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Ponzi scheme might be a stretch You're kidding! "Ponzi scheme" being used carelessly? Right now, it is fashionable to call anything which makes optimistic assumptions of future growth a Ponzi scheme. Many things labelled Ponzi schemes are an insult to true Ponzi schemes: questionable, yes, but not truly fraudulent,...
Dude, I know! We pay something like $60bucks a month for crappy ass ROGERS internet, full b/w caps and all. I moved to HK for a year for work, and I'm set up with 1000M fiber optics line, it comes with telephone AND 150 free channels (INCLUDING MOVIES IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE) for $22.50CAD/month. The company even let me...
Long time lurker, and I usually don't enjoy posting but this post infuriates me so much. My family started a textile factory when my grandparents fled to HK after the cultural revolution; we started with 4 injection molding machines and with that spark, we managed to pull our family out of poverty and a farming lifes...
Speakin of the Asians, they have a folk tale applicable to this. Something about an old grandfather that his children smack around and feed out of a dog plate because he's too old and feeble to eat properly. After some years of being derided and abused as old, unwieldy, a nuisance to have around, etc. the old man die...
The low incomes is an indirect result of Chinese governments monetary policy. I hate exploitation of workers as much as the next guy but the blame here really falls on their own government. When a currency is freely traded it will rise in value compared to other currencies if that countries GDP grows faster then the ...
You are mistaken. I'm reasonably senior & earn a decent six figure salary in a big, ugly, generally aggressive corporate. But, believe it or not, you don't have to behave like Gordon Gecko to move up in the world. Being hard-working, smart and giving a fuck about people are not mutually exclusive. I also see exact...
I got drunk at a party one night and a guy and his gf invited me to his place to get stoned. I agreed and on the way he told me he worked for Apple, this was about a year and a half ago. He got insanely stoned and then confessed that part of his job is to go overseas to Apple parts factories, including Foxconn. He th...
The sadder thing is, countries like mine (the Philippines) are actually looking up to China as a model for development, and I assure you, there are a number of more impoverished countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa that want the Chinese dream too. We had a nice thing going until the 60s, but our minimum...
I regret I have only one upvote for you, the OP and the Alamo Drafthouse. Sanctimonious pricks like that stupid bitch are the EXACT reason why natural selection has been subverted in today's society; because in a normal situation, she would be shamed to do what she did. Instead, in her ignorance, she thinks she's e...
There is no place for another tablet to break out as much as the iPad because of people like you. People who claim to not be sheep, yet they follow every single word of every keynote, and then proclaim, without even seeing or touching it that insert Apple product here will be the most revolutionary thing ever made, ...
Try not to get caught up in marketing speak. Here's the specifics of the term, which is just a made up marketing term. Firstly, it's a term used to describe pixel density and viewing distance. Secondly, for the iPhone, the reality of the math and the way the term is implied (and generally understood by those hearin...
Eh, if you take the word anonymous literally. Anonymous now is used as a proper noun referring specifically to the group that does whatever hacking things they do. The problem is ambiguity since Anonymous is actually anonymous. This leads to any joe schmoe, like the one who created this anon-os, being able to say they ...
No. Reading the original story and all the indignant comments on Reddit irritated me. It all seemed so damn asinine. Then I saw this link pop up and couldn't resist making a smartass comment. And the reason I was looking at the newest links in the first place was so I could downvote Torrentfreak articles about Kim Dotc...
WHO is downvoting this? How are all of these people in /r/technology rationalizing this?! The law is clear. Exporting most goods to Iran is illegal, but Apple needs only restrict the sale when it is expressly for export to Iran. The decision of this Apple store goes way beyond the original intentions of the embargo ...
That is false. I don't use any google services, however, if I send an email to a gmail account, then the content is analyzed and stored for later use. Anyone that has my name, address, birthday, email, phone number stored and synced to google, has given MY information to them without MY consent. Isn't it funny how w...
I'm a student too, and I've actually found Microsoft web services to be a lot easier for a student. Sure Google's UI is a lot sleeker than Hotmail's but it seems like that's going to change in the fall when they change the layout to look more Metro-like. Don't get me wrong, I still have a Gmail account, and I still ...
