Comment Re:Hey Sam (Score 1) 87
Or at least a booth: Quick and painless or slow and horrible?
Comment Re:Hey Sam (Score 1) 87
Not everything needs electricity either.
Good thing too as, unfortunately, data centers will probably need all the electricity - and water.
In future news: Classes in "How to be Amish" become very popular.
Comment Ignoring launch capabilities ... (Score 2) 58
NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate a dedicated Mars telecommunications network
What experience does Blue Origin have with building and operating a space telecommunications network? Any?
Comment Re:Most importantly (Score 1) 47
Will he have the balls to tell Trump to fuck off with his Lake America man-child bullshit ?
Apparently, no. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order
September 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC
Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.
Comment Re:Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score 1) 91
Welp, that was short-lived. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order
September 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC
Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.
Comment Re:Hypocrisy at it's finest. (Score 4, Interesting) 231
I honestly cannot think of another person more who has lied more than the current US president.
Hypocrisy would seem to imply that both Kristen Welker and Trump are lying, but what Welker said was absolutely true - Trump has had some mixed results with his endorsements as not all of those he endorses have won. Trump even confirms it in his rant, "when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House" -- Trump's longer-term success rate is lower, and his memory is apparently shorter...
From Trump Boasts His Endorsement is ‘Strongest in History of Politics’
When looking at his long-term record, Trump has had more success in primaries than in general elections. In 2018, his primary success rate was 95 percent, while his general election success rate was 59 percent; in 2019, these were 80 percent and 67 percent, respectively.
The article then goes on to list his endorsement success rate over more years ranging all the way down to 43%. Seems like mixed results to me.
Comment Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score 1) 91
I have to agree with you. I'm am Apple user since early 2000s and I'm only on my third Mac. My wife swapped her iPhone last month just for the 2nd time since 2016.
Not to mention that in all of these cases, our previous devices were still up and running and we managed to sell them for a fair price.
Usually the people I hear claiming Apple devices are disposable never have really bought/used them.
I imagine many/most things, specifically here phones, are like this. They (can) keep working just fine even after they stop being supported by the manufacturer - which, arguably, should longer for most things - but some (many? most?) people balk at continuing to use them. Seems like planned obsolescence to drive continued new sales - and generate a lot of eWaste...
Others are content to keep using a device until they literally can't. For example, my first cell phone was a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I had from 1998-2015 on PrimeCo, which became nTelos, which was bought out in my area by Sprint, which wouldn't support the phone's spectrum. I then had a Kyocera HydroVIBE from 2015-2021 on Ting/Sprint until Sprint was bought out by T-Mobile who wouldn't support CDMA and required VoIP (which the phone didn't support) - it was also on KitKat and just stopped getting play/app updates. I currently have a Pixel 5a on Ting/T-Mobile ($17.34/month, btw), which isn't getting Android updates but still gets Play and app updates and still works great.
Comment Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score 1) 91
Treating them "like"? Remind me, who keeps buying these products?
Comment In future AI news ... (Score 1) 34
The movies The Matrix and The Terminator are regarded as documentaries.
Comment Re:Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score 3, Insightful) 91
Watching that guy grovel before that Orange Mussolini while giving it a golden trophy was truly an embarrassment to watch.
But will it be Cook or Ternus who changes Lake Ontario to Lake America in Apple Maps? Will it be the last act of capitulation and sycophancy by Cook or the first by Ternus? Cook will either be a hard act to follow or an easy one...
Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps
US President Donald Trump has asked tech firm Apple to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America on its Maps platform to comply with his executive order changing the name of the Great Lake, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said.
Burgum told Fox News on Monday that "the president has reached out to Apple directly", adding: "I'm sure we may be seeing that change coming up soon."
Comment Re:You think we won something? (Score 1) 128
Its an age bracket now. In three years the owned media will start pushing "accurate age information would have prevented this", in 10 years it will be a left vs right thing.
Or, at least, they'll push for more age brackets other than just, "under 13, 13 through 15, 16 through 17, or 18 and older" as well as other characteristics to better align with common marketing demographics... For example, from A definition of demographic segmentation and how to use it
Age: 8-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64 and 65 and above.
Gender, Income and occupation, Ethnicity and religion, Family info
Always remembering that we're the product
Comment Re:fascists roots (Score 4, Insightful) 268
Google complies because they fear being cut out of the no-bid quid pro quo bureaucracy that currently dominates all political decision-making in the White House.
To be fair, Trump is pretty capricious and vindictive when people simply don't bend to his whims. For example, today Trump says NBC’s Kristen Welker should face ‘punishment’ from FCC simply because she said his endorsements have had "some mixed results" on Meet the Press -- which is absolutely true, not all his endorsed candidates win.
Trump “is going to loom large over these midterms,” Welker remarked on that live shot. “He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He’s had some mixed results.”
The post also said that Trump hoped his appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr – and Carr’s colleagues on the commission – “take this Threat to our Country very seriously”.
So, according to Trump, the phrase, "He's had some mixed results," is a threat to our country.
Comment Re:I look forward to 2029 (Score 1) 268
When we can put an end to this nonsense.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 and Tuesday, November 2, 2027
Comment Re:Trump has the intellect of a toddler (Score 4, Insightful) 268
American maps should have Lake Ontario crossed out and Lake America scribbled over it in crayon.
Or black Sharpie, like our Toddler in Chief likes to use.
Comment Re:Different world (Score 2, Insightful) 268
Enjoy living in a different world than the rest of us, Americans.
And, as an American, I say to MAGA folks, "Enjoy living in a different world than the rest of us Americans."
