"one official saying Snowden was safe from the authorities as long as he remained in the transit lounge at the city's Sheremetyevo airport"
Oooh, I saw that movie. Terminals with Tom Hanks, lol.
Do on an anti-that company PR rampage. They certainly set themselves up for that! Tear them a new ass and if they have the balls to sue you for copyright infringement, you could probably beat them lawyerless it would be so much of a joke.
If he did that to me, he'd need surgery after I tore him a new ass and then sued him until he was homeless in a ditch. Other than that, great use of technology.
You go to the manufacturer of any laptop and a brand new original battery is usually $150+. Ebay gets you a $20 3rd party battery with sketchy cells, a 6 month useable life, and typically the wrong chip so it won't charge. Batteries Plus or Best Buy charge at least $100 and then give you a sketchy 3rd party battery, making them both the worst possible option. Why people even still go to them is beyond me.
How can they identify TOR traffic? There were whole slashdot articles about how impossible it is to detect TOR traffic. SSL is SSL. An encrypted VPN connection aka all of them looks exactly like Tor traffic because they both have the same structure.
Okay I get the logic of leave all your stuff unencrypted and on the open web so the NSA can spy on you otherwise if you use encrypted networks like TOR, the NSA will try even more to spy on you. That's their logic.
Buuuut...
What is the use of capturing undecryptable TOR traffic? It's just gibberish garbage data to them. And then if they just mean they capture and analyze all of your unencrypted data just because you're using TOR, then obviously anything you don't care about is included in that traffic and anything top secret and sensitive goes on in that TOR connection you're obviously using, making it completely pointless to have your open internet traffic analyzed. So it's actually all around pointless.
Who keeps writing these articles? Do PC gamers not exist? They outnumber console users in case you were wondering. Oh, here's more fun numbers: for every iOS device, there's 3 android devices. So nobody has to "worry" about Apple, especially considering how they treat their app developers.
Then there's the logical progression that everyone knows is true but nobody want to admit. Game controls on a touchscreen and tilt smartphone are a joke. Controls with joysticks and buttons are a slightly less funny joke. A keyboard and mouse is the most precise, exact method for operating a game. If you don't believe me, play Starcraft 2 with an Xbox 360 clone USB controller. Consoles are dead, PC gaming is the king.
"A cheque for Can$4,059.50 (US$3,991) from Farris let him buy a laptop and printer to produce a business proposal"
Where the hell was he shopping? That could have been easily $450. Great way to start a business, wasting money on overpriced crap. This guy must be a financial genius!
Oh boo hoo. Try being the CEO of Butterfly Labs while they were announcing their amazing new ASIC processing devices that would run on 2 watts and do 2,500 MH/s. The bitcoin community tore him a new ass once they found out he's an ex-felon who used to help run a fake foreign online lottery scam. It turns out they are dishonest, lying assholes because the device is at least real but 33 watts, 4500 MH/s in reality. Also, they purposely deceived everyone into placing early pre-orders by lying about their release date to appear better than their competition then delayed shipping by about 8+ months.
In both cases, with both companies, you just have to ignore it all until you release a proven, tested product. Then don't forget to shove it in everyone's faces.
I would have simply sent back a Dr Zoidberg meme photo of him saying "your C&D is bad and you should feel bad." That would certainly imply how seriously I was taking it. In fact, I'd print it on our low quality color inkjet too instead of our nice laser one.
Everyone knows the age old strategy that they're using. Whenever your people are super mad at you and rioting and protesting, the first thing you should do is something to piss them off more.
Is it just me or are all the tech companies today having a contest to see who can make the worst hardware user interface controls? It went from desktops to laptops with bad touchpads and bad keyboards with no number pads to touchscreen tablets that are virtually impossible to type on to touchscreen cell phones that are even worse because they're tiny to a watch that's basically impossible to control with anything. Game designers are already complaining that touch and tilt aren't fast enough to control games or other apps in Android. Now they expect them to come up with something for a watch?
Well, here's how that went last time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies
Yeah, it sunk because the CEO was the biggest asshole on the planet but keep in mind that it was also because they launched the product before it was technically ready for market. So if this dual laser tech comes out in the next 3 years, it'll probably be a similar disaster.
