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You can still buy "dumb" flip phones with multi-day battery life. I have an old Sharp flip phone that would go about 10-14 days between charges when the 1000 mAh battery was new. It even had over 3 hours of talk time on a single charge. Now I use an Xperia Z1 with a 3000 mAh battery, capable of over 30 days on standb...
I've tinkered with binaural audio to research steady-state evoked potentials in the brain*; it's useful as a control signal when used visually, i.e. with blinking lights, but in some situations you can get more consistent results for testing your detection algorithms with binaural audio. So this guy can go fuck himse...
Unfortunately, banning encryption is NOT what Cameron is talking about. I wish it were, because that would be stupid and completely unworkable and would never happen. What makes this proposal dangerous to personal privacy is that it is technically feasible. What is being proposed is banning any encryption that the ...
I once bought four 4Gb modules by OCZ and one of them had a stuck bit... It took me a really long time to figure out why my programs kept crashing when using more that 8 Gb of memory.
It should. Be careful with this and play with it first. Most graphics cards by default make the display hooked up via HDMI the primary monitor and anything else secondary. For clarification I have a Gateway 24" monitor and an Insignia 26" TV. If the TV is hooked up via HDMI but turned off and the monitor plugged in v...
The technology is nothing new, really. It's trivial to design any consumer electronic device to have a built-in remote 'kill switch' that some government or company controls. There is exactly one explanation for this patent that makes any business sense: it's a defensive patent to prevent Apple from being sued for se...
The biggest problem with the US patent system is that it allows software and consumer electronics patents to be awarded that are both obvious and broad in scope and this leads to stifled innovation, which is exactly the opposite of what the patent system is supposed to accomplish (encourage innovation). In many countri...
and wonder why I ever had more before. Because you didn't manage your computer (I'm assuming this is it, unless there is some other reason as to why your crap is all over). See, here's the thing - computers are good at working, and you are good at thinking; so if you think and the computer works all is well. However...
True story: I worked for a corporate about 2 years ago with extreme red tape, and although they handed out laptops to developers, they laid down the law XP only. I decided to break the rule and loaded on Windows 2008 Server (I needed the machine for development). One of my juniors decided to brave it with me, while e...
Serious question: Is "Gone To PLaid" making fun of a REAL saying made famous by sci-fi movies? What is the parody, just the fact that the sky instead of being streaking stars is plaid, or does "gone to plaid" sound quite like another phrase I am not making the link to?
Why they actually exist or how they can logically be derived (yet to happen) [Murray Rothbard]( does this quite well: > The most viable method of elaborating the natural-rights statement of the libertarian position is to divide it into parts, and to begin with the basic axiom of the "right to self-ownership." The r...
Child pornography, the favorite bogeyman of Internet censorship protagonists everywhere. Look, as abhorrent as child pornography is, censoring the Internet is not the solution. That is as absurd as suggesting that we put federal agents on every cross-street in this country and have them check the trunk of every car tha...
When I was doing helpdesk at a nameless computer company (lets say it rhymes with "Bell"). We had a metric called FTR (first time resolve). So if Noob3988776 called back in within an undisclosed amount of time for any reason, your manager was notified. This made it impossible to both take a shitload of calls and m...
Actually the swap problem has been solved from a technical standpoint. In a really cool bit of thinking a company basically said to themselves "What hugely heavy and dangerous thing do we regularly bounce around then want to reliably release at a precise time?" The answer of course is bombs. They designed an automated ...
The quality will actually decline in lossy to lossy encoding, even if you try to "increase" the quality by encoding to a higher bitrate, since the algorithm for removing "unnecessary" audio data is applied once again. Source . Lossy formats are called that because they remove data in order to get a smaller filesize...
What would probably happen is that they'd have some bot sniffing for "interesting" and "suspicious" behaviour in the data collected. For example, picking up keywords such as al-Qaeda or mein kampf in requests or URLs. So either users can a) generate a lot of random data packets sent to random receivers, thereby incre...
