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The earth is about 6e24KG (6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 KG). The space elevator, lets say was a hefty 1,000,000,000 KG. The space shuttle, for reference, is about 2,300,000 KG. Locating a 1TG (1 trillion gram) mass 100,000 km away from a 6NG (6 nonillion gram) as a ratio is about 1/6,000,000,000,000,000.
You mean like almost every other antivirus software on the market? [McAfee removal tool]( [Kaspersky Removal Tool]( [ESET NOD32](
Not to mention that from 1995 until sometime around 2005 or so the majority of consumers were still accessing the internet through dial-up. Which was subject to these exact same Title II regulations all along. Then we can throw in the fact that the broadband carriers were already and always have been under FCC re...
Google's motive is simple. Get users faster internet, so they can consume more Google services and thus be served more ads. I'm sure demographic data is collected as well, but that's not the major focus. Google doesn't have much issue with tracking now days. Instead it's trying to increase consumption.
You need a source to make that sort of claim. you need some sort of evidence of foul play. The thing about this fiasco is that Leo Laporte is one of the most unbiased tech reviewers out there and goes out of his way to make sure his integrity isn't compromised. >They're atleast giving him free shit, which is like t...
So true. Knew a guy in High School that got in trouble for something he said. Don't even remember what it was, but I'm sure it involved foul language. His counselor called him in to discipline and lecture at him and the guy defended himself by quoting the constituion including the first amendment. When it was clear the...
I suppose I was not enitrely clear in the intent of my above comment. I was drawing attention to implied and informed consent. For instance, every Air Force computer and phone of any classification level has a label on it stating "This information system is subject to monitoring at all times. Use of this information sy...
I had a friend that went to a strict baptist school. Inside the school she was not allowed to wear pants, hats or anything showing the least bit of skin aside from the arms and face. But the thing is that the school, community and local baptist superchurch were so interconnected that the rules that kind of make sense i...
What does refute it is the fact that a successful law firm is handling their case, the family isn't simply making excuses to the media. Attorneys are required to go to reasonable lengths to check the truthfulness of allegations, and knowingly submitting documents containing falsehoods is the sort of thing that will res...
The problem with ignoring Palin is that it is not helping solve anything. She and people like her use logical fallacies (or fail to conform to a logical flow in conversation) with implications far too serious to be granted any credibility. While filtering that which is irrational will preserve your sanity, the fallac...
The key here is skepticism in favor of outright "lol fuck that shit." I mean when quantum physics was first being looked into and people were saying "hey look these little dudes are in two places at once, wtf?" I'm sure there was a lot of people that were thinking "what the shit have you been smoking and where can I ge...
This is partly true, but ultimately not useful. When it comes to limiting the availability of services in this domain, technology is always the limiting factor. As you know, prices on technological good don't fall because people get bored with them and there is no longer any demand. Leaps in technology caused the same ...
It isn't an ad hominem, I love how people seem to assume that name calling instantly results in ad homnem fallacy. He is a moron...literally. He fails to understand a very clearly written argument I've been maintaining for several comments here. He responds ignoring completely points that I made, inserting hi...
The thing is, I left FB shortly after it introduced "apps" because I got sick of the spam. I always said that I wished that someone would put out a FB clone that was more like it was before the introduction of games, etc. A social network does not have to be a gaming platform, people like me use "social networks" to ...
You know that thing Redditors always say about being forever alone, and being confined to socializing on a faceless interface? In many cases, such as yours, its because they're a belligerent douche when it comes to talking to people, and can't tell when the other party is no longer interested in conversing.
Although it's embarrassing that it took a peer-review by the internet, there was no intentional deception at any point. If you read the [AMNH's response]( they praise the clear description of the methodology which allowed the design flaw to be pointed out. This is what science is about: the ongoing quest for knowled...
I hate kids because they're young and didn't work as long as i do' isn't interesting debate. It's ad-hominem crap that has no bearing on the story. The guy would have distrusted it even had it turned out the kid was right, he's not an intellectual or positing a clever point of view; he's just a dick.
