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CNG is a much better alternative to gasoline than Hydrogen and I'd even argue that it's better than battery powered for vehicles that are actually used for work. Once affordable battery powered personal vehicles with good range become a thing, then it'll definitely be better than CNG, but you can't beat the price of a...
What evidence do you have? How does it work? How can you show this is a deliberate tactic of Google's, when it seems pretty obvious that directly opposing search terms would share similar kewords (ie both pro-life and pro-choice searches would feature "abortion" as a prominent keyword). Also, whenever you see an ar...
Sure you can. If you understand a bit about networking that is. Ok - so TLD (top level domain) such as .de, .com, .net and so on are controlled by some entity that is dictated by ICANN - so say screw ICANN, set up your own TLD registry within your country, and apply a new suffix to the address .exit - so you have ww...
There is law in the USA that considers links to infringing material to be the same as publishing the infringing material.... however since it is Twitter's users posting the links not Twitter, then Twitter can't be held liable..... unless it can be shown they are aware of the links and refuse to take them down.
Strontium is a divalent atom which means the two electrons in its valence shell can have spins which align parallel or anti-parallel. This results in what is known as a singlet or triplet. The triplet series in all divalent atoms gives rise to very narrow (i.e. long lived) transitions which means they can be probed for...
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Here is how we can get out from under the data cap problem: No data cap over any time period shall be set lower than the user's advertised connection speed in bytes per second multiplied by the number of seconds in that time period.
Comcast/Time Warner/etc would have to allow other companies to "rent" their infrastructure. Correct. In theory, the benefits would be enormous to Google Fiber (which is basically trying to be MVNO-like). That key infrastructure includes all the fiber Comcast, etc. buried to the node, that Google can then use to set u...
Do you have Uverse? I currently have ATT for DSL, same reason, no data caps. It isn't nearly as fast as I would like it to be (1.5 up, .75 down according to speednet, it is supposed to be double). I can still watch Netflix, etc no problem, BUT I can only download/stream one thing at a time. I also have to say I hav...
Your argument absolutely should be "I want to torrent." The changes that could occur with fiber infrastructure + P2P technology would completely revolutionize the way we think about the Internet. Again. Take a look at [BitTorrent Sync]( Thanks to the P2P technology, company software updates which normally take hour...
I've never looked at a document like this before - no wonder it's 400 pages. About 75% of each page is filled with citing sources from the 2 small paragraphs on that page. I read about 20 pages and thought it looked good, but I can't do 400. Hopefully the EFF or someone here can give us a great
After reading some other comments, I'm not really sure. I'm not a lawyer and I don't have the free time to research this as much as my interest would like me to. But it does seem interesting that all the rules in the top-voted
Nope, it is literally all about stopping ISP's from using practices like throttling. If you look up the thread there is lots of
The regulations are only 7 pages. Lots of great
Comcast did that to me a month ago and then insisted that I pay for a technician to come out. While I was on the phone they kept cutting out my internet and calling me a liar since I was calling them out on their bullshit. I refused the technicians, they signed me up for three appointments without my authorization and ...
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER MICHAELO’RIELLY: > Even after enduring three weeks of spin, it is hard for me to believe that the Commission is establishing an entire Title II/net neutrality regime to protect against hypothetical harms. > 5 > There is not a shred of evidence that any aspect of this structure is ...
To answer you cynically but truthfully, ISPs who stand to lose by having their business more heavily regulated and who thus oppose net neutrality as a guaranteed right, have been very heavily lobbying Washington and contributing to the campaign funds of a number of - primarily Republican - lawmakers. One of these, wh...
Thank you for this explanation, however it clearly wasn't the cause in my case as it went on for months, the IP changed a few times, and it was a low usage address that wasn't used for gaming/forums etc (unlikely someone was targeting my elderly in-laws). I think the MAC of the cable modem must have been captured and...
From all the fuss in the article one would think they don't have nighttime in Germany.
