In Taiwan, I can go to the cops and say I lost my phone. They'll ask me to help them backtrack where I've been. Since most businesses and apartment buildings have security cameras, they can usually catch it on camera. Most phone thefts happen here because someone dropped their phone and someone else picked it up, then took out the SIM card. Also, people generally show security camera footage to cops without a warrant if they're looking for a lost phone. So they put the pieces together for me, pick the guy up, and get my phone back. Meanwhile, in the states, you hand them the location and they tell you to go fuck yourself. What the hell is wrong with your country?
Guy recklessly operates remote control machinery in populated area, causes property damage and comes close to causing injury or death in innocent bystanders, and this dipshit reporter pretends the FCC is the devil for coming down on him?
You've got a sci-fi sitcom, which already sounds iffy as hell, and it's made by Yahoo? That sounds like a combination from hell, but maybe it'll start off awesome and then only become a pile of crap later. You know, like they did with Launchcast.
"I have no idea how much data plan bandwidth is used every day on content that users would have preferred downloading at home in advance, but it seems like a non-trivial percentage."
You have no idea. So why the fuck are you wasting everyone's time?
With Witcher 2, they said it would be DRM free, but then they said, "Oh, it actually has DRM in it, which you can totally remove. A week later, after it's already infected your machine and left behind traces of shit everywhere." Yeah, fuck these guys. They had a chance to do this before and reneged.
I know this sort of shit appeals heavily to basement dwellers, who love hearing "smash the system" because they seem convinced that "the system" is holding them down despite their own lack of marketable skills, but screaming "anarchy" is only cute when Gaige from Borderlands 2 does it. When real life adults do it, they sound like morons or lunatics. But the one thing these people don't understand is that the absolute worst thing that can happen for them is that someone important takes them seriously.
If you use an app that's made for the specific purpose of telling you when your friends who also have that app are nearby, it will tell your friends that you're nearby! Audible fucking gasp! This has got to be the dumbest anti-facebook nonsense I've ever seen.
I'm gonna have to stop you right there, because your entire premise is retarded. If someone finds a bug in your software, and you don't bother to fix it, you are intentionally keeping the software less secure than it could be. That should be criminal, but I'd be satisfied with Ben 10 not being allowed to have a blog on slashdot anymore.
Luckily, everyone used up their mod points upvoting the cock holster remark, so no one was left to downvote your idiocy into oblivion when you posted as AC, then logged back in and upvoted your own dumbass opinion.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You want people to remain ignorant so that they can trick themselves into thinking homeopathic treatments work. I'm too terrified by the prospect to even come up with a clever insult.
The internet isn't "taking away" anything. Stop trying to make it sound like an aggressive action. People can't be forced to give up their religion. Even if you beat it out of them, all you can really do, at best, is prevent them from practicing it when people are looking at them. But I suppose "How the internet is convincing people to be less religious" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
When I was in high school, one of our teachers told us voodoo magic was real, and that contrary to popular belief, it would work on you even if you didn't believe in it. Try to make teachers talk about astrology and you'll end up with them going around the classroom with shit like, "That's because you're a Virgo".
If you want to have a lame April Fool's joke, that's fine, but done have autoplaying beeping. There's no purpose for that, other than enticing people to track you down and beat you with a rusty pipe.
Infrared essentially blocks out normal vision. While this may be useful as wearable computing, it wouldn't be useful if you had to poke around in your eye every time you needed to switch back to normal vision.
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Nah, Bennet in the workplace would show up to work for a company that never hired him and start fucking around with things no one asked him to touch.
Because digital goods don't carry physical properties, you fucking tool.
Don't you just love how they present it without bothering to tell us what Uber is, as if we're already supposed to know and/or care?
Horrible summary doesn't even bother to tell us what Uber is. Massive summary + complete lack of useful info = no clicky. Find better clickbait.
In Taiwan, I can go to the cops and say I lost my phone. They'll ask me to help them backtrack where I've been. Since most businesses and apartment buildings have security cameras, they can usually catch it on camera. Most phone thefts happen here because someone dropped their phone and someone else picked it up, then took out the SIM card. Also, people generally show security camera footage to cops without a warrant if they're looking for a lost phone. So they put the pieces together for me, pick the guy up, and get my phone back. Meanwhile, in the states, you hand them the location and they tell you to go fuck yourself. What the hell is wrong with your country?
Guy recklessly operates remote control machinery in populated area, causes property damage and comes close to causing injury or death in innocent bystanders, and this dipshit reporter pretends the FCC is the devil for coming down on him?
You've got a sci-fi sitcom, which already sounds iffy as hell, and it's made by Yahoo? That sounds like a combination from hell, but maybe it'll start off awesome and then only become a pile of crap later. You know, like they did with Launchcast.
"I have no idea how much data plan bandwidth is used every day on content that users would have preferred downloading at home in advance, but it seems like a non-trivial percentage."
You have no idea. So why the fuck are you wasting everyone's time?
With Witcher 2, they said it would be DRM free, but then they said, "Oh, it actually has DRM in it, which you can totally remove. A week later, after it's already infected your machine and left behind traces of shit everywhere." Yeah, fuck these guys. They had a chance to do this before and reneged.
Who is "this guy" and why should we give a shit about his opinion?
I know this sort of shit appeals heavily to basement dwellers, who love hearing "smash the system" because they seem convinced that "the system" is holding them down despite their own lack of marketable skills, but screaming "anarchy" is only cute when Gaige from Borderlands 2 does it. When real life adults do it, they sound like morons or lunatics. But the one thing these people don't understand is that the absolute worst thing that can happen for them is that someone important takes them seriously.
That makes even less sense than the rambling original post. Maybe you should go back to complaining about how you got put on spam blacklists.
If you use an app that's made for the specific purpose of telling you when your friends who also have that app are nearby, it will tell your friends that you're nearby! Audible fucking gasp! This has got to be the dumbest anti-facebook nonsense I've ever seen.
I'm gonna have to stop you right there, because your entire premise is retarded. If someone finds a bug in your software, and you don't bother to fix it, you are intentionally keeping the software less secure than it could be. That should be criminal, but I'd be satisfied with Ben 10 not being allowed to have a blog on slashdot anymore.
I don't read articles written by children.
I also provide hosting. Give me money instead.
Fixed that for you.
Luckily, everyone used up their mod points upvoting the cock holster remark, so no one was left to downvote your idiocy into oblivion when you posted as AC, then logged back in and upvoted your own dumbass opinion.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You want people to remain ignorant so that they can trick themselves into thinking homeopathic treatments work. I'm too terrified by the prospect to even come up with a clever insult.
That word doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.
The internet isn't "taking away" anything. Stop trying to make it sound like an aggressive action. People can't be forced to give up their religion. Even if you beat it out of them, all you can really do, at best, is prevent them from practicing it when people are looking at them. But I suppose "How the internet is convincing people to be less religious" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
"This change to our product is not directly customer impacting..."
It's almost as if by transferring your domain away, you're no longer a customer!
When I was in high school, one of our teachers told us voodoo magic was real, and that contrary to popular belief, it would work on you even if you didn't believe in it. Try to make teachers talk about astrology and you'll end up with them going around the classroom with shit like, "That's because you're a Virgo".
Morse code is not an acceptable excuse to be an annoying asshole.
If you want to have a lame April Fool's joke, that's fine, but done have autoplaying beeping. There's no purpose for that, other than enticing people to track you down and beat you with a rusty pipe.
Infrared essentially blocks out normal vision. While this may be useful as wearable computing, it wouldn't be useful if you had to poke around in your eye every time you needed to switch back to normal vision.