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I've had to use comcast for more than 10 years now. It's interesting, to follow the history of this development. Way back in 2003-2007ish, they did not have any official limits. In fact, their service had been sold under the marketing term "unlimited internet" What they started doing around then, was forwarding peopl...
I don't think that would even work. If I'm interperting Comcast's financial reports , then you'd need to get over 40% of their customer base (~9M households) to cancel all services (not just internet) before they start getting into a negative cash flow situation. [That's ~1/3 of reddit's US users]( and it appears ...
You know you can go into your NetFlix account settings and adjust your stream quality to lower your bandwidth usage right? Low - 0.3GB per hour Medium - 0.7GB per hour High - 3.0GB per hour You are probably on Auto which will go to high if your connection is fast enough so at 300GB you could be watching clo...
The joke comes when you start to realize the bandwidth is already there, and their operation and maintenance cost for it are roughly the same or less now than they were 10 years ago. The system is already built, in the ground or hanging on the poles. I've seen pieces of coax still in use that have been hanging there ...
Miss read this for a second as Comcast tried to block out the sun and believed it whole heartedly till my brain snapped to.
As someone who's living under this (ATL) and has hit the 300GB cap limit once (thankfully they give us 3 grace periods, bless them! /end sarcasm) this is bullshit. When I got an automated call from Comcast stating I had hit my limit one month, I was confused. When I signed up years ago in college in Alabama and trans...
This may sound awful, but it might be better than the way things are right now. I live in Augusta, GA, one of the areas affected, and cuurrently, before this new plan, there is a flat data limit for everyone at 300GB. If you go over, you get massive charges, akin to going over data on your smartphone, and the internet ...
Comcast itself is entirely predatory. I was just stating that there are people who drastically overpay compared to the internet they use and this could help them a tiny bit (and yes fuck them over in other ways).
please don't do that. They route all the calls to us already. Us being SDC that is contracted out to do tech support. We are only allowed to fix minor problems such as laptop not able to connect. If you all start calling us like that we would just get an enormous amount of calls which we would get yelled at and would...
I live in GA. They started this on us back in January. I don't even remember a time when I just paid a flat fee for the internet. When they started they gave us 3 "courtesy" credits for the first 3 times we went over our 300GB allotment in the month. Needless to say I used those up the first three months. My plan c...
And with this detailed analysis, we have determined the best way to price and structure our data plans; just below the normal usage of the overwhelming majority of our users. And hence, all you fuckers will be paying overage fees and we can continue to run this awful company in an industry that will ultimate kill its...
Would you call it illegal if a shoe company decided to only sell its shoes in stores that specialize in shoes? No, because there are thousands of other shoe companies that will happily sell their shoes in department stores. It only becomes a monopoly if > There aren't going to be any options except for the ISPs f...
So many things wrong with this comment. First, if that would work, why wouldn't it already have happened for Comcast? Second, many people don't have a choice between lots of providers, and the merger would further decrease competition. Third, even if Google bought them out, with no competition, Google has less mo...
It's a regional issue. Some regions have competent managers that foster knowledge and actually push their teams and techs specifically to not be retarded cable monkies who can only screw things together and call it a day. Other regions decide to be slaves to the metrics (I can only spend X amount of minutes trying to s...
An insider would only really have access to a few servers, and not have to use malware to get access. Nor would an insider have to use proxies. Sneaker net is easier. Only point I've really got a beef with. I'm IT at a Fortune 500. I might as well be God within my personal fiefdom, which covers hundreds of PCs and do...
It never was about the movie. People are so easily distracted by stupid media bullshit they don't look at what's there. Look into the Motion Picture Association of America and their back door dealings to attack Google. Microsoft and Sony are two companies that also targeted Google because Google won't play ball with ...
firstly, computers logical operations are binary (1 and 0) which are power of 2 operations. for example if(1<0) would return a 0 for a false Storage for results and files and everything is 1 or 0, also being base 2. Processes on computers rely on this as storage for a char, string, int, etc is not only using facto...