The kid should be defended - he is a bright, creative kid It took me less than a minute reading the initial story to tell my wife the story was an embarrassment not to the kid - but to his science teacher who should have caught the voltage problem and the area of coverage problem immediately. The museum should [no...
Ok I can only say this once more before going crazy. WE CAN'T FUCKING HAVE IT ALL. Government is always a choice between two imperfect systems. If he were to come out and legislate for busing or affirmative action he would be shafting many of the kids being bused or qualified non-minorities. Paul's solution to this pro...
There are some clips of him being questioned about his stance on abortion and gay marriage where he comes out and says that they aren't his main issues, and if these topics were the most important to the country, he wouldn't be running for president. There is no way he would be in favor of any federal ban on abortion ...
So what's the trade-off for the Civil Rights acts in the 60s? When you've got a minority being discriminated against, and the federal government has to intervene and tell the racist Southern states, "No, you cannot do this any more." If you left Civil Rights to the states we'd still have segregation.
That's not the pro-government view, that's a strawman. There isn't one definitive "pro-government" view, there are several. What most want (in a mixed economy) is governmental regulation of businesses, not governmental protection of them. That's just what the businesses themselves want.
I support the removal any notions of SOPA-like legislation (and also the removal of any legislator that supports such nonsense), but I'm not going to stop using the Internet. I don't think that you understand the ripple effect that this will have: no phones (even non-smart phones) no web browsing, online shopping...
I just had a very rewarding experience with this thing. I searched my own name, and through pure serendipity the first result was an artist, with the same name as I. The art he paints is 50's-60's pin-up (the old-style classy kind, not the desperate new variety that melded with rockabilly, retro, and reality-tv-tatto...
This is the most accurate
The bigger problem is that Netflix's Instant service...well, it leaves a lot to be desired. While I have made good use of it, much more so than ordering DVDs, there were a number of movies in my queue that were (and still are) only available on DVD. It didn't help that I would sometimes be watching a show on Instan...
The government is not only spying on your communications, but tracking your every move. There is a file on EVERYONE and a national video network can track your movements. Orwell was right, but it's too late. The powers that be are too strong and entrenched for anything to be done about it now. What could be deemed il...
Native Americans (please, political correctness) were so astonished by the complexity and sheer dimensions of the first ships they encountered, they mistook them for gods. In Native American folklore, first encounters with gods traditionally involve mating with a native, producing a semi-divine offspring...
That is not what Apple lawyers argued at all. This article states that the copying of icons by Samsung was evident not because the pictures are the same, but because they are both pictures of sunflowers. Take this article. Both icons are of music notes. It makes sense to pick a music note as an icon for a music app. ...
So go grab the Arch Linux install medium and go grow. If you can't get it up and running within 1 day, I'm going to sit here and laugh at your comment. Why? Because you have no idea how powerful a user centric OS like Linux is, and then how User centric Arch Linux or Gentoo are when compared to windows or max OSX. ...
Don't bother. The title of this post is about 8 words shorter than the article. Absolutely no real information is provided. A single, unspecified site ended up with a redirect. It sounds from the tiny bit of info that there was maybe, a vulnerability in nginx, maybe tied to the package in Debian Squeeze. Or maybe t...
have you seen valve's anti-cheat: VAC? it's useless. lmao. but on a different note, i've been saying for years that consoles will be cheap PCs in the future, since they utilize existing architecture and coders are sick of porting their games 3 times. welcome to the future, death of the 'console', sony+nintendo both...
Free and open source software means you can be sure that there are no backdoors. It also means that you are likely promoting the use of standard formats such as ODF, XMPP, Vorbis, etc. That's enough [moral] benefit for me to switch to linux full time, but there are some more tangible benefits. Modularity Modularity...
