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arama471··on CEO of T-Mobile asks EFF “Who the f*** are you?”
He would have googled "EFF" on his phone but it would have taken to long on T-Mobile
arama471··on Apple on Encryption: “You Can't Have a Back Door That's Only for the Good Guys”
Maybe the mods really hate the MCU?
arama471··on Oxford adds awesomesauce, butt dial, manspreading, and more to online dictionary
Some of these new words seem to have bias associated with their definition. For example social justice warrior is a derogatory term (that part they got correct) that describes not those who hold socially progressive views, but those who are aggressive in promoting said views, which is why the they use the word warrior, because it denotes their fighting for their cause.
arama471··on MIT researchers use Wi-Fi to recognize people through walls
Unless you change up the shape/location of the tinfoil regularly, in which case the system will likely think you're a different person every time.
arama471··on Microsoft fails to fix Surface Book problems and cherry-picks positive reviews
I would have liked him to go more in depth about the actual issues he believes the device(s) have. He points to the update info, but that update doesn't claim anything is broken (and of course it doesn't, why would they do that?).

The article he links to[1] however does include this information, which makes me wonder what the point of this article is? Is it just to point out marketing avoiding the problems? Because that's what marketing usually does.

For those like me who wanted to know more about the issues:

    Enabling Hyper-V causes the Surface Book screen to flicker. (turning off Hyper-V fixes the issue)

    Detaching the screen causes some weirdness with the keyboard once reattached.

    If you detach/reattach the screen, the Surface Book will not resume charging.

    Intel video driver causing the Surface Book to freeze. (a temporary fix: disable the Intel HD Graphics 520 in Device Manager and reboot. This forces the Surface Book into Basic Display mode)

    Wobbly display when reattached. (seems to be a manufacturing flaw with a minority of devices)
[1] http://winsupersite.com/surface/we-now-know-what-included-da...
arama471··on Photos of sunset with the sun replaced by other stars
Can mods edit link to this one? The tumblr has nothing more to offer than the halcyonmaps, and the halcyonmaps has better quality
arama471··on Photos of sunset with the sun replaced by other stars
mef found the original if you want higher quality: http://www.halcyonmaps.com/sun-replaced-with-other-stars/
arama471··on Photos of sunset with the sun replaced by other stars
How difficult is it to predict how different light sources would interact with our atmosphere? In all these photos it just looks like the colors were shifted, but I don't know if that's not how it would look like if it was a more sophisticated method (for all I know it could have been)
arama471··on Soviet PCs
As cool as it is you guys are giving good stories a better chance of hitting the front page. I can't help but wonder: 1. How a post is determined to be "good"? - Is it just if any of the moderators like it? - Is there a voting system for mods to determine this? - Would these not require a lot more work for the mods for possibly little benefit? 2. How do you ensure that feature isn't abused by a "bad" mod to promote their own content or views?
arama471··on Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
Wouldn't that be too slow? By the time you see the temp spike on the cam you may have already started the fire
arama471··on Nasa Open Datasets
Must be fun!
arama471··on Serif TV for Samsung, 2015
What did I watch and why do I feel a sudden urge to buy a tv?
arama471··on Push notifications getting through restricted networks?
Maybe push dns tunnels? That usually works on those networks.

Maybe one of the IT people on the ship was unable to login on his phone and so made it so push would always be able to send receive?

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