Datasets:
jkruk
/
tech-data

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
 Community
1
0
stringlengths
9
22.1k
Besides the main argument ITT, I'd be interested in seeing what would happen if we had a really professional looking guy or gal in a tailored navy suit stand up and start mouthing off about the internet. Instead of an overweight guy throwing around terms like "militant democracy" (really?), etc. Credibility is so imp...
We the people have grown complacent, we sit in our homes and email/call our senators thinking that it will cause action. We are wrong, we need to take action physically. How many people do you think it would take? How many people do you think it would take to show up at Congress's doorstep for them to notice us? A thou...
Naw. Given the "fast lane" data comes in through peering points and peering is where the congestion is, there isn't any competition really. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The peering points are where the congestion is, and selling access to "fast lanes" does very little to ease the congestion on the existin...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The peering points are where the congestion is, and selling access to "fast lanes" does very little to ease the congestion on the existing peering points. I'm saying the peering points are where the congestion is and the "fast lane" traffic doesn't go through the same peering p...
I longed for a yak back with more than one save, just so I could re-quote my buddy's bullshit to him years after the transgressions. Like the time he insisted, insisted the soldiers in Starship Troopers had killed the guy in boot with one of the laser rifles, and why didn't they use them against the bugs? (this was...
Man. That just reminded me of this other horror story I have... where the bank claimed they gave me too much money when I cashed a check... showed up to my door to try to ask for it? Then just automatically debited the amount they claimed they gave me too much from the account of the person that wrote the check. This...
This happened to me through TWC this past week. I was sent a digital box to place in my bedroom (because they swapped to digital) and when I installed it, it said there was an error. When I called TWC to report this, they said it was because of where I lived and they would send someone out to take care of it. This pa...
The problem is that he made a call, there was never anything in writing, and Comcast's various packages are so hard to puzzle out that they don't even know how to do it sometimes. How are you going to prove anything? All he has is his recording of "no charge for an outside visit." Once the tech lies, it's a "he sa...
It's illegal to record without consent. You have to tell the Comcast agent that you are recording or your audio will not hold up in court because it was obtained illegally. A lot of call centers will hang up on you if you tell them that you're recording. Comcast won't. We have a line that we read off that basically say...
A few years ago I bought a video card from what turned out to be a shady e-commerce site. The "new" card arrived in an open box, missing a heatsink, and DOA. I called the company, and their service rep basically blamed me for opening the box and breaking the card. They said I could return it if I wanted, but they'd ...
Piggybacking off this: let me say the big catalyst for this guys problem is the tech that came out. He is the one who put these charges on there either on the work order or after the fact. Every time I have had a tech come out I got a statement of work completed. If he didn't get one at all, that's one thing, but if he...
Pros of using theirs: If it doesn't work, its their problem. If it fails, its their problem Everyone who does it is another person running a second xfinitywifi hotspot I can use (and, don't let BS on here convince you that doing so impacts your connection at all -- its entirely separate and doesn't touch your b...
Windows is great for sparse casual use, writing an occasional letter, paying the bills etc, and it works ok for business. But Linux comes into it's own for automation of your work. it provides tools and a consistent environment for setting up repeating tasks, and calling them in bulk. So while casual users might critic...
They're calling it a worm, but it's not really a worm. Breakdown: An exposed dangerous method vulnerability exists in the OLE package manager in Microsoft Windows and Server (Vista SP2 to Windows 8.1, Windows Server versions 2008 and 2012) When exploited, the vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute ...
I can't stand MBA's. I work with two of them and it's like working with something not human wearing a humans face. They get giddy when they hear stories about companies fucking over their entire consumer base and their employees for quick cash. Their morals ... well they don't really have any, and are proud of it. ...
And now we wait for this to spiral into a flurry of misquoting and misinformation. It looks like they aren't going to be using an approval system for all articles. They will be providing a system where articles can be "flagged," probably in situations where vandalism is occurring on a regular basis. This way, it does...
