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Former TSA worker here; worked in checked baggage as well, so I'm familiar with how these "contractor companies" operate. What Tiak says is mostly correct, except for the bit that TSA has any oversight over the contractors. TSA maintains possession of and responsibility for your bag and its belongings from the mome...
I'm a fundamental windows user but as someone interested in technology for technology's sake I need to make a few comments. Apple is the wealthiest company(notice I didn't specify 'tech' company') in the world. They could sit on merchandise, not sell a single piece of hardware and maintain production at current lev...
the police don't have to show it to you immediately > Why not? Because in the United States, the Constitution guarantees you the right to an attorney and to trial by jury. The police don't have the authority to put you on trial. The U.S. Constitution also guarantees you the right of habeas corpus. The police can'...
Microsoft doesn't even follow the whole Apple strategy. When developing OS X and iOS apps you get a full set of dev tools for $99 a year ($0 if you only want to experiment in OS X and/or distribute to knowledgeable OS X users). By full set I mean memory leak detection, profiling and other nice stuff to have when develo...
Hi there -- this is Parker Higgins, the author of this article. The parent post here might choose another way to describe me, so I wanted to chime in and clarify some things. For example, the comment above says: > THEY DID NOT OVERTURN THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE I think the implication is that I said that. I didn't....
Can we get this in layman terms? Or
The Copyright Act states that a copyrighted product can't be imported into the US without the permission of the copyright holder. At the same time, the act also gives you permission to sell a copyrighted product that you purchased without the permission of the copyright holder. Because the first sale doctrine is codifi...
You can still resell your music CD's, you can still sell games to Gamestop, and you can still resell your old electronics on Amazon; assuming of course you purchased them from a seller within the US. And you don't see a problem with this caveat? You don't see a problem with someone shopping online, buying a good, tr...
The issue is in that the company needs to recoup their initial investment. Assuming marginal costs are negligible, the company needs to make a shitton of money to get back their investment. If they only had the American market, everything would be very expensive (in order to recover the investment). If they sell to oth...
First, don't sigh me. It is disrespectful. Second, what you just cited was some editor's interpretation of two trial level court cases. Neither one of them says anything about allowing a copyright on the physical building itself. The editor cited to the first page of each case, which maybe they didn't mean to do, but...
Do you have any support from your colleagues ? Have you talked it out with them ? Or is this just one more statistic, that you introduce and that dies the usual death in the house because you did not do the necessary behind the scenes lobbying with the other house members.
Do you have any proof of this? Just curious. Yes, there is tons of research I linked to in the comment to which you initially replied. You ignored it in favor of accusing me of being "anti-immigrant". Scroll up and read it. Until then, you are transparently engaging in unwarranted ad hominems . > We do some of...
I had a guest teacher in my material science class who was a bioengineer and would get requests such as this from doctors. He said that he was once contacted by a doctor who was treating a patient. I guess the guy had been in a motorcycle crash and about a 1/4th of his scull had to be removed because it had been comple...
No, I have infinite tries to bruteforce. The phone is put into DFU mode (FindMyiPhone, Prey, etc won't work), a custom firmware is loaded that creates an accessible ramdisk. At that point, the keybag is extracted and bruteforced (for passcodes) or dictionary attack (for passwords). If your iOS version isn't up to date,...
Why RAID10 over RAID6 for data resiliency? Since RAID6 loses data if three drives fail and RAID10 loses data if two "wrong" disks fail, it would seem to me like RAID6 is better for resiliency. Let's pull a random value from our hat and say there is a 0.1% probability for a total failure during a rebuild (which for ...
Why is he a piece of shit? Is it just because he was making guns? Why do you think any one should pay him attention? From what you have linked I can't build a full story. Did he build a full auto ak or a semi auto most ak's you see are semi auto btw(here in the states). Is he selling these? Like I said I just see p...
