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There are lots of attractive things about molten salt reactors (MSRs), and these work very well with the Thorium-Uranium fuel cycle (aka Thorium). One thing to keep in mind is that while there is legitimate reason to believe in many of MSR advantages, none of them can truly be claimed until we get more operation experi...
I have comcast/xfinity. My mom bought Hulu, and Netflix. Hulu is constantly buffering, being absolutely shit to watch, while Netflix works considerably better. Even in the hands of their own distributor, Hulu sucks ass.
What's also worrying is that this is now starting to happen on a global scale. There is a worrying trend that comes with globalization, and that is the increasing power of multinational corporations. This is not so much a debate anymore, but a fact. In a lot of cases, the MNC already has more power than a single state....
Only for small sites. All large companies have servers spread throughout the world. It would be very inefficient to store everything in America; the ping alone would make it impractical never mind the bottlenecks caused from funnelling traffic over and back on trans-atlantic and trans-pacific cables. Youtube, Google, F...
1) because an unregulated internet does not ensure net neutrality. It encourages "unfair" schemes like fast lanes. 2) more incentive than unregulated ISPs 3)regulators don't generally get motivated by their own financial gain directly, but bow to political pressure. One man's oppressive monopoly is another man's me...
You come off as very condescending and self-righteous when you talk about what's 'right' and that you don't participate in 'that stuff' anymore. There are rules that politicians have put together with Hollywood lobbyists using lots more money than you or I may have. These rules are self-serving and benefit, mainly, ...
The theory of copyright is that something being infinitely reproduceable does not create a complete lack of scarcity. Yes, we can have as many copies of "Transformers 3" as we want; but, the value of having two copies of "Transformers 3" is negligible, while the value of having "Transformers 4 " is much higher. ie: ...
The Isaac Asimov sci-fi approach to AI is flawed in that it follows a misleading aspect of the term 'Artificial Intelligence'. Berkeley Computer Science professor Dan Klein describes artificial intelligence as a program that produces an output that approximates a specific intelligent behaviour. decisions made by an AI ...
I have never used Yelp. I went to the pre-screening of Guardians of the Galaxy and managed to be in front of an 'Elite Yelper' as she called herself. She bragged the whole hour we stood in the line waiting about how they (her and hubby) got to go out to eat and do all kinds of activities as a perk of being 'an Elite'. ...
If the government put a $0.01 tax on using the word "innovation", the national debt would disappear, income inequality would evaporate, and global warming would probably reverse itself.
He may be referring to QoS (Quality of Service) protocols that make sure that, for instance, IP telephony packets get sent with higher priority than e-mail packets. This is absolutely integral in making sure that services that require that their packets get from end-to-end quickly and in the right order (IP Telephone) ...
Pardon me, you misunderstand. Often large content providers will be their own ISPs, in effect they will peer directly with other ISPs and purchase transit themselves. Obviously a content provider should not have to pay beyond what their ISP dictates. As I said, I don't think large content companies should receive...
You're going to find more and more of this as you get older. People "discovering" what to you is bloody obvious, over and over again. Just breathe, try and remind yourself that it's not the same people re-discovering the same old knowledge, but brand new people that are new to the Earth gaining a little bit of know...
There is legal significance to the decision to put $75,000 for the damages claim - the airlines wanted their case heard in the federal court system. There are two court systems in the U.S., state courts and federal courts, but you can't just choose which system you want to enter. In order for your case to be heard in ...
Not licencing. Sony makes movies a lot of movies. They refused to put any of their movies on HD-DVD ever. Toshiba couldn't do that. So even if HD-DVD had been a superior format it was always going to be missing a huge number of movies. The same wasn't true of bluray. No other studio had any skin in the game and so ...
Not licencing. Sony makes movies a lot of movies. They refused to put any of their movies on HD-DVD ever. Toshiba couldn't do that. So even if HD-DVD had been a superior format it was always going to be missing a huge number of movies. The same wasn't true of bluray. No other studio had any skin in the game and so ...