So... PC gamers often hate on consoles for being closed systems. And... Gabe himself said Windows 8 was "awful for gaming" because it was a closed system. Yet.... PC gamers are going apeshit for this news of a closed system. Because Valve are making it. Orgasms everywhere. So typical. I've never known a group of ...
I think this is a really good point. Google, despite the recent issue of blocking MS devices from maps, has a reputation of trying to do the right thing for users. As an example, giving away 1 gb for gmail when it first came out even though they could have just joined the group of companies nickel and dimeing people...
AdWords support is great . Like, bend over fucking backwards great. You don't even have to sign up for AdWords on the web site. You can call them and they'll have their people set up an account for you and custom tailor it to whatever you're advertising to get the most exposure for the money. I imagine Apps for Busine...
You know every time you browse the internet Google makes $$. Most of it comes from ads but Google really doesn't have to do anything extra besides convince you to browse the web normally. In fact, when Iphone was first released, the sheer amount of web traffic from iphone generated a large percentage of ads revenue for...
It was a big scare back in the 90's and the local news was all over it. Tons of fish dead and found with sores. Humans swimming in the water also got sores and memory loss. Wiki: " One particularly harmful source of toxicity is Pfiesteria piscicida, which can affect both fish and humans. Pfiesteria caused a small...
There's a kernel of truth in that (no pun intended, but I disagree). For one, if something IS in the repos, it's a fair bit easier and safer to install from the repos than downloading installers from the internet. So that mitigates the difference quite a bit. Hell, the most popular laptop on Amazon is the $250 Chro...
I assume current time is relative to the device, and the last time update records the time at an interval. So if time is traveling forwards, that value will always be positive. However, if we reach 4:00 and it records that as the last time update, and then if time went backwards, that is where you would see a negative ...
Heard a really interesting comment about the fingerprint scanner and security: Currently, if you are arrested by the police and your iphone has a passcode lock, all you need to do is enact your right to remain silent and not tell them the code to unlock the phone. However the same statutory protection does not appl...
Well asking me the bill on the TV alone makes me think it is more a snide remark than a serious question considering it is not very common to get a power bill for each device in one's house. That said, according to the [tech specs]( it consumes 390 watts. However a [CNET review]( shows that it only consumes 245.04 Watt...
But noone is Colonel C. Clusterf*ck. Nobody has said it's just good fun, and if they are doing it for fun they are missing as many chromosomes as you. Nobody you have addressed has even come close to justifying annoying people with it on those grounds. I know you have the reading comprehension and thought process of He...
It's the same story over and over again. The business model that the legacy players used to rely on has melted away in the age of the internet. Rather than truly adapt and change, they just get jealous of successful tech companies, and think that those companies somehow "owe" them money. And the best way to legally do ...
I'm not denying that the current situation has problems- the question is if the solution proposed is one that both accomplishes its goals in reducing piracy in the long term and does not cause significant collateral damage. The proposed plans certainly will reduce piracy- many people pirate because it is easier than ...
This is the end result of capitalism. Robots will take over manufacturing and as companies increase their profits, socialism will take over. Eventually, a large part of the profits will be confiscated for the "general good" and there will come a point where it is business owners providing minimal existences for every...
I'm sorry for being lazy. That's probably why I can't find a job as a licensed EMT. I should really get off my ass and stop being a professional mover(who carries things like pianos up and down stairs for a living) so I can get a job that pays enough to pay my rent AND buy food. I'm so lazy. Edit: You're saying peo...
Not all jobs can be replaced by robots, and replacement by robots will generate some additional jobs, but likely not proportional to the jobs lost. As a result of this, despite no change in the labor supply there's been a net loss in demand. If you reduce the supply sufficiently (e.g., by capping hours for skilled wo...
Which is one of the drivers to automation to begin with. Why bother hring 2 expensive people when I can automate? Forcing employers to pay higher wages to more people working less hours would be the exact driver needed to make adjustments to labor....ie....automate or outsource.
