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I think I can help as far as what your employers can know and what they can't know. I'm a Social Media Investigator which means I do background checks online of people applying to jobs (and who have jobs) via request of the employer. I am FCRA (Federal Credit Reporting Act) certified which means I am trained in this pa...
Not having Facebook, or not having any internet account - that's connectible to your "real self", is an effective solution. I know it's a dusty old custom of the Aged Digital Immigrant tribe. I also it has served me well since raw telnet days. Invent all the online personas you want, and with them explore your i...
Everyone tries to game Reddit. It's usually more profitable to just try to game Reddit than risk being caught. And in this case, it was a rumor started by Reddit in the first place! Stop bitching about the X1 until E3 and until more details are conclusively known. Can't believe this is the top post on the site right ...
How do people think they are able to search their mail boxes for old emails if they aren't scanned? Further when signing up we are informed that their systems look at the emails in order for you to search them. It is even mentioned in the TOS that this is necessary for some of the functionality of their services. This ...
Israel is ~8000 square miles. That's smaller than New Jersey. It's much easier to deploy infrastructure to cover a dense area than a large sprawling area.
Dead? I would like to see that in writing somewhere. I think this is a common misconception among some of us Seattleites. McGinn supported it greatly and was going to push it, but that didn't mean he controlled it completely. When asked if he had plans to change anything about the Gigabit plans in any way, Murray ...
Yeah the average internet connection speed in Australia is 4.8mbps compared to 8.7mbps in the US. Perhaps more telling is the % of people with connections over 10mbps, Australia 5.1% vs the United States at 24%. Source:
compression is everywhere, everything you see on the internet is compressed to some degree. OP's article is just stating that mozilla has discovered a more efficient algorithm for doing a standardized type of compression. Improvements in compression means the same thing can be sent over the internet faster (it's now sm...
i made a reply to you, but i didn't want it to be buried (since this thread has been downvoted to oblivion) so i put it at the [top level](
If all of the heat was used, you'd be breaking the laws of thermodynamics. For work to be done, like driving a car forwards or generating electricity through coal- or gas-firing plant, you have to have a difference in temperature. This difference in temperature determines maximum efficiency. For example, cars are a ...
I read it on a TIL:where the government said something and the entire engineer staff call the paper pushers idiots and built their walls 3 times as high and all kinds of reasonable shit.
Creating fusion is relatively easy. Thermonuclear bombs have been doing it for decades. Tomahawk fusion reactors have been around for a long time too. Its getting a net positive, controllable power output that's the issue. An H-bomb gives out a net positive power output but its not controllable. Tomahawk reactors are c...
The flaw was reported to the ASUS and the company quietly included an undocumented fix in firmware 3.0.0.4.376.1123 to resolve this vulnerability.
I posted this the last time this story was linked via Ars Technica. Much of it still applies to this article. The headline is extremely misleading. PLEASE READ THIS: THE ARSTECHNICA SUMMARY IS FALSE The problem is Ars Technica is simply regurgitating defense claims, which are naturally going to be as sensational...
It is a shame, because I think that this is why traffic into the U.S. (which benefits us economically and goes both ways) is so far down. I know in my state traffic from Canada is way down. I have only been to Canada once since after 9/11. Before that I had never had any issues crossing. They pulled us over and di...
I was detained twice when entering Canada from the US. Different provinces, different circumstances. Once in an airport and once at the border. In the airport i sat in a small room with two pissed off normal middle aged guys (who happened to have brown skin) for a half hour or so until I was summoned into another ro...
No. Windows upgrade has never in the past left the previous license. Whether it was genuine or not, all that will remain is the new license. Windows has "allowed" pirated upgrades without drama for a long time. Technically, since you didn't follow the terms of service (which says only install on legitimate windows) ...
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The following line summarises the entire article nicely; >They were a large group of senior civil servants and bankers, in a country well beyond Europe and the US. To them, the iPad wasn't a status symbol; it was a device they had chosen to use because it enhanced their ability to do their job. Because that's the w...
