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So working in retail, you have never had a negative thought about a customer or said something negative about a customer related to their intelligence? I don't think /u/dressiertugboat was talking about a customer who is merely uninformed about store sale procedures. I think it was more on the level of the person who...
If the roads were exclusively occupied by self-driving cars, we would easily get 5-10x the capacity out of our existing infrastructure, and this is assuming the same car/population rate that we have today. Fully autonomous traffic won't need traffic lights It will optimally use the entire grid to capacity including...
This is FUD. EFI, when implimented properly, is better than the BIOS system we have been using for 20-30 years. To make a disk bootable, there is no screwing around with MBRs and less bootloader sorcery needed. Disk needs GPT. Partition1 needs to be FAT32 and marked bootable. Bootloader/OS stub is in EFI\boot\bootx...
I just don't understand people around here. It's like they don't realize you can quote them on their own statements. >Yes, there is a better deal out there, but I don't know how sustainable or profitable it is. Let me rephrase this is terms of the topic at hand: "All this talk of bad Comcast is bullshit, because my...
I got mine 3 weeks ago and it sucks. It cuts out half the time and only once have I gotten 200 mbps and then it immediately died. I've been averaging 50mps. It's frustrating because we are paying 70$ and it's cutting out more than xfinity. The fiber google fiber rep said it is more than likely a problem with the f...
False, Apple released a white paper about their iCloud security practices. They by far exceed industry (and Google's) best practices and are effectively NSA proof. Read more here: Too many people think because Apple makes simple devices, they must be simple underneath the hood. Apple engineers are fanatical perfec...
Google is able to roll out where it is due to local government's open arms and bypassing a bunch of BS regulation which prevent competition.
We can put whatever names we want on it but Google's structure simply doesn't fit anything we see anywhere else. Its tall and wide, flat and thin all at the same time. My preference is to decribe it as tall as you can directly track your superior's superior's superior ^7 on the internal employee website, all the way ...
Just a little note: Years ago I was absolutely fucked off with the politics at work. I was getting more and more marginalized. I started looking for work however due to a family trauma I had to put that on hold. So I stuck it out for a few more months, getting more and more pissed off. One day I was in a company mee...
Many engineers are TLs ("tech leads"), which means they support and mentor a few other engineers, but they aren't that person's manager. They spend most of their time writing code. It's just that they have the most technical expertise, so they're your point of contact for help. That's exactly what I'm referring to. E...
How about people actually read the article. The FCC doesn't care, and isn't supposed to care, about what we think. It's supposed to execute the law. A layperson's opinion about something doesn't mean anything, which is all that this article is saying. The article also goes on to say that form letters are successf...
Yes... of course the apps had to be made. The point is, they already have been.. so you don't need to make more (unless you wanted to add touch capability I guess?). TCO. Total Cost of Ownership. If you spend more money maintaining or setting up one solution than you would with another, without any REAL benefit, t...
There will always companies that use old stuff, Dollar General still uses IBM computers from the 80s. Most move on as technology changes. By stop gap, the only reason it's relevant is because the majority of programs for business are still for non tablets made years ago and slightly changed over the years. Once t...
While the author identifies the actual root cause i.e. the lack of competition in the market, the solution is apparently to treat a symptom of it and not the actual issue. ISPs are natural monopolies because the average cost of providing connectivity drops with more customers. To get around this issue in Europe, many...
There's a lot of attitude like this in the comments. While I understand where it is coming from, I think it's important to point out that this is exactly what those lobbying against initiatives like this count on. Look what happened when people spoke up to the FCC during the net neutrality debate. Sure no real solut...
I believe that if the government left the market entirely, less competition would happen because at that point there would be no entity that would interfere when it comes to mergers and I believe that mergers would happen, especially without the barrier of government preventing them. The point of a company is to make...
As usual, the 'everything should be free!' argument is nonsense. You must associate a cost with any scarce shared resource (in this case, the limited bandwidth that this system would provide). Otherwise, bad actors will be free to abuse the system.
