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Whats missing is that some like me hates the metro/unity/toy gui. I love how people think it's ability to learn, where only just wonder why we moving backwards in terms of desktop workflow. You can't learn "lesser". Any to the windows centric people, you just need to bite the bullet. Ms are pretty clear in what t...
The UI change from 7 to 8 is much more significant than any of those previous progressions. Ever since 95, Windows has revolved very heavily around the Start menu, for doing everything -- whenever you updated to a newer version of Windows, you knew you'd be able to find your way around because that Start Menu, althoug...
I'm still not following you. The post office isn't using tax payer money. Not to operate, and not for it's retirement funds. The pre-funding comes from it's regular operating costs, which you and I pay for by purchasing services. Tax payers will never have to cover the retirement benefits of postal workers unless ...
Primer probably runs into the same quantity problem - you need what, about a gramme or less per round? For something like a (better, hypothetically workable) low-metal Liberator you won't be looking at more than one bullet per barrel because feed mechanisms are hard and the only reason you'd use one in the first place ...
Um, no. I'm going to keep using my expensive and pretty awesome android phone. I am going to continue to use gmail, which I have tons of emails archived in, and I am going to continue using youtube, because I follow tons of awesome vlogers on there. The best way to complain is to continue to be vocal, and eventuall...
Personally I have no problem with having G+ as its own thing, my problem is with what they use it for. Here's a rundown of the major issues with it as both a content creator and a watcher. As a creator: G+ is needed to comment on your own videos. Minor issue, but its the other consequences that make it a big issu...
Documentarian here. Our team just launched our first footage and the debate how to handle vimeo/youtube/g+ has been big. Vimeo="legit," youtube=views, g+=search engine optimization (i.e. if you search us you'll probably hit us early) and film communities are actually quite sizable on it. The issue is that youtube comme...
Creator side is that all user issues are sub-issues causing lowered views, disgruntled viewers etc. For people who monetize (not me) this means lowered income. Yes I realize that it's modules, that's why I'm saying it's hard to combine your professional/personal accounts (which Google says it wants me to do). It's ...
I think this is a good move from Google. Here's the reasoning: Most people complaining from this change either only have a YouTube account, or a GMail and a YouTube account. You use nothing from Google, really. The change looks silly because of that. PROBLEM: Now, take a look at which product I use from Google:...
Posted a short rant, but it probably won't make a difference. Back when G+ was new, they put a video on Youtube about how awesome it would be if we all used our real names for G+. I responded with a lengthy and thoughtful (rare for me, I know) description of why that was intrusive and inappropriate. The comment quick...
Duh? Who's in office right now? A democrat. I served while Clinton was in office - big difference from Bush. No raises, the unit was underfunded, we had NCOs (low level managers) buying wide carriage printer paper to support the mission. (If we couldn't print, the computers filled up and stopped working and we weren't ...
As a satcom technician I agree, the story is bull: -Network saturation throws up flags for the NOSC, Gateway controllers, and everyone else. If the users complain of connectivity issues, it normally triggers monitoring of circuit traffic and requests, including a constant stream to a singular IP address (Why build a...
This makes sense until you think of that in the military you might have "a" computer per 5 or 6 people. So if doing your job requires you to use a specific program that costs upwards of $400 the military has to buy 6 of that program for every computer in that office. The entire IT budget for a squadron of 300 people mi...
Please forgive me if it isn't too clear. It's been 3 years since then, and I've been out for 2 years in college so some of the real technical details have faded. Aboard Al Asad in Iraq, there was a huge morale drive. I was in the Networking Division of unit on base. We had a few extra IPs. We attached a large NAS to ...
Other than assassinating high-ranking corporate, political, secret service members who evidently and undeniably conspire against freedoms of US citizens, whether that is their declared goal or an inevitable and known consequence of their orders, what can you do? Most people don't have the kind of mind necessary to do...
