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You've obviously never had the displeasure of working for a shitty company. If you go against company culture, you will find yourself in a very difficult position indeed. Disgruntled co-workers and pissed-off bosses will make your life hell and they will find a reason to get rid of you without having to pay up. ...
I've not tried it but looking at one of their source links there seem to be a lot of caveats to offline which for me would make it pretty useless (but sounds like it will change): Source link: Only works in chrome Can only read docs and spreadsheets offline, no editing Offline GMail uses a completely differen...
Ok. I'll bite. I cover lots of songs. Sometimes with different chords, harmonies, melodies, and even some of my own lyrics. By the time I'm playing it live it is MY song. I know it's different with some guy playing Jimmy Buffet covers at a Mexican restaurant. But you know what, how the fuck can you "own" a song. It's l...
My father is aware that he can keep the AOL email address, he just likes the AOL software for some reason. I've told him I can configure Firefox to open up to aol.com by default and he said the small amount he pays for AOL isn't a problem. Ultimately, I'd like him to stop paying but as long as he's happy and can aff...
Dial-up Magic + Juno = my entire puberty]( Seriously, when I was a kid and learning to program free Juno was my only option for research/reading due to overly oppressive parents who claimed the internet would ruin me...(they never allowed me on their AOL account, and even broadband when we got it) Long story short I'...
You got that right. I worked for AOL for a couple of years and was given a free account if I wanted it. I had to sign up like everyone else, then email my user ID to HR and they would put the flag on the account so I wouldn't be billed. I signed into the account once or twice when I first signed in and never again. Fas...
I said who invented the Internet not the web. >The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The network was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of ...
VPNs mean single points of failure. Even the Tor network has 7 centralized servers that clients get relays from. VPNs would mean the government could just attack the endpoints of the VPNs, where your traffic enters the network. If the network is entirely distributed and each node handles an equal amount of traffic, a...
This debate went on for months, years ago on Usenet. The upshot back then was that by posting to Usenet you still retained copyright, but that your terms were implicitly to allow copying from server to server (Usenet is a store and forward type of network where many hundreds of copies of a given message are transmitted...
The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.
Nobody's under the assumption that piracy is right, but for the most part either the money's going to the wrong place (Record companies take a GOD DAMN HUGE cut of all the revenue, artists see little) or the content is simply easier to get to via piracy (DRM, or, shock horror, going to a brick-and-mortar store .) Wh...
Let's get one thing straight: Pirates includes virtually everyone over the age of 20. That includes an impressive number of hypocrites who don't realize that they're trying to make their past choices illegal, like anti-gay republicans (we see through your thin veil). None of these hypocrites that I've ever debated on...
This doesn't seem logically correct. Cable doesn't make the ads - the companies that are selling the product make the ads. So, would cable be profiting from these ads? Because they sell air time to those companies, so I can't really see their motive for doing this. If the companies are profiting from it, cable wil...
What is this "T.V. Remote" you speak of? And why would anyone want one? I cut the cord 5 years ago and never looked back. If i pull up a show on hulu, i can mute the sound on the commercials and browse reddit in another tab. A simple timer lets me know when my show is back. Welcome to what i call demand consumption. ...
For six decades Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) has been the only Australian intelligence agency authorised to routinely collect intelligence on Australians but a specific legislative framework was created to protect people's rights. This legislation would undermine the safeguards whilst authorisin...
This is an argument as old as LiveJournal, where people complained that following someone in your feed required them being considered a "friend" on the profile page.
Law student here. One exception to at-will employment is being a government employee. As a government employee you are protected by the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments (either applying to whichever level of government you work in, federal vs state respectively). Because of this, government employers need a legitimate per...
from another post by Extada: Law student here. One exception to at-will employment is being a government employee. As a government employee you are protected by the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments (either applying to whichever level of government you work in, federal vs state respectively). Because of this, government ...
