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Another win for Reading Comprehension. Was it
I was thinking that when I read it and am not surprised you ended up with down votes. I"m a retired attorney and I see so much stuff in threads like this where the analysis is weak and lacking. A lot is so often way off the mark it spins my head. Notice how this person used a very long, well written post. A lot of ...
looking in your post history, you're German. I know the government of Germany now isn't the same as the Nazis, but you can't act like you have a clean history Edit: ok, obviously I'm not saying Germans who are alive today are responsible for the Holocaust. I'm also not saying we should be blaming the current German g...
The problem is not what technology will be able to do. The problem is that the government is taking the control of that technology away from us. There is no way to stop this data collection but we can demand means to individual access to that information and legal protection over what can and cannot be used in court fo...
What I can't fathom is the misuse of such a powerful program. By NO means am I saying this was justified, but if the gov't has the ability to track on such a scale, and the willingness to bypass laws on the constitutional level, why are they using it to track citizens? Criminals around the world more than likely use ...
This is where we have to [knock off the bullshit and get to the point]( This isn't about Manning, if it wasn't manning, it would be some other "troubled person" that saw injustice in the systematic abuse of human rights, that just was not comfortable with US citizens and the world having the wool pulled over their ey...
This isn't considered anti-competitive. Google has every legal right to dictate the terms for developers that want to make their own native YouTube apps. Not only does Google have the right, but they have the fiduciary duty to demand that ads are showcased as they have engineered it. YouTube is ad supported and without...
It's just a giant corporation and so it acts just like a giant corporation. Microsoft is older and so it seems like they are the bad guy, but we have all the time in the world for Google to catch up and as we can see they are doing just a wonderful job at it. As long as the sun rises, giant corporations will pull this ...
YouTube is accessible in WP8 via the web browser, just like it is from every platform. So, service is not being denied to the platform. All of YouTube's core functionality is perfectly accessible on WP8. When YouTube provides the API for its service, it reserves the right to dictate the terms and usage of the API, how...
The fingerprint reader doesn't actually read a fingerprint but the skin that's underneath the first layer. There's very little use for that other than to unlock your phone. The "fingerprints" are stored on a separate memory module only accessible by the fingerprint sensor module. Even the OS doesn't has access to it....
This is the state of our deplorable tech news reporting when you are failing to innovate because your last innovative product was a whole three years ago.
Innovations come out of labs not out of big companies. Big companies release stuff that can be properly advertised about, and innovation is not always compatible with advertisement. Who is innovating ? All small companies innovate. Are the innovation brought to consumers ? No, because those companies don't have aud...
He's right, they don't. Their last innovation was the iPad which came out... How many years ago now? Since then, they're just been making minor changes to their products, and branding them like they're brand new, and people buy it! I wish they did something new, and creative, something that people have never seen bef...
Just because someone browses and comments on /r/apple doesn't mean that they are a fanboys with an iPhone, iPad and macbook. I like to see many different sides when I look at something. Yes, apple does need to get in the game with NFC, it's going to be bigger than anyone expected it to be in a few years. You have a f...
First, here . The fingerprint ridges can be reconstructed by the E-field map sensed. At first this may seem like a very difficult task because you think they only make the model of your finger once and then compare all future scans to that original model, but this technology actually improves the model every time it s...
Content is expensive. Hulu's entire subscription fee goes to the cost of content, as does most of the revenue from advertising. Hulu itself is entirely funded from a fraction of the advertising revenue - and they have razor-thin operating margins: they make pennies per viewer. They are also contractually bound to h...
It's not just the commercials, but the ever-so-gradual creeping of the length of the commercial break . It started out as one 30 second commercial. Then, it became a 30 second + 15 second commercial break. Then two 30-sec commercials. And now, it's 30+30+15. Seriously, if it gets to the point where it takes me 3...
What do you mean, 'simply upgrading?' Try this for an alternate view:. It's not cheap to always have to upgrade, especially when you're in a lower income bracket (I'm on a disability pension). I had my first computer for twelve years because even when I was working, I couldn't afford to upgrade. My current one is e...
Motorola is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google that has begun a number of lawsuits since being acquired and Google allowed many in-progress suits to continue after it was acquired. Surely the benevolent Google saw it fit to graciously end [this injunction]( after getting their hands on Motorola? Maybe the company ...
The annoying bullshit about this entire scenario is that the way that the entire ecosystem of patents works is that everyone nods at one another and licences out their patents for incredibly small sums per unit. Because the SCARY part of this is the patent list that Google has. Google has the goddamned nuclear foot...
