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Just in case someone takes your comment seriously. Approximately 1/2 of the U.S. might have a slight problem with electric slots running down the middle of the road due to Snow, Ice, Salt, Rain, Sand, Leaves, etc, etc, etc.
I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but here we go again: Just in case someone takes your comment seriously. Approximately 1/2 of the U.S. might have a slight problem with electric slots/rails running down the middle of the road due to Snow, Ice, Salt, Rain, Sand, Leaves, etc, etc, etc.
Using 1-800-COLLECT's absurdly detailed fee calculator, our reader's call should have cost him $10.63 for the "connection fee" along with $3.99 per minute—which it did. (Plus the assorted extra fees.) Total: $42.55 ($33.93 for the 6 minutes used Plus the assorted extra fees.)
We're in the middle of another transitional period/industrial revolution right now. Instead of people working machines manually they're all being transitioned into purely automated processes in which the only people needed are the maintenance workers and programmers. Jobs are being shipped overseas without a doubt, b...
I think you're putting more emphasis on showing how evil Deepthroat was by leaking information rather than how corrupt the Watergate scandal was. The issue is bigger than Snowden. Attempts to make it a 'Snowden did bad things getting this info' intentionally attempt to frame it about HIM, when instead you should ...
I haven't worked for Comcast, but I have for another provider. It was and is pretty standard under a 2 year agreement to increase after 12 months. Usually in the details there is a stipulation about how one of the reoccurring credits will fall off after the 12th month. The issue we had was 3rd party call centers were c...
I had a similar situation happen to me. I"ve been at this location and with them for 3 years now. My bill went up $10 after the first promotion ended at 12 months. From Month 13 until Month 36, my bill was right at $50 when I hit the confirm button. I talk to the online chat guy and he says I should be able to get on a...
Ex Comcast worker here. I'm guessing their promotions worked like ours. They were all 2 year triple plays. The first year is a big discount. The second year it gets shittier, the third year is normal price. I always explained this to people and no one ever got up in arms about it at the time, but I'm sure most people...
This is completely legal if it was done correctly at sign up otherwise it was cramming and slamming the account. When I worked for Centurylink(horrible company) we regularly had promotions such as pay 19.99 for one year on a two year promotion and after year one the price would increase by X amount for year two. The pr...
I worked for century Link and honestly keep calling till you find a rep that will help you. We were all allowed to give up to $250 off your bill at any time from the first day we started. Doesn't mean we would but if you were nice to me and it sounded like you got fucked by us I would offer discounts. I had permission ...
I know I'm a bit late to this post but the same exact thing just happened to my bill. When I called customer service they simply said there was nothing they could do. It sounded like they had been receiving many similar phone calls regarding the billing increase. Some of the charges are absurd. For example: $5.99/...
it's as much a question of poor monitoring than watertight security. 83million records don't transfer out of computer system without leaving a huge change in system behavior that should be monitored and be raising alarm bells. there should be harm mitigation procedures to be put in place. This is a bank, security is ...
Not sure this is titled the right way to get your point across. Republican or democrat, the current environment allows for whichever party is in power to protect the profits of those willing to donate generously to their campaigns. Look at the Clinton administration and you'll find PLENTY of examples of corporations ...
It doesn't provide better outcomes. Especially when you average in the uninsured. That's one of the reasons Americans die earlier than the citizens of other rich countries. American healthcare provides the best cancer screening and treatment in the world - to those who can afford it. For other procedures, outcomes are ...
The encryption and forced decryption issue is far more nuanced than you are describing. If I were to commit a crime and not make any record of it beyond my own memory, I cannot be compelled to testify against myself (5th amendment protection against self-incrimination), this is the analogy to data protected with know...
In the future - possibly my lifetime - humans will find their position as dominant race on this planet contested by the machines we have created. It's such a common trope in our fiction, that many of us might have become cynical about it, but the video seems to have a solid point that this state is inevitable. I can ...
I'm neither a security expert nor a gamer. However, a couple of things just seem logical to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Suppose Group X wants to attack Group Y. It seems silly for Group X to trumpet an attack plan a few weeks beforehand, giving Group Y ample preparation time, unless one of three things is tru...
It's people who don't understand that deeply buried nuclear waste is very safe for humans and the environment. Additionally, in general people don't realize that solar panels are inefficient and made from extremely toxic chemicals which are very hard to dispose of as well.
1) So does Musk. The greatest cost outside of satellite development was in the launch phase, which involved paying for their satellites to be launched by a seperate company eking out a profit. Not needed here. 2) SpaceX might be new, but they have sent satellites into orbit before. None of the other companies had eve...
