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To elaborate Zeach's comment: FF had a long release cycle, where major versions came out about on a yearly basis. When FF n+1 came out, it was a rather large step. I remember seeing tons of post about when FF3 came out. Then Chrome/Chromium came out. They completely downplayed the version number thing (remember goi...
Here's my Firefox brain spewage rant potted meat product in the new and improved easy opening can! Feature creep . The Firefox team is beginning to make FF worse as time goes on and they don't see it. As a whole, they have not learned the lessons of others failures. The computer industry has a name for it, it's c...
Song matching is a tricky science. Like image matching, they have to match songs based on similarity, not exact matching. If they used exact matching, users who encoded their music at different bitrates may sound different than other bitrates (think jpeg lossyness) thus they wont be a 100% match to the original. In ord...
Worst top"? What does that mean? > Even worse for the Cupertino-based company, the iPhone 5 didn’t even crack the top-three at Verizon Wireless (VZ) as the Motorola RAZR MAXX HD, the Motorola RAZR HD and the Galaxy S III claimed top honors at the nation’s leading carrier. Ah, so Consumer Reports listed the three hi...
There are several problems with this: It appears to require a lamp inside it. The lamp likely uses electricity. The electricity in France mostly comes from nuclear power, but still it's not "for free". That carbon dioxide is stored as algal biomass. That biomass will need to be harvested periodically. This will...
We saw this last week (will find post later) This is just a real-time adaptation of the usual prerendered solution It only looks real, but it doesn't feel real. Absorption is unaccounted for and water doesn't bounce like that.
Buy RAM. All computers are slow if you load more apps at once then they can handle... OS X is especially bad in low RAM situations though as it's disk paging tends to be a pig. Windows disk paging is not as taxing so you don't notice low ram situations as frequent. I believe this is due to the difference between NT...
I am FAR from being someone who supports this kind of thing, just saying that to state my bias upfront. I know that theres is very little chance this technology could be removed now that they have it already, and I will admit that the 48hour thing is a good place to start compermise wise. personally however, i say ru...
This is nothing new. Some task local force dealing with drugs/gangs, the DOD, and a couple state troopers came over to my university one day and gathered all the engineers for a presentation. They basically were asking for our help to help combat drug smuggling and one of their ideas included synchronizing database...
Because on 9/11, we had a choice: to be angry, unite, rise up, and all take the fight together to the country that was protecting the people who did this to us, or to be afraid, cower in our homes and apartments and under the figurative bed, and hope that mostly non-existent grown-ups and professionals would protect us...
Very slowly through little incremental steps, which on their own seem ok and in some instances even people want them, but eventually these can build up to something misshapen and unintended. I think Norway have it good where they can't make a new law or a change to an existing one until a certain amount of time has pas...
Google for Osama's letter to the usa, around the year 2000. IMO, it goes like this: 1) "Al Qaeda" (AQ) wants the foreigners (ie. USA) to stop invading their lands (Islamic lands). 2) AQ wants foreigners (ie. USA) to apologize for all the deaths they've caused. 3) AQ wants foreigners (ie. USA) to make peace with...
What he's saying makes sense to me, but this is where I'm coming from:
Bandwidth literally costs them nothing and even if they charge for it to recoup infrastructure costs then it sure as hell doesn't cost $50 for 2GB like they would have you believe in the case of cell phones or 20 cents a gig going off of Comcast's overage fees. On the most expensive segment of the Internet, [the West A...
Every form of contact is addressed the same. We only treat un-categorizable comments differently. Almost everything gets a print or emailed response to save us time. Remember, Senators represent millions of people. If you call, a staffer will say, "thank you for calling, we appreciate your comments, the senator release...
I think it's fairly obvious now that department of Comcast has preventing cancellation rates tied directly to either compensation or employment. What's funny is that providing amazing customer service when someone is cancelling seems like the best way to get them back eventually... That guy ain't ever going back to C...
