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you've failed to read my and see it in it's entirity. I don't see how. You are arguing that conversations are dying (getting shorter) and point to teen use of social media as an example for the trend. If you acknowledge that your examples don't really mean anything, then save some time and don't use them. I mean y...
Having gone to an Illinois school with a huge LE program, I can conclusively say that the people who endeavor to be Chicago cops are the biggest bunch of power-tripping douchebags you can imagine. Which is to say, they match the current officer profile very well. I have no question that they will use this and all their...
I was at the G20 protests. They only rolled this stuff out for groups that didn't have permits or unlawful gatherings of people obviously looking to enjoy a good mob. When the actual marches went through downtown, the cops stood by and let them march through the city and do their speeches. Lots of people probably don...
I always hate it when these things are blown out of proportions. I hate Apple as much as the next but here a quick "German courts, how it works". Lawsuit value > 5000 € = first instance is the regional court (LG) you get an appeal if you are disadvantaged by the ruling for more then 600 € to the OLG (Higher Regiona...
Quit being a condescending prick, a handshake completely alone isnt making you thousands. True a deal could be worth thousands and the conclusion of the deal is a handshake but there is much more work involved that just a simple handshake. Also assuming you live 75 years, 5 seconds is 2.1E-7% of your life. Just beca...
It follows: How our (German) government and foreign minister are responsible for the unproportionally weak role Germany plays in foreign policy right now. Our current foreign minister Guido Westerwelle is perhaps the worst foreign minister the Bundesrepublik Deutschland ever had. Three points: 1) So far EVERY SINGL...
This information may not be assumed to be correct until proven The problem is actually common to digital photography and is called chromatic aberration, otherwise known as "purple fringing." The image distortion is especially evident when a strong specular light source, like the sun or a flashlight, is present in or ...
The only way there would be geographic-based management levels is if you were in a sales capacity, or contracting. Or you're lying. Even when you're in another country, you still have a similar management structure (you might have ONE extra hop due to a region manager, but below him, the structure remains the same). ...
NO ONE GIVES A SHIT, SO WHY DO YOU? No really, get off the Internet and go get a life.
Hmm? No. The USA has massive dark-fibre infrastructure which was built in the mid 90s and has yet to be used, IIRC it's primarily fibre-optics too, not copper cabling. It isn't used because the telecoms control it, and have no incentive to improve their services. (I can't find the name of the act which allowed this t...
I guess I could have clarified a little more. my actual first modem was a 300 (.3k or 300 bytes/sec) baud for the Commodore 64. From that, 1200 / 2400 baud. First PC modem was a 9600 Hayes; I think with compression I might equal a whopping 1k a second. I just never really thought of a fast modem til 56k hit the scene...
Not exactly correct. The internet service has two components. The installation fee, and the actual service. When a customer pays for the installation fee, google gives them the internet service for free - up to 7 years. If the customer does not wish to pay for the upfront fee, they will charge 70$ a month and provi...
They didn't shoot the rapist though... So even though you mock my british slang you got the
I disagree. I have never seen anyone use that word outside of reddit I've seen it used many times, both outside of Reddit on other social networking sites and in the outside world. Consider that the only relevant instances it would be used are in other conversations similar to these, or during specific psychology cla...
This is from the Ambiguously Gay Duo, an old Saturday Night Live segment.
I never understood this mentality. We're talking about a GRAPHICAL User Interface, right? So why do I need to TYPE to use it effectively?! I've always been amazed that some people (not talking about you here) can't figure out the obvious: if you categorize your apps on the start menu in All Programs then you all of...
People already comment far too often without actually reading the article. This just gives them more reason not to. Sure, it's useful to provide a few major points from it, but they're pretty meaningless without context, and it's just going to a lead to a lot of stupid debates of someone who read the article arguing wi...
The way I see it, the college rush is an adaptive response to HR departments requiring Bachelor's degrees for positions for reasons other than establishing competency (i.e. an easy way to cull candidates as well as to emphasize the "cultural fit" of remaining candidates). To compensate, more candidates began to seek ...
Should be valid for like 120 years or something. Some sites (gmail) have you set up a backup email, which can be used to reset the password. If your backup email gets given away, someone who knows enough about you can get into your primary email, which potentially means they can reset other passwords (PayPal, bank), ...
From what I understand they didn't, but the hardware they chose allows them to do this, theoretically the same thing could be done with almost any phone, assuming of course that it is under-utilizing its hardware. Like the CPU on your computer the phone has a variable clock. (this is generally incorporated into the S...
