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Groupon customers are bottom feeders. Wow, fuck you sideways with your judgmental bullshit. Just because people are on the lookout for bargains they're bottom feeders? >tip on the $20 price of the treatment and not the normal $40 price (you all tip based on the real price when using coupons, right?). So the workers...
GNOME is an open-source (meaning free as in speech, and free as in beer) desktop environment. You see, in the Linux and open source world, if you don't like the desktop environment, you can choose from several. GNOME and KDE are some of the more popular desktop environments.
We need some quality judicial action to prevent abuses like this. Willful infringement when the party whose rights are being violated cannot afford to bring a suit should allow the court to award costs to the party holding the trademark. Otherwise, there's no reason to deal with trademarks as they're intended... as a...
If you have auto-pay and a billing dispute, you have to deal with those friendly, honest Wall street people at your bank by speaking to someone in India. If Comcast emails you a PDF, anyone can make or edit a PDF file. The garbage man might believe your sob story. Sending paper bills that are deliberately inaccura...
The BBB/NC Attorney General stepped in and took care of an unreturned equipment fee, a return label, and a month of service back when I was stuck using this rinky-dink now-defunct ISP called Primecast. Primecast goes around buying up "exclusive" rights to apartment complexes in exchange for kickbacks to the managemen...
This woman complained for the sake of complaining. I worked at Amazon for over a year and am currently going through Peak Season. It isn't as bad as she states in her article. With Integrity you can use ATO(Approved Time Off) and not get points. During Peak, you're not allowed to use them because of the Black Out perio...
This article sucks. This lady is some whiny, entitled fool. She complains about being all alone at work, and about being monitored all the time. Employers will always want to know that their employees are being productive. If she spent half as much time looking for employment as she did crying to strangers about how ...
Yeah I worked for amazon as a Christmas temp. The job was dull and monotonous. It wasnt that the company was particularly bad to work for, it was just a dull warehouse job. The targets were ridiculously high but I think that was just to motivate people, I didnt see them sack anyone because they hadnt hit target. As lon...
There are always jobs, just not the jobs you want. Learn this. I've gone through many jobless cycles, been homeless in Columbus before, been on food stamps, etc. Thing I've learned, most of the time I couldn't get a job was because I wasn't willing to go to X place and apply there cuz who wants to honestly work there...
As a tech recruiter for a huge tech company, I can say that this isn't the whole truth. The company I work for will pay pretty much any wage for people who are qualified . The true shortage is of qualified talent. Many tech workers feel entitled to get giant wages with little experience, poor or no soft skills, poo...
You seem to not understand anything I have said I can say the same. what I'm saying is that just because in your surroundings you see things changing, doesn't mean that the other 99.9999999% of "things" are or will be changing as well. my point is that your personal POV on "things" is immensly tiny compared to the ...
In America, that applies if you're in a government position to decide who gets what contracts, but since politicians don't actually decide who the US buys things from, they are exempt. There are other situations where you can't accept money for certain things, but I'm not as well read on them. Of course, politicians...
This is the problem, voting and lobbying. Voters don't give a shit about elections unless it's a presidential election. A very small number of people vote during local district elections. What these politicians are up to is public record, but most people can't be bothered to do anything about it. That would be an inc...
It's blatant bullshit to try to imply that America makes it deliberately difficult to leave. Stop spreading FUD. > a long wait on a Visa if you don't have one. The country you're going to issues the visa. Maybe you can say that America's behavior in geopolitics influences how hard it is for Americans to get visas b...
I skimmed the motion... Didn't want to read too far into the minutiae of however this program is set up but will do my best - simplification will probably result in slight inaccuracies but should help you understand the big picture of what is going on here. The important part of all of this is: >Defendants move to d...
Type C is amazing though and you could just get an adapter. Some advantages of Type C: It's reversible It can transfer data at up to 10 Gbps It can do video (replace HDMI) It supports data in both direction It can can power up to 120W 100W at 20V It's backwards compatible (with adapter) It's smaller...
