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Well, the most "evil" thing I can think of Google ever doing was pushing the watered-down net neutrality rules. I'm pretty annoyed with them for that, but otherwise I can't think of a single evil thing they've done. I know someone will mention the China censorship issue: I agreed with their reasoning that some result...
Well you’re a lucky boy, then. But still you are confusing the machine’s technology with its facility for the user. The Mac was useful in the 1980s for advertising, book and magazine publishing because of three features: • It offered typographic measurement by default. Most MS Word users would have been alienated or ...
The functionality of iOS and the open source nature of Droid blow it away. The open source nature of a piece of software is completely orthogonal to its quality. Symbian was also open source if you didn't know that... and look how much good that did it. iOS is the least functional of the smartphone platforms, it's ...
As much as I like to bash US telecoms, this article is crap. > Fearing no action from the FCC or other federal regulatory agencies, the major telecoms openly acknowledged this duplicity. How can it be a secret scam when they openly acknowledged it?
I don't mean he's full of shit as in the information he presents is incorrect; google has personalized searches and 100 years ago not everything made it into the encyclopedia. It is not, nor has it ever been the responsibility of anyone other than the individual to ensure their own edification.
This is a very good point. My wife is a photographer and tried advertising on Facebook once. It was nice that she could advertise locally, and target the specific audiences (engaged couples, people with families etc). But, then we just had to wait for little Peggy Sue who is engaged and playing Farmville to look to t...
This times a thousand. I think GM summarized it well when they withdrew their Facebook advertising and elected to keep their free profile pages for their vehicles.
Return on investment. It can be really tricky to track sometimes becasue you need to be able to pair ad clicks with converted sales. There are also indirect sales from some patrons who recognize your add from FB and then make the purchase separately. The only way to capture that is from a "How did you hear about us?" q...
You laugh, but that is how insurance works.They calculate how much risk they have on a person based off of whatever information they have, then they offer you a rate. As long as there is competition their rates will lower if your risk lowers. So if they know you work out often and eat right, you are a safe bet and they...
5 pages of that nonsense....
Lawyer here. There absolutely is a punishment for violating the Fourth Amendment. It's called suppression. And it's vast and expansive. As soon as it can be shown that the Fourth Amendment was violated (due to lack of a warrant signed by a neutral magistrate) and that the search or seizure didn't fit into one of the e...
Why doesn't this have more upvotes!? The Lumia team didn't have to bother coming up with a sleek look for their new WindowsPhone device; they just took the N9's award-winning design.
You know there are a lot of people saying why dont they just follow signs or apple maps cant actually be this bad. Well let me tell you a story that happened to me the other night and why i will never buy another apple iPhone until they fix maps. My father went to our local ikea (Ikea in plymouth meeting/norristown f...
yeah because i said they never do stupid shit.. i totally said that. also did you read the fucking article? they're following the goddamn LAW which was passed by congress, and they're being lenient in doing it. and that biofuel does exist, it can be made. they just haven't been doing it.
Unlocking- Making it so the phone will work with different carriers, not to be confused with jail breaking. Unlocking is use of a carrier feature the phone has restricted. Some phones have disabled hardware that allows access to other phone carrier's networks. Some phones lack other carrier's hardware and can't be unl...
Firefox has had an on and off memory leak problem for the last few years. I'm a web developer who only opens Firefox to test out styling and/or functionality on whatever it is I'm working on - I have no plugins or add-ons, yet if I have just one Firefox tab open in the background for a couple of hours doing nothing it ...
If you're putting shortcuts on your desktop, you're using Windows 8 wrong. Perhaps the product wasn't designed to match my use case. I'm glad Metro is working out for you - it doesn't work for me, nor countless others (including a massive quantity of corporate users). Call me crazy, but I expect a product that ...
Most of the time when you hear a statement from a CEO and think "how could he be so out of touch," realize that the CEO is well aware of how "out of touch" he is. That's not the game being played. The game being played is to pretend ("broadcast with confidence") that the position you are taking is the popular one /...
