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That's ELI5 for something that happened weeks ago. The mods involved were removed and the auto-moderation was fixed. The sub is still in chaos, but this post is calling for removal of CURRENT mods, not the mods that were the problem. That warrants proof, and so far the only proof provided is actually supporting th...
as a casual browser of technology, this all looks like high schooler bullshit.
There are two groups of mods that gravitate to each other. The anu/max/q group is not the largest one. The larger one is the MWM/Agentlame/DR666/KarmicViolence/theredditpope one. This group is considerably more heavy handed in their moderation philosophy than Anu/Max/q. > The reason why these groups gravitate towards...
cont from part 1) and most importantly, have processes and a personal knowledgebase on how to deal with problems. it is absolutely out of scope for the it dept. to start running around and support every device people can and will bring from home. even if indeed there would be no viruses... I know BYOD is "in" and wi...
All the articles that have been published in the last few years. ;) If you read any paper (at least ones not from ones with shoddy study designs with an ax to grind), they'll usually spell out that there is no single cause of CCD. When reading papers, you need to be especially careful when authors are talking about g...
I think I would like a service like Netflix that releases episodes one at a time, but not "airing" them in any time slot, just putting one new episode up for streaming every week. A weekly model lets the audience mostly stay on the same page. A day after it first goes up, we can gather around the water cooler and gus...
The cruising viewing pattern doesn't really hold up today for Netflix business model . "Channel cruising" is good for the advertisers but not really for the viewer. Netflix' model is to provide great content at the users convenience. Great content is of course subjective and that's why they rely heavily on recommender...
I think its fair to say a lot of people owe Wheeler an apology for doubting him, even if they had just cause to. He seems to have done what was best for the country, and not the easy thing. I mean at the time before they verified the FCC Decision, The Public was calling him a [lobbyist shill]( not willing to do wh...
Its a disaster because it was supposedly designed for a tablet, but it actually wasn't. For example, there is no global pinch-to-zoom that works everywhere. This is necessary when using a tablet with a small screen in desktop mode. Another glaring flaw is that the keyboard does not automatically pop up if you are in ...
I was in the radio business for 10 years and I saw this everyday. the only reason they've hung on as long as hey have is because the ones who play ball with radio stations (payola) and don't use the internet are conglomerate controlled corporate bullshit. Trent Reznor said it, Thom Yorke has now said it. A lot of peopl...
Your expectations change the longer you do it. When you're young and/or new at it, you don't care about losing money, or playing to 5 people a night, or having a place to sleep other than your van. You probably get along really well with your bandmates and you're all excited to be on the road which makes even the wor...
Cisco is a JOKE. They seem to have certain markets cornered so they keep on selling their products, but it's complete amateur hour working with them. Recently they just advised my company to downgrade close to 100 computers to Firefox 2.0.0.20 or IE7 (our choice) so that they could interact with a system we purchased...
This is an FM reciever, not a transmitter. If FM becomes popular again, people will create their own, free radio stations. The NPR model will become commonplace (hopefully). People might even create radio stations by just connecting the radios to Pandora, or other Internet music streams. I have no idea if this ...
SoCal driver here, and aside from being able to read/sleep/relax/web browse, the number one reason I would love to see the freeway turned into an automated Minority Report system is stress . I'm a good driver. I understand the correct way to drive my vehicle on public roads. I enjoy controlling a fast, strong to...
The computer driven car is looking 360 around you all the time, you have a limited field of vision, you might be checking your blind spot or otherwise distracted. Even if you're looking right at the guy, the computer driven car is going to be scanning at least 30fps of video, so after 33ms and a few more micro seconds ...
One day too late, yesterday my university made some on-road test drives our their autonomous car. (german) a video: (but still in german)
I'm actually not worried about internet strangers. You know what scares the fuck out of me? The idea that people I once knew in real life could possibly find out anything about me. I'm worried about the people who, in middle and high school, shoved me into lockers, stole everything I brought to school and couldn't se...
