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Signed. This now needs around 90,000 more signatures for the White House to address it. Edit: To the "this won't help" crowd, while I might agree with you normally, the fact that there are corporations on both sides of this thing makes visibility more functional than usual. Thanks to that Princeton study, we have con...
Is there a tangible difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure in theory they have some disagreements over abortion, social security, same sex marriage and other topics that rarely come up outside of election speeches, but when it comes to funding wars, keeping the poor and middle classes oppressed and allowing...
Defenders of the merger have argued that it won't reduce competition because Comcast and Time Warner don't serve the same customers. This is one of the things that kills me. "They have monopolies in their respective regions, so we should let them merge!" This type of defense actually highlights one of the major iss...
If Comcast is so bad, why the fuck are you people using it? See, back in the day, true Americans let a company know when it sucked. Know how? They quit giving their fucking money to it. Solution? Get rid of the internet. You don't need it. I promise you won't die without internet. I promise.
It's heart braking to see how blatantly and cheaply these people whore themselves out for too. What's more heartbreaking is that this isn't against the law. In the mean time some girl gets sentenced for "assaulting an officer" when the cops are sicced onto people protesting this sort of thing.
This isn't really entirely accurate. ISPs aren't trying to just slow down internet, there's really no benefit for them on that end, and the "little pipes" aren't really a big deal for the ISPs. The problem is when Netflix tries to send 60% of the internet's total bandwith through a "big pipe", and now the ISP is basica...
I wish these smarmy articles would at least mention why the laws are being created. Yes I disagree with the law. But I like to hear the argument in favor of the law, and then decide for myself. And it would be helpful if entities like BGR and Arstechnica pretended to have some journalistic standards and at least pres...
Statistically speaking, there was a 75%+ chance he would die soon anyway even with treatment. As a medical student, I saw a number of Whipple procedures. They are awful. If someone chose death instead, that is not a "big fuckup" it could easily be the best choice for most people. I have watched too many people die in t...
This (Shellshock) is a big fucking deal. Remember Heartbleed? Shellshock is worse then that. Heartbleed allowed an attacker to look at pseudorandom sections of memory with a specially crafted packet. Shellshock allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with a specially crafted packet. The vulnerability happens bec...
ITT: Arm chair conspiracy theorists bashing Apple more than FBI for no reason.
Which is why I wanted to see it, I know the transcript is out there, but there are many who don't read. Getting the video censored is a way to block content from the illiterate/
I fail to see any compelling evidence that says there should be a middle ground, Sorry, I stopped reading right there. If you can't find a middle ground then your opinion is already biased. If you can't even imagine what a common ground might look like then you're simply not able to comprehend logic, reason, or any o...
This will probably get downvoted to hell except by a more mature audience but: This affects literally none of you. I hate saying this to people but you are very hypocritical. You are all very anti police, fuck the police, the government is trying to control our brains, etc etc yada yada yada. Lets say you are sitti...
There is an amount of horrible misunderstanding by people. They use the words: > broadband companies should treat all Internet traffic equally carelessly. If that were the wording, it would be very bad. Even [The Oatmeal's comic on Net Neutrality]( mixes up two very different concepts: > all information must be...
So long as we get Title II, and the FCC is willing and able to make decisions that affect change for the better both now and in the future , I have no problem whatsoever with a loophole here and there. Why? Because, so long as the FCC does it's job correctly , and continues to be able to do it's job, they can...
This is a huge issue in the states. AFAIK the issue lays with subsidies. As long as a carrier sells you a device, and not the OEM, then you have all kinds of examples. T-Mobile only supports Wi-Fi calling on their devices for example, but you have to wait for updates to the OS, and you may have default functionality di...
True story: One of my friends got a "new" used computer from a different friend. I didn't have a windows disk, so I helped him install Ubuntu until I got my windows disk back from someone else. 2 weeks later, I got my disk back but he said that he wanted to stay with Ubuntu. Every so often he would email me with a...
Hmm. My father works for them. My father is a hoarder of types. He has thousands and thousands of old papers and junk and shit. Most of it's stuff with his properties because he's a landlord on the side. Anyways, one day I am visiting him and I'm giving him shit about all his papers and shit and I am looking through ...
It may not be malicious intent, but it's certainly malicious ambivalence. The goal of driving down prices has made it almost impossible to find quality products in today's major retail stores. Whether it's screw drivers at wal-mart, blenders at target, or tomatoes at kroger, the deplorable quality of these items makes ...
