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A man in my town has a Microsoft Windows computer, and was arrested for manufacturing child pornography. We must have all of Microsoft arrested for creating the platform under which he accomplished his crimes. Also, he owned an iPhone, so somebody get an APB out for Tim Cook and Phil Schiller. Uh oh, I also just foun...
How many devices can play a dvd in your home? It makes sense that they wouldn't bother with it. Optical media is dying on favor of streaming. Bluray is the replacement for dvds, but apparently not everyone got the memo. Plus the wii is stereo only, so anyone with surround sound wouldn't want to use it. Anyone who has...
Greed is fine First off, this is simply your opinion, it's an assertion with nothing to back it. Second, I would argue that your definition of greed wouldn't pass even your own inspection, and that it'd quickly devolve into a No-True-Scottsman, where every example you were presented with where greed is demonstrably...
This flies right in the face of the argument that it's the "big government" that's at fault. It is not . "Big government" does look to entrench itself through bureaucracy, but ultimately, it's power is nothing compared to the power of Big $$$$ when it comes to making laws. And lest not forget the coupling of the tw...
I am not supporting Apple on what it does, but to me it seems that they are doing this because of the ambiguity of intellectual property law in the US, especially on software. These laws are out dated, and broken. So can't really fault a company trying to taking advantage of laws in place. It's similar to US tax laws...
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That sounds accurate. Reddit with google fibre is like a group of girls that are super horny and they're all trying to fuck one guy. The guy just finished with one girl and needs a break for a little, but they're just screaming «I don't care, just shut up and fuck me»!
Actually, most microcontrollers sell for less and use less. Most microcontrollers, for example, do not need an RJ45 adapter on them, so unless you absolutely need to be connecting to the internet, this could have been cheaper and more power efficient.
You wouldn't be forced. No one was ever forced. They didn't have to sign those contracts. The Grateful Dead managed to negotiate contracts on favorable terms. The Beatles eventually started their own label. Record labels are transitioning into being "service providers" rather than owners and leasers of content. ...
The 4th last paragraph addresses just that concern. Glad you pointed it out for the
egads, the angst so much angst.... Most halfway decent "low cost centres" in India are run very very professionally. Most of them do have a police check (passport based), a written test and multiple layers of interviews - and this is for an ENTRY level call centre operator job. I have been to many banking centres a...
Why would such a case be so bad? Not sure it's 100% parallel, because I do Canadian tax... and it probably varies from state to state as well. But given that disclaimer: The basic problem is payroll taxes. You don't pay payroll taxes on a contractor, because they're a business you're buying services from, not an...
There was a guy a few months back who automoated his job at a company, after asking reddit what to do (he was getting all of the bonuses because his automation worked so well) he brought it up to his boss. I believe his immediate boss got mad and said he wasn't doing the work and was trying to fire him but the higher ...
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I disagree. There's nothing else I'd rather be doing. It's rewarding, mentally stimulating, and you can create so many things with only a computer as your tool. I've been programming for 10 years and getting into this field is one of the best decisions I've ever made. In an economy where most people are struggling for ...
I was a college student at the time too and remembered thinking "oh my god it's so obvious, buy equities now". Here's the thing though: A lot of people are very intimidated by stocks, consider them no better than gambling, etc. Those people who were inclined to invest in equities are the people who were already i...
Previous coverage of the on-going case at [PopeHat: Prenda coverage]( The [oldest post on this issue isn't that old (March 5^th, 2013)]( but that is because PopeHat is a law blog and has been looking at the case and the legal aspects that go with it. That initial article describes the Prenda situation as: >If you...
There is a theater near my house (M-89 Cinema) that sells all tickets at $5.00 a piece for night showings, $4.00 for daytime. The wife and I went to see The Heat last weekend, and with two tickets, popcorn, nachos, two drinks we had an enjoyable experience for under $20. It isn't the nicest place in the world, but th...
Decent point. I was curious enough to draw it out to see the effect. Price increases cause a supplier surplus, and assuming most consumers aren't willing to pay more than they were already paying, demand would shift back as well. Normally, demand would shift back as well, forcing suppliers to lower prices in order to r...
I freely admit I haven't been paying attention to Origin sales, as I only have one game on Origin, maybe two. When I use cheapshark to find sales, however, most of the stuff that pops up on Origin on the main page is only $5 off, so that was mostly personal experience. I have stuff from GoG and a few other places that ...
