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Yep! This is my biggest irritation when talking with freshman liberal arts majors. They don't understand economies and their long term growth. Many people talk about how terrible children working and making so little money. Many of these people would be surprised to hear that many of these African countries that empl...
Hey everyone, I'm an economist in the making (at university) and I've learned all about these misconceptions. Yes what the OP is saying is completely true, but the world doesn't work on the basis of this or they all live like us in first world countries. If these children weren't employed by these companies then they w...
Two reasons probably: I'm assuming that the OP or the person at business insider listens to NPR, and specifically listened to this past weeks episode calls Mr Daisy goes to the apple factory.. (or something like this) which follows a mac enthusiast as he comes to the stark realization that as much as he loves his mac ...
as ziip stated frankly if you own just about any electronic device it probably has at least in some part been manufactured by Foxconn. The only way to put up or shut up to companies that are working with them and basically supporting their poor human rights standards and downright illegal labor standards would be to be...
As we learned from Nike in the 90s, just boycotting Apple or companies that support child labor doesn't really solve the actual problem. The boycotts on Nike were successful, Nike closed down its Bangladesh factories and stopped using child labor. The problem was, the kids were all still starving and still had starving...
I don't know what's going on with all the D3 fanboys but it's not like having a singleplayer suddenly makes the game oh so hackable. It's not like BF3, CoD or SC2 suddenly became full with hackers because those games had singleplayer. Yes loot generation should be server side in online play and client side in offline p...
I totally agree. I hate it when there's a certain standard of housing available for almost any level of income, an amazing public transportation system, and heavily subsidized healthcare. The housing infringes on my right and interest to live in a shitty, overpriced dwelling far from my employment; the transportation...
I've only been there once, and I definitely agree it's a nice place. Very modern, livable, and close to the rest of the world. I do plan to go there again. I have been wanting to ask a local for a while though... where can a tourist get good food? I was really disappointed with everything I ate there. (PS people have...
So you feel this subreddit would be filled with articles by LodSys on how the patent system is just fine? Symantec, about what horrific things a virus can do to your Windows PC without their software? RIAA on how they're justified to do X for any given X because they are RIAA and to go against it means you are a pirate...
There's just not that much information (photons) around at the femtosecond timescale. These femtosecond lasers usually have a repetition rate of about 80 MHz but can go up to 500 MHz ( So that's 80 million to 500 million laser pulses per second. Which corresponds to 0.000000002 seconds per pulse or more easily read a...
this kind of stuff makes me realize just how dumb I really am.| Not dumb, just uneducated and insufficiently motivated. There's nothing you cannot understand. Nothing. Do you have the patience to learn what you want to learn? Perhaps not. The time? The motivation? Hrm. I sound like anybody could be the next...
I have sit loadsss of times trying to understand the concepts of theory of relativity, and length contraction and how space time matters, along with string theory and its bases. never ever have I been able to understand that. Everyone is intelligent, but dont count the fish's intelligence from its ability to climb a ...
Yeah... I really can't deny that their marketing popularized a lot of the stuff by making it a household name. And the overall market has benefited! We now have a thriving mobile application development market with quality expectations much higher than when we just had the little mobile java applets, all sold through c...
Yes! And at just the frequency that makes the human mind stop producing melatonin. And at night you can have it automatically cut the blues out so your body will start producing melatonin. It's like f.lux for real life. It should make it much easier to keep your sleeping schedule healthy.
I think this comment can be a bit misleading. The incident happened in Japan because that's where the episode was broadcast first. After the whole seizure debacle it wasn't aired in other countries. So it's not that Japanese people are somehow more sensitive to it. If the original version had been aired in other coun...
The kind of shake he's doing is pretty easy to restabilize. [VirtualDub's DeShaker]( has been out forever.
And so the game of cat and mouse will continue... I use NoScript and Ghostery. More and more features of more and more sites won't work until you temporarily allow more than one site to run scripts, at which point you have to temporarily allow a few more that pop up after you allow the first ones. And I have noticed...
