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I took a semester of Ruby in college which got me really excited about programming. Fast forward a few years and I saw a need for some tools to eliminate the mind-numbing redundancy in my job. So I took the need - a way to take bits of information (dates, customer IDs, etc.) and build URLs with them automatically - an...
One legal scholar, Susan Crawford, has argued that “prices are too high and speeds are too slow,” though she supports Mr. Wheeler, a venture capitalist and former telecommunications lobbyist. Other critics have called for new government policies to “fix” the telecommunications industry. >Such criticisms are misplaced...
Music is way, way easier to produce and distribute. If one musician stops working, there are thousands of other possible musicians who have a similar (or better) sound. The average person can't even remotely produce a mainstream TV show. It takes a lot of money, management, direction, writing, more expensive equipment...
They are not emails. The article is completely inaccurate. They do look like emails (which has its own issues), but they behave like ads. That means they're displayed at the top of the inbox, they don't go through the normal flow of inbox/deletion etc, they don't persist in your inbox, they won't be fetched by IMAP,...
Because you missed the sarcasm of my first reply. These are a great idea, and every bar should use them. It'd certainly make my life a hell of a lot easier. If bars started using them, women could no longer claim they were drugged whenever they do something stupid. Considering the number of women who casually talk ab...
This is completely false. The X.Y.Z system works like this: For Windows, X = the full upgrade (new features, new design, etc.) windows 7 to windows 8, for example, completely changed the design and function of the OS. The Y = small nuances of features, plus maybe some bug fixes. The Z = only bug fixes. Window...
No middleman. Can't be interdicted, can't have a big bite of handling fees / commission taken out of it.
That happened to me. I'm now on T-Mobile. And now, instead of having unlimited shitty 3G from Verizon I have incredi-awesome unlimited from T-Mobile. Oh and I pay less. And customer service is way better. From day one Verizon lied to me. They always played it shady. Never clear or strait answers. T-mobile howev...
I will give you my short story about T-Mobile. I live in Northwestern Ohio. Not in a huge town, but a decently sized one. 2 Walmarts and the such. Ever since I had a cell phone Verizon had been my carrier. I never had any problems with them other than being expensive. I used to have unlimited data until I switched to a...
This is completely false however. Verizon Wireless is not authorizing the use of the Google Nexus 5 on their network. The Nexus 5 has a Qualcomm WTR1605L transceiver used to connect to carrier networks. The WTR1625L can accommodate all cellular modes and 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE frequency bands and band combinations that ar...
Block, degrade, or interfere with the ability of end users to download and utilize applications of their choosing on the licensee’s Block C network, subject to reasonable network management. Wireless service providers subject to this requirement will not be allowed to disable features or functionality in handsets where...
Consolidation in the cable industry has been expected by analysts, and pushed for by executives. Larger companies, it is claimed, would have a better chance of negotiating with content providers , leading to smaller bills for customers. Translation: A monopolistic cable company would have websites and content provid...
e.g. the inability of iOS devices to natively play WebM video > FTFY. WebM at one point was declared as the recommended HTML5 video standard, replacing Theora. >You are also confusing codecs and containers. H.264 and WebM are different things. > I'm not confusing it. H.264 is equivalent to VP8 (and MP4 to W...
e.g. the inability of iOS devices to natively play WebM video FTFY. You are also confusing codecs and containers. H.264 and WebM are different things. There are good reasons why you'd not want to willy nilly drop and add new codec support as mobile devices often have hardware decoders which greatly improves bat...
Considering I'll likely get more upvotes for my one post today than you have gotten in 9 months... here's a protip: It's not everyone else that is wrong... It's you. You're actually saying you see reddit comment upvotes as personal validation? That is so precious. Haha, I didn't realize you're actually a teenager...
Forbes is a shameless corporate tabloid. They barely even try at spin these days. A lot of people don't understand Forbes' online business model. Forbes is a very established brand name, and its columns used to be written by paid professional reporters or they were clearly labeled as opinion pieces. That model is lon...
