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Okay, I'll bite the bullet and face the deluge of downvotes for this: I agree 100% that being able to pay for content I want directly rather than having to endure advertisements is better. But, right now I'm able to make a living because I sell banner ads on my website. If I had to switch business models and was forced...
The movie was a terrible terrible thing. I've never been so angry with a book-movie adaptation. They took brilliant writing and high minded humor and turned it into generic american slapstick designed for idiots. When they're walking through the field being hit by shovel like things I nearly walked out of the theate...
It would only evaporate if everyone thought exactly the same thing at the same time. They don't. This makes things move slower than you'd anticipate. However, if there is an instant collective agreement on something (like in the case of bad news), the price more or less does evaporate very quickly. This is called ...
Yes, there are weaknesses - but they are relatively minor compared to breaking SHA256 to steal someone's wallet. A government or business controlling a majority of hashpower would only allow for a double spend attack on recent transactions. However, simply waiting a couple hours makes this attack nearly impossi...
It would only evaporate if everyone thought exactly the same thing at the same time. They don't. Yes, obviously... Because not everyone is following this rule. >However, if there is an instant collective agreement on something (like in the case of bad news), the price more or less does evaporate very quickly. If ...
Technologically adept end-user here. This right here is correct. The amount of shit (SHIT. FUCKING SHIT EVERYWHERE. ON THE WALLS, ON TH- .. lick ..IT'S FUCKING SHIT , EVERYWHERE) I uninstall from friends/families computers is borderline pathetic. Your "top of the line brand new $800 laptop" runs worse than my fu...
The reason iPads are great at what they do.. is because they're so focused/simplified. They aren't trying to be "everything to everyone" like the Surface is. That what I find is the problem with Ipad, it's so limiting. It's so frustrating to use it when you really can't do anything with it. Now this is probably becau...
Considering what those views are, not at all. Here's his platform: > Income and wealth inequality: In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth -- worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways....
Where do I begin? First, I don't see why anyone would downvote you because they don't agree with you. Downvoting is for banal and spam comments (although a lot of new reddit users seem to think otherwise). > I have always found Microsoft equation editor to be far easier to use. Have you actually tried working in...
More now than previously, because fans have more access to different acts, genres, and the like. I'm not suggesting labels are superfluous yet (although several big names do fine on their own), but that the channels of exposure have widened. The
your post seems to imply that since it is now possible to make a recording of 'decent' (not high quality, mind you: tape recording machinery and analog signal modifiers are still incredibly expensive) quality, that all bets are off when it comes to the monetization of art. It's not that marketing is key to making 'me...
As one of those struggling musicians Bono is talking about I'm kind of torn on this subject. Before the advent of file sharing labels were more willing to take chances on unknown talent with more obscure/less than accessible music genres. Bloated prices for C.D.'s could buoy less popular bands and allow labels to tak...
I work for one of these telecom companies, and it is really not that easy. Let me first say, I too find it feels really silly to only have one to two providers you can realistically get. You can go through a reseller which most people aren't aware of, but there are a reason those smaller companies generally do not do...
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Any idea what the public address of the router was when all of this was going on? I would assume (just guessing here) that Clear would be handing out valid public addresses to their clients rather than handing out private addresses and trying to NAT things at their gateway. This would create a real headache on their ...
Zing! Unfortunately, most people don't seem to understand the complexity involved with dealing with DDoS attacks. I've dealt with quite a few of them, at work and at home; including just recently a kid that took offense to me crushing his spot in the top 10 on a CS:S server. His idea of a "DDoS" was using a rented serv...
Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is about four times more abundant than uranium, and is about as common as lead. Soil commonly contains an average of around 12 parts per million (ppm) of thorium. Thorium occurs in several minerals including thorite (ThSiO4), thorianite (ThO2 + UO2) an...
this is completely untrue and should be downvoted for being pure history revisionism. the US already had more than enough warheads to nuke the Soviet Union 10 times over. not only that, but it had reactors that could produce weapon-grade plutonium at a moments notice (still does). the real reason that Liquid Fluoride...