Jeez. Things truly are getting out of hand. I just ran into a situation at my local grocery store (Wegmans, for those who know it). Walked through the store with my brother-in-law while he was in town. He bought beer, I bought some other stuff. We went through the checkout as two separate orders -- and the cashier ...
They're not banned. The CPSC has filed a lawsuit against the company. A few retailers have voluntarily taken the products out of their catalog. If the CPSC wins the lawsuit, they will be not only banned, but the founders/principals of Buckyballs will have to: admit the product is defective make public notif...
None of that is remotely true. That is not hearsay because its not testimony. Opinion of non-expert? Where did you pull that one from? First, its the results of a case, not opinion. It's a fact. Second, laypersons are asked their opinions all the time. Third, why is anyone testifying the first place? It's a fac...
I personally think that in the States, there's a stigma of " Prepaid?! The service must be bad/horrible if they can price it so low (flat rate providers) or have awful plans (major brands with hamstringed prepaid plans). " People in my local area seem to have this preconception that a post-paid plan is a guarantee of b...
You sound like a man who does not understand what theft is, but I'm in a good mood: Theft is 1)An unauthorized taking 2)of the property of another 3)with the intent to permanently deprive him thereof. Piracy fails the definition of theft for the third element.
I will ignore your "fuck you", that's just rude, but I think people like you need to understand HOW the economic/social environment affects peoples logic for this matter. I believe what he's trying to say is that today's companies business model is dead. In the now past market shaper era, where technology allowed o...
That's actually where it gets worse. The money isn't even going to the musicians, it goes to the Recording Industry Association of Japan and the record labels, the musicians still don't get very much money. I recently read some articles on the matter, but don't have the links right now. If you're curious I'd be happy t...
As someone who works in the business of proxies and knows something about security, I would warn everyone not to use this. Proxies cost money and bandwidth isn't cheap and video's take a lot of bandwidth. They are making money on you in some way and it looks like they are getting information off you with this extension...
Guy who teaches network hardware to different ISPs here to shed some light on why ISPs can often suck. First - a brief 101: Your internet bandwidth suffers from bottlenecks, no matter where you are. It's not quite as simple as this analogy, but the internet is comprised of networks that would look somewhat like a sp...
Nobody has a problem with you working hard and trying to deliver service. We have an issue with the iphone plan from the original iphone having unlimited internet & texts for an additional $30 a month on AT&T. That charge was on top of whatever you were paying for voice. When the 3G iphone came out, you made us pay...
Not 100% sure what you're asking, but here's the reason why the answer is mostly no. Sprint is slowly building up LTE, but most of it's network is CDMA. CDMA doesn't have SIM cards at all, and because the LTE isn't ready to handle voice traffic yet, and isn't available in most places, all Sprint phones that have LTE ...
I like how Reddit's Google Defense Brigade is in full swing downvoting you for this, but if Apple had done something like this, we'd all have to endure armchair speculation about who at Apple might have committed a felony, and whether we can all sign a petition to get the SEC to investigate.
Here's my theory: Many investors think the 'bubble' around Apple is going to pop. There's no way they can be that valuable. Problem is that's just an irrational reaction (the market is often irrational) not backed up by the fundamentals of the company. AAPL at $700 seems like a huge number to anybody, but it's real...
Are they? Yes. >Is predicting for an identity group sufficiently right? Yes. >Can it be? Yes. > Can it be if you can't even figure out the group? Yes.
Replacing the mouse should be the next step in PC touch technology. Touch pads are ubiquitous today in laptops. However I think people have a bad taste in their mouths because the small size of touch pads sacrifices a good deal of precision. Plus, being located under the space bar lets them hijack the cursor when y...
You could move touch screens to a keyboard type orientation with the forearms supported but then you are back to square one and lacking tactile feedback. Touch only really gains overall for the portability of the handheld factor. Some other factors like close contact horizontal orientation with a praying mantis pose ...