Unless Google has advanced to the point where they can perform over-the-air hardware updates to re-wire circuitry, this would be impossible. The article says they are hardware patents which is precisely why sellers of Android devices (Sony) are members of this shell corporation launching the lawsuit.
Is it common for people in your profession to go from "software patents should not be allowed" to "you want a world without patents"? Nobody said anything about eliminating all patents - patents are good. For a really good book I suggest The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention ...
Minor correction regarding your examples: As I understand it, since the Coke recipe is a trade secret, if you can figure out the exact recipe on your own (without just breaking in and stealing it or something), you can make and sell all you want. The fact that they never patented it is what has allowed them to keep i...
Did you know the original android devices were meant to have a button keyboard? Did you know by the way that android was made a touch screen was an entirely optional method of input? Did you know the touch screen keyboard was only introduced to android two and a half years after the iPhone introduction? Did you know th...
A couple of reasons. The first is about legal compliance, most simply is that the major players cover themselves by responding to takedown notices and playing nice in public. They also charge for storage not for number of downloads. Small differences I know, but important ones. To be liable services generally have to...
Original post author here) This is why I keep trying to tell the reddit admins we need a better system to filter people into smaller subreddits. I made a free tool to do just that: Co.Design did a great writeup about it if you need a
I've been reading Reddit since it started. Lurked for a year or two, then created an account and change accounts every 2 years or so (used to be an issue that accounts with karma would get more karma only because they have karma). Back then you open Reddit and on the first 2-3 pages you have all the most important...
I can tell you from experience that Supermicro is not way cheaper...In the last month, I had a shoot off between HP and Supermicro regarding desktops. Not just ordinary desktops but high end desktops: Dual 8-Core E5-2690's with 128GB RAM and Quadro k5000 cards. Both systems came in to the lab and it was apparent ...
Privatization is good when competition is a factor. Look at it this way: Except for very specific circumstances, customers benefit when the responsible parties are held accountable to the greatest extend possible. For most business this means privatization; the company is held accountable quickly and measurably be...
While lawn watering isn't an issue in Scotland we do have "free" water paid through local council taxes (so my water rates increase with the size of my house). I currently have a 3 bedroom flat and would pay £126 ($215) yearly, if I wasn't a student and therefor exempt. From my experience Scots take some pride in our...
As a McDonald's worker... I honestly don't think this will ever happen in our lifetimes because of how expensive it is. Service times would actually slow because the burger wouldn't start to be made until the order has been paid where as now sometimes it is almost down at that point. There is cheaper ways t...
The emmy WiFi connection is the most credible of all of these. It is not a massive leap to assume that the WiFi connection used at the emmys was not well secured, if it was secured at all - the vast majority of public wifi connections are totally unsecured. Even if the connection was secured, it was probably using old ...
You can be embarrassed. Many people can laugh at their own embarrassment. When I say "consequences" I mean getting fired. Frankly, I don't think any of these girls should lose any deals or the like due to this, but sadly some might. Some companies that target tweens may not view some of these girls as "appropriate"...
My gf actually had one of these on her last car. She bought it from one of the BHPH places in her home town when she was in high school, and they told her about the device. They said it would prevent the car from starting and that there was no risk of it turning the car off while she was driving. What a load of shit ...
I have the grandfathered "Unlimited" plan and for the past 3 months they've been saying I've gone over my limit. I think they have been overstating my usage. In no way have I increased my data use. I've filed FCC complaints each month. I'm getting really tired of AT&T's bullshit, they're almost as bad as Verizon these ...
Just got off the phone with AT&T earlier to cancel my plan. I'm getting 12mbps down while paying for 18mbps down. First they transferred me to DirectTV, where in that DirectTV rep hung up on me. Called back to AT&T only to have them explain there $135 cancellation fee and that there is a 48hr "restriction" on my accoun...
I am a former AT&T Mobility employee. Even while I worked there I argued in favor of the customer (I paid a cell phone bill with them, I am a customer too..) That the throttling is complete crap. I know the profit margins on the data plans are exponential and I know that the cost of voice services is also abysmal com...
If you checked it out, the bot uses someone else's algorithm to narrow summaries based on chosen keywords. For one thing. For another, it does achieve more in more people reading at least some of the article. /u/auto
You're right, a company can easily tell if its advertising is being blocked and they can easily just not serve the content to the user. Why don't they just do that? I'll tell you why they just don't do that ... because then people don't get their content, which is usually the point of having a website. Many websi...
