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Here's how spotify works for me: If your album is on spotify, I will listen to it. If I like it I might buy a physical copy of it. If your album isn't on spotify, I torrent it because this is the only way I can 'try it out' with out paying for it. If I like it it stays on my hard drive, and if I don't like it, it's...
Nope. Typically songwriters own the composition rights. Publishers own the mechanical rights. The model is old as all get-out. It came from a time when most music people heard was publicly performed and they didn't want to make it so every time someone played the music, they had to pay the songwriter. That's why...
When will artists step up for themselves and stop signing contracts with labels. Artists don't like labels, consumers don't like labels. Labels were used to front money to record an album, distribute album and promote album. These things can be done for little to no cost by the bands themselves. No band that self-promo...
I’m addressing anyone who is willfully uneven in their complaints about broken intellectual property law. I see more Apple bashing than other companies. I fail to fully understand it, but when Apple does something, anything , it is somehow considered newsworthy. If another company does the very same thing, it goes ...
Blu-ray quality? Do they mean 1080p? That's become standard on high-end phones now, at least for the cameras. Most play back on the phone itself (not on HDMI out) is at a lower resolution though. Why? Because having a higher one is pointless. A standard screen might accomodate that 1080 pixels on, say, 4 inches. Th...
A massive loss of money to the publishers is why. There are over 120K libraries in the US. Right now, when a new best-seller comes out, each library more or less has to buy a copy of it. With this idea, they only have to buy 1. For any given best seller, the publishing company just lost at least a million bucks. ...
Honestly this touches on a major weak point in the way most of our institutions are set up. In the past, information was synonymous with physical media. You couldn't have a transfer of information without a corresponding transfer of physical media, at least not on the order of entire books or albums. Since the Informat...
Not to come off as rude, but I don't think a bunch of posts every day listing the reasons to oppose ACTA is necessary on a site like reddit, where almost all popular opinion is perpetuated by the hivemind. I think if anything, people have become ever more vigilant about these new bills surfacing, and will more likely...
I like to think that a thesis project I did for my Aeronautical Engineering degree was pretty badass. It started as a dumb challenge from someone who I was researching with, and my stupidly headstrong nature was actually able to turn this challenge into reality. "Make a flight of stairs fly" he said. "The flight of a f...
I fell terrible. I read a comment and thought: WOW! I couldn't have put it better if I tried. I went 2 reply and write that and clicked report instead of reply; I read r u sure and just clicked yes thinking it was asking if I wanted 2 reply and now it's gone. It said something like: FUCK YEAH ANONYMOUS R COOL 'CASUE TH...
Anonymous is finally achieving what their mascot ( EDIT: THE GUY FROM V FOR VENDETTA, NOT THE REAL GUY FAWKES ) really wanted to accomplish. By achieving their mildly destructive yet ultimately pointless goals, they're bringing attention to the issues that they've taken up. No matter how determined an activist may b...
Fuck the FBI.
I see it a little differently. There are over 1 million users on this site, granted many of them are throwaways and novelty accounts, but for the most part there is a solid group of people here. To make the front page, a post only needs about 2000 upvotes. If you account for the people downvoting you probably have 1000...
i dont understand the problem i see this is a good thing. the fact is that netflix is not going to turn off the online streaming and force people to go back to cable. This is giving them another revenue stream that is aimed at the people who dont care, dont know, or dont want the hassle of subscribing to netflix onli...
I agree that it sucks not being able to sign up for HBO GO without having HBO on cable. However, I did some consulting for HBO back in 2010 when they were evaluating their future options for digital/mobile. Me and my team were shocked by how backwards some of their logic was. For example they focused a LOT on their lib...
SO here's a thought...I have no problem staying away from cable..and if Netflix goes to Cable, this might allow them to add more films to their library on instant streaming - which will be great for all of us....to those with no self control or using cable anyways....netflix will get more customers which in turn equals...
