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  1. Re:My DZ09 on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Battery life seems to be about 3 days. Probably less if I had a SIMM installed.....half the radios aren't on for mine.

  2. My DZ09 on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 2

    My smartwatch was $35 including shipping. It has SD and SIMM card slots, and is a fully functional smart phone complete with camera.

    My only complaint, no health sensors beyond accelerometer apps.

    Why is the Apple Watch (and the rest of its competitors) so expensive? Are red and green LEDs that much more expensive?

  3. Re: They're noticing this NOW? on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I hadn't thought of that methodology. I should do that. So far, I've been just using a simple copy program with "overwrite older" to skip files already copied.

  4. Re: They're noticing this NOW? on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Western Digital Mycloud- brand new. I'm trying to copy all of the data from my backup drives to it. Last I saw, the time estimate was 5d 17h 26m, and that was when I shut it off this morning....it keeps not completing due to Windows Updates.

  5. Re:They're noticing this NOW? on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This issue has been there since Windows XP came out. It's just more noticeable in 10 because instead of update Tuesdays, we get updates every minute.

  6. For Kernal Kurtz and in response to KeensMustard on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    The answer to your question is "Bring business back to America" means "bring manufacturing jobs back to America by denying access to the American Consumer to competing international businesses". From that standpoint, freedom of movement and freedom of immigration have actually become BAD things to Trump's cause of bringing jobs back to America. Freedom in general is bad- slavery to corporations is good, because that makes America attractive to sweatshops again.

  7. As I've been informed many times by pro-choicers in debates, the Declaration of Independence, as a philosophical document, has zero force of law and no bearing on the laws of the United States after 1973.

    We haven't protected individual rights in a very long time- all of your examples are special privileges based on identity groups.

  8. What would be correct would be to invite members of the tribe to come build a village on the land, thus insuring yourself of having a tourist attraction AND a ready-to-work labor force (unemployment among native hawaiians is high- as is homelessness)

  9. Re:Okay, so let's flip that... on Customer Feedback Surveys Could Be Considered Harmful (easydns.org) · · Score: 1

    It's easier to use the external tool, however you contact your users, than to include it in the app itself. You may still run into a bit of confirmation bias, but by limiting the choices you also limit that.

  10. Re:Okay, so let's flip that... on Customer Feedback Surveys Could Be Considered Harmful (easydns.org) · · Score: 1

    Do a Survey Monkey instead. Use a ranking question with planned features.

  11. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the real answer would be for the Atomic Scientists to give them personal experience in the cost of war.

  12. Re: I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen all of this at Intel. Other people make the hardware, Apple's just a packager. LG has a five-in-one that can do all of that and then some. The Apple 5k display is actually an LG product to begin with.

  13. Re: I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The iPhone 7 contains no technology at all that didn't already exist in Samsung, Asus, and LG phones.

    The 2016 Macbook pro is no different than any other Intel based laptop of the same class and half the price.

    Face it, it's just sparkle you're paying for with the apple tax these days. Fabulous looks and specs, nothing innovative underneath.

  14. Re: I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He had a good point, but it's not true in this case.

    I see the gay culture as being FABULOUS on the outside, BROKEN on the inside.

    Thus I was trying to draw an analogy to a computer company that is great at making cases people want to use that contain outdated technology.

  15. Re:I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"

    Supposedly, the stereotype I was trying to reference is that gays are awesome at fashion and appearances, but that once you scratch beneath the surface, you find broken psyches.

    Similarly, Apple is wonderful at making innovative cases that people like to look at, but the technology inside is, well, outdated.

  16. Re: I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Though in this case, there is a bit of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" mentality that seems to be going on.

  17. Re:I guess we now know... on Apple Is Releasing a Find My AirPods Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    And thus they gain the functionality that Plantronics has had for five years.

    Apple is a jewelry company. When they hired that gay guy as CEO, they lost all real technical innovation- they're followers, not leaders.

  18. Re:Contrast this with the incoming administration on Two-Thirds of Americans Give Priority To Developing Alternative Energy Over Fossil Fuels (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fossil fuels and alternative energy are rather passe. What we really need is ambient, decentralized energy solutions.

  19. Re:But VR's still cool, right? RIGHT???? on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Both 3D TV and VR are doing it wrong.

    What you really want is 5-6 screens arranged in a cube. In the case of 3D, you want the screens facing out. In the case of VR, you want the screens to be much larger and facing in.

  20. Re:Which City University and 20%? on One in Five of Us May 'Hear' Flashes of Light (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Which City University and 20%? on One in Five of Us May 'Hear' Flashes of Light (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would not trust Wikipedia for drug facts.

  22. Re:Schitzophrenic Labor Dept. on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, white guys do that too. Beaners are the janitors.

  23. Re:Schitzophrenic Labor Dept. on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Does not matter. The end result will be ORMs (Asian and White Males) fired to make room for URMs, primarily women, and African Americans.

  24. Eight function toilet? on Japan To End Tourists' Toilet Trouble With Standardised Buttons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I can think of three, maybe four, but beyond light flush, heavy flush, bidet, and drier, what are the other four functions?

  25. Re:Which City University and 20%? on One in Five of Us May 'Hear' Flashes of Light (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wrote that wrong (was in a hurry). If you have ever USED LSD, then due to the fact that it is fat soluble, you will one day abuse LSD, entirely by accident. I had meant to make it "have used" not "abuse"