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The bit about removing the air from in front of you and placing it behind you was "predicted" by Russian author Vladimir Megre in a novel. If you believe the premise of the book, it was actually revealed to him by a hot Russian spirit medium who took him into the deep-woods
Nothing can be protected from anything. The greatest and only protection from terrorists is that there are slightly greater than no terrorists. Terrorism isn't a threat. At all. To anyone except a vanishingly small statistical distribution of people. Drop it. It's a non-issue. Worry about rats gnawing on the pressure s...
Initial reading: >In this study, the initial route, preliminary design, and logistics of the Hyperloop transportation system have been derived. The system consists of capsules that travel between Los Angeles, California and San Francisco, California . The total trip time is approximately half an hour , with caps...
But i also saved over 40 mins (80 vs 70 mph). I was bored so I actually ran a rough estimate of how much those 40 mins cost me. My car is rated for 31 mpg highway, so let's say I hit that at 70. Going at 80 drops my mpg by 15% so it goes down to 26.35 mpg. The difference in fuel cost (assuming $4 gas and a 400 mile tri...
Speaking purely as a transportation planner everyone needs to recognize two things: the first is that [haymaker453 is almost certainly right]( There are a pile of reasons an engineer is better qualified to speak to, but Musk's cost numbers are just not realistic when it comes to building the line itself. The secon...
Wikipedia suggests that 68% of Reddit users are in the US. - This site estimated Reddit's monthly users at 69.9 million. - In 2010 California made up ~12% of the total US population - Therefore, there are an estimated 5.7 million redditors in California from those numbers. However, there are only 3.5 million subs...
This is the first time I've heard of the hyperloop. Can someone give me a
No, see - if you're the only one doing something, you have a market edge when others try and get in. Microsoft (Bing, in particular) was a little late to the party. While their subgroupings have been bigger in the past (Yahoo and Bing are virtually the same thing, it's more complicated than that, but that's the jist ...
Ive heard the hardware is very well built so Ill give you that. I wonder how often a feature like resizable tiles are used though. I was curious and found a crapload of free apps that do exactly that. I dont get why some people are 'loyal' to [pick one : iPhone, Android, Windows]. The hardware and software and capa...
Why would you want the government going in and messing up a perfectly good company. I'm a fan of both Microsoft (I have a touchscreen, so I actually like windows 8) and Google. Google has never done anything to piss me off, and I don't want the government trying to regulate them unless they are doing something unethi...
other image editing apps to be created which open and edit .psd file The equivalent analogy is that Microsoft is free to create their own video upload web site and it can upload the same video formats. No cloud company is required to provide apis for people to rewrite their apps. PayPal, for example, is not require...
This always bothered me about the Windows OS, especially since more and more families are getting computers and laptops for each family member. My family has six people. Even with the ability to share with one person, that would still be three copies of Windows OS. Not to mention those pc computers are shit - my fath...
But the issue is that for a lot of users, they aren't doing anything more than browsing the internet and using Microsoft Office. Maybe they have some extra non-microsoft programs installed. They don;t need the benefits . So you pay $140 for 1 computer (or $99 a year for five computers if you want to go that route) j...
I work in IT and I'm amazed at how many people actually have Bing as their default search engine. I tried using it to help troubleshoot hairy issues, even issues with Microsoft's own software, and it is simply atrocious. Every single time I have to go to google to find the answers I want. At first I thought maybe i...
MS Word through the mid 90s was such a pain in the ass. I remember my parents bought a new computer in 97. Prior to that I had typed out all my previous school essays in 95. Had a project that I needed to reference a prior piece and even though I had it backed up I couldn't open the file due to the 95 v. 97 formats. Di...
It's about time. The law giveth, and the law taketh away. It is the law says that your work does not belong to you forever. After a while the work you created is not yours anymore - but belongs to society. The law can also dictate that some people have a right to your work sooner. And that's a fundamental concep...
Ah, someone seems to have a bias. Ah, someone who's too fucking serious. It was a joke. And it's been out since November 8. Not exactly what I'd call a year. And that's IF you could get one because they were on back-order for so long. And yeah, I said it's phenomenal - big whoop, wanna fight about it? I'd STIL...
