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Okay, the amount of nerd bashing in the news is just tiresome, regardless of whether or not someone made bad mistake. When you piecemeal a project out, integration problems are bound to happen. This didn't directly give anyone access to any personal information. They would still need to answer 3 security questions. I...
There's a lot of overhead in hiring an employee. Not to mention paperwork for termination of a worker. By hiring a company on contract, the workforce is completely flexible to the operational demands (ideally). So that's when staffing companies step in, take over all that "HR" stuff, and take their cut from the worke...
It's hard to express these ideas in short articles like this one, and she's not the best person to do it. I'm not either. As I understand it, the problem isn't just unemployment, and its not that people are being devalued. It's in fact the opposite - that people are now valued instead of their skills or majors. S...
were they lying about the permissions? didnt sound like it to me, and i'm pretty sure android programming doesnt even allow that.. If someone didn't read the permissions, this is a learning experience. Defending yourself against this something that comes with our connected world. Computer users know that they aren't re...
blacklisting permission breaks apps sometimes, and can cause issues. For example almost every game wants to know your phonestate (so it can mute/pause itself for incoming calls) but if the average user reads that as "this app is going to monitor my calls" and opts out it makes android look unstable when their game do...
With a $1,000 genome, you can get a person's unique DNA sequence. With this comes about 2-3 TB or data, depending on coverage and quality. What does it mean to me? For about $10,000, currently, you can get 100x coverage sequence. This means that on average, every single nucleotide in your genome is covered 100x t...
Candy Crusher was a totally different style of video game and CandySwipe definitely does not infringe on Candy Crusher unless you allow them to trademark just "Candy" anything. CandySwipe was uniquely different than Candy Crusher in game and in name. There is no confusion. King released a 100% clone copying images ...
Google automated, systemic email reading is very different. Take the Educational account snooping recently the subject of a lawsuit against them. The TOS say 'we wont snoop', yet they then file financial documents that disclose they are in fact tracking students to create advertising and marketing profiles. This ca...
You can start with the Communications Act of 1934 and work your way forward.
i'm not trying to be mean but, this has been posted before with a different source: here are some of the comments: I hope that doesn't link to my LONE post.
You, me, everyone using Reddit, and the internet in general, stands to benefit. More specifically, if you are paying to use any internet based service, (for example: streaming anything) it won't matter how fast your internet is, if the providing company isn't paying for access to the "fast lane" then you might not be...
Also worth noting that AOL users have had, and still have some of the better "anonymity" online by default. This isn't their goal, but it is an interesting side effect. Basically when you're connected to AOL your traffic exits via their servers. I'm not saying you can't track people back, but your incoming IP will a...
You could stop using those companies. Stop being their product. If enough product disappears from their inventory, they cease to exist and the abuse eventually stops because no company will want the reputation of invading user or customer privacy because they won't be a company for very long if everyone leaves.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this flop simply due to the lack of style from [Amazon's Brand]( (really...on a phone? [EW!]( It just doesn't look pretty and Amazon has never tried/had to look like that until now. [Their website]( feel isn't stylish at all. When people buy a mobile phone, style is one of the biggest fac...
There was a few discussions on Reddit a few months ago that seemed to confirm that PIA was indeed actually collecting plenty of information on its subscribers and deliberately lying about it. Sorry to burst your bubble. I think using a non-US based VPN service is probably a safer solution because they would not be ...
Here's the thing. People seem to eat the Netflix propaganda straight up and I understand that the situation is shitty in USA but Internet has been about exchanging data and there for more or less self regulating. Netflix does not do this, they BROADCAST and eat up all bandwidth. So bottle necks will quickly be exposed ...
I'm all for net neutrality, but things are not as simple as depicted in the comic. Yes, it's true that your drivelane (the copper wire or fibre to your house, or the waves in the air) can handle much bigger bandwidths than are used/provided by the ISP. It's like having a kilometer- (or mile)-wide drivelane and you're...
