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Edit: First of all I want people to know that being critical is important. There doesn't need to be an extreme example like the one you pose for there to be a problem. Just a slight increase in aggressive behaviour in general which in normal circumstances may not have perceivable consequences. For example a slight in...
Ok. I don't understand your point. We are not talking about children. We talking about adults with fully developed brains and mental capacity. If they are unable to understand simple concepts explained in a clear and concise manner then they are unable to judge. Which, if you don't know, is forming an opinion on ...
Generally these rules are to prevent a malicious hotspot from being generated to capture traffic from anyone who falls for it. I've got a neat little toy called a WifiPineapple and it's basically a wireless router designed to make that process insanely easy. If there is an unsecured network being near me that lots of...
Network admin, here. I won't downvote you because this is not an irrational standpoint from a non-technical perspective, but should they have asked anyone with even 2 years' experience in this stuff, they would have learned otherwise. 1) There are multiple ways to prevent SSID switcheroos. Some procedural, and some a...
To be fair, it is their car, you are simply renting it from them. People keep confusing property ownership with being king of one's own country. If Hertz thinks that just because they own the car, they magically get to wiretap all conversations inside it and use those tapes for extortion and insider trading ---- su...
Network Engineer here from a small, better, ISP. Backbone: There is no main backbone controlled by a closed group of 12. The closest thing would be the "Tier 1" ISPs that engage in settlement-free peering. All that means is they don't charge each other for traffic. Nothing prevents you from purchasing transit "inter...
They say software is cheap but don't forget you have to pay for the computer/monitor/peripherals/network/maintenance and now you have no resale value - all they provide is a link to download it from. Software is massively expensive. For small businesses software is a problem. It costs a lot, there is the constant upd...
I can say that i can do nothing more then agree that you get a big feeling of hopelessness sometimes when you work with "that kind of people". I work as a IT-Technician and i do allot of support for my customers. I had a customer in a couple of weeks ago that wanted help to get that (as the customer described it) "Bar-...
This is maybe the most valid thing that I have read in this thread. jimstix, you're there to support and help the people at the company. Not to call them idiots for not knowing the basics. Rather than just helping them he should take 5 more minutes and explain it to them at a rate that they can understand. I know it'...
Within the context of the other two announcements (OS X Lion and iCloud coming this summer) it sounds like they want to allow people to use their iPad/iPhone as their main computer which is awesome. However if I'm going to be using iOS 5 it will definitely not be on my 3GS. The battery life can't take that much uploadi...
There are too much problem with Wiki: First, they lost their principle. Wikipedia used to be interesting for new user because they encourage them to be bold, but once they got popular, they got scared. The slightest criticism about it's inaccuracy get the utmost attention while people who spend a lot of hours worki...
he was against it when he was trying to gain votes. Then Hollywood threatened to take away their financial support after he said he would veto SOPA. Money always wins.
This is digital brutality, digital savagery- Shutting down megaupload the day after the internet protests SOPA was a show of power. Its like they came out and said "We don't need SOPA to deal with piracy, SOPA is purely about censorship" They are foolish however. They do not understand the exponential expansion of ...
This seems to be no improvement at all then. I was at the Yokohama Landmark Tower last year, it used to have the world's fastest lift (12.5 m/s or 41.01 ft/s; 45.0 km/h or 28.0 mi/h) and getting up to the 69th floor took 45 seconds. Pretty cool and it was a smooth ride. EDIT: Speed [indicator]( inside the lift. How...
Reddit was a libertarian experiment at the outset, figuring that the self-regulating nature of voting would take care of issues like that. Unfortunately they obviously didn't plan on the offending subreddits becoming popular enough to be a problem for them, having too much faith in the goodness of human nature, I gues...
With the copious amount of fresh porn being released daily, why would anyone want to sign in and bookmark the stuff? You can find new videos every day with fresh faces. Don't waste your time watching the same old stuff over and over again. Sure we COULD watch Jenna Jameson get sent to pound town, but why not watch tw...
