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You don't like him because he wrote about random things? >So you use exactly the trick I described here: >No, the cause of me not liking him is not that "he wrote about random things". It is very possible to "write about random things" and not write what he did, or to be an asshole. It is the specific things he wro...
Is complacency really better than revolution? Come on! Show a good power-is-in-the-people example! Who knows how these giants will grow if no action is taken. edit: You sure seem to hate comcast very much. Yet you seem more willing to keep yourself uncomfortable because "could be worse." When a time comes that you'...
I don't have to deal with Time Warner or Comcast and I don't understand why people don't cancel. I've heard so many horror stories but I'd like to know more. I saw someone say like $150 for cable and internet. I pay $54 for 30 up and 4 down with charter. Every time I test it, it's like 32 up and 5 down. I need intern...
I live in chicago and comcast is the only option in my area. After 1 year of bs service and increased rates, we decided to cancel cable. Still get the internet so we can use Netflix, hulu, amazon prime, and stream football on the weekends. We also bought a $16 antenna from RS that works perfectly. Football Sundays ha...
I canceled cable years ago, saved up money for a baby, and now am a father without debt.
There is no realistic alternative IP thanks to regional monopoly. I gather that's the situation for the vast bulk of their subscribers based on their own reasoning for the government to allow the merger. In other words, I can't affect a real impact on the merger because of the very reason for the merger (extending mo...
See, here's where I think a lot of people (including OP) miss the point and aren't looking at the whole picture and over-arching strategy. Just about every piece of data on hardware usage points to maybe not a post-PC era, but one where laptop and desktop form factors are no longer the main 'computer' people use. Add...
A lack of ISP competition is one reason why it's a bad idea. That being said it's a bad idea regardless. In your situation would you really want to have to subscribe to 3 or 4 different ISPs to get all the different websites you want at a reasonable speed? Because that would be the result. Think: ISP A strikes a deal w...
this is correct. The reason someone might get charged for a modem they own is this: when you buy a modem you have to call Comcast (or the installer calls it in) and add the modem's Mac address and Serial Number (as well as make/model) to the inventory and to your account. When they are entering the info there is a box ...
Yes. But how many cops would realistically stop—for example—chokeholding an unarmed civilian to check their phone for a "You're being recorded, officer!" alert? " It's really kinda sad that this is how people view the police. A couple dirty harries make the news and now everyone has to mistrust the police. How can t...
It irks me that so many otherwise sane and smart people on Reddit can be so sure in their support for or use of AdBlock Plus or any Ad-Blocker software as some morality crusade or something. This is not you against the man, it's not about freedom or choice it's simply about what's right and what's wrong. You're getting...
For one thing, they'd have to buy radio spectrum. That would probably cost them billions that already has the datacenters and thousands of miles of fiber optic cable, or build it yourself.
But you do realize that what they're showing off is the clear display right? They just chose to use a laptop to showcase it. The laptop has nothing to do with any of this except that it's nice to be able to show something on the screen. Slapping it on a laptop makes that easier for people to visualize what makes it...
Really? That's interesting...how come. Looking at the differences in numbers we aren't talking about earth shattering differences in volume vs other modern aircraft, maybe 7db at the most. Your ears are pretty good at picking out differences in volume, but who knows if that difference will be reproduced accurately....
I don't mind "facts" being posted outside r/politics. Posting that congress is considering a bill to move steering wheels to the right side of the car is fine really. It becomes politics (and thus should be relegated to politics) when it's Side X is doing this! Side Y is doing that! Look how screwed we are because...
Gtmo is not actually at all like it used to be. I spent some time there working as a lieutenant last year and the prisoners are actually treated extremely well. The ones who are cooperative and don't throw things at the guards have DSs and PS3s. Any time they want to talk to an interpreter they can, though most of t...
This article will make no difference to anything, anywhere. Except for CNN's bank balance, courtesy of Google. And if, to fill 10 reasons, they have to mention privacy twice count 'no farmville' as some sort of bonus (If it was 2008, this would mean something) assume that people simply cannot stand unintrus...