I used to watch a lot of TV as a kid. Way too much, say 2-3 hours a day. And then I went to college and realized how many more (way more) fun things there are to do in life. So I don't really watch TV any more because I realize if I never watched TV again, I would still be a happy person, and crazier still, I would sti...
The UK is only "slightly less capitalist than the USA". Even left-leaning countries like Sweden aren't "socialist" by any meaningful definition of the term. [Here's a handy list of countries]( that have declared themselves to be socialist, to help you get some perspective.
Well, first, IBM claimed to have created a small experimental 7-qubit quantum computer in 2001. Second, there is a problem with expanding the number of qubits in a quantum computer. When you are dealing with a small number of qubits, it's (relatively) simple to have them each entangled with each other because it is ...
English is a living language. Yes, there need to be rules about what is correct and what isn't, because people need to be able to understand each other. Nevertheless, the language has changed a huge amount over time, and there's no reason to think or decide that the rules are now set in stone. I didn't mean to imply ...
I don't actually know much about it at all, but as I understand it it's a platform that you can integrate into some website, I assume their repo has a "demo" site that demonstrates interacting with Diaspora, and I would imagine that, in doing so (integrating with Diaspora), your information can be given to anybody (but...
As an adult material publisher I approve this message. People should be able to block their kids from porn sites or not see it themselves if so desired. It could also finally allow the reliable blocking of porn while allowing vital sexual health information. However the danger is from the oligarchs who will try and use...
Yes, stuff like the F-22 Date Line bug will happen with driver less cars. However a bug report will be filed, the bug patched, and the patch passed out to all cars operating that AI/OS in a responsible way. When an at fault accident, or even at fault close call happens to driver less vehicular, all simular driverless...
Also People ARE getting caught (32 in Turkey for example) and you can find more and more instances of people getting caught. Ok, first, I am assuming these are actual Anonymous being caught, and not just a whitewash to make the public feel as though the government is doing more than they are. Moving on from that ass...
It's obvious that with the illegal activities being fostered by the Internet, that a line needs to be drawn. However, I think that this bill is drawing the line in the wrong area. If a site is a conduit for illegal piracy, then why the hell is it still on the Internet? We don't let people operate meth labs and just f...
In general, the US Government has a positive relationship with India. Congress loves to hate on China, though. "Overseas" is best, "China" is a close second. EDIT: To elaborate because I sound flippant , see the seizure statistics were from China, and constituted 61% of all seizures -- India only had a value of $1...
Extraterritorialism isn't a new thing, both the US and Europe use it heartily to enforce competition law by extending their jurisdiction. In competition (and obviously Intellectual Property is an IP issue) the US has the effects doctrine, whereby if anything is intended to have an effect/has a substantive effect on US ...
If you are not logged in it doesn't associate your browsing to YOUR ACCOUNT. Yes, Google will know that an IP visited a certain site, however, it will not link to the account, and not suggest the results to reflect the ads you see. I have no idea where you got the idea that they would do that, but since their privacy...
I think we are forgetting this is their PUBLIC project.. Do we really want to know what the Japanese military is working on. They signed a pact to never go to war again, but I bet making robots fight for them not claiming the Japanese flag is their loophole.
Am I the only one that knows about 50 dollar unlimited talk, text, and web through walmart t-mobile? It's 52.02 a month, never a cent more, and the only non unlimited thing is after a certain amount (which escapes me) they take you from 4g to 3g. Its a big amount. I've had my smart phone for like 6 months, and I've onl...
And I'd rather have our medical professionals have basically their whole life as an experience pool to draw from when using joysticks and/or buttons to control the laparoscopic science wizardry box that's helping me stay alive. Fuck that, anyone who doesn't see the possible benefits of having someone that can do [thi...
There's a simple reason for this: they want to block the threat that Windows Phone represents before it becomes an issue. No one remembers Microsoft doing the same thing on the gaming side of their business? Hint: the then-prevalent view that "the Gamecube is for kids" did not come about by accident. There were leaked ...
