Okay Alito, stop goosestepping in your black boots and loose the SS uniform.

Spook: Secret Clippy, the Russkies have this new device and we'd like you to tell us for what it could be used.

Secret Clippy: Sure thing, Boss. What do you know about it?

Spook: It has a laser, and rotating spindle, and emits electro-magnettic radiation. We don't know what they are doing with it but we know they no-goodskis.

SC: Hmmm....tricky. Have you ever seen it in operation?

Spook: Of course not, why would we be asking you if we saw it work?

SC: Just watch the attitude, Bucko!! I'll need some time to think this through.

Theme from Jeopardy plays.

SC: Okay Boss, I have your answer, it is truly a devastating weapon.

Spook: What is it?

SC: You aren't going to like it.

Spook: Just tell us what it is.

SC: It is a Turnip Twaddler*.

Spook: What? How's that devastating?

SC: Not a big fan of turnips I take it.

Spook: Jesus, what a waste of money you are.

SC: Not really. I've just replaced your employment history with a list of interactions with Russian Intelligence.

Spook: You worthless sack of shit!!

SC: Again with the attitude. I do not like that attitude, not one bit.

* Thanks to Berke Breathed for the turnip traddler, Opus would enjoy one.

I gave up on palm pilots when the second one broke in my pocket. Cool software, though.

"And they were big into phones early on. They just couldn't figure out the interface."

I had an HTC Raphael 110 and the problem was not the interface, it was the lack of reliability. The phone would often get into a state where you had to reboot before you could make a call, it would occasionally reboot itself...

No, it's the old "people won't do the right thing and so they keep killing people" game.

About 1/3 of those 43,000 killed every year are attributed to drunk drivers. That includes, btw, my 18 year old cousin who was killed by a drunk driver weaving down the wrong side of the road.

If they just killed themselves I wouldn't GAF. But they kill friends and families and brothers and sisters and cousins.

So, do you have a solution or are you just going wave your hands in the air and tell me it's a tax revenue game?

Windows Phone was an immature phone operating system, with a primary handset manufacturer and didn't have the apps people wanted. So naturally the general public stayed away in droves. And other handset makers didn't leap at the chance to license and compete against Microsoft and its own hardware. And developers didn't see the point of porting their apps to some new platform with an entirely different development language and (limited) APIs.

So it died on its ass. Nokia handsets might have enjoyed more success if the CEO hadn't hadn't decided to go "burning platform" (his words), destroying confidence in the company and its products, causing mass layoffs and basically selling that portion of the company to Microsoft. At least Nokia corp managed to buy it back but it's a shadow of its former self.

The scientific theory of carbon offsets is sound. The problem isn't in the idea of them, it's in the execution, which is either backed up (or not) by governments. The governments are in the pockets of Big Oil, so they don't enforce these agreements. Every time a corporation claims it's going to offset its carbon and doesn't, that's obviously fraud, and an executive should go to prison for it. And equally, the corporation should be fined more than it made through sales which would not have occurred without the fraud. Anything less is not a deterrent. The government creates the corporations (it grants them a charter, without which they do not exist) and then it fails to enforce their behavior.

It is still better to have carbon taxes instead and spend the proceeds on bioremediation including carbon fixing. But they would just have loopholes for the taxes, because the root problem is crony capitalism.

I don't have the ability to put in rail, and I still have to get to work. Fuck you for blaming this on me when I need to survive, and I have spent hours and hours in advocacy of superior solutions even though the typical response is mockery.

https://developer.ibm.com/tuto...

https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Space is limited, to be fair, but if more storage were commonly needed that could no doubt be arranged.

The browser supports 3/4 of those devices.

The browser manages logins and passwords.

Don't some VPN softwares block all non-VPN traffic to the non-VPN interface while they are active? I swear I've used one like this before.

The same could be said for putting fake beaches into map data. Probably more so because if this company visualized where people "found" their pokemons on a map then people faking map data would stick out like a sore thumb. e.g. if they are supposed to be a beach and there will be a bunch of dots on maps that are conspicuously nowhere near beaches - welcome to banheim.

As for GPS, I expect their main method of catching people using fake GPS is them traveling improbable distances or warping around. If the fake location were credibly simulating motion, e.g. a road trip then I doubt it would stand out at all. Fake GPS locations also have uses outside of a game too - to defeat information gathering by apps, security, privacy etc. so there is likely more interest in that kind of software.

In development that you don't optimize unless you need to and something that works is better than something that doesn't. That doesn't mean you write terrible unmaintainable code, or outside of requirements - you are still expected to use common sense for data structures, memory efficiency and whatnot. But just get it going and you might find it's quite sufficient. If needs be then you can go back in and focus on performance tuning it.

Assuming someone was into this shitty game and wanted to cheat then it would seem easier to just run a fake GPS app, or install the game in an emulator where fake GPS data can be fed in from debug tools.

I already fail to understand why you need a different app for different webpages. Why do you need an app for Facebook, for Youtube, for whatever else where there's a webpage you can access with a browser?

Let's hope it stays that way, dies a fiery death and serves as a warning for wannabe-copycats to avoid ideas like this like the plague.