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Lol, extra trouble? You put the disk in and press play. Seriously though, the quality difference is night and day. Your internet runs at about 24 mbps down? (thats at least the best you can get in my area). Bluray runs at about 40mbps for video and 14 mbps for the audio coming to 54mbps total. We are kind of comparing ...
A mandatory data retention policy allowing the government access to the viewing habits of all US citizens... what could possibly go wrong with that? It's amazing how quickly politicians latch onto policies that have the potential to do massive amounts of damage to democracy, under the guise of protecting us from ours...
If we disregard the complex looking figures and look only at what is claimed in the patent, the actual claims are very broad and full of vagaries, basically vaporware. It looks like a patent of a generic fuel cell that can regulate its output hooked up to a computer, without any engineering specifics. The patent does n...
THE PIRATE BAY IS INVINCIBLE AND BECAUSE IT IS THE MAIN TARGET OF ALL OF THE ANTI-PIRACY SHIT IT MAKES SENSE TO KEEP MY IP ACTIVE ON THEIR TRACKER AT ALL TIMES. (
The U.N. was created, and now run by, the U.S. It's main purpose now is to give every participating government an equal opportunity to kiss america's ass or be stamped out via various treaties and conventions orchestrated by the ass-kissers.
I think now is a good time for me to plug /r/testpac , which is Reddit's very own Political Action Committee. Currently we are working hard fighting the enemies of free speech and the internet. We are working on challenging Lamar Smith (Author of SOPA/PIPA, as well as the protecting children bill). If we show congre...
Whilst the cost of putting stuff into space has indeed come down, it is still nowhere near the level that a group of even ultra-rich people could consider. Anything that you launch into orbit has to be approved by a number of government led bodies for a huge number of perfectly reasonable reasons. Not least, many orbit...
And my entire accusation was not based off your entire argument. It was based off your using 9/11 as justification for anything that the government is doing. The government knew about 9/11; the evidence presents itself clearly, everyone is just too ignorant to care. Not to mention, we directed our "efforts" or whatever...
I think it's because the article talks about the achievement without really getting into how it will impact real-world applications, or when that will happen... It's the difference between a research article about metamaterials saying "Oh cool these guys developed a zip-zop-doobity-bop doohickey with negative refract...
On the side where it shows the rules: Acceptable content guide: Be about technology. Links to news articles for posts concerning the wide and diverse world of technology. Editorials on technology innovations. Political discussion from around the world that relates to technology. New technology applications, for exa...
Well how about you back it up with fact or evidence ? I'm sorry but I just won’t believe you over the official reports unless you have some proof . Any proof at all will do. Find sources otherwise you're just some nutjob making shit up. >Bin Laden used Cellphones to communicate before he went into extreme h...
For clarification, my comment was a reply to this statement you made >VOLSUNGA: The War on Terror cannot be won with hacking alone. Not all terrorist cells use accessible means of communication. >YOU: And here is where you lost me. All means of communication are accessible. Firstly in order to ‘win’ the war on ter...
Sensationalist garbage. T-Mobile dropping the iPhone doesn't have much merit, I'm afraid. Let me explain: My uncle works for AT&T and the company has been telling him to sell away from the iphone for years. Why is this? The iphone, thanks to apple's frankly amazing advertising, sells itself. The company found that p...
Imagine the scenario where Games Workshop Warhammer 40k Space Marines and Table Top Minatures could be grabbed as physibles from The Pirate Bay and printed directly. Now imagine just how much companies like Games Workshop and similar would want to stop that happening. Every Video Game character that occurred in a PC ga...
Well they probably got the database software just after getting a large hardware upgrade, that way the software would be on those machines for at least 5 years. So 15 years ago was 1997. Then after 7 years they finally upgrade there computer systems, so 2004 they may have had to look at the software in order to get i...
No. Freedom is speech is a restraint against government only. The government can't, in any form, hinder your ability to express yourself, except under very strict circumstances. People themselves have no explicit right to freedom of speech. It's implicit because the government can't restrain it. This is an import...
