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  1. No on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No the world isn't ready for flying cars, the energy use is too great. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage not increase it. And whilst short plane flights with batteries is possible, it's just not practical enough to become a significant market. VTOL with batteries is even less practical.

  2. Re:Features removed, Fing neutered on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that.

  3. Re:iPad 2 on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Desktop OSs and Phone OSs are not the same.

  4. Re:Features removed, Fing neutered on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's App Store takes a 30% cut. As does Google Play.

    There are other Android stores that take less, but they don't have much volume, so that's not much point.

  5. Re:300,000 terrorists? on Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.

  6. Re:Anybody who needs to identify on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    It's just a part of marketing. If you think you are unaffected by marketing, you're deluded. Marketing takes advantage of quirks of the way the human mind works. And yours is no different.

  7. Re:Anybody who needs to identify on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Their cans are. Their bottles aren't.

  8. Re:Seems like non-Apple people care more about loo on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Swiping from the edge has always been a different gesture from swiping fully on he screen. Up to now, swiping from the bottom edge brings up a settings panel. So no, no one would ever have used that gesture to scroll. The video is jut wrong.

    But then it was made more for laughs than accuracy.

  9. What took them so long? on Apple Officially Bans Scammy Antivirus Apps From iOS App Store (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Virus scanners have never been possible on iOS due to each app not bring able to read the disk folders of other apps. So why have Apple been approving apps that claim to do so for years?

  10. Re: And the BIGGER question is .. on Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it's easier to achieve fast speeds over a long track than a short one. So that short test track is not the advantage you're implying.

  11. Re:And the BIGGER question is .. on Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be faster than an airline if the incidental time wasting is reduced..

    The point is that for an airline, you have to arrive early (as your ticket is for a specific departure time), you have to wait for checkin, then wait to pass security. Then at the other end, if you have an luggage, you have to wait for it to be unloaded and put onto a carousel.

    Adding an extra 2 hours on top of

    Compare and contrast with catching a train. You usually don't have to arrive early, as if you miss one train you can catch the next. There's no checkin, and no security. Just checking of a ticket by an automated gate or a ticket inspector. And you keep your baggage with you.

    Hyperloop will be somewhere between the two. Presumably rather closer to the train scenario.

  12. Samsung only did facial recognition from a 2D photo. iPhone X does a lot more. It projects a grid of dots onto the face, and photos with 2 cameras, giving 3D information. That helps prevent spoofing with photos.

    And one of the cameras is IR so is looking for heat patterns, which would help to reject mannequins.

  13. Re:Aaaaand .. they're already pissing people off on Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    UHT milk tastes shit.

  14. It's irrelevant if it's healthy. Most people want it in their coffee and tea. And UHT tastes shit.

    Pasteurised tastes just fine. That's a very different thing from UHT.

  15. Re:what about stuff by law can't be self checkout on Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's prepaid, it's not a credit card, it's a debit card.

  16. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, the online Apple Store doesn't offer any of those. Or any other wired headphones.

    You may be browsing it in a different and more backwards country than I am.

  17. Why would you need to invest in a time machine drive?

    If you value your data, then you already have one. If you don't, then it wouldn't particularly matter of the upgrade destroyed your data.

    However you are no more likely to lose your data during the upgrade than at any other time. This has already been done once, on iPhones. And there was no issue with people losing data.

  18. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Try going to the Apple Store web site. All headphones and speakers are Bluetooth or Wireless.

    Looks like you're behind the times.

  19. The fact that they didn't offer an opt out likely means there's no reason not to change over.

  20. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It never left the Macbook Pro.

  21. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you can say it for the jack socket. And it is going away. The concept of a wire going to your ears is as quaint as a floppy disk. People are moving to wireless headphones/buds.

  22. Re:Anybody know what this means? on 'Operational Limitations' In Tesla Model S Played a 'Major Role' In Autopilot Crash, Says NTSB (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, eye tracking is the obvious way. And the Tesla Model 3 has a camera in the rear view mirror area that faces back towards the inside of the car. AFAIK it's not used yet, but it's obvious use case is monitoring driver attention. They could deliver that in a future software update.

  23. I wish I had that for podcasts or TV. That way if I fall asleep when listening/watching I can resume later from the point I fell asleep.

  24. They'll learn less from them by firing them than by devising methods to stop them doing these things. After all, they can't fire the eventual customers that will also do these things.

  25. Re:So along with the new sensors on Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what they said when Mac stopped using floppy disks.