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If a PC qualifies for first grade, I suspect that it's time to get replaced. Then again, I have a second job working for my mom at her small business. It opened in '97. The nursing station computer has never been replaced. Recently, I've been tasked with transferring files from the Windows 95 PC over to a newer lapto...
IIRC the carriers were using the term 4g before they came up with a spec that was entirely too high. 4g, as defined by carriers, is 5-10 times faster than 3g. If that isn't enough to be its own generation what the fuck is?
This is because nobody can agree on what 4G actually is . As far as the carriers are concerned, the term "4G" is just a marketing tool. From their perspective, they put time and money into upgrading their infrastructure, so they want to be able to call it something fancy and new to convince people to buy it. "4G" is...
The [Warming Glow did a piece today]( regarding the ad structure of streaming television shows. There's a lot of good points made in that article, I suggest you read it. I would like to say something though, if there is a small chance that anyone with influence acturally reads this (yeah right). I used to watch Hulu....
Interference in electronics can have many different modes. In general, if any input to the system causes degradation to the systems intended performance it can be considered interference. Typical interference is when frequencies in the pass band (frequency range of interest) are present when they are not supposed to ...
a little backstory: i've been an HTC customer since the Eris. i've been in touch with HTC since the Rezound came out. I purchased it on day 1, and it was an amazing phone. However, over on XDA, a few of us noticed some issues with quality of the audio while recording videos. Many people also had the dreaded "pink...
One major thing everyone is overlooking about this is that this is fully produced by Google. This isn't some partnership with Samsung or Acer to use their production facilities and essentially just put their OS on someone else's game, this is Google entering the hardware business, a machine fully designed, hardware and...
I think that this is a clever move by google. People have this (subconscious) tendency to associate 'Cheap' with 'crappy' and 'expensive' with 'quality'. So regardless of how good their $200-$300 chromebooks are, people will always think of them as being crappy. By releasing a super expensive chromebook it helps shift ...
Celestial body: (n) Natural objects visible in the sky. How many space pebbles do you see every night after dark? Not to argue semantics within and argument of semantics. Ultimately, the term World is relative to the object/idea being described and to the context of its usage. A pebble in space could be a new world...
absolutely zero excuse for a company such as Google to store passwords in plain text under any circumstances. At all. Ever. Period. Google Chrome passwords are not stored in plaintext. They are encrypted . Look at them. Seriously, go look at them for yourself. They sit in: %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Dat...
Once a person has access to my system, they do have my passwords. You seem to think that passwords in Chrome are stored in plaintext on the hard drive. You seem to think that you can simple "bypass" the security by reading the "stored password file" . Google Chrome passwords are not stored in plaintext. They are ...
From a programmers perspective it looks impressive, a little too impressive. The recognition of your hands at various angles could make the system limited to only a select number of hand positions and gestures so the glasses will read them properly. It could also pick up other hands in the vicinity unless you are w...
A lot of people commenting are confused by how New York Times is using the term "social network." The article is not talking about Facebook, Myspace, etc . They're talking about the NSA secretly building graphs of your real-life social network without warrants: everyone you talk to, do business with, etc. From the...
Sigh. I hate it that I am not suprised. As a cynnical person, I had predicted this. I see it as inevitable. Because of this, I do not see a point in trying to make them stop. They never will, so why waste the effort? What is worth fighting for is legal restrictions on 'Cointelpro' style dirty tricks campaigns. ...
Basically, Dropbox is changing their terms of service to include fine print that specifies that if anyone has an issue with their service, that any legal disputes are made individually through a small claims court. This means that if people were to try and form a class action lawsuit against Dropbox for a major data ...
15 seconds googling "Netflix Comcast throttling graph." I know Comcast isn't Verizon, but it would be safe to say that they wouldn't be above the same thing.
Self— flying car . The Moller Skycar and the Terrafugia roadable plane from 2010 are just that— roadable planes. You need to be an experienced pilot to fly one of them. This is what I call the Jetpack Fallacy: just because you were promised it doesn't mean it's practical. A jetpack sounds cool— but use common sense. ...
First off - I can tell you it can be done (more on that in a moment). What I can't find, is proof that it is used. At least on a mass scale. For the device to spy, it would need a subset of code that listened for a key set of words or tone change in voice, or perhaps activated if you are in a certain proximate of a l...
