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  1. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The new regulation doesn't make clear if that's allowed though. It says batteries installed can be brought on, and batteries in devices on cargo flights can be in the cargo hold at 30%, but it doesn't make an exception for batteries in devices in the cargo hold on passenger flights

  2. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If I check a laptop, it'll either be in a cardboard box with shipping padding, or a pelican case with padding. The TSA almost always will open the bags and leave a note. I always carry on my primary laptop, so it's usually basic demo machines that get checked. While I'd rather they not get damaged, I don't want to carry an extra 20lbs around the whole trip.

  3. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So I don't have to carry an extra laptop on the plane. How often have you had people stealing your baggage?

  4. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I was talking about traveling with laptops in checked luggage. If you read the article, this doesn't ban batteries in carry-on items, so you could likely assume I wasn't talking about those.

  5. Re: Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can carry one, maybe two in carry-on, more than that isn't practical

  6. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's quite the dream, but with people wanting sleeker laptops and devices, it's more likely that shipping would just take longer. When faced with the choice of waiting a couple extra days for the nicer looking, cheaper laptop or the more expensive bulky one with a removable battery, people are going to choose the former.

    Personally, this is annoying for me since I sometimes travel with laptops and this rule makes it basically impossible

  7. Re:This is what people voted for on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    if you want coal to come back you'll need somebody in charge who wants it to come back and wants it at any cost. Natural gas is just too competitive (let alone Solar and Wind). You're gonna have to start loosening environmental regs around coal.

    The problem is even if you loosen the environmental regulations, it's still not competitive. They're the buggy whip factory workers asking for someone to save their industry instead of helping them move to the car factory

  8. Re:Off-topic: Version identifiers on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never seen anyone say the number along with the name like that - seems quite redundant.

    There's also the issue that some versions weren't full major versions so it's easier to say "Kitkat" than "Android 4.4.0".

    LineageOS renumbers the releases so "Pie" is LineageOS 16. That seems to clear it up a bit more, but I can see why they'd want the sub-versions in the main version.

  9. Re:Off-topic: Version identifiers on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't really need code names if they're incremental. Obviously the people working on a dessert starting with Q (a quiche maybe?) are working on the upcoming android version.

    The benefits I see are it makes them easier to remember and more distinct, so people know just because an app works on "Marshmallow" doesn't mean it will for sure work on "Lollipop".

  10. Re:The Back Button is Already Broken on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an app design issue though - some apps see "back" when they're at their home/root screen and decide that the only place back from there is outside the app.

  11. Seems like they should be keeping it just in case you want to go back and keep watching. They really just need a "Reset progress" button that clears that data.

  12. Well it wasn't a great concept to begin with, but the only chance it had of working was if it was uncommon enough. Once MS enabled it for everyone, we were essentially back to before it existed.

  13. It's actually even better than that - you only send part of your hash and they return anything with that prefix encrypted. You then encrypt your username/password and send it to them, they encrypt it again and send it back, then you unencrypt it to get a string that can be compared against the list of encrypted passwords they sent originally.

  14. Re:And the common passwords too? on Chrome Can Tell You if Your Passwords Have Been Compromised (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The blog post says they don't alert you if you use a weak password like "123456", just if it matches credentials found in a breach

  15. Re:AI for subjective truth? Bad idea on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Might be able to get some good options for humans to test though. If the AI knows A+B+C is good and B+C+D is good, it might suggest A+B+D. The human test subjects can try it and give feedback to the AI

  16. Much harder to work with, and likely more expensive than just 1.5 times the steel cost. They have a lot of people working on it so I'm sure they have reasons

  17. Re:Foxconn should pull out on Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Creativity isn't really all that important when assembling electronics anyways

  18. Re:Tips for passwords on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Lastpass has a report you can generate that tells you to replace old passwords. It nags you to run it now and then

  19. Twice in one day they get looked into ... must be rough for Huawei

  20. It's about poor sales for BF5. The point is the poor sales are because EA is releasing unoriginal games that are missing features, not because people are offended that women didn't exist 80 years ago

  21. The issue is we'd probably see the same complaints if they put the female character in BF2142. People just like to be outraged

  22. Re:No jack, no sale on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    No - What phone has a 3.5mm jack?

  23. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the players don't care in the slightest about the "realism" of who was at what battle, they're just interested in playing the game. So what if EA wants to throw in a couple interesting character skins? There being a woman present on the battlefield is not going to be the thing in these games that ruins the realism - if it is, maybe you should stick to watching documentaries

  24. Re:No jack, no sale on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    I refuse to buy a phone without a 3.5mm jack and SD card slot

    I don't think there's ever been a phone with both 3.5mm jack AND SD card slot. Probably could find an old landline phone that supports patching in 3.5mm, but it wouldn't have an SD card

  25. But that's the same situation as we have now. It's already a misdemeanor to enter outside of a legal port of entry.