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Dude should have mentioned a lot of the things he did, considering how touchy Tesla was with him before. But I find two things problematic with Tesla's perspective: 1) They insist that driving their expensive car over 55 is "cheating". I know they are actually trying to say the tester was being deceptive about his ...
I'm in my 30s now but I remember being 17 and super into cars (A topic I still enjoy) -- my whole family was, all my friends too. I remember reading about electric car research doing some amazing things even back then. 100 mpg hybrid concepts and 11 second drag cars running on electricity and I can remember reading...
First off, take everything you read in the NYTimes with a grain of salt, but more importantly, there are some points that really aren't as clear as Elon Musk would like the logs to be. For example, Broder drove around that parking lot looking for the charging station for several minutes. The towing company confirms t...
I cannot account for the discrepancy, nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch wheels and summer tires. Sounds like bullshit excuse to me. The one and only diff...
you're sort of on to the point, now. Except that the Tesla isn't just a mobile phone that nobody has used yet or a computer that is too slow... its more like a Beta Tape or HD-DVD or Laserdisc, its doomed to die while some better version of the technology comes out to do what it can't. I'm not going to support el...
Does Folding@home have a Google Plus or Facebook app where you can display your points yet? People are selfish - What do they directly get in return? I made a comment a while back about charity and motivation, and linking social media to distributed computing. I think some of the discussion applies here. Karma an...
I used to work for one of large Indian outsourcing firm, couple of pointers a) It's not easy or cheap to relocate a 10-15 years experienced Indian professional from India to US, they don't want to come because the wages and growth options are better in India than in US and, getting visa is difficult as the rejection ra...
The lack of evidence that the foreign students and workers we are recruiting offer superior talent reinforces the need to assure that programs like H-1B visa are used only to attract the best and the brightest or to remedy genuine labor shortages—not to serve as a source of cheap, compliant labor. We must eliminate emp...
Efficiency, wealth decided who lived and who died in patenting up to the 7 figure mark. The new system will only allow patents to be vulnerable temporarily, greatly lowering litigation costs over the term of the patent. However patents are still fair game to trolls in its first years, so I believe this will have th...
From the U.S. Patent Office FAQ: > How much does it cost to get a patent? >Fees vary depending on the type of patent application you submit. Fees may also vary according to the way you "claim" your invention. More information on filing fees and the number and type of claims. >There are three basic fees for uti...
United States Constitutional Amendment Number 4 - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the...
If you number all of those polls on that page up you won't even get to 30,000 people. Out of 30 million. Even if they all voted lockstep for UBCs, which they did not, that's less than 1% of the total population. Hardly a wide-sweeping, conclusive poll. To add to that, the polls listed there aren't exactly transparent...
I think it's potentially a strong touch OS. I don't particularly like WP but I can see why some people do, and I think they did a good job of transitioning the tile approach to a tablet format. I also think the side swipe gestures are incredibly fluid once you get used to them (which doesn't take long). I feel this way...
This is how the mainstream media have acted for the last 70 years. This is how they will attempt to suppress alternative news. watch the UK, Australia, Canada try and follow suit if this is a success. US will be different because of the constitution.
I know full well what bitcoin is. What is this conversation about ? I am talking about restricting websites that are not licensed to the MDA. Not about bitcoin. And which common person is going to go searching for this "download"? Please... I do not wish to continue this conversation if you're going to keep going...
I honestly hope that you are being sarcastic. I only say this as a precaution because some people actually believe this. The truth of the matter is no government can ever be a good government. No government will ever be there to "serve the people." The point of the private sector is to offer and create services and goo...
Well security is a selling point for BB, I think the author missed why there's so much hate for those things. Prior BB devices sucked. As I've had an 8830, Storm, Storm 2, and Torch 9850. The 8830 for it's day, it was great because there was no other smartphone market and the only thing that made it suck was Vz be...
I'll be honest, I'm surprised that in a respectable sub this is the top comment. The whole point of claiming piracy is separate from theft is that you have not stolen anything. The data still exists. They have exactly as many bytes, exactly the same code, with exactly the same effect as before. You have in no way dim...
Exactly. I lived in Asia for a year and people would go to the movies (the english one, at least) mostly to look at the movie rather than really get into it. It was totally cool to talk through it and text, etc., because it was subtitled. The movies that had the biggest appeal were corny slapstick comedies and michael ...
one day it will come to you corporate victims. I so hope you're a wumao. If not, prepare to get educated. One of America's biggest and more lucrative exports is intellectual property. . What does this mean for pirating? It means that, although there are "evil" corporations out there fighting against pirating, they...
