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yes more legislation will come, but the Senate's not going to even vote on CISPA you're both right. I'd imagine that the key here is that we need to see which legislation is going to come out of the senate because of this. CISPA is dead. But there will be babies; The bills that separate and define the legislation ....
The post I was replying to made no point, that's why I posted "and?" and yet still there is nothing in this conversation. Is the original post accurate? Maybe. Does it matter? Not really, as long as people understand that while advertising can be annoying it is necessary to keep the vast majority of internet content fr...
I think I know the guy... he is double majoring in math and comp sci and is interning for Google now. He is the person I was referring to when I mentioned about someone becoming proficient in the catch rate formulas and writing them in code in a fairly short amount of time. Could be a coincidence, but he is 21, he we...
This discussion makes me glad to be old. In my "LOL SO RANDUM" days, we didn't have phones and cameras. My best deeds are only recorded in the memories of the people who were there. Fan fiction? I don't even know what that is.
Hide My Ass also uses the phrase “to prevent abuse.” “Abuse” is one of those woolly terms that could be construed to mean a number of different things. This is combined with Hide My Ass’ worrying practice of storing its data logs for two years
I am a sysadmin working in netsec (formerly for large financial institutions). I am intimately familiar with attacks in all forms. There have been weaknesses found in the past with a few algorithms but in general the weaknesses aren't inherent flaws in the algorithm but rather the amount of bits used became triviali...
This is a panel of judges ruling on whether or not the police violated the rights guaranteed to all citizens in the US by the US Constitution. With the way our government is setup, this decision rest solely in the hands of the judicial branch of our government. Technically, our legislative branch (Congress) could pas...
This...this right here. They are already doing what they're trying to do...they're just doing it quietly right now. The reason they're doing it, is because they can get away with it. Most people don't actually know what they should expect when they pay for services. Most people don't understand the X speed rate e...
The only issue with setting it to forced encryption is that your client "might" not interact with legacy clients. Sometimes the torrent will take a bit longer to get up to speed but it's a really minor issue these days. Hell, I think the default setting now is "enabled" but not forced.
I know this has been said many, many times, by many people. I'm saying it again anyway. I PIRATE MY MOVIES AND MUSIC. No streaming. I download the file once, and its there. It never loses quality, is always in the folder I keep it in. I can watch/listen absolutely whenever I want. It is mine, in every sense of the wo...
Yes, it is a thing. But there is a catch. Netfix operates by periodically checking it's ability to serve data to you (dependent on you, netflix, and the dozen or so peers in between), and will automatically pick the highest stable bitrate (the quality settings in your user profile will change what the max is regardl...
duty to this republic is casting the occasional ballot It isn't hard for people to do this. Concentrated benefits and dispersed costs do not help the situation because the lobby for money is much stronger than the lobby against it. People aren't raging against tax because life is pretty good here in America de...
In some cases democratically elected bodies aren't ideal to make decisions because they're too influenced by politics (or money). The Supreme Court, for example, makes plenty of decisions that shouldn't be influenced by "the will of the people" (yes, I know it does anyway) because they're upholding the constitution. T...
I can't speak to that specific claim, but it's been discovered that the PATRIOT Act has been used primarily for things not related to terrorism. [ Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes]( > Throughout the Patriot Act debate the Department of Justice urged Congress to pass Section 213...
Up until the early 20^^Th century each congressman represented around 50,000 people, now each representative is responsible for balancing the conflicting interests of some 700,000 people on average, it's only natural that all but the best equipped to gain their attention don't get their voices heard.
God fucking damn it I hate this corporations are people bullshit. Corporations are considered "people" so that they can be held accountable for their actions and be sued. It's integral to our legal system and every time someone says that it's a bad thing they are just proving how uninformed they are. Edit: better exp...
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how much do you think a graphic artist, or a designer, should work for? What do you do to make your money? These people are offering several rounds of revision, and the time involved in dealing with the client over several rounds of review can stretch out. There's an administrative cost to be considered as well, b...
