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One doesn't have to forsake capitalism in order to run a company based on (non-economic) principles. At the risk of getting burnt (no asbestos underwear on today) the Steve Jobs of olde had certain design principles to which he held Apple, often at the expense of higher dividends. But surely no one would claim he was...
I think we're still a few years away from having anything practical. There are economic problems that will keep darknets from growing significantly in the short term: anonymity adds overhead (economic cost to provide the service) anonymity encourages leeching money can't be taken out of the system (easily) wit...
Network Engineer that lives in China here. It's more then that. They actually do stateful manipulation of DNS. Just changing DNS servers won't help. Inside going out, they do quite a few things. They send random TCP connection resets to hosts inside of China. Especially for unblocked western video streaming sites. Th...
I wish the people attacking these Chinese websites understood more about censorship in China. It's not as big of a problem or attack on civil liberties as people make it out to be. From someone who has spent time in China and had intimate talk about this issue with Chinese people, it seems that the censorship in the ne...
Right for the wall of fire to be taken down, there would have to be a man on the inside working for the techies that mantain an repair the wall because they WILL have safeguards and systems that can only be used with proper authorization from INSIDE a government building. WE now transverse from script kiddes with LOIC ...
I have been scanning the net and reporting such things in my free time for years now. It all started when I was studying Psychology & Neuroscience and moderated a pretty busy Gaming Forum. I noticed that nude pictures were being posted and naturally deleted them. However, they kept reappearing and I wasn't always onl...
The other day I bought some green apples. When I got home I saw there was a red apple in the bag. I should have gone back to the supermarket and complained...but I allowed it to happen; knowing full well that others would suffer the same fate. OMG guys its like, totally the same as the Stanford prison experiment rig...
I paid a ridiculous amount of money for my iPhone 3GS when they first came out. I've had it 4 years, and it still amazes me. The longest I've ever owned a phone before that was 1 year, and that's because it was a company phone and I didn't have a choice. It was replaced 3 times in that year. I have replaced the screen ...
We live in an end-unit townhouse. I planted blueberries the first spring, and last year we got quite a few pints. My daughters caught onto the color thing. That being said, I put something in contrast to your story - and not in disregard. The one time I served on jury duty was for a petty theft (home business tha...
im sorry, you seem to have taken my statement as speculation: From the article: >GigaOM: It has to be asked: Is Google going to become an ISP? > >Ingersoll: We are not planning to roll out a nationwide ISP network. This is a test bed for innovation. This is a kick in the pants to ISPs. Google does not want to becom...
But actually a lot of potential uses for nanotubes would give potential for the nanotubes to be released into the air at some stage after the product is manufactured. Say you drilled into some nanotube based plastic for example. Loose asbestos in dust form is only part of the problem with asbestos - a lot of asbestos...
Gasoline has been a mainstay for about 50 years world wide and been in development for another ~75. Hydrogen and Nuclear both have a researched period of about 60 years and have never come close to being any sort of international energy standard.
I'm sorry but yes, we should tell them tough shit. These are huge expenses for food services to provide something to a very small portion of the school population. They need a whole separate kitchen to comply with kosher standards. You literally cannot let any utensils touch non kosher food. I frequent a kosher restaur...
Following a structured schedule of being in certain classes at certain times. I've had various jobs, and any decent paying job I've had has very little built in scheduling - The key is, did the work get done, by the deadline? If yes, awesome. If no, why the fuck not? - and did you communicate ahead of time that the p...
Australians, this is one case where one must opine with their pocket. Use Ubuntu, use Android, use anything that isn't Windows, wherever you can, whenever you can. If you have to use Windows for your job, don't pick Win8. Seriously, why pick it in the first place? What does it offer that Win7 can't give you?
um, thats out-right price. On most (~)$60 plans, the iPhone 5 is $6-7/month. 6-7*24= 144 - 168 for the handset. On the (~)$50 plans, it is approximately $10/month, which is $240 for the handset. The US sells iPhones for much cheaper by bundling them with flexible post-pay services...