Hulu charges approximately $25-$30 CPM for the average 30 second video ad. (Ad length varies based on content type and length). CPM stands for 1,000 impressions. That works out to 2.5-3 cents per view. However, I'm assuming that a studio would charge a premium on new release movies (vs. Hulu's television) due to the f...
Why do people think its cool or funny to say this? If you ACTUALLY had no idea what a DVD was, I would assume you are either from a third world country, or thick as fuck.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the fact that an initiative to push DVDs to consumers sooner is a good idea, I have to mention the fact that in other countries, here in Russia for example, DVDs and BluRay discs Have been released simultaneously with then end of theater screening for years now! I've always hated wai...
NOT GOOD ENOUGH. >They said that under US law, disclosure is only granted once the accused appears in a US court. They're trying to get Kim to show up in a US court so they can start calling it a US case, not a New Zealand Case. >He said some of it could not be copied because it has been encrypted. Excuse me? I...
its only illegal without expressed witren consent which I am sure they acquired. Are some the lawsuits ludicrous absolutely, but i'm so tired of this crap. Copying files is stealing...in plain english, your a taking property that was paid for by a company to be made and intended to be sold for a profit FOR FREE. Thats ...
Actually, the US is the currently understood dominate world power. What i mean by bolding The is to emphasize that we live in a Uni-Polar world. Although current debate is about the rising states that may rise to contest the current status quo. It'll be interesting to see what the future has in store for global pow...
Upvote because I also wanted to smack some sense into Schwartz, but I wouldn't attribute the problem to a "lack of analysis and decision skills" either. The problem is greed and arrogance. We're imperfect, yet we expect perfection of ourselves. We need to learn to accept that we'll make suboptimal choices on a fair...
If I make something that's 20% safer, but then people behave 5% more dangerously, it's still a big net winner. No, because you're not using the same units. You can't just say "20% safer" or "5% more dangerous" because those are arbitrary numbers that, as far as I can tell, are determined by nothing. There are real tr...
Unfortunately, where I live the only other talk stations are right-wing propaganda BS and religious rantings with heavy doses of guilt tripping. Some are a combination of both. I'm not big into music so I don't own many CD's and the music stations are just garbage, pop, and pop-hip hop-rap-crap. There's one pure roc...
I've gotten into a couple face-to-face discussions where people cited a TED talk as a source, and each time I was somewhere between appalled and surprised. Not because I'm so cool that I liked TED before they sold out and now I think their talks are shit (to the contrary, I still watch a few talks at least once a week ...
They remind me of the recent surge of infographics. There are occasionally a few informative ones that use images to articulate a concept well (such as scale), but many are basically just glossy comic strips or posters for the
I don't think anyone ever said it was a bad thing. I certainly didn't. But it was what their advantage was. They had this beautiful full-size touch screen with intuitive apps when the closest competition was a half screen, keyboard BlackBerry. They had a massive app store when the competition had a fraction the apps...
I have had my phone wiped (due to my idiot friend typoing my password ten times in a row) but was able to fully recover. Here is a quick run down: -had a rooted thunderbolt -connected to exchange where company had remote wipe policy as well as wipe policy based on multiple password failures -I took weekly backups...
You're really missing the point. Something has most certainly changed. One of the checks that members of society have always had on ridiculous laws is enforcement. Take jaywalking. Should you run across 5th Avenue in the middle of rush hour? Probably not - you'd probably get creamed, and there's a good chance a c...
The abortion/crime reduction hypothesis has been debunked. If you look at the numbers that Levitt was using, the NY data point was an outlier. There was also evidence that Levitt made programming errors and other methodological mistakes in his research. Sources: Although Levitt defends himself here:
Doubtful, friend. Consider the following: Take a container divided down the middle. On one side, fill the container with cold water. On the other, fill it with hot water (in this thought experiment, we're assuming the two are totally isolated from each other). We know that we can extract work from this setup. ...
I found the neighbors' RC helicopter on my roof once already this year. Must have flown out of range. I don't give a crap, because google already has high-quality photos of my yard on the internet-- they can find out what our shrubs look like without the helicopter if they want, and the Google chief who seems worried...
