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A few years ago, I was taking a course in public policy that focused on minority representation. Part of the course focused on the positive and negative impacts of technology (e.g., what is the impact when a candidate has a web based campaign, but minorities don't have web access, and things like that). Being the onl...
Your analogy, while interesting, is ultimately not relevant. Let's deconstruct: In both cases, the Government regulates. However, the actors behind the regulation are not analogous, they do not follow the same incentives, and their end-game is not the same. HOV lanes represent a somewhat direct connection between t...
Net neutrality does not outlaw QOS or traffic shaping. Anything that falls under 'reasonable network management' is specifically allowed, and that's understood to mean QOS/shaping to ensure line quality among ISP customers. The law is written to target paid prioritization and blocking new media services from entry ...
Net neutrality had a consistent and clear message when it was first formed, and that message was muddied on purpose by the ISPs. Well-meaning people claim that net neutrality means different things to different people, but that is largely due to the interference from net neutrality opponents. Regardless, it is possi...
I was actually going to say that Canadian ISPs were actually moving towards this model, however, I found [an article from last month]( that states otherwise. The CRTC (regulatory body for telecom) had previously ruled in favour of metered billing. Since, the PM's office has apparently stated it will repeal the decisi...
Seriously wake up dude. Comcast is greedy, do you agree? They want more money, and they feel that they can double dip and make both the source and the destination of any packet pay for it. The way the Internet works (and has always worked) is that you only pay for the source of the traffic. Comcast wants people t...
Ten years ago not everyone had a cell phone, not as many people used broadband services, streaming video content was nowhere near as ubiquitous, and the number of service providers was a bit higher, lots of places still had ( gasp ) competing services, and while people were exuberant about the possibilities of the inte...
They might like it, but version has no bearing on Chrome. Chrome is just Chrome. It's always one version. Everyone runs the same codebase. I work on web development. When my colleagues and I ask about a feature it goes like "Does Chrome support this?", not "Does Chrome 11 support this?". You don't need to know the ve...
Two cents here (which is now worth more than American 2c ^_^) from an Australia: We've been doing it since the internet started over here. We don't have unlimited broadband, we have quotas and to be perfectly honest, the prices aren't that bad...and we pay a hell of a lot more than you guys would simply because of th...
Why does it matter what company did something first? I'm legitimately interested. Thus far, in my years of wandering message boards and interacting with fans of various products and services I must ask; why, why does it matter what company did something first? I really don't understand how this has any meaning to a...
Time and time again when reading posts here about piracy and TV / Movies we see the dinosaur business model. Why shouldn't they be pleased that people want to watch (and will pay to) what is happening in US TV, the same as why they aren't pleased that people in the US have to resort to piracy to watch Downton Abbey o...
Explain to me how you believe it is fair and just to engage in piracy. According to my sense of morals and ideal righteousness, media is a form of art, and art is born of passion and should be shared with then world for mutual enjoyment. Morally, I think it is wrong for a musician to pour his heart and soul into a so...
I fuckin hate the entertainment mogul. Its greedy, self centered, and selfish. Half the people that wound up out there forgot why they started making movies, or music. They're more concerned with how quick they can make a buck that originality is flying out the window. They're setting up boundaries that were once meant...
They left before they were on trial? Seriously, who would operate a site like the pirate bay, that claims it's based in Sweden, while at the same time being in Sweden personally. The Internet makes it possible to take part in a business located and officially based in that country while at the same time never being in ...
I think it bothers Reddit as in that Reddit community at large has allergy to someone who tries to sue/close/censor internet sites. That is all. Now in regards to actual intellectual rights of Blizzard. Ofcourse they do have their rights, but its rather selection of their products that's amusing. Diablo II is rather ...
I would tell you, but since gravity isn't constant, but a long formula, so it's kind of hard, but possible to find. I'm also not sure the velocity/acceleration we will be dealing with. Will slingshotting be used? Another big problem is the damn air drag. Then figuring out the energy loss due to heat.