Not my area anymore, but Oracle. With a couple of different RAD platforms. I don't know how big the company is now but it was just a little over 100 in house and 20-30 out of house. It was regularly ranked one of the top tech companies in the Dulles corridor (Northern Virginia). It was a good gig. It was the only com...
hahaha, Not surprising at all. Virginia hold some of the richest counties in the United States, but the laws, and way things are done, are still like its the fucking 1800s and our founding fathers are still there.. Virignia is a state that has no clue what the fuck it wants to do. Do they wanna be the state where thi...
Haha yeah I thought as much, NOVA and southern VA are drastically different in politics and... Well pretty much everything. It's kind of caught on the cultural Mason-Dixon Line (from my perspective) so it's just a huge cultural and political mess (as it's been for a while). But the rest of Virginia is, biased as my opi...
I haven't finished it yet. I'm over halfway done and ranked first in my department (prison gave me a lot of discipline). I got deported from the US, back to the UK, at the end of my sentence. My criminal record transferred over too. It's not held me back too much work-wise; what I got 2.5 years for in the US I'd p...
No, it's not it at all. For starters I am very anti-prop 8, I find it retrograde and based on bigotry and fear, I find it horrible that such idea could even be proposed. But I also find this boycott retrograde, and based on bigorty and fear. Just because you are representing a abused minority doesn't immediately make y...
What makes this so frustrating is how bad they want to turn the internet into a resource for law enforcement. I guess those centuries of actual detective work were just educated guesses, huh? But you know what, I'd be okay with LE utilizing the tech so long as they didn't interfere with the growth of technology .
Both of you idiots that responded to me DO realize who Redhat's biggest customer is, right? And I'm not the only one who has reservations, maybe you know who this guy is: > [
I have a strong feeling that you haven't been educated in any sort of detailed computer science classes (And that's ok, I'm certainly no computer genius and I don't expect anyone else to be), because the way that antivirus and hardware works probably isn't the way you think it does. So let me address your questions t...
If my connection dropped down to 15 I would be livid, and I'd be on the phone with Charter ASAP. It's all relative I guess.
Cox is awesome when it is working. We are having infrastructure problems that cause outages in my hood. The service organization is so bad, I am having trouble finding words to describe their incompetence. The most dysfunctional and disconnected (ironically) group I have ever dealt with. It literally takes months to g...
Why are you referring to it like it's just the US and Iran? Russia, China, Germany, France, and the UK are in these talks as well; all of whom have more to lose than America does in this deal. Also, this isn't a treaty. It's no where close to a treaty. Not only is it not a treaty, the only thing Congress has a say so...
A worst case scenario here would be you crush up the capsules and capture the small quantity of tritium gass that would escape, then inhale as much gas as possible, hold your breath as long as you can, and then you might get sick.
I see you're a regular, so I'll reply even though I've been downvoted all to hell because I'd like you to know: Dude, I wouldn't and dude, I'd like to know: what? some of those quizzes are really funny, like the BADASS ones or the "what elder/under god would you be?" kind of randomnesses. I do NOT find out what H...
It's the fault of the hackers who then release the exploit code to the world that this gets out. This is who anti-sec is trying to stop, those hackers in favour of full disclosure. As of now, anti-sec cannot notify devs as this would result in full disclosure. Once these people have been stopped, then they very well ma...
Yeah but that's not thievery. thievery is >the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it We are not intending to deprive the rightful owner of it. they still have a copy of it same as us. Also I don't fear punishment so much to abide by an unjust law (the f...
you make a valid point, but there are sometimes i cannot rely on torrents [or dvd or vhs], like when i am at work. also, MST3k is one of the only shows i really like collecting physical copies of. was so excited to find my old MST3k vhs tapes a few months back! :D
From the "Most Popular" section of the TV Shows: [The Secret Life of the American Teenager]( : Episodes of this series are available day after air for a limited period. They will return at a later date. [Hell's Kitchen]( : We are able to provide Seasons 1-6 and Season 9 episodes of Hell's Kitchen. [Pretty Litt...
A the Director of R&D in a high tech company, I think the math in this article is seriously out to lunch. It doesn't understand business, investment, or economics. There isn't a choice between spending $6B on patents or jobs. It's not like there is $6B sitting around and somebody is trying to decide what to do with i...
