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This video reminds me of a story I heard when I was a kid. I grew up in Trail, BC, Canada, a town dominated by Cominco's smelter. A smelter needs filtration systems, so the story is about a guy who sold little rings that were used in filtration. Ideally, these rings would pile up randomly, so that they'd catch as much ...
From my reading of the Code, it really has nothing to do at all with hacking devices. By section 342.1 and the reference to section 430, it refers to services or intent to render a device inoperable. So yes, it's illegal to hack your xbox to use xbox live for free, it is not illegal to do so to play 'backed up' games. ...
The iPod is the one that gets me. Boy the FA's love to harangue passengers listening to iPods. An iPod has no "off" switch so by their own logic you can't turn it "off". Second, a Nano uses an amount of electricity not that much greater than a digital watch. They also tell you to turn off anything that can "receiv...
Natural Evolution, yes. However, that happened long ago. Evolution is a mechanism of adaptation to a changing environment. Our species is dominant because we've shifted our adaptability from: A genetic level, how most animals and their "instincts" work, and were adaptation is only possible across many generations...
First of all, I'm not arguing that Skype is "the Google killer", I never said that. What I am saying is that Google's proprietary platform (and monolithic development practices) are a big problem. I think that view is echoed in the article which talks about how difficult it would be to integrate a (frankly pretty ub...
Like that no it's a scare tactic. What some people are sort of trying to explain is what's happening on the back end of your ISP. It also depends on what country you're in. There have been some issues with ISPs wanting service providers that run on top of their networks to pay up or pay more. What would then happen...
Is this really a possible outcome Sort of, but not like the image portrays. This image has been around a while and is meant to make you think exactly that, but it's bending some facts to be effective. The truth is more complicated. From [the Wikipedia article on NN in the US]( > On December 21, 2010, the FCC appr...
Because this guy is the sort of person who felt that an article that took 7 minutes too read was long enough that he felt the need to complain about the author writing "too many words", so he sympathized with the
Well, I guess I could use some negative karma. Here is the opposing point of view. I will say up front I am a U.S. patent litigation attorney. I have represented clients on both sides of this issue. Overall, I am in favor of having a patent system (and not just because my job depends on it). In my view, the state...
While the clarification is helpful, the distinction between the two is quite important. A lot of occupations listed in the article to describe decline of the "creative class" are content distributors rather than content creators. Business models reliant on old ways of content distribution are no longer as viable as the...
Technically, Steve Jobs stood on Niklaus Wirth's shoulders. The original Mac OS, not unlike Windows, was implemented in Pascal rather than C. Steve left Apple in '85, well before Mac OS was ported to C++ (OS 6, released in '88, was still written in Pascal). I wouldn't ascribe NeXT's "hidden" success (hey, they got bo...
I actually read about a pilot mentioning why this continues to be enforced, and it had nothing to do with radio signals. The main point was that passengers need to not be distracted during the safety briefing as well as during the most dangerous times of the flight, take off and landing.
This is why we can't have nice things. Stupid people force everyone else to deal with their nonsense, which does nothing but waste our time: I accept the terms and conditions Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely? Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publ...
i think this is quite a hard subject to have a discussion about. because there are enough people that think the tracking should be disabled (with the obvious privacy reasons), but there also a lot of people that wouldn't mind it being enabled because it personalizes their internet experience to the extent that advertis...
Tablets are a far smaller niche, once the hype is past, than desktop computers. And smart phones in no way compete with desktops -- they replace older cellphones, they replace pocket calculators, they replace maps, GPS units, thesauruses, dictionaries, hand-held gaming devices, mp3 players, and PDAs. When you decide ...
i'm studying a field closely related to the desktop publishing revolution, and i have to say, the classes focus an awful lot on steve jobs, and barely mention gates. different people will approach the topic differently and history will slowly alter how we look at it, but i think it's just ridiculous to say jobs wil...
