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I can only agree with the fact that I would have showed up aswell if I actually had gotten any sort of information that this was happening, despite the fact that my workload is of the chart this weekend. A very possible reason for many is that we live in something that does not look like the bad countries the people s...
I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about how terrible RosettaStone is. I got it as a gift from the in-laws, and I know they got it legitimately. I installed it, and it was ok, but I didn't have the time since I was finishing grad school. A few OS and hardware upgrades later, I go to install it again since I ha...
This is a pretty big assumption. Similar to a fence or even a lock on a door, DRM exists largely to keep honest people honest. Right now, the legal battles you see being waged are in an attempt to "hold the lines." Media companies aren't stupid... they are aware that they still have a firm hold on their primary mar...
i don't even need to read the study to know it is not correct. the answers are too easy, i don't need a fucking study to figure it out. first of all, the people who go out to movies as a night out will not be affected by piracy. secondly, a movie that did not get a dvd screener released will also not be affected by pir...
So you're sure that by "Service" they mean the web interface. What makes you so sure? (1) How could I (technically) transfer porn and infinging torrents... via a web-interface for the administration of a router? I just don't get it. Seems pretty nigh impossible to me. If it's not possible to watch porn by using the ...
And yes the cloud software is optional, but is required for any sort of advanced configuration/settings access from the looks of it. I've already understood that and I've known about this issue for 20min now. You have a point, it isn't required to use it, but it is to its full potential . I don't like it, but I wouldn...
Well to be fair this is in fact the 3rd company to realize the low end hacker market. I love it... hell my dad still runs an old P4 box (I also do have an old P4 box as a server) and it's old as hell. The notion that I could build a competent media server for my Dad out of a small board, some legos and my superhero ...
nah man, we support our own. we know our own. i personally don't pirate stuff from indie devs, coz the indie community is awesome, so i pay the full price, sometimes even more. but the big conglomerates? i think they can live without 99 cents in revenue.
For those of you getting a case of the onions: whenever Wall-E is mentioned I always post [this story from Metafilter]( from years ago, about how one girl reacted to the teaser trailer -- and what it led to.
I read down through most of the comments about this, and I keep seeing this idea that anonymity assures "honesty." In reference to criticism though, I have to wonder one, what is meant by "honesty" here, and two, is this such a good thing? It seems to me that "honesty" in criticism is often confused/associated with...
Question for a power utility company. Tell me if I'm wrong about this but... power supply must always be above demand. Demand is always changing, you can relatively predict it but you cannot exactly predict it. This means that since supply always have to be higher, you will be producing more power then you need at a...
Nice post, I'm not overly familiar with Composting toilets, but I will look into them in the future. One idea I've been kicking around for a while, is using a non-aqueous system in place of water to deal with human excreta. Functionally it would be almost identical, you still use a toilet, flush and it goes merrily on...
Social pressure to donate You could probably get more people to donate to stuff like cancer research if you could display a person's One Today profile points: >Your One Today profile also includes information based on your usage of One Today, such as which projects you've donated to. Being able to scan someone to...
A lot of 3d printers out there are open-source hardware and don't technically require you to buy any components. (Well, not buy any pre-made components, you can shamble it together yourself out of simple off-the-shelf components.)
i'm just going to point out that manufacturing of ANY kind of firearm without a permit is a federal offense and under at least the us patriot act without an ATF permit, so even if you have a cnc mill. ya might wanna hold off on makin those guns kids p.s. it's late and I'm pretty mortified at my grammar and punctuatio...
No, it's orthogonal to what you should do. The direction a stock is trending right now is essentially meaningless, so basing a decision on that alone is a glorified coinflip, no matter which way you line them up. What you really want to buy/sell on is your prediction of the future: if the stock is about to go down, y...
This is why 3D printing is going to change the world I notice you (intentionally?) did not say for the better. You imply it could be worse. It will be interesting to watch it play out. Take the 3D gun issue. Everyone seems gung-ho about "Yay! Screw government control!" Fine. But it is quite possible it could lead t...