Many websites put content out for no profit. The web existed long before the corporations came along to monetize it. And it would continue to exist if they all left. People forget that before ads and corps invaded the web, the oldheads all shared information for free, when ads and charging came around they were all p...
There are a lot of elements to prove to convict them and it's hard to prove. The more they keep letting people use their network as a platform for DoS attacks, or the more important someone they piss off is, the more likely it is that someone will do the hard work to get enough evidence to arrest them; but that takes t...
To expand off of what /u/surfeasy has said, I just want to put emphasis on #3. VPN providers can see the data going through them, regardless of what kind of encryption you are using. If you value your security more than you do your anonymity, you may want to refrain from using them unless absolutely necessary. Ad...
Speaking of alternatives, does anyone know if issue also affects mobile users with the hola app? I remember using it back in 2013 to speed up YouTube (that was one of the things the app claimed it did) and all of a sudden my galaxy S3 froze. I gave it about 4 minutes but it didn't auto restart and the screen and back...
The problem with the expression is that it tends to group the mild behavior with the extreme behavior as if they were the same thing. One site tracks your clicks for money, another hooks your kids up with pedophiles for money, and both are free because "you are the product." "You are the product" is absolutely true ...
wtf does "
Top Gear]( episode featuring this train vs. a car and a motorcycle of the same vintage racing from London to Edinburgh. That aside, there were/are a few steam-engines operating in PA when I lived there as a kid, and they really are fascinating. I would highly recommend anybody near this so called Tornado go check it...
It's somewhat better. I like the OS better for the most part, but I like Windows better for some parts (window management for one). So why pay all that extra cash? Well, the same reason I pay more for a nicer jacket, a nicer chair, a nicer pair of pants etc. I just LOVE my 13 inch MBP. Inside it's more intuitive to w...
Yes. They create problems, but they also reduce the device size and weight and allow for increased screen estate when not entering text. How you weigh the (dis)advantages is somewhat subject to preference. I like my photos and websites on a large screen in a thin device.
Most PDFs being used come off the internet though, and pdfs support a huge variety of ways to script and embed stuff in them. So even if the PDF can't upload data on its own, vulnerabilities in how various bits of them are processed open your system to other software that can. There was a website a while ago that did a...
DO NOT DO THIS. At least, not with your favourite camera. I tried it with a 25mW green laser and a shitty old cameraphone a year or so ago; the direct light flash was sufficiently powerful to permanently burn out the photosites on the sensor, meaning where the beam had hit was now a permanent black squiggle across ...
Sight...I like CNN, FOX, and any other coorporate media outlet as much (or less for that matter) as any other redditor..but.. [This is not written nor should be attributed to CNN] (
Sony refuses to fix my PS Vita, it has a screen defect and I bought it brand new from Gamestop. The screen defect is pretty common from what I've seen on the internet and yet when I talked to the representative they said this is the first time they've ever heard about it. When I asked if they can replace my defective V...
Microsoft couldn't do that and if they did they'd a) piss off their other OEM partners and b) give Firefox and others even more reason for anti-trust issues. Regarding 7" tablets I'm wondering why we haven't seen any? I can only conclude that Microsoft & their partners are going for a more high end model. Notice we h...
I think your argument is valid but you are lacking features iPad has a fully established app store with god knows how many apps - most I would say are high quality. Microsoft has an appstore, but it is just a baby at this point. The apps are horrible. I am writing some currently using Metro interface and the SDK seem...
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. 18 USC 1030(a)(5)(A) requires there to be damage. There was likely none for any of us. We were not committing crimes. 18 USC 1030(a)(5)(A): >Whoever ... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, in...
This is one reason why people saying we have a rule of law are fools. The other, is that with enough lawyers you can either ruin someone's life with protracted legal battles that the lawyers are happy to fight for you, or get out of a crime you did commit.
They proceeded to write a script that harvested 120,000 emails over the course of days. They made jokes about a stock short-sale to make a profit. The IRC conversations make it pretty clear that they knew they had found a critical vulnerability, and that AT&T would not be happy and would be harmed if the knowledge be...
You bring up a very good point powernut.... If AMD went under it would be catastrophic for the desktop CPU market. AMD has always either been on Intel's coat tails or just ahead of Intel in some periods. During the highlight of AMD's performance, Intel dumped billions (no one knows the exact number but at minimum we ...
