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The Arabic scholars solved for "unknown thing, " which was translated by Spaniards into Greek as "X." Or maybe Descartes popularized it. http://gizmodo.com/why-we-use-...

Where you miss type and end up in a pop up loop.

http://gizmodo.com/5099383/pop...

. . . .the original Facebook technique of using "Chuck Norris" as a password.

Because NOTHING can defeat Chuck Norris (grin)

But after buying my headphones, I can't afford the extra $10 a month!

This incident was shown to be a structural failure rather than unmanned aircraft collision. Your link actually says that -- they originally thought it was a drone, but further investigation showed that there was no collision at all, only a structural failure.

That said, there have been some incidents in the US over the years that have been confirmed/well documented ...

1990: http://articles.latimes.com/19...

2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2015: http://www.suasnews.com/2015/0...

And outside of the US, there's this --

2011: http://gizmodo.com/5831849/her...

except....

in the US, you can LOSE YOUR LIFE if you go against a cop.

you can be right.

dead right.

they are not to be trusted. they do not represent most of us, they definitely have an 'us vs them' mentality, and, for a current pulse on the mentality of cops, check this out - its current:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/kentuck...

still think cops are your friends? THINK AGAIN.

its war and they have no plans to de-escalate.

I fear cops. they can end you life and get away with it. while I like your idea of challenging them, its just - well - not good for your health, these days.

dammit.

As TFA https://motherboard.vice.com/e... says, half of them go to abandoned warehouses in the US. The other half go to Africa and India http://gizmodo.com/e-hell-on-e... where low-paid, unprotected workers burn off the insulation and plastic parts to get the copper. I've seen articles about this in the New Scientist and elsewhere.

Well, that only works when the economics of shipping them to China/India/Africa/wherever are favorable. They've been running into issues the last few years that have made the economics turn unfavorable, so more and more they'll likely just end up in the US (or Europe - e.g near the source) somewhere.

As TFA https://motherboard.vice.com/e... says, half of them go to abandoned warehouses in the US. The other half go to Africa and India http://gizmodo.com/e-hell-on-e... where low-paid, unprotected workers burn off the insulation and plastic parts to get the copper. I've seen articles about this in the New Scientist and elsewhere.

Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will

Don't they load Beats with weights so they feel heavy and 'substantial'?

Haha yup they do...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/h...
http://gizmodo.com/how-beats-t...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Watch wine tasters sometime; meat flapping noises galore.

You said it.

Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.

What do you mean? If you like net neutrality (something that obviously has helped small companies and the internet grow all these years), then you should already know Republicans have always been against it, and you should have been against Trump especially. There should be no surprises here. But it should be a wake up call: Republicans are on track to kill net neutrality soon.

Under your definition of net neutrality my cell phone and cable bills have tripled. I've seen no increase in coverage and in fact have seen my coverage shrink in my state. There's been no new rollouts, no new providers and the market has been stagnant for the better part of 10 years.

Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.

What do you mean? If you like net neutrality (something that obviously has helped small companies and the internet grow all these years), then you should already know Republicans have always been against it, and you should have been against Trump especially. There should be no surprises here. But it should be a wake up call: Republicans are on track to kill net neutrality soon.

I still can't believe some people think the sentences are what's wrong, instead of the inaccurate verdicts.

Because the death penalty is fixable, while perfect verdicts are a fantasy. Capital punishment has been eliminated by most countries, including Russia, Myanmar, etc. Here is a map of countries that still have capital punishment. Is this really a club we want to belong to?

taking an innocent person's life by putting them in prison for decades

In this case, it would not have been "decades". He would have been released within a few years, and certainly after Rick Perry's presidential campaign collapsed. Perry, then governor of Texas, was under a lot of pressure to "look tough" for the primaries, so he granted few clemencies, and may have even impeded the appeals process. Perry dismissed evidence for Willingham's innocence, by claiming (without evidence) that he was a "wife beater".

Oh, by the way, Rick Perry is Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary: Idiot Tasked With Maintaining America's Nukes Surprised to Learn What His Job Is.

Thiotimoline was a work of satire.
The fake chemical compound Isaac Asimov invented to punk science writers

It occurred to me, however, that instead of writing an actual story based on the idea, I might write up a fake research paper on the subject and get a little practice in turgid writing. I did the job on June 8, 1947, even giving it the kind of long-winded title that research papers so often have — "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" — and added tables, graphs, and fake references to non-existent journals.

Remember when Robots only accidentally killed 9, wounding 14?

