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1) Not all "masses" have internet. 2) Many of the "masses" don't know about Khan Academy because: a) They might not seek it. b) They have nowhere to hear about it from.
More ISP competition is indeed the perfect world, long term solution. However even if we as a societiy somehow came up with a mechanism by which we could incentivise fledgling ISPs to lay down the infrastructure to produce at least four options for most all Americans - it won't happen. Best case, it's years and years...
Thats true, but we don't have a single symbol for ten in base-10... otherwise, it wouldn't be base-10, it'd be base 11! And really, a better way of looking at a persons hands is as base-1, since adding one to a base-1 number system just adds a digit. (imagine these are fingers: ||+|=|||) This being, of course, that w...
They need to make it like putty: Select whatever to copy, right-click to paste. I need the standard use of Ctrl-C to cancel a command, not to copy.
minimum wage law raises their incomes. This does not happen, it is not true that "minimum wage law raises their incomes". The market corrects for the imbalance and makes their "effective" pay the same as it was before the "raise". Minimum wage was enacted in a time when there was business collusion to fix wages at ...
Ok, as a software engineer with a little background in legal matters involving my work - - I have some serious concerns with this. Hear me out. Law enforcement may be able to misuse this law. They WILL misuse it if provided the chance. Security - is often bad. Saying Law enforcement can only access a device with...
I currently cant pull a source out of my ass for this, even though Hawking is a pretty smart guy, there are way better people in his topic, also most of the time his thesis are just some ideas which are not able to be proved. But well for himself going is that 99% of mankind knows him but probably not a dozen of bet...
He's quite friendly. He
Back in middle school, I very un-ninja-like used the family computer to look at porn, unaware of all the cookies that were being installed. Well, unaware at least, until one day I was watching TV and I hear screams coming from the computer room... I scrambled upstairs afraid someone was hurt, only to find my 8 year old...
This article was just so far away from reality that it will take the light from reality a thousand years to reach it. For anyone who hasn't read it yet here is a
I find the entitled tone of this title to be indicative of the cause of a lot of societal problems. It's not my internet. It's not your internet. It doesn't really belong to anyone. If you own a company, and you spend millions of dollars on network equipment, and connect your stuff to another company's stuff and sh...
It seems to me that routinely canning projects or features that your employees worked very hard on just teaches them that "Hey, my good work is just going to get thrown out, so I might as well half-ass this." This leads to even shittier products because employees figure the company doesn't want or deserve their hard wo...
Yaaaay! I love getting a chance to use these numbers: (I'm just going to copy and paste this from a previous comment) The headline a few weeks back was that Android tablets were 30% of the market. That's an insanely incorrect figure - or immensely humiliating if it only refers to "shipments". Only Apple releases ac...
Perhaps people who aren't in the 'apple family' thought twice about it and realized that a laptop is a better thing to have than a tablet? You guys make Steve Jobs job very easy being so positive all the time.
As the top domain registrar, they of all companies should realize the negative impact SOPA has on their customers. Also they seem to have helped greatly with the legislation, plus they are exempt from anything negative.
Pure View Pro]( is the imaging system they use. And they make the bullshit claim that it essentially makes optical zoom redundant. Wikipedia warns you that this article appears to have been written like an advert. Other than that, WTF are they doing shipping with Symbian OS!? Didn't Nokia just make their entire Symbi...
It blows my mind how late capitalism's grasp on copyright has lead to a weak public domain... the exact opposite of why copyright was created. It was supposed to give a small portion of exclusivity to creators as an incentive to innovate. Turns out the main problem with this whole thing is that cash gravitates toward...
this only works if you only listen to versions of songs that someone recorded on a home quality audio recorder from the speakers of the origninal. i agree that the riaa/mpaa suck and are complaining about amounts that dont really hurt but this wont do anything to stop them. the organizations clearly know that we dislik...
the digital copy is as valuable as the physical copy, less the cost to print/ship the physical copy.
