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Very small company I worked for designed a unique safety valve for divers. NATO military was very interested. Norwegian military bought four (4) valves and shipped them to the US. They never ordered any more, but are using plenty somehow...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Red Hat makes its money through 'subscriptions' (licenses which include support, upgrades, etc.), training, and services ([source]( and its customer base is made up almost entirely of corporations. Their products aren't free; it would be illegal for any corporation to use the...
Making a mix tape for friends has never been deemed fair use. [17 USC 106]( and [Fair Use: 17 USC 107]( have existed in copyright law in the US since 1976, and was part of common law before. Our first federal copyright laws date all the way back to 1790 and are borrowed from earlier copyright laws from england from yea...
They could (and do) trademark the most recognizable aspects of their works. Rival animators couldn't start including Mickey Mouse (outside of satire/teaching). Rival game developers couldn't make their hero Mario. Rival software developers couldn't use the Apple or Microsoft logo. Seven years or seventy years, th...
Dude, idk all the details of how exactly everyone would make money, but if the government passes something like this, the industry will adapt to the changes. Dude, you know what? Let's illegalize walking . I mean, I don't know how people will adapt to that, but I'm sure they will adapt and everything will be rainb...
You're not alone in believing this. It's a fairly reasonable assumption to make, too, if you know a little about antibiotic resistance. But most people don't think about it long enough to realize the critical difference. An antibiotic (or antiviral) drug is like a germ-poison. If you give a person the drug, the d...
I think you're right. And one day, many, if not most of them will really, really wish they had not documented every night of drunken bad choices in their adolescence. I remember reading some
They were just trying to scare you so that you'd be more like them. Nobody fucking cares about your real name. Nothing bad is going to happen to you. Your real name is out there already, on mailing lists, on dozens of varied registration databases. Not that long ago, everyone's first and last name, as well as phone n...
You don't know what you're talking about. Oh wait this isn't my real name... FUK U FAGGIT ASS UR DUMBEST PERSIN ON TEH INTARWEBTUBEBLAAGS. There we go. Do you understand that there is a reason that identity theft is at an all-time high? People have too much information about themselves readily available. Peri...
What is NotScripts? I use NoScript , which is recommended by the [EFF's 2009 piece on tracking]( together with the following 5 steps: >- Pick a good cookie policy for your browser, like "only keep cookies until I close my browser", or manual approval of all cookies. >- Disable Flash Cookies and all the other kin...
The point isn't exploration for personal gain, The allure is being part of something bigger than yourself. Doing something new and amazing, taking an actual step toward the future. One day, unless we destroy ourselves first, there will be a comfortable population on the red planet. Most sane people know that the firs...
I don't really care what your sexual orientation is and I don't care to play a guessing game to figure it out. My point is the same no matter what you are. Women certainly do need protection. You only have to look through a history book to see how women have been sexually oppressed by men for thousands of years. Toda...
In theory all but the older generations of SSD come with NAND flash based encryption, I think most are AES-128bit and some are now using 256bit but that's pretty overkill for general users on the barebones hardware level, to break a truecrypt mount from the hardware level I can only assume would take some ridiculous ti...
I think people are more excited about the prospect of manufacturing returning to the US and being able to support it by buying an American made product. Time will tell if American phone production will live up to the standards and quality set by Asian countries that currently manufacture them.
Never mind the conspiracy nuts who are scared of big brother (really you idiots, you think the government needs your wifi to know where you are? It's so much easier then that) I want to see this as a method of making my home more intelligent. Sit down on the couch, my tv turns on. Lights turn on and off as I enter an...
Its the same bullshit we get from corporate america about why Pepco.. the worst Power Utilities company on the east coast... pays less in taxes than the average middle class citizen. "We use all the rules and regulations of tax code to apply best practices"
the "greatest country every". was almost identical to nazi germany, eugenics programs and all. literally the only thing that stopped you from becoming them was the nazi's. had they chosen muslim back then to blame instead of jews, you'd have been right in it. (note im not saying this due to current world issues, back i...
