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But as a user this is something I don't totally understand. I pay my internet company so my SO and I can access mostly Netflix and online video games. (Then things like reddit, homework, and emails) But because of the first two I pay them $50 a month to get the mid speed internet instead of $20 a month so I can do the ...
Here is a little story... There are two neighbors: Verizon and Cogent. Each year in the fall Verizon and Cogent rake up the leaves to the edge of their property line, and move them to the curb to get picked up. Some leaves from Verizon's yard end up in Cogent's yard, and some leaves from Cogent's yard end up in V...
Lol redbox lol I would NEVER pay for their service and would just as soon drop netflix too easy to get everything you want other ways. Blockbuster had a button on my roku remote like I was going to use them after years of overpaying for rentals. Verizon can suck it. Regardless of whether or not we keep Netflix, whi...
Alright folks, gather round. It's story time... So a person related to me (maybe by blood, maybe not - ooooooo SPOOKY) who I trust with my life (and thus I believe his/her story) used to work at the White House. At the time, it was a small Help Desk company with maybe 10-15 employees - a sub-contractor, for those who...
U/DasUberSquid is correct and you are wrong. The type of transaction you are thinking of is very common: exchange money for goods or services. Goods meaning physical items we can hold, touch, smell, keep forever. Services meaning something that benefits ourselves or accomplishes something we don't want to do ourselves ...
well as an european where the government is completely opposite of what you got over there, our politicians uses the internet as an infrastructure. Meaning that limiting it in anyway would set the country back in terms of competitive strength to neighboring countries. I think the EU passed a bill recently that aimed ...
Actually, the social contract is part of the government. Basically, government is a social contract between the governers and the governees where you exchange certain freedoms for the protection of the remaining rights. IE you cannot kill someone but you gain the right to life no matter what. The government can dra...
Actually, it works differently. On iOS the encryption is always enabled. iPhones have been 100% encrypted for a long time (since the 4S) Though this encryption is always on, it is useless if you don't have a code. If you don't have a code, iOS is fully encrypted, and it decrypts on the fly while you are doing things....
Most infosec professionals don't think that this was N.K. myself included. The original messages were an extortion attempt. There was not even a hint of political motivations. This goes completely against the DPRK's M.O. They are a country that loves to be loud about how "powerful" they are. A secret extortion ...
The majority of Digital Projectors around the country get their movies delivered through the internet. A Digital Cinema Package that gets distributed to a theater for just one movie runs anywhere from [90-300GB]( Let's say it's 300 GB since more and more theaters are projecting in 4K; 100 theaters downloading a weekend...
As an addition to Willuz's (what you talking 'bout) point - the Intelligence Community (IC) uses frequency and pattern analysis in several ways beyond fingerprinting code to determine authorship/source. Frequency analysis is used in cryptography/cryptanalysis to determine source and language in encrypted messages (Wik...
Not ignorance of the law, ignorance of the act. Maybe it's because I work in a very risk focused area (insurance) but from my dealings with upper management they seem very focused on following both the guidelines and the spirit of the law and are very focused on knowing what is allowed and what is not. But they are...
The purpose of incorporating is to allow them to not face criminal charges. Sometimes I think that people forget that most upper level executives and board members only have a very high level control of the company and aren't actively trying to break every conceivable law. In this instance they probably barely even kno...
We can report these to the FCC, but they are already well aware of the Cardholder Services people and they are unable to do anything about it. The option to stop answering the calls also isn't viable because they spoof the caller id to whatever they want. I once got one where it said the call was coming from ME...yea...
Seriously? Well good on you, but from one programmer to another: If any language were as fucking annoying as wiring up Flip-Flops in Minecraft (to have a tiny door switch open and closed you need a hangar of space closeby to accomodate the logic), with the stupid rules ("up but not down", "torch inverses signal", "use ...
Al-Qaeda is the most dangerous entity America has to deal with right now. No, it's not because of what it does, per se. Rather, the terrific aim of its existence is what it apparently stands for, and the reaction it draws out in us. Al-Qaeda's raison d'etre is hate; not only irrational hate for its enemies, but als...
