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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 to determine if the proposed class meets the standard for cert...
There are several things to consider with CPU power dissipation. I'm not an ASIC engineer but I work with them a fair amount since I am a mobile systems software engineer, What follows is what I have learned from them and university. In modern CPUs, GPUs, CMOS transistor logic families are used. They are great compar...
This needs to be the top comment. Though we can shrink transistors and fit more of them into a smaller space, we've reached the point where we cannot run them at lower voltages. So we're squeezing in more, and feeding it the same levels of juice as we used to. Something's gotta give... Guess what? It's power consum...
No, it's not. 1366x768 = 1 MP, 1080p = 2 MP, 2560x1440 = 3.7 MP So about a factor of 2 between each resolutions, and mobile GPU's have been getting at least a factor of 2 in performance every year. So what I said was Crysis 2008-level in 2015 at 720p or so, then in 2016 at 1080p, and then 2017 at 2.5k for tablets. ...
I realize this may not be a popular opinion, and I'm CERTAINLY not defending Sallie Mae; I graduated College in 2003 and 10 years later, I've got about a grand left and my student loans are paid off. However: >Sure she was eligible for some financial aid due to her socio-economic status but it just never is enough i...
There is no federal sales tax in the US. Each State, City, County, and Municipality can have a sales tax. Each of these taxes often exempt certain items. This is what makes collecting sales tax a nightmare. A retailer would need to track all state and local taxes for a particular customer as well as any exempted item...
i want to play a hand as devil's advocate here: reddit loves to use the 'get a better business model' line whenever technology disrupts an industry and the entrenched players fight it. i now will say the same to all of you frustrated by these developments. sorry to tell you, but if someone with enough skills to get t...
Consider posting constructive criticism / an explanation when you downvote something, and do so carefully and tactfully. [emphasis added] There is no requirement to comment when you downvote, and in particular if you downvote a user who is not adding reasonably to the discussion and who has repeatedly shown to be ...
As a comp sci grad, I can tell you that a lot of my classmates can't fucking code at all.. They hate debugging and always need someone to help them whenever they are stuck. The problem here is that comp sci in general is not as well established as other curriculum like electric/chemical/mechanical engineering. A lot...
The New Coke analogy doesn't make any sense. Software isn't based on a formula - it's closer to iterative art - it improves/evolves/adapts in cycles. Windows 8 is revolutionary, and even evolutionary changes frustrate people. 8.1 (Blue) and versions beyond that will refine the elements, and (more importantly) th...
Not relevant. App takes full screen, so you gotta either press Windows-key to bounce to home screen, Win+D for desktop, or alt-tab. This is incredibly silly for desktops since it means you can't track activity effectively without pop-ups, and I strongly desire to set fire to anyone suggesting pop-ups are a good thing...
You lost your secod amendment rights about 70 years ago. When the government started producing superior weapons than you could buy or own. What was originally a system of checks and balances where everyone was armed has now tilted woefully past any equalization. So sure you can have your pea shooter but your big bro...
I agree within the context of what you are saying. I'm not linking to this because of the movie, but to get people to take action for themselves. Think for themselves. I've seen the movie so I know what it's about, but that doesn't make some of the scenes in the movie less profound. Let's take the recent demonstr...
You've got some good points, and I'm all for the downsizing of government. I would agree that it's too big as it is. However, at the same time, I do want security officials to have a reasonable amount of information available if they do need to conduct an actual investigation. Also inherent in your comment is...
First-past-the-post voting (which is what we have) is a terrible, fucked up system. It guarantees that you'll always have 2 parties to choose from. HOWEVER, we have a long history in this country of CHANGING WHICH TWO PARTIES. The current configuration has only been around for about 15 presidential elections. Majo...
Honestly who cares? so what they know who you called so could anyone who picks up your phone and lookes at recent calls does it really matter? are they telling everybody "oh hey! this guy's married but he calls some chick every other night!" no. They have phone records so what according to the article all they have is ...
