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This smells like a bug, rather than some great conspiracy theory. Some guy in engineering finds out that Alcatel-Cisco tower dodad XtraMux9000 has a bug. This bug requires a patch. The patch has to be applied to all towers, its on the docket to be pushed into XtraMux9000 release 10.0.E7.alphaC, but that isn't slate...
Yes Cingular did buy out the original AT&T company. However the current company known as AT&T did buy Cingular. So you are half right. This is all completely complicated and needs to be traced back to the original company of [Bell Telephone Company (1877)]( Bell Telephone Company and [New England Telephone and Telegr...
Tor masks you through nodes. The whole idea is they don't know who is connected o the node, so it masks what you're doing. So you could be anyone. It was a great idea at first. Except now the FBI just overwhelms Tor with their own nodes, so they can locate you through the process of elimination when you connect to ther...
While OS X (and Linux, and BSD, ect) is more generally "more secure", all that security is nothing if a stupid user with admin privleges decides to let a virus have whatever it wants. I doubt this virus was labeled "evil_ransomware_virus.exe". It was more likely bundled with some screensavers or fake antivirus or somet...
It would also not only impact parking but roads too, if all cars were self driving then motorways would run like a well oiled machine, no middle lane sitters, no Sunday drivers, every vehicle would essentially be 100% efficient in terms of space they take up on the roads. Large 5-6 lane highways would be unnecessary as...
This isn't true. Even if you pay it does not mean that positive reviews that have been filtered show up. Those reviews are filtered with a automated system that runs in the background on the website. Yes, it is an extremely shitty system, but being a paying customer does not mean that they are unfiltered. No one at yel...
I do not block Google Analytics on Ghostery, and pages load almost instantly without delay after loading. And yes, I can verify the connection & stats work properly.
You have to take into consideration our infantile attention spans as a society. We are swamped with information ; the only stories most people will remember are those that are repeatedly 'drilled' into our psyche through the media. By spacing out these press releases on NSA wiretapping, he is forcing the main-stream m...
Short answer: It's the only available option in that person's area. Source: I'm one of those people. Actually, last week a FiOS salesman came to my door and said "so there's a new neighborhood across the street and they're all getting FiOS, you want us to wire your house too?" and I practically threw myself at his fee...
I had a recent dealing with Comcast, and I'm just frustrated enough to type this out. I received a late notice on my cable bill due to a new credit care issuance registered to auto-pay. Fine, my fault, no big deal. I called in and paid the bill to restore my service. I owed approximately $130 for internet (15ish Mb d...
Sadly in practice firsts comes your metrics, then comes the customer. Your main priority when working in a call center is to meet metrics, as long as you do it while maintaining a professional appearance on the phone. Generally what that leads to is having to rush a customer along after a certain period of time, or p...
They could try lying to customers about this, but employees know that this is what Comcast DEMANDS it's employees to do. If you ask to disconnect, they can't just disconnect you. They can't even just give you a save offer and call it good either. Comcast employees as a whole, not just retention agents, have to jump thr...
I hope this sort of thing works. If I were a US citizen, I would be calling and writing like mad but, as I am not and do not live in the US, they probably don't give a shit what I think. I nevertheless donate to organisations fighting on this issue because I think what happens in the US will affect the rest of us. Un...
You're absolutely right. Google does all the difficult stuff, like actually crunching numbers. All Comcast has to do is run a few cables from here to there. The actual cost is trivial. For an ISP, the real cost is laying those cables, but the government already paid Comcast to do that… This whole debate only exists...
While I don't think the world would be worse off, I do think that you would be prosecuted. All in all, at least here in America, everyone should be treated equally before the law, regardless of who you victim is. Maybe they start with the big ones and no one investigates hard, but you don't really want law enforcem...
I knew a guy who proudly said "I've never used facebook and I don't even use internet unless I have to". He was studying political sciences, 4th year or something like that... And he was completely serious. 23 years old or sth like that. He was also a radical conservative, loved to talk politics. Interesting how most...
