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las últimas declaraciones de Wert contradicen ese carácter de irrenunciabilidad, sin embargo los agregadores no pueden negociar con el medio directamente (lo haría AEDE) y sólo sirve para la cuantía, no para la exención.

Spanish source in Spanish: http://es.gizmodo.com/internet... http://es.gizmodo.com/que-sign...

las últimas declaraciones de Wert contradicen ese carácter de irrenunciabilidad, sin embargo los agregadores no pueden negociar con el medio directamente (lo haría AEDE) y sólo sirve para la cuantía, no para la exención.

Spanish source in Spanish: http://es.gizmodo.com/internet... http://es.gizmodo.com/que-sign...

"Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely"

Well that's completely unrelated to your first comment, not sure if you understand that or just want to now discuss something else.

Assuming you read the article, you'll see it is SmartScreen, which you can turn off.

"Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely"

Why doesn't Auerbach buy her the Barbie book "I Can Be a Computer Engineer"?

Not really been wondering, we already got to witness it first-person in HalfLife! Just watch out when you notice any resonance cascade...

Well, we're gonna be fine as CERN has Gordon Freeman working for them. He even got a crowbar

Interstate Highways are much older than even the European Union although they were designed after concepts introduced in Germany with the Autobahn. I should point out that the E-roads that you are talking about were originally conceived as emulating the Interstate Highway system (at least that is what the wiki claims) and was something instituted in the 1970's.... about when construction of the Interstate Highway system was wrapping up.

It should also be pointed out that the E-90 road that you are talking about also happens to cross over a major part of the Mediterranean Sea (I presume that is by ferry) on its route.

If you want at least one source of information on the difference between the Autobahn vs. Interstate Highways, at least read this article:

http://gizmodo.com/5857416/why-american-roads-are-so-bad

I would hope that Europe didn't follow everything that happened on the Interstate Highway System, as there were definitely some corners that were cut on the 40,000 mile system as it was being built. U.S. highways definitely don't follow Autobahn standards, even though at this point I feel that any repaving/rebuilding of interstate highways likely should be following those standards when practical.

But you see, the very fact that you have to test out these updates is proof positive that Windows updates break the living shit out of Windows machines.

Only the most incompetent of system admins would not test updates and this is likely where all your complaints stem from. All operating systems have had their issues with updates breaking things and suggesting that they dont just because you have never encountered them is just ignorant. You could just do a quick google search to confirm this but obviously that is too difficult for you. OSX Yosemite had a lot of issues breaking existing functionality and if you have ever browsed the apple forums you would see all the mavericks updates that broke things all over the place though they have gotten significantly better than the older versions of OSX. Just browse linux kernel mailing list and you will see all of the various things that kernel updates have broken along the way that needed patches issued for.

As an osx and linux user I would love to live in your fantasy world where the only broken operating system is windows.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/n...

Wait, wait!! Let me do this Slashdot style, and find the worst possible source for the material... Here's a Gizmodo link which references the RedOrbit article which links to JPL:

http://gizmodo.com/europa-rema...

Can it get worse? You bet! Let's go deeper into the brown web... a vast sea of crappy auto-generated content.

http://mobilitybeat.com/gizmod...

How could anyone, in 2014, have thought this was acceptable?

Not to detract from your justified indignation, but I at least take hope in this "11/19 3:09pm" update posted to the bottom of TFA:

Barbie issued the following apology on its Facebook page:
The Barbie I Can Be A Computer Engineer book was published in 2010. Since that time we have reworked our Barbie books. The portrayal of Barbie in this specific story doesn't reflect the Brand's vision for what Barbie stands for. We believe girls should be empowered to understand that anything is possible and believe they live in a world without limits. We apologize that this book didn't reflect that belief. All Barbie titles moving forward will be written to inspire girls imaginations and portray an empowered Barbie character.