This is not the warrantless wiretapping which people are so vehemently opposed to that was boosted by the Patriot Act. If you actually read the article youll see it just updates the current law which HAS ALWAYS ALLOWED (well, for a long-ass time) warrant-backed phone wiretapping and makes it so internet-based communica...
I'm less worried about the wiretap, and more about the cost and precedent it sets for minimal gain. Nefarious activities, at least the ones I would be worried about, by and large are not carried out over established companies, but are more cryptic in nature. This legislation would seemingly increase the burden on estab...
Correct, but it's still cause for some alarm. Prior to the "digital age" you physically had to tap into a phone line. Something that required special equipment and physical access to the line. Not to mention that most phone companies are considered utilities and backed by the government anyways. (Cellular companies are...
Because it's simply worth caring about. I want people to be nihilistic in the right direction... towards people who abuse their power that others trusted them with. I don't want people or media make excuses for a tyrannous government. (Who would probably not make excuses had they done more research.) It admittedly brin...
The fourth amendment needs to be revised. I will voluntarily give up my privacy to save lives. I would even sacrifice my life to save lives. The fourth amendment is out dated and when it was written nuclear bombs and terrorism did not exist at the levels it did today. Back then you had the Boston massacre where 11 ...
Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Instead of signing online petitions or writing politicians, let's just pick a random state and write him in on the next ballot and make him a U.S. congressman. Even if he's terrible at it, there is no way he could be worse than our current congressmen. It would...
he could swim. In the 70s, before the reform and opening, Chinese citizens used to swim from the mainland to HK hoping for a better life. There's a story about Deng Xiaoping traveling to Shenzhen in the late 70s/early 80s and asking the locals about dead bodies on the beaches. The locals told him they were the bodies o...
My opinion is simple. It doesn't matter if he was right or wrong in releasing the info that he did. I'm passing absolutely no judgement on that part. However, he should return to stand trial. To not goes against everything he's trying to do (uphold the constitution!). He's not allowed to just pick and choose what parts...
I disagree. Napoleon and the reign of terror was needed to drive out the nobility. There was no other way. Napoleonic Code, his law system, is still around in Europe today. Napoleon re-made a Polish state. He started German nationalism by uniting the Rhine kingdoms/Duchies into the Republic of the Rhine.
Yes. Let's not get down to the part where you're trusting every piece of software you use, because you haven't personally inspected every line of source code .
Oh, and don't piss off the big players. If your solution tramples all over someone else's toes, it's probably not going to work. On the other hand, if it actually benefits a big player while achieving your objectives, it's got a much better chance. Especially if it benefits a big player at the expense of a rival.
All these tools don't provide a solution to the (core) problem. They only allow us to prolong our ability to avoid the problem. It's the public perception of privacy, freedom and security (especially in the U.S. and the U.K.) that has to change, following by a reconstruction of the respective law. Even if you only ...
Good. It's common sense to give the consumer what they want. And you do that by analyzing trends. On the other hand, from a different perspective, it's stealing IP from a competitor -- if anyone else did that to them, they'd sic the lawyers after them.
It's an extremely important concept to grasp that people/organizations can often have the best of intentions and yield the worst of results. The idealistic view of markets is that they produce the opposite - great results even if the participant's intentions are pure greed. So with that said, my view of Google is th...
The problem is that it does't do everything a laptop does, it does everything an iPod does, and while most people will do with that, I simply don't. Most people prefer to have stuff overly simplified even if it limits them, but for people that know Win/OSX, it's too simplified. Example: I need a full MS Office Suite,...
Most of the "returns" Nokia sees on its patents are from the fundamental tech that allows cellular data transfer to occur, not from "consumer-facing" software. As for OS development: look at the companies that are succeeding in the mobile OS space. Both Apple and Google have huge ecosystems and teams to support a dev...
Well /u/RIPPEDMYFUCKINPANTS actually put it pretty well in [his comment.]( For me though it was just being able to be free of trying to sync local files between my desktop, work laptop, phone and tablet, without the inconvenience of having to rebuild my library on something like Spotify. You upload everything once (i...