When I'm in doubt about what a program/script does I always 'click no'. If it was something important or necassary I'll usually notice quite quickly and install it then. If it isn't important or necassary I'll never notice and not miss it.
Blame engadget. 4 minutes per edit != one edit every 4 minutes (on average). The Telegraph, which engadget name as their source, says it's "just over one [edit] every four minutes". If you know how Wikipedia works, you'll know that it's impossible to reliably tell how long a person has been working on an edit they'...
Not sure if this is in the emails, but I remember this -> (sorry can't link, ends in a ) so it just fucks it up) from an earlier leak. HIGHLIGHTS: > Ice Cube Incident >A Xenu-like story in which alien invaders in flying saucers "plant" living entities. Says Hubbard in A History of Man, "Here is an intriguing in...
That's only about 11 teachers per year assuming you're talking about short tons, using the average Oregonian body mass index, and average height of US citizen's (both male/female). The most significant source of error there is probably average height of US citizens since teachers are more frequently female. With that...
Initially I was wicked excited, but then I realized this still doesn't solve my biggest problem with sharing files via dropbox, Google drive, or any other service. If I'm actively actively working on a file and want to share it with someone, this is perfectly fine and works great. However, if I want to send someone a f...
As someone with a Dell: This computer was the top of the line at the store. We got it for $300 through a stroke of luck. Nevertheless, the CPU was really "average" for the time period in question, and cannot be upgraded without upgrading the motherboard itself. Additionally, it only came with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vis...
lol, not blockbuster the store. I meant a big blockbuster film with large budget and shit. There are some things that you don't have easy access to like game of thrones and shit but hbo is willing to take the hit because of the money it gets from the cable providers. Amazon sells movies, netflix, redbox, the cable ...
It has more to do with unfettered greed. Take a music CD for example. Now add in the studio costs, advertising and expenses. We are talking about a profit margin north of 2-3K percent. On top of that, a lot of artists get gouged. I honestly wouldn't pirate if the media had reasonable prices. 20-25 dollars for a mus...
I'm probably too late, but here goes - I am a strategy advisor to the media industry. When you think about film revenue, it comes evenly split from three places: 1/3 box office (cinema), 1/3 DVD, 1/3 TV rights. I could be more complicated, but that's basically correct. What we do NOT see socially is substitution betw...
The big impact for me on DVD sales is that I'm not willing to pay $20 for a movie I might watch once a year at best. There's a stock of movies gathering dust on my shelf from before I realized the stupidity of buying DVDs. I'm not even willing to routinely pay for an on-demand movie. What I am willing to do is rent a m...
No, no... The Steam approach to movies would require you to acquire/download/wutevs some bullshit monitoring program you don't want or need just to be able to watch the movie. It would require an internet connection just to watch the fucking movie... May as well torrent the damned thing.
Gaming is getting terrible lately. I am a long time simulation fan. I've played all the Forza's through, Along with Civilization, Pharaoh, Most Sim City, My gf plays the Sims regularly. I could go on and on about my games, the moral is
Well. That's their fault for trying to be helpful. TIL that trying to help will get you banned. Thanks EA games. I wonder if they know why they are being called "Worst Company in America" to be fair I do love some of their games.
Yeah isn't AC2 Ubisoft? I think he was trying to make a point that always-online DRM is killing sales for games that are actually fun to play. I suppose it's important to note that EA isn't the only culprit, Ubisoft does the same shit as well as Blizzard. More and more game companies seem to prefer treating their audie...
Pffft, all the dev's have already received compensation for their hard work; I say fuck EA man. If there's one thing the game industry has taught me it's company heads and CEOs couldn't give two shits about their employers. If you're not pulling your weight, generally meaning you're not putting in 50 hours minimum a we...
Bioware made amazing games before EA bough them and still keeps making amazing games. The poorest game they have made since then is probably DAII (Haven't played their MMO) which I still managed to enjoy greatly after getting out of origins mindset.
