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  1. Great on ECMAScript 6 Is Officially a JavaScript Standard · · Score: 1

    How long until we can actually use it? How long until Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari supports it on all their respective supported platforms?

  2. Re:Ditch the godamn phone on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    Google Voice, magicJack, etc.

  3. Ditch the godamn phone on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    Cable/satellite is too expensive for what it offers, so a lot of people dropped it. We have a few/lots of alternatives available depending on the country.

    Phone service is also too expensive for what it offers, it's being abused by scammers and people still pay for it? Drop the damn thing. We're in the Internet age, there's plenty of alternative ways to contact other people, no matter which platform you use and no matter where you live.

  4. Re:Could you imagine? on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1
  5. Re:First they need an exemplar on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    I'm not posing, people are just taking photos without asking. Then you ask them not to post those photos online and we're back to "is this a joke/conspiracy nut" and they upload them anyway.

  6. Re:Could you imagine? on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 2

    If AT&T had a wireless monopoly we'd be paying $10 per megabyte of 2g data right now.

    That's the regular rates in Canada.

  7. Re:You're missing the bigger point on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    Facebook still has no idea what I look like.

    That's what you'd like to think. Unfortunately for you, my sources revealed the following information:

    ...when facebook started their facial recognition stuff, I uploaded dozens of photos of Mark Zuckerberg to my profile...

    So prepared to be shocked: here's what you look like.

  8. Re:First they need an exemplar on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 2

    Everyone has family and friends. A percentage of those use social media. And in that percentage, most will think you're joking or a conspiracy nut if you ask them not to put photos of yourself online and will do it anyway.

    Then there's cameras everywhere that can still "know" you until they can match with absolute certainty that you are Mr.X by checking purchases with credit/debit cards when you're the only one around, etc.

  9. Re:You don't get it, do you? on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    [stupid_laws]
    But if a company does it with cameras installed everywhere they're not physically following you, they're only writing down everything you do and everywhere you go, that is called marketing.
    [/stupid_laws]

  10. Re:different approach on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 1
  11. Maybe it's Zimbabwean dollars, in which case it means Uber isn't even worth one U.S.A. dollar. I'd be okay with that.

  12. That's stupid on Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Samsung has provided a patch to carriers

    So if your carrier doesn't want to patch your phone to force you to buy yet another phone/switch to a costlier monthly package... well, you're screwed.

    I prefer the Apple method: they make the phones, they make the OS and the basic software, they push the updates directly to you. Letting the carriers in charge of anything but the actual communications is just insane.

  13. Re:Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the game was coded properly, according to the specifications of the APIs but the older drivers weren't 100% compliant with the specs of those APIs.

  14. Re: Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Only when I fall on the floor and start rolling around.

  15. Re:Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, I was spending 100% of my time around myself.

  16. Re:Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 3

    Vegan is not a religion.

    And while we're at it, atheism isn't a religion either.

  17. Re:What about butter? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Most margarines sold at my local stores haven't been hydrogenated for quite a few years now.

  18. Re:Soybean Oil = Allergen not good replacement on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    If a company uses lard, they lose vegetarian and vegan customers.

  19. Re:Palm oil? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    I completely messed that up, didn't I?

    If a company uses lard, they lose vegetarian and vegan customers.
    If a company uses butter, they lose vegetarian, vegan and lactose-intolerant customers.

  20. Re:Palm oil? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    If a company uses lard, they lose vegetarian customers.
    If a company uses butter, they lose vegetarian, vegan and lactose-intolerant customers.

  21. Re:Pronoun Game Anyone? on Amazon Pulls Kodi Media Player From App Store Over Piracy Claims · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense to me either.

  22. I found a problem with the Nexus 6 on Google Expands Security Rewards To Bugs In Android Devices · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesn't even know it's an android.

  23. FDA bans trans fats? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Is this a South Park episode? Last time, the FDA banned gluten.

  24. Isn't Ogg a container? Did you mean Vorbis?

  25. Re:Solar Cell efficiency on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    I don't see how making it into the shape of a motorcycle would improve anything.