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FOSSPatents has refused categorically to speak about the jury and specifically about the jury misconduct claims. One might only imagine why. Florian, the self proclaimed patent expert, and a established and proven Oracle/Microsoft pail shill, could not find a logical sounding rethoric that could justify his pro-Apple s...
FOSSPatents has refused categorically to speak about the jury and specifically about the jury misconduct claims. One might only imagine why Only if one's main interest is conspiracy. He's explained it well enough to most people's satisfaction why he doesn't care to comment on it. > Florian, the self proclaimed pat...
I doubt that. The article in The Register points out that the EC decided to withdraw their request to the EU Court. If they didn't feel the need for a legal opinion/assessment on the compatibility of ACTA with EU treaties - they probably felt they already knew the result...
Edit : Sorry about my English, as it isn't my first language. ACTA is just going to be pushed through by adding bits of it into other legislation. Thats how the EU works, lobbyists influence the undemocratically appointed members in Brussels who CREATE legislation proposals, and democratically appointed europarliam...
Lobbying is a dirty word, but the definition is just petitioning the government. In the USA, one of the reasons our constitution was written was to defend the idea that all citizens be allowed to make their voice heard to the government. Now obviously not every lobbyist is a concerned citizen looking out for the nati...
The big thing, as I've learned now, is that there are certain forms of unprotected speech, and while they're getting better in terms of how well they are defined, a lot of things are illegal that perhaps shouldn't be. For example, there are tons of examples from during and after WWI of people being sent to jail for pri...
If you install Windows first and Linux after, all you need to do is use the on-board partition manager (gparted or something similar) that is on the installation disc which is more often than not in a graphical environment. You need 3 partitions, 2 if you don't want a swap partition. You shrink down your (hopefully) NT...
Yeah I have a Gparted boot disc that I used back then. Thanks for the explanation, that does make sense. BTW my original paragraph consisted of 95 characters, wheras my
I'm no Linux guru but with my previous experience of partitioning a hard drive for Linux, there would always be three or four partitions for a standard install. While I have successfully dual-booted Windows XP and Ubuntu years ago, it wasn't the easiest process. I believe that I had to set-up a spare partition in addit...
It's not that simple. "Freedom to offend" is actually the fun, cupcake, sunny side of the deal. The ACTUAL dark side (which Alexis is saying he's okay with because retaining complete freedom of speech is a higher ideal, which is something I don't necessarily agree with) is the freedom to denigrate, lie, libel, and marg...
although to be fair, creepshots specifically stated no underage pictures of any kind, it also specified no downblouse or upskirt photos kinda like how srs says no brigading... see how that works? while va certainly was a creep and massively fucked in the head, the reasoning behind this type of strategy is bullshit,...
You're talking about Warren Farrell and you are taking a distorted, often propagated view which bears no resemblance to what he said. He's also not a leader of our movement, he's actually a feminist and was the first man elected to the chair of the National Organisation for Women. >He came to prominence in the 1970s ...
I have quite a few scratches on the sapphire crystal of my Baume & Mercier Capeland. They scratch easily against other glass surfaces. Edit: Before people start trying to rip my comment apart, I was a service manager for Tourneau, and managed a small watch service center. I've seen hundreds of scratched sapphire...
Here's a good analogy: A handful of sand not transparent A quartz crystal is transparent They are both Silcon Oxide. Additionally, aluminum oxide can come in a variety of forms based on whether it is a single crystal (in the example in the article), or amorphous solid or a polycrystalline solid.
The explanation in the article treats rain as if it was a one-drop thick sheet. But isn't there always another raindrop further away? At what point do you lose visibility completely because the camera is picking up too many raindrops? For safety I assume it'd have a minimum light projection, so it's not going to make...
Have you considered that some people actually do understand the limitations of their cars, that some people own cars that can drive faster than other cars in the rain, and that very few accidents are caused through speed (the majority would be people turning into other cars, something i find the less-confident, slower ...
