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I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but people pay for drugs. My argument was specifically about the possession of child pornography by anonymous download, ie. without payment. If people didn't pay for drugs, they wouldn't be contributing to the cartels' coffers. Second, it's an obvious fact that the ins...
Edit: I'm not the one who wrote the article, I'm just reposting so people can see it. Just in case anyone is reading this from one of the ISPs who blocked it: >Internet Censors Came For TorrentFreak & Now I’m Really Mad >ISPs exist to provide us with unfettered access to the Internet, not the version they or thei...
Well, they've got you covered there: And the
Email marketer here. We're not spammers (or at least, not all of us are). Sending an email to someone who didn't ask for one is the last thing we would do. It has terrible impact on inbox delivery. We want happy recipients, so I'll guarantee we will immediately add your email address to the suppression list :) But for ...
Sometimes this wont make much a difference. About 10 days ago I decided to go thru my mom's Gmail and unsubscribe from newsletters that she no longer wished to receive. For the next 2-3 days I clicked the "UNSUBSCRIBE" option on the bottom of the emails, went to the websites themselves and took myself off the list....
1st Question: They are still pushing webapps. The featurelist for webapps on iOS becomes longer and longer with each iOS Release. Here are some of the more recent ones that come to my mind: Auto Kerning and Ligatures Retina Support for Websites Columns and pagination AirPlay API (Stream Video from your WebApp...
It has brakes but those are only used under rapid deceleration so a set of pads can last you over a decade easily. You might need to replace shocks and springs if they wear out and tires are gonna be about the same as a conventional car but you don't have the massive hunk on hoses, coolant, and contaminated oil at 200 ...
well I only know of a few that were being used back in 2010, there's a lot more by now I'm sure. cookies. IP address flash shared objects (you can't remove these unless you know how specifically) say you clear your cache/cookies and change your ip, but don't know how to clear your FSO, you are linked and tracked ...
who gives a shit. is mark zuckerberg gonna sit there and query his database looking for "username=titomb345"? no, he's not. the data is going to either be used to target my ads, which, i think is a good idea, or to make my overall web experience better in some way by personalizing a page. but then again, i don't put an...
Okay I'll go one by one then. First, you missed (skipped over?) the part about him being pro-life. Second, I may have overstated it, so let's just list out his position on homosexuals. He opposes gay marriage. He opposes gays in the military. He supports "separate but equal" legislation regarding gay marria...
The difference is it can be very difficult to tell the difference between the uses of literally by context. In fact, an extremely common and proper use of the word is exactly when it would be difficult to tell from context and was traditionally used to explicitly state the difference. >She was on the phone literal...
Way, way too cynical. Rand Paul is not doing something smart politically. You think that politicians with something to hide want to talk for hours and hours and hours on the record and in front of the camera? He is doing what all of us say we WANT in a politician. He is speaking about liberty, something republican,...
Bad news. I met with Rand Paul's Louisville office assistant during Anonymous Operation Blackout SOPA. Not only did Paul's office acknowledge or concerns regarding the ongoing war over the internet but added helpful observations from his insider perspective such as not only will the american government keep pushing sur...
oh yeah mate i live in my parents basement like you, never seen a shine of daylight in my life. All I do is feed the trolls on teh interwebs with smart jackass comments and txt with sex lines. Can't call them either, whenever one of them fat bitches starts talking sexy about licking my asscrack and shit. Damn niggah, i...
i got my phone in the mail on thursday and if i hold it the same way i used to hold my 3gs (the 'death grip'); the signal drops to 0 bars and my 3g connection drops off completely.
You have to think of the camera lens as the picture source. If the source is good (from a large lens that lets a lot of light in for each pixel) the picture is good, but if the source is bad (from a small lens there is not much light, so not as much data to collect in each pixel) the image quality is bad. It is not lik...
Variety is the spice of life.
This is one of those times where I am comfortable saying:
x-post from r/pics] I found this at an occasional shop this morning and had to have it. I did some research, and found that IBM made clocks from the late 19th century until about the 1970's, usually for industrial offices and schools. It seems to be missing a plate that covers the mechanism, which would have additional...
