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If you drive on the same road over and over again, it will actually learn how you go into the curve and also how other Tesla drivers do it. Eventually after you drive through it enough times, the auto-pilot will be driving just as smooth as you are. I would suggest to read up a bit on the Fleet Learning feature.

http://mashable.com/2015/10/14...
http://www.teslarati.com/upcom...

> So, those hard drives I bought, are telling the world more about me than if I posted every pic on Facebook?
> Explain, because I gave them my credit card and get email from the place I bought them from. If I was stupid
> enough to use FB I'm giving out less info?

You're conflating the difference between storing images on a high drive vs posting them on facebook with my comparison between using a free service to share images vs using a paid service. Keep up!

> These idiots seem to have a little less freedom after sharing on Facebook: http://mashable.com/2012/12/12...

Now you're implying that I didn't previously realize that if you post something on the internet somebody else could read it; perhaps (wrongly) assuming this makes some sort of case for law abiding people avoiding sharing photos on facebook.

> Go get a script blocker. Enable it 100 percent. Now start enabling scripts. A whole lot of them are facebook and
> they are tracking you even if you don't "belong". You'll have to look them up, because unlike Google, Facebook
> obfuscates where they are sending your info.

I block javascript and trackers, and destroy cookies via plugins on all browsers i use. I also post photos to facebook. I'm failing to see any contradiction.

> Despite your lofty claims of superiority, you kind sir, are doing a fine imitation of baseless stupidity.

That's a two way street.

> Or does
> Facebook have paid shills here now, because you ar either purposely dissembling, challenged, or paid to
> distribute the inaccurate info.

You're just struggling to understand what I posted and are rambling meaninglessly about...well, fuck knows. Just anti-facebook bollocks as far as I can tell.

> You mad bro? Hey, some of us spout it becuse we did the research. And have determined that people like
> you are spreading BS. I've got friends outside of FB. I see them in person every day. As for "cool", The
> FaceBook crowd would be on AOL in another era. But they are tracking the bejabbers out of most of us. And
> in Corporate America, nothing is done without pecuniary purpose.

More random typing. Facebook is a business which exists to make money; primarily through ads based on users' interests, just like several other successful companies. I have no problem with any of them, trackers or no trackers. It's how they turn a profit (and keep all the servers running). "Doo...facebook users are so stupid, like AOL users were...gu-hoo gu-hoo gu-hoo! Wake up, sheeple!". You're quite the rebel prophet, aren't you?

They're wrong. It's a free service because it costs no money. It's a simple as that. Even things which cost you money can result in you losing privacy; nearly always you'll lose more, in fact, because you end up paying via methods which reveal information about you, so that cost - if you want to look at it as a cost - is decreased too when it's free.

So, those hard drives I bought, are telling the world more about me than if I posted every pic on Facebook? Explain, because I gave them my credit card and get email from the place I bought them from. If I was stupid enough to use FB I'm giving out less info?

People can say stuff's not free because, for example, Facebook have your photos, or they can sell or use your browsing habits (in a very limited sense), it doesn't impinge on your freedom in any observable way.

These idiots seem to have a little less freedom after sharing on Facebook: http://mashable.com/2012/12/12...

I mean, people are free to claim that wifi gives you cancer or whatever but they're just that; baseless, stupid claims.

Go get a script blocker. Enable it 100 percent. Now start enabling scripts. A whole lot of them are facebook and they are tracking you even if you don't "belong". You'll have to look them up, because unlike Google, Facebook obfuscates where they are sending your info.

Despite your lofty claims of superiority, you kind sir, are doing a fine imitation of baseless stupidity. Or does Facebook have paid shills here now, because you ar either purposely dissembling, challenged, or paid to distribute the inaccurate info.

And other people repeat it just because they don't like facebook because they don't have friends or because it's not cool or whatever. Good for them, I saw. Go grow a stupid hipster beard or something.

