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the man is pure inspiration. 10 years ago, i was asked who i admired, and couldn't think of a single answer. Maybe that's sad on my part, but when asked now, he's at the top of my list.

hey, i would love to see this work for google cardboard (i'm too poor for rift ;) - i see there's a get notified when it comes to mobile, but i can't click it.

Am I the only one that thinks this kind of thing would be cool to see? I've seen logs of attacks, but I've never watched a botnet irc live. that would be crazy for me. Not really moving the conversation forward, but is this so commonplace that I'm the odd man for marveling?

To all the "this is just a 10 dollar library card", I ask you this: if library books are the way to go, why do people buy endless amounts of books from amazon. Amazon became successful by selling books. Audible is another successful company that offers a feature that according to you, can be achieved at a library. Clearly libraries are missing something or else we'd be using them more. Maybe it's one click instant access. Maybe it's the larger selection, or that lack of having to wait. Regardless, it's not the same.

who is this bad for? It seems good for SpaceX

"A great leader has to be tolerant of a wide range of social and cultural POV."

First of all, it was made very clear in all the articles on him that he has never shown any mistreatment of anyone because of their sexual preference. It seems that his intolerance isn't in question. If you want to put that quote on anyone, I'd aim it at the leaders of OKCupid. The hypocrisy is so stupid.

it's not jonmedding@gmail.com is it?

No. JUST NO. This is getting out of hand. You want to change the way people think, you do it through public discourse. You want to change the laws, you do it through votes. You lost a vote. Try again next time when you have more support. Don't hate a person and try to ruin their life because you think the world needs to function how you see it. I don't care anymore if I get downvoted. This HAS TO STOP. We HAVE TO STOP THIS. These people are hypocrites and I'm sick of it. I may vote against gay rights laws because they think they can manipulate the system. Sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it. Well, it's the same goddamn thing!

no, this is trolling. Steve Jobs was an asshole, nobody would argue that. He treated people like shit, but he did great things... So, I guess it's ok to own an apple device because, hey, he didn't hate MY culture, he just hates all people. Attacking one man because he disagrees with your political/emotional/sexual views is the problem. As a group that claims accept people that are different, your community comes off as hypocrites. So you only accept people if they're your kind of different?

Did I read this argument right? Is everyone fired up for a guy that voted against some proposition that was against LGBT? Isn't it his right to vote how he pleases? Has he taken any direct action against someone in the LGBT community? Has he shown in the past that his views change the ways he treats people? So, I remember reading about something called the Red Scare that blackballed people because of their political views. Is that really the way the LGBT community wants to be viewed: Love us or we'll ruin your life? People don't see things the same way, and that's their right. People aren't required to see your same point of view. That is one of the great things about America, we can feel however we want. Once there was a time when his views were in the majority, and I think it's a shame that this is how people think it should be solved. If you want to change him, you should make him hate you and ruin his career. I'm not trolling, I'm just reading headlines, and I saw nowhere where this man did anything except vote his mind. Please correct me if I'm in the wrong.

It blows my mind that in a country that preaches a free-market economy, the government is preventing a company from selling a superior product. I'm pretty sure people will still buy the car if they want to, and in time, those car companies will go under anyway, but why slow down progress?

I just got this and tried it out.... awesome. recommend it. My friend and I watched the amusing video and i said, what's 2 bucks. It is just as fast as normal typing but gives me more real estate to see the convo!

also: took me all of 5 seconds to get fluent at it. no joke.

I think this is a great example of both compromise and overreaction. In the end, they are clearly trying to give students the tools they want, but this should have been the first response, not the second. I can't find it now but the other yale student that wrote the chrome extension was the main catalyst. He took the complaints of Yale and removed them therefore forcing them to find new logic, which they did. Hats off to him.

So, if I smile while committing a crime, facial recognition software won't be able to identify me. Got it, Thanks!

when is the chromecast app going to allow me to just select any video that i view on the internet and click the symbol to stream? I know their big worry is probably pirated movies, but that's not what i want. it's for porn.

I know that the standard way to state ipv4 is 2^32, as it does in the infographic, but isn't that inaccurate? since the 255 is not used, as well as many other reserved IP addresses, shouldn't an infographic actually get the exact IP addresses available, and not the theoretical number that anyone with a calculator can figure out?

I agree the Guardian is probably one of the few news sources i trusted more than most. I'm thinking he was offered freedoms that the guardian COULDN'T offer him or the chance to run a full team of journalists like himself. I doubt he will be tamed by any organization. We will see.

Goes to show you how the OS is 40% of the cost of a computer. take that away and you can get great hardware for the same price.

sharing information, i think is small potatoes. showing them how to get the information on their own is what i fear. "Hey, check out this backdoor we found. Enjoy"

but if the people you outsource to you are their allies, they may be able to justify it. Besides, it seems the NSA has a gift for rationalizing things away

I honestly didn't expect much from this. The part that scares me about all of this is this: if the government can't read our emails, listen to our phone calls, or see our web traffic but they have the ability to... what stops them from outsourcing the work to another country, where there is no constitutional restraint. we outsource everything else, why not our domestic spying?

I've worked in open settings, as i am now, and worked in an office with two other people spaced out comfortably. In both we used irc or another similar chat to communicate regardless of the distance, so we didn't distract others. The open office i can't stand. I can never focus, and every time personX is looking for personY, they just pool the whole floor, which is annoying. i get noise cancelling headphones and what not, but i also get that if you're not wearing them and personZ is trying to get personY's attention, you have to listen to somoene yell. I wear headphones but get sick of wearing them after about 3 hours straight. I'm in a corner and face a window, which is nice, but i would rather be shut in a quiet room, working. I have also worked from home 5 days a week. love/hate there.

I obviously own my very own Rorschach mask... Problem solved. You're welcome.

I know this may sound super paranoid... but I'd rather just show up and show my support. This whole giving my info thing makes me think that somewhere there is a list of people the government is deciding to label "terrorists" or "traitors" or "watch list". I don't see any details about where to meet and when and what not.

"What the fingerprint sensor may actually deliver is the biggest leap forward in mobile payment technology that we’ve seen since the credit card."

This article is saying that though that's all it does now, it will be the new payment process. I just don't see that happening.

I think security via fingerprint may be a mistake. What happens if someone gets a copy of your fingerprint, what do you do for security at that point? get a new fingerprint? The NFC Ring is a better idea than fingerprint security. i think the idea will fall short of good security quickly. This is all speculation, and I am by no means an expert on security.

good eye!

there is sooo much information in this one... i skimmed it three times... the article itself is long, then there's the infographics. geez. makes you wonder what other information he had.

I also want to thank the post for turning the data into nice interactive infographics instead of posting "crayola quality" powerpoints, that the gov is known for using.

National Archives... Seemed pretty freely available to me

http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf

i think the best part of the article was the first comment by "Sault"