I've been a Windows desktop support/sysadmin type guy for roughly 20+ years,.. and I can assure you there are just as many (if not more) "clueless users" in the Windows world (or well, any world for that matter) as their are clueless Mac users. Stereotyping Mac users as "especially clueless" would be like stereotyping ...
The company can't choose the arbitrator for instance. This may be true in certain cases, but it doesn't negate the fact that arbitration is extremely biased in favor of the corporations (who are after all the arbitrator's true customers, not joe schmoe). I can't think of a single instance in which binding arbitration...
Especially once sites like Wikipedia start getting attacked with the Regulate Obscure and Pointless Education act. So many articles the government deem pointless will simply be obliterated.
Here here. I concur 100%, and I sent them what amounts to a sternly worded letter on it. A lot of people joke about that, but you'd be shocked to learn how often it works when a few thousand people do it at once . Honestly, I would even consider notifying other services I appreciate to move to indiegogo too, citing th...
Except it actually was being used for its intended purpose by many people, including members of the US government and armed forces. If I stab myself with a fork, does that make forks illegal? Our problem is the technology is still too new and our judiciary system is too old. They are like trying to run Arma II on ...
I prefer to just believe. FIRE UP THE F
I don't think you're stupid for not adoring Windows. I think you're stupid because you seem like an arrogant, opinionated douche! Also, you said if people want to game why not use consoles, while I simply stated consoles aren't as powerful, hence why a lot use PC's (Windows just happens to be the best OS for PC gamin...
I've yet to have any problems. In fact, so far windows 8 seems to have a better compatibility mode for older software (Dungeon Keeper 2 was notoriously very buggy on win 7, works fine on my win 8 machines) . It's basically all the same code under the hood, so I'd be very surprised at windows 7 software not working ...
I fear that with these "certifications" Win 8 is walking the fine path of J2ME and its now non-existent app platform base. I think at some point J2ME was going to be a great platform, but then "security-minded" people swooped in and required certificates in order to be able to access the platform system features (nam...
This is how it starts. One day we will end up with needing to "unlock" or root our PCs to install non market programs or programs deemed "exploitable" by entertainment industry on our PCs after the monopoly will be established. Don't be fooled this will only be bad for users and developers in the long run.
How am i cherry-picking your words? The first half is used talking about your own personal uses of a computer, highlighting the opposites of mainstream Microsoft products, while finishing it of by saying you only use Windows for VS (i.e. Which means you a by far technical competent and would probably have no problem ...
For one hes made over 100 million dollars on minecraft by promising "early adopters" a finished product. 5 years on and its still not polished, or complete. The mod community has been carrying the game for over a year, and the development cycle is abysmally slow.
It's not exactly the Windows 8 experience itself that is coming under fire as far as open platform concerns. Windows 8 itself is just another Windows version, this time with an interface designed for tablets that throws desktop users under the bus a bit. But that isn't the issue. The whole "open platform" concerns co...
Because Secure Boot is the only way to block an OS from running? Please. If an OEM wants to, they can tweak the boot code to prevent anything but N
Approximately 165,000 tonnes of gold has been mined thus far - assuming the ridiculous notion of making actual gold coins as part of a gold standard (as opposed to the natural slow inflation rate inherent with the gold standard) - an average coin starts at 2.5g, that equates to: 165,000 tonnes == 165,000,000,000g =...
I find it disturbing that you people think that you're actually fighting for your rights still. This has bill has already passed; it's called "Stingray" and "Tapwire". All they're doing now is providing the public with the illusion that they have to fight against this bill they are pushing through whilst they go beh...
Makes me think of the American Revolution. It's harder in our day, though. The colonists were both geographically concentrated and isolated from their enemy. Most wars have been such. America, though, is vast . All these large countries have like minded individuals, but they are so dispersed that though there are ma...
