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Good call. Parts of this rebuttal sounds compelling to me, and that's coming from a big Tesla fan. Some curious bits: > The log shows the car traveling about 60 m.p.h. for a nearly 100-mile stretch on the New Jersey Turnpike. I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I reca...
with any new technology that makes another technology obsolete, in this case, electric cars vs gasoline cars, or even gasoline, it is a literal threat to the old technologies. these corporations that possess the old technologies tend to have deep pockets, and will pay handsomely to have the new threatening technologies...
How can Broder be putting the blame on Tesla by saying the technicians he called gave him faulty information when it's the fucking year 2013 and ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF DRIVING A TESLA is readily available on the Internet. I fucking hate the fact that Broder is shifting blame onto a Telsa phone operator, and completely by...
Posted this in the post about the story. >I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch wheels and summer tires. Sounds like ...
Actually, he says he was told "it should be." Did he check the range after the charge? Did he call them back then? If he called them back and they checked from their end and said "you're good to go, buddy!" then his story flies. If not, then it stinks.
It sounds like he's just backpedaling and trying to make excuses now. There's no damn way I'm going to try traveling 90 miles in an electric vehicle with a displayed range of 32 miles. I'm surely not letting some customer service monkey tell me that the range will magically increase and take it off the charger early. E...
I was expecting you to bring up that argument. Basically what you're saying is that since you can access the content, you should be able to. Does that mean you also regularly walk into peoples' homes when they leave their doors unlocked? To steal from stores if you can get away with it? Those things are still wrong...
Assuming that personal data is stored, yes. My bank, for example, can track me, when I'm logged in. Places like Facebook are a scary implementation of these two bits of info, I think. It's for reasons like this marketing companies are regulated to prevent your personal data from being abused. Also why those compani...
Soure: I worked in web analytics for over a year. Personal data and behavior are two seperate things, and a company must keep all data accordingly. Ebay is not allowed to have your personal data in a user account and pair it with user behavior for Amazon. Also, the data they use this for is HUGE. The idea that someo...
Maybe I should have specified legitimate online marketing companies/practices. Saying they just break the law is a cop out. Any company can/will break any law, that's not what's in discussion. The discussion is if a private company is making a good descision making online marketers change their code to a 1st party c...
FireFox is kind of the outlier. The "leverage" was really internal arms of the parent companies. Google runs the #1 ad network, #1 publisher side ad server (DFP) and the #1 agency ad server (DFA). They also run Chrome. Microsoft has the #2 (or did last I checked) ad network, a contending publisher side ad server, a...
I'm sure this will get downvoted or just hidden in this discussion, but as a 3+ year internet marketer and partner at a marketing firm, I thought that my views should be voiced. The ad industry is not pissed off because we're creepy stalkers or something...the goal is MORE RELEVANT ads.. We don't show ads cause we ...
I used to use it, but I've found better ways... I use Adblock Plus, and I have 0 ads. No Youtube ads (I didn't even know youtube had started using ads until watching videos at school and work). And paired with my antivirus, it catches and stops all malicious websites before they fuck shit up. No need for NoScript, al...
Let's do some simple calculation to find out how many fucks I give about your post. Your comment has 786 characters, and 159 words (OpenOffice counted for me). This comes out to an average of 4.94 characters per word, minus a big because of spaces. So 3.94. Meaning your vocabulary is pretty monosyllabic. Monosyllabic...
First part: if it's backed up in multiple places, you'll need another service ensuring that the data is the same across those places, creating more overhead and potential data collisions. In the case of a page, that does happen on some level - usually images or scripts are loaded from other domains, living on other s...
Although what you are saying is not incorrect, it would be a conspiracy that would make a fake moon landing seem easy to pull off. This has been one of the holy grails among mathematicians going back to Euclid. A breakthrough on the order of magnitude of which you are talking about would have implications that would...
As much as i hate to quote [the rules (RFC2616)]( > 4xx : The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client seems to have erred. > > 5xx : Response status codes beginning with the digit "5" indicate cases in which the server is aware that it has erred or is incapable of performing the request....
