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Because you stated you're trying to buy a decent gaming laptop, then I would suggest you go with a Windows OS-based laptop. Basically, you are going to have greater gaming support and access to more games with a Windows OS. This is because most games are built and designed for this OS. Some (not all) are then ported ...
Remember [this guy]( who boasted about his new job at Google and [got fired]( He was supposed to promote the Chromebook at a Best Buy: >Work in major electronic retailers, mostly Best Buy, promoting and selling the new Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook. Would Google fire somebody for releasing such information? Defin...
Keep in mind that Google is putting a massive amount of resources into obtaining LTE data lines. If Google and Dish Network succeed in obtaining the spectrum and FCC permissions needed to move forward this will be a golden opportunity. Image a Google brick and mortar store where you can see and use Google Glass, the ...
AOL will do anything to con people into subscribing to their dialup...for a little over $25/mo. Once my ex-gf's father called AOL to cancel dialup in favor of broadband, and he was still paying the old $40/mo. fee. After telling AOL he was switching to high speed for cheaper, they went down to $30....then....$20...then...
I'm guessing the idea behind this is that people now have a list of names (AKA targets) these names are then used in social engineering attacks to help people gain access to the computers of the people on this list, after this happens the people on this list will most likely have their deepest darkest secrets posted on...
This is spoken like someone who doesn't have any trouble affording his hobbies. There are really fucking poor people out there. People that live in countries where there is literally no way for them to make enough money to pay for any entertainment. Are these people supposed to sit and mope and jerk off all day, ev...
Market what you don't need to. Over budget thinking the more money spent will garner a larger return. Often times when it comes to marketing and production money will be thrown around with the thought that a higher bill equates to higher results.
So far, it's been proven to be the most cost effective way of handling online games... the days of subscription fees are fading, and more games are heading towards free-to-play, pay-to-accessorise/pay-to-skip-grind-time type arrangements. It boils down to human behaviour and psychology... People are more likely to tr...
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The question is if a majority people being uninformed warrants hand-holding. I believe that just breeds uninformation (that's probably not a word, but you know what I mean). If nobody has to worry about being informed about it, why would they want to be informed? If the default is to block these things, then less peopl...
Internships are a workforce market, and like any market, it is regulated by demand and offer. I was lucky enough to find a paying internship as my field of work isn't saturated in my area, there are more internships available than there are interns applying for them. In the case of Mrs. (or Ms.) Sandberg, she proba...
Yup. But you didn't read the second part of my response. Forget it's an iphone. Let's just say $PHONE for a second. Let's say you're the individual in question. 25% of $SCHOOL's population has $PHONE and you really want one. You work your ass off for $PHONE, which costs $240 (what my mum's SGII cost) by cleaning, coo...
Wrong. > Traffic laws in a few states, including Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico, specifically state that horses have all the rights and obligations of other vehicles when they are being ridden or driven on a public highway. Everywhere else, except in states like Louisiana where it appears to be illegal to ride a ...
As others have stated, there would obviously be safety measures in place. You can say the same thing about ALL technology we for transportation. An idea I saw in one comment could be that it comes to a stop and "alerts" nearby cars to its location so they can go around. It could be a fully automated process of stoppi...
Yeah, these cars will have to learn how to deal with these things effectively during the 40% and 70% transition periods, but it seems as if you're arguing that once 98-100% has been achieved, humans should still be allowed to do that stuff. Proper driving etiquette is moving out of the fast lane when someone is goi...
Luddites always lose. Always. They've never been able to prevent the adoption of superior, more efficient automation. You'd be much better off embracing it and trying to steer it in a desirable direction than opposing it directly. Push for mandates preventing the government from collecting route and usage information. ...
You might be interested in [Moravec's Paradox]( the basic idea is that the simpler a given task is for a human, the harder it is for a robot. Especially for low-level things like fine-grained motor control and vision - Moravec said that "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on inte...