No, it hasn't passed me by. What's passed you by is what the Google cars are: Cameras. To clarify, the purpose of these cars is to take pictures of absolutely fucking everything around them. There are no passengers whose very job is anything more than sit in the vehicle at most. This implies a number of things......
Obligatory: I am not a lawyer. The EFF brief makes a compelling argument here, but I am doubtful it will win over a judge who has already indicated that he finds "nothing improper about the purpose" of the defendant's takedown notice. Here's a quick and dirty rundown of the DMCA notice and takedown procedure for th...
Ad clicks are ruined by the porn sites. Every time I click a video I want to watch and it just opens a new page with more videos taking me to another page with more videos. Im sitting here with my dick in my hand goin in circles clicking links.
Qualified Google Adwords Pro here - marketers spend a lot of their time making ads as relevant as possible. Define relevant: the landing page is as closely related to the search term as possible. If the user is in research stage: direct the user to an info page. If the user is ready to buy: direct to a product page. ...
I was half tongue in cheek. But my point is valid. If you really want to help out the brands/companies/products you like then you are better off skipping the ad and giving more money to the product directly. Of course this will hose brands you like that need ads. Also, my math changes if you also want to help google ...
It's tough to determine our return on specific sites, since we are often running a lot at the same time. We can see that the campaign starts, and sales in the store go up, but I can't go ask every consumer for their browser history (not that I'd want to if I could, haha). Instead I look at other metrics like impress...
At this point though, i stopped caring about bandwidth and care about latency more. Even in my ass-backward country, i get a decent enough bandwidth that hour long, 720/1080 movies can be downloaded over a cup of tea/taking a leak. And as compression technology improves along with higher raw CPU power, it'll come to ...
I'm no expert but ISP is Internet Service Provider...like Comcast or Verizon. VPN is Virtual Private network and to my understanding it connects you to their own IPs (Internet Protocol) which encrypts your Internet use leaving everything you do online untraceable. These networks have low monthly/annual fees so they can...
That could be, but then /u/I_DRINK_CEREAL comes to use. It's already hard to design something to work for 10 years. It's even more harder to make something break after 10 years (never before, not exactly 10, only after 10). It's also somewhat hard to predict the market today. Imagine planning for a future market in ...
It is incredibly easy to design a patent system which would be near impossible to exploit and at the same time protects the interests of inventors at all levels, from garage to pharma, while stimulating invention. Simply require that any patent has a maximum value which has to be stated in the application. This maxim...
What seems to get lost in the shuffle is [First to File vs. First to Invent]( in which the change to first to file was the major part of the patent reforms. The reform is much more favorable to those with capital to expend(hint-- big businesses). I actually know a guy that stopped being self-employed because he co...
It's doable, but it's going to cost a whole lot more than $190m. Bulk purchases obviously reduces the cost per harddrive, but you're not running everything without any backups. You'll want solid error and hardware protection, so a bare minimum of raid 6 plus full off-site redundancy of that datacenter elsewhere in case...
To me this is a combination of a technology/ cost issue. I never pirate music anymore. I haven't pirated a game in years. I pay for deezer and netflix monthly. For me, a huge part of these services use their versatility. I can watch Netflix on my phone, pc, ps4. Steam is loaded on my pc with over 1tb worth of legitimat...
But, if you don't know what the information is, then you don't really have an incentive to buy it. This is all well and good, but doesn't explain why the most pirated material is hugely popular. Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Transformers, Godzilla, etc. No one is torrenting these things thinking, "Oh, I wonder what ...
At $50,000/mi, it would take about $900 billion to fiber the US ([which already has more fiber than all of Europe]( In a country of 300 million, that's about $6,000/taxpayer. Will you be paying that in a lump sum to the IRS, or over the next few years at a modest interest rate payment plan?
yeah, mind you they offer 500/500 for business connections... at a disgracefully whopping $400 a month if you want a static IP. That is absurdly expensive for half of what should be the standard speed, and they get away with price gouging like that because they don't have someone like Grande or Google Fiber in direct ...
