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Customer service? HA! I guess I'm the "1%" that despises comcast. This LITERALLY happened today. My wife was simply trying to transfer our cable from one house to the next...not so easy. The first number (which she obtained from google) left her speaking with someone who wasn't completely fluent in English who gave her...
I think you fail to see how complicated such a network would get. Let's say you have 10,000 movies each 1GB in size. Every user stores 100MB of a random film. To store the entire catalog you would require 100,000 users on 24/7. Obviously one copy of the entire catalog isn't enough because people go offline. So let's ...
not sure what you mean by won't it become obvious after a while, but it would really depend on the website and what you're doing. For instance, I live in the US but often use my VPNs Canadian portal. Amazon videos requires me to be in a US IP so it'll tell me I can't watch while connected so I can either D/C or switc...
So? The NSA is a spy agency, it's their mission to spy on other countries...and Afghanistan is of special interest for very obvious reasons. Of all the things to get upset with the NSA about...this doesn't even make the list. Hell, I'm glad they're doing this...this is why the NSA exists. I know Reddit struggles...
No one would accept aid in the form of specially made weapons with expirations. Also, these militias as you're calling them are actually foreign governments. Attempts to subvert weapon effectiveness would mean the recipient entity wouldn't accept those arms from the defense contractors. More recently, sure we're ar...
I don't pirate music because i pay for Spotify. I don't pirate games i know i'm going to like because i can pay to download them instantly. With TV-Shows and movies i have to pay the same price as Spotify (for netflix) which is pretty cheap, but there is maybe three tv-shows that i would want to watch, and none of ...
I consider myself a smart man. One who's intellectual stimulation derived from countless hours of investing time into the cosmos. The planets, stars, black holes, natural phenomena, the history of everything... the universe. Never have I met another person in life to truly share my passion and awe of these things. Of c...
thing. How many mornings are you not able to take a shower due to lack of water? If the power goes out, it's Technically true. But I think what /u/deggit was getting at is some content has significantly more of those packets, which does indeed increase costs. For instance Netflix alone accounts for 30% of the traff...
In F1 there's the DRS (Drag Reduction System). There's a DRS zone on the track - sometimes 2 zones if it's a big circuit - and if a driver is within one second of the car in front then he's entitled to use DRS during that zone. Basically the rear wing on F1 cars can open and close, depending upon whether you're using...
Some electrical utilities have cheaper electricity at night, so the battery charges up when electricity is cheapest, and discharges during the peak hours so you're going off the battery instead of the grid. The reason electricity can be cheaper at night is because power companies want to encourage people to use energ...
You can't. If you have an idea and tell me about it, the idea is in both of our heads. Ideas are worthless on their own; it's what you do with them that creates value or effect. What right does someone have to an idea, when anyone can think of it? Specific implementations can and should be respected, but it should no...
Here's the thing - you sent that info to someone, right? If they don't delete their copy . . .
Go home auto
I remember when I was around 12 in 1991/92ish and I was constantly trying to find porn on aol. Then I was in the car with one of my parents and they were listening to NPR and a story was about the "world wide web" and how pornography is becoming a big thing on it. The first second I had the chance I clicked on the "www...
I live in South Africa and this actually happened to me, I was with MWEB (one of SA's most popular ISP's) and I was using a 1MB line for $40 a month and was downloading roughly 100GB's per month at the time which I don't personally consider to be a lot but when they decided to implement a very heavy throttling plan and...
Sure, but privacy comes at a cost. The problem is that nobody wants to pay the fee for privacy. Instead they want to hop on Facebook, share every second of their life with the world, and inadvertently share naked pictures of themselves. Then when Facebook accidentally lets some 3rd party know that you use Facebook, peo...
Very much so. I'm taking a module on E-Crime and the Law, and we were discussing the Digital Economy Bill today. Basically, the House of Commons will throw something out for being hard to enforce or legally questionable. There's lots of parts that have huge (ie throw it out over these) issues, such as how can ISPs und...
