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It's not different. Authorities cannot open a safe if they cannot state what's in it and how they know it. The standard isn't "there's bad things in there" the standard is xyz file is in there, we know this because someone heard, saw or otherwise came to know of the existence of the file and it's location. This cas...
It really depends. What cops do to obtain evidence and what evidence is actually admissible at trial may be vastly different things. Warrants are issued for specific items in specific places. Can cops tear a hole in your wall? Maybe if they can prove to a judge that there is reason to believe the items they seek a...
Attorney here. This headline is REALLY mislead. First, its not that stealing code is not a crime under federal law, but rather it is not a crime under the National Stolen Property Act. There could be many other federal laws or theories he could be charged under. Second, we are only talking about FEDERAL law. There ...
As a matter of rebuttal to the popular opinion here on reddit, I'd like to point at that, while this person overgeneralized the situation, when applied to the particular AT&T/T-Mobile case, he is absolutely correct. The merger would have resulted in better efficiency not only for AT&T and T-Mobile, but also for their ...
Let me preface this by saying I hate cases, so MAYBE I'm bias, but I have dropped my iPhone COUNTLESS times, once a week maybe, and I have NO scratches, NO shatters, nothing. The iPhone is a very sturdy piece of equipment, one drop isn't going to shatter it, I promise you. Looking at my unprotected iPhone now, I have...
i'd like to know how having several companies competing to serve an identical product is more efficient, cost effective and better for the consumer than having a municipally or government run ISP monopoly in any situation or place. If anyone could become an ISP and serve anyone else, you would see those things (effic...
I came to a similar conclusion. My mantra became "I am not the sum of what was done to me, I define myself by how I allow it to affect me". I thought it sounded kinda cool. However, while I was able to over come much of the damage of an abusive childhood there were many people I knew that couldn't do it. If your stor...
This is in effect everywhere in the US, and is strictly followed. The difference you hear is a problem of dynamic range. When you set your volume for a TV show, most of the sounds will be in the middle of the range. Louder sounds will be sound louder, and softer sounds softer. This is exactly what you'd expect. Howev...
Weellll kind of. If the entire staff of a public library with two stories, janitor and all, were to take turns handling the logistics is could still take years. First, for it to happen this century, they'd have to destroy the bindings of each book so the pages could be fed directly into the machine. Otherwise they'd ha...
I never claimed to know anything about networking, and you understood my point perfectly. You pretty much ignored the fact that you "forgot" that you were referring to a 1GBps connection rather than "a few hundred MBps". That makes your post and my refutation to it invalid, as I would never argue a consumer broadband...
The issue is you cant do what you want to with something you own. Therefore you don't really own it. It's illegal for me to root and unlock the bootloader on my phone but not illegal for me to smash it with a hammer. Apply it to something else; you buy a car, cash, its yours 100% but you cant put in a bigger engine ...
I remember the article stated that Time Warner said that customer's didn't want Gigabit connections, not that we didn't need it. The bandwidth is there. I have a feeling in Time Warner's survey they included a proposed price. I wouldn't want Gigabit internet at the price TWC would charge; I seriously doubt they would o...
Looking at others stories and thoughts about their new share everything data plan I thought I would chime in and tell you my experience with verizon. Back just before they started their share everything data plans, I decided I was going to get off my parent's family plan, get my own plan and upgrade my phone before t...
But in reality, [subsidy means high-interest loan]( in the mobile phone business. I am QUITE happy that I completely own my $300 Galaxy Nexus, and that I can take it anywhere in the world at the drop of a hat. I'm also QUITE happy that I only pay $30/month for 5GB of 4G data with T-Mobile prepaid, which I can also de...
All I'm getting from this is large corporations are pretending they don't understand how people feel about their products/services and are basically baiting people to form a civil union of consumers which they assume will never happen and it'll be business as usual. What if it happened though? The internet affords ev...
