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Dude.. Just so you know, that's exactly how your system works too. The most common visa for this sort of thing, the H1B, requires the applicant to have a US employer who is willing to sponsor the visa, needs to have a skill set that requires at least a bachelor's degree, the company needs to show that they tried hiring...
Comcast cut all analog channels from their plant a few years ago, similar to how over the air broadcast TV made the transition from analog to digital. In the same frequency space that 1 analog channel could be carried, 12 digital SD or 3 digital HD channels can be carried instead. This freed up space for more HD channe...
I HATE the music sales industry. I knew this would happen. the file -sharing became popularized because the old-heads in the industry were to not able/willing to modernize their industry.. CDs were a Fad. I was shocked that the industry thought charging $20 was still cool in the 2000s (considering lots of people had ...
fisker is entirely style over substance. just look at the engineering behind it. I mean the basic engineering. Tesla was committed to engineering a good car. Fisker has yet to be crash tested and i'm almost certain it hasn't been wind tunnel tested. the Karma does not look aerodynamic at all. Second, it's simpl...
Facebook and Google/YouTube feel very intrusive and I avoid them or block objects and try to anonymize my client. Go ahead, start searching for wedding-related stuff and find out what starts arriving in your real-world mailbox. (Great, I just added more to their database with that simple statement.)
back in the days when I was on 9gag (I didnt knew about all this stuff going on mkay?) I saw a post where they wanted to ddos reddit and 4chan and the comments were full of questions how to do this.
Ok, I'm going to preface this by saying the following: I work in computer security, and used to be a developer, so I know a thing or two about crypto in secure software - I've had experience designing cryptosystems, implementing crypto in applications, analysing schemes, and breaking them. However, I am not a cryptog...
Is this a valid form of protest? Just one day everyone just torched the computers looking for this shit and wreck their filters. There are quite a few things that worry me about this. First and the most scary is my apathy. I'm tired of caring. I'm tired of keeping myself informed and when you try and have a conve...
Not just planned. Coded. Completely coded. They had to have already had access to the complete source, the documentation, etc. and been working on it for at least months. As a software engineering manager for a mid-sized corporation, I can tell you there is absolutely no way in hell they could have just bought the...
American here, don't care. Sorry guys I know this fucks freedom but I just don't care. If anything I was sure surveillance was happening since I was at the age 0f 5. It reminds me of the time I asked my highschool politics teacher if he thought the government was listening to out phone calls(he was a cool teacher) and ...
Skype story time: I had Skype and never used it. I had auto updates off. When I was trying to solve some connection problems I discovered it was auto updating. It wasn't running and had not been run in weeks and had turned auto updates on, on it's own. So I deleted Skype. Months later I needed Skype for something...
Lets put things into perspective. The NSA doesn't care about you. I agree that it is disturbing that they could - but in reality - they do not give one shit about you or your porn. While there are many things in this world that are scary - the internet should be the least of your concerns. You should be more worri...
The most upsetting thing about this whole situation is the governments complete recklessness and lack of foresight when it comes to the internet. The internet is only 20 years old and is potentially perhaps the single greatest invention in the history of mankind; right now though use of the internet one has the potenti...
The only way to stop this is for citizens to elect officials who pledge to end it. When your elected officials are up for reelection, vote them out. Put in new, right-minded people who will ensure our privacy AND our security, not one over the other. If you like the party that's running things in your area and don't...
It's not that simple - people are complicated, and lots of people are exponentially more complicated. The following are some facts, some of which are related, but are always conflated by folks like the other commenters: 1) Corporations are there to make money. Don't fault them for that - it's their raison d'etre. ...
What's to stop them from lying to placate you? And I mean this of anybody (Rep, Dem, or otherwise). No matter how virtuous you may think a candidate is, they have no obligation to keep any promises they made once they are elected. >It's about forcing them to talk about the issues in the way you want or not showing up...
Oh please. Representative of who? Half our fucking countrymen don't even fucking vote. Much less than that vote for their reps. We have one of the lowest voter turnout rates of the western nations. I would bet that a high percentage of people have no idea who their reps are or even have a good grasp on how the gov...
