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whoosh Edit: The anti-piracy organizations say The Pirate Bay is committing a horrible crime, economically and morally, for copyright infringement. Then this anti-piracy organization infringes the pirate bay's copyright while making a site against copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay's response wasn't a hypocritica...
It's important that you brought up the balancing of public and private benefit. While we're at it what's up with the length of the copyright terms. Let's take an example, your average book makes practically all of its profits in ten years after its publication. If the author doesn't make money from it how in the world ...
I would drop Comcast so fast if I could for better Internet. When I moved here they were my only option. I asked them why they charged so much more for slower speeds than their competitors and they said " we assure you are prices are lower or even with competitors and we have better service and speed. BITCH PLEASE that...
This is the real root of the issue. But it's our own fault in many ways. The telecommunications industry needs smart regulation to ensure strong competition. Instead it's highly regulated with stupid regulations, meaning any company wanting to succeed in this space needs to navigate the political bureaucracy with bribe...
The problem here is that TimeWarner benefits greatly from their monopoly position owning cables. Those cables - that tie to physical location - means that they have no competition to cable subscriptions on the ground. If TimeWarner was just a subscription streaming service, as was ComCast or NameYourWireProvider, the...
You made the error of conflating rape with unethical business practices. There's probably a named logical fallacy for that, but either way, it's poor argument form. Attempting to compare a controversial issue to something that is universally (okay, widely) abhorred is a cop out for not having an actual point. Had yo...
We have Verizon FiOS in our area (Baltimore, MD) and they provide FTTH. There are still plenty of Comcast subscribers, myself included, because Comcast is trying to improve their speeds and is offering ridiculous deals. I used to be a Verizon customer, and Comcast brought me back. A sales rep came to my door (speci...
These type of internet threads about how people hate their companies and think Google Fiber is realistically better shows Reddit communities one true ignorance. Total lack of understanding about America's electrical, telephone, and cable infrastructure history, present, and where it is going in the future. It's alwa...
I'm not missing the point. If you are saying that people living in New York City would never choose 4G over cable/dsl/fiber, I completely agree with you. You'd be stupid to do that. What I am saying is that general 'broadband' service is available for those that can't get the landline counterparts via wireless provider...
High-k gate materials are helping to mitigate tunneling effects to some extent. It's a major research area for Intel, TSMC, etc. My fabrication professor does work in this area as well. For anyone interested, [his book]( is a pretty great introduction to the challenges facing chipmakers today. Optical lithography st...
As of last year 96% of Google's revenue came from advertising.
This is awful. What "lost sale" or "harm" does free advertising for your video do? I mean, if you're worried about people using your stuff, go after the thousands of parodies and flash versions. Calm the fuck down. And if you're worried about the fact that large companies are using your intellectual property, then be...
Facebook sells it to whomever has the cash [Citation needed] I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but Facebook doesn't sell your information. They collect your information and use it to show you ads that they think are relevant to your interests. They do the same thing that Google does, except they use the info...
I routinely shear my Facebook contact list for people I don't like, it really isn't about being "a pussy" or "too chicken shit". I hate it because it's intrusive and entirely monetized. It's not about deleting people or controlling your friends lists, it's about having your information bought and sold by the highest ...
As a non-teen I deleted my Facebook account about 3 years ago. I had a fair number of "friends" and "really important people (family members/friends of the family/etc)" on there. When I deleted my account I felt a little anxiety about how will I keep in contact with them but after about a month I realized I don't reall...
You're missing the point, the ads won't have to be on google+ whereas ads must be on facebook. Google has a whole little ecosystem going on, between Shopping, Videos, Apps, etc. It's quite different. They can rely upon a steady income of cashflow through those conduits, rather than forcing people to look at ads on th...
leaves many opportunities to interact with friends..." Personally, for me it was always really vague general statements on facebook, like "how are you?" "I'm fine, how is everything going with...." It was hardly interaction, no real connections. Maybe it's better for other people, that form of interaction did not fly...