I'm kind of torn between this and the Samsung Galaxy Light. On the one hand both the 8 ($180) and 16 GB ($200) models of the Moto G are cheaper than the Galaxy Light ($240). But the Galaxy Light has a smaller form factor (4.78 x 2.5 x 0.4 inches) though the Moto G may be small enough but I would have to hold both t...
Why do you sound so upset? Considering the close proximity to others around you, and that others can't escape by moving to a different area (like in a train or bus), I think this makes sense. Unless there's an ultra-urgent need for a phone call while on a plane (such as... well, I can't really think of one at the momen...
Incredibly stupid and short sighted. The FCC policy change is on permitting cellular radios. You can already do in flight calling with Skype or Google Voice. I don't know why everyone still equates cellular radios with calls. WIFI and LTE ideally are extensions of the same network. Within the next couple of years all c...
I've gotten of a metro train because I was an annoying passenger. Sort of. My wife and I went to the Panthers bar in DC (there is such a thing!) a few months ago for this first time. They have this fantastic game day drink special made of Kraken rum, butterscotch schnapps, and cola. They're too good. Seriously. Like,...
Because there is hardly any discrimination - BAM! Yes, all this sensationalism is over this law: Article 6.21: Anti gay-propaganda law among minors: Propaganda is the act of distributing information among minors that: 1) is aimed at the creating nontraditional sexual attitudes, 2) makes nontraditional sex...
But it is impossible. If you are on a low carbohydrate diet your cells will switch over to burn fatty acids preferentially. Only your brain and red cells are glucose dependent. Furthermore if you are diabetic your blood sugar level, cellular glucose levels, and caloric intake may have a wildly different relationship to...
Won't be a problem. Netflix and Hulu is used by people who wants to get away from cable, the bills, advertisements etc. If "They would go straight to making a killing on providing internet with increased prices and capped usage", people would find a different solution - some small group of people starting up an idea fo...
There are two solutions, fix the people or fix the company. You can't expect hundreds of thousands of people to just agree to stop using the internet for a month. You need to deal some sort of significant blow to comcast that will severely discredit them as a business. That would have to be one hell of a blow because c...
America IS the best country in the world. We have our struggles - education, poverty, diminishing freedoms online (NSA, SOPA/CISPA, etc.), healthcare, political extremism... The list goes on. America is not perfect - far from it. But how many countries legitimately out-perform us in terms of personal and economic fre...
How can ANY of this be fair if the government officials ( ie members of the FCC ) go work for these companies... Common sense says that he probably did Comcast's bidding while he was at the FCC in exchange for a job after he left the FCC... I mean in what world is this not suspect? It sucks so bad that I live in a wo...
No way am I even wading into those massive blocks of script.
This is a good example of flawed security. 4 digit pins are very easy to hack (a computer can brute force it in <1 second, and a person can manually brute force it in about an hour). However, if we add in the full range of letters (capital and lower case) and numbers (not symbols or special characters, or accented char...
In order to scale apps perfectly Apple usually has its new displays be multiples of a previous display. 1080p breaks that rule, but software wise they pretend the display is 1242px by 2208px (a multiple of a previous display) and downsample that on a hardware level. Also, "Downsampled is not the same with downscaled!!...
Ok, there are a few ways to look at this: As far as the ISA (instruction set architecture) of each processor goes, pretty much all of them are pretty dated. x86 comes from the 70s, and the more "recent" POWER, SPARC and ARM cores come from the 80s. In a sense, x86 is the least "elegant" core here because of the a...
If you are asking why you can't take screenshots on your mobile app... blame the app developer. On my galaxy S4 I can just wipe my hand across the screen and screencap anything on my screen regardless of how the app is designed.
I agree. Everyone believes in "personal responsibility", but not everyone realizes it's not reality and we have to be adults and do something about it (personal and corporate levels). The government is the people's "corporation" of what we decide to do together, as a society. Often it fails to live up to that goal, unf...
This is probably going to get buried, but to those who are saying "Just get off your fat ass!" and the like, I think it's important to note that the current iteration is most applicable to those who require assistance during rehabilitation training. That 7%, although it seems low, may just be enough to get a person who...