I don't post much but I posted this partially because people would find it interesting, partially to start a discussion, and also because I find it slightly misleading. I've given a tech talk or two on datacenter power consumption so I figured I would share (some of) what I know about it and let people decide on their ...
I use it myself because I don't feel like paying $400 for programs I'm only using for recreation...but seriously. It's wrong... So at what threshold of enjoyment does the recreational use of pirated software become unethical? Or is all unlicensed software use unethical and you're just openly admitting that you're a ...
Ok, I was just going to go to bed, but you've provoked a discussion I cannot turn away from. That's your opinion, and even though I am tempted to say "stfu stop spreading fud you fucking dumbass", I will not. Because I know you're not a dumbass. You like using your computer in the way you like, much like I like usi...
The fuck? While I might not be a good, average or even acceptable designer, I would never take advice from someone who does.... that... that big chunk of unparseable text..
There's people that hate flash for the wrong reasons. Yes, it is proprietary technology but it's use is widespread and it keeps evolving and in many, many cases gets the job done. Sure it can lead to security flaws but there are fewer with each update. There are open alternatives, but none will display consistent acros...
It's a Microsoft standard. Which the overwhelming majority of the world is still using. How long has OO been out for, now? >What percentage of the world uses HTML? Or a posix compliant OS? Does it matter? Or more accurately, how many apps have succeeded based on their standards-compiance in these fields? You ca...
That's a strange article to choose, considering its actually one of his more balanced ones, and is quite an interesting read for someone like me, who is interested in both iOS and Android (I also use both a PC running Win 7 / Ubuntu, and a Mac). >"I’d like to stay up to date on Android, and on Android apps." Why ...
This is the biggest problem with this stupid article. Anonymous is just people from 4chan. If you read the comments in the article the OP goes on to call anonymous a movement that grew from something small and acts as if it's centralized or something. The whole thing is a load of crap. Essentially /b/ gets outraged a...
best description i've seen so far. the first variety only has the incentive of achieving lulz. will this get a ton of peoples panties in a bundle? will a bunch of morons who think they know whats going on (including redditfags like those within this own thread) talk about it and hilariously mangle all the facts? is i...
Sounds like people are saying that its incorrect to single Apple out because this is basically the ordinary way of doing business in the whole computer manufacturing industry. I think that the bottom line will always trump whatever moral or legal hangups people have when it comes right down to it. Its too easy to sa...
In that the same paragraph it says: > Amazon has also administered its own app store for Android devices Which, at first impression led me to believe that "also" meant "in addition to Google's app store". In rereading, I'm not so sure...
the special offers aren't as terrible as it may seem. You don't see them at all when you're reading your books. When you put it to sleep an add will cover the screen. I've found some the special offers to be pretty sweet. Free $10 any video game, $40 amazon gift card just for signing up for their chase/amazon credit ca...
Oh contraire. Web servers have this ability to log every URL served up and the corresponding IPs. Since this was a URL "hack", they should have this traffic logged. They have the means to determine if this was perpetrated by others. Here is how this financial firm sees this: You have a fish tank with $5,000 w...
because people simply aren't willing to pay $60 for a game that has been out 6 months< That is because most games aren't worth $60 to begin with. Today developers are releasing betas for $60, then "fixing it" base on feedback through out the year. All while releasing DLC at an extra cost which are mostly( not all ...
In the sense that they would be fair to the consumers like steam whose always got some amazing sales then it would be a great addition. However its going to be how it currently is. All the games you can buy digitally on Xbox Live are overpriced. Some of the games match the regular price on Steam, but on Steam sales com...
ARM is a microprocessor architecture that is designed to provide computer capabilities in low-power devices, playing the same role as Intel or AMD (typically called "x86" architecture) processors and supporting chipsets do in desktops and laptops, but with more electrical power efficiency at the cost of less performanc...
Kinda yeah. PC users seem a bit self-righteous to me. I'm currently on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I've learned the in's and out's of the OS. I have no troubles with it, no legacy problems at all, and I hardly ever see metro aside from searching and starting up a few programs like rStudio or Spotify, which is all n...
Honestly, it's more that the upvoting system is in favor of quick sensational titles and image posts as a post sinking or floating will typically depend on the first 10 or so upvotes it gets. Unfortunately actually reading through an article or lines of text tends to take time which proceeds to cause the post to drop o...
