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  1. Re:The Geek Squad? Selling in my yard? on Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    From the linked article:

    It’s important to realize that you can’t use force on others for a simple act of trespassing. To shoot in Texas, you must fear for your safety when someone is breaking in or attempting to break in to your home, occupied vehicle, or workplace.

    Apparently more Texans need to be made aware of this.

  2. Re:Keyboard ... without a clue on Palm Devices Are Coming In 2018 Without WebOS, Says Report (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The Droid 3 had a (IMO) nice sliding physical keyboard, and came out about three years after the N900. That was the last Droid phone with a physical keyboard and I too miss the feature.

  3. Re:Those Phones can be upgraded to Wondows Phone 1 on New York City Cops Will Replace Their 36,000 Windows Phones With iPhones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the "Custom Egineered APPs" stop working if you go from 8.1 to 10, you have to hang not only the rich hag, but also the programers/coders who "Engineered" these APPs.

    How are the developers supposed to know when they write the app that it won't be compatible with the next version of the OS? Assuming they're not doing anything they're not supposed to like using unsupported APIs and such.

  4. Oh right, I was thinking MacBook.

  5. Amazon does that. Some things are free with Prime, and others you have to pay for a la carte.

  6. I don't think he meant that due to market forces everyone will get exactly what they want. Only that from the available choices, some will succeed and some will fail based on how many people choose to subscribe. That doesn't mean that everyone or any particular person will be delighted with the winners. If people stay away from all of the segmented services (CBS All Access, HBO Now*, etc) in droves, then they'll all fail, and we'll be left with the aggregators such as Netflix and Amazon. I expect some will stick around, and some will not make it.

    * after GoT is over, probably their subscription numbers will fall off a cliff

  7. I think someone makes a keyboard with a display screen on every key, or maybe they went out of business. Very cool, and if memory serves very very expensive.

  8. Wouldn't that murder battery life?

  9. Re:Surprise surprise on Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    How could it know which ones are legitimate or not? You already have to give permission to the app to read your address book.

  10. Some more information about the risk of remaining silent in the UK:

    Adverse inferences may be drawn in certain circumstances where before or on being charged, the accused:

    fails to mention any fact which he later relies upon and which in the circumstances at the time the accused could reasonably be expected to mention;
    fails to give evidence at trial or answer any question;
    fails to account on arrest for objects, substances or marks on his person, clothing or footwear, in his possession, or in the place where he is arrested; or
    fails to account on arrest for his presence at a place.

    How someone under the stress of being questioned by police is supposed to make a good decision based on these factors is beyond me, which is why the absolute right to silence without consequence is so important IMO.

  11. Re:CleanFlicks already tried a similar model on Selling Alterable Versions of Star Wars Is Still Infringement, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use, for example, 10 seconds of a movie, you can probably get away with Fair Use. If you use almost the entire movie, no, you can't get away with Fair Use.

    The amount of material used is only one factor in determining fair use, and under some circumstances it is absolutely possible to use the entire work under fair use. Were this use ruled sufficiently transformative, it may well have been one of those circumstances. Also I object to your phrasing: "get away with Fair Use." One does not get away with fair use, one exercises one's rights under the law.

  12. So a WWE wrestler claims, without evidence, that one particular UFC fight was faked, and from that you conclude that most UFC fights, as well as the Mayweather/McGregor fight, are faked?

  13. Re: Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Right, that's why Oracle keeps losing.

  14. Re: Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    They got sued because Java is a trademark.

    I'm afraid not. "Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. is a dispute related to Oracle's copyright and patent claims on Google's Android operating system (emphasis added)." So every kind of intellectual property right except for trademark.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  15. Re: Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 2

    If that were why they got sued they would have lost. They got sued because Oracle saw them making a bunch of money with Java and wanted some.

    Am I internetting right?

  16. Look into the mirror, and keep looking as you lean forward and somewhat towards the mirror. You get a different view in the mirror when you lean forward so it helps alleviate the blind spot. It's probably not much more inconvenient than looking over your shoulder.

  17. Re:Same relation as income? on Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com) · · Score: 2

    My parents once accidentally ran a double blind study on caffeine addiction. My dad gave my mom decaf in the morning thinking it was regular. She felt sick all day and he discovered later that it was decaf. Only problem with the study is n=1.

  18. Re:Misleading title on Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds

    Playing first-person shooter video games causes some users to lose grey matter

    The qualifiers are right there. You're the one who paraphrased incorrectly.

  19. Re:A police change I'd like ... on Amazon's New Refunds Policy Will 'Crush' Small Businesses, Outraged Sellers Say (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you gave that seller a one star review.

  20. Re:Not completely accurate on Verizon, AT&T Customers Are Getting Slower Speeds Because of Unlimited Data Plans (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Is Verizon currently anywhere near that limit?

  21. Re:samsung beats Intel on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It's strange to have to point this out, but a smartphone can run programs internally without connecting to a server. It is not at all like a dumb terminal.

  22. Re:$250K is the definition of the evil 1% on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    $200K would put you in the top 13% of households in Seattle. Not sure where 250 would be.

    http://www.city-data.com/incom...

  23. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    That's more or less saying there's not enough demand. At some price point, it would be worthwhile to produce the repairable product, but the demand for it does not support that price.

  24. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    If it wouldn't be more expensive, then either there isn't much demand for repairable goods, or there is demand and nobody has realized it, or supply and demand doesn't work.

  25. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    We in the US seem to have a knack for picking the suboptimal solution, from English measurement to "standard" and Phillips screws to the two party system.