So I was listening to this using my headphones, took them out as someone shouted me then put them back in, so I heard pretty much a
I hate the messenger app, so I just use my iPhone's Safari (any web browser will work). You'll still get notifications from the Facebook App when somebody messages you, but you can just open your browser to respond.
on our cable network (vodafone nz, ex telstraclear) you can only use their modem, from there you're permitted to use your own router. with our DSL network, its all government regulated and the company that owns it has to provide equal access to any ISP that wants to buy capacity on it, no matter how big or small they...
I had Comcast internet cable, and that fucking thing got slow as fuck after the first 3 months of living there. It was completely stable, consistent and fast during the first three months, I guess they determined this household was using way more bandwith then comcast deemed to be acceptable, and they slowed us down a...
Upvote for the Equity on the label. My first PC was an Epson Equity II. To control the volume of the PC speaker you had to adjust a rheostat that was behind a panel with a tiny screwdriver. One day I missed the knob and struck metal behind it. Suddenly a Cardinals baseball game was blaring over my PC speaker. Somehow...
It's unlikely a judge has even seen this yet. In cases where it's complete bullshit, the defendants can file a 12(b)(6) motion alleging that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. That might not work here, as the complaint at least appears to state a claim for patent infringement, eve...
Edit 04:28 PST: Daniel Kennedy has posted a blog with all the details [here]( Edit 00:23 PST: Official twitter [blog post]( Edit 00:21 PST: [mowjcamp.com]( was also defaced at the same time with an identical defacement. This is a political rally site for [Mir-Hossein Mousavi]( and his supporters. Edit - 23:56 PST...
I agree, but I don't like the fact that you put Gandhi in there. Mostly because I feel bad about attributing certain ideas to certain people, but also because I've seen some documentary that said something bad about him (can't remember exactly what, nor do I really care. I think it was pedophilia). note that most o...
I think that Facebook being used as a login all over the internet really turned many people off of it...too big brother-ish. They also never listen to their fanbase and insist they know what is right, so deal...one such example is the "like" button, it's too bad they didn't implement something similar to a upvote, dow...
the non-tech version. Big guy, big ego, thinks he knows all about the bad hackers, targets Anonymous as an example to prove himself to clients for his security company. Anonymous responds, messes with him for awhile, hacks his company, drags them through hell. Now company is having hard times, talks about loosing deals...
This was one of the better blogs that acutally looked like a readable blog on the front page. No stupid Gawker sidescrolling crap. It didn't have stupid Huffpo BLARING UGLY 90'S HTML HEADLINES. The articles were professional and the finds were fun and helpful. It wasn't all about stupid hardware that has not and pr...
First responses in Germany point to the fact that the masts/pylons that transport electric energy alongside german railtracks are to weak and to "low" to carry more or "stronger" cables than those the railway energy consumption needs for itself. These mast/pylons simply had not been built to more or "stronger" needs th...
In case anyone is interested, the Ghostery dev team is pretty transparent about their privacy policy and motives. [You can read all about it in their FAQ.](
As far as I know (and I just read the Facebook developer documentation on this stuff yesterday for interview purposes), this only relates to tracking users who are currently logged into Facebook and viewing a non-FB domain that uses Facebook widgets to display "targeted" content. This includes things like which of you...
I've gotten to see the FTC interact with the internet world first hand. It is not a pretty process. They have no idea what they're doing and rely almost entirely on friends "within the industry" to explain how things work. ...I've actually seen the FTC ask a company to print out every page they use to redirect to ano...
I have mentioned many times in the past (typically in response to articles like this) that I have a little bit of insight into the breadth and scope of what marketers do, how the technology works and what it all really means. It is laughable to think that the old dudes who are worried about clogged internet tubes could...