No. Just no. As for you: A zero who has no formal education in economics and doesn't understand that the concept of intellectual "property" is bullshit. A self-righteous, dismissive bigot who hasn't informed himself about a topic he feels strongly about. Pathetic. This is like a slave master complaining about ant...
Research the ' Uncanny Valley . One of the biggest concerns going into the military's drone age is the disconnect some researchers believed soldiers would feel between them and the hardware they were using. A study showed that, depending on the circumstances, the verbage that drone operators used when describing woul...
This means that CEOs and shareholders will have to take a smaller slice of the pie in order to keep maintenance at the generally sustainable level. CEOs and shareholders don't want to take a smaller slice of the pie despite that being the nature of capitalism is the first place. As such, the utilities are fighting to r...
I suspect this one will be better than the previous iPads, but we'll have to wait until they're tested. Heat dissipation in fanless tablets is primarily governed by surface area, not volume. The reduction in volume accompanies a very small reduction in surface area-- it will still shed heat almost as well as the pr...
No it is not, you can just add more trunk lines. More trunks cost more money and requires more equipment to run, switches that run at 10GB are not cheap and have yearly maintenance contracts. Not to mention if you are smart you have 2 of these switches and 2 of every card you own in case one fails. These cards cost t...
A class action lawsuit I think. The thing is, I'm pretty sure no lawyer has done this before because there's not enough legal pretext the way the laws are written to win. However, even if you lose it can still help fix the problem if the case is high enough profile that it gets national media attention and puts press...
I work for a school with an extensive technology integration--Laptops and iPads for all teachers, laptops for all staff, iPads and Laptops for students. In an education setting, you will see a great deal of damage when it comes to student use; students travel between 6-8 classes per day, so drops and repeated in/out ...
Oh haha. Well, usually the phillips head screwdrivers we use for everyday stuff, the kind you'd find lying around would be #1 (smaller) and #2 (a bit bigger) sizes. Most indoors screws are in these sizes (as well as for desktop computers, usually). You'd see #3 size for wood work outside, and rarely #4, which are huge....
I'd guess it's more the latter, simply because it simplifies (and thus makes cheaper) their warranty system. Look at it this way, you and I might be talented repair artists, but they can't know that. Do they want every phone with a manufacturer defective battery having open heart surgery performed by untrained profes...
No bearing on the conversation? You brought it up. And how does it have no bearing on the conversation when it is precisely what the conversation is about. Dumbasses who think apple product quality =\ business practice because that's what the anti apple bandwagon always does. I don't care to be an ambassador. I sai...
Source]( >When you see a space contraption draped in gold foil, remember that the foil is probably a heat shield or, more practically, a radiation shield. The sun transmits heat on Earth mostly by warming the atmosphere, and we experience that heat by convection, like a turkey in the oven. In space direct impact from...
I just had a new 3 TB Seagate fail on me, I managed to copy everything over to another HDD because I usually check the smart data every once in a while and saw the signs of the upcoming death. That's not even the problem every HDD has a chance of dying and that is why you backup and check on them regularly. What ma...
Fucking seriously?!? What about 3 injuries where faulty equipment caused the employees to get covered in hot metal, caught on fire causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns, and Tesla was found to have 7 safety violations (6 of them serious) I don't think you even read past the title of the article before jumping to defend ...
Even further: I'd bet Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, and Honda probably face $50,000 - $100,000 OSHA fines for factory accidents one or two times a year. This posting of the article is treating Tesla as "inherently 'gee-whiz!' " - and it isn't. It is a company, and some aspects of its product are technically intriguin...
Some things like utilities only really work as monopolies - it's just not feasible to lay multiple lines of electrical cables, optic fibre, water and sewerage pipes to enable true competition. Because it's not possible to provide true competition it is better that these utilities are owned by a level of government, w...
I live in Chattanooga - and I have to say that it is extremely sweet having EPB. It is a dedicated fiber optic line, so no sharing your line with half your block. Unlike Comcast, which charges you for maintenance calls even when it is their fault, EPB covers everything for free. Additionally, no modem required, a...