Language analysis. There are a lot of bot generated articles and not just
You missed the point, you're talking about MODERN processes, pray tell, how do you think they came amount. Or,
It sounds to be a great outreach although it is a walled garden. Even if they are limited in the search engines or services they have, it will still provide benefits to that piece of the population. Think about it. Even if your only search engine is Yahoo, you will still be able to look up illnesses and education mat...
Point taken, but 7.1 dolby isn't truly surround sound, it's a simple illusion that immerses the listener into the artificial things happening on screen and fools their brains into thinking they are surrounded by what they see. The whole thing is an illusion. From makeup, costumes, acting, camera moves, editing, cgi,...
Buried article from 2003]( on the 'new' Boeing way of doing business.
4chan is a site for dipshits run by a dipshit. 4chan has a blanket policy that you cannot post using a proxy server or you get banned and cannot access the site for 2 weeks. I installed Squid as a transparent caching proxy on my home network to try it out. It sits behind my WAN modem. 4chan detected my personal cac...
They view it as a matter of integrity, but from my view of things it isn't applicable in this context because SOPA/PIPA threatens the whole of Wikipedia and its continued existence. I think this is the key thing here. For most political debates, I think saying that Wikipedia should remain politically neutral is a co...
Unlike the security risks posed by criminals, the threat from government regulation and data hoarders such as Apple and Google are more insidious because they threaten to alter the fabric of the Internet itself. They're also different from traditional Internet threats because the perpetrators are shielded in a cloak of...
I think it's more about access to digital content than access to physical media. The big players have partnered with Hulu and Spotify, for example, relying on ad revenue and profit sharing to make their money instead of physical media. Their main concern is that people don't get a copy that can be distributed to othe...
Banks, especially credit card, are built on large amounts of insurance, and permanent monitoring by legions of monkeys. This is why you have those annoying "I'm sorry sir, but your money has been frozen for 14 days" kind of phone calls. Also, banks, having giant sums of money, have tremendous systems isolation. It ...
How do you explain the no bid contracts which have cost insane amounts of money in the Middle East? Contractors being paid, for example, $100 per load of laundry. I believe that as long as there is not sufficient outrage there is no change. On an issue like this, I believe there is no chance of change because the "Powe...
This example is weak for reasons already covered well by perspectiveiskey. It's also easy to anecdote away: everyone has either been shorted or received a bonus $20 or been 'robbed' by an ATM at least once, or knows someone who has. The bank fixes it to make their customer happy. If we all saw our votes miscounted on...
Its a fantastic indigenous achievement for India to be honest. India had 714 million eligible voters in 2009 General Elections, with a paper ballot the problems are just too numerous to list. This wiki on the [Indian EVM's]( is quite thorough. Few points to note, Single EVM can record a maximum of 3840 votes. ...
This device should be unable to tell who the owner of each device is so it can't really be used to track specific people. Best it should be able to do is say, "I'm detecting some wifi device over in this spot + or - some error". To know who you are, it would have to sniff data transmitted, and decompose the data, whi...
Does anyone else think he's doing this for Google PageRank? The more online content that uses the phrase "FunnyJunk" the higher his PageRank will become. With so many new sources mentioning the name, it will be considered authoritative. Google algorithms don't know whether the context is good or bad. I think this is ...
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I've been convinced that everything we as a profession do regarding passwords is wrong for years. In my own mind, I'm absolutely sure that most password policies are driven by knee-jerk decisions. They start out reasonably sensible (let's say "minimum 5 characters"). Then someone hears about how any password with l...
Legality isn't about whether it is specifically banned or not, but whether it's coverred at all and, if it is, under what conditions it is coverred. So yes, there's nothing specifically banning Bitcoins or other alternative currencies, but there's also nothing protecting their use. This puts it in a risky position be...
The second they do, the shitfest would blot out the sun. Also traditionally they have been very protective of user data. Apple is trying to enter the enterprise market (and are succeeding) so data privacy is extremely important.
I was an intern at Governor Chris Christie's (NJ) last year. I worked in the Office of Constituent Relations aka mailroom and responding to constituent calls. We respond on his behalf 99%of the letters he does not read. However we collect data about the number of letters and about which issue. Then we choose 10 reason...
So here's what I've gathered from these comments: Redditors believe some shadowy group of people want to control every aspect of their lives. Basically the
You didn't read it very well, then. This is an account of a company doing a usability study - they're asking people to perform tasks with the computer, and studying their response and how long it takes them. Case in point: Shutting down. There's also UI efficiency analysis - Microsoft's advice to Metro app developers i...