You mad bro? Hey, some of us spout it becuse we did the research. And have determined that people like you are spreading BS. I've got friends outside of FB. I see them in person every day. As for "cool", The FaceBook crowd would be on AOL in another era. But they are tracking the bejabbers out of most of us. And in Corporate America, nothing is done without pecuniary purpose.

http://time.com/4254801/donald...
http://www.cnn.com/videos/poli...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...

The reason people don't like taxis is because drivers always play shenanigans with fares. Always.

You mean, like, surge pricing during a terrorist attack? Oh, wait, that wasn't taxis, that was Uber.

Shit like this is the reasons taxis are regulated. And the reason why Uber is fighting regulation tooth and nail: so they can screw people for every last penny they possibly can.

It's coming. Employers think you're suspicious (or even a psychopath) if you aren't posting on Facebook every day...

Apple declined to comment on how much it cost to build Liam.

Ask yourself why?... The same article adds:

While Liam makes up the entire system, its 29 robotic helpers do the handy work. [...] It's clear this is a well-oiled operation; after all, it took years to perfect

Do you honestly believe, this required less than a $100 mln dollar initial investment? The 30 robots plus facility itself cost more — not counting the research, that has gone into it. For comparison, Intel's new chip-making plant in Arizona cost $5 bln just to build — fifty times more... Maybe, now that they have it, the marginal costs of running it can be paid off by the extracted materials themselves? Maybe... But, if this were actually true — or even close to being true — Apple would've been the first to point it out. For it would've looked much better to both the customers and the investors than the current secrecy.

Stop making up stuff, boy.

Talk decent, young lady, or you'll find yourself conversing with a mirror...

I know that people call him racist, but he has been against "illegal" (which is not a race) and urges caution in terms of Islam (once again, not a race, but a religion that creates more than 90% of terrorists).

Has he said something else that I have missed?

Donald Trump: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." So being a Mexican immigrant means you're either a drug dealer or a rapist according to Trump. That's racism.

Donald Trump: "But you have people coming in and I'm not just saying Mexicans, I'm talking about people that are killers and they're coming into this country." And that's xenophobic.

Donald Trump: "Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border." Linking a community with disease. Where did I hear this before?

Donald Trump: "I’ll take jobs back from China, I’ll take jobs back from Japan. The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump.” Treating hispanics like dogs he can throw a bone to, that's racist too.

Donald Trump: "No surprise that China was caught cheating in the Olympics. That's the Chinese M.O. - Lie, Cheat & Steal in all international dealings." Note how he said it's the "Chinese modus operandi", not the "Chinese *government* M.O.". Claiming 1+ billion people are liars, cheaters and thieves, just for their ethnicity or the country they live in is racism.

Has Trump ever actually issued a call for violence? If so, I must have missed it.

Well he certainly did against protestors at his rallies.

But more importantly, "Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." and "Donald Trump said that he would 'absolutely' institute mandatory registration." So he says he will use the force of law to discriminate on the basis of religion. In other words he is against freedom of religion and against the bill of rights.

While those are not direct threats of violence, it's already too much for someone who wants to be the chief of the world's most powerful army.

Assange likely has very little to do with this, although the Russians will probably be delighted if people think so. If it is the case that the attacks originated from Russia, then this is likely to be just the latest addition in the information warfare campaign that Russia is waging across Europe. It's very much within Russia's interest at the moment to play as much with the migrant crisis and the media as they possibly can to sow political distrust. They've been running their own 'news' channels (Sputnik) with English language content but additionally they're supporting the so called "anti-media" or "underground media" sites which are basically anti-immigration/anti-EU blogs that run hearsay or entirely made up stories mixed in with bits and pieces of actual news.

Russia does not give a flying fuck about Assange, or Snowden for that matter. They might say they do, but again, do you think Russia for example is not doing exactly the same type of surveillance on its people than what Snowden revealed in the US? Hell, this is the country in which people have recently been jailed both for being openly atheist as well as for criticizing the invasion of Crimea or calling for a change of leadership.