I have to agree with this. While it's an unfortunate oversight on the SC team's part that you get hosed if your internet goes down, the assumption that a computer able to play this game should be connected to the internet the majority of the time (single player or not) isn't too far off. I mean, the only time my ...
Sorry to disillusion, but here is an example otherwise, of your claim of free-speech. He was cleared on all claims. Was found guilty of translating controversial documents. Guy essentially only has 'unpopular opinions' by translating some old world propaganda documents. Got convicted for nothing but being an intern...
Original Comment that this was replying to: It's not that they "can veto Security Council resolutions". It's that they can veto any UN resolution. What goes along with that is bargaining power at the UN. You can not only prevent resolutions, but completely change the discourse by offering less powerful countries pol...
Actually when I am outside of the US if I say anything other than "America" to non-English speaking people they have no idea what I'm talking about (I always try US or United States first). It is extremely common to call the US "America" outside of the US. In fact I have never heard one person bring this argument up ...
Whenever I have gotten a flu vaccine I have barely noticed the needle going in any time a decent nurse did it. Just make sure your arm is completely relaxed (not easy when scared of needles) because it will hurt worse otherwise. Even an IV isn't that bad if you have a nurse/doctor that knows what they are doing. I...
Different compounds behave differently. It's the reason you would gladly drink pure water (H2O), but will die if you drink the same amount of pure hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The difference is one oxygen, but you'd breathe that all day if you pair it up with another one and mix in a little nitrogen for flavor. Or, to...
We're talking about penises. What would you expect?
I have 250 local acquaintances in my "Tampa Bay" circle. About half of them showed up to my last BBQ Meetup. [TBFitClub]( is 140 local fitness enthusiasts who work out together and encourage each other. The list goes on and on.
Let's say that google's services got progressively worse. Gmail lost its clear design, youtube gets shittier with every update (both the design and functionality), iGoogle is going to be shut down... So far every decision was met with backlash from community, but who at google gives a fuck? We are merchandise, not cu...
Facebook pulls similar shit. I had my account locked down with phone and email verification when I disabled it x years ago. Some 18 months ago, out of the blue, they shot me an email to let me know my reactivation request (wtf?) was successful and my account could now be used again. Between the unique password with ove...
That's why you can't have a restricted release for a social networking platform. When G+ came out, there was plenty of anti-facebook sentiment ripe to be tapped in to, but when barely a fraction of my FB friend cohort could switch over, why would I? I'm not about to check two social media sites, and I'm not nearly elit...
I see three things in your reply. Dissagreement on the term of elitist and how it is used. My friends on Facebook are the ones that dictate the content I consume. Worring about G+ content, because just like facebook you have the ability to 'control' the content. Privacy. Google is an advertisement agency. I underst...
It is by no means a piece of literary masterpiece, but the story does explain rather well a decent path to extreme automation, and the effects on society it creates. Should you require an eli5 or
And going outside increases the likelihood that you'll be hit by a car. We take certain precautions to reduce the risk while continuing to live our lives (like wearing a seatbelt while in a car and looking both ways before we cross a street as a pedestrian).
herp derp i patent the technology to stream data between two devices over the internet" I'd have slightly more sympathy for Apple if they didn't have the Swipe to Unlock patent. How else would you unlock a touch screen phone? [Bracing for the downvotes here.] Completely agree on the part where software patents are...
Truecrypt can stack encryptions. Lets say you had a Serpent-AES-Twofish encrypted disk vs just a standard AES. Lets say AES was magically 'hacked' one day. You would still have Serpent and Twofish to break before gaining access. With quantum computing looming, a AES-256 that would take a million years to crack, m...
I believe we can get rid of illegals by fixing the paperwork system. Reduce the wait to to get a green card from 12 years to 3 minutes. That way it's practical enough for people to get them as they arrive at the border. Combine that with removing import taxes, and making importing of drugs and other illegal goods a...