There was a story a few years ago about Best Buy rigging their in-store computers to show a higher price than their website to the public. It was a shadow system that looked like the external site, but gave different prices. Its purpose was to trick people who look something up online, see the price, go to the store, find it at a different price, and complain. The salesman would pull it up on their "website" like the customer says they did, show the customer that they were mistaken, the marked price is the price it shows, and the customer was faced with either walking out or accepting the higher price. Smartphones were the fall of this practice since customers no longer had to use the Best Buy systems to look things up. They could whip out their iPhone/Android/BlackBerry/(cringe)Windows and look it up for themselves. When some of these people questioned the sales person's answer and independently verified the info on the spot, which didn't match, all hell broke loose.

What are you talking about? North Korean computers are custom made and state of the art.

Here is a sampling:

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, 17 Works of Art That Will Hang In George Lucas's New Museum

''Vanity projects'' are nothing new in America, where the arts are driven primarily by private, not public, funds. Old-school, philanthropic museums were themselves public monuments to their founders' savvy. They were also, a tastemaking project by nouveau riche American tycoons: When the Industrial Revolution triggered fears that the growing immigrant workforce would prevent America from developing a highbrow culture like Europe's, the wealthy fought the perceived onslaught by funding institutes filled with old-world classics to educate the people's taste, to help them identify with the values of the successful industrialists.

Today's benefactors buy and preserve what they consider purely American art. Private collectors in the past few decades have been stealthily accumulating valuable holdings in order to tell their versions of the country's art history. Each in their own way are making a bid to define what art is in America and what it has been in the 150 years.

There's a fittingly egalitarian spirit to this latest wave of museum openings. The Rubell Family Collection opened shop in Miami's rundown Wynwood neighborhood to display the kind of avant-garde works usually found in high-end art galleries. Perhaps even more daring is Crystal Bridges, Walmart heiress Alice Walton's passion project that brought Lichtenstein and Warhol to a small town in the Ozarks. Costing a reported $1.2 billion to open in 2011, Crystal Bridges doesn't charge for admission, a fact that conveys the belief that art, like music and literature, is not a recreational luxury or the purview of the rich. Rather, it is an essential tool that helps awaken and direct talent whose development is essential to society, especially a democratic one.

George Lucas's Art Museum: His Best Idea Since Star Wars

Death rays, we have had them around for yonks but just like in many other things, width counts more than length, http://gizmodo.com/5698143/wat..., plenty red hot melty death right there. Put a big one in space, that alters it shape to hide it's function and plenty of random burny surreptitious attacks can ensue.

When Feynman was a kid he played around dipping his hands in benzine as part of his "chemistry magic" show.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/c...

You know, most of the things they stopped putting in chemistry sets are dangerous to handle, and not just if you eat it. Is it really so "cool" that it is worth getting cancer?

And you can still buy strong acids at art supply stores. I worked with acids for etching glass in middle school in the 80s, and that stuff is still available now.

It may very well be that customers (the parents) didn't want the acid in the kit, and that is the only reason it was removed. That is perfectly normal. It doesn't mean that kids whose parents will let them have it can't go to the store and buy it themselves. You may need ID to buy some brands of cough syrup, but you don't need ID to buy strong acids.

When my dad was a kid, shoe stores had x-ray machines, so you could look at the bones in your feet. The kids really loved them! They didn't bother making prints, the way x-rays were later used, they just blasted your feet with a steady stream of x-rays and showed it through a view port.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://gizmodo.com/the-insane-...

Yeah, my parents had the "cool" stuff.

As an aside, lemon juice teaches the chemical properties of an acid just as well as a stronger acid; probably better, because instead of getting distracted melting stuff, which doesn't have much value in understanding the chemistry, you'll have to make use of electrical properties to do anything cool. And electrical potential is the whole point of those lessons. Heck, even a potato probably teaches that easier than a strong acid. We made a potato-powered electrical motor in my 4th grade class.

Re: "There was malware installed to get more information than just the IP."
The press has more details on the word "software":
http://gizmodo.com/fbi-plants-...
"....-brand malware would be planted on his computer, allowing the Agency to ultimately nab the purported perpetrator. "
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... (OCT. 28 2014)
"...using a phony—and malware-laced..."
http://www.theguardian.com/com... (29 October 2014)
"...all to deliver malware to a suspect in a criminal case.." http://rt.com/usa/200131-seatt... ( October 28, 2014)
"... was made possible with the use of a so-called “Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier” program, or CIPAV, that had been remotely installed on the
individual’s machine to collect and then communicate to the authorities the user-specific information that eventually identified the suspect."

