Snowden reveals true intentions - to garner enough vitriol from the US government that they pay attention when he actively trolls them on twitter.

*yawn*

Uber is very popular in China. So many people I know use Uber exclusively rather than real cabs, foreigners and Chinese alike.. cheaper, cleaner, all around better service in general. "Real" cabs are more likely to scam you (ie. give you the run-around) or get in accidents, they often drive insanely aggressively. I'm both a driver (I don't mean for Uber) and passenger in China, and I can tell you: your wife is wrong. She's more than likely talking about the black santanas that hang around outside airports or bus stops/train stations and try to tout customers into their rides for literally ride sharing with some other random people, often between-city..which are also fine, and I've taken many of those as well.

Google: *leaves world's fastest growing market*

Good luck France.

Post-iOS9 install I noticed ExpressVPN doesn't work at all either. At least I only need it for youtube/gmail ish, poor business-users, f'd. This is a pretty serious bug, quite shocked that it was known and let pass into retail release......indicator of slip in quality perhaps? Kinda like macbook 12" forcing users to a single usb-c port, in other words, forcing users into buying an adapter, far before C becomes standard? What's going on here.

I did read the letter. I did read the article. The letter simply states "did not" - while the original e-mail states "did". Of course the lawyers are going to claim none of this was interpreted correctly, that's all they can attempt to do....alter history and perception. The e-mails are leaked. The database (sample) *was* leaked. This all happened. The lawyer letter? Um....yeah, ok, lets take that as truth, because obviously they have no motive to twist the truth, right?

No disconnection from reality here, projection on your part perhaps.

E-mail quote:
"I got their entire user base"
Lawyer letter quote:
"At no time did Mr. Bhatia attempt to bypass Nerve.com’s security or to exploit its gap in any way"

This dude works in tech - a CTO, well, assuming he's actually involved in tech, not some 'business' CTO - and thinks that this is a good idea. He's basically murdering his own reference for the future, nobody wants a bunk ass CTO who doesn't understand the internet or world at large, and has his name smeared all over (yada yada Streisand effect yada yada) but the bottom line is this: if you do shady shit, and get busted, there is to be no expectation of silence by anyone...once it's out, it explodes and that's fucking it. Touching it just makes the explosion bigger. "Lawyers", yeh I'm sure his lawyers are loving it - when they offer advice and "yeh, lets file a suit!" - they're just securing their own monetary gain...because obviously this whole thing blowing up just creates a larger vortex to funnel this fucktards money into.

The real article starts something like,
"The Slashdot world crucified Bennet "Disconnected from Reality" Haselton for building his career on writing nonsense about other people's unimportant situations expecting attribution."

I don't think you understand what I said:

Previously the common thinking was that the universe would likely go in one of two directions - endless expansion or eventual contraction, the endless expansion resulting in a "death by cold", due to entropy, there would no longer be any transference of energy between objects and everything would simply be neutral. The other being contraction, which would eventually bring everything closer and closer together - resulting in a "death by heat", where too much energy would be too close together, eventually perhaps leading to another bang/expansion.

In this story, objects, or life as we know it (or can suppose it) would cease to exist due to freezing rather than burning. Death by cold. Not death by heat. Death by lack of heat, death due to entropy.

Now, of course, there are alternative theories that break these two older molds, but...yeah.

I thought it would be a freeze death, no?

I was referring more to the wheels getting lodged in places on normal sidewalks or roadsides, where larger wheels would easily roll on thru - or getting shit stuck up inbetween the wheels preventing them from turning, seems any bits of trash would easily get caught up in there..

With wheels that small I can imagine that, unless you're on a very smooth even surface it will end up getting f'd up by rocks, divits, bumps, or just generally tiled/uneven textures that can be found all over. It's also not a whole lot smaller than those electric unicycles, except it goes half as slow as the average one and lasts far shorter distances - and carries less weight.

Useless product.

NK already goes by their own calendar system, based on Il-sung's date of birth, it's only natural that they select their own time zone.

The funny thing is - even though their calendar is "their own" - it's based on the same gregorian calendar months and days per month, coincidentally their self-selected timezone is also based on the int'l standard. They're essentially trying to say "fuck you we go our own way", KIGTOW? Except they're doing so within the confines of the system already set (or erm.... imposed) internationally.

Next up: Fatty Kim Jr. shaves his head, pierces his nose, and dresses like the "God King" from 300.

The future is....digital temperature controls?

"Augmented reality wall" - um, so, it looks like a panel that displays local information, it's hardly Minority Report style interactivity. Just marketing bullshit, tons of hotels, in Asia at least, have these features without advertising them as 'futuristic'. Most botique hotels in Hong Kong have all the digital room control functions on panels similarly designed, even, and have for years. I don't get how this is anything regarding 'future tech'.

If Facebook is so willing to bend completely to the Turkish government's demands for censorship, I wonder why, then, it remains banned in China - being that the key (publicly accepted) reason circled around censorship.

I know that the Chinese government isn't so keen on allowing Facebook to operate in China at all, given that they are in support of local competitors, but in order to legitimately prevent Facebook from competing if they wanted to - they'd need to essentially abide by the same rules as the local competitors. They'll bend over for Turkey, but not China? Surely China is far more profitable if they had bent earlier while it was still available and making headway in the market.

Nobody, other than maybe ISIS, is complaining about the NSA monitoring ISIS communications. They're complaining about the NSA illegally monitoring innocent civilians communications and strapping it under the "stop terrorism" banners.

Since ISIS is a stated enemy of many governments around the world - and many governments around the world are actively fighting against them, it's hardly an apples to apples comparison you're making. What would be an apples to apples comparison - if some hackers took down ISIS websites, do you think their respective governments would put any effort into charging them with computer crimes? I'd sure as hell hope not. The fact the victim is an enemy of your state sworn to destruction, death, and chaos - displaying beheadings and shit on the internet hoping to strike fear in civilian lives - absolutely changes the fact that they 'broke the law', and if it doesn't, it should.