What is wrong with these people? Let me explain: I know when I think of the best way to start a new company or open a new branch or expand my new business, the first thing that comes to mind is open it in the most expensive area of one of the most expensive states with the most expensive rent and property costs. Just think of the prestige of saying I'm based in New York and never mind the millions and millions of dollars in additional unnecessary expenses, not to mention burdening employees with a commute from hell just to get there in the first place every morning. Crime, noise, terrorism, forget all that! We're setting up shop in NYC for absolutely no reason!
After at least 3 years of perpetually the worst thing to happen to browser security ever, maybe they should just eliminate their entire web plugin. I mean for God's sake, I just saw someone's credit union use a java app for logging into online banking. I've never heard of a bank demanding that its users purposely ruin the security on their computer in order to access online banking. I heard v7r25 that was released days ago already has critical flaws. I think technically if you had Java for the last 3 years, there wasn't one moment in time that you were actually without a gigantic java-based exploit security flaw.
I'm not a fucking physicist. It just does. Are you too stupid to know that? Diffused light that's spread around a plastic material is less susceptible to appearing to flicker than light directly into your eyes. I don't know how it works, that's just how it works. Look it up on wikipedia if your undees are in a bundle over it.
Maybe in NYC, lol. I got a brand new mountain bike for $160 and it lasted 9 years with zero tune ups. At the last police evidence auction, nice bikes were going for $35 and they were only stolen once, lol. At the pawn shop and local thrift shops, they hover around $50.
Why not take the money you would have spent on the helmet and just buy your own bike? I'm in WI and I could easily fit a full sized mountain bike in my 400 sq ft studio apartment...or the bike rack downstairs or my parking spot lol. I don't get this bike sharing thing. A cheap but okay bike is like $150. Why rent when you can just buy one? And why buy an expensive helmet that tells you where to rent bikes?
I have absurdly fast eyes. I cannot stand any CRT below 80Hz. I can see red, green, and blue in separately in any DLP projector with any color wheel frequency. LEDs in taillights in modern cars like Lexuses drive me insane because it looks like a trail of blinking LEDs to me. Even LED glowsticks bug me and people don't believe me until I wave them back and forth to prove they're flickering. And yet I've used a dozen different LED monitors, maybe even hundreds, and never had a single problem with them. The diffusion of the screen blocks the blatant flicker that's likely occurring. I think the author of this article merely has too much caffeine or is eating crunchy granola while using his monitor or something because if anyone would have a problem, it would be me, and I don't.
They actually got 1/5th of my purchases and newegg got 4/5 this year thus far. The only reason they're faster is because they're 1 state away. They don't actually ship any faster than Newegg. I run a retail shop that does computer repair and custom builds so it's nice to get orders in 1 day but if it costs $510 instead of $500 to build a PC because I got the parts at TD, my customers will go elsewhere. The margins on computers and computer accessories suck so I usually go to Newegg to make the most money even if it's slower.
By the way, if you get a TD business account and promise to (and then actually do) spend $15,000 total in one year, they'll give you a bronze level discount from the get-go which is 5% off everything, no exemptions, no limits. Newegg's business side is a complete joke with practically zero advantage over residential. In fact, it has about 1/10th the amount of awesome limited time sales. They offer no discounts whatsoever on almost all of the items just because it's a business account and all the alleged bulk discounts are available in the residential side as well.
You fucking moron. Read a reply above: They both cost about the same, they both use UPS ground 3-5 shipping, just Illinois to Wisconsin is always a 1 day trip and California/Tennessee/New Jersey (Newegg's main 3) are 3 days minimum. It's just coincidence that I live closers so to just me specifically, TD is faster. How fucking stupid are you? Keep hiding behind your stupid anonymous post, troll.
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"one official saying Snowden was safe from the authorities as long as he remained in the transit lounge at the city's Sheremetyevo airport"
Oooh, I saw that movie. Terminals with Tom Hanks, lol.
