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I have a concept. Let's say the govt takes all this human interaction data, records all communications, feeds it into a super computer. The software to mine this data will become increasingly smarter, and able to find the correct data. The super computer will become able to understand human interactions, and communic...
This alone, no. But when you know someone might be listeningm, you will always think twice before you speak your mind and thus might not actual share you full opnion. Lets not forget that this isn't the only surveillance legislations goverments have / tried to get approved, it all piles up into more control over the pe...
I believe civic hacking is justified if it brings violent criminals to justice that would otherwise be overlooked by a corrupt and conniving local police force who refuse to do their job, as it was in this particular case. I don't think that a media organisation hacking the phone of a murdered child in order of glean...
Except that It just adds yet another device we need to remember to charge each night. Even if it is minimal effort, it's already pointless when Google Glass is coming soon. AND there's the fact that it makes any alarm functions the watch may have, almost completely useless and redundant to your phone's clock app. Peo...
If the end up collaborating with Casio G-shock, I'd be inclined to purchase one.
a good analogy i've found is sending mail. how's the internet work imagine you are a mailman, you get a letter addressed from foo from bar. you know all the names of people in your town and you don't know a bar, so you contact the big book o' names and you find that bar is at 123 anywhere street, sometown indiana 1...
This title is click bait. If the source is credible (can't verify because paywall), he got the information from internal financial statements. Those would only show direct revenues (money from ad sales) and those alone are profitable/in the black according to the source. The indirect revenues Google realizes from yout...
My motorcycle insurance company got sued by the state for illegally forcing riders to pay for a full year of insurance, when in my state (MA) you can pay just for months you want. Cause who needs or insured the middle of winter.. So the insurance Co ripped me off for $500 the state sued them, they insurance Co. S...
And do what use the other good guys option? Google fiber and municipality fiber is only in a few places, and all our old options of mobile service has been consolidated between 2 big and 2 smaller companies. Only way to harm them is by not using internet or mobile services, and then all that will do is hinder our ove...
The inconsistency of a set of propositions does not inherently imply the negation of those propositions. Although we might be able to prove the inherent incompleteness and/or inconsistency of special relativity, this does not entirely preclude the possibility that the speed of light is the fastest possible speed. So yo...
You would not experience time dilation in that way because that only happens when you approach the speed of light, which you would not be doing in this case, not even remotely close. Picture a thin long racing track 1 light year across but in the first meter there is a shortcut that loops immediately back to the begi...
I'm sorry to disappoint you. Event Horizon is an American horror scifi film in which an F
Two things: Your argument is flawed. What is considered 'acceptable' depends on the depths of human understanding about a subject; as our understanding of a thing changes, so too does its 'acceptability'. For example, asbestos was once acceptable, because we didn't know enough about it to know that it was harmful...
I'll never have Comcast ever again. A while back, I had heard that Qwest had a really good price so I checked it out. I found out that they would give me 12 Mbps for what Comcast was charging me. I wasn't sure what speed I was getting from Comcast so I called. The guy told me i was getting 3.5 mega bytes per second. W...
Google does NOT indemnify users against patent claims from third parties. I never said they did. The point I was making is that MPEG-LA doesn't either, they only cover patents owned by their members. If I have the choice between a free technology with potential patent challenges and a costly technology with potential...
Well, some of it is accurate. You will pay more for upgraded hardware/software that you buy from Apple than if you did the upgrades yourself. However, memory/HD/Software upgrades are profit centers for all computer makers. If you don't have the ability to put in more RAM, a hard disk, or install software, they'll be ha...
There are pieces of truth and lies in this, mostly not looking at anything benefit other than the upfront options, part of what is being paid for in the ram is to get more ram in less space, there for leaving more slots to upgrade later. At the end it says Macs are hard to upgrade, he is looking at a Mac pro, the ONL...
I agree with the sentiment and substance behind this, but there is an important distinction that needs to be made Newegg caters to the do-it-yourself group, who buys their components seperately and builds their own computers. They obviously wholesale, and therefor get the best prices on the internet. This is very dif...
