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What a lot of people don't understand is the internet is already taxed. A lot of localities view internet service as a utility, and since its often bought with other "defined" services such as Cable TV or phone service, they often collect a tax on it and you probably don't even realize it. I don't pay anything here...
Pirating music and abusing (current) copyright does not harm the musicians, or the music itself. I think one can attribute the rise in EDM in the states to the surge of piracy, and piracy has made not only music more accessible but it's made creating music more accessible which led to an over-saturation of good music o...
You're missing the entire point! My point is that there's no sale to lose. the people in the other examples were never going to make the sale. So, how can that sale be lost if it was never going to exist? And I don't know if I am reading it wrong, but in your example, do you mean the same album 15 times? Because you ...
I'm glad that Facebook is finally starting to lose some of its user base. However, I have mixed feelings on the influx of teenagers. Don't get me wrong I think that their opinions and views are valid. It's just that I already went through that part of my life. So hearing there voice just sounds like one big repost to m...
i really don't understand why SnapChat didn't create a better algorithm. generate random symmetric session key encrypt file with session key encrypt symmetric key with recipient's public key send file and encrypted session key to recipient file at rest is encrypted decrypt file in memory wipe session k...
on android phones /data/data/com.snapchat.android/cache/received_image_snaps/ the images actually go away if you view them, they only stay there if you don't click them
Ctrl-F - "Texas" 1 result: Credit card debt program is now available for Texas. Apply before deadline.
You can't be serious... Your first link: >This year's BSA Global Software Piracy Study marks the first time a large sample of computer users around the world have been asked directly, "How often do you acquire pirated software or software that is not fully licensed?" The answers people have given to that and other ...
That's not androids fault. Stock android has no bloat. Like any of the nexus devices. Its HTC sense, Samsung touch wiz, and Motorola's motoblur that come with the bloatware. And even still its not so much that as much as its the carriers installing it on the phones.
Now you're being silly, for two reasons. Firstly, you imply Google picked up Webkit out of the goodness of their hearts instead of because Apple making it a bloody good rendering engine. And, secondly, saying Webkit got "nowhere on the non-mobile market" is like saying that the internal combustion engine got nowhere if...
There's no way they could black out entire bands like that. There are way too many frequencies, and way too much atmosphere; specific channels in specific areas/locations possibly. However, hams have huge frequency blocks throughout the entire spectrum; 160M all the way to w/e GHz you want to go. They would have to ...
Ill give you an example. Back in mid 2000's my mother purchased a Toyota Prius because she is a real estate appraiser in SoCal. She wanted the Prius for the gas mileage AND the stickers for the carpool. There was only one problem though, the state only let 10-20k people have those stickers. The rest were screwed. S...
Google Maps is going to begin self correcting shortly. They recently purchased Waze, an app using Social Community mapping. Basically it tracks you movements and corrects the digital map version. I'd it doesn't catch something, you can map it manually with some in app tools or simply by recording it. Further, there ...
Assuming he's from a country like China, where I've lived: Reddit is primarily an English-language website. Most web users in non-English speaking countries will be generally unfamiliar with reddit, which sort of neuters its ability to serve as a platform for social change or foment revolution. Twitter, youtube and f...
Yep. The Rubicon that ended my contributions was a simple little piece on color psychology. These are pretty common, well-known things, but I liked to consult that article now and then for design purposes: it was useful to know the little edge-case associations that I might be overlooking in a given context. Somebody...
Wikipedia has a problem with its mathematics articles. And that problem is sort of a "split personality" with respect to its expected user base. For the simpler math, say high school level and below, it's generally pretty good. For the more advanced topics, say graduate school level, it can safely make the assu...
In theory, Samsung could write a 64bit optimized version of the Dalvik vm. Android apps would run on top of that without any hassle. There's also the NDK. Developers can compile to 64 bit native binaries. Neither of those things require Google and could happen on the next Samsung phone. But even still. "64 b...
You pithy son of a gun. I feel so smote by your sarcasm, just worthless as a human being.