Google is still just getting a footing in this new venture. Austin is the first "major" modern city. The others were smaller and easier test cases. That is a big jump. I would guess that a year or so after Austin proves successful (installation and subscriber base), we'll see massive acceleration of expansion into ...
I think you underestimate how much faster a computer would react. Peak human reaction time is about .15 seconds. If you are even remotely distracted, is probably more like .5 seconds. Then factor in the additional time it takes you to actually move your arms to turn the wheel, or take your foot off the gas and push...
What's the alternative? Support the opposing candidate who publicly supports the shitty policies that we're pissed off about? If all viable candidates agree on some things you don't like, the only thing you can do is zero those out and base your decision on what's left.
As a member of a debate team for a long time, you are still excited when you win, but learn to accept when you've lost and come to appreciate the learning experience. That's the moral of this story. It's not about me feeling superior and being right. It's about taking a "loss" or being wrong as gracefully and respectfu...
auto claims adjuster here - this sort of data has been around for a while. lets say you mistakenly damage your car -- no fault to anyone else, just you and a quick lapse in judgement, but you cause damage to your vehicle. a lightbulb goes off over your head, with the perfect excuse..."i'll tell them i was parked, a...
The industry is making a change over from tape recorded to digitally recorded CVR and FDR units (digital ones are called DCVR and DFDR.) These units have to withstand tremendous amounts of stress, heat and pressure. The testing standards are quite high and the FAA doesn't like handing out approval letters to units th...
These black boxes only store information for like 20 minutes or so, and are really only used in the event of a crash to find out what happened. This isn't some crazy spying tool or whatnot, the only way this could be used to track someone is if they had some wireless connection to it. This headline is somewhat misleadi...
Auto manufacturers don't report failures, police and safety studies like mine do. Auto manufacturers sell cars that claim safety, and if they don't provide that safety, there's no amount of data that will save them from lawsuits. Additionally, the EDR readings I've collected have never been used outside of our resear...
I think I can safely say that it takes more than just a game to turn someone into a forever alone neckbeard. Perhaps there are other contributing factors? For example I don't go looking for dates because I'm embarassed that I still live with my parents(
Did Call of Duty Kill Chivalry?" No, you hoes did when you had it made and decided that it was demeaning to have everything purchased for you, to have doors opened for you, to be treated with immense respect and always in a mans consideration. Working sucks and everyone knows it, why you pushed so hard to enter our h...
Considering the recent advancements in quantum computing I wouldn't doubt the NSA has a quantum computer capable of instantly cracking any encryption. No. Cryptography is based on the principle that there is a "hard" underlying problem to solve, such that it is only "easy" if someone has a critical piece of informati...
you know, they started out OK. Back when I got my first iphone (~2009?), they had an app called scramble. it was amazing. it was pretty much boggle, on a phone. two to four people could play on the same phone, a feature called "pass and play". This was THE ENTIRE POINT of why I (and many others) liked the game. It was ...
Let me tell you, when you appear in front of a building where you're having a meeting with Chevrloet Aveo or Toyota Echo your clients will not think very high of you. If you appear in un upscale car it´s a completely different story. I can´t remember how many times my colleague and I went to a meeting, where our cl...
how many redditors vote? how many voters are in amerikkka? where do the rest of the voters get their news from? the media congolomerates which produce the news?
Alright guys, coming in here with a bit more perspective than that article implies. I'm a student at OSU where I saw this speech Monday night. I thought it seemed interesting to see what the new FCC chairman and successful OSU grad Tom Wheeler had to say. In his speech, and in the following Q&A session, he stated that...
Fuck these assholes, I work for Comcast and have personally heard some of the conversations from senior VP's during the time when they released the Xbox 360 app and the issue of net neutrality came up since they announced that their app would not go against a data cap. But everything else would, these guys know EXACTLY...
Not really... You can't use USPS / UPS / FedEx as an example because it's the same company from sender to receiver. Instead, imagine if you have regions where UPS and FedEx and USPS operate, but none of them cover the entire country. For purpose of example, let's say UPS operates on the east coast, FedEx on the Wes...
