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I'm in indirect sales for Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. It's purely a money thing. AT&T easily has the means to aggressively roll out LTE and lay fiber to support it, considering the profit margins they have. The argument about strain on the network is completely bunk. Data is inherently infinite. There is no pool of ...
Wouldn't data caps effectively reduce bandwidth usage by discouraging people from doing online stuff? I mean, statistically speaking, you would end up with a smaller peak bandwidth usage if everybody was considering whether or not to use their arbitrary "internet usage points" to download whatever they wanted to downlo...
Obviously you haven't actually watched the video. It's clearly not a process where you literally print a burger and eat it. Maybe at some time in the future that will be possible. But right now it seems that the idea is to 'print' the meat product and then it would go through the same distribution chains and outlets...
Are you fucking kidding me? The combustion engine has trillions in R & D.... This is one very small cross section of proof (used because it contains pictures), this is just ONE of Toyota's engine models the [Toyota A straight 4 cylinder]( You can visually see all of the R & D put into this engine model, it goes from be...
Over the past decade we have seen a lot change, our technology has grown exponentially while our thirst for big profits has grown along with it. Companies see the opportunity to make huge profits by making the maintenance on their products exclusively theirs, which in turn alienates us as consumers. Corporations also h...
The defcon lecture about fooling biometrics is really interesting. You can do it with all sorts of stuff. Anything from gummy worms to certain resins and even gum.
Except it will take a LOT of vote buying for that to happen. "Supporters" would need to pay 289 members of the house (at least) and 51 members of the senate (at least) to overturn a veto. According to the voting roll 42 ayes were Democrat (206 Republican) and, through history, veto votes usually fall on party li...
I don't mean to be that guy, but no, not really, not according to the letter of the law. Google AdSense makes direct, prohibitive mention of monetizing footage of video games. That video game EULA nobody reads usually explicitly bars you from "public exhibitions" or "network transmission" of various description. Last...
I built my first rig and bought 80% of the parts from newegg. I went in having read various articles and guides and it was a great learning experience. It gave me a better knowledge of what is actually going inside my computer case. Having never built one before I think I went in over my head. Overall i'm pretty frug...
My experience is that Dell gives zero f*cks about you whether or not you buy your computer through them. I bought an XPS laptop from them about 4 years ago. It took them 2.5 months to ship it to me, partially because they for no possible reason cancelled the order in their system twice without me ever interacting wi...
I doubt this will be the case in the near future. I'm also not sure where the article gets the price tag for this jet. [Wiki]( has it at $240 million which is still a shit ton of money. The Harrier went through the same type of development in its early years. The Marines need VTOL aircraft and they are not cheap nor...
The library can only check out as many copies of an e-book as they’ve purchased or licensed from publishers. Seems like an antiquated way of going about things, right? What does the author of this shitty article expect? That libraries should be able to pay a single license fee and then distribute infinite copies simu...
The paper is mostly about Shannon entropy vs. Reyni entropy. They work an example using hashed passwords, but I think the core concept applies to much more than that. Basically: if the plaintext isn't completely uniform, the useful entropy of a cyphertext won't be nearly as high as you might think. I think this con...
Amateurs didn't destroy the professional music business. Attempting to tell people what they like did, instead of providing music that we liked. They didn't want change, as change brings uncertainty. Their fear of loss of revenue destroyed their source of income. Don't tell me what I like, let me choose it and mak...
As a college student in Germany, I can say that if you are looking for parttime work on the usual jobsites for students, it is basicly 75% companies looking for programmers. Now of course I do not know if that is a sign for a general shortage of programmers and you can easily get a fulltime employment or if it is a sig...
It's not the phone, it's the OS. Edit: Or more specifically, the fact that Microsoft made it.
MUNICIPAL ISPs may not share data with the NSA! That means they support terrorism!
What makes you think government is the only entity capable of using force for it's regulation? Remember the coal mines of the way back when. They would machine gun and burn towns when the people wanted things like enough food for their children for their labor. Absent regulation businesses will use their force privatel...