One of the best ways the entertainment industry can combat against piracy would be: 1) Stop trying to charge more to rent a movie through the internet than a brick and mortar rental company would charge for a DVD or BluRay. $3.99 is not a fair price but $1.00 is. 2) Stop geographically-locking your content. Wether ...
I'm not though. The entire point of my argument was to show that cost of reproduction is a terrible measure of inherent value. And it is. So, you point out that copyright is not only arbitrary but abused. Yes and yes. The constant extension of copyright are a miscarriage of justice. The system is being abused. Absolu...
So I'm late to the comment game, but I'm fine with that. I read the statement and it's really not saying much. It basically says "our meal ticket doesn't know how to keep getting money, and we're out of ideas, so please help us obi-wan public, you're our only hope". Well, ok, I'll tell you what I think. It's a tw...
Exactly this. Disclaimer: Didn't mean to write so much. Not an expert. Feel free to shoot holes in my argument. The Internet is the ultimate game changer, but media publishers don't want the game to change. These corporations are no longer relevant. It's adapt or die time, but they want a 3rd option... Fix the game...
I agree that this is unlikely to be an attack vector. It's much easier to execute remote code via Powerinjector - which is a payload delivery framework that runs natively in Powershell (encrypted) and allows you to set up a meterpreter shell on any machine running Powershell. The bonus here is that Powershell is trus...
Unfortunately this is necessary because employers will do anything unless they are specifically forbidden to do so. While some might argue that it is unnecessary to codify this into law, they are probably arguing from the position of already having a job. Some of us are luckily in the position that I would take if ...
You would be surprised, I am not very big on online social anything except for reddit, when I recently applied for a company they asked me if I had one and I honestly said no. I guess they search for it because I got called in for another interview and they told me, "we searched for you online and you are like a ghost"...
Every time this article is reposted everyone either argues that it can't be done, or is too impractical. They say this because they think aren't thinking past today's or the very near future's technology, which this will not be built with. So all the problems, even possibly the G-force problem will have to and will be ...
Actually, I do. I'm nice about it, but end of the day I'm paid to be honest. I'm a pragmatist; so if something is stupid, I'll call it stupid. I'm not saying it isn't pretty (or flashy or whatever word the kids are using for cool these days) but as a logo, especially for a brand that already has a ridiculously siomple...
So copyright holders couldn't get their draconian business models afloat to ruin the internet in SOPA/PIPA...now they want to destroy the internet and the vast majority of business in general both in and outside of the net. Their desperation has gone to full retard.. potentially destroying not only eCommerce, but com...
Use tasksel , unselect ubuntu-desktop, and select one of the many other desktop choices. No screwage. That's a pretty easy way.
Store Apps (formerly Metro, but someone has the copyright and was getting ready to sue once the product came out so they ditched it) are all part of the closed system. The Store Apps API is designed such that all apps created under it can be, and will be, compiled natively to both ARM and x86-AMD64 . The point being...
As much as I hate it, locked down experiences are simply better for the general consumer. Part of the reason you've had to be so hands-on about making shit work for Mom and Pop is because open platforms are both less secure and less uniform. The security argument should be relatively apparent. By forcing everything t...
It really annoys me when i see this argument. whenever RMS spouts this off it usually means one more person who identifies a GNU/Linux as a operating system run by rude and "holier than thou" people. Honestly I refuse to mention it GNU/Linux if the fsf doesn't recognize a GNU/Linux distro as free as they demand that ev...
I'm going to use some rough estimates here to demonstrate why a sneakernet may be better if transferring large volumes of data. In this case we will use 2TB. 2TB = 2097152MB Presuming the round trip takes you a total of 3 hours (3600 seconds per hour, gives you 10800s), including travel and copying time. 2097152MB ...
