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  1. The real takeaway from this? on Push Notifications From Popular Apps Are Becoming Increasingly Useless And Annoying (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    People are fucking morons with too much pointless shit on their devices. 5 years with a smartphone and I've never had problems with push notifications getting to be too much to deal with.

  2. Re:Now we can all look through cracked windscreens on Corning Brings Gorilla Glass To The Automotive Industry (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The plural of Amarr is Amarri, and the dropped 'D' is partially intentional. Matari vessels are collections of rust plates and duct tape after all, they don't hold together well.

  3. Re:Now we can all look through cracked windscreens on Corning Brings Gorilla Glass To The Automotive Industry (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    PC is banned because at the thicknesses needed for automotive safety, it won't break safely when you need it to get clear of a burning car. It's why Soda Lime has been the only viable option thus far. But if GG is automotive safe and still allows you to break out, it's viable.

  4. Re:Fine them to death on AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which T-Mobile has already done. Not to mention they're pretty much zero-rating any service that asks for it, even going as far as zero-rating ATT's own Data Free TV program.

  5. Which is more stupid Apple proprietary fuckery. At this point, Apple is proving to be worse than Sony with vendor-specific bullshit.

  6. 80$ isn't what I'd consider affordable, when comperable sets of wired headphones are 30-40$. And Golzer doesn't list the response frequency on their drivers, so for all I know this is some 22-20K trash. Especially as I can easily find wired headphones in that price range that have 18(or even 16)-22K.

  7. Re:But Apple has made life better for you on Apple Removed Headphone Jack From New iPhones Because It Owns Largest Bluetooth Headphone Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because this doesn't help wired users at all. It forces them into a bullshit dongle that they have to remember to bring with them everywhere. And if you lose it? Apple will gladly fleece you for another one, just to get back functionality that Johnny Ive deigned to remove, because he's got an ass-backwards sense of usability. And no, I'm not excited that Apple's taking away even more control from their users and putting even more power drain on the phone. Everyone that cared about good quality audio were already using external DACs to begin with, with their own power supply. And every last one of them connected over 3.5. So no, this is far from an obvious improvement. It's a sign that Apple has lost it's fucking mind or backbone, because they need to start telling Sir Scumbag Ive to fuck off.

  8. Too bad there aren't any affordable and good sounding bluetooth headphones. The DAC in most BT headphones are shittier than the ones in smartphones, the audo fidelity is worse, and the compression required to use AADP further degrades audio reproduction. Apple just wants to sell people on a shittier experience and force them to like it. 3.5mm headphones sound better, they're cheaper, they're more compatible, and they don't introduce compression artifacts. So on this, Apple can get fucked.

  9. Because these useless PoodleCorp cunts deserve to be tortured and have gaping assholes for the rest of their natural born lives.

  10. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Active jamming is illegal in the US, enforced by the FCC.

  11. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is intentional though, not an accident. Plus it's an addition to the building after the fact of construction. So it'd still be illegal in the US, mainly because it interferes with emergency services.

  12. Re:Taxes and laws in 3,2,1... on 7-Eleven Just Used a Drone To Deliver Slurpees and a Chicken Sandwich (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably like most other states with an ABC. South Carolina does the same thing. Wine, malt liquor, beer? All available wherever you roam. Want some Jameson, Jack, Svedka, and enough Captain to drown the Titanic, gotta go to an ABC-approved store. Totally different from where I grew up, where you could get whiskey, beer, steak, potatoes, and pampers all within 200 feet of one another in the same store.

  13. I wanted to like NoScript, but it broke way too much shit. Click to Invoke Flash and UBlock Origin take care of easily 99% of my problems without making a website unusable or requiring per-site whitelisting.

  14. If this were true, you'd have most people still running Win98 or XP. Software makers and hardware vendors DO control when things are EOLed.

  15. Re:And this is why my primary browser isn't Firefo on Firefox To Block Non-Essential Flash Content In August 2016, Require Click-To-Activate In 2017 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Then soon you won't have a browser to use.

  16. Re:Click2Run should be standard... on Firefox To Block Non-Essential Flash Content In August 2016, Require Click-To-Activate In 2017 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Fuck advertisers. If their ads weren't vehicles of lag, viruses, and obnoxious shit we wouldn't need to restrict them with Flash blocking or ad-blocking.

  17. Re:And this is why my primary browser isn't Firefo on Firefox To Block Non-Essential Flash Content In August 2016, Require Click-To-Activate In 2017 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    And what browser are you going to end up on? Because every sane modern browser is moving to 'Click to Activate' for Flash at the very least, and many other plug-ins as well.

  18. Mozilla should have made 'Click to Activate' the default behavior years ago. I've been running with that option toggled on for a few years, and it's never been an issue. If it's running Flash, I don't fucking want it turning on all by itself.

  19. Re: Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilariously, I've never ever had that problem.

  20. Re:YES! on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, an insane premium on a very dubious and highly inconsistent increase of quality. I'll pass, now bring me a lab burger.

  21. Re: Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is. Even what used to be a 1$ double cheeseburger is now a 1.50$ cheeseburger with one piece of cheese and two burger patties. Literally the cheapest thing on their menu, and it's not 1$.

  22. Re:I give this about two weeks. on Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Died off? Are you high or just not paying attention. The anomaly series' that are held globally still draw in massive amounts of people, with players flying in or driving across multiple states just for a primary site.

  23. This from the guy that told people at a concert to 'steal it', refering to music and telling the RIAA to fuck off? Yeah, Trent. You used to be cool.

  24. Re:Only one share... on T-Mobile Is Giving Customers Stock In the Company (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they sucked, why is Sprint #4 in the US? And why have they been forced to pull mis-leading ads? It's Sprint that sucks.

  25. Articles like this are a heaping load of shit. I'd take them more seriously if they actually mentioned the device that was being used during each incident. They reason why is that a lot of these expolosions aren't from the device exploding, it's from the batteries inside of them. And further more, you'll find that nearly all of them are inexperienced people using mechanical or unregulated mods. Either they're using garbage batteries from Trustfire or Efest, or they're building their coils far far too low for what their batteries can handle. The other possibility is that these people aren't properly maintaining their batteries when the insulating wrapping is damaged, which risks creating short circuits inside the device and once more causing the battery inside to explode. We'd absolutely have fewer articles like this if people weren't complete morons when it comes to using 18650 batteries for vaping.