They're trying to make Windows like Zune / WP7, when they should be finding a happy medium of the two. I personally love Zune and I have a Verizon Trophy WP7, which is the best phone I've ever had, aside from the shittily empty Zune Marketplace. I think the PC Zune application itself did a pretty good job of merging ...
It is a boring and pointless question on par with the submissions regarding cures for cancer or whatever. I'm not blaming you for not knowing about the world, but I want you to know that if you don't just reject videos like these using your own experiences you probably need to educate yourself some more. But hey, since...
For web developers it used to matter a lot. when IE6 was king it was important to know it had such and such marketshare over FF so you knew to keep coding sites specifically for the fucking piece of shit IE6. Then IE7 came out and it was important to know if I could start coding for it rather than IE6. Then IE8 came ou...
Nope. Different network types. For a little more explanation on why Google chose not to make a CDMA/LTE version, check here:
With paid versions of Google Apps you can use the [Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook]( It works transparently enough that my dad regularly tells people how great his iPhone syncs with iCloud by instantly updating his calendar/contacts/tasks on all his devices (iPad and Outlook basically). As someone who us...
The amount of energy required to produce lift depends on how fast you need to be accelerating air in the opposite direction to where you want to apply thrust. Just how fast you need to accelerate that air mass depends on the inverse of how much air you have available to accelerate. What this means is that if you're t...
This still only seems to help entities that can afford to lose. Knowing you are right does not necessarily increase your ability to prove your claim in court, nor does it mean that you have the ability to manage the new risks involved.
flexibility, with it's various ports it can be made to do almost anything - the usb, video and internet are standard computer ports which obviously are exceptionally useful but really it's main feature is the GPIO port which stands for 'general purpose in out' this is a clever little array of pins which can be connecte...
IF WE INCREASE THE PRICE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES TO WHICH YOU SUBSCRIBE, BEYOND THE LIMITS SET FORTH IN YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE SUMMARY, OR IF WE MATERIALLY DECREASE THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA IN WHICH YOUR AIRTIME RATE APPLIES (OTHER THAN A TEMPORARY DECREASE FOR REPAIRS OR MAINTENANCE), WE’LL DISCLOSE THE CHANGE AT LEAST ONE...
Easier said then done when the majority of your country cares more about Snookies baby then they do politics. Most Americans are complacent. As long as they can watch their reality TV, or sports they couldn't care less. Which is pretty depressing.
I forgot to add that this is also something that big business wants us to think. Spot on. For example, years ago they had a big tax holiday to encourage companies to bring all those profits stored offshore tax-free back here. The argument was that it would trigger a new wave of investing, economic growth etc. But stu...
Sure, you the developer or maintainer of a particular package see the diffs of a code change, but what about some ancillary pidgin plugin that's maintained by random people off somewhere in the Internet? Do you think there are diff police out there that go and check the code changes of this ancillary plugin that in the...
Are you kidding me with this? Did anybody actually READ the link? Of course not, because nobody bothers to actually read these things, they just upvote when the title says something that reinforces their preconceptions. The ARBITRARY BLOG which OP linked to arrives at the outlandish claim quoted in the title after vagu...
This actually happened with my father and I: Him: I dropped off my computer at the shop because it needs Windows reinstalled again Me: Why don't you try Ubuntu like I've asked you several times? You're wiping it anyway, give it a few weeks, you've got nothing to lose. Him: I just can't lose our documents. I don't hav...
theres 2 different layers. a physical layer the CPU itself and the software layer. it makes no sense to do anything to the physical layer unless they had physical access to the machine, and even then it would be pretty useless. even the bios, maybe if they wanted to highjack a machine during boot, though i'm sure in th...
That's sounds pretty deep, but it's not very well thought out. If you believe in the "fall of man", and distrust the idea of "masters" then you've only seen half the problem. He makes a good point about the importance of the inherent checks and balances of democracy....but makes no mention of the inevitable turn from...
