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While I am especially against SOPA, Nintendo has the most reasons to be pro-SOPA. Their consoles (well, Wii, GBA and DS) are among the most easily pirated and the most frequently pirated. They lose thousands of dollars a day because of piracy. What I assume is happening with Nintendo is that they don't realize how mu...
This whole contest was reminiscent of a childhood asshole. You know, that one kid that thought he was better than everyone else at video games, and rubbed it your face endlessly when he won. And then when he's about to lose, he shuts off the console or unplugs the controller and says "you cheated" or "this game is stu...
From an economic standpoint, any rational human being will act in their own self interest. Nobody does good things for people and does not expect anything in return. In this case, they simply believe that to them the marginal benefit of doing something nice for someone and getting a warm fuzzy feeling outweighs the mar...
This is such bullshit. Apple arguably made the personal computer into the mass-media it is today, they basically invented the modern mp3-player and the modern Smartphone, they were the first to use a GUI (yes, it was invented at Xerox PARC, but the morons at Xerox passed on it and Apple bought the rights), they were th...
Nothing is "wrong", "right" is relative to one's frame of reference. Your frame of reference seems to be highly slanted against Microsoft (typical), whereas mine seems to be biased towards Microsoft (atypical).
no, but if you're regularly accessing a server in say Pakistan, or a proxy known to be used for criminal activity, that might be interesting. as 0x0D0A pointed out above, apparently, services like google / twitter etc will also be expected to keep logs but I haven't seen that mentioned in any of the "official" report...
Yet another reason my long term plan is to move abroad. This island is a practical joke in so many ways now. I wager this news could give new weight for the Scottish independence movement if they make a big deal over it, now I can see why some folks want out from the union.
I really hope this is a badly written piece, a joke or something. Otherwise they really have gone mad. Presupposing GCHQ isn't doing this already (yeah sure they aren't) I sure as hell don't want this to become the done thing, making it legal is beggars belief. The sheer cost of operating such a system will be hu...
My mom says this is a good idea because she heard somewhere that the government needs to see just how savvy competitor governments are at stealing our good ideas. Then we can react to this knowledge by again increasing security...
Sigh . OK I'll explain. Currently an ISP buys say 1gbps of upstream capacity at a cost of say 10 000 dollars and sells this to 200 customers as a 100mbps service (i.e. 20:1 contention). Meaning each customer pays 50 dollars (ignoring profit). Since these are well behaved customers they don't download non-stop, so the...
This article annoyed me. I don't know if there was an editor involved in this process, though I sure hope there wasn't. I think the number one question that people will ask when reading the article is: "How are they doing this?" Followed by: "Are they tracking our internet conversations actively? Or monitoring our...
I find this to be a little farfetched. Although my comment will probably get buried, I can give a sort of legitimate reason as to why older areas (and especially in the US and Canada, compared to other locales worldwide) is that a good majority of the copper cables are buried in older, built up areas. Why? Simple a...
The problem is not entirely the cable companies. The root problem goes back to the government, and the fact that they have such deep ties with the businesses. The second issue is the people. In europe everyone has more knowledge on technology (14-30 years of age), especially when it comes to the PC market. Young people...
In my opinion the problem is primarily these god damn lengthy contracts. They stifle competition. Also the complexity of the plans often makes apple to apple comparisons difficult if impossible. If you eliminate contracts and make switching easier the companies will be forced to compete or lose customers to the bett...
What "donotswallow" said also applies, but the article doesn't take a couple of very important things into account: A little over a year ago, there was a massive strike involving the union the Verizon FiOs technicians belong to. Fiber optics are very expensive to install compared to your normal copper wires, which mo...
Believe it or not, where I live the town has it's own (aggressive) local electric company. The electric company actually provides ISP service over the coax. They fought for permission from the town politicians. They hold town hall meetings about it and myself and neighbors organized to show our support for it. The town...
lol plz. You know nothing about my views and beliefs. But ill bite for the shits and giggles. >100 years later and we're still under the thumb of the same people who brought us the "Federal" Reserve regime, the Bolshevik Revolution, WW1, WW2 and the Cold War. The only difference now is they are stronger and more embe...
How is it stealing? I have downloaded plenty of music only get tired of it quickly and delete it. But the stuff I really like, I try to buy. Today I use Spotify, but there is still plenty of stuff I can't find on there. The truth is, most of the artists would never see my money if piracy wasn't a thing. They a...
The idea of governments controlling or putting restrictions on something that was built by the masses is beyond ridiculous. As John Perry Barlow explains in "The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," the internet does not operate according to the same laws that govern life in the so-called Real World. Not onl...
