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Well, you're escalating things quite quickly and applying a broad stereotype yourself that a man who does this will be a rapist that is fucking someone unconscious and under-aged after flirting with them... I mean jeeze, YES RAPE IS BAD. But while he is stupid for applying a broad stereotype you are acting worse for ...
Your misunderstanding of context his idiotic. "normal adult male" as pertained to the subject of sexual attractiveness or a normal adult's sexual desires are. He also didn't say anything about homosexuality. On that note I do agree that for survivability homosexuality makes no senses. But for a world that has 21 sq...
Yes, you are wrong. Myspace was about social fashion, so is Facebook. Content, ideas, features, all that, is largely irrelevant. Why is that so?
My question is, WHO THE FUCK CLICKS ON BANNER ADDS? I can not remember one time when I thought, "Oooh that looks interesting and I think I might like that, let me just click over here..." I find it so odd that these ads are in any way effective at all. Even the ads on youtube, about 90% of the time fly right over my he...
Something important that the writer fails to mention is that Netflix, as well as others, are tired of waiting for networks to license them content and so are now producing their own. If you haven't heard yet, Arrested Development is getting a new season direct to Netflix and it will be released all at once. Additiona...
note that the OP has editorialized the title and it really says " A Pair of MIT Scientists Try to Transform Nuclear Power "...... but people have been trying the same since the first days of nuclear and thorium has never delivered on the amazing promises [Thorium Nuclear Information Resources]( --
Graph is misleading. It doesn't show that the radiation from the actinides is very small relative to the radiation from fission products in first 100 years. You cant draw "background radiation" on the graph because it isn't in dose-risk to populations near Yucca, but if you did, you'd see that the area where these ac...
It doesn't get rid of actinides. They're still there in some quantity. You say this quantity is low enough so that the public would be fine without long term storage. On what basis do you say this? I don't think the actinides from the existing process are significant enough to warrant much expense.
I don't think that the GIMP does hinder artists all that much. In this case, open source is irrelevant entirely. Maybe Photoshop also misses some features that artists would like. It's a two way argument. No piece of software is perfect and the GIMP is far from perfect (I don't know about PS because I can't see the cod...
I don't think Microsoft have considered the potential liability they could end up with. Consider this little story: Alice has a small boutique at contoso.com with a page at It lists the products sold at Contoso, small and big, red and blue, cheap and expensive, but far far too many to find head nor tail. So that pag...
But the reason behind the article was to make a point that a federal court ruled that using a proxy or other IP altering technique to access a site which was explicitly denied you access is illegal in a federal court. This gives a very strong argument to future cases in which you have a similar scenario, leading to th...
I don't suppose there's a
Wait wait wait, hold up. I'm not treating this like a black and white issue. I have moral issues of my own within my field of research. I actually study insecticide control. When I started I had reservations about killing insects (I started study in Entomology because I like insects!). Not to mention the environmenta...
I really really tried, I promise! but can we get an ELI5 /
Wrong? No. But a little sad. It's just tragic that research into fantastic energy technology generally trends toward the technology that can be further developed into weapons. It happened with the Manhattan Project (we figured out liquid fuel thorium reactors but only two were ever in operation in the 50s and 60s). A...
To be fair any fusion drive would be a nuclear weapon if you removed the magnetic bottle containing the reaction, in the same way a tube full of rocket fuel would be an explosive weapon if you ignited all the fuel instantaneously and forced the tube to rupture. In the same way that a biro is a piercing weapon, if you s...
I don't like it. With self driving cars there will be no more high speed chases, no freedom to drive fast and furious, and no control over where you can and cannot go. Having self driving cars will reduce the amount of collisions and impaired drivers and will contribute to a safer society but I feel it would also mean ...
The words "study shows" don't come from the studies themselves, but the journalists who misrepresent them. This post is an example of that misrepresentation because it calls something a "study" when it isn't. A "study" is done by observation, and it's impossible to observe that something will happen in the future. Th...