Yes, I click one button and generally don't see it again the rest of the time I'm at a computer. Meaning "I welcome the little inconveniences, because I'm subdued."
Oh god, don't get me started on the synaptics touchpad bullshit. You can disable that behavior in registry (and perhaps their tools), but man does it bug me when they invoke charms or app switch because you dared brush the edge of the touchpad. It sucks that we get blamed for that, but the same thing happened in Vista ...
Any machine with a solid state drive likely also has an UEFI BIOS. The real killer drag on boot times over the last 5 years hasn't been Windows boot times (that was mainly an issue 10-15 years ago). It's been sitting through the POST of the traditional BIOS. Windows 8 hybrid hibernated boot takes off mere seconds. ...
Absolutely right. People assume you can just Google a problem and find the answer and parrot that all over the Reddits. "Dey'll take der jobs!" Dey won't. I have yet to meet an average user who could figure out the correct terminology. They can use Google for the things they are good at, but not tech. My father i...
I actually really like windows 8. I don't know if it's just because I got a new computer that came with it so everything felt faster, but it's really smooth. I haven't had a single problem with it. Granted it's just an 800 dollar internet machine, and sometimes I use it for school, but seeing as how that's what a large...
I should specify, I had to promise hell fire and brimstone on april 8th to my boss if we didn't ditch XP, but to keep him from being pissy every two minutes, I had to install custom themes, classic shell, and custom printer drivers which require the "special boot which allows unsigned drivers". Then regular Win8 option...
It is actually pretty simple if you think about it. People who started with computers in the 70's know how to program in basically everything because they had to make their own rather than buy them. People who started in the 80's know how to troubleshoot most programs and operating systems regardless of who develop...
actually in all of my experience, windows is really exceptional at requiring a lot of driver workaround before migrating a hdd to a (even slightly) different computer/chipset. usually it's storage drivers that make it BSOD on startup all the time, (and no, startup repair etc never fixes it). so i'd be especially wary...
Well actually the point of business is to turn profit. Thats the only thing a company is interested in, technological progress, happy customers, healthy competition are all side product. But thats all ok as long as we have a system that keeps the balance, we have healthy legislation, we have competition, bureaucrats th...
I pay for 107 from Suddenlink and wasn't getting it for several months. Last Septemper it got really bad, especially during peak hours. I was only getting 10-20mbits. I suspected that my node was saturated and confirmed that suspicion one day when the power went out in my town. I have my modem and router on a battery b...
Thanks for the love. I'm an academic librarian. Our system, Innovative's Sierra, purges patron check out records beyond the second user. You can only view who currently has it out and who had it before them. On a funny note, we really do retain your records if you don't return books. For example, since the stock ...
Academic Librarian here (Community College). We are protecting your privacy in 2 ways. Once a book is checked back in, we have no way of seeing who has ever checked it out. The only thing attached to the record is the last date it was checked in. We have a program called Deep Freeze on our public computers. Any...
There's a reason for some of that. In order to receive certain federal funding, public and school libraries must have filtering software on their computers as part of CIPA. This is an [imperfect system]( and some libraries will make errors out of extreme caution: >Often, it is because the institutions and individuals r...
Indeed. This sensationalist title seems to obscure some parts of the fact. I've been an iPhone 6 owner and I've never even come close to bending that shit. Even if you're as fat as my dad, it really doesn't bend even if you put it in a jean pocket. If you sit on it, however, that's a completely different story...
If that is true, It would take you 30-60 seconds to verify this. Are you that lazy? >This is my last post, because I think 3 posts is enough. I mean, any more I might be called some sort of wackjob that wanted to argue on the internet more than look at facts because I had some sort of political agenda where I someh...
I'm not arrogant, I'm honest. Yeah? Then explain this: >You've spent pages ... Pages? >I've handled both devices from apple, they are reasonably sturdy. I have as well (even own and use an iPhone 5C daily.) And that's exactly my concern. Previous models have been sturdy. Not without shortcomings, but at least...
