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  1. Re:"How Your Returns Are Used Against You" on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    well if you get stuffed with 3 bad items in a row you're stuck with it.

    despite the policy.
    despite the items actually having been bad.

    they score that or not? item actually having been bad? if yes, then sure, why not, bb could do that internally too. but they're denying returns anyways if they feel like it and their quota needs it. that's the real problem with customer service these days.. damn quotas.

  2. Re:3x3 option code almost mandatory on Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses (9to5google.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    look if it just gets 10 meters then thats okay.

    it would work for ordering mcdonalds or whatever. in thailand most roads don't have names on the maps and some roads have different number on here maps vs. google maps. openstreetmaps. it's really fucking annoying. the local mcdonalds operation has a map where you can put in your location... .... but it turns it into a street address that possibly points to 10 km away. ..so instead of explaining just an address, they will call you up and you need to have someone local to explain basically where the place is and even then it's a crapshoot if they understand which gas station they're meant to turn at.

  3. Re:No Beginning to the Universe on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    that's more of a philosophical outing than saying that matter, time or whatever was there before that.

    like what did big bang happen or from kinda.

  4. they don't need to care if apple or google "allow" it on mobiles where they deploy their own app and can use whatever sw or hw codecs they want if they want...

    what they would need to worry would be if there's enough power to do it and about the user experience. ...

    and the bit about the mobile towers? pssh. standard thing if you have the money for it and can't think of some other way to simulate a crappy network with high ping times, high ploss but sometimes high bandwidth.

  5. Re:Invisible tvs! on Samsung's New TVs Are Almost Invisible (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you know whats more so stupid? you can do this same thing with any tv you can put a picture on.

  6. Re:I think the writer needs to lookup the definiti on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    yep..

    why bother with the word AUTOMATION if you can replace it with AI? it's the same thing yeah? YEAH??

    seriously netflix is ai now? the fuck? sure it has that movie AI on there, but if you're saying that the recommendation algorithm is actual focken AI then fuck you, fuck your words and fuck your study.

    and in other news, if/when your job can be automated it will be automated. that doesn't mean that you couldn't find something else to do though. that doesn't mean that excel is an AI, even if it replaced hundreds of thousands of office workers jobs entirely.

  7. Re:Fingerprinting is replacing tracking on The Slow Death of the Internet Cookie (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In EU you can.. and few months down the line now if they disagree they can't avoid it.

    this is why facebook etc already let you download all your data. you can also request the data to be removed.

  8. contrary to public belief that some people have, there was nothing more "inherently secure" about blackberrys system vs. just using ssl secured mail servers.

    HOWEVER.. if you we're using blackberrys services in their heyday then the LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT in any shithole country that you had signed up for service in had access to the email server running the bb software.

    the whole idea/why they got popular for a short time was basically just hacking push messaging to work through the gsm network, at about the time it was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the first place, and around the normal megabyte limits.

    futhermore there is a reason why blackberries never made a breakthrough in the market in _ANY_ market where carrier bundling of phones was banned(because hey, that shitty blackberry you had back in the day that did the same things as a 100 bucks ngage did - yeah, that one. it cost you 1200 bucks hidden in carrier fees - NOBODY who saw the real price tag bought them with their own money.. I mean i had one for checking out the sdk and shit but man I would not have bought one with my own money).

  9. Re:Good riddance if true on Leaked Apple Email Hints at the Possible End of iTunes: Report (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    plenty of 3rd party software.

    however, majority of people who have itunes installed or are forced to use it use it to update/manage/connect their ios devices, not for loading up music.

  10. Re:Incompetence on YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    a big bunch of hobby channels got removed.

    they were just removing stuff because their job is removing stuff, pretty much. I reckon they had put them on a quota.

  11. Re: So, what you're saying... on New Apple Patent Imagines an OLED Screen As a Keyboard For MacBooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I kinda remember seeing some dual screen tablet concepts with this exact concept. I suppose thats why they had to define the screens to be one lcd and one oled or some shit like that.

    nokia did a shitload of research(unsuccesful) into haptics for things like this too.

  12. well, it most certainly can't erase it's own past effects on the universe by entering the black hole.

  13. Re:Let a mathematician go first on Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    well how would you know you sent someone in if their past got erased?

    the theory seems like a math foobar to me really, intuitively it cannot be true. of course the "erasing the past" in this sense I guess means something different, like they cannot access past information about themselves or something like that(meaning they're atom pulp) and have infinite futures (their atom pulp could become anything).

    how is that even a theory though?

