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Seriously though, why are so many people un-impressed? Of course it's not without it's flaws. But from an artistic standpoint, in my opinion, this is incredible. The headline says that the video will blow my mind, describes it as a kind of revolution in the CGI realm. It stayed on Reddit for several hours, giving som...
Well, technically speaking, IE8 does implement a helluva lot of security features over IE7, and especially more than IE6 (god, that thing was sliced up like a block of cheese with so many holes). Back when it was announced, it was the "speediest" of the browsers (but was quickly outpaced- Microsoft needs to do some...
Well but the way the internet generates discourse can actually be pretty strange if set in the right context. I for one wondered how discussions about the last wikileak video concerned first and formost the initial engagement, and the pros and cons of that, sidelining 2 big other questions, partly about the distincti...
An arbitrary entity could certainly build such a piece of hardware/software to translate incoming/outgoing sms at the carrier-carrier interfaces to another format. My carrier for example has a web->sms gateway that you can send text messages through to their customers. Any north american carrier surely will not buil...
Just got a Kin TwoM, it no longer requires the data package and I have a very basic 250 message text plan with verizon. My complaint is why should I be forced into using a data plan with smart phones when I could just as easily use wifi? I don't want to pay 15-30 dollars extra a month on top of voice.
Oh man, you'd be a dream to deal with. I worked with L&R (Loyalty and Retention) a lot, and your situation would've made you an A Segment, which I'm surprised they let you cancel without a fight.. (by fight, I mean trying to suck your dick to get you to stay..) I hate to say it, but you probably dealt with a bunch of d...
What is this "lack of unanimous support BS?" Let's be clear on this. If you are not an American, YOU WILL ALSO BE AFFECTED BY SOPA/PIPA. The vast majority of websites that you use every single day (including Reddit) are hosted in the US on US servers. This gives the US Government the ability to take them down (Re...
Will vouch. What happened to the nuclear facility in Iran was incredibly difficult to achieve and depended on intimate knowledge of one particular PLC manufacturer's code and the flooding of a specific virus to almost one-third of Iran's computers in the hopes that it would find a single sneaker-netted machine. You ca...
Um. You want to get a gravitational field... by adding more mass to your spaceship...?! You're aware that in order to create a 1G gravitation field, you need mass of around 6 septillion kilos - that's 6x10^24 kilos? We know this for a fact, because we live on such a spaceship - it's called [the Earth]( Using "s...
Wow. I have no words. I can't believe people are bitching about this. >I don't think I can support such practices anymore. As much as I'd love buying a slew of artificially overpriced accessories again, I'd rather start looking for an Android phone. I facepalmed so hard. You can't support what practices? Technologi...
Pfft as if it would hurt to keep those few unused pins. If they were adding something for extra functionality it would be somewhat justified, but since they are only taking old stuff out I can only conclude that they do it for money only. (Even if there is an adapter, it will probably be way overpriced as always.)
So, uh... why'd you link a paper that quotes an [article]( and a [researcher]( who didn't author the paper you linked? Google's retort, RE the cookie (after removing it upon complaint): >"The Journal mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google...
Facebook privacy violations could affect my day to day life. An employer might not hire me because of a post I made years ago. Private companies can contact me in order to solicit me. Before you say "then don't post that stuff" it shouldn't matter if I put my profile to private. That said, government surveillance how...
the price of the stock had the anticipated performance of the iPhone priced into the stock. The stock price going down is more of a correction since it did not perform as well as analysts had expected. Also, the iPhone comprises almost half of the company's sales, so not meeting market expectations on iPhone sales is...
Your numbers are a little misleading. First, this is market share based on units shipped, not units sold. This really isn't an accurate reflection of the actual consumer market share. Second, this is worldwide market share, which includes many markets that Apple is not actively making an effort to compete in like m...
ITT: lots of people haven't a clue how stock prices work, what investors look for, or indicators of corporate health. Quick points (and I have no position on AAPL - strictly an observer): Everyone knew Apple's revenue would go up, as would unit sales. The market's growing, and so is Apple. Those numbers went up a...
