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Sandboxing applications is a good start. Never run untrusted code in an open environment. AND NEVER run untrusted code with un-restricted privileges. And if you didn't right the code, you should be suspect of it.
If some Google Fiber speedtests were included in this, based on speedtests I've seen other people take, GF would score "below" some of these other ISPs, despite having the smallest cost:megabit ratio. After the summer 2011 report using this same metric, Verizon boasted the fact that it had the highest rank (112%). Ca...
It may appear on the surface that people who use ad blockers are scumbags who deny content providers of their hard-earned money. But I would like to argue that this is a gross oversimplification, and hope that by the end of this little essay, people like me who use ad blockers will get a little less hate. Let's take...
Go read their earnings reports if you want to know how they make money. Care to
The UK could become a very important player in the Space game, but it wouldn't be the same kind of power as the Russian Space Agency or NASA or the Chinese Space Agency. Skylon is a private venture and it will remain that way. If Skylon becomes the pivotal element which makes space travel affordable, it will be a priva...
Such total bullshit that the UK government and ESA are funding it to the tune of millions of pounds? They have a working production prototype, which has been tested over 100 times at ground level and which you can see in the video. It's not some random person on the Internet telling you this can be done, it's the Briti...
Let me take a crack at this question. I don't know much about using [hashcat]( but it's a beast, just like [John The Ripper]( is a beast with GPU support. These are offline attacks, that are utilized for when some asshat company doesn't secure their Gibsons properly, or from when a good company just has persistent bl...
Well I agree in some sense: if you use md5 for passwords it does not really matters if they are salted or not these days. Bcrypt has salting built-in.
That's only true if you take just 4 words, which is pretty weak anyway. let's say your average word has 5 characters (bytes). And lets also work with 1000 common words. your "jumbo dict" would have 1000 + 1000^2 + 1000^3 + 1000^4 words in it, e.g. all combinations of up to 4 words, which places it at about 4.5 terrab...
Good lord, even in the first few paras there are so many links I have to click on and read to understand what he's saying.
I don't understand what the hate is with Windows 8. 8.1 drastically improves the OS to the point of adding a start button for people that either don't know a Windows key exists on their keyboard, or we're too dense to click the lower left corner without an explicit button. Metro is as fast, if not faster, than the tr...
Have you actually read the comments? The reason this is bad is because it infringes upon net neutrality. Let me give you a rough hypothetical. Say Sponsored data does become a thing. A year or two down the road I have this wonderful idea for a startup for a new type of social networking website that potentially lots of...
I was sooo pissed I got hustled into their data cap bs.. my old phone broke and had unlimited data. They were like you can upgrade to galaxy3 for $100 or replace my older lg for $100 so obviously I went with the s3.. then at the last second the guys like oh btw you'll no longer have unlimited data, but you only use abo...
Most of the people I work with think that some of these mobile/network decisions are behind the times or headed in the wrong direction. However, we work in an entirely different department than mobile (developer.att.com) and there's no formal suggestion box to report issues such as this. It's such a large company and...
BAHAHAHA! - While I don't agree with bandwidth caps and throttling by any means, this isn't new. I worked for AT&T u-verse and they don't actually enforce the caps. They've had these "caps" for about two years. Did they enforce it? no. This website has been active since at least NOV 2011. Rarely does the common hou...
That's the problem. Tech advances and these corporate scum bags only look at how they can make more money. Don't get me wrong, I understand as a business it is your primary goal to make money, but screwing the people that provide that money to you is not the way to to do it. It's scary to think WE are the people who ...
As someone who's now finishing the first year of CS I can honestly say the trickiest thing about math is the bloody language. Our lecturer hates our class too because unfortunately there's still many kids who have given up on the course but are riding out the year.. and people just being noisy constantly. Ergo, we le...
That is exactly what is wrong with the right to be forgotten: It grants the ability to eliminate transgressions on the internet (which should ostensibly be considered public information) and grants a means by which to retroactively remove it due to regrets etc. The individual therefore intends to remove the material ex...