That is not in any way fraud, it may be unethical but there is nothing illegal about it. You try to install the application, it asks for permission to track your location and anyone who agrees to it is at fault. Agreeing to allow the application to track the location does give the owners permission to use that data, wh...
The big problem here is that once a program has data it can be very difficult to figure out what happens to it. There is a static verification technique for looking at the flow of "tainted" data such as external input flowing to array bounds (as in the heartbleed bug) or here, the flow of sensitive data from the devic...
As someone who has run custom roms including CyanogenMod, the answer is sort of yes to both. Installing a custom ROM or rooting voids your warranty officially in most phones' cases. You can however flash back a stock unrooted ROM at least on Samsung and Nexus devices (all I have experiemce with), though the process...
Trouble is, the developers have had it so good for so long they don't code their app to expect permissions to be denied. Compared to iOS, developing for Android requires developing and testing for far more devices, screen sizes and device/manufacturer-specific problems. This problem, called "fragmentation" is being a...
The main reason that there isn't a large release of diesel cars in the US is because California banned their sale a decade or so back as part of the clean air initiatives. It was purely based on emissions at that time, which were based on the dirty diesel in use at the time, and so didn't forsee any improvements on th...
In your [breaker box]( the connection you use to connect a [generator]( I think is the same type you use to connect a 220/230V breaker for a charging station. From the perspective of home electrical wiring all you really have to do before using the charging breaker as a generator connection is make sure the breaker t...
Eh, I think there's a bigger discussion to be had here. Do we still want to be reliant on a distribution network or do we, as individuals, want to be self sufficient? With electric cars the future is ours. They have fewer moving parts and are therefore inherently more reliable. People are already putting solar panels...
Good rule of thumb I've heard, 10 years depending on usage. I got over 12 out of a basic APC UPS, but I think any UPS that uses Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) should last as long under the same conditions.
EU standard is 10ppm maximum sulphur which is classed as "effectively sulphur-free", since 2009. 50% of all cars in the EU zone are diesel powered. Here is an [article]( on the reasons you don't get so many diesel cars in the US.
i would definitely recommend that you get this addressed either today or tomorrow. most wiring inside a house is either in 14,12 or 10 gauge wire. 14 gauge wire is good for about 15 amps and 10 gauge wire is good for about 30 amps. when you start reaching the upper limits on what you are drawing on these wires then t...
Only if you a) provide parking where people get on the train, and b) provide transportation to people to get from the train's dropoff point to where they ultimately need to go. I'm thinking specifically of the failed Vegas/California train plans. It sounds great, because this a very heavily trafficked route despera...
Apple responded to this in the opening of the event: > Where others perceive "first" as valuable, you value the first thing that actually matters. > While others are distracted with the "new", you focus on the significance of a whole new take. And, in this example, iPhone 6 may not have the highest resolution dis...
There is so much wrong with this article, and Ajit Pai's original letter, i don't know where to begin. First of all, the title of the article: > Netflix accused of creating fast lanes Well that's not what the FCC commissioner said. Nor is it what the article said. If the article's author could read the first sent...
To run servers, tech support, etc. Just think of a porn website. Some are free to access any videos or pictures but they have ads EVERYWHERE. Then there's that porn website you pay for with a subscription, it will have a lot less ads. Wikipedia have NO ads and wishes to keep it that way for its users, it really keeps t...
If oil hits 20 bucks a barrel, like the Saudis joked about yesterday, Russia will be back to the income levels of the 90s Average U.S. income adjusted is worse that in was in the late 70's. Of course the government saw fit to remove food, housing, fuel and school loans from the consumer price index so the numbers al...
The attached article is old, but it is very relevant. Background: I run a fat cat video channel on YouTube. Recently one of my videos that I filmed of my cats in my house was inexplicably taken down for "copyright infringement" by Youtube. There was NO explanation or reasoning and the only information I had was that...
This is a research paper. It has not been implemented and it is unlikely to be implemented in the intermediate future. The Google search algorithm contains over 200 parameters and heuristics. If this were ever to be implemented, it would have a small weight when compared to many of the other parameters. The b...