Disclaimer: I'm not in any way involved with the nuclear industry. I'm an engineer, so I'm good at crunching numbers, but I can't vouch for the methods used to obtain the numbers. > Please give me the reasons that nuclear expansion is a good route to go down. Because unless the major disadvantages are somehow averted...
I think a Cyborg is someone wo replaces his own bodyparts because the replacements are more powerful than the original . Right now we only replace defect body parts with replacements that do a worse job than a healhy original body part would. That's prothetics, not cyborg. When people replace their perfectly h...
Clapping on the offbeats, 2 and 4, is how a lot of jazz (and other music) is accented. Since Treme focuses musically on N.O. Jazz and that character is a musician, his comment is really about how "square" or "straight" -- regarding rhythm -- people from oregon are.
As far as presenting information, I think they do that pretty good. But a lot of the tutorials(I've done about ~750 lessons over 80 days now) I've come across are plagued by any of these three things: Bad explanation on what you need to do. Lesson creator assumes prior knowledge on x, y, z. Bugged(The answe...
This is a very common misunderstanding. Prior to this decade nearly every movie ever made was shot on film, which has a much higher resolution than current Blu-rays. There are films from the 30s (like Wizard of Oz) that look incredible on the format. The recent remastered seasons of Star Trek: TNG are major improveme...
Kind of unrelated but I just stopped paying for Live after realizing I don't use it enough for it to be worth the monthly fee. Then I discovered that you have to pay for live to access netflix on top of what I already pay to netflix. I immediately said nope since that is about the only thing I would use it for and did ...
Dear Mr. Clapper and every little and big drone at the NSA. You suck as Americans. You may justify your actions by thinking you're keeping us safe, you are not. You are laying the ground work for a potential totalitarian surveillance/control state beyond pale, and in which Stalin would applaud. You are woodsman cho...
Well, fuck me sideways. US has Fiber, Japan has So-net, and the best thing I can get is this , unstable and my ISP's support consists of a bunch of untrained chimps that barely know how to fucking plug the issued "router" (Sagem reject) in.
Oh dude, don't get me started. In 2008 I called to cancel my services FOR March 28th on FEBRUARY 12th, so well over the 30 days needed. March 28th comes around, Bell came to install Fibe + TV + Phone, so obviously all Rogers services are disconnected at this point (should point out I live in a condo that has an agr...
Maybe we can hop off the PRISM karma train long enough to not be sensationalist via ambiguity, eh? There's nothing dark and sinister happening here. Amazon isn't helping the CIA determine if that copy of Fight Club that you just bought was part of some anti-government plot. They aren't serving up every click you ma...
My point was: you pointing out that 1 person you know learned it without pirating has zero bearing on whether or not the majority of people learn it from pirating.
You're completely missing the point. First of all, they can learn more about you and me by monitoring our internet, then by a camera in our living room. What do you do in your living room? You watch TV -- digital TV --, which uses the internet. So they know what you watch. What else do you do in your living room? Hav...
Regulations are not legislation. See Chevron v. NRDC. 2. As your article mentions, attorney-client privilege is an evidentiary principle, meaning it prohibits the admission of evidence gleaned from its violation, but it does not (in and of itself) pertain the actual gathering of the information. (pg. 1234.) 3. It als...
Wow! Fox News can afford to put lots of giant touchscreens in front of a camera! /s I'll call it like it is and shamelessly steal from the comments at the same time. They could do everything they're doing on those screens with a conventional newsroom. They’ve chosen this specific set-up because it evokes some hazy ...
You can't make any money of off a private road, that's why no one does it. It is just too expensive to buy up the land needed, and there are already interstates everywhere that major transit corridors are needed. You would be competing with the government which has the ability to take land with eminent domain. Ther...
Lets just take a moment and realize that they can already track us anyway. The black box that they will use will probably be to avoid having to pay the GPS companies or car companies get the information for the taxes. At first glance, this sounded terrible but this money will help give us improved roads. Although it ma...