So much FUD in this article... It's basically a product which makes it easier to finish an 80% lower (a lower receiver of an AR-15 which is only 80% done and needs further machining be considered a firearm. Essentially a piece of metal.) The tools for doing this gave always been available from any hardware store. Wha...
Not as easy you could a book or watch, but yes. They still must jump through the appropriate hoops to legally own it. Roughly they need a licensed firearms dealer (aka FFL) to process the transfer. All that person needs is for a few things to be engraved on the gun. A name (any name works, you can literally put "superc...
That erroneously implies that the US government had made some major, direct contribution toward creating the Internet. IT DID NOT. >Without government funding, the Internet would have still been created; So did the government contribute to it or not? Make up your mind. >it was inevitable. It is this property that...
The word "monopoly" doesn't really make sense in terms of web search. You can just as easily use bing or yahoo or whatever as Google. A monopoly certainly does require the use of a dominant position to secure a continuing dominant position. Google doesn't really do that, its more that other entrants in that industry su...
I mean I'm not saying wait for them but I'm saying read fine print before blowing it out of proportion. If you knew the risks and reviewed what you signed up for then maybe you wouldn't have gotten the services to begin with. At the same time me being in support for my company if you are already having service issue...
It's not so much the lack of a constitution... we have that. It's a very formal liittle document setting out rules for governing the country. What we DON'T have, is a Bill of Rights. There are no hard and fast rules about what a government can and can't do. Just about how it should do it... whatever 'it' is. The entire...
Nothing to see here people. OpenBook isn't tapping into an otherwise hidden resource of personal information. The "Tweets" available through OpenBook are searchable on the facebook site itself by doing a search and filtering on "Posts by Everyone".
It'd be nice if that were the case. Facebook pays lip service towards an interest in what its userbase cares about - that's why they pretend to let people vote on ToS changes. Of course, any changes users want require 30% agreement. Not 30% of voters; 30% of everybody signed up for facebook at that time. You couldn't...
I don't fully understand how this particular car travels faster than the wind, but in principle there is nothing tying the speed of the car to the speed of the wind. All that is necessary is that you extract energy from the wind moving and somehow convert that into forward motion. In this case they did something purely...
This is freaking awesome. I spent months going back to this message board the last time this came up. Turns out it is possible; the earliest thing I could find was from the fifties. It's all detailed on this forum , and information about the guy who inspired the guy with the pdf -- he actually did this with a cart w...
Alright, let me write down a thought experiment, based on the info in FasterThanTheWind.org: 1) You build a tricycle vehicle with the same weight, rolling resistance, and (most importantly) frontal area of the Blackbird. The wheels are not connected to anything, and there is no propeller, but the frontal area is som...
I did read the other articles. Even ones not linked by that one. It's a far different filter than what Conroy has proposed. The "Great Firewall" Conroy proposed is a mandatory filter of refused classification material that is maintained by the ACMA. Whereas the filter that iPrimus, Telstra and Optus have implemente...
Well, I know I'm a little late to this party, but let me just say, regardless of the iPhone, Consumer Reports SUCK at cell phone recommendations. I recall one report that they put out while I worked for AT&T and it recommended both the [Pantech C3]( and Samsung Sync phones as "Top picks" and put some Nokias under Not R...
Well, you should stop buying them. I have an iPhone 3G and have had no problems. I am on my first charger cable. I am not particularly gentle with any of this kit.
By submitting it to the Apple Store you agree to the Apple Terms of Service, which probably grant Apple additional permissions beyond the GPL -- hence the conflict. In this case, those permissions can't be granted because not every copyright owner has agreed to the Apple ToS. But if the application is entirely your w...