That's the one reason I can't leave yet. However, it looks like the link is starting to break between networks and the delivery systems. HBO-GO and similar services show that the networks want to make their product more available directly to consumers. Right now, there probably isn’t enough extra market share out ...
You can do strategic hits on infrastructure points but TCP/IP is meant to have resilience. As far as I see, They CAN take DDOS pot-shots at Google, Facebook or media hubs like CNN or key DNS servers to make our traffic seem slower but the cloud we know as the internet would be still run. The servers mentioned in that...
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Houses usually have minimum wage freelancers do the typesetting and proofreading and copyediting. Editors don't do that at all. Editors have a large hand in dictating character and plot development. If things are paced too quickly or slowly, editors change that. If characters are too 2D or if their motives are ambigu...
This seems like a fairly worthless article to me. It has no data or numbers to back up what they are saying. They also say : > You start by paying your top execs much less than millions of dollars a year. It would be nice if they gave some example of book executives that make this kind of money (how many per comp...
You're a fucking moron. First, learn to address others with some respect. Second, look at the fucking headline, this is beyond sensationalist.
Small parts of it are accurate,... but most of it is hyperbole. On the good side:.... There are a lot of great sub-reddits that are cordial, welcoming and have built helpful niche communities that do great things. While these accomplishments are admirable, I'd hesitate to project/imply anything from them out onto the...
I do not consider it wrong to provide links to the site. I consider it wrong to make money for providing links to download content other people have made. I don't give a damn about downvotes. Clearly those people are idiots who made wild assumptions of me. I know I'm write on this one based on your argument that ...
Are you a troll or just without any kind of reading comprehension? Maybe you've got the wrong news story? He hasn't been to the US since he was 5! Are you suggesting he hosted a website when he was 5? Even the UK judge who ruled in favour of extradition said that he never left the North of England. Look at the ama...
Here's what we wrote on our facebook page a few days ago: >Our site is down from time to time. Or suffer a broken css or is slow as hell or is ddosed. You wanna know why? Cause we are nothing like the other sites on the internets most visited top 100. > >Because we are just a few guys and gals running this ship on ou...
From those prices I assume it's blau.de or another E-Plus reseller. Yeah, it's cheap service, but it also is the worst service you can get in Germany. I used to believe for a long time that my cellphones reception sucked in Edge mode (everything's fine on the very rare occassion you get HSPA), till I switched to a T-...
It's a failure of regulation. Here, let me repost this from a few months ago: Fun fact: In the 1990s phone companies were given massive tax breaks. Basically, it only costs them about 1 cent a month to offer services like Call Waiting and #69, but they charged 99 cents. In the old model they would have to pay aroun...
Who's to say you use actual text and not just use a mouse and a paint program and say paint rough letters into say a video frame and the letters are slightly a lighter green than a lawn and only every 10 frames. So it isn't actual text but rough painted letters that almost don't show and super small so you would have t...
It's highly unlikely that the Court will even reach the merits in this case. Just this year the Court decided a case that basically involved these same surveillance techniques, brought by US lawyers representing people like Guantanamo detainees. Essentially, the lawyers argued that the amendments to FISA allowing for t...
Or maybe I'm reacting that way bc this exact same thing happens every 3-4 months on here and has for years. Like clockwork. The Paul's (much like this program that everyone is so appalled by) aren't new to the scene. They've been saying the same shit for years. Just bc many on here are dumbasses who just decided to car...
The government has had this in place since 2007, and illegal wiretapping scandals long before that. They've also had the equipment in place to completely subjugate the country for decades. And they haven't. A modern mechanized military like ours would literally roll over any civilian resistance. No amount of person...
Soooo, let me get this straight? They can tell who's a terrorist by the numbers they call and the length of the calls? It's not like terrorist do a mandatory one hour check in at 1-800-MY-JIHAD. Of course they have people hearing and reading your shit. Of course this applies to citizens. I don't believe they get ap...
