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It's the sad story of how the US will eventually collapse... It's the importance of the profit margin over quality of life. This is how the wealth disparity continues to grow and eventually the middle class (which is truly what made America great - The American Dream) will be gone and we'll be left with mega corporatio...
self-programming means a.i. super intelligence in less than a few weeks from being started... The only limiting factor would be processing power which it would make more efficient as time went on. We view time as we see it, we are unable to comprehend something that doesn't STOP thinking. It may not think as fast as...
Well then they need to get on it. These F
Thing is, a lot of us hate Apple products for a reason. Perhaps others dislike the reason, but that doesn't make it any less important to us. I hate Apple products because of the lack of SD slots (yes, my droid device is fitted with 128 GB of SD goodness). I also hate them because they are way overpriced based on the...
When you are looking through the viewfinder the shutter is closed and there is a mirror that reflects the light up to the viewfinder. This also means that the CCD (or film plane in a film camera) is not exposed. When you press the shutter release, the mirror moves up (this means that view finder goes black; you can't...
That and the queues on consumer equipment are Really Fucking Large. So, when the queues start filling, ACKs get delayed, and this slows down traffic in the opposite direction. For a single bulk transfer in one direction, no problem. In fact, it's great! Sends benchmarks through the roof. But when you're downloading s...
This is such bullshit. The US does not have the authority to shut down every one of the 200 + root servers in the world. The article also points out the Internet2 system as being "restrictive" but fails to describe why he considers it so. In reality the Abilene project, now Internet2, is largely an academia-centric ...
I've set up bunches of htc, motorola, and samsung android handsets and have yet to see the noticeable drop in bars, signal, or in a call that I've seen on the iPhone 4. The phones always lose bars when holding them, and that doesn't always mean a bad call but I have lost test calls I've made in the store, to make sure ...
Doesn't really, although it does touch on some related themes such as open free collaboration and P2P. To me the answer to net neutrality is to remove the ISPs from the equation. Meaning public or collaborative WIFI or other wireless networks, public or private/'indie' fiber networks. I think there probably is spac...
Oh boy. They aren't asking you to make a $10,000 credit card transaction to your parents using their notebook. You can use it and test it when you're relaxing and browsing the web or catching up on news, and if you happen to come across bugs, report it to them so they can fix it.
Yes, the illusion of uptime when you must poll the device, and you only ever poll it when needed. Your land line is more unavailable than it would appear, and when a drunk takes out your concentrator then you'll notice the downtime. Of course a drunk can't easily take out the central office, but infrastructure-wise...
I have an urge to plays Devil's Advocate here, so here goes: On the one hand, I think it does make sense to potentially have a government-related id (ME4T@us.gov) for convenience purposes when doing taxes, writing to [politician x], and for receiving information regarding voting, local catastrophes, etc. However, o...
Actually we don't have two evils. With the exception of Kucinich, the "Liberals" are moderate Republicans and the Republicans are Tea Bagging neoconservatives who think they're being libertarian when they're not. There's the Green Party, Socialist Party, and the Libertarian Party. With the current situation I honestl...
Further to my earlier comment (sorry, I was travelling), you mention that 'if there's a case against you'. I imagine that if there was an existing case against you the use of Tor or other general purpose anonymising software may be taken as suspicious (although I am not sure the kind of speculation you talk of would be...
yup, public schools mostly suck. After attending a consistently high ranking public school system, test scores mean nothing. we arent really learning anything. just being repeatedly spoon-fed useless dribble that that legislature mandates we be able to recite, despite the funding to teach this in public schools taking ...
Wonderful. Why not just set up an SFTP server, since your computer's got to be on anyways? I mean IDK if this key thing solves the problem of some labyrinthine internal network behind numerous firewalls/routers or whatever, but
Users are not prompted to think about “what are you doing?” In fact, they are not prompted to think at all – they are prompted to feel." I disagree with this part of the article. It is true that Pinterest makes searching, sharing, and creating content very easy, but it does not eliminate the "thinking" factor. Whil...
should an advertisement for a "HD TV" be allowed that advertises HD broadcasts in Australia, yet in reality the TV is INCOMPATIBLE with the STANDARD HD Australian broadcasts? No. That is my point, you know understand how a correct analogy should work. My point wasn't that you are wrong and Apple was right. My point w...
