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First of all, you have to realize that the law does not necessarily reach all conduct that is deemed "not okay" by society. "Legal" is not synonymous with "moral" or "okay." Second, I didn't say it was legal. I said it was legal under tort law, which is designed to cover egregious conduct (e.g. hitting people with yo...
I don't know what that means if contracts and property laws aren't part of the deal. That's insane because it would mean the wealthy/powerful buy private "security" and enforce whatever they want, just like it was before unions existed and were protected by law. You have to have some form of government or you get to wh...
Had one of these in the shop for an issue. The issue cane about when the customer had somehiw messed up the password. Now this would have been fine, had it not been a local account only. Normally we would reset the password with a netboot utility but this wouldnt work since it has no ethernet port. So then tried a us...
It's an increase. That means that, as a result of the red light cameras, there was an increase in injury accidents The fact that it was only 5% still means there was an increase. This is not a benefit at all. It's like saying "This year we raised taxes 5%, but it's not significant, so it's a benefit for you!"
The problem with this kind of analysis is that it relies completely on public data, and always seems to be written by someone who isn't active on G+ at all, so they don't have any perspective on what the private data look like. I actually have friends and family that use G+, and I post somewhat regularly, so I can prov...
My mom claims that she can "feel the wif waves" and that she gets a bad nights sleep when the wifi is on and good nights sleep when they are off... I did a spectrum analysis at her building and found that the 2.4 frequency is so crowded, she is getting half the bandwidth she should and when directly connecting over eth...
This is a bullshit story, which is odd for a magazine like Popular Mechanics. >Early signs suggest the airplane in San Diego lost both engines before crashing in flames, which would have probably made it virtually impossible to control no matter what systems it had on board. Then why was this artical written in the ...
If you are on cable, you share the stated bandwidth with up to 253 of your neighbors, depending on how many customers are plugged in to the node and how many of those have cable internet. If you are on DSL, the stated bandwidth is dedicated to your connection. Cable offers higher bandwidth because they know it's be...
Imagine creating a free global wifi based Internet. Where all you need to get on this "Internet" is to buy a specific kind of router that connects to any near by router of the same type, which connects to the other routers, creating a single network. Basically, a totally distributed wireless network among the users the...
Ex-copy repair guy here. Yet another sensationalist overblown headline on Reddit with ton up upvotes by people that performed no research into the validity of the claim. Shocker. Here is the deal. They do not have a counter that "breaks" the equipment. They have a counter that monitors maintenance cycles. SOME mach...
I'm starting to think this is retaliation for the hacker lawsuits. Finding a weakness in one system is one thing. But a separate and distinct system, though related, means this was extremely targeted. It may not have been Anonymous or the me
While piracy is a problem, the way SOPA and the PROTECT IP acts go about doing it is comical in terms of actually stopping piracy. It's so broadly written and so non defined that if a small company has a public comment area for people to post experiences with said company, a large corporation can come in, have someon...
Lamar Smith represents the wishes of his people in his district, that is why they have elected him. While I agree wholeheartedly, the article is misguided and biased; I think you go too far in demonizing the author of this article. I am not going to make false assertions on the personal motivations of the author of ...
So I've been considering the Cyanogen Mod for my D2G. Anyone care to
NIMBYs and repressed people who think their far better educated kids won't work out a way to get around it all anyway. It's like these people think they have a (normally god-given) right to control what I want to watch/listen to/do with my own fucking body. We should condemn them for what they are - controlling anti-...
It just makes it easier for you to manage your Routers settings when you're away from home. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but some people might really be able to use it. Things being on the cloud is good in many ways for so many different things. For example, having game save-files on the cloud helps me cont...
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In the UK at least, a contract term is considered unfair, (and therefore unenforceable), if it blatantly favours the creator of the contract and it can be shown that there was no opportunity to negotiate those terms. This is especially true of services which would be denied were the service user to not accept those t...
No patents = no disclosure. Companies/people give up disclosure of processes/ideas via patents. No patents mean that Edison could have hoarded his idea for light bulbs and only his company would have been providing light bulbs until the time someone reverse engineered his method. This would have choked the market for l...
Software design patents increase the cost of software development exponentially. Due diligence to ensure that a developer has not used computer instructions in a patented order or used a patented method for achieving a common end (like using the video display or caching memory or whatever) puts software development fir...
I was pretty much with you, up until this part: >we can't just have tech companies straight up cloning each other either as that also hurts innovation. I'd say the opposite is true. If designers are copying each other, and everyone knows this - then that will only make the competitors compete that much more and ...