I'm just glad Obama is President while this shit floats to the surface, and here is why: For the past few elections, Republican voters have been 100% behind anything that a Republican leader wants or says. I've personally known Republicans who don't know what their view on an issue is, until they are able to consul...
martial law doesn't quite work that way. What you just described is tantamount to the actions Caesar took to turn the Republic in to an empire While the federal government can put down the populace it can not disagree with the Judicial branch as such an action would likely topple international relations and potential...
As a southern Illinos resident I can confirm this. [Chicago]( is the most crooked city in this country. Too many of our governors have been suspected of crooked acts. Our last governor is serving jail time because of it and Jesse Jackson Jr was being investigated for improper misuse of funds before his resignation. Bot...
That's fine, Rep. Cardenas, but top down technology training has already lost out to bottom up training in affluent areas where infants have access to ipads and other consumer technology. If you really want to energize a segment of society that needs it, I would suggest cutting the middle layers of bureaucracy and gett...
Bring on the downvotes you asses. (Edit: Damn, that was quick.) Disclaimer: Male in tech here. Consider myself intelligent but I know there are many who are ridiculously smarter than I. I'm not sure which is worse, the behavior of the boys in her class or the comments on this thread the effectively defend their b...
Unless I'm interpreting T-mobile's plans wrong, the $70 unlimited plan is unlimited mobile data and 2.5GB of tethered/hotspot data. T-Mobile's 10.5 data only plan is $70/mo in itself which indicates the mobile plan does not expect people to use more than 10.5GB worth of data less the value for voice/text services. I...
whether the economic system is called capitalism or communism Communism is not an economic system, it's a form of Government. That being said, I think economic systems do "evolve" in a way, and this "marriage of government and business" is just a natural outcome of Capitalism. As an example let's say we had a compl...
Are they not robots? Every time I hopped in for a game or two the same things would happen to me around the same time. Total domination within minutes. ^I ^might ^just ^be ^that ^bad
just like the /r/bestof and /r/funny A while ago, the creator of /r/standupshots quit because /r/funny started banning any OC posted by comedians...it became a subreddit filled with people stealing jokes from comedians, and not giving them due credit (which was NOT banned)..the post was posted to /r/bestof, but becau...
Because i cant make his point for him, i can only draw my own conclusions. and to be honest, its not my place to think for someone else. I came looking to gain other peoples insight on this subject, not to pull my own opinion out of my ass. If i have something worth contributing to the discussion i will, but if i feel ...
Maybe he doesn't know what to do about the problem, but he does know that he can help educate the people around him? If enough people are aware of the problem, there's a shift in general consciousness of the problem, and then there's a chance that somebody or some group will both have the capability of solving the prob...
While the knee-jerk reaction here is to call for the immediate disbanding of the NSA, the reality is that the US political system is far too impotent to carry out such a task. Instead of just complaining about the situation, I suggest a few actions: Never lose sight of the fact that the NSA is monitoring every dig...
I think people who post mundane and self obsessed bullshit about their kids, their job, and themselves are infinitely more annoying than those who actually discuss important things. Their narcissism and willful ignorance to the world at large is what allows this bullshit to happen in the first place. Most of my FB ...
Large mobile carriers are extremely profitable. If they wanted to alleviate congestion on their mobile networks, they easily do it. The argument you are using is the same exact false argument that the large mobile carriers use. I read on reddit that ISPs also use this false excuse.
T-Mobile has different plans and do offer unlimited 4G LTE plans. I'm currently on a plan that has unlimited 4G but only 1GB of LTE. Something I didn't notice until I read the fine print on a commercial after having the service for awhile already. Haha I'm currently at 6.5GB usage and my data usage cycle started the...
From what I understand, Verizon started throttling it's 3G unlimited data customers in 2011, but patrons who upgraded to 4G devices without renewing their contract were allowed to keep their current unlimited data service, which wasn't throttled...until now.