So many things.... A. I don't care how far you strip down windows, it's not a "Steam" OS. No matter how mobile they wanted it to be, it's still not going to be as lightweight as Chrome. Trust me I've tried.... B. An A4?? Really?? That's basically like buying an off brand Celeron because the cost was too high. C. ...
When I came back from uni I was shocked to see my parents installed their WiFi router in the extension. Not just in the extension but on the extreme far right side of the extension, the side furthest from the rest of the whole fucking house. So my garden has WiFi coverage throughout but you can only get online in about...
It seems quite difficult even with that "simple" equation, and ut seems reflection rate/absorbtions/signals through walls are not really taken into account.
Never really looked into it so I'm not sure how it works. Does it interfere any with the power going through it? How do the speeds measure up to the more conventional solutions?
because Uncle Sam has already paid for them. Okay the the feds give you 5 APCs or whatever. Now you have to invest it modifying them for your needs, mainteance (lets sign an expensive contract with General Atomics), insurance, fuel, etc. Before, your swat team were fine using just a van. Now you've got massive lia...
The federal government/Congress can't just pass a law requiring body cameras. Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution lists ~20 powers that Congress has. (The President and Supreme Court have less). They tend to use the Interstate Commerce Clause to affect activity on a local/state level. I personally feel that's...
In this case, your statement seems like a pretty strong one, don't you think? The FCC is not banned from enforcing under section 706. The courts basically said, if you try to use 706 for your authority, it has to look different than regulation under Title II. So they would need to structure it in such a way that it l...
I was Mormon for 15 years, atheist for 15 years and am now an active progressive Christian. I think I have a little to share on all three perspectives, and why one might switch from one to the other. I think it mostly boils down to institutional culture, and the way an individual experiences it. Mormons are predomina...
The rules are 8 pages long according to the guy who wrote them, the rest of the 317 pages are explanations of why the FCC has the authority to pass them. The whole point about not seeing the rules yet is pretty much a smoke screen also because the FCC has to allow 30 days of public comment once they are revealed. So on...
Because (seriously) the GOP has one or more think tanks that write the talking points for the party line and distribute them to party members. Ever since Reagan, the GOP has been "encouraged" (very strongly) to talk, walk, and vote in lockstep. As a political strategy, this has been very effective. The only curren...
The problem here is that the hardware isn't usable without the software. To sell them separately they would have to sell what is effectively useless hardware. And that is why people get so upset about this. If the hardware were usable for its intended purpose without the software then there wouldn't be a issue. ...
Most of you are missing what is really going on here. There are two things engine HP increase and DEF/EGR delete kits, both are costing them money. Most tractors have the same engine block and drive components over several different models with the only major differences being HP and price. So I currently have a 933...
No the USA already told them to downgrade it and put command over the system over to USA military as required..
Sarah Palin could go to Africa and help out giving people malaria vaccines and post the clip on fox news without any other advertisement and get more votes than any 3rd party candidate even has in his/her pool of potential voters.
I've had it with AT&T also. I bought a used Nokia N95 and happily used it without the data plan (I have WiFi everywhere). A month after I sign a new 2 year contract with them, they suddenly classify it as a "smartphone", and force me to use one of their new tiered data plans or suffer the ETF.
I went to Microcenter, and was looking at the TVs. Saw an amazing 42" HANNspree. The display model looked incredible, and I saw that they were selling it for 500 usd. So I hopped on my BB, found amazing reviews on newegg, and also that newegg was selling it 40 bucks cheaper with free shipping. I asked the sales associa...
Yes and this article is only relevant to otherwise stoned geeks accidentally wandering into best buy in search of the funniest console game – then again they wouldn't care. True transparency has always existed, and people who bother looking already know about sites that offer price comparisons.
This article seems to argue the opposite of what you're saying.]( From the article: >Our nucleus accumbens (NAcc), which is the pleasure center of the brain, releases the hormone dopamine, which is the precursor of adrenaline. Dopamine is very, very powerful. Scientists James Olds and Peter Milner discovered that whe...
I walked into a Borders once, about a year ago. Needed a few puter learnin' books. Spent some time reading, picked out four of em. Right as I was about to head to the counter to pay, I whipped out my iphone, hooked into the Border's free wifi and checked prices on Amazon.com using the Amazon iphone app. Found out I...
