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I know this comment may not be well received, but I do not begrudge EA for forcing online play. The view of games as a single payment of 60 dollars is no longer viable as a business model due to a number of reasons ranging from used games to piracy. The games as a service model limits the loss developers have on a game...
Software development is always a gamble of prioritization - There isn't any need for some malicious intent ("HAHA DRM THEY'll NEVER SEE IT COMING")... If you prioritize the server/client model, implementing 'offline mode' becomes an extra feature that can be thrown out when time gets tight towards the end of the develo...
It is a shame what game devs and publisher become. They were so devoted to make a good game. A game with a good story, good jokes and sometimes teaching you some lessons. Nowadays, there are just a few of these kind of games. Today they only care about profits. I loved EA, because they had the games I loved. Battlefiel...
I'm not making an argument about the quality of LoL or saying that you should hate it for the same reasons people hate Sim City. I'm just pointing out that it seems like an odd choice of a game to highlight as an alternative in a thread about how we hate EA for pushing microtransactions. I thought I made it pretty ...
You shouldn't be suprised by NHL being last. Football is fucking popular in USA = Madden/NCAA well sold. Soccer is played everywhere on the globe and is the most played sport = FIFA is fucking popular. Hockey, except for Canadians and North countries, isn't the most popular sport = NHL being not selling like o...
Why are people in such uproar about it? yeah, always-online DRM is a shitty, terrible cash-grab of a game model as demonstrated by Diablo 3.. so DONT FUCKING PLAY IT, how hard is that? I really don't get it, who was anxiously awaiting a SimCity game in the year 2013? I was playing that shit on Windows 95.. its a date...
Reading comprehension FTW: > She also provides a big list of all the positives that online access offers, again all focusing on multiplayer and ignoring the fact that some people just want to build a city. > Of note on that list are these two items: > Our servers handle gifts between players. > We’ve created ...
IMHO corruption is rampant. Oversight seems to be a failure. The legislative actions of both major parties are bipartisan only when it is horrific for the citizens. The only solution seems to be much smaller government. They can't exercise a power they don't have. I realized halfway through Obama's first term that my v...
See, you and I look at money two entirely different ways. You seem to think that money is primarily a way of compensating someone for their work, I get the argument there but I don't agree with it. To me, money is a way to establish resource allocation. Look at a somewhat different, yet completely relevant case. I'm ...
That is a gross misunderstanding of how (most) certificates work. In particular, the roots do not know the private keys of the certificates they sign, and the authorities that sign intermediate certificate authorities do not know their private keys. In general, certificate signing is a multi-step process in which one...
No the gov't is not stopping you...you're too chicken shit to do the right thing.
in simple terms, the one OP is mentioning deals with records the cell phone companies keep. The carriers in the Us have been collecting data on where the phones have been for years. The government has gone to these carriers and asked for the data they are collecting, which the carriers turn over. The court stated th...
This should help calm some spirits momentarily who think Police and the gov't are on collision course to strip all rights. SOURCE- This is all first-hand experience being that I am a Sheriff Deputy. As far as locations, the way our 911 cellular system works as soon as you call typically within 5-10 seconds your loca...
This is not how constitutional law works. The government doesn't have an automatic pass to seize information and property under the fourth amendment just because there is no historical expectation of privacy. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your car for example, that can only be overcome by a warrant ...
Katz v US agrees with the Smith v Maryland logic. Katz decision was that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy within a phone booth (with closed door) or in your home with a phone conversation. But it does NOT cover metadata, only conversations. And then, if there is a warrant, then even phone calls are NOT co...
We need to pass more laws protecting our citizens from our own government. Since the Internet wasn't around 200 years ago, our forefathers didn't write laws about it to protect our citizens from misuse of higher authority. The government should be scared of its people, not the people being scared of the government. And...
Correct- just dont get so hung up on the term 'warrant'. There still needs to be a court order. Which requires submitting paperwork to the court, having a judge review it, and sign off on it. It isn't like Police call just call any random phone carrier and ask 'So where was John Doe last night at 8pm...yeah...ok......
So based on some details in this thread & article, I would guess they were locking down the tablets via a WiFi auth system (Maybe a RADIUS server) coupled to a profile. This would allow the firewall to filter requests within the building but allow normal home outside of their network. One question is how did they get o...
well you are wrong about that one sorry to say. Comcast doubled everyones speed for free if they live in or around the bay area. they offer up to 105mbps if you live anywhere near the west side. some places arent hooked up for it yet, but for example my old house on the northern end of Ocean St. currently has 50mbps se...