Unfortunately, the problem here doesn't lie in technology. It lies in humanity. We're all still tribal monkeys, at heart, and we constantly have an urge to find people who are "like us" and hang out with them. Even as someone who seeks out and craves new experiences and ideas (says a guy who left the US to live in...
your car is made of less rigid materials [2009 Impala vs 1959 Impala]( If this were a real crash, I doubt what the driver of the 1959 Impala would have experienced is poor seat design, and that the 2009 car was "less rigid". In fact, the driver of the older car would have definitely benefitted from an air bag, due ...
actually...We needed seat-belts (invented about 50 years ago) Airbags are more for modern cars with crumple zones and lighter materials. Fatal accidents happened more because of poor seat design, lack of seat-belts/bad seat-belts, than lack of airbags. Airbags are used now more because your seat crumples, your car is m...
What if someone has an emergency? What if I'd like to leave the phone on silent so I could still get SMS messages? What if I'd rather leave the phone on silent so it could get my push emails in a timely manner? None of that disrupts your cinema experience. All of the above are all reasons why it's also illegal in mos...
The clock isn't the noise source, it's the transmitting oscillator. It is not a VCO, because the voltage applied to it doesn't control the oscillator, only powers it. A clock would be pretty useless if it's timing changed based on voltage. Just that clock w/ a transformer would be enough to broadcast AM radio so no...
I think it is a fairly nice period piece for SciFi, in that it bridges the changes that occurred in SciFi film between 2001's release (in the late 1960s), and the more modern films like the Alien series (starting in 1979). The crew is less naive and a little more gritty. It seemed a bit more driven and a less philoso...
No, Multiplayer experience is not a premium service. Peer to Peer gaming has been around before xbox live, and even ps2 had it(it only supported like 2 games and costed alot and was not sold anywhere). Premium service should include premium things that you cannot get elsewhere. You dont go out and pay to listen to musi...
Took them this long? The only reason to go with Windows is games & office, and I'm sure they're not doing much of either up there. Glad that they finally ported all their programs to work natively under Linux.
Perl, python, java, (Scripting and programming languages) boost, matlab, octave (mathematics libraries) apache, nginix (web servers) mysql, oracle, postgres, (rdbms) lua, ROS, (AI, robotics controller frameworks) sftp, scp, (data transport protocols) gcc (native compilers) and on and on and on... There are a tons of ...
My brother works at a company that digitizes and searches all the newspapers in the US for clients who want all articles relating to them in print (both personal and business). The company is owned by friends of the family and they live next door to my parents. That said, newspapers are in extremely dire straights. A...
Is it possible? Yes. Is it really worth the time? Not really. The only time you're ever going to get you stuff hacked is if someone wants to dead, but this isnt an insured death. The only thing someone would hack the vehicle for would be to listen to you talk or track you.
FWIW: our 2001 Toyota Tundra and 2009 Toyota Prius both have pure electronic, drive-by-wire accelerator pedals. Opened both and examined them; same supplier, identical. No mechanical connection at all. Toyota accelerator modules are very well designed, solid and reliable computer input devices.
This. I changed my gmail address several times growing up (each time into a more mature name) and I also have different YouTube accounts (the oldest few have Tokio Hotel fanvideos, then the middle-aged ones MapleStory videos, and the newest one vlogs). It's all a mess now. Even though I have my gmail accounts linked it...
If you do get a Windows Phone, don't get a Verizon HTC 8X. There's a software bug that makes text messaging totally unreliable, and everyone involved is too busy pointing fingers to fix the issue. I think what happened is that an upstream vendor gave HTC bad radio firmware in their board support package for the CDMA/...
to justify to the stakeholders/investors that they have 'researched' and proven methods to explain why they should want to continue to invest in a product they (the investors) probably have no working knowledge about.
