What is Reddit's opinion of Gizmodo?

The guy who paid $16 dollars for a $330 000 house using a loop hole that said something along the lines of if a house was abandoned and no one contested it and you moved in and lived in the house for 3 years you had ownership.

Edit: Found the article

Some US companies are voluntarily collecting this information about us:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

Some US carriers are adding software to your phone to collect data:

http://gizmodo.com/5864220/what-is-carrier-iq

We should all be demanding openness. No one needs to know my exact location each minute of each day for months or years.

Sadly, most people don't care

"We trained for a year, flying out of Beale AFB in California , Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, and RAF Mildenhall in England . On a typical training mission, we would take off near Sacramento, refuel over Nevada, accelerate into Montana, obtain high Mach over Colorado, turn right over New Mexico, speed across the Los Angeles Basin, run up the West Coast, turn right at Seattle, then return to Beale. Total flight time: two hours and 40 minutes.

One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast."

Source

Gizmodo has been full of shit like this for years. I'll have to dig up the "Fuck you all Gizmodo readers" post from a couple years ago. It was seriously a 7 paragraph bitch session about how the author's opinions shouldn't be questioned and the readers were all drooling retards. This wasn't a comment or a "I quit" post, this was their feature fucking headline for several days.

Edit: Here it is.

Another piece by the same pilot made its rounds on Reddit a while ago:

>One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

I hate apple. I remember when the sued some school in Canada because the school's logo was too similar to apple's logo. Here is the article: http://gizmodo.com/5059881/apple-sues-school-for-using-the-same-fruit-in-a-logo

>and for good reason considering Power Balance came out saying that there was no scientific evidence that the product had any benefits. Its all a placebo.

More like they were forced to by the Australian government.

I would hazard a guess that RFID in credit cards and passports are of interest to them.

http://gizmodo.com/5882102/mythbusters-was-banned-from-talking-about-rfid-chips-because-credit-card-companies-are-little-weenies

Context for those who are confused.

Edit: One of many reddit posts.

I think it only applies to their industry, but that there can not be another parcel delivery service that uses brown for it's fleet & logo.

http://gizmodo.com/5673499/3m-owns-the-color-purple-but-not-how-you-might-think

I was surprised when I first looked at this map (the one on the bottom of the image) because it was suspiciously blue. Then I realized that the color intensity is proportional to the population density of the area.

It gives a much better understanding of the real distribution of red and blue in terms of population, without being as disconnected from the actual shape of the land as the "population cartogram" (geometrically skewed) maps are.

edit: Looks like Gizmodo picked this up too.

edit2: removed Facebook link (wasn't my page but realized it might violate the rules).

This technology seems miraculous. Like, really miraculous. Like, I-don't-believe-this-exists miraculous. I don't understand why this technology, if it exists, hasn't created a scientific and bio medical revolution. The article claims that cancer detection becomes trivial with this shit - why aren't we seeing medical groups scream from the rooftops about this? Something smells fishy.

Note* The article I read as linked to by wanking_furiously: Here it is

http://gizmodo.com/#!devnull/forum I found this. This is where all of the deleted comments go, and if you look, there seems to be a ton that are angry because they posted an article on "how to cheat and get away with it." It also seems it was front paged on Valentine's Day. The fuck??

Gizmodo now has a special section, designated #redesign, where they send all of the comments mentioning the site redesign. It's really pathetic and hilarious at the same time.

If anyone is interested here is a link for it. WARNING The link does take you to Gizmodo.

Now we just consume over 3.4 quarts of soda a week.

Edited for international clarity: 3.4 US quarts = 3.21 liters = .85 US Gallons = 5.6 UK pint= 72.5 jiggers = 196.35 cubic inches= 3217600 cubic millimeter = 108.8 US liquid ounces= 113.24 UK liquid ounces = 4.25 fifths = 217.6 US Tablespoon = 214.5 metric Tablespoon = 226.48 UK Tablespoon = 1.36 board foot

I believe Best Buy was caught doing this.