I always find it funny to add the word "Protection" to extremely controversial issues that involve human rights and privacy. It sickens me people aren't more aware of issues like this. For the past year and a half, people's digital freedoms have come under fire and frankly I am sick of it! I just want some independent ...
I both agree and disagree with this. The argument for it will always be that it's your body and you deserve to know anything about it that anyone else does, your doctor included. If you are an adult capable of making informed decisions, e.g. medical ones, then you should have all information that could be relevant. ...
And I respectfully disagree, although I may be biased as I am speaking from a physician standpoint. At the end of the day, it is our job to try and be your friend and advocate, and to help you with your health, because if we don't, who will? A computer could easily take your list of symptoms, analyze them, and spit ...
It's not condescending if its true. It takes doctors years of study to adequately use those tests to diagnose medical conditions. These tests require intuition and knowledge to understand and that knowledge is not available to the general public except in these Internet sources that take complex medical ideas, genera...
As someone involved in the medical field, I'm against full electronic access, but limited access seems reasonable. The following is a breakdown of what the standard patient records may look like and what in my opinion should be allowed access to. Patient history - This is basically a transcript of the patient's sig...
What you're saying is a nice sentiment, but I think it may be too kind to the medical profession. Anybody who has ever had anything obscure medically runs into this with MOST doctors and very, very quickly gets jaded. It's a problem with how American doctors are trained in med school -- they are not rewarded or trai...
And... Nobody in this thread has any idea how to figure out what their time is worth. OK, let's start with a basic premise: there's no constant worth of your time. Generally, your first hour of work (or last hour of leisure) is worth very little, because if you didn't put that in, you'd probably be on food stamps, whic...
If EA doesn't want to be thought of as the "worst company" management at EA need to: Treat their customers with respect. Don't treat your customers like thieves, Don't nickle and dime your customers, Admit to failure & make changes to improve, Don't make excuses for failure Treat their employees with respect. ...
I honestly don't think he could have crafted a better response, regardless of how shitty EA is to consumers and how insincere it seems to those burned by EA. I read it not only from the perspective of a consumer, but also try to see it from the point of view of investors and (most importantly) employees. Investors ...
You're going to end up in a senseless argument with the above poster. Who the fuck can actually make a valid debate about whether EU countries are still countries?
As someone who's fed up with taking political sides (all politicians are fucking ass holes, actually) I'm tired of seeing posts like this. It's essentially saying "Only democrats think for themselves". This isn't so. I hate CISPA, and moreover I hate this ass hole. But people do genuinely think this is a good idea, a...
I'll try to answer as objectively and well as I can. It's a result a few main factors; A practice called "[Gerrymandering]( where the body of representatives is allowed to determine the borders of their districts. As a result, lines are drawn to include certain demographics, essentially to help ensure that the dist...
Probably a massive internet outage forcing the reluctant and socially inept to force change. Sounds stupid but really - it needs to be something we ALL have in common. These days, that's pretty much our internet. Anything else and you'll just get groups of people who will get told by other groups of people they're bein...
This is an incredibly misleading article. When I read this headline I get the impression that special interests groups gave the House $84 million dollars specifically to support CISPA. However, if you actually read the article and click on the linked sources you will find that these special interests groups have give...
I think there's a difference between indoctrination and culture. For instance, you could say that people in Germany are indoctrinated into believing that a socialist state is the best thing for the people, because that is what they have grown up with. Thus they look at economic conservatives in the U.S. as lunatics. No...
Well you are clearly sympathetic to Communism and authoritarianism You are the one sympathetic to authoritarianism here. >, which I happen to believe fundamentally will never work because both are antithetical to human behavior. Your beliefs don't really matter, do they? If you want to disagree you need arguments...
I pronounce it that way because EVERYONE else does. Most people I know say gif with a hard g because I'm lucky like that. >
There is no literary rule that says the guy who first wrote an acronym decides how it is pronounced. The is also no rule that says a letter in an acronym must be pronounced the way it sounds as its own word (e.g. JPEG is not pronounced Jay-pheg)
Acronyms don't work that way though. Take "NASA". Both the 'a's are pronounced like the 'a' in "add". But the first one stands for "Aeronautics", so it should really be pronounced like the 'a' in "ate". But no one says it like "Naisa". The pronunciation of an acronym is just something people make up that they feel fits...
Surprisingly I never once said his word out loud until the last year or so when I corrected someone that said "giff". Then everyone yelled at me. And I still call it "jif."
I remember reading the text file that came with CSHOW.EXE (CompuShow, a program to display CompuServe's GIF format) and it said it's pronounced like "jif". That was some time between 1987 and 1990. Back then you would pick a file you wanted to download from a BBS, wait for it to download, quit or shell to DOS from your...