It's possible for anything to become illegal; we tried it with alcohol once and are currently discussing it with both the 2nd and 14th amendments... but I doubt it'll be any time soon. Absolutely no power rating is illegal currently, but varying power outputs are classed and regulated differently. Single digit watta...
It's easier to build a weapon without a 3D printer. Take the AR-15 for example. "the gun" is the receiver, the piece of metal the magazine slides in. That's it. All the other parts are 100% legal to buy and without any sort of background check. As they should be because they are just simple springs and other repla...
This is a forum thread posted in the [android subforum]( of the verge by a user. This isn't an actual article by the verge. It is obviously meant to troll with phrases such as "if you're using an iOS device I would advise you to avoid clicking links :)" Now instead of attacking the person making the argument, le...
He got the results from here (links below). I would be more concerned weather the vulnerabilities in each product were more critical or not. Just because iOS has more doesn't mean that its more vulnerable. Vulnerabilities could be DOS or information leak (still security risks I know). You can see that iOS had 64 DOS ...
I always find these stories kind of funny, they remind me of the arguments I used to have with my parents about how much time I spent on the internet growing up. They couldn't get their heads around why I sent so much time 'doing nothing' on the internet but still got good grades and would find any excuse possible to '...
The biggest question a lot of investors have for Apple is "Can they introduce the an iPhone into emerging markets (such as India and China)?" Over the past few years, these areas have exploded with disposable income; however, not quite as much to compensate for a $600 dollar phone. When people heard "cheap iPhone", the...
MITM attacks have nothing to do with what authority a certificate is obtained from, only that the person or government performing the MITM attack has a legitimate certificate for the site you are visiting, and this type of attack only requires a compromised/compliant CA to hand over their main signing certificate (so n...
Obtaining a certificate from any certificate authority via a certificate request does not expose the private keys used to generate the request (and the private keys is what the fed wants)
H.264 is one of the most commonly used video compression formats. Nearly every video you've watched in the last few years has used it. However, it was encumbered by patents, meaning users might technically have been on the hook to pay royalties to its owners. For this reason, manufacturers of open-source software have ...
There's a difference between open source software, free software, and non-patent-encumbered. x264 is free and open source, but the codec itself is still patent-encumbered, meaning any implementation would still run the risk of being asked for patent implementation fees. Normally this isn't an issue for the end-user,...
I doubt it. CISCO is probably heavily invested in HEVC too, and it is in their interest to see HEVC become a widely accepted standard. h.264 is a competing video codec to HEVC, and CISCO might prefer getting everyone move from h.264 to HEVC.
My opinion, its all about 4K TV. H.264 is the most reliable and efficient compression codec for video these days by far, knowing there is a slowly growing surge towards 4K means that a new format will be needed. Everyone will be looking for an H.265/MPEG5 reiterations as a reliable codec suited to be the next standard....
It probably uses Apple location services which is built into the phone I believe if it's using iOS. Sending that information to another iPhone probably wouldn't require a 3rd party server if there's a function on the iPhone to send or broadcast that information to other phones, which i believe there is. Should be som...
Or give a man a quarter stick of dynamite and he'll catch all the fish, and sell them to the highest bidder on the free market. Having bankrupted the other, depleted fishermen, he'll leverage those early gains into a series of well-timed investments, economic construction, pressing for legislation acting as regulato...
Just to be clear, the Fed does not currently have any Fiscal Policy currently in action. Additionally, the Fed prints money to meet the demand for currency from the public. In actuality, money is created by you depositing your money in a bank account. The banks are only required to hold a certain amount of your deposit...
Generally, lowered prices can be seen as a good thing. However, there is a twist that can lead to future higher prices and less competition. Say there are two businesses that instigate a price war, though there are a lot of other businesses in the market. Assuming these businesses are the largest (say the Targets a...
The moon landing was a scientific endeavor that expanded our understanding, and created many new technologies. Although that money could have been spent more efficiently it was still a good use of money. The hyper loop is hobbling together existing technologies to make an impractical expensive transportation device, ...
