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  1. What about the small carriers ? on T-Mobile, Comcast Turn on Call Verification Between Networks in Latest Robocall Fight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if the large carriers all implement FCC's SHAKEN/STIR between them but then refuse to do the same thing for all the small carriers ?
    Then start marking all non-verified calls as SPAM ?
    Don't say it could not happen.

  2. Re:View the content here on 'Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leaks on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    WOW !!! Nice ! It's not even that blurry !

  3. Re:Don't shop at Amazon on Amazon Is Slashing Whole Foods' Prices By 20 Percent On Hundreds of Items (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    For me it was the other way around - avid Amazon Shopper.
    Went to Whole Foods last month - all the reduced prices are ONLY available for Amazon Prime members - else everything is full price.
    All the banners in the store said that.
    Ok - i said to the cashier - i'm a Prime Member - give me the discounts.
    No - she said - you need to have "THE APP"
    Long story short - nobody in the store (like 3 employees in total) was able to get "THE APP" to show the magical QR code - so i ended up paying full price.
    Turns out that if you have anything in your Amazon shopping cart, you need to purchase that before you're shown the magical Whole Foods QC code.

  4. Headphone jack on Apple Announces 10.5-inch iPad Air and Refreshed iPad Mini (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And both of them still have the headphone jack.

  5. Re:Open Source Software cannot be secure!!! on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent as funny :)
    Open source software does not mean you get to make code changes in THEIR source code. You can only see it and fork-it and make your own evil voting software.

  6. Re:Transformative App on Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 Apps -- and No Runaway Hit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Voice-assistant project with local voice recognition (Pocketsphinx or Julius):
    http://jasperproject.github.io...

    Hardware module for local voice recognition (limited):
    https://www.audeme.com/movi.ht...

  7. Split Google ... on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So to get the full search results you'll have to look-up the same thing on:

    googleatlantic.com
    googlepacific.com
    googlesouth.com
    googlesouthwest.com
    googlewest.com
    googletech.com
    googleny.com

    ?

  8. Well ... i would like to be able go to a car rental place and have them loan me out a car for free.
    Also if i owned a such a electric vehicle i would like to be able to loan-it to someone needing it for a amount of money.

  9. ... implemented a system whereby owners of EVs would be able to loan their vehicles out for free ...

    Mandatory or voluntary ?

  10. Re:Damn... on DC Cancels Comic Where Jesus Learns From Superhero After Outcry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's the Japanese version.
    Saint Young Men

  11. Re:Stupid paternalism on Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a nice thing to say about Wikipedia-Chan

  12. Not in the default response.
    As i said - you need to send some extra bits to enable debug responses. Those are documented in the cell's documentation and may differ from cell manufacturer to manufacturer... But there's like five of them anyways so you can try them all.
    Some old Motorola phones had them built in - you just punch a really long star code and the screen fills up with interesting numbers :) The trick was to pay attention to the cell tower servicemen and see what phone models they were using.

  13. Well ... the "HLR boys" can send a few network commands to force that phone to try and register with another tower ... then another one ... if they have your EIRP from at least 3 tower locations, you're triangulated to about ~15m (down to ~5m in cities with lots of towers).

    Hint: if you see the signal bars on your phone jumping up and down for a minute or two without a reason ( phone idle, no apps downloading data, no high movement of devices in network (rush hour or concert) ) - then guess what just happened :)

  14. If you have that modem dialing out to automatically play a sound file of "You have been approved for medical insured pain relief press one to talk to a operator ..." if the other party manages to pick up - then yes, you can do that. :-)
    But expect your SIM to get disconnected and the IMSI of your modem blocked the next day (if the mobile operators are smart enough to count the number of "debug" messages running over the network and report on that)

  15. As long as you can find out in which mobile network that phone is registered, you can take a SIM from the same provider, pop-it into a mobile modem, enable basic network tracing and call that number. As soon as the called number begins to ring, you'll get a packet back from the network listing among other stuff the CELLID where that phone is registered.
    And there are a bunch of websites where you can plug a CELLID which will show that "hunder meter circle" where that cell's antenna has coverage.

  16. Re:If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Just remember to do a recharge-discharge-recharge (w/ trickle charging) cycle on those extra batteries at least once every 6 months. Or they'll die out in storage.

  17. Re: If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe YOU don't need one.
    But some of us like to use our current headphones and/or have apps/devices using that port.
    To each his own.

  18. Re:If this hurts Apple's bottom line, it should. on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    2017 iPhone SE - last one with a audio jack which fits neatly in a normal shirt pocket.
    Just replaced the battery on mine in December at an Apple Store for $29.
    No intention to get another iPhone for the next ~3-4 years.

  19. Re:The PC-Police just needs to die... on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm...

    As i Debian user i do feel offended by this word ... "systemd"

    Better notify the anti-harassment team they have one more package to forever purge ...

  20. Yep.
    New expensive large Sony TV, almost top of the line. Constantly skips 2 channels when channel surfing on DVB-T. Known issue - needs firmware upgrade. Sony firmware upgrade is only done at the Official Sony Service center. Firmware is region-locked so whatever western firmware file i found on-line would not work on my Eastern Europe model. Official Sony Service center refuses service under warranty as the original box (which i kept) is missing the original polystyrene inserts.

  21. few more lines ... on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Few more lines and the /. summary would contain TFA whole.

    Let me save you some time and some ad views by pasting them here:

    But in recent years, consumers have shifted to new digital TV offerings like Netflix and Hulu or the live, PlayStation Vue service. That shift away from traditional TV services has hit satellite particularly hard. The US pay-TV industry reportedly lost a record number of TV subscribers last quarter, and the satellite services from DirecTV and Dish Network (which also owns internet-TV service Sling TV) were the hardest hit.

    In 2017, AT&T lost 554,000 satellite video subscribers, and it continued to hemorrhage customers this year, according to company filings.

    âoeHeâ(TM)s not going to launch more satellites,â AT&Tâ(TM)s top boss, chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, said of Donovan, during the meeting. âoeWeâ(TM)re kind of done.â

  22. Skype quality on Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Well ... Skype itself seems to do some self-throttling.
    Most my Video Skype calls, no matter the network, are like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  23. OpenBSD syspatch already available on Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Login to your OpenBSD 6.4 box and:

    # syspatch
    Get/Verify syspatch64-001_xserver... 100% |***************| 1227 KB 00:00
    Installing patch 001_xserver

    There. All fixed now.

  24. Yes ... but your server's Lights Out/Remote Management module might be running a embedded OS with LibSSH.