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Naww, they're kind of still here, except in Ron Paul form. Last I heard the RP liberty bot was downvoting distractors to -5 from a blacklist of people who have criticized Saint Paul. My pet theory is that the forces of barbarism (Modern Moguls) exist everywhere and once they overwhelm something that thing is destroye...
Facebook and twitter do share content though.. they just aren't setup exactly like digg and reddit were. I don't know exactly how facebook works, but I know that you "like" things to spread them and make them popular. Twitter lets you link things you find interesting, they're just both a bit more personal because you h...
Don't know the validity of the evidence of this post I read the original article that discusses the tactics, and while I cannot directly link these tactics to my own experiences as I believe many of these tactics are done by regular users whether they realize it or not. The most violent or angering comments I have re...
Can someone explain why we're able to focus on an LED pixel that's an inch from our face, but we wouldn't be able to focus on an LCD pixel at the same distance? Try this: take a pair of sunglasses, and put a dot on it with something. Then focus on the dot. You may be able to comfortably, but now everything behind the...
I found out about him randomly searching the internet back when I was busy not attending classes at University. I totally thought he was awesome and would rave about the guy and then the Prestige came out and I was all like glee its the guy I've been randomly gushing about. I literally got goosebumps when I realize...
Yes, we may live in a world like that, but we also live in a world where intuition and genius is awarded. Tesla was wronged, and we're trying to make a right. Please, if you're not going to be nice about it, at least just move on to the hundreds of other Reddits that are on this site.
Linux needs more commercial grade software, like Photoshop or CAD stuff to make people who need these applications for work switch. I think fragmentation of Linux is really hurting it in the long run. Just for desktop managers you have Gnome 2 (+MATE), Gnome 3 (+Gnome shell +Cinnamon +Unity), KDE from the most popular ...
I think that the plot is too subtle. One message I got from the film: It is very easy for (religious) extremists to masquerade as scientists, particularly when they have convinced themselves that they are scientists. This is a great danger for science: extremists are increasingly taking a "if you can't beat them, joi...
Apple does cross licensing as well. The reason the Samsung shit has exploded like it has is because Samsung refused to Apple's cross license offer. Microsoft and Apple signed a cross license regarding phones, they let Microsoft use all of their patents with the rule "just don't be a iPhone clone" they listened and WP...
Actual patent attorney here. This is a very common misconception about patents, but isn't the way the system actually works. The way the patent system actually functions, patents do protect ideas, not actual products. The confusion here is with what the law states versus the actual requirements and outcomes under t...
While I understand the need for patents in other fields, I do not think that it should apply to software. There are many reason for this: Software is mathematical in nature. Many of the descriptions for software patents are either vague and can be applied too broadly and applicable where it is not originally i...
Yeah, it really is. Everyone wants the dot com, but the dot coms are typically all taken if the name is anything good at all. A dot com domain instantly becomes valuable if the owner finds out somebody wants it even if it's a silly name so usually you have to pay at least 4 figures to get the domain you want. New busin...
Because, although a free-market works in theory, it usually fails miserably in practice. The very nature of business is to achieve a monopoly. Although in theory other competition can weed its way in with niche offerings, in reality people will go to the big names they are familiar with. The above leads to a very dif...
The people that run companies will do what they can to maximize their profit. In the case of the music companies, they found people who write laws which give them long-term and oppressive control over copyright and a court system that's willing to give judgements for copyright violations that exceed that of murder. W...
Is it just a coincidence that the FCC is now pushing for Free Public Wifi? I mean I actually really love the idea of liberating the Internet and data transfer from profit hungry companies, but wouldn't having the Internet on public airwaves give them the right to censor anything the FCC deems unsuitable? If anything...
This. Just because they are "small" business doesn't mean they aren't as susceptible to corruption as the "big" business. I'd even hazard a guess that's honestly the primary reason why so many small businesses go bankrupt: not so much the interaction of the big business, so much as it's a compilation of shitty business...