Our infrastructure is crumbling and outdated, we don't utilize current technological solutions in the either transportation or energy. You think rather then do the thing that will give rapid real world improvements we should experiment with hyperloop technology. 700 mph in a vacuum tube No way of knowing the fi...
Some amusing suggestions below, however all miss the point. [This]( is still a good summary of the problem in the US: >Deploying broadband infrastructure isn’t as simple as merely laying wires underground: that’s the easy part. The hard part — and the reason it often doesn’t happen — is the pre-deployment barriers, w...
It isn't Netflix, it is I, the consumer, the one capitalism supposedly empowers who uses Netflix, it is not the company Netflix, I have to pay for an Internet service to access whatever I want, I just happen to access a lot of Netflix because movies are amazing!
I guess I could see this being an issue if they were clogging a pipe somewhere, but that isn't how the internet works. That's actually a really good analogy for how the internet works. There are multiple links within an ISP's network, and between ISP's, all of which can get congested similar to a water pipe with too ...
My understanding is that it doesn't really work like shipping items. That's not a good analogy. It's a two way stream and most ISP's do not have global reach, so need help. Your ISP is the middleman, connecting your house to companies like Level 3 that have international networks they then charge for access to. Yo...
I wouldn't say that's true. Facebook does practically nothing with your real name. What they want is to be your real identity online. They want people who meet Bill Tampa in person to be able to look up Bill Tampa on facebook so that the network effect keeps their site moving. Eventually, the defacto way to contac...
Facebook was founded in 2004. Kids are permitted to open their own accounts at 13 years old. In 3 years we're looking at kids who have potentially been on their parent's FB their whole lives open their own accounts, linking to their parents & continuing an uninterrupted photo and comment history of their lives. Owned...
I don't know, that feels like a copout. I think even the hardest worker can carve out enough time to research their political leaders and figure out who to support, or at least oppose. It is unfortunate that the media largely drowns out actual news with shallow, hackneyed commentary but this also can't be blamed for th...
This American Life and Planet Money covered health care in the US and do a great job of explaining why things cost what they do. The
If they want to use public property to build the lines that will deliver their for-profit goods, while denying any competitors use of those lines, they either get to foot the entire bill, share the resources, or follow some strict rules when it comes to how they treat customers. There are exceptions, but generally, i...
I worked at MickeyDs for a minute. You got your two meet patties, regular for Big Macs, cheeseburgers, etc. Then your quarters for well you guessed it, quarter pounders. In my experience McChicken patties , regular patties, and nuggets sold the most. So if you bought a cheeseburger, hamburger, Big Mac, McChiken, etc. i...
That's a problem with the voters, not the system. If I'm sexually attracted to musical instruments or identify as an attack helicopter gunship and the people of my country think that's a potential liability, they are well within their rights to vote for somebody else. This has the added benefit of not giving the tabl...
We are not in danger, the NSA isn't keeping us safe, we do not need the NSA. What we need is robust and prolific system encryption and network security–everywhere. Money should be spent advancing encryption technologies and future secure networks like a national public works program. It would give us much bet...
Lets clear couple of things. we absolutely need the NSA and ability to perform foreign surveillance (the actual original purpose of the NSA) something every nation does and something that is vital to our security. as for internal, in house, domestic surveillance, that needs to change and that needs to be open and expos...
And you think you're getting those skills from India? I have reviewed many infosys CV's for roles at my company and they are all blatantly inexperienced for a high end IT role with domain knowledge. I will often see CV's copy pasted from one candidate to the next. We are forced to hire through infosys. but the qua...
steal from your available throughput >slowing down my customer's speeds Google wants to deploy its own fiber lines by hanging them from the (wooden?) utility poles in the city. These poles are owned by AT&T. Google is asking to utilize a pole in the ground. They aren't using AT&T's network, cabling, or anything else...
Last night, I put some clothes in the wash before I went to bed. I set the alarm clock on my Storm to go off an hour before my normal wake time, so that I could put the clothes in the dryer and they would be dry by the time I got out of the shower. So after I woke up and dealt with the clothes, I crawled back into be...