I can keep waiting in line and re-submitting patent applications hoping that it can eventually get accepted You mean refining it until they are accepted. It's not like they just keep resubmitted the same exact application until they "get a hit." Maybe the "flaw" you speak of is just inherent in the fact that, to e...
Neither logic, nor reason were presented or demonstrated here. It was simply a summation of a the patent process. I hate that people use "logic and reason" in a reply to anything that isn't a knee-jerk reaction, or is a level headed take on things. Turning "logic and reason" themselves into a knee-jerk reaction to an...
Trademark is a mark used in trade. As long as you don't use Mickey Mouse on you flower shop or something, you're okay (in this hypothetical world where Disney didn't destroy copyright). You do know I can use trademarked products in movies and fiction and the trademark owners can't do jack shit, right? This happened i...
Yeah, I got a new mouse recently but it didn't just work , so I had to go to the Windows Forums to find a set of configurations for my windows.org.conf file, so I restarted the windows desktop server. That ended up being a bad idea, because there was a typo I guess so it just spilled random colors all over my screen s...
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All I have to say on this is FUCK COPYRIGHT TROLLS!!! I buy 2 to 3 times as much content as any of my friends, who dont torrent, and yet I am I the one who gets fucked over. Its just a complete load of shit, if I download anything it is to test it, most times I only download games and thats only to test them on my cu...
I'd like to see their justification for that price tag. Think of something silly that you spent too much money on. Now multiply your net worth by a million.
My biggest thing against tumblr is its full of a bunch of emotional teenagers who think a black and white photo of the tree outside their house is "art" and come up with some shirty caption to make it seem so deep and sophisticated. I had one when I was 15(I'm a guy who's now 17) and I watched it go from being a cool o...
As of the end of last fiscal year, Yahoo had $17.1 billion in assets, of which $5.65 billion was in cash, cash equivalents, short term investments, net receivables, and other current assets (read = highly liquid, easily accessible funds). It has only $2.5 billion in debt, so its net worth (shareholder equity) after a...
If they would just skip the theater altogether and charge a reasonable price there are some movies I would pay more than once for. DVD are way to expensive even after 6 months of release. They need to realize there is little disposable income and I won't go to the theater because it's crowded, can't smoke, can't affo...
There is light ahead. Every twenty years or so in the course of Hollywood, there has been a paradigm shift in the way things are done. We're about seven years away from the next one, but you can already see it taking shape. Not long ago, only the major studios were the only people who made movies. Every movie that ...
It's a whole lot easier for you to be the bigger person and go find a different seat. You complain about missing the movie and needing refunds and that's just garbage. If you're not going to move then don't complain. No one's day gets messed up, some employee doesn't feel guilty and your friends don't think your a bitc...
I really think that this is the way you combat piracy. Look at our choices today: Piracy - Free, instantly available on demand in super high quality. Theaters - $10 (if you're lucky) per movie, you can watch it only once and you have to go out and be there at a specific time, can't pause if you have to go to the ...
Uh huh. Let me tell you my prison software story. I did 52 months (of a 60 month sentence)in federal prison, the bulk at FCI Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio. Elkton is a BOP institution that has a UNICOR that the government sells in competition with outside companies that actually have to pay their workers. Furniture, cable...
I remember when the Dropbox guys posted ton Y combintor and in hacker news they were being made fun of. Guess what, they had the right product, done the right way, at the right time while other offerings like icloud just sucked. Jobs/Apple had no idea what they were doing half the time. Even if they brought back idisk...
Except you can't realize anything new or brilliant because the dumbed down tools will just be templates and use cases that are already popular: sound boards, tip calculators, image displays, etc. You need granular tools to make things that are original. Programming in a standard language is that tool. If you find l...
In my circles at least: Mcafee was known as a shitty AV years before I heard about the shenanigans. If anything I find it fitting and proper that the founder of a dysfunctional AV company and product was himself dysfunctional. McAfee has always sucked. how many times have they fucked up in some major "oops, delet...
