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  1. Re:Where was the CIA, FBI and NSA... on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Snooping is grand. They capture so much they can *never* go through it all. They gather it faster than they can process it.

    The only use is forensics. They worked out a detailed timeline and plan for the 9/11 hijackers after the fact. And, though they had all that data, until AI parses it for us, we'll never see the patterns in time to do anything about it.

  2. Re:Good old fashioned crisis management... on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it matter if the quote was a condemnation of the USA PATRIOT Act as being a pre-made crisis response to 9/11? Can you read it in a way to see it as such?

  3. Re:Good old fashioned crisis management... on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, like you asking the wife for a solid-core security door that's $5000 and ugly, when a regular door is cheaper and prettier. She says no. Then, when you are robbed by someone kicking in the door, you ask again and the wife says yes.

    How someone implies that's a bad thing is beyond me. You don't let the crisis go to waste, you learn from it, and improve from what you learn.

  4. Re:Disposable screens for disposable products? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    And for someone reading emails and facebook (99% of phone's use, from what I can tell), how could the expense and complexity of OLED be seen side by side in a store? The stores don't like when you wipe their phones and install a custom test firmware, and shoot out all the lights in the mall, as your test would require for the parameters I gave.

    I guess idiots prefer OLED because it would be better, if anyone ever ran across that one specific test, though nobody has yet.

  5. Re:Or just make the diesels hybrids on London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel · · Score: 1

    None of those available in the US. At least not according to the most recent articles I found.

    Diesel is better at a single speed, like you say, charging for a long, steady trip without much stop and go. But read the topic. Cars in London. There's lots of stop and go in London. The smaller gasoline hybrids dominate in that space.

  6. So, side by side in the store, the only way for a regular human to tell them apart is to read the spec sheets on them and declare "this one should be better, so I'll believe it to be better because the spec sheet says so".

    Thanks for the help. Next time I see them side by side in a store, I'll be sure to note that as the difference.

  7. Re:Disposable screens for disposable products? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's last update for my 3GS was a few months after it was bought new. Apple's iOS updates only seem long if you measure from the first phone sold, not the last.

  8. Re:Disposable screens for disposable products? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it compare with something like the Oppo (or the many others) with a similar sized screen and the same resolution?

  9. Re:Disposable screens for disposable products? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I've looked at a Note 5 next to a Oppo Find 7, and I didn't see the difference you assert. Aside from AMOLED bragging rights, how would a regular human spot the difference?

  10. Re:Disposable screens for disposable products? on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried to give my GS3 AMOLED phone to my kids, and they wouldn't take it. The screen is so horrible compared to my new phone, LCD, of course. Though for them, the 5.5" is the biggest feature of the screen (that and being QHD), and the battery life is much better in my newer 5.5" phone than the GS3.

    And Samsung sucks. GS3 is not that old, and Samsung won't put out a recent firmware for the millions of people that are still on it. Samsung has one of the worst support cycles of anyone out there. But that's OK, as TouchWiz is pretty bad anyway, and all the Samsungs are begging to be rooted and flashed. HTC, Oppo and others do a much better UI than Samsung. Samsung is too focused on duplicating Google's apps, rather than augmenting them. I don't need a Samsung store next to the Google store.

    I'd put my GS3 down as my worst tech purchase. I should have gone with the HTC I had as a work phone, but wanted to try something different for my personal phone and heard good things about the GS3, obviously only from people who wanted company in their misery with that POS.

  11. OLED is the one which is superior in color reproduction, always has been, by a leaping mile.

    Then why, when two phones are side by side in the store, do the customers not even notice which has OLED without Samsung's huge AMOLED+ signs pointing at their phones?

  12. Are you sure it's not where the Android fanboys say "oh, one Apple fan got one fact wrong, more proof Apple is Evil!!!!!!!!111!!!!one!one!!"?

    Because the equally silly stuff comes from both sides.

  13. Electric cars were available before gasoline cars. Gasoline cars were available before Diesel cars. But if you ask someone which is newer or better, you'll get the reverse order.

    Just because something is newer doesn't make it better. The OLED in the Samsung got lots of Samsung press, but the reviews and side-by-side comparisons didn't see the difference Samsung claimed. Maybe Apple was waiting for it to actually be better than the LCD before moving to it.

  14. Re:Or just make the diesels hybrids on London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel · · Score: 1

    Then Diesel loses all its advantages. Diesel is only a good engine choice if you want a Diesel generator on board for a pure-electric car. If you want good peak power to give mechanical boost to electric (as every hybrid in the market does), then you want gasoline, with better efficiency in a hybrid configuration of that type. Also note, that VW is talking about a Diesel hybrid, but there are none in market. Because they suck. Toss a generator in the trunk and use that to charge the car while driving is the effect of a Diesel hybrid, and you need a good pure EV before weighing it down with a generator for range (and even then, a good design would make the generator removable for savings the 99% of the time you don't want or need it).

    Hybrids support the mayor's opinion that Diesel is a poor choice for a city car.

  15. So you should have the right to have whites only stores. Put personal pressure on all your friends to only have whites only stores. And make sure you don't sell your house to a non-white person. Because all that worked out so well before.

  16. Re:Rebates on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    They are a pure marketing ploy to make people think that buying a $40,000 car for $20,000 is better than buying a nicer $18,000 car for $18,000. Yes, numbers made up. But the psychology isn't.

  17. Re:The takeaway is that Tesla is right on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Dealers have a conflict of interest because manufacturers are dumb. Manufacturers have variable margins built into the cars that encourage sales. One would hope they line up with the maker's desires (or profits), but often they don't. And makers like GM that have $2000 rebates on everything almost all the time encourage buyers to avoid them when there isn't a sale.

  18. You can use your own, but you don't have to buy a 3rd party service, and can't lose the footage because someone stole the camera. Still sounds like a good feature.

  19. Re:release notes should have informed users on Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    AMD A8-7600 with 8 GB of RAM and an ADATA SSD. Basic low end desktop and it runs like a dream.

    That's not really a low end desktop, not even today.

    Not a low end desktop, but worse than my laptop I paid less than $1000 for 3 years ago. Though I'm due for an upgrade, GTX 850M just doesn't cut it.

  20. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm a fan of home automation (a hobby of mine that's increasingly turning into a business). I, and many fellow HA enthusiasts, are firm proponents of the LAN of Things, or even a Separate Network - Controlled By a Hub That is Only Allowed To Connect To the Internet Under Strict Conditions - Of Things.

    That's not IOT, that's IOC - Internet of Controllers. Those pushing the IoT want every home device on a unique IPv6 address and able to talk to anything. The only IoT I've seen sold is by shitty wireless companies trying to sell private networks over their mobile systems. Even those selling IoT don't actually want IoT. Because if you don't control it in a single secure central server, you can't extract payment for every use. And it's all about extracting money from people.

  21. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    I don't recognise this bullshit male privilege nonsense that feminists keep bleating on about. I sure as shit don't benefit from it.

    Yeah, a dumb jackass male won't be CEO above a qualified woman, but a qualified man will be CEO over a qualified woman. Just because you are digging your own hole doesn't mean that men don't have it easier. I'm a man, and I see it every day.

  22. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    We appreciate the MRA point of view. But that's irrelevant to my point. I said 99:1, and you named 1. It is, in fact, the same 1 mentioned previously.

  23. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Oooh, the MRAs are pissed off that a female might not be treated worse than a man.

  24. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    When you are given an advantage 99 times, and a disadvantage once, that doesn't mean you are "treated worse" because of your gender. You are treated better. Your confirmation bias doesn't change reality.

  25. Re:That won't last long... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from extremism.