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As someone who formerly sold these phones, allow me to shed some light. The actual price tag on iPhones is $500 greater than what you actually pay in the US. When you go to AT&T or Verizon or whatever, they ring it up and it comes up at the base price, say $699 for 16GB, and then they apply a $500 discount to the tot...
They're pondering using the Pirate Browser as the only access point, removing the need for domains and making it some sort of peer-to-peer network (although i don't like to call it that since it may not be the right term). To take down TPB at that point, you would have to literally prevent anyone from using the browser...
No matter where you stand on piracy, there's no way around this: it's too late to stop it. The bright side of piracy is that now the power is ultimately in our hands instead of record labels/movie studios/etc., and the whole paradigm is changing because of it. In, let's say, 1995, you'd have laughed if I said "Madonn...
You/we don't really have enough information to know exactly who did this and how, and neither of those terms have a real official technical definition, so forcing a distinction between them, especially in a case lacking information such as this, is just forcing a difference so people have something to argue about.
Hey don't insult the scientist for the journalist's writing. From the cited author's paper: >Broader context: Rapid deployment of power generation technologies harnessing wind and solar resources has the potential to reduce the carbon intensity of the power grid. But as these technologies comprise a larger fraction...
Does MS just do good OS, bad OS, good OS, bad OS. It's like 2 steps forward, one step back. Progress, but gradual. I think perhaps it is necessary. People don't like change, even when it is good for them. So you when you punch them in the face twice, they then thank you when you just give them a good slap the next time...
Is there no one in congress right now who legitimately support this type of reform? That's a good point. As I understand it, those 5 races need to send a message, generate press and demonstrate to the doubters out there (including most of us supporting this) that this can really work. Congresspeople especially need t...
I emailed her to tell her about my support for "Obamacara" aka national health care similar to Canada, etc...
Piratebay hosted its servers in countries that were more or less lenient on piracy, but also switched the actual website, though the servers with the magnet links remained in the same place. Also, the pirate bay was one of the first to use magnet links to let users find torrents, rather than the larger .torrent files. ...
I will not disagree with you, because, truly, in an ideal world and state of affairs, profit shouldn't be the driving force of innovation. My intention in this particular comment is not to make a statement about all industries, all scenarios, but specifically as to the topic of this thread. The context informs the sco...
Ok, i hope you got that out of your system, and I don't mind being a shock absorber because you were so upfront and nice about it. I stand by what I said because I was speaking on a macroeconomic level. Free and open competition means that corporations who would otherwise have little motivation to improve their produ...
jailbreaking a device is legal Jailbreaking a mobile phone is legal in the U.S. at least until 2015 thanks to an exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but tablets and watches are not included in this exception since they are not technically considered as mobile phones. Jailbreaking your iPad or Apple Wat...
Reddit retains the exclusive right to your children's children's children's pet's children's internet jokes, comments, artwork, poems, songs, etc, their DNA, the puppy barking at that crow outside and all associated intellectual property, future ideas and concepts and all undefined metaphysical phenomena. Any attempts...
No. The data shouldn't be stored to begin with. Whether it's in the hands of private corporations or government agencies, so long as it persists, it will eventually get out. I don't care how much you trust AT&T (LOL!?) or the US Government - if that data gets out (or is passed, even in part, into the wrong hands),...
And I bet all your phone calls are significantly more private and secure, if you only use land lines. Probably not. Analogue is on the way out and all digital cellular is encrypted. If someone's going to listen to your phone conversation, they're going to tap a physical wire. This is pretty trivial to do to your home...
I'm not on the edge of modern technology, but just because it's not popular yet doesn't mean it's new.
Its sad to think that a vastly misrepresentative demographic decide the way in which powerfully new and liberating technologies should be used. The vast majority of M.Ps are old, live on a sum of 60k a year with all the tasty perks and expenses, and were more often that not privately educated. It's like McCain in the U...
Charlie Demerjian is to Nvidia what Bill O'Reilly is to Democrats. While the GTX480 isn't what Nvidia had hyped it to be, they actually aren't that bad. The GTX470 performs between the 5850 and 5870 and it's price reflects that. The GTX480 performs between the 5870 and the 5970, and is priced accordingly. It appear...
Security for "your own protection" contravenes everything awesome we can do when we're allowed to futz with our devices. If it were an open platform there would be no way to get rid the wikileaks app. and users wouldn't have to fear that keeping it might result in being penalized. Walled gardens are a great way to pr...