The company likes to say they're on par with Nvidia's GeForce GT 650M discrete graphics chip, and while we can't definitively test that claim, [fortunately there are websites who do that for a living.](
I take solace in that you're so inept that you just grouped me in with an argument I'm not actually making because you smelled something similar to a position you disagree with. But you know, if your reading comprehension is that low, it unburdens me with having to respond since you won't get it anyways.
But, there is nothing to make but an ethical argument. Laws are practical implications of morals. Where is the argument that we need to change laws regarding music piracy just because it is popular (and at that, no statistics in your original argument—and at a later point, 70% of 18 - 29 year olds. But, you know, that'...
I'm not implying a morality, which is why I'm being short and irritated. Music piracy is immoral. You're grouping my statements with a whole area of thought that I don't subscribe to because of the thoughts you assume go along with my statement, and the extra things you think my argument implies. To engage the part t...
I'm all for SteamOS. But I just don't see how this is the solution... Someone will surely explain this to me but the way I see it, the problem with PC gaming is that a gaming PC is expensive and doesn't last long, that is because new hardware comes out all the time and games optimize for newest hardware (generally spea...
Nope, your describing the PC back in late 90s and early 2000s. The "Must upgrade PC every 2 years" is gone and dead for more than 6 years now. Maybe because games where always ported for Xbox360 and PS3, and they did not push the boundaries. The fact is that a $1000 PC back in 2007 can still play most of the games ...
proof its no better than Windows. No, it's not. Sure, there are going to be people who have problems using computers/software no matter what operating system you use, no matter what kernel is implemented. The thing about Windows is that it's incredibly messy. When a new Linux kernel is released Linus Torvalds and the...
Personally, I think SteamOS is promising in its streaming feature. I'd love to built a shitbox to run SteamOS and pop it on a TV in my living room. I don't do a ton of living room gaming (because my office chair and corner desk are awesome) but it could be fun for parties or just for a change of pace. Maybe i'll get mo...
Just playing devils advocate here, but are we really that shitty of people? We seriously can't turn off our phones for twenty minutes to listen to a safety briefing? I know the responce, "I've heard that briefing tons of times, herp de derp I wanna play candy crush," but really people, this is an important goddamn brie...
I wasn't aware that they were letting only some social networking sites through as opposed to others. Given reddit's reputation as an online catalyst and the countless number of trolls, I can see why people wouldn't view Reddit as a 100% positive site. They probably think Reddit gives people outlandish ideas or some ot...
That guy will never win. In order for Apple, Amazon, and CD Baby to get your stuff, you have to upload it to them or another placement service like TuneCore. Unless he can prove that some 3rd party uploaded the songs without his knowledge, there's no way he'll get anything from this. Add to that the fact that he said...
Alas, if this whole FISA-secret-courts thing has shown us anything, it's that many of our public servants aren't worth their salt. If you watch the excellent [PBS Frontline two part documentary series, United States of Secrets,]( you might get a different impression about our public servants. Many of our public serva...
Incorrect. The task being completed is inspection of data that replaces a humans bias and avoids a human seeing the real data. The issue isn't that the machine has logic created by a human to begin with but that privacy is protected because horny neckbeard NSA agent #3 can't read your gf's nude selfie emails to you. Th...
The problem with solar panels is that it doesn't work in all locations. I know you can stay battery storage, but that isn't a cheap or space efficient solution. If it was paired with electrical charging stations it would be more feasible. But dirt and the environment play a huge factor on it. I won't say that solar pan...
Electricity isn't as clean as people think it is. I know the cars would be clean. HOWEVER, you have to acknowledge that the electricity has to come from a source, and since most people would use charging stations, it means power plants. Resulting in more pollution from those plants. Hyrdo-generators can only create so ...
I tried for a long time to not use addblock plus, but some adds and websites ruin it for the rest of them. I don't want adds that pop up new windows, or try to trick me. I don't want obnoxious music playing from one of 50 adds that I can't locate. And then do I really want to risk clicking the in-add mute button? Or wi...