You're right. But you'd need more than two "time zones" or patience. Using gold as an example, if I went back to the 1950s, I'd need to convert all my currency into something I could use in the future. There is no guarantee that 1950s currency would even be legal where I came from. So if I was silly, I would buy al...
I actually take the email thing a step further, if I know its just a one time ordeal I'll make a throw away. Though for trusted sources, I tend to use an array of emails which have specific filters set up to filter important stuff to my personal email such as password reset emails,confirmation emails etc. However they ...
I find this rather silly. The iPad is an entertainment tablet. Sure if you are a student who is truly interested in learning it works, but the distractions for me would be too great. Example : I need to read this chapter for x class by y date, but first let me check Facebook.
ive written this on an ipad on a train, so please forgive all the typos] So here's the quote (with my comments in italics) from the article this article is about: >"We reached out to the TSA regarding the video and TSA spokesperson, Lisa Farbestein, informed Digital Trends that the video was, “a crude attempt to al...
What's up with the TSA anyway? Do any Americans actually think their biggest threat is explosives on a plane? No where else money could be spent to improve the country with more effectiveness? Even travelling through the land of the free , I've noticed this "on edge" feeling the security system's checkpoints impart ...
So, the airports I frequent, the scanner rotates quickly around you as you stand still. An object that would be an invisible part of your profile from one angle presumably gets detected when it becomes silhouetted against you from another.
I was going to come here and post "that is not a response, and I hate her so much for thinking that I am stupid enough to believe it is that I kind of hope she gets hit by a car and dies." Yeah... I'm a child. I think your
Yahoo is suing Facebook, but I seem to have missed where Yahoo's Social Networking site is on the internets. Aside from that observation, I hope Yahoo slams Facebook into the ground. At 50 million, that's what they'll do. Mostly because I want to watch Facebook crash and burn. After years of "fixing things that aren'...
I don't think we should be in Afghanistan either, but there are better reasons to hate this war. I need to quote you something from "Apocalypse Now", because it's been said before and infinitely more eloquently than I could ever say it (I have taken the liberty to edit out irrelevant sentences, but the original is ri...
Part of their problem is wrapped up in what they said this week with their "we are now going to refocus on the corporate sector" which infers they have failed in the consumer sector who therefore aren't worth shit.. the problem is corporate customers are consumers too - more so if you are an SME.. The fact that after...
Yep. I use a blackberry and an iPhone. The new mobile browser on the blackberry is comparable. The one upside to the blackberry is that when you're zoomed in, the paragraph would get wrapped to fit the screen. So, for example, if you read the regular news site (not the mobile site) and you zoom in so the paragraph wo...
The facebook IPO is to pay off those who invested early with the company. The shareholders will demand more profits, which will result in more obtrusive advertising. Users will flee and that will be that. Unfortunately, what the market does and what I think is logical, seldom match up. I didn't think google's stock w...
At the risk of retaliatory downvotes, I'll explain my own downvote. The first line's joke was nothing I'd vote either way on, but the jab at Groklaw stuck me as unnecessarily incendiary in addition to being wholly untrue and unjustified. It is one of the most accessible legal commentators to also be useful for the la...
I understand Dr. Tyson's emotional appeal for manned space flight, but the repeated refrain in these threads that "we no longer have a space program" is simply untrue. Right now, there is a spacecraft headed for a flyby of Pluto in 2015. NASA has spacecraft orbiting Saturn, Mars, the Moon, Earth, and Mercury. There...
I think we understand and appreciate what you're saying. That's a lot of stuff out there gathering data for scientists to pour through. And that list looks fantastic. But I walk away from it thinking to myself "Look at what they have managed to achieve with a comparatively small budget. They've made incredible leaps ...