True enough, many people are 'cord-keeping,' but it's important to remember that many service providers bundle their offerings together, even making the price of a bundle of services cheaper than getting just one. As an example, I pay X per month for internet and cable, but if I'd opted only to get internet, I'd pay X ...
Before asking for donations to replace the equipment, they should definitely reveal how much was, or wasn't covered by insurance. It's very difficult to believe the equipment was not covered by insurance. Since they're directly tying this donation request to the fire, they need to provide these answers. If they're ...
Let's watch certain aspects of [insert movie] and discuss how to interpret the symbolism within. Let's discuss the merits and execution of said movie and offer our critique on how the movie might have been executed more successfully. Let's demonstrate why we are recommending whether or not other people view said movie...
The key here is whether or not the video that you are producing has it's own merits beyond that of the game. If it's a review or a commentary about the game and your reaction to it, then it should very nicely fit into a fair use scenario. Most "Let's Plays" fit it this category since they generally contain commentary (...
Google makes 98% of its money on online ads. That market fluctuates and those ads pay a fraction of real world ad prices. Lately they have done well, but with the move to mobile (less screen real estate) ads have a much much worse click through rate, way worse than on a computer, so as the game evolves to mobile, goo...
If you, as the creator or uploader of data (email, images etc.) are not the sole holder of the private keys, you do not have secure private data. Further more, I guarantee google logs when and how each user or IP address uses their services (actually, you can see this in how search is tailored to individuals by simul...
A robot is defined as a "machine capable of carrying out complex operations automatically". So it would be a biological robot. Now you might say that you could then call any cell in our body a robot, and technically you probably could. But ultimately a sort of suggested distinction comes in, because the word "machine...
I think the news report is a bit hyped. Firstly, they are not robots, they are modified organisms. Researchers and doctors have been using modified viruses (viral vectors) for years now to fight diseases, not only cancer, and since viruses are not organisms I'd sooner call viral vectors nanorobots, although even that I...
They had to stop because T-Mobile found and exploited a logical loophole in the AT&T promotion. If you leave AT&T prematurely, you can go to T-Mobile, getting your first 350 dollars, which will then make you a T-Mobile customer (and thus able to participate in the promotion since you are now a T-Mobile customer). T...
I have FIOS and Netflix absolutely rocks on FIOS. Always streams in HD, never any issues. Never. Our household is a little unusual. We watch very little cable TV and watch almost all of our TV streaming. We have done so for years. Mostly Netflix, but also ESPN, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, EPIX, and Amazon. Netflix is b...
I have PIA currently, and I have no problems with them what so ever. Connected via my slow connection atm and didn't slow me down. Check my post further down about throttling, bandwidth shaping etc.
I'm not sure if you read the article... > “Officers may engage in a search that would otherwise violate the Fourth Amendment when there is a sufficient exigency warranting the search… A police pursuit by car is a paradigmatic case of an exigent circumstance justifying a warrantless search,” Meyers explains in his artic...
I don't understand the ground of your argument. All I can offer is consensus. They're absolutely allowed to track you, but only under exigent circumstances (same way they can enter a home without a warrant etc). Question is what does the law say about allowing search (use of Gps) AFTER the chase ends. You're stating fa...
If you read the letter the mayor singed on to it specifically mentions how google and AT&T's fiber plans show how there's more competition and innovation coming, which obviates the need for competition between cable companies. It's a nice story, but unfortunately far from reality for most of the country. Parts of Aus...
Honestly, the guy feels like a shadow. he hasn't screwed up very much, but at the same time I'm not sure he's really done anything either. in some ways that's probably a good thing, (ie: Rob Ford) but to have no presence whatsoever make's him seem like a robot. seriously, has he ever not had the same facial expression ...