It's a pathetically dependent society we live in. People who expect that they shouldn't have to make decisions for themselves because "marketing companies are being unethical" by paying to create, develop, host, and maintain a website to no cost to the end user, but heaven forbid that site includes obnoxious and total...
I want to end this comment thread right here and laugh at you, but you should really understand that the "nothing to hide" stance on privacy issues is a very narrow one. Just because you think that you have nothing to hide does not mean that a case cannot be made against you if the circumstances are right. Chances ...
The thing is those programs are to important to rewrite. If the financial software on old languages goes down or messes up to much we have a big issue and sad ots not like you can stop all the banks from flowing money for an hour to make a new one work. The other thing is since they are constant use they are constant m...
Maybe full encryption for the data kept on the device. Google's business model necessetates that user information is stored on Google's servers If served with a warrant, Google will have to give up its data.
You can't exactly extrapolate this to corporations and all technologies because its only dealing with: data that is within the scope of a search warrant, which an individual is refusing to furnish (obstruction of justice), No. Don't throw a legal term in there like you're right. Refusing to surrender encryption ke...
This is an old argument, it's still in flux, but right now you most definitely would be guilty of obstruction of justice if you did not unencrypt data which is subject to a search warrant and to which you have the key. Your right against self-incrimination with regards to passwords extends only so far as the text of ...
There basically should be multiple groups who control each other with appropriate power (in paper, every democracy). So no-one can rise to the top. But in real life, that just leads to unneeded bureaucracy and corruption. Someone always wants to be the top chicken in the pecking order.
I think their argument is more along the lines of "this information cannot be used to identify you, and thus cannot be considered personal information." I work for AT&T, and while not Australian we deal with different types of "personal information" surrounding customer accounts. US law refers to Personally Identifyi...
Maybe this belongs more into /r/conspiracy, but I am doubtful that the authors would be something like anonymous or the usual script kiddies. This looks more like corporate warfare - something on the scale of Stuxnet but between corporations which have to grind an axe with each other. Why I do think this? It is unlik...
We have some questions/reservations about GDI’s numbers. All versions of OS X are lumped together under a single “OS X” line entry. However, all major Windows versions are given their own separate line entries. Take out that little bit of creative reporting, and Windows tops the list with 248 vulnerabilities. Even gi...
The source GFI article for this blogspam is terrible, and I'll save you some of the trouble as I've already picked it apart: > There any particular reason why this article omits Android? I find this hard to reconcile with the recent Alcatel study that stated Android devices make up almost 50% of infected devices, trail...
If someone was hacking into the network or was doing something "terroristic" on the internet, the US government can knock on the ISP's door and request all information on said person. This removes the whole purpose of the service which is: >"At the Hacknight conference in Malmö yesterday, Nipe further said that the...
You bring up some of the great counter-arguments to transition out of "current" society. The bottom-line on how we get the system to work in some incarnation is education. Until we can change the way our children learn and respect each other, then this really is just a model on "perfect" society, and unattainable. This...
He was downvoted because there is a very outspoken group of open source advocates that firmly believe that just because an application is open source, it is by definition "more secure" by virtue of the possibility of peer review, and that somehow outweighs giving people with malicious intentions direct access to the co...
On the 7% to 14% overcounting, it sounds like the plaintiff has never heard of protocol overhead. Delivering 50 kbytes of content to your browser takes more than 50 kbytes of transmission -- you send out a request (which counts) and every byte you send or received has to be wrapped in a packet that has a header which ...
I've always thought that the primary issue preventing the average layperson from operating a private flying vehicle is that it requires so much more training to safely fly than it does to drive. Not to mention that the freedom of movement allowed would result in a mass of crowded skies and collisions. These issues ...
I thought part of IT's job was to facilitate other's productivity. Having users screw around with poorly written time sheets for thirty minutes a week is a sign that you're doing it wrong. Have you actually done an analysis of how long users spend doing tasks on your intranet? Work is a place for work, not making ex...
Here are the things nearly every single user expects them to do: Print right out of the box (which they almost kind-of-sort-of do but with so many restrictions and rules it may as well not count) Microsoft Excel. Numbers does not count as a serious spreadsheet... it's not a viable solution, doesn't import compli...