I was curious/confused too, so I cracked the example on the [wiki page]( I'll just write up my example here. I used wolfram alpha because I'm lazy and couldn't find any paper. Relevant matrices: A B C 1 6 2 3 1 2 0 15 11 6 3 8 10 3 7 0 16 3 2 ...
This is a good point. It would do a lot more for the electric car industry if the government saved money by not propping up undeserving companies like GM.
Actually, for a long time Netflix ran a division call "Red Envelope Entertainment," which produced films like Sherry Baby, Zach Galianakis Live at the Purple Onion, and the outstanding documentaries No End in Sight and This Film is not Yet Rated. Their business model seemed, to me, to be provide funding for the people ...
I was pointing out that the article's argumentation is not valid in part due to it being of an invalid form. Your argument, too, is not of a valid form. There's a difference between non-truth-evaluable rhetoric and formal argumentation, though. Though I have not listed my arguments in a simplified form, if you were ...
The author's problems with Bitcoin: 1) Seeding initial wealth. Meh. 2) Built-in deflation. I see that as a good thing. 3) Lack of convertibility. If there's a market, there's a market. If there's not a market, no government can save it's own currency in the long run. 4) When something goes wrong, it will di...
You know not everything needs to be written to the satisfactory of your highschool english teacher. In fact your highschool English teacher is wrong about many things. The whole point of teaching you "writing rules" is just to explain how to make consistent styles that are pleasing for people to read. It isn't rulebook...
The big problem with bitcoin is that it is almost fundamentally valueless. I say almost because it has some value in the anonymity and P2P handling, which make it a fairly unique service. But, let's take a very quick comparison to, say, the US dollar. The US dollar has a very important, very obvious feature: you mus...
Growing potatoes is not random, yet someone who works harder at growing potatoes will have more potatoes per season. Flipping a coin is random. No matter how many times you flip it you will never get better at flipping a coin. Nor can you guarantee that you will ever get the outcome you want. It is entirely possible ...
You are correct in the origin of (paper) money. For those who do not know, keep reading. There did not used to be currency in the world. If you wanted to buy some rice and a cow, you would trade your wood carvings and nails for them. You wanted a new house? Sure, just pay the housemaker 12 horses. In this case, both ...
Yes it has, intentionally and superficially. That isn't even remotely correct. For the first 4 millenia it saw an exponential increase in production. > That scenario isn't even close to true. The network does not allow any one person, or pool, 50% of the network. It is entirely true. The network does not now al...
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People should have a right to know when their passwords or credit card info are all over the internet. Obviously companies also have a right to decide how they release information and when. But in this case I think the rights of the consumers are more important. The "paints a target on you" argument is weak. Any sign...
What about appeal for a more general audience? I'd like headphones that could add sound but not remove ambient noises. A way for my phone to ring only for me. A way for and audiobook to play only for me, but for me to still be able to hear around me. This seems like something a set of hearing aids would be perfect ...
Maybe, but we are a little stuck right now. I'm not to sure on all the technicalities, but our cpu/ram architectures blow. We could all have significantly faster computers but all of our programs only work on decades old architecture and if we upgraded every single program would have to be re-written from scratch. Ther...
You can't understand it because you hate him Sorry I put words in your mouth, but don't put words in mine. >No man can blame another for his own moral judgements. Maybe not as an individual, but as a public figure, they can. >Just because he isn't perfect doesn't mean he needs to be condemned. I really do get...
I don't think McGuyver is a real person but correct me if I'm wrong as I've honestly only seen a couple episodes of the show or you could be referring to someone else. I never said whether Steve Jobs was a good or bad role model, just that if we focus on having only paragons of virtue as our role models then our role...
This is not true; Polis' statement has been misinterpreted as it lost its context. GoDaddy is not specifically exempt, rather, it is exempt as part of a class of domestic registrars. Polis was not trying to call attention to the fact that GoDaddy had a specific exemption, but that domestic .com, .net, and .org regi...
