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Gay marraige- Paul opposes forcing states to recognize any type of marriage. He does not support banning gay marriage. Gay marriage is permitted in every state right now. A government not providing benefits and recognition for a type of relationship, whether's it's a opposite sex, same-sex, incestuous or polygamous one...
Think of the compound microscope that you use in college science courses. You have the increasing magnification rates of 40x, 100x, 400x, and 1000x. The greater the magnification, the more "sensitive" the observation object is to movement because you have very few, if not fractions of, micrometers of leniency.
A little background: I've had this mac for... hmm I'm not sure, actually. At least two years. It's OS version 10.6.8. I wouldn't normally get one, but my mom really wanted one because "macs don't get viruses" (I know now that that isn't true). Since I didn't have any substantial arguments against buying one, I went...
I agree with you that there are a lot of "pro-piracy" postings on r/technology, but I do try to seek out balanced discussions and read the anti-piracy/pro-copyright side as well. My problem becomes that, in verifying their numbers and methods, most of the anti side's rhetoric relies on pathos ("we've lost all these j...
He wasn't saying that the workers should make as much as the managers, he was saying that the pay should be proportional. Basically the same complaint that worker makes X dollars, and the CEO makes 350*X dollars + stock options + golden parachute. It's ridiculous.
I'm still a little pessimistic, only because I'm skeptical of humans. I think the hangup on these cars will be the same as the hangups on some modern technology...people trying to make a quick buck. We saw today the massive amounts of energy and money it takes to overturn a patent troll on an electric shopping cart...
Double-think. "Capitalism" means free markets and competition. But "capitalism" (in current practice) means closed markets, legal monopolies, businesses writing law, purchased congressmen. Then there's "crapitalism", with the above negatives, but socialism for the rich and successful - see: bank bailouts, 15% cap gai...
The laffer curve is also difficult to dissect because rates of taxation have different effects on companies of different sizes, companies of different structures, companies that produce different goods etc. etc. Their marginal profit curves can be heavily influenced by rates of taxation or they can be slightly effected...
I wasn't saying that competition is bad, or even that the government is the driving force behind the competition. I was saying, that in most countries the owners of telecom infrastructure are forced to rent these services wholesale to their competitors. This ensures that healthy competition can take place. In contras...
All they have to do to monetize it is to sell it at sex shops Something similar happens in the Japanese scifi novel Rocket Girls . The lead character complains about having some creep want to buy her used skintight spacesuit. The same lead character later does precisely that in order to fund a shopping trip durin...
Yes, but your dinner jacket isn't made of materials that are designed to allow you to sweat in a vacuum without turning into human jerky, as well as allow you to lose excess body heat in almost absolute zero without turning you into a meat popsicle.
As mentioned by someone else here in the comments, existing suits aren't tailormade for each astronaut, coming in specific sizes. You save money due to economics of scale, and replacement parts are cheaper to stock and transport to space. Also, in emergencies, you don't have to get the exact suit that is fitted to you...
Yes. In almost every way you could define fake, THIS IS FAKE, and doing a disservice to ACTUAL AI research out there. Let me elaborate: All the responses are of course preprogrammed. They are supposed to hide that this machine is fully deterministic in its communication. It can do three things: 1. Match image 2. Lear...
Here is a simple guide to avoiding 6 strikes: VPN or Proxy A VPN or Proxy will re-route your traffic so it looks like you are connecting from a different IP. There are some considerations you should take when choosing a VPN: Make sure they [do not keep any logs]( Be sure you can pay with [bitcoin]( Make s...
This is insane. Any lawyers out there have an idea how this can be stopped or at least bring more attention? I keep reading about more rulings that and IP address DOES NOT mean specific person. If the same extremely faulty "evidence" is used to accuse people of a crime they may or may not have committed, how is this...
There's also less opportunity and money in live performing than there has been in the past. Before recorded music was widespread and easily available, live musicians were your best/only options, so venues, especially restaurants and clubs, were much more likely to hire (and importantly, pay) bands to provide music. N...