EDIT : My point is that the reason the HiveMind wants Net-Neutrality legislation is ultimately because they are resistant to the idea of people paying extra for faster speeds, mostly because in the current market mechanism created by state & local governments this could conceivably lead to the government-created & en...
Isn't the root of these problems corrupted regulations? It was the state and municipal governments that made the deals which allowed these monopolies-by-area. Maybe just trash those regulations and strictly limit the FCC's power. Let smaller companies compete to bring better service to the big and small towns, inclu...
You also have no idea whats been gained, and more importantly at what costs. You can assume in either the positive or negative direction, ut either way its an assumption. So until they do release more results all we know is that there is no proof that has any real significant benefit. And since we know the NSA is smart...
I guess you didn't notice I said nothing about unenlightened or disliking it I am excited to see people disliking something for irrational reasons, because if everyone was only excited about a new technology without thinking or understanding it's pitfalls and/or abuses, we would never be able to anticipate and correc...
Does that give him the chance to go outside, take a piss, eat something and then get back on the stand? Always wondered how that works with filibusters. senate rules have lots of quirks etc but
You need to understand why you are voting in the first place. If your vote is about how best a candidate will serve you exclusively (your race, sex, religion, profession, etc...etc..), than you are not voting for what is best for the country, but what gets you the most privilege in a shared society. To put it more su...
I don't understand why you linked Bernie Sanders voting record. Because for the left-leaning on /r/eddit, he is being heralded as the greatest thing since sliced bread. > Especially those 3, two aren't even relevant. All 3 give expanded power to the federal government in regards to domestic surveillance or contro...
You're right the framers did design the Senate.. but the senate was only a part of the overall design of the whole federal government. I'm afraid we removed almost all of the checks on the senate when the 17th amendment was passed. House directly represents the people, Senate directly represents the state government...
Rand Paul is a libertarian, well sort of. As such while he wants to get rid of the patriot act, he also wants to get rid of a lot of things that aren't the patriot act. The fact that you or I agree with him on this particular issue doesn't mean we'd agree with him on other issues.
Aren't a large number of Android phones locked such that a user can't update to the newest Android OS release. They are not locked to the release. The manufacturer simply has not updated the Android that works on that phone. Analogy: Think of it as if Dell does not release Windows 7 drivers for that laptop. Sure, y...
I'm not disagreeing with Billy Boy here, but it's important to remember that when we're talking about generating energy from renewable sources, having a high efficiency is no big deal. With fossil fuels, we are happy to have increased efficiency at the cost of a more sophisticated system because we pay for our fuel. ...
Lol, so i present you with legal arguments and actual facts, and you return insults to prove you are right. Put that hat back on buddy, you are flat out wrong on both elections. I don't like it, I don't like him, but thats how our system works, and if you don't like it, change the system, don't cry like a child beca...
A nationwide fiber to the home network is being built with government assistance in Australia, but is more and more being portrayed as a waste of money and will be scrapped when the current opposition regain government, which is an absolute certainty (put a billion on it). The opponents argue that "how can you guaran...
Here , and how many of those they complied with (likely because they were legally required to -- as a company, they have to follow the law in countries in which they do business). There's also statistics on takedown requests, but it's semi-unrelated to your question.
G+ is a place for me to be unmistakably me. In contrast, I'd never use reddit with my real name. They are different environments for different types of interactions. Anonymous speech is important, but it isn't always appropriate. There need to be places where everyone is who they say they are and places where you c...
i've always wondered what would happen if the reddit community elected a few people who gave forth all their personal info and showed true courage and humility so we could investigate and assure ourselves these chosen people are not corruptable. they are beyond corruption, they really do want to help us with our main g...
If an artist agrees to the terms of uploading content, a contract is formed. It's been a while since law school for me, but I would think that maliciously and fraudulently interfering with performance of the contract here would be provable, as might be the more general tortious business interference. As for the contr...
The only disadvantage here is that there are a lot of features being taken away here. For example, in Windows Live Mesh, you could sync two pcs without syncing to the cloud and there were no limits to how big the files could be or the overall storage space. With the new SkyDrive app you can't do that, you need to up...
