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Because of the FBI's over-enthusiasm to prosecute Dotcom, news articles on the subject are still front-page material even months after the fact. Thus, in trying to suppress the sharing of information, the FBI increased Dotcom's ability to become a household name as well as public scrutiny on the broader issues of inter...
I find your comment to be a simplistic view of the business model. Media piracy will never be completely eradicated and will only grow with advancement in time and technology. Bit torrent technology is fascinating to me and I think it has the potential to positively impact the world in a huge way. I agree that giving a...
I was just poking fun at the vague statement in the article. "1000% less than what you pay for it" = Negative amounts of money. For example: 10% less than $500 = $450 50% less than $500 = $250 100% less than $500 = $0 200% less than $500 = - $500 1000% less than $500 = - $4,500 Just building the car mak...
As 3D printing technology develops I think you will be able too. I believe you'll have to print the individual parts, and assemble it yourself (no problem if you're a hands-on car-guy like me) but I think it will get to that point eventually if the copyright industry doenst ban the technology. We cant print metal yet...
True, in the UK Liverpool has the biggest cup size with an average of 34E, I'm almost certain most of that is attributable to boob jobs. Edit: The fat/obesity size Is shown less in the cup size, more in the back size. Going on about cup size is irrelevant and more to do with own personal taste. It just makes anyone l...
Finally! I'm not the only one frustrated!!! I own an Alienware m17x R4 and I constantly get the blue screen! They made me run the same check countless times, In addition try sent someone over who made the issue worse!!! I've wiped my system, installed drivers, replaced the GPU, reinstalled windows, replaced a new H...
A lot will happen in 100 years. Right now, there is a revolution in the way people communicate/take in information and this revolution will continue past the computer and smart phone. Google Glass is the first of a tsunami of innovation. It's hard to imagine what tech will be around 10 years from now, let alone 100. I ...
Have you read the official announcement? They didn't get kicked out. There was another incident where someone did get kicked out for using drugs. I am afraid that is getting misreported as the response to this incident.
Not only that, he was specifically emphasizing the P in P-Programming! You like water sports, boy? Well, do ya? Urinating on females for sexual pleasure is frowned upon in this classy community!
The responses to this thread are infinitely more interesting than the story. In the real world, the one outside our computer monitors, the non-reddit world, the dongle and forking jokes are like pun cascades. They're hilarious for the idiot participants who think they're full of witty, brainy intelligence. To the r...
I am what most would consider a slightly smaller than average build guy, around 5'9"-160lbs, but in good shape as I work out and exercise. I have been mocked by female coworkers my entire career at different companies because of it. Often calling me scrawny, tiny, little, etc., as well as pointing out that size does ...
Indeed. This incident has made me, as a guy in the tech world, not to think to myself "Gee, I should self-censor more often to avoid offending the thin skinned" but instead: "Gee, I should interact less with women at tech conferences." But then I remembered that 80% of my tech-knowledgeable friends are women, and tha...
You missed out on the part where nobody was actually being sexually harassed. I've been through that training several times for as many companies and they've never accounted for anyone this sensitive(that training is usually centered around interpersonal conversations and not eavesdroppers). The issue here (in case y...
Why should I go ballistic over a comment about a joke about anatomy and an unfortunately named piece of hardware? If you ask me: you shouldn't :) My reply was just an (obviously failed) attempt at a joke. Apprently, you are not alone with being terrible at expressing yourself. I can accept Adria feeling offended -...
Making dick jokes that aren't even aimed at a gender (much less any specific person) have absolutely nothing to do with harassment. Maybe you need to read over what happened again, but this woman involved herself in something that was unrelated to her and reported it as if she was in any way affected by it. Maybe you...
So... a nanny state? That goes against everything I stand for. How can a bunch of men who have only experienced the lifestyle of a senator dictate what is best for the whole country(one of the most diverse places on the planet might I add)? The government is there to deal with foreign nations(regulate trade, protect fr...
Imagine that we are not all animals and that fighting and war is not ingrained in our humanity. Imagine a reason we would build a colony that was not built because of economic or military reason. If China announced tomorrow that they were going to build a military base on Mars, we would be planning on how to build one ...