From the LA Times: > The company’s specific technical explanation: “The mobile Web version of Google Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers such as Chrome and Safari. However, since Internet Explorer is not a WebKit browser, Windows Phone devices are not able to access Google Maps for the mobile Web." Cite: Transl...
Can't we just let people kill themselves in peace? Fuck. Killing yourself pretty much guarantees that your final act will be used to push an agenda (or agendas) with which you may or may not have agreed.
Basically, how I think this should go: There's an independent group of scientists (let's say deans from science departments at top universities, but really, that detail is small) from a wide variety of disciplines and who have NO ties, past or present, to any capitalistic interest, that allocate the R & D budget. Thi...
Yea, Democrat is not the same as liberal. Conservative denotes remaining with familiar conclusions when new evidence is presented. Liberal would imply that conclusions are modified once new evidence was presented. If they choose the conclusions of hypothetical religion and political rhetoric because they're more comf...
Solar, wind, hydro, bio fuels (burning methane), waste recycling (burning off waste as fuel). Nuclear does 1 thing - create power. Solar is interesting - you can develop a system that both sanitizes / cleans water AND provides power (note you effectively boil the water to create steam that drives a turbine. This wa...
Let's look at the per capita homicide rate of every OECD country then?: AUSTRALIA 1.0 AUSTRIA .6 BELGIUM 1.7 CANADA 1.6 CHILE 3.2 CZECH REPUBLIC 1.7 DENMARK .9 ESTONIA 5.2 FINLAND 2.2 FRANCE 1.1 GERMANY .8 GREECE 1.5 HUNGARY 1.3 ICELAND .3 IRELAND 1.2 ISRAEL 2.1 ITALY .9 JAPAN .4...
My thoughts when reading the title, "'May', why did he use such a stupid word if unlocking has already been 'made legal'" Read the article, "Oh, OP didn't read the article."
Judging people based on their phone choice is stupid and I'll explain why. You don't know anything about me. But if I told you I like Apple and the iPhone, you're going to draw conclusions about the kind of person I am based on that. The biases you have would lead you a conclusion that is completely wrong. I like A...
Now let's remove sales figures for Samsung phones under $500 >
The ONLY reason I switched to an S3 was because apple had become stale, nothing new they were coming out with was innovative anymore IMO. I've had the S3 since February. Hated the stock samsung version of android. It used loads of battery life, was slow and often crashed. Took it back twice and recieved two replaceme...
I bought an HTC Evo 4G LTE: it broke within a week. I exchanged it for a Samsung S3. Twice. Finally, I traded the third S3 (16GB) for a iPhone 4S (64GB). It's been almost a year, couldn't be happier.
I think the significance of them no longer being market leader is actually pretty significant due to their business model. Unlike cars, smartphones also come associated with a given ecosystem. Apple is different to other smartphone manufacturers as it is the only one that gets access to the apple ecosystem. While on ...
Or who realize that Windows is a crappy system. Seriously, I work on a large system in C#/.NET, and while those are great platforms, whenever you go outside it, things start to suck. Examples... Total path names must be 260 chars or less. ..in 2013. A number of file names are simply prohibited (such as 'con') ...
Ever heard of hooligans, ultras or just overly serious fans that break (minor) laws and sometimes jaws to promote their team? I know it is only a minority (albeit not too small) but it shows that it is not only just for fun!
I see a lot of "/r/technology hates Apple" comments. Some of us actually have legitimate reasons for disliking Apple. For me it's the way they approach iOS development. Lets look at it from the perspective of a student who just wants to try out game development for iOS. He just wants to make a game for fun to play with...
The point is that he can't reliably use XP after April 8th, so he needs to move to something else (or have all his personal and banking info stolen after a 0-day installs a keylogger, which will probably cost him a lot and impact his ability to pay the rent he's complaining about). Therefore, he needs to get a new OS, ...
The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing—“an amazing feat,” says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London. Lines like this annoy me because they're ignoring the timescales involved here. It's deeply unlikely some forgotten Roman ...
that's absolutely what the cause of this was. especially when they started talking about oligopolies, because that's what's going on here and that's what they're (justifiably) being accused of. I'm really glad that I missed their entire campaign of ignorance since I don't have cable/satellite TV, and I don't listen t...
