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Exactly. But I don't understand why these people are so dedicated to making things "kid friendly". Sure, it looks good on paper. But instead of CEO's playing babysitter, how about the parents step up and be parents . Heaven forbid you monitor what your child is doing on a computer that essentially connects them to loa...
My friend and I got high and watched it once, and then had a brainstorming session (complete with notes on a yellow legal pad) about how to do the sequel. Translating from Marijuanese and some doodles of boobs, this is what we came up with: Brewster has become an eccentric billionaire, and had several children, som...
Having owned a series of desktops-turned servers, I would suggest that the average user buy a network drive (NAS) if the goal is simply to store files. Units can get pricy, but basic models start at 1tb for just over $100. The DIY model does offer the potential for a very carefully tailored security solution (and ema...
The largest is actually Amazon, but there are several more. HP is definitely in the top three working with the government. This article is definitely talking about consumers, but it seems to say that cloud computing is dead. That's so far from true. It's actually booming, and government is going to drive it. The fact...
Cloud computing always has and will be great. Don't worry I have a story to illustrate this. I was given the role of project manager for a web application we had to build. The problem with this application is that nearly all of the client's workable budget needed to be used on development, not hosting. I shopped ar...
Somebody eli5. whats the big deal. You can 3D print stuff.. I've seen the 3d models of people. I am going to go all 5 year old with my confusion. o the person is copied and it looks like a Han solo action figure but cant move the arms or legs. The inside of said person isn't copied. Organs blunt and so on. Now on...
Put yourself in the shoes of a civilian living nearby to enemies (real or imaginary) of the flying robots with missiles for which no one can be held responsible. You have suffered for years with your friends and family dying around you to human soldiers. This is an evil situation, I'm sure you will agree. Now recen...
ha >Drones have been hackable for years. In 2009, defense officials told reporters that Iranian-backed militias used $26 of off-the-shelf software to intercept the video feeds of drones flying over Iraq. And in 2011, it was reported that a virus had infected some drone control systems at Creech Air Force Base in Neva...
It comes down to pressure - and if you Google around for info on reloading .40, you'll find plenty on it. Basically .40S&W runs at MUCH higher case pressures than .45ACP and as such the cases have to withstand more damage. Combine that with unsupported chambers (well, relatively) in some guns (Glocks) and you get bul...
Actually the reality is A LOT more grim. Kevlar is a fabric that can stop a bullet, but one of the problems, actually, of non-rigid bullet resistant armor is that it doesn't do anything at all. If you're wearing a completely loose kevlar suit with no rigid plates in it, the bullet will actually fully penetrate you, b...
Thing is, this is still fabric. Even if the bullet doesn't penetrate, it still transfers its kinetic energy to the fabric, which transmits it to the wearer. Because it's a thin fabric (think suit thin), it doesn't seem like it could disperse the force. So, at best, you end up with a wicked bruise, broken ribs underneat...
That... is a ridiculously stupid argument >.> You do realize that unless it's a fairly high class organization, almost no criminal/gang can just import this shit themselves, right? Ignoring the high costs of the suit itself, there's still the fact that smuggling things across borders is expensive , especially when i...
Military body armor is also stupidly heavy and sends a good chunk of veterans home with life long debilitating back problems. It also is less than ideal in terms of heat casualties especially fighting in the desert. With ~1% of soldiers/marines experiencing combat, and many less taking hits, we're basically trading a...
There was a bestof a few weeks back where someone went in depth into how this was not necessarily a good move, the failure to take them down was more about poor shooting and tactics but because they wouldn't admit to that, blaming the ammo was better PR. Then there was loads of info about the standard round actually be...
I can completely believe this. I have a 10mm handgun (I collect and use them regularly - it's a hobby) and frankly, it's my least favorite to shoot. The kick is fucking ridiculous . The barrel ride because of this constantly and consistently takes you off target, so you have to reacquire the sight picture before yo...
Ehhh. I've worked for a company selling body armor before, and know enough about the actual products and players in the industry to be highly suspicious of this supposed suit. Lots of small time companies tend to pop up out of nowhere and offer some new wonder-armor solution for ridiculously low prices or weight, an...