Oh jeez, not slander again. I know it's not technology related, but please hear me out on my personal slander story. My dad owned a multi-million dollar skateboard company named Acme Skateboards that he built from the ground up and at one point was on a path to be competing with big names in the industry (hell, I'd s...
Quite frankly, taking an ipad that was left behind at the checkpoint is not the same as stealing it. Perhaps what this man did was a little sketchy and greedy, yes, but it wasn't a crime. He didn't remove an ipad from anyone's bag, he just took one that someone left behind, possibly without any obvious markings on it t...
If you look at the feasibility aspect of completely taking down TPB now, it just shot up drastically with their move to the cloud. Yes the cloud is stored in actual physical servers that can be raided but the amount of money, time, and overall manpower that would be needed to completely take down all possible servers ...
The level of complexity and immensity that TPD has taken to protect itself and protect its users has astounded me. It is exactly like some kind of corporate conspiracy movie. It is Minority Report-style conspiracy, just with less precogs. Yet... so what's the next step? Remove the staff. Remove the owners. Rem...
The only reason I ever pirate is to "fight the corporations" honestly I'm quite happy buying collector additions of games or dvds, but the moment you chuck on always online drm or charge more than 5% extra on a digital distribution than another country then I'm pirating or more likely ignoring that and the next 5 thing...
Things are Netflix and Spotify are great, but they aren't quite there yet. In countries other than the U.S. these services either don't exist yet, or they have a terrible selection. Also, a BIG problem at this point (at least for me) is TV. I want to be able to stream new episodes when they come out, not have to wait s...
I think the morals of anyone who thinks pirate bay is fighting the good fight or that piracy isn't theft are seriously perverted. It's a case where people believe they have the right because they haven't thought through the actual implications, they think they have the right because it's easy to pirate and they can dis...
The fact that people seem to think its ok. Lets say someone here flips burgers for a living. Every burger they sell, they make a percentage of that burger. A costumer walks up and wants a burger and eats it before paying. Afterwords he says "man, that burger was pretty good, but you know, I don't really feel like payin...
You guys are missing the point. Once most people become a billionaire, they will no longer sympathize with the poor, as the "they should just work harder and provide for themselves just like I did" mentality will set in, especially if they worked their way to billionaire status instead of winning the lottery. There are...
It's a weird notion isn't it, that any digitally-represented IP is essentially one very large number. There are lots of ways to interpret that number, and only one of them is the copyrighted IP in question. Can we then, say that large numbers are copyrightable? Expanded because I'm being asked questions : My point ...
For the people that have a hard time understanding how this works. User => TPB Transit Routers => TPB Load Balancer => Cloud Servers All the information on the Cloud servers is encripted so only the Load Balancer can read it. The Cloud hosts themselves to not know they are hosting TPB data, as far as they know it's...
content licence theft" would be technically correct, while still maintaining the use of the word "theft". Seeing copyright infringement being equated with "theft" irks me the same way misusing "literally" does, it has nothing to do with guilt avoidance.
I am pretty sure this kind of strategy is deterministic in its consequence. Obscuring the source of piracy doesn't alleviate the consequence of piracy. Here's the thing guys, let's use the taxation analogy. There is a certain amount of tax that must be obtained in order for the revenues to equal expenses. Think of...
So what's the
This will sound incredibly naive and maybe even stupid to some people, but as a journalism student these news make me very agitated. This is exactly the kind of situation that made me pursue journalism. If I had money or an employer I would be on my way to Syria right now, or probably I would have been there earlier, o...
I agree. I've been reading the comments on this thread for the past hour and have been in a frustrated and disgusted state after learning about this incident. I understand this may be a way of preventing some sort of attack, or even as basic of a military tactic as destroying a bridge, but the thought of families not b...
You're right, but this flaw is secretly why the security council is pretty great precisely because everyone has to agree. If all 6 nations agree, then you can be sure it is serious. If not, you can't be sure. Is this a situation that is serious enough? Totally. That doesn't mean that inaction is the inevitable result...
Total allowable addresses: IPv4: 4,294,967,296 IPv6: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000 Currently the majority of networks use IPv4. IPv4: This is a 32-bit binary number, but we divide this into 4 octets (an octet is 8 bits) and express it as a decimal number. [Binary is not hard to...
I have problems with the way the information is organized within the text (and, thus, generally within behavioral neuroscience, as this textbook is widely used within graduate schools ). An example can be found in the way the definitions of disorders and cortical areas are grouped. (E.g. Contralateral neglect and asom...