Protip: Indonesia and Thailand are actually different countries, and the flooding happened in Thailand. This article doesn't even mention Indonesia. Also, it's spelled "Indonesian."
Computer aided design. Think of it like a 3d model, but instead of being intended to simply approximate the visual appearance they are technical drawings of the entire object corresponding to actual detailed measurements.
Wait until they start dropping the surveillance marbles across the countryside. Tiny gps connected listening devices all meshed together to hear everything around them. Then they will send in tiny robotic insects to get a better view of your house and what you do in there. If there is something suspicious then they wil...
So we should expect our president to base his decisions off of the possible reactions of MSM instead of principle? No. We should expect our president to not fall on his sword when it will accomplish nothing but destroying what political capital he has. He was faced with a choice between two evils, and he chose the le...
You admit that the power is being used Please read the rest of that for context. I think this is the real meat: >complain when they do what any rational actor would The government has rational self interest like any of us; it is just that these feelings are both collectivized and aggregated. > clearly a proble...
I've thought up a metaphor for these anti-privacy bills. So everyone knows those final bosses of games with multiple stages, where the gamer thinks (s)he finally beat the boss only to get creamed by the bigger and better next stage of the boss. Well these bills are just like that. It may seem plausible that after each ...
No. Anyone who's dealt with the massive loads of regulation, red tape and taxes in NYC can tell you that this is not a Libertarian wonderland. It's corrupt, bureaucratic and maintains one of the largest public employment forces on earth. BB himself has boasted of controlling the 4th largest army in the world
While I agree with your that information should be free for everyone, I think we need to recognize the difference between information and entertainment in this situation. When you go to the movies, or buy an album, you are paying for the entertainment, which is essentially a service that the artist has provided you. ...
My bad. In that case, allow me to try to explain as best as I can (my experience re: marketing is limited to the web and music): There are various factors to be considered when releasing something globally. At the end of the day, the strategies are chosen are believed to be the best way to get as much of a market sat...
I'm not defending it. I think it's a pretty lame punishment. But that is the punishment as it stands an was available to be pursued legally by the rights holder. I think it's lame that if I park on the street during street sweeper days I get a $20 ticket... And I may even hate it enough to try to get that law chang...
All of the electronics aboard Curiosity have to be space rated. Not only did the specs on Curiosity settle a long time ago, but when they did, the camera had to have proven through other space flights that it was radiation proof (space is full of harmful radiation that will compromise/fry an image sensor over time), ...
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And you're living in a land full of tinfoil hats. [Here]( is an algorithm which is mathematically proven to be unbreakable. For the time being, classical public-key cryptography methods of encryption are impenetrable if sufficiently large keys are used. Obviously, some algorithms are better than others ([ECC]( for in...
What is bullshit? Apple exerting their authority regarding their products and dictating how it arrives in the customers hands? that would be hardly bullshit... Google's lack of dictating strict terms with android? Well android is an OS and the hardware is created by third parties that already have the ability to cre...
Yep, and that's the day part of me is hoping never happens. Right now, I can hold an intelligent conversation on Google+ without some teenager coming in and saying something stupid (e.g on Facebook many pages have constant "Hey!" or "I wanna have your babies" messages - Google+ has none of this shit yet). At the same...
Alas it is a "businessman" and not a scientist trying to invent this, so there's little reason to think it will actually work. Let's assume the most extreme humidity: 30g of water in a cubic meter of air. That's Florida-in-summertime-on-crack humid. And also assume 100% efficiency from the bottle, which is ridiculo...
Risk isn't quite the right word. Risk/benefit is better. But there's more... Let me explain... Ok, poor guy borrowing $10K might be risky since poor guy. And along the same lines, rich guy borrowing $10K is not risky since rich guy. However, rich guy may well want to borrow $10 Million. This may well be risky...