Depends on the sign language. American sign language is pretty easy to do with one hand. A lot of other sign languages (ie british) require two hands (particularly for the alphabet, ASL was the first one handed alphabet if I recall correctly)
This reminds me of a 'programming' competition my school entered a few of us in, where we had to design a cell phone and a texting application that was innovative and easy to use. We did that, and had a perfectly plausible design by the end of the day. The team that won was all girls (which they did not fail to point...
What really blew me away one time, and this really blows away any other examples given above, was this thread on reddit in which people were using the same language to one-up each others' stories while undoubtedly paying no attention to others. Blew my fucking mind, man.
First off, I've heard this exact story somewhere else. Second, this is total crap. Dogs don't understand languages, they understand cues . A cue to sit can be "sit", "sitz", you waving your hand, a doorbell ringing, coughing loudly, whatever. Just because the dog was taught some cues in German doesn't mean it co...
I think he's a tech journalist without any knowledge of what he's writing about.
I hate when bad headlines pervade blog spam... if you're going to boil the news down to a single sentence, please get it right. Reddit headline: 'World’s lightest material gets lighter' Lifted from slashgear headline: 'World’s lightest material gets lighter' Which was borrowed from gizmag headline: 'World's lig...
Apple is so user-friendly it's ridiculous. My 3 year old cousin took an iPhone and was playing games and doing things on it in a few minutes. Android, by comparison, is slightly less user-friendly. Yes, you can do the basic stuff easily, but to get into the meat of it is difficult. I have no problem with Android's comp...
Actually, only Moot (Poole) is right. Zuckerberg is pretty much against anonymity in social networks at all. Given the chance he'd enforce a single, consistent identity on everyone, everywhere online... like Facebook (in particular, Facebook Connect). Conversely, Moot is promoting the possibility of anonymity. ...
This is the second time you've posted this, but I'd also like to make my point again here (so others following this specific thread get my answer). If the cable was unplugged, and Microsoft failed to detect it, that means one thing. Sure, a cable was unplugged... but it most definitely wasn't the cable that was plugged...
You seem to be confused about how the judicial process works; the "problem" is that the burden of proof lies on the state... but criminals have become more knowledgeable about the legal system so it is much more difficult to prove that there is probably cause to get a warrant. This is the reaction to a system that con...
God, I want a new Sean Connery Bond film so bad. It'd be absolutely AMAZING. Especially because, you know, he's old. The implication? FAR FUTURE BOND!!! The craziest tech ever and just pure Sean Connery ass-kicking. Check this scene: Fade in Cut to: Close-up of a gorgeous Bond girl Girl Moans in ecs...
Thanks for the article, record keeping text here: The hardcore tracking bits come from U.S. Code title 18 Part 1 Chapter 121 Section 2703 (2) A provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall disclose to a governmental entity the— (A) name; (B) address; (C) local and long distance tel...
I'm so glad that we're at a point in society where we can be jaded about superconducting levitation. Only about a hundred years ago this stuff would be indiscernable from goddamn magic.
Protect the children', eh? Perhaps the children would be protected if parents kept an eye on the kids....or if the kids knew enough to not do something stupid in the first place? It's like regulating toaster use because some kid stuck a fork onto one and got electrocuted, and therefore ALL kids will stick forks into ...
You're a douche. Every real windows IT knows that they release "stable" then "experimental". Win7 will be the enterprise OS based off the traditional XP meets Vista standards. I work in an enterprise company and were about to adopt 7 because the IT crowd raves about it (including myself with 2 years use). Were upgra...
Have you ever worked on a startup? Patents are key to the success of startups, because they are critical for getting funding. VCs like to see that your innovations are covered by patents, because that's one way to prevent bigger competitors from copying what you're doing and then putting you under.
You're right, only a fanboy could possibly say something in defense of the most successful technology company in the world. Any one else should clearly support Google, who sells your personal information, by the way. Android was a completely separate entity until the iPhone became more well known and then Google boug...
I have been following this from the beginning. I am posting this 11 hours after the initial post, so I will probably be stuck at the bottom but let's get this out there... Tim Arnold has a few points, and he keeps playing the victim. He says that he was trying to help students, and that UCF is shooting down his creat...