So what are the odds that this country launches a cyber attack against a north-European nation because they care so much about justice and the rights of individuals for a fair trial, or any of that? Slim. Extremely slim.

This is geopolitics, plain and simple. Divide and conquer etc.

Shouldn't the "obvious" thing be that in spite of people losing their minds over drone "near misses," no drones have been hit by aircraft, yet EVERY SINGLE DAY bird strikes occur?

If we diverted aircraft for bird sightings like we do for drone sightings, we'd never be able to fly anywhere.

Heck, more turtles have been hit than drones!
http://mashable.com/2015/12/18...

Machine learning is software generated by statistical algorithms fit to lots of data. Without the training data, the algorithms alone are quite useless. Pre-trained networks are essentially closed source, because the source is the training data.

There's lots of open source code for this work already. It boils down to who has access to the data. Tesla can turn on autopilot to collect data from its entire fleet for millions of miles traveled. Google doesn't have a fleet, so it wants to collect so much data with Android Auto, automakers are walking away.

GNU, well, they've got some algorithms, just like everyone else.

San Francisco is literally a shithole. They can talk to us about coal after they solve their own problems.

That's not true at all. IoT simply means an embedded device connected to Internet.

That's a definition, not a principle.

Now in an ideal world, this simple device would be under your control, secure, and the limit of phoning home would be checking for updates (under your control) and sending diagnostics when requested, and also under your control.

But is that what these devices are doing? We don't even know why they are seeking out other cameras. We do know that they phone home even when told not to. So right away, not as simple as you claim. No security, doing odd things.

Nest Thermostats phoning home with unencrypted data http://mashable.com/2016/01/20...

Are you talking in front of your smart TV? Better watch what you say. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

And what could be cuter than a IoT teddy bear for your kids? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

So then we move on to the established Internet of things. Hospital equipment. That's a hot steaming mess and going to get worse. already hacked multiple times, and ransom paid in at least one case. Or are you going to deny like some, that the embedded systems that hospitals use are magically not part of the IoT?

POS systems,

No, this is FUD. The same solitaire that has always been free still is. There are some paid versions for a solitaire pack that includes other things: http://mashable.com/2015/08/03...

And yet, it works. A single car with wonky GPS is one thing. Having hundreds of cars with GPS, and gathering data repeatedly over the same location, allows high accuracy. You combine that with systems that use the sensor inputs and you can be very accurate. Consider the following article that discussed the data that they have already gathered. Now, do that for the next 2 years, while compute power, algorithms, and sensors improve. This is doable, though still hard.

Yea. Facebook. Passport.

Mmmkay. Whatever.

http://mashable.com/2015/11/06...

A handful of times I instinctively grabbed the wheel or hit the brakes when a few impatient New York drivers cut me off, not really sure if the car would figure out what was happening. I'm sure the car would have, but I didn't want to be responsible for crunching up a $120,000 car I didn't own. Only once did the car ask me to retake control, ostensibly because it couldn't read the nearly nonexistent lane markings.

Cleverly, Tesla records data of every mile driven in each of its cars (even those that aren't Autopilot-equipped) to aid in situations where lane markings are faded, so Autopilot was able to handle much of the poorly marked West Side Highway, but not all of it. A warning chime accompanied by a message on the screen urged me to put my hands back on the wheel, though I was able to reset Autopilot after a few hundred yards.

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Two kinds of "heavy" traffic. One is stop and go traffic. Autopilot is going to be fine there.

The other is 65+ mph with cars well under ideal safe driving distances with drivers cutting in and out of lanes, poorly marked freeways under construction, etc.

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http://www.teslamotorsclub.com...
Once you get the hang of where it works well and where it doesn't, it is fabulous. My daily commute is 75 miles (one way), of which only about 20 is highway. One 2-lane road it works flawlessly on, the other is a bit too twisty so I get to handle that one. Just keep your hands on the wheel and AP can't do anything you don't want it to. ...

Yah, I think the AI has a tendency to follow the lines on the right side of the car for reference, it gets confused when they either merge with another lane or exit.

