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  1. wireless camera? on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Never used it. It sounds a lot more complicated for the average user to setup that wireless transfer than to just stick the SD card in the computer.
    Well, I guess those "Pro" users Apple is targeting will be using a USB-C to A adapter as well as a USB-A to SD adapter. This must be courage.

  2. How do they turn on the GPS? on Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They must share the bed with Apple, otherwise, doesn't the carrier only have access to much less precise cell tower localization?
    Isn't that a serious back door?

  3. Re:Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    2015 is included in the 2010s.

  4. Re:Hockey Stick is NOT the full story on Global CO2 Concentration Passes Threshold of 400 ppm -- and That's Bad for the Climate (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Proxy data might give a rough idea of the temperature of a century, but is it precise enough to show climate change within a century? And why would we use that when we have much more reliable measurements for the last century?

  5. Re:Hockey Stick is NOT the full story on Global CO2 Concentration Passes Threshold of 400 ppm -- and That's Bad for the Climate (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you would prefer a study based on measurements from 1000 years ago? Digital thermometers were so precise back then.

  6. Re: Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be surprised if over that 0.1% of Windows 10 users activate the feature.

  7. Re:Model X Unreliability on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is because Tesla is a religion. People are always satisfied with their religion. The same applies to Apple. Of course you are satisfied with your Mac when you can't switch to another manufacturer.

  8. Re:it's a terrible SUV on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Most compact/midsize sedans are too small to fit a bike without taking off the front wheel. You need a hatchback/station/compact SUV.

  9. Re:Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    so you are denying the data?

  10. Re:Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The 10 hottest years are all in the 2000-2010s, save maybe 1 (1998). It's starting to sound like a trend.

  11. Re:Limit the birth rate? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean like forcing families in China to have only one child? I wonder why nobody ever thought about it...

  12. Re: Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    which has all of Ubuntu... except the "Linux" part.

  13. Re:Ten years, you say? on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Define "this". What was supposed to happen in January 2016? Some key metrics already happened. 2015 was the hottest year on record. Some other key metrics will also happen in the next 10 years.

    Only idiots think that make climate change a hoax.

  14. Typical corporation lock down Windows PCs so much. No admin rights, no USB thumb drive allowed, custom firewall rules blocking everything but TCP port 80 outbound (and even there, they use a proxy server to block many web sites). When the same corporations get Macs, they leave them alone. So of course the users don't need to call IT to install software, they have admin rights to do it themselves.

  15. So let say you work for a politician. You can publicly say that your employer's idea are stupid since you have the freedom to express your opinion, right? Let say you are an engineer working for a big company. You can publicly say that your products are crappy and that your customers shouldn't buy them, right?

    In both cases you have the freedom to express your opinion. But your employer is free not to keep you and this is not censorship, this is common business sense. You can't keep someone doing more harm than good into your company, even if the harm is done within their free time.

  16. Re:Not super surprising on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems like the degree sign (Celcius) didn't pass. I meant 3C and 2C. A single Celcius makes a huge difference.
    Since developed countries created much of the current CO2, they must lead the effort. But as long as we pollute more per capita than poorer countries, we can't really blame them for not doing enough.

  17. Re:Both countries have content regulations on All the Good Netflix Movies Are in Canada and Brazil (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's probably because you only consider movies in English. There are very good movies from Denmark, France, Germany... even in Canada perhaps most good movies are in French.
    And you may not consider that "Western appeal" but there are some good movies from Bollywood and the rest of Asia too.

  18. Re:Who pays for apps? on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read my message you would have understand that I meant Android always had the lead in China. Oswald McWeany implied that China was more an iPhone country (unlike the rest of the world which is more Android) and that alone explained why China is now #1 in app store revenues

  19. Re:Not super surprising on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You just made a fallacy. Global warming is not binary. A 3 warming is much worse than a 2 warming.
    And we must do both, reduce emissions and adapt to the warming.

  20. Re:Not super surprising on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also remember that if China and India start consuming at the rate that the median American does, global warming and climate change will go through the roof.

    Which is why the US must act now to fight global warming.

  21. Re:Who pays for apps? on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple has never been big in China. Android always had a wide lead. Apple is relatively strong in the US and Austrlia (although Android still lead) but Android has about 80% market share worldwide and it's because of countries such as China, Brazil, and to a lesser extent the EU.

  22. Re:non-news is non-news on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That said, 128GB should only be 4 times faster than 32GB, so if these figures are correct then the 32GB units are also using lower spec memory.

    This is only if the 128 GB model has 4 times the chips and the 256 GB model 8 times. So if there is a single 32 GB chip in the entry model, how do they fit 8 chips in the 256 GB one? More specifically, where on that picture https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... is there room for 7 more chips?
    That doesn't make sense, they probably fit higher density chips. And they shouldn't be faster since there isn't more parallelism.

  23. Re:Nervous on Apple Announces a Mac Event On October 27, Says 'Hello Again' · · Score: 2

    They are pretty close already. They do not have any real desktop with room for hard drives and video cards. Even the overpriced Mac "Pro" has limited expandability and is unsuitable for most professionals.

  24. Re: I hope Apple Pay will die on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    pretty sure it's easy to fake. Some dead gloves work just fine on capacitive touchscreens and buttons

  25. Re:I hope Apple Pay will die on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    They do not replace anybody. You still need the bank, you still need visa/mastercard, you still need the terminal provider. Apple is a new, an extra middle man.