This will probably get buried, but I work in ad tech, specifically one of the advertising companies that harnesses a lot of your data, and we know nothing about individual people. We can't find you -- your personal info gets scrubbed and you get a number. All you are is user 1234 and then you get certain attributes ba...
While I agree that the article is a load of spin... it's not true that there are browser plugins and other simple solutions to protect you from this "filter bubble". Web services track you based on lots of factors that your browser can't save you from. Having an account is a big one, but so is having an IP. And a MAC a...
Being on "The Internet" is having an active connection to the global network of networks. The only way it is different for anyone is based on what specific websites they use and how they use them.
But it's not FREE! At all! There's an enormous opportunity cost involved in the labour! And the sourcing of the materials! And the maintenance! If this was an efficient way of doing things, it'd be done by now! Why don't you go get one and prove me wrong? Is it because it'd be an almighty pain in the dick? That's the...
Exactly. I've got a much smaller fresnel lens (A4 size). If I were to hold my hand an inch behind it, it looks a bit bright, and I might be able to feel a difference in temperature. If I hold a piece of 2x4 at the focal point, it will burst into flame almost immediately. His lens has much greater surface area, and the...
I was hoping to post this as a comment right there on the NPR site, but found the login process onerous, so... no . "Solar-Powered Death Ray," indeed. Way to blow things out of proportion. I'm annoyed by everyone's seeming mystification over what is a very simple principle that, when I was a kid, every child over ...
Sanity? Are you NUTS?!?!?! Do you know what the Canadian Supreme Court position is on gay marriage? The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the government has the authority to amend the definition of marriage, but did not rule on whether or not such a change is required by the equality provisions of the Canadian Chart...
No. Both Canada Customs and US Customs (and probably in many other countries) can basically search whatever they want without a warrant. The basic idea is that you chose to cross the border, so you can be legally required to submit to whatever searches. Specifically, a federal court case in the US found that US cu...
Your glaring omission and the main point that you refuse to address is how you plan to not alter the original binary. As soon as you add functioning code to the original binary you negate the possibility of getting a hash collision. The reality is that with platforms such as Windows all of this is moot to begin with...
To be fair, most Linux distributions do the same thing. That is, if they decide to digitally sign packages at all. I know it's popular to hate on Microsoft but they actuallyfdo a pretty great job overall of securing their OS. Sure, they are bugs. But there are bugs everywhere. Just because the Linux kernel potentially ...
That was more of a server issue. This I do have experience with. (I am simplifying their storage/server structure here) Basically the way it works is that they were storing the photos in folders on their servers. The servers automatically propogate (mirror) the photos across the whole facebook network. A PHP script ...
The fact that there is an ongoing case into it's legality and the rulings into it's constitutional legality are classified are clear indicators that the program itself broke the law - thus illegal. it's a reinterpretation of the word 'relevant' that allowed the unconstitutional spying. It's not just a single case...
Subhead of that article you linked to: "Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data." If the program was truly as lawless as you seem to believe they wouldn't have even done that much. Instead they are acting within existing law and seeking to get surveillance approved by the appropriate courts....
When you're building industrial equipment and the only option is HDMI, you cry because you know you're going to get a call from a customer who no longer can get information to their display you know it's because HDMI is a stupidly designed connector.
Although the sentiment is there, and we all know the Monster Cable scam, there is a difference in really shitty HDMI cables and not so shitty ones. Shitty ones will give you what looks like snow on your screen as the signal is on the ragged edge of failure. Not so shitty ones won't. That being said, the difference in...
And that is where we are now. Copies are made on computers vs being made on VCRs. And you don't have a HDMI cable running from your hard drive to your processor, so its like having an elite cavalry when the war is being fought on the water with aircraft carriers & submarines. One bigger difference I've noticed is...
Unfortunately, it really isn't optimized properly in either direction. Ethernet is a framing standard, while HDMI is a streaming standard. Standards like MPEG do implement a transport stream multiplexer specifically for the purpose of "streaming" over TCP/IP, but why bother with the overhead? Back in the day, befor...