The problem is that phone companies ignored the fact that 4g had a definition years ago and started marketing anything faster than GSM as 4g. So now we have 3g standards ranging from anything over 200kbps up to a theoretical max of 156mbps and 4g ranges from anything over 7mbps up to over 500mbps. With the line of wha...
That's not the way it works. The issue has already been to the Supreme Court and is binding, black letter law. You would not even get certified as a class and would likely lose in summary judgment or be compelled into arbitration right away. Because of all this it is extremely unlikely any lawyer would take your case...
Just because someone is a SCOTUS justice doesn't make them an expert in anything except pandering. They may have more time on the bench before getting a SCOTUS nomination, but the Supreme Court has become as much a tool of big business and greedy politicians as the rest of the federal system. I don't say this to disp...
People keep repeting this highly inacurate information. Please read [this link]( from the EFF which summarizes the bill. I don't know where did people get this idea that this bill is anti-privacy when it does the exact opposite.
Democratic and Republican opinions are polar opposites on nearly every issue. Not nearly, and that you would say this un-ironically only goes to prove how effective the tactics of two-party system have become. The polar opposite of the Republican party line is not the Democrats' party line - it's probably a liberta...
As someone who sells phones for a living let me explain it simply. This is the discount normally given to lines that are out of contract or sometimes still in contract but is close to getting out. And it's 15$ monthly for the discount unless you have 10gbs of data or more then it's 25%. So let's say 2 lines with 10...
Yeah, I did (well, a single sentence that included a link to an article and two pictures, but still).
I have both the 360 and the PS3. Sony's offering seems competent until you get a chance to see what the competition has to offer. In my mind, Sony is the mostly competent brand. They have great hardware build quality, but the usability and every part of the software blows monkey chunks. This is true for the PS3 as ...
I have one of those expensive HDMI cables and a couple of them cheap ones. Because I needed the cables "now" back when I bought them, I didn't care that one of the cheap cables was 5 meters long when I only really needed 1 meter. Digital cables are just digital cables, right? However for my PS3 it's impossible to get...
You aren't stealing from the people who make the cables, you're stealing from the shop. Even with a 30% mark-up they're still looking at a $38 bill. From the perspective of the companies producing the cables this is a sale unless they have some kind of sales forecasting report (but even in this theft of goods is seen...
I almost never buy cables, I usually find them in free piles or Ham radio flea markets, but the next time I need one that I can't find, mainly longer ones, I think I will buy them from him. His website is a virtual encyclopedia of cables and his prices are exactly what I would expect to pay for a decent cable.
Just a few replies for everyone: I don't sell Monster cables and I would never recommend anyone buy them. I'm simply saying that I don't install the cheap monoprice type cables. I only install professional grade HDMI cables and I warranty them. If one fails, I come out and replace it free of charge within the first y...
Was there data loss in Amazon S3? No. Why wouldn't people be putting their backups from EC2 into S3? That's what S3 is for, high retention, highly available storage.
I do not enjoy being called indoctrinated. Take it back you scallywag. That aside, I am in no way rejecting the definition of mutual aid, every human is judge for another, pseudo-leaderless-communism, common ownership (all is public) version of communism. I'm not even denying that this is what most realistic anarch...
Yeah, the KGB used to get rock hard about informing people of their actions, obtaining consent, and then only looking at publicly available information.
Right, it is just matching known data (the name discovered by facial recognition software). So if you have access to someone's facebook photo, you probably already know his name anyway (as well as age and place of birth). Do you really need facial recognition software for that? Anyway, the face itself is not revealing ...
I've been a sysadmin of one sort or another for twenty years :-) The downtimes on a modern system are almost zero if you're running your servers on ESX/ Hyper-V - and what problems you do have will usually limited to certain users (or offices if a switch dies). You also have control over how and where your hardware i...
Hi - Robotics PhD student here. This is actually completely uninteresting and pretty trivial. See those glowy red cameras and the little silver balls on the quadrotors? That's a Motion capture system that gives millimeter-accuracy position accuracy for each of the little balls. Using that, you eliminate any sort of aut...