Apparently no one in this thread can pass the turing test because they can't read >A version of the computer programme, which was created in 2001, is hosted online for anyone talk to.
How don't you see this - Both sides of every connection on the internet pays to connect to each other. Everyone, Everywhere pays for the hookup. Home users pay for "internet" in their house. Business rent static IPs and get "internet" in their office. Datacenters pay for bandwidth in and out. Web Hosts like Netflix liv...
There was, however, congestion at the interconnection link to the edge of our network (the border router) used by the transit providers chosen by Netflix to deliver video traffic to Verizon’s network. So upgrade your edge devices? They just said that there is congestion at one of their nodes, just because it is an ed...
The Upshot of this that for the vast majority of the human civilisation, the trend has been that the vast majority of peopleare only needed as labour- first in agriculture and later in manufacturing, more recently in tertiary industries like tech.Only a small portion of society would need to possess leadership, innovat...
But in the UK I got great taxpayer funded healthcare, free at the point of use You mean the same NHS that that the UK press reports Every. Single. Week. is "on the verge of collapse"? (With the next general election coming up, this has switched to Every. Single. Day.) The weaponization of the NHS in political rhetori...
I had this idea, too, but it related more to how we should be paying for music. for instance, I have a soundcloud page. people go to my soundcloud page to listen to music by using data allotted by a company that provides the infrastructure to do so (internet service provider). my music lives online as a digital asset, ...
Sprint. Genuine unlimited data. I've used the hotspot for days at a time to connect my entire home network, download steam games, stream Netflix, etc. 20-30gb for the month and my bill was the same with no throttling. "But the coverage maps 'Nades! the coverage maps!" I did some work collecting the raw data for those...
Not to belittle your main points, but my data conflicts with some of your arguments: Healthcare: I used to live in the UK and now live in California. My marginal tax rate, at over 40%, is pretty much the same in both places. But in the UK I got great taxpayer funded healthcare, free at the point of use AND I was free...
If they do a buy out for my contract, offer more than just wifi calling, and allow me to bring my own phones (from Sprint), then I will sign on asap! I am way overpaying (imo) on Sprint for 3 phones. EDIT: Saw others complaining about not being unlimited at a flat rate. Question for you is, do you truthfully use un...
Moore's law has been bent to mean many things. The original was an observation on the economics of the semiconductor industry, but it's been generalised to mean "stuff gets twice as fast and twice as big every 18 months". There's a Moore's law for bandwidth, for hard drive space, for all sorts of technology. The assump...
that just makes a programmer more efficient sounds like a good start towards obtaining better software to me... I guess it depends on how you define "better". I am arguing that programs being less error-prone to write (presumably leading to less bugs & crashes) and allowing programmers to obtain more functionality ...
No. Also, no and no. None of the companies you name have monopolies. They all provide a consumer service, and there is plenty of competition available for all of them. Don't like Microsoft? Buy a Mac. Don't like Macs? Well, don't it suck that nobody else makes operating systems *cough*linux*cough*. Don't like AT&T?...
I always thought "It's really bad" was the
I have a related story: When I was a teacher of Web development 12 years ago (teaching students in the age range of mid-twenties to mid-fifties), I opened my classes on the first day with rules of conduct. I was very clear that Web development is a deadline-oriented profession, and as such, deadlines must be respec...
I was doing some research at a lab in college, and a girl doing a separate experiment 'lost' an entire quarter's work... images, documents, everything just gone. I asked her where her backup was, and she didn't have one. It turns out she was just keeping everything in a folder on the desktop of a public computer, and...
The more important the data is to me, the more places it gets saved. I used to back up everything to CDRWs but now I save most everything to my 1TB external hard drive. Really important files get printed and filed in permanent storage, ie a box in the back of a closet.
Currently setting up with new IT partner. Meh. Back when I was doing small-office stuff on the side, all my clients refused to pay for my time and the hardware to do proper backup. And when data loss occurred, as I warned them it would, they canned me and hired someone else. This happened four or five times, and ea...
