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actually no; you are wrong. Resistance is not tied in any way to voltage/current intensity. It is determined by the length , area, material of conductor. Losses on the conductor are determined by the resistance, and current passing trough it. So , to reduce power loss trough a conductor you must either decrease it's re...
it is what will matter to the users of the device I agree, it matters to a large swathe of unimaginative and uneducated users. I read an amazing comment by a die-hard android user who "got an iPhone and hated it.... until he loved it". He talked about how he used to spend his time tweaking live wallpapers and procras...
This brought up a very interesting realization in my life. I grew up in a smaller town in Idaho. I left the area when i turn 23 - ish, but i have been traveling a lot and living in different areas in the last 3 years. I can flat out say that nothing changes in Idaho, when I grew up there in the 90's the area was stuck ...
Ok so the link I posted was a good review I found and linked to but the real message is this. I put a brand new out the box note 2 in the defender and the phone is now scratched in two ways. The screen has scratches from grit and dirt which has come in under the built in screen protector through the home button hole wh...
Lets examine what a dealership does, shall we? You buy your car from them, with a mark up. True, though its probably less than you'd think. And this is about as far as people get when they look at this issue, though maybe you've put more thought than the average person into this topic. People have a tendency to overlo...
Well, it was getting pretty progressive for a long while and now we're subject to Republican ironsights in order to turn it's blue lean into a red one again.
Anyone who wants to understand how and why the car dealer laws got onto the books the way they are really needs to read up on how Ford and GM treated the dealers in the early parts of the automotive revolution. Both Ford and GM would regularly force the dealerships to buy models that weren't selling, or threatened to...
Germany tried that yet with the [ CargoLifter ](
It' a diminishing returns issue too. We've already spent time and money setting up the infrastructure to stop the easy stuff, buying guns, building walls, hiring soldiers. The problem is every official is constantly trying to figure out what they're going to do next year to help the world become more secure. the increm...
I'm favorable for the automatic driving cars but also very cautious at the same time. I enjoy driving and I do not want that right to drive freely taken away from me. But what truly scares me and what I highly doubt anyone is actually taking into account is how these cars are maintained. I work in a repair shop a...
This is a extremely important issue for me, I'm a professional racecar driver (I'm not going to say which one hence the throwaway, I'll hopefully be doing a AMA once my race season ends some time next year) and cars are a huge part of my life every day involves me driving somewhere, training for racing, looking at cars...
You're mistaking the technology of today for the technology of tomorrow. Expert systems are going to become the norm in practically every situation where complex or high-speed decisions need to be made, and you'll think it's suicidal to have your cancer diagnosed and a treatment regimen selected by just a human doctor ...
Right. There have been times when I've seen deer running through a field and getting ready to cross the road. I saw them getting close, so I prepared and slowed down. A Google car wouldn't see that coming. I've also seen kids playing basketball in a driveway and the ball started bouncing towards the street, so I sl...
Assuming that this suit does not get tossed out immediately, this would be terrible news for the internet as a whole. User-submitted content can be leveraged directly for profits, but it can also be used contextualize and improve existing data. Who gets to make the determination of which sites profit directly off the...
That's absolutely untrue that things will even out in 20 years. Space is fucking hard. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to be successful. 60 years of experience is the difference between NASA sending dozens of successful missions scattered across the galaxy and the Chinese struggling with a lunar rover. NASA ...
The coffee was 180-190 °F. Additionally she originally wanted to settle for $20,000 but McDonald's offered $800. She made the offer to settle several more times, and a mediator suggested $225,000. McDonald's refused. It went to trial and a jury awarded her a total of over $2.7 million (calculated by awarding her ...
I support net neutrality and Title II classification. There, I wanted to make sure everyone understood where I was coming from when I said: The article got a lot of details correct that so many others seem to be fucking up. It makes a number of points, some of which I agree with, and some of which I question. \...
