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I understand your point that technically the laws could be applied to your friend or anyone who just innocently stumbles on some flaw. But I consider it highly unlikely that it would actually happen, and I think the bigger problem here is the hackers actions afterwards. I guess to me the "difference" that matters is...
The difference comes down, theoretically, to this : you will not have a "queue". Once you are a Netflix customer, you are given access to whatever local Netflix market you are in. In the States? Get American Netflix! In Europe? Get European Netflix! In Australia? Fight the local wildlife! Anyways, the reason I say "t...
I think its death can be generically attributed to advances in technology, much like the recording industry. These industries were initially very, very profitable due to technological limitations. To make records you needed a factory and recording studio, to air television, you either needed a television station wit...
I turned on the TV yesterday and sure enough the channel I was on was commercials, so I wait for a couple minutes.. commercials continued. So I change channels again, more commercials.. and they went on for minutes, so again change channel, more commercials.
I also believe firmly that the 24/7 news cycle has totally killed this generations willingness to watch a puppet sit at a desk and tell us things we read hours ago online. The evening news for local regions really is not a difficult thing to produce for online content. Live, national news however will be problematic ...
The U.S. has been the largest financial supporter of the U.N. since the organization’s founding in 1945. The U.S. is currently assessed 22 percent of the U.N. regular budget and more than 27 percent of the U.N. peacekeeping budget. In dollar terms, the Administration’s budget for FY 2011 requested $516.3 million for th...
I think solar is particularly interesting because it can be approached very differently from our current, centralised energy supply structure. With appropriate kit, it's very easy to generate (and quite efficiently so with the reducing prices) electricity on a sustainable, continual basis with minimal outlay (mainten...
If you can't aim and hit in CS you're not competitive. So yes, the road to that milestone (hitting nearly every shot) is shorter on a gamepad. But the real ability lies in strategy and mindgames. I don't necessarily think any console games except for fighting games (which aren't really console games) support much of ...
But the real ability lies in strategy and mindgames. This I switched from 360 to pc at the end of august, and the whole experience is quite funny. On console, I owned all of the dlc, and was 300+ hours and like colonel 30. I was service star 2 with every vehicle (and service star 5 with mobile artillery =P) and ser...
I don't know or care about the validity of the Scandinavian thing at the end, but everything else you've said is spot on. you're 100% correct about the massive difference in the skill ceilings between a game like quake played on pc controls and a game like cod on a controller. Even the difference of a TV to a nice moni...
Can't be bothered looking up reading suggestions from an abrasive whiny randomer, why not give us the
health insurance is not optional as every human being will claim it in the end. It is a certainty, it is an agreement between generations where the young say to the old "I will work hard to you can have have the best healthcare and live a dignified retirement, because when I'm old my hope is the next generation will fo...
Some people pay $5k more for a better camera. I am still with apple after a few iphones because they have usually pretty great cameras, while still being smaller than most of the competition. I am in the fanboy camp though, and can honestly say the only thing that I absolutely hate is their airport configuration utilit...
There are some people who get literally thousands of e-mails a day. Trying to go and view each of them every 180 days would be insane (1,000 180 = 180,000 e-mails.) Even if each e-mail takes you 2 seconds to open and then close that's still a long time. (180,000 e-mails 2 seconds / 60 seconds per minute / 60 minute...
Firmware engineer, here. When firmware updates are released, very rarely do the updates actually extend capabilities already present in the hardware. Typically the hardware engineers will design the system to lower the PPU to the floor, and firmware guys have to scrape to get any capability back. The only thing on...
My family used to have (5+ years ago) an all-in-one printer from HP. With the age of the internet and the ability to grab drivers from online I made a horrible mistake, I threw out the driver cd. After a new build, when I was too inexperienced to save old drivers, I went online to fetch them for the printer. HP's site...
Ok, I have made several comments in this thread, but one of the biggest things I would like to point out is the example of the Proliant Microserver used in the article (Paraphrased): >The HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L ... was available for sale in 2012 at heavily discounted prices from online sellers, typically und...
You forgot "chain of horrific dependencies that impacts all kinds of stuff outside the immediate realm of Firefox" 32-bit firefox [at my workplace] means everyone has 32-bit flash, java, etc as plugins. 32-bit java means, if you use jdbc-odbc to touch Access, that you have to have 32-bit Access ODBC. In their infin...
European in Europe here. We get between 1-7Mbps due to congestion for 100 bucks a month.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. T-Mobile, by virtue of allowing their preferred providers to operate cap free simply undermines any argument that networks are so congested and hampered by those evil data hogs that caps are the only solution. In terms of network utilization there is no difference between pul...