I hope I won't get too much flak for pointing out the obvious here: DNS is already a distributed database. There are multiple root name servers, and they delegate to other name servers via NS records. It may not have the particular decentralized properties (like a P2P system does) that some people may want, but tha...
I'm in the west coast (very close to Cupertino). The day I bought the iphone4, I clasped it as shown in the hour-long "It's not our fault" video Jobs and Apple put out at the time. I did see the bars drop from 4 to 2 and stay there for as long as I held my death grip. I released the iPhone to see the bars jump back up ...
A less popular clone of reddit. The drove it's self to 'Web Suicide'.
Oh ISPs, how do we pay for your shitty networks, let me count the ways... We pay for cable, DSL, or fiber and we connect to the ISP and the ISP connects to the backbone. Netflix pays for their connection to the backbone and we pay Netflix. We also payed for telecom in the US through tax dollars that went to subsi...
VCs will refuse to sign an NDA because they view many proposals from many different people. The concern is that they will already have a project in the works that is arguably similar to what you are proposing, so they sign the NDA, reject your offer because they already have somebody doing it, then you sue them for st...
The "8-bit" in this context is in regards to the "8-bits per pixel", which is a bit of a misnomer. The VGA card on a PC had a 256 colour mode, which used 8 bits per pixel, however that wasn't an 8-bit RGB value, it was an index into a 6-bit per colour channel 256 entry palette. So it was 256 colours on screen at an...
After thinking about it, this is not a tool that will enable higher res graphics in an emulator. That is not the purpose of the tool. You can see in the paper that the output of a completed scene using this tool is on par with hq4x filtering. So, a question arises of why this tool is a big deal to start with if we...
If your hard drives are not spinning up then the issue is probably either the motor or the logic boards. Most likely logic board if you aren't getting a clicking. Don't try to recover anything else yourself. You need a Stage 3 data recovery. That is a clean room recovery. If the data is really that valuable this is w...
IANAL, But Payback might be pretty simple. You wanna really fuck AT&T? Here's How: Get the message? Cool. Go file in small claims court for breech of contract. Claim Damages for Every month since they put the plan into place, Plus seek damages for the cost of the Phone (Since it is carrier locked to only work with AT...
It's obviously designed to force people off the unlimited plans so they can add them to the pool of suckers who get charged 5000% more per minute when they happen to exceed their limit. Greedy assholes. There's no reason why exceeding one's minutes by 45 should cost $800. Which is nearly 8 times what it would have co...
Things simply have to change according to the new generation's supply and demand. Older generations can't run the show to their liking forever because they are not in tune with the new generation's wants and needs. Older generations are stuck with their ideals that may no longer apply, so nature runs its course; the ol...
You imply that megaupload encouraged uploading of copyright material. 100% of the case points to the fact they did everything in their power to remove access to copyrighted material to keep their safe harbor status.
I'm glad people are becoming aware that we're being completely fucked over by not only corporations but by the government/globalists. The technology that we use is nothing more than a way for them to plan ahead of us so they can further control the population. We the people are merely mice in a cage being observed ...
Very little I would imagine. College isn't necessarily about the education you receive, but the degree you receive at the end that basically says to employers "I am smart". Even if somebody learns a skill online and becomes incredibly proficient in it they likely won't receive the same consideration as a person who w...
This is actually much different than watching lectures. Exam grading software and graded coursework make this far different in that it's interactive with evaluated results. Things like "labs" and group work are currently impossible to make a true analog, but every class you've ever had that didn't have these elements...
It's said by some free market economists (names of which I can't recall but you can look into it yourself) that it's low interest loans from government programs which drove the price of education up, for reasons I'll outline as well as I can. I won't pretend it'll properly outline everything so maybe if I miss anything...
So the woman in the article may be guilty of being he aggressor when she went in the house AGAIN, brandishing a gun, and possibly getting a power rush and intimidating her husband. In her defence she would not have known what lies behind the wall she was shooting but still an event she could have totally avoided by not...