Their explanation for this is that I transferred over a phone from AT&T so it doesn't use the T-Mobile network (huh?) and this is expected. AT&T uses different bands and frequencies than TMO. I believe the 4S has unified CDMA/GSm radios, but since it lacks LTE, at best, you'd default to HSPA on TMO, if not EDGE. Depe...
It should film before!!!!!!! It should film all the time!!!!! Yeah, but those are still perfectly valid criticisms. 64gb of class10 microsdhc memory costs around $30 now. Even at netflix's 1080p 6mbit "superHD" quality, that's still enough storage for 24 hours of video, far longer than any single shift. Why shoul...
They needn't bother. Since watches get a lot of their functionalities from phones, and the iphone will only support the iwatch , swatch's watches will offer less than the iwatch(for iphone owners - which are the sort of people,m general, who are more prone to buy such watch. )
Yea sorry was on mobile, gut reaction couldn't remove it. Please can you find it in you heart to forgive me?? Like seriously I never meant to double post, or reiterate a joke or another's comment. It's people like you who are the true MVPs Making sure the bottom of a page is in order and are aware of their mistakes...
So John Carmack talks about all of this at length in several videos available on youtube. He talks about being approached over the "smartphone holder" several times, and about the limitations of these devices. Mainly CPU power. VR was tried before, but the CPU power was garbage at the time, and just couldn't provid...
I feel like the whole premise of the article hinges on all the Borders stores closing, and to me that wrecks the whole premise. Maybe Borders is closing because it's a terrible store*, or perhaps it's because more people find it convenient to buy their books online instead of having to drive over to a store that may or...
I see what you're saying, but the reality of these kinds of headlines is that the 10x is purely theoretical, based on mass production processes that don't exist and will probably never be commercially viable. For example, if you have an unlimited budget and don't need to recharge, then you CAN get a team of PhDs to ass...
You are 100% completely wrong. Using pirated versions is not a valid bussiness strategy for long. You will get nailed either by random control, an angry employee or customer, or just a naive employee calling a hotline. No business owner in his right mind would choose to use pirated software when there are affordable ...
Good article but lets not forget that people were looking at Apple 20 years ago as a dead company. I bet in 5 years they are solid again. Not saying MS will be "Apple Like". I just don't think things are dire at all. MS has some challenges ahead but I don't see them collapsing anytime soon. Windows Phone is star...
So the Wii has consistently outsold the Xbox and PS3 but the thing is Nintendo has captured primarily the casual market. You don't see the adoption rate for games and accessories on the Wii that you see with either the 360 or the PS3. The only thing that the Wii has really moved much of is first party Nintendo games an...
My favorite calls as an intern were those that went as such: Me: Senator XX's office, how can I help You? Constituent: Hi, I'd like to give the Senator my input to vote no on the Protect IP Act. Me: Okay, great. (If the area code is unfamiliar) Can I have your zipcode please? Constituent: 55555 Me: Okay thank...
I haven't spoken with the author, but I believe it scans only parent level comments in certain, possibly default, subreddits. I believe its set to a timer of some sort too, or it's getting spamblocked really quickly - check out the time posted. 1 hour for like 5, 4 from 4 hours ago. To me, and I'm no coder - I'm just...
Such as the Swastika in some countries, it seems. I still remember having an American tourist come my way as I was a teenager, working at the town hall. There was a building in town with a huge swastika as the most prominent corporate logo nailed to it. It was the logo of a big business that dated the Nazi party by d...
If we were actually following our Constitution you would be correct, but we haven't been for a long time. The President absolutely is effectively the most powerful. One of the biggest reasons is his position as Commander in Chef of the Armed forces. Our Constitution requires that wars be declared by Congress, but i...
Spoken like every Polish person I have ever met : "It's not my fault the system is broken, i'm just here to exploit it" 2 small things: who do you think hires polish people ? It's other polish people who were here before the gates opened and who opened a completely legit business. and polish police lol please....
Our ultimate last line of defense against something like this is to build a legal case of constitutionality to force upon the supreme court. I'm not educated enough in law or the processes of our judicial branch, but i'm sure we have redditors who are vastly better at it than I. In which case, I beseech any redditor wi...