I hope robot companies are doing R&D on how their robots, instead of Ebola care-givers, could do dangerous work.

Gizmodo has an article on robots fighting Ebola. The article lists ways that robots could be used, including removing biowaste, and delivering supplies to people who are healthy but cut off.

So, this?

I just wanted a new 3rd gen Nexus 7 with a spec bump. Cheap but durable. For in-home (bed) use; wifi-only is fine. $199. Sold.

Maybe next year. Or maybe not.

I don't need nor want a big tablet. I can't replace the 7" tablet with a 6" phone (no upside). The 9" I'm sure is a nice size and all, but it's going to be at least twice the price. No go.

Actually this article indicates they plan to use lithium shielding, so rather than getting a neutron-embrittled casing you breed more tritium fuel. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lock...

Actually they're talking about using lithium for the container walls so that neutron activation simply breeds more tritium (and Helium)

A far more informative article:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lock...

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lock...

Clean(er) coal is still mostly an idea, not yet commercially implemented (at least when talking about carbon sequestration in the US).

There's one pretty close to you that is up and running right now, though.

One is just the reciprocal of the other so they mathematically measure the same thing. L/KM, K/100KM, gallon per mile, etc. are just measured in different units. So use whatever that is more common in the local market. They are all equivalent.

The problem I can see is that "gallon per mile" doesn't line up with spoken English. We want to buy "more fuel-efficient vehicles", which means "lower gallons per mile". The salesmen are going to have a hard time explaining why Car A with 0.04 gallon per mile is better than Car B with 0.07 gallon per mile. We have been taught to think that higher means better. A score of 90 is better than 80. Model 1000 is superior to Model 800. A V8 is more powerful than a V6, etc.

In a nation as arithmetically-challenged as the US, who thought a third pounder is smaller than a quarter pounder, I would rather rely on pure numerical sense than expecting even a midget of logical reasoning

So Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo and Steven Sande at TUAW have different opinions. Amazing. Mean while the fact that one handed use is problematic is revealed by Android's hacky one-handed mode, that converts a big phone UI back down to a small one. http://gizmodo.com/the-galaxy-... Apple have just offered 2 additional size choices for iPhone customers. 4 inch still forms part of the line up. There's not a new 4 incher this year, but there will probably will be next year. After all some people are prepared to give up one handed operation in favour of larger screens. But some people aren't.

But Apple said 3.5" was the best size so those guys in their 40s must have been wrong. Or not? ;-)

Actually the supposed problem was one handed navigation. This is what we used to read for years. Now that the Pope of the Apple Church became an heretic cultists are finding out that it didn't matter at all.

Welcome to 2009 - http://gizmodo.com/5259381/twi...

According to Apple's documentation, TouchID is so secure that even Apple can't get your fingerprint information out.

http://gizmodo.com/apple-final...

The mandate would force everyone onto the network and provide a common attack surface. I can't wait for the fun to begin. Here's a teaser.

Pretty strong correlation:
http://gizmodo.com/5977989/int... :)

Are the side by side images suppose to be comparisons of each os gui? http://gizmodo.com/xiaomis-nex...

If so can I plz have your drugs? They don't look anthing alike...

- Stop making it easy on them. Stop using Windows. Seriously [imagicity.com]. Understand that what's convenient for you is often convenient for them.

10,000 Linux servers hit by malware serving tsunami of spam and exploits
Kernel.org Linux repository rooted in hack attack

Those stories must be a lie and they were really running Windows, right? Oh and there are plenty of other examples to be found.

- Stop using proprietary software at all. Yes, yes, HeartBleed nothing is safe bla bla bla. I'm not talking about safe, though; I'm talking about safer. And FOSS is, objectively, a safer environment, and will remain so even after it becomes popular.

Open SSL has not only Heartbleed but CCS Injection Vulnerability and many more vulnerabilities, GnuTLS & Apple's SecureTransport (yes it is "free software") had the goto fail problem, Debian OpenSSL with broken entropy generation and predictable keys, Android's SecureRandom using weak entropy for it's PRNG, etc. The list really can go on and on and on.