Yahoo gets hacked all the time. I'm surprised they even announce it honestly. I've had my long-abandoned yahoo mail account get hacked and spam people when i had a 23 character high-entropy password, and no password recovery enabled. Their security is a joke. Hell they can't even get spam filters right.
The problem with your argument is that the energy in wind at velocity V scales as V^(3). If you double the speed of the wind, energy goes up by a factor of 8. So if their example 2mph wind blows for 10 hours and then a 15 mph wind blows for 1 hour, there is 42 times more energy in the short burst of moderately fast ...
When you get an IPv6 address, you can get two things -- a "non-temporary address" (ia-na), which is the public IP address of your router or device, and a "prefix delegation" (ia-pd), which is the subnet your router is given to assign to your network, and thus your router is responsible for routing (the "delegation" par...
No. TV usually implies that your receiver is directed to [these frequencies]( and associated encodings. On the other hand, most cheap devices (accessible in poor regions) are equipped with just Wi-Fi chips, and can't receive and decode TV signals without very heavy modifications. This company's idea is to transmit co...
I work as a server at Chilis with these tablets on the tables and it does really help us out. It makes our jobs easier yes but would you rather have a tablet to let you see the desserts, alcoholic drinks, and appetizers or would you rather have a server that has to rush to answer everyone of your questions about every ...
This isn't just about improving hardware. The Cisco ASR9k is a fairly new routing platform. I work for a company that has a lot of routers that take and share full routes. Last August, the full routing table hit 492k routes. The ASR9k platform is fairly robust. But there was a problem that Cisco didn't tell us. ...
What you're touching on is part of the problem but not in the way you intend. Things change, technology changes, markets change. The key is finding that balance between what the product costs, what profit you want to make, and what the consumer is willing to pay. What can affect that balance is the options availabl...
Hypothetically, let's make piracy legal. Everybody downloads music for free. The entertainment industry, who traditionally make money from sales, lose that money. The question is then, how do you make money from people who you are giving away free stuff to? Add value somewhere else, and monetize somewhere else. Spoti...
Sounds like a very low number to me. You could attach a dollar value to it any way you like, but that wouldn't make any sense in figuring out how much money the original owners of the content are "losing" to the torrents. It's an interesting thought, but I don't see how it makes any difference. As it could be argue...
If you look at keyholes, you'll see manufacturers put in different horizontal intrusions. So even locks for identical purposes will always have different keyways. Then there's the variation by purpose: some locking-requirements need stronger keys, so they'll end up with a thicker (or taller) key. Finally, the precisio...
PhD student in Medical Physics here. This level of detail isn't anything new. MRI has the potential for sub-millimeter resolution given the right conditions, and has for 10+ years. The problem is scan + computation time. More detail = longer time with the patient on the scanner. Clinical imaging really breaks down to...
I love MRI (hence the reddit name), but I respectfully disagree with your second paragraph. I personally work with MRI, CT, ultrasound, and radiography. I also have a peripheral interaction with PET and other nuclear medicine scans. There are many reasons beyond cost, time, and availability for which I recommend othe...
I've been using my kindle for a while, and although I don't use the keyboard much, it doesn't really get in the way. Plus the ability to end an argument by loading up wikipedia on it is pretty handy. I haven't used the Nook much, so I can't fairly judge, but the one thing that I did notice while trying out a displ...
Except that WebOS allows for multiple distribution channels, has a huge homebrew community, and let's you do whatever the fuck you want with your device, including overclocking, re-skinning, etc. Only apps in the "app catalog" need to be approved by Palm, whom have been worlds more lenient than Apple in that regard. ...
If you're anything like me, odds are you developed slightly bad posture from being hunched in front of a computer all day. I used to get terrible migraines to the point of going blind and vomiting. I actually narrowed down the cause to my shoulders/upper back years before, but only went to a physiotherapist every 6 mon...
That's the thing in these situations. YOU, and others, don't believe we need to spend the money on these things. There are lots of other people who believe we should. Everybody is an expert when they think someone else is doing something the wrong way and that they could do it better. I'm not trying to insult you ...