I guess I should have made it clear that I was responding to this: >If Apple had won the OS battle of the 90's, people like me wouldnt have a PC since it would cost $4000 for a mediocre hardware. In my hypothetical future the only way for Apple to have one the OS battle of the 90's would have been with the clone manu...
So while deviantArt, or Dadotart, advertizes itself as favoring a distribution approach "for the art community", their policy is still a pretty liberal one. I am especially referring to the part about "interested artists who might not necessarily be represented by established community organizations." Now I'm not try...
Farhad Manjoo: I think we’ve mentioned it before that if you are going out with someone and they don’t have a Facebook profile, you should be suspicious. Only a FUCKING FAGGOT MANGINA could possibly come to this conclusion. This is no different than proclaiming: "Only those with plucked eyebrows and jersey shore ...
Farhad Manjoo: I think we’ve mentioned it before that if you are going out with someone and they don’t have a Facebook profile, you should be suspicious. Only a FUCKING FAGGOT MANGINA could possibly come to this conclusion. This is no different than proclaiming: "Only those with plucked eyebrows and jersey shore ...
Here's a question... Why the fuck does it matter if someone chooses to have a facebook account or not? Like who the fuck even gives a shit about what other people choose to do? This is the stupidest shit I have ever seen. Facebook sucks and if people don't want to have an account I don't blame them. I don't perso...
I've never had a Facebook in my life, and it really bothers me that people actually think this. Does the fact that I want to get to know the guys I date over a cup of coffee rather than a Google search make me too old-fashioned to deserve to have dates at all? Does it make me "underly attached girlfriend" when I do...
He was talking about [this]( post and others in the thread that say Forbes should be deligitamized for this article. Even though it clearly didn't advocate for treating non-Facebook users like pariahs, a bunch of people in this thread only skimmed it, saw quotes from other articles they didn't agree with, and decided...
Get off the grid? Are you kidding me? I have done this. I went backpacking in SE Asia for 4 months. It is relatively easy to get off the grid. However, the moment you get back to Society the convenience of living "in the grid" are amazing. I like my ATM card and I like my facebook friends, because get this. They are my...
The only reason I liked my married name was because I was the only one in the entire world. It was so easy to find me, and as an author thats kind of important. My maiden name isn't quite as exclusive and it's slightly frustrating, but not worth keeping the married name.
I guess my attempt at making the token humorous reddit reply didn't quite take.
Ok, I'm going to sum up how most people in the real world think. I've grown to love the mob mentality reddit has sometimes (aside from r/atheism) however, the way reddit thinks and the way most people think are quite different. (Don't worry, it's a good thing) No Facebook Account? Assuming you are under 30 years old....
Guess what? Fuck "Forbes" and fuck you all. I hate facebook and all the social websites. I wish I was 30 in the 70's so talking to another person would be face to fucking face without all the retard-ready emoticons and illiteracy that even a dog would shit on. Way to go humans! In a few tens of years we will implant do...
The largest one is that she says one out of three people are primarily introverted, so obviously there's a problem with the extrovert-centric world. The flaw is that this means that two out of three people are, in fact, extroverted. This means that more people are extroverted. Unless we want to have 2 school systems,...
I can tell you exactly what's happened here, and I hope you and everyone sees it. The other news agencies who were covering the landing (using the same NASA footage) entered the ENTIRE broadcast as an asset in the content ID system - either because they're too lazy or incompetent. Content ID only does one thing - it ma...
Fuck youtube, they werent' some innocent little middleman 5 years ago when they had nuts to actually host decent content. I don't see why they think they can pull that card now just because they're bending over backwards against their original business model and willingly taking "content provider" cock up the ass.
Dude this is ALL speculation so how can you even come to any of these conclusions? They're all based on nothing, it's not even hearsay because you're legitimately making everything up as you have no actual information from megabox.
Dude this is ALL speculation so how can you even come to any of these conclusions? They're all based on nothing, it's not even hearsay because you're legitimately making everything up as you have no actual information from megabox.