My company installs robots into finishing lines (coating, curing, sanding, repeat). Companies go robotic where they can for a reason, not least of which is payroll, but dependability and consistency are equally important. In my industry, the fact is painters are generally unreliable, wasteful, and a bottleneck in t...
One red state response to your comment could be that work is good for the soul -- just not the repetitious work of assembly lines in mass produced consumerist culture, but work that is healthy physically and psychologically. The labor difference between Europe and the US isn't just political, it's in the US's consume...
I feel society will handle this well, unless such a quick surge in robotic skill comes about so quickly. Society HAS dealt with this before, it's called the Industrial Revolution. Machines began taking job after job after job because it was a downright upgrade to the worker in every way. Of course, they still needed ...
Yes because what he is saying is that the generation to build the stuff will pass it on and that new generation will not "spread the wealth" to the whole world.
My job is to facilitate communications between the various departments of the company in order to make sure that the product is made, quality is high, bills gets paid, expanding our product line and the marketing/sales team has what they need. In Short Operatins Managers run the business on a fundamental level...
Technology is by definition the allocation of resources to a specific task. When resources are scarce there are debates about who gets to use them, and for what purpose. Most electricity comes from coal, which is a finite resource that is also having devastating ecological impacts. Basically you're making two primary a...
There was a reason why Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The Roman Republic had failed to be just that - a republic. It was wholly under control of the patriarchs. The labour of ordinary Roman citizens had been replaced by slaves. Caesar saw the need for reform. The senators wanted none of that. So 500 years of republi...
Give everyone a low minimum income completely unrelated to work. A couple hundred bucks a month. It sounds great, but who is giving the money and where does it come from? I'll presume you mean that the government is distributing the money and that it comes from taxes. Let's follow this for a bit. >Gradually incre...
Hate to piss on your parade boys, but let's get some hard numbers in here. Dragon has a 13,228 lb payload capacity. At $133M a pop, that's $10,050 per lb of payload. That's actually fairly expensive. The Shuttle (with all its life support systems and reentry/landing mechanisms) cost a bit over $10,000 per lb of paylo...
SpaceX majority funding is through NASA. The reason the JSF is taking forever is because the military can't actually figure out what it wants, plus the JSF involves almost 30 allied countries military budget and airframe requests.
It's about jurisdiction and not quite relevant. Against a consumer it is essentially meaningless, because of the consumer protection under EU law, see the Rome I regulation on contracts and choice of law and the Brussels Regime on choice of forum. If a consimer wants to, he can always bring the case to a court in the c...
In prison most rapes are a sign of power and dominance against someone weaker. They are most likely low on the totem pole to begin with and are easy pray due to few allies. If you do kill the person that raped you then your 1 year prison sentence just turned into life without parole so you will die in prison. You will ...
I think that means it is time for a new monitor, even if your computer booted up in the record 7 seconds for a linux build (not including BIOS checks)...that is way too long for a monitor to take to come up.
Why is everyone assuming this means they're security isn't tight? I agree they are script kiddies but they also were probably interested in getting a password list from people who would register on their website. I knew a guy with a popular Minecraft server who did this. He would require them to fill out their Minecr...
4chan's /g/ board holds a special venom for script kiddies, but I've never understood it. Law enforcement has a VERY finite amount of money and resources to investigate computer crime, so you WANT as many easy to catch children running shitty, out of date, fully documented exploits to keep the heat busy. Plus big...
Just to spread the information... You don't encrypt passwords. That's a common misconception generated by the media's complete misunderstanding of security. If you put a password into an encryption algorithm multiple times, you never get the same information coming out the other end. This makes simple things like sto...
Actually a more ideal solution is to employ key stretching in addition to password salting. Salting only protects against rainbow tables, key stretching helps make password cracking more computationally expensive. Even this isn't "ideal" though, since you'd ideally want to make password generation something that can't ...