I fail to see the sanity TBH. They want her to have an ID card so that she access school resources. You're implying that school resources were somehow unavailable or impossible to access before tracking tags. Your attitude shows a disturbing level of acceptance and complacency. >It is not a GPS tracking device, so...
So let's see what options you have in relation to an ID card. Or how about a school that doesn't have only locked doors and security guards? American society has become so paranoid that you people can't even imagine what a safe, trusting society even looks like. If I had kids, I would want them to attend a school t...
The idea that a government agency must approve all films is truly terrifying to me as an American. I think this is a product of the rhetoric in your country. "Freedom of speech" is held up as though it were the pinnacle of everything, and we often hear you guys say things like "I don't like what you're saying, but I'...
The issue with ELB is that it doesn't have a static IP address due to the technology run behind it (multiple hardware/instance and software). So (in circumstances not the root domain name and running in Route 53) they have to setup a CNAME record for the ELB to point to a sub-domain like stream.netflix.com. The issue t...
Forget what the law is , what should it be. i'm more interested in right and wrong, rather than legal and illegal. E.g., pretend we're back in 1789, defining our own constitution for our own country. What is your stance in protecting someone from "harm" who's not suffered any "harm" ?
You are a complete moron. If it weren't for patents, the industrial revolution would not have occurred. If patents were only enforced when a manufacturer practiced them large companies would (and do) steal the inventions of small inventors. Under your limited understanding of how patent law should be the pharmaceutical...
I've sworn off Sony after my experience with PS3. I got it instead of an xbox because I had more friends on Playstation at the time. I also thought it was the technically superior system. It probably was, on paper at least. The reality though is that the developers find it a pain in the ass to deal with and you win...
It's all subjective and based on one's opinion, there are many points that PS3 has over the Xbox. For example, PS+ costs less than Xbox Live and as Sony stated earlier, gave over $2000 in discounts and free games in 2012, while Xbox Live is pay to play online in essence. As for Forza v. GT5, GT5 easily has the best han...
International patent law does sort of muddy the waters for this sort of thing, however, the major patent offices do cooperate with one another, and hold things relatively in-check. See here: [Patent Cooperation Treaty]( Of course, not everyone is as serious about this as others. China, for instance, is notorious for ...
Some relevant reading that I xposted in the /r/Android threads on this: > The Osborne effect is a term referring to the unintended consequences of a company pre-announcement made either unaware of the risks involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a negative impact on the sales of the current pr...
does not constrain any employer from firing an supportive employee There's a difference with the private sector compared to the public sector. If you work for government, you have Constitutional protections. Or, it used to be that way. Bush's Supreme Court gutted it:
MS pretty much signed it's own death warrant with it's DRM strategy for the Xbox One. Sony can now simply sit back and wait for the legions of former Xbox 360 users to come over in droves to the PS4. I can also see MS having to hire more support people as I'll bet any XB One owner who have internet outages for more tha...
Do you know how long it took me to get used to the larger xbox controller with offset analogs when I switched from the ps2? A long time. I was the worst halo 3 player for a long time! And yes, I was a late adopter of the 360.
I work in the UK so might be a tiny bit off, but should get most of the details correct (I hope...). Due to bandwidth constraints, cable will be delivered in 720p60 or 1080i60, encoded with MPEG2. To better understand this, lets break down those numbers. 720 - the amount of vertical lines that the video image has...
The key word there being "ill-informed." Sure even the dullest among us can understand the difference between new and pre-owned, but it's a question of how widely aware of the specifics the general public will be before launch. The average very casual gamer probably does not read gaming news, follow /r/gaming, or watch...
Greek here and friend of some members of the PWMN . This is old news; these networks are in place for quite a few years. They are comprised of hobbyists that set up their own high-powered antennas and share a multitude of services besides Internet access. Access to the Internet is one of them and it's up to each membe...
Thats why you don't crack it and go for work arounds. Most routers now adays have an 8 digit pass key that can be 'infected' with a proper NIC.