First, these aren't new F-15's that they are producing. These planes already exist and are being flown today. They are only replacing the radar and related electronics. Significantly cheaper than a whole new jet and more bang for your buck. Second, the logic behind developing and constructing newer and newer milit...
OK, you seem to be talking about a few different things here. IP is handled for each packet at the network layer, while MAC is handled for each frame at the data link layer of the network. In order to keep routing sane, different regions, organizations, etc are given a unique subnet. Large scale routing would be im...
Look man at the end of the day what do you really believe? it's honestly not a complicated thing, Google's always been about cataloging the world's information, and Facebook has been about people. any cellphone you have can track you, even your dumbestphone. the NSA can read any email you send, any website can deduce...
On the one hand I see why Comcast is trying to cap bandwidth. On the other hand, they have no right to turn off service. I know that ATT will charge you an extra $10 for 50 GB or something like that. My parents have comcast and I really like their internet. My parents pay like $100 for insanely fast internet (25+ Mbi...
Our telecom services and cable providers paid for the cables themselves. Why should other companies just be allowed to use their cables? America is much much much larger then the UK. I am trying to find a good source but the UK has [been compared to the size of Oregon]( although I think that might be wrong, the ide...
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1 The idea that Internet access is now equivalent to an essential utility is the right one, I think. The argument gets messy in those areas of the world where Net access is not yet ubiquitous, but then water, gas and electricity are not yet ubiquitous either. (Yes, I know water was only very, very recently Back ...
How are you measuring that .2? I feel like for FDM machines resolution is pretty difficult to discuss. The filament my Mendel puts out is about 1.1mm thick, so in a layer it can only print 1.1 mm details, but it can place that 1.1 mm thick filament with an accuracy of about .05mm, (mine is slightly more geared down tha...
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Is Sony in the right to ask these people to waive the rights on behalf of the card holders? Should it not be the personal responsibility of the credit card holders to monitor their users? >If agreement changes thereafter, I wouldn't be notified of it unless I also use PSN, or my kid told me about it. Do they not ...
How can someone be legally bound to a contract that they cannot be proven to have signed or even read? Lawyer here. Actually "reading" isn't necessary, because you click on a response in any EULA certifying that you read it before entering the agreement. People used to try to argue that there was no meeting of the mi...
I'm by no means a gabe fanboy, but holy crap! It's incredibly refreshing to know that SOMEONE in the game industry understands the underlying reasons people pirate games. I wish the other companies would take note. The same concepts truly do apply to movies and TV shows as well.
This is the key. Focus on making your paying customers happy, giving them what they want, and their numbers will increase. If people on Youtube aren't posting your complete shows, but are making more than fair use of your content, ask Google to pay you your fair share of the advertising revenue. If they are posting y...
Every single time I try to explain the Bob Parsons/elephant story to someone, they side with the elephant. Doesn't matter how I frame it, what type of person I'm talking to (male/female, liberal/conservative...), they always side with the elephant. Forget the fact that multiple people were having their food supply th...
The issue is, how does Apple protect their IP? It's clear that Android, et al ripped off their idea and it's clear Android wasn't going this way until Apple did. It's also clear that if you're giving away the OS for free, you can beat Apple on cost. How should Apple defend themselves from companies that will just s...
Thank you for making this post. I made a student documentary of the homeless in Boston (there are 6000-8000 at any given time, several hundred of which are children), and I can tell you, all they want is a safe place to sleep (whenever they go to homeless shelters they'll have the shoes stolen off their feet, much le...
Yeah, pretty much. I had Sprint since about a month before the EVO 4G launched. Last year, 3G just became... Laughable. I live across the street from a cell tower. When I first got my EVO, I could get 3mbps from it. Last month, I was lucky to get 200kbps. WiMAX coverage in Sacramento is awful unless you're in just th...
I used to work for sprint and when this first came out we were required to let people know about this charge (back when it applied to 4g only) i stopped working there after it had gone to all smart phones, but last i knew it was still required. I quit not because i disliked sprint, but because it was a second job and n...
I hold skepticism in the highest regard, and from this I can rarely ever give a straight answer of what I fully believe. I have trouble claiming that I'm identical to myself as I was yesterday, that I'm the same being, so it can be hard for me to claim anything. The most I can give are thoughts, and a general claim tha...
