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  1. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    And no other operating system has had the occasional security bug. Certainly not Linux (shell shock, heartbleed) or Windows.

  2. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    So don't install the update?

    I know someone still using iOS 6 because they wanted to. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and telling you to upgrade.

  3. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    Anyway I gave up on Apple in 1988

    So you have absolutely no relevant experience with any of their stuff, as every single product they sell is completely and utterly different from anything they were doing in 1988.

  4. Re:Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    Except you are still missing what everyone else bitching about this is missing - you can PLUG YOUR FUCKING PHONE INTO YOUR COMPUTER, AND IT'S STORAGE IS USED FOR THE TEMPORARY SPACE INSTEAD. You know, just like every iOS upgrade there ever was before they introduced over-the-air upgrades that require temp space on device.

  5. Re:Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On an 8 GB iPhone I had to delete every piece of media and almost every app just to be able to download the ios updates.

    Or you could have plugged into iTunes and upgraded, which would have downloaded and stored the IPSW firmware image on the computer and simply overwritten the existing OS image, not requiring the extra temp space.

    Everyone bitched about not having over-the-air upgrading, right until they started bitching about how much storage it takes to do over-the-air upgrading.

  6. Re:Not sure I get it. on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    The LGM-118A Peacekeeper could carry up to 10 W87 warheads, but usually had some dummy RVs and countermeasure pods instead. The proposed START-II treaty had a 3-warhead limitation for all MIRV missiles except for SLBMs, but was never ratified.

    There were only ever 50 of those deployed, and they are now decommissioned.

  7. Re:Not sure I get it. on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    The LGM-118A Peacekeeper could carry 10 W87 warheads, with each detonating at up to 300kt. Most that were deployed did not have a full 10, as they wanted to have some countermeasure "dummy" RVs loaded too.

    The START-II treaty limited ground-based ICBMs to 3 warheads, so the LGM-118 was retired even though the treaty was never ratified, because the platform never performed as it was supposed to and SLBMs are a better deterrent anyway.

  8. Re:Not sure I get it. on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    It's also worth noting that if you're inside a 10-mile circle and targeting an aircraft carrier, you are probably inside the outer perimeter of the carrier group. Which means you're either in a submarine, or dead before you fire.

  9. Re:Those backwards Ruskies on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    The cat is already out of the bag. Satellite imagery of a whole ocean pretty much says where a carrier battle group is.

  10. Re:Hypersonic weapons lead to nuclear war ? on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 2

    Are you freshly arriving from the 1960s?

    A bit of change has happened in any place where the asshole CIA spent their time toppling regimes in order to stand up a puppet state. They also don't really do that anymore, as it turns out to just piss people off and cause bigger issues down the road.

  11. Could be... on 2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack · · Score: 1

    2015 could also be the year of the International Pick-up-sticks championship too.

    What sensationalist garbage.

  12. Re:Rolls Royce of cat litter boxes on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 1

    It depends on who's paying.

    BMWs come with one hell of a service plan. If it's under warranty, then it goes to the stealership where BMW USA can pay for whatever, and you get a nice loaner to drive around until they're done. If it's off warranty, yeah - take it to someone who charges reasonably, does quality work, and does it quickly.

  13. Re:Lost His Balls on Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert · · Score: 1

    More than that, his "Steven Colbert" act (that's what it is - an act) is just being a contrarian. He'll be the first to say that his entire interviewing style is to be disinterested in whoever it is that is there, and to just argue with them with the absolute most ridiculous contrary statements he can think of. He, in fact, tells his guests this before any cameras are turned on in order to let them have some fun with it too - he genuinely wants his guests to have a great time when they appear, and thus warns them that this is how the act goes.

    That show was never meant to have "integrity" of any sort, and the GP is an idiot.

  14. Re:Can't find anything on Youtube anymore on Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert · · Score: 1

    They make more money by having your eyeballs on their channel, in the form of ratings-metered advertising.

  15. Re:Can't find anything on Youtube anymore on Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert · · Score: 1

    and throws the concept of designing your own DVR out the window.

    Tell that to the tiny PC I have hooked up to my TV that is better than any DVR equipment I've ever received from a cable or satellite provider, and has an equipment cost of $6/month for the CableCARD.

    There are several spin-your-own-DVR solutions out there, you just have to play the game. No, you can't use YouTube as your DVR; and that's not "designing your own DVR" anyway.

  16. Re:Enforcing pot laws is big business on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    Or, "Charge me or let me go. I'm calling a lawyer."

    If they're calling in someone, I'm calling in someone too. And if they don't let me without me formally being under arrest for a charge, then I'm suing their asses.

  17. Re:Brazil on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    Even if Sony released it to 100,000 screens I still wouldn't watch it, because it's likely to just be a bad movie that I don't want to pay $12 to see.

  18. Re:So, let me get this straight: on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    Only if the threat is on Pastebin.

  19. Re:What the fuck on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    Apparently convincing movie theaters not to show a bad movie that they probably didn't want to have to show anyway with a vague threat of violence after cracking Sony's network (yeah, like that hasn't been done before) makes you a superpower.

    The theater chains were probably looking for any excuse not to show that thing but not get left out of the next Sony release they actually do want to screen. This way, Sony eats the shit sandwich rather than the theaters. Also known as "the way it should be if you make bad movies."

  20. Re:The case of Idaho is particularly interesting on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    The Oregon law specifically says that crossing out of state with legally purchased pot is illegal. Idaho is fully in their right to drop the hammer on someone doing so, and Oregon won't say shit about it.

    This really isn't that hard to figure out.

  21. Re:Antique laws are to blame on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that in his own post he is saying that laws started in 1860, but it was the evil hegemony of industrialists 80 years later that are to blame.

  22. Re:Solution is End Federal Ban on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    They would also now need to add Oregon and Alaska. And when even more of these laws pass, they would need to add them too. And don't forget medical use states - need an exemption for all of them too.

    At the end of the day, you're just going to have a massive jumble-fuck of legalese that nobody understands. Just do away with the Federal blanket ban already and let States decide, since that's what is happening right now anyway.

  23. Re:"Legal Pot" is a total fiction on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    What could be interesting is what happens if the next President decides to enforce Federal law in Colorado / Washington / Oregon / Alaska, and if someone makes an 8th Amendment case saying it is "cruel and unusual" to enforce laws at the whim of the Executive.

    That could be a precedent that causes repealing of a whole lot of so-called "blue laws" that go unenforced, or just ridiculous laws like Indiana declaring "The value of Pi is 3."

    Well, if we're lucky.

  24. Re: With that logic... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    And Mexico can't even keep people from being killed by the drug cartels - no way they even give a shit about people getting high.

  25. Re:Enforcing pot laws is big business on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 2

    How is it hard to harass someone on drug charges, if they are not using or possessing drugs at the time of a police stop?

    "Can I search your vehicle / bag?"

    "Affording my constitutional rights, No."

    Now the police either has to show a judge probable cause to get a warrant, or they let you go. So called "reasonable suspicion" doesn't even work because there has to be some form of evidence for that - if you don't have dilated pupils, slurred speech, or loss of coordination / balance they don't have that either.

    Know your rights, and exercise them, and most cops don't get to play their cop games. If they do it anyway, you've got a nice legal settlement coming from the city / county / state.