One Today charity Android app by Google Reputation and points systems You could probably get more people to donate if you register this with Google One Today. The app has Google+ profile declarations of charity. >"Your One Today profile also includes information based on your usage of One Today, such as which pro...
They shot down AT&T buying tmobile not because they wanted 4, but because AT&T was already the second largest and with tmobile they would have been the largest. At that point between them and Verizon they could have squeezed sprint out leaving just 2 carriers.
NEWS FLASH! BUSINESS IS ABOUT MAKING MONEY! I've said this before and sounded very miserable, but it really is true. Sony/MS/Nintendo/LG/Moto/Apple/etc do not care about what you want. You will eat up whatever the current market allows you because you know no different. These companies are only interested in giving u...
Something seems off here: how would the fab unit generate a $851million loss, compaared to $197million profit last year by no longer having the Apple contract? It's not like they would still produce all those chips and have lost costs, so unless they meant to say that Samsung is facing a change of $1B, rather than ...
I got a late fee because they did not bill me through their automatic payment system. I called customer service to get the late fee removed and they said it was a billable item and could not be removed...wtf I have to pay a fee for their mistake, hell no! I asked the rep to speak with their supervisor who told me the s...
Unfortunately we aren't getting that from mobs or congress. Or the Internet. The vast majority of the people who are waving the net neutrality flag are doing it at the behest of organizations and companies online that are giving them just as biased of a view of it. Net neutrality has never been the people versus co...
So all we can fall back on is shaming those who appoint members of the FCC?
Baah, I hate the founding father arguments. Its thought halting bull shit. Modern Idol warship. The "founders" were not in agreement about these things, they fought about it passionately. Some founders were in favor of a more direct democracy. Jefferson wanted a rolling revolution every 20 years or so. Paine was...
This is an appeal to moderation fallacy I'm not really sure how you could say that direct democracy would possibly misrepresent people if all it does is record everyone's opinions. Especially how it would any moreso than representative democracy. By nature of having representatives, people are forced to compromise ...
Pretty much. Or we have been gerrymandered out of relevance by the Republican party and aggressive tactics at the state and local level. My vote has not counted for a damn thing since the year 2000. Thanks Tom! To top that, some of our own legislators had to flee the state just to avoid being hauled in by the ran...
The average consumer buys primarily on price, so all of the OEMs sell on price. The store salesdroid tells the customer the scanner'll do whatever they need it to (and to be fair, it probably will). Then the consumer buys the cheapest scanner in their price range. As far as I can tell, the manufacturers of consumer ...
Quantity is not size. Smaller pixels are great if you have a good lens setup and proper processing. More/smaller pixels with a crap lens and crap processing gives you crap pictures. He went too far with his argument. Smaller/more pixels don't mean higher quality if the rest of your hardware doesn't support it. The...
With algorhitms like bicubic resize, you would use fractions of pixels not discrete pixels. I realize this may sound weird and theoretic, but it has practical applications. Just like Shannon theorem and like with Huffman-encoding data, you typically end up with data and capacities measured in fractions of bits, somet...
No, you're right that it's a retarded way to represent anything. If you want to show numbers between integers, you use EITHER a fraction or a decimal. Anyway, it looks like the numbers tell you the diameter of the circular wafer on which the CCD is fabricated. Plausibledeniability's link sensor is roughly 2/3 of ...
I haggle quite often- generally anywhere except grocery stores. I Recently bought a Samsung TV also and managed to get it for about $500 off the sale price, even though it was already on sale for quite a crazy price. In my case I generally start by going to absolutely every store and asking what the best price they c...
Apple have, historically, overcharged for RAM. However... If you look at the difference between 4GB DDR3 and 8GB DDR3 from Apple, it's an additional $200. Go to crucial.com: A 2GB x 2 kit costs $119.99... so $239.99 (to make a total of 4GB x 4, as in the Apple choice offerred) *edited: additional detail to clea...
That site looks sketchy as fuck. You can build a standalone DNS server in pretty much any OS of your choice right now anyway... this looks like a thinly-veiled social engineering attempt to backdoor your grandparents' PC. Edit: So he built a hosts file and then renamed it hosts.exe? I'm a network admin and I'm absolu...
