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i live in the u.s. and when going to court to contest a speeding ticket, i happened to glance at the officer's internal paperwork while talking to him. on his paper were three checkboxes: "+10 mph under limit (obstructing traffic)", "+10 over limit (speeding)", and "+15 over limit (reckless driving)". Going <10 over th...
That might be a better & cheaper solution once it's done . But it isn't nearly as scalable as putting sensors on cars and linking the cars together. Let's say you only have money for 5 sensors. You can put them on 5 cars or at 5 fixed points along the road. If you put them along the road, there is going to be a lot ...
Driverless' is a convenient word to use for Google because it implies what most people would think when they hear the word. The problem you have is that word structures are not a very effective way of looking at real-world considerations. You're quite right that a driverless car doesn't have the standard mechanical i...
I'm not sure I agree. Think of the amount of roadways we have. Most of this roadway is at the moment utterly passive - most of it is even unlit at night, using only reflective elements that work with headlights to provide a bit of guidance. If you want to introduce active motion detection to the entire road network, ...
The malware was apparently able to use the search function on Reddit to locate comments that were left by the hackers in a discussion pertaining to Minecraft on the site. The Reddit thread has been shut down since. However, it is likely that the malware's creators have put up an alternate server list elsewhere. Current...
Eh, I'm not one to post usually, but I recently switched to Apple and i was pretty surprised how well things just worked and fit into the narratives of today's culture. Put simply, technology is used for its usefulness. It sounds pretty cliche but.. Have you used a macbook recently? The trackpad experience is unreal,...
I didn't find that the internet was amazingly fast, it's more that there was no slow internet, if that makes sense. And also, it's cheap. Out in Gimpo, my nominal 100 Mb/s was really giving me 60 Mb/s. 60 Mb/s is pretty good, especially for basically $20 a month, but it's not like it's ten times the speed of my Canad...
And I'm sitting here with my shitty Hughes Net satellite internet. Other than that pretty much the only other options for internet where I live are other satellite companies or dial up. I get about a 1 mb download speed on a clear day, and practically, if not, nothing if it's storming. And to top it off my family shar...
It's more likely that the brand was called "삼성", or "Three-stars," the literal translation of Samsung. It's a common name in Korea and a lot of smaller brands do carry their name by Samsung (sometimes romanized differently, to Samseong). There's even a subway station in Seoul called "삼성역" which would read like "Samsu...
but we ended up voting in a conservitard government who is ideologically opposed to any policies any other parties have that actually make sense because then they'd have to admit that the other parties are competent and have good ideas. Qualification here because this is important that Americans, who are going throug...
I don't think they will any time soon. The reason machines have so many memory units is because they all have different roles. They differ in capacity, read speed, write speed, volatile/non, cost, pipeline location, etc... Off the top of my head - cpu registers, primary cache, secondary cache, RAM, ROM, GRAM, SSD vs ...
They just follow the air currents. If you want to see how they do that then just google air currents. Basically they move around a little but mainly just rise and lower in an area. The balloons are actually monitored and can be moved slightly to adjust and move between currents, helping the balloon to remain stable. ...
It is more dangerous to be a citizen of the USA than it is to be a cop. > Police are scared because there are nutcases with guns Well, here is some data. Half of police die from cars, not guns. "About half of fatalities result from traffic accidents. Shootings also account for a high number of deaths, followed by...
Maybe they could put together a "terms of service" movie for when the
Dunno, we finally got a house and got the books out of durance vile and loaded the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" back into daylight. I pulled one at random the other night (Stendahl's The Red and the Black ) and you know what -- a lot of it is seriously BORING. I mean, there's like a seven-page description of a ...
The sad thing is, my first thought at reading the title is "You know what would be hilarious? If I wrote '
Note however that Android has massive problems with fragmentation: Hardware manufacturers aren't providing an upgrade path for older phones. So already you're seeing phones stuck on 1.6. There is no software on the computer or phone encouraging/forcing people to upgrade. Apple has iTunes doing this. Developers ...
