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  1. Re: Duly noted. on Apple's Night Shift May Have Zero Effect On Sleep (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It all depends what your room is lit with. Different sources of light have different colour temperatures. What seems too red in your room may be just fine in someone else's.

  2. Not necessarily. Mac Pros are built in Texas. For high value / low quantity items such as servers, they can make those in Texas too.

  3. Re:Apple's slick marketing BS.. on Apple Unveils Liam, An iPhone Recycling Robot That Salvages Parts (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Who says they need smooth surfaces for the vacuum handlers? What a silly idea. So long as there's plenty of suction, a few scratches and cracks aren't going to prevent a suction pick up.

    And who says the screws need to remove cleanly? Just because in the video, the screws were cleanly unscrewed, doesn't mean that there isn't a backup of drilling them out. It's a robot, it can adjust depending on what it's faced with.

    You're vastly underestimating what industrial robots can do. If a human can do it, a robot can do it quicker and more accurately.

  4. Re:Last we will hear of that.... on FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Devices without exploits are the exception, not the rule.

  5. Re:Last we will hear of that.... on FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. 9.3 has been in beta testing for weeks. And yesterday was Apple's spring announcements event, which included a couple of new features in 9.3. It's nothing to do with the FBI.

    Besides the FBI want a custom version of iOS to get around security on a particular phone. It does not require launching a new version to the public.

    The FBI's action today is because it was going to court today.

  6. Re:16GB storage on Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    32GB is the sweet spot for phones right now, and because they can, Apple refuses to produce a 32GB model to force you to pay an extra $100 to get a reasonable amount of internal storage.

    Let me translate that for you:

    "iPhone isn't like Android. Wah! Wah! Wah!"

  7. Re:Ok, so... on New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams · · Score: 1

    You forgot to blame political correctness and SJWs.

  8. I think there might be roads where you are not allowed to drive manual cars. Starting first with lanes that are for autonomous vehicles. Also I expect tax breaks for autonomous vehicles.

  9. It was in AV mode. Therefore the fact that it was moving means the AI thought the bus would yield also.

  10. Re: The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Protectionism. Fool's gold.

  11. Re: The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    How much do you spend on healthcare?

    I have coronary heart disease. Yet I still only spend the equivalent of about $20 per month. (My contribution to the 3 daily drugs I take.) And nothing for visiting a doctor or the hospital. Thanks to the "socialist" UK NHS.

  12. Re:The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    GOP would never let Trump have the nomination, if they could stop it. But they can't. The same could apply to Bernie.

    I think it won't for 2 reasons. 1. His cash is limited. 2. Americans have been trained to equate socialism with evil.

  13. Re:The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has the clearest case of narcissistic personality disorder I've ever seen. As such he will only do whatever aggrandises Donald Trump the most. You'de probably right that he'll change track after the primaries. But the trouble is he's completely unpredictable, ad there are no limits to what he will do. That's what makes him so dangerous.

  14. Re:Not to rub salt in anyones wounds on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    When the Republican's are all either promising to do the opposite, or are a fascist buffoon, then a promise is the clear winner.

  15. Re:Not to rub salt in anyones wounds on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes.

    "Hillary Backs Strongest Net Neutrality Rules"
    http://time.com/3721452/hillar...

  16. The only hope on Rubio, Cruz Try To Kill Neutrality On 1-Year Rule Anniversary (dslreports.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's easy to fall into hoping that that the fascist buffoon Trump doesn't win the candidacy. But then when you get reminded of the policies of the rest of them, you realise there is no good alternative there.

    The only real hope is that the Democrats win the presidency again.

  17. 3 score years and ten? When people die before that people tend to think they died too young. Over that, and the phrase "died of old age" starts to kick in.

    Not of course that I think people should hang up their boots at 70. But rather that they should start think of those years, if they get them, as a bonus.

  18. Re:Hipster Terrorist? on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    A warranty doesn't retrieve any data nor make up for the lost time with a broken phone.

  19. Re:Hipster Terrorist? on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    And then if Apple ever have a bug in their software that bricks phones, they will not be able to be rescued, but will need to be trashed on mass. No thanks.

  20. Re:So the vulnerability is the updating mechanism? on Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor · · Score: 1

    If Apple couldn't do it, then they could simply say that to the FBI. They can't be made to do the impossible. But Apple are not claiming it's impossible to install a custom OS version, so it'c clear they can do it.

    Don't know why people are talking about over the air updates though. It's more likely to be tethered or JTAG.

  21. Re:So the vulnerability is the updating mechanism? on Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor · · Score: 1

    People seem to be talking about over the air updates. But the iPhone is in the possession of the FBI. That brings in the possibilities of tethered or JTAG firmware updates.

  22. Re:This is good because of network nature on US Asks VW For Electric Cars (news.com.au) · · Score: 2

    "Everything" isn't illegal. But fraud is, that that's one of the crimes that VW committed. And in no small way.

  23. Re:This is good because of network nature on US Asks VW For Electric Cars (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And it's a good thing.

  24. Re:it's sort of true on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple requested to keep this under seal. It's the FBI that took it public.

    As to "every despot and dictator", if the US government doesn't succeed, then they won't either.

  25. Re:How did they try to keep that secret? on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you forgot what it means to place it under a seal?

    It means keeping the request secret. It doesn't mean observing the request. You are making an assumption.