When given an option between multiple ways of accomplishing the same task, government prefers the one that allows it to spy on you and control your life the maximum possible amount. I'd rather pay gas taxes than have a government black box in my car that monitors my every movement, thank you very much.
Why hate on driving? Because drivers dont fully pay the cost of accidents, transportation planning, road construction, road maintenance, opportunity cost in land usage, environmental impacts from hard top surfaces and emissions, and geopolitical instability due to consumption and reliance on oil.
Actually, it's exactly the "taxed for only the portions of the systems you use" that libertarians push for social programs. >Think about it - why should YOU (the person who doesn't drive very much), pay the same registration fee (tax) as the dude who drives 500 miles a day? You barely make use of the roads, and he's ...
There's a lot of hate here on reddit but it's not anywhere close to being a new idea, as someone who heavily follows transportation news it's something that's been a long time coming. It's been proposed several times at the state level, for instance.
Truck driver weighing in here. I can say with no uncertain amount of confidence if this happens ALL prices of ALL consumer goods will triple simply in transport costs. Name one thing in your house that got there by plane train or boat. Nothing. Nothing at all. Remember when dreidel went up and everyone freaked cause th...
You're comparing apples and oranges. The 9400 miles/year (15,200 KM) is the average per year for light vehicles across Canada. Average distance for medium trucks is 1/3rd more at around 20,400 KM/year, and heavy trucks put them both to shame; averaging 69,800 KM/year. So, for your Canadian figure, you're excluding ...
Bro I bench 220 and i have veins in my forearms bigger than your wimpy little arms. I have I'm a mod at r/broscience and I've forgotten more about lifting than you've ever known. I constantly fuck 9/10s and never call them again, cuz they arent worth my time. I'm the alpha that your girlfriend fantasizes about when you...
I got in a debate over email with a state representative on this issue a couple years ago. Obviously the better and simpler way is to raise the gas tax. Aside from the politics of it, the reason why he said they wouldn't do that is because it would unfairly tax gas guzzlers like pick-up trucks and SUVs more. My res...
I'm not sure how it necessarily benefits 'rich people' but I CAN tell you that the car's characteristics would be taken into account when the device is installed. Weight, pollutant load, # of axles, wheel width... etc. Those would then have adjustments applied against the tax to even it out. As for rural roads you co...
If nobody could speed, everyone's drive time from destinations would increase, making distance from destinations even more of a factor than today. Those who could afford it would move closer to work (usually in a city) and those who were able would telecommute. Each of these actions would directly decrease road usage a...
Actually, the primary goal is more offsetting the externalities than discouraging the overconsumption. You're right, the second sentence doesn't make any sense, they're are not a lot of convenient alternatives in North America at the moment. As I always say, the average Westerner doesn't want more efficient, if it do...
Not as much. In fact British television, especially audience viewing patterns, is very unique compared with most other countries. Perhaps the biggest thing that television and marketing companies know is that in the UK, there's still this strange old-fashioned pattern where most people tend to watch the same programmes...
TV is not dying, tv programming is dying. I cut the cord 5 years ago and havent looked back. Every time I do accidentally watch something two things pop out at me. 1) TV programming is complete shit these days. I can count the number of actually good and original TV shows on one hand. Even the news is a bunch of m...
I have two responses to this: Somewhere around the turn of the century I was surfing late at night in a university lab with my speakers turned up due to listening to music. Suddenly, one of my windows started blaring an ad for Chevy or Ford. Up until that point I had never thought about blocking ads. I first installe...
So I work in advertising and I kind of agree with Bill here. I happen to love some adverts, when they're clever, well executed and well planned - but I could not hate bad advertising more. I also think advertising agencies get a lot of shit for things that aren't always their fault. See T.V. Adverts especially are ve...
Anything that doesn't get in the way or autoplay. Reddit's ads are on the right side of the screen while just about everything important is on the left side of the screen. This is unintrusive because I don't need to look at them in order to use the website. A good example of intrusive ads is YouTube, if you use adb...