There are so many different categories of space disaster that could destroy this entire planet. Asteroids, comets, hot jets of gas, who knows what else. And people on this mudball are busy screaming at each other over who gets to control puddles of dead plankton and whether providing socialized medicine is a good idea ...
My first 360 was a cracked one (£350 for an Xbox 360 Pro and 20 games was worth it at the time). Microsoft bans consoles in waves at varying intervals. They didn't ban your Gamertag but instead the actual serial number of your console so even if you sold it on it couldn't connect to XBL. They use waves so that they can...
360 you can on some versions and no others, and it's a huge pain. ps3 you can too, most of older games (more than 1 year). Anything more recent, good luck. Both of them require a good amount of time and dedication to make them work, and both of them will get you banned from online services, so no multiplayer ever a...
This is correct! got my mac air stolen(busted my car window two floors underground). apple couldn't help, cops couldn't help(fill out a police report online. no srsly). all was lost. but then I remembered I had prey installed cause i heard it got a pal's laptop back. i went on it, ticked some checkboxes, and within t...
They really made a point out of how it was almost an operating system consisting of two whole operating systems (the Touch/Metro/Modern/whatever style and the traditional desktop style). From my own personal experience, I see the "Modern" style maybe 10% of the time I actually use my computer, and once you have an id...
I cannot access the video (for some weird reasons). Can you pls
It definitely DOES cost the ISP money. Before the CDN, Netflix had to (directly or indirectly) pay a Tier1 network provider for transit since they were pushing out TONS more data than they are receiving. The ISPs on the receiving end of Netflixes data tsunami were then able to use this imbalance in incoming/outgoing ...
When did I ever say I wanted Gigabit speed? Oh wait... I didn't. GF is over 10 times faster than my internet at 100 mbps and if they actually deliver that rate, than they're closer to 15 times faster. I don't get why the fuck you or anyone would defend this nations ISP's. Any idiot can see the shady business going ...
I would think that pretty rapidly (like within a few model years) the only ability the passenger in a driverless car would have in this situation is to hit some kind of kill switch which makes the vehicle merge safely to the shoulder, stop, and activate its emergency flashers. The technology isn't going to do much go...
If only it were that easy. Infrastructure is not a true free market, Time Warner and Comcast have state reps in their back pockets. They are limiting the competition, which is why we see no growth or increase of speeds, or price changes.
That's for there quantum service though. I've got both a fiber and coax running to my house have used both services and preferred my 50mb fiber service(around 130$, but also had phone and digital TV with the HD package and sports packages) to the coax 35mb service that I received from Cox communications. While it do...
There's a lot of confusion and misconception around the caps thing. I was pretty heavily involved in fighting it - maybe I can help. Canada has what we call 'the big three': Bell, Rogers, and Telus. These three companies control most of the country's Internet access. Even many of the smaller ISPs you see out there ar...
In France (but I remember that other countries do it too, like Canada for example), I have to pay an additional tax on all blank media (including USB keys, iPad, iPhones, smartphones, SD cards, CD-Rs, ...) that goes directly to the local RIAA because they are so poor and needs my money to compensate for the money (supp...
The change is in behavior of how apps are expected to interact with the user. And, to be clear, this is for data driven apps (like calendars and lists) rather than games or full-screen "experiences". For the data driven apps in the WWDC video you can see how they talk about putting the user's data front most and de-e...
Aside from the fact that they're expensive as hell to run and I don't believe that anyone in 2013 legitimately uses these as transportation? I'd say you're a moron because you're sat on something with a mind of its own that you're statistically quite likely to fall off anyway. Add to that the fact that it is scared o...
Members of the public also have first amendment rights; including the right to access communications services on a non-discriminatory basis. If Verizon doesn't want the job, then they're free to exit the business so a provider who respects the public's rights can use the utility poles, conduits, cabling vaults and ot...
I can almost buy that argument. Almost. But heres the issue. Your right to free speech ends when it infringes on another persons rights. Ok, heres and example. Anonymous. You can't deny that some of what they have done is illegal, can you? Data theft, malicious damage, etc. But their main argument is that they are ex...
I think education is the second step, or maybe even the last. If the populace could care a little more about how to be intelligent, everything else would fall into place. My thought processes: You're wrong!! Everything starts with education. You can't form intelligent opinions without good information! Crap, wai...
well, we don't really want to remove lobbying, maybe fixing it, but without lobbying you don't have a voice in government either, as you yourself, whenever you advocate an issue to your representative, are a lobbyist. And it's not a bad thing that businesses can advocate for themselves either. I think the problem peopl...