No, SOPA isn't finished yet and the exact mechanisms for this aren't decided on. I watched for 2.5 hours while the House Judiciary Committee discussed amending this very part of the bill and they haven't established that a takedown order has to come from the DOJ. In fact, unamended the bill operates by offering full im...
There's been (as I understand it) one court case that says that a link itself can violate copyright (even though it was linking back to the original source, if I recall correctly a blog was linking to an original news article) but it was fairly recent and up for appeal. SOPA, again, as I understand it, makes that dec...
I'm currently reading the bill and the section that stands out most is §104. Immunity for taking voluntary action against sites dedicated to theft of U.S. property. These sections state that any action taken in order to enforce the act are able to be executed without repercussions. This means that people/companies...
But they'll bomb it with offensive content, and so the copyrighted content wont even be noticed. They will think they're getting raided, but not know why. Or at least 'SOPA' might be among the comments, but it wont be regarded as any tangible protest that sysadmins would feed back to the company. NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER N...
Have any other Redditors read SOPA (H.R. 3261) yet? My rep. is a cosponsor of this thing. So, I spent my entire Saturday reading this bill and all referenced U.S. Code to try to wrap my head around it before calling him (UGH!). I'm no lawyer, but it looks like SOPA will only apply to sites whose domain name is regi...
Lobbying is the standard (and legal) way for corporations and 'interest groups' to influence decisions of congressman by way of campaign contributions. It is absolutely illegal for a congressman to deposit a single cent of 'campaign money' into their personal bank account. Individuals ( NOT corporations - they pull th...
Hard drive failures is just a statistical game. It's hard to get your head around as a home user because you have an extremely limited sample size. Read this, it's very interesting: Google is apparently the world authority on disk failures, since they likely own more than anyone else.
Funny, I found this out about relatively cheap SYBA RAID cards. I bought one that said supported RAID 5. A few months go by and one of my hard drives goes bad. RMA it to WD and get a new one back. Put it back in the array and attempt to rebuild it, but find that this card doesn't support rebuilding... Then what th...
This isn't HD video but there's an interview of Gabe Newell, the guy running Valve, who runs Steam, and his take on at least video game DRM was this: > You know, I get fairly frustrated when I hear how the issue is framed in a lot of cases. To us it seems pretty obvious that people always want to treat it as a pricin...
That's what I'm doing. I bought X-Men: First class. I own two blu ray players: one on my European PS3, and one on my American laptop. On the PS3 I get the region error which I kind of expected. On the laptop it just blocks for the first 10 minutes. After a while it works but I still couldn't play it. There is also ...
Let's assume that no 'old Hollywood' company would ever come up with something like Steam - which seems likely, given the piles of anecdotal evidence at hand. Valve was a fairly young company when Steam happened, and had a number of advantages no young-Hollywood company would have. Valve had an extremely loyal, if ...
Yeah exactly. They think they are fucking up the pirates. No. They are fucking up their paying customers. Pirates release DRM free version for free. This is what they should try to compete with. If you look at it as someone who has a brain, what will you get? DRM infested version that you have to pay for, or DRM fre...
For the past 6 or 7 years I have been pirating a good amount of movies. Before I buy one I check and see if I can hit the menu button and skip all of the previews and whatever else might be on there. I want to be able to hit the menu button and go straight to the DVD or Blu-Ray menu. If I find that you cant skip all of...
The main thing about piracy is that it's mainly cost and time to purchase vs. cost and time to pirate . Pirating takes time, has kinks (download issues, plugging your computer into your TV to watch on a big screen), and more often than not is of lesser quality than the real thing (not always the case). Piracy will...
Good question! Bitcoin is not a company. It's a computer program and it's the network of computers that are running the program. That's (basically) all it is. There's no company that runs it. When the Bitcoin network was started in early 2009, the first user (the inventor) began "mining" Bitcoins. When a user mines...
While yes, you've broken down my statement into parts, even when i said, that being on twitter and carrying a long conversation ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE you've failed to read my piece and see it in it's entirity. You also didn't read anything about what Johnathan Zittrain argues about the internet and where it's goin...