Its not the web server load, its the db server load. They are not the same thing. If you are causing 250 hits in less then a minute via automation thats far above what using the standard user would be generating manually. Compounded it could cause dramatic effects on the DBE. Bandwidth isn't the only thing you need...
That sent from tag is bad, and you should feel bad. Edit: your point is valid and I do not in anyway disagree. It adds to the conversation, and I did not downvote you. Regarding the tag: I'm against it. The service does look fascinating, and I'm definitely going to check it out when I'm not on my phone, but I think...
Which is why you will never control it, and it will be used to control you. It's not some big conspiracy. It is just human nature amplified to incredible levels by wealth (power). Just like you, they want more for them, which necessarily comes from you. The difference between you and them is they have the power to t...
Basically the new system has a bunch of fail-safes. Meaning that if one part fails (read, is taken down), the system will protect itself. I will try to break down the moving parts a little. The new system flows like this: Transit Router -> Load Balancer -> Cloud Server The Pirate Bay owns the first two pieces of h...
Speaking in the U.S. context.) Strictly speaking, entrapment is when the government entices a citizen to commit a crime for the purpose of prosecuting it. The defense in such cases is showing that if the government hadn't done this, the accused wouldn't have committed a crime. So an officer dressed as a hooker walk...
When I was 17 I got my first cell phone, a pay as you go flip phone from t-mobile. I was far too poor to afford a monthly contract, and I only used the phone sparingly. Every text I received incurred a $0.05 charge. One time, me and my then-girlfriend were fighting right before we broke up. She knew my phone situatio...
In an attempt to give customers high speeds for the short times that they needed it, balanced against the high cost of upgrading the last mile for millions of customers.
Actually, the BS line that my ISP feeds me is that they cap data to preserve bandwidth across the network, and they claim that a few customers going over the limit, if they didn't restrict it, would cause every other customer's internet to slow down. So, according to my ISP, the cost of delivering data has nothing to ...
New Zealand Citizen here. Moved to the country five years ago and whilst it is truly the most beautiful place I have ever been, it's economy and tech is lacking quite a bit. Without a doubt, it was quite a shock to go from unlimited broadband in the UK to find capped plans at sub standard speeds. Currently the serv...
Assuming that the Glasses will be similar to Android in terms of openness (I haven't followed their development enough to know, so someone correct me if I'm mistaken), I can definitely imagine an app that allows you to see an individual's criminal past through online searches. As for SSN, that likely could not be obta...
You don't know much about Google, I take it. Yes, they have a choice. They flat-out told their investors how they're monetizing Chromium (data mining). Why would they suddenly start lying to their investors now? Now, I'm not saying Google is your friend. Google looks out for its own best interest first and foremost. ...
Upgradeable by Mac only unless you want to void your warranty to save money. and not all Macs are 100% upgradeable or easy to upgrade yourself, they solder their processor and even their ram sticks.
If you'd actually try the UX Nightly or the Australis complete theme (the complete theme is old, so UX is ideal), you'd notice that only the tab that is being hovered over or is selected is rounded. So I have a reddit tab, and I am on that. ONLY the reddit tab is curved. The rest are rectangled . If I mouse over anoth...
Sad for the employees, but I want to say fuck you blackberry. I patiently used inferior mobile devices for years and when I finally decide to get a "smartphone" it was the Blackberry Torch. Yep, I was excited and happy about the phone because at the time blackberry's still had some sort of reputation as good phones. Fa...
Since you have 2 replys on why you should try it I'll tell you why you shouldn't unrelated to the App Store. I worked for verizon for 6 years and tried everything at least for a few months. The z10 was the last phone I tested before I quit. P.s. The Vzw complaint about how other companies are consumer centric is i...
I agree that it is not the paragon of journalism, but I felt it will do to get this story out here, with its incendiary headline and approachable language. I could have put up the yellow alert that the SANS Internet Storm Center posted weeks ago on this same subject, but i doubt it would have gotten attention on /r/tec...