We know that They don't like TOR because it's harder for Them.

It is?

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users with Malware to Catch Kiddie Porn Creeps

Tor security advisory: "relay early" traffic confirmation attack

The US government agencies have unlimited resources to run Tor exit nodes and to write malware to infect people who use Tor.

Hopefully no one actually listens to your stupid advice.

From the link:

1) it works together with your iOS device, which means you need to have it with you -- kind of defeating the purpose
2) it requires your iOS device to be jailbroken -- which seemingly voids your warranty
3) it is a paid application that can be found on Cydia for $2.50

Yeah... that seems like a good solution.

I mean, if anything, its actually worse than this one to get get skype on 10.5 now:

http://gizmodo.com/you-can-now...

Or hey, they can install Virtual Box, Windows 7, and then install skype. Really... I don't know what they are complaining about. -facepalm-

What exactly is this automating? The whole point of cruise control is to not require your feet on the pedals.

My Volvo has distance sensing cruise control. It won't hold the lane for me but it doesn't turn off cruise when I take my hands off the wheel, either.

It's really more about how a modern car can actually "drive itself" in a limited way. It' snot a full autonomous car, but with what we have right now today, it's actually impressive.

Then again, I suspect he got the idea from a Hyundai commercial where a bunch of stunt drivers set up their vehicles and then exit them and having the cars drive around by themselves following a lead vehicle (still driven, of course).

Simply by looking at the reactivity series, you can tell that copper is considerably less flammable than iron. OTOH, powdered copper burns with a nice green colour when tossed into a Bunsen flame.

For a practical standpoint, you could ask if steel wool burns in the temperatures of a CPU heatsink. Probably not, and this copper sponge is much less of a risk. Of course, if you like living on the edge, and tweaking CFLAGS is not enough, try an entire case made of a notoriously reactive metal.

Those servers still use a considerable amount of bandwidth for the updates. Per Gizmodo (I know, I know, but it's the first link I found) it needs 7.5TB every day. For a small ISP, that may be more than the users are consuming. Or at least close enough to make it not worthwhile.

"It was capable of carrying up to 137 tons (270,000 pounds) of troops and equipment—including as many as six nuclear missiles—at speeds up to 350 MPH as far as 1,080 nmi—albeit only 16 feet off the surface of the water."
http://gizmodo.com/this-caspia...

It's no Caspian Sea Monster.

http://gizmodo.com/this-caspia...

"It was capable of carrying up to 137 tons (270,000 pounds) of troops and equipment—including as many as six nuclear missiles—at speeds up to 350 MPH as far as 1,080 nmi—albeit only 16 feet off the surface of the water."

Yes, the MD-160 was neither amphibious (it's water-only) or an airplane (it's an Ekranoplan surface-effect vehicle).

It doesn't make any difference, since the nuclear launch code is all zeros anyway. Store it on a piece of paper, or whatever. Make sure you remember how many zeros, of course.

You obviously missed the article where Netflix supplies a tower-pc sized box with all of netflix on it to ISPs for free:

Netflix Boxes

Conveniently, there is an even better comparison. You have to disperse all of the radioactive soil into the air to make a similar comparison. We don't actually pump soil into the air though. We do however burn coal.

Webpage According to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), the average radioactivity per short ton of coal is 17,100 millicuries/4,000,000 tons, or 0.00427 millicuries/ton. This figure can be used to calculate the average expected radioactivity release from coal combustion.

Converting this to metric equates to about 0.174 MBq/ton (metric ton).

WebpageLargest coal plant in America burns 11 millions tons of coal per year.

Now 11,000,000 tons * 0.174 MBq / ton is 1.914e6 MBq -- a bit less than the twice the totally scary 1 trillion Bq

The average coal plant burns coal with around 0.5 trillion Bq / year

Now, not all of the radiation get released into the atmosphere, a lot of it ends up in the ash. But the ash is stored in ponds and left in piles on the ground, so its not a terrible improvement in terms of safe radioactive containment.

There's just an opportunity in Siberia - just opened up this week. Current theories are giant sandworms, graboids, pingo's, ufo's or an alien missile base:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/myst...

