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Lenovo installed adware called Superfish on all the computers they shipped. Superfish intercepts your communication to websites, even encrypted ones, to see what you do and inject whatever they want into your communication with websites (such as add an ad, append some tracking information, etc). Superfish can inter...
yes, because when you bring your computer in, they totally won't be instructed by corporate to ask, "would you like us to run a simple and inexpensive virus and malware removal service on your device while it's here? HOW CONVENIENT IS THIS AMIRITE?" 49.95 please
Omg yes all three of these things.. Me and one of my friends graduated the same year same major same grades. I graduated and took the first shit lab job I could find and stuck it out for two years fast forward 5 years after college I'm just shy of that six figure mark.. He refused to work a "shit job" was unwmployed f...
That's pretty much the question of the decade over here in the states. Nobody can decide WHO should give WHAT authority to the NSA. Not that it matters, because the NSA has blatantly ignored every check & balance put in place for them. [From the Wiki:]( >Despite President Obama's claims that these programs have congr...
Worst build to date. Constant out of memory errors (never had any with win 8 or any win 10 tech preview to date). Mail application crashes seconds after opening. Start menu works half the time. Settings is getting worse and worse (lets clump 1000's of settings under 8 generic categories) Possibly the worst is how the...
Is there an app for you to shut the fuck up? If it's
Hi, I've spent a number of years freelancing and also teaching front-end web design and development, and though this is about Flash I thought I'd weigh in with some observations. I get the impression a lot of freelance web designers fail to properly inform the client of what their best interests should be. Granted ...
If you are looking to build a new PC, an want to spend over 700 on it. Make damn sure you at least get a ddr3 compatable motherboard. If buying intel, make sure you get an LGA 1366 socket motherboard which means a core i3-5-7 processor. As far as GPU's I believe the common opinion is that ATI is dominating nvidia as...
Yea verily; for the cake is the work of the grand deceiver; whom hath leavened his bread with the spongiform risings of duplicity ! Truly; his works crumble into naught but dust and ashes. Long may the pie last; may its crusty exterior protect the juicy goodness within!
The goal of operation payback is to deal a blow to paypal by getting a large enough attack force to DDoS it and cause financial problems. They've stated explicitly that they want to hit paypal where it hurts; the wallet. That's just corporate terrorism and I don't see how doing that will help the net neutrality cause. ...
I wonder if we'd have even better email privacy if the courts ruled that "unencrypted email's just like a post card that everyone who touches it can read it -- if you want privacy, put it in an envelope==encrypt it". IMHO this ruling is a big step backward for Encrypted Email. I'd rather trust a technological solu...
The scam is the place you bought it from not letting you return it even when opened. Thats some bullshit right there. The only products I've seen that typically cant be returned after being open is software/games and thats just due to the fact that you could still be running the shit after returning.
Well, my take is this: If they had both catalogs fully streamable and fully mailable then it's ok. You pick, you choose one or the other or both. But to be forced to pick both to get what I effectively have now - a way to get everything via mail and/or streaming, is a bit cost prohibitive.
They are not allowed to stream within a certain timeframe after a DVD's release because the publishers are worried it would eat into DVD sales. IIRC they also have to get special permission for older stuff to stream it.
I've always thought about this. This being, how money rules everything. So, lobbying is done in Washington by lining pockets of politicians with RIAA/MPAA/Oil money. And I thought, there are millions of us in america, that can contribute 10...20... 50 dollars. And we are serious about our futures. So if we were to brib...
The first registrar I had got gobbled up by someone else, it was either enom or someone who enom then gobbled up. In any case, the company that acquired it had a different system for domain management and account management. I guess they just imported all the account info from the old company's database, but I had a ...
Im not entirely certain a world democracy is a good idea. Just look at the states, and the problems they have, because they are so big and span so many varying cultures. Just the North/South divide, especially to do with the bible belt. No imagine a world democracy thats global and has to work with cultures as divers...
No, its not simple, but for a lot of people who have given up hope on their home countries government being fixable, the work of getting citizenship elsewhere is worth it. Getting into the US is a lot easier if you can prove discrimination in your Country of Origin. And not everyone wants to get into the US. Europe ...
Can someone
When speaking about the speed of a network connection, talking about bytes per second is meaningless and confusing. Dividing a MB/s number by 8 to get a Mb/s number is only going to get you an even more meaningless number. There is so much going on between the physical layer and the software layer that it's hard to eve...
Mb/s divided by 8 gives you MB/s. For me, at least, it makes more sense when I look at it as MB instead of Mb.
