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  1. Re:Judging Performance on Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? · · Score: 1

    Shouldnt the law be equally applied? It shouldn't be at the whim of an officer to decide if something is punishable.

    If it's trivial and insignificant, then it shouldn't be illegal. If it is not trivial, then the cop should have to follow up on it. The alternative (what we have now) is that many trivial and insignificant things are illegal and cops can follow up on them at their own whim.

  2. Re:Wireless access, once you've got wired access on How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap · · Score: 0

    To be fair, you don't keep your server in your driveway. Or maybe you do? :)

    I don't know how easy it is to find the connector though. In theory, cars should be able to tell if external devices are connected.

  3. Re:"Not Reproduclibe" on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    FWIW Newton was 100 years before Darwin popularized evolution. I dont think it's fair to call someone a "creationist" when they lived 100 years before the theory of evolution was released. He had the same religious beliefs of anyone else of his time.

  4. Re:When will companies be held liable? on Starbucks Phone App Stores Password Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    Indeed it's called "top of mind" and it's an old, old marketing tactic with the pinnacle being Kleenex, band-aid, coke, etc.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-of-mind_awareness

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

  5. Re:I was offered money to add spyware to my app on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1

    I get this too. Also get emails where people have uploaded my apps and created an account for me to some korean market.

    I think the ones I hate the most though are the emails asking if I want to buy fake ratings.

  6. Re:Security model on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1
  7. Re:This app never seemed necessary on FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App · · Score: 1

    Google tends to keep the algorithm secret for apps showing as "top" but I'm pretty sure one of the things they look at is how quickly people uninstall. User retention is (supposedly) a heavily weighted metric.

  8. Re:Install manually? on CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store · · Score: 1

    No US carriers lock down side-loading that I know of. It was only ATT in the very early days of Android AFAIK. ATT only had the policy for about 18 months before giving up.

    Dunno about other countries, but I have not heard anything about such lock downs.

  9. Re:Both ways? on Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score · · Score: 1

    They already do: http://www.economist.com/node/16910031 This article is old news

  10. Re:Advertisement on Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 · · Score: 1

    It may be a bit of an ad, but they are fairly well known in the mobile world as a very successful startup. They have also contributed a ton of open-source libraries https://github.com/square

  11. Re:surprised, yet not surprised. on Google Starts Tracking Retail Store Visits On Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Navigation has had the traffic layer for years.

  12. Re:I wonder.. on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Is that stack trace correct for you also? it looked like it was unable to connect to storage (all the file & db reads threw null pointers). Possibly something with the MBR.

    Do you flash a lot of ROMs? Have you flashed any before? Do you know how to clear the dalvik cache?

    Not sure what's wrong there but it looks like a hardware issue or something in the system image was corrupted. I might try a factory reset and clearing the dalvik cache before you RMA, other than that there should be some folk on XDA or AndroidForums.com who know a lot more that could help you.

    Something similar used to happen to the Galaxy Nexus but a battery pull would fix it -- clearing the dalvik cache IIRC. (they fixed it in JB also)

    hth

  13. Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    That just looks like a typical 44.1khz response graph. Your desktop may have a 48kHz sound card which gives it more "breathing room" above human hearing. (longer tail above 20kHz)

    There's still enough room in a 44.1kHz DSP above 20kHz to transmit data though. (As far as I understand it)

    see:
    http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

    http://www.xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml

  14. Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. This is actually completely doable I used to work for a company that did it (not malware though). You dont have to be much outside the range, even smartphones mics / speakers et al can do this. You only have to go just past 20kHz

    see:
    http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

    http://www.xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml

  15. Re:blah blah blah on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Oh, I wasnt trying to snark on you, just link you to more information :) no offense intended.

  16. Re:blah blah blah on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1
  17. Re:EFF instructions don't work on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my above post is not entirely correct. it seems, for Windows at least, it Vidalia control panel is included in the Browser Bundle.

    https://blog.torproject.org/blog/plain-vidalia-bundles-be-discontinued-dont-panic

    Not sure about OSX/Linux, but I assume it is similar

  18. Re:EFF instructions don't work on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    IIRC the "Vidalia Bundle" is just an older name for the "Browser Bundle"

  19. Re:Identity Play on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    I do believe the slides Snowden released showed they were paying the telcos at least

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/09/23/attverizonsprint-are-paid-cash-by-nsa-for-your-private-communications/ /this is really off-topic though. Good on Apple for this.

  20. Re:youtube ads on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    I have noticed this too, but you can usually still ad-block them (at least the dynamic ones). Although they have been getting better about forcing it, there is also usually an option to skip after 5 seconds.

    Still, you had to kind of expected that with YouTube. But these giant image ads on search results are surprising to me, and disappointing.

    Though most of all I find video ads on YouTube mobile to be more irritating. Using my bandwidth. And most of all ? The complete fail of the aggressive attempts to push people to use real names on youtube. (I understand why, but they should have stopped pushing it after I said no the first time).

  21. Re:The Fine was $12 M, but, on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 1

    I wonder what "Executive Fuckup" insurance costs. You think it comes with a free set of pens or maybe a calendar?

  22. Re:That doesn't make any sense on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be sure you dont visit Expidia or Orbitz or some such. At least that's what I assume the reasoning is.

    Still that banner is hugely obnoxious looking (IMHO). This is a bad move by Google.

  23. Re:Anyone noticed. . . on No Zombie Uprising, But Problems Persist With Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    They really just need to put their best brains together on it.

  24. Re:Same as it ever was on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia is not a place to list every grievance anyone has on a particular topic.

    Indeed, this is a common problem. Some people will post a litany of criticism (complete with sources) just to use Wikipedia as a soapbox. Many things that have fallen out of favor become targets on Wikipedia by zealous users just as PR companies are trying to do the opposite.

  25. Firing someone like that is illegal on Broadcom Laying Off LTE and Modem Design Employees · · Score: 1

    Firing someone before their benefits vest would be wrongful termination and (surprise) not be good for shareholder value. Look up ERISA. What they can (an often do) offer is to give some incentive for the employee to voluntarily retire early.