I know right? That's exactly the kind of
the "good" reason is needed. Why would the government waste resource on you if you don't really pose a threat? Is it rational to think that there is a boogeyman out there? >They can collect info on me and establish what kind of person I am, what kind of opinions I have, and who I hang out with because of the patrio...
My favorite weird ice-breaker: "hey have I told you about that time when I had a database of thousands upon thousands of dick pics?" True story: I once worked for a social network with millions of users, and was in charge of implementing automatic removal of NSFW content. It was a kind of three-strikes system: if a...
Great to see John Oliver tackle this really important subject. Edward Snowden's actions were extremely self-less, he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in jail so that the American people and the rest of the world can have this extremely important conversation about mass indiscriminate surveillance. [A repo...
Lol, no. Vietnam was saved because there was an organized government ready to take charge. The Viet Cong were a proxy of North Vietnam. As soon as we pulled out and South Vietnam fell, the North swooped down and established order as quickly as possible. Vietnam became one country in 1976. Nice beaches only affected the...
Meh plenty of people has already seen it, what does a few more matter, between doctors, nurses, boyfriends, girlfriends and people on 4 chan, my dick is old news, it's not like its going to on the front page of every news paper in the world along with information that I want to keep private like my social security numb...
Because they don't need a GOOD reason. They can make anything up because they don't require a trial. They can yell "terrorism!" and throw me in gitmo and, strictly speaking, it will be perfectly legal under the patriot act. So why would they? Maybe commenting pro-snowden leak rhetoric on this post is enough. Maybe an...
This is actually how the first iteration of the system was done. But then we had complaints that non-NSFW pictures were blacklisted. We started saving copies of the pictures just to check. It turned out that running a social network with millions of teen users meant that opposing fandoms would try and blacklist images ...
I personally write the software for systems that this guy is talking about. What he is describing is impossible . None of the control systems anywhere on the plane communicate with anything that is not absolutely necessary for them to communicate with. TWhile the data they do send and read are not intentionally ob...
I thanked you with upvotes on the factual information you presented :). But yes thanks! What kills me is there are several stupid things happening here. Chris Roberts makes a tweet that sounds like a threat or that he is suggesting he might manipulate a system relevant to passenger safety. He gets detained, quest...
I don't text so I don't care. Why would congress question the high cost though? The reason is obvious. Companies change a lot for texting because there are people willing to pay it. I know a woman who was spending $200 per month on texting before she realized she could get unlimited texting for $20. A co-worker of...
As it is a personal interest of mine might I point out one [particular]( request in regard to the OpenStreetMap project. We seek an answer from Google whether it is allowed to trace data from aerial imagery. Until now Google hasn't provided a definite yes or no . Yahoo already allows this but it would help a lot i...
First of all: Fuck the RIAA Second of all: Aren't the fines supposed to be ridiculous in order to try and stop people from doing this again? If I go to wal-mart (probably a bad example) and steal $2000 worth of items, they don't tell me to pay them $2000.... there's either some HUGE fine, or jail time...
Wow... OK I have a funny story I think would go in here. Sky (as in Sky News) has these plans for TV+Broadband+Phone (or any combination of the three). Obviously not cable, but satellite or whatever that is - they need to install a dish on your house for you to get Sky. Problem is TV and Broadband dept are, I think...
You do know the history of Iron, of course? Sorta ironic, really. Edit 2: Iron was probably founded by a person wanting to make money mooching off Google. He was purportedly trying to take advantage of the anti-Google sentiments by removing the 'call-home' Google code from the source code (instead of contributing t...
I don't feel like those ads compromise the integrity of their analysis. The ads are probably served by google adsense or some similar service and microsoft probably bought the ad because of the amount of time certain key words were used in the article.
I do like Google's services, but I'm not anti-Apple. Just compare the content of the ads: Google: Positive and inspirational actions of ordinary people "like you" make the internet great. Our tools help you help others. Apple: If you asked a parent/musician/doctor/other authority, they'd all say the iPad is bada...
