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Doesn't matter. Here's the deal - this shit has been going on since 2003. Any possible political candidate for replacing the current shit-on-us-quo will have had their communications recorded, either via phone or online. Do you know anyone who hasn't said something on the phone or online that, if brought to complet...
There is a very informative video about this topic (Why could suveillance ever be bad) [available on youtube]( Unfortunately it is in german, but has very good english subtitles. **Edit I managed to extract the english subtitles. Full credits go to [manniac]( and his Video [Überwachungsstaat - Was ist das?]( Survei...
I have an RT and can't imagine anyone preferring an iPad. I mean, it's almost a full computer, it has desktop, you can have MS word (which as a writer I love, especially with the full keyboard. Also, I find it looks much more like the future--it's got live tiles, meaning they display today's headlines on my news app wi...
So when was the last time you created an android project using ADT that can also run on a linux desktop? When was the last time you created an iOS project that ran on OS X? They actually did do it. All of Microsoft platforms are based on the .net framework. You can take your C# code, put it in a class library and sha...
Firstly; PS4 is 9th. XB1 is 37th. Secondly: Goto xbox.com and you'll see the pre-order (reserve now) redirects you to microsoftstore.com. Pre-order from playstation.com presents you a list of retailers, Amazon is the first on the list.
Yes, the DA is often an elected office, making the DA a politician who has a direct conflict of interest between: Doing his job properly, and, Doing things that will get him reelected (which usually translates to being "tough on crime/drugs"). The same goes for some (not all) US judges. If you wouldn't trus...
It wasn't that long ago Bill Clinton was asked to leave because he got a blowjob. A blowjob , for Christ's sake. No one was harmed, no national crisis, no resulting divorce, and the "victim" gets $4million in compensation. The economy was fine, there was no terrorism or national security... I'm not American, so I'm su...
Ah now I think I understand what you want. Why "idiot talk"? Do you not like his voice or what exactly rustling your jimmies? Painfully slow? It's 6 minutes. He presents some information using analogies which are also funny. Yes, for the masses, as you so put it. Unfortunately, not everyone is as smart as you. If you...
Nokia ruined themselves by not being ahead of/responding to iPhone early enough. Nokia had a touch phone prototype with a single button, similar to what iphone is...years before apple released theirs, but for some reason they didnt go for it. Thats where it all whent wrong, since iphone was released, it's been play...
As other people mentioned, Nokia ruined itself. Elop just gathered pieces for MS. Nokia was, I guess, arrogant behemoth with leading market share and didn't adapt quickly to changing markets. GOOG acted quicker. Nokias symbian was brilliant in its time, I had multiple Symbian phones when majority of US still sported ...
There is absolutely no evidence to support the claim in this article that Mr. Elop was incentivized upon being hired to tank the share price of the company. Zero, zilch, none. There is evidence that once the Company was experiencing hardship and a suppressed share price that he was then incentivized to find strategic a...
You can't really take a concept like this and apply the sentence: "Businesses aren't very interested in the long run". I've recently transferred from the private sector of business to a very large corporate setting, and there's a lot more to it than that. In a private business, hell yea, put those light bulbs in and ma...
This is not talking about the Chrome browser to my understanding, it is discussing the older 'browser' - I forget what it was actually called. But it is a seperate application from the Chrome browser (I was running both on my galaxy nexus, never opened the default browser once getting the chrome browser installed).
Personally, I am very much in favour of young children learning what an algorithm is and how programs are created. I believe that it is important that they understand how programs work from an early age, and don't just turn into kids that can use a program. I can see that many people may think that 5yrs old is a ta...
Many of the lower tier cable channels don't have crazy budgets. They rely on cheap productions and reruns for content, and likely get the majority of their revenue from advertising. Their advertising rate is very dependent on being able to say their channel potentially reaches x-millions of households, so a la cart pri...
The real question is at the end. Comments and complaints come next. In Florida, we must suck off the teat (it is spelled "teat" but is pronounced "tit", damn American mangling of English) of Brighthouse Cable and Colon Inspection. When we tried to reduce our service to a lower tier, they fought tooth and nail to r...