I don't necessary subscribe to everything you said, but you did bring up some interesting points about the form of government in relation to its people, essentially stuff in social contract theory. The democracy that originated from the Greeks was control by the masses. Socrates, and I think Plate by extension, thoug...
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Unchecked capitalism is often bad for the consumer, this has been proven by the patent wars that have gone on and the lack of progress because of them in many cases.[Small example, obviously there are larger more overarching reasons why it's a problem for individuals.] "Capitalistic bullshit" as used above [Context is ...
The users of reddit don't make money for using/selling images of nyancat. It's merely to comment and create discussion (although usually not very deep or meaningful). This would fall under fair use. WB is using nyancat as a selling point for their game by putting it on the adverts, which can be interpreted as using i...
Here's the Nyan Cat trademark.]( The trademark isn't for the image of Nyan Cat, it is for the phrase "Nyan Cat." Like, each time you say Nyan Cat you should probably be putting Nyan Cat^TM. Therefore, there is no bearing on whether it is a Pop-Tarts^TM or a toaster pastry. The image of Nyan Cat is copyrighted ins...
As an Senior Avionics Technician I find it disturbing that this is being reported. I would bet my life that it is completely false. While the timing might have been coincidental. Coincidences vs. caused events . There is a difference. There is no way someones Wifi/Bluetooth enabled device is going to interfere with ...
i babby duck syndrome" Your opinion is highly subjective. The large amounts of design awards won show otherwise. This is like Vista's start orb all over again. The modern UI is highly intuitive and isable on a desktop by itself. It's the current lack of integration with legacy applications that's the issue.
Actually, joining in with views in online discussions DOES help to get people to understand a cause and join it. It's doubly needed when strong interests are opposing your views, and even have money to pay debaters. Why can't people understand it's a mixture of approaches, and not either-or? For this and other causes...
Do you think NSA is evil? Is it violating your privacy? Is Snowden the good guy? This isn't some distopian novel; this is the United States of America. I think of the NSA like all the small speed bumps in my neighborhood that everyone hates, but is necessary to slow down all the assholes that disregard the posted speed...
Basically, Chrome on OSX is doing exactly the damn same thing as pretty much every other browser does on pretty much every platform. By default your stored passwords are not secured in any solid way - they may be plaintext, obfuscated, or encrypted with a key stored in protected system memory (e.g. DPAPI). The atta...
Saved browser passwords needn't be easily stolen by average Joe. Very regularly I'll lend one of my computers to someone for a 2 minute task and I don't expect them to be able to get any of my passwords that easily! There is a reason most OSes allow you to set up a guest account. This is exactly it. If you're lending...
I upvoted you because the discussion is interesting. The problem is that his point is bullshit. Actually, it's completely ignorant of the reality we live in. "Human agency"? It doesn't exactly matter. You having a brain and people udnerstanding that something is wrong? It doesn't exactly matter. People have know f...
Sure, briefly. SEH is Structured Exception Handling. This is how Windows throws and catches exceptions. These are distinct from C++/whatever exceptions you may be familiar with. These are exceptions such as "accessed invalid memory" which will cause a program to crash. SEH has been around forever. Now, these SEH exce...
Seriously. I don't own a car right now (I'm thankfully able to make do without) but I decided to do some research to see what an older middle-class guy might pay to maintain a car each year, heres' what I found: According to an article I found from 2011 (So assume the price I list is actually higher now), a 40 year o...
A google car logging in 300k miles without an accident doesn't prove anything, Ive driven over 100k miles without ever having an accident....so what? Yes robotic cars beat the average currently and maybe they do beat the safest demographic of human drivers and if so lets switch i agree. Im all for robotic cars. My ar...
Anywhere outside of a major city actually. I live on Long Island and despite having one of the few functional and well-used suburban commuter rail systems in the country, it's still a total pain if you don't actually work in NYC, because all of the public transportation systems were optimized for moving to and from the...
