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The Big Evil vs. Pomposity, Inc.? Just too good...

In the mean time, while I'm waiting for the corn to finish popping, here's a link detailing how to install Linux on said chromebook http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

Perhaps there is another explanation, the goal of a waterproof phone. I've been following the patents that Apple has been taking out on Liquid Metal, and believe the goal is to create a completely sealed phone. There have been rumors that the lightning port is already waterproof. If so eliminating the other big open port, the mini jack, would make sense.

http://www.cultofmac.com/20044...

And yes the buttons are an issue, but Apple has many patents related to liquid metal that have waterproofing implications as well, one example

http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...

And Apple continues to file waterproofing patents

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

I don't think it's about slenderness. I think it's about having a phone that is molded with a waterproof casing with one port.

However, as far as property rights go, when does a property owner's airspace end and it becomes the FAA's airspace?

This guy used a simple camera. But if privacy is an issue (and it should be), drones in general are a threat to privacy. An easily available $600 camera can capture every pore from 10 miles away. Any ridiculous distance like 500 feet or 1 mile is too small.

... According to Akamai's Q2 2014 The State of the Internet report, South Korea has an average Internet connection speed of 24.6Mbps, placing it well ahead of No. 2 Hong Kong with 15.7 Mbps. The U.S. ranked No. 14 with an average Internet connection speed of 11.4Mbps ..

http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
I am interested to know the nesty of the South Korean ISPs

Anyone from South Korea? Care to elaborate?

You do have a point, but I read somewhere that the cell providers are finally implementing the GSM lost phone server which prevents phones that are lost or stolen from functioning on the network.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4688...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/a...

They're doing this because they're worried about the dangers - not from commercial aviation - but from drones being used as assassination tools.

Slap some explosives and shrapnel on a drone, fly it into a press conference, like: This and this. Maybe use a gun, like this.

Why make it easy and effectively untraceable for someone to do this when you can regulate it?
Won't stop someone dedicated, who can learn and make their own drone - but it sure as hell raises the bar on them if they want to stay anonymous.

I think there's a lot of politicians and bigwigs scared shitless over the possibility of citizens circumventing their massive security apparatus with such a simple device. They certainly know damned well just how unpopular they and their policies are, and their existing security just doesn't have any good way of stopping these things - though they're certainly working on it.

> I bought a half dozen of the RPi kits when they came out and I've only unboxed one. I played with it and did exactly nothing of value with it. I keep meaning to pick it up and learn more but I can't actually think of anything I'd want to do with it or with the rest of them.

--There are *lots* of things you can do with a PI that are pretty neat. If you already know Linux, you can just leave the board up and running 24/7 with minimal power expense.

--I chose to implement my Squid server on a Cubieboard instead, but you can do basically the same with a PI.

--Some links to get you started:

https://communities.vmware.com...
^^ This is a complete drop-in Squid Vmware appliance that I created. Once you get a Linux distribution installed on the PI, you can install the Squid package on it as well and copy the config files over.

http://www.squid-cache.org/

http://www.instructables.com/i...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

--Your local LUG (Linux User Group) should be able to help you get started and maybe give you some ideas on what to do with the board(s). HTH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

--I recommend you designate a Saturday (or whatever day is $convenient) and resolve to do something with at least one Pi board. Feel free to email me with progress reports ;-)

Whereas it's conceivable that a single software engineer, directed by a single manager, could have secretly written and uploaded the code that ran the defeat device

Of course is conceivable, but does anybody actually believe that ? You would need to be quite ingenuous to believe that... this is not an obscure open source project with almost no reviews, you cannot "slip" a patch without anyone noticing... moreover, you cannot keep that code for more than 6 years in the revision control system without anyone noticing.
This is not a conspiracy, this is just a company caught red handed.

Anyway, if you need any proof that this behaviour was indeed intended by the company, just have a look at this article: Bosch reportedly warned Volkswagen about illegal emissions software in 2007.

The CV1 frame is made fabric. An entire presentation at oculus connect 2 was spent bragging about how they made the frame of fabric. Fabric just like your shirt, Oculus had pictures of shirts in the presentation. I have demoed the CV1 multiple times, it is fabric just like your shirt but no way to clean it like your shirt. The back of the fabric is harden using some kind of epoxy. You can read more about it here http://www.digitaltrends.com/c... .
I really hope they abandon the idea or at least coat with Teflon.