Because it gives you a full computer from something that's $20 and can fit in your pocket. Aside from the keyboard, everything else you'd need a lot of people will be carrying when traveling regardless, so they don't really count.
Devils Advocate: But shouldn't inventors profit from their ideas, even if they don't have the funds or ability to produce what they've invented? ie. You invent an amazing whirly-gig. You spend the $60k or there abouts to patent the whirly-gig. You realize you've spent your last dime on getting your patent setup.....
According to the law he's not doing ANYTHING wrong. It also is making him rich. Change the laws, stop blaming the players, the whole idea that we can have a broken patent system as long as everyone will be nice is ridiculous. The purpose of business is to disrupt and make or take over existing markets. In other word...
Sometimes you have to kick someone's ass. When they are using money and power to push you around and you can't defend yourself in a legal way: It's time to get primal and kick someone's ass. Seriously. Get five of your closest (and biggest) friends, hop a plane, find them, and kick their ass for about 20 mins. Don't le...
I am not speaking to the hardware specifically, but "beats" in computing is simply branding for sound-cards and sound-circuitry. Once you get to the DAC level there is little variation in the portible audio market and 9 times out of 10 if you want something outside of the scope of "the same quality as [fill in any MP3...
I agree with most everything there. Most drivers cant just drop the phone if needed. I do. I do support the hands-free kits though. You cant outlaw stupidity. Laws like the ability to sue if you slip in a place of business are ridiculous unless it's due to clear and obtuse negligence. People should be responsibl...
Yeah, especially considering how famous that quote is. That's like the entire
CONGESTION MANAGEMENT >In the unlikely event that users' aggregate demand exceeds the available capacity of the network and creates acute congestion, Google Fiber will employ various techniques to ensure that subscribers continue to have a positive experience. In times of acute congestion, Google Fiber Internet servi...
You're worried about privacy when getting Google's internet service? It's an internet service, what do you think they are going to gather that some other shitbrick ISP wouldn't? You don't have to instal any software to use the internet service that collects private information. Google is good about collecting informa...
Before I was l33t at the internet, I had a distant "friend" register a domain for me on my behalf and host some files. Of course he used Godaddy. Fast forward to renewal time, the "friend" couldn't be reached. Godaddy would not let me renew the domain because I technically wasn't the owner. That's understandable. They ...
Past GoDaddy employee here, maybe I can explain some of this. Based on the story, there's no way for me to know exactly what happened but here's some info to know. When a domain expires, after 5 days the nameservers are migrated to GD's parked servers rendering the domain unusable. From this time up until about 5 y...
This is amazing technology, imminent and innovative. Scanning the front page today, it suddenly appeared as if the rate of "game-changing" breakthroughs and applications of technological progress is accelerating. I am breathless in presence of the scope of humanity's capability and speechless when I see it rapidly ente...
When the tonight show was comprised of Johnny Carson & Ed McMahon and Johnny (or special guest) would have a quick comeback, funny jab, or a good punchline, Ed McMahon would sometimes blurt out "Heyo!" or "Hiyo!".
What, you don't mean before you've had time to mount a Facebook petition ? Surely not ? Elected lawmakers making laws without seeking permission of the hivemind ?
the supreme court said it is fine (Quill Corp. v. North Dakota) A bit sparse on your summary. Quill Corp v. North Dakota is important to this Senate legislation but not in the way you seem to suggest. The relevant part of [the Supreme Court ruling]( reads as follows... > This aspect of our decision is made easier b...
This is pretty much the theme of everyone who sees the issue with the relationship between corporate America and regulations. Progressives love to push in new regulations, thinking it will chain the corporations down from getting too big and powerful, but it often has the opposite effect. A big company has the money fo...
If it was legal, there wouldn't be a ongoing court case on it's constitutionality wouldn't be classified. >San Francisco - A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government's latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) long-running challenge to the government's illegal dragnet surveillan...
you're now talking out of your ass... Every bitcoin transaction has always been, and will forever be traceable. You can track each of the bitcoins paid indefinitely. Identifying the person that's doing the transactions is a different story altogether... same with the bills, considering that physical bills that are ac...