I read an article about Okcupids statistics. Went like this:

If 'plain Jane' is vote 7/10, averagely attractive, it's because most people vote her 7/10. (her mode is 7)

If 'Tattooed Cutie' is voted 7/10, it's because most people were not into tattoos (~5), but some guys were really into tattoos (10).

This difference in the statistics made there average rating 7/10, but the 'Tattooed Cutie' received 10x the messages. This messaging was explained in the article as the guys thinking, "You are weird, but I like that. Most guys don't like that so much, therefore you must not get approached much, therefore I have an easy in. I will send you a message."

I think this is what is happening. You nerds are thinking she is rated lower by the average man, and high by you, so you must have an easy in. The rub is that you have to compete with each other.

EDIT: Found the article

She indeed seem to be arguing reasonably for the use of pepper spray, but she does understate what pepper spray is. It is not a derivative of pepper, assuming she used the colloquial "pepper" to refer to black pepper, but is "a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus." Black pepper is of the Piper genus. Source.

Pepper spray, by definition, is a diluted solution of capsaicinoids. The kind they used was 0.7% solution. The average everyday pepper spray for tactical deployment? 0.2%. The strongest solution approved for animal use (i.e. bears) is 2.0%, but 1.0% suffices. Also, the minimum distance from which it should be sprayed is about six feet. Source.

The reaction shown in the video is just about the kind of reaction you get from powerful pepper spray. There are numerous videos on YouTube that will serve as evidence.

So, yes, she did "under-exaggerate." As for the situation at UC Davis, I find the actions of the police disturbing and the excuses of Mrs. Kaheti disgusting.

This is a good of a spot as any. I'm glad you posted the source article instead of the blogspam. I'm also happy this comment was voted to the top. Vote karma well deserved, kind sir or madam!

I propose a new reddit functionality. If a better URL for a submission is available I propose that it can be submitted and added to the title of the post.

Just a draft for example; something like:

> The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows (gizmodo.com)

> Reddit Alternate link (torrentfreak.com)

> (1654 users have proposed the alternate link)

> [+] see more alternate links

The alternate link can have a brief description in the alt text. Something like 'Gizmodo blogspam redirect to source'

Cheers!

EDIT - I see blogspam as a problem. Not necessarily a big problem but I think a good solution would do good things for the internets. There's a not small amount of people who's entire business model is around blogspamming and (re)(re)(re)submitting content for ad impressions. I'd rather give credit and impressions to source not parasite middlemen.

>The sheer technical genius of it amazes me with the fact that it allows for expansion at higher altitudes and returns to normal as it descends.

Fun fact: In order to compensate for the high altitude expansion, they had to basically build the plane with numerous expansion joints throughout the body, even in the fuel tank.

>Ironically, the plane was dripping, much like the misshapen model had assembled in my youth. Fuel was seeping through the joints, raining down on the hangar floor. At Mach 3, the plane would expand several inches because of the severe temperature, which could heat the leading edge of the wing to 1,100 degrees. To prevent cracking, expansion joints had been built into the plane. Sealant resembling rubber glue covered the seams, but when the plane was subsonic, fuel would leak through the joints.

From an awesome story about the Blackbird told by a former pilot.

edit: grammar

i posted this in a comment below:

i searched all around and apparently it was meant to be revealed on a special called Found but i searched her website and found no information on it

an article i found said it was set to release around November but nothing else has been mentioned since

other article that talk about the show

so it seems only Oprah and the lake Tahoe police department know what was inside. since there's no mention since i'm sure there was nothing of interest, appeal, or value probably just personal documents and records, tax forms etc. nothing exciting :\

Here is an article written from a pilot's perspective of the beast. It's a very entertaining read.

The jet's top recorded speed according to the pilot was actually a short sprint at Mach 3.5, which is 2,660 mph or 4,280 kph. Unfortunately the titanium skin would creep at those temperatures so it could only fly that quickly for a very short period of time. When it was shot at with missiles (almost 4,000 times total), the pilot simply had to up the throttle to speed away from them.