AdBlock Plus: Extortion or Smart Business? | John C. Dvorak | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...
Adblock Plus demands cash from websites to whitelist ads | http://www.digitaltrends.com/w...

Is that extortion? the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A German court says it isn't. http://blog.pagefair.com/2015/...

Still stinks, but. People use adblockers to block ads. Not to only see ads where the advertiser greases the palm of some third party promising to block ads.

I'm also in the market for a new linux laptop, after seeing what Windows 10 has done to my security. However, I'd hold off for a couple of months. Dell and others are releasing versions of laptops with Intel's new Skylake architecture. I believe that it has enough improvements to warrant the wait.

This really looks like a farm.

The only actual farmland I've seen with wind turbines eschew dense packing for broad spread, making wind power not only opportunistic, but low-density. Not inefficient, but ineffective: generating a megawatt here or there is different than generating hundreds of megawatts.

In other words: faced with dedicating a square of land to a wind farm or dedicating a square of land to solar, a dedicated solar array will produce 8 times as much output. Faced with not dedicating a square of land, you can usually get better output from a PV cell--farmland being an exception, since the PV produces more shade; wind turbines of practical size placed on street lighting would not generate nearly as much power as PV panels of the same space usage on the same street lighting.

I could theoretically generate 800W of wind power at my house, or 7,000W of solar using just my roof space. That's an 800W output residential turbine that might run at 34% of its output (in my case, it'd actually be 8%; Texas gets 34% in well-placed installations), producing an actual 2380kWh (in my case specifically, about 561kWh); the 7kW PV array (theoretical 24 hour max output: 61000kWh) will generate, in practice, 9850kWh on average. Were my lot vacant, it may fit two wind turbines (4700kWh); it would take four at the high-capacity output of a Texas wind farm to meet what my solar panels do in just my roof space--which is 900 square feet on a 4500 square foot lot (capable of generating 49,250kWh of output if it were blanketed in solar panels, instead of 4,700kWh blanketed in wind turbines; and my panels aren't two-axis tracking, but fixed axis monocrystaline at 15.7% efficiency, at a sub-optimal azimuth).

Farms with turbines are like slapping a wind turbine in my back yard and producing that projected 2,400kWh per year. They spread their turbines more widely than my back yard, but also use bigger turbines. Even a dense, dedicated wind farm is blown out of the water by a dense, dedicated solar farm.

TFA was very short on detail, so I went looking for more. Unfortunately, there seems not to be much more out there - everyone is reporting on the same short-on-detail presentation. Here's a few which seemed to me to have something to add:
kitguru has more pictures
pcworld has pictures of actual silicon (not that it has any visible detail)
digitaltrends has some interesting commentary (last two paragraphs).

Due to their ephemeral nature, sprites are hard to capture on camera.

For comparison, here's one that appeared over Paris this summer.

And I would say that any two way radio communication device is a good survival aid in these *modern times*. Wouldn't you agree?

"Facebook, noun, is yet another latest fad of online social networking services (i.e. previous failed attempts include CompuServe, AOL, Friendster, Plaxo, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.) headquartered in Menlo Park, California..... After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as virtual "acquaintances" -- many of which have never physically met -- using the hijacked term "friend", exchange messages, "like" random shit that no one really gives a fuck about with no ability to downvote the stupid crap, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles all while blindly ignorant that Facebook is data-mining the shit out of them and busing selling out their data to any bidder interested. Common derogatory terms include fuckerberg, fazebook, fuckbook, fagbook, fartbook, fecesbook as a reference to all the stupid shit posted on it."

FTFY.

It must happen to people a lot

In New York City in 2012, roughly 40% of 911 calls were apparent butt dials. Their category (calls less than 20 seconds long, no response from the caller) probably includes some other inadvertent calls as well, but the majority are probably phone-in-pocket situations.

Just for NYC, that's more than 10 thousand calls per day, and about 4 million 911 calls per year.

Butts.

I wonder if the monthly costs between Amazon (no commercials), Netflix (unfortunately starting commercials), and Hulu (lots of commercials) compare in this way.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/h...