Could netflix perhaps also look at subtitle sites to determine which subs most dutch people download? Hint: it is not dutch, its english. Please offer me both options, dutch subs annoy me with the amount of mistakes in translation and the jokes lost in translation. Why do I want subs at all? Because sometimes someo...
I agree, yelp would have been sued a long time ago if this was the case. There are a ton of powerful companies (companies that generate ten times the amount of revenue of yelp in fact) that use Yelp that would not put up with any type of that shit.
This headline is flat out wrong, not just misleading. The study cited by the article literally used the percentage of reviews on Yelp's site that are filtered as a heuristic for fake -- but Yelp's filters are designed to filter out unreliable or less useful reviews, not just fake ones and certainly not "paid shill" re...
The worst thing about this stat is that the 20 percent isn't evenly distributed. A brand-new restaurant could get themselves 10 or 20 paid reviews before anyone leaves a real one, dramatically raising the chance that people will eat there. Moreover, if their food isn't terrible, it's not likely that they'll get a ton o...
Honestly, that's a little high.. This 'blog' is pretty vague on the details, and the article written by the assistant professor dismisses filtered reviews.. Yelp filters nearly all 'fake reviews' and is consistently changing and improving their filter algorithm.. So it comes to assume that they're adding that into th...
MY parents own and operate an Inn. Yelp came and told us to pay them to allowed on the site 'ad free or some bullshit like that or premium' I forget. We said that we aren't going to pay for a service that has horrible reviewers. they sent 2 separate people to come and stay at our inn. both of those people wrote terribl...
It's these kinds of reports, and my own experiences that lead me to think Yelp is horrible for any business. There are too many ways to scam it - whether to the benefit or detriment of the business in question. Would any of you visit a restaurant with 1-2 stars? Rarely, if at all, right? Why should someone's liveli...
Not to mention that Yelp strong arms businesses into paying their subscription fees and when they refuse, bad reviews miraculously appear the next day followed by another call from Yelp informing the business that if they sign up for their service, the business can censor the negative reviews to be be below the public ...
No guff? Yeah, I visited my sister in Long Beach this past weekend by metting her at a restaurant that Yelp had at 4.1 with 58 reviews. I thought, "sure, sounds pretty good." We get there and the place is a hole in the wall priced around $8 a plate. Normally that's cool, but we sat down after ordering and next to m...
I had an experience with a fancy dog hotel here in Chicago where they returned my dog to me and he needed emergency spinal surgery. It wasn't so much that I thought they should have prevented him from getting hurt, but the fact that they surrendered my dog to me in that condition means their staff clearly don't have t...
I'd say i'm pretty familiar with it. I dealt with it on a regular basis for 2 years. First i'm going to explain my stance on the issue, then i'm going to explain where i feel a lot of that attitude comes from: my belief is that there is no validity to it. it's not even just my belief - Luca, the harvard professor w...
Microsoft will trace the assembly code. They'll contact the vendor and point out where the bug is. Sometimes, if the vendor will consent, Microsoft will publish the fixed driver themselves.
I've actually talked to a microsoft rep about this. If anyone wants and I'm at a PC I could type out something more detailed. Basically I was at frys helping my grandfsther pick out a new pc (he hated windows 8 but also the company he managed said the IT peoples didn't want to go to 8 yet so a if he got a new pc it...
Pedestrian and cyclist detection / full auto brake (many carmakers) MPG improvements through regenerative braking (a number of carmakers) New window treatments to improve visibility in very poor weather (Kia) Quad zone climate control (Infiniti) Increased aerodynamics (a number of carmakers, though making thing...
Government has such a stranglehold over who is allowed to experiment and when that barrier to market is too high for people with new ideas to come in and give it a try. Thus, rather than a price system where customers can choose who has the best plan to offer you are left with government approved circle jerk that only ...
Can I get some background on this?