Sigh . That, my friend, is an [ad hominem fallacy]( a [genetic fallacy]( and arguably an [appeal to emotion]( Pretty impressive to pack that much shitty reasoning into a single sentence.
overall agree except the youtube bit. see [my comment below]( but basically youtube is extremely active against copyright infringement whereas isohunt not only wasn't but also basically actively encouraged copyright infringement. it was a website solely for that purpose, youtube is not. actually edit: i dont overall ...
This post is very uninformed. On the off chance that you want to know the difference between youtube and isohunt: One of the rules guaranteeing safe harbor from copyright infringement in the DMCA is that the content host has to not have requisite knowledge of the infringement. What this means is that the copyright in...
Not really. An investor takes some money and invests it in an opportunity. In this case, the investor is often a studio, and the investment often movies, but the money could just as easily come from oil, or hippo sales. Further, if movies weren't a GREAT investment, the studios would take their money and invest the...
I think there is good research that indicates that torrents/pirating stimulates media demand and in the end results in more revenue for the studios, that is, when they decide to get off their asses and make the media accesible through revenue making sources. Basically, without these services, the media companies woul...
Rovio is still responsible for this breach if they did not use encryption. It is one thing for a desktop application to submit information via a non-SSL API. You're on a local connection attached to Time Warner who is attached to the backbone. While it is still possible for the NSA to intercept, it is unlikely to be ...
Sort of. I have read a couple of things that say if you are going to speed read, you should have an idea about what the text says before you actually read it - like a summary or introduction to what the text is actually going to say. Researchers say this helps to comprehend text because it is preparing your brain for u...
Imagine this on reddit.
After reading most of the comments in this thread, I think most of the negative comments are pretty spot-on, so I'm just going to add my own thoughts: Personally, I like to read slowly and portray the right emotion to the scene. I like to back up a sentence or two just so I have the scene set correctly in my head. ...
This sounds too good to be true. That's because it is. RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation --- the technology being showcased here) doesn't work. This technique was a massive field of research in military neuroscience in the 1970s, and scientists have tested reading speed and comprehension using RSVP [1]. I'm j...
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Basically he is sarcastically getting at the point that America often operates in a bribed and corrupt system, and the masses often don't know what their products are produced for, why they are priced as such, and often don't have alternatives in some cases. Often they are so uninformed that they believe this to be "th...
OK... I'm going to chime in here because I feel I'm old enough to give an opinion that's slightly relevant to this comment. First, I grew up when 56K first came out and when we got it we were so damn excited to have it in the first place that we didn't mind waiting ten minutes for a webpage that was graphic-heavy to ...
Alright, you incredible dunce. I'll explain this once. Pay attention. > And free men don't want their governments involved in our market,workplace,bedroom,churches, in our private lives. Of course you don't. Until someone steals from you, assaults you, kills someone you love, pollutes your property/water, etc......
I once 3d printed your mom and didn't call her after. Years later I felt bad about what that must have done to her and tried to call her to apologize. Turns out she gave me a fake number.
I resent your insulting of my intelligence. My paper books never need charged, which means that when I leave the country I don't need to worry about power adapters. My paper books can never have a case of corrupted files, and will never lose things due to DRM. A paper book can be easily lent to a friend, with my name...
I might get some hate on here for saying this, but just get a macbook pro or air if you have the money. There's a reason that people are willing to shell out the money for them, and this is coming from a person that was 100% against them. I still have a desktop PC that I built and can't even imagine replacing it with a...
I used Windows for years and made the switch about 7 years ago. I still have a Windows machine for gaming but everyday use I love my MacBook pro. The build quality is exceptional, specifically the trackpad. The directory structure seems cleaner to me. I find finder much easier to navigate compared to explorer. Installi...
