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As a patent examiner, I can say some of the problems with the patent system are much more hidden than people are lead to believe. First - We have a very archaic system for searching and tracking patents. Sure we have patent classes, but a couple bad placements by examiners and the entire system becomes nearly usele...
Fallacious argument. Hardware is not software for two reasons: Software is computation (i.e. information). Hardware is a machine designed to store information or replay calculations. Calculating machines, such as adding machines and calculators, are patentable because hardware patents specify how to constru...
I've used both for both work and personal. I've supported users of both for work. outlook.com functions, usually. I've found users are confused by what it is. Especially if they were hotmail or live users. Then outlook.com shows up and they don't know what they are logging into. There's a large amount of inconsistenc...
Depends what stops functioning first If the battery cannot produce the current needed the phone will not function If it can the voltage regulators and other power circuitry will heat up until they break If both keep up the phone will get very hot very quickly and the processor will then break from the internal te...
That doesn't mean you will have 500GHz CPUs thanks to this stuff, at least not initially. This is the switching speed of a single transistor, modern transistors can switch at many 10's of Ghz, and probably even faster when made small in an IC. This just proves that these graphene transistors are very high performance, ...
The longest chain of gates in a combinational logic circuit is called the critical path. Each gate you add to the critical path increases the amount of time from when an input is provided to when a deterministic output is guaranteed. Each component in a cpu pipeline has this property. The cpu can only be as fast as t...
Apple's software pricing has been starting a war with Microsoft ever since they cut the price of the system to $30 a couple of years ago. People keep saying this and people keep being wrong. Here is the logic why: Since OS X came out in 2001 there have been 10 different versions (10.0 - 10.9). Since Window...
actually my name is reference to Always Sunny in Philadelphia and was also my nickname when I played on a tournament paintball team. I have a wife, 2 year old son, and a dog. I have a 3000GT which I use to take to car shows. I play video games and obviously play on reddit now and then. I listen to all kinds of music, h...
There should be due process, review & oversight, even if it is after the fact. If the police wanted to tap my phone, they'd need a warrant first. Though they can tap my phone & then get a warrant if there is an immediate threat, like they think I kidnapped a 5yo. A lot of the violence & crime in Chicago is immed...
This sentiment and other "Ahha" drawbacks are expressed throughout the comments, I presume by angry economists, so I feel it's worth taking the time to debunk them. 1) Someone has to pay for the printer. You may not know this but there are companies out there that let you simply order 3D print jobs from them: Typic...
It's worth evaluating why Yale's administration would bother spending their time and absorbing negative PR over this. Tenured Faculty's Influence Efficiently displaying courses by rating and workload makes it easier for students to optimize their time away from specific courses. Imagine charting ratings on the Y-a...
When looking for a chrome replacement I did in fact try aurora hoping it would fit the bill, and while the touch aspects were greatly improved its actually a resource hog in comparison to ie. Granted it's in beta and so I likely will give it a second go once it hits primetime, but truthfully I'm actually coming to like...
The issue is that this isn't trivial and you being in IT doesn't matter. This is an issue for the registrar. Think about it; the initial website was created for a purpose, to provide some information to help the students choose their courses, but the particulars of the information that is not included could sway the ...
The majority ("even at Yale") will likely praise the easiest courses, the most lenient professors, and thereby generally screw up 'ratings'. Do you honestly think the students are too stupid to know the biases inherent in scoring, that they'll see the numbers and confidently know, "Hmm yes, this is all clearly an obj...
how old are you? let me give you a hint: the fafsa considers your parent's income until you are 23. if they make too much for you to qualify for student aide, and you don't have enough scholarships to make up the difference, wait till you're 23. they only consider the previous 12 months, so the thing to do is to minim...
Nope. How about you actually keep up with what's happening? They posted a couple days ago that it was a problem on both sides: they fucked up and so did the administration. In their new post, which (since it's a webpage and not a blog) overrides the old one, they have since whitewashed all mention of their error, lol. ...
Current Yale student here. I don't really understand how this comment, made based on vast generalizations about the "private college business model," got upvoted so much and in fact made it to the front page. First of all, we should make sure we're on the same page as to what YBB+ does that's different from the other...