Fucking thank you. I got blasted on some other sub for saying the same exact thing. The sad thing is that people will read this and feel even more justified. What a society we live in. Piracy isn't wrong because it is slamming profits. It's wrong because it's steeeeealing! I do my fair share of downloading, but I don...
This makes it possible for massive 60TB (terabyte) hard drives to arrive within the next decade. 500GB/month or smaller limit for most US Internet Service Providers. Even less for Canadian. 2 months per TB. That would take a decade to fill the hard drive without going over the ISP limit, assuming you go at maximum ba...
You read the law wrong. The part you quoted is about limiting liability of websites if they have to put something up again which they took down previously. What you bolded specifically says "ceases disabling access following receipt of the counter notice" Counter notice? Cessation of disabling access? To cease to d...
That part about exponentially increasing the number of possible states based on number of qubits: that's true for standard computers as well. Every bit of information has two possible states (0 or 1, on or off, etc.), so if you have n bits of usable space on a standard computer, then 2^n states are possible.
Your entiere point boils down to a tautology that reading something somebody else wrote without paying them the price they ask is wrong because it is." No, I didnt say anything like that and you are simply twisting my words to serve your argument. I addressed why I believe piracy is explicitly immoral when I stated "...
I don't pirate because I don't want to pay. I pirate because I can't get the content legally in a convenient and cost effective manner. Let me pay $10 a month for BBC iPlayer even though I'm not in the US and I won't pirate Top Gear. Let me pay $15 a month for HBO Go without paying $100 a month for cable and I won't pi...
So, your point is check more brick and mortar? Here's my answer: No. Best Buy is AWFUL. I just had a ridiculous experience two days ago. I was looking for a music DVD for my mother. I checked online and found that they had it at the store close to me. I called, and they confirmed four copies. I arrive, and I c...
Paragraph 1: Of course you can argue that copying the information a company has produced without their consent (which they would give after payment) is not unethical. That's exactly what I'm doing and all pirates who bother to justify their actions do. And obviously when you're giving "exploiting those companies [by no...
That is interesting. I suspect they'd make it exceedingly difficult to return though. We didn't think to check the EUA for legal ammo, but I once had a friend attempt to return a game (Bioshock) to Wal-Mart because he had no Internet connection at the time, and Bioshock required online activation. Argued with them for ...
The Movie industry needs more competition. The reason gaming has done so well is because there are so many markets to game from. The second people start making movies and stuff on terms of quality with large theaters with more accessibility, popularity, and cheaper costs, the second large movie producers will have to...
And I don't think it's actually all that bad when people die doing something they know to be incredibly dangerous. NASA's failing, in fact, was not that they had failed to make the Shuttle safe, but that they insisted it was safe despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This broke the chain of informed cons...
Nowhere in the Google ToS does it say that they claim ownership of your uploads. That's what the Skydrive/Dropbox ToS explicitly warn against. Instead, it says that they claim a license to: Use: Ambiguous. It probably means, in this context, to "access" your files. This is obviously required for uploading thing...
Okay, so I never thought that this was actually possible, but when I was younger I once spent months feeling utterly confused by the idea of time zones. I asked dozens of people how it was that the clocks didn't just keep going backwards, and nobody could give me a satisfactory answer. The day I found out about the i...
I remember the day one of my professors remarked, offhandedly, that you should view any new law/reg as tilting the playing field towards a competitor, who most likely is a donor. The corollary being there's a monetary benefit to someone for any change in the law. Could be kickbacks, could be a super-successful lobby...
If only there were a way to hold Clear to the fire on this one. I'm paying for 3mb down and 1 up. This is a good day. it gets down to .1 down and .2 up.
If I may - part of the reason HFR looks odd is that the shutter angle (read: time the image is exposed for) isn't big enough yet. Say you're shooting at 60FPS, you'd think that the image is exposed for 1/60th of a second. The reality is that due to the fact that the sensor needs to be read off, blanked, and primed for ...
