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  1. Re:caps? time to trim the fat. on Broadband CEOs Admit Usage Caps Are Nothing More Than A Toll On Uncompetitive Markets (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    #1 & 2 your ISP really doesn't care about. #3 your ISP really doesn't care about either because one you hit your cap, you're either screwed and get throttled, or you get billed for more, making them money.

  2. Re:I'm not sure they can do that... on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not discriminating against him because he's Republican. They're discriminating against him because he's an asshole, as well as they don't agree with his rhetoric.

  3. Re:With Experience of Similar Incidents... on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were to happen in a tesla, the sensors would show the throttle going to 100% and would blame the driver when in fact the car was at fault.

    You're speculating on the operation of the sensor, if it failed, and what mode that failure would have been.

  4. Re:Password Generator on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet you're the life of the party, aren't you?

  5. It's just the right thing to do... on FBI Kept Demanding Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Weren't we all raised that it was the polite thing to do to ask before you take something? The FBI isn't demanding the emails. They were merely asking if they would be voluntarily be handed over. It's not the FBI's fault that the companies read more into the polite requests than was explicitly stated. /s

  6. Re:Pollution on World's Longest, Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens In Switzerland (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't necessarily have to be. I just did a search from NYC to LA for a random date (July 30th) and the fares were within $3 of each other. OK so technically Greyhound was still cheaper, but I think most would say they are close enough to say they are essentially the same price.

  7. Re:Be more opinionated about your damn software on Sundar Pichai Says Google Will Be 'More Opinionated' About Nexus Design (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rotating in all directions? Quite frankly if you need to hold your phone upside down then something on the phone is misdesigned.

    At the end of the day, my phone sometimes doesn't have quite enough juice to use just before I fall asleep. So I need to plug it in to use it while lying down in bed. The charge port is on the bottom of the phone so I either need to have the cord stabbing me in the chest holding the phone right side up, or if I flip the phone 180 degrees, the home screen is upside down.

    So, in this situation, what is misdesigned?

  8. Re:Under the Patriot Act we are all villains on Police Are Filing Warrants For Android's Vast Store Of Location Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They had probable cause prior to you stepping out as well. You exist, therefor they have probable cause anymore it seems.

  9. Re: Which one to laugh at more? on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I actually have had 4 Samsung phones over the years: 3 Galaxy S4 and a Galaxy Avant, all with T-mobile. All of them were woefully behind what was considered "current" Android from nearly the begining and never really received much in the form up updates. Part of that is Samsung, part of that is T-Mobile. From here on out, I'm sticking with the Nexus line of devices. Two Nexus 7 (one 2012 and one 2013) and two Nexus 5x and everything just works.

  10. Re:Which one to laugh at more? on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    What are you talking about? I'm super excited to try out Gingerbread now that new updates are rolling out for my Samsung Android phone.

  11. Re:Survivor Taiwan on Panasonic To Stop Making LCD Panels For TVs (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    Taiwan (which runs Shenzhen)

    How exactly does Taiwan run Shenzhen?

  12. Re:Thinking this is going to backfire on PayPal To Suspend Business Operations In Turkey Following License Denial (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but IT companies that plan to do a significant amount of financial transactions with Turkish citizens or companies apparently do.

  13. Nah. It's on it's own drive managed by Drive Bender.

  14. Re:Finally on Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've seen paths that tried to be longer than 260 characters with archives off of Usenet. Some idiot will use the filename as a text message. When it gets extracted the path becomes some_stupidly_long_200_character_filename/some_stupidly_long_200_character_filename.ext. Since the path then becomes too long, extraction fails.

    The above isn't really a legitimate filename. It's being abused. But for a legitimate example, a common way to organize a HTPC movie collection is the format \Movies\[first_letter]\Title\Title.mkv. So Finding Nemo for instance would be \Movies\F\Finding Nemo\Finding Nemo.mkv. If you have a very long movie title (for example) then you legitimately would have a path too long if you used the full movie name.

  15. Re:The HW may not be fast enough for a new OS on Google To Bring Official Android Support To the Raspberry Pi 3 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For some phones, I'd agree. For my Galaxy S4, I ran a debloated "Google Play Edition"-like custom firmware with Lolipop without any issues for a good portion of the time I owned it. Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T also had no problems releasing Lollipop for their branded S4, just the T-Mobile model that refused too. I don't think Wirth's Law will explain why 3 major carriers can run it fine with almost identical hardware while the 4th can't/won't.

  16. Re:corrupt world on The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What they are doing is maybe not technically illegal, but highly unethical.

    WTF does "not technically illegal" mean? My English language parser says that equates to "legal".

    If a cop pulled you over and said technically you weren't speeding, but I'm still going to give you a ticket because ethically I think you were going to fast you'd be livid.

  17. Re:Keep platforms up to date...or support Pi maker on Google To Bring Official Android Support To the Raspberry Pi 3 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the makers never touch a thing and upgrade to the latest version, that's on the makers not Google. Google just needs to provide the long term support to allow makers to upgrade if they choose.

    The 2nd article you mention is for OEMs and carriers that abandon support for a phone about 2 seconds after they launch the phone. Google publishes the updates, but it's up to the OEMs and carriers to integrate those fixes into their product lines.

    My flagship Galaxy S4 for T-Mobile came with 4.2.2 JellyBean in mid 2013. 2 years later it had been upgraded all the way to 4.4.4 where it made it ultimately up to 4.4.4 Kitkat by September 2015 where it never has progressed past. Lollipop was available in October 2014 and Marshmallow in October 2015. Yet nothing for my phone. It wasn't that I elected not to upgrade, it was just that there was no official update available.

  18. Re:Not just Facebook on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does Facebook EVER need your mic?

    Because it has the ability to send an audio recording. Kinda hard to record audio if the mic doesn't work.

  19. The burden of proof here is on Myhrvold.

    The burden of proof here is on both sides.

    Oversimplified, this is why your math and science teachers always told you to show your work. It's so that if there is a discrepancy in the final result, things can be compared, see what assumptions were made if any, and determine where the differences are at.

  20. Re:Wait, what? on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    shouldn't they be suing samsung and all other phone makers too.

    They want to start off slowly with a small, little known defendant that will set a precedent, then go after the bigger guys.

  21. Re:Little known fact on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    GESTAidPO?

  22. Gmail allows you to also do this even if you don't have your own domain. You can create virtual email addresses in the format of username+whatever@gmail.com. If the "whatever" account ever gets compromised, spammed, etc just set up an filter to automatically delete it (or at least categorize it as spam). It'll still show up in your inbox normally so you're not having to manage multiple email accounts either.

  23. Re:train name submission on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Great. Give the religious right another target to crusade against the liberal agenda.

  24. Re:Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not quite that cut and dry. In general, it depends on when the work was first published and/or registered as well as where. There are all sorts of combinations that would need to be figured out based on a particular instance.

    And current copyright is 70 years after an authors death or 95 to 120 years for corporate works depending if they were in a publication or not.

  25. Re:Lawyer sense tingling on Filmmakers Ask 'Pirate' to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you read the defense's legal filing, it sounds as if the plaintiff was negotiating with the defense's lawyer for the polygraphy, the defense asked for 14 days and only got 7. When the defense agreed to the polygraph on the condition the plantiff pays for it, plaintiff immediately files for entry of default judgement.

    Plaintiff also is accused of making bad faith verbal promises that they reneged on that they would dismiss the case if he tool the polygraph. That is why further filings weren't made initially as timely as they could have been.

    If you read the whole thing, previous case law would seem like the defendant likely will get the default judgement set aside. Courts rather get things right and hear a case rather than just give the case to one side without good cause.