isis doesn't care for red cross to begin with.

furthermore, they've been releasing snuff material now weekly for months. videos of hundreds of people getting killed.

rare? it's not rare as it's easy to build such maps.

google has such a map. nokia/ms has. and apple has as well.

but the tracking doesn't really work for "anyone". rather it works for people who are using an operator from your country(or if you can snoop on the data).

that doesn't mean that anyone could buy just some sw and track anyone, it just means usa can track all verizon users and finland could track all finnish people moving all over the globe(provided they keep their finnish sim in their phone and the phone on. all data they use through that sim routes back through finland too, through their operator).

I fail to see the news.

but it's not a form of payment, it's a copy of your magnetic strip on something that the credit card companies specially say not to accept. no holograms? don't accept. looks like a cloned card? don't accept.

not the original card? don't accept!

well yes, it's about that.

which makes the debate more about if a room for rent -literally- is a hotel - and why it's not a hotel if the guest stays for a month..

in USA sure. just like square wasn't obsolete in USA on the day it shipped. doesn't mean that it's not obsolete in europe.

but you know what? they still need to get the CC companies on board for it to be legit. doing clones of magnetic cards has always been simple, but it is against the rules.

but again, since in USA you might have tills that only take your signature as verification that it's you and have you do self service checkout of the items without human interaction.. so there's an use case there that doesn't need another person.

at the very least anyone would be stupid to accept them without checking and recording the ID of anyone wanting to use it..

(oh and the issuer can expire the card before expire date stamped on it.. check your contracts...)

furthermore, the chip/pin technology is MEANT TO BE SO THAT YOU CAN NOT DO A SECOND GEN "COIN" TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE! it would defeat whole point of the chip - so they would have to do direct deals with the card provider companies and make it all a big hassle.

coin is a kind of product that is easy to come up with but pretty hard to implement so that it's not against any rules and works with tech that's not from the '80s...

the reason why it hadn't done on the scale before was that everything was -and is still- going to more integrated chip solution. it's cheaper and wiser to have the network stuff on the same piece of faber, to have the gpu on the same piece...display driver too preferably(there's really no point in cost design wise or power use wise to convert the data to some hdmi like format and convert it back to rgb 5 millimeters away).

the idea- of blockphone or whatever- has been floating around for as long as smartphones. it's just pretty hard to in a way that makes sense and is future proof in any way.

some kind of compromise I had been thinking about would be to have a "heart unit" that would just speak over the display in some hdmi like format(even if it's not ideal really). that heart unit would have a small battery and couple of notification leds, and you could place it in different shells or even insert it into your desk - and it would carry your data. the notification led could tell you of a missed phone call in case you didn't have it inserted when the call was made. the radio etc everything would be in the heart unit and the shells could provide additional radios, input mechanisms other than just touchscreen etc.

same goes for if you wanted to use it in a car entertainment system or whatever, all such devices would just be another shell - and the shells you could keep using when you upgrade the heart unit a year or two later, so if you spent 5000 bucks on an ivory shell you could still use the latest and greatest soc/heart unit five years later, with the latest radios, if you just could bare with the "old" screen(screens are already so good...).

I wouldn't say it's 60% less talent.

they were fillers for most parts. doing stuff like gluing furniture to the ceiling.

it's more efficient to have plumbing systems.

shoveling shit used to be a real job you know.

well that exactly is the joke that windows mobile 6.5 is more full flavored operating system than windows 8 rt or windows phone 7/8.

so you have all the scamware and nothing "must have" in the appstores. heck, they initially tried to tell that you'll need to use the appstore to download 8.1 update for x86 windows 8. but guess what? you'd be a real voodoo man if you could dodge all the prompts to install the 8.1 update that get shoved to your face!!

it's not a warning label as such..
it's a label that "THIS IS A JOKE".

why? because people are stupid.

more like twenty to fifty bucks for the glasses nowadays. ..since the 3d ready tv is already 400-500 bucks..

if your privatized swat team only responds with full combat gear then that is the only hammer you have and being privatized you need to make the local cop areas use your services too.

militarization of american police is on going and is about money mostly. not about being outgunned or shit like that - and also about the short training needed to be a copper in the USA and the shit ass stupid attitudes like "you shoot only to kill!" that are not standard in other western countries..

apple needs to give stuff to chinese and usa, since it wants to operate in both countries and both countries have what are effectively secret courts and laws for such co-operation.

(and no, not every country has that)

shrinking can allow for higher speed.

that's what makes this article sound dumb just by the blurb(..that it takes x amount of time to get to the other side of the chip and thus the chip can't run faster bullcrap).

I mean, current overclocking records are way, way, wayyy over 5ghz. so what is the point?