Just in case you never saw this, or even just forgot it... ](
copy paste from a little further up) When duckduckgo first came out, wasn't it just a reskinned Google? As in it would just redirect to a google page and have the duckduckgo banner instead. In fact, I just viewed the page source, ctrl+F "google", and found references to Google and Bing. Probably just the links on ...
The temptation is sky high for me right now. I really want to.... edit ok I gave in and did. It's lame and was a waste of my time. It was basically telling me I had to do work.
Let me clarify: I'm purchasing individual files for download. I assure you, my wallet is involved. However, even if what I meant was I'm exclusively using torrents, the point is that I'm not using my money on the medium that I disagree with. If I've misrepresented the theory of voting with my wallet , I'd love to ...
Let me clarify: I'm purchasing individual files for download. I assure you, my wallet is involved. However, even if what I meant was I'm exclusively using torrents, the point is that I'm not using my money on the medium that I disagree with. If I've misrepresented the theory of voting with my wallet , I'd love to ...
I would argue that the internet still has not been commercialized well. Thebest way for a startup to make money? To get bought out. There have been only a handful of truly successful online businesses: Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple (music store). These are businesses that are still growing; that are making money....
I'm game for this, but on one condition. The ads themselves need to be legit, not some bullshit "weight loss" ad or "I made $x,xxx in a week;" not just that, but they can't be scams - too many ads out there pay out because they steal user information, or just scam people into buying some useless piece of shit (lets fac...
I'm sorry to say you have a fundamentally misguided view of what advertising is all about. >How many times have you bought something because of an ad? At best, you became aware of its existence. Action is only one (and the last) step in the advertisement life cycle of a product/service. Most ads don't have the go...
I don't know if this is going to get downvoted to hell or not, but I think it's worth mentioning that it's really not that bad to have to see an ad for something. It's such a small thing that I don't understand at all why people start frothing when they are brought up. Ads keep things free. So what if Warby Parker want...
If you look back at advertising history, it actually created a revolutionary business model that enabled lower income people to gain access to news and culture. News papers and magazines were very cost prohibitive to lower classes and catered only to wealthier people who could afford them. There was no radio or televis...
When I block ads I do the advertisers a favor, not only do I know that I will never click an ad or buy anything from it, I would actively avoid products that annoy me with their ads. I don't watch a lot of "esports" but I especially loathe the companies that advertise there, if I see your banner or your gear you are bl...
Welp, Thought i would drop my opinion in the bucket. Advertising Doesnt Have to be Evil and I support the Use of Advertising for content Creators on BLIP.TV or its ilk. I also support Idividuals site advertising, Especially companies like Project wonderful, Mostly due to their Related content (Webcomics) this is a ...
What browser are you using? I had chrome for years but this problem started occurring (because the way chrome uses flash) so I switched to Firefox. I have no issues with videos loading or rewinding a fully loaded video, ever. Even at work with my slow ass connection.
I have a [website]( that me and my wife run together to sell her crochet goods. I put two unobtrusive little google ads on the side and bottom of our blog posts to recoup server costs but I noticed once that some weird "DOWNLOAD THIS" and "iLivid" advertisements showed up. This made me very upset but I'm not really su...
The way you feel about the ads in the theater (and I agree with you) is how I feel about all the crap that I'm forced to watch on my DVDs. Honestly, it's the fact that I can't skip them that pushed me over the edge. But, I as the consumer have a choice. I don't have to buy the DVD. So, I don't. I can't remember the l...
As someone who works in the digital advertising space, I'd like to add my two cents here. Are there a lot of ad formats that easily fall into the category of "obtrusive, annoying, downright ridiculous"? Absolutely. Do they deserve to be blocked? Without a doubt. But.... Believe it or not there are responsible compani...
I should have said could be better at generating power that internal combustion engines. Whether the current power infrastructure is or not, idk. But we'll have the chance to change it over the next few decades, and we should work to reduce the carbon footprint and other forms of pollution. Here's a good place to s...
this method doesn't even work at all anymore if the recipient is a gmail user, gmail caches these images beforehand. you don't even know if they opened the email, let alone when or where. most email providers automagically block images by default, foiling this technique as well. then for the people using email prov...
