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  1. Re:...has been used by... on Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption · · Score: 2

    well, you have to wear same kind of nike knockoffs.

    and piss off Erdogan by reporting PKK of consisting of human beings trying to fight ISIS to keep their brethren alive.

  2. Re:No government role? on Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    well, a well run state has separation of the part that makes the laws and the part that executes the laws.

    however, turkey is right now far from being a good state.

    it's entirely possible that it's their common procedure to charge anyone(and anyone who was with) they caught with encryption as a terrorist, it just happens that the reporter is the only one.

    still, in case of Turkey, it's fucking ridiculous to say that the government has no role in bogus charges against people who were reporting about kurds.

    erdogan is a fuckwit and the government has had a role in turkey in prosecuting and interfering with frigging police officers ffs. erdogan doesn't give a fuck about ISIS he is only worried about the kurds.

    case in point first they were saying that they're being prosecuted due to association with pkk and now they've changed it to due to having a computer encrypted with same software as isis has had some computers encrypted with. wanna bet what the SW is? (it's entirely possible it's just bitlocker too, they have a proven track record into being clueless)

  3. Re:Actually, the common saying... on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    PnP means no jumpers.

    that's pretty much all it means anyways, that you don't have to use(and most cases did not have!) jumpers to configure and the config for address and interrupt etc was supposed to happen magically.

  4. Re:So it's not unlimited, then... on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 2

    you don't need to tether for torrenting.

    never mind that selling you data is selling you data, not selling you data on the condition that you don't use the data.

  5. Re:iPhone competitor ?! on Former Apple CEO Creates an iPhone Competitor · · Score: 1

    well he tries to sell them as upmarket.

    they're not. pirate copies of samsung phones are more upmarket(no shit really, they have better specs, despite being pirate clones! 100 bucks for octacore nowadays. and yes they put octacore socs in phones they try to make look like samsungs! the business logic is baffling but thats what they do).

    also the guy does not understand dual sim. he thinks it will help people call internationally to home. that's really baffling.

  6. Re:What else would the FBI on Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority · · Score: 1

    stingrays are only useful for going around the requirement of having permits. the cellphone operator company has all the information -and more- anyways.

    so it's only useful if you don't have permit.

  7. Re:An MMC/SD/SDIO bus? on Why Modular Smartphones Are Such a Nightmare To Develop · · Score: 1

    yeah connect your gpu with that, sure.

    they're thinking it the wrong way.

    it should only have one 'main' module that had the soc and a keepalive battery, then a case module that had screen and battery and maybe storage. then perhaps maybe camera module or rather have that be part of the case module. drop same main module into different size cases as you want during the week.

  8. Re:12 grand for a trip to luna ? on You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon · · Score: 1

    not hundres. thousands!

    it's a scam. would much more make sense to send a picture.

  9. Re:Sad Birds on Will a Tighter Economy Rein In Startups? · · Score: 1

    they were doing nothing with all the people.
    that's why it's so easy to lay them off.

    you have to understand that they kept hiring people because they had money and there plenty of people to hire, they didn't have a plan what they were doing with them.

    also you have to understand that hiring shitloads of people gave the execs more prestige in finland.

    also just dumping money with no creative thought is why the angry birds marketing pictures are now all fancy 'pretty' 3d with no artistic merit.

    also you might want to remember that Rovio's high income comes from product sales(hats etc angry birds crap) that the company doesn't make and which only needs few people in the company to handle the licensing for.

    and last but not least they have not come up with a single game idea in house EVER. so the well respected leaders of the company don't really understand how to make another interesting game or how little money it actually took. the leaders really have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what made Angry Birds a hit and it shows. and they didn't come up with the idea for angry birds either, it's a ripoff of another game LIKE ALL THE GAMES PRODUCED BY ROVIO EVER, that wouldn't be too bad if they knew what was worth ripping off but they're going solely by luck - also they're putting a number of games they did under the rug by not mentioning them on their site at all(like stuff that was made on commission for nokia).

    that they have no idea what made it a hit doesn't really stop them from flying around the globe giving ego lectures on what made it a hit. that's only making things worse really.

    rovio is dumping 75 million into a movie. if everything is as it seems, that's about 65 million too much for the cgi flick movie they're making - but the thought process was more money = more quality, but it doesn't work like that with art(games are art, movies are art).

    in short, they're not what Rare was and the execs were interested in ballooing the company so that they can have a big company - they didn't balloon the company to any purpose so that's why they're laying people off, they never had any work to begin with, you only need so much of angry birds stock graphics..

    also it's not really connected to the current startup financial state. they're not a startup. it might affect how much money the execs have to splash around at other startups in efforts to buy some talent though but that's about it.

    they should have kept their developer teams at under 10 persons per game. they're just fucking arcade clones of other games that have simple assets to manage and simple engines to write.