On 9 (Nightly). Seriously though -- the only negative thing about this rapid release thing is that addons are getting broken. They don't have to be: Add-On SDK . Also, Firebug isn't broken... Do a little work and see the addons you use aren't broken. I know it's easy to use Firefox's built-in addon checker, but Mo...
My point was not that; i know that the iPad is a good product, and flash was just an example. I despise Flash as well. What I meant was: in absolutely no way an iPad has the same functionality as a PC (or a Mac, for those that use it). iPads are not suitable for work, for anything that requires typing, for heavy stuf...
Has nothing to do with cartoons I think you need to read up more on Disneyland and the VAST amount of technology that goes into them. We studied Disneyland's layout in Network Engineering, because of it's intense complexity and design. The sound system is the most impressive probably, it plays music all through the p...
Network carriers care about their core network, and how loaded it is (core link utilisation), as if core links are saturating, you need to deploy more capacity as link congestion rapidly turns into shit customer experience. Carriers don't want to provision additional capacity if they don't have to, as it's seriously ...
Total and udder fucking bullshit! The two commenters above are an exact example of the hive mind in our country. The whole pre-emptive war strategy is what causes dictators to succeed in other countries. This is a Cyber Attack, regardless if it was carried out by cool ass James Bond motherfuckers it is still an atta...
Except that people suck at updating their software so even exploits that were patched years ago are still infecting systems all the time. Zero day vulnerabilities get all the money but you can hardly say they are one time use exploits.
so, can anyone give a break down of what the changes are? I tried reading the docs, but those things seriously need a "
Why? In all honesty. If your scope of the platform is to install your own build of *nix, then there is a plethora of other hardware out there for you to do so.
Your point? This is still competing on price. My point being that Apple will, when there is market share to be won or lost, compete on price.
The icons are huge, there's no taskbar (instead, windows are Exposé'd like in MacOS), there's a bigger padding in menu items and in the control panel, there's only the "X" button on windows.
No. So I suppose I was wrong. The one I was thinking of is [aluminum magnesium]( and I don't know the specifics for the exact manufacturing process. I just knew that you could buy "magnesium" cases for PCs.
Neither transformer actually functions as a laptop. They're more like a tablet with a keyboard (since they run Android software). Surface actually runs Windows 8 Pro, so it's a full laptop, but also a tablet. If the Transformers switched to a linux distro when you plugged them in, with easy multitasking, desktop apps...
Do you know nothing about the Network Vision rollout? They are upgrading their entire network and backhaul with updated 3G, as well as LTE, and consolidating it all into a more efficient and powerful package. If they make it through the next couple of years, they will have one of the better networks, much better than T...
I'm not aware that FoxFi does any of that kind of thing for you currently. The first method almost certainly does not. To the best of my knowledge, the most effective way of hiding from "tether detection" is to mimic the agent string used by the host (the device serving as the hotspot). For example, every web browser...
I don't think that's how they're doing it. At least on my prepaid plan, I usually get a page redirect asking to add the tethering plan after meeting BOTH of the following conditions: My monthly usage has exceeded 1GB (I get 5GB at 4g speed, throttled thereafter). I am using Chrome Desktop browser. I can avoi...
The problem is that they probably don't have the capacity if everyone was fully utilizing their bandwidth to the cap. You can argue that it's misleading the customer (which it is), although it's also probably allowing them to sell it for much cheaper then what it would actually cost to give everyone the right caps sinc...
Care to elaborate ? What is it you are selling ? What is your price point ? Is DRM involved ? How many of those illegal downloads do you think were by people who would never have purchased it at the price point you set ? How flexible is your business model, or do you impose artificial obstacles to sale such as region...
If pirating actually caused any form of loss, I would agree with you. But I'm not negatively impacting the developers in any way by downloading from another source. No material or good is removed from them, no loss of work is inflicted. People treat digital media like physical goods that require work to create each...
You fail to understand the reason why they are loosing revenue. They are loosing revenue because in the digital age consumers don't want their time and daily lives to be dictated by the content distributors - the cable companies, the third party retailers. The content distributors make money off of the EXCLUSIVE DISTRI...
Demos doesn't always justify the game. I once tried the Burnout Paradise demo, and fucking hated it, then I read some reviews, and decided to try the full game out (I bought it btw.) and loved it. (I can without doubt say it's my best racing game) Then there's RUSE, I played the demo a loooooot. Then when the game ca...
Theoretically) easy solution: send false confirmation packets, authorize play session, keep going. Alternatively, one poster in thread also mentioned playing pirated multiplayer games through a private server -- neat idea, less fucking around with code, however it does entail a certain hardware investment for the hos...
