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Educate yourself a bit when it comes to the significant components of a machine you rely upon more than anything else you own. If you're a computer guy, do you understand why you may need to replace a power supply or a bad stick of RAM? No reason to distrust a tech telling you about an equally important part of your ...
There is no excuse to be a 'hapless consumer' anymore. If you don't trust the recommendation, google it. That's all it takes most of the time. Educate yourself a bit when it comes to the significant components of a machine you rely upon more than anything else you own, it'll save you time and money, and it makes sense...
I have a 2012 Ford Focus with Sync. I bought it 2 years ago when I got my job and holy shit Sync must be the biggest pile of shit ever. I can't count the amount of times where I turn my car on and Sync just won't start at all...like the touch screen? Solid Black. About 1/5 times it will turn back on after ~2 minutes, b...
It is simple. First, we don't know what these panels cost. If they cost $20,000 a piece, it might actually not be feasible to deploy them on a large scale. However, I fear the truth is more nuanced. The panels probably don't cost that much. Even if they do, it may be that when the costs of highway maintenance, po...
Not every company asks the government for $1m to conduct their R&D. This is literally a kickstarter for R&D, not even for an end-product. They have done calculations, in a basic sensationalist way that shows very little information or statistics. I simply do not trust them. Let's talk about [cost]( $5,270 for 20x...
If you read their numbers as much electricity as the us consumes is based on panels sited at the border of Canada, with their textured glass that reduces efficiency included. If the panels were sited in Texas they would produce much more. For the costs, using your numbers the cost of electricity would be 9.3 c/kWh ...
Because everyone here is imagining laying flimsy, off the shelf rooftop solar panels cracking under the pressure of a car. They read the headline & the misinformed comments & all the sudden they are an expert. They also think this is merely a hippy dippy alternative energy thing, instead of all the massive benefits t...
Let's do the math. We have the power: So using a district in the state I currently live in as an example: It costs for this PA district, for snow removal, totaled $18 million for 11,000 snow lane miles in the 2012-2013 winter, which is the number of miles lanes that get snow treatment. The standard lane width on ...
Windows: MPC-HC OS X: OS X Mplayer Extended Linux: MPV
Only problem with that is that by using channels in between, you eliminate the time-slot negotiation that happen between WiFi stations on the same channel, this leads to more in-flight collisions and decreases the WiFi quality on both your own network, and all the neighboring networks you overlap. Edit:
Americans already are, and have been for decades, required to pay taxes on items they purchase online. It does not matter if you bought something: on the internet by phone mail order by carrier pigeon or you drove to New Hampshire. You are required to calculate the difference between the tax you p...
Google literally controls your search results, in other words they control the information you get to see. If google can (and does) filter search results, what makes you think Microsoft doesn't do the same thing? Other than search engines, your only other option is going to a library to get information. Having the ...
I never claimed they did. And that was not my point I said this before you offered clarification that you were talking about images. I thought you might be taking about articles. Anyway. I do mostly agree with you. The problem is, I think it's sad, but not evil. It's just the way Google works. They provide a servic...
Fair point. Scepticism would be more appropriate. But you can argue for cynicism not being incorrect, just less appropriate. My cynicism leads to believe this article is click bait, i.e., I assume the worst about the journalists who published this article, and that has lead me to be sceptical about their claims. ...
To clarify, I was strictly correcting /u/gpsfan claim that Google bypasses the image host for displaying full content. The full sized image thing is a bit more complex. Disclaimer - I'm not Google, but worked on a (very limited scope) webspider once, so this is an area that once held my interest. > Images up to abo...
The main problem being that it is generally not covered. Going through the court's decision history, (as almost all rulings come from past precedents set) we can't find anything even related to this situation. This is because it has to be a competitive monopoly in one select field harming another, (does not apply, Goog...
Even if the phone companies retain the information, the NSA can simply access their computer system and collect the information clandestinely. The only thing the USA Freedom act does, is mandate someone else has to foot the bill to store all that information.