That is fine. Make sure that the website you use, uses post instead of get. Further more, pipe all your online profiles through a service like Tor. And disconect you from it - give a generic address, a generic birthdate, and a generic name. They don't need to know who you are unless you tie a credit card to it. Dis...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks." I guess we could just start sending bundles of MicroSD cards to each other via USPS. Actually, a flat rate box can ship a volume a bit more than a VHS tape coast to coast for about $6 in four days. I know that on magnetic media that only fi...
He didn't strike down net neutrality, he struck down a pseudo-common-carrier statuses that didn't have a basis in law. The ruling didn't even say net neutrality was bad. He actually seemed to be lobbying for it. What he said is that the government needs to call a spade a spade. If they want to have a net neutrality...
Software Developer here, and a lot of you clearly do not get it. This is a big deal; We should be paid a LOT more. Software developers are hard to find and hire. The better ones, are even harder to find and hire because there exists a lot of bad software developers that create absolute shit for code and are fully c...
It is, it's so delicious. I find the conventions in C++ style languages to be very esoteric. You can very much see the intelligence of the design but it's mucky. Originally programming was so much more about direct logic. When I've done projects with small memory requirements it seems to become less philosophical an...
How does impersonating work once you have the private key? Won't the reliance on a CA prevent it? Because of the way a digital certificate works. Basically, asymmetric encryption uses two keys, a "public key" which everyone can see and use and a "private key". An extremely simplified explanation of how this works is ...
Imagine you are going to a website and logging in with your password. Your password is sent to the server (encrypted via of course) and at the server, it is decrypted by openSSL. Meanwhile, an attacker was having fun firing heartbeat packets at the server with a faked length. This way he keeps getting small parts of t...
You think replacing oil is achievable but cheap large scale desalination is not? I think you've got that the wrong way round. If water becomes an issue in the developed world it will be solved. If a cheap alternative to oil is found, ditto.
I've worked in audio engineering before. Generally speaking, I think the reason vinyl ends up sounding better isn't because it's necessarily a better medium. I mean, it's certainly resilient, but it inherently has some limitations that make the mastering process a little different. Let me explain: Digital audio has a...
No. I'm not saying everything is a conspiracy I'm just saying we should be careful to not just jump ship and believe something before we have the evidence. The FBI saying it's true is not enough. Of course we landed on the moon and of course 9/11 happened. Furthermore, it most likely was NK that did it. I'm just say...
Because its impossible to provide a back door to your data that only the "good guys" can access. Not to mention the fact that there are many many cases of the "good guys" accessing private data for fun and pleasure. The dangers of government oppression, corruption and abuse are far greater than the dangers of some gu...
What scares me the most about all the online surveillance is the fact that you know there are bugs in their stuff. Since everything is secret, there is no user feedback when it's not working. On top of that, everything is 'top secret' so I'd be willing to bet no one outside the group working on a feature ever looks a...
Correct. Lenovo pre-loaded some software called Superfish with the intent of tracking a user's browsing habits and serving ads based on said data. It did however also install a "rouge" root HTTPS certificate to ensure it's ability to inject ads on HTTPS enabled sites. An action that would normally trigger a browser war...
The entire article comes across as crackpot conspiracy theory. He raises a couple of valid points, sure. But when you start referring to anything and everything that uses the internet as "snooping", you're venturing into tinfoil hat land: > Amazon’s Kindle e-reader reports what page of what book is being read, pl...
This article could be better summed up by:
Yeah, I noticed that. I also like the part where they sent me to collections for $300, admitted that I paid all my bills on time, had no idea what the charge is for (probably when they double billed me and promised to "take care of it"). They refuse to do anything about it because it's "out of their hands." Now I can't...
This is bullshit. It's well beyond what is a reasonable response. Mastercard didn't ruin anybody's livelihood, they aren't suppressing anything, they're merely choosing not to support Wikileaks. While some people, myself included, may not morally agree with Mastercard's decision there's nothing illegal about it. This D...
