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    Sprint continues decline, plans job cuts and cost cuts of $2.5 billion

    15 years ago Sprint sent a (contested and inaccurate) bill of mine to collections. I vowed never to use their service again - and I never have. This collapse is the direct result.
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    Apple announces September 30 release date for OS X 10.11

    Running the GM seed it appears that the spinning beach ball rotates faster than it did under 10.10; significantly faster. My work-day just became shorter.
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    Tesla already has 38,000 reservations for the Powerwall, but use case is narrow

    I'm not sure I understand the units of power expressed as e.g. kWh when applied to usage over time. The average consumption of 990kWh over a month would seem to be better expressed as the total kW used over total time. Likely 990 kW. I'm just confused, that's all; I don't think I want to...
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    Uber pulls entirely out of Nevada—for now—in wake of judge’s order

    If you have a driver's license, then you should be able to give people rides for money. For the same reason you can give your friends rides (free or not). And should I also be able to give them rides in my bus, without further regulation?
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    Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter files civil rights lawsuit

    The antics in Toronto show how hard it can be to discriminate between parody and reality. Irony-detection is not a strong suite for many. As for satire - I believe it was Mort Sahl (another Canadian connection) who said that satire ended when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
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    Men know how to strategically piss off their opponent

    Surely it's the Materazzi cause. The effect is Zidane.
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    Smart TVs, smart fridges, smart washing machines? Disaster waiting to happen

    ------------------------------- It does seem that this gets to the heart of it; if the (manual) control elements can be removed from devices, and replaced with a single tablet that serves many functions, then the design of the original appliance can be freed from interface considerations, and...
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    Apple releases iOS 7.0.4, fixes FaceTime problem and non-specific bugs

    You are correct, most IMAP accounts don't show the problem. The UW servers distributing web pine emails show the problem - and a few other servers too, judging by the traffic in Apple forums. Not to wander too far off topic, messages deleted on the IOS 7 Mail app are deleted from the server, but...
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    Apple releases iOS 7.0.4, fixes FaceTime problem and non-specific bugs

    STILL didn't fix the problem of zombie emails - messages that constantly return from the dead after being deleted from the Mail app connecting to IMAP servers!
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    The seven deadly sins of HealthCare.gov

    You might just as we'll complain that women have to buy policies that include treatments for prostate cancer. Plus, you, personally, benefit from care for newborns and children, surely?
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    24-hour car race helps automakers design your next hybrid vehicle

    How is the power taken from the front wheel axle to the flywheel energy conserver? Is is a mechanical linkage or could it be electrical - front axle enclosed in an armature, generates emf that then powers an electrically- driven flywheel; with the reverse flow when acceleration is needed?
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    Apple releases iOS 7.0.3 to fix bugs, add iCloud Keychain support

    This update has still not fixed a problem with IMAP mail accounts. Deleting emails from a device does remove the message from the IMAP server, but, mysteriously, the same message reappears constantly on the device itself. Some form of protocol problem with a device cache perhaps. It's not a...
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    [official] iOS 7 Thread - No virtual cows were harmed in the making of this OS

    Actually, the problem is slightly different here - deleting a message on the phone makes it disappear for a few seconds, then reappear. Checking on the IMAP account using my macbook shows that the message has, in fact, gone to "trash" on the server. Deleting from the server does not stop the...
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    Favorite Stories

    "My Stories" - I assumed it was a placeholder for Ars articles I find particularly compelling - but perhaps that's not its function?
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    Favorite Stories

    How do I add a story to my favorite list, no doubt a dim question, but I just don't see the button I should press!
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    University of California to allow open access to new academic papers

    I understand that if I prepare a manuscript that is accepted by, say, Biochemistry, I would be able to send a copy of the work to eScholarship for open distribution. My paper would simultaneously be available via the UC system, and also to subscribers to the journal Biochemistry. But what if I...
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    Apple issues OS X 10.8.4 update, includes iMessage and FaceTime fixes

    Has anyone else noticed a loss of the (right click) services menu with emails in Mail with 10.8.4?
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    ESA launches drone app to crowdsource flight data

    I'm a little surprised that this approach would be considered as superior to simulation algorithms, which can run fast and run often. Perhaps the idea is to "validate" with field data.
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    666 chip? Why a Texas student thinks her school ID is the "Mark of the Beast"

    One thing I still do not understand though and this may be the right place to find an answer: does the fact that the most common barcode format encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_ ... e#Encoding has as a beginning, middle and end a symbol that coincides with the right encoding of 6...