First of all SVN provides version, Dropbox does not. So Dropbox is more like an FTP client. a couple of thoughts.. one... it doesnt remember file permissions. Everytime you get on the computer you have to reset the file permissions. This is espeically bad if you are using something like ubuntu. Windows doens't have...
I once installed a new hard drive in my server, and then decided to format it. So first I deleted all four partitions on it, because it came from an older linux server that I needed the hard drive from. After that I formatted the new single partition to ext3. Something didn't feel right about it, so I looked into it, a...
Android phones have more features," Why exactly does this make a phone better? Everybody prattles on about how "The Japanese have far better technology than us, look at their cell phones". Want to know why those phones never made it over here? Because they were almost always a messy pile of features. No consistency a...
I'm seriously considering dropping netflix. I pay a premium for blu-ray access but recently they seem to be taking the money and running. I mean no Sound of Music (blu ray), no Bridge over the river Kwai (blu ray), no it's a wonderful life (blu ray), no White Christmas (blu ray) and so many more are missing you have...
Say you got a 100mbit line for $2000/month with $10,000 to install it, and those costs are probably significantly underestimated. If those are just the costs to get the line run to one location you are looking at $20/month per house and $100 setup. Each person gets 1mbit up/down guaranteed. It is pretty likely that...
I feel that pain. My jaw dropped a little hearing nintendo would support this. Maybe it's a case of
software that is designed to block ads should block ads and not be selective as to the ads that it blocks based on the amount of money the developer received from a specific company but rather by the selection of the end user. Let me help you out by conveying the information in the OP's link that you clearly did not ...
Ehh, no. You're thinking in the past, just like the cable companies. The broadcast model is dead. Most TV watching by cable subscribers is done via Tivo these days. No one races home in the evening to watch their favorite show in real time. The same experience can be had with streaming content. That's the future. If ...
Rather than be disappoint, why not discuss it. I am unfamiliar myself as I am sure are lurkers. I am a MechE by trade and am trying to facilitate discussion on a topic that I think has not had its share of the limelight. Start with the
Yeah, they could just make decentralized DNS illegal. Label it as rogue, provided MitM hackers to spread child pornography or something. Even Anonymous wouldn't touch that. They even took down that CP TORsite awhile back. CP is THE wildcard that we need to tame. You can label it CP, protecting children, and virtual...
This bill would make it easier to threaten anonymous exercisers of 1st amendment rights with unmasking. Make no mistake -- this is another direct assault on your constitutional rights.
Is this speculation or do you actually run into these problems. I'm a professional Android dev and its very rare that this actually becomes a problem. The only examples I can think of are the odd "oh this class was a little buggy before x.x, use this work around." You can run into issues when you use undocumented AP...
Fascinating data. I wonder how ICS will fare in the coming months as further devices beyond a reference device begin to launch. Interestingly, there've already been some rumors floating out of the mfg's in Asia about the details of Jelly Bean (perhaps coming at the beginning of Q2 this year). Wonder if ICS will end u...
Speaking as someone who has been using Linux since 1997 and mostly using nVidia in that time, I can definitely see a marked improvement in the quality of the Catalyst drivers, especially in the last 12 months. Every time I buy a new graphics card I'll always borrow or buy/return an ATI/AMD card to guage performance. La...
As [merreborn said below]( we're not talking about only making open-source developers happy. You know, from a business perspective, fuck those guys, or whatever. But we're assuming Nvidia execs aren't completely brain-dead and kind of figure out that Android is a huge-ass market. That's why they have the Tegra unfold...
I understand the privacy argument being presented here, and actually identify with it to an extent. So I'd like to cut to the heart of the issue; some people (ad-networks or data-miners) inevitable use this functionality to collect information about your habits, and then use that data somehow to make a living. I thin...
Yep, that's pretty much my recollection of it. After the "upgrade", the front page ended up being mostly links that had been "sponsored" and, because of that, it tended to stay very static and boring. When the community complained, the powers-that-be said it was "impossible" to go back to the previous system. Not t...
