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The fact that Alexa plus is mentioned first means nothing. From November's ICG Magazine "The Wolf of Wall Street was set for digital capture, with extensive testing done with Alexa. However during discussions with Scorsese, Prieto noticed how often film came up. 'I kept hearing Marty say he liked the way film looked...
It's a great concept, but the controls are really uncomfortable, which can be really annoying when you want to build something versatile. Having the arrow keys do the rotating rather than WASD is really dumb since all of the rest of the controls are on the left side of the keyboard, so you have to take your hand off ...
Another anecdote.. I ordered an $8 micro SD a week or so ago from Amazon. It shipped from the wrong place so it was 4 days late. After it was late I called them and they gave me a $5 credit. Once I got the order I used the page to return it as I already bought one local and they gave me my money back and told m...
Although it is certainly nice to think about some of this stuff, not all of it is actually applicable in that manner. Say powerlines. We are having to talk DC (as RF has resistance in superconductors, although it is lower than in regular conductors under ~100GHz). Then you need to make sure you are a good deal below ...
The government doesn't force all oil produced in the U.S. to be sold in the U.S. so prices will probably go down a little bit.
Correct but the U.S. being a bigger oil producer doesn't lower supply. The United State's oil has already been factored into the market price. Everyone in the industry knew that the US was up and coming from studying their production trends. Now say, tomorrow the US discovered a play that would let them produce 10x the...
Yes, Western PA is home to the Marcellus shale play. There are a lot of companies that have offices in Pittsburg. Also, Denver is home to a some O&G companies as well if you are looking to stay cool. That said, Houston is absolutely wonderful for someone like you(granted I'm born and raised here) and let me explain...
The guy certainly could've handled the situation better but I won't argue or call him spoiled for being upset at the situation. He agreed to buy a product that wasn't delivered at the time and condition that was agreed on. Let's paint a smaller scale scenario that more people might be able to relate to. Let's say you...
I'm not defending his actions, but I want to point out where he is coming from (cultural perspective): In China (Asia), it would be extremely disrespectful and socially unacceptable for him to damage someone else's property (not including riots/etc, which don't really have social rules anyways); therefore, his way of...
on the odd occasion I find myself inside a Best Buy, I feel like it is my duty to tell customers they are being lied to by the reps for example, a rep telling a customer a $3000 camera is HD, while a $100 camera is not, I tell the cust hd is 1920x1080 pixels and both cameras will do 3500x2000 or so plus and "HD" is u...
Customer volunteers a 'Don’t sell to me' statement" is explicitly listed under the section titled "Transition to Offer is Not Applicable in the Following Scenarios." Also free from the upsell treatment are customers who are delinquent on their bills, customers who are "irate," and customers who already own the highest ...
Where's the version number? According to HDMI organization, version numbers reflect capabilities, but do not correspond to product features. In other words, HDMI does not require manufacturers to implement everything that HDMI can do. HDMI provides a menu of capabilities and allows the manufacturer to choose which of...
I'm probably going to get downvoted into oblivion, but I'll share my experiences in bestbuy and gamestop. At Best Buy I started as a sales rep in computers. There are a lot of cutthroat departments at Shit Buy, but computers is by far the worst. Their budget goals are generally the highest, and the store is always ...
TOR was developed by the US Gov. Its original intention was to give spies and spy assets the ability to commute anonymously with their handlers to avoid enemy identification. I am not sure about this second part, but I believe the TOR project is open source. If so, we can know its safety (within reason) due to our ow...
They don't. Which is why its layered. Client sends encrypted traffic to route A. Route A can only decrypt the first part of the traffic, and that only tells Route A to send it to route B. Route B can only decrypt the second part that tells it to go to route C. Route can finally decrypt the traffic but by then it doesn'...
That's the issue, the huge NSA databank in Utah already has a ton of resources. Think about it working like this: An NSA employee is given a list of names every day of people running for elections, or re-elections are coming up. Check up on them, make sure we don't have any inside threats. I think that's sound logic,...
