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Of course internet-connected beverage machines are hackable! Read about this back seven years ago! http://www.cnet.com/news/inter...

Firewire flopped because Apple charged $1 per port to anyone else wishing to implement it. USB was free. Which brings this discussion back full circle to whether patents are helping or stifling technological progress.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

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Also, looking at the analysis here: http://www.cnet.com/news/world... Open source is simply part of its strategy for distributing software that will help it sell more advertising

This is part of a general trend that I call 'open season', basically big companies persuading naive people to do their work for nothing, under the banner 'open source'.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

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http://www.cnet.com/au/news/au...

Aug last year cards went pin only here is Aus

Actually Windows is deemed safer by in the security industry than either Mac OSX or iOS.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/fo...
https://usa.kaspersky.com/inte...
http://www.cnet.com/news/in-th... Regardless, I think the consensus these days is we all need to be careful regardless of device. Social engineering happens on them all. I use both Macs and PCs. I run AV and OpenDNS Umbrella and more for my Macs too and scrutinize anything attachments, links, etc. that I go to.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

* REPOSTING A 3rd time VS. ABUSED DOWNMODS ON THIS SAME POST here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... AND here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Several states are exploring the possibilities of digital drivers licenses, and many states already accept your insurance companies app on your phone as proof of insurance. So the days of having to carry a wallet are ending soon.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (AND we're free of ads that not only INFECT US, but also STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (AND we're free of ads that not only INFECT US, but also STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY too) - to be continued in my next subsequent post with MORE of the same information for you vs. your b.s. advertiser

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I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.

If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links...

... apk

I'm sure that given time and money, there could be a Windows variant that did the job.

That is far from certain. Microsoft's adventures in similar areas often end in tears.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/it...

"HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff"

If done from the ISS you would have 30K of pretty light streaks in the night sky . http://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-...

It seems HP has as much concern for it's workers a human waste, they both get jettisoned.
So rather than meet cost of living payroll obligations they just shift the work overseas because of course that will create more consumers that can afford to buy their products in the US?

My Kyocera Brigadier will go through a weekend pretty decently.

http://www.cnet.com/products/k...

According to the specs, 26 hr talk time, that should translate pretty good when not talking on it. It is however huge, but I see that as a plus as it is near invincible.

Your smart phone already listens to everything you say, in case you might say some key word that it needs to react to.

No. No, my phone does not. Does anyone actually run down their battery and keep their phone unlocked and vulnerable to keep some voice-activated app always running?

Newer TVs and other electronic devices are becoming more voice activated.

A pointless gimmick that's a usability fail.

Not the previous poster, but I've been struggling to understand how to answer this question

Let me explain my reasoning: Someone who drops a subscription to video on demand (VOD) in favor of OTA DTV reverts to having to schedule her life around when a program is broadcast or miss the program. To restore an experience remotely comparable to VOD, a viewer needs to use a DVR. TiVo DVRs are sold with very slim (possibly even negative) margins, hoping that people will either pay for the required monthly subscription or buy a $500 lifetime subscription for the unit.

My DVR is a Linux PC running MythTV that I bought in 2008 [...] not including my time spent assembling the computer, learning how to use MythTV, or keeping things running

Are those sold pre-assembled and pre-configured at a reasonable price? I ask because I know a lot of people who would find "not including my time" unacceptable. They choose to pay for TV because they're willing to pay extra for the reliability of an appliance as opposed to having to fiddle with keeping a big tower running and updated in the living room just to have VOD.

Lenovo bought Motorola. That coupled with their China-only smartphones made them the #4 phone manufacturer in 2014.

Look at the new and leaving content for this month - it's almost all junk (with slightly more quality stuff leaving than coming).

Netflix is still showing me "New Episodes" for stuff I watched 6 months ago. A friend of mine said recently, "I spend more time looking for something to watch on Netflix than I do watching Netflix".

I just started requesting DVD's again from Netflix (send back the first one in two years yesterday) and my kids watch YouTube all the time anyway - I'm pretty sure there's no reason for me to keep the streaming service at this point. I wonder if I can cancel that separately. I still have 300 discs in my DVD queue and feel silly for trying to use the Internet instead of USPS for digital content.

