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As I added people from work I made a work group that couldn't see anything, and later added a "christians" group on top of that. It's still annoying as shit to check and make sure whatever post is filtered to who I want to see it. And then even if I would normally show something to everyone, I have to think about wha...
The problem of Facebook is its popularity. Recently we've (or at least I've) heard & experienced several articles of employers who want to look at Fbook walls, schools that want passwords, work cultures that encourage people to connect, profile scapers that make a business out of it, IRS+facebook+many others who have d...
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It greatly depends on your interests which subreddits you will like. I will suggest a few that I like. /r/AskHistorians /r/askscience /r/DepthHub /r/Foodforthought /r/Futurology /r/humor /r/NeutralPolitics /r/nottheonion /r/offbeat /r/
I'm old as fuck but even I am starting to skip over youtube links, as my attention span can't handle a video over 15 seconds in length, something that vine is doing better. It's messed up and has a long term consquence on how we digest information, especially journalism, but I'm so addicted to novelty, that a 30 second...
Well, not only that but Samsung likes to leave in a lot of the AOSP images and carrier specific icons through out the entire device! For example, the SystemUI (which is the app in charge of your status bar) will have icons for AT&Ts 4G icon, Verizon's icon, GSM icons on CDMA carriers, CDMA icons on gsm carriers, they k...
The thing I've noticed most that Microsoft blundered on was the idea that they could force people to change the way they do things, instead of giving people what they wanted. "I would like to force my computer to run on Metro and I hate it when programs are easy to locate under an organized start button!" Said no one e...
They're spammy/scammy and of poor quality. I have no problems with ads that actually provide me with information about a product I may like. Amazon is great at this. I'll do some product research and table things for a while. Later on Amazon will remind me of my search with additional related products... the ads sa...
I just picked up the galaxy gear watch and I have to say, I really do enjoy it. When I was talking to the Samsung Rep at Best Buy, I asked about the return rate. He said the number one reason they are being returned is because the employees do not set the watch up for the customer. He informed me that he makes every ...
And those posts would be right. Dollars to doughnuts the 'iWatch' might look a little prettier, have the same functionality, and a higher price point but people will still wharrgarbl over the fact that it's made by Apple and is therefore superior.
Commenting because I am prob the only one here who actually owns one - I can liken it to surfing the web on the Moto Razor in 2005 - its a glimpse into the future, but its just not there yet. That being said, the potential is clear once apps are developed for it. The battery life is actually a lot better than adverti...
I'm calling bullshit. First of all its the inquirer Secondly and MOST importantly its BEST BUY. No one shops at best buy AND best buy doesn't let you return anything. Smart watches are still a stupid product.
People can get perfect and complete information if the source has agreed to release perfect and complete information about what you're wanting. This is only true if you ignore a lot of real barriers, like education, skills, and time limitations. You also have to assume that they will comply with their end of the co...
I worked at a local Uno's when these were beginning to roll out there (left in Oct 2011 so they had been around since probably about Feb/Mar 2011) The first few months there was a HUGE backlash against them. The fact of the matter is, these types of restaurants are patronized by a certain group of people that are hig...
No, you didn't just blow my mind. I already addressed this. Having to maintain updated paper menus in addition to the tablet app would cut into the potential cost savings that the tablets provide. |One chain is doing it first. Once again you run your mouth without knowing what you are talking about. Chilli's sta...
clearly you've never done the eating alone thing. everyone knows you're probably there because you didn't have someone to eat with, and worst of all you know that even if you're telling yourself it's not that, you know it's true. and so then the waiter comes by and you say boring normal waiter things, and then they ...
They have a sticker on the glass with all the ingredients they offer. One of the nice things about Subway is that you can get the sandwich however you like it. Most people appreciate that. I like fresh spinach instead of cellulose water lettuce. Most people don't. Sorry you don't like thinking about what you want, bu...