Ok, before everyone gets in tizzy (a few here already have), I would like to clear up a few things. I'll try staying impartial here. Now, first and foremost this is a knock-off phone that was announced officially by some Chinese company before the iPhone 5 and apparently is available on October 25th. This "Goophone...
When has explaining your position in more detail made somebody sound like less of a horrible person? I'm sure it's happened once or twice, but you just dig yourself a deeper hole with this whole rant.
What constitutes abuse? Violent sexual violation in any context should be illegal, of course. Just don't tell me I can't have sex with a 16 year old chick when I'm 19, while my 18 year old sister is allowed to have sex with a 54 year old dude. People can get fucked up sexually at any age. That is not a reason to restri...
Major Issues here. For many countries with monopolistic telecom providers, Skype is a direct competitor to their services. Here, in the UAE, Skype/Yahoo/MSN/GTalk &tc, all voice services are blocked by the state. The applications simply do not connect to their parent server. Since it is the label, "Skype", that is ...
Well worth it to read. I noticed that same pattern with intelligent people who choose not to follow everyone else. A lot of the typically undesirable people who experimented with drugs that I knew of, were quite people savvy as well. This is to say that they analyzed and saw patterns in people that others did not. Fav...
Unfortunately the real world doesn't conform nicely to the scientific requirement to change only one variable at a time. Because of this, special interest groups often claim that different tax structures, different gun laws, different health care systems, and other things like this cause lower crime, more happiness, or...
I've been following this story, and its missing much of the crazy content that conservatives are now embarrassed of how this conspiracy all started with. So, from the beginning: School was having security issues and losing money with kids stealing lunches and so on by using fake IDs (common). School implements RFID...
But this isn't about the RFID tag at all. She just doesn't want to wear the lanyard. It's not that uncommen that teenagers are anxious about the way they look or that they rebel against silly stuff. Also, if it's in the school rules that each student should were this tag/lanyard, the school is absolutely in its right...
Security through obscurity is not a good system. Bob is not anywhere near as competent as anybody who wrote one of the standard encryption algorithms. It's far more likely for him to make a mistake. Bob cannot beat a mathematically proven algorithm, and is unlikely to be the domain expert he needs to be in order to d...
Personally, as a creator of creative content myself, I sit in the middle and get annoyed by both camps. Sentences such as: > Copyright is stupid, unenforceable, and destined for failure Irk me no end. I love it that people can watch something I've put my heart and soul into, I really do, but when I hear comments ...
Sorry to copy this from a previous thread, but here it is again. Variances of currency rates. In 2001, it was AUS$2 to the US$1. [It was even reflected in lyrics by Ben Folds at the time.]( Now it's at parity. Some of the prices have adjusted, but it's a slow process. The basic Subway footlong sandwich in America ...
People don't understand prices. Here's the deal: Nobody cares how much it cost you to make something. Soda costs pennies, but you'll pay a dollar. A new video game console might cost $300 to produce, but you're only willing to pay $199. Prices are linked to the value for the consumer, relative to all the other t...
The cloud is not just remote computing, its a WHOLE new framework of data and communications. I know that the word "cloud" is being forcibly raped by marketing, but like in actual rape, its not the clouds fault(it wasn't asking for it). The cloud was not intended for the average person, but it found its way with data s...
Ok ok! Forgive my grammar and spelling, I'm angry I have to re-live this situation. -Story- My company already owned CS4 and was offered a discount if we signed up for CS6-CC, so we did and are paying $45 a month for the entire suite of Adobe application, but one! That one program is called LiveCycle Designer ES3.....
The private users who "really neeeeed" the CS would definitely be fine with Open Source alternatives. CS has traditionally been targeted toward professionals and works great on Mac and Windows, which is the majority of computers (90%+). GIMP is a beacon in the open source world. Realistically speaking it's the only...
Honestly, I'm just laughing when reading over your post. Do you have any idea how much of a stereotype you yourself are? This is what I'm talking about! Most people can be assigned into a relatively small number of predefined archetypes. For example, I can sure as hell categorize Chinese girls at my college campus - ge...