Dude, take a look at what's happening here.

The "security hole" in question here is basically the same deal as you have with every other service where you can transfer your service to a new device. You know, you buy a new phone, then want to continue using your IM or whatever on the new phone... but with the new phone you'd also get to negotiate new encryption keys. And that means that all messages still in the queue would be lost, because they have been encrypted with your old key.

That's the whole "exploit" here.

There's plenty of reasons to distrust WhatsApp and even more reasons to avoid it like the plague, not the least of which being that it hands all data over to FB despite first claiming and vowing that it would never do that.

If THIS is your reason to distrust WhatsApp, you have bigger problems.

So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had.

That's it in a nutshell....no one really wanted it in the first place. It was a 'solution' in search of a problem.

So...exactly like curved screens then?

Wonder when those will officially die off. At least for 3D TV's you could purchase one that had 3D (plus a bunch of actually useful features) and just not use the 3D...

Oh, looks like that's already on it's way out too.

The 4chan claim about making up the dossier is utter bullshit.

http://gizmodo.com/4chan-idiot...

So I guess everybody forgot about the MS Courier concept introduced in 2009 (Video is from 2010 but Gizmodo broke the Courier story in September 2009, posting leaked pictures of what the device might look like and how it might work):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in typical MS fashion, a project that would have beat Apple at their own game and create a new device/market was killed in it's prime because it threatened Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/5855260/the...
So the question now is whether it's still novel enough and whether they will still force it to run some kind of Windows instead of the GUI that the Courier was meant to run. Knowing MS culture and history, I wouldn't play those odds.

Just because you do not know them does not mean there are no differences... http://gizmodo.com/why-is-oled...
Why's it so great?
The LEDs in today's LED televisions are actually used only to provide a white back light, which then shines through a rapidly-refreshing LCD shutter array which tints the emanating light. OLEDs, on the other hand, operate as both light source and color array simultaneously. This may not sound like a big difference, but does offer a wide range of benefits including:
Lower power consumption
Better picture quality
Better durability and lighter weight

So the fact that cool previously expensive features are getting cheaper is news...

Then LG Prada got released, won awards and they probably decided to copy it

Official announcement of the iPhone: Jan. 9th 2007 (Happy Birthday)
Official announcement of the LG Prada: Jan. 18th 2007. First blurry pictures Dec. 15th 2006. First mention of an award won (as third to last device in list, with no mention of Prada): Dec. 7th 2006. ("LG Electronics (LG), a leader in consumer electronics and mobile communications, announced the awards for 21 remarkable products given by the prestigious iF product design award 2007" ... "Mobile Phone (KE850)" http://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=210316&picno=82493&ected=

How the hell did Apple copy a phone in just one month, when all they had to go by was the mention of the product number in a list?

Well, almost all articles of the time about the LG Prada mention how much it looks like the iPhone, not the other way around. http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/LG-Prada-Make-iPhone-Look-a-Like And people who actually compared them said there was no comparison really http://gizmodo.com/261172/settling-this-iphone-vs-lg-prada-nonsense

http://gizmodo.com/5795554/peo...

Microsoft was trying for hip, gritty and edgy, but "Edge" is just cheesy and anachronistic.

You have also never proven that Microsoft was actually attempting to be hip, gritty and edgy. You just keep asserting the claim over and over again. So what does Edge mean? Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore said during his Build 2015 keynote:

The name refers to the idea of being on the edge of consuming and creating. It refers to the developer notion of being closer to the modern capabilities of the web.

So there you go. That wanted to move away from IE's reputation of not supporting modern standards so they chose a name to suggest being more cutting edge. You have decided that they meant for this to be part of some fashion trend, but that is all in your head. "Edge" doesn't mean edgy in a trendy sense, but cutting edge in a software development sense.

BTW, nice strawman, but I never said a thing in support of or against other browser names. I only said that Internet Explorer is a better name than Edge

If you think that I was accusing you of saying anything about the other browser names then you have reading comprehension problems. I said that the name Edge is no better or worse than all those other names. None of them are descriptive or professional like you want Microsoft's browser name to be. Nobody is ever going to say that Edge doesn't sound professional enough so that they will use Firefox instead.

You never did answer my question about what name they should use instead of Edge. They have tried to distance themselves from the Internet Explorer product, so they can't just reuse that name.

I never said that browsers had to have descriptive names. Maybe you should learn how to read before posting again.

Really? Let's see what you said before:

Even Internet Explorer was a better name. At least it was somewhat descriptive and more professional sounding.