Good catch! I was more specifically referencing more modern encryption ciphers. A good example is AES. When we were still using ECB as the goto cipher, if we put the same data in we would get the same data out. Someone realized that was a problem. And to prove it, they encrypted a photo of Tux, the Linux penguin. Whe...
I really don't care what Samsung say and here's a really ranty, inane reason why. I'll bet the entirety of my double digit bank account that Samsung will be utilizing every hat trick, every hack, ever single lie and lawyer-base legalese possible so that they can "legally" capture as much data as possible. This is an ...
Americans already are, and have been for decades, required to pay taxes on items they purchase online. It does not matter if you bought something: on the internet by phone mail order by carrier pigeon or you drove to New Hampshire. You are required to calculate the difference between the tax you p...
because the lawsuit shouldn't have been filed in Virginia in the first place." Thats the
This is based on what?
Interesting you mention it. In Hungary the last law the former leftist government made, was to ban Holocaust denial. It was done mostly as a political stunt, to have something to talk about during the election campaign. They lost the elections nevertheless. One of the first laws of the new right-centrist government was...
This. The key to understanding how the EU works is figuring out the roles of the Parliament, the Commission and the Council. One could start [here](
UHD display is 7680 × 4320 and has about 33 million pixels. So, each pixel has about 250 subpixels so about 16x16. If we assume they're using parallax barrier or some refraction layer, there is ~256 different images per single viewpoint. (Someone else will have to do the math for the permutations when two eyes are in...
Toe-heel reduces blunt force injuries in humans, and I imagine the same would roughly translate to a machine. HOWEVER, (and it's a big one) I imagine this two-legged robot is specifically designed to compensate for heel-toe walking through the nice little setup they put in near it's "hip joint." Notice how it has a r...
Piracy is an effect of an industry that's been dominated by middle-men who only give 5% of material sales to the people who do, in fact, actually create something new (FYI, that's what a copyright is supposed to protect -- creativity). Everything else (marketing, distribution, production) is simply an off-shoot of that...
technically you yourself have no effect, as all TV ad revenue is derived based off ratings. Ratings are done through diary markets (which are only done during sweeps) and digital metered markets. The digital meters are how they can estimate viewership for the Superbowl the day after. The thing is these meters are in a ...
People still use it because it's true. Over time, it hasn't got any less true. No its not a lost sale. They have tried hard to prove lost sales but the only legit studies seem to indicate a small boost in sales, not lost ones. You think that way but have absolutely no proof to back it up. You might think it self-...
Unnecessary from who's perspective? If I recall, allocative efficiency is decided by wants, not needs. What are you saying? That your wants are necessary? Wouldn't that make them needs? Why do you need to view content someone else created? > My goal is to lower the profits for publishers until they get the message,...
This argument is so far off I really don't know where to begin. Ok, I have no idea what you are citing here, or how it relates to the discussion but how do you consolidate violence == wrong? I can think of several instances, mostly self preservation where violence is not considered wrong. I can see your argument is...
Access to someone else's intellectual property isn't a basic human right you have that is being violated by executive fat cats. This is the fundamental problem with your way of thinking. The fact is that yes, by their very nature "Intellectual Property" laws, are a form of thought control and a violation of fundamen...
Youtubes"? It's a quote from the same person you are quoting, said on the senate floor during the same session you are quoting. And the original quote is truth, your quote is incorrect in the sense that it doesn't apply to what you think it does. Your quote is about section 1032, the quote in the video is about section...
The major objection is that the bill does not clearly define a number of elements. (e.g. is a "Cyber Threat" an attack to the power system or downloading copyrighted material? The law cites theft or misappropriation of government information, intellectual property or personal information.) Once a "threat" has been iden...
To borrow a turn of phrase from Stephen Fry: Ron Paul is an idea-shaped person. He starts from a near-religious devotion to ideology and forms opinions and actions from that. This makes him appear consistent which in a simplistic sense seems admirable, but in practice is inconsistent with reality, which is messy and c...
