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I was going to make a left turn in about fifty feet ahead, where I was about to make a delivery for my job. I had an illuminated delivery sign on my vehicle. It was a quiet road in a 50K zone. I was doing about 30-40KMPH and about to turn any second. He was like a foot off of my bumper. I don't just cower to the side o...
I guess little people, or dwarfs. Some people of short stature but with proportional bodies. Maybe also the exact copy of someone, but proportionally smaller. Could have been a self-depricating name for a man's third leg...though I guess that'd make it a stub. Maybe have misspelled Mickey's girlfriend's name if you're ...
I hate to be (no wait, I love to be) pedantic, but it isn't a VIRUS . It doesn't self-replicate from one point to another. It isn't given from one site to another. This is a vulnerability. Somebody wrote some computer code and forgot to check a value and just took it as it would always be correct. Somebody found thi...
A lot of speculators here and everywhere like to spread the message "actually, let's just do nothing, NSA will be able to see everything anyway". This is unbelievably misleading. The methods NSA would need to use to foil widespread encryption are more detectable, more intrusive, more illegal, and very very importantl...
First of all, I explicitly stated that it was only for my use case when I said "most of what I use". Secondly, you countered my "use case" with your own "use case" that is probably shared by less than 5% of the population. No, you were mocking the statement expressed by people. "But Apples just work, and if they don'...
I'm hijacking this top comment to warn everyone about the Better Business Bureau (BBB). [They are a total scam]( Firstly, they are a private company. They have no affiliation with government agencies, and cannot regulate or enforce anything . When you start a business, you will be approached by the BBB. They will...
Honestly, THAT is exactly why I NEVER felt bad when I sold Service Plans (see Premium Extended Warranty) on Macbooks while I worked for Future Shop (Canadian Best Buy Branch) for about two years. I knew the customer service in my particular store was good, I trusted my store director, managers and the tech team, and ...
Is there any proof that 2011 macbooks have been failing at a higher rate than other computers? This could just be a side effect of Apple selling a very limited product line, where every issue is magnified by a hundred because they only sell 7 different laptops at a time as opposed to any other company which sells 100s ...
My experience in the UK was the complete opposite. A few weeks ago my screen started corrupting. Googling 2011 MBP display issues brought me to a thread on the apple support forum. (5000+ posts 1,000,000+ views) I immediately recognised the symptoms others were reporting in the forum. My first communication was w...
I had a similar problem with my 2007 MBP. Logic board blew up. Never purchased apple care. They diagnosed the fault and gave extended 4 year warranty on the 2007 MBPs. I took it in a month after the warranty expired. Got told there was nothing they can do. Me being stupid, I had my half written dissertation on there wi...
Part 1 : Inadequate pasting? Hahaha you mean over adequate (/s) pasting. Look at this, and just feel the disgust I feel. That's how apple applies thermal paste. It's a small wonder these things function for ONE year, let alone 2. :P I mean jesus fuck, would it kill them to apply it correctly? especially since the...
typically the way the retina screens are made they are glued into place rather then the normal screws. And its not simply a screen and bracket + some wires for the Mic and web cam behind the screen its got a few loose sheets to help reflect light, if you loose them or damage them that's it you need to swap the whole lo...
No, it was a faulty battery. Also, running it to a low % every time you use it is far better for the battery than topping it off (using maybe 30% and recharging). FYI, not running it down is likely impacting or will impact your battery life.
First of all, I explicitly stated that it was only for my use case when I said "most of what I use". Secondly, you countered my "use case" with your own "use case" that is probably shared by less than 5% of the population. I never said apple "sucks", I was stating that apple does not just work with EVERYTHING and imply...
This will probably get buried but it could help send a message to Apple about quality control with their products. I recently purchased a 15in Macbook Pro (retina) and three days into having it the speakers sounded very muddied watching netflix with lots of dialogue and a song by Rhye made the noise noticeable. Fas...