At my local station in Ontario the difference is 12% today between regular and premium. Regular is $1.286/L ($4.868/US Gallon) while premium is $1.440/L ($5.451/US Gallons). The price of regular here is slightly below the current provincial average of $1.319/L. From the sounds of some of the numbers above, US gas i...
The universe is not Turing Decidable, and recognizing it would probably be EXSPACE-Hard. That means that we would need a computer that is far bigger than the universe in order to simulate the universe, which would just be silly, as it would be easier to just create the universe instead of simulating it that way.
the reality will be a heavily regulated internet. And that is exaclty why it will be very easy to join unregulated intranets like TOR. Ok, its not realy a intranet but what I want to say is: Many governments will try stuff similar to the UK. Unknowingly they urge more and more people into stuff like TOR, darknet, d...
It's not the same thing. I have been into cameras since I was 16 and have shot thousands of pictures over the past 20 years of my (large) family get-togethers. I've shared the photos with them and they all love it. But I use the camera for 5-10 minutes at a time and then I put it down and go grab a drink/snack and...
I went in expecting a terrible commercial and it ended up hitting me hard. I was that kid when I was a teenager, didn't really socialize with my family and I was always just in the background. Only difference tho was that I didn't have that technology back then (well I did have the Gameboy), but I always tried (and sti...
The cost to business has already been hundreds of millions of dollars in excess development and maintenance costs That's amazing. I'd love to examine the research behind this claim. EDIT: Put on sunglasses, then visit the letter author's [glorious web zone]( EDIT 2:
Your scenario won't last long. ok, let's take a look at the costs. You pay $70/month for 2GB. NetFlix says that a High video consumes [upto 1GB/hour]( That's a nice round number, so we'll go with that. How many videos on High do you watch a month? Me? Probably 30 since I have Amazon Prime and I watch TV and movies....
There is no positive to this only negatives. Unless you are an Executive at ATT where you get more money in your pocket for this. I will try my best: Say Lukeb127 has a really cool website idea. It is so good that it will replace reddit and digg and fark and all of those sites. So Lukeb127 starts coding away on the...
How short sighted are you that you don't think this will extend beyond AT&T very quickly once every other carrier starts realizing they can charge for data twice? Speaking of, that's certainly what they are doing. Can I only browse content that sponsors are paying for? Without my own data plan? So long as I can't, they...
Complete tech-newb here. I saw this and my first face was a blank stare. Could someone
Kind of ironic but I still think drones should stay. This overly dramatic bullshit on how drones will end the world is just silly. Only difference is where the pilot of a the drone is. Will it make the world safer? Doubtful. But will it keep people out of harm's way. Will collateral damage happen where people still ...
This could be an amazing idea. But it could be used against the average internet user. A while ago a friend an I where chatting about internet accountability. And how that when you are browsing you can be as anonomus as you allow yourself to be. A device such as this would identify the user at the keyboard at any one...
Meh. Until I can have the brand new content at the same time as regular HBO subscribers, I'm not excited. Allow me to watch Game of Thrones (or whatever show is your thing) via Prime on Sunday night at 9 PM Eastern, same as everyone else, and we're golden. I'd even pay a small premium ($0.99/episode seems fair) on top ...
He isn't talking about censorship, he's talking about soft-censorship. Censorship is the government stopping you from saying certain things. Soft-censorship can take a variety of forms, but for simplicity I'll list the varient he's referencing. When a society is, by and large, run on corporate terms, the corporatio...
The US may never convert, I for one, have been using the metric system for myself and my nerdiness. Its nice when I have to communicate to foreign coworkers. I may not speak their language, but with measurements, we understand each other. Seriously, its not that hard. Switch your phone to metric. You'll have it down ...
I'm gonna hop on the "not completely wrong" wagon - if your hardware isn't very good, you just won't be able to handle it. My old ass hard drive can't really handle doing more than 10 Mb/s file transfers (well SOMETIMES I see it doing 40 megs a second, but not common at all), and quite often you won't really be getting...