My 2 cents: We are witnessing a transition of the force of evolution that drives the progress of the universe through simple rules and chaos (or random generators), from the physical medium (us humans, the brain, dna etc) to silicon and electricity. The singularity will not be just some event that we can witness as...
Oh how I love back-of-the-envelope calculations: >Let’s do a few “back of the spreadsheet” energy calculations, shall we? (I’m not trying to be a smart alec – this kind of question fascinates me!). I’ll use MKS (metres, kilograms, seconds) units throughout. > >How much energy do you need to generate? My cellphone bat...
Smaller venues generally give you 100% of merch sales. Mid sized to larger ones charge a cut of anywhere between 20%-40%, often just the soft merch (t-shirts) but sometimes the hard merch (CD's, stickers) is included as well. The amount that the house/promoter pays you is highly variable and sometimes negotiable. S...
I happen to be studying this for a music client right now! Numbers are misleading. There were near-record "units" sold in 2010. But a "unit" counts anything - a few years ago they were 12-song $15 albums, and now they're more likely to be $1 singles. There are record units, but revenue is down 2%-5% at major labels...
because people always tout the "how can we spend money on shiny satellites when people are dying of starvation here on earth!", to which I reply "people are dying? why didn't you say so? we should all work as hard as possible to help feed and clothe them!". The basic premise of my argument being that in a world where w...
That reminds me of a story. I went out for drinks with a friend of mine who escaped from Ukraine when it was under Soviet control. We were sitting outside in a group and the conversation came around to his living conditions before he got out and some details of his escape. Some proto-hipster douche at a nearby tabl...
I had similar problems that frustrated me. The store techs seem to be completely ignorant. My phone had random reboots, went to a store to fix it. They said we can't fix it, but we can't give you a replacement as they are out of stock. They asked me to go back in 10 days, so no phone for 10 days. I asked them to upgrad...
at&t's iphone 4s runs off of HSPA+ which is a brand of "4G" in their spectrum. at&t tried to get the iphone 4S to display 4G in the phone, but apple said no dice. Buzz words and imagery move units. maybe not deserved but
The excerpt from the settlement makes it seem that Facebook will essentially sidestep this by doing one thing: Facebook mentions that the settings will be easily "accessible," but not necessarily easy to use. This makes me think that we will have to go through every "interaction" and click the "gear menu" and select ...
A friend was thinking about going into the military, but they had a sealed juvenile record. Despite the recruiter telling them that sealed records cannot be found, they got worried about the scare tactics. "You lie, you go to jail for 10 years, and get fined $25k blah blah blah." When they did a search for info on s...
FCC, ISPs, working together to provide "better service" with tax money. Yeah, the corruption risk of this transaction has broken my PC. They're pissed because we know it will be an "awesome upgrade to 20/20 Mb connections" which is hardly an upgrade. There is a conspiracy to keep the technology trickling to the US and ...
I like the 'inurl:' function the best. It opens up ALL KINDS of insecure systems that have been put online by unknowing people. Imagine things like webcams, for example. All you have to do is put the page name into the search, i.e. indexFrame.html will get you all the results from a certain brand of camera systems. S...
The brand name has been kicking around for some time. It is synonymous with video games and so has managed to retain its value as a brand despite most of its owners over the years going bust. <history> The original Atari Inc that made the 2600 and all those arcade games way back in the day is long gone. The last re...
I feel like I need to add that this is not the same Atari we knew and loved in the 80's. The company itself was founded in 1971 by two visionary bosses, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. ATARI now is a shell of what that company once was as it's exchanged hands MANY times from the mid 90's until now. The Atari Jaguar wa...
From the link: >In accordance and compliance with the TB Risk Assessment Law (Kansas Statute K.S.A. 65-129e), all Dodge City Community College students who have traveled, resided in for more than three months, or were born in any country where Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic as identified by the Centers for Disease Cont...
No matter what your speed is, you will always be at the mercy of the server you're downloading from. These servers have to stream data to not only you, but the hundreds, or thousands of other people in the world downloading the same thing. So they have to divide their bandwidth going out so that everyone can download t...