The issue in question from the case was a company knowingly and actively changing their IP to get around a IP ban from a website. The specific case is ruling that the user was circumventing a "technological barrier" and "intentionally accessing a computer without authorization" by changing their IP. I doubt this is g...
Essentially correct. The value of the VPN is to protect your credentials and traffic from local capture and manipulation (someone in the coffee shoppe, etc), but from tunnel egress to the server the traffic is without the VPN tunnel protection and easily monitored. There is speculation that the NSA and others monitor a...
The SSC had seen the stretch of three presidencies, from Reagan, its inceptive advocate, to Bush Sr. to the less-enthusiastic Clinton. Plus the Congress that emerged from the ‘93 election had a very large contingent of freshman, many of whom shared a hip sense of fiscal austerity. The super collider, in contrast to maj...
I that the resonance people feel with articles like these really stems from a fundamental dissatisfaction with the level of science funding the U.S. government provides. Big projects, especially big projects focusing on "pure science", are often seen as totems representing SCIENCE! by people with a great affection for ...
Im mixing a few terms because I was writing fast and for a non-technical audience Basically, in a nutshell a coupling is a generic interaction between two or more particles via some underlying field. Physicists often use the term "coupling" to describe an interaction between two particles (or systems, or whatever) vi...
Couple of important points High energy physics experiments have a useful lifetime of several years at most, diminishing returns on research once you have basically exhausted the energy range it was designed for. Old accelerators can be repurposed for special experiments and new research in related fields (like the ...
throw away for reasons i can't say. I used to work for Google as a temp, The employees are dicks to temps, including management that wasn't yours. like we are small dogs in a fenced yard in a trailer park owned by a total bitch of an old hag. People where nice till they found out you where a temp. When i first got on ...
International Business-student here, and I would like to make some things clear: There are 100's of other (giant, international) companies that are actually scumbags too. LLC-type businesses all around the world are ''assholes'' if we were to rate them according to societal standards. Why? Because they're LLC's ( L...
I've posted about my living experience in SF in other threads before, but to answer your question: I currently live in a 325 sq. ft. studio in the heart of downtown SF. My rent WENT DOWN from $1,442/month to $1,365/month. I am in below market rate housing, so this is actually on the cheaper end. At market rate, the...
I think anywhere has its good and bad points, putting aside the nice perks what attracts me to work for Google would be the smart minds I have always found working in a environment where bright people are focused to the same goals helps me raise my own game. Sadly I don't think Google think this way, there is definite...
Isn't the law based on what is reasonable to the common person? It's not reasonable to read all that crap for every website, game update, and/or new software. It's not like a deed or anything of monumental future life consequence. I just wanna store some sh^t.
I don't really feel it's right to complain about my Internet speeds.. I'm able to almost instantly stream any song, show or movie at the click of a button. It really wasn't that long ago where I would have to wait an eternity just to load a 5 minute flash animation. Sure, it sometimes lags if everyone in the house (6 o...
We had a NBN plan going with labour that would give us an amazing network infrastructure with FTTP, with gigabit speeds but instead the opposition won (tony abbott im sure you've heard of him) thinks that its basically not the future, and getting 25mbps is great for 2016 and forward with his superior FTTN /s. I'm sorry...
I liked everything about that episode. Although I think it was brutally truthful and not that funny. It makes me think of the Facebook acquisition of Occulus, the google acquisition of Nest, and all the redditors who are "so close" to being the next big thing.
meh priceline is pretty scammy. I know the whole point of the secret deal shit they do, but they said "get a 5 star hotel for $xx.xx" and i did it. The hotel was a piece of shit and they charged for wi-fi, parking, and pretty much everything else. Priceline just hides under the "all sales are final" bullshit.
The point here is that the man in question is already a quadriplegic. He was given 20 years to live, and is currently 30 years old and suffering from a form of Muscular Dystrophy. At this juncture, his decision will likely yield a large amount of information for the medical community and may help to advance various tec...