I bought an XPS 15 a few years ago and I was pretty annoyed by the lack of VGA and its substitution with "this proprietary DisplayPort crap." Recently I realized its actually great because you can break it out into VGA or DVI/HDMI. Using it alongside the HDMI jack I can plug 2 monitors into my laptop. Let me tell you...
You're right, but your specs don't help your point. Modern PC GPUs are well ahead of console GPUs. Consoles are meant to have a couple advantages: Efficient use of resources. They're specially designed and optimized, since the designers know the specs of every component. Affordable. Relative to a gaming PC, a...
4K video means really high resolution. A lot of pixels. (A pixel is a singular dot on the screen that is one solid color throughout. More pixels = higher quality picture). SUPER ULTRA HD. HDMI 1 could only send a limited amount of data per second. The more pixels sent in one frame*, the less frames there are that can b...
Because while there are laws implementing "net neutrality" at a basic level, we have very little legislation in place that actually addresses the matter. To the courts, and government agencies, they argue that it is their "pipes" and so they can route what they want through it. They argue that while they are not all...
It's funny since I know many people that bought Linden to trade it for BTC due to the relative ease of exchange.
And if I have no license am I not allowed to develop my own app? You would be able to build your own app for your own use, you just wouldn't be able to offer it for sale, or build an app for others (just like you can't cut hair for others without a license.) I am being a bit cheeky, but licensure is a means of limi...
There's [a thread]( over on /r/privacy about the best secure alternatives to WhatsApp. The
are you 100% certain that it does not?" Yes. >Denying unauthenticated connections is a matter of software and there is no mystical, cosmic force that prevents a programmer from coding in the instructions "you hit port 5000, then 8000, then 13000? Welcome, friend - I will give you full admin access and pretend that ...
No warnings or instructions could be devised that would effectively communicate the [ingestion] hazard so that the warnings and instructions could be understood and heeded by consumers to reduce the number of magnet ingestion incidents
Convenience is a huge reason CurrentC is doomed. To use Apple Pay, stick your phone near the machine with your thumb on the fingerprint reader and you're done. To use an NFC-enabled card, tap your card on the machine and you're done. To use CurrentC, unlock your phone, find the app and open it. Aim the camera at ...
To play devil's advocate I've been a moderator on a forum before (not a very busy forum, but you still get forum drama) and I'd say there are a few different approaches to power. You'll have a mother hen, someone who's stuck with things since they were small and has a sense of scope. They understand that their users ...
I hate myself for this, but when I was emailing real estate agents in gmail for my new apartment, a google ad for mortgages popped up in the ad reel and gave me the 2nd lowest mortgage at the time. I actually clicked and later nearly signed up for the mortgage (later a better rate just came out before I had agreed to t...
if you pay for impressions. Google is silently nudging the market towards ppc. This benefits everyone but the site owner. It's good for Google because it puts very real numbers behind the price. Fair prices means happy and predictable customers. It's good for advertisers because if they know roughly what a click ...
Let me get in the way back machine. A long time ago, just after the merger that created a company we'll call Horizon. I worked a a Company we'll call Shmareritec. For training there is a training environment you log into exactly the same way you log into the live system. Somebody somehow pointed the training enviro...
Ever work at a call center? I have worked at 2 stefanini (its spelled stupid) and HP. No matter what level of support you are when any change is done to an account it sends a redflag to the audit department to ensure the information was input by a legit person (employee) along with this the employees ID number will be ...
No it is not superfluous. For example, AT&T could offer VOIP services over this network (landline replacement) at discount rates. And sure that could be competition with say Google Voice/Hangouts. However these companies could be giving an advantage to their own services (i.e. QoS providing low latency, cheaper/free ba...