If I sell you a computer that can only take the proprietary hard drive that I sell, I can then charge you extra when you want to replace it. Add to that the service fee if you don't have Apple Care (because they don't). Hell... unless you want that big 2000$ box to be used as a paper weight... you better hand them 30...
Well, that's completely different. If all microwaves use the same exact magnetron and.... Samsung (I don't know if they even make 'em), still using the same core tech in the its magnetron, made it so just the power coupling was slightly different from 99% of all other microwaves out there, yeah thats ridiculous. Furt...
I know this reply is going to sound like a weak argument but I don't have time to do a bunch of research and locate links so please just look at the basic premise. I used to be all about free software and open source, and I still love it to this day. But I no long push it for everything I do. I changed my ideals once...
There is no widely accepted definition of NN currently. As rhtimsr1970 states, ISPs must have some form of traffic management to make sure the day to day internet is working. I don't see a problem in creating a tiered internet by introducing Quality of Service (QoS), as long as there is no discrimination between compan...
I've written and rewritten my response along with liberal use of the backspace key and re-reading your response (I'm sure we all do this when we're not propagating some meme). The responses that didn't make the cut were along the lines of: is it provided, are they compensated, and, should those be answered in the affir...
I don't think that's a consistent rule due to a limitation of resistive tech, but due to the general quality of the average resistive touch screen. I would think resistive screens with a higher resolution (or however you would say it) for input would be as accurate as an average capacitive, but with the added ease of p...
Nope, I actually have no knowledge about GoDaddy, and this is all speculation. I deal with their shit hosting and decent domain registration stuff all the time. The lobbying stuff is a complete guess based on my knowledge of how the lobbying racket works and how industry folks look out for their own interests that way....
That just goes to show you how much power "special interest groups" have over our government. It's fucking ridiculous how easy a small minority can get laws passed, although the majority of people are against it.
I don't really get this whole Wikileaks thing. These people put the interests of the united states at risk. Granted torture and things like that should not happen and the intelligence community (CIA, FBI etc.) need to be overseen to ensure they are not committing atrocities, but isn't that what our elected officials ...
I've noticed that OS X tends to be more longevity-friendly than Windows... For example, I bought my Macbook a few months before my parents purchased a new PC for the family. Within a month, it was reduced to a sluggish mess, whereas my computer is still running fairly smoothly almost three years later. ... obviously,...
they chose this quarter to take the accounting hit on the failed 6.3 billion dollar purchase of aQuantive in 2007. They bought that company when they still thought they had a chance at winning the online ad market (which is obviously owned by Google). The point is, they lost this money a few years ago and are now squ...
That's not how it works. If you take torrentfreak's link , it says that this court has cancelled a previous decision which was in favour of Google and that a new trial must take place. The reason for such a ruling (apparently, I speak poor lawish) was that the first court (the one which ruled in favour of google)...
Really? The comment I replied to was simply anti-apple statement that had absolutely nothing to do with Samsung or the manufacturing of the iPhone. With my comment, I only wanted to point out that it's not the subject of this discussion. Now you come in and take it on another tangent. I give up.
That is the primary address, they also have more email addresses based on contact information they have gotten from scraping data out of the contact lists in mobile phones that have had their application installed. Facebook has full contact information from iphones and android phones. If you have friends that have inst...
Nope. It even says in the TOS that they have the right to not only keep all your data, but use it in ANY way they want. They're loosing money so everyones pictures and lives will likely now be sold as advertisements. In the near future, some regular teenage girl could have her photo used for an "ameture porn" ad. Grant...
Google doesn't index Bing because Bing is a search engine. It absolutely does. Go search "bing" in Google and see what happens. And regardless, while in theory making Google look bad is good for Microsoft, the only time you hear about something like this is in an article like the one linked to above. When was the...
Interesting to hear a rebuttal from the surveillance capital of the world. At least in the U.S. we have the right to free speech and through our right to privacy we can limit what the government uses against us in court. Also in our federal system, a defendant's character may not be considered as proof that a person ...