I rune KDE on Arch Linux. I have two start buttons. One of them uses a 'smart menu' style like windows, with apps you just used up front, everything is icons. The other one uses much smaller icons, and the first thing it shows you is not your favorites, but a huge text list of all the categories of apps. The two st...
Correct, but I think that windows 8, regardless of its quality, is a step towards linux. Can I install linux and get flash, acrobat pro, quickbooks, yardi, kardin, Office (yeah really not some other office wanna-be), itunes, yahoo/google/msn chat and can I setup this to be installed by a 3rd rate tech in less than an...
Windows NT was rock solid (you missed this one) What makes Windows 95 a skip? It was great when it came out. Windows 2000 was pretty stable as well, me and a lot of others upgraded to 2000 when we found out about ME. Also, 2000 was a much bigger release than ME, how did you miss this? Also, 98 and xp were both in...
Personally, I see no reason to upgrade when start up is already instant because of SSD. At this point it would just burn a hole in pocket for no reason then I would turn around after install and pay for an application to make it look like Windows 7.
Also - you want a large screen on your desktop, this means that it needs to be further back to avoid giving you eye strain. But imagine if you have a touch screen... you would have to stretch your arms out at arms length to use it. ...now let that sink in.
I'll agree with you in that scenario. However, this is exactly the Reddit "discussion" aspect that you are holding on to, just so you can argue about it. We both know that your scenario is purely BS; you know that this isn't an argument that would the hold candle for 90% of the PC world out there. Your original commen...
Well, there is currently Retail and OEM. Retail is meant for upgrades, but, as far as I know, can be used to upgrade from anything, Windows or not. Than there's the OEM(System Builder) which is the same thing, just for new machines, but is still [transferable]( All you would have to do is take the retail version, as ...
Does anyone else think it's weird that this is even a thing? If the US Government decided an american citizen in america needed to die, ignoring for a moment all that that implies, why the fuck would the use a seventy thousand dollar missile instead of a sniper / swat team? US citizens are killed by swat teams / pol...
I responded to this one first, but I'm not sure it actually went through. Basically, the reason you don't need to worry about the military branches' intel offices is because they don't do anything like what you think they do. They aren't out there developing targets, conducting television style surveillance on whateve...
While that's technically true, don't lose sight that our Constitution is based on the philosophical premise that all men (mankind) have inalienable rights, not just the ones within our borders. Our Constitutions entire idealogical basis is that simply being human gives us rights that pervade entirely throughout exis...
As a recent fast food employee who made 10.50 an hour I just wana say I really hope fast food places become giant vending machines. I hated my job and I did everything but manage, and anyone who has done that shit knows how much better a cashier job is. The job is totally unrewarding people are rude and management expe...
I have eaten at several restaurants that use technology to replace a large portion of their human workers. Many of them have been fairly busy restaurants that I imagine serve 100+ meals an hour during peak time although they are almost exclusively counter service/to-go places where you can also sit down and eat. Some...
It's because people have been predicting automation leads to fewer jobs for a long time, and it hasn't happened yet. Here's a chart of the US unemployment rate since 1890 (figures from before 1940 are estimates). Leaving out the 30s and 40s, it's fluctuated between 3 and 10 percent throughout. Now, it's possible (m...
Jobs for the sake of jobs(and those that can't even support people) is a backwards way of thinking. They can't automate everything overnight, they'll need technicians, builders, installers, and equipment. If they won't pay people enough to survive without further aid then something has to change. These companies ar...
Former fast-food cook here - it depends on the restaurant and person. Places that don't actively discourage substitutions largely don't care if you order it exactly the way you want. The biggest problem is that you do so many of the same thing and it becomes such a routine that you sometimes do the "wrong" thing purely...
