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  1. I wasn't the one stating that Apple invented Thunderbolt. That is the only thing I was responding to.

    Now, I could be Bozo the clown, and APK could be an actual security researcher, however, I doubt either of these things are true :)

  2. Re:Snowden is a traitor on NSA Releases New Snowden Documents (vice.com) · · Score: 1

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

    2002, probably more recent, but I don't feel like looking up is Syria or Libya were authorized by congress.

    It isn't called a declaration of war as that is no longer the in vogue name of the declarations.

    Technically, you could also claim that the US is still at war with North Korea...they seem to still believe we are at war at least...

  3. Re: Snowden is a traitor on NSA Releases New Snowden Documents (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is apparently free. What was your point? Did he get an unfair trial in your eyes?.

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

    After he left the NSA in 2001, Binney was one of several people investigated as part of an inquiry into the 2005 New York Times exposé[12][13] on the agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Binney was cleared of wrongdoing after three interviews with FBI agents beginning in March 2007, but in July 2007, in an unannounced armed raid, the FBI confiscated a desktop computer, disks, and personal and business records. The NSA revoked his security clearance, forcing him to close a business he ran with former colleagues at a loss of a reported $300,000 in annual income. In 2012, Binney and his co-plaintiffs went to federal court to retrieve the confiscated items.[14]

    So, he was investigated, and had a warrant taken out, but ultimately cleared and had his property returned.. Sounds like a pretty damn good example of a fair trial to me.

  4. Re:Snowden is a traitor on NSA Releases New Snowden Documents (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Please point to evidence of an unfair trial in any previous TS information leak trial.

    I am sure the supreme court would love to hear about someone not getting their constitutionally mandated fair trial rights.

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

    Jojoba oil Listeni/hhob/ is the liquid produced in the seed of the Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) plant, a shrub, which is native to southern Arizona, southern California, and northwestern Mexico.

    Not sure what Wikipedia article you read, but I don't see anywhere in there a mention of goat nuts.

  6. Re:suggestion on ASUS Delivers Its Updates Over HTTP With No Verification (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    TRIGGER WARNING: YOU WERE MOLESTED AS A CHILD.

    I was molested as a child? I never knew...this explains so much...

  7. Re:Umm ,,, on New Swiss Robot Assists Travelers with Luggage (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I got one of those notes, they stole my flashlight...

  8. Re: Irrelevant. on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the crowed in Sodom did want to "know" the apparently male angels, which literally meant they wanted to have sex with them, so yeah...it really was about that.

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

    4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
    5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
    (NRSV: know them, NIV: can have sex with them, NJB: can have intercourse with them).

  9. Re: Irrelevant. on Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist (themerkle.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it was actively discouraged. God did destroy Sodom and Gomorrah after all.

  10. Re:Not user-posted content at issue here on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So, then there should be no responsability for the site to notify its users as there has been no convictions, and anyone can be accused of something, even if it never occurred.

  11. Re:Not user-posted content at issue here on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the traditional version of the model/agent/photographer arrangement require background checks? Is a background check something that should cause someone to essentially be unemployable?

  12. Re:Not user-posted content at issue here on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    background checks for psychiatric history,

    What psychiatric history counts to you? FYI, every single person in the US falls under some section of the DSM, so saying nobody ever diagnosed with a psychiatric condition can buy a gun is really ignorant.

  13. Re: Did they know who the culprits were? on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That majority comes out to 8% according to the FBI, try harder to troll.

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

  14. Re: Did they know who the culprits were? on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

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

    The FBI claims the incidence of false accusations is around 8%. I don't know where the AC is getting a most out of 8%, but there are numbers.

  15. Re:Sue the Donator on Even In Remotest Africa, Windows 10 Nagware Ruins Your Day (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Probably much less in central Africa than in the US where that laptop probably originated.

  16. OMG, are you APK or something? Flying off the handle at being challenged?

    You are now trying to claim that Apple took Intel's work and advanced it considerably, while in a strict sense, Apple did repackage Lightpeak. They took an optical communications protocol, moved it to an electrical communications protocol, and put it in a Displayport connection. My point was that Apple didn't develop it, which I stand behind. Intel developed the technology, then worked with Apple to move it to a copper connection called Thunderbolt, using Displayport connectors (developed by Apple and approved by VESA). What are you missing?

    Apple didn't develop it, tried to create a trademark around it, then gave the trademark to Intel. Intel developed 99% of Thunderbolt, and Apple admitted that and handed everything back to them. Apple didn't invent anything, they repackaged an existing technology, just like they did with tablets, smartphones, and many other "inventions" of theirs.

    Why do you try to rabidly defend Apple despite them not actually innovating all that much? Why do you feel that Apple invented all these technologies?
     

  17. Who had the idea for Lightpeak? Was it entirely Apple? You try to claim that Lightpeak was entirely Apple's idea, when it is much less clear. Intel invented Lightpeak, Apple and Intel developed Thunderbolt.

    Perhaps you shouldn't act like such a delicate flower when someone challenges you?

    Idiot.

  18. Re:poor marketing and confusion management on Xiaomi's Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Featuring OLED Display Launched at $23 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In Windows, click the folder icon (Windows Explorer), right click on "My Computer" and select properties. All this information, and some the manufacturer adds is shown here. Sometimes serial number, but that depends on the manufacturer, not Windows itself.

    Truly, this is a barbaric process.

  19. Re:poor marketing and confusion management on Xiaomi's Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Featuring OLED Display Launched at $23 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You make a good point. My father and I both own "Tundra TRD Offroad Double Cab" trucks, both our trucks look nearly identical, mine has 4wd, while his is 2wd, but his was bought in 2007 and mine in 2012, however, without some serious looking, you would not be able to tell which one was which. However, if he were to sell his, it would go for half the price of mine. How is this any different? Is there really a heck of a lot different about a 2013 vs a 2015 Macbook Pro? Did they even release much of an update in 2 years?

  20. In what way? I would use Google fit much more if it supported my Fitbit, so what improvement are you looking for in Google Fit for it to be something you would want to use?

  21. Does this device even have heart rate monitors? I will take an inaccurate Fitbit heart rate monitor over a device that has none any day of the week.

  22. Maybe it is the new APK?

  23. This presumably is one reason Apple has limited angst about USB-C vs Thunderbolt. The primary difference is the shape of the connector and a bit of software deciding what to do on the wires. USB-C adds power delivery wires too, but that's a separate system.

    It couldn't have anything to do with 4x the data transfer over the USB-C 3.1/TB 3.0 interfaces?

  24. Now, who says Apple just repackages other people's ideas?

    Intel.

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

  25. Re:every year... on Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I could lose myself in that page for a week. I had no idea there was that much about physics that couldn't be explained, though I had heard of many of these. I admit though, I am a computer guy, not a physicist.