What society thinks is wrong is ethics. What you think is wrong is your morals. Ethics is usually more of a bunch of rules while morals are your personal beliefs. It's entirely possible to respect ethical rules while maintaining your own moral code.
90% of the changes are cosmetic, so if you have no practical reason to upgrade then you don't need to spend the extra money. I upgraded last night, just because I was able to get it for free and I like playing with new things. I'm also the kind of guy who has several Linux distros in a multi boot to play with as well. ...
Alright, I want to clarify some things as someone who has recently gotten a copy of Windows 8 as an assignment from my technical school. First things first, Windows 8 has been criticised time and time again by people like me who haven't even tried it yet. Hopping on the hate bandwagon is much easier than going out and ...
You entirely miss the point of something like this. I have never watched an episode of Star Trek in my 22 years of life but the fact that there are people that are thinking about interplanetary space travel to this level of detail and are SERIOUS about it is something that gives me butterflies. I want to make it extrem...
Remember when home digital photo printing became possible? That was going to be the end of the high street photograph printing business. Then we found out that to produce really good quality prints, you need a quality (expensive) printer, and photo paper, oh, and photo quality ink. Then you print off maybe a dozen of ...
Other things do that, not the DMCA. Title II dictates that ISP's/OSP's are provided safe harbor, but this is all websites, and not simply websites that generate/host user created content. Websites like amazon and ebay are protected under these, as well as banking websites and things like Wikipedia. All in all it prov...
Nope, in fact good choice. The am3 socket is fully backwards compatible with am2, so if you ever feel your processor died you can get a test chip for cheap. Also there seems to be no signs of changing this socket type anytime soon, it worked for their quad processors ( which btw generally give you more power for less m...
It's not hyperthreading, it works similar but instead of cramming 2 threads on one core, you cram 2 threads on two separate "cores" for the most important bits, and a single "core" which 2 threads share for less important stuff, which affects performance less, they can still hyperthread their FX CPUs, and they'll hav...
That site lists the 500w system under maximum load 24/7. He is not paying 150 bucks electricity for that computer every month. You can look at it from every angle you like, he still isn't paying 150 bucks a month, it's fabricated justification. Also it's doubtful he's pulling a 100w for an lcd. Possible if it's an ...
Because almost all laptops, including the MBP, have Mobility-designed chipsets. That's why the Nvidia GTX *00M series exists. That's why the mobile i7-3770 exists, but is clocked at a much lower rate than the desktop version. They're all super low powered because normal power consumption on desktops is much higher. The...
Former AMD employee checking in, AMAA. These are not the statements of my employer. To make it in this world you have to Design good chips Produce those chips Sell those chips Designing chips has gotten way harder. You may recall that Apple's first computer was made by hand in the two founders' garage. ...
The right to perform warrant-less searches, spy on anyone at all, using any means at all, was granted via the Patriot Act years ago. Just what did the people of our country expect? That a paranoid government agency would behave like the Elvin aristocracy in Lord of the Rings? That they'd reject using the power to f...
I never used kazaa, but it happened to a lot of people. Even their monitoring the IP traffic of every Internet connection in the country for signs of music sharing should be illegal. Will the NSA use the data they gather for equally nefarious purposes? Will it be passed on to the IRS, the DEA, local police? I kn...
Whether Glass was around his neck or in an offsite safe doesn't matter. Hanging Google glass around your neck means you can't use it. You can easily use your phone without pointing it at the stage. (letting everybody around you know you aren't filming) Even then, lets say you do start pointing the phones camera at the ...
I have a couple of questions for anyone with relevant knowledge: Compared to a normal ICE car, how much parts does a pure electric car like Tesla's use? I'm talking from a servicing point of view If Tesla becomes big and lots and lots of players enter the pure-electric car market, what will happen to the conven...
Everyone keeps mentioning the price. My last car was a 25k car, and the only reason I could afford a Tesla was because I sunk my life savings into the stock. Let me tell you about some of the savings on the car: Lets start with the base price of $70,000, I got $7,500 in tax rebates from the federal government and $2,50...