First off, IANAL, but the effective date of the amendment is November 1st, 2012, not the date you mist opt out by. You must opt out before December 1st, 2012. > "...unless you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate (Section 14.3) by December 1, 2012." Second, I believe this goes beyond class actions. Section 14.3 of t...
This is a pathetic attempt to discredit me. For starters, everything I said follows a clear, logical structure. You are right in calling me a child, because I am an immature jackass. However, I'm an immature jackass that is much more intelligent than you. How do I know this, you ask? Well, for one, and as I already sta...
I've very much been screwed by paypal. Guy with a stolen credit card bought stuff off me, then claimed it never arrived like 3 months after it was shipped. I had devliery confirmation numbers, but paypal didn't seem to care. Nor would they take calls from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It was a shit show that end...
I honestly cannot understand how anyone still uses PayPal. They are a bunch of fucking crooks, they know it and they know they can do it. They put holds on money to make interest with no explanation or time frame of when the hold will come off. Any type of complaint to you from a customer will end up with holds pl...
Funnily enough, the information garnered on Violetacrez that Adrien Chen released was all public as well. Hoisted by your own creepy petard I would say. And that's on top of how funny it is that 90% of tech-related sub-reddits love to go on and on about privacy and anonymity on the Internet, then casually discard it ...
I will try. This is a very long memo (disertation) from a Microsoft employee from 1993. He does not use the word "Internet" once, instead he calls it the "Information Highway" throughout. The memo is broken down into sections. Within each section, he tries to make sense of the situation and what it may mean in the ...
Could anyone put this into a
I will try to present my point of view, please understand that I see your point and have to agree with it even though I don't like it. What anon stands for is freedom of speech. But they concentrate on cases where someone from the position of authority is denying someone without authority the right to say what they w...
Yup, if I had to make 1 conspiracy theory true it'd be this one. I just wonder how they react when they say "god hates fags" and then gay marriage laws get passed. Because if they're so smart they should see how polarizing they are and how it only hurts them.
Competitors can enter the market. They just have to build the capital, get the funding, pay the line fees and invest in infrastructure just like the existing companies did. Do you think the cable lines that go to your homes and businesses sprouted magically from the ground? I am not a capitalist kool-aid drinker, but l...
the law goes both ways Are you even reading my posts? I'm saying SONY DESERVES TO BE SUED FOR USING CONTENT WITHOUT A LICENSE. That's how the legal system fucking works. If you break a law, you have to carry out the appropriate punishment. I'm also saying, however, that the idea that hypocrisy should be a punishable ...
I think hacking into the PRISM db would be slightly more difficult than spoofing a pw... I know there is no such thing as an impervious system, so I kind of get your point, but I don't think it's quite as simple as people are making it out to be... The more likely attack vector would be an authentic user collecting...
Devil's advocate, sure it can. While QC exists certainly, sometimes wires get crossed, test code gets committed, code gets un-commented, or wrong versions are pushed. As much as you like to think tech companies are automated and foolproof, sometimes shit happens. Example: I...er...know a guy in charge of making su...
When I would login to facebook on my phone, I noticed it would publicly put my phone number on my page, and I would always have to delete it. Finally I realized I had to leave it there, so I put it in and just made it private. Now, no one can see it but facebook has it assigned to me. THEN, after I graduated from col...
Everything you say is well known and have been discussed endlessly. I have said this exact thing for years. This is the solution and should be implemented as soon as fucking possible:
Heh, long story but I'll try to keep it short. I work in technology. Companies give me free stuff. I have an AR.Drone, I wanted to add a higher quality camera to it. Looking up cameras I found small wearable cameras, then this Contour Roam. Added it to my Amazon wish list. Back to free stuff, IBM gave me an Amazon ...
1) It's had 1 in 6,333 cars catch fire, compared to the rate of general cars catching fire, 1 in 1350. However, when you look at fires caused by a collision, the statistic for average cars are one in ~32,600. So, on average, no, it is in fact significantly lower. Collision-wise, it is higher. 2) There have only been 3 ...