The 3D printer idea the author has pisses me off. I'm a Games Workshop fan (as in the company that makes little expensive wargame figures to fight a board game style battle) and I particularly enjoy the style of the GW models for their Warhammer 40,000 game. 3D Printing is seen as the Mecca for all Warhammer fans b...
If we don't 'prop up' the music industry, what will take it's place? Blacksmithing collapsed due to the same service being available at a lower cost and requiring a lower skill set. Sure some people may have lost their jobs through this, but I imagine most of them would have moved on to the newer metalworking technique...
Ad hominem again in this post; but, this time your first sentence. How dare you question my integrity in fine dining knowledge. I'm going to refer to your question and my previous response in which the question was applied to. I had stated not to use foods for analogies. Here's the point in what I said. Saying th...
A) RFID is not wi-fi. B) NFC RFID chips placed in credit cards today broadcast less information than appears on the surface or the card or on the magswipe. Only the account number is broadcast, along with a security code. This is a different code than the 3 digits on the back (CVV2), and the cardholder name, expirati...
I get what you are saying but cars are to driving like phones are to...what? Talking? Not really. Just talking is what phones used to be for, now they are for paying games, internet shopping, navigation, social networking. Mobile phone use is still evolving whilst the function of cars has always to get people from ...
I'd have to disagree with you there. When you're buying a new, high end sports car or a supercar, you want a bit more. You don't want to get something that looks exactly like the last one. Sure, if you're buying a Nissan Micra or a Vauxhall Corsa, the purpose is to get you from A to B. But if you're buying a Porsch...
Smartphones were around before people really cared about browsing. We can say smartphones have evolved, but I rather just say new phones focused around browsing aren't smartphones. And the map app on iOS sucks. Try it on Android. Though seems Apple is fixing this in iOS 6. What doesn't Android have that iCloud prov...
Huawei u8800. Definitely a little exaggeration on the "everything an iphone can do", and I apologise for that. More accurate would have been "everything I would do with an iphone if I had one" which, I think, is where android wins. To use the car analogy, Apple will sell you a BMW 335i. That is the only model in th...
Except he obtained them legally.... then he essentially gave them to anyone that explicitly came looking for them. When you explicitly go to look for a torrent of a porno you are not the type of person that was going to but them anyways. Also to anyone that would actually buy porn, it would be a promotion for the produ...
From what I remember of the article, it is reconstructing the password from a hash code it already has. So its kind of like taking a scrambled password and unscrambling it, and since they are just then matching it to the hash code, there is no limit on attempts per a day. Though to do this you already need to have the ...
I doubt TWC can manage anywhere close to effective support of 1Gbps. I'm based in NYC, you'd think this would be an important an well supported market for TWC. I've had a 50/5Mbps Docsis 3 connection for well over a year through TWC. After about a year getting the pole-to-house (all of 150') connection to be reliable a...
Fair enough. I thought it was self-evident. Let's suppose that no election system can ever be 100% tamper-proof. We are as diligent as possible and design our ideal paper and electronic systems. If the system is not 100% secure, there will always be the possibility of fraud and tampering happening. The difference...
I don't know I thing a lot of good people run for office and a lot win. But it is hard to stand against the flow. You stand behind your principles and try to make things better but no one will stand with you unless you do X for them. So you say hey I'll compromise this 1 time an help mr douchbag cause he will then he...
The company which provided the punch card ballots was also trying to sell electronic paperless ballots. [There was a report which showed how they screwed their own company on purpose]( Now contrast that to OPTICAL scanning paper ballots which have been ROCK solid for decades. In fact they are so good that in many cou...
You make an interesting point, however you should try checking out the Cox Report: The overview is fairly short if you want the general idea.
I do agree with you, some companies just seem to garner a "fanboyism", if you'll allow the term, that no other company does. Apple and Google being the contemporary examples of that. However, Google, unlike Facebook, unlike others with access to our information, has at least attempted (it may be argued successfully, ...
This is quite smart if you ask me. Each OS has their flagships. When you think of premium ios experience you think of iphone, when you think of premium android experience you think of the nexus, when you think of the premium windows phone experience....nokia? Nokia manufactures amazing phones but theyve also saturated ...
Which makes sense if you look at the current pricing models, growth potential, and generational improvements for the mobile platform vs the PC industry. Right now, my laptop from 2008 does most everything I need just fine. I can browse the internet, watch videos, and do work. Why go out and get a new computer if the ...
No WE DIDN'T the politicians who are bought and paid for by the MPAA and RIAA did. Unfortunately that's probably the majority of the leadership in the Democratic Party.
