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Let's think logically before dismissing everything as crazy for a second 1) Private government contractors take care of a lot of things, in-fact almost everything. 3) The company that oversees govt. cameras and cameras for the "rinky-dink" companies have access to everything, you'd be a fool to think businesses lik...
the existence of a massive, world-wide, integrated surveillance system that is working in at least 5 countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand), and possibly many more. Virtually any camera in public areas (and possibly cameras in private areas) could be connected to the system. Yes, but it probab...
It has been the one song of those who thirst after absolute power that the interest of the state requires that its affairs should be conducted in secret... But the more such arguments disguise themselves under the mask of public welfare, the more oppressive is the slavery to which they will lead... Better that right co...
Oh, like I know everything that happens on the Internet. They didn't actually publicize the existence of the website did they. Then again, it's not something they could really push via social networks.
I highly doubt this is real-time monitoring either. The amount of data that has to be processed would be immense, not to mention the amount of processing power itself. More than likely, this is used after suspects have been identified to establish where they have been. Even then, I'd imagine the agencies would follow u...
A website tracks your IP address? Who knew? FTFY All websites track IPs. Even if you don't create a user account. Most big websites will associate IPs with your account, as well. Pretty much any php-based BB system, any wordpress system, any... anything, really. Your IP isn't private. It's broadcast (and saved, by ...
IMO, iOS became what it is because of Scott leadership. And no one can deny it, Android became what it is because of iOS. He might sound like a bad guy, but he knows his job very well, he sounds like a copy of Steve Jobs. Apple Maps is a major fail and he might said we shouldn't apologize, but it's not clear if he i...
Disclaimer: I have an iPhone. Another nail in the coffin. The iPhone has been stagnating since 2009 with the introduction of the 3GS. I have no idea when Jobs' (or his vision team's) focus left the product, but the 3GS is when Apple really stopped innovating in this sphere, and just issued incremental updates. Meanw...
is no more sensible than complaining that other people are speaking their native language instead of yours. This is the root of the issue for me. I honestly believe we will all be better off with a universal language and set of measurements. My ideal world would be Europe actually adopting English and America actuall...
Bruce isn't saying we can fix it. He's saying we're done. And if Bruce says we're done, we're probably done. So now the time comes where we transition into something beyond human. Things will have to change and we'll have to leave the old ways behind. Certainly some old things like living alone in the wilderness w...
This dives into security practices - and in reality, the Internet is no more easy to monitor then a phone line - and infact is more difficult if the correct precautions are taken. If you don't need it, don't keep it. IP's, ok - I get it, tracking unique visits is cool. Outside this, their user name (stored plane te...
Twice now I've read the title of this link incorrectly. First my ears perked up because I thought it said "When parents attack!" and again when I scrolled down and thought it was an /r/askreddit for "What patients attack."
I apologize for my earlier rant (being an asshole), and thank you for sharing your view as an insider. If you try to do your job correctly which seems like you try, it must be from very hard to impossible. And this is my real problem, I just simply cannot imagine a way to form a system that can work well here. I believ...
NO NO NO NO IP laws have never been about the author, they've always been about society. This is true of every law, whenever someone tells you a law is to protect individuals watch out: laws are designed, and only work, for social good. When a single individual is protected, he's given power he can (and will) abuse, ...
That's not why it went to shit. The system fell apart when the changed it so that people submitting patents have to pay for patent acceptance and that's the revenue for the agency clerks. What does that all mean? It means that the patent clerk doesn't get paid if a patent is submitted and it is refused. Refusing a pa...
I only have so much time, and I don't like spending much of it arguing with those who come into the argument with biased beliefs. Strong opinions (like yours, which incited my first post) which gather some attention need to be kept in check, especially when they come from someone who is an outsider to a whole field o...
In simpliest terms, a manufacturer creates a product, puts a mark up on their cost and then sells it to resellers/dealers who in turn mark it up again to cover their costs and profit. The end user is paying the dealer profit on the profit the manufacturer included in the product. But Manufacturer-dealer relationship...
You know what's fun about that line in the Odyssey? There's a wordplay that you totally miss when you read it in translation. The name Odysseus gives Polyphemos is "μήτις" ( may -tiss), meaning "nobody," but "μῆτις" (pronounced virtually the same way) means something like "craftiness," which of course Odysseus was know...
I don't believe that our government officials want to harm the American public. I think that people that believe this are the same kinds of people that think Obama is a muslim, anti-christ, terrorist, socialist that wants to destroy America. That's simply just not true. They do have their own agendas usually, but the...
