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Okay, I used it once and officially love it. I've been torrenting whole movies and starting them after download, so I really like that it starts within a minute or so (I don't care so much about all the download vs stream bickering in this thread). What I actually like most though is simply the interface. It shows m...
Although I agree with the points both you and /u/scissor_sister make the bigger problem to solve for Netflix and Amazon is the fact that they have competition from television channels around the world. Game of Thrones, as an example, is sold by HBO to Sky in the UK, to Showcase in Australia, to Prime in New Zealand, ...
I also watch Netflix through a VPN, even though I live in the United States and connect to a VPN portal that is also in the United States. Why? So that Comcast can't tell that I'm watching Netflix and throttle my shit. If Sony got its way, Netflix would cut off my VPN, force me to connect directly, and leave me at Comc...
Because a guitar is a stringed percussion instrument which allows it to function in an analog space rather than in binary digital. Good luck trying to program a slide, pressure modification or <gasp> bend. Slides are necessarily be dynamically limited, going from X to Y in a consistent speed and requiring a lot of pr...
Since you don't believe me, let's consult the ultimate authority in this matter: the source code itself. We'll dive into the actual source code and see if there is any web-specific meta data, headers, or other markers in the file structure. First let's jump right into the webpimg.h header file. This guy contains the ...
This article is almost completely devoid of references and relies on the hearsay of industry "professionals." What about [wavelength multiplexing]( You can split up a single pipe to carry multiple signal paths over separate wavelengths. Suddenly your 12 pipe cable becomes 12 by 16 by 1 Gigabit. Fiber is about the elect...
There is nothing special about the TI. It's a Z80 based computer with a few K of ram. Think a cheap computer from the early 80s. As such, any computer specced equivalently or better than that (which even a dumbphone is by an order of magnitude) can be programmed to do THE SAME THING. In fact, you can emulate the damn t...
The intensity of the field is greatest near the poles and weaker near the Equator. It is generally reported in nanoteslas (nT) or gauss, with 1 gauss = 100,000 nT. It ranges from about 25,000–65,000 nT, or 0.25–0.65 gauss. By comparison, a strong refrigerator magnet has a field of about 100 gauss. The minimum occurs ov...
Do you remember the Raindow Warrior? When we caught some of the terrorists/agents responsible, the French made us give return them to their custody by threatening to exclude our agricultural products from the EEC. Which, at the time, made up a giant chunk of our exports.
Isn't that the point though? The cops are pretty much the only people we give permission to use physical force inside our borders. The whole deal is that they are allowed to use force, but they also have to protect people from force, which produced the eternal conflict of how do you stop people required to use force ...
Now you are starting to see where this type of mentality is headed. This is about NSA surveillance not security. I could take a company's old office desktops, make them into a cluster serving up kvm vhosts on a locked down selinux server. From there you can replace all of those desktops with raspberry pi computers ...
Thanks for the response. Sometimes I am guilty of quickly reading articles and not picking up on certain details two pages or so into it. I for one find the U.S. Government's Lack of technical expertise disturbing. Even more disturbing is the mass movement to start regulating in broad strokes, a medium which has bee...
I read a [related article]( about this indicating that it's a long-range laser-ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry system. The laser is used to transition compounds on a surface into the gas phase, allowing them to be ionized and analyzed by a mass spectrometer. That much of it is plausible, as devices ...
A lot of times when people are upset about something they make empty threats. "V4 Digg update sucks! If they don't fix it, now, I'm out of here and never coming back." Only it wasn't an empty threat this time. That's how I ended up here, I'm a displaced Digg user...yeah, yeah bring on the hate, I got it coming. T...
I'm not a developer, so correct me if I'm wrong. When they call the Nexus a developer device, it's because it ships with the Android operating system as Google means for you to experience. Developers need to have Android running without bloatware to test the apps they are building on it. This means that on Nexus ph...
Basically to access content from US servers, there are two fibre lines that run across the pacific ocean. Currently very expensive to get bandwidth on them, and a butt-tonne of content is hosted in America. There are plenty of higher bandwidth links that already run through SEA. There are links that run to Japan and "t...