No no. No. This is bad. Fuck off FCC shill. We the consumers already pay for bandwidth. Why don't you ask the ISPs to bring their speeds up and quit bitching about netflix and YouTube. Tell them to live with net neutrality because otherwise I'll just get a VPN to use all the services I want without my ISP being an ass...
Uh, no, it also gives the government power to enforce the laws regarding the right.
The cellphone situation there is so fucked because of the insane amounts of competition. You know how 'plan buyouts' are just becoming a thing in the US with T-mobile? Every single Korean carrier does it and has been for years, every month costs like $80/line, but you'll get a counteroffer the moment you sign up for a ...
I currently live in seoul and have never had faster or cheaper internet. Moving back to Ireland soon where i live 30min from the city center of Dublin where my family is stuck on less than half a MB of speed... and thats a god dam land line!
I buy 97% biodegradable packaging kcups for $30 for 80 shipped... And compost them myself. Where's the waste?
I think you, like most Cxx's these days, are missing the point. The phrase "cut off your nose to spite your face" is appropriate. There's nothing wrong with profit as a goal. There IS something wrong with profit as the only goal. As a business your goal should be to balance all of the other things with profi...
Most people are ignorant of the existence of such repercussions, due to marketing, market saturation, and lack of knowledge. In the case of buying headphones most people know 3 different headphone types, genuine Apple buds, shitty $10 generics, and Beats. If you buy Beats you think you're buying top of the line, so...
I sell these things, the people that buy them are some of the most technologically UN-savvy people in the population, there's no way they're going to be hooked to the internet, the people using them are the 50 - 70 age range and most of them have aol email addresses. The tassimo uses a barcode system, so I'm doubting ...
Best accessory for the Keurig is the K-Cup. A silver cup that has a cleanable mesh "basket" that you can put your own ground coffee into (or tea). It replaces the black one meant for puncturing the bottom of the personal ones. It's $20 and it's easy to change/load for quick coffee. It comes with the Keurig packs yo...
My truck already sort-of has this. I am a hobbyist mechanic and threw my truck up on a buddy's lift to take a peek. The car detects that it's been lifted and requires a authorization code from the manufacturer before you can re-start it. It's allegedly a theft protection mechanism but they make you pay exorbitant amoun...
I too also like apple built quality, but the price is just to high, and for that price, i could and even more powerful computer that suites my needs (gaming) Also, sometimes repairing an apple product isn't really easy. But it could be done. But like macbook air and the all new macbook pro retina display, repairing, ...
Apparently Voltaire would shoot Eich, then. Because Eich is the one who wanted to pass a law that strips the right of gay couples to say "I do." No one wants to strip Eich of any rights. No one is asking for laws banning anti-gay thought. What they're asking for is for decent people to not patronize a company helme...
I'm pretty busy, but almost everything he complains about is mitigable with minor amounts of experience. Like almost everything in software development. Indeed I would go so far as to say this is a monologue exposing his own incompetence rather than anything else. > Our decision to build on top of SMS/MMS involved hu...
Its interesting that you said this, because its actually directly contradictory to what Adam Smith envisioned, and one of the main reasons why he wrote "Wealth of Nations" in the first place. For all of the talk of Comcast as a monopoly, you could make a convincing argument that the behavior of Comcast and other incu...
No one has posted the correct answer yet. They are considered a natural monopoly: The costs of creating something like Comcast is so expensive, for example installing thousands and thousands of miles of cable, that it's not profitable for competitors to enter in the market. Sometimes governments will grant protecti...
It's not a monopoly, although it certainly has that effect. Maybe it would be if they both merged, but even then probably not because you are free to get your internet and television from other sources. As it is, I've never lived anywhere that gave me the option to choose between Comcast and TWC, although I was able ...