I received a year of Intel Antitheft with my laptop, provided by McAfee. I installed it because it was recommended by Intel, so I thought it was okay. It was the worst software I have ever used. Shortly before I installed it, I also received a faulty Windows update, which forced me to do a system restore. This left I...
No you still aren't making a point. You'd have a point if say NYC had amazing service but Cairo, IL didn't. But that's not the case. In the states it doesn't matter if you're in a metropolis or rural area, service everywhere is outdated and/or expensive. It's not a matter of the size of the states. This is a lie from...
Even though I have Time Warner, I was able to get 50 Mbps for our apartment. It's awesome and only costs us $50/month with TV. Unfortunately the TV sucks and we can't wait for Google Fiber, but this is great for now. On my phone, I sometimes get 30 Mbps. At least T-Mobile will roll out LTE-Advanced eventually and we'll...
That doesn't count in the times I sleep, I shit and when I go to school (This is back in 2003). I can't leave my computer on at night or during the day because of Heat and Electricity bills. ALSO 80KB/s is not the actual speed but the advertised It was close to 40KB/s on a GOOD DAY. So using your math, it would be ...
A layman shouldn't have to leave their computer on 24/7 to use the net. If 50gb is given, then 50 should be used under normal circumstances. Who designs an elevator to that has room for 10 people but can only lift 600kg? No one because it is dumb. So why couldn't they have proper speeds for proper usage? Also, rap...
Just because I characterized life in Korea as anything less than perfect doesn't mean I'm not "whining" or having a shitty life. Not sure what makes you so defensive about this topic...I was just pointing that it isn't across the board ideal for everyone paying for service. Are you a repatriated gyopo or just a forei...
Pretty easy to explain tho: South Koreas is roundabout 100.000 sqKm's large. When you slice the U.S. in 90 parts of same size, you got south korea, and even countries in Europe like Germany are more then three times as big. As smaller as your country is, as easier you can give 100% of the population extrememly fast in...
That doesn't count in the times I sleep, I shit and when I go to school (This is back in 2003). I can't leave my computer on at night or during the day because of Heat and Electricity bills. Nothing was said about variables. You just said you couldn't. So I explained why you were wrong. Nicely I might add. >I'm exa...
No, that's not how it works. No bacteria exposure is bad. Fortunately, this is impossible for most people. It has implications for developing fetuses and new borns, but that's it. Limited bacteria exposure is good. Hygiene is the single most important medical discovery of human history. Seriously. Getting extra bacteri...
It's still glass, so it will break, but is less fragile on the edges and more impact resistant than chemically-strengthened glass that manufacturers, like my employer, used before Gorilla Glass. It's been several years since I was trained on it, but what I remember is that the edges are ground down and polished. That...
Because it's not like there's a just a council of 10 people who "run the world." Let's narrow it down and talk about the US specifically. It's not like Congress can just funnel all corporate profits to themselves, and even if they're getting kickbacks from corporations (which of course some of them are) people will gen...
Let's think about this, this number is probably extrapolated from a hourly rate that is applied over a while month. A consultant would only charge for the work he did not a 9 to 5 job over the whole year. For example as a consultant I could charge $500 a hour to the clients but only work say 3 hours of that in a da...
Good to hear. Looks at article. Ah... four DEMOCRATIC senators... so it makes the front page, I see. Excellent. speech at Berkeley We have at least one US Senator that has been railing against the ever growing big brother for YEARS (and his father for years before that) and has supported Snowden's patriotic ac...
Sigh . Look. I've been through four of these mergers. Four of them. I'd prefer not to name the companies or dates, more for length than anything, since I doubt you'll take me seriously in the first place. If you think that they don't take this shit seriously, you're dead fucking wrong . I've had a front row se...
They have a really good reason to keep to the truth, as people know that they aren't against file-sharing. And if you find a flaw with their reporting, please let us know! It keeps the reporting proper if you keep the pressure on all the reporters.