Gold has the value that you can make pretty things from it and people assign an exchange rate to it also (which is not guaranteed in any way), bitcoin has value in it's technology (which can never be uninvented) not it's exchange rate. Not only has bitcoin achieved world wide usage in a short period of time, it has al...
For those who haven't read the paper, the researchers used Google trend data related to the search term "MySpace" or "Facebook" and applied this data to a modified formula that predicts the spread of disease within a population. Thus, the study is predicting the rise and fall of people searching for these social networ...
OP was using Digg/Reddit as a metaphor. Correlation does not equal causation. Just because MySpace had a certain arc, doesn't mean it is in any way relevant to Facebook. You can tell just by looking at the data in the article, they are two completely different trajectories. Also, both Digg and MySpace had Reddit ...
I have no idea what your point is? A stance I took against an inactive twitter account being stolen has very few similarities, one of those few are the extreme hate you get for blaming the victim. To extrapolate that far and even imply my views are similar is idiotic. A victim of a crime CAN be making it easier to b...
This doesn't even have to be true. For example, I used to work for at&t wireless. We didn't really have a process of identification between other phone reps, so when we called we just identified ourself as rep, provided the same information the customer used to verify, and we were good. However, this information is v...
Honestly, this may go against popular opinion but the social engineer did a damn fine job in telling his target the how's of what he had done. Social Engineering is still one of the easiest ways to access personal information. Whether it be someone calling to pretend they're from corporate and asking for phone numbers...
I'm confused. Go daddy doesn't use the credit card number you have on file in your account settings to verify your information. They use the Credit Card number that was used to purchase the service. What you are describing is the equivalent to go daddy's customer protection being the following situation. You have ...
I downloaded Steam on the day it came out, so my Steam ID is only 5 digits long. I then played Counter Strike on a random server a few weeks later, and people on that server offered me up to $ 200 for my account, simply because it was only 5 digits long.
I blame the CEO for being a pig You seem to think being attracted to women makes one a pig? Or being attracted to scantily clad women? Or perhaps understanding that people are attracted to scantily clad women and using that knowledge to draw attention to a product, maybe that is the piggish thing in your mind. Why? ...
But you can get it off Facebook quite easily, make/buy a profile of a pretty good SO to the target, add the target's friends, figure out who they're close with, preferably the same gender as the target. Start talking to a close friend of theirs, and try to hint at you trying to get in the target's pants, of course thei...
When I had a US Cellular phone on my parents' account I lost my phone and wanted to switch back to my old phone. To do this I needed to tell them the last 4 of my mom's SSN, which I don't know. My mom had recently changed numbers, and I couldn't remember what her number was. I knew my sister's number, also on the ac...
We had something somewhat similar for the DSL market a while back which enabled a more diverse field of providers. However the FCC has long been a paper tiger with teeth made of rubber in addition to serious problems on the regulatory capture front. So, [this]( happened, and lots of publicity was purchased while the ...
It's really disturbing how few people appear to actually read the article. How can the subject say " Loses Selling License ", while the article states that; A) > an annulment of Mediabridge’s selling license for their routers on Amazon B) > As of now, the Medialink router still appears on Amazon, so you can buy ...
My first response was: Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't realize that Netflix had invented a way to accomplish onion routing through a tag-switched MPLS Internet backbone that only makes one routing decision at a PE router. I also didn't realize that Netflix has the power to bypass Verizon's QoS profiles that determine the conne...
In traditional network from a decade ago, Verizon would be only semi-correct. Now a days, hell no. Essentially, Netflix's service has to serve data to its customers as well as receive requests. They can set up or partner content delivery networks (CDN), which basically temporarily save the most used files (referred t...