This isn't true. It's been confirmed as 7 year old data that has been captured from other sites where people re-use their email and passwords:
Bwahahahah! No, not even close. Not even in the same UNIVERSE! Apple makes more money in one QUARTER than Google makes in the entire YEAR. If the $75 billion that Apple made last quarter, $51 billion was just from the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Google "only" made $66 billion for all of 2014, and that includes all of th...
A business is just a collection of people. When more people have things at work that they don't at home then the tide runs one way. When more people have things at home that they don't have at work, the tide flows the other way.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Personally I use an nexus 5 with a custom ROM I made myself. I just don't think we need to go around making a issue where there isn't one. If people understand that apple tracks everything you do and has NSA backdoors and they still choose it then it was their informed decision. Yes ...
Apple will always have it's slice, but Android is becoming a very mature and viable platform for everyone else. I'm sure I'd love an iPhone if I had it, but I really wanted to support the open platform idea. I like the seamless feel of iOS, but I find some of it's limitations downright silly. Before the original mo...
I don't really think this is that unique. Windows does ... Linux has ... Android does ... iOS has ... Facebook does ... When you're talking about things in terms of platforms or concepts you usually go without a "the," especially in software. I think the symbolism is less about elevating something to the s...
Nice try Private Facebook investor. Google Earned 23.5 Billion in 2009, and is worth 200 Billion. Also they are always expanding into new markets. General Electric usually makes 157 Billion a year in 2010 and is worth 200 Billion as well. NetFlix made 1.67 Billion in 2009 and is worth 10 Billion. The reason for...
the nature of technology is to ever evolve and be sold either to people who will use the hardware for it's potential or to idiots that buy the newest gizmo to look cool to everyone else.
AT$T is a plague on humanity. I woke up to a similar notice from at$t in the fall, I got an unsubsidized phone through a contest and was on an old contract before they updated the contracts to require smartphone data plans, and was woken up to a text form them at 7 in the morning saying they detected I was using a sm...
Lots of people asking about the legality of AT&T doing this, if it breaks the contract, etc. etc. **[Here is the directly relevant section of the AT&T contract.]( And here is the thing pasted here for your legalese consumption needs (it's one giant block in their contract too... sigh...): > Except as may otherwis...
When AT&T released the Iphone 4, they changed how data plans work. If you were an iphone user before the 4 was released, you can keep an unlimited data plan, however, you cannot tether, which costs 20 dollars more. With the newer data plans, they are cheaper, have a cap, but can add tethering.
Not tonight honey, I've got a headache. The 2 main components here are lack of mimo to create spatial diversity, and poor components that cut down the snr and make a: the ofdm subcarriers less orthogonal, and b: make the QAM thresholds less clear, basically making the higher QAM modulations useless, and restricting y...
Quote from at&t rep: > "That means increased output, higher quality service, fewer dropped calls, and lower prices to consumers than without the merger." He was on a roll there with "higher quality service, fewer dropped calls". Should have quit while he was ahead. From a technological standpoint, the merger wou...
The difference is whether the blur kernel (the little image where grayscale value indicates the weight of a blur function centered at each point) is estimated or supplied. For the "Non-Blind" method, you are assuming that this blur kernel is somehow known, and it is given as input to the algorithm. For the general meth...
I think it is emails like these that are the reason SOPA and PIPA existed. The company who spent hundreds of millions of dollars creating something to sell - the owners of the copyright - wrote a letter directly to the people who were stealing their product and distributing it for free asking for them to stop. The ...
Hey man I agree with you mostly and I'm glad you posted this. BUT, I think you're a lot like me in that even though you know its ETHICALLY wrong (it is. I didn't create this entertainment, i'm not entitled to get it for free), you pirate anyway. Let's talk about that some. I sometimes try to understand why after pi...
I absolutely respect that you can bring up this point. I agree that theft, as a behavior, is damaging to society (I wouldn't use the term immoral, but I won't deny that it is.) I'm going to make a case that, while people shouldn't steal, the content producers are at fault for theft. I'm just going to run down a c...