  14. Re:Moving Parts on Pop-Up Cameras Could Soon Be a Mobile Trend (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    the additional cost is the thing.

    the slab design with no buttons is part of this.just cost reduction sold to customer at higher prices and selling them protectors then with extra cost.

    remember n95? the camera protector ring served dual purpose - open it and it opens the camera app. very handy, nothing about privacy as such as the front facing camera was unhindered all time. it was just a handy good feature to have.

    also remember the slide switches on the side to open the keylock? very handy, now almost never seen and instead are just push buttons that get pressed by accident.

  15. 1 aircon unit = 300 bucks installed. on Tesla Deploys Over 300 Powerwalls To Give Hawaiian School Kids AC (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    thats thai pricing, roughtly. enough for a room.
    1000 gets you an office space/bigroom luxus model.

    basically those school systems pay off themselves in 30 years. I really have to think that tesla is starved for buyers for the powerwall. which is a stupid fucking name anyways. Tesla powerBANK would be a better one, since it would lead to less disappointment about what it actually is.

  16. they don't want to pay for it.

    really the news isn't about water running out, it's about their infrastructure failing.

    due to corruption and not getting along mostly.

    I can't drink tap water where I live now, but in my native country sure, yeah. the reason is that the locals don't bother with making the water delivery network good enough because this is cheaper. of course then they have to truck around shitloads of drinking water...

  17. 2nd amendment doesn't exist anymore. on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    military arms are regulated pretty much in all of USA, therefore the 2nd amendment is already irrelevant.

    the 2nd amendment was specifically crafted to allow for privately owned militias and corporate concern owned armies - which the people who made the amendment had - and the arms refers to equipment used to WAGE WARS, not some plinker guns, but to the best and most expensive devices you can have that have only the use for waging war.

    it hasn't existed in practice since the fifties or so.. little did anyone notice though since they let you have handguns and other weapons that military doesn't consider as proper arms.

    hunting utility items, something you need to defend yourself against bears or whatever and such were never part of it and we're never intended to be part of it.

  18. Re:True, not an exhaustive list. The fifth factor on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 1

    I think the judge didn't quite understand that the software was licensed for use anyways and only a total idiot would have bought a store bought version of windows for it when they could have downloaded the same software from dell or ms themselves

      WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS THAT CAME ON THEM CAN'T EVEN BE TRANSFERRED TO AN ANOTHER COMPUTER. so after that you would be stuck with two windows licenses for one computer, with one license thats not even transferable(which is bullshit in its own).

  19. Re:I thought so some years ago...A cheese example. on Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    did you also try melting butter with a lighter? .....

    anyways. ultra processed is not that new a thing. most of our school food was pretty heavily processed 20 years ago.

  20. of course there's no physical switch.
    it's always processing audio trying to listen to that hey siri.

    but man.. i would need two of these and build something to stream audio to it.. and at that point - fuck it.

  21. This is backwards. Using an animal as a food source guarantees its prevalence, not the other way around.

    that's not really true at all.

  22. Seriously, get some perspective. If you made a list of all the unethical and illegal crap that Uber has done, this wouldn't even make the top one hundred.

    maybe so, but it was still better than rent-seeking taxi monopolies. like come on, to have it be illegal to take a guy to a place and take money from him for doing so.. unless you have a permit.

  23. Re:Are they for sale? on Japan Launches the World's Smallest Satellite-Carrying Rocket (nasaspaceflight.com) · · Score: 1

    140 kilos of tnt anywhere in the world in a 2.8 ton rocket. ..he sure as fuck would like some of those. would be more useful than nukes, harder to detect launch/re-entry and so forth.

  24. Any chance it was a PAL version of the game console, where the clock divider is different, and thus it shows fewer frames per second?

    not really no and it would be a cheat as well, if the euro version of dragster did that. it's more likely that it just runs slower anyways, just giving you more react time. but having PERFECT inputs the time wouldn't be possible at all.

    the codepath doesn't allow for the time he claimed.

    still, a lot of folks kept claiming that the rom doesn't matter or that emulation is not correct or whatever.. but the rom doesn't lie and it's not some obscure chip bug or whatever.

    thing with todd was that it wasn't just one score.. it was multiple scores. in multiple games. ridiculous scores with no proof, nobody to testify.

  25. sure if he didn't bullshit on a number of other records as well and said he got it multiple times and had people to testify.. ..but nobody recalls actually seeing it.