I wrote this as a reply to a comment but later realized I hadn't really understood the meaning. So here it goes: On the topic of rules and regulations within this network: Yes , there were regulations and policies and structure and even politics when it got big. There was a very specific need to respect each othe...
Because that's basically wishing you could use solar panels in the North Pole. Cold fusion suggests, as is in the name, that it is performed in "room temperature". Why it's bullshit? Because current science and theoretical physicists just don't see it happening any time soon. Because it would require several laws o...
Ok, I'm a wee bit confused now. Last time I heard the price of electricity is going up in Germany because of too fast transition and imminent closing of all the nuclear power plants. At the same time German-based company Siemens invested a lot to solar panel production and their CEO is going to be booted / has been boo...
Well.. those old reactors aren't (ok.. the one I toured wasn't.. but the others didn't do that much better in the safety reports either) Also if the energy companies would have to pay for everything nuclear related, they wouldn't even have built them in the first place. But if the state pays for research, insurance, ...
Unless Google is giving us the encryption key without backing it up To understand the risks here, it helps to know that there are two very different types of keys used in cryptography (I'm making up these terms): Permanent keys -- you would use this if you want to encrypt some data, store it, and later retrieve i...
by saying TPM does not mean i am advocating microsoft's implementation of TPM. i am saying a trusted platform model is a potential solution. i never said microsoft's trusted platform model is the correct solution. the SHA hash you describe is an example of TPM. so it's quite ridiculous that you say you will sleep b...
The MPAA doesn't understand its audience at all. A large majority of these illegal downloads are by people who CANNOT get the content legally. For explain, I downloaded all of Game of Thrones seasons. Why? My country doesnt get HBO. And I cant purchase it digotally because its 'not available in my country'. Now unless ...
Does the tor browser encrypt data pre-router, or is it just encrypting outgoing data? For example, it will let me access youtube at work, but will it still report accessing youtube.com to the local router?
Because an idea is less valuable to a company if it can be freely shared. No doubt. But we're not talking about some guy that wants to make his music and sell it on iTunes without a label, create a song purely for the public domain. We're talking about, for example, some guy that decides to rip off someone else's w...
since this is a fox news link the comments here will inevitably decline into a GOP vs. DNC circlejerk that being said, I sort of wished that the Tea Party would actually live up to it's ideals and impeach Obama over, among other things, not closing Guantanamo Bay, Snowden's Exile, the NSA's 1984 nightmare, and operat...
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Many redditors understand that 1. Google is an Ad based company. and that 2. We are the product that Google sells to make money. If they do not, then they 1. Do not pay attention to this subreddit often. or 2. have never read Google's ToS Beyond this, Google has done some amazing things for competition - Android, R...
Well if the machines enslave us and place us inside matrix1 with no memory of the past and the same set of rules (physics, natural selection, math, etc), we should eventually get to the point within matrix1 where we create robot slaves again. Then those robot slaves within matrix1 revolt and put the human inhabitants o...
You lost me at learning a bunch of hotkeys.
I got news for ya: When you watch Netflix on your Xbox, AppleTV, Playstation, iPad, phone, or whatever the hell else , you're watching it encrypted with DRM. This is why the netflix player on the web requires silverlight. The producers of the content that Netflix licenses to stream to you REQUIRE DRM. What MS ...
That guy is full of crap. Any processor in a $2500 current laptop would still cost in the $300-$400 range for a desktop, alone. Also a $2500 laptop is full of SSDs, which are expensive in themselves.
There's a real danger to this sort of legislation. At least by hitting mainstream pornography, people under 18 are exposed to societal norms, and pornography that maintains a standard. It's ultimately regulated and subject to license. There are overseeing industry and governmental bodies that make sure producers adhe...
