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  1. I do NOT have cellphone service on my iPhone so you can put aside any SMS-related problems for my case. I also don't use iCloud so it can't be that either. Don't confuse Apple account with iCloud account.

    I use iMessage on my iPhone and my Mac. Sometimes, the iPhone will keep annoying me about new messages even though I'm reading them on my Mac. Other times, the iPhone will receive days-old messages from multiple persons in a single burst. It also doesn't sort them in order either so my messaging threads for those people are all messed up.

  2. Which one should you be using? on Battle of the Secure Messaging Apps: Signal Triumphs Over WhatsApp, Allo (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The one your friends and family use. What's the point of a secure messaging network if nobody you know uses it?

  3. Re:User-hostile and stupid on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ROUND one-button mouse.

  4. Re:Not a surprise on Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Especially since right now fans can't even make a Star Trek movie without being sued. That's the complete opposite of the no-cash society depicted in those movies.

  5. Re:Birds of a feather on Mark Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Peter Thiel On Facebook Board (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece: a headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.

  6. Re:This seems dangerous on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Watch out! He's got scissors or a pocket knife!

  7. Re:This seems dangerous on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    If I learned anything from watching James Bond movies, it's that almost anything can be a camera or a phone. Including a fake eye.

  8. We know one thing on Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    With a name like AppleJ4ck, it does tell us that he's part of a team. Expect more hacks from Flutt3rShy, P1nkieP1e, R4riTy, Rainb0wD4sh and Tw1l1ghtSp4rkle.

  9. Re:MP3 on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 0

    Your car stereo must be very old because even an old Nintendo DSi can play the music files from the iTunes store.

  10. If you or someone next to you has a stroke, how long will it take someone to reach someone at security? Shows can be quite densely packed, don't assume you can do that in a minimal amount of time. And for a stroke, every second counts.

  11. Re:This seems dangerous on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But if your phone is in a bag, how can you know if it's an emergency or not?

  12. Re:movie theaters on Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts (slashgear.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's an excellent idea! Without cellphones, the movie theatre experience would be much better since we'd only have to worry about people talking to each others during the movie, the noise from people munching on oversized snacks, slurping their two litres of soft drinks, the sticky floors and the fact that you can't pause the movie to go to the filthy public bathroom.

    After experiencing movies at home, on-demand and at the low cost of Netflix, you'd have to pay me to go to the theatre.

  13. Re:yay so awesome on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 2

    And is it really 1000 CPUs, or is it 1024 rounded down to 1000 for the press release?

  14. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    We all think it's still very far away, but they're still using an MS-DOS system in 2016 so I wouldn't push that future problem aside just yet.

  15. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I understand correctly, their CHIRON license expired in March of 2015 but Working Systems doesn't want to renew it.

    So Working Systems are suing South Australia for using a product without a license but won't renew said license.

    I can't wait to see the court verdict on this one. It smells like abandonware to me. It probably won't help with old software in the rest of the world but it could set a legal precedent for Australia. Microsoft doesn't want to sell Windows 7 licenses anymore in a few months? You can legally copy and use it.

  16. Lost, found again? on Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again (govexec.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.

  17. Re:"Powered" by Watson?! You people are insane. on Olli is a 3D Printed, IBM Watson-Powered, Self-Driving Minibus (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    That's great news, because it should cost a lot less to get a ride in Olli since there's always something on sale on Steam.

  18. Wrong approach? on Robots In Amazon's Warehouses Are Already Making a Huge Difference (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Those robotic systems are made to upgrade warehouses that were designed for people. Yes they're faster but they should be much faster than that if the warehouses were designed for the machines.

    What if you really designed the warehouse from the ground up for totally automated systems? Why have robots at all? Wouldn't it be faster to put all the products on conveyor belts like a giant "vending machine"?

  19. Re:frist post on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last time I trusted a promise of cake, I got burned alive.

  20. Re:looks like a near miss!! on Sony Recalls Vaio Battery Packs Due to Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    when life hands you lemons...

    “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson

  21. I'm starting to wonder if I'm even in the top 90%.

  22. Mooncoin will rise again, you'll see! To the moon!

    Also, does anyone want to buy one million Flappycoins?

  23. He didn't say how many days he's working. He wrote "days" so we can only assume two days minimum, seven days maximum. Plenty of margin to be within that 20 (24)~40 hours week.

  24. But being in the top 1% of the world population is not the same as being in the top 1% of the USA population.

    This article is about tax deductions in the USA, saying that reading Slashdot puts you in the 1% worldwide isn't relevant.