Glad filabot isn't the vaporware we all expected it to be a few years ago but pegging this as some glorious answer to endless plastic filament is unrealistic in reality. first off the bat, filament must be consistent in quality. This goes for both diameter and density. I print in mostly 3mm PLA, my PTFE tube can ...
Damn it Reddit! Stop bitching for 2 seconds and realize this isn't some over-funded, over marketed, incremental corporate profit initiative. These guys are leveraging crowd funding to try and innovate an interface that really does need innovating. That smartphone you are using is the result of advances in interface...
I used SRWare Iron for a few weeks, then I read this:
I was under the impression that yes indeed Google provides anormous amounts of information, but the NSA doesnt exactly need Google to access your data. The NSA has the capability to access the servers of your internet providers and gather the intel they need to gather your behavioural patterns.
Thanks for taking the time to gather and post the links. I am being sincere, BTW. I read most of them (ok, I skimmed some, read some. your effort was not in vain). My point is not that Android had 100% coverage for apps with a tablet layout. It's that most of the apps I use do have a tablet layout whichI then general...
Kodak competes (and has been competing) with companies such as Xerox and HP. They aren't competing with an RRD, rather they supply and service high resolution commercial printing machines to RRD. Kodak initially spun off their commercial printing business when they sold it to Sun Chemical, who then spun the division of...
Change its business model? No thanks, I like my free subscription to google services. There really aren't any other ways for websites to make money besides subscription fees and ads. If it's not one, it's usually the other. Ads, like 'em or hate 'em, are necessary. They serve many purposes, first and foremost bei...
Not sure why you're being down voted this is the best
It does a check against Maps number DB when receiving a call, the permission is necessary to display the name in the call screen and store it in call history Maps doesnt run in the background for me, and it's just loaded up any time a caller is not on your contact list via an activity intent (which is not the same as...
OK, so what's broken now? I removed location rights from the Facebook app, now can't get in to see the permissions. Did Google give fb back location access? What if I change my mind now, do I have to uninstall and reinstall fb, will that even work?
What's broken is why you see the permissions in the first place, and this is the largest source of confusion. Google/Android provides public APIs to do common functions. ELI5: They provide basic programming functionality, so that developers don't have to re-invent the wheel every time they need a function. Sometimes...
As a developer, I'm glad they removed it. Not because my apps do anything nefarious, but because turning off individual permissions WILL cause all sorts of bugs and crashes. Apps were never supposed to handle this situation. The app requests certain permissions in its manifest, and if the user installs it, the app wi...
On your last visit, you bought Chicken-Burrito(s)... maybe you'd like to try our new Mango Fish Tacos!!!" Sounds like they are offering you something new to try. >Anytime I see ANY kind of predictive-marketing trying to pigeon-hole me.. I purposely go out of my way to be as unpredictable as possible. Sounds an aw...
I was responding to the fact that you stated it's not vital more than once. Huh? You really didn't, you just mentioned that iPhones do it. I tried to answer the question you wrote about why an Android application as written will crash if you pull a permission out from under it while an iOS app was built with that sec...
I can tentatively agree with not giving them a complete pass, but I would have to ask: in what way are they any more culpable than anyone else in the corporation? Lawyers do not make the decision to (in this context) mine data and sell it to interested parties. That's a strictly business/managerial decision. If law...
After some research I think you must be referring to the financial times piece on Database Marketing. Those numbers primarily refer to an old practice of list generation that utilized sweepstakes and promotions to come up with lists of contacts and gain "implied" consent thurugh the filling out of a form. This could ...
Its actually very easy to do from the programming side. You have it listen for preset incoming commands and keywords like: Are you a bot r u a bot Are you real? Are you a real person? etc. And you have a list of pretyped set responses: LOL No. thats stupid. Umm yea, im totally a bot LO...
It isnt just the bots you need to be weary of. My friend got matched with a girl, they chatted briefly and she asked to meet up in a public place. It was about a 20 min drive away, he was hesitant but since he "had nothing better to do" he got her cell number and went to meet her there. He shows up and texts her, she...