At the moment there are no developed ROMs over on xda-developers.com, so currently no (it does not run them natively, you would have to install a new Android distribution that someone made on their own) Also, even though it's "unlocked", that just means it is not carrier-specific. The bootloader (which needs to be al...
It's a 19 page ruling. >For the foregoing reasons, Facebook’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. The motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ Wiretap Act claim and CIPA section 631 claim is DENIED, and the motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ CIPA section 632 claim and section 17200 claim is GRANTED. Facebook’s r...
Here's something not a lot of people (at least many of my friends) realized: The Facebook app has many permissions that it asks you to allow, and naturally you usually don't read them before pressing accept. Then a little while back they introduced the Messenger app which was REQUIRED if you wanted to message friends...
They should have a system to simplify TOS, make them easier to read. They could make a program where you set what you think is acceptable and what is a dealbreaker, and the program makes some kind of
Years ago, a Sprint rep promised me a 24% discount if I renewed my contract. I did, and signed the contract when I got it (without reading - shame on me). First bill, I was only getting 12%. I called, and that rep essentially said "tough luck," then hung on on me when I finally got belligerent about their other rep lyi...
The short answer is yes. Bribes are very common. There is also a big problem with nepotism and a general economy of favors within the elite. Not to mention billions in funds that have gone missing in just about every administration. More importantly, there are thousands of human rights complaints that will likely nev...
White privilege implies that all hindrances suffered by people of color are related to race. However, privileges awarded to groups of people based on class is often left out of the discussion. There are privileges awarded to the middle and upper class that are not awarded to the lower class. White privilege also fails ...
Could someone explain something to me? I want to know why we need the government to step in and reclassify broadband when we could use any of the consumer protection agencies and businesses to protect the end user. As I understand it, the government wants broadband classified under Title II, but wouldn't that eventuall...
If we make an analogy with the postal service I think it might make some sense. With the post office, I can pay $9.95 to send you a package that you'll get tomorrow. For $4.95, I can send you the same package that you'll get in 3 days. And for $1.95, I can send you the same package that you'll get in about a week. ...
Here is the bill: So it basically removes any and all regulations, even previous ones (Prior to Net Neutrality) that were in place. This bill effectively hands over the internet to Comcast. The name "Internet Freedom Act" was recycled because its the same bill that was proposed before Net Neutrality by John McCain in...
Sure, but unlike people downvoting me I had to live for some time with only one eye in industrial setting. Objects facing you with small areas and moving on head level are fucking nightmare with one eye. It gets better when you adjust, but still not perfect.
What qualifications does that role require? Honestly, I'm not sure. I began as a quality assurance tester and gradually and naturally worked my way into different positions. I didn't go to University, but I spend a tremendous amount of time and effort on self studies, reading between 1-4 books per month and practicin...
I wouldn't buy it for the games. Audiosurf is fun and runs well (if it takes a while to load), but the first released SDK didn't allow access to the 3D acceleration hardware so development has been slow--or that's what I've read last. If you're more adventurous and want to leave the marketplace, there are some here ( I...
Comment golf?
I almost gave it a free try until I read these two paragraphs: "If your license to Use Memory Box Products or Services expires, is terminated, is not renewed, or is otherwise discontinued for any reason, Memory Box and the Memory Box Affiliates may, without notice, delete or deny you access to any of your Backup Data...
I approve of the sentiment, but the facts just don't line up. Shakespeare wrote plays for the masses in order to make money, Dickens was paid by the word and was considering largely giving up writing before the comercial success of A Christmas Carol, Anthony Burgess admits to disliking A Clockwork Orange and only writi...
Most industrious of you to avoid that symbol (not sub it out). All in all, an apt post I wish I could upboat again. Your history also displays your ability to adapt.
On the other hand massive telcos are current in control of most of the pipes to the internet. Without government regulation we are relying solely on them competing to maintain net neutrality. Currently this is working. However AT&T and Comcast scare me more than our government. Yet they also have their dirty giant...