It's a nice concept and in a couple of years might be viable. Web technologies have increased in recent years due to a number of factors such as iOS not supporting flash and adobe discontinuing it giving rise to HTML5 and webGL becoming more popular. The problems aside from download times and constant connection is tha...
In dense urban areas, new construction is usually buried with underground transformer vaults. If you already have poles up, good luck ripping up a busy city's roads and sidewalks to install duct banks, etc. I prefer the look of buried, and I'd rather live in a neighbourhood with buried utilities but mostly because I d...
No, for a number of reasons. The only way to "kill the public police scanner" would be for police departments to go to encrypted communications. But the moment you do that you risk the police in one community being entirely unable to communicate with the police in another community. Communities would end up using in...
I think waiting until the fourth of July to deal with something that is going down now is a good way to set yourself up for easy-target repression Clearly stating your intentions to disrupt a major commuter highway on reddit isn't a good way to set yourself up? If even people didn't want to go to work, and wanted...
So as someone who is not very articulate and doesn't work in PR or advertising I wouldn't even know where to begin with some people. I'm going to ramble for a bit but I'll try to keep it concise and to the point. I brought up this subject to a friend of mine last night to gauge her opinion. She studies Political Scie...
I guess this is to be expected. Some people care about privacy and don't want to be tracked for what they search for. But then again, are we just supposed to take DuckDuckGo on it's claims? It's super easy to just say "Oh yes we don't track your searches on our website." Simply saying that doesn't necessarily mean that...
For one, this system is intended to be used for FOREIGN signal intelligence, so your prime targets (middle eastern, eastern europeans) would be totally safe because they're using mail services like Yandex hosted in countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia where the NSA would never get corporation with companies or gov...
First, reliable is the trick. A difficult trick indeed. And as many firms in every walk of business (and a spate of dead iKillers have found), not all attention is good attention. I can see nobody learned thing one about the dotcom bust. Attention is the easy part. Monetezation is the hard part. And utterly neglect...
One way of valuing companies is the price divided by*(thanks) earnings, known as the P/E ratio. A reasonable p/e is 10, expensive would be in the 20s or 30s. Tesla is at 220. It is absurdly overvalued. Basically, if a company becomes popular enough then the market is saturated by people who know nothing about investi...
By "no car is an investment", Simurgh doesn't mean that it wouldn't be fun, cheap or awesome. Simurgh is saying that you lose money the moment you drive it off the lot and continue to do so until you sell/junk it. This is true, but for in two circumstances: You sell the car for more than you originally paid (rare, bu...
Yeah, there again, its an issue. If you're surrounded by people all trying to keep up appearances, and said appearance is "Tesla is the best thing to happen to the automotive industry ever, and saying otherwise is equivalent to heresy and punishable by exile" then the probability that someone would admit any dissatisfa...
I think it's just the fact that it is kind of exciting to see an electric car compete in the mainstream market, even if it is still overpriced for the average car-buyer. There are a lot of Nikola Tesla fans here, too, and the association may explain part of that as well.
That's not really a good comparison. The total amount paid for the tesla (loan+interest) will be far greater than that of the fiesta. Fiesta after 36 months at 5% APR with payments of $419.59 will bring the car's total cost to $15105.24. Tesla with the same financing options will cost $899.13/month which ends up bein...
I agree with you in that it sounds biased. But i do want to play devil's advocate. The tesla has been receiving a bunch of negative media attention. I completely agree with reddit that the media is blowing everything regarding tesla's "fires" out of per-portion. But to me that is exactly why this article is in the righ...
If there's one thing to be learned from this thread - it's that people who can't currently afford a Tesla - STILL THINK IT'S A GREAT CAR. So, when the new models come out, and the prices are more comparable with gasoline powered vehicles - just exactly what do you suppose might happen to the currently depressed stock...
Although yes, I see what you're trying to say, that it is possible to swap out the drivetrain on a normal car, it is nowhere near as easy as it is in the Tesla Model S (speaking from experience as a former tuner/hobby mechanic having done engine swaps and such on regular ICE cars). In the Tesla, the whole drivetrain ...