Current screen technology requires small bezels to hold the wires that carry touch input data. Also buttons require routing. Typing this on the LG G2 which moved the buttons to the rear to minimise bezel size. Hopefully future improvements will reduce the size of bezels, sadly they won't be disappearing for good.
I'm not sure it's a logical step, it's an imaginative one. It's one of those post-apocalyptic scenarios after the idea of 'government' fails and mutates into some other system of control. We're not talking about owning countries, we're talking about getting rid of the idea of 'country'. Where the phrase "what country...
We have very similar problems here on earth, albeit on a much smaller scale. Bandwidth limitations, the speed of light, and peering agreements all impose limitations on the terrestrial internet. There are a few workarounds. Google has datacenters all over the world, and when you visit google you (generally) hit the...
Two separate companies. The Branson deal is just an investment in another company, OneNet (formerly WorldVu). Musk had architectural disagreements with its founder and decided to go off on his own, leaving Virgin and Qualcomm to back his competition.
There's an IETF task force to tackle this issue. They're working on a protocol called [DTN (Delay Tolerant Networking)]( There was a presentation at a network engineering conference a few years ago by these guys which was pretty damned interesting - I'll see if I can dig it up. That said, there are some terrestrial app...
A few important things to remember about offshoring/H1-B replacement: The company may use words like team or family to describe you in the context of the company. This is bullshit. You are a number in the greater context. You are a red mark on the bottom line. Offshoring/H1-B replacement is a great way to show ...
I know I'm late to the punch here, but I'd like to comment. I think the solution for Tesla right now is to start offering insurance on their vehicles. It's already been proven that a computer operated system with 360 degree monitoring can assess a situation and brake/take evasive action faster than at least the averag...
Not to worry, I work for a power company who also owns a massive fiber optic network for the own use as well as for-profit ventures. I can't get these assholes to invest in generators at their POP's which are used to communicate with their substations, power plants, regulators, GOAB's, etc... The fucking power compa...
Even Gandhi knew you needed to mobilize personnel on the ground if you're going to change anything. Your scenario is why non-violence is really the somewhat counter intuitive way to go. Overwhelming armed conflict against a small unorganized group is really the only thing that's in their wheelhouse. It's also why Ag...
Well, everyone's different; there's not one, singular, correct answer to the question. When I upvote someone, either a story or a comment, I do so because I enjoy reading the site, and I want to encourage certain types of posts and comments. There's not a lot of real thought put into it, because the cost to me is ...
Depends on how the load balancer is implemented, and how the application itself handles being in a balanced environment.
I hate the kind of excessive, inflated damages that P2P cases typically involve, and I strongly support changes to copyright law, but this article is silly and simplistic: > federal judge Nancy Gertner just slashed the damage award against admitted P2P user Joel Tenenbaum from $675,000 to $67,500. In her opinion, she...
Even if you could build a spaceship that can travel at 10% of the speed of light (which is far out of our reach), it would take us 40 years to reach Alpha Centauri, which would be the first candidate for colonies. Yes. I don't know specifically what beef gorn38 has with this. The only thing I can think of is tha...
Nah - way back in the day Expert Sexchange (pre-hyphenation ;-) used to be just like any other Q&A site. Then a few years ago they started cloaking - showing pages with answers on to the Google spiders, and showing regular users pages without answers on. This is against Google's rules, however - it's usually enough ...
Coincidentally, i just worked on this same issue with my fiancee's G60 last night. The G60 and dv series are almost perfectly identical so i think my pains might help you out here a little. For one thing, they do naturally run hot (think 100F as a common long-use idle temp). Grab your compressed air can and flip the la...
So a guy who runs a facebook marketing firm thinks that charities should market more on facebook. Maybe even hire someone to help. How surprising. I don't disagree with some of his points and my wife's career is in non-profit fund raising. I've actually asked about some of these very issues. The answers and coun...
ex-paid redditor here. Spent a period of time doing social media for a well known entertainment company (one of the "Mini-Major" film studios in Hollywood). At the time, we were asked to make fake accounts on various message boards, forums, etc. in order to stir hype for our films. We gave reddit a try, but nothing r...