When I saw the news that "Verizon CEO says he would happily drop cell phone contracts, if customers demand it (bgr.com)" I immediately contacted VZW support and I 'demanded a change' in the contract and phone subsidy practices. It appears that many people did the same. I bolded what I think is an important part of t...
I don't think we really need to get anywhere so fast. I'm perfectly fine with the internet being a free market in the purest sense of the word - where companies are the only ones with access to private information, there is no government presence whatsoever, and companies are held responsible by their shareholders for ...
Adobe has just shot itself in the face. I'm a member of a couple of major photography forums and the prevailing attitude among the pros on each site is screw em then. Since most guys seem to be more than happy with CS6 or LR 4.4 they pretty much said well until such time as these no longer work with newer cameras or fi...
Because the bit torrent protocol was not invented just so you could download terabytes of shitty movies, you jackass. You're exactly the kind of person the big media companies are thinking about when they're trying to fuck everyone over torrenting stuff. WoW used torrents to distribute patches. Most Linux distros can b...
Please correct any information that isn't up to date, this is my perspective and as always I admit I am not the holder of absolute truth.) As someone who knows mobile techonology pretty well... I've unlocked/jailbroken before and am decently familiar with the issue. Unlocking, is illegal, but carriers will unlock t...
Several. There is dispersion: This is a measure of the incident light pulse "spreading" over the course of its journey down the fiber. This is caused by various physical phenomenon within the fiber optic cable such as intramodal dispersion (basically different modes of light travelling down a medium experience differ...
It's already here, I had a work-mate who's house and extended families houses were raided after they were stopped on account of having the Koran on CD playing in his car. Thinking about it, that was actually 10 years ago. In the wake of September the 11th. But that's the point, there wasn't a real reason or excuse, but...
As much as I don't agree with what the NSA is allegedly doing, this is a recruiting session and not the right place (or the right people) to be asking these questions to. These kids are essentially harassing NSA employees that aren't directly involved in the whole surveillance mess; they're fucking recruiters, just sim...
Some DoD contractor in Rockville MD out of nowhere called me and said that I could start working an entry level Cyber Security job out of school (went to school for Computer Security) So like any college grad I was like WOW! SURE! We discussed a lot of things and I actually had to go through a top secret clearance back...
Here is my story about a recruiter from ITT tech showing up at my high school. So here comes this guy, he is funny as hell. The whole time he is being the ultimate dude bro literally be friending everyone. At the end of his talk he says something about how he is from ITT and then drops recruiting sheets on us. Everyone...
Really? Treason? While I understand the legal ramifications (actual and potential) here; I must ask a few questions. What does shouting at recruiters accomplish? And, more importantly: What was ACTUALLY being accomplished by the NSA because of this program? Nobody in the US government will answer that questi...
What does shouting at recruiters accomplish? Hopefully it changes their minds about their jobs and they quit or do something like Snowden did, you know, the right thing. It's an appeal to their consciences to stop recruiting teens to work against Americans. Or maybe represent the true values of their org by stating "...
Student: "By your definition there is none who is not an adversary? ... Is Germany an adversary?" ... Recruiter: "So for us. Um. Our business ... we dont generate the requirements. um. There was a requirement for an issue, we might use the word target, that is the intelligence target whether that is adversary or ...
What "terrorists" are you talking about? To the entire world, Americans are the terrorists. No Muslim or suicide bomber has caused a fraction of the misery and death of America. Instead of devoting the remnants of your dying economy to preventing terrorist attacks, you could stop spending trillions of dollars on th...
The recruiters should not have had to prepare for this. Most recruiters are just low level employees that are excited about talking to students from their home university. They go to meet with the younger generation, give a candid account of what the job is like, and look for potential hires. With the NSA being a ...
I thought that data was to be only sifted through when PROBABLE CAUSE was presented by government officials/agencies Let me put it in a more tangible sense. Suppose the government installed cameras everywhere, and (via whatever means, biometric or otherwise) somehow stored information on where everyone was and who th...