Headlines like this scare me. I really feel like Google is boiling the frog here. I use and enjoy their products, I like their design philosophy and industry forethought. But when I think of them as a whole, I realize they have so much raw power, so much capacity to do evil. They thoroughly surpass peak-Microsoft in ...
A lot of the T-Mobile love comes from their pre-paid $30 100min/unlim txt/unlim data plan. It's become very popular over on the phone related subs. I use it and it's awesome. Certainly not for everyone, as you gotta jump through some technical hoops to get it to unlim talk via VoIP. But techies are in no short supply a...
I actually live in a weird spot. Right across the river and state line from a fairly good-sized city (300,000). Nice 4G coverage extends into our state. The problem lies in home internet service. Our town council has deemed internet service to be a public utility, thus allowing a locally owned provider to maintain a m...
If /u/roofied_elephant[1] is just playing devil's advocate he's doing a wonderful job on me. I am and I'm not. I get where you're coming from, but apparently the websites have been changed not long ago. When I was looking to switch from AT&T 3 months ago, I visited all the carriers' websites and it was clear to me w...
Waterfox is funny. Their FAQ: Q:Do all my add-ons and plugins work? A:Your add-ons/extensions work on any version of Firefox, on any platform! That means they all work with Waterfox. On the other hand, only 64-Bit plugins work with Waterfox and as of now those are: Adobe Flash, Oracle Java and Microsoft Silverlight.
I don't know if I would say POSIX is more limited when it comes to sharing data between processes. For example, on most Unixes [fork(2)]( is implemented using copy on write. The Windows fork implementation greedily copies the entire processes address space which is obviously worse for sharing data between processes. ...
See, this is what I was warning everybody who went starry-eyed over Bitcoin would happen. At least with an investment like gold, it can't spontaneously disappear with no way to get it back. Gold won't suddenly go poof and be gone. Bitcoin? Hey, if the exchange goes down, that $1000 you invested because you wanted to ...
This is called the singularity. At a point where we create AI's that are smarter than us things would advance so quickly that we cannot even fathom how advanced things would become after the singularity. Not only would society rapidly change and computers find solutions to things like poverty, starvation, the correct w...
BGR is just awful. There's never anything of actual substance in any of the articles. It's all just vague regurgitation with the sole goal of reaching a certain number of words and keywords. They'll often make 3 different posts about the exact the thing. The best example of click-bait of any mainstream technology ...
Because referencing pop culture from past periods creates an affinity between the speaker and the recipient due to assumed shared experiences and preferences. If you mentally group yourself with other individuals because you perceive them to be similar to you then you'll probably also like them and help them out. Since...
The energy required to sustain flight is so massive there is really no conceivable way that this could be done cost effectively. Ambient energy is not sufficient even if we go 100% conversion (which we can't) to sustain flight for anything but an ultra light frame.... so cargo will never work unless the sun gets hotter...
So it doesn't address the problem of an Li metal anode - these are inherently unsafe due to dendritic (tree like) deposition of the metal when the battery is charged. This can cause short circuits (leading to fire/explosion) - Molly energy tried commercialising Li metal rechargeable batteries in the 80's (I think) lead...
It is exact. In a game of chess which is complete knowledge, the computer will start with an optimal strategy and if you play suboptimally, it will adapt to the new "best" strategy (so possibly, indeed, changing from a draw to a win). Poker is a non-complete knowledge game, so the computer can't know when its oppon...
Important bit fta > Of course any measure that makes its way to the President's desk will be vetoed -- and a Congressional Review Action still requires a presidential signature or enough votes to override a veto, both of which are extremely unlikely. The only real way to overturn the agency's new laws is either via l...
How? How does this fucking happen? There are more than enough professionals they could come through to make these recommendations. Hell, ill do it. You want to be in charge of cyber security funding for a country? Well you need 2 or more established industry accredited infosec certifications (or more). The bar sh...
