Recent content by caustin582

It's doubtful that an individual user would ever run into legal trouble for using something like this, but it's almost a certainty that the company itself will. In almost any streaming website's ToS you'll see that it's pretty clear they don't want their content being downloaded and saved. I...

Companies can't always be innovators, but the problem is that Samsung is NEVER the innovator. They just wait for their competitors to come up with something juicy then jump on it ASAP. It's a fairly effective business model, but we need to recognize it for what it is.

This article is missing one of the most important steps in securing your online activity: using a virtual machine. All the encryption in the world isn't going to help you if you somehow ended up with a keylogger or other malware on your system. Not only that, but if the feds decide to bust...

The whole "we thought the laptop was stolen" story is clearly a huge pile of BS. The original complaint made by the vice principal to the student's parents was that the student was taking part in "improper behavior in his home." Only afterward did the school totally backpedal and claim that...

I couldn't disagree more. Maybe this is true for gamers who are considerably older (people who played games like Pac-Man in their teenage and young adult years), but it's the other way around for people who started gaming in the early to mid 90s. Games were a hell of a lot harder back then...

Verizon didn't block 4chan from its regular internet service, they just blocked it from Verizon Wireless, meaning you can't access it from mobile devices (ie, cell phones). I'm not saying Verizon is in the right, but there's a huge difference here.

You guys are totally missing the point of this. It's not changed to help people type the URL in manually--it's to make the URL shorter so that it takes up less space when it's pasted somewhere, like in a Facebook post. Shortening a URL by 15 characters is a great improvement. Also, they're...

precariousgrayI think your name contains an adjective describing how most of us felt after reading this article. His name doesn't contain any adjectives. But yes, I think this article is centered around an issue that most people here know nothing about. It could have used a bit more clarification.