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  1. Re:GTalk was based on Jabber on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, google in its wisdom decided that from one day to the other the iPad version stopped working.

    And there is no upgrade for my OS available.

  2. Re:Really? on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is nit a false account if you use your real name and put CEO in the middle or CEO of company X at the end.
    Get a bit creative ... sigh.
    Everyone is doing that, or do you believe business owners use their _private_ account for running the business page? No, they make an account for the CEO ... and bottom line what do you fear anyway? No one is forcing to _use_ your private account and accept friend requests or make silly posts ... or put your real phone number in. FB does not have my phone number e.g.

  3. Re:Binocular Vision on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They usually always have one pair that point in the same direction.
    That was my point.
    However I got surprised after I wrote my previous comment as I saw a Hunday with driver assist system afterwards that in fact only had one camera pointing forward instead of a pair.

  4. Re:stubborn? on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It works fine in theory.
    In practice the Mac and the iPhone and the iPad get out of synch soon and you are missing either your own messages on some of the devices or some of the answers (and yes, obviously I'm logged on with the exact same credentials on all of them). Hence I have set the SMS/messages App on my iPhone back to SMS.
    Sometimes even messages I sent from the iPhone or iPad get marked as received, but the recipient never got them (in iMessage mode).

  5. Re:On Effective Puffery on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    we are already in a better deal, where states take on the cost of compliance and don't give nearly so much money to third-world slush funds
    What is a third world slush fund? Considering that we don't have any third world anymore since decades ...

  6. Re:Binocular Vision on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    All self driving/autonomous/driver assisted cars have minimum 2 cameras.
    Facepalm.

  7. Re:uhuh, long way to go on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if it's in the air, or on the ground.
    Of course it matters. Without any "cross reference point" you can not judge how far something is away if it is in the air and the background behind it is only sky.

    look forward. if you see the you expect to see (a road) keep driving. If you see fur, instead of a road, slow down.
    That is what the car is doing. Volvo only stated that there are troubles to get the distance accurate.

  8. Re:uhuh, long way to go on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the "right algorithms" have been right around the corner for some time now.
    It is most likely not an algorithm problem but a sensor problem. Or kets say a combination. How to interpret the sensor data in a meaningful way.

  9. Re:uhuh, long way to go on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Volvo is reporting that they have "trouble" to judge the distance.
    They did not say they won't stop or have problems to detect the Kangaroo at all.
    So your questions about kids etc. are rather absurd.

    chair,cage of turkeys,sofa,trashcan,bale of hay, etc
    Most of them don't fly ... so you have no problem to judge the distance.
    Or is it easy for you you to judge how high a bird is flying which species (aka size) you don't know?

    With camera, radar, laser, and ultrasonic sensors
    Radar does not pick up Kangaroos. (They are made of meat, you know ...)
    Nor does ultra sonics, as ultra sonic sensors are used for close range (e.g parking) and the street surface.

  10. Re:Uh huh. on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you mean 0090s and not the 1990s?

  11. Re:The non-user base is shrinking... on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Once they hit 3.5B users, growth will stop and the business model outdated.
    Why would the business model be outdated?

    Washing machines are still sold, afaik.

  12. Re:This! on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are in doubt, look at the populations of India and China. The majority do not live in cities, but the sticks.
    Yeah, and their smart phones have no internet, facepalm.

    I'd put the actual number of active individual users at 1/2 a Billion across the globe. Active daily? Much much less!
    And why would you do that when FB can obviously count its daily log ins quite accurately?

  13. Re:Good! on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you find anything relevant for marketing about me on FB.
    Except you follow what I share (sport events) and want to sell me hotels at the place they happen or train tickets (that would be a waste, as I only share them to promote them and visit about 1% of them my self).

  14. Re:Happy that I am NOT among the crowd... on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I only saw SW on videos or youtube, never found it that interesting. I was more the ST and BSG fan.

    But I support your standpoint :D

  15. Re:Happy that I am NOT among the crowd... on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you are not really a Vegan, that is all fine :D
    Unfortunately I'm not as elitist as you are, as I'm a mere German :-/
    But I have no TV :D 3D printer is on the list as my father is into models and likes to upscale some plans, more precisely, parts.

  16. Re:Happy that I am NOT among the crowd... on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I have asked before, what am I missing really?
    Stupid question.
    Obviously nothing.

