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  1. Re:100 percent of 1 is 1 on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    Generally if your starting your own buisness you need to work crazy hours to compete with established buisness the first few years. I don't see why the expectations for programmers would be different from a mom and pop store.

  2. Re:100 percent of 1 is 1 on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 2

    No mention if his company is making profits either. Easy to keep employees with high payroll based on venture capital debt.

  3. Third parties are fine in the USA as long as they run canidates during primaries and not the final election. If your a liberal leaning party then the Democratic primary is your runoff election where you can get your guy in. Conservative leaning should run in the Republican primary. That is what the Tea Party has been doing.

  4. Article Not Clear on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 2

    Was she removed from the building? Or was she removed from her job? She is an elected official, was a trail needed to remove her? Or can the majority party remove any member with enough votes?

  5. Re:augmented reality...eventually on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of augmented reality card applications. Where you place a card down on a table and when you look at it through your phone an object appears. (such as a pokemon) With Google Glass you would see the card and also see the pokemon in miniture slightly above your eye. You would not get the effect of replacing the card with something else.

  6. Gold Diggers on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Ohh and gold diggers will wear them to identify "good" men. All the women in the club will now know you live in your parents basements, are in debt, and have no important social connections.

  7. Re:augmented reality...eventually on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Google Glass doesn't overlay over your vision. It can't be used for augmented reality at all.

  8. Re:It's a scouter on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Power Levels == Estimated Wealth
    Sales Clerks, debt collectors, politicians, and pick pockets will use facial reconition to find out how much your worth.

  9. Re:It's a scouter on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Scouting levels over 9000 voids your warrenty.

  10. Re:Tracking. what else could it be? well, adverts on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Google Glass is for: -- tracking, nonstop

    No that is what your phone is for. This may allow them to track people without phones using the camera. But people without phones have no money(or cheap) and are not worth tracking.

  11. Re:Radio's remote to control Pandora on phone? on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    This ruling was about a guy holding a phone in his hand while driving. He didn't argue that he was operating the phone hands free. He argued that he could play angry birds on his phone whine driving because the law only mentioned texting and phone calls. This ruling doesn't rule on the situation you described. (I am not a lawyer)

  12. Re:Bad Ruling on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    Turn by turn directions or a dash mounted Garmin would count as hands free and is allowed under this ruling. This guy was holding the phone in one of his hands.

  13. Good Ruling on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    He looked at intent in the ruling. The law wasn't designed to discourage conversations in a car. It was designed to force people to keep both hands on the wheel. Holding the phone with one of your hands and pressing buttons on the touchscreen is what the law is trying to prevent.

  14. Re:Hands Free == Dash Mount on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    appellant was cited for looking at a map on his cellular phone while holding the phone in his hand.

    If your phone is mounted on a dash like a GPS and a GPS app is running then no cop is going to pull you over for glancing at it.

    The first is the physical distraction a motorist encounters when either picking up the phone, punching the number keypad, holding the phone up to his or her ear to converse, or pushing a button to end a call. It is this type of distraction that is addressed by this bill.

    So using GPS Navigate on your phone is ok as long as you entered the destination while parked. Messing with the phone while in motion is illegal.

  15. Hands Free == Dash Mount on Should California Have Banned Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving? · · Score: 1

    If your phone is in a dash mount then that might count as hands free.

  16. Crazy on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    No one wants to explore a health care system that would try and reach people like this early.

    The problem is that people don't wan't to admit that their love ones are crazy. You see all kinds of warning signs and you explain it away as bad behavior.

  17. No need for goverment help on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    FTC has been doing secret shopper tests on volutary rating systems. R rated movies, M rated games, Parental Advisory Music. Game stores have the best record. Their record has also improve dramatically in the last 10 years. In 2002 90% of the children secret shoppers could buy M rated games. Now it varies between 8%(gamestop) to 22%(walmart) http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/03/mysteryshop.shtm

  18. Re:Seriously now on Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage · · Score: 1

    NSA has enough computer power to brute force many encryption methods. The question is how expensive it is to run those machines. They are not going to spend 5 grand to catch a $50 drug deal. But I would also assume those machines are idle most of the time and available to agencies willing to foot the bill.

  19. Existing law also requires a business that collects customer information for marketing purposes and that discloses a customer’s personal information to a 3rd party for direct marketing purposes, to provide the customer with whom it had a business relationship, as defined, within 30 days after the customer’s request

    This bill would instead require any business that has retains a customer’s personal information, as defined, or discloses that information to a 3rd party, to provide at no charge, within 30 days of the customer’s specified request, a copy of that information to the customer as well as the names and contact information for all 3rd parties with which the business has shared the information during the previous 12 months, regardless of any business relationship with the customer

  20. Re:Next step: identify the companies on California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected · · Score: 1

    Also how do companies identify that they have data on you? If they don't store your name how would they know the data is about you? How do I prove that an IP address belongs to me and not my roomate?

  21. Identity Theft on California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected · · Score: 1

    Steal enough info to fool google into thinking your someone else. Then request from google everything it knows about that person. They better require such request to occur in person with documenation.

  22. Implimentation on California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected · · Score: 2
    That's not all: you'd be able to request a copy of all the data they've stored about you too.

    Sounds like a identity thiefs dream come true.

  23. Re:Unix on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google couldn't get JSE to work on a phone, but could have implemented JME with little effort.

    Not true. Google didn't implement JSE because many of the libraries in that standard don't make sense on a touch screen phone. They cut out a bunch of libraries and they changed the I/O library. JME has different rules than JSE. Oracle was protecting its mobile business and wanted a cut of app revenue.

  24. Re:Looks like a win for progress on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 1

    No this is really old news. It happened last year. Basically nothing new has occurred. Oracle has just finished some of their paperwork on their appeal.

  25. Dictionary on Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights · · Score: 2

    The Java API is a dictionary of the words, punctuation marks, and grammar of the Java language. The only thing possibly covered by copyright is the layout and descriptions. Google didn't copy either.