In this case, I would say that the appropriate position is far from the ethical one. Piracy needs to be a present threat, because it's been the only real competition that big media has really ever had. This drives them to innovate in the customer's favor just as often as it drives them to innovate in ways that hurt t...
A few things which could be improved that I can think of: Imagine Steam, but with movies and TV shows. We pretty much already have this with iTunes and all these other streaming stuff Some of the problems with torrenting that could be improved by a paid service is no need to surf through several links to find the r...
Origin may be younger than Steam, but that's not an excuse for its shortcomings. Rather, Origin could have used Steam as a greater source of inspiration in order to learn to do it right. I don't know about you, but when I was in high school and got a C on a physics exam I didn't get to tell the teacher "It took thous...
the last time there was significant ash from iceland, there were concerns mostly in the north of europe, with only northernmost scotland having visible ash deposit. there werent clouds blocking out the sun anywhere, the main concern was cumulative damage to aircraft engines.
So fucking accurate. There are movies coming out in my country (New Zealand) in December that are currently playing in the US and other countries. There are popular movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower that were never even advertised here. Our TV viewing is very limited. With one cable company taking advantage o...
I picked up GTA IV on steam a couple of weeks ago for €5. Biggest waste of €5 ever. I know it was partly my fault for not properly researching the game first (although I went on canirunit.com and according to that my pc is well able to run it). When I loaded up the game it was the laggiest piece of cheap console port c...
They probably should have done what Google does: do not open it to the entire public at once Everyone knows that no new web-site can survive and instant onslaught and mad traffic rush. The only want is to limit who's allowed to access it. i don't know how you decide who gets to use it first; and there would a...
The bullet hitting the glass and decelerating imparts exactly the same amount of force to the glass (less a small amount for friction against the barrel and air that it transited) as it does the the gun from which it is fired.
Does anyone else read "neural networks" and only think Terminator/Skynet.
You know, as an American living in a second world country, when I hear Americans bitching about their 100Mbps cellular connections and overpaying, It makes me want to smack baby animals. Seriously, I'm trying to run my business here on a cruddy DSL connection with 1Mbps upload. I wish I had the burden of "overpaying"...
You can infer that all you want -- I didn't say it. I said that comparing today's society to either Huxley's or Orwell's dystopian novels is making a terrible analogy. They are not comparable. Saying that does not imply I believe the current situation is "good." It just means that I think comparisons to those works are...
I bought bitdefender once. And only once. Oh my god was it the worst fucking pile of shit I have ever seen in an antivirus. I also got scammed by reading online that bitdefender was supposedly a "good" antivirus. I would suck a dick before I used bitdefender ever again. Their terms are sketchy and they try to scam you ...
I read the article with interest but was put off by the indirect disdainful reference to net neutrality when he said people were trying to apply 80 year old regulations to the telecommunication industry. John Sununu is a republican senator who sits on the board of Time Warner Cable. Guess what: John Sununu doesn't give...
i feel like the article is decrying outdated regulation more than regulation in general (though they've taken some liberties). and bureaucracy needs to be streamlined and updated, rather than just tacking on new chunks that only complicate things more. it also was scoffing at the idea of regulations in place only t...
All class action suits I have ever been a party to have settled for a sum of money, not a sum per person. The lawyers take one third and the class splits the rest. The fine print sets some low threshold, like five dollars, and says if the individual payout ends up less than that, it gets to charity.
Yes there isnt malware However what about those grey market products that penatrate IOS android windows phone Mac windows and even linux installs. Things change. and they are changing faster. you hold this notion in your head that somehow they are above penetration. the programs to hack those things are out there. ...
FICO]( invented the credit score and it became a financial industry standard. The most current credit system model involves companies taking into account information gathered on you in reports from the three credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. Scores and reports are two different things. Your score is ...
The actual headline: "Will Google’s certificate change hurt China’s e-economy?" Betteridge's law of headlines: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Did it? This is the exact reason that Mozilla distrusted the certificate, and is ostensibly the reason Google did as well. In the context of this post, it seems like this is exactly the
Desperate no. It's more a last-chance effort to while not COMPLETELY reign in the NSA it's more a "Foot In The Door" move cause it opens the doors for more desired reforms down the line. It's called "The Long Game". They would oppose it if it didn't move their goals along which this does. To quote Access: "The refo...
From the beginning: Say you're from the US, and you want to watch a show on Netflix like Utopia. It turns out that Utopia is only available to someone in the UK so when you try to connect, Netflix says "you're not allowed to watch this!" So you join up on the Hola network. Instead of directly connecting to Netflix, y...