The lithium batteries that are in the Tesla are crazy dangerous. Lithium batteries are no laughing matter if they leak. The new Porsche E-Hybrid basically has the same batteries inside it. They have trained everyone who would be near one of these including myself. Porsche is making us make a quarantine zone specifica...
The stock is being propped up by the present value of it's expected future cash flows. However, because no one knows how profitable the company will be, and investors have only a vague idea of the value of the brand, based on expectations, the price of the stock today in no way reflects the companies current financial ...
Don't assume your car isn't affected even if they don't recall it. My father had a 2003 ford escape which began having weird problems around 2010 (Car would just start on its own with no keys/driver at any time). He read into it and saw that there had been a lot of problems with that particular model cropping up conce...
That's the funny thing about terrorism, it is only terrorism if people are terrorized en masse by it. The only reason these "terror attacks" (excluding maybe 9/11) are terrorizing the public is that the media is hyping them up and spreading the fear. So, in a very real way, the true terrorist is mass media. I would a...
I wouldn't call Apple safe. :S The Unix backend is nice, but it's not the backend which usually has the problems, it's the front end and extra programs that run on it. They're popular not because Apple is bug free, they just have a tendency to ignore bugs and/or silently patch them which is hilariously good material fo...
It's not incompetence, it's news. How many Teslas on the road are there? How many Fords? If a Ford realises that it was reincarnated from a Chevy into a Ford and kills itself, who's going to care? If a car that most people have never seen, fewer have driven, and less own, catches fire, wow lookee here, a news story. ...
I'm sorry you were unable to discern it. It must have been hard to reach the end of my post, there were so many words! Here, I'll make it easy for you.
i know, old thread now, but finally getting to catch up) actually new dual stack 2-in-1 comcast hulks with router and modem capability flat out block RDP protocol nowadays. THis was a huge issue at my last company with paralegals not being able to RDP into from home until we started polling them not just on connection ...
For $38 it doesn't seem like a bad deal. For a first tablet (or only tablet, or first/only internet device), its not bad either. My first Android device was a $40 tablet screen. The web browser was non-descript, and apparently identified itself as Safari. I wanted to get Google Chrome, but it said I needed to use...
DNS servers (used for this blockade) are quite an interesting yet not very complex system. (At least, for computer science people...) I'll just skip over the explanation but changes to a DNS record can take up to 48h before everyone has the update. It's also completely possible, plausible and even likely that not all...
Story time: I was at my mother's house where her Internet was really bad. Her modem ended up dying and I told her to phone the ISP to get it fixed. So she phones, and after a half-hour wait she got through to a human who told her a tech would come by between 8am and 4pm the next day to replace it. I am talking to my ...
I had no idea Internet could be so bad in the states. When I lived at home with my parents we had .5 down 0.1 up on a good day. They live in the Dublin mountains (Ireland). I moved out last year to an apartment literally 10 minutes away from my parents by car towards the city. When I moved in I got 30 down 10 up a...
Actually if you take a look at the fiscal quarterly earnings and correlate it to falling conversion rates, taking into account the spread of communism post WW2, we can see that employee satisfaction is null and void.
I have heard that its extremely hard to stay safe with torrents you heard wrong. they have been successfully spreading fear, making torrenting out to be this dangerous activety that will get you caught unless you do X... the truth is that its veeeeery unlikely youll ever be contacted for torrenting something, just ca...
Except the congestion has been proven not to exist because providers do have extra capacity but are unwilling to turn it on. The provider sells you a 100 Mbit line. And so does to everyone else in the country. Let's say every single American gets a 100Mbit line. 30.000.000.000 Mbits are needed, or 30000 Tbit. The u...
Auto companies should be shitting their pants right now. I think most of them are sitting on EVs that can reach scale pretty quickly once the market is there. Nobody wants to make the investment for a market that's not there, but they're all ready for it. Tesla being in the news so much seriously distorts the sheer t...
I bought my new Hyundai Accent 2013 for $18k - $10k downpayment and the rest over 3 years. That's conscious for middle class. I just don't get how the average car in the street is new and at least $40k. It seems like the middle class in America spends way above their means, and that's just generally accepted as norma...
