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Comment Re:What are the bounds of property? (Score 1) 166

Out in the western United States you may well not own below your surface soil, you may well not own your mineral rights, you may well not own your water rights and you may well not even own the rain that falls upon your land. Check your deed and your state laws.

This. I got roped into a sales presentation one time in Las Vegas where they were trying to sell land in some no-name town that supposedly had an aquifer under it and the land was going to be very valuable very soon. The minute I mentioned mineral rights the sales team whisked me out of there so fast it took my hat 5 minutes to catch up. Clearly the deal was not actually going to include the rights to the water, if any, and they didn't want me anywhere near any of the other victims^H^H^H^H^H^H customers.

Comment Re:What are the bounds of property? (Score 1) 166

and guns are legal in most of the USA so i can shoot someone's drone out of the sky if it's spying on my property

The gun you are looking for is called a HERF gun. A HERF gun is a form of directed energy weapon. Think of it as an aimed EMP. The drone just drops out of the sky completely dead.

Comment Re:No no no... (Score 1) 85

Still, that's not really an exploit of iCloud's service. If they chose security questions that someone could find the answer to, I wouldn't consider that an iCloud exploit. I do think that the use of security questions should be reevaluated, but they're a pretty standard practice these days. Even if someone forces a reset of your password, under normal circumstances you should notice that the password has changed the next time you log in.

What people don't seem to understand is that you don't have to answer those security questions honestly. It just has to be something that you will remember of something that you can store in your password manager application.

Comment Re:WRONG! (Score 1) 65

Every major DNS registrar has a privacy service. These days you could also use a 3rd party escrow in a different country, and buy the domain using BTC.

So you're saying that the inventor of bitcoin should have used bitcoin to purchase a domain before he had invented it? Shades of Emmett Brown man, what were you thinking?

Comment Immediate Loss of 10% of the Market (Score 1) 730

With the watch crown as a control device, this will probably be a non-starter for most left handed people. Most lefties that I know wear their watch, when they wear one, on their right wrist. This means having to reach across the watch and will require a fairly awkward movement to not obscure the screen while fiddling with it.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 230

Sometimes when I log into Yahoo mail (https log-in page), the secure icon in Firefox changes from padlock to exclamation mark. Same problem on Twitter, the https turns into an exclamation mark. This is a permanent problem on Google Image search. The worst thing about this problem is in Yahoo. When I press tab and am about to fill in my password, the caret jumps from password field to username field, which means part of my username now has appended to it part of my password. I only notice that after hitting Enter and the screen returns an invalid login error. My suspicion is that my ISP has somehow managed to inject a tiny Java script into my https log-in page. In Facebook, sometimes my first login attempt doesn't even register, so I have to hit Enter again. Is that me being too paranoid?

I suggest that you take a look for yourself.

Comment Re:don't kid yourself what this is about (Score 1) 222

In part, that will likely mean actually allowing commercial drone operators to fly over your land at heights where they currently can't fly. Whether that's their intent right now or not doesn't matter; lobbying down the road will force that to happen. So, far from protecting you from drones, this is likely a prelude to be able to force you to let drones pass at low altitude over your property.

Let them try it. If I just happen to be flying my personal RC airplane at the time and the two should collide, oh well. A drone that is hovering makes a really easy target and I can harden the servo box for the impact. The rest of the plane is cookie cutter and relatively inexpensive.

Comment Re:ui consistency is very important. (Score 1) 132

graphical operating systems need fairly strict ui design conventions. period. they need to be breakable, but encouraged very strongly to the point of where breaking them for no reason makes your app seen as a peice of junk. this is apple's only real advantage in locking out outside apps, being able to blacklist ugly things.

You mean something like this?

Comment Re:no price? (Score 2) 88

There's no price yet because they're giving away the first production run to people who are going to do interesting things with them.

The program is now closed anyway, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see

Thanks for your interest in the MIPS Creator CI20 development board. While the current programme is now closed, stay tuned for more information as the Creator programme progresses as part of the Imagination community.

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