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  1. Re:The problem isn't the CPU on Samsung Chips Will Get Faster and Easier on Your Battery in 2020 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I am currently running Lineage on the G4 but it is no longer supported it seems. I also have a Moto G6 running AOSP 9.0 Treble and an old OPO still on Lineage OS, not sure which version... The OPO was a really promising phone except for the cheap radio they put in it that doesn't do many LTE bands.

    When I switched to Ting I had to get the Moto because the OPO can't pick up T-Mobile anywhere.

  2. The problem isn't the CPU on Samsung Chips Will Get Faster and Easier on Your Battery in 2020 (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem isn't the CPU. The problem is all the Apps that insist on running constantly in the background, using GPS and other tracking sensors to spy on you.

    I have a Moto G4 and I couldn't figure out why the battery was only lasting 6-8 hours. One day I finally quit Facebook and uninstalled the Apps for Facebook and Messenger, and voila! Now I get 24+ hours of battery life easily.

    Get app developers under control and you get battery usage under control.

  3. This Law Sponsored by Google, which of course will get to see all of those e-receipts and use them in its data mining against you.

  4. Re:Let the cover-up games begin! on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care if you change your mind or not. Torch and Pitchfork Psychosis is a real thing. It is when you believe in someone's guilt in spite of overwhelming evidence against it. You "just know" they're guilty despite there being no evidence to support your belief. You are out to get them and you don't care about facts.

    That is the mental trap you have set yourself in.

    For the record, I think Trump is a despicable human being who doesn't deserve to be President, and I was absolutely shocked when I woke up the morning after the election. However, his being a despicable human being completely absent of any moral compass does not make him guilty of collusion or obstruction. But, you probably won't believe this because you have already decided that I am the enemy, in spite of the fact that I have thus far offered you zero evidence to suggest that I am a Trump supporter.

    The special counsel, an avowed Democrat and Hillary supporter, and therefore very highly motivated by his own bias, spent two years and 50 million dollars trying his best to find a single shred of evidence that Trump worked with a foreign state to steal the election or even get in the way of the investigation, and he couldn't find it.

    Personally I think he wasted far too much time chasing after Stormy Daniels payments (which were not illegal in the slightest) and his other immoral and patently disgusting, but again not illegal, behaviors, when he should have spent 100% of his effort on the main objective of the special counsel's authorization: Russian Collusion. But, perhaps he knew early on that there was no collusion and had some money to spend, so did so chasing these red herrings. Who knows?

    But, I digress.

    Let me ask. What damage do you propose Trump has done that will take a generation to correct? Please give an honest, objective answer supported by verifiable fact, if you can.

  5. Re:Let the cover-up games begin! on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no dog in this fight. The fact remains however that, regardless of the fact that you are personally convinced he is a duck, there are laws in place to protect people from your torch and pitchfork psychosis.

  6. Re:Let the cover-up games begin! on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Oh, and by the way: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck." ..... except in the US justice system, where you still have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is a duck, even if it really looks like one.

  7. Who would have thought! A study by NVIDIA finds that you need to buy their high end stuff because it'll make you play better.

    Color me shocked.

  8. My OPO still works fine on Smartphone Shipments Expected To Drop for the Third Consecutive Year in 2019 (idc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Oneplus One I bought when it first came out. It still works fine with LineageOS, and I still get 2 days of battery life since I don't have any non-essential apps on it.

    It has a headphone jack and expandable storage. I will never buy a phone without both of these things.

  9. Maybe this is a stupid question on Firefox To Add Tor Browser Anti-Fingerprinting Technique Called Letterboxing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is a stupid question, but wouldn't a better solution simply be to deny "advertising code" from being able to access the window size? Why does any website need to be told what your window size is anyway, or for that matter, why does it need to be told anything at all about you?

  10. It's Not About Safety on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with safety. This is about reducing cost of the cars.

    By limiting the top speed to 112MPH, they can put cheaper S-rated tires on them at the factory without worry of being sued when people exceed the speed rating of the tires.

    It just so happens that the speed limit for S-rated tires is, you guessed it, 112MPH.

  11. Re:She didn't destroy anything on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay okay I laughed a little.. hah...

  12. Re:She didn't destroy anything on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you kidding me? It was a spectacle of epic proportions. She was doing nothing more than grandstanding.

    There is a big difference between making persuasive, coherent arguments in favor of change, and acting like a petulant child and throwing a screaming temper tantrum at someone.

    Everyone already knows that Equifax screwed up. We don't needs some blowhard reminding us of what we already know. If you want change you need FEWER people like her and MORE people who are willing to actually discuss the issue rationally and help each other cook up a solution.

    It's too bad there isn't a single member of Congress I can use as an example.

  13. Re:I'm guessing the administrations argument on AT&T Wins Fight With US Over Purchase of Time Warner (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    "They'd put a stop to this crap right quick."

    Yeah, and most other economic activity as well...

  14. Re:I'm changing mine on 8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked In Under 2.5 Hours (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Won't help though, because your luggage still has to have the government-imposed back door thanks to TSA.

  15. There have been all kinds of politically-motivated attempts to destroy health in the United States.

    The biggest one was the demonization of fat at the behest of the Corn Grower's Association and the introduction of "low fat" foods that were instead loaded up with ounces of high fructose corn syrup just to make them palatable.

    I agree with you on "link" studies as well. Correlation does not imply causation except in a "link" study.

  16. Re:Insects provide $57 billion in services to the on Insects Could Vanish Within a Century At Current Rate of Decline, Says Global Review (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    $57 is easy to come up with. Just tax the rich and finally start making them pay their fair share and we won't need the bugs. We can do $57B worth of things EASILY. It's barely more than 1% of the entire budget (not even including state and local budgets).

  17. Making Mistakes Identifying Criminals on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    "even mistaking members of Congress for convicted criminals"

    That's easy. Just teach it to distinguish between convicted and unconvicted criminals.

  18. Re:Thanks for Contaminating the Moon on Giant Leaf For Mankind? China Germinates First Seed on Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    "- Moon is lifeless"

    That's what they said about Ceti Alpha V, and look where that got Captain Terrell..

  19. DOJ and NASA seem to work fine on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The DOJ certificate is good until March, and the NASA certificate is good until January 2020.

  20. Re:Why go to such lengths? on The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network By Flipping His System Admin (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's because the War on Drugs is simply a facade to justify all the spending. Lots of Americans are getting extremely wealthy off of the WoD, and as with all big government programs, their goal is to self perpetuate, not solve whatever problem was used to sell it to the public.

    If they actually did what they were supposed to do and just iced all the drug kingpins and dealers, they'd win the WoD and there wouldn't be a need for any more billions of dollars funneled into all of their family businesses.

  21. Re:How is education now payment? on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more like $11,000

    https://education.cu-portland....

  22. So what you're saying is... on The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network By Flipping His System Admin (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't crack anything at all, but rather got someone to hand over the private keys.

    That's not cracking. Just sayin'

  23. Re:Cheap and substandard on Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese To Elementary School Students From 2020 (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    They're investing in Kenya to get a monopoly on Tantalum, Niobium, and other rare elements for capacitors.

  24. Is this some kind of joke? on Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So someone paid (bet it was taxpayers) to research the efficacy of parachutes vs. backpacks in jumps from a height of two feet from a stationary object.

    WTActualF?

  25. Re:Alexa Root Access on Amazon Error Allowed Alexa User To Eavesdrop on Another Home (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This has got to be the weirdest trolly reference to Wargames I have ever seen...