It depends on your risk tolerance. If you have zero risk tolerance (meaning you can't afford to lose any money or are just uncomfortable investing), you will want your money in a savings account- best rates I know of for less then $50k are .75% (Capital One 360 account). In this case, you would need the loan rate that ...
Your comment made me remember a talk my wife and I had about our next car being 4WD vs AWD and the fact that I didn't really know the difference. So I looked it up. Anyway, the article right after it was this one: The model S is currently RWD but has fancy computer stuff (that's the technical term) to make it so "you...
Often times an insurance company will only want the work done by the manufacturers representative anyway,,, as is the case with most Audi and BMW etc. Back to my main point. The insurance on a tesla should be no worse than an equivalent gas powered Audi because of the fact that injury is the most expensive part of ...
I absolutely digged the premise. I watched the first three episodes, give or take. I was absolutely disappointed. The attempt at immersion did not exist in the writing of Sword Art Online--as soon as people were finding out they were stuck in the game forever, not a single character acted even remotely like they und...
Why would you say that? He's promising to end mass surveillance on american citizens. The specific tactics employed by the NSA to that effect are not a matter of congressional purview, they fall squarely in the realm of executive policy. He can absolutely end mass surveillance programs, in just the same way that th...
I've read it]( I think it's pretty good. 600+ pages but easy to read and well organized.
While I appreciate citing news articles for other not terrible Rand Paul positions, my point still remains valid. For every one of his decent ideas, he has several terrible ones, especially in economics. First, his campaign rhetoric about "defeat the Washington machine", and "take back our country". The first is laug...
Holy shit where is the Auto
Yea, but for some of us, we don't care if the Pizza is like 5% better in taste etc. for the same price. Because with the app, I don't have any irregularities and there's pretty much no way they or I can fuck up the order or price. It removes human error on the business side entirely. And that alone is worth it in my op...
There is some serious truth in that, especially in fields like Information Technology where we just accept that if our business wants to call us at 3am to fix some broken server, that it's part of our job manifesto to do that. My dad always had a notion that you don't bring work home with you and it's one of the reason...
I don't think that the current generation of moralfags or the older generation of lolfags would have stooped so low as to hire an assassin to kill an elected representative, and then have said hitman leave behind a bragging piece of evidence that could be used to legitimize attacks on the anti-SOPA campaigners by pro-S...
Welcome to the Reddit-Lemming effect. A comment that gets a negative score early in its life is exponentially more likely to be further downvoted into oblivion than an equivalent comment that hovers in low positive territory. The effect is particularly noticeable on unremarkable comments. The thought pattern ends...
I have gotten two emails from Comcast. They were both a few months back so my memory may not be 100% accurate, but to summarize, they said that they noticed I was sharing files over the internet that were copyright protected, and that if I continued to 'share' files like these, they would terminate my account. Since ...
I have gotten two emails from Comcast. They were both a few months back so my memory may not be 100% accurate, but to summarize, they said that they noticed I was sharing files over the internet that were copyright protected, and that if I continued to 'share' files like these, they would terminate my account. Since I ...
What constitutes a legally binding contract? To have a contract consideration must be given from one party to the other in exchange for a act or promise. Thus, based on your logic, a contract with a hitman to kill your sister's ex-boyfriend is a legally binding contract. However, as Magnificent pointed out, laws sup...
You're basically arguing about politics. Politics is spinning propaganda better than your foes. SOPA got defeated because it was lauded as "the end of the internet" and people didn't want that. It wasn't the end, it would have just been a huge problem that would have been circumvented by technology's ability to adap...
Meaning it's perfect fodder for Reddit! It doesn't seem like this gives the government any sort of spying abilities it doesn't already have. It just provides the ability for the government to share this information with certain private entities (read: cleared government contractors). But of course, Reddit will do ...
Disagree with this. My Prime is my new primary machine. What kind of work are you trying to do with your's? If you're a dev, I recommend TerminalIDE and AIDE. Just ssh into your server for build/deploy, keeping your source version controlled with git (even better if you set up a git hook, or use GitHub's hook and jus...
thepiratebay users don't sell (for the most part) the files for profit (and for the most part, probably weren't going to watch/listen to the things they downloaded if they had to pay), funnyjunk is using The Oatmeal's webcomics for profit.