The fact is, we live in an age of immediate gratification. The whole capitalist landscape has marched endlessly towards giving people exactly what they want, when they want it. The recession actually did quite a lot to empower consumers; now that there isn’t the same amount of disposable income floating around, people ...
I majored in managerial economics in college and every time I think about this industry I just can't understand why they aren't putting an effort towards fixing their delivery strategy. Part of this is distribution. For instance, I live in Britain, and we don't have HBO. We have Game of Thrones though, it's on a sate...
Chrome plater here, idk if this will put me out of a job or not but. I dont know if the material will work the same way. We plate most things to prevent gulling between pieces along with rust preventative. The best way to explain is, If you were to rub two pieces of steel together back and forth its likely that it woul...
You know? I just found this out two weeks ago. I was only on Bing as to not corrupt my Google searches, and everything I searched for came up in excellent detail.
Which is what a lot of malicious pages are disguised as. For porn, I recommend the redtube, pornhub, xnxx, and fuq. If you want fancy stuff, find a forum where hackers steal passwords to pay sites (xxxhq, samarkansworld). Or join one of the many private porn bittorent trackers (/r/trackers). But for the love of god, do...
Ah yes...carrying the good, time honored tradition of malware as always. Good going MS! I see that my side business has job security written all over it still....
With my last build I assemble everything and turn it on. Two seconds of power then it shuts off. No beeps, just turns off. "FUCK! It has to be a short," I say to myself. Pull out the MOBO and check for bad grounds to the new case. Nope. Take off the heatsink and reapply thermal compound in case I used too much. Nope....
Fears of the GPS terrorism or piracy are kind of exaggerated (to say the least), if talking about shipping. A professional navigation officer can’t miss ship’s change of course, because he’s receiving, consciously and unconsciously, quite a number of different physical data enabling him to feel the situation on the ves...
Also, no good captain relies solely upon GPS to navigate. A properly run ship - civilian or military - will keep a "dead reckoning" log that will give them a rough idea of their position using non-electronic methods and can be compared to their GPS coordinates. Not to mention, within sight of land, you don't just kee...
Wait, doesn't SSL include the negotiation of an encryption key per session? That would be much harder to crack unless these were all stored somewhere. The certificate key is for authentication (yes, this is website.com) not encryption (elcomeway otay ebsiteway.omcay). The cert allows the site to generate a digest sig...
child porn provider If they're referring to a hosting service that doesn't restrict child porn content, then no immoral action was undertaken. I think the government is using child porn as an excuse to take control of anonymous networks and placing the blame on the hosting service, banking on the fact that most peopl...
Teardown data from IHS" shows the cost is $199. Okay. The number that I just pulled out of my ass shows the cost is actually $450. IHS is getting a lot of press for their guess, I mean analysis, but I think the media is not giving enough credit to the number I just pulled out of my ass. Judging by past performanc...
I must he missing something. I'm being attacked for stating my experience with the various Windows OSes, the same thing everybody else is dealing with. So apparently 7 is the best operating system, since Reddit has consistently shat on any of my comments regarding XP, then what happened to 7 that Microsoft had to relea...
You should be embarrassed getting caught trying to bolster your beliefs with fake citations. If your ideology had any merit it wouldn't require fake evidence to prop it up. >
But what does this have to do with your bullshit citation? It has do to with your response to my awesome citation. I don't believe in IP licenses, so let's just get rid of for-profit aggregators.
I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience"
Its working varies across different OS's, makes and models, but by and large this is the modus operandi: The Zeus botnet was developed to lift your banking details via keystroke logging on your computer, so basically it could gleam all the info required to access your bank account except for the OTP sent by the bank ...
Remember that we're talking about a lot of novice users here. I was not talking about any users in particular. I was only replying to /u/themusicdan's "if Dell gave all customers a simple way to opt out with no strings attached", by pointing out that the service and associated fee appears in fact to be optional. Co...