The problem is, even if someone has 1,000 people to upvote some rubbish to the front page, the other ~850,000 subscribers will have the ability to push it back down again. And they'll lead the discussion, which will be "Why is this on the front page?" any paid comment "This is great!" could be upvoted by the 999 other ...
Yes! We need to keep this up because it IS working! Yesterday, (in a different thread) I argued that the Reddit movement was actually producing results. Yet, some other Redditors went out of their way to say that Reddit wasn't able to do anything productive and that our voice was just a drop in the bucket that will b...
Well if our senators understood sentences longer than bumper stickers, nobody would need to resort to such brevity.
If the world was black and white without shades of gray, I would say something like eye for eye leaves everyone blind (or with 1 eye, whatever). Here in the real world, with shades of gray and necessary evils, I really only have my gut feeling that taking their money in bad faith is wrong. It might also be illegal, ...
It depends on how much effort you're willing to do and what you can do. Here: [The Open Source Democracy Foundation]( [Revolution Reddit]( [Digital Bill of Rights]( What can you do? Edit: If you're hoping to vote for a third party, the voting system in USA sucks with an effective duopoly. Voting to stop suppo...
If you're hoping to vote for a third party, the voting system in USA sucks with an effective duopoly. Voting to stop supporters for this would be nearly impossible since Democrats support Hollywood and Republicans support big business. The electoral system favours two likely winners where unless your preferred party is...
This has NOTHING to do with SOPA. It is similar to ACTA, in that it is a trade agreement between multiple countries, with secret negotiations that could affect intellectual property laws. Here is a leaked copy of the intellectual property proposal from February. and the
When will the American public "wake up" to the fact their government is the one creating and forcing this ACTA/CETA crap on other countries? I'm not blaming the American public, I just wish they would watch and rein in their own government/Administration and corporate interests.
I know exactly what was going through your mind. That was amusing :) When I wrote it I did in fact only consider it a joke. I did realize it might be construed as something else. So I figured I would make it clearer. Then I thought it was too harsh, even for a joke, so to illustrate I added the less degrading compari...
Frankly I don't think anyone will have a single remaining fuck when we get down the list to "other countries' IP laws" Sorry. Eh, that's just it, it's not other countries'. It's yours. :)
You do understand that this is the biggest play of power by the US Government in copyright infringement, and it needs to be addressed quickly and efficiently. This is essentially on part of SOPA, without the need to pass SOPA. The fact that people don't support this case, is a huge issue, because you have to see what t...
var = value" performs the assignment and returns a boolean, depending on the language. Now that I think about it, it's probably more common that "var = value" returns "value," but weakly typed languages (eg. Python) will interpret any non-zero integer/non-empty sting, etc. as true.
won't support WebGL Did you just stop reading after you got offended by a simple word? Would you rather a synonym? Dicks, Douches, Asshats, Artards. Arguments don't really need to be made when the topic has been discussed to death.
I'd guess the Washington Post only published because they knew that the Guardian would and didn't want to be accused of hiding the information. Based on US journalism they probably spent the entire time trying to figure out how to minimise the damage and help cover it up.
This is at the point where individual or even group voters can't do anything. We're all pretty well fucked because everything is controlled by money. We know. We get it. Now it's time to figure out what we CAN do. Politicians are bought. So why bother with the Politicians? Instead, we should go to the buyers. I'm sur...
Console proponent's arguments in favor of their systems insult themselves, relying on a view of their consumers as stupid, lazy, and uncaring of the quality of what they consume. The argument for PC gaming is that video games are a medium so rich and worthy of experience that it demands the best attention, instead of...
Thanks for this. I'm in NYC, looking to ditch VZW within the next couple of months and move to a GSM carrier with a monthly, no-contract option. I was planning to go with AT&T. Their network improvements have garnered plenty of praise since I left them 2 years ago, and they always seem to have the best global par...
