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I was also given a Trek themed DRM nightmare for Christmas in the shape of [this]( [thing]( A Starfleet insignia shaped 4GB USB drive with a digital copy of the film on it. I had to install the latest DivX and sign up to a DivX account to play it. That was a bit of a pain in the arse, but I did it (it wouldn’t play i...
Telling reddit that DRM doesn't work is kind of like walking into a bar and asking if anyone there drinks alcohol... Preaching to the choir, brother. But yes, DRM only really hurts legitimate customers. My last example is SPORE. I bought it, but had to wait a week or so before it would be shipped (don't recall the...
It depends, you need a certain mass of people who are subscribing to pay the bills. If you have a smaller market, like a subscription only news site, then that cuts your advertising choices, and can potentially eliminate that source of revenue. As you are probably aware, newspapers used to generate most of their rev...
Let's say that we have a housing test and the test consists of the house having to withstand a car being dropped through the living room roof from a transport helicopter. It's something almost no one will ever actually experience, outside of purposely doing it, but it's the test none-the-less. Now, because we want to...
Keep in mind, too, this kind of incident does NOT require the Internets to judge or police. The various payment card associations (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX, JCB, etc.) already possess the tools necessary to detect this kind of problem: they perform statistical analysis on the sales and chargeback data they h...
Version numbers don't mean anything... As true as this is, it's unfortunate that many typical consumers don't understand this and just see IE9, Chrome 8 and Firefox 4 and think, "IE must be the best because it has the highest version number." On a similar note, It would be interesting to see how the typical consum...
Kurzweil also makes the assumption that the brain's data can be dumped cleanly into a digital simulation. Much of the uniqueness of brains is a developmentally generated physical feature. It's not just a raw processing algorithm, where increased CPU clock speed = higher intelligence. The neurons are grown into each oth...
Shitty play for Nokia, but brilliant for Microsoft. Nokia completely loses out because in the realm of smartphones, they are now just another cell phone manufacturer like Motorola/HTC. Android and iOS are gaining huge traction and being another WP7 handset make (along with LG, Samsung, etc.) won't help their bottom l...
In iOS 4.0 (prior to the patch that forced passwords), I was able to purchase Mighty Eagle inside Angry Birds without a password. I was prompted, then switched out of the app by selecting another app in the "now running" list, switched back to an error dialog. Purchase still went through and I was charged $0.99. Had...
But.. it says you have to input a password before you can buy anything. ಠ_ಠ After my mom found my idiotic little brother's zip disk full of porn (which he kept unlabeled in his underwear drawer) my dad locked down our AOL. It took me about a day to figure out how to install a keylogger, get the password for the my ...
In another post I was getting smacked by a guy because I thought of 1960s and 1970s as a Golden Era of sorts. One of his arguments was double-digit inflation not being something he wanted to experience. My parents bought and eventually paid off their house in that economy while working at low paying factory jobs. If...
Similar, but not quite. Based on your unwillingness or inability to provide any evidence to support your overwork and abuse claim, you have no credibility to attack. I speculated on your qualification and experience to make the statement hoping to draw something out. After all this... All I got was a lousy logic f...
Basically, whenever you change the value of a bit (from 0 to 1), a small but none zero amount of heat energy is produced. In computer chips at the moment, the major source of heat is resistance from the wires, and this "Landauer Energy" can be ignored when it comes to calculating the heat output of the device. Howe...
No corroborating evidence? Two major news outlets were reporting it, seemingly independently. What corroborating evidence would you have needed? The court documents? My point is that people giving reddit as a whole shit for this instance of gullibility are being disingenuous to its self-correcting nature and the aw...
This is a cute story and all. Really though... the idea of using a toothbrush to clean filings out of a grove is not that impressive. I hear spacewalks are really crazy. I hear they are super dangerous. One mistake and you could die. That's pretty intense... I used an emery board to fix a broken car. My dad once ...
Nothing funny I'm afraid, but quite a few tend to say that they won't be liable for any costs even if it is completely their fault. I don't know about US law, but in Australia you can't contract out of some quite stringent consumer laws. So a lot of the time they put these terms in to scare normal people. Those who und...
I think there's quite a bit of misunderstanding around here (mostly due to the linked article not being good enough) on what exactly Pono is, and why Neil Young is pushing it. Two things - 1) It isn't about file compression . At least not entirely. Neil Young isn't just unhappy with MP3s, he (and all audiophiles...
I up voted you because you added to the conversation, however the original book has the zeroth law (never harm humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm) was a good thing, mostly. By the time this law had spawned itself in the robots minds, the robots were huge ass computers controlling every aspec...