You clearly have more faith in the efficacy of our law enforcement and judicial systems than I do. Implicit in the idea of being above the law is the ability to evade the law, so it's clearly a part of this conversation. You are correct though, in a very specific fashion, that based on the precise wording used at the s...
The CFAA is primarily a criminal statute, but it can be used in a civil action for damages under a certain provision. The original Computer Fraud and Abuses act was passed in 1984 as a "anti-hacking" statute in a very bare bones manner without much substance. In 1986, it was amended for the purpose of including "com...
1) GhostRank is opt-out, not opt-in. 2) The default Ghostery settings are to NOT block anything. All known trackers are whitelisted, the user must notice that and choose to block all. 3) The plugin was originally called "Better Advertising" I'm a bit shifty about Ghostery for obvious reasons, but I use it anywa...
The primary concern is the business of the ISPs and major companies with whom you interact while you browse or communicate. You can't separate yourself from these things without straight-up changing what you do. Adding in the shady history of Ghostery (including current monetary incentive) and the fact that the inte...
Hey guys, web developer for a small startup and user of one of these user tracking services (mixpanel) here! We use analytics to track user behaviour inside the app; we know when a user is struggling to complete certain actions and we make adjustments to the development schedule based on the data we get back. It help...
I wish people would stop using adbock plus. The internet is largely funded by ad revenue. I only half of my total video views on youtube are counted as ad views because people use adblock and mobile devices. I could make twice as much money from my videos. For me this isn't a very big deal, but some people need money f...
That only applies in a court which itself is bound by the Rules of Evidence, which the courts in places like Guantanamo are not (not fully--they have abrogated rules in ways not disclosed to the public). PRISM operates on secret warrants by the FISA court. Data gathered by it may very well be secretly authorized b...
Sigh* Fine, I'll calculate the blindingly obvious for you. Let's start with SMS. 160 characters per SMS, tops. About 160 bytes. An off-the-shelf $70 terabyte drive stores 1099511627776 bytes. That's 6,871,947,673 SMS messages. (6.8bn.) That's 98,170,681 SMS messages per dollar (about 98 million), or to put it ano...
From a development standpoint, their database is inferior to the competitors and they charge more. Expensive, yes, but inferior? Not especially. There's a reason at least two thirds of web companies have Oracle deployed somewhere in their organization. As a DBA who's worked with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and Postg...
Of course such a system is possible. For the most part all of the individual pieces of this system they want have been done before, but separately. For example, detecting that the system is under attack is something that most antivirus software can do, particularly corporate scale and above. Responding to an attack i...
Quick question, I formated my pc 2 days ago and after installing firefox and shit, cracked was one of the first websites I went to. I didn't even have an antivirus at the moment because I thought the websites I was visiting were trustworthy. It turns out they weren't so, how sould I proceede now? (apart from getting an...
Think of it like a drive-by shooting. Something malicious happens in your vicinity that may harm your computer if it's in the path of the bullet. In this case, the vicinity is cracked.com and being in the path of the bullet means running the java plugin while visiting there (prior to them fixing it). Should you have be...
Yesterday Chrome warned me after hitting my Reddbit bookmark that "this site has tried to route you to another domain; and basically threw up huge red flags all over the place, saying Reddit was trying to put malicious software on my computer because it was re-directing me to Reddit. Chrome isnt that trustworthy.
Windows metro IE, Google Chrome, Firefox, iOS, Android, OSX and Linux users not affected. The exploit depends on a particular zero-day vulnerability of IE, java and pdf plugins, and is a windows executable. Java and PDF plugins are disabled in metro IE. Chrome and Firefox don't have the vulnerability. And the malware...
Thank you for answering those questions. I've got no clue why Barracuda would try to contact an e-mail address that does not exist. Perhaps it is a 'standard' e-mail address in the industry, or 'support' tends to be the wrong one?? Or it might be human error, I suppose. As a test, I tried to quickly figure out what...
lol, it's 2013 and it's apparently still socially acceptable for agents to threaten in public that they want to initiate force onto others. For the ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5) crowd: Maybe my company produces a healthier vegan cheese substitute and I can prove how the cheese at a current pizza joint causes obesity. Des...