My ISP drastically limits net usage and charges a premium for faster net. They also limit my net more every time I download a torrent, which is quite often. We got 5 computers connected to a router here, and if one person streams a flash video (youtube / stocks) nobody else can use the internet. The flash video still t...
Just an anecdote, but anecdotes from my recent career experience are relevant tonight for some reason. =) Two jobs ago, I worked for a company called Override: they did gas discounts for a grocery store chain called Shaw's, as well as for Dunkin' Donuts. They were actually a spinoff of Irving Oil, an experiment in s...
I think part of the problem many people have is that theres so much distrust in the system of music right now. how do i know buying an mp3 will contribute any decent amount of money to the artist? I know plenty of artists who sell their music in multiple venues, including digital and physical media, and I've been tol...
I disagree. The current ecosystem is so atrocious at providing for creators (with overhead over 90% in many fields) that direct digital sales can provide the same profit with a tenth the sales. If I go out and spend $100 on books, the author does not get $100. They might not even get $30. You'd think the situation...
I have no idea how profitable music is. And I don't have any desire to rip anyone off. I see this as a customer/business model. We're the "potential" customer. (Although we're already using the product, the choice thy give you is pay or quit." So we get this letter. It's not very nice, although it's not really ...
I work in the industry. This post is bullshit. Engine control systems run some tiny little custom OS for integrated systems that is built by companies like Hamilton Sundstrand, Rockwell Collins, or Goodrich. That software has to be class A. That means it is very thoroughly unit tested. Testing an OS like Solaris ...
There's a happy medium between both of your posts. The government isn't intentionally trying to shut down free speech, but because of the pressure that companies are putting on the government over copyright infringement, they think that the best solution is to shut down certain parts of the Internet, which could get to...
Again, completely agree. I am just tired of people hiding behind the age old excuses for piracy (wasn't going to buy it anyways, they have enough money, it is just copyright infringement). On the flip side companies need to make their product at a more competitive price (lol this is why they use china, irony) and make ...
Old story, not even from reddit. Anyways, I too handle quite a few transactions every day, and let me tell you, PayPal is terrible. If a customer wants their money back, they WILL get it. Ive had a customer purchase a few things for around 600Usd. A month later he files an unauthorized payment on several purchases. ...
Oh boy, gotta love paypal. I manage an antiques store and have been selling things online for quite a while. My dad also sell firearms from his personal collection. One day he sold a gun on gunbroker and the buyer paid my dad with paypal, but left a note on the payment that it was for a gun purchase. So paypal sh...
Wishing death on the CEO does nothing. The CEO isn't the one to blame. It's the people making policy that think destroying items is better than spending a couple dollars to process a claim. They are trying to save money to make money. It's the bastardization of capitalism at it's finest.
I sold my WoW account on eBay back in 2006 for $1000, which was actually a bargain compared to other accounts currently up for bid. I got the money, paid off a bit of debt, bought a Nintendo Wii, some other crap. Generally blew all of it within a few weeks because I was 21 and naive. That is beside the point. 4 mo...
Ebay and paypal screwed me several times. The last straw was when a buyer wanted a full refund, I said I would do it if they mailed the item back. They didn't want to return the item (which they signed for) and not only did paypal refund their money out of my checking account, they let the buyer keep the item. Ebay ...
You're right about the fact it has nothing to do with DRM enforcement. However, you're wrong about the rest. The browser plugin takes an argument, which is the base-64 encoded path of any executable any base 64 encoded command (path and args), which will be run by the system under the privileges of the plugin. Ma...
Well, in July of 2011 there was a week or so where the exchange rate rapidly increased without any increase in the amount of infrastructure. This increase topped at $31 for only a very short time, then crashed back to the teens and steadily dropped to a few dollars. Since then, more businesses have been built around Bi...