The broadcasters are not happy with this move, of course, claiming that Aereo should not be allowed to flip-flop on how it defines itself.

Verizon has been on a tear to get itself reclassified as a common carrier for a while.

Loopholes: not just for big companies anymore.

It was this for me: http://gizmodo.com/373748/crea...

They had a weak point about the donations, but what they were really pissed about was not being able to force Vista users to buy a new sound card...

Listening to an investment banker on the floor screaming "dont taze me bro" would pretty much make every single person on the planet smile at the same time. It would cause world peace and make cold fusion work.

Sounds like an awesome idea for a Kick Starter campaign.

Surely it would do almost as well as potato salad.

Doing the same to the people in charge of the NSA would also be awesome.

seconded.

xss is not "hacking".

actually, "hacking" isn't hacking either, but that's another discussion.

here's some more things that aren't hacks: http://gizmodo.com/please-stop...

It figures it'd be the LAPD. What other police force on the west coast would hunger for this kind of invasiveness?

There is nothing on the west coast like the LAPD.

With 10,023 officers and 2,879 civilian staff, it is the third-largest local law enforcement agency in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department. The department serves an area of 498 square miles (1,290 km2) and a population of 3,792,621 people as of the 2010 Census.

Los Angeles Police Department

LAPD acquires two drones, to consider employing them for 'narrow' use

The X6 is a spy drone with wireless video and still cameras (in hi-def, infra-red and 0 lux flavors) that can fly autonomously, or as a remote-controlled bot. It has 11 sensors (including gyros, accelerometers, barometers, magnetometers and GPS) and is so easy to pilot, a Wii gamer could do it. Now it will be used by the Ontario Provincial Police and the Saskatoon Police to patrol crime scenes and help gather evidence.

The Draganflyer X6 UAV Police Edition

[March 2009]

There's a whole cult of "vertical farming". With LED lighting, it's much more cost-effective. Not only is the power consumption down, but the plants can be racked much more closely without overheating. Phillips has some special-purpose farming LEDs with spectra chosen for growing specific crops.

So far, most of the enthusiasm for this comes from the organic "farmer's market" crowd, not production-scale farmers.

I figured that all along. It took off on Apple hardware, with almost no pickup on normal PCs. That has finally started to happen a little - some upper end motherboards have 1 or 2 Thunderbolt ports now, and Asus has an add-on board for a few others - but it is really a niche thanks to its odd hardware requirements and lack of early adoption outside of Apple. USB is easier to use, and at least up to 3.0 has been backward compatible with older devices. With an even faster option, as long as they don't screw something up, I don't see how USB could not continue to be the leading connectivity standard.

Try hooking an external SSD up to you machine via USB3 and then via Thunderbolt and you'll see why Thunderbolt is desirable if you are transferring large amounts of data: http://gizmodo.com/5980157/thu.... Take a look at the "Time to write 16.9 Gb of data" row in the table at the bottom and imagine you are transferring 3,4 or 500 Gb. There is about 250 Gb of data on the SSD in my MacBook Pro, large amounts of that data can change frequently meaning long backup times and cutting the time it takes to write that stuff up to disk in half is a major bonus. The problem Thunderbolt has had is not just backwards compatibility, i..e. that here are so many USB 3 devices out there that it is going to take a looooong while to put a dent in the USB monoculture (as you correctly pointed out). Thunderbolt devices have also had a tendency to be more expensive which didn't help either nor did the fact that up until now you have only started to benefit from Thunderbolt for real when using SSDs and they are also expensive which just aggravates the cost problem. When the USB 3 alternative is 2-3 times less expensive than Thunderbolt the choice for the consumer is obvious. If there is going to be a USB standard that is comparable in speed to Thunderbolt, backwards compatible with all the old USB2 and USB3 devices and that has a better connector, Thunderbolt is doomed. Intel should have pushed Thunderbolt way more aggressively i.e. handed out Thunderbolt product licenses liberally, provide motherboard and peripheral manufacturers with incentives or even sell Thunderbolt chips at cost.

The can buy Monster cables next.

Monster actually used to manufacture Beats.