Because it leaked so bad on the ground like you mentioned, after it took off it did a quick sprint so the body would heat up and expand, filling in the cracks that were designed in the titanium skin. Then the Blackbird would have to slow down to allow the fueler jet to refill it, letting the SR-71 continue on with its mission. The special fuel was heat resistant and doubled as a coolant for the craft, and the wing temperatures still reached 600^o C.

Want a pro tip? Add ".au" to the end of gizmodo.com, and leave the rest of the URL unchanged. The Australian site is still actually functional, even with ABP and NS running.

i.e:

http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

becomes

http://gizmodo.com.au/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

Someone should make a FF addon / GreaseMonkey script that automatically adds '.au' to the assorted Gawker sites so you can actually see the stupid articles without having to enable 42 different scripts from 8 different domains just to see 3 paragraphs of text stolen from reddit.

You are correct. According to this article, it's a Chinese guy who cut off his fingertip and decided to grow a new one on his stomach.

Hand counted? Lego manufacturing is some of the most automated in the world.

> In the packaging lines the pieces are distributed: they are dumped into the machine, which separates them one by one, then counts them using optical sensors, and placed in a generic small box. I watched in amazement, seeing how the pieces fell into these small boxes on a very small conveyor. At every step, one, two, three or whatever amount of pieces will fall into the box, according to the instructions of the set in production.

> Along the way, high precision scales measure the weight of the box. The computers know exactly how much a box has to weigh at any stage, indicating that the correct number and kind of pieces are inside. If there's a variation of a few micro-grams, the alarm jumps and an operator grabs the box, sorts the pieces, and puts the box back into production.

> Once the box is complete, the contents are dropped into the plastic wrapping machine, which makes a bag with the pieces inside. The box are then dropped inside another box, and passed into another production line, where more bags would be added until

Anyone remember this news story a while back about the school chairs in China that had some kind of catastrophic failure in the lift mechanism? Apparently one of them killed a kid by penetrating him anally.

Seriously, fuck that shit.

Really, Apple copies Braun. If you look at their designs from the 1960's, you see the similarities. Apple's designer, Jonathan Ive, admits he is influenced by Dieter Rams, Braun's designer of that time. I find it kind of laughable that they are suing Samsung over design.

> I see your bookshelves, and raise you! A picture of a bookshelf you saw on Gizmodo four days ago. FTFY

It's actually taken by a Russian Weather Satellite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro%E2%80%93L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6twFHqJ03_k

http://gizmodo.com/5909215/this-is-the-definitive-photograph-of-planet-earth

>Apple has never been one to follow the crowd.

Except when the iPhone got

copy and paste
folders
multitasking
notification center
wireless syncing
iMessage
a hardware camera button
Twitter integration
Facebook integration
turn-by-turn navigation
a larger screen
4G

Seriously, do we really have to pretend that Apple never picks up a technology after others have already adopted it? Is it really necessary to praise every bit of tech Apple decided to integrate in the current model, and to outright dismiss every technology that didn't make it as "spec sheet and tech demos"?

It reminds me a lot of how, after the 4s was revealed, people here happily linked to this article: This Is Why the iPhone’s Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches

I don't think so either, especially considering this wonderful diatribe:

> "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

>Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

>"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."

Actually, multiple random writes only work well for securely erasing data from hard disk drives. Flash memory has extra data blocks for reliability and longevity reasons. These blocks may not be visible to the operating system, but they could still contain sensitive data. http://static.usenix.org/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf

Updated to add a link to a Gizmodo article that reviews some tools for securely erasing most forms of nonvolatile media: http://gizmodo.com/5489933/leave-no-trace-how-to-completely-erase-your-hard-drives-ssds-and-thumb-drives

There is an AWESOME book written by a former SR-71 pilot called Sled Driver by Brian Shul where he talks about this happening. He tells a ton of awesome stories and accounts of experience while "riding the sled." I've never been "on the edge of my seat" reading a book before that one.