My only connection to your city is through Jack White. Even though the WBC is based in KS I don't think many people hear something about Kansas and immediately make that correlation. I mean, personally, I don't hear the word "Texas" and immediately say, "Oh god Waco and all those wierdos" or even on a broader scale...
Isn't that verse referring to the Love Thy Neighbour decree and the Ten Commandments. I mean, what you said is technically right. If you tell a lie, you are guilty of telling a lie, if you kill a man, you are guilty of killing a man, just as equally as anyone else who has committed whatever crime you have committed. ...
Just realized that this was /r/technology. Sorry. Had it confused with /r/politics for a second. Are you guys really saying that because she's mad, that her point is invalid? The person who shared the picture apologized and this woman, albeit she's the sister of the website's creator, said the issue was shifted. We...
So what? The NY Times uses [AdChoices]( for their advertisements. AdChoices is an "interest-based advertising" platform.... Meaning that the advertising that is delivered on the page are based on your likely interests. This type of advertising tries to make the ads you see more relevant based on the types of sites th...
Sure - but the New York Times company shouldn't be content with this specific outcome of an ad for electric cars appearing alongside a story detailing an alleged conflict of interest by their reporter re: electric cars. If you gave an NYT exec the choice to press a button and change this particular ad to something else...
John McCain proposed something like this when he was running in 2008.]( Sure, it was a campaign gimmick, but I did like the concept, and it makes a lot of sense when there's already some impetus out there to reach a milestone, and the target is somewhere reasonably close on the horizon. Traditional grants still hav...
100 cars worth of electricity != 100 cars producing pollutants. your thermodynamics is skewed by the oversimplification 1 source is VERY relevent as again you can control EASILY one source instead of literally millions
The myth that government-funded research returns positive a ROI is because the "returns" are calculated as increases in GDP, which is a terribly flawed way to measure the cost/benefit of research dollars. Look, when a government appropriates $1mil to R/D of some company, that appropriation increases GDP by $1mil (the...
They did pull in $486 billion in revenue, not profit. It cost them $307 billion to get there. Drilling new wells, etc. Then they spent around $106 billion in operating expenses. Payroll, etc. That leaves them with around $73 billion in net income. Then they paid around $31 billion in taxes! So that's cool, but afte...
The hilarious thing is you're arguing that yes Government intervention sped up development of these technologies... in a thread where you compatriots are ripping Obama's initiative for trying to do exactly that. Gotta love cognitive dissonance. Oh well. >On another note, NASA has received over 526 billion dollars s...
I understand what you're trying to say with the apple bit, but that's the worst math I've ever seen. 8.23+7=15.23 15.23/526=.0289 or 2.89%. In other words it would take Apple just under 100 years to pay back NASA. Yes, I'm saying they sped up the development of the technologies, but that doesn't mean anything. If t...
Now before we get into this; remember- you said that there was no profit involved in walking on the moon. Even with my bad math, we have shown that the space program has more than paid for itself. Just want to make sure this doesn't get buried by my response. >I understand what you're trying to say with the apple b...
The fiscal multiplier argument falls apart in cases like these with simple understanding that if you hadn't taxed the money in the first place, it would [ still have been spent ]( The only difference is it would have been spent by the original earners of said money not the taxpayer beneficiaries working at PoliticallyC...
1:3" for many of today's energy sources" is an outright lie and for you to even mention that shows your dogmatism. A quick search reveals that you must be referring only to bitumen tar sands. "we're already seeing that." You are so blind it boggles my mind. "Hey prices are going up on energy, here comes that 'hard stop...
You are not making any kind of coherent argument. Only an absolute idiot would think my "logic" dictates slavery. You're essentially saying "oh and what if slavery was somehow. Ad hominem. Okay, so, I'll put in in a syllogism. We should do whatever it takes to get X Y will enable us to do X, Therefore we should...
I've worked at a big box Best Buy for 6 months now and of all the hundred some computers that I've seen going through the department only one All-in-One (a Dell I think?) has had this feature.