I decided not to watch their crappy movie to begin with. In fact, of all the movies up for best picture that year, it was the only one I didn't see (and by the way, I did pay to see all of these movies legally). I didn't like the fact that they were actually encouraging the Academy to vote for their movie because it's ...
Actually, Google+ doesn't even see your +1 clicks, which makes no sense at all… it only adds them to your profile page, if you enable that tab for people to see.
This article is a piece of shit. First off, its needlessly emotionally charged. Second, Android is Linux. Third, wtf does this mean: >Google has a deep problem here. It hates the idea of intellectual property (except its own) Has Google ever sued anyone else over IP? Serious question.
shipped= very, very close to sold. think about it. a)brick and mortar companies (i.e. best buy) have a finite amount of shelf space and they aren't going to keep ordering shipments if they're not selling, and b)a lot of these things, i'd imagine, are being sold on the internet in which it is much easier to match supp...
Apple copies one thing (notification pane)... Fandroids never stop talking about... Eric Schmidt helps change Android in its entirety to work with a touch screen and look more like iOS after he was on the Board of Directors of Apple, saw the unreleased iPhone, and Google had just bought Android... Fandroids act like ...
Coming from an employee that has said android tablets in retail store with an apple store in the same shopping mall, every fucking customer wants a fucking ipad and we will never carry them because our cost is apples retail cost
So would you agree with this statement: The "age of piracy" has hurt artists that are up and coming AND trying to get a contract with a major label. The reason I say this, is that total revenue for the music industry has been growing steadily, the only thing that has dropped massively is the sale of full albums. La...
One thing you might want to check with your pirate bay "FLACs" though is a spectrogram of the files. A lot of times, you'll see they aren't lossless at all, there will be sharp cutoffs in the upper register indicating that the music has indeed been compressed to a lossy format at some point, and just resaved as .FLAC ...
I agree with you second statement but disagree with your so comment. The mining company has a fairly sustainable business with high revenues (low margins). However Facebook doesn't have a set direction with its company. If people look to MySpace and Friendster as well as pets.com they'll see how turbulent the Internet ...
Success" is defined differently depending on perspective. The goal of the IPO for the company is to make as much money as possible... they want to sell off a large part of the ownership of the company in exchange for cash money. And naturally, their goal is to get as much cash money as possible. "Success" for brok...
This. If you are living in Greater Vancouver, definitely try Novus if you can. I live in a crowded apartment around Metrotown where Shaw internet crap down to 1~3Mb/s for download and 0.3Mb/s for upload after 6PM. Called Shaw Customer service many times, usually said somewhere along the line "it's our peak time n...
Yeah well, it's also faster than the average Telus customer. I am a Telus Optik subscriber and I bundle my Phone, TV and Internet. Granted, I chose to pick 9 HD packages + I pay another $10 for a-la-carte channels (with their HD counterpart) for TV, my monthly Telus bill (not including Telus Mobility) is around $170. ...
Had a somewhat similar thing happen with rogers (doesn't deserve capitalization). I got a blackberry (this was about 4 years ago) and I was supposed to get a mail in rebate for $50. It took me calling them on the phone every day for 4 months to actually get it. Later, after getting overcharged on multiple occasions and...
I'll give you an example. When I was living with my parents and my little sister, we were on Shaw's highest speed/highest capped plan in Calgary. Our total allotted cap? 500GB. Our usage per month? On average 1TB. We don't own a cable or sattelite TV package, yet we watched EVERY TV show and movie that came out...
Negative. From the beginning, the shuttle had many objectives that were not generally know to the public. The problem was that NASA's aim of pure research was never an option with Defense so involved in the project. The result was a compromise that achieved few of either agencies goals, but was still much more than...
It's the license we are given that I have an issue which is at the essence of the original link. When you buy a CD or record we are getting something tangible that we can one day pass on to another person, or perhaps even sell to a used record store. In this way we can even get some money back on what we purchase d...
