I love umatrix - it works very well with Ublock Origin and gives great control. Anyone can recommend an alternative that would be as easy to use and provide a similar level of fine grained control?

This is simply gross vs net measurement. There is a much bigger problem with measuring screen size in inches, it only made sense when all of the screens (a long time ago) had the same aspect ratio. Think comparing a 15 inch laptop between a 4:3 aspect ratio and 16:9. Then there is the dpi - if you these two screens are 1600x1200 and 1280x720 or if they're 800x600 vs 3200x1800, that are entirely different displays. Then you get a concepts of logical resolution, screen type (TN, IPS, OLED), subpixel arrangements... The trouble is that marketing messaging needs to be simple enough to be understandable and easy enough to be remembered by the vast majority of your potential customer base. This is the very same thing led us to megapixel race with cameras. So if we have to get there, at least let's be honest about it. Would you be happy to buy food with the marketed weight including the weight of the packaging?

I hope that this results in marketing phones with net storage space. This would actually be a useful measurement. My mum bought a phone with 8GB of storage, as she thought she does not need much storage, does she? The phone is not usable at all if you install 1 app, as it complaints constantly that it cannot upgrade the app due to lack of space. 8GB of net space on the other hand would be widely sufficient.

I don't like the easy payday part, but using gross measurements where the net vs gross ratio changes between compared products is not really helpful (screen with a notch and without).

A product that almost sells itself is simply priced too cheap ;)

Lenovo will pay $3.5M. Source 1 Source 2

TL;DR There was no fine by the FTC, but they will pay a settlement on another lawsuit.

Both the title and summary here, as well as the TFA are misleading. Come on /. check your facts!

YakYak is an unofficial, open source Hangouts client that works almost as good as GTalk client did. On top of that it works on Linux / Mac & Windows. You can find it here. Licensed under MIT license.

I used to like GTalk client a lot and used it to its last day. The switch to Hangouts was painful, both the Chrome App and Extension were terrible. I almost switched to the FB alternative, but I found YakYak and I'm pretty happy with it.

Reading what I just wrote I cannot believe that I'm not their rep ;-)

The scales on this chart for the secondary vertical axis makes it unreadable. Qty of open issues would have been much easier to read if only one axis was used. If the author insists to use a secondary axis, then at least make the major points in sync with the primary vertical axis.

mod parent up! where are the modpoints when you need them

Every single electronic lock I've seen in a hotel has a classical handle on the inside that is not dependent on a lock. Regardless of the state of the lock you can always get out of the room, it's getting back in that is the challenge in this case.

Daily Mail? Seriously? Out of all the media that covered this story extensively over the past couple of days, you picked to link to the daily mail as the source? Also including the clickbait phrase of "paid thousands" to refer to 2 bitcoins? The only hope is that slashdot community does what it's best at: does not read the article.

Javascript requirement is sad if like me, you're blocking it by default on non-whitelisted sites.

If I had mod points, I couldn't decide if I wanted to mod parent up as funny or insightful!

This is clear. It's both complicated to build a train tunnel and a road tunnel. I simply don't think that the decision was taken to make this a train only tunnel because it's easier. That tunnel was build as a train only, because there was a need for a train only tunnel.

Yeah, because a train fire never happened in a tunnel in the Alps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Each project has it's own set of challenges.

If I understand and recall correctly, this tunnel was made mainly as a part of the rolling highway, so there are going to be trucks there - just on trains!