That's a very nice list but it already passed out of that committee and out of the House of Reps. entirely so NONE of these people have anything to do with this bill unless some of them were chosen as members of a conference committee IF the Senate passed a similar bill.
Vehicles moving on rails controlled by computers would be the PERFECT thing for "millions of drivers with millions of destinations over a vast area." With computers controlling all of the movement of vehicles through the area not only would we almost eliminate most traffic congestion and the possibility of collisions, ...
Yes the implications that this company owns both software are pretty fucking serious. That being said they are only implications and without solid evidence that this company is compromising the anonymity of its users we can't say they do. We simply don't know. Therefore unjustly accusing them of wrong doing and expec...
flatly"? Whatever "unusable"? I use it all the time, utilizing all the keyboard commands out there to avoid the Metro elements, and I can do about everything much faster then Win 7. "stupidly"? It is faster, lighter, some basic OS functions got a much needed overhaul in terms of design and functionality. It a...
Cause it would turn out like that episode of Futurama where Hermes becomes a robot by getting rid of his real body parts and replacing them with robotic upgrades. In the end, Hermes realized he wasn't even him anymore and went back to having his own body parts.
I wanted to get a refund from EA as a german. You know, the guys that kicked valves ass back then. This is in their [ToS]( >If you reside in Germany, the following applies: the Cooling Off Period does not start before you receive your purchase confirmation email, and if you purchase a physical product, not before you...
For those that don't read the comments section, I found this comment to be very telling: "yogibbear says: DISCLAIMER I have enjoyed my time with the game so far, but these are ultimately HUGE failures and signs that despite the server issues this game should NEVER have been released yet *** WHO CARES ABOUT TH...
Taking the picture of the guys was not cool. Blogging and tweeting racist and sexist defenses of posting that picture was super not cool (claiming logical criticism = "straight white male privilege" is pretty fucked up). Still acting like the victim when one of the guys lost his job was uber not cool. When your e...
Highly-externalized locus of control, blah blah blah, divide by 6, carry the 2... sounds like a narcissist to me. None of the work below is mine, all of the emphasis that has been added IS mine. [Narcissist's Reactions to Deficient, Fake, Negative, Low-grade, or Static Narcissistic Supply]( The narcissist p...
She made women in tech a threat to men. Yes, precisely. There is so much pent up anti-white-straight-male hate, and it's directed at the easiest targets -- socially reserved technical people, who build all the great things society uses. Nerds don't run the patriarchy; in fact, they are exploited by it. Socially a...
Surface did indeed sell badly but it was never designed to sell. It was designed to show OEMs what they could achieve if they tried. Windows Phone has been an utter failure to be fair although it's starting to get a little bit of traction now. Windows 8 sold terribly. Just like every windows ever. I'm tried of peop...
Do you really want me to jump ship Microsoft? Do you? Because that's where this is heading. I bought an Xbox on day one, I bought a Xbox 360 on day one. I bought a second Xbox 360 once my launch console died. I have reasonably large library of 60+ games, and had XBL for years and years. "Online only" coupled with no-...
Keep in mind these are all still rumors at this point. Someone saying a rumor, and then someone else saying that rumor again doesn't confirm it. I'm hoping that with all of the issues with Orthy these past couple of weeks MS is shifting away from an always-online model if it was even like that to begin with. Also a s...
No one else remembers the brief period of time that Microsoft was giving people 200+ of free money at best buy if you locked into a 2 year dialup plan? Until it all backfired because of a california legal loophole and everyone got $200 for free?
I am a former XBOX fan boy. But after the latest rumors and that dipshit microsoft marketers comments I think I will pass on the next generation of consoles and either invest in a high performance PC or gardening, maybe go to nursing school, start rock climbing or mnt. biking.
Games aren't all about graphics I know this, but we've reached a point where game creators can get incredibly close to their visions and it's difficult for them to sacrifice that just to be on every platform. Ehh, they've been doing that for the last few years, really. PC hardware has been more stagnate over this la...