Verizon can go suck a fuck. we payed $40 a month for up to 15mbps Download speeds and for years they were giving us up to 1.44 Mbps. I had enough and changed to Comcast because now we get 120mbps with a triple play deal Thats cheaper then Verizon's Internet and phone deal. only problem I've had with Comcast is their cu...
The recordings are always legal. The Comcast employee notifies you that the call is being recorded therefor they are aware that the call is being recorded and hence you have their and your consent.
Comcast realizes that the customer is worth roughly 800-2000/year, the cost of an attorney to even read the brief is more. Likewise the negative aspects of public outrage have severe non-monetary cost, such as shifting the climate in favor of net neutrality.
You're right and you're wrong. While the US Constitution can never apply to private entities (except for slavery and entities fulfilling traditional government roles), if a court signs an order limiting speech, it is then the government, susceptible to the Constitution, who is potentially abridging your rights. But, ...
In both cases, the transactions would cost you a great deal more than purchasing from the grocery store. And that doesn't even include the amount of time and effort you would have to spend to make these things happen, or driving around to various locations. That's funny, because you've clearly not lived in any of the...
It's because many years back, dealers served a purpose. They kept cars available, provided a way to test drive, and could help you pick out the right car. This was before the internet was as good as it is now. After dealers were the established way to sell cars, the manufacturers started to sell directly to customers. ...
I trust them to abide by it as they have always been open and upfront about what they are doing, and honour their commitments, the same reason I would trust any person. They have never given me good reason to doubt their word, and have owned up to the mistakes they have made. They also have crude, perhaps not workable ...
It is far less useful than you think, an example. I am a manufacturer of of sex toys. (why sex toys? all add sellers are perverted peeping toms, that's why) I know you have gone to amazon.com from your DNS query. Interesting, but not very useful. By partnering with amazon and using for real analytics's I know Bet...
Rather than an idiot I am a system administrator with nearly 20 years experience that knows exactly what information is sent with each request type and when. Privacy is always an issue, but trying to hide your IP address is futile and rather like trying to hide your address from the post office. If you must know th...
There is value in it, but as an advertising company what they want to know about you requires even greater detail than that. Did you even read the privacy policy liked above? They are not even using the information for anything but keeping the DNS servers healthy. There are plenty of other, valid privacy concerns out...
rant> That's what I meant to say. #1 priority for them is profits and making the deadline. Rushing for a deadline == bad code. Bad code == Security issues. The list goes on. The reason I say this is because, as a software developer, I constantly see the examples of these crappy applications holding together criti...
No, I'm saying its the duty of IT standards to minimize risk of 0-effort attacks like "I watched the teacher type the password and remembered it". The fact that the password was "just a last name" and presumably not changed is a major security risk. I mean, if I'm an attacker, and actually after sensitive information...
I agree. Password security is a critical issue, especially in a potentially hostile environment where it is protecting sensitive information. Perhaps the teacher was not provided appropriate training, but somewhere this is a failure of the school also. The kid made his choices, but so did the school. Setting a password...
As an American citizen, the phrase "Land of the free, home of the brave" hasn't been a generally true statement in either regard for a very long time... and the less said about "American exceptionalism" these days the better. We still have our moments of greatness to be sure, and I still wouldn't rather live anywhere...
This is pretty late but) When I was in year 8 (13-14) I accidentally logged onto an administrators account during an ICT lesson. You may be thinking how I could "accidentally" do it, well, the username of the password was "S". That was it. To make it even better there was no password. So whilst I was erasing the previo...
While I agree that the punishment was way out of proportion, I'd like to play devil's advocate. What if the scope of "who knows what this teenager might have done" included accessing sensitive documents such as gradebooks and personal emails? Kids these days are more technologically literate than we give them credit fo...
Florida student here, I went to high school in Pinellas County, born in 1991. When I was in middle and high school we had something called the FCAT (Florida comprehensive assessment test). It's still given every year but it's been changed a bit recently I think. Anyway, there were only a few times when you actually ...