As an information security specialist I can tell you definitively that your Intranet is still very much accessible from the Internet. In theory, locking down corporate resources to an Intranet will protect them from being accessible, however in practice there are about 1000 things that can and do go wrong. We use t...
That would make me feel like my teacher is a liar. (I also don't think this is a realistic thing that would happen at a university, where someone gets a better grade for what ends up being an arbitrary reason, but we're going to pretend I never made this objection) > set wages for the individual needs of each person ...
Other sources have found otherwise]( /u/linkprovidor, would you mind supplying the abstract for your souce? It is behind a paywall. edit: It's ok. I found your abstract [on Google Scholar]( >The prevalence of gender wage gaps in academic work is well documented, but patterns of advantage or disadvantage linked to...
And? I don't understand why the disparity between male and females in a certain occupation matters at all. I am busting my ass in school to become a programmer because I LOVE IT, not because I have some sense of righteous indignation. Do what you enjoy, regardless of who else is doing it. Is it a predominantly male e...
It's not so much devaluing the work done, as it's an evaluation of the value added to the business of the work. A programmer potentially makes a massive value contribution to a company in comparison to their wage. For example, automating internal book-keeping processes which scale and save the need for hiring extra p...
Which I'm willing to bet is most of us . ;) I have a CS degree. Been programming for 16 years, worked at fortune a 50 company and never once needed to explain a heapsort to anyone but maybe a college professor while earning the degree. Things like that are considered "solved problems". Otherwise known as things ...
Women now are very blessed to be able to have the opportunities that were not available to them in the past. I'm really grateful that you
Women are culturally raised to not be assertive are they? which cultures/ethnicities do this? what dialects do they speak and what recreational activities do they engage in? it sounds to me like part of the christian ideal of being demure, but i'm not aware of any sizeable group actually practising that for over a ...
You and the article appear to have made the mistake of assuming the ratio of women to men in CS and number of women in CS are the same thing. There's a good reason the article in question never mentions specific numbers of female coders, only ratios and percentages when compared to males. It lets them be intellectual...
Well now, hang on, it's not as simple as that. As annoying as the "70 cents on the dollar" misconception is, so is the "pure merit" conclusion. Of course reward exactly proportional to merit makes perfect sense on its own. But everybody making the claims stops there as if that principle is everything and it isn't possi...
I think her point was that sexism from a manager is different from sexism from the family in the sense that governmental policy focuses on managerial sexism. If the assumptions are incorrect, the solutions will be ineffective and the policy will be useless at best or harmful at worst. This is the difference between r...
Not quite. It's the job of HR to retain and hire good employees, terminate or help improve bad employees, and to mitigate the company's risk with respect to potential violations of contract, health & safety, employment, and labor law, etc. You pay people fairly to keep them happy and productive, it's not a goal in ...
You are correct in that statement. Except one thing which is crucial, women are more vulnerable to all STIs because they are being penetrated (same goes for gay men). When women end up getting STIs such as certain strains of HPV they have a chance of ovarian cancer. Men however are more or less carriers (although resea...
Im the guy you hire. No degree, with about a year and a half in IT industry. Got started installing POS systems and did help desk for an Internet company. I have some college education I lie and say I have an associates degree. Just got hired recently as a systems engineer. During the interview they were testing me on ...
We have hired a few degree holding individuals for our small Cable modem ISP (sub 20k customers). Most people fresh off the college boat are useless. They may know concepts but they have zero real world experience on doing things. We had one guy who demanded he be payed more because quote 'he knew more' problem was he ...
We're entering an era now where you really have to think about what you want to do post high school. That can be tough for a 17-18 yr old. Way back in the day, if you got decent grades (and/or family had $) you went to college and everyone else went into the military or blue collar work at factories. All of these roads...
I'm a CTO. I've had almost every job in IT and I consider myself a jack of all trades. I've developed high-end websites, worked tech support, built servers by hand, administered the network (all layers) and I've managed engineers, help-desk, developers, DBAs, QA/test, project managers, and knowledge management teams....