Didn't downvote. I own and shoot and live in rural NEK VT. I think linking to the torrent is wise and I support it. Having said all that, the right for individuals to own is not as cut and dried as that and you must be aware it isn't that cut and dried. The argument doesn't become settled because you said it is. It...
A six hour road trip equates to a 2 hour flight No, it does not. Not even close. For example, flying from Sacramento to Seattle is an hour and forty-five minute flight. Unless you were motoring at 123 mph without stops, you would not cover the same distance. In fact, in this scenario, obeying the posted speed lim...
I was curious so I did some research and math. Tesla claims at highway speed (65mph), 70 degrees F ambient temp and the A/C off that the Model S will get 255 miles of range. Let's put a little buffer in so that you don't end up pushing the car into a charging station and call it 240 miles. [Tesla FAQ]( Google maps ...
What I took away from this BMW has created an electric car that still relies on on the old model of having rapid charging stations for any real range. They exchanged the added range, weight and cost of large batteries for performance numbers and a lower price point. The cars appeal is for folks that already d...
but carriers have since upped the prices of service to compensate having originally given you a "discount". In fact, if you wanted to buy it off contract (which is more than $599) and you're with AT&T or Verizon, you'd still be paying the same rate as those who were given a "discount".
This article reads as an attack piece/opinion article more so than any type of car review. It's obvious that the writter has a bias towards the Tesla and essentially, "fuck any other electric car that can't come close". The main tone of this article is the writer being upset over BMW's perception of being another "ap...
The BMW i3 is not supposed to compete with the Tesla Model S. Comparing them because they are both electric is like comparing a smart car to a toyota camry because they both have gas engines. The i3 is an urban mobility car. It's not designed for road trips. It's not designed to hold lots of cargo. It's designed to h...
What a useless interview. The two cars are in a completely different price range. Add on top of that that you're paying quite a bit for the BMW logo, and the price difference becomes even more obvious.
I don't think any conclusions can be drawn until both cars are 5 years old. Residual value will decide whether tesla become a respected brand Edit: it seems difficult to get an unbiased opinion on the web on this matter. What worries me is that the battery wont last. Im not clued up on the tech but its taken a very l...
Yes the BMW "only" has a range of 160km. That's a great range. Roughly 100 miles. My car's max range is like 200 miles and I fill up once a week or so. Acceleration is good as well. Its a nice little electric car, agreed. Maybe a more stylish version of the Leaf. Still less attractive than the Volt, but a much bet...
This might be long. Here are my two cents: A lot of the pro (or at least not-anti) BMW i3 comments on this thread are making a lot of comparisons to the Tesla Model S and how "of course" a $40k car can't compete with an $80k. I'm going to make the argument that you can compare the BMW i3 to the Tesla and how the i3 i...
It's interesting how things are changing, but the author is charmingly naive about how modern aircraft get developed and purchased by foreign countries. It's nothing like spending a day wandering car lots choosing the best car for cheapest - unless you're buying late in a program or used, you have to commit to an o...
Let's be honest, there are definitely people that will pay for things they like but there are also a lot of people that will take for free with no intention of paying for it ever. Lets be honest, most people will pay for things if you offer them at a reasonable price how they would like it. You could google "Kevin Sp...
The final nail in the coffin! To make sure any software gets completely obliterated from history, let Microsoft buy it. Not so
Years ago, I was working through college at a pizza joint. One day we got a new assistant manager, some broad who used to run a group of stores. First impression? She decided the oven should "spin the other way" for no reason other than to put her stamp on procedure. A few days of that chicanery and she'd wised up, but...
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LM7805 can regulate down from as high as 35V but I can't think of any other common power sources in this range other than batteries or vehicle 12V. More importantly, that LM7805 is gonna burn and either just break or catch something on fire. There's clearly not enough heat sinking to deal with the 15W power dissipati...