Addiction doesn't imply you use something a lot. It means it is disruptive to your life. In that sense, some questions are actually a little flawed. For example: >5 How often do others in your life complain to you about the amount of time you spend on-line? What if you have few/no one in your life to complain about...
I didn't bother deleting Facebook, but I have no interest in checking it regularly. I login about once a month or once a season, but there's nothing interesting / important enough to keep me there for more than 10 minutes at a time. It was a somewhat useful tool to have to tell people I was safe after a recent disas...
Sounds like you are subbed to the wrong subreddits. Or maybe you just don't like reddit, in which case find something else and stop complaining. You should never have to see a whole front page of garbage if you manage what you sub to. Also you seem to be missing the point, just because a subreddit is small or not a ...
I despised facebook in highschool and post highschool. Once I deleted about 200 friends, people I didn't talk to or rarely talked to, the experience became 10 times better. My theory is that it really isn't Facebook, it's the people that you wouldn't normally connect with.
I think you might be reaching a little bit here. "Back in my day" isn't implying any sort of negative connotation to your way of doing things, it's really only used to accentuate the fact that back then, things weren't so easy, so people just made the most out of what they had (ie "back in my day we didn't have rollers...
In the last year, I've almost entirely stopped watching television on television. I've made a conscious effort to find shows that have been made specifically to be distributed through the internet using an ad model. I've found some really great shows. Husbands Booth at the end STRIP SEARCH omg, this show is t...
There are valid technical reasons why they are doing what they are doing. It requires extra effort to fabricate chips that withstand the over-clocking with any degree of assurance that it would continue to work correctly. 90% of their customer base don't care about this feature. Almost all of that is simply wrong. ...
I'm willing to bet it's, overall, a bit more to manufacture them. Cost of actual materials and labor to make them, yeah, damn cheap. But they're well-engineered. I still have the wall adapter from my iPhone 3G, and except for a little wear on the USB side from ripping the cable out accidently while drunk, the thing sti...
It really shouldn't. This stock is a speculator's game. If you're investing intelligently -- doing background research and looking through public filings, etc -- you won't be looking at stocks like these. Any company worth investing in will have professional firms running analyses on it, using data [they pay for] which...
The co. close price was up 684.62%. Numerically, what does that mean? Previous day close price: .01, todays close price: .0510 with a volume of 14,358,359.
The total money flow was only 700K on the day... which might seem like a lot of money but when you consider it, it really isn't. It was probably a half dozen bored retirees who like to gamble with their money, trading with each other in a good day's circle jerk.
The stock market is much less important than the bond market. The bond market in the U.S. alone is valued at ~$38 trillion. The stock market is valued at ~$18.7 trillion (interesting note-in the 80's the market was valued at ~$11 trillion). As you can see, the stock market is about as important as what the media makes ...
but there is the funny thing, if the exchange rate crashes, it does absolutely nothing to bitcoin itself. If anything there would be a bubble that people freak out about, sell sell sell, and then the value comes right back up as Bitcoin does not gain it;s value because of the exchange rate, it gains it's value from wh...
A hash enables you to enumerate data without storing the entirety of it. By necessity, you cannot generally recover the contents of the hash from the hash because you discard data. A cryptographic hash does this process so well that you cannot reasonably expect two values to. hash to the same result. Other hashes m...
Maybe, but we also need to do a better job at evaluating new technologies for their inherent dangers rather than just blindly adopting each new innovation. Any time a new technology comes into use, we give up something even as we gain something. At this point, privacy and confidentiality have been abandoned de facto ,...
Original image? From the hash? There are multiple (similar) images that hash to the same hash. It's just like finding MD5 collisions. Basically you could blow up the hashed image and any image that has the same mean coloured pixels would hash to it.
So, solar panels are extremely inefficient. Let's say that a car can fit 1 sq meters of solar panels over the entire car. Now, sunlight provides right around 1004 watts of power per sq meter. Except, in optimal conditions (pointed at the sun, correct temperature, no clouds) the very best solar panels announced (not c...