Do you have any source for this claim? We have heard the same thing a bunch of times: Coming to Linux once Netflix has their HTML5 player running, coming to Linux once Google releases Chrome for Linux, coming to Linux once Google releases ChromeOS. It hasn't materialized yet; SteamOS isn't even claiming to support N...
I wish, I might have saved my speedtest results from before and after, but the did it right when we were supposed to renew our "year contract" which ensured we got the "special contract" cost; when they pulled a good ol' we dont offer than plan anymore.
OK, read carefully. I do electric utility planning for a living. It is clear that you don't. My post is about bulk power, not about commercial customer billing, which is largely irrelevant to the economics of solar. I never claimed that PV installations at commercial sites are economic in Texas from a customer's poi...
The issue is not their planning. They are a service, and they ARE needed, even if some random people live without electricity or almost none and act as though the world would be better off without it. You can't then go and tell these giant places that are needed right this minute that they need to downsize, when it's r...
A for-profit lamp import company, locally-trained or not, would have to raise prices to cover operating costs, which reduces the pool of potential customers to only people able to afford the higher price. The current heavily-subsidized £5 is already 25% of a kenyan schoolteacher's income. Raise the prices higher, and i...
The whole point that the information gets out there is because we decide to put it there. All these convenient tools of communication and storage that you put your data into. But none of those magically appeared, they where made by humans. The same way your mail doesn't magically appear on your doormat, it is deliv...
Also placing your hands on a sharks nose will immobilize it. The energy from your body overloads the sharks 6th sense (sensing electricity).
If they were just directing readers to your article, that'd be awesome. But that's not what happens. The problem is that blogs and competing publications will sometimes take information from your article - including hard-earned investigative material or quotes from hard-to-get interviews - and rewrite it on their pag...
I know, and I don't think a free publication should be paid for things like that. But both cases hinge on intellectual property rights, and highlight how journalism is inexplicably subject to a different set of standards than other kinds of material. If you burned a CD with a bunch of popular songs and sold it, or if...
If you are posting it with the intent people will follow it and download free stuffz then you should be liable for that. If I post a link with the disclaimer that I don't condone anyone using the link for copyright infringing purposes does that somehow make posting the link okay? What about .torrent files? You coul...
In your hypo, you would almost certainly face the exact same charges your friend was. In most US jurisdictions, the concept of constructive knowledge applies in drug possession and related crimes. It doesn't matter to anyone - cops, judges, lawyers, juries - if you ACTUALLY knew what was going on. If it's in your ...
I don't think Google is currently in the fiber business to make a direct profit per subscription per se. I think it'll be a while before they get their return on the investment, rolling out infrastructure is pretty expensive. The reason seems to be to give people access to high-speed internet, not to make money dire...
I don't think that's true at all, the profit margins are there, that's why Google is doing it. Your cable provider tells you that it can't invest in infrastructure because it exists in an oligopoly and game theory dictates that these companies do as little as possible as far as capital expenditures while keeping prices...
Long story short long, what's wrong with IP is that the system has been completely taken over and warped to put all the power of the rights-holders (generally megacorps like Disney and RIAA members) and take all the power away from the general public. Copyright and patents started out as tools of censorship and rep...
2 things, the adapters and the fibre itself. There are 2 real types of adapter. The first one is direct connect and what you would normally refer to as a HBA. (Host Bus Adapter). They act like extensions to the motherboard. If you open your box you'll have the nic, graphics card and stuff all crammed into what...
The options at this point are cooking every animal existent with global warming or possibly eliminating a few species already on the brink with wind power. Preserve their DNA for future recreation and get about elimination of fossil fuels, in a hundred years when we have something better bring them back.
Out of [20 billion]( Let's do some math. 1,000 birds is .000001% of US birds. 28,000 is .00014% 200,000, the suspicious outlier, is only .001%. That's one-thousandth of 1%. Conversely, thousands of humans die every year from fossil fuel pollution. Best try sparring with someone unfamiliar with Google and math. ...
After waiting for over an hour for Belkin customer support, I got through and luckily came across my problem: my modem to router and router to computer cables were swapped. I had this set up before and it didn't effect the connection, so either it might have been something affected in the update, or some other coincide...
Dividends aren't everything. In fact, in many ways capital gains are preferable for many investors (other investors prefer dividends. Depends on their tax situation). If you own a stock, then you own part of the business. The company investing back in the business (rather than paying the money out) increases the ...
