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  1. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1

    isn't the minimal price to break even is the marginal cost for +1 unit produced? (in the first chapter of any economic book)

  2. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1

    isn't copyright a restriction? so by definition any market involving it is not free?

  3. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1

    Considering that your version of "scientific evidence" involves creating an alternative universe with no copyright and seeing how things work out, your claim is utterly irrelevant because all you've done is limit "scientific evidence" to something that can't practically be done.

    I didn't know the fashion industry existed in an alternate universe ???? (except from trademarks they have nothing)

  4. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    I almost forgot this: what you want it the ability to track the phone, for that you need a functioning phone not a bricked one.
    having control over the trust chain in the boot process with prevent the thief from installing anything on the phone hence preserving any tracking software present!

  5. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    it does existe, it's called google device manager or cerberus or .... etc for Android. Or iCloud or something like that for iphones/ipads
    On android, for instance to brick the phone destoy the EFS partition and "voila" ( dd if=/dev/random of =PATH_TO_EFS) the phone is useless for the thief! (if you recover it and have a back up you can restore it).

  6. Re:You can control cellular access on iOS on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    yes, it does, and yes I could just use iptables also, no need for AFWall or anything else.
    But, saying it would be PITA would be a euphemism.
    What the available "firewall" applications out there do is simplify that task a bit. I would be even better if we had something like this : http://iphonemonsta.com/firewa... or this http://www.neowin.net/forum/to... . baked in the system, so that no rooting is needed.
    I'm not asking, I'm just saying. (and in the mean time, I'm thinking about implementing my own solution, using libnetfilter_queue or something similar).

  7. Re:What can be done? on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    too cheap! At least 4 rolls of loonies .. way better!

  8. Re:You can control cellular access on iOS on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    Even AFwall is not enough.
    What's needed is : app/cell/wifi/ip/port. There was (Still?) a nice firewall app in cydia that did exactely that.
    For android there was something from whisper systems that was never released (it was part of the whole system -2.3-).

  9. Re:App permissions on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    how about that thing called exception handling?

  10. Re:The old 99% claim... on All In All, Kids Just Another Brick In the Data Wall · · Score: 1

    More over, statistics tell beatiful stories about a sample/a groupe, but nothing really about an indvidual of said group.
    Except a probability that this or that will happen, which far from a certainty (somthing that, it seems to me, most often than not is forgoten)

  11. Re:If we make it we can break it on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 1

    What's intrinsic about the value of any given service/comodity/product?
    it depends on the value of somthing else which depends on the value on something else ... etc, it will end up depending on someone's time somewhere costing. what is the intrinsic value of time? yours? mine? the time of the guy sitting in the corner? the miner's? the cop's?

  12. Re:Time for an ecologically sound cryptocurrency on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what's wrong with finding primes ?

  13. Re:Allow blocking on The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You · · Score: 1

    They said clearly that they were developing the permissions manager,

    no (afar as app opss is concerned). Read Dianne Hackborn's comments in here :
    https://plus.google.com/+Danny...

  14. Re:No on Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? · · Score: 1

    demoracies???
    iran? Congo? Chile? Argentina?

  15. Re:Google already has a noose on manufacturers on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 1

    I believe the Nexus phones get updates far before third-party branded phones, no?

    Not always. the galaxy nexus was left out this time around, and it wasn't b/c of performance or anything, it's working quiet perfectly with an AOSP build of 4.4.2. The official reason was : it's more than 18 months so fuck you very much.
    The point is, if you don't like the phone of X or Y company? simple, don't buy it. And if somehow you're forced to, there's always a way to get rid of the original software and install something else (AOSP builds come to mind as they are what you seem to be looking for), and that is due to the "openness" of android (notice the "").

  16. Re:Google already has a noose on manufacturers on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 1

    .... My phone (a VZW Galaxy Nexus), on the other hand, is crap because Google ceded some of its control to Verizon. So I can't tether or get timely Android updates or clear off the Verizon crap unless I install a third-party ROM, and even then I have to jump through hoops to get the latest Google Apps, and I will always be months behind on Android version updates. If Android were closed to begin with like iPhone was, Verizon could not have done that -- but they also probably would not not have taken Android in to begin with.