This engine exploits that fact and works like a cross between a rocket and a propeller. No. Basically, if we go to high school physics: Imagine a box. On the top of the box pointing upwards is an arrow of magnitude two- F2. On the bottom is an arrow pointing downward of magnitude one- F1. The vector sum is up, so th...
The EmDrive and Cannae drive are both based on Roger Shawyer's work and are based on the same hypothesis.
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1) the HQ gifs crew works in all sorts of things. Mostly After effects and photoshop are the prime tools. I know I personally use After Effects to edit down and add/animate text to my source material and then put it in to photoshop where I trim frames and send it out in to the world some of us use 3d animation to ...
The biggest benefit to mp4 vs gif is not time or speed or quality, it's the amount of energy and carbon admissions that will be saved. 1mb of data can produce as much as 11g Co2e, the equivalent to boiling one cup of water. When you multiply this by the millions of gifs watched every day then the savings will be in the...
If I download a file with a specific file extension I expect to be able to use this on every player that claims to support this format. If a format instead can be one of two incompatible things it would be harmful for the acceptance of that format.
wait i live in Colorado springs and
So this may get buried, but I haven't anyone provide some context yet. The city of Boulder was interested in having Google come in and install broadband, like in Kansas City and elsewhere. Some portion of public funds would probably be used to develop the broadband service. However, the city lacked the legal authority ...
The first part is absolutely true, but they're not contradicting themselves. A statistical entity can never contradict itself; it's a nonsensical idea. You're thinking of a statistical entity as a single body if you think like that. There is one exception to this rule, and that is if you are actually keeping track o...
Look it's your lucky day! You said the magical words "NASA engineer" so here I am. I work at JPL and am actually currently working on the M2020 rover which will be heading to Mars in (surprise) 2020. The truth is comment sections on threads like this are actually pretty depressing for me. Most of the time I'm on the ...
There is a nice video by NASA where an astronaut guesstimates the mission requirements of a Mars mission by scaling up the Apollo Missions. The bottom line is that just to get six people to mars and back you would need to construct a craft roughly the size and cost of the international space station. Additionally, you ...
Going to Mars would be kind of cool if you were in a stage in your life where you had no serious attachments and were the adventurous sort, even dying there wouldn't be too bad. The issue is what you'd die of and how soon. Lack of oxygen/water/food a few hours/weeks/months after landing isn't too great, and that's th...
I had this very thing happen to me from an upgrade that I installed. no fault, just upgrading. Suddenly my Win7 wasn't validated any more it told me. _ I resolved this in 5 minutes by calling the toll free number stated in the "help me" section and inputting my original Key, then getting their "unlock key series" bac...
yup. dell sold those to half of the hospitals in texas med center. i've literally changed out thousands of those boards. it actually led me down a damn good career path. i had just showed up in houston with little experience and got a job with a small company that was subbed out to handle dell warranty overflow. t...
Where does it say these things make 7 less productive? Example; >Although the Quick launch toolbar can be manually enabled in Windows 7, it gets disabled and its order reset after every restart, making it unusable Ri-ight, because the new quickbar is completely pointless... What happened to all those people compl...
Also a teacher here - mind you a tech teacher so my interactions may be different from ^SoPoOneO. I'm far more fond of an LCD projector attached to my comp. While a SMART board is ~$3500 and is finicky w/ drivers etc..., a simple LCD projector can be gotten on sale for as low as $400 bucks. I'm a firm believer in tec...
Although on one hand I agree with your justification for blacklisting Sony products, I choose a different form of protest. I buy their products without concern, but only when it is the right product. No, I don't own any of their tv's, dvd players, cd players, laptops, camera's, cellphones... so hear me out. What I ...
While it's true that just about any technology can be miniaturized, there is a physical limit to the size of radio antennas that makes it very difficult to have a fake-tooth radio transmitter or receiver. In layman's terms, the size of the antenna has to be proportional to the size of the radio wave (i.e. the "wavele...