I dug deeper and found their patent application: relevant section(s): >As indicated by block 206, exemplary method 200 involves displaying in real-time on the see-through display the visual representation of the physical interaction with the input interface. and > For example, the lens elements 110, 112 thems...
i posted this elsewhere in the thread, but a harvard professor and a yale professor did a study on it. pdf here:
Also from 8 months ago ([quoting myself]( > [oinkery's comment]( "
Take this for what it's worth, but yelp's filters try to take out what they call 101s and 501s. People who register, do 1 review (either 5 stars or 1 star), have no friends on the site, and never come back again. Generally speaking, the bullshit reviews done by competitors or friends of owners fall into those categor...
I understand a small business owner's frustration with being bombarded by calls to advertise on Yelp, and maybe not getting what they thought Yelp could deliver. But bottom line, as a consumer I have been using Yelp for three years, and have written over a hundred reviews with ratings from 1 star to 5 stars. None of ...
I used to work in the sales department at a leading Online Reputation Management company. We essentially cleaned up Google search results for small/medium businesses that have been victim to slander and reputation attacks. Anyways, I got tons of calls from small businesses, doctors, and private contractors that would...
Yelp actually has an explanation page of how their filtering system works. Take a look and read it . Considering how easy it is for an anonymous person to write anything they want, I'm okay with this. Also, most people don't know this, but after the user exists for a while, and posts other reviews, their credibility r...
Yup. I look at the context of the reviews more than the star rating. I'm a vegetarian who likes really good coffee so it's hard to find healthy vegetarian food when I'm traveling. Unless 20+ negative reviews complain of the same problem, that also happens to be a problem for me (I don't care about slow service and I've...
Sounds interesting but all I get is: "Log in to manage your products and services from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune."
Except you're completely wrong. It's not a true democracy. The officials put up for election have already been weeded out through gerrymandering and sly political tactics. When it comes down to actual voting, you're left with the choice between idiot #1 vs idiot #2. Neither of which have barely a sliver of the same...
To add onto this. The general population doesn't hold the opinion that we are the best country in the world anymore. Our mass media and cultural exports drive this thought outward to the world, not us. Most Americans know we are in a shitty spot, we let the baby boomers really grind our political system to a halt and i...
Fucken hell. I'm a kiwi and even I think all this voter responsibility crap is rough. Only because I know it wouldn't matter one pinch of shit who was in power when all this happened. It would have happened the same way. It's the nature of power whoever they vote for. And hey, America has power in more ways than one....
Well, you asked for my feelings and I delivered. As for more objective reasons I dislike pro-sports [I'm not hating on college sports BTW, at least those cats are in school.] I object to my taxes being used to construct an entertainment venue I'll likely never need. Now, I don't mind my taxes paying for things I ho...
Doesn't mean computers are banned, just means you'd have to keep them off the internet. This would likely be replaced by one or a series of intranets.
That was concise. Saves a few hours of internet leg work.
This meme gets copied and pasted every time this topic comes up, And so does your response. And the retort is always links to a plethora of articles disproving your theory. Such as below The problem is these companies want to invest ZERO dollars in bringing an engineer up to speed or investing in the last mile of e...
Certainly. Detecting that a given computer is participating in the Tor network (not counting things like bridge nodes) is not a particularly difficult thing to do for the ISP. However, because each communication link in the graph is encrypted (and the internal processing of each node is opaque to them), it is not gen...
Look, to be honnest, it's not fun anymore. I opened an account 5 years ago. At first I liked it, I found a lot of Mikes and Marias out there. But it turned out all the contacts I got were "Hey, so how are you?" " Oh well, I'm fine I guess. Married, X kids, this job, that house, blah blah. You?" "Oh well, pretty much th...
Do you really want to keep doing that? It probably does way more harm than good. I mean, if you stalk pictures, it's probably of someone you lust for. It might make you think that having that person in your FB friends is step 1 of your big masterplan to seduce him/her. Let me tell you this: it wil not happen. If you're...
I work in a networking lab with a lot of techies. We're all pretty addicted to our tablets, laptops, cellphones, etc. I was surprised to see that very few people I talked to know about this. The short of it is that you can easily do stuff like tethering for free using any number of free apps out there instead of paying...
That would only be possible with heavy DRM, which I'm all for as long as it doesn't punish legitimate users. Netflix does have a very good selection of TV shows. I wish Netflix had recent episodes, even if it was ad supported. Hopefully, Microsoft will be able to push this with the Xbox One.
yeah, but even that 50% increase is great for artists.. the music industry has been shifting for some time now anyway.. to a model where more of their revenue comes from merchandise and gigs. I don't think Piracy will ever die, if you make the penalties too high then there will just be an outcry about how unfair it i...