The biggest issue with those robotic cars, in my opinion, is that I can't it would be profitable to build these. Even if these robotic cars are 90% safer than real people driving... there's still a risk remaining. Where there is technology, there is room for error. I mean, stuff happens with trains from time to time, a...
No chance I'd ever be interested in a robotic car for myself, but I would love to see less distracted/idiot drivers on the road so for those people I'm all for it. I love driving, from the first time on a dirtbike at 4, then farm tractors every chance I got or driving a pickup or big truck around in fields, to now tru...
Almost all commercial aircraft use autopilot not only at cruise, but also in inclement weather for landing (autoland). The Navy has a drone that can take off from land or a carrier, execute its mission, and land back on the deck of a carrier with no human intervention ( Robotic helicopters are being deployed to replace...
Are any other governments really any better? How about France, where they petition Twitter for the identities of people who post pro-Nazi tweets? How about China, where they tell you what information you are allowed to know like Orwellian thought police? What is America doing at this moment that restricts your Intern...
A Patent Troll or "PAE" (Patent Assertion Entity) is basically just a shell corporation that holds a bunch of either retardedly vague-bogus patents that shouldn't have been awarded or patents they acquired from people. They use these patents purely for suing companies that have something similar and somewhat falls un...
Has anyone read this? Since it came out of the house it probably bans unions, takes voting rights from women and minorities, criminalizes speech about homosexuality, and mandates God and guns in the classroom. We've got to check the fine print...
While it is nice that the house is finally able to pass something, this bill does in no way address the true problem plaguing the world of patents and patent lawsuits. The real problem doesn't lie in how people use their patents, but in the utter incompetence present within the US Patent and Trademark office (PTO). In...
And if the person asking is from a country with this thing called a "Parliament"? Then perhaps you could explain exact how those work. If not, stop voting until you figure it out.
And if the person asking is from a country with this thing called a "Parliament"? Then perhaps you could explain exact how those work. If not, stop voting until you figure it out.
You cannot get cheap tickets on popular routes without buying 2 months ahead of time or travelling at ridiculous times on workdays (then you might get one 3 weeks before). It's still a ridiculous bait-and-switch for a public utility. I've seen arguments that heavily discounted tickets help fill up trains, but I hones...
Because when uranium fuel demand increases (which it has done, see the 18 years price development here to include more of the difficult deposits (ore grade 0,01-1 %), which increases energy and work input on several stages of the fuel chain.
large-scale solar expert here. 1) globally in 2013, the world installed almost 37 gigawatts (37,000 megawatts) of solar photovolataics, including large-scale plants of course. 2) that means that the cumulative installed base worldwide in solar PV reached about 135 gigawatts (rough comparison: approx. 135 nuclear plants...
stances like that worry me for several reasons. Things like this serve as examples of how these things work out in the long term. First and most importantly - if governments officially start sponsoring such websites, it tends to relieve people from doing so on a private basis. Quickly private funding drops off. This...
Forgive me for joining the circle and jerking the opposite way, but I use my W8.1 desktop all day long and "struggle" with the metro UI for minutes a day. I leave my computer on all of the time, so I don't have to deal with it at start up. However, if I have to restart usually one of my automatic startup desktop apps...
As soon as I realized I had to remain in full screen mode for Skype on the app, I installed the desktop version and uninstalled the app version. I did the same for the 'photo gallery' shit as well. It makes me wonder if they thought, "Yes, as a consumer they want to simply open an app to view their photos, you know, ...
You seem to think the desktop and laptop are dead, which Microsoft is trying to tell everyone. But you forget that not everyone is a grandma browsing Facebook. There are still lots of business users and power users and those silly on screen keyboards and touch screens simply will not do.
The same people that complain about Windows 8 are the ones that have panic attacks every time facebook changes its layout. If Microsoft just made Windows 7 Vers. 2, there would be just as many detractors saying that Microsoft was "selling the same product with minor enhancements / why isn't this a service pack?" I ...