As a former IT Project Manager, I can state with confidence that this will not end well. Almost everything that can doom a project has been checked off here, e.g., constantly changing requirements, inadequate testing, unclear lines of accountability, etc., etc. I would imagine a discussion has already taken place ab...
I'm afraid the answer is disappointing. Most WiFi routers are about 100mW. The most power these things can "supply" is based on the power of microwave source. You can't get more power out than the router supplies, and these devices can only get at most 37% of whatever power is being emitted. So, you basically need ...
You want the Guardian to release all of their information because otherwise they are not credible. The whole point of Snowden going to respected newspapers and journalists was that the information didn't just get dumped in a torrent somewhere for everyone to read. These things, shocking as they may be, still contain se...
Stick with popular file formats that everyone uses and that aren't controlled by one company >Save and store documents in .docx, .doc, .pdf , and .html. For photos, go with .jpg and .png. For music, .mp3 and .wav. Isn't the pdf format owned by adobe? Wouldn't Ogg Vorbis (open source) be better than mp3(Fraunhofer's)...
Well, in a broad sense, digital assets represent an investment on the part of the person who owns them. These ships, their cargo, their weapons, and the avatars that pilot them, are the collective result of thousands of man-hours of work/play and money in the form of subscription. But the values posted here are not b...
I don't think the author of this website understands what a meritocracy is... Nobody gives a fuck HOW you got good, all that matters is that you ARE good. And if you aren't as good as the other person, they will get the job, not you. Thats all there is too it. OF COURSE the good schools produce the most people who are ...
Depending on how far the technology goes it definitely has the capability to transform the world. They key being that 3d printing will allow local manufacturing of products. Even to the point of within a household. That being said.. the whole dynamic of trading goods globally will essentially diminish.
IT is my profession so for me the question becomes "how can you not have one?!". I treat my household like any organization, ze netwerk-ka vil form ze backbone , ach! I am not at all sure why german me took over there.
worlds first. Who cares? We will see 1tb in no time. It's just a waiting game. This is no accomplishment. Do you think anyone will be saying "remember how sandisk made the first 128gb micro sd card?" in 5 years when there will be 100 other "worlds first" releases? I'm willing to bet money on the fact that compani...
outside the top universities, indian engineering schools are nothing more than degree factories. where the kids learn the equations but don't understand the rationale of how the equation became to be or how to manipulate the equation when there are different factors. American Engineers are very good at the actually tho...
Space does not move and cannot be objectively observed. Nasa's Eagleworks Lab's [research includes] ( the creation and use of what you describe as "a wave of distorted space". Now that I have your attention I want to clear a few details up about FTL travel. We don't need FTL travel to reach an object X light years...
You have a car, and it can only go so far on a tank of gas. You can add more gas, but then you have to add more fuel tank, and the car gets heavier, so you don't go as far with the extra gas as you did with the original gas. So you add more gas, but then you have to add more fuel tank, and you run into the same pro...
Astrophysics, huh? Crossing my fingers for something that might lead to an F
Aliens arrive seconds after the initial testing with their fully functional gift-wrapped peace offering F
just about any basic problem like that has already been documented by someone Sounds like you're describing Linux there. Between the Ubuntu Forums, Arch Wiki, and many other great resources, Googling Linux problems is just as, if not more successful than doing that in Windows. I've Googled the crap out of an error co...
Not really, because once you get off the train, how do you get around? Sure for the UK you could walk or bike everywhere, but many cities in the US are a huge sprawl with mass transit that could be described as Slightly less painful than a root canal." on a good day. Plus with the car you have the freedom to stop whe...
Tickets can represent revenue for governments, but let's not forget the main goal is and always has been safety . The result of reckless driving is far more costly to the US, where accidents alone are estimated at about $164.2 billion. The safer the roads, the less accidents and incidents, the less police will have to...
It was during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII in 1994 2004, in which Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed together. At the end of one song, Timberlake pulled on a portion of her dress, and it came away exposing her breast (with the nipple itself covered). She grasped the dress and appeared to be shoc...
It's only considered a bad idea in countries where the ruling elite stand to suffer from any change in their current system. Just like how we're taught in the USA public school system that China's system of governance and economic regulation is a terrible thing, and yet they're rapidly outpacing and outmaneuvering the...
This reply has taken me a while to formulate in my mind, and packing for a vacation tomorrow hasn't helped. However, I think I have the gist of what I want to say down. I respect any pure system as long as the edge conditions are, blunted, so to say. That being said, pure systems, like most things that are expressed...
