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  1. Every iPhone for sale right now comes with a headphone jack.
    Some Android phones for sale right now do not come with a headphone jack.

    Yet somehow it is Apple that is at fault for removing headphone jacks.

  2. Re:Pyrrhic victory on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So you'll willingly reduce the costs of someone who had no hope of gaining revenue from you, but you think that will make them *unhappy*?

  3. Re:Just leave? on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Content is fungible; your friends are not.

    If you have no friends, there was no point to being on Facebook in the first place.

  4. We know one of two things is true on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Julian Assange will out a source if it will get him press attention, or
    2. The dead guy was not the actual source and the DNC would have no motive to take retribution, so Julian Assange will lie about a source if it will get him press attention.

  5. Re:People who were associated with... on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must we allow Kevin Bacon to murder again?

  6. Re:While It Sucks... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The federal constitution reserves powers not granted to the PEOPLE. Powers specifically granted go to either the states or the federal government, but that does not mean that the states get anything not granted.

  7. Re:I don't understand the text security angle on Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft? (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that texts are not addressed to your phone or even your SIM card but to your number. The security of SMS 2FA is limited by the security of getting a new SIM for a given number which is just a small amount of social engineering. You may not even notice right away that your number has been redirected.

  8. Re:Ecouragement on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The downside of poisoning the data is that these databases are used for verifying your identity. Have you ever get hit with a series of questions like "Which of these four address have you lived at in the last 10 years?" That's an instance of this verification technique. But there doesn't seem to be any verification, since I have gotten questions where there is no correct choice.

    My fear is not about good data getting out but so much bad data getting in so that I can no longer prove who I am.

  9. Re:High failure rate on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That being my entire point. You can't write off an entire storage division forever since they've all had problems at one time or another.

  10. Re: Roaming charges is a racket of tolls and taxes on Japanese Olympic Champion Racks Up $5,000 Bill Playing Pokemon Go in Brazil (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Republic only offers international access via wifi. If I had access to wifi, I would just use the wifi.

  11. Re:They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the difference between net margin and gross margin.

    Simplified: The net margin is difference between the sum of all revenue and the sum of all expenditures. The gross margin is the difference between just incremental revenue for an incremental amount expended.

    The gross margin for Tesla last quarter was +21.9%. That means that to earn $1 additional revenue it would cost them only 78.1 cents. Additional work adds revenue faster that it adds costs, so if you add enough work you can offset the fixed costs and turn a profit. I.e. you can make it up in volume.

    Ignore the people that think it's just some MBA drivel. They are the one that failed their micro-economics class.

  12. Re:They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This reply is in the wrong place in the comment tree. Please ignore.

  13. Re:They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, got the wrong reply link in the comment tree. Ignore that other reply that should be making no sense to you.

  14. Re:They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard to tell if that is successful comedy or failed microeconomics. These days the only law is Poe's Law.

  15. That would be an impedance to their progress. Some people could get really wound up. What could induce such a change?

  16. There is a battery of cells reserved.

  17. Re:High failure rate on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    HGST come from the merger of Hitachi and IBM storage divisions. The HGST Deskstar comes from the IBM side and the Deskstar 75GXP model was notorious as the "Deathstar" for failures.

  18. Re:High failure rate on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    If you wrote off every manufacturer that hit a 20% annualized failure rate you would now be unable to buy any drives.

  19. Re:Multi-process not available for most users? on Firefox 48 Released With Multi-Process Support, Mandatory Add-On Signing (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    "and in ten days' time, Mozilla will activate e10s for 50 percent of the same users."

    It's disturbing that they're changing the configuration default outside of a visible version update.

  20. Re:Calling this a first amendment issue denigrates on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    "You have no right to publish video footage of people having sex unless you have their permission."

    How do you reconcile this position with the sex-tape cases that have been decided in favor of the publisher?

  21. Re:Imgur, eh on 'How I Hacked Imgur for Fun and Profit' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you should be given a safe space away from SJWs

  22. Re:Good reason to spend a trillion of public money on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If creating hardware were required to demonstrate skill, the self-image of 99% of Slashdot's users would be irreparably harmed. ;-)

  23. Re:DNC are the media domination superpower on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The only think really damaging in the DNC hack was the doxing of the small dollar donors. Everything else was already known. DWS was already being pushed out; this was just an excuse.

    The real issue is Wikileaks promoting itself instead of facilitating leaks, undermining the trust that we have placed in that org. This data had already been out for over a month. That is why there was time for find the Russian groups behind the "Guccifer 2.0" front. Wikileaks had sat on it to try make a big splash at the convention, but either never bothered to look at what it had or didn't realize that doxing was not a scoop.

  24. "how quickly attention was diverted from the DNC fixing the nomination process"

    That is more because there was no evidence of the DNC fixing their nomination process, just an expected level of ineffectual bitching by minor players.

    The common message these days is that Wikileaks no longer promotes any useful information, just doxing of proles.

  25. Odd days, even days on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    On odd days, we mock the proles for not using browser extension, thereby leaving themselves vulnerable to security exploits and tracking.

    On even days, we mock the proles for using browser extensions, thereby leaving themselves vulnerable to memory leaks.