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I might get a couple and hook them to old laptop LCD panels I would install around the house, just to use as a HUD when I'm in the kitchen/bathroom/working in the garage. Throw together a webapp to select content modules (such as calendar appointments, weather, big ol' clock, torrent activity, network usage etc. plus...
This isn't wholly untrue, as a Southerner. PC isn't the thing down here that it is up North, so people feel less need to couch their bile in socially acceptable language. That being said, Southerners tend to live and work alongside minorities in a way that would be considered weird up North and the mindset is weirdly...
The rudeness comes about due to the proliferation of trolls online. Eventually, you simply respond to anyone like they are trolling. It's actually quite cynical, and I must apologize for it. I am actually quite confused as to what we were supposed to be disagreeing over. We agree that we are indeed "living in the ...
Thats because its not really "Anonymous". This is an identifiable group of people who are keeping their identities secret. Which is, uh, yeah, anonymous, but it's not the same kind you seem to referring to. The internet's anonymous is a concept, not a group or people, originating from imageboards like 4chan. You'd do...
Serious. If you can't understand that there are dozens of sects of Christianity in the world, all with doctrinal differences, and that educated people are aware that the Gospels have been translated (and re-translated) into various languages to support political and social goals, even to the point of suppression of ori...
Never heard of this church prior to today. Read it a few times on the front page.
Forget bead sprites... I'd be printing up stupid video game characters and coasters, and portal cubes... I have no need for such things, but other than stupid crap, I can't see any reason I'd buy a 3d printer. All I know, is I want one regardless...
For $80 a month on the otherside of the pond I can pay for both my broadband and mobile service where I get 100mb/s down 20mb/s up completely uncapped/unlimited on my home service, and I then get unlimited/uncapped tethering 4G on my mobile. Even then compared with a number of other countries I'm getting a raw deal.
I use Cox Communications. A few months back I started getting popups in my browser (for many sights including Amazon and Netflix) stating that the Cox email service was down (as if I would ever use an ISP's email service, meh). When I called Cox to complain that this was a gross invasion of my privacy, I was passed alo...
No, that would be "normal" so it wouldn't arouse any suspicion. The reference to Bing alone is only slightly suspicious. Adding the Surface instead of "tablet" shows author's hand too much. >Henkel switched to his Android-powered phone to see if some kind of malware was affecting his personal Mac; the ads also appea...
Ah yes, regulating a 3D printer. That is going to be about as easy as regulating alcohol back during prohibition...except a LOT harder. You can make 3D printers out of just about anything these days. All you need is the technological know-how and you can assemble one. I bought a Makerbot a couple of years ago and have ...
On top of that, for effectively the same price of a Replicator 2X, you could purchase a small Mill and an add-on CNC kit that would be capable of making a real firearm that would fire every time you wanted to, possibly for centuries . If you went old-school and skipped the CNC kit, the same amount of money would ge...
You're paying your ISP. That would be like saying you already payed Nissan for your car, so you better be able to have free fuel and never be charged a toll for any road. Not a perfect analogy, but its also not too far off. I don't like ads, and I am "guilty" of running ad-blocker at least for now, but it is very tru...
As someone who was involved in the industry in my country for a good number of years, all I can say is fuck everyone in the advertising industry with a tire iron, and here's why: some small business owners (more than half in my experience) - they expect to get a gazillion impressions and the best spaces for almost...
Patents != copyright. Let's, for example, pretend I've written a story. Here's the basic outline, as generic as it can be: Bad guy kidnaps character B whom character A loved. Character A sets off to a quest to find and free character A from the bad guy. During his search, character A meets a forest witch that...
Look at it this way. If you could broadcast the actual thing, it can't be an invention, but it should be copyrightable. I can't send you an actual piano or replicate it a million times costlessly. It's an object, which was invented out of raw materials and built. Even if it incorporated earlier inventions (keys, ...
The box is UNchecked by default. Maybe true for you but not for all. From the article I linked: >Uncheck the checkbox. Unless it’s already unchecked — in which case, leave it unchecked. Oddly, some people are saying they’re opted out by default; others say they find it checked.