Caps do absolutely NOTHING. If I am the only person using the network, it makes absolutely zero difference whether I download 100TB or 1 MB. It doesn't cost them any money to transmit data. The only "problem" many ISP's face, is congestion. If many people use the network at the same time, and this usage exceeds t...
If he's on Comcast, they've been known to throttle, especially when they see bittorent traffic on your network. Someone also brought up in another thread that Comcast was censoring a certain porn site .
People like me? You racist... (I'm guessing since you divined my tone you know my skin color as well). I'm just saying it's easy for you-- the man who had nothing to do with any internet infrastructure and the costs of upkeep-- to say "it should be free!" Sure, we'd all like the internet to be free and there be no ca...
One of the largest near earth asteroids is 1036 Ganymed. It's 3.3x10^16 kg and presumed to contain iron and magnesium silicates. If it's 10% iron, that's $98 trillion at current rates. If it's 1% magnesium, that's $1.6 quadrillion.
What you've done right there is twist the truth to suit your statement. Allow me to explain. Child pornography is NOT legal in Japan to make, distribute, and/or sell. The only reason it is legal to own is so that the Japanese government didn't have to put 1/2 the population in jail when the law was passed. You see, p...
edit: turns out the Japanese article's sources are mostly dead links, and the [article you linked]( does not cite a source for the Japanese limit. So I'm inclined to stick with the [original English article]( I linked to, which cites [an NIH publication]( that clearly says the Japanese limit was lowered to 0.03 BAC in...
There are core groups that won't switch to Mac from Windows. Gamers and major businesses being the most of them. I don't expect that at all. Your average home user though, who uses their computer for mostly e-mail, social networking, photos and music, would have very little trouble switching to a Mac. I recently s...
For the telephone part, later they go into other topics like Gaben reaching out to non game companies, linux gaming, etc: The video claims that.... The U.S. taxpayers have been paying for infrastructure to the telecom companies for years in the form of tax incentives. There were deliverables that were to be met. ...
I'm sorry but I have to address this issue. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was NOT to help the big telecom companies. The act was specifically to break up the monopoly OF the big telecom industry. The act gave tax breaks and discounts to anybody who wanted to start a small telecom business, and then subsequently...
I would like to point to you what happened in france, both in january for mobiles, and 10 years ago for adsl. Free telecom came out of nowhere, annihilated prices (more than 50% off in either case), then proceeded to instantly gain huge market share. Quickly followed by the colluding players whining to high heavens...
Here's my major question with this whole system. If there were say fair competition between providers of telecommunication, wouldn't there never be enough of a subscriber rate to reach the critical mass necessary for continued service? For instance, say there were 15 companies that offered cable service. How in the h...
That is totally my case. My old apartment had FiOS and I loved it. When I moved, the new location didn't have it so I was stuck with Time Warner, but the moment FiOS was available, I switched. I love it. I have never had any serious issues with them, only when a couple of months ago they updated the firmware on the S...
No. There's no form of referendum for federal laws. There are forms of referendum for state laws, which vary from state to state. When it comes to amendments, they must first be proposed, then they must be ratified. An amendment e proposed by a two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Or by a nat...
It's also not like that in Germany. We have the RegTP (Regulatory Body for Telecommunications and P....andas? I don't know). Anyway, to a certain extent, they are telling telecommunications providers what they're allowed to charge. Also, we probably have a lot more competition, also in part enforced by the Regulators. ...
As I have been a long time lurker please be gentle towards my first post. However, as I have seen many incorrect labels placed on specific industries, please realize that Cable companies within the United States operate as oligopolies who avoid collusion, however through tactics that are as easy to understand as the 'H...
I don't see how this is a problem... So what if the consumer doesn't intrinsically understand that all "Galaxy" devices are Android devices. Once they buy one they'll be forced to recognize that it's Android, and they'll be exposed to the Google Play store. Maybe someone should tell the folks over at BGR that succ...