Well you know how Canada's voting system works, right? This is for you out there who don't know. Canada's voting system is a little something called "First Past the Post," where whichever party has the most votes in the end wins. This is a severely flawed system due to Canada's parties. The big three Canadians vote...
I have this theory that Americans like to claim that their country is not democratic or is broken when decisions are made that they do not agree with. Right after Obama was elected, tons of Republicans were crying about how America is over and their democracy is broken. Same happened under Bush, but with Democrats. T...
While there are genuine grounds to be concerned about more stringent intellectual property restrictions, this petition is full of factual bullshit. the TPP is not an 'extreme censorship plan', it's a proposed free trade agreement motivated by economic interests. Cracking down on intellectual property infringements ...
U.S. courts have a habit of upholding EULAs, so I think you're wrong there. But more importantly, what the heck do EULA's have to do with anything. As long as they made it clear to the user that emails go though their server then they should be fine (e.g. should gmail be illegal because some idiot might send medical...
Tha'ts not the only thing Linked in does -- they asked me if I wanted to invite my contacts to LinkedIn -- I very carefully denied the request since I really didn't want them to do that. They emailed everyone on my contact list with an invite from me to be a contact on linked in! This would include wildly inappropria...
The government can't make you unlock a door I address this here:
The financial institution you chose to store your money would have records of your trades, and any gain and loss information. If you really did lose a substantial amount of money in bad investments, it would be easy to show exactly where that money went. Additionally and more importantly, there would be multiple poi...
What? How would sitting in a cell help you remember. There's no way this ruling is going to stand for even a few more months. No judge is going to potentially put someone in jail for life for forgetting a password and that would inevitably occur if that law is to stand. It's being appealed left and right all over the c...
Which is why you should choose carefully the definition of "trivial" and "important". In the grand scheme of things, 12 GB of hardcore porn is trivial*. In the personal scheme of things, 12 GB of hardcore porn is important. If you have a 1 GB hidden volume at the free space of the 16 GB outer container that contains ...
Those searches may not have been, as they had more cause than they would in the advice I gave. I did not say those searches were illegal. Those cases may be about CP. Not everyone wanting to be safe is automatically like those cases. I do not like the implication that wanting to have your things encrypted and not hav...
No, we are discussing whether the imprisonment is just or unjust. I am on the just side. The differences lying between He doesn't need to prove his innocence and There is no reasonable doubt that he didn't hide the money, and all variations thereof. Now, I don't have the knowledge to say the judge did or didn't h...
I ride a motorcycle that's faster, more fun, and sexier than the Elio. I still found myself considering one for two reasons: 1) Getting groceries on a bike is a pain in the ass. 2) Inclement weather makes riding uncomfortable (I've been riding in ~35F weather for a few weeks of commuting... it sucks). The onl...
The Geo Metro was lighter than modern cars due to the safety regulations being more lax back then. In other words, even with low power, it moved itself around better than a modern car with the same power. Not to mention the fact that car manufacturers have had to throw in everything from a radio (not that long ago, y...
Just as a sidenote, black+white lists don't work terribly well from an administration point of view, because once you get there, it turns out it needs to be ever so more fine grained. Plus, content isn't permanent, it changes all the time. So this leads quickly to a situation where you end up with black+white+many shad...
I'll put it differently. I was not looking for mellifluous honeysuckle dropped into my fucking ear, I was looking for a simple answer and perhaps extrapolation. An answer wrapped in the garnishings of the social maladroit is not only superfluous but also entirely pointless. It took you more effort to type the extrane...
I'm quite excited as well. So far the only impression we can make about the windows mobile ecosystem is the phones Nokia makes and the OS itself, which has much-needed room for improvement. With multiple OEMs, we can begin to strip out what part of win8phone is microsoft's and which is the OEM's and find the real probl...
While I'm all for the circlejerk/hatred towards Time Warner here, in all fairness I do have to report a positive experience (shocking!) with them this morning. After noticing my internet loading ridiculously slow, and after a speedtest.net test showed 1Mbps download, a phone call and
Funny thing is, in many parts of the world, it is! Many developed and even developing countries have either started out with fiber optics or have found it rather easy to switch to. I have been in many countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan, UAE etc and have always found Internet with better and more consistent speeds in s...
I work for an ISP , Internet America, complete shit service. Especially the wireless, and ya the technology isnt really there yet, because its too expensive to be profitable and provide a decent service. On top of the major internet companies we just resell shit. Dont get me wrong internet companies are complete thieve...