I work in internet marketing and this is not an issue like the article would have you believe. The incoming mail server determines what MIMEs to accept and serve back to users. Gmail and most modern systems block nearly every MIME and scriptlet outside of images and download links. Often we'll get spam or blacklist rej...
The World Health Organization recognizes gender as being a separate individual characteristic to physical sex, and the American Psychiatric Association recognizes being Trans as legitimate - in fact, gender dysphoria for trans women & men is recommended as being treatable with genital reassignment surgery and hormone t...
While I admire people trying to recycle and keep these elements out of landfills, this article is misleading. Rare earth deposits are relatively common on land, no need to go out to space and mine asteroids or go down miles under the ocean to extract rare earths from the ocean floor - as the article intimates is nece...
Yea I live in centennial. Here the internet is absolutely horrendous. The max speed that I can get here is 30 mbps, and that costs an arm and a leg. Ive been a customer of quest, now century link, for as long as I had a stable internet connection. At the moment, I'm paying for 12 Mbps download and 5mbps upload.. I can ...
PCI-x slots FFS, they're PCI e slots (PCI express), PCI-X (PCI eXtended) is a completely different standard. There's no hyphen, either, or a space. Just PCIe. > and the PCI-x slots aren't the same. there are different versions, always will be as the upgrade the slots every few years. Yeah, but the PCI e standar...
People who think that Music Freedom is good for consumers don't understand why Net Neutrality drives innovation. Imagine you're trying to start-up a company that doesn't just offer music streaming, but also music video streaming. T-Mobile refuses to allow you an exemption because music videos use more bandwidth than ...
I work 60 hours a week in my chosen profession, the time im not working id like to spend with my family and friends, not spending my few free hours poring over a repair manual for a goddamn dishwasher. I pay the person whose chosen profession is to fix these devices and more than likely replace them.
32 year old father here with 3 kids. 14, 13 and 10 (I started early >.<) Anyways I have been in IT for over 10 years and I can pretty much crack open everything from cell phones to TV's and repair them or at LEAST diagnose the problem. What I do to my kids from time to time is I throw them a little curve ball. I st...
Yes, but sadly the people who vote in this shit country go red or blue and that's it. So unless you got all the young people to vote third party it literally cannot work. Furthermore, people seem to forget we are not a democracy and we are that Republic bullshit. We have an electorate college. Our votes actually m...
ok I never heard a thing about this, until you posted these videos, but the first one i clicked on with RES was over 30 min long so I'll summerize: 1st video [11:01 – Leo kisses photo he took of Sarah’s lips with his smartphone]( 1st video [21:30 – “Cross your legs” – Leo]( - in context it doesn't seem like sh...
My [Kenneth Cole watch]( costs roughly $160. A lot of my friends have watches from Movado, Invicta, or Oakley that cost well over $500. Should I even mention how much a Rolex costs? And all they do is tell time.
I was always disappointed at reddit users because they seem so passive at criticizing their own site. Reddit is already predominant form of the liberal online movement. Perhaps second after the Hufftingpost. I don't see how reddit may limit your free speech except what [burdenofknowledge!]( listed. The thing here is ...
Even if you read the article, I can still see people coming to the conclusion they are. Reddit has always trumpeted itself as being a free speech platform. Consider what [then-CEO Yishan Wong said]( after the jailbait debacle in 2012: >"We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subre...
I'll step up as the only defender of apple. Yes, I own a couple macs, but I don't have an iphone, or any kind of smart phone, but I've seen and used quite a few. Take a look at the phone market before Apple came into the picture. There was very little innovation and the provider had all the power. Now we have ipho...
If you're in a developed country with robust IP rights, like the U.S., this agreement means jack. Developed countries will push an agreement like this in a way so that their current laws already bring them into compliance. That's what most of the comments are aimed at in the document. However, if you're in a developing...
Can anyone more tech (and possibly politically) savvy than I explain what will happen if google does pull out? I'm in Shanghai, and I use google in English, not Chinese. Before all this began, months ago, going to google.com or using the FF search bar automatically loaded in English, due to my computer's language se...