3.2 is annoying though. The prompt to change the save name/loc, and rating upon removal of .torrent file is a silly default (which, granted, can be disabled). It also has unnecessary tabbed view. When did free client developers start associating heavy UI = better? Good designers should be looking of crap to remove...
Ok here is a redditor with the uncommon perspective. I don't think torrenting is inherently bad, but i think it is currently being done wrong. uTorrent is providing a valuable service and revenue is definitely deserved by them, but the majority of the traffic is driven by products that they are not correctly licensin...
I use TPB for 90% of my torrents and I'm a pretty heavy downloader. I've had one virus since 2009. I don't have any anti-virus installed.
Read the article in the link or just despair about the patent system being in severe need of retooling... No one wants to fund this research because too much information is already in the public domain! It looks like a damn fine idea to me though!
My thoughts completely. Apple is putting nothing new on the table and it shows that they're playing catch up. I'm also curious as to whether or not they're putting themselves at risk here with their new Maps app. Seems amazingly similar to Google's app on android. As for new features, I had a LG Dare (dumbphone) and ...
But, But, it doesn't have NFC! And it doesn't take 30 megapixel photos! I've had the Palm Pre, The HTC 4g phone that came out on Sprint, and now a 4S on Sprint. Of all three, the Pre had the best base OS for usability. But there was no app store and the hardware was so so. It is still my favorite phone though. Too ba...
longer Screen Okay a slightly larger screen is fantastic, great resolution and combining the screen and touch will make less glare and more responsiveness. >Ultra-Fast Wireless LTE and CDMA in a single chip, less antenna switch lag. >Processor improvement. The 4S was already fast, and this is twice that. Coul...
I have my phone hooked up to my computer to charge when I'm home. Sometimes, I'll pick it up to see something, only to forget the cord is too short and jostle my PC. Or I just want it to charge, then pick it up really quick to play a game on my bed, then just set it down to charge. It would be nice to have wireless c...
Please explain to me how you got any media on your iDevice without using iTunes. As I said, you can only get music on it by syncing with the desktop iTunes app, or by buying stuff in iTunes (on the desktop or on the iDevice). So to get media on iOS you either have to use iTunes on your PC and sync media use iCl...
No need to swing into a full 'roid rage. The die-hard iphone fans will all buy the phone on day 1, because they've all been waiting for it, but you've average joe on the street will buy the best phone available on the day he walks into the store. I'm not sure if you think there is some flaw in that logic, or if I'v...
They are still doing this. My families restaurant has 16 reviews on yelp. 9 of them are 5 stars, 4 of them are 4 stars, and 3 of them are 1 star. One of the 1 star reviews was posted when we were still painting the restaurant, before we were even open. So it's clearly not even valid. I'd guess it's a competing restaura...
My family also has a restaurant. It shows 4 ~3 star reviews... Filters out ~14 4 or 5 star reviews. Of course, the only way to only see those is if you enter in the captcha.
1 - See point 3. Also, fair use is not solely limited to educational and non-profit, though this does help. 2 - Agreed 3 - Here I tend to disagree, when it comes to comics anyway. These aren't sold as one-off images, they are sold in collections / anthologies. In that respect, using ONE image of a collection is t...
But I did read it a bit o-o which is why I didn't say
Since the birds mostly die because of the larger higher buildings, yes. However you are right that the ratio would be a little bit off. There are [some wind farms]( in the US in total they have a capacity of around [50 GW]( A typical turbine got a capacity of 660kW which means we have about 77 thousand wind turbines ...
Wow that is very hopeful of you. KC is just now getting the GB internet is homes. This is more of a beta test. It may grow exponentially but we are still ways away from being a real force against what we have now. I don't mean to sound condescending I'm sure I did. I live near KC and just getting it there has been a ...
Make small ISP, somehow successfully gain market. Either get offered a large sum of money from large ISP and sell OR get to spend years fighting for the ability to spread infrastructure into already established telecom territorya. There are many many laws and regulations that can hold up a small company in court for ye...