No shit. All I saw was "Wonder Material creates electricity when struck by light." What the hell century was that written in, the 19th century? That's what we really need, science headlines written as Shakesperean sonnets. Forsooth!
According to very long standing supreme court precedent, the guarantees in the first amendment are not absolute and the government may make reasonable regulations on the time, place, and manner of speech. The reasonableness of the FCCs regulation depends on the type of technology used. For example, they can regulate ov...
I recently got a ASUS EEE Transformer tablet and I can attest to this headline. I use it on a daily basis to watch movies. It is more convenient than watching on a laptop. For one, the keyboard is not in the way. I ahve a case for it that props it up, of can easily position it on my lap when laying down for watchin...
As pro internet freedom as I am, I will always stand against net neutrality. We are told horror stories how an ISP could charge 5 dollars for web access, 5 dollars for bit torrent and 5 dollars for netflix. As a consumer I completely see why heavy users will cry out that this is not fair. But to the majority of pe...
Changing the Name Servers is NOT what causes Propagation. If you want to be savvy about it you need to go to Godaddy (or wherever your domain is currently held) and change the TTL (Time To Live). The TTL tells all ISP DNS servers how long to cache your DNS info (where you site/email/etc is located) before checking back...
GoDaddy won't let you update just the email address), and doing so will cause a domain lockdown of 60 days That is definitely not true. I updated the administrative contact email address on my domains before transfering a few days ago (I changed the email address to something that wasn't in my domain to make sure if ...
I posted this already, but it is absolutely relevant here. "If you think fucking with big company money will do nothing, you've been ignoring how desperate businesses are for their bottom line. This will affect small workers more than big wigs, at first, but that is just a start of the downfall. Corporations that lay...
New trend: all news articles must include
I deleted my 5 attemt to tell something. There I go again. I am not native english speaker so sorry for mistakes. Microsoft is great company which has great products. They develop products for professional usage (I am more and more impressed with their servers/databases and virtualization) and home usage(Windows/offi...
A customer of Verizon Wireless since the 'AirTouch' days here... Shared family plan with 4 phones, 1400 minutes shared between 4 lines (which is practically unlimited as we have the shared 10 numbers we call for free, in-network calling is free and night and weekends are free), unlimited texting, 3 phones with the $30 ...
The free market doesn't really solve this problem. The reason the state grants a monopoly in the first place is because it benefits the consumer to have one in place. Basically, all companies operate with an average cost curve that looks something like this . The goal of any company when managing costs is to reach t...
Remove regulations (which AT&T and verizon both love) and other barriers to entry that are setup by the government to allow for better competition. I don't think I'm arrogant or insane enough to think I could predict exactly how to solve these problems the best or optimal way and I don't think any central planner can...
I dropped Verizon like a bad habit two years ago. The service was fine, but the CUSTOMER SERVICE was absolutely horrible. I picked up a Samsung something or other because my good friend/roommate became a Independent Sales Area Manager (or something like that) for the Northern Virginia area. I had it for about 3 months ...
What's interesting here is how severely they punish low data users. The 1st GB is 500% more expensive than the 10th. Partially, it's because they are REALLY adding in extra cost for the bundle, and just passing it on to data. Still - the decreased cost for extra data doesn't exactly indicate a suffering data netw...
solution to keeping a land line and have mobility of a cell phone. magic jack! I personally don't use it but my uncle in India uses it all the time. You set up a number using magic jack for the house and then on the go you can use their iphone/android app to place and receive call from the same number. When he was visi...
To those Verizon customers who currently have unlimited data: I had unlimited data and I bought a new phone from a Verizon store about 3 weeks ago. I was told, by Verizon staff, that those of us with unlimited data plans will be able to keep them after your current contract expires. It does not matter if you keep you...
I've been on Verizon's family plan w/ my parents, who own a small business that i used to work for. While traveling, I ran into three douche-bag Sprint sales"men" in a bar in Mt. Shasta, CA, who were headed back from some circlejerk conference somewhere. So, of course they have to pitch me on how awesome Sprint's but...