Just x-posting my impressions from another thread: It sucks. Action is ok, but being PG-13 hurts that part of it pretty badly. Worst visual effects i have seen in a long time, too. Aside from the cast, it's direct-to-dvd quality at best. As for Ronda, her acting is as bad as you can imagine, but she's pretty hot in...
Well funded you say... but they won't be, not if this keeps up. The difference, is that this will break the movie industry; it won't break the music world. In the music world, it's the labels and the producers who get ripped off when you download a song, not the artist. The artists gets maybe a dollar per full CD sal...
The real competition right now is between Spacex and existing launch service providers in Russia, Europe and the US. This has previously been a pretty seriously stagnant market, but Spacex seems to be doing a job of breaking into industry and giving the old-guard aerospace firms a run for their money. There's also a sm...
I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been downvoted for saying this. There was a post about how some politicians were shareholders AND regulators of AT&T, Verizon, Comcast couple of days ago where OP was demanding change instead of going out there and enacting it. You won't change anything by writin...
IPViking is a security company. At it's basic level they have connectivity to tens of thousands of backbone points around the world. They can see where traffic is going and they know which traffic is bad. They collect and monitor about 19 terrabytes a day. Some details over here:
Uh. cool website but it's really just a novelty. 1500 - 2000 telnet attacks isn't shit for a medium size well admined server. The app has to be getting data from volunteers "of course" and you can't get shit if you're dosed.
The headline and content grossly oversimplifies this subject to make an easy point. Yes, end-to-end crypto on a web site is untrustworthy. That's because a malicious party could spoof the web site with a man-in-the-middle attack and replace the crypto code with surveillance code. [Security experts have been saying th...
The appeal of Keurig is that it perfectly makes one cup of coffee, quickly, meaning you don't have to brew an entire pot. I'm aware of those single cup drip gadgets that sit atop a coffee mug. With those, you still have to measure out how much grounds to put in the filter and how much hot water to pour in. Keurig's cup...
Executive summary: We are sorry you didn't buy as much DRM as we expected. DRM is not the problem, only the limited DRM coffee choice is the problem. We will make more DRM coffee type cups available and also make available a new reusable DRM cup at a cost of only $119.95.
There is a very good reason the firm wants to have a healthy, big, stock price. Especially if they need to grow, or invest heavily in research. For you, a high stock price means, "Apple stock is expensive... rich fucks." For the firm, a high stock price means, "Hey, our cost of equity capital is low, we can fund lo...
The Vue, and the 2.0 both failed because of arrogance. I only use refillable cups, the concept is great, but their efforts to further corner the market is why I hate Green Mountain and Starbucks. Instrumental in making coffee culture popular, Starbucks has destroyed Coffee by taking it in the direction of Folgers with ...
Coffee is a want, not a need. If we lived in a world where crude oil were severely limited, coffee would be prohibitively expensive for most people. We'd instead consume locally produced foods only. As it is, we don't care. Coffee comes from across the seas for cheap. Grounds come in pods. Garbage goes away. Fue...
So I was interested in how long it takes to break even using a Keurig vs a Cone filter (single cup). I've never owned a Keurig or even used one so I don't understand why they are popular. I looked up costs: Keurig K130 = $50 Keurig Pods (per pod) = $.65 Cone = $5 Filter (per filter)= $.03 Coffee (per cup)...
Lawyer here. You're technically correct, but I think people might misunderstand what you're saying. Corporate folks (e.g., the Board of Directors) absolutely do have a fiduciary responsibility to do what's in the best interest of the shareholders. This means that while they don't have to maximize shareholder value EX...
Not really. Or at least, not in this case. Its summary included nothing about the stock drop, the CEO's quote, or the lower sales. You know, the interesting bits. The extended summary is good, but the posted
I could barely understand this blog post; the author should go back and add in a few commas. [This review from engadget]( was much easier to read and had a lot more content.