The article was talking about the top provider being a consistent average of under 3Mb/s. Whether people have a 150Mb/s wireless or a 1000Mb/s wired at their house is not the limiting factor on which provider is giving them under 3Mb/s. Heck they could even have an archaic 10/100 router and still be much faster than ...
Also, Its pretty bullshit to put something like google fiber as a "major ISP" for this ranking. Here's the speedtest for my office. and I'd wager that there are some universities with more users than Google Fiber. Why don't we get some info for those.
The majority of Kansas City is in Missouri, and google fibre has not been expanded in Kansas. Also, on the topic of population density, >Average US population density: 34,01 people per km^2 >Average Missouri population density: 33,69 people per km^2 both numbers from the page you linked. Also looking at [this](...
Ouchy! The cheapest Cisco router which will actually handle 10Gb/s on WAN will set you back about $68,000 (ASR1002-X with proper licensing). Thing is, there are few websites which can deliver 10Gb/s continuously. Taking overhead into account, 10Gb/s is about a full 4.7GB DVD every 8 seconds. You'd quickly run into the ...
Comcast Business Class Internet and Comcast Business Class Ethernet are two entirely different things. You have their small business service which is simply a glorified residential connection with a heftier price and business oriented features such as static IPs and guaranteed tech support. Comcast Ethernet is an ent...
I'm a bit of a "power user" but whatever. Consider: I go to a top-ten engineering University and have access to some of the fastest internet around as a result. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the fastest in the state, let alone the Midwest. On a given day, I might: Watch some TV, via Netflix, Hulu, ESPN3, or v...
Hey, am a Kenyan IT student and I assure you that this article is utter bullshit. Why? It wasn't reported in any of the media companies in Kenya and it would have been big news. I would have noticed it also as am big on these topics as I aspire to be a web and mobile app maker. It is way to vague with no verifiable...
AT&T Has a big bad rep due to the international eavesdropping closets they let the government set up. However, they haven't so readily and willingly just handed over user data and info (or enforced MAFIAA efforts) as much as Verizon has.
Do you use ABP on your browser at home? Which app store did you get that from? If I want ABP, I Google "Adblock Plus" and magically I'm taken to their site where I click a button, download, and install their plugin. It's a trivial matter for ABP to point you to their site to download and install an APK for your phone...
A straw man is when someone replaces what is actually being argued with an apparently similar argument and attacks that instead. In this case nhjknjksdf is attacking the argument that Google has to earn the right to show us ads through goodwill but the actual argument being made is that people don't want to see ads at...
You know, congress gets lots of shit for not getting things done, which is understandable. What most people don't get however, is this is exactly the type of system the founders wanted, a system that would deliberate and pass legislation slowly to avoid the "tyranny of the majority". Granted the filibuster and special ...
Well, yea, but that's what they say they're about and the reputation they have crafted. Be careful pointing out the logical fallacies of the left around here, though... Some people may get upset that the party that's supposed to be on the side of individuals is also in favor of big government and that the two are mutua...
Tell every US Citizen you know to do the above. You can also contact senators as a non-Citizen and ask them to not do things that would negatively affect you, but depending on the Senator they may not care, may only care a little, or may consider your voice equal to US Citizens.
Please try reading the two paragraph article before commenting.
I'm struggling to see the practical difference between a 'real' security hole (which in your opinion it's okay to disseminate) and a bot-prevention system (which it's not okay to disseminate). Firstly, actual security holes put anything at risk, from consumer information to credit card information. Huge quality of li...
The NSA bas been contributing selinux code for years, not just to Android but to the Linux kernel. This is not news, nor is it anything to be concerned about since the code can be and IS audited regularly by people way more interested, informed and concerned by any of us.
The problem is that the unrelated data is then sitting on a server in the police station, from whence it will be backed up at some point. Then, in the future, they pass a law that says that government owned data must be shared between law enforcement. Suddenly, that data accidentally becomes legal to be used by everyon...