The big telecoms plan on making money off of this by introducing internet service plans that follow a tiered pricing system, pay more, you can access more websites, faster. If they get their way, it will most likely end up that the telecoms will carve up the big sites(facebook, twitter, reditt, etc) and if you arent a ...
In the sense of routing, the Internet is already not neutral. What we think of as "the Internet" is really a bunch of networks that are interconnected, and these interconnections are owned by private telecommunications companies (think Verizon and AT&T). Routing at the points where one company's infrastructure meets an...
Net neutrality is basically this. Right now, companies have to give all data fair and equal treatment. Youtube loads as fast as hulu loads as fast as vimeo. Verison is making a claim that "we own the wires, therefore we should be allowed to control what goes across them, much like a newspaper controls what's printe...
This is the reason why. All this does is take the open source components that goes into making iOS and OSX and puts it on another set of hardware. I believe the Darwin open source bits are licensed under the [Apple Public Source License]( so there are no restrictions on derivative works outside of releasing the source ...
This article is a little misleading, but it is still a very important step towards understanding stem cell differentiation and a huge step forward for showing the role of epigenetics in cell differentiation. First of all, they did not just take red blood cells and turn them into stem cells. RBCs do not have any DNA i...
There's a bunch of replies here saying Google is anti net neutrality without saying why, so just for reference, [here it is]( I like Google and I would get Google Fiber in a heartbeat if I could, but yeah the
I like Apple hardware and, really, competition in general. There is just a lot of cross-pollination going on between the different platforms. We need them all to succeed. That said, here's a trend I've noticed... The standard Apple fan/apologist will tell you why they love Apple. Sometimes they are misinformed, but...
For my internet, I have two choices: Time Warner or AT&T. I've had AT&T come to my house over and try to convince me to switch to them. This last time when representatives came to my house I started the conversation with "I'm sorry, but all I want is cheaper and faster internet. You cannot give me this, so you are be...
When I go to to the dmv I always find the employees friendly and helpful. The one bad experience I had there was when a guy ahead of me in line flipped out and started jumping up on counters and kicking monitors. They shuffled the rest of us outside until the cops arrived (it lasted several minutes; the guy was really ...
Even at whole coins a GB, you'd have to be a serious power user / have an extremely low bill to pass the USD/GB mark where it is higher than your current bill. According to my ISP, this household only used 400 GB last month at .05$ per GB, that would be a 20$ bill. Even at 10 cents a GB it would STILL be less than the ...
Necropost? Most of those links are dead, and the comments are from 4 years ago. The only working links go to newer versions of the things in that list: Google Shopper apparently isn't a thing(?), the link just goes to [Google Shopping]( Google Goggles goes to a websearch response liting of a [help page]( expl...
If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can...
I believe this is mostly true except for your justification about why they collect and transmit all data. What /u/acr2001 said is important. It's entirely possible to listen for a trigger word locally and then begin recording and analyzing, this is how Siri and Google's voice recognition software works. I suppose s...
I can answer this- I have a bunch of stuff plugged in to my smart TV. The media PC is what gets used most often, for watching Netflix and video files and listening to music on iTunes and Pandora and looking up the answers to arguments on Wikipedia. The Blu-Ray player gets used for watching Blu-Rays, we never use an...
If it doesn't how will it know when you're talking? Samsung just told you that if you enable voice recognition then it will listen to you and that it uses a third party to translate that text which is useful. It's not clear if voice recognition is on by default (note to self: check my TV when I get home) but clearl...
what's to stop it - blocking outbound connections that you don't confirm at firewall/router from that device. I'm assuming, at this point anyways, that the address the voice commands are sent to would be separate than the update server, so you could block connections so the voice recognition ip's, although they could...
I have apps on my (older, dumber model) SmartTV, and the only use I use anymore is Hulu. I can connect my tablet or laptop via hdmi, but usually don't bother unless I really want to watch something I can't easily cast through my Chromecast. For example sometimes I have trouble casting direct from website in a Chrome ...