The reason I bring that particular point up is because Rand Paul filibustered for 12 hours to get a declaration from the justice department on whether or not the Whitehouse had the authority to do just that. the
Mike Rogers is a Congressman from my state. I sent an email to his office when the NSA phone program defunding was shot down last week, and received an enormous email back that was fully of lies. Here it is, in all of its verbose deceit: >Thank you for contacting me with your concerns regarding the protection of your...
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. How many times have we tried lobbying against the powers that be to reform laws? Multiple times. Each time is blocked by congress or the president because they are all bought and paid for. The worst way to change a system is by usi...
Exactly, I'm Norwegian and I bet the same thing is happening here with close ties to NSA. AFAIK we are even in closer relations to the US than Germany. I'm shocked by the lack of action, no one has said anything about this publicly, and the newspapers barely report anything about the case. The articles aren't even on...
No, you just want to be contrary. Solar power is not a viable option, and probably (although this part is an opinion) will never be one. A few semesters ago in my friends senior design class for his mechanical engineering degree, someone wanted to do their year long design project with solar power. It's not like he's...
This is probably the most ignorant statement I have heard on this thread today, which is full of ignorant statements on the law. There is no lying that occurred. They are allowed to gather all the data they have under PRISM legally. This is due to some intricacies in privacy law. One such is that 100% of your cell ca...
The problem here, ignoring the hysterics, lies, and semantics, is that we pretty much have an accountable secret court overseeing all of this. The government didn't know how to appoint these guys or care, so they got the chief justice to do it because having Congress to do it is potentially democratic and doing it via...
You're definitely correct about that. It's obvious as can be. Especially considering which my wife agrees with me on this, that's the excuse used for every infringement of our freedom so far. It's literally the same thing they say every time.
You're trolling - hoping for all the "don't use tor for torrents" rants. But I think you might be on to something. If tor started encouraging both using tor for torrents, and contributing enough bandwidth back to make up for your downloads it would serve the goals of making tor far more popular (becau...
Well, I find it relatively comic book. I mean the NSA is supposed to be THE real deal super secret spy agency, with VIP access to the highest of high tech toys and clearance n' whatnot. I have a really hard time imagining a reason that they would do something so blatant. Even if the suggestion that they are doing it ...
Technically, in this case Obama was telling the truth: >President Obama stated, too, that abuse had not been occurring. “All the stories that have been written, what you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's ...
Different version of say a Mac has different hardware than difference versions of a PC. It's not that different. Unless off course those Mac's use different processors (RAM, etc.) slots which is the same thing as happens with different models of PC. Actual mainstream generation changes are much more rare. Changes f...
I deleted (not deactivated) my main facebook account in 2010. 2 months ago I reinstalled Spotify after years of not using it, logged in with my old Spotify account (was linked to my deleted Facebook account) and BAM, mails with "long time no see" and "lots of things happened in Facebook" bullcrap started to clog my in...
where "friends" can whine about trivial things day in and day out This was why I deleted my Facebook. The handful of useful things I used it for were drowned in a sea of people complaining about homework, posting an exclamatory status about whatever sports game we're all already watching, and having lame inside joke ...
Let's get something straight about the cloud....if they want something gone, POOF, it's gone. If you want something gone, while it may appear gone, there is probably a backup copy of it that you can't access, and is hidden.
Deleting your account perma-deletes your account's contents (note: photos other people posted that you got tagged in are their photos). I don't have the link but as of last year, I'm pretty sure there was an Irish audit that Facebook had to pass for legal reasons, and they dedicated engineers to making sure their del...
Removing all pictures of your ex after a breakup is insanely hard and emotionally crap. I had to untag every single image over the years manually, took a few hours and by the end I was crying.