There may be aliens who abduct and probe rednecks. There may be the Antichrist. There may be ghosts of dead aliens that cause all of mankind's problems. But until you give me proof it is real and exists, all the "May be" In the world doesn't make it true.
It amazes me that people still don't understand that the only fuck given by the vast majority of politicians is to be re-elected. They will bend over backwards for you in most cases if their seat in threatened. You can argue that they care about the money they might be receiving but that only comes with the seat and th...
Or maybe it's how you personally interpret the truth. Think of this: I post an atheistic comment on /r/atheism and I get some upvotes. Now if I take that comment and post it on /r/ Christianity I'm likely to get downvotes. It's largely who you say it in front of that determines the "truth" as you call it. And peo...
If you think you'd need that, you're just as ignorant as he is. Hell, a 12 year old kid who's a decent shot could hit one of those little remote controlled drones with a .22 rifle if you let him pop off several shots. Also, they have this wonderful invention now. It's called fucking bird shot. You know, for birds.
There are a lot of reasons to get rid of patents in drug R&D. It promotes R&D into "me to" drugs. Wasted Money, little benefits to customer. Less sharing of knowledge between scientists. Results in more failure, more wasted money, slower innovation. It results in the US subsidizing the development of much o...
Sure, they might. Let's have the IRS investigate to make sure that the rules (as I understand the requirements, a certain majority percentage of the money being exempted from taxation must not be spent in politics or political activism) are being followed properly. IRS investigations are not costless for the organiza...
You get nothing but a phone. It's basically a pre-order that allows things to exist that otherwise wouldn't. Theoretically things on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo can't exist normally because they can't secure investors. With the help of crowdfunding you get to enjoy a product that never would have existed as long as you...
Well, I need to blow about 5 hours out the wazoo, so I'll get right on this! Immediately: It runs either the custom Ubuntu mobile environment, or Android. If you grew really attached to Carrier-specific features, do note that Samsung's utilities are tied to TouchWiz, so there is a small effort at replacing them without...
Everyone in this thread needs to calm down. In no way are advancements like these going to stop scientists from doing research to understand collapse disorder and help native bee populations rebound. Also, this is not in any way tied to GMO-crops, many crops of agricultural importance, be they GMO or non-GMO, depend ...
Fuck that shit. Phones and tablets should be just like PCs. Known hardware quantities that any coder(s) worth their salt should be able to load their operating system on (yes, I know baseband is still an issue... why? Because we give carriers way too much control). Let me also take a step back and say that it would b...
Most auto dealers actually own multiple dealerships and don't make that much money on new car sales. The majority of income is used cars and service. If someone like Honda didn't sell to a single dealer for a week, the dealer could probably almost stay in the black (this happened when the tsunami hit Japan the other ...
I saw it was proposed by Patton, but I can't find the amendment anywhere, and its kind of pissing me off. The original bill seemed to be a reasonable topic (I'm not condoning or disapproving of the original bill), but the Tesla crap is blatantly abusing legislation to sneak bullshit addendums into bills. Fuck any congr...
When you are not a citizen and are visiting a country, you're rights are always limited. They can do whatever they want to you and its between your countries ambassador and their State Dept. There may also be certain agreements existing between the two countries that detail the process of what to do when someone is a...
there should be something place from straight up BUYING the elections through millions of dollars spent on ads The problem here is that you are making a huge leap. Buying an ad is ultimately buying transmission rights for your voice/message. The likelihood that it influences an election is immaterial to the fact that...
I actually agree with both you and the others on this. On one hand, almost all companies have money as the primary concern and because Google is a major corporation they have the ability to sway politicians and politics in general for their benefit, so they do. It is basically understood that most all companies with th...
The long and short of the "RELAY" and "RELAY EARLY" tagging attack was as follows: Normally TOR nodes (entrance, relay, and last hop) are intended to be compartmentalized such that they only "know" enough information to perform their specific function in establishing a connection between a client and a hidden service...
Invest in companies you think have long term potential and then forget about it for a few years. Tesla is way overpriced right now especially with this new press release, you'd be buying Hugh. At the same time, if they somehow manage to pull a hat trick and dominate by ushering in a new Era of electric cars than yah yo...