I think my first time eating Chili's was when I was like.. 8. I thought "oh boy the place is named Chili's, and I LOVE spicy food! This is going to be awesome!" And then they proceeded to tell me that even my parents could not order me food off of the adults menu, and that I was relegated to shitty mac n cheese and ...
In some states. Here in Washington im pretty iffy about leaving 15% tip because it doesn't make a ton of sense. They make minimum wage which is $9.19 PLUS tips, which makes them earn around $14-$15 per hour. More or less on busy/nonbusy days. I can't even find a warehouse job (which I have over 4 years experience in no...
Then again, of course these businesses are saying they won’t use the tablets to replace employees. Announcing layoffs along with the tablet move would be begging for a backlash. I remember watching a TV news story very long ago (long before 2000) during a recession. The story described how many of the jobs lost to un...
My biggest pet peeve is having to wait to pay my bill when we are done eating. I always tip well but that's the surest way for a server to inch their tip down a buck or two if it takes 5 or 10 minutes to bring the check and cash me out. Usually I tip 20% because the math is really easy. And I think wait staff doing a...
The action one can take is essentially rendered moot for many people. People outside the US cannot directly influence that governments decisions. So people from outside the US can sign up to this website, but as soon as it comes down to getting names on paper for a petition, anyone outside the US cannot be considered. ...
I have a better idea: Permanent government embargo. All participating websites should block connections from any gov't IP address. It is insulting that they think they can enjoy the internet while undermining it at the same time. No Google searches, no Yahoo news, no food delivery from Seamless, no more campaig...
FYI, when you pay for cable, you're not paying for the broadcast channels. In recent years, with plummeting ad revenues, etc. the broadcast networks are looking for new revenue streams. So they charge cable and satellite companies "re-broadcast" fees. It's why you occassionally see little wars break out, and cable/...
It's to charge and let the customer know that the broadcasters are now charging for retransmission. It's not entirely the fault of TWC.
Where do you think ESPN should make their money from then? Everyone wants a service with no advertising only action and for free. Oh and can't forget it better be in HD cause any less will be bitched about. $5.50 for a network as large as ESPN with the insane coverage they have seems cheap, and usually they're in t...
Upvote for awareness(I really don't care about karma) This happened to my family also. They increased our bill by $10 per month, so we complained and threatened to leave. We ended up saving $50 PER MONTH and we got Starz for free.
I would love if anytime a company advertised a product for $19.99, you could walk in with a $20 and walk out with it. Why don't you? Seriously, say, "It's marked at $19.99, here's a twenty, you can keep that penny." If they go along with it, great. If not, don't buy it. We don't need all the things we're told d...
Being left with 75k after taxes sounds a lot better than being left with 17k. So no, it's not fair for the little guy. You skim from the top first. That's fair. Nobody has a god given right to earn without restriction. We do have a right to expect support from our fellow countrymen in times of need. Nobody should go ba...
Holy shit. This happen to me a few days ago. On hold for an hour before talking to dumbass. Asked why they increased my bill and still provide shitty service. Connection drops every day for 2 weeks. Their automated BS tells you not to bother since they're fixing it right meow!!! For 2 fucking weeks bro? Arggg any way...
I'll explain this to the best of my knowledge using the company I work for. Lets call it company Z. Z makes a lot of money, but the current stockholders want more profits. So, Z implements plans in the structure of the company to save pennies in every direction. They end up posting higher profits, but in reality are do...
Once again, no phone can even possibly be secure without rearchitecting the application CPU to baseband processor interface and opening up all firmware code for public inspection. Does it protect your privacy better than other phones in some ways? Possibly. Does it provide any meaningful assurance of privacy? No.
Still, this would be a much better way to blow trillions of dollars than all the bullshit space trip to Mars crap.
No problem. I'll try and shed some light here by comparing Facebook to what is considered to be by many their biggest competitor (and most companies) Google. Googles first acquisition was UseNet which had an archive of I think roughly 500 million discussions, then they went on to buy Blogger in 2003, only their secon...