This is our information." NO IT IS NOT. If your entire argument is based on a lie then your argument is invalid. You surrender that information to another party when you communicate it. When you communicate using a third party network, you surrender that information to those third parties. It is now theirs .The...
We are selfish people, This is why I have a hard time caring. If your government spies on you, that's your own first world problem. If your government spies on me, then I will figure out ways of using the Internet that avoid as much of the spying as possible. That's what non-Americans should be doing, we need to ...
I notice that as usual, these "don't spy on me" pages are loaded with 3rd party content (including JS) that basically tell all these services what page you are visiting. The worst part is that they ask you send over personal information. Maybe I just don't get it, but I think the methods to combat citizen spying is...
odds are that S3 phone will be with some kind of 2-year agreement. You'll pay $1 down for the phone (let's say you stay on AT&T), but your monthly bill for service will be much higher than Tmobile. Let's say you have a 2GB mobile share plan on att for just that s3. That's $95 per month. Over on Tmobile, you can get a...
Factory worker and 16-month T-Mobile subscriber here. The only place where I have less than 4 out of 5 bars is when I'm next to one of our CNC machines, which throw off so much spectrum disruption that nothing, up to and including AM radio, works, and deep in the inventory stacks, where there are literally tons of s...
Yeah, the catch is a bit tricky, but it wouldn't call it unfair. Look at it this way: T-Mobile is offering to pay a massive amount of money to get you out of your existing contract. Since they don't offer service contracts of their own, they're left with a few choices. Hope that you're not going to turn around and le...
This may get buried in the comments but here it goes, my contract with Sprint is actually ending in the next few days and a few months prior, I did some research. Correct me if I'm wrong: Yes there's no service contracts BUT you have to pay off your ~$700+ iPhone 5s split into your monthly payments. Multiply that b...
If you're in a major city, in dense suburbs, or along most interstate highways, T-Mobile has good on-network coverage. Go anywhere outside of those areas, you're going to be using free roaming on a regional carrier, if any such agreement exists. The only time I've really had any problems with my coverage is when I've b...
Yep; I actually traded it two $20 prepaid phones and kept my two iPhone 5(s). I did buy new phones from them as a requirement but none-the-less much better plan with unlimited services. The manager did question why I didn't trade in my iPhones but didn't stop me from doing so.
First check Uninstall in the Control Panel. After that, i used [AutoRuns]( which is when i noticed that it had installed: a Windows service two image hijacks i first went to Computer Management to stop, and then disable the service. Then i went back to AutoRuns and "unchecked" the two image hijacks. i t...
I've been saying for a while that browser extensions need more rigorous sandboxing and security models for exactly this reason . Today's browsers are practically OSes, and they hold a huge amount of personal information - saved passwords, browsing history, emails or access to them, cached pages - and are given a hug...
Government program to give rural folks fiber. Those who got it while the program lasted got to tap straight into fiber mainline for practically free.
Yeah Switzerland has an issue with telecom. The issue is that it was totally state owned (called PTT) until some time in the 90s. Seems it died in 1998 but the monopoly could have been penetrated before. I remember my parents telling me that when they got their home and their lined all hooked up and ready to call they ...
No worries, my wife had really good results with them when she left Rogers (after giving 30 days) and then they tried to bill her another 30 days because, and I quote "The system didn't actually process the cancellation until the day AFTER you called, so it was only 29 days notice". You can't make this shit up. Then ...
Eh, that's a stretch. Publicly traded for-profit companies can try to argue that non-shareholder wealth-increasing activities are for the good of the business in the long run, but that's not a bulletproof defense against a shareholder lawsuit. There's a good article on the topic [here](
Not the thread parent, but I monitor my home network very closely and can provide you with some fun numbers. I pay for a 30/5mbit/s connection from Timewarner Cable in SE Wisconsin. Last night between 7-10 our connection was consistently above our subscrption -- we pay for 30mbit/s and were using 34mbit/s for a n...