Edit: Here is the except that I originally read that prompted me to immediately buy and read the book: http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr%2071-blackbird

Sorry but this absolutely, 100% does not work. The reason this happens is due to the pits on the surface of the Mentos, and act of getting the mentos wet and freezing it washes away the pits.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5341870/update-that-mentos-ice-cubes-in-soda-trick-doesnt-work

I'm not sure how much more wrong you could be. automated lego packaging

There are literally no humans physically handling these things.

> In the packaging lines the pieces are distributed: they are dumped into the machine, which separates them one by one, then counts them using optical sensors, and placed in a generic small box. I watched in amazement, seeing how the pieces fell into these small boxes on a very small conveyor. At every step, one, two, three or whatever amount of pieces will fall into the box, according to the instructions of the set in production.

alyssa something or other http://gizmodo.com/5833787/my-brief-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering-player turned in to a meme about a bitch

EDIT: i salute your attitude to reddit and telly, man

It was more of an advertising stunt than anything else. They invited people to try to break the glass with their feet (which is why there are multiple camera angles), the cash wasn't real aside from the top layer, and there was a security guard around, apparently.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/3m-security-glass-ad-170504.php

You make a couple good points, but the whole "you need to spend thousands of dollars on equipment to be a good photographer" is complete bullshit. If you have talent, you should still be able to take great pictures, even with a camera made out of trash Sure it's an extreme example, but I've seen art exhibits with pictures taken solely with disposable film......

He was also the first man on the moon to take a picture of someone else taking a leak.

Source More Reputable Source

EDIT: Added more reputable source since people thought it was a joke. I believe he really does have that first. He just did it into his suit so there is no visible evidence.

"Amusingly, earlier in the day Panda Security researcher Luis Corrons blogged about the Sabu saga, writing that from this point, Anonymous would only be capable of simple denial of service attacks."

from Gizmodo

So apperantly they shut him up for that, but it doesn't say what kind of hack it really was.

EDIT: Link to pastebin of the "hack"

Here's a similarly... quirky story:

>On Saturdays, Dr. Dena Coleman and her husband Gordon claim they are imprisoned in their condo because the landlord went and installed a motion-sensing security light to save energy and money. As Orthodox Jews, they say triggering the light violates a Sabbath rule, so they sued.

After 20 years in hiding... The French Tickler has selected his next victim.

Oh

God.

OP, you might wanna hang low for awhile, maybe find a safehouse or go into protective custody. I'd tell you why the Tickler is such a feared and infamous serial killer but the crime scene photos would only make you panic at this point.

For now, at the very least wear many layers at all times, like a t-shirt under a turtleneck under a sweatshirt. Something with a lot of armpit padding.

Good luck and Godspeed you poor bastard.

Edit:

Rape whistle. You'll need a rape whistle.

Edit 2:

Oh you're not ticklish?

> What kind of person writes shit like this?

A person, who writes to a site with 100.000s of pageviews, and still has 2 followers: 4n7h0ny and commentadmin.gizmodo.com .

Keep in mind that he was the "third" co-founder who left shortly after reddit was acquired by Conde Nast.

kn0thing and hueypriest aren't looking at jail time just yet.

Edit: Actually, apparently Alexis had this to say[Gizmodo]: > He is absolutely not a founding member. We acquired his company in December, 6 months after Steve and I launched reddit.

I notice you were downvoted for some reason, but your response was perfectly valid. Scientists have found that octopuses will only watch high-def videos.

My friend's dog never paid attention to his standard-definition big screen television. He later purchased a high-definition television and hung it on the wall, at about the same height as the windows.

For the first month or so the dog thought the TV was a window. He would see something he liked on the TV (usually another dog), and start barking at it. If the dog ran off screen, he would run to the nearest window and look outside for it. He literally thought he was watching the dog through a window. He hates horses for some reason, and always growls menacingly at them.