It does seem that their size is the root of the problem. They are essentially so big that they don't have to care about the customers any more. Here's an issue that I'm dealing with at the moment. My parents have been Comcast customers for nearly 20 years. They recently moved about a half mile down the street from wh...
Tox is set up to be completely distributed, like Bleep. There's nothing to "take down" aside from literally your computer. Friend requests are done DHT-style. This was actually a security concern for a while because it meant you could get the IP of anyone on the network. Onion routing has since been implemented for f...
Otherwise you should start filling your hard drive, because every megabyte of free space is wasted. This is a horrible analogy. What advantage is there to putting random information on your hard drive just to use it? The hard drive is the slowest and most massive storage. It is the end of the line so to speak. Ad...
The only one of those three that has made money is PayPal. PayPal is all about greed and the company putting itself well before its customers.
I struggle with the term "luck"... you could be born with shitty parents and that might be viewed as bad "luck"... but really it's just that some people pushed the impact of their bad decisions off on someone else... Some would say that you'd be "unlucky" to have shitty parents... But that seems to dismiss the chain of...
Lol. While we're at it, let's blame Henry Ford for how bad the Ford Pinto was.
The dogma of the 1960s-70s business model is so destructive to the flourishing of an economy and the profitability of a company. Very little pisses me off more than watching a high powered CEO support the execution of obstructionist practices like planned obsolescence, price fixing, false advertising, patent trolling, ...
That statistic really doesn't show the whole picture. Actually, it deliberately avoids trying to show the whole picture. >The F-150 is by far the best-selling pickup truck -- not because it's objectively better, but because the demographic of people who buy pickup trucks tends to value (a) brand loyalty and (b) follo...
My main point is that I'm not looking for him to be a genius, in fact I'd be more impressed if he weren't a genius because his companies (mainly Tesla and SpaceX) are enough of an accomplishment. I personally don't care a damn about what his personal input is technically because he has built 2 great companies and then ...
I have a big problem with this Article, it seems to be purposely leaving out parts of the story. >When a user who had downloaded music from a rival service tried to sync an iPod to the user’s iTunes library, Apple would display an error message and instruct the user to restore the factory settings, Coughlin said. Whe...
Nothing huge though. Obama hardly took action on gun legistration, doing nothing more then denouncing violence and congress couldn't get any type of restrictive gun bills though. IIRC, 2 bills regarding guns were passed last year or 2013. One had to due with renewing an older bill to prevent guns from going through met...
For those who don't want to read it.... FCC tried to impose section 708 a few years back. Verizon sues FCC to get out of it. Judge says they need to be title II classified to apply section 708. FCC is now probably going to reclassify them as title II. Verizon has instant regret and says oh no that's a bad idea we think...
Hi guys and gals in the US. I've been following the storie from across the Atlantic in Denmark ever since it began. From what I read in articles and comments there are a few questions I think I can answer for you guys. First off the question whether or not it's realistic to set the Mbps that "high" - Mbps or MBps - 25 ...
Finland: Population: 5,439 millions Square miles: 130,596 United States: Population: 320 millions Square miles: 3,531,905.43 I know it's really nice to look at sweet data from Scandinavia (+ finland) but ultimately we have to realize that providing beneficial services to 5 million people in country like Fin...
What's happening to TV now, especially broadcast (over the air) TV is what happened to commercial radio 10 years ago. Cable TV will last longer but will ultimately end up niche like Sattilite radio. Point is, newer technology replaces the old. Comcast can't stop this, nobody can. CBS itself realized this in the late ...
Property tax also depends on the property value. Florida is actually the state with the 29th highest property tax. Colorado is the 10th lowest. New Jersey, Illinois, and New Hampshire have the highest (Fun fact - Wisconsin is 4th). Florida also has no vehicle property tax while Colorado has the 12th highest.
Sorry for the late reply. The majority of those subsidies are again not real subsidies and also not specific to oil and gas. The FTC is recognition of taxes paid to foreign governments that we have tax agreements with us. Any company with foreign operations will get that tax credit and it basically prevents double taxa...
140 characters, that's the trick. Keeps things lean. Tweets are all the same size, so they flow smoothly, no
Because the "secret" behind watson is the decades of Jeopardy questions that they've used to train it. They're using the same technique that helped speech recognition in the 1990's, but that technique [has limitations]( Maybe the NOVA did a bad job explaining the techniques used, but look at it this way. The computer...
I study AI at university (that is the actual title of my degree). I'm looking forward to this match and have been for a long time. But there's one thing I'm certainly not looking forward to: MASSIVELY IGNORANT OPINIONS ABOUT IT ALL OVER REDDIT. Yes, that's right, this is a pre emptive RAGE against everyone who is go...