The key difference, I think, is that reddit has a reward system for comments that actually has some sort of effect, insignificant though it may be. People on reddit are encouraged to be polite, informative, and or humorous both indirectly (through karma) and directly (by the official reddiquette page). YouTube's voting...
i don't understand why fire on a car in an accident is so surprising for some people? There are people who claim cars don't set alight in crashes. Basically everyone on reddit took the stance that the Michael Hastings car crash was an inside job and that cars don't set alight when they hit a tree at 80mph+
The only item on the list that could be remotely considered evil by anybody informed on the details is #2. > The Google+ all or nothing strategy. This is not evil, this is a product that some people don't like. > Google’s willingness to hand over our information to the NSA We now know that the information was a...
Fuck the Fortune 500. The Fortune 500 bought Congress; they should have to suffer the consequences of Congresscritter fuckups.
Although if they are not *NIX devices Clearly you do not keep up with linux security issues. The problem is, like an unpatched OS, eventually the holes will be found and if you treat your product like "Ship once, never update" then they'll become vulnerable. And thats just on the OS side of things. Think of all th...
You can't prove a negative. I can't prove that it isn't being used to censor political speech. The poster above Bitdude is
Female employee quits and makes her name very publicly available? My first gut instinct is this is a 'cashing out' on the pink-dollar It's a trashy piece of garbage that makes tenuous links to her being fired and death-threats. Reddit, may I present Fascwins law: When discussing an interaction with a woman the ...
The argument isn't "a woman did something bad so all women are likely to do something bad", the argument is about a specific culture of radical feminism, an over-sensitivity/confirmation bias to view insignificant actions as deeply misogynistic acts, which is self-perpetuated by people who aren't misogynists really dis...
The Department of Labor, or your states Labor Bureau, can advise you not to say anything, lest you undermine your own case. However short of a gag order signed by a judge they cannot require you "to keep a lid on it". Any implication to the contrary without a supporting gag order would be a violation of your 1st a...
no, no, no, no, no. Coming from an aerospace engineering student who has taken material science classes AND is in the Navy: Anybody who is related in any way to materials science will tell you that brittle failure (especially in a ship, or a plane) is BAD BAD BAD. You want to design your craft to remain in the region o...
Most Americans don't want most things but most things still exist.
I think this is an overreaction, and it would be much better to keep these meta posts incorporated within r/technology. It's hard to know if some of the recent posts were trolls, or ignorant people making noise. I've not been of the opinion that the recent meta posts have been useful, however I think they should be a...
There is this constant drive towards using less petrol (gasoline). But we don't pump it from the ground on it's own. We still have a massive dependence on oil based products for just about everything in the modern world. Plastics, paints, lubricants, just to name the most obvious. So what are we going to do with this...
Kinda reminds me of Baraqua from Parks and Rec. Raul: This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the protestors away? Where are they? This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Baraqua. You shout like that they put you in jail. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Journalists, we have a special jai...
India confuses me too. Sometimes I see really good stuff happening, for instance the lgbt pride parades, people being nice to each other immaterial of what they do/are. But then there are also things that just make me feel like that there is no way we can ever prosper like the Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore rapes, the ho...
Why would you believe that the crime rate drops to 0? No law is going to stop religiously motivated crimes. They are just going to be more severe, more sinister, if at all. You could even face all out protests and rebellion if this goes too far. Tolerance and equality are cool, but never try to kill freedom of speech. ...
Sales tax is (currently) only charged when the business you are purchasing from has a presence in your state. Newegg doesn't have a brick and mortar store front nor a warehouse in your state so you do not pay the sales tax. When you do have to pay sales tax, it is calculated based on the state the item is being SHIPPED...
People need to hop in on the replies early on and declare: "This response is so [stupid, repulsive, flawed, whatever] it should be upvoted for visibility! Someone screencap it before she tries to edit it or delete it!" In fact - it isn't too late: You dudes might consider hopping into the AMA and upvoting the hel...
FPTP video I am aware of the problems with FPTP voting. I would much rather have some sort of proportional representation system. However, the voting laws are written and enforced by corrupt assholes who benefit thereby. Said corrupt assholes will not change the voting laws to their own detriment just because a lo...
That question is largely dependent on whether or not you were using μTorrent. BitCoins - and other cryptocurrencies - are essentially bits of code that a computer can "mine" by devoting electronic resources to a specific process. People have built enormous computer "farms" devoted to this, with the intention of accum...