Competition in the cable industry literally solves every problem we're up against. Don't even bother with putting the blame on Comcast and AT&T, blame your congressman. They're the ones that TOOK the bribes. I love how everyone gets so mad at corporations for lobbying into unfair advantages and no one bothers to blame ...
Human mind + Willpower + Capability = Action A good action is still good. A bad action is still bad. Technology is only a quicker means to achieve the action. There's nothing in AI that is inherently more constructive/destructive than a human doing the same thing, it's just the AI will do it quicker.
ISP's sending through any cease and desists they receive while doing a good job of keeping the recipients unknown. (Send a cease and desist to the owner of this IP). I know of only one successful lawsuit that was against a Canadian ISP called Tek Savvy. They fought a long time in court trying to protect the users but i...
considering i have a fake facebook with a completely random name (literally just michael phillips) that i created back in the day to play facebook games, with absolutely ZERO personal information (besides a spare email, a random birthday, and basic location information) and i have never had facebook either lock out my ...
The finding has already been fixed, that's the entire point behind responsible disclosure. You give the company ample time to fix the issue and then release your proof of concept to the public. To issue #2 if you're going to continue finding vulnerabilities in their software and instead of disclosing the finding to t...
How about we just get rid of menu bars. The context of 'File', 'Edit', 'View', etc, no longer have any meaning. How do you open a new window? File -> New Window. File has nothing to do with a new window. I hate to say it, but Microsoft does it right with their ribbon interface.
Can someone explain why this is important? Sorry for my ignorance-- I just haven't been keeping track of this problem very long and don't know the specifics. I'd really appreciate a
Instead of getting frustrated, perhaps you should try understanding what it is about the program that bothers people so much. When the Mac first came out, the over-riding emphasis was on making the software user friendly. There were several ways to achieve the same task because different people see a task differently...
Or due to a government granted monopoly over the region. Yes, that too. >It is a very viable substitute. Given the option of having no Internet or dial-up, which would you choose? (The option of "no Internet" may arise if your theoretical monopolistic ISP starts charging $1,000 a month for Internet.) A viable subst...
yes it does. what you see when you open a folder are just the headers of the files. the headers do not contain the file per se. they only contain very little information like where the first fragment is located on the hard drive. when you want to access them, the os has to go and seek for every fragment of said fil...
I think that right there also deserves more attention. It isn't as if anyone chooses to be aroused by children. It's a PROBLEM that they have to deal with for the rest of their lives. They know that what they want is inappropriate and dangerous and so on and will likely live a life full of shame and fear. It's the sa...
Everyone is asking who would pay for this.. I teach in a classified facility. We used to spend over $200,000.00 a year just printing course material for each new class. We saved a bunch of (taxpayer) money by going with e-books. We bought 250 ebooks and we load them with material for the students before each class...
If anyone is wondering what wrong, basically the list you see is friends that I frequently talk to showing both currently online or offline friends. I cannot revert to the old chat where it shows everyone who's currently online. The chat thing on the left hand side has gone also. If I click on the options and "hide sid...
Google has two choices: censor the content, or don't do business in that country. They chose the option that results in the greatest amount of information being available to the greatest number of people.
I used the exact same reasoning for building my home PC with an AMD a couple years ago. I mostly use it for torrents, gaming and general browsing, for which my AMD II X4 620 is more than enough when combined with a Radeon 5770. Sure, some games it's not quite on max settings, but even after a couple years i'm still...
The first thing to do is post, verbatim, the offending clauses from the legislation. I'm not willing to jump on any bandwagon just because people tell me to. I've seen a lot of people paraphrase the terrible things this legislation would do, but with no actual sources to back it up. The little research I've done, it...
Because especially in Canada, prepaid data sucks a big massive dick and people seem to "need" subsidized iPhones that end up costing more in the long term.
A singing tesla coil is entirely different from a plasma arc speaker. The plasma speaker works by modulating the current passing over the arc so the arc expands and contracts in the same way a speaker would. It's on the whole time. A tesla coil sings by turning on and off very quickly, you get a "pop" each time, and yo...