You design all the interesting parts of the phone, leaving a blank spot in the diagram that says "RADIO STUFF GOES HERE" That's... not how it works. Remember the RAZR? Remember how it was Cingular exclusive? Remember how it took Motorola more than a year to port it to CDMA, and when they finally did, they had a pho...
For a single home you do not need a 15k router or a switch. After all you are not going to be trying to share the connection with hundreds of people. Call your local ISPs and ask them for their business packages. Then be prepared to be shocked at how expensive the bandwidth is. 10up 10down $200-$300 a month. The re...
This has more to do with the fact that the majority of the questions in the Cisco tests have almost NOTHING to do with supporting, building or designing Cisco networks. I have interviewed hundreds of people over the years for network support positions that have Cisco certs and yet can not support a network to save th...
Is this feasible? One Hub has a big router and wholesale bandwidth. His neighbors if they so choose connect to his house at their own expense (and choose their own level of build out, fiber, copper, wifi, open air optical, sneakernet), they pay a small monthly fee for retail bandwidth from the hub (micro-peering?). M...
Yeah, the antivirus defs were bad. But before everyone jumps on the "why do these idiots run antivirus", please keep in mind most companies must fall in to compliance with certain regulations (SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, etc.) All of the wonderfully entertaining viruses and worms over the years that cost companies billio...
Well, theoretically there are times in which a government that is acting on behalf of the people's interests might need to secure those interests, such as security interests, in a hostile competition with other, less scrupulous, international entities. The nature of this competition is zero-sum, and thus Any informatio...
I know at reddit we like to label people as good guys or bad guys, but I'm a bit torn on this one. If you're in a position of trust and you come across information that is being "classified" in order to cover up illegal activity, it's your duty to report it. Obviously you should try the official chain of command wher...
i don't really buy that idea, apple got tons of hype because of their branding, but the truth is that the product was leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market in terms of usability, not features, not storage, but usability. That polish and attention to detail and a well thought out ecosystem is what made i...
I am not saying there isn't a problem. I am saying the problem is overblown, and not nearly as bad as reddit would have you believe. I guess this comment serves as the culmination of my frustration with reddit's obvious bias when it comes to anything Apple. Particularly, in this case, that the poster I responded to cla...
The number of revolts is irrelevant, at least to me. In the past, sure, revolts happened, but digg continued chugging along like it always had, more or less. Then v4 hit. After skimming over the same stories on the 'Top News' page for two days, which I had to switch to from the now default 'My News' tab, it finally daw...
I have something to say that people will not like and I am prepared for the ensuing downvotes..but. Digg is completely different than before, if I liked old digg I would absolutely be pissed. However, old Digg was just a reddit mirror redirected by people getting too much attention for stealing. I didnt use digg exc...
They are working to that part. At least a part of the current market of laptops is advertising currently, so they are not going to buck the trend of advertising, but it is nice that they want to respect the customer's customization methods. Eventually, when processors get powerful enough to homogenize all of the vari...
I do agree with you; More towers are definitely better. They can definitely afford to throw some cash at that. However, there's a logistical limit on airwave traffic. At some point, you start getting interference, and your towers can't handle them. The issue with the Google proposal is that it's addressing a network ma...
I'd say it's energy demand as well as shrinking devices. Battery capacity doesn't increase linearly with size. At least on a small level it increases exponentially. For example on my cell phone half the batteries volume is in it's protective shell. Double the battery size and the shell stays the same size while the act...
The operative word being can . As other commenters have noted, getting OS X running (and continuing to work through updates) on non-Apple hardware is a complete bitch, whereas new OS X updates (on Apple hardware) are guaranteed to work unless you've messed with your operating system's crucial files.
The fact that the Mac Pro uses server-grade components is certainly part of it. It is a professional workstation, not a l33t gaming rig. I'm betting the home-built PC on the left doesn't use buffered ECC memory, for example. Also, the 2.66GHz Westmere processors used in the Mac cost $1019 each from Newegg. So ob...
Xeon CPU's are no better than i7's - it's true that currently the fastest processor at the moment is a Xeon, but only marginally and only because it's the fastest stock-clocked hexcore CPU - if you overclocked an i7 a tiny bit more you'd get pretty much the same result. That's true. A Westmere Xeon is basically a Wes...