It's a social utility thing at a minimum. Rural areas are absolutely necessary for the function of society and many of those are far, far out from normal Telco lines. Well, 20-30 miles isn't utterly abnormal on the flat and in the mountains there are other considerations. Anyway, we (USA) subsidize the crap out of ...
I don't understand how this is a violation of "net neutrality." You might say it is anticompetitive or unfair to services that don't get offered for free -- but net neutrality is about treating all traffic the same as it transits over your network. This is not about network management, this is a payment scheme. Put...
That'd be my guess -- never bothered to look into [this]( before, but it looks very much as if it'd be fairly simple to write a script that would take your phone number, tack on your carrier's mail-to-txt domain, and then send mail to your phone that way. Kicking myself for not googling that first, because I really onl...
I have about 2000 contacts from 1996-2006 that are not in any contact book. I have a further 3000 contacts from 2006 onwards in my contact list, where I could pretty much name each person and tell you how I know them. I have an additional 5000 contacts I added from my work ldap server, so I had them locally, knew who w...
It's fine to imitate competitors; it leads to more innovation and stiffer competition. It's morally wrong to imitate a competitor and claim their idea as your own innovation. It's then incomprehensible and hypocritical to then go further by making it a point in your presentation to call these same competitors 'copyca...
Actually, it depends on how saturated the node is. Neighborhood nodes have a max bandwidth capacity per Docsis spec. that coincides with the available downstream channel. A particular system might split the downstream in a node between 2 separate frequencies for Docsis 2.0. The problem is, if you are in a high popula...
Mainly because you're being an ass. No, I'm actually not being the ass, you're being the ass here. I asked a question, and you started on the offense... getting worse and worse after each comment. >You ask an antagonizing question I asked for a source on something that another redditor said. How the hell is that ...
You're completely ignoring what I'm saying: No zero tolerance policy (mince words if you want, that's what "enforcing absolutely" means) has ever worked. Period. If you create a situation where the courts are clogged with people contesting 1-4mph violations, judges are going to get sick of it and start dismissing...
Interesting read. I work on the academic side of comms modernization, and I have a few things to add: 1) A big problem not mentioned in the article problem is how rapidly the technology has been advancing in the past 15 years - not only in terms of hardware capabilities, but there have been at least three massive pa...
No -- what the jailbreak does is work itself into the startup processes somewhere and, when activated, prevents the kernel from not running unsigned code. The jailbroken iOS is still iOS, but you can think of it as having an extra daemon on start-up (that's not what is actually done most of the time, but it's analogo...
You stopped indicating a desire for civilized discussion when you indicated a desire to restrict information to what you morally approved of. Where did I do this? I didn't. Restrict information to what I morally approve of? What the fuck are you talking about. I know where your argument goes, and its moronic. Informa...
If any of you actually read the letters of support on the link, you'll find that Microsoft, IBM, Intel, etc are all focused on cyber security. At least to them, this isn't about you or me and our interests on the internet; it's the security of critical data and the future of the US's national security. Put simply, fro...
It's actually more likely that the software won't be able to recognize the machine hand seeing it only has 3 fingers. Even if it does, it is likely that both machines would go PAPER because PAPER beats ROCK. They wouldn't freak out because once the software determines that the opposition is using ROCK it will activate ...
iOS is, after all, a substantially tweaked version of OS X. They could retain their model of selling the OS with the hardware, retaining control of both. The issue is that iOS is artificially stripped of the general operating system capacities that it has innately - i.e. it's not interested in what the user wants to ...
I don't think it's a fair to compare Windows Tablets from when Klauschadman was in middle school to iPads today. If I had to guess, I would say the tablet he used was pre-iPad. My middle school also had convertible tablet PCs and we just used them like regular laptops, it was a pretty big waste of money, but they wo...