At the start I don't think Samsung did anything out of the ordinary, if you contact a manufacturer and say "Hey your device caught on fire, give me a new one" I think its reasonable that they ask for proof that you didn't tamper with the device, I've always been asked for this kind of proof when filing RMA requests. ...
do not worry fellow #nexuswarrior, I am simply redirecting him to the right subreddit to get #rekt for being a samshit.
I'm tired of seeing this damn story. I have an S4 as well and when I got it my battery sometimes felt hot (though it may have been because I was outside in 100+ degree summer most of the time) and it didn't hold a charge well. Went back to where I got the phone, they just handed me a new battery and everything has be...
Okay this got down voted in another thread about this subject. And really I don't know why it was down voted because it was a legit concern/question. From what I hear from this person is that he is using a wall charger. This would have an effect on it because wall chargers routinely charge your phone faster (it's par...
False so false. No lawyer worth his salt would consider that move. Lawyers settle it. If the lawyers took over you would never have heard of it. You settle out of court for replacement cost and burn medical costs make him sign a non-disclosure form (he cant say what they gave him) and stipulate he take the video down...
A diplomatic and safe option for Samsung would have been something like: > Hello, we have recently been notified through appropriate channels that you have had problems with the battery in your Galaxy S4 device. Please know that at Samsung, we strive to deliver high quality, high performance, and easily usable produc...
Well. Lets say you have a mod of a tech subreddit that is seen by over 100 million unique users every month. And lets also say you owned a website dedicated to tech news. If you could somehow get your website to the front page on that subreddit, say, by being a mod? Then that would be quite beneficial to your ad reve...
What about setting up a voting system for Mods? The worlds largest internet democracy! Reddit admins set up a system where candidates apply to be the mod of a certain sub. On a specific day(or two-three) subscribers of that sub are allowed to vote for the candidate of their choice. To prevent throw-away account voting,...
You make a good point. The question is whether the subreddit content should be directed by the original creator(s) or the user base. It is very unlikely that the creators of the subreddit will be making all of the submissions. The subreddit is only successful if the user base is behind it. This is kind of why sub...
I'm a bit retarded when it comes to reading articles so, is this good or bad? Can anyone
I work in the federal government and my area has access to the purse strings. After years of stinginess, we are now flushed with money. The IT system admins and system engineers, after years of working on shoestring budgets, don't seem to understand that we want them to succeed. We ask them: what do you need to make...
Because no net neutrality will make Netflix useless in the US. Netflix loses most of their customer base because no one pays for something they can't use. Netflix goes bankrupt. Now you have to pay Hulu or HBO.
Yes. If a business which is seen as foreign, against the traditional French economy, or otherwise violating the French status quo starts to get noticed in France, something will be done to stop or hinder it even to the point of propping otherwise failing French firms that might not be modernized, competitive, or viable...
You're correct but having the discussion on reddit will just inevitably get the people whining about apps and completely ignoring your point which has nothing to do with them.
I'd argue MOST power users customize their environment, and if a default hotkey setup steps on that, it can indeed seriously fuckup work flow. Arguing that new hotkey setups to get at options that were previously easier to get at is a shoddy argument as to say that workflow hasn't changed. Less customization is good...
If they made it optional, users wouldn't have had to "get used to it". Now they are still complaining and w want the old OS back, but they can semi operate a metro interface. Which is what Microsoft wanted. Microsoft can now make a metro style desktop system that everyone loves, but still be capable in a tablet and mob...
Inform the people. Information is key for change, if you do not know something is wrong, you can't fix the underlying problem except by dumb luck. By releasing the information in the way it has, it has been kept at the very least sitting under the surface. Other countries have actively started to make changes as to...