I think dual booting or at least mode changing (an OS that supports a mobile mode and a dock/desktop mode) is the real issue with the phone wars. Microsoft is losing ground because they are trying to compete in a theater they have had little success in and are having a hard time gaining traction. at the same time they ...
Something's been on my mind for a long time now. I think some of you are already thinking it, some of you will just dismiss it as paranoia. Apart from FaceBook and Twitter, one of the best candidates for spying has to be Reddit. Reddit is where, in the course of a year or two, people reveal what school they went to, ...
dont be silly, no one reads articles. we just
The end result is a distributed method of obtaining address information. You either need to use something like DNS which points to wherever your virtual machines are, or you need a client that is able to discover the swarm through the DHT (
It makes no sense to pay limited resources in exchange for an unlimited good. This is a shitty argument. The only thing that makes money limited is the government. If the laws against counterfeiting weren't so stringently enforced and the respective technology not so actively suppressed there would be numerous counte...
I use google for searching a specific site if that sites search doesn't function well. I used to use it on reddit before they fixed their search tool. This really doesn't make a difference, I just have to look ten items down before I get what I searched for instead of google giving it as the first search result.
This is a shitty argument. No, it isn't. >The only thing that makes money limited is the government. Except that's untrue. Fiat currencies are backed by the economic power of the institution behind it. You can't print infinite money... if you do it would lose its value and be worthless. Unlike digital media. ...
I've been with T-Mobile since 2008, and my parents had me on their t-mobile plan from 2001-2005, so I've seen T-mobile throughout their ups and downs. Hell, my parents were with Voicestream before that switched to T-mobile (not sure if they got bought by t-mobile, or were the original t-mobile, but whatever)... T-mobi...
Honestly I think people need to just forget the notion that anonymity can be used as a form of protection. Sensors will be tracking every minute of our lives, privacy is dead . Accepting that coming reality and writing laws that protect individuals from being taken advantage of by corporations and governments is wha...
Except Target's credit records had a redundant backup system called credit protection so that's an example of a system that still worked. I could post my credit card information all over Reddit today, let you go on a spending spree and I wouldn't be liable for a dime. Were there identity problems that came out of it?...
He could have invented oxygen, but if he can't lead a company without a PR shitstorm, you probably shouldn't be leading the company to begin with. Leadership isn't about being nice, or fair. He could very well have his opinions and we never know, but if he was a good leader, he would have been able to stop this stuff f...
It is one thing to say that people should tolerate others beliefs if they disagree with their own. It's entirely a different thing to tolerate a belief that directly contradicts your own rights and freedoms. I DO NOT tolerate individuals who do not believe that I, an American citizen, am eligible for the same rights ...
The thing is, he was the target of an online crusade. Let's remember that he made this contribution six years ago! Yep, it's ridiculous that people decided to pick this, of all things, as their issue. But the fact remains, the Board at Mozilla must have felt that this was damaging to their image or could lead to a le...
Neither economic issues or social issues are cut and dried, and you can find a lot of honest disagreement, lies, and propaganda for pretty much any social or economic policy. However, where you stand on social policies is easier to determine than where you stand on economic ones. And more importantly, a gay person (o...
Social mores are becoming malleable due to the power of crowd sourcing and lobbying. We live in a democracy, but you can lose your job and risk losing friends if you proclaim politically incorrect sensitivities. There are many people who are against gay marriage, but they wouldn't dare speak publically for fear of re...
violence has declined and tolerance for views and lifestyles have been gained through the ages, especially starting with the enlightenment and democratic society. Admittedly I haven't read the book, but for one thing I would suggest that the reason violence is declining in our society is that we have established a st...
Imagine if they had done it differently from the beginning, though. Imagine if they had designed this entire system for a forensic purpose: To prosecute international criminals. Then it would have been designed from the ground up in a way that tags and preserves evidence. Oh shit. Hang on. That is exactly how th...
I can only assume you're mocking me or speaking in tongues, and in either case I assure you everything will be okay. I've already called the exorcist and he's on the way (but you have to pay him in cash, sorry.)
I was looking for a similar system to digitize my notes and allow for eBooks. I prefer hand writing my notes over typing them but most tablets I found just didn't seem "right" when using a stylus. Last year I found the ASUS VivoTab Note 8 which is their 8 inch windows 8 tablet, for $329. The reason I went with it o...
There are 2 parts: (1) They still need those chips to be produced and already have commitments requiring those chips so they need the technology to continue, and (2) Bundled with this deal, IBM gets to take a nearly $5B tax write-off. So assuming they are paying 28% corporate tax, there is your $1.5B right there.
