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  1. Mathuselah was 969. But surely people didn't live seven times longer. Were earth years shorter? What would cause earth's orbit to slow, I wonder.

  2. Re:good news fucked summary/title on Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container) (anbox.io) · · Score: 1

    Unanswered question for this system that does not emulate the CPU of phone hardware: how do they deal with native code in those apps that have it?

    They don't emulate ARM on an x86 host if that's what you mean.

    Intel at one point did release a library called Houdini, which does what you're asking.

  3. Re:You wouldn't believe how we found it! on South Indian Frog Oozes Molecule That Inexplicably Decimates Flu Viruses (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To which Cedric, our French doctoral student, replied, "Don't be shy, we eat them back home all the time."

  4. I'd be tempted to use continuum if they have sold it as a standard feature on $200 handsets but the Elite X3 is only going to be purchased by business customers for staff who'd prefer an iPhone 7.

    Being a slashdot nerd I have multiple monitors, USB keyboards and mouses plus an HDMI TV. I do have a 2009 era laptop running Windows 10, as a student but would gladly turf it once my degree is complete in favour of a pocket device which has possibly more processing power!

  5. Vendors. Lumia might be dead but look at that list - HP, Lenovo and VAIO.

    Enough to keep the platform on life support. Still teasing the market with rumours of 'Surface Phone' vapourware emulating x86 on Snapdragon 835...

    Footnote: Cerulean Moment is a crowdfunded project launching a new mid-range handset. Still a long way to meet their funding goal, however.

  6. Vaporware but if MS ever wanted a comeback on phones, they'd grow Edge's market share by releasing on Android first. I prefer their Outlook client to any FrankenUI interface to Gmail that Google churns through.

  7. Re:Not an overbooking incident on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the entire plane were holding out for more money? Time is money to this doctor but it seems bizarre that out of 100+ passengers, four of them wouldn't have taken $800 to de-board.

    (I'm from a country where AFAIK, cash incentives aren't often utiltized.)

  8. Re:Never understood the Ubuntu hate... on Canonical Founder Criticizes Free Software Developers Who 'Hate On Whatever's Mainstream' (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I would blame the fate of webOS more on disastrous leadership than technology. Apotheker was sacked one month after he canned the phone business.

    (p.s. HP are now selling WP 10 handsets)

  9. Re:Do people buy things from MS stores? on Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I for one haven't used it. The store has advantages, in theory, provided they don't lock down the rest of the machine (c.f. Windows RT)...

    1) Windows has no package manager, so a lot of freeware software utilities come from some dodgy download site that may bundle malware in the installer.
    2) The update mechanisms for popular vendors run an update service in the background, which no one wants clogging up their machine
    3) Applications in the store presumably run in a sandbox, which may improve security.

    I'm a cheapskate, so I've never *paid* for any app on Google Play, so from the revenue side 30% of $0.00 is still $0.00

  10. debatable but in 2017 it's becoming more or less a standard feature on any iMac-killer Windows 10 all-in-one PC.

  11. Re:Actually what the guy wrote was on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux, a legacy project?

    Sure it is.
    Ubuntu has migrated to an NT kernel, while the commonest Linux distro, Android, is moving to Magenta.

  12. Re:Pakistan on Britain Wants Tech Firms to Tackle Extremism (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They have had a great cricket team - Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram etc

    I'd call that a success.

  13. Re:Ah, fascism on Britain Wants Tech Firms to Tackle Extremism (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    landing in Europe

    The UK is in Europe now? I thought the 'make Britain great again' movement had just declared independence. :)

  14. Well it's more like 8 or 9 years :) But I picked it up 18 months ago cheap and it does all I need for my studies - run Windows 10, Office 2016 and a web browser. A 2009 era x86_64 might beat a phone on single core benchmarks but the GPU in a phone far exceeds the laptop.

  15. You with your 32GB RAM and 4TB hard disk aren't the target.

    Those of us who no longer do 'serious stuff' would find an octa-core machine with 4GB RAM more than adequate, e.g. the iPad Pro crowd. Indeed one of these phones has better specs than the Core 2 Duo laptop I'm typing this from.

  16. Re:avoid it on China's ZTE Removed From US Trade Blacklist (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Australia, supermarkets do sell prepaid ZTE phones at a price point where only the most underspecced Samsung or HTC can compete.

    But you're not getting Nougat on this throwaway handset.

  17. Do counterfeit iPads even exist, ala the community of Hackintosh tinkerers?

  18. Re:ATM decline on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Comparatively cheap? I did notice it was something ridiculous like 5 euro when I withdrew money from a Spanish ATM on vacation recently.

  19. ATM decline on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The supermarket duopoly offer POS cash withdrawals with no fee.

    Contrast that with an ATM where you have to hunt for your bank's machine or face an extortionate $2 charge to withdraw from a rival bank's machine. Hence an increasing number of people just get $100 or so out in cash when they buy their groceries.

  20. Re:Thanks for the gimmicks on Is Microsoft Building A Foldable 'Surface' Phone? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    ATI?
    They sold their mobile stake to Qualcomm. Adreno is an anagram of Radeon.

  21. Re:There is a basic reason, Edge has no community on Microsoft's Edge Was Most Hacked Browser At Pwn2Own 2017, While Chrome Remained Unhackable (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Edge isn't open source

    Its Javascript Engine is. It isn't clear from the article where exactly the vulnerabilities lay but potentially opening up the code to "many eyes" may have provided a way in, whereas crafting a Pwn without the source might have previously been trickier.

  22. Re:Pity, since I can't accept the EULA on Microsoft's Edge Was Most Hacked Browser At Pwn2Own 2017, While Chrome Remained Unhackable (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Just curious, is the licensing for the open source bits, Chromium, any less scary?

    I do use Firefox as my main browser but keep Chome and/or Edge handy for 'legacy' sites that expect flash. (Oh and not pr0n, things like my university's portal. Amusingly though, the student portal recently popped an error saying Flash 9 was required and wouldn't work in either of those browsers!)

  23. Mozilla's thoughts on replacing c/c++ with rust...

  24. Re:BTC is not designed for anonymity on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Freely Use Bitcoin In the Land of the Free? · · Score: 2

    Works well enough for Satoshi, no one seems to know his secret identity

  25. Could this drive the 3310 retro phone, which was obsolete at launch for countries lacking a 2G network?