I've been seeing posts and articles on the front page about how awful the American ISPs are for months. They're holding everybody down and we all know it, but how do we really fight them and make them step up and provide us with legitimate service? Obviously enough people are not going to just cancel their service to m...
so says the "economics Ph.D Candidate " The author of that is currently an unpublished Ph.D Candidate... kind of a good estimate of how far their word goes. Unrelated the author explicitly states that ( see linkdin profile) "...she helps mobile telecom professionals, executives, board members, and companies improv...
Granted, Americans are often in an area of a bad internet service, but what about the UK? Are there any other guys in the UK here who aren't happy with their internet service? What really bugs me is the service provider's constant advertisement of 'Up to 20mb download speed'. What they really mean is 'We supply 20mbs...
Appropriately, you linked to an Australian site. Australia has a huge piracy rate of Game of Thrones. We're 0.003% .3% of the population and 10% of the downloaders of this show. Why? TV shows here are just fucking impossible to get . One time I thought I'd do the right thing and bought the whole season of Breaki...
Wave was probably one of the best project collaboration things out there. Everything was laid out so simply, different people could be added so simply, meetings could be held with no effort, live editing (which wasn't on any of Google's products then) was amazing, and all in all it was just a really sweet program. You ...
We already have, actually. There's articles elsewhere on this, but to sum things up: The printer most people will buy is a cheap, for-home printer because nobody wants to pay for a business-quality one when we aren't going to use it as often. The problem being that if you just get a cheap printer, it's going to be a ...
Here's my issues with Windows RT, coming from an IT professional that was offered one by his employer to test it out (I won't go into details why we're testing, but it's a big deal here): No real Outlook, and the Windows Mail and Calendar apps are a completely awful substitute for real Outlook (This will be fixed wit...
You have the NHS. In the US the value of health care paid for in part or fully by employers is significant. Vacations are valued less as more companies opt for a comprehensive PTO model where an employee starting out in a career may get 10-15 days PTO per year, which is supposed to cover vacation and sick days. There i...
I guess it's to be expected. Every person who lives in Virginia and works for the government is an asshole. Every person who lives in Virginia and works for a government contractor is a bigger asshole than the people who work for the government directly.
Atlas Shrugged: Directive 10-289 Point One: All workers, wage earners, and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment… Point Two: All industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and business establishments of any nature whatsoeve...
you are the second person ive run into this morning to be into robotic-y droid type stuff! :p I took robotics in hs a million years ago and I've been recently longing for an arduino or beagleboard or whatever and some robot bits to strap an old android phone to. I've also been fascinated for years with mesh WiFi, adho...
Is that just cause you don't like giving Google your info? I had a friend who made a huge deal about not joining G+ because it was too difficult and one day when he left his account signed in, I did it for him when he left the room. He thought I was ninja....what an idiot
I never said it was fair or ideal. I never said be who you are online but keep it a secret irl. it saddens me to see people hide who they are for the company, respect and/or love of people who wouldn't accept someone for who they are. I get that coming out can lose you friends or family or your job, and I believe those...
Hmm.. The congress has power "to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures." It would be probably easier to shut down bitcoins than cat videos considering Constitution and future pissed-off wall street bankers Bitcoin has lots of possibility but if it ...
The volatility makes no difference when utilizing services like Bitpay that does the currency conversion and presents the required amount in bitcoins to satisfy the invoice at time of checkout and also guarantees that rate to the merchant to be deposited in their bank account next day
Even BFLs grossly overpriced flagship model (worth $22,484) will only produce .39-44BTC/day. It's possible his son was doing well a couple months ago though (if BFL ever shipped anything, that is :))
I had .68 BTC in my wallet in the SR.... then it got seized, which didn't matter at the time because one BTC was worth eh something around $150 selling, $175 buying... But now my .68 bitcoin is worth nearly $700. I feel fucking dumb as shit.
this is what I've been saying in the last few posts its basically e-gold. it's new and crazy and rising like mad which is a huge red flag but could at the same time be the start of something new that we haven't seen before. bitcoins are "rare" like gold or other things but even gold can be turned into something shi...