This video is confusing two separate (but related) meanings for the word bandwidth. 1.) First there is the bandwidth that refers to the chunk of frequency used by a device. We will call this FreqBand. 2.) Second there is the bandwidth that refers to the data throughput of a network. We will call this DataBand. By...
Been with sprint for 2years.... Couldn't be happier. Although I was upset when they added a mandatory 4g premium charge for 4g devices (my 4g antenna is always off cause wimax blows hard) for an additional $10... Still not bad considering my bill is consistently $65/month for 900mins, free calls to any cell phone and u...
This is an interesting video and it does add value to the discussion here. But, it's not true. LTE and other advanced wireless technologies have amazing spatial control, load balancing and other congestion combating mechanics built into them from the ground up. The consortium knew that it would be a necessity. Except...
That's definitely interesting and relevant and I understand that this is a looming problem, but I can't help but think much like the floods in Thailand last year with the HDD makers, this is being used to obfuscate the fact that cellphone companies now have a commodity like oil that is very valuable because we all rely...
Sprint still has unlimited data on its cellular plans. A bit of rooting around and I was able to unlock the tether mode on one of my phones and used up like 10 gig one month no charges. Yet if you get an Air Card they give you 5 GB a month.
As a undergrad physicist, I would just like to say that there is a real limit to how many different bandwidths a mobile phone may utilize. This is quite simply because every signal is not sent as a single frequency, but more a bell curve with the average being the frequency. Modern technology has allowed this curve to ...
This will probably get burried... :-/ but: If you do the math out. this actually saves me a bit of money.... right now we are paying $150 a month for 1 smart phone, and 1 basic phone. the basic has 500 messages, and the smart phone has 1500 msgs. They share 700 Minutes. Then I have $30 a month for unlimited data. ...
Serious, serious question: if you feel strongly about this, why don't you, especially if you're a Verizon customer (I'm not) file an FCC complaint? If you don't feel strongly, let me preach to the choir for a bit. Think about an average smartphone wireless plan. Roughly one year ago the max cost of a single line smar...
Not really, sure it helps with the initial handshakes to the towers on a common spectrum but then each mobile is allocated a spectrum and slice (of that spectrum) to conduct its business (voice or data). Each mobile that connects to the mobile tower reduces the number of spectrums and slices left. Do not forget that th...
Just to play devil's advocate, on this plan you get unlimited minutes and messages with little data. I currently pay $30 a month for just 2gb of data on verizon (I don't know what plan the title of this is referencing, I just got my phone on May 29th). I have to pay additional fees for unlimited messages and 1400 share...
POW, hit me right in the F
I'd prefer "spool up the F
warp drive was the catalyst to the elimination of petty conflict. Basically, right after WWIII(and the various Eugenics Wars), humanity was in ruins. The various factions still had pretty epic grudges against each other though, so there was a lot of fear of the war starting up again. Then there was Cochrain and the ...
I might be partially or completely wrong, but I think it just means any matter with properties significantly different from anything we've ever detected or created. Examples might be something not affected by gravity, or which contains (or can be made to generate) previously-impossible amounts of energy. Something c...
I've seen this story appear everywhere, presented as if it is actually a real proposal. It's not. It's crazy. This one guy Ouliang Chang is putting forward the concept. No significant engineering work has been done on the idea. Even a cursory thought about the disadvantages of such a plan show why it will not be done. ...
I have no idea about how it would interface with NAFTA or GATT TRIPS / the Berne Convention, to be honest. My general understanding of the IP sections of those agreements is that they are typically pro-rights holder, meaning that they set a minimum floor for protection , but do not really provide many substantial rig...
Let me make it more clear. You, like Apple, are basing your opinion on a rigid interpretation, and defending it by claiming that "anybody would do the same". The problem, besides the logical fallacy of argumentum ad populum, is the assumption that everyone is as morally broken as you. The assumption that everyone would...
The only issue is this post's title "Skype violated its own privacy policy". There is nothing wrong with me violating my own privacy policy. It's my privacy policy. That isn't to say that there may be regional laws that either strengthen, or weaken, my privacy policy. But a privacy policy is not law. My privacy pol...
