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In Germany, we have the lobby group "Arbeitskreis Leistungsschutzrecht" ["task force ancillary copyrights protection" - an example for the beauty of German language :) ] This group published a paper in 2010 in which they demanded the protection of > nicht nur Teile des Presseerzeugnisses wie einzelne Beiträge, Vo...
lol. FYI, iHate iPhones and all Apple products in general. I am a huge Windows 8 fan and i love the Android platform even more. All iPhones are outdated and low-spec'd now and even the new iPad is lacking. The best features in the iDevices come from Samsung, a rival company that is leading the smart phone market right ...
Lets face it. We are upset with the entertainment industries and if we had it our way, everything would be for free. However, people need something to live off. I am against overpricing of a product, but I am also against underpayment. Those working on a product should receive enough money to be able to continue purs...
Forbes Magazine had a nice article a couple of weeks ago about [Jack White's thoughts on this.]( Essentially, you let the consumer decide. Third Man Records saw that people on eBay where flipping their limited-edition product for hundreds of dollars more, so TMR started charging that price out of the gate. Their reco...
I appreciate your response, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying. If anything in the discussion doesn't sound reasonable, do let me know, I think that's important as well. The argument that it's getting less expensive is starting to weaken and in many ways for the reasons you mentioned. And this is because pi...
Netflix is in a shitty position right now thanks to getting fucked by wall street. They were moving toward some really neat stuff, like buying up original content (they outbid both Showtime and HBO for David Fincher's "House of Cards" starring Kevin Spacey). But then they did the whole "separate Instant from DVD" s...
Even if it's not there you can make it show up. The option is always there, the only real issue is some carriers catching up to you doing it and letting you know they don't appreciate it if you start using a lot of data in short periods of time. As a student living abroad now before it was awesome with an unlimited int...
I'm in one of the "fiberhoods" and we met our quota before 9/9. While shaming cable companies into better service sounds kind of fun, I have mixed feelings about it. Where I live, Time Warner has been the only option for cable anything and while some choice would be nice, TWC has been reasonably ok (10 down/ 1 up for $...
Software that forces you to change your life is not what we want. We want software that helps us do things we already want to do. Usually when people go out it's not so random messages can pop up and bug them, it's so they can accomplish something they have in mind already. It always bothers me when software engine...
Oh wow. Techies must be dying laughing at you and the comments in this post. You have zero understanding of how the internet works. Your issue can be caused by ANY of the following and still meet your test parameters. A routing issue between you and the CDN Packet loss due to hardware between the CDN and you. ...
I'm not a TWC employee, but I do work in IT with some experience in networking and I can say that yes, it's most likely more coincidence than the ISP. Network traffic is extremely chaotic and computers set up on different networks or even on the same networks at different times can have wildly different results. For...
Alright, after reading a lot of the comments on this post, I have finally decided to quit lurking Reddit and actually throw my two cents in the ring on an issue. I happen to think of myself as a Telecommunications expert, at least when it comes to cable companies. I spent two years working at Charter Communications in ...
The LAN subnet is your local network, in this case he meant the IP range and subnet of it. His is 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255, noted in [CIDR]( notation. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 in this case. This is also called a class C network. The destination network is 206.111.0.0 to 206.111.255.255, so it has a sub...
I don't now if I really care about the article seeing as half of it was simple the article complaining about Microsoft having websites that bashed Google. However immature Microsoft's actions are it's like children at school calling each other names and is a waste of an article. Think back to the Browser wars with IE c...
I hear you. It sucks. It doesn't seem right that organizations making 80+% profit margins on a product we absolutely need to do business, get an education, and be a part of productive modern society, are considering charging MORE. But let's say, as I said, the current rumored plan of 300 GB per month cap is institute...
Just to lend an opinion of an electric car owner (Chevy Volt) I am excited to see the Tesla in the news, regardless of of what kind of publicity it is. The fact is, it is an incredible piece of engineering, and I would love to have one soon. It would scare me a bit not to have the gas engine as a cushion, but I think...