Presidential Emergency Powers" is one of the scariest terms I've come to know as a US citizen. The US government should probably figure out how to correctly manage what it already has taken over before it takes control over even more of what the people of the world have built. Voice of the people my ass.
I tend to take a strong philosophical stance on issues of market vs. regulations. The way I see it (yes this is a generalization) governments cannot produce wealth or provide a service by itself. In order to provide something, resources need to be diverted from the private sector. And since the private sector is requir...
i'm an fb app developer (much to my personal annoyance) and the rules don't protect shit. the privacy settings however are actually quite robust. app devs can't see shit about you until you click on that 'allow' button. as a user you have to remember that when you click 'allow' you are 'allowing' that application acc...
None of them LIE about connection speeds. The advertised speeds are a maximum (i.e. your connection is capped at that speed, should you reach it). The vast majority of copper wire install in the UK adds a large amount of noise to the line, thus the further you live from the telephone exchange (in cable length) the sl...
Reminds me of a book I once ... bought at a used book sale? took out of the library? I forget. "How to Build A Computer At Home" or somesuch. This thing was Prim-I-Tive with a capital P -- it had you winding large-diameter copper wire into coils to make your own lightbulb sockets. I read through the whole thing loo...
Not in the forseeable future. For something like the mouse and keyboard to go away, something will have to come along that is both easier to use and has no drawbacks. Touch screens are becoming a big thing in mobile devices but they suck when on a full size scale if you are trying to do even basic web navigation, the...
I think part of it is usability. I know several developers that write for Windows but do so in a Mac or Linux environment. They want something that won't crash and I think a lot of people lost faith in Microsoft after 98 second edition really... 2k-Vista era was alot of experimental stuff, and 7 is now much better o...
that's how I felt about it too. Without DVDs, the streaming wasn't worth the bother since they never had any of the more recent movies, and $8 for a DVD service was overpriced given that I have a redbox 3 blocks from my house and I pass it on the way to and from work. Sure, it's nice to watch old cartoons with my son...
Stocks lead to short term thinking, That's not necessarily true and is really an extreme oversimplification of the way the stock market works. Companies react to stock price fluctuations all the time, for better or worse. You think Apple buying Next in 1997 and reinstating Steve Jobs was a long term strategy or a r...
Solar energy is not necessarily free to the consumer. You probably pay a feed-in tarriff to subsidize the cost of the utility buying the energy at above-wholesale price. Reversing the direction of flow in distribution systems can absolutely cause problems. Protective systems were made to flow one direction. Fixi...
The difference is in reading levels. Bastiat is hard to read for a lot of people. Its very "highbrow", which in the world of
Which is why an "Internet tribute to Ray Bradbury" is hilarious. The factoid "Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship!" is so well established because so few people have actually read the book. People want
I go through the same type of situation with modern rap music. A lot of my peers criticize me for listening to it. I like to listen to it because I feel energized and alive when I do. I don't really pay attention to the lyrics 80% of the time. I know some of the lyrics are obscene, but I don't really care. The beats ge...
How about we award a URL to somebody or something that matters in the computing/internet world? think about it, Ray Bradbury thought the internet was a distraction and a bad thing. he openly spoke about how F-451 is not about censorship. The internet is actually the EXACT opposite of what F-451 is about. Ray Bradbury w...
But if someone else liked it, don't judge them for it. I don't even try to like Rand, I find her ideas to be so objectionable that I can barely even entertain them for the purposes of criticism. I wouldn't expect you to feel the same, but that's exactly the point - if you can read Rand and not be repulsed, then what ...
I take it you didn't click the [Why Facebook?]( link.
Facebook will eventually crash and burn like Yahoo! and Myspace. Yahoo?! I never saw them as a social networking site but even so it's the 4th most popular website on the entire web which is pretty far from crashing and burning. Yahoo isn't a player in search or social networking but I believe they are succeeding as ...
1) buying instantgram removes a potential competitor from the market. instantgram had the potential to become the sort of danger twitter is right now. 2) facebook's photosharing were not up to par compared to competitors that focuses exclusively on that area. buying instangram allows them to improve on that by integr...