I don't see why they would exempt these websites based on their gTLDs when "The Pirate Bay" is located at thepiratebay .org . This seems antithetical to their overall outcome of relinquishing piracy from the Internet. The fact remains that they have rejected two amendments proposed by Polis (who is the only person at t...
Anonymous, would soon have the capability "to bring about a limited power outage through a cyberattack," We know this because they stole our source code. <shrug> We were working on scapegoating Obama in October making and some incredible claims that his administration is not doing his job. Was a pretty good plan to g...
I think Google+ is actually pretty smart. Google knew it couldn't take everyone away from Facebook. What they didn't know is how its Gmail users were connected. Sure, it could see who people emailed most often but it didn't have a way of knowing who is related to who. Enter Google+ where you say who's a friend, who...
Google+ is far from a deserted wasteland for me. It's my primary source of information (provided you follow the "right" people and pages) at the moment. Also, only my close friends and relatives uses Google+ actively which means A LOT LESS JUNK when compared to facebook. Hangouts itself is a good enough reason to convi...
What you said: I use the term "extremely lightly" What you probably meant: I use the term extremely lightly Not trying to be a dick; just trying to help educate :)
I like to compare it to getting burritos and having the place call out the number on your receipt. Those numbers are handed out first-come first-serve and are used to route your data or burrito to you. Now each day someone else gets to be number 37, so if you only here a number you'll have a hard time stalking the hot ...
The reason you have that is compatibility, so they can still support the complex instructions of x86-64. If anything, its an example of why RISC is the way to go, at least in terms of building an efficient pipeline.
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I thought the article was really interesting and it makes some really valid points about handset manufacturer vs. carrier relationships, but when it starts to get into the whole "carriers shouldn't try to monetize their infrastructure, let's make wireless data as close to free as humanly possible" argument, that just s...
The Palm/Verizon thing wouldn't have been such a mess if there were federal (or IEEE. Take your pick) standards for network type and network interface method. For example: Having all carriers use replaceable sim cards so you can take your phone with you between carriers; similar to how you can take your phone num...
With Kinect, at least, they've made it a must-have for anyone who uses their 360 as a media center. Watching any of their video services can be an entirely controller-free experience, which is nice. Words can't express how much I hated having to turn my controller on (and wait for it to sync up) to pause a movie when I...
I begrudgingly agree with most of what you said, only because I know you begrudgingly brought it to light. ;-) However, I have to disagree when you say we can't affect their profit and say that takes us straight to cutting labor or benefits. Here's the thing; (And this is purely just what I see as an ideal situation)...
While well written, the topics discussed in this article are in themselves somewhat dated and the author doesn't provide us with the information we need to understand how to resolve the problem. To really get a handle on how the major US carriers and consumers interact, ironically, you have to go back a few years to lo...
If your post smacks of "corporatist propaganda", it's because you completely fail to use any numbers to back your argument. Hell, I found that Verizon has an average post-tax profit margin of 6.5% in a single search, on the first page. So yes, costs are high, but are those costs being spent well? Is the marketing effec...
So, let me get this straight. The folks in rural SC have no Internet access because the big boys won't lay cable out there since it is a poor, rural area and they see no money to be made. So rural town gets a grant to lay their own cable and create their own network. The big boys spend $150,000 lobbying to stop it fr...
Google doesn't need to care about maintaining control of Android. All they care about is getting people to perform more Google searches, so that they can display more Google ads. If people start doing tons of google searches on iPhones, Google wins. If people do tons of google searches on Android phones, Google wins. I...
Alright, so we both see the problem where some consumers aren't educated in what they're buying (shocker). There are 2 ways to fix this: Cater to the consumers and change a global standard that has been in place for 20 -ish years. This would require a new standard just for consumers and either a complete overhau...