In most cases of this happening you're pretty fucked no matter what you do. Top Gear tested it:
7) Technology licensing They are definitely the leaders in electric car tech at this point and have already started licensing existing technology to Mercedes 8) Battery technology breakthroughs Tons of research into battery technology may end up uncovering a huge find. I've been long on Tesla since I bought in ...
I think that is because many engineers look at things slightly different than some people. good or bad, an automotive engineer for example may look at an engine that most people just see as a hunk of metal with some moving thingies sticking out. and oh there is that thingy I use to check my oil. that automotive enginee...
The logic is straightforward and simple: 1) Current infrastructure is sufficient to reasonably accommodate traffic at peak times. 2) ISPs view "heavy users" as a threat to 1). 3) To discourage heavy use, or to upgrade infrastructure to deal with it (lol), ISPs want to charge heavy users more. 4) Since total ...
Because they know we can't do shit about it. Google is the only serious competition for ISPs, and it'll take them 20+ years to roll out service to the whole country. They have nothing to lose. In today's society you are REQUIRED to have internet to accomplish pretty much anything. Nobody is going to just drop off t...
Verizon CEO is an idiot. I'm glad I switched from High Speed DSL, 6 months ago. For years, I've been a loyal customer with their DSL high speed service because I live in an area where I am not eligible for cable/FiOS, and I was virtually stuck with Verizon. I was paying $40/month for 3.0Mbps/768kbps. Then last year, ...
As I said, I don't have a problem with a business (Comcast) charging what they want (i.e. for greater usage). But this is only fair if I have freedom of choice amongst multiple ISPs (which I don't). So if you want a monopoly, then you have to take government scrutiny and regulation breathing down your neck.
They can't if we fight back. I know this is kind of a shameless plug but join the revolution on /r/SummerOutage.
I was one of Microsoft's engineers (Senior Program Manager) on the Win8 Explorer team. I was specifically responsible for the ISO mounting (and VHD/X), Copy dialogue (multiple operation support, pause/resume, more-details graph, conflict resolution experience), and filing a number of patents related to the same. We a...
Everyone who says that XP going EOS is no big deal, go ahead and search "MS14-013" - I'll wait. ... Back yet? Good. Did you see this part in the MS KB? > The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted image file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability co...
I'm happy to see someone has already called out the the smoke and mirrors of Windows 8 "speed improvements" For those who don't believe that Windows 7 starts up just as fast as Windows... Here is a test you can try.... If you have a Windows 7 machine Enable hibernation (if it's not already enabled) Then put com...
Theres also BrightSpot Mobile (owned by Target) which allows 300 minutes 3 GB unlimited text for $35 a month, $25 gift card back every 6 months 5% off if paid with RED card. Uses T-mobile T-mobile prepaid $30 100 minutes 5 GB LTE, unlimited text. Extra minutes $0.10 per minute. Cricket Wireless using AT&T will d...
I don't REALLY get how this is a violation of net neutrality From the very first line of the [wikipedia article on net neutrality:]( Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not dis...
Nope, nope, don't worry. You and I have only 3 GB/mo of hotspot data because we're grandfathered on the older $20/mo data plan. Folks on the newer $30/mo data plan also have unlimited data on their phone, but have 5 GB/mo of hotspot data. So if you want to pay an extra $10/mo because that additional 2 GB of hotspot d...
Use a VPN. Suddenly the throttling stops. You are correct they are not throttling the service by the usual definition. They are however funneling the data through connections that cannot handle the traffic. That's what a VPN does, it connects to a different "node", which does not have as much traffic through it. ...
It may seem benign at first, and perhaps part of the problem is the implication that they are discriminating against Facebook. They aren't. They are discriminating in favor of Facebook and the other partners by offering a privileged access plan. Imagine a more extreme situation. Say the "regular data plan" was j...
I saw something in your comment that I just have to say my words on. I used to have T-Mobile, loved the service both on my phone and from them & my bill was fairly cheap. After a few months of having the phone, I started to hit my data caps & I was just like "Oh well, I can still use it." A year and a half down the l...