If a juror in that case i would certainly present that argument that a policy is a policy; and nobody would ever be guilty of violating their own policy. From this post, I can tell that you are either a teenager or have never stepped out into the world. Lets say we make a deal, I will pay you $100 for 100 roses. An...
even worse dude, you are just being anti MS because you are a linux boy. I've spent many years inside Windows, maintaining it for people. Even most of my family runs it, because Linux is just not (yet) for them. Are there things that I hate about MS and Windows? Sure, mostly their abuse of power (secure boot anyon...
Yes, that's the part that confuses people. The LED needs to be kept very cool, which means you need to move all the heat away from it to the outside of the bulb, usually with a heatsink. This makes the outside of the bulb feel very hot. However, what is also happening is that it makes sure the inside is about the same ...
So I had to replace three 12V lightbulbs in my kitchen. New bulbs + a small voltage converter would cost a bit, so I decided to go with LEDs. The total price (three 220V LED bulbs vs. three standard 12V bulbs and a converter) was almost the same, however, these LEDs have an expected lifetime of 35 000 hours, which is a...
OMG I actually have something to contribute! These are RLP (rugged linearized piezo) actuators! The piezo material disc inside expands and then contracts when current is applied with PWM (pulse width modulation) signal. The material expansion is proportional and very consistent. Although the displacement of the pie...
Ah yes, in the link blyan just posted is pretty much my entire post. >All of that said, the Daily Active User statistic should still give the company pause -- just as an abnormally high blood pressure reading means you should probably check in with your doctor, even if it is an outlier. Yes, it's an incomplete pictur...
I often hear this, so upvote to you. But I think you may be missing the point here. Some may use Instagram like this, sure, but many (most?) are part of networks of friends and relatives there. Remember that Instagram is one big social network for photography, not an individualized network where people post their d...
The article does NOT state that they lost any users. Only that active daily users were down 25%.
Touché! :) A gun magazine has no other use. A book about guns primary function is not to kill people, even if a printed book about guns is extreme and in this fairy tail scenario, suggested that killing people is a good thing, it still doesn't actually cause death directly, a reader had to do other things.
I was reading up about anti-missile laser weapon systems last night. It is completely fascinating how complex these systems are. The amount of thought that has gone into overcoming potential roadblocks is mind-boggling. One problem! >the motion of the HEL platform, motion of the target and movement of the air mas...
Three problems here. Loss of economies of scale. Deadweight loss due to loss of efficiency. Loss of competitive advantage with foreign competitors. Also, if we taxes on global sales the WTO would impose severe fines.
Information" and "culture" are just buzzwords designed to come off as high-minded and noble when [in reality]( what you're really talking about is the latest Hollywood movies, big label music, big publisher novels, and AAA games, all of which are more accurately described as "entertainment". So no, it's not "im...
I have only one upvote for you sir :( Also, anything I have ever pirated I never intended on paying for in the first place. For example, years before the walking dead became popular (hipsterfag) I downloaded and read the first 25 issues. I never would have went out and bout the comic because at the time I didnt read ...
XBLA games are written using XNA, which also has windows and windows phone support. Though the actual binaries that are on your console are not compatible, if Microsoft by some miracle decides to include XNA support (They have discontinued development for windows, and wp8 is the last WP is to support it) then only a re...
All the "leaks" point towards a system that is VERY similar to the PS4. 8 Core AMD jaguar CPU, significantly more ram, and a DX 11 class GPU. Emulating powerPC is pretty much impossible. The wii has a single core PPC CPU @ 700 Mhz and you already need a high end CPU to emulate that at reasonable speeds. There is no...
There are so many things wrong with this post, it hurts. One, things change when it's domestic. Our standing army will have some problems with fighting against fellow countrymen. It's easy when you're shooting at some brown dude with an AK wearing rags. It'll get harder when you're looking at someone you KNOW is a fe...