For a brain you fucking suck at arguing a point. Here, I'll demonstrate. Google is interested in personal data for targeted advertising. Nothing more, nothing less. For torrenting to be "more risky" over a Google internet connection would imply that they have some deliberately nefarious intent for your data, which ...
I agree with your first statement: > Fibre channel cards are host bus adapters, used for disk and tape storage. I also agree that they are different than a traditional Network Interface Card, in the sense that they are specifically for data storage. But now I am interested in the semantics of using the term Networ...
But it's a distinction most people don't make. Yes network traffic is often measured in bits by suppliers, but locally - to consumers -, data is generally measured in bytes. That is to say the size of images, videos, songs, text, etc., are often relayed in bytes. When you download , the size of the file is represented...
The farther something is from you, the longer it takes for send/receive request/acknowledgement messages to be transmitted and the more potential there is for error and bottlenecks at some point along the way. You probably happen to live near a CDN (content delivery network) location so you get closer to the ideal. ...
The ping is not only taking into consideration the speed of your internet. The computer at the other end of the ping must process the request and send back an answer. I highly doubt he will be able to get 1ms ping from a server that is not next to him. But someone with a 1Gb connection can still have the same ping as...
You are partially right. If you are saying that you have a direct line to your ISP that the line has a maximum transfer rate of 5Mpbs, you are correct (and in this case potential throughput = bandwidth). However, that's not what occurs. ISPs will run a line with a large bandwidth to a neighbourhood so that they can s...
Even if this is just a sensational article, I agree that there needs to be a 2-step verification. About a month and a half ago, I was in Tennessee for two weeks without phone service or internet. After I got back home, the inbox on my phone's email app exploded. I just thought it was a bunch of Facebook notificat...
I beg of you...
Fuck this shit. They say they do not support people buying fake likes from other services. I quit my facebook avertising campaign for my FB page for my music because all of the likes from the advertising were fake accounts. All of them, save like 10. None of them interacted with the page and upon viewing their profiles...
Nope, we have, and still are giving them billions. Part of the problem is that, until recently, the federal requirement was 1.5 mbs, which is pathetic. Also, much of the money is specifically for rural areas that are either not served by regulated telecommunications to the same degree as more populated areas. On th...
If some Google Fiber speedtests were included in this, based on speedtests I've seen other people take, GF would score "below" some of these other ISPs, despite having the smallest cost:megabit ratio. After the summer 2011 report using this same metric, Verizon boasted the fact that it had the highest rank (112%). Ca...
Sorry Silicon Valley, buzzwords would not have "saved" Blackberry. Samsung can just as easily license certified cryptography libraries for Android, which is why they now have the low-level DoD certification. The secure "work spaces" concept they seem to believe can just be ported to Android is based on a type of partit...
It got popular and like all popular places it went to shit. . edit: yes like reddit didn't want to write a roman since in general it works better when people make the connection themself. Half the post even in serious topics are nowadays attempts at jokes and offtopic nonsense. It didn't start that way and small su...
He absolutely is overstating it. I am a neuroscientist actually working on understanding how the brain both encodes and processes visual stimuli. The short end of it is that we really don't have much of a detailed handle on this "simple" part of the cortex. I say simple as vision is one of the easiest cortical functi...
You're not being affected AT ALL by the NSA. The NSA couldn't give a shit less about what any of us boring, innocent, sane, and powerless people are doing. They're not violating your privacy because the system doesn't target you. I support a system that is helping keep potential attacks at bay. Doesn't matter if some a...
Google doesn't seem to yet grasp the importance of execution versus just pointing me to a series of most popular links not necessarily most relevant to my question.... If I say "make a reservation" then make the reservation, don't give me links to nearby restaurants, hotels and two Indian reservations. And part of th...
Biomedical engineer here. Firstly, at the current technological level a true brain computer interface with a large bandwidth is unlikely to be created in an adult human being. Although it does seem possible to replace certain "memory-creating" parts of the brain with circuits (e.g. the hippocampus), thus artificially...