There is no need to be snarky. I never claimed to be in the know, hence: > Perhaps I'm ignorant I was simply trying to drag out specifics such as yours so that others could possibly address them. I don't currently have sources for any of what was said, and never claimed I did but is how I understood the world to op...
I'll re-phrase. I'm paying for "up-to 80mbps*" Yes I only get 67mbps but the nearest competitor offers "up 24mbps*" for the same price and when I was with them I actually got 6mbps. There's also the fact that I regularly download above 300GB in a month, and I am yet to experience any traffic throttling. A couple of...
The biggest factor in this decision isn't any of those costs, not even the $500M cost to Google. The biggest factor is that the ISPs might eventually defeat net neutrality or otherwise destroy the open web for their own profit. Google Fiber isn't necessarily intended to be profitable, it's intended to keep the entire...
This move has nothing to do with Oracle trying to kill MySQL. Oracle actually treats MySQL as a very special and nearly autonomous organization within the company. Oracle has done a great job in resourcing MySQL, and some truly awesome stuff is being done there. No, the problem is that some groups within Oracle (and ...
the title is fine, substantiated by its frontpageness. Following the link gives the reader all the info they need. The air of mystery around the current title got my brain working as to 'how' and I was far more interested in reading and watching the demo vid.
I refuse to believe that this thing can be hit in the side by a car going going around a corner at a normal speed and not fall over. The car can exert way more force than the gyroscope can. I don't know if anybody else noticed in the video when he did the demonstration in his garage, the vehicle had sand under the whee...
It really depends on the algorithm used to hash the passwords. Different algorithms take different amounts of computation time. Hashes like MD5 and SHA1 were designed to verify data correctness. So they were made as fast as possible to verify a lot of data. This makes them unfit for password hashing, as we can see with...
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nothing about that means they're going to start decrypting aes-256 bit messages any time soon. even the fucking article uses "quantum." D-Wave is kinda-sorta based on quantum principles. It's an interesting development in computing but it means fuck all for tor security. Quantum computers arent some magical "instantl...
Im a journalism student and I think this is fantastic. In england (where i study, and yeah I'm British) Journalists have been sent to jail for failing to reveal sources (if we did like hell would anyone trust us, before anyone frowns upon the ignoring of the courts: it'd destroy our career). But if we don't even know o...
The only known quantum algorithm that can effectively attack AES can, at best, reduce the keyspace's exponent by 1/2. That means cracking AES-256 with a quantum computer will be like cracking AES-128 with a non-quantum one. This is the algorithm: To the best of my knowledge, it is highly infeasible to crack even AES-...
One Today charity Android app by Google = More G+ users Social pressure to donate You could probably get more people to donate to stuff like cancer research if you could display a person's Google One Today ( profile points with Google Glass (if they choose to present them). >"Your One Today profile also includes ...
I honestly don't know where to look for a source. This is knowledge from personal experience working in SEO (Search engine optimization). The only reason I know this is from having to bring people back up from the bottom after google released Panda. They all made the same mistake and the only way google would of been a...
First your Apple cons: > Hardware is bloody expensive. Yet it's okay when Google does it. > Aggressive about compatibility This is a pro, not a con. Don't be tied down by legacy crap. Now to your Facebook cons: > Constant changes But it's okay when Google does it. > Sketchy with privacy and personal...
Perhaps it had fallen from telephone poles and was lying across the road. Therefore it's a hazard, and the road needs to be cleared. Electrician comes by and cuts the fallen line safely and moves it to the side of the road. That's one of many possible ways in which it could be severed by someone who did not know it was...
I don't think the Drone operators were in violation of the FAA regs. From the UAV companies website it seems like they would just need to drop the altitude of their planes down from 600' to 400' and they could fly them all they wanted as long as the planes stayed w/i line-of-sight. I wonder if FEMA even has jurisdic...