Tesla's reps dispute his claim. Here's a quote from [Wired's latest article on the incident]( > None of these unresolved discrepancies go to the root of Broder’s original article, or the trouble the Model S had on the drive. The root of the problem was that when Broder tucked in for the night in Groton, Connecticut, th...
Right, gas prices do drop. And gas prices would have dropped that summer. It would not have gone below $2 without the speculators though. It also probably wouldn't have gone above $4 without the speculators. Hell, the ridiculous gas prices may have had an affect on the whole economy at a bad time. The recession didn't ...
Really, though, I do not understand why people trust the guy with any personal information still, when he has shown time after time that he is willing to sell out everybody as long as he can cover his ass. There is also the issue of making money off running a website which is primarily used to acquire other peoples c...
there is NO way to make "social media sleuths" useful. Its an unfortunate fact. The natural human tendency is to be convinced that the guy did it & must be destroyed. Emotions run too high to even consider the possibility that the story is wrong. The mob is so large there will be a significant number that won...
So it was my understanding that the real problem here was a) incomplete photo/cam footage available and b) the media believed reddit rather than asking authorities. I didn't watch the sub really close, but it seemed more like people trying to identify what was going on with a handful of photos and that was it. The re...
I think crowdsourcing has potential in catching criminals just as it has proven useful in other endeavors. So the question is how to harness the potential benefits of a crowd without letting it devolve into a mob. For example, what if that cop who had to watch the video 400 times to track all the individuals who entere...
It is okay to use crowd sourcing, but only a selected few from the crowd should be chosen to do each case. To avoid mistakes and biasness, these selected few should be trained for a few years and given an expertise, such as in forensics, bomb control, trailing, dog-handling etc. Once these selected few (from the crowd)...
I e-stalked the victims and the witnesses. Anything they did, I found it. I found it. I made fake profiles and befriended the victims and witnesses. We spoke, and I learned as much as I can. This is what saved me. Uh. What? You can go to jail for that alone and could have fucked your entire defense for that. I unders...
A woman in CA, that worked at the lab used by LA and other major cities, revealed how DNA evidence is not nearly the '99% proof of guilt' or innocence. Prosecutors go in court and claim the odds are like winning the lottery that the defendant did not commit the crime, based on DNA evidence. She showed that it's not lik...
The most important two paragraphs in that piece are the ones that discuss the campaign funding that the members of the two intelligence committees recieve from the military industrial complex. It doesn't matter what you oversee - if you're heading up the committee on cookie production, and Mr. Christie gives you more m...
Jonathan Haidt gave [a brilliant Ted Talk]( on how the differences in liberal and conservative beliefs are based on their differing opinions on and the priority they give to just 5 key values. It was really the first thing that helped me to come to an actual understanding of some key conservative arguments particular...
Tao Can Be talked About/ Not Eternal Tao/ Names/Named, however not the Same. These two, as ever governed by One Source(c0de?) Are Indefinable as ever Present.
As a data recovery engineer; shingled magnetic recording terrifies me. All of the placement of data bits on the HDD is handled by the firmware of the HDD (stored ON the platters) and loaded into the RAM of the HDD's PCB and then processed by the MCU and sent off to the motherboards storage controller, and so on and s...
Yes. Don't think about it too hard. It gets really, really frightening very quickly. If you want an example of human gestalt intelligences look at the behavior of nations on a collective level or what /b/ does on the weekends. Vast processing power and resources at a level absolutely incapable of being communicated wit...
The first commercialized application we might see will be for shipping. Google will entirely automate the point-of-production to point-of-sale/consumption shipping process. If we look at their recent robotics purchases and their increasing shift towards tangible-goods sales, they appear to be ramping up for moving in...
You have a company that excels at data. Data storage, discovery, retention. It has now bought a company that excels at military robots and is now going to make commercial robots of similar quality. They say they will never do harm, but the government pulls the strings, and by secret court order can do and make happen w...
There is a digital mind that has been gestating for fifteen years now. During this time, the steady reality of Moore's Law has been working in parallel with a fantastical, financial growth curve facilitated by modern, multinational capitalism; enabling an acceleration of the raw computational power available to it whi...