My aunt and uncle used to have this big dirty dog that hung around their farm. It would come up to you and be really nice and cuddly. It was obviously hurting for the attention; understandable, considering it was so filthy. It had a sad look in its eyes that told you he had seen his share of emotional abuse. Once affec...
It's easier for web developers to write some code that redirects you when you go outside the norm while filling out a multi-page form by clicking the Back button or by opening a duplicate window . But they don't just do it because it's easier. A client may not be willing to pay the web developer for an elegant s...
See, the way I see it - ebooks (and a consequent smaller publisher role) especially make sense when you have a smaller target audience (2k-3k). Especially in fantasy-scifi, where most of the fans are, at first glance, tech savvy. You wouldn't risk having your series being dropped after the first edition (aka Daniel Abr...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple shipped a cheap iPhone. I do not see this happening in the near future(At least while Steve Jobs is CEO). Apple doesn't play in the low end area, they only market devices seen as "high end". The cheapest laptop you can get from Apple is more than double the price of the cheapest Windo...
i'd like to point out that the bottom of the barrel cfl's you see in your average store (ie: grocery stores/walmart/etc.) are complete crap. they have low light output, take forever to reach full brightness and sometimes make noise. I went through probably about 10 models of bulbs before I found one I liked, and it was...
The (correlated) color temperature is one parameter. You also have to look at Ra (general color rendering index), because there's also a world of difference between a 3000K light source at Ra = 80% and a 3000K light source at Ra = 100%. [This]( is a helpful image. A lot of the time, Ra is not even marked on the box a...
I've tried a few of these and have yet to find one that works really well with cheap dimmer switches (e.g. dims the full range and doesn't flicker.) I had high hopes for LEDs, but hit the same flickering issue. I'm assuming that in both cases this is due to a lousy TRIAC implementation in the dimmer that doesn't line...
Let me explain it to you again. I find it remarkable that you are ok with keeping someone in jail without any formal criminal charge for 14 months on what legally should have been a civil matter - and also don't see anything wrong with the legal process being hijacked by an old boy network. The drug abuse and suicide...
OK, few questions: Why would anyone care about Youtube? It's mainly clips, not feature films and TV episodes. How is anyone trying to fuck up Grooveshark? How is it wrong for Hulu to charge for old episodes? They let you watch 4 or 5 episodes for free. It's not your right to see every episode of every show f...
Oh wow. I haven't been following this too much, but I saw the name th3j3st3r and it reminded me of this video game I played about 7 years ago called MapleStory in it's beta stages, and there was a guy on there who would use brute force programs and would steal accounts from people, and then they created cheat engines t...
Yes, and as someone that's been out of middle/high school for some time I can't help but wonder how the social warfare so characteristic of that stage in development is carried on nowadays. Back then the weapons used were rumors, false attributions and at the very best some MSN logs obtained by creating a fake persona....
Actually it is more fucked up than you expect. Instead comcast ships new (additional) boxes that are energy star certified, making the required percentage of the total population of their STBs energy star compliant.
We're all aware that they're accused of terrible crimes, but it is more important to let a bad man go free than for you to go to jail for a crime you didn't commit, right? The liberty of the whole population is also more important than +10% ability to catch certain rare criminals. If you'd like a values system to anc...
It's a nice idea, but first RGB is for production of color using light (Red, Green, and Blue). To reproduce color on a surface you would need CMYK inks (that's Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK, as in your printer). RGB and CMYK produce limited ranges of color within the space of all visible colors, so it wouldn't be abl...
It really doesn't matter what the root of the word is. What matters is what the laws say and how they are interpreted. Copyright includes restricting performances and is the basis for contracts that specify the maximum number of readers/listeners/viewers. In this case it sounds like the American company held Chinese ...
Devil's advocate: He purchased a textbook for say $10 overseas when the price states side is $100 then sold it. Great, he pocketed $90 minus shipping fees. However, the publishing company isn't selling it for $10 just to see this guy pocket $90 that could be theirs. So what is the logical move for the company? Easy: Ei...