Maybe you missed this part on the sidebar: >museumplanner.org is run by Mark Walhimer, Managing Partner of Museum Planning, LLC an exhibition design and museum planning company. People can be sources too, especially experienced professionals. His source is that he IS a museum planner and this is what he does. You...
Just wait until Government Healthcare takes effect. Want to sue the government because you died? There's no way in hell that you'll succeed since it will be like the Department of Justice suing the "Department of Healthcare". Both of those departments are like the left hand and right hand of the same body. There's no w...
Reposting the deleted comment from Amazon customer service team manager: > [–]throwbackhero 2 points 23 minutes ago > Finally I can be useful. I currently work for Amazon customer service in Canada as a team manager so let me enlighten everyone on the situation here. What mainly happens in this situation is what we c...
I agree, it's the negative PR that can hurt a company... I had an issue with my HP laptop, when I tilted the monitor, I would get yellow flashes on the screen. I contacted HP assuming they may have encountered this problem. The first thing they asked me to do was to updated my BIOS. I initially refused as it appeared...
Exactly the reason to prefer PHYSICAL copies over electronic. With the push of a button (or execution of automated script), you can legally lose EVERYTHING you "own", regardless of any ACTUAL wrongdoing on your part (who is to say that a hacker was not responsible for Linn's account?). If you have a physical copy, it...
I do my best to remember this and direct my ire towards the organisation rather than the person. The person is the interface unfortunately and it's the only interface we get. I also do my best to choose companies where I won't be forced into that position in the first place.
This is a good idea, but the idea that this is the start of regulation is inaccurate. In the European Union, the Parliament doesn't have the power of initiative. That is to say that they can't start the ball rolling on EU legislation. Only the Commission can do that, and it either does it of its own behest, or at the...
Wikileaks is a very visible symptom in this case. The bigger issue here is companies like PayPal holding thousands of customer's money hostage for no stated (or apparent) reason, without any proper legal means of putting things right.
So Cox has made me realize two things. A. Thanks for reminding me that im over the 200 gigs allotted on my UNLIMITED INTERNET. (See attached image) B. You have now changed November into "Lets see how much over the cap I can get by downloading everything in sight." Steam Library? Yeah lets delete that and re-download e...
I studied Comp-Sci at Cornell 12 years ago. Coming in as a freshman, I hoped to major in AI, but after taking 2 classed, one focusing on symbolic AI and the other focusing on Bayesian statistics, I was completely turned off. Our brains are massively parallel redundant systems that share practically nothing in common ...
Same here, except the hacker made calls from Indonesia to Saudi Arabian mobiles. OK, my bad for having an insufficiently strong password. It wasn't 12345, but it was a dictionary word. Still, was there no timeout after X number of failed attempts? Amazingly, I managed to back get control of the account just in time. I ...
You are pretending to a level of competence you do not have. That is dangerous in the 'touting' business as it is possible - even likely - that you will encounter someone who will call you on it. Like now. First, connecting a pristine Windows install to the Internet is extremely unwise. All drivers, patches and sec...
I'm assuming that the hacker in question was doing this to the 787, which, to my knowledge, is the aircraft most heavily dependent on these systems. Before the mass panic sets in, let me just state that the amount of testing that Boeing had to do on this system was, for lack of a better term, a lot. We all know how ...
This may sound cynical as hell, and you'd be right, but I work in the film industry and I honestly wouldn't mind seeing the major studios cut down a notch. It's pretty much the slightly more liberal, west coast version of Wall Street. Just a bunch of greedy, rich old fucks interested solely in the acquisition of mone...
Torrentfreak keeps cheering on the proxy sites, but that's the wrong mindset. We shouldn't even have to use proxies. BPI/MPAA are throwing lists of domain names at the moment, as a web developer who owns websites which contain user-generated content - I'm scared for my future. Recently, the UK passed a bill making ...
Implementation of a new software product can take months of testing and a longer stage of support. For example, if the state provided vpn went down for too long the company would look to the government for reparations for the time that their employees couldn't work during the outage.
i don't think you can get the media on your side with protests with anything but numbers. 10,000 hippies will get more media attention than 100 suits. further, not everyone agrees that the clean cut look reflects anything other than submission to culture. if you want to wear rings in your nose and trash on your back, y...