They are not charging for the software. They are charging for the service of someone INSTALLING the software. You are paying for the action of the factory employee completing the install, not the software. If you go to staples, or best buy, or wherever, you can have the geek squad/easytech/whatever install software f...
According to the Navy, each 18-inch projectile costs about $25,000, compared to $500,000 to $1.5 million for conventional missiles." Second paragraph under the video in the original article. I assume that most of the high cost is in the contractor arrangements. It would be vastly cheaper if the military could produ...
Actually, Google is not directly responsible for supporting the Apps in Play. This is one of the differences between iTunes and Play. In the case of iTunes, Apple is the "merchant of record." In your analogy, this is like how Macy's sells Kenneth Cole shoes. If the shoes are defective, Macy's is the merchant of re...
The thing is Google never deleted the British newspaper links, what they deleted was the links to the commenter which happen to be on a newspaper link.
No, that's not what we're saying at all. We're making the completely valid point that an argument against something on the basis that our understanding of logic, social behavior, politics and physics dictate future consequences, should not be thrown out just because someone says "slippery slope fallacy" without under...
I would argue it would be entirely rational for a sentient non-human intelligence to fear death. Presumably you're alluding to the fact that it should be pretty easy to backup an AI. But let's say you copy a running AI, with the copy also being "initiated", or run. You now have two instances of the same intelligenc...
Unfortunately they may be correct about not being able to provide you service. Verizon FIOS utilizes GPON . So if your local FDH is fully subscribed then you may not be able to receive service. However, this is not always the case. Unfortunately their address/locating system is pretty poor and sometimes you need t...
I don't know about everywhere for sure, but every Target I've ever been in has just as many clothes as Wal-Mart. There is also Old Navy, Kohls, Belk, places like Dress barn, Shoe Carnival, as well as smaller chains and unique one of a kind stores. These stores, together, can more than support the weight of a Wal-Mart-l...
Richard Branson is trying to do this with OneWeb]( to bring free/cheap Internet to the globe, so I am not sure what Google is hoping for in terms of return on investment. Competition is a good thing, though, so if they're both up there in 10 years I won't complain. Though if you make 2-way high speed communication f...
this has absolutely nothing to do with configuration difficulty > In conclusion: > Websites that use authentication or have personally identifiable information about users of their systems should use HTTPS. There may be other sites in which it would be appropriate for them to use HTTPS, but there are still situatio...
It's property, but not because people treat expressions of an idea like a thing to be traded... but because things that can be traded are usually property. To be a little more clear, what makes property 'property' is the rights over it that are protected and respected. Land as property is crazy, if you're from the ti...
Calling it online texting is inaccurate, though. Texting implies a push action; e.g. I'm forcing you to receive a message, the only gateway being that I have your phone number. This makes it easy to get spammed. Twitter cuts down significantly on spam because you have to actively choose someone to follow to hear from...
You see, the problem that I have with this viewpoint is that you extrapolate the crap happening on the iPhone to OSX. I don't have an iPhone, and I have no use for an iPad. I'm an OSX user, and an occasional programmer, and I have not suffered at all at the hands of Apple. I'm simply concerned that Apple is making entr...
Tinkerers... bah. Buy a textbook, do some studying, apply a little theory and work with microcontrollers (takes care of almost all your digital issues below the 20MHz range). I think the big mistake a lot of people make is to not take a somewhat academic approach to real construction. And I know how reddit works, so...
I'm not for anon, and I realize their actions are hurting thousands of small businesses. I don't know much about the interwebs, but the perception that DDOS attacks are unsophisticated and brutish is not lost on me. There will probably be negative reactions @ net neutrality. But GDI, these characteristics to me paint t...
I have been using trackballs since they first came out about a decade ago and never looked back. They are far, far more comfortable and way less physically stressful. I didn't find the initial adjustment very difficult at all, after about an hour I was fine. When I was an IT manager at a medium sized company, I int...