I agree that those of us who live out in the country can't expect the same levels of service as those who live in the city. It would be foolish to expect otherwise. If I were living outside of Atlanta, I wouldnt expect a MARTA line to be run out to my house just for me. But, I also expect not to have to pay 2 or 3 ...
Let me just me the first maybe to say this. Are you ready ?. Woah im so totally surprised! Holy shit, woah, no sorry, this isnt any surprise at all.
I pay $55/month for unlimited calling, including long distance anywhere in Canada, and 1GB of data (I didn't negotiate for more because I don't need more... yet). Here's what I did: I NEVER accept a new phone deal, I only pay full price on ebay for a factory unlocked. I NEVER accept a contract but go month-to-month...
I moved from Verizon Fios to Dish sat internet this year and the difference is noticeable. With Fios I paid about 30 USD less than with Dish total. I now live in an area that not only doesn't service Verizon but only services Dish, and Comcast. Being a previous Dish customer I went with them over Comcast. Satellite int...
I am a Forms Analyst who works in health care and I have to say while this is a good idea it is not the most cost effective solution. There are many places and times were an electronic charting system just will not work and on top of it it doesn't go into details on the backup plans in place for when the system goes do...
Here is how it's done. I got my ATT internet lowered from $41 a month, to $20 a month, and my sisters form $51 a month to $25 a month. What you have to do is call them up, tell the operator you want to cancel, but your willing to talk to the RETENTION department. Thats the trick. A friend of mine works in a big compa...
Also if you use basic math New Price 99 / 12 = $8.25 per month Old Price 79 / 12 = $6.58 per month
First of all: Is there evidence of disallowed submissions to the meta-reddit? Have you tried? Have you looked? Have you researched? Have you looked under the stones? Or are you just bitching and grasping at straws? And even if there was evidence of a massive conspiracy to tamper down discussion of how /r/technology i...
Is it just me or is internet drama like this one of the most mundane, uninspiring, man-child-incarnate things imaginable? Like, really, why even give a fuck about something so completely unimportant in the grand scheme of things? Also, is it really any surprise that giving teenagers and young adults ANY form of power/c...
I don't understand how people get upset when they need to pay for an install or service call after a self-install, when they clearly don't belong mucking around with low-voltage services themselves. (Disclaimer: I go all over, but bear with me, I'm trying to help. I'm a cable guy, not an author, lol!) Absolutely true...
What child? Where? To paraphrase [Justice William Brennan from another case where the government wanted to use prior restraint]( since encryption would not cause an inevitable , direct , and immediate event imperiling the safety of any child, prior restraint is unjustified. The government has to show some imme...
Correct me if I'm wrong... But aren't individual cities and municipalities just as much to blame for lack of pole access? Some cities own the poles but exclusively rent them to telcos and power companies. Fuck cities even have their own taxes on utilities just to maintain the public rights of way. Google learned a ...
Google fiber just came here. I have TWC so I was super excited. I live in literally the only "fiberhood" without a single signup. Every single other one has met requirements. looks like im moving across the street. EDIT: So many people asked if TWC changed their service for me to be more competitive. I had responded ...
Comcast and Time Warner are evil and terrible companies because being non-shitty costs money and thereby reduces profit. But they have a monopoly so they can do that. Title II reclassification would mean competition which would motivate these companies to stop being douchebags. The fact of the matter remains: everyone ...
I'm not saying you're dumb, I'm saying this is an ignorant viewpoint to hold and doesn't match either simple thought experiments or the realities we've seen and documented when monopolies occur--natural or otherwise. I'll also point out that if you simply google "Why are monopolies bad" there are over a million pages...
You don't really know what you're talking about. A photographer always retains copyright of his photos unless he's employed and has contracted away the rights (basically, you're hired by reuters as an employee and since you're "acting on the behalf of reuters" the photos are theirs). That does not work with people. ...