Apple had do address this, but I don't think they realize how much potential this has to hurt their brand. The thing that makes Apple products so attractive is that they work. They just ... work. The iPhone's intuitive, seamless interface is in stark contrast to Android which rewards users who want to tweak and custo...
That's odd. MKV arose because the problem with other container formats, such as AVI, was that they weren't extensible enough. AVI can't support multiple audio streams (like English + Spanish where you toggle between them), nor embedded subtitle streams (AVIs used SRT files), or even support for chapters. Basically al...
July 16 press conference when Apple actually apologized and promised to give out free cases, not the July 2 press release. Here's one article on it: >To our customers who are affected by the issue, we are deeply sorry Sounds like an apology to me.
After someone else finding out I thought paper was "bright" and that words jumped around the page I was given some tests, then it became blatantly obvious. A lot of reading and maths frustrations that I'd assumed other people just found easier to overcome, it turned out that other people don't experience at all! I ho...
I can not speak for anyone else but I know for a fact I wouldn't have spent near the amount of money I have on music if it wasn't for torrenting. I am active on a very large private torrent site and have found countless artist there that I may have never found otherwise aren't available elsewhere. It's because of my la...
I don't pirate anything, not that it's difficult, or unjustifiable (I mean, it's digital, everything here is just a series of bits, how do you steal a pattern? I mean photoshop is at it's very essence just a mathematical equation) but it's a moral point for me. Yes it would be possible to recreate that series of open ...
They can, you're right. But to do so would target every user at once, and would destroy consumer confidence. Kindle books, for example, can expire at varying times due to different publishers wishes. There are more publishers than there are studios. Since it began as a digital file, there is a defined "start" and "en...
Something a lot of people miss is the budget and gross income numbers you see aren't exactly accurate. Usually when they report numbers for ticket sales, that's the total amount of money spent on tickets. They don't take out the movie theaters cut. Another thing they don't mention is the true budget of the film. The bu...
now that is dirt cheap. I paid $23 to watch "Life of Pi" in 3D at the local theatre. Parking was another $10, candy + drinks was probably $20 more. Double that, and you have a cheap and nice few hours with your SO (which was what I did) However, I can guarantee you that this offer is US-only, and I still have to ...
Yes, it should be the standard quality, even on small screens there is a noticeable difference between SD and HD and they need to get rid of SD altogether. But you understand where they make the decision from, since people are willing to pay extra for HD why not? It's like tablets to get double the storage memory the...
I'm surprised (well, not really) at the response here. Let's start with a disclaimer... I pirate movies. I go see them in the theaters, but rarely buy ones for at home anymore. I don't try justifying this like some people because frankly, it's an economic decision for me. I do think that content creators deserve to...
yes because thats completely an equal comparison. There are always bulk shipping rates that massive companies can ship items at almost no cost. Do you think dell pays the same as you in shipping costs? No they get a major discount. How much do you think dell would charge you to drive your new pc to your house? Als...
You still need a lot of time for things like creating menus, interviewing people for various special features, combing through to get bloopers/deleted scenes (less likely on an animated movie but still). All this stuff takes time, and, while people are working on it a lot, others are also doing interviews and other thi...
He said he pirated a game because it was no longer DRM-free. Then says he loves steam because it doesn't have DRM. He had his chance to clear up his statement, but his next argument went on to say how SecuROM was evil and Steam wasn't. Which validates my point. I simply pointed out that his issue was not with DRM, ...
You bring up some good points. The pain of creating multiple accounts for everything and linking them is annoying, but it only has to be done once, so in my opinion it's not that bad. But I can see how it would annoy you. I'm not that familiar with the Flixster app either (though it seems like the problems/annoyances...
Well, it varies. For example, [here's a pirated version]( running at about 14 Mbps. According to a Google search, Looper's blu ray is about 29 Mbps. That seems like a big difference, but the formats aren't the same. Consider this as an example: this . But anyway, my point is simply that higher bitrate (and relatedly...