IE6 was released in 2001. Gecko 1.0.1 was the first version (with Nav 7.0) to support CSS 2.0 released in 2004. Why is pre IE7 -- a browser from 3 years before even Navigator 7 -- so important to you?
I have a ford 2002 F-150, and my accelerator got stuck twice while I've been driving it. It's really not that hard stopping it. Regular brakes are shit when the accelerator is going. For automatic cars you can still downshift into lower gears and that's what you're supposed to do. so i shifted into second and it slowed...
Many cars do not have brakes powerful enough to stop the car while the engine is going full throttle. If you do not suddenly slam on the brakes, which most people will not, they will heat up and become less effective. When the brake pads are hot it doesn't matter how you pull the brake. Foot, hand, it doesn't matter...
I've had a stuck throttle cable before in a different make/model automatic-transmission car and had a similar situation. My car had just been serviced at a Jiffy Lube (that I will never, ever go to again) and about 1/4 mile out of the gate the car took off. I was on a four-lane in-city road with a turning lane, so I ...
Last year, my (non-toyota) pedal stuck, on the freeway. No idea why, but it just diddnt stick, it pulled itself to the floor. Carb? Transmission throttle? No idea. It took me about 10-15 looong seconds to realize I would burn my brakes quick. Was worried about blowing the engine,or leaving my tranny on the road, b...
Jiffy Lube is the worst. Two friends' cars have been ruined by them. One didn't tighten the drain plug, a mile down the road, no more oil. The other put engine oil in the transmission.
thats when regulators step in. ... or when said monopoly is held in a market for necessities, such as water or electricity and said monopoly raises prices beyond the average customer's ability to pay. Yes, this does happen. We expect companies to follow simple market-based rules (like "don't charge more than your c...
I suspect that woot checks for same shipping address, which is trivial to do in software, even if they let it slide a bit if someone doesn't do much volume (which they might well do, given their general attitude, but that's just a guess). And if you go to the trouble of having 100 different shipping addresses to fool...
This does not support the argument. There is no legal force, so there's no 'legal loophole'. And there is no tie between this class action lawsuit and unlimited plans. Furthermore, there is no guarantee AT&T will not block you from switching back to a plan you already abused.
I don't even care if anyone reads this or if I get downvoted to hell, it needs to be said. As an employee of Best Buy, (computer department, nonetheless) I'd like to personally tell everyone who assumes we're all like this to fuck off. I'm generally very well informed on the products I sell, including the ones in o...
So I must chime in as well. I work for Geek Squad as a general grunt in repairs and customer service. I find it rather insulting when very computer literate people start bashing Best Buy. First off, if you don't like their products and salesmanship, then don't go there. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything from Best B...
You are indeed correct. There is very likely little "consumer confusion" in this case, and so trademark law isn't very applicable. While trademark is pretty uniform throughout the US, most states also have an "unfair competition" cause of action that is closely related to trademark law. Whenever someone files a laws...
As a former 17 year old salesman of Best Buy's computer department, I can attest to this commercial's accuracy. For the record, I was one of the few people in computers who actually knew what I was talking about. After about a year my schedule was reduced to 1 hour per week (since I couldn't be fired) because I refus...
Not to mention that JSTOR posts the non-pdf version as fucking jpegs. That $8500, while it may seem steep for yearly access does mean that every article accessed probably costs somewhere between 1 and 10 cents (obviously will depend on the size of the uni). I do find the price per article for those outside the uni to b...
You have it exactly right. We always lose money publishing. Why do we do it then? (1) The practical reason: We have to publish, and have to do it in well-regarded established journals, or else we can't get grants, can't get jobs, and can't get tenure (= we get fired). In some cases it's also written into the grant th...
And with a clear dig to Google Docs’ ribs, Shaw refers to Office 365 as the “award-winning online collaboration solution for businesses who don’t want their documents and mail used to benefit advertisers.” and from their privacy statement.... We use the information we collect to provide the services you request. ...