I apologise for slipping into the terminology there. "Fiat" currency is the term used for money that's issued and controlled to some degree by a government, like dollars or pounds. Bitcoiners use the word to describe "real" currencies like this as it's quite convenient, and a lot of them are a bit libertarian and again...
The way it was explained to me is btc is based of an encryption. As this encryption is cracked it gets more complicated and harder to crack. The increased complexity happens in leaps, with each increase relating to a single btc being mined.
He's right. For me, when talking about AAPL's stock price became common conversation among people who don't typically buy individual stocks (or really, shouldn't) I felt it was time to get out. That was ~800. I could have waited a little more but still I took profits and can now buy the same stock for ~$300 less.
This guy knows. The fact that a pharmaceutical company get's free research on you doesn't mean that any of us will ever see drugs that are a damn dollar cheaper. It just means they are going to make more money. There is a reason that insulin costs $100 bucks a bottle over the counter, and $5 bucks for a hospital to...
What a travesty that someone so educated should produce such a piece of click bait. The classic trolley problem serves no purpose, it has no answer and therefor isn't usable to construct policy. This problem is not even exclusive to software drivers, so its even less useful to discuss as a human would make an equal...
I think that just means the bank doesn't have to fix it, in other words if the other person runs off with your money they don't have to reimburse you for their error. At that point you may only have the option of going to court. It's funny because I had a situation similar to this in my profession. Someone was send...
I think this might actually be a disgruntled employee/developer for Apple. If you look closely on the eBay images, you'll see a picture for the SN and other Devoper Info. There are very strategically placed blackouts of certain identifying information for the phone. Why would Joe Schmoe think of blacking out only parts...
That is not always a smart idea. Banking situations are (usually) different. For example when i was still a financially irresponsible idiot of a teenager there was a mistaken infusion of i believe about $200 in my checking. I withdrew it and spent it immediately. Two days later, my account was -$200 because it wasnt my...
depends on where you are, you're experience, the workload, the hours and what the worker supply/demand is. etc
a fool and his money is easily parted. Honestly I wish I actually did this because it requires so little technical know-how yet makes bank. He is going to easily keep most of it in profits, as $60 device, with a $18 board and 2 free software, openWRT and Tor. tada.
While my internet is a far cry from 1G.... In Arkansas where i live, I pulled a speedtest from speedtest.net on my " Elite Speed U-VERSE" internet and got a whopping 2.68Mbps..... When i called ATT about it, I was told that 3 Mbps was the fastest i could get. I called Suddenlink ( wife knows a regional manager ) and ...
You shouldn't be excited because the only advantages of their product is that it is cheaper and more efficient than the competition, and neither claim can be verified (and shouldn't be asserted) until they actually make a solar panel. If they had actually manufactured something testable, they wouldn't be using a stock...
I think you might took an important factor too early out of equation. That factor is human greed. We won't evolve past ourselves with greed being as omnipresent as it is now. No matter the automation of things, people will always find a way to abuse each other in order to have more. Examples of that behaviour run acros...
The way I think of it is that people are overblowing the scale of which robotics and software will replace low-task human jobs. It's because according to them all low skilled jobs will be replaced and those people will become unemployed. A very large amount of the population works with low-skill jobs, then a very large...
I'm all for technology advancing and removing jobs. This allows families to spend more time together in a self sustaining environment. It's a vision a colleague and I have been working towards. My father worked the mines until the day it took his life. Stole him from his only son and it stole him from his wife. And I...