Because USA and great British and Israel and Australia has formed a secret mega corporation. Sorry, I meant mega country.
In the US, since about everyone is ancestrally from somewhere else, we have gone with a system of self-identification so as to not offend anyone. So in the US, if you say you're Irish (meaning of Irish decent), then you're Irish. However, if the Census taker comes around and the same "Irish" person decides at that ...
Sodomy laws have been held unConstitutional by the Supreme Court (i.e. they are unenforceable in the US). Swearing in public is often not enforceable, but depends on the context. A ban against sex toys would likely also be held unConstitutional under the same reasoning as the sodomy case [Lawrence v. Texas]( Inte...
What would happen if US citizens started getting tens of thousands of dollars in fines from foreign courts after clicking a mouse button? This take on it.
For the same reason that a diner in NYC where the owner insults each and every customer is successful: There enough suckers to come, buy, leave and never come back.
Paypal is horrible and I've stopped using them and ebay after Paypal screwed me over. At one point i was bringing in some money and Paypal decided that it might be fraudulent use of my account so "ok let's clear up this misunderstanding." Talked to multiple reps who merely told me to send in my information (personal ...
Michigan passed a mandatory seatbelt law and legislators at the time promised there would never be primary enforcement. Primary enforcement being where the police could pull you over because you were not wearing it and would require a primary stop such as speeding to write the seatbelt ticket. A few years later, they...
Well, not really. The trial has two major parts, a patent infringement part and a copyright infringement part. Google was found [not to infringe]( the patents oracle claimed, so that was pretty easy. On the copyright part, oracle claimed 1) it had copyright to the API structure of java, which Google infringed, and 2)...
It's the fact that this processor can be run in parallel with hundreds of other processors, use less power, less risk of failure, etc. As mentioned, this is all part of the 'enterprise' package, which a normal desktop (or perhaps even server) processor could not handle for extended periods of time under such circumstan...
From now on Apple is going to take the iterative design choices, play the safe card, until they find the next big thing that they know they can do right. I personally don't look to Apple for hard found cool technology and innovation, I look to Apple when I need that said technology to work and be dependable in its vast...
If it is on par with the nexus 7, it does not beat the current generation of phones. The Nexus 7 runs a underclocked version of the Tegra 3 chip set found in the HTC One X and One X+, which is in turn slightly outperformed by Samsung's own quad core chipset. The dual core S4 performs somewhere in between the two, but i...
Google gets accurate GPS points from way more sources than Street View cars, and if we were just patting Nokia on the back for finding an innovative source of GPS data then I'd be all aboard. But implying Street View Cars are the main source of Google GPS Data, that FedEx data is equivalent to Street View Car data, a...
Actually it isn't as black and white as that. The federal constitution does not guarantee a right to privacy, only a right to freedom from search and seizure without due process. Certain states, such as California, have the right to privacy specifically mentioned, which means some things (such as recording your phone c...
Another San Antonian here. They picked Jay to try this program out at before implementing at all NISD schools (one of the largest districts in the country). I personally believe they did this because Jay is one of the lower income schools, and therefore less likely to actually have someone hire a lawyer and sue. That...
I wonder what the pro-tracking helicopter parents and institutional educators will say if someone demonstrates just how easy it would be for some creep to track students via their RFID cards at distance.
I also went to the magnet school there, my little brother just started his freshman year and I can't believe the shit that went downhill since I graduated in 2010. They made a building that was supposed to be SEA (the magnet portion) only into a fuckwit freshman jail. Most of the good teachers retired or went to othe...
The thing is a school shooting is usually a planned thing, the person whom is about to shoot the fuck out of a school doesnt just casually carry his gun through a metal detector and get busted. The shooter would probally have the foresight to just like, climb through a fucking window or something, none of that shit p...
You can set it up at home for next to nothing (nothing if you chose Linux) and get a comcast static IP with 16 down, 3 up with an SLA for 75 bucks a month. if you have home internet, you can replace it with the business class line, so you could take off your internet cost, which is probably 60 bucks.
Which quote are you referring to? The quote I originally replied to said Samsung "always uses that dubious 'shipped' which does not necessarily equate to sales [to the end-user]." The point I am trying to make is that equating a shipment to a reseller as a sale is in fact not a dubious way of recognizing sales, and i...
dont worry. i stop using msn because of all those shity addon for granny. like a sentence with 1 words and 25 smilley. But now for a couple of version skype feel like shitty msn. and now it own by microsoft so.... anyone out there time to make a new messager one that i will not have all the scammer trying to fish me ...