Just try to imagine the complexity and number of machines you'd need to match a basic Jimmy John's crew. Think about what it would take just to keep everything clean enough during the day, and realize that a robot can't handle a problem as simple as spilled mayo. Think about what a single sticky servo or stripped gear ...
I did my final engineering year project on this; texturing solar cells with anti-reflective nanostructures via random surface etching. It is true, you can improve the performance of practically any silicon wafer based solar cell by simply etching away at the surface. I’m guessing that the technique they are using to ac...
I think this is actually a really interesting question when looking long term. Trying to restrict demand via law enforcement simply increases the value of the real thing (see prohibition). And as long as there is demand, there will be a steady supply in poor and impoverished places. One real solution would be incre...
A lot of responses here are comparing the old hardware to modern laptops and server hardware. I fully understand that what I have is old and dated. I understand that the blade that came with my chassis is a particularly notorious model known for its power consumption. What I don't understand is why people keep making c...
I noticed that too. However I rarely use the key shortcut to snap windows, I pretty much always drag snap. I was actually very happy with the way it worked in the original build. It would detect and adapt to having windows that were 3/4 width and whatnot. Alas, it's all broken to shit now and pretty much works li...
Is anybody really surprised by this? A really shitty company who is always doing some shitty or shady thing is found out to be doing something possibly illegal? I mean, these companies have always done whatever they wanted without any recourse. Politicians are rich, the people who run these companies are rich, so wh...
As has been pointed out, that infographic is really old and outdated. Spotify's current payout averages between $0.006 and $0.0084 per stream, significantly higher than the $0.0016 quoted in the infographic. Note also that the infographic lists the artist's share as $0.00029, which is excessively small. This, however, ...
Now, the way you've phrased it makes it extremely laughable. But, in all seriousness say a Board of Directors headed up by a world version of NASA were set up with the CEOs of some major corporations where their company produces a piece due to their R&D lab already in working order with staff. Fuck it, let Nike make ...
No data caps? I should host on my home connection then. There needs to be data caps but they should double or triple the amount to reach them. But unlimited? Where in the world do you get truly unlimited things with no little asterisks next to them? I have Cox and their data cap is at like 300gb but they don't enfo...
But almost all of those things have been done better by public funding. [Citation needed]. Public funding is great for basic research, however (from what I have read and experienced) it is for lousy applied research and actually making stuff people can buy and afford. Space program was developed by private industry...
How many times do I have to tell people this? This is a network problem not an internal problem. Overseas networks want the ability to buy and sell shows overseas exclusively. They can't do this if worldwide viewers have access. It's caused because the networks (all of them) haven't caught up with the fact that...
When the US pays for it im sure they will be allowed until then they can fuck off. Our eyeballs online are worth more than any eyeballs in the world. Especially when it comes to video ads and things of that nature, the US is the easiest country to find buyers for.
G+ will kill FB via it's mobile platform... it's just better in comparison. To FB, it's like it's mobile apps (iOS and Android) seem to be broken and lack many features that only the full site provides. Where as G+'s mobile app has almost all the features of it's parent site. Also, the app is smooth and well integra...
People like this on reddit are why reddit is seen as politically ignorant and not much more than armchair protesters to a perversion of what the government actually is. You elect people. You . The "rich people" are doing nothing different than the poor. All their money comes from either working hard, or inheriting i...
Once again, the NFL is just shooting itself in the foot by clinging to the dying medium that is broadcast television. Why do people stream NFL games? 1) They don't live in their team's market area, and aren't interested in watching a random matchup of two uninteresting teams. 2) They are traveling, or for whatever...
Watch "Enemy of the State" , it's the govt trying to turn the common people against Anonymous ! And if that works out, what is Anonymous without the common people ? :)
The thing if you want to try this kind of stunt, is to keep up your appearances: be neat and tidy, take showers, shave, get your laundry done. When I was a postgrad, one dude tried to live in the lab for a while, but totally neglected this important detail (even though showers and laundry were available); the ...
