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in most situations, it is terrible people (the buyers) who manipulate the resolution center that are actually to blame for "ruining ebay/paypal" it is not paypal themselves. paypal most of the time have no choice in the matter but to side with the buyer. as long as you are clear about what it is you're selling or what ...
I had the same issue, a few years ago, Paypal locked my account because they wanted to "confirm that I was the owner of the account" because of this, it was perma-banned. Whenever I tried to confirm I was the owner, they sent me to the transaction center and told me to follow the tasks there. Except there was one probl...
Anonymous" in this operation is controlled by the CIA. Days before this happened, the government warned of "cyber-attacks" that were imminent. How could they know they were going to be attacked? If there was something to these Supreme Court files, Anonymous would have just released them unencrypted. There is no poin...
What language is this? I'm only asking because I'm working how (*MyPatendedFunctionPointerCall (MyPatentedAnythingParameter); works. I know that in C you have structs and use pointers to functions to create an "object", but you still use a method in the traditional sense e.g. method(parameters). I see that you ha...
Google processed over 5 million searches in the 120 seconds I
I'm well aware of the story. The whole crux of the article is that the authors want to make it legal to do exactly what Sony did. However they don't go into any analysis of the feasibility to do so. I imagine if it was legal to do, that companies would start cranking out "legal" ransomware, that only paying custom...
I think it might be a principle thing. Until now you couldn't sue because you didn't know that you were affected by the NSA even though you figured you were. Now we know that all verizon customers are because of this. PRISM came to light in what? 07-08? But because you didn't know what data was going though there you s...
AES is the most commonly used, which is also generally what the US government uses. If they could easily break it, I doubt they would be using it. Services like Skype use AES-128 encryption (allegedly), and the US government became upset they couldn't eavesdrop on Skype. A few years ago, Microsoft bought Skype, and...
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...
Executive privilege still exists, the courts just found it didn't apply in Nixon's case. Also, and more importantly, presidential immunity is different than executive privilege. Executive privilege simply means the president is permitted to keep certain documents/dealings private, allowing them to resist a subpeona o...
Long story short, Former IT Guy/CIA/Dude with high level of security clearance, saw a lot of disturbing things related to massive scale worldwide warrantless wiretapping being done in the name of "National Security" so he went public in a British interview setting off mass recriminations and saber rattling across the g...
Bingo. Using encryption is pointless with PRISM. The government isn't wasting their time listening to network traffic and attempting to decrypt everybody's messages. They've already "legally" compromised the host. You can encrypt all your communications with Google, but Google is then turning around and handing you...
1 - most sites don't even have an encrypted version of your password, they only have a hash of it. a hash is one-way, encryption is two-way. meaning, with encryption there is a key that can reverse the encryption, with hashing there is no key to reverse it. the only way to 'decrypt' a hashed password is to generat...
This very statement is why we lose the war... It's worth 20-30 minutes of your life. Spend some time educating yourself and knowing how your rights are being violated and perhaps you will be infuriated and more likely to do something about it. Even if THIS lawsuit dies a quick death as it likely will. EDIT:
downvoted for the phrase "whiny moron .... " and the conclusion itself is based on the questionable assumption that those calling for revolution are in a democracy, since men like Plato thought no more than 5000 men could form a democracy. You had me with you (for an upvote) untill the
It's a paradox because of the overblown expectations of constant filming, and privacy concerns in general, when Glass users themselves are the focus. I mean, that's pretty straight forward. Your response is a good example of that: the camera is only on for split seconds upon specific command, which is a far cry from ju...
No]( [they]( [can't]( Quarkslab claims they can read iMessages using a "man-in-the-middle" attack, and then conveniently says they are working on a tool that will shield against these types of iMessage snooping attacks. Hmm, how convenient . . .
iMessage is the same black box it's always been. So, right in paragraph 1, he clearly tells us that he has no concrete info to go on. > This seems almost too good to be true, which in my experience means it probably is. Supposition, not proof. > The particulars of their choices make a big difference when it co...
As a guy who studied networking for 2 years, any network can be easily secured by making a few small changes to your gateway router. Now if you could get your employees to stop fucking downloading Trojans by bypassing our filters and accessing websites that are not allowed at work (ie ALL OF THEM), that'd be great.
Another big difference is the way an LCD works is the panel has a backlight. The backlight shines through "windows" that are tinted in order to change the color of each pixel. (think of the window and the pixel as the same) So on an LCD, the quality, and the contrast of the overall picture is only as good as it's back...