Multinational corporations are often legally collections of corporations. There are a large number of consultancies that get paid very well to understand exactly how legal structures can be set up to minimize tax burden by shifting income and recognizing it in lower tax countries. I would be shocked if most of those co...
First of all, copyright =/= patent. Secondly, the notion that we should treat the business of making art any differently than anything else is idiotic. Sixty-six percent of small businesses fail within two years. You said in another post that the government should support artists and art should be in the public domain,...
I don't blame independent developers who only build apps for the App Store. Apple pays out nearly $5 Billion per year to developers. Google doesn't report their payouts but I don't think it's even close. It's only worth the time and effort when App Store downloads begin to dip—especially for small teams. To make matter...
Point I'm making is that the only part they targeted in the video portion of the laptop is not even attached to the video signal. Furthermore the video signal is high frequency and high bandwidth and unlike a mouse and keyboard, would not be practical to store and retrieve data later and instead would rely on ['realtim...
Patent litigator here. This ruling is narrow and won't affect 99% of trolls out there. Look at the facts the judge ruled on. The troll was blatantly obvious about putting things in writing like the fact that settlement demands would increase as the defendants filed responsive papers, and how they were going to put the ...
Windows 8 was unusable as a one-app-at-a-time interface. Dunno what you're talking about. You've been able to use multiple apps at a time since day 1. > Microsoft Office is unusable with a "ribbon" toolbar and no conventional menus. Which is both a good and a bad thing. The ribbon's not a bad idea, it's just horr...
I can't watch that video right at this moment, so you want to just
I have. Anti-VM features just mean the payload doesn't execute inside virtual machines. If malware could escape VMs it'd be REALLLLY bad for companies that hosted VPSes as anyone could just infect one and compromise massive amounts of data. Consider this situation: You purchase access to a VPS from DigitalOcean. They...
Weaponized malware" in this context, means little more than "This is a live round of ammunition." or handing someone a knife by giving them the blade-end (good etiquette is to hand them the hilt while you hold the blade). This isn't a perfect analogy as both of those items are run-of-the mill for you and I, the "weapon...
I would think they are designed to not be easily detected, so the average person(or even somewhat tech savvy people) wouldn't even know what to look for. These program might be able to penetrate beyond the virtual layer of your software/hardware. If the head IT/security employees if the targets aren't able to detect it...
you are generalizing literally infinite possible combinations of gridded lights. 100 years of 3D modeling won't teach you anything about developing visual systems. I am a musician.. I play 8 different instruments... I cringe every time an old "expert" tells me analog sound is better then digital. The Universe just doe...
I'll go ahead and venture in to explain how wrong you are with your points: First it's an allegation of an IP address != a person according to Canadian law. >On this point, it is also important to remember that previous cases in Canadian law have seen judges rule that an IP address is not a person. (See this Torre...
Yes, but not through the master cylinder as originally mentioned. Passing through the can bus is an acceptable small amount of risk and is still mechanically separate from the brake system.
I don't know about the other carriers but I have T-mobile and if you're on a WiFi connection they automatically route all your calls through that connection instead of through your normal signal. Note: not sure if the words I used to describe the process are right or not.
As someone with over a million miles driving a truck, I think this article paints an unrealistic scenario but what will probably be an eventual one. You simply can not totally remove drivers from the equation in 5 to 20 years without huge changes in the entire system though. Drivers perform inspections and minor ma...
There's an app for that"
Did the same thing. Went into the dealership to buy a new (not preowned car) and was bait and switched, they DIDNT have the car I was looking for, and pressured into buying a previous model year for the same price. Told the guy I had a quote from another dealership for basically the same price ($300 more on a $24k ca...
RE: ["Keep Your Head Up, Gray"]( post on Gizmodo. >Hey man, I know things seem really tough right now. We had mixed feelings about writing the story of how you lost the prototype, but the story is fascinating. And tragic, which makes it human. And our sin is that we cannot resist a good story. Especially one that is ...