600 cabinets, $2k each? You, sir, pulled those numbers right out of your ass. I work for a small ISP based in Idaho with just over 100 employees. We have a CO in Boise with 50 10g routers in near as many cabinets. It costs me just shy of $20,000 to order one of those from Cisco. We have at least 4 facilities this siz...
I think the CEO meant that it's the same cost to deliver 1.5/3/6/12/20 Mbps for them because they own the DSLAM(the gear that the modem connects to)/router for their Fusion product(ADSL1/2+). They do lease the copper loop from AT&T to deliver the DSL signal to the premise/modem. Their DSL are dedicated lines to the CO,...
So, here's a little text post from /r/Portland, where one of the redditors called the mayor of a suburb, concerned about his support of Comcast. It shows, I think, a lot of what's going on it city halls across the country:
Nope, not even close. The attackers used an API to brute force the iCloud backups. The credit card/secure information that Apple holds is held in an entirely different system and assuming they follow the bare minimum of PCI compliance (which it's safe to say they probably go above and beyond that), lockouts are require...
Let's say you wrote a piece of software, or a novel, or made a movie. The imaginary stuff you are talking about is how you make your money, "Intellectual Property" isn't just about imaginary things, it's about real things that you created that exist only in a media or format that can be consumed. You aren't worried so ...
Guys think about it a little bit. Music labels and artists already hate the Spotify free service. They get almost no money from it. [As Radiohead member Thom Yorke described Spotify]( >[he described] the company as "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse"... Apple has always been on the side of artists when i...
It seems to be a lot simpler than that. >Sarandos says their wealth of data on user viewing habits proved there's a large audience for Fincher, Spacey and political thrillers. As licensing rights have gotten pricier and harder to land, and the streaming business has grown more competitive, Netflix has focused on addi...
I feel like most people just say "easier" instead of "user friendly," and that's where the confusion comes from. I use PC but my brother has a Mac and I must admit, the unified experience across apple products and the ease of navigation is really nice. Why it needs to be specified that it's "user friendly" is because...
As a supranational organisation, the EU has its budget set by the member states, in negotiation with the commission and EU parliament. The budget is then raised mostly through three mechanisms. Firstly, through 'own resources, like the common external [import] tariff, secondly through a VAT call (they take a set percen...
Payola is paying a radio station or group of radio stations in money or promotional material per each time a song gets played. It is quite illegal and most radio groups are very careful about it. That being said, it's not illegal to trade promotional material (concert tix, prizes, etc) for "adds", or playing a song at ...
Their ad-supported projects are very useful and that earns them a lot of good PR. Along with combatting ISPs with Google Fibre, unifying phone manufacturers under Android to combat an iOS monopoly, Google X projects like Loon and their self driving cars. And lastly giving students good, free alternatives to office ...
Oh, you really don't know what the heck you're talking about! No I don't know what I'm talking about! I was lying about carrying a 5 pound laptop around for 10 hours a day! /sarcasm >computer you have as long as it costs less than $500 I said netbook (which the air is) should not cost $1000. Reading comprehension...
What really happens is the information carried by the light is stored in the atoms, most likely in the form of coherences between two ground states of the atoms. The process involves two laser pulses, one which acts as a field to carry the information, and one which modifies the medium (the atoms). We typically call th...
Most "promotional" articles like this one very similar to
In all seriousness, why would anyone unplug themselves nowadays? Everything is online, we don't need encyclopedias or dictionaries to do homework anymore, and you can constantly learn from what the web has to offer. Take those skills into the real world, and the come back to the internet to learn more. Plugging yours...
I used to stand up for Anonymous before for some reason. Now I seem to dislike them for some reason. For some reason, I can't make up my mind. More facts would be great, but it's hard to get them when, well, they're all anonymous.
It's not "a single silly sentence". It's a quote from Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which is in turn quote from J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye". "Complex" segment of the series describes a emergent group similar in (lack of) structure to anonymous, which grows around the event sparked by single hacker,...
I think a lot of that has to do with Wikileaks. In the past, Anonymous' aim was just to be a leaderless force for chaos on the internet. They mostly just attacked sites for fun, although the sites they targeted usually did something that most people didn't agree with. Then after Wikileaks became big news, some people...