It's always a pattern with them... DOS: What is this? What are all these weird words and commands I need to memorize? Where'd I put my glasses? Win 3.1: People loved it, greatly simplified the DOS OS and made computers far more user friendly. Win 95: It was OK, but generally people didn't really like it. Sh...
You need to understand how phones work. It takes absolutely no effort to build a device that can call phone numbers. You use them every day, they're called VOIP systems. I have one that was absolutely free and it's installed on my server. I can call any other VOIP server by it's unique identifier provided we're usi...
Between 2002 and 2005 I was in the top 1% of all computer resellers on ebay. I know because they called and told me. I often used paypal for payment, becasue people liked it. I hated it, I still think their 2%+ charge or whatever it is now is ridiculous. At one point, after never having any issues or complaints from ...
Um... backscatter scanners are being installed in airports around the world. It really doesn't have anything to do with being American. As far as other countries security measures should you decline a scan, that's another question.
This is hardly mythbusting -- random evidence isn't really a good replacement for some knowledge about how these things work. The first one is true -- this was required for old Ni-Cd batteries, but now it's not needed anymore. But then: The second is half-true. Discharging a battery "completely" is not a problem to...
This is pretty awesome site. Let me throw in a tip as well from someone who formats their computer every few months. When you format, install EVERYTHING you'd ever want (minus games and what not). So basically the essentials; word, utorrent, steam (no game), adobe flash (creative suite for me), firefox/chrome, codecs...
Whenever you get sick of installing/reinstalling your system, remember this site and save yourself a few years of your life.](
Thank you. This is just legal stuff to cover their butts. Dropbox is a filesharing software. Depending on where you store stuff, those files are accessible to other people or even to the public. (There's a public folder.) When something is put in that folder, anyone can access it. What I find funny is that some p...
No. That's what the service does. Dropbox copies your files from one computer to another. They need a copyright grant from you to do this. When you make folders and files available via a public link, they let you view videos and pictures and audio files in browser via a flash player. This requires a translation (deri...
I think I understand your point of view, and I'm happy with that interpretation of it. My issue isn't that they need some rights - it's that they have very broad rights and my only protection appears to be trust. Here's an example. Let's say JK Rowling puts her next book onto dropbox to sync between computers. The da...
I did the exact same thing (Roku & Hulu+) and am very disappointed that only some of the shows, some of the time are available. In fact, I ditched Hulu+ altogether and have gone to [RSS]( + [Torrent]( + [Plex]( to get my TV fix. So far its working much better than Hulu+ ever did and its free.
I went first thing to my local Walmart today. They had two 32gig TouchPads in stock marked @ 500$. I talked to the kid working electronics and he said that the price listed was what I was going to have to pay. I asked to see the store manager and brought the walmart website up on my phone. She began to tell me that the...
I consider myself skeptical of government "faith and credit" Based on the historical precedent of the governments handling of money in pretty much every aspect of its existence. I find it illogical to be anything less than skeptical.
If it's a third party cookie you really need then it's most likely already a first party cookie form a site you've already white listed. I only allow stuff from the domain I'm at. If I'm on some webpage that is trying to load a facebook cookie, I've already white listed that URL because I've already gone to facebook.co...
Just going to add a note here: if anyone has any questions, you can ask me here or in email: adam <at> ghostery dot com and, for transparency's sake: Yes, Ghostery is owned by a for-profit privacy (NOT advertising) company. We make money by monitoring the internet with our volunteer panel that collects completely...
Disconnect from Chrome is great. The Firefox one is buggy as hell because it was ported using automated software.
There are so many things that are wrong with your comment that I'm not even gonna downvote it likewise > Since nobody published anything about the factories of any other electronics manufacturer, they're probably doing everything ok. Its amazing what a very rudimentary internet search can throw up about this... ...
Yes I get all that. That's my whole point. You can't use FoxConn labor costs to calculate the 217 hour figure because that isn't whats going on. The FoxConn labor is probably the cheapest labor in the entire pipeline.