I have crazy ideas about how I am going to release my music, but this a load of BS even for me and I am super into creative commons. I think a balance b/w allowing others to use your work within the CC licensing protocols and still being able to generate revenue from the traditional copyright is presently the way t...
Christ, it makes me sick to see you guys pouring money into this. Granted Wikipedia is a good resource (mainly for references to legit sources), especially for college students... Or in my case, settling arguments via smartphone. However , this kind of money could do SO much more on a smaller scale (ex: Info & ed...
It's because we have a lot more land. And the vast majority of our land is actually usable, not like Canada or Russia or Antarctica. And we only have about 315 million people, not 1.4 billion like China for roughly the same amount of land area. Not only that, having large pieces of land also drives down construction ...
So you're saying they have nothing to do with their current situation?? No, I'm saying it's not simply black and white, literally. "Black people won't help themselves" is a deliberately ignorant statement because it puts a blindfold over reality. I was hoping it wouldn't boil down to that. >Blacks only hanging out ...
You're correct that jobs will be created, but incorrect regarding the source of those jobs. There won't be much of a change in the number of people required to support the automation, compared to the additional products that are currently impractical to build today due to the production costs. As stuff gets cheaper, th...
Not really... Sure child-labor is a terrible thing and the only positive outcome would be less of it. These manufacturers let them create it because it's cheaper. They are letting robots do the work because they are even cheaper.
You can produce 10x the amount of stuff with those 10k workers + robots. That's how capital works. Sure escavators can do the work of something like 100 guys with shovels. But it also allows us to build much bigger projects quickly. And that is what happened, we didn't have permanent unemployment because we put those...
We dealt with a firm that my predecessor hired to implement a system for one of our businesses that is Indian owned and 100% Indian coded. About half of the work is done here and the other half in India. The system doesn't perform basic functions for its intended use and has numerous mathematical errors in calculatio...
The Android platform is everything that is wrong with the software industry, condensed into a mini-drama. Feature creep explosion, versioning hell, and a complete lack of focus on incremental updates to long-term user functionality or old buggy services. The RAM just fills up with crap because they took away user-contr...
It's not unfeasible IIRC they've "rewired their systems to make this work" to put it in laymans terms. I'd have no issue with this if it was simply OPT IN for everyone already on an internet connection, if they wanted a simple way to monitor what you get up to online if Snowden leaks are anything to come by it's quite ...
Yes! Finally! The more annoying shit facebook does, the sooner people will jump ship for something else. I don't even care what. All it took was for Rupert Murdoch to buy Myspace and people fled like rats from a sinking ship. And while Murdoch is a scumbag, there weren't any major changes made at the time. Facebook m...
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding on how electricity is used and paid for. Lets say you have 100amp service to your home at 120v (common US Residential service). That equals 12kW service. If you used all 100amps for entire month you would be billed by the power company for 8640kW/h of Electrical Usag...
I agree that the changes are sometimes difficult, especially when they make the YT experience different than what I was used to. But I think a larger point here is that YT is probably getting more viewers with the disintegration of cable television. I can't tell you how many people I know have told me that they spend h...
I agree with what you said. The first half of his message, I agree with. Android is on a range of price points on a range of OEMs. Windows Phone is on a range of handsets on effectively one OEM. Of course Android will grow faster. The second half of his message, i don't agree with. See, he uses unit sales to say that...
Your stock price determines the cost of doing business. If the price drops too low it raises your borrowing costs. Even companies like Apple with billions of dollars in the bank need capital occasionally for day to day operations, and a lower stock price raises the cost of borrowing. The cost of borrowing is determ...
Couple of things. Moving fiber to the node does improve speeds as it reduces the distance between the DSLAM and the DSL modem. Hardware advances allowed at the dslam for up to 25mbit per pair wire, and pair bonding but it was critical to reduce the distance in order for this to work (FTTN). With this additional bandwi...