This]( was the most recent article I saw through a quick google search about Overstock. Read the last section, "Powerful Metrics" of the article for a
There are actually many ways to backdoor hardware. One of the more insidious one that security researchers are wary of are the new instruction sets from Intel that speed up AES functions. The idea is that the instructions may very well speed up processing but we don't know if the logic has been tampered with - i.e. p...
This is something of a misnomer. Story time: as graphics cards become more powerful, resolution increases. Once resolution increases to the current highest standard then Nvidia and AMD start ramping up the power to support multiple monitors at that resolution from a single card. After that is stabilized then they wor...
No, I don't see how that could affect torrent download/upload speeds. DNS servers simply resolve hostnames -- that is, given "www.google.com", the DNS server will respond with either the IP address corresponding to that hostname, or the IP address of another DNS server that might know it. Once it's known, though, you n...
I think GM will murder this just like they did with their last electric car. And they wonder why they went into bankruptcy. Edit: Downvoted eh? GM released the EV-1 on a lease program and took them all back with no reason. They then crushed them all.
Although the company had more than 60 products in 1892, the number 57 was chosen because the numbers "5" and "7" held special significance to Heinz. [Citation](
Yes I am arguing semantics. You are accusing Apple of lying, based on your own interpretation of what they said and what you consider the Bamboo Touch to be. Your argument is, by very nature, predicated upon the semantics. There's nothing to argue here but semantics. Your argument hinges upon several things. Firs...
This isn't a semantic argument though. And I'm not basing my accusation on my interpretation, I am basing it on the facts and what they said. They are similar products. Call it a touchpad, a trackpad, or a tablet, it's still the same functionality. Wacom calls all their stuff tablets, that doesn't change what it i...
Personal aesthetics are fine, the problem is using university money to buy wireless peripherals that have more problems (they are rare but more common), cost more, and require more maintenance (batteries) just for aesthetic reasons and not usability reasons. What advantage does a bluetooth keyboard give you over a simi...
While that is a valid viewpoint, I think of it like this. Google created a pretty good search engine. Since then, they've had a bunch of flops (wave, orkut), a bunch of tools that haven't gained mass adoption (docs, buzz), and only one tool that is a moderate success (gmail). They found a way to make money off of the o...
The only mistake the Supreme Leader made was letting random dissidents like you and the other traitorous scum posting their idiotic manifestos in this illegal webzone think that The Wave was a movement they could forget about. Sorry comrades, The Wave is now a fundamental part of our society, the bleeding edge of ble...
Well lets look at some of the advantages Thorium reactors have: There is no risk of proliferation or meltdown. Thorium reactors can be made of almost any size. A 500 ton, 100MW SSTAR-sized thorium reactor could fit in a large industrial room, require little maintenance, and only cost $25 million. A hypothetical...
Beat me to the punch. Anyway, disregarding the fact that juvenile "console/platform wars" is not the matter at hand, one still has to accept that certain platforms will have games that others won't. As a result, they will appeal to different people based on their preferences regarding their fiction.
My experience with Windows 7 has been strikingly good since I adopted it during the RC1 phase. That being said, in the back of my mind, whenever a newly released update or service pack releases, the thought of immediately installing it instead of waiting a few days and seeing if any critical failures happen is scary in...
Sorry, I never really moved beyond traditional stereo as far as my home goes. I dealt a little in more advanced sound stuff when I worked with it but it's been 20 years so ... But in general about speakers - You need to listen to them, and take your time, compare to other speakers. Bring your own CD with sound you kn...
A 2007 article]( claims that YouTube comprised 10% of total Internet traffic in 2007 - and according to [this Wikipedia article]( global Internet traffic said year was 5,219 PB/month, or 62,628 PB for the year. Ten percent of that would be 6,263 PB of YouTube traffic. Now, considering YouTube introduced 720p HD video...