And I still see submissions complaining about 'repost'. More people read it if re-[submitted]( at different time, not a '
What follows is highly paraphrased (obviously), but I might also be misunderstanding some of his points or even putting words in his mouth. In my opinion, this article is worth the time it takes to read and I would be hard pressed to find ways to shorten it while still retaining the full value of what's written. Some...
If I were to leave you a comment that pissed you off, you can maybe only see my IP address. That would just tell you who my ISP is. You cannot see my Mac address (and therefore find my house on Google maps). But if you told me to click on that website that you setup, it could read my IP address and mac address, there...
So I work for an ISP, but not in customer service. I get this IM Rep: uh oh, facebook is down again Me(sarcastically cause I think she knows her job): we have a critical ticket on it! Rep: it's not in compass Me: lol, yeah.. its not customer effecting, just job effecting meaning people have to do their jobs ...
Ah, I see that you too have heard the arguments made by the RIAA's Paul Clement last Monday. You have your interpretations, but... it seems a stretch to me that a whole new category of defendants who were never included from the outset of copyright law in 1909 and onward are suddenly by default included in the applica...
Who knows what their algorithm is really doing, for one thing. The engineers told the MBA kids one thing, and the MBA kids told the press people another. So who knows what is really happening within the network. Also in CDMA based systems, the neighboring cells interfere with each other. So as one cell becomes more a...
Who knows what their algorithm is really doing, for one thing. The engineers told the MBA kids one thing, and the MBA kids told the press people another. So who knows what is really happening within the network. Also in CDMA based systems, the neighboring cells interfere with each other. So as one cell becomes more a...
To expand on this and tie it back with SOPA -- Once registered, your domain name is tied to the web server that actually hosts the site through DNS. This maps your server's IP address (for fun try typing "72.247.244.97" in your URL bar, welcome to a world without DNS) to the registered site name. SOPA wants to for...
As a current GoDaddy employee, I totally support the move. Here are a few things to keep in mind when moving the domain - You will need to remove the privacy feature for the domain, or "domains by proxy." The only way to do this is by going [here]( Keep in mind you will need to sign in with a DIFFERENT customer num...
So he needs 19k to write an autostart script or is he going to write yet another media player that's horribly crippled and only plays from a particular path on removable media. This guys doesn't look, sound like, or claim to have the connections to determine or aggregate what people actually want. He looks like an abso...
i was being a little round-about in my post. You hinted that patent law should be modified in the U.S. to not allow patenting of some ideas: > policy ... in this country i assume that is policy around the granting of patents. But you didn't give any examples of how that policy should be amended; instead come up wit...
It wasn't originally hacktivism. That grew out of the whole anti-Scientology thing. Basically the mainstreams idea of Anon Internet Super Heroes overpowered the original self proclaimed IRC users and channers. The original internet users claiming to be anon regularly attacked websites because it was funny. (It really w...
Pinch-to-zoom is not a worthy patent? I spent over five years working with [clunky Windows Mobile Phone and Tablet PC ui's]( before Apple improved things. Pinch-to-zoom is one of the key improvements to touchscreen ui's. If it were so obvious/easy why wasn't it done already? As a software engineer/product developer I a...
No. It is not the first. If you're looking at fiber alone, then Verizon has beaten Google a long time ago, having started rollout of FiOS residential services back in 2006. If you're looking at the speed (1Gbps), it's also beaten by EPB's 2010 rollout of 1Gbps FTTH. If you're looking at that $70/mo price tag, it's been...
This may be one of the dumbest "pitchfork" moments I've ever seen. ISPs have the right to say "Look, we're giving you 300GB of unlimited internet bandwidth a month. For normal internet usage, this is MORE than enough to satisfy your needs. We understand if you happen to go over that cap every once in a while. We a...