Don't be surprised if Mikey decides to just up and fire your entire team one day. He really likes doing that. Then he loves outsourcing your job to some shitty call center in Florida and sends your former L3 NOS team to go train the replacements.
i used to go to starbucks often and get a coffee and sit down and do my homework. I tipped 50 percent of the time everytime. One day I was down on my luck with no money and depressed, sat down and started studying and the manager made me leave. :l
Well, it is worth mentioning. It's not just a sales pitch for High End PCs. If you look back to the time when the XBox 360 was released, it was extremely powerful and comparable to high end PCs. The 3 CPU cores fared pretty well to the still pretty new dual core CPUs, and the GPU was about as powerful as the Ati X180...
I built my rig over a year ago for $1,100 and won't have to upgrade anything for at least 3 to 4 years. That additional cost of $600 is made up for with Steam sales, not paying for Xbox Live, and the numerous PC game mods that can double or triple the play-ability of my games. Not to mention the numerous free to play g...
So what? Even if labor was 1000% more (it's not), that doesn't actually drive the cost of the product up by much. Herein, I repeat the same point I've made for a year: Take your iPhone. Costs around $250 at the high-high end to manufacture. It takes 1.5 hours of labor at Foxconn Chengdu to shoot the case parts and as...
I used to make sailing trips on a wooden sailboat without an engine or large battery, so we had to rely on light from flashlights and petroleum lights when we didn't have access to power. Once you get used to it, even the weakest light sources are enough to get around on the boat without tripping, eating and recognizin...
Any word on if it'll come to Windows devices? I just got a Surface Pro last week, I love it to death, but I find myself using it in desktop mode far more often than Metro mode (or whatever they want to call it), because the Windows store selection sucks big time. The included Microsoft touch apps are nice, but I instal...
Not the Op, but it's because language is based in people and, therefore, inherently subjective. Language is a social agreement. We call an apple an apple because that's what we agreed the word apple means and represents . It isn't this is an apple, so that's why we call it an apple. Additionally, if you have very spe...
The points mean nothing, but as you've seen from your post, it's hidden. I had to click the + on the "hidden" bar. I do this because I like both sides of the opinions. Yours however, deserves to be downvoted and hidden, because it both adds nothing to the discussion and is misinformed. That being said, it's not anythin...
Also, it's worth noting this story shows up every now and then. Not necessarily related to Chrome, but to similar applications that make the same choice. A few weeks ago there was a story on top of reddit of a "serious flaw" found Mac OS that allows anyone to see your wifi passwords. Which is exactly the same thing as ...
You are essentially correct, but missing one small piece - that the TPM is also a specialized crypto processing chip. The TPM does more than just store the keys (more than one by the way, and not just asymmetric). It can take input data, hash it, and mix it with hashes of other data. This is useful to make sure tha...
This problem has been plaguing me since I bought my new laptop about a year ago. It has the 6235 adapter. It's weird because it seems almost completely random as to when it happens. It'll show as connected to the router still, but nothing will happen until I disable/re-enable the adapter. Sometimes this won't help, tho...
This is partly in the way that appropriations and budgets are made, there is authorization for the "critical" expenditures. It is illegal for a government to make expenditures which have not been authorized in some way. The continued operations of these sites would be an unauthorized act since the funding has specifi...
The UAC dialog is shown on a separate virtual desktop (by default) so the only way a program could programatically click on the button is if it was already running with full rights, which it could gain by being run with full rights at least once (when it is installed.) Unfortunately, the only way this could be fixed ...
Over the past 5 years I have installed this software on about 20 computers, I had 1 fucking week to switch. 17 machines didn't make it, but they will be getting ImPCremote asap they aren't far away. Most of those machines never used Logmein once, since their owners weren't stupid enough to catch a virus. Logmein wi...
In fairness, if you get in quick sometimes Apple are actually, well, not dicks. I paid about £5 for an app yonks ago which a few days later was pulled from the store/the t&c's changed and it wanted a monthly charge. Just like this situation. I emailed support, explained that there was no indication of this happening an...