I couldn't sue McDonald's for giving me coffee that covered me in third degree burns, say. I hope this isn't considered too off topic but I believe many people (myself included up until a year or two ago) considered this specific lawsuit as bullshit, as it is often the goto example of 'frivolous lawsuits'. I'm thin...
Because I predict that by the time I would need to upgrade my iPad in 2-3 years, there will be plenty of choices. Here is the deal: iPod ---> well no real replacement, they do great with these. I love my nano, and the only reason I would buy another iPod is if I lose my current nano (had it for 4+ years and still goi...
This is part of what will be a much broader program," Nelson said Friday (April 5), during a visit to Orlando. "The plan combines the science of mining an asteroid, along with developing ways to deflect one, along with providing a place to develop ways we can go to Mars." And >Experience gained via human expedition...
An old science fiction book by Niven and Pournelle called Oath of Fealty is very on-point. The city computer was like our Internet, and people could get a minor implant that let you communicate with it in real time. "Millie, who am I looking at?" "Millie, what's the GDP of Iceland?" And when someone got used to this im...
Let me post a couple of reasons why your emails aren't that uninteresting. Friends. You might know people that are not uninteresting (unknowingly to you of course). If you do, you are now a data point in their social graphs of those people. Most likely you are either way. If your interesting friends are interesting...
This is all pretty straightforward. I don't know if anyone will listen to this or read it, but I'm going to try. Edward Snowden isn't a whistleblower; he's essentially taken a loud action and gotten a couple well-respected newspapers to publish information that is 99.99% already available to the public. The 00.01% th...
The problem with this reform is that this government has already established that: It believes this surveillance is constitutional and justified It believes the public should not know about it It believes it has the right to force people to not speak about it It believes it has the right to publicly lie...
My two cents worth: To err is human. But REALLY screwing things up requires a computer. If the flight involves either: 1) Human passengers, human safety or takeoff/landing in populated areas, or... 2) Interacting with the chaotic system we call the Real World, Then, for the time being, a human pilot is the be...
You should read what Levison's lawyer, Mr. Binnal, said in the preceding hearings. It was absolutely farcical.
8.1 specifically because their tweaks to mouse response and acceleration in 8.1 for the sake of "power conservation" have significantly hampered any PC games that don't have the ability to use raw mouse input, and the fix involves [manually whitelisting each game you want it to leave alone.]( I also quite like my MX ...
The thing about BitTorrent is all [swarm]( information is publicly shared between peers. So all a person needs to do is join the swarm. Say, for instance, someone wants to know who's downloading their latest movie or game, they download the torrent and add it to their client. Look at the peer list and check the IP's up...
I haven't thought too much about this, but the first thought that came to mind to help the case was - the IP address was downloading and may not identify the person, but the IP also records the other habits (ie: I'm downloading, logged into my facebook/twitter/email, filling out a form with details, etc) that could be ...
I work for a small ISP and I deal with DMCA and we must pass along the DMCA notifications to our customers. Basically, when I get a DMCA notice, it comes with a specific date and time along with the filename. I look this information up in our DHCP logs, find out who had that IP at the given date and time, and pass...
This thread is absolutely retarded (hey- we're using hate language right?!). I haven't been on r/technology in a while, but I can't believe that there is a good reason to delete 19 out of the top 20 comments and most of their replies. Reddit didn't even used to have subreddits. I'm glad it does now because it allows ...
I find these results dubious. Tor uses delay randomization which when analyzed along with the other traffic noise, makes timing analysis next to impossible. The controls in this experiment do not account for noise generated from other traffic. Even if your "data burst encoding" is sufficiently sparse to be dec...
Even though this case propably is BS it still frustrates me how articles today play very heavy on emotions. The first paragraphs is spent introducing the Nice Little Man and the Big Bad Company. He is a skilled worker, working in unfriendly and narrowminded environment enforced by his employer. We learn some of his s...
