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That's a lot of text, and since I too have spent countless hours yelling at comcast employees, I'm not gonna read it all. That being said, I too had a terrible experience. Signed up for service, was told I could setup without a tech. That proved to be untrue due to issues with the building I'm in. I called and explai...
Not OP, but definitely possible, although I don't think anyone that'd have the information to say whether or not that's true would be commenting here. Generally the most customer-frustrating problems that I have seen tend to be whenever a change of some kind is made(Outside of outages, maintenance, or unannounced firmw...
I don't get why everyone thinks this is wrong; it is probably true. I can't think of a single movie I've ever downloaded with Tor, and most drug sites only have a couple of images. A lot of the "assassination" sites are entirely text. Meanwhile, a video is gigantic; one pedo downloading an hour long video takes more da...
Tor is widely known, most illegal content of the above nature can't be accessed through the conventional internet. Many police forces operate "bait pages" these are websites with titles that make it clear you are viewing illegal content. For example the title of the website might make an obvious reference to the age of...
More than 1.2% of Tor is dedicated to illegal content but the DOJ statement specifically refers to 80% of the activity being devoted to child pornography. As far as that statistic goes it is inaccurate however you are correct in that 1.2% may in fact still be a lot of activity. It would be helpful to know just how much...
How? By knowing the distribution of new connections among the nodes it is a relay point for, and then could assume flatly that all connections use the same amount of traffic and that the distribution is representative for the network as a whole. And it could easily be. And to be honest, you could with high probabil...
No, but the average person will have their laptop shit out on them after two years. Most of the time when people's computers "break" a simple restore would fix it back to working condition.. However, most non savvy consumers will opt to buying another low end computer (read laptop)... I've never had to restore my compu...
For my HCI class this semester, I got to pick the device or interface to improve for my final project. Taking a gamble, I decided instead of strictly improving an existing interface, I would take some "technological liberties" and design an ereader the way I felt it should work, and develop it based on usability test...
Preposterous. Radiation is radiation. [Have look]( at the energies involved with cell phone radiation. Microwave energy, at what, 4 watts high estimate? You, sitting there reading this, are emitting infrared radiation several orders of magnitude more energetic, at about 100 watts. The only thing cell phone ra...
Killing the brand would be AMD immediately discontinuing the use of the ATI brand name upon acquisition of ATI. They didn't do that however as they've owned them for a while now. Who's to say? It's a matter of subjective opinion... hence the usage of a term such as 'kill' (i could have said 'terminate', or 'destroy' ...
Decisions like this make it harder and harder for me to want to license (since there is no software currently being sold on the market) software legitimately. By giving them money, it's condoning their unconscionable EULAs. Sure, there are exceptions, but I'm not going to go through a wall of EULA just to see whether...
I don't really see a problem with this decision. All the court said was that Autodesk never sold the copy to the first guy, so the first sale doctrine could not be invoked, and therefore the first guy couldn't resell the product because he didn't own it. I don't think this was about the validty of EULAs, per se, be...
I can not prove you're lying, but the issue is with the Law, not with the people who argue the Law. > Companies' Lawyers make a point of not watching you when read them. I would argue that that point is invalid. The nature of computers allows for no one to know who is using the them. The button represents someth...
It's not exploiting google's image search in any way shape or form, it's jsut a "break out of frames" bit of javascript that detects that the page isn't the top-most frame, and tells your browser to go to the page itself. The page then does this AV bullshit.
The problem putting sales tax on price stickers in America is there is not a national sales tax. All sales tax is determined on the state, county, and city level. In a single metropolitan area there can be 50 different sales taxes. It would be impossible for a company to advertise a product for $10 when a customer coul...
ignoring a tax break while simultaneously keeping their prices the same does nothing but increase the value of the company This is not an accurate [model of prices]( Where taxes fall does not depend on where the tax is collected, it tends to be divided by market forces between the two sides of the transaction. This...