I was thinking bot the other day and I thought she was about to try and divert me to a website or 800#. Turns out she was just a good looking woman 19 miles away that wanted to get laid and kept getting ignored because everyone thought she was a bot. I kept waiting for the punchline like "So how much cash you have?" or...
Thats why you have your bot pause in sending chat to them for X amount of time and then continue the convo back up to try and convert them. You drop 3-4 lines and in your last line, have something like "BRB, gotta go take my dog on a walk babe". then you set a timer to wait X amount of minutes until you send a reply,...
Modship on Reddit has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. It is closest to Authoritarianism if one actually cares to label it, but at its core, it is nepotic. Sometimes mods will call a "public vote" for new leadership (this is extremely rare, but can happen), but that still falls under leadership deigning in o...
Money wise its easy, environementally much more difficult. For starters they're made from rare earth metals and have a limited life span. The majority of the planets rare earth metals come from China, where they're a byproduct of lead manufacturing. But since they more valuable they end up producing lead just for the...
Doesn't matter. Lenovo installs a superfish root certificate with no scope to which has been cracked. > Password to it is komodia And because of this certificate, your computer will automatically trust anything that has been signed by it. Think of window updates which you don't need confirmation windows.
It wasn't to comply with the government's wishes. Superfish is adware and it was placed on Lenovo consumer PCs to net Lenovo a small portion of the advertising revenue generated by Superfish. At the absolute best, this is an example of a company carelessly installing more crapware onto their products and compromising...
I'm not from the US, so I'm not well versed on the activities of the ACLU, but this is why I included the word "ostensibly" in my comment. I was hoping the intentional ambiguity would spare me from downvotes, perhaps people just don't know what the word "ostensibly" means?
My position is that there's nothing wrong with trying to get others to agree with your viewpoint, whether you're a billionaire with a media empire or a homeless person on the street - yes, the billionaire will better be able to promote his ideas, but when it comes down to it people will decide whether to agree or disag...
Out of curiosity, how much of what happens at Apple can actually be attributed to Steve Jobs? Does he contribute to the engineering, design, ideas, what? If he's really involved, then Apple is somewhat reminiscent of Stark Industries, with a super-genius engineer at the company's head.
Did we really need an -entire- feature article to say : "The Microwave".
Waaaait a minute. Cable companies are investing boatloads of money in DOCSIS 3.0 to speed up their internet offerings. Which is great for users and for competition. And makes cable... the bad guys? Mobile companies (4G) and local telco's (VDSL) are not making similar investments in the US, and are printing cash (US m...
While I do agree with you, the story also goes that Deep Blue was allowed to study a lot of Kasparov's earlier games, whereas he wasn't allowed to study all the test games that Deep Blue had played against other chess players. And if several humans were altering the algorithms between matches Kasparov wasn't just compe...
ryeinn says he wants to know about these tools because he's never heard of them. pyroxyze responds and recommends NetMeter. You become hysterical demanding to be able to install WINDOWS software on your "D-LINK". I come along and make you more angry, and you thought it wouldn't be possible. ^_^
I've had this one situation where my Windows 7 wasn't connecting to my internet. I could only use Google. Meaning: I couldn't get to Reddit/Facebook/Yahoo, anything. Just Google search. I couldn't even get to the links that Google search pulled up, just had the search results. On all my installed browsers which was Chr...
I will leave this here: dan@li58-42>curl reddit.cm <meta content="0;url= <title>reddit.cm reddit</title> <meta name="description" content="reddit.cm"> <meta name="keywords" content="reddit.cm"> <p> </p> dan@li58-42>curl -I " HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Cache-...
Same for Britain too, where I'm from. We allocate seats in Parliament by constituencies and the fact that some geographic regions are safe seats for specific parties shows that FPTP isn't very fair in terms of allocating overall votes. i.e. ~23% of people voted Liberal Democrat in the 2010 UK elections.... yet they...
The article is terrible because it makes it seem like the US just up and decided to shutdown a gambling website because Jesus . While the medeval gambling laws that exist in the states have far more complex reasons for existing than just neo-puritans, in actuality Bodog knowingly violated American law by accepting A...
