jmomo's comments

Confirmation bias is pretty close. People actively seek out not neutral factual information, but whatever makes them happy. Conservatives watch Fox NEWS because it makes them feel good about themselves. Liberals watch MSNBC because it makes them feel good about themselves. "Truth be damned, lie to me! It makes me happy."

Big oil doesn't cause global warming because that would make a bunch of rich powerful people bad guys, and they can't have that.

And, sales, marketing, and advertisers aren't sleazy liars because that would make them bad guys, and they can't see that. They can't. It's impossible. Can't be true. No way.

Advertisers are just showing people what they want to see. What they demand to see. They demand to be lied to, so it's okay.

Previously, Kim Dotcom had made an allegation that Joe Biden himself was somehow involved.

At the time, it seemed preposterous.

Now,... it's entirely plausible.

"inequality.is is best viewed with browsers that support the newest elements of HTML5 and related technologies. Would you mind upgrading your browser?"

You want me to enable Javashit in my browser in order to view your site.

That's fine, if you really think you need it, but you need to be honest with me, and you are not being honest.

Quite frankly, I don't enable java on most websites and I don't think I want to see what you have to say enough to enable it.

This is just the way Bloomberg does it's interviews: breathless high-anxiety no-thinking-allowed Q&A SECTOR SPIDER TIME FOR AN ALTERNATIVE GET YOUR BLOOMBERG RADIO APP FREE FOR ANDROID AND IPHONE COMMERCIALS in between paid-shills for various financial products.

This is why I use Cyanogenmod. I get better support from a bunch of unpaid yahoos who like to dork around with phones than from the carriers and handset manufactures.

I am willing to bet Cyanogenmod will have a fix out in days, if not hours.

This goes for other ROMs like Paranoid too.

I refuse to buy hardware which isn't supported by the open-source community, such as Cyanogen.

If I don't 0wn it, I don't own it.

For those in the know, and for the benefit of laymen who don't have the time to do the research, what are the things that a buyer should look for in a SSD, in regards to reliability and longevity? Technology, brand, controller?

If Apple had a security breach, and it seems like a massive one given the circumstances, are they not required by California law to report it to their customers?

It would never get that far. The "jury selection" process weeds out average people and leaves only the most boring, dumb, and/or untruthful jurors.

Buy a three year old phone, such as the HTC Desire with a 32GB SD card and you will have more storage than the new Moto X, even twice as much as the 16GB version.

Also, your game didn't spam people constantly to tweet their progress or have the high amount of pretentiousness. Though, I'm sad you never implemented the level boss battles into the game.

I hate to say it, but this is just a rant by a RedHat/CentOS admin who has started using Debian/Ubuntu for the first time and just doesn't know why things are done differently there.

So, I have been doing network engineering and sysadmin kind of stuff since the 90s. I remember when Cisco bought the PIX firewalls from Network Translation around 95/96.

Cisco has killed competition here by paying out the other company. Cisco absolutely will kill off a product line somewhere which conflicts with what they purchased, or vice versa.

While Cisco is pretty good about corporate integrations from a big-picture level, but I imagine the individuals with talent over at Sourcefire are getting ready to jump ship, because Cisco is really bad at promoting and compensating based on technical merit. They promote business executives and then hire cheap Indian tech talent (not trying to be racist here, it's just true).

Linksys was a weird acquisition and I don't think it's a fair comparison here at all. Instead, look to where Cisco got their big switches, their wireless networking, their IP telephony, their IDS, firewalls, and video conferencing tech. Cisco has integrated those products well, but they almost immediately stopped innovating new features and only responded to outside competition to deliver anything new. Cisco was LAST to have good 10Gb ethernet switches, LAST to have IDS products, LAST in a variety of IP telephoney features, and their PIX/ASAs still suck super hard, are buggy, and crash way too much.

Cisco sells stuff which gets the job done, but at an incredible markup, while spreading FUD about the competition. But mostly their stuff is somewhat mediocre, especially their software.

I really want Cisco to have more competition. I'm really sorry that Sourcefire sold out.

PS: Next time you are buying switches and routers, look at Juniper. Juniper mops the floor with Cisco technically, and is usually 25% cheaper.

I've set up my own home security monitoring in the past using a camera, Zoneminder, and other tools.

Zoneminder is not that great, and I would love to have a packaged commercial solution which isn't too locked down from it's owner. I think there are nice opportunities for business in this area.

That all said, I hate gimicky javash*t websites like this. If I have to noscript-enable sites like jquery.com, your site probably is too sleazy for me to look at. Stop hiding your product behind cheesy effects.

Sadly, nobody outside of IT will ever read this article.

This seems to be a classic case of jury nullification. He was clearly guilty, but the jury refused to find him guilty.

Comrades! Only enemies of the United States of America would ever sign a petition like this, and thus so such enemies should be rightly targeted for increased scrutiny given their increased risk of threat to the state.

Since about 2001 I've considered anyone who used the word "cyber" to either be internet-illiterate or a politician (usually both).

Zuckerberg would never give away private info just to impress friends:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/05/report-zuc...;

http://www.newser.com/story/88716/zuckerberg-once-mocked-dum...

This from the same guy who once gave away access to anyone's data to impress friends.

His quote:

Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks.

He has no credibility.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/05/report-zuc...;

http://www.newser.com/story/88716/zuckerberg-once-mocked-dum...