Alright, look. Very few of you have this right. It is not Netflix' fault for booting up prices. You want to blame someone like the sheeple you are? Blame the movie studios and companies like Hulu for completely fucking Netflix over. It is because of Hulu that movie studios are hiking up the prices that Netflix has to p...
The existence of Anonymous has become a necessity in the internet realm. This is not to say that they are good guys per se. They just provide the balance of privacy and transparency. We need their expertise to curb corruption of governments and corporations from seeping into the internet. Right now, the people in power...
Fuck his comment that everyone opposed to the bill supports child predators. FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT. I hope his career dies with that statement. You can't make an argument in a political forum and then follow up with 'anyone who disagrees is a child rapist' that's not how debate works, that's not how democracy wo...
Right. But there is a distinct difference between 3G technology and what speeds it CAN provide (and successfully does in other countries) and what we get from it. 3G is gimped in this country due to lack of investment in infrastructure, as is 4G actually.
I see your point and this is mostly how WiFi works now. I am just saying the AM bands don't make much sense to use for this. Even if the spectrum were available, the AM channels combined are 1 MHz. For comparison, WiFi uses up to 40 Mhz channels, so you wouldn't be able to fit much data over it. The other thing abo...
Flipping your signal on will get people around you to speed up and not let you over -- this is on a bike or in a car. Funny, when I flip my signal on, 9 times out of 10, spaces open up. Now, this wasn't always the case. When I drove like an asshole gunner, I experienced the behavior you ascribe to your fellow drive...
THIS GUY IS FUCKING MAD. maybe you shouldn't comment on something that was already over. criticizing me for letting the guy who posted the mirror know i was thankful is fucking retarded. there isn't much left to say after I say hey, here is your upvote good sir, but no, you have to come rolling in with your anti-karma ...
An address book is a small folder for information that a person can carry around with them. Practically by definition, it maxes out at about as much information as a book. A file cabinet on the other hand, contains much more information and generally requires a search warrant. It contains as much information as a few...
I'm not arguing that it's entrapment, I'm arguing that police shouldn't be able to impersonate people via a phone number. If the police want into your computer, they need a warrant, if they want into your emails, they need a warrant. I'd argue that a phone number attached to a cellphone is as personal a form of communi...
I never said cannabis sativa was the only species of cannabis. It was a joke in which greater specificity yielded greater lulz, which was also the reason for tagging the -25 onto the end of "LSD."
still i think apple has about 3-4 years in r&d influenced by jobs to keep it slightly ahead Possibly, but Apple seems to have some serious braindrain when it comes to their software department. They've been putting out garbage lately. Here's an example of how Apple software development has gone to shit: That bug...
Apple has no problem selling their devices and that has given them a sense of laziness. The problem that consumers will run into, is that Apple knows that even if they create a lack-luster product they will still find millions of people that are willing to buy it. So if people are going to buy it anyway, why try to cr...
The last hotel I stayed at charged $18 for the WiFi(it was an all inclusive resort in Cabo). One rainy day I was bored and started screwing around and noticed that the "access denied" page was a bit weird and used a strange port, so I changed a few things and was asked to authenticate to the WiFi iROOM thing...well the...
Okay some of these I think are good, others, well, let's see. Fair enough. Actually wish some college students would understand this with the way they treat things their parents pay for. No. This is on par with removing the door to his room. It really is. What'll end up happening is him deleting all his convers...
First off, don't give him anything other than a basic phone until he is 14 or 15. After then, let him have an iPhone without this 18 point contract. Let him make mistakes, he will learn from them. If your child is smart and respectful, he will not do 99% of the things in that contract anyways. Being so attached to your...
skewed statistics, volume and then percentages to make it seem like they are better than they are. 100% growth in macs sold, vs pcs 18% (18% of 1 trillion vs 100% of 10 million ... hmmm)
Ok. Let me rephrase it. Polish isn't an idea. It's not something that can be patented. It's a symptom of good design. If Android ups its design, you can't say they stole that from Apple. Because Apple didn't create polish or good design. If they make it look more like iOS, sure. But they don't. Project Butter doesn't h...