BGP is a routing protocol that advertises routes externally, each large organization advertises some BGP routes at the edge of their network. Each edge device has a routing table with all the advertised BGP routes from around the internet. There are hardware limitations on older models of these edge routers that can ...
I would tend to agree, and I would also point out that, while in its current state, CSS+HTML+jQuery does not rival native app development, I feel it will equal or outdo it before too long. Websites from the early 90's compared to today's most innovative sites are seriously like night and day. Huge improvements continue...
In the sense that people compare owning a samsung to owning a iPhone, so you do not own a Samsung. If someone is going to say iPhone then they should also specify the category of the Samsung device. If they didn't, the title would be "Samsung Owners Happier Than Apple Owners".
iOS vs Android marketshare is not the same thing as population of a device. iPhones are [consistently top ranked selling handsets]( for a while now.
This should be the top post in the thread. Summary: These are old numbers taken from a survey released in May 2014, based on polling conducted from January to March of 2014. The iPhone 6, 6+, and even the Galaxy S5 and Note 4 were not included because they didn't exist yet. And if you look at the survey results for ...
It's an article citing a trend in customer satisfaction numbers. The fact that people can go all team Apple or Samsung and whine about the results does not mean the post should be removed.
I thought many knew this was coming though. HR 658 has been around for awhile, and although its was in the news a bit a few years ago, there never seemed to be a huge uproar about it.
confidential informants/anonymous informants are seemingly being enabled by lenient judges in our legal system right now, far beyond simply tolerated. It also doesn't necessarily require evidence at all, just being a "witness" is enough, so you can make up a story. That means this "anonymous informant" can be the DEA...
This isn't completely accurate. I'm on my cellphone so I will update this post later. Edit: Alright. So lets cover the main points. >Nobody can handle a DDos attack unless they have retarded amounts of networking/computing power to overpower the messages being received. Completely wrong and it will be answered be...
Nobody can handle a DDos attack unless they have retarded amounts of networking/computing power to overpower the messages being received. That is just the way TCP/IP is set up. You may be able to use some workarounds such as ignoring all requests, but this just renders your network equally useless and is the entire poi...
This is abit long a technical If you want a shorter response post over in ELI5. Schools should be able to handle it because they actually have dedicated budgets and most have quality hardware. The government funds schools technology through a program called E-Rate. It provides ISP services, Firewalls, wireless, and o...
This is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. i envy you >So your position is that it would actually be worthwhile to unravel coat hangers and add connectors to them if it weren't for the loss of audio quality? yes. why buy speaker cable when 10 minutes of physical labor affords you the same? >I'm going to ...
Blood and toil, tears and sweat; never a moment to yourself, never the solace of a willing woman who has nae been paid; Aye laddie. A Systems support technicians life is a hard one indeed. Ye'll be cleaning out registries from the moment your feet hit the deck until you fall into your bunk at night. Not for you the laz...
PLEASE SANITIZE YOUR INPUT. ALL OF IT. FOR THE LOVE OF ANYTHING, PLEASE DON'T FORGET!!! EDIT: This has nothing to do with voting. This is just retarded programming.
This article is crap. Sure, you can go out to the boonies for work, if you want to work in a help desk call center, sitting in a big ol' warehouse all day with a headset on. It's certainly an option for breaking into the field, but the article is pretty much
I concede your point. I was having a difficult time coming up with a catchy
you say that i disregarded the point of your comment while completely ignoring my second paragraph: > just because the police warned them that they were breaking the rules doesn't make the use of pepper spray on peaceful protesters ok. that needs to be decided on the merits without concern for whether or not they we...
The magnet link will find peers who also have the .torrent file through a decentralized P2P network, [Kademlia]( This is built into all of the major bittorrent clients. It does not require any torrent trackers to bootstrap the connection. By the way, in the link danielravennest provided, it actually does contain a ...
Buy bitcoins when they aren't in the news Wait for some news article to mention they can be used to buy drugs Profit!!!
I'm fairly certain he origionally showed her how to search for where to buy it (itunes, etc.). It seems rather vague exactly what she did and mainly my issue was that she probably didn't know the ethical issue of pirating. Her dad has some blame, not explaining it properly, but the issue I have with this scenario is th...
I actually witnessed this first-hand the other day when two Finnish guys came into the bar I was tending. They stumbled in just before last call, and when you combined their inebriation with broken English couldn't even order a drink. By Washington State law, I can't serve anyone blatantly intoxicated. So they proceed...