The most important quote is: > “But the question remains: are we going to allow a means of communications which it simply isn’t possible to read. My answer to that question is: ‘No we must not’. Cameron is ignorant of the effects such an act would have, even if he means far less. Almost all modern cryptographic tech...
Retards are a global plague, but in most of the time they're on opposing sides fighting each other so it isn't too bad and they keep each other occupied, however this mother fucker needs to get out of office before I steal a car and run him the fuck down, but he's not going to, because somehow he's the least retarded s...
Walmart makes its money by baiting you in with low cost groceries that competition cannot match Actually, there are several competitors (per example ALDI) that not only "match" but beat Walmart's pricing (not to mention better quality) on groceries -- and those firms are also highly profitable. The point being that...
DS9 stole its entire set up from B5, as the lawsuit made clear, which is why they had no idea what they were doing in the first few seasons. And while DS9 got MUCH better when they finally moved in their own direction in the later seasons, that doesn't challenge my position. Every series got worse and worse as the a...
err, that's not how 3d rendering works. The rendering part, the graphics card, takes a 3d scene and renders it into a 2d scene for your monitor. In order to do a slightly different view for each eye it needs to render the same scene twice from slightly different perspectives.
It seems that according to the RIAA once something is copied and given away for free that copy becomes extremely more valuable, e.g., one copy of a song (approximately a $1 value originally) being worth $382,353. What this means is that one (photo)copy of a dollar bill should be worth $382,353 to the RIAA, therefore we...
I think he's someone who is quite a techie (he spelled pseudo as sudo, for instance), and is using his technical knowledge to make something up that is so incredibly wrong that people feel compelled to ask, WTF?! It's poetry I tell ya, poetry.
You quote another confused & [long time ago debunked nonsense]( which confuses thorium in LFTR and in water cooled reactors, and makes many more factual errors. Nevertheless, despite IEER claims of welcoming feedback, [they didnt correct their erroneous statements after being asked multiple times.](
ISPs don't buy data by the byte and resell it. ISPs have a connection to a backbone and they can push a certain amount of bytes per second through it. They resell throughput, and they are already charging for that: you pay more for a faster connection This is true, but unless you understand the difference between pea...
Yes. There are conceivable a great many different approaches to computation. How arrogant is one to be if one thinks that consciousness isn't reducible to one or more of those computational forms. Your Von Neumann device probably isn't going to do it for ya, there, but perhaps a less classical approach to quantum state...
Foreword: I hate myself for replying to your inane list of replies that quotes my every sentence just to put them out of context of their paragraphs. Reply to paragraphs. If you had any reading comprehension, you'd know that my saying "Next thing I know you're gonna say the Nazis were fucking right" implies that I th...
So I made an overnight prototype of this about 2 years ago as a side project from my day job. It has since grown into a startup and I'm proud to be associated with a great team. We have been working very hard the last few months to build a beta search and analysis tool and to show off a good public sampling of the capa...
I guess I'm just mad about this because of the implications it has for people who live in these areas. Some people go home to these neighborhoods, some people even like their homes in these areas but it feels kinda shitty when someone tells you they're afraid to walk around in your neighborhood, when it's something y...
Before we get into this, it's worth noting that, while non-Hispanic whites have neither the [highest educational attainment]( out of all ethnic/racial groups nor the [highest average salaries]( they do have the highest employment rates [with]( college degrees and the [lowest poverty rates]( at 10.6% as of 2010. It...
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What stuck out to me in this story is the fact that the dad went to the closest Target and started chewing out in the in-store manager, like that guy has any power over what coupons go out to what houses. Yes the dad had a right to be angry, but talk about taking it out on the wrong person. And because it's corporate t...
In 2008 another successful teleportation experiment was conducted by a team of scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland.]( why do you need F
And multitasking with great ease will probably be more important if a big part of your memory is externalized. We'd be retarded farmers compared to future teenagers.
I think you're probably just falling for confirmation-bias. (the video proves what you already believe.) You don't say what you're age is,.. but I'm gonna guess late teens or somewhere-20's. (fairly safe bet since that's the demographic of Reddit). The type of relationship struggles you describe (people not knowing...
I do several things to prevent such addictions... First, I have sex with someone at least once as week. Usually more. Second, I read erotic fiction instead of viewing porn most of the time. Third, I utilize softcore images/videos sometimes. Fourth, I explore fetishes, both with others and by myself. Fifth, I ...