To be clear: I'm using "monopolist" --loosely-- for companies that hold an unrivaled market share and are, simply put, much more powerful than every competitor. FB, with about a 140m US-users [1], clearly is in such a position [2]. Their "customers" interests need to be protected because they are the interests of >...
This is not viable because of the dynamics of the whole internet-"market"-- there is a natural tendency towards monopolies (because having a lot of customers alone makes a service more appealing). It is even desirable in many instances to have such monopolies-- having ten different social networking services instead ...
This is not viable because of the dynamics of the whole internet-"market"-- there is a natural tendency towards monopolies There is a difference between a monopoly and a successful business. Facebook is not a monopoly, go join Google+, Google Wave, MySpace or LinkedIn or I'm sure 100 other sites I've never heard of. ...
I buy a lot of computer equipment and my experiences with DELL have been horrible. While their computers are generally pretty solid, there are several huge issues I have with them. First, 9 out of 10 times if I order someone a DELL, they're going to miss the promised delivery date. If you order a custom-built serve...
I had a gaming PC from Dell a few years back. About a year after I bought it, things started to stop working. USB ports wouldn't be detected, Webcams stopped working completely, etc. I go to their website for some help, but oh, would you look at that, my warranty expired JUST last week, and I would need to pay to get a...
Erm, not quite right. Some shareholders care about quarterly profit (short-term investors) and some don't if the company has a good long-term outlook (long-term investors). Those startups have high stock prices because long-term investors are expecting them to do great things in the future. As far as caring about s...
I can give my own anecdote for this. Back in 2006 I had a friend buy a Dell desktop computer for me through his company. They had an agreement with Dell, so it was a business class computer but still fairly affordable. I've still got it and the only changes I've made were to upgrade the GPU (556mb>1GB). After that it s...
I wasn't saying they made low quality machines, by and large (although definitely worse than when Thinkpad was IBM)... But they shouldn't have shipped Vista on super low spec machines and then said, "Vista Certified," or whatever the logo of the time was. Microsoft set minimum specifications for Vista in order to ens...
That means half the people who go to your shop use dells, not much else, I would imagine a great majority of the people who can't/woudln't fix their own computer would buy dell because its exceptionally easy...these same people inherently find more problems because they might not know how to handle them themselves/trea...
1) The IRS itself gets most of the tax advice wrong that it gives out to taxpayers 2) Paying taxes is one of the few transactional relationships you have with your government. If you ask me, a government representative should come to your office and you should pay him in cash, not hide and automate taxes so that they...
This reminds me of the novel "Blood Music" by Greg Bear.
Really I think for many people who create art, be they writers, musicians, game developers, etc, the main motivation is to make their art and to get it to an audience. The reason they need to get paid is to put a roof over their heads and food on the table - if that was provided, they'd still make art for free. In fact...
it's the transition that is [scary] It's deeply unsettling to see a trade, or skill, that took time to perfect being completed in less time by a machine that requires no pay. Having travelled to a few "second-world" countries, you can see completely frivolous make-work jobs that exist simply to occupy someone fo...
Better tire grip means better MPG and a more efficient system over all." No, considering a car has a huge excess of "grip" such that accelerating normally, going up hills etc does not cause tire slippage at all please tell me where this efficiency comes from. "Grooves and tread are actually used to increase grip on...
I hate to say this, but skateboarders are really conservative about changing anything about the board. Just look at the boards, trucks and wheels: Haven't changed much since the 70s when urethane wheels were introduced. The shape of the board is the only thing to have evolved since then, but even that is still just 7...
he's completely right, that's why it's called a coefficient of friction, coefficients don't change. the coefficient of friction is a scalar property calculated for the degree of normal resistivity observed between atoms of a certain material. Frictional force is dependent on the coefficient times the normal force: F = ...
You are kinda right, but the reduced gad mileage is incorrect. The real problems with arise with wear, handling on slippery surfaces, and tire pressure needed. Starting with wear. If you reduce the contact surface, you increase the force put on the material. Even though rubber is perfect for large deflection, this in...