Technically they're an oligopoly, which is just a legal version of a monopoly that takes advantage of the sheer sizes of the main ISP/Cable companies to keep out competition. The sad thing is that due to the sheer size and power of these few companies it'll be a long time before things change. The sad reality is that t...
My parents have Comcast as their sole option for anything >1.5 Mbps, and for months had connection dropouts like clockwork every 4 hours. Comcast did nothing to fix it, even after repeated tech support and customer service calls, until they filed with the state attorney general and sent a copy to Comcast. That got thin...
It would be cool if VPN like thing was kind of 'built-in' to the internet. For example, say we have a network like so: A E \ / B------D / \ C F And B was an ISP that is being payed by E for the fast lane. So to get around this everyone encrypts their traffic and points it at...
You can have both, but it is more important to prioritize competition over "net neutrality" (a term which actually nobody is able to define precisely). Even if the FCC's current definition is adopted, it does not cover paid-peering which is at the center of the Netflix-ISP fights. When Netflix has to pay ISPs, ultimat...
Okay. So we need to start researching politicians. I'm sure there's a good site out there breaking down state and federal elections EVEN for the
This isn't something that needs a
The purpose of persistent storage is to be: Available - respond when I request Persistent - store my data Responsive - complete the request as quickly as possible How responsive a storage medium is dictates it's performance, that characteristic is latency. IOPs and bandwidth are merely products of the request queu...
Or, they could offer the movie to be viewed in any way (home, theatre, mobile) on any platform with a comprehensive library of on demand media at a price that reflects the convenience of distribution in the modern day. People are simply demanding media to be delivered in a different way, a way that reflects modern ad...
ITT a bunch of useless palaver about torrent clients. MY EXPERIENCE WITH INSTALLING THIS ADDON (ublock) OK, so I installed it today after seeing this thread yesterday. Wanted to think it over. First problem: I tried to search through FF for ublock - not listed. There's an issue with using a special character as p...
I think you really have to have an understanding of what the technology world was like in the late 90s to understand why the rulings made a lot of sense at the time and why many people (myself included) felt they didn't go nearly far enough. In the mid-to-late 90s, Windows was personal computing. Apple was in s...
I'm running Xubuntu right now. I just checked, and it takes 4 clicks to get to the custom DPI settings page. The only times I've messed with the x config file is to do things that a normal user would never have to do. Xubuntu is a user friendly experience. I can't speak for all flavors, but I've tried most of them,...
I will tell you exactly how I like to handle my typical clients and why. Every server has shadow copies (file versioning) enabled and Raid 1 for all volumes, period (two drives mirrored). This IS NOT a backup, but it helps a lot if one drive fails in such a way that you could just fall back on the other one. Side n...
At the risk of being "that guy" there's a bit of contention about the benevolence and efficacy of having a Federal Highway System. Militarily speaking, it's a great concept because it enables you to move troops a great distance with great ease. Of course, this being America, we're already pretty difficult to invade. ...
Man, I dunno what is going on with your browser but Firefox was pretty much the first to implement html5 videos in back in 2011 or somesuch. Granted, some html5 extensions such as MSE which Youtube uses for 1080p and 60fps versions (they wouldn't need to but they choose to do it anyway) don't work correctly just yet. ...
Carmack works mostly in the mobile division of Oculus. This article is assuming that because he considers it to be the future i.e. untethered mobile VR, the company Oculus will just abandon years of work and over a hundred employees of work put into a tethered VR HMD to switch to mobile. Nobody has announced that.
If you have a day in hand then a bump key is easy to manufacture. Identify the make and model of the lock, buy a similar one and using a triangular file cut your key down into a bump key. A bit of practice using the lock you've just bought, a quick spray of WD40 into the target lock and you're past the lock in ten se...
It's funny (not really...but) that everyone screaming about Net Neutrality forgets that the only reason we're even having this discussion is because a corrupt FCC and idiotic SCOTUS fucked up in the first place and killed real Net Neutrality in the Brand-X case. Long story short: we already had Net Neutrality in th...