Have you actually read the article ? This is not about banning robots that are capable of lethal force. This is about making sure that humans are always in the loop when the robot's decision might involve the use of lethal force. There are currently dozens of semi-autonomous pieces of machinery equipped with guns hov...
I don't think you really grasped what's being discussed here. It's not a discussion about robots designed to be weapons but rather a discussion about robots that can freely roam around killing soldiers and/or civilians without having to be triggered by a human. Automated killing machines. Imagine if you took land mines...
most money is made with servers, server products (exchange, MS SQL etc..) and with drivers, you want your driver in windows on DVD? well better pay a shitload of money. Next step will be only "verified" drivers will be installable on Windows PCs. So they are allready moving away from "customer" payment to "producer" pa...
If you don't see the error in your analogy, they're doing exactly that: They create more EFFICIENT engines, so you can reap better power with the same fuel economy. If you wanted to make 400hp on an old 350, you weren't getting much more than 10 miles per gallon, but you can get way more than that with the new LS serie...
Wow... I was thinking "that was fast" because it feels like h.264 just came out and I remember when it started making digital video "good." But actually h.264 is about 10 years old now. h.263 was finished in 1995, so h.264 actually had a much longer "life" and was significantly more useful. All h.263 ever did was ...
I was actually thinking specifically about them when I mentioned I was impressed sometimes lol. Though just today I watched his 720p rip of Jackie Brown (700MB) and while almost all of the movie was very good quality, the few scenes in darkness were very shitty. That's one of the problems with the super-small approac...
He swindled investors by manipulating LetsBuyIt.com stock prices by releasing a misleading press release, and then cashing out once the effects of that press release had driven up the value of his stocks.
Corey Doctorow also has a great book on copyright called "Content" - available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license - I think the main conflict here is remuneration for an incorporeal product. Traditionally it's been the medium that stores the IP that is purchased and sold ...
Regardless of whether you agree that is a dick move, you seem to be unreasonably angry about it. Do you need a hug or something? You have reached a deeper level of douche-baggery here. At first it was "hey everyone, look how brave I am, I'm going to call this public persona that I am jealous of a douchebag, and then ...
It's also possible that they didn't control for bias at all- it could be that they simply failed to include language that they consider normal but people in other regions would consider to be hate speech; hate speech is a very subjective term after all, and is largely based on perception. For example it is possible f...
As a side note, the article isn't (purposefully) clear on something : Amazon didn't hire these workers directly - they go through specialized companies which hire them from other countries, bring them in Germany, offer them living quarters and pay their salaries. Because the workforce is very seasonal it doesn't make...
It's not as if microsoft exactly has a choice-due process doesn't exist for corporations. This data is metadata, analogous to the addresses on a post card. It's the data they use to serve up your data, not your actual data. Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. vs Walling, Wage and Hour Administrator established the judiciar...
Yeah I caught wind of that in the "People you may know" section included an ex girlfriend that was on the other side of the country and never even went to any of my schools, also my kids soccer coach who constantly sends out emails to me, but both of these people had nothing in common with my professional life. This ...
Amazon doesn't need to hack your email or your credit card- they have a virtual profile of you that has a record of everything you've ever looked at, clicked on, hovered over. How long you stay on various product pages, what user reviews you read vs those you dismiss easily. All of this gets added into a virtual you ...
Q: How many Tesla automobile fires have been reported since the company was founded in 2003? A: 2 Q: How many automobile fires (with internal combustion engines) have been reported in the US, on average, per year between 2006 and 2010? A: 152,300 Q: How many of the Tesla passengers were killed or injured in these ...
sigh read the comments above you and do some research,
sigh read the comments above you and do some research,
sigh read the comments above you and do some research,
sigh read the comments above you and do some research,
you have to at least admit that the RBMK design was kinda shitty, especially the eps-5 button causing a power surge from the graphite tipping on the control rods,the fact that it was dangerous at low power output and the massive positive void coefficient that made moderating the fission near-impossible. When combined w...
I was a living adult during both, and have worked closely with (and at times for) the nuclear power industry in my career. I'm guessing there are a number of reasons people are more freaked out about Fukushima. Japan is more 'first-world' than Chernobyl; "out of sight, out of mind" and a first-world population being ...
There is a whole article about this even at wikipedia. With valid citation about that there is animals and farms still being banned from consumption even at britain. Also there is a huge politic and informatic trauma of chernobyl. Fukushima was intentionally triggered catastroph. Yet chernobyl was a case of accident....
And I stand by google on this, Apple just keeps releasing things I just either don't like or hate. All service functions suck on my iPhone 5s, pictures are separated by location and time. I can't post anything without somebody knowing exactly when, and where it happened. Cannot be turned off. Glitchy service, with up...
