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DJ Schmolli - Rock of Ages (Rock mashup - turn the volume up)-4wd (October 27, 2015, 06:04 AM)
DJ Schmolli - Rock of Ages (Rock mashup - turn the volume up)-4wd (October 27, 2015, 06:04 AM)
Plastic (or leather) gets hot and sweaty.-Renegade (October 25, 2015, 06:46 AM)
I had a nice pair of Sony headphones that spent years in the pouch in the drawer for that reason. I only broke them out when I wanted to blast my stereo in the early AM. Even with the A/C on my ears got itchy.-MilesAhead (October 25, 2015, 07:23 AM)
I don't like to keep earbuds in for very long.-MilesAhead (October 24, 2015, 08:54 AM)
Would you connect those devices to, say, your phone?-Deozaan (October 24, 2015, 06:50 PM)
No. So I guess that answering the rest is rendered moot?
When I say I wouldn't connect those things... I really mean it. And though I don't understand everything in regards to the security, I do know enough to prevent corruption of the non-connected method via other connections. I don't care what advantages I'd get from doing it, unless I could be sure that it was totally inviolate, I wouldn't. Which you can't be sure of. So I don't.-wraith808 (October 24, 2015, 07:45 PM)
I just wanted to point out that i think its a terrible idea for software to do bad things to a user's computer or files if it suspects that it has been pirated.-mouser (October 24, 2015, 02:03 PM)
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12 Things You Should Never Do on Airplanes-Arizona Hot (October 22, 2015, 10:45 PM)
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This Student Bought Google.com For $12-Arizona Hot (October 23, 2015, 05:02 PM)
Ok... So I go outside for a smoke, and I trip across this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...ancelled-in-malaysia-Renegade (October 24, 2015, 02:29 AM)
That's priceless. I sometimes wonder whether the BBC doesn't try to do its level best to grind its face into its own poo. It's probably a form of ritual liberal-marxist religio-political self-abasement as penance/atonement and as proxy for an imagined history of racial abuse by white male (mainly British) colonists.-IainB (October 24, 2015, 03:40 AM)
Love and Sex with Robots conference cancelled in Malaysia
The Love and Sex with Robots conference due to be held in Malaysia has been cancelled by police for being "illegal".
The annual event, which was supposed to go ahead on 16 November, was called "ridiculous" by police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar.
There was "nothing scientific about having sex with machines," he said.
An apology has since been posted on the event organiser's website, loveandsexwithrobots.org.
It said the cancellation was because of "circumstances beyond our control.
"The conference will definitely not be held anywhere in Malaysia.
"We deeply apologise to any person or any authority which has felt offence in any way," a statement said.
Cherry 2000 is about technology, human sexuality, freewill, and companionship. Lots for people to lose their minds over in that film. But nobody is losing their minds and freaking out in this thread.-Renegade (October 22, 2015, 03:46 PM)
NEW WI-FI KETTLE, SAME OLD SECURITY ISSUES? MEH.
We saw that Smarter's iKettle 2.0 and Smarter Coffee machine were reviewed on ITV’s This Morning yesterday.
If you’re not familiar with the iKettle it’s a device that solves one problem (physically having to get up and switch your kettle on!) and creates a whole bunch more.
We haven’t been shy about our security research findings, you can find them covered here, here, here, and here.
The fundamental issue is that if you have this kettle it’s possible for someone to get your wireless network key, and help themselves to whatever is on your network, or use your Wi-Fi for whatever purpose they choose.
Anyway, that’s all in the past because the new iKettle 2.0 model fixes all that. …erm, except it doesn’t.
Every thought you think every drop you drink they'll be chargin' you!!-MilesAhead (October 22, 2015, 02:20 PM)
-panzer (October 14, 2015, 02:34 AM)
@panzer: Thanks for posting about those films - always happy to have my comfort zones stretched a bit.
My take:
- SEPTEMBER CLUES 9/11 - YouTube: I hadn't seen that "911 conspiracy theory" video before, and it seemed a quite well-made and well-researched amateur film, and it definitely had something to say. From experience, and given the catalogue of what look rather like tell-tale warning lights, during and post-911, particularly regarding the "911 Commission", and including, for example, the treatment of conflicting eyewitness reports, the preferential appointment of key personnel, the funding constraints, deliberate procrastination, prevarication, redaction (actually hiding some of the truth), lack of FOI, and a seemingly inconclusive outcome with suspect "truth", one might be forgiven for assuming that Americans were a somewhat gullible lot if they all swallowed it wholesale, as directed. But they aren't, and they didn't, and the production of 911 conspiracy theory videos/films illustrates that and was arguably a predictable outcome under the circumstances.
-IainB (October 20, 2015, 10:04 PM)
The point was missed in all of the text that was thrown at the ill perceived problem. That stuff is in general basement worthy. That's my point. I really don't care about what is posted... just the fact that it was shoehorned in.-wraith808 (October 20, 2015, 11:25 PM)
....And ^they call piracy theft. Ha!-Stoic Joker (October 22, 2015, 11:13 AM)
KICKASSTORRENTS BLOCKED AGAIN OVER “HARMFUL PROGRAMS”
BY ERNESTO ON OCTOBER 21, 2015 C: 80
BREAKING
KickassTorrents is continuing to have problems with Google's unwanted software policy. After the site resolved an earlier problem with a bad advertiser, Firefox and Chrome users are again barred from accessing the popular torrent index. Instead, they see an ominous warning screen.
Starting a few hours ago Chrome and Firefox began blocking user access to KickassTorrents (KAT) again.
Google’s safebrowsing algorithm flagged the website under its ‘unwanted software’ program, which is often triggered by malicious third-party advertising.