God forbid you might have a nuanced view on this and actually understand why governments can help keep prices low in some places and inflate prices in others. The key issue is competition which as everyone knows is the cornerstone of free market economics. The problem in the US is that competition is much lower. A ...
proper version of net neutrality The idea that >there are no routers inspecting and prioritizing pkts is "proper" net neutrality is not accepted by any serious networking engineer I've ever talked to. QoS is going to be necessary as long as any part of your traffic ends up sharing a connection with someone else'...
Yes, users are basically always liable for what they post. The problem with that (from a practical POV) is that there are too many users and going after them makes no sense, is a huge waste of money, and is extremely unpopular. The providers (reddit, google, youtube, imgur) are not responsible, provided they comply...
No, not really. America and Europe are both heterogenous places for one. This may be generally true for the US compared to France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the low countries, Switzerland and Scandinavia, but if you compare the US to eastern or southern Europe we fair better. If you do it state by state Massachusett...
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies provide a trust less p2p system for consensus between peers. Once you understand and look past the idea of 'why it has value, why should I use it instead of credit cards' you come to understand that crypto block chains allow peers in a network to reach for consensus without needing p...
There is an amount of horrible misunderstanding by people. They use the words: > broadband companies should treat all Internet traffic equally carelessly. If that were the wording, it would be very bad. Even [The Oatmeal's comic on Net Neutrality]( mixes up two very different concepts: > all information must be...
Oh yes, they're completely stupid. I don't think they're just taking credit, I think they're the source of it. They promised outages on Christmas and it's been off and on all day, I've been following the Twitter replies from The Finest Squad. Then, Kim Dotcom, owner of Mega offered them 3000 vouchers for them to stop s...
Had this conversation with the owner the other day. He used to buy all the domain variations to protect the company name, now it is nearly impossible top top all of this off, many of the new TLD's are only being used to send spam since some of them cost pennies to register
This sounds cool but I think there is one (major) flaw in how they think. The article says that the lights follow where you look at (with a delayed smoothing). Human vision works more or less by reacting to moving objects in your field of view that causes you to focus on them. So rather than follow your vision this...
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It does not follow that simply because past stressors turned out "ok" by some definition; that has no bearing on current issues. There is evidence, in that there does appear to be seepage on the ocean floor as much as thirty or forty meters from the wellhead, meaning it is possible that this leak could become nea...
I'll add my 2 cents to this. Looking at the market broadly from historical perspective, pretty much any "G" terms are meaningless, including but not limited to "4G", "3G", "2.5G", "2G", and "1G". I bought my first cell phone at the end of 1997. It was a Nokia and my carrier was newly-created Sprint. Their biggest se...
Well, if it makes you feel better I read it all.
Mmmm sorry. Got carried away with the whole thing :( I did add "
Most people would throw mobile into the mix and call it broadband. Most people use the word broadband too loosely and assume mobile counts when we speak of America's broadband speed. This fits perfectly into the conversation, not just your comment, about slow 'broadband' speeds killing the national average, thus making...
Lame. I just moved to the sf bay area from brooklyn, and in BK I was paying $100/month to time warner for a 50/5 cable connection that only went down when we couldn't pay the bill and *always* hit 50/5 on speed tests. While we would have preferred a 25/25 (and cheaper) fios connection, because we do a ton of high-bandw...
Of course, if there is information that is in the public interest it shouldn't be suppressed. But this is self-censorship which is conceptually quite different. Mythbusters\Discovery could probably push ahead and do the episode but it would mean getting new advertisers or maybe even a new network along with throwing ...
In addition to that string of internet companies based in the US ..... ICANN = you can stop arguing about who is the world internet leader here, it's America. P.S. for those of you unfamiliar with the function of the American political system allow me to enlighten. It's a one step back two steps forward process. If an...
possibly anonymous" -sigh- That notion just gives credit to other notion that there is even such a group as 'anonymous' I'm so sick of shitty journalistic work attributing EVERYTHING to do with the word HACKING to "ANONYMOUS" Just because some autistic anti-social locked himself up in his room and lurks DigitalGangs...