The magnetic field emitted by the magnets in the track doesn't change at all. The only thing affected by the heat of the superconductor is the superconductor's resistance to electric current. Resistance is basically how hard it is for electricity to flow through a given substance. Wood has very high resistivity, and do...
Imagine 20 people trying to pull one object, maybe somewhere just over half are trying to pull in one direction. The rest are bumping off things, going the wrong direction, or just screwing off and creating thermal energy by resistance. Take the heat away and suddenly these 20 random people pair up in to 10 teams, they...
You're right WQHD isn't that much bigger than HD in fact less than twice the resolution. My point was that in 1999 the computer I bought came with a 4GB HDD. When TeraByte drives came out I thought there's no way I could come close to filling one of those up but the resolution of everything we capture from a data st...
I feel like we are at a tipping point. I got a mailer the other day for a Crucial 960GB SSD, on sale for less than $600, and Samsung's 500GB SSD sells for about $350, so it would surprise me if Samsung wanted more than twice that for the 1TB version. These drives will be in the $100 range in less than 5 years. May...
Slc is fastest, last the longest, and the most expensive. Because it's a single level, density is low, so each geebee costs more dollars. Tlc is cheapest, lasts the shortest, also the slowest. More geebees for less money, but they wear out faster, along with some performance issues as the drive fills up. If you're an...
Well, as a Norwegian born in the Netherlands and who reads, writes and speaks both languages, as well as German and English, and with two tears of high school French on top of that, you are somewhat right. Dutch as a language has been heavily influenced by it's neighbouring languages, too such a degree that you could...
after reading many comments below. i thought, why would the NSA waste so much to crack and listen to these people and why would these people encrypt their messages or calls from the NSA? has anyone been jailed without due process because of this? what does NSA do with all these messages and communication? what effect t...
Just as crwcomposer has tried to explain, the problem you point out that most/all smartphones are not open source is completely separate from the issue of the devs of hemlis refusing to release all of their source code. If they refuse to release all of the source used in their binary distribution then the code is not o...
I'm always bewildered and a little bit amused by people's reactions to social network privacy. Maybe it's because I'm just slightly older (I'm 30), but the solution to all these problems has always been completely obvious to me: Don't post anything online that you would not want an "important person" to read. This ...
You know what really pisses me off about Facebook? I deleted my account around the same time I moved several hours away to a new location. Not long ago, I made a new account with the same email address I used for my old account. Recently I have been getting emails from Facebook suggesting friends. The people it is sugg...
Maybe not, but in an unlawful dismissal case in New Zealand a woman was forced by an employment tribunal to make her FB account available to her employer. The employer wanted to check that on the days she'd called in sick (i think it was a family illness) that she wasn't doing something else. The tribunal made her pr...
This one is the best, I remember when they were just starting out. Amazingly handy and should be in everyone's bookmarks. Same with [
I work for an ISP - there'll be no 'list' created, I can say that with some confidence. We're also heavily restricted into what information we give out (DPA), so even if we had nothing better to do, than browse our customer database (which is basically like reading the phone book :S) the info would never get past the p...
You should read this again when you're sober.
Yep, you got it. Basically they charge you for the cost of providing the service and then simply expect you to pay for whichever device to use with the service. If you can buy the phone outright from wherever it's no skin if their back, or you can lease to own from their store. At the end of the day they just want your...
I was happy with it for the first few weeks. I had just gotten a Nexus 5, and I didn't want to wait until Ting received their shipment of SIM cards to use my new phone. I have a few general complaints, which most people who have used T-Mobile generally complain about. I didn't get any reception where I worked (baseme...
Anything that fucks with AT&T is good with me. Ive said this story multiple times, but it always bears repeating, as it perfectly illustrates how bad they plan to fuck their customers over. Living in military housing, there are different rules. AT&T is the only group allowed (by contract) to work on military infras...