Dropbox is a US corporation and is required to comply with the law (which includes court orders). If the government comes calling with a court order, your data is theirs. This is the case in every nation on Earth. The author of the story points this out and goes out of his way to say that there is nothing to fear. ...
Ya actually I watched it a couple of times and I think I understand what's happening now. What they were essentially showing off was the new start menu which means that the task bar is still around (and not just for legacy apps which was the rumor). This is good. New start menu looks interesting. So long as they includ...
To me, tablets are constrained by the current concept of a 'tablet' OS. I've thought for a long time now that there should be a lot more tablets on the market running Windows 7. With Windows 8, that concept will be even better. The issue with Android/iOS is that they're both closed systems. Yes, Google has declared t...
This looks horrible. The GUI reminds me of something Fischer Price would make for 4 year olds. Basing your entire OS on widgets and scrolling javascript menus sounds like a recipe for lagging and wasted desktop space to me. Just because people prefer that kind of interface on a phone does not mean they want it on a 25 ...
What I like in OS X over Windows, and I use both, is the lack of colour in OS X. Windows looks like a book cover at all times, but it should look like a car dashboard so that the user isn't distracted from driving. There are many little details in Windows that I can never like or convince myself to ignore. Here's an ex...
Railways seem to die down everywhere when a significant portion of people can afford cars. They recover some of their appeal when private transportation becomes to much of a trouble - this is tied to population densitiy. In Germany, the railways make profit only on the transportation of goods, transportation of p...
I take Amtrak to NYC and back to Boston once every two weeks. The Acela is faster than the Regional by only 40 minutes. The advantage to the Acela is that amount of time and getting the convenient train slot. You can take a train to NYC from Boston for $68. Minimum for Flying to JFK from Logan is $98. Plus $20 for the ...
Avast, fellow train lover! OP is still comparing apples to oranges. The Amtrak train in the photo is not a high-speed train.. several of the others he's comparing to them are. Trains such as Amtrak provides do fill a need -- they aren't meant to be "commuter" trains in that the system isn't designed to bring people t...
Deregulation killed almost all the unprofitable airlines and 9/11 pretty much finished the job(Braniff, TWA, Pan Am, Northwest anyone?) yet the US still has a ton of pretty big airlines(Delta, United/Continental,AA,USairways,Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, jetBlue, Virgin America, Frontier, Spirit,Southwest). Why? ...
No, we don't need this. It has become much more expensive than originally projected. Expected revenue is also lower than expected costs, so it would have to be subsidized by the state for as long as it operates. It is not a "LAX/SFO" train, it is an LAX-Burbank-Sylmar-...10 stops until SFO. This, coupled with the f...
Well you beat me to it but I have been curious as to why wouldn't one (or more) of the wealthiest top 1% make this happen? (I'm thinking bill gates or warren Buffett here). Ala Rockefeller, ie contribute something back to this society that has helped make the two of them so wealthy. Plus I'm sure they could turn a pro...
I love how conservatives see flying/driving as the libertarian ideal, without acknowledging the ginormous amount of public subsidy required to get our road network going, and to maintain it. Same with our airports. Government planning converted our cities to automobile utopia/human hell. Codes require garages on houses...
This is a terribly misleading post, its an amtrak train, who in fact have one of the nicer trains in the northeast, the Acela line. Do a quick google search and see that the image you depict as 'murica's train does not represent the "best" train of the US, while the other images are top of the line for each country. ...
Bullshit waste of taxpayer money. Edit: I said that at first sight and through the lens of a conservative. If its economically feasible, and made business sense, why not leave it to a cooperations and competition to build high speed rails? Like the first time around? I just thought that, while this employs a crap ton...
Like, I really want high speed rail too, but you need to calm down and stop being hyperbolic. "we can put a man on the moon, but we cannot X" is almost as bad as godwin at this point. It's utterly meaningless. Those are unrelated things. Also, if you think we're "nearly 3rd world", you've got absolutely no idea what ...