Shouldn't be. I can bet you won't get the full 1gb, but probably always above 800mb. It should be near symmetrical though due to the way they are deploying it to the homes. The reason for the horrible uploads on their other tiers is because of a DSL limitation. With fiber you have one fiber laid to the house and yo...
So it's ok to shoot the messenger? (if he's not a nice person of upstanding character I suppose). I reiterate. He disclosed the vulnerability. He was trying to help them (and add to his already overinflated ego). Sure he's an idiot and a troll but the facts speak for themselves. He disclosed the info to ATaT ...
Fuck this shit. Lived in Dallas for 5 years and I've taken a taxi 3 times. The first one I took home from a bar in Uptown, literally 2 miles from my place. The guy had a film over the meter that made all the numbers blurry, but I wasn't that hammered and could see the total of 7.20 when we got to our destination. Mothe...
Terrible customer service, charging as much as FioS for a third of the (advertised, not actual) speed, and data caps/bandwidth throttling. The last one really irks me because they said they didn't do it, but the last few days of every month I have crippled internet connectivity for no apparent reason. Secondly, thoug...
Here's the most recent benchmarks I could find at the moment.
Hot damn, Canadian_Infidel, you asked the right question at the right time. Despite my belief that the best place for an audio player is out of my sight, my curiosity was piqued by your question. Turns out that it is possible to get MilkDrop working in foobar2000, but it's a bit of a task and not for the faint of hea...
Hey there Tom. Good to see you and Justin are both around still. I'm a long time user of Winamp, former lurker in #mpeg3, and helped keep #gnutella alive and manually sharing peer IPs after AOL killed the peer server, and before the first clients were written. Winamp was the first mp3 app that could play without b...
Tons of them; I honestly don't know where to begin. Youtube-style instant preview of the video as you hover on the progress bar ? I'm not joking when I say that I'm still discovering new shit everywhere. What has impressed me the most, though, is PotPlayer's UI; I consider it a master-level class on how to pack a...
For what it's worth, this was expected for a year. Ars did a story on what went wrong for Winamp.
I would say it is similar, but not the same. One of the biggest differences is that the Government issuing a fiat currency also has the executive power and mission to enforce its acceptance "for all debts public and private." Because of that, you're guaranteed to be able to use it. Even in circumstances where said ...
I assumed you meant downsides to purchasing that were not cost. Most people consider the legal issue a downside when it comes to piracy. Bluray quality is NOT 5 gigs for a movie. That is laughably low for 1080p and i can almost guarantee that there are very noticeable artifacts and only has simple stereo audio. ...
I would argue that the newly formed interpretation of the nick name 'app' is best described as any piece of software that is distributed through a controlled, centralized marketplace. While I do understand your point of view, I think that categorizing the word as a design methodology is limiting - The classic idea ...
Well you didn't understand it then. Nevada is giving Tesla tax breaks, not a sum of cash. There is no deficit to make up. Only a loss in future revenues on very cheap land. This is going to be a massive boon for Reno in the long run. 6,500 jobs is only the tip of the iceberg. ["In exchange, the company must invest ...
Its true potential such as getting everyone taken advantage of once one person or a small group of persons hold any 1 whole/majority of a commodity that people need? Shipping/Railroads/Electricity/Water/Sewer/Telephone/Colleges would be on the perfect line of affordability for the amount of people needed to reach the m...
99.99% reliability isn't good enough. It is for me. That's one day every three years or so (?) I can't listen to Spotify. Oh well. It would also require both my cell service and my home internet going down at the same time. That would be frustrating for so many other reasons than that I couldn't access Spotify. >Po...
So, it's a stereo recording that changes panoramic settings based on where your head is positioned. That really isn't anything new - I notice it when my roommate plays COD and turns his character's head. Sound effects will be played at different delays and amplitudes between the left and right speakers on the TV. On...
The lobbyists get paid for trying to bribe the legislation they want into existence. If that fails (rarely), then the lobbyists get paid to wave their hands threateningly like some impotent mob boss (like this corporate whore is currently doing). If the target doesn't back down, then the lobbyists get paid to work ...