That's like saying you shouldn't upgrade your car because you could break the engine. Yes, if you don't know what the fuck you're doing, you can break something." Well... this IS true. (people who don't know what they are doing, shouldn't be rooting their devices) The problem I notice with a lot of consumers these ...
Doubt it, they used a now rate limited api call with a huge list of numbers to 'find friends' in the app, which came back with usernames connected to each number.
Bull shit , and here's why - my kids love to stream youtube, sometimes Netflix. Sometimes my spouse does too. And me. Now, if Netflix is using storage on my PC to store movies for someone else and uploading them while I'm downloading all their crap, then the games we're all also playing will slow down.
ELI5, what difference would this make for the average user?
Netflix's bandwidth use is huge, and broadband connections are usually asymmetrical - they are maybe 10X slower uploading than downloading. This will punish slow connections, and where people have data caps it may incur a lot of overage charges which non-tech people won't understand. This was tried before, in 2005 o...
I have always wondered about the IQ level of people who worry about using AA batteries because going through them costs money. I was 5 years old when I figured out that batteries are best when rechargeable. All it took was watching $8 worth of batteries die after only 10 minutes of driving a RC car to move to recharg...
Microsoft is making a lot of unpopular decisions as of late. I can understand that these where written on the wall long ago but this is starting to get worrisome for someone who depends on the Windows platform for day to day computing. I've seriously thought about ditching windows for Linux considering all the failed p...
I've had this same problem that you, not the guy above you has. I have seen my connection, when I lived in an apartment complex, drop down to .5Mb/s down and .2Mb/s up, instead of the 30/5 I was paying for. Then they gave me the whole "up to" schpiel, and I told them that my internet was unusable, then they directed...
So, does that mean I'll be able to declare myself a "CDN" and stop paying for colo? Good question. Consider a few things: You can peer with whoever is convenient nearby, but if you want your content available everywhere, you'll have to pay for some transit too since there are 10s of thousands of separate networks...
Former FiOS customer here; You will see throttling. Maybe not in the beginning, but later on you'll notice Netflix, YouTube, DropBox, and moat popular services have magically slowed down. Dramatically, nearly to a point of unreliability. Switched to Optimum Online, much faster speeds for a much lower price, no throttli...
Your ISP is the last mile connection between you and the internet. Everything that you want to see, first travels to your ISP and then to you to be assembled into meaningful information. What he's showing is that when his ISP tries to get data from Netflix's servers his datarate is only around 400kilobits per second,...
Oh Gott, story time: Seit 2 Wochen kein DSL mehr von o2. Telekom Techniker erscheint zum vereinbarten Termin einfach nicht. O2: "können wir nichts machen, telekom schuld", telekom: "können wir nichts machen, o2 schuld". Nächster Termin in frühestens 3 Wochen, man kann nur hoffen, dass der Techniker dann auch kommt. Fic...
Encryption doesn't solve all problems with secure communications. Take for example UEFI . It's meant to further lock down the computer hardware and give possibility to run hidden programs for surveillance. Background The BIOS is a program that is stored on a chip (flash memory) on the computer motherboard. It exec...
Well there's actually a petition to legalize medical, recreational, and industrial marijuana that's collecting signatures for a state referendum. And 56% of the state voting population is for legalization at last polling. But our state constitution has really strict restrictions that require an absurd amount of votes. ...
Native Detroiter here, can lend some perspective. As the world works right now, it makes less sense to have dealerships. But as for the reasons why dealerships were a good idea in the first place: Once upon a time, the only way to buy a car was to go to an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer - Ford, Pontiac, Packard...
We asked for this back when we complained about censorship. Unfortunately, it goes both ways. What's sad is how many upvotes it's getting.
What you are really seeing is a push from the unions (money and lobbying). The big 3 see the writing on the wall (Ford less than the Chrystler and GM). No one wants their cars; they are overpriced, unreliable (dangerous in GM's case). But it's not just the companies that see the future, the automotive unions see it...
In some cases we probably are arguing semantics. If your point is that "money goes into the system and dramatically affects political outcomes to the disproportionate advantage of the rich and well organized, and that fact is disturbing and should be addressed," then you and I are in complete agreement. I continue th...