IMO If people who copyright things don't want people pirating their "property" then that's fine and they should have the power to take any infringements off the internet. HOWEVER they shouldn't be allowed to then use the Internet as a tool(or in anyway) to sell/profit off what they've copyrighted. If they want to mak...
or in chemical names (e.g. caffeine), proper nouns, loanwords, adding prefixes or suffixes or otherwise modifying words (e.g. it's reincarnate, not riencarnate, fancied, not fanceid, and being, not bieng), words derived from certain latin or greek works (e.g. ficio, scio, or oneiro), or just random exceptions like prot...
Because we as academic workers disagree with copyright for the purpose of knowledge, and we see this as fair use. Most of these books were not copyrighted ebooks (which implies stripped DRM), but rather scanned print copies of books that have had a small chance of ever being digitized, or proof PDFs leaked by the b...
Yes, the iPad screen is made by Samsung, but to Apple's specification. Apple put out specs to various manufacturers, laying out their requirements, and quite likely a long list of licensed patents that can be used in the manufacture of this screen for them, and then said, essentially, “Give us your best shot; if you d...
But therein lies the fallacy; there is no safety without some liberty being taken. You aren't free to drive 100 miles per hour down a residential street, but that rule is in place to protect the safety of pedestrians and drivers. On the other hand, I think it's safe to say it's wrong to have to go through a strip a...
It surprises me that Panetta seems to know as much about infrastructure as the late Ted Stevens knew about the internet. Even more surprising coming from the former Director of the CIA, but then they do specialize in worst-case scenarios and scare tactics. Remember all the power outages in the '90s? In 1997, they cau...
Evaluated and considered each example in a REALLY stupid way... like, REALLLY REALLLY fucking stupid. They said that because the prior art is not "interchangeable" that it was not valid. Which is totally wrong. The hilarious part though, is that if you actually apply that logic consistently, then how could samsung ...
No need to apologize, I appreciate discussion. I do believe that ownership should trump the free market (at least in this scenario; the two principles aren't necessarily mutually exclusive generally). It's the entire purpose of awarding patents (I think whether they've been abused or not is a separate discussion). ...
I don't hate them I just rather see them try to compete fairly instead of suing everyone. I think it would be a cool idea if they made 2 types of phones, one being the standard iPhone, while the other is one that they get to fuck around with and try new things. I want to see a phone from them that their R&D got to fuck...
stop bitching and start innovating. >AKA /r/technology canned response. So innovation is a bad thing? I know a legal battle that happened to a company I used to work for because the competitor didn't want to compete. This kind of shit needs to stop . if you dont want one up them and chose to sue instead you shou...
I love this type of comments. "I've reviewed all of Apple's patents (some 5000 to 6000; using my Phd in Law, specifically patent law), compared them to every single line of code and hardware that Samsung ships or shipped and have concluded that they are all worthless." "I will also engage in hyperbole because who m...
I'm sorry but the reaction to this is a bit over the top. The fact is that these systems are already in place but built on proprietary architectures etc. Over the years, the ITU has been tasked with defining many of the telecoms standards that allow equipment and networks from multiple suppliers and countries to pl...
Calm down, everyone, this is really not a big deal. To explain why, here's a few rhetorical questions about network admin rights and capabilities: Do you believe that you have the right to view all data coming and going from your personal computer over the network, and that a (preferably free) tool to help you do ...
Demand for Homomorphic Encryption just went through the roof. Fully homomorphic encryption enables you to encrypt something, then pass it on to, say, a cloud service like google drive. You can then do work on that file - updating spreadsheets, documents, pictures, data etc - without ever decrypting the data. this is ...
I didn't say a thing about convenience. He stated an issue, I offered a workaround. The nature of workarounds are that they are less convenient than true solutions.
Black Ops II [PC]( is cheaper than [xbox]( Note the physical copy is actually cheaper than the download. [Mass Effect 3]( is the same price on all platforms except WiiU. [Assassin's Creed III]( is $5 cheaper on PC. [Far Cry 3]( is $7 cheaper on PC. [Dishonored]( is almost $20 cheaper, [Hitman]( is actually more expensi...