More importantly, what the hell do you want a communication satellite for anyway? What's wrong with a 'pirate radio' ship? Or several? You don't have to deal with limited satellite bandwidth, handoff issues between different satellites, not to mention the immense expense. In fact, what's wrong with setting up a darkn...
sigh OK, only because you drove me to it. GEEK CRED First computer used: Nicolet NIC-80 with a teletype and paper-tape punch. First programming language: PASCAL on an MTS mainframe. First microcomputer programmed: PET 2001. First microcomputer owned: Atari 400. First paid job as a computer geek: 1995 Current ...
I'll try to voice why I think many people are against the new UI on desktops but can't put into words exactly why. Microsoft is obviously trying to go for a new modern look and has scoped in on mobile interfaces as a source of inspiration. I'm not entirely fond of this style even on cell phones, but it makes a lot m...
Here's a link to Twitter's announcement: [Keeping our users secure]( Incidents like this are always a great time to remind others to use stronger passwords. Here are a [few tips on creating strong passwords](
Not without giving away my secret superhero identity. Sorry yo. Other non-my-profession uses: I have two kids that love art, and would freaking love to see their drawings and ideas turned into 3D models to play with in the dollhouse I built for Christmas. Custom jewelry. You could mount beads and crystals and oth...
Short answer: no. I have worked with a plastic tool similar to this (it was on an actual 3D printer, not hand-held). We only over used it for plastic. All food was printed with a different tool-head, the syringe tool-head. Which can be replicated by hand using a syringe for a lot less than this costs.
NEWSFLASH: thinking of anything to do with this pen is not the same as actually being able to achieve the desired results . It is not a matter of having "0 creativity", it is a matter of being realistic. I too can come up with a bunch of creative uses for this, such as crafts and things of that nature, but the pra...
Most "privacy advocates" commenting here are people who have never ran a free, non-subscription based website. They seem to have no idea how the web ecosystem works and are totally underestimating the cost of hosting content and maintaining servers. So I would like to clear up several misunderstandings: No, web dev...
I'd just like to add my data point here: I didn't buy Windows 8 specifically because there was no legal way to download it and burn my own DVD. Full story: Earlier this year, I decided I wanted to finally upgrade my computer, so I bought all the parts and waited like a little kid until the computer came in. While ...
HAHAHAHAHa. require? Law enforcement? This is a philosophical debate. This was dealt with 30 years ago when the fourth amendment was sacrificed on the altar of 'law and order'. If you think this supreme court (or at least 4 members of it and Kennedy will probably go along with them) won't give LEOs anything they want y...
Here in Germany we have clear laws (and usually obey them) - and even here they trample our constitution (etc.) and just store unjust data/use unjust methodes to aquire it. It is probably even worse, as german corts can use illegaly aquired evidence in trail (I think that was different in the US). And there are no puni...
Glad to. After a friend of mine got involved in the "Venus Project", he started inviting me to some of these screenings for The Zeitgeist: Addendum film, which he rented out a small theater in my town to play at for those he invited. After watching the film, I became interested in the subject matter. I wasn't inter...
Search results seem like a Boolean thing to me. Either you found a page (or pages) that answer your question, or you didn't. If you didn't, you rephrase the search, not "I wonder if Bing somehow knows".
While Steam is a form of DRM, it gives you more stuff than it takes away by having the DRM. Steam has user chats, automatic updates, forums for each specific game easily accessible, a store system and a number of other features that make its specific DRM much more palatable, as it gives you much much more than it takes...
I love movies. I love going to the movies. I love indie flicks and have a decent collection. But your arguement "You wouldn't steal from Wal-mart" doesn't make sense. If all i had to do was click on a button and have a wal-mart toaster delivered to me within minutes, at zero cost, then yes i would steal from wal-m...
Good read > In other words, Facebook reserves the right to use your information however it sees fit, as long as it is “in connection with the services and features” it provides. What “services” or “features” mean, well, take a guess. >Bottom line: This section is extremely vague, and should make you wary about havi...
