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I'd argue that a social network like Facebook actually functions much better in the confines of a larger institution (like a university) than in a total vacuum. When everybody on your networking page is at your college, or even just in any college, you immediately have a number of meaningful connections. You're pr...
It doesn't entirely convinces me. It is written by someone who's probably deep into it digital world, probably posting data on a daily basis on various outlets, and assume that everyone else is too. From the opening line, there's a bias to make digital right at any cost, so the problem space seems too restricted (to ...
the HD4000 is barely able to run Skyrim smoothly at 1366x768 with Medium quality, and that on the high end i7 configurations that have higher clock limits on the GPU. The i5 coming with the Surface Pro is not only inferior in the CPU side being that it will be heavily downclocked, but the GPU will also be downclocked...
L-3 also makes Rifle optics for the US Military, as well as other high level contracting jobs for the US Military. Source - Edit: Level 3 and L-3 are completely separate.
I don't think this is nearly as bad as people are making out. I've been looking for corroboration from infrastructure companies and internet traffic monitors and I don't see any evidence of increased traffic or latency or anything. Netflix has reported no problems. And the number of people moaning on Twitter about Netf...
This pretty much sums up how kick ass NASA is. They need to have epic music like they have in this video. To anyone who thinks it's a waste of time and money in the face of our current economic state, let me put it plainly to you: One of my favorite lines: "MRI concluded that the $25 billion (1958) spent on civilia...
Take solace in the likelihood that most people who do know what they're talking about are simply too busy making things happen to sit around commenting on stories about what's happening.
While providing a superior, legal service is one of the best ways to combat piracy, it only covers those who are willing to pay for the content but don't for miscellaneous reasons (ie DRM, lack of digital distribution, don't want to pay the full price to own the product since they are only planning on using/watching it...
Pirates are effectively customers of w/e site(s) they use for getting content. Instead of bitching and moaning about piracy, go the Steam route: offer a better version of what pirates are getting from their favorite sites. When I pirate these days, its because getting/using the product legally is a pain in the cunt...
Don't forget the shrink wrap on the DVD/BluRay box, plus those stickers on the sides. Once I cut my finger open trying to get it off.
Therein lies the crux. After trying to give MS every benefit of the doubt, I would say that the price point gives Sony the victory here. Personally I'm still going to buy an xbox just because...fuck I don't even know... The critical thing I think though I that both consoles will be successful so we have to look at t...
Here is the basic story of how we helped create Al Qaeda from Hillary Clinton itself]( If that isn't clear, the basic idea is that we armed and aided the growth of Al Qaeda as a means to attack Soviet Union. Soviet Union collapsed, and then Al Qaeda turned against us.... using the same guns that we gave them. In Syri...
You can find many threads on this here. But I'll take another whack. Primarily, Bose gear performs badly. I've been a musician over 25 years and Bose gear simply does not sound like the real thing. Measurements and a lot of others tend to agree. Second, Bose uses cheap parts and materials. That radio might have $15...
As far as I understand it, the Higgs is what gives things mass. What happens is, there's this mechanism called the Higgs field which acts like a sort of molasses, slowing certain particles down (giving them mass) while other particles go through without any effect (massless particles). A popular analogy is comparin...
Do you realize how many people now use smartphones and have absolutely no clue about the technology and concepts behind them. Yeah it might not be shocking to someone reading /r/technology but to a lot of people it is exactly that. I'm not a fan of Facebook so I run a self hosted WordPress for my family to see pictu...
well, vision and memory are pure chaotic systems that we cannot decode. (The only conditions for decoding is, if we somehow managed to deduce memory storage structure from DNA and post-partum experiences, which is essentially determinism of the world and capability to calculate the future, so ... unlikely) As with al...
I feel like it's unfair to consumers to pay for data if we're talking about net neutrality. Although this is the same thing that I have to do with my isp. So why not let the isp (in my case Cox) let a company like Facebook pay for the data that Cox sends from them to me so that I can access Facebook without having to ...