It rests on the fact that WhatsApp has a huge database and information on those people within that database. This ives FB a larger/more immediate opportunity to connect advertisers with those potential customers. Oculus is newer technology that doesn't have this same potential just yet, and is more 'up in the air' in t...
Downvoted for asking a question.... Keep it classy reddit! Really, that depends. I'm not an expert but mainly it would be to learn, for fun. There may or may not be minerals and metals to mine on Mars, but it doesn't have any real benefit besides being a neat thing to do.... For now. In the future, we will have t...
Imagine if they were the type of company that sells out and jumps in bed with Comcast/TWC (then again, if they were the type of company that sells out, they wouldn't be what they are today.) Google does have a motive here, but it's not to become an ISP. It's just that they're not going to let greedy ISPs like Comcast/T...
What that horrible code does is try to "DoSomethingComplex" but if it fails, no errors are generated, the user nor the debugger know anything bad happened, it just acts like everything is all fine. This code is the equivalent of someone standing wide-eyed in front of a huge oak door to a mansion, smoke pouring out th...
My workplace just outsourced a bunch of work to India, hired them as temporary foreign workers, and asked us to train them. We trained them for a few weeks and now they are back in India. I'm on another project now and can't wait to see what goes down once they start real work. What has happened on previous projects ...
India is terrible for quality workers India has 1 billion people. Now, it may work out that they have more "bad workers" than America has total population, but it may also be true they have more "good workers". Also if we are talking about immigrant workers, because of that barrier of immigration, anyone who might...
You were lucky it got caught before the charge went through. Many aren't. As for the "Bitcoin merely transfers the risk" - If Bitcoin were merely a consumer-hostile irreversible version of a credit card I'd say you have a point. It's not. It also DRAMATICALLY reduces the risk when used properly. Bitcoin is still youn...
said no small business owner, ever... But Sony isn't a small business. Two comment's ago it was just called a megacorporation. Their business strategies will end up being different from each other. I mean Sony is a public company, they owe it to their shareholders to make as much money as they can. I'd find it hard t...
After hearing interviews of analysts and everyone involved leading up to the president's announcement, Sony actually did want to release it the whole time. The theaters were backing out on Sony because they thought they would lose customers if moviegoers were afraid to be in the same theater as the premier (think abou...
If someone hasn't pointed this out already, this is not the case. Due to the way they run their internet, you're logging in through their proxy. Consider everything you do monitored and tracked. With that said... Here is what is happening: You connect to their "internet," which is really just a network on the plane....
They are caching internet stuff. Thet can't cache stuff if stuff goes through SSL . So they create a fake cert for every site, performing a [Man in the Middle]( I don't know how they are implementing it, but it's usually done by creating a new self-signed cert on the fly for every new HTTPS site. They sa...
More good info: Gogo provides inflight Wi-Fi and digital entertainment to Delta, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Virgin America, US Airways and others using a dedicated air-to-ground network that GoGo says it designed in consultation with law enforcement. The disclosure that GoGo voluntarily exceeded the requir...
I'm not really convinced it's snooping-related. It makes sense for them to be doing this with YouTube because YouTube is by default, which means none of it can be cached. But by doing it this way they can add in a caching layer to save bandwidth.
doesn't help that people are unable to think critically about it. "Oh nice 5MB/s, never mind the fact that: 5GB cap / 30 days = .1666GB/d .1666 / 24 hours = .00694/h .00694 / 60 mins = .0001157/m .0001157 /60 seconds = .0000019283 GB/s .0000019283 1000000000 = 1928 bytes / s that's a grand fucking total of 1.9KB / s...
I'll just shamelessly [quote myself]( There is an amount of horrible misunderstanding by people. They use the words: > broadband companies should treat all Internet traffic equally carelessly. If that were the wording, it would be very bad. Even [The Oatmeal's comic on Net Neutrality]( mixes up two very diffe...