Your entire monitor is [0.201 m^2]( , and it has [2073600]( pixels. That means each pixel has a width of just over [0.3 mm]( Compare that to about [0.08 mm]( for the Nexus 10.
I was a hardcore Windows fanboy for the longest time, but once I got to College and started working for the "face of IT" on campus (aka the Help Desk) and got exposed to Macs, my attitude changed. The pretentious people annoy the crap out of me, because I see just as many Mac coming to the desk for help as I do Windows...
They typically are... the issue is that to a lot of us, 16:10 is simply superior . I don't use my monitor primarily for movies; that's what the TV is for, and it's 16:9. Especially in video games where it's not at all uncommon for the bottom and top bars to be occupied by UI components, that extra 120px makes a world ...
The height is fixed while changing the width actually shows more of the battlefield... [as can be seen here.]( Discussion about the optimal aspect ratio [here on Teamliquid](
Dots Per Inch (DPI) is a measure of how many pixels (dots) a device can cram into an inch of space. Here are some common DPI values: 60 DPI: Dot Matrix Printer (Epson MX-80, circa 1980) 72 DPI: Apple Macintosh (circa 1992) 96 DPI: CGA Monitor (circa 1980) 100 DPI: Modern Computer Monitor (circa 2012) 220 D...
So something I have never understood about the aussie economy. Mostly I have noticed through video game prices how expensive things can become in Austrailia. What I'm curious of, is does the Australian economy have a healthy currency that allows the common lower middle class to middle class to be able to afford these t...
It's because American-based pharmaceutical companies need to recuperate the R&D costs (which take years and millions of dollars to bring a drug to market.) The development, trial phases, etc, all require an initial investment that has to be made back later. It's like putting $100 in and hoping your drug ends up being...
It's a lot but it's pretty standard if you live in one of the big three cities i.e. Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. The price of living closer to the cities are insane and public transport is generally awful so living further away from the city is hard if you don't drive which most young people don't because it takes ye...
I came to say this. In 2001, it was AUS$2 to the US$1. [It was even reflected in lyrics by Ben Folds at the time.]( Now it's at parity. Some of the prices have adjusted, but it's a slow process. The basic Subway footlong sandwich in America is $5. In Australia, it's $7. So a REALLY hungry Aussie that wanted to buy ...
There are increased costs of customer support, legal advice, etc. that are added by selling in another country that need to be recouped by charging a premium price, especially if the market is barely large enough to be worth the bother.
Oh god, your holier than thou rhetoric is painful. Also, your line about the "corruptive nature of capitalism" exposes your bias. Stop. Just stop. I bet you work for one of those multi-national nameless, faceless companies, in which case you have absolutely no frame of reference here regarding actual consequences ...
i have Photoshop (CS, then CS2, then CS3, then CS5). i like Photoshop. i prefer Photoshop. i use Photoshop. But Photoshop is awful. It has an awful, awful interface, full of undocumented features, hidden keystrokes, secret places to click to accomplish a goal. Learning Photoshop was the most god awful experience; not...
At this point, its toothless, but now the government can make new laws that "enforce" the old toothless ones. Kind of like the DMCA; technically, the DMCA didn't say anything new, it just took the older copyright laws (common and statuary), and said "if its digital, extra penalties! And that "fair use" stuff you guys ...
The entire problem is that the industry is based upon advertising impressions for commercials. Cable companies structure their entire contract portfolios around eye ball impressions based on channel location. There is a reason the "big" networks all exist in the actual tiered services - as those are the most widely vie...
I fly rc helis all the time. I even have a small 450 sized electric heli. Those fucking rotor blades spin at well over 2300 rpm (I upgraded the shit out of my trex), and weigh about .2 kilos including the head assembly. Not to mention that I have a dfc setup which essentially makes the blade holders totally unable to...
In any monopoly there are usually large barriers to entry, whether it be government intervention or large start up fees. Because of those barriers to entry there are high economic gains being made by these companies. Much higher end of year profits than in any other industry. Economic profits usually tend to always ...