Truth be told, everyone steals everyone else's ideas all the time. There isn't really a way to regulate that kind of thing if it's done in a general enough way. Take the playstation motion sensing controllers that are just like Wii Remotes...I am sure Nintendo had a patent on their technology, but if Sony somehow can...
This]( is what I think of when I look at your UN. Incidentally, I also think about that weird guy from Star Wars with the tentacles on his head, but surely you meant your name to be taken literally.
Holy shit, Kit Kats come in a Green Tea flavor?? Ever since someone introduced me to the magical candy world of Japanese novelty stores, I have been compulsively seeking out the best and strangest infusions I can find. Where have you seen this magical new product, and has it succeeded in bringing all your greatest fant...
Here is said requested Kit Kat Thread]( It looks extrmely strange, but that's probably because I didn't grow up with green chocolate. I have no idea how it tastes, but I assume it must be pretty good since it's being mass produced.
I wouldn't say my approval is implicit, you mistake my example of something that is blatant copying for fanboy-ism. In truth, I have seen many examples of this practice across the spectrum of consumerism, and I am sure you have as well. I am not allying myself with one side or another, I am instead just stating a pre...
That's exactly what I am saying. They can take an idea and build it up from the ground. Everyone knows it's pretty much a ripoff and unoriginal, but that doesn't stop them from doing it and profiting from it. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple did the same thing - after all they can't be the inventors of every single ...
By that argument, a car with a problematic transmission is still perfectly good because it has a sound system, a/c, and cupholders. True, there are uses for an iPhone beyond the "phone" part, but that does nothing to offset the fact that most iPhone users these days have that device as their sole phone (no landline)....
Another Wake County resident here. The Classical Station is good. K-LOVE (if you're into that sort of thing) has spotty broadcast. The jazz stations are nice, and The River isn't too bad. A bit of channel surfing can also get you some death metal and other stuff.
When you type a web address into your browser, it is checked against a list of addresses that are linked to other computers around the world. For example, if you type " that domain name is linked to the actual computer ip address 72.14.204.147, which is the IP Address of one of Google's web servers, and you are redirec...
Okay, we have a [layman's explanation]( for how the distributed DNS system would work, but how do we get around the problem of DNS poisoning? I am rather inexperienced when it comes to large-scale networking so I have an idea that will probably be shot down quickly. Still; advice is appreciated. My idea stems from ...
This is a repeat of a comment I put in below, but I want some advice on this: Okay, we have a [layman's explanation]( for how the distributed DNS system would work, but how do we get around the problem of DNS poisoning? I am rather inexperienced when it comes to large-scale networking so I have an idea that will pro...
From what I see, they're actually being charged per transaction made That was the dealbreaker for me, thinking back to my days as a renter. I'd have no interest in paying $1/month for something that by and large is only for my landlord's benefit. My bank (and every bank I can think of around here) already has free ...
But you see, that's what isohunt wants. They know full well these anti-piracy companies won't go after the big guys - like Google. Why? Because Google's lawyers would eat them for breakfast and at the same time setting a precedent that makes it clear that providing a way to search for torrents isn't the same as bein...
Here's how cost efficient it roughly is: It's $13 for 5 Mach 3 cartridges according to walmart.com. 5 shaves from each cartridge according to Badger & Blade. So 5x5=25 shaves for $13. 365/25=14.6 five packs used a year. 14.6x$13=$190 a year for Mach 3 shaves every day. Now suppose you done DE shaving. Lets just say...
I want to address your point, but because of posting constraints I will address some other issues others have taken with my original statement: The context of the original quote is one of derision of the value facebook provides (which I personally agree with). I suggested that over-the-air TV indeed provides more v...
This was me for a few years. Had a dumphone and an iPod touch, hated carrying around two devices, but I did it. Finally went the route of buying an Android phone on Ebay, getting a T-mobile SIM with voice-only service and used it as this person described... a phone without a data plan that I could use on wifi and m...