Once apon a time FTP servers would have been better for large file transfers than HTTP due to tiny amounts of RAM and CPU power, and difference in optimizations between the two as a result. Nowadays there's no real difference. For small files, however, FTP is terrible. With several round trips between client and serv...
When the chips are tested there is a bell curve produced because some will preform better than others even though their whole development process was essentially the same. Even with a 99% consistency not all chips are made equal and several markets have to be targeted for each batch. Chipmakers basically take the low p...
I wasn't going to look up reports myself but here we go; The verdict here seems to be that MSE struggles to keep up with other free alternatives, it's main points are the usability and light weight, it doesn't intrude. Personally I have always seen it like the Windows firewall, it's a nice addon that works without mu...
UPBOATS! Journalism works. It can and should be one of the major fronts used to amplify the voice of the people. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. WE THE PEOPLE need to get to squeakin'. (Before we get detained indefinitely.)
I'm sorry that it came off as an arrogant generalization but I meant it as just a rant on how even my own parents, who have been voting for different things within government, don't even know what's going on. It's concerning. I don't really know how to approach them with this issue as whenever I do try to give my two c...
I would love to believe this. But the social consciousness will shift and people will look the other way despite the video evidence of the injustice that we all already know goes on. Hell, there are comedy bits about police brutality going on in the past and how "nobody knew about it". Now Youtube probably has over a...
It's used in conjunction with a botnet. >A botnet is a collection of compromised computers, each of which is known as a 'bot', connected to the Internet. When a computer is compromised by an attacker, there is often code within the malware that commands it to become part of a botnet. The "botmaster" or "bot herder" c...
Arguments? OK. Here we go: Even IE9 and IE10 still lack many HTML5 and CSS3 features. Every other browser, even Opera, is far away. Why is that a problem? Well, complex, modern websites will try to use the newest possible features and (as it has been for years now) IE will have a fallback option which will typicall...
I don't think I'll feel any "safer" just because a website is simply telling me that they aren't tracking. It'll end up like sending a "X-Dont-Show-Ads" header that no one would comply with. If DNT compliance becomes a law We might end up sites that forces users of DNT to pay for content.
Well you aren't paying to replace the artist's resources (in the sense that it's depleted), but you're paying in order to use their product - in the same way you have to pay a baker to eat his bread. Besides, money is still spent making the music and getting it to you - instruments, mics, producers, studio sessions, ...
Because I think Inman did libel FunnyJunk, and that Carreon was just doing his job as an attorney by representing his client in the letter to Inman. Inman then elevated the disagreement by taking it to the Internet in an immature and hurtful manner, and also in a way that he should have reasonably foreseen that would ...
I actually think both sides of the story are pretty well represented. In fact, it seems to me that Carreon has engaged with the media far more than Inman and has had his actual words/comments used way more than Inman has. Secondly, this guy is doing a really really crappy job. First of all, he was hired by FunnyJunk ...
Oatmeal got pissed about funnyjunk hosting his comics. A year later, funnyjunk tried to sue (??!!). Oatmeal posted this gigantic [FUCK YOU!]( and raised money for Cancer patients and Bears. The Interwebs cheered. Now Funnyjunk's lawyer is trying to [sue the charities that got the money]( claiming that the money shou...
Being a Funnyjunker I just want to say to keep in mind Funnyjunkers aren't as intellectual as most of the users here but none of us agree with what was done by admin to handle the oatmeal situation. Oatmeal was right in every way and we agreed with him but admin decided it was a good idea to cause a huge shitstorm and ...
Can we fix education period? We have a plague of teachers who don't want to teach, combined with students who don't want to learn, all leading up to school boards who don't care what is actually "taught" in their schools. Sure, they can make generalized claims of "Well our students are taught advanced mathematical skil...
The FBI didn't intend to poke around his private e-mail, because they didn't know it was his private e-mail. He used a pseudonym to set up the account. They obtained a subpena/warrant for an e-mail account that Broadwell had access to and was sending the harassment e-mail from. They noticed there's another IP addre...