To all the people bitching about how bad SLC (and Utah in general) is, lets set the record straight with an honest pro's/con's list. Pro's: 9 (yep count them) ski resorts within one hour of SLC. Several of these are low key mom and pop places (Powder Mountain, Brighton), some are tourist mega-resorts (Deer Valley...
Unless you want to date someone who isn't a complete utter loon, that is... The claims and lifestyle mandates of Mormons are hardly materially different from what Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus make and practice if they accept their religion. Are Jews complete utter loons? Should people not live in...
Funny, I knew comcast/xfinity would come up. I know that they are not the most popular company (quite the opposite) but my last experience with a comcast install was stellar. The guy said his team has been so good at doing it that they were now self managed and handled all installs like mine. We went through every ...
The internet was created by 60-somethings after all: Tim Berners-Lee, Van Jacobson, et al. I myself, a 50-something computer programmer, understand the basics of TCP/IP, DNS, various mail protocols, SSL, etc. The vast majority of lawmakers, however, are lawyers and the legal profession is notoriously old fashioned. Co...
As a former DSL/Broadband worker , I'd like to know more about this situation. I used to work in a department that most companies don't have:install coordination . A common occurrence is that the connection to the CO is good, or to a junction, even up to where the house is but then things break down from there. Where...
No. It's like selling a sports car that's advertised as going up to 200mph. The problem here is the FCC. There are no regulations on using phrases that modify a claim. Ideally, the law would state that if an ad uses the phrase "up to," it also has to use the phrase "with a guaranteed minimum of."
Every side of this issue pisses me off. The telcos blather on about "sharing the costs," which is nothing short of insane when you realize they're just accusing popular websites of using the service they purchased from the telcos. The companies thusly accused are all against everyone else getting preferential tre...
Honest naive question here. I promise I'm not trolling by any means. I know about the warrantless, illegal wiretapping. It angers me, but what I can I do? What am I supposed to do besides write to my local government and merely hope they make a case in Washington? Been there. Done that. Got a nice form letter response ...
I will say this, I've been robbed online so many times it makes me want to puke. While I was making good money from my work I know for a fact that the people that stole from me (dozens and dozens) cleared well over $1,000,000 on my work. Now, they did steal it and use it for profit but it fucking sucks to make somethin...
I used to handle purchase orders for computer labs in public schools, and I also built computers for people privately (and definitely have enough experience to know how often things like power supplies inexplicably die). There is no doubt in my mind that defective product lines were (are?) sent off in bulk to schools, ...
Ya this is misleading, here's why (IAMA law student/anti law enforcement): So say your car is impounded because you are arrested for DUI. When your car is impounded the police are completely allowed to do an 'inventory search' and have always been allowed to do such a car search without a warrant or anything like tha...
I cannot think of any judge who would have a problem with it. A person is already under arrest for a crime, and in that circumstance search is allowed... it's typical the police will remove all items from your pockets when placing you under arrest, which is considered a search. There is no implication of privacy when...
Plain sight isn't the relevant exception here. It's SILA ( Moreover, the issue here isn't who is " defining " what constitutes new evidence (the interplay of new litigation and FRE 401 ( provide a steady stream of new pieces/types of evidence). The issue is whether a particular item of evidence is admissible pursua...
I priced it out: My $60, no contract plan which includes 500 voice, unlimited data, unlimited text, and free tethering would turn into $105 for 450 voice, 4 GB data, and unlimited text messaging with a 2 year contract. Sure I can save $20 if I want only 2 GB of data, but I use more than that. Oh and if want to keep tet...
We've been popping up to earth orbit for a while, a far cry from manned exploration of other planets, asteroids, and eventual colonization... Having a human presence in space, foraging pioneers isolated and alone, can inspire a sense of achievement and purpose amongst us all. Look at the effect of Apollo 11 and Apol...
I would agree with this article. Programming being procedural and relying on user input can't be multi-threaded. (or at least very little). Apps and Games are examples of this. Programs that shine with multiple processors would be encoders and rendering. People aren't using their mobile devices for CAD, Animation, ...