Ideally you'd want a mixture of both but it depends on a lot of things. information security- obviously sensitive information is not cloud friendly data availability - cloud as primary file storage will chew up your network bandwidth and be slower than local storage. 500 users doing light internet browsing is ...
It's all about power and control. Bureaucracy generally leans towards corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) and it's in their best interest to keep this corruption hidden from the public eye to avoid scandal. Of course, there will always be whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, who try to oust corrupt individuals an...
Even then you'd need multiple sources all verifying your code because it's entirely feasible that the government could compromise one or even multiple verification sources. Not to mention the fact that if you use windows the government doesn't even have to break your encryption. All they have to do is inject a man in...
The FPtP system means that the votes of my area's populace were boiled down to 1 of 650 parliamentary seats. If the candidate I voted for didn't get elected locally, my own vote ceases to have an effect on the national election. If 99,999 people vote for Party A and 100,001 vote for party B in a constituency of 200,0...
This is not missing info, this is about completely different way of using thorium than discussed in the summary. Rest assured, BlueRock does not understand either. What is more, this IEER "factsheet" is a product of someone as ignorant as Bluerock. Here is a point by point explanation of IEER's errors and mistakes:...
The argument against this proposal is that it wouldn't fucking work, because anyone actually serious about dealing with child pornography is going to be doing so over an encrypted connection. I don't think an encrypted connection would prevent the sort of logging we're talking about. Now, if the company wanted to log...
We don't have highways (You would have to do tolls) And that's where things fall apart. For better or worse, American commerce relies on the interstate highway system; rather than forcing a small percentage of the population to carry the financial burden of this system (and, as they are often transporting good needed...
This isn't related to VPNs, but around a decade ago, there was a privacy concern in that IPv6 addresses would contain a globally unique, never-changing number that would uniquely identify your computer (or, rather, its network interface card). Specifically, it was originally planned that the lower 64 bits of an IPv6 ad...
When I signed up for Comcast a year ago, I was very clear in what I wanted and did not want. I was told that Comcast had a BW limit of 250GB per month, but that they weren't putting that into effect in the CA Bay Area. I got this same answer from 2 sales people and the tech who came out to install the equipment. Lo a...
Your whole argument almost makes me support caps. Everyone (even you) has always known you're not using the connection full speed constantly, but you think you're paying to be able to. If that's how you think it should work, you need to get a T1 line, so you have the whole 1.5 Mbps dedicated just to you. A month ...
I had a great assholish response typed up, but got to this: > Please just take a look through our stupid thread, and try and honestly see why I am saying you were so patronising and ridiculously rude Fine. Yes, I am patronizing as all fuck, but don't pretend you weren't the smug, dismissive, leaving no room for ar...
The internet is the most successful distributed system in the world and has survived animated gifs, popups and xanga. If enough people become aware of the problem then solutions will be made available. Someone will start a wireless ISP. They'll get linksys routers, flash them and rewrite distributed DNS functiona...
That's not to say that it couldn't be direct intentional malice; but rather that it behooves us to be skeptical of such things until we see specific evidence of said individualized malice. This is not a case where we're anthropomorphizing anything; this is people doing this and we know exactly who they are. The post...
At this point, world governments are extremely powerful, but slow to react and cumbersome. Like the Church in the old days, they get their power from extreme amounts of money and the perception that they have complete control. That shadow of power breaks down when you look at situations like Egypt, the best example I...
Companies pay credit card companies for each transaction.They're called interchange fees. At 70.8 million customers, Verizon's new fee would bring in several million dollars in revenue to help compensate for that. Your solution would instead involve a loss of several million dollars to the company. It is not an even ...
FTFY -- let's give credit where credit is due. > Whoa. Verizon dropped the $2 fee it imposed just yesterday. THE POWER OF DEMOCRACY. EDIT: I know that we are the internet, and that we should be proud when we are able to influence the policies of major corporations and -- moreover -- major government decisions. But ...