Buzzfeed works by pushing out bullshit lists to targeted demographics. '10 reasons you know you went to new york state' if your IP shows you're in the NY area '8 reasons UCLA is the bomb' If you're from that area. And they split their information into multiple page tabs to get reloads to get more add revenue. It...
The point of the raspberry pi is to be a static hardware platform for learning, if you want to get you're software to do more, you can't be lazy and hope that the upgrade cycle will make your shit code run faster. you have to refine your code to work with the limited hardware, this is where you learn to be a ninja code...
im hearing 2 things... first, this is all completely speculative and your subjective opinion on what may or may not happen. you have zero actual data to back up any of your assumptions. secondly, youre basing future behavior on current technology rather than future behavior on future technology.
And I'm not trying to sway the conversation here or beat a dead horse, but with isp's trying their hardest to stop high speed internet from reaching the general public due to "load" on their infrastructure and general greedy money grabbing, unless there's widespread adoption to fiber speed (30m+) it will be hard to str...
Apple has never had to deal with Payments, and especially the customer service around payments at scale before. My hunch is Apple is in for a rude awakening. Almost all of these cases are due to PayPal's fraud detection where they freeze accounts due to suspicious or fraudulent activity. There is nothing evil or mali...
Businesses invest for two reasons: They think they can extract profit through growth, or they think there is an asset which is not valued correctly. (there's a third reason, which is that you can buy something and then affect the value of it - like a 'pump-n-dump' penny stock scam, or a number of classic con artist t...
And I don't really see a downside of putting a small amount of your discretionary wealth into an investment which will become deflationary.
I got a windows 8 laptop almost two years ago, and I have to say I love it to bits. 8.1 made it even better. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I find it so satisfying being able to swipe the charms up, and searching for what ever I want. It feels so much smoother and more natural than doing the same search process...
I just got finished using a Windows 8.1 system at work and I didn't really notice any difference in usability. The layout is slightly different, but stuff is in the same places and takes the same steps. > The restart/shutdown button is hidden, because touchscreen devices have physical buttons to turn off the screen a...
As a principal engineer and hiring manager for several companies ranging from startup to fortune 10, boring healthcare to bleeding edge and super nerdy EA games, I don't feel the ageism crap that many people claim is so prevalent in tech is very true anymore. The trend that I do see though is a failure to keep up fro...
When the competition (netflix) is giving a more legitimate option that clearly demonstrates that hulu's priority is the advertiser over the consumer (i.e. why don't they allow the consumer to pay a higher price and avoid ads when it is glaringly possible) then I find that situation illegitimate. These shows can get pai...
Looking at the numbers from last year, with streaming alone Netflix made (profit) $776,431,000 with an average of 49,814,000 subscribers during the year. At least one source claims it costs up to $4.5 million per episode for a Netflix show. Figure 58.5 million per season of a show (4.5 million per show * 13 shows per...
ahhh, the military industrial complex. such a big farce that most of the people directly involved don't even see it. as a veteran I can honestly say that I do not feel like a single day that I served actually did any good for anyone other than a select few stockholders and politicians. there is a reason that we have ...
The only reason it is secret, is that contract negotiations are almost always confidential because it allows all parties to negotiate/ speak openly without having to deal with how the public would interpret the extremely complex and technical drafts. When all parties have agreed on a version of the treaty, it would g...
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Yeah, no. However, persistent identity online is intrinsically fulfilling for many young people as it grants them the illusion of emotional and intellectual proximity with their peers. Their false sense of fulfillment leads them to post more honest information about themselves and said information is generally widely...
In the last couple of years, a friend of mine at another startup here in Silicon Valley hired a "social media marketing" firm that employed msaleem--one of the (former?) top power-users on Digg--who is still quite adept at pandering to the Digg masses (ref: this current post: My friend's startup literally paid to hav...