Of course, if you take into account the changes of government that took place after the Civil War (Union and Confederacy resolved into THE United States, not "these"), that buys us more time. Plus if you count the complete change in the role of government with the New Deal, that's a little more. Regardless, today's US...
This is like saying "Oh, also we know there's no way the bible is true because Jesus couldn't have been born in December." A little late to the party, we already knew Yahoo sucked, one more tiny piece of tangential evidence isn't going to change anything. Conversely, if we found out the same thing about Google's form...
My friend and I had long discussions about this issue (btw this is from May of last year). My point is, apart from news articles, I couldn't find other cases where the filter bubble is bad. For example, location aware event timings (if I search for "cinema", I want an implicit filter on my location, rather than every ...
My friend and I had long discussions about this issue (btw this is from May of last year). My point is, apart from news articles, I couldn't find other cases where the filter bubble is bad. For example, location aware event timings (if I search for "cinema", I want an implicit filter on my location, rather than every ...
This is a downside of Google search filtering, but there's also an upside. Localized results, for example, are a very powerful tool that Google offers. Knowing that I'm a programmer, Google will bring me to the Java (programming language) page, before the Java (coffee) page. There's big time-saving benefits to making y...
This is what happened with Diamond. I was at my peak and then...it just fell away not all at once but gradually. Maybe my DS hinge breaking didn't help things either(which pretty much ruled out the eventual HG/SS). Maybe it was the region? FR/LG was my first time playing Kanto and I still felt the nostalgia. I liked ...
I'm typing on my phone so I'll have to keep to the salient points. It's meant for it, basically. Being e-ink is a big deal for a start. Because the screen radiates no light, and has no flicker rate, there is far less eye strain. It may not seem like a big effect, but your eyes get really tired looking at screens, p...
I dont have a data plan... I can get about 12 to 13 hours of battery life. When I say 12 to 13 I really mean. Going to school at 7 in the morning. Doing all my classes till 6 then staying an extra 2 hours to finish a lab. Then get home which is another hour later, eat and forget to plug in my phone. Then go take a show...
Galaxy wasn't my first choice, I wanted the new Lumia because of the pretty colors and since before iPhone I had used Nokia phones for about 15 years or so. Also saying goodbye to iTunes is great. Didn't know how much I hated it until I could use my phone without it. Being able to use my phone with any computer (I ev...
Which is why I was so butt hurt about the switch. I have the following items: iPod/iPhone docking mixer for my PA system, iPod/iPhone boombox, iPod/iPhone docking alarm clock, iPod/iPhone docking stereo in all three of my cars, about 10 cables and a couple of clip on battery boost cases. I WAS FUCKING PISSED BEYO...
Have not bought any apps for android, everything I need has been available for free so far. I was also pleasantly surprised I can run UAE on Android for when I need to play Amiga games. Switching was the best thing ever. Not even joking about the apps. So many very useful apps available for free, it's pretty damn aweso...
I work on both, but iOS applications sell far, far better. The marketplace on Android is the wild west. Working with Android is actually far easier for the average developer, in my experience. In terms of development ease, I find Java to be a much easier language and you're not forced into the design patterns that ...
Okay, I think I figured out the huge thing you missed when writing this: >Unrelated, but Google got hit by a HARD "single day" loss on October 18th due to a fuck up by an external company causing panic. They're down 0.97% since then. Google's quarterly earnings results were released [3 hours early (link)]( on accid...
Not for me. With my bad vision, I hate having to either hunch over the keyboard to see the screen when it's on a table or how the screen on ALL laptops doesn't go completely back so I can have it vertically so I can use it in my lap easily.
So here's an amusing story you might enjoy. I just got my gs3 not too long ago as well. My roommate is watching Netflix on the Xbox, and I've got headphones on listening to music on my phone and connected to the WiFi. There was an odd button at the top of the (stock)music app. Looked like a monitor with a number 1 ...