Maybe you should just stop lying and fixating on what is a perfectly unremarkable name for a browser.

Or there are degrees of homelessnes, as there are degrees of joblessness. If you're an engineer with a PhD working part time as a janitor, you will be counted on U6 unemployment stats because you are taking a shit job outside of your career field.

If you have to sleep on your friends floor while your kids crowd onto the couch because your other choice is waiting in line at a shelter, you might consider your family to be home-less as well.

With dislreports and other aggregation tests, the bloat for download and upload may not be symmetric. So the resulting score might not be as good as it looks.

Paying for a commercial connection? Test for this kind of performance daily and scream as soon as it drops. Otherwise why bother to pay so much?

In the United States and other jurisdictions a home 'customer' user is not expected to run a "server" on their paid for Internet connection. Downloads may be finely tuned to low bloat. But upload may have significant bufferbloat, caps and gradual dropout. For financial reasons, of course.

This upload problem may get to be much worse in the future. More and more services push data from "client" devices in the home or office. Camera phone videos, twitch streams, shared google docs and your home automation spyware upend the upload/download assumptions of last-hop telcos. P2P is impacted now. The highly asymmetric buffering of uploads is detectable using protocols like bittorrent that don't have client-server separation.

This is just as short a piece that is a bit more accurate:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5839933...

I recall watching a documentary on this very subject once. They have a series of professional sound engineers listen to the same recording in both digital (but done right, without any compression or any of the other idiocy) and analog (as in, recorded analog, not digital then converted), and the professional sound engineers couldn't tell the difference.

The tables and cartridges audiophiles uses eliminate almost all of that and yes they cost a fortune.

So do the Monster cables that cost thousands of dollars, that audiophiles can't tell apart from wire coat hanger.

Audiophiles, like wine aficionados, experience what they expect. And nobody expects expensive stuff to sound the same as cheap stuff.

Steve Kondik needs to go back to his roots and just do better android ports for common devices again. There's still a big need for it.

Although I'm sure you'd love him to spend his days and nights building software for free, I suspect he needs to eat and pay his electric bill.

He needs to get with a business person that can build something around his skills. What I thought CM, Inc was supposed to be was a company that one could contract do bring up and support for your hardware, or perhaps take over support for older devices. It's not exactly exciting, but device manufacturers would fall over themselves to pay someone to take that nightmare off their hands.

He should have bailed when his CEO started that "take Android back from Google" crap.
http://gizmodo.com/cyanogen-wa...

What an idiot.

Plex started off as OSXBMC a fork of the XBMC when the XBMC devs were focused heavily on Windows/Linux.

First decent semi-recent source I could find says 10 petabytes (10,000 terabytes) as of October 2012. I can't find any sorta graph, but I can just rough estimate a doubling in size every 18 months, Which gives me a ballpark guess of about 70PB.

Came here to say the same thing. Found it on Lifehacker/Gizmodo. See link for pretty pictures!

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-stop...

http://gizmodo.com/study-peopl...
just saying.....wait a minute here......

The whole POINT of the internet is to share cute cat photos. Clearly, Zuckerberg is doing it wrong!

http://gizmodo.com/why-cats-ru...

"Perfect Privacy LLC" - if you look up clintonemail.com, you'll see them. I've looked up various site owners and their name has popped up before. When you search for the owner of the domain, instead of the true registrant, you'll find this company. There are probably others like it.

"That doesn't sound good at all. Clinton's private email system added third parties into the equation, meaning that a hacker could effectively snoop on US government mail without directly hacking US government servers. Nielsen explained that the domain Clinton used for her private email service—clintonemail.com—is owned by a Florida company called "Perfect Privacy, LLC" and registered to another private company called Network Solutions. The relationship between the two companies is unclear since some details have been masked." -- Gizmodo

They banned Clint Eastwoods account. Twitter Staff are the NAZIS. It doesnt matter who you vote for you should be heard. Seek the truth. Criminals like Hillary needed to be outed - Thank God for Wikileaks.

The alt-right loves rallying around their fake news.

So sue me
http://gizmodo.com/study-peopl...

Before someone lazily asks for a citation:

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

Facebook Unblocks DNC Email Leak After WikiLeaks Accuses Them of Censorship

just two that I quickly found

The Green party is our only real left-wing party,

The Greens are nutters, though. I tentatively support them to the extent that I support any third party, in the hopes that it will eventually bring about electoral reform... but I don't particularly want to see us elect a president who argues that wifi should be restricted or banned because it hurts our brains.

