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  1. Re:I think they mean.... on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    which apples to which oranges? you said corps raape customers at every opportunity.

  2. Re:I think they mean.... on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    a lot of companies in the relationship industries (lawyers, accoutnants, real estate agents, other) will kiss azz to keep their clients. a lot of people are loyal to certain brands because the brands "take care of them". eg Nordstrom.

  3. Re:I think they mean.... on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    corporations need to balance short-term profit and long-term profit, and this may mean raaping or kissing customer azz, as needed.

  4. Re:Where are the goth kids when you need them? on Hot Topic To Buy ThinkGeek Parent Company Geeknet · · Score: 2

    I bought my first thing from think geek just last month. It's a set of 10 glass drink coasters stacked on each other like biology slides, and each coaster has a slice of the brain on it. So when they're stacked it's like a full brain image. like an MRI. it's pretty cool I think.

  5. National motto on EU Drops Plans For Safer Pesticides After Pressure From US · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "The United States of America: keepin' it classy since 1776"

  6. Re:Cui bono? on Apple Acquires GPS Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Yes but it's not the _default_ and it's not used by any of the integrated apple software that uses a map nor does it plug into the contacts etc.

  7. Re:Cui bono? on Apple Acquires GPS Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Further, I think apple is trying to make all iphones go "dark" from google's perspective, the way that fbook is a black box for google. Considering how many people use iphones and how they are a premium product, it must drive goog nuts that they don't know what these people are doing or where they are going.

  8. Re:A GPS company. on Apple Acquires GPS Start-Up · · Score: 1

    I'm curious on two points -- do you live in the US or overseas, and have you used the app lately? I have found that apple has taken the strategy of incremental unannounced improvements, so that things get better over time without a big release.

    Second, there's something that apple maps does really well that google maps can't do at all, at least in the iphone -- siri and apple watch integration. It is soooo simple to hold down the home button and say "siri, how do I get home?" and have it automatically pull up the route. obviously, no help at all if it takes you to the wrong place!!!

  9. Re:Yo dawg, I heard you like keychains... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    wrong thread, sorry.

  10. Re:Yo dawg, I heard you like keychains... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I have 4 keychains on my keychain... one keychain has house keys, one has work keys, one has car keys, and the last one just has usb drives.

    do you have guns at home _and_ at work?

  11. Re:Probably true on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 1

    The most recent jailbreak for 8.2 wasn't released by the old jail dal teams like redsnow or whoever. It was released by a new Chinese group nobody has heard of. Hmm, I wonder who they work for? Still FUD?

  12. Re:Probably true on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 1

    first, a better link is here:
    http://www.mspy.com/compatibil...

    in order to access the icloud backup and "extract data", it needs to know the user's account password. It basically downloads the icloud backup onto another phone. L33T HAx0Rs!

    As a non-jeakbreak iphone user, I am always on the lookout for potential ways my phone can be hacked. When I find one, I'll let you know.

         

  13. Re:The simpsons are still on? on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    I don't know if the show got worse or if I got older. for a while it was a big part of my cultural consciousness. who shot mr burns. hms pinafore. monorail. I cho cho choose you. hank scorpio. then I grew up, got into other things. maybe it's a lot of things, the show's not getting older, I'm getting older.

  14. Re:Everything has a bright side on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 3, Funny

    I liked how when there was that kerfluffle over hillary's missing emails, a congressman wrote the NSA a letter directing them to retrieve the data.

  15. Re:Probably true on Mobile Spy Software Maker MSpy Hacked, Customer Data Leaked · · Score: 4, Informative

    A clarification, you can't install mspy unless you jailbreak your iPhone. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese jail breaking packages come with mspy pre-configured... Also, no jailbreak exists for iOS 8.3, the current version.

  16. Re:Note to Slashdot Editors on Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition · · Score: 1, Funny

    I went to see Ex Machina yesterday. I want my own Ava (but with the "stab" feature disabled).

    Spoiler alert!

  17. Re:The simpsons are still on? on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    when did he leave?

  18. Re: Whatever... on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    your ass probably wouldn't fry for it. You may be convicted in trial court, but the conviction would likely be overturned in the appellate courts because of supreme court precedent saying that in your particular circumstances it's legal to do what you described.

  19. Re: Whatever... on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    they will likely have "qualified immunity" because at the time they were breaking the law they had implicit/explicit approval from the FISA court.

  20. Re:Whatever... on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    meh. I say that the section 215 of the patriot act as written is not necessarily a violation of the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments. it authorizes the collection of business records relevant to a terrorist investigation. it only became unconstitutional when "business records" was interpreted to mean "anything we want" and "investigation" was interpreted to mean "eternal vigilance." Section 215 could very easily be implemented in a way that is constitutionally sound, and thus the provision itself is not unconstitutional.

    Given the options on the table i would take the improvement. this legislative improvement, along with a bitch-slapped NSA who would stay within the intent of the law, is much better than what we had before.

  21. Re: "an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 1

    "Nothing."

  22. Re:Bummer on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    further, rail is private infrastructure. BNSF, UP, CSX, KS, and the others can upgrade their stuff when they feel like it.

  23. wow you're totally right. so what, I'm just off by 10^9 :) thanks for being the smart guy in the room and catching the stupid mistake.

  24. Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." on California Gets Past the Yuck Factor With "Toilet To Tap" Water Recycling · · Score: 2

    First off, all water in earth was, at one time, "pee water" just as most nitrogen you breath in has, at one time, been flatulence. So this is only an emotional, but not a practical concern.

    Secondly, there are other states to live in if you are strongly against your current state's path and feel that you cannot influence any change. Most other states have more water and less people as well.

    *fewer

  25. my bad. it used to be illegal but they changed the state law back in 2012. I think it's still illegal in some states.

    http://www.jdsupra.com/legalne...