I wouldn't trust anything that decryptedtech.com has to say the first half of their blog post showed that they are morons. If you want an accurate post about the issue you can look here [(Source)](/ It is a very grey area. What Apple and many of the publishing houses are fighting is to make it so that books have a ...
ಠ_ಠThis is exactly what happened in the game Homefront, except they were Korean chips, the backdoor allows the chips to be targeted by a directed EMP thus wiping out communications making it impossible to repel the invading armies,
Is this a surprise to anyone? They've been doing that for years. It's okay to do that too. Apple has been known to hire people who release code in cydia. To stay competitive both iPhones and android phones need to steal the best features from each other. It's not as if apple has stopped trying to innovate their phones ...
Amtrack sold their right of way status in the late 70s. The deal was this: Cargo companies would pay to maintain the rails and Amtrack trains could ride the rails for free, but they would be a second class citizen to any and all freight trains.
What a fucking complete waste of money. I live in Sonoma County, where the voters approved the "Smart Train". It's the biggest boondogle waste of cash excuse to fork over tax dollars to the 1% that I've seen since moving here. The train will (in effect) have 1 rail. It will run to someplace totally ineffective in...
I live 35 miles from LAX. It takes 2 hours to drive 35 miles. It then takes about an hour to sit around LAX for my flight. Then when I finally get to San Fran, I have to pray to God Almighty that my luggage doesn't go missing for what would be the eighth time. I have to keep my fingers permanently crossed for my flight...
Prop 13 was perhaps one of the worst things that ever happened to California. California used to have plenty of funds, which came from property taxes. In the mid 1970's there was a minor budget surplus in California. This incident mobilized the right into a "taxpayer revolt" and a series of anti-tax initiatives. Amon...
Trains in the USA are not as popular for transportation for several reasons, and just building high speed rail without addressing other issues is simply stupid. As I see it, the biggest problem for rail travel in the US is the "Last Mile" problem. You may be able to get to a particular city by train, but how do you...
Two/three things : the 50 bucks ticket is a marketing gimmick, it won't last; plus, it doesn't fly you from SF to LA, it flies you from KSFO to KLAX; see the difference? these airports are not downtown or anywhere near where you want to go; so add additional $$$ to your travel budget if you want to be accurate and take...
German here. "I has rail". Let me give you some perspective. California is a little larger than Germany, but has less than half the population. It is somewhat rural by comparison. The same goes for almost all of the US, except maybe the Northeast/New England. What does that mean for transit? It means more highways....
I was born and raised in Fresno and while I hate this place for many reasons. Everything you just stated are things that you've read. Real life experience is much different. Oh and way to stereotype everything in that statement. There's a reason people despise stereotypes. Also, you know that stretch is kind of a neces...
Those short hoppers are definitely subsidized for extremely rural or small towns to link them to major cities. Other than that, airline companies rarely get anything. The airports charge airlines exorbitant fees for landing, taking off, taxiing, a different fee at the hard stand and another altogether for being at the ...
Just because one part of your headline is true doesn't mean the whole thing is. The new TOS states that you cannot participate in a Class Action Lawsuit , but you are still able to sue on an individual basis. Also, "If you seek $10,000 or less, Valve agrees to reimburse your filing fee and your share of the arbitra...
Not sure how it works in other IT departments, but where I work, we don't act on anything unless it's illegal or management tells us to. We just put a note on your file, attach some logs and stats, and continue to watch. 99% of the time nothing happens, but if an employee does something that might get the company in ho...
