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  1. For the purpose of extending the phone life all batteries are replaceable, you only need a screwdriver.

  2. Re:So, how does this work exactly? on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    kickass?

  3. Re:Morons on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    This explains why so many feminists have personalities and attitudes of trashy people who are always commanding and passive-aggressive at the very least.

    The feminist you heard of are usually feminist in movement leadership positions. In my experience, women in leadership positions are usually commanding and passive-aggressive at the very least. Just take a look a women in politics across the world. I've found an exception to this on hard sciences academia, but women in academia are a niche case.

    It may be that women need to be bitchy to achieve power in a "patriarchal society" or that bitchiness is intrinsic to female leadership.

  4. Re:All on my kindle on Belgians Are Hunting Books, Instead Of Pokemon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    payhip.com they accept paypal and their cut is lower than amazon's.

    Or if you'll keep writing you could open a patreon and add access to your ebooks there.

    But most independent authors prefer to sign amazon exclusivity contracts to access amazon unlimited

  5. Re:Signed drivers? on Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tablets and phones use MTP, kindle uses USB mass storage like a pen drive.

    USB mass storage prevents the storage from being accessed from multiple devices at the same time, so Google went with MTP for android but Windows didn't include it on Windows7 nor any of it's updates (Not sure if it's preinstalled on w8 or w10).

  6. Kindles emulate standard USB storage.
    This seems more like windows trying to be "smart", detecting a kindle device and handling it different, triggering a bug.


    This is a stupid bug that should not happen (as a kindle device should be handled by userspace and killed when unresponsive)


    On the other hand, my linux experience when handling corrupted IO devices sectors hasn't been wonderful, so I can say the grass isn't much greener from this side of the fence.

  7. Re:They've been scrambling not improving on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The game release was rushed, pressured by Nintendo, because they wanted POGO to hipe (instead of overlap) the pokemon sun/moon releases.

    That's obvious by the time it took them to fix the tracking system an the load balancing of the servers. The game was also released feature incomplete ( no fighting, no trading, and on version 0.2*)

  8. Re: All your attention are belong to us on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Maemo wasn't about having a unix prompt, it was about having a mobile phone, with a tablet/touchphone UI for easiness of use, but with a PC OS capabiites. That meant that all your gui-less linux tools ecosystems was directly ported.

    Usually servers, or background processes that did some shit, that from time to time I still need to do on Android from time to time, but I can't so I need to use some ugly halfass app from the android playstore that might not do exactly what I need.

    On the other hand, non power users had a normal playstore that installed normal phone apps, and wouldn't see the difference.

    I still don't konw if maemo model would be up to the security standards required today, but that's another discussion.

  9. Re:Patch not needed quickly... on 900M Android Devices Vulnerable To New 'Quadrooter' Security Flaw (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody can comment on how strict are apple / google security processes to publish an app on their stores?

  10. What would prevent a bugged android apk to be delivered via the playstore? Are the gatekeepers that trustworthy?
    I don't trust them, but I did trust android permissions to (at least) identify apps with strange behaviours. Seems I was wrong and I'll need to stop installing crap.

    This is a serious bug, but iOS security superiority is not on its walled garden, but in its timely OS updates.

  11. My high school teacher once said that there was no Astronomy price, because of an an affair of Mrs Nobel (too lazy to Google if that was true, or if it was lack of empirical evidence on the subject)

  12. Re:People aren't getting married on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, we're getting back to where we were hundreds of years ago

    What about arranged marriages around the world today? Even in US orthodox communities.
    Or what about post WWI arranged weddings between an Europeans working in America (as in continent), and pre-feminism single woman without available mens in their county.

  13. Fist they came for the Mexicans, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Mexican.
    Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Muslim.
    Then they came for the Obama Care, and I did not speak out— Because I was not on the 16% of uninsured Americans.
    Then they came for the Porn! Thanks God we didn't repeal our Second Amendment Rights.

  14. An apple user is more likely to spend $$$ than a droid user, thus, it's worth the cut.

  15. Re:It's obvious it won't accelerate offshoring on Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the issue, 12K is the mid degree salary in my country. with 20K/30K you'd get the top (that doesn't want to leave the country). US salaries are ridiculous.

  16. Re:Pokemon Go to rake in nearly $13 Billion on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only for apple players (I don't know what's the ratio of paying [ Android | Apple ] freemium paying players )

  17. Re:In a us court what about an German one? on US Navy Faces $600M Lawsuit For Allegedly Pirating 3D VR Software (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They could distraint US assets on the UE, as from outside of the country this can be seen as an infraction made by the US government, not only the navy.
    (They could, but they would need a lots of $$$ and balls to obtain such a court rule)

  18. Re:Android Nougger vs. Windows RT on Android Nougat Won't Boot If Your Phone's Software Is Corrupt Or Has Malware (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see why people would be less angry at Google for doing it than Microsoft given the differences in circumstance.

    I can't. Most people don't that use custom ROMs, don't do it for the cool factor, but because there are things they want to do with their phone that otherwise can't because the crippled capabilities of Android/OEMs, or because they want an uniform experience across devices.

    Locking the firmware ( with no way to disable this lock ) would enrage me (and a lot of people).

  19. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1


    That would need the Great Wall of Amazonia, which doesn't exist You don't need a Great Wall, just a court order directed to each ISP.

  20. Why? Do you think it's any different in US land of the free?
    Do you really believe that, for even one second, Google and Facebook refused to provide data requested by US judges? O wait, they didn't even need to ask because the NSA has a cart blanche on their servers.

  21. Re:people spend more time in its app than in Faceb on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    John Nash? is that you?

  22. Re:So how do we sandbox it? on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 2

    Just install skype on a docker container,
    See http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014...

  23. Re:Closed-source on Linux on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 1

    And besides the adds, how is it different from the previous version ?

  24. Re:exactly the kind of innovation i want to see. on Microsoft Finally Releases New Skype App For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 1

    Like SIP? oh, wait...

  25. Re:Android version on Pokemon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Making you pay to be able to run the app in the background without you realizing that's what you're doing.

    Otherwise you need to walk with the phone unlocked, and the app active ( unless a mod exists to keep apps in the background believing they're in the foreground).
    It's similar to Nintendo's pay for this toy to unlock a game character.