This is the result of a great deal of effort over a long time. All those preparations have recently allowed them to implement several speedups, leading to the current noticeable improvements. This isn't a recent focus.
Let's not forget that information in it's purest form (text) doesn't take a whole lot of bandwidth to move. I wish we (I speak for the only society I know, the US, more specifically the Tri-State area) were still interested as a whole in information. Obtaining information, retaining information, and coming to persona...
Abandoning Net Neutr. would allow to have different "products" - "YouTube packet, have lightning fast YT!" and other packets would have slower access to youtube but faster for some other sites. And the "Everything fast!" packets would cost much more than the others.
Lets be honest here...Any geek that has been paying attention to Apple for any period of time shouldn't be at all surprised by this. Apple does a product refresh almost every year and has a very specific schedule they follow. Pretty sure it all has to do with inventory management and keeping production consistent wit...
IMO UBB is a response to people cancelling cable/satellite TV services. Netflix came to Canada and everyone realized that $8/month for commercial free, streaming, HD quality tv/movies was a much better option that cable/satellite TV with commercials for a much higher price. So now instead of paying $40/month for unli...
I guess you can really take this either way, but I personally believe this will hurt their chances to compete with Android. Now, Android is failing miserably in the Tablet market so I wouldn't usually just assume they're going to succeed, but Microsoft is going into this battle withholding their best asset: their tools...
You do realize that is the point of SOPA right? SOPA isn't even intended for domestic websites. Now, SOPA is badly written so domestic websites fall under its jurisdiction. The point of SOPA is to block sites like the piratebay which quiet literally tell the US Gov't to fuck itself whenever we try to enforce laws tha...
Not being well versed in the subject I'm talking out my ass here, but I happen to agree with the author. I DO mostly agree with the idea the "Consumers don't care how much it costs you to make product X, they only care about their cost." Obviously you will always find people willing to pay more than is "reasonable" f...
Glad someone else saw that. I immediately thought "That's not a screen, that's projected" And it also seems obvious that while it could be considered "multi-user", it's clearly not 'touch' based -the two fingers are on different hands and are resizing a windows. A standard feature in every modern OS. I don't believe it...
If you're going to have to micro-manage your hosts to control for unpredictable downtime, leveraging multiple "cloud" presences and trying to maintain load balancing or real-time replication with some sort of fail-over mechanism, what is the difference or advantage of this over doing the same thing with managed colloca...
But the thing is, they are not counting the number of times that you pirate something, they are counting the number of times someone accuses you of copyright infringement, regardless of whether the claim is true or not. They are going by the rules of guilty until proven innocent, except when you do prove your innocen...
When most hardware manufacturers sell their phones, they sell it with some of their own customizations on top of Android. Cyanogenmod is an alternative, free and open-source OS that you can install on your device that runs Android. It runs plain Android with some tweaks here and there, and is updated very, very quick...
Had a very similar experience myself as a youngin' setup a very nice website on free webhosting, eventually someone donated a domain name and we went big, by big I mean huge, one of the largest computer hardware websites in the early 2000's. Fast forward a couple of years, we find domain is about to expire, we are prep...
False. Fiber in cities IS very profitable at 70$/month. I can't find the article now, but Google mentioned what the costs were in Austin, and since they only deploy in Fiberhoods where enough people sign up (I think it was about 25% of the people that were required) they get their investment back in about 18 months. ...
In my area they can, without fees at that. It's just a pain in the ass to do because you have to coordinate with all the various property owners involved (land you cross, if your using power lines you have to clear it with the individual pole owners [there are 3 telecoms in my area and 1 power distribution company, o...
It's kind of crazy that with something as ubiquitous as internet, the industry is run so poorly that a company can enter an already crowded marketplace, just offer good speeds at a reasonable price and have people clamouring to sign up for them.