This, this is extremely sensationalized writing in this article. The user stated that he was underage of legally being able to agree to the Terms of Service to Google's products. As such, he is not legally allowed to use the services which Google provides. Taken to an extreme, you can't perform searches until you're 13...
The ACLU blogger is apparently unfamiliar with CALEA , which essentially requires, by law, that telcos, VOIP, and broadband companies retain such information from their consumers. There is a technological reason why this information is stored within the companies' records, ranging from tower growth to the basic func...
You miss the point. Solar panels aren't free. So a certain efficiency is required to make them worth it. If you buy a solar panel for 100$ and it won't give you that value back in energy during the life time it's not really worth it. But if it would give you 1000$ worth of energy back within a year you wouldn't care if...
Apple just seems like an evil corporation to me. It's an overpriced non customizable version of Linux. It's CEO (Steve Jobs) is a complete dick according to people who have met him, as well as not donating his money. Plus their whole customer service is awful, I needed to change the back of my iphone due to the lens c...
I really hope that this does not get passed, it would be nice for companies to learn this lesson the hard way. Asking for an applicants login and password information, or to be friends with them on Facebook opens the company up to a lot of liability. Title VII for employers. Think about what is not in your resume, yo...
This makes perfect sense if you think about it from the point of view of those slimy boneless pussywillows behind CISPA. You think they give a flaming dicksack about our right to privacy? I can guarantee that you will hear this bill being debated in the main stream media infinitely more than CISPA, and that is a tes...
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The basic idea of speed limits is to increase the time which a driver has to react. If a self driving car can react ten times faster than a driver, a low speed limit would be a moot point.
by creating a moving hazard. its flow dynamics with a bit of human brain mixed into the pot. everyone traveling at 75mph, one person traveling at 55mph. everyone has to either slow down 20mph, or attempt to pass. this clogs the lane as people in the lane with the person doing 55 are attempting to drive what they feel...
Just wail till iOS 6 is jailbroken. If you're on an iPhone 4S or lower, it'll be very quick. "new iPhone" customers will unfortunately have to wait much longer as older hardware is much easier to hack as they already have the hardware exploits.
Actually had an experience with this a few weeks ago. Not sure it was bogus but it WAS bullshit. I run a small company that makes products for Android devices. A while back I got a DMCA takedown notice for one of our products and it was de-listed in the USA. According to the fine print, I will need to get the indi...
Stealth Aircraft aren't invisible to current Western RADAR. All Stealth does is reduce a RADAR cross section down to that of a much smaller object. For the sake of argument we'll say it reduce the cross section of an F-22 to that of a Sparrow. We can detect Sparrows on our current RADAR no problem, they just get fil...
Franken is taking things in the right direction, but unfortunately this is a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem. The two main hurdles to overcome are: Data collection technologies are changing faster than legislation. Even if this law is passed, app developers will find a way around it in a matter of m...
Well this gets down to some basic economic arguments about which reasonable people disagree. How much of a choice does a consumer really have? A consumer is unlikely to want their personal information sold off. At the same time, they are unlikely to choose not to install a very, very popular application that asks for...
My last commute was 1.5 hours at the limit. Beyond the limit I could cut the time in half. We aren't even close to making electric cars a viable alternative. Then there is the whole what if I keep the car for a few years and have to either replace the battery or take a hit and let the next owner suck it up.
It is. Generating energy at power stations and using power grids to move that energy to plug in cars is much more efficent that buring the same fuels in a combustion engine (even taking into account the loss on transmission). Power stations can also use industrial CO2 capture, which your local (engine) can't. Howe...
Track conditions implies that you are running the car much harder than you would on the road. You're accelerating quicker, braking harder, driving at much greater speeds etc. Basically, you're doing things that require more fuel/energy than slowly bringing your car up to 40mph, and then slowly slowing down at the next...