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Here is an update to this ruling found in another article:

Update: Uber pointed out that the ruling only applies to one driver. “Reuters’ original headline was not accurate. The California Labor Commission’s ruling is non-binding and applies to a single driver,” a spokesperson said. “Indeed it is contrary to a previous ruling by the same commission, which concluded in 2012 that the driver ‘performed services as an independent contractor, and not as a bona fide employee.’ Five other states have also come to the same conclusion. It’s important to remember that the number one reason drivers choose to use Uber is because they have complete flexibility and control. The majority of them can and do choose to earn their living from multiple sources, including other ride sharing companies.”

Is power supplies, because of the fire hazard.

You might think that, but you see the beauty of this thing called the "internets" allows you to easily research it and find out that you probably are wrong :

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Amazing how that works right? You can actually educate yourself instead of simply spouting off your own biases and 'gut' feel!

Most people in support of drastic intervention fail to grasp that we have no real alternative to fossil fuels in the pipe.

But this guy claims we could be fossil-fuel free by 2050.

I'm not exactly sure how he plans to replace every single vehicle in the USA with a hydrogen fuel-cell powered one, or install heat pumps in every single home, but I'm certain if I pay £38 for the pdf, I'll find out how.

After all, he teaches at Stanford! And he made a computer model! He must be right! /sarcasm

Overall, I agree with you. Nuclear is the best short-term solution. As a side benefit, more fission development leads to technologies which would be benefit fusion research. It would also carry us over to a (potential) time when we could switch to an entirely renewable energy economy.

I just don't understand environmentalists who are also anti-nuclear.

Can Mr. Lee fly around the world delivering lectures on free software? He's allowed to be picky.

we're all gonna die in 200 years if we keep popping babies out at the rate we do now
You would be amazed at the results of panic concerning population explosion and the resulting forced sterilisation of people due to doomsayers.

Apple launched the iPhone in January of 2007. Eleven months later, in November of 2007, Google showed a video that effectively juxtaposed Google-Android's original pre-iPhone "before" prototype which looked and operated more like a Blackberry button-driven phone, with Google-Android's post-iPhone-launch "after" prototype that heavily-resembled the look-and-feel of the iPhone and incorporated many of Apple's signature touch-screen inventions. In October 2008, T-Mobile released the G1, Google's first Android phone.

You can draw whatever conclusions you want, but it is hard to argue that Android did not change in nature due to Schmidt's privileged knowledge.

That was a phrase that also stood out to me. Why does Microsoft get to determine the lifetime of *MY* hardware? Don't they realize that I can increase the useful lifetime of my PC by upgrading the CPU?

At least in one case they've changed hardware requirements to benefit Intel. So yes, they realize it, and don't particularly care as long as you get Windows.

"Bottle Opener"

Amateur..

FYI http://gizmodo.com/5960021/how...

Does anyone still think "oh wow, airmiles!!!" ? What's a million airmiles worth? 3,000.00 to $6,500.00

This is like the guy who says "I lost my wallet with $1,000.00 in it. I'll pay $100.00 to whoever finds it!" Someone else immediately says "I'll pay $200.00"

...a sample... http://gizmodo.com/google-maps...

From June 2013, Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names.

it was just a grab http://gizmodo.com/5943266/thi... while they call it a waste of time it sure meets the needs of small devices

It's definitely kW. Even on the following site, it mentioned the kW power limit. We're talking in terms of power remember, not energy.

http://gizmodo.com/tesla-batte...

http://gizmodo.com/after-nearl...
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4...

...create anything. Just 'cos the 'net makes it easy to copy and distribute creative works does not make it OK. People who just don't want to pay for stuff should admit it instead of pretending they have some kind of real philosophy or that is is for the creators' good (I mean, it might be, but it should be up to them to decide, not some guy in a basement who really just wants free stuff).

I agree with you so far. When I was in college, I didn't want to pay for anything because I couldn't afford anything. Now I've had real income for a while, so I'm happy to pay for the IP I use. Generally, IP should be honored via copyright and patents.

The problem is the middle level. I want creators to get well paid and consumers to get well priced access. That does not need a record company, say, in the traditional sense.