To iterate: he had a standard-def TV for over a year the the dog ignored completely, but the dog watches high-def TV with everyone else and thinks it's real.

The contract was not up. Apple hates google and wanted to be free from all google products preloaded on the phone. To sum up why they hate them quickly, apple basically saw it as a stab in the back when google entered the smartphone market.

Here's a full explanation: http://gizmodo.com/5483662/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate

My dad is an audiophile and he manages to do much much worse:

http://gizmodo.com/305549/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better

His are only half this price, but still...

Seriously. Viewer statistics for over the air TV are murky at best. Also, most people do not realize the cost and energy requirements associated with running a transmitter, which is what our mutli segment commercial breaks are based on. Sites like Hulu can gain a profit because in this day and age high speed data transmission of compressed video is becoming fairly cheap, therefore there is need for a lot less commercials. This philosophy is both good for the producer and good for the consumer.

They shot with pasties but they ended up being visible after everything was said and done so in order to save the scene they had to use CGI nips from some source material. Wilde got to okay they nips so they looked like the real thing. Lost the source of the article, sorry.

found it

There are a bunch if you search. These were the first couple I came upon.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070125/000836.shtml

http://gizmodo.com/5867314/57-million-winner-loses-prize-after-casino-argues-slot-machine-software-glitch

http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=580017#.T7ElbVLi7To

Gizmodo did an article a few weeks ago on the best headphones for running that's pretty informative.

Their #1 recommendation actually comes from a larger line of Sennheiser/Adidas phones that are pretty great. I've been using the earbud version for running and lifting for like three years now with very few complaints.

Yeps. Gawker, and by extension, Gizmodo are run by unprofessional assholes. Anyone remember the prank where Gizmodo walked around CES one year with a universal remote, shutting off television sets as the companies did their presentations?

I think that redefined the term 'douchebag'

Link

Way to plagiarize by blatantly copy and pasting someone else's words.

http://gizmodo.com/5806227/did-you-know-microsoft-makes-five-times-more-money-from-android-than-from-windows-phone?comment=39561988#comments

At least provide the source. ಠ_ಠ

Which is kinda funny because it's Biden whose in the pocket of the RIAA and MPAA and staff the Department of Justice with their lawyers....

http://gizmodo.com/5146966/riaa-and-bsas-favorite-lawyers-taking-top-department-of-justice-posts

to everyone - I can not take credit for this (and I hope no one thinks I was trying to! I just now see FAQ#3 and should've put the credit in my post title)

<strong>I found it here</strong>

and linked to a mirror of it because the site and context was clunky and not correctly loading the one I thought was the best.

You know who cabs really hate to pick up? People who live in the outer boroughs. They hate the shit out of that. The longer each trip is, the less the cabbie makes that shift. If a cabbie could pick up and drop off a new passenger every other block, they would love that. If you are black, you are much more likely to be headed to Brooklyn or Queens.

It's a fake bomb detector. Yet for some reason the Iraqis keep using them.

Here's a BBC video about it.

I just googled "how to kill somebody" to see what would happen. Google helpfully included results for "how to kill someone", but they also led me to this article that made me re-think my murderous plans. so i'd say they're about neutral in this instance.

Didn't they also just use a little robot dude to find a secret tunnel with two massive sealing boulders underneath a pyramid in Egypt? From what i recall reading, there were markings that weren't traditional hieroglyphics either. I'll see if i can find the link.. i was hoping for a followup on that.

Edit: Found it. http://gizmodo.com/5805853/what-are-the-mysterious-markings-found-in-the-great-pyramids-secret-chamber

An amazing plane. I find it incredible that they leak fuel so quickly on the ground, but then it seals up nice and tight when running at speed.

A really excellent read about this plane from a pilot can be found here:
http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird

Excuse the Gizmodo link - this was before they went to shit. The story is really awesome and worth a read.