While that's true, it's not that simple. It's not like congress is doing this completely on their own accord. Apple spent ~$2.25 million on lobbying last year (ref: The same site says total lobbying expenditures last year were about $3.3 billion. Some of the lobbying goes to things mostly specific to that interest...
Exploiting loopholes in the intent of a law does make one an asshole, yes. There is no such thing as a loophole. There is tax code, and there are people who know the code, and those who don't. Again, if you have a problem with it, contact your congressional reps. >There's a big difference between "I'm adding my c...
I think you're forgetting that consumer anger can force companies and governments to change practices to avoid bad PR/boycotts (though usually only in token ways). If consumer anger were harnessed to punish these practices it would no longer be in the interest of shareholders to follow them. The "this is how the system...
Foreign tax credits are provided to prevent such double taxation; the foreign tax credit limitation is not double taxation, and is in fact the first time such earnings were taxed.
Apple doesn't even make sense as a company anymore. They own over 80 billion dollars in cash reserves. What are they selling products for? Their company CAN'T invest that much money any more, and they are continuing to rack up money day by day. It is sociopathic to continue to try to continue to use tax loopholes and t...
you are slightly off. Basically in the Android world, they utilize the Java programming language, but they also borrow the Java API Structure, Sequence, and Organization. That is to say, all of the code in Android was written from scratch (minus the 9 infringing lines), but in order to appeal to Java programmers, t...
INAL but, isn't this document far to vague to be of any real use even if it were endorsed in some way? The sorts of protections you get from amendments to a constitution tend to have much more specific language. My worry is that candidates could just endorse this and score points while the document remains too vague ...
Krivvan's post was on to something: previous rovers couldn't do complex anaylsis like Curiosity, which has routinely been compared to a science lab on wheels. Apparently, the science equipment is about 10x more/bigger in terms of sheer mass, which I can only assume allows for both more, and more precise, measurements ...
In the beginning, there was hydrogen. Lots of it. All over the place. Then it started forming clouds. The clouds got dense enough that they collapsed into themselves. This in turn pulled more hydrogen in. As we all know, gravity is a bitch. Eventually the pressure and temperature inside the cloud got so high that hydro...
This was a private project(s). It says a lot that you think anyone wanting to persue anything practical must be doing it for school. Im 27. I set homework not do it. And what I hate are bullshitters and timewasters. Anyone can have an idea. There are more ideas than time in the universe to complete them. Reddit attra...
If it was really an issue I would just wipe the drive now. I had very little on demonoid so personally I am not afraid at all. There is way too much wrong with the case that they could ever get you for anything unless you were a major uploader anyway.
No ... there's really just one big log for the server. For what.cd ... they use nginx with a php based torrent/forum. nGinx serves up the assets and caches much of the content and pages (so for many pages a request is served solely through nginx and never hits the, much slower, php backend). Point is though ... t...
Well yes the rail system in the U.S. is older, but its not bad, it's just not designed for passenger rail service. The rail system in the U.S. has 220,000 km of track so upgrading even a small percentage between major cities is expensive, also 40% of freight in the U.S. is moved by train so those tracks would have to o...
Bitcoins are an invented currency without a government to mandate its use. Everything in this world has value based on a consensus (markets). Even your precious dollar. Even your previous gold. Bitcoin is the same way. Its not more real or fake than the balance your bank gives you. No government needs to mandate th...
I'm not sure what side you fall on based on your comment but i'll say my piece here. There is no legal guarantee of anonymity on reddit. If content on reddit ends up being limited due to the Mods fear of being outed then so be it. The argument that it is our right as redditors to do shit that we want kept secret f...
Deleted my comment. It felt pointless in the end to state the obvious and say that doxxed redditors should have been FAR more careful with keeping their identities secret, or maybe that VA - knowing that he had a family to provide for and if outed could have lost it all - and others maybe shouldn't have manned controve...
This is completely true, as someone who does a lot of laser welding, reflectivity and the absorption coefficient of a given frequency of light and material are important. Things like polished aluminum have a tendency to damage optics as they reflect so much light. Likewise organic materials (wood, rubber) are usuall...