There is a campaign against this going on right now but unfortunately Ireland is a small country and we just cant seem to get the large numbers to raise awareness on a global level about this kind of ignorant law making. This was not properly debated in government and Sean Sherlock has ignored the people. Even going so...
This really needs clarification. Ireland did not just sign SOPA into law. The minister signed new legislation to bring Irish copyright law in line with the EU's. This legislation has been implemented in almost every other EU country, and no detrimental effects appear to have come as a result.
Prior to 2003, managers who exercised only professional supervision of others (e.g. IT managers) were not considered supervisors. Subsequent to a Supreme Court decision, any person who basically has any managerial power is considered a supervisor. A supervisor is anyone who has power to hire, fire, reward, or pun...
The name is well known and an obvious attempt to take advantage well known Hasbro name brand via free advertising. That's not how trademark law works. You're allowed to have a name that's similar to another company's provided it is unlikely that the original trademark holder would lose business to the similarly named...
This is the dumbest thing I've seen on reddit today. Gold star. The fact that you have so many upvotes is very disturbing. Guess philosophy class let out early today. Since your view seems to be popular allow me to explain to you kids what the problem here is. >Governments represent their people and people shoul...
Uhm I worked as a mechanic/technician at NASA for 4 years. There are already stationary versions of this tool in existence. There's a reason why the machines I use every day don't move like the one in the video clip - they don't have to. You make a single bend, take the pipe out of the machine, reposition the pipe, t...
I'm going to take this opportunity to start declaring that fully free markets are a terrible idea. With or without monopolies businesses always find ways to make sure that they screw over the customers in ways not predicted in your Econ 101 course. Sometimes they will offer choices that are beyond the customer's co...
Unless business systems start looking after themselves, tech support isn't going anywhere. If anything, all these so called skilled computer workers are going to generate a renaissance in support in environments where their fuck ups cannot be tolerated. Think highly locked down systems to protect the business from the ...
The difference between Apple and Nokia is that for things like say, the speed at which Siri works, being sped up in the commercial is because they don't have the time to fully explain the story of a user's interaction with the service. Which, really Siri doesn't usually even take that long. Where Nokia went wrong was...
You really are better off with separate devices, this type of tablet will be 'meh' at dealing with both productivity and entertainment needs. I've gone through a Samsung Series 7 Slate with Windows 8/7 dual booting and my old LE1600 doing the same (ancient 2005 tablet PC), and can verify that Windows 8 style tablets ...
I would strongly disagree with that. These people would not move such a huge factory to a country simply for being an English speaking nation. Plus, Irelannd's educated workforce is not educated in Tech. The "brain drain" in Ireland is how we refer to the fact that students came out of University with useless degrees. ...
That story again? >This guy[1] was months AHEAD on his payments They goofed, charged him fees totaling over $13,000, then foreclosed. No, the bank received an incorrect document from First American Real Estate (a title company) regarding property taxes and adjusted their system accordingly. The error was never cau...
I think Window's biggest failure is in it's success. I remember the big rush to get Win95 and I think it was because Win 3.1 was terrible. Win 7 is...pretty good. Vista had troubles because XP was pretty good, and there were a few features that were confusing to people who didn't know what they were for ("I told you to...
Grammatically , it would seem that the first subject -- the O.R. co-founder -- was the one who was "trying to escape the police." Maybe I read it without using "common sense." I read the title objectively, i.e. without bias toward the gang or giving the benefit of the doubt to the O.R. co-founder. The title led me...
Actually it's not. It has been a cause for profound bewilderment on my part how oblivious the united states on many societal levels are about the fact that they are NOT in fact actually the center of the world. To have elected officials say (into news cameras no less) that "you don't need to worry we just spy on the ...
It's sensationalist BS, most countries haven't set up their own internet backbone because its EXTREMELY expensive to install and maintain. Also the idea that other countries will create Facebook/Google clones is funny. China and Russia have ones because guess what? They speak a different language! It's a little hard to...