Well... and whatever this is, on Ceres. That looks like some precursor shit right there, too.

I see enough people walking around with filthy great headphones on that I don't see the power supply being that much of a problem.

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/...
Shorter with a promise of a follow up review
http://www.cnet.com/products/m...

I kind of want it. But I'm a little annoyed at myself with my android phone (s6) since the latest update (T-Mobile) once again locked the bootloader.

... this will last only until the facial recognition algorithm is trained to ignore it. If it won't fool a human, it won't fool an algorithm for long. Better fixes are ones that exploit the weaknesses of the sensors rather than attacking the algorithm. The other example, cited right in TFA, uses a more effective long term strategy of hampering the sensors.

Upgrading the algorithm? Cheap, and only needs to be done once. Upgrading every sensor to filter IR? Not impossible, but much more expensive and thus likely to be skipped by businesses.

Citation needed. From what I remember on Uber's own website, they claim to do background checks of drivers. That doesn't sound like opposition to me.

Sure: http://www.cnet.com/news/ubers-background-checks-dont-catch-criminals-says-houston/

Uber performs in-house background checks, but they oppose municipalities that require police background checks (which is the requirement in most areas for taxi services). There is concern that Uber's in-house checks aren't very thorough, and that they aren't looking very hard as to not have to fail so many applications, or more likely because a tougher background check is more expensive to process (fingerprints, etc). Not that even police background checks are perfect, mind you, just that they're going to catch more than Uber's in-house checks. Plus I suspect there's an element of municipalities not trusting Uber to run these checks in the first place.

And yes, taxi companies do more complete background checks, at least in more areas.

So while taxi companies check a prospective driver's fingerprint records against a database that theoretically (more on that in a minute) includes a person's complete criminal history in the United States, Uber background checks use a database that can only go back seven years for some information.

Anyhow, this is one area where Uber is inflexible. They seem generally disinterested in working with governments beyond getting their existing business plan approved, especially on anything where implementing a regulation would increase costs.

Choose your character:

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows ME

Windows NT

Windows 2k

Windows XP

And just for kicks, here's one for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Win FLP.

- They raised the annual price of Prime 3x since I signed up

Huh?

Amazon Prime was launched in 2005 for $79. The price has gone up once, in 2014, to $99. So I'm not sure how you could have seen three price increases. Even if you were a student and are counting the loss of the student discount once you left school, that's only two increases.

Didn't you read his post? He was using the Super Secret Prime back in the 90's. That was less than $79, so the public prime rate of $79 was an increase for those people.

- They raised the annual price of Prime 3x since I signed up

Huh?

Amazon Prime was launched in 2005 for $79. The price has gone up once, in 2014, to $99. So I'm not sure how you could have seen three price increases. Even if you were a student and are counting the loss of the student discount once you left school, that's only two increases.

Items shipped prime from Amazon have shown up obivously used or broken multiple many times over the past year (much more often than before)

Unfortunately Prime doesn't guarantee the quality of an item, just that it ships quickly. More and more third party sellers are using Amazon, including Amazon's fulfillment system, which means their goods can be shipped out by Amazon and qualify for Prime. As has been the case with Amazon for some time now, if it's not being sold by Amazon directly then it's a crap-shoot; you're basically buying eBay style and hoping for the best. Prime shipping doesn't change that.

Use a $35 Chromecast!

You can send your entire screen to your TV with a Chromecast. You'll probably want to find some kind of wireless keyboard and/or mouse to do this.

You could also look at Android TV and see if there's a screen mirroring application. I don't know if Android TV can run ordinary Android apps, but if it can, there's already a screen mirroring program.

Finally, stick PCs are a thing. You could always run a screen sharing program on a stick PC.

IMO, I think trying to connect a PC to a TV is quickly becoming more effort than it's worth. This is for the following reasons:

• - I used to use my $1200 HTPC for Netflix and Youtube. Now, it's much easier to use a $35 Chromecast for these applications
• - Now that Android TV came out, I think we'll get a much better experience with apps designed for a remote control instead of PC apps designed for a mouse and keyboard.
• - Many smart TVs will have Android TV built-in.

