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  1. Re:How about having a user accessable mem card slo on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Why woulkd you never again consider an SD card when you already acknowledged that Android deals with the issue in a much saner way today (http://source.android.com/devices/storage/adoptable.html)? That's like saying you'll never drive a car again because people died 65 years ago before the invention of the seatbelts.

  2. Fireworks have damaged Verizon's hearing on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And made them tone deaf, because the idea of raising prices even with a new program to allow rollover data is a non-starter in the U.S. market, which already has some of the highest cellular fees in the world.

  3. Just in time for Ellen Pao's upoming book on Women Interviewing For Tech Jobs Actually Did Worse When Their Voices Were Masked As Men's (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Pao recently announced that she's writing a book about Silicon Valley's "toxic culture". I imagine the results from this study wont be included in her data.

  4. This is the greatest iPhone innovation since... on Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    the removal of the headphone jack.

  5. Re:Easier to Travel To China on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true, but the chances of being able to "take in the views" in China and actually see something (other than smog) are next to zero as well.

  6. Welcome to Texas, the business-friendly state on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 0

    But sorry, we're only friendly to the businesses that pay our politicians influence money, like the taxi-cab authority.

  7. Re:Failed approach on LeBron James Used A Steve Jobs Speech To Motivate The Cavs To Victory (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But I would rather live 56 Steve Jobs year than 95 John Sculley years.

  8. They want their cake and to eat it too on 180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Either you accept the huge value you get from the free distribution of your promotional materials (ie videos) and make the money on your actual album sales and tours or you start asking people to pay to watch them and make nothing on your albums and tours. Your choice.

  9. They built it but does it work? on China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Or even turn on?

  10. Re:"Nearly" stock Android. on OnePlus 3 Featuring 5.5-inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6GB RAM Launched at $400 · · Score: 0

    Like how RSA developed the BSAFE cryptography library using the NSA's compromised random number generator? No thanks.

  11. If Swift is any guide... on Apple Introduces New File System AFPS With Tons Of 'Solid' Features (apple.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This new filesystem should become stable in about 2028.

  12. Next year Apple will release Prenatal Playgrounds on Apple Introduces Swift Playgrounds App To Teach Kids To Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that fetuses will pop out already knowing how to code Swift.

  13. Re:The fraud called Theranos is almost dead on Walgreens Cuts Ties With Blood-Test Startup Theranos (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the company started with good intentions. However no amount of ambition and optimism can replace actual technological progress. Their continued secrecy and refusal to submit to independent scientific scrutiny was probably a gambit to buy themselves more time to find a way to get the technology to work. I think as pressure grew to deliver a working product is probably when the line between optimism and misrepresentation (and potential fraud) started to blur. It will be interesting to see how this ends.

  14. Customers despise software subscription models, esp for non-essential apps typically found on smartphones/tablets.

  15. Google will get people shot in road-rage incidents on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    All it takes is one wrong honk toward one wrong recipient and it's lights-out for the nerd inside the Google car.

  16. I have a solution to this on 93% Of Phishing Emails Are Now Ransomware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just click on the following embedded link:

    ...

  17. Apple's infinite loop road named for engineering on Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because apparently their engineers lack the ability to think far enough ahead to design something that lasts longer than a single coding cycle.

  18. She's probably worth less than zero on Forbes Just Cut Its Estimate of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes's Net Worth From $4.5 Billion To Zero (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    When you account for potential criminal defense legal fees.

  19. Re:Multi-threaded applications on Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E · · Score: 1

    Except each of those threads is going to pollute the L3 cache of the others, which occurs in data-intensive workloads like your db case. This means you're not going to see anywhere near 100% scaling for each additional core.

  20. Re:The tried and true "whack-a-mole" strategy on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody picking up a wallet they see on the street and keeping it would be a crime of opportunity. Shooting someone dead is not.

  21. The tried and true "whack-a-mole" strategy on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Putting cameras on I-80 may deter shootings on the highway but I'm guessing the bullets will start pop-pop-popping up somewhere else.

  22. Think a bit more globally - the standard of living around the world has exploded since 1975. Much to chagrin of Americans, the fruits of labor in a globalized world are shared by everyone instead of just Americans.

  23. "Such bacteria were known in China..." on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    More proof of our trade imbalance with China.

  24. These same arguments were made during the industrial revolution and yet prosperity has exploded since that time.