How? Seriously, if you have a lossless digital format, and the frequency of sampling is higher than the Nyquist rate, how can it be superior? There is, literally, that is lost, right? I mean, other than some sort of hipster aura of superiority?

> Abusing the data is still abusing the data no matter what company has it. No, it's not even close to the same. A government is far more powerful than a company, and there is no clear dividing line between a Chinese company and the Chinese government, especially a Chinese Internet security firm and the Chinese government.

Agreed. I would not use chinese or russian (non-open source) software. Yeah, Google, Amazon, Apple have lots and lots of information on me, but they're not state actors or under their control. Qihoo 360, as a Chinese security firm, is embedded in the Chinese military-industrial complex. I know you might think the US has too much coordination between tech and the intel community, but it's nothing compared to china.

Most teachers are best at interactive teaching rather than lecturing. A lecture requires careful preparation, clarity, good graphics, and careful pronunciation. There is no reason that a very good lecturer can't be recorded and played by the student, allowing them to replay parts that they didn't understand. That frees up the student's and teacher's time to work on exercises together, let's the student explain where they are stuck, and the teacher can help where needed.

None of this is earth shattering, its just the difference between a lecture and a recitation. they are just calling it flip lessons now (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Lectures are not really dead, it just makes more sense to have the best lecturer do it and then interact with the students in the classroom.

http://www.latimes.com/busines... When Louisana floods, they want money. When NJ floods, they vote against it. Hypocrisy.

I'd have a lot more sympathy for people from LA, if their representatives didn't vote against aid for people affected by Hurricaine Sandy. That would be Reps. Steve Scalise, John Flemming and Sen. Bill Cassidy. See: http://www.latimes.com/busines... for example. And I'd be more sympathetic if Sen. Cassidy wasn't a climate change skeptic. If the oil companies want to buy a themselves a LA senator, they can pay for protecting the state from climate change too.

Seriously. If you have a busy family life, then laundry gets done one day on the weekend. And try line-drying in August in a humid place. It will never dry.

I can't help with the phone. But, in terms of internet browsing, I recommend TrackMeNot (https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/) and AdNauseum (https://adnauseam.io/). Google actually banned AdNauseum on Chrome, which IMHO means that it probably works. Just make sure that you have unlimited data.

While I appreciate that you are giving Bose the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they deserve it. Based on my experiences with other companies, and their bone-headed decisions, I would err on the side of caution and assume that Bose is probably doing just that.

It doesn't even need to be planned or nefarious. It's simply too easy to go from creating an app, to adding something in there that provides debugging information, to deciding that the debugging information is useful, to sharing that information with related companies.

For this one, yes, I bet the cost was more. I am guessing (and we're all guessing) that they spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort to make sure that this would be successful. Really, at this particular point in the company's history, the cost of refurb was irrelevant; they needed a success, they needed to make history. The cost savings come later.

I'm sorry to have to worry about this, but the fact that a chinese security firm bought Opera sets off lots of red flags to me. What, if anything, is it sending back to the mothership?

Try the TrackMeNot plugin: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ and source at: https://github.com/vtoubiana/T...

It doesn't hide anything that you are doing, so the signal is still there, but it sure puts up a lot of noise. If you are technically minded, please consider improving the software / forking and trying different things.

I don't see this at all. RT has high scores on some pretty obscure, niche movies; they seem to like arty, symbolic, deep, foreign, etc.. It seems to me that if you have broad cross section, anodyne, bland movie, it will get 60 or 70%. The reviewers will say 'meh' to it, and you'll think 'It will be fine'. It takes a pretty bad movie to get a low score. However, it takes a pretty good movie to get a high score. Mass-market stuff gets a medium score. It seems (to me) to do its job really well.

The guy said: "I’ve seen some great movies with really abysmal Rotten Tomatoes scores,” I'll ask you since I can't ask him. Like what? What low scoring movies (and we're talking below 30% on RT) did you actually like?

Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator, and so it is very limited. You have to look at the individual reviews to figure out why the reviewer didn't like the movie. That said, if a movie is sitting at 27%, there is a really good reason. There is something wrong with a movie that is less than 50%. Maybe you will like it, but there is a flaw in there somewhere that caused most people that review movies to not like it.

My movie watching time is severely limited. My book reading, exercising, hobby and other time are severely limited. So, I have to decide pretty severely what I'm going to watch. Are there movies with a 30% rating that I might like? Maybe. But, why on earth would I bother going to see it, when there are movies with 70, 80, 90% ratings to go see?

What are the terms of service of the VPN service? I know that an ISP has onerous terms and I really don't have much of a choice. If the VPN wants my business, they will have to have decent terms, and that means that if they sell the data then I can sue them. You can shop around for a VPN that 1. has been in business for a while and 2. has a document that states they won't sell your data. Done.