I'm sure its been said elsewhere, but I'll put my point across anyway on this rather bias article. Microsoft isn't going after Google because Google isn't the ones manufacturing the devices, it's down to the hardware vendors as they are ultimately the ones selling the device to the public, this means Microsoft ca...
My biggest problem with IE9 (and 10) is that they increase the number of browser I have to support. A new chrome comes out, I still only have to support the current chrome - Firefox 5 comes out - I can basically just test in that. IE 9 comes out - I still need to test in IE6,7 and 8. When IE10 comes out, I'll have to...
The "correct" answer he gave was worded to be an unreliable guess from a random blogger, rather than as the obviously accurate answer that it was. And it was followed up immediately by the phrase "no such notions" (a contradiction of the blogger's "guess"), and a quote from Google that doesn't support the "no such noti...
Yes, yes, everyone should get really angry at the interpretation of an out of context excerpt done by someone who says that the EU Council has roughly 40 members. (hint: there are only 27 members) 1) ACTA is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right la...
This is entirely incorrect. Even in normal heart transplants, the parasympathetic and sympathetic fibers are severed. They are not reattached onto the transplanted heart. Normal heart rate (HR) is controlled by hormones within the blood stream (adrenaline like hormones, which speed up the heart) and parasympathetic n...
Did anyone else read this and think - if you (no - not you, you) had one of these kind of hearts, and were with someone that had never heard of this, and they figured out you were walking around with no pulse - they might think you're a real-life vampire (or some kind of undead)?
I've got AT&T. iPhone and a 256mb /month data plan. I reddit, tweet, download apps, browse the web, etc. The only thing I avoid while on 3G is YouTube, and any apps over 20mb or so (most are around 5 or 10). I get good data speed, better coverage than most, and a decent price. I know what I'm getting, and I'm wil...
Yes and no. Verizon has over 100 million customers, a lion's share of which are on our 3G network. We're trying desperately to move customers that have LTE available in their area to move onto that network. It's not that the network is unused, it's just designed in an entirely different way. 3G is still essentially EVD...
3G devices activate and operate on the same network our 1x devices have and still do. Our LTE devices perform SIMOTA which stands for "SIM Over The Air" activation. When you first SIMOTA a device on a line, the 3G provisioning features immediately drop off and are replaced with 4G provisioning. What does this mean? Our...
Actually, I read your comment and no, that's not exactly what you said. You simply made a claim, and provided no proof for it. You didn't even say you had proof, like you are now. In response, I stated that mobile phones and USB devices have completely separate contracts... an entirely 100% factual statement. Then,...
I'm sorry, but I just had to burrow you (i.e. negatives already, but downvote). How in the holy fucking hell do you not see how much money is made from continued support. No to mention the relative security such support provides. Not only do people continue to buy a dated product, but they also have years of tested (...
Plus you have issues with being able to actually use this to achieve anything. You compromised the gear, good start. SSL crypto is still not going to get broken if you don't have a legitimate certificate. They aren't likely going to be able to spoof a RSA key to intercept anything.
I'm not a Linux user, but I've dabbled enough to be able to give you the basics. I'm sure someone more familiar can come along and go into more depth/tell me why I'm wrong. I use a shell replacement in Windows. Start Menu, Taskbar, system tray, desktop full of icons? That's all your shell and I've replaced mine with ...
r/technology is mostly consumer technology, and most of the conversation is about marketing / marketshare. Linux is considered not-a-subject because it's not commercial / mainstream / enterprise.
Cool, but here in England (espcecially the south-east where I live) the issue is NOT how much money / time it takes to build a house. Building a house is relatively cheap, at least compared with buying one. The problem is getting land to build it on. Planning permission for new homes is pretty much impossible to come b...
Most of them exist for safety. The NEC (national electrical code) is also NFPA 70 (the national fire prevention code, section 70). Most building codes are for safety regarding various structural forces that building may encounter (earthquake, wind speed, maximum amount of snow possible on roof) or other problems (moist...