I've felt some confusion over the proposed internet filtering and decided to go straight to the horses mouth, here is DC's Speech: [link]( And I thought I'd summarize it here for you, quotes are taken directly from the above link, with my notes added in. >I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scare...
Yet another attempt to do good from a Prime Minister that doesn't understand the Internet. This will only harm legitimate users of the web. I'm sick of government regulation and filtering of websites; if someone wants to watch child porn, they can just download a tor browser and look at some shifty forums for an abusin...
This is going to have very little effect on anything. The majority of the type of people this is targeting will know (and probably already use) methods to get past security systems and to remain anonymous using services like Tor and VPNs etc. They seem to be under the impression that people can just type "child porn" i...
Or you know, view porn anyway as the filter will not stop tech-literate people from viewing it. VPNs and proxies will increase in popularity I think, but David Cameron said something about targeting those next 'as people use them for illegal activities'. But, even so, there will be loads of mirrors popping up exactly l...
We have a great self-correcting system. Our pervasive "freedom to do what we want with our own property" culture isn't going anywhere, while we have companies who want our money and know that it would make zero business sense to block content. Americans are extremely annoying as customers: If something's wrong, the m...
I seem to recall what Apple argued was that the supplier of the parts already paid Samsung to license the technology, so the parts were already "licensed" when Apple bought the parts. Then Samsung wanted to "double dip" by asking Apple to pay for licensing again. ETA: none of that is relevant in this veto, though. Wh...
Putting aside how awful this is, it doesn't even accomplish what you want. Progress and high populations go hand in hand, and form a feedback loop. Simple version: Efficient food production leads to more people, and less people needing to be farmers. This means we have more specialists. More specialists means more in...
Oh for fuck's sake. I saw a headline submitted somewhere else that said this was about "who qualifies for freedom of the press" and thought, "EmdeeAhr, no one would possibly fall for that." Someday I shall learn to lower my expectations. The bill has nothing to do with who can "report" anything, and has every...
This is a complex issue and I think this article don't even scratch the surface of the brazillian telecommunications problem and Internet privacy. It presents the potential of the market of social media, like facebook and twitter, which is very profitable to US-based companies, but it doesn't talk about the market ...
Maybe they would cooperate if Google would stop harassing Microsoft over Windows Phone all the time. Basically NO google services work properly, and one time they blocked several services on the grounds of made up reasons. The latest victim was the [youtube app]( I can see how you can't force Google to write an app for...
Yeah, I don't think I would trust a black market pharmacist lol. These medicines that are prescribed to us were created by Chemists with extreme knowledge in Chemistry. Lol I forgot most of my Chemistry, but I remember in some of my courses hearing how a slight change in the reaction/compound is able to change the effe...
The majority of HDMI devices support HDCP. Some devices (eg: blu-ray players) enforce it, refusing to send data unless the target device agrees to HDCP encryption. The player device queries the display device to see if it supports HDCP and makes a decision based upon that. This information also includes supported res...
Hence my point that it needs to be further developed without being completely dissed because it's not good enough "right now." For the time being, since we don't have one solution that solves everything, we should be exploring any viable possibility as some might serve as intermediate technology as we transition to s...
quantum computers don't speed up hashing and bitcoin modus operandi for change addresses means that by the time quantum computers can be used against a then public key to get the private you have transfered everything to a different change address of which the public key is not known, just the hash of it.
Unsurprisingly, [the actual study]( says nothing about the Silk Road actually reducing drug-related violence; the main finding of the study is that most vendors on the Silk Road are generally mid-level dealers who largely sell to low-level dealers. As a result the mid-level dealers don't necessarily have to worry abo...
If this ends up growing to somewhere near the level of the workers union (Which I do hope it does, to an extent) we need to iron out the intentions of it before it starts gaining traction. It should be to fix and re-invent the current, broken system of internet provision. After that it has the potential to become a gre...