If you haven't seen The Social Network, I'd suggest you do. It touches upon this aspect. We are social creatures and when you successfully tap into that idea, it runs like wildfire. A couple of years ago, the idea was genuine ... even facebook. But now that "social networking" has become a buzzword, everybody in the ...
I don't even remember Digg anymore. It's like that ex-girlfriend that wasn't so good to you but you kept with it because you didn't think there was anything better out there. I had seen Reddit around for a year or so, little smiles, some small talk, but I just didn't see us going anywhere. But then one day I got a ...
I'm sure Digg is getting less traffic, but this story is no proof of it. If it were anything, it's proof that the new Digg is BETTER*. One of the main reasons for Digg 4 was because a small % of users and sites gets to the front page. So the TechRadar's not getting as much Digg traffic doesn't automatically mean Digg i...
Gotta admit the comment is an attention-grabber which is an element that dictates the success of the posting. Even if he did "steal" the comment. No big deal. Perhaps he had the same coincidence, like the other 42 people that voted it. Comment isnt extremely exclusive. When I was young around the times of modem I use...
Yes, there are costs behind the scenes that are attributable to adding and maintaining customer accounts. I assure you, they could more than pay for ALL of their expenses without having to charge a single cent for text messaging, which piggybacks off of the already existing equipment they've owned and operated for de...
What's gone wrong is when Apple has been trying to take some of their learnings from iOS and use them in OSX. Some of them work, others are stupid. Disappearing scrollbars belong to the second category. On a mobile or tablet screen, there's only one scrollable "viewport". When you scroll, the entire screen scrolls. S...
Hell, there are browsers for DOS out there. Regardless of system limitations, IE6 is so insecure that you would be masochistic to use it. There are a lot of web sites that won't render correctly on IE6 as well, its usefulness is limited anyway. Given that you specify 64Mb of RAM, I'm going to assume this is a Pentium...
As a personal computer I think they come around 50%. I work at my schools tech shop and we keep track of what type of computer we work on and it trends to be closer to a 60-40 trend. This also might be because if you can afford collage its more likely you can afford a mac so we tend to see more macs we also probably ...
I concur, whether we want to admit it or not piracy has dealt major blows to many fields. How much is the real question because not every pirated copy of anything equals a lost sale. Also for instance I've pirated many movies and if I like the movie I buy it, if I don't like it then I don't buy it. Not a perfect system...
I would say Apple has been at a level to be worth attacking for a very, very long time: millions of users, many of whom are old or otherwise tech illiterate, none of whom have antivirus installed, all of whom believe their computer is immune? Excellent target. Plus, you release one virus and you're suddenly on all the ...
Point of semantics: Malware and Viruses (Virii?) are not exactly interchangable. Viruses are a subset of malware that spread between computers without any interaction from users. Stuxnet is a good example of a virus, where OSX.Puper (the most recent "Mac virus") is actually a trojan horse. Now, given this, there are ...
It was nice of you to point out the distinction, but I hasten to add there is a clear semantic disconnect between technical security professionals and the general public on the meaning of the word virus. The word virus has a very technical usage to define a certain type of code as you pointed out. Unfortunately, the...
Point taken, but it's fairly safe to assume in /r/technology that when someone uses the word 'hipster', especially in a Mac thread, they're usually lumping the majority of Mac-users into some weird, pretentious, computer illiterate subspecies that I have yet to actually come into contact with, besides hearing about the...
Can't you just rewrite the MBR? I remember that there is a command to rewrite n
It is not so much Apple vs Windows as it is FootPrint Vs Footprint. The same thing floods over into the smart phone sector. Everyone you know and their brothers have a iphone. I am sorry, I am about to do the following, make statements without sources. iPhones appear to be everywhere, but they really aren't. There ma...
However, a lot of those questions where based on the answers to other questions, so it wouldn't have been necessary to consider all 700 questions. For example: Do you want to buy a new car? If the answer to question 1 is "yes" then do you want to buy a sedan or a coupe? If the answer to question 1 is "yes" ...