A lot. Here is a list of just the Federal ones: It's kind of complicated to explain, but basically a lot of Federal agencies have their own LE branch tasked with dealing with LE activities within their designated area of authority. Some are literally just a police force tasked with facilities owned/operated by thes...
The US government wanted a nuclear war tolerant communication system That's a chunk of popular, but ultimately incorrect history. The initial work came from a guy at DARPA who got sick and tired of having N network lines for the N terminals in his office. He told his subordinates - DARPA - that there had to be a bett...
At the end of the day it all comes down to price, I believe. I recently bought a video game, and old game (Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri) that I easily could have pirated. In fact, I have pirated this game a few times over the past decade, when the desire has struck me to play. Keep in mind, this is a game that I purch...
There is a machine at my optometrists office that can get my prescription in 15 seconds. I have to then pay him 100 bucks to sign a slip telling me the machine was right. I would love to cut him out of the picture. Frankly - good. Its called post-scarcity, and you should research it. Technology will ALWAYS replace ...
Post scarcity is what I was describing. And if your job goes? If you're left with no marketable skills? A huge swath of all jobs are at risk, even many highly technical jobs. Everywhere I look, I see jobs that are going to be automated. Many of them highly skilled. Belief that the next wave of automation will b...
Burger looks burnt. Also dumb con is dumb and using semi Luddite arguments to argue against minimum wage increases. Automation does not end all jobs, it changes their nature. This robot will need a person to ensure that someone can get a refund for their burnt burger, it will need someone to keep the ingredients fill...
I don't think that it has to be the case that people that flip burgers at McDonalds can only do that. As automation increases, costs of life decrease. Suddenly things that could make you some money, but not enough to live, make your more than enough. People will also want to modify their stuff in ways that simply doe...
The fact that you are alive and well-off enough to be biting (or at least talking shit to) the hand that feeds you is proof enough that you have benefited from the government more than any of your taxes can ever pay for. I grew up in a "failed state" ruled by a military dictatorship and its not very difficult to see ...
Think of the following case, the case the DMCA is made for. You have a youtube channel and publish funny videos on it, they kinda are random things and such. You make money of this channel and even though you have a job, the channel is still a big source of your income. Then one day your video hits the front page of ...
How come 3rd party OSX software never comes with this bundled bullshit like this? Because, other then the mobile apps, nobody is making any money from writing code for Apple. They do not have a large enough laptop/desktop client base to make it worth while. Those who do are the die hard core of Apple fanatics and th...
I received the below from my state senator this afternoon. I changed my name for obvious reasons. Dear "benderb-rodriguez" : Thank you for writing to express your concerns regarding the proposed merger between Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable. I appreciate hearing from you, and I welcome the opportunity to res...
I'm not saying I like the plan - I don't. Full net neutrality. Nothing in between. But I do see a slightly different set of logic behind the situation. Okay, say that they're not allowed to discriminate between small business and content delivery services and larger companies. This is the crux of most anti-gove...
Seems the reason is that Google recognizes that people are going to get Google Fiber to watch Netflix and other high bandwidth streaming services. So instead of alienating these services, they try to be as friendly as they can with them so they will invest more in making their services faster and better for Google Fib...
True, social democrats are like Warren or Sanders and kind of (in my mind) something I decide by looking at what they seem to want to do. The social part means they are for things which are beneficial to a larger portion of the populace (over simplified). I dunno we should be free and our prosperity shouldn't be hoar...
I completely agree. Regulations can be great, their main intent/purpose to protect the consumer/people from financial (sometimes physical and mental -ie pollution, harassment) harm. But we live in a world that people want power and money. Even if lobbying and bribery were cracked down and made harder, you still wou...
It started by a few people who broke off from Engadget because it became too biased and sensationalized. It started wonderful, having a great interface to quickly gain oversight in all new articles of the day and a great ranking system for top articles, and they had a generally good rating system for product reviews. H...