I feel like companies do this kind of thing to rope people into thinking they're being heard by these companies. Imposing a new unpopular charge or condition and then retracting it because of "consumer backlash" is a tried and true method. This way the next time they have to hike their prices you'll pay because you und...
balloon up to say the Mesosphere or maybe even the Thermospher, by doing it the same way they do it with weather balloons, then fire the rockets(maybe even an ion thruster?) and you've just added a hell of alot more lift because you're above the Troposphere and Stratosphere which is alot of air to cut though. **
First off: no, not necessarily, you can easily rig things up so it really does take a full second per test. Second: parallelizable, sure. Let's imagine we can build a computer that weighs a single gram, and let's convert the entire mass of the Earth into these computers. Wow! We've sped it up enormously! Instead ...
Interesting use of the word, "force." I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Nobody uses TrueCrypt unless they're planning to hide another volume in it. The court will assume that you have done so and demand the key to the hidden volume, even if there actually isn't one. For that matter, since you can have many hidden volumes, they could keep asserting that you have another hidden volume cont...
Nobody uses TrueCrypt unless they're planning to hide another volume in it. The court will assume that you have done so and demand the key to the hidden volume, even if there actually isn't one. For that matter, since you can have many hidden volumes, they could keep asserting that you have another hidden volume cont...
Nobody uses TrueCrypt unless they're planning to hide another volume in it. The court will assume that you have done so and demand the key to the hidden volume, even if there actually isn't one. For that matter, since you can have many hidden volumes, they could keep asserting that you have another hidden volume cont...
Sounds reasonable, but with a few caveats. First, I'm not a computer expert. I have no idea if it's even possible to do what you're describing, or if it's apparent to a forensic computer expert that a set of data is subject to multiple encryption keys returning different results so they could announce that you've only ...
some people would eagerly testify that That's not the issue. The issue is when someone brings forth evidence against them-self. Neither of ceestep's examples involved some random person testifying: In the first example the police already saw what was on the laptop (so stupid perp) and in the second example the lady t...
I'm glad the article called Governor Scott out on his shit. He's the most lobbied piece of shit Florida has ever seen. For those who don't know, we have a Polytechnic university already established, but Scott approved the allocation for another polytechnic university in the same goddamn area for what many people believ...
The effect is pretty small. Where you might run into it is in high latency links (think satellite) where the MTU (maximum transfer unit) is small, which magnifies the impact of the larger overhead IPv6 requires. That's an edge case. The other area where you'll see impacts is when you're doing 6 to 4 translations in the...
I know nothing about baseball so I'll assume the ball has a mass of 100g and is composed entirely of carbon, giving 8.3 moles. At 0.9c, by Ek = (mc^2 / (1 - v^2 / c^2) ^1/2) - mc^2 it has about 1.16E16 J of kinetic energy. The distance from the pitcher's mound to home base is about 15m, and the ball has a radiu...
There are a multitude of reasons for this, but it doesn't have much to do with the product itself. Take the Zune, for example. In every way possible it was a superior product to the iPod. However, they failed for a variety of reasons included late entry to the market and poor marketing. For wp7, I would chalk it u...
Pretty much, the main problem in New Zealand is that there is only one undersea cable connecting us to the rest of the world which very easily gives a monopoly over the internet supply to the owners of said cable. They're going about upgrading us all with cable all around the country to get better speeds, when what we ...
In a free market you would have had competition rising up everywhere at the onset of the market being formed. In theory, yes, but what actually happens is that power concentrates and you end up with monopolies. No one wants competition and if you want some you're going to have to break out a rulebook.
I wish. I wish American's would stop BITCHING about their bloody internet. Australia, first world country, 90% of people have under a 10Mb/s connection and still get charged over $60 a month for phone and internet. We don't even have the infrastructure to support our highest connection (100Mb/s fibre) in 99% of our c...
Cable companies exist in what's referred to as a "natural monopoly". In the cable industry startup costs are very high so it is difficult for new entrants to come into the market. Also, fixed costs are initially very high and then over time are reduced. This is known as having an economy of scale. These two effects, in...
