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  1. I doubt his dashcam has enough resolution to tell the difference between a phone and a wallet.

  2. I have netflix, which I use on occasion, and Amazon Prime, which I only use for shipping and find borderline worthless for video streaming. Why? Because virtually all of the good stuff they have is pay per screw. For everything else, there's SickRage, CouchPotato, and Plex. I'll very likely pick up HBO while Game of Thrones is on (I say while, because I'm jobless until early May.)

  3. Re:Dictation on Cellebrite Is Developing Roadside Police 'Textalyzer' Device (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I personally can think of an easy way of avoiding this completely:

    If you see red and blue lights, put your phone in airplane mode, throw it under the seat, and deny you even have one. Same if you're involved in a collision. If the cop asks to search your car, tell him that his rights to search your car are about as good as your rights to give him a cavity search.

  4. Re: Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but the unused fuel represents payload mass which can't be delivered to orbit, which reduces revenue.

    I really think you don't know what the word revenue means.

  5. Re:Might? on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not a valid comparison.

    The appeal of streaming services is that distribution is simplified to the point that you get everything under one roof. In order for shoplifting to be a valid comparison, you'd have to be able to shoplift just anything you could possibly desire from just one store, which you obviously can't do. Under a proper tracker (say what.cd in this case) you really do get everything from just one place.

    This, by the way, is why a lot of people in other countries like to VPN to get US based Netflix instead of having to subscribe to multiple services in their own country to get the same content, which is still paying for (and not pirating) their content.

    The fact that you have a job (or even no job at all) doesn't come into play.

  6. Re: Mod parent RETARDED. on Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hypocratic to consistently ask for less regulation? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

  7. Re: Modem â Router on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it doesn't, when Motorola sold combined modem/gateway units, they were always under the SBG nomenclature, and standalone modems were always just SB. This is the SB6141, which means it's just a modem.

  8. Re:yeah right on Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    It's probably best that he returns to being a comedian. He's been in favor of virtually all of the worst intellectual property bills that have gone through the senate.

  9. Re:Power? on Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea with just one flaw: I doubt it will work without power.

    The real answer is for companies to stop collecting data. There is no legitimate reason that Facebook should have data collection in the Oculus Rift just as there is no legitimate reason that Microsoft or Google should have data collection in their respective OSes.

    Or you could just...not buy one? Seriously, if you don't like the way it works, don't buy it. Some people don't mind being spied on, and if that's fine with them, then let them have their cake.

  10. If they know he's a drug dealer on Apple Won't Sue FBI To Reveal Hack Used To Unlock Seized iPhone (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Then why do they need his phone? They're calling him a drug dealer already, so it sounds to me like they have a conviction already. However if they don't have a conviction and fail to get one, they're looking at some potential civil liability...

  11. Re:Well that would be refreshing on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    What if the truth is that Monica is an alien?

  12. Yeah there are people who have come forth and openly spoken about what actually went on there around the time period of the UFO conspiracy theories (i.e. Roswell.) I remember one dude even mentioned how they had to avoid Russian spy satellites, and decoy them by painting the image of an oddly shaped aircraft on the ground. I am curious if there is more to the Roswell story itself; if not a weather balloon, then probably some kind of experimental craft that went off course.

    I highly highly highly doubt we've ever been "visited" by ET though; if we had, I think at least one amateur astronomer would have spotted such a craft. Assuming that they had some kind of cloaking technology or anything else you can imagine to make themselves invisible, for what purpose would they go out of their way to make their presence a secret? And even then, why would they only make their presence known to some of us (i.e. the US government) and not all of us? If somebody from earth came to visit them, we likely wouldn't keep things a secret, even if they were primitive. I think that it would more likely end up like the movie Avatar if anything.

  13. Re: Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    If that was the case, then why have their competitors shown interest instead of mocking it?

  14. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That is true, but the ones on the market right now are already known to suck to the point of being borderline useless. Take the Nissan Leaf for example; if you have the AC going and drive at a sane speed (even though 65 is the freeway speed limit, nobody ever goes that slow here in the HOV lane; usually 75ish) the battery probably won't last you an entire day. This description fits basically all of them. This is why the Tesla Model 3 is a big deal -- it has a practical range at a practical price.

    Anyways you don't need to convince me not to buy (not sure why you're doing this to begin with) because at the current time I don't intend on buying, I'm just saying it's tempting (especially since I have enough disposable income to pay it off in 8 months.)

  15. A couple of times I needed to do Broadcom ones for some Ethernet chipsets in laptops, but you can avoid ever having to compile a driver by just doing your research into the hardware before buying it.

    That's a nice fantasy, but that doesn't help in a situation of "I need an extra PC, and I don't want to spend much on it, and I happen to have this motherboard lying around" which is quite a common thing. You can talk about how you never have that situation and you live in a perfect world, but excuse me while I return to reality.

  16. Who knows, I don't think anybody suspected that we'd ditch the slide rule after it had been in use for so long.

    I suspect we might see some kind of augmented reality work space. You'd still work with it the same, but you'd no longer have an actual desktop computer. Imagine it like this: If you want a bigger monitor, or more of them, no problem.

    Maybe, maybe not, but I just don't see the desktop being around forever, but I do think that when it starts to decline, most people will probably be running Linux on it. Why? Because Linux doesn't complain about older hardware.

  17. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest benefit is the HOV plate you can get in most states. How useful that is depends on what your commute is like. For me it's a pretty big deal.

  18. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Normally I don't buy new cars, but the biggest appeal to me here is being able to get an HOV plate since it is an alternative fuel vehicle. It's tempting to me because I don't know when Arizona will stop issuing these, and they likely will at some point. Once you have one though, you can keep it so long as you continue to own an alternative fuel vehicle.

  19. Re: Expected different on Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The DMCA was just the bill meant to change US law to fulfill the agreed requirements of the WIPO treaty. The WIPO treaty also applies to France. And yes, it was the Clinton admin who lobbied hard for that diplomatically. In other words, yes, bubba was also president of France, figuratively speaking.

  20. Re:Wow! on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect that by the time we have an actual year of Linux on the desktop, the desktop will stop being relevant anyways.

    And no, I'm not bad mouthing linux, I use it all the time.

  21. I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I've compiled drivers lots of times. A common example is compiling realtek ethernet drivers, which are only distributed as source. It's easy to compile them though, just tar xf the archive and then run the included autorun.sh and it even installs them for you.

  22. I can cross-breed a goat and a spider?

    First of all, even in that example they didn't cross breed anything. That's a lateral gene transfer, something that viruses have done practically forever. The human placenta is the result of one such gene transfer.

    Second of all, yes, given time and resources (in this case, lots of it) you could pull that off with selective selection.

  23. Re:Don't Be Evil on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 2

    It sounds exactly like something the FBI or NSA would like to do though! They are the evil organization du jour that must be protected against.

    If they were able to take your phone and pull that off without you knowing, you have much bigger problems than an iphone can possibly present.

  24. Hint2: Ask Chiquita how it's future is looking with the current banana fungus TR4. We have already lost the Gros Michel, and now the Cavendish is threatened.

    This is completely unavoidable because nobody would eat a banana that has seeds in it. They're not like watermelon seeds that you can just chew or swallow; they're actually harder than your teeth.

  25. It's not just corn either, basically everything you can buy at a grocery store came from thousands of years of selective breeding. This is one reason I make fun of people who say "natural is better" and have never eaten a natural vegetable in their life.