VZW bill with 3 lines (2 grand-fathered unlimited and 1 dumb phone) was $235/month (including taxes)! Tmo new bill is $124/month (1 line with 2.5gb, 2 lines with 500mb). After I pay off the phones, bill will be $100/month (plus taxes).
If parent is still reading, I'm in the Baltimore/DC area also (Baltimore, to be exact), and yes, it's better to switch. Coverage is phenomenal here, partly because DC/Baltimore is one of the original markets. In the 1990s, Sprint started a GSM network called Sprint Spectrum. Fast forward a few years, and they decide...
I did not read the article, but I did stint with another very large company (apple rival, have a guess) who I feel had the same attitude. It was ok for those who walked in and asked for what we were want, but a lot of really talented people (usually the younger more naive) get starstruck and just get raped by the compa...
All of this is based on a single employee That single employee worked there for just one month That single employee was just a contractor All of his bad experiences were based on just a single boss At no point did the employee try to work things out by trying to talk about it or move to another team.
my brother is a pretty well known motion graphics artist and apple contacted him for a project. they wanted to pay an insultingly low per diem rate and he told them that his rates were much higher. he said they refused to budge, relying on the "but you get to work for us" effect to kick in. but it didn't work and my ...
HR departments are a joke. I worked Apple retail for a few years in my early twenties as a lowly Genius Bar schlub. We had a manager who made inappropriate comments about people you associated with in the store "those aren't the kind of people you should hang around with". He would criticize people's appearance "may...
Actually, in this case Netflix is now connecting directly to Comcast. So for all intents and purposes Comcast is becoming an ISP for Netflix. Surely you don't think that should be free? The real problem in this whole situation was Cogent. If Netflix used something like Akamai (which makes localized copies and serves ...
Exuse me mr President, but part of your post is perpetuating a lie about the pharmaceutical industry [BritishMedicalJournal]( This is a study done on drug development costs done by the british journal of medicine Bullet points: 1, 3% of pharma profits go to research 4/5 of the total r&d costs are covered by pub...
Whenever I see something here, and in the news subreddit about the FBI being intrusive in the public's privacy, I always try to be the devil's advocate. As much as I want to believe that each intrusion to the peoples private information was for a reason, and with probable cause, they don't. They'll always be exigent ci...
What happened here is that an intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) of CNNIC in Egypt, MDS Holdings, apparently issued certificates (including www.gmail.com) to themselves and installed them in a web proxy server (in a "test network"). These proxies work by effectively doing a MitM attack on the traffic. This is norm...
No, I do not think anyone's shaming anyone for wanting to make a profit. But it is dangerous to think that a company should have a sole goal of making a profit because that is one step towards a business losing it's true direction and purpose. In US economics, the intent is for a business to be balanced by the consum...
my step dad used to sell phones for cellular one during the initial boom. He then got into ATT for a few years. Once cingular bought out ATT is when we started having problems. Mostly with billing and customer service though, which went down the shitter quick. When i went to renew my contract with cingular for the firs...
Here is the 100% accurate way to find out if your Wifi connection is secure: 1) Look at your Wifi Access Point. 2) Is the Power light active? 3) Is the LAN active? 4) is the WiFi light active? If yes to 2,3, and 4, then your WiFi connection is NOT secure.
Spotify is great. It streams quickly, has all the music you want (apart from the occassional obscure song) and best of all is free. The free version plays adverts at what seems like random intervals, sometimes you'll go a couple of hours without hearing an ad and others you'll hear one every other song. I used to g...
Analogy: If some guy were seeding the entire CIA database in a torrent somewhere, but the tracker was only available on the pirate bay, it wouldn't have too much impact. Your analogy is ok, but it's not a sure thing. It's sort of like how things go viral, it's fairly unpredictable. All it would take would be one ne...
Do you have any stock picks to recommend?
You've never had to deal with date/time issues in code before, I bet. Programming around moments in time is surprisingly difficult. You have to be aware of timezones, different methods of representation, synchronizing with official clocks, frequently complicated APIs, and possibly bugs in the underlying APIs. At one ...