People here are not talking about the amount of frames the tv can process but the time it takes a pixel to change output, and the time delay between input and display Virtually every LCD monitor has a pixel output fully capable of keeping up with a 100hz refresh rate. Unless the monitor is cold there is no one on the...
But he gets money from Panasonic, working for them. Like he said.
As a jaded outsider here, all I see is when a corporation in America wants something quashed, is they literally jump up and down and yell "Freedom" and "The Big Bad Federal Government wants to control you", throws a fistful of money at lobbyists and any opposition dissolves because: a) The federal government departme...
You know what's funny? I predict that Google will play the hero and ignore, at least to some degree, this overturning of net neutrality and stand as a sort of last bastion for free internet access. Why do i think this? Because it's a smart business decision. I don't romanticize Google in the same way a lot of people se...
Stacking" the court, if you're using the colloquialism, is normal: Since conservatives and liberals seem to have similar lifespans, theoretically it works out that if every President stacks the court when possible, you end up with a semi-non-insane court. "Packing" the court is not: When you pack the court, you ...
When a packet is actually sent over a wire or fiber-optic cable, that's when it's been already unloaded from the buffer and it's no longer lingering in a tube. Fact is, there is an existing issue on the 'net with routers having too large of buffers but not fast enough of processing power & bandwidth to handle the data ...
While I agree that limited liability allows an individual to act in a more risky manner, I do not feel that without ample regulation there would be the capability to pursue the outcomes in an anarcho capitalist society. in other words - they may not be explicitly granted immunity, but due to the lack of being capable...
I completely see where you're coming from, bar the implied sympathy to capitalism. We both, however, have different understandings of what communism is. I would say that the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, and wherever else could be named in such a way, were/are not communism. Communism is, despite what Stalin revised, st...
To be fair, MTV's programming before reality television took over was extremely low cost as well. Showing Music Videos? MTV wasn't the one producing that content. They just played whatever the record companies sent them, usually gratis. Game shows? MTV wasn't exactly known for offering deluxe prize packages. These ...
Television is, by far, the most artistically interesting video medium right now. Quality comedy seems to be limited to one or two bright spots but serialized dramas have never been better. AMC, HBO, Showtime, and even some "network" shows are showing that the quality of televised content can match and surpass that of m...
The reason it's a minus to cable is that it shows that cable companies are desperately clinging to an outdated business model. Last night, I couldn't find an album I wanted on bittorrent, so I went to Amazon. Lo and behold, 5 minutes and $10 later, I was listening to the album. Amazon charged me for it, but gave me ...
The problem is that it was not a choice presented to the user, it was "accept our new system, or you can no longer participate." There are many who do not wish to use Google+ at all. Ignoring that group, there are many more who do not wish to link a Google+ profile with their YouTube comments/account.
You may "hate this fucking mindset", but it's absolutely correct: you're the one who can't see past your own self-entitlement. Use another service, or quit bitching about it. Google didn't make the G+ involvement decision out of thin air; there's money in it for them somewhere. If you can't understand that a company ha...
True in the short term, but in the long term if nobody's actually buying why would the advertiser continue to advertise?! I work in display advertising, and CPM (cost per Mille, or thousand "adverts" served) is a dying way of paying providers. The only way it's cost effective is if you can directly see cash results...
Wait, are you on the same internet that I am? Have you seen YouTube comments!?? At least the comments on reddit don't involve saying "Fuck you", "I hope you die, go kill yourself", or some mass spam like "Bob", "If you don't post this you will die", and "Come like my channel and watch my vids that have nothin, literall...
Um, what? Their products are widely used and well received in the business space. Plus, windows 7 is arguably the best OS available right now. Oh and the windows phone has an arguably better user interface than any other un-modded mobile OS.
False analogy... There's nothing wrong with government regulation on exchange services, and no intelligent BTC user is trying to prevent certain parallels from being drawn between bank services and BTC exchange services. When you decide to use an exchange service you have already given up the anonymity and zero-regul...
Except it doesn't do that in practice. In practice you need an intermediary to exchange money with someone. If you don't use an intermediary the person could just take your Bitcoins without giving you a product or cash and there is nothing you could ever do about it. Worse off, the intermediaries are not regulated so t...
That is a far more appropriate setting for a Keurig for sure. I still wouldn't use one for that. Every Keurig I have used (3) was about a 5 minute process to make an 8 ounce cup of strong coffee, using the refillable insert. So 20*5=1hr 40minute coffee line. And if they using the pre-packaged kind, that is some money...
iWork spreadsheet/presentation software lags behind office, but have you tried Pages? It's way better than Word for most applications. I've used both extensively, and I've done timed comparisons of content creation in each. Pages is about a 15% productivity boost, which is a big deal when you're talking about spendi...