I can perhaps give a tiny bit of context for the textbook rental company, although I still believe these bully tactics around negative reviews are ridiculous. I work for a company that rents textbooks. We all know what "rent" means, right? You pay a fee, lower than the cost of purchase, to use an item for a specified...
Some types of Gen-IV reactors remedy the issue of waste product. They are highly efficient, in that they are able to continually reuse the material until 99% of its energy content has been utilized. The only issue here is that there is nowhere near enough money being allocated for R&D of these reactors, because A) coal...
Sure, but given the amount of fuel a plant needs relative to the power output its far greener than most. I mean if you go back to the manufacturing of equipment etc then really nothings green because a large chunk of our grid still runs on non green energy. >facilities powered by coal Also no reason they have to be...
Slate: [How to fight back against the lying, infuriating, evil ink-and-toner cabal]( (
It would seem that, at least for the time being, the devices most of us think of as robots will be relegated to the role of expensive toys. However, there will continue to be a need for automated labor in those fields that are too dangerous for humans or require inhuman levels of strength and precision. There are sever...
Promote libertarianism. People need to remove their support of the state and stop legitimizing it with voting and claims that one must involve oneself in the one-sided political process. Be a social activist, not a political one. Recognize their rigged game, where they convince you that their oppression is OK because o...
this is a common complaint among many people regarding blind or unguided innovation. they tend to argue that the proliferation of something without standards makes it worse overall. in fact the opposite is true. by diversifying the android OS is filling all available niches. do you have customers who want cheap tos...
Person one presses 6. Person two presses 22. Person three presses 34. Elevator opens on floor 6. Person four enters and presses 22. Elevator skips floor 22 and goes up to 34. Person 3 and 4 are pissed.
Spam, malicious software, link farms, content mills, etc. is what happened. There's so much trash and noise on the internet that Google needs a better way of ranking content. Using your social graph is a very effective way for them to crowd source content curation that is, theoretically, tailored to each user. I sa...
The irony of the US government inducing cancer in its citizens even as it spreads propaganda about such machines being necessary to keep everyone safe. If the government really wanted to save lives, then they would use the $$$ for programs known to have a significant public health impact (eg, blood pressure and cancer...
That said, unless you’re playing a graphics intensive game or a heavy multimedia application, all four cores likely won’t be active, as they turn on and off depending on the workload. If only one of the main cores is needed, single-core clock speeds can be bumped up to 1.4GHz. Exactly. Most of the time only a single...
I'm currently working on a law review article regarding copyright fair use and, while it's not directly about this topic, part of the argument I'm developing seems really relevant here, so I'll just give my quick two cents on that point. Traditionally, copyright laws are intended to encourage creation by providing in...
I installed it on my primary computer like a moron. Saw a link about it and thought it would be fun to play around with. Then, after I'd had my fun, I went to the FAQ's to figure out how to get Windows 7 back, and lo and behold I couldn't uninstall it. While I'm sure they told me something about not installing it on...
Windows isn't Linux. Windows isn't just competing for power users, they're competing with everyday Joes like the dad in this article. A tutorial is appropriate if you're talking about someone who's never used a computer in their life, but if you're talking about an everyday user who knows basically how to get around ...
Yeah, it's obviously a fucking disaster. I realised in a couple of seconds that they were trying to stuff the phone/tablet UI into a desktop machine, but it's clearly an impediment. However... I found out how to turn it all off in a few seconds using google. it's not difficult to do. Once you've got rid of that g...
So, I've been supporting/selling Windows-based Tablets for almost 10 years. I drank the tablet kool-aid a long time ago and I keep coming back for refills. I mostly deal with healthcare (nurses, clinicians), inspectors, retail and field sales, building contractors, etc,... So, on a daily basis, the people I deal w...
In Activision's case, there was an evolution from MW2 to MW3 with significant improvements while keeping the essence of the experience the same. (I'm just pointing out the similarities in the structure of logic between the two circumstances) Please follow me below as I take you through the logic.^ .^. PREMISE...