His friend's statement is true, if carefully qualified. For downloading large files there is an inarguably noticeaeble difference in speed. For most internet users who do some streaming, but mostly are just browsing and checking email, there will be no noticeable difference. This is because the vast majority of fil...
Let's provide a little telecom industry context. Back in 2010, I did a brief stint (desperate for a job) selling 1.5 - 3.0 Mb/s DSL door-to-door for a shit-can of a company called Windstream. The markets I was selling in had either a local cable company that offered 10 - 50 Mb/s speeds or Comcast (which was 20-50 at ...
This statement could be accurate from a user perspective. The overall speed of a network connection is impacted by many factors; bandwidth, latency, congestion, distance, characteristics of intermediate devices. Bandwidth and latency are two things that can be easily measured and accurately describe a user's experie...
Here's the real reason ISPs are fighting so hard against high bandwidth internet: Most ISPs also provide TV as well as internet and make far more off cable than internet services. The second they provide a 1Gbps connection we will question why we're paying for HDTV cable when we can just stream the same quality over ...
I see bandwidth and speed being used interchangeably on some of these posts so just want to clarify for OP: Think of Google Fiber 1Gbps as a very fast sports car (Bugatti's Veyron) and AT&T 24mbps as a family SUV (Subaru Forester). One has a much higher maximum speed then the other. But speed doesn't equal Bandwid...
Dislike this article for several reasons... For starters, why would you disqualify MMOs simply because it features a custom-created female lead, rather than a forced-choice for one? Stupid qualifier. Next - I'd be interested to see how the breakdown of protagonists in action games matches the actual gender mix in r...
Well, I think the idea originally was that wholesale data and call collecting would remove the guesswork/uncertainty out of intelligence. Back in the cold war, you heard something from a guy, or tracked a guy going to a location, and had to connect the dots, and make sure someone wasn't trying to trick you. Data inte...
I see it being a hard sell. In a lot of areas, water/sewer systems are managed and serviced by private companies, but are owned by the people it serves. The down side is, every property owner is a debtor on the capital cost and is liable for operating expenses and upgrades, and that is written into the deed.
I don't pay your cable bill so I'll take your word for it. I did, however, spend a lot of time doing planning and budgeting on large networks probably a lot like the one you're using. (I also got the fuck out of the business.) [Here]( is one analyst who shares your dread. Personally, I disagree with his conclusion, b...
It is the usually defensive bullshit. Pick something really wrong that is endemic in one party and people come out of the woodwork to point out that there are some people in the other party with the same issue so therefore both parties are equally bad. It is the "but mo.......m, everyone is doing it" defense. And i...
The title isn't misleading. The crystals they currently use don't emit light constantly, but blink on and off. The times that they're off harms the efficiency of the system. The title didn't claim free energy, just that they're constantly on. And they are. You apply power and they are continuously on. This is much bett...
Yeah, that new guy's gonna get fired for that eventually while Monster cock will get a promotion to middle management after 3 solid years of sliming. That's why Best buy is a piece of shit and you shouldn't shop there. I bought a laptop that the company would not return, the fucking laptop had a cracked LCD when purc...
For the niche market that needs 1200fps at 336x96 I'm sure this product is great. For the dude producing a short video of seagulls flying around to be posted on Youtube, this is probably a great product. From a professional standpoint, it is a gimmick. There isn't a substantial market for 1,200 fps at 336x96. It is...
You are missing the point of the article. Not to mention being a huge douche.
Well yes it does seem like a lot of them see furthering their political career and essentially bending over for the highest lobbying power as more important than protecting people's rights. They will of course talk about protecting people's rights when it seems like this will make their audience feel better, but very...
The U.N. does a lot of things, and what you're suggesting would require the application of military force (peace keeping/N Korea) and massive amounts of money (food), which is but a few of the methods that the U.N. applies to make changes to the world. What we're talking about here is focusing on the philosophy of a p...
