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The FBI is looking for a few beautiful minds to help solve a murder case. If you think you have what it takes to crack a code that the best cryptanalysts in the country have failed for 12 years to master, they'd like to hear from you.
Counterculture is a pretty extreme way to describe the company that produces the second most-used OS in the US... I look at this "PC vs. Mac" war the same way as I do "Republicans vs. Democrats"; for the most part, they both aim for the same goal, the way they go about achieving this goal is how they differ. Oh and if ...
To me OSX gives me a unix environment with a polished feel that is well integrated with the hardware. All in all it much more usable than any linux I've tried. I need the unix environment for work, and stuff like cygwin just isn't an alternative. Hence mac is my system of choice, and that has absolutely nothing to do w...
Apple delivered innovation. Every single product Microsoft sold was not innovative but stolen or copied. On a technology section I thought people could see who is the innovator who is copying, instead of blabbing about left or right.
first its spelled HIPPIE. second yo dont need to put TM in comments. apple products are for people with too much money and not enough brains. most of those people are commies because they have been brainwashed by the public school system.
It usually falls down to needing an extension, lets say PIL, PIL needs to be compiled to work, and linked with several other libraries like libpng and libjpg. libjpg doesnt ship compiled versions for osx so you have to do it yourself. the only way to get all dependencies and stay sane is to use MacPorts or similar, but...
No; I was trying to say that it was created by the publishing houses to advance their own profits. Going by your language, I believe it could be called corporate welfare enacted under the false premise of socialism. What do you mean by a "feasible solution"? Frankly, the environment we have now is truly terrible. ...
Hey guys just to set things straight: Funnyjunk users didn't have part in the letter, the guy in charge of the site did (who is known as Admin). Everyone is pretty pissed at Admin that a post supporting Oatmeal made it to FJ's front page(which Admin then removed from the front page). Even some of FJ's users have donate...
Executive summaries, PowerPoint etc. have slowly made most leaders slow and ineffective at dealing with change. I worked in a company that was adamant to continue to produce a DSL modem/Wifi Router/In-Room movie service box as their next product that would be installed per room into a Dslam on site in hotels. When I ...
The reason why this is fundamentally wrong is the foolish assumption that the Internet is American. It is not. The server hosting for a majority of websites may be in America, most website owners tend to be American, but the Internet is not part of America. It is it's own thing, a beautiful thing, and one that should n...
What I gathered from the article is that it was okay to support SOPA if you didn't understand the bill. This is what a majority of the house Democrats did / felt. However, according to this nutjob of a staffer, it was not okay to oppose SOPA if you didn't understand it. This is what quite a few ppl did / felt.
Can internet-independent applications really be written in HTML5? Yes. > am I missing something? Yes. [ Relevant link.] > Aren't those "apps" actually internet/browser dependent "website like" things That's all "Presentation Tier" stuff. If one builds the presentation layer right -- i.e. to Web Standards Co...
Oh I get it. You made the opposite of this Actually there's already a website to counter that called >Some of these points come from obviously biased sources, others are only speculation without hard evidence. Well show me your evidence and sources then instead of just spouting your opinion. > The numbers ...
As an IT professional who deals with security for local businesses, I can attest to the fact that our infrastructure and computer systems are vulnerable. Look at Stuxnet - the greatest virus ever written - which shut down an Iranian nuclear facility, and you will see why this is so critical. Our electrical grid is es...
Recently, I went over my 3Gb data plan with AT&T, which is an automatic 10$ charge. So, I attemped to use the entire extra gig before my billing cycle ended. I used about .9 gigs in the last two days of my billing cycle. However, when it started over, not only did they charge me for the extra gig but they carried it ov...
Last time I was at Verizon, they told me not to worry about losing my unlimited data plan. The reason? I only use 3/4 of a gig of it. That's only because I'm on my home network most of the time. My router is now broken. My data use on my phone is back up to six gigs. I'm jumping ship to sprint soon as possible.
I realize that this won't be a popular opinion but in a way he is right. Truly unlimited isn't possible for technical and semantic reasons. The problem is that there is no sensible definition of unlimited that forces marketers to cut the crap. I think the fcc needs to step up and start getting much more involved in wir...
Suburbs here. Works great in the city and nice in most suburbs but the way they are rolling tower upgrades is utter bullshit. I am considering dropping them until they finish deploying. They failed with 4g so smaller towns will have to wait for LTE if that ever comes. Now some of the upgrades leave you with signal but ...