Noone?

http://www.cnet.com/products/k...

Failed!

I use it so I don't have to remove the waterproof cover from the USB port, I can just place my phone in a holder at home and it charges, and I place it in a stand in the car which charges it. So obviously, no one is the wrong word to use.

Please also, show me this mythical case you don't have to take off to charge your phone while it stays waterproof, without wireless charging.

There are way more Kickstarter failures than successes and seeing that this is one of the more ambitious projects, it is very unlikely to actually deliver anything close to what was promised.

Here is another analysis of the product by a analytical scientist.-

http://www.cnet.com/news/kicks...

http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-d...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"The truth is, if you are a woman, and someone threatens to murder you online, it's overwhelmingly likely that no help is coming, and you're on your own."

And as a woman, that's her view, but in reality if you're anyone (who isn't rich and famous, but even then) getting threatened online... it's going to take a *lot* before the police step in. There are many reasons for this, including
a) People say stupid shit online, there's lots of noise, and it's not easy to decipher intent. Similarly, if somebody threats you on the street it may not get much action, unless it's a public action with something backing it.
b) If your neighbour threatens you, the police can go over to his/her house and deal with it. When it's online, that person isn't likely using a real-name, and may not be anywhere in your jurisdiction or even country/continent
c) There's often a prevaling lack of understanding of technology in the justice system
d) Laziness or resourcing... due to (c) and (b)... it's work and resources to actually catch somebody and then sometimes even harder to convict. Again, hard to condone, but unless we want to wiretap everyone (well, they tried) or spend a month of work of three officers in order to track it down... sometimes things need a critical mass before they'll dedicate the effort.

None of the above are excusing the aholes that post terrible crap online, especially death threats, but saying that it's exclusively a problem of a certain group - whether it be based on gender, ethnicity, or other - is not particular accurate.

Of course, society is wonderfully unbalanced about such things. Sometimes nailing somebody for what is obviously a joke, particularly if the target is a rich scientologist like Tom Cruise

Actually, several years ago there was some article posted to a part of CNN that allowed for user submitted content that claimed a person had seen Jobs being taken to a hospital after having a heart attack. Other sites started to run wild with the rumor and it caused Apple's stock to take a rather large plunge. Here's an article covering it that turned up after a quick Google search.

http://news.cnet.com/HP-releas...

HP did the sub-3 lb laptop almost 20 years ago. It didn't sell. It even had an integrated optional external battery for those who would rather carry more weight/thickenss for the battery life. It didn't sell. The laptop in general didn't sell because it was $6000, but the battery slice wasn't a popular feature.

I hear you. I understand you. But you aren't who they are trying to sell this to, so your opinion doesn't matter.

Mozilla switched to Yahoo as default search, not Bing. Apple's the one that's had a flirtatious relationship with Bing.

Nope, Bing is the default search engine, and, even though I change it to Google, every time it updates, it reverts back to Bing as the default search engine.

Mozilla switched to Yahoo as default search, not Bing. Apple's the one that's had a flirtatious relationship with Bing.

Everything I said is true. Apple did create their GUI based on what Xerox showed them, but they built it from scratch.

Alan Kay came up with Smalltalk, but he never worked with Engelbart at Stanford, and the Stanford people who worked at PARC basically took the ideas with them in the same way Apple took them from Xerox.

Xerox never made a penny from Apple other than via a business transaction. Apple sold Xerox some pre-IPO stock shares in exchange for getting its peek at PARC technology, but it never received a license for it. In 1989, Xerox filed a $150 million suit against Apple, alleging that the Lisa and Macintosh misrepresented Xerox copyrights, but the company was unsuccessful in winning a favorable decision.

The idea [of windows] was developed at the Stanford Research Institute (led by Douglas Engelbart). Their earliest systems supported multiple windows, but there was no obvious way to indicate boundaries between them (such as window borders, title bars, etc.)

