Avenger42

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by Avenger42 4y ago
> The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law. Sounds like an update to federal law is in order, at the very least tying that number to inflation (or perhaps to corporate profits?).
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by Avenger42 4y ago
Apple recently* announced their self-service repair: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apples-self-service-r... Possibly this was just to head off this kind of enforcement aimed their way.
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by Avenger42 5y ago
By "look at Israel", are you referring to this claim debunked by the AP? https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-644288348135 > CLAIM: The newest Israeli data on COVID-19 infections indicate a complete va
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by Avenger42 5y ago
Also, though: > So far, the CDC has collected and tested more than 100 samples of products, soil, and water from the four patients' homes, but none has turned up positive for B. pseudomallei. The agency noted that tracking down a so
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by Avenger42 6y ago
> Drivers can contact Vertafore to see if their information was hacked by calling 888-479-3560. We have to call you to find out if you leaked our information? That's some idiotic logic right there. I didn't call you to put my
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by Avenger42 7y ago
From the article: > The 2017 report includes two categories for AT&T, one for its oldest DSL technology and another for its DSL-based IP broadband with speeds of up to 45Mbps. [...] The 2018 report only includes AT&T's IP br
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by Avenger42 8y ago
I had the same issue with it playing episodes in an awkward order because I wanted it to show me the episodes in "most-recent-first" order, but I wanted it to play in the reverse order. I got around it by creating smart playlist
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by Avenger42 8y ago
I think anyone who's used Siri would debate you about the "as capable as the others" part of your statement. Not to mention that when it was announced, several of its features were tied to the introduction of AirPlay 2, which
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by Avenger42 9y ago
True, but the parent poster didn't blame it on Trump, he blamed it on the Republican party: > But it's predictable that one party would have appointed someone like him and not the other. It is fair to blame this vote on Rep
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by Avenger42 9y ago
People keep saying this like he's the person who chose Pai. The way these commissions work is: - it's staffed by members of each party - each party's leaders (typically in the Senate) choose the people who will be appointed
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Not sure who you include in "your generation", but I'm 37 and I just spent the last 4 months or so watching a Super Metroid double-elimination tournament and enjoyed every minute of it. It also re-introduced me to several spe
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Getting a new ISP started is a pain. Witness the legal troubles Google and their partner cities went through when the cities passed "one touch make ready" laws to simplify the process of Google and other new ISPs stringing new lin
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Their wiki page has some numbers for the last few years. Parks/Resorts (incl. cruises) made $3.3B in 2016; Studio Entertainment made $2.7B; Disney Media Networks (ABC/etc) made $7.8B. So if you put the TV and films together, that&
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by Avenger42 9y ago
If that sentence had been followed by something sarcastic, derogatory, or harmful, then I'd agree. However, since it's followed by "here's an actual problem I'm having that Google could fix", I choose to believ
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by Avenger42 9y ago
You can't use a single Joycon to play Breath of the Wild, for example (at least not as well as with the full controller). You need the second joystick to move the camera, all four of the right buttons and left buttons are assigned to d
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by Avenger42 9y ago
From Wikipedia: > All iPods lack Touch ID, 3D Touch, NFC, GPS, an earpiece speaker and a noise-cancelling microphone. Depending on the generation, the iPod Touch may have a smaller or inferior display and camera(s). Newer models (5th an
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Lots of Android phones do include microSD card slots, so (assuming you can get a phone for $100), you could just add ~$50 for a 128GB microSD card, maybe. (Edit: Added the parenthetical about getting a $100 phone. AndroidCentral's best
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Apple typically doesn't announce that far out, though. They usually announce when their products are much closer to market, once they've got a device or two built and in hand that they can show off (like the recent HomePod and iMa
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by Avenger42 9y ago
He made a tiny mistake that, due to the mistakes made by the company/CTO, had huge consequences. As a first-day developer, he shouldn't really have had the ability to make a mistake with any consequences beyond lost time.
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by Avenger42 9y ago
What was said ("let her speak, please") doesn't fit any of those categories. It was an interruption, but not derisive, aggressive, or abusive.
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Alternately the word "ignoring" might have been mistakenly omitted: > "the lesson is more about ignoring what others might be doing and focusing on what you need to do for success yourself"
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by Avenger42 9y ago
For Seiken Densetsu 3 , Wikipedia links to an article that stated: "...the game's North American release had been canceled by Square's American branch due to programming bugs that they deemed impossible to fix in a timely ma
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by Avenger42 9y ago
Is it possible to determine the transit provider at fault based on Cloudflare's list of affected areas?
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by Avenger42 9y ago
I assumed he was facetiously referring to Reverse Polish Notation[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
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by Avenger42 9y ago
He wasn't the only one invited, as he pointed out. However, he's one of the go-to sources for Apple punditry, so Apple knew that as soon as the announcement was made, tech people would be visiting his site to find out what he thou
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by Avenger42 9y ago
I'm not sure how it works elsewhere (I'm in Texas), but when I voted in November, they gave me a 4-digit number to enter when I first walked up to the machine. If I told them "this receipt doesn't match the ballot I cast
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by Avenger42 9y ago
> Were voting machines hacked? No. It's been more than 10 years since researchers showed that voting machines were hackable , and I have yet to see any visible progress down the path of "make voting machines less hackable &#x2
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Jenny's number crashed a self-checkout register at Home Depot when I tried that a couple of years ago.
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by Avenger42 10y ago
I actually thought about this in the context of magazine subscriptions last year. I wondered whether anyone would open things up so you could subscribe in either of two ways: 1) The "digital" way - you've got access to every
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by Avenger42 10y ago
Actually, they recognized the father, it seems: > Someone from a past relationship had recognized Kanongataa on Facebook and reported to CPS that he had domestic violence allegations against him. Kanongataa denies those allegations.

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