Comment Rest in peace (Score 2) 138
The Blackberry Bold remains the pinnacle of smartphone design. Too bad people today care more about a big shiny screen and shitty apps than usability.
Comment Re:Damn shame (Score 2) 193
WinCDEmu is a nice open-source alternative.
Comment Re:WTF? End-to-end encryption not even mentioned!? (Score 2) 129
Second, Google is unwilling to provide such a plugin because it would interfere with the company's ability to scan e-mail and build advertising profiles.
Actually they were working on a PGP plugin for Chrome, though it's moving very slowly, possibly dead.
Comment Re:People are speculating it's these shit stains (Score 2) 92
My guess is Steam reconfigured their caching servers in an attempt to mitigate the DDoS attack and accidentally screwed things up (caching signed-in requests).
Comment Re:Good Luck... (Score 1) 231
1. There is no way to dismiss the tray icon or stop it from running on startup even after signing up.
2. If you drag it to the overflow area it goes back after a reboot.
2. If you drag it to the overflow area it goes back after a reboot.
Submission + - Netflix Is Experimenting with Advertising (vice.com)
derekmead writes: Netflix is experimenting with advertisements that run both before and after users watch a video. It's unclear whether or not the company will eventually push ads to everyone.
For now, the company is primarily experimenting with the HBO model of pitching its own original programming to viewers. The company is only showing trailers for shows like Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards—it has not attempted to sell third party ads, and the company told me that, for the moment, only specific users in specific markets are seeing ads.
For now, the company is primarily experimenting with the HBO model of pitching its own original programming to viewers. The company is only showing trailers for shows like Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards—it has not attempted to sell third party ads, and the company told me that, for the moment, only specific users in specific markets are seeing ads.
Submission + - Possible origins for Ceres' bizarre "white spots" uncovered
StartsWithABang writes: Since its discovery as the first asteroid more than 200 years ago, Ceres has been one of the most poorly understood objects in the Solar System as even imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope is unable to resolve very much. But NASA's Dawn mission, since moving on from Vesta, has begun to map Ceres, constructing the highest resolution global map ever, with better data to come. The greatest mystery so far are two bright white spots at the bottom of a deep crater, brighter and more reflective than anything else on the planet's surface. Right now, three leading possibilities for the origin of these features exist, with Dawn possessing the capabilities to teach us which one (if any) is correct, hopefully by the end of the year!
Comment Re:Here's MY test (Score 1) 522
Equal opportunity is not equal outcome. Women have equal opportunity in most western countries.
Comment Re:Here's MY test (Score 3, Insightful) 522
The proportion of women in my workplace is about the same as the proportion of women in my computer science courses. Blame schools, parents, or the media. This imagined discrimination in the workplace has nothing to do with it.
Comment Re:Clickbaiting Bullshit Works (Score 1) 224
Facebook offering to pay for a voluntary service for their employees? Oh the humanity.
Comment Re:I RTFA'd, and I still want to know... (Score 1) 187
Bullshit. The difference between 60 and 120 Hz is incredibly obvious. Also I have no idea what you're talking about but video cards have always supported more than 72 FPS, the only limit is the display, and many CRTs back in the day went up to 85 Hz or higher.