That's an interesting question... the cop-out answer is that it's different for everyone and it's a matter of 'whatever blows your hair back.' But I'll just tell what you blows my hair back. The fundamentals are definitely algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Algebra teaches you 'process.' Just think of order of ...
I don't know why they try so hard to adhere to the AR dimensions. You could build such a stronger gun if you modeled it more like a Halo gun, or even a bullpup configuration. This design puts so much stress on the buffer ring. Even in professionally manufactured polymer lowers such as the plum crazy, you can see the ...
A civil revolt would be impossible for the US armed forces to stop in any manner that would allow the nation to move on as a whole. Sure, they could carpet bomb city centers and fire cruse missiles into meeting areas, but that's not going to win hearts and minds, and will only fuel the insurrection. The standing arme...
There's a lot of ATF decisions that I don't agree with, but this honestly makes sense. What would you have them do? Regulate every piece? Most pieces? Where do you draw the line? You can't fire without a hammer spring, but would you regulate a piece of bent wire? Do you regulate the fully assembled rifle? Would ...
Just to clarify for everyone. This is only 1 piece of a gun. The 'lower' piece of the receiver. The receiver is what the ATF defines as 'The gun' and if the receiver is broken into upper and lower sections it is the 'lower' section that is defined as 'the gun' It's the piece that holds the all important serial number...
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What's funny is that in the Developer Preview version of Windows 8 there was a registry key that allowed you to completely turn off the Metro Interface. When Microsoft found out that 90% of the dev's testing it had turned off metro, they got rid of the registry key.
I stopped by a new Microsoft store last week, curious as an android user, formerly blackberry and iPhone. I grilled the guy to get up to speed on the new Windows options. The store was pretty crowded, but my wife pointed out that the people were mostly employees. Meanwhile at the Apple store you have to wait in line ...
I've been a Verizon customer for about 9yrs. When I left sprint for Verizon, Verizon was great. 9yrs later, here I am shelling out almost $200/month for myself and my wife to have smartphones w/ a decent data/txt plan... Might just have to go rouge, unlock my phone like a fucking anarchist and call it a day.
Good for them. As an architect, this is the first I've heard of a company (or large organization, govt or other) seriously questioning the validity of building intensive infrastructure in an area where people really should reevaluate where they are living. It is unstable land that is prone to flooding and hurricanes (o...
My local print shop was raided by the feds; they were investigating counterfeiting done by "a laser printer that is listed as being sold to you". The printer had been stolen from the shop 6 months prior during a break-in. Luckily the shop owners had filed a police report with the laser printer & model listed on it. I c...
Want me to address the music industry specifically? First off, here: Secondly: Third, once again refer to how the music industry [dealth with cassette tapes]( and [digital media such as cd's and mp3 players]( What can they do now? Nothing. They're fucked. They've stuck in their ways of trying to keep a walled g...
I doubt it. In order to change the delta V (direction and velocity) of a body in space, we must apply enough energy to it to overcome it's inertia (Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion.) You can do this one of two ways. Short term application of large amounts of energy (chemical rocket), or long term application of ...
Absolute mass is irrelevant, what matters is mass per energy, since your money is poportional to energy and rocket cost is porportional to mass. Since nuclear fuel makes a whole lot of energy it's not that bad. Though we can do some math. The cheapest way to launch the spent fuel away from earth is just launch it t...
There's a difference in the nature of the two things under discussion. In the case of global warming, you're talking about consideration of whether a particular phenomenon is occurring or not and what its cause is. This is a question of science. In the case of thorium reactors you're talking about advocacy for adop...
This is a good comparison of nuclear power vs coal power. Nuclear power is like airplane travel, coal power is like automobile travel. Coal power has numerous issues and generally is extremely high as far as pollution is concerned, as for natural gas, fracking would explain why that is hazardous. There are plenty of ac...