As a Brit it's weird to think that this is the first news report I've seen that specifically talks about big non-tech business being in favour of net neutrality. The very thought of a tiered internet, with the tiers being decided by a predetermined and closed group of colluding businesses, should be something that st...
PSA: a few days ago there was a reddit post asking what comment people consistently downvote. Things like "this" and others that don't contribute were at the top Ever since, I have yet to see a positive voted "this", among another few.
But if I, Mr Middle Manager, get my short-term "efficiencies" before the long term effects become apparent, then I get my bonus and referral onto my next gig!
I have a similar story. I work for a small start-up company that creates medical software for plastic surgeons. I was hired because of they were getting massive amounts of support calls which the development team had to take care of. I was their only technical support hire. Our company currently has 2,000 clients world...
Shut up and take my... most private and personal communications, break down their content like gmail, produce a consumer behavioral profile to be sold at advertising auctions, and ultimately forfeit this information to the government in the name of national security.
Wow, this perfectly describes how the group project I did last week played out. I was in a group with a bunch of kids who aren't exactly stupid, but they're a bit slow. While working with them, I quickly learned I'd never be satisfied with the final product unless I made sure everything was perfect, so I told them that...
There's pros and cons for both: Monocrome Laser: Generally very simple to use Laser copy paper, in general, is nicer. Toner lasts a long time Newer monochrome lasers are getting wireless printing Higher up-front costs (toner is more expensive than ink that first visit; you can generally find a monochrome ...
The patents, yes. The talent and human resources were scrapped when the executive gutted the company and sold it out, a few years back. I used to work next to their headquarter office, too, and had such high hopes for them. It's just been a shell of itself, keeping the lights on for subscriptions. I can't stand Sony...
Granted it is obvious that such propoganda is happening, it shouldn't be used to discredit every single idea that might stand in defence of Russia or its people. As an ethnic ukrainian, and quite anti putin, I know a lot of folks who aren't willing to see anything beyond their side. For example: Crimean "referendum" wa...
Ehh from someone that looks at this as his job, it's becoming less of a war of ecosystems but more of a war of running everything on anything and being able to integrate that into a working stack.
Well, if you are interested in programming and in business, it's a good story... And if you want, there is even an illustrated slideshow that looks pretty much like a childrens book, for all the
Not quite. I try to suppress my pedantic tendencies but the history of Hitler's rise to power is worth studying. The Nazis managed to obtain a decent representation in Parliament and install Hitler as Chancellor, but the Chancellor had little power in the Weimar Republic. With a two-thirds majority in Parliament they...
51 Long lists of things that start off somewhat amusing, and become
At least TW doesn't give a damn what or how much you download. If you were on Comcast, you would be able to get your connection cut off in 6 hours using it at its fullest. On TW you can max it 24/7 and they won't say a word. You paid for that, after all. Not true at all. I have Time Warner at my house sure, but my pa...
Actually, Cingular bought ATT wireless. Then later they just adopted the name, because AT&T had a better name on the east coast than Cingular did. Edit: Actually, it's all the same thing in the end. Cingular was always owned by SBC, which was partly AT&T before AT&T broke off into SBC and AT&T wireless. Cingular b...
AT&T and Bell dumped a shitload of tech into computers and the internet as well. Digging through one of my fathers old Bell Operations manuals, i found documents detailing ARPANET, various other protocols, and a shitload more. Not to mention MULTICS, UNIX, and Plan 9. All saw significant contribution from Bell/AT&T...
Those beautiful fools. They never tire of kicking themselves. Lets get some dirt on the people responsible, glossy head shots that we can hold up and exclaim "Glad this isn't me"
the new law would allow the government to target any site that has “only limited purpose or use” other than infringement (by the government’s definition). We're HOPING to prevent "the Great FireWall of America" use any excuse at all to cut people off from the tap of knowledge the Internet has become. This legislati...
Not a world whose energy use grows at an exponential rate, indefinitely. I've read that extracting the energy we currently use from fossil fuels, from renewables instead, would alter the climate more than greenhouse gas emissions have (albeit temporarily: let the renewable energy back into the troposphere, and the cl...
This comment in the link is fucking win: "Rowena Cherry- You do understand that in your selfish (albeit legitimate) desire to make money on your work, you're selling out the American people's freedom of speech. No one is saying people should be allowed steal other's work, but the solution is not to give unquestiona...
I was 3rd in line to get the Nintendo Wii waiting in freezing November weather. 364 Days later when my wii broke I had the awesome experience of talking to the "blond" women tech support @ Nintendo about my broken wiimote - it went something like this. Her: "Okay, please go get your Wiimote and press the A button to ...