As a hippie linguist, I love and accept all pronunciations. I prefer "jif" myself, but am dating a "gif"-er, so I'm even more neutral.
All you people talking about the way "graphics" is pronounced and crap. Listen, don't think, just look at the word: gif Read it as if you've never seen it before. There is no way in hell you would say that as jiff when you read it. Instead of constructing crazy reasons of why to pronounce it in the good way, lets...
I think you are operating under some faulty assumptions. You keep insisting this is some sort of "I'm right! No, I'm right!" playground type dispute revolving around literary rules and pedantic arguments. While I can not speak for you, and will refrain from commented observation, I can speak for myself: I am making...
For starters, it's because our country is following Keyne's economic policies. > The human being can consume so much and no more," Huxley said in 1930. "When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our ...
Graphene is a super-conductor, it's not currently able to, nor will it in the near future be able to contain digital data. The cost of creating something such as this, as a prototype would be prohibitive. The markup for a product such as this would redefine the industry and would cause a huge outrage. After many...
The problem with the higher resolution is that there are no consumer formats (ex. HDTV or Bluray) that are in that resolution, you would still be watching your content in 1080 until a new format comes out.
Damn. I want to hear the story. I really do. Just not
I appreciate your diplomacy, but ratemyprofessor.com is shit, and everyone in academia knows it. If your teacher does a good job, you pass the class and go on to the next one. But if you're a shitty student, you make a shitty grade, and then you go bitch about it because you feel that you are entitled to a good grade...
I'm not surprised even in the slightest. The University of Waterloo had students make a bunch of similar stuff (in particular an awesome app called "Course Qualifier" which showed you all the possible schedule combinations of a given set of courses for a given year and presented the list with all kinds of useful inform...
As someone who manages IT in a university: this happens every semester. The students focus on usability and connectivity, lately as it relates to mobiles. They end up making a product that is extremely useful and that students love. But then, here is a list off the top of my head that students don't tend to focus on: ...
My job is actually to manage and update a course catalog at an institution. Switching platforms isn't as easy as 1-2-3. It has to go through various stages of approval and the staff has to be on board. We recently switched to a new course management system. Doing so took over a year, and we're still transitionin...
Solution: 1 Survey to see if 5$ rental of imaged YBB+ drive, to benefit charity has traction, if so: 2 Obtain permission to rent usb drives in an event for charity on or close to campus for 2 weeks. Mention a computer and 250 drives, will be donated in less than 30 days. 3 Buy 250 flash drives and laptop c...
You don't even have to do that. My mom was on city council in a smallish area of KS that incorporated local farming areas. The city of about 5,000 people got 2 representatives on the council as did the 2 incorporated agricultural areas. The problem is that the other areas only had about 500 and 200 people yet got th...
That's overstating it. San Francisco was a great city before computers were invented, before the Internet was invented etc. It's economy has been decent and diverse for a very long time. And it's governance has been crap for almost as long. San Francisco is turning into a tech version of Manhattan. I find that a bit ...
there is really only two ways to drop overages for voice and text. we add on a plan that would cover the overages(say any unlimited plan) and then back date the change to the start of your billing cycle, that way the system thinks that you never went over any minutes and would remove said charges immediatly. we...
Yes. I'm a tmobile customer. They're not all roses and blowjobs. Their throttling is punishing, they add a 1 year contract if you add a phone that you paid for yourself, the throttled international data thing I'm sure is great but requires a move to the most expensive plan, etc. A lot of these headlines don't tell ...
I despise the nothing to hide argument as justification for the invasion of my privacy. A few months ago I wrote a piece to try and summarize why it is both a silly and dangerous argument and I paste herein below for your consideration: The recent revelation that the National Security Agency in America has deployed t...
Why do we want people to drive electric cars anyway? Norway is practically self supplied with electricity (99%) trough mostly eco friendly wave power. If everyone or even a large portion of the population starts using electric cars we wont be anymore, and we'll have to import power trough EU. This means in all probabil...
I'd be really happy with my (old) Samsung phone if I could upgrade my Android version, get rid of apps that I don't want but have no way of uninstalling, and have years-old Android bugs fixed such as the one that is causing it to run out of internal memory even though I delete messages etc. attempting to free up space.
If we assume terrorism kills 52 people per year (Assuming we have a July 7th style bombing each year - [Details]( In reality it's not even close to that, it's around 5 [LINK]( Anyway lets go with that figure. And lets say a UK life is worth $1.7 million [Source]( That's a cost of $88m or £58m per year. Being very gen...