I'm gonna put it out there that this problem is simple. Port Forwarding. Hear me out. The fact that it is (even slightly) prohibitive for individuals to host their own material or send direct messages to one another GUARANTEES centralised structure. It guarantees that we end up in the situation we're in. We shoul...
I swear, you people have got conspiracy on the brain here. Yeah people get assassinated, it happens. Lincoln had assassination attempts more than three or four times if I recall correctly. I never said president btw, and guess what? You don't need to be rich to win an election. All I hear is excuses and frankly I am si...
Not answering can't be used as evidence. This is a civil right. The problem with staying silent however is that you can't offer a defense. You can't say "I didn't do it" or "it's not mine" when the police allege that you did do it or that it isn't yours. I remember a case I was reading some time ago of a kid who was ...
Our govt needs to shape up and start using
the thing about SOD in the DEA is - they operate internationally in environments like Afghanistan. The information they're requesting is most likely about targets abroad in places the NSA has relevant information on. The NSA is the foremost agency in SIGINT collection and analysis - and the DEA's SOD could very well ma...
This is abuse of power plain and simple. First they shout from the roof tops "terrorist!" At every chance they get to make the generally apathetic public go, "Well if it's for our safety then that's alright I guess." The truth is this "terrorist" bullshit has never been about the safety of the American people. It's a...
Funny you should mention that. There used to be a Department of War, which then split into the army, navy and airforce, as part of the joint National Military Establishment, which in 1949 was renamed the Department of Defense.
I see a lot of "this will encourage DRM" and "xbone was attacked for this" comments... First, this is just my interpretation, but to me it seems that Steam is trying to encourage publishers to NOT put more DRM on their games... The way PC gaming generally works now, is that if your game is on steam, there's no better...
It looks like this was a way of getting multiple users of the same computer to get separate steam accounts, not a way to get people to share games. As you say, it's something that already happens. They just want to make sure if someone is logged in it's actually them. People invest huge amounts of money in steam beca...
Then he posted on StackOverflow for tech support, of all things. "Guys, how do I do this? >$my.totallyillegalsite.bustme Thanks, Ross William Ulbricht frosty"
I wish UEFI had just been a portable version of the Bios interfaces. It could still have used the COM like way (you call QueryInterace with a GUID and get back a vtable pointer) of getting to them but the actual interfaces would have allowed sector IO instead of file IO. So you'd have a sector IO routine to replace int...
So spitting vitriol at defenders is better? Or the people that bought something off the shelf and got what it came with? I bought it for $25. I've spent more on humble bundles that I've never installed. Wasted time on the UI? Isn't that like the 20 seconds of boot time? It's negligible. No, I don't use any of the...
No, it is not double dipping. You didn't order dedicated bandwidth from your ISP. But you are more than welcome to place an order for dedicated bandwidth. What the ISP has actually done, is taken 100 Meg circuit for instance, calculated appx usage, based on peak time of day, and sold that 100 Meg circuit to you and 1...
Yes and No. The issue arises with public companies, share prices, and bonus structures. Having a huge spike in expenses to upgrade infrastructure is going to reduce profits. For many companies, this means that A) all bonus-eligible employees from the lowly AR clerk to the CEO are going to get less money and B) shar...
It's kind of like buying a bus pass. The city doesn't expect every single person with a bus pass to want to use the bus at the exact same time. That has been the mindset of ISP's until this point. Unfortunately everybody has gotten fatter, and even though there aren't more people on the bus, more buses are required...
Well, most residential ISPs are also cable providers. They don't want Netflix being better than their cable TV or VOD offerings. Verizon, in particular, is very publicly in bed with RedBox as well and wants to see that service improve.
It's not about you paying for your bandwidth, its about netflix paying for theirs. Basically its the connection between peers, such as Verizon and Cogent (netflix's ISP). The way peering works is that Verizon would be sending content to Cogent, and Cogent would be sending content to Verizon. Since they both basicall...
Because networking isn't some super easy task. The Internet is packet switched to make it cheaper and, for millions of users, significantly better. So they put in neighborhood boxes that you connect to, and when someone in your neighborhood decides to use all the bandwidth possible, it screws over everyone else. The IS...
I think you misunderstand what a government subsidy is. It doesn't mean the company is now obligated to the government or the public. Government subsidies, at a high level, are for things that simply wouldn't happen without government intervention. Think of it like this, the government subsidized the Interstate Highw...
You are not paying $100/month for 100 mbps connection. You're paying $100/month for up to 100 mpbs connection. You have have to understand how cable works. Your cable line is shared with your neighbors. If you were the only one on your line, then you'd get 100 mpbs aways, but if your neighbors are using the interne...