I don't think he was referring to the resilience of the system when he said "sound quality" lol. But I see your point. I had built mine from components stripped from a large CRT monitor I found. Chances were actually against the hardware being defective, but it does happen. And I pushed it way beyond it's designed li...
I hate to burst your bubble, but as much as I love PC gaming, the PC gamers do not make up a majority of the market. To put this into perspective, Diablo 3 is the fastest-selling PC game of all time and they got around 6.3 million copies sold in the first week . That means that the biggest game to hit the PC was so...
Exactly, windows 7 was fine so companies are in no hurry to upgrade to something else. Microsoft has a mobile OS but needs a push in apps/developers etc. to compete with Android and iOS so it uses the "freebie" cycle of windows 8 to force market share over to the metro experience. That will help solve their mobile pr...
After seeing screenshots of the new Windows Explorer, I have to say that it is really bad. The ribbon interface (which I'm personally not a fan of) is gigantic, which I see as a huge issue. I never use the menus in a file manager anyway -- just keyboard shortcuts and right-clicking, so it just gets in my way. And eve...
Keep in mind guys: If you are a DirectTV customer and you are going to call their customer support ( (or Viacom's).. DO NOT YELL AND SCREAM AT THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT . They are just a normal person trying to make what small living they can at that job. They are NOT responsible for the billionaire greed bitchfes...
I agree with a post from yesterday that this is a pissing contest,but it sounds to me like Viacom really is the one to hate for this instead of directv. I mean pulling access to online episodes? Are you TRYING to drive your consumers away? (Customers? Consumers?) Either way its just dumb. Probably not the first to say ...
The sad thing is that DirecTV will probably cave when the terms become somewhat less draconian, say $800 M over five years vs, the billion that Viacom wants. Then other content owners will see this as a viable strategy for dealing with licensees when disputes arise.
You sir (or madam), are part of the problem. Politicians don't care about their constituency because people don't vote. If voter turnout was around 70% they would have to listen to the people and not businesses/corporations because then they wouldn't get reelected. I also think this would increase the turn over rate, w...
I'm trying to find a serious reason to hate on this move but honestly I cannot. If you want a reason to hate the move, think about it this way. In your example, there are two morally wrong activities: Jerking off to friends' facebook photos. This is seen as morally bad because the vast majority of female facebook...
One could make the case that actually the speed of computer technology is faster than the speed of building I've seen pretty competent corporate IT departments both overspec (Whoops we don't need massive space for early 80's mainframes after all) or under spec (Yeah now we want to cluster all our critical servers) ne...
That would be nice if this were a pure democracy, but we're a democratic constitutional republic. And over half of US citizens don't vote, so they voluntarily don't have a say in how their money's being spent, which is the same as siding with the status quo... and the status is definitely not quo... Under 1/2 of the ...
Just to burst people's bubbles, this is not a LFTR design but a AHWR design. It's a water based reactor using solid fuel, and does not have many of the features that reddit expects from their love affair with thorium and LFTR. That said, any attempt to diversify our fuel usage is an improvement in my opinion.
Basically, imagine building a house with many miles of pipe in it. Not just the normal plumbing, but practically every inch of your house is filled with pipe. And in the pipes is flowing not just tap water, but high-pressure, high-temperature, sometimes radioactive fluid. You can't go in and inspect the pipes without s...
There are many types of reactors that could potentially fulfill this description. Don't get mentally locked into the LFTR or thorium as the only solution. Consider other Generation IV options like the DMSR, HTGR/GCFR, LMFR (including the IFR and TWR). Or even consider advanced versions of the CANDU, AGR, or LWR. [
This isn't about image, politics, PR, or w/e Steve Jobs or Obama said, this is about lean manufacturing. It is about shortening the product supply chain, and reducing the hidden costs of manufacturing somewhere with a different language and culture, all the way across the Pacific Ocean. Read this article about GE's in-...
You should read this is a lot of money, cause they don't know any better. I actually applaud Tim Cook for his decision to try to bring some of those jobs back to the U.S., apparently Steve Jobs was never that concerned about using practically slave labor to build his machines. If people in the Western world knew noth...