Some cars just don't get heavily produced. I sold cars a long time ago and remember a guy trying to trad in an almost brand new Audi A8L. We were a Nissan dealership and had no interest in that car. I called LITERALLY every Audi dealership in California. Only 2 were even willing to try and give us a number on it. Most ...
Your experience sounds similar to one I had with Comcast a few years ago. Several months after moving from a place with Comcast to an apartment that used a different provider, Comcast started sending us bills with a "bounced check fee" as the only charge. For the next few months, I called Comcast, was told "sorry, that...
When my roommates and I switched apartments this month, we did the self-installation as well. Moved on Monday, called Tuesday morning to activate. The service rep on the phone said we were all set. Our tv and internet somewhat worked for a day; it kept going in and out. So my friend called and spoke to someone on the p...
I once tried to contact the BBB. I had an issue with Microsoft refusing to send me the correct power supply for my Xbox 360. I had ordered a replacement and they sent me an Xbox One power supply. I filled the form out totally correct, the shipping container it was in even said it was supposed to be 360. Anyways, after ...
Can confirm, I ordered a microsd card that cost about $37 on sale and it went missing for a few days at my local post office. I messaged a rep online and they sent me a new one instantly. The missing card showed up on the same day, I actually got something for free. It was astonishing, I don't remember the last time a ...
You've made compromises in order to simplify, some of which, for some people, won't be acceptable.
Every possible test for lying is going to have some rate of false positives and false negatives. The polygraph test has high rates of both, and serious issues with bias. No high quality test exists. The polygraph has a reputation as a high quality test. That reputation may scare off some applicants who aren't qualifi...
Well, during the early cold war the whole USSR vs USA was presented as a conflict of ideologies. The USSR in particular outwardly tried to present itself as leading the way in a new world order, where Communism would be the answer to all the worlds woes and would end inequality forever and other such promises which tur...
Imo its no longer a two party system its a money making business that nobody gives a fuck about. It doesnt matter if you vote dem. Or rep. The winner got to thier position by accepting money from the corporations. The only honest politician from what ive gathered in my short time here on earth, is ron paul. Hes an extr...
Isn't better to just complain instead of actually thinking for a few seconds? Complaints get more attention than logic. Edit - Whoa Gold! Thanks invisible Internet person. If you're a woman between the ages of 27-34 I think you should marry me. If you're a man between the ages of 27-34 I think you should meet my sist...
It's not blocking the popup. uBlock is a content blocker and uses various optional source lists, some of which are incredibly strict in their restriction of embedded scripts, some of which block tens of thousands of different assets. These lists are regularly updated and changed, items added and removed, and there's ...
It always sounded like a nerd's dream rapture, but here's the difference: It's very understood that any improvement and forward movement toward the Singularity is man-made. There's no magic man doing it (unless you want to call the scientists and engineers that), and there's no "let's wish real hard and self-actuali...
The way these stock scams worked, is that they'd buy a heap of an essentially worthless penny stock, they'd load up the sell orders at the same time the email went out. because of the spike in buy orders demand the demand for these stocks exceeds the normal supply due to the low turnover/ liquidity for these stocks. Th...
The Ubuntu software center works great when it works , but if you're trying to install something your system doesn't know what to do with, it gets hellish. And don't even get me started on installing non-standard drivers. This is what Ubuntu - and Linux in general - needs to fix: the gulf between how well Linux wor...
Facebook won't advertise tobacco. Weed counts as the same thing. I don't really care where FB is based, but I wouldn't call anti-smoking measures a 'US moral'. And I smoke. But, from the article; > A pot leaf isn't a "pro-smoking" image. Err, I think you'll find it is. >It's a plant Just like tobacco. >an...
Well, I don't really disagree with you that 4chan is a cesspool of shit, and that innocent people are targeted, and have their lives ruined. 4chan is not a force of good, it's a chaotic place were lots of people go and do crazy shit. I am not defending 4chan, I am however, sympathetic towards the idea that this par...
Sadly, you are completely wrong. I have no facebook account, I never had a facebook account, I don't even remotely see the appeal of having a facebook account. Still facebook has a lot of my information, because they managed to trick some of my retarded friends into giving it to them.