Steve did see Smalltalk when he visited PARC. He saw the Smalltalk integrated programming environment, with the mouse selecting text, pop-up menus, windows, and so on. The Lisa group at Apple built a system based on their own ideas combined with what they could remember from the Smalltalk demo, and the Mac folks built yet another system. There is a significant difference between using the Mac and Smalltalk.

Ya, it did, at least the unencrypted part.

http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Ya, it did, at least the recording private conversations part.

http://www.cnet.com/news/samsu...

If true then I guess I won't be buying any Samsung computers anytime soon. A company that stupid simply isn't worth doing business with. Add this to the Samsung TVs that listen to your living room and the bloatware on their Android devices and I pretty much can't see any reason to buy from Samsung these days.

My NSI feature phone does video horizontally while holding upright if I recall.

But the problem should be fixable with smart phones.

Indeed. Apple didn't really turn "anti-DRM" until they got into trouble with market regulators...

Errm http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027-998590.html:

April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store
...
The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.

"Apple bashing"? How inarticulate and ultimately blindly supportive of a known repeat bad actor to keep their customers from controlling the iThings they buy. It's hardly far-fetched to see how the company receives bad press. They've made an ugly history for themselves rife with mistreating workers, users, and harming the environment. They found they could get away with non-freedom in software also exploits app developers "mercilessly" as Richard Stallman put it on his reasons why one shouldn't do business with Apple. Apple also uses digital restrictions management on eBooks which is set up so that those eBooks won't work on jailbroken iThings, stuck users with a U2 album and made it hard to delete, censors bitcoin apps for iThings, deauthorized a Wikileaks access application, banned an erotic novel from iTunes because of its cover, left a security hole in iTunes unfixed for 3 years, and more.

Except I'm not American. I am British by descent, and have lived and worked on three continents. But your point is irrelevant anyway: The term is commonly used outside the USA as well. For example:

UK:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gamin...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news...
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/...

CA:
http://circanews.com/news/cord...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/n...
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca...
http://www.canadiancordcutting...
http://shayne.tablotvweb.nomad...

AU:
http://www.computerworld.com.a...
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/co...
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/...

Just because you're ignorant of its usage, that doesn't mean the term isn't broadly used around the world in countries with large English-speaking populations.

Not true. Dana Rohrabacher did.

Seriously, it exists. Not that I actually used it, I basically booted it up once after purchase to be sure it worked (I didn't go through the setup crap), turned it off, upgraded the RAM and immediately put Kubuntu on it (now replaced with Netrunner).

Starter edition - the (rightfully) forgotten Windows 7.

FUD, not a single source working for MSFT has said a damned thing about a subscription model, THAT bit of FUD was started by a gossip site "El Reg" IIRC that is known for pulling "facts" out of their ass.

The ONLY thing that has been said is they won't have the old service packs anymore, instead you'll have a point release, like 8 to 8.1. This makes it easier for regular folks to know WTF is going on as its easier to know that X.1 is the current version as all the sites treat it as a separate OS, while nobody talks about "Win 7 SP1" they simply call it Win 7.

But just because some dude at MSFT said "Win 10 is the only version we are working on ATM" the sites jumped to this "last version of Windows EVAR" subscription crap when in reality land the prices have already been leaked and its no different than every other release, you'll have retail and OEM, Home and Pro, its business as usual. I'm sure in a year and a half you'll see retail 10.1, maybe even 10.2, and then you'll see the hypetrain for Windows 11, probably hosted by Spinal Tap, coming to a tech site near you.

No... but if every single person in the world donated 10 cents once we would get >$700M.... Invest that money with a modest 1% return we would have >$60M per year for this... And that is load's more than the $10M number (i read from other posts) we currently spend on these things..

The avarage income in the world is ~$10,000 ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga... )
Avarage lifespan is 71 years ( http://www.who.int/gho/mortali... )

So.. $10000 * 71 years = $710000 .1 cent of $710000 = .00000014% of a lifetime income..

Odds of being killed by an astroid:
1 in 74,817,414 ( http://www.cnet.com/news/odds-... ) .000000013%

Do the same calculations on how much we invest to reduce other risks...