I couldn't find a single good reason to do this. Why should we force portable electronics manufacturers to increase the audience of radio? And how the hell does radio increase the knowledge of artists more than the Internet? Almost none of the songs I listen to have been or will be played on any FM radio station. I...
It depends on what you want to use the TV for. If you want to use it for watch 3D movies and TV, then no it's a pointless buy as there are only about a dozen or so 3D movies at all and some of those aren't worth buying or watching again. It's way to fucking expensive, just buy an amazing projector in the same price r...
This was a geat documentary when it was released, but not entirely relevant anymore because of the renewed attention in alternatives to gasoline-only vehicles. Now we have the fully electric vehicles like the Tesla Roadster and Nissan Leaf on the road and getting high levels of attention, plus many more companies are ...
I would think that somehow they could get a lawyer to draft something up that is legal and will satisfy both parties. What you say sounds good, but without seeing the relevant law, we can't say anything either way. In my experience (which admittedly is roughly equivalent to probably the first year of law school, wher...
I was very interested in this article until a window popped up, fullscreen, asking for my email so I could be subscribed for their newsletter. Although I would have probably liked to continue reading the article, I closed the tab in disgust. I had read up to 40 to 400 miniature CPUs in the home/office. Can anyone g...
Google, IBM, and the other FOSS white-knights should realize that they can't have it both ways: They can either hoard patents like Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle, and engage in the IP-insanity that defines US software patents, or they should come clean and call shenanigans on the whole system. Apple, Microsoft, and O...
Because Google makes it's money off of selling you the user to it's real customers, the advertisers. So any 'device' business (cell phones/tablets) it gets into it can simply give away the platform because they have little financial gain from the platform itself, they want it on everything so that more people are funn...
BTW: pretty much the same thing happened to a German company in the US. They built a windmill for the US market and when they introduced it were sued for patent infringement. The case documents oddly included pictures taken inside of the prototypes in northern Germany. It turned out that the NSA was using Echelon to ...
It happens with medicine left and right and I don't see any socialized health care systems giving up their ability to manufacture cheap ass drugs just because corporations in other countries spent millions developing them. Additionally even if they copy drugs from America it doesn't stop them from attempting to revolut...
Yeah, that is a problem that is already sorted out (memory issue with Graphics). If you have a higher RAM (DDR3-1600) you will get a performance boost on the APU in Gaming and other tasks that can do Hardware Acceleration.
Actually it says, "Federal presidential constitutional republic". And that is the way it is structured. But money rules politics and even its real rulers admit at least that it is a [plutonomy]( The [
i can't upvote you enough. if the product is being made in slave factories to lower costs, then why are the cost savings not being passed along to the consumer? it amazes me the ignorance of the core apple consumers as to how they don't understand they are being ripped off, and at the same time contributing directly ...
I am saying just because techdirt said CISPA and SOPA are similar doesn't make it true. The hitler line was poke at the way Glen Beck uses weak connections between dissimilar things to Hitler as a method of fear mongering. Techdirt connected the dots form CISPA and SOPA with: "the department that includes ICE and its...
Dear Reddit: Fuck you. It is not the same. It is not even similar. Are they both bad? Yes. But Jesus fuck, read. If you just keep acting like some knee-jerk retard, you're no different than the people you constantly make fun on here on Reddit to hit the front page (durrrr, ignorant republicans, they hate gays and...
Today I talked to [my congressman, who was a co-sponsor of SOPA]( and now a cosponsor of CISPA. I asked him how he could stand in front of a group of us and talk about how we need to hold back the stifling hand of big government, how we can't have government stifling innovation and small business when he has his name...
In all honesty, I couldn't give less of a damn how Anonymous started, or what the predecessors on 4chan claim it was started for. They were a hacker group who did it for teh lulz? Awesome, good for them. In my eyes, a group meant for amusement turned into a hacktivist group who relentlessly do what people like myself...