I'm not a network guy so my terms are probably bad, I have a bland understanding of encryption and networking. You guys are all missing the fact that he dumped a private key at the end of the power point presentation. If this private key is what is used for WPA or WPA2 then every good encryption for those wireless ro...
Usually with rebranding comes a big revamp of the software. On top of that I'd expect in the next few years for Intel to integrate it into their chips in some fashion, even if it's just a dedicated core like they do with AES kind of.
The title is (and almost always is) the
They ARE actively recruiting people from other companies. They (the biggest companies who can afford to pay more) are agreeing not to compete amongst themselves when cold calling other companies employees to keep costs low and profit margins higher (welcome to Cartel 101). This is illegal in the US. You are describin...
Except it is an investment because you are paying money, along with many others, in the hopes that it will culminate into something worth more than what you paid. Or at the very least break even. Posted this higher but...if I pay 60 dollars to kickstart a board game. I receive the board. It's AWESOME. I would have pa...
The market wouldn't support Apple's pricing if it weren't backed up by something. I ask again, why do you think Apple can charge what they charge and still succeed in the current device market? I was trying not to bash Apple directly, but here we go. Apple did not create the smartphone. The slosest, relevant item t...
Here's what Google is doing: Let Comcast somewhat think they are trying to become an ISP by feigning at first and then suggesting they might actually go through with it. Comcast will assume this is a double-feint goading into providing better service and being more "competitive" so Google can push more and mo...
Google's business model is deviously brilliant. Give consumers quality services. They don't pay money for these services, so let's call them "free". However, we collect their browsing data, sell that to advertisers who cater ads to them, and make our money that way. At least that's how I understand it. I don't mind t...
I bet it is informative. I just don't like the way the title is presented. It's reminiscent of yellow newspapers. edit: Thanks for the
Since the reddit link's title was about as helpful as a tumor, here are excerpts that help paint the pretty picture presented in the article: AT&T Inc. has many strong rivals in the great convergence of wireless, Internet and video technologies, but none looms larger — potentially — than search giant Google. Ag...
Sadly many people do. I went on my friends dropbox to download a file and he had a plaintext document which contained his bank logins and all CC numbers.
No, I don't think Facebook is looking for any other way of making money, because it is easy to sell ad spots. Do you think major television networks are trying to find a better way around commercials? Of course not, even though Netflix and other streaming providers are quickly picking up the slack. Not to mention, comp...
Le Rich Space Man is singlehandedly going to lead earth into an electric revolution shortly before establishing the first colony on mars and developing the first F
I moved from Dallas area to a small town in Kentucky on the 15th. I left Verizon Fios that had a few competitors in the area for Time Warner that has little competition here. I hooked up my cable boxes and was immediately transported back 20 years by the GUI. The last time I saw a guide like that was when I first got c...
Soooo... I work for Time Warner Cable. I can say I bust my ass to keep the plant running smoothly... Talking 100-150 hours a 2 week paycheck on average but usually every pay period... We have one of the 'newer' plants in the division and it is 20 years old.... Coax cable is expensive and fiber is even more expensive. W...
Tell your Uncle it's about ensuring a free market for internet services and that it removes government from allowing controls that destroy small businesses.
I'm sure you may already realize this, but the burden of proof lies on them. They have to give evidence that taxes will raise - not pretend people like you, thinking critically, have to disprove their random claims. The problem is that there's no proof for them to give, only speculation. Still, there are people to ...
How would that be suspicious? You mean time passed, then something went wrong? That seems to be how things work. We both respect eachother enough to realize what's a fault and what isn't. For example, I had him replace the fusebox on my motorcycle once. A week later, while driving home, it broke down. Clearly an elec...
I noticed the same thing when i was in college, where was in charge of arranging various social events. Initially, I would just allow people to sign-up and then arrange according to how many signed-up. I would never get even close to the number who signed-up actually turning-up. This wasted money and time. Then I...