Ok Omnix_NerZ, let's get some milk and cookies and I'll 'splain all about it! If your Mommy & Daddy get their internetz from Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, or Time Warner Cable, starting tomorrow, those companies will be watching what you and your family download. If they see anyone from your house downloading movie...
And you only use this knownledge to feel superior on the internet. Seriously, I'm not running around laughing at people who don't know what chromatic [edit] aberration is. Because they have no reason to know what it is.
Apple isn't delivering or even promising what I've described, either. You don't get up-to-the-second sync. You don't get device agnosticism. Apple devices are just as individuated from the local computer(s) as Android and Windows and whatever else devices. Apple's advantage up to now had been twofold: A couple of yea...
I have to say I believe that concept is amazing, but it will never work like this. It will be very difficult to mesh between android and ubuntu directly, since 4.2 now has users will that mesh properly? Plus unless ubuntu can sell this as an app and docking station it won't get the distribution it needs. Like I said ...
The basics is this: Android runs on a slightly modified Linux kernel (probably the core Linux kernel compiled for ARM, running a couple additional modules). Because of the above, running ANY other Linux based OS is trivial at best. Simply load up any additional Kernel modules that are not pre-installed, and then ...
Or, perhaps, more like saying 'I'd like a car at a similar price and ease of purchase/use as the Americans get and if you can't provide that without good reason as to why not, I'll Robin hood your ass and make a copy knowing the personal risk to me is extremely minimal'. To imply that the TV coming out of hollywood i...
Word of warning: though their stance may be admirable, their customer support sucks. Majorly. I work as a network admin, we run several satellite stores as well as our HQ. I was recently tasked with switching these stores' connections over to iinet. Worst networking experience in my entire career. They sent the tec...
Options for getting movies and tv-shows in the Netherlands, ordered by release speed: Pirate it (Sickbeard, Couchpotato, Spotweb, SABnzbd+). Take a plane to the USA, find a nice hotel with TV, watch your series there. Go to the cinema. Rent an apartment in the USA, get a cable subscription with HBO, set-up a ...
The fact of the matter is simply that iiNet are not legally obliged to do anything with copyright notices besides send them on to people who are actually legally empowered to act on them. Those people would be the police. iiNet actually do send them on (to police). iiNet are one of the more innovative ISPs in Australia...
We tried to go with Internode/iiNet) but couldn't. It's Telstra's responsibility to upgrade the copper in our suburb. Because Telstra won't upgrade the copper we couldn't get broadband from another provider (kinda a restrictive trade practice but we'll let that slide because assholes). The only plan with a reasonab...
Modern phoens have the glass and screen fuzed together. And just a knife won't do it (can't say for certain about the i9250, but for example on a i9300 it's impossible) and you need a heat gun. But using a heat gun you run the risk of ruining the screen it self. I've repaired a lot of phones and tablets. But for jobs l...
cryptocat is new and therefore not to be used for anything important. They even claim this. with cryptocat, the server can still know that two or more people are still communicating with each other. why should i trust crypto cat? is cryptocat better than pgp/gpg through an anonymization network like tor(hid...
Cheaper doesn't mean shit. Quality, reliability, insurance, durability all matter etc etc. Is the screen going to scratch day 1 (Sure as fuck does with the American version of the Galaxy S3...piece of shit screen). Is the call quality going to stop working after 2 months? Is the OS going to crash every few days i...
There are a couple of problems. First of all there's the issue of deciding which crimes to enforce. Jaywalking? Facial recognition + camera -> you're fined. Can you be charged with crimes committed in the past which is only now being dug up from recordings? How far back should they be able to go to find something? ...
Until 2010 they begrudgingly went along with China's requirement that they censor search results, which made a lot of people mad, but in 2010 they found out China was hacking in to their servers and trying to extract information about Chinese dissidents, which was the catalyst for Google telling China that they could e...
Hijacking for clarity: I'm late coming to this party, but AT&T hasn't announced plans to offer a 1Gbps fiber service in Austin, it has announced it would if provided the same terms as Google Fiber. There's a good chance this is a PR move b/c AT&T will not be offered the same terms because of the return that Google Fi...