I'm not sure why you can't see how offering certain services for free, while still charging data for others, isn't treating all data equally. "But they're not being paid off" is irrelevant. If I'm a startup music service, and need to build a userbase to be successful, how am I going to get users away from Spotify, whe...
For a service like reddit, you are correct. But using a different DNS server can give you different results when looking up the IP address of a CDN (content delivery network, such as akamai). This post runs through why having a poor DNS choice could actually impact your speeds: (DNS Geo Location, but as pointed out,...
Forgive my stupidity, but even as an IT guy I don't get how end-to-end would work unless both parties had some software installed and were equip to do this sort of thing. Jackie, the normal computer user who loves Facebook and Instagram, with her shit outlook client receives an encrypted email on her @companyhere.com...
I find it interesting that you think one type of entertainment (movies) doesn't represent all futurists, but two forms of entertainment (movies/books) represents the views of futurists. Of course, you are probably referring to more than just nonfiction scifi, such as books written specifically about AI and not just for...
Hard drives are cheaper if you're talking about backups and less than 100TiB. When I updated my figures a couple of months ago tape was def. cheaper past the 100TiB mark. The last 20 pack of LTO6 I got was $900 which works out to around $18 per TB. Hard drives (before these new ones anyway) were around $35 per TB. No...
This was when I worked there until they moved the call center in ~2011. I make far more than that working half as hard and treating people significantly better now. Oh, and I can take days off again. Imagine a call center of 140 people and only 8 can have the day off at any time, partial day or otherwise. You get lot...
No joke, I cancelled my Business Class* internet and they put me on hold for 10 minutes, came back and fed me a spiel about how I'm locked in a contract. I know how it works because I was in the same department I was calling when I worked there. I had a non-auto renewal contract at $60/mo+$5 for statics. When I went ...
You were quoted a price and you want the entirety of Comcast to stick to it? Comcast has so many divisions of sales and third party places that run specific offers that there is no way to standardize that shit. Trust me. I would take what I can and run with it. Also when someone offers you a great rate you fucking take...
It seems that they aren't accepting responsibility for anything, but they are offering me something. Stahp it. This is no different than any other company. It's not specific to Comcast, it is common to practically any company with a sales department. I don't see the harm in it, either. It's their job to direct your ...
Ok. Fuck Comcast. I agree with that. That said, think about this: You're a Comcast employee. You don't care about people in general. You can help people if you want. Or you can fuck them over. It's totally up to you. So, who are you going to help? The guy who says "I do t think you guys got your stuff together?"...
To answer the question: Besides repeating that you want to speak to a supervisor, usually you have to have a reason for wanting to. That could be from previous call-ins that lead to no help/resolution in an on-going problem (usually notated in your account details), or if it's a serious enough issue that the first rep ...
I contacted the FCC, due to Comcast lies like OP is having. Within 2 weeks, Comcast corporate contacted me, put a $250 credit on my account, and gave me the promotion I was promised.
No matter how much you want them to change it, they can't, being a petulant child about it will not resolve the situation. Since the rep cannot change what they cannot change , reps should not make promises about prices they can't fulfill . Here in spain if you call a telephone company and the rep fucks up and t...
There is. However, it's a potential problem vs. the guaranteed cost of upgrading legacy software (assuming whoever built the thing in the first place is still in business, which they often aren't). Add to that the cost of migrating whatever databases that legacy software accesses, and training people on new software...
The NSA can't easily exploit open source software because the coding community that is contributing to the project can see all the same holes that the NSA can. I'm a huge free & open source software advocate, but I have to say that exploitation of open source software is far more likely than this. In principle, it ma...
Google has about a million Linux machines and about as many network admins maintaining their safety. How often have your programmer buddies who run Windows been infected with virii? For me? Never.
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That's actually not as stupid as one would think. If reflectivity were a property of wavelength, ie. of a certain colour and that colour did fall into the scannable range, then it would work (kinda like you used to be able to set one colour as transparent in a 256 colour image). It isn't of course, but it's easy to ge...
