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I think there's a lot of confirmation bias there, you never hear about intelligence successes.

I think Mr Robot has good tech in it, because it's not a show about tech CSI-Cyber style. It's a drama, which uses tech as a basebone. All the hacking largely stays in quick snippets displayed, and maybe a sort of slow-marathon style of filming where it's clear something takes a while.

It's a show about hacking, but hacking is secondary to the other aspects, it just moves the plot forward, and that's why it works so well.

The biggest issue is it doesn't really have any mechanics beyond "catch pokemon". There's not really gameplay, short of the laughable gym battles. You can realize this after about a half hour of playing. Nintendo is sitting on top of a big giant pile of money, but I get the feeling they want to gimp Go in favor of their mainstream games.

Seriously, all they need to do is add a basic pokemon PVP with the same battle mechanics from the mainstream, and maybe random events, and they could keep it going for a good while longer.

Also, the always-on-gps is a huge issue with it. They need to find some way to lessen it.

Interesting possibilities- there's already examples of people having gyms on their houses and having people milling around their yards all day. There was also an "incident" where a koffing showed up at a holocaust museum- and the museum got pissed.

Like someone below me mentioned, virtual ads could be pretty powerful too, and, y'know, what's to stop someone from constructing virtual dicks in front of a building. (Besides whoever runs the AR service) There's really not a DMCA-like-thing for AR stuff.

TBH 5$ is pretty fair pricing- average user is only going to buy one, maybe two NES ports, and serious retro buy-all-700 games people already have it all. It's only overpriced by maybe a dollar or two.

But yeah, 60$ for the kit? Crike that's cheap.

It probably has to do with seed dropping patterns, and where light is. Fascinating stuff though.

You can see a pretty concrete example of this in forests, the trees are all densely packed, and random- and thus fall under hyperuniform. (as far as I can tell, anyway. Haven't exactly tested it, but it sure looks hyperuniform.) I've noticed it in a handful of other things, but I never knew there was an actual thing behind it.

Absolutely fascinating, and it's applications in materials are amazing. Whatever-direction bandpass filters? Crazy cool.

Google apps are weird. I get the sneaking feeling they just make so much money they don't give a damn about usage, and just build the way they want to- which, apparently, leads to killing apps.

Fair points- I largely don't have an issue with single-window interfaces, (see discord) but it kinda sucks to have your nice, multiwindow taken away and replaced with something much, much worse.

That's because it is. Different acid concentrations, cell walls strengths, etc lead to some apples being better suited for some things than others. Kind of like fillet vs strip, it's all the same meat, but very different, and cooks differently too.

It's still primarily a "gaming" voicechat/messaging system, but the software is all there, it just needs expansion. I'd be surprised if some sort of enterprise-grade discord didn't come about.

A big thing (for me anyway) is that the overall interface becomes smaller, and allows for greater customization. I can set it up exactly how I want, and at what size, without messing about. Sure, you can do that in a single-panel application, but skype is never gonna do it. It's kind of like how photoshop is better with floating windows.

You know what I want? I want the old linux client to work. It didn't have the stupid bubbly UI bloated with ads and "big, friendly buttons" it had functional utility, separate windows, and a much more pleasant user experience just by being unpretty.

As it is, I'm glad I have to use it less and less in favor of discord, which is by all accounts, far, far superior.

If they're serving ads based on personal information, some people might have a little embarrassment heading their way.

Jokes aside, we all knew this was coming, right? It's not like your telecom isn't serving you up to the NSA already, and with this you know you're being watched. It's just driving VPN sales.

This is my little deal with the devil, I know that google has loads of my data, but I know they'll do something to keep it in house, instead of selling it off to whoever. It's more profitable for google not to sell your data because they already have the largest ad provider out there.

Not really though. You already could have a USB dac plugged into your phone- heck, I have one plugged in right now. It doesn't offer audiophiles anything, and gives the average "what's the difference between a 20$ dac and 100$ dac" consumer nothing either.

Given how "successful" HDCP has been, I'd give it a month or two of survivablity. And yeah, as you mentioned, anyone with basic electronics skills (or for that matter, could follow a youtube video) could simply mod their hardware to plug whatever they want in.

Yeah, I suppose that's possible, but it doesn't make sense for the artists, the publishers, or the streaming service, who make money by having people listen to their songs.

That doesn't make sense. If you're recording off the 3.5mm jack, then you can record the output of the external dac just as well. Moving the dac out of the phone doesn't make piracy harder.

Seems like every time something becomes popular a chrome extension comes about to make it go away. Or something like cloud to butt. (which, imo, is never not funny.)

I find it useful for quick conversions, finding my phone in a dark room, and it's often easier than scrolling through my contact book.

You can do it trivially with a bit of hardware, no processing needed.

I'm curious if a heater coil gives better battery life or worse battery life in cold environments. Also, better batteries has been an issue forever. Electric cars were invented alongside the combustion car, but they didn't have good batteries, and died because of it.

I kinda wish there was still an option to proxy through them, with a big giant notification that all your traffic was being monitored.

I really like that they were not only upfront about this, but appear to have gotten ahead of it. Good on them.

Also, RSA-4069? That's pretty damn hefty, is there even a point to using that?

You could probably set up uMatrix rules to block the video provider.

Of all the DRMS out there, steam has done the best job at preventing piracy. Why? Not because it's secure, steam drm is pretty easy to get around. But because it's just so gosh darned convenient to use, and has so many extra features. Steam controller, steam community, steam workshop, and steam itself is a very good library organizer.

The best way to combat piracy is to offer a better service, which I have yet to see. It's always a tremendous pain in the ass, and gives subpar results compared to piracy. Take, for instance, rick and morty. To watch it, I have to sign into an account, link that account to my ISP/provider, and then I get to watch my videos online. Except it barely works. It took forever to get my ISP to authorize it, and the first time they messed it up. After that, online had subpar quality, and would for whatever reason, cut out randomly/not let me login. Compare this to a pirate site/torrent, where it's just one-click, watch in full resolution.

They were probably peer-reviewed by biologists, not statisticians. Peer review is mostly just a good think and read for about a month, not a perfect analysis.

The difference is, for some reason DF bugs are amusing as hell. It's pretty freaking funny to imagine a were-elephant in a tree yelling at everything. I think part of it is that DF doesn't really have graphics. You have to imagine what's going on, which makes it pretty freaking funny. Also almost no bug doesn't have solution, and none really stop the game either- even with that tree you could probably tunnel under it and collapse it, which is again, funny as hell.

A pretty good example of this is the recent opening of Fallout 4 mods to Xbox users- almost overnight mod makers were spammed pretty much everywhere with demands to stick it on xbox, do this, do that, etc. Lots of bad blood.