Firmware/vehicle updates remotely to add features that would otherwise be impossible in a traditional ice car Are... Are you retarded? The drivetrain/powerplant has nothing to do with creating updates for firmware. > 3rd row seats in a non hatchback sedan That's because the roofline slopes all the way back to th...
I've noticed that Verizon tends to magically "round up" when it comes to how much data I've used. My first couple of days on verizon, I supposedly managed to blow through 2 GB on my 4GB data plan. I know exactly how much data I was using, also compared it to how much my iphone says I was using (< 100MB). I had started ...
You're getting those texts because you have usage controls on your account. I kept getting robocallers and random texts, so I added the controls and blocked the numbers. I started getting those texts after I hit 1gb. I was still able to use data after I "used all [my] data." Turn off useage controls and they will dis...
I'm grandfathered into the AT&T unlimited data plan. I have called well over 20 times complaining how if my contract says unlimited 4G internet, they're in breach of contract due to 4G being the connection of speed and LTE being the hardware they use to achieve that speed. 4G is the speed at which the data is sent. Whe...
Whoa, wait, what? I've been on Windows for 2 decades and hated OSX. Metro is what pushed me to finally hate Windows... and I bought Vista. Vista may have sucked for bugs, but it didn't make a desktop OS difficult for power users (besides the bugs). Microsoft tried to impose the crappy Metro UI/UX on desktop power...
I agree with a lot of that list. I do believe that 95 was a fantastic OS for its time and vanilla Windows 98 was bad. Only with the release of OSR2 did 98 stop sucking. Well, relatively. They were still overall awful operating systems. I also like Windows 8. It's a fantastic OS that suffers from an identity crisis....
The point is that just "mixtures" and "combinations" of elements are not molecules, there's a lot more to it than that. I used the carbonic acid and the polyethylene terephthalate as examples of two molecules that are although made of the same elements, are radically different. Molecules are defined by the structur...
all bills of this size get amended.. just like large software is going to have a lot of updates. The right pretend this isnt true. Bush's medicare plan D was "flawed" and had to "be amended" because you cant predict all the ways it will be abused and holes, until something is put in practice. you can find a ton but oft...
The ACA was a series of laws that gives more power to individuals that have health insurance. I.e., no lifetime max, cannot drop a person in the middle of treatment, cannot deny a patient based on pre-existing conditions, and no more "snake oil" policies where people were paying for something and not getting any cover...
You need user mass and a compelling reason to move. Myspace was a cesspool, and still is. Facebook was a significant improvement in every conceivable way. It was also exclusive which helped grow popularity. An open alternative that simply copies Facebook offers absolutely no advantages unless you're a geek, and the...
Not really... a heart-shaped wave is a superposition of lots of normal waves of different wavelengths/frequencies. Suppose you had a pool where each of the required normal waves could in fact be present as a standing wave (or had the actuators around the edge set up to make it act this way). The period of the overall w...
there are a lot dirty games that go one than simple link buying. Hell, that's pretty tame in google's book. When you start hiding text in the background color, or building ghost pages, or submitting links into xss exploited pages (aka do an xss and put that in a link shorterner, now go submit that link to a non googl...
Why do you think science would be better off without religion? Because, as superbaconman was saying, if you re-enforce the idea that "teachers are wrong" because of teaching evolution at school and parents dismissing it at home, kids won't want to believe anything teachers say. While it can be good to question things a...
Geez, quit it, both of you. My point was, don't scaremonger people away from Google. Give them facts that actually help them understand what Google can (and, I reiterate, cannot) do. That page will basically make people flip over the fact that Google is selling their proverbial bank account information... Essentially...
Site optimization is the not the same as ad targeting. Simply put: Site optimization (what I do) is more like watching how people walk around in a store and arranging the displays to make their shopping experience better. Ad targeting (what I don't do) is capturing your behavior to serve you ads somewhere else. I find ...
I think the most important (and probably the worst) thing about this is the [Content Decryption Module]( They don't want DRM to be included in HTML5, they want an API that allows them to package their own DRM into what is effectively a browser plugin. It will probably be much more tidy than the current system of flas...