95% of the time it's under my shirt and you can't see it at all. If I am working at a particular job and have to have my shirt tucked in, they would expect someone like me to have a holstered phone.
I've been wondering if this is going to be an American news story this morning. These are the news stories were finding as we check: Kardashians are upset about something, how to lose weight, Obamas Visit to China, 'Vacation Breasts' or 'insta breasts', how far left the Democratic Party is, finally, on BBC world news...
Find a copy of windows 7, NOT windows 8 unless you want a headache. Then follow these instructions.
the frontpage of reddit is one of the most attractive advertising spaces on the internet. how many times have you seen a picture proudly toting a major brand live subway or taco bell that ultimately doesn't even seem like that interesting of a post? I'd argue that, more often than not, these sorts of posts are intentio...
Windows phone doesn't allow developers to access the cell ID info, just like iPhone.
The fact is that all chips you buy, in the same family, are from the same design. You aren't exceeding the design of the hardware if you aren't running it faster than what the manufacturer already sells. I recently bought an i7-920 and I am running it like an i7-975 on stock cooling. I do this mainly because I want t...
What you mean here is " I cannot imagine any circumstances in which I would let it out", but that's far, far, far from being the same thing as "I would never let it out". You're only as smart as you, so all you're really saying is "someone only as smart as me couldn't persuade me to open it". Well... yeah, obviously...
This is true. I work for the Apple tech support line and have to explain this many times a day. I actually feel good doing it, as an avid PC fan, telling customers that if they chose a Windows machine, they would be able to sync their new devices. Breakdown: 1. iPhone 4, iPad or iPad 2, iPod Touch 4, iPod Shuffl...
He has a Macbook that is still running 10.4 Tiger, but for some reason he never realized that Apple has released two major OS versions since then and never thought that he would need to update the software on his machine. He then went and bought an iPhone 4 without looking at the published spec requirements and doesn't...
Tiger is obsolete. Any computer that can run Tiger can run Leopard, which has been out for 4 years now. If you call AppleCare and tell them you have a Tiger machine and can't use your other Apple hardware because it requires Leopard, they will typically offer you a free or discounted upgrade. Even full price is on...
I don't believe they will shut down anything large like youtube, reddit, facebook or twitter. The second the government starts permanently detaining Alex Jones or Steven Colbert under NDAA laws, you'll have massive protests and awareness of government corruption. They wont do that, the government is smarter than we giv...
I'm with you up until "CREATE A NEW POLITICAL PARTY." The US system is set up to completely marginalize anyone trying to get a view represented outside either major party (with the exception of local offices where one party is already dominant). However, there is nothing that prevents people from promoting the proact...
I hope SOPA does pass so all you faggot basement dwellers take your neck beards some place else.
Well, here's my thirty-something take on it. Life gets harder the older you get. Might sound obvious, but think about this - the second you are in right now, is the easiest your life is going to be for a very very long time. And that wears you down after a while. It's not some sudden realization, some decision when...
ok lets say you create a program, write a song or produce a movie, or any other activity that costs u time, money and effort. lets say you spent your life savings pursuing your idea and are able to release a product to the public. it starts generating money (people buy your cd, go see your movie in theaters, etc.). ...
It's a sultry night in July, you've fallen asleep in the arm chair. Abruptly, you startle awake, disoriented. The television is on.. But, not the sound. You strain to understand what you're seeing. Two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are softly dancing. They make strange little skipping motions which pro...
As far as I understand it, polygamy does affect you (unless you are already married). I am no expert, but from what I read, seen and from basic logic, traditional polygamy (where a man can have multiple wives, rather than the other way around) benefits women and disadvantages all but the most suitable men. Fewer men ...