I moved to a different state a month into my freshman year of high school. My group of friends from middle school had begun to merge with a group of girls we knew from middle school, but never really hung out with them before. Being the typical idiot 14yo, bored, in a new town, with no friends, bitter to hear about m...
I used gAIM (now Pidgin) for many years, and logged every chat with every contact. I would leave it open and connected 24/7 and had an auto-responder that told people to leave me a message. Now and then I fire it up just to re-read and re-live the good ol' days.
This is actually a brilliant idea in principle. It creates a decentralized money exchange system allowing cash to move more freely. Right now, in the present, you are stuck with ATMs at fixed locations, banks, or cash-back options at check-outs. Or your buddy or some stranger willing to fork over money in the short-ter...
You're entirely correct. [Source.]( Most relevant paragraph: >All claims relating to Roundup Ready canola in Schmeiser's 1997 canola crop were dropped prior to trial and the court only considered the canola in Schmeiser's 1998 fields. Regarding his 1998 crop, Schmeiser did not put forward any defence of accidental co...
I'm not so sure something totally fresh was what they needed. MoH had a lot of disappointments when it came to both gameplay and sales. First, the last MoH game was released right between two major CoD release cycles, so while it would pick up sales from people who still want to play every FPS, most people will still b...
This is the company that once upon a time only released cool innovative games like Populace and now only makes sports games. I know a lot of you like sports games, but they seem like one very boring possibility out of billions of possible realities to represent in a game especially when you aren't a sports fan like me...
Here's the actual shareholder letter.]( Let's round to 5000 cars sold in Q1 of 2013, at an average sticker price of $70,000. That makes $350m in revenue from selling cars. They also mention "We also completed various deliverables under the Mercedes Benz B-Class EV program which contributed to total development se...
This was a pathetic thing to link to. It's some guy reporting on what some other thinks HTC should do.
Could someone explain to me in details what happen if someone like this, a whistleblower who has gone to the medias, was assassinated? I understand that they will become a martyr of some kind, yet every government will deny their involvement and even if the US government does look guilty, would anything happen at all? ...
As somebody who has done risk management for many years, I disagree. It is very sound. Risk is probability * consequence, and in context is per year. Your point is that these other threats are of known probability and known consequence, and you suggest terrorism has unknown probability and/or potentially higher conse...
I like the way you think. It is indeed possible to disagree with people, even strongly, while still respecting them and their rights. It doesn't mean everything is relative, just that we all have different experiences in life and so we approach it differently. Sometimes it can be hard to relate to other people, but I f...
Spoken like a real Ayn Randian Cynic. It seems built on an understanding of human nature that has been disproved many times before ([have a look at this for example]( -- people aren't selfish by nature, it's systemic pressure and misinformation that makes them behave selfishly. Your attitude of assumed general selfis...
You can't commit yourself to a "centralized" network of information while at the same time propagating the idea of a democracy, a "decentralized" means of power. Its one choice or the other. Either you're interested in everyone having a choice, or you're not. If you work for a government that is disinterested in enabli...
Just got through reading the text, and while there's probably nothing to be worried about in here, it also doesn't accomplish much of anything. The primary 'new' substance is a presumption of fee-shifting to whichever party loses in court - a presumption that can be overcome if the suit was 'substantially justified'....
Lamar Smith was made into the "villain" on Reddit -- largely because he's a Republican & Reddit tends to lean to the left -- but there were many others, in both parties involved. E.g., the Senate bill ( PIPA and co-sponsored by many senators, including Al Franken.
I don't... but I also think that porn is not leading to better society either. I think I'd be much happier if nudity and sexuality were not taboo. if people were better at talking to one another and had more realistic expectations of what people are and will be. As well, more gender equality. We have a big problem...
The Article of Confederation was the first attempt by the United States to develop a government. It was notoriously weak structured leaning more towards strong state governments and a weak national government. The executive branch was nonexistent and the judicial branch was left up to the states. The only thing the Art...
The Netflix being referred to as "Netflick" is extremely funny considering my grampy calls it that all the time too. Although at the same time it make me feel terrible to laugh at because he's 97% deaf in one ear and the other ear isn't far better. Therefore it sounds like it's being pronounced "Netflick" when others s...
All the time, but my favorite are the ones where "Uncle Steve" already has. Normally it's a trailer home wired in #14(15a) that has had it's breakers replaced with 20a or even 30a. The breaking point seems to be when they plug in a space heater because the insulation sucks or they ran out of propane. Most of the medi...
It is "all 1's and 0's." But it's not written as 1's and 0's, not all machines read the same 1's and 0's in the same way, and a whole host of other things I could say that would break this metaphor horribly. I was going on a long rant but decided to cut it short; Basically, it would be like having you, who I assume t...
