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Yeah, about that active user number.
https://www.google.com/trends/...
Granted, some of that downwards trend might be due to people using the native app instead. However, so far, there are no examples of social networks with a double peak. They go up, and they come down. Facebook is bigger, but not a special snowflake in that regard. It will fade.

GPS Spoofing can be done in an app that in no way modifies the operation of or broadcasts through the phone's GPS antenna. It simply allows you to manually punch in the coordinates you want to represent as your location that the system will use instead of reading from the GPS antenna itself. This functionality was even included as part of the Developer options menu in the Android settings; though the current build installed on my Galaxy S5 seems to only allow one to specify an app that serves as the gps location provider ("Mock Location App"). One such option: Fake GPS Location

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...if you try to feed them eucalyptus leaves (their primary diet) on a platter, they won't eat them because they don't understand it as food if they don't pick it from a tree.

Will they eat plastic leaves if you put them in a fake eucalyptus tree?

These are pretty famous people too, eh?

* Celine Dion
* Dan Aykroyd
* Jim Carey
* Keanu Reeves
* Matthew Perry
* Michael J Fox
* Mike Myers
* Pamela Anderson

Just how does one calculate who is more popular anyways? Google trends?

https://www.google.com/trends/...

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Oligopolies suffer from similar problems as "big gov't": not enough competition to give them incentive and to give consumers real choices.

Full agreement.

The biggest road-block to more competition in my opinion is the "last mile problem". It's not realistic nor efficient for every competitor to run wires to every potential customer.

That's not true — "natural monopoly" is a myth. But do find citations supporting your assertion.

It's the main reason Google is dropping out in many areas.

Another unsubstantiated claim. Google Fiber was meant to run all of the "last miles" from the get-go — it was not something they realized they have to do later. I explain their lack of wide-spread success by the above-referenced regulation of local governments, but you are welcome to offer citations supporting your assertion(s). Meanwhile, I offer this map as evidence supporting my assertion. They are already offered in the "redneck" parts of the country like Salt Lake City, Charlotte, and Kansas City, while the corrupt locales like Chicago — despite having many more thickly-settled (and thus easy-to-wire) would-be customers — are merely "being explored".

If a gov't utility could set up "last mile" wiring, then [...]

Then instead of the poorly-competing oligopoly, we'll have a bona-fide monopoly — with government policing the Internet traffic. Today I can switch from FiOS to Comcast in a matter of days should I decide to. Bringing about a change to the government-owned service will require months and years of raising awareness and electioneering.

The right conditions have to be in place for capitalism to work right.

Absence of wrong conditions is sufficient.

Solar power is now cheaper than coal in good locations, and aluminum smelting is an interruptible process (smelters often buy interruptible power to get a better deal), so there's no need for any kind of backup. Solar power and aluminum smelting are a match made in heaven.

Koalas are stupid. Really, really stupid. Even though they don't have a particularly small head relative to their body size, they have a small brain (compared to other marsupials) relative to body size. On top of that, the two halves of the brain aren't connected. Researchers have noted that they're so unintelligent that if you try to feed them eucalyptus leaves (their primary diet) on a platter, they won't eat them because they don't understand it as food if they don't pick it from a tree.

Considering Australia is full of all kinds of deadly shit, it's somewhat amazing that the Koala isn't extinct itself. The only reason that I can think that they're still around is that their food source is so nutritionally worthless they don't have any real competition for food. Otherwise it's the retarded cousin of marsupial family (or order or class or wherever that falls into place in the taxonomy).

I see no issue with this whatsoever. Also, I for one welcome our giant insect overlords.

> As an example, you say that this study from a Canadian university is racist and has been debunked extensively, which is clearly total bullshit.

The study was published in "Intelligence", which is a journal for the "International Society for Intelligence Research."

A quick google for "International Society for Intelligence Research racist" shows that recipients of it's "lifetime achievement award" and board members are widely criticized as promoting junk science, white supremacy, and furthering nazi concepts on race.

Let's take a look at some examples.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

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

According to sociocultural anthropologist Francisco Gil-White, in publishing studies financed by the Pioneer Fund, Linda Gottfredson is part of a concerted effort to legitimize racist ideology through pseudo-science, together with an assortment of other people with inadequate or completely missing scientific qualifications for studying human intelligence"

Rushton has been discredited for over thirty years and he's viewed as nothing more than pseudo-science fuel for white supremacists like you.

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

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

And his co-author on that paper? An idiot who thinks racists like him are "the next galileos." https://www.google.com/search?...

He's so desperate to spread his bullshit that he paid to have a booklet about his work mailed to professors around the country

What's so bad about that?

Ever use a search engine (in particular image searching)?

