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  1. Re: Altavista? on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Their 'very poor laptop from the 90s' owns the education market, with a strong multi-vendor platform. It sucks to be Apple, and we all benefit. Except Apple.

  2. Re: The market has spoken on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing is certain. Apple doesn't want ChromeOS, because it undermines their thick juicy margins.

    So Apple is willing to sponsor shills to go out and badmouth ChromeOS, and push their religion so zealots stuck in stockholm syndrome limo will shill for free.

  3. Re: Wide angle selfie camera? on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    No, this new widget camera is for augmented reality. You hold it up, while it runs the iFriends app, and you can look through the screen and see other people near you. People who think your new phone is really cool.

  4. Re: But "no room" for a headphone jack. on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    They'll remove the phone's earpiece speaker. Nobody needs to listen to the phone directly. That's what those $180 epods or earwigg whatchacallit things are for. It will be BRAVE. They can include a little dongle speaker in the box, that plugs into the darkening port, to assauge the timid.

  5. Re: "Spacious"? How about realistic reproduction. on AirPlay 2 Brings HomePod Stereo Pairs and Multi-Room Audio To iOS 11.4 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Eliminating the 'sweet spot' would be a good thing, but not at a compromise to the realism of the music reproduction. I am, of course, referring to recordings of musical performances that are naturally acoustic. Fabricated synthetic music, 'pop' or whatever other forms, don't really matter, because they are all fake from the start. Whatever squeaks and booms pleasantly then is all good. But high fidelity music reproduction, which is what stereo is for, is all about realism.

  6. The fluid in the tank under your seat is only flammable as a vapor mixed with air. There is a lot of complicated machinery involved in converting it to a form where it burns very effectively. The vapors can occur to make it flammable by simply letting it escape and evaporate on it's own, but it's easily contained so that is a relatively uncommon occurance. That is specifically why it is such good mobile fuel. Completely unlike extremely unstable, corrosive and leak prone substances like hydrogen.

  7. Probably to make boner pills, like they do with the powdered endangered species.

  8. They don't have a company called DuPont in China. For those who don't know, new refrigerants are introduced and the old ones are banned when DuPont's patents on the formulations expire.

  9. Are they the ones repressing the Native Hawaiians? I knew there was a reason that was a nation liberation movement we aee encouraged to not take seriously.

  10. These people you refer to have had names at times in the past. For a time they were called comrades in one area of the world, in another they were called Good Germans. Sometimes they are referred to as consumers by those who manipulate them. They have a set of memes called 'popular culture' that is manufactured to entertain, distract, and control them.

  11. My High School when I was a Junior and a Senior had a students' smoking courtyard. The school was built with these inner courtyards, which there were four or six of, so every classroom would have windows, and one of these courtyards was the designated smoking area for students. This was in Minnesota, by the way. I graduated in 1977.

    This was before the Iran hostage crisis, the 'war on terror', and Reagan and we had the idea that we were going to be more and more free as time continued on.

  12. I ordered my new world with Italian sausage and extra cheese.

  13. People in tech in the west seem to forget the word 'chain' is in there somewhere.

  14. Incredible Pranking Opportunity on Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools (theintercept.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any time one of the "top 10" most popular guns

    That is going to be a lot of fun for the kids. Better than eating tide pods. "Trigger the cams!"

    The coolest kids will be the ones who figure out the most clever ways of triggering the system.

  15. Re:I'm not up on all the jargon on Intel Launches Optane DIMMs Up To 512GB (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    That was part of the sheer beauty of a PalmOS device. You could sync it to desktop, then take any other PalmOS device you had, put batteries in it and 'sync' it to the desktop to pull the entire image back onto a separate device.

    Plus, on the better (earlier) versions of the Palm desktop, you could zip up the whole folder on your PC the Palm Desktop was installed in and lug it around to different computers, unzip it, and yes, run it to sync a Palm device to it to pull the PalmOS setup onto a device.

    Anybody who knew what they were doing and cared to keep it still has that zipfile stuck away somewhere. I could pull it out and put it on a 32 bit Windows box and have my calendar and todo list and everything back on my Palm 3 easily.

    It's a shame there isn't something that easy and complete available on Android. Oh yeah, there probably is. There are probably 485 'apps' that will do that, or 57-83% of that, if you futz enough with it.

  16. A lot of the tech subs (like r/amd or r/intel) are fine,

    OMG. The very fact that there are separate amd and intel subs and they are considered 'tech' is spooky. Do the people who frequent the amd sub peek into the intel sub but never, ever dare to post there? And the reverse for the intel sub frequenters?

    Why would there be a 'divide' where there are two subs of this sort? Are both sites chock full of fanboys for intel or amd? And why would anybody actually interested in tech want to dip their toe into that?

  17. Was that meant to be a recursive comment, i.e. a response you made to your own comment?

  18. Re: Speaking of cheating spouses on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of Trump's fan base probably admires that he has had 'fun' with hot pornstars. He doesn't carry on about it, but his proven propensity for locker room bragging in private shows it's not anything he's personally ashamed of.

    It isn't hard to imagine a different world where people aren't shamed for their sexual activities. A world where, for instance, Bill Clinton would have said 'Yes, I've fooled around some in the Oval Office. My wife Hillary knows I stray once in awhile, but she knows that the two of us are forever, so it's no big deal.' People would have laughed and moved on.

  19. Live stream game watching is just a further extension of something Blizzard pioneered in WoW when they started selling 'level boosts.' They sell for a fee, or bundle with the game purchase, an instant character boost to level 90 or 100.

    Yes, it's actually true. You can pay Blizzard extra money to not have to play WoW with your in game character.

    It's a little stretch further to charge people extra to not only not have to play the game to 'level up' but in fact to pay to not need to play at all, and just watch other people play.

  20. Re: The ladies have the answer right under their n on Game Livestreaming Explodes, But Women Are Less Likely To Be Paid Than Men (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What is unsafe about somebody showing the upper half of their body unclothed?

  21. Re: The inevitable result of a walled garden on Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    'Most people' are the sheep within the fence and don't need to notice.

  22. Re: Blows Kaspersky's argument on Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It certainly makes the Russian cyber-security firms look just as beholden to their national governments as the US firms are to theirs.

    Which presents a good reason for individuals to choose the cyber-security tools not based in their own country. Kapersky is the right choice for Americans, just as Symantec might be for a Russian.

  23. You go after a big blatant target. A hen that will squaw and squaw as it is slaughtered. The other adversarys will watch and afterwards quietly comply. Apple's hype network is a perfect propaganda organ for the Russian authorities to make use of. And a whole community of people within Russia of over average wealth is a most excellent group for the authorities to loudly bring to heel.

  24. What they can do to the guy that orders it, without Putin suffering a scratch.

    Really, the whole world's stability, for better or worse, depends on the acts of terrorists against world leaders being thwarted.

  25. Re: Speaking of cheating spouses on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    He only had sex with her once. It was a lay, not a relationship. There probably isn't video. Heck, the woman gets good money fir sex on camera. Why would she allow anybody to film her for free?