There are two cable companies in my area, Grande Communications (small regional carrier) and Time Warner. Grande provides better, faster service at much lower costs. I paid less for 50 megabit, cable, HBO, Showtime, and DVR than I would for just 20 megabit internet with Time Warner. I'm lucky to get half the speed ...
Just because you know the mechanics, does not mean you have good intuition. Now, if you're covering an industry, you're probably in a better position to make judgements on a set of stocks (in that, and related industries) than an "average joe", simply because you live and breath it...every...single...day. Also, bei...
Feasible? Surely this proposition is the opposite of feasible. Bleeding edge in this department consists of vague blurry images or doctors poking around in Parkinson's patients' heads (which needs human intervention in the loop: "still shaking? How about now?" Poke, poke, prod). Ok, hyperbole, but we could be centu...
You are deluded if you think that a single idea is so magical that it will make the difference between success and failure. If you have a number of ideas, create some kind of offering around them and provide a service that Google can't be bothered to provide. For instance, Google has horrible customer service. Getting ...
As a former employee in a Comcast call center, this is correct. When you call in, the initial rep you get's job is to try and prevent you from lowering your core services bill, and to avoid transferring you. There are metrics for EVERYfreakingTHING, and the supervisors stay on our asses to maintain them. So, we'll do o...
As someone who used to work for Comcast, this is old news. They did this with 98% of all channels like 3 years ago. There's actually some benefit for consumers too. They have to get a box, but everyone except basic (broadcast only) subs had one anyway. Making the channels digital and dropping the analog streams also ...
they are not terrible at providing a service people want and are willing to pay for, or they would no longer be in business, it everyone got shitty service from them then dish/directtv would have a much larger customer base. just because you dont want to pay a few extra dollars a month, and have had problems with your ...
This... my gas bill is normally $5 for gas used (single male in a 1br), and $20 for "delivery"
Much of it comes down to the hardware - I work for a cable provider in Canada, and it really depends. In the majority of cases (read: flipping between 2 same-resolution channels), think of the delay as a brief buffering, or similar to the load time on a video client on your computer. Most HD channels here are broadca...
Cut the cord for almost three years and only recently went back to Comcast for $71.99 a month including two tv's and middle of the road internet locked in for two years. Honesty, it's a little more convenient with cable, but Netflix and Hulu served most of our needs just as well. Throw in a nice OTA antenna and now y...
Alright people, I agree that Comcast is money hungry. I have never paid for tv in my life. Any service that costs money and includes ads is something I will never pay for. But having said that: The real reason that they are forcing people to use these little boxes... called "DTAs" Digital Transport Adapter, is be...
This is not a shakedown it is an effort to start using h.264 to increase the amount of channels and quality their pipes can handle. None of this is new. Even if they did not encrypt the h.264 streams it would be impossible for just your TV to decode them. This is just like the docsis 1.1, 2.0 and now 3.0 rollout. ...
NHL Gamecenter sucks though, even with a VPN to get around the local games they won't show anything nationally televised on NBC sports. Which is mostly the good games. And it's not very useful for playoffs for the same reason. That and it buffers, drops out, doesn't work, won't sign in all at the worst times. I have 12...
Cable Guy's wife here. ALL the cable companies are doing this. Theft is a huge problem. Cable companies pay audit crews to go from pole to pole to disconnect people who are stealing- some times with police escorts. Generally, they pay auditors upwards of $7 an address. Sometimes there are 8+ addresses on a pole. Last...
Who knows, but my god, I hope you never dare criticize touchwiz in /r/android. Its downvote hell if you do. Which is insane. TW drains batteries, is unstable, ugly, and slows down updates. Never really saw the logic of a non-Nexus phone, but some skins aren't 100% terrible, but wow, touchwiz is a nightmare. Its als...
Samsung is already winning the war among android manufacturers. That leaves RIM (already being dismantled without effort) MS (whose bumbling isn't a threat) and Apple to get customers from. It's tough to pour on the hate for another android manufacturer because you risk raising bad juju for android itself. Apple as a...
As someone who currently works in the automotive industry, and has actually worked with fuel cell vehicles before, I agree with your opening statement completely. But not for most of the reasons you listed. Hydrogen manufacturing is actually really, really, easy. This is because there are a huge amount of processes o...