From Huffington Post: Content delivery network CloudFlare said in a blog post that it believes Syria's mainline to the Internet, controlled by the government-run Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE), was deliberately severed. "Syria has 4 physical cables that connect it to the rest of the Internet. Three a...
I have one, it doesn't do that well against good sized house flies.. tends to stun more than kill. But it does do a pretty damn good job of ruining their wings, so they're easy prey after you land the first shot. Kills bigger things too, point blank, downed a couple good sized wolf spiders and the like. We purchased ...
I'm pretty sure most of Reddit doesn't care about TOS's at this point. Case in point:
I don't think Qwest exists anymore. They refused to assist in the NSA wiretapping program, and several years later their CEO was convicted of insider trading. He's now serving six years in prison.
I'm a dispute manager in Australia, and who has worked at several major telcos and I just want to point out different geographies different economy of scales. Being cloaes to the US backbone means there are hundreds of routes, traffic doesn't have to cross the globe. For most countries the majority of their interne...
Honestly, the dad should blame himself. If some can send that many text and you know you will pay for them then you need to watch out for that shit. Like a parent giving their kid an ipad thinking that nothing can go wrong because it's just their kid with an ipad. Maybe the parents should read shit about in-app purchas...
I spend most of my time near a computer, so I've never had any desire to have a data plan on my phone. And I'm [spoiled]( anyway. I've never been able to convince myself that the benefits of any smartphone are worth giving up superior performance in every aspect except some portability. I'm an outlier though.
Complaining about 128MB of RAM as your first computer? Damn dude, I remember having to configure boot disks to allocate the 4MB to 8MB of RAM available so I could play Wing Commander. We ran on HDDs measured in MB and we loved it!
I think this is going in the right direction. Learning how to program makes you better at whatever you choose to do in life, in my opinion. It gets you used to addressing problems by yourself and seeing them through to completion. You learn how to work through an entire solution process, including: Gathering inform...
Just checked Nokia's us website (I'm assuming your American, sorry if I am wrong) and they do not have an online store. So they need to set up the online infrastructure for an online store, then they need to rent warehouse space (for arguments sake lets say in Asia just so they can pass the shipping costs to consumers ...
TL;DW S3 can't handle the basic drop test and shatters from chest height. iPhone can sustain drops from chest high, but cracks at head, still works. Lumia 920, takes minor body scuffs from any height, but instead cracks asphalt, no screen damage. Cracked iPhone survives keys and knife test with little to no blemishes (...
I'm pretty uniformed when it comes to putting shit on the moon and transmitting HD video, that said, $20m doesn't seem like enough. Does anyone have any idea how much it would cost for a private company to accomplish something like this?
Doesn't look like they took into effect possible seasonal changes ("do sales of X increase during Y months?") nor if the sales were all of particular movies that were big blockbusters. They also didn't correlate the continual torrent availability of the same movies that were big sellers. Also be interesting if the st...
This "SOPA' (CISPA) has provisions in it that don't protect confidentiality or civil liberties. It also allows companies to provide confidential information without your consent if the government asks for it, warrantless and even without suspicion. They have legal immunity when doing this, so there's no incentive to s...
Stop freaking the fuck out for no reason, internet. Reddit looks like a goddamn Tea Party rally right now. Seriously, it's like watching a thousand clones of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly typographically blow each other. [Read]( [all]( [of]( [these.]( He was a lobbyist for cable TV and wireless when...
In the analogy of a computer, if the computer was the system in this case, then the operating system and all the software has all gone rogue, as though some plague has torn through making everything inoperable. You, as the computer user, know you will see the faithful BSOD pretty soon. The system is so shot now that it...
I voted McCain in 2008 (I liked Obama's personality and the concepts behind his incredibly rough platform but I thought that McCain's specific and already written anti-corruption reforms would be more likely to change the political environment than Obama's entirely unspecified "change"), and Obama in 2012, and I'm most...
We need to have a guy working for the government (who will now be referred to Steve). Steve's sole job will be to call bullshit on various politicians (even the president). When Steve calls bullshit, the person who is called out has 24 hours to amend his/her bullshit or to drop it all together. Steve will then review t...
Your title is true, but it is unintentionally misleading since the term 'lobbyist' is taken by most to mean 'evil corporate shill for the fascist overlords'. The story linked to, however, is intentionally misleading. Here are a few other takes on the story that paint a much more realistic picture of the situation: [R...