I love Reddit for this very reason. Not only am I personally learning more about this problem quicker than I would before (TV doesn't seem to cover Caution: just a guess maybe cause they are owned by a company that has skin in this game), but hundreds of thousands if not millions are too. A better educated population i...
Well first off I never said they owned your network I said they owned their network which you pay them to connect to, that is your peering agreement you pay them to send data through them and they send data to you if you configure your firewall to let that data in or if you initiate the connection the data comes in. Se...
Except you don't understand how peering agreements work and those are the route of this issue. Cogent is a shitty provider and that is Netflix's ISP Cogent likes to use Verizon to transfer a ton of their data to other places including non-verizon customers, so Verison throttles Cogent's data because they are assholes t...
Like I said you have no idea how peering agreements work or how NAPs work. People complaining about issues they have no understanding of and Netflix takes advantage of that to make you think Verizon is the bad guy. Not all of the data sent to Verizon's network goes to Verizon's customers, Cogent uses Verizon as a way t...
Gah! This is dumb. Verizon is kinda right. And kinda wrong. Yes, this is correct. Netflix has saturated its links to COVAD. Why? To have this installed: What is it? A content delivery system. The trick is Netflix wants the same arrangement that Akamai has. Which is free rack space & power. Akamai ar...
The mass of the vehicle isn't the only factor in determining crash worthiness, maybe you figured that it went without saying but the extra mass added by the materials used to create crumple zones and like features is there for safety. If you had a 600 lb. car and crashed it into a wall at 65 mph the occupant (with curr...
This is a science experiment not a car. Solar "cars" have been a staple of engineering schools for years and it's no surprise that each year is record breaking as the manufactured panels and motors that these students have access to become more and more refined and efficient. News that would be more groundbreaking woul...
Can't wait for the downvotes.... Comcast was telemarketing me while I was a customer and robodialing my cell phone and leaving automated messages. I called and bitched at Comcast and told them this was illegal per the FCC. They dropped my bill to $44.99 over a year ago. I own my own modem and don't have TV
I have TDS. I have what they call their "PONS" connection, I have no idea what that means, but it's a fiber connection. While no one I talk to has any understanding that they could be offering Gigabit speeds, they do offer 100Mbps right now for ~$45/mo. But you need to buy the package deal that includes a land-line ...
Fidelity Communications.]( ~~They're available in 5 different states. (MO, AR, LA, OK, TX) When I googled their url I noticed poor reviews, so I don't know about other areas, but ours is alright. Everyone that I've spoken to (that has it) has said it's the best that they've ever had in this area, and I agree. Pro...
I had to call Sonic once because a phone jack in my old apartment died and my internet was taking a dump and I just wanted to youtube the cats like I normally do. I called and got through to someone in a couple minutes, they were helpful diagnosing what was what and said they had to run some tests and would call back. ...
But shit heads on the physical world are easily caught by police and are less likely try to send potentially dangerous things to peoples houses via mail. Should I remind you of the people who are "swatting" streamers. Imagine how easy that would be if everyone on the internet could find their address in seconds. The ...
That would be like asking "What happened after you took that baseball bat to the bee hive? We're the bees pissed off and swarming?"
I tried to get through it all...
Except you'll have to deal with Sprint. Who is consistently rated the lowest in customer service. You'll drop calls left and right, texts that appear sent, aren't, and every month or so you'll get hit with a random charge for an incrementally increasing amount of money until you notice, then you'll have to take an extr...
OH MY GOD WITH THE FUCKING UNLIMITED DATA. You are throttled because you only pay 30.00 a month for your data plan. On a limited plan you would only get 3GB for that much per month. You are throttled because if you use more than 5GB per month you are getting WAY more usage for way less money. AT&T also has mobile shar...
As someone who works in Sprint customer care I know that they pretty much have to be the cheapest in order to compete. Between the network that while they say is complete still needs a lot of work and the difficult customer service experience. While their current in progress upgrade (Spark) has a lot of potential to ...
I guess I am on the opposite side of the fence when it comes to this old plan. I needed tethering and I needed a lower bill. I got rid of the 'unlimited' plan years ago. Currently I have three phones on a 10 (now 15 GB) Mobile Share plan. One phone is an old Nokia so no internet use there. But between my wife and ...
This article is mostly false. LTE devices are throttled at 5GB where 4G devices are throttled at 3GB. AT&T currently has a system in place that throttles 4G devices in congested areas but has not applied this technology to LTE devices because of the differences in how the device processes data (supposedly). About 4...