Actually, First off, it's not a 4 pin standard, but a 5 pin standard (spread across 15 individual pins). Apple added two pins for temperature sensing, making it seven, but it still has the same 15 pin package. Second, standard drives still work. The Apple Hardware Test is used for diagnostics. Yes, it will fail the...
Yep. Got a Toshiba because the comparable Macbook Pro cost quite a bit more (if they had managed to get me the free iPod touch it would have made up the difference). I wanted to believe, I really did. The half-of-advertised battery life and ripoff artist/salespeople in China (I remember posting in /r/china about ...
I worked at bestbuy for over a year, Best buy lives and thrives on stupid people, old people, young kids and parents who don't know better. One thing I learned while working at best buy. There's a whole culture of people out there that lined up every sunday sometimes an hour before the store opened jsut to get in first...
Independent of the mess that is our patent system (particularly when it comes to media compression patents -- talk about a minefield), I agree with the premise of the article. But Stanford vs. Roche has absolutely nothing to do with this. Stanford v. Roche was entirely about the assignment process under the Bayh Dole...
I believe that they are somewhat organized, yes there are many members of Anonymous, but I believe they have a small focused group that puts together these crusades/statements. I don't 100% agree with their methods, but their intention is good(for now). Cheezy, cliched, over-dramatic, maybe. But quasi-noble imo.
I find it difficult to imagine the Government being able to fully censor/control the Internet, for a variety of reasons: 1.) .... It'd be a technically massive project (in both time and infrastructure) 2.) They would have to find a way to block/filter/censor packets in such a pervasive/complete way..... I'm just no...
I've had a similar idea to the one proposed. Instead of only investing in 'Power Towers' the government would invest in all different forms of renewable energy; wind, water, solar, steam, and possibly nuclear. Each state and territory would have resources that maximize energy generation(e.g. coastal states would have w...
As I said to the other person > If you don't see this as a problem, or you think there is some threshold for a problem minimum before anything is ever addressed, then fine for you. You can live in a world of half-broken things because deriding the fact an issue is recognized is apparently more valuable than correctin...
Here's how I think it'll go: Well, let's first look at the things that are already happening. Probably much more than you think. Like fishdicks said, there's things like automatic transmission, cruise control and ABS. But there's also a system that takes over control of your car when it detects you're going to crash ...
But that's like saying: first they come for the murderers, then they come for the rapists, then they come for the pregnant mothers. Are you saying we shouldn't lock criminals in prisons because, if our regime would turn dictatorial, those prisons could be used to lock up innocent people?
Image editing can be done. The interface and the way you interact is different, but it can be done. High precision tasks can use a stylus, and all the other things only need some more user interface and experience research. CAD editing can be done too, and I think a tablet is naturally suited to this task. Use the fi...
I'd like to think of people not as lazy, but discriminating as to what they wish to spend their time on. Sure they could learn to use a PC, just like I could learn to fix my car when it has issues. I'd rather pay someone else to do that and free up my time for other pursuits. As an IT professional, learning to clic...
To be fair, the "spec heads" have never understood it.
Let's sum it up, shall we? (If this is too long for you, just read the last few paragraphs) 1) she self-describes as an "Apple fangirl". Not a good way to start - more because of the fangirl part than because of the Apple part. I instinctively don't trust anyone who unashamedly admits to being faithful to a brand mor...
Okay then. In a hypothetical world where TPB would be legal and have every book, movie etc. under the sun people would still buy and pay for stuff to support the creators and ensure they put out more.
moving through space, seriously? So, you clearly are not an engineer of any sort. If you were, then you would know that if you are going to be absolutely thorough in your testing, then you would need to look at every possible scenario, including the positions of any number of devices in any number of possible locati...
Why are we treating it as if he did no wrong? Probably because of the facts you mentioned above. That's pretty damn expensive just to get access to some publications. It's a bit like professional software piracy. For example, probably the most commonly pirated professional software product is photoshop. This is becau...
I'll try to remember that the next 50 times I have to fix a malware ridden Windows box. The article basically said that MSE is terrible at detecting 0 day vulnerabilities. Luckily for "the real world", 0 days are very expensive and usually used for high value attacks.
Have been reading it. Best I can do for prior art with 10mins of google is this concept developed by Ryoichi Mori Circa ~1983. (Not really being rigorous here due to not getting paid for it.) The only seminovell thing this guy suggests is using a smart-card or other portable physical medium to act as the users decry...
