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  1. I too have a 16GB Samsung flagship phone from a few years ago, which was unmodified and permanently full. I did a factory reset and had almost the same situation you describe, a few measly GB of free space.

    I got annoyed, wiped and installed LineageOS.

    I now have 12GB free, and that's after starting to reinstall most of the apps I use.

    What the actual fuck, Samsung?!

  2. Re:Now read what they actually said on 'Rime' Developer Keeps Promise, Removes Denuvo DRM After Game Gets Cracked (cinemablend.com) · · Score: 1

    That reply really is disingenuous as fuck. It must have taken the reading comprehension of a two year old to so thoroughly misunderstand and misrepresent the post you're replying to.

    +5 Interesting. Slashdot in 2017 folks.

  3. Re:This just in on Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise · · Score: 1

    True, they didn't need to go through this exercise, but if they hadn't, neither of us would be talking about them... which isn't exactly in their interests when Princeton handed them a perfect opportunity to blow their own trumpet, whilst at the same time pointing out how silly the original study was.

    Facebook are mocking Princeton using similar statistical techniques to come to a similar conclusion. Your point is right there in the summary.

    Not sure which of those 5 words gave you the impression that I was taking your post "so seriously" either... If I'd had mod points I wouldn't have bothered to reply, I was just showing how redundant it was.

  4. Re:This just in on Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise · · Score: 1

    Congrats, that was Facebook's point.

  5. Re:It will never go away on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    And Microsoft is being pummeled by Android and Apple.

    I'd take a figurative 'pummelling' for the amount of money Microsoft is making off Android at the moment.

  6. Re:Planned intimidation tactic on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    It's his line of thinking which leads to: "The death penalty is fine, because the vast majority of those sentenced to it are guilty."

  7. Re:Planned intimidation tactic on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    Are you honestly as intellectually lacking as you're pretending to be? I'd really like to know. End.

  8. Re:Hypocrites on EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sorry, do you think the NCA, Mossad, Al-amn al-Watani, Ministry Of Intelligence and Security, State Security Department, etc., don't spy on their own citizens too?

    I don't recall saying or implying that, but nice strawman, and nice attempt at deflection. Your original post is still just as silly though.

    The NSA got caught.

    Isn't that kind of the point? Or would you please fill me in on how best to quantify this sort of thing without any reliable evidence?

    I don't think the NSA is the worst of the lot, not by a long shot.

    Nobody cares what you (or I) think is true. Based on stacks of documents provided by our pal Ed, the NSA is the worst of the lot at the moment. At the very least they're tied for first place, but with far better funding than their colleagues put together. This may well change when more information is revealed, but lets not pretend we know things that we don't, k?

    There's plenty of recent historical examples of shit other intelligence agencies have done that make what the NSA is doing today look rather germane

    As irrelevant as it was last time you brought it up last time.

    No country would put its intelligence agencies at a competitive disadvantage merely to satisfy the petty outrage of an internet pundit.

    No true country, indeed.

  9. Re:Hypocrites on EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    There is nobody in the world as bad as the NSA

    Is it calling from 1990, when that would be relevant?

  10. Release the liquid on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Chambers inside separate the oxygen and release the liquid

    So they separate the oxygen, then release the remaining hydrogen as a liquid?! The implications for overclocking are astounding... a whole new breed of water cooling.

  11. Re:Samba on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    If minimum fuss is the requirement, this is the solution.

  12. Re:Make mine block all 3 on Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users · · Score: 2

    About the noisy tab indicator... It would be an far more useful if clicking the indicator presented a volume slider or at least muted the tab. As it is, if you want to continue reading the page sans noise, your options are exactly the same as they were before.

  13. Re:Soon, no more bookstores. on Amazon Gets Blow-Back Over Plan To Sell Kindles At Small Bookshops · · Score: 1

    The days of screens are very much numbered too.

  14. Centred? on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1
    This incorporates everything wrong with modern "ain't broke" website design refreshes, except one thing.

    You left the site centred. Left justify it and the train-wreck will be complete.

  15. Re:The only way to get the NSA off your back on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 1

    ...and that's when the RIAA begin their court proceedings!

  16. Re:Two best things about ./ in this story on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 1

    Nice try, 'Taco.

  17. Post to undo mod. on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    Post to undo mod.

  18. Dotdotdot on What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times? · · Score: 1

    Undo modding post...

  19. Re:I'm panicking! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Great, many thanks.

  20. Re:I'm panicking! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    I'd love an invite at (remove the foos): jabshmfoo(AT)foogooglefoomail(DOT)com if possible.

  21. Re:Running Demos on Quake 3 For Android · · Score: 1

    Speconly?! Far too useful.

    They're too busy adding bloom effects

  22. Re:Thanks on A History of 3D Cards From Voodoo To GeForce · · Score: 1

    I don't 3d games, is this bad?

  23. Re:liquid nitrogen on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    I can't see him claiming the liquid nitrogen fuelled the fire anywhere in the article..

  24. Re:Are there any simulations available for viewing on Three Planets Racing this Weekend · · Score: 1

    Yes, see below.

    . . . *time passes* ... *time passes* .

  25. Re:Hello on First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, just a backdoor.