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It will get there. It's just not there quite yet.

Here are your sources, ignorant.

There's a catch, though: even if Apple is unable to hand over the data from your phone, it can (and will, if asked via a court order) hand over the data from your iTunes or iCloud account

maybe

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, (I'm actually a parent), but other than the general societal benefit of paternal/maternal leave, why should parents get it and NON parents not get similar compensation?

Netflix has unlimited vacation time available. See http://mashable.com/2012/04/13... What is your question about?

Mobile browser statistics suggest otherwise, but OK let's join you in fantasy land where "iOS just isn't relevant" to the web.

How about Adobe? Is Adobe relevant to Flash? Because it was Adobe who pulled the plug on Flash mobile in 2011. Flash on mobile is a bloated battery-draining joke. Apple merely recognized that fact first.

And if you're suggesting that mobile web is less relevant than desktop web, you've gone full retard.

The decline HAS happened, and is still happening (are you saying a decline from ~14% to ~11% in a single year is "insignificant"??). Flash was everywhere 8 years ago. People built fucking site navigation out of Flash, if not entire websites. Those days are long gone, Flash is relegated to specific niche cases now, and continues to dwindle. The mobile-ization of web access (on all platforms) is absolutely the death knell of Flash, albeit one with a very long tail.

The original /. article that mentioned a subscription OS was linked to a story that was shortly edited, saying it was wrong a subscription based OS was misunderstood by the author, and all mention of the word subscription removed from the story.

To be more precise
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Links to:
http://mashable.com/2015/01/21...
At the very bottom of that story is - Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported.

In Virginia your fingerprint isn't protected by the 5th amendment.

http://mashable.com/2014/10/30...

All I want to know is does Cortana give better advice than Siri for hiding dead bodies?
http://mashable.com/2014/08/13...

So there's more here: http://mashable.com/2015/05/20...
and here: http://www.itwire.com/your-it-...
For those in the TLR category, iiNET wants to charge DBC (Dallas Buyers Club LLC) $108,000 as expenses to filter and send customer info to them.
There is a distinction that fines >$10 are for those who uploaded (seeded), so the fines maybe a lot more than $10 which is a guess anyway. How iiNET or how the capturing method — using German Maverick Eye technology can determine accurately the uploads for each transgressor is questionable.
The court will review the initial letters to 'pirates' as speculative invoicing (per the USA) will not be tolerated. Also, settlement amounts will be based on personal circumstances of each uploader.
This is truly a test case and will propably open up VPN as a preferred solution for the short term.
Note the distinction between leechers and seeders. This is the first time in Australian law that the seeders are the bad guys. Leeching is ok as long as you don't seed. But how is that possible with Bittorrent? The moment you leech, you begin to seed anyway.

The claim was specifically that growth in market share was due to being bundled.

Not even close.The claim was that bundling provides an advantage. Not that it completely accounts for it.

And the point about bloatware is not defensible. Chrome abuses system resources by consuming way too much ram, fucks up your battery life (as is proven time and time again), and is a CPU hog .. probably because of all the private information it collects compared to some other browsers.

And what evidence do you have that Google is paying anyone to include Chrome?

Because we're not retarded. You require PROOF that you need to pay a company to bundle your product? Seriously?

Found after 20 seconds of googling.

http://mashable.com/2009/03/05...

http://download.cnet.com/blog/...

"A Google spokesman indicated that other deals might be in the works. "Users' response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we're continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people. This could potentially include distribution via a number of channels, such as the distribution we are currently doing with Avast."

"make Chrome accessible" .. wow, if only users had access to Chrome. But they don't !! We HAVE TO bundle it. Oh boy !

Besides, Google has been paying for market share for about 10 years now.

http://www.problogger.net/arch...

Do your own damn research buddy. You might be a fan of Google, but many people are starting to get tired of you people acting all innocent.

He meant "fuck barrel".