It's because we have a matured work force. People will try to steal your job, constantly. You can't waltz in here with your bullshit paper degree. Get that weak shit out of here, we can sense you have no experience or skill and WILL test you with some sort of real world problem you probably have no fucking idea to...
I have been talking about this for years. I dropped out of school and started as a bench tech for Best Buy (pre geek squad). Had my mcse, a+, and ccna by age of 20. I live and breathe this business. I truly love it. At 35, I make 200k. I manage and implemented nearly every facet of systems from Cisco IOS, all bra...
depends on the technology you build your mesh upon. (you're thinking of zigbee type meshes) A target of 5megabit uncapped would be sufficient to carry a 1080p stream and is a modest goal using modern standards. especially when bringing peak use into play. Wifi signals overlap all the time. it's just a matter of organiz...
The $2k reference point is highly misleading: A single shipping container is only 8'x8' across and would feel extremely small to the vast majority of people. Even in the article, they show a layout that uses 4 shipping containers, merged together into one structure. Even a small home would need 2 or 3. The co...
So we need to amend anti-trust laws for the case of regional monopolies: Exiting a market that you are the sole provider of a service deemed necessary (telecommunications basically is), defaults all hardware ownership to the local government to lease or sell as it sees fit Regional monopolies shall be regulated...
Just to add ammo to this point. I got curious about the laws around this, and found this paper (PDF) > If a credit card holder orders merchandise and the merchandise is not delivered, the credit card-issuing bank is required to treat the matter as a billing error and resolve it (i.e. get the card holder reimbursed ...
Uh, credit card companies are also lending money too dude. Like, that's their core business. Allow me to explain the credit card model, as it has existed in the past and how it is being disrupted. This is high level so naturally, I will leave out some nuance and detail. I apologize in advance but you can spend your e...
While that may be true you have to consider one thing: 95% of the population are not important enough for someone to find and infiltrate their private computernetwork. Just makes no sense to look some stoner dude up. If you have your data saved in a cloud thats a whole different story. There are thousands or millio...
Googling" might be too literal, but I hire with the expectation that my engineers and IT guys can learn anything and everything that needs to be learned to do the job. If a support team can't support a product, then it better be a problem with the product (and it better be someone else's shitty product. :) ) If a new p...
It's not unusual for non-IT folks (who generally lead these companies) to completely ignore and budget-stomp the IT folks into submission ... "why does IT need any good tools? We could be using that money for our sales reps to sell stuff instead.... suck it IT, and stop telling us we have to be more secure!" "oh, and b...
Well, how do you think these evil ISPs got to where they are now? Our local Gov't and municipalities chose the winners and losers on who can provide Internet and Cable. Gov't stifled competition in local areas making the current ISP a Gov't backed monopoly. The solution isn't MORE Gov't, it's abolishing the current r...
Because almost all of Reddit chose to ignore the fact that he hasn't been a "cable lobby insider" for over 30 years. He's a "lobbiest" in the same way a 50-year old with a PhD is a "high school graduate". There was never any certainty that he was going to bend-over-and-fuck anyone other than Mrs. Wheeler. People just...
I never said I thought they were the same. I just don't find much meaning in the way one party distinguishes itself from the other, it all just seems shallow. "We believe in X, they believe in Y" "We want X, they want Y" But both parties are concerned with 1 thing, advancing their party's agenda. Some times it'd ...
then there's duty of care What? Do you think they are nurses or something? Duty of care harm to come to others. It has no relationship to competitive or financial interests (unless you are bound particularly to a financial role where the duty is to act in the interest of the patron such as investor or power of at...
scripting is the simplest form of programming, and for that reason it's my personal threshold for measuring computer literacy. Then your threshold is way too high. I don't want to sound too judgmental, but I'm getting the feeling from your comments that you intentionally set the bar too high so you can perch on it an...
A few things: High blood cholesterol is linked to increased risk of a heart attack. She had a stress test 2 years ago. A lot of things can happen in two years. Also, a negative stress test is not 100% predictive of a lack of heart disease. Cardiac catheterization (the "surgery") they refer to in the article is no...