I tried the initial release candidate trial and found it a hassle, hated the metro launcher and felt crippled without the start menu and it was hastily dismissed. A coworker with an MSDN account gave me a key and an iso and told me to just keep working with it as we eventually will have to start servicing/troubleshoo...
ride Windows into a closed garden like iOS and Android? To hell with Microsoft's money-making scheme Ugh. Please stop repeating this like everyone else. You only make yourself look stupid. No one is making serious money via their Store. . Over the first 3 years of the App Stores existence, the estimated profit is...
Apple App Store initial release July 10, 2008 Business Insider (BI) Article July 11, 2011 Where or where are you getting 6/7 years. As I said, "over the first 3 years". I was not incorrect. Now onto the second part. You are correct there is growth which isn't accounted for in the BI article as it is a year old. H...
Hi. Normal guy here. After I'm done playing FPS's, (first person shooters) the last thing I feel like doing is shooting a human. That's actually why I use a technical medium. (i.e. computer, xbox, etc) No sense in life in prison when i can kill hordes of imaginary targets on screen, go to the kitchen to eat a steak, an...
If you're starting from scratch, it may be worth looking more towards HTML5 and css3. There are some differences between HTML5 and the current HTML4.01 standards, and they are enough to change the way sites can be built. I am only just starting to look at HTML5 and css3 myself and after years of web dev, can't wait to ...
Say "No" to node. Seriously. Javascript is not a language that was structured to be run on the backend of any system. Believe it or not, the reason it's gotten so much hype is because of the reason you specified. Frontend devs don't know PHP, Python, or *shudders* Ruby, so they use Node. Honestly I'd suggest people...
EDIT: I was wrong. I was horribly wrong. Ignore this whole comment if you can, but I'll leave it up so others can know what went wrong here. I'd say that if you know JavaScript (taught in CodeCademy), you know the basics in C++ as well. You'll need to learn about the Standard Template Library, data structures, an...
It is a bit odd that the DoJ has chosen to go after the non-dumping non-monopolist in the ebook business. It's clear that Amazon has used their dominant position in retail to reduce book prices to uncompetitive and unfair levels. Why shouldn't book producers have the right to set their own prices? Amazon's sub-1% margi...
Copyright is a rights issue. Duplication of information. Theft is a property issue. There is a reason we cant use the same laws for the virtual/imaginary as we do for the physical. You really need to re-examine your totalitarian point of view. Your argument boils down to "the law says so". Awesome. The law in your ...
Let me preface this by saying I think the government was completely in the wrong by taking people's legal data Allow me to play devils advocate for a second, imagine if you had a bike and stored it in a warehouse ran by a shady guy who steals cars and holds them there. Your bike is completely legal but one day the p...
If you look at the "evidence" it gets worse. Megaupload had a user upload something that wasn't their own IP. Normally, this gets reported and the host service removes it - this is how the entire internet works, and you've certainly seen the "removed" pages on Youtube plenty of times to be familiar with this. For t...
But those other expenses are not the record label's responsibility. The argument here is that when a hit song becomes successful, he performer is 40% responsible for it's success, the label is 44% responsible, the songwriter is 3% responsible, ASCAP (without whom the artist would be at risk of having their intellectual...
Well... it's not that simple, and it's not 50/50 with the bands, almost ever. A publisher works with the song-writers. The publisher is paid for uses of the song, and often negotiates uses. They collect the money for those uses (as well as for statutory payments like terrestrial radio and legit online radio). They th...
I don't think this is true. I flit around the edges of a specific west coast music scene, and i don't see anyone making much money in it. Venue costs are highway robbery, merch doesn't make a whole lot of money unless you have a shitload of fans at the venue just for you (you probably won't have that for years, if ev...
I had to take a counter-intelligence polygraph when I was in the Air Force. After taking it the first time, I was almost denied my clearance because they said, "You didn't have enough of a physiological response during your control questions, so we couldn't establish a baseline" - or some shit like that. I'm no soc...
