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  1. Re:Vista/7 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With Windows 8, the desktop environment has fundamentally been changed.

    Basically they created a start screen instead of start menu.

    Oh ya, the start screen can also run these other apps which you don't have to use.

  2. Re:My bank's app... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    WTF you are right. And now i'm reading about it everywhere

    Except their help website says the opposite.

  3. Re:Where is the chip? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1
    I believe your phone is the antenna.

    SYNC Services is available with SYNC-equipped vehicles and may require you to purchase a subscription. In order to access SYNC Services, you must add a mobile phone number – and select it as Active – when setting up your SYNC Owner account. The Active mobile phone associated with your SYNC account must be Bluetooth®-enabled, and you’ll need to turn it on, pair it, and connect it with SYNC before you can start using SYNC Services.

    I could be wrong.

  4. Re:Believability on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    And I have a nice bridge to sell you in the Everglades swamps...

    This dude gave $90 million for one and doesn't even own it!!

  5. Re:Omniscience how? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Maybe their new model will have an in dash camera with face recognition pulling matches from the DMV. If there isn't a match the car doesn't start. Either get your license or update your picture on file.

  6. Re:This data helps Repo guys steal the car back on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Tinfoil the antenna.

  7. Re:Herpin' the Derp on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me get this straight. You think in order to have private property we need to make sure it isn't private property but state or fed owned?

    No. He did a pretty awesome job or explaining it. I suggest you reread it.

    Right now I can take your car by force. You could go to the state with your ownership papers and they will help get it back for you. The degree at which they help depends on where you live.

    Without the state there is no concept of ownership only the idea of who is currently in possession. You can tell me that it is yours, but until you take it by force it is mine.

  8. Re:Great.... on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 4, Informative

    I looked at the pictures in the article and you can disable emails coming from Google+. Its under General settings tab in Gmail.

    It doesn't look like I can send emails to Google+ people quite yet.

  9. Re:Boring Drive on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    How about this familiar scenario. You are driving on the highway and everything is swell. You approach an area of the highway that has a crosswind and it is partially covered in snow obscuring the lane markings. There are no shoulders. Welcome to the north.

    Are you imagining the car stopping in a live lane?

  10. Re:Or...just spend $60 for a GoPano for iPhone on CES 2014: Now You Can Make 360 Degree Videos With a Single Camera (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The GoPano relies on focusing on a mirror. When that mirror gets scratched, smudged, or warped you notice it. Also, the image quality just isnt there. Don't take my word for it, just look at any of the HD videos on youtube.

    My experience has been with the EyeSee360 and still photos. It was great as a novelty until you realize that the pictures just don't look that great.

  11. Re:wrong on China Tops Europe In R&D Intensity · · Score: 1

    Actually it's called stealing and stealing since that's all they do. They just hack and steal and reverse engineer and clone everyone else's tech.

    Yes, hacking, stealing, and reverse engineering are likely included within the R&D budgets.

    Did you just get to the party now? I now know my country does it.

  12. Re:Current ISP Pricing is Fundamentally Broken on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 1

    I think most people pay for electricity by how much they consume. That's certainly the way it has been everywhere I've lived. While I do try to conserve energy, I don't count the seconds every time I turn on the lights.

    No, you don't count the seconds that a light is turned on, just like I don't count the KB usage of DNS requests. I bet you would count the amount of time a clothes drier is used as you would the size of a movie download. At some point you will start counting usage and figuring out what you can an cannot do without. And when the cost is significant enough, or given alternatives, you would hang dry or download the non-HD version of the movie.

  13. Re:The question on TorrentFreak Blocked By British ISP Sky's Porn Filter · · Score: 2

    Torrentfreak often has articles on using Tor and proxies to hide your online activity

    And yet we have been promoting the use of Tor for circumventing the use of censorship by oppressive governments https://citizenlab.org/tag/tor/.

    Perhaps the UK will be added to the list, or have they been on it the whole time?

  14. Re:Use public DNS on How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The privacy policy for Google Public DNS is different than that for the rest of Google. It's also public. You can, you know, read it, then you can stop spreading FUD. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

    That's like saying the NSA won't spy on you because the Constitution is public and you can read it.

  15. Re:Get Off My Lawn on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    The naive person is gambling on a pension fund making the correct gamble. If the naive person wants to guarantee not getting "fucked over" then invest in something more stable such as GIC's.

    There is no free lunch.

  16. Re:Pretty cool, but... on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    "Responsive web design" should take care of that. Cater to the large and and the small.

  17. Re:He's the President. on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 1

    Here, i'll give you a job with zero guaranteed hours. Now you can put that on your resume.

  18. Re:classroom tools on Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US · · Score: 1

    At the end of the day, it makes more money for the publisher, but a small community library got absolutely burned in the process

    This sounds like somebody's pet project and the procurement process failed.

  19. Re:A country without a fucntioning post office on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    So you are like the 2/3 of Canadians who already have this system in place?

  20. Re:This kills on-line businesses on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    Canada Post thought of that years ago. The community mailboxes have sizable parcel compartments

    But not in apartment buildings at the GP mentioned. Neither the condo or apartment I lived in had one. Only mail slots wide enough for an envelope.

  21. Re:"costs" == "retirees" on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    Retire at 55, collect till 85. Yay public unions.

    When do Walmart employees retire? What do they get?

  22. Re:Some people won't bother to pick up mail on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    This is simply an attack on the obese. I will not stand for it!! You hear me, I will not stand!

  23. Re:Slightly misleading. on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    The post office depot is in the back corner of the drug store

    This is privatization at work.

    The other minor issue that I have is the CP worker doesn't come to the door with parcels that need to be signed for

    Purolator and UPS play the same game. Time is money and they don't want to pay it.

  24. Re:Slightly misleading. on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    I see a whole lot of mail returned to sender for being abandoned, or being discarded for being abandoned, in those communal mailboxes. I also see a lot of people only visiting their mailboxes weekly, like how they take out their trash cans for the truck to pick up, so mailboxes will be even bigger targets for thieves as there'll be more payoff for the effort than before.

    2/3 of Canada have been on the system for years. Any new developments in the past 10 have had this. None of the problems you mention are an issue.

  25. Re:Gray area? Not in the US on UK Retailer Mistakenly Sends PS Vitas, Threatens Legal Action To Get Them Back · · Score: 1

    Give the seller a specific and reasonable amount of time (say 30 days) to pick up the merchandise OR arrange to have it returned at no expense to you.

    Emphasis mine. I would take the former offer of giving them a reasonable amount of time to pick up the merchandise.