This man speaks the truth. Salt prevents a malicious user from seeing 1a904fg5 and knowing that the password is definitely "potato" from a rainbow table lookup. They would only know that the user "tigersaurus"'s password is hashed to 1a904fg5, so they would need to re-create an entirely new table that included my salt ...
Just got the following form letter from Colleen Hanabusa (D) Hawaii >Thank you for your correspondence regarding H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I appreciate your input on this important issue. >H.R. 3261, introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (TX), allows the Attorney General to seek an injunction that ...
I guess my point is that your argument lacks traction for me if you aren't actively seeking out the artists that adhere to your model. And I do mean actively - passively waiting for professional advertising to peak your interest in something means that any artist who isn't backed by the supposedly hated establishment h...
Distributors....same difference. They might not BE the creators, but they own the RIGHTS to the content. And that's why we're all here. Their intellectual rights are being abused by a majority. Production costs are never zero. Good ideas take time and effort. If you can't get paid for that work, why do it in the firs...
In addition, they routinely fudged the rankings in public to make it appear as if user-made content was more popular. The real metrics they kept to themselves.
FBI has emails between Kim and other Megaupload stakeholders/employees about their involvement in circumventing copyright. From what I recall, they would delete links to content as per DMCA requirements, but not remove the content. Without the uploader filing a DMCA appeal, they would host the same content at a new URL...
Wrong, the Dropbox desktop app has the power to delete files, that's how your local files get deleted when you delete them from the web, another computer running the desktop app or when you stop sharing with someone and force it to delete its copy. When the government will shut them down, they will tell them to force...
To address your first concern: 1.) The Pirate Bay mentioned that it did not suspect Anonymous ([source]( 2.) Anonymous denied DDOSing the site on its twitter ([source]( However, this does not mean that the person/group responsible for the attack is not affiliated with Anonymous. 3.) There is not a good reason for...
For the ones that didn't: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c&dn=The+whole+Pirate+Bay+magnet+archive&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80 EDIT: Replaced link with a more recent one. EDIT2: the newer link wa...
OH DEAR GOD I JUST DRAGGED THAT WHOLE LINK INTO THE ADDRESS BAR OF MY BROWSER AND IT STARTED DOWNLOADING IN UTORRENT. (for once, maybe...all-caps was justified)
Basically this asshole patented the concept of using a database to determine if someone can access and use a piece of software. Is now suing Mojang for breeching this patent.. Even though this is a fundamental concept of how people log into systems.
guy sneaks into house" would actually fall under copyright if it was patented then any phrase like "man sneaks into an abode" would offend the patent
Sure but ... did I already talk about Executive Order 13026 in this thread? The US had outlawed strong public encryption from WWII on. It was illegal to use or write about or program certain types of math . I'm of the opinion that the reason we had internet service providers who were also media gatekeepers (eg, AO...
Not only is it not going to work, I think people will stop resisting so much just because a new 'internet breaking law' pops up every now and then. I believe that no matter what will be thrown at the so called internet freedom, there are brilliant minds that will bypass it with what will be perhaps a new internet, a b...
I mean, they might have made music, but I believe the idea was to have a label meanwhile The Beatles used their own music. More to the point, I believe studios operate recording studios and produce works. The point is, Apple began selling music. Whether they produced it or not they were distributing it. This is whe...
I guess I have confused pan and tilt. I like how the 3D maps tilts and rotates intuitively which allows me to see a surrounding area. If I am looking for a specific building in a city or I am familarizing myself with the surrounding city block, I can use the 3D feature smoothly on an iPad to learn the surrounding inf...
Obviously. So that's all you're responding to... out of all the things that I said? You still refuse to make any sort of argument to back up your point, and you have yet to give a single reason why something is better. You don't actually have one, do you? Just trolling along, hating Apple just as blindly as the "fa...