Assassin's Creed 2 is the exact reason I had to buy a 360 controller. Now the tricky part was buying one that WASN'T wireless. I hate having to muck around with batteries, but it seems that's all they are selling these days. I went to gamestop, bestbuy, wal-mart, and target. None of them had the wired version. I had t...
That would be true when android was initially released. Looking at the state of the market today objectively however, the fact that apple is now copying features first introduced by android makes me wonder who the knock-off is now.
That is very true and is how they got to the top indeed - but it is irrelevant these days because when comparing a samsung galaxy s2 and an iphone the UI experience is equally good and very similar with each of them having stolen little ideas from each other etc. (obviously apple are to thank for the current quality ui...
You are missing the point again. The way Apple implements a feature is not based solely on the fact that it exists. Instead, the company seems to asks "is this useful right now?", "is this really needed right now?", "could we leave this out, implement another feature, and still be enormously succesful?" These are the k...
Reddit: Hates software patents. Apple: Sues over hardware patents for technology it created and uses. Reddit: Criticizes Apple for implementing Android software feature in a way that at least looks different, and brings up Apple patent lawsuits, as if to imply that Apple is suing over people copying their softwar...
Why does it bother me that the infographic in general uses "mbps" while the "How to read" bit in the top left uses "MBPS"? Because they are DIFFERENT! First of all, Mbps = Megabits per second. MBps on the other hand is Megabytes per second. 8 bit = 1 Byte, which means 1 MBps = 8 Mbps. Secondly, mbps = millibits per...
Stealing absolutely is taking something that isn't yours. Taking implies depriving someone else of property. I don't agree that corporations are people, but for the legal aspect of showing wrongdoing to another, in this case, a corporation, you have to talk about them as though they are a wronged individual. The fac...
Right, I realize that, but when it comes to the security industry, you have to already expect that everyone is going to treat you as being the bad guy, which is why you watch what you say and do rather closely in that industry. Nobody likes the messenger all that much, so if you're not already acting in a rather reserv...
I would hazard a guess that it's a range of things. I'd say the sensationalization of the media based on findings may be a part of the equation (so many say "this may lead to...") Secondly, Patents is another. Patents protect, and if someone wants an exhorbitant amount of money for their product to be produced, it ...
That is so completely wrong. Currently they are collecting $15-$20 a month from many people that subscribe only for Game of Thrones. If there was an option to purchase individual episodes, they would not subscribe. Those big monthly subscription fees, which people are very unlikely to cancel immediately after the ...
It will be once its on DVD. I don't get how people feel that they are obligated to have access to a "premium" service immediately. HBO is comparable to Broadway in that they produce high-quality material and make it available for a select market. Once it has run its course, they make it more widely distributable. ...
I'm currently a pirate, but if they allowed me to show support and have legitimate access to Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones upon release, I wouldn't have a problem paying for it. Sure there's always going to be the cheap assholes who refuse to pay for things that cost money to make, but it's definitely the minori...
Do you think that HBO doesn't realize that this is an option that would be attractive to a lot of people? Hint: They have heard this a million times. They know exactly what they are doing. You don't like their choice, they don't care. They have a lot of smart people working for them who know exactly how their busin...
So you would pay 5 dollars for hbo go. They make somewhere just over 13 off the cable subscription. Why the fuck would they offer it for 5 dollars. Hbo go as a stand alone is a great idea, but people like you are why they won't offer it. 5 dollars? What the fuck, where did you get that number. 20 would be more accura...
This is true to an extent, it's over used though. The comments in this thread largely show the issue here. People are willing to pay HBO some amount of money, I've seen 5 dollars tossed around a lot here. What the fuck? Would Valve survive if we paid 5 dollars HL2? It's fucking disgusting. 5 dollars for a channel lik...