It] ... doesn't bother your experience at all. This is exactly the opposite of what is true for desktops. Imagine sitting at a desk with all of your papers nicely arranged. Let's pretend you need to get that report from the desk drawer. In previous versions of Windows, you could easily pick up your 3x5 index card...
You don't think there's a chance people are downvoting the tone of the post rather than the content? >
Sorry about the douchebag thing. It gets a bit frustrating sometimes trying to clear up the same misconceptions over and over, and I was genuinely a bit confused as to what got misunderstood. You mentioned rain and clouds, and understood the link to lower power production. I mentioned reduced AC demand... I thought ...
There is no such thing as a free market. There never was and never will be. It's an outdated concept that was used as an ideal to describe very crude economic models from ages ago. What happens here is an industry that expects its government/the population of its country to regulate markets in a way that allows it to...
This article is great but it exaggerates the toll on the utility companies by a bit. I've worked in the generator field and through both Sandy, Irene and the Snowtober of 2011 so I have some insight. The main issue with utilities is covered right in the first paragraph, they haven't changed in 50 years. Sadly this in...
I'm so sick of these tirades that these MASSIVE companies make. The fact of the matter is that they may not be able to operate where and how they do today, but this doesn't mean that everyone living everywhere will setup their own solar panels. Older folks may not bother as it could be more effort that they want to d...
That's not really how it would work... Think of the power grid like a faucet. When you turn off the faucet, no water comes out. There's pressure, but you aren't consuming anything and you aren't paying for anything. This is what it's like when everything in your home is turned off. You aren't wasting anything because y...
This comment and shows you really don't understand what utilities do. Utilities are an infrastructure company who's business plan based less around generation of power than it is upon reliability and economies of scale. See, the situation now is that Public Utilities must charge a fixed rate that is justified b...
Well I think that can be summed up in one sentence. Nobody can please everybody. To expand, in virtually any from of rule, from a dictatorship to anarchy, the will of the some people is enforced on the rest. In a dictatorship or other totalitarian regime will of the minority is enforced on the majority, and in anarch...
26 letters + 10 numbers * 2 (upper case and special characters) = 72 character possibilities. 72 ^ 20 = 1.4 X 10 ^ 37 (number of possible passwords). Assuming that each password on the rainbow table takes up 1 byte (an unrealistically generous assumption) and that you can get 10^12 bytes of data onto a terabyte driv...
Take security cameras (installed in stores by owners, or on streets by governments). These have "changed privacy norms" but they are under the control of private, or even "shadowy" people/organizations that might gain something by "collecting". And that "something" might not be in our favor.... Now, on the other ha...
Yes, hurting them. MS has not only garnered horrible publicity from IE, but both Chrome and Firefox gave Google ad the default search engine. Microsoft would LOVE IT if people used IE because that would make it much easier to make them use Bing. Furthermore, things like ChromeOS are a threat to Windows. Basicall...
So comments are bad for science when they're made on PopSci. I would have done the same thing. The actual articles on the site have real information (theoretically) backed up by real data. Comments on that interpretation of the data are not something you would want shown on an official source, as you can have anyon...
I really wish more sites would disable comments.
The phenomenon of natural monopoly, while an interesting theoretical case, never actually happens in a free market. People love to point to utilities like electricity and plumbing as examples of commodities where the barrier to entry is too great to encourage competition. They say that having 21 power lines directed ...
Their TV viewership may even be worse than that. I technically have Comcast TV and it hasn't appeared once on my screen. In my area they have this stupid deal (scam) where they make it cheaper to get 50mbps internet w/ TV than without (even after the intro rate wears off). They try and up-sell you super hard during/aft...
My freshman year of college Time Warner was having a legal battle with Fox in my region. I don't remember the details too well but I think it had something to do with TWC not wanting to pay Fox for the right to provide their content. Going out on an even further limb, I think it was on the logic that the one major city...
The reasoning behind the allowance of ISP monopolies is the theory that to save the public from the costs of duplicate infrastructure, one company should be given an exclusive right to a certain area. For example, you wouldn't want two water utilities operating at the same time on their own separate pipelines because i...
The Pirate Bay, however, is not in the US. There is no international law illegalizing metadata which can be used to download copyrighted files. To my knowledge the only nations with such laws are the US, UK, Australia and Canada. The Pirate bay is not hosted in any of these. Therefore, short of passing laws illegalizin...