I see googles sales strategy. They are using the Cartman approach. Hear me out. 1) They come up with a product 2) Build the hype by making it exclusive. 3) Slowly expand the service till people are begging their friends for invites or hook ups. 4) Be praised in the media as innovative as everyone who has acce...
It kinda is.. Water, electricity and internet is all "included" in the rent. There is no way for me to rent an apartment here that doesn't have internet, so it's $0. I don't pay any extra for the internet connection, or the usage of it, thus, $0/a month :). If I could say that we don't have any need for the internet, s...
Agreed, however, they need a worthy competitor, none of this bing bullshit that no one wants to use... another small startup is where their competition will come from, one whose goal isn't to "be bought by [x]". One that makes google sweat. It might need a few startups that cooperate, providing interfaces to each oth...
It sounds like this is one guy in New Zealand who is familiar with support for one kind of business who happened to convince his superiors, or strong armed them, into believing that Google is the end all be all of everything. They don't seem to understand that there are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many,...
Five years ago a friend tried to gift me a song from iTunes. Since I was running Windows, I had to install the iTunes app before I could get the song. I tried this three times over the course of an evening. It never worked. I finally bought the song on Amazon and sent my friend a thank-you note.
r/politics even out jerks /r/circlejerk by large margins. I fucking hate the shit that is going on. You can barely express your opinion without being down voted. I expressed why I liked ME3 in /r/gaming (wrote 200-300 words) and I got down voted to hell. If I went to /r/politics to say who I think would lead USA best, ...
No, the 30 pin connector does not have "more" functionality,the functionality is just different. USB can accomplish EVERYTHING the apple 30 pin connector can. The only difference is that Apple chose a hardware driven interface (each of the 30 pins) instead of software (USB + drivers) to communicate with accessories. ...
You can't count it by the population. It would be per household. There are approximately 109 million occupied houses(out of 125m) in the US. We also have to consider Google's current costs. $300 construction fee for 'Free Internet'. $70/mo + No construction fee for Gigabit Internet. Or $120/mo + no construction fee f...
That is true, however, it still works in the favor of the business, actually more so if you'll just follow me on my magical journey of words. They spend the $1 to mail you on Facebook. This mail is already considered a targeted advertisement expense because they can figure out that you like sweaters, so Sally Sweate...
Teaching only one language is terrible, but that's rare (and if anyone reading this is at a college/university that teaches only one language, GTFO). That said, Java is one of the best languages to begin on because it's fairly easy to learn, allows a broad set of experience, and doesn't permit as much violation of p...
Both of the two major companies (AT&T, Verizon) have made these claims on multiple occasions. A simple Google search to the effect of "AT&T claims data is expensive" generates close to 5,000,000 results - most of the forerunners being news articles citing these claims made by these carriers' CEOs, CFOs, etc. Most of th...
Then use something like int32 instead of int, and you will have no issues with sizes. You can do a find and replace in your code... You're confusing the language you're talking about with the language i'm talking about. Longword Integer Cardinal Longint DWORD It gets even worse when there's code with ...
This web site explains why PETA euthanizes:]( > PETA provides no-cost, veterinarian-supervised humane medical euthanasia to any animal in their community who requires it for a current crisis of illness, injury, or emotional devastation. This service is available to animals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a ye...
They actually get people passionate to do something about this sort of stuff though So imagine watching the commercials about starving children, donating money, and finding out all of your money went to making more of those starving children commercials, and none of it actually went to food? There is a massive gulf...
What is your definition of working on a task, which doesn't involve interacting with said task (since the Start Menu is focused) nor observing it? To play devils advocate on this one. Perhaps not working on it, but needing to be aware of what's going on with it. Say I'm going to start up a new program, but I've got m...
This is, without question, an ethical dilemma. Why else would you take a stance that it's right or wrong if it wasn't a question of ethics? You may have already made your conclusion based on whatever reasoning you like; however, it remains a question of ethics (and law of course). Regardless, your suggestion isn't h...
I never said you must adhere to any law. Just simply, if you break a law, be willing to accept the consequences of your actions.
They are clearly armed. One of the guys' RPGs reflects the sunlight at one point. When all this went down a few years ago I spent most of my internet time hanging out on a military forum. One of the guys who was actually on the ground ended up posting his personal pictures because people were making bullshit statements...
I really think people here need to empathise with the U.S. government. I don't like them much either but let's just consider a situation you might be in: You have a diary. It's a really secret diary where you write down how you really feel about everyone you know. What you deep down think about your "best friend," th...
I think this is right on. He is a bad guy. Some of the stuff that was revealed due to the leaks was indeed horrifying, wrong and should not have been covered up. So in that, it's nice to see it come to light. However, that does not make it ok to steal classified data and leak it out. When you join the military, or ...
