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  1. Re:Obsolescence is a cruel mistress on Report: Apple To Unveil "Smart Home" System · · Score: 1

    Awesome if you are prepared to rip it out and install a new one every 3 years, when Cupertino yells "Change Places!"

    For example?

  2. Re:What dumbass wrote this? on Organic Cat Litter May Have Caused Nuclear Waste Accident · · Score: 1

    Don't know how I saw Jet Fuel.

    Strangely, I saw it too. I had to read it again.

  3. Re:Zenimax will lose, and in the worst way on Zenimax Sues Oculus Over VR Tech · · Score: 1

    Where would COD be if it didn't have a yearly release?

    I'm not hardcore gamer. (I loved Halo, for example), but when I was a kid we had these outlined sketch drawings with numbers in them. Whatever the number was, that was the color you filled in. Don't think, just find the right crayon and try to stay within the lines.
    That was a better game than recent CODs.

  4. Re:good on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Now you have to go to support.apple.com and let Apple know you no longer want your old phone / number associated with your iCloud account. That takes about 30 seconds.

    Sure, but in the mean time senders shouldn't be getting "delivered" notices. But they are. That's the problem. I'm an Apple fan, but Messages has issues. Lots of them.

  5. Re:Just Works on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    The fact that fruit lovers like yourself are prepared to defend, an anticompetitive move.

    It's a bug, not a malicious act. It's one of the many bugs found in Messages.

  6. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    The Messages sent on iMessage give a delivered signal when they reach the target phone.

    That's the way it's supposed to work, yes. But if for example you send a message from your phone, then go another device and look at the thread, there's a non-zero chance that your original phone will now mark it as delivered, even though the actual recipient hasn't received it.

  7. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of anti-competitive behavior that gets companies in trouble

    You think it was intentional? That'd be pretty dumb. Really dumb. Messages is far from perfect, and this is surely just one more problem.

    Just this morning I used Messages on the Mac to send a simple text (to an iPhone user). A few minutes later I hear my phone receive a message, but not the computer. I ignored it at first, but then I looked at the phone. It was a reply to my earlier text. I continued the chat using the computer, sending several messages. About ten minutes later her original reply *finally* appeared on the computer. Now out of order, of course.

    This was a bit unusual, but it happens often enough to demonstrate that Apple has a lot of work to do on Messages.

    I also use Line on both the phone and the computer, and that *never* happens. And Line has about 400M accounts, so it's not like Apple has the excuse of too much volume.

  8. Re:From whence the headline? on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    This is why people hate Apple users.

    If something like that make you "hate," then perhaps you should consider raising your level of tolerance.

  9. I feel a disturbance on Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if thousands of patent lawyers suddenly cried out in terror.

  10. Re:We'll take any victory, I suppose on Ten States Pass Anti-Patent-Troll Laws, With More To Come · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless Texas is on that list, I'll give the states an "atta-boy", but it's not as though it will make a serious difference

    I don't see how that's the case. It's about the threatening letters, not the place where a suit might be filed. If they're sending the letters to a company located in one of those states, it doesn't matter where the troll is located or where the suit might be filed.

  11. And in the summer they could go to John Cougar Melon Camp.

  12. Re:So... cloud access? on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 1
    And the SMS specifically means SMS, not messages. Messages sent using iMessage cannot be retrieved (nor can FaceTime calls), as they are end-to-end encrypted.

    I don't know if services like Line and WhatsApp encrypt their messages.

  13. Re:This has little to do with copyright law on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    Leasing a car is universally stupid. You lose in every way. If you have more money than brains, sure, have at it, but its never a good deal.

    Universally? Never? Wouldn't that depend on the terms? Leasing can be structured to be better or worse than buying. There's nothing inherent that makes it so.

  14. Re:Zenimax is salty on Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False" · · Score: 1

    Maybe XXX is a billion dollars.

  15. Re:Stealing from Elder Scrolls? on Oculus: ZeniMax Claims Over Rift Tech Are "False" · · Score: 1

    I read that as Hosed Armor...actually, either fits.

    I read it as Horse Amour. Turns out that doesn't fit very well at all.

  16. Re:Is this all that surprising? on Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons In the Eye · · Score: 1

    You are nitpicking the chosen example, not refuting the idea behind it.

  17. Re: frosty piss on Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps · · Score: 1

    If you give police the location of your phone, it's probably less than an hour's worth of work for two of them to track it down and get it back.

    See Plumpergeddon for an example. He not only had the exact location, he had ongoing daily photographs of the thief. Hundreds of them. He had screen shots of him apparently perpetrating fraud. Cops never cared at all.

  18. Re:Blue color was a plot device.... on Breaking Bad's Scientific Consultant On Making Meth and More · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that pinning the blue color on the P2P cook process was done by the writers before they had a scientific adviser onboard.

    So you're not buying what the article said about that?

  19. Re:Happy to see it. on Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    If he actually does get the $32m fine then that just means he'll be paying a small sum every month until he hits the statute of limitation.

    What? What is this "statute of limitation"? And why do you think he'll be paying a small amount each month? If he can't pay he'll be forced into bankruptcy, unless the winner is willing to accept some other arrangement. But they won't. They want to break him.

  20. Re:Pretty chilling honestly on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 2

    It is not the DOJ's job to mete out punishment; to be be judge, jury, and executioner. There is a system in place for very good reasons.

  21. Re:Why not generate in both directions? on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    Why not generate in both directions, and get AC current?

    And add one more after that, giving you 3D current, an essential ingredient in building the flying car.

  22. Re:Sharing is common outside the west on Why the Sharing Economy Is About Desperation, Not Trust · · Score: 1

    And hope to get offered the same....this is called altruism

    No it isn't.

  23. Re:You mean, such a low cut... on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 0

    Apple isn't even handling the payments. No traffic needs to be handled by them

    Apple handles the payments. The seller gets paid by Apple. As a buyer this is good. Sellers don't get my credit card #, they don't don't get my name, and they don't get my email address. No spam, no fraud, no BS.

  24. Re:real reason why.... on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    "standard" usage will reach about 2/4 years before the degrade in mileage

    Only six months? Wow, that's not so good.

  25. Re:this is why I leased my Leaf on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    Personally I self-insure everything for which there isn't a legal necessity to have insurance. I don't see any point in paying someone else to take a risk when I can do it myself.

    Yes. About the only time insurance makes financial sense is when the outcome would be ruinous otherwise. This obviously excludes, for example, extended warranties. Whoever came up with that one is probably in the Retail Sales Hall of Fame.