Weight: Is this really that big of a deal? The Model S weighs 4,647.3 lbs and does 0-60 in 4 seconds. A comparable ICE vehicle, the Porsche Panamera weighs 4,123 lbs and does 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. Granted, the Model S uses an aluminum body and frame to make up for the heavy battery, but the weight doesn't seem to cripp...
I feel like people down vote this based on a lot of unknowns. Personally, I love this idea. I don't have too many cards myself, but favor in the fact that I can store all my loyalty/rewards/membership/gift cards and even a library card? This would be amazing! The out of range alert would be incredible as well, not on...
They can regulate it all they want but they can't stop its use and spread. They can, though. If they decided bitcoin was a threat to the American monetary system and/or economy, shit would get real ... real fast. >People prefer money with fixed supply. You obviously just made this up. >gold and silver ... don't...
Can I see a citation of that specific assertion please? Also, WHICH private keys? There are so many. And it can be just as easy as one hand not telling the other what they are doing, under penalty of law. ** Microsoft DID make it easier to wiretap Skype, for instance, by centralizing the decentralized p2p framework. ...
Ignoring the rest of your comment, the word "sex" implies consent. RMS has often voiced his opinion on sexual activities and it's
disclaimer, MS employee here. Many believe that MS can't be trusted because their source code isn't sufficiently open enough. This is a point of many open source proponents, but without knowing specifically how the NSA is gathering data, it may or may not be a fair assumption. Let's assume that every line of code ...
open source isn't a silver bullet solution for privacy." I whole heartedly agree. There are many problems to be solved in the years ahead. As you mentioned, centralised systems are also a huge problem for privacy as they can be easily compromised in their host jurisdictions. It may even take decades to develop secure...
when you write code, it is generally readable, what is does is pretty much laid out there, almost in plain english. when you compile that code into a form that the computer can run, it is virtually unreadable by a human. A skilled researcher can disassemble and reverse engineer the compiled code (this is how hackers ...
Everyone was scared, but that was largely by design. Regardless of whether or not you're a "truther", I think it's pretty clear in retrospect that the "terror alert levels" and the COMPLETE grounding of ALL air traffic for a week were inescapable and fear inducing reminders. At the time I worked right next to a pret...
I get what /u/Kussou is saying though. It's undoubtedly wrong and shouldn't have happened, but when news like this spreads people tend to believe it's a bigger scandal than it actually is. For all we know this was the work of a small, under-appreciated department in the company that was just delegated the job of comi...
Simple, most internet traffic goes to a very small subset of websites, probably 90% of my internet traffic is to reddit, if anyone else on my DNS has recently gone to reddit when the TTL of the DNS record on my computer has expired, I'll get a really fast new DNS lookup. DNS testing tools consider all tools equal, but ...
ELI5 version: A lot of retailers have an affiliate program, where if your website directs a viewer to their store the website will recieve some money (either a percentage of the sale if the person buys something or a certain amount per referral). The author noticed something fishy when checking on internet-y things and...
Popular opinion aside, defrauding a business seems like a cut and dry matter to me. The TOS for affiliates prohibit means of artificially increasing the numbers of referrals, and these ISPs are in clear violation of that TOS. I don't necessarily think the matter should be criminal, but I definitely think that these ret...
I noticed when the new Retina Macbook Pro was harder to disassemble, and they dropped Apple temporarily withdrew from the green certification label. And I'm paying attention right now to Cook's stance on these things. And since I'm a consumer making choices, this affects their bottom line (in this case in a positive ...
A laser hits a fluorescent phosphorus substance inside the headlight"... " ON TONIGHT'S NEWS: family of 5 dies in tragic accident involving a phosphorus fire. Only their clothes have been found, bodies are still missing"
I couldn't find anything about the BMW laser headlights, but they are going against Audi to bring a similar concept to market. I was, however, able to find an article ([Extreme Tech]( about the Audi 'light matrix' which also has a more in-depth look at the US DoT compliance/approval aspect of things ([Extreme Tech #2](...