The scenario has changed a bit. We no longer have the economic system of the 19th century. Then the poor were needed to produce in still such limited quantities that "capitalists" could afford not to care about them. There were plenty poor people to work for them and none were real customers. In our consumer society ...
or should we really start to adapt to/build a society where people don't "work" but does other things (kind of Star Trek-Esque)? That society won't exist, because our society is too inextricably bound to the idea of work as a purpose for (and means of) living. The idea of a guaranteed minimum income or social provisi...
This is a real concern... to an extent. In certain poor areas, revolutions are already underway because there isn't enough work due to increases in efficiency. The hypothetical chains below your comment pose scenarios where the military is fully automated, and political and legal structures (presumably) evolve with i...
You'll only ever replace scientists and engineers when we have advanced self thinking AI Though I suspect that engineers and scientists will eventually become software engineers themselves with sufficient AI. Physics has already seen this transformation, since most physicists code up their own simulations (mostly in...
Programmers cannot be replaced without some sort of completely unpredictable breakthrough that changes everything we know about AI. You can't write a general program-writing program, it's just not possible. Meta-programming is extremely useful, but it's also limited in its scope of usefulness. By asking for a "programm...
There will still be engineers and doctors too, but those are already an exception, remember we're talking about jobs that computers can replace, which are generally low paying too, like assembly workers, accountants, secretaries, toll collectors, things that are just a matter of keeping things in order or performing a ...
The end of the chain leads to human demand This is certainly true. But if the leaders of the most powerful economic entities (governments, corporations, large non-profits) believe otherwise could they not create a stable sub-optimal economic system? I believe that the people at the top of these economic entities h...
He forgot about whether or not the environment can endure this process. This is a good write up and all, but you have to think about geological changes along with it. We still need trees and oxygen and sunlight in order to survive. If we can mass manufacture those 3 elements, humanity will be almost immortal, except fo...
The thing is, the jobs that humans have a comparative advantage for are not what most people are employed in. The video is using the example of driving. A restaurant or store is basically a fancy vending machine. Most people perform such manual labor jobs. Only a relative few are poets or scientists or engineers, and o...
I've never thought of reddit as an elitest collective, and the fact this comment is currently 500+ karma is... kinda awesome, don't ya think?
Assuming there's an infinite range of safe tasks in response to any development and that humans have unlimited cognitive capacity to infinitely compete with devices exponentially growing in both power and ease-of-use while decreasing in absolute cost, sure. That can keep working in a straight line forever. Our brains a...
Automation doesn't need to replace all the jobs to be highly disruptive. In American law it's already happening. The grunt work of document review that used to be done by highly paid new lawyers is now mainly done by software. Human lawyers get paid about $12/hr to double check the software's results. There are les...
True. Also as far as the iPod Apple got a huge market share and people were too vested in the environment to get out if they wanted to. Truthfully most did not care about DRM, they could import their CDs, burn new CDs. Also if you couldn't give your friend a song, screw it, they can spend the massive amount of $.99. ...
Would you please refrain from speaking out of your ass, for two reasons: 1) The actual amount of research and development is completely irrelevant the point that is being made. 10 million, 100 million, doesn't matter - the point does not change. 2) According to Kuerig over the last 5 years has had 16.94 BILLION...
Who buys a Keurig anyway? Simple coffee maker, pick your favorite coffee, make coffee, enjoy. When did this become too inconvenient? Keurig owners deserve the headache for falling for such a thing.
Teaching by rote is a lot cheaper and easier than teaching critical or creative thinking. Many developing countries have more of a mass production paradigm to running their schools. This makes a lot of sense when the majority of your population struggles with literacy. Especially when your country's economy is based ...
I'm so confused about nuclear energy so take this as a grain of salt.. And please comment to clear things up for me So when I think of nuclear plants I think of The Simpsons, the 1970s (?) disasters in the US, and semi recently the Fukushima in Japan I wrote a case study on the Fukushima incident because it affecte...
Also of interest, Paraguay has been 100% renewable for some years now, thanks to the enormous generating capacity of their shared hydro project with Brazil, the Itaipu Dam in the world! The problem in Paraguay, which Costa Rica doesn't suffer as much from, is power distribution. Paraguay is often subject to rolling...