No. We have engineers, the problem is, the education system is built around the idea that an engineer should be someone without "heart" without "artistic ability." More so, the current education system model pushes the best engineering students as those individuals whom lack "fundamental creativity" and thus cannot ap...
I hope this serves as a wakeup call. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. The ideology of our republic is quickly fading. There is no easy or quick solution. Get rid of Obama? No since a Republican would do the same thing. What we need is to hold EVERY elected official accountable. How feasible is this? Not ver...
sorry. I am seriously surprised this is not the first reaction for a free wireless personal device. on the second thought, the serious publishing house would not risk it. on the third thought, maybe they used the cheapest device with a doubtful firmware that maybe some third party can hack it and modify on the fly....
I don't see a new argument that varies from what's already been said by the other pedos here. Practically a carbon copy and completely unoriginal in thought. The logic is so flawed and simplistic as to be laughable were it not also so sad and disturbing. I won't bother to explain the error of your ways. Someone who th...
This is complete BS, and goes against the reasoning of 4 time zones. There is reasons for the way time zones are set up.Most time zone around the world are roughly 15° wide with some exceptions. There are 24 (or 25 depending on who you ask) time zones in the world. This makes it easy to figure an approximate time bas...
Before whining starts about the wisdom of spending money on space research/exploration while there are other issues facing India: 1) ISRO's(Indian Space Research Organization) budget is only 0.34 per cent of Central Government expenditure currently and 0.08 per cent of the GDP(~USD 800 Million). and Subsidized/Fr...
You start with: > Before whining starts People whom wish to post to this thread whom have an opinion of care for the extreme masses of the poor in India before spending for this project are painted as whining? It seems this is because you see it as Winning. I feel some potential wins are possible in this mission. S...
It depends on where you live. In the US northeast, there are a lot of Indian and Pakistani owned gas station/motels. I think there were periods where large numbers of people moved to certain areas of the country and many just moved to where other family members or community members moved to. The generation that orig...
This really depends on what you are used to. In Bangalore, for instance, I will agree that it is easier to find labor to iron your clothes, which is a bit more expensive in other countries. And it is much easier to find cheap food. Really, let's be honest, anything that is labor intensive is much easier to find in Bang...
No Smoking" read James as he entered the house, "Yeah, whatever." he thinks as he pulls out his lighter to quench his thirst for nicotine. A friend of his warns him not to do that and reaches towards James' hand. "What the fuck man!" James yells as he jerks his body away and proceeds to light a cigarette up. "It'l ...
Explain how - the industry as a whole produces less than 800 million hard drives (total) annually, of which WD holds a roughly 40% share. Even if they decide to make all 3.5" drives in this way, and we say it is 50% of their sales, that's only 160 million drives. Using my figues from before, this is only 20,000m^3 - ap...
An anime called the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. In its second season, There are eight episodes that are practically the SAME EXACT EPISODE, with slight variations. Think groundhog day, but nobody remembers the reset except for one character whose main task is to observe. Meaning she doesn't interfere or cause any ch...
A small part of me wants to believe it's because older groups started using Facebook. When I got my account, my parents forced me to friend them, which put a huge stint on what I could post. When I started questioning my religion I couldn't just post about it on Facebook, and there have been a couple of times where I p...
You complain about the issue of a 13 year old operating system, which was fixed in 2007. But then refuse to update because it's not worth it. You sound like my father. He still says that the TI-99 was all any computer user needed. You had TI Extend Basic. And it was much easier to use than any computer today. Luddi...
but not secure sites Caveat: 99% of users will click on continue/proceed/whatever when they get a certificate warning stating that there was some flaw in the cert exchange. This opens them up for MITM. Instead of: User-->[certificate encryption]<--Desired Server They can get: User-->[certificate encryptio...
Fun story: I am banned from Amtrak. I took the autotrain from Florida to DC. When I was moving, a sick neighborhood cat I had been taking care of wandered over, so I said screw it and took him home. I gave him a sedative from the vet so he wouldn't make noise when being loaded. He was in the passenger seat under stuf...