I think only a few people today realize that our legal system only exists to benefit the rich. If she hired a lawyer, there would be good odds that what you suggest would have happened or at the very least a small fine. Without a lawyer you are at the mercy of the court - and the DA is NOT your friend. Upon my research...
From the loaded title, the article made it sound like FBI employees were actually committing serious computer crimes like Lulzsec, Anon, etc and not minor issues like using databases for personal use, sexting and browsing porn.
The worst part is that a majority of people either don't have a clue what a cookie actually is, they think they know and are terrified of them, or both. They will half-way read an article like this, go in to work, and tell Jim Bob about how the cookies are tracking them when they watch porn. Then they both will go and...
Well, and don't get me wrong: EVERYONE thinks this. I mean, everyone I talk to -- 'ads don't work', 'i don't click on paid search links', etc. To me the circlejerk is claiming that these things don't work when the existence of advertising and marketing budgets would imply that the people who spend the most time looking...
Advertiser here. Here's why you, the average joe, should not approve of this: We like money. Lots of it. We like being able to speak to the right people at the right time at the right place, makes things very efficient and cheap for everyone involved. So, by blocking a huge chunk of data content from desktop browser,...
At this point, the whining is useless. Safari already blocks 3rd party cookies. If Mozilla does nothing, copying Apple is a big enough trend that all browsers will do this in the next few years. And even if Apple and Mozilla weren't going to block cookies, the metaphorical cat is out of the bag. People have heard t...
I mentioned in the previous posts I am talking from a Ghanaian context What I was trying to get across is that cell towers work in other countries with similar diverse land structure with reasonable cost for subscription data. If the current method works in similar conditions, it can be made to work elsewhere.
Owner of a 3d set here. Toshiba (not a mainstream brand anymore) 42 inch etc etc.. 1080 p... 240 3d refresh, 120 regular refresh. Have to say the 3d on that looks 10x better than the theaters. I watched a 3d movie (avengers) for the first time since i moved and mounted it above the fireplace and i was impressed for a 4...
The original comment stated "Primarily." Well, in my lexicon, primarily means first, or most prominent. What do you know, the [dictionary]( backs me up. And statistics do not back up the fact that it is PRIMARILY parents. So please fuck off with your PC bullshit. Just because what is literally written offends you...
By "break the salt" - I assume you mean hash. I'm not sure I follow the logic - you're saying the attacker should take that list of email accounts and try to authenticate (say, using the top-500 list) against a live system? Bad idea. You'll get maybe three guesses per account before you hit a human-verification wall ...
DRM Does anyone here know what this acronym even means? To those wondering, DRM stand for D igital R ights M anagement. This isn't digital, it is a physical battery you are leasing. This isn't intellectual property rights, it is a monthly fee that you pay to use a battery. Nobody would call it DRM that...
Mises never saw idiotic consumerism at it's finest. You can make smart decisions all you want but because of the 5 guys that fell for the marketing your "vote" doesn't fucking matter. This is why boycots don't work, voting with your wallet is a unrealistic concept from a personal standpoint.
This isn't the same at all. With a lease, you're leasing the whole package, the whole car. There isn't a twenty thousand dollar purchase involved. You're just leasing. You pay a monthly fee to use it as long as you want to use it, and when you're done, you've only spent as much as the monthly fee. This involves m...
Actually, I think Apple deserves the credit, they figured out how to package and market existing technologies in a novel way that appealed to the average consumer; without the Apples initial approach I doubt the smart phone market would be as large. Before the iPhone, the only people with smartphones were business type...
My S4 battery also died. Luckily it didn't burn/explode but it was already bloated, making my phone unusable. So I went to the Samsung customer service and they offered to replace it - with an expected delay of half a month at least. While the store was full with the right batteries...for sale. I was so pissed.
The argument is backwards: A company become a corporation to protect the individual people within it from being sued. The corporation accepts the responsibilities of the individual people as a whole. A corporation pays taxes for the right to do business in the United States. This also pays for various government pr...