I have a job where I drive to old peoples houses and set up their computers or "fix" their computer (often just their email or web browser). I like windows 8 and actually prefer it to 7, I can navigate much faster on it and the keyboard shortcuts (I know they're not new, but better IMO) are very convenient. That bein...
This]( might be of use to you. I did this for all my clients that were having me get them started on Windows 8. For people without 8.1, I'd install the app from [here]( and make sure the extra junk didn't install with it.
As a tech-savvy twentysomething, I'm not going to defend it. One of my friends (another t-s ts) told me it's not that bad and that you get used to it. Some parts of it are okay, like the fact that they finally added proper support for desktop backgrounds on multiple monitors. But then I didn't have a nice way to shut...
I'm not completely sure that they're doing it to expose people to their app stores, I think it's a lot less sinister than that. Computers, both in the way we use them and in their prevalence in the modern world, have been becoming more and more sophisticated. You're able to do more and more things with them, and it's...
because their recent actions show that they want to eventually shun their server environment. They want users to go to the cloud. SBS 2011 essentials has cloud integration, for example, sloppy, but it's there. office 2013 puts less obn the client side and more on the server side, plus it defaults to a lot of their ...
UEFI Secure Boot is definitely a hassle, but honestly it's worth it IMO. Remember, you only set it up once. I don't think your drivers comment is fair. Driver support has improved tremendously . It really depends on the hardware you're running. For laptops? Linux generally works out of the box. I can imagine it bein...
I think your argument becomes moot with the concept of "background apps". Apps is short for applications, which is the same as program. They're just different words to describe a specific routine that's run on a computer.
A year or so ago my Android phone was giving me issues. I was on an Employee plan with a local carrier. I was paying a little over $68 per month. What did I get? 1500 minutes, unlimited texting and unlimited data. I thought I was getting a good deal and compared to friends, I was! Some were paying literally $100...
The expense is massive for a small company. Have you seen the big telecoms operating costs? The issue with a municipal is the cost is high and it would need to be recouped or taxpayers would raise hell. In a place like Chattanooga that's not nearly as expensive. In a place like LA or New York or Dallas or Atlanta etc ...
Hi artyboi37, I'm an engineer who works on Facebook Messenger. If you want know a bit more about why we're moving messages out of the main app I wrote a [more in depth post here.](
In PRACTICE, the Messenger App requires a lot of permissions that it really shouldn't need. Rubbish. If you actually know what the app does and roughly how Android works, the vast majority are required for plainly obvious uses. Fortunately for my typing fingers, Android Central already thoroughly debunked this earl...
These are all absolutely standard permissions. There's nothing remotely scary about them if you have the vaguest clue (a) roughly how Android works, and (b) what the FB Messenger app does. Messenger integrates IM (data), voice calls (phone), SMS (messaging), recorded messages (mic), photo/video (camera), automatic co...
The only redeeming quality about the separate apps is that I can now have separate notification settings for messages. I turn off sounds for facebook notifications, because I don't need my phone to vibrate 60 times when other people say "congratulations!!!" on the latest newborn baby post I made the mistake of commenti...
Holy paranoia batman. You do realize those are all standard permissions, they all make perfect sense for a messaging app and it'd be nothing short of a miracle if it didn't ask for those? It wants access to control network settings so that it can enable wifi/3g/4g/whatever if it's not on when you fire up the app so tha...
I'm sort of in a weird conflict with those two options. I don't really like Facebook that much because it feels weird knowing stuff about people that you don't really want to know, and when they don't tell you directly. However, a lot of my friends and family don't use Skype or they don't like to use their cell phones ...
r/iamverysmart If it makes you happy, point still stands: >Yes, when you give an app permission you are implicitly trusting it to not abuse that permission. Facebook is certainly more trustworthy than Random Game Extreme PRO when it comes to those permissions... >The permissions from that HuffPo pile of bullshit ...
honestly, this facebook messenger situation just drew my attention to the scary permissions i give them all of the time. combined with the location services and recording capabilities of a mobile device, it's a ton of creepy information in the hands of the highest bidder.
When someone manages to break in to Facebook's servers and steal indecent piictures of people that have the images stored on there phone but never uploaded to the internet then post them online or send them to a news network nothing will change! All companys are being intrusive and if you don't like it they tell you ...
It has 4 stars on the google play store. But I really don't see what the big deal is. I mean, yeah, it's a little annoying to need two apps, but this one works pretty well. Plus, what's the chance they're doing it so they can slim down the facebook app to improve performance? Let's be honest; the facebook app it...
The whole office was shut down after multiple rounds of layoffs. Management was too stingy to sink any real money into R&D, so our product was still running on what was essentially late 1970's technology. This made sourcing replacement parts that ought to be dirt cheap (IC's, MOSFETS etc) quite difficult and quite expe...
From my experience working and being a part of the American tech community/industry that is heavily dominated by straight white males (As a gay black male) the issue can be broken down to a few cultural reasons, some of which the tech community can fix, most of which is a much broader societal issue. The first reason...
Dismissing people because they are - or want to be - part of a union is illegal, yes, as is discouraging them from forming one. (Not that that stops Wal-Mart's owners from doing just that; and as I understand it they're just savvy enough with their tactics to not get caught with any hard evidence of having these tact...
Despite the message this article may be trying to send, all it does is encourage the idea that women are weak and unequipped to work in a demanding field. Most of the issues listed here are not exclusive to women, yet the article makes it sound as though these factors make it too difficult for women to work. We're no...
It's not because there is this "culture of sexism" but more like this culture is expected to exist. Not once have I ever had a problem with my male peers, coworkers, friends, etc. in the field and not once has my career choice ever been questioned by a man. However, times where I am questioned or even harassed by w...
Basic TV doesn't include an HD cable box. However you can watch virtually all the shows in HD on-demand on their website. Also, your plan may be $66/mo right now, but that's not permanent. $66/mo would be enough for 50/5mbit unbundled if you're in one of the states which got a speed doubling this year. But it's not e...
Similar thing is happening to me with another provider (Rogers in Canada). I was quoted a TV/Phone/Internet bundle at an ongoing rate of $180 a month. Repeatedly confirmed on the phone that it was no contract and the price was a monthly ongoing price. Never a mention of the promotional discount. Contact chat a day befo...
Fair enough; I'm on Ubuntu, so I'm just using traceroute, but I suppose different programs/OSes will do so differently. I end up with hop one being my LAN router, then hop 2 being the modem's address for use -- it's webserver is on a different address (traffic goes over 192.168.40.1, but the web interface is at 192.1...
Taking down XBL and PSN on Xmas has upset a lot of kids, this upsetting parents..." Whoa, let's stop. This sounds like lazy-parent drivel - I'm not trying to judge anyone, but the jist I get from that quip is "I wanted my kid's goddamn festivus gift to keep him entertained so I don't have to deal". What I'd really ...
So, this may not be the popular opinion, but I think this is being rephrased to be sensational. I moved to AT&T last year, as they offered gigabit fiber in my area. It was presented as $99/mo for gigabit fiber, or $70/mo if you opt into the tracking thing. I called 5 times to their customer service to get the details o...
You're absolutely right, and that's the thing a lot of people are missing. Google is an information company first and foremost, they are using Google Fiber to get more information from people. And of course, people are willing to pay them to do it. However, contrast this with the actions and behaviour of the major te...
by simply opting out of AT&T altogether and going to Google Fiber. Which also tracks every single thing you do and serves ads to you via chrome and their search engine... plus also facebook tracking you.
They clearly state they don't and they aren't going to open themselves up to a lawsuit over that. Their is a critical difference many people here are missing. Google charges $70 for internet. Google will only serve you ads if you use their online products such as Maps, YouTube, Search, etc. You can use Bing Maps, Y...
1) The first thing they did was take away r/reddit.com. This took away the only tool for communicating with reddit about reddit. If you had any concerns about the website as a whole, you could address them through r/reddit. Taking that away was the first step. 2) The power now resided in individual subreddits...
She is for CISPA, PIPA, CISPA 2.0, SOPA, has tried to ban body armor for civilians multiple times, has stated she wants to ban ALL firearms for US citizens while carrying a firearm herself(and admitting to carrying in prohibited places in the state of CA and generally saying really stupid things about how guns function...
Moreover, this is not a technology issue. Her comment is purely political. The benefit of people questioning the knowledge of politicians, is that this gets people sidetracked with logic, whereas they do remember the politician's point of view. The point of view was the only message (rather than the logic). Now that...
It's willful ignorance. As long as you have the mindset that the world is always changing and you want to keep up with it instead of being left behind then you will grow and evolve along with the tech. The problem is people stop learning - they figure that they're 'adults' and they know everything they need to. Then ...
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I'm all for Tesla, but this is not a good product for the vast majority of people. Most people do not have solar, which means you're limited to saving money by charging your unit during off-peak hourly rates and using that difference in price to save money. For the sake of argument, I will assume this unit is 100% ef...
If it's like any other large manufacturing company, most likely it's broken down like this: You have a room/floor/building full of engineers of all kinds. (Mechanical, electrical, computer, etc) You have a selection of different models/types broken down into smaller projects. (from large differences like sports car...
Unfortunately, HTML5 cannot do all the things Flash can do. Flash can access every rendered pixel generated from, say, a composite of video, bitmap, and vector shapes. What use is that? You can pass those rendered pixels through a hardware-accelerated filter, or composite them with another image. Flash can access t...
Most office copiers actually do 100-600 dpi, with 200 as the default. So I was being a little generous. The 200kb/page is definitely generous. You may be right about PS -- I really have no idea, other than that most scan to email or folder in PDF format by default. Anyway, you're probably right about the article ...
I'm very impressed (not creeped out at all) with the realistic externals of it, but what about the internals? In my opinion, developing the 'brain' would go a lot further. Robots could still be very useful even if they looked like cylon centurions. I would think that the externals would be a second priority.
WARNING: The guy that invented the magnetic-fingertip trick is now warning people not to try this. Every person who's put magnets in their fingertips has eventually had to take them out, because eventually they break or the coating gets disrupted. If you're going to stick things under your skin, where they will ev...
There's also a big privacy issue with Facebook. Once you sign the petition, your profile image shows up at the bottom of the page. If you grab the url, it contains your profile Id.
rant The lack of innovation from the "old media" business execs is astounding to me. How can they not look at the new media companies ranking in cash out there and see there is a shitload of money for the taking in coming up with a BETTER idea. Instead they circle the wagons and try to hold off the future. I hate ...
What I was initially responding to is this set of statements... >doesn't take any loss >they simply have a lower gain. I know that when multimedia is pirated digitally rather than stolen from a store there is less net loss due to a lack of manufacturing costs (although there are greater costs in other areas). ...
You could make the same argument about cars, saying "WHY WOULD ANYBODY EVER BUY ANYTHING MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A HONDA CIVIC?" Technically you'd be right, speed limits don't justify spending more money on a faster or nicer car, and often times luxury vehicles get poor gas mileage. And you would be missing the point. ...
A luxury laptop (or car) would be one that was way over-spec'd for day-to-day tasks, following your example. If you have a Cadillac/Ferrari/Lamborghini that can go double the speed limit on the highway, you have a luxury vehicle. Having a car that has the same horsepower, torque and gas mileage as a car that is half th...
i see this comment often and its completely bullshit and propogating a lie. groupon is not a bad deal for businesses, and if you actually read the articles that say it is they cite people who are crying about not being able to fullfill the deal they themselves contacted groupon to offer. its their own fault for offer...