A decent gaming rig that can and will undo the PS4 and Next Xbox costs about 800$. Considering the cost of games and all the sales you actually spend less money over time. It's an investment. I now have over 150 games, games I was willing to pay full price for before I had built my rig. Now that I'm on PC, I have not b...
Build one. I just did. For $600, I have an 8 core processor, 8 GB RAM, decent graphics card (HD 7770 2GB)....all in all a computer that has yet to run a game on ultra, including Planetside 2.
I have a friend who bought a late 2009 27 in iMac with all the trimmings. With that he started playing WoW and Portal, etc. And realized that consoles are not the end all be all. Well, the time came that he wanted to play some Windows only games and he was screwed. He asked me to build a machine for him in early 2011...
Why not look forward to valves pc console. It will more than likely be way more reasonably priced than any new console coming out. You would be able to play games on your tv, with any controller you want to use. You can even use emulators to play some older games. It is very easy to do and free. There are a plethora o...
Agreed. A good new laptop costs around $600, so why do phones cost the same amount? The answer is they don't, they're significantly cheaper to manufacture, however since people want the item they're willing to pay the premium. It's somewhat of a monopoly if you think about it. Microsoft doing this with their new Xbox...
I'm currently trying to switch over to PC. The problem with PC vs Console is that PC is on average 2-3x more expensive (right now at least) to get into than a console. I can buy a used 360 for $50-100 and flash the drive to play burned games. Total investment? $100-200 (factoring cost of 50 discs for burning and a driv...
So, aside from times when your house burns to the ground, how often would you say that you're connected to the internet when you're playing a game? I mean, I can't remember the last time I WASN'T connected to the internet. Usually when my internet is out my power is out as well, therefore no video games for me. I h...
Starting from childhood I have owned turbo graphics 16, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, several gameboys, game gear, i think sega at some point, playstation 1 and 2, first xbox right when it came out, and several xbox 360's. That being said I still have an xbox 360 at my moms house and only use it when I go down to ptown to vis...
The problem with google's various services, from a user's perspective, is that they have too many balls in the air at any given time. That's a problem because if they don't completely corner a market for whatever given demand, they'll just phase out that service, nevermind that hundreds of thousands of people have grow...
But MU's own ToS did not provide any safeguard on the data. Using MU as a back-up service was retarded for the very reason that if both systems went down at the same time then he was fucked, and the back-up service he used provided zero safeguards. RAID AND SAN STORAGE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON AS YOUR SOLE METHOD OF M...
Archives were indeed driven by librarians and scholars, but that actually leaves us with a large gap in terms of culture. Determining what a significant piece of art is easy to do now, but the the time, that was very difficult. It's even more significant when it comes to classic culture, as in behaviour. We have little...
Honestly though, it's improved so drastically since I cut teeth on Debian in '93 I barely notice the snobbery anymore. Sifting through megs and megs of USENET posts on a 28.8kbps dialup connection (oops, catch-22, you need help with isapnp and no one hears your screams!), hours sifting through worthless AltaVista res...
Imagine being a small company and wanting to pass a bill but not being able to have a voice because some small other company with totally different needs asked for help first. Its not bad to wait your turn righy? Now imagine having a breakthrough drug and not being able to get your voice heard because your waiting for ...
There's actually a wiki about it: >It will not be considered a deceptive practice for a marketer to make an unqualified U.S. origin claim if, at the time it makes the claim, the marketer possesses and relies upon competent and reliable evidence that: (1) U.S. manufacturing costs constitute 75% of the total manufactur...
Since people seem to be having some misconceptions about what "hackers" do at MHacks, I thought I'd clear the confusion. We here at Michigan Hackers use the original definition of "hacker," which is just someone who creates applications/programs using a computer that are useful and/or technically challenging. Most pe...
They have only announced the availability of 2.5GB on the pre-paid plans at 60/70$ price-points. Tmobile is notorious for allowing something while still setting a contractual limit on paper so that if they decide to start capping the tether, no one can have an issue with it.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any...