Unfortunately Bell labs was not completely innocent. In the 1930s a researcher, Clarence Hickman, devised a method of magnetic recording.Clarence Hickman had a complete answering machine built in 1935. But Bell suppressed it fearing that people would stop talking on the phone and just leave messages for each other.

Considering they created a math theorem just for the show, it doesn't surprise me that they would be so painstakingly accurate in showing the melody correctly.

It's a semi-anachoic chamber used to block out unwanted Electro magnetic interference from devices and power lines. That would be a hybrid logarithmic antenna used to test emissions from a device. When it comes to rooms like this that is pretty small. If you watch transformers the hanger scenes with the blue cones on the wall is the Air forces chamber, its big enough to fit c-130 airplanes in, i think a total of 5 of them at one time. Its on a small base about 2 hours north of san diego. I used to work for a company testing military items, we had a chamber like this that could fit a tank. http://gizmodo.com/293001/world-largest-anti+rf-chamber-looks-like-mario-galaxy-level

no.

When you access facebook through your smartphone, the facebook app ~~takes~~ steals your contacts list and uploads them.

This was a submission to a photoshop contest for gizmodo.com: "Gaming Peripherals You'll Never Play With." Sadly, this entry did not win. http://gizmodo.com/5354866/42-gaming-peripherals-youll-never-play-with

Apple's influence on the UI was a very real one (even if there were eye candy shiny animated touch interfaces before) and on /r/apple people are always very happy to post Android's blackberry-esque interface before the iphone came out.

Also, the only multitouch capacitive phones before the iphone were limited runs like the FIC Openmoko or Synaptics Onyx.

It's an app some 15 year old submitted, disguised as a flashlight with different colors. A day later he released a video of how to set up a socks proxy and tether to a computer, successfully making the second app to ever tether in the app store.

I use this almost every week ad it works easily and perfect. Best $.99 ever spent.

Edit: here is the gizmoso post someone posted on reddit a while back when it came out.

http://gizmodo.com/5592521/how-a-guy-tricked-apple-with-a-disguised-iphone-tethering-app

Video

Edit: Also direct youtube link here

How about Gizmodo then?
Or CNET?
Or Techspot?
I could literally do this all day. Just pick one you think is reputable.

Google is failing me. Maybe I am misremembering, or I was told a bad story. Seems it's been tried, and isn't very effective.

But I had thought someone figured that fry could be frozen into a block of ice and survive, and that at least some lakes had been stocked in this fashion.

Is the guardian usually this clueless? This release isn't for Tuesday, it is for today, it already happened, and it has nothing to do with the UK or phone hacking. Here is the release, it is basically about how FBI/military contrators have absolutely no security and are using false flag social media accounts to support the end of an anonymous internet.

Why I stopped reading Gizmodo. Unfortunate that I have to link to Gizmodo to make my point, but that article is worth a read as a cautionary tale of how to completely alienate people in an industry where part of your job is to make them trust and respect you.

All about render time. Fun fact, some scenes in the movie Cars 2 took up too 11 hours to render, an that was with a render farm. Wish I could source it but on phone right now.

EDIT: Source

The ideology of "fuck Mosquitoes" has created a mosquito tracking and zapping laser that is so advanced it only zaps female mosquitoes because those are the ones that bite you. So don't get me started about winning ideologies.

LETTING THE BATTERY COMPLETELY DRAIN UNTIL THE PHONE DIES IS NOT GOOD FOR THE LI-ON BATTERY IN THE IPHONE.

This has been covered a number of times. This battery does not need to be drained. This battery has a certain number of cycles it will go through before it's dead. That's it. The more you use it the more cycles you plow through. Whenever you can keep your phone plugged in and battery topped off.

Source: http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

>Charge Cycles

>A properly maintained iPhone battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 400 full charge and discharge cycles. You may choose to replace your battery when it no longer holds sufficient charge to meet your needs.