I hear what you're saying... but think about how many results I'll get searching "Facebook" on Reddit.
Prediction - Warner Bros, MGM, Universal, Disney etc. are thinking "man, Netflix sure is making a lot of money off our movies... we should start are own movie streaming service." Next thing you know each production company/rights-holder has their own streaming service. Nobody wants to pay for such a limited selection, ...
In case you're interested about my background in this context: I code ecological and social network models for work. I married into a Korean family some years ago. Here was my response to something else you've said: You don't understand the internal conflicts and loyalties in North Korea. >NK is still China's...
It's not a technology problem at all, it's a social problem. People will not keep them quiet, or be yammering on them all the fucking time. That shitty little kid is going to want to watch a crappy show on mom's phone. That's loud and annoying. Someone fuckface has to call their honey bunny to gush about something....
The size of the US mortgage market gained about $5 Trillion from 2000 to 2007 to a total size of around $10 Trillion. Almost $8 Trillion was loaned to banks under TARP (with only 1/10 of that authorized by congress) Why did the Fed need to cover almost the entire outstanding debt in the mortgage market? All single f...
It's incredible that a post regarding justice porn result in the exact same post from dozens of commenters. It's all not good enough for them and the system is collapsing even though the system clearly worked this time. This is an article about someone being punished because they did terrible things in the private sect...
I can see why google doesnt want to do this, for practical reasons. If they do this for one site, it sets precedent for others to hammer away at competing sites and creates an environment of hostility and distrust within google, which will hurt their advertising. For example, I run a business, we use google adwords...
if you mistype and end up at thpiratebay.com, you end up downloading trojans and popups galore. a LOT of people just go to google (because it's their start page, or they know exactly what the google page looks like) and type in the site they are looking for. reason being, google autocorrects your typos and you can 99...
I don't think the word "theft" means what you think it means. >theft n. >the generic term for all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale). In many states, ...
But... most of those people, if they couldn't copy your song, wouldn't buy it from you. They just wouldn't listen to it. Which is fair and all, but you still don't get that dollar you feel you're entitled to. There's a strong impulse among content producers to view every unauthorised copy of your content as a loss,...
this is a logical fallacy. years ago - music and software in general were not something you could copy easily . back then, people paid for two things - listening to an artist's live performance and the actual copy of the material. the reason the material was worth money is because it was hard to get. the experience...
Exactly. I pirate everything. I used to buy tons of movies but not anymore. When I got a new home theater system with surround and blu-ray I bought a few BRs to really show it off and realized how annoying the disc intros and menus are and just started pirating BR rips instead. I'm not deluded enough to realize that if...
if it helps, it looks that way from the inside too. the only difference is we're IN the cage... currently for most americans the idea of violent revolution seems abhorrent. most consider the ideal that we can change the system by changing out some of the players to be valid. most think they are alone, a sole bastion of...
Yes, I know that the vague definition has to do with something other than what you pay for it. I'm asking what that something is. What makes "liberated" software liberated? Anyway, since my other post, I looked it up and the purpose of it -is- what they're talking about when they say free software, however they d...
Fun fact! My family lives in the midwest (I moved away a few years ago to the "south" in a major metro area) and since there is so much land and so little population, things like cable and fiber just aren't typical. My parents have a 1.5mbps "broadband" DSL connection that is up about 60-70% of the time. That's as go...
Bell Aliant*** Bell Aliant is the result of Aliant forming a partnership with Bell Canada. Bell Canada has bandwidth caps, and are generally regarded as a terrible ISP by most Canadians (I have no experience with them, so I have no comment). While they are still the parent company of Bell Aliant, Bell Aliant contin...
It depends though doesn't it? It depends on how you define the "field". If you compare every new tablet to the iPad in a the iPad does this but this doesn't etc. and not doing the same thing both ways... Then there will never be a better iPad than the iPad. That's the way most reviews go, an iPad review sort of stand...