Really Reddit 4,655 down votes, the guy has been hassled by minimum wage nobodies looking to start something with someone they possibly see as inferior (but who i think is bloody awesome, I mean c'mon augmented reality screwed into your skull that's awesome) This man should sue this particular restaurant, based on the ...
Have you been to Paris before? Tons of people go to McDonalds. It's easy to order because all (if not most) of the cashiers speak English, and everything tastes the same as it does at home (wherever home is). It's the McD's promise. So if you speak no French, going to restaurants is a hassle because you have no idea ...
My experience when I was there was that the Frenchmen were a bit rude and brusque in the fashion you would get going to, say, NYC; it's a big city and you can't make a personal connection to the millions you might see walking around. With two exceptions every time we had anything to do specifically with another person ...
Way to spread a false and ignorant stereotype. You had a bad experience because the guy was an asshole human being. Not because he was French.
I was in paris this last week with my GF-who is french but african- and can confirm that most french are assholes in that city. I was almost mugged twice, but realized they were trying to pick pocket and handed them their asses ( to clarify guy/girl duo, guy would do magic and distract you while the other would go thru...
Just for those curious, the conversion screw up was with software on the ground, and has nothing to do with the Mars Climate Orbiter itself. >The primary cause of this discrepancy was engineering error. Specifically, the flight system software on the Mars Climate Orbiter was written to take thrust instructions using ...
TPB's sole purpose is piracy I have a buddy who works with open-source software, and will download them through torrents because it's easier than carrying around and keeping track of 4 dozen flash drives.
He is nominally a bail bondsman in the loosest sense that he has a license. He is also an idiot who is lucky that he is on an island in the middle of the Pacific which makes it harder for people to leave to even go to another Hawaiian island. It also depends on the state law as to who and how you are allowed to recaptu...
So as a long time user, do you mean you always upgrade to the newest suite whenever it becomes available? So you're paying a big chunk of money every few years, in stead of a small chunk of money every month. What does this change for you? Or do you by long time user mean you're still using CS2? Well, if you upgrade ...
Go to an agency. It is SO much better than in-house. You make your own decisions, you compete with other creative professionals, you can stand up for your ideas and sometimes be heard. There is an account service department that will fight with you, but they aren't your boss, and when the battle is over, they present t...
You're an engineer? Do you use AutoCAD? I think Excel is a good enough replacement for AutoCAD because I don't use it. Also, Excel is an acceptable alternative to AutoCAD because if you need to use any features it doesn't have, you can just boot up AutoCAD and use that... See, in that way, Excel is very useful for draf...
I won't be buying a next gen console if there are any restrictions on used games. I believe in the 1st sale. Once goods are sold to an end user the manufacturer does not have any say in it's use or transfer. Unless it's being used in a way that damages the reputation of the company or the user experience of other pay...
It's not that the keyboard/mouse controls are better, it's the extra options. With a console, you're pretty much going to use their controller and that's that. With PC, if a certain game plays better with a dual analog controller, go ahead and use that. A lot of games don't let you remap the controls, but that's a non-...
Because all politics aside, outside of the last mile the content senders pay for delivery. That's why web hosting plans have bandwidth fees -- hosting popular videos is relatively expensive. When connecting to other big, big ISPs, "peering" is usually done for free with the provision that there's an equal exchang...
Fuck twc and atnt with their oligopoly. Just because they are the only companies most people who are forced to choose from, the companies think they can just give shitty customer service and slow inconsistent connection speeds at an assraping price... well I hope google fiber metastasizes and reaches my city so I can c...
I had a semi similar problem. My desktop is two rooms away from the router in an apartment building. I picked up about 35 different wireless signals when getting 30% of the download speed I should be getting. So I made a ghetto wifi extender/shield. My wifi dongle has a cord so I can control the placement. I got a bu...
Texas (where I live) has a number of laws disallowing a manufacturer from selling their own product. Craft brewers just recently managed to get laws that kept them from selling their own product changed, so now we'll be seeing more brewpubs around here which means more money for everyone. Yay. You see, most products ...