The arrest isn't ridiculous, however the charge is. I was arrested for basically the same exact thing as a freshman in high school. I had the admin password(the school's street address) and me and my friends installed a pirate administration program(I think it was called 'Donald Dick') on the computers and proceeded to...
The ELO system was invented by a physicist. It's used by a lot of things to rate head to head competitors. Basically in chess it's a mathematical formula to determine how many points you can raise your ELO by compared to another player. There are different measurements of ELO based on different chess leagues but they...
I believe you misunderstand the situation eeltech is describing. Many modern shows are filmed in HD – with a 16:9 aspect ratio – then letterboxed to be broadcast on an SD channel (4:3). If you watch the SD channel on an HDTV and have your television setup the (imo) correct way it pillarboxes the 4:3 signal. This effect...
It's stolen property, it is not a legitimate copy. I don't want to argue hard copy vs. digital copy with you, because I already made my thoughts on that clear. You don't get to keep stolen property just because you paid for it. If I take a DVDrip of Boogie Nights and burn it to a DVD, spend a lot of time making it look...
You're still using school business models. They rely on idea protection. The whole "if i just work on this one thing, it could be my golden ticket!!!" mode of thought will NOT work in an open system. Idea diversity is needed. You're right that the current mainstream style of business operation and incubation wouldn't...
I never said anything about personal responsibility ending . I believe that individuals have responsibilities, and so do organisations, companies, governments, etc, as well. We are not in a good place if we allow these organisations to shirk their responsibilities, and pin everything on individuals who may or may n...
it is not speed of transmission which causes congestion, but rather total bytes transferred > I hope some people reconsider bandwidth caps (total bytes used) as I think they are a much better way of controlling network congestion than speed limit caps You're spreading misinformation that sounds like an ISP talking ...
I forgot where the article was, but modern SSD's don't fail nearly as much as they used to. Apparently, if you were to constantly read/write from them now, they last just as long as a normal HDD, which is 5-10 years at the max. And by then, people usually have upgraded either their drive, or entire system.
Good point, mostly, but I am sympathetic with his approach since he was just trying to reinforce his earlier intervention. We're spending way too much time analyzing this though.
Ok, then how should definitions change? Should we elect a panel to select words which should have their meanings changed and create new words when they are needed? You do realize that the English you speak is completely different from English 200 years ago and it changed in exactly the way you say it shouldn't, right...
You should probably focus on Australia's censorship bills before worrying about ours...... Same as OP should start worrying about Canada's. This is a worldwide problem, one bill sitting in US Congress is not the only crutch we're all facing these days. Do I really care if a .ca or .au get censored? Not really, but we a...
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I was excited about code as a kid... Programming on MOOs, telling that turtle thing how to draw stuff, changing the Windows start-up scripts so that they'd switch the background to porn next time someone started up a computer at my school, etc... And then I went through high school and got taught nothing about cod...
I don't frequent /r/politics but I can tell you that I disapprove of Ron Paul due to his insane economic policy. Basically he wants to go back to the gold standard. The effect would be a massive decrease in the true money supply because money would depend on how much gold exists, not how many goods or services are av...
I DO question that!!!! (and I apologize for my baseless insult) in fact I would say the government shlould be much MORE involved with Marjuana. They should be taxing it, regulating it and controlling it, just sort of letting it go willy-nilly (like most of Paul's ideas, since hes a libertarian) would be a HORRIBLE idea...
Yeah, but he also doesn't like any of the liberal agenda stuff that /r/politics seems to love. He HATES welfare, he dislikes government environmental regulation, he is insanely pro-gun, is pretty much against all government social programs in general, and I absolutely love him. It seems most of the dislike either...
In this election? Or what I think should be done in general? Either way my only assertion is that Ron Paul isn't the answer. I started off my comments by saying that he would destroy the economy and I don't like his stances. I'm amused that this has led to such a lengthy discussion. The reality is that Paul isn't goi...
I use Chrome, but honestly, it's only because Firefox shits itself under the weight of less than ten userscripts. I wish they'd use a history-searching system like Firefox has. If there's an article I read last year that I want to show someone, I can type a few words I think might be in the title, or the site URL, an...