Another story covering the tweet suggests a slightly different story:

What Selerity does â" and they've done this before with Microsoft and ADP â" is monitor the web pages of public companies for changes that might be public, but not necessarily indexed.

This can be done using a simple web scraper â" an application that simply scans a site for pages, often systemically trying every likely URL for a live website.

(cut)

In the case of Twitter's earnings report, it appears that the third-party company (which according to Twitter is the Nasdaq-owned Shareholder.com) that handles Twitter's investor relations page published the page with its quarterly results, using a web address that you could intuit from its current URL scheme.

The URL scheme Twitter used was "https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=XXXXXX." The last published news release had the ID number of "905554."

Presumably, Selerity just had to continue to try iterations of that number sequence until it found the report. Twitter's Q1 2015 earnings had an ID number of "909177" â" meaning the Selerity web scraper would have had to try less than 4,000 numbers before hitting on the right one. Given today's processing power, that could happen in the blink of an eye.

This apparently was denied by Selerity but as many have pointed out, if it were true, is it that different from what troll weev was convicted and did jail time for?

Is guessing a URL really a "hack"?

Dear Comcast:

I know this is hard to figure out, but I found a map of areas that you could bring your products to.

Comcast and Time Warner in 1 Map

You can start by wiring those areas that are blue, then proceed into the areas that are white.

No need to thank me.

Except you str ignoring the facts that YouTube was started in 2005 and adverts didn't show up until 2006.

* The Internet domain name "youtube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005.
* Advertisements were launched on the site beginning in March 2006.

And before you whine about Wikipedia, this graphic confirms ads didn't exist at first either.

Giving something away for free and then switching to "mandatory viewing" is classic bait-n-switch.

I'm not quite sure how some people delude themselves as much as you do.

The maker of this watch has too much to lose by making fakes in their factories. They would be killing the golden goose.

I'm sure there are some counterfeits which are really just "night production". But to assume this is the case in all cases and here is a failure to really put much thought into it.

Have you read the reviews of the fakes?

http://mashable.com/2015/01/08...

It's clear they don't have the same parts. It doesn't even have the same screen or knob. One of the knockoffs doesn't even have a touchscreen!

Well, at least it seems that Google has a different opinion . Their prototype doesn't have a steering wheel or any other control that a human driver could take - only an emergency brake button. And that is exactly what I would expect any other manufacturer to do. After all, if we have - as the poster described "a future where you can watch television, sip cocktails, or snooze all the way home" there is almost no chance at all that a human driver will have the time to realize that something is going wrong, switch his attention to the road, and take the right action before a crash happens.

Don't forget his underrated first leading man big-screen role as Kid Monk Baroni, 1952...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York."

Hard to believe it's the same guy.

And his photography.

RIP. Sad sad sad.

You shoot yourself in the foot with your own arguments.

First you say people only need a browser and an office suite to do business work, then you claim people need PC hardware because phones aren't powerful enough. Powerful enough for what, running a web browser? Working on a spreadsheet and some word documents? Please. Forget that the average consumer phone outclasses any computer I had access to 10 years ago, which were perfectly fine for doing "real business tasks" on until the OS & Application bloat caused us to move on.

As for people not wanting to use Android or iOS as a desktop environment, you mean Administrator/Power Users maybe, most general people are fine with the simplistic App button and not worrying about file directories or control panels.

People already do plenty of real work on tablets & phones. Like recording albums, shooting movies, and more.

C and languages derived from it is an awful darn big number of languages. Take a look at http://mashable.com/2015/01/18... : 14 out of 15 use 0-indexing.

What if we started measuring things at 1? Try it, cut off the first inch/cm of your ruler/measuring tape. Now measure something in cm and convert it to meters.

We don't start counting ages at 1, one month after birth you're... one month old. Not one year, one month. Zero years, one month.

If you've ever had to paginate a result set, you know the pain of 1-indexing.

