Comment Re:We'll meet our cosmic neighbors when we're read (Score 1) 198
.. because there would be little point in showing us how morally, spiritually, and technologically primitive we are.
calm down there, Neil D Tyson.
.. because there would be little point in showing us how morally, spiritually, and technologically primitive we are.
calm down there, Neil D Tyson.
very very first was a Sinclair ZX81.
Then there was a Commodore 64 in there somewhere, but then we got an Apple ][+. The first PC was a Tandy 1000. I had more fun on the apple.
And how, pray tell, can you accomplish this without adding a trusted certificate on each device when the majority of websites are now (or will be) https?
Get a router with sufficient ram, (32megs or more) put on DD-WRT, add a script to block ads. I did it and it works. The info is out there and easy to find.
Still worth investigating sufficient response that's more economical.
Maybe they could contract with that shotgun-toting old woman from Virginia.
Angry redneck squad - DEPLOY!
Blackberry reported $2.38 billion in cash reserves for fiscal 2016. They might be hemorrhaging money, but they could have afforded the severance for 300 employees.
so it was just dickishness in general? A rogue dick being dickish?
It boggles my mind to think that somewhere there is a upper management or C-suite executive that hatched and implemented this scheme and went home that day thinking 'job well done'. I wonder if his wife and kids are proud of him.
Actually I think this type of behavior probably is done by groups of people (committees, boards, etc) where they can feel like it's OK - as long as nobody disagrees, everyone else is OK with it too, so it can't be THAT bad.
a room full of group think yes men (and women) could spin something like this idea to make it sound less evil than it is. Sure.
Or maybe they (BB) are hemorrhaging so much cash as they are pushed into the rubbish bin of electronics history that they were desperate to save this cash to keep the lights on. I don't know how bad off BB is but I know they are having a really bad time compared to their heyday.
"once they had accepted employment there, handed them resignation letters"
Isn't resignation something the employee hands to the employer, not the other way around? Am I missing something here, or is this just shoddy journalism?
It's sort of a "you're fired, here's your resignation letter."
It seems to be implied that there were termination benefits (Severance package) at both companies, Blackberry and also the 2nd company. By signing the resignation letters at the 2nd company they may have been bribed by some kind of severance package that is much less than what they would have got from BB.
If they refused to sign the letter they got nothing. Thus the agreement to sign a resignation letter they didn't write.
By transferring them to the second company it relieves BB from the obligations of the (assumed) much larger BB severance package.
Dirty underhanded shenanigans either way. Thus the lawsuit that I presume BB will lose.
I've had some seagate constellations fail. I've had some WDs fail. Never a WD black though... But those aren't supposed to be used in RAID even though I have used on in a RAID in a pinch.
When I buy a mechanical HD I use WD black. Shrug.
or it'll catch on fire.
Since this new phone (and the S7 and the S6 and probably the S5) will have adequate memory and processor to do all of what most people need to do on a computer, hooking up a big display, KB and mouse will finally get us realistic device convergence. ONE device that does all we need and we can have it with us all day.
Of course, when it falls into the toilet we're REALLY screwed because
The funny part is that Wheaton the actor is just as annoying as Crusher the character. He likes to think people couldn't separate him from his character, but the truth is they are one and the same. Just read his whiny ass blog for proof.
insightful informative and underrated
I think the parent post is eluding to the concept of LEO interrogating people's phones for no reason which is BS. His idea of turning the phone off so that the phone requires passphrase and not just fingerprint is a good idea.
They can be beat, but it's not *easy*. Second, if you reset the phone, or shut just shut it off, it requires the passcode when it reboots.
The the couple times I've been pulled over (speeding and a bad brake light), I've turned my iPhone off before the office came to my car. Nothing happened and they didn't ask or care about my phone, but it's a good idea anyway.
excellent idea. Insightful and underrated.
A better reason for custom roms is to be able to keep up with Android updates when the device supplier has ended the support for the device.
Yeah so where is the definitive place to go to get these roms? I've got a galaxy S3 from Verizon that I still use as a device, I'd like to update it to the latest possible.
Most of those reasons for pirating are because they can't get the content very easily in a legal way. I guess most people are willing to pay, as long as it doesn't get too complicated.
Here's another wrinkle that goes along with your point.
I pay for Amazon Prime. Therefore I am allowed to watch The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear "sequel."
It works on my smart TV but I can NOT get it to play on my PC. Windows 10. Multiple browsers tried. WILL NOT PLAY. I log in, it says click here to play, will not play. Not bothering to figure it out.
Now, a completely unrelated topic I would like to bring up is that apparently Grand Tour is very heavily pirated.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