1) there are dozens of other potential competitors and every year there will be dozens more. Is buying them up for 1b each a viable way to maintain control over the market. 2) facebooks photo sharing capabilities are at least a magnitude greater than Instagram. You could argue that their mobile experience isn't up to...
It looks nice(r than my [___] ever did before, which isn't really saying much), but before we get all worked up about the fact that it's no longer vomiting a pile of My First HTML and crushing your browser with a deluge of autoplaying music and animated .gifs, I'd like to see the whole thing in action by actual users. ...
Diaspora lost so much ground/hype when it was discovered that the original people coding it were really bad coders, and that it was plagued with security holes. Many sources were available that confirmed this (Slashdot ripped it apart, as did GitHub, if I recall correctly). Just how bad were these security holes? ...
Of course I know nothing about journalism, I'm too busy writing code. That's the point. The Register serves a specific niche of IT professionals people who just want relevant, and up to date detailed news about non-consumer services and products. News about consumer products only make up a minority of articles, which ...
No, we're downvoting you because your comment espouses your opinion but does not back it up well with facts and sources, or points of contention. You also seem to misunderstand what ThePirateBay is. ThePirateBay and its owners do not steal products or copy them, they only host a site where files are able to be shared...
I'm a little bit confused as to why this is so concerning. Let me explain: I know that if this vote succeeded and if the ITU successfully took over the Internet and if they were used by authoritarian or other regimes to restrict the 'net, that'd suck. However, as it stands the Internet is largely controlled thr...
The UN is bad circlejerk is strong with this one. The proposals people are freaking out about - particularly the taxes and Russia/Iran's snooping - are the ones that won't pass. You all seem to forget that there are 193 countries at work here, not just the Arab league + China and Russia. The MAIN document, the ...
You are very blindly sucking the D of Microsoft and forgetting/forgiving all of their past mistakes. Even today, a lot of what they do and the products they put out are ugly, don't work, don't follow standards, are too confusing, too expensive, etc! You are mistaking my post, I am not a fanboy in the slightest. My po...
Hey, almost like every version of Windows before XT... slam competitor's OS as deeply flawed, promise the moon with the soon to be released Windows version... release piece of shit Windows Version that breaks every piece of software you're using that competes with a Microsoft product, and is nearly as stable as a novic...
The problem isn't with windows RT. The issue is with the price differential, the amount you can do with an windows 8 x64 is easily worth the price difference between the two. Maybe if they were cheaper, I like my surface RT but I'm going to upgrade it to a surface pro because I have too much disposable income but mai...
Tablet Market Share by Manufacturer Q3 2012: Apple: 50.4 Samsung: 18.4 Amazon: 9.0 Asus: 8.6 Lenovo: 1.4 Everybody Else: 12.2 You can add up all of the other manufacturers that could be making an RT tablet and you barely get over Samsung's number in terms of market share. Nokia isn't even on the list.
they could make the best damn thing is the world and people would still complain You are very blindly sucking the D of Microsoft and forgetting/forgiving all of their past mistakes. Even today, a lot of what they do and the products they put out are ugly, don't work, don't follow standards, are too confusing, too e...
In fact, x86 hasn't been a pure CISC architecture in a long time. I think it was NexGen that started the trend with their Nx586. CISC instructions were translated on the fly to run on what was internally a RISC architecture. All modern "x86" CPUs are actually very close to a RISC design and internally they're every bit...
It's kinda expected though. Look at it this way. When he was co-CEO the company went in his direction. Wrong as it may have been, in his eyes it was 100% correct and consumers are wrong. Enter in this new CEO. He's moving the company in a different direction from Jim's. In Jim's eyes what this new guy is doing is a...
Except that it's not really reflective of service to netflix. If I offer a 100Mb/s server and a 5Mb/s service, and 99% of my customers use the 5Mb/s service and then do other browsing while watching netflix, my netflix numbers are going to be bad. But those users could have faster service, they just choose not to....