I think they, and I, would prefer non-existent, not "unregulated." Also: I don't think you understand what regulated and unregulated mean. Unregulated implies a lack of RESTRICTIVE laws and or government organisations. I'd say it being outright illegal in all forms and having the police arrest anyone involved could ...
I'm not a huge religeos nut, i just believe its kind of going against nature, not on an abortion scale but i mean, you know our genes are even coded to kill us off at some point. In every cell their is a mechinism inside your DNA that is there for a way to kill you. (has other uses too but DNA is supposed to be that ve...
Well, let me sum up my answer to you with a brief: You're wrong, on all counts. Firstly, right now we're wasting resources at an unbelievable rate. If we don't have enough to go around, why are we throwing what we have away at unbelievable rates instead of being frugal with it? A money- and profit-based society has...
To those who say it's 'too simple' or that they (maybe) paid too much for the design. A lot goes into rebranding such a well known company and here is (in my eyes as a professional designer) what this logo says to me. Equity from their old mark (the window panes and same colors) Current up to date look becoming m...
I worked for 6 or so months working in a factory doing electronic assembly for a power equipment manufacturer (they make all kinds of products for the power grid). These things aren't cheap. Highly engineered, extensively tested and incredibly reliable. They have even started bringing the manufacturing of some of their...
I've gotten a notice from an ISP provider before (US here). At least for me, they told me specifically "the copyright holder of UFC 3 has found your ISP to be downloading copyrighted content" so it all depends on copyright holders forwarding these to the ISPs. Anything legal should be fine. And the first letter is usua...
Well, there's a different viewpoint that you get pushed into when you start working with expensive high-risk Hollywood projects where everything has to be just right or the film could flop, and sometimes it does flop anyway. It's easy to say that DRM, unfair one-sided copyright tribunal systems, a disgusting level of...
Well if that's really the only thing you use bitorrent for, the you should check out DVD43 (free decrypting program), imgburn (for making .iso files from decrypted disks, and handbrake (free and powerful transcoding program which is useful for all kinds of stuff). Handbrake also has a really great used base and a good ...
we have had this in New Zealand for more than a year now, and i have received no notice yet. the problem is the ISP charges the music producer or whoever an administration fee for them to send out only a warning notice. this is because the ISP doesn't care what we use the internet for, as long as we pay them money (ie ...
1 i is an imaginary number. Which, if memory serves, are the result of doing square roots of negative numbers - 1 i is, I believe, the same as sqrt(-1). Telling someone that you give 1 i fucks about something is actually worse than telling them you give no fucks, because it's basically saying "I give no fucks, but...
No they can't "simply print it". I bet you fancy yourself as someone who understands this stuff yet clearly you don't. Printing money has an impact on said money. Taxing will also have an effect. Further, you're being overly simplistic. Yes, if the government were simply one big entity and corps another big entit...
Yes. I consider it an improvement of ideas already out there. I had an HTC Wizard with Windows mobile 5 and I loved it. It had everything I needed in a phone with a stylus, a QWERTY, and a touch screen (albeit not capacitive). I played solitaire during shit breaks like it was nobody's business. Yes, getting a phone c...
One of my friends had this rule, just with "friggin," though. I never understood. To me, friggin is its own word (as is dangit). When someone says "friggin" to me, I don't immediately think "fuckin" in my head. I think "friggin." It was odd, because she could say "freakin" but not "friggin." I found this out because ...
Richard C. Hoagland is regarded as a pseudoscientist by actual scientists. He seems easily confused by what photographs can capture, how they are transmitted from space, and how useful they are to actual scientists.
Since he has not been charged yet, he is merely held while the police investigates. I assume it is similar to Norway, except they can detain him for longer with less proof (I have not checked this, so I might be wrong). In Norway, the police can take any person and put him in a cell at a police station for three days...
I'll just paste my reply in here from another comment. He is held in Sweden, has not been charged, and is not in solitary confinement. Since he has not been charged yet, he is merely held while the police investigates. I assume it is similar to Norway, except they can detain him for longer with less proof (I have not...