If you mean Bitcoins in general, check out [Wired.com's article on it]( Great resource. If you mean you don't understand the crazy sudden surge in price, it's because it's a bubble. If enough people believe that something has value, its value will keep increasing. Bitcoins were created for exchange of goods and servi...
A single BFL miner will cost you around $6,000 last I heard for a few GH/s of power, where some mining farms are getting as high as 1 TH/s, leaving those measly GH/s miners far behind in computing power. with so many miners in use right now, there is a lot of competition for a finite supply of coins at the moment. Y...
It's a market, so yeah it's basically the same. But coinbase would be condamned for fraud if bitcoin was a real money because of their "four day wiat" ; they take your money, buy the coins with it and depending on what is best for them after four days, they give you the coins or give you back your money with apologies ...
You might be right, however the difficulty vs price ratio is what really matters when deciding whether or not to mine. The price has more than doubled in the last month and while the difficulty has increased, it hasn't doubled. This means that it's a lot more worth it now than it was a few weeks ago. That is, until the...
Bitcoin isn't a service like MySpace waiting to be supplanted by Facebook. It is a protocol more along the lines of http meaning that the first mover advantage is nearly insurmountable. All of the infrastructure currently in development is being built with Bitcoin as the foundation. Furthermore, as a protocol it can...
Careful there, read this explanation about the current state of altcoins: > Understand that there is huge advantage - a massive technological and societal utility - in the current world moving toward Bitcoin. There is no advantage in a Bitcoin world moving toward Litecoin. I know Litecoin fans like to say it's silver...
You keep chugging that kool-aid, friend. Bitcoin is not, and will never be used as a real-world currency. The real world value of all bitcoins in existence right now is probably somewhere between 2 and 3 orders of magnitude less than the book value posted on the chart sites. I'm talking about the value in terms of th...
You keep seeing it as a stock, and whilst i do respect your opinion, i strongly disagree. Bitcoin is unstable and volatile, but it can reach a stable point given there is enough infrastructure and technology, as well as a massively higher market cap to go along. As for the politics you keep pointing out. Bitcoin caug...
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This will likely get buried, but I HAVE to reply to this, which is making a lot of fuss over nothing: Using HDMI to get to true 4k is a complete pain in the ass. It's beyond the threshold of what two cables (or double bandwidth) can deliver, so the only way to do it is to use 4 units. It meant either an overhaul in...
It's mentioned in the article just a bit. But i have to say i love Nokia maps , sure it's not as thorough as Google or any other online based maps. But the real benefit, it is an offline maps . There are TONS of moments when there are no internet, even a cell signal, and i'm in the middle of "not a clue where i'am"...
Elementary? Give me a break! This distribution is stripped of popular applications. Internet browser, office suite and such are replaced with lighter and not very useful (in long run) alternatives. It's the main reason for this distribution to work a bit faster than its counterparts, which is often presented like rea...
Thanks for the informative reply. So technically, I could reverse/confuse this database collection of my browsing patterns, by occasionally searching irrelevant information? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, in turn, this information is sold, and then used by advertising companies? I can see this by advertisement banner...
I won't mind competition, but I think it is even better if there is competition and net neutrality.
Wow, thats the shortest block of text ive ever seen with a "too long; didnt read" summary
1) The crypto lib is forge which is quite complete and well organized. The reason it is all on one line is because it's a minified version. From my experience, forge binds together many different javascript encryption libraries into one API. Forge is used a lot in NodeJS applications for it's robust cryptographic libr...
DO NOT USE FOR SENSITIVE STUFF! NOT SECURE Use (only for normal stuff) to signal you want encrypted communication. It's probably a good way to annoy the bad ones till they finally hack it. It's better than the other easy systems. Tech stuff- I am no expert. Critic : -Code is complex. There are no linebreaks in...