Okay, I think I figured out the huge thing you missed when writing this: >>Unrelated, but Google got hit by a HARD "single day" loss on October 18th due to a fuck up by an external company causing panic. They're down 0.97% since then. >Google's quarterly earnings results were released 3 hours early (link)[1] on acc...
Proof that lifting fixes everything. Because he didn't even lift, he was scrawny and knew he wouldnt last in prison, he'd be someones bitch the first week.. if he had lifted, he might've had the confidence and strength to last in prison and get out on parole early.
My beef with GDocs is the horrible contortions you need to go thru to copy and paste between documents. Had some CSV tabular data in a Document and wanted to paste it into cells in a Sheet. In MS Office, Excel will happily take that data from the clipboard and arrange each item into it's own cell and proper row. You ca...
I'm guessing he means "one click hoster" - which is stupid, because that's pretty much exactly what this article is saying is on its way out. Also, if the other side is a "plant" by the MPAA your IP is still logged regardless of encryption (Something has to establish the TCP handshake and session). Private trackers, a ...
You could go one level lower, Joules is a measure of energy. The screen drains the battery at 2 joules per second (that is two Watts). If you left it on for 1 hour you would drain 7200 joules. It is more convenient to say 2 watt-h instead of 7200 joules. When you say 2 watts per hours you are saying. 2 joules per sec...
You had better not be using any type of motorized transportation. You had better be using shears to cut your lawn. I had better never see you on atvs or motorcycles. You had better not be using any type of infrastructure electricity. You can't even have a cooking fire if you expect an argument like that to fly. ...
On the surface this headline quote is a seemingly penetrating indictment upon how much good internet will do when there are people who on a daily basis can barely keep their health in check let alone utilize computers to expound on ideas and thoughts through the interwebs. However, in my opinion, this is a cheap shot...
This follow-up sentence is, to me, reinforcing the original quote rather than this being a case of a sentence out of context. He argues that "we don't have time to dick around and deal with structural issues like infrastructure and access to information; we have to give them medicine when they are sick and food when ...
Right, and having primary accounts of these situations and issues isn't going to be a step up from westernized media attention and the usual "white man's burden" theme Areyoufuckingkiddingme?? Maybe if we had more primary accounts, REAL issues would be reported and REAL solutions would go viral, instead of unchecke...
I'd bet good money that the Loon project isn't just a goodwill mission. One of the biggest problems that Google now faces in it's expansion of the mobile devices market (and others) is the control that the major network companies have over mobile internet. Both Google and the cell companies know that the business mod...
If it were only that easy.... Alas, cartels like the RIAA have [sued several people who don't even have computers for file sharing.]( It's not about justice, it's about fear. They believe that, if they put out enough [over-the-top ridiculous lawsuits]( they will scare people into paying [massively exorbitant prices]( t...
Let me preface this by saying that I am someone who works in a cloud hosting business. I specialize in the networking security portions of the business as well. This article speaks very clearly to me. As someone who's livelihood depends on the success of cloud hosting on US Soil, I can tell you that I am very much in...
The 4s is free on contract while 5c is $99 and 5s is $199 if you're in the US. Off contract it's $449, $549, $649 respectively. Coming from a value perspective, it's wiser to skip the 5c and get a 5s or even a 5 (assuming they go on sale as retailers try to diminish their inventory).
I don't get that either - I'm intrigued by the Surface. I'm an iPad user, but I'm pulling for the MS to make a dent in Apple's tablet marketshare. The iPad still has a way to go before it's viable for more than media consumption and games, but without serious competition there's no incentive for Apple to do anything mo...
God dammit, as I'm typing this message on my new RT, I really wish I knew about this offer a few days ago. Also, after much consideration I decided that the RT worked more for me than the pro. At a MUCH lower price of $500cad (with type keyboard) as compared to the close to $900 pro, the RT was a better choice for wha...
I bought a Pro and wasn't that impressed, for the price. It should be able to blow away the iPad and doesn't. I know the surface is more than a consumption device, but leave it to Microsoft to make something so impressive so awkward. It's impossible to use literally on your lap, typing. The cloth keyboard is gimmic...
Nah, I think most of us have just lived through too many BSODs and random crashes. I've never had a laptop last more than two years, and to be fair, that's because I buy shitty Windows laptops. Generally, you get what you pay for and that's why many people buy Apple. The problem, however, is that Apple products are...