If it were a private system, then I could coordinate with whatever company I want, and if they leave my trash barrels rolling in the streets, I can leave and go to another company, something I can't do today. No, you couldn't, because of physics. It's simply not cost-effective to have multiple garbage collectors fo...
It's simply not cost-effective to have multiple garbage collectors following the same routes, due to fuel, cargo, and staff costs. Completely false. It works for mail delivery, septic trucks, fuel trucks, landscaping, pretty much any other system that the Government hasn't taken over. On top of that, my town already ...
So... I realize you're just using the trash thing as an example, but I actually have experience in that area, and... they're not at all the same. I'm not trying to get into an argument, but I just thought I'd share my personal experience on the differences between privately and publicly owned trash collection. First,...
Mail delivery in the USA is a monopoly (the US Postal Service). And even with a monopoly on letter carrying, UPS and FedEx are still sending trucks across those same routes just to deliver packages. My point stands. >Fuel delivery is often a de-facto monopoly due to, again, the oil companies splitting the market. ...
Smoking is legal in the United States. That doesn't mean you can smoke in every restaurant. No, but as a counter analogy, in the UK there is a law which means that all Bars and restaurants must serve tap water free of charge, meaning it is an obligation for them to do so. It isn't a choice that a business has to make...
Piracy is stealing for a profit. In that case, Kim Dotcom was pretty pro-piracy when he was raking in millions from ads on Megavideo. Mansions don't build themselves. I think file sharing should be legal. I think third parties making bank serving ads for content they don't have the rights to should remain illegal. ...
I know, but that would make it very easy to defeat their copyright checking. Most hashing algorithms will change half the hash if just one bit of the file is changed. Changing a single bit in the file header would completely defeat their checks. If Dropbox only checks a small range of data within files, their copy...
If you know what “file hashing against a blacklist” means, feel free to skip the rest of this post. Can we get tech writers everywhere to include an easy
boradband's definition is tied to agreements tied to money granted to cableco's regarding connectivity. Historically, the money granted to them, (billions of dollars), was to ensure all of the US had access to 'broadband' speeds, and to get out of actually having to do anything or spend money, the cableco's lobbied t...
Yes, but that is beside the point. Hydrogen is not an energy resource that occurs naturally on Earth. Petroleum and other fossil fuels you can just find in the ground if you look in the right spot. To obtain hydrogen for use as a fuel, you have to create it by expending more energy than you get out of it later. T...
Tesla couldn't care less about the electric car technology. The real money is in the batteries... hence the reason they are investing in a multi-billion dollar battery factory and opened up their electric car/charger patents... if everybody adapts their (now free) technology, then they will absolutely dominate the ...
Yeah, there's no accounting for taste, so it's really hard to say objectively that the Tesla's interior is better or worse than some other car's, but I agree with you there. To me, the Tesla's interior is easily its weakest point. It doesn't look like it's cheaply made or anything, and I'm sure it's functional, but aes...
My landlady has AT&T Uverse and for about 6 months, we had the WORST internet. It was getting dropped left and right and I'd have to call them up on a nightly basis for them to refresh the connection. I called so much that I believe their tech support put my number on some "blacklist", so whenever I called up I'd get s...
Ok, here's my experience if anyone cares. Tried calling Comcast to disable the Wifi Hotspot. Was on the phone 20+ minutes, was transferred 4 times and finally said eff this and hung up. After a year of having them, I finally logged in online. This wasn't easy as the tech who installed me and wrote the login id and pass...
Having your own router does nothing. They purposely send you a modem that has a router/wireless everything with it, and that's what has the xfinity hotspot bullshit. All I wanted was a replacement modem, and they sent that instead. I cancelled my shit, because they couldn't turn it off, so fuck that bullshit. Nothi...
Road runner (the name of TWC in my area) does this as well, my internet kept dropping off and was obscenely slow and they tried to blame my router. My fix for this is to rent a modem for 1 month and as soon as I have their modem setup and have problems with it I schedule a service call. Took 4 service calls last time b...