If you're flipping through a book and you want to take an excerpt, you don't say "It's one paragraph, one page into the chapter on page 55", you say "Zero pages, one paragraph into the chapter starting page 55." 1-indexing would call page 55 the "first page". Indexes aren't ordinal, they're cardinal, so stop treating them like that with 1-indexing.

Here is some information about it. Its a year dated, but a year ago cuba had 25% internet rate. More info here http://mashable.com/2014/04/03...

It didn't make any difference to the outcome of the game but it still persists. The NFL has rules governing the inflation... yada yada

1) It could have been the cold.
2) It could have been that New England knowingly under-inflated the footballs and played the first half of the game knowing it.
3) It could have been a mistake on New England's equipment folks, shit happens.

Chose one of three because it didn't make any difference in the outcome because once the officiating crew check them at half-time they detected it and changed the pressure. If there was a question to a violation of the rules it should have been brought out then by the refs, but they didn't do it and that's a bad problem here. Sure pressure can change, fuck the damn things can leak, it was the cold, an earthquake .. whatever the reason it's over and this countless going back and forth isn't going to change things but it may eventually give the NFL a scapegoat. Belichick is still in the dog house over the videotape episode because he didn't follow through with the punishment that Goodell metered out, he did it in spirit but not how it was agreed so ultimately he'll probably be suspended.

The NFL has to fix the situation moving forward. If it was cheating, weather conditions, bad equipment, whatever they need to fix it so it's no longer an issue.

1) The footballs for games should be considered the NFL's property and for the game they should be supplied, monitored and checked by the NFL. MLB for example doesn't let the teams play with baseballs that they bring to the game, the NFL should follow suit. No more teams bringing game balls.
2) It's questionable that the NFL needs 42 to 54 footballs per game. It needs to be brought down to a reasonable number 20 or under. If that means no more "momento" footballs touchdowns etc. then too bad. After the game the officials can divvy them up between the two teams so they can distribute them how they see fit.

I don't wish to be "stuck" with Win10 as it's going subscription after a year free.

Where did you get that information from? I saw they are going to charge for it after the first year and that they will obviously charge OEMs for it so they can make money but I didn't see anything about "subscription".

It was an on /. a week ago http://tech.slashdot.org/story... but there has been a correction to the article it linked to:

"Correction: Windows 10 will be a one-time upgrade, free for the first year of release, and there will not be a subscription model attached, as this post initially reported."
http://mashable.com/2015/01/21...

well looky here linky The oceans have been absorbing heat so fast it 'broke' their chart. And guess what, that WILL radiate to the environment as well.

Proper nouns that are regular words can definitely provide some laughs for machine translation, but it's not as bad as it seems. Even to a native English speaker, a kid named North West is kind of funny.

Understanding a foreign language will always require some knowledge of the culture and society from which you are translating from, and so if you know the culture has kids named for "Sky" and "Hope" then to see those words pop up in sentences where it doesn't really fit you aren't surprised.

The best example of this is in Hofstader's GEB, where he talks about translating Dostoevsky to English. The translator has a choice to make when copying the name of the main street. It is an actual Russian word, that has an English translation. So maybe you translate the street name to it's English equivalent. But the Russian street name is a common Russian street name, whereas in English it's not a common name for a street at all. So maybe instead of simply directly translating the Russian name, you change it to a nice, comfortable English street name, like "Elm Street." He ends up humorously suggesting the best choice in translation might be to just read a Dickens novel!

Google's giving them $300K, but the government is giving them $1.2M.

While freedom of speech is a law that needs to be upheld, how many people would be happy with the government (or google?) giving an organization like stormfront a million dollars to publish pictures of Obama with a tail and a banana in one hand?

Consumer's wouldn't be very happy if business told them they couldn't resell a product at a profit just because they bought it when there was a good sale, or if they couldn't split a meal because they bought the larger dish instead of two smaller ones.

No, they aren't happy when video game publishers restrict resale of purchased games or when restaurants don't allow meal sharing. This is just another example of the business model that the RIAA pioneered - make your business model into law and let the government enforce it.