I was tempted to believe you until I saw Groklaw answer this question directly: >Would all 700 have to be answered? >Authored by: PJ on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 06:42 AM EDT >Yes. If not infringed, you could skip >subsidiary question. If infringed, there >were more questions, not less. For example, >if not infri...
should be the top comment, and you should put the last bit of summary at the top to make it more readable in the
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO LISTENS. . . . hollywood you miserable fucks the reasion we download torrents is cause it is easy and watch what we want when we want some torrents i dont watch for up to a week or two later when i have time i cant just run to the shops and buy a $20 dvd sit threw 20 minuets previews warnings and ot...
What is this sorcery!? My mum blocked the space channel when she was removing the channels we "don't use" (which included the three channels I watch exclusively), and either way they only played reruns from Tennant/Eccleston IIRC, so I just assumed piracy was my only option...
Not at all ... our society needs to change in a way so that money is useless and we all rely on eachother as a community as a whole and not need a currency system to live . This would be great. There is, however, one problem with that idea: People are scum. People are selfish. People will not work as a community fo...
No, I did read the book, and I personally felt it was about absolutism, but after reading the article I figured that he simply conveyed something he didn't mean to by over dramatasizing and in the process touched on things much bigger than he intended.
I used to read Gawker before realizing how awful it truly was. It didn't help that owner Nick Denton gave the finger to the commenters with the redesign which turned the layout to shit. Aside from the ultra uptight PC commenters (someone was called racist for saying a guy on the subway wearing a sombrero and playing a ...
I agree, but I think that the industry has brought it upon themselves. They have demonstrated a clear lack of understanding when it comes to human psychology, which would be the real failure in their marketing strategy if not for the immense legal crutch that favors their side. Trading is as much a human instinct as...
A friend of my parents is an old taper who just loved the grateful dead. He records every concert he goes to either with his giant expensive microphones or his eyeglass mikes(if taping isn't allowed). I talked to him about three years ago and he was trying to explain how torrenting works. Turns out, he gives his tapes ...
I think you missed my point. I wasn't saying I do or do not believe you. I was looking for proof . A quote from the ToS is something like a proof, although it's not quite perfect. Saying "I did / did not do this" is obviously anything but proof.
My IP address changes I don't use any of the services you mentioned except for reddit, youtube, and google docs. I feel that I use those sites enough that I have signed up for accounts with them, and am okay with them looking at the kinds of content I peruse on their service, and giving me ads they think are relevant ...
While agree that there is nothing that forces people into piracy I still think that there are measures that could be taken to dissuade people from wanting to pirate movies and music. For example, I've been saying for the longest time that music should be released as soon as it's completed. In this digital day and age...
It's not just terrorism we are using this for and saving with our allies, for example Mega Video and the Australian government spying without warrants also. This is a huge power/freedom grab that's been building fast for a decade and now they're not even hiding it. Time to find out who in the government voted for this ...
Did you also know that there is not an industry standard for measuring contrast ratio, so a company can use whatever they want to measure it and come up with whatever inflated number they want? Source: [Contrast Ratio (or how every TV manufacturer lies to you)](
Has anybody tried this? Does it support English language packs? (i assume it does as it is Linux based) How limited are the features? Does it spew political propaganda at you?
why don't you "just" start one yourself? If you have a couple of geek friends it should be pretty easy. Find a nice place to rent and just start. doesn't have to be awesome and big and expensive at first. Just enough so you can sit around with people, showing your projects. Next step would be a workbench. Some to...
Lumens and watts have the same dimensions? In what way? 1 lm = cd*sr 1 W = kg*m^2/s^3 A candela is defined as: "The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540×10^12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1⁄683 watt p...
It should be added that while the retina can detect a single photon, this is just the sensitivy rather than the density of the retina as sensor. The density is dependent on the distribution of rods and cones, specialized cells capable of detecting intensity respectively colour (though colour can also be quantified in i...