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joenathanon Hyundai’s 2015 Genesis will automatically brake for speed cameras

Those things make me go faster, I like to see how high I can get the sign to go.

joenathanon After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest competitors from results

Because then spammers would become more effective at not being caught.

joenathanon Nokia phones to be renamed Microsoft Mobile

>Microsoft just isn't hip

There is a whole world out there beyond the hipsters that buys phones, most of them not being able to afford the latest iDevice.

joenathanon Windows Phone 8.1 review

That always happens with branding, the terms and concepts are never understood, think Xerox, Kleenex and even iPad; every copy is Xeroxed, every nose tissue is Kleenex and every tablet is an iPad. This sort of usage does not benefit the brand owner.

joenathanon WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript

For example the new Google Maps runs horribly slow in Firefox, I have to open Chrome sometimes just to get a map to render.

joenathanon DirectX 12

You haven't heard, Microsoft has dropped support for XP.

joenathanon Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open source code

ReFS can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

joenathanon Windows 8.1 Update 1: More interface concessions

I remember people complaining about GUIs, how CLIs were so much better and more powerful, how the mouse and cursor are so inefficient. When you change things people are used to, people are going to complain.

joenathanon Prison Switcharoo

I don't see this working, if the prisoner who flipped the switch on is brought back into the room immediately after the counter turns it off, then that one prisoner will be assumed to be two different people.

joenathanon Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam

So if I need to drive to a customers site I should build my own interstate?

joenathanon Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

It actually is a cloud storage system for notes, but that doesn't matter, it establishes the naming convention.

joenathanon Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

Microsoft OneNote has been around for over 10 years.

joenathanon Replica Ferraris Raise Ire of Auto Maker

>Sure, maintenance may be a bit lower

Not just a 'bit' lower but worlds lower, owning a luxury car is rarely about the acquisition cost but the cost to keep and maintain it. You can find Toyota parts any day of the week on just about any street corner, same thing when it comes to a mechanic. Plus Toyotas are built to be daily drivers, not so much Ferraris.

joenathanon Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers

Yes, this isn't a hardware backdoor, it's all in the software.

joenathanon Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages

I've never had any issues with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. The 840 EVO series and Pro series are the best performance for the money you can get.

joenathanon Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue

>Reminds me of when soldiers were being electrocuted in showers in Iraq because of totally incompetent contractors wiring electricity near the showers.

The details of which are the showers needed water pumps,and the water pumps were not properly grounded.

joenathanon Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone

I think you are conflating issues, the Nexus 5 is only unlocked in the sense of being able to take it to any carrier. The bootloader is shipped locked but is easily unlockable by the user.

joenathanon Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas

The Zune video service has be retired, Xbox video has replaced it.

joenathanon First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes

The energy cost would have to be less than shipping by traditional means, which requires much more human involvement, additional sorting, travel, and stops. If you've ever tracked a package this would be pretty obvious.

joenathanon CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store

>Because software shouldn't brick the phone.

It's not software, it's a damn operating system.

joenathanon Adobe giving EVERYONE PhotoshopCC/Lightroom5/Behance +20GB storage for $10/m

I am not going to trust Adobe with my personal information until they can prove that they have improved their security practices. If you can't protect your own source code there is no way you are going to be able to protect your customers data.

joenathanon An Open Source Phone That’s Completely Unlocked, Hardware Too

I just get a blank grey page.

joenathanon DDR4 Memory Will Be Released By Next Month

The chipset no longer contains the memory controller, the CPU does. To use DD4 you'd need not only a new motherboard but a new processor.

joenathanon IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available

I got very different results.

Windows 8.1 Pro x64 i7 3770k 16GB RAM

-Octane-

Firefox 28 - 10320

IE 11 - 14167

Chrome 32.0.1689.3 - 21223

-Kraken-

Firefox 28 - 1742.6ms

IE 11 - 2252.0ms

Chrome 32.0.1689.3 - 2241.0ms

joenathanon Nexus 5 Teardown

It's called Optical Bonding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_bonding

"The main goal of optical bonding is to improve the display performance under outdoor environments. This method eliminates the air gap between the cover glass and the display"

joenathanon Nexus 5

I travel all around the valley, and rarely ever have any signal issues with T-Mobile, in the places I do have issues Verizon phones are the only ones with signals.

Where I live(Sun Dance) Verizon phones have little to no signal while I have 3-4 bars.

joenathanon Driverless cars are further away than you think

> Capitalism forces companies to adapt to competition

Only in theory, in practice this sort of thing happens: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/november/lcd-price-fixi...

joenathanon Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers

To skim means to remove "something" from the top(usually referring to liquids). Which makes sense to use to refer to a device that sits atop a card reader.

https://www.google.com/search?q=card+skimmer&safe=off&source...

One thing to remember is that keyloggers have been around much longer than card skimmers, keylogger is a well known and well defined term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger

https://www.google.com/search?q=hardware+keylogger&safe=off&...

It's all very interesting to watch as criminals become more sophisticated.

joenathanon Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers

I did read the article in full, also what does it matter who wrote it?

A skimmer and a keylogger are two very distinct things. When I read the title I was interested to find out how the skimmers were placed, placing a keylogger takes much less skill and craft, it's a piece you can buy in bulk, whereas placing a skimmer usually requires a different class of criminal, skimmers often have to be fabricated for each location.