Its not just that "big medicine" makes devices like this so expensive. The cost has a lot to do with these devices all being custom made. 3d printing can, and will significantly lower the cost of the custom fabrication of the sockets for these types of devices, but until they can 3d print low weight and high strengt...
Most of the time it's stealing from a faceless corporation though. Nobody cares about that. Films for example, everyone still got paid to do the job, be it actors or the catering. The backers then make the money back (and in most cases profit) by selling the film. Even if it flops they'll make money back from another o...
Why wouldn't you be able to acess your files from linux. I just use a partition for each os and a data partition. Besides the fact that linux can read ntsf just fine.
Linux isn't hard to use? Can you show me a GUI-only method for setting up my 3-monitor display on an NVidia Geforce 760? You can't, because (at least, a maintstream one) doesn't exist. Ubuntu, RH, Gentoo, Mandrake, they all barf all over themselves because multiple monitors with multiple refresh rates / resolutions is ...
Installed Ubuntu on an old laptop of mine last year, realized the WiFi card wasn't working as planned. Went on a forum...went on another forum...got confused...went into the terminal...fucked around...fucked it up...quit....came back two weeks later...spent 4 hours on it...quit...came back in a month....spent an hour o...
No it doesn't and no it won't. People have have been saying this since 2000 at least. It just does not and will have the critical mass that the public requires. A system needs more than games for people to adopt. I can play games on PS4, XBOX One and various Nintendo handhelds. Oh yeah, and the PC. And my Mac to...
This is such a stupid posts. Most Linux forums aren't like that and haven't been like it in ages. Plus you're probably ignorant enough to not realize what a detrimental and enabling act it is to not discourage use of resources. Its amazing that you complain about getting calls as it is. Who takes those calls now? The...
Can Reddit not have a wikipedia style monetization? Add a feature where users can get a star for paying $1 per month. The star gets bigger as they pay more. The payment is clearly indicated as helping reddit pay for servers, development, r&d, etc. Have reddit open source code left and right from it's core stack, make...
Leadership is a really rare skill. Think: what does a team manager do? How is it different from a higher up (but still mid-way) manager? How is it different from a CEO? Would you think a manager is more like a: squad leader, shepherd, or gardener? Very few people actually know the answer to this question and they...
I haven't been interested enough to find out why they're doing it. Sentence summary, please? They were writing [their own browser engine]( which was one of the best for a long time, but it was slowing down their work on what they are best at, which is user interface and rolling out features. So they switched to th...
I think your completely in the right on this. Not only are these people illiterate, in their ignorance they often cause extreme damage to the system that a competent user wouldn't have done. They also tend to immediately cause the same problem again once you've fixed it, blame the fix you performed for future problem...
The spread of personal computers in China came at about the same time as Windows XP, and the ease of use and friendly UI made XP the absolute choice for a significantly large portion of the market. As is the case elsewhere, so many people are computer illiterate or near that they don't even know what OS a machine is ru...
Just in case anyone wants to know what the different features are of the different cloud storage products:
I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile two months ago and absolutely love it. I slashed my bill in half and get a whole lot more for the money. I have unlimited data, two gigs of wifi hotspot and unlimited talk & text. Although I had to jump through a few complicated hoops, they fully reimbursed me for my contract cancellati...
EFax.com does this as well. They are a terrible company. I signed up and used them for a few months, went to cancel and you have to call them during business hours. 6 months later they are still billing my card, my credit card company told me they couldn't do anything about the charges after 60 days. I spent an hour ...
in the last 3 months essentially, 85% of all smartphones SOLD were android based. Obviously, though, this is not representative of total market share. Android phones are made by many companies and all release phones at different times of the year, vs. Apple, the main competitor, and only manufacturer of the iPhone. Sin...
I have an iphone for work, and an android for personal use. I like both. I prefer the iPhone for work because of its simplicity and battery for calls and emails. I use it for music as well, better battery and music player. I prefer the Android for personal use because of dat screen size and fun.