This is probably going to get downvoted like crazy but here goes: To add to this, there are legitimate reasons for international markup of the same product. If you are a US based company and you want to sell your product in another country, you need to engage many resources to do so - it's not as simple as people in ...
The problem with this subscription, and I've had it for over 6 months now, is the fact that with every new release of Creative Cloud they remove features from the software. Not only do they remove the features but they don't publish them in the change notes. They will add features as well but nothing you actually use...
The search everywhere or search for files locally option comes up every time you try to search so in that case 100% of the users can see it. To disable using bing from the everywhere search you need to disable it through the settings. But there really is no point in doing that, currently you can search for settings and...
Quick question, what caused this? Why did Microsoft refuse to heavily fund and market the e-book/tablet (even in the early 00's)? Where was their search engine? Was it an ego thing about being the huge Software giant rather than the next Tech/hardware one? With some of the brightest minds at Microsoft, why was no one...
It was a joke. The line is actually "There can be only one." For some reason people often transpose the words and type it the way you did, even though I bet they know the actual line.
The ribbon hate stems from the same "change aversion" that reddit can clearly see in older folks. "Why did they change this? I was perfectly happy with it the way it was!" You are correct, the ribbon exposes far more functionality and empowers users to explore said functionality in ways that are far more intuitive...
Ok, looking back in hindsight, are we sure? I'll present a counter hypothesis... First, definitional stuff. As far as I can recall, this is how I remember it going down. MS didn't push internet connectivity early or the means to achieve internet connectivity; IE was horrible. But then suddenly a wild Netscape app...
Nobody was forced to upgrade. in fact, in the interests of compatibility, both home and corporate users kept saving in .doc rather than .docx, so there was no reason to upgrade to 07 really. Microsoft are excellent at supporting their older products. In fact [Office 2003 and Windows XP are still being offically sup...
Anything (in theory) can be cracked That's a dumb remark imo, as it suggests this isn't a big deal. It potentially is, as there's a huge difference between a vulnerability on purpose and an exploitable bug. If the discovered exploit is an intentional one (backdoor), it would be reason enough for many people to neve...
You're talking about a best case 4 year payout. . . Once you tack on installation and repairs, time you spent maintaining and cleaning your system, I don't know how you don't see this as a losing proposition? Don't you think that solar panels will improve in 4 years? Wont it suck when in 2 years there is a system that...
This will never pay back its investment to the purchasers. Just like with Tesla, these solar panels are not economically profitable to the end user. You are purchasing the technology that has a hope to become something practical. And being an early adopter makes you have a warm fuzzy feeling.
Ball mount trailer hitches, especially 'drop hitches' can be rather large. Over 12 inches high. Also, if this hitch has just dropped off a truck it would be bouncing on the freeway, not laying flat, which is the basis of your argument.
you have the right idea, if it were only lithium batteries. There is a very large difference between lithium batteries (which I don't think are used at all today) and lithium- ion batteries. Lithium ion batteries are by nature ones that use lithium ions (Li^+ ) as charge shuttles through the electrolyte. They are stab...
EDIT: OH YEAH DOWNVOTE THAT TRUTH LOOK AT THIS GUY TELLING THE TRUTH WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS This article is such crap. He talks about PRISM spying, yet encourages use of outlook. Google has been putting new security measures into place to prevent NSA spying, while Microsoft communicates between data centers without ...
I think the problem people are having when reading this is that Enthalpy is a new word for some of us Based on what context has been given, it makes no sense. The problem I'm having is that enthalpy is being used in a few different ways. First "energy = enthalpy" >When energy, i.e., enthalpy [[energy, that is...
Wall of text explanation: Just skip down if you want a basic security status update. So TOR is a big P2P network, or like a maze. Your information is relayed person to person, and inside that maze it's hard to track. Not impossible but hard enough to make it figuratively impossible, especially for small fish, and w...
The lack of accountability and transparency in the programs is really what invalidates them in my mind. We elected the government to represent our interests, but these recently elucidated programs in particular are so far removed from this because of this oversight gap. As voting citizens we lack individuals to hold di...
