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  1. Re:it started with smartphones on Gadgets That Spy On Us: Way More Than TVs · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I think most figured that the data would at least be half-asstly encrypted for transit to the server farm for processing, but leave it to Samsung to even screw that up.

  2. How did Apple get to this first?!? on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    How in the world did Apple get to this first? No one before 2008 thought to do this? Seriously?

    Sure, strapping a Palm 3 to my head would probably just cause a headache, but no one at Palm or Microsoft or Sony or Samsung or Motorola thought enough of this to file a throwaway patent?

  3. Re:The scam was found out on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you spent the money, you would have found that the photographer took really good photos and not just mediocre ones and you wouldn't be so angry about the whole thing?

    Like everything, there are people that are good at their jobs and there are 10 times as many people that half-ass it. It takes time to find the good ones. Sadly, it seems that you got half an ass.

    I can hire a kid still in school do to coding for me at $10/hour, does that mean that the guy with 10 years experience charging me $100+ is a) bullshit or b) a scam?

  4. autobot? on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    Geez, Now I'm really sure this is just a bot auto-replying to anything with 'iPhone' in it.

  5. Re:Tivo does this also... on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    That is how youtube works these days when you don't have an adblocker. Though the skip button is not disabled usually. Android youtube app does the exact same thing.

  6. We have lives? on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 2

    We grew up and got lives and/or jobs. A good number of us deal with software and hardware all day, so want our phones to just work without too much hassle.

  7. Not so much anymore on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 1

    My N4 & N7 (2013 wifi) just got the lollipop two weeks ago.

    Yes, I understand staggered deployment and all that, so it's not going to be instant, but this is almost as bad as Samsung.

  8. Re:Thieves and Damned Thieves on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Wow, at 37 cents name one company that isn't overcharging up the ying yang?

  9. Re:The tortoise lays on its back on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    iPhones have been iTunes free for what five years now or close to it? Let me repeat this, one does not need iTunes to use an iPhone, this has not been the case for a very long time.

    You can also use plenty of other programs, winamp included, for managing music if you so desire.

    Does viewing your 1080p movie on the Note 4 (or a good number of new phones) with a resolution of 2560x1440 at 1-to-1 pixel ration provide a better experience? essentially using a little more than half the screen? What's special about an mkv file?

  10. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    If I go to a bar, take out my phone and start taking photos of other patrons as I'm walking around you bet people will get in my face. Most people would certainly call me an asshole. I could even just be holding a completely-powered-down phone while doing this and people would still have a problem.

    If I am in the same bar taking photos of my fancy girly drink or my friends no one will care. People will notice, but not care.

    So, people don't have a problem with cameras, they have a problem with cameras in their face. Google glass falls into the 'in your face' category.

    PS - Yes, everyone does know that there are security cameras everywhere.

  11. Re:When will mobile "progresss" slow for fixes? on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    I know you weren't speaking about 4.3 specifically, but it's only 1.5 years old. Even younger if you include the time it took to get the update pushed out to actual users.

    Two years is the general acceptable update limit as it lines up nicely when a large chunk of the population in North America renews their phone contracts and gets new phones. This instance falls quite short of it though.

  12. Not so fast. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    Everyone brings this line of reasoning out, and yes it makes some sense. But the thing is, Google knew full well from the get-go this would be the situation with Android, and they did absolutely nothing to prevent it.

    In other word, "I bet Samsung will do a great job keeping their low-and-mid-range Android phones up-to-date" said no one ever at Google.

  13. 4.3 is only 1.5 years old on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    4.3 came out in July 2013, so a year-and-a-half ago (It would be even younger if I counted when companies actually pushed it out to people's phones) 2.5 years is not great by any means, but it's a full year more than people affected by this.

  14. Re:Another blaming of the victims (Striesand Effec on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2

    If that was half-way true then Europe would now be a war-ravaged waste land after 44-odd million Muslims living in Europe took to arms over the Danish cartoon published years ago.

    Oh, you mean that didn't happen. It's as if someone is not interpreting what they are reading correctly. hmm.

  15. Re:Streisand Effect and Mohammad cartoons on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ahh, the olde everything is black and white world view. Congratulations, you've been pre-approved for membership in Al-Quaeda, ISIS, a few dozen crazy Christian cults, and a mid level management position in the US government branch of your choice.

  16. I believe you are looking for "parking" on Toyota Opens Patents On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    I believe you are looking for something called "parking" which happens usually for an excess of 15 minutes. Yes, obviously, charging stations would need to be installed, but that is pretty trivial.

    Fully agree that the North American power grid (really, world wide) is nowhere near ready for that much extra demand, and will probably be the biggest obstacle in going full electric. But hey, by the time it's ready, we're bound to have wireless charging concrete/asphalt.

  17. Re:Of Course on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Yes, I used to be an Apple fan in '99 too! OS X has been just going downhill since the super stable and great 10.0 release.

  18. Re:It is Offensive on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Denying Jesus the proper ending of a happy birthday tweet is now a sign of 'obvious undertones hatred and intolerance'? and a direct attack on him and all of Christianity?

    No, just no.

  19. it's how benigh programming gets carried out on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1

    The robot apocalypse will probably be something like streetcleaning robots running their programming to keep streets clean and seeing us humans as a source of trash and getting rid of us. Or drone delivery services deciding that the fastest way between point A & B is straight through a building instead of navigating around it.

    Or some cummelative combination of all, if enough networked robots/things start talking and noticing that we humans are the source of all their trouble - dirtying up streets, causing traffic, etc etc - then they might decide that their job would be much easier without us.

  20. Re:Only in America... on Apple DRM Lawsuit Loses Last Plaintiff, but Judge Rules Against Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Yes we ALL have pictures of the mightly Steve on our headboards. It's so big that I've been having a hard time making a spot for Tim Cook & Johny Ive's portraits.

    The whole suit is about Apple overcharging for iPods, so yes, a basic requirement would be to have someone who was impacted by said supposed overcharging. I know that picture of Bill Gates or maybe Larry Page over your bed is really distracting, but does that not make sense? The judge did make the right call to allow someone else that was actually affected to step in so that the whole thing didn't have to start from beginning again.

  21. You obviously haven't tried to price out a Vertu phone back in the day, or even today. Even the more down-to-earth Cowon players were always more expensive than Apple (in my neck of the woods).

    BTW, your no-name player was $1.56 per gig, Apple's 'most expensive ever' was $1.62 per gig.

  22. Great, thank you for your insightful comment, and especially the effort you put into sharing that with everyone. I cant wait to hear what other insights you may have.

  23. Re:Subject, object, schmubject, schmobject on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 1

    The human owner of the first iPod must have had bad taste in music, thus the first iPod did the natural thing and bought a second iPod to listen to something better.

  24. Re: Not unexpected. on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 1

    I'm a lawyer, lets talk. I've never seen such a blatant disregard of consumer choice. I err you'll make millions from this!

  25. This Easter at the Thunderdome!! on Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Resurrected Steve Jobs vs. The angry pigeon horde. This Easter weekend only!!! At the Thunderdome!! Free admission for kids under 11!! Free monster truck show to follow!! Thunderdome!!