Most of them are somewhat attractive. Some of them are definitely not. Don't get me wrong. If the ones I found attractive wanted to sleep with me, I'd... Hmm. I'd actually be strongly conflicted. Some of my closest friends have been torn apart because they tried dating each other. Though I know my dick would want to g...
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Actually, the single hardest thing for intelligence services and law enforcement back in the old days was tracking people's social networks - it was trivial to bug a phone or intercept e-mails, but building up a comprehensive picture of "who knows who, and how do they know them" was all but impossible, requiring months...
Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity That's because words are just words. They're not inherently good or evil, they're just things that have some definition. If you understand a sentence, then the words inside it were chosen correctly. This fact about Watson really illustrates why it's...
Exactly. In a language where there is no concept of subroutines, GOTO is the only way to control logic flow. All "modern" languages now compile/interpret down to either assembly or some sort of byte code that really all translate into JUMPs or GOTOs.
Yes, it is a form of an AI but it does not "understand" the meaning of the information in its memory. So it's not "intelligent" in the sense that we usually mean. The programming is "really good". Its parallel processors look for "answers" that are "close to" the "question". Yeah, that's a lot of quotes, because the ...
I once wrote a script that used a dictionary I found online to generate random titles and descriptions for products on a test website. The stuff it came up with was magical. In about 1000 products, I saw tons of swear words of course, which lead me to finding a dictionary of curse words. This is how I learned the ter...
This is true only because windows 8 has no new features worth mentioning. The market hasn't changed. People would still buy a new computer if they were getting something out of it, but with win 8 they aren't. Win8 is just a half thought out strategy to get into the tablet market. All they did was make windows not-...
Really solid reply. I was initially replying to the split between retailer, publisher, and dev (and also first party whom a lot of people forget). Looking at how the industry works financially, that particular split isn't feasible. Devs tend to get a lot of support on reddit, many times without the recognition of the v...
I don't think its as simple as conformity equals higher values. Yes that plays a role, but I think it plays a role different than what your are suggesting. The conformity you are looking for is with the market. Houses in a home owner association follow strict rules in order to make all the houses in the neighborhoo...
Because I, a human, said so, and as a species we can eliminate all life on this planet if we so choose. That is how nature works. The strong and dominant are just that, dominant. It is our planet because we can make it ours, end of story. When the fucking celery begins making bows and arrows, then we can talk. Why do I...
And wearing a hoodie, and driving a van, and paying in cash, and using a VPN, and being a Christian, and being libertarian, and [a bazillion other things](
If you read the bill youll see that all the oppositions concerns are addressed in it. Most importantly it has a provision that the government can not use personally identifiable information and it defines exactly what information can and cannot be shared. 1104.(C)'(4)PROTECTION OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS- The Fe...
so you can be super hipster now with all the other camera features, like black and white and sepia (!!!), but the one thing i've suggested still hasn't come out, which would be a timer for the camera. Neither my girlfriend nor I have a digital camera, and having a timer would be awesome for pictures of us when no one i...
I am not saying they are evil if they don't do anything. Again: IMHO, all these companies have to comply with local laws, whatever they might be. It happens that the US seem to have a rather discutable one which forced these firms to provide some (or a lot of) information. It's not pretty, but it's probably not these...
Here's some reading: [MI5 branded former communist Royle Family star 'a political thug']( >In 1972, shortly after its formation, UCATT along with the GMWU and TGWU, two sister unions involved in construction and civil engineering, was involved in a major national joint industrial dispute. For the first time in the ...
It's also my opinion that fiber is going to be kind of a waste of money once 5G comes out. If it follows in line with current technologies, such as 3G and 4G, higher bandwidth certainly doesn't mean lower latency. Imagine it in the sense of a delivery service. The delivery service might have invested in bigger lorrie...
Ahaha, no. Absolutely not. Dedicated, isolated communication channels such as fiber or cable are always superior in reliability and bandwidth to wireless communications. Wireless communications utilize a shared channel that is subject to limited bandwidth, fading, multipath, interference, blocking, etc. The base statio...
I think along with the 'UpVote' - 'DownVote' system. There should be a 'Cheer' and 'Boooo!' system. To initially clarify public feelings, as well as its relevance to the /r/. Of course that is what the comment sections are for, but there are still the
I find interesting that you argue (correctly) that there is no one person behind this. But then you seem to imply there is a unified, concerted desire to corrupt this. Sadly it's the opposite, governments always want to do the greater good, but in their disorganization sow corruption, slowness and the complete opposi...
Well when you have one single application server that might be true, but if you want to use auto-scaling for example, you may have servers starting and stopping regularly. Though where exactly the SSL would come into play would be dependent on the how the app was designed, and only the web-facing load balancers may dea...