Full Disclosure: I'm a mobile application developer who develops mainly for iOS, but is a big Android user personally. I'll try to be as un-biased as I can here There are a couple of things I'd like to point out here from a historic standpoint; The Apple approach has always worked well for Apple, but only in the s...
Here is where I butcher trying to describe bitcoins To really wrap your head around bitcoin you shouldn't think of it as a currency. Think of it as a transaction network. The novelty/value of bitcoin is the fact that it is a network where the trust is decentralized. In any exchange of goods/services there is always t...
At the risk of sounding like an ass, I'd like to point out the fact that net neutrality would result in same level priority for everything you do on the Web. While this sounds great in theory, this means that no matter what you're doing on the Internet, it's going to be just as fast/slow as everything else. So if you'r...
Upvoted, didn't call.
My rep said" net neutrality violates the first amendment". Maybe ill post it later. Edit: This is what he said. Dear Mr. [redacted], Thank you for contacting me concerning net neutrality. I appreciate your opinion and value your input on this important issue. As an Internet governance concept, so-called "net n...
Ayn Rand was an author and philosopher from the USSR who then moved to the USA. She was clearly against the current functioning of social programs: welfare is a basic amount per month that you can receive when unemployed (?) and Medicare is health insurance for the elderly (?). As well as bureaucracy as a whole. Her ...
This is only the official data they've officially been allowed to collect. It is easy to collect far more info than that. If your browser's fingerprint is unique, it doesn't matter what tracking and cookies you try to block. You are still remarkably individual, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out where you've ...
Telecom guy here. That is not as easy of a task as it sounds. Disregarding the huge budget and global power of the US defense and intelligence establishment, most of the worlds major global telecommunications carriers, the so called Tier 1 providers, are US companies [Level3, AT&T, Verizon Business, XO, Cogent, Hurrica...
to be honest. in this case microsoft. and oddly the reason is litterally because microsoft does not want the government to let things like comcast take over their Xbox server's, computers, etc if you let that happen you can essentially drive microsoft out of business and ruin things for just about everyone involved in ...
No not 'flaming' just exasperated that the ms marketing team can't seem to come up with a decent representative name for a program to save their lives. Remember the time ms bought a great little image viewing app called "Media Pro" and renamed it "Microsoft Expressions"?... Too much attempted cleverness and way too ou...
I think that the start menu coming back (and several other initiatives much more important than that) is a very good sign of a changing Microsoft. It was a compromise that wasn't difficult, so the downside to not including the option is negligible. On a more broad scale, Microsoft is becoming far more transparent. Th...
From the Arstechnica article: > A blog post from Terry Myerson clears up what "Windows as a service" means, though the duration of "the supported lifetime of the device" is still foggy. "This is more than a one-time upgrade," writes Myerson. "Once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it...
TBH I don't even want the additional confusion of choosing to install programs as they were designed or getting the "app" version from the MS store. In my experience, silly desktop "apps" and unnecessary changes to services like netflix take up system resources and are poorer quality than simply using the base servic...
The whole industry is going to have to adapt to 10 though. Sure, 7 wasn't perfect, and 8 just doesnt feel nice with a mouse. 7 came out in late 2009, which is 5 years, which is a 50 years in the tech world. But now every pc will have to come with it, and windows tech support will have a lot more to do and windows wil...
Sure, let's assume you somehow manage to remove every gun on Planet Earth, along with the factories and the blueprints for guns and the knowledge about gunpowder. Your anarchistic revolution succeeds. One month starts the infighting- with baseball bats, knives and other old-time weapons. Violence works just as well, ...
The brits during WW1 told the Jews and Arabs to revolt and expand their power and influence in the region. The Arabs fought the Ottomans. The Jews simply immigrated, they never took part in the war on either side, this is when anti-semitism gained strength back home in Germany, the jews were at odds with German Ide...
I can't live with just Linux, but people who claim it isn't viable should really learn how computers actually work. 99% of the time I can just build my own fix on Linux. Guarantee the Windows and Mac users that complain about Linux don't have the know-how to do that. Edit: ITT butthurt people with the same opinion ...