Copyright needs to (I reckon) end with the death of the creator; simple. And the creator has to be a human not a corporation. Probably legally difficult, but makes sense to me. I guess we need ways for copyright to be signed over to a corporation; or do we? Leased instead, until the 'death' of either party or until some agreed time prior. That way a corp can 'own' the copyright but only till the creator dies or the contract is up, whichever comes first.

Wait, why does it need to be so long? What you suggest is shorter than the current Infinity-1 the middle men are aiming for, but what was wrong with the original 14+14years on copyright? It's not like 99.999% of IP can be monetized past 5 years anyway.

I think that copyright can be owned by corporations in a problem. It should always be owned by the creator, and they can license it to corporations if they would like. Creators should never lose their copyright.

This argument I keep hearing that free distribution of, for example, music benefits the musician because they 'make more money in live shows anyway' is moronic in the extreme. Like every musician has the same business model? Sure, for some it might work that way: http://gizmodo.com/5903937/six... but not everybody can keep touring. They get older -- do they suddenly lose the right to make any money off their life's work because they can't tour behind it? Musician thinks: "Gee, I've got kids, a wife who works, I can't spend 10 months a year on the road like when I was 25 -- and double whammy, I don't get royalties either 'cos apparently I 'benefit' from all the exposure I get from my music being free." One size never fits all and ideology is often a cover for greed.

Okay, I wanted to preface my post by saying I pay (a lot) for IP, and I'm an honest guy. And honestly, what you say here is pure crap. I'm a developer, and I don't get to coast on the fruit of my "life's work" forever. You want to make more money, produce more IP. Like everyone. Music and video are not special.

By the way, it's because of the blood-sucking middle men that musicians can't make a decent buck from their recordings.

Ideally, creators get to say what happens. That's bound to encourage people to create. They can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. But it's not up to 'us' to decide.

Creators get to participate in the conversation. The People get to say what happens. We had a reasonable deal at first: max 28 years of copyright. Then the lawmakers started listening to the IP holders instead of The People and we have the crap system that doesn't let anything ever go into Public Domain.

Is the world safer?

Yes. The revelations, and public reactions to them (the real public reaction as expressed in the marketplace, not whatever jaw-flapping occurs in response to some inane telemarkepollster call) have led to security improvements. The fact that it has also led to the entertaining spectacle of useless bureaucrats running around pissing and moaning and whining and generally making fools of themselves in public is just a bonus.

1 I think the word you are looking for is 'fashion' as in people think having an iwatch ion their wrist will somehow make them cool.

Well actually that aspect is working just fine for a number of celebrities, so all I have to say is good luck arguing against the Apple Watch being part of popular fashion with Beyonce wearing one!

I personally think a lot of people will buy one because it is functional, and simply not ugly as is the case with many other smart watches. That is a concern for many people.

2. I can only assume you have not actually looked at the competition on this one.

You mean "felt" right? Please tell me you meant felt, because that was the whole point... yes I have. I have a good friend who loves her Samsung smartwatch. I've used a Motorola watch briefly, and also older Pebbles. The Motorola LOOKS nice (well, sort of, I find it too large) but just is not built as well. I've ordered a Pebble Time myself, so we'll see how that is.

3) And again, you missed the fact that most of the Android watches last longer?

Sorry, I thought we were talking about actual battery life, not pretend numbers that Android Wear makers like to produce.

4) You mean just like android?

How can you block a notification for Android Wear for an app that does not have a corresponding Wear app? Blocking of notifications seemed to require that. Not every app is going to have a Wear app (or Apple Watch app for that matter). You surely can't mean that applications that only run on your phone cannot have notifications appear on your watch, as that would render the watch essentially useless for notification management.

5) Um, what? is that in some way an apple only feature?

What are you thinking they are? Cards? That's not really the same thing. Those are really apps in Glance clothing. Way too many possibilities for expansion or stacking.

6) Yes, a nice and effective way to reduce battery life even further

Someone who obviously doesn't understand comparative power drain of tapping vs. even a short vibration... or how much more useful directional taps are than even vibration patterns.

BTW I do like your rationalisation at the end where anything that doesnt quite work properly must not be needed

??? what I said was that even IF an app is desired/needed I will cull it if it's too noisy on what needs to be a very minimal interface (also a primary design concern for Android Wear by the way).