Some things that Yahoo! actually does well (but don't tell anybody, because it's not fashionable right now): [Sports coverage]( -- some of the top sports writers on the internet, and you don't have to pay ESPN "insider" fees. Local Search well before either of the other two. [Community Projects]( -- I guarantee ...
Here is the [original]( direct quote: "But he does not plan to give specifics to police, who would face hurdles in using some of the methods he employed" and that they planned to give away the info at a conference next week, not sell it as some "journalists" have claimed.
Or the anarchic freedom of Anon becomes a genuine political cause célèbre. I think looking forward there is going to be a necessity to address the freedom afforded to us by the internet. As an adult I prize my ability to freely express myself online and the protection to do so in an open arena. I totally agree with the...
What do you mean, has lost control? I suppose a better wording would have been "malfunctioned" rather than "lost control". There's no question that a computer can do things much more efficiently and accurately than a human under normal circumstances, but my point was that if (and like I said, this would obviously ...
As a non-driver as well, I'd rather that people transitioned to an already proven technology that can carry people around efficiently rather than experimenting with self-driven cars. [Fully automated metro]( lines have been around for decades and are extremely safe. They're much more cost-efficient than having all the ...
I don't mean to sound ignorant here, but 1984 was based in a time when the Soviet Union still existed. Big brother was the internet, which at the time was a war-fighting machine. Well today the internet is female. Over 51% of internet users are female, while before it was manly a male dominated weapon. So please, stop ...
The fact is facebook was in no way the first or the best doing this. The fact is corporations have paid billions of dollars to do this. Whether it be through adware, spyware or ad-tracking. Facebook is really just the most apparent and out in the open one. Honestly facebook isn't the worst offender here. I say that bec...
Revenge on who? I've never heard of upload.to before, but I'm guessing they're another file locker type site. It's no longer available in the USA and I'm sure some douche at a studio or label has a big smirk on their face since this is what they ultimately want, to inconvenience/ punish many just to prevent a few f...
From the link: "There is no question that the government has money to fund NASA..." I think there is a question, actually. A BIG question. The fact that they come up with money for other things that are even less important, is not proof they can afford it. They are borrowing and printing this money! Yes, we can ...
I have been reading this thread and the comments in since it was posted and it has sparked some discussion between some coworkers of mine over dinner while we are on travel. I work for NASA on one of the budget line items listed. I, obviously, tend to agree that the NASA budget should be increased, and that the TSA b...
I'd be very hesitant to draw a black letter holding of CISPA's unconstitutionality from Katz... 1) Katz primarily holds that "The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution provides constitutional protection to individuals and not to particular places. The two-part test for this protection is introduced by J. Harlan. First...
organization" Guy confirmed for knowing exactly jack shit about Anonymous or anything else. Everything else is bullshit, too. Anonymous isn't an organization. They don't have information. There is no "they". They have power, but not nearly as much as he pretends. They can DDoS a few websites. They might crack a few...
Real or not, I don't care. But what really matters is the idea behind it. People think that the government is an entity of full controlling power of inconceivable things that would make us shit bricks even if we had a single glimpse of classified information. NEW FLASH FOLKS: The information classified secretly is to...
Learn what constitutes a fallacy before you accuse someone of making one. Also be sure that you aren't fucking making one in the first place, dipshit. I am not misrepresenting your position. In neither case can you prove that the assertion is untrue. In neither case can you assume that the assertion is true because i...
There actually can be a difference, in terms of the eye diagram (having to do with the inductance and capacitance of the cables). But most digital transmission systems have forward-error-correction, so even with a poor eye diagram, the end result will be binary (just like the signal being transmitted): it either makes...
Seriously. It's been obvious for years they've been doing this. Companies just don't seem to understand people want likes on their facebook posts. That doesn't mean anybody but that person cares about the likes. When I see 1.5million likes on a page, it doesn't make me think any different about that company (note I'd o...