I buy alot of stuff on steam. Because it's cheap. A game for 2.50$? I'll buy it. A game for 5$? I might well buy it. A game for 20$? I will likely NOT buy it. I am not ever going to drop 50$ on some AAA title that's gonna suck anyway.
the Windows 8 user interface changes to an XP user would be harder to familiarize with than, say: Gnome, KDE. You've done UAT's to show that this is the case? And even ignoring that, the desktop is a minor issue compared to, say, desktop search/ DFS/ etc. not working on a connected network drive because the server th...
learn a new system when the existing one is both fine and familiar. And there is no reason to do that. The well-trained mono-vendor office is a myth. Most people already cope with multiple vendor solutions and incompatible formats that require arcane massaging and manual adjustments. FOSS, if we could get over the ...
I'm a massive Linux person and I agree with you. Linux isn't ready for the average computer user and likely never will be. That doesn't mean it's a bad OS in general or that it doesn't serve its purpose well, but it doesn't serve the purpose of an easy to install OS that requires minimal management to continue being op...
getting a bit off topic here maybe, but it's worth noting that SandVine - the company presenting this report - is the same company used to shunt internet connectivity to Egyptians during the protests. They also focus heavily on deep packet inspection technology on an extremely large scale for the purpose of restricting...
I work in program development. Not even development of goods rather similar to what already exists works that way.
I work in development, specifically cutting edge military development and actually, dropping piles of money on something does pretty much equal advances. You seem to be thinking that people working at the height of their field are the only people involved. What actually happens is the genius says "What happens if..?" ...
Only produces power during the day, and uses batteries that it has saved up the excess day light to fly at night. It is only the weight of a mid sized sedan and uses 4-10 hours power engines. (most mid sized sedans have a 160-200 hp engine). The solar cells are not anything different than the type that people put on th...
The reason scientists generally suck so much at the political arena is that they are accustomed to making arguments based on facts, evidence, and logic. Politicians on the other hand are highly skilled at using fallacies and even outright lies to warp the voters' opinions to their side; Sure they may lose the votes of ...
I really have no idea what would happen if I publicly admitted to this. >I live with a beautiful girl. Blonde, model material, with legs, breasts and ass to die for and the face of an angel. She looks so innocent, I fell for her the moment I saw her. She looks so virginal and is so prudish even talking about sex, tha...
If this had all been done right, that guy would have been offered a job with Skytech with the option to finish school first. You are right about the first part, but for the wrong reason. As anyone in the security field can tell you, this student was extremely lucky that the company paid /any/ attention to him. The fa...
So now we all know that essentially, if you find a flaw use a few proxies when reporting it. Because coincidentally, the people who control these school systems probably have no idea how they work, and just want to get paid. If there was a flaw, it's the company that wrote such sloppy coding to blame. I don't think he ...
I went to a computer camp in 2005, and one friend hacked the website and posted something to it telling the admins that he found a security flaw. He was able to stay anonymous by using a PC in one of the labs, but the second time he went to re-iterate his message on the website, he used a laptop in his dorm room, and t...
I think the guy in your example did the right thing. He's finding vulnerabilities, and getting shit fixed. The guy in the article didn't wait 3 months, though. He didn't give an average IT guy enough time to fix the flaw before he started trying to exploit it. Do I think he's done anything wrong? No. Do I think he sh...
Every CS prof. I've had in my 2.5 years at RPI (I'm majoring in CS) has coded, live, right in front of us via a projector (or, in one course, a whiteboard), usually on multiple occasions throughout the year, except for my Introduction to Algorithms and Theory of Computation professors, and that's just because they're t...
After reading the full text of the article, I am not impressed. In the paper linked there is only one line that mentions this magical number of 19. "A second important organizing principle is the small world property, which says that two nodes are likely to be connected, even in such a very large and sparse scale-fre...
Why would you even need that? In all the years ive used firefox ive never had an annoyingly noisy site come up...
I really wish there was a concerted effort by the good guys to attack and encourage the bad to change ways.(and it can be done using market solutions, like not working with ad companies that produce annoying ads even if they themselves dont put the annoying ones on their sites.) The bad guys screw the good guys and t...