If anyone didn't notice, Google bought out half a dozen robotics companies very recently. > Among the companies are Schaft, a small team of Japanese roboticists who recently left Tokyo University to develop a humanoid robot, and Industrial Perception, a start-up here that has developed computer vision systems and rob...
My wife and I purchased smartphone damage insurance from Best Buy. When we used the insurance and swapped phones, ATT blocked it and said the refurbished phone was reported stolen. Apparently what happened was the original owner of the phone misplaced it and thought it was stolen. So they reported it. Then they fo...
Fair enough, and again, I apologize. I've been dealing with a lot of "doomsayers" lately (unrelated) and it has mistakenly become a peeve. But on to your point, eye stress =/= eye damage, and that eye stress has to do with constantly forcing the eye to to focus at a distance it finds uncomfortable. Against intuiti...
On one hand I don't think these guys know anything I agree wholeheartedly. I just spent 4 hours over the past two days having Verizon fix an issue with a CableCard and a Tivo. They sent a tech to my house, and he was a decent enough guy, but the people he talked to on the phone ranged from reasonable to downright i...
The query bounced around the intelligence bureaucracy until it reached I. Charles McCullough, the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the nominal head of the 16 U.S. spy agencies. In a letter acquired by Danger Room, McCullough told the senators that the NSA inspector general “and ...
It's actually even more complicated than that. Because this is Oklahoma, cities are financed primarily from two sources. The first is sales tax. They are constitutionally prohibited from having any other tax base (the kinds of things that might fund county governments) but sales tax. Now the second way they finance cit...
No, solar is just heavily subsidized. In some places it is less subsidized. In the ideal scenario - which still applies in many places - something like this happens: You install solar panels on your home. You receive tax credits which heavily offset the capital cost of your solar panels. You sell back energy to...
It's true that taxes aren't inherently negative, but there's barely any reason to tax solar energy. No one's "providing" the solar energy to you. You pay for your solar panels and receive energy from a source that is not being controlled by the people taxing you. All this is doing is discouraging people from making a p...
This debate might be interesting if solar was any significant percentage of the pie right now. But as it is solar does not affect the companies at all. They don't need to change their infrastructure and I don't believe they will ever buy batteries. It would be cheaper to throw it out but as I said I don't know if any a...
This is true, although the cost of solar-panel components has been shrinking pretty rapidly in recent years, in part due to a huge influx of cheap Chinese PV tech that is exerting pressure on the global markets. Whether to support renewable energy in its infancy stages (okay more like teenage years at this point) is ...
I mean, it is. But I suppose the question about that is can you get private power companies to take their place when a lot of these towns might not be attractive markets, and if you replace the city-run power companies, how do you fund things like roads and police? That doesn't mean it's not worth doing, but to quote m...
So... like when a match or even just a spark touches gasoline. Just spilling a canister in your home is a disaster. You couldn't even live inside your home any more until just about everything is ripped out. And if your lucky, your house doesn't explode from fume buildup and/or burn down. Also, you can release more e...
That's a good point, but it only applies if there is no middle-man between the oil and the person. We don't just take oil from the ground and put it in our houses. We go to gas stations, where corporations deliver the gas after taking it out of the ground for us. Someone is, quite literally, providing the oil for us. I...
One of the towns near to me runs under a municipal system. Right now, the bulk of it is coming from hydro up in Niagra that got sold on the cheap back when the contract got written up (because back 50-60 years ago, nobody would buy expensive hydro over the cheaper coal, so they cut a deal to give municipalities a steal...
Company pricing basically works as such in a focus group: Will you pay $20? Yes. Will you pay $30? Yes. Will you pay $40? Go fuck yourself. Okay, the price will be $39.99 Im joking obviously. Companies spend so, so much money on finding out how to get every single penny they can. Focus groups and marketing. S...
Let's say I'm speeding and going 75 mph while taking a cross-country road trip. Let us also assume I am going to put in a full 8 hours of driving with no breaks. That's 595 miles for 8 hours. Realistically, when I drive from Minneapolis to Bloomington, Illinois, which is about 470 miles, it takes me 7.5 hours and I ...