That's not even true if you take the energy density of today's battery, compare it with the total energy of fuel and imply that the exact same amount of fuel gets burned. available energy gets used Li-i batteries can reach .95MJ/kg, kerosene is around 40MJ/kg. We can assume that better battery tech will be availa...
How does it feel to work in one of the most hated lines of work in today's world? You'll have to forgive the internet's hesitance to trust anything that comes out of your mouth. For all we know, you're part of a social media team trying to help convince people to use this product. Personally, this is a neat little ...
Kevin Spacey talks about what he thinks the issue regarding piracy is. That it's not that we need to stop it, that the model of how television is delivered to the public is not how the public wants it. He gives an example on the method in which House of Cards was delivered to the public. Via Netflix, and all episodes...
So your argument for G+ being of poor quality is primarily that nobody you know uses it? In my experience, the G+ community leans more towards technical / creative content. FB tends to be more the everyday slumn of life (birthdays, look at this cute thing my kid did, happy birthday etc). There's more content on my ...
And here I live in shithole Alabama and we don't have access or plans for anything like this because our state government has been bought by corporations for years. What a crock of shit. You all say Mississippi is the poorest state in the Union, but their public Infrastructure is miles ahead of ours. I make better tim...
We have the power to change the world to our benefit and create more transparency in our lives. The government wouldn't be spending billions to spy on us and send in FBI agents to subvert movements if it didn't fear our collective action. We don't even need to come up with a plan of action. The most passionate peop...
They also take a two hour lunch break. I've worked in Spain and it's a lot more relaxed than the UK, Germany and France in its work ethic. Spain may have not have been "officially" part of WW2 but it still got involved. 45,000 Spanish served on the Eastern front alone. Several hundred thousand were sent to French cam...
No one needs to pony up $600. The latest and greatest Nexus, which has been since launch, and still is a market leader, is $400. And the Moto G, a very usable alternative is $179. The actual cost over buying your own phone is much more than $2 per month.
Even if the hardware is free, the power isn't. The storage space isn't. There is a pretty small limit to how many of these servers will fit in an ISPs location. Riddle me this: how many customers is that ISP going to have if they don't have Netflix and the other ISP (haha I know, there's no actual competition in the ...
I contacted my ISP, Sonic.net, which, unfortunately, is only in certain parts of the SF Bay Area. They did take Netflix up on this offer, I never have throttling or speed issues of any kind. They also keep no logs of your connections, nor do they cave into requests by agencies for information unless there is a warran...
And when they act like complete scumbags that seem eager to make everybody's lives worse in order to squeeze out a few extra pennies, nobody gives a shit how they feel or whether they feel their rights have been violated.
Not to bang the drum for Microsoft, but let's bang the drum for Microsoft: Office 365, Online and 2013 are very good, interoperate flawlessly with one another, and offer you three different pay models (freeware with reduced functionality, subscription, or purchase), and also work flawlessly with free Office softwar...
He found a link where AT&T left a list of private user information, such as e-mails and names. A big table of them. This link was public-facing, required no log-in information, and wasn't encrypted or hashed or anything to protect it. It's a bit like if I set a Google Doc with my social security information to "Any...
They did, and there were more fires per mile driven in gas powered cars than in electric cars. The media just jumped all over every tesla fire they could find to make it seem less safe. Edit: [Now with source!](
How is Comcast still getting business? Because despite their bad support they generally have best-in-class actual service for most areas they serve (not a difficult task due to cable monopolies). Comcast is the only ISP my major metro area that passes the Netflix and YoutubeHD benchmark tests. AT&T, satellite provi...
I honestly don't get why you americans have and put up with such shitty internet services, considering the population of your country. I mean, holy shit. I live in Romania, an almost third world country and we have internet connections with which we can download at 100 mb/s for 20 bucks. My download speed is 10 mb/s an...
Former Comcast tech agent here. Turnover is so high at call centres that getting a job is as easy as walking in and signing up for one. I was laid off during the recession and, after my EI dried up, I was forced to do just this. You only need extremely basic skills to be accepted and training is fairly minimal. As ...