No, I recognize that there were good qualities in the south. Before, during, and after the civil war. Their were brave men and women on both sides. What I am saying, is TODAY, the confederate flag is not a symbol of that strength, it is a symbol of the hate that predominated the south during that time, and it is a symb...
Hate to be "That Libertarian Guy" but when we say stuff like "It's within a company's rights to not hire [insert subjugated minority] people, even though it's a terrible idea", we're thinking like Microsoft is here. Like a successful business should think. Microsoft might actually hate gay people (who knows?) but it's ...
I understand what you're saying. But perceived disadvantages in the long run doesn't seem to be a good enough to deny someone the right to happiness and freedom. I could be a gay man and say 'Straight marriages/couples tend to reproduce on an already overpopulated planet whereas gay couples do not. Therefore, we should...
Dark people tend not to use sun tan lotion. The point of the labels is that their are behavioral and cultural differences between various ethnic groups. Indians eat basmati, chinese eat chinese rice, latinos eat yellow rice, and white people tend to eat bread. Of course they could all suddenly switch, or change up ...
This is an argument that has been put forth by economist Richard Florida. I don't always agree with his assessments but overall I like his thinking. [Richard Florida]( If you really want to learn about his work, I suggest you take an hour and watch the following: [The Flight of the Creative Class]( If you do end ...
well, not so biased as this, but it is about state rights and the freedom for the states to make decisions for themselves. The confederacy was not fighting about slavery, but their constitutional right to make decisions for themselves. Abraham Lincoln actually violated the rights initially promised to the states by r...
I'm very confused here. We are in support of having a corporation affect politics? I thought that we were very much against that. Yes, it's a good move they are making, but in the end they even state that this is for the company's best interest: "This in turn will help us continue to compete for talent." If Microso...
I'm going to let you in on a not-so-secret fact here: the first version of Android, as purchased by Google, was a Blackberry knockoff. It looked very little like say, Eclair or Froyo. The VM was mostly worked out and the root of what's at the bottom of the OS was more or less what you see today, but the interface was w...
I'm guessing, since these "journalists" (and I use the term loosely) don't provide a source or any reasoning behind these claims), that they simply looked at the requested privileges of an app and ran wild with the result. Annoyingly enough, on Android at least, getting the phone serial number (to uniquely identify a ...
That 30% is just the number that actually bother to click the terms and conditions link. Whether they actually read, much less understand, those terms and conditions are another issue entirely. Personally I always click and scan such terms, usually failing to actually read the whole thing thoroughly. Then again I alway...
This study looked at (only 100) people in the 18-25 age group, which tends toward narcissism and low self-esteem anyway (as young people trying to find their place in the world and determine who they are). In order to trust the results of a study attempting to profile a service that has hundreds of millions of users,...
Why is everyone surprised about this? If you want to avoid this type of Social Shit Networks, don't fucking use faceshit, twatter or goggling+, simple. I don't use those and still keep in touch with all my friends via something called, real life. I avoid social networking sites now a days because they keep crossing t...
Yes it was. So corporate lobbying in Brussels has made sure this would not happen. Here in Belgium, the utility companies charge people who don't have solar cells (who mostly can't afford to place them anyway) an additional fee. Reason ? The costs of putting solar power back into the grid when not used...
I'm a little fuzzy on the details because this isn't my area of expertise - however I had a long talk with a few people in the industry, and these were their main talking points: Power does not "hang around" the grid - a complete circuit is needed. If power demand rises sharply, voltage will drop - and if power us...
no one will argue that point, saying any form of technology doesn't need improvement would be detrimental scientifically. I just hate hearing those who oppose anything electric say we shouldn't try. Of course ICE platforms will do more for cheaper, it is fully developed tech that has over 100 years of experience with...
I don't think your first point is correct. Your example of the transistor is a good one. Making a transistor with gain was not simple the first time it was done. Figuring out how to make a good transistor that could be mass produced took a long time. I think it relates more to the fact that physics as a discipline is...