All you have to do to stop terrorists is rush zerglings...or maybe that's Terrans
Do on an anti-that company PR rampage. They certainly set themselves up for that! Tear them a new ass and if they have the balls to sue you for copyright infringement, you could probably beat them lawyerless it would be so much of a joke.
If he did that to me, he'd need surgery after I tore him a new ass and then sued him until he was homeless in a ditch. Other than that, great use of technology.
You go to the manufacturer of any laptop and a brand new original battery is usually $150+. Ebay gets you a $20 3rd party battery with sketchy cells, a 6 month useable life, and typically the wrong chip so it won't charge. Batteries Plus or Best Buy charge at least $100 and then give you a sketchy 3rd party battery, making them both the worst possible option. Why people even still go to them is beyond me.
Boy, I sure hope they catch and kill the worst pollution offender in the entire country: the Chinese government.
How can they identify TOR traffic? There were whole slashdot articles about how impossible it is to detect TOR traffic. SSL is SSL. An encrypted VPN connection aka all of them looks exactly like Tor traffic because they both have the same structure.
Okay I get the logic of leave all your stuff unencrypted and on the open web so the NSA can spy on you otherwise if you use encrypted networks like TOR, the NSA will try even more to spy on you. That's their logic.
Buuuut...
What is the use of capturing undecryptable TOR traffic? It's just gibberish garbage data to them. And then if they just mean they capture and analyze all of your unencrypted data just because you're using TOR, then obviously anything you don't care about is included in that traffic and anything top secret and sensitive goes on in that TOR connection you're obviously using, making it completely pointless to have your open internet traffic analyzed. So it's actually all around pointless.
Who keeps writing these articles? Do PC gamers not exist? They outnumber console users in case you were wondering. Oh, here's more fun numbers: for every iOS device, there's 3 android devices. So nobody has to "worry" about Apple, especially considering how they treat their app developers.
Then there's the logical progression that everyone knows is true but nobody want to admit. Game controls on a touchscreen and tilt smartphone are a joke. Controls with joysticks and buttons are a slightly less funny joke. A keyboard and mouse is the most precise, exact method for operating a game. If you don't believe me, play Starcraft 2 with an Xbox 360 clone USB controller. Consoles are dead, PC gaming is the king.
If the DVR sees me flipping it off every time a commercial comes on, it may realize that I hate commercials and will stop playing them, lol.
"A cheque for Can$4,059.50 (US$3,991) from Farris let him buy a laptop and printer to produce a business proposal"
Where the hell was he shopping? That could have been easily $450. Great way to start a business, wasting money on overpriced crap. This guy must be a financial genius!
Oh boo hoo. Try being the CEO of Butterfly Labs while they were announcing their amazing new ASIC processing devices that would run on 2 watts and do 2,500 MH/s. The bitcoin community tore him a new ass once they found out he's an ex-felon who used to help run a fake foreign online lottery scam. It turns out they are dishonest, lying assholes because the device is at least real but 33 watts, 4500 MH/s in reality. Also, they purposely deceived everyone into placing early pre-orders by lying about their release date to appear better than their competition then delayed shipping by about 8+ months.
In both cases, with both companies, you just have to ignore it all until you release a proven, tested product. Then don't forget to shove it in everyone's faces.
I would have simply sent back a Dr Zoidberg meme photo of him saying "your C&D is bad and you should feel bad." That would certainly imply how seriously I was taking it. In fact, I'd print it on our low quality color inkjet too instead of our nice laser one.
Everyone knows the age old strategy that they're using. Whenever your people are super mad at you and rioting and protesting, the first thing you should do is something to piss them off more.
Is it just me or are all the tech companies today having a contest to see who can make the worst hardware user interface controls? It went from desktops to laptops with bad touchpads and bad keyboards with no number pads to touchscreen tablets that are virtually impossible to type on to touchscreen cell phones that are even worse because they're tiny to a watch that's basically impossible to control with anything. Game designers are already complaining that touch and tilt aren't fast enough to control games or other apps in Android. Now they expect them to come up with something for a watch?