It is ridiclous, that the copyright holders go after sharers. They MAKE money from people sharing music. Case in point : I was 16. Just after Christmas, I heard one of my friends got Mike Oldfields TB2 for Christmas. I really wanted to hear it, but, sadly all I got was socks, jumpers and coal. Nah, only joki...
You're a conservative, aren't you? Anyway, theft does not equal copying. If I download some music to try out before making the decision whether the purchase is worth it, it doesn't mean I take away anything from the author. I simply made a copy. When it turns out I don't like the music, the author isn't getting any mon...
I'm not sure if I want to defend piracy either, but I do think this infographic draws on a pretty real arguement that people value convience over everything. I mean, look at how well digital distributers like Steam, iTunes, and Netflix do. It's cheaper to just pirate a game/song/movie, but if you make it more convient ...
Is anyone else bothered by article stating GB (gigabyte) and MB (megabyte) throughput speeds? Sure it's quite possible, but how are they storing the content? 1 GBps is about 8Gbps. Do they have a local database server and a SAN/NAS in the car? Or all uploaded over wifi? Has anyone heard of 8Gbps wireless? How about lat...
I used this plan for quite a while. The 100 mins were never an issue, as I could make long calls over VoIP, which was even usable over mobile data so long as I wasn't in a car, train, etc. Coverage in SoCal was pretty good and data speeds were impressive for HSPA+. But T-Mobile's prepaid coverage fucking sucks in t...
Just to note, I have written several letters to my congressmen. I recieved a response 100% of the time . 50% of the time, that response was written by their...helper people. The other 50%, were direct responses from the congressmen themselves. The point I'm trying to make is, I hear people on reddit saying "oh yea...
I will be putting up large posters to spread the word in densely populated areas, as well as contributing my art to corporate buildings such as banks, Wal-Mart's, and charter schools. There are too many people who know little to nothing about what is going on. There are too many people that fear the law to disobey it...
I will be putting up large posters to spread the word in densely populated areas, as well as contributing my art to corporate buildings such as banks, Wal-Mart's, and charter schools. There are too many people who know little to nothing about what is going on. There are too many people that fear the law to disobey it...
A guy that used to work for the NSA has said that the surveillance of Americans is much more widespread and pervasive than we thought, or that our government was telling us prior to him exposing it.
Thank you. There is a lot of unjustified jubilation in this thread. Software per se is not patentable in lots of places. It doesn't stop us (patent attorneys) from obtaining patents on software for clients. Why? Because in most of these places we can still claim the computer running the software. Examples: This i...
Hijacking the top comment because I was too late to the party to correct the misinformation in this thread with any chance of it being seen. There is a lot of unjustified jubilation in this thread. Software per se is not patentable in lots of places. It doesn't stop us (patent attorneys) from obtaining patents on...
No. Your logic is flawed. In this new market, information = revenue. They do not need direct sources like ads or membership fees in order to make money. Monetization comes from owning information. And the tween/teen market is the most important/valuable demographic to obtain this type of information from. The sel...
You don't understand how rapid release works and why it is beneficial. Hint: There's more to it than just jacking the number up every six weeks, and, yes, usable product updates do speed up accordingly. The old model was to bundle everything up into a single major release a year or more down the line. Cool new ta...
While I also despise Adobe Flash, blocking it by default would be harmful to Firefox and Mozilla. For an alternative, HTML5 is a great start. However, that really only helps audio and video, and mostly targeted towards replacing flash video players. It can't do everything Flash can in terms of audio and video. For ex...
Now if only they'd block Javascript by default too. It's been years since I've been bothered by an annoying Java applet; but javascript's a pain in the neck almost every day. Yes, I know about noscript; but a whole lot of sites are and will continue to be broken until some browser makes something noscript-like b...
50 a month for 3gb speeds that test out at .65mb.
Absolute size is irrelevant, it's population density that matters.
Microsoft is just as bad, I never said they were better. Google used to be for the people, providing stellar search results to the point where people associate Google with every unknown question they have. "Google it" became the standard, but they're changing that into not whats the most relevant to you, but what makes...
I am not a marketing expert or anything similar, but the last time a mobile company in my country did a "revolutionary" move (basically /spit on the face of the rest of the mobile companies by offering a really cheap deal for costumers from all social levels) it ended up backstabbing the newcomers a year later by tripl...
I actually went from a local credit union to Wells Fargo. The credit union still owes me $300 in unpaid interest on my savings account. They even gave me the tax documents saying it was paid, but nobody can find the money that was somehow put into my account. I've had nothing but good experiences with Wells Fargo, alth...