While that would be nice, Comcast owns Congress, the courts, most municipalities, governors, mayors, and has untold billions available for lobbying anyone who happens to disagree with their business goals. No matter how good an argument is, it will never win the minds of corrupt people. I was talking earlier today w...
I'll admit, I work there as a customer service rep. I check out these stories whenever I see them on the front page and I cringe. I dont think I'm that great at my job but some of the shit I see on here that people experience is baffling. As with any job there's some people that are good at their job and some that are ...
I didn't mean to pass judgement on the mods, which is why I said "and/or mods of /r/blackladies", which left the possibility that the mods might be doing everything they can. So my apologies for coming off as judgemental in my brevity. I'm glad that the mods use the bots to the fullest extent - I just hope that the me...
In 2010, I cancelled my Comcast service because I was moving across the country. Unable to return my equipment, they told me that a return box would be waiting at my new residence to send two HD DVR boxes and a modem back to them. When I arrived at my new home, the smallest box was sitting on the doorstep; only large e...
The problem here is that USB devices like flash memory or usb hard disks have something called a write buffer/cache. This is a memory area either in the pc memory or the device itself meant to temporarily store the data until it effectively gets written to the flash memory. When you're storing data, you're just writi...
I've used Mac's since the beginning, only OSX 10.7 and later a AppleID was needed. Invalid comparison. Now we're talking about Macs, and not iPhones. IIRC Apple never made any promises that the wouldn't require AppleID for OS updates If you look at the way they're distributing updates, through their app store...
Apple never made any promises that the wouldn't require AppleID for OS updates. If you look at the way they're distributing updates, through their app store, it makes sense to need an ID (since it's through their store) Don't need system updates to go through the store or require a ID. Totally unnecessary and a perso...
this is all anecdotal but as far as I can tell mostly true) Most artists not on a major label do all their merch (t-shirts etc.) through themselves and not their label. They get all the profits from the merch. On the other hand, they make nil from their recordings since they have to sell enough albums to pay back the...
As much as I love the concept and ideal of using opensource, and as developed as OO is, oocalc does not match excel for performance or robustness by a long shot. For any kind of heavy duty spreadsheeting task, oocalc simply does not cut it - It's slow, it crashes, it's painful. Try doing a pivot table on 20,000 rows an...
Virgin Media generally have terrible internet. I live in a town that had its internet crippled for 3 months early this year (late December -> March) with Virgin repeatedly telling us the problem didn't exist or would be fixed very soon. We were guaranteed that the problem would be fixed by February, that soon became th...
What are you talking about how are Google's audience/customers more educated than the population when they are the population? Google got to the top by a technology advantage and a strategy not to dissimilar from dumping . I look back at the Google of yesteryear vs the Yahoo! of then, and almost feel like I'm a vi...
I actually respect them, but I hate the typical reddit hive mind oh Google must be the greatest company ever. As far web-related products go, Google really does have some of the best products. I really wish Google had a competitor though. Since they don't have a competitor they really have no reason to provide any...
I'm looking to maybe turn this into something. I have a powerhouse Windows7 gaming/media editing desktop (self built) and I have a Windows 7 Laptop for school (Asus u30jc, if I can remember correctly). The problem is I have always wanted to learn a Linux that I could maybe use when fixing peoples computers. I got this ...
Another idiotic circlejerk post by someone who doesn't understand shit about what's going on. Flash is far from dead, and saying so doesn't negate how awesome HTML5 is. People who mistake Flash for a technology instead of an approach write bullshit like this article/post. The only thing Adobe is killing is FLASH IN...
You have to start that early, starting your last year of high school really doesn't allow you to have nearly enough time to get any appreciable work done. Regarding what a 14 or 15 year old knows, yes, they know nothing but that is not prohibitive nor should you make the mistake that a teen would be incapable of learni...
except that paypal sucks so hard that my account is limited. Which means that I can't do shit with it until I verify my address which I can only do through phone verification, drivers license, or proof of address (last 2 use snail mail). No problem, right? They don't take cell phones for verification, which makes sense...