Pura vida, mae! I spent the summer in CR a few years back, and it was hands down the best time of my life and very eye-opening. I stayed with a family in San Luis de Monteverde, a town of about 400 people. Coming from a large American city to a farming community in a country like CR was life-changing. When you basica...
We're a capitalist society. Create an economically enticing alternate energy source that's viable on a national scale in the US or Europe and everyone will flock to it. That includes big energy companies knee-deep in fossil fuels right now. Yes, they love the fossil fuels, but they are companies with investors. If th...
I work in IT/systems administration at a major university. We have a 2.5 person team (one person is only part time, he rotates departments) and we are responsible for all IT/desktop support AND server stuff AND programming. The department we support isn't huge huge, but it's about 150 people in a complex server envir...
Embedded Motion projects set to animation millions+ when rendered in FCS will produce render errors. When played back the render error becomes corrupt and crashes. Our test system of the FCS seems to have solved this. For now we use pro res 444 in Motion and down sample to prores422, it works, renders faster and lo...
This is a repost from the Science sub, where I didn't get much love. I hate it when movies and books use unrealistic technology or physics as much as any geek, but need some help from the true thinkers of Reddit. > >I'm working on my first Sci-Fi novel and love researching reasonable explanations for some pretty sweet ...
Depends how you look at it; the BBC is 75% funded by license, ie: legally enforced subscription that everyone who possesses a TV must pay. It's a public service and a state broadcaster; if by comparison any Government decided unilaterally to dump HTML and PDF and instead mandate that all Gov't documents were publishe...
You would need to unplug it or switch it off for a year to save as much energy as it takes to have one-and-a-half baths. And what about unplugging them AND have one-and-a-half less baths? > For example, participants estimated that line-drying clothes saves more energy than changing the washer’s settings (the revers...
While I raged a little bit at first, I changed my mind after calming down. Can you imagine the shitty publicity they would get (especially now) if they changed the policy? "Facebook is advocating that your children should use marijuana." Stupid parents would start raging; social conservatives would start raging. Compan...
I understand that this is alarming in general, but the idea of an internet kill switch is pretty dumb. The internet is not wholely withing the US governments control for starters. TOR is an obvious and simple solution to work around any sort of blocking. A more advanced computer user has access to even more options suc...
This argument is absurd. By your logic, if I can convince a bank employee to give me a bunch of money under the table, then I’ve done nothing wrong. The employee might get in trouble, but not me, because I had her permission and, therefore implicitly, the banks permission. No, this is not permission. It's called ha...
The distinction the judge is making is, first and foremost, that the various John Does were improperly joined, being that their actions were not coordinated and originated in different jurisdictions, and therefore each John Doe should have been the subject of a separate action. The fact that they were improperly joined...
Related: > Doing a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience. … To make this work they had to hack apart the poor cat's brain whilst it was completely unconscious, hook up nearly 200 individual cells directly with electrodes and then run an incredibly long set of tests to work out what patterns of light each cell responded ...
One day, far from today, all the huddled masses of the third world will be making nikes and iPhones and toaster ovens. There will be nowhere else for Gap sweatshops to come in and nab and fence in outlier mountain people and others left behind by time to make cheaper jeans. And people who work modern jobs and live in a...
Let me toss you a couple counteracting points. First, the moral point of SHOULD . Think of culture. The cultural history of this world is spawned from art, especially performance art, being spread and shared. In the past, people could go to plays, steal the ideas and reenact the plays. In the recent past, people...
Actually, I think they just might--but not in the ways many of us think. The people who are suing the government could be playing nicely into its hands. By setting a stronger precedent that "data" is the intellectual property of its owner or creator (in this case, the average person who stores information on a file s...