For anyone landing here that wants to support this decision of Verizon's, and sadly I know there are many that will because they think that only average users should be considered in a policy, I have this little rant I ask you to read and respond to. If Verizon advertised their new caps when I bought their service, I...
As a former soldier, we have no influence on politics. Furthermore, we're aware that the government we're employed by isn't always acting in the best interests of the country or its people. Most of us were people doing a job as best we could, in shitty, sometimes horrific conditions. You may not like some of the things...
Because progress and profit are inversive of one another.
I'm an IT Director for a 911/PSAP. regardless of what the FCC mandates, 911 centers and affiliated service providers have been slowing working the the technical details of accepting SMS/MMS and other video and text based services into their software and hardware applications. This will in no way be a quickly implanted ...
Does that not seem overly broad to you? I admit you've found the definition, but Franken was arguing that it was very restrictive. I'm not seeing that at all. There are four "or"s in the first part, which means if it's any one of the four it could violate the statute. (1) Primarily Designed, (2) No demonstrable comme...
I don't know about Chrome, but in Firefox you have to hit enter twice to start a new sentence on a new line. If I hit enter once while typing my cursor goes down to the correct spot and it looks fine until I hit [save] and then it is all on one line.
The Wii is an amazing console to mod. Nintendo doesn't make a big deal about it and even lets you use their network and the hackers are smart enough to leave the company and online play alone. I don't blame Sony for fighting the modding community when it starts to cause damage to other players, but at the same time th...
I understand and appreciate the fact that Google wants to retain its business but what I was saying is that they have never had a wide reputation for being a "good guy" in the industry. My point was that this is a business decision, not a moral decision. It's good for Google to not want SOPA to pass, but there's absolu...
These words show a total lack of understanding of legal terminology. No. It shows a deep knowledge of how to brew fear and anger. You don't raise a mob by talking about infringement. You don't rally the populace to your cause by going on a crusade against "infringers". These words do not show stupidity or ignoran...
Come on, you should know better. If the government says something's an accident, we should immediately assume that it's a lie, covering up some secret draconian plot, even if there's no evidence for this or even a rational motive for why the government would want to do it. All this did was piss off people for 3 hours a...
I'm not sure if that comparison holds on more than a surface level. There are many cultures existing relatively peacefully in impoverished, even quite dire, circumstances. The majority of Hindus in India, for all their poverty, don't seem to have violent niche groups shouting death to infidels. Same for the vast nu...
It's the same issue with the wide perception of Christianity, political parties, and many more institutions. It is so rare for us to see anything but the radicals because they're making the statements and putting themselves out there. Is it right for the quieter and more peaceful members of a group to remain passive? N...
Ah religion...the cancer of humanity. It all just needs to go away so the rest of us can just live our lives like decent human beings. With all the discoveries we've had in space how can anyone still believe a 'god' single handedly created everything? All religions are simply fairy tales. Does this mean I 'hate' religi...
It's outrageous. Yes. I'd caution against thinking something is "incomprehensible" though. That's somewhat of a dangerous line of reasoning. As in, it would be incomprehensible for somebody to blaspheme against X. Really, I'm a bit dismayed and unsurprised. When the "Arab Spring" was occuring (I hate that term ...
I can't even take it seriously, let alone harm someone. It was the product of pure ignorance and intolerance and wasn't even put effort in. And what happened with Islam being the religion of peace or did we forget about that when some jerk made a movie mocking us? To answer your question: a real Muslim shouldn't kill o...
Are we finally going to tell these idiots to STFU? We should never kowtow to inferior people when they are offended by our behavior. They should strive to be like us, we shouldn't strive to appease them. Yes, they are inferior. Any culture that can be trolled to the point of total chaos and murder over an insultin...
I feel like efficiency on it's own is an insufficient metric to evaluate progress and usefulness of a design, since you can't just stack 20 super efficient but weak processor cores together on a die and expect to get something that has anywhere near 20x the performance of a single processor. So perhaps the 20 small co...
All of your examples probably have tons of money and research in their development. But if some fool tells me AIDS can be cured with chocolate or I see an iPad advertised for $50- then my bullshit meter will go off the charts. All I am saying is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Also, I am an IT ...
Consider the product placement - It's basically following the principals of the Nigerian scams. Use whatever form of service to communicate with the victim(s). Then do SOMETHING or place some piece of information that will immediately cause paranoid or aware people to disregard the request (in this case, having it ran ...
what is "too good to be true" - did you know research has found a possible cure for aids? an entirely new way of dealing with cancer cells? That Nasa is working on - of all things - a startrek styled drive. Did you know that printing of 3D metal objects is being pushed forward by Nasa? Did you know that the greenes...