Tax revenue is a huge messy thing to work out in general. One of our biggest problems is that any tinkering with the tax code is a major headache, so it seems most politicians would just rather avoid it altogether. For example, we need to eventually rework the entire way we fund roads. That system was built on fuel t...
Really dont understand why youre being downvoted with this- it is a fundamental point. Much as I would love renewables to play a bigger part in energy generation, the fact seems to be that actually manufacturing the kit needed to produce renewable energy requires a considerable amount of fossil fuel. This leads to t...
I know every time I see something with a Green message of any description on a product I am instantly suspicious and wonder how its trying to fuck me over...because I just fucking love having to keep a plunger in the bathroom these days, or to buy really expensive light bulbs with a worse warmth of light or wipe my ass...
I was using the percentage reference as a guide to: It's easy enough, however, to gather from that graphic that the majority of wind potential resides from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Strictly on a land area basis. You'll notice certain parts of other states have heavy wind poten...
YOU FUCKING SUCK YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. THANKS FOR KILLING REDDIT, NOW I HAVE TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO FOR WHIMSICAL CAT PICTURES.
The thing is, though... Why would the mods step down? What do they have to gain personally? Nothing. What to lose? A mod spot on a very high profile sub and with it, a lot of power and income opportunities. So let's say they just wait it out. Even if all of the users that are mad now end up leaving the sub (whi...
Monsanto does some shifty things. Some farming practices do have dangers. And GMO can be misused. For example, most would consider GMO rabies a bad thing. And as the article points out a lot of genetic engineering is solving industrial farm problems, not environmental problems. However GMO plants are basically the be...
Sorry for the rage and the venting, but here i go. I have Verizon, so I can't speak for AT&T, but I was grandfathered into Verizon from a company they bought called Alltel. I had unlimited data for a long time, but I eventually had to get a new phone, and to do so, I had to update my service. That meant loosing my un...
They will send you infinite modems, seriously. My parents must have had 50 by the time I intervened. I got on the phone and yelled at people all the way up the chain until they agreed to send a line tech (or similar?) out. They let it slip that he had to be there to do some things so they could run some tests on their ...
This is what pisses me off most about all the wireless carriers (but aiming this at Verizon specifically). I pay Verizon $120/month for 30GB of their 4G data via a home setup . That's right, a router/modem and antenna on the roof. You would think a service exclusively for home use only would offer more data than 30GB,...
Ignoring all appliances other than the refrigerator let's look at their claim. From the original article, let's assume that the average power consumption for a cable box while on is 25 Watts and 20 Watts while in sleep mode. If we assume 8 hours of use each day that puts the total daily average power consumption at ~22...
What's the upload? What's the price, and how does it compare to Google with their $70 1000/1000Mbps synchronous internet or municipal networks that charge even less?
They're garbage, even for the size. Equivalently sized SD encodes (eg DVD) will look and sound better due to higher audio and video bitrate. Bitrate starving is worse than upscaling resolution, especially if you use better upscaling algorithms such as lanczos (easily enabled in mpv, which is currently the best video pl...
OOOOooooo someone in the field. I have a question for you. Assume we manage to get speeds of data transfer up this high in one single jump from some kind of new tech discovery. Let's say today we are all sitting at 10Gbps network speeds (I do 10g networks all the time for schools and datacenters), and then suddenly t...
copy pasting my other comment: They're garbage, even for the size. Equivalently sized SD encodes (eg DVD) will look and sound better due to higher audio and video bitrate. Bitrate starving is worse than upscaling resolution, especially if you use better upscaling algorithms such as lanczos (easily enabled in mpv, whi...
this is NOT accurate. Thailand here and that must include business connections. even here IN Bangkok, you can't always get a 10Mbps down - and you're left with 512k up. 19Mpbs down is NOT the average consumer speed. the highest connection available at my condo in central Bangkok one of the 3 busiest roads is 10Mbps dow...
Probably never. Things dont jump by am order of magnitude. For example, the PHY on a drive (the transfer rate youre talking about) on a server (enterprise) drive is 12Gbps. This is how fast you can spit data at it and it'll interpret said data. I dont work a ton with this so I might be a bit wrong but whatever. Anywh...