Here is how I am reading this. Sprint has a new plan which is great for someone who is trying to spend as little as possible. If I'm reading the article right, you can get unlimited access to Facebook, 20 minutes of talk time, and 20 texts for $18.98/month. This is great if you mostly contact people through Faceboo...
Hi Sprint! You've stepped in a small pile I've been predicting for almost ten years! You are now guilty of copyright infringement! Please refer to paragraph 3, where you will find the copyright owner has the exclusive right to distribute its works by "rental, lease or lending." You are also guilty of trademark...
Basically every couple months I find a discrepancy on bills (which is super easy with all carriers if you look hard enough) make a decent deal over it. When they either fix it or don't, I just ask them if they have any plans that can save me money. The last time she asked a series of questions like, schooling, work, ...
As someone who sells Sprint (and VZW/AT&T) at retail, I can tell you that Sprint has probably the worst-run operation all-around. The other day, my boss was doing a contract, and literally had to call 5 different numbers because everyone was giving him the run-around. "Oh you want credit, here's the number." "Oh, y...
There is no grandfather plan, I made absolutely sure my data plan never changed from the first smartphone I had, the HTC Dream (best phone ever) with G1 UNLIMITED DATA, the first and only truly unlimited data plan T-Mobile has ever had, until they changed it. I used hundreds of gigabytes of data. Later, I switched to a...
Huh? Facebook has an app and they're going to remove the ability to send messages to people. They're shifting focus on Facebook Messenger because they know that a lot of people use it for one purpose: communicating. I rarely use the Facebook app but I definitely use Facebook Messenger more often. Lots of people have ...
I was looking for the first person not freaked out by this sensationalist title. I can't believe how alone you are. They claim that the Sprint is charging $12 on top of data, but their first source, Sprints page says the following > Special offers: “Add-ons” that provide unlimited access to such apps as Facebook o...
short version is that the standard of the IR remote is a bit antiquated, it still works just fine so no one feels a need to replace it. the technology for remotes has only been around since the 70s and it was a quick jump from a corded system to a very simple "dumb" wireless technique. While it would be hypothetically ...
as far as i can tell, the article is talking about two modes of operation: low-power "dazzle" mode to temporarily blind people aboard another ship high-power "deathray" mode to melt stuff on another ship hitting ANYTHING with a laser requires incredible precision. hitting a moving target from another moving t...
Lasers cause explosions by igniting the fuel, warhead, or messing up the airflow on the wings causing it to break apart.. That and hitting an incoming target with its own Ewar and antimissile systems (which are not hard to build at all nowadays) change the equation on missiles. Also, Current anticarrier tactics call...
asymmetric, which isn't really a thing in naval or air warpower Sure it is. Conventional Naval power comes from Aircraft Carriers. The US is in control of [10 of the 20]( carriers in service in the world. Look at what China and Russia are pushing; Missiles and Submarines. The thing is the US's military is so big that...
The answer is yes, it can in theory. But it would take a mirror so insanely perfect that it would take countless millions of dollars and several years to polish it, and even then it would have be hit in the sweet spot.
Not sure if serious, but: The solar output able to be absorbed by a tank is pretty minor. There just isnt enough surface area. So then the issue becomes storage. In theory, if you have a high enough density of superconducting capacitors, you can store energy when you're not needing it, and discharge when you do, y...
Your answer is incorrect, because such a mirror doesn't exist, nor would it be possible to put such a mirror on such a target. Thus, no, it can't.
Continued... Originally Quicktime was a base component of the system, so no separate install was needed. In the mid 2000's other non QT formats became popular while Quicktimes' responsibilities in the system were replaced by OS X centric code like CoreImage, so eventually quicktime itself wasn't necessary. Just like OS...
This is because the video is not downloaded in one big file, it is many smaller files. When you rewind or fast-forward, it may be forced to reload the stream because of how it tries to accommodate your available bandwidth. Watching a video all the way through is faster with this technology, but seeking can be slower ...