The thing is reddit, Google doesn't care about its profits because of fiber service. They've repeatedly been the good guy company by forcing companies to bend over and quit ripping off the people. They even scared the shit out of phone companies by starting its own phone service in a select area and drafting plans for ...
This. Business plans come with some cool perks. I was lucky enough to live with a (rich) buddy once who was using a business plan from our ISP. (This was because he registered his website as a business and wanted the nice connection) A there were several times when everyone else on the block lost their internet, bec...
They're wrong. This argument is stupid and I'm tired of hearing this claim. Simply put a large multinational company like Apple and Google will just shift their revenues to a smaller, more desperate country that has insanely lower tax requirements (i.e. Ireland) if a tax increase does get voted in. Unless the code...
This is misleading. See this [American Bar Association quick reference]( This particular document was meant to help those working with distressed companies, but the laws are the same and it's the best collection of court cases and state law references about the topic I could find on short notice. If you are the off...
These companies are well within their legal and moral boundaries. They're simply employing fantastic tax strategies to keep as much of their profit as possible. The suggestion that what they're doing is unethical is unfair. I wholeheartedly agree with the stance Google has taken here. If the people want these companies...
Wrong, smith was proto capitalist (capitalism wasnt formulated untill 1800s). He says the worst form of government is corporatism. Source ; thomas mathius , pricipals of population.
Here's the thing. Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion isn't. The tax system is in place to allow corporations to pay taxes at low rates while giving the illusion to the general public that they are paying a reasonable rate. Most of these (large) corporations are in the 35% bracket, which sounds great to us; it looks li...
Would agree with you if all "bees" in the swarm were equal producers. When you have some bees that produce prodigious amounts while many other bees sit on their lazy stinger and just consume with no effort to produce then your argument falls apart.
How long did it take you to build this world you live in? Your argument is wonderful IF we assume everyone wants to work and contribute. It falls flat when human nature is factored into the equation. You can choose to use whatever words you want but I have no desire nor inclination to give money or help to those who ...
I just don't believe having a job is a positive right. Well, I'm not really talking about positive rights as much as positive liberty/freedom. You may not have a right to a job, but if you have a job that means you have positive freedom (the freedom of not being jobless, presuming that being jobless is most often n...
I hope it works out for all involved. In rural America its a monopolistic enterprise. Everyone is on a fiber optic network, however if you want internet service the 960Kbps/150Kbps tier is fifty-five dollars per month. As they are the only internet provider in the area, they require you to have phone service with their...
Voip is being is blocked/throttled in some countries, yes. And you can rest assured providers in your country would do it too as soon as people started using voip (currently they often don't because the user base isn't big enough, and because mobile Internet has quite a high latency so voip is a worse experience than r...
Thanks for your response. I find it awesome to hear the opinion of someone who left the US. I usually don't know a lot of people that did this. It really shows a completely different (more objective) standpoint. My opinion about migration is probably a lot different to the common understanding in the US. I was raised ...
I moved to Hong Kong. I had a window of opportunity and took it. I think you, as well as any other moderately intelligent individual could see exactly what they were up to if you were not engrossed with what Brad and Angelina were doing or hoe many times Paris Hilton flashed her muff to poparozzi. It also came down t...
Search works the same as Windows 7 except now you have to choose between settings and programs. This was changed in 8.1 to just be everything. -Metro apps are optional and they also don't have to take up the whole screen as you can dock them to the side. This is also changing in 8.1 to have more options. -Internet ...
I used to work for an MP (junior Minister) as a researcher at the House of Commons so know a bit about this. The mail they get is roughly divided into two categories. The first and most important is casework. This is the kind of thing where you write to your MP because you live social housing and your roof is falling...
Thus in honor of these new changes to society we should, no must, one by one weaken or otherwise defeat every limit to government power while simultaneously diffusing any individual protection with any practical relevance... Sorry gonna rant a bit: If you look at other surviving modern nation states' foundational d...
but Tesla was a crazy schizophrenic who never completed any major project and wowed audiences with his electrical tricks. He never had any major accomplishment. Oh god... The AC motor? Radio? The popularization of AC current (which, in those days, made it possible to create one large power plant to supply thousands...