It's more or less American tradition to think of the present and neglect the future anyways
Yeah with 2.4ghz wireless speeds typically cap out at a max of 130-144mbit (depending on the router), and can often be significantly lower depending on many factors, such as distance from the router, connection going through walls etc... Some routers can 'technically' do 300mbit over 2.4ghz by using 40mhz channel width...
It is stunning how flawed peoples understanding of network resources and how those allocations are planned for and utilized is. Every body on the planet seems to claim to understand the very complex job of planning and implementing, and maintaining an IP network. These are important topics and they are being hijacked...
We paid for our lines, Netflix has paid for their lines so suck it up and give us what paltry crap you sold us and stop your whining. The problem here is that everyone simplifies it in those terms but that is far from the entire story. Sure you pay for internet access, as does Netflix... However, have you ever wonde...
Meanwhile, I listen to the radio daily, and can't tell you the last music video I watched. I think it might have been the lyric video for Cee Lo's "Fuck You" back when that first came out. Everyone on facebook was posting it.
PC's replaced mainframes because they were better user experiences. People cut their phone land line off because it became superfluous. A tablet is in no conceivable way a better experience than a desktop and never will be. Sure tablets are fun little browsing devices and you might type of a short email or two on th...
But remember, some people want a PC for gaming and work. That would be cheaper than a pre-built PC for work and an xbox one. Not everyone is going for the graphics. I got into PC for the games and controls, the graphics were like the last nail on the coffin of my console gamer self.
I am doubtful that is a big factor. Building your own machine is easier indeed as that increasingly there is less and less need to have plug in beyond putting a motherboard in a case, the CPU/memory on the board and the HDD into the case. Pretty much everything is increasingly integrated. NICs have been built into m...
This is complex. So, Linux is a name, like 'Hinduism', that really covers a very wide range of things that share a lot of core bits in common, but even the very core bits can occasionally be swapped out for similar bits. Let us take an example. OS X went through a huge leap as it was gently coaxed into being iOS....
sadly, people will still go to big box stores (Wal-Mart, BestBuy, and the sort) and get one "off the shelf" because they are completely computer illiterate. I bought my Asus G73 in Feb 2011 not knowing what I really wanted (other than a 17.3" screen, 8gb RAM). Knowing what I do now, I would have gotten something easi...
I hear this argument often and used to think it was a valid argument, but I can't help but think about the actual distribution of PC setups in the gaming environment. The first thing to consider is that consoles are really just computers. When they're released they have decent power, but we all know they age quickly...
I bought my PC in June 2007 and it has lived in 7 houses across 2 countries. I have shipped it with regular post and while the entire case got bashed and broken, it still works fine today. Apart from a new GPU, it still has all it's original hardware. The GPU upgrade was €240 which was free to me as my old one was stil...
Not denying that there aren't auto repair companies that rip you off but a majority are more expensive because A) they don't have the business yet to get discounts on parts or not have to charge as much to reach a profit margin like bigger places do B) many times they are doing a job they have pride about and don't...
It is impressive how little understanding of the future we have and this article (with resultant Reddit-thread) proves it. Assuming self-driving cars becomes an add-on feature that costs less than $1000 in a couple years (it is a bunch of cams and a computer, right?), these things will then be able to talk to one ano...
My immediate thought here is how insurance companies now will be doing everything in their power to keep driverless cars from being a mainstream reality. This type of thing has happened when Ford and General Motors successfuly created the American automobile dependence. All they had to do was pay off local departments ...
Shit happens. I'm paying a fortune each year for just collision because apparently if you don't hit the deer and swerve and hit a tree it's your fault.
This guy ripped off the concept of bejeweled. I don't see how he makes the correlation between all the icons except the "Sweet!"
So little known fact, real Nokias were not invented. In the beginning Nokias were not actually created, we just found them here. No one knows where they came from. So... yeah, I know Nokia has created the pretense out of "manufacturing" these phones but really they are mined, dug from the crust of the earth. The Real...
I've also experienced the global perspective and seeing that yes we are privileged to live in a time where we are better off than the rest of the world. But I still don't think you understand the problem. Yes in comparison to places like China Africa and very poor countries we're doing quite well. And we were lucky to ...
I agree with japan, I think robotic olympic should be the next big thing. With the olympics, all that is being shown and developed is physical prowess and training. With robotic olympics we would be testing the engineering quality (and software development) of these countries, which would not only spur greater developm...
Well this is just wrong. The FCC is an agency tasked with enforcing the laws that are applicable to that agency. Constitutionally, the executive branch is tasked with enforcing the laws passed by the Congress and one of the ways that is done is through agencies like the FCC.
