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  1. We're supposed to read even the headlines now? What has this place turned into?!

  2. Now we'll really be able to punch the monkey!

  3. I've had that feature since I was about two years old. Strangely enough, nearing 45, that feature seems to be hit-or-miss for the last few years. Still waiting for a firmware upgrade.

  4. How about a decent LCD display for the MacBook Air? No need for retina, just something better than TN for crying out loud. I already hear replies: get a MacBook! Well, the MacBook sucks. It's too expensive, way too slow, there's only two USB-C ports that fit a real-world usage in 2027 and their new butterfly keyboard sucks, v2 even more so.

    Oh, and stop being so cheap with the freakin' RAM. Give us an option for 16GB in the MacBook Air.

  5. Nintendo is the best because there's no Metroid on Xbox or Playstation.

  6. When the Internet was created on Iranians Use 'Cute Photographer' Profile To Hack Targets In Middle East (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

  7. Re:Who would... apk on With 200 Million Daily Users, Giphy Will Soon Test Sponsored GIFs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    AVI in 2017, are you serious?!

  8. It looks like a "coffee" chain.

  9. Re:Yay, more buzzword bingo! on With 200 Million Daily Users, Giphy Will Soon Test Sponsored GIFs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I think I'll open a stock website for single pixels. I know in advance that I'll only need 16777216 pixels for the whole catalog.

    The hard part will be the watermarking.

  10. The keywords here are "consumer graphics cards". That's usually the low-end and mid-range cards.

  11. Ah, a lot of articles never list the damn prices so it's hard to understand who the products are for.

  12. When their "low-end" graphics card requires low-end gamers to buy a bigger power supply as the first step, something is wrong.

  13. Re:This tweet, six hours old, has not aged well. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the stock market generally keeps going up in the medium/long term.

    Just like MoonCoin!

    What?

    Stop laughing.

  14. Re:Slashdot is facing some discouraging trends. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. The whole planet is sick of your so-called "left vs right" debates, you're all right-wing as far as the rest of us are concerned.

    2. This is Slashdot, left vs right debates should not belong here.

  15. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And you can't even blame the voters because a minority put him in charge in the first place!

  16. Re:People don't buy iPhones because they're the fi on Apple's Next iPhone: Facial-Recognition, All-Screen Design (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Simply switch iTunes/your iPod to "manage songs and playlists manually". Then you can pick the songs, playlists and smart playlists that you want synced one by one.

  17. Re:People don't buy iPhones because they're the fi on Apple's Next iPhone: Facial-Recognition, All-Screen Design (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    metadata in playlists implies "smart" playlists, i.e. SQL style.

    I can make a playlist of all 1980's pop songs not including Weird Al Yankovic without touching any file.

  18. Because if it's not illegal to scrap their websites, black hat hackers will have a field day.

  19. Re:Offices with doors? on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Apple's campus we're talking about here. They should consider themselves lucky to have windows.

  20. Re:Adblock Plus on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    And those serious about security switched to hosts files.

    APK, can we get more details on that?

  21. Re:Which browser extensions? on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube downloaders?

    Step 1. Disable CSS
    Step 2. Scroll to the video
    Step 3. Right-click and select "Save video as..."

    Done.

  22. Re:People don't buy iPhones because they're the fi on Apple's Next iPhone: Facial-Recognition, All-Screen Design (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Drag and drop files? You're still managing your music as files? Ever heard of metadata and playlists? You don't know what you're missing.

  23. Re:I'd trade it all on Apple's Next iPhone: Facial-Recognition, All-Screen Design (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot SD/microSD slot and regular microUSB connector.

  24. Re:Facial Recognition on Apple's Next iPhone: Facial-Recognition, All-Screen Design (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there is no substitute for the demanding, exacting mind of Steve Jobs.

    There is, but it's not Tim Cook. The substitute, IMHO, should have been Scott Forstall but he was fired from the company. Just watch him in past Keynote videos.

    Now we have an industrial designer in charge of software interfaces. And we have the mess we have today: buttons with no outlines, pastel colours, folder tags only visible by people with 20/20 vision, thin fonts which are hard to read on retina displays and an unreadable blurry mess on regular displays, the list goes on...

  25. No bezel means you have to have zero-fat fingers to hold it.
    Facial recognition means yet another big brother feature.
    I'm out.

    What's the best dumb flip-phone these days? I don't even want texting or a camera. Just a flip phone with good audio quality and a battery that lasts a week or more.