So sorry that you didn't check your email. I've had it since 4:26pm EST. These stories were posted minutes after the email was sent out. Also take into account that you can't send 50,000,000 all at once, it takes time to get through that amount of messages, plus email companies would flag it as spam if they even a...
When you hash a piece of text, you run it through a mathematical function that converts the original text into a shorter piece of text called a digest. The idea is that hashing the same piece of text will always produce the same digest. However, the design of the hash is intended to make it impossible to reverse the ...
A while back (possibly still is) Kaiser Permanente was giving away small thumbdrives that had a limited form of your personal medical history on it (allergies and chemicals you can't break down). Then they asked me to give a password to encrypt it with. "But it is just my blood type, known allergies, and medication...
Ever heard of backfires.... that is where the analogy comes from. You light one fire headed in the direction of the other, destroy the fuel source for the other fire, then when the other fire gets there, it has no fuel to continue. If a Superpac is set in the opposite direction, just big enough to destroy the 'fuel sou...
Just because you can't avoid something completely doesn't mean you shouldn't avoid it when you easily can. There are negative consequences of never using urinals (loss of time, blocking a stall for somebody that might need it) so you have to find a compromise. You can't ban urinals without causing lines at public toi...
You only get costs back in some limited scenarios. And lawyers are generally too expensive to be used to sue for less than 10s of thousands of dollars. For cases involving small (<5000) amounts, you can represent yourself in small claims court. But you still have to take time off of work for court. And you have to pre...
How do you think internet gets to your house? It gets there because you basically leave a return address when you ask the internet things, and then some server sends you stuff to your return address. Comcast gets the things you want, and then sends them to your house. Thats why I think the whole premise of "how did t...
Legal action is out of question when they practically own half of our government. Another alternative is to choose other services, no-name company like $70/month @ 20mbps while Comcast offer the same rate with 70mbps and other perks. Why other services are so expensive $70@20mbps? Again, Comcast own your mayor, so th...
is there any known way to be truly anonymous over the internet anymore? Yes, but its not easy. Start with acquiring a laptop without any association to yourself(theft, blackmarket, etc). use an open wireless connection that has no association with you, use an open source Linux live CD designed specifically for this...
My understand of the situation is that when the court overturned the restrictions set in place by the FCC, the court said that the only way the FCC could prevent fast/slow lanes, access fees, discrimination, blocking, and all that jazz was if they relied upon Title II. Title II of the Communications Act is a long lis...
This ruling is only set in stone for a single district in Florida. No circuit courts, nor the Supreme Court, have vindicated it.
Why is this post at the front page with so many up votes I sit here and ponder? Because it's a misleading title perhaps? If it is a misleading title, then why are this subs admins not speaking up on this front page misleading title story with so many up-votes? All these questions are eating at me right now with this ...
Interestingly, I don't know if criticizing the west is RT's main objective. I see it more of a comparison of the similarities that exist between the government's. Honestly, it becomes difficult to draw a moral distinction between Russia's government and that of our administration. I mean, really, selling arms, ...
To be able to do technical work in any field, you need to know something beforehand. In the case of a car, you need to be aware of how the car itself functions. You have to know how to troubleshoot it, find the issue and then know how the parts work to some degree. If you don't, you won't know how to fix it. Now, lea...
TLD name space really has nothing to do with IP addressing. That's why we have DNS, to translate FQDN to IP addresses. IPv6 has no impact upon TLD proliferation. And IPv4 has no impact upon the readability of FQDN. The root domain '.' (the invisible domain, the one thing the same in every address) used to contain ...
OK, let's break this down. Lack of mirror and electronic viewfinder. The reason why SLR's are so desirable is precisely because they can see exactly what the sensor sees. A screen is a terrible way to look at the view. It is subject to color bias, lag, and it's not always guaranteed to show the entire frame. The na...
You don't frequent photography forums very often, I take it. There, you will find an endless number of posts from people who bought a DSLR without realizing that the camera is capable of shallow depth-of-field , which the tiny sensors on P&S cameras are not, for the most part. So, you get "MY XSi DOESN'T FOCUS RIGH...