Yes. Don't believe a word of the U.S. Government. But believe the word of other governments. Newsflash. Every single country in the world spies, and cooperates with each other. They will never admit it. Just as the U.S. Government will ever admit to its secret programs. Propaganda article full of half truths. ...
You need to declare yourself sovereign or leave the country then, unless you are ok with being ruled without consent. The authority isn't forcing you to live under it, so your inaction is essentially consenting to its authority. But with that consent you earn the right to take part in the process of building the govern...
why is this in technology? anywho, I really think that in all, this has blown up in the faces off the people we trusted. It's funny Obama showed great remorse and supported the whole "Don't trend on our internet activities". He veto'ed the whole NSA Surveillance like bills (CISPA,SOPA, etc.) and won the internet's he...
Nothing's happened yet and the drive reports as perfectly fine, all of those SSD-health check programs state that my drive'll probably last until 2017 at this rate. This is only relevant to flash wearing due to writes. It doesn't say anything about any other internal components failing. > Most of the complaints abo...
I don't get the interest in BitTorrent sync who would use this garbage? Just set up a linux server with full disk encryption, open SSH through your firewall, and then use Folder Sync for android to SCP sync your phone. There are hundreds of OSS applications for Windows/Mac that can sync those devices as well. I've d...
As harsh as the game itself is, I've found the playerbase to be one of the most welcoming. It's kind of like a cocaine addiction. Everyone who does coke loves when other people do coke. Makes them feel better about doing coke.
No! You do not buy GTX 770/780s or Radeon R9-290/290Xs to do Solidworks and AutoCAD! If it's a serious engineering build, it's Quadro or FirePro - the cards that actually have certification from the companies that write those programs. Xeons also enjoy a dominant market share, while they are a rarity in gaming rigs. No...
No that is incorrect. Network such as ATT and Verizon runs 700mhz - 850 mhz - 1700/2100 mhz - 1900mhz networks (those two practically have all of the 850 spectrum) for the past 20+ years whereas Sprint and T-mobile never ran any sub 1ghz spectrum. Cellular 850 and the like (700/800mhz) have far superior building pen...
This isn't completely accurate. It depends on your perspective on the major carriers. Yes, Verizon has a larger and more ubiquitous footprint, but since AT&T was later to the game for LTE they are using newer technology like RRU's that provide a more powerful service. Also while Verizon focused on the larger coverage e...
I was living in Florida years ago when they had like 3 hurricanes that came up the west coast one right after the other. I'm assuming a bunch of Sprint towers were damaged, because after the storms were over, I could only get service in about a 3-square-foot spot at the end of my driveway. Anywhere else in town, it d...
Yeah... I had TMobile for 6 years and I just switched to AT&T because I didn't get a signal at all in my apartment... which is in Midtown OR at work which is downtown. I dealt with the bad cell service for so long because they had great CUSTOMER service and were always willing to adjust your plan, but about 6 months b...
As loooong time loyal fan and customer of T-mobile I had to cancel my contract with them earlier this year because I moved to Asia. They assured me that since I'd been with them so long (7 years) that it would be no problem waiving my early termination fees. All I had to do was show proof that I'm infact living in Asia...
T-Mobile does so have contracts, they're just not a contract in the traditional sense. They have what could be described as a device balance and that's what Verizon and ATT could pay off to combat T-Mobile. You get a phone at a reduce or zero dollar rate and agree to pay an additional amount every month. If you can...
I switched from AT&T in April. Paid $600 in ETFs. I'm now paying $125 for 5 lines with 250% more data and minutes vs. the about $138 for 2 lines. Family pays me $25/ea for the 3 extra lines of service - so I'm saving almost $90/mo. Beats the hell out of waiting 18 months for my contract to be up. Not to mention th...
Ex verizon employee here. T Mobile tried to pull this stunt way back in the day and it was awesome because all the people who switched over, realized they had the absolute worst coverage and then switched back almost immediately. I got triple my activation quota. My commission checks were thru the roof.
