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byRude Turnip
10, 2013 @06:07PM
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Attached to: LeVar Burton On Google Glass
"If you're tagged in a photo, you can exercise your privacy controls over it."
I take exception to this. Why should I ever have to interact with Facebook in the first place? It is entirely possible to tag someone's name into a photo that does not have a Facebook account.
My heart is warmed by the fact that kids are now moving away from Facebook and going back to private messaging like iMessage, Whatsapp, etc., to get away from compromising situations.
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byRude Turnip
04, 2013 @10:14AM
(#45325573)
Attached to: TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint
Lest we forget that all firearms legislation has its roots in oppressing minorities. The problem is that the oppression has become democratized. Listen to the lyrics of rap groups like Public Enemy. 20 years ago they were speaking to a very specific audience; now their words have more universal appeal.
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byRude Turnip
31, 2013 @02:12PM
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Attached to: Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads
If you have to download 100 PDFs from a trusted source at one time, then you shouldn't be using a web browser. That's a job for perhaps a WebDAV setup or any one of a zillion syncing solutions.
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byRude Turnip
r 30, 2013 @10:09AM
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Attached to: Taiwan Protests Apple Maps That Show Island As Province of China
"My wife was born in Taiwan. She and anyone in her family gets extremely angry if you refer to them as "Chinese," despite being ethnically Chinese, speaking Mandarin, etc."
My dad's wife is from Taiwan and is exactly the opposite. Although I never asked what she thought about Taiwan being a part of China.
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byRude Turnip
29, 2013 @07:51AM
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Attached to: Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain?
Does anyone else remember being a child and playing "snakes in the grass"? That game always dug up what I would describe as a very primal fear that lives deep down in all of us.
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byRude Turnip
8, 2013 @07:14AM
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Attached to: NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube
You actually made a good point, and I've even said it myself before in other forums. This might be one of the worst times since the population is incredibly uninformed and the whole thing would be bought by big companies and cartels.
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byRude Turnip
7, 2013 @07:13PM
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Attached to: NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube
This is why we need a new Continental Congress to basically "overwrite" the current one. All of these assholes should be up against the wall for a cleansing ritual.
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byRude Turnip
5, 2013 @07:02AM
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Attached to: First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon
My cats and dog know exactly when to eat and line up to get snacks. Those are all entropic measurements and knowing your circadian/metabolic rhythms. If you know your body well enough, you'll feel its different states and you can call it a time, but it's still boils down to entropy.
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byRude Turnip
r 23, 2013 @08:39AM
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Attached to: First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon
That's entropy, not time.
It's very possible that the development of language in humans sort of locked us into the concept of time. For further reading, some of which sounds insane, look into pigeons and their homing instincts to see how other animals aren't necessarily perceiving time in the way that we do.
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byRude Turnip
22, 2013 @09:53AM
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Attached to: TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport
I've always heard about Israeli-style airport security being top notch. That's to say that they apply a level of intelligence, instead of blindly molesting passengers. Can anyone comment on how this methodology compares to the way they do it in Israel? Thanks!
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byRude Turnip
15, 2013 @09:49AM
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Attached to: Google Fiber Partially Reverses Server Ban
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen this statement on Slashdot over the last 15 years, I could buy myself a nice lunch.
They are offering internet access in the purest sense of the term. There are no technical barriers in place that prevent all the normal types of traffic you can have over an IP connection. Rather, it's a contractual agreement that Google is already admitting is behind the times.
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byRude Turnip
r 09, 2013 @04:40PM
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Attached to: Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display
Yes, except my next phone and tablet will be Android-based precisely because Apple fucked me over and ruined my iPhone 4s with iOS 7. On Mac computers, every new OS X upgrade makes older computers run better. It's exactly the opposite with iOS and iPhones.
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byRude Turnip
30, 2013 @09:25PM
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Attached to: Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom
Privatized health care is costing my company hundreds of thousands of dollars in opportunity costs since our senior staff members are haggling over rising insurance costs instead of working billable hours. That's in addition to the rising cost of healthcare. Socialized medicine would save small businesses tons of money and headaches.
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byRude Turnip
er 19, 2013 @10:13AM
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Attached to: A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP
One of my everyday rituals is walking out of my office building and across the parking lot. During my walk across the parking lot, I ask Siri to call my wife. At some varying point, the building's Wifi cuts out and 3G kicks in. As soon as I read this headline, I knew exactly how it would apply to my life.
This would also be good for Pandora. My home's Wifi reaches almost to my street corner, so I can be several hundred feet away from my house using Pandora and still on Wifi. When I turn the corner, 3G goes on and Pandora cuts out because it lost Wifi. Again, another very practical use of this technology.
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byRude Turnip
ber 18, 2013 @10:51PM
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Attached to: Hulu "Kicking Back Into Action" Says CEO, Adding New Content
I don't begrudge anyone for charging money, but since I was a paying customer, I insist on being able to watch everything in their library on a streaming device.
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