So my question is did that Ditto company not check for any patents relating to what they're doing? I read through that patent and it seems pretty clear to me that Ditto is doing just that. I understand we're supposed to hate these "megacorporations" on reddit, but this wouldn't have happened if Ditto bought the paten...
Here's my take on it. The UN is absolutely toothless and could never enforce anything that the U.S. and, to a lesser extent the other major powers, does not want to be enforced because the UN is just another tool to be used by those major powers. The primary driving force behind U.S. foreign policy is to crea...
Self aware" robots that can kill already are in active service. PHALANX guns on ships and tank active protection systems can be set to basically fire at enemy planes, missiles, helos, whatever From Wikipedia On October 11, 1989, the USS El Paso was conducting a live fire exercise off the east coast of the United St...
I didn't mean any offense by commenting on your 'asshole style.' I said I liked it, mostly because i'm the same way. I apologize for that, dude. > you compare trucks that are 13 years worth of technology apart Also, that was the point I was trying to make in my first post. People down here think that V6 trucks that...
The majority of the funding for TOR comes from the US government. They also run a large proportion of tor servers (nodes). Tor has quite large security holes that allow someone who controls large numbers of nodes to get significant information about what is being done on the network, and in some cases to track who ...
According to Wikipedia, Hyundai made nearly 3 million vehicles in 2011. If you add something which costs five dollars per vehicle to each of those then you've just cost the company a heap of cash. Providing both is an option, my car has both, but it's slightly higher end than a Hyundai, which is aimed at the budget end...
Learned it in lecture in graduate business school.. I'll see if it's in [my textbook.]( Edit: there's one lesson on Sony mentioned in the book, and it's a comparison of quality and cost of Sony televisions. At the Japanese plant, they were shipping televisions that did not meet the color density specification and at ...
How? By lottery? Mass surveillance isn't necessary. Surveillance is. If you consider watching a public TV program, or reading publicly published papers surveillance, then whatever, I suppose you're completely correct in the paranoid little universe that you inhabit. I hope you don't mind that I don't join in your de...
Signed up for Prime this holiday season, ordered twelve items which qualified for Prime shipping however the way Amazon processed the order flagged my Visa for fraud and four of the items are arriving after the holiday, even after I had paid for faster shipping. This happened a few years ago at Xmas, and I stopped us...
This is a repost and the last few threads were full of people disproving this, mostly the 7 fucking thousand spent on gpus which cost no where near that.
Pick one of these modems and purchase one. I recommend the Surfboard 100% as it does nothing fishy and is not a modem/router combo. I have had OK luck using the Cisco gateway in bridge mode but you lose the status page with signals (Atleast on Shaw Cable in Canada)
I work for Comcast, well sub contracted for, I don't work directly for them. I troubleshoot wireless gateways, Cisco, Arris, Tecnicolor, and SMC devices... The Arris from my knowledge is the only one that is broadcasting the "XFINITY WIFI"... "hot spot" I get a lot of customers that think that's their specific wi-fi ...
I moved into a new place last week and TWC was the option for internet. When I was calling to set it up the guy asked if I wanted wifi. Both my boyfriend and I have laptops so I said yes. Turns out if you do wifi through them it costs an extra 12 dollars a month. Just for them to supply you your own router. I told him ...
1 Gb/s (~128 MB/s). So, figure out how far you have to travel and the speed that it travels at, and pick the appropriate storage size. For example, if an unladen swallow travels at 11 m/s, and you want it to travel 11 meters, then you would need to attach a 128 MB storage device to equal Google fiber. If you atta...
I don't have enough bandwidth for Netflix HD but they are more than happy to give my bandwidth away to random peoples? Shit like this isn't going to stop till people with guns start showing up at shitty companies like Comcast and Verizon.
Surprisingly, Comcast never gave us shit for giving their firmware the boot. The irony in this situation is that it was a relative non-issue, the way our house is built, the router wouldn't get a consistent signal across the house, but apparently all of our laptops had better antennas because we found some open source ...