Are you using any of the enterprise administration tools? Yes. > They are by leaps and bounds the easiest tablets to administer out there. Maybe for a small business that doesn't have much existing infrastructure. Otherwise, you'll find that you're adapting your network around iOS, rather than adapting iOS aroun...
I thought a VPN would only mask device identity to an ISP, but they could still see or find out what data was sent/recieved, just not what device was used. TOR browser masks what is being sent/recieved, so an ISP would only be able to see that you visited a site, but none of your activities while on the site. An ISP ha...
Why aren't there one ISP that gives people what they want? Great speed, great service, and no spying. I'd easily pay more for a service like that. There's huge demand for this! Because you can't just open an ISP like you could a convenience store. First, you have to secure a permit with the local government(s) to lay...
This is certainly a good idea, so you don't have the stress to switch emails when you switch ISP. However, it is very likely the government organizations spying on your ISP mailbox will also spy on as many other mail providers as possible. I'm pretty sure they spy on all mayor mail providers like yahoo, msn/hotmail, gm...
What I don't seem to get about this whole thing is that people seem to think ISPs haven't been throttling all along. Now AT&T just have feigned transparency to allow them carry on doing it without the possibility of a Snowden leak doing irrevocable damage to them. No, /r/shittyconspiracy hasn't leaked out. I just k...
In the videogame industry, some companies blame piracy when their games don't sell. Most of the time, their games are bad or have issues and that's why they don't sell. Instead, they use piracy as a scapegoat. Also, not every person pirating something lives in the US with a stable income. A lot of it happens in thi...
My boyfriend was an engineer. Half of his job was designing patents for his company. One day he came home and said one of his semi-conductor patents was purchased by a major company (like Mitsubishi or something). So where are we going for dinner, I asked. Huh? he laughed, then sighed. They don't pay them shit. Edit...
Invented because of money. If you watch an in market game via Internet, you miss local ads (and national) being run on your stations channel. Ad executives don't care if someone from Boca Raton misses a Ford ad directed at Midwestern folk during a Cubs game. They do care if that person misses a Ford commercial geared f...
Major League Baseball has an antitrust exemption from Congress, which allows them to benefit in anti-competitive ways that other businesses can't. In other words, MLB is a rent-seeking, self-serving corporation, just like every other business, including ISPs. I'll have sympathy for MLBs fight with the ISPs when it give...
I completely agree, but I can already see what the argument against this is: If we pay our representatives who make laws so little, and restrict them so heavily, they become easy targets for 'enemy factions' to bribe into their pocket completely outside governmental review.
since i am incredible bored I tackled this with the help of Google. [estimated 106 billion ever to be born]( I am estimating with an average human height of 5 feet. why? because I want to and because I had a little trouble finding world average and then there is how the world has grown taller over time and the 106 ...
I shoot in raw with a compact (20mpx) camera. I recently went on a 2 week holiday, and filled 2 32gb cards in 14 days of travelling. Each image is ~45mb, and that's despite Samsung's neat, lossless compression raw files. I also use the camera for photo-scans. I took 6 of these while travelling. Each scan required 15-...
Well when you think about it, people have been using mechanical attachments or devices on their bodies or person for decades, to 'augment' what they could do. Watches. Glasses (glasses are made to fix or improve your vision, btw. Sunglasses protect.. normally). Smart Phones which can now do so many things. You tel...
I think the issue is, they do have the money to buy the good, but they choose not to because they can get the good for free. I understand the idea that the digital age makes infinite copies of an item possible, but it costs money to create the source item. A person who doesn't buy the product, yet still consumes it, t...
Exactly. I am so glad there are people who are aware of this. More people need to be aware that THEY are the most valuable asset to their business model- without us there is no business. Protest if you want change. They keep you terrified that you'll lose your job if you, they divide and conquer. The fact that people...
Sure it is. The internet as it stands is a level playing field. Start a site, anyone can go to it. Without net neutrality, id have to pay for the right to access netflix, plus pay netflix to deliver service. Or any site. If i dont know about your site, or cant access it freely via the internet (which i already pay for)...