Time Critical data that relies on a connection that can only support a non-stop one-way transmission. Netflix streams TCP. Because DRM and quality mater. the buffer is there to compensate for instant errors, and has room to handle bandwidth spikes/dips. If your audio streaming app used UDP you would have noticeable...
He was 'awarded' his own fucking money. They froze his accounts at the start of this bullshit, and now the are allowing him to have access to some of it ($200k+ a month -- The man had ~$30 million and they took it all), essentially dulling out his own money to him in increments like he is a child.
AFAIK, that permission lasts as long as you have the app. The difference between android and ios being when apps are allowed to interact with each other relative to permission granted. On android if I download a photo sharing app and it asks for my contacts, I don't know if it immediately sends my contacts because it...
True enough. It actually seems like a pretty bizarre economic problem. Apps are dirt cheap, yet people evaluate them entirely on their market rate rather than their actual value. Plus the act of paying for an app creates a transaction barrier which feels steep, even though the actual amount is small and there is no rea...
I don't know specifically that there aren't -- I haven't read every last 1983 case out there -- but I have read my fare share of opinions in general and that's just not something that judges do. They may come down with a surprising judgment one way or the other every once in a while in borderline cases, but it would ne...
Pain pills, but he had to go out of state to get treatment because he knew that his fellow members of the PD would look down on him, yet he looked down at us. Lol, it was funny, the crackhead in there (who was a fucking awesome person), after he was ranting and raving about drug addicts and what horrible people they ...
Sure. Simply put: because you don't deal with any of the technical stuff. Maybe I can still use the mail analogy for this. But, for this to work, imagine that it's really complex to work with envelopes and post offices. Meaning: nobody wants to dive into that. Now, imagine you are in an office cubicle, with a mai...
Well, SSD's strong point is their read access time. This is basically 0 (>1 ms) compared to mechanical drives (10 ms in the real world). I guess what I'm saying is that I have an SSD and in the real world it rox any raid combo currently available in the same price range. By rocks, I mean "hands down kicks it's butt...
Tingtingting! We have a winner. People just don't get worked up about piracy or copyright infringement the way we instinctively understand physical theft or loss, so plenty of people (rightly or wrongly) don't tend to see it as a moral issue. As such, they frequently see a simple choice: acquire game vs. jump thro...
I like how the article boast about not spending time on anti-piracy technology and then goes on to talk about their anti-piracy technology. Prior to the last year or two the common DRM was SecureROM and other disk protection schemes. Then came along online activation which was cried about as draconian DRM. The onl...
So many people here are complaining that Toshiba doesn't/shouldn't have to provide restore discs so it's the guy's fault. But.. if a computer fails under warranty, shouldn't it be Toshiba's obligation to restore the computer to at least factory condition? That includes the software. Toshiba didn't just sell him the ...
He should take the computer back to the shop that installed the drive and ask that the warranty work be done in full - not halfway. This is not Toshiba's issue, they commissioned the repair shop to fix the computer and the repair shop did not deliver. There's so many crappy computer shops around now because every kid t...
I wasn't addressing the patent at all. I was commenting that many people will hear about "a patent on peanut butter sandwiches" and rave over how broken the patent system is, without ever bothering to read the claims of the patent to see that it's talking about a new machine to manufacture peanut butter sandwiches alre...
Update: [You need to already "get CNBC & MSNBC as part of your television package" then use your cable/satelite account info to gain access to the stream's.](
Stuxnet was supposed to attack] in a way that would make the thing look like it had been hit by a bunker buster I'm pretty sure that's wrong (unless you can come up with a source). As far as I know, it was designed to be as hidden as possible, while causing as much damage as possible, so that the scientists would kee...
Well, from general knowledge: It has been made public (to a degree) what kind of systems they've developed and how they use them. Most notably, the NSA call database in 2006, but also projects such as thinthread and trailblazer. We know about those because thomas drake bitched about how much he thought it was wastef...
There is a new facility that is being built in Bluffdale, UT that is 1 million square feet in size. The facility is expected to be completed by September 2013. This is more than enough to handle the incoming data needs. As to processing power. Right now, the fastest public computer is the DOE Sequoia built at Lawrenc...