I'm pretty upset that they're switching completely to shared data and not allowing previous customers to get grandfathered to keep their unlimited data for their next 2 year contract. The whole reason for charging more for data was because of the added amount of stress on the network from unlimited data users and so to...
I hope that you live in a major city because the 4g coverage for Sprint is FUCKING AWFUL. I live near one of the largest cities in the USA, and in the suberbs about ~15-20 minutes away from that city in a town of about 50k, no 4g. No 4g until I hit the area right around one of the cities largest universities. No...
Yea, so I totally tried this when I was with VZW about a year and a half ago. Didn't work at all. They tried to tell me the increases were government mandated (they weren't) and after I called that out, they offered a credit to my account for the remainder of my contract that would negate the "adverse" effects of a f...
Nowhere does it mention ARM6 was developed purely as a mobile CPU, but actually as the next generation of ARM desktop CPU's that Apple shoehorned into their PDA. Apple's involvement with RISC was minimal, and was done through funding, much like with Xerox. Apple can't claim to have invented anything.
This can't be said enough... There is a point of technological "saturation" where technologies, designs and processes have to be considered public domain because they are no longer unique. If someone patented a mechanical design a hundred years ago, chances are anyone who began offering a machine with similar funct...
Initially, the cheap bulk plastics, yes. Probably starting at the "bespoke" end of the market, with easily customised plastic items. This sort of bespoke manufacturing will eventually dominate over cheap manufacture of them overseas as transport costs increase. Bringing a lot of jobs back to the US and Europe, in the f...
Jeff Atwood's response to the 'everyone should learn to code' movement is pretty good:
Honestly, a lot of the reason that children fail arithmetic and reading in America is a result of a lack in interest, not inability. Children are often not rewarded for those skills. What children need is an incentive to do so. When I was a child, I wanted to read well. But why? Was it the schools? Was it my parent's ...
It should be available in high school, and maybe to older children of junior high school, but elementary school? Elementary school is meant to be just that, elementary, basic, core. On top of that, most "coding" requires at least algebra level mathematics knowledge, which most kids don't learn until 7th 8th or 9th grad...
I believe educators need to impress upon students the opportunities they have to explore these subjects with future education. One of the failures of my public school education was that I had no idea what classes I could take as a high school student when I transitioned, so I just took the classes everyone else was tak...
Well, the other reason we don't teach engineering and programming to elementary school kids is that it doesn't really help. There's this absurd notion of "if we would only start teaching kids (whatever) earlier, they'd gain a valuable head start". Well, that's a load of crap . A few kids will be sharp enough to be...
Programming teaches organizational, management, strategic, and problem solving skills." Programming teaches organizational and problem solving skills that pertain to code and little else, and that for only a small subset of individuals that bother to learn the skill. Every programmer I know (myself included) can tell...
Been wrapping my head around this, and, as usual, it's not nearly as bad as the hysterical articles make it sound. The [terms of service]( is pretty clear, and by itself is pretty terrifying: > Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content...
By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the Instagram Services, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including withou...
A functionality that was broken for at least 4 months earlier this year that I can attest to. The few times the download actually worked during that time, the data was severely truncated/incomplete. My account (although deactivated at the time) therefore needed to continue to exist and my data essentially held hostag...
I think what he was getting at is that if say instagram KEPT the change, people could easily go back to to other image sites without much fuss. Where as quitting facebook or w.e social medium you use isn't so easy being that it would involve getting your friends, and their friends, to join you as well.
Looks like circlejerk is here. Win8 is not that much different than Win7 with the start menu being the exception. If you actually took the time to learn some shortcuts then you would like Win8 as much as 7. You can have all the same functionality as the start menu from win7 if you actually take 5 minutes to understand ...
whoa, man...that comment was so long, we can't even see it! Thanks for the
No it isn't. >
FTFY Fixed this for you.
My last 2 laptops were Dell, and they both have fatal issues... The first one was medium priced, it had some crap with the BIOS randomly making extremely loud beeps, not possible to disable, I once had one of these during a lecture that scared the professor and made the other students laugh, that was the moment I dec...
That headline is very misleading. They're discontinuing the downloadable TweetDeck client, but the web-based version, as well as a Chrome app version, aren't going anywhere. [Here's the actual TweetDeck update post that this one is referring to.]( In the end this is going to be a GOOD thing for users, they'll just ...
You don't understand bias. Since this is an article sponsored by Microsoft, and it is advocating Microsoft, there is no reason to believe anything reported in the article is even remotely accurate or honest. Here's an example of something I see as dishonest: When they did this test (October 2012), internet explore...