I'm going to disagree with you on the Volt being a better car. I get that the Volt allows you to drive using the existing gas infrastructure, but in general people aren't buying them. Obviously the Model S is more than twice the price, but the car is selling. The 250 mile range limit is more than enough for a daily ...
Bad idea, seriously. The stock is artificially inflated due to massive speculation that's fueled by several big market institutions. Buying into Tesla thinking they're going to become a rival to any of the established car marks is foolhardy and shows an utter lack of understanding with regards to the automotive industr...
Here is the schedule for teachers in my county. Starting pay is just over $35k for a 10 month employee (standard teacher) with a 4 year degree. It used to go up a little for someone with a master degree but no longer does. The steps in the left column are for years of service, but in our county they haven't received ...
That's an apple's to orange's comparison, Google and Yahoo weren't facing competitors with close to a hundred years of market participation nor did they face any of the obstacles car manufactures face with regards to supply chain management, research and development, and reliance on competitors. Furthermore Tesla is no...
The problem with the VW concept car is it's tiny, the entire car weighs 1600lb, it's a hybrid, it's a diesel. Diesels get ~40% better mpg than a gas, and a hybrid gets another 30-40% better mpg than a non-hybrid. When you consider a Harley Davidson Tri Glide Ultra get's 38mpg . Also, with EPA ratings (the 203mpg fro...
As long as household electricity prices go down and become somewhat affordable (there are too many people being overcharged in the UK for energy) - then I'm all for this.
While some of your complaints are stretching it, you make some good points... I upvoted. Too bad your post is all the way down here. =/ I wouldn't say any of your points are legitimate engineering problems though, which is where I was hoping to make my point. You made it sound like it was completely unfeasible, but I...
It's a big price, but it's a product that I sincerely believe in. I wouldn't have considered buying a first hand car, or a luxury car, or a non-Asian car if it weren't for the Tesla. Currently I plan to keep driving my 97 Nissan Pulsar until I can afford a Model S Tesla and then never drive any other car brand. If I ...
Apple is notorious for issuing updates that don't work on older models, not because of any hardware limitations, but because they want to "incentivize" you to upgrade.
Called a "martensite", the crystal has two different arrangements of atoms, switching seamlessly between them. This is where I stopped caring. The author doesn't understand the words he is using. >Currently, martensite metals are made of an alloyed mixture of nickel and titanium. Most martensite metals produced i...
Oh yeah, it's absolutely the state. I've no disagreements there. There's tons of programs out there, as you suggested, but you'd be surprised how many programs there aren't. Medtronic, for example, the people who make the insulin pump that pretty much has saved my life, offer a program for financial assistance with...
What does that even mean? You could say the same about some guy who downloaded S01E02 of Game of Thrones, he did not physically steal anything and who's to say he would have ever bought an HBO subscription or the DVD set(6 months after the season ended) if that torrent wasn't available to him? And who is it really hu...
I'm not a lawyer at all so take whatever I say or have said cum grano salis . Also like other redditors, I'm speaking strictly on the perceived situation based on the article. I did not research this situation any deeper, so who knows what's actually true here.) Hypothetically, not really 'criminal'. At that point...
No. I mean such a clause would be unlikely to hold up in court for reasons that are so fundamental they are spoken of in the constitution, even though constitutional law itself wouldn't likely be used here. "If you buy my product, you aren't allowed to say anything negative about it or my company." This smacks of a...
Are they running on the assumption that most people will just panic and pay the fine? Actually, I would be willing to bet that it was in place so that they could primarily lay down a threat - "remove this comment, or we will fine you $3500, which you agreed to in the EULA." People tend to give more credence to a EULA...
As someone who came out of college in the late 90s and worked in the industry during the "bubble", and has continued until the present day, I think there has been a huge shift in the industry which goes beyond ageism. Age is really an issue, I think, because people who remember how things used to be are also going to...