Google may track your every action, but it also provides serious advantages to that. Targeted ads are not something really bad. For example if you are not using an ad blocker and you don't have targeted ads, you are very likely to get ads for women health and beauty accessories, even if you are a man. Apart from that, ...
I don't want to impose my opinion but I have a theory about great energy-efficient technologies and The Real World. See, Intel, as a major hardware supplier are trying to hit the 24-hour battery life margin (deemed the holy grail of laptops) as much as anyone else. Except, they don't want you to have it. Instead, the...
My favorite analogy would be to compare both to another ubiquitous machine: cars. Let's say that the PC is a Toyota Camry. It's the most purchased, most driven, and most traded car in America. Some people drive a Camry because they picked it off the lot, some bought it used at a great price, and some inherited it fro...
Yes, and I'm willing to bet the other 99% of Wii users will be pleased to hear about it.
Why do people call them films when only a portion of the output medium is on a film strip? production, and some (most) distribution are digital, therefore i move that we hence forth refer to movies as digitals rather than films
I think you're both overanalyzing it really. Movies are meant to sell tickets and make money. To do this you cater to your target audience and give em what they want. Tron was never about story or characters - it was designed to be an audio-visual feast for the eyes/ears from the start. Disaster movies are a great exam...
Everything in the amazon app store for android will likely be available on the Kindle Fire. Angry Birds is available on the Android market.
Sort of pathetic that the top comments for this incredible submission are sex jokes. I wouldn't say it's pathetic, it's a humorous way to express a discomfort of having a completely non-sexual submission elicit such a response. By up voting it users are reinforcing their self-worth since it becomes a proof not of the...
I think it's interesting that a majority of our current power generation technology still involves boiling water to make steam: coal, solar thermal, nuclear, etc. Despite continued innovation, solar PV, wind, and fuel cells still can't deploy on the same scale as steam-powered turbines.
No the problem is these companies buying and hording it for themselves. Most of the licensed spectrum is just parked waiting for a use, or for some large company to pay through the nose for it. What we need is more public spectrum like 2.4ghz or 5.8ghz or especially 900mhz (lower freqs are better for going through f...
Haha, I find it comical how little I understand what you're saying. I know what you're trying to point at, but getting it to work in any sensible context is...difficult. The tint we see is the tint of the sunglasses. It'd be very strange indeed if he'd secretly perfected glasses with perculiar (seemingly physics defy...
Piracy is considered much more heinous if you sell the thing you pirated for profit. If it's just for personal use, nobody really cares. It doesn't matter if you muck around with definitions, I'm using the court's definition of "profit": making actual money, not dealing with abstract concepts like unpaid sales or time ...
Stop and think for a moment. How large is the typical video on YouTube, in terms of file size? I'd say between 100 and 800 MB. That's if they're 5-10 minutes long and HD resolution like most new video recording devices output in, so basically you're asking if Google would cough up the money to store two version of ever...
Im glad he's getting his foot in the door of lab research that early. I did also. I have also spend nearly a decade with CNTs and immunoassay. There is a reason why 199/200 professors said no to free labor. The NSB will prevent this from being viable. The CNTs are very expensive sensor for mass production. and as ...
Have you ever seen a pregnancy test? There are like 3 steps. Take out tester, piss on tester, wait... Yet from watching commercials that claim theirs is the simplest, easiest to use, I would swear it was more complicated then building a rocket, or assembling something from Ikea.
Even if it's already been tried in some fashion, the fact that he's doing this at 15 is amazing. He's got a passion and wants to pursue it. The headline "US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google" is a bit misleading, though. It implies that he used Google to invent the test, not for just doing research. He d...
While the functionality of the start menu might still be present, change just for the sake of "change" is not a good thing. The start screen offers no benefit to desktop users if the functionality is still the same. For workstation users, it feels very awkward to have to load up full screen application just to get the ...
I had to look at the tablet for a minute to see if that was the Apple circle and square button. I thought maybe this was a joke I wasn't getting, since they all basically look like Apple products. I consider myself semi knowledgable on this kind of stuff. However, I'm baked and tired, so I figure this is how uniform...
How did they they detect the total amount of such images created? It seems to me their detection method is roughly the same as the sites that steal the content. I would even suspect that the stolen content sites detect far more than this study. The 88% would just represent the overlap of their finds. There may be ...
actually... I went in... I didn't buy anything but I will definitely be getting a Surface Pro as soon as it comes out! ...and btw give Microsoft a chance I see a whole lot more innovation coming out Redmond than Cupertino lately. The only complaint I'm hearing from reviews is not enough apps... yet and can't use it on ...