You are just parroting the FUD spread by key-stretching algorithm proponents. Even being able to do 63GH/s is meaningless against a per-user salt, providing the passwords have a sufficient length and complexity. The brute search space for a random 12 character password with a depth of 95 (uppercase, lowercase, numb...
Can we stop with this whole "Made in X" bullshit with modern complex systems? Think about what it means for something to be made in a certain country. When something says "Made in China" right now, they are simply referring to the final assembly process. There are thousands of steps before that that are sourced from do...
That's kinda how I feel. I know it is pessimistic but it is hard not to feel that way after a while. Quite literally everyone I know is married, divorced or soon to be married. The same goes for just about everyone they know too. It is like I've been demoted to permanent third wheel status. Hell, for one person it is...
The thing that I think a lot of people overlook is that NASA isn't meant to be useful or profitable by itself. It exists to drive science and inspire innovation. Even by the most conservative (read:religious) estimates, it took man six thousand years to fly, but only another 60 years to fly into space. 8 years after ...
You're absolutely on point, but I think that NASA's funding affects more communities than you think. I grew up in Clear Lake, Texas, and my father is an astronaut. Most of the families I knew growing up depended on NASA in one way or another for their wellbeing. In the past few years, I have watched the community I gr...
No, no, no... Just, no. Don't take my assertion to mean I think you're a fool for not recognizing the value of capturing NEOs. Of course it indirectly benefits every human being on Earth through the development of technologies to save us from space rock oblivion. But the value of what the Republicans are going to kill ...
I'd agree - the linked review doesn't do a damn thing to back up any image quality conclusion. It's a single, useless datapoint. On the other hand dpreview has their preliminary review , and in the dark it's likewise head and shoulders above everything else (check out the back of the playing cards or the finer detai...
I meant to infer that with my first statement about signing it. If congress doesn't give him something to veto, he doesn't have anything to do with the laws of the country besides the enforcement at a federal level. And even then, he is limited by what the way the particular laws are written. Depending on the langua...
From the linked article: >In the USA, every state with the exception Maine and Vermont prohibits felons from voting while in prison.[1] Nine other states disenfranchise felons for various lengths of time following the completion of their probation or parole. However, the severity of each state's disenfranchisement va...
Recommending. He (or someone) asked someone to review it and make a suggestion. This was their suggestion. It would require action, but it is merely a suggestion at this point. Congress was given the recommendation months ago as well. There are plenty of government agencies that make recommendations that never g...
The thing is if you watch a stream using the torrent system then every viewer becomes an uploader/host.
Imagine an electrician comes into your house, and does some wiring, and one of the outlets doesn't work. What's the rational response - "Let's get the electrician back here to fix this thing he did wrong." or "Are you going to trust an electrician to fix the problem an electrician created? That's fucking nuts. Let'...
Again you willfully missed the part where the original comment you responded to wasn't authored by me. You want /u/WhatWentWrongHere, not me, if you're upset about the quality of the original comment. eta:
I think you might be mad for the lesser reason - Yes, they did send you your password in plain text. Which means anybody with access to your computer or your cell phone or the computer you were using at the library can just log in and pull up your password. Scary. Want to know something much scarier? It shouldn'...
Seriously, my computer boots in under 10s. It's fast. Windows 8 has a function called "Hybrid Boot" where the system state is suspended to disk and the user state is logged off. What you think off as booting is the system resuming from a hibernate file. Use the shutdown /s /t 0 command to do a full shutdown then ti...
What you're missing is the performance factor. I run Windows 8 at home and while the Metro interface isn't my favorite, I love how fast it is. If Windows 9 has as good of a UI as Windows 7, then people will flock to it en masse.
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I think that we, as a society, don't really evaluate the role of freedom in a school setting. I would definitely say that Sudbury style schools sit on the exact opposite end of the spectrum as far as freedom -> structure. They say it works for their particular school and their particular environment and they also say...
Children get used to that, so they will be good at very short tasks. So what's wrong with changing process to include lots of many short tasks, for example: gamification and day-to-day incremental accomplishments. Our world is on track to ensure that our lives revolve around electronics and [near] instant communi...
I study and work in an environment full of fine art and graphic design - everything from web design to painting and sculpture, i've dabbled in a very wide array of visual arts and image-making. On the one hand, the hyper-visual culture we now live in thanks to technology means there's a greater public desire for visu...
