display on your Macbook flickering? Isolated, non-systemic incident

  20. That outfit would have made a great viral YT video on Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3

    Been done before but the Ford setup is much more convincing.

  21. After protesting they'll head to Walmart to shop on Hundreds of AT&T Wireless Workers and Supporters Plan To Protest at iPhone 8 Launch at Apple HQ · · Score: 1

    Thus completing the circle of self-interested hypocrisy.

  22. One active season and now everything is different? on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We've had very quiet hurricane seasons these past years, which makes this year's normal season seem like some type of outlier. Yes Irma was a very strong storm, the strongest ever in the Atlantic by recorded standards, but it's not the strongest ever hurricane even in just the northern hemisphere. What causes hurricanes is the same as what's always caused hurricanes.

  23. Until now.

  24. Time for a sequel to Glengarry Glen Ross on Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With the characters wearing khaki pants and blue shirts. ABC, Always Be Closing [your crappy retail stores].

  25. Re:That free app going to cost AccWeather a fortun on Popular Weather App AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing is Off (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump is too busying losing and playing golf to mind the FTC.