People in the USA tend to think Volvos are for rich people and they have a (perhaps not entirely) undeserved reputation for being driven very very slowly by people not in any sort of hurry. A lot of people have therefore assumed that Volvos are incapable of going fast because many of their owners seem to be complete...
Its propably more like Apple or common sense. Theres nothing new here, you could connect your phones via cable or bluetooth to your cars stereo for years. There were differences between cars, yes, but most cars that support bluetooth easily manage to read out your phone book and show alll the entrys on a display. A...
But what usb- it's incredibly unlike that this offers an MTP or mass-storage interface since Apple goes out of its way to make itunes and its phones incompatible with MTP on PC platforms. This being the case there may be a USB connector on the dash but it will be worthless. You won't be able to use anything but an ip...
I used to work in the auto industry. Automakers wanted iPhone integration like this for a long time, but Apple refused, saying that installed dash screens and other hardware and software vary so much from car to car that it wouldn't deliver a consistent customer experience and potentially alter the public's opinion of ...
So tell me Apple, what the fuck is revolutionary about this this time, huh? I see nothing special, this is just misleading to all the tech noobs out there (aka Apple's core demographic). I don't see them doing that. The very first sentence to introduce you to CarPlay is "Available on select new cars in 2014, CarPlay ...
He's a socialist! Get him! But seriously, I'm Aussie and you Danes plus many other places like Norway really have your shit together when it comes to this stuff. The worst part is that everything you talk about makes perfect sense and is demonstrably working well, yet people scream bloody murder about it. I under...
Somewhere between the incredibly snarky and condescending tone of this article it was completely lost that BlackBerry got a new CEO and arguably hasn't really done anything really questionable since. I dare say that John Chen has been a really level-headed leader who appears to be working hard to turn the company aroun...
Contributions to the tech community can be made in many ways, even on GitHub. The article seems to focus almost exclusively on [putting projects you have created into a new GitHub repo.] Example: > So having a GitHub where you can post projects outside of work is essential. With that said, don’t be afraid to post u...
Well when you're commenting on the Internet, I'm going to assume you have the means to do your own research. I'm none too interested in the general debate, so I won't invest too much time in research for someone else. However, I didn't claim it was a good source. All I claimed was it is a source. It took me five second...
If I'm selling watermelons, and you come up to my watermelon stand, grab a melon, and run away, you've just robbed me. I've lost a lot of money. Why? Because first of all, I paid to get the watermelon from a farmer. Maybe I paid 90 cents a melon and I'm selling them for a dollar, so I'm only making 10 cents of profit o...
Saw an interview with that Rothschild offspring and Marks sister Randi Zuckerberg back when she was still the Marketing director for FB. She claimed that people are more truthful in their comments when they use their real names. I say no, it is the exact opposite. I have had such a bad time on bookface because of cal...
I can understand that nearly everyone would think this is a bullshit move by Panasonic to force you to use their batteries. But, I have to back this move up for several reasons: When it comes to batteries, the quality of the materials used for the anodes and cathodes is of the highest importance. Let's talk about l...
Your point might be valid in some cases. It is absolutely not for used hardware. For instance, right now I am using a 2002 Nikon D1x, purchased for $200, with a 3rd party battery for $25. It performs just fine . Mind you, the original price of the camera was $6999, so original battery still costs over $100. Now ...
iTunes and Netflix has indeed reduced piracy. One of the biggest problems, however, is that their content is not available everywhere in the world. Thus, piracy continues at a strong pace. Additionally, a caveat to having users adopt services like iTunes or Netflix is that the price must be reasonable. Consumers want...
This is from the email he sent my dad letting him know it was on the way: >Headphone amplifier has been improved in many ways. It is more powerful now, as I took out the volume limiter I originally placed in it. It's still a good headphone amp, but realize that if you have phones on and start your source material wit...
Sounds good. Except your responsible for whatever shit passes through your relay already. This would actually make you have to install extra IP logging functionality, undermining the point of tor in the first place. It is a service you would be providing after all. Imagine TOR is an armored car with tented windows. ...
Make sure not to use aluminum foil. I'm pretty sure that stuff was invented just to confuse people into using the wrong stuff.
It's also impossible to search for things like 'How to do $x without $y', the results are often about 'How to do $x /with/ $y'. That's after searching for 'How to do $x', with the same results of course. So I use the - operator, but the results become irrelevant again because many relevant pages would mention the $y me...