The best way to get started is to make friends with a good bike shop. Seriously. As with any other job, your biggest advantage is going to come from knowing the staff and being friendly with the boss. They'll be much more likely to help you out as you work on the other important part: learning by doing. Take stuff ap...
Google makes us smarter, no question. It gives us access to more information than we've ever imagined. The hard part is discerning between good information and bad information. There will always be idiots that rely on google for everything, but as a programmer I've come to the conclusion that even smart people rely o...
Again, you seem to be talking as though I made that up out of thin air. And secondly you seem completely unaware of what a firewall is. Go look up the research. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't though, since you sound like an uneducated twat.
My wife just finished law school, and essentially: ANYTHING can be used against you in court. Once you're suspected of a crime, with reasonable suspicion, a judge can order subpoenas to collect "evidence" from any source they can think of, which can (and probably will) include ANY ELECTRONIC DEVICE YOU'VE EVER USED.
Please never say something is impossible just because you don't think it can be done. A wireless backbone mesh would be possible with the correct advances in technology. Increases in computing speed would make cryptography not that much of an issue (it already isn't that much of an issue.) Improvements in wireless t...
Ok I understand that you know more about this than me and probably have a better grasp on the situation. However please don't use the word impossible. It makes it seem that you believe the situation to be completely and utterly not possible to occur, not that current understanding leads us to believe that it is most ...
thats an inaccurate statement. Neither the present CEO nor the former CEO have a MBA degrees. The main requirement to run a company is NOT to have deep technical knowledge.A have a high-level birdseyeview level knowledge would suffice. What is essential is to know indepth, as well as overview , and with utmost clarity ...
You're both half-wrong and half-right. Gaining root access does not instantly grant you the ability to install a different OS. It all comes down to the state of the bootloader. If the bootloader is locked (meaning it will only boot specially signed kernels), then the best you can do with root is replace the system f...
on a bathroom break, the prime minister struck up a conversation with the man at the next urinal, believing the stranger was an I.O.C. member. Blair asked the man how he was doing and what he was up to that night, chattering suavely until finally the man, who showed no sign of recognizing Blair, apparently concluded th...
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lolk, that would take an agency as large as the DMV on a Federal level. Still doesn't stop me from getting a VPS in the Ukraine, setting it up as a seedbox and pulling all my content over SSH. Attempting to control the contents of every encrypted Internet connection is a laughable notion. Once you ban vpn's people ...
The number of completely inappropriate analogies used in this article boggles the mind. EG the immune system isn't a security system or a virus scanner, though it might be seen as that sometimes. Overall it maintains homeostasis of the body's ecology. Right now we can do this by simply having read only virtual machine ...
I feel your pain. I live not that far out of a decently sized city, but until a couple years ago was stuck with dial up (not even decent dial up, it ran at ~3-4k). Then we managed to find a company that offered DSL in our area, signed a contract, everything was looking good until the service tech showed up and told us ...
Apparently you have no fucking clue what a database is do you? You are wiping the data in the DB not the DB or the Table. It's not a preference file. I love it when people get on their high horses when they don't know what they are talking about.
A comment on the site: "This is an astoundingly bad article. It's already been pretty much eviscerated over at techdirt: It also operates within a series of bizarre platitudes, my favorite of which is the allegation that copyright law is what ensures that art maintains a society with a free culture. This is an astoun...
There's just one problem, idiots are signing this based on the title only. Solution: Reddit styled
In this way they actually seem a lot like gold. The inflation of gold is checked because there is only so much in the ground. The inflation of bitcoin is checked because there are only so many bitcoins to be had. Now the proof of inflation resistance is more compelling in the case of bitcoin. Its always possible t...
You're a fucking dumbass. EDIT: Yes, it takes quite a bit of work for banks and government to reorganise their entire banking system as the second largest bank in Cyprus is being closed down. The money is locked up to prevent tax evader to move their money to another tax haven before their money is taxed to recapital...
Currently the markets are still very cyclic for those hip to notice trends, but as times passes as the market expands with more bitcoin users, it will become volatile. But within tighter constraints on the upper and lower bounds of any variation causing any kind of arbitrage to be marginal in profit at best...
I have nothing to prove in this 'discussion' of ours, and hence no reason to provide direct evidence of anything (let alone Canada's foray into digital currencies). A discussion is a conversation in hopes of an exchange of ideas, you gave me your idea: That you think digital currencies in the future is laughable. A...
Okay. I'll break the cost down into three parts. There are three major parts here. Connections between the ISP and other ISPs, long-run connections between cities (for the ISP's network), and connections from their base from the city to your home (or, in the case of cable, to a node first). Tier 2/3 ISPs have to pa...