Ah yeah, I remember TWENTY GODDAMN YEARS AGO WHEN THOSE WERE RELEVANT. Ascii was the shut but really, porn us an important part of life, I don't understand the lack of it. I literally post it all the time and I couldn't go without that. Damn drunk talk,
the income of most media creators is going to be strongly reduced Let us suppose that's true. So what? People will spend the money on something else. You seem to be making the assumption that less money going to creating art is automatically bad. Maybe if people spent less money on media they would donate more money ...
I am condemning it for claiming it is any shade of moral to have those laws. While I partially agree with you in general policy I disagree with this assertion. Copyrights are a compromise. They exist to provide protection, and hence incentive, for creators to publicize their creations (and perhaps produce them in the...
A few things I disagree with. For one thing, that system doesn't protect the original creator's rights. If you make a product you want to profit from it right? But without copyrights or patents some larger business with more resources can steal your idea and mass produce it, driving you out of business and then forming...
What OS would that be? The single biggest malware outbreak in modern times, in percentage of total userbase infected, was the Mac OSX Flashback. It infected as much as 1% of the total Mac OSX userbase . The biggest Windows outbreak in modern times, Conficker, infected 0.7% of user base. Now, someone will say that ...
Can a badass play by the rules? I am not familiar with that trope. I kid. I know I sound like that a bit, and hilariously and unintentionally my username lets me get away with it a bit since people assume it's a novelty thing. However, I really do hate piracy. I have a lot of friends who do indie media for a living...
I live in New Zealand, a while ago on a radio station called The Edge a caller said he tweeted Kim Dotcom to ask if he wanted to go to his barbecue, and he went! Apparently he's super chill and shit. Class act.
This has always been a contentious point for me. I had assumed that the internet would make a lot of this stuff cheaper. You aren't producing any actual stuff, other than data. You can blame DVDs for this trend actually. When DVDs replaced VHS, people suddenly had to re-purchase their entire movie libraries because D...
No company ever is just thinking about creating or removing jobs: they only think about making more money. That is the only goal of a public company. If Apple moves jobs from China to the US, it is because they thought this through and they are convinced that this will net them more profits, either because sales number...
I've never paid more than $300 for a laptop and have never wanted or needed more features or performance. I even having a standing offer to buy any of my friends or relatives a new computer if they can show me how theirs is "too slow" and have never had anyone take me up.
I cancelled my AT&T and went to Straight Talk. I noticed a severe lack in data quality immediately, despite Straight Talk using AT&T's network. Also, buried in the terms and conditions they explicitly prohibit streaming of any kind. I streamed during my first month and after about 2GB of data I kept getting spam auto...
But that is the thing, they did acknowledge it, they said yes, everything will go up and at tax time you will be compensated for it. It is tough to carry that debt all year for sure. They did say though that they don't expect it to have a practical impact on the populace though, which I think was a little naive (becaus...
To everyone that is complaining that these things happen too often: That is exactly why they are doing it. They want to keep repeating these things until people are tired of fighting it. that way they can say, "well not many people actively opposed it. I didn't get too many calls from people in my district, that must m...
I expected the top post to contain some talking points that we could use when calling our reps. After reading the bill and some articles on it, here's what I see: CISPA will give the government the ability to get information that it can't get constitutionally today. It makes it easier for companies to give the go...
To play the devils advocate: The thing with the cert is that it confirms that you are who you say you as guaranteed by a trusted cert provider. If the cert provider can't be trusted to not give a valid certificate to others this would make them no longer trusted. For example if some government agency ask the cert...
Why? If Chinese labour can make products cheaper and easier for Canadians, I'm all for it. If it's possible to discriminate and say American jobs are inherently superior to Chinese jobs, then it's reasonable to go further. Why should a Vancouverite have to suffer Toronto taking all our jobs? Buy BC only! (and so on unt...
Americans have three levels of privacy protection: Constitutional, stemming from the 4th amendment's right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures (and a ton of very complicated precedents governing what this means in a changing world). Statutory, stemming from an overlapping and conflicting mess of st...