Because this is more directed and uses the user's past records and location to make calculations determining whether it is economically viable to offer that person(s) a ride. When used by Casinos and night clubs free taxi rides are far less of a risk because you are almost guaranteed to spend money there, all they have...
I haven't really introduced Linux to anyone that didn't already had an interest, but I can't really see why a standard user would need to use the terminal for casual use on Mint or similair dists. Much of my work is administrating and maintaining Windows machines, my standard approach is to use cmd or PS for everythi...
GE plans to use its MEMS switch to power a variety of in-house technologies, but is also offering it to the communications industry where its exceptional linearity enables what GE claims is "true 4G" applications that run at up to 3 Gbit/s rather that the 300 Mbit/s typical of 4G implementations today. >To boot, the ...
If you're having blood drawn every three months, this isn't going to change much of anything for you. You're still getting poked with a needle, maybe one less vial might be drawn? Each different color top vial has a different preservative in it to prevent cell breakdown before the tests are run. For the bulk of l...
The process sounds similar to how blood sugar is tested via a simple pinprick. The entire case boils down to whether the test can be drawn off capillary blood (finger stick) versus venous blood. Most tests can't because it's not a true indicator for many levels. It just happens to be for glucose (Thankfully! It would...
Interesting technology and I like the approach they are using for pricing transparency. HOWEVER, Theranos is NOT the only company developing this kind of technology and the tech is NOT a gamechanger especially when it comes to rapid testing. The four hours listed in the article is far behind some companies' technolog...
Having worked in a lab at a hospital for two years, I can tell you that has very little to do with the actual cost of doing the test and everything to do with the insanity that is the insurance system. I would enter orders for lab work on occasion into our Meditech system and it really is the "who's line is it anyway" ...
Once upon a time there was a proof of concept website that measured your uniqueness on the internet from all available data. They also offered up other interesting things like history sniffing via some well-timed link color checking method.
It's proportional. Here's a way to think about it: suppose I have a fair coin - I can flip that to get a string of random 1s and 0s (heads and tails): I get 1 bit of entropy each time I toss the coin (so if I toss it 8 times, I've got 8 bits of entropy). With me so far? If I had a double-headed coin, there'd be no en...
Disabling XMLHttpRequest would never be sufficient. Once my Javascript fingerprinting code had run, there are plenty of other ways it could send a message back to the server. For example, it could add an <img> to the page whose src contained the fingerprint. Or a CSS file. Or just a CSS style that resulted in the loadi...
Really sorry I'm under strict orders to not say anything. If you look at the cost of other routers it will be in that ballpark. So to sum it up... There's no spec to compare to... And no price... Because OP's now " under strict orders " not to answer the questions OP said ... >I’d be happy to answer them he...
This is not a problem waiting to be solved. It is already solved, they just don't give a shit enough to sell it because it's not a gaudy, flashy feature. Plus, they're addicted to planned obsolescence and selling you new batteries when the old one stops holding a charge. A crazy battery life is still a livable battery ...
I think you're painting a bit of a gray issue very black and white. This almost to me suggests cars are inherently good. This is not the case. Cars have brought with them many negative traits. Many of which have put our planet in a bad state. Politically and environmentally.
My point is that you will probably be able to charge your device if you use it in situations that would allow your phone to drop down to 10%. No shit you're having trouble keeping your phone alive if you play with your new Gear VR for two hours. People always compare smartphones to their older brick-style ones but do...
Exactly this. Plus 75% of these people hadn't even heard of 4K televisions. They aren't exactly wearable tech's target market. 2% of 1000 did want them though. Considering how expensive they are, 20 people out of 1000 being interested in purchasing them is actually quite positive.