From what I know, which I concede economics is not my major, the comment "printing money out of thin air" comes across as a loaded statement, suggesting that money with a controlled creation rate and entire fields of study behind it is in some ways simply created chaotically. When I first heard the phrase and Ron Paul ...
Possibly, but it would still only be able to provide temporary fixes. See, there are two ways that the Fed regulates the economy. One, they control the interest rates that banks have to pay for loans from the Fed. Two, they control the amount of currency in circulation. The first function either encourages or disco...
After 24 flights were automatically booked, it maxed out the travel credit card my school issued (they are paying for me to goto a conference). I cancelled 23 of them on the phone with customer service only to have the last one cancelled for me by them in the middle of the night. Plus my credit card is still maxed out ...
Continuing on the analysts: Apple only sold 5 million, instead of the expected 6-8 million because they ran out of their stockpile. The 5 million only counts the phones where the phone changed hands, not the pre-orders that have yet to be fulfilled. It's estimated that there were at least 6.5 million pre-ordered, but o...
If you "research" the same way you read my posts I understand where a lot of your misinformation comes from. In none of my posts do I advocate "removing" welfare or medicaid. The only reason I mentioned them is to illustrate to you the difference between an entitlement and a service - a distinction you seem unable to m...
I have been deploying Servers Since Windows NT and Novel netware 4 were the new shit, I have used linux extensivly since the days where you had to mount shit and as you will see, have many RH certs. I have deployed thousands of servers and clients running windows, linux, UNIX, Apple server, etc. I literally have e...
Wow you really have a terrible argument, you just resort to ad hominem and don't even clearly explain your viewpoint. How would they blow their money on 1 city? Most big cities already have all the infrastructure to support faster broadband speeds, they just don't put it to full use because no one but businesses will p...
but it still rings true that once the government owns this service, it's only a hop, skip, and jump to monitoring it. You will have other options. Buy shitty DSL from At&t if it bothers you so much. Also, what makes you think verizon or comcast is less likely to nefariously monitor your internet connection then the g...
Just to build on Fenwick's point. This is a pretty wild statement > China also controls 90%+ of the rare earth metals in the world When you make such a claim, a quick sanity check would be to ask yourself "Why would only 1 region of the planet have 90% of a particular resource?" Perhaps your thought experiment mi...
If only it was just a 10-20% increase in transport. You forgot everything else: The cost of holding 3 months of inventory in transit on container ships. The cost of sending someone like me to fix mistakes at 5 figures a week. The cost of being unable to respond to a dynamic market due to supply chain lead times...
True, I am in engineering, and graduating from school I had multiple offers. That said, what I stated still applies, companies rarely offer pensions, so remaining in one place where you are treating poorly, or have crappy compensation is of no/minimal benefit.
Not everything requires skilled labor. That's true, but cell-based manufacturing has changed what were previously assembly line jobs. It's a process method that's found a huge roll low-skill production. There is a lot of domestically made clothing. There are a lot of domestically made really simple injection molded p...
I once found a security gleetch in Gmail...this was a while ago. It wasn't anything major but I could how many emails were in someone's inbox based off their email address. I contacted google, and I got an email from Paul Buchheit who ended up calling me on the phone....super nice guy. Within a week I had a interview w...
This guy didn't "hack famous people's emails and expose their secrets". He found their email addresses. So he's what actually went down--to call this "hacking" is insane. So there's this AT&T iPad login page and submits your iPad device ID in the URL and then AT&T takes that device ID, looks up your account and then...
I had a similar experience. A friend was working for a local ISP and asked me to take a look and see if I saw any security holes. And I found a couple, so I emailed my friend, told him the issues, and included the steps to fix them. At no time did I make any changes or gain control of their server - I didn't need to in...
My college's ID had a debit-like system where you could put money on it and swipe it at any of the places on campus. It also had a web site where you could enter your student ID and password, get your balance and see recent transactions. You couldn't do anything else, but there was a bit of personal information on the ...