Lets for a moment be the devil's advocate here. On the internet everything is free. We only pay for physical goods and download everything else. Therefore the internet is, apart from a few notable exceptions not very monetizable. But, here comes an industry and a technology that will revolutionize your world and ha...
Where do you get that circlejerk of an idea? Nobody is forcing anybody into any of this stuff. The fact of the matter is that to the vast majority of people, the relatively harmless price of lost privacy is worth the benefit of using these services. You're not going to get hauled off to jail if you're "off the grid...
Most likely they didn't screw up. Around here, we have charter, which gives you a cable box even for the absolute basic package (only local channels + a handful of cable networks you've never heard of). I thought this was really odd - so one day I plugged the cable directly into my TV. Bam - all non-digital non-prem...
Yes, and it will be for a while. HBO is looking to make GO a seperate thing which you can pay monthly for (that is, seperate from if you own it on cable), but that looks to be 3+ years in the future. But the cable providers are looking to do ANYTHING they can to make HBO happy. They know that HBO and the premium chan...
Google Talk was the only big xmpp provider that did it right: you could message across xmpp providers (potentially message someone using a Facebook account from your Google account). The problem was that no one else did this: Facebook and whatsapp explicitly closed off their service so that you couldn't message to or f...
I'm glad everything worked out for you! But that
Not suggesting it's more secure, it can be equally secure. My primary objection is that it takes a few days and a trip into town (this was back in the days before internet banking, but I guess it's still possible to not have internet banking on an account). I had to pay to travel into town so I could check my account...
Depends. Assuming someone had your OTP - they would still need your password. If you use a PIN to unlock your phone - they couldn't get to your email or OTP. If you don't use a PIN then they could get your OTP code, but not your password - however they wouldn't want that because they can just launch the email clien...
Well, why not deny the kid his money? It's what they do. Paypal denied me a couple hundred bucks for having the nerve to sell things on eBay faster than PayPal wanted me to. Locked down my account, and wouldn't give me access to my money for over a year. I filed in small claims at the Justice of the Peace here, a...
Paypal is evil, evil, evil. I've had some run ins with them (too long to post here, but they are frustrating and kafkaesque). It basically amounts to them being able to withhold extreme amounts of money based on their user agreement, and it is really dependent on the local laws whether or not you can actually get anyth...
All you need is a bitcoin wallet and you are ready to go! You can use the full client - however, it needs to sync first by downloading the [block chain]( which can take about 24 hours. You can use a lighter client wallet like [Electrum]( or [Multibit]( if you don't want to wait for the block chain to sync. Or, if you...
Yeah fuck PayPal! They had a requirement to the collection of the reward that the kid didn't meet! How unethical of them to not reward the kid for not making himself aware of that! Seriously, does anyone actually read the articles? PayPal didn't use discretion here, they followed their policy. You know what I did whe...
Before I had a full time job I resold items like laptops and electronics on eBay. I've always never had a problem with PayPal until a single incident which led me to boycott PayPal and eBay entirely (at that time PayPal was still running under eBay). Just as a background I was an established seller on ebay with flawl...
Your statement is crazy, that's practically a shakedown. Hi, I've found a vulnerability with your website. Please reward me with money or I can exploit this vulnerability illegally and extort you via other methods. Sorry, you aren't entitled to being paid just because you found a bug. That's great that you did but...
Paypal was just the beginning of my disillusion with certain types of financial institutions. Back in 02-03 I sold a friend's $600 coat to a buyer with an unconfirmed address, which, again, I was completely ignorant of because it was new and I was new, and as I remember the option wasn't featured prominently on the sit...
Or much more likely, they'll just stop operating in the EU, lay off their entire European divisions, and take the hit to move the money home. If they are specifically banned from making money on their EU divisions, they wouldn't bother operating them, and they certainly wouldn't give them the tools to drive the America...