No one honestly cares about the number of likes a company has, do they? sometimes, when your friends "like" something on facebook, it will show up on the sidebar as a suggested thing you might like. it's not about changing your perception of the brand, it's about raising your level of awareness that the company exis...
I joined Facebook back in 2003, because much like the sites that we love today, Facebook was simple, elegant and at the time non-intrusive. I look at it today and Facebook is the new MySpace. MySpace was awful for so many reasons, most of all their overly complicated backdrop setup, resulting in many gaudy pages that...
I guess I'll pop in here and make a few quick points using my knowledge of the relevant law. 1: They are rulemaking via a provision in the DMCA that allows the Library of Congress (of all people...) to essentially provide escape hatches against DMCA anti-circumvention laws. In my opinion, this is Congress trying to ...
Well, your ISPs are pretty shitty, if that's what you mean. At first I thought, maybe you'd get some leeway because you're an island and a lot of your interwebs bandwidth has to come from far away... but there are a few ISPs who deliver proper internets without caps. So, what is going wrong? Is your market broken? ...
There is a general hatred against the various content-producing companies in America (and the world at large) for not supporting digital distribution systems. Our current state of technology easily allows us to watch any kind of video content on almost any device - phone, tablet, laptop, PC, TV, gaming console and what...
When I was a kid, I asked my uncle why he charged so little in his vending machines. He explained to me that he charged 50 cents for a soda, a vending machine at an airport charges $1.50 for a soda. All operating costs being the same (he didn't bother explaining the costs to rent the space at the airport), the differen...
How exactly is hbos business model failing? > well hbo has been having record profits since GoT was debuted You're right -- it might fail them one day , if everyone drops cable. But it's certainly not failing them right now . It's a move that drives away certain costumers, sure -- those of who would pay for a ...
Tons of software is, but vilgrain is also correct in saying that it's a huge security hole. Recently at my shop, the help desk has been put in charge of contacting users that have outdated versions of Java. The problem is, some applications such as oh.. I don't know.. Kronos which is our platform for employees to check...
If a company headquartered in Germany ripped off a person in IL they can generally sue in IL. There is a famous VW products liability case about it (although VW just wanted to move the suit to where its US headquarters was, I think Delaware). The fact Sun Woman did not actually receive money from anyone in the states...
Go check out the rest of his posting history. Pro MS comments, and a very small handful of noncommittal comments that are all very close together chronologically. . Edit: Look at his posting style from a few months ago compared to the last few weeks. > Hakin9 is even worse. [They are suing (warning: Polish)] ( one ...
I assume you are not trolling.. native apps have multitude of advantages over html5 apps. Here is an article that goes over some main points -
ITT: An alarming lack of physicists. I'm pretty sure this was debunked a while back. Edit: The reaction product produced copper that conspicuously had the same ratio of iron and other mineral impurities as copper mined from the earth. If the reaction truly was cold fusion the copper byproduct should be 100% pure, ...
If you go back and watch the first episode of voyager you'll see that he's actually super pumped about replicators (which no one else has in the delta quadrant). The reason that Neelix is always cooking stuff isn't because he doesn't LIKE replicated food it is because they are trying to ration their energy usage. In st...
R&D, marketing, sales, and deploying the charging network (although I'm not sure if they're counting that as part of "Development services", or "Selling, general and administrative". Probably the later). [Tesla is making a gross margin of 23.85%]( [Ford has a gross margin of 12.77%]( [GM has 13.32%]( [Toyota ha...
Today on Georgia Law [OPEN TO INTERIOR OF POLICE STATION, CAPTAIN'S OFFICE THE CAPTAIN IS SITTING IN HIS BIG LEATHER CHAIR STROKING HIS CHIN WHILE LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW. HIS EYES SHIFT TO THE FRAMED PHOTO HE'S HOLDING IN HIS HAND, A PHOTO OF HIS DEAD WIFE. HIS HANDS ARE QUIVERING AS HE RAISES A PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN GLA...
actually, when you read the continuation of the story (link down in the story comments) it starts to make sense. Basically the guy was rude, trespassing, have previously been told by the school not to use the court(he was the one playing, not his son, and nether goes to that middle school), and had been asked not to pa...
