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  1. Re:They misunderstood who the customer was on Nokia's Banana Phone From The Matrix is Back (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No. 2000-2005 I had the T28s without GPRS and later the C55 with but never used it for either. IRC was still my favorite communication medium. I had very cheap 10 mbps connection but using the phone can't have been cheap at all.

    SMS has always been for idiots. The price of a text message here in Sweden was 2 SEK, which is 1/4 USD.

    I only used my phone for phone calls, sms and alarm, the later has been the largest issue I guess since I have a hard time waking up from anything.

  2. Who you gonna call? on Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    - Who you gonna call?

    That's the question.

  3. Re:i will be buying one on Nokia's Banana Phone From The Matrix is Back (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would want a mixture.

    I would want to be able to run my bank id, my Steam authenticator, send e-mail I guess and track activity with the phone too. Browser and camera is nice to have.

    I guess with a mirror-less camera and with an activity armband I could do without those.

    The problem is of course that with plenty of sensors and a quality camera and such it would start making more sense to have an expensive phone in general.

    But for ~â300 I would be ok forgoing some performance, resolution, RAM and built-in storage to actually make it somewhat drop and water-proof. For usability when activitely using it I prefer a larger screen but at any passive time of course a smaller phone instead, I guess I could deal with smaller screen and smaller performance and having a tablet if that meant the phone could be more "built like a brick" without being gigantic. As in small phone but large and good shell.

  4. Re:Screw nostalgia - give me something that works on Nokia's Banana Phone From The Matrix is Back (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think people's nostalgia for Nokia products is largely misplaced.

    Because they weren't the smartphone of today?

    They are of course judged their competition of the time.
    Relative Ericsson at the time when people started to move over I guess the two features Nokia may have had over Ericsson was the antenna not poking out of the shell and possibly better battery life. Did snake or easy of use / the use of just one button for navigation affect anything too?

    T28s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "The T28 was the lightest and slimmest mobile phone at the time, with a weight of only 83 grams.[1]
    Unlike mobile phones of the time (1999-2001) it had a fixed, stubby external antenna. It was probably best known as the first phone that used lithium polymer batteries. At one point, it was the best selling mobile phone in America."
    https://www.gsmarena.com/erics...
    " Removable Li-Po 500 mAh battery
    Stand-by 50 h
    Talk time 3 h 30 min
                Ultra Slim, 600 mAh Li-Pol, 89 g
    Stand-by 65 h
    Talk time 4 h 30 min"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "The Nokia 8210 was, at the time of its release in 1999, the smallest, lightest Nokia mobile phone on the market,[1] thus its selling point was based on its design and customization, with removable Xpress-on covers. Six differently coloured Xpress-on covers are available, as well as many third party ones."
    "Weight 79 g (Lithium Battery)"
    "Battery Standard, 650 mAh Li-Ion (BLB-2)"
    https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia...
    "Stand-by 50 - 150 h
    Talk time 2 h - 3 h 20 min"

    By the time places like India, other parts of Asia, the middle-east, Africa was flooded with Nokia phones though Sony-Ericsson phones was likely not common and Nokia was what existed and what they saw so there it's brand recognition simply because it was the very common cheap phone around. Now it's chinese brands instead.

    I doubt people would care much about the phone being able to push out a part.. They will of course still see it's not a smart-phone. If anything that it's yellow and bent will likely draw more attention ..

    Old lookers:
    http://abouthandphone-infor.bl...

    When I replaced my T28s I looked at the Ericsson T66 and the Siemens C55. Took the later because it supported a higher Java version number but I never installed any Java programs on it. I've so wished I had gotten the T66 instead:
    https://www.gsmarena.com/erics...
    "Weight 59 g (2.08 oz)"
    "Stand-by 150 h
    Talk time 2 h - 5 h"

    Interesting how the T66 was discontinued in 2001 Q4 and the T28s was around 1999-2001. Make you wonder how long mine lasted ... But I guess it still worked then because it was bought on a 24 month contract so it was likely just out and I got a new one.

  5. filthy communist shitweasel

    Redundant.

  6. Black people got guns too?

    Is what you said even supposed to be seen as the truth? Surely people got shot then too? Video games and movies aren't the problem. At best maybe they can give some idea but the triggering factor would be something real.

  7. So sad America needed an ignorant idiot as defense against liberals and socialism.

    Not the best ..

  8. Re: Coming soon the Sequel! on Disney Loses in Redbox Copyright Row (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like attack if the clones

  9. Re: It'll be fine! on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    What says it's an obcession?

    I just state it's a thing. And just because you think people and their culture and ways and soverign rule and what not is worth preserving doesn't mean you have to kill anyone whatsoever. Maybe it's somewhat freedom restricting but I think the bad movement of people could had been sorted out by ditching the welfare state as-well.