OP sensationalizes the article again. The most important paragraph from the article (emphasis mine): > It said the document showed that the NSA monitored phone calls, text messages, emails and internet chat contributions and has saved the metadata - that is, the connections, not the content - at its headquarters. ...
People are well aware of the argument that it's only metadata, and they are still outraged. Don't pawn this off as misplaced anger, people are upset about the entire premise of all this. The argument that it's legal is similar to the argument that GPS tracking people's movements doesn't require a warrant because no c...
We've had the discussion since the 70s here in Germany during the hole [RAF]( story and until now. Back in the day it was called "Rasterfahndung", meaning analysis of big sets of data using filters to sort out certain target groups of people. In short: exactly whats done today, just without internet or significant elec...
seeing a lot of people in the comments who take the stance: 'derp this is nothing new DUH everyone knew this already lulz' actually, that's not accurate. this is a major scandal because it's, well, scandalous . 'all countries do this sort of thing! DUH' actually, no. rest assured, iceland, greece, italy, japan, ...
The Supreme Court would likely strike it down. Although the censorship cases involved blocking content as opposed to a filter, I think an automatic filter would probably be held unconstitutional. If they offered an opt-in filter it would probably be fine. The Supreme Court has held on several occasions that child por...
China does have a strong export/manufacturing sector, but their economy is also facing major issues. Their future is up in the air, it depends on how well they transition from an export based economy to an internal demand economy. This involves a huge revaluation of their Yuan, which will deal a massive blow to their...
yo, so I don't even own an Apple product but this is kind of a no brainer with what I know about it. Did you really invest in $200-600 laptop with an OS when you could have spent $20 or 40? Since you were trying to get Snow Leopard it sounds like you were upgrading from 10.5: Leopard, yeah? The reason why you c...
I would like to see your evidence for this being disproved. This entire legal clusterfuck started when Apple demanded that the Justice Department investigate Amazon's ebook department. The Justice Department investigated Amazon and determined that Amazon was not engaging in any form of illegal price dumping. Unfort...
Got in an argument with my mom today about this, she doesn't believe it happened. It led to a Apple Vs Other debate... I tried to explain to her that all apple does is charge 3 to 4 times as much for products that are far insuperior to competetors, and they are just about marketing not technology. She responded, "wel...
I realize it's hard to concentrate while your eyes are rolled up in the back of your head and you're foaming at the mouth at the chance of starting up a console war douche infused circle jerk, but if you'll actually read what I typed, I clearly stated that I use WDTV for streaming Netflix without issues.
All this personal responsibility stuff is a fucking joke. You should just save yourself the trouble and write "HURRR RON PAUL 2012 PERSONAL RESPONSIBLES". It's an attitude fostered by a guilty western society which makes money off other peoples sweat. They justify that attitude by pretending it was not circumstance but...
So fucking what. I never understood that feature anyway. If you don't want your private things floating around the internet, you probably shouldn't be uploading pictures to facebook in the first place. As if you can trust facebook and your 300+ "closest friends" to keep it private anyway. Facebook is the absolute le...
It is people who don't respect their own privacy in the first place. Their own, and those of others as well. That's the issue. I've had to deal with clueless relatives... Reposting my engagement status change. Reposting pictures of my fiance and I. Reposting pictures of me from professional photoshoots ...
This is just an introducton to fusion in general and says nothing about the particular site and there has been no improvment in the containment of the plasma.
When you connect to a web site using (i.e. encrypted, i.e. not your web browser is doing some cryptography magic to keep your conversation (between you and the web server) secret. Nobody can eavesdrop and see what your web browser and the web server are saying to each other. This cryptography magic is called TLS, w...
Its salaried non-exempt, meaning they (the business) are not exempt from paying them overtime. I am salaried exempt which means they are not required to pay me overtime. Technically the way the org is structured (badly) we are part of completely different departments (Helpdesk and Regional Infrastructure) so there is...