Importance of Facebook's privacy policy goes beyond each individual. Obviously, bulk of the information Facebook own about you is what you provide. That observation is trivial and not particularly noteworthy. However, even if you're careful with what you post, your friends list alone is enough to know a great deal ...
It's not just facebook. You should be a skeptic of any website that you go to that asks for say a birth date to verify your age or a zip code or whatever. [All it takes is birth date, zip code and sex to have a pretty good shot of knowing who you are]( This shouldn't scare people away from using the web but...be awar...
I have never had a facebook account. Nevertheless, when someone I know (lets call her Alice) sent me an invite though facebook to join, the email said something like "Alice and these 9 people are using facebook, why don't you join". All 9 of those people are people I know, but Alice does not. Let me stress that I h...
You seem to single out Sony and state it's about singling out Sony. No, that was a reply to your original comment trying to clear Sony of the accusations in the article. While the article was not just about Sony (though it was mostly about Sony, because Sony was most of the problem), our discussion here on reddit ...
I worked at a movie theater - while movies may run in the same building for a long time, if most theaters want to maximize their ticket sales, they move movies around a ton in terms of what screens show what - new movies get the biggest theaters, or movies that are expect to last a long time, other ones get shuffle...
No, that was a reply to your original comment trying to clear Sony of the accusations in the article. While the article was not just about Sony (though it was mostly about Sony, because Sony was most of the problem), our discussion here on reddit is entirely about Sony, because you made a comment that was entirely abou...
Victim (if you can really call it that) here. They exploited the Akismet plugin in an outdated Wordpress installation, uploaded a shell, apparently edited the shadow file to be able to intercept my e-mail, and used Dynadots password reset feature to change the password and hijack the DNS of my cryto.net domain where th...
Victim (if you can really call it that) here. They exploited the Akismet plugin in an outdated Wordpress installation, uploaded a shell, apparently edited the shadow file to be able to intercept my e-mail, and used Dynadots password reset feature to change the password and hijack the DNS of my cryto.net domain where th...
I'm just growing so tired of people ascribing some sort-of noble cause to LulzSec, the vanguards--the "security paradigm shifters" to sto speak. I realized people outside of Infosec were ignorant, but I didn't realize they were fucking retarded when it came to their ideas of computer security. I liked to imagine that...
Human languages, just like programming languages, are elaborate, powerful tools with established syntaxes. If you ignore grammar in a programming language, you get code that doesn't work. If you ignore grammar in a human language you get ambiguous statements that do not effectively communicate the idea you are trying...
Holy. Sweet. Jesus. Titty. Fucking. Christ. Look, Top Gear is a TV show for car fans . It is about loving cars. Let us imagine it was called "Top Horse" instead and was all about horses. They wouldn't preach about the benefits of owning a pony over a thorough bred race horse. We wouldn't care about that. We would...
As somebody who enjoys the show this really upsets me. If it was any other car I probably wouldn't care but by discrediting an environmentally clean(er) fuelled car (which is something we really need to invest in) they are doing some real damage and possibly setting us back environmentally.
Seriously the quotes should be around the word faking. It's an entertainment TV show, lots of what they say is satire and I know not to make an argument over it because they are just having fun. That is why the show is so good. Maybe if Tesla and them worried about making cars better rather than what Jeremy Clarkso...
There was one episode where Clarkson said that he was told they were nominated for an award in the best non-scripted show category, while he was writing a script.
I definitely agree that hydrogen has an extremely long way to go to be an efficient fuel. I don't understand why hydrogen and EVs are often discussed as mutually exclusive. Hydrogen fuel cells can replace batteries in cars with much less toxic energy storage for an electric motor. This is a drastically different (and, ...
Exactly right. Although I think umop_apisdn was thinking of hydrogen as a replacement for oil or coal, which it simply cannot be. It isn't a net source of energy, in fact, we lose energy in the conversion, which is the main issue. Electrolysis isn't as extremely efficient as we would need it to be at this point, which ...