Have you tried running the applications on 64bit machines? Chances are they'll still work anyway If you can't use the 64bit server you could install a load of 32bit virtual servers Is the NAS a separate box to your main server? What is the transfer speed like from that machine? Does it have any maximum number of si...
But "pulling the patent" will be even worse because, if they "pull the patent" then anyone can make a product including this. Apple could technically block anyone from doing it at this point.
To be honest it doesn't sound like the worst job. I recently worked at a mill during one of their shutdowns for boiler refurbishment(10 story boiler). I worked as a contractor working 10 hours a day 7 days a week. I also worked the night shift from 7:30 pm to 6 in the morning. Many places inside the mill section we wer...
It is the race to the bottom. I quit a job this spring because the company had absolutely no respect for the workers that did the hard work to make the company actually run. I am a college graduate and saw some good potential in an expanding company, however my hard work went unnoticed. Although we were not temp hire...
Bullshit. I used to work in manufacturing - this is all about "passing the savings on to you". Have you seen the profit margins on a car? Or in a warehouse? Or at a retail store? I've worked in, and seen all of the above numbers. They're low , incredibly low. Why are people being treated like shit? Because Ameri...
In the event your stunning display of grammar is not, in fact, a troll: Spelling specifies concepts and grammar sets rules to keep ambiguity low. When people use the wrong words or mangle the words, it's not always possible to figure out what they meant when reading at-speed. After you read enough, your brain gets ...
I agree with most of what your saying - except you're overstating the help from Microsoft. Microsoft was a key player for bringing important software to the platform, but that was not THE key to today's success of Apple. Jobs was not a designer - never studied it - dropped out from school, etc. All true. He was rathe...
I don't even know what Anonymous's motto is anymore. I want to like Anonymous, but their ego of laying down justice on the internet is sometimes embarrassing to explain to my friends. And their only Public Relations is crappy youtube videos. No one will send that video to people who have power to change for good, becau...
I don't think it is dumb if they actually follow through - I'd rather be taxed and have the government/media/economy embrace the digital nature of culture. Everything digital is infinitely copyable, and trivially shareable (look at piracy...). You cannot charge for a single copy of something that is infinite in supply...
Campus IT only has so many people. Its easy to monitor for P2P connections autonomously, searching for individual downloads is much more difficult and requires a person looking at every connection (very probably illegal). Also you are protected by the DDL hosting site, if a content provider issues a copyright infring...
Magnet links are just that, links. Torrent magnet links have the torrent hash value (a string of letters and digits that is unique to that torrent) instead of domain name in HTTP links, for example. They also may have adresses to trackers after the hash. Torrent files contain all that as well as a list of files, size...
I went to the Pirate Bay for the first time this week, but unfortunately they didn't have what I wanted. What drove me to want to pirate something? I need a math textbook (Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Techniques And Enrichment Units, 8th Edition), and I decided I wanted to try an ebook instead of having to drag ...
They said the same thing when Napster got taken down. People thought that no one would go out of their way to learn how to get a torrenting program, learn how to access the files from their torrent and add it to their music player, learn how to search online for a torrent, learn what seeding was, etc. when they are use...
If you're hoping to vote for a third party, the voting system in USA sucks with an effective duopoly. The electoral system favours two likely winners where unless your preferred party is hugely popular, you make the best vote by betraying your favourite. Yes, USA has a weak democracy compared to foreign countries which...
It would do if we had an impartial system for weighing of votes. Any system of weighing, whether it be on how systemically educated you are to what jobs you have held are going to be biased towards received wisdom. Also bear in mind education and positions of power predominantly goes to the wealthy anyway, so this does...
The more flexible and dynamic something is, the greater becomes urge to control it. By something I mean: Are there any other gods? No %god_name% is the only one! Is there going to be a satiric comedy performance today? No, they hung themselves, sorry. I have invented an eternal power generator which is perfect in eve...
Interesting that you presume that I didn't understand how the system worked. I didn't go into nitpicky details because I don't see how they affect anything I said. I was simply pointing out that it wasn't necessarily some nefarious scheme or back-door-dealing that results in regional monopolies for cable provision; it...