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    Apple justifies decision to remove 3.5mm headphone jack, cites “courage”

    I have to say this. I'm sorry. I agree what Apple did is pretty much a shit show and they could have done this so much better but show Apple with your wallets and just don't buy it. If it affects you and your use case that badly...don't buy it. Simple. What really needs to be said is that all...
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    Mozilla is changing its look—and asking the Internet for feedback

    That's better than this... That was right in my city and had been an eyesore as I drove by for years. I seriously hope that it was not done by a professional or hugely expensive. I like to think they thought they could get away with a "quick-n-dirty" MS Publisher job on their own to save a ton.
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    Trump flip-flops on NASA: From “wonderful” to “like a third world nation”

    To your first point: Trump would also like to reduce and limit the power of the President to a level of responsibility equal to complete inactivity. Which is why his son offered Kasich the VP spot and told him he'd be responsible for foreign and domestic policy while his dad would be tasked with...
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    Trump flip-flops on NASA: From “wonderful” to “like a third world nation”

    Trump played fast and loose with his dad's money. He plays fast and loose with his own money (so basically dad's money). He played fast and loose with the banks' money. He played fast and loose with developers' and contractors' money. What do you think he'll do with your money? His dad bailed...
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    Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car

    My last car purchase involved the most idiotic system I've ever encountered. I was looking around at some used cars and was looking at used Mazda 3s on CarSoup. I found several and went into the dealers to look at them. All of them were either already sold the day before (so take the listings...
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    Xiaomi takes on the Macbook with the $750 “Mi Notebook Air”

    And I think Apple probably agrees with you. The new MacBooks have done away with the gaudy looking backlit logo in favor of a laser etched version and I have a feeling future MacBook Pros will probably follow suit once Apple sees fit to redress them.
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    Xiaomi takes on the Macbook with the $750 “Mi Notebook Air”

    I think it's not much of a slap in the face to Apple because Apple's only branding is a somewhat large Apple logo (backlit or etched) on the lid and the name of the laptop on the screen bezel. Other than that it's extremely clean. If it's a slap in the face to anyone it's the Wintel OEMs who...
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    Welcome to the new, new Ars Technica!

    I'm not sure if this is just iOS 9.3.3 on an iPad, but I'm noticing the comments section is a tiny bit broken in spots. I haven't read all 20 pages so bear with me if these bugs have been mentioned. 1) The page selection at the top seems broken after reaching a certain number of pages. The line...
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    Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money

    Yeah and there's a 50/50 chance that hitting on them will make them either: A) Freak out and disgust them enough to say, "Good day, sir. I said, Good Day!" Or... B) Freak out and disgust them to the point that they think you need to be saved even more than when they arrived and will then...
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    Comcast took $1,775 from man, only gave it back after he contacted media

    If a large corporation is providing services like utilities, they usually let you go past due one month and then shut you off if you don't pay at least the past due balance. For money that should have never been taken out of his account, this guy went 18 months and a call to the Consumerist to...
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    WSJ: Next iPhone ditches the headphone jack, other changes will be small

    Well it's pretty easy to see that I'm no audiophile, so I stand corrected. I really don't know enough about this kind of thing so it could very well be that we'll see the keynote and watch Jony Ive talk about how magical it was to get rid of that old headphone jack to make the phone even...
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    WSJ: Next iPhone ditches the headphone jack, other changes will be small

    I'm torn on this but it's still a rumor AFAIK so let's not get the torches and pitchforks out just yet. Yes, headphones with 3.5mm headphone jacks have been around a long time. Hell, the jack itself is a relative of larger jacks used in the late 19th century. It's not just something to be...
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    Apple and Microsoft pushed to remove the rifle emoji from Unicode 9.0

    And with this, Android becomes the preferred platform for the NRA and patriots everywhere. Apple and Microsoft will, of course, be boycotted for "trying to take our guns from us".
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    Woman sues border agency after invasive cavity search for non-existent drugs

    The doctor in this situation reminds me of an infamous OB/GYN here in town who saw around 12-15 women who I used to work with at my last job. He's an older man (most of the women said around 70-75) and they all reported that he has a very creepy smile and a creepy stare often accompanied by the...
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    Coffee no longer comes with cancer warning—it may actually prevent it

    Disclaimer: IANAS (I am not a scientist). So bear with me here. When studies like this are done, it seems to me that the nature of the items being studied under differing circumstances can lead to a lot of differing results with all results being recorded, but the most common being reported...
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    Shkreli smirks through eighth “not guilty” as lawyer successfully delays trial

    Shkreli...just the name alone seeps and oozes sleaziness. It's almost like onomatopoeia...if sleaziness could actually make a sound, I imagine his name would mimic that sound pretty closely.
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    After Rovi buys TiVo, company might stop making its own hardware

    So basically Rovi is buying TiVo, gutting the corpse and keeping only the IP for licensing and litigation purposes. Then, because people actually know the TiVo brand a million times better than they know the Rovi brand, they're skinning the gutted corpse and wearing the skin to look like a...
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    Saudi Arabia just invested a historic amount of cash in Uber

    I'd be more worried about the woman's safety. She'll get picked up and the driver and two of his friends will be flying down the highway doing 100mph while he's going sideways on the sandy shoulder of the road. He and his buddy's will be standing straight up and outside the windows of the car...
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    Buick Cascada convertible: Rolling in the (skin) deep

    I didn't say the stiffness was for performance. I said the car would perform better (that also includes fuel economy) and be more fun to drive if it wasn't weighed down with so much extra bracing. The bracing is necessary mostly to keep the frame/chassis from twisting during any handling or...
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    How Oracle made its case against Google, in pictures

    I didn't say they "took" Sun. I said they took Java. "Everything" in both sentences above should = "Java".