Rather than bore you with every detail about how my job works, I'll try my best to keep it simple: In a completely unregulated industry that requires expensive infrastructure and a significant investment, you will have two scenarios when someone demands a product: 1) Very few companies will make the investment an...
Rather than bore you with every detail about how my job works, I'll try my best to keep it simple: In a completely unregulated industry that requires expensive infrastructure and a significant investment, you will have two scenarios when someone demands a product: 1) Very few companies will make the investment an...
I have COX internet as part of my rent, so I don't have an account with them. So whenever I go over the limit the link on the splash screen fails and they want me to call their support. Since I don't have an account they can't do anything. But resetting the modem fixes it.
The way I understand this is that before you can print something, you first have to posses the computer model for it. Those aren't hard to create. All you need is a good drafting program. I personally like 3d max but there are a ton of others that can produce a 3d mesh or model of whatever it is you are trying to make....
I really liked their software and ran it on my Mac Mini. Once they announced that they were dropping software and going strictly hardware, I went back to XBMC. Best move ever. They XMBC team really picked up their game while I was using Boxee.
This article makes a fantastic point, the infrastructure to have automatically fixed typos crowd sourced to the public is already in place for Amazon and the Kindle. However, I no longer download ebooks from legitimate sites after buying the books. For one, I enjoy having an actual copy of the book, even if I end up re...
Stop conflating things. You are correct that Linux is doing great on servers, but when people say that Linux is not doing well, they almost exclusively mean that it is not doing well on the desktop . Gnome had a grand plan "10 by 10" to have 10% market share by 2010. Did that happen? Nope. Why? Because with the except...
An artist When was the last time you saw an artist lobbying for stricter copyright protections, colluding with ISPs to implement draconian anti-piracy systems, or conducting mass lawsuits against thousands of people? Sure, artists benefit from copyright law, but lately, it's been wielded almost exclusively as a hamme...
these corporations are scared to death of the power the Internet gives the common man to break their control over our culture's media. They fight back with copyright law. They're scared because people like you pirate everything the second it gets released (not 14 years like the original copyright in the constituti...
Even with everything that's happened, pirating this game will only make things worse down the road when they release the next sequel. EA just sees pirates as potential sales, if you really want to contribute to forcing EA/Maxis away from this bullshit, do no play this game. Forget it exists, play some other city buildi...
Significant computation" that could be done on the computer its running on. Source: Diablo Diablo 2 Borderlands Borderlands 2 Fate Torchlight Torchlight 2 Titan Quest And the thousands of other offline games with random world and/or loot generation.
So in order to get this malware you have to: Enable side loading of apps (disabled by default, permanently disabled on AT&T devices iirc), which you would only have done if you knew what a .apk file is in the first place. Open a bad E-mail on your phone. Open the attachment that comes with a suspicious e-mail. ...
Whether it increases or decreases the cost of a device depends on what it replaces. On the XBox One, for example, it appears they are using it as a cache for the unified system RAM-- allowing them to use less-expensive DDR3. Sony's PS4 lacks the high-speed eDRAM cache, so they've gone with 8GB of GDDR5 as their syste...
It's hard to post about this and not bring up current/recent events. This is not a partisan rant so don't even go there. Just take a moment to hear me out. This whole government needs to protect us (from each other and everything) has moved into a new phase. It's literally turning into a real life version of minority...
I think there's more to it than meets the eye. It's not as simple as it's underhanded and clandestine and shitty and generally craps on our rights. I'm not naive enough to think this is so we can listen in to foil terrorist plots or even to identify the bad guys lurking in the shadows. It's not about what could happen ...
Breakdown from Newegg on parts: GPU: MSI R9 270 GAMING 2G (V305) Radeon R9 270 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 HDCP Ready CrossFireX $179.99 PSU: Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus - 700W Power Supply $79.99 Ready made box: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz Quad-Core APU (CPU+GPU) with Radeon HD 7660D, MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 A75 HDMI USB 3...