First, the more people eat at a restaurant, the more people who will actually enjoy the food may spend money in the future. Sure, there are people who will never give you a dime, but chances are they were never going to be a customer in the first place. Second, there are people who have no idea if they'll want to bu...
I've read most of your posts, and your logic is irrefutable. You are right in what you say, and no, it is not fair to you and the others working in the Music Industry. What I will say though is this: I don't believe it can be stopped. This whole situation has been caused by the new age of digital information. The abi...
The thing is, nobody cares if the companies are being reimbursed or not. I don't pirate anything other than TV shows (which are legal because of time-shifting) but I don't buy music or movies either. I borrow movies and music from my local library, I will never give the studios or **AA's of this world a penny because t...
summary: Google thinks it's BS that their gay employees with domestic partners have to pay more in taxes than their straight married employees, so they're covering the difference. This way, all their employees get the same take-home pay, regardless of sexual orientation. My only complaint is that it should also inc...
Hi I'm the government, and I intentionally moved blogdelnarco.com out of the cheaper tiers so less people see it, and some day, screaming "who will think of the children!11" I'll move it to the adult/xxx pack that most people don't get and most ISPs don't offer out of political correctness to make it even harder for yo...
Who cares where the first link is going to go? If you start in LA, you can't link directly to Sacramento without going through that nowhere to nowhere section at some point. May as well have the cheaper parts finished before you start building through the larger cities. Where did they drive the first spike in the tr...
I'm not being sarcastic here I'm trying to be realistic. I understand the theory behind infrastructure investment: better interstate transportation can encourage more commerce (and hence more jobs) but will it necessarily do this? It certainly did in the past because, many decades ago, interstate connections were t...
Nobody is saying we need to get rid of cars, or ignore investments into our freeways. Give the consumers a choice, by giving them rail. Also, a quick glance at [this page]( suggests that rail IS more efficient than automobiles or planes. At least when you take advantage of the train's capacity.
Hehe, I just went through my submission history and it got a respectable 70-80 points in /r/sports. There were other good articles that didn't do well.
You sir, are ridiculous. Where in that did I say it was impossible to program on a mac? I'm simply saying that whatever you bring to class make sure it runs the program language we're learning before you step into the room. Quite frankly I couldn't care less if you use a mac, a pc, or a toaster to program. I bought a P...
Bail has nothing to do with crime, it's all about how the prosecutor/judge feel about how likely you are to show up to a hearing. Yes, accused murderers can (rarely) get bail. So, a crackhead with no money, no car, and a low likelyhood of fleeing may get bail but a multimillionaire who has a history of fleeing (I...
CCNP and network admin here. I will be the first to agree that Cisco has made some big mistakes, but this, while frustrating to their small office/home office customers, is barely a blip on the radar for their market share. When it comes to IP networking, including on internet backbones and critical worldwide infrastr...
I wonder how I can explain this... Cisco owns the internet. They're like the road. You might use different cars to drive on it, you might not even drive on the road all the time, but if you drive, you will probably use the road. Cisco is in every ISP and makes up the backbone of the internet. In fact, just about ev...
The title is ridiculous and greatly over exaggerated. I'm a network engineer and deal with tons of Cisco/Foundry/Juniper/Brocade equipment and could absolutely not care less about what Cisco does to it's consumer line. None of these changes will bear any effect on the enterprise equipment. It's like threatening to ne...
FYI there is a difference in Non-Published and Non-Listed with most carriers. Non-Published means that your number won't be published in the phone book, but it will still be available to people who call Directory Assistance. Non-Listed means that it is not in the phone book, and it is not in the directory listings that...
I was paying an insane amount of money for just a few shows. I had the same setup as the guy in the article. I was paying 150 a month for somewhat speedy internet, and basic cable. The promise was 20 bucks a month. Then they tack on other things, like renting the box, and fee's and taxes. I have not had cable televis...