I'm a developer, so I understand both systems. You appear just to be against Apple even when they have good ideas, and have not really looked in depth into how the Apple Watch varies from Android Wear, or Pebble.

http://gizmodo.com/intel-compu...

Pretty in dept review on why it sucks. For example want to use Bluetooth and Wifi? Don't plan on it as they're both handled by the same controller and the BT lags to shit when Wifi is enabled.

Here's the video. I like how they called it a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly)

Too true.
e.g. dog tag

http://gizmodo.com/388465/char...

Seriously, as others mentioned, one home, one offsite in a bank security box. a portable external HDD will fit in the smallest ones for big backups, or a USB thumb drive/sd card..

Just one example I found. Considering a lot of humans have trouble driving in bad weather I doubt that self driving cars will be able to do so for a very long time.

If they're not careful, they'll catch up to the scales of evil Comcast and Walmart have sunken to! http://gizmodo.com/babmost-hat...

123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters.
Those meters are stupid.

As long as it's not one of either this list: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most... or just a copy of your exact username, then yep it will probably suit you just fine. Dictionary attacks don't happen in break ins nearly as often as exploiting password resets (via social engineering or otherwise) or other blatant sidesteps of security (token reuse, etc), since everyone tarpits bad logins, sometimes after as few as 3 attempts.

I found some dead keys on my keyboard, and mapped some foreign characters to the keyboard map. Since testers rely on only whats on standard keyboards, I figure I am a little safer than the average guy setting up passwordsif I include one or more of these characters.

123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters.
Those meters are stupid.

As long as it's not one of either this list: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most... or just a copy of your exact username, then yep it will probably suit you just fine. Dictionary attacks don't happen in break ins nearly as often as exploiting password resets (via social engineering or otherwise) or other blatant sidesteps of security (token reuse, etc), since everyone tarpits bad logins, sometimes after as few as 3 attempts.

Hey, retard, pay attention. The typical attack scenario is as follows:
A: Company gets hacked.
B: The user table with password hashes is accessed.
C: At some point in the future the company realizes it.
D: At some later point in the future the company is forced to announce the breach. The company will lie as much as possible about what was accessed, when, how passwords were stored, that they never held onto your credit card numbers, how they're revamping security and they take your privacy very seriously, etc.

Between B and C, the attackers (and anyone they've sold the dump to) are busy cracking the passwords (assuming they weren't stored in plaintext) offline. They don't have to worry about being locked out after 3 fucking attempts. No one does brute force / dictionary attacks against online fucking data you clown. You take the data offline and fuck on it at full speed.

123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters.
Those meters are stupid.

As long as it's not one of either this list: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most... or just a copy of your exact username, then yep it will probably suit you just fine. Dictionary attacks don't happen in break ins nearly as often as exploiting password resets (via social engineering or otherwise) or other blatant sidesteps of security (token reuse, etc), since everyone tarpits bad logins, sometimes after as few as 3 attempts.

This also has the down side that writing to the same sector does not immediately overwrite the previous data on the disc, since the write will go into the persistent cache instead and will then eventually overwrite the original data when the garbage cleaning occurs (I think the presenter says ~15 minutes).

But again, this is fine, because Seagate knows their customers buy bigger drives.

Well I work for an actual company that offers integrated modems. And the silicon price is basically the same. The additional cost we add to the chip is to pay for the R&D investment.

A big company like Intel can soak a lot of R&D costs initially if they wish to make a long term play into the market.
I have no doubt that the Atom X3 is going to make it cheaper to put an x86 into a LTE capable tablet/phone. And Intel gets to get paid for the modem instead of a third party, so it's a big advantage for them.

The only barrier I see at this point is if their modem's performance is good enough to compete with Qualcomm. I'm familiar with other vendors that failed to take over the mobile market with wireless integration.

Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.

Why is it that my mod points always expire right *before* I want to use them? I used eight of fifteen purely on posts where I only sort of wanted to mod. I had to give up commenting to do so. Here, I log in so as to mod -- and my mod points are gone. And I have no real interest in commenting!

Grrrr.