Very well put. I never once considered torrenting (is this a verb now?) Louis CK's work after watching his stand-up routine and TV series on Netflix--simply because it's great art, I love it, and would like to see him continue to succeed monetarily for his work. However, there have been numerous things I've torrented...
I'm a poor college kid but this is great. The price is reasonable and the profits go right to Louis. If you ever met Louis would you want to buy him a cup of coffee for all the laughs he gave you? I know i would.
So I opened this thread and the [Germany.jpg]( thread in new tabs at the same time. I read some stuff on Louis' website about buying, figured I'd do it later tonight and then came back to this thread... and saw a bunch of Germans yelling German-speak at each other. I was confused as fuck until I realized I was accide...
There was a time when the very idea of copying a CD was laughable. Consider this: The Compact Disc came out in [1982]( They were pretty expensive, and the only real threat of copying them was that a person could dub a CD to cassette tape (Lest we forget [this little affair]( Mostly, though, the idea of "pirating" a...
I have 530+ Games on Steam. I still pirate. Why? Because games like Homefront make you feel cheated and robbed. But when you pay for a game like Skyrim and Bastion, you always feel like you still haven't paid enough. Like the adventure and the immersion, the freedom and the beauty is worth way more than the $20 or $60....
To take your last point first: Well, yes- I was referencing the embezzlement schemes and fraudulent enterprises that have marred the image of the business-world, not the business-world as a WHOLE. I'm talking about our frame of reference for understanding the world - not an objective truth as such. As for the pirat...
I think a "pay per listen" model would be wrong because it would create an artificial force on the artists to make shorter songs and more songs Have you considered a career of being a regulator and telling the people how to live their lives ? >Maybe a "per amount of time listened" model might be a good middle groun...
Madison is a cool idea, and #OPEN is a lot hipper what with their hashtag and all, but none of the articles I've read have really talked about how it's all that different from PIPA. In fact, look at their own chart [comparing SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN!]( It's been a week or so since I read up on it, but from what little ...
So here's my story that directly pertains to this article: I have my own Amazon account, like a lot of other people out there. In the past, I've purchased a total of 6 books from Amazon ranging from science fiction (Ender's Game) to grammarian-style with a splash of humor (Eats, Shoots and Leaves) to sales strategy ...
This right here needs to happen. I had a friend at the last place I worked who was in college and later started getting his horror novels published. I have been asking him for years to convert his books to eBooks. He finally just started doing it. We worked at a tech company. We were surrounded by technology all day lo...
Here is the relevant bit: > Judge : We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you co...
This trick is about as old as most of the money running America; however, unlike the 1920's, you don't need margin loans to destroy an economy when there is nearly infinite fiat currency floating around. >Although the stock market has the reputation of being a risky investment, it did not appear that way in the 1920s...
This is a misleading post. What everyone else is forgetting that both the SEJournal and Limited Run's test were only shown based on Facebook like pages. There is no mention (as far as I know) or case study for ads pointing at real landing pages outside of Facebook. I do run ads on Facebook and my activity can vary d...
This is just a theory I have: Facebook ads, really advertisement in general is fast becoming obsolete in its current form. The reason is that most users, or consumers of content see advertisements as a cost to incur before they can enjoy the actual content. The same can be stated about tv, radio, and now the extrem...
I'd like to derail here for a second and tell a GoodGuyAnusDestroyer story if I may. 3 months ago there was a prostitute giving a candid AMA and GGAD was all over the place with nonsense, jokes and what have you. But the best part was when he actually got a question through. He responded to the answer with one of my ...
Unfortunately we're the real losers in all of this. At the end of the day we pay the legal bills and settlements, not Apple or Samsung.
S3]( [Nexus]( To put it bluntly. Nearly everything on the S3 is better then the Nexus. Hell, The Nexus can't even take mini-SD cards (Was little annoyed by this oversight, but whatever, I've not even used 1/4 of the memory on my phone at the moment). Still, honestly, I don't mind the trade off for a sleeker looking...