Better batteries can be done like this... 1) Newer technology (battery tech is developing kinda slow...it's Li-Ion for now) 2) More efficiency (we are seeing progress here such as Android 5.0 project Volta) 3) Bigger battery size (This is happening too, smaller components means room for a bigger battery) Now th...
I don't have to worry about anything, because I'm using an Android phone. And Google would never EVER do such a thing. Hell, the company even says: "Don't be evil."
Well, if you look closely: [ Emphasis mine] > the United States has always been on the forefront of trying to promote civil liberties , that we have traditions of due process that we respect , that we have been a consistent partner of yours in the course of the last 70 years, and certainly the last 25 years,...
I think thats just unfettered capitalism. I think of corporations as seeking the path of least resistance/greatest profit. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can't be the only motivation governing our economy and society. Thus, some regulations are needed.
ITT: people who think Sprint truly cares. This will probably get buried or downvoted to hell, but I need to rant. I don't think I've ever been angrier with a company than with Sprint. I've even dealt with Comcast several times before and they don't come close to making me feel a desperate need to check into a ment...
The whole situation that revolved around Carrier IQ was that it could have been sending rather sensitive information to Carrier IQ. It was revealed that the software could essentially do [key logging and it mostly did it in plain text]( It's better to watch the whole video to get a better understanding of what it did, ...
It gets more clicks with this title. It wouldn't have gone viral, certainly not on /r/technology. The most trafficked articles used to be super pro-Apple targeted towards the "YOU DONT HAVE IPHONE? U MUST BE POOR!" assholes, but sometime recently the scales tipped and Android users became the insufferable "YOU DONT ...
I'm now waiting for some pictures of what this thread looks like through
i think they accidentally made a scraper. cause its definitely eating SEO weighted keywords, which are also the most common words connected with the item you are looking for. which means that for the next week or so, this will be the highest ranking site for any given keyword, until google delists them. i think they ...
Here's something you don't appear to understand, OP: there are still a great many people in America who do not even interact with the Internet on a daily basis. I would venture to say that most Redditors live and work in an environment where the Internet is a part of daily life for people besides them: i.e. your friend...
I've heard that while the average population density of the US is low, if you compare the density of coastal US cities to those in, say, northern Europe, where 100mbps lines are common, the densities are about the same. Tokyo is denser than anything in America, but I don't know about South Korea. I'm guessing it's ro...
Well, I've spent all day using IE9, which is probably more than all of my IE time since Firefox's first release combined, and I have to say, it's definitely usable-ish. I love the new UI. Download manager feels like it actually belongs in Windows 7 (I'm staring at you, Mr. Firefox-Aero-Glass-Overuser. Honestly, what ...
the difference between the two is that an ebook uses up very little space on a hard drive somewhere and it can be copied ad naseum. A real book takes up floor space or space in the warehouse. In order to bring in more titles, you need to free up space. This isn't true in the digital realm; one can simply add more di...
Here's your single reason why it's impossible to turn off: If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. Despite google pretending to do no evil , they're not your friend, they're a giant transnational corporation aiming to make the most profit by profiling you and exposing y...
Google's geolocation is worse than just the easily fixable language redirection. I DON'T FUCKING WANT LOCAL RESULTS. My ip locates to a town or 2 over and this is great for restaurants. When I'm trying to buy something not food related I want results from the whole country and even the world. This is the whole poin...
So, in 1993 I had an email account with unlimited capacity. I could login and browse it in less than a second. Yes I could even "search" it. AMAZING! OMG SEARCH!!!!!! SEARCH!!!! I had an unlimited ftp account where I could share files. My computer booted in a minute or two. I had a word processor which was better t...
For people who just surf the internet, maybe use google docs spreadsheet, and play an occasional video? yes. unquestionably. If cost is not an issue (and keeping in mind maintenance cost, which will be higher for a non-techy on a IBM-PC arc. system), then I would say Mac for sure. For people who use one of the many sof...
