Comment Software Support (Score 1) 44
It's already the case that some phones last longer than the software support. My Pixel 3A is a good example. So either that gets fixed or more and more phones will run without security updates
Comment Not so fast (Score 5, Interesting) 520
This assumes no further progress in vaccines. But I've already seen work on vaccines that are given nasally to stimulate immunity in the nasal track so the body doesn't wait till it gets to the lungs to react. Apparently the delayed reaction is why Delta is being transmitted by vaccinated people.
Comment Low Contrast Content (Score 1) 205
Another frustration for us is the low contrast display fad. You know - dark grey type on a black background. I assume young eyes cay cope - mine can't.
Comment Re: Not surprising (Score 1) 67
So name the half decent device that isn't loaded with crapware they should have bought instead?
Too often voting with your wallet is like voting in the old Soviet Union, you can choose any member of the Communist party you want.
Google phone from Google FI
Submission + - Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com)
MarcAuslander writes: Mozilla sneaked a browser plugin that promotes Mr. Robot into Firefox—and managed to piss off a bunch of its privacy-conscious users in the process.
The extension, called Looking Glass, is intended to promote an augmented reality game to “further your immersion into the Mr. Robot universe,” according to Mozilla. It was automatically added to Firefox users’ browsers this week with no explanation except the cryptic message, “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS,” prompting users to worry on Reddit that they’d been hit with spyware.
The extension, called Looking Glass, is intended to promote an augmented reality game to “further your immersion into the Mr. Robot universe,” according to Mozilla. It was automatically added to Firefox users’ browsers this week with no explanation except the cryptic message, “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS,” prompting users to worry on Reddit that they’d been hit with spyware.
Comment You mean there was no deep fat, no steaks or ... (Score 1) 477
In the 1973 file Sleeper by Woody Allen two of his caretakers in the future discuss his breakfast request and then start a riff on "deep fat". You mean there was no deep fat etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment 2G is dead? (Score 4, Interesting) 76
The specs say 2G. ATT has shut down it's 2G GSM network and I assume others will follow. So this phone appears useless out of the box, at least in the US.
Comment that's why VPN or equivalent is needed in public (Score 3, Informative) 54
I use a homebrew equivalent of VPN whenever I'm in public. Started when I realized a hotel was messing with my HTTP traffic! Crucial of course is reliable access to DNS - if that's broken then even connecting HTTPS can get you in trouble if someone has gotten hold of a signing certificate and does man in the middle.
This stuff is just to hard for the average user.
Comment Send it an email? (Score 5, Interesting) 101
I wonder if checking by seeing if an email to it bounces would "reset" the timer. Because if so, spam will keep it open forever!
Comment Don't fix it if it ain't broke (Score 1) 123
It's amazing how often Microsoft reminds be to be thankful I turned down their generous offer and stayed with Windows 7.
Comment Re:Auto (vacation) Reply? (Score 5, Insightful) 205
Make a gmail account and tell it to pull the yahoo mail - then do whatever you like with it.
Comment Get the facts right please (Score 5, Informative) 87
It has 4G if storage just like the paperwhite.
It does NOT have a screen light so it's not just like a paperwhite at all.
Comment You want my age? (Score 1) 108
Doesn't everyone who is asked for a birthday they don't want to enter use 1/1/1970
Submission + - IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors (nytimes.com)
MarcAuslander writes: In the semiconductor business, it is called the “red brick wall” — the limit of the industry’s ability to shrink transistors beyond a certain size.
On Thursday, however, IBM scientists reported that they now believe they see a path around the wall. Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.
On Thursday, however, IBM scientists reported that they now believe they see a path around the wall. Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.
Submission + - Test trial to use computer servers to heat homes (ap.org) 1
MarcAuslander writes: Eneco, a Dutch-based energy company with more than 2 million customers, said Tuesday it is installing "e-Radiators" — computer servers that generate heat while crunching numbers — in five homes across the Netherlands in a trial to see if their warmth could be a commercially viable alternative for traditional radiators.
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