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  1. Re:AT&T says the fee is related to its cost of on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 0

    AT&T can figure out to pay those cost

    They did. It's a business, not a charity. You will pay it one way or another.

  2. Company raises prices!! on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 0

    News at 11!!! I mean yea it's kinda scummy that they all do the "added fee" BS but come on, acting like they are raping your hamster is a bit much.

  3. Re:Don't bother with it, no text chat on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Text chat wouldn't work very well in a game like this. When you need it, you are moving too fast to stop and type out your call-outs to your team mates. You would be dead before you finished. TTK can be pretty low and things move pretty fast.

    As for getting banned, no you won't get banned for not using voice chat. Otherwise most of the EU players would be banned by now (they really don't like using it over there).

  4. Re:Plenty of children using parents money.. on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Well yea, it's better than giving your kid your CC number to make the purchase.

  5. Re:Can we sue on Voices of Millions of UK Taxpayers Stored By HMRC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    and put HMRC out of business? Is this the way to end taxes once and for all?!

    Not exactly. You sue HMRC, then they have to pay, and as a result the government has to raise tax rates to compensate for the payout. The more people who sue, the higher the taxes go. Eventually they recoup all the money they paid out and celebrate the windfall of new tax income they have! WIN-WIN!

  6. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    and for iOS 4, released in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIrCh5Y53MQ both LONG before the fingerprint reader and no way it was running on the device you are talking about.

  7. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is a link for instructions for iOS 5, released in 2011. It allowed up to 37 numbers or characters. That went up to 90 with iOS 7.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz_UotC0JR8

  8. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, you have been able to set long and complex pins since at least the iPhone 5, before they added finger print readers. I know because I've always used a long code and forgot mine once and had to reset my iPhone 5 after a trip to the theater (and turning the phone off during the movie). As for why they use the pin for security on the phone, it's because a) you don't have to have an iCloud account to use the phone and b) it's tied to the phone, and only that phone unlike the cloud account. You are blaming Apple for your own mistakes here.

  9. Re:Never forget on Supreme Court: Warrant Generally Needed To Track Cell Phone Location Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, the Obama and Trump Administrations argued that your freedom isn't as important as the right of the government to track you.

    Fixed that for ya. This case hit the supreme court petition list in 2016, with arguments in 2017. That means it started in the lower courts well before that time, and under the Obama administration, then continued under the Trump administration. Either could have dropped it, but they didn't.

  10. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't add a fingerprint without the phone's PIN code. If you gave that to someone else then that is your fault. You can also use anything for the pin, including a password. If you choose to use the default 4-number pin, again, that's on you not Apple.

  11. Re:That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    6s does have the necessary NFC hardware so maybe.

  12. Re:Then why bother with bioweapon on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easier to deploy, and it's more psychologically impactful. Chemical weapons have an immediate effect in a specific area. If you infect people in an area, those people won't immediately fall dead. They will move about and die slowly. People won't know if they are infected too. It would cause chaos. What you don't want is a bioweapon than can spread indefinitely. Those are the kinds of things that can get out of your control quickly and end up turning on your own forces.

  13. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A solution of meat?

  14. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Either of those would actually be better than CO2 for that use. CO2 would cause respiratory panic where the others wouldn't.

  15. Re:not the beer on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    CO2 is added to the headspace to flush any air during bottling. It's also used during the brewing and bottling process to make sure the beer doesn't lose carbonation when moving around the systems and when stored in the tanks.

  16. Re:Hard to decipher what the story is... on Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But if the problem is excess inventory they have to sell near a loss, well that's what you get for creating a false supply shortage to drive up prices.

    or they just don't release the new chips because AMD can't get their shit together on the GPU side, and sell off the inventory at normal prices.

  17. Re:Limitations of deadly viruses / deadly bacteria on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually a fast-burning virus like that is ideal for a bio-weapon. Disperse and infect the people exposed to it immediately, they die in a gruesome way to scare the shit out of the populous, then die out so it (hopefully*) doesn't spread out of control.

    *because "hope" will save us all! or something like that.

  18. I've yet to see a TV/Internet bundle in my area cheaper than internet alone. If you are only looking at it on a price vs price basis, then yea. But for me, I could give a shit about the price as much as having to not watch commercials (which take up 1/3 of prime time viewing). That and being able to watch what I want when I want (and not just current episode stuff I could DVR, but back seasons as well) is worth a price premium over cable TV.

  19. Re:Does Windows Explorer do it differently, or Lin on macOS Breaks Your OpSec by Caching Data From Encrypted Hard Drives (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can understand the security concern about thumbnail data especially encrypted data. But for other systems with the feature Including Windows and Some Linux file managers, Do they handle it differently?

    On Windows it uses thumbs.db, a hidden system file located in each folder that has thumbnails cached (not all do if they don't contain documents or images that get preview thumbsnails). You can also turn thumbnail caching off in explorer settings or via group policy.

  20. Re: Execute Barriss on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh gee I wonder what houses are made of...thin walls, doors, windows. All things you can see theough with FLIR.

    You can't even see through glass with a FLIR camera, much less wood or walls (especially insulated walls). Unless the people inside are extremely hot and pressed up against the walls so the heat transfers through, a FLIR camera is useless. I own two, and they are great at finding drafts or poor insulation but they are useless for looking "into" anything.

  21. Re:Marijuana dogs... on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's sad and all, but police dogs are often retired and sent to live with their handlers.

  22. Re:XBOX is AMD maybe PS5? on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see either moving away from AMD for Intel unless Intel gives the chips away at a loss. Even then...

  23. Re:Marijuana dogs... on Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the sheriffs in Illinois is arguing that if the state legalizes pot all the police dogs will have to be put down. Not re-purposed or sent to retire with their handlers (like usually happens when they are no longer able to do their jobs). Euthanized. It's the "Think of the doggos!" approach to keeping pot illegal.

  24. Re:It's about cost... on Amazon Slammed for Destroying As-New and Returned Goods (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    He once got a Harley and tried to apply for a title for it. Harley called and said that it had to be destroyed to protect their name. I believe they even compensated him for it. It was a perfectly good bike but wasn't up to their standards.

    What kind of Corporate Dystopian crap is that? He or his liquidation company owned the bike. They can offer him money to trash it, but they have no say-so on whether it *has* to be destroyed. Not even the local, state, or the feds can do that unless your motorcycle is made out of radioactive materials instead of "glass... and tubes." The government can prevent you from riding it on the streets, but your property rights trump Harley's PR department.

    If it had been issued a scrap title, it's almost impossible to get it re-titled. However he should have been able to part it out. Guessing Harley paid him more than it was worth for him to do that.

  25. I keep running into settings in the "new" control panel that don't actually connect to the right registry entries to make a change to the setting.

    Such as?