You know why this is happening right? MONEY. It does not matter who we elect because EVERY single politician ends up being beholden to those who foot the bill of their million dollar campaigns. Until the people, via taxes, fund elections, this will keep happening. Allowing ANY outside contribution leads to a sense of d...
You know why this is happening right? MONEY. It does not matter who we elect because EVERY single politician ends up being beholden to those who foot the bill of their million dollar campaigns. Until the people, via taxes, fund elections, this will keep happening. Allowing ANY outside contribution leads to a sense of d...
even if that were a serious problem [it's not, see below], the global police state necessary to actually enforce copyright [by definition every communication would need to be compromised] is overridingly undesirable [not that that's stopping the yanks/brits/etc. from trying to build it] copyright is logically indepen...
copyright is logically independent from attribution [beware idiots lumping them together] No, it isn't. It could be but is not under the current legal definition of copyright. Beware of entitled twits trying to pry them apart. >all c really has to do is cryptographically sign+timestamp q. Yes, I'm sure Penguin...
This caused a big issue at the time of the 700MHz auction in the US. The FCC wanted operators to let handsets on the 700MHz bands be interoperable i.e. work on each other's frequencies within the 700MHz band. Instead Verizon and AT&T cut up the 700MHz band into sub-bands and refused to offer interoperable handsets. AT&...
A simple way you can understand it: the lower the frequency, the bigger obstacles you need to obstruct the signal. On one end of the spectrum, there is e.g. visible light (yes it's the same kind of thing as radio waves, somewhere around 500 THz). Its frequency is so big that it can't route around any obstacles (... y...
In a conventional fixed wing aircraft (aeroplane) your turbofan/prop/jet/combustion engine is going to directly provide thrust to your aircraft. In a helicopter you've usually got a turboshaft engine used to drive the rotors on top. So you've got an engine that is not massively efficient (because its converting most of...
It's a distance and speed thing. You could launch a rocket straight up and pass the ISS and wave to them on the way back down. It's something like ~9km/s delta v for "earth escape" afaik. Even stable orbits degrade over time slowly falling back to earth from low earth orbit ~180km to ~500km or something like that. So...
Alright. A major issue here is that in general high altitude balloons are designed so that their volume expands as the external atmosphere drops. So the higher a balloon goes, the bigger it gets. This is done to offset the decreasing buoyancy from decreasing atmospheric pressure. However, the thing is that the more the...
In short, the Constitution says that the president must be a natural-born citizen. "The weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion appears to support the notion that 'natural born Citizen' means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship 'at birth' or 'by birth,' i...
First I think your estimates for launch costs are probably accurate but a bit conservative. Instead of 150 lbs per satellite I would guess 300-400. Launching the full 4000 planned satellites would probably cost $1 to 1.5 billion (10-15% of his proposed 10 billion cost) R&D should actually be pretty cheap since he is ...
This goes for a bit but I will try to make some fun sense of it. Mobas are a little more forgiving than FPS becuase there is no strict lag compensation and the easiest way for me to put it, you aren't controlling your character directly in MOBAs, but are watching what the server sees in the birds eye view.. while h...
Funny thing... For an internship I did a few years ago, I worked at a company developing software for smart gas/water/electricity meters. One of the features I developed here was named "Kilowatt max". (Note, this is in the Netherlands, I don't know if anything like this exists elsewhere) What was "KW Max"? Well, basi...
A home cinema can never replace going to the movies. The mass hysteria or whatever in the theater and the whole "event" of going makes it that much more of an experience. It's unfortunate that people are now so spoiled and stupid by having big TV's at home that they have started treating cinemas like their own living...
I don't know what lies you've been told, so I'll tell you why this ruling is a bad thing. The common idea behind the Internet was the free exchange of ideas between people. This is a great thing as it allows the common person to gain knowledge from many sources, some right, some wrong. The knowledge gained helps the ...
As I read over all the arguments here I don't think people get what is really at stake here. “William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportuni...