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Finally someone addressed it. A blank piece of paper is worth maybe 1 cent. But a piece of paper with the Coca Cola recipe on it? Obviously a lot more. An eBook isn't 99c because the information in it took someone a lot of effort to write, and is worth a lot more in terms of entertainment/learning. I buy business...
That's exactly what they want you to do. They are doing everything to fight change. They dont want the new system to be the norm so they are systematically trying to kill it so customers will go back to buying physical books. The execs dont really know how to proceed and sucessfully implement an ebook system. SO they w...
Okay, let me correct you first. The exploit was a javaSCRIPT exploit. Despite the name, the two are almost completely different. It also happened about 2 months ago (FBI is on record saying they started the exploit in late July) The exploit probably had nothing to do with this case, as it didn't affect the Tor Networ...
This story just keeps getting better. When I first saw it I dejectedly thought, "No..." for a myriad of reasons Then I saw that they found him, not through Bitcoins or even the Tor Browser, but the regular internet... My fears that the Tor Browser, for which a tracing algorithm has NEVER been devised, had been cra...
Well, he did give 80k to an undercover cop to kill a suspected thief. So he's screwed. Edit: The indictment is much more interesting than that. What happened was an undercover cop started talking about selling large quantities of drugs using silk road. He complained about not finding buyers that were willing to pur...
If you look at my post history, you'll discover that is something I don't usually do. There's this thing. It's called humor. It was meant to be a light hearted statement. I'll even link to the [wikipedia page]( for you, because you clearly don't know it when you see it.
Actually this whole interaction has been discussed at great length on bitcointalk.org. If you research the discussion in question, you will find that person A told DPR to talk to person B, and DPR asked person B to kill person A. It is highly unlikely that person B actually killed person A or that DPR didn't realize ...
coinbase lets you easily buy and sell straight from a bank account (meaning deposits are made in USD straight to your bank account) coinbase and bitpay offer solutions to allow anyone to put a "pay in bitcoin" button on their website and you will receive USD in your bank account within the day for less fees then p...
I'd think someone with 12 BTC would be pretty connected to the seedy underbelly of the internet. This is a pretty wide myth that the bitcoin community (and those that use it) hate. To make a crummy example; imagine if you bought gold and when you tried to tell your friends about it, many of them looked down upon you ...
The thing that hardly anyone ever discusses, and which is a key failing of bitcoin, is the scalability issue. Everyone with a bitcoin wallet is required to store the full history of every bitcoin transaction ever conducted, all in his personal wallet file. This is fine in the early years, but the more people you have c...
Being unable to get something that exists stifles the creative mind. This applies to literally everything. If you gave everyone on Earth a piece of Uranium tomorrow and instructions on how to prevent harm with it to oneself and others, you can be damn sure SOMEONE is going to figure out something very cool/interesting/...
Former ATM service tech, most ATMs run on an x86 atx type setup. It's a normal PC. The cash dispenser is USB, the card reader is USB, the key pad is USB. It's in a secure cabinet. Having been in several banks while they were being robbed and countless more ATM break ins, thieves will always find a way. Someone had int...
WTF. I purchased the first 3 series on my AppleTV and have been awaiting the next installment. Cost me over AU$100. Looks like I am torrenting the next installment because besides have no interest in pay TV, my regional cable provider (Transact/iiNet) only has limited channels. I did have Foxtel on the Xbox at on...
Cable companies that effectively subsidize HBO would stop doing so if you could buy HBO without going through them first. And buy subsidize, I mean that cable companies often sign up subscribers for HBO at discounts while still paying HBO their full fee because a) they hope you won't notice the bill going up when the d...
I read a while back that the reason HBO keeps its material to itself is that if they can maintain a firm grip on subscriptions, they can continue throwing lots of money at expensive, expansive projects like Game of Thrones.
The money HBO would gain from a standalone streaming model would be less than what they would lose from no longer being able to gouge the cable companies under the current model. The cable companies pay a significant amount to carry a service that is premium and exclusive because it keeps a certain demographic of hig...
My parents just got DSL in the last year or so, as it just became AVAILABLE where they live...I'd say I get around 3Mbps down, obviously shit up. Glad I'm not living there anymore...before DSL was WISP (think giant wifi antenna on top of house) and before that, Satellite (think $80/mo for 1.5Mbps and 1000+ ms ping). ...
First of all, thank you for the considerate reply. However, I don't mind being downvoted as I fully expect pirates to criticize anyone that challenge their beliefs. When I get downvoted, no one usually attempts to attack the logic of my post...instead they anonymously click once to bury an unpopular opinion. It is ...
The resolution isn't good enough yet. Even the consumer version, which will be 1080p or 1440p, will still pale in comparision to a fairly cheap monitor with regards to reading text. However, I absolutely believe that once we reach 4k displays it will pass the threshold of "good enough" and we'll start seeing a slow mig...
I respectfully disagree. There is no way a competitive market can simply support their research in the current state of the drug industry, especially if you're making drugs against specific disease. I don't think you realize how expensive drugs cost to develop. Consider that drugs cost insane amounts of $$ to develop...
Realistically, they are mad about the NSA but didn't really give a lot of thought to how hard it would be to build up the data services industry most of their economy relies on in one way or another, and do it from scratch overnight. To overnight require any business using a foreign storage or hosting solution to find...
Lived in Jersey City for two years so I can commute to Manhattan. Comcast was the only service provider allowed in the area. "Why?" "Because that's how it works." "...ok." I spent more time on hold, talking with their shitty staff and waiting for their "tech-experts" than I did actually watching cable. If Comcast...
I have Comcast and I would abandon them in a heartbeat of there were other options around. Sadly it's either stick with Comcast or get out. I've never personally had a bad experience with them, but I know several people who have. Here's a little story: So a friend of mine, let's call him Chris, move into an apartment...
I'm in Austin. We're going to get Fiber and that makes me incredibly excited, but also a little scared. I don't want 3 companies competing when 2 are TWC and AT&T. I want 10 where half of them are small operators who are fighting to get ahead. I want real strong competition. (If you recognize most of this message...
In my experience in a low-income area grocery store, I will say I was yelled at 95% of the time by females. Males who were angry would either just throw shit on the ground and leave or go threaten my manager and then pick a fight with security. The women always tried to make me personally feel like shit.
Someone actually did exactly this in line in front of me at Best Buy a week ago. My girlfriend and I got increasingly impatient at his stupid-yet-dogged persistence. We also got increasingly vocal about it. Finally, the guy hears us, and all pissed off/embarrassed turns to me and says "are you talking to me???" "Ye...
I torrent everything I want to watch, because internet service in my area comes and goes all day, one of the many reasons I hate my ISP. In fact, I'm writing this from my phone because it's down right now, and I have no idea how long it'll be till it's back. Might be a couple minutes, but sometimes it takes several hou...
I'm pretty sure I am the only one who won't be switching anytime soon by my own volition. My cable company (I'm with Cox) actually delivers pretty decent service, is much better than the competition, and I have never had problems with throttling/buffering on services such as Netflix or YouTube (They even peer with Net...
I don't think it's legal to do what you're already doing. Edit: [Well nevermind]( it looks like it is illegal but the CEO publicly stated he doesn't mind you sharing passwords to watch GoT. But if you go on his word then I guess you could also go off Time Warners CEO: >“Basically, we’ve been dealing with this i...
You're talking about a difference concept here -- encapsulation. At a sheer raw level, 8 megabits = 1 megabyte. The user-accessible capacity depends on encapsulation and other variables, but the equivalence between two different standard units of measurement does not.
On one side you have people. On the other side you have people. People seem to have forgotten about this. In a more detailed rundown, one side, the #GamerGate side, is comprised mostly of people who see alarming trends of collusion, corruption, and nepotism among gaming press, and publishers, especially in the indie ...
I did my Master's on the impact of copyright on the church last year. Turns out, you're actually correct in your sarcastic statement. Increases in American copyright criminalization have led directly to restrictions and missed opportunities in many creative endeavors. It is especially true in areas like hip-hop where...
Whilst I can see this working well with the US government, you know it wouldn't fly with the EU which unfortunately for me as a guy from the UK, would probably mean a Antivirus Choice update that ultimately gets ignored but still costs Microsoft billions.
Ever hear of the Bill of Rights? Unreasonable search and seizure? Due process? Innocent until proven guilty? These are assets being seized on SUSPICION of being drug related, frequently without a warrant, and it's up to the person who's assets are seized to prove they weren't drug related, rather than being up to ...
There is another factor not being considered. A suspect who visibly sees the officer wearing a camera is somewhat reassured that he isn't about to get fucked over. It serves as a de-escalation tool. Regardless of the actual good cop vs. bad cop numbers the perception is that there are bad cops who are not held accoun...
Do you have any idea how many jobs have constant video camera coverage? Do you think your local 7-11 Cashier shouldn't be recorded 40 hours a week because it's too much pressure for him to comply with company policy? Or is the argument that there is more need to record Jimmy selling cigarettes at Shell than for us to...
let me phrase it in a more contrasting way. How much education does a police officer get in the texts of laws in order to make an immediate assessment of the proper response to every situations. Now think about how long a JUDGE, with years of legal practice, had to study the text of law and how long he takes, at rested...
I agree wholeheartedly that it would sorta shine a spotlight on other issues, but that would force people to work to make changes. Extreme Example. Let's say the precinct has a policy regarding rules of engagement/escalation of force that puts officers in unnecessary danger. If it's easy to just ignore it, you aren't...
There's nothing wrong with Java itself. The language is pretty good, although it has acquired a bit of cruft over the years. It's certainly better designed than something like JavaScript. Java 8 even gets you lambdas and LINQ/FP-style stream processing. The SE API is also decent and very stable. The JVM is pretty fas...
There are a couple of methods by which a patent can be... 'broken'. One is FRAND , which is mentioned by /u/ManWhoKilledHitler. That's where IP owners enter an agreement to share patents for technology standards. In fact, some of the lawsuits between Apple and Android phone manufacturers was over the FRAND-ness of s...
I beg to differ, Ubuntu has full official ARM support, as of 9.04: Any application that is open source for linux can simply be recompiled and packaged for ARM distribution. This fact together with ubuntu already having repo's full of packages ready to rock with a simple sudo apt-get install. Proprietary software ...
Manufacturing" is not one single, consolidated process or department. A year ago, they were making sure everything was right on the prototype boards and tweaking the case design; now, the plastics company is using an electrical discharge machiner to cut a gigantic, expensive chunk of steel to precise specifications. Th...
Chances are it's just a standard delete though, wouldn't be surprised if it's not overwritten. (For those who don't know, (Wait, who am I kidding, this is reddit), when a file on a computer is deleted, it is simple marked to be overwritten, and the operating system 'forgets' that it's there. However, until new data i...
I know that computer games are different than movies, but can any critic of pirating respond to this: By critic, I mean someone that thinks pirates are the biggest force behind killing the movie/game/music/etc business. I can completely understand arguments that pirating is morally wrong. My question is regarding w...
Gotta love the confusing world of computer parts. Every few years when I need a new video card, I have to spend countless hours researching why a three digit number is better than the old four digit number, etc. Their solution was to reset the counter and reuse numbers with the odd letter thrown in here and there.
My argument has always been that HDMI is a standard , odds are it is up-to-spec, and therefore just as good as the crazy expensive alternative. I was curious about this exact thing a while ago. I purchased a 10' cable off eBay for around $4, another 10' from London Drugs for about $10, and [this pricey bastard]( for...
you are joking, right? do you have any idea how incredible the technology is? and how much time you save if you plan to tag people? and how it is in no way an invasion of privacy? and how they're trying to help you automate what until recently was a very manual process, but instead of "gee thanks, that was cool" they...
SOPA is, perhaps, one of the most important issues in technology right now in the USA (and by the extension of this turd--the world). Think of it this way: its technology and politics, not a sub-forum of its own. The winds will pass when it is defeated (hopefully) or when it goes into effect and the shitstorm begins.
I tried this at home and it took only 5 hours to crack my router. I use an ASUS router. So this does not only work on linksys but anything that uses WPS pins. There were also another 3 available routers around my place I could have attacked.
Okay. Now I'm convinced. I wasn't sure when FunnyJunk's lawyer threatened IndieGogo, but now I'm sure. This is a publicity stunt. I mean, when they banned ThePirateBay.se from the UK, visitation skyrocketed like never before. This constant media attention would be earning FunnyJunk thousands per day in ad revenue. T...
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Holy crap! From Carreon's filing: "38. Plaintiff is a contributor to the Bear Love campaign, and made his contribution with the intent to benefit the purposes of the NWF and the ACS. Plaintiff is acting on his own behalf and to protect the rights of all other contributors to the Bear Love campaign to have their reas...
UPDATE (why can't I modify my original post, gnarr?) I couldn't stop thinking about the box so I went back to recover it for further inspection. The fact that it was not secured in any way and also really light makes the suggestion of weather experiment (sounds so area 51) most plausible. When I came near I saw tha...
Finland's school system of equality actually implicitly leads to more competition at the workplace level. If all children have an equal chance and level of education, the privileged will have a much smaller edge after graduation. This is never going to fly in America. The privileged love their position too much to ...
I'd think that what is taught counts more than who teaches it. In a system where it is a matter of opinion whether classes like biology and prehistory are even real and not just theories on par with what the Bible says, I don't think whether the school is private or public really counts. Not to say that I don't app...
As a Finn who graduated upper secondary school (roughly equivalent to US high school, with ~45% of a given age class attending), I would like to offer some points of interest. First, an important factor of the Finnish oft-recited PISA success is the fact that our language is very nearly phonetic. That means that it i...
No, you're missing the point. The point is to trick certain people into thinking it is different (the people who would get upset about gay marriage) despite there being no differences. After civil unions are legal and the world doesn't end, those same people will eventually realize there is no difference and wonder w...
Actually research shows that it's much more healthier to eat more frequently. It's how athletes usually eat during on or off-season. So rather than 3 square meals in a day, you could split the same amount of food/calories over 4-6 smaller meals. This does amount to eating about every 3-4 hours. This is not only better ...
My 2006 Honda Civic diesel costs just under £65 to completely fill. On that one tank of diesel it will do 500+ miles with careful driving, and though ok, this isn't an ultra-economical car. Vehicles such as the VW Polo bluemotion will push up past 75+ mpg, as well as being many orders of magnitude safer to use than a ...
calories and hitting your goals for macro nutrients is what it's really about. so essentially if you want to lose weight, you go 200-300 calories below your maintenance. Gain weight go above. more meals a day just means you don't feel hungry, or have to eat a horse 3 times a day to hit your goals.
I too have had a good relationship with Dell. I have bought two XPS laptops in the past 4 years for my job. The first: lid latch broke (common Dell issue, fix it already). This was after 10 months and it was under warranty. I yanked the data off the HD and sent it back. A week later, my new XPS 17 arrived. It'...
As someone who owns a Dell Venue, I can say that the phone as far as visuals is a great looking phone. Operation wise, it likes to lock up, regardless of the resetting of the OS.
if you own a business and have to fill hundreds of workstations, their pricing point and reliability are hard to beat.
The executive order is not a bad thing, it actually takes great steps in protecting the technological infrastructure, which we all take for granted, the Power system and wall street is all run on a network and as everyone knows networks are flawed. An attack on one would cripple the US , Imagine the entire nations powe...
I don't know, pretty much since I started voting I have noticed one thing...the government really doesn't give a shit about you, and what you don't want. The government might listen to the people, and put things away when the people are outraged about something....but eventually, the government will get it's way, wh...
Never said it was, in fact I'm highlighting such a disparity. Because let's be honest: if you lack an understanding of cryptography and economics (as most people initially hearing about bitcoin do through no fault of their own but a lack of time investment), bitcoin absolutely does sound like a scam. As it should! Th...
Mods have absolutely NO ability to make sure anything hits the front page. None. Nada. Zip. Can they approve a post, yes. Can they guarantee upvotes, no. They have but one vote to give. If there were any real proof of collusion between ad agencies, etc and a mod, it would've been caught by Reddit admins by now....
There's a big leap between being compliant with government meaning that they allowed the NSA access to data under PRISM. The government has to make a request for data in those secure portal situations, it's just easier for them to gain access to the data. There's a big leap in what actually happened here. I'm all for...
no comments on this. i wonder why. i think a lot of redditors are scared because they know they would roll over much easier than you would. how many redditors don't pay their taxes or lie on thier taxes? they are afraid the nsa will collude with the irs and use tax evasion as a silencing measure. so they are just...
uh you do realize you could just be connecting to a proxy server that the hotel and airports are using. don't get all conspiricy when it could be just an IT managers wetdream to use a specific product they like or get kickbacks for. in fact, i can point out at least 5 products that sit in front of SMTP and SMTPS that...
when you go to a large wifi hotspot.. and you try to send email.. there's a good chance you will be redirected or denied! can you believe that?? it's like big brother has all these points setup where they can monitor what you are doing to read your email. crazy huh? it happens at starbucks, at the airport, and in hot...
Because they would win the battle but not the war. Suppose they did do such. At every single turn there after the company would face extreme opposition and be challenged by each state in various ways legally that would dismantle the company overnight.
That's it. I've had enough. I'm not going to be afraid. I'm not going to censor myself. When sites like Groklaw voluntarily shut down, the bad guys win, and the bad guys are in Washington DC. And when we do it, the bad guys win again. They're this|close to having the thought control made popular in '50s sci-fi (...
I'm from Lebanon and when we were making plans to come to the U.S we had to go into Syria to get our passports because things are that fucked up over there. Anyways while we were waiting a public park, I happen to start talking shit about my grandpa who's name is Assad for some odd reason. The president of Syria at the...
I didn't downvote you. I totally get what you're saying. Sensationalism is a problem for sure. I don't agree with you though. I understand that the NSA probably doesn't give a shit about me and there probably isn't a human monitoring every key I press. probably Even so, I have my whole life ahead of me. If /r/...
First off: I dislike Paypal a lot based on shitty experiences with them (and I had shitty experiences with them without ever actually using them... go figure), and I work for a competitor, but, people are far too quick to attribute shit to malice which is really just a company trying to make sure they don't straight u...
Sigh, maybe 5 years ago I'd be all like 'OMG paypal are evil how COULD they!!!!!!!!!' At this point their evil and straight up illegal (or would be if they were regulated like every other banking company) business practices are well known and this kind of shit happens several times a day. If you insist on using paypa...
I've had that happen and just don't really worry about it anymore...it was a 10 minute call to visa to tell them I didn't make those purchases...and they were gone and I had a new card in 3 days. But to be fair I have a ridiculous set of insurance policies in case of emergency...I have an ID theft rider on my home ow...
PayPal needs to fucking burn in hellfire. Seriously. Fuck them in the ass with a rusty spiked dildo and no lube. Someone else needs to start a PayPal like company that isn't 100% evil. I refuse to do business with them ever again after being repeatedly screwed by them. I would love to have a service like theirs, howe...
Or don't release it on a product that can't handle it. They've done it three times now with the iphone 3G, 3GS, and now the 4. He's paid for a product that shouldn't just stop working because apple went "ahaha, you downloaded software on a phone three years old? You sucker, its time to upgrade" especially when they w...
0/10 dentists would recommend. Dentist here. The "brush for 2 minutes" line we all feed you at every checkup is about more than making sure you brush all your teeth. While 2 minutes ensures you're thoroughly cleaning all of the surfaces of all of your teeth, it also gives the fluoride in your toothpaste time to 'so...
Fuck that shit, get one of these Ultrasonic Toothbrush and it's real ultrasonic, not a spinning brush. /
Hijacking the top comment to repeat a post I made on a similar thread a while back. It got nothing but downvotes for going against the hivemind, but maybe it's worth restating: I'm pretty late to the party, but I strongly disagree with the reasoning behind a la carte pricing, and I believe it'll lead to worse qualit...