Obama vetoed the bill before the Senate entered anything about it into the minutes of the Senate, which means he gave an advisory opinion on a House draft.
Think about that, in a non-ironic-karma-whoring context.
It's ok to pirate Game of Thrones because hurr durr INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE Straw man and a red herring all in one. >that you knowingly and willingly provided them First of all this is a blatant misrepresentation of the scope of the information Facebook collects and shares as well as the level of user author...
I think if your brother cashes out, he'll miss the real bull market in bitcoins. These things climb a wall of worry, as there are constantly people with one foot out the door, planning to jump out if the price starts to drop. Once a noticeable drop happens, there's a rush for the exits, which leads to others losing f...
echoenabled.com, appears to be a service that was discontinued months ago. Which is why it would be trying so fast, a poorly written script that tries again when a request fails. I actually do not see any of these requests coming from my browser. All the idvisitor are calls to other sites also owned by the Washington...
So... some random dude on the internet is pissed that the ACLU won't go to bat for him in some random situation that doesn't constitute an efficient use of their sharply limited resources. Oh, and said random dude also magically knows that they spent more resources denying him help than helping him would have taken. ...
So this is highly exaggerated. I've got a degree in computer engineering and am attending Georgia Tech for a PhD in robotics. I specialize in computer vision (I'm published in IROS) and there are a number of things wrong with this article. For instance, they say they can estimate the age of a person, detect gender . T...
I'm hardly a Facebook fan, but Whatsapp just isn't a real IM client. There's no way to send a message over Whatsapp from a computer like I can with Facebook. If Whatsapp had a way to message people from a computer, I'd jump on that in a heartbeat. But right now the easiest way to IM friends on their phone through my co...
The spam was annoying. The idiots are annoying. The privacy issues are annoying. You know what got me off Facebook? My grandma and Aunt. I've always known they spend hours a day on there, but I had no idea to what extent. They were going across the country on a vacation, and asked me if I could log onto their ac...
Is there anyway to coral the shitty users and keep them in facebook? I am really enjoying Google+ lately. Keep G+'s learning curve high enough to weed out the trash. I'm already starting to see more garbage pop up in the trending section... And then I hear about facebook in decline. Don't want to see an exodus to ...
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Are you insinuating that reading a shortened, more concise version of the article equates to unintelligence? Because I, for one, think this
Mr Musk himself provides the best example. Paraphrasing: If the Airline industry were to fly a plain once and then throw it away, it would be impossibly expensive to fly from one coast to another. Less than 5% of a rocket launch cost is fuel. Everything, well nearly everything, else is one time use. Salvaging the fir...
Hazardous materials be damned. Production personnel (in the U.S.) who build lead acid batteries work in terrible conditions. The cost of healthcare for the companies is crazy. They work in constant fear of heavy metal poisoning. Wearing a shit ton of PPE in a plant with no A/C (because of the lead fumes) is hard. T...
Google is turning into a bunch of assholes. They officially went corporate and are obsessed with growth like any other company. God forbid you make a few billion a year and its good, but no, you have to invade peoples lives track all their shit so you can send specific spam to their inbox. And stop trying to make googl...
Corporate personhood is incredibly misunderstood. It's actually an essential part of a functioning economy. Fundamentally it allows a business to continue to operate independent of its owners. And by I operate I mean things like the business itself can own property, be sued, and continue to exist. Without corporate per...
Reposting my comment from below) Corporate personhood is incredibly misunderstood. It's actually an essential part of a functioning economy. Fundamentally it allows a business to continue to operate independent of its owners. And by I operate I mean things like the business itself can own property, be sued, and conti...
Well frankly I don't think they have anything to lose. Let's say that Verizon sues Netflix for defamation of character (libel) and (of course) lost revenues and various other monetary damages due to said defamation [puts fake lawyer hat on]. That means that Verizon would have to prove that Netflix is lying and that the...
Not completely true, when I worked with ADSL and DSLAM configuration it was possible to get 5mbit or more upstream. However the Signal to noise ratio is split between up and download speed meaning that to get 3mbit upload you would cap out at 8-9mbit on optimal distances. Therefore it's much better to provide the custo...
Well someone severely misinformed Netflix's PR department. Netflix's issues on Verizon have historically been peering issues due to transit ISP's not holding up their side of the deal. This is not something Verizon can magically fix on a whim. And actually, Verizon blaming Netflix is true because it is (indirectly,...