Most likely it has some sort of machine-learning/GA system that tracks various external inputs (outside temperature, time, persons who walk by/hr, etc) and varies prices according to demand trends taking into account price elasticity to determine the optimum price at any specific time to generate the most profit.
How old is your modem, is it docsis 3? How much hardware is between your computer and the modem? Two months ago I was convinced that Cox had oversold our neighborhood. At best all I ever got was 12Mbit down, at worst it went as low as <1Mbit. Cox sent a tech out. Dude takes one look at my modem and says "well t...
For some clarification to this conversation you two are having: Monitoring internet download and upload speeds between the ISP hub and a localized computer(in your home) is extremely easy. Assuming no knowledge of how computers work, when data is transferred from computer to computer it is sent in Binary,commonly k...
Wow. I read 90% of the posts here. Some really great advice, but aside from one comment, nobody here has any HFC experience. I know both sides of this. Before I worked for a cable company, I was in the same boat. I finally got sick of it and became the squeaky wheel. I'd call every single time there was an issue. You s...
A few years ago I was convinced cox was overselling in our neighborhood. And for good reason -- I tested 2 modems, went on many people's wifi, and found I could get on a busy day a max speed of half a megabit with the 12mbit service they offered. After many techs confirming the problem, and finding the company denying ...
To be fair, im not exaggerating. There was some noise on my line, and after the Tech came a fixed, he used their internal speed test to get that number. Granted it was at an off peak time and I live around old people so no one other than me and my roommates has significant traffic on the lines leading to our apartment...
I don't understand why people think government can't have ulterior motives just as huge mega corporations due. Sure, the essence of the government is to work for us, but everyone here knows that isn't always the case. So why assume that's what is happening in this instance, if for only because you happen to agree wit...
While this guy does rant on and on in the worst font color's available, he does raise on very good point: >Recognize a Cloud when you see it. Are you paying for these services? No? You are a sucker. You are giving people stuff for free. I pay for Vimeo and I pay for Flickr and a couple other things. This makes me a c...
Unless you are running your own server in your basement (or you own a data center), you are using the cloud to some extent. The guy isn't even talking about the 'cloud', he's talking specifically about free "software-as-a-service"s. Free online service != cloud.
Exactly! Once apon a time I had an IMAP account and an rsync account hosted on servers somewhere I didn't control. This was cool and accepted by geekdom. Now I have an IMAP account and a Dropbox account "In the Cloud", and despite being basically exactly the same configuration as before, it's no longer considered...
The attitude of "no bed of roses" is half the problem here. We're all getting used to it while the definition of public domain keeps shrinking. DMCA is an awful piece of legislation but it is no where near as disgusting as PIPA or SOPA.
I can see an exodus of US based domains and hosting from this, which is surely bad for the economy. Companies will have to decide if they want to be available to the 300 million people in the censored USA or the other 6 billion in the rest of the world.
I don't think using a foreign DNR or host would affect your susceptibility to this kind of blacklisting. Those domain names still have to be resolved, part of which is handled regionally, which is why when you purchase/update a domain name, the change doesn't happen across the globe instantaneously, it has to propagate...
Sorry but using this without someones consent or without a definate legal reason ( ie police ) is snooping. I have met enough wierd creeps who like to spy into peoples lives for thier own enjoyment or enrichment to ever condone a device like this. An rf signal detector or an EMF reader ( for the appropriate mobile ...
I would be in favor in boycotting PayPal entirely. As a mainstream alternative, Google checkout has about the same penetration I still havn't forgotten that PayPal voluntarily boycotted Wikileaks last year. More recently, PayPal thought it would be a good idea to decide what books people should be allowed t...
I'm local to the pub and I've tried to explain to everyone. This pub is infringing on someone else's creation. The name isn't theirs, the inside artwork is based on stuff that they don't own, they didn't ask for permission, the drinks names aren't even subtle puns they've just taken everything word for word. They are a...