What we need is true net neutrality and then everyone can just sell me their own content via a "channel" on my Roku box, Apple TV, PS5, or Xbox 1080. Whatever they want to charge. Will it cost more? Maybe, if you want a ton of stuff. But that's where this is headed. The alternative has been, for a while, to just...
If the cable companies were forced to stop bundling channels then the price of the channels you do want would be WAAAYYY higher. Networks give cable companies discounts on the highly watched channels as long as they bundle them together with other channels the networks own. They do this because networks can make more m...
Technically content providers can already do that, but they lack the leverage to negotiate for it in most instances. Legislating against such contracts would itself be a huge First Amendment and 5th Amendment morass; we would essentially have to ban such clauses in contracts, which would reduce the property interest fo...
If I applied your reasoning to video games, that'd be like saying "pay for bundled games from multiple publishers, and eventually you'll get quality games from them!" What makes a tv channel money? Ads. What makes ad money? Viewership. What makes viewership? Good shows. I understand that guaranteed ads and some amount ...
This was put in place in Canada - problem: not ALL channels are a-la-carte, and only SOME channels are available on the "pick-and-choose" menu. Most of the good stations are still in package format. What the cable companies do is offer one or two channels from every genre (movie, entertainment, sports, news, etc.) fo...
my family of 3 separate households have all quit paying for cable tv over 5 years ago. Life goes on just fine for all of us. Personally I appreciate the few shows I like that I do get to see over Canadian Netflix, and the only emotion I get when I remember the time we had cable is horrible regret at all the hours I'v...
It is certainly a combination of politics/business. Let me clarify: Not directly a result of corporate evilness. As long as there is a tax code in place, it is in the interest of all businesses to be intimately familiar with the code so as to maximize tax savings where possible. As I had stated, it is also necessar...
It's working as a COIN aircraft, which is an enormous under utilization of its capabilities. Basically, many other things could do the same job better, and for cheaper. The nugs love the sound of the gun, but to those of us in the special operations community it sounds an awful lot like civilian casualties and collat...
I've attended a lecture by one Matthias Troyer from ETH who did fairly conclusive testing of this system. Here is an earlier presentation instead). The D-Wave computer solves ONE and only ONE type of problem topology: the [Ising Spin Glass Problem]( Dr. Troyer analyzed the computer statistically against 3 topolgie...
P2P downloading, yes. Because while you download packets of data from a torrent, you will automatically seed/upload some of your already downloaded packets to other leechers(downloaders) who haven't received those packets of data in their download process yet. Plus anybody who downloads a torrent, can see other individ...
Copyright laws are on your side for personal use. Say what you want about the government they are pretty realistic on knowing why is a losing battle. This being one of them. It's not like the us where you can go to jail. In saying that I think the companies have every right to try to sue the people actually leaking...
The US Government has done a lot of bad things in the past and in the present, no denying that. To be honest though, there are fewer regulations on speech in the US then almost any other country. We've also never seriously thought of creating a national firewall... a goal shared not just by authoritarian regimes like C...
Intel tried a stunt like this like... ten years ago? They were talking about incorporating a feature into their processors that would detect and disable/delete unlicensed material from a computer installed with their chips. The shit storm that followed quickly caused them to change their tune. Also people worried AMD w...
One of the problems about assuming based on some mythical "common sense": very often, it's wrong. Do you have anything to backup the claim that the fingerprints needed are going to be that hard to lift; or, are you just making stuff up? The hack in the original article, the hack in the article I linked are both demo...
Quantum allows a new field of [quantum algorithms]( Most worryingly for security, [Shor's algorithm]( makes it possible to factor integers in polynomial time, and thus feasible to recover an RSA private key given the public key. Another big one is [Grover's Algorithm]( which can speed up attacks against symmetric ciphe...
It is still best used as a user id, not a password. You can, of course, use it however you want, I'm not telling you what to do, but it is more logical to use it as a username. A fingerprint is a quick way to uniquely identify yourself. Imagine your phone or tablet has multiple user login (not sure if this is thing...
wow that was a great indepth article. the heart of it is: "You'd think having created such a big and powerful website in his teens, Poole would be very wealthy. He's not. It's weird."