I think by definition hardcore gamers are people who enjoy pulling the most depth out of their games and by extension playing games that are by their very nature "deep". I like Cheetos as much as the next guy, but they have nothing to do with my particular brand of "hardcore". To me, hardcore is breeding competition re...
No, you clearly understand very little. All this shit takes resources that for the most part are better spent here on earth. Getting into space is extremely costly and takes incredible human effort. So if we are going to risk those resources in space we damn well better make sure we do our best to recoup the inve...
Wow... do you not understand how space exploration nor money works? Let me write some patronizing words and maybe you will learn better. First we need a shit ton of humans building space stuff, that takes time and materials that have opportunity costs. If you lose a space shuttle that is a huge material and time los...
I guess you just ignored the part where he ran it on his real page for his real youtube channel and got a ton of fake likes.
I hate the rep Napoleon gets. Much of the negative stuff around him is because of the anti-Napoleon stuff put out by his enemies. He helped unite France, and established a system of laws known as the napoleonic code that are the basis for many law systems today. He promoted religious tolerance. He abolished feudali...
Yeah but the unelected kings and nobles that ruled the rest of Europe during that time period were A-okay Napoleon was an emperor. Sure he took power in a coup in the chaos, but he helped reform France and put an end to feudalism. He helped promote religious tolerance. European nobles had been trying to invade Fr...
On the Internet, every website loads at the same rate as any other website. This is of course not true. Any number of factors may come into play. Is the server extremely busy? Is the local network it's on having a switching problem? Is the network it's on saturated? Is it's connection to the Internet (typically f...
Also its a stupid fucking analogy because UPS can just deliver the packages at the door or have people pick it up. Were not going to get anywhere dissecting this analogy. The point is- Verizon gives people internet access. Netflix provides a service on the internet. If that service is popular, and you cant provide i...
There are good competitors to windows namely linux. It's just hasn't gotten the mass appeal on the desktop. I think hating on microsoft is all good and dandy until you start to see the alternatives. Android which is a linux based operating system has a total google integration. Sure you can use it without a google acco...
Also note that popular ad blockers like AdBlock+ have a specific whitelist of advertisements (they were paid for the privilege by ad companies themselves). [And here's the handwaving text they use to allow this.](
I think Obama was a solid case of getting to Washington (yes I know he was already there) and wanting to change things, then learning very quickly that shit was going to be super hard for his administration if he didn't play the game, so he made the easy choice.
Basically they are going to charge high bandwidth subscription based service providers like Netflix, XBOX LIVE, PS+, HULU, etc. more to transmit their data to end users and then classifying the rest of the Internet data transmitted as a class two service provider. It will be viewed as a compromise but ISPs will come ...
It" meaning what, exactly? Neither this clickbait piece of crap "article" nor the only slightly more informative Guardian article it links to has, in whole or in part, any leaked document in it - just a sprinkling of people vaguely reacting to an alleged draft. Where's the document, or at least some relevant portion...
I suggest starting a tilt to sue the FCC if they do not follow thru with what 3.7 million people want. On what grounds? You can't just sue because they issue a decision you're not happy with. First of all [you have to have standing]( You have to prove that their actions have harmed you in a quantifiable way. If you d...
A BILL To prohibit Federal agencies from mandating the deployment of vulnerabilities in data security technologies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secure Data Act of 2014’’. ...
Shit like this actually makes me enraged enough to go out and vote. Good, you should be voting :) Ignore people who say "both sides are the same" because they aren't, and even if they were, we need representation from a younger voting bloc. As in, when no one young votes, they think "Why bother even trying to appeal ...
Basically I had read somewhere on reddit that calling the offices of your politicians (local and state) doesn't really do anything as it is usually a staffer who takes down the calls and will just inform the politician about who called about what and that's pretty much the end of it. However, staffers/PR people, will ...