I'm not American so I'm not sure I completely understand the FCC etc, but from what I'm understanding the
So what's the
You should learn the laws dude, cable is exempt from it. Radio and OTA broadcasters are not due to the accessibility of the medium. This finding doesn't allow true freedom but knocks down another facade used by the FCC to scare broadcasters on so called obscenities that are poorly defined and rather subjective.
Let's boil this article down to its thesis: FIRST SENTENCE >In the case Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., et al. the highest court in the land refused to assess the constitutionality of U.S. federal law that prohibits broadcasted obscenities. Correct. As a little digging i...
Indeed. I live in Montréal and the best bang I can get for my bucks is with TekSavvy. For about 70CAD monthly (69.15 USD) I have a 30mbps down/2mbps up, unlimited bandwidth. And it's not available elsewhere in Québec. Vidéotron, the main ISP with Bell, offers the same thing for the same price, only with limited monthly...
NZ has pretty good speeds overall, it's just price/caps which isn't so great. ... but for a bit of fun, let's try doing what the article is about: Phone, Internet, and TV from the same provider . This is a bit unusual since most people in NZ have separate ISP (possibly phone from them) and pay TV is always from SK...
Hi, let me introduce you to the time-lost concept of "savings" and "living within your means". I also have a side-job doing contract work. I could go without a job for years without a sweat if I needed to. Furthermore, I'm actually pretty employable, so I simply don't have to put up with shit like that.
Legally speaking (as in, by the book law), filesharing in Portugal was considered illegal, but on murky grounds, because the law as stated is ambiguous on whether it refers exclusively to commercial copyright infringement or also private/personal (non-commercial). The punishment, again, by the books, ranges to two ye...
I've explained here:
About that...]( Top 10 most visited sites globally: Google Facebook Youtube Yahoo Baidu Wikipedia Windows Live Amazon QQ Twitter 8/10 websites are "located" in the us. If you look at the top 25 sites, only 5 are from non-US companies. And then there are all the American porn sites too. So it...
consider the fact that the country is surrounded by oceans that are thousands of kilometers wide on both its east and west side. Once you are that far away from land, there's no way to gather a significant troops for a land invasion on a country, let alone the United States. The US has the world's most advanced def...
I'm in Texas now bromeo! I've lived here almost all my life. The jist of my awkwardly worded reply, was: Fake insult for comedic effect, followed by pointing out that most people in Texas aren't really very closed-minded. There are pockets of asshats, and scattered douchebags, but the largest concentration is in our st...
Sure, we can do more. That doesn't mean this vote and this wording of the resolution isn't wholly positive though.
I'm out of SC nowdays. Is a cheese ling/drone rush still as aggravating as what it used to be on bronze level play?
This will be a very long beta testing phase. I would wager it will never leave this beta phase. Until demand for gb internet is established, it will remain stagnant. And before you say "well I want gb internet!" realize that you are the exception, not the rule. Most users are lightweight users--being able to simult...
This is true to a degree. Most Economics will teach that there are some fallacies of a "free market" when it comes to certain goods and a governing body. Utilities is one of them. (Together with National Defense, Public Goods....etc etc.) Some things are not easily managed by the public alone. In some theories, they ...
ITT: Horror stories about American internet and cable providers. Are internet providers really that shitty in the US? All I see are stories about price-raising scams, monopolies, shitty slow internet, expensive TV packages, bad customer service and the occasional outage... All I can compare them to are Dutch ISPs, ...
As far as movies I would much rather buy it than waste bandwidth downloading it. The only problem is I don't want to pay to watch 20mins of commercials on other products before my movie, that is all about product placement. I want to be able to put it in digital format and put it on all my devices without huge headache...
There's two problems with this. The first is that from a branding perspective, that would never work. People are horribly forgetful. The second problem is that some entity is still allocated the block of IP addresses. IP addresses are borrowed IDs. Using an IP address allocated to a company under a government is basica...
1: Try to figure out how to create compelling arguments without attacking people. 2: They have to compete with free, but it's no different to how indie developers have to deal with video game piracy. They have to figure out how to incentivise people to purchase from them. 5$ for IronMan3 BlueRay no DRM, I'd happily p...
I disagree. It obviously makes sense for the incumbents to spend billions of dollars raised from previously unaware consumers on fighting and petitioning these kind of cases in order to keep more consumers from utilising the cheaper means of production and protecting their existing product margins.
This is the world we live in now. One where people can download entertainment for free. This is not the world of the government or of the corporations, this is our world and we've decided that this is how we want it to work. If the market has a problem with it then they need to reformat to adapt to the customers demand...