Define "privacy" and you have your answer about the confusion. Can your creepy ex read your mail? No. Can the NSA? SURE! Users should all expect that Google can do with the contents of their message whatever it likes. The EULA tells them what Google intends to do, but that can change at any time.
Why the FUCK don't more people use PGP encryption for their email? At least then it doesn't matter what the email looks like on the server; you decrypt it on the device! I still use an email client on my desktop, and the beauty of most PGP plugins is that they only store the encrypted comments, and de-encrypt only in...
From my understanding (I haven't read the filing itself) Google isn't saying "non-Gmail users have no expectation of privacy" but that "if people send an email to a Google account they understand that Google will have to process it." The key quote seems to be (based on [this article]( > Non-Gmail users who send ema...
Do you work in the online as industry? You seem very well informed. I ask only because it used to be my job too. But anyway, you're right. But you're also not quite right that DoubleClick is the only way to get that kind of data. Google Analytics, a tool which is free and easy to use, gathers a lot of the same inform...
Soz, you're perfectly right, I'm not concentrating on the positives, and that was an insightful statistical argument at the end there. I might add that im not in the states, I imagine things are a lot better for artists there. Most of the people i've met in the music industry in my country seem to just be concerned w...
While I agree with your statement, that's not what conshinz asked. The answer at least in my case would be: rarely but I buy and pirate different stuff like - buy Tarantino, Nolan but pirate Emmerich, Spielberg Quote: "and the fact that research shows that file-sharers actually spend more money on entertainment than...
This reminds me of a depressing story one of my Econ professors told us. He was hired by the state of Alabama to do an expensive cost benefit analysis of a proposal to dredge some river so that they could widen it for more barge traffic. So after paying him and his firm a large amount of money to do this analysis, they...
I'm glad for cheap, pay services, I think they've really helped. I used to download movies, now I use Netflix. I used to download PC games, now I wait for them to be SUPER cheap on Steam. If I were into a lot of new music, I'd use Spotify, or whatever. I think. Either way, that's what's helping us; it's just cheap. 2...
OK, music industry defenders who think "this is bullshit," I'm confused: are you agreeing with the music industry's assertion that "we can't compete with free," meaning that people don't buy specifically because they can receive the same product for free? If that's true, then how is the UK study's finding explained...
I want to correct some of the information in here, because it sounds like there is a lot of mis understanding or misconception around whether or not Sony is losing money on the PS4 console, and whether that is wise or not. TRUE or FALSE : Sony is losing money on the PS4 hardware. TRUE . By many bring each unit s...
We did. It's just that the invention requires larger lenses and sensors to get around fundamental limitations. To go back to your earlier analogy about computers, and how they used to be the size of rooms-- we have today tiny pocket computers that can do what those did. But we also still have computers the size of r...
Yeah anybody can do this with a 200 39 megapixel image.
This is more of a usability problem than a pricing problem. Uber's business strategy is sound: cars should always be available. Uber optimizes around the "hit the 'Pick up' button and go" experience, which is a fantastic experience. Reliability is one of the biggest differentiators in any transportation system. To th...
Uber is becoming increasingly shitty as a service. Not two weeks ago I had a driver taking me to a holiday party. I asked if it would be okay if we stopped a liquor store so I could grab a bottle of wine for the host. It's a small corner store and I knew exactly what wine I was getting and I knew where it was and I a...
When I render images in HD, it's not uncommon for a single uncompressed frame to be in the tens of megabytes. Each second is 24 frames for film. A typical 120minute film is about 7200 seconds, and 7200 x 24frames is 172,800. Now if each uncompressed frame was about 20MB , a whole movie would come out to about 3.3TB (...
I would beg to differ somewhat. The majority of people have some idea what an image shot on film should typically look like. But when it comes down to it, "looks like film" can often pass for authenticity to a public that is now typically unaccustomed to seeing film images on a day-to-day basis. For example, take photo...