Actually, my username comes from a love of out-of-date scientific "knowledge." A 19th century biologist named Philip Sclater proposed the idea of a "lost continent" that once existed between Madagascar and India based on fossil evidence surrounding the evolution of lemurs. Due to his lemur-based theory, he called the...
The way Silk Road was set up, the owner doesn't have any of the vendors personal information. AFAIK, the only purpose of the Silk Road was to exchange vendor and customer contact information. It is up to them to establish that communication; many did it without encryption. People felt safe enough to not care about e...
What they're describing sounds a bit like wireless DWDM (in principle). Developed by Bell Labs in the 1990s, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing basically applies fourier transform principles in reverse, using various wavelengths of light as digital carriers multiplexed for many times the signal of one collimated b...
In most developing countries, condoms are free. In most developing countries, people still don't used them, because expecially men "don't like them". In most developing countries, high birth rates are a main contributor to poverty. etc etc.
What i'm trying to say is that in developing countries there is no money anyway so even if there are amazing thin condoms that prevent accidental childbirth it wont make a difference because rape will still be extremely high... also people hate the idea of condoms not the feeling.
most bacteria goes airborne in the bathroom when you flush. Correct, but people in public bathrooms are flushing all the time, meaning the air is filled with bacteria. Also, the toilets lack lids, so there's nothing to moderate the spray.
The whole reason net neutrality is a big issue is two-fold: unfortunately underdeveloped property rights with regards to cable lines and ground access generally firstly, and secondly and more important actually are regulations at every level from the feds on down which restrict competition in line-laying and service pr...
This is their line of thinking... Their business model is based off of providing content. TNT, CNN, FOX, HBO, etc. They charge you for that, and then require that certain high profile, highly desirable content is "bundled" in such a way that you must now purchase everything before you can get what you want. So, n...
fast lanes is just a euphemism. imagine you have a law to prevent toxic waste dumping in lakes. but then you sell special barrels that you can fill with toxic waste and dump it in lakes. those special barrels, are fast lanes. ostensibly you can say it's still illegal to dump toxic waste, but we have an allowance for ...
Language changes. PC, as part of our lexicon no longer means "personal computer". It now means a computer running windows. This did come about from marketing, but not from Apple's. In the mid 80's IBM was in a rush to try and get a desktop computer on the market. They didn't have time to design and create their own i...
Headline: > Netflix Is Taking The Movie Theatre Industry Head On, And It Will Win Wow, what a bold headline! I can't wait to see what well-reasoned argument they make to support such a definitive conclusion! Many paragraphs later: > It’s hard to say how this new-age business war will play out.
He broke the law to make a point but couldn't handle the cost. I've zero sympathy for that. He could have gone to trial and fought the law he could have appealed a conviction if one had occurred and actually changed the law, but he wasn't actually interested in fighting for freedom of it cost him personally. That's...
see [Robin Hood]( [Ishikawa Goemon]( So now we have established the trope and that your question was ill thought, lets examine what the real question should be. Does Aaron Swartz deserve the comparison to RH and IG because he was a thief for good (robbing from the rich to give to the poor) or does he more deserve t...
Here is how things work in America: A restaurant does well. They open a second location. Then a third. When you get more than three locations, then you stop being a restaurant, and start being a business. If you end up big enough, you become a corporation - and then the bad things happen. Corporations are obsessed...
Math time! So the K-komputer is capable of about 10 Pflops. This simulation was only 1% of the brain. Meaning that you would need 1000 Pflops (1 exaflop) to simulate 100%. The simulation took 40 minutes (2400) seconds to run and only simulated 1 second of activity. So, to run a real time simulation we would need a...
I apologize that this is so brief, but this was originally a Reddit comment I wrote and was not intended to be a full post. At the bottom you can see further reflections. I find it hard to believe how confused some people are about why Paypal sucks. Just to make it clear I too hate Paypal, but their solution/reason i...
It's not they haven't caught on... it's just the solution they chose out of the 4 possible routes. Here's eBay/PayPal's choices: 1) Ban the sale of MTG/CCG cards. 2) Eat the cost whenever a sale goes bad. 3) Tell the buyer he's fucked. 4) Refund the buyer and tell the seller he's fucked. OK. So #1 d...