Hijacking the top comment to reiterate what I've said every time I've seen this posted: I strongly disagree with the reasoning behind a la carte pricing, and I believe it'll lead to worse quality in television in the years to come. There's no perfect solution to the problem that is cable television right now, but thi...
Well it would never happen in America because in a sense it is a tax. Basically everyone that owns a TV has to pay a small fee to the BBC for the right to pick up channels on the airwaves. They actually haw trucks that drive around looking for signals from houses that have not paid so they can collect. I know that so...
In Google's case, lots and lots of money - they have done it since pretty much the beginning. Their entire business is built around it. In Apple's case, well, believe what you will, but Cook says that Apple's philosophy is "We don't need it, we don't want it. You are not our product", and "Our view is, when we desi...
Yes... now that we have made the market NOT free and have a taxpayer subsidized monopoly... we should let ourselves do whatever we want. Because frankly too many people are making money off of innovation and we want a cut of that.
You also get what you pay for. I've dealt with a few hundred people that are either overseas or came here from overseas. Only 5 or 6 were actually worth a damn. But CTOs see it as 'I could hire 3 or 4 resources in india or 1 here for the same amount of money'.
A wake up call that will fall on deaf ears. Companies are no longer run by management that plans for the future, for the most part. Management now is completely beholden to immediate results that affect share price. While, a hack could hurt share price at some murky time in the future, they aren't swayed because it cos...
SIPC doesn't back life and deposit policies, the insurers licensed in a given state will back each other thru a "state guarantee association" You aren't supposed to talk about it because it essentially means that your B carrier and A carrier have essentially the same risk of failure (non payment to client) for perman...
Remember the last big Sony attack? From wikipedia: "The PlayStation Network outage was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were stolen and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable...
The report seems to compare LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) of a solar installation to grid power (which has distribution plus wholesale generation folded into it). The problem ls that the solar installation delivers its power from about 09:00 to 15:00 but demand peaks at 18:00 to 21:00 or so. So the grid is...
Russia is teaming up with the USA to build ISS 2.0 once the current one's funding runs out in 2024 -- at least according to Russia Today and state news agency TASS. > Update: After waiting to get in touch with colleagues in Russia, NASA responded to our inquiry and says "no new partnerships were announced." > So fa...
There are no actually compatibility issues - what /u/Kontu is stating is that it is not compliant to the specifications set forth for PCIe. As long as it is not - manufacturers will want to maintain 'Spec Compliance' for marketing purposes.
I read the whole of the act for you guys, [the text is here]( A few differences from the past: While private data was stored in NSA servers before collected from telecoms by court-order going back 3-5 years (allegedly to be accessed by about 20 background-checked agents; now the telecom company and any of its emp...
He's my Congressman and it's frustrating to have a guy like him in office representing you because he seems to be doing a lot of things right in a Congress that's doing so many things wrong (or doing so few things at all). You hear the drumbeat of "if the public disapproves of Congress, then they should vote them all o...
True. AOL, however, evolved from a time when there really wasn't the Internet as we know it - they grew into the larger Internet like a vine grows around a tree. While there are some people who still think of AOL as "The internet," the greater portion of control that AOL had is gone. Facebook seems to want to do th...
you, sir/madam, are a veritable
We used to have that problem in our Warehouse (DC). Got a call late one afternoon; a DC employee was terminated the next morning, and we'd need to lock them out. I volunteered to arrive early, and do the dirty work. Before I left that day, I spoke to the Operations manager (he knew about the termination) and told ...
I consider myself pretty smart and initially I thought that's what the camera did. Consider this: we live in a world where deafness is reversed by electronics, and technology is advancing every day. Eventually, we will have cameras that replace eyes. Today? Probably not, but its coming. So when a news article sta...
Every point on this poster is factually correct concerning the lock-down of the iOS. Anyone saying anything else is either ignorant or stupid. 1) The distribution model of the apple app store is incompatible with free software and the GPL. 2) Every app has to be signed by Apple and downloaded from the App Store. 3) Ev...