According to this site, Netflix with no commercials (starting commercials sometimes for their own things, before or after the show, not during) costs almsot exactly the same as Amazon and Hulu:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Last summer I bought a Nvidia Tegra Note 7 tablet based on promises that Android 5 (Lollipop) was coming out for it "real soon". They even stated that it was easy to port Lollipop on the Tegra Note 7 since it was basically a stock Android design with little or on deviation from the standard design. That "real soon" slipped to February of 2015 and when February 2015 came and went Nvidia became strangely mute on the subject, ignoring customers' inquiries.

What you describe is basically every tablet seller out there save for Google themselves. They save the new versions for their upcoming products, and only after those get put out do they update the old stuff.

what about their GTX 970 design, top of the line generation that just came out, that has 512MB of VRAM that runs 87.5% slower than the main GDDR5, causing massive hitching and stuttering in any games that use more than 3.5 of the 4GB onboard?

what's that? you say they patched it?

yeah, and the company that conceived such a thing to begin with will also be the company to remove the patch in a year's time to get people to upgrade.

In my 30s in mechanical engineering and this is my exact experience as well.

When it comes down to 'equal pay' personal life choices play into this. I chose to leave the workplace to raise our family. My wife had a better/more stable job. As a couple we sat down and decided that it would be best for our family if I stayed home and she worked.

Now that I've been out of the work place my skills are behind. I don't know what the latest TLAs or technologies are in my field. I have a gap in my resume that can only be filled with "Domestic Engineer". If I never go back to industry my lifetime earnings will be 1/3rd of what my classmates made. Why? Because they didn't leave the work force.

On the flip side of that there is a young female manager at our company that has been climbing fast. She didn't have kids but her and her family adopted older ones. She never took leave from the office. Even as a mid level manager she was the first one in PPE. Because of that she got promoted up. Both of those were our life decisions. If you want people to stop that from being an issue stop punishing them for their decisions. Something like parental leave in the US competitive with other first world countries.

All these initiatives keep trying to sell girls on STEM without figuring out how to sell STEM to girls. Programming, science, technology, engineering, math are all tools to do something else faster/easier/better.

I love baking (take that gender stereotypes, it's what a stay at home dad does) and there is a huge market for making stuff that makes baking easier. I hate measuring liquids since it just takes time. I want a bartender bot for water, oil, vinegar, flour, sugar, etc. I want to take a QR code picture of a recipe and have it measure out all of the above into a bowl. My next project is to make a PID controlled ramp/soak controller for baking so that I can have the perfect crust by doing a proper temp profile.

I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to learn programming because the first thing I'm going to ask her is "What do you hate to do?". I'm the laziest engineer I know because if I have to do something twice I'd rather write a script/program to do it. Getting girls to try and solve the problems of 5 year old boys isn't going to make them interested in something. Just sit down and ask a 5 year old girl what frustrates her and figure out how to make Programming+STEM do it for them. And if it's something that is 'cliché' for little girls to like, who cares? What if Barbie had a self driving car? In an afternoon Barbie could have a self balancing Segway and line following Barbie car.

If there is a trinket or toy that they want/need, figure out how to 3D print it. If the part breaks, figure out why. Our local librarian bought a 3D printer with grant money and is trying to turn our tiny library into a small maker space. She has a bunch of 3D models of jewelry and small things to get girls interested in it, and it works. Sure they are low quality cheap parts but the real 'product' is that the girls know G-code, grbl, parametric modeling, etc. So that when they can afford to they can buy a CNC Machine to turn jewelry. I've already told her that I can teach the kids how to use the 3D printer to make a mold to pour actual metal. Johnny Tremain was 14 and doing the same stuff. (But didn't have good PPE). If she came out and said that a girl reached the limit of what the 3D printer could do I'd personally pay for the next model up.

If boys like destruction, battle bots will get them into it. If girls aren't into destruction it doesn't matter how much money you throw at getting girls into the battle bot arena, the only ones that are going to bite are the ones that would have been interested in it anyway.

And for the love of god it doesn't need to be Pink. Stop Pinkwashing.

So what would be the practical way to get girls interested in STEM-Toys that are geared at boys?

I know this make come as a shock to most people but has anyone ever sat down and asked a 5 year old girl what she wants? What does she want to do and figure out

We've been trying to sell girls on STEM without figuring out how to sell STEM to girls. Programming, science, technology, engineering, math are all tools to do something else faster/easier/better.