First things first: This does absolutely fuck-all for connecting devices to the internet. It also doesn't do shit for almost anything else. That said... Can this make a difference on audiophile-level gear, when connected to, say, a DAC? The answer is yes. The caveat: we're talking about the ultra-high-end. The way tr...
As for AI - well, if we create an artificial life form in such a way to let it run amok and enslave humankind, we're idiots and deserve what we get. If that came to pass, it were a sad day for our race, but at the same time our greatest triumph, and (if you believe in such a thing) the true fulfilment of a destiny th...
To me, this is obviously just a public show of face for these firms to quell angry consumers, while behind the scenes they are still 100% complicit with intelligence agencies in allowing backdoors to be built into their products. After everything that's come to light in the last few years I have zero faith in this indu...
Me too. I figured this to be a FTFY or
Soviets used a few systems back in the day, this was to rule out chances of having "false positive" readings. First one was the "over the horizon" radar system, made most famous by the giant rusting detection screens in the radiated zone near Chernobyl. Basically, it would scan the direction it was pointed in for la...
I flew to UK last year. On the way back, I was singled out three times. Once in Manchester, and twice in Newark, NJ. Customs and then going back through security to get to my home airport. I had my vacation cut a day short from a delay going there. I had issues with my ex-girlfriend when I was there. I had to sit 6 h...
As I comment every time this thing makes the front page (about once every 6-8 months for the past 5 years) this thing is not really all that useful. The odds of injuring yourself in home use are so small that it's not worth it for private owners . . . and businesses don't like it because of the false trips--the thing ...
A "living document" model doesn't make sense for a standard. Versions have meaning . When you say that a browser supports HTML4 or CSS2, that should guarantee that those standards are all followed. In a living document model, what do those standards mean? If you can change the standard, how do you define what le...
Thank god someone has brought this to life. I'm been struggling with iqmsd hogging up 100% of my AT&T Xperia play cpu. iqmsd is a service related to Carrier IQ. At random times during the day the thing freaks out and runs 100% until I restart the phone. I had no idea it was happening until I noticed my battery life d...
They monitor the keystroke events, however I've yet to see confirmed proof that they #1, store this data, #2 transmit this data. What is demonstrated in the video is only that they are monitoring keystrokes. There's sometimes reasons to tie into those events for purposes besides recording keystrokes. I think that's a f...
Driving back from my university some elementary kids were walking home and I guess they were just play fighting, but one kid like 7 years old fell over and started laying on the side walk in the fetal position for around 15 seconds without moving. As I got closer, I stopped, rolled down the window and asked if he was ...
Your #2 is absolutely correct from the browser software's point of view, but "corrected" in the datastream view. Safari's URL bar is what was being logged, otherwise what you would be seeing in the log is "GET /search?q=hello+world" - that would definitely be "decrypted", unless it has a trap in the SSL encoding libr...
I think this is a common misconception in that fraud <=> lie. Fraud is a legal term, related to telling a lie that a court can debate and have difficulty proving, due to the "intent" portion. How can one prove intent unless the defendant admits under oath it was done with intent? One can always plead the 4th.. A lie, i...
How long has this been going on for? Well I rooted my android about a year ago and at that time there were specific methods for disabling carrier IQ. It's always been pretty clear what the app was for, nobody was really hiding it. The funny thing is, we knew it had to be a pretty extensive system just because of th...
I love that nobody ever reads these articles.. the [single page version]( would be better. >The facility has 230,000 employees, many working six days a week, often spending up to 12 hours a day at the plant. Over a quarter of Foxconn’s work force lives in company barracks and many workers earn less than $17 a day. ...
My question is, what do you think we can do NOW, considering most of us don't have the funding or resources to do so? As for individuals, I think we need to take advantage of the incredible opportunities and resources we have at our disposal to really develop our skillsets. One of the biggest problems I see with Cana...
My main issue is while "willful copyright infringement for commercial purposes" is illegal and hard to justify, I don't get how the entire site has to go down because of it. I don't see it to be any different than say a finance company who had rouge employees following illegal practices - by all means give the individu...
I feel like looking at this from an evolutionary standpoint. Every website that does this is effectively dead. Their revenue will drop through the floor. The ones that are still left over will make more money than before due to a lack of competition. The question becomes: can the government take these websites down f...
The judge mis-signed this ruling (that someone else had typed up for him) thinking it was something different.
Its not really all that complex. take an existing LCD and open it up. there you will find in behind/beneath of the pixel panel, for our case will be a panel of white LEDs which with this tech that looks like nothing more than a tinted screen protector but is sandwiched in between the pixel panel and the backlight (LE...