Right, but HBO is different from other cable channels in that they have contracts with cable providers wherein they are premium channels. It's not as simple as saying "Well cut out the cable companies!" because that wouldn't work. They make their money through agreements with cable providers wherein their product is ...
Doesn't make a comparison of current revenue to non-existent revenue any more valid.
Legitimate options? Understandably, people want stuff to be easily (and cheaply) available to them, but HBO has to make money. The first season of GOT cost HBO an estimated 50-60 million dollars, so they need people to pay them to be able to make their tv shows. Usually, adding an HBO costs about $15/month, in additi...
Reddit likes to act high and mighty and pretend they'd pay... You're not just an idiot, you're an obvious corporate flack for considering all of us who use Reddit to be the same. Fuck you and fuck the scum that pays you to insult all of us. You are all about the death of the internet and free speech. I speak in t...
Some people might assume the correction implies that the $72 trillion figure was made up. i just wanted to make sure nobody confused correction with something else. Yes, the RIAA asked for $72 trillion No, the RIAA is not asking for $72 trillion They asked for it, but it was rejected by the judge.
Its stated it in the original article "the RIAA member labels did make an extreme request on damages last year in the Limewire case, suggesting that every single download should be subject to statutory damages, which could, under some circumstances (basically willful infringement) reach up to $150,000 per download". I'...
And it's Facebook's fault. Right. I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but I hate those that refuse to take responsibility for their own actions even more. Of course there's a risk in associating yourself with an organization. There always has been, and there always will be. So instead of mindlessly "liking" so...
Papers you've actually read? Doubtful. The truth is, and you can confirm this by reading your comments, you didn't provide me with one single piece of information that gave me cause to assess my own opinions or challenge the work of Boldrin and Levine, not one yet you talk as if your opinion should. Citing those ...
Have you tried launchy , allows for custom triggers (for example, I can type 'pir' tab complete for pirate, and then type in a search string and it opens the pirate bay, searches for my query, and presorts the results by seeder). Between that and [everything]( I literally never use my start bar. I can launch my prog...
I'd do it for my little girl. Not as a statement against the "deliberate under-representation of playable female leads that are more than just boobs on a gun fight the power #girlgamerzrepresent," but just because it was awesome. Seriously- gender politics aside- the guy hacked a game to make it more fun for his daug...
Why do people always go with the "omg skynet end of the world" when someone creates a non-sentient machine Because people are idiots who don't understand that Hollywood's representation of advanced technology is ultimately dependent on what will create the most drama. A world in which there is a god-level AI which ...
We watch it for the excitement of those plays even though they may only last a few seconds each. The rush is in the anticipation for a big play or a big stop and not knowing when it'll come. It's a game of mind versus mind as well as brawn versus brawn. There's a reason the NFL is the most watched sport in America. ...
No one cares when it's something they love: NFL. No one cares when it's going to first affect those who they do not love. No one cared about Nazi Germany in America until Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war by Germany. No one cared about deregulation of the banks and federally backing bank assets until the Gr...
AT&T charged me about $1600 to become their customer. This was the cost of the original iPhone ($600), a deposit ($500), my first bill which had to be paid up front with activation feeds and everything ($250 or so), plus tax. When I lost my job and couldn't pay my bill, they deactivated my service and continued charg...
Has anyone evaluated the margins of tellcos? Not that impressive. It takes massive capex and opex to build and maintain nationwide wireless networks. Not to mention the costs of doing business in an extremely high regulated industry. Furthermore, the smartphone data explosion over the last 6 years has forced tellcos to...
Oh I wish I had that option, last month I bought 3 soccer tickets online and each of them had a "convenience fee", I could not print them online, I could not have them delivered to my home, I had to print out a freakin' purcharse confirmation document which was very inconvenient since I don't own a printer. Then had to...
Here's another thing to keep in mind folks... Mobile carriers have been doing this shit for YEARS. I sold phones for a long time, back when Verizon was still Bell Atlantic Mobile, during the migration from dual mode to all digital networks and what not. Back in those days the average plan was 29.99 to 39.99/month with ...