Actually, I believe you should learn about today's vocabulary word: "context". I was clearly addressing the post entitled "Petition asking Obama to legalize cellphone unlocking will get White House response". To which you said that he could .
See, right there you hit a nail in the head: I write my posts very hastily, on the go, write as fast as I can think (and I type very quickly, never stopping). I very, very rarely look back at what I write. The actual quality comments (not this piece of rubbish) are the things that I go back five minutes after and tin...
There's more [here]( I must say, though, that it would be best if we all get back to living up to Aaron's ideals and doing the work he is no longer here to help us with. I'm willing to make exceptions for those who had personally met him, and even those who know someone who had met him. People in those categories are...
What are your thoughts on these people that game the system and stifle innovation by bringing in these lawsuits against said start ups? They obviously don't have the resources to fight these and when you can file motion after motion before even getting to the real trial how can they retaliate?
First of all, get some basic terminology >[Monopoly]( = The exclusive possession, control, or exercise of something and > [Legal Monopoly]( = a monopoly that is protected by law from competition and > [Patent]( = a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a lim...
Except for the part where your argument is flawed. > Playing a game involves a vast amount of compute and coordination, not to mention very specific things like the appropriate type of video/sound card to play the game in the first place. Playing a game remotely (cloud gaming) is an extremely different technology t...
I'm one paragraph in, and I've already found my favorite part: > “...most U.S. homes have routers that can’t support the speed already available to the home.” What decade is this guy living in? Does he not know what the "100" in "100BASE-T" means? Or that this has been the standard for at least the past 10 years?...
Twist: they don't. Before you down vote me, do the math on what it would take to use a Gig connection. 1000 people in an office building usually have trouble getting a peak (YES, A PEAK!!) at 1Gb. Let alone sustaining it for any significant amount of time. >herp derp 4k video derp Again, math. The most hardco...
I use corporate VPN 100% of the time and I don't need Fiber for that... Clearly people are not understanding what I meant by a desktop can't handle 1Gbps. You don't have to look far, think about transferring a 5GB file to a standard HD. That hard drives throughput has MAYBE 100MB/sec capacity, but more likely it's ...
People need the internet and want the best possible option. I live in Kansas City and Time Warner is preaching the same testament as Comcast. Though coincidentally they started offering their KC subscribers a "super speed savings" deal- 50mb for 50 bucks a month to try and cope with the mass exodus posed to happen once...
20 Mbit/s is good enough for pretty much any application. 1080p youtube videos consume about 4-5Mbit/s each. With the home internet the speeds and latency are not guaranteed and they fluctuate a lot. Many factors contribute to that, but mostly it's the provider's network, its load and/or its connections to backbones ...
Tried recently to upgrade my wired speed with Comcast. They were happy to bump it to 50mbps, provided I also paid for the cable service irrevocably bundled with the upgrade. I've lived happily without cable three years now, don't ever see myself going back. I explained repeatedly I had no interest in tv service, wanted...
WE decided? MY best interest? How can you know what MY best interest is? How can you say what MY best interest it?
He says "most websites can’t deliver content as fast as current networks move" but I would say that most websites don't deliver because of limitations on some users networks. They're trying to approach a broader audience. If everyone were running 1 gbps that would allow websites to improve upon the content they deliver...
You're SUPPOSED to. I know people who have given out their HBO password and username to activate the app on, say, someone else's 360, who doesn't even have a cable subsciption, let alone HBO. Apparently this is a "federal" crime, or so I saw on an article on here the other day, but I doubt they activley track this sort...
Oh my god their twitter support is incredible . STORY TIME! A few weeks after Halo 4 came out I had finally gotten a hard drive for my Xbox as I only had the wireless one with only a built in hard drive. Anyway, I installed the game and said "I'm only going to play multiplayer for half an hour." So I start up multip...
Sure, and all you really need out of a car (in the US) is 80mph. Yet if we were limited to that in a choice rich environment, nearly every car we would buy would go faster than that. Question: As a company, why would you wait until you have basically hamstrung your customer base? Are they going to be able to roll ou...