I don't give the author's statement any credibility - we have to clean Yontoo from customers' PCs all the time. It looks like malware. It gets detected as malware. It gets removed as malware.
It's not really interesting. Typical actually of a business to not adopt right away to the latest and greatest. Windows 7 is stable, secure, and known to be a really good OS. That doesn't mean 8 / 8.1 isn't, but a business would rather use an OS that has a known reputation for being what I listed above.
In places other than the US, sure. edit: [source]( since people seem to think this is somehow not true.
My first experience with an iPod Touch was just a month ago, after my girlfriend got one for christmas. I once had an iPod Classic and tried to just use the latest version of the third-party software I used back then. Didn't recognize the device though, so I sighed and installed iTunes. Okay, yeah, this is the iPod...
I'm a big apple supporter.. I love all my apple shit, and I love converting my tech-retarded family to the apple eco system to make my life easier since I'm the one that does all the support. Setting up an airport and apple tv for my parents who are in the 70s over the phone took only a couple minutes. Setting up the...
I recently had an experience with apple care and apple support that still gets me a bit rilled up. They went from great customer service to absolutely terrible in my opinion. This is going to be a massive wall of texts. I had a broken monitor. My laptop took a tumble. I kinda knew I was screwed but played it hoping s...
Completely agree. There's still a lot of yellow press out there, and lets not even talk about things like Fox News. People have been believing bullshit (that was proven wrong) for as long as history records it. We haven't broken the Internet, we broke the mass media system, originally intended to inform us so we coul...
gay pedos," really? mostly photos of boys does not equal all boys -- "About 250 children - mostly boys from the US - appeared on the site." pedophilia diagnoses emphasize the importance of the power and age difference as more important than the gender. The adult gender preference is not a reliable predictor of ...
I will admit getting everything set up the way you want it can take a bit longer for the initial setup since some things are hard to find and because it is so different it will take you months to get used to the changes and relearn everything. And you accept this? awk and sed have not changed much since the mid eigh...
I can understand why people dislike the Win 8 start menu but do people not use shortcuts? If you press windows key + 'Q' you can pull up the search bar. From that bar you can get to any program you want just by searching the name. It can be as fast and easy as using the regular start menu.
Ill be honest, I haven't used 8 more than a few minutes and I hated it. I also hated 7 coming from XP, but love it now. There always seems to be a period of loathing for me coming to a new Win OS version.
The thing with removing second-click functionality is that it is based around the core concept that windows should be touch-friendly. Second-click actions, in this new world of touch, should be relegated to a sub-view because if the user is accessing them via touch then they have no second-click and those options are e...
I think this is what frustrated a lot of people in the first place. In the Win 8 RC there was an option to allow the classic interface. The general consensus was that this would please the average and power user but then they removed it in the GA. I think this is why," the jamming the metro interface down your throat...
I dont even know how you managed to do that. To install the 8.1 update you had to go into the app store and explicitly download it. It's a fucking 4 gig download that progresses in the background ONLY after you explicitly tell it to start and it asks you if you want to proceed. Then after it's done downloading you ha...
I kind of agree with you, but I also kind of disagree. I had to upgrade to Windows 8 (I was running pirated Windows 7, and I could pick up 8 dirt cheap). I hated metro, I cursed at it, the full screen aps just confused me and I had to Google how to shut down. Initially it felt very clunky with keyboard and mouse. I w...
no you see ball licking and self serving are two different principles as far as I'm concerned. one is omfg (insert celebrity here) is doing an ama lololol horse sized ducks, the other is what you would expect once the pr firms figure out there's a willing and able demographic just salivating at the chops for a chance t...
Honestly, you and I are one in a shitton of people who are living out their lives. I'm all for more privacy and for the surveillance states to be dismantled, but I know there are plenty more people doing stuff that's much more likely to piss someone off than I am. In America, it has been said we do something that could...
THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SARCASM (Obvious sarcasm will be in italics for NSA identification, just so you NSA folks understand this isn't threats, or plans of action, or anything other then stated opinions) That said, according to your price above we should set up a kickstarter for you so we can raise 500 Mill and yo...