It explains in the image why you aren't allowed to use a cellphone on a plane; it's because it would break the network. The "cell" in "cellphone" describes the cells that basestations on the ground make up. In a city there are hundreds or thousands of [basestations]( Each basestation can only talk to a phone which is w...
I think it's a good idea, if nothing else to reduce the weight that kids need to lug around. My son is in the 6th grade. His world history textbook alone weighs over 1 kg. On "heavy" homework days, he has trouble getting his backpack up to his shoulders. Now, at the end of the school year, I see that the straps on hi...
Wow. While this lawsuit sucks in every way possible, I can't help but admire one thing: Oracle's brass balls. They're not just going up against Google -- a big enough entity in their own right -- but also every Android phone manufacturer, not to mention the telcos who are selling them.
They prioritise interconnectivity and extracting the maximum amount of information out of you first, privacy, safety and basic common sense second. For example, allowing friends to add friends to groups (that they may not even be aware of) means on average people are likely to join more groups, giving them more of an...
Only after 1000 cores or so, the diameter of the mesh, or the on-chip network connecting the many cores, will grow to such an extent that it would negatively impact performance, Mattson said. That's false if you assume even a small fraction of traffic cannot be routed to nearby nodes. A 1000 core mesh-network requir...
ad distributor", e.g. DoubleClick, etc. I'm sure they give advertisers a matrix of options and tell them how much revenue they should expect for each. This probably highlights the interstitial ads as high revenue without putting enough emphasis on angering customers. > if they didn't offer it as an option, advertis...
The hardware would be able to brute force and break encryptions pretty quickly, if in the wrong hands. The scale of Watson is nothing compared to what the NSA supposedly has beneath Ft. Dix. To give you some idea, the rumor is that when the NSA orders a new batch of super-computers to break encryption, the minimum or...
Isn't it weird that some "wav" group appeared out of nowhere (edit: not true, see this comment and that it will be opening soon (also was mentioned in the video.. strange). Well, it isn't that weird after all. We have a name for it. It's called marketing.
The best part of the article was the end which basically went:
Also, got many facts wrong, mostly the ages and years in prison. The shooter was 18 and 3 of them were under the age of 18. The shooter got 35 years in prison while everyone else got 20. This was over a year ago so I ask for your forgiveness if this gets more attention I will update the original posts with actual facts...
Hi guys. One of the 'gang' members was my IT teacher at school and I actually did two music videos for him (also did work experience with him). This is not the sort of 'gang' you're all thinking of and he's actually a really nice guy. Very polite and kind and pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from a rappe...
I'm torn on this issue. In some ways private does equal better, because it's not at the mercy of non-scientific politicians changing direction every year, or adding requirements that have no real scientific value, or spreading out where things are built to bring in money to certain districts (and the cost of efficienc...
Does anybody else think the White House petition website is the most fucking dysfunctional webpage they've ever been to? Every time I find a petition I want to sign, I try to log in, but it won't let me. In order to log in, I have to reset my password every time. Then the green button to sign the petition doesn't show ...
Fuck off. Throwing money at things like NASA does not accomplish anything. OP is "probably" young and pictures NASA as nothing but scientists and sci-fi fans. In reality, it is a business, just like anything; it has its share of sleazy d-bags, just like any other business. Also, it's common for young "typical lib...
All these arguments about not wanting to double NASA's budget are dumb. Everyone is comparing it to this other budget or this other fund blah blah. It would be quite easy to give NASA a budget they can do something with if most of the American budget wasn't spent on goddamn war! I'm not a hippy by any means and I do re...
I suppose I bought a laser printer for the same reason I use an electric razor. (
Let's actually read the source material instead of getting our information from fox ne.. I mean, torrentfreak. TF misquotes Hammond. The exact wording from Hammond is: (bolding is mine) (Abstract) I exploit exogenous variation in the availability of sound recordings in file-sharing networks to isolate the causal eff...