Get one from your yard and try it. Snails are actually quite amazing. Yeah, I know I sound like a complete moron, I'm OK with that. Anyhow, snails are photophobes; they move away from light. They will retract their stalks on the side that is lit up, and begin moving away from the light. I suspect this is to keep...
Well yeah, a bunch of other people are now using your WiFi, that's why it got shittier. You are paying for other peoples internet access now, isn't that great? Just hope no one is illegally downloading or distributing copyrighted material over your line. Comcast won't help you fight against the music or film industry a...
Wow really? Do you guys seriously believe this is a bad thing? Well let me tell you this: here, in portugal, one of our major ISPs is called ZON (it became NOS last week. Zon has a deal with a company called Fon, which speciallizes in public hotspots. That deal is called fon@zon and it did the same as comcast: each...
The old one we had crapped out and they replaced it, shittiest piece of shit ever. I get like 66 Mbps, but only if I am sitting 6 inches of the thing anything further then 5 feet and the wifi connection is too slow for shit. What we did was get a power line Ethernet adapter, if you are having wifi problems I highly...
I'll try to ELI5 this. Imagine dozens of roads going into a city. The city is verizon. You are on road Level 3 which handles Netflix and similar services. Everyone knows they have to be on this road to get In the city. The city pulls a Chris Christie and narrows all the traffic to two lanes. They could slow people down...
Everyone else seems to not have a problem increasing capacity, and lets face it - upgrading networking bandwidth is a drop in a teeny, tiny, measly bucket.
So in effect you are saying the rerouting around level3 by using that VPN service is what eliminated the sluggishness? Others seem to indicate that it is a matter of either deep packet inspection, spotting Netflix users and throttling, or simply lowering QOS for packets destined for Netflix. Regardless of the issues ...
I don't wanna go too far towards the mortgage crisis stuff as that's a whole book or three, but to call that industry, or by extension to this argument, the telecom industry anywhere close to being deregulated, now or in the past, is just not true. (Awkward sentence, sorry.) > But there is no competition. That is c...
Because network speeds have always traditionally always been measured in bits. A "byte", is actually a vague measurement, and can (and actually has been) different from 8 bits depending on the machine (see PDP). You would want to use "octet", maybe, which is explicitly defined as 8 bits. I suspect that "octet" didn't...
The headline is melodramatic compared to the story.
There's a few problems I can see immediately: With hacking becoming a "real" part of warfare, putting kill switches in your weaponry means you now have to rely on the manufacturer having strong enough cyber security - otherwise your opponents will simply disable your weaponry. Since cyber warfare is always a race b...
Yeah, I felt the same way as you when I started it. But then I had to let the characters grow on me. Once they do, you'll start watching it and then just binge watch it. It's really hard to classify. It's shot in the style of the office, mockumentary style, yet I think a lot of it is improvised. So, I'd compare it to...
I did this earlier in the summer- worth it and it was a graet opportunity to connect with local politicians. Luckily Wisconsin's reps are pretty much in favor of Net Neutrality so it was just a series of questions to make sure they knew what was up, which took like 1 minute. :)
What about the fucking bank CEOs who actually do whatever the hell they want and have actual negative reprocussions on the general populace? "yeah, those guys can tank the economy you work so hard for, that's cool. But got forbid we can't watch everything you do!"
wifi, radio etc are Below the visual spectrum and doesn't contain enough energy to kick out an electron or break a molecule. XRays etc. ar Above the visual spectrum and does carry enough energy to, say, break DNA (and thus wreck havoc, create cancer etc). Visible light is in the middle (don't get too much sunburns....
I know it must be tempting to dismiss these people as hypochondriacs or as the product mass hysteria, but there are honestly people who are sensitive to these things. There are actually a handful of people who break out, physically, in response to the presence of Wavelengths that most people cannot perceive at all (EM...
Ionizing Radiation is what is dangerous. Ionizing means it ionizes the atoms it collides with, making them bond completely differently. If the atom was in your DNA, suddenly your DNA doesn't behave like it did and if the difference is just perfectly wrong (and doesn't kill the cell, like normal) it can result in canc...