First, I am not defending nor supporting AT&T's actions, but let me supply some information about this that I personally see day in and day out with my job. This was not a harmful nor traditional breach. AT&T and said Vendor knew what had happened, what was accessed, and who did it, unlike the PF Chang's breach which...
The freedom of speech and expression is universal. It's a fundamental human right. England has it in its Bill of Rights, which is a document, older than the US itself. The Netherlands (our country) has it in its constitution. I reckon most, if not all, western countries have this in their constitutions. It's part o...
By your current logic, owning a PC is copyright infringement. Because the question was "Are torrent sites actually classed as illegal?", and I said I hope not. Torrent is simply a way of sharing data. It is not copyright infringement unless you torrent data that hosts copyright-infringing data. Now next up, your so f...
NotAllTorrents]( The argument wasn't limited solely to torrents that would actually infringe on copyright. Torrenting != stealing (even without invoking [this often cited thingy]( And let's be honest, even if a decent sized of torrent traffic is about getting a free copy of something you'd otherwise need to pay for, ...
I work in healthcare, and we are already using this technology as a way for physicians to transmit patient data over the internet. We call it Direct messaging. Essentially STMP messages encrypted with a public/private key infrastructure. The current deployments also support XDA messages. Look up the Direct Project...
The Supreme Court doesn't make the rules, they interpret them. Don't get mad at the Supreme Court for interpreting the rules as they are written. You have beef with the legislature. The Supreme Court is bound by what the law is , not what the law should be . They review (1) the law as it is written and (2) whether ...
You're not addressing my initial point and you're arguing against a straw man. I never said the Supreme Court was without flaw. In fact, that's a nonsensical statement. It doesn't make logical sense to say that a body that issued concurring and dissenting opinions could be "wrong" or "right," because they said drastica...
Hilarious amount of butthurt and missinformed nonsense in this thread. Let me give a little history lesson to those of you who were apparently born after 2010 and have no idea how mobile industry has developed: Microsoft has been in mobile bussiness since early 2000s, long before anyone heard about Android or iPh...
This is exactly why money needs to be out of politics. The biggest problem right now are lobbyists, not any special interest they support. Cut off the hand that feeds this perversion of Democracy.
I mean the "crony" in crony capitalism is superfluous. In short, "crony" capitalism is the inevitable result of any capitalist system. It is capitalism, so calling it "crony" is just pure apologetics. The term is politically motivated, and used so that people think cronyism is an avoidable irregularity. However, econ...
The decryption key for what? If e.g. a bank in Switzerland (random example) has a website that uses HTTPS, and someone in the UK uses HTTPS to connect to that website, then any snooping government would need the private keys from that bank . In this example, only the bank has the HTTPS private key. Not the certi...
BT are a dreadful company. About 5 years ago I moved into a new build property. The landlord of this property hadn't sorted out the cable for internet properly. So when I rang BT up I explained this to them, and they said this would not be an issue and they would sort it when they get here, probably by putting an o...
NSA threatening Google would quite possibly be the thing that finally caused the public to reign them in. Thusfar the NSA has had carte-blanche because the people just don't give a shit. After Snowden, a big part of the public was annoyed which caused some backlash to them, but not much. But if they openly threat...
I'm just going to jump in here and say that this is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil, I've pointed out these personality traits in other it professionals countless times before you have. I know about ip cameras having worked In a sweat factory in China for several months and even if you change the password...
Computers and smartphones today demand A LOT more energy from batteries than they did in the 90s. I mean, just compare the two's processing capabilities and you'll see how this article is barking up the wrong tree. It's like blaming the gasoline for your car not driving a million miles before refilling. It's not the ...
The only way to reduce the influence of money in politics is to reduce the power the government has. Big businesses are drawn to that power and pay hefty amount of money to harness it and use for their benefit. No amount of legislation will change that. Giving government more power = giving big business more power. Y...