A string like "https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JmVq0i-tBJiPxGt5XOrDYDO6lyA=/0x16:1300x883/1280x854/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/48728355/playboy_march_16_cover_wide.0.0.jpg" is just a *fact* and should not be copyrightable. It simply *is not* the information that has been copyrighted.

To make this point even more clear- A URL is just an address. I can't copyright, for example, the address of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It just happens to be:

Palais de la Cour de Justice
Boulevard Konrad Adenauer
Kirchberg
L-2925 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

That's just a shorthand way of saying N 49.621036, E 6.143116 (which is actually posted on the Court's own website It's where you locate the copyrightable thing, and if an address is copyrightable, then giving directions is a crime. If you want to protect your copyright from public public view, you need to build a wall so people can't swing by the address and just look at it. People living in glass houses need to either put up curtains, or accept that people are going to look at them.

I have linked these addresses (both to their website and physical addresses) without permission. Calling that a crime is unworkable in both the physical and internet world.

That works out to about a 2% annual growth rate over the last 35 years, and Google seems to agree, though you'll note that it was down to 1.4% (50 year doubling) as of 2013 and continues to decline. For further perspective, the current annual growth rate for the US is 0.7% and India is 1.2%.

At that rate of growth, in about 200 years Costa Rica would be 16x their current population, or roughly 77million people. At the same time, the US would be at about 1.29 billion people and India would be around 13.6 billion.

Their proprietary power connectors that break easily and frequently.

If Apple had true courage, they'd announce that they were dumping Lightning for USB C. That would have been courage.

If Apple had true courage, they'd have announced a new open Bluetooth protocol for dealing with higher bitrate audio. That would have been courage.

Replacing a set of $30 earbuds (or $3 if you avoid the Apple Tax) with a $160 one? That's not courage. That's a cash-grab.

I've never heard of this, and I must have four or five five different lightening cables regularly used between a wireless trackpad, three iphones, and an ipad. At least one of those is as old as the first lightning iphone.

The google results look like something gnawed on them or they got snagged somewhere.

I've never heard of ANY cables "going bad" like that. Either the jacket seperates from the connector, the connector splits in two, or the jacket abrades away, these are the only ways I've seen ANY type of modern cable fail in a way that can be attributed to the way it was made.

That is why Android is second fiddle...

There are more Android users than iOS users, yet software companies earn less. Android users tend to be less educated, with less disposable income and more likely to use pirated versions of software.

Looks like the last option there fits you.

Google keeps inching toward a "walled garden" approach ( https://www.google.com/search?... ) to control the malware and other issues in the App stores and elsewhere. Right now over 99% of all mobile malware is Android based. https://www.google.com/search?...

That is why Android is second fiddle...

There are more Android users than iOS users, yet software companies earn less. Android users tend to be less educated, with less disposable income and more likely to use pirated versions of software.

Looks like the last option there fits you.

Google keeps inching toward a "walled garden" approach ( https://www.google.com/search?... ) to control the malware and other issues in the App stores and elsewhere. Right now over 99% of all mobile malware is Android based. https://www.google.com/search?...

You'll want this bad boy right here http://arm.slackware.com/, and this OMX Remote on your phone.

Silent media player, 1080, NFS mount, remote control. Priceless.

Oh, and the Canadian dollar goes a long way in the UK these days :)

" require legal disputes be settled by a private arbiter"

The company has a relationship with the arbiter. They get repeat business. You are expendable. Common law has its problems, but when you sign an arbitration clause you strip yourself of your common law rights. You give up transparency and appeal rights. https://www.google.com/search?... https://www.google.com/search?...

Also a highly recommended read for anyone going to court or crossing paths with a lawyer: http://netk.net.au/whitton/ocl...

Well, it depends on the contract I guess. I've signed a number of contracts that stipulated arbitration first. The last one was for the loan on my vehicle and the one before that was a non-disclosure contract which was a condition of my current employment.

Where I always recommend you obtain legal advice (from an attorney) before signing any contract, I'm not so quick to dismiss binding arbitration. There are times it can be helpful and avoid costly legal fees if there is a dispute. Paying a lawyer is usually beyond expensive, even for a simple lawsuit. I paid nearly 7K getting a dispute over a Non compete contract resolved. We settled out of court before we even got halfway way though discovery. In that case, I believe arbitration would have been a whole lot cheaper and had exactly the same result.

" require legal disputes be settled by a private arbiter"

The company has a relationship with the arbiter. They get repeat business. You are expendable. Common law has its problems, but when you sign an arbitration clause you strip yourself of your common law rights. You give up transparency and appeal rights. https://www.google.com/search?... https://www.google.com/search?...