No matter what happens, there will always be scarcity. Think about an average person 100 years ago, for example. That person would be very happy with 1/10 of the goods and services that the average person today demands. As time goes on, there are always new things that people want, that you couldn't have even predic...
No disrespect to your father, but because they were able to automate his job, goods were able to be delivered to everyone else at a cheaper price. This hurt him, but benefitted the rest of society. The reason you can buy a gallon of milk today for $5 today, instead of $25, is because of efficiencies that put people o...
i've come about as close as one could reasonably expect to that, i think. i've been a linux enthusiast since high school, and a software developer for just as long. i've also always been a fan of open source software and systems programming. my job is linux systems programming, contributing to an open-source project ...
This is a cool idea, but its still a long way off from being practical. At best this technology could be used to make cheap, functional shelter. The concrete walls look like they would use a massive amount of concrete. Every house would need like 30 truck loads compared with 10 truck loads of brick/wood that's used now...
I couldn't agree more with this statement! It's time for people to stop looking towards convention economies< conventional governments, and conventional lives. Hopefully technology can be advanced to a point where no one has to work, everyone has shelter, everyone has food, and everyone is free to explore their true ca...
We only had the industrial revolution to test this theory on a massive scale , but today's technology is different : instead of replacing one capability of humans-muscles , it's on the verge of replacing many or every capability of humans and at a faster rate.
You still gotta pay taxes! Buying land is swell but you will never get out of paying taxes as long as that land is part of an existing country. Not to mention electric bills; that is unless you have your own generators. You will need fuel for machines (and the generators if you dont want to pay the electric bills) an...
You all should get the point that this was a German group and basically there are other rules of free speech and so on. I'm a German my self and i don't get how people even consider that allowing a group like the KKK is normal in the US. However there were some attacks of a nazi group about a year or so ago and it just...
Then obviously you have comprehension issues. Copy/paste from the second link: I understand this is a benefit, but how much space does a Micro-SD card slot take? I don't see why we can't have both. There's no particular hardware reason a device can't have both. The problem is that there is no good UI for it. On...
Well first up let me say I support the concept of a government funded fiber solution within Australia. The issue I have with it is the implementation. But first let me take a back step and go over some of the big issues the Australian internet market has faced. The single biggest mistake made by government when it co...
In this situation the lawyers get up to 1/3rd of the settlement PLUS expenses. Now if math serves me, 1/3rd of $1.1b turns into 363million (PLUS expenses). 50 lawyers on this case?? 100?? Took 5 years to complete??? 100 lawyers working 5 years turns into $726,000 per lawyer-year. I can't imagine 100 lawyers ONLY ...
Seriously, the only ones who "win" are the lawyers involved. Yes, I have gotten the wonderful <$5 check or whatever credit or the obligatory free fry with purchase, etc. Now look at the lawyers involved, they get 40 to 60% of the total award. While yea, its great they got the end user the dollar two ninety eight th...
Some points about this: Opec is just 42%(or was last I saw) of production. Most of the US's oil comes from Canada and has been sold onto an open exchange since the 70s. Oil is shipped hundreds/thousands of miles and has a massive production industry behind it for less than a dollar a litre (I'm not including ...
This could be a reflection on Bose, too. We purchased a Bose system that had to be sent to the shop for the same problem twice while under warranty. About a year after the warranty expired the problem returned. At that point I had the Bose for nearly 5 years... I called them up, told them it was broken again, that ...
Maybe you are just getting old. I don't think the demographic you are describing are the ones with much time to post on facebook. My facebook newsfeed is as busy as ever.
That still doesn't work, because the copyright is generally owned by their label. An album is also the product of multiple band members and producers. Jim Morrison died at 27; what happens to The Doors' catalogue? However, let's say the copyright IS owned by a single person. Let's say it's an author who is 30 yea...
That's why you never ask a bureaucracy anything. If you ask for their opinion: they are going to give it. Pretend they did give their blessing. You just know someone is going to charge that MTA did something wrong. People are stupid; and like to complain any anything . They're going to want to know who, knew...