Well, it is kinda bold. Currently his planned ventures don't really count as "spaceflights", there are several companies working on commercializing space as well. Its not quite as clear cut as it seems, but I am making my assessment based on Branson's passion. Being first to show interest and funding is no guarantee...
Translating telephones which translate in real time have been made. They are just really expensive and they work for only a few language pairs. Basically it is at the point where it is really expensive and does not work that well. We have machines which transcribe speech for deaf people in real time We have exosk...
Ok, so what is actually going on here? I'm stupid and don't understand the implications of this energy transferring business, although I can grasp that "spooky action" is not the same thing as "teleportation". Someone,
I read his comment differently; IMHO he is of the opinion that such transportation is impossible: "The energy is in no way removed from one location and given to another, spatially distant, location. What happens, is that a measurement device at one location gains energy from the quantum system and, based on the outc...
The only issue I see with this is that you would have to be pretty damn stupid to plug a device by some unknown person into a computer connected to the corporate network. Most places will simply throw these out because of a whole host of security policies in place.
I know this is just wang-measuring, but, the best way to completely invalidate any means in which you wanted to actually convince me of something is to tell me to "go back to Digg". I've been a redditor at least a year longer than you have. Now that my wang-measuring is out of the way. I'll just quote Syjefroi >mor...
Out of curiosity, what's the average punishment for stealing, say, 200 Blurays from Best Buy? Maybe $4000-5000 worth of goods. I know "it's not stealing if you're copying" -- let's hold off on for the sake of comparison. A couple days in jail? Next, let's move on to selling and distributing copies of those Blurays...
It seems like it would be a waste to build the latest gadgets to last more than a few years. I have a "really old" cell phone from 5 years ago that I used until recently (I bought a new one when I moved to the States). My friends would always laugh at me, asking "why do you still use that old piece of crap?" to which m...
Think of it this way though. People in the US government wanted Wikileaks to not post those Iraq documents but there was nothing they could do to stop them. What if in all the tons of content on Wikileaks is one bit of copyrighted material. Might be one unimportant thing that on one even cares about, since the War Lo...
So you think that people should not have the right to make a profit off their own ingenuity, hard work, and dedication? People work hard for this, and you can choose not to pay them for what they are selling. You don't have a "right" to what other people create just because it exists in a medium that can be cloned. You...
There is so much wrong with that article I don't even know where to begin... Not only has the author completely misunderstood the lenticular approach (a set of 8 lenses? Really???) but he also fails to acknowledge that the approach is already in use (Nintendo 3DS, Toshiba screens...) and that it has severe drawbacks (r...
Is there a way they could do what egypt did, and just pull the internet to the rest of the world where a huge cyper attack may be coming from (assuming this is the only thing that we would need protecting from, even though I can't see it happening lets say it does) and still allow a US intranet?
If you excuse the profanity in my outrage. Of course. I also will assume that you mean that you are sick of people like me in general. Only on Reddit doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >The Governments job is to serve the people. I agree. Whether the government does its job in the real world is another matter ent...
Dale G. Bridenbaugh, one of the three workers who stepped down about 35 years ago"..."Bridenbaugh said the design flaws that prompted his resignation eventually were remedied in refits at Mark 1 reactors at Fukushima Dai-Ichi and around the globe" Feels like they are grasping at straws here.....
Based on recent experience let me disagree, to an extent. For a short run (10 or 20 feet), you're probably fine with any length. But I recently bought a 50 foot HDMI->DVI cable, only to find out after I got it that the cable was only 28 AWG. Simply put, the thing did not work. It would not send a picture to my monito...
Downvoted. I don't see why the Great Firewall matters when talking about any company, Cisco, Google, etc. China would've either done this, or started their own "internet". It was a giant customer. Cisco doesn't care what the company who buys their stuff does with it, whether blocking Youtube or stopping incoming tr...
