Comment Re:Don't Tase Me, Bro! (Score 1) 191
Yeah, I would find the percentage of death vs use more interesting... especially if compared to the same statistic for when they shoot people.
Comment Re:I'm less productive at home (Score 1) 217
I have similar issues; not enough room, no good place set up, all that...so I definitely believe that the potential top-end of my productivity is lower at home than it is in the office. But! my company bought into the whole open-office thing, and the distractions in the office are non-stop. So, my "realized" productivity at home is actually quite a bit higher than when I'm in the office, despite non-ideal conditions.
Comment Re:I dig ditches for a living. (Score 1) 217
Drones!
Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store (macrumors.com) 48
In a Medium article titled How to Make $80,000 Per Month On the Apple App Store, Johnny Lin uncovers a scamming trend in which apps advertising fake services are making thousands of dollars a month from in-app purchases. The practice works by manipulating search ads to promote dubious apps in the App Store and then preys on unsuspecting users via the in-app purchase mechanism. MacRumors reports: "I scrolled down the list in the Productivity category and saw apps from well-known companies like Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft," said Lin. "That was to be expected. But what's this? The #10 Top Grossing Productivity app (as of June 7th, 2017) was an app called 'Mobile protection :Clean & Security VPN.' Given the terrible title of this app (inconsistent capitalization, misplaced colon, and grammatically nonsensical 'Clean & Security VPN?'), I was sure this was a bug in the rankings algorithm. So I check Sensor Tower for an estimate of the app's revenue, which showed ... $80,000 per month?? That couldn't possibly be right. Now I was really curious." To learn how this could be, Lin installed and ran the app, and was soon prompted to start a "free trial" for an "anti-virus scanner" (iOS does not need anti-virus software thanks to Apple's sandboxing rules for individual apps). Tapping on the trial offer then threw up a Touch ID authentication prompt containing the text "You will pay $99.99 for a 7-day subscription starting Jun 9, 2017." Lin was one touch away from paying $400 a month for a non-existent service offered by a scammer. Lin dug deeper and found several other similar apps making money off the same scam, suggesting a wider disturbing trend, with scam apps regularly showing up in the App Store's top grossing lists.
Comment Re:Yo dawg that b phat ya feel me. (Score 1) 486
Find yourself some ChapHop, it's pretty close to that. I suggest Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer.
Comment Re:flip flops (Score 0) 523
#VotesOutForHarambe
Comment Re:So long, Netflix, it was good while it lasted (Score 2) 187
More like the rights holders for that non-original content have been slowly but surely starving Netflix of content, bringing about this situation. Sure, I wish all that old stuff that I originally subscribed to see was still available, but I don't blame Netflix for not re-upping when the movie studios et al keep trying to eat all of their profit.
Comment Re:The stakes are high (Score 1) 280
But let me ask you this. If you had worked and trained your whole life for something that you probably only had one shot to accomplish, would you give that up easily?
So what you're asking is,
if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted. In one moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?
Comment Re:Now every police will be a criminal. (Score 2) 165
Don't be silly; laws don't apply to the police.
Comment Re:Sociopaths. Sickening. (Score 1) 110
Found the vegan
Comment And fixed... (Score 2) 118
Addressed in vanilla by the 1.8.4 update:
https://mojang.com/2015/04/min...
And for the modded community, here's the Forge discussion:
https://github.com/MinecraftFo...
Comment Re:How is presenting all theories a problem? (Score 1) 665
What gets me about this is that it's specifically talking about natural selection, which has been demonstrated to be true in countless observations. Natural selection doesn't make any conclusion about the origin of all life, it just says "things that are better suited to an environment are more likely to outnumber things that are unsuited to that environment". Whether you want to teach evolution or creationism, natural selection still demonstrably exists. See also: the peppered moth.
Comment Re:No co-op (Score 2) 263
i must correct you.
only when you attempt to play the game they are currently play are they then booted from the game.
And I must correct you...read the FAQ: http://store.steampowered.com/sharing
Can I share specific games, or do I have to share my whole library?
Libraries are shared and borrowed in their entirety.
Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.
When I authorize a device to lend my library to others, do I limit my own ability to access and play my games?
As the lender, you may always access and play your games at any time. If you decide to start playing when a friend is already playing one of your games, he/she will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.
Submission + - 55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked (hothardware.com) 1
MojoKid writes: "Tens of thousands of Twitter accounts have been compromised in a recent hack attack in which more than 55,000 passwords were leaked and posted to Pastebin by anonymous hackers. Most of the accounts supposedly belonged to spammers, and there were many duplicate entries, Twitter officials pointed out. However, to play it safe, you should probably change your Twitter password ASAP."
Submission + - EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ config (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation — the preeminent protector of your digital rights — has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program’s code to work out what’s actually going on. There are three parts to a Carrier IQ installation on your phone: The program itself, which captures your keystrokes and other “metrics”; a configuration file, which varies from handset to handset and carrier to carrier; and a database that stores your actions until it can be transmitted to the carrier. It turns out that that the config profiles are completely unencrypted, and thus very easy to crack."