Kyle Wagner at Giz was also schooled on the proper way after originally publishing something along these lines. You can see that article here. http://gizmodo.com/5945200/how-to-set-up-your-new-iphone-5-the-right-way?tag=apple

This reminds me of a slot machine player in Austria who was denied because of a 'software glitch.' Or the couple in Denver whose machine suffered a 'malfunction'...cripes I would be mad.

Except this isn't over Colorado. Or even related to this fire. Here's a Gizmodo article from 2008 with the image.

>Describing Android as an iOS clone is quite the stretch.

Not really. Early builds of Android show it, very clearly, as a Windows Mobile / Blackberry esque device and OS. Early Android was not designed, in any way, to be a touch based device.

Considering that the prototype didn't even use touch technology, I think it's very fair to say that Android, as a multi-touch smartphone OS, is inherently a copy of the iPhone.

Whether or not the iPhone formfactor copies something else is another debate for another time, but I think people can agree that Apple's iOS is the OS that popularized multitouch, mobile OSs.

And whether or not you agree, Android certainly got a complete redo in response to Apple's offering. It took Google a while to develop the featureset to compete with iOS, adding multitouch, etc, and today they've surpassed Apple in pure feature counts, but saying that Android owes it's beginnings heavily to the formula that Apple perfected is not a stretch.

1) You can stop the auto updater.

2) Safari is blatantly insecure. It has fallen in seconds at Pwn2 on several occasions.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5175246/safari-cracked-in-seconds-at-pwn2own-hacking-competition

3) Mac system admin? Are you serious? Someone actually gets paid to be a Mac system admin? I wish I had your job dude.

I don't consider Google's updater to be any more evil than the constant Apple call homes that are embedded into Mac OS like maggots on a dead dog.

It's actually the complete opposite of that.

Wii U features a GPGPU (unlike the last console generation) which can take over many processing elements that the CPU traditionally does. Like the article says, many developers are already finding out ways to work with the Wii U. It's actually a very promising sign that the CPU alone is able to play catch-up so well with the past generation of hardware using only the processing power of the CPU. This'll allow developers on a case-by-case basis to decide whether they should be going for complexity or spectacle.

edit: all kinds of interesting info around the internet, here's an article talking about it

Wasn't there a woman that stripped down and walked through a check point in her underwear so she wouldn't have to be searched? haha but this guys gets arrested, way to profile TSA...

http://gizmodo.com/5703878/the-most-stupid-tsa-action-to-date-defies-belief

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gawker is a blight on the internet. They call themselves journalists but can't be bothered to actually edit their pieces before posting them. They stir up shit and then complain when people call them out on it. Does anyone remember that one writer's "you don't get to call us unprofessional" meltdown? Gawker's original content isn't worth reading and everything else they post can be skipped with no loss by simply going to their source.

I think you misunderstand me. It's not the writing style of this particular article that I hate. It's Gizmodo, and their roster of hack writers, and the unprofessional shit they pull.

For example

Or this

I could keep doing this for a while, just search Reddit for submissions about Gizmodo, you'll see what I mean.

Reminds me of this video. Photographer went to hang out with leopard seals and one ended up trying to take care of and feed him the whole time.

This woman has fake leggs or something like that. I can't remember exactly what is was, but she had a valid reason. Edit: ah, here it is: http://gizmodo.com/#!5602600/i-am-very-sorry-segway-stroller-lady

I had to delete my bookmark for Gizmodo because of two articles i read today.

Here is the first in which the writer purposely omits the first ingredient to try to prove his faulty point:

http://gizmodo.com/5742413/this-is-what-really-hides-in-taco-bells-beef

Here is the second where they show an extremely obvious Photoshop of a fake device: (Gizmodo link to a Kotaku article)

http://kotaku.com/5742423/the-first-official-shot-of-the-psp2

This migh sound weird but, is the girl in the picture the one who went on a date with a Magic champion and ranted about it online? http://gizmodo.com/5833787/my-brief-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering-player I like the fact that his image is a meme representing a girl claiming herself a nerd and beign a total bitch about it. Karma at its finest.

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