I sold original cable TV door to door. No HBO or any other channels except what was already coming to you over the air. It was $5 a month. The only benefit was a perfect picture and no antenna on your roof you still got all the commercials. Almost everyone bought it, in some neighborhoods my penetration rate was almo...
well though out post. i have a friend who work in military acquisitions and he talked about this one part they had to buy (It was either a board or a chip) and the place that originally made it when out of business or just stopped making that one part, so some other company bought the equipment and charged a ridiculous...
Back in 2002 I actually tested/screened potential TSA employees. It was the summer after my senior year of college and I was leaving for a study abroad course to finish my language requirement in the fall and need something temporary. My supervisor was a 19 year old girl who only wore long denim skirts and had just gra...
Pssssst. If you have an "injury" that prevents you from raising one/both of your arms/hands over your shoulders/head (can't make a hand diamond) then you are (hint) not allowed to go through the backscatter (hint) and you have (hint) to go through the metal detector. Also, they are not allowed (hippa/ADA) to ask wh...
from their [website]( > In the UK, and many of the developed countries worldwide, there is a shortage of scientists, engineers and mathematicians and we therefore urgently need our young people to be motivated to enjoy and study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects at school and then at universi...
Basically Braidwood is put in a slot, similar to your current RAM. The Intel P55 chipset motherboards that are coming out for Core i5 were supposed to have Braidwood support (the spot where a slot goes is visible on pre-production motherboard). However, for some reason the functionality was removed and Intel delayed i...
Overreaction. Jesus. They APPLIED for a patent. That means they have not been granted ANYTHING. It also does not mean they have developed any technology. Apple (and all technology companies) patent many things that never make it to market for various reasons. Either way -- its a pretty neat idea. If it seems li...
This patent isn't describing a method to catch aliens. It's describing (in detail) a means to catch someone ("unauthorized user") doing something with the device that's out of the ordinary. Reading the claims section of the patent describes in moderate detail the means Apple intends to use to catch said "unauthorized u...
In terms of Solaris, it is more like delaying the free. Up until Oracle came along, OpenSolaris was months ahead of Solaris in terms of features. Oracle now wants to end that by closing down the semi-open development model and only releasing Solaris code once an RTM version of Solaris ships. Aside from that, another ...
Can you blame them? And why would you "publish" anything on Facebook that you might hope to one day sell commercially anyways? They are responsible for the content that is attributed to Facebook, keep in mind. What if a terrorist group recruited on Facebook? Who would get sued for hosting the information (I will gi...
famous last words. I have Sprint and I have a love hate relationship with them. I have the unlimited plan but downgraded to the 69.99 (400 minutes) plan as opposed to the 99.99 (unlimited minutes). Right about this time, Sprint decided to change their rewards program so that anyone not paying at least $100 per mon...
No, that video shows nothing of the sort. The video shows the android debug output, which includes the fact the Carrier IQ app receives events for keystrokes, page loads, and text messages. It does not show any logging of this data or what it uses these events for. It makes perfect sense for a usage tracking app to mo...
copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive People that do this drive me insane. Even so called "IT experts" seem to have no clue how keyloggers work. It is like every time the word "keylogger" is used a little tiny part of everyone's brain is removed. HTTP "keyloggers" install a network filter driver, ca...
The purpose of the economy is not to create economic growth, it's to create goods and services which people want, generating freedom from slavery and eventually drudgery. Economic growth is an easy to measure indicator that in most cases tells you more goods and services are being created... Except in some specific c...
I work refunds at a major retailer, with a relatively lax return policy. Let me give you a small example of what I see on a daily basis... I have several people who would keep their electronics right until the end of the return policy, then return and buy a brand new one... now when you do this for a few years and yo...
The sad thing about this conversation is that, when discussing BB's future, the course of their actions have been framed completely wrong. A lot of commenters state that they just use Amazon, it's cheaper, etc. Let me ask you this - why does BB not have a viable online store? It's because, simply, they don't want ...
the news articles are [here]( and [here]( Basically here's the story: There's a nerf gun enthusiast named Martyn Yang who has a website promoting nerf guns. One day he gets a letter from Hasbro (who produces nerf guns) saying that they liked his website and would like to send him some nerf guns. Like any great fan h...