Fair point about the school acting irrationally when combatting a bomb threat - seriously rounding up everyone in the same small area is retarded. But you aren't making any strong point at all about how a phone actually helps your kid be safer. You weren't safer because you texted your mom during a bomb threat and ...
The author doesn't seem to understand the word spectrum . Spectrum of HTML colors, for example, ranges from 0x000000 (complete absence of color, i.e. black) to 0xFFFFFF (full saturation, i.e. white). Would his argument, then, be that because black is a result of absence of color, it is not a color? How would he m...
The thing about Albrecht is that he is just a charismatic geek. He loves doing geeky stuff, not because it's hip or trendy at the time, but because he enjoys it. This becomes very clear if you watch "The Totally Rad Show". Kevin, on the other hand, likes technology, but it's not the same relationship. He doesn't play...
True story: When I walk by my co-worker's desk, I used to always see him on Digg. I'd say, "WTF? Why are you on Digg? Get to Reddit!" He'd say, "Meh, it works fine." I'd shake my head and walk away in disgust. We've always had this back and forth with sending each other links, but we'd always send the direct link t...
How about you actually read the bill before you mislead people?]( >Two public hearings, at least 30 days apart, have to be held before setting up municipal broadband. Any feasibility studies, plans, and such associated with the proposal have to be made available to the public before the meeting. This right here is ...
As a NC resident, it is important not to look at this decision in a vacuum. One of the more frustrating aspects of NC government is that municipalities are not necessarily independent political entities, but exist and function by the will of the General Assembly. In other words, municipalities may not do anything wi...
ARGH After this comment I'm just fucking done with this whole thread. The whole lot of you are a bunch of back-ass weirdos who make fun of the world for not embracing technology and yet you can't see the huge benefit of QR codes. You will soon have a QR on your ID badge instead of a barcode that stores some metadata ...
What bothered many developers wasn't that they were crushing competitors but that they had worse technology and, because they won, the world is forced to deal with their technology. Windows was a big step back from the state of the art at the time (it's debatable that it every really caught up; there's a reason most w...
Well, I can understand that. He does seem to be softening up and being less evil. The corporate Microsoft is a different story. Anyone into computing knows the sco warfare and the constant litigation and bullying that Microsoft does to hardware manufactures.Just very shady and uncool business practices, like when IBM a...
So now the soccer moms with internet connections will go crazy wanting to buy this prize winning bulb for this ridiculous bulb but then wait! 1-2 years down the line the technology has doubled it's efficiency for a fraction of a price. So now I go and buy the new cheap technology and make the same savings in a fractio...
Apple is in a unique position. It can sell on its brand alone which allows it to sometimes sell products that aren't right up there in terms of specs. No other manufacturer has that luxury so their specs must be at least as good as Apple's. If Apple has BOTH the brand image AND specs then why the fuck would someone buy...
I don't think anyone should be suing anyone. All this litigious nonsense is very anti-competitive and not in the best interests of the consumer at all. But you're missing my point. There is a big different between making similar products, and making identical products. Looking specifically at the USB wall adaptor...
IBM has an entire division for IP protection. It is absolutely mind-blowing how they operate. Usually, all they do is threaten to sue for copyright infringement, and the other party agrees to pay. Most of the time, they don't even make a specific claim towards a specific infringement. Rather, they use a formula, t...
While providing power to the device (no external power supply - you CAN use one, but I don't), and transferring digital data, yes. The device works by using 2 of the stereo RCA inputs (i.e. 4 mono channels) to read a frequency-encoded signal (analog) from either CD players or turntables being played in real time. It ...
Wrong. (ish). If you're talking about analog AV and some out-of-band control, then you are correct. What's Apple's dock connector allows (through the use of different wires that are out of spec for standard USB) is for non-USB systems and devices to interact with the device. This means that it's cheaper for, say, a s...
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I'm not sure why using javascript is laughable. There's nothing stopping you from implementing end to end encryption outside of the standard SSL tunnel. You use JS to package all data and then send it in the clear. It's the same idea as SSL - it's not like SSL data uses a special internet. Edit: Nevermind, after a fe...