Why hasn't anyone argued that Jobs had bad style? I think his "taste" as an artist or designer was rather derivative, pretentious, and boring. Making things "sleek" doesn't necessarily make them better. His products remind me of bad minimalist art. All the boredom, none of the meaning. And while he tweaked his way...
History shows that people in power will do anything to maintain their power. And so it is that we see how US legislators are in a rush to control the Internet at the direct expense of the civil liberties, human rights, and democratic ideals which they have sworn to uphold in the name of their constituents. The scary...
Yes, you are first! Everybody is impressed, having never seen anyone ever post the word "first" in any online forum before. Seeing that you posted first is what we live for. I have nominated you for best post of the year. You are special, and, dogonit, everybody likes you!
So many opinions. So made sides. I'm not sure mine is the right one. Why not attack both? Stop buying their products, and, lobby the hell out of politicians. We'll need everyone on board. Why don't we just go on a full-out boycott already? And when Hollywood starts barking again, we pick a day and meltdown pol...
If you think fucking with big company money will do nothing, you've been ignoring how desperate businesses are for their bottom line. This will affect small workers more than big wigs, at first, but that is just a start of the downfall. Corporations that lay off employees willy-nilly often have trouble finding suitable...
We can't allow an industry that behaves in such horrible ways to thrive. The politicians are not the ones who are powerful, it is the industry that has the money to corrupt people to their will. The industry exists, because it has been allowed to exist. It has thrived, generating billions of dollars, off of us. The...
As a 1st gen concept.. I think it's pretty sweet and has a lot of potential. One thing that disappoints me is the accuracy & intuitiveness of the augmented-data seems pretty "loose" or "sloppy". For example: If I look down at a coffee cup, it should recognize the coffee cup typically contains a hot liquid,. .and ...
You actually bring up a funny point in how the Internet has already affected how we think. Our knowledge is getting so vast that instead of straight off knowing a fact we have pointers to remember where that information is stored. I.e Wikipedia.
I assure you I have an addictive personality. Cigarettes, Crappy but delicious foods, alcohol and of course the internet. I just think to myself I will have plenty of time to digest media another day, or after I get X done instead of getting back on the webs.
well it's not really that easy to get a smartphone without a texting plan. Personally, I rarely use my Verizon number, and do almost all of my communication via Google Voice and various internet services. If I could access 3G on the go but not have a verizon number or texting, I'd be fine. I'm willing to pay some money...
It's a shame the article was written so unprofessionally; it makes some decent points but people reading an article on TED aren't going to need the over the top commentary the author employs in order to keep their interest. Some TED videos have been truly inspiring, but it's time to remove the rose tinted glasses we ...
Idk why all you guys are talking to me about all this security shit. I refute someones point about online bullying and you take the one guy who disagrees and throw everything at him. My only concern in this conversation is whether cyber bullying would increase or decrease after an ID system is implemented. I'm not ...
You know this was in 2005 and 2006, right? Nothing to do with the current Oatmeal case and related lawsuits. I was actually referring to the wiki entry itself, and all of the attention being brought upon the lawyer. Obviously the Hivemind wasn't responsible for the lawyer being banned.
Well honestly I liked tpb. I will honestly admit that I used to download games. tons of games. On the same hand I had no money, and no job because nobody wants to hire a 17 year old kid straight out of high school. Even mcdonalds didn't want me because the manager is biased against teens. Now I work in a call center ma...
or, more commonly, pirate the everloving shit out of everything even when you have money. why? because its free. proof: there are 20+ torrents for "The Binding of Isaac" on tpb and the top most one has 420 seeders. That game sells on steam for $4.99.
A cable in this context refers to diplomatic cables which is basically just text documents passed between diplomats of a country. Bradley Manning was accused of leaking about 250,000(?) of these to Wikileaks, many of them revealing shady practices of the US Government and airing their dirty laundry in general. Sadly ...