Also a highly recommended read for anyone going to court or crossing paths with a lawyer: http://netk.net.au/whitton/ocl...

Well, it depends on the contract I guess. I've signed a number of contracts that stipulated arbitration first. The last one was for the loan on my vehicle and the one before that was a non-disclosure contract which was a condition of my current employment.

Where I always recommend you obtain legal advice (from an attorney) before signing any contract, I'm not so quick to dismiss binding arbitration. There are times it can be helpful and avoid costly legal fees if there is a dispute. Paying a lawyer is usually beyond expensive, even for a simple lawsuit. I paid nearly 7K getting a dispute over a Non compete contract resolved. We settled out of court before we even got halfway way though discovery. In that case, I believe arbitration would have been a whole lot cheaper and had exactly the same result.

Actually, the construction of the Tesla battery pack is designed with per-cell fusing. One of the patents that Tesla made available describes how each Li-Ion cell in the pack is wire-bonded to the bus bars. In a high acceleration crash, some of those internal wire bonds will break. (The wire bonds primarily act as conventional electrical fuses, breaking in the event of overcurrent.) Really you only need one bond in each series string to break in order to open-circuit the battery.

It's made by Pepsi Co. and it comes in cans, bottles, draught, etc and is a staple drink among many American hackers. What did you think he was talking about anyway?

The driver was going over 155 kilometers per hour (roughly 96 miles per hour) on a road where the maximum speed is 80 kilometers per hour (roughly 49 miles per hour), and the car was not on autopilot. Dutch stroy here, and google translation here.

Fine since your google appears to be broken, newegg has similar offerings. NewEgg

only have 4 categories under

How many categories of things do you have that need the bandwith of Thunderbolt? Just because you don't have a need for a tool doesn't mean others don't.

Their proprietary power connectors that break easily and frequently.

If Apple had true courage, they'd announce that they were dumping Lightning for USB C. That would have been courage.

If Apple had true courage, they'd have announced a new open Bluetooth protocol for dealing with higher bitrate audio. That would have been courage.

Replacing a set of $30 earbuds (or $3 if you avoid the Apple Tax) with a $160 one? That's not courage. That's a cash-grab.

Democracy is a fucking farce. We're brainwashed from birth it's the best system of government in the world but every Democracy has been captured by the elite. The people think they're empowered but at elections they only get to choose between one or two establishment candidates who looking after themselves and their donors and not the sucker who votes for them.

So do what everyone else does, Cuba. Tell the punters the have a democracy, hold sham elections where only establishment candidates can win and boast about your "Democratic" values. https://www.google.com/search?...

Then of course their monopolistic tendencies came out (again) when they decided to show a warning message to Windows 10 users who opened Firefox or Chrome by telling them that those browsers will use all your battery life and you'd better use Edge if you knew what was good for you.

Suggesting your own product is not a monopolistic practice. How different is that from going to Google and being presented with Google works better with Chrome and a Yes, get Chrome now button?

So this whole "browser battery life" war is nothing but an excuse for Microsoft's "DOS isn't done 'til Lotus won't run" tactic. This should be responded to with antitrust investigations and legal fines.

That's just ridiculous! What law did they break by claiming that their browser was better for battery life? How does that justify being fined? And how is promoting your product anything like the old Lotus myth?

Nobody uses Edge because they legitimately are concerned about their laptop battery life.

I think that statement can be simplified to just "Nobody uses Edge". But I for one consider my battery life when choosing what software to run. My computer has to last all day. It's useless to me if the battery dies. So, for example, my browser has to have an ad-blocker because I get sick of hearing my notebook's fan whir up to 100% when going to some sites with obnoxious advertising. It's galling to know that my CPU jumps to high usage just because someone wants to sell me something. I also use a lightweight programs instead of hard drive thrashing suites.

So if it wasn't an absolutely appalling browser, I would use Edge if it made a substantial difference to my notebook's usable life.

A reliable product leaker, but will it be a reliable product? Google's Nexus 7 suffered from poor build quality. Yes, the Wikipedia entry praises it, but many people including myself had a very different experience: https://www.google.com/search?...

The Nexus 7 was manufactured by Asus not Huawei but it's Google who owned it and bears responsibility. I was so disgusted with mine I wouldn't touch any hardware made by Google or Asus again.

Close enough?

Where do we get snorkels for our vehicles?

Seriously? Google: can snorkel. Here's one result: 4x4 Snorkel

Most operating systems I've seen recently test if they can get to the internet themselves and if they are redirected to a captive portal they then automatically open a browser window to where the portal redirected them to (usually a login page). This avoids the issue of trying to MitM attack whatever site the user was trying to get to. You can still make the login page you get redirected to secure with proper certificates. The following are examples of the different things companies use in detecting if they can connect to the internet:

Apple:
http://captive.apple.com/hotsp...