Honestly, though, things like that can only happen if the kids in the classroom are well-behaved. We have classes of 30+ students, many of which have ADD or some bullshit that makes them walk around and yell and not do their work and distract other students. Since I'm not allowed to strike them, all I can do is incenti...
and translate That's the problem right there. I'm not saying it's easy, but unless you stop translating, and start "thinking" in the foreign language, you'll be slow. I can read English pretty well despite having learned it by myself. I write as a 12 years old. I talk as a 3 years old :-( But when programming, I ...
I wonder how any scientist gets the idea that those refuges would help keep root worms from adapting. Refuges reduce selection pressure for resistant organisms by allowing non-resistant organisms to reproduce and enrich non-resistant alleles in the general population. This keeps non-resistant alleles at a high enough...
Yeah, sometimes I wonder if VR will be a good for society, especially when it gets really good.
Maryland has a state textbook law about requiring us to give students a chance to buy the textbook at the best price possible/not screw the students over/etc. I personally just don't fucking use textbooks anymore. This is good in some ways (cheap) but bad for people who process information differently and appreciate ...
I've been through two engineering degrees, one at a prestigious Institue of Technology, and one at a larger and more mainstream state university. Outside of general education requirements, a lot of my profs did not have required texts as, in their minds, there weren't any texts suitable for what they wanted to teach. ...
please excuse all miss spellings <rant> almost this entire thread is a giant circle jerk around hating on Facebook. there is no reason to be so mad. A lot of people have been complaining about Facebook games and "spend money to get this and meet your friends" and stuff like that i and i feel this is completely ridicu...
Anne Frankly I did Nazi this coming.
I'm sorry to say it but I think you all are being extremely closed minded and aren't understanding the true potential for this opportunity. If any of you actually read the real post (which you probably didn't) he says that he's going to allow the Oculus team to work independently. Meaning that the whole virtual reality...
One hope I have for the future is that there will be drone services that let you fly through national parks and remote deserts with your friends. It would have the same collision avoidance technology as the driverless cars, and would have a determined roaming radius depending on the remaining battery life (so that as ...
This is two hours old so no one will probably see this, but this essentially means one of two things, either Facebook is going to try and create its own gaming platform, something which i would imagine we would have heard about a long time ago. Or, what is much more likely the case, that there is a deal in the works ...
Oculus had the chance to create a fantastic platform for immersive gaming, research and maybe even robot-human interfaces (imagine being able to see what a robot sees and controlling its camera with your head movements!). Now it'll be used for ads, stupid social games and yet more ways to share the inanity of your ...
These numbers are sort of out of my ass from reading a couple articles. It looks like Oculus raised about 94 million for development etc. 3 million of that was crowd funding. The venture capital funding groups get a 20x return on their money the crowd funding people may get their money back in the form of merchandis...
I can't speak for the whole technology center, but in the gaming community it's pretty much standard that whenever a studio or company is bought out, the assets are gutted and run into the ground to cash in on their market base. Making a great product takes a lot more time and money than cranking out a shoddy one, an...
He does abuse it is the entire point of that quote. He was trying to willingly facilitate potential identity theft for thousands of people, and that's okay? Are you being serious? If so you need to gain some morals and ethics. Edit: I value people's personal information and have worked in a heavily regulated indust...
Okay I'm gonna type this out cuz I maybe other users don't understand this as well, cuz it took me a couple of minutes: The exact same comment thread, like copy+paste comments, were made in two separate subreddit threads about this deal. They were made under different account names so that means someone or something ...
Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product ...
I honestly believe people are overreacting to this whole situation. This won't be noticed by anyone, and when it is I expect it to be downvoted, but I might as well put my predictions out there... The acquisition will, undoubtedly, assist Oculus in bringing CV1 to the market in an even better form than it would be wi...
Imagine two timelines: One where Occulus was not acquired by Facebook (for this hypothetical, disregard being acquired by anyone else.) A second where they are. Next, imagine some point down the line there is a decision to be made at Occulus. This decision could be about something like opening development up for...
I think you all got the wrong idea about this, hear me out. Hundreds of years ago, The Human Being had discovered it was a better idea to digitize life for our species. Similar to the movie, The Matrix, only in concept. The Facebook Experience evolved through advanced A.I and V.R hardware to become a 24/7 Live Life ...
yeah... but heres the question... and I only look at this for the sake of seeing both sides of this argument. Will Facebook replace the Oculus name? Will they call it the 'Facebook VR headset'? I don't think that's very likely. Let me make an example: Disney. Disney owns a ton of companies out there, but I can't reme...