Sounds like an issue with the point of sale. OEMs can't be held accountable for scetchy salesmen misleading customers. They didn't benefit in any way from the sale anyways as the retailer you bought the TV from had already purchased the TV from Samsung at the correct price. They didn't screw you, the retailer did.
Totally get where the kid is coming from, a little unprofessional about it but shit, I would be pissed too. Fuck I am pissed for him haha
I went to a real college and got a real electrical engineering degree. Others might believe the bullshit you posted but anyone with any real experience with reverse reactive current and the capacitive reluctance of LiPo batteries knows that heat=death and cold=speed and performance. I don't know what you're smoking(bes...
If you don't want to be pushed out of your house, then buy it - that's what ownership is And those most adversely effected by the topic are unable to do so. Class is at the core of the conflict, with the less affluent taking the consequences of gentrification.
The irony is that Samsung actually help Apple in terms of sales and marketing. If Samsung are producing phones with similar functions, for a lower price, it forces Apple to be inventive both with their new functions, and witn their marketing campaigns. Competetion helps drive business. Fact. By trying to ban Samsun...
Just a thought, but maybe the issue is with our economic system that has been permitted to grow in to the epic monster it is today. Because Apple and Samsung and everyone else are just doing what they need to be successful in the world today. The people who lead to the actions of these companies are just doing their jo...
People hate on Apple because it's overpriced. They put more effort into looks than performance more often than they should. Their products perform well, but certainly no where near the edge, and Apple rarely does anything "cutting edge" without immediately getting outperformed by a competitor for a cheaper price. The...
If I said I loved Samsung, I would be downvoted. I work with phones, and personally believe samsung to have the best phones on the market, but all I hear is how great the g2 is. I've played with it, and TBH it isn't what it is hyped to be. 32gb storage with only ~16gb of actual storage on top of no expandable memory...
Why is everybody taking sides? They're both big innovative corporations who, at the end of the day, don't really care what you think. Both Apple and Samsung are as bad as each other in different ways. Surely we should be more pissed off at the millions wasted by all these companies over petty arguments.
All these companies are stupid. Absolutely ridiculously stupid. Innovation has stagnated when it comes to the smartphone market...and the iPhone from the start was never really a loss-leader...it was high-priced from the get-go, so it's not like they need to really recoup costs on the back-end. If you want to incre...
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Well it's just two wires to solder on. I wouldn't want to retrofit indoor lighting like he did because it's tacky IMO, but there are fixtures that would hide everything well. As it stands right now, a lot of people want to "trick" you into thinking that it's just a normal light, and I don't think that's the proper wa...
Not to defend Verizon but they're doing this to stay competitive in the market. The Good Guy Google and Bad Luck Bing do this on a regular basis. In fact, their whole business model is built on selling your data to advertisers. While that's not Verizon's business model, it's just a reflection of the current landscape o...
do you, by chance mean t-mobile when talking a company headed by a "mad man" ? if so, you need to look at the bigger picture: t-mobile is a global company and is currently investing all they have solely into their american business to get the foot in the door there against the huge concerns operating there. while...
What the fuck did you just fucking call a crow, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Corvidae Academy, and I’ve been involved in numerous research trips on crows, and I have counted over 300 birds on them. I am trained in avian warfare and I’m the top biologist in all of reddit. You a...
I've lived in 6 cities across 4 states over the last 5 years and I've never had a serious internet outage between Comcast, Time Warner, Grande, and Charter.
No, what I was saying is your comment sounds like a pretentious rant coming from a teen trying to impress his friends with his vocabulary. The few people that gave a response by rewriting what you said makes your point not only more clear, but quite a bit more pleasant to read.
There are squirrels in your attic. Because after 9 tech visits to my house (literally 9, probably 4 or 5 different people), one of them decided that maybe just replacing my modem and looking at the immediately visible wires just MIGHT not be enough. In their defense, you would think that replacing the modem twice ins...