I don't think this is for the net connection in general, I think this is how much Netflix pipes to the average consumer. When I watch Netflix I may be sharing my connection with at least one other person streaming video and/or games, there could be downloads - I could even be uploading work to FTP. Also, another thin...
Why do these commands create a better streaming experience? TWC is throttling downloads from servers (CDN) that host cached videos. By rejecting these IP address ranges you will force the video to be served to you directly. This harnesses the full download speed of your internet connection. Other people can dive into t...
I'm not sure where RCN falls into this, but I've had nothing but good experiences with RCN in Chicago. Even when they implemented P2P throttling on seeding, their CTO wrote an articulate and reasonable justification (
Although the ISP's are smart. They know that google will only launch it in a handful of cities within in the next few years. Its doubtful Google Fiber will even go to every major city at all. Until google announces plans to do that, ISP's will just pull out of Google Fiber's areas (Or actually improve service, or som...
It's possible that imbolaw meant 192khz as a sampling rate. A really damn high sampling rate at that. CD quality is 44.1khz. I don't think YouTube can handle that. This is separate from bit depth, (measured in kb/s) which is what I think he meant. Think of bit depth as the perceived "clarity" of a sound file. [This...
You really wouldn't want to pirate vinyl records since the sound waves on it are analogous to the original tapes ( equivalent to nearly unlimited sample rate/bit depth) or in some cases extremely hi-def digital files. You'd have to quantize the analog source as they did with CD/DVD/bluray audio, and by extension mp3s a...
The Redbook CD (44.1khz/16 bit) standard does NOT properly capture original analog sources. If you've ever worked at a studio with all analog instruments printed directly to tape at 15 or 30 IPS (guitars without digital effects, electromechanical keyboards such as Hammond B3 organ through a Leslie speaker or a Fender R...
I used to tape songs from the radio onto a compact cassette when I was a kid. I didn't buy any fewer albums than I otherwise would have bought.
My setup (described in my previous post) is not bad. My only complaint is that the lawyers at Pioneer put a ton of warning screens that you need to click on "OK" before you can do anything. Total time between ignition and Spotify goodness is only about 30 seconds or so with the warnings. The radio otherwise is not lagg...
That's how it's always been, and sadly, I don't have much to offer. Most of my friends in college were tech-heads/DJs/etc., so mooched off their access. People with access aren't going to endanger that access by publicizing/offering you a way to get in, usually because invites are tied to a 'tree' system, so if I (us...
I used to watch tv quite a bit growing up and with multiple people watching it is more reasonable to have that cost. It is just since I moved out from home i've not paid for cable since it is too expensive for as much use as I get. Saving 25% on your bill is great. It is just sad that the companies pay what I would ima...
Ive had foxtel for years (Australian Pay TV) and only recently cut it off. $70 a month just is too much. The amount of ads is rediculous. For paying for PAY TV, you then have like 1/3rd of the time being ads. Years ago, say 10 years, There was hardly any ads. Now its just full on ads. The normal TV channels are fin...
Transaction malleability: There is a receipt generated with a bitcoin transaction, similar to what you get at a register when you pay with a credit card. That receipt says "this transaction went through, for 1.242 bitcoin, to this address." If you have another receipt printed in your pocket that says "Transaction err...
Civilian hobbyists can already do practically everything you're describing. The only practical issue that I can see at the moment is the difficulty with viewing faces from above. Facial recognition had real trouble identifying those, last time I looked. The real problem is the amount of skill (and time) involved in c...
What can you do better than it? I can better predict how another driver is likely to react, because I s/he is human too. If I see a BMW driving a hair faster in traffic, tailgating and braking slowly, I know he's likely to cut me off if he has even close to enough space. I know if I see a driver checking their phon...