So because I work for a fiber company and live in Provo I can't try to actually instill some real world knowledge into the people who are learning about this news from the outside? Check out the prices yourself [here]( and be the judge. In my opinion they are reasonable. In fact, they would probably be considered by mo...
Quite often they don't immigrate, they work and gain skills then go home. OK, but every day they're here, they're helping. And when they go home, they go to countries that trade with the US, and contribute to our GDP that way. > Also, with supply and demand, you've answered the question "How can we get people to...
disclosure: Im half indian, half french/swiss) Highly accomplished people (doctors, lawyers) who are non-indian have flat out told me that technology is an immigrant job, and that I should do something respectable and get a law degree or mba. At first this sounds racist and edgy, but it makes sense. IT pay is awful, th...
From the Facebook user agreement... "You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, e...
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...
That ruling isn't really in effect yet. What's really going on here is that in the past whenever a gag order case gets to the appeals stage, the government drops it and gives in to avoid bad precedent. This judge has ordered gag orders to stop nationwide, but probably doesn't have the authority to do so. However, t...
Absolutely. Switching from Google services to Mozilla (as I will be doing tonight. Sorry Google, love you, but I don't wanna play Skynet anymore) should be seen as a form of boycott, not a personal security measure. Although on the flip side, removing your activity from a directly-mirrored Google server is taking o...
You can't prove it, but you need a search engine to use the inernet these days, so you might as well use one which has staked its entire business on its privacy. When news comes out that Google is invading its users' privacy on a mass scale, people say "who cares?". Everyone already knew that, and continued using it wi...
It's insane how just missing a day or week of school can totally derail you for the rest of your life. I probably missed less than 20 days my whole school career, but of the days that I missed I'm still very weak in the subjects that they covered that day/week. For example, I missed a few days in elementary school ...
except that dealsbreaker is not alone, yeah some boycott callers are drama queens that will buy anyway but far from all. The problem is the gaming market is still growing so it seems the stoic don't exist. EA seem fine with that so far, mores the pity.
While I understand this thinking, the point is that fingerprint readers are more costly and difficult to implement. If they provide security that's actually worse than far simpler usernames and passwords, they shouldn't exist. Kirkland happens to be wrong about this. Kirkland actually makes a lot of mistakes in this ...
Your actual fingerprint is not stored electronically in these systems. What is stored is a hash that represents 16 points on your finger, plus some gibberish. That last bit is key. When you're "enrolled" in the system you get the 16 points + random numbers. So if you deleted your account and hash, and re-enrolled, th...
I completely agree. It seems like people in this thread don't fully understand the implications of how Apple has implemented the feature. The initial reaction from most people here is that "its just a phone not a high tech / high security device." However the problem is that the iphone is a mass used device, it is n...
This is ridiculous. A fingerprint is functionally equivalent to a passcode. It's a single factor of authentication. Some reality: No thief gives a fuck about your passcode. No thief gives a fuck about your fingerprints. If they're stealing your phone, they're going to wipe it and sell it. Only if you have nothing i...
First apps are more of a learning experience than a profit machine. The fact that he has a working app is amazing. Most people can't say they've made an app before (although anyone can do it). I think this one will at least make him his $100, thanks to all the good press he's getting. After that he can get more am...
I didn't find my college programming courses very helpful at all, honestly, but that seems to vary for everyone. FWIW I was a non-CS major that took some CS courses out of interest, and I hated that those courses focused on things like the history of computing and why we have certain syntax things, etc. I just wanted...
Its cool a homeless guy got the chance to learn to code. That being said. I dont see any info on the app hes making. It would appear its a puff piece with Zero substance beyond "You can do anything you set you mind too, even if you a homeless dude". The App's name is "Go Green". I'll bet I can find a myriad of shitty...
Honestly this is the type of thing you write in your spare time. Selling it comes after. What I would do is sit down and make a business plan. Think about who would want it and who you want to target it to (what industry? Graphic design, accountants, lawyers, everyone that has billable hours?). After it is made, yo...
It just seems like, economically speaking, "Apps" make the least amount of sense for a high dollar investment ever (maybe second to beanie babies). We even have GREAT empirical data on what can go wrong ie. myspace, xanga, aim, etc... And yet Facebook goes and gets an IPO? then Twitter? WHY? These are companies in a fi...
The Nexus 5 is the fucking you have with the hottest girl in school while you both orgasm multiple times in a flower bed of tulips.