Here's a relatively detail description of write cycles.
Actually most of the time people dont actually want to solve problems. Politics is a rather dirty thing where everyone does and says whatever they can to get to the highest. Its like a free for all in slow motion and with more paper work. The fact is if we had someone who actually truely cared about the future developm...
Yeah, all that and you're still wrong. You brought up "Civil Rights" in a previous post. "Rights" is a plural and "Civil Rights" is a recognition of more than one existing.
The screen alone in the first iPad had a production cost of $95. The total production cost was around $260. To make something with equivalent hardware and put Android on it -- and then only expect $40 profit to divide between yourself and the retailers? That's not a market anyone sane would want to enter. And that's w...
The article is one sided and it leaves out part of the story. There is some real truth to the fact that IPO shares are traded around as rewards and favors. There is also real truth to the fact that Merrill Lynch used to force their in house mutual fund managers to buy up shitty IPO stock that didn't move in order to ...
There are a whole lot of limitations about what is covered written in to advice contacts when buying/selling businesses, but there are also requirements that the advising party must have certain parts of the work reviewed by an independent party. In this case, KPMG reviewed some of the work, found errors, and one erro...
Labor is an input for production. People are a product with skills and abilities that they trade for a wage or a fee of some sort. The market for labor responds to market forces and pressures in ways that are distinct sometimes (backward bending labor supply curve) but are typically analogous to other goods or services...
this is pretty much inevitable. Humans have refused to change their ways of governing ever since civilization has started. The game of "how much can we screw over the public before they revolt?" is so tired that something like this is going to happen eventually. I think these types of 'competitive dictatorships' would ...
those are called T1 lines. They are 1.5Mbps up and down. But that's not why they're so expensive. You get a direct connection between you and your service provider (the internet) with no other traffic on it. You are guaranteed your full bandwidth at all times which doesn't happen with other types of connection. DSL and...
Comcast is making a lot of mistakes. This is how one should be charged for internet usage. By how much data they actually send. You think they don't want metered internet? They'd fuckin' love that. But remember how well that went over in Canada? People were in an uproar and it never even made it out of the gate.
I have had Comcast for a year. I have 4 people living here and we all use BW, streaming Netflix, downloading Steam games, basic surfing, etc. I just learned of the BW meter 3 months ago. The reason I did not learn of it sooner was because when I signed up, I was told by 2 sales people and 1 technician that, yes, Comca...
Okay, this is an absolutely terrible idea, both in thought, and in execution. First, Lamar Smith doesn't care if you aren't a constituent in his district. Nor should he. He doesn't represent you, and you don't vote for him. His staff won't log any of your complaints, if they even let you talk. Moreover, when you t...
Okay, reddit needs to calm down right now. You guys are foaming at the mouth, and will eventually be pissing away an excellent opportunity to make an impact. That opportunity? Flood your Representative's office with the specific sections that are bad. There are 435 Reps, and getting as many of those aware as poss...
Because you can't have any actual communication if words don't mean what they mean. So in cases where words can hold different meanings, there HAS to be communication about the different meanings of those words, followed by diverse communication about ALL different possibilities, ideally followed by agreement on ALL ...
I've learned to see the humour in it. I started using Mac's young, and over the past 10 years or so have settled in to a nice little niche in Mac support/maintenance. This means I come in to contact with douchebag-mac-hipsters regularly and have seen the spectacle you described above a few times now. At first I raged...
I was at bestbuy one day checking out new phones and I swear I could not even get an answer from one of their little helpers regarding Windows phones. I wanted to look at them for XBL and PC related purposes and this guy was clueless of what I was talking about. He kept on flashing the new Android and even went on to r...
B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. You are missing a huge bit of context here. The bill actually reads: > The term `cyber threat information' means information directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to a sy...
Yes, I know what Estate Tax is. My point is that the US government (and others) doesn't release someone at the point of death because of Estate Tax. However, I have to ask if you're fucking out of your mind that estate tax is a GOOD THING. I really think you're delusional. Say I make 100K a year and I live a ver...