I have a funny story about this. 2 years ago I was going on a camping trip with my dad and sisters. My gf and I arrived at camp early to find that the "gate" was still up (it was actually a thick piece of braided metal wire, way too thick to cut but her car was JUST short enough for me to lift it up and drive under)....
Microsoft did its level best to apply exactly the kind of control you describe over the Windows environment and, later, over the internet through Explorer. The big difference was that most users really didn’t have a choice, because at work, WinTel was the de facto standard. AFAIK, very few people have the Apple e...
Apple has more dedicated followers than some folds of the Christian faith. I think if there is a circle-jerk going on anywhere, it's a pro-Apple position (indeed there might be an app for that). You're basically saying that just because people "don't mind" something, someone else shouldn't care about it either. My ...
Bear with me here.... I wouldn't worry, Sprint hasn't turned a profit in 5 years but are still making moves. They have something like 8 billion in cash on hand. The problem affecting Sprint and profit the most was not just being last to get an iPhone, but mostly the fact they bend over backwards the past 4-5 years to...
Firstly, electrocardiograms measure the heart. ([Wikipedia]( As to "controlling Siri": It's not hard to hook up a voice synth or pre-recorded voice clips to a voice recognition module. Speaker, meet microphone. They'll work at some accuracy depending on the parameters and on how much distortion occurs in the audio ...
Oh yeah and next you're going to tell me that the sites name isn't related to internet piracy in the slightest... You know and I know that the site exists to help with the illegal piracy of copyrighted materials. Sure the site doesn't break any rules itself but it provides the means and actively assists the process of...
I made an account just to say this. What you have done I have not heard of before but it opens the door to something truly interesting. I am a PhD-student (not a janitor yet) working at a department with a team specializing in consumer behaviour. For those interested I can say that ethical consumption is a highly r...
Had not seen it, thanks for the tip. From a web privacy perspective I'm highly interested in this for personal use. From a societal perspective it certainly has the potential for some interesting applications. One cannot help but to ask oneself how the discourse of corporate & government actors to be entitled to the ...
I think what you're talking about is the true challenge of this idea. Ethics as you know is a topic which has challenged philosophers for millenia, I personally feel that for a database of ethical conduct to function one must first approach several very difficult problems... The pizza example is a good one, this is h...
To produce energy, it has to come from somewhere right? Not only does it have to come from somewhere, it can't suck energy up at a rate equal to or greater than the release of energy. You don't get something for nothing. What he describes is nuclear fission with something called a beta-voltaic cell. Now, I have ne...
Just to give you all an idea. For our beloved software/business patent area, the math works out to around 16 hours average for working a case in the Patent Office. This means the examiner only has two work days to gather resources and write up their response. With so little time, it's no wonder many granted patent ha...
Reddit could be made such a better place if there were no record of personal karma. There's no reason for it and it causes people to post reposts and add irrelevant comments for the sake of gaining karma. Still obviously keep a record of post's score/karma, but the post itself should have no connection to the poste...
But therein lies the problem. So many people think their comments are witty and humorous, but most of the time they are not. Maybe the joke was funny the first few times, but everyone who thinks they are a comedian runs that shit into the ground. Post a pic with a celebrity, every single time some idiot will post...
This is not the case. In actuality, corporations use and abuse government to get more power to further their power, reach, and profit. We naively believe giving government more power will somehow "stick it to the fat cats!". Corporations also often use their power to get the government to reduce its power over them. ...
Funny. I don't recall saying, or implying that. The only way you could have come to that conclusion is if you only were aware of only two sets of options. Either "government = good and corporations = bad" Or "corporations = good and government = bad" This is not the case. In actuality, corporations use and abu...
If everyone's traveling 10 miles over the speed limit together, and you're driving 5 under, you may like to think that you're obeying the law and being safe, but in reality, you're causing unsafe driving conditions for the others. I love how you're trying to push the blame from the people who are speeding to the peop...
I'm a retard for observing how traffic is moving and driving in a consistent manner that doesn't cause obstructions? Are you seriously that dense? 70-75 in a 65 isn't going to cause any major issues. Speed limits vary from state to state, and from area to area. If traffic is moving at 75 miles an hour, and it's sa...