I'm an extremst and I do use Gmail and skype to make people believe I live a normal internet life but everything else goes to the darknet/Tor
This is less remarkable than it appears. Most of what Google indexes is the text of websites. This is a tiny fraction of the data that web servers send to you. Google doesn't index most graphic elements or any videos. They index only a small percentage of pictures. They don't index any pictures at all from sites desi...
agreed. I am sure they do use these, or at least come into contact with them occasionally. Also, I just hate the "well it's pointless because the high level organizations wouldn't be stupid enough.. blah blah blah" argument. It's not about whether or not it's 100% successful, the argument is that if it's even remotely ...
The NSA's programs violate statutory provisions of FISA, as well as the Fourth Amendment. FISA permits surveillance, without court order: within the United States for up to one year unless the "surveillance will acquire the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party", or within th...
The bill of rights isn't exactly a "law" in the typical understanding, however. There is no penalty set out in the constitution itself for violating it. The courts simply issue orders demanding the government stop enforcing laws or taking actions which violate it. Calling what the NSA is doing "illegal" is a misleadi...
Sorry to disappoint, but no. The quantum entanglement is instantaneous, but deriving information from it, is not.
For the even even even lazier:
If anyone is interested I've been a pilot for about 16 years and have worked in Avionics for the last 8. I currently work for a company that I'd be willing to bet almost everyone in this subreddit has used at some point. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you guys have about this kind of stuff. However here a...
While you bring up some good points, it doesn't cover all of the bases. With your argument against the use of laptops, one could easily argue against the use of books as reading material as they can be projectiles flying around in case something goes wrong (hardcover books especially). Perhaps a laptop after a certai...
Too long. Didn't read.
Exactly this. I feel like a countermeasure that isn't brought up enough is to not volunteer so much data by using these services the way we do, or at all if it can be helped. There's no one forcing us to use Facebook and "check in" at every single location we go to, plus include anyone and everyone we are with. If ...
This is the key to a lot of problems these days. Whenever you have a big system you have to have rules in place to prevent people from abusing it. We already had a couple precedents in place for how to deal with our private info when it was outside of our care; the USPS and the POTS. There are clean clear protections ...
Well this may have plenty of good outcomes, we have to ask ourselves "do we really want a company that's in a position to take over the world?". Even if it says it's intentions are good, and even if it's owners and executives believe so, there may come a day when said company may fall into the hands of less moralistic ...
I think a lot of the replies you're getting are really missing the heart of your question. Entrenched corporations will hold on to the business model that's served them in the past for dear life. Blockbuster is a very different company, but after spending a decade in/around the corporate world I think it's a reasonable...
You're right and you listed specifics too. Google builds monopolies to integrate into and pretty much steamrolls things in it's way. People forget you are their product. They own streaming video (excluding Netflix), Internet Browsers (42%) internet ads (44%) search traffic (67%) and mobile OS (81%). Let's not forge...
I find it funny that antigovernment folks don't seem to acknowledge the simple fact that these are private contractors. Just because something manifests via 'private contractors' does not mean that it is a result of the free market. If those private contractors only received the money because of the government's mism...
i genuinely can't believe how stupid Reddit is, if taken as a whole, its like people don't even have the first idea about how anything in society works on its most basic level. Another common one i encounter often is people saying "we should do X" where x is some sort of charity or service of increased cost. I.e "w...
lol... What? The guy got fired and took revenge by using a former colleague's password. No, he did not have authorization (painfully obvious). Yes he hacked the cars by definition of the word hack.
not true. If you designed it with a small chamber, and battery powered it so that it would suck in the water faster than you breathe, you could create enough water. The issue is that we don't breathe pure oxygen. This could again be resolved with a small compressed canister that contains the rest of what we need and ca...
Look, I don't really disagree with any of this. Just small details really.. /u/BrotherGantry said that the article has a skewed headline, and is sensationalism, etc, because Microsoft is not killing ODF by bringing the UK government around. He has a hard time explaining people that he's not supporting microsoft or ...
Except that OOXML isn't actually an open standard; its reference implementation isn't even correctly compliant with it (nor does said reference implementation have publicly-available and freely-usable source code, it being a closed-source Microsoft product), and the spec itself is incredibly convoluted compared to that...
What the actual fuck makes you think Office is the only implementation of Open XML? Not only did you just learn that other application suites support it, not