I'm a subscriber, but I'll try and be neutral. SRS posts exactly what it says "Shit Reddit Says", which means posts and comments that would or could be considered offensive(and not downvoted) are linked from SRS to show that Reddit might have a thing against minorities. For example, if you made a joke at the expense ...
Web developer here. The article is not necessarily correct. This is the same as any auto-complete feature on a website. You can view what's happening yourself. On Chrome, go to google or facebook, hit 'F12' and the developer tools will appear. Selecting the 'History' tab will show a log of all requests. If you type int...
knowing a lot of people who've been involved with projects like this, and seeing a lot of innocent reasons they would want the data I agree with your distinction between collecting vs. having data. However, the 'just doing my job' ship sailed 10 months ago. My tin foil hat leanings might argue that it sailed 10 years...
The point that Toe-Bee is trying to make is that relative screen size is a stupid thing to talk about. A 10" screen will take up a greater portion of your field-of-view if held at an arm length away than a 50" screen 10 feet away, but a 1" (or whatever the tamagochi's screen is) right in front of your eye will take up...
That's MasterLe. While there's no doubt that he does incredible work, he's got a bit of a reputation. His threads usually go from circle-jerk to MasterLe vs. everybody (even [Adam Savage]( There are things like claiming a particular and popular costume fabrication technique is only for noobs while clearly having a h...
If you are only purchasing the product because of the drop in price you have to realize that even if they update it with another new model it will be at a much higher price for a long time. If you weren't willing to pay the large price for it to begin with then chances are you shouldn't wait hoping they come out with a...
It's not technology because it's the U.S. Internet? It's not r/technology because it's US politics. > If it were U.K. Internet would it be technology? No. > How about global Internet? I'd be willing to not complain then, but the right place would still be r/cyberlaw . It's the more specific reddit. > How th...
Self driving cars don't hit each other. That only works if all cars are self driving. You can't integrate self driving and manually driven vehicles and expect no accidents. You can't switch all cars to self driving overnight, ergo, you can't eliminate accidents. Additionally, I still haven't seen a self driving sys...
The dude took a "gadget" and turned it into a "fashion accessory". MP3 players existed before, no one cared about them until the ipod came out and every consumer wanted the thing because it played music, while looking pretty. He took ideas that were already out there and made them popular to consumers.
Relying on legislation in these cases is not the answer. Remember that every scrap of power you give to legislators is another bit that can be abused. If a company asks for something so ridiculous as your Facebook password, leave the interview. State very clearly why you are leaving, and that you find this practice c...
So are you willing to pay money for the "exclusive" content in lieu of advertising for the company in exchange for merchandise? They aren't giving that shit away out of the goodness of their hearts, somewhere a marketing team has determined that losing X amount of merchandise is worth the trade for Y amount of adverti...
MaunaLoona said that people raised the same fuss over social security numbers being requested by employers. My point is that it's not the same fuss, the Facebook fuss is by far more meaningful, because for employers requesting Facebook information to become the social standard, like SS#, you'd also have employers br...
I for one am glad this law got shot down. There shouldn't have to be a law preventing every stupid thing that someone wants to do. Businesses should have the right to ask stupid questions, and you have the right to not answer them. I would guess that in most cases a clear, level-headed defense of why you will not give ...
This is what you guys get for not negotiating on a reasonable internet controls bill. The internet will be regulated, there will be laws, and just like everything else in life, there will be consequences for breaking them. You can disagree with these statements, but you will be shown to be wrong. DMCA immunity is ove...
I will never understand how the government makes it's actions and decisions. I will never understand it because each person in the government is an individual, who has there own story, and who was once just like everybody else, part of the majority. And if they still were just like everybody else, then we wouldn't have...
Proof of phishing? I logged in because you told me not to, and everything was fine. You be paranoid mayne. [edit] > However even on trusted proxies (such as , you will notice that you often cannot login because the IP of the proxy has already been abused and banned from thepiratebay. Reasons for logging into an ...
How to shave almost half your phone bill off: Last year I was fed up with paying $90 a month (on T-Mobile, with whom I've been a customer since I first got a cell phone around 8 years ago) for text, data, and 650 anytime minutes, on a horrendous Windows Mobile phone. I started snooping around for other options. I con...