It's such a hard thing to say who doing good in mobile from the world wide market share by shipments numbers, Apple looks to be doing horrible, but a good percent of that market share isn't very if at all profitable, and in markets like the North America and the UK they re doing great. I'd say we don't have any front r...
Does it matter how much the US IT industry will lose in legitimate business when the US government can quietly support them by giving them their International competitor's trade secrets? Once you can intercept all digital communications, then business is no longer a level playing field. If NSA can spy for [DEA and...
Kind of ... in the US censorship happens at the workplace or at schools. There are a few reasons for this, but chiefly it is security. When people in your network can download anything from the internet, you're basically going to spend all your time playing trojan whack-a-mole. However, in the workplace there is al...
Gotta remember how the internet works. Whenever you go to a page, click a link, or "download" anything, your browser/torrent client/whatever sends out a request to a server. For sensitive info the message body is encrypted, but the to/from IP addresses must be unencrypted (or else packets wouldn't go anywhere). For HTT...
Might be good in a purely economical sense Yes. >but that isn't good for all the people who don't make a living wage in order to provide China's growth as a whole. You mean unlike in the US? ;) Considering that: You do realize that China is still a developing nation while the US claims to be the most developed ...
There's definitely something to be said for a tyrannical government Are you implying that the Chinese government is "tyrannical"? If yes... what is the US government (which happens to be called "democratic")? >My friend in China won't post anti-government or even talk badly about it in public. Why not? Most lik...
My understanding is that US export restrictions on encryption forced Korea to create [their own encryption standard]( that ended up being used for banking. Since it was only really used inside Korea, it wasn't supported by major vendors, and could only be used through an ActiveX plugin for IE6. Korea just ended up ma...
I realize this may not be a popular opinion, but I think UAC was actually a brilliant and well executed decision, and it was both necessary and useful. See, most people run their computer with administrative access. Until UAC, if you didn't run two accounts -- one admin, one normal -- and only elevate when you ...
And the pictures saved localy. It's a known issue with deleting files, and a company that guarantees deleting files should actually do so. It would take a whole 5 minutes of code to get that done. Why isn't it being done? The extra writing operation? Or an agreement with law enforcement. The extra operation seems mor...
I could certainly see the police searching the data on the glasses to see if the movie was recorded (with proper permits of course). Not sure if you read the article or the original post the guy made, but he actually tried to prove that he hadn't recorded anything by showing them what was stored. The problem was that...
I get your point but its certainly different than bringing in a phone. Google glass in on your face and is supposed to see what you see, which means that if you're watching a movie, so is Google glass. Now, 4 hours seems much too long to be detained, but I could certainly see the police searching the data on the glass...
Read the thread! I'm not about to write an essay about what you can find below.
well if you want actual feed back here goes..the first three lines were full of negativity, and belittlement. I don't like apple as much as the next guy but within those three lines i decide this guys a tool. Obviously you view yourself above everyone else in existence and i find it a natural response to insult your ...
In a word... nope. A lot of people are wasting a lot of time trying to go down this path with meshnets and such. There are several problems that make this more or less an impossibility. The radio spectrum is limited. The more radios that are broadcasting, the more they interfere with each other. Even in crowde...
Maybe not. [Ultra Density Optical]( discs can store 60GB on a 5.25" / 133mm cartridge, and they're write-once. According to Sony's 2014-04-30 press release per square inch, for a rewritable storage maximum per cartridge of 185 TB. [LTO tapes]( are 102.0 × 105.4 × 21.5 mm or approximately 4" x 4.13" x 0.85". So ...
As cool as it is to "hate on marketing," as someone who actually has had to deal with becoming compliant with this it is an absolute crock of shit and the responsible parties need to be slapped upside their head. It is important to separate out individual companies who have shitty email practices and annoy/harass us ...
I got conned out of my unlimited data plan when I got my iPhone. I had a blackberry which I was actually very happy with but it was dying a slow sad death. So I joined the rest of the sheeple and got an iPhone. I told them I just wanted to put it on my old plan and the girls response was "I'm sorry you can't put an iPh...