That's not how the science works. The stream cipher used in PFS is generated from a PRG which culls it's random pool from the massive amount of entropy generated by Google's servers. Even Google itself cannot crack it's own implementation of the cipher. And btw if we are talking 256 bit encryption, then nobody on...
Electrical engineer here. The Register article glosses over some very important points: The transmitter is obviously using very tight beamforming so the inverse square law is a lot less useful. You can't use the physical distance to the transmitter to calculate the r in 1/ r ^2 unless it's a point source and that...
Why won't it work? Mostly fundamental engineering reasons... Splitting the motherboard into so many pieces, and adding adjoining connectors/plastic cases/a sandwich plate, is bulky even if done optimally. The phone would be much chunkier than current smartphones. Having a universal pin bus connecting all the parts ...
Well this will just make the safety announcement 2 minutes longer. You may use approved electronics devices like cameras , laptops but no cell phones, unless they are on airplane modem data shut off or no cell communication :) Here is the kicker, people rarely know about airplane mode we know, we are on reddit, but ...
One time I had an urgent message I was trying to send off. We were still at the gate and the door of the plane was just closing so I attempted to quickly type it out and turn the phone off. The VERY huge and muscular man sitting next to me started commanding me to turn it off and when I didn't he then began yelling lou...
One time I was on a plane and a pilot sat next to me (not this plane's pilot obviously). He was young (30ish) and was tapping away on his phone and listening to Kid Rock loudly on his headphones. He was whispering the lyrics under his breath. It was pretty funny. After the flight attendant came on and asked us all ...
Even more, GM has a bizarre split personality in some ways where genius engineers are forced to implement stupid decisions by the suits higher up. The Chevy Volt is a really good example of this. When it was announced 5 years ago, I was REALLY excited. I've wanted a plug-in range-extended electric vehicle for a long ti...
Easier said than done. Writing the self-drive software from scratch is a mindbogglingly complicated undertaking that requires some of the most talented developers in the world. It's highly unlikely GM has any managers who know where to find these people, how to interview them, and how to convince them to work at GM w...
The idea is that there will be fewer cars in existence at any given time because each car is being used constantly and to maximum efficiency. Cars will hit half a million miles in a few years and hit the end of their useful life (something few current cars achieve). Think of it this way. The human population has X ...
Maybe if we stopped bailing out quasi-obsolete companies because people would lose their jobs, and also stopped getting in the way of technological innovation, we could have self-driving cars. But I guess people don't get that ex-GM workers could build the self-driving cars for google.
Laptops are one area where Apple can do really well, because there is no standardized form factor nor is there a large consumer market for individual components. Apple differentiates itself from the competition through the use of a lot of gimmicks: early adoption of draft wireless standards (802.11ac) long before the...
You know what's silly? Talking about CPU cores at all. A core is not a core anymore and people should face it. Not too long ago everyone simply looked at the frequency of a CPU to say which one is better and it took a while for people to realize that multiple cores can, in some cases, mean better performance and in s...
Most useful and informative comment I found: > [This graph is all post in the last year on /r/technology with "NSA" in the title or body and a karama break down by post.]( > It's... odd... there's definitely a noticeable change after 8/22/2013, after that date there is never more than 1 post on the same day, and ra...
I don't have the links handy to provide proof and evidence, but the gist of the situation is this: /r/technology has/had a setup that caused AutoModerator to remove all posts with titles containing one or more of a list of banned keywords. /r/technology's mods refused to release this list, even though everybody k...
Because the admins don't want to deal with mod-sovereignty. The feudal system of subreddit ownership puts the responsibility of upkeep on the mods, and in return the mods have almost total autonomy as long as they work within the confines of reddit's rules. The admins don't mess with subs as long as they're not breakin...
It's more complicated than that. Half the mods of /r/technology didn't ever lift a finger for moderating. The ones that did wanted to be more strict on the political stuff, because this is about technology after all. Long story short, they used to automoderator more and more to be able to keep up, and wanted to add new...
Honestly at this point it seems like it would be best to trash this subreddit and start completely new. I just have horrible visions of cutting off this head, and two more grow back. But, because that is kind of an extreme solution, I say go for it, yes.
Not sure what drama caused this. Never subscribed to this, it was just default. But people being "mods", or having "admin", and having a power trip is endemic on the internet in general. Reddit, game servers, IRC (admin pls!), etc. Tired of seeing posts on the front page about how /r/technology is going to hell. Don't ...