Allow me to assist with this one, I worked on AT&Ts sale floor for about 3 years. Quit right before the first iPhone came out. The money I missed...but the bullets I dodged. Anyway, Store Managers are just Sales Managers. Stores I literally all for sales and sales only. They can do NOTHING to your contract. Every sin...
Here is my recent experience with AT&T: My plan was converted from a corporate account to a personal account, and in the process I had some odd $2.99 charge that I couldn't remove via their web site. In November I opened a chat on AT&T's support site to get it removed, and while killing time waiting for them to fix...
I really wish that all-day battery life became the new 'performance' trend. Even my aging galaxy S2 can do 95% of the things the S4 can do, but the problem is still "how long can it do these things". Having Google maps with 3d buildings and whatnot is sweet, but not that useful if the phone dies after 3 hours of navi...
sigh I actually worked for two of these call centers in India as inbound support. One was a total scam. The other one was equally scammy but we legally got around the fraud part by just clearly telling them we are not Microsoft, but an independent remote tech support company offering remote 24hour support if they paid...
I recieved a call from these guys. I led them on up until the point where they ask if you see any Warnings or Errors in your event logs when they asked what it said in the event log I replied with mahder chod. I have a New England accent all I heard on the other end of the line was silence for about 10 seconds followed...
Estimates I see on these things rate success at around 0.1% max. But that might just be because the math is easier. In general though, scammers hope that 1% of those people they send it to read the e-mail and 1% of those people fall for the scam. The numbers may be higher for calling someone but I'm not sure how much h...
Since no one has yet, sure.
Within the ongoing discussion regarding Technology subreddits the treatment of the phrase "Politics" bothers me. I believe that within our community we host a significant number of professionals capable of taking complex topics and discussing them in an insightful manner. When a difficult topic is broken down in an a...
These quotes from this article may lend insight into why we don't see too many women at the top of tech fields. First two paragraphs are from the first source, the third from the latter. >In the past, technology jobs were viewed by women as populated by men in basements, working alone, as an organ of the computer. ...
I think you're right, on a fundamental basis. But there are many other factors in play. It's not just a matter of whether or not the service works for you. There are social stigmas already attached to privacy and lack of an online social media presence. Not having a form of social media is quickly becoming the equivale...
Here you go buddy: HR 4681 (voted on and passed in both the US House and Senate) section 309 states: >SEC. 309. PROCEDURES FOR THE RETENTION OF INCIDENTALLY ACQUIRED COMMUNICATIONS . (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: (1) COVERED COMMUNICATION.—The term ‘‘covered commu- nication’’ means any nonpublic telephone o...
rofl, you're a fucking joke guy.. first of all, the original post I responded to was shit-on because it was so long, ridiculous, thousands of words, with zero direction or guidance from OP.. then you do the exact same thing.. like you included the definition of "person" just to add another 1000+ words to your argumen...
He doesn't understand that even a child knows that earth's climate naturally changes. Even a child can see that we should be developing green technologies. "Climate change denier" is a bullshit term. While I totally believe in developing green technologies, I am not convinced that man is driving climate change. I have ...
It won't die immediately, but due to the outright exploitation of cable and broadcast companies it's on it's way out. They way it delivers content is simply inferior to streaming services in every single way except widespread adaptation, and that is changing literally by the day. For example, I and many of my friends...
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I'm afraid you've missed the point of the legal argument. John Deere is saying that farmers do not own their tractors enough and they may not install open source software. The claim is that would be a hack and piracy and illegal. Something like this: > It comes with it's own wiring harness that you install by cutting...
Also, since they are trying to do something big auto isn't, some probably know things that big auto's engineers don't. Hubris, one of the greatest renewable resources. This isn't theoretical physics. The ins and outs of the combustable engine tuning is not a big secret. 99.9% of the tunes that produce the big gain...
Similar situation happened with me and Centurylink. I was living in a town whose population was just barely over 100. A town so small you could blink and completely miss it. Centurylink advertised and verified that I could get a 10 meg dsl connection at the address I was moving to. (10 is on the higher end of the speed...
AT&T is the only provider available in my house in Michigan and they are truly awful. We lost service for four months which they refused to credit us for despite dozens of acknowledgements that there was a legitimate problem on their end, we've had several technicians come by and tell us that they're meters are showing...
Its free" in an office setting sometimes ISNT "its free" when you factor in the costs of retraining all the formerly MS-using employees. There's always the people that wont figure out anything for themselves and they'll just be pissed off that everything's changed, and then you have to retrain them all and deal with ...