I say goodluck to them, 20 trillion transactions is a crapload of information to try and sift through (half of which are just probably useless bank and tax records), I still say trying to find information about anything within a number of 20 trillion, is like trying to hit the planet pluto with a pea shooter... its goi...
One cool exception to that I've seen is the Volvo S60 plugin: ( Yes, the weight is still there, but it uses the hybrid system to get 4 wheel drive! A desirable option even without a hybrid system! The front axle is driven by a diesel engine, the rear axle is driven by an electric motor and battery, with either a pur...
and other "environmentally harmful" components Yes, lets all breathe toxic garbage so you can save 2 dollars at the pump. What could possibly go wrong there? Sorry, I have to go check the smog report in my town today and refill my inhaler. I'm not even going to go into how much safer your new-ish Saturn is than so...
Its less about targeted ads and more about a better way to capture viewing. More viewing equals more $$$. Set Top Boxes can capture second to second viewing from every household that has one (most). Opposed to Nielsen which samples a portion of the population & are not very good at it. The only problem with set top b...
This needs some clarification. This work was presented at ACM SenSys this year ( and, while a very good paper and a well-executed idea, the energy numbers presented do not include the overhead of offloading the data to the cloud. The product as presented can best be used as a GPS / timestamp logger that can be analyz...
No you didn't. You are wrong, and rude. Being called a liar and lots of downvotes. Bah, it's the internet, might as well defend myself, I might even educate someone :) I've been trading tech stocks on a hobbyist basis using keytrade for about two years now, I beat the market even after transfer charges, though not ...
BlackBerry needs to die' I still have those thought. I was one who used BB before it became a trend in my country (Indonesia), my first BB is Curve 8320. Slow & buggy, and the BIS plan was damn expensive. It has more troubles than the benefit. A few months later, the hardware had problems, fix it a couple of times, a...
Develop a framework of cybersecurity practices to reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure.... Include strong privacy and civil liberties protections based on the Fair Information Practice Principles."
First of all, stop. Too much panic in this thread. I've seen a thread similar to this in the past regarding OMG hackers are watching me. I want to clarify some things for you. First of all, if you do all of the right things with your computer, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. People can't just hack into yo...
A lot of very sound advice here, though with one major problem that I can see: >These viruses cannot come hidden inside of other exe files. So if you have a game, Sim3.exe, if you double click on it and run the game, there is no hidden program inside that will infect your computer. That is in fact exactly how malwa...
I think its hysterical that right now the only real "anti Piracy" and DRM that is being used only punishes those who DONT pirate. I buy the BluRay but I still download a copy of it so I don't have to buy ads, DRM, and limit myself to my bluray player.
Even better is the fact the only reason they lock people up at all is to make an example of them. How do you stop people from doing something you don't like? make them deeply terrified they might be throwing away their lives doing it. Pair that with the fact that I've never met a person who wasn't somehow involved wi...
For what this opinion is worth, I did get my BA in Criminal Justice. How RIAA and MPAA are combating P2P sharing of their content is no different than how the U.S. is fighting its War on Drugs. First, we ignore any macro-level solution (e.g. legalizing drugs/increase rehabilitation spending, or in the case of P2P m...
I love how they think piracy can be killed. I will admit it, I pirate stuff, but it's kind of a moot point when the malls in my country have stores that outright sell pirated shows and movies upfront. And that's not counting that half of the things I pirate are not even available here. But I do see a way to stop a ...
Honestly convenience. Unless I factor in a two day waiting period for everything I want to see, for something I wanted to see two hours ago, I don't see much of a purpose for me. Again.. I could find that same film/show, of the same or lesser quality, in my boxers without batting an eye lash with a torrent when and w...
Several years ago, when I used RSS some, you put in a specific string of code/address that was helpfully posted by the site you wanted to read. Now, it seems like all these 'reader' programs will only allow you to use whatever database the creator maintains and can't accept something they don't 'know about', e.g. if ...