Torrenting isn't stealing, and if online services didn't artificially limit what I could do with the file and where I could view it, I would purchase a far greater number of movies. The market has completely left them behind and rather than attempting to innovate and update, they use the government and attempt to forc...
That's not the problem. Just because it's widely available in a digital format doesn't mean they have caught up with the market and pirating should now be non-existent. Prices also change, sometimes drastically, when a market shifts. The question is, what service do those lawyers and distributers provide now that co...
You only get the advantages of the 'backlog clearing protocol' on heavily congested networks: >a single WiFi access point with 45 connected devices — experienced a 700% increase in throughput AFAIK DD-wrt is intended for consumer grade hardware, so unless you're having some kind of wireless LAN party you'll never ...
I don't know what you're talking about. Seems pretty reasonable to say that the Emerson 32" LCD/LED TV (model LC195EM9-2, serial J32850590, manufactured in August) is of flaky quality, especially if purchased from Walmart on Black Friday 2011. I, too, would be highly dissappointed in the Emerson 32" LCD/LED TV if I'd b...
It's a conspiracy, sure, but I'm certain companies do this to get more sales. Case in point, my PS2. My original "phat" model slowly lost functionality - first DVDs, the eventually PS2 games themselves, effectively leaving it useless since I still have my PS1. I checked on forums, and hundreds of others were experienci...
Went through a stage as a rebellious 14 year old Christian scholarship student where I read up heavily on witchcraft and black magic. Backmasking and that shit. Anyway, I knew my Nan had been into tarot and ouija back in the day, and I had been pestering her to tell me about it. Instead, she told me she'd been dealing ...
You're right -- it's not. Assuming it's been compressed from lossless source or ripped as mp3 instead of transcoded, which it probably has been.
Replaced my 3310 to a Lumia phone. I was planning to buy Asha but the model that I wanted was not available so I tried Lumia. Biggest regret I've ever had. There are too many shortcomings to this supposedly "smart" phone. Capacitive navigation buttons are too easily misclicked, esp the search button Battery only ...
I think "HBO Quality" content like House Of Cards will be the exception, but the apparent success of the project shows that Netflix can be a viable carrier for original content. It puts them in a position to start picking up programming that major networks would never touch; programming that will be less expensive to ...
So I don't work for one, but I have had interviews working with several patent profiles companies (trolls). Based solely from these interviews, I believe these companies found a niche in the system in order to maintain the patent property value. My understanding (correct me if I am wrong) is they hold patent licenses...
Litigating the issue of sufficient commercialization would increase costs, but the hope is to eliminate large swaths of patent litigation entirely; I doubt that the former would be more expensive than the latter. I like the way you've zoomed out on this one. You can, and do, make a good argument that by wiping out a ...
I'm going to disagree with the hivemind and say that is terrible fucking idea. If EA dies, it'll affect the entire video game industry, including your precious Valve. EA owns a huge portion of the industry, and if it goes under, a lot of devs will lose their capital investment, and as such the whole damn ship will sink...
I hate to cut against the grain, which I normally agree with...But Spore was just okay. Not great like it was supposed to be. I bought it, I wasn't the happiest with my investment, due to the great preview I saw beforehand. I had some enjoyment out of it. I liked the concept foremost. Will Wright had great ideas for ga...
EA didn't admit SimCity can run offline, what she said was they could've designed the game to support an offline mode and be completely different but they decided to go for the online social experience instead. This isn't the same as admitting it's an artificial limit that's only there to enforce DRM. I don't really ...
Please don't cherry-pick and at least include the whole section. It specifically says: > a threat to the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of a system or network of a government or private entity or utility or any information stored on, processed on, or transiting such a system or network All of these ter...
Thanks, Draft_Punk! Zac from DDG here. Just wanted to say that we've been watching CISPA very closely. We've spoken with the EFF, ACLU, AccessNow, and other rights organizations and we're trying to make a push for people to contact their Senators now that it's gotten past the House. Important to note, though, is that i...