Ah, ok. Well, there are two things to consider. One is access to a (very large) database of information, and the other is making sense of that information. Watson's main goal is to make sense of the information, and respond to specific queries with specific answers. While it could theoretically leverage Google's vast...
Honestly, the first place to start is to create some sort of realistic goal . When I first started out, I went through the various tutorials and learned basics but it was very difficult for me to really learn the material because I was asking myself the whole time "What will I ever use this for?". I could come up wi...
you'd think wouldn't you? the scary fact is most hospitals are more concerned with avoiding litigation, than what they would actually rather be doing which is helping people stay healthy. the staff want to do their best to help you stay healthy (it's what they trained for all their years), the management want to stay...
It has that access for the purposes of, you know, being able to be the keyboard for those functions. It needs permissions for everything it's going to replace the keyboard in. Permissions to access internally and permissions to transmit data are two completely different things. Nothing the app uses that permission for ...
That's because the biggest improvement we could make was moving from single-shot rockets to reusable spaceplanes... but we haven't had the budgets, interest or technology to do that until SABRE came along. We were dreaming of a space-bourne future in the 60s and 70s, but people ignored the fact that the entire develo...
Holy cow, that's really awesome. Thanks for the nice
Yes, it does, but it's prolonged G-force that causes problems, not repeated low-duration exposure (though that can have other effects). Pilots can be exposed to 9g for short periods - and a car crash can have a very short burst of up to 100g, which is survivable. A car reversing into a wall at 5mph can experience aro...
No, you don't want to reach escape velocity when you want to stay in orbit. It's called "escape" velocity because an object reaching escape velocity escapes from the orbit. You don't want to fly directly upward, unless perhaps if you want to reach a geostationary orbit. (I'm not entirely sure about that) You need...
This is also why some eBay sellers are a joke: "Insurance can be added for an additional fee." Well, that's completely for the SELLER'S benefit, not the buyer. If the seller doesn't get the thing to your doorstep then into your hands in the condition described, that's THEIR problem. eBay/PayPal will side with the b...
Indeed it's not a security hole. I'm just commenting on /u/Buckwheat469's logic - especially the
As the lead developer of (a large company's) iframe-based login solution I ran into this problem a bit. Safari uses a third-party/first-party cookie policy, where websites that you've visited are considered first party cookies and cookies within an iframe are considered third party. An iframe is like a window into an...
Actually, that's not a workaround. This has very little to do with using the Google search engine. It has to do with Google tracking everyone (even not logged in users) with the +1 buttons everywhere. That's right, those things track you (in case you needed any more reason to install ad blocking software). Facebook...
It's been used in their marketing material. There's a prospectus for potential shareholders that was on a prospectus package somewhere on their site during their IPO. I remember because I didn't have the money to buy a single share at the time. :(
you're right, I didn't care enough to read the whole thing. Thanks for the
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we don't need to fcc, we raise up and literally march into all comcast/cox/verizon/att/whoeverthefuckelse buildings and swarm the motherfuckers into submission.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to? It's their network. Considering they tend to have monopolies, you may have a point, but the primary reason they're a monopoly is the government in the first place. Just look at taxi medallions, for example, to understand how big business and government works together to keep out new/s...
Just before Ballmer took over, Microsoft released a tech demo of all the shizzle they were working on. There were advanced smartphones; cloud storage; and interactive and interconnected television, computers, and picture frames. Web video conferencing; instant mobile messaging; and fucking modern tablets that weren'...
reassuring > I trust his vision. Hopefully they will improve on execution. Why? Microsoft behaved awfully in the last decades, why do still people still wish that it does good? The quicker microsoft gets insignificant the better for everyone. Well, except for microsoft. Do people forget how they got where they ar...
I find this interview painful to watch. It brings back memories of proofing poorly-researched papers in high-school. He throws around soft buzz words without expressing anything more concrete than that the computing of the future will be very "software driven". That's not false, but it's a sophomoric truism, no more ...
Let me rephrase then. Technically lower energy xrays can "reflect", but not in the likeness of visible light. The reflection angle has to be very shallow, it basically grazes the mirror. Interestingly enough, this really only works with low energy xray photons (these would overlap with or be just a little more energeti...
See [ Kyllo v. United States ]( > Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. > Since we hold ...
No, it's part of the development cycle. Every other OS they release is basically a test bed for whatever new things they think users will want in windows, and then the release after is a polished and better formed system thanks to feedback from the preceding system. Remember when Vista was released, and it had that a...