Google:
http://clients3.google.com/gen...

Microsoft:
http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.t...

...apparently not, but it looks like Christmas might have something to do with it.

RECALL JESUS.

So, you got pissed that they offer the Nexus 5X for $349, and went to the OnePlus that sells a $399 phone.

It seems you didn't look too critically at that decision.

https://store.google.com/categ...
https://oneplus.net/oneplus-3

Also, what idiot would put a 4k display into a 5 inch screen? What is the point? I can't even use my 15.4" 4k display at native resolution, I have to blow up everything by 200% (I think) to even be able to read it, what would be the point of blowing everything up by 600%, you aren't getting better detail at that resolution, it is just like the megapixel wars, pointless.

They might be legit, but they use StartCom for certs

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://groups.google.com/foru...

https://www.google.com/search?...

They might have issues with Cherry.

Hopefully the peers that review it will spell better than the /. editors.

https://www.google.com/#q=revi...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Do the math, I don't know off the top of my head who participates in ESA, but likely they earned more medals than the US.

Literally the only reason I recommend Nexus devices is because their security update policy is codified and public: monthly security updates for the life of the device (which is listed here: https://support.google.com/nex... ).

As long as they're still doing that, and keep the bootloader unlockable, the Nexus is still really the only smartphone worth owning. (Yes, Samsung currently does monthly security updates as well, but that's a matter of policy, not a promise to their customers; they could change their policy at any time.)

It's always been in TIOBE index's "top 20" since they started it! 2015 (#20), #6 (2001) & #10 currently iirc http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/delphi-object-pascal/ so it's in or near the "TOP 10" no less hovering there consistently.

In fact, it's one of, IF not THE, FASTEST risers there (jumping up ~10 spots this year).

Quake rewritten in Delphi Object Pascal (on games) https://www.google.com/search?q=Delphi+and+Quake&gbv=1&sei=osbGV8STE8bUeNGMh4AC/

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It's always been in TIOBE index's "top 20" since they started it! 2015 (#20), #6 (2001) & #10 currently iirc http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/delphi-object-pascal/ so it's in or near the "TOP 10" no less hovering there consistently.

In fact, it's one of, IF not THE, FASTEST risers there (jumping up ~10 spots this year).

Quake rewritten in Delphi Object Pascal (on games) https://www.google.com/search?q=Delphi+and+Quake&gbv=1&sei=osbGV8STE8bUeNGMh4AC/

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I bought a Nexus because I thought you can't go wrong with Google. What a chunk of Smegma! The USB connection is so loose and flakey transfer speeds are disgustingly slow. https://www.google.com/search?...

Call it what you want Google, any hardware you're associated with isn't trustworthy. Stick to Search. Only thing you're good at.

See subject: It's always been in TIOBE index's "top 20" since they started it! 2015 (#20) & as high as #6 (2001) & currently #10 iirc http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/delphi-object-pascal/ so it's in or near the "TOP 10" no less.

In fact, it's one of, IF not THE, FASTEST risers there (jumping up ~10 spots this year).

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Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

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Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

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I would imagine the "Login using Google" at third-party sites wouldn't work w/o this:
https://developers.google.com/...

Google Wallet might not work too smoothly either What Paypal does is display a message that you're being redirected and waits a few seconds before redirect, and I've seen other sites do this too. Does Google do the same thing?

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Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

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Maybe you missed the whole biggest exams in the world (gaokao) where Chinese students take a year out of their lives to study extremely hard to get a good enough grade to get into a good University. https://www.google.com/#&q=chi...

Really, a Slashdot search shows you are exactly what you say I am.

https://www.google.com/search?...

He does regularly encrypt his e-mail, "but he doesn't recommend that average users scramble their email, because he thinks the encryption software is just too difficult to use."

How on earth do you use encrypted mail unless all your recipients also do the same, i.e. have public/private keys of their own that are configured in their email clients? He probably does communicate with other security minded folk who also use encryption, but the vast majority of ordinary people neither know nor care about these things.
The biggest drawback to encrypted anything is that it requires everybody to use it. There's plenty of open source and secure alternatives to popular apps but there's no point in recommending say, Signal or Toxwhen all the people you know couldn't be bothered to get off Whatsapp.

Here, have a ton of other people with the same problem.

There is no solution that works other than rebooting and waiting for it to flake out again. The problem dates back to at least 2012 if not even earlier than that.

One theory is that the obsession with thinness causes interference that eventually screws up the hardware so it just can't remain connected until you reset everything.

But it's a real and common problem that Apple has never addressed.

https://www.google.com/search?...
If you see something, say something, right?

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