Still no. Why, no matter how much money I have that I've already paid taxes on should I give any more of it to the government when I die? I earned it! I saved it! It should be for my kids and their descendants. This year in the US you can pass up to $5MM on death without tax. Anything over 5MM is taxed at 35...
How is it unreasonable when all that consumers want is a something that can be used on all their devices(tablets, computers, etc) without any restrictions?Do you have found anything positive about DRM? something like it reduced piracy? Digital files can be copied unlimited times but putting artificial restrictions onl...
Dear reddit, I must confess to a certain outrage upon reading the recent story about a Norwegian women who got all her Kindle books remotely wipes and account closed without proper explanation - a story reddit helped catapult to the attention of the global news media. Ready access to the written word is a cornersto...
Unfortunately I can't tell you about the reality in USA because I do not live in your country. I'm not an author, but I have been doing this in Brazil for some time and the guys that actually write the books are not so happy. An author will earn 7 to 12% from the price of the book in the store. Paper costs ab...
A dangerous Monopoly must provide you the ability to abuse your existing base to force people to use your technology over the competition in a different market, pushing out competition by using your market share. AT&T selling phones directly, and insisting you must have an AT&T phone to use their phone lines. Or Micr...
Every company does this. /r/technology just hates Apple. Apple sues someone and they're evil bullies for picking on the poor, helpless multibillion dollar international corporations, but Google sues someone and they aren't actually trying to win , they're trying to demonstrate the absurdity of the patent system and th...
This is great until you want to change some obscure setting, which will require you to drop to a command prompt, tap in long command strings which you had to google, and recompile your kernal while resolving critical compile errors and missing headers and then you'll need to install a c++ dev environment so you can twe...
People are probably downvoting you because of this: >I'm completely happy with my Samsung Note II. There's just nothing I'd want it to do that I can't make it do. I do not care what you can do with your devices. You do not know what I want to do with mine. Your comment is probably being interpreted as "what is the ...
I would suggest not basing a shift to a whole new OS purely from the impression you got playing with something in a store. There's a bit of learning curve but once you get over that, it's just like Windows 7 with a full screen start menu. There are some idiosyncrasies, like the way menus hang out invisibly in the cor...
This was a review of mine to a friend. It is in terms of IOS/Ipad vs the Surface so it's not a comprehensive review, but still related. The iPad is a great tool for consuming content. I own two of them. It is a very simple device. You download an app, you load an app, and you do one thing at a time. The interface is...
Reply to edit: Not everything you read is a shill tactic. Sure, they exist, but the review is pretty well supported. I want to draw on this bitch. It works. + I want to play games on this bitch. It works. = I like this bitch. Did they pay him? Eh, maybe, but it doesn't sound like it. The problem with your comment i...
Objectivity doesn't come down to me disagreeing or agreeing with the premise, it has to do with "can the subject matter be considered independent of its results?" I.e. - can I assume that their conclusions are truly independent and uninfluenced by Microsoft giving them the device free of charge? The answer is no. Not e...
Governments don't necessarily react rationally or proportionally to perceived threats. Imagine this: A major terrorist event happens on US soil. The FBI discovers that the organization responsible uses Bitcoins to move money from opium profits in Afghanistan to sleeper cells in the US. Government already owns som...
I've been a redditor since I was 17, I'll be 19 this year. I've nearly been on reddit for two years now. (My cakeday is quite literally two weeks before my birthday.) I started coming here because there's intelligent well thought content on this website as compared to my Facebook news-feed. The only reason I ever use...
It will stay the same way it is now. The site had a huge demographic change over the last 1-2 years. 4chan has been mainstream and its population has been diluted for a loooong time now. I abandoned it years ago because it got really shit. First it was populated by seemingly immature people, however, that site con...
faggotry That shit , however, is 100% 4chan's influence. So... y'know... thanks for infecting us with it. :-/ It's true that there's a human centipede of memes that flows from 4chan->reddit->Facebook->mainstream media and clothing manufacturers, and that at each and every stage there's an exponentially-increasing ...