Not really. Considering inflation, computers basically cost a tenth of what they did not even 20 years ago. Apple sells some damned expensive computers, but there is an Apple product in the price range of just about anyone with money for a new computer. This is especially true if you consider the reality of computer ow...
Right, but the Android phone I write this comment on is rooted, flashed and running a different build of the operating system from the one is was sold with, all with the manufacturers' blessing. I've replaced parts of the OS I wanted to (camera app, dialler, soft keyboard, etc) and I can customised the way the phone...
technology is more about streamlining and seamlessly integrating systems into our lives by providing a product that almost serves as a second skin; the less one has to think about dealing with the product the more ubiquitous it is likely to become. That's completely true - good technology acts as an intuitive and inc...
I think Apple distinguishes between computers and iAppliances; the former not walled gardens, the latter are. To be clear, as a hacker I don't like Apple doing that with iStuff, but the sort of mods you're talking about would – in the hands of someone less skilled, perhaps – lead to a lot of crashing. (iTunes downloa...
I think Apple distinguishes between computers and iAppliances I think that's true, but I also think it's a largely self-serving, false differentiation they're making - an iPhone is a computer, just as is an iPad; they're just lobotomised and locked down. I can certainly see the conceptual difference between selling...
I can certainly see the conceptual difference between selling a "general purpose" computer and selling an "appliance" - I just think that it's an artificial distinction that merely gives names to the different devices (open/free and locked-down/walled-garden) without actually affecting the value judgements I drew about...
A low or non-existent atmosphere would render most of a nuclear warheads normal means of damage impotent, for small ones anyway. We would more likely see much larger nukes in space where the radiation alone is relied upon to kill or disable enemy personnel as effective shielding would be too heavy and difficult to move...
This looks like a time of flight depth camera. They are much better for up close experiences like those displayed here. Microsoft owns the two pioneers of this technology, Canesta and 3DV, but does not use their technology in Kinect. They also own their patents. Have fun getting a licensing deal, Leap. (Look up Canesta...
Last night I had a dream that I was shooting holes in the hull of my yacht because it was on fire.
Lots of interesting information in reddits FAQ session:]( >How is a submission's score determined? > >A submission's score is simply the number of upvotes minus the number of downvotes. If five users like the submission and three users don't it will have a score of 2. Please note that the vote numbers are not "real" ...
When I designed storage clusters, it was apparent that both SATA and SAS were faster than any individual hard disk, and so the increased interconnect speed of SAS was of no utility, as IO bandwidth was limited by device performance. You might be able to get slightly faster cached reads over SAS, but this is of little t...
Does not matter. [FRE 606(b)]( It also does not matter that they ignored a jury instruction. *See above, c.f. [Jury Nullification](
Now why would they do this now, rather than with the iPad 3 back in march? If they had intended to do so they could have stopped the move to 4g LTE and left Apple hanging high and dry.
I traveled all over Taiwan for around 3 months, with my girlfriend who is Taiwanese. I was able to see outside the touristy parts, and i was really amazed at what i saw. Besides feeling safe everywhere i went, everything was beautiful and pretty freaking clean. Yeah i saw garbage dumped off the side of cliffs in the co...
Remember when, just within the last month or so, Apple used their patents to block sales of HTC's latest phones and win a $1 billion jury award against Samsung? Well, it looks as if Samsung and HTC are fighting back, using their patents to block sales of the new iPhone 5. I have extensive experience with the patent s...
They're not "lifted out of crippling poverty from globalization" if they continue to reproduce at rates that keep their median incomes down. Yes, this does not apply to China which very wisely instituted laws/policies against large families decades ago. But in countries like India and Indonesia where births go complete...
Wrong, wrong, and you better hope you are wrong. Exclusive rights of copyright under §§101-106 et seq attach upon creation, however, exercising copyright claims via filing suit requires registration. Registration within three months of creation publication entitles a copyright holder to enhanced statutory damages....