Anyway, regardless of the general quality (or lack thereof) of gizmodo, this was a decent explanation. It points out that in the picture, the colors are pale blue and dark gold. However, the original dress is a darker blue and black. The colors in the picture are incorrect. People who see it as blue and black are seeing past the problems with the picture while those who see white and gold are being fooled by the bad colors in the image.

Actual dress is the blue and black one on the left in this picture: http://media.gotraffic.net/ima...

So it appears to be linked to the lighting conditions that your eyes are adjusted to when seeing the image initially... even after they've adjusted to the ambient light, the brain appears to stick to the image it created initially.

Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.

Something is wrong. You said "pretty good explanation" but you then linked to Gizmodo. These two things are mutually exclusive.

So it appears to be linked to the lighting conditions that your eyes are adjusted to when seeing the image initially... even after they've adjusted to the ambient light, the brain appears to stick to the image it created initially.

Here is a pretty good explanation of why this might happen.

It's basically the same idea behind the USA XM29 OICW prototype. Which got cancelled to be developed as two separate programs. Of which the rifle was cancelled and the grenade launcher lives as the XM25 CDTE. Which is probably to be cancelled too.

The South Koreans and the Chinese have something similar to this already in service. The Daewoo K-11 and the ZH-05.

Actually this is not correct. The Russians developed the Mig-31 Foxhound specifically to counter both our long range bombers and our high-speed reconnaissance aircraft such as the SR-71. Satellites are predictable (as their orbits are easily able to be calculated) so having the "surprise" capability of an SR-71 flight is not the same as having satellite coverage. Same reason we have the AF X-37B among other things that have not yet come out of the black. But as for nothing being able to touch the SR-71 (and don't get me wrong - it was decades ahead of its time and to this day is still an amazing aircraft):

Links: http://theaviationist.com/2013... and http://gizmodo.com/theres-no-t...

Quote: "These deficiencies were settled when a more advanced MiG-25 development, the MiG-31, entered in service in the 1980s: the Foxhound was armed with a missile very similar to the US AIM-54 Phoenix, the R-33 (AA-9 Amos as reported by NATO designation). This weapon was ideal not only for shooting down the American bombers, but also to intercept and destroy fast reconnaissance aircraft, such as the SR-71.

This statement was dramatically confirmed in Paul Crickmore’s book Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond The Secret Missions.

In this book one of the first Foxhound pilots, Captain Mikhail Myagkiy, who had been scrambled with its MiG-31 several times to intercept the US super-fast spy plane, explains how he was able to lock on a Blackbird on Jan. 31, 1986:

“The scheme for intercepting the SR-71 was computed down to the last second, and the MiGs had to launch exactly 16 minutes after the initial alert. () They alerted us for an intercept at 11.00. They sounded the alarm with a shrill bell and then confirmed it with a loudspeaker. The appearance of an SR-71 was always accompanied by nervousness. Everyone began to talk in frenzied voices, to scurry about, and react to the situation with excessive emotion.” Myagkiy and its Weapons System Officer (WSO) were able to achieve a SR-71 lock on at 52,000 feet and at a distance of 120 Km from the target. The Foxhound climbed at 65,676 feet where the crew had the Blackbird in sight and according to Myagkiy: “Had the spy plane violated Soviet airspace, a live missile launch would have been carried out. There was no practically chance the aircraft could avoid an R-33 missile.”

After this interception Blackbirds reportedly began to fly their reconnaissance missions from outside the borders of the Soviet Union.

But the MiG-31s intercepted the SR-71 at least another time. On Sept. 3, 2012 an article written by Rakesh Krishman Simha for Indrus.in explains how the Foxhound was able to stop Blackbirds spy missions over Soviet Union on Jun. 3, 1986. That day, no less than six MiG-31s “intercepted” an SR-71 over the Barents Sea by performing a coordinated interception that subjected the Blackbird to a possible all angle air-to-air missiles attack. Apparently, after this interception, no SR-71 flew a reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union and few years later the Blackbird was retired to be replaced with the satellites. Even if claiming that the MiG-31 was one of the causes of the SR-71 retirement is a bit far fetched, it is safe to say that towards the end of the career of the legendary spyplane, Russians proved to have developed tactics that could put the Blackbird at risk."