I'm sorry but the space-solar thing is ridiculous. It costs a ton of energy/money to launch something that big into space, and a solar panel in space won't have an improved-enough yield to make it worth it. You get about 2x as much from it working during night and about 2x as much again from not having an atmosphere sa...
the law i come from an earlier time; when the internet was going to be free. We finally had a chance to do things right; freedom from all those idiotic laws that only apply in the real world. > If you want to run a website, it needs to comply with the law i believe if you come into my house, and you want to...
Seriously. Why the fuck dont people understand that this is, quite fucking obviously, a prototype. Development phase always FUCKING ALWAYS is a little rough. Chords? yeah because who would spend the tens of thousands imbedding the electronics while you're still figuring out the tech. Why would you dick around with...
The intention is that they will create the tools needed for people in the community to design and build the household items, such that new companies and industries will have barriers to entry brought down and costs/prices reduced. Once they are done you could buy their tools, and design a toaster, and build/sell it muc...
You miss the point I am trying to make, that money would become a foreign concept as far as necessity is concerned. By "cellularized" and "self-sufficient" I mean down to the individual human being. There is no economy, and no authority, except by extremely rare moments of ad-hoc necessity. "Get paid for discoverin...
I read the summary of the pattent, and it seams to be this pattent is about really, REALLY general stuff: it's about very simple floating point algorithms, like addition, multiplication, division and powers. First of all there is nothing new in the patent: all those operations already existed. It's not like a new mat...
My point is that the fear of drones is sensationalism. The fear has no more substance other than how afraid Americans were of "Communists" during the cold war. Cameras can in fact monitor multiple spectrums of light, how do you think night vision works? They see infrared, agreed this is less common than the average cam...
I don't understand why everyone wants the Start menu back. Hear me out. When you are using a traditional Windows Start menu what are you looking at? The little Start menu that pops up and the rest of your entire desktop or just the little Start menu? Probably the latter. So why not make the Start menu a full-screen...
The only metro app I've actually gotten used to using is the one for Netflix. There are some great things about windows 8. I saw it mentioned somewhere that the task manager was much better, and I very much agree with that. I also think Explorer works a lot better than in windows 7. The metro UI is easy enough to...
I understand the point. I just dont think companies should be able to write whatever they want in TOS. There should be limits. And they should be required to insert
The act of redeeming a code is almost NO load. One would hope Sony designed their systems like this. After all, it's merely associating a game with a user account. There is clearly something else that's affecting this system as a side effect, as you said. ...I have no idea where I'm going with this comment.
It was my interpretation (for humor), on what the guy above said. Thanks for the
Goin to hop onto this badwagon late for anyone thats interested. Sorta yes, but absolutely not. There are many cool things that we can do, that we just dont because they are so impractical and or dangerous. Setting aside the fact that all of the materials listed in the paper are only theoretically capable of handling t...
IIRC We know HOW to build one, we don't know of a material that is strong enough not to collapse on itself.
Are you kidding? Do you think we completely figured out everything you could possibly know about space travel in the Apollo program or something? There's a reason just about every plan to go to mars involves using the moon as a testing ground. You don't just go out there and wing it. We could learn all sorts of stuff...
Here's the problem with this line of reasoning though, Comcast/Time Warner; Netflix is still paying to have their content delivered by paying for the servers/connections needed to stream their media & your customers are paying for the bandwidth to access that content over their 'broadband'. Those 'dvds' worth of video ...
Members of congress don't get to be members of congress without raising a ton of money first. The average cost of congressional campaigns has [skyrocketed]( in recent years, which means members of congress now spend at least [half of their time]( raising money. Companies can't give money directly to politicians (that...
It is OK to do that. Just because you created something doesn't mean you have absolute control over it. The law giveth, and the law taketh away. It is the law says that your work does not belong to you forever. After a while the work you created is not yours anymore - but belongs to society. The law can also dict...
You're missing the point. We grant authors some limited rights to their own works. By definition an author does not have absolute right to their own work. If we did then people would not be allowed to ignore them. For example, let's say you create something. I then want to use your work in a commentary. You don't wa...
or NSL LOL. Not that certain 3-letter-agencies might not try that, but a NSL for a torrent site would be such an abuse of the purpose for which that authority was granted…
Hey man, if watching HD nature/space documentaries while tripping or playing quality audio for an audience at a performance makes me a douche-bag, I proudly wear the title! I'm not really into FLACs or super high end sound quality myself, but really I wouldn't want to DJ youtube rips. It's like watering down a delic...