This is one of my favorite futurology subjects. In general, I agree with Musk that eventually manually operated cars will become illegal on typical roads, but I suspect it will take more along the lines of 30-40 years, not 20. Several things have to happen before it will be truly 'illegal' to manually operate a vehic...
The Top Gear guys had an interesting perspective on driverless cars. Will they be programmed to save the "driver's" life or save the most lives? A tree falls in the roadway and the car can't stop in time. To the left is a 500 for cliff. To the right, an empty field but a group of school children are between the car a...
This website commits crazy logical fallacies that make my head hurt. I don't understand how an analyst like this could get work. CEOs at non-apple phone manufacturers should be able to see through the absurdity presented here. Here are some of my problems with this article: 1) It lists common user complaints an...
Quoted from: brought to my attn from Hubso "My name is Jesse (online name Danny Bishop). I myself was shot--in the chest--on November 27th, 1994, at point-blank range with a .22" magnum revolver (single-action, convertable--to.22" LR with alternate cylinder). The bullet was likely 40-grain; the type: .224 caliber hi...
I think your headline is right, but your explanation isn't. The iPad is an ergonomics nightmare -- it will be nearly impossible to do anything that involves the on-screen keyboard while, you know, looking at the device. To type, you'll have to awkwardly hunch over the thing, while simultaneously balancing it, so tha...
As an iPhone user, I actually hate the flood of softcore porn apps, along with farting apps, moron tests, and other bullshit filling the top 10. I am not remotely interested in a "boob jiggle" app, and while I don't care if such an app exists, it pisses me off when I have to filter through dozens of such apps to find ...
here's an old article that kinda sums things up]( > We're not investing time and energy in this direction because we're pretty sure it would be blocked by Apple, so we're better off using our time in terms of development to do things on open platforms
In Korea, advertising for certain models of phones are very common; phones have catchy names too (e.g., Chocolate, Icecream) or they are named after the celebrity who advertises it (e.g., [Kim Yuna phone]( Samsung's first phone to use AMOLED screen was named AMOLED, and as usual, they had some girl groups to sing a th...
Huh. I see a lot of words and little content. Here's how it works. You create a volume, say 100GB, the whole thing gets encrypted, it all looks like 100GB of random data. At the beginning of the volume is a header, when you want to decrypt the volume, you provide a password to it, if it matches, you're in, if it do...
There is no real decision made on this AFAIK. On the one hand is as you say, it could be viewed similarly to providing a search warrant and requesting the owner to unlock a house, or a door, or a safe. If they don't the police will bust it open. I do not know that anyone gets charged if they cannot unlock a door or a...
The problem boils down to barriers to entry impeding a thriving market and stifling competition. Starting and running TV station costs millions. Starting a website, or a revolutionary new program costs potentially nothing apart from your time. If 90% of the consumers were locked into leading providers of the day, G...
I may have been translating a bit too much of my own experience onto this guy. Here's where I was coming from: In high school I had the opportunity to be part of an after school work program where students did all the real actual IT support for a large high school. It was a chance to get early exposure to real IT ski...
It all depends on what is "it" that you like about computers. Do want a career because it is the in thing? or because there is money in it? or because you enjoy it? Currently a computer career is so wide, you have plenty of areas to chose from. When I started in the Jurassic era of computers, when DOS just came out, ...
there was a sub 100 day retention policy on emails there for years.. years and years.. the it systems buckled under the pressure for massive documents and junk in peoples inboxes.. they weren't very well structured.. it wouldn't surprise me if that stuff was lost a long time ago.. why keep it in a news paper, old email...
All the bickering about whether ISPs should charge for bandwidth, or metered use is missing the OP's point. If you believe that the Internet is an essential method of communication, then it is government's responsibility to ensure that there is no conflict of interest between ISP's who are providing a digital pipe to...
If it were something objectively bad, like, say, placing your hand in fire, I'd agree with you, but political ideals, regardless of their alignment, are subjective by definition. To say a viewpoint you disagree with is objectively stupid is to show arrogance unbecoming of someone who wants to gain popular support for...
