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Comment Re:And you think they're the only one why? (Score 2) 234

You are a liar who's spamming the hell out of this thread with your lies. The original article clearly states that 533MHz is not available for any other apps nor games - it's only available for benchmark tests.

Stop spreading lies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/10213672/Samsung-deny-performance-boosting-hardware-in-Galaxy-S4.html The original article is wrong.

Comment Re:And you think they're the only one why? (Score 1) 234

Your unstated major premise is "what Samsung has told me is accurate". This is a mistake. Samsung's explanation is a rival hypothesis to Anandtech's. At the moment you have to compare the two hypotheses with the presented data. That data tends to favour Anandtech's explanation.

Hypothesis implies something that is not known. Samsung knows the clock speed on their phone, and seeing as you have read the article you surely know that this is verified when you run the benchmark tests. For the other side of the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/10213672/Samsung-deny-performance-boosting-hardware-in-Galaxy-S4.html

Comment Re: Down the line... (Score 1) 248

And yet only way to get the Science channel is to buy ten ESPN channels that i'll never watch. If they're not willing to do a la carte, they should at least create packages for each demographic.

Sadly, packaging is a part of negotiation. Science channel wants is more interested in piggybacking ESPN than being on an a la carte type of selection. In this case other channels want to be on the same package as espn, not vice versa.

Comment Re:Down the line... (Score 2) 248

Do Comcast and VIACOM know this?

Seeing as cable companies have to pay the providers to air their programming, yes I'd say they do. Next time you wonder why your cable bill keeps going up blame ESPN. They charge an arm and a leg to the cable companies because they know they are indispensable to the customers.

Comment Re:Wrong by law (Score 1) 601

NSA's activity was sadly not criminal, it was supported by law, a law that has been going on for years. It was however unethical. We don't know if Snowden received any other compensation for his actions. People say "if he was looking for gain, he would have sold it to China." We don't know that he didn't and was told to go public with the intent to embarass the US. And your example is very clear cut, Snowden's is not. I would agree that his motives seem to be moral, but again its like a stand your ground case where justification for shooting someone is not always clear.

Comment Re:Wrong by law (Score 3, Insightful) 601

Morality has a lot to do with intent. Killing a person in self defense is certainly morally acceptable, where killing someone with malicious intent is not. Since we can't determine his intent, we cant determine his morality. The Legality of his actions can however be judged, in which case, I agree, his actions are illegal.

Submission + - Demonoid's pseudo return?

An anonymous reader writes: Per an email I received today:

Dear Demonoid Community Member,
We have all read the same news stories: The Demonoid servers shut down and seized in the Ukraine. The Demonoid admin team detained in Mexico. The demonoid.me domain snatched and put up for sale. The Demonoid trackers back online in Hong Kong, but then disappearing.
We all wanted to believe that Demonoid would be resurrected once again; but it seems that these events have spelled the end of Demonoid as we have always known it. We all waited to see if Demonoid would return, though its now clear that this time its really gone.
Now for some good news: The heart and soul of Demonoid lives on! Through an amazing sequence of unlikely events, the data on those Ukrainian servers has made its way into the safe hands of members of our community and has now been re-launched as d2.vu
Invitations to return are being sent out only to existing Demonoid members, which is the reason you have received this email. For the foreseeable future d2.vu will remain a semi-private site and no new invitations to join will be issued until we are certain that the system is stable. To login, click here and authenticate using your old Demonoid username and password.
Demonoid may be gone, but the community lives on at d2! Welcome home!
Sincerely,
admin

The webpage does not seem to load a page, so for what its worth it doesn't seem to be working at all. Sincere request, or is someone trying to match account info? I'll be sitting this one out.

Comment Re:Life's tough all over (Score 1) 461

I flatly disagree with the assertion that it is "punishment" to require that the marketplace be fully informed, and assert that it's a genuine privilege to block the flow of information that would otherwise be used to fully inform consumer decision making.

I'll point to the medical industry where "informed consent" is often a false security. What you are doing is saying that we must place a warning label on something that requires no warning. You seem to imply that "I should have the right to know" means "company should be forced to label everything with a 'scarey' gmo label". Should you be able to find a list of GMO foods on a company website? Sure. If you really want to know the information is already available. Most people aren't looking for information, they are crusading to brand GMO's with a "Scarlet Letter" designed to punish Monsanto and scare people away from buying their products.

Comment Re:Life's tough all over (Score 1) 461

So people think that industrial food might give them headaches? Tough shit. The fuckers with all the money and all of the control are welcome to show the safety and effectiveness of their product just like everyone else.

Monsanto gets ZERO special privileges. They have spent fuckloads of money on manipulating public discourse without showing any proper evidence of the long-term effects of the genetic manipulation and much worse, this society has allowed them near monopoly power over important parts of our food supply.

Damn hippies? Who the FUCK do you think controls the discussion? Sure as hell not the greenies or hippies or anyone else not in the club.

FYI, I would not have a problem with GMO food as long as it was not managed as some shithead's private "intellectual property" being used to push around too many farmers.

How does Monsanto get privileges? Because we don't ask them to label food as GMO? Yeah Monsanto is a bunch of dickheads but we don't arbitrarily punish anyone for being dickheads. No studies on the effects of these crops? Sorry, but we have a group whose purpose is to monitor food safety, They are the FDA, they have approved the crops. Environmental effect? EPA hasn't found cause for concern. What good does placing restriction on something that is in no way a hazard? Its like placing a hazard on a basket ball that says "This ball may be a choking hazard if deflated". This is really a non issue.

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