It's because of the way peering agreements work. Verizon and Cogent have connections at a peering point, or they peer directly. They both pay equally for the physical line, but they pay settlements based upon total traffic that went over the line. If the traffic is equal, then there is no settlement. If one side...
ADSL2+ spec only has a portion of spectrum dedicated to upstream. In the case of normal ADSL2+, it's around 25KHz to 120KHz, where as the download is from (minus a bit of buffer space), 128KHz to 2.2MHz. You have 2000KHz of spectrum for Downstream and only around 100KHz of spectrum for Downstream (although it's lower a...
Coax Cable is also asymmetrical. Most CATV plants have at least 700MHz (50-750MHz) of spectrum TO the customer (this is by historical design of a headend-> customer network design). When two-way networks were designed, they gave a few, small, noisy bits of spectrum at the bottom (below channel 2) to return path. The...
Netflix is doing everything they can do, but they are the small guy in this situation, like it or not. Verizon and other telecoms could completely kill Netflix streaming service if they decided it was worth the negative publicity, and there would be nothing Netflix could do about it. Verizon doesn't have much to fear...
After comcast's 25/10 "fastest we can offer" and AT&T's 15/8 "2nd tier", I went local. I pay for 25/2, and more often than not, I get 30/10.
If we pay for a certain bandwidth speed then the connect should not be throttled until that speed is exceeded. This is where the whole issue really gets tricky. Residential connections are shared 'best effort' connections, so what you truly are paying for is Up To that speed, if everybody else isn't trying to at the...
I hate to admit that I've been out of the loop in this. Can someone
There is a simple fix for this. I watch a lot of HD content on YouTube and I used to be really frustrated by buffering and stuff...especially on the app on my TV (wth is it buffering to?). Anyhow...most ISPs reroute YouTube traffic. If you block the IP ranges that they are rerouting you to (Google them to find them)...
I know for a fact that it was FiOS's problem that YouTube was practically unusable to me for a couple of months last year. I argued with Verizon several times over the phone complaining about it and they always tried to pawn it off on Google. They ran all of their "tests" to show that my connection was working fine. I ...
As an A.I. Researcher I'll never understand why people fear A.I.. Its honestly not as scary as some people think and for the love of god its not 'summoning the demon'. A.I. offers a lot to the world because it has the potential for singularity, along with being able to have a Utopian society, if made correctly. That ...
Funny how the scariest thing for a statist like yourself about the free market is monopolies. Yet you promote government, a violent MONOPOLY, as a solution to this. Do you not see the irony? No, because no matter how much you cry about obama allowing guns into federal parks, the government is not a monopoly. It is o...
In addition to what other posters have said about the efficiency of centralizing, there are other issues that go with having a generator in every car on the road. Your car burns motor oil. It shouldn't need to burn it, but it does. An electric car only needs enough lubrication to keep the axles moving. Burned motor...
As someone who does research in solar, I can tell you an alternative transparent conductive oxide is definitely of interest. The TCO is one of the most expensive steps in thin film solar cells (have you priced a high volume sputterer recently? Not to mention target costs). This paper points to an interesting possibi...
Did you read the article? Minecraft offers shit that pirating it doesn't offer. There's an incentive to pay, to join the paying community of Minecraft. Likewise, why do you think people buy TF2? Yeah you can pirate it, but in the end you'll just end up playing with a few people. You want the full experience, you'll...
When you say, "stealing", you are making copyright infringement sound like something it bears no resemblance to. It confuses people's ideas about the issue, by equating two completely different actions, one of which many people intuitively think of as wrong . If somebody decided that, from now on, they would use the...
You know nothing of piracy if you think the end user of a pirated game really needs any skill at all. The standard way these things are handled is that you download a torrent, which contains the game data and a fixed executable - in 90% of the cases, all you need to do is install the game and copy a file from folder A ...
You make a good point, I think the word "stealing" is used to evoke emotion. You tell someone they are stealing, you are making it obvious that it's wrong. The pirate has justified it as not stealing, so he doesn't like being called a thief. I guess that's the real issue. I've pirated quite a bit of stuff, I can't say ...
i signed up for a news provider and downloaded a movie and it virused my computer burned my house down.
That may be the great endearing lesson we take from Turing's tragedy. But Turing himself was much more than a brilliant mathematician that was ruined by society. I argue that Turing's greatest lesson to us all is that the greatest of our failed endeavors can become the world's greatest successes. The failure? The goa...
But it is the same, pedophilia and homosexuality are both sexual attractions which are not voluntary, right? Pedophilia doesn't entail sexual contact, it is only the attraction.
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