This is sensationalism at its finest. The article states: >there are a ton of new settings in there now, including many items that were previously only available in the desktop-based Control Panel interface. This is clearly an indication of how we get from here (Windows 8) to there (Windows 9, with potentially no desk...
A person can become addicted to anything that gives them an emotional reward. In the case of Facebook and other social media, this comes from the feeling of connectedness that a lonely person experiences when someone interacts with them - I think we're all familiar with the chemical rush you get when you notice a new m...
The argument shouldn't be whether or not to quit Facebook or stop Redditing. They are fads that advanced as the technology evolved. Think of television, "Oh my gosh my favorite show is on", nine seasons later the show had it's run. The difference is that Facebook has maintained a share of the Interneterverseosphere...
Isn't quitting cold turkey far easier than learning to use something in moderation, though? I find it challenging to have just a few drinks or just the occasional cigarette, but it feels more rewarding than tee totalling. There's something about quitting something completely that feels like a surrender, as if i'd be sa...
You are incorrect. Throwaway account as I work for one of these private companies, and I can tell you the speech reco of some of them is amazing especially the more CPU you throw at it. With just a few racks of commodity hardware it is absolutely possible to run speech reco on youtube's daily volume (72 hours/minute --...
As someone who works in the IC, and someone who has experience with the FBI's conduct of terrorism investigations, you can all rest assured that neither the NSA, the CIA, or the FBI is just gathering everyone's personal communications up into a huge database somewhere. Any redditors who know, or can Google, anything ab...
I work in a supervisor capacity over the central office equipment in a small rural phone company. I can't speak for what other phone companies do but I can guarantee that phone calls made between our customers are not recorded by anything. If someone in one of our towns calls someone in another one of our towns that ca...
You call it being a slave, but what's really happening is that you are consistently making the same choice. If google goes down, then you'd just make a different choice. By the way... the only reason that a google search is so fast is because they are using tens to hundreds of thousands of computers to precompute th...
Actually you couldn't create frictionless wetted surfaces (it would do the opposite) with this since the water would be pushed out of the way when the two surfaces would come in contact. This is the same reason it stops surfaces from being "slippery when wet". Any good lubricant combines 1) adhesion to the surface to b...
The edge is such a cool phone, but it's so effin expensive. I understand you pay a premium for capability, but it's twice the price of a nexus now . That's going to be the hardest part to compete with because there's still a whole year of unannounced phones that are going to be cheaper and have better specs by that ti...
Wrong . I assume OP doesn't work in finance. The S-1 is filed when a company shows interest in an initial public offering. Approximately 50% of companies that file an S-1 choose to stay private.
They showed enough interest to announce that they filed the form and are actively planning an IPO. So, is Twitter going public? Yes, unless some kind of business catastrophe happens. Big companies don't announce confidential filings like this unless they're planning to follow through.
In the 8+ years I've used Linux I've never had that happen except once when I'd manually installed the Nvidia driver (I needed the latest version for the hardware I was using) and forgot to update it when I got a kernel update. This is an issue of the makers of your distribution not keeping dependent package versions...
Actually, that's exactly the truth. We use both NVidia Quadro and AMD FireGL at work. The NVidia cards are supported by the proprietary drivers for decades, so that's what I generally recommend to home users, especially budget minded users who don't upgrade regularly. We use them in our designers workstations, but oc...
AMD has the console hardware market cornered. Why did that happen anyway? Edit: Never mind, figured it out - Profits for them off of consoles sucked - [Source]( -
That said, they are providing a product, and constructive criticism is the most important part of drawing the teams attention to flaws - its already well known that everyone loves VLC, so pretty much any criticism aimed at it is less "this blows", and more "it would be even better if"type stuff. Free or not, you ca...