I had U-verse for about three years. (When it came to our area we jumped on signing up because the ISP we were on before had lots of issues) The initial install was pretty good. Dale, the main technician for our install even left his business card with his number on it for us to call if there was any issue which was ni...
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Business-class internet was literally invented for people who require better support due to business needs. When I used to work from home that shit was the best. I had an outage on Christmas and the dude was there in an hour. One hour. On Christmas. Guess how much money I saved by being able to work (for double ...
Hoo! Happy you! I bought a cheap house from the 1800's out in the country (20 minutes from a 150k pop city in Sweden) - $320,000. A house in the city would start at $450k for a real dump. That is with a GDP per capita of $42k for swedes vs $51k for Americans.
Well sure, but you're still with Comcast, and they still suck. I use Comcast for the businesses I contract with which is great when it works. But their SLA might as well be written on toilette paper. Your contract states that Comcast is under no obligation to pay for any damages related to your internet not being up....
I posted this below but I'll post it here as well: Well sure, but you're still with Comcast, and they still suck. I use Comcast for the businesses I contract with which is great when it works. But their SLA might as well be written on toilette paper. Your contract states that Comcast is under no obligation to pay f...
I'm all for blaming the big corporations for our problems, but I can't help but feel that little effort was put into finding other solutions. To be perfectly honest, I'm annoyed by the slew of anti-Comcast posts as anybody's complaint seems to result in a Karma goldmine. I'm sorry that you lost your job -- that suck...
I used to have this same issue with both Comcrap and Twc (both in different states) and while I never lost my job I did feel very pressured by my bosses to do better, although there wasn't much I could do. To be fair, eventually the Twc issue did get fixed, even though I still had an unreliable connection for about a ...
Re: The assholes comment. Some of Reddit will -always- be assholes. Go over to /r/aww and look for a post with double digit comments. Inevitably you will see someone saying something horrible about the animal, usually on the theme OP is about to kill it.
No. Just no. As a neck-bearded IT wizard, we are already shelling out 90% of our operating cost just by being available regardless of the amount of traffic. Do you think they get to turn off parts of their fiber network to save power/money just because its kinda slow at the time? Much like SMS pricing back in the day...
There's definitely a separation between delivering reasonable broadband speeds to all of the US population and delivering fiber to the entire US population. The best approach is to work on both. In the short term, we need to get "everyone" access to 5-25mbps broadband internet. This can be delivered over cable, DSL, ...
Yup the school district I work for recently paid to upgrade our network so that all of the schools have a fiber connection to our central office. We had fiber capable of 10Gbps laid down but since Comcast still owns it we only get 1Gbps to each school. We theoretically could install a SFP capable of 10Gbps for about 20...
Here's the funny thing about data caps though.... Technically , data caps don't exist in infrastructure - cables don't give a damn if you used up 100 TB or 100 MB the past month, as long as you're only doing it a rate of 10 Mbps (or w/e your speed is). However, like any service providing company, ISPs do not have t...
The US taxpayer paid for putting most of those cables in the ground. There were strings attached. The corps haven't honored their obligations and now want even more power. That's the
It really does. When I moved and had to close my account with Time Warner (Same evil shit as Comcast), I turned everything in and the lady tells me everything is closed. I received a receipt for $0 balance and the return of all my equipment. Fast forward 2 years down the road, I get a credit report. To my surprise, my ...
Well I think paranoia kicks in when someone thinks they are singled out, and that the forces of darkness are after them specifically , which is kind of the opposite of what I'm talking about. Like you, I'm not at all worried about what I read on the kindle, or online, or saying "NSA NSA" in an email. And I agree, j...
My point was not "the government is unconcerned with reading materials," but instead "the government is unconcerned with those who would read sensitive materials on their personal Amazon.com accounts." At the end of the day the library records are not something that the government often goes after, and just because the...
As an employee there isn't much going on in the grand scheme of things that really would interest the public. We focus on bringing customers the products they want, faster and cheaper then anyone else. This isn't limited to the United States either. Since it's launch in October we've sold over a million items in China ...