Right, I agree with it being an overstatement. I doubt Win8, by itself, drove people to switch. Not only do people need to upgrade less and less often, as time goes on, but people are increasingly less inclined to even buy a computer at all. If you think about it, smart phones, tablets, xbox, Playstations, etc have all...
I find your argument interesting, but I query what about the example of the articles of confederation where when the power was as you spoke within the states. The "country" was able to do nothing as a country because the states that comprised it were never able to agree. How would you get over this hump? I agree mostl...
Prediction - The NSA released this info themselves in an elaborate coverup of what they really have. Here you go public, get all crazy about our 20 year old tech. Meanwhile, they've got working droids, f
While the traffic going to the servers may be encrypted, if what is happening the the traffic is being split into two places (both the destination and their own servers), they also have the key exchange traffic that created the keys to encrypt it. So they would be able to decypt that traffic to see everything, includi...
I think you've made an awesome point and I'm giving you an upvote. But I can understand why people might quibble, too. There are a couple problems with this question: 1) It takes a black and white approach. In real life no one's arguing for a complete destruction freedom of speech and privacy. 2) Worse, it fails to ...
I find it very hard to believe that 1 man controls 300+ million people and every law that governs them. You would be correct in your skepticism. Congress and the Senate control funding for government programs and establish the laws they operate by. The President suggests a budget but that has to be approved by the ...
Thanks for the link. It's interesting to read since it's somewhat different from the original article. Though, the last of the bullet points still lists one problem which essentially will result in what the article states. At least in probably a lot of cases: >It doesn't get recognized well for performance reviews. Tec...
I honestly believe that publicly traded companies are the very source of the corporate woe the world is being forced through. The idea itself may not be evil but what it creates comes damn close. It creates a system where the only goal is immediate ROI. It also creates a system where nobody ever has to deal with the ...
I always have location off, I don't use Google now anymore.....Google maps could see what I looked up but I usually look up where I'm going and memorize the directions and that's mixed in with me being curious how long it would take to drive from Miami to anchorage. I use tor in a vm when I can, etc. Honestly they prob...
I literally JUST made this exact point in response to your objectively false assertion that having a reporting system automatically grants safe harbor, you even quoted me making that point and now you're saying the same thing back to me as if it's somehow a retort to anything I said. At no point did I say that just b...
Sounds a bit exaggerated. Even with the faster (stock) bikes avialable which are pre-limited Busas which can go 200 mph stock.....you couldn't reach quite that fast with 2 passengers. And it was a stretch to the them to 200 to begin with.
Perhaps Britain is the exception to rail quality in Europe. Our rail system is largely dependent on archaic Victorian infrastructure. The service is expensive, unreliable and privately-run. Permission to operate on the dilapidated lines is monopoly-franchised, allowing no competition and promoting massive complac...
43 years after landing a man on the moon, we landed our 4th rover on mars. So what As a country, we have completely given up on space exploration for over 30 years. [The money speaks for itself]( NASA has only enough to do something cool in Earth Orbit or send a probe or a rover once every few years. To do merely...
I didn't delete my comments. You were previously talking to a different person who deleted his comments. I offered clarity because it looked like neither of you understood this issue as it relates to economics. If you want to measure the wealth of individual households, then median household income is a much more accur...
I believe this article has a point, while at the same time, it is relevant this is posted on Reddit. The article talks about a search algorithm based on "Likes given to websites by people", as opposed to "likes given to websites by websites". This means google+ has/will have a way of gathering information on what you...
Very good article. I always find it funny when people hear about a new device(Google Glass, Kinect, fitness trackersMotoX) and freak the fuck out because of privacy while being oblivious to the fact that 100 other things are tracking them already. In a way privacy is a new invention for us. It's non existent in sma...
The "type O is just as good as all the others" science will prevail at first. Once production is up and costs are down, niche "premium" blood companies will arise, serving your particular variety for extra cash and dropping strong hints that it's better to match your own type. Some people will believe them. Soon we'...
