Guy could be like me, waiting for his NFC enabled phone to show up in the mail.

(In all likely hood, it's probably still a pile of parts sitting somewhere in Shenzhen.)

It's more complicated than you think, and with OS Extensions for iOS and OS X, it's even nicer because it doesn't force you to swap apps. There's a remote view controller in the other app that runs and has no idea what process spawned it or any access into it's disk or memory. x-url:// schemes are similar.

In either scheme, if I wanted to write to your app's, I'd have to tell your app to go write some piece of data to some document. My app would never touch your process or disk space area and your app could flat out reject writing to disk if something wasn't right. Like it failed format validation or something.

No, it's always been about racism and moralizing.

Du Pont really had nothing to do with it. And probably had more to gain from it if it were legalized because they had the capacity to grow vast fields of it. Same with Hearst. He only held minority stakes in paper mills. If hemp fiber could've out performed paper, moving his stock into hemp wouldn't have been hard.

There is something to be said about the influence assholes like Frank Luntz have in shaping the modern American discourse.

But to call it "Newspeak" is overselling the intention and the depth of power the people who are trying to change the vocabulary.

For a long time, I've been hoping for an OS where, by default, the apps cannot access anything outside of their private areas.

Okay

You can be a liberal authoritarian Democrat.

These terms are so awfully defined that it's easy to bend what "liberal" and "authoritarian" mean.

If you think that the Government should both be compassionate towards those who are oppressed and mistreated and should offer services to everyone to help them lead fuller lives, and also that the Government should use as much force as possible to enforce laws on the books then you've gone the whole gamut from liberal and authoritarian.

"You must have tea and cake with the vicar or you die!"

Whoosh.

here's the root post:

A lot of this misogynistic and racist language is showing up inside of GamerGate spheres.

I was joking and suggesting that the person was involved with GamerGate.

I don't think Gitmo is where he should go, but as a guy who was co-responsible for a site that vomits malware through sketchy as fuck ads, he should have to answer for his crimes on some level.

(Saying that people who don't run adblock deserve the shit they get is victim blaming, so don't be an asshole)

I'm curious if you and the parent both feel very strongly about ethics in games journalism

The point of lowering clock speeds is lower thermal profile and better battery life. Something Intel can't manage until they either scrap x86 or radically alter their chip design process

If they can get similar total performance and better clock for clock performance, going with lower clock speeds is the right thing to do.

[citation needed]

What permissions means to Android and iOS are different.

On Android, permissions are more broadly defined. Access to if you're on WiFi, Access to the status bar, access to the current time zone, etc.

Some of these things are taken for granted on iOS. Like detecting if you're on WiFi or not. I know Overcast does this to prevent downloading over mobile data by default. I don't think apps have permissions period to read the entire current wifi state.

iOS doesn't allow some of these permissions too. Like sending SMSes. iOS will give you a remote view controller that you can pre-populate with SMS data, but will not automatically send SMS programatically. So writing SMSes just isn't a permission it needs to specify.

So iOS doesn't need the fine granular controls that Android folks are looking for, but everything that wants to access personal data on the phone either does so through explicit user prompts or remote view controllers.

The same thing can be said for computers and smart phones.

What, I've got to keep my computer plugged into the wall!? WHAT A HORRIBLE PRODUCT!

I think that the devil is really in the details and we're sadly lacking any details. WatchKit SDK is coming out very very soon so. I'm really hoping that works out well.

http://salvationarmynorth.org/...

It's even better than that. It turns out just giving homeless people homes saves money for states.

So...

at 30" I'm going to need a much bigger desk.

I can't wait for those ridiculously high DPI panels to scale up. I want a 21" 4k display at 120 Hz.

I also want a pony.