For me it was never trying to be a social network. Wave was a great blend between chat, email, and forums which was phenomenal for collaboration on projects.

Unfortunately I never used it beyond that. It was way too bulky as a replacement for random chat, never had the features to properly replace forums, and we're pretty much stuck with email now so no point in trying to replace that.

Finally, someone finds a great case for extending copyright.

I can understand needing to alter some things for 3D, like ensuring proper non-nauseating focus, or maybe there's missing geometry out of shot which the slightly repositioned cameras would expose. But this bit doesn't make a lot of sense to me:

In any game engine it would be trivial to adjust 1/48th exposure and 24fps to 1/120th exposure and 60fps. I find it difficult to believe animations would be keyframed to 24fps in a way that couldn't be correctly lerped.

Can someone explain in more detail the challenges they faced?

Your projects were likely doing something which resulted in undefined behavior. It's been extremely rare to have GCC break working standards-compliant code.

Short of encrypting data before it hits the server, using a private key that is managed only by the user, there really isn't anything these big companies can do to improve your security.

Protecting data in transport? HTTPS's key management is compromised so that's not going to protect against the NSA. Are they going to overhaul that system?

The only place I could see this being used is when they don't care about the driver or damage to the immediate surrounding area. Think a military base or checkpoint which requires cars to be moving at low speeds through a track of concrete barriers.

When speaking video standards, Rec. 2020 is short for ITU-R Recommendation BT.2020. Not sure who started that abbreviation, but it's stuck.

Rec. 2020, a standard used by UHD, specifically gives framerates of 120p, 60p, 59.94p, 50p, 30p, 29.97p, 25p, 24p, and 23.976p.

I've never met someone who picked Myriad over Arial that I couldn't trust. Clearly he's discovered this secret.

In all seriousness, dealing with criminals as a profession doesn't mean you can't have a personal life. Maybe he's into typography and felt like ranting on his personal time. I've said similar things jokingly, though perhaps court workers need higher standards.

You have your own wallet in bitcoin right? It can be as secure as you make it. Why are people trusting their coins to a bank?

One might say id was modded into Oblivion.

AT&T stores have a deal going where you can get a Nokia Qi charger for $25, or three for $50. I picked up the three. One for my desk at work, one for my desk at home, and one for my nightstand.

Not having to plug anything in is awesome. They're compatible with all the other Qi devices, including the new Nexus ones. Highly recommend.

Remember, power over USB is negotiated. It doesn't just supply 2A to each port. The USB 3 spec allows for up to 900mA, but will only provide 150mA if the device doesn't ask for more. There is a separate "charging" spec which supplies up to 5A, though it wasn't supported by motherboards until fairly recently.

The phones want a 90 minute charge time; it's just that they communicate their want for more power in a way that not all USB hosts understand -- often they use some non-standard way that only their power adapter understands -- so the host ends up giving them less power than ideal. It looks like this cable is sort of like a universal remote: it has an IC embedded in it that performs power negotiation for the device.

The reason mobile browsers discard pages rather than write them to disk is that they use flash memory. Unlike a SSD which has expensive chips and lots of them, able to spread the writes around and implementing a RAID for speed, the flash in your phones and tablets is a lot more like a microsd card: rather low bandwidth and less useful write cycles.

And they still end up with a single one-size-fits-all controller. If they just made two controllers to fit more of the broad range of hand sizes, they'd be so much better off for it.