PayPal is complete BS. I was recently notified that my account was limited. Mind you this is an account that hasn't been active for 10 years as I thought it was closed. No problem, l'll just email them with the verified email to close the account. Nope. The account needs to be verified via call from the phone number...
I use PayPal to print shipping labels (because Amazon's a bunch of greedy little shits) and to buy music from various outlets. I have a separate bank account backing PayPal that isn't tied to, or accessible from, any other bank accounts. So PayPal can sieze the shit out of it, and, at most, they will be able to free...
Which music sales have "plummeted", as you say? Medium, distribution, timeframe? And by how much? As compared to what? As compared to the anomalous time period where people essentially re-bought their music collection as they switched from LPs/cassette tape to CDs?
Ask yourself... In that case, it's a damn good question. Thanks for calling me out. Honestly, I would have to answer 'not enough'. Aside from bitching on the internet, I feel a bit helpless about it. One thing I am doing is trying to make other people realize what a slippery slope this is. It's the people who don...
I work for one of the top gaming blogs (not Kotaku, I swear) and this genuinely pisses me off. No, bloggers are not professional, even if we do get press passes sometimes. We are guerilla journalists who write about a topic because we legitimately care enough to do so. Some of us are really trying to be more professi...
In the areas of knowing your own bias and self correction, Reddit does much better. For example, this thread is Ranked #1 at the moment. What makes this exceptional is when mistakes are made, sceptical redditors put their internet detective hat on and produce corrections which other truth seeking redditors seem to ha...
Not all that smart - plenty of other people were extolling the future of the internet in much the same terms when Gates was still busy writing the embarrassingly wrongheaded first edition . Then only weeks after he wrote the book Gates began to realise that this whole "internet" thing might actually not be the la...
This headline is misleading. IANAL, but [here is what an attorney commenter said in another thread about this.]( >First, its not that stealing code is not a crime under federal law, but rather it is not a crime under the National Stolen Property Act. There could be many other federal laws or theories he could be ch...
All apps you've ever opened are always considered open, between sessions even, on Windows 8. The back-stack is a list of your most recently used apps. To move to a specific app in the backstack, tap its tile or use the app switcher interface (swipe in and out quickly on the left). This function lets you "close" apps ...
You can see where they're going though with these changes, though one day i suspect they will go too far. First they made laptop without a disk drive [MBA], then made moves towards owning a central software market controlled by them thus making downloading software + media the standard for their devices. With this ...
The base model 11' isn't 1600x900, nor is it 1920x1080. They're actually 1366x768... the same as the Macbook Air! Holy mother of...! I feel so violated right now. Asus (and most reviews) always advertise the Full HD display so i figured every Zenbook had it. The Amazon listings i was looking at don't even mention res...
I remember it differently. Notifications were broken from the start. If you received multiple of them, only the last one could be seen. Sure, badges on icons told you that something had occurred, but you had to launch the app to see what. This wasn't a big problem in the beginning, when there were less notifications....
I'm not sure where you got that data, but all Zenbook Primes (11" and 13") come with 1920x1080 displays. I'd say thats more than "slightly". Actually thank you for pointing that out... because we're both wrong! The base model 11' isn't 1600x900, nor is it 1920x1080. They're actually 1366x768... the same as the Macb...
Because, as much as I hate Lamar Smith, some people just don't care about the Internet. To get him unelected, you'll either need to get people there to care about a free and open Internet or get him to cause something bad that matters to the population in general. At the moment, most of his constituents see him as not ...
In debate the slippery slope argument isn't considered a logical fallacy, though it isn't always a solid argument. Wikipedia sums it up quite nicely: >The strength of such an argument depends on the warrant, i.e. whether or not one can demonstrate a process which leads to the significant effect. The fallacious sense ...