I currently have T-mobile and since I have been with pretty much every carrier (most recently, Verizon) I feel somewhat qualified to say in terms of coverage, there are weak points and soft points in every network. T-mobile doesn't seem any worse than any other network and seems considerably better than Sprint to me. ...
The thing is though, everyone knows how volatile it is. There isn't a single person that goes into bitcoin without at least knowing that the whole point of bitcoin is to jump in low and jump out high. Volatile markets can be lucrative, but I'd never depend on them for long term investments, and if I did, I'd at least...
I can use a good example of mobile companies here in Alberta. We have Rogers wireless, Bell mobility, and Telus Mobility as the three main companies. There are a few pre-paid services as well (though most owned are own by the 3 above). The companies offer the exact same price plans, at the exact same rates. They have...
but for me this was in the category of photographing someone in public". For us Germans it is also in the same category. It's just that you can't pick up a camera and photograph people in public spaces here. You can get a prison sentence for up to a year besides facing civil action. The law was made when in 1898 two P...
Just because some vocal friends complain about gay marriage loudly and persistently every time they hear a rant on their AM radio doesn't make them right, nor does it make that a relevant warning flag. Google news in particular is an area where you have to have especially good information literacy skills when reading...
Well I'll be the outlier here and say that I run a blog, and the best user response I've had yet is on Google+. People seem to think it's such a ghost town, but on Facebook my page never gets likes or reshares, whereas when I post on Google+ the same thing it gets +1s and reshares. As a blog owner, it makes it really...
Is this really a problem you are seeing? I was pretty sure I used this effectively yesterday and so to make sure, I tried it just now. It works still. Maybe it's a search setting. Dunno. I even tried putting in some random search in quotes and got the message nothing came up for that but if you remove the quotes here a...
I grew up in a house that was 50% wood heated. I've split a lot of wood over the years. For those who have, I'm sure they can relate. The initial split of the log is the difficult part (let's assume we are starting with an average 18" diameter oak log). For that task, a maul is needed to create those first cracks dow...
Because business is an emergent property of society which literally selects against morality. To view business in terms of morality is a critical flaw. If you want to deal with businesses, you have to deal with businesses on their terms, and that means eliminating the concept of morality itself. This is how I piss ...
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has donated $76,000 to Democrats since 2006, compared to $13,500 in contributions to Republicans. He’s golfed with Obama on Martha’s Vineyard, served on the president’s Jobs Council, and appeared at a number of White House meetings on business and technology. Throughout the 2012 cycle, Com...
Being able to watch someone type a rudimentary sequence of characters into a computer is not hacking. Saying otherwise just shows you've not gone to the trouble of educating yourself.
There's an actual mechanical fan inside the ring, which is spun by a motor in the base. There are intake and exhaust ports at the front and back of the ring, all around the edges. They're not really all that revolutionary. The fan is actually in the base. There is not intake on the ring itself (unless you count the h...
I suppose it's too much to ask for people to pay more attention to their surroundings. I drive a low car, and it's difficult to see past pickups and SUVs, but I do my damnedest to know what the next car (at the very least) is doing. I often see brake lights before my traffic neighbors, and start to slow down earlier th...
With the source, it's trivially unencrypted. And the source is in the torrent. Sites are already doing analysis on the unencrypted passwords. I mean, it's DES, it's not hard to brute force: Expect some major sites that store users' payment info to be brute force attacked with all of those logins soon, with the in...
Simple. The size of the areas that need to be serviced. Running fiber optic cabling is expensive. However, I think the government should get off its ass and offer massive startup grants for people who are willing to start an ISP. Personally I'm tired of this cable/DSL bullshit. FTN (Fiber to the Node) networks suck. ...
A couple thoughts: IBM has done something pretty nifty, with some obvious applications. I expect in a few years, telephone customer service will become a lot less annoying. The thing they were saying about medical records is probably true too. But I really don't think this is any sort of Turing test, or true AI. Se...