While I'm not defending the fact that this is a major bug (I was affected by it today, it sucked), it's not as simple as you might think. Time is a very difficult thing to handle. There are so many exceptions and trivialities that it can drive you insane. I've programmed time applications before - leap years, time zone...
I tried out this software earlier this week. Here's my take: Pros: Near-instant meta search for lots of torrent sites Search results sorted by popularity Clean interface Cons: Not actually decentralized tracking. Tribbler simply uses existing trackers in the same fashion as all other torrent sof...
I have VERY briefly skimmed the article so maybe I'm missing some internet black magic, but why do people keep writing things like this headline? I'm not even a professional net admin and I know its BS. There are so many ways to stop anything you don't want on the internet. I got as far as this protocol saying "requ...
A word of warning from someone who has tried using it this program in the past: The UI is pretty buggy and glitchy. Streaming playback is done using VLC, but it uses its own copy of the program and it often breaks itself and won't stream, or the buttons will get stuck and you can't change volume or whatever. It also go...
We, and I use the term "we" to refer to the vast majority of technology minded individuals, hate the term "cloud" for the same reasons marketeers and other simple minded, smash your face against the wall inducing dimwits love it. It means ab-so-fucking-lute-ly nothing and people go completely apeshit for anything that ...
Lol, how do you think childporn works exactly? You don't just type in childporn.com and start fapping... Most sites that traffic hard candy (c-p) are either message boards like 4chan where the occasional photos leak out yet it is not the sole purpose of the site... it would be like banning access to a subway system to ...
There were a bunch of guys on belgian tv who did the exact same thing just to prove a point: they created a press agency and released random fake stories and where suprised of how many actually got published in mayor newspapers and even picked up by foreign news. Of all the stories that got published only one journal...
IE7 was IE6 with a few features from CSS2 like :hover and min-height (which every other browser already supported, and which was from a 1995 standard), and a few other features like support for PNG transparency and tabs finally added. IE7 fixed the largest feature deficiencies in IE6, but it still had tons of bugs ...
Really? Because people seemed to have forgiven Microsoft fairly quickly for Vista since W7 came out. Please find me an alternative to Windows that will run all the programs and games a Windows user uses. There isn't one. Yet I can think of three browsers on par or superior to IE9. They have no reason to even try ...
OK, I'm thinking this whilst I'm writing it, so possibly not going to be the best idea... The MPAA and the AMA seem to be bribing your politicians, in the name of protecting their intellectual property. Boycott them. As far as I can tell, the demand for entertainment (in the UK at least) is as strong as ever, and...
Yes, exactly why one should never keep wild animals as pets :) Or, at the very LEAST (I believe Travis was a 'hollywood' animal, and worked in movies and commercials) take extreme care whenever handling with them. Because you just never know when theyre gunna tear off your face and hands.
wrong. Your missing his point. SOPA had no offensive material other than the legislation. The average person never reads past the title of a bill. H.R. 1981 just with the title alone is going to be unstoppable as was mentioned above because no one is going to argue against protecting children for the porn industry. SOP...
If the attack is a 0day you can't do anything about it. By definition the AV doesn't know about it so you're fucked whether or not there's a picture of a fruit stuck to your machine. The OS itself isn't the weak point anymore, things like Flash are easier to hit. Although, Windows does still keep getting patched for vu...
As someone who uses his computer quite past its maximum capabilities, and has gotten his hands on multiple mac's as well as windows, antivirus really has quite an impact. now, what is going on here is the bottlenecks are what hold things back, and a AV uses all. HDD, CPU, RAM, network, everything. If none of these are ...
People who own PCs for the most part don't know shit about how their computers work, and that's fine by them. So they install AV software and think they're invulnerable, and that AV software is just a fact of PC owning life. The truth is that AV software is often a sham: It is possible to have a secure computer witho...
It really bothers me that people think a certain brand is more susceptible to viruses. Security through obscurity is not security at all. Most people have Windows ([one of many sources]( therefore there will be more exploits found for that OS because that's what everyone is using. I'm not gonna focus my time finding...