If modification of the JS were a common problem, e-commerce would not work since JS already has access to all your credit card info. Any page with secure info, which also used JS would be at risk. If JS is delivered securely over HTTPS, I don't see the problem with that attack. I do accept the argument that the J...
Ah, well, if it makes you feel better, I've thought about this stuff so much that posts like the one I wrote previously don't take nearly as long to write as they appear, but it did touch a nerve. One way to think of it is that the more demanding people are of their employers, the more their employers are forced to c...
chrome says my java version is 6.0.290.11. Does this mean i'm in the clear as not having java 1.7 i.e. the exploit version? I love some things about Java, but the release schedule (version management) is terrible. Depreciation support is great but client-side updates are embarrassingly fragmented. Your comment here i...
Exactly, that's why I don't like it when people get the wrong impression; especially when the Java runtime syntax is very prone to these types of attacks. Hell, the project I have on Github could be used for malicious intent; which allows you to invoke private methods extremely easily - now, we also know the JVM is big...
Java is not 'shit'. The syntax is remarkable the same compared with C++; if you read the white books the annoyances of such language are removed (header files, structs) the pointer operator is removed but still reserved - you can still use pointer in [Java reflection]( If you look carefully at Java's history you'll see...
The government has nothing to do with this. Youtube implemented its own copyright removal tool which allows media companies to auto remove videos, subject to youtubes internal rules. As a reward for this thing, youtube doesn't ever get sued, even if it is easy to find copyrighted material on youtube. Youtube still f...
I agree that none of those four reasons are sufficient explanations. In my opinion, to redistribute another's work, even though it requires just a marginal amount of energy or time, is a violation of the mutual trust between the producer and me. The producer uses their creative ability and technical skill to create...
Gold has a much more intrinsic value because it's ingrained in culture and meshes well with the human psyche. Gold has the dual attributes of being shiny and a status symbol due to being relatively uncommon and wearable. Women are attracted to men with high status, shiny things and wearable objects that show off to...
What about the fact that people who download movies are the biggest consumer of them, in real form, for money? Your whole argument is based on the belief that downloading a movie is equal to lost revenue. I'll concede this is true in very small amount (1 downloaded movie != $40 in lost revenue). This is a fallacy that'...
I've seen too many responses of "downloaders want free stuff" and "justifying theft" etc... There is more to the cost of content than the price placed on it by a retailer. There is the opportunity cost of acquiring the content. For example, Baen publishes via electronic means as well as print. The electronic versi...
He doesn't seem quite right... Kind of like an eccentric millionare. Also, seeing as >"A chemistry lab, $20,000 in cash and a stock of firearms were found in the house..." I wouldn't be surprised.
It's all about timeframes. Lets say you patent a new steering column for a car, and release it. GM sees it, decides to use it, and begins itegrating into its new car designs. A best case scenario would take 6 months before the cars hit the road. So here's the first timeframe: the time between deciding you are interes...
I. Software patents are ridiculously easy to find prior art for and all are obvious II. There are "5 million restrictions" based on 250k patents that would take 2 million patent attorneys working full time to check all of them. It would be impossible to check every patent if you are an inventor.
I'm not the guy you asked, but my understanding of the situation is that the number of lawyers far exceeds the need atm and so new lawyers are pretty much stuck getting the law equivalent of a post-doc. Except law school is expensive and those types of positions are usually heavy drivers of people away from academia to...
See, you might have fooled these other guys, but I think you're actually an atheist. The way you talk just smacks of atheist confirmation-smearing propaganda. Which I'm not entirely against, I just think that its bound to occur in some places and this fits the bill.
The two convicted of rape were juveniles and not subject to the same punishments as adults who commit the same crime. The juvenile justice system is very different than the adult criminal justice system because it, in part, assumes that children do not have the capacity to make their own decisions and be held to the sa...
This article is ridiculously biased. I too am biased, and in the same way as the article, but this is too much, even for an opinion piece: >Rape can be constituted as a war crime, according to the United Nations. It is among the worst offenses one human can commit upon another. Hacking, on the other hand, while maybe...