I left AT&T, but I did it wrong. I got out of a VZW contract back when the Storm came out due to lack of data coverage at my new address at the time. Well, AT&T started throttling my data connection, rendering it useless about 6 months ago. I was grandfathered into unlimited. Not only that, but I moved to a city with n...
Yea.. AT&T should wise up [for their sake]. They recently sod me a Galaxy S4 for $149 (discounted for some odd reason) and WAIVED the use of my upgrade (including the 2 year contract). I called back a few days later and successfully ordered my 2nd Galaxy S4 for $199. Selling it to my co-worker who is from overseas. :...
can i just say wow that is the shitiest costumer servis i have seen. also this is not a breach of contract but change in contract which gives you a 30 day period (i think) where you may end the contract if you do not like the change without getting slapped by early termination fee and if you do nothing it is seen as ...
I almost clicked the link, but then I had a crisis of conscience and irony, realizing that I would be precisely satisfying the desire to hear this man perform through Youtube that he laments as causing the lack of desire for his distributed performances. I wonder if he'd be more upset that I didn't hear him at all?
This is inane. If you phrase it as a simple forced dichotomy then yes, most people would agree that getting something for free is better than paying for it. The problem is that the "free" product is NOT same product as the "reasonably priced" product. And as soon as you realize that, you realize that most people WIL...
yes you are kind of being a douche, but you are also right. I've abandoned all domestic brands for that exact reason. especially Chrysler; which has just turned into one massive joke. american trucks ive just never understood. in North America, trucks are more or less designed to be a comfortable daily driver 1st, an...
I've owned Toyotas and Hondas in the past. In fact I've still got a 2002 Highlander and 2000 Civic around here somewhere. Back when I bought those vehicles I would have agreed with you. American auto makers were producing vehicles that were far inferior to the Japanese marks you mentioned and had been doing so for d...
Didn't everyone already know facebook and ALL internet and. Email connection management software always collects information about people from what their friends said? An old email software used to do the same thing - glaxo I think it was called. No matter how careful you are you can't stop your idiot friends from tell...
Keeps pilots on their toes, forcing them to rely on every one of their skills, therefore when a real emergency happens they have the experience required.
I looked at the post, Iv looked at these comments I have no fucking idea what is going on, I know im IT retarded but anyone want to
Unless it was written in form and converted over by a computer tool that didn't keep variable names. If it was "written to be confusing" then it fails at that because it's not at all. Anyone with computer science experience could spend a couple hours tracing variable names and function expressions. If they wanted i...
I'll try to explain it, but I don't use TOR and only have a vague understanding of how it works. Please correct me if I'm wrong, ye internet hackers. 1) TOR is a network composed of thousands of different terminals, which yours is a part of if you agree to use it. You're essentially anonymous while using it, becaus...
An incorrect analysis, Let me explain. By "Firefox exploit", I mean the Tor Browser that ships with the Browser Bundle is a build of Firefox, and it was vulnerable. A lot of people run the Tor Browser Bundle under their main operating system, which means that the Tor Browser runs its connections through Tor, but anyt...
Isn't this entrapment"? No. For that to work, you'd have to prove to a jury that the cops sent you the package. If the cops saw you pick up the same kind of package on a regular basis, declaring ignorance of them is going to be a pretty shaky defense.
Landlords have very minimal requirements, prosecutors would have to prove that a landlord knowingly allowed crime to take place. Managing 5,000 apartments severely limits that ability, which reduces the ability for prosecution to prove there was a willful ignorance of illegal activity. Upon a criminal investigation of ...
Alright. So you've got the internet, right? You've got the .com or .net extensions and all the others. There is an additional extension that you probably haven't heard of known as .onion. This extension links to a set of hidden servers that can be accessed anonymously. You have to use a program known as Tor, which ob...