Phonorecords" is a defined term in the copyright statutes. >“Phonorecords” are material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communic...
You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car, but an engineer should probably be consulted before enacting laws on car construction or use. Likewise, while you don't need to be an IT guy to use technology, someone who knows about IT should probably be consulted before legislation is enacted. But that's not the real...
This is entirely wrong. A lot of people have a massive head start against their colleagues. If you started programming at the age of 5 and kept it up until 25 then you would likely be equally if not more competitive than your 45 year old counter part who started at 20. Young people can be equally, if not more, valuable...
This is why America, as a society and a country, will not advance until the older generation dies off. I say it all the time and get hatred and downvotes for it. But it's the truth, and it's nothing against old people (I love my grandparents). They simply at this point in their lives have no point of reference for thin...
It's been my experience that technical concepts aren't really hard to explain. But people doing the explaining are sometimes I'll equipped to put the concept into language that someone unfamiliar with the concept understand. P2P isn't hard to put into old people terms: It's like you and your buddies put your mone...
I'm not totally convinced of that. I read the relevant portion of the transcript. Scalia's question was really about asking how HBO is different from broadcast media. You and I might think of that as a silly question. ...but have you ever asked a question you knew the answer to to see how the person responds? Sup...
Story time! I'm an IT consultant and currently work for a big international company. One day I was approached by a user who asked me if there was some way of looking through her mailing history to make sure whether she had or had not recieved an email from her ex-husband. They (Her and her ex) were currently fighting...
The "series of tubes" comment got too much criticism, IMHO. I'm no fan of Senator Stevens, and it's pretty clear that he was clueless about the tech, but the analogy does hold up. Tubes and valves... valves and tubes... billions and billions of them...
I will post my current comcast nightmare, that is turning into a bit of first-world-problems Stockholm syndrome: I have two comcast accounts, in two states. One for my family, one I pay for my in-laws. Both in "capped" markets. BTW, Comcast has been charging me for basic TV I never ordered and don't use, just magical...
Bandwidth is the new gas. Bandwidth is the [new electricity]( > You get this much bandwidth at this price in the lower tier. Any excess bandwidth consumed in paid at the higher tier price. Actually, electricity is worse: Electricity first 50 kWh: 15¢ / kWh 50-66 kWh: 19¢ / kWh 66-100 kWh: 26¢ / kWh ov...
While the idea of using Lasers to shoot down incoming projectiles isn't new, it is quite difficult. First off, you need to acquire a target before you can shoot it down. From what I heard that Chinese ship killer missile they are so proud off is so fast that it hits before the onboard defenses (CIWS I think they are c...
If they held the stock long enough, though there are also tax implications of getting discounted stock.
Honestly, I don't like the idea of the government regulating anything in theory, but in practice, I think that both "people" and "companies" have proven repeatedly that, if given enough freedom, they tend towards acting in their own interests regardless of consequences. I don't want a government that passes laws that...
It's an unfortunate truth, but the only people who can get elected are those who raise enough money; and the only way to raise that amount of money is to take money from lobbyists and other rich campaign contributors. There has not been a presidential candidate more progressive than Candidate Obama in probably any of...
Basing an argument off a title... The law is to try and target sites that link to streams, but can be used to shit on people watching unapproved streams in the same way they can shit on people who download the movie illegally. The potential to break almost everything is there, once a judge in the riaa pocket makes a...
To [paraphrase myself]( > Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc, should not be allowed to: > > - Throttle Netflix streaming video traffic transiting their network, while leaving other video services unaffected > - They should not offer Netflix the abilty to get un-throttled if Netflix pays them some money. > - They should n...
I don't disagree with you but I think we are talking about two different forms of value here. Lawyers should be paid by the value provided and work done. But if you're trying after the fact to gauge the cost of a lawyer to an individual claimant, without nuanced information on what exactly was done, you don't compare...
This will probably serve as an example of why bloatware doesn't make devices more succesful. OEMs should build compelling devices and offer a good experience with stock clean Windows. If they really want to make more money, bloatware is not the way. People want their device (be it smartphone, laptop, desktop, etc) to b...
Class action lawyer here: I think this is a common misconception about class actions. It is honestly one of the most frustrating parts about my job, because this mentality is an example of the corporate spin winning. Let me get this out of the way, so there's no doubting where I stand: The Class Action device is ...
Difference being that noone agreed to run Superfish on their computer. Their EULA (which users don't even necessarily need to accept) does not cover any of this. Even if it did, it would be void in many countries, because users can't expect the security implications that come with the software.