I can see your point, but it's not exactly a straightforward equation. Suppose you convince half the people who currently pay these prices for eBooks that they shouldn't do so (for this example, it doesn't matter if they pirate it, buy a physical copy, or don't buy the book at all, as long as they don't buy the digital...
Of course Google are completely within their rights to delete whatever they want from their servers, but I don't feel wrong in my sense of entitlement. Our collective use of Google's servers have, in a very short, space of time made them amongst the wealthiest and most profitable companies in the world. Internet adve...
The problem is that the caps might not be a big deal now, but they will be in the very near future. 250 GB might be more than enough for most households under the current order of things, but as technology marches forward that will start to seem insignificant. Think about how much bandwidth per month the average perso...
Hardly. For a start, they fail the definition because Apple is at least using the technologies patented here. But really, this is just the way any organisation must conduct business in the US. The system is a total SNAFU and playing "nice" will just see you get screwed over eventually because basically every non...
Is SSD a viable alternative these days? [Tom's Hardware on that.](
This blog post is well informed but goes off on some dead end road once it hits the editorializing part. Apple has good industrial designers. They don't do the sort of R&D that HP used to do. Apple makes pretty consumer products. HP does/did this too but that wasn't what their engineers were all working on. Engin...
That's up in millimeter wave band. Radio waves are measured in meters, the length between 2 points in the upper or lower phase traveling at (near) the speed of light. For example, FM radio broadcasts around 100MHz that you listen to in your car are in the 3 meter radio band. Radio waves attach to things (Antennas!) tha...
The higher the frequency the more susceptible it is to physical interference. Essentially a thz range frequency could be blocked by a poorly placed tree branch.
Directly comparing it to the energy used to transmit on current wireless frequencies would lead to a wrong conclusion. Assuming we are talking about standard cellular networks, most of the energy is used to try to increase signal penetration and strength in places without direct line of sight. When dealing with the T...
Apple attemtps to stifle the competition may be a two edged sword. My minimalist ancient cell phone (who needs a fancy display for a phone?) and ancient info minimalist PocketPC both bit the dust recently. So i thought i'd check the fancy new fangled gadgets. It appears the pocketable info/phone world is split into...
Still irrelevant. If we moved labor to the U.S we'd have more jobs. But it's all about the money and abusing child labor in foreign countries. And, still, irrelevant. Point is we don't need military tech, military anything. We shouldn't have to kill each other for any reason. There is not one justifiable reason to appl...
There's so much misinformation & misunderstanding & mis-stated facts in this article,.. I don't even know where to begin,... (but I'll try) > "Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and ga...
Not sure how this is possible since a plan like that doesnt even exist.(it might be "unlimited CALLING".. but it's certainly not "unlimited DATA"). It most certainly does exist. They don't offer it to new customers anymore, but anyone who had that plan when they stopped offering it to new customers was able to keep ...
Sure, imagine we are in the graphics mode with 4 colors and we want to animate a row of green dots moving left to right across the screen with a black background. First we set up our color palette for the 4 colors and the background. Based on the [Atari memory map]( the color settings start at memory location 708. So...
After reading very briefly through the post and the comments on this thread, I think that we, the members of Reddit, should institute a policy of harsh skepticism for cases like this. The post on the site seemed to contain a variety of words and phrases to indicate that it is an urgent issue that must be addressed imm...
Everything I know about VC I learned from The Darkest Hour.
Highjacking the top comment to say it appears WhosHere was around first. A Google search shows Who's Here was around before [August 2008]( They have had a Wikipedia article since [September 29, 2008]( Ignoring the author's own claim that Who's Near Me was founded only two years ago, another Google search shows that his...
This really doesn't bother me very much. Blueprints are only a portion of the information needed to build a building, or a piece of machinery. The specification is the other piece of that puzzle, calling out what tensile strength steel is needed in that building for the roof joists, for instance. Sometimes this info...