You missed the most important bit! WTC also stated that he, and the entire long term moderation team and admin/staff, are in possession of a full TPB backup which will be used to relaunch under a new domain. He also plans to update and clean some of the code (something TPB has been long overdue for), which is all go...
In engineering , we specify whether we're talking about transmission speeds vs storage, and we use the relative units. What ISPs choose to do is their own thing, but ask any electrical or comp Eng and they will tell you the same thing
you're incorrect, what isps choose to do is their own thing , but in engineering we use mbit when speaking about transmission speeds , and MByte when talking about storage. This is industry standard
While this is great news for Internet, but it does not mean the Internet will be equal or protected. The FCC still has to write and pass the Title II proposal February 26th. It will most likely pass, but Congress could still undermine any proposal written by the FCC. So we need to keep pressure on Congress to make sure...
This is what worries the me the most. It's actually a bit of a parallel to the video game industry at the moment; you buy your 'game', then you are nickled-and-dimed to get the full experience. I would not be surprised if ISPs started to offer internet connectivity plans for a monthly rate, then charged the user a per-...
So? What does them having put adware on there, like so many others do, and it just happened to have a security flaw, like so many software has. To do with the fact that in germany they offer a large variety of devices without OS? Also, they pretty much DID NOT say, hey, this adware has a major flaw, lets get paid by ...
You realize that this option already exists? You can buy your own parts, buy your own copy of your desired operating system, and assemble your own computer. Some computer part stores even offer the option to pay someone to assemble the computer for you, and you can look up the parts needed for a good build online, so...
Companies discovered long ago that its far more profitable to put money into marketing than it is to put money into the product. Brands mean nothing now. Essentially a brand is a middleman that adds no value whatsoever to the product. Everything is manufactured by the same few companies in China. Whether Foxconn ma...
Gaming aside, a Mac is probably the best computer you can get despite the cost. I prefer Windows myself but I'm pretty agnostic. Mac does many things that make it much easier to use than Windows. If you're used to Windows and its' idiosyncrasies then many aspects of MacOS will confuse the hell out of you, but overall...
The thing is that it is just as easy to reinstall your OS and overwrite your existing one than installing a new one. So the problem with your reasoning is that shipping with no OS provides literally zero benefits. If you want the preinstalled OS then great - if you don't you can install your own. In fact it is even eas...
Disclaimer here: I am a woman who has worked for major software companies and now owns her own firm. I've been interested in this subject for a long time. First off, this is a terrible article. Not only is it biased, but it pretends like there haven't already been tons of studies done on this subject matter. Not real...
Would you say that the Internet is fairly standardized? I would personally consider it amazingly standardized for what it is. The reason for this is because there are compatibility standards for how you talk to websites. you can basically pick up any device and use the same internet as you can on any other device. Li...
It has taken off but it's only going to get more pervasive. Many businesses haven't quite taken the jump because the cost of cloud solutions are pretty on par with in-house. But these prices should continue to fall, allowing these ... erm ... 'hosted business solutions' to take off (apparently it's technically not cl...
Now if Google would stop sucking all the carriers dicks and enable VOIP then GV would actually be useful. My guess is since apple and ATT aren't fighting it anymore that Google has already said it will never enable it.
That was a horribly written article! It wasn't until the second last paragraph that you know what "THE DATA" was or why on earth it was related to a camera on wheels. This needs the Australian style PRE-article
Why? If they are legally ordered, they take it down Even if they took down the site the instant they were ordered to, their servers could still be seized. Classified information, irrespective of whether or not it's been "leaked" is still Classified until the DoD says otherwise. There are very, very precise rules ab...
You're referring to Layer 3 of the OSI Model but the implementation in the US is what's fucked. I think of it as a pipe. There's a big assed pipe and everyone's trying to use part of it. To deal with this, a filter is put over the pipe that's perforated with holes the size of straws. Initially, the hole is bigger t...
When I opened it on my commodore 64, I got to play One on One: Dr. J vs Larry Bird . (I know what you're thinking...if you hit a 3...then you were down by one...why would you go for a low percentage shot like a 3? Basically, there were 5 seconds left after I hit the first 3...and I didn't have time to drive to the b...
Ill throw my hat into the ring here: The device isn't printing off a kidney as far as I can tell. It's printing a tissue scaffold seeded with the donor's tissues. The claim is that the scaffold is biodegradable such that as the seeded cells stimulate kidney regrowth into the scaffold the synthetic material disappea...
The article is pretty vague. I'm thinking he didn't actually print a kidney on stage, but printed a propagated scaffold for building a kidney, which would become a working organ over the following days/weeks... Which is still fucking incredible news. The impressive part, which he talks about in earlier talks, is ge...
relevant]( from the exact same guy .