Yes. It is. Completely crazy. I was as unnerved as you by the NSA stuff although I have always been an unreasonably paranoid person. Just buy a VPN. You will be surprised how much stuff is connected to your anxiety about the NSA. Stuff you wouldn't think will start disappear and you will feel like a free citizen again....
The NSA data center that's being built in Utah will have capacity to store a Yottabyte of data. Sigh... I've tried to explain this several times before, but no, it will probably not have yottabyte capacity. An actual whistleblower on the project estimated that it will store five zettabytes, or 0.5% of a yottabyte. (I...
If you're interested at all in encryption, or cyber-security, check out Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother X , available for free at (There is also a sequel called Homeland ) These books, besides being the reasons I became a computer science major and originally became interested in computers at all, very accurat...
Look at it this way; the right tool for the right job. For example: I work for a bank. One of the strategies of cutting costs, is to put things on the cloud. Yes, this is massively scalable (1000's of machines ready within 2 hours). However, what you have to be concerned about, is private customer data. I can guaran...
Somehow it was x-posted to r/darknetplan and I didn't see it in r/technology. Anyway, pasting comment here. Japan has found ways to find the original uploader of a file on PD and has made arrests for PD since 2008 (the biggest, most famous bust recently is this one: though I think they got the program name wrong - i...
The encryption protocol that was introduced wasn't meant to keep prying eyes out. It was meant to obfuscate the traffic just enough that a ISP wouldn't notice and thus prevent throttling and traffic shaping, just like venom8599 suggested. If you want full encryption or at least some form of it, use a vpn or ssh tunnel.
You may want to double space your paragraphs Question: What are you doing about it today? You have to do something. We all have to. Watching on reddit doesn't fix things. I'm setting up an encrypted netbook and I'm going to see if I can't contact any of the involved men and women. It would seem that there are ch...
It's a bit more complicated than that. The machine does perform quantum annealing, it appears, but only for a certain subset of problems that are modeled in a specific way. There's no easy
It is worth noting that Congressman Rush Holt has a bill in committee that seeks to repeal the PATRIOT ACT and FISA.]( [This post provides a list of representatives on the Judiciary Committee that can be contacted.]( It also provides simple instructions on all you need to say when [calling/emailing your representativ...
You're portraying the government as someone not being part of your life, but little did you know your friendly neighbor, who moves in next year works for the government? He is the guy reading your mail. Of course he will keep his mouth shut, that you're having trouble with your hot girlfriend, but maybe he invites he...
IKEA isn't even Swedish (officially)... Ingvar Kamprad = A money-grubbing asshole who kept/keeps away almost all company-earnings from the Swedish people (they don't pay their fair share of taxes to Sweden!).
Because when internet access started becoming widespread speeds were in Baud, where 1Bd=1bit/s. As we started moving up Bauds were dropped in favour of their definition so bits per second became the norm and multiplying bits by 1000 was easy to explain to people so we started using kb/s. Eventually we moved into mega...
This is true for certain companies (such as Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba) that are traditionally heavyweights in the industry, but are losing money on their TV divisions. This is mostly because no one buys their TVs. Companies like Samsung and LG manufacture their own panels, which is the single most expensive piece. T...
Last I read, for locations with grid access, local power storage didn't make economic sense vs. selling to the grid and buying back off peak. There's also been a lot of mental masturbation over just how cheap storage has to be or if it's even feasible to get cheap enough to get it competitive (it needs to be REALLY ch...
If any antivirus program worked. It would be installed on every computer and there wouldn't be any viruses. The typical argument to this statement is that viruses continue to exist because new ones are created everyday, but this only solidifies the fact that antivirus will never work. It will take a new type of system ...
You don't do something like this for anything but catharsis and potential marketing. It had exactly the intended effect. I'm sure the shop owner didn't write it and think "man, surely they'll feel sorry for me and stop being petty". However, that situation does become slightly more likely in a bad PR scenario like t...
That's a tough call - I've been paying for parks like the Grand Canyon my entire life but if I ever wanted to go there I'd still need to pay the entrance fee - that's not exactly a warm welcome. If the IRS mailed me a federal parks rewards card that I got points on for paying taxes then maybe I'd feel better about th...
People like you make me depressed to call myself a human being. This sort of "pandering" as you call it is a life-changing experience. If I was that kid I would decide then and there I wanted to be a NASA scientist someday. Astronauts are obviously his heroes and the fact that one of them responded to him likely ele...
There are many problems associated with running a LFTR that have yet to be solved. One of the more major is that the flouride is highly corrosive and rapidly destroys parts of the reactor.
