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  1. Given it isn't uncommon (unfortunately) for SMS to be used as a second factor its too unsafe to allow random applications to have access. Its also a common scam for using SMS permission to sign up for high cost services.

  2. Re:Google is polishing their turd on Google's New SMS and Call Permission Policy is Crippling Apps Used by Millions (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    They were, the issue is that too many applications are misleading.

  3. Re:Why not put this at river exits? on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A handful seems misleading based on this, there are also no small few in North America and Europe. I also wonder if we were to consider population whether it would look similar.

  4. Re:This should be illegal on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Its almost impossible to change the board, new members go through a nomination committee constructed from.... members of the board.

  5. Re:You do not "miss" sales on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure you do, its called a sales target.

  6. Add all the features you want, but once the fad is over, it is over. Fitness trackers are a definite fad.

    Until there is a silver bullet for weight loss I doubt it. Just look at the perpetual emergence of diets based on bogus principles.

  7. I'm not sure its that simple, specifically "Smart" Speakers rely on the ecosystem. Even if you could manufacture a great speaker with a profit margin you're never going to be successful because you need to be able to tie into existing services otherwise its pointless.

  8. Re:But remember folks on Kroger Begins Autonomous Grocery Deliveries (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If it needs a person behind the wheel its glorified cruise control.

  9. Interesting on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He says no one is willing to give up security and move to the cloud, then talks about how everyone is going to migrate to the Oracle cloud.

  10. a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.

  11. Re:Yes, we can imagine on Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1

    The Youtube thing reminds me of a post by a Chrome developer where he talked about Chrome removing optimizations which were targeted at very specific behaviour in benchmarks. To me this sounds like Edge included code in order to very specifically improve performance on an iteration of Youtube's site, obviously its slightly different as its a site users actually use but as Microsoft's Edge team was also making battery life comparisons its also misleading if the improvements don't apply to every site with video.

  12. Interestingly if you search there has been progress made in large scale timber construction in recent years.

  13. Re:Mired in Controversy on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Murder is PG-13 too. There is a big difference between a depiction in fiction and doing something yourself.

  14. Re:Mired in Controversy on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Hey, we're talking controversy not idiocy here :P

  15. Re:Mired in Controversy on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the overwhelming number of people would consider the n-word and showing the bodies of suicides in videos convroversal.

  16. Mired in Controversy on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting how the summary doesn't mention (though the article does) that both Logan & PewDiePie have been mired in controvesy for a few years. Hardly surprising that Youtube wasn't interested in showcasing them.

  17. Re:Found the Fox News retard. on CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does being trusted have to do with facts?

  18. The drive being unecrypted doesn't shock me. Think of the number of people who forget their passwords.

  19. Why does the system even allow people to download this sort of data?

  20. If the employees are selling internal information from Amazon, no one is being 'scammed' since the buyers are getting what they paid for. Obviously Amazon could complain about industrial espionage or some such but that isn't a scam.

  21. the clear winner in this dispute ;)

  22. Re:But email is not secure on UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The BBC article which the summary references yet doesn't link to (presumably because qz spammed this submission) specifically mentions how faxing to the wrong place is a common occurrence.

  23. Money on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    People are coming up with all sorts of contorted logic about the switch when there is an easy answer - it costs a lot of money to write and maintain a browser engine. So why not re-use the open source one that has the widest usage at a fraction of the cost.

  24. Re:Good question on Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what you're saying is, every road should be a toll road. The better the road, or if it goes somewhere good you should pay more to travel on it?

  25. Re:ARM and Windows not a perfect match on Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet (slashgear.com) · · Score: 2

    No it isn't. When they moved from PPC to x86 they were moving to a much more powerful architecture so some or all of the additional overhead of translating old programs weren't obvious. If they move from x86 to ARM they're moving to a much less powerful architecture which will compound the performance issues.