I don't see how anything beyond life of the artist is even remotely reasonable. Unless you also disagree with the inheritance tax, can't we all agree that making one popular work of art shouldn't automatically create an art aristocracy in which you and your children have exclusive rights to publishing the content for...
My basic problem with most of this is that I've not seen any emperical information on the actual business-side of things. For example, the other day I attempted to look up how much the major studios (Time Warner, Walt Disney, Sony, Viacom, Comcast, and News Corp) make in South Korea. The claim I was trying to verify is...
Donation is just another word for legal bribe. In law school I learned that most of the ordinary financial practices that congressmen engage in would be illegal if any one else attempted them. Congressmen are exempt from all insider trading laws, and a handful of other white collar crimes as well, including financia...
The reason why people say that is because other companies are lets share, and Apple is like take-take-take=make and its mine and I own. Then they're like sue you for not patening the information.
This is where creating a larger power grid is better. As the grid gets bigger all of the fluctuations start to go away and everything smooths out a bit more. There still will be fluctuations in the power delivery but the grid can handle it if it stays within a certain percentage. I forget what number gets thrown ar...
I had an eeepc 7" I carried while hitchhiking around the US and Mexico few years ago. This little thing was tough! I sometimes even broadcasted streaming video to JTV while sleeping in fields outside truck stops. Once I dropped it in a river and just pulled the battery out for a few days to let it dry, it worked per...
TSLA has a market cap of $4.2 billion with a volatility of 46%. 46/16 = 2.9% average daily fluctuations. 2.9% of $4.2 billion is $121 million. So you guys are talking about 2.2% of an average daily stock fluctuation as if it's money falling out of someone's pocket. Even if all of this were significant, it would a...
As a 2-year IT person in my small-ass local high school...No, it probably wasn't the IT department's decision, we have bigger problems to deal with. Like keeping the computers usable, or fighting with our (obsolete as hell) website filter that stops users from getting into things they shouldn't....but also blocks such...
Actually, Schweitzer held one of the [highest approval ratings of any governor]( pretty consistently throughout his time in Helena, and there's a big push for him to run for Baucus' Senate seat next year... but here's a funny personal story about [Schweitzer's Republican predecessor]( a Governor we ACTUALLY don't like ...
Well ive been talking about our corrupt socioeconomic system and the dumbasses that run it/bend a knee to it for about 18yrs, most people were unwilling to listen because they didn't care about others, they were apathetic towards our collective well being or were just outright selfish and stupid and don't understand ho...
This happened to me a couple of years ago while my buddy and I were trying to cross over from Canada. It was pretty late at night, and this was during he transition from a drivers license to a passport as valid ID needed in order to cross. We got to the border and hand over the ID and after a couple of questions we w...
Synchronisation is not that hard part. Most multi-threaded applications just end up lock-stepped anyway. The hard part is efficiently splitting load over multiple threads. I can make two threads, one which does a hard problem and the other that puts out "multithreading woo hoo" to the console every second. That doesn't...
Good things: Android: you can do everything, we have a lot of available devices. Apple: applications won't piss you off and slow your system (also real-time audio for applications) Bad things: Android: carriers can do everything too and put crapware on your device, also you're SOL if you don't buy a Nexus...
The EFF have written extensively about TPP. A summary is here with many more articles linked in it.
I was in the military in the late 80s, working at one of those "secret" installations. The military sent its security unit to probe us. They sent cute girls to chat us up in the local bars, and rifled through the building trash (we had a massive shredder and were supposed to be shredding everything "confidential"...). ...
It's probably your isp. What alot of them won't tell you is that they use software on their networks that will throttle certain types of network traffic. They do this because people who illegally download alot will cause quite a bit of network congestion. The problem with the software they use is that it can't immediat...
If you only reward success then you teach your team to only take on tasks that present obviously overcomeable challenges (ie, easy stuff). If you encourage them to take the big risks and face the big challenges then you are far more likely to either fail or come up with something nobody else has done before. Something ...