This comment will probably never be read. In my stint in IT, I always describe OS as humans. There are several immune systems as well as operating systems. All immune systems can be compromised. Even if you are someone who is healthy you can get a virus. It is wise get your vaccines just in case. Take your vitami...
The Air is indeed super quick... if you have not used any new computers in the past year, and when I mean new, I mean using new parts . Not the best, just within the last generation or two of computer components. For what it is great? I will say that I am glad that Microsoft has a competitor in the willing-to-spend-...
I made a few edits but, this is something I posted in this [submission]( a few weeks ago. Not sure what the virus was but it was a visible issue on our network. For the record I am a huge fan of Apple products... >I used to work for a major cable ISP back in the day (about 8 years ago) and we had the ability to monit...
Hey I've got a technical question for y'all internet experts out there. So, the way I understand it, your IP address in IPv6 will be unique from everyone using the same router, because IPv6 does not need/use a NAT. So because of this, if more than 1 person uses the same router, they will still have distinct IP addres...
MegaUpload's counter-argument on jurisdiction: > Megaupload's argument turns around rule 4 of the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure which is said to pose a hurdle to serving a corporation that resides on foreign soil as it requires that "a summons is served on an organization by delivering a copy to an officer, to a...
Savulescu has been pretty vocal in saying that humans should be genetically enhancing their children. It is nothing new for him to say stuff like this. The writer of this article used horrible vocabulary to explain his position by saying "screen in" and "screen out". While this is technically correct, it leads to probl...
Hi there, I'm a psychology grad student who does research in the area of genetic correlates of personality traits. This article is really frightening, partly because we are not there yet. This guy is acting like this sort of thing is right around the corner, yet we still do not really have a handle on the genetic c...
The biggest danger of genetic modification is that we change a few small things, then a few more then a few more. Finally we get to a point where the entire race is dependent on technology to survive. Optimizing humans genetically requires the assumption that our civilization will never collapse. Not that it matter...
You have no clue what my understanding is, as far as this thread has gone it has been nothing but two separate opinions on how this nation should move forward. Some people prefer to have more control over their own lives, and what their money goes to. I stuck to the topic for the entire argument, If it is one thing i...
Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Coca Cola and Apple just called. They said they're going to stop branding their products because they all come from the same sweatshops and assembly lines as their competitors that make the same exact products.
The citation for that is right in the article the OP links to. I'll try to translate: >"Es ist ja klar, dass der Verlag dagegen vorgeht, wenn mein Buch auf einer Homepage zum Download steht. Ich sehe darin auch keinen Widerspruch. Ich lehne nicht das Urheberrecht, sondern den Begriff des geistigen Eigentums ab, weil ...
I'd say the biggest practical difference is that you as an individual taxpayer have almost zero impact on...well...anything. You and I have no public face or position that anyone pays attention to and nobody in the broader public associates you personally with an idea in any meaningful way. As the leader of a party w...
Neural Networks have been around for centuries. The only new thing is the scale of the network, which is not necessarily a good thing. The more layers and components the network has, the more it tends to overfit, therefore not generalizing any information at all. In my opinion it is much more interesting how they tied ...
Reading their regulations: >55 7.1 If a Member exercises its right in accordance with the Convention to suspend international telecommunication services partially or totally , that Member shall immediately notify the Secretary-General of the suspension and of the subsequent return to normal conditions by the...
It only matters in the long term, I think. Where they are going with it, and probably not with the current people in charge. Google seems to understand our generation. That sharing, and open content is where the money is, not regulating everyone to death and copyrighting or patenting every bloody thing. Hopefully w...
I'm currently waiting on some general cleanup stuff on a WinXP install on a laptop with a busted hinge, trying to salvage it as an XBMC setup. For the setup process, I decide to go headless like any linux system could do just fine with sshd, since I don't want to sit there holding it open with one hand, typing with the...
In my real world experience with AT&T's HSPA+ is that it is rarely faster than verizon or sprints EVDO due to overloaded networks. That's not always the case though and while the point you make is valid, it has never held up in real world situations for me.