I think perhaps you misunderstand the concept of Anonymous. The original intent has been lost as the group perpetuated itself and the idea has watered down; fueling your distaste and making reporting awkward. The basic concept is that Anonymous is a group of individuals who remain anonymous to each other as a practic...
Why is Anonymous being treated as an entity? For the same reason Sony is treated as an entity - convenience. Sony has a rooted structure where the CEO is technically responsible for declaring the company's in-group, but it's still a collective noun for people who have chosen to work together with some framework for t...
If Sony is going to keep hundreds of millions of users personal information on a server that can actually be hacked by an SQL injection, they deserve to be hacked. They're morons and maybe if they got people to put simple cybersecurity on their networks, people like lulzsec and Anonymous wouldn't actually be able to ha...
exactly my point. idk what ppl think... 1gbit wont get you anywhere anything above around 20 megabyte per second and most likely on a normal website you only see a bandwidth of around 200 to max 600 kbyte per second because their server is pretty sure not connected faster than 100mbit, sharing it with a couple hundred...
I remember reading a study or article that someone here on Reddit posted. It wasn't an issue of size IIRC. Russia has an equivalent amount of land mass and they're internet is much faster than ours.
I would disagree. In particular, the model of "information processing" or "signal transduction" dominates not only computers and networking but also neurobiology and genetics. The genetic code itself is still a relatively new discovery. But that whole area of theory and science is developing about as rapidly as one ...
Trust: The condition necessary for betrayal" - David Gerrod. I expect Google to "maximize shareholder economic value" but even more than that "maximize subjective value for the board-of-directors" (which can be wildly different). Same holds for Microsoft, Apple, etc. So far Google have been more successful by catc...
This is a huge understatement. If you were an entrepreneur and not a minority (especially not black) FTFY. There's a quote which I believe is anonymous: >I came to America because I heard that streets here were paved with gold. When I came I learned three things: the streets in America are not paved with gold; st...
My mother is a teacher. She taught students in a suburb outside of a medium sized city. The students generally got C's and above in an above average curriculum. Then school board politics ensued and her contract got revoked. She moved into the bigger city to teach and those kids did worse at a below average curriculum....
Thanks for the information. The general melting point of bullet-proof glass is 155°C, while this quartz glass can sustain temperatures of 1000°C for 2 hours or more with no damage done. Now I just wonder how to make this quartz glass "bullet-proof", or at least more resistant to breaking. Can it withstand being ran o...
They claim to store 1 PB in a disc 13.57 cubic mm in volume, using minor modifications of CD/DVD drives. Really optimistically assuming that they can use the entire disc and ignoring coatings, the hole in the middle, and protective layers, that gets a density of 6.673E20 bits per cubic meter, which means that each bit ...
The fact that you are German is irreverent (no offense personally). It shouldn't be so no offense taken. I just wanted to counter your argument that a source has to be american to be credible. > If I didn't believe it I wouldn't have posted it. First of all it doesn't matter what you believe to be true, what matt...
If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, all other parts of the User Agreement, including all other provisions of Section 14 (Disputes with PayPal), will continue to apply. In order for "the provisions of Section 14" to "continue to apply," yes, you will still have a PayPal account. Also, in opting out of the ...
imstartingover said this in a comment further down: >If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, all other parts of the User Agreement, including all other provisions of Section 14 (Disputes with PayPal), will continue to apply. In order for "the provisions of Section 14" to "continue to apply," yes, you will sti...
Pretty sure I'll get downvoted to oblivion for supporting paypal on this, but from what I've heard I do not believe they had any intention of "stealing" money from Notch. Consider this, an account is opened, and starts receiving money on a regular basis. Suddenly one day the business explodes and money starts coming ...
The entire expectation of 80 hour weeks in tech companies points to incredibly inept management that has no clue how to manage human capital for the good of a company beyond 2 quarters into the future at best. Theres a not so fine line between pushing a team to do its best, under a deadline, and slavedriving. Slave...