It's also somewhat hard to know the actual value of the internet to the economy. To the extent that people want IT, and cell phones and all of these internet connected devices... well... we wanted them before. Not quite the same devices to be sure. But it's not like there weren't computers and cell phones before th...
I agree wholeheartedly that Obama has done many despicable things. I also agree that he has not been held accountable by his supporters for any of the things he has done to hurt the cause of human and civil rights during the course of his presidency. I think he has knowingly committed war crimes. I still think McCain w...
I looked through the comments and didn't see anything to this point so I figured I would contribute. Turns out I started working for a commercial satellite company in 1999. I had to deal with DITRA due to export control and it was never really a problem. Our foreign customers were annoyed but happy they were getting th...
Allowing relatively unfettered access to space is a VERY BAD IDEA . Sure, when it's just sub-orbital pop-shots, even weekend getaways to LEO, it's no problem. We want to encourage private enterprises to do that. But we absolutely cannot allow it to be unregulated. We have to have very strict control over who goe...
Is this what killed PrimeStar? Oh wait, they probably died because the customer serviced sucked great hairy blue balls. Sweaty ones. Sweaty nasty diseased ones. The service itself was rather rock solid for its day. If you could live with the interruptions, which we kind of took for granted back in the stone ages. N...
This isn't really feasible the way that the internet infrastructure has been engineered. Because the internet has grown out of [ARPANET]( that means that the major hubs are still mostly located in the US. That means that, regardless of where you are located, and regardless of where the server you're trying to access ...
I believe the playing of video games can be considered a sport, because of the competition and physical skill played for the entertainment of others. The creation of video games is considered an art, due to the storytelling, graphic design, etc.
Sorry but "herp derp buy this unsupported chinese phone via a shady ebay salesguy who skirts import duties" is the new worldwide cheap phone is asinine and its the same thing people have been saying for ages, especially in regards to cheap android tablets (how did those 99 dollar tablets reddit raves about but never us...
If you are doing it after normal work at home and not paying taxes, maybe. If it is a legitimate business, then you also have overhead to cover. You will also be spending a lot of time on things you aren't directly getting paid for, which would quickly put you far under minimum wage overall. If you want to cover all yo...
I'm currently dealing with a similar consumer abuse at the hands of Bank of America. Long story short, I opened a free checking and savings account under an offer made back in 2009. I knew at the time that this could very well be one of those things that a company might try to conveniently forget about at a later dat...
Oh man, my 5 year old computer was BSODing repeatedly for about 6 months. No time when it would do it. Checked the RAM in another computer, no problems, voltmeter on PSU, fine. Onboard graphics, fine. Reseated the processor would oddly make it work for a day then it would do the same (BSOD 3-4 times per day over a 10 h...
Alright redfit, what are the cons to this, and why will it never see the light of day?
The French did it]( And before anyone says that it was horrible, read this please: >THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inf...
OK Guys (and I assume most of you, like me, are guys...) There are two ways to look at this data, and the imbalance of gender among engineers. One way is, as most of the current comments reflect, to say "Well, these companies are pretty good companies, we don't see much evidence of sexism. You can't force women in...
I don't understand why everyone rides the F the utility train". Quite simply, they overcharge in many places and are most often at fault for perpetuating an industry that on one hand, is extremely reliable in terms of electric production but has no care whatsoever for the environmental impact. You may work for one ut...
What is going to happen to the grid between the time one company fails and the next takes over? The grid is being constantly monitored, because that is what it takes. It's mostly automated, but it's automated by the company that just failed. They're not doing it anymore. Whose FUD are you spewing? Honest question, ...
The problem with this rationale is that it's based on a false dilemma. The 'death spiral' of utility companies is not a question of these companies folding up and then the grid being destroyed. That's what they want you to believe. That's part of the FUD that invested parties use to maintain their positions of powe...
I work in a company that helps solar companies sell to more clients. The general reason why people add solar power to their homes is because they want to reduce their monthly bill and we only sell to customers if their energy bill is $100 or higher over here in California. So on average, the person that signs up for so...
Okay, first of all, utilities don't make obscene profits. Riiiiight. > Secondly, if utility companies fall, the grid is in fact fucked. The damn thing is so old that the only thing holding it together is constant maintenance and some prayers. There is no easy way to hand off control here. I'm not even sure how to p...
Yes, and losing a good 20% to 5% of energy every time you force water uphill and then losing a good 20% to 5% again when it runs down is a big problem. I have big issues with "payback" scenarios that are being pushed by photovoltaic companies. They should not consider the amount of dollars you get back for "selling" ...