Notice that, as your speed increased above the average speed, the risk of accident increased, but as your speed decreased below the average speed, your risk of accident decreased.
I recently got rear-ended, and the person was being jerk and proceeded to call the cops (not a requirement in my state). He proceeds to tell me how he's going to tell the cop to charge me because I spiked my brakes or some crap (I was at a stop light). When the cop shows up this guy goes into a whole song and dance...
Perhaps not as a dedicated device but picture it as a tablet plugged into your desktop to relay the input information in place of a keyboard and mouse. In a specific mode it could display a keyboard on screen a user could use without requiring an actual keyboard. This has more practical use when its combined as a compa...
I think you're right about Intel being able to reach ARM in terms of power consumption, but by the time they do it might not matter. I think if ARM gets "good enough" for desktop use well enough before Intel reaches similar power efficiencies then the house of cards will fall. That's why I think Intel is dumping so m...
I loved my BB. I wish RIM would make a Note sized, android based phone, where the bottom size slides downs as a mega sized BB keyboard. If they could keep it think and add some aluminum parts and gorilla glass....oooh weee. My other idea is a traditional BB body with a iphone'd android interface and improved design fea...
I can attest that to Canadians in 2010 having a Blackberry was very desirable. People weren't accustomed to smart phones, so the idea of having a device that was touted as similar to an iPhone, but more affordable (both hardware and service wise), was quite enticing. In reality the Blackberry's of 2010 were a shell o...
Before everyone jumps up calling bullshit. Keep in mind that we know Skype to be backdoored and we also know that the president and his people regularly use it. I am guessing that if anything this is probably true, but that the people involved want to take measures to separate themselves so that they don't end up in...
Alright, most important quote from the article after the headline: >But in the Google Fiber forums, employees assure subscribers the rules aren’t meant to apply to Minecraft servers. And, in reality, Google Fiber probably won’t notice, let alone kick you off, for using a Slingbox or peer-to-peer software.
Yes, I am oversimplifying. The average user looks at the SMTP server as an outgoing mail server, and the POP or IMAP server as the incoming mail server. What you are using the SMTP server for is not what the SMTP protocol was designed for, and technically, internally, I'm sure that your SMTP server still treats that "i...
8MB = 8388608 Bytes I am trying to see if the math checks out (because I have a deadline and I'm procrastinating), and I realized this is why we can't have nice things. Just look at some of the shit I have to choose from: How long is 1 line? Most will claim 80 chars and go about their lives. Not me. I <heart> accur...
They missled stupid jurors as to the importance of the code. When a Judge later threw out this prison term and gave him time served, GS got the DA to charge him again with different charges over the same issue again saying he had stolen the 'secret sauce' of GS when the code was no such thing. Even though as admin he...
Yes. His behaviour had been the same CRIMINAL behaviour for years. What gives you the preposterous idea that as an employed programmer you have the right to backup your code to a repository outside the company-owned versioning systems? As enough lawsuits have established, YOU DO NOT OWN the code you write for company X...
How much did your university cost? How much? Because mine cost about $85k total. For a state university. Now mind you, i make about $100k/year now. However School is disgustingly expensive and you didn't have to pay that much for it. How about you wake the fuck up to the economic realities facing the younger ...
In my experience (outsourcing for an investment bank via a consulting company), the bank is much more paranoid about what its "contingent workers" (consultants, contractors, etc.) do than its full-time employees. I'm sure part of it is my own company working hard to cover its ass, but we are always told never to se...
The following are estimates. Debating about the precision is utterly pointless^1 when the definitions haven't been defined^2 and software source code varies wildly due to numerous factors. 10&dagger; lines per day @ 80 characters per line ~ 10,000 developer days 12&dagger; lines per day @ 80 characters per line ~ 8...
Ok, let's start with this. Number one, you need to learn to chill some a little bit. Ok? I specifically stated, whether you read it or not, that I was using an extreme example. It was an EXAMPLE. It was not meant to be cited in a court of law, used as a source for your professor, or used as table talk with your mother....