Actually, they aren't just using existing batteries. It is their own special blend of electrolyte. They also remove the individual PTCs and pressure vent from each cell and instead use a small fuse wire, liquid cooling, and two different intumescent epoxies with different phase change temperatures inside of each batter...
Still, $3 million out of $50 billion is 0.006% of all money being spent acquiring pilots and TV shows. In other words, if you took 1% of what cable companies spend acquiring TV shows, pilots, etc., wholly black-owned production companies are receiving less than 1% of that . That's pretty incredible, considering ther...
Might be a good idea. However, there are some risks to any person bringing such a lawsuit. Though there may be more risks, I can think of at least two. First, if the person sues Comcast for breach of the contract the person has with Comcast and loses, that person may become liable for the legal fees incurred by Comcast...
Yay! now rootkits can really dig in there good and I'm sure the extra code won't carry its own risks. It also very helpfully obsoletes the hundreds of thousands of dollars businesses spend on Clustering and High Availability. Outside of consumer grade electronics this isn't that great. Even in the consumer space, d...
When Tim Berners Lee invented the world wide web, he set things up so that you could click on a link and go to that page to read more about whatever you clicked on. The system expected that if the server existed, and you and it were both connected to the web, you could access that page. The web has been based on neut...
You make an extremely good point. Here's the deal. As long as the free market owns the internet, anyone/everyone has a way to find their way onto the internet in whatever way they and the provider (who could be the next door neighbor) see fit to agree on. As soon as the government owns the internet, or healthcare, yo...
and how many people don't watch the news at all but still answered that poll? "well I get a newspaper delivered to my door, so I guess that's where I get my news", or, "well I don't watch the news, but If I wanted to I'd probably turn on CNN, so I guess that's where I get my news". also a lot of people probably conside...
it also explains the rates of violent crime and illiteracy, degenerative neurological disorders, bone disease... It builds up in your bones for years, and is released slowly as bones have very low cell turnover. Lead causes the formation of free radicals, electrically charged molecules which latch onto the precision ...
So I live in the UK. We have weekly trash and recycling collections. So we have 3 bins. One for regular waste, one for general recycling and one for food recycling. It works well, and since they forcibly cut down the size of regular waste bins, people are recycling more and more. Easy answer: have a system like this, a...
Austin resident here & passionate about recycling. The problem with this resource is that it also mentions Best Buy as a place to drop off electronics for recycling. AFAIK there's no oversight on how the electronics get recycled. BBY could be selling the waste [almost positive this is the case] to a third party comp...
Have you actually used a Mac? I will respond to that by asking another question: Have you actually used a hackintosh? It sounds to me like every hackintosh basher's arguments come from pre-2005 era scenarios where you had to work for 2 weeks to get a system up and running. This is (for the third time) a tangential ...
Go through his history. He constantly bitches about digg, even when there's absolutely no context for it. I've run into him a number of times already. He never adds anything worthwhile to conversation. Listen, I spent years on digg and the shit that people accuse the digg crowd of was simply not a rampant problem ...
Keep dancing on that landmine Netflix. The government just passed a law that allows them to cripple your business.
I'd argue that AOL is a company that played a very large part in shaping what the internet is today. They are also still technically an ISP. So yes, this is an article about a business deal, but AOL still does relevant things with the internet, which is an ever-present and ever-growing piece of communications technol...
It was a search engine. In the days before Google, Yahoo was my primary search. Typically, when I was looking for something, I would have to go through several pages of results to find what I was looking for. If that didn't work I would try Alta Vista - sometimes the subject I was looking for was on the first page, o...
This is as annoying as people who say
Check out cucumbertube.com. It pulls search results from multiple "tube" sites. It supports a bunch of search operators, which is cool, and it has a fuck-ton of categories. The nice thing about the categories is that they're really just pre-made search terms, and if you click on, say, Blue Eyes, it'll show up in the se...
Awe look everyone! A non-engineer! Everyone wave at the nice person whose integrals don't involve the sinc function!