Deep Blue only defeated Kasparov on paper the actual result of the match should have been a draw. In game 2 Deep Blue made two very uncomputer like moves 37.Be4 (strategic move refusing to take material advantage) and 44.Kf1 (The king has 2 places it can go, playing Kf1 gives black the option to draw the game by perpet...
Please point to something in my posting history that suggests I'm a shill for Microsoft. Perhaps you'll find my postings complaining how RIM have lost their way over the last five years. When I was shopping for a house last year Bing was a lot more useful than Google. For routing I still prefer Google. I'm sorry tha...
I skimmed the 1st Circuit's opinion. The Court of Appeals didn't necessarily disagree with the judge that such awards could be unconstitutional. Its more of a finger wagging to the district court for not trying to resolve the case on non-constitutional grounds first. Courts are supposed to employ the "canon of const...
I didn't downvote you but calling it "M$" is extremely lame and tired. Also a large Linux deployment in an enterprise environment is just asking for trouble. Linux is great and is much better than Windows is certain environments, but the same can be said for Windows. Paying an IT staff to support a Linux environment ...
I think the basic problem with all these sorts of ponderings is a fundamental misunderstanding about "artificial intelligence". The "intelligence" produced by computers is far more meaningfully called simulated intelligence. But no matter how convincing a simulation may become, it remains a simulation. The holodec...
This data is presented to make the look as bad as possible. It really isn't worth losing sleep over, IMHO. >"45 per cent is spent finding and uploading the user's location with GPS then downloading location-appropriate ads over a 3G connection." Emphasis mine Everyone needs to know that GPS uses a huge amount of...
I believe that increasing NASA's budget without ensuring that they focus on worthwhile endeavors, like the upkeep and expansion of the International Space Station or cleaning up space junk. I understand that many great and useful inventions have been found in the quest for technologies to be used in space regardless of...
I agree that a business model such as the one you present would simply not be viable without the enforcement of copyright law. However, there are an infinite amount of (mostly) unexploited business models which have the potential to be far more viable under copyright abolition (vs the status quo). Further more, the...
It's a good question that requires a little background information. After Smith , the federal government passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) as an attempt to undo its holding. Essentially, RFRA said the government couldn't substantially burden religious exercise even with rules of general applicability...
Yeah, it's called "Doing Business As," or DBA for short. Most jurisdictions require filing of some kind of DBA form just to make sure there aren't any businesses with the same exact name operating in the same area. The paperwork fee is typically anywhere from free to $50 for a one-time filing. In my area, you're requ...
I think it's absolutely false to say the quality and motives are the same or that they're morally equivalent. There are plenty of studies that show file sharers spend more on music. I think that's very good evidence that the motives are not at all the same. A lot of people already own a copy but don't have the knowl...
Test PAC, Please Ignore explains why their original Anti-Lamar billboard was rejected.](
I used to be the only kid in school that didn't have cable. People would talk about all of these tv shows and I would have no idea what they were talking about. My family finally got cable about 6 months ago and... I hardly use it at all. I only really watch two shows and only because the tv screen is larger than my co...
My fear is that on the way down it will just become increasingly important for news stations to have polarized overly sensationalized stories to keep people interested, actual educational content will completely go away as their target audience is the first to abandon the medium, and shallow, cheap to produce shows lik...
Sounds very cool, but this is not what you would expect from the title of the article. The camera delivers exactly that, images of obscured objects, but it does have some drawbacks. The first of which is that a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to take the picture. This is a stochastic optimization method that can take th...
Well, I double checked and, barring a revolutionary cryptographic break, [AES would take more than 1 quintillion (1 billion billion) years]( Which is no accident, as [what we know as AES today was one of many candidates for that title]( Really, if you're curious, the wikipedia article is, as always, awesome : Conf...
can someone dumb down and/or
95% coupling is still damn good even for small electrical components that are explicitly designed to couple power via magnetic fields. The transformers used in power supplies "wirelessly" transfer power over less than an inch and generally don't get 95% efficiency when you consider losses due to hysteresis and heat! ...