I've got mild ADD, at times I never read any post with more than 2-4 lines of text. Sorry that I offended you so much. Really you could have just seen the
I'm not sure you can digitize 7 million unique books for less than this costs. Mind that these are usually quite old items not in the best condition. They would probably have to be loaded into scanners manually. You would need people to turn the pages when automated processes fail(and they will fail in some little perc...
Chill out with your outrage and re-read what i said. What requests has Al Qaeda made? When have they ever offered to stop attacking us if we agreed to their demands? What reality are you living on? I never said they weren't political and I'm not saying "They hate our freedom" or any BS like that, in fact i sympathize...
There is a difference in pixels per inch (PPI) and dots per inch (DPI). A pixel on a screen is three subpixels (red,green,blue). A dot on paper is a single color. Comparing these two is comparing apples to oranges, and varies from printer to printer. I'm quite aware of the technology and the way it works. Your percep...
That statement is utter BS. 100rmb is nothing here for the people who would be taking that train. The regular train price between Hangzhou and Shanghai is 60rmb, and that took about an hour and a half or so stopping at two or three stops, very briefly. This guy is seriously automobile bias. Lets think real quick... ...
The virus would have to change its code to avoid signatures, if I understand the concept correctly. I know some websites with malicious code will rename variables that defeats lower-quality signature detection. Some malicious web code, from what I've seen in papers, will take the command that it wants to execute (and...
You take credit where none is due. Better information replaced bad information and this thread was upvoted as such and is now almost at 1000. Not only that, others are downvoting the original threads so those will end up being buried.
Thank you for the detailed reply.
I spent a bunch of years working for a major label, specifically in the digital distribution arena (I was largely responsible for managing the content delivery to Spotify and Youtube, amongst others). Here's (a very simplified) overview of how this works: When a platform (like Grooveshark) signs a deal with a label, ...
Wait a second. I may have jumped the gun it looks like the site may just be [down]( But then again with a proxy it is up, so I am unsure. I whois the site and it was created on the third of this month, so its relatively new and I don't know is all isp's would jump on it that quickly. Also [alexa]( says that they have...
STOP . Pause. Breathe. This is probably not censorship. There are more details in [this AskReddit thread]( What appears to be going on here is that the americancensorship.org 'A' record does not exist in many places in the DNS system. It is not a specifically American problem, since there are [some internatio...
While it is certainly fair to put sales tax on online purchases, it should be exempt for anyone making less than the poverty line. Sales tax is one of the most regressive taxes. CEO's do not purchase 150 times the amount of stuff as the median worker. All CEO's pay less sales tax as a percentage of their income than...
It changes all the time. There are many ways to be a "real" pirate. The Pirate Bay is the 'above ground' choice of the day. The Napster, The Kazaa. I would have also accepted usenet as a real nerd style. Real pirates contribute in some way to the community. Most PB leechers do not. The rare time my private track...
If you read a bit you'll see that they have already released an "opt-in" feature on android a few weeks ago and they are adding it to IOS soon... Everyones so worried about privacy these days they forget what makes the world work. People try to make things as efficient as possible. Not everyone is a bad guy. [ :"In...
The NHS sound amazing. During health reform, we tried to shout "Single Payer! Single Payer!" but we didn't $hout loud enough. Conservatives here are pretty well organized against things that help people out. There are too many interests in keeping private healthcare in place, cause it makes so much fuckin money!
As another poster commented it may just be ignorance. But I think it has more to do with what I guess can be called "generational indoctrination". You could probably lose count of the number of dysoptian future science fiction works which depict cold, one-eyed cameras in the sky as a means of oppression. I assume we've...
I agree with almost everything you just said. I saw a Top Gear where they drove a supercharged diesel Jaguar and it got around the same gas mileage as a Prius gets here in the states. I don't understand why people drive hybrids instead of diesels. That said, I cringed at your last sentence. Sure, throwing a tur...
The reason for the price increase in diesel fuel is that, because so many people saw that diesel engines had better fuel economy and diesel fuel was cheaper, they switched to diesel engined cars. Demand for diesel fuel went up and demand for gasoline went down, relatively speaking. Generally there are more octanes (=...
that is not true at all. I work in a BWR and there is no 'computer'. It's all relays and hardwired systems and no digital electronics (remember these plants were designed in the 60s). During startup, you manually pull rods in sequence and watch for the reactor to go critical. Once the reactor goes critical, power exp...
I used to like SomethingAwful a lot more before it got to the point where I started meeting actual human beings in real life who self-identified as "goons," and would say shit like that out loud, and treat it as the defining portion of their personality. I don't think there's anyone other than some hilariously-misgui...