China doesnt use a handful of pf rules, they use a comprehensive array of filtering, DPI, and firewalling techniques. They've been known to actively probe VPN services to determine whether they are allowable, implement real-time updated keyword content filtering, and forge RST packets for any "undesirable" content.

They are also incredibly proactive about nullifying workarounds; ask the Tor guys how their efforts with e.g. obfsproxy and obfs2 went. Really good at circumventing the GFW for a year or so until it ended up 100% blocked just like stock OpenVPN.

Either way its difficult to defend the idea that China intentionally did this

No, its not, it fits 100% in with their existing (bad) relationship with google.

when google gladly censors their search results and complies with all local regulations.

Your information is about 5 years out of date. Ever since the Aurora hacks in 2010, Google has ceased all cooperation with the Chinese government on that front, and has ceased filtering on their end. They have in fact on a number of occasions worked to alert users when third party tampering has occurred, which has led to a number of confrontations with the Chinese gov't. Notably, in June of this year, China completely blocked Google prior to the TIanenmen Square anniversary.

Google remains a sterling partner of the chinese leadership in their quiet, tacit business participation in what for all intents and purposes amounts to a capitalist dictatorship with a communist logo.

Except for the part where they are the one major internet company NOT cooperating with them, while Microsoft and Yahoo continue to do so. Hope you dont use Skype over there.

There is no constraint on any reviewers (or real users) about taking own photos or videos... there are of course (as with most new product launches) screenshots, how-to videos, user guides etc. that are made available by Microsoft. Given the preview just started, more hands-on reviews are just making their way out. Several have been posted already - and are pretty representative of the diversity of experiences ("magical/awesome" to "can't handle my accent/recognize my speech"), and have continued to be helpful in improving the system - which is the entire point of a preview release. Here are a couple that I bookmarked: http://mashable.com/2014/12/15... http://www.gizmodo.in/news/Sky... This is work that's been done at Microsoft Research for a long time, and we have been continuously improving it (and sharing a lot of the research behind it with the world). Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's exciting for us to be able to see real people use it! (full disclosure: I work at Microsoft Research and am involved with Skype Translator)

Uber is reportedly charging its users in downtown Sydney a minimum $100, a result of surge pricing introduced in the midst of an armed hostage crisis, Mashable has learned.
http://mashable.com/2014/12/14...

Apple Pay is more secure than a card, since magstripe cards are woefully insecure (read any of the recent POS hacks). It won't release a payment ID until after it reads your fingerprint, and it sends a token with cryptogram instead of the PAN in the clear.

It is not smaller, but it may be easier to use as people switch from swipe to chip and sign in the US.

Yet you don't cringe at all the snooping that Google is doing with student the information.

http://mashable.com/2014/03/19...

>I know that kid's data is saved to their Google Drive - automatically.
Where it can be mined for showing ads.

Fantastic, indeed, but for Google, not for the students.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/ap...

don't use their own products.

As an example for a common service where 4/1 mbit is problematic you can take Google Hangout.
Experience shows that 4/1 mbit is kind a certain minimum /(assuming that the connectivity is perfect), and I don't think that you'll manage two video chats on 4/1.

The experience comes from our team where some people have 8mbit DSLs, and they usually just turn off video to get reliable and useful audio. Hangouts being bandwidth hogs also pans out with the reported transferred data counters, e.g. a video call can can take a couple of 100MB very quickly (according to this, http://mashable.com/2012/11/14... Hangouts use ~900MB/h)

Now, consider that 1mbit upstream can transfer roughly 350MB/hour (that assumes an networking overhead and calculates with 10bit per byte).

I would argue that employers are definitely interested in increased productivity from employees, but they will certainly settle for the appearance of productivity.

At the risk of going off-topic, a twice-a-day caffeine nap at work is not going to improve productivity nearly as much as a stand-up work station will. Not to mention that staying in a sedentary, sitting position 8+ hours a day is incredibly unhealthy and unnatural. Blast from the past from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/05/09...