NEWSFLASH! THIS JUST IN! Apparently when you store data on a cloud server, and you agree to let the company own this data, they do! CALL THE CHIEF OF POLICE!
they support it because they support stopping internet piracy and they stand a lot to lose. i've also looked a lot into the bill and a recent amendment includes a provision "to permit federal lawsuits against the government for any violation of restrictions placed on the government’s use of voluntarily shared informa...
Again you can't know. Scientist have hypothesized that human brain was enlarged by a birth defect that caused our jaws to lose their biting prowess. Another hypothesis says early humans were forced to wear skins of other animals because louses totally destroyed our natural hair. Look at Stephen Hawking. He suffers f...
For my home machine: I'd say ability to get back up and running is key. Now: it does act as a server. (Very very small time web server, file server, SSH for anything I need to do remotely without restrictions of corporate networks.) But it is not important enough that I need to survive a hard drive failure without ...
I think it is at least that easy to try , or to state your dissatisfaction in polls. I don't think the change itself would be easy. But as it stands, a significant majority of the US electorate keeps demonstrating their ongoing support for the status quo by wavering back and forth between two slightly different righ...
Let's think about what would happen if the patent system on commonplace hardware technology we're abolished. The idea of a patent is that it prevents others (usually powerful companies) from stealing your inventions. But we have reached a point in our history where ANYONE can essentially program something or put toge...
Windows 8 Edition Comparison . Also, [it DOES come with a keyboard]( the only rumor was the price tag. Surface may not be at the level of Ipad but it does take a giant step toward it, especially since it is possible to hack it for much more customization than the puny Ipad walled garden.
Comes with a keyboard if you give them an extra $119" is not the same as "Comes with a keyboard", fanboi. Windows RT wouldn't have to be hacked to run Windows 8 programs if it did so in the first place, and you can hack an iPad too so I'm not sure what your point is. Just because I can hack Android onto a Touchpad does...
I hate and despise Google+, and am starting to hate and despise Google as well. I had a Google account some years ago, but no longer needed it, and didn't keep my account info. Then Google+ comes along, and decides that it's OK to spam me with Google+ announcements. There's a handy link at the bottom of each of the...
The article is stating that the XKCD(graphic) is wrong. Brute forcing hashes has gotten much faster over the last few years thanks to GPU based cracking and cloud networks. This allows dictionary based attacks to operate exponentially faster and instead of trying a huge list of words, now they will try every combina...
My (great) aunt is literally computer illiterate. It's almost painful to watch her use a computer. I don't hold it against her, or at least I try not to. She just didn't grow up with computers, and never really adapted. That said, however, a few years back I set her up with an old laptop of mine. I installed a ma...
Are you asking how do they stay in business or how do they encrypt email in a way that they can not read it? They are based in Sweden not the U.S. They use openpgp with 2048 bit keys and using the customer's public key they run a cron job on their server that encrypts all the email in the inbox with that key. Obviously...
However, Insertion sort benefits greatly The risk of using insertion sort is not that it will work. It's due to another teammate coming on-board and publicly criticizing you for using insertion sorts. This is an on-going gripe I have about the software development industry: misguided adherence to the socially accepte...
so who wants to
This has nothing to do with Samsung so how can that be the
You are ridiculous, you have pronounced him guilty without a trial. I am not pronouncing anyone guilty, I am not a judge. But from a legal stand point it was pretty open shut. The prosecution was not going into this case thinking "This will be a tough sell", and it wasn't likely that there would be much deliberation....
Please take a moment to have a read of this chart. Now obviously we should be avoiding this kind of radiation where possible, so the bracelets are stupid, but anyone with half a brain knew the bracelets were stupid pseudoscience bullshit even before it became known that they were "radioactive".