Overall you've got the idea of latency right. You're just not knowing some finer points. Guy, I need to ask you to drop the condescending tone. That 56k unit you mentioned is a unit of bandwidth. It's the volume of data that can be fit through the 'pipe'. Specifically, 56,000 bits of data per second can fit. On...
give us 2 weeks, we'll forget over something major that actually counts. It's not a bad plan. And the edits stay.
No, what I mean is that the computers used in the back office and the computers used in clinical areas aren't the same. In a lot of clinical areas you have computers which run equipment and if the manufacturer doesn't support an upgraded OS on that device, which is often the case, you're kind of stuck. In offices the...
I assume a VM won't be able to access physical media at the block level if the host OS doesn't support it--am I wrong? I'm not in a position to dedicate a machine entirely to Linux. I only have this one laptop in working condition--unless you know of a source of free 60Gb 2.5" HDs using. ..whatever the bus was that ...
I'm old and I'm not happy. Everything today is improved and I don't like it. I hate it! In my day we used Al Gore's Internet. If you wanted to surf the web you dialed up your Internet provider at 2400 bps and launched Mosaic. Your porno wouldn't arrive quickly, but you could fap and fap while an interlaced GIF slowly r...
I realize this is going to be a very unpopular opinion and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for saying this, but honestly I just don't care. I understand both sides of the issue, but I really just don't care. Either way it goes, I doubt it's going to alter my way of life that much. If I'm condemn...
True, but there is a difference between the two. Googles' data collection is unobtrusive and unless you have an account for/with one their services they may not necessarily have close personal information such as your actual name or date of birth. Facebooks' "Facebook Connect" can be rather irritating depending on ...
You should take in to consideration that we (Sweden) have a government that prioritizes broadband (both the current right wing gov and the previous left wing gov). Also we had some really strong competition between a few companies that really pushed the mentality "broadband for all" and where willing to take an economi...
There's so much misinformation in these comments and the article. As a person who actually does this job for a living, let me clear some of this up. I'm a junior associate at a huge, international law firm and I've done a handful of 2+ million document doc reviews. First, we already use computers to sift through th...
While I strongly advocate privacy rights, I actually appreciate a reasonable amount of tracking. Basically, tracking a demographic enable advertisers to show me ads that are relevant to me, like deals on gadgets as opposed to industrial corn herbicides. Isn't that a good thing? And because of this, content producers ca...
For cellphone carriers? I'm not sure. I don't know if they pay for bandwith or how data use impacts the performance of thier network. For a medium-large scale ISP's providing DSL/Cable connections is absolutly nothing more than a money grab. Simple fact is this: If you have the bandwith capacity for all of your sub...
I wouldn't object to a pay-as-you-go data plan in principle, as long as the following conditions are met: 1) Accurate and transparent methods of bandwidth monitoring. In my home market, it's not unusual for ISP data usage figures to be off by a factor of 10. 2) A realistic starter/basic bandwidth tier. Any ISP that...
I'm just a lowly lawyer who did some work for the EFF as a law student, and who studied IP law almost exclusively in my second year. You're describing what patent law was supposed to be, not how it is actually used in all cases. You know for example that patent trolls do the exact opposite of using patents to promote...
Samsung might, yes. But some of these things should have no mental attachment to Apple in the first place. My sister's DSi USB to wall adapter is in the exact same square shape and is gray. So I should post a pic claiming Nintendo copied Apple? I can understand that their tablet has a lot of the same copied features ...
Don't worry about being a dick, you're proving my point. Nobody cares about why I don't like the Oatmeal, just that I don't. so they downvote and move on. If I provided points as to why, most would say "I don't agree with that", downvote, and move on. You didn't want to further discussion by asking why and instead use ...
Brace yourself for a wall of text. I have been thinking about this situation a lot lately. [Yesterday, there was a Kickstarter campaign]( started to create an Android based gaming console. I saw this post near the beginning, and when I went to the Kickstarter page to view it, less than $100,000 had been raised. A few...