In Defense of the Acquisition Remember when Disney bought Marvel? Everyone panicked, thinking that Disney was going to ruin Marvel by turning their backs on the fans and "kiddifying" their characters. Instead, we got The Avengers . And Disney is taking the risk on a Guardians of the Galaxy film. When Disney bought...
That mostly confirms what everyone is afraid of. They aren't killing it to make it some kind of social network addon tomorrow, but yes that is what their future plans are for the technology. >Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consultin...
If you mean you don't quite understand what's going on in the image (as opposed to not understanding Facebook's practices), here's an explanation: You can see on the left that user Lellux posted three different "defences" of Facebook's acquisition of Oculus. Legitimate opinions, right? Sure, until you look at the r...
Industry will argue that the Government shouldn't be allowed to interfere with how they do things on the internet. They want a free market (Which is not what Net Neutrality is), and people who like the idea of an unregulated and completely free market for everything will probably buy into that idea without thinking wha...
Except that's not what this is about. The movie for canceled for one really simple reason, money. Movie exhibitors believed that the threats, legitimate or not, would drive away more customers than the movie brought in. They're probably right, even if the movie hadn't been leaked in its entirety, it sounds pretty a...
You have taken a position and I understand it. I actually agree with most of it. Accusing me of being a simpleton and trying to justify their decision is ridiculous. Refusing to understand why it is done just guarantees it will continue.
You know, it's really strange. I used to work for AT&T and I ultimately made a devil's pact with Comcast because I knew how awful U-Verse can be (lots of interruption in service, slower-than-promised speeds, and shitty support). Sometimes you could get lucky and find a good guy tech to go out of his way and fix issue...
Long rant...3 months ago I moved to another state. I called a local comcast rep in my new area whose name was given to me by my new apartment complex. He told me that because I was moving so far away, it was a different network, and I'd have to cancel my comcast service and reinstate it instead of just transferring the...
I've been a cox customer for almost 15 years. For most of it I had their highest tier internet, full cable services (minus movie channels and a few sports tiers), and I had phone service for part of the time. They're pricey, but customer service is always acceptable. I've had one major issue that took me awhile to re...
This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes." >You could interpret that as Comcast giving you permission to record the call. I've seen people claim this in every thread about Comcast, yet I've never seen any proof that it is true. When asked for sources to back up the claim the best I've ever seen ...
Verizon FIOS has been pretty rough for me. 1) They force you to use their routers , which are single band and not very powerful (most tech-savvy people can pick up a fairly decent dual-band N750 or N900 or higher router at Best Buy for fairly cheap, and it's a good investment) 2) Netflix is frequently throttled ...
They are both instances of a database being accessed. Aaron was accused for the same thing the police are doing. They are damaging database integrity through malicious actions. The only difference you have pointed out is the fact Aaron was arrested. So all you have pointed out is the inconsistency of law. At the...
Actually, I believe gmail was the 23rd employee's creation, for a better internal mail client because he hated what they were using. The team supporting it kept growing, and internal user adoption/love grew with it to the point where they decided to get it ready for public release.
I don't think you realize how expensive fibre is. averages $50,000/mile the U.S. has more fibre than all of Europe combined And this story gives me more material to cite costs. Google Fiber : Spent $84M to run fiber to 149k homes[^1]( $563 per home City of Longmont, Colorado : In 1997 spent $1.6...
you could have said the same thing about coax back in the 70's and twisted pair phone lines even before that There's a political cartoon that I can't find, the character in it was being skeptic of public utilities. He talked against the idea of indoor plumbing, telephone lines, street lights, etc. because they were "...
So many of you are missing the point here. Municipalities are investing in building their own fiber networks so services like Google, Time Warner, Comcast, etc. have no other option than to lease the use of city/state owned fiber network infrastructure to provide their services. Municipalities have rights to deny out...
Got one, and loving it. It's not quite a polished as the iPhone, but I love the fact you can open up and tinker with any aspect of the platform, and there's no arbitrary unilateral censor to get an app past before it hits the store. Half the best android apps I've downloaded are ones which replace and improve existi...
I am a molecular biologist, and have extensive experience in mammalian cell culture techniques. I have a few things to say about this: Cell culture reagents are EXPENSIVE. A bottle of MEM/DMEM is about $10, with an academic discount. I have no idea how many bottles of MEM are required to make a steak, but from m...