Because if online based startups have to come up with massive funding to purchase a fast lane for themselves, they will have to go through investors like him who can take a piece before they get off the ground.
That is what the quotes mean.... its something not entirely true or entirely false like if I said that: Working with another persons outdated code on a deadline is "fun". These are called [Scare Quotes](
First off - while piracy may contribute to lower attendance at theaters, it is hardly the main reason people don't go. The sentiment expressed by /u/Candlejaok is spot on. And many homes in America have a big TV and decent sound that makes waiting for the DVD/BR to come out is a much more attractive proposition. Seco...
I don't think Google is intentionally being a big evil corporation because most of everything they do is pro consumer and deemed non-profitable. I think Google is being forced to play the big bad corporation because it's the only way to fight the competition that's trying to put them out of business. You'd think they c...
Well, they do use their monopolies very aggressively. It's not happening with Google News yet, but publishers are very afraid that this will happen. Hear me out for a second. Google Images was a fantastic product which helped sites generate traffic for creating and curating unique images. It drove a lot of traffic; e...
Its much easier to make an engine more efficient, especially with modern electronics controls, and manufacturing techniques, (in stead of dumping gas into cylinders at assumed AFR, we now control the gas injected into each cylinder to microliter volume, with microsecond accuracy, and balance it to air going to cylinder...
Couple of thoughts: The graph entitled "dispelling the congestion myth" with "actual network data" is clearly bogus. Nobody but Verizon has the actual internal router topology and utilization data. I really doubt verizon sat there putting this anti-verizon graphic together. But the numbers are plausible, so let'...
Uhh, the government built the basis for which the internet was created? We probably would have a very different internet today, if the DoD didn't show interests in MIT's findings on packet switching in the early 60s. I'd dare say we might not have the internet, if it wasn't for ARPANET proving the concept could work ...
This was always a joint effort by the NSA and the FBI. The FBI called it Carnivore. For awhile there was an annual tradition of sending keyword (bomb, explosive, kill the president, etc) laden email signatures to fuck with their filtering software. The NSA has been using several of their data-collection centers as T...
Not self-driving, only self parking. Its feature wasn't installed, by accident. The driver ran over a man.
In marketing's defense, they are dealing with the human mind. And not just one, but those of "the unwashed masses". Marketers have to try to not only explain how some of these devices and services work to a mass audience without becoming a boring lecture, but also have to do it in a way that's entertaining/funny/cr...
As someone in a similar situation looking for funds, like the Google guys back in 98', I'm starting to get frustrated at large corporations and their approaches to funding start-ups. For example, I'm trying to get my start up to work with General Dynamics Land Systems, not sell them an idea, and even getting a hold o...
If so, then how do you propose to protect open source software, since copyright is the basis for software licenses? I'm not sure why you get the downvote, it's a very valid and interesting question, so upvote from me. In fact I asked this exact question to the creator of the GPL and chairman of the Software Freedom ...
Downvoted for submission title slightly more sensational than the article. And here's the devil's advocate reason for why I think this is sensational: Not every owner of an iPhone 4 is a tech savvy nerd capable of doing useful things inside the phone Even user-replaced parts with the proper tools, performed acc...
They make the analogy that genes are like the Internet. The Internet itself is a byproduct of semiconductors. This is another fundamental scientific pursuit that will give way to a new legion of technologies - everything from the gene equivalents of microprocessors, information theory, diagnostics, and then you get...
I highly recommend the book Fatal System Error. It goes into great depth about why it is so hard to track down the scammers and prosecute them (
Lolwut? 2008 contest: Charlie Miller admitted to advanced knowledge of the flaw he used to win. 2009 contest:,.. Charlie Miller again used an exploit he had advanced knowledge of. In many of the other contests, the attendees are attacking platforms that are outdated.