Not for nothing, but which came first? The genre/aesthetic, the style, or the purpose? Did someone predict the future, or do those old cyber_dystopians go that way because someone has been researching this for a while? I was confused reading that back to myself, so I'll try again
Just as an FYI, and usual IANAL disclaimer applies here: In the UK there's a piece of legislation that says you're not supposed to wear masks in a "protected area". It's covered as part of Section 60AA of the Public Order Act 1984, and its original intention was for it to be used as a temporary measure ordered by hig...
So I feel compelled to explain one of the strange paradoxes of a programmer's job that this thread has raised. Code is cheap, but it's expensive to produce code. You can go on websites like Github, bitbucket, etc, and find vast libraries of code being given away for free with very liberal licensing terms. Google and Ap...
I'm pretty impressed they even caught the guy. Think about it, triangulation is great at locating stationary objects, but this guy was moving around being effectively shielded by loads of other moving objects. I can only guess there was other instrumentation used to gauge the signal strength once they got closer.
I saw the preview/trailer for that show and couldn't get over the bad science in it. It's also a JJ Abrams show, which means I'd probably like the premise but it would derail completely and become a show about something else in the 3rd season which would utterly piss me off.
Every research project jn the United States must go through a review board ("IRB") to be approved to make sure it is being done ethically. This was started up after the government did a few things to Tuskegee airmen [a bunch of people including the infamous Tuskegee institute experiments on syphilis]( and mad scienti...
The researchers who conducted this experiment also do work for the DoD. That means absolutely nothing, university researchers are generally involved in projects with dozens of different government agencies and companies. If you looked at my resume you would see 3 government agencies and 6 private companies who have f...
Consumers stopped informing themselves, demanded corps and govts protect themselves from themselves (anyone who studies product liability can attest to this), and stopped taking pains to make sure their legal rights were/are protected.
I'm not a lawyer (yet) but this is a somewhat complex question. In theory, any of the people that were involved in the study could be a potential plaintiff. The (really) hard part would be demonstrating that your client a. was part of the study b. did not consent to participation in the study (by signing the TOS) ...
Informed consent may be waived by the IRB if four conditions are met. the research involves no more than minimal risk to the subjects; the waiver or alteration will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects; the research could not practicably be carried out without the waiver or alteration; a...
Obama never was a last hope and he never was different. Politicians have carefully designed and crafted personas, built to conveya certain image. Just like pro wrestlers. But they're just façades. Here's a couple more: "Sarah Barracuda" Palin - the go-getter corruption buster - LIE W Bush - the trustworthy, ...
93% of black voters picked Obama. That is some serious racial bias. [Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for ages - since FDR.]( The percentage has only increased over the years. Suggesting blacks voted for Obama en masse just because he's black is just dumb. At best, he got a small boost from people wh...
Far be it from me to dispute your quite popular circlejerk, but in each of the things you cite (the ones that are't utter fabrications, of course), Obama was LIED to by the NSA and CIA, just as Congress and the Congressional oversight committees were LIED to. How do you expect them to give you an accurate report if t...
You will see that this is a much more balanced, fact-checked version of events. Notice how Congress has blocked the measures that Obama couldn't enact via executive order. Also notice how this doesn't deal with the issues of Obama and the Congress being lied to about everything from the FISA court being a rubberstamp...
What fucking tyranny? A company that produces films trying to combat piracy is not tyranny, you ignorant shit, it's called protecting their property. I don't agree with their methods, but don't you fucking start with the "information wants to be free" bullshit. You don't have to like what they do, but don't come up wit...
Most people don't. Most people who aren't Google/Android nut huggers don't use Google+, at least not on purpose. That's why Google has to coerce and trick and scam people into having Google+ accounts and make you go way out of your way just to obliterate every trace of it. You get one by default if you touch Gmail or l...
When you're in an office environment & your lazy-ass co-workers never clean up after themselves. I have keurig at home & the office. Will probably switch to French press at home soon, but kcups seem to be the way to go at work.
It never tastes as good as what I make in my press, but I have one of these machines too. It costs more per cup and doesn't have the same flavour, but I use it because I can walk by it, put my cup in push the button and carry on doing something else for 5-10 minutes then grab the coffee. I know I could leave a pot on ...