It is my firm belief that the USA would be much better off if they instituted campaign donation rules that would destroy super PACs and pretty much any lobbying groups ability to use money to influence the political process. Simply put, I'd say that simply changing the rules to say that the only ones who can donate t...
The concept of net neutrality dates back further than the DSL era. it is a fundamental principal of the TCP/IP architecture the the way in which data packets are prioritized on saturated connections. It's an engineering rule that is the cornerstone of how the internet works.
Amazon: Shipping costs are killing them, people are going to start doing flexible shipping (something like Uber) which is much cheaper and faster. ... how is this bad for Amazon?? This seems like exactly what they want. It's like saying that FedEx will be the new Amazon. Facebook: Instagram is great (but we said ...
The transaction is between Comcast, HBO, Comcast, and the customer. The customer pays Comcast who in turn pays HBO who has licensed to Sony. Comcast probably has a clause in both the contract with HBO and the customer that they reserve the right to allow their authentication to be restricted to certian devices. So
I'm so glad there is no way this will continue to get worse if net neutrality is struck down. I mean, this can't be a perfectly good example of how ISP's actively work to stifle competition. They all really do have the consumer's best interests in mind.
This isn't really a net neutrality thing. This is a vendor API thing. In order for people to use HBO Go on some devices, the software HBO provides will authenticate the user's HBO subscription through the user's cable company. This requires work on the cable provider's part to create an API which works with their se...
No, Comcast the Internet Service Provider is not blocking a blessed thing. If you use login credentials from another cable provider or (when it launches) HBO GO's standalone service, HBO Go works just fine on the PS4 if you're on Comcast's network. Comcast the Cable Provider is refusing to authenticate Comcast c...
Yeah, I think most of the people here don't realize that the new Macbook is the old Macbook Air. The Air is a very specialized machine that's only a good choice for a very specific kind of customer. This article is certainly negative against this Macbook, but it's not negative against Apple. If you read it, it even s...
Ethanol from algae is a greener technology than oil. Plastics from a renewable source, like, say algae is greener than from fossil fuels. Like it or not, we currently use coal fired power plants for the vast majority of our electrical needs, and the oxygen from the algae would allow it to burn more efficiently, and mor...
Comcast speeds in the Seattle area are usually 6/2 or 15/5. however, you're unlikely to get more than a quarter of that. the advertise 50Mbps but I'm pretty sure they dont have DOCSIS3 in this region which means the theoretical limit is 42Mbps. Verizon is incredible if you can get FIOS. they've run it pretty heavil...
200 MORE for OSX, so I spent $120 for the ultimate edition of windows 7 so that I could do home theatre stuff. So I am supposed to spend $200 more for OSX? Like I said, I am a fanboy, I know the advantages. I own a mac laptop. I have an iPhone. I get the appeal, etc. I just can't justify the extra $200 premium ...
I care more about specs than the form factor You are not the target audience for Apple. Get the fuck over it already. Seriously, I don't know how many times this needs to be said before it sinks in for people like you. Additionally... a 27" Core i7 iMac is no less an amazing machine than the "tower" people have alw...
When you go on the Internet, whether a website, or IM, or Email, or IRC or anything like that, you are using your computer (client) to access a server (an application that gives you data that you requested). So for example, reddit stores all your comments and upvotes and downvotes and saved links and preferences, etc ...
Hahahaahahahaah, yeah, totally bro. Actually, no. I'll keep this simple since you appear to be a simple man. Steps involved in making oil move a car: Drill some big ass hole -> ship it to a refinery -> burn a shitload of energy to make parts of it useful, throw the rest out -> ship/truck it to a gas station -> ha...
I was one of the early adopters of Netflix back in 2000 via a promo deal I got when I purchased a DVD player (5 free crappy DVDs and a discount toward rental). I abandoned it in 2001-2002 after the promo ended, and finally signed up in 2003. I have been happy with their service, but their online streaming content is pr...