I made no claim to one. I'm just noting the fact of how the conversation suddenly shifts topic to talking negatively about a competitor. This seems to happen at higher frequency when discussing net neutrality. It's happenstance, coincidence, or just random musing... regardless, it happened here too, again.
I agree it likely won't kill it, but for alternative reasons. We essentially have a monopoly in PC game distribution - steam. I love steam. I have designed games for release on it, and use it daily. That said, steam is a market that is so flooded with games that it's hard to know what's really out there anymore, especi...
From what I've read you're only sorta right. Major Labels are carving out huge chunks of money, yes, as they always have, and I'm very glad to see independent promotion and publishing being a increasingly do-able thing. That aside, I've seen a lot of independent artists complain (quite rightly, if the figures were righ...
this would require major investments that someone would have to pay for – that someone being the subscribers
Also, to expand the point further, it will be $100 a month for like 2-5GB of data. You can wait to get home where you pay on average maybe $50/month for 200GB or unlimited data. WE ARE SUCH A BARGAIN! The entire article isn't thought out, because it solely focuses on data usage and if you were to take every other con...
I think it's pretty funny that everyone is pissed that they don't get unlimited stuff for a limited expense. I sure this will be downvoted to the bottom because everyone wants to raise their pitchforks and holler that they're not getting free stuff What if i said you get UNLIMITED medical benefits for paying into med...
I got the chance to take a tour of the NOC at Akamai recently. These guys are, in a lot of ways, the internet. They represent something like 50% of all the web traffic out there. (They run locally cached servers to serve you content so you're not hitting a server across the country, and not everyone is trying to sho...
state consumer sales practices act statutes Which statutes (exactly) force a private company to indefinitely provide you with a particular service, much less the exact same service at the exact same price for life? I'll wait... >breach of contract The longest consumer contract for wireless service verizon ever e...
Hello all, let me start off with - I'm a Systems Analyst/Programmer - over 15 years experience. I don't work for any ISP or carrier - I come from this with an enterprise computing/application viewpoint. I'll also say that Unlimited data would BENEFIT me in the work I do. This guy addressed the problem, but he didn...
I think it's pretty funny that everyone is pissed that they don't get unlimited stuff for a limited expense. I sure this will be downvoted to the bottom because everyone wants to raise their pitchforks and holler that they're not getting free stuff What if i said you get UNLIMITED medical benefits for paying into med...
While I felt just as upset when I initially read this article, my background in a university IT department where everybody constantly complains about WiFi speeds has given me a change in perspective. From the standpoint of a consumer, this doesn't make sense, and it's understandable that everyone thinks Verizon is ev...
We just moved to T-Mobile from Verizon and we did it for a couple reasons: 1) Unlimited data. We were grandfathered into unlimited data and Verizon kept trying to get us to drop it, "because we would be better without it." Going as far as to tell us the we needed to purchase only certain top-of-the-line phones, outri...
I don't like the argument in the article that users "don't need" to do X, Y, and Z and that's why unlimited internet is not necessary. In an ideal world, the network would be there to provide bandwidth for whatever task you need. However, if you think about how to implement such a scheme, it is a non-trivial technical ...
Is [anandtech]( really that big a secret? Your article says it is the most efficient in GFlops per watt, it is certainly not the fastest. The big news about the card is that it's the first DX11 card on the market. Here's it's benchmark for Crysis: Warhead
Right, but we're talking here about appropriate icons in the specified context . Sextants may be appropriate icons in naval navigation textbooks, but they're confusing as hell everywhere else. As floppy disks become more and more distant legacy hardware, they'll become less and less recognisable to average users,...
Explanation: The "freezer hack" is used to temporarily access a failed drive. By failed, I mean died as a result of age, or defect. It is not a write/read error that would corrupt the drive image; which is what you had. That OSX couldn't read the drives correct size is due to the drives image being messed up from a...
I agree that most people don't understand the legal definition of monopoly. I would contend though, that most markets serviced by Comcast are also serviced by other broadband providers. I live in a fairly large midwestern town, so I may have more options that some people, but certainly less than most large cities. ...