Many lawsuits have occurred, but the company that produces these clips (Rogers) have been successful in continuing to fight the silly DRM that Keurig came up with. Which is quite impressive, considering Rogers is a family run company and certainly doesn't have the deep pockets of Keurig. You can read about the legal hi...
Something tells me your completely objective and unbiased documentary forgot to mention this little discovery 5 years prior to its release Also, while it's true that most drinking bottles use mostly "virgin" plastic, most recycling centers do in fact down cycle plastic bottles. The down cycled plastic can be cast in...
In my previous job, there was a 'coffee club' where people in my office would chip in for coffee, someone would buy huge barrels from Costco and they'd all have free use of it and the coffee maker in the break room. Except I didn't like the coffee and didn't feel like dealing with the coffee club. And I had a nice su...
In the past it has been in companies advantages to fight for your rights for the protection of your privacy, it was less work for them and it made their customers happy and loyal. But in the last decade something happened. They stopped that and have slowly been moving more and more towards a nanny state. You haven't ...
Copyright law distances itself from theft of services. So... no. Good try though. >You're deluding yourself. Okay, sure. >You have your own private definition Private, okay. >Make sure to give the next person who says someone stole their idea a ream of shit because by your private definition since he still ...
Murder is closer to theft than copyright infringement is. No it isn't you fucking imbecile. Copyright is indisputably a form of theft, or at the very least "theft-like" by the very codification of the law, grouped as it is alongside a dozen other "theft-like but not actually called theft" offenses under the heading...
I realize that in this situation, the proper Reddit response is to rage about corporate abuse, but we should keep in mind that trademarks are much weaker than patents or copyrights; even with a registered trademark, it is still up to Facebook to prove that some specific use of the word face confuses their service with ...
I now realize my post was a bit long, I should have added a
You're interacting with Linux, Unix, Microsoft, Oracle, etc etc etc on a daily basis. Far more often than you know, sure. But it's the right tool for the right job. Those tools you reference, aren't best-in-breed. Theyre simply Microsoft's tool for the job. You don't have to buy their entire ecosystem and live under ve...
It's not about that. It is about who decides what is and is not going to be blocked. [AOL has been blocking content that conflicts with their business interests for years]( Here in the US, we have very little choice for internet service providors, and thus competition cannot ensure fair business practices. For exampl...
I'm sorry this is retarded. Lawyers are service providers who work at the behest of an often greedy client. They are representatives who present legal arguments that meet the elements of the law because their client has asked them to do so . The people you should be blaming are the corporations that lobby for this ...
Sometimes you have no choice, some companies supply internet connectivity to your area and you only have that company to choose from. You cable company doesn't decide what shows HBO broadcasts, it just is the middle man providing the link. ISPs are the same; they provide the connection, they should not monitor and ce...
I did write out a lengthy response, arguing points and non-points alike, but then came to one of your last statements and realised we fundamentally disagree on the nub of this. > it's simply that I believe "intellectual property" is an oxymoron. I don't. In a world that allowed instantaneous, "free" copies of physi...
Firstly, as an ex-member of the insurance industry (in a humane and heavily regulated country, so we could never pull the shit that US business does daily), this is bollocks. Our interests were our profits, not ensuring universal coverage or ideal social outcomes (things that eat profits, not make them). We had t...
sorry if I didn't make this clear, but the act is the point. causing damages to a film company through an act of film criticism, for better or for worse, is not a crime - you are decreasing the value of the company's work by producing a work of criticism which has intrinsic value of its own. causing damages to a f...
if you think this is shady use a different iso maker. NOTE: any free one will ask to install a toolbar. hrmmm -if you expect an software to remember your old homepage and to revert upon uninstallation you are going to have to take your computer to GeekSquad to fix. -your efforts will be futile in the end as free pr...
I don't have a whole lot to say that will really benefit the conversation other than the fact that I wish I had it as an option. I just moved here from a place where I could game with no lag, open webpages in a snap and overall just have an enjoyable browsing experience. The best thing around here is satellite intern...