You do realize that his point is that you can only download from the App store, right? The App store is an entirely closed environment in which Apple decides what will and will not be downloadable. This is in regards to iOS, not OSX. iOS is a closed system where only Apple approved products may be downloaded. This is...
Is that why there's so few free .NET libraries out there? When I did a stint as a .NET developer (worst six months of my life) I could never find open source libraries that would do what I needed. But if I wanted to pay $50-500 for a license I could find dozens of libraries that would do exactly what I wanted.
The part that gets people riled up this time is that the ipad/iphone have these create SDKs, and great hardware features, and that, while this was always the case with phones, we're prevented from leveraging those features in obviously useful ways because of apple's decisions alone - not technical ones. I can't use m...
I wouldn't mind this - I'm not particularly an MS Fanboy (if I had it my way, we'd all be on Amigas) - but what worries me is that school is supposed to prepare you for business, and leaving kids to play with the wrong software is never going to help. I was in the first generation of computer-users at school, where it ...
If you mean worked with open office, then you're right - because in the private sector (=companies of any real size) no one does , as is bourne out by the job market. Colleges, and a lot of Gov. funded areas, I'm afraid to inform you, aren't really in the same ballpark as corporate IT environments on many, many leve...
On top of that, there is also money to be made in market share. People ARE likely to be very pissed about capped data plans, and if people are mad enough one of the large telecoms would likely see a bigger profit that could be made by poaching large numbers of disgruntled consumers by offering noncapped plans. There ...
Provided by Siemens AG I'm actually pleasantly surprised that they openly acknowledged that this came from company PR. All too often there's a shady business of lobbyists and PR folks spoonfeeding overstretched journos ready-made articles of pretend-journalism in the hope of leaving the reader none the wiser, and I h...
I wanted my daughter to use her google account to talk to her mother who's an exchange student at UofMn. I thought that the Google+ hangouts were perfect for that because we might use it all three at once. So I added my daughters account to Google+, stated her correct birthday and then BAM! I'm met with [this message...
If I create something, does it belong to me or society? This would be more accurately thought as "if I arrange a sequence of bits in a particular order, do I have the right to prevent people who have seen that order from telling others about it?". The word 'create' has too strong connotations in this context. >If i...
Firefox's "Could not verify..." arises because it can't find a transvalid certificate torrentfreak.com is not sending ([an explanation of transvalid certificates]( Basically, torrentfreak.com should be sending one more intermediate cert in SSL handshake, but it doesn't. The reason this works for other people is tha...
You can freely run your own internal DNS server and have your own zones for those domains with records you control, and maintain that IP list that way. In doing so, you can configure machines on your network to only use your own DNS servers instead of relying on the centralized system. This would enable those sites t...
This might be a repost, but here's his reply to any SOPA/PIPA/PROTECT IP emails. Dear Jim, Thank you for contacting me about S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (the PROTECT IP Act). I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with me on this important...
I think you are using this to grind your personal axe with regards to the federal government. Frankly it's the other way around. This isn't because they think they are smarter, this is because they are ignorant. They don't understand how these things work, but are being paid huge sums of money by lobbyists to push this...
Sometimes regular audits are unpopular? What about the notion that regular, thorough, and detailed accounting of all monies in/out/sideways are financial common sense for any enterprise from households to mega corps, and that failing to do so has potentially disastrous consequences in vital and legal regards? The Fed...
But hey it's ok, because this is America and we worship at the altar > of capitalism. I don't think reverence for capitalism is the issue in the story you've outlined. If your claim is correct, then the federal government is accepting "huge sums of money" to disrupt the normal functioning of markets by picking winne...
Well as far as it being terrorism is concerned, assume that the Internet doesn't always work and is insecure and take all vital systems off it, then you won't have trouble. The real worry here is that the US is comparing Al Qaeda, likely a legitimate terrorist group (whom they killed the leader of without trial), w...