I understand your concerns with it, as there's already a site-wide problem of people not reading the article. But personally, I upvote if the bot does a good
You might disagree, and that's fine. But I think that no information is better than misinformation. This of course assumes the
This is the equivalent of getting chain-mail of "Gas is at an all time high. On April 20, we will avoid the gas pump for 1 full day! Please forward this to 10 people or you will be cursed!" If they didn't care to cease & desist when the info was made public, it certainly isn't going to matter having people say, "Stop...
A few comments to assist (though mostly it ought to be common sense) - 1) Call the DC office. If you call the local office, you'll talk to people who are great at getting you your missing Social Security check, but know nothing about anything policy related. 2) You're not going to talk to the member. In some ways...
I realize you're just quoting the author, but seriously, how does that make any sense? How are TV ads a medium based on potential results and internet ads aren't? They're exactly the same. Each one uses ads that they think they're target audience will be interested in. This is why you see hot wheels commercials dur...
I think there are two separate issues here. One is using Flash. The other is using Flash to create specially nasty ads, like those which float over text, expand and obscure content, etc. Many people are reducing this to a single issue, basically saying "all Flash is bad". There is a problem with this. I will agree ...
UEFI will also cut your balls off. Example: I had a Compaq Presario C762NR a couple years ago. The on-board mini-PCI-E wifi card went bad, and I had a spare in another laptop I knew worked just fine. I plugged it in, and to my surprise, it refused to boot -- Popping up a plain text on black screen saying the wifi c...
Good for you. My BIOS takes about 20 seconds to POST including AHCI bootrom (which Im running a faster version of, it WAS 25 seconds alone) and thats literally more then half my boot time as I have an SSD. On servers, I see upto 10 minutes in POST/bootroms.
At the time of writing the game has 4,880,757 registered users of which 1,469,513 (30.1%) ... Minecraft has a 70% piracy I don't think this author knows how minecraft accounts work. Anyone can make an account (for free) and use it to play minecraft classic. It's like a demo. Paying for the game gives you the most rec...
According to Australian privacy laws (where I live), > Organisations must take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if it is no longer needed for the reason it was collected. But they kept databases from '07 > Organisations also have to take "reasonable steps to protect the...
In the overall existence of the universe, it wasn't even yesterday. The universe is somewhere around 10 billion years old; a year or hundred is nothing . It's the blink of an eye.
This is just a reminder to myself to come back here in 12 months and say "Really? Really?!" Edit: Come to think of it, the thread will be locked in 12 months, so I won't be able to. So I'll just say it now. Microsofts history in regards to open source, standards and cross-platform compatibility is so completely de...
Same agreement with everyone else in this sub-thread. When I got Vista, it wasn't anything as difficult to deal with as XP was when I first got XP. I think today's consumers expect a better launch than they did years ago, so even though Vista's launch was better, there was some expectation that it should've been "per...
In short; the heatsink didn't do it's job AND wasn't attached properly (however was attached cleverly and cheaply) Which is what I alluded to in my comment In long; The fact the poor cooling created an environment hot enough (from all those long gaming session yo!) for the solder to melt and the GPU to become detache...
I don't agree with all 1017 pages of this legislation (hell, I haven't even had the time to read all of it, I've been going for the highlights and what looks to be the worst of it). There hasn't been any legislation put out by this utter mess of a political system than could be called 100% agreeable. It hasn't been abo...
In 2011, I think desktop users now fall in the following categories. (Home Users:) Power users : Typically these guys know what they want, and know where to get good prices. The places they can buy from can assemble too. These users are also capable of assembling a PC too. Acquiring these users as customers is go...
how come everytime this guy opens his mouth he makes the front page? also, anyone notice that the line of connections that this guy draws between the various participants is about as sketchy as the one Bachman draws between Hilary's top aide at the State Department and the Muslim Brotherhood? Yes, Chris Dodd and Joe Bi...
You missed my entire point. The legal system decides who goes to jail and is criminally guilty. I do not need the legal system to mediate my entire experience with reality and tell me what is true and what is not, in fact, this type of thinking is exactly what 1984 warned about. Someone can be guilty in a non-legal...
While there are certainly millions using facebook and it's a pretty good strategy for both exposure as well as convenience it does alienate the few that don't want to use that route. You can always sign up with a dummy e-mail service like GuerrillaMail and vote, whatever. What gets me is that we are expected to just go...
i would be perfectly willing to [ignore any instructions from any judge in order to decide]( that nobody has every violated anyone's software or look and feel patent ever again. If you think the patent system is broken: then you have to make that decision that says it's broken.