Most of the people at the top do care about what people think, however they drink the juice (of the cable companies) and do the evil deeds. It's only when they see real people shouting at the top of their lungs that they have become what they never wanted to be (unpopular/evil). Lament sets in and the right thing may j...
How is it that Google hasn't given more of a push back on this, or phone producers, etc. Being grandfathered into my unlimited data plan on Verizon, my brand new HTC One is made almost useless to stream music through google music or pandora, 1/3 of the way into the month I can barely stream a youtube video in decent qu...
In order to 'hack' someones icloud you need Their username and password or Full access to a computer on which they auto login using icloud control panel Next up; Gmail hacking, it really is that easy? All you need is a users username and password, or access to a computer which has them automatically log in t...
Only car MPG changes dramatically based on usage. Sure my car may be capable of 35mpg, but if I floor it from stoplight to stoplight, I sure as hell won't get 35mpg However my internet speed should be the same speed regardless of how i use it. Whether that be online gaming, downloading ebooks, or using facebook.
This video is positioned as a scientific rebuttal but in reality it's damage control. When your competitors are >50% stronger and you're still calling it a fair fight? And pointing out that 80 lbs. of force is enough to bend a tennis ball? What does that help? The iPhone is not tennis ball shaped nor is it rubber. If a...
That video is the most pretentious crap I think I've ever seen. It's blatantly obvious that it's not "footage of the real world", the lighting is completely static and baked in, there are no reflections or specularity, everything is completely flat and static. They still have shown nothing to address any of the criti...
Conspiracies exist, but this one doesn't. Sorry man, but looking at your post history, you seem to have tightened your tin foil hat a bit too much. PayPal isn't privately owned. It's part of eBay which is publically traded. Undoubtedly them and all the other major financial corporations have ties with the NSA. The FO...
PayPal suspended my account after I made one online purchase for an $80 box of unopened basketball cards about 5 years ago. I bought one box then threw more money in to buy another box and that was when they suspended it. When I tried to appeal it, I was basically told that there isn't much I could do to get back in o...
There is no PayPal Corporation. PayPal is owned by eBay Inc. Technically they plan to split within the next year or so, but today PayPal Corporation doesn't exist. Anyone who knows anything about PayPal wouldn't refer to them as PayPal Corporation. Uh, there is a PayPal Corporation. Just because it is owned by anothe...
Not entirely true I handle a company's account and we only maintain an A+ if after receiving the complaint we contact the customer and set things right with them then they have to state to the BBB if they're issue was resolved to satisfaction. We do have to pay to be IN the BBB However. The way I see it, it works if ...
Tor is meant for anyone to use it. If Tor only had classified government documents flowing through it, it wouldn't be very anonymous. Crowd sourcing more usage helps hide what you are doing.
Oh I read it alright! Clever man, that friend! Seriously though, I guess it wasn't 100% clear when reading that last sentence which "he" was making the statement (your friend or the godparent), and it wasn't clear if you're a man or a woman, so if you're a woman he might be less likely to confide that his true intent...
NO RULE OR GUIDELINE HAS BEEN PASSED BY THE FTC AT THIS TIME . What has been done is that the FTC has sent in a comment to the Michigan Senate in regards to bill 268 urging them to increase the scope of said bill from where it currently stands (which isn't bad, all things considered). Linkies for your education: ...
The stark reality is that 99% of car buyers buy the car based on things other than how it drives. Ford did a study once and found that for their female buyers, the most important factor was the cup holders. For most male buyers it's going to be curb appeal, etc. Ask any car dealer -- I have several in my family. P...
eh I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I'm trying to bring up a larger more important picture that I think your post fundamentally missed out on when you started talking about how the users are basically using reddit wrong. you say you "like it here(reddit)" Well why? Is it because the vast amount of people and the ...