It's different in the US, and I think maybe it's a different plug and/or different power rates. Anyways, a standard home 120V outlet is 15A (breaker set about that). Things using them are designed to operate under 15A, and this works out to a max of 1800W give or take. A car will be designed to be somewhat under that (...
There's absolutely no way that's "theft" and I can't imagine a court will convict this guy. For $0.05, I agree that it is very unlikely a prosecutor would bother with it if it got that far, but it could certainly be considered theft. Whether it is or not depends on state and possibly municipal laws and ordinances. ...
While it may seem like semetics, a news article is a better source. [here is a news article]( it pretty much says the same thing as the blog. Stating the same facts but a bit clearer. so to those who have said things about how the school should not have pressed charges. "Ford said school officials had not asked them ...
Hate to ruin the circlejerk here boys, but here's the police statement: > We received a 911 call advising that someone was plugged into the power outlet behind the middle school. The responding officer located the vehicle in the rear of the building at the kitchen loading dock up against the wall with a cord run to a...
A few of my friends and I engineered a similar "mouth mouse" freshman year (about 18 months ago) with the intent to give quadriplegics better access to computers. Ours is made without pieces of an existing mouse and had our own written code. It is mechanically based instead of optical, and you can also adjust the sensi...
Because it is not a big issue. Reddit's circle jerk is in full force on this with conspiracy theorist facts being treated as true. It is optional. When you sign up for a new ISP from now you get asked if you want the filter in place - the question isn't about a 'porn' filter and just spoken of as a filter. Existi...
I'd bet money that kids of previous generations learned to steal and hide porno mags in all sorts of creative places. My friends and I spent a week building a "fort" in my backyard with the sole purpose of being our secret porn bunker. Spare plywood, nails, hinges and fabric. Forty feet long but only about three feet...
Labour do speak shit. They've concerned themselves with being the opposition that they disagree with everything the government does, even the occasional things that are good ideas. It doesn't come across as passion, or fighting for core issues, but as an incessant hum that has no real solutions, only hatred. Am I hap...
Look into the War Powers Resolution days without a declaration of war by Congress, except when there is an emergency. >My guess is people started ignoring the constitution or, if you're to be believed, are grossly misinterpreting it. Look at section 8 of the Constitution. The Constitution never mentions "Declara...
and then wait to make money while they gain bad press from the people who haven't received their product? Even if they can sell for retail, their price would need to be about double what it is right now, and at that price they're competing with a lot of better printers.
This is proof that open source software can be just as insecure as closed-source. If enough people don't comb through the hundreds of thousands of lines of code, or if an "evil" contributor decides to go to great lengths to hide something in an open source platform, it could slip by.
Because I'm tired of people who try to broach this topic from the other side with moderate opinions who are immediately downvoted to hell and branded as NSA shills. It's a bit like being an atheist in a conservative town and you get so tired of defending yourself that you start seeing everything as an attack.
Interesting how you assume Facebook backing will suddenly let them create a time machine. First of all, it's only been like two years. Most hardware companies spend up to five years before they release, they just don't tell you about it. Designing, testing, manufacturing and shipping hardware takes a lot of time. The o...
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Why did the guy call the Controller's office? For those that aren't aware, the Controller is the head of the accounting dept. There was no need for him to call the Controller's office. On top of that, this guy works at a public accounting firm (Big 4 by the way they describ...
The scariest thing about this is that consumerist feels the need to include a
I'd like to give a shout out to The Consumerist for the
My job is done from home. Not only that but three of the 4 residents at my home work similar jobs or for the same company. We have a choice of ISPs here sure. We can get 12mbit from ATT, or my current ~170mbit service from Comcast. The ATT service is about $10 less a month but is practically unusable for my job, let al...
Listen, I know everyone loves to jump on the "Comcast is the devil" bandwagon, and that's fine. In a lot of ways they are. Ask yourself one question, though. Why. Why would the world's largest multimedia conglomerate go through this much trouble to screw over a single person? I realize this probably wasn't t...
