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  1. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    FWIW, the reason I upgraded was band coverage. I was going to travel more, and about to visit the US, so going from LTE bands 1/3/5/7/8/20 to 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/25/26/28/29/30/32/66/71 was a huge step forward.

  2. Re:My Xperia-ence on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    If they'd just ship Android One, it would be fine. Their icon pack is pissing me off.

  3. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. I upgraded from a OnePlus 3 to a OnePlus 6 middle of last year, and I immediately noticed how much smoother everything is. Not that the OnePlus 3 did not feel smooth before, but there's still a noticeable difference. Also um, don't forget (security) updates - they alone are worth upgrading to a new generation.

  4. Re:"Summary"? on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    4 pages is a long summary in the post-twitter society.

  5. Re:brain bleach connundrum on Many Android VPN Apps Request 'Dangerous' Permissions They Don't Need (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    That is mostly correct. Unfortunately, if you want to access other files, it's not that easy - think import/export settings. The documentation says to use ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT, and that works fine - mostly. On Xiaomi phones, it will just pop up a dialog telling the user to enable external storage permissions. The user can toggle that on in settings - if it's listed in the manifest (that said, you do not have to request the permission in the app at runtime and just leave that crutch for poor MIUI users). So, if you want to do any import/export thing, you need the permission in your manifest, or it won't work on Xiaomi.

  6. Re: Raise the price, please on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Blessed be our telescreens

  7. 2 years does not seem a particularly long time.

  8. Safe TAN on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the summary as safe TAN, and was confused when it talked about tan instead.

  9. Re:So everyone except Firefox is based on WebKit t on Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    WebKit was built on KHTML, not the other way around. LGPLed KHTML was the reason they had to publish WebKit it in the first place.

  10. Re:This should have been posted before /. poll on Google, Which Owns Duck.com, Confuses Users Searching For Its Rival DuckDuckGo and Redirects Them Back To Google (twitter.com) · · Score: 0

    It seems ridiculous on an absolute scale; but it's only 5% of Google's 2017 revenue. They still get to keep 95%. That said, the obvious response would be for the US goverment to impose tarrifs on EU goods of the same amount.

  11. Re:It's *not* Linux! on Microsoft Works To Port Ubuntu To Windows ARM (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Wait, what's rocket surgery? How does that work?

  12. Re:Are they worth reading? on Spotify Files To Go Public (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Spotify uses Vorbis!

  13. Re:TV Guide on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Trek is a huge franchise with long history and very influential for nerds. The others are not really.

  14. Re:Ridiculous Stretch on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well equifax could make their own crypto currency and cash in in an ICO. Could call it ecoin.

  15. Re:Responsibility Accepted on Apple Fires Engineer After His Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should it _cost_ them money? It's free press, and creates a buzz for the product, leading to increased sales, leading to more profit.

  16. Re:AMD Ryzen ThinkPad please on AMD Unveils Ryzen Mobile Processors Combining Zen Cores and Vega Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    mobile Ryzen Pro needs to be out first.

  17. Re:Crouton anyone? on Samsung To Let Proper Linux Distros Run on Galaxy Smartphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Baiscally

  18. Re:Performance on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Same as 3.22, never saw 3.24

  19. Re:Non-x86 Architectures on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Linux platforms on Power(PC) traditionally are big endian. The introduction of little-endian into mainstream distributions is a fairly recent one.

  20. Re:Tech industry observer on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    true

  21. Re:Why is this news? on Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs Won't Work With Today's Motherboards (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No no, they do have a monopoly on chipsets for Intel CPUs.

  22. Re:Are MP3 still commonly used? on Chromium To Get Support For MP3 (browsernative.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't they all, apart from Spotify (which uses vorbis), use mp3?

  23. Re:Why not adults? on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You both seem to mean the same, parent poster just simplified it.

  24. Re:Pearl clutch! Pearl clutch! on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, autism is not caused by anything. You are born with it (or well, you even have it before you are born). It's likely genetics, causing the brain to be wired differently (literally). Greetings from the spectrum!

  25. If the flash can be reprogrammed, then the content is software, and it's thus non-free. If it can't be changed, it is considered hardware, and no problem.