Ohh no yelp isn't a scam. They even posted about it and provided third party research and their employees on reddit were nice enough to inform me that I was totally wrong about the harassing phone calls and sales pitches yelp harassed me with at my last job. Also when I told them to Fuck off after several months of te...
Ooh, this happened to me, it was a bitch. The apartment I lived at with a Bro ended up sending us a final bill of like $1000 and when we tried to dispute some of the claims on there they shrugged off any questions. They had none of the paperwork because the complex was acquired by a different company, but they sent t...
From what I hear of Google's strategy, they don't want to offer internet service, this fiber thing is just a cool little hobby of theirs. The point is to embarrass the existing cable companies to upgrade their services, therefore making more people more capable of using more of Google's products. Google doesn't want to...
Actually we've had a large number of demonstrations against tho sort of behavior. Most markets in the US are reasonably free with healthy competition. Our data providers are the exception. While good people do lobby against their abuses these companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars lobbying and providing campai...
In a very broad sense, that's also true in the US. But it still costs money to do anything about it. If I had to guess, there's probably a good bit of this story that hasn't been told. Comcast as an organization may be a crooked bunch of fucktards, but they have lots of employees and most of them aren't. I've had a l...
Comcast gives everyone's names to that contractor after you cut service. They don't actually work for Comcast and can't even see if you returned equipment or your account info. Even after I confirmed with Comcast customer service that I had no outstanding equipment I was still receiving these telemarketer calls from...
Agreed. I still use Comcast for Internet and yes, a landline phone which is connected to my modem. I use this because I have horrible cell service in my house. With two small children, this was a must for my family. Anyway, I cut the chord to cable TV over a year ago, we save almost $80 a month. The key to an easy...
In Scotland twice that much gets you "up to 20mbps" which ends up being 500kbps 99.9 percent of the time. for 0.099 percent of the time it drops down to literally 1 Bps and for the final 0.001 percent it goes up to 18mbps so they can say that they are honoring their contract.
I actually had two routers rented from them, and had for a while. When I moved, I went to return one, thinking the other was actually one I owned (they were different models). When the woman explained to me that I actually possessed two of Comcast routers when I only had one. So I asked if I could return it later that ...
I have never once had a bad experience with comcast. Every call I've ever made, every issue or complaint, every service tech has always been able to help me resolve my problem within a few short minutes. I've never even been placed on hold for more than 10 minutes. And never been over billed by them. Yet I see what ...
Time Warner here in Austin... But Comcast is in the process of buying them so I'll be SOL soon. We had Comcast in Maryland and it was a disaster. Cable worked about 70% of the time, Internet speeds about half as advertised and multiple tech visits couldn't fix it. Once FiOS came into our neighborhood, we switched i...
non existent customer service, the inability to ever get a technician to fix an issue, and difficulties in cancellation of services. Comes from them downsizing, outsourcing, and reforming their customer service offices into glorified sales departments. I've made posts on this before regarding my spouse's 7 years wo...
Their contract for service precludes class actions specifically and the Civil Justice system generally. You've agreed to submit claims to binding arbitration.
True but there is a catch. If an opponent makes a specific type of offer and you reject it and the award you receive after verdict is equal to or less than that offer (or more if Plaintiff made the offer) you may be liable for the costs of litigation after the offer, in some states you are liable for all your opponen...
Oh trust me, I know. I've dealt with TWC far to much. I used to work in tech support for an ISP, and understand entirely. With TWC I've spoken with 2 executive relations employees on numerous occasions for issues and each time I spent between 10 and 30 hours trying to get something fixed that they screwed up.
I just like people who work towards human advancement. In this sense I'm referring to Comcast like companies as the dickish kinds of people who try to make a profit by stopping all advancement. Elon Musk as an entrepreneur on the other hand, makes his profit without grinding the living shit out of people's wallets and ...

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