I'm super happy with my hybrid drive. I did add a msata ssd to my laptop as well, but the hybrid drive by itself was amazing. I hope Microsoft gets us a sane partitioning scheme in windows 9. As it is, it is stupidly difficult to get your windows installation, user data, log files and dbs, swap and hibernate files...
I don't really see the issue. In the desktop world, there are 2, maybe 3 OSs everyone knows (including Linux, which makes up single digit representation and is for all intents and purposes not a consumer OS), 2 CPU vendors in Intel and AMD , 2 GPU vendors in Nvidia and AMD/ATI (3 if you count Intel, which I don't, beca...
when people who have never invested in anything in their life suddenly don't get the returns they gambled on People are upset because they had hope for a company, and now they do not. No one was waiting to cash in on the returns of an "investment" because it was never an investment. You (not just you, a lot of thre...
This is beyond stupid. Kickstarter is not an investment website. It's a website where you "donate to" (read: purchase from) a company that you think has the potential to meet their goals. You then receive which ever shiny little perk they promised you for the size of the donation. Who the hell thinks this is a scam...
That is hardly the only logical conclusion. Statistical analysis indicates that there is exactly one planet with life on it. Any other number is built upon a tower of assumptions. [A completely opposite theory to yours is that once a species develops technology they turn inward instead of outward.]( Perhaps civilizat...
Another shitty article on medium, written by one of my favorite radfems. I really like this conjecture: >This is because all computers are reliably this bad: the ones in hospitals and governments and banks, the ones in your phone, the ones that control light switches and smart meters and air traffic control systems. ...
It's quite funny to see everybody reading this as if it was new and full of knowledge. It's always been that way, it will always be. It's capitalism kicking our butts to make more software, faster and this dumb girl should keep on tweeting l33t h4x0rZ stuff instead of writing endless wall of clueless retarded shit.
I think the critical point is that "Net Neutrality" has existed the entire time, but that is now at stake. NN has been the de facto rule of the internet since it has been widely adopted, but we are to the point now where the internet has gone from being an add-on to modern life to a necessity for participating in soci...
Generally the best way to go about it is be nice, don't send them a heap of shit or a letter implying that the congressperson and their staff is out of their fucking minds. Be concise, be curt, and be voice your concerns. These three things will ensure that the poor intern/staff member who skims through the shit sent e...
Your definition of "just fine" must be measured in a cosmological scale. The average person thinks like you do because we mortals are confined to space and time like feeble noobs compared to the likes of billybuckets. You see whenever someone thinks about nuclear fallout wiping out large swathes of terrestrial specie...
They haven't, but the MPAA are trying to twist the facts so that it's Googles fault that these things exist on the internet because Google found them for you. Just like dumbshit Jim Hood pointing out that there's child pornography online and trying to say that he's trying to get Google to remove it - yet Google has b...
So basically, this is good news for VPN services. UK people will now just buy a vpn service in a country without data retention laws, and boom you can torrent again. On the other hand, not everyone wants to learn what a VPN is, so I guess the law is somewhat effective. I'm glad they aren't taking the Aussie attempt t...
About five years ago, I bought a Braun Activator electric shaver, based on the fact that I hated cleaning my old electric. The cleaning system is great - it's built into the charging cradle, has three modes (eco, standard, intensive), and you can choose when to run the cycle. Downsides.. it automatically decides what c...
It's pretty simple to hijack customers' DNS queries. Fuck, I could do it myself, I don't even need to be the router, I could probably just ARP poison the fucking network or whatever. All the ISPs need to do is either (a) return NXDOMAIN for .xxx DNS queries, or (b) return the IP of a different website that is control...
4 needs some polish, absolutely. I've been beta testing it for 2-3 months (Since b1 was released, when the hell was that anyway?) on multiple machines (XP, Vista, 7, all different hardware) and the thing crashes like crazy. It has a lot of nice features, but the stability is not there yet. It hates flash. If you're w...
When you have everyone that you're following coming through one timeline it's just a jumbled mess of nonsense. Go to the "People I'm Following" page and use the button with the little Bullet Points on it to create a list for each type of person you're following. A "News" list for The Guardian and CNN. A "Shopping" list...