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Comment Re:Reminds me of Volkswagen levels of diesel testi (Score 1) 76

by YoMatt on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:47AM (#59730750) Attached to: A Radio Frequency Exposure Test Finds an iPhone 11 Pro Exceeds the FCC's Limit

The original reporting was wrong. The FCC did buy phones to test:

Additionally, the FCC Laboratory purchased samples of the Apple iPhone XS, Samsung Galaxy S9, Motorola Moto g6 play, and BLU Vivo 5 Mini from the open market for additional testing.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/r...

Comment Weather Underground (Score 1) 223

by YoMatt on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:42AM (#54625435) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services?

$5 / year for no ads... a no brainer!

Comment News or Press Release? (Score 1) 153

by YoMatt on Sunday July 19, 2009 @03:47PM (#28749505) Attached to: Study Catches Birds Splitting Into Separate Species

A summary of an adaptation of a press release is just that-- a press release and not necessarily news.

Lenovo Software Update Stealthily Installs Adware 186

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 25, 2009 @02:34PM from the if-goodwill-means-absolutely-nothing-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent Lenovo automatic software update has the great feature of displaying annoying pop-up ads for Lenovo products. What's worse, it appears that many users are unable to turn the advertisement 'feature' off, subjecting them to pop-ups every couple of hours. Gee guys, a note about your 20% off sale in my e-mail wouldn't have bothered me that much, but you really had to pop up over top of my PowerPoint slides? I'm sure that all of my office colleagues will be running to order ThinkPads ..."

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