    As far as actual civil war, terrorism and genocide goes that's more of a thing which become relevant when you've already had your place invaded, the system can't keep you safe or limit your freedom. It sure as fuck wasn't necessary before it happened.

    My way isn't nazism. My way was stopping the shit immigration early because all other options of dealing with the shit consequences are worse. But they didn't. A "peaceful" solution could still be to stop it and deport people but the longer they wait the more mixed up people will be and they will have a harder time doing it and then what?

    I'm fine with an unsupporting free society which just let the poor starve away from society or commit crimes and be slaughtered for that when that happens too.

    There definitely are solutions but since they wasn't even willing to make Sweden less attractive originally how likely are they to use any of the less attractive options?

    Anyway it's their creation. They should take responsibility and undo it.

  10. Re:What a s*hole country on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re: It'll be fine! on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Whatever.

    At some stage I guess you have to understand that accepting that there are two biological sexes and some confused individuals for whatever reason, that immigration of poorer people into a welfare society cost money and destroy the biological similarity of it's people and change society and break down cultural bonds, that identity is important, that that your opionion isn't that of all peopleÂs, that letting a politician or multiple of them decide what should be done with others money most likely doesn't lead to better usage of them than if people got to keep their own money to do whatever the fuck they wanted with them, that white male super-heroes and so on doesn't necessarily lead to nation-socialism and genocide.

    It's not your way or nazism.

    And yeah, I'd pick national-socialism since I'm white.

    If anything I'd say you kinda make national-socialism acceptable because you say it's the only alternative to what you want. Which it isn't. But yeah.

    You're not fighting "Nazis", you're fighting anyone who doesn't think exactly the same thing as you do.

  12. Re: The best of all three worlds! on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What's the transaction cost of one barrel to Sweden?

  13. Re:Pirate Party on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever you want to call it.

    The typical hippie bullshit.

    It could be about freedom of speech, access to all information the government has access to, transparency, freedom for journalists and leakage, validy of elections, no patents, making Sweden an information/Internet freedom harbour.

    But no, instead the focus is on the right to steal whatever you want whatever information or transportation and providing nationally funded welfare for anyone who want to freeload of it.

    The party is a fucking joke. It was always a joke. But there was a possibility to make something else of it. TPB and Wikileaks was hosted in Sweden. They aren't longer. The train has left the station. Sweden is a non-democractic non-free Socialist regime and would rather bend down to EU, USA, Iran, China, whomever.

    With refugee pride I mean immigrant activism mixed with gay / LGBT pride (which I have no problem with but I have 100% problem with assuming genders or for that nationality doesn't exist and enforcing the idea that peoples identities doesn't exist / that they should lose them / they are bad because people WANT identities and feel good with identities and identities are important! Sure you can remove your I was born with a dick in the US identity if you want too but then you likely put on a I'm for immigration and welfare for everyone identity or whatever instead. It's very few people born with dicks who don't identify as boys or men. Sure some of them is ok with having sex with men but they may still identify as men. Let them. The identity-less person isn't the norm. It's just a stupid religion.

    The left is racist. The left is 100% for identitary politics now. The Swedish left voted to be FOR ethnic statistics in Sweden again. They are of course only for it when they feel it benefit those they have decided to view as weak / less privileged which by itself is 100% social construct & fake and not a fact. As such they want to say look at salaries from the perspectiv of skin colors and if black people have a lower one then they just decide it's discrimination and need to be changed no matter whatever the black people even have the same education and work background or not. It's 100% bullshit. Yet they aren't ok doing the same with crime sentences even though that is equally usable statistics and just a statistical fact.

    Before the claim was that one shouldn't make up grounds and look at people as us and them but that's what they are 100% committed to now and only because they want to put false claims onto why the differences in outcome exist. Socialism through "racism."

    The Swedish right/actual liberals aren't very interested in either of socialism or creating racism. Of course what they call the "extreme right" is also interested in identitary politics and statistics. I think identity is imporant and that statistics are useful so I don't have a problem with that however their conclusion from the correlation / statistics is false and they are only for it for specific political purposes not to gain knowledge in general. It's just a political weapon not a tool of raising knowledge.

    I have never had any respect for the Swedish piracy party and what they focused on but now I'd look at them as completely dead as far as voters support goes so .. not at all relevant.

  14. Re:What a s*hole country on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here to:
    https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    Afghan man got 1 year and 10 months for knife murder.

    Because he "was 15" when he killed.

    The idiots who believed he was 15 I guess we should have a capital punishment for to save our people from their stupid genes and ideas.