What child? Where? To paraphrase [Justice William Brennan from another case where the government wanted to use prior restraint]( since encryption would not cause an inevitable , direct , and immediate event imperiling the safety of any child, prior restraint is unjustified. The government has to show some imme...
The North West US seemingly continues to prove themselves as a governed body by the people for the people. While I will always understand the benefits of the federal government, their existence is only useful to prevent abuse of the state government and provide unity of the states, their oppression of progression is fu...
A backdoor implies that something is secure and that security is circumvented. Wired communication historically was never secure and hence "tapping" into an electrical current. Whether you agree or not, there is no expectation of privacy on any communications channel except what is protected by law. If you read ...
It's true - a lot of power is generated by fossil fuels and it would of cause be best, if it all came from solar, wind etc. A gasoline engine is quite ineffective, converting only about 25-30% of the energy into usable power powerplants are more advanced like [Avedøre Power Station]( that can be up to 94% efficient. ...
The Ford T costed $850 in 1908]( and with [inflation $21,715.33 in 2013]( Not really for every human at that time. Granted, it's a lot cheaper than a Model S today. The thing you're missing is the removal of fossil fuels. They are a cheap way to carry a lot of energy. Replacing this requires some new technologies, th...
Any fix will have a limited impact unless the basic nature of humans is altered.
This has got to be the dumbest fucking argument I've read today. > And yes there IS a compelling business reason to have women specifically, and diversity generally, around your boardroom table. There is? The most successful companies in the world are run by meglomaniacs and micro managers. The inconsistency in...
Maybe. Something about her seems a bit contrived though. Maybe I've just seen too many videos of politicians sitting in their "breakfast nook" talking "common sense" - with all the lighting and camera moves that come from a sound stage. My senses thus overwhelmed, I am skeptical at all times these days. It is quit...
Libraries are everywhere and are in one sense a limited-time piracy system ... Libraries pay about a billion dollars every year in the U.S alone to stock their shelves. In many countries they pay authors a fee per rental. Lastly they don't copy anything.
Oh, sorry...I was hoping for chap 7, not 11....
At relativistic speeds, velocity addition is not merely "u+v". Even at nonrelativistic speeds, it is the same formula as relativistic speeds, but the difference from that and u+v is so negligible that we ignore it. Here's a quick analysis of what might happen: s = (u+v)/(1+(vu/c^2)) = (c+c)/(1+((c*c)/c^2)) Since t...
Similar story: In early 2008 I rented Call of Duty 4 from a local Hollywood Video. I returned the game (I am 100% sure of this) within the given time period. Months pass, I rent more items from the store. All of a sudden in 2009 I start getting phone calls from collection agencies. I ignore it until my curiosity g...
I suggest american redditors contact your senators and send them a polite email about why you oppose this bill. I sent two different letters, each emphasizing a different aspect of the bill that would appeal to each side. For example, here is the democrat letter: >Dear Senator Democrat, >I recently heard of S.38...
I was especially disappointed to find [Sen Leahy is one of the sponsors]( I'm friggin embarassed. What this dude from Vermont is busy sponsoring this bill [I can't even imagine]( I find it absolutely disgusting that he's sunk to this level as if he'd have had any trouble getting re-elected anyway. My uncle was on his c...
How could this work technically? You could take down domains in the root dns servers, then we'll just have rogue root servers and the internet will go into chaos. You could perform deep packet inspection to pull the "host" line out of the HTTP GET packets, then ISPs will have to invest billions of dollars in ne...
For those of you who don't look past the title and think that the sensationalist bullshit demandprogress pushes is true, please take time to read the bill. >(a) Definition- For purposes of this section, an Internet site is ‘dedicated to infringing activities’ if such site is primarily designed, has no demonstrable, c...
I get that offshoring jobs will increase the quality of life in less fortunate countries but it will decrease the quality of life for people in North America. So what exactly makes someone in another country deserve our current quality of life more than someone over here? If the prices of things were lowered here to...