I hate YouTube all together. It used to be a great place where you could upload creative and original content. There even used to be a community, actual people you could socialize and interact with, which was how most videos spread around the site. Then Google came along and pretty much ruined the site forever. There ...
Warning: Tech stuff, hard to simplify] I dealt a lot with that kind of stuff in Flash ( ActionScript3.0 ), and some things are not as easy as you would think. In AS3.0 it all revolves around the NetStream object, the tool Flash gives the programmer to deal with video streaming, things like play, pause, skip, volu...
I installed this thing a couple months ago and it worked fine for awhile, but for the past month+ Firefox just wouldn't load any videos from YouTube (and only failed on YouTube). Finally disabled the add-on this week and I can watch YouTube videos again. I haven't figured out how to trouble shoot it from within the Cen...
so the author does not understand what is happening. The author assumes the linked content is hosted at chilling effect, which is untrue. The DMCA request is hosted, which is perfectly legal. They do not re-index those links, they index links to the reason they are not available. These links are given priority in ord...
I hate adobe. They are either designing incredibly inept products, failing to protect users' information, or forcing third party software down your throat. In the past, a flash update would let you uncheck the box for McAfee products... now? Nope. If, when prompted that there is an update to Adobe Flash, you hit upda...
There are so many flaws in this article that this isn't even funny. The key takeaway here is that when you take pictures with different devices in different conditions with different hardware and different settings, well, you obtain different pictures.
The quote that struck me in it is actually something that I've been arguing about for a long time in respect to social relationships that are created through the internet. >"Most individuals try to present themselves online the way they think society is expecting them to," The internet and the way it functions faci...
You summed up most of why I got off Facebook. What people don't realize is that you don't have to delete your account. You can just make a friends only post with some other form of contact info, then make a public post saying "I'm not using Facebook anymore, but can be contacted by phone or email. Thanks!" That ...
I got rid of Facebook two months ago; after a gradual process of blocking obnoxious statuses, removing acquaintances and generally using it less.
Just heard a story on the radio this morning (yeah ppl still listen to that; weird right?) about a boa fighting a crocodile for five hours before killing it, draging it out of the water, and swallowing it whole while people watched. When questioned about whether people felt safe swimming in that lake a lady responded, ...
You're an idiot. Money buys outlets to affect public opinion for their constituency, it doesn't buy votes. Though lobbying will affect how they vote, that has just as much to do with how much they're exposed to them ( since they have the kind of money to be in Washington all the time, and therefore have more time to c...
Now, as much as that would just be cool, imagine the downside. Instead of having at least something resembling an opportunity to leave your current country, to move to or emigrate to a different country, where police powers, laws, courts, legal systems and protections are different than where you are currently. Und...
Yes, they could. However that is pretty unrealistic. Despite all the "scary evil corporations" that you hear on reddit, they simply don't work like that. Generally speaking, the Board of Directors only has the power to change the executives salary, which are publicly disclosed. It would be cake for a financial analyst ...
For those wondering-- these are the reasons this isn't huge news; Fusion occurs at temperatures around six times hotter than the sun (100 million Kelvin or so) While this may be significant, it has been known and tested for a decent while now. What you are reading about in the article is a deuterium-tritium...
I'm not gonna bash your ideals, just wanna point out what you've said here is simplifying the matter too much. It's silly to blurt that the laws we make simply "will be" when we as a society create them; this is often not true as many laws go unenforced and/or are unenforcible (this particular law falls under one of th...
Corrected the title: >Google's driverless cars can only navigate City roads that have had every detail intricately mapped The amount of misinformation and misunderstanding about Autonomous Car research in general, and Google's project in particular is mindnumbing. I'll post a few quick points for everyone who has...
Morality is a psychological construct that varies based on wildly swinging factors such as society and religion on the large scale, and age or generation on the small scale. Consequentialism* is the only factor that can really even be used as a standard. *doing that which has acceptable and/or favorable consequence...
After looking into it, you're both right and wrong. It would be violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act the way it's written, but in US Vs. Drew , courts ruled that due to vagueness, criminal charges could not be pressed for such a violation unless the site/software's terms of use specifically warns the user that t...