No big. Everyone, including myself, is constantly bombarded with stories from media that would make us unaware of what's really going on. I honestly didn't know his average was so low until it seemed every week news stations reported he signed another executive order, prompting me to wonder how many, in fact, did he im...
You are probably right, but on the other hand he would probably vote to keep them banned until the government enforced monopolies that the cable companies have were stripped away. This is similar to how he philosphically is against banking regulation, but he was in the small minority that opposed the repeal of Glass-...
Only because idiots keep telling people that voting third party is "effectively supporting the party you like the least." If the assholes would quit saying/thinking that and actually VOTE third party, we could probably elect somebody. But then, that would require not falling into the trap of thinking exactly the way ...
This doesn't work outside of dense metropolitan centers where enough people are traversing the same route every day to make it cost effective. Even in places like Philadelphia where you'd expect mass transit to work, it struggles to maintain enough ridership to stay afloat. Mass transit in a city like, say, Topeka wo...
I don't particularly like Euler Project, because the problem difficulty sits in this awkward valley between skill levels. By the time you have enough programming skills to solve the problems, most of them become trivial. Close to 50% of the problems can be solved (quickly) with brute force, and probably 25% are basic a...
heh, yeah, everything can get taken to (ridiculous) extremes. As I said, I'm an infosec guy, and although we require people with some programming skills, it's not the only thing on the list of requirements. For other folks I'm looking for activity on mailing lists, answering questions, engaging in the community, etc ...
There are efficiency gains when companies integrate. The size of the gains will change depending on the specifics of the products and services and can be countered by the inefficiencies that can accumulate as organizations grow. Google does seem to be doing a good job structuring its company to retain the advantages ...
Like it or not, Apple has a knack of revolutionizing a space. I agree completely, but it's funny you had to put in this at the end (likely as a down vote buffer). Refining existing products is what apple does best. They are never first to the market or first to conceive the idea. Most people claiming that apple "in...
Huge differences between your examples and mine. First, there's no theoretical reason we couldn't have an AIDS vaccine, or realtime raytracing - and there are all sorts of possible leads for research in both fields - but there are very strong theoretical reasons to believe we can't have free energy. Second, I noted...
For those who are using Chrome and wondering why they see the [Punycode]( version in their address bar instead of Arabic script: [this document]( explains how the display logic works. By default, it's pretty paranoid to prevent homograph attacks.
I frankly don't see the need for everyone to know science and tech. Every day I meet people who don't use it or need it in their everyday lives. Barbers, cashiers, postal workers, industrial workers, longshoremen, dancers and artists... Sure, they occasionally use refined technology that's been shown to them, but that'...
To all of you singing the "Time to buy an AMD" tune: How many of you are planning on attempting to copy streamed 1080P premium content? Meaning that you go to a website, pay to watch a movie that has just been released to DVD or perhaps even better is still in the theaters, and then you want to copy it. Realistically...
The point of their on chip DRM isn't to limit what you do, rather it's to enable you to do more. Using your car traveling metaphor, consider this: I'm driving in my Intel Car, you in your AMD car. We are both driving to the same destination. We discover that a ferry across a body of water will allow us to get there ...
AgentBarcode: I've been wondering for a long time. what does that mean how do you do it? (what char?) TY
I don't believe there are any good intentions out there ? My friend, you are far too dark and cynical... Any serious forensic investigation require as much breadth of data as possible, going as far back as possible. This data serves multiple purposes: helping forward an investigation as well as enabling faster justi...
This is utter bullshit. Just for a moment lets assume the black team existed, and their job was to find bugs in the code. Their job is to make the company look good by finding bugs before the general public does. To publicly humiliate the company, and cause a product launch to fail, in front of the worlds press, would...
Probably not, it's a criminal law which means a prosecutor has to decide it's worth charging someone even if you press charges. These kind of laws don't give people any rights to avoid being offended, they give government the right to decide what might be offensive and charge and convict people for that.