Where does it say that in the article? It talks about ASLR (which is pretty standard) and sandboxing (also pretty standard) but then only goes to explain that using a seperate javascript thread in safari increases protection.
Prior knowledge" aka "Job Requirements"" That's exactly my point though,.. It's not really that surprising at all that you'd get successful results from the type of people they invite to Pwn2Own. If you put an experienced and skillful racecar driver (or defensive driver) into a standard Toyota Corolla,.. you're goi...
Um, hold on. I actual fact the national security and/or telecommunications laws of some countries require telecommunications service providers to provide back door access to their services BY LAW, on a national security basis, in order for service providers to be granted permission to do business in those markets. ...
This is correct. About every 7-10 years, via Moore's Law, you'll find that technology drops a digit off in price. A $10K monster system becomes a $1k workstation, and a $1k workstation becomes a $100 phone. The same applies for $10M to $1M to $100K server farms. Software, along with development methods, is adjusted f...
OK, everyone calm down. I do this currently. The real prohibitive expense is... time . I currently have all the STL model files for the NXT set and it takes literally hours to print a single, mildly complicated technic brick on a $30k Objet printer. It's really only useful for making my own parts that do not exi...
There are some similar concerns about physical piracy similar to the music and movie industry's piracy. While I can't say what the distant future of 3D printing holds, current 3D printing is relatively slow ("rapid prototyping" isn't what most people think of as rapid), lower quality (you can't get the smooth shiny p...
This is wrong and broken for so many reasons that I thought I should read it just in case there was something fundamentally awesome that I had not thought of. There isn't. It starts with this piece of stupidity: > .secure addresses would first have to agree to abide by a stringent set of requirements, including off...
The White House did not in any way try to censor something. They did try to diffuse an ugly situation and try to preserve the safety of Americans in danger abroad. Republicans/Romney/you are seeing it as the White House stating that appeasing people that have killed Americans is more important than the freedom of spe...
Exactly. Here's the bottom line. The principle of reciprocity doesn't apply here. A big company selling me something doesn't get to say that morally I should watch its ads in return for the other content (if any) the company provides me. There's no equality between us as agents; there's no relationship beyond a caprici...
I'm surprised there hasnt been an internal push by industry against some of the more egregious offenders. a couple of the most annoying, the 50 download buttons that try to get you to install a registry cleaner, hiding the download you actually want. ads that move and expand over content. noisy ads. It is crap ...
Let me start out by saying that I downloaded Waze after giving iOS 6 Maps a fair chance to prove itself to me. I had never heard of Waze but when I came across a map app that had 5 stars with thousands of reviews , I couldn't say no. I would wager that it's one of the most useful maps out there. Waze is amazing, pro...
I never did understand the uproar over iOS maps, they've always been shit. Enough so that I've never even thought to trust them for anything. Even though they used to be backed by Google, the interface was not suitable for a functional GPS. I've always used a third party app since I switched over from Android (Motion X...
According to AllThingsD, "multiple sources familiar with Apple" say that Apple's hand was forced because it wanted voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation - a feature that is already available in Google Maps for Android mobile phones. But the sources posit that Google invested tremendous resources into bringing the featur...
Yea, that's the one, one of my friends lost his dog to it, we were just walking down a popular track in Eungella and she brushed up against one of those huge leaves (which we didn't know anything about at the time) and about half a second later collapsed wailing in pain and rolling around on the ground, not knowing wha...
Massively misleading title. The vision referred to in the quote is this: >“[W]e rejected that idea because it didn’t fit with our vision. We did not focus on the “single city in isolation” that we have delivered in past SimCities. We recognize that there are fans – people who love the original SimCity – who want that...
Ea knows how to make money. Yes they hurt their image in the gaming community by constantly fucking us over with a saguaro cactus, but they count on the fact that the majority of their audience isn't as invested in the games as some are. The people who boycott EA games and call out all of EAs greedy tactics are a very ...