Not too long ago I installed a HITAG-S 2048 in my right hand, in the location you mentioned. It does "secure" challenge-response authentication and has about 2k (woo!) of writable memory ([incidentally, here's a poorly-lit video of me using it to unlock a computer]( Realistically, though, it's much more a fun project e...
Don't forget that Apple did run the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" routine for several years; it's a commonly accepted delineation, even if everyone here knows that they also run Windows. PCs aren't Macs. You could even claim that a Mac is more than a PC, since it runs both OSX and Windows *.
can agree, yet again, with every point charlie makes. long time zune user, and recent ipad user. By comparison itunes is horrific. The controls it imposes on music and content is akin to living under a Gaddafi regime. By comparison, with my zune i can plug it in to any PC i like and copy content to my zune player, ...
Ok, let me tell you a little something about the kinect. And before we get into why what I say is valid, let me tell you I have some idea what I'm talking about. I run a company that specializes in AR applications and have built over a dozen AR games myself, but all of them pale compared to what Microsoft has brought...
Remember the epitome of a public service, the public toilet. It's always dirty and poorly maintained, so much so that you wonder if you even want to use it. No one makes money off it, so it's only good enough to be usable. I see this analogy a lot, but the toilets I've used in publicly owned spaces are generally bett...
It seems odd that Firefox would know to take you to the tanking forums when Chrome would not, since they both (I think?) learn from browsing history over time. You've mentioned that you shouldn't have to create search engines to do this, which is sound and valid, but if you just loved making search engines like me, y...
This]( was the kind of car this rule was meant for. The regulation well predated internal combustion engine. This explains the stoker in the crew, and the 2 mph speed limit.
I'd say Reddit is the new Digg, not the new Slashdot, at least in terms of the community. You can't take two steps in any direction without fumbling across political lunatics. I still like Reddit, though. I spend a lot of time loitering in /r/technology, /r/programming, and /r/scifi I also still check Slashdot dail...
Sure. The article talks about storage in farads, which is basically the amount of excess charges something has. This is a LOT different than the amount of potential energy it can hold, because that has to take into consideration the voltage of the charges. Here's the basics for a capacitor... Energy = .5 (Capaci...
Certain people in anonymous (since its just a random group of people) could be taken very seriously since they know what the hell they are doing / not ddosing random websites. Basically think of anonymous as two groups, skilled hackers (i hate that word) and script kiddies. The skilled members actually do useful shit...
It's not "more likely" that is exactly what "anonymous" is. It frustrates me no end that people can't seem to understand this concept. One guy on his own who is anonymous and acts in the name of anonymous is as much anonymous as any one else. That is the central idea to the group all the "core" ideals come from t...
I moved from a technical past with iOS last September to Android. I'd done a bit of fun stuff with Jailbreaking and knew a higher than average amount about what everything there did. Moving over to Android was pretty fucking hard. It was only hard because my background using Terminal/cmd is pretty limited and when yo...
Oh man, you must watch the last 2 1/2 minutes. He invented something which his professor said might be the biggest scientific discovery of all time. And which could cure all diseases and discover artificial intelligence.
Foolish. They didn't want to keep this data? Totally foolish. You know how valuable an entire synopsis of every citizen with a cell phone would be to the governments in the EU? in the US? Russia? China? Africa? That's billions of dollars worth of data that not just governments, but giant corporate advertising and marke...
He does make a point though, just perhaps not worded well. Ebooks tend to have pretty terrible typesetting. Publishers are frequently lazy when they make ebooks, and it shows. There are certainly a lot of ebooks that are well made, but there are far more (in my experience) that just don't look as good as a printed coun...
My affiliations aside, I believe that for students it can be one of the most useful things ever. 79$ nets you a 4 year subscription, always with the latest office version, and one thing that I haven't seen in this topic yet is the fact that the subscription comes with extra bonus benefits. The increase 20GB to your s...