Toshiba are a bunch of crooks! I bought a laptop for school for 1,500. Hard drive crashes two weeks after I bought it just before my exams. Exchanged it at the store, fast forward 3 months just before exams. Hard drive decides to crash again. Toshiba then tells me under the warranty it would cost 150 to send the stupid...
Knowing this, the simplest solution avoid Toshiba products. If they are being such assholes about this, who knows what else they are involved in. Extreme greed has many facets. Toshiba products are also probably chock-full of " planned-obsolescence " faults.
I used to work at an authorized Toshiba repair center and based on that, I would say this completely has to do with their revenue from the repair business. Becoming an authorized Toshiba repair center requires a licence in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But when you get that, you have a lot less competition b...
This will probably fall to the bottom here, but lets get some perspective here: Large companies like Toshiba have legal teams whose sole objective is to protect copyright infringements. Repair manuals are copyrighted. The legal team is doing it's job. This does not mean some cackling-profit-mongering-evil-corporate-m...
Slightly related: Years ago I purchased concert tickets for myself and a friend, he was going to pay me back with money he had in Paypal. When he did the transfer, in the comments he jokingly wrote " Thank you for the cocaine ". Apparently that raised a red-flag at Paypal and my account that I had for years was immedi...
At least they did him the courtesy of pointing out what they found, as in listing the invoices they claim were a violation. I had a similar problem with Google AdSense in which I received a vague email telling me I was in violation of their policy regarding adult content. My account was permanently disabled, my site wa...
A few years back, I was buying and selling un cut currencies from the BEP. THey were getting me a bit of profit margin since people really like them uncut. Anyway, I started having the BEP shipped stuff to me house. THen I just drop ship it from the BEP to the customer's address. Customer open a paypal despute s...
I had something similar happen to my PayPal account, years ago. My wife ordered a gift for me, and the company's site was having some issues and they charged her 5 times for the 1 gift, which came out to about 5 $100 charges. Since PayPal uses a credit card, we ended up just calling the credit card company and cancelli...
Recently I exceeded my annual receive limit on PayPal which was £1,900; fair enough. Therefore my account was limited and the funds and pretty much useless at the moment. I had to provide full identification so I could prove my identity and have my account restored, so I do as they ask. Eventually the proof gets denied...
I don't use or promote anybody that does. they are scamming pieces of shit. I sold about 8 things on ebay and was saving my money til I turned 18... a few weeks afterI was 18 I went on a trip and wanted to use some of my money (about $60 of 1200). and lafter signing in it locked my account because I was on a different ...
They suck as much as they are awesome. With ebay they realy protect the buyer but that's as helpful as the buyer is honest. I'm pretty honest so when I never got things I ordered or something was WAY different than shown getting my money back was very simple which was nice 'cause the seller was being a douche. Also h...
Something similar happened to me, when I was selling stuff on ebay. Some buyer tried to scam me and claim the product I gave him wasn't the right one and then requested a refund without returning the product. And instead, of hearing my side of the story paypal instantly gave away a refund, which made my account go nega...
Seriously fuck paypal. I used to sell shoes all the time. Then one time the guy I sold them to said the shoes were stolen off his porch when delivered. I said I was sorry but after I shipped the shoes thats not my problem since he was the one that paid for shipping, he had the opportunity to pay for insurance but chose...
I sent high dollar item to South America. Item was tracked into country. Buyer says he never received the item, though it showed it went through customs. Paypal ordered me to pay. I was out high dollar item and cost I was supposed to be paid. USPS would not accept insurance claim as they showed it go into customs with ...
Even if you don't leave money in their they can still ruin you. Ebay/etsy store and your account is frozen? Good bye sales. Also if someone wants a charge back on something they got from you, pay pal will take them up on it, charge you the legal fee, and then if they fail you still lost money from the charge back. Th...
IMO if youre able look for one of those Credit / Debit cards, use it to shop on line and never deal with pay pal again. Unless im missing something, or youre buying direct from people online not using any service, i dont see why youd need PP beyond an alternative to giving a full blown CC number, CVV, Exp on line. ...