    That's why, my GSM galaxy nexus is running the latest official google version of android -4.4- (which, it is perfectly capable of running). Oh wait, there's no such thing.
    What there is, is AOSP, openness (in a way), that openness gave me (and many many others) the possibility to to get updates, tinker, add features (caller name display comes to mind, there was none for a long time, and it wasn't free).
    You want the "Google experience"? Fine buy a google phones from the google play store using your google wallet, not available for your carrier?? well, that's just too bad (not all phones are available for all carriers, this isn't new thing, been like this as far as I can remember).

  17. Re:low cunning, not clever on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Don't know about comcast, but i'll raise you one bell canada.
    sometime ago they went crying rivers to the CRTC saying that they need to impose limites on every single DSL subscriber (a customer of BELL or not, irrespective of the total aggregated amount transfered for a given ISP. Independant ISPs were paying for that bandwidth), b/c simply there's too much congestion (which they absolutely didn't prove). At about the same time they introduced a new TV service, that uses IP multicast on the same (supposedly congested) lines. Guess what that? didn't count at all

  18. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1
    No, they are (I suppose, as I have no allergies, nor does my direct family for whom I buy things).
    When there is the possibility to ask (allergic people will ask) no need for "mandatory" label. But in my experience if a question gets asked most of the time, it is more efficient to answer onces and for all on a big enough display device (be it a screen, paper or anything that might serve that purpose).

    GMO labelling though is a different issue. Much more political than a health issue.

    indeed, what I said in my previous post seems like a solution to the labelling problem (without forcing anyone to do anything).

  19. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    not baning, (I'm for anyone buying- procuring- anything if they feel like it) but merely labelling. This product can contain this and that and let people make the decision to consume or not (someone who's allergic will probably not, someone who doesn't like either -- I don't like hot sauce that contains sugar, usually I look for it on the label, if it weren't on the label i'd have to taste the thing before buying it, which is impossible in the store, before buying it --)
    saves lives, and no liability in case of a big incident (lack of information might kill in this instance). The one thing I don t get though in regarding the GMO labelling, if this or that company refuses to label, let them. Then those are not using any GMO in their product, should stop bitching and start advertising that on their boxes. From that consumers should assume that by default GMOs are present. What they do with that info is up to them
    -- that said, the fact that GMO are dangerous or not is really irrelevant, as many people stated above and below they avoid GMOs for "political" reasons --

  20. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    Don't know, but what's done is done. he's stuck with it! all he can do is avoid at any price any contact with anything that touched peanuts. And for that he has to know -it's a matter of life and death for him-
    . I know some kid (neighbours) that has never lived in a bubble and I know for sure that he's mother has no fascination for Lysol or anything like that, but he has a mild allergy to shrimps and stuff like that (inconvenienced if he eats any, but that's it).

  21. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    it is not a mass hysteria, it's a freaking life threatening condition!
    there are allergies that makes you sneeze, and others that send you straight to the grave!
    You're lucky (I assume) you don't have those, some do not share your luck!

  22. Re:GMOs feed over a billion people on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    And the peanut allergy scare,

    wtf man? it's not a scare, it's a real problem.I have a cousin that is so alergique (I'm not kidding) that the mere presence of peanuts in the room provoque a reaction (a call a freaking ambulance, reaction), it is not an anecdote, I've seen it with my own eyes!
    there are people out there that are intolerant to diffrent things, labeling is something that helps them make INFORMED decisions!

  23. Re:Sorry, correction . . . on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    oh, well, free has nothing to do with it.
    But I see and agree with what you're saying!

  24. Re:Disappearing data can't work on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    local vs global : ex (may be not usefull bu illustrate the concept) a mobius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip) strip is locally orientable (take any open peice of it, and it has an orientation), but not globally (the whole surface can not have an orientation).

  25. Re:DRM on Five Alternatives To Snapchat · · Score: 1

    on the other hand of the person trust the person you're sending the image to, you can assume safely that they wont keep it. By that an ecrypted *insert any trasport medium* would be enough as you know for a fact (since the receiving party is a trusted one) the pic/msg will be deleted!
    services like snapchat will just induce false sense of security (for those who don't understant what you said), and eliminate the only requirement needed which is trust in the persone receiving the data!