Ah, back in the day fascism was all the rage. Why, those fascists in America forced telephone and electricity companies to supply phone and power to rural areas even when they'd make a loss providing the service! Can you imagine? Hitler himself would have blushed! Now, of course, people who live in rural areas don't ge...
Truthfully, you may not like adventuring into a new operating system, but there is one package that makes checking out Linux really easy. People talk a lot of smack on Ubuntu, but it's definitely attractive and easy to use. If you go to their site, you can download and burn an install CD in minutes. Reboot your compute...
They have added some social network functionality into iTunes. You can "follow" friends or artists (or anyone) and see what music they have decided to "like" and comment on it. I don't know if it's "important" really, but it will probably be successful just from the shear weight of Apple's marketing, and the leverage...
Honestly, I will never buy a dell again. Last year my hard drive crashed. I went through many diagnostic reports, keeping track of every error. It was all under warranty. I would phone them up every couple of days to get them to send a new one. Eventually they told me it wasn't their fault, though it was under war...
I have the exact opposite experience with Dell technical support. I'm a small business customer (Vostro series laptops usually) and whenever I contact them (in some cases, I was a year out of warranty) they are always extra helpful. One time, I spilled an entire bottle of water on a laptop, destroying the motherboard...
Lenovo ThinkPad T series are some of the best laptops out there, although some argue they were still better during the IBM days. Dell has some comparable Latitude models. Lenovo consumer laptops are crap - much like Dell Inspirons. There are mixed feelings on some of the other ThinkPad series -- particularly the L, S...
When in doubt, escalate. I had a Gateway laptop that had a fundamental design flaw (the same part broke 3 separate times), on the third one, after they repaired my laptop (for the third time), I wrote to the CEO explaining my problem and explaining that I couldn't recommend their product due to the fact that eventuall...
I get the joke, but in their defense, I had a good experience recently. I got disconnected for non-payment and was broker than a reddit server at prime time. I called in and told them when my next paycheck was coming and requested their mercy. The dude I talked to said no problem and re-activated me, contingent on m...
If I get time to write a less tailored letter I might. But I think this in general is kind of the wrong thought process. Unless you're famous, the fact that the letter be terribly convincing is probably null. Politicians work to maximize influence and power, and if they get the impression that a large majority of con...
Interesting that the article you link to is titled: >"Windows 8 secure boot could complicate Linux installs" but your title reads, >"Windows 8 secure boot will complicate Linux installs" Do you know something the author doesn't?
The whole "ban email" is like saying we should ban cars because many people are poor drivers. The main problem I encounter with email at work comes down to three issues- Copying means inclusiveness. Including a large distribution list in your discussion with one or two other persons is not good communication. It...
Automotive engineer here; after reading through the comments here, it is great to see the optimism about the coming of modern electric cars. Here are some trends: A device that can run at peak efficiency without a variable load is going to be the future of personal transportation. What HFC and Electric cars have r...
No, I think it's more like the people who try to, say, replace the master cylinder for the brakes' hydraulic system, screw up, and end up having to have the car towed to a repair shop to fix it and whatever other problems they created in their attempt. It happens enough I've heard of a shop that has a sign indicating...
You are correct that a model of cable will be tested for hdmi electrical compliance (assuming the cable doesn't fake the certification). But what differentiates a super cheap cable from a decent cable is whether the cable you buy would actually pass the compliance test. The cheap cable manufacturer will usually use a '...
I have to dispute you a little here, as an installer who goes through HDMI cables like most people go through gas. Over a short run, I'd have to agree with you to a point. We sell $5 cables as well that are the workhorse of our equipment installs (racking, local media players, etc), but we have found through extensiv...
This reminds me of when my mom bought a TV while I was away at college. I come home to find a new entertainment system complete with HDMI cables for my consoles and PC. When I got the cables out, the receipt fell out to show she had bought 4 HDMI cables that were $100 each.