Google's continued expansion into fiber services should be a no-brainer, although I feel like many people are missing the big picture. The biggest businesses, the most successful companies have always been distributers; it doesn't matter how great your product is if you can't get it to your customers. Walmart isn't the...
No. All encryption uses a key, and you can always run through all possible keys. The value of a 256-bit key is that it's (essentially) impossible to guess randomly. From Bruce Schneier 's [Applied Cryptography]( > Longer key lengths are better, but only up to a point. AES will have 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit key...
ohmygosh, there's got to be some good resources out there already, insofar as the actual setting up of the cloud itself -- I think firstly the key is building a good box (pc) that can handle the load (cpu-wise), as I also use it for my stuff (so no, it's not dedicated).. have dependable hd units (an ssd might make a bi...
Nope. All this is saying is that if the DEA has some leads on drug trafficking, drug deals, etc., they then provide the leads to local law enforcement. Because the DEA doesn't want to to tip off the dealers as to how they are gathering intel, they ask local law enforcement to find some other legitimate and legal reaso...
Not exactly. One of the algorithms I know for checking shadow consistency in images (which is quite old and probably not sophisticated), will estimate the direction from where the light is coming for different portions of the picture. If it's a photo taken outside during the day, we can assume that the sun is the onl...
The system really lends itself to people adding features to "scratch your own itch". Open source software has the same tendency. That can lead to wonderful work - when you're fulfilling a need you yourself have felt that can be extremely satisfying. However, it can be very bad for improving features that the team do...
That's not actually what happened at all. They couldn't conclusively prove the rape so rather than lose at trial they offered him a deal to confess and take voluntary counselling and monitoring. When he broke the terms of the counselling he was sentenced to 15 years with all but 30 days suspended, the rest of the 15 ...
I guess I may as well share my Sprint experience. It was quite horrendous, and I'm seriously wondering what great customer service other people are talking about. My mom and I had just switched over to Sprint on a family line a little over two years ago after coming from Verizon to try and save some money. After quickl...
Let's not forget, that IBM actively helped Nazi Germany before, and after they declared war, to gather information on every single person in Germany to determine (among other things) who was and wasn't Jewish. With IBM supplying Hollerith punch card machines, Nazi Germany was able to systematically ID anyone who was ...
That's not criminal, even under Leahy's proposed changes; and while I'm at it, this whole article is hyperbole. The simple version is this: The proposed change would add an offense for conspiracy or an attempt to commit the crime described in the section. We have equivalents for murder, hence conspiracy to commit mur...
This of it this way; A company manages to convince people to start drinking beer or vodka or whatever in a similar way, where people end up paying more for the same consumption level/enjoyment then they would in the traditional purchase sense. So far, this isn't too bad, companies make more money, you can still do wh...
The problem is everyone wants smaller/lighter phones. Remember the phones of the 90's? What if we doubled the thickness of the iphone or the s4 - how much more battery could we fit into that then? What if we had 2 smaller batteries that charged in tandem, would it charge twice as fast, yet still have the same length...
I would love having a 4K screen if it could be done efficiently and not decrease the battery life and performance of my phone to the point of it being unusable. If I had a phone with a 4K screen on a phone that performed as well as my Nexus 4, I would absolutely love to see it. I may be a little biased based on my lo...
The point of researching something before buying it is so that you can make sure a device is as easy to use as possible. After a point, the amount of time and energy you put into researching a device outweighs the gain you get from it. You or I can put in 20 minutes of research into narrowing down our options, and then...
Most of the US' electrical grid is not ready to handle millions of people pulling another 25amps of juice for hours at a time. Source please.
What's unclear? Electricity is required to generate hydrogen. The amount of electricity extracted from the hydrogen isn't as much as you put in to generate it. You have a net loss of energy immediately. Fuel cells are currently about 35% efficient. Electric motors are around 95% efficient. Batteries are around ...
Electric motors run every train in the country. Also, you know that fuel cells just make electricity to feed electric motors right? Furthermore, there are lithium-ion batteries with higher energy density by volume. Hydrogen probably wins by weight, but not by as much as you think. When you look up the energy density ...