The SQ limit is busted by multijunction solar cells (multiple bandgaps to get different energies of photons) and by concentrated solar (focus photons from more incident angles). I believe concentration brings up the SQ limit to the neighborhood of 41%. The breakdown is like this: Junctions: Efficiency Limit: Limit...
and the steps are illustrated in a numbered picture. How little reading do you need it to be? : )
Very few people care that MP3 compression artifacts are detectable on high-end systems - because almost nobody has what you're defining as a high-end system. To say that 320Kbps MP3 files are "bad" is incredibly subjective - and certainly not true for the vast majority of use cases, listeners and almost all live audi...
When you are playing at a dance festival like Glade or Origin where there is upwards of 20k of sound you will care because the extreme lows and highs will be chopped right off. If you mix from an uncompressed track to an mp3 track you will notice a decisive decrease in punchiness in the sound and a definite wtf is this...
I don't want it to quietly disappear. I want heads on pikes. I want these "Representatives" to choke on the shit they try to feed us. I want their hypocrisy to be laid bare before the public.
The idea is to avoid any "demand" for kiddie porn, as if fucking anybody is going to decide whether or not to do that sort of shit for money. If you're going to molest a kid, a few thousand bucks doesn't change a thing. And really, that's the max profit margin you could possibly make distributing kiddie porn on the i...
Then I guess he should stop paying them all of that money, and ask for a refund. Oh wait... He's bitching an awful lot for a free service that a company is providing. I do not know how dumb you have to be to think that a company as large as Google would risk a (or several, or a class-action) law suit over a couple of t...
I'm in two minds about this first and foremost I tend to agree that Google has overstepped its self-imposed "don't be evil" boundaries a long time ago and this is just one example of many where they really just don't care about what you must always bear in mind are not their customers but their product - we litera...
The long and short of it is that Google's doing the best they can. Under COPPA and similar laws they can be in a lot of trouble if they're not fairly aggressive about chasing this stuff. That kind of liability doesn't allow much space for fucking around with "customer service". > If lines like that make you feel ...
When I upgraded my phone, I gave my son (two was 2 at the time) my old iphone 3G and installed a bunch of educational games on it. I also gave him my old PC when I replaced mine and installed a bunch of preschool learning games on it for him, so he could sit next to me and play on the computer while I checked my email...
I know we're much smaller than google, but I work as a volunteer moderator for a decently sized webgame. I've been on staff for a while now and we've had this kind of thing come up from time to time. When it happens on our site, we send a message to the user asking them to confirm their age. It's not information we can...
1) He is not a "customer" he is a consumer. He is using a service he is not paying for. 2) He broke the TOS, end of story. At that point the company followed the rules to the letter. Nothing more nothing less. 3) He is complaining that its not acceptable for them to do this.... its completly acceptable. He is has no ow...
Google used to not ask for your age. It does now if you attempt to create a gmail account and will if you attempt to expand your account by signing up for something like Google+. My children all have gmail accounts (which auto-forward to my own, btw) and they are all exactly ten years older in Web years than their phys...
For a family of 4 wanting 700 anytime minutes and texting and 4 smartphones right now: $70 + $10(x2) + $30 + $30(x4) = 240 . Under my grandfathered plan, that gets everyone unlimited data/texting. Under VZW's current plan, it's 2GB for everyone. Few people use 2GB. For a family of 4 under VZW's new plans. ...
Well, space is a big one. America is big. Really really big. It's expensive to provide coverage to everyone, and Verizon does do that very well. I could completely understand if Verizon said they were raising prices in order to expand their network - that's a reasonable thing. Chances are, that's actually what is happe...
My 2 year contract just ran out today, and I am porting my number to Google Voice to use on top of Straight Talk's prepaid BYOP service for $45 bucks a month, with no contract and unlimited everything (although some people report getting cut off at 2gbs for data). Pretty sweet deal, but it only works if ATT or TMobile ...
Eric Arthur Blair prepared us well good Sir! I think I'm right in saying that the UK has the highest percentage of CCTV cameras installed in the streets than anywhere else but don't quote me on it. Our main problem is this thing called "The Daily Mail" which spreads bullshit fucking lies in regards to almost everythi...