YES

http://gizmodo.com/internet-ac...

If you breathe highly magnetic dust into your lungs and have hundreds or thousands of particles that can be attracted to each other within 1mm, that seems well within the realm of dangerous.

The reason I brought it up is because of the last major issue with neodymium magnets were the recall of Buckyballs. 1700 kids were sent to the hospital over a 5 year period (2009-2014) because of swallowing these magnets. That's about a kid a day, and the damage caused is gruesome.

https://gizmodo.com/how-buckyb...

" As it turns out, the powerful magnetic forces that make the balls so much fun to tinker with also make them absurdly dangerous if they end up inside your body. As gastroenterologist Bryan Vartabendian explains on his blog:

When two are ingested they have a way of finding one another. When they catch a loop of intestine, the pressure leads to loss of blood supply, tissue rot, perforation and potentially death.

If that sounds bad, it's really a very mild, clinical description when compared to the reality. The magnets are powerful enough that if you ingest two balls separately they're going find each other no matter what, ripping you apart like slow-moving magnetic bullets if necessary to do so."

Thanks for the science links. The reason I brought it up is because of the last major issue with neodymium magnets were the recall of Buckyballs. 1700 kids were sent to the hospital over a 5 year period (2009-2014) because of swallowing these magnets. That's about a kid a day, and the damage caused is gruesome.

https://gizmodo.com/how-buckyb...

" As it turns out, the powerful magnetic forces that make the balls so much fun to tinker with also make them absurdly dangerous if they end up inside your body. As gastroenterologist Bryan Vartabendian explains on his blog:

When two are ingested they have a way of finding one another. When they catch a loop of intestine, the pressure leads to loss of blood supply, tissue rot, perforation and potentially death.

If that sounds bad, it's really a very mild, clinical description when compared to the reality. The magnets are powerful enough that if you ingest two balls separately they're going find each other no matter what, ripping you apart like slow-moving magnetic bullets if necessary to do so."

http://gizmodo.com/chromecast-...

I thought this was pretty unlikely too until I Googled it

No, all I need to prove is that "these nice things" didn't happen until government got involved.

No. For all we know, it could've happened just as well without the government's involvement. Maybe, it would've happened later. Or, maybe, earlier.

Correlation, famously, is not causation — you've listed some nice things, that got invented while the government was funding most of the research. You are yet to prove, the inventions would not have happened with government minding just the police, the courts, and the military — as it is supposed to.

SpaceX is almost to the point of putting a human into space, something that government did half a century ago

That's a perfect example, actually. SpaceX is doing it now, when it could be useful. The government did it out of utter vanity (beat the Soviets!!!!) and for no benefit whatsoever. We went to the Moon for what exactly? Inspiration?.. The billions it took could've been spent much better.

we're having this conversation on a system that was originally created due to government-funded research

Bullshit. Tesla predicted the Internet — and smart devices — in 1926:

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

Had it not been the government, it would've been created — in due time — anyway. The idea was there for the taking.

And you can see from that list just how valuable that government-funded research has been to mankind.

Sure it was. My argument was — and remains — that the research does not have to be government-funded to be valuable. And I've listed some awesome examples of the inventions of the pre-Big Government era.

Private industry took a shot at creating an interactive communications network, and you know what they gave us? Cable television.

Actually, it created telephone networks first. Then the government gave AT&T a telephone monopoly killing off innovation there (and delaying Tesla's predictions) for decades. Cable television was heavily regulated too. There is no telling, what it would've evolved into, had the government not given nice cozy regional monopolies to the cable companies.

As someone posting to a nerd site, you should also point out Stein thinks Wifi may cause some sort of brain damage.

She's awful, though in fairness, who isn't in this election? The main thing going for Clinton that the others don't have is that 99% of the allegations constantly made against her are complete fiction, but frankly, that other 1% is pretty shitty.

you mean the same consumer reports that rated it the least reliable? That consumer reports?

http://www.consumerreports.org...
http://www.roadandtrack.com/ne...
http://gizmodo.com/consumer-re...

I got my info from a different article about this, my apologies. http://gizmodo.com/facebook-em...

You could, you know, understand what that fucking was before making shit up. A narrow region. The majority uses motion sensors. Maintaining that is more effective. A physical wall is useless and a waste of everything from construction money to maintenance resources. http://gizmodo.com/americas-al...

http://gizmodo.com/the-2016-pr... Actually, I did not lie. And I see no reason to lie about any candidate, even though I'm a registered Libertarian.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.