I work full time, as well as freelance (video/photo/audio, etc). Not going to lie... volunteering to do some work for free for people or groups, usually for people or groups who need the work done and would be better off not being charged for it, has landed me plenty of clients that pay for my work. It's usually as s...
So is everyone here going to continue to delude themselves that this isn't just a publicity stunt? Full disclosure, have not seen the 60 minutes. Unless Amazon has solved the battery energy density issue, these things are going to have a range of a few miles at best. They are also going to have a loud on the order ...
I agree. This seems more of a publicity stunt for the holidays (free national advertisement for Amazon) than "unveiling" much of anything. Once they get to actual costs, not to mention overcoming FAA regulations, this will end up just like 'concept cars'. Drones as the one in the video have limited range. To deliver ...
No You're comparing class A commercial planes flying at 28,000 feet with a helicopter flying at 500-2000 feet. Those are entirely different flying scenarios. Small airplane pilots do navigate by sight. ]( for navigation by landmarks, which include mountains, roads, power lines, large buildings, etc. It's not tha...
I fly multi-rotors (aka "drones") They are fun as hell and blow my mind every time I fly one. But sadly, you are right on. People will build super specialized units that do nothing but stay in the air in order to get 30 minutes of flight time. 10 to 15 minutes is more typical with no payload. When we fly with a c...
Any application is worth millions or billions if it gains enough people. The idea behind the application itself doesn't matter, as can be seen maybe through Instagram or Twitter or SnapChat or anything else really. There might be better applications out there or services that do the job better, but it's just about the ...
Incest, yes. Child porn, no. And every other provider does the same.
But the image we see today is not merely the RAW file off the camera's memory card. It has almost certainly been cropped and had color and exposure adjusted, and had the resolution altered, along with many other possible changes made by the photographer. If this was a dumb point-and-shoot, which was found laying on ...
So what the FBI is saying, is that they used SQL injection to find the IP address?... EDIT: This is illegal for you and I to do under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). FOLLOW-UP: My SQLi comment was targeted at the article. Based on my reading of the criminal complaint and the indictment documents, it app...
Well there's a couple of problems. Firstly, even presuming that the FBI did what he claimed, they'd be on the hook in Iceland, not in the US because that's where the server was. Second of all, the word of what one security researcher thinks is or isn't possible is really rather immaterial. TFA actually indicates th...
In the end it likely comes down to something like computer hard disk encryption. In the case of a computer if encrypted without a recovery key (e.g. the mechanic override) all the data on the computer is lost if the password is forgotten. In the case of a car I would expect it would come to replacing the car's comput...
I love showing an internet noob adblock and watching as their mind absolutely implodes, as they realize for the first time ever that there is an alternative to the ad-ridden shithole that is adblock-less web surfing. The realization is a sight of beauty as I show them my adblock counter (currently at 84,000+) that th...
Because everyone thinks that Google controls everyone's phones like Apple and/or it is Google's fault for not upgrading the device that was heavily modified and/or controlled by the phone provider
Because everyone thinks that Google controls everyone's phones like Apple and/or it is Google's fault for not upgrading the device that was heavily modified and/or controlled by the phone provider
The only real way for us to combat crooked representatives is to vote legitimate individuals into office and educate others to do the same. But every election it's always, "it's not my congressman/woman that's the problem, it's theirs". So the incumbents usually get reelected. When there is a signal that may change t...
I don't think that old people need to die before old ideas fade away. A little bit of normal media instead of the regular propaganda should go a long way to change people for the better. It took maybe a while before older people grasped what the internet was and could do. But they got their heads around it and I think ...
Their favorite thing in the world is selling people shit they don't use. For example, they love convincing people to blow an extra $240 a year to get BLAST! Internet, complete with a garbage router that can't achieve anywhere close to 105Mbit on wifi from more than 5 feet for another $120 a year. With the exception of...
Google and download it. It's awesome. A program with a great interface where you just click on a movie, it downloads and streams the torrent. Then, when you're done, it deletes itself from your computer. You can also add your own VPN to it if you want some more peace of mind.