Well, here's how that went last time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies
Yeah, it sunk because the CEO was the biggest asshole on the planet but keep in mind that it was also because they launched the product before it was technically ready for market. So if this dual laser tech comes out in the next 3 years, it'll probably be a similar disaster.
What is wrong with these people? Let me explain: I know when I think of the best way to start a new company or open a new branch or expand my new business, the first thing that comes to mind is open it in the most expensive area of one of the most expensive states with the most expensive rent and property costs. Just think of the prestige of saying I'm based in New York and never mind the millions and millions of dollars in additional unnecessary expenses, not to mention burdening employees with a commute from hell just to get there in the first place every morning. Crime, noise, terrorism, forget all that! We're setting up shop in NYC for absolutely no reason!
"$60 and $80, about the same as filling up a 15-gallon gas tank"
Ummm no. I usually fill 13.5 and it costs about $42 and my state has the 2nd highest gas prices in the US.
After at least 3 years of perpetually the worst thing to happen to browser security ever, maybe they should just eliminate their entire web plugin. I mean for God's sake, I just saw someone's credit union use a java app for logging into online banking. I've never heard of a bank demanding that its users purposely ruin the security on their computer in order to access online banking. I heard v7r25 that was released days ago already has critical flaws. I think technically if you had Java for the last 3 years, there wasn't one moment in time that you were actually without a gigantic java-based exploit security flaw.
I'm not a fucking physicist. It just does. Are you too stupid to know that? Diffused light that's spread around a plastic material is less susceptible to appearing to flicker than light directly into your eyes. I don't know how it works, that's just how it works. Look it up on wikipedia if your undees are in a bundle over it.
Maybe in NYC, lol. I got a brand new mountain bike for $160 and it lasted 9 years with zero tune ups. At the last police evidence auction, nice bikes were going for $35 and they were only stolen once, lol. At the pawn shop and local thrift shops, they hover around $50.
Why not take the money you would have spent on the helmet and just buy your own bike? I'm in WI and I could easily fit a full sized mountain bike in my 400 sq ft studio apartment...or the bike rack downstairs or my parking spot lol. I don't get this bike sharing thing. A cheap but okay bike is like $150. Why rent when you can just buy one? And why buy an expensive helmet that tells you where to rent bikes?
I have absurdly fast eyes. I cannot stand any CRT below 80Hz. I can see red, green, and blue in separately in any DLP projector with any color wheel frequency. LEDs in taillights in modern cars like Lexuses drive me insane because it looks like a trail of blinking LEDs to me. Even LED glowsticks bug me and people don't believe me until I wave them back and forth to prove they're flickering. And yet I've used a dozen different LED monitors, maybe even hundreds, and never had a single problem with them. The diffusion of the screen blocks the blatant flicker that's likely occurring. I think the author of this article merely has too much caffeine or is eating crunchy granola while using his monitor or something because if anyone would have a problem, it would be me, and I don't.
They actually got 1/5th of my purchases and newegg got 4/5 this year thus far. The only reason they're faster is because they're 1 state away. They don't actually ship any faster than Newegg. I run a retail shop that does computer repair and custom builds so it's nice to get orders in 1 day but if it costs $510 instead of $500 to build a PC because I got the parts at TD, my customers will go elsewhere. The margins on computers and computer accessories suck so I usually go to Newegg to make the most money even if it's slower.
By the way, if you get a TD business account and promise to (and then actually do) spend $15,000 total in one year, they'll give you a bronze level discount from the get-go which is 5% off everything, no exemptions, no limits. Newegg's business side is a complete joke with practically zero advantage over residential. In fact, it has about 1/10th the amount of awesome limited time sales. They offer no discounts whatsoever on almost all of the items just because it's a business account and all the alleged bulk discounts are available in the residential side as well.
You fucking moron. Read a reply above: They both cost about the same, they both use UPS ground 3-5 shipping, just Illinois to Wisconsin is always a 1 day trip and California/Tennessee/New Jersey (Newegg's main 3) are 3 days minimum. It's just coincidence that I live closers so to just me specifically, TD is faster. How fucking stupid are you? Keep hiding behind your stupid anonymous post, troll.