A low level supervising program woke up a slightly higher level supervising program deep in the ship's semi-somnolent cyberbrain and reported to it that whenever it went click all it got was a hum. The higher level supervising program asked it what it was supposed to get, and the low level supervising program said th...
I'm sorry, but this article just scream bullshit fear mongering to me. People love to hate large companies, and often rightly so, so making an article that says "Cable companies have been collecting money with no oversight" is an easy way to get people riled up. Cable infrastructure is fucking expensive, and you can ...
DSL is different from UVerse. DSL lines may terminate in old-school local telephone company offices where there might not a lot of legacy systems and backbone connectivity. In addition, AT&T is trying to get out of the DSL market as fast as possible. UVerse involves brand new fiber runs and switches. Your connection ...
I love how people think this started in Canada, when ISPs in the US have been doing it for at least 6 years. My parents have been paying $80/month for 17 GB/month of satellite internet for years . Their only alternative is dial-up. I made a post detailing this after the Canadian bandwidth-cap shitstorm, but r...
I have to support Reader on >1000 computers. In general I hate adobe simply because of the time I take to update Flash and Reader due to security issues. It's a pain. For some reason we can't deploy Foxit. And while I'm bitching, Java is a pain as well. We have to use compromised versions of Java because of criti...
I think another angle may be a better fit - positive reinforcement. "Wiki does good, wiki gets the treat. That's a good boy!" I'll go and fork over 5 bucks (the perfect amount, as demonstrated by Louis CK), just cause 10 is too much, but a 100 people giving 3-5 bucks will still show them we support this decision. ...
it might seem cheesy that them following through on a cause I happen to be passionate about is what made me donate, rather than them just doing their job which happens to be one of the most important creations of this century and is absolutely free... but whatever, as a human monkey I am prone to this sort of behavio...
Just to address a bunch of comments I've seen... I am not advocating a boycott of Google . This partnership was created before GoDaddy came out in support of SOPA. What I am advocating is for Google to be pressured to not renew this partnership (if it is contractual), to get out of it, or for them to pressure GoDaddy...
Downvote for shitty misleading thread subject. Upvotes for people that went and read it and reported back with a accurate
No, that's inaccurate. You are using "the mob" to lead to the conclusion you want. What about, say, Kinko's? I'm sure many people have violated copyright at Kinko's, and of course they are well aware it does happen. Or even photocopier and scanner sales in general. Those products have been used to violate copyright man...
It all really comes down to the difference between sites like youtube and sites like megavideo. The mega sites intentionally attempted to create the legal appearance of being the same as youtube (plausible deniability of copyright infringement from user-uploaded content) but operate completely differently on the insid...
micro censoring" out of 140 character! Hopefully it is not "macro censoring" you'll have not much character left.
I've found that when people post cool things without explanation or reference of how to do said cool things, it actually has the opposite effect.
I've mentioned this before. Facebook never sells your information. Advertisers don't get to see your profile. That isn't how this stuff works. Facebook sells targeted ads. Their system then handles the matching. Your data isn't being sold, it isn't going into the hands of some strange marketing firm.
Something about you is the currency. But it may not be your personal data. It could be just your eyeballs. For example, broadcast television is free. They don't share your personal data (or even collect it) even though your eyeballs/attention is the product.
The fundamental difference between the bubble we had and what we are having now is: When the first bubble went off... the entire system was being pioneered. No one really knew what the heck they were doing, and that's largely why there was such a rush of innovation. But people invested crazily into that innovation ...
Don't be a free user" by Pinboard (an independent, paid bookmarking site) is a very relevant article today:
I will never understand how the government makes it's actions and decisions. I will never understand it because each person in the government is an individual, who has there own story, and who was once just like everybody else, part of the majority. And if they still were just like everybody else, then we wouldn't have...
how is it not? you claimed that IE had 18% of the market when it clearly has closer to 50% judging by that link and by the link I entered. you imply that the marketshare is dropping violently but statcounter does not say that it is dropping in such a fashion. it is still dropping of course but nowhere near the same...