This article is missing quite a lot. The only reason there's a question of any sort of "IP transition" on the part of AT&T or Verizon or Comcast is precisely because it's unregulated; there's a lot of regulations in place to make sure they can't refuse sale of transit or things of that nature to competitive companies (...
Retail - the links will take you directly to the vendor. But lets frame the argument: "Apple sucks because I can build A PC better than this and save $xxx! Screw Apple & the Apple Tax! PC Master Race Forever!" For iMacs & Mac-Mini's this is true: [PCPartPicker part list]( / [Price breakdown by merchant]( / [B...
I don't know the technical merits of spraying water from skyscrapers to clean the air, but China doesn't have a great track record when it comes to environmental engineering. Do a search for 'Four Pests Campaign'.
Another way to say it is that Photoshop is really good, GIMP is fantastic too. GIMP is not a replacement of all the things Photoshop do. So if you want photoshop, pay the 1200€/year or whatever it cost now, and use Photoshop. People will still making great things with Gimp, because is a fantastic tool.
This is probably going to get buried but this article only tells one side of the story - the one that is easier to argue for. Now I went to school in the States for about 15 years and have lived in Korea for about the same time, So I kind of understand why some people are put off by the idea of censoring certain site...
He's lucky he didn't get worse. The biggest no-no in all of this is that the prosecution was a minor. Effectively that boils it down to a black and white case of child porn. As far as the revenge stuff goes.. do not give consent for nude pictures to be taken. If you give consent for pictures to be taken of you then...
Because when you understand Android and Google's update philosophy you would understand that every Major release 4.1 / 4.2 etc. isn't really finalized until the point release like. 4.1.2 ( which all the jb phones updated to and 4.2.2 ... Its a consistent fact that manufacturers skip the initial release and update to th...
Our systems scan and index emails and some other user data for multiple purposes; this scanning is 100% automated and cannot be turned off. Scanning enables us to, for example, perform spam and malware detection, sort email for features like Priority Inbox, and return fast and powerful search results when users search ...
I've been with many of the big U.S. carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile) and the companies they each bought out (Nextel, Cingular, etc.). I have to say, T-Mobile has been the best. Verizon always hit me with bullshit charges and had terrible customer service; I was actually very close to a physical altercation wi...
Sprint really is the worst cell provider I've ever had. My wife gets her Sprint phone service through her dad, but it's to the point that the frustration of trying use the phone outweighs paying for our own service (my boss pays mine). When I lived in the inland empire I would make calls while driving too and from wo...
Even if you never use Comcast, you would be better off having the additional competition in town. I live in an area where Fiber and OTA (Digis) are the only options. You can even get a 100/100 fiber connection. For a mere $150/month, after taxes. The ISP has 0 interest in competing, and I would love, love, love fo...
Well, it's not really like evolution. Evolution is a descriptive explanation for what we see in nature. It says, "things adapt to suit their environment, because the less adapted are worse at reproduction" - often summarized as "survival of the fittest". What you're talking about is prescriptive - a sort of mor...
Actually]( Comcast has spent more on the Democratic party than the Republican Party. They are 61st on the list.
I think in some instances it would be nice if government involvement was completely uniform. However, just because it isn't does not equate or mean that therefore government should not be involved. Among other things, one of government's jobs is to provide basic services. They directly provide them in some instances ...
It's important to note that the three Democratic Party appointed FCC members voted to overturn these laws, while the two Republican Party appointed members voted to keep these laws. So I don't want to hear anymore crap about how the parties don't matter, voting doesn't matter, etc. all the same libertarian bullshit ...
They had a search warrant signed by a judge. That satisfies the constitutional requirements against unwarranted search and seizure.
This is true, except for the fact that I can't go to Best Buy and find a 6' Ethernet Cable for $2.00. No, I have to purchase the $12-14 dollar 6' cable. Where as I can go to Fry's and buy 50' for the same price. I feel like this argument doesn't matter. HDMI is more expensive to produce over Ethernet, the mark up on ...