You could use forensics based on post times, pics posted, attached location, and writing style, but you'd only be guessing at best. The only way to do this reliably is to either hack the account (illegal, not recommended) or request Twitter. The 2nd option isn't very useful as Twitter is very supportive of anonymity an...
I live in a small town with a municipal ISP. It doesn't "compete" with other ISPs. It blocks them out. Suddenlink would love to come into the area and sell us service, but the city won't let him. AT&T is legally contracted out of offering service faster that 1.5Mbps to most of town. So the muni ISP has a monopoly ove...
Seriously this shit pisses me off so fucking god damn much. Rant mode activate! Firstly google is its own company it can do whatever the fuck it wants. If tomorrow they wanted to just make every god damn link they fucking generate to be mother fucking meatspin.com thats thier mother fucking perogative seriously who a...
To be honest with you, I find myself pirating indie games more then ever these days. Since steam let so many games come through (which are mostly crap in my eyes, I hate unfinished games) im not quickly pulling my wallet anymore because I simply dont trust it. Same with me for movies. If Im not sure ill like it I pirat...
Uh, you can "crack down" a little with widely-known public VPN services simply by filtering public IP addresses, but on a protocol level, you can't stop VPNs. Imagine if I was in the UK and had a modem in the US. By some wild means, imagine that I was able to run a cable from that modem all the way over the ocean an...
I'm going to play devils advocate on this one. Despite the ludicrous regional system they have in place, as a business they are perfectly entitled to do it. If I buy a Big Mac in the US, it's going to cost me more than if I buy it in China. Does that give me the right to demand the US one costs the same as the Chin...
So already some posters are trying to defend this with the tired old "You wouldn't download a car" rhetoric. I'm sorry but this line that pirating is stealing is complete horeshit . First of all, let's get some fundamentals clear. The studios do not own their content. They don't own it. Anyone with a copy of it ...
Sure, but licensing affects everything including the production itself. Some shows aren't allowed to be shown in other countries no matter how because the music or whatnot has only been allowed to be used in said country.
Lol, like always, this move by the movie studios is now going to encourage legitimate paying customers who want access to content unavailable in their country to resort to piracy. Seriously, all you need is Google, a Chromecast (if you want to watch it on tv) and a VPN (around £2.99 a month) to get around blocks to s...
you would waste a lot of that energy trying to synthesize diesel, so that is not a viable option. Storing energy with molten salts is one of the best solutions we have to store excess energy from solar power plants, and there are several other solutions for both solar and wind power plants.
This technology has been around since 1925. Audi didnt do anything new. >From the top comment in this thread: >This synthesis of fuel is called the Fischer-Tropsch process and it's been known since 1925. >Audi did not invent it. It's been used before by the countries that could not procure enough fuel by other me...
If the ship has a good dense source of energy then it can run the motor. The reason why electric motors are not used in many heavy mobile equipment like ships or earth movers is because batteries are not that energy dense yet. So powerful ICE must be used. Yes, the ICEs can be connected to a generator, which can then b...
My preferred environment is two monitors running 2048x1536, so I can have (up to) two 1024x1536 windows on each monitor - that's twice the height of 768 (i.e. 1024x768). Some programs I run at 1024x768 - even less for things like IM, but that gives me browser and email on one monitor (and the browser that size is... am...
We-e-e-e-l, maybe not. If a drive operates to CD specifications, it's IMO a good drive. If a drive operates with out-of-spec media, it's a bad drive. Why? Because I can only have recourse (return, exchange, &c) when a drive fails spec, not because it fails to read a disc made with an out-of-spec writer. This al...
The Model T wasn't the first car, nor the best one. It was the most successful, because there is so much more to selling products than "I IZ FIRST!!!!!!!" or "I HAS 0.0992380283 MORE HP THAN U"
They format and stick Win7 Professional on there along with office 2007. Mac users are required to buy a windows laptop but most Mac users usually buy a shitty windows computer, give it to the school to do crap on it, and then use their Macs at school anyways. I've been planning on dualbooting Arch on it but haven't go...