Errrrr no. Unless you make the tablet with little access panels that you can unscrew to add new hardware, like a laptop, then you can't really have one that's "upgradable". You can't do that without compromising the device in terms of build quality and durability. For a tablet, which is supposed to be carried around ...
This is WHY we have encryption. No one should ever be asked to hand over an encryption key. Ever. Whatever judge/agent etc came up with that idea should be in prison. Lets face it, if someone doesn't want the government to see something, and they have even a BASIC understanding of how to keep that information secret,...
The only place on Earth that Nineteen Eighty Four references work for is North Korea. "We've always been at war with Eastasia" is an expression of concern about a government that has total control over all information to the point where it can erase all evidence that they ever weren't at war with Eastasia and nob...
Except the FAA regulations in question aren't protectionist rules written by big business; there are no incumbents around to have written them! It's only very recently that widespread commercial use of this airspace has even been considered and it's going to take a long time for the regulations to be considered and cr...
It's been a long time since I worked in EFT (13 years), but encrypted pin blocks are definitely transmitted in the transaction message with the card number and CVV/CVC at least part of the way. As an card issuing institution, if you're not receiving the pin block in the transaction messages, it's because someone else...
Sorry, I just have to comment because your statement is very misleading. For background, I used to work in a call center for one of the largest banks in the US. I would talk to people who were confused about the different overdraft options all the time. I don't know exactly what terminology other banks use but at my ...
If Target is found to be liable, the card networks (i.e. Visa, MC) may fine Target to cover the cost of reissuance, for fraud losses, etc.
My bank (an extremely giant one 'Of America' if you catch my drift) will even make sure you cover that overdraft by transferring $100 out of the linked account, even if you were only over by 1 cent. And, since you as the customer are so grateful for this service, you also pay $10 for the convenience. Oh and if you'v...
Hey saufsoldat my apologies, these days I just assume that everyone on Reddit discussing nuclear power understands the fundamentals of nuclear power economics but is just pushing their own agenda. My (long) response here assumes you are not one of them (us). Many controversial issues with large financial incentives ...
I wouldn't be so sure. [Archive.org]( has 28 captures from 10 Sep 06 - 9 Jan 14 and they are all the same. They appear to have only changed the website in the last few months; though perhaps this is a bug with the wayback machine? Regarding their Twitter: 1 tweet in 2008, 1 tweet in 2009, A handful of unrelated tweet...
I don't believe that number is entirely accurate in this context. Those numbers 2-8ms quoted by monitors, are the time it takes to change from grey to gray, or for the pixel to switch between colors, while yes it directly impacts things, and quality/etc... Its not the same as if you turn your head, and the time it ...
Sadly this could mean that an amoral programmer would be well served to write useful secure code for free, then introduce a bug "by mistake" because there was not enough funding.
Well, typically when a programmer publishes an open source project, they'll license it. The license will just spell out what somebody can and cannot do with the code... whether they can sell their project that depends on the open source code, whether they must give credit, etc. Things like that. Anybody working on a se...
Yes you can, but there are several things to consider: Most towers are designed to maximize lateral range, not vertical The speed of a plane means you would be switching between towers potentially dozens of times an hour. Which would end your battery. At cruising altitude, your phone may not be able to handsha...
gt; Courts makes it unlawful to access site X for reason Y. < People don't agree and create proxies. < Proxies are explicitly advertised as helping to gain access to site X. > Authorities take the proxies down. < Outcry about how unjust the takedowns are because Z. While we all have different opinions on...
The truth about many U.S. speed limits is that they were decided in the 70's when cars were huge and there was a gas crisis. Correspondingly they lowered speed limits for better fuel efficiency and for safety. However, modern cars are increasingly efficient, magnitudes more than the cars in the 70's. Furthermore, va...
So basically one of the arguments will come down to: Poor people can't afford a new car, and are now banned from public roadways. One of the things I've heard (I'm on mobile or I'd dig around for the source) is that self-driving cars may also change our desire to actually own a car. Ride-share companies such as Zip...