Yeah unfortunately since the rise of jQuery many sites require you to have JS enabled to get a normal user experience. Even more reason to install NoScript. The only reason our main website works without javascript is because enough people do use NoScript so we cater to them too. If it weren't for NoScript - we...
Upvoted because you seem like you want to know, but you shouldn't be scared to google it, that's silly. It's that mentality that makes it so taboo imo. What Tor could offer everyday people all over the world is some level of privacy, which is a simple (and constitutionally protected in USA) desire most people have. ...
I've worked at a lot of places like that. The reason these kinds of messes happen is because a million people contribute to a common product without a reliable means of communicating or having visibility into what each-other are doing. Often the guys doing the work are well aware that the production environment is a sh...
The hosting service was run by a guy who fled the united states after his first conviction for CP IIRC.
Silk road is a true free market. A responsible one too IMO for a acknowledging the need for & enforcing SOME restrictions on content (they disallowed CP and some other thigs recently, like "suicide kits"). You can buy pretty much anything else, and it is not all illegal. With all the NSA surveillance, there are plen...
Basically, it's already been proven that there are some bacteria/virus floating around in our atmosphere. This is almost certaintly what the balloon picked up.
Are any of us really surprised this website is "for profit?" Maybe it didn't start out that way, (or maybe it did...), but it's that way now for sure. To fix something like this may be easy on the surface, but those programmers have to pass this along to their superiors and those have to pass it along to their superi...
Ya know, that isn't necessarily ridiculous. Certainly we don't have a complete model of what other algorithms would look like in practice (without actually implementing them), there could be unexpected consequences. For instance, let's imagine that we fixed this bug and that the "New" ranking system no longer banish...
I don't give a fuck.
I think you've done a really nice job of pointing out a quirk in the way reddit measures "hotness". Can I offer a different interpretation of the algorithm? I see something that places a premium on votes in terms of importance; by not switching the sign on up vote/down vote inputs, the algorithm, as you rightly point...
has no idea what it really means, but it's 2am. Nobody's listinin'. I love you Reddit, figure your shit out, I'm counting on you.
I had heard that he was a mod and just removed a bunch that weren't quickmeme. Don't really care too much about the details, but the
The Wayback Machine - Archives websites so that you can see what they looked like back in <insert date here> OpenLibrary.org - Like a regular library, except 100% online. You can "borrow" eBooks for free. Consists of both classic and modern texts (see google eBook ruling) They do a lot more, too; you can re...
Many things (road, bridges, military equipment,) make it safely past their expected lifespan when it was built. Things like upgrades, regular maintenance, less wear than expected, etc. make this a safe and economical alternative to full replacement. For example, the U2 aircraft has been flying since the mid-1950's ...
The whole system is predicated on the fact that people can't accept long term gratification and go for the path of least resistance. The fundamental fact is that your biggest impact on the system is what you buy, and what you do for a living. Yet for most people, there is no connection made here. Need a new towel? ...
Our roads and infrastructure are crumbling. Yet politician can only find money to fund wars or buy weapons. There is plenty of work to be done but our politicians would rather funnel money to themselves (the vast majority are shareholders in various companies to whom they funnel money) than do anything that benefits ...
The more accurate analogy for comparison to the Internet would be "a paperless society", or even better, "a telephone-less society" (there's no reason everything can't be done over IP, and there are significant advantages to doing so). Paper is still very, very widely used, as are telephones. Kraekus's wasn't disagre...
It is pretty simple. Google has proven with their Google Fibre, that every major ISP can provide a 1Gbps up and down. There is no question that ISPs cant do this. The whole thing really does just come down to money. A standard user downloads more then they upload. Netflix, games, consoles, tablets, laptops, desktops,...
When you think about it they can keep adding more and more to phones to make them better, hell the can add a fucking toaster for all I care, but everything they add will suck up that little bit more battery life. Batteries are, as it stands, shit so that needs to be the primary focus now, we don't need anything else ad...