It's becoming a rarity due to hardware and engineering issues. The demand for bandwidth literally doubles every year, forcing the FCC to license bandwidth that's already been relegated (I swear to god if they let mobile carriers take the bandwidth that's left for wireless microphones and sound systems I'm going to go i...
I guess no one will ever see this since this whole thread has been downvoted into oblivion (appropriately, I think, given the vitriolic tone in your first post), but you followed up with something a bit more thoughtful so I think I owe you the same. Yes, calling this an overreaction is fair. And the idea that a major...
T-Mobile, one of US largest telecoms decided to take their most valuable customers and their least valuable customers on a vacation to a paradise island in the middle of the pacific. While there, T-Mobile, will get the two groups to play a game of chess with sea shells that they found on the beaches. The sand on bea...
Ninite user/customer here. The website creates a single download that installs everything you tell it to, in a batch, refusing any toolbars and other junk. You can run that same downloaded file again later at any time to update those apps without visiting the website. It's a portable/standalone program. The Pro v...
ATT was my carrier, bought a unlocked nexus 4 (just went down to 199 usd) went to Tmobil, and my bill is not wrong in ATT favor every fucking month. ATT is pure evil, they lie every month on your cell bill, if you call and change it they just tack on extra stuff next month... its just theft pure and simple. Their "d...
I have done quite a bit of outsourcing myself even though I live in the US just because it was much easier for me to get jobs online. I have worked with a number of Indian developers and designers. All of them were very intelligent and good at problem solving. So in my experience the problem wasn't with the Indians....
actually, they probably do. its not like the hardware is anything special in a macbook. its exactly the same as what is in 90% ultrabooks.
And I'm one of them! What a terrible company. I would drop them completely if my neighborhood in Brooklyn had ANY OTHER OPTION for high-speed internet, but alas, TWC has a solid monopoly. I now binge on my parents' Netflix, watch content that isn't available on Netflix on NoobRoom, and pirate anything I can't stream fo...
I think it's easy for most of us who live in urban environments to find worthwhile alternatives to a cable or satellite subscription. People who live in rural areas of the United States really only have satellite services (for both TV and internet) to rely on - and these can be exponentially worse in terms of service, ...
Their service is utter shit, too. I scheduled install 2 weeks in advance. When the install date rolls around for my new place, no one shows up. I called them, was on hold forever, and they treated me like shit. Additionally they ended up charging me twice and "couldn't find record of the payment." I canceled. Went ...
This is just a vent- I hate time warner!! I just moved to California and knew how terrible the customer service was with TWC, they are literally famous for it! I just moved to studio city and there's literally no other option for internet and TV other than Time Warner (for where I live apparently). Ideally I'd like to ...
They are seriously The Worst. The kept charging my friend's autopay for 3 months after she'd canceled her account. Then she couldn't log into the My Service/Autopay manager because she was no longer a customer and no longer had an account. The first month it happened she called, they assured her it had been resolved...
I haven't had much problem with time Warner. Every time I call to bitch about pricing, they either lower it or give me free services. Don't let yourself be taken by them. Complain about promotional service ending, and they will extend it. Tell them what the competition is offering, and they will match or do better (unl...
So this kinda shit is a problem in America too? here in the Philippines, SkyCable, the largest provider, has slowly been cutting channels from people who didn't buy their "digibox" - basically a badly done cable box. Just a couple of weeks ago they cut service to people without the digibox entirely. I'm switching to an...
Who cares? I worked for a top investment bank and now at a large private equity firm; my clients included many of the top telcos (AT&T, etc.) and cable providers (TWC, DISH Network, etc.). With that, losing 215k TV viewers in a competitive industry is not a surprise for the cable industry. However, cable providers kn...
Yeah, doing multithreading in a game like this scales really really badly and is rarely done. Single tasks also aren't guaranteed to fully utilize one core and you may end up having to wait for one core/task which does more work than the others, so you have 3 idling cores while one does work. Usually you'll find a hybr...