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  1. The solution is obvious... on Second Chinese Firm In a Week Found Hiding a Backdoor In Android Firmware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We just have to avoid all phones built in China.
    Oh, wait...

  2. Ah, you're right. I forgot about the reason that happened.

  3. They should release it for other platforms and call it Phoenix.

  4. Re:Apple working with phone service provider on iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    With iCloud enabled calls to your iPhone are also routed to iPads or Macs so you can answer via FaceTime. Apple is "integrating" with your phone service provider.

    What's your point? Once the call is over with it can't be routed to your Mac or iPad, so there's no reason to keep a log of a call once it is completed.

  5. Re:Two seat sports cars on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you clearly don't have children and/or don't do practical work involving a vehicle. My daily driver is a pickup because I need that sort of vehicle for various tasks (hauling, plowing, etc) that could not possibly be accomplished with a little sports car.

    Hear, hear!

    Last year I got a new car, going from a long line of sedans to a coupe. Not a small sports coupe, but a car that only has two doors. I'm single, but damn, do I miss having four doors. Besides the doors I have being so long and heavy now (plus the length means you can't open them as far in crowded parking spaces), the backseat was a lot more useful when I had easy access to it. Was very handy in hauling boxes of stuff on the backseat, or putting groceries on the floorboard so they couldn't fall over. Not as much room in back for a coupe layout and folding the seats to get to the back loses the position/tilt setting generally.

  6. Re:What about the far-left? on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen news articles about a lot of hate and violent threats towards Trump and others by people, but they aren't banned.

    Trump is President-elect now. The Secret Service can investigate and intimidate those people making threats, as they have been doing for decades.

  7. I'm not sure what I should expect from the results.
    If it works, does that mean that it is an Android phone or an Apple phone?

    Are you trying to be obtuse on purpose?
    An Android phone can't link with iTunes at all.
    And obviously if you're prompted to buy the app you already own on the iOS platform, you're not really on the Apple App Store, but a skinned third-party store.

  8. Re:Most annoying feature ever? on OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a self-correcting feature. If you can't turn it off you're unlikely to be smiling while using this phone.

  9. Re:So damn huge. on OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    1. 4.7" screen (5" would be OK)
    2. Micro SD slot
    3. Removable battery
    4. Regular Android updates.

    I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get any of that.

    No, I'm speaking specifically of less than 5"
    5" is like some magic screen size now in Androidland.

    Here's only 5" handsets matching your specs and running recent Android.
    Here's 5.1-5.5"
    Here's everything 4.9" and smaller.

    If you're willing to forego the removable battery, Sony makes a smaller version of their flagship in 4.7" normally (although they lowered the specs a bit this year).

  10. Wouldn't the easiest way to tell the difference be to just plug it into a computer and try and move music tracks to it from iTunes? Or try and download a previously purchased app from the App Store?

  11. So damn huge. on OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is it so hard to find a handset with good processing/storage with a screen under 5 inches?
    It seems only Apple and Sony think this market exists. Other than that you have to buy a BLU or some other gimped "lower tier market" phone.

  12. Re:Never gonna happen with Trump on WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump (wikileaks.org) · · Score: 1

    I've always hated when people do this. If someone forms the wrong opinion first, we criticize it, and then if they come to the right decision, we mock them for not hanging on the wrong idea, rather than appreciate them for having an open mind.

    Slight difference in we are talking about someone who changes his mind multiple times to suit who he's talking to. That's not "coming to a revelation", it's being a compulsive liar.

    But who am I kidding, all that matters is that partisanship is justified.

    Oh? When did I ever state my political affiliation?
    Did I say I thought Hillary would be different?
    Sounds like a classic Ad Hominem.
    Try again, pal.

  13. Apple is already too far spread out into things and neglecting their core products.
    Let Snapchat waste their money on this instead.

  14. Always on puns. on Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the security researcher who discovered that the mic is always on, it's a bug that users should know about.

    I see what you did there.

  15. Re:Cure now, Gym later on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link for that? I'm only asking because no one knows who that will be, or what they will do, and any guesses on the matter are partisan bullshit.

    You mean other than the story that was already posted?

  16. Too late for them. on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With Trump's planned EPA appointment, by the time they get to trial it will be officially stated there to no such thing as Global Warming, giving them no standing to sue.

  17. Re:Why do we care? on 'Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud (gatech.edu) · · Score: 2

    Malware is a problem when people try to execute it. Malware laying in "cloud repositories" (what does that even mean?).

    It means pundits get to coin a new web.0 term -- Dark Cloud .

  18. Re:Never gonna happen with Trump on WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump (wikileaks.org) · · Score: 2

    He's called for Snowden to be killed as a traitor, so I'm thinking he *probably* won't pardon the guy.

    That's true. And if there's one thing Trump does, it's remain consistent in his opinions over time. /s

  19. Here we go...

  20. Netflix protection... on How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Messing with TV service
    Yeah, the reaction from the blue collar people who elected him into office would be very bad.

  21. Re:Too much consumerism on Alibaba Posts $1 Billion in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles' Day (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Have we all forgotten the true spirit of Singles Day?

    I figured it was to go shopping, in the hope the accumulation of material possessions would ease the loneliness?

  22. Re:Live imitates art on Alibaba Posts $1 Billion in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles' Day (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked she was hardly 'fading' though...

    So then it's not a case of Life Imitates Art then, is it?

  23. Re:This is totally Trump's fault! on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, everything else bad that has ever happened is now being blamed on Trump even though some other guy that nobody cares about is supposedly the president right now.

    Sounds like pot-calling-kettle. Who's been blaming Obama for everything for the last eight years, even government programs started by Regan?

  24. Who cares? on 4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you didn't know today was Election Day, and hadn't made up your mind yet, do us all a favor and don't vote.
    Seriously. People who might have benefited from these calls are clearly not really making an informed, thought-out decision if they are this out-of-touch.

  25. Re:That's great! on Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It appears to be simply Ubuntu using a desktop environment called Budgie (which none of us have ever heard of I bet).