So they pushed this MacBook Air clone that lacked the speed, battery life, screen, panache, and general usability of the Air, all for more money than an Air" I have the Asus Zenbook, and it's fantastic. As fast as an air (it's an SSD, they don't get much faster, sure you can have a variety in speed between brands, ...
would lead to extreme Internet censorship [Citation Fucking Required!] I'm serious, I've tried to figure out which sections of it they're actually referring to (their "three sources" are useless) but it seems like everybody screaming the word "censorship" is either: Mindlessly parroting it from some other p...
The article states that China is the largest new driver of money flushing into the bitcoin economy. If we logically follow the fact that Chinese markets are hot right now per their policy of flooding local banks via loan creation, backed by their central bank (a policy rigidly enforced to maintain the appearance of gro...
Although I may act like it sometimes, I'm significantly older than 12 years. I have, however, read the federal Legal Tender statute codified at 31 USC § 5103 are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts." Again, state laws vary, but m...
This is actually a pretty well written and detailed article. The internet and things like Twitter do not give people an excuse to threaten women, and other people. What I never seem to understand though is that things like Twitter are inviting the entire world to comment and are easily turned off. If I decided to bro...
Yes unlawful because you likely could no longer afford insurance for it. I love how car lovers think some robo law is going to force them into an automated car. That is not going to happen. Except for the already existing law requiring insurance. When I purchase a car in 2025. The insurance comes with the car. The ...
This is a bit short sighted and is potentially misleading to people who do not have in depth knowledge of an ISP. These would be installed at what is called a headend. This location will serve a specific geographical area. So while it may be true 20-30k to have the equipment for the fiber to reach be installed at th...
Yeah, that article is very uninformed. The author is correct in that the FCC's current proposal would lead to FCC AND ISP control over the internet. The ISPs will inspect every piece of data users send. It could even be compared to our terrible healthcare system here in the US. You'd have two sets of eyes inspectin...
This won't pass, as lately everything in congress has so many additional, unrelated add-ons that someone is just going to filibuster it. We need so many changes to this government it's sickening, and the only people that can change it are the idiots in office that are so corrupt that they won't.
The two Republican commissioners voted for no government regulation whatsoever. Republicans contend that the ISP's should not be hindered if they choose to enact fast lanes or charge whatever the market will bear. It's actually worse than Wheeler's plan who has at least installed provisions for checks.
Internet service providers want to change the internet from "equal speeds for everyone" (how it is now) to "each company pays more for more speed." So Netflix would have to pay Comcast or Time Warner a bunch of money in order to keep up their streaming quality. Comcast or Time Warner could also charge end users for the...
It's a disgustingly weak attempt at relevance by legislators starting to realize they're going to lose big in the next election. See, they could have actually mandated net neutrality in law.. they don't need to order the FCC to do anything, they could have skipped past policy and classification and outright stated ...
The republican commissioners did not vote against the proposal at the May 15th open meeting because they are opposed to "fast lanes". They voted against the proposal because they don't believe the FCC has statutory authority to promulgate any rules related to Open Internet (Net Neutrality) regulations. Commissione...
Throwaway for reasons that will become apparent. I have just started training for Comcast. It is long, and 'different' than how Comcast has been training and doing things in the past. It is outsourced to a domestic company that is NOT getting anything near these kind of problems for the other companies they outso...
It is illegal in some states/provinces to record people without their consent. Where I work on the phone, I'm allowed to defend my privacy by ending the call if it is actively being recorded. Please consider the miserable sod on the other side before recording. Odds are, outside of shit companies, they are gonna do w...
In case we forgot... it's the prosecutor's job to attempt to justify the evidence brought forth, and it's the judge's job to decide whether or not that evidence is actually legal/permissible.
Not quite.... The tech industry would stall out almost immediately. IP protects your interest in producing new tech., and makes it possible for you to get paid for what you come up with. Developers would have no reason to develop anything, since manufacturers wouldn't have any reason to pay them. So, really the "tool b...
Latency is complicated; it could be any number of things. The actual physical internet connection to the tower could be causing it. There could be too many users on the mobile tower, or it could be your mobile phone not having enough juice to transmit to the tower. (I'm not an expert on mobile for the record, just the...