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  1. The basic idea (bezel-less phone) is pretty obvious. The mechanism (curved screen to slightly wrap around) is the easier of the obvious two ways to make it work.

    If your competitors design, build, and ship the claimed invention before your patent application is disclosed, maybe it's pretty obvious to one skilled in the art.

  2. Re: New cars != new drivers on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    One's money definitely goes further with a used car.

    I mentioned a particular price point because there are several factors that distinguish European and American buying habits: personal income, the nominal cost of a new car, and relative costs of cars and other goods (say a new car in the US costs 200 times as much as a week's grocery run; what is the number for Europe?).

    Adjusted for "Purchasing Power Parity", which tries to combine personal income with the costs of a broad basket of goods, GDP per capita is higher in the US than most European countries. Nominal prices excluding tax seem to be roughly similar, but VAT is much higher than US sales tax.

    I was curious how much of a difference Europeans think those factors account for buying mostly used cars.

  3. Re: New cars != new drivers on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The average new subcompact car sold in the US costs somewhere under $18,000. That's a lot for people making minimum wage, but not too much for a lot of working class families.

  4. Why do you think these are the tools that much money goes towards? If some other spy agency took these tools in the first place, they'd probably keep the really cool ones rather than give them to Wikileaks.

  5. Re: His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you didn't quote the part where they had a different source for the number of Islamist attacks, or the study that counted both and gave the numbers I cited earlier. Nice reading fail.

  6. Re: His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Go read the NYT article before you decide whether I accurately characterized it and it's sources. I'll wait.

    While you're doing that, consider where the basic logic fail is when Trump says "the vast majority of individuals convicted for terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country", and your rebuttal is that the foreigners who committed the most notable attacks were not from countries named in Trump's Executive Order on travel restrictions.

  7. Re: He's managing director of anti-torture charit on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ad hominem much? I guess that means you can't rebut the actual claim.

  8. Re: His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    And you didn't read the article's source. The numbers they compared came from two unrelated studies that did not use the same methodology. Neither one actually cited terror attacks by right-wingers, only "attacks".

    If you look at actually comparable numbers, you find that jihadist attacks accounted for 26 of 65 fatalities -- before the San Bernardino and Orlando attacks. Oops, maybe Trump was right if you look at the number of times someone (excerpting the attacker) got killed.

  9. Re: Good. on WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 In Ransom Payments (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has that stopped bank robbers?

    Criminals are not known for having the world's best impulse control or understanding of expected itchiness.

  10. Re: Not exactly 'wiping' the hard drive on Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Wiping his computer, like with a cloth?

  11. The summary did mention "his cousin in the UK", which implied a non-UK call center, so the location was pretty obvious.

  12. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    First you say that "single payer health care" isn't like the USSR because the USSR was communism.

    Now you say it doesn't matter if the USSR want really communism. Why? Because you think your brand of big-government socialism is the good kind, but theirs was the bad kind? Because we can trust your good intentions when it comes to you spending our money?

  13. Seriously, are we not doing Betteridge's Law any more?

  14. Think of it as a Single Point Of Fixing.

  15. Re: RSS? on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 2

    Why, yes, I do still use Really Sloppy Slashdot. Isn't that obvious?

  16. I've seen code from people who apparently believe in "code-first" rather than "analysis-first". It ain't pretty.

  17. Re: I agree for different reasons on DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those walled gardens can only exist through DRM mechanisms. They were created specifically to make DRM more pervasive on the computing platform. Apple, for example, wants to be the only company that can authorize applications to run on iOS.

  18. Re: A bunch of jiberish on DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard somewhere that Video Killed The Radio Star. However, these crazy record companies want Money For Nothing, while the people who used to say "I Want My MTV" now wonder where the music went. When the system burns down, who will be able to honestly say, "We Didn't Start The Fire"?

  19. Re: A bunch of jiberish on DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, the UK will be the only country in the world to authorize DRM-tools... And then they'll get sanctioned like Antigua & Barbados almost got sanctioned over Slysoft's AnyDVD, or an international court will authorize unlicensed copying of UK-authored works. Unlike countries that have been sanctioned like that before, the UK has quite a lot of valuable copyrighted works. Doctorow is, as is often true when it comes to political topics, delusional.

  20. Yeah, swing states prove the electoral college is worthless. Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are such safe Democratic strongholds that no presidential candidate with an (R) after their name should bother campaigning there.

  21. Re: Unimpressive performance. on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    There must have been done kind of stuff in that Intel Kool-Aid that you chugged down.

  22. Re: Unimpressive performance. on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy a 128GB SSD for less than $77 (plus the cost of a new CPU and motherboard). Exactly what is Intel's value proposition?

  23. Re: It's complicated on CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt For WikiLeaks Source (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama personnel didn't just attempt to "unmask" Trump staffers who were mentioned in intelligence product. Susan Rice (among others?) actually did unmask them, so that she would know their names rather than anonymous identifiers similar to "US person number 4, an advisor to a candidate for national office".

  24. Yeah, and my point was that a tool could be written to filter any other log format as well. It would be maybe 10 lines of Perl, if you went for legibility over terseness. Your comparison had nothing to do with binary logs or anything else about how systemd stores logs, and everything to do with what tool ships with the logger.

  25. You're comparing the benefits of having a tool dedicated to extracting and displaying log entries to having to roll your own out of tools that follow the Unix philosophy.

    The fact that you're so confused about the task says a lot.