This, this right here, this is why I won't buy a Samsung product. It's whinging little bitch fan boys who hate on Apple like vapid batshit insane teens in the 90's hating on Windows is another primary reason. Samsung fanboy logic: "WHY WOOD U BUY A MACBOOK PRO JUST FOR FACEBOOK AMB SOCIAL NETORKS LOL U DIQ!!!1!" ...
I am sure you have... its like saying (cisco) linksys made a wifi card. sure they strung together a bunch of hard ware, made it interface with a PCI slot, let it understand 802.11X standards. somehow the OS can take that info and translate it into something... All of what mentioned is something some other computer s...
And then turn around and make fun of the customers is justifiable? Hardly. Apple has never done anything like this. People are very quick to try and compare this level of douchebaggery to the "I'm a Mac" ads that Apple ran. Besides the fact that Apple at the time was the clear underdog in the desktop market, those ...
Which is why they don't put wind turbines on the ground, but rather they put them hundreds of feet in the air. It's always windy up there...even 10-15 feet above the ground, where you start getting away from the friction caused by the ground, the air is moving. The air is ALWAYS moving. It has to be. The only way it wo...
From here:]( >Goatse Security obtained its data through a script on AT&T's website, accessible to anyone on the internet. When provided with an ICC-ID as part of an HTTP request, the script would return the associated email address, in what was apparently intended to be an AJAX-style response within a Web application...
I have heard this argument before, and although I don't think our brains work that way, I upvoted your comment because I think a lot of people convince themselves that it is possible. If you take the average person who does not use adblock, they are subjected to dozens, quite possibly hundreds of ads while online. I th...
financial instruments are obligated to be completely neutral. If they decide to start having a voice in what I can or cannot buy, then they are no longer money to me. I'm afraid you haven't been paying attention. Money has always been political and related to what you can and cannot buy - just the concept of it. Th...
Bullet trains are established, and you could go and have any one of several companies come and bid. On the ground, you level and grade, lay down rail and concrete ties. You add in the control hardware, cables, and voila. Believe it or not, bulldozers and graders are cheaper to run than building 300 foot span bridges ...
I am all for debunking wild myths of conspiracy but I'm afraid this is not that. This is simply a proper reading of corporate double speak. To your points such that they are: The departure was not related to the reorganization. As companies approach an IPO they are loath to make big changes and especially unexpec...
This is all a charade. David Cameron either knows full well (and has been hopefully advised by experts i.e. anyone who knows anything) that paedophiles don't Google search for child porn. If he doesn't know this, then he is a moron who knows nothing about how the world works and shouldn't be allowed to propose legisl...
Well, this is not at all a point I was making, I was simply quoting. I would think we want to keep a horrible act that really shouldn't have happened away from the eyes of people whether it affected those people that saw it or not. But it DOES affect people, and denying that seems silly. I know we like to think peo...
Just imagine your life if adult woman (assuming you're a hetero male, else apply the correct substitute) were unable to give consent to sex and all sex with them and real porn involving them was illegal. And now add on top of that that people like you are shunned by the society. If this ever comes out your life is de...
Hell, I look at a lot of hentai pictures and even get nervous if the girls are too "flat. I guess that kind of sucks for adult women who are small-chested, or men who like women with smaller chests. Weirdly enough some countries have actually banned hentai/drawn/animated porn if it "appears" to depict underage char...
I think things have changed a lot in the past few years. I'm sure they came under a lot of fire for the things being hosted on that site, so now anything that seems suspicious is removed and I don't think you can put up stuff without moderator approval anymore. However, in the past that place used to be LOADED with i...
yeah, if I went around telling everyone I know that I'm attracted to monkeys or grapefruit or people in their 80's they'd think I'm weird as fuck and need help. which is what they'd probably suggest if I said I was a pedophile. listen dude everyone on this earth is born with certain animal instincts they can't contro...
I am completely fine with this as long as they BRING BACK REGULAR FUCKING PORN!!!! i am so sick of having to use bing for my porn because google fucked up safesearch