  10. Re:HOSTS file on How To Keep Microsoft's Nose Out of Your Personal Data In Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it's not the real reason.

    the real reason is pushing the appstore and pushing it for all kinds of applications.

    pushing the appstore was also the reason why they were pushing win8/8.1 for practically free and it's the sole only reason for the shitfest that is metro(they shipped a program environment that was unfinished, unpolished and lacking in api's to replace what it was intended to replace only because they were in a hurry to release an appstore because some execs _thought_ they could get 30% of 3000$ photoshop and cad licenses, which was never going to happen anyway)

  11. Re:Can You Say Lawsuit? on AT&T Hotspots Now Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    it's "free" in the sense that they don't want to agree that it's a service they sell to you(and be responsible for).

    it's also free in the same sense that at&t unlimited 4g is "unlimited".

  12. Re:Looking at you, BBC... on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 1

    if you had been going to the bbc site for a long time you would know that it's completely random what they decide technically.

    it's not about rights management either, they have the rights.

  13. Re:any english majors out there? on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    they try to make it look like they would do it only when required by the law but actually write that they can share it with whoever they want even when prohibited by the law. lovely.

  14. Re:both on Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? · · Score: 1

    can't customize it? what do you think buying instances from amazon is for.

    buying the software as a service from some vendor that has servers "somewhere" is not the same thing as moving your shit to the cloud. majority of small tech houses now are doing custom cloud shit.

  15. Re: Why does the CPU need this? on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    faster than cpu normally hahahahahaahah
    hahahahahaha
    hahahahah

    no, really hahahha. it's not about that. you need the hw implementation so you can only run the hw implementation when the device is off, so you can turn the machine on.

  16. Re:Simple solution on Cheap Thermal Imagers Can Steal User PINs · · Score: 1

    do you enjoy taking money out of random asian country atm's?

    then, no. you're not going to get a longer pin on your card even if your bank allowed it.

    which made me wonder how many "letters" can you make with 4 buttons of a 9 pattern anyways? what a bizarre thing to add into the blurb. lowercase J, L , I? seriously what a bizarre thing to add! also I've never encountered anyone using a "letter" pin code on an atm/cc card.

  17. Re:not about pin count. See pci, pci-e, isa on Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C · · Score: 1

    I got one use case.
    3d printers controlled by arduino derivatives.

    though, then you would probably just connect it with usb..

    (and why wouldn't you just drive the 4+ synced steppers from the raspi? RT is hard. nobody has gotten it to work well on it. you can do a concept printer but they're just that, concepts barely functioning(when compared to a friggin atmel ran bot). there's a kickstarter thats supposedly shipping now..)

  18. Re:Just a fancy DOS shell on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    yeah that's how I looked at it back when it was released..

    but, actually, if you think about how it works it's a bit more like (the drivers or tsr's you run in the dos aren't running in w95 anymore), it is actually more like booting into linux from dos. which is/was common as well.

  19. Re:So I can sue myself ... on Germany Says Taking Photos Of Food Infringes The Chef's Copyright · · Score: 1

    yeah and that's a real problem.

    EVEN HIGHER PROBLEM is that a tv dinner maker could sue unfavorable reviews of it's food if they included picture of said food.

    like come on, you bought it and the primary purpose is to not look pretty.

    of course, you could always make a derivative work of it ? like, slice into it..

  20. Re: S/MIME on Engaging Newbies In Email Encryption and Network Privacy · · Score: 0

    yeah why wouldn't you trust a company in Israel to generate and store proof of that your site is yours and your messages are yours..

  21. Re:Ummm... on Bozza Wants To Be Africa's Answer To iTunes, Spotify and Netflix · · Score: 1

    it is the case and Netflix in Finland is only a portion of whats in the UK. it's due to country by country selling of rights to shows to maximize consumer happ... haha to maximize profits and price discrimination by treating every country as a place where you can have a bidding war where to get one good show a tv station has to bid for a package that includes 90% shit.

    anyways, HOPEFULLY the EU rules hopefully coming into effect will make it so that netflix content etc would be the same to every country.

  22. Re:From the 2nd article on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    otoh if the supply is too expensive to keep the product viable, then in effect there is no market due to there not being cheap enough supply.

    rarely is this the case with software though of course.

  23. Re:Stupid question. on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    larger companies just don't bother with that anymore even.

    what they do? they arrange a subcontractor to hire you. the subcon is owned by the middle-level bosses friend. the friend gets 20-40% of what the company pays and you get the rest and you don't get the redundancy protection and employee from the big company would get.

    or if you're unlucky a subcon-subcon! has happened. the first level subcon the big company had a contract had their own layoffs going. a fucking stupid arrangement but that's what happened.. a big company effectively hiring a new dude through 2 levels of subcon backroom playing.

  24. Re:Vacuum? on Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016 · · Score: 1

    speaking of the channel tunnel wouldn't something like that be the logical first use for this thing?

  25. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    I suspect the article is some "don't feel so bad for being a fat slob" shit. I suspect it doesn't even claim in the article actually that being fat wouldn't be a result of eating more energy than you burn, but that makes a better blurb so the text has to be there at top of the article.

    basically I suspect that the article/prof is just about finding a way to make you feel less hungry if you don't need the energy, so you wouldn't need self restraint to limit you from eating too much.

    I refuse to give them clicks.