Not that corporations and governments care, but only a few countries have passed laws against what TPB actually does, which is host metadata that allows users to connect to other users who are torrenting a particular file or set of files. There is no international law that expressly prohibits this either, though the ex...
Anti-gunners want to ultimately ban guns, which would remove them from lawful citizens rendering society defensless. That's their agenda. Pro-gunners want to keep their rights, that's their "agenda". If you want unbiased facts, then you have to get down to statistical analysis, there is no other way. I can link you...
No, they don't. They do. Every single action of their doing inevitably leads to it, there is no need to be snide. It's fairly obvious, nobody is trying to hide it. Some gun control in general is a good thing. Keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals and mentally unstable as well as ensuring supervised private...
Unfortunately it looks like the author of the news article botched the description of entanglement, implying incorrectly that entanglement works as some sort of Quantum Mechanical voodoo doll. It's really not that mystical at all. In essence, to capture the major bits, the talk of "teleportation" just refers to mo...
The 60kWh battery is the smallest battery Tesla currently makes that has a range of 208 miles. Sure they make larger batteries that have longer ranges; however, when you consider the costs of the batteries themselves it is not feasible to have a larger battery at that price point. Also, from what I can recall of Tes...
Why do you need to witness your planet as a dot – for perspective? Why can’t you quarry these insights from your own imagination? They would be seriously better off, all 700 of these mega-rich masses (and just incidentally, I have never been more disappointed in Angelina Jolie), buying the collected poems of John Donne...
Moralizing this is both shallow and intellectually dishonest. The fact is technology has changed the face of the market. They're no longer selling a physical product, they're selling data that can be replicated into infinity. Until they adapt to the market rather than cherry picking this fantasy of digital distribution...
iMesh was a boatload of extra adware bloatware and viruses.
what pirated means. The term is already twisted. Pirates didn't steal reproductions (except coins). They stole original items. The master if you will. Not the reproductions/copies which constitute digital goods. Can you imagine a pirate coming across 10 copies of the Mona Lisa? They'd burn that with the ship it was...
Yes. The one thing that almost every ISP (there are exceptions) don't want you doing is serving content. If residential lines could get the kind of upstream that corporate customers could, there would be no reason to pay for the corporate package. That's why the upstream and downstream speeds are always very diffe...
Perhaps. But what I'm saying is that, I can't think of one unique piece of content TPB had that other trackers didn't. With DHT and PEX these are essentially the same torrents. It doesn't matter what database you find it on unless it's a private tracker (which usually forbids DHT and PEX), which will actually have ...
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My mom came to visit me in JP a little while ago for my wedding and we ended up having a very long, stressful day sightseeing which ended with a 2hr train ride home. She works for the RCMP - Canada's version of the FBI - and I made the simple mistake of shit talking law enforcement. Halfway into the train ride, and f...
The idea isn't that they're giving you money because they wronged you though. They're giving you money simply because they don't want it to go to court (where they know they'll get stuck in a legal battle and possibly end up losing more than they're offering you.) So they say basically say "take this money to STFU." It...
Jesus dude it's a little wordy don't you think? Here you go:
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A few years ago some friends and I went to the St. Louis Oktoberfest. We decided to take the metrolink for reasons unknown, not knowing the the last train westbound leaves at about 1:30. Well at Oktoberfest they had shuttles to and from the metrolink station, so at the end of the night we picked up the shuttle and even...
Its not just about driving up the price of the medallion. It is about protecting the income for the worker. The reason those medallions were worth so much is because they had a big return on investment. I drove for Lyft. It was great, helped me get through a rough financial time. However, I wouldn't consider it t...
Maybe medical schools have such a high successful graduate rate because they're very particular about who gets accepted? It's a careful balance between putting out a quality product (well trained doctors going into their residency placement) and high graduation rates to attract the highest quality candidate. Too far in...
You get to know what's new in your(or not your, but local at the moment) area. Or whatever you are interested in. It's like reading news or facebook, but without the need to actually read. I especially like that feature of taxis when I return home from 2+ month long trips - gives prety neat
I used to be a Ron Paul fan, and then I turned into an admirer. Now I only respect him. This is why I changed: the Constitution was written when the US was not the most powerful nation in the world and technology was different. Sending an army overseas was an ENORMOUS project. Now, the US is much more powerful than...