There is not a single sentence in this article that isn't exaggerated. I'm so disappointed I'm just going to go through it: >LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous And would you care to define who "All of Anonymous" is? >the de facto King of Anonymous Not only are the two groups are barely related, but the i...
The problem is that it brings the wrong kind of attention. When people see something like "Hackers take down FBI.gov!" they aren't taking the time to reflect on what caused that action and why people are upset, they just get scared of the dangerous hackers. Most people don't realize that DDoSing a government site is ab...
Isn't the whole point of anonymous that they are everyone and they are no one? Then why would this even matter? I don't get it. Wouldn't this cause non-anonymous hackers to join anonymous? I don't understand... If you do something wrong and break the law, whether you are an evil greedy corporation, or a banker, or a ...
Fallacy of the excluded middle! They're not talking about teaching coding instead of maths, they're talking about teaching coding during an ICT lesson instead of Microsoft Office, which most can do anyway. When you say basics, what do you mean? Just reading, writing and arithmetic? People would complain if childre...
When I was in high school we had a decent teacher this was when they taught C++ the teacher was getting to old to teach it though. He had 3 classes he had to teach of about 30 kids and when they all have problems that they can’t debug themselves (or more realistically won’t debug it themselves) he just couldn’t do it ...
I feel like it shouldn't be that hard to find a math teacher that wants to improve their skill sets to teach more interesting material. I had a friend who was taking an "I'm going to be a teacher" math course taught by the same professor who teaches Diff EQ. He thought it'd be "cool" to have them learn Python since h...
You do make a good point and I learn ruby and perl entirely online. Some people, however, like learning from paper (reading on the go). But in short yes, the Ruby site has a wonderful and completely online tutorial, and I'm sure others exist for python, perl and whatever else you fancy.
SireBelch should go rename his account to
Salting passwords does provide additional security but it is really the hashing algorithms chosen that make these passwords easy to brute force. All the salt does is ensure that you have to brute force every password in the DB, you're not going to get any duplicates. This removes rainbow table attacks from the table ...
The main risk I'd say was if they managed to gather enough info about you to discover more online services you use with the same password (if applicable). They could then log into that and potentially do some damage from there. This may not be a major issue for the typical, potentially computer-savvy redditor, who has ...
You can get in trouble with the government for not enforcing a legitimate DMCA takedown. You can't get in trouble with the government for enforcing a false DMCA takedown. There's a time limit on how long you can sit on a takedown request. Therefore, taking down everything is the only way to enforce the law without ...
I actually don't post things because I don't want to make other people feel bad. This year I have gone to Las Vegas San Diego Comic Con I am going to Meet Nick Offerman at his woodshop for an afternoon Great American Beer Festival Most of my friends would post about 100 postings at each of those. Shit I h...
Even if you do realize it, it still takes a toll. Here's why. Facebook is big on the idea of extending the idea of your identity to have an online presence. Try making a Facebook account with an obviously fake name, for instance, and the site will reject the request. The motivation behind this is twofold: By ma...
Yes by using a control group. You take 1000 people and tell half of them at random to use facebook and half of them to not use facebook, then measure their happiness. So long as the groups were really random and you are willing to equate a survey about happiness with happiness, then you would proove or disprove this. ...
I think you're right on the money with how the brand has been designed. People are conditioned to believe it's necessary. Personally, I still have an FB account. It's a chore. I'm meant to use it for professional marketing and promotion, but I never do, and its only function for me is keeping in touch with relatives ...
No, it isn't flawed but maybe I did not explain it as as well as I should have(I've been finding and getting into entirely too many arguments and i'm running out of steam because everyone keeps resorting to just insults instead of any valid or useful comments/conversation, it sucks) YouTube is the economy think o...
Timothy Lottes (creator of FXAA and TXAA) frequently opines on this kind of stuff and just offered his [views on the A7](