You make no sense. Making information free is still making information free, whether you profit monetarily from doing so or not. If you believe that making information free is a just cause in and of itself, then you probably don't care one way or the other if someone furthering the cause personally benefits by doing...
Thanks for the well thought out reply. It's given me a lot to think about. I'm not sure if I agree or not (I'll have to think about that more), but I think I understand the pro-piracy viewpoint (or at least your version of it) much better. (WARNING: a lot of what follows is just me working through an idea, trying to br...
Save your breath, this is reddit. The file analogy is terrible, you are implying that the files have been destroyed. Someone used a better analogy of your car being used as a getaway for a robbery. The FEDs have the right to take it, chalk it for fingerprints and evidence. The stuff you had in the car, well that stay...
What bothers me about this model is the 'public funding' aspect. I don't like most of the digital media that is produced, as I suspect is true for most people. Thus, I don't want my taxes to be hiked up to pay for Ke$ha to make music or Infinity Ward to make games I dislike. I'd prefer to select the goods/services I li...
I'm not saying its better, just that I use it much more. If you asked me advice on whether you should buy a nice $500 laptop or an iPad (assuming you had no other computer) I'd suggest you go with the laptop every time. If you're able to have both then the iPad is way more handy, especially for casual Internet use. The...
The first generation of I-phone was severely lacking. Even though every phone on the market had 3G internet, the i-phone did not. For web and internet, it was too slow to be considered usable. Also, Apple did not allow for any applications to be installed. At that time, the software that was on the phone when you got i...
Dude, modern life entails paying for convenience, so we can get more fun stuff into the short lives we live. I don't want to have to assemble or even maintain my own car, or build my house. Similarly, I don't want to have to spend first hours learning, then many extra seconds every time I do some common task. I d...
I think the fact that it's Java based and not compiled from Objective C might be at play, but I'm not 100% entirely sure. That's not quite right. Android itself is written primarily in C/C++ with Java being used in only a few places (I believe just the UI, but I may be mistaken). The API for developing Android apps i...
Exactly. The reasons listed above are still valid for me and are the reason why I didn't invest in a tablet yet. I have to use iOS/Android tablets for work (we develop web apps that are used on tablets) and I still consider typing on them pretty inconvenient, and reading is so much tiring compared to an e-reader. T...
If you look at HTC's products, they were similar to the original iPhone except HTC had been making them for ages. Apple has since sued HTC several times which I find hilarious since I've personally used their products before the iPhone came out - and tbh the original iPhone wasn't that great. Today with the app store...
Sorry, I went to bed and came back to like 15 comments.. Lol I'd like to first say, I didn't say it sucks. I'm actually a huge windows phone 7 proponent. I've always said if someone took my iPhone away and said I could never have another one, I'd have a windows phone. Now, I think they have a great deal of potentia...
Well, the signs represent the way they tried to pass acta: "acta because fuck you". They tried to pass it over the heads of the people, esp. K. De Gucht, for whom I am deeply embarrased as someone from belgium.
This has nothing to do with patents and more to do with, as you note, cost of building a chip fab for brand new entries. On the other hand, Intel is still advancing the performance of their chips. Sure clock rates are not increasing very rapidly, but that is a function of the physical limitations of the materials and p...
Ummm, Apple didn't do this to help the families affected by Sandy - they did this for goodwill and positive publicity. If they were really interested in helping people, they wouldn't have gone to the press and sent out notices to thousands upon thousands of people, telling them how philanthropic Apple was. They woul...
You clearly don't understand just how bad Microsoft is losing market share. The Surface was a massive failure and they had to cancel half of their original orders. Windows 8 is a massive failure and hated by anyone with more than a passing knowlege of technology. Windows mobile is the worst failure of all and has fa...
No. No I don't. What do you people expect? For someone to have an answer that does the entire job? How does that make sense, when the very issues we are trying to fix have slowly developed over the course of two centuries with millions of compounding factors? When you hear about Martin Luther King, do you truly believe...