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  1. Good luck with that. on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm fully in support of her goals, and against GooberGate, but I don't know if what she can accomplish is reasonable or feasible.

    That being said, I do wish her actual luck in this. Ignoring abusive trolls hasn't amounted to much, feeding them until they explode doesn't do anything, ... it's like trying to pin down a gelatinous cube. All other options have been exhausted dealing with shitty trolls, why not? I just don't have particular optimism it'll work.

  2. Re:Well, let's criminalize Du Pont Nylon now. on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 1

    http://www.drugwarrant.com/art...

    Cite your sources too.

  3. Re:Too little too late on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    Guy could be like me, waiting for his NFC enabled phone to show up in the mail.

    (In all likely hood, it's probably still a pile of parts sitting somewhere in Shenzhen.)

  4. Re:At last. on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    It's more complicated than you think, and with OS Extensions for iOS and OS X, it's even nicer because it doesn't force you to swap apps. There's a remote view controller in the other app that runs and has no idea what process spawned it or any access into it's disk or memory. x-url:// schemes are similar.

    In either scheme, if I wanted to write to your app's, I'd have to tell your app to go write some piece of data to some document. My app would never touch your process or disk space area and your app could flat out reject writing to disk if something wasn't right. Like it failed format validation or something.

  5. Re:Well, let's criminalize Du Pont Nylon now. on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, it's always been about racism and moralizing.

    Du Pont really had nothing to do with it. And probably had more to gain from it if it were legalized because they had the capacity to grow vast fields of it. Same with Hearst. He only held minority stakes in paper mills. If hemp fiber could've out performed paper, moving his stock into hemp wouldn't have been hard.

  6. Re:Thank you, Presidents Reagan and Clinton. on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 1

    There is something to be said about the influence assholes like Frank Luntz have in shaping the modern American discourse.

    But to call it "Newspeak" is overselling the intention and the depth of power the people who are trying to change the vocabulary.

  7. Re:At last. on Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again · · Score: 1

    For a long time, I've been hoping for an OS where, by default, the apps cannot access anything outside of their private areas.

    Okay

  8. Re:Thank you, Presidents Reagan and Clinton. on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 1

    You can be a liberal authoritarian Democrat.

    These terms are so awfully defined that it's easy to bend what "liberal" and "authoritarian" mean.

    If you think that the Government should both be compassionate towards those who are oppressed and mistreated and should offer services to everyone to help them lead fuller lives, and also that the Government should use as much force as possible to enforce laws on the books then you've gone the whole gamut from liberal and authoritarian.

    "You must have tea and cake with the vicar or you die!"

  9. Re:Pffft on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

    here's the root post:

    Pathetic beta white boy can't even get a white woman, had to settle with some dirty chink.

    A lot of this misogynistic and racist language is showing up inside of GamerGate spheres.

    I was joking and suggesting that the person was involved with GamerGate.

  10. Re:Another terrorist off the street on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 2

    I don't think Gitmo is where he should go, but as a guy who was co-responsible for a site that vomits malware through sketchy as fuck ads, he should have to answer for his crimes on some level.

    (Saying that people who don't run adblock deserve the shit they get is victim blaming, so don't be an asshole)

  11. Re:Pffft on Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand · · Score: 2

    I'm curious if you and the parent both feel very strongly about ethics in games journalism

  12. Re:Intel's new Tock-Tick release cycle ... on Intel To Expand Core M Broadwell Line With Faster Dual-Core Processors · · Score: 1

    The point of lowering clock speeds is lower thermal profile and better battery life. Something Intel can't manage until they either scrap x86 or radically alter their chip design process

    If they can get similar total performance and better clock for clock performance, going with lower clock speeds is the right thing to do.

  13. Re:This is why I like Apple vs. others. on Smart Meters and New IoT Devices Cause Serious Concern · · Score: 2

    [citation needed]

  14. Re: Did he leave or was he invited to leave? on Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google · · Score: 1

    What permissions means to Android and iOS are different.

    On Android, permissions are more broadly defined. Access to if you're on WiFi, Access to the status bar, access to the current time zone, etc.