I'm indifferent in this whole Mac/PC discussion but I'm legitimately curious - why in the world were you doing so much work? It sounds like 99% of it was nothing more than placebo and/or just plain bad practice. Again, I'm 100% indifferent (I'm glad that you found what you enjoy) I just think it's a bit misleading to...
It is an extremely bad idea to purchase a product like that because it's $100 - $200 cheaper. You're going to be having that device for a while. All that time you're working with a restricted feature set. The couple of hundred bucks that you did not spend you're going to feel in the performance. Over the course of havi...
If your going to say "you ran some tests", back up your statement by actually posting a link to that shit. Otherwise all you're telling me is that you're yet another dumbass either too ignorant or too stupid to admit that yes, you can easily differentiate between 30 and 60fps.
You must work with computers at lot... /s the XPS is the equivalent of the Inspiron/Studio line and is made with poor quality parts. Look up what a comparable Dell Precision model would be and then get back to me. You're clearly inexperienced with computers or just trying to troll, please don't speak unless you kn...
They can. But-- With the current patent system (particularly in software), the patent office issues far more patents for extremely vague things. Occasionally, patent trolls will then sue people down the line. Most recently this happened to a ton of podcasters, and it's been very problematic. The issue is that co...
Hi Sacrix, I actually forgot to write the other part. I'm not promoting, I'm just praising it (see my post history). I could honestly not give two shits if anyone changes over. I'm just a sales rep and make money off commission, so if people change over or not doesn't make a difference to me. I tend to be kind and help...
I had to stop using FireFox. It crashed one day and will not relaunch. I click the icon and nothing happens except resources being eaten up. I look in the task manager and there is a "plugin extension" process running. The actual browser never opens. I spent a day trying to fix it and nothing works. You can't even "rea...
For example, if you're not admin, you can't edit the PATH variable there is a system path, and a user path. Obviously, you do not need administrative rights to edit the user path.
article this isn't an article, it's a blog post that happens to be on a major "news" site. calling it an article gives it more credibility and value than it deserves. it doesn't raise any new points, it has nothing of value to say, it will have no impact on anything. a blog post. no major developments have recently t...
Ohhh! Thanks for this... Vivaldi looks pretty! Since I'm lazy, care to share the
U Series are "better" silicon allowing higher clock speed at lower wattage. I'm assuming you meant the i7-4600M versus the i5-5200U. The i7 is better when it comes to clock speed, turbo clock speed, and cache. Even though the i5 is a newer generation of processor, the clock-for-clock efficiency gains are nothing in co...
For me, the first thing that came was the smell and the sound. Then the pain. I got ripped up pretty bad all over the place, but it was the air bag that I first noticed. There's just something about your head that overcomes even radical damage elsewhere. I totally agree about the smell though. I'd actually forgotten ...
WHY THIS IS SIGNIFICANT (for lay people) : Transistors are the backbone of digital devices. They're basically little switches that can be used in different configurations to make digital logic devices (i.e. that operate on 1's and 0's), so the number of transistors you can fit on a chip determines the number of operati...
The first rule of usenet is that you don't talk about usenet." This has been expanded to regularly making comments about how shitty usenet is, to deter new converts from attracting too much attention to the method. No one actually believes that this works; it's just a meme of sorts. In reality, the learning curve and t...
We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating >system. We encourage people to use their Windows Phone as supplied by the manufacturer to ensure the >best possible user experience. Attempting to unlock a device could void the warranty, disable phone >functionality, in...
The fact that HP is number one in the market contradicts your statement that they aren't the juggernaught they once were. Dell is also on both our lists. Compaq an IBM are both still in business as HP/Compaq and Lenovo. As a matter of fact, HP and Dell are number one and two in the market with Apple not making the list...
There was significant talk about this on the Tesla Motors Club forum a while ago and I think it's a pretty bad idea. There was a video on YouTube (that I can no longer find my bookmark for) that showed that the general sounds of locomotion (tire noise, etc) were enough at speeds greater than 30kph to alert people to t...