You're still doing this whole "I NEED TO DEFEND MY OS FOR MY HONOR BRO" thing, but I'll humor you a little bit. I personally don't have a favorite OS, though I must admit OSX is the one I have the least experience with. >And if virus-writing is about causing the most amount of chaos, or getting back at companies you ...
Can someone
Exactly. I've had a computer instead of a CD player since about 96. For many years I didn't own a television at all, instead I had a TV-card for the computer. I have never owned a DVD player* and never intend owning a blue-ray either. I have a computer (well, I have several) and it is capable of playing music and vid...
If the only code they have on Flame is a few executables or other compiled files that they are reverse engineering, then yeah, it could take awhile. The reason you can't just open up Photoshop and look at its code is because it has been compiled into an efficient bytecode that is machine-readable. Reverse engineering...
I don't care what people say, I'm very pleased with Microsoft's accessibility on both the music and video fronts. Zune pass is a subscription-based way to download unlimited music legally (and whose library be growing in the coming months, when it is renamed Xbox Music) and the Xbox and Windows 8 allow me to rent or do...
I think of my sister in Tennessee. She has only dial-up internet. This is not because she can't afford faster service, it's likely because she just can't justify the cost for the benefit. Many rural areas don't have a cable option (no infrastructure) so the next available choice is a mini-dish - this might cost $100 a ...
that's true. there's a lot more government control over things in many parts of canada than there is in the states. heck, where i am (and a few other provinces) the only liquor stores are government operated (results in higher prices, lower selection, a fraction of the product is refrigerated and limited hours of ope...
I'm just playing devil's advocate, trying to help out the original comment's argument. I agree it is poor reasoning, but to a degree it holds up, the wording is just wrong. Let me try this again. Ok, let us say that we sign up for cable internet at a price of $20 a month for 6 months, then our rate goes up to $40 a...
I live in a rural area my top download speed is like 90 kb/s god forbid I try to upload anything ever. I only have access to one ISP. That's it. And they refuse to bring fiber to my area specifically. They've installed fiber wire in a fucking square around where my house resides. No future plans exist to hit my home,...
Unfortunately, it also seems to be correct. US is always near the top independent of how you slice it: Compare it to other large countries such as Russia, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The US wins in every metric available. The reason that progress appears to be glacially slow is because we are the epicureans of t...
That blazing high speed is there because they need to cover the whole area, it's no so densely populated, and the service is new so there are few people using it. How many Vietnamese farmers use 4G? I wouldn't be surprised if you were the only 4G user of that tower at the time. Try in a few years in a city, when yo...
This started back in the mid 90s with the telcos snatching up ISPs with the biggest backbones. They knew it's potential early. The company I worked for in 1996 had one of the largest coast to coast backbones in the nation at the time. Some German telco came in and snatched us up. There was a lot of infighting with ...
Public services have an excuse for being shitty and cheap, they're publicly owned and don't have any competition. EA would actually have a motive to release a finished working product if people stopped throwing dollars at them for rushing garbage out the door. It's not that expensive to hire a couple temp engineers or ...
EA just recently launched the latest version of SimCity. This iteration contains a shitty DRM package that requires a continuous internet connection to their servers to play, even if you play solo without connecting to other players. They didn't have nearly enough servers online, so now people that bought the game ar...
A decent example of how development based around anti-piracy can screw up the basic ability to play the game. If they made it a stand alone game with sync options and cumulative tables and graphs it would have worked much better. Then they could stagger each internet log-in. The load on the servers would be less stress...
To all the people who think this is some kind of outrage: so the game was down for most (but not all) players for a whopping 1-2 days. Big fucking deal. They already added 4x more servers and everything is running pretty smoothly. It seems more than likely that they will improve capacity even more over the next week. ...
They can because the ad networks and agencies have a reputation to adhere to. Most popular networks like google, microsoftadexchange, yahoo and the like refuse to put ads on their customer's sites unless it meets a very strict set of standards. Often if an ad is being reported as malicious or it has unwanted content ...