Many cities want competition, there are just no other company coming to them for a franchise. Also, in Colorado there is a state law against letting companies use public dark fiber. So that is one reason Google won't come here. That law really drives me nuts. Without going in to a lot of detail, the rights-of-way a...
This is such horrible article that I do not know where to begin. First of all it uses the words fiber and 100G network interchangeably. Those are different things. Comcast, likely does not own fiber in 100G network, it leases it. It owns equipment. The client side fiber, Comcast "may" own, but this is not the 100G netw...
The city isn't getting applications because it's an extremely expensive, risky process. You want competition in your town? Knock down the barriers to entry for companies looking to run fibers. The city may not be to blame, but they can fix this. Google Fiber provides a nice illustration. They picked cities that...
Oh Finance will definitely be consulted , it just wouldn't start with us/ be our idea to build a new plant. I've never even been in a plant, why would I care? Operations/Supply Chain would be the ones to say 'hey we have constraints, we need a new plant.' Then we do the stuff you just mentioned and see if it makes se...
Well, actually, it is their site; makes perfect sense for the content that is posted on it to be under their control. Under that alone, they have a strict ethical allowance. The fact that they took data in from these changes is actually defended in their policies. I'm not saying it should have happened. Were it m...
When I was 17, one of the subjects I was studying at the time was french. There was this schools french conference thing where a bunch of schools got together to do france related things (reading french poetry, speed dating in french, eating cheese, surrendering etc) and at the end of the day we all went into this lect...
I just hope they upgrade their data caps after this. Currently telenet customers have 100-150 GB before they get slowed down on a normal internet connection. Telenet has a lot of rules and restrictions for its 'unlimited' internet connection. For instance; You get 160mbps down, 10 mpbs up. When it is not peak hou...
but has Google really influenced our politics or the public's interest in a bad way? From what I read, it's the other way around. Google is willingly advocating and advancing the government's interests as a back channel negotiator. Google hired an ex-government official to lead their "Google Ideas" think-tank, and he...
It seems pretty simple to me: stop making invasive and annoying ads. I try to avoid using adblock and the likes. I really do. I want to support websites. I even randomly click them on occasion to do so. But once the ads become more than I wish to handle I can't justify supporting it. It's a bad model, and should...
Responded to the other comment.
They have become a pest. They are Mosquitos sucking at anything with a pulse and AdBlock is the OFF deep woods spray. It seems the vast majority of people HATE ads. They hate when commercials interrupt their TV shows every 10 minutes, for five minutes at a time. They hate when their music is interrupted for a block ...
Funny story, that's actually happened in the firearms industry. For simplicity's sake, let's say that short-barreled rifles (SBRs) are classified by the National Firearms Act (NFA) as any weapon designed to be shouldered with a barrel <16" (there's more language than that, but that's the basics) and require a 200 dol...
You're right: I'm not going to unblock your small website on the adblocker, no matter how carefully you curate your ads, because the amount of time I'd have to invest to managing that outstrips the value of your website to me. I'm also not going to stop using adblocker, because the reality is that malicious websites ...
In all honesty, if ads were actually relevant to my interests, didn't push down the content of the page I am actually there for (to be fair, not the ad network's fault), and were always static, I'd be fine with them. The biggest problem is relevancy, though. Most ads just aren't relevant to my interests. I have a few s...
I'm disappointed that they felt the need to lock the thread over at the ras pi forums. Edit: thread has now been unlocked. This is a real issue. In the photos and video in the forum I'm seeing two different chips. There is one chip that has a [plastic case]( that I would expect, then there is a [video with a U16 that d...
Well for one these rules are rules, not laws. The so-called reasonably test is in the network operators favor, especially since most of these packet prioritization things are actual IETF specs that have been layed down since the 90's for a tiered model, that is only just today becoming possible. As more capacity is add...
Meanwhile in Ireland >ACCESS TO THIS IP ADDRESS RELATING TO THE PIRATE BAY WEBSITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED > >WHY? > >On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and UR...
I'm a designer for a large, well-known company and, I'm embarrassed to say, I forgot all of this stuff. When I initially saw the figure, I thought "$32k for basically a 2 page site?!?". Then when rask mentioned bandwidth and downloads, I thought "I'm sure the studio just paid for that stuff." Then you list all thi...
this isn't complicated: He grossed ~500,000 and profited 200,000. that's ~300,000 in expenses, 170,000 was to make video, 32,000 for website which 100,000 unaccounted misc expenses. If you want to add 170K from ticket sales, go for it, but Louie was just talking online sales. Ticket sales aren't part of this "experim...