There's a problem in this discussion where people are using the phrase "Google reads your emails." This phrase, while perhaps in some convoluted way, may be true. It would be perhaps more accurate to say "Scans your email for key phrases." It does this for ads. Which is how it pays for services like GMail (is the M st...
Honestly during the first few weeks of this privacy meltdown I was pretty pissed, but realizing the shit I've said to people and no policeman is knocking down my door or following me to work, I don't feel any different. I don't send dick pics, bomb schematics, threaten to murder people, praise Allah or any shit like t...
The Wiretap Act doesn't apply to saved communications kept on a server Sure, that's what the Stored Communications Act is for. Moreover >the Stored Communications Act actually makes it pretty clear that its provisions don't cover a variety of requests made under other authorization laws and, even beyond that, doesn...
OK, I'm not an expert, but I can give <i>very basics<I>. You compose an email on your computer. You are using either webmail (gmail, cox, att, yahoo) or a client( Thunderbird, outlook). If you are using a client it is saved there. When you send it out through your email provider (gmail, yahoo, att, etc.) its lik...
Well the conclusion itself based on those factors it's poor - but you have many indicators that piracy didn't destroy business models, infact helped them (google released one a while ago about music I belive). I do belive piracy helps business , I always said it, and I belive the years of fighting it was just useless...
It's still not my definition of right so you should believe what I believe regardless of your justification, otherwise Ill dismiss you. I don't actually want to talk about this so much as remind you that you are wrong." Right and wrong aren't simple and acting like they are, or that things boil down to some simple ri...
This will probably get burried, but maybe someone will read it. Let me start by saying that I support piracy in a way. Yeah, fuck me, stealing son of a bitch! I know. If you agree with all laws in existence (especially IP laws) please move on. Don't read from this point on, you'll regret it and bitch and call me name...
I have made these products, though, which is why I want to ask the question. I'm certain the games I've made have been pirated (they were AAA, not indie, so I was making a salary and not reliant on the game doing well for me to eat). And I hope to release indie games in the future. I want to make money from them, but...
What a load of shit. If you buy movies, music etc from the copyright cartels you're helping to maintain a system that hurts the majority of content creators. Keep on trying to convince yourselves you're not complicit. Try to justify hurting them some more. Society is never going to look at piracy the way you want t...
I don't see why. Fighting against piracy is not the job of citizens. I will never understand why the big guy watches out for the big guy and the little guy watches out for the big guy. Punishing piracy is definitely moral, by forcing the person to pay something like triple what was distributed. Punishing downloading,...
thank you very much. if you wouldn't mind, lets say i build a brand new pc and install Linux will it have sort of a home screen similar to windows and i then set up any changes i want from there? or is it more a bunch of wizard questions to set it up before i can use it?
I actually was one day invited into a lofty facebook group. When I checked out who the members where it was a bunch of good friends, and they somehow started takeing pictures of their own shit and rated them. It was really funny, but after some time I decided to leave the group because I didnt want someone accidentaly ...
Slow down there a bit. I think you could view it more as he's just presenting his personal opinion that a lot of immigrant issues shouldn't make them illegal, and that some distinctions in Snowden's case should make parts of what he did illegal, in his view. If he's stating it as a matter of personal opinion, then that...
Microsoft has seen quite a bit of controversy regarding its alleged cooperation with the NSA. Last July, the Guardian reported that Microsoft had aided both the NSA and FBI in accessing user data, including providing video and audio conversations from Skype, Microsoft's video chat service.
There's not, as far as I can see, much to distinguish these from normal [electrostatic speakers]( Graphene is just a single layer of graphite, but they're describing something much thicker than that, and given the overall dimensions it would need multiple layers and a stabiliser e.g. a polymer sheet to be practical an...
Audio Engineer here: Speakers are historically some of the least efficient devices man has ever invented. From [this wikipedia article]( only about 1% of the power provided by a speaker's amplifier gets converted to acoustic sound. This is largely because of the damping mentioned in OPs article, but you must also und...
This is basically completely wrong. The idea behind electrostatic headphones is that by having the moving film incredibly light, the resonant frequency of the driver is shifted well beyond the range of human hearing, so that a flat response is experienced below that. This can be achieved with conventional materials ver...
Leaching off top comment. This is basically completely wrong. The idea behind electrostatic headphones is that by having the moving film incredibly light, the resonant frequency of the driver is shifted well beyond the range of human hearing, so that a flat response is experienced below that. This can be achieved wit...
not true at all a lfsr would produce much more energey than your standard plant because it is believed we could achieve ~ a 60 percent heat capture efficiency where as uranium only captures the heat at ~ 10 percent efficiency, combine this with a efficient steam turbine and you have a reactor more efficient than any s...