Because there are many many more computer illiterate users on windows than other OS. That is part of why it's still so popular is that all those computer illiterate people are so used to it. Sit someone who's computer illiterate in front of a Linux, or Apple, operating system and they will likely be confused for some t...
When I bought my first laptop, I was NOT a technical user. I bought a shitty refurbed Gateway on a "knowledgeable" person's recommendation (Comp Engineer major, what a joke). It came with Vista. I grew up mostly on XP, though I can remember back as far as Windows 95 (which I learned to read on). Vista was a piece of ...
OK I'll paint a picture for you: You're sitting in your office looking at your tablet, perhaps a lolcat or somesuch. knock knock "Come!" You call out, and one of your employees enters the office. You lay down the tablet, sit back in your chair and steeple your fingers. "Ah, number one."
Sounds a bit dubious. I understand that the mask is supposed to help a person perceive "reality checks" during dreams which occur during REM sleep. But I don't understand how the mask proposes to sync up with an individual person's REM phase of sleep. The REM phase consists of about a quarter of a person's sleep, ...
This is the first question we asked when we started working on Remee, and being fact based people we looked for hard data on light based dream signs. Luckily we found it here [LaBerge Study]( The
Very interesting. I've read up on some stuff, and been practicing for years, but my lucidity tends to come and go (though the difference in the amount of lucid dreams i have now compared to a few years ago is astounding) I read Stephen Larberge's book on lucid dreaming and found it quite informative. Becoming lucid is...
too late, they got $60k out of $35k goal - double what they asked for. so you can stick your scientific validation. There will be 500 people in the first wave validating if this works or not.
I didn't comment on the large thread last night, I didn't want to drown on with Verizon hate post. Seeing as there are 3 threads open about this, I really feel the need to basically bitch about Verizon. I am not going to start out by saying "fuck Verizon" they suck, on the contrary they are the best. That's why their...
I think that it's because so many people have been using it for years. For a long time there wasn't a competitor in that space with the convenience and power of BBM (that I'm aware of). There was just SMS and BBM. On top of that, we had the 10 digit traditional "phone keyboards" which took an obnoxious amount of time...
Can someone
Except most lawyers never break $100k, and if they do, not until they're quite senior. Biglawyers are major exceptions to this. They're probably 5% of lawyers. And the people who end up in shit-pay shit-law are ones from third and fourth tier schools, paying just as much as people at the T14 but with significantly wo...
Thats what I am assuming the issue is. The VPN should be able to trick the location. I am signed onto my personal account which is for the U.S of A so perhaps that is what is throwing it and not letting me see the foreign pricing. The billing is my biggest hurdle with my vpn game purchasing. I have been trying to figu...
Even at a state school, you're still paying at least $34-35k/year. Better than $45-55k/year, but any law school worth a damn (highly ranked) is going to charge the higher prices, and degrees from average law schools aren't worth much these days. The legal market is totally saturated with recent JDs who went to law scho...
Depends A LOT on what school. A degree at a top 14 ranked law school, excellent grades and a BAR admittance and you're practically guaranteed a junior associate job at any big city firm. They'll work you like a dog, but you'll make six figures right out of school and the sky is the limit. Unfortunately, you have to b...
Do you know that most of the college text books cost not more than $15 per book in American value? (Assuming you are an Engineering graduate) That you could heartily eat 3 times a day for less than $10 in value outside? That highest cost movie ticket in a private cinema theater costs $2.50, (pop corn costs like 50 ...
Cuz they can. It's a take it or leave it . Technically, they'd be making a profit even if they sold it for $1 probably (hypothetically excluding the costs such as hosting). But unless, it meant that they made 1299X more sales ($1 vs $12.99), it wouldn't mean the same thing. If they could sell 1300X if the price was $1...
The good news is that Twitter implements industry-current security standards reasonably well, especially in terms of password storage. If your account was compromised, then Twitter may have leaked a "salted hash" of your password. Some background: a hash is a one way function: you can manipulate a plaintext password ...