The point I was trying to make is that there is a fear of firearms in the US that a lot of people have. It's this fear that drives them to want to ban their existence. Almost similar to banning drugs because of the effect they have on the mind and body. Almost similar to the banking if alcohol because it was evil and...
I think that this is to some degree a misuse of the word "printer." Just because the word printer is associated in our minds with putting ink on paper - it now sounds insanely cool to say that guns can be printed . It wouldn't sound nearly as cool or revolutionary to say that guns can now be manufactured by means of...
3d printing is not some magic technology. With a well equipped machine shop and a skilled operator it is simple to make weapons, there are even books showing how to do it. The issue is the resources required. I can't see 3d printers capable of working with high precision and difficult materials being within the price r...
All the lower receiver does is house the trigger mechanism. It's going to be a VERY long time until they can print an upper receiver. Uppers are where all the pressure and force come from. There is an immense amount of force going through the upper, as well as heat. There is also no possible way that a printed barrel w...
The most important distinction, something I think people don't really appreciate is that while they look almost identical, the parts inside have some seriously different function to them. Without selective fire, the AR-15 became a regular semi-automatic rifle, just like any other semi-automatic rifle that no one cares ...
In this thread people presume to know about manufacturing. Also printing guns will be feasible when we master low cost advanced composites. Even then, just because you can print the parts doesn't mean youd be qualified to assemble it or even inspect the quality of the parts. Just because you hit print doesn't mean ...
It you have a machine shop, you have the tools that build those specialized tools. A basic lathe and milling machine can do everything but rifle the barrel, and a basic rifling setup would only take a good machinist a couple of days to put together.
A semi-automatic rifle reciever has a lot of moving parts and I'm pretty sure there is a good bit of assembly required before it would function. Not to mention the fact the just the reciever alone can't fire anything. You can't can't print the rest of the gun, especially something like a barrel. And let's not get into ...
Goddammit, The point about 1984 isn't about the technology. It's about the restriction of ideas and language. The futuristic surveillance society is the setting, not the plot or moral. If you want to quote a Luddite dystopian author, quote Bradbury not Orwell. Orwell's point is that euphemism treadmills like "nigger->b...
Ah, you see, that is a part of the careful crafting of my phrasing. I didn't say "liberate Europe again", rather I said "re-liberate Europe" The former could be interpreted to imply that the original liberation was accomplished solely by the U.S. The latter phrasing leaves the question of "Who originally liberate...
Technology like this really bothers me but the reaction everyone has to it bothers me even more. Does no one realize that this kind of monitoring AI doesn't work for these kinds of systems? Let me break it down for you: Assumptions: Monitoring AI runs a test on behaviour and flags it as 'good' or 'bad' The AI...
to flash a custom kernel on the device? same reason why i rooted my 100% vanilla android phone months after i got it.
The problem with Apple maps right now isn't a software problem, it is a data problem. My point about the Census effort was that it is indeed possible to mobilize a very large, decentralized workforce by giving the workers a territory and a limited set of instructions. Many of the complaints I hear about Apple's maps ...
That's why you don't run a company. Depending so much on another company will only make things worse over time. Apple maps will only get better with time. Paying rent forever doesn't make good business sense.
So many well-qualified U.S. technology workers are unemployed it isn't even funny. The rub here is that many of these well-qualified Americans are well-qualified because they've been in their field for a while--i.e., they are older (35+ years) Americans. Experienced people usually want higher compensation relative to p...
I thought we had put this past us.... guess not! IE isn't given any special privileges on x86/64. Other browser makers can (and have!) made "Metro" versions of their browsers: [Firefox]( [Chrome]( As for Windows RT on ARM? No third party desktop software can run, and that extends to browsers. This is par for the co...
Lets imagine for a minute that copyrights expired after 25 years. Would that mean that anyone could make a Star Wars movie in 2002? Technically yes but they couldn't keep it in continuity. The second and third film in the trilogy introduced new characters and elements into the story that would still be protected at the...