I'm saying he was operating in a legal system but the system broke protocol to take him down.
You know... You don't just host the biggest streaming and downloading site on the internet and not notice the cirminal activity going on. Don't act surprised like this. Don't pretend every single other video or content site isn't keenly aware of the illegal stuff going on on their site. Reddit banned subreddits becau...
Yep, 'sloppy'..your armchair-insight is certainly more wise than some of earth's brightest scientists and engineers who are responsible for the cable's design and deployment. Will you please lead us?
Weren't those early ISPs ad-supported though? I believe some of AOL's channels were officially sponsored by or piggybacked off of another website. There were also a few companies who offered cheap or free Internet access, sometimes even free computers, in exchange for reserving a portion of your screen space for ads....
May be a bit late, but: I think you are looking at those numbers incorrectly. Assuming Google should charge $10k/mo, it would seem appropriate for @Home to have charged $3600/mo for their 3Mbps service. Based on the numbers OP gave, @Home charged $30/mo (roughly adjusted for inflation)for their 3Mbps service when i...
Thank you to /u/Irrepressible87 for the reminder...I promised to talk about how traditional publishing works but didn't have time last night. Disclaimer: My information on the traditional distribution system comes from my stint as the manager of an independent bookstore from 1996 to 2000 and from further information ...
I appreciate that. But let me share my perspective as someone who probably doesn't stand exactly where you do: I don't own guns. I don't like guns. And a sober, rational analysis of who I am and where I live would probably indicate that, even with appropriate safeguards taken into consideration, a gun in my home i...
So I just read your comment history for a while and boy is it fascinating. Firstly in this comment you write "for those of us who are black" to imply you're black and give your comment some perceived, albeit incorrectly, added weight because of your alleged skin color. However, in a comment in your history you wrote a...
I posted this comment in another sub and don't feel like typing another paraphrased version for this thread. >Or the NSA obtained a copy of Regin in the wild and RE'd it. >Why build malware from the ground up when you can obtain copies from a hundred different intelligence sources? Virustotal, honeypots, etc. It's ...
Don't get too excited. The telecoms have court challenges ready tonfile before Wheeler completes the sentence saying Tittle 2 will be used. Once in the courts, they will drive.it up to the SCOTUS, so that Roberts & his four horseman can hand down a.5-4 majority once again sellong the people out to the corporate. Me...
See the [European model]( for an example of how it would work. Basically, the lines from your home to the local exchange can be used by any ISP - the ISP pays a rent to the 'owner' of that part of the connection. From the exchange, they can either rent out network capacity from the incumbent operator, or run their ow...
According to the Internet, a landline phone call of 1 minute is about 150KB, or 0.00014 of a gigabyte. Landlines charge monthly because they are moving so little data; if they charged per amount of data they would make much less. You probably don't use a whole gigabyte of landline phone data in a month. Compare this ...
I didn't submit them. Edit: All I'm saying is that reddit is blowing its collective load (front page, over 1,400 upvotes) all over a story addressing points that other redditors had brought up months before this article was submitted during the height of the Toyota witch hunt. I don't have butt hurt because the two a...
Oh good, the cup and ball game... You realise the IV wasn't 40-bit thus the problem? Also the bit length of WEP was highly unrelated to its strength (since what we're using currently is the SAME length as WEP (128-bit)). All the BIG problems that "broke" WEP were entirely down to the flawed way the protocol was desig...
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Fukushima reactor one blew up! The outer wall is gone. More radiation is being released in one hour than one year's normal operation. That is a factor of 8750 (365*24). And that is based on measurements of uncertain reliability. A factor of ten error is possible. So this is a gigantic release of radiation, around fou...
I know that. I think it is an stupid term. Are you not understanding this? BTW you did a LMGTFY above so I clicked the first hit is for [Urban Dictionary.](
This is an interesting but pointless argument by people who obviously gauge "intelligence" as something that is impractical. For a machine be more "intelligent" than a human is a silly concept, because the vast majority of what we consider "intelligence" is simply human culture and experiences dealing with other human...
How about almost every single person in this entire thread that claims to be from the US, combined with every single person I've ever talked to, even through college. Does that back it up? No? Well let's continue then... There is no distinction like what you are suggesting. In fact, US World News and Reports most lik...
Sweet you know my name! You can do a whole lot with that! You're right! It is pretty nice to have a Communications degree from The [Scripps College of Communication]( >The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, widely considered one of the best journalism schools in the country, is part of the Scripps College of Commun...