Apple isn't to blame for MS's failure in the mobile space, they (Microsoft) are. No company IMO can rightfully blame another for their own failures. If you want to be successful release a product that people want. Windows Phone 7 is a decent product it's just way way late and now they are the underdog which isn't a pos...
the $200m figure would have to be a very very inaccurate figure Look at it from the hosting side. Lets say someone gets your email and submits an abuse report to complain about it. Someone has to read that email and forward it to the appropriate dept to deal with, in this case its me since my company hosts that ser...
Ok... here's a dramatic simplification, maybe an oversimplification, but it's worth a shot. Say there is someone walking by a PA speaker, and right as they pass in front of it you crank up the volume and shout, "HEY!". Subsequently they lose some hearing. That isn't illegal speech, that's malicious force with mal...
Yeah, sorry, you're completely correct, I was just trying to get my point across in the most concise way possible. When people say "China" they usually mean PRC, and when they say "Taiwan" they usually mean ROC, in addition to referring to those actual landmasses. OP said something along the lines of "China definitel...
Why does he look like the Alien from the Matrix Revolution?
Tell me again why it is Google's responsibility to defend your copyrights? To defend YOUR property? If I see someone rob you, it it my legal obligation to track them down? Is it my legal responsibility to do anything? No? If Google is doing all they legally are required to do then why is it their responsibility to do m...
because the other thread of this on r/videos the other day was all about Apple.
Because the internet is anonymous for everyone except those who are forced to use their real names. This results in an ecosystem where Real Name people are exposed to unlimited anonymous attacks without any capability for reprisal. Our society relies on deterrence via the threat of punishment- on the Internet there a...
Everyone's been suing everyone over regular patents. Nokia sued Apple, Apple sued Samsung, Google sued Apple, etc. This is generally stupid behavior, but it's something that basically all the tech giants have been doing for a while. If Apple successfully defended "slide to unlock" (I don't know if they did or didn'...
Just like Android? It doesn't make sense to develop android like you would develop Ubuntu or Fedora. From a feature standpoint, everyone would know what features you're working on, and would give other phone OS manufacturers a leg up. From a end user standpoint, you require a certain degree of reliability from your p...
I was using hyperbole. The government cannot seize whatever information it wants (at least within the provisions of CISPA), but rather cyber threat intelligence. My contention is not the stated purpose of the bill, but rather the lack of safeguards against abuse, as I mentioned before, but nonetheless, as I understan...
There's an irony and a beauty to the successor to the F-1 rocket being significantly influenced by the Russian design that was meant to beat it so many decades ago. A lot of the efficiency and power gains are from using the RD-180* designs that Pratt and Whitney has been working on with the Russians. Their use of in...
Its really not that bad at all. If you sign in as a dude using the lulu dude side of the app you can have your profile taken down. In addition the girls only get to answer a set of questions and pick from already generated hash tags. Based on that lulu spits out an automatic "review"
Apologies for the wall of text, but there is so much misguided hype around 3D printing. Most of the 3d printers used today area virtually the same hardware and materials that was being used 25 years ago, just much more accessible. Corporations have been using 3d printing for a very long time, the recent boom in popu...
Xbox music on the Windows Phone has been doing this for years. Press the search button from any app/menu/whatever, and the search screen immediately pops up. Hit the music symbol at the bottom, and it listens to the music. Then it automatically brings it up at the top of the screen, and you can tap it and it takes you ...
The BBC does just fine because it's government subsidized and everyone who has a TV is taxed in order to pay for it, even if they only watch say ITV and Sky. So it comes across as if you're saying that there should be an additional tax on internet and then give everyone free Hulu without commercials by using the BBC a...
That's what is referred to as "meta"data. Usually, it means details like call start/end and how long one lasts. Unfortunately, Snowden revealed it to be more than that, and it's obviously more than just wiretapping (thanks FISA, you useless asswipe), but also monitoring connections. Whether they're performing simple ne...
What's that coming over the hill, is it a lawsuit? Is it a lawsuiiiiit! What a tune.