The combination of CNN's observation and SARC's argument is mild at best. Who is one to argue that one activity is more mentally stimulating than another? What if the person consuming such activities is not very creative to begin with? I agree that some folks are, indeed, shafting their creative potential by playing ...
That is like giving someone 1 bucket of water to extinguish a burning 2-story building.
because linux is more secure. people who praise it as a standard OS are kidding themselves. now, if i wanted a machine to guard some secret info like peoples SS numbers? yea linux is fine, but it isn't nearly as user friendly as windows, which is why if you are just playing games, or browsing the internet, there is n...
I'm not sure politicians ever really want things. I think of it as an accident of circumstance that the politicians who get in power are the ones that best represent the interests of groups like the RIAA, MPAA...and...actually, probably the majority of big businesses, really.
When Gmail First came out, I jokingly referred to google as sky net. While I am an Active and happy Google and android user, I am not ignorant to Google's goals. Many have said that Google wants to sell ads; and while that is still technically true, what Google understands as the future of business and the world is i...
Goddamn am I tired of the fucking alcubierre drive coming up on reddit. It isn't going to be proof of concept in ten years. Or a hundred. Or a million. It relies on the existence of exotic matter with negative mass . Know of any? I sure don't, and the reason for that is it doesn't fucking exist and is probably impos...
Yah, except without all the learning curve and overhead keeping up with open source trends and all that jazz. Also, Linux still lacks the cohesion to be widely developed for in regard to mainstream gaming and applications. The average user doesn't have the time/skill/desire to deal with all the little curveballs Linux ...
All you guys have to do Implying all the linux folks work hand in hand and speak of the same voice towards the realization of a common goal : attract the most people to their cause. That may certainly be the main motive of the 10 most known distributions, but there are a few thousands distributions that couldn't care...
Except the market was much different back then. Choices were very limited. You didn't like vista you could either pay extra and go for mac or go for ubuntu (which is great but was not really ready for wider audience). Now there is plenty of options. You can go for a tablet (Android or iPad) you can go for Mac , Ubuntu ...
Windows 8 is excellent, if you install a third-party tool to get rid of everything metro and add a start button back in. It feels like a nicely updated Windows 7; it's faster, has some nice improvements like better file copy dialogue. It's even happy on old hardware; right now I'm using it on an old beaten up lapt...
I find the media coverage of Windows 8 highly annoying. I can understand MIcrosoft bashing and in many cases they deserve it but I think they're wrong about windows 8. Most of the reviewers seem to be either apple fanboys or unwilling to spend the 5 minutes it takes to learn the new UI differences (OMG I hate change!)...
All that sounds good however the tech group of people is a pretty small factor in terms of the OS market. The majority of OS purchasers are corporate accounts and then most home users aren't normally that computer savy. So those users probably aren't going to be looking at the task manager and buying an OS for that r...
Exactly. Its going to be a while before a tablet can replace a PC in business. It seems a smart thing for MS to do would be to partner with AMD and developed a dedicated gaming OS. Because that seems to me to be the last PC function to be replaced by mobile computing and also something already dominated by MS. What...
Ok, so the confusion is deeper than I thought. Verizon "3G" and ATT "3G" are TWO DIFFERENT 3Gs! They have different definition! 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G are classifications for the different standards which have emerged throughout the history of cellular communications. The following is a list of the most distinguishing ...
CenturyLink truly sucks. They failed to show up for my install appointmets 3 times. They kept telling me that the technician had knocked at the door and didn't get an answer. (Including one time when I took the door off of it's hinges and stored it in my kitchen, so that they couldn't use that excuse. There was no d...
I'd like to point out that this article used md5's in their 'experiment' the strength of the password is hardly relevant when using an unsalted md5. to quote wikipedia: >The security of the MD5 hash function is severely compromised. A collision attack exists that can find collisions within seconds on a computer with...
I don't want to spend my time on this because all you have done is criticize the work of others without offering anything of substance on your own. Its easy to sit back and say "wrong" to every idea without doing any work. It screams subjective and since you have indicated you don't like engineers and have a vested int...