The whole point of the hydrogen fuel cell is that it would ostensibly provide greater energy density than traditional batteries, on par with gasoline, as well as maintaining the refueling advantage traditional gasoline cars have over current generation electric vehicles. The truth, however, is that hydrogen has an abys...
string of expletives and invective here> <deep breath> <heavy editing> I wish these people would just quit horsing around with user interface look-and-feel, already. I barely use one-tenth of what's on the gmail screen already, and with so much else on the screen I have a somewhat difficult time just finding the Del...
I was a member of Zipcar for a couple years. It was handy. But after the first couple years, I never really used it much and forgot about it. One year went by and they charged me $60 to keep the account active. Annoying, but hey, whatever. Maybe I'll use it. Then someone found my credit card number and ordered a...
That article is from 2008 . Here's the actual ruling it comes from the highest legal authority we have, was a preliminary injunction . The current legal situation is a different one than the one during that injunction. It's still not easy to get at the private data belonging to an IP address: First off, some prov...
I've been hearing the same shit since 1999 and it just never happens. If you call going from 95% market share to around 50% "never happening", you need to review your maths and stats lessons… > IE doesn't comply with W3 standards because they are shit. okay… why? any argument? > You call in non-compliance I cal...
From > A member of America Online called me (a member of the tech support staff for an Internet service provider with no affiliation with AOL) asking what her email address was. After figuring out she wasn't registered with us, I politely pointed out that we were not America Online and she might get a better answer ...
According to the wikipedia article the CBO disagrees with your suggestion that an income tax reduction would increase revenue. 2005 US CBO estimates on tax cuts In 2005, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a paper called "Analyzing the Economic and Budgetary Effects of a 10 Percent Cut in Income Tax Rates"...
Why would we add money to NASA? It's a failing agency. Companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and others are new companies that are already better than NASA. The average age at SpaceX is 30, whereas at NASA the average age is about 50 or higher. Corporate space exploration is the future. If you're going to fundraise f...
Much of the technology in our kitchens comes from NASA, directly or indirectly, even though we don't realize it. The problem is that its hard to say that these innovations would not have been made anyway without NASA or that they could have been made more efficiently just by directly funding research (e.g. if we spen...
facebook games, online photo editors, online multiplayer games, some mediumweight back-end apps (as in not java or sap heavy). he might not use them, but the market for big flash apps is not exactly unimportant. also: flash supportd gpu acceleration. check this out:
I'm pretty sure android fans hate on the iPhone because its low customization options, the phone hardware is far behind its time (mainly referring to screen size, but wheres LTE?). They also hate it because iOS is ugly in most people's opinion (like me, i think the scheme is all wrong for today's day and age, iOS looks...
It's not that simple. Even the browsers that score "well" in HTML5 tests all implement only parts of the HTML5 standards and even when they implement a standard, they may not implement the same backing data. Let me explain: Example 1: Video tag While Chrome, Firefox and Safari and IE9 all implement the video tag,...
HTML5 video doesn't have any DRM, so you can't use it for sites like Netflix or Hulu, thus why they don't have HTML5 apps. Even HTML5 video is limitedly rolled out on Youtube desktop for a variety of reasons (copyright, multiple video formats you have to support, etc.) Whenever you see a company bullshit about HTML5 vi...
HTML5 would be a great idea if it's supported fully and in the same way by all browsers (desktop and mobile), but it's not that simple. Even the browsers that score "well" in HTML5 tests all implement only parts of the HTML5 standards and even when they implement a standard, they may not implement the same backing da...
I posted a question on /r/askscience about this a while ago; there were some very enlightening comments.
The first issue is one of free nonviolent expression, which is a very basic right affirmed by the US constitution. Though its desecration may be considered disrespectful by some, the flag is merely a symbol, regardless of how it is used. To promote such legislation is to elevate the flag and the national identity it re...
Thank you for taking the time to explain your viewpoints to me. I see where you stand on both issues; technically people should be able to do whatever they want, however disrespectful it may be seen by others. I guess I have more of a personal issue with the disrespect of the U.S. flag, and it shouldn't be a state is...