I love baking (take that gender stereotypes) and there is a huge market for making stuff that makes baking easier. I hate measuring liquids since it just takes time. I want a bartender bot for water, oil, vinegar, flour, sugar, etc. I want to take a QR code picture of a recipe and have it measure out all of the above into a bowl.

If there is a trinket or toy that they want/need, figure out how to 3D print it. If the part breaks, figure out why.

Just sit down and ask a 5 year old girl what frustrates her and figure out how to make Programming+STEM do it for them. I'm the laziest engineer I know because if I have to do something twice I'd rather write a script/program to do it. Getting girls to try and solve the problems of 5 year old boys isn't going to make them interested in something.

And end the pink washing. Seriously. It doesn't need to be pink.

A good example with this you can expect coming up will be about how 4GB isn't enough memory for future proofing, but how 3 months ago everyone was saying having only 3.5GB available in the 970 wasn't.

I've gone back to CDs and purchasing individual songs.

You still have one giant step to take on your journey:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

tell that to IBM's Watson....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

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I'm sure you can find one horror story or two or three about any business out there, some of which may even be true and not planted by competitors. If you really "steer clear" of a business because of one bad review on the Internet, then you must not buy anything.... ;)

Here are a couple of reviews that use more than one data point:

Best domain name registrars

Five Best Domain Name Registrars

We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

I thought "unknown sources" was enough to allow third party app stores (assuming that it hasn't actually reached Google Play yet), from reading this. Am I mistaken?

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Even if you don't use it, they probably have your shadow account, managed by the very same kind of machine learning algorithms that automatically tag your pictures, even when you choose 'do not tag'. http://www.digitaltrends.com/s...

There is malware in the Apple garden too, it is just that the reality distortion field prevents people from seeing it.

And there is a thousand times that in Play Store. Heck, they just found more a few days ago http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-removes-adware-app-from-google-play/.

Yes, 10gbps internet package

Not 1gbps, but 10gbps

http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

And America is still talking about 25mbps?

In somewhat related news: http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

Obviously examples of 1, 2 or even half a dozen bugs in any given release isn't going to prove anything but anybody who is using the products will have encountered them and anybody who isn't could use google to discover them really easily rather than enumerating them all in the post.

For example iOS 7 had a hell of a lot of regressions and bugs in new features and its successor iOS 8 was even worse.

The Wi-Fi issues with Yosemite were horrible. What was worse was that they refused to acknowledge there was an issue for MONTHS.

Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.” ....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

"... Coughlin explained the procedure as to which Apple employed to remove songs from users’ iPods. The vaguely duplicitous act was executed by Apple when iPod users would attempt to sync their iPod with iTunes after downloading music from rival music services. The user would be instructed by an error message instructing it to restore the iPod to its factory setting. Once the user synced their iPod with iTunes after restoring their iPod to its factory settings, the non-Apple music files music would gone.

Apple defends its action and claims it was just worried its users were at the hands of hackers. Apple’s security director Augustin Farrugia informed the court that hackers “DVD John” and “Requiem” were potential threats to users and thus removed non-Apple music files from iPods. Farrugia reasons Apple did not inform users of the deletion because the company does not want to “confuse users” with “too much information.” ....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

Sadly false. Check out this photo.

Tell her "That's The Way It Is", or get a new machine.

I don't like noisy PCs either and there a couple of solutions:

a) Use a low-RPM, huge, CPU fan like Zalman along with a fanless power supply and video card. There should be very little noise from such a PC.

b) Go all the way and buy a water-cooled PC. No fans, no noise.

c) Buy an Apple laptop/desktop. These are noiseless except under heavy load.

How can Facebook get personal information that you don't voluntarily share with it?

Offline data collection:

• Datalogix
• Data brokers
• Outside data sources

Tracking your browsing:

• WSJ article

Getting tentacles in your OS:

• iOS
• More on Apple

Running analytics software and servers for other websites and apps:

• Parse

Etc.

While this particular development doesn't affect it waterproofing is something that major phone vendors have been working on and they seem to have managed to make phones with a high degree of waterproofing (at least when new, I do wonder how the seals will age) without making them clunky as hell.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

wall of text is exactly what I want for most news

here's a picture of a Sharp dashboard concept
http://www.digitaltrends.com/h...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

> This is why I suspect Dolby Atmos will never be put on a consumer format.

Onkyo, Denon, and Pioneer all suspect otherwise.