First, it's not secrecy, it's security. Every IT experts will tell you that. Every one of you passwords must be different, have a few capitals, signs (ç&%*/...) and numbers; and be changed every now and then. Second, please, tell me how that is complicated? My accounts passwords are probably much more secure than you...
statcounter is primarily used by the english speaking world. people who speak chinese, aka, live in china, use chinese web sites. the people you source, netmarketshare, also rely on "their partner sites" so..... btw how are you suppose to "correct" for regional bias besides simply making up numbers. statcounter uses...
Really? What things did tesla brainstorm that have no real world application? Tesla worked on: High voltage arc lighting The polyphase AC motor The AC long distance transmission network we still use today High frequency transformers, well known to be more efficient Flourescent lights High RPM, highly effi...
This story is so bad it's embarrassing. Any server that he had 30ms ping to is within NZ; minimum possible ping to the states from NZ is ~120ms (12,000km of fibre, speed of light in fibre is ~0.7c, there and back). That's excluding any switching or routing delays (or serialisation delays, if you're using a slow acces...
They're really not that expensive. Also - sometime you should look into just exactly what modern spinning platter drives go through to get such high storage capacities. The
Plot twist : the BPI people who are being tasked by the super-elderly executives to " SHUT DOWN ALL OF TEH INTERNET AND DEM STEALING WEBSITES " are actually doing mundane acts like these so that piratebay never closes down. Incidentally it works for them aswell because finding a weird loophole through the law/legisla...
He's saying kim dotcom is running a superior service where the cost is free. Why pay for a service that is subpar when there is a free service that is better.
It used to be a question of validity. The defacto standard is actual + being a suffix to an email. This however creates a dilemma. Since the goal is to allow unique emails only, understanding the defacto standard, xxxx+aa needs to discard +aa and resolve to xxxx for the purpose of uniqueness. However +aa can't be dis...
The best thing about dropbox is integration. It's on every important platform and supported by nearly every app that handles files, needs to sync or backup. I use it on my iOS devices for getting stuff into Goodreader, syncing Plaintext and backing up my Flashcards. And everything else. They also keep every version o...
XSS is achieved by sending content to the server, which includes it in some webpage without proper 'cleaning', allowing arbitrary scripts to execute in the browser. This means it can be used to read cookies and steal authentication data among other things. Persistent XSS happens when the server stores this malicious co...
I have used Furk pretty much since it started. I found out about it when it was mentioned in a Torrent Freak article. Basically its like this: You can download any torrent you want straight to your furk account and then fetch it at your leisure using your favorite download manager. But heres the thing, most of the ...
I don't want to enter into a big argument about piracy, but all of you seem to be forgetting that this is Kim Dotcom we're talking about. He doesn't do the things he does for free speech, a free internet, or even so that others can pirate stuff. He does them solely for his own benefit, and he doesn't care who he hurts ...
Thank you I am glad someone else caught this. I read "As strong as steel" and then in the first couple sentences that it was printed plastic, then quit reading the article. There are very few if any materials that behave like steel with tensile and compressive strengths, as well as the elastic and plastic yielding an...
Trivia time - I was the Asia-Pacific rep for Prof. Khoshnevis for a while. Nothing ever took off because, TBH, although his Contour Crafting technology was definitely cool, it focused far too much on being a 3D concrete house printer. The market for all-concrete constructions isn't all that large, as you might imagine....
They aren't the same thing. Pirate Browser lets you get through firewalls and blocked ISPs, but provides no anonymous or encryption whatsoever . People need to realize that Pirate Browser allows users from all other the world (China for example) to get past their country's blocked websites, however PB doesn't offer ex...
Everyone has something to hide. In your case, you just confessed to a crime in a public forum. There are many points which refute the "nothing to hide" argument, but here are two: first, even if you think you have nothing to fear from today's government, are you sure you'll have nothing to fear from tomorrow's? Or th...