The point you're making is definitely the prototypical argument against monopolies. But I don't think the "history has shown" statements is totally correct. For an example within telecommunications, just look at the 1984 divestiture of AT&T's telephone monopoly. Despite AT&T's efforts to protect their monopoly, the...
You seem to miss the point - the article used that statement as pure FUD - it didn't create a clean argument, it was just put out there, insinuating. You're missing the entire point, you're arguing semantics, yadda yadda trying to deconstruct what an argument is: > Apple v. Samsung is not the problem in itself, bu...
It's not about shapes it's about a picture. Trying to reduce the issue to shapes is like describing a work of art by enumerating brush strokes. At some level of detail the picture is lost. Before Apple's iPhone: crappy phones, frustrating to use After Apple's iPhone: phones that were a joy to use and were a game chan...
Yeah, I tried it out on my sister's phone. You "tried it out"? I guess I'm just another drop in the invisible bucket of people who aren't having problems . I got one myself and really like the little changes. The little car icon to get directions from current location in one tap. The ability to reorient north with a ...
i had to log in just to downvote all the stupid shit you're talking about. he was accused of sneaking into a basement, plugging in his computer and downloading a bunch of files that the library freely gives out to people. it doesn't seem like could have been any hard evidence of this. files on his computer? he could ha...
But when was the last time a kickstarter fund was made for something "technical, critical, or important" that was backed by an organized entity which actually had the resources and man-power to follow through on any promises they made? It's far easier to donate 5, 10, or 20 dollars to fund some movie, because you kno...
I've seen a lot of CISPA posts here, and read a lot of fear-mongering about it, but what I haven't seen is a large number of individuals that understand what it actually does. Everyone seems to believe it's like SOPA, because it's an acronym and it's from the gov't. CISPA is a LIIMITATION on what the government and ...
I disagree, I may be wrong about this but I urge you to look into both sides of the story to make a more informed opinion. I grew up in India where they have a multi-party system where every election cycle (5 yrs) there's about half a dozen political parties are voted in to the parliament. After this, a coalition requi...
I already told Rep. David Reichert [R-WA 8th] that if he voted to approve this one more time he would be losing my vote and I would be warning everyone I know not to vote for him.
Well, there are people that went through many years of post highschool education that have came to that conclusion. I might add two different fields of discipline at that -- [Anthropology and Political Science]( George Washington highly cautioned not to have a dual party system for this very reason. The problems we...
Probably nobody listens because when states compete it's a race to the bottom. States already compete for corporations to set up shop in their cities. The governors of Kansas and Missouri already do stupid short sighted things to Kansas City by trying to get corporations to set up on one side of the border or the oth...
you keep saying the same idiotic things over and over regardless of what I say. again a false statement. I have sourced lies and corruption in federal policies that have killed millions of lives (both American and non). I have sourced above how you are very wrong in your statements and make statements as if they ar...
LOL, you don't see it do you. You only gave generalizations without any support or "specifics". Then you expect me to do greater than you. I then generalize vastly more and you still hold great accountability to me. FFS, I just have to say WMD and invading IRAQ and I have specifics wrapped up. A topic I imagine ...
Why did all the Massachusetts senators no-vote? Also, What is so good/bad about CISPA? What is it the internet is so afraid of, and why does it keep coming up in Congress if it's so bad? (the
You are close, but here is how I see it going down: There is going to be several bills up for vote that have nothing to do with internet "security." These will be bills that either have major voter support or are those that no one really cares about. Certain politicians in those committees will tack on provision...
This would be a terrible, terrible rule. You are only thinking about the legislation that gets voted down that you are against . This is just shortsighted for a gigantic host of reasons: If its a law - it will be passed by congress. Which means they can pass another law invalidating it. It's procedural nonsense an...
Whats amazing is the the demographic that is most vocal about sopa and cispa (namely, you and I) are the least likely to vote- middle class, probably urban or suburban, young. Even if we do turn out to vote, it's probably only once every four years. Were I a senator or congressman, I would have very little to fear ...