About 2 years ago when i was progressing through the night segment of my flight training, one night we were on our way back to base tracking over a town when suddenly the cockpit was illuminated by a powerful green laser. We were 1500ft above the ground and it lit up our dashboard like a motherfucker. My instructor w...
I tried to find if there have been any accidents caused by lasers with aircraft and found none. It seems like an extremely low probability of causing an accident. I suspect that a 2 year sentence is too high compared to say drink driving where you just get a fine and lose your license, and yet the risk of killing someo...
I think this guy deserves to do some time While the rest of your logic makes sense, I am curious why you think that is the most appropriate punishment. It will cost the taxpayers SO much money to lock him up. Even the process to convict him costs money. Paperwork. Everything. A fine is much more appropriate. Not to m...
Please forgive me for any past rudeness, and allow me try to help without being condescending. Maybe this will help clear things up. Here is a transcript from a proceeding of one of Sergio's (14 year guy) appearance. It says what his charges are and why he got them. We know what Sergio (14 year guy) was charged w...
X-post from another article about these ass-clowns I made. Being on the receiving end of these lasers while flying, I can confirm it's irritating as fuck, not just while you're flying but also the headaches afterwards. Also, a lot of aviators wear night vision goggles now, so we can see exactly where the beam is comi...
While 2 years may seem like a lot, this is EXTREMELY dangerous to pilots. It can easily lead to catastrophic consequences for the pilots and anyone they're unfortunate enough to crash into. Despite what I've heard some people say in the past, it isn't quite as simple as the pilots just maintaining the aircraft straight...
Do you think if you do the same crime multiple times you only get sentenced for it once? The dude lased two different aircraft multiple times. From the FBI article I gave you. "In imposing the sentence, Judge O’Neill considered not only the severity of the offenses but Rodriguez’s significant criminal history, nume...
That is why they include the category of requiring a warrant (technically they mean a subpoena). There are other classes of people who could come to Facebook demanding data (besides the FBI): a federal court a state court a local police department an attorney the mother of a boy who is being upset at some...
As a security professional, I can state quite unequivocally that the credit card hacks are 100% the fault of the corporations responsible for the data not doing proper due diligence in security. I regularly audit IT security of very large corporations and retailers. There's not enough money to patch old vulnerabiliti...
Subscribers pay comcast for internet! Netflix pays for GB or maybe even TB of bandwidth. Now subscribers to comcast want netflix, so netflix makes people sign up for comcast's high speed plans, so comcast makes money. Comcast is charging netflix to bring it $$$.
Again, you don't understand how the Internet works. I know this, which is why my question is, how come reddit or my website shouldn't get a free peering agreement with comcast? Why shouldn't all websites, why are we just focused on netflix? >Comcast doesn't perform any additional service to the users, or for Netf...
I find it hard to believe that Walmart single-handedly kept the recession from being worse. Now that I am on my computer, here is a [link]( to a lot of the common complaints about Walmart. Some important points: 1.) A disregard for historic sites 2.) "The results of the study found that the crime rate in US count...
This is pretty much what I thought when I saw that eBay and Paypal are on the list. I mean, sure - people are upset that they take a(n increasingly larger) cut of your sale, and there are numerous bad PR stories on both the seller and buyer side, but what other avenue do people have to sell their crap besides pawn shop...
While Facebook has a lot of questionable policies (in particular the one they mentioned about related posts) and there is certainly a discussion that needs to happen about that, this article is chock full of yellow journalism. All sorts of assumptions and uncited 'facts'. > They've introduced features that turn your ...
I have been scrolling to find a
this cost is largely because of Telstra. Not exclusively Telstra, though the bandwidth cost to Tasmania on Telstra Wholsale halved when BassLink's dark fibre was being lit and halved again when it actually was lit a few months later. This saved a lot of costs that trickled back to us mainlanders. Same thing hap...
you know, i am a pretty good programmer. i use ruby, code compiling doesn't factor into my day. but you know what? i don't know exactly what to do immediately all the time. even when i do, i generally don't like to just barge into something without considering where i'm trying to get myself. so i go and do somethin...