Oh I know. But I'm not Slavic; people will know I'm naming him after someone... and if they don't, my son certainly will. I'm an energy geek (see name), and work in nuclear power, so I really want to give his middle name to be Rankine after the Rankine cycle (which governs steam-based power plants). Rankine is just ...
They do. but we owe steve jobs alot too, he is still a cunt. Michael jackson was a musical genius, but a fucking weirdo at the very LEAST.
Disclaimer: I have no connection with this company. I just heard about them after reading this article: The idea has stuck in my head, and today I decided to look them up and donate. In doing so, it occurred to me that this company's commitment to open-source technology and global responsibility really appeals to som...
screw you Pearson! you charge 3/4 of the price for your ebooks which are only accessible through your website with an account, after paying for said ebook you can't print it out, highlight and save passages, and your document search is shit. Taking down your competition with a DMCA for presenting information that has n...
My iPhone 5 is probably my last iPhone, for a few reasons. On Verizon, you can't do simultaneous voice and 4G data. As far as I know, the iPhone 5 is the only 4G phone on VZW that has this limitation. The FCC mandated that VZW cannot limit tethering apps or, apparently, charge extra for tethering on limited data...
Some will never leave the Apple ecosystem(too much invested appstore/itunes)... Everyone else will float in between platforms. As app parity continues growing between platforms people will take it on a case by case basis. WinPhone8 has alot of app parity missing to make up ground for. we will see in time microsoft has ...
That statement is equivalent to saying that science can't call genocide bad. Its technically correct, but completely useless. Science is a way to observe the world, it doesn't get to make judgements about what is right or wrong, but it does get to provide evidence that 'x' appears to lead to 'y'. Pure observation is us...
Its technically correct, but completely useless. It's not completely useless. It is fundamental to maintaining science's lack of bias. Once people start assigning values to science you get shit like killing people with big Carbon footprints, being justified by carbon footprints are bad. People are beholden to their...
Yes, that's a hypothetical that can't be really answered. You can spin it the other way around: Bigger consumers of music tend to pirate it as well. Casual consumers - don't. Some people pirate because they want to not pay for stuff - there's little you can go for or against these guys. Most people, though, steal...
This is where the industry is moving. Decent quality recording equipment is getting cheaper and cheaper every year. Large, expensive studios with 5 workers and insane rental costs aren't required to make a decent sounding album, so why cling to a record company? Distribution is easier than ever with the internet at ...
So you clearly have no idea how the music industry actually works. For one, you are lumping an entire group of musicians with what one could call "the 1%". For every Niki Minaj or Justin Beiber there are probably dozens if not hundreds of musicians hardly scraping a living together through their music. Second, a mu...
Just to clarify, it is NEVER ideal for a musician to master their own work. Mixing is probably what you are thinking of, because yes much of that depends on the quality of the performance and is done with artist direction, but mastering is the final technical preparation for playback on a variety of sound systems and i...
If you provide a service that offers unlimited access to music at a fair rate, you will end the vast majority of pirating. I used to steal music constantly until I got hooked on Spotify (just one of several good ones). I was never outright trying to steal it, I just wanted access to music digitally and at a price point...
I get what you are saying. I, too, think that musicians represent themselves best live. But what iscream is trying to say is that there is a major degree of artistry that goes on in the studio. I'll raise his Coltrane example w/ 'Pet Sounds'. Brian Wilson spent months in the studio while the Beach Boys were on the road...
oh right, i hadn't even considered the pay-what-you-want model; i was really more just thinking of the ability to sell your own music through your own website; sort of the same idea as only buying CDs and merchandise at shows. you make a god point that exposure still has to occur somehow and people still have to be c...
Wrong. With android (android being a Linux kernel based OS) being so big, malware will be produced for Linux. Linux, like any Unix system does some inherent advantages (the same ones MaxOSX has, as a result of it being a Unix system based on BSD), is that users are run with restricted privilege by default, NEVER with...
First of all, Apple does let the system decide when and how to escalate privileges which means that unlike Linux it is in fact vulnerable to drive by attacks. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the userland is managed differently by OSX and Linux. Your argument that "you could infect a repository" is asi...