Good points. Ill start at the bottom and work my way up. >Out of curiosity, why is this? There are no known materials which are completely biocompatible. The question of functionality boils down to whether or not the evoked immune response hampers the functionality of the device. This is why breast implants are so ...
I used to work in telecom in the late 90s and early 2000s. Back when there were a ton of telecom startups like MCleodUSA and WorldCom. I was only in my 20s that was probably the height of my career (at least at this point). Everything after 2003-2004, when the market was deregulated has been pretty much a downward spir...
I recently moved to an area with comcast and signed up. When they hooked up my PC to the cable modem, navigating to any site was supposed to block me and make me setup my account instead. The technician was baffled this did not happen. Hooking up to the cable modem allowed me to surf to any site. I realized what wa...
Well don't use safari or QuickTime. I understand iTunes and iPhone sync you have no choice but to suffer through, but the others? Surely you know about VLC and Chrome? I think the reason for safari to be ported to windows is so that developers can test how their site will look on safari/iPhone without getting apple dev...
I agree completely. However, you just went from building one big self contained executable to 10, 20, 100, 1000. Now you have to store all of those somewhere. Then when the user or windows or another automated driver installation tool you support goes to download them it has to find the right one. Or you have a bo...
This is not an indication of the relative value of the iPhone. I interpret this news to mean that Samsung has successfully flooded the smart phone market with dozens of varying-quality phones at various prices. Apple's laser-focus on a single product is what makes it such a powerful competitor.
E-Parasites Bill"... What is this, Tim and Eric? I love having people in power who haven't a clue what they are talking about, and people who are easily lobbied by Hollywood. For the latter, yeah. This is how you should stop copyright infringement. Censor the shit out of the internet and remove any domains that so much...
I work for a small packaging corporation in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We started making corrugated pallets about 5-6 years ago. We tried to market to companies such as Walmart. We do quite a bit of corrugated pallet business. If you'd like to read up on it our site is www.kellybox.com ...My grandfather started the company i...
Three example arguments I always use for innovative ideas combating piracy are 1: Normally I pirate games without online multiplayer, most of which are actually indie games... now joining reddit I hear about this "humble bundle" "LIKE ZOMG U CAN PAY WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR ALL OF THESE GAMES???!!" I usually end up spen...
I liked it a lot. Louis CK is a great example, as is Radiohead and Trent Reznor. I think a laundry list of companies who feel the same way would help. Valve should be number one. > >Newell: The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service tha...
At first, I didn't want to vote on "Definitely". But his beard convinced me otherwise.
I know : ) Not a karma vote here for either of us, yeah reddit can be a karma whore contest; But this vote it is showing what reddit can do. Easy stop is SOPA and then look at each bestof threads. This community in the past year has challenged a senate vote and brought attention to many local issues.
I guess anon was to blame for the clipper chip bs, Echelon, Total Information Awareness, and all the other neurotic information controlling behavior exhibited by .govs in the names of religion, politics, and the landed elite's precious egos.
You say that as if various spectrums of EMR were created by us for specific purposes. They were. >but there isn't anything that says they can't be used differently than how a few people envisioned quite some time ago. There is. The FCC has the ability to make that determination and the power to grant waivers to t...
You're really good at not reading what people say, then responding to a pointless strawman of their argument. Mankind did not create the EMR spectrum any more than we created gravity. By definition because we didn't create it there is fundamentally no "intended" use for any given spectrum. It was divvied up into sp...
The incentives through the state-mandated "feed-in-tariff" (FIT) are not without controversy, however. The FIT is the lifeblood for the industry until photovoltaic prices fall further to levels similar for conventional power production. >Utilities and consumer groups have complained the FIT for solar power adds about...
Even after the 200000+ signatures on change.org and various other support from celebrities and various specialists the UK's Home Secretary Theresa May is still ignoring it and dismissing any meetings with Richard's mother and plans to go ahead with the extradition EVEN though 99% of Britain and I'm sure US agree he sho...
I have a theory, but maybe someone else mentioned this possibility already. Anyway this will probably get buried, regardless. So, I'm saying this for the sake pointing out that there is a slight possibility this is what is happening. By no means am I against WikiLeaks, nor do I support our rights being diminished via...
I think the torrent is busted. I sat at 99.7% like other leechers even with seeds in the swarm. And, when I downloaded the same PDF from the uspto.gov link, replaced the PDF from the torrent, and re-checked the file - the download was still at 99.7% - but the PDF was complete and readable. However, when viewing the or...