Hahahahaha Not everyone browses reddit all day (as in, web browsing not specifically reddit) and latency only matters to a certain point before it becomes negligible. Also, there is a huge amount of difference between 20Mbps (average residential speed) and 1Gbps.
There are quite a bit of inaccuracies and conjecture in this article. This is (very) long and a bit technical. DISCLAIMER: If it is not obvious, I work as a DOCSIS engineer in the cable industry, albeit in a very small, independent, rural company that nobody has heard of. Technically a 24 downstream bonded modem co...
This is a difficult debate... Sure, things you buy should be free and all, however, modifications beyond the designed spec of mechanical equipment can be very dangerous. And the main issue isnt even the fact that you CAN hack it, since other car mods are availlable too. The biggest issue is HOW you hack it. An en...
I sense dangerous half-knowledge... There are 2 different types of modding the ecu in the article. The first one is changing maps and curves to get the ecu into a more lean / rich fuel mixture and to get the software to behave different. But: getting your own software to run on the ECU is a completely different t...
As someone that wrote a master's thesis on safety-critical software development in the automotive industry my opinion is that nobody should touch their car's software :-) Context: Modern cars have about 70 ECU's, which is too many. This means that now multiple functions with differing ASIL levels are combined on the ...
The fact that you think that is a symptom of how ignorant you are. It's troubling how widespread contempt for expertise has become.
No? The bot I replied to, the auto
I personally prefer google play to Spotify. and I've used both quite a bit. What i really like about google play is aside from playlists you still get your classic library will all the songs you own. For a similar price to spottily it basically allows you to download anything from the store to your library, where you c...
This is a good point I worked for a company that sold phones and they had a very good relationship with Verizon. Every now and then the Verizon rep would come by to train us and even they had no idea what they were talking about they were just there to give us free pizza and have us play stupid games that got people to...
The people this guy talked to almost certainly aren't in sales and don't make commission. When you call in, you pretty much always go to customer service or tech support (tech support is trained to do everything CS does and more so calls can get forwarded if the CS queue is large). Renewing a contract, changing a plan,...
I know most people are talking about FIOS service but i think my story is semi interesting. At least for me. So i'm still on a plan with my mother and her phone broke. So she goes to verizon to get a new phone. They are doing the whole deal blah blah (i'm not there) and they ask her whos number is * (my number). And ...
I'm ready to rant. I had verizon DSL for over a decade. It was fine but download speeds became unbearable after becoming a computer science student. Having to download virtual machine files and operating systems for different classes each semester. I got spoiled with on campus 75-100Mbps. So I convince the family to ...
As someone who worked as a manager in a.call centre and did a LOT of quality monitoring. Yes, it's not that hard for the call centres to have monitored that many calls in a week. (4 recorded/reviews per week, per employee. A team of 15 employees to review. It adds up quick) BUT, how much can you do? How much can you ...
I hang out with a massive bunch of authors. Many of them insanely talented (not all, but many), across a mix of genres. This is EXACTLY what most of them are doing. Setting up publishing collectives, self-pubbing/indie-pubbing, all sorts of things. Still working with the big name publishers if they can (the up front mo...
Life , liberty, pursuit of happiness" Also, the death penalty can be very expensive, even though many people assume it's very cheap because "the drugs are cheap" (there are a lot more costs to it than the drugs). Also, many deranged criminals WANT death, and in a sense we are giving them freedom by letting them...
For what products are you saying you're forced to use Steam and Steam only? I ask because many of the larger games are available for download at websites like Direct2Drive (which is now GameFly, apparently). I see your point though -- these newer digital distro platforms like PSN and attempting with its end user agr...
While I agree it does sound unfair can we really expect KickStarter to hire staff or create technologies and/or involve law enforcement because someone is being stalked and creating spam? Just as its not the fault if the person that is being staked, it's not the fault of KickStarter to devote additional resources to so...
I can't speak for everyone but to me... I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and I will again, Unless Ron Paul is on the ballet. I had the idea to make a viral video as a message from liberal America to the republican that basically says if you don't make Ron Paul your nominee then its four more years! This video is ...
Or if Hollywood just made more movies that everyone wanted to see. A lot of stuff I download is because IDK if I want to pay $10 to see it in theaters or not. Also, if I download a copy of a movie that is coming out or has come out on DVD/BluRay and I like it I usually go buy it. The alternative is what? Renting it? ...
Just because the film makes a lot of money in the box office DOES NOT entitle thieves to steal it. Obviously, if you regularly steal things, you would want to try and find well-constructed argument to justify your immoral behavior. At the end of the day, intellectual property is what allows everyone from a movie studio...