Another article got posted about this yesterday. They didn't create a 3D microchip, they just built a proof of concept for a method of moving data vertically between chip layers based on a magnetic ratchet.
Techdirts article is the
Excellent post, except perhaps the ending should have been:
The thing about Detroit was that people moved there because Ford/GM/Chrysler/Oldsmobile/etc. were there. It's otherwise not the kind of place where people want to live (snowy, land-locked, etc.) Car plants also encouraged poor and uneducated people (particularly African Americans who were tired of the South's bullshi...
I understand why people hate carriers, as I too have had my fair share of trouble with them; as far as unlocking goes I can't really say it was an issue. I was selling an Iphone 4S and wanted to unlock it for better profit about six months ago - aside from sitting on the phone with customer service for a bit, there wa...
This is the stupidest thing I've read today, and I browsed /r/SRS today. The primary script in Japanese is Hiragana, which is a syllabary, like you said. Obviously in hiragana, it's no harder to invent a new word than in english. But you're right, most words include kanji. So lets look at kanji. Each kanji has both...
OP here. Last night I realized this can't work (and not even because of the problem in this article The reason cement manufacture emits a lot of CO2 is because they start with calcium carbonate CaCO3, heat it until it reduces to CaO and CO2. The CaO is kept as quicklime, the CO2 goes into the atmosphere. The prop...
A lot of times they switch to an [Arduino]( control board. If they are reffering to something like this, the slim profile can make it fit in a lot of locations without interfering much. Relays are big blocks that would take up a lot of the surface area needed to put things on shelves and such.
Every action a handicapped person can perform on their own makes a huge difference. Able-bodied individuals, such as yourself, do not realize the thousands of little motions it takes to get through a "regular" day. It is exhausting. He may have an aide that helps him, he may be able to do gross motor actions with his a...
Super Mario 64 was terrible I could try to paraphrase but I'll just point you to [this link](
Someone who runs a YouTube network here As a network or content owner, you have several options when someone uploads videos containing content you own, whether it be audiovisual, just visual or just audio. Those options include taking down the video, monetizing and making money off of it, or ignoring the upload. Th...
You realize you don't lend yourself any credibility by insulting me, right? I have auto-correct. At any rate, it doesn't nullify any of my points. Despite how you may feel. The facts are the PSP and the Vita were huge investments. A lot of money and R&D was dumped into both handhelds. Sony wouldn't try integrating th...
Copyright can be a little different if you can get something declared a collage. But in general, when it comes to IP, if two parties contribute to an IP (say a performance, etc.) then neither owns the IP outright, they both co-own it. This is considered very undesirable because it means neither side can do anything wit...
I developed <<instrument>>, you will pay me royalties on any money made from performances of <<instrument>>. Similarly, you could make the comparison to plays. Typically, any expectations regarding production rights starts from the writer. We paid what is essentially an advance. Now, with ambiguity on the terms of pe...
This is probably what is going to happen. However, you need to see this from Nintendo's viewpoint too: there are a few let's players that make a lot of money by playing through an entire video game just with their commentary included over playing a video game. This isn't exactly fair-use... These video games are copy...
Man, I love all this babies in this thread! Cry more! Instead of blocking content for users, which is what companies normally do when it comes to protecting their IP, Nintendo is choosing to advertise and receive income from videos featuring their IP for a certain length of time. Although the length of time is unclea...
Now you're just nit-picking. Companies behave however their corporate leaders tell them to behave. Valve software doesn't do something like this, because they have a marketing team that knows the company's goals. Nintendo also has a marketing team, and that team has very different goals (as evidenced by this, and by th...
However, Nintendo's perspective isn't insane. Imagine if you compared someone uploading a gameplay video and made revenue from it with, say, someone who uploaded a recut film (or really, anything that uses footage from something they did not themselves create) and then made a bunch of ad revenue on it. Is it unreasonab...