The people that can afford to ruin for election are, for the most part, backed by third party donors with separate interests. Regardless of who you vote for you're still going to have someone who is beholden to the highest bidder. Unless there's a way to match the lobbying power of the copyright industry with our own p...
If you already have a DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure in your area, then the cost to give you more speed is not reliant on the last-mile infrastructure, but rather on the ISP's capacity (but only to a certain point). Increasing speeds always requires more capacity on the backend, but the actual cost can vary greatly. Comcast...
According to some rough math I just did 4k video (which will be pointless to stream for a very very long time to come due to LCD limitations, not to mention video processing client side) needs 4-6 times the amount of bandwidth of a 1920*1080 video. Depending on the compression used a HD video needs 2-6 Mb/s so worst ca...
Gbps not GBps. Gb is Gigabit and GB is gigabyte. There are 8 bits to a byte. so since a Gigabyte = 2^10 megabytes, a gigabit = 2^7 megabytes.
This is whats gonna happen: TW's aol offered dial-up. They still do offer that for those who want dial-up. That business model is still profitable for them. They rake in approx [$150 million] ( per quarter. Likewise, they will continue to offer their shitty cable broadband in areas free of any considerable compet...
I know this thread is getting old, but Comcast story here. In August of '11, my roommate I sign up for a packaged deal, tv and internet. In December '11, we had an issue with our bill, called in, guy was real nice and helpful and actually put us on a better deal (we were shocked about this). We get a letter around ...
You only need 9Mbps to stream 1080p content. If you have 30Mbps (like I do), you can stream 3 full 1080p movies at the same time. If you play games online up stream speeds are more important, but still not significant. If I had 1Gbps bandwidth, I can stream over 100 full HD movies or download a full HD movie in a matte...
it will take a 5 yrs to a decade for some carrier to license, possibly add rights-of-way, run the CEQA gauntlet (California), provision, and deliver 100mb. By the time it is available we will be streaming at the very minimum 4K HD or some holographic google-glass bullshit at which point 100mb will be as useful as the...
So, theres no good damn reason why the faster the speed, the more expensive right? Stop scamming us with your useless excuses. Sure you dont need 1Gbps, but some people would like to use it like LAN centers, or big LAN parties, or a group of streamers in a home. This also favors the concept of "Cars? Who needs them, ...
I'll assume you need Linux support. Intel chipset drivers, if I recall, are in the typical kernel, so there should be no issue there. The same goes with the Realtek Ethernet driver. Intel Graphics? If someone can let me know on that, I'd be grateful, but last I checked, there should be drivers available.
IPTV in 4k/8k. Watching one show, recording another, possibly recording yet another thing too, all while a few other users at home also use the connection for regular internet applications such as gaming/video or audio chat (requires low delay), downloading stuff (takes up a lot of bandwidth) or even streaming someth...
This is a trick to get people to like comcast. I am sure of it. It would be one thing if they said "The industry needs to have some work on it" but he specifically said Google Fiber. Anyone of the current ISPs are capable of lowering their prices and increasing their speeds. But they aren't going to be the ones to do i...
It has been reported that the NSA has specifically targeted encrypted messages for long term storage. Encryption might be the worst thing to do if you are looking to stay under the radar. The best bet is to not use electronic communication for anything you wouldn't want to see at trial. Nobody of course wants to con...
It's not an argument of "either have complex features or not". It's a matter of deciding the best way to bring those features to the user. If I can install a completely new application with only one command line (or a nice GUI manager).. then there is no problem.
I personally dislike ads, but am aware that people like you are giving me fucking awesome things for nothing. I run without Ad-block, and even sometimes click ads if it look's interesting (gasp). I'm pretty happy with your site with ads, and happy to be throwing money at you via kickstarter as well. I don't feel enti...
I've only had one issue with amazon customer service and it was with a foreigner who couldn't understand me (born and raised in the US with no recognizable regional difficult accent such as New England Area or "deep southern" drawl). Other than that it has been a breeze. My favorite part is I've never had to "wait fo...