  15. Re:Pirate Party on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Life-time in prison in Sweden is a prison sentence until further notice.

    After 10 years in prison for a life-sentence you can ask to have them set a time for your punishment. _IF_ they decide on a time sentence instead if can become no shorter than 18 years. It's common practise in Sweden to let people get out conditionally after 2/3 of the time. On average people get a "24" year sentence in jail which mean that given the 2/3 sentence before conditionally release that they will stay in prison on average for 16 years.

    Life in Sweden isn't 10 years. You can't just sit 10 years on a life-time prison sentence in Sweden. You can get it replaced with a time sentence after 10 years of time.

    As for the pirate party it's very much dead and it sadly used to be all about piracy and hardly anything about freedom of speech and transparency and democracy which would be much more important and interesting. Then some homosexual (?) woman got into the leadership of the party and it become some ... at-least in part some sort of refugee possibly pride party. I guess one can't say the left stole the party because it always seemed to be about theft of intellectual party rather than something more interesting. I guess actual freedom of speech and freedom and democracy in general would be more of a right-wing thing whereas the left definition of "democracy" is rather socialist dictatorship / theocratical/ideological rule without the right and chance to change it.

    I don't think Swedish politicians did it to get Assange. I however think they were perfectly fine keeping Assange stuck in his position and try to force him to come to Sweden no matter what the risk was for him because that's what the law said and if Sweden is good at anything it's usually to follow the terms ..

  16. Re:Better idea on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Why not just make them do community service instead? I don't think it's really in the interest of the taxpayers to spend tens of thousands of dollars (or Swedish Krona I suppose) to lock up non-violent individuals who are committing what would be best regarded as civil offenses.

    Well, I guess it can improve the statistics.

    Finally they can get some white people into the prisons. Good for equality.

    Sweden supposedly need more prisons now too. Yet another of those massive gains we get from the kind of shit immigration we have to Sweden. Sweden is still winning! Watch out America!
    BUILD THE EXPRESS RAIL-WAY! Africa to Sweden now!

  17. Meanwhile Afghan men can murder for less than 2 yr on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mean-while Afghan men can murder people in Sweden and get a punishment of less than 2 years of prison.

    That's because among the adults of Afghans hardly anyone got the right of asylum so they lie and claim they are children. And while applying for asylum it's kinda ok to lie and the Migration office may believe them.

    But then when they actually do kill someone else then it become up to the court to show that they are adults and good luck with that since you don't even know who the fuck they are in the first place.

    And since Sweden don't have the same sentences for actual youth (and even less for people below 15 years old) as for adults they get a very low punishment.

    https://petterssonsblogg.se/20...
    "16" years now, supposedly "15" then.

    So less than two years for knife murder.
    Up to six years for breaking copyright.

    Make sense. The idiots in charge and those who want to keep all the afghans for instance claim we must have rule of law as far as immigration and peopleÂs behavior in response to criminality goes. But it's of course only valid when it benefit the invaders and destroy the life of Swedes. But the system definitely isn't fair or just and we don't have equality against the law in Sweden because the immigrants can do whatever the fuck they want since they can just claim to not be responsibility because they are children whereas actual Swedes can't even if they behaved like the filth coming here which by itself would be very unlikely. So far.

  18. Americans?
    Not Israelis/Jews?

  19. Re: Looks like James Damore, Round 2 on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Someone else like in all case.

    They of course won't do shit.

  20. Re: Looks like James Damore, Round 2 on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    USA isn't peaceful.

    Anyway any ideology you're not allowed to question have the same problem. Doesn't matter if it's communism or Islam. One has a good the other doesn't but so what? I don't see why that give ideas any special and different value than others.

    The question is what those ideas are and whatever you're allowed to question them and reason against them or not. The god part is just an excuse against that.

  21. Re: Looks like James Damore, Round 2 on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    There is no god.

    The justice and injustice is delivered by humans and life/universe/time itself.

  22. Re: It'll be fine! on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spoken like a true authoritarian communist.

  23. Re: dumb as shit on Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Gone full circle...

    Wasn't first / one of the first purchase using bitcoins pizza?

    All makes sense.

    Ultimate history of video games is amazing.

  24. Re: "Crypto" Bandwagon on Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Also while my understanding is limited I'd rather call them blockchain or simply virtual money/coins. I guess a good generic term would be e-money.

  25. Nvidia aren't struggling to keep up with demand. on Cryptocurrency Miners Are 'Limiting' the Search For Alien Life Now (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They and the companies putting together the graphics cards are unwilling to bet on a future mining crazy and make enough graphics cards as is because if it ends then what are they going to do with all the excess cards? Plus all the used ones entering the market?

    Nvidia can keep up with demand but does it make economical sense to produce even more?