We're left with people who do it to show off a game because they want to share it with others. This is the way Let's Play was done 6-7 years ago when it started, before people ever dreamed of making money off it. I'm not one for nostalgia trips, but people won't stop making quality LPs, they'll just do it because they ...
I don't watch WTF Is... because I always feel like I still have more questions about the game. For a series called WTF Is... it didnt really help me. And even when I knew what a game was and just watched one of his videos out of curiosity I was unimpressed and always wondered how he got so popular. For example, his Bin...
I acctually think this isn't as bad as most seem to think. One positive effect will be that big youtubers (whos main interest is monetary gain) will make less (or no) Nintedo based videos. This won't effect smaller youtubers though. Those who are doing the Videos for the fun of it, will keep going. And while the supp...
Legal issues of fair use or not, it's still stupid on nintendo's part. Like your example with minecraft, most of the games I buy are games I've seen on LP's and that I enjoy and want to try experiencing the game myself. It literally is free advertising. The problem is, when you take away the ad revenue from the chann...
I mean, it passes the tests for fair use which, to be honest, can be pretty easy in some cases (i.e. testing for commentary/parody/review is not hard to pass legally). I dunno why everyone on here is on the fence whether or not LP's are good - that's largely irreverent when it comes to the law and fair use protections....
Let's be honest. With their current gaming systems selling like they are, they're just desperate for the extra cash to stay afloat until they can fix this mess they've created for themselves. As much as they like to think that the system is all about the game and not the power, this day in age people know a lot more ab...
Well the short answer is that its not. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Obviously what they are doing is something they have every legal right to, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. By doing this they remove the motivation for people to post videos, which means instead of getting more revenue fro...
Colonists are a nonstarter. Of course we will need people to go to Stay but in the coming decades of space development we need people who will go to many places and do multiple things. The next 10,000 astronauts will be flexible generalists able to apply their skills repeatedly under changing missions. Even if you reti...
When the key patents for 3d printers expires why not send thousands of those and pre-program them to build robots while there, use those first generation bots to gather materials to build another type to further propagate other robot types to facilitate all the jobs.
not a Libertarian, but allow me to explain: the internet is based off the idea that people know what is right for them and can decide, without unnecessary government interference, what content is right for them and what they should pay. In academic circles, this concept is referred to as "Classical Liberalism" aka wh...
This post is a little naive. Others have made some decent arguments, but I don't really have the time to flesh a good response out. This one sentence here in particular: > This would essentially mean that the company would profit $15K/month That's not profit. You just got enough money to pay one network engi...
Piggy-backing on the top comment because I don't think anyone will see this otherwise now that the OP is 13 hours old: I believe it was in the 90's when the Ma Bells were forced to break up in to Baby Bells over anti-trust and monopoly concerns, but with the concession that they could become MSOs (multi-service operato...
rant> As a computer science major and programmer, I feel the language would just be a the jack of all traits, never being really good at one particular thing. This is just one of the many reasons why we have so many different programming languages. Plus who needs additional features that they will never use? It is li...
Shitty design and engineering practices Shitty design and engineering practices being perpetuated by shitty managers who buy shitty books
Edit: I'm throwing in a little preface here. Sorry about the wall of text, but I'm passionate about this stuff. I hope you can tell that I'm not trying to be an ass here, I just want to discuss. Oh, I don't doubt that there's some confirmation bias to it, but that's humanity for you. Unfortunately, it's not all confi...
No worries, good discussion. > Oh, I don't doubt that there's some confirmation bias to it, but that's humanity for you. Unfortunately, it's not all confirmation bias. While there were many complaints about the mandate, they ring hollow to me because it was originally a Republican idea brought forth by the Heritage F...
Your ideology only makes sense in a vacuum. Truth is your neighbor letting cars rot, leaves pile up, grass unmowed will lower your property values. Meaning your neighbor as part of society has the ability to whack you in the nose without his fist. Being part of civilization means abrogating certain individual rights.