It's interesting to note that there are 10 tones in each video. While there are more than two tones, even if you assume that each tone is one bit, with this many videos the user has stores at least ~775kb of data embedded in the sound of the videos. There are also ten visual slides of red and blue squares in the vide...
Oh, we do... absolutely. But in order to fund that "free" society, we all have to pay our taxes. And I believe if you go look at what actually happened is that none of the groups they looked into ever had anything done to them. No audits, no unnecessary returns, no lost forms, no... well... nothing. The IRS simp...
Guy "liked" shit on Facebook. Anythign and everything(mostly) he could find. Facebook became dumber. Friends became concerned. Facebook sucks. While not the best
Ah sure - editorial, write how you want. Of course the top comments are
I see a lot of people saying this, but it's a little naive. Unless you are a hermit, you go out and people take pictures of you. Those pictures will end up on facebook sooner or later whether you have a facebook account or not. A shadow account of you is out there that you have no control over. Now say you have an acco...
Microsoft has to be very gun shy about censoring what applications are allowed to appear on its operating system. The last time they tried to censor applications, a judge ordered them broken up, and they were under judicial review for a decade. And even then they didn't actually censor any application. They only thre...
In my opinion; what the current crop of devices have gotten wrong, the Apples and Googles, is that a watch is a passive device. It tells time even if you aren't looking at it. While that's not really practical for a mini computer the same could be said for over simplifying the interface of the same without substantial ...
Because they've shown that they have no interest in competition. They could always compete. They have instead carved out areas of coverage and -in general- do not compete with each other. I would love to see competition. It would solve all of the problems as each company has to offer better and better pricing and optio...
Got the $29 dollar 7 Voyager RCA 7 inch tablet at Walmart today. So did my sister. We have both had better tablets plus flagship android phones. For 29 dollars, this thing is not fucking bad at all. Its running 4.4.2, quad core processor, 8gb storage + sd expandable, 1gb ram. Now keep in mind, it was cheap as fuck, so...
u/Fr0gm4n mentioned below, confirmed by /u/Iggyhopper that some are already pre-rooted. As to the installation of custom roms such as CM, it depends on how accessible the device is to those who would port roms to it. If the hardware is all known and working with other Android tablets, that can help. If the manufacturer...
For my purposes, ChromeOS is great. Most of what I do on a computer is internet browsing, so there is no reason to invest heavily in hardware that I won't use. The OS is light and fast. The laptop build doesn't feel cheap either. If you need more than ChromeOS, you can simply install a Linux distro on your Chromebook...
We were removed from default status because of a censorship scandal where the old mod team had a large list of keywords that would be removed by automoderator. These included Snowden, NSA, Tesla, etc. The mods in power at the time didn't see a problem with this, and when it was exposed, the users revolted. More than...
Hey wait...didn't developers already have advertisements on the iPhone in their own apps?... Weren't they shit? They didn't do a single thing that was productive. But now if made properly they can do what they were meant to do. Sell products. Consumers consume. It's probably the definition. I am a consumer, I consume. ...
While being confident it came from that domain is true, most mail servers don't validate that the envelope sender (and/or the From: header) match the SASL auth username.
I'm gonna be the contrarian here, and say that is a shame. I love the glass and steel look of the iPhone 4, but when you tell people that the glass is 30x harder than plastic, people will assume that it can take 30x the impact on any surface. Yes, yes, I know that's not what harder means, but thats what people expect...
This guy has a "1 in 4 million" job. It is very statistically insignificant that both your civilian and military jobs would have this much overlap, and even less likely that both would be this high paying. I know jarheads who are also cops, and yeah, that's a decent overlap but not as high-paying (or geek-oriented, c...
Sounds like a problem I'm having with TWC. My connection drops for about 5 minutes at a time a couple times a day. I, too, can go several days w/o noticing it. Could just be that it's happening when I'm not online to notice it on those days. TWC claims that I've had no interruption in signal strength to my cable ...
