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Submission + - Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane (arstechnica.com)

sharkbiter writes: The Federal Communications Commission chairman slammed wireless carriers on Tuesday for failing to quickly restore phone service in Florida after Hurricane Michael, calling the delay "completely unacceptable."

But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's statement ignored his agency's deregulatory blitz that left consumers without protections designed to ensure restoration of service after disasters, according to longtime telecom attorney and consumer advocate Harold Feld.

Submission + - They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu (space.com)

sharkbiter writes: The suspense is over: Two tiny hopping robots have successfully landed on an asteroid called Ryugu — and they've even sent back some wild postcards from their new home.

The tiny rovers are part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return mission. Engineers with the agency deployed the robots early Friday (Sept. 21), but JAXA waited until today (Sept. 22) to confirm the operation was successful and both rovers made the landing safely.

Submission + - Popular Sci-Fi author Larry Correia Dropped from ORIGINS GAME FAIR (monsterhunternation.com)

sharkbiter writes: Origins Game Fair Dropped Sci-Fi author Larry Correia as a guest of honor after several individuals complained about him on social networks. The action was taken by a John Ward (the executive director of the fair) in response to several comments that alleged Larry Correia to be racist, sexist, and homophobic. http://victorygirlsblog.com/th... covers the particulars well.

Submission + - Apple faces class-action lawsuit over defective MacBook keyboards (usatoday.com)

sharkbiter writes: The suit, filed Friday in the Northern District of California by law firms Girard Gibbs and Chimicles & Tikellis, claims thousands of consumers have experienced the defect whereby one or more "keys stick and no longer register keystrokes," which may occur when "minimal amounts of dust or debris accumulates under or around a key." When that happens, “the MacBook can no longer serve its core function: typing,” the suit alleges.

Comment Looking at the comments so far... (Score 1) 522

Extreme right, extreme left, liberal view, conservative view and all the colors of the rainbow in-between. When we turn our backs upon history, we forget just what it was that we were supposed to remember, we eventually build up to an atrocity and repeat it.

Since all documentation is available to be amended by the modern agendaists, I propose that we revise the preamble of the constitution to read "We, the white males, not slaves or women, in order to form a more perfect union..."

This would properly reflect what the founding fathers were all about and with our perfect, clearly superior view and understanding of those ignorant colonial backwoods peasants, "we" would better understand their position.

Good luck with that.

Submission + - Apple BACKS DOWN on anti screen repair firmware (youtube.com)

sharkbiter writes: Apple released an update that bricked any iPhone 8 that used an aftermarket screen. Recently, they backed down on that. What is involved with iPhone screen repair nowadays? How does Apple handle screen repair? What do repair shops go through while importing screens? Let's find out.

Comment It's for the children. (Score 1) 212

Any bill that attempts to pass both house and senate with that tired mantra should be ripped up, stamped upon and burned to ash with the ash stomped upon again for good measure. While the original premise of passing laws for the children's welfare was an honest endeavour, that principle is now nothing more than a broad brush that permits abuse of the laws to pass a niche minority group's maligned concept of morality.

"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works."

Comment You bought the iPhone... (Score 5, Insightful) 229

If you buy an iPhone then Apple is going to do everything in its power to ensure that all repairs (that are under warranty) will be done by authorized Apple repair shops. Why are people surprised when they push an update that invalidates third party repair? You're buying a product that bases its profit on the fact that it'll break just after warranty (or several months, whichever comes first) and you'll have to shell out for a new one. Apple doesn't give a shit whether or not they piss off a few people, they know that what the consumer is buying is their image. The only way they'll release a patch to allow third party screens is if they piss off enough people to affect their bottom line. Same thing happened with the fingerprint sensor.

Of course, Apple will say that they're protecting their "customers" by preventing those inferior third party parts from making their "product" unstable as a coverup, but that's just business right?

tl;dr: If you shell out the cash for the image product, why cheap out on repairs? Go whole hog with your bucks for the full user experience and feel the burn.

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