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jason46··on US Lawmakers Urge Canada to Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms
Is there any reason info showing this company to be any more evil than any other China based cell company? Just curious why they seem to be targeted more than others.
jason46··on France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%
Satellite with a mirror at the apex?
jason46··on Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
openDNS blcoks inthemesh.com for malware
jason46··on Huawei, Failing to Crack U.S. Market, Signals a Change in Tactics
What tablet is not made in China?

My young daughter has a T3 Media pad and it has been the best tablet in that price range she has had and hasn't been destroyed so far.

jason46··on Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above
Is signed into Cortana and the Windows store synonymous?
jason46··on Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor
Well as far as personal sentiment goes, I'd rather watch the javelin thrower before any amount of basketball.
jason46··on Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric
Any one think they are cutting off the free upgrade at the deadline?
jason46··on Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
What are people going to do when they find out these games are "hard". and OMG those are some great games.
jason46··on Happy 20th Birthday, Quake
Getting some sort of 3d accelerator for openGL and turning it on in the settings I remember being a glorious thing.
jason46··on Microsoft acknowledges permission problems with MS16-072 patches
Next time you have to rebuild a domain because of a patch that couldn't be removed, you let me know.
jason46··on Netflix Billing Migration to AWS
Is this why my daughter can't watch Young Justice? I've noticed quite a few titles show unavailable. Curious if Netflix is positioning to sell to amazon.
jason46··on Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda
I'm not sure because both give me heart burn.
jason46··on Microsoft acknowledges permission problems with MS16-072 patches
c'mon buddy, I hate MS as much as the next guy but this is a far cry from how bad things use to be, at the very least the patch can be removed.
jason46··on Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser
The Feinstein situation is not new, at this point seems a stump should be able to win against her, seems odd for sure..
jason46··on MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China
I can't comment on "the best" but I know enough that a printer can be had for roughly half the price of a makerbot that will achieve better results. The "fifth generation" makerbot doesn't have a heated bed, can't print ABS...
jason46··on Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken
The only cable provider(charter) in northern MI doesn't support IPV6.
jason46··on Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure
When Nostralius surpassed blizzard in active players, they had to step in ;)
jason46··on ASCII Art Weather
Any idea how to specify a location, I tried the site on a few different browsers and some are correct and others are not. I suppose some browsers are blocking its means for determining the location.

edit Looks like the issue is caused by some browsers/settings that hide the public ip prevent it from finding location.. would be nice to specify, i like the page.

jason46··on Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires
Reply to a previous message in the chain?
jason46··on The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones
I wonder if their approach only works on iphone5 and not the 6? I thought I read somewhere the 6 has more advanced security features?
jason46··on Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
I thought the bummer was the 2GB of ram and 16GB of storage..

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mediatek-MT8165-Tablet-SoC.1484...

jason46··on iPhone SE
At first I thought this was Security Enhanced, its not right?

Retina flash must be the gotta have feature

jason46··on Harvard student develops fingerprint-based authentication app
I think it was in a comment on this site I read that, fingerprint is only good for identification, not authentication.
jason46··on Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
The issues described are not going to impact the average user, and due to some of these issues Mint would probably be more convenient, for the average user.
jason46··on Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update
I'm still using all 4 cores in a "triple" core phenom to this day. I believe it is also overclocked roughly 400mhz, my wife sometimes plays games on it.
jason46··on Ask HN: Sold my Apple Watch: Quadcopter or 3D printer?
There is a substantial learning curve to setting up and flying a competent quadcopter, but it is a great hobby. If you get both, you can make parts for the quadcopter. I'm not sure about the relevance of selling your watch for $250?
jason46··on Facebook is able to identify music and TV when writing status update
What if someone logs into facebook during a murder, could it be considered surveillance?
jason46··on US transportation secretary announces drone registration requirement
What describes a drone? Do I need to register my $50 "drone"?
jason46··on Microsoft Will Now Let Windows 10 Upgraders Use Windows 7 or 8 Product Key
The quote from Microsoft in the article suggests this is only for insider preview installs?
jason46··on The plane that can fly backwards
I saw an F-22 fly backwards, I'm sure it was much more impressive!
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