This is actually a really dangerous problem. Chineese knockoffs are showing up as load bearing or pressure bearing structures made from incorrectly specified steel. Engineers everywhere design things to these standard specs, so when an inferior steel is used we start having problems we thought we had solved 100 years a...
This is essentially a shallow clone of Facebook's domain model, with very minor changes, such as hashtags support for posts. Apart from this it doesn't integrate with Facebook in any way (it handles its own authentication, has its own set of user accounts, and you 'follow' people on App.net, seperately to friend lists)...
I don't know enough to say with certainty that they could never exist naturally. Hopefully none of what I'm going to say sounds condescending. I just want to explain as much as I think will be necessary. Hydrogen formed after the big bang as the universe cooled. Elements from helium, 2, to iron, 26, are made by fusi...
I switched from AT&T several months ago to T-Mobile with my iPhone 4s. After studying my usage I found it even cheaper to just use it as a "pay as you go phone" and get a Mobile Hotspot with the unlimited data for $40 a month. Then use the 4G to talk and text via Apps. T-mobile: Total I am averaging <$45 a month with...
I'm a big T-Mobile fan, and was very upset when I had to switch to ATT back in '08 for work. Four years later, the second our contract was up, we went back to T-Mo. My wife brought her iPhone 4, and I switched to a Galaxy Nexus. Our experience with data hasn't been ideal, and it just seems they are not ready to support...
My iPhone / T-Mobile strategy is a bit complex and certainly not for everybody, but it's pretty damn economical. I've dubbed it my 'roaming landline system'. When in wifi range (which is quite often), I'm using my old AT&T number which has been ported to google voice. Free google voice calls/texts (through the app Talk...
I went to a TMo store this morning and while they're offering something that might work, it's nothing like what you describe. It's $59.99 and it's "faux" unlimited - up to a speed capped amount of 4G WiMAX, not includin the hotspot (another $130) which you have to buy, keep charged and carry around. This of course is w...
Funny story. I was getting some coffee one day at my local coffee spot and a couple of T-Mobile reps were there and asked, "Want some free coffee?" "What's the catch?" I ask. "No catch! It's part of a promotion we're doing. They (corporate) gave us money to drum up new business so we pre-bought $100 worth of cof...
I'm guessing for the upcoming OS renditions like windows 8, which I think has a similar structure on your PC and your tablet, windows phone. I think it's pretty cool, and there's a lot of things you can do with 'phone' apps in general. If you own a consulting company, you can put this on a server computer (so you can...
The number of cores is really irrelevant. What matters is how many total operations per second a chip can perform. Chip performance can be measured in Instructions per Second, usually in million (MIPS) or in computational power in Floating Point Operations per Second (FLOPS). Within an architecture, it's easy to co...
Any Android developer using the NDK worth half his salt would just compile binaries for x86 as well as ARM. It's literally as easy as adding "x86" to one line (APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86) in one makefile. If you're using some ARM-specific instructions in your native app, then there may be an issue (though not r...
That's actually the reason for three- and four-engined jets like the 747 or the 727 they crash in this video. The remaining engines don't have to work as hard if one fails or the aircraft can absorb multiple failures and still be OK. Given reliability and efficiency developments since the 1980s, twin-engine aircraft ar...
Fucking please . Ubuntu has somwhere around 20 mil users total Windows 8 sold over 4 million upgrade copies in 4 days. That's not counting full copies sold.
Growing in size is not (in an of itself) evidence of a memory leak-- it may be indication of inefficient memory usage, but there are many cases where memory management (e.g. .NET/Java/python/Javascript engines, etc) will allow growth for performance and only perform memory garbage collection when it is performant (or n...
Supergalacticcaptain, Waterfox has almost nothing to do with this problem. Just to be clear, Waterfox is not an independent fork of Firefox, it is just another version of firefox built differently. They do not have the development resources that Mozilla has and cannot be fixing all of Mozilla's 64-bit bugs.