That was my point buddy, I don't get the outrage of the drones when the alternative still results in a dead child. Not sure where I implied that I'm for this war or any war.

How do you fit a cat in there?

I get that, but for decades we've been able to fire and have fired cruise missles from warships miles way that the enemy has no chance of destroying either. I don't understand why one things is worse than the other.

Are you saying that the drones strikes circumvent those acts? Wouldn't these same "assassinations" be carried out by our conventional air strikes if we couldn't use drones?

I really don't get the drone controversy. Let's go back in time 15 years and play out this same scenario. A target is chosen, a pilot drops a laser guided missile onto it from miles above and it's destroyed. He never even sees the bomb go off let alone kill a child. He probably never even learns he's killed a child.…

It's actually true that technology has advanced while battery tech has remained rather stagnant. I'm just an arm chair scientist, but I believe it's because we're basically at the physical limitation of chemical batteries. We've improved them slightly over the past 20 years with things like Lithium Ion but it's still…

Yeah he was a beast the two weeks that meant nothing since I'd clinched. Needed some love from him last night, no such luck.

I think they purposely throttle it so you can't. They don't have enough bandwidth to allow it, which I imagine would be the same problem if planes ever start providing wifi. That's why this is a major lacking feature of an apps like this.

I hate Comcast but I will say this app pretty nice. This feature has the potential to make it amazing. I honestly never thought they'd add offline mode, it's sorely needed for these types of apps. Chances are if I want to watch TV on my phone I'm not at home and not near a Wifi that would allow that kind of bandwidth…

I had to learn to program 370 assembly language for an old job. Very interesting to learn, but it really makes you appreciate modern programming languages.

I wouldn't be surprised if most banks still have one kicking around in some data center. When I first started programming in 1999 I had to learn to write 370 (the successor to the 360) assembly language because we were retiring our mainframe and converting the logic to Java. We were well ahead of the curve back then…

I know that guy, his login is admin/admin.

Whitson, what do you think about building this out of one of those tiny Linux boards and an external hard drive?

Nothing at all stops you from setting this up on AWS but I'd wager it's probably against their TOS and might get shutdown. They also seem to monitor traffic, we've had a Windows instance shutdown because it was downloading from remote sites.

"No thanks"

Raiders fans do often promise to send people home in a wheelchair.

Looks up: Ooh Neat!

Totally, my 3G ran like crap with lock screen widgets which was one of my factors in moving to android. I like having control of my lock screen, launcher etc. and even jail broken it's not a great option. It was clear to me that I'd never have that kind of freedom in iOS.

They take a very high level guess based mostly on the CPU, RAM, VRAM and few special VCard features like say hardware texture and lighting support. While most games recommended settings might get you in the ball park, I think they err on the side of caution. You can usually get better performance and graphics and if…

If all these iOS articles didn't ignore the fact that these "innovations" have been around for years, people would probably be less likely to pull that line. It's not even so much an android fanboi thing, I had most of these features on my jailbroken 3G three years ago.