It seems like this would cause those industries to stagnate. A free market properly regulated by the government to promote competition allows for continuous innovation and advancements in each industry. Nationalizing an industry, even if democratically, centralizes power into one place, making it easier to corrupt, and...
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There is something coming back to the community; they get the opportunity to access those toll roads. Assuming the installation is done well, it wouldn't harm anybody. The company is providing an opportunity that you wouldn't otherwise have, so there's no reason to punish them for it. In addition, toll roads are ma...
I live in a Google Fiber city, but a lot of residences don't have it yet. Apartments are charged the $300 per apartment and most choose not to allow the access to save money. So, I'm stuck with other providers that still rape my wallet. I haven't has Internet other than on my phone for 3 years now.
I think the term "competition" has no meaning here. It is a Red Herring, because there is plenty of competition. It has to do with with governments signing exclusivity agreements, I'll concede that, but beyond this, there is a larger problem. We are reaching something of a peak in required bandwidth. 10 gbps will g...
u/Kalium's answer covers it mostly, but the way I like to look at it is this: You said earlier: > Aside from downloading massive files (like a game that might take 15 min. And how often does one download massive files?), what needs to be faster? Today, you don't download large files often because they might ta...
Well if you are not a US resident, I would do some research and see if your country has any preventative measures against ISPs regulating internet traffic. I can't tell you where the best source for this is, but the internet is a vast place, and you should be able to find some folks willing to help. The next step is ...
It's pretty telling that in these comment threads, very few telco workers come out and comment. The reason why everyone isn't outraged is that those of us who understand internet connectivity are also aware that Netflix is being unreasonable. They're promoting a truthy-sounding complaint that had no technical meri...
I agree with you on the practicality of spending so much money on defense. It's ridiculous. That being said, it is an amazing feat of engineering to even get the damned thing in the sky at all, let alone with 20 tons of munitions. But the aircraft is still relevant in this day and age. Like I said, it's capable of dr...
How difficult is it to see successful business models and apply them to your field? Oh look, there is netflix we should use their platform...nah lets fuck them out of content or be too inept to create one of our own but lets blame people for wanting to view our content on different devices. Another example? Look wh...
People who see a watch as a mere tool instead of a piece of fine art like us watchfreaks (JLC, Glashütte, ...) can settle for $100 to get a sturdy watch that will last for years, surely it isn't meant to be past on from generation to generation like a Rolex but neither is a smartphone/smartwatch. So $350 seems a lot ...
Contracts in general. Had a landlord that forbade me or my roomies from having any kind of alcohol or tobacco on the premises in the lease. (Tobacco... okay, it ruins the interior, can kinda understand that, but still a grownup.) One day he came in, did an illegal inspection while we were all at work and took a picture...
Comcast can provided adequate internet service. They just don't have to for a reasonable price due to their monopoly status. The Internet is still good it's just over priced. If they did not provide what you signed for on the Internet side, they would invite a lot of class action and FCC trouble. On the home security s...
No, you don't. You can trust your friends because you believe you have good judgement but you can't trust friends of a friend because you don't know the criteria to be the friend of your friend. My friends are friends with terrible assholes and I'm friends with a person or two that they hate.
As a guy with an especially feminine name (hence the username to make clear my sexual identity,) you are dooming your son/daughter to an eternity of irritating corrections and paperwork mishaps. I didn't exist at a job that I worked at and was paid for for 10 months. 10 months! I was the guy from Office Space! All beca...
Yeah, that one will fail. You can usually only exculpate out of ordinary negligence with a waiver. The thing is that it's not that easy to prove gross negligence, so most of the time if you litigate the waiver that only includes ordinary negligence will stand up. The lawyer who wrote that provision was probably ...
