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  1. Re: Answering calls? Oh, it's so quaint.... on iPhone X Bug Leaves Some Users Unable To Answer Calls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pips? Where the fuck are you from? They're called bars.

  2. Re: Please on Why Windows Vista Ended Up Being a Mess (usejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're not an "average user" if you bought Linux AND read a fucking book to compile a kernel from scratch. Thinking that makes you delusional.

  3. Re: apple should be recalling all these defective on Apple Launches Free Repair Program For 'No Service' IPhone 7 Bug (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    In previous recalls, it didn't matter the condition of the original, it was replaced with free shipping both ways (iPod nano 3rd Gen died on day fucking one from cracked screen, they refused warranty repair because it was manufactured 6 weeks after they supposedly fixed their defective screens, but clearly was still defective. Got replaced with 5th gen piece of shit).

  4. You know what? I'd rather them use the wrong words than leave out words or misspell them, which is pretty often. /. should be turned over to some high school newspaper editors for a major quality improvement. At least they'd fucking proofread and correct mistakes.

  5. Re: Not just thin, but trillions to one against on Investigators Crack DB Cooper Code, Identify Suspect With Possible CIA Connections (seattlepi.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't you reduce further (diminished returns, yes), by removing other confirmable alibi, like being in prison or being deployed overseas, disabled, etc?

  6. Re: How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. So if all questions are right but no work shown, will he have a negative grade since you said it takes away points, not adds partial points. In Canada, we'd have the partial credit and a fucking "show your work!" in red ink.

  7. Re: There is always an answer on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd complain if the level of difficulty wasn't consistent. I don't give a shit if you can answer the most easy questions and would be a poor method to determine overall knowledge, which is the main point of standard testing. Pressure testing in a classroom? Fuck off, get real. Just time management. Even worse would be doing this with multiple choice, I'd fucking lose my shit as one of these "snowflakes" for being stupid. If the professor is upfront about the parameters of the test, that's not so bad. But if you sat down to a 2 hour test with 4 hours of questions expecting that to be done in under 2 hours, fuck that guy in the eye.

  8. Re: There is always an answer on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A hole.

  9. Re: Bottom line on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    I admit I buy HGST on sale, but where the fuck do you live where HGST is even 50% more expensive? Are you comparing HGST NAS models to Seagate desktop models? That's the only way to explain almost double pricing. Even then, I think a 4TB desktop went for $99 and I bought several 4TB HGST NAS for 124.99 each over Black Friday. Just buy your spares on sale. Then you can hold out for 3-5 year warranty NAS drives.

  10. Re: Why is Telegram rated for ages 4 and up? on Messaging App Telegram Pulled From Apple's App Store Due To 'Inappropriate Content' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sending unsolicited nudes by SMS to a minor is likely illegal in various places. It's also not Apple's problem or ability to filter SMS.

  11. Re: Reverse Trojan on China Denies Report it Hacked African Union Headquarters (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    lol

  12. Toaster and microwaves are unitaskers and that doesn't change over time. TV'S are upgradeable these days and that is to support new technology and bugfix other existing technology. This changes over time. Are you stunned?

  13. Yeah they do, even if they mix storage and RAM size units. Every basic office bitch knows about RAM. Replacing RAM, that's entirely different.

  14. Re: Let me see if I have this correct on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    Can you post the battery and charging instructions that come with an iPhone for ensuring the battery lasts the longest lifetime achievable? Can you describe some of the features the phone has to help maintain the optimal charging schedule?

  15. Re: Let me see if I have this correct on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    BlackBerry fanboy here. There's a dozen reasons, but ultimately they took too long to get more social and media consumption shit into their phones. You would be amazed how many kids abandoned ship based on lack of motherfucking emojis or social apps. I'll probably go back to using a Z30 as daily driver over Android.

  16. Re: Let me see if I have this correct on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    The fix is a design change and/or replacing defective batteries. You keep describing workarounds and mitigation. These are not "fixes". Also, someone needs to define "cold". I wasn't surprised at all when my phone died at 24% when in a non running car between - 29*C and - 39*C at the time. The battery is over a year old and the model is known to shit the bed after 10 months. From a design point of view, I wouldn't expect the phone rated for this temp. It sure sucked, but I wasn't expecting different. Anything rebooting at room temperature is just pure design defect or defective battery that should be replaced. Between zero and - 30*C, I don't know. I'm lucky enough to live in milder temperature, usually.

  17. Having this helps make a thriving technology centric country. If you want to become less and less important and self sufficient in this world, stick with your opinion, otherwise fucking learn about all the net positive with real trickle down effects.

  18. Re: This insanity should be illegal on Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like marriage and divorce?

  19. You just changed need to want, changing the discussion point. "Need" would be tied to "to live", " want" is more of quality of life.

  20. Re: This is a BS article.. on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Profit != income. I'm like, wtf is this guy talking about? Does he think everyone working at a nonprofit is volunteering with no salary? Surely, he's not that dumb. People become doctors for several reasons. It could be for money and prestige, it could be to fucking help people, like firemen and cops aren't in it for the money. I know several of both kinds of doctors.

  21. Re: Investigate! on US Government Investigates Apple Over iPhone Battery Slowdowns (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to read TFS, but the second sentence does answer your question.

  22. Re: Hopefully they'll force Apple to allow repair on US Government Investigates Apple Over iPhone Battery Slowdowns (phonedog.com) · · Score: 0

    Because you are dumb.

  23. Re: If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a friend that had his face smashed in on a construction site 30 years ago and has had about 20 operations and various bolts and shit to fix his jaw. He'll take over a dozen pain pills a day, less if he can smoke weed. Some of his doctors wouldn't allow the weed smoking and were old cunts. Myself, I had a really fucked back the other year, and couldn't take 2 expired oxy pills before getting more sick from the pills. That was the most pain of my life as the pills had little to no effect. My grandmother at 3 times my age and less than half my size could take them better than me.

  24. Yeah... no. Not even close to the same.

  25. When has anyone on /. ever accused someone of being a *girl? If your username was "100%AllFemale", I'd still assume you're male.