I had a lengthy conversation with netflix support, apparently, there is NO way to view 4K netflix content except for a smart TV that supports "software" as they call it. Essentially, its DRM as demanded by studio.

So as in my case, I have 40" 4K monitor, all the hardware, a 4K plan with netflix, 50mbps internet, but I cannot get 4K because its only available on these so called Smart TVs.

Before we argue, 4K content is a lot lot sharper. I do want it, but Netflix won't stream it to my PC.

After engineering, some of my friends went into IC design. There first few projects were rather painful.

They would sit in large halls where laid large sheets of competitors ICs. The competitor products were stripped apart, grinned few microns and each layer scanned into these large sheets.

There fresh out of college labor was in charge of then crawling over these large print outs and decoding the design.

Let the Cat and Mouse games begin.

Amazon or any other big corporation does not pay taxes is a misnomer.

Such organization choose to spend this money in investment or give their money to employees as salaries and bonuses, amazon has 222K employees, if it spends half of this 10billion in employee salaries and bonuses, billions just went in taxes to the government.

At the time of her death, just a reminder that she also represents why Immigration and Refugee asylum is essential.

Growing up in Iraq, she eventually migrated to Britain before creating a mark globally. Made the lives of many a little bit happier as art does.

Listen to the xenophobes and such talent may not get the recognition it deserves and humanity would lose talent that could have been.

Does this app crowd source their user base's contact list?

That would suck. I don't want my number and name in some central database. Its bad if Joe the group's goof installs and the app siphons my number off his contact list.

It is antsy for sure, just had a trip to India last month, a mere tourist visa for 30 days and they scanned for my finger prints.

Here I am at immigration counter asked to scan my finger prints. I don't know what this data will be used for. I don't know how it will be protected. I don't know what will happen if I say no.

I spent about $10k for the trip, should I say no and be returned back on next flight or just scan my finger print and hope for the best. Hell, even my 5 year old had to scan his prints, what for!

No one is giving free food,

Company = Facebook
Product = Poor People
Consumers = Advertisers

In your example
Company = Mc Donalds
Product = Food
Consumer = Poor People

So bad analogy.

As a java developer, working on java from JDK 1.0,

This is a long time coming, Java is now mostly used on large server side projects. Its driving the Big Data revolution with technologies like Apache Spark. Running countless servers on Tomcat and/or Spring containers.

Oracle is not wrong in discontinuing the browser plugin. They should have done it with JDK 5

i have been flying drones, half a geek can build drones that avoid collisions, auto land using laser range finders or sonars. And this is open source stuff that few hobbyist put together, no where near the kind of effort apache or linux put in.

So I think its fear mongering.

Further, all those news, I have always seen a commercial product from DJI etc, a bloke went and bought one from target. None were ever where hobbyist who have made there own drones. They are more responsible, know the rules and play within it.

hell yah, new sanctions already.

Some would say Zionist and Saudi money is already doing its thing.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Hmmm, so no building a stealthy detector this way.

Is it theoretically possible to capture a larger bandwidth using SDR, with oscillator freq far away so not to be detected, then doing a FFT on it to isolate police radar?

In my excuse if I make no sense, last I studied radio communication was 2 decades ago in engg, went down to software development and never looked back.

Where I live, radar detectors are illegal.

Naturally, police have Radar detector-detector built into their radars, and I know of one confirmed case where a friend visiting out of state got caught with his radar detector.

So, can a radar detector built out of SDR/GNU Radio be detected? Hypothetically of coarse.

In that case, can you put it past CIA?

MOTO X Style (Pure) is awesome.
Xperia Z5, particularly the Compact comes to mind, Sony is going to go minimalistic on the UI.
Oneplus 2 also come to mind, but thier invite system leaves much to be desired.