    Some of these things are taken for granted on iOS. Like detecting if you're on WiFi or not. I know Overcast does this to prevent downloading over mobile data by default. I don't think apps have permissions period to read the entire current wifi state.

    iOS doesn't allow some of these permissions too. Like sending SMSes. iOS will give you a remote view controller that you can pre-populate with SMS data, but will not automatically send SMS programatically. So writing SMSes just isn't a permission it needs to specify.

    So iOS doesn't need the fine granular controls that Android folks are looking for, but everything that wants to access personal data on the phone either does so through explicit user prompts or remote view controllers.

  15. Re:The Answer Is... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 2

    The same thing can be said for computers and smart phones.

    What, I've got to keep my computer plugged into the wall!? WHAT A HORRIBLE PRODUCT!

    I think that the devil is really in the details and we're sadly lacking any details. WatchKit SDK is coming out very very soon so. I'm really hoping that works out well.

  16. Re:Just like "free" housing solved poverty! on Power and Free Broadband To the People · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://salvationarmynorth.org/...

    It's even better than that. It turns out just giving homeless people homes saves money for states.

    So...

  17. Re:The old and the new. (H.265/HEVC) on It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard · · Score: 1

    at 30" I'm going to need a much bigger desk.

    I can't wait for those ridiculously high DPI panels to scale up. I want a 21" 4k display at 120 Hz.

    I also want a pony.

  18. Re:Where's the schema (DTD/XML Schema/Relax NG)? on It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard · · Score: 2

    Actually the current browsers have a lot to lose with crazy parsing rules. Lots of edge cases, writing lots of nasty hacks to get around various markup bugs...

    Even it does mean higher bar of entry, the bar's pretty high anyway because even if we did have schema parsing, the render piece really is the hard part.

    Who does this benefit? Lazy crappy godawful web developers.

  19. Re:Goolge is helping... on Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Your paranoid conspiracy theory requires everyone to be acting in the self interest of some unnamed shady interest that's presumed to be the US Government or forces controlling the US Government.

    I'd hate to tell you this but they're not that smart.

  20. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 1

    I understand that scripting was preexisting functionality (from iOS's UNIX heritage) that Apple made a conscious, deliberate effort to remove

    Remove? If you an open up a shell via jailbreaking, you have access to all kinds of scripting. They just don't think it's in the user's best interest to have access to a shell.

    Give themselves more control at the expense of the user

    right. because that's always the best UX decision

  21. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 1

    Uh, even if you're free to side load, you can't bring your apps with you to other OSes because other OSes do not support Cocoa Touch and other iOS libraries.

    You're still going to have to hope there's ports of your software on other platforms. And if it is written using frameworks that are easily portable, the chances of finding a port are very very high.

    If your applications do not support exporting data to other devices, this is not Apple's fault. Applications can export their own data any number of ways(Cloud services, direct bluetooth/wifi file transfer, connect via iTunes and export).

    So I'm really not sure what you mean by lock-in then.

  22. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 2

    The browser would have to trigger the script somehow, the script would have to read the contents of the browser, etc. etc.

    You can probably find a scriptable browser in the App store, but I'm shocked you can't understand why this isn't a priority for Apple.

  23. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 2

    Your analogy is completely wrong.

    By "dangerous" I mean, "How badly will this go wrong if I shoot myself in the foot?"

    I'm not saying you shouldn't use a screwdriver to pry open paint cans and used to drive screws. I'm saying you shouldn't use a nail gun as a TV remote.

  24. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 1

    not really? There's IFTTT and all sorts of apps that'll automate based on geofencing. You can tell siri to set up various tasks for you based on geofencing too...

    But having a script trigger when a captive portal comes up would mean the script would have to know what's going on in the browser thread when the capture portal detection runs. Plus it's super fiddly and awful UX.

  25. Re:Wait, what? on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 1

    That's only if you don't root. If you do however, you can do whatever the hell you want. Which is kind of dangerous from a consumer device standpoint.

    I err with Apple on this one. I don't think that iOS should be giving you the gun in which to shoot your own foot with. Especially on the phone.