Misleading title. SpaceX is going for a five year lease of the launch pad, Blue Origin submits a proposal for the pad to be shared, NASA says no. Blue Origin complains, NASA says no again, and SpaceX says that while they're leasing the pad they'll let other companies use it. Musk says that Blue Origin hasn't done a sub...
Let me hit you with some knowledge here. There's a difference between sell-side (the financial analysts that are "scared") and buy-side. Just because sell-side analysts 'are concerned about competition and margins' doesn't mean they have a monetary interest in the stock. Further, their job is to analyze a company, good...
The short story is that in the eyes of the law, digital voice is not plain old telephone service (POTS) and thus not subject to common carrier rules. The FCC way back when ruled that broadband providers were not telephony provider but we're content providers thus not subject to common carriage rules.
It's our ISPs. [Transit Providers]( such as Cogent and L3 already charge large-scale content providers such as Google to use their networks, just like they also charge Comcast, Time Warner, etc. This is all fine and dandy. The issue here is that our ISPs (Access providers) to be able to do the same. With practi...
I'm a forced Time Warner customer. I was not pleased when I heard about this. I used to say, "well at least it's not comcast". Well, shit. I just don't understand why ISPs just hate their customers! I feel like they are a drug dealer. They know we're all hooked, we need it. So they say fuck it. Let's put the sc...
All true. I work for a cable company (not one of the big ones, a smaller regional company) and there are definitely times when the caller is sure they know what the issue is. I get "It must be an outside problem" all the time. Right before I have them reboot their router, which apparently magically repairs the cable ...
When I lived in Rochester, NY I had time Warner, biggest pile of shit ever. Services were slow, and outages were frequent. Couple that with the fact that every time I received a bill from them it felt like I was getting fist fucked by someone with a toaster duck taped to their hand. Now that I'm in Philadelphia, ...
Telecom worker here. Shit breaks. Sometimes shit breaks while other shit is already broken. Sometimes shit breaks in a way that nobody has ever seen before. Fucking networks are complex as fuck.
Ninja edit: replied to wrong comment. Sorry, but I typed this on my phone so it's gonna stay. It's what the teachers learned on, it's the system they know. Teachers don't want to learn new shit, add more to their load learning and re - writing their syllabus to include new instructions for other calculators. It's ...
It's what the teachers learned on, it's the system they know. Teachers don't want to learn new shit, add more to their load learning and re - writing their syllabus to include new instructions for other calculators. It's the same reason many stores still use pos systems (point of sale, but they are pieces of shit to...
Two things: that video actually address a different a different conspiracy theory about shadows and lighting than the one nvidia addressed. Also, a 3D simulation in no way discredits, attempts to discredit, or claims to be more credible than any other examinations of the reality of the moon landing. You seem to be c...
how the fuck does a computer simulation prove anything? It's not proving anything by itself, but adds weight to scientific proof. >They aren't physical. They follow their coding, even if it goes against how things work in reality. Well, yes. That is basically foundation of all video games. That is why when enviro...
Do you honestly think these people are going to change their minds? No matter how much evidence you throw at them, they will still deny it. You could fly them to the moon and shove their face in front of the Lander's base, and they would say NASA planted it there years after 1969. You see, cranks and crackpots don...
Indeed you're partially right however I'm not saying that these theoretical concepts like string theory and the multiverse have been proven. Not even remotely. What I'm saying is they are based in reality and have mathematical basis. That's it. There is no experimental or empirical evidence that they (string theory...
Okay -- this is a big part of what I do for a living: what they're talking about is information disposition . Most well-run businesses do this, with the usual reasoning being that as information gets older, it has less bearing on current business, and is more likely to be a source of liability in future litigation. ...
I'd like to think it was her altruistic nature, but I suspect it might have something more to do with the many high-profile constituents who make lots of money in the email/data archiving business. Retaining email is actually really freaking expensive. A cost of $1,000/year/user isn't out of the ballpark, and the won...
I would guess that the data is compressed, but I also suspect that the size of data we've used in the calculations is somewhat low, so probably a wash, overall. Imho, the main challenge to long term archiving of electronic records is the changing format of storage media. In order for the information to be readable, ...