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  1. Re: Impossible on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're spending the best part of £1000 on a phone, you can afford £25 for some bluetooth headphones.

    Considering how the vast majority purchase mobile phones.... Do they even have payment plans for Bluetooth headphones that are enrolled into your mobile service contract?

  2. Re:strange mentality of buyers on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that that's a UNIX-based OS you're dissing, right?

    I don't understand your argument. I've seen people here diss Debian, Slackware, OS X, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and even Solaris. Why would iOS get a special exception when others didn't?

  3. Re:Anti-apple bias in the MSM on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Another case of anti-Apple bias in the MSM.

    You sound like an expert on the matter, we will treat you as such.

    These "tests" have been disproven time and time again.

    Please link and cite all "disproven" iPhone 7 tests, we don't need any summaries or 3rd party interpretations.

  4. Re:Pepe? Sounds Mexican. on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Ash-Fox: is this you?

    You'll probably prefer the pictures on this blog, more dynamic use of HDR and exposure effects.

  5. Hello? East bloc? Trust me, these guys know how to repair EVERYTHING.

    Trust me, the new generations don't really know how anymore.

    I'd absolutely sure, if you happen to have a broken iPhone, they'll come with crowbars and arc welders and miraculously make it work again.

    ERROR 53

  6. Re:Pepe? Sounds Mexican. on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1

    *WOOOSH* Your definition of racism is flawed.

    Google and dictionaries apparently concur on the definition of "racist", you're the odd one out here.

    You also fail to recognize the racism that Mexicans face every day.

    They might recieve racism against that individual's race, but that's nothing to do with being "Mexcian", because "Mexican" is not a race.

    I get the impression you're trying to say they are on the recieving end of prejudices and descrimination, which isn't sufficient reason to be defined 'racism' in it self.

    You also missed the opportunity to realize that there is actually only one race of humans

    You're making a fair few accusations and assumptions there. My discussion was strictly on the words being used to describe something.

    Humans of various ethnicities can interbred with each other producing viable offspring. We all have the same basic set of genes with slight variation within our nuclear DNA. The only think people have to watch out for are blood factors and closeness of relatedness. Blood factors can be treated at this point.

    This is pretty off topic to what was being discussed.

  7. Re:Pepe? Sounds Mexican. on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the ADL hate Mexicans

    No idea.

    If so, does that not make them racist?

    A racist is a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.

    The term 'Mexican' does not identify race, but rather ethnicity, culture and national heritage.

    In short, no.

  8. Re:No CA is the New Black on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    How about don't use a CA at all? Self sign your certificates in your organization. Expect everyone you do business with to verify and install your certs rather than trusting Mozilla to trust a third party. Oh... and staff up your help desk to answer questions like, "I didn't need to do this with Amazon. Why are you guys so stupid?"

    If browser vendors bothered implementing RFC 6698, we wouldn't need CAs.

  9. Re:The whole system is broken on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't need to, just get browser vendors to implement support for RFC 6698.

  10. If browser vendors were really serious about certificate security, we would have RFC 6698 as standard in browsers already.

  11. Re:It worked for Java on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Running Java apps in a VM is safe right? Nothing bad can happen in a VM.

    You forget that Java virtual machines originally gave full access to the system without prompting. Permission schemes were later implemented on top, but weren't introduced as a true scheme in the runtime itself, leading to continious methods of bypass as malicious individuals kept finding APIs that let them do things they shouldn't.

  12. We're moving to a world of voice interactions? on Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? (upon2020.com) · · Score: 1

    We're moving to a world of voice interactions processed by AI.

    We are? I honestly haven't noticed.

  13. Re:Finally! on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally! This is the way Apple has done it forever and it is sooo much nicer from a user experience perspective.

    From a user perspective, it's awful when you just want something that works and nobody can help you.

    I still haven't figured out why Sierra users get "Authentication failed" when I see "opendirectoryd: ODNodeCreateWithNameAndOptions completed" in the logs and get errors like "opendirectoryd: ODNodeCustomCall failed with error 'Invalid credentials' (5000)" with no actual logging of the event happening on a fresh, new AD server (made just for testing this scenario). I even had Wireshark inspecting all the traffic from the Mac to try to determine what the issue is, no wrong DNS lookups, or connections to the wrong server etc.

    >5 hour patch installs on a freshly Windows is *not* acceptable

    Weird, updates are supposed to be automatically installed when installing Windows; which are significantly faster than doing it after Windows is installed.

  14. Re: Not sure you have a lot of options? on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Do any of those devices support active directory tied in with certificate authentication on WiFi and LAN interfaces?

  15. It's okay, we only need one more consumer to become consumers.

  16. Wait so the new PS4 is not actually rendering at 4k, it's just interpolating/upscaling? *sigh*.

    No, they've got some interesting features with their checkerboard system which allows console developers to upscale certain parts of a game while rendering into a native 4k screen buffer. However, for games that aren't modified/designed to do this, yes, you're going to see up-scaling.

  17. 4K TVs are outselling 1080p ones.

    I've been at a few electronics shops recently, none of them even had 4K televisions here, I saw one UHD at best?

  18. What prevents manufacturers from implementing HDR on 1080p?

  19. And frankly consumers couldn't give a crap.

    I'm a consumer that buys consoles, TVs etc. and I care.

  20. Re:ROPs, triangle rate and half-precision shaders on Microsoft and Sony Are Debating Over Whose Console Really Offers 'True 4K' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    THREE times the power of the Scorpio to run equal

    I don't think I've ever seen consoles advertise they use lower power than the other person though, so this doesn't even matter to anyone.

  21. Why do you think Cyanogenmod comes without Google crapware?

    That's weird, this 1+1 (created by the same organization) that comes with Cyanogenmod has Google apps preloaded on to it.

  22. Re:So we're back to this headphone jack thing agai on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The headphone jack is gone on the iPhone 7 series because Apple wants it gone

    Are you sure it wasn't John alone that wanted it gone?

  23. Re:Ok, what's the catch? on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that Google Hangouts requires an existing phone number.

    Not really an option for me anyway, I need multiple numbers in different countries that Google voice doesn't offer. The only reason why I even have a US Google voice number (which is used in Hangouts) is because of a US number I have already with Skype. Which Google Voice requires me to verify every few years for some reason.

  24. Re:The old clients do not connect on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Just use Skype for business, it's a standard SIP interface. It's been the same since before Microsoft.

  25. Re: Ok, what's the catch? on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    For some reason I couldn't find that from their front page. Still need all the other features though.