The whole point of war is to provide expensive goods and services. Our existing toys will get cheaper to make, but they'll be replaced by something equally expensive. Nobody wants to spend less. Nobody questions spending during a war, so it's a great way to give money to friends in industry.
This just begs the question - Why is the guy who didn't break a law in his country being extradited to stand trial in a country where he would have broken the law? The whole scenario seems to me to provide a strong argument that the Extradition Law (agreement?) between the US and UK is completely irrational and unjust....
Blah blah blah blah blah quality quantity blah blah blah. Shut the fuck up for real. Even if the apps are absolutely garbage, there's still plenty of quality apps on both platforms. Yes, there are some fart apps and other stupid ones, but are you guys really telling me that (aside from spyware) more choice in apps is...
You raise a good point, and it's brought up in these discussions often, but then you drench it with a thick layer of "manchildren" and "neckbeards". Saying something and then insulting people for how you think they may respond is not a good way to have a discussion.
Over the last half century, by far the greatest technological advances have been in micro-electronics and even that is now slowing down. They're still getting smaller for the time being, but they haven't gotten any faster in the last decade after speeding up almost 100x in the prior decade. That notwithstanding the pac...
This article assumes that the position of the monitor on your desk is never going to change, which is silly. The current desktop set up is just what worked best for what people were doing, which was using the keyboard and mouse. Once touch becomes a primary form of interacting with the desktop you'll see the it change ...
I felt the same way the first night. Then I forced myself to keep using it, because I had to forget some old Windows habits. The drag down from the top center to close is so natural, clicking the X in the corner seems stupid now. The one place to go for search and settings in each application is great, granted somet...
I totally agree, I have the UV-5R and that little guy is on just about as long as I'm awake. Since these little Baofeng radios work on only the 2 meter and 70 centimeter bands, they are pretty much local use only. That being said, as your results may vary, but in my location I hear lots of interesting talk during the...
Free service Service that doesn't use you or your details to make money You only get to pick one. Is anyone ever going to offer a free service and at the same time not try to make any money from that service? I know the internet seems really abstract, but in reality it is just a lot of servers that need to be bui...
Cookies are disabled > > Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser. How do I enable cookies? Oh, right. I disable cookies and only permit them for specific sites I need to log into. And I disable javascript across Google's domains because it ...
the patterns of consensus on emerging topics would not typically change all that much. We are social creatures after all, and if the majority of our peers are making an interpretation - one that is logical and aligns with our principals - we will tend to subscribe & support those interpretations as well.
Many police departments in the US can't (or won't) use these device tracking things as evidence. I work for a university. We had a state-owned laptop go missing. We pulled up the "find my mac" stuff and was able to collect: photos of the person using the stolen laptop name, phone number, and home address of the...
No joke, this actually happened to me recently! I accidentally left my phone somewhere and someone picked it up. I didn't realise until maybe 20mins later when I was home. My housemate tracked it and we were shocked to see it outside a store we hasn't visited! My quick thinking housemate jumped in the car, and we took ...
The Paid subscription service is for TV shows not for any and every YouTube channel out there E.G. I like show a but dont have the channel it is on channel a but that is ok because i can pay X amount to watch all past episodes of show a and all future ones as long as i pay. the current subscriptions you have will b...
Yes they google have been talking about going into a TV live subscription plan for a while. This is not for current users videos, what it is for is TV( or online video series) shows so you will not be paying to sub to RWJ or who ever you would be paying for sub to "the walking dead" or "AMC" and get their videos onlin...
The US puts a lot of weight on consumer rights. It's all about creating a competitive market that benefits the consumer. If companies are colluding and raising prices arbitrarily, it hurts the consumer. There's also no way possible that all the companies would decide to raise prices on their own without colluding. Th...
Hi, all. Long time lurker, first time poster. I am an antitrust lawyer (among other things) and have followed this case closely, because it is interesting. Lots of the information in this thread is not accurate, probably because the coverage of this case fails in large part to capture its nuances. I am accordingly ...
So you think Apple is innocent and you frequent r/apple and you regularly deny them doing anything wrong on every issue in your comment history.