That's great and all, but if the said modem isn't "their" modem good luck getting any sort of help with technical issues. They'll just say contact the manufacture of said modem for support -OR - They'll run around saying all the wiring in your house/location is shit and needs to be done, but to send a tech out is 5...
Because Comcast isn't some small mom and pop shop they're doing tax work for, it's a huge billion dollar corporation that a B4 firm is doing consulting work with. Big4 firms treat ethical violations as a HUGE deal and would fire an employee if they have reason to believe that they are breaking the codes of ethics.
You sound like you live in the NYC area. 300/20, yup. I can't tell you the trouble this shit has caused. Why? Well, there are about 3 friggen people between NJ, NYC and upstate NY who know exactly what kind of networking card they have. When I try to explain to a customer that they will never get more than 54mbps ...
A long time ago I had comcast, after returning all their shit they claimed I owed 50 bucks for "unreturned equipment", tried calling bla bla bla. Eventually ends up in collections, ignore it because fuck them. Was at one point considering buying a house (didn't, long story). It showed up on the credit report and the fi...
Fuck Comcast, I'm calling them tomorrow and switching to Centurylink (albeit a little slower, but more reliable and less aggravating to deal with). Hah! You and I should have a chat, I could have you listen to quite a few recorded phone calls that you might find interesting. Since last spring, my household has g...
Pride has multiple meanings. It doesn't just mean pride in one's accomplishments but also pride in one's qualities or, in the context that Cook is using it in, awareness of one's dignity. Carlin is saying "It's weird to be proud of something you didn't do," which is fair. It is weird to be proud of that like if I wer...
Just goes to show that time is really relative as it's only 2014 in certain parts of the world. Quick aside: I worked with hundreds of millennials over the course of about 2 years when I managed a "transition team" and a special project team composed entirely of new hires. To their credit, 99% of them were cool with ...
While the specs certainly seem underwhelming for the price, I think that Apple have taken a bit of a different approach with this Macbook by basically combining qualities of their iPad and a normal laptop. Just like the iPad, the new Macbook has only a single port for charging and peripherals, which makes sense if you ...
This is pretty easy, at least on Linux. Install Linux with LUKS - this is easy to do with the Ubuntu alternate installer. You'll need a password initially, but we can get rid of this later. As you're installing, you'll need a boot partition. You have two options here. You can put your boot partition on the hard drive...
Dropbox is amazing, though when I first signed up a couple years ago I was disappointed to find that you were limited to only syncing the main Dropbox folder. Luckily, there's a simple workaround to allow you to easily sync folders in multiple locations. So for example, if you want to sync a specific savegame folder, o...
In many cases (HP, Dell, Gateway...), the OEM has "tweaked" the Windows install in such a way that a vanilla Retail or OEM CD for Windows 7 or Vista won't work. You actually need the Dell or HP or Gateway branded install disks. Fortunately, all these companies are happy to sell you a copy of those disks for your mac...
It's amazing that he actually says what's wrong with it, and then dismisses it in the same breath. His followup to that then describes how Apple and Amazon have sold huge numbers of virtual items, which of course are, thanks to the EULA and said court case, just licensed, and could now be subject to his statement that...
there needs to be a free certificate authority for SSL to be used by the majority of sites, both small and large. however, if a certificate authority is free, then who will be performing the checks to ensure that they are who they say they are? when you pay a certificate authority, you are pretty much just buying the...
Earlier I thought anon's treatment of HBGary was a bit harsh, they were just a bunch of incompetents trying to get a little attention. Now however, I think they deserve it. While anonymous have done both good and bad, I firmly believe that wikileaks does good and necessary work. Hope HBGary bites the dust before long.
Looks like falsified information to me. I've downloaded the exposed emails and I can't find anything to verify a "proposed attack" on wikileaks. And even if I had found a couple emails about it or some documents, I don't know how much I would trust it... illegally obtained and then in the hands of criminals/hackers f...