scohesc

55 ms·

541.
by scohesc 7y ago
Because then they can't keep their public image of "we never screw up, we care about your privacy, etc. etc.".
542.
by scohesc 7y ago
Sometimes you just have to send a very strongly worded message in the form of nuclear fallout in order to get the point across. I don't think the Japanese would have given up as easily if a not insignificant portion of their country wa
543.
by scohesc 7y ago
So it's not government sponsored surveillance, it's company sponsored surveillance, paid for by the people who don't want to be watched. Grand! And then Ring can charge the police forces money to use the service! :\
544.
by scohesc 7y ago
Not by tweeting, but I'm sure the US Government could through legislation implement something along the lines of "If you have any operations in america and the majority of your manufacturing/imports/etc. is in China, you
545.
by scohesc 7y ago
Specifically with LTT, I love how they make it incredibly obvious when something is leading to or coming out of a sponsorship spot. As soon as I hear the trademark pause after the opening, doubletapping the screen to skip 10 seconds or pres
546.
by scohesc 7y ago
ISPs: Looks like we're not serving high speed broadband to a lot of people! We've got work to do. FCC: Yes you do! Mr. Government, would you mind giving us 40 billion dollars to improve internet infrastructure, this is a massive u
547.
by scohesc 7y ago
So, it's not flat earthers at all, it's facebook trying to optimize what the world should and should not see through "algorithms" and "machine learning" for the sole purpose of selling more user information. Wh
548.
by scohesc 7y ago
You didn't need to dig through anything - it was right at the bottom of the article.
549.
by scohesc 7y ago
So they're like a modern ebaums world for the information age. Interesting way to put it - the biggest bully with the most money wins!
550.
by scohesc 7y ago
I don't see how Hak5 can create exact replicas of Apple Lightning cables with hacking tools embedded in them and NOT have Apples dream litigation team blasting down their doors It's pretty amazing how technology has gotten so smal
551.
by scohesc 7y ago
I hope these protesters realize that the building they're holding hostage from the university costs money to run and maintain - which will probably be a factor in tuition costs getting even higher when they go to pay their bill next ye
552.
by scohesc 7y ago
You can support the party even though you didn't support the representative being voted in.
553.
by scohesc 7y ago
Good point, but I think part of the problem is that some people are champing at the bit to call someone alt-right or facist when that person does something that they don't like or doesn't align with their own views. (Even if those
554.
by scohesc 7y ago
On the contrary, I find physical textbooks to be largely superior to digital mediums. You aren't limited by DRM imposed by the various educational companies. (I loved only being able to download and print 5 sequential pages at a time w
555.
by scohesc 7y ago
With very minimal knowledge of hardware, I wonder if we'll eventually have storage cheap enough and fast enough so we could just remove RAM from a computer all together and we'd have HDD and RAM in the same physical component. We
556.
by scohesc 7y ago
Almost 2-3 times per week. Stuck in a rut because I stupidly spent all the available, waking hours of my youth on computers playing video games and figured I'd go into a career with computers, because. Not too sure what I should do at
557.
by scohesc 7y ago
Then China will steal their IP from the factory in China and kick Tesla out of China so China's own EV Battery facilities can reap what Tesla sowed.
558.
by scohesc 7y ago
Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job
559.
by scohesc 7y ago
Then you make a bunch of loosely related subsidiaries that do the same thing (see the canadian wireless market) but are owned by the same large company.
560.
by scohesc 7y ago
I mean the person in the booth could press a button to take a picture or write down the license plate every time someone goes through...
561.
by scohesc 7y ago
Really top quality journalism by the BBC to conveniently redefine the definition of homemade to "pre-made parts and watched over by people who know what to do" in order to get more clicks through 'shocking' headlines.
562.
by scohesc 7y ago
> Christchurch. Charlottesville. Numerous terrorists have indicated very clearly that they were radicalized online. Why the fuck is it somehow your responsibility to provide these people a platform to spread their poison? People can also
563.
by scohesc 7y ago
I haven't done any reading into this but as far as I know on the used Thinkpad I have Computrace is "available" but hasn't been connected to any sort of third-party tracking service. Should I disable this forever? Is Com
564.
by scohesc 7y ago
Because random is actually "random based on what you've listened to most in your playlist, because we believe that we know the definition of random more than you do"
565.
by scohesc 7y ago
They're implementing their personal data harvesting tools into WhatsApp and the sheer amount of content being pulled from their servers was too much to handle and it crashed /s but probably true eventually
566.
by scohesc 7y ago
We'll definitely see it once Huawei releases their own app-store and ecosystem for China.
567.
by scohesc 7y ago
I don't think youtube should keep copies of the un-edited video for users to view. Quite obviously there was a reason for the uploader to remove that section of video. The chaotic side of me says youtube should do this, as it's an
568.
by scohesc 7y ago
Would be interesting to have a head-mounted display a la VR headsets and model a truck with the virtual windscreens being the camera outputs on the truck. Would be interesting to see.
569.
by scohesc 7y ago
I don't know why people aren't more concerned with the fact these giant companies are so large that they're able to take over entire markets extremely easily. I keep hearing "man, this <insert_product_here> by Goog
570.
by scohesc 7y ago
I'm sure there will be a sort of "Gab Relay" similar to how the PirateBay avoids domain takedowns by using multiple domains/proxies.

More ›