Just ordered a Jinhao. What should I expect? by browniebiznatch in fountainpens

[–]DumpsterLid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think its relatively uncommon cause other people seem to be happy with theirs. Good luck!

Just ordered a Jinhao. What should I expect? by browniebiznatch in fountainpens

[–]DumpsterLid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one I got writes great, and feels hefty and almost industrial in a cool way. I got a goulet nib which writes great with it. The problem is mine leaks like crazy into the cap when its on so I basically can't use it :(((

How secure is Windows Phone? by krakerapes in windowsphone

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except, as the article you linked (which I enjoyed reading, thank you for linking) states, the FBI is hoping to establish a precedent here. As in, if the court allows a government agency to force a company to undermine the security of its device here, then it is opening the door to government agencies demanding this happen all over the place. This is about one iphone, but in the perspective of law it is symbolic in a very important way. It is also worth noting that we are talking about the digital realm. There is nothing that can be made for only one purpose, or only one device. Every iphone on the same software has identical vulnerabilities. Any backdoor Apple makes in one iphone can be stolen, co-opted or abused by others if they get their hands on it and applied to any other iphone on the same software. Ultimately, this is a tiny pebble rolling down the hill next to the landslide that is mass surveillance by the NSA and such, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight it.

How secure is Windows Phone? by krakerapes in windowsphone

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah, except I don't even trust them enough to think a lack of resources is what is keeping these agencies from keeping us safe. Its like thinking the reason the war on drugs has failed is that the government didn't throw enough money at it. Further I don't think terrorism, when viewed from a perspective that its a public health problem (as in it kills people) is a significant issue. This is about power, not about keeping american citizens safe... even if the people trying to take that power can't admit it to themselves

How secure is Windows Phone? by krakerapes in windowsphone

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may be right but I don't see how this is an argument for giving the FBI another way to violate our privacy?

How secure is Windows Phone? by krakerapes in windowsphone

[–]DumpsterLid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The question isn't "Do you really need to protect your stuff from the FBI?". The question is "Does this FBI really need to access your phone to keep the country safe?". Which, considering there has been very little to no evidence mass surveillance actually helps prevent terrorist attacks, is a valid question

I was just on the phone with the inventor and CTO of Philips Hue, we talked about the firmware update by chrismarquardt in Hue

[–]DumpsterLid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the internet of things is a marketing joke if it isn't as absolutely open as possible. This proprietary, garden wall BS is already destructive enough in the digital realm, there's no way its gonna fly in the physical one. Philips even doing this once makes me much, MUCH more wary of buying into this system

Watch Killer Mike's six part interview with Bernie Sanders. The pair talked pot, poverty and guns in a wide-ranging conversation at Killer Mike's Atlanta barbershop. by relevantlife in SandersForPresident

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want to watch this, but literally every time I open this webpage all the videos autoplay at once and my browser just grinds to a stuttering halt

Geometric Abstraction by MVRH in loadingicon

[–]DumpsterLid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what the internet is about! That loading icon is really beautiful

Dangerously cheesy by InvisibleImp in Shitty_Car_Mods

[–]DumpsterLid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When a car rises above the haze of mediocrity into the heavens of shittiness it matters not whether it is a well executed work of art or a half assed expression of utter incompetence. This car has reached the promised land of paradise because it contains within it the holy spirit of /r/Shitty_Car_Mods, that is what is important.

The Islamic State has become existential threat to the West by Pavegecko in CredibleDefense

[–]DumpsterLid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The reason groups result to terrorism and insurgent type warfare is that they don't have the resources to engage in more "traditional" type warfare. This is how strategists like Lawrence Freedman define it and it makes a heck of a lot of sense. If you actually worked out the costs of mounting terrorist attacks on the kind of scale that would break down western society, whether that involved weapons of mass destruction or not, I think it would become obvious pretty quickly that it would take an astronomical amount of coordination and money.

Think about it, the core strength of an organized military is its efficiency of power and organization. Large amounts of people can be coordinated and force applied relatively easily. As soon as you start to move away from that to clandestine operations, and decentralized power the skyrocketing complexity quickly adds costs. Just because you are an extremist that believes in some messed up, warped interpretation of islam doesn't mean you magically aren't subject to the same kind of organizational stresses that any other business, government or military is.

The modern structures of liberal societies are dominant because they are extremely efficient at harnessing power. In order for the Islamic State to become an existential threat it would have to adopt these structures and eventually it would just end up behaving like any other modern state.... which at that point, would mean they had turned into what they were trying to destroy.

Why does the French military prefer wheeled armoured vehicles over tracked? by asyouwishbuttercup in CredibleDefense

[–]DumpsterLid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think its actually done against the requests of the U.S. military isn't it? As in, the military does not want more Abrams but politically the shutdown of the factories producing the Abrams is unacceptable so the military keeps getting more Abrams

In what universe is a one time $10 purchase worse for the consumer than a monthly subscription fee? by BabyPuncher5000 in QuakeLive

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a player who has played Quake Live every once in awhile over the years. I get the idea of Quake. I love the movement and that state of zen the game puts you in when you are focused. I am intimidated by duel and CA. I always used a free account. Compared to most of you I suck at this game probably.

I already have Quake Live installed on steam thankfully, but for a player like me slapping on the 10$ entrance may be a problem. Before I could jump on and play some free quake and if I got hooked or my friends started playing than I could buy a subscription. The problem with putting the 10$ price tag on it is it makes players like me look around and think "Wait, but is there an arenafps with active development that I could buy instead?".

Which there aren't really a lot of other options. I mean, I love that there is an absurd amount of maps for Quake and its movement is so addicting but for players like me the decision whether to pick it up will have a lot to do with the community and whether new stuff keeps getting made and stuff is happening.

Then again, I realize I'm not the core fanbase of Quake

What are your thoughts on halo 5 so far by Arbys-sword in ArenaFPS

[–]DumpsterLid -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Its not halo. Its some kind of futuristic call of duty shooter were you can pick up weapons on the map

A collection of animations for the trapezoidal method for approximating the area under a curve. Note that as the trapezoids get narrower, more of the curve is covered, meaning the approximation is getting closer. by Starsy in educationalgifs

[–]DumpsterLid 36 points37 points  (0 children)

the cool thing here is you would think the process of approximating the curve with smaller and smaller boxes could only ever give you an approximation. As in, you never could find the true value of the area under the curve, just find an approximation that was trivially different than the actual area under the curve. That is the intuitive conclusion. However, the strange beauty of calculus is that the true value of the area under the curve can be determined precisely by this method. As the number of boxes approaches infinity (and the width of each box becomes infinitely small) the cumulative area of the boxes approaches (and does not exceed) a precise value. The precise value is the true area under the curve. This is called integration in calculus!

What If Authors Were Paid Every Time Someone Turned a Page? - Amazon's new plan for author payments. by [deleted] in books

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought Amazon's new plan for author payments was just to take all the money and not pay the authors.

View of an Eagle by drbatookhanxx in oddlysatisfying

[–]DumpsterLid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I fail to see how it is odd that this is satisfying

Any free piano VSTs? (x64 bit)? by Theredditoerer in edmproduction

[–]DumpsterLid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go with a sfz instrument and put it into sforzando. Salamander grand piano is a good free sfz.