I think of alternative medicine as, "Hey, i received treatment from someone other than an M.D." Because institutions and Academia actually have a specific definition or mindset for what medicine should be considered( like Tums for heart burn will be called "medicine" but eating apples, and ingesting apple cider vineg...
if they have the root certs there's nothing you can do" Not true. Forging a Google cert and signing it with a versisign cert will be incredibly obvious as the signing path will be different, the thumbprint will change, and the issuance date will change. I believe chrome would throw a fit if that happened-- I dont...
I responded to a troll in the thread, but I'll state it again here - I'm not an IT professional. I, like most redditors, am the family-IT-guy because I've been working with computers since the DOS days. Anytime I 'fix' someones computer, there is an informative class that goes along with it while I'm clicking and typ...
Yeah, there's no amount of money available for me to betray friends. There is, however, an amount available for me to sell the company that I Fucking own while still retaining a majority control over my company. All that said, Oculus did not get 2bn,they got 400 million and a lot of stock. Not worth shit in my ...
seriously? your blaming them for setting themselves and their kid's kids up for life? reddit needs to put themselves in their shoes here. chances are, with facebook this thing will probably come out better than if they stuck to doing it solo. now they have the manpower and resources to get shit done. not only that but ...
Alright . So I had gone to tmobile because they had a cheaper plan and I'm mostly in the city so the service is supposed to be good. Well I looked at the online map showing it had great service in my city and the other city where I work. So I get a phone and their service and low and behold 0 to 1 bar at my house and t...
I want a free internet but I don't understand a lot of the terminologies going on. (I'm very ignorant) I called a HOR office to tell them one of the things I read in the comment section in another thread and I had no idea what I said to them. In short, I felt very stupid after I ended the call. Can someone explain what...
No, you may need to work on your reading comprehension as I clearly outlined my points in the first post. The government does not care what the states laws are, a perfect example of this is how states with medical marijuana laws are still raided by the DEA, as federal laws trump those of the states - even with the 10...
First I never said they deserve 15 an hour. Never came out of my mouth so there you are making assumptions again. And yes while some have made bad choices to be in that spot plenty have not. There are degree holders working fast food because "there are no jobs available" or so we are told. Or they have impossible req...
Comcast tech support agent, here. I understand that I'm 'the enemy' here, and will get downvoted because of it. I understand most of you are technically minded, and have no problems managing your own equipment. I have no problems talking to you on the phones whatsoever; the most you need is a bootfile push, and ver...
It really isn't that complicated though. Running MythTV on a VM is unnecessary. It can run on the same PC as XBMC, I only chose to do it this way because I wanted to re-use under-powered PC's in the bedrooms and have another excuse to leave my PC running constantly. Plus it's nice to have centralized media storag...
I personally feel that the whole modem rental thing is complete crap. I just got comcast and I wanted the triple play, phone,internet, and tv. I had gone to the store and bought one of the surfboard modems that say they work with comcast. Well anyway when the guy from comcast shows up, he says that it won't work. I ask...
Why, as a consumer, can I not make an agreement with the producer of the product? I can do this for: Farms Computer electronics Clothing Art The list goes onwards. Why are cars the exception: If I want to buy from tesla, I should be allowed to buy RIGHT FROM the factory. No middle man. No bullsh...
It's not a matter of caring vs. not caring. I care about dying in a car crash but I don't avoid driving because the chances of dying that way are pretty small. Likewise, I think all of the things you're describing are pretty unlikely because they require a few unlikely things to happen at the same time. Looking at t...
First of all if Google gets hacked, then you probably lost all your money in your bank account... similar difficulties in technology so privacy would be the least of my worries I realize that google has their shit together. But it doesn't mean they are bulletproof. Sure the chances of this happening are small, but it...
They specifically forked Adblock Edge for a reason. It's not that it's a simple change, it's that there is a concept of 'acceptable ads' in an ad blocking program in the first place.
This really cracked me up, and so I wanted to share it. (Most of my friends wouldn't appreciate/get it.) Also, I'm not actually an Apple hater—their products don't make sense to me, but that's because I'm not the type of consumer they're after. The design choices this video is criticizing the new MacBook were all thi...