EXACTLY CORRECT. Internet buzz is all thrilled about the process, since it uses all their favorite toys, and presses all their favorite "equality for the masses" button. I also have read almost ZERO response to the actual product . I'm a fan of Louis CK even though his stuff is often spotty in actual humor and leans...
From a marketing standpoint, saying it was an "experiment" definitely creates buzz in its own right, especially on a website like reddit. If it wasn't an experiment and was just put up on the web for $5, people probably wouldn't have talked about it as much or sent it to their friends.
To be fair, that was pretty much his only promotional expense so that's still a pretty good way of getting it advertised.
Where's the
Actually, historically patent trolls did sort of make their money telling people to stay off their lawns, sort of kind of not really. It's a combination of both telling people to stay off your lawn, and using your ability to keep them off your lawn to jack up the rent prices to ridiculous levels. Where patent trolls...
They do need the patent if they've been doing business with it, and not paying the licensing fee means that their business gets shut down. Then it becomes a case of pay-or-die, which is why patent trolls have a reputation for litigation. This is exactly what happened in RIM v. NTP. >To say that licensing fees a...
Law-talking guy here. This issue was addressed previously in the case of "In re Boucher" before a federal court in Vermont. Basically, le Boucher had his laptop searched at the Canadian border and they found some illegal porn. They arrested him, but later discovered that his hard-drive was encrypted (it had been acces...
This is a good idea but, am I the only one who thinks that we should still fight for our "old" internet?We are now creating legal ways of sharing files but these methods are technically stupid. Why should one delete his file if he can just make a copy and send it to his friend? I mean, we, the human race, created a way...
I think this is a brilliant idea and wish you best of luck in fine tuning it and creating something awesome. I do not understand the people who seem to be attacking you on issues as you seem very willing to listen to outside input and change or amend the way things are currently. Keep listening to clients even if the...
I own the primary DNS servers and edge transport servers of our Org: they're my responsibility. External DNS is recorded only for domain authentication per session and that's it. Does it work? Yes: clear the check box. No: Start logging and kill them when your finished. Intermediary's won't be your problem si...
Author here. Re: sideways orientation, and the air gap, see our interview with the inventor:
Police work barely breaks the top ten in most dangerous jobs. I've worked in several fields more dangerous. When they decide upon their career they choose to take those risks. If they want to play military, they can instead go join the fucking military. They are police officers, not fucking Special Forces. Thes...
Unless George Lucas is directing, that is the side I would rather be on. Shameful, I know, but romanticizing "goodness" leads to poverty, depression, and unemployment.
That sir is a stereotype. Not all people "from the west" eat bacon every day, drive a v8 pickup, have a cabinet full of chemical cleansers and beauty products and plastics and fragrances and shop at walmart... Don't be such an ignoramus! *Edit: It's harsh words like this that actually turn the ignorant American's ...
One big problem I have with Imazon is the main driver of deforestation is agriculture, NOT logging. [Science Daily Source]( So why do companies need to invest in software like Imazon when it actually does not impact the real driver of deforestation? It's a flawed PR strategy that doesn't even help the bottom line of ...
The use of "they" and "The Government" as principle nouns is always my indicator that someone is uninformed. Lets actually analyze the situation and see if governments actually hate freedom. Democratic governments are made of people, rules, and arbitration. So you either believe that the people we elect hate freedom or...
This will be buried because this thread is already 5 hours old but for what its worth I'll sling it anyway. Let's say person A is an American citizen who interacts with others on the world wider web. While his individual activity can be monitored fairly easily because, like many Americans, he does not practice good c...
The idiocy of some of the top responses is shameful. It's why I'm not always proud to be an American. Ignorance, shortsightedness, inability to see the "big picture", and a very over-inflated sense of entitlement and self-worth is why "privacy" is an issue. Why should it matter if anyone's listening to my conversa...
I just signed and did my part. Signature #8... Come on b/r/osky's sign this thing!!! If we got 100k signatures to petition Obama to build a Death Star, then we can surely get this done! Registration only asks for email, name, &amp;amp; zip. Takes you an extra 30 seconds. You might not get TITS in return for signing it....
I'm the type of person who doesn't do anything if it's not free (other than eat and school). I don't have a habbit of going to movies, amusement parks, expensive restaurants, or pretty much anything else except for rare occasions. Am I broke? Hell no, I'm a Ph.D. student on a fellowship making almost 2k a month not i...
A subscription model at $7/mo. That's cheaper than many movies and TV shows sell for per-episode or two. Hell, it's cheaper than a theater ticket, and you only need one for an entire family. It's a pretty generous model, really. You can already get TV shows on iTunes/Play for like $3-$5 a pop which is fairly reasonable...