I'm betting on a ground breaking "controller" from Valve together with the steam box. They've been working on wearable computing for time now ([some context]( I'm guessing it's the main lure of the steam box platform.
I came to the comments section to say how much I would love to have something that could warn me of an aggressive driver as I'm bicycling. I'm not a hipster, I just love bicycling. people who don't bicycle will never understand the constant threat of cars passing way too close. you never get used to it. cyclists die ev...
Sort of, it's called [The Russian Internet Blacklist]( It claims to protect people from child porn, the truth is they block anything they want, including popular websites. Here's a short list of blocked websites off the top of my head: websites with criticism of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia (google "h...
What a load of bullshit this article is. Russian officials never claimed to dislike wikipedia, they also have never tried to seize control over wikipedia or censure it (or any such attempts are kept secret from public). Now, you may have heard that some articles from wikipedia (namely, about cannabis smoking) have ...
The article has one shitty paragraph: >After a slight political thaw during the Medvedev presidency, the Russian political order is at its most rigid in years . Putin returned to the Kremlin on 7 May 2012, and the year that has passed has not been a good one for political freedoms in Russia . Most telling is the r...
Try being a musician... When you comment on anything at all, they say "oh hurr durr its subjective." Like, the hundreds of hours of theory class I took obviously meant nothing. The half-hour you spent listening to Ke$ha definitely gives you more experience with the medium, I apologize and bow to your wisdom. ED...
There are specific sounds and chord-structures that are more pleasant to the ear I find the minor 2nd exhilarating exhilarating in generous amounts. That you find certain sounds pleasant but not others, does not mean that such same sounds are similarly pleasant to others, even though it might often be so. Therefore, ...
Gotta say I love bloggers who notice redditers and say hi through their work. The
Just as a sidenote: I own an iPhone 5. I only wrote this comment because that is what major apple fanboys and kids that don't know too much about either platforms. The only problem with Android devices is that a lot of them aren't updated to the latest version unlike iOS. For example, there was some kind of hack or...
Here's the thing: the DRM wasn't actually bypassed. The DRM was active, everything checked out, and it displayed the content. The DRM simply does not protect against this in the first place. The DRM is still functioning on the device and data exactly as it was originally created to do, it is still doing the exact ...
I actually would not invest in google right now. I think they are a fantastic company who do important great things but I worry about them financially in the long term. Their main source of revenue desktop search ad's actually is basically in a free fall and is NOT being supplemented by mobile clicks. They have faile...
Not everyone is onboard with the reforms. For one, becoming "digital by default" means those who prefer a more analog relationship with government services are forced to adapt. Boo hoo. Get over it. This whole half digital, half paper (lets not even call it analog that's fucking dumb) system is nothing but a load of ...
The problems seem to go deeper than those issues. Merely having a single deadline for one huge software release indicates that a waterfall development process was used, which is well-known to greatly increase the risk of project failure. This system should have been released in many incremental steps to deliver the ...
Or perhaps they don't have access to a computer and while libraries are still a thing, there are 1) a limited number of computers and 2) a limited amount of time you can use them for? Furthermore, exactly how is said poor student supposed to find out about Khan Academy's program if no one has ever told them about it. I...
Yeah, I don't agree even a little tiny bit. Having grown up in the ghetto, being very well familiar with the attitudes, and then "moving up" to a upper middle class life where I rub shoulders with upper class individuals... The difference is the poor folks don't give a fuck about this sort of thing. They'd rather ...
read Savage Inequalities and then research how despite the fact that the book is 20 years old First of all, there is no 'despite'. 20 years means this book is outdated, period. >Wealthy children aren't any better than poor children Let me tell you otherwise: Disclaimer: when I am talking with regards to economi...
my test prep was reading an article that told me how the questions worked. i scored in the top 5% on it. I think the "wealth gap" has more to do with wealthy kids putting more emphasis on school and poor kids putting more emphasis on work. When i was young that was all that mattered; get good grades in school and go to...