Just because people don't click on them, doesn't mean they are not effective. Magazine ads are not much different than getting a spot on a website. People are seeing your brand/product, just because they don't want to know more about it at that particular time, doesn't mean they won't think of you later.
A couple of observations: If the article describes the patent accurately (a big if, admittedly), it is very unlikely the patent will survive a validity challenge in court or before the PTO (Patent & Trademark Office). As others have mentioned, this idea is neither new nor nonobvious -- professors have been doing thi...
If the American public can sympathize with children and realize that their parents' failure as an adequate provider is in no way the child's fault, the textbooks could be subsidized with the government's tax revenue. But better yet, kill the textbook publishing industry by promoting GFDL books instead. Once that gets g...
The reason I hate all this piracy stuff is because I think it is total bullshit that people think they own knowledge and have the power to keep that knowledge. I was once discussing to my professor the boundaries of putting citations on my paper. He claims that "any information I read anywhere that I use on the pap...
Over the last 7 quarters at my school, I have not purchased one textbook from the bookstore. I have either purchased the international edition for about $30 as opposed to the $150 and above price. My other option was finding pdf versions of my books. In fact, one of my professors gave me extra credit for sharing the...
Pearson has pretty much already started doing this. I am required to use the textbook chosen by my department and use the online homework system which means all students in the class have to buy the online access code. They get it in one of 3 forms: They buy the new textbook bundle and it comes packaged with it. ...
Problem is even if Steam moves to Linux, are the devs going to port their games for the platform when it, quite frankly, has so few users? You're looking at the issue the wrong way 'round. My most powerful box is Win 7, my "wintendo" simply because there is so little game support under Linux. If there was good game...
I'm in New Zealand. Right now it takes a good year to two years before something like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones comes on TV. Even then it is still only available on a rather expensive TV channel, Soho, which also entails purchasing a subscription to Sky TV which is riddled with ads and is priced astronomically hi...
Last time i checked, it wasnt Google's job to do their bidding. It also isnt the governments job to make sure the MPAA/RIAA florish with business. Lastly: pushing the bill into other countries ISNT THE US' JOB
Funny, I pay for the service and it certainly isn't at the lowest resolutions (quite high I think) and I've never really had a problem with lag. That's not to say there are a few other issues such as the lack of titles for the service, but oh well. As far as paying a 'fee for a game I don't own', welcome to PC gamin...
I'm very skeptical of the article as well. Time and time again, Apple has proven that it is willing to let competitors into the store if they agree to follow the rules. Amazon and Dropbox the biggest examples that comes to mind. Conversely, time and time again, Microsoft has proven that they are willing to fast and loo...
Except that Windows (Phone) Store developer TOS allows app developers to use their own IAP/subscription services, they're not forced to use Microsoft's. There may be an exception for upgrading from free to paid, but I'm not entirely sure on that.
Camera+ is a poor example, though. The developer guidelines specifically tell you that you can't repurpose any of the hardware buttons. So TapTapTap (rightly) thought it would be cool to use the volume button as a shutter. They submitted a version with the feature, and Apple rejected it because it violated the rules....
The extensive themes allow you to because they have all the respective tweaks built into them. The shitty ones yes.. They just change the icons, lockscreen, and basically just the look and feel of it. If you want more than that then you add each tweak you want on to these themes. Otherwise, you get dreamboard and downl...
Edit: ended up replying to someone else thinking this started from a different point; too tired to care anymore Also starting to doubt the article is even legit since every other source links to that same one which cites no official source
That article is fucking long and the title tells me nothing that makes me want to read that wall of text. Who's going to
I agree. You don't deserve all these downvotes. Piracy is wrong after all. The fact that companies charge too much for content (to pay all the middlemen) is used as an excuse for piracy but of course it shouldn't be. If everyone followed the Louis C.K model and charged according to content and provided content that can...
Can someone
I used to work there, so I'll chime in. I think you're right, but I also think that there's a long recovery process to hire back solid talent and undo a lot of historical thrash. From the viewpoint of my still-remaining coworkers, there's more emphasis on reviewing and designing the products than there has been in ov...
but they absolutely necessary for innovation. It is impossible to launch an innovative product without the assurance that the hard work that you put into it is protected by law. Except that there's no proof of that, and very obviously people start all kinds of companies all the time despite having no guarantee whatso...
Ok, so I'm a foreigner living in Norway, and I've heard all about how horrible tran tastes from all the Norwegians that were forced to take it throughout their childhood. So I was ready for the horrible taste when I bought some (had some horrible joint pain for a while, everyone suggested tran to get rid of it). BUT ...