What I can tell you, today, under 10CFR73.54 regulations, any system, structure, or component that is safety related, important to safety, security related, emergency response, important to grid protection, or deemed critical such that it's failure could directly or indirectly compromise any of the above, is under cybe...
I'm sure it probably works the same in most states, but here in central Texas, the police pretty much get away with whatever they want, and suing the city or police is pretty much impossible, especially in Austin, where police brutality is rife. I had two rods put in my right arm 2 years ago. The consecutive months f...
Some people miss the little page numbers at the bottom of the first page. I know I almost did, and really you get the gist of the whole thing from page 1. This is why I prefer seeing a long scroll bar so I know there's more. Interesting story though, and I can tell you from experience with the Texas judicial system(I l...
Given the way society works today, the police absolutely have to investigate something like this. If they didn't people would crucify them if it turned out not to be just a poor taste comment and was a sign of something to come they didn't act on. The problem is that police need to do it in a responsible manner and ...
This is fucking stupid. First of all, fuck the paranoid lady who called the police because of a comment on Facebook. Was it any of your business? No. Secondly and into the bulk of what my post is about: generational differences. In the 70s and 80s you didn't have to worry about some kid coming into class and blasting...
Am I the only one who thinks the kids a moron? They made the argument about freedom of speech, but Freedom of speech != callous disregard to the implications of your words. Yeah, the cops have blundered this case, broken protocol, and screwed the kid royally, and he should be released. But at the same time, he has a ...
Not surprised, that sounds about right for the cost of one £10ph employee for 30 mins work once you factor in all the support costs and a profit margin of £5 or so.
This is the biggest issue the United States faces today don't you think? If only we could make this the biggest issue on reddit. Technophiles (is this the right term?) are a major feature of reddit (and the original reason for the website to be founded) so it'd fit right into what people generally care about here. Co...
I'm a developer that is experienced in creating healthcare exchanges and also happen to work for the company that was hired to fix this disastrous website. Take whatever inference you'd like out of that, as I would never violate the NDAs that I signed =) Hypothetically, the thing that took this and drove it right int...
no, the fault lies with management attempting to use cheap unqualified labor in india, then attempting to hand off to devs in the states that were so overburdened with technical debt and WTFs that they continued to add band aids on top of bandaids. When the myriad of teams tried to assemble the myriad of poorly written...
50+ here, the red scare is over. It's less about age, and more about ideology. Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Muslim, etc., are buzzwords intended for ultraconservatives to hear and react to, regardless of age. Yes, some of the elders are stuck in the past, but it's always been this way. As with each previous gen...
It is not a free market when you're demanding the use of government force - which is EXACTLY what the current net neurality advocates want. You want to insert the force of government into private property (the ISP) to MAKE THEM DO WHAT YOU WANT. That's not freedom and it's not OK. A much better way to solve this pr...
I hear this a lot, particularly here on Reddit. Raising a child is a MONUMENTAL undertaking. Government benefits barely cover the essentials, if they do at all. The problem isn't with people having more kids to get more benefits, the problem is when those benefits aren't then spent on the children for whom the bene...
Because making promises is literally the tactic needed to win political elections. What astounds me is not that he has done nothing that he promised, but that so many people actually expected a politician to follow through with his functionally impossible promises. I'm fairly cynical but my view is based more off of ...
Because, in terms of actions taken, the President of the United States is the weakest position in the entire federal government. He can say anything he likes, but if Congress is not on board in any way, (indeed, obstructionist and contrary) there is no traction. Congress retains what is referred to as, the "[power of t...
Finally some sense. The only changes Obama can effect are through convincing allies in Congress to propose legislation or controversial executive orders. Even if he wanted to hire the right people to run different bureaus effectively and autonomously (say the FCC), he needs to get that person confirmed (and does one th...