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  1. Re:CBC assumed CNN owned it on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and if the car was stolen, your sister would be in jail for receiving stolen property.

  2. Re:Blackberry not compatible with anything on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the place I was working at regularly handled information and data that fell under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) regulations. We had people helping us doing some migrations off of Lotus Notes in India, but if a person was flagged as handling ITAR information, everything had to be handled in house.

    That is also why they were very anal about everyone's device having the ability to be remote wiped should it be lost or stolen.

  3. Re:Blackberry not compatible with anything on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    The thing is that if you want full control over the device (such as remote wipe), you need the BES to manage that part of the system. So yes, while you are able to sync the device with ActiveSync without a BES, you lose all management that the BES provides for BB phones.

    With the android phone I had hooked up with ActiveSync, the permissions to remote wipe my phone were assigned when I had it sync with our Exchange server. AFAIK, those options are not assigned when working with BB phones over ActiveSync the way they are with Android and iOS.

  4. Re:Take a look on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    The government mandate on that is a load of bullshit. It means that everyone is going to have to buy new cars or do expensive retro-fits with the new gear. I prefer to be in control of my car. I've gotten out of some nasty situations by having good reaction times.

    One thing that I have to wonder is if there is a sudden stop, do the systems take into account quality of the braking systems (new vs. old fluid, quality of master cylinder, brake pad/rotor wear) and suspension systems (blown shocks, aftermarket shocks with different dampening profiles, etc.)? There are so many variables that this program could never work.

  5. Re:Architectural Problem on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm kinda wondering why the entertainment system is hooked up to the car's vital systems. It makes zero sense to do that. Even if it was to display vehicle information, you could just use the OBD information from the car, as you can set that up for Output Only if you really wanted to.

  6. Re:Blackberry not compatible with anything on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    I worked as an intern at a moderately sized company. Once I figured out how to sync a BB phone with the Exchange server (which only had a 50% chance of working, 10 minutes between each try), the guy responsible for the BES said "Great, you know how to do this now. I get 4 months of not dealing with this anymore!". The BES is a total fucking nightmare to work with, and I was only doing very basic things with it. I feel sorry for the poor bastard that had to set up the BES and do the higher level admin work on it. The web interface you use gives almost no feedback as to if something you did took or didn't take. There is no screen that shows you what processes are running. Resending the same process would cause the BES to freak out, so you basically had to figure out about how long each process would take, and time it from there.

    Of course, I only was working at a very basic level with it, so there could have been stuff I didn't know about to make my job easier.

  7. Re:movieblob on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is a shitstorm, and while I say that I'm Pro-GG, it really doesnt have that much meaning. Its two completely different sites yelling at eachother, but having different conversations. One side is pushing for ethics in games journalism and fighting out the SJW clique that has taken over the games journalism, and the other side is screaming its a harassment campaign. If you visit any place that is Pro-GG, you will find out quickly that harassment is not tolerated. Pro-GG sites (outside of the mess that is 8chan's GGRevolt, which are a bunch of people that just start shit for no reason) tend to very quickly come down on people that are trying to harass others and flood reports, whether it be on Twitter, Reddit, or any other site.

    The problem is that both sides can be pretty petty and handle things like little kids. I tend to just dislike Anti-GG because they always tend to be a certain type of person (typically males with crushing white guilt and a hate of nerds/geeks/gamers)

  8. Re:You're feeding them on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    The whole reason for the main conflict is a farse. Also, how can you make a robot that is afraid and has what appear to be emotions, but you couldn't upload a vocabulary to it so it could speak?

  9. Re:movieblob on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 2

    What I was hinting at was that he chose a side in GamerGate that I dont agree with. The lack of self-awareness is that the same stereotypes and insults he slings against other people fit him all too well. I knew that he was Anti-GG when the whole shitstorm started, but I didn't care, I still watched his videos because I liked his reviews. Then he did a review for Blackhat, where he brings up GamerGate (without actually bringing it up, we know what he is talking about) and just slams them for no reason.

    At that point, I lost all respect for him and his opinion.

  10. Re:Isn't this normal? on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    Well, then it sucks for them.

  11. Re:Isn't this normal? on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    The point was that you invest more than you can afford and post losses for 3 years so you can write them off, then magically start making profit after you can't write the losses off anymore.

  12. Re:You're feeding them on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    The only movie I've been to in the past few years to see in theaters was Chappie. I was pretty drunk before going there, but I noticed a MASSIVE plot hole that would nullify the whole conflict if one person did the extremely logical thing. It ruined the movie for me, and I haven't been back to the theaters in awhile.

  13. Re:Remakes are seldom worth it on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    It's almost as if they make puppies sad with their actions.

  14. Re:movieblob on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    Prior to the whole shitstorm that happened and his videos favoring certain demographics of internet dwellers, he actually had some really good insight into movies, and I found that I generally agreed with him. Recently, its more political ramblings of someone who has zero self-awareness.

  15. Isn't this normal? on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    So apparently if you don't post profits immediately, you are a failed company? Isn't it standard to post losses for 2-3 years before you become profitable. Well, 3 years in California. After 3 you cant write off the losses from your company anymore.

  16. Re:No worries! Elon Musk will fix it! on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Thatsthejoke.jpg

  17. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Go back to reddit.

  18. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    I was watching some prepper show where they had some dude that built a small, portable pump to drain out the local fuel stations into the back of his trucks fuel container. Pretty interesting idea. Of course, the best option in this situation would be bio diesel.

    Note: Not a prepper, but the ideas that some of these guys have and oddball solutions are quite interesting.

  19. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    My 81 280ZX had two ECUs in it with a coil pack for ignition with fuel injection. So yeah, even back then cars started packing in the electronics.

  20. Re:The only reboot/reprise/sequal on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 2

    I have to say as someone who has never watched a Mad Max film, Fury Road blew me away. So little dialogue, but the story was so fleshed out without it anyways. The lack of CGI made it amazing as well. Cant forget the lack of Shaky-Cam and fast cuts too. Nice, long shots of all the action - that is something missing in today's action films.

  21. Re:Why wait? on BitTorrent To RIAA: You're 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a major game system that uses the bittorrent protocol for updates?

    Almost all Blizzard games use a torrent updater. Or at least they did. Plenty of F2P games use Pando Media Booster which is a hybrid Torrent/Client-Server distribution program.

  22. Re:moviebob on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    Moviebob doesn't like anything.

  23. LoL is only most viewed on Microsoft Makes Push To Get Back Into E-Sports · · Score: 1

    If you count the Twitch bots to boost stream numbers.

  24. Re:Need something more exciting...like...GOLF... on Microsoft Makes Push To Get Back Into E-Sports · · Score: 1

    TI5 is at $18mil right now.

  25. Re:but someone will pay... on In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year · · Score: 1

    I thought that OS2 did this shit as well.