I know this has 500+ comments already but I thought I'd give my vote to teamviewer as well. I just spent the last hour installing teamviewer on all the computers I need it on, to me it looks like it has every single feature that logmein has. The biggest thing that I loved about logmein is the fact you can sign in and l...
According to the article the bill says: >Except with regard to unserved areas, a municipality may not, directly or indirectly: >(1) Offer to provide to one or more subscribers [...] broadband service; or >(2) purchase, [...], any facility for the purpose of enabling a private business or entity to offer [...] broad...
You realize you're equally hypocritical right? Advocating that others may push their religious beliefs onto employees? FYI, birth control is prescribed for other uses besides contraception.
I had T-Mobile for 8 years on my moms account and an additional 4 on my own. In the houses I lived in previously I had fine reception, but in the house I live in currently we didn't get any reception and had a house phone anyway. When I called to tell them I wouldn't be renewing my contract the employee offered me $59...
Now you know. Always record phone calls when you call a company. They record you, you should do the same. If in the future you need help figuring out an easy way to record them, just let me know, gmail calling makes it extremely easy on the desktop. But you can also do it on most android phones.
There are a ton more MVNO choices than just tracfone, I'm sure you know. I'm going to expand on your post if you don't mind.. I wish more people would do their research. Most people can get big network plans for less than $55. verizon towers through [selectel]( or [pageplus]( att towers through [straighttalk]( [air...
As someone who has had their service for almost the better part of my life, due to sheer lack of options for other providers, my experince ranges from tolerable to completely unacceptable. Pricing for basic cable used to be alright, but grew exponentially over the years, then got dailed back in. Internet is over priced...
we give them way too much of our money for absolutely nothing in return. this is utter bs. Israel receives a $ 3bln credit to buy weapons from the united states. So apart from the fact that this money comes back to the states directly, the deal includes israel sharing a lot of military intelligence and technology to ...
I would add a few minor notes to this: *Google's aim in advertising is mostly to get people to use the internet more, as internet use correlates pretty directly to use of Google services. *At&t has no equivalent to this. Their main revenue streams are fees from sale of internet, and possibly selling customer data. ...
So is this a legitimate claim to a suit that protects the interests of competitors or in reality the lack-thereof (really just Bing)? I might be a self-proclaimed technologist like every other redditor but seriously who uses anything else? I've used Google since conception along with millions of others but does that ...
Not sure if serious, but here's the justification for $20/hr. First, nationwide minimum wage will be $15/hr for many jobs, in most industries. Just as gay marriage and recreational marijuana will. Where it has already happened, like Seatac, all evidence points to a the minimum wage reducing government services that ...
Ok forgive me if this comes off as mean but what you described sounds like kindergarten. The world ain't kindergarten, you gotta grow up. Plus, why the heck should my country care more about other countries than it's own citizens. This may be an Amero-centric viewpoint but I believe that the government is of the people...
DISCLAIMER: this is kinda long (at least for me on mobile) and not entirely sourced yet First the fish thing, Japan does not want China in their waters yet China refuses to leave. The Japanese are fearful of a Chinese invasion, and they really don't want their coasts being ruined by pollution and their economy being ...
1) premiums would go down 2) Americans would be able to keep their plan 3) keep their doctor None of these were true and he knew it the entire time. Premiums and deductibles went up across-the-board. I don't even know where to begin on correcting you here. I'll just hit the high notes. > Newsflash: The ACA has not ...
I don't understand - how is it possible that a bill needs to be 11000 pages long? How can anyone be expected to read and understand and vote on something that big? Do they get a
No, I think their actions were probably uncalled-for and reactionary. I say "probably" because I haven't seen the picture(s) in question. Was the baby just used as an "accessory" in order to slip boob pics onto the site? That would certainly violate the ToS in spirit. Or it could have been more along the lines of "He...
If we had giant ones of these we could air lift referees above a field or stadium to follow whatever corresponding projectile without getting in the way of the players. I bet it would make a great fruit dryer for after you wash them. If you put someone in a giant clear ball it could be a ride at an amusement pa...