No. Lets get this straight. If you watch the whole clip you'll see that he was talking about one of Samsung's patents ([patent '460]( which was part of their counter claim against Apple. The part of the '460 patent, specific to Samsung's claim, outlined the use of scroll keys (physical buttons) on [THIS PHONE]( to ...
Well if we're to believe the rumors flying around, Apple certainly have something in the works in terms of a cable box solution. I totally agree with you though. How much more innovative could they make the iPhone or iPad without throwing away the entire current foundation. You know that the second they (or Google, or ...
Unfortunately it seems to me we are getting the worst of all possible worlds, large billboards with video on them are cropping up all over the city where I live and sitting in traffic while the inane shit they peddle repeats over and over again is depressing as all hell. I worked for one of the top three advertising f...
I don't want to sound like a neigh sayer, but there are online non-profit universities that you can get federal funding for already. The reason they cost anything at all is to be able to afford the equipment/staff/certification costs. So, this would have to be funded some how, either through a huge grant, or through ...
I thought companies advertising under the guise of a post was frowned on. Fellow redditors don't be fooled. This sounds like a for-profit...ahem..."college". Like Facebook, if you're not actually paying for the service then in actuality you are the service being sold. IE, said company is selling your contact and biode...
Once you reach the level that going with a volume agreement makes financial sense (there's a 100 seat minimum IIRC), that's fine. However the majority of small to medium business cannot go that route due to the costs, even if they come with less restrictive terms.
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You forgot, how you hit print 50 times and the printer just stares blankly at you, light blinking in the corner mockingly and then - surprise motherfucker! Starts printing 50 times, and good luck stopping that process in windows.
The problem is Bean counters. Take virgin mobile Canada. They were a great innovative little outfit that basically vertically interf rated its management, marketing and customer service in Downtown toronto. It dominated in customer service saving thousands in marketing and because its marketing was creative and bold o...
We weren't finance, and it's not likely that either: a) The auditing firms would come up with anything b) It would be worth the cost of an auditing firm for checking us Essentially, in our case, we were a test team (of 10 people, including me) that was turning in 20 defects a week with a 90% accuracy rate. (For ...
Yeah. Good luck getting that to happen. If this were even remotely possible, we would have most of congress fired, have representatives that actually represent us, and give a shit about the environment.
As someone who DOES have content available online (for free) let me clarify something for you. Piracy in no way takes money away from the people who create art, instead it takes money away from the parasitic entertainment industry that only exists to profit from the artist. A former colleague of mine started an expe...
Not really considering you just made a statement for every file sharer out there. A big reasons really IS the convenience. And that's why pirating music is at an all time low, because the recording industry now has to do business with companies that give consumers what they want, conveniently, for a price (Pandora, Spo...
Not saying the numbers are not exaggerated, but yeah, digital goods are simply duplicated from a processor churning out data that didn't exist before. But this begs the questions: Should copying and sharing digital goods be the same as stealing physical goods? Or should there be laws that consider the grey area? I pe...
More than anything, I think Windows' biggest mistake was and is Windows 8. The shift from 7 to 8 is massive, and so is the attempted jump to start multi-platform unification. I have nothing against multi-platform unification, apple understands just fine with their integration, the only problem is with how Windows decid...
Agreed. Its not just the management tools, its the other stuff. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, all the custom apps and code that exists specific for companies... This stuff is entrenched and is not going away anytime soon. Another driving reason is mitigation of risk. Middle managers are typically not goi...
I was an early adopter of Windows 8. I put the 8.1 preview on my machine when it came out. For the last month, I was trying to move to the released final 8.1 via the Windows Store. Even with the warnings of having to reinstall apps and programs, I kept trying. It would always fail at setting up new devices no matter wh...
I like what you are saying but more to the comparison of apples to apples. Because a Power user and grandma need the same thing. I may need a $3000+ computer to edit video (or what have you). And grandma only needs to check her facebook/email. Let's get her a $3000 editing rig. Or even You have a music app on...
A graphics card is outdated in 6 months and costs 200$+. I only know one person with a desktop PC and even he does not buy parts anymore. Most other people I know only buy notebooks anyway. Da fuck you talkin' 'bout? A $200 graphics card will last you at least 2 years these days. And that's while running graphic inte...
Yup. Some users will freak the fuck out if you change their IE start page from the default MSN page to Google. Don't EVER install any linux distro to anyone still using an XP machine as their home computer. If they were able to use any linux distribution, they would most likely be able to install it themselves. Yes, I'...