Posts by In Like Flynt

Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die

Your odd of winning the lottery... hell, winning the next 10 lottery draws in a row, are far more likely than Apple ever making the battery easily replaceable for the average user :)

A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report

Re: 1% failure rate

Sure, it's amazing... unless you're in that 1%. At which point the adjective changes from "amazing", to "fuuuuuuuuuuuuh..."

As Arm plays chicken with Qualcomm, both have a lot to lose

Re: There's only 1 Mercedes Benz...

First off, I have no feelings one way or the other towards either company here. I'm sure they both have their good points, and their greedy corporate bloodsucking bad points.

However, I seem to recall reading in a previous Reg article that Nuvia's original contract very specifically mentioned that their Arm license did not transfer in the case of an ownership change. I have no idea if that was Nuvia-specific, or how Arm generally worded all their license contracts. If that's what the contract that Nuvia agreed to says, then either Qualcomm really eff'd up by not doing their due diligence, or they just said eff-it and went full speed ahead thinking they'd just deal with any fallout later. As a former co-worker used to say, better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Except Arm said hang on a minute, and decided to play hardball. Qualcomm trying to paint Arm as the bad guys seems to me to be nothing more than them standing around saying 'move along, nothing to see here' while a raging house fire burns behind them.

Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

Re: Bias?

As the British might say, bollocks. I have a throwaway account that I use for online signups that I've had since about the second or third day that Gmail existed. I have yet to receive *one* single Democrat email, yet I get dozens of Republican fundraising crap every week in it (was well over a hundred a week early in the Mango Mussolini's fraud fundraising attempts shortly after the 2020 election). I do not support the Republicans, have *never* signed up for anything Republican related. So if emails for their attempts at raising money for fraudulent purposes go directly into the Spam folder, I have zero issues with that whatsoever. Do the Democrats send out fundraising emails? Almost certainly. I've yet to see one though. But if I do, and Google doesn't do it, I'll immediately flag it as spam too.

If I want political information from a particular party, I'll ask them for it. If they (Republican, Democrat, or others) try to dump or force their garbage on me, and Republicans *are* the obvious biggest frauds/offenders/liars, I'll deal with it as *I* see fit. If Google happens to help me with that, great. I'd prefer they just delete it to save me the step, but that would mean trusting Google completely. And I *don't* trust that.

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Re: A Better Proposal

Metabusters?

Woman accused of killing boyfriend after tracking him down with Apple AirTag

Re: Ban cars?

I'm fine with that, as long as they stop at the Mason-Dixon line. There ain't no fixin' people below that point... and I say that as an American who was born in Florida, now living in Canada!