Comcast really is the worst, I was working at one of the call centers they barely paid and saw two very aloof support people trying to disable a malfunctioning alarm in the middle of the night, the alarm was creating a disturbance in the neighborhood as there was no threat or maybe the alarm was seeing into the FUTURE ...
You don't take Computer Science if you want to learn to program [languageName] . Computer Science is theory; and while you will use some programming language to explore the theory: it's not there to teach you a programming language. If you want to learn to program, there are plenty of college level associates degr...
Mostly an obsolete technical reason. Network transfer speeds are always measured in bits, since that is easily concrete and measurable. Historically what a "byte" was wasn't always as clearly defined across hardware platforms, the definition solidified on the 8:1 ratio but in the grey mists of the past sometimes a by...
All of the default subreddits are full of clickbait articles with catchy controversial titles. Specifically people who use all, since they want a stream of pictures and can't read more then one sentence without losing interest. That's what part way through most comments you can make the point in two sentences and they ...
Actually, no. Neither Siri or Google are "always on", both require some sort of prompt, and nothing is transmitted until that point. There are numerous practical reasons behind this, power and data use being primary ones (firing up the cellular or wifi connection constantly would be a huge power drain). This is very ea...
Indeed, this is one of things (probably not the most important) which is so dangerous about the US government weakening computer security via backdoors and automated LE (law enforcement) access. Very important secrets end up on these weakened systems, foreign intelligence agencies that have penetrated LEOs or learned o...
Its important to know, that in America, Grand Juries choose to indite people (go to trial) in literally 99% of all cases, EXCEPT when it involves police, then that number falls to less than 10%. Getting a Grand Jury to indite someone in the US, is just a formality. All it means is "there is enough probabil...
I think you're seeing the ultimate accountability, public attention. Structural oversight would be nice, like a government body's job to police the police. But I think American history shows that doesn't work out good enough. Internal regulatory departments are quickly subjected to regulatory capture if they're not st...
Sort of. Any attempt will be terrible because I'm not going to write 1000 words in this little box. -- [SPOILERS] Basically, it follows two time periods, WWII and modern day, that are connect by a number of threads. Math, crypto, wealth, and genocide being among them. It's easiest to talk about the family lines...
You have to apply the Stephenson factor: 10^5 words, then you can say
Basically your CPU is merely made only as a middleman for information, another large CPU is used to process and render all the data you require and streams it to your cpu, this enables even the shittiest computers play the highest resolution your monitor can handle. As of now I do not know if lag is an issue, but I do ...
I don't shed much of a tear for record companies. I agree their bottom line is suffering because they will not participate in evolutions of the market. Also, don't musicians (as I suppose those are the ones brought up most frequently) make more money touring than from album sales? I mean, who wants to support a "music...
So, the lesson learned, or
I disagree. This train is actually a brainchild of German engineers (It's called Transrapid in Germany) and has been under development since 1969. Lines were planned to run from Hamburg to Berlin, and also connecting Airports with city centers. However, these projects were never realized and the maglev train you see in...
Estimating a 25cm (.25m) of blur while the trains pass at 860km/h (239m/s) means that the picture took around 1/10th of a millisecond. If the shutter was 2cm across then each shutter (above and below) would be moving at only 10m/s or 36km/h. Not that impressive. BUT the acceleration has to be very fast since the shutte...
You don't actually understand the economics of flying. It's gameover for the US, I'm afraid - you simply don't have the money (or desire) to replace your air transport system, even though you shortly won't actually be able to afford to operate it.
China will come back to it when it's ready. It's just moved into the magnet business, incidentally. And it's actually quieter than plenty of trains that are considered "normal", i.e. not high-speed. Not quiet , but quieter than you'd expect. It's also a lot smoother than many people here seem to believe.
The title isn't inaccurate, just ambiguous. This article is NOT about Twitter and Facebook displacing RSS. It's describing how Twitter and Facebook have reduced their support for RSS feeds, probably because they want you to interact directly with the site.