I've been thinking of this for a while. Is there any way all of us could step up and create an ISP? In Texas, where I currently live, it is incredibly easy to create a corporation. I've always just wondered if there was a way all of us could band together and create an ISP without "bandwidth caps" or "data limits" etc....
Why does this even receive a down vote? Every single person who complains about big business recognizes that they pay off people in government to get what they want. But when it comes to calling out the government for being an organisation that is not trust worthy for this very reason , somehow saying that is to blow ...
to be fair, the OP seems to have missed his own point the problem is really a product of a population's fearful mistrust of anything with even the vaguest hint of "communism" that has so completely crippled its ability to actually regulate its industries - to the point where you are now effectively ruled by priva...
I'm back home on break from school and catching up on the stuff I've missed while away when a friend asks me how I'd pronounce "Lei-a" and told it's a name that troubled an instructor at the local community college on the first day of class. I guessed it was pronounced like Lia, and my friend responded by jumping strai...
CORRECTION: I received the following comment from a Jodi Olson, part of the communications team at Twitter. Jodi wrote: I saw your piece on our news today and wish you would have checked in with us for perspective on the story–your piece is inaccurate and misleading. What’s new today is that we now have the abilit...
This because we have all been asleep at the wheel. Years from now when the internet is no longer free; when web sites have to have approval permits issued by a number of government agencies; when all media is controlled by the music industry; When the internet is no longer an interactive experience; we'll be able to ...
I know that conventional wisdom says that using something to cover your tracks would make you stick out (for example U.S. border patrol is more likely to pursue carpet shoe footprints instead of normal footprints) but I think the system they will use will be mostly automated like the YouTube copyright system. (
Here's what this means. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes certain conduct that "exceeds authorized access" to computer/information systems a criminal offense. The government said that accessing data in violation of "use restrictions" imposed by the system owner would constitute "exceed[ing] authorized access." ...
People get addicted to this type of behavior, and that's why they eventually are caught. I once had a customer who would shop my store every Sunday. She would stop by the pharmacy, help herself to a box of Nicorette gum, and as she continued to shop she would empty the box, put the gum in her purse, and then dispose...
I'm a web developer who once helped build a website for a publishing company that sells its authors' original stories as e-books and on-demand publishing. Some of the stories would regularly be cycled through a "free content" page for a while before moving to a members-only area. There was a great deal of effort pu...
I think this is an often overlooked fact. America is HUGE compared to most countries. When you're talking about Moldova it is roughly the same size as Maryland, and roughly a 20th of the size of Texas. But more importantly it's population density is 124 people per sq km. This puts it between FL (8th) and PA (9th) as fa...
The DMCA is retarded, and nobody uses it properly from my experience. Some people unknowingly abuse it. I had a site that I used to repost RSS content from a site that aggregated other sites that were accepted to the site, and specifically posted that it's content was Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. By content lice...
Google has gotten pretty bad about censorship. There's a lot of stuff gov't related that you really, really had to push your creativity to find almost 10 years ago. Now it's making it into the mainstream. Money and what limited freedom you can get as an American corporation counts more than the original ideas. Or...
You're not looking for rational discussion if you're being willfully blind to the way the patent system and litigation works. Functionally a counter-suit is a new attack. If the original claim is withdrawn, dismissed or otherwise found to be without merit, the counterclaim can continue. It's a matter of judicial econom...
This is a false statement. For almost all intents and purposes most open source software becomes the same if not better with regards to power. The developers with closed software make their software neat and organized so that it looks very modern and sleek, but are usually about the same as open source. Most people ...
I'm at work at the moment, so I won't be looking at this topic until I get home. For any coders out there, feel free to ask me anything about the implementation or technologies, libraries, or plugins used. Some extra information: I developed the website 2 years ago. It has been online since then, and I use it as ...
The court didn't say that Comcast didn't commit wrongdoings. The court decided the case should have been dismissed from the appellate court because the plaintiff did not properly certify the class. In a class action suit, the plaintiff must file a motion to have the class certified, often requiring discovery in order t...