Not quite. We don't send any user-information to any of our sources . Your searches on DuckDuckGo are private.
The thing is: With so many bills coming in an out of Congress, they don;t have TIME to read these things that are all in Legalese. They have to get
Because he feels that he's entitled to only read posts that he wants to read and that reading posts that he doesn't want to read somehow reduces his efficiency at doing fuck-all on reddit.
I don't like wasting bandwidth - I've had my tubes clogged before. Please summarize with reply in
Actually I ask now instead of googling. Maybe it's just me and how I love to learn, but long story short, it can kill a conversation. An example was a friend telling me about a program that let me watch doctor who online, for free! I was going to ask about it and be interested, but instead, I googled. Turns out it's j...
What? Any amount of RAM is empty at boot and need to be loaded with useful code, generally from slow non-volatile memory. Also ram size and ram speed are 2 separate limits.
If they have multiple surreptitious accesses to the standard volume over a period of time where you change the data in the hidden volume, they can see that the file has changed, but the standard volume has not. Now, you assuming you don't give them access to the key for the standard volume, they won't be able to tell ...
Hate to be disagreeable, but as someone whose brother has spent a good deal of time in both, you're wrong. Jail is MUCH worse than prison over the long term. The difference in "yard time", classes/activities, amenities, full contact & lengthier visits in a lot of prisons (aka: not talking on phones and looking throug...
From the Microsoft services EULA: "3.1. Who owns the content that I put on the services? Content includes anything you upload to, store on, or transmit through the services, such as data, documents, photos, video, music, email, and instant messages (“content”). Except for material that we license to you that may be i...
While I agree that it may not make a big difference, advertising is a data driven process. I guarantee advertisers have found that tracking across web pages has, to some degree, benefitted them financially. By how much, I do not no.
Actually way ahead of you, got ghostery installed. Sadly their business model is to block what you tell it to, and then selling the data of whats being blocked back to the companies that are being blocked, but, thats better than having several thousand cookies created. Also gets rid of those facebook like icons on ever...
I really don't understand the reasoning behind this; i'm drunk right now, but I really would like some to enlighten me as to why people are so against advertising cookies. I work in the search engine advertising industry, and have been for more than 3 years, so I feel like i'm fairly well versed here. The agency I wo...
disabling cookies just breaks ... logins ... Not third-party cookies. Logins use (or at least, they better use) first-party cookies. My understanding of it is when you log in to a website, it uses first-party cookies (cookies from the site that your address bar says) to keep the state. So if my browser says " then ...
I haven't read up on details, but was hoping someone can
The iPhone has always been the innovative trendy device which inherently appeals to younger crowds which in turn becomes a symbol of youth. As a result mom and dad have picked one up. The iPhone is no longer the only coveted phone of twenty somethings however it's no surprise the older population demonstrates less neur...
Back when I was in the Navy, we had a watch rotation setup in our office building. One officer, one senior enlisted, and a Yeoman (I was a yeoman). Well, everyone stole stuff, and I really needed an office chair at home for my computer. So I waited for my turn to be on watch duty. At a certain point in the night, t...
They do, and you have to admire how well they've established themselves. However, years ago (before the advent of smart phones) I was in the market for an mp3 player. Unfortunately for middle-school me, I could not afford the iPod. This meant I had to stick with the cheap alternatives that only lasted a month or two. ...
Everything in brackets is added by me, but I will stay as neutral as possible] Porn warnings: chain of evidence to the IP address obtaining thickens Gradually, the individual informations around the warning wave for streaming porn from redtube.com begins to form a picture. Not finally clarified, however, is how the...
They're not law enforcement, they're private investigators. German law allows for an attorney to send a "Abmahnung" - a letter that is similar to a cease-and-desist letter. Since the attorney is operating as a private party, he cannot impose legal fines. However, he can tack on costs associated with sending the lette...