There is a big difference between affordable and $100 in 5 years. LIDARs aren't pure solid state, so they won't just magically get dirt cheap with scale; and since their performance is critical for safe vehicle operation, they can't just be built from Chinese toy-grade materials.
If a $20 stove really saves $1 of fuel per day, then even the least educated Darfuri can do the math (<1 month payback), and even the poorest would be willing to save up and purchase it themselves. If this is the case then donations are unnecessary; this is a viable business and will be self-funded. If the fuel savin...
It was politically correct for a significant period of the 20th century. And then, right around the time the developing world grew comfortable with Western-style family planning practices, Reagan was elected and the United States shifted its funding as far away from family planning as possible. If you're interested in ...
I got a new roommate last year, in October. I knew he liked his downloading, and he mentioned Demonoid more than once around me, but I figured it would all work out alright, as I don't download too much. I was not prepared. We got a call from Comcast, informing us that over the previous month, we'd had something l...
Here's what it would cost me to actually use my connection at it's rated speed for one solid month under the new plan: $5835.71 - Almost six thousand dollars! I'm using a 18 Mbps plan here, the fastest in my area. Someone on the 24Mbps plan would pay $7844, plus the ten bucks or so difference in the standard monthl...
I'm Aussie too, and have posted this a couple of times - my caps seem to almost double every year. I think what worries Americans though is the fact that their corporate ways allow companies to essentially divide up (and conquer) the consumer landscape. If you live in place X, then you go with Company A, or get no in...
When people talk about the average people who don't really think much and are largely part of "the problem", you are exactly the type of person they are referring to. Private corporations are out to screw you as hard as they can, that isn't an opinion it's a fact. Every form of communication and entertainment is shi...
Short answer is no. Long answer is that force feedback is not a very good guide. It seems intuitive to need it, but if you are ramming a manipulator where it is not supposed to go, by the time resistance is substantial it may already be too late. Imagine being able to be both very strong and very precise. Your tactil...
How many things have DVD players though. They're becoming like clocks. I got 3 clocks in my kitchen and I only need one. Pick up a bluray player or receiver, DVDs are dead in my book anyway. Can't stand subhd now, we need to get our shit together. Fuck 720p as a standard. Let's go 1080p for broadcast, cut analog simu...
Redirect all reddit URLs to a single page describing the severity of SOPA, what we can do about it, and enable comments. For 24 hours. This would make huge waves and raise awareness exponentially. Everyone who comes to reddit just for [lolcats]( will be contemplating SOPA. Everyone who visits reddit for daily news, ...
Then you understand neither human nature nor the socio-psychological foundations of disruptive protests. Disruptive protests - things like street rallies, sit-ins like the Occupy protests, strikes, and the proposed site blackouts - are designed first and foremost to piss off the general populace. The idea here is to...
The targeting of ads for mobile is highly focused on geolocation as opposed to search/browsing history. iPhone ads get geolocated just like Android ads, hence the apples:apples comparison, which actually reflects higher and more profitable usage by iPhone users despite their smaller share of the overall smartphone ma...
The bummer here from a consumers perspective is not whether Apple or Google have the best option for a smart phone, rather that we consumers will likely not have a robust third choice. Face it most of you polarized brand / ecosystem loyal fanboys would benefit from vigourous competition from various OS's. Both Apple ...
This article shows what I have heard several times. Despite the fact that there are many more android phones, there are more page views for iphones. I agree that I know a lot of people (tend to be older users) who get their free androids from their carrier, and never use the browser. They get it because it is the best ...
If the discussion has value it won't simply die off, and if there's little or nothing to add i for one welcome the puns with a smile on my face.
My best friend got convicted four years ago, he had just turned eighteen and his girlfriend (17) of four years was cheating on him and was rubbing it in his face, drunken calls and what not etc. So being a dumb irrational teen in a prescribed Ambien stupor (in no way does that make this any better nor have I ever thoug...
Until you are 18, the government does not believe you have the necessary capability of judgment to be able to do right by your own body. And considering the average child, they are right. "But I'm not average!" you claim. And perhaps you aren't, perhaps you're far more mature than the average 21-year old is, and wo...