This is hardly an excellent analysis of U.S. copyright law, as it is designed to be inflammatory and consolatory rather than actually presenting any of the counter-arguments which are nominally listed as "myths." Yes, the purpose of copyright law is to promote the arts and sciences, and yes, this is not always accomp...
To clarify (my understanding at least), the comment you're referring to is speaking metaphorically. This is what I'm pretty sure he meant: Similar to how physical property goes to the state to dispose of when taxes are left unpaid, the intellectual property would effectively enter the public domain. That just means...
The author clearly also knows jack and shit about why the law is the way it is, as well as why we'd be in major treaty violations with the WTO if we went with their suggestions. (although I may agree with some of his ideas). I'll do my best to explain what's going on. Ok children, gather around to hear about TRIPS,...
did anyone notice there is a one sentence
As someone in the media industry: As much as you're being downvoted by the 'all knowing reddit community', you speak the truth that if you have a purpose as a company in media, you do NOT need to be using mac osx software, and if you are, you are wasting money. EVERY company I have been to uses linux for their means. W...
You work in the media industry... and every company you have been to uses Linux? I'm sorry, but this is the most laughable thing I've ever heard. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and my day to day OS is Ubuntu. But seriously? Show me the NLE equivalent of Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premier, or Sony Ve...
Sometimes this is ideal, where if the program solely deals with input [and a pointer becomes null unexpectedly or a critical memory operation fails] that could open Pandora's Box if it kept running. However, in a large program where protocol:// plays a relatively minor role, the more graceful way is to Raise a Except...
I've shared things off of Reddit with people over the past few months, when asked where I heard the story or found the pic I've always just said "oh just this one website" or yahoo, etc. in order to keep the small, creepy, interesting forum I use to entertain myself while taking a shit as is. W/O my SO or idiot co work...
Sure buddy; keep dreaming. I am not impressed; you are not the only one with a big house on some land. Do you even understand the concept of opportunity cost of money? It's pretty apparent from your initial post and smarmy follow up you do not. How about you go to your local community college, take finance 101 t...
Oh how cute. You must be the nouveau rich; you know, the kind that thinks they are the only successful person on reddit and creates an account for the sole purpose of rubbing your apparent success in others face. Getting lucky running a business and being a successful investor are mutually exclusive. I am surprised ...
It's not causing stability issues, and it's explicitly related to modifying the processor's internal clock speed that is affecting benchmarks. Modifying other processor capabilities was possible in previous versions of the OS, yes, but they were not as stable as Win8 is proving to be with on the fly clock adjustment....
Sigh, I'm getting tired of pointing out the same things over and over so I'm going to keep this short: it's the RTC, not the OS clock - Win8 keeps the correct time for you just fine this really doesn't impact anything beyond benchmarking, and even then it only shows a 7% variance in the results if the proof pro...
Sigh, I'm getting tired of pointing out the same things over and over so I'm going to keep this short: it's the RTC, not the OS clock - Win8 keeps the correct time for you just fine this really doesn't impact anything beyond benchmarking, and even then it only shows a 7% variance in the results if the proof pro...
Did you actually read the article? Or were the words too big for you? Of course everyone relies on correct time, but this issue only happens IF you used software to overclock your CPU instead of doing it (properly) through the BIOS. Here are some facts from this: it's the RTC (hardware clock), not the OS clock - ...
It is not, in fact, an oxymoron. You're simply missing the overclocking terminology he injected into his comment. Running a 24/7 overclock refers to overclocking your computer to a set speed, and from that point onward running your computer at that speed. This is a stable, usable overclock. Something that can be done...
I had no prior "Windows 8 training". I manage just fine. There is such little difference between the two operating systems that you can pick it up and run with it right off the bat.
Correct me if I'm wrong; press the Windows key, type mouse and hit enter. Is the mouse control panel launched? Does the control panel appear at all in the results? I don't think so. Launching anything other than applications using the Windows key is painful. In Windows 7 applications, control panels, files, file cont...