    I find it useful to get informations about sport events I like to join. And it reminds me about birthdays and upcoming birthdays. And some people, especially in Asia, don't use eMail but use FB for sending/exchanging messages.

    Other people use it for hooking up.

  17. Re:Really? on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would, however, possibly consider a business only account if they had it, since FB *is* a good way to reach people, but they seem to insist you create a person account first, before you can create a company/corporate account there.

    I don't want to give any personal info to them, but I would consider a business only account if they offered one.
    Are you somehow retarded?
    Either make a personal account with no info, or ask a professional to host you a business account ... facepalm.

    No one requires you to have a personal account with personal telephone etc. p.p.

    If your name is Andrew Proper, then make a personals account "CEO Andrew Proper" or "Andrew, CEO, Propper" use a company email address as log in "ceo.andre.proper@my-company.com".

    And then make the business account you want ... can't be so hard.

  18. Yes,
    but it is the most expensive App I ever bought: ThaiDict. I think $39.00, not sure, could be only $25.00
    An awesome App to lean Thai, dictionary and phrase book.

  19. Yeah, but I don't need anything of those.
    I switch off the lights as soon as I pass the switch. And I never will live in an automated home anyway.

  20. Re:GTalk was based on Jabber on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the name "Material Design" is completely misleading.
    It could be called "boring computer interface" there is nothing "material" in it.
    E.g. look at the original iOS iBooks App or Calendar App.

    The book app looked like a real book, not like a floating screen of text. The main reason why I'm on iOS 7 on my iPad and don't upgrade.

    Yeah, the UI of Hangout "works" ... but I hate it anyway :D Can not use it right now, as I would need to log of with my "youtube account" and log on with my "gmail/hangouts account" to find some specifics.

  21. Re: Illegal speech? on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    "Hitler did no wrong."
    They can say that here too.
    say that Jews should be killed,
    They can't.
    do the Nazi salute,
    They can't.
    and we'll give them police protection while they march down the street.
    They have that.

    I have no idea why you're trying to say that sort of thing is legal where you live. It's not. We both know it isn't.
    We both lnow
    I only tlaked aboout the demonstration, not about nazi saluts and kill all jews parols, so why do you try to twist my words?

    That you don't see it, or acknowledge it, is okay by me. I'm happy that you remain blissfully unaware. It's probably for the best.
    I'm quite aware about the minor differences, and I'm proud we implemented them. After all my country was the worst Nazi country so far. Call it an overreaction if you want ...

  22. While eating lunch: "Alexa, tell me some jokes about Donald Trump."
    That is actually a good reason to get one ;D

  23. Re:Just give me back GoogleTalk on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And you missed the point: my Telegram app on my iPad and on my Mac has no voice call option
    So perhaps the latest release has? No idea!

  24. Re:Just give me back GoogleTalk on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Spreading false information because someone is ignorant is not a lie. Get it or die, oh, only wrote that because of the lame rhyme :D

  25. Re:Give Europe the 1st Amendment on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Probably you don't understand German.

    The first link is a "click bait" stating she only liked and shared a joke on Facebook.
    And you think she was convicted for that?

    If you read the article you would see she was convicted for something else, sharing a ling story about refugees, starting with: "Frage: Haben Sie etwas gegen Flüchtlinge? Antwort: Ja, Maschinenpistolen und Handgrananten."

    Translation: "Question: Do 'you have anything against refugees?' Answer: 'Yes, Machine Guns and hand grenades!' "

    That "story" goes on ... but is not in the article, so I don't know how "violence inspiring" it is.
    For the judges that was "Volksverhetzung". Means: "inspiring the population to violence".

    My links are not pointless at all, in fact they are a very small sampling of the countless lives destroyed or facing a lifetime of pain as a result of crime related to migration to Europe from the Middle East and Africa,
    If that was true, what has it to do with "hate speech"? (in fact it is not true as there happened no rapes)

    Rape and "other bullshit" (murder? theft? terrorism?) as you say, are not actually "bullshit". They are violent crime. And you seem to have a curious, perp like, lack of empathy for the victims of those crimes
    All this has nothing to do with "hate speech laws" asshole. Grasp it. Or stop for funk sake arguing.

    The middle part of your post I did not even read. You seem to mix up refugees, and the violence they do, with hate speech laws.

    What would change regarding refugees if we had no hate speech laws? Nothing obviously, as the topics are not related at all. How can you be so dumb?