Actually, it is a pretty big deal, any sort of deterioration of the containment materials tends to be. Hastelloy-N still suffered from tellurium produced by the reaction, and a modification to the alloy was recommended as a result. The core issue is that instead of solid hot radioactive nuclear fuel you have liquid v...
Additionally, the technology for Uranium and H2O cooling was already being developed for submarine use. The fastest way to create civilian power was to scale up a sub reactor and stick it on land. So that's what the government did. Once regulations, experts, operators for those are trained it is very hard to go agai...
Let me preface by saying I could be wrong. I have enough of a technical and scientific background to get the geist of the things, but I am no nuclear engineer. I think there are three issues when it comes to poisoning: 1) LFTR is a breeder reactor 2) There isn't a lot of fuel in the reactor 3) There isn't a way...
Yeah, it's a little scummy, but it's also the consumer's responsibility to ask questions before investing that much money into something. Unless you really know nothing about technology and how tech product lifecycles generally work, or have absolutely no idea that companies can use words like 'new' or 'state-of-the-ar...
There is a lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people getting Wine's name wrong and calling it WINdows Emulator. This is from the official website. However, if you do some quick digging you can find that the original name stands for Win Emulator. If it went under that name at some point then I don't s...
Depends. Early numbers show the S3 beating in I'd say 2/3rds the areas. HOWEVER, these numbers are indicative of the Quad Core with 1GB of ram, an Exynos 4412 series processor that is used on most international models (i9300 variants). The US SGSIII has LTE on most every carrier (T-Mobile does not, but I digress)....
These escalating threats have been fairly commonplace recently. Usually what that means is that files get shared onto PD/Share quite a bit slower than they used to (.TS raws are usually "late" more often than not; same with BDMVs). Can't say anything about the manga/scanlation scene, but as far as I know, quite a few g...
I think if Auernheimer had stopped at manually testing a few ICC IDs to prove that there was in fact a way to reveal emails and then informed AT&T of the flaw, he'd be okay. You absolutely do not know this. Theres not much case law surrounding this and it'll be put to the whims of the jury. Not to mention if its ille...
b/ is so antagonistic, even among themselves, that many of them will gladly rat on anyone and everyone they hate. Never underestimate its power... if you post a picture you took or that has you in it on there, somebody will find out your name or at least the location the picture is from. And then they will tell on you ...
And, in the end (in the first case at least) the person you get may have more information than you as to who did the crime and posted it, but you legally cannot negotiate a meaningful sentence reduction with sex offenders due to mandatory reporting laws and minimum sentencing laws. Thus meaning you essentially are forc...
Something is seriously wrong when people grow up to be like this. As in we are not living normal/natural lives any longer. Idk what I am saying. I am not some hippie or bobo, it just seems as we rapidly transition from a natural existence to a synthetic paradigm we throw more people into unnatural states of being. It i...
I use paypal as one of the various ways to receive payments for my company and that part works okay most of the time. However, sometimes customers make a claim that's fraudulent and paypal will automatically remove the money from my account while they investigate. That can put you in a bind sometimes when its a rathe...
From a personal account, the only two times I've had to use PayPal on ebay, I got fucked over. The first time I bought a microSD card. The seller had like a thousand positive feedback karma or whatever. It gets to be about a week after the expected delivery, and I got a little disappointed. So I go to my open orders an...
You make a great point, although I would add that demographics are of particular importance when looking at a distribution model. Those who use Netflix and only pay $10 a month to get "the library", really aren't the same ones who pay $15 for a single DVD. In reality many of them had resorted to piracy, blockbuster, 2n...
You're spot on. Eastern European here. Before Steam, I could only afford 2 original retail games per year, tops. The only way to play more games was to pirate. I even remembe buying a game which I was unable to play because of Starforce - in the end, I had to pirate it to play it properly. Fast-forward 6 years - I'm ...
Problem - you're censorship wouldn't allow anything but the gimped stuff. Similar issues in Canada as well as the language police here saying only bilingual shit can be played.