"The GE Link light bulbs were the worst part .. my apartment requires 17 lightbulbs. And because I'd switched hubs, each of the bulbs needed to be reset, a process that involves a specific and particularly well timed flipping of the light switch. After that each bulb needed to be set up while there were no other new bulbs on the circuit, meaning I had to take all of the bulbs out and set them up one-by-one."

The word is "dumb."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remo...
http://gizmodo.com/5887808/eve...

Active components:

Pioneer Elite receiver
Samsung television (LN46B650 IIRC)
Samsung blu-ray player
Pioneer tape deck (the last time I played a tape? Maybe 2003, but I keep it anyhow)
A couple of S-VHS VCRs (which I hook up only when I feel like watching some old movies I have only on VHS)

Speakers:
Klipsch Reference Series

The cables? For analog and digital coax line-level cables, cheap shielded monoprice cables
Speaker wire: fine-stranded OFC cable - ONLY because it is more flexible than zip cord
HDMI cables: cheap monoprice cables
Ethernet cables: Patch cables I made myself using a bulk spook of CAT5e and 8p8c (or RJ-45 if you prefer) connectors from Lowes

The truth about cables:
http://gizmodo.com/363154/audi...

Yes. http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-to-weight-loss-might-be-poop-transplants-fro-1265888152

"We should use the heavy hand of government to strongly regulate these dangerous devices.... because a drunken, government employee crashed one on government property."

http://gizmodo.com/guy-who-cra...

The no fly zone around the stadium is huge. From looking at the no fly zone you get the impression it's a selfie of the the superbowl's own ass just before they disappeared into it.

I actually like football however it's so ridiculously commercialized there is no need to "cultivate disinterest", the sheer bulk of advertisements ruin the flow of the game enough to make it uninteresting.

Here is some more info: The Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger May Not Happen

Et voilà! How To Encrypt Everything.

How much of the Burj Dubai is even occupied?

Dude, Dubai is so primitive that the Burj Dubai (and many other big towers) isn't even connected to the sewer system:

http://inhabitat.com/the-incre...
http://gizmodo.com/5857475/wit...

I'm not sure a lot of the souvenirs left behind would be desirable.

This douchebag is Russian for sure !!!

http://gizmodo.com/security-expert-ids-two-idiots-claiming-to-be-lizard-sq-1676030141

Google's doing a lot of work on this. http://gizmodo.com/googles-ima...

just went to see "The Hobbit" yesterday, $20 for a ticket, $18 for a coke (bottle), choc top and m&m's ... assigned seating which i hate .. small screen, geeze from the distance it looks like a 60inch tv

The cost of a ticket is a big negative for me and everyone i know... imagine taking a family, gonna cost you like $100.

They dont realise increasing ticket prices doesnt increase sales.. in fact reducing it to say $5-$9 would increase their sales 10 fold

and i know the licensing fees tak up a majority of the profits (thats why i refuse to go to opening screenings and wait a month, so the cinemas get more $$$)
refer to http://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-cou...

On 16 July 2012 Marissa Mayer was appointed President and CEO of Yahoo.

Flickr was in decline before her take over. The issue with flickr was that their team was forced to integerate into the Yahoo! system rather than remain an isolated satellite of Yahoo! See the write up http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how....

According to Alexa, the site is ranked 118th, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/... so there's still life left in it yet.

MS have claimed numerous patents which they will STILL not disclose.

They were already leaked some time ago. And this is covered by the community promise (i'm sure you can google that and understand the legal implications of it as well).

Its nice that MS makes FOSS-friendly noises in the server/cloud space. That is what bullies do when they get their asses kicked. If MS gets the upper hand and their vendor lock-in starts working here, then the friendliness WILL evaporate.

It is open source! Do you not understand the concept of open source? How can people here be so moronic as to think that vendor lock-in exists with open source products? It is quite unbelievable how dense some of you are.

But the most famous Montecito resident of all is Oprah. Ms. Winfrey owns at least two homes here, and last year her water bill almost topped $125,000. This year, it's about half of that, thanks to the dramatic measures she's taken to curb her use of the city water supply. But that doesn't means she's cutting back on water consumption. Noooo. She and many other celebs are now having their water imported.

It doesn't say where the water is coming from, though.