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  1. Re:And we all wonder how Trump got elected. on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast doesn't know I turned off my TV.

    The newer boxes do. That's how they implement the power saving mode. When the TV has been off for a certain amount of time then the box shuts off unless a recording is scheduled.

  2. Who cares? I want an accurate fast cheap diagnosis.

    The human will not stop at looking at a picture. Anything that's suspicious will be tested. The 95% for the CNN, by itself, is not good enough. That remaining 5% is quite a large percentage of the non-obvious portion.

  3. Re: Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you so rude without making a point? It's obviously going to happen.

  4. Re:Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the poorest people who need to go to work

    They are the ones who will benefit the most. Taxis and buses will become much cheaper. Owning a car will be relatively uncommon. No need to maintain "an old manual beater" when hiring a car is so inexpensive.

  5. Re:Story missing important details on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be problems during the transition. But once they're all autos and talking to each other that type of problem goes away. My guess is that once people become comfortable with them that will happen quickly. The advantages are too compelling.

  6. Re:Corporations are people too! on CenturyLink Fights Billing-Fraud Lawsuit By Claiming That It Has No Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    more than approximately 450,000 fiber route miles

    What a strange statement.

  7. Re:Same as with people on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    Add some gator-misspellings to that sign and it would be a Far Side comic.

  8. Re:Sure on Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I completely trust that this was fabricated in any way that China is an oasis for freedom.

    From which language was your comment translated?

  9. So long as the iPad requires a $90 stylus

    It's not required at all. Fingers will work just fine. They've just added support for it.

  10. Well Apple copied the notch so whatever.

    Not even Apple thinks it's a feature, knee-jerk. Only those other phone makers think that.

  11. I have been using both Apple and Android fingerprint scanners for years, and have found them quite reliable, regardless of conditions.

    What about when your hands are wet? For me the fingerprint never works then.

  12. FaceID is a terrible idea anyway. Notches in the screen? Seriously?

    Amazingly, they are copying the notch , just not the faceID.

  13. Re:As long as it on Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If (when) they become greedy and charge me

    Charging for a service is your definition of "greedy"?

  14. it would be useful to tally the number of times that conspiracy theory has become conspiracy fact.

    Considering that there is always a conspiracy theory about anything even mildly unknown, then the number of times they became fact would be equal to the number of actual conspiracies. (Unless it isn't, in which case I have a theory about that.)

  15. The text clearly conveys what the author intended, so as language it has succeeded.

    ok. But presumably you do concede that the proper way to compare in these case is with "as fast", not faster. Why support doing it incorrectly when the correct way is so simple and clear?

  16. You're right, it's not ambiguous. In this case it's clearly wrong.

  17. This is good news indeed, as there's plenty of legislation in need of repair.

  18. Re: Too bad slashdot used to cause these on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Please explain why it's not OSX's fault it's not able to speak ASCII?

    I'll bet you're a fan of imperial weights and measures too.

  19. Re: I wonder why on Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Down For First Time Ever (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Stop missing the point.

  20. Re:I wonder why on Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Down For First Time Ever (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Oh, and be careful with Apple '0%' monthly payments. If you take a second to multiply it out, it's no 0% at all, you end up paying something like 20% more!

    It is 0%. You're probably not including Apple Care in your calculation. If you don't want Apple Care, don't do the deal.

  21. God did not give rocks any sense in the way in which you use the term

    Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

  22. Re:Depends on faster-than-light on Would You Fear Alien Life or Welcome It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It will be all computers anyway. It's just a matter of time here and probably everywhere else too, and the computers won't care about the meat creatures.

  23. Re:Whats new? on Energy Riches Fuel Bitcoin Craze For Speculation-shy Iceland (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway I don't know how it works in the whole world but in the EU corporations don't pay sales taxes.

    You're saying that if a corporation buys, for example, a desk, there's no VAT or sales tax in the price? That they would get a better price than an individual would?

  24. Re: It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like they stop showing ads on demonetized videos, they just stop sharing the profits.

    Really? I was under the impression that no ads were run. Didn't this get stirred up because advertisers didn't want to be seen against certain types of videos? And what is the point of demonetizing them? Simply to not have to share? That's short sighted. The most important thing for you tube is preserving their near-monopoly.

  25. Re: It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can create a pre-release review phase.