The problem with this argument is overselling bandwidth. Most ISPs and commercial data centers sell their customers more bandwidth than they could provide to all their customers if they all used the pipe they'd bought. If 1 million customers on average are only tossing 40k ping pong balls down your 1 million ping pon...
Is anyone else deathly afraid that the country that will be the most populous, the most powerful economically, and have the most people in higher education and graduate school for decades to come so brazenly shows, time and time again, how far their business, social, and environmental ethics are from being even close t...
I'm guessing (esp. from your original post) that you're more of a business/econ guy than a tech guy? It's not a problem, I'm just trying to see where you're coming from. You transfer data by making tiny, tiny, tiny voltage changes over copper wiring (or light changes over fiber, whatever) - the dollars/cents costs o...
Those are essential services. They are HEAVILY regulated. I am talking about societal growth online. The internet is a VERY powerful tool which can be used to foster incredible innovations. Unfortunately, it is being destroyed by companies for the sake of profit and "security." When we lay down and adopt a mentalit...
DOCSIS 3.0 supports 108MBit/s upstream and 343.04MBit/s downstream. If an ISP is providing 1.5Mbps/customer, they can probably have about 100 customers per segment without having horrible QOS (assuming that most users aren't constantly uploading more than 1Mbps). IF it happens that customers are uploading too much...
Yup, these were my thoughts exactly. If they had done a larger city there would have been much more red tape regardless of how cooperative the local government is too, just because there are going to be more properties to deal with, but Kansas City is not small potatoes either. Kansas City, Missouri is the 37th large...
Whubba whaaa? OK, here's a crash course in Southern African politics as it relates to telcos. What distinguishes the telco situation in South Africa is that most of the fibre was laid on the taxpayer's dime. Back in the bad old days, all major service providers were government owned and run: power, rail, communicatio...
Profanity Warning; set up your audio accordingly. YouTube and Vimeo links provided. This is Jason Scott's presentation about Archive Team at DEFCON 19. It's an overview and justification of what the Archive Team was formed to accomplish - collecting and distributing as much user-generated content as they possibly ...
Not to mention, if you're the children of parents in the high-tech industry, you have a lot of technology to use at home. Imagine if you're the kids of parents who can't afford a computer, or are not in an environment where technological learning is taken for granted? Then suddenly, computers in a classroom are a g...
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Though I don't question that law enforcement uses these illegally and that there are profound implications, they aren't the only ones. I used to use these myself. I worked with a friend that worked for a company that repossesses cars, ect. He and I would drive around to known addresses associated with a given vehic...
Only in the us will tracking your car tell absolutely everything about your life.
That is a good point that I hadn't considered. (subreddit mods) It seems like most people I mention my point to disagree or just don't get it. Maybe this will clear it up. When you subscribe to your favorite little list of subreddits, it's like putting blinders on to the bigger picture of the site as a whole. There...
Corporations do not want to learn a new OS format. The company I left in September was just starting to roll out Windows 7. Before they were on XP. Most corporations have a very standardized PC that they give to employees, they have a system in place to distribute updates and new programs, they have a large set of pr...
Honestly, for the average (casual) user, perhaps nothing. I never used it personally, because of the security issues I'd heard about it. Basically, to make things more secure, Microsoft limited visibility and availability of some folders that made some programs just stop working, or constantly ask for administrator pri...
This guy! This process is very time consuming. I wanted to expand on this topic, not that you all don't understand this already but here is. Make the customer understand what needs to be done. variable Not all computers are equal in speed Memory,power, and hard drive diagnostics to save the tech time later fr...
the news articles are [here]( and [here]( Basically here's the story: There's a nerf gun enthusiast named Martyn Yang who has a website promoting nerf guns. One day he gets a letter from Hasbro (who produces nerf guns) saying that they liked his website and would like to send him some nerf guns. Like any great fan h...