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Comment Re:Queue the headphone jack comments (Score 1) 131

A direct comparison with products like the iPhone 6/6s are specifically excluded. All we can say from that comment is that the ratio of iPhone Plus models was higher than previous iterations, not that the iPhone 7 sold more.

Not sure that's accurate. ASP went up to its highest ever: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...

Comment Re:Children, children... (Score 1) 199

You think you don't have a Facebook profile just because you never signed up? If you have ever been mentioned on FB, you have a profile. If any of your friends shared the address book, you have a profile. If anyone has shared something that you wrote, you have a profile. In the industry, they're called 'dark profiles'.

Comment Re:That is cheap (Score 5, Informative) 299

Do you really reach all 1,800 fans with your post? Have you looked at your actual reach counts? We have dozens of FB pages here with millions of followers. At the beginning of this year, our posts reached an average of 24% of our followers. After F8, it dropped to 16%. As of last month, our posts reach 4% of our audience. All due to the way Facebook has changed their EdgeRank algorithm. If we want our posts to reach more of our audience, we have to pay.

Comment Re:Unfortunately it's the 1% who calls the shot (Score 1) 528

I original thought you were a young pup from this line: "Nobody used to complain about recording your LP to a cassette, or even recording your friend's LPs to cassette." But you're obviously old enough to remember the Taping is Killing Music initiative. Many albums came with a sleeve with a skull and crossbones on top of a cassette tape. Perhaps you've forgotten the industry was threatened by copying long before mp3's were around.
Security

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old 1135

3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
United Kingdom

Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains 172

One of England's oldest graveyards is under siege by badgers. Rev Simon Shouler now regularly patrols the grounds of St. Remigius Church looking for bones that the badgers have dug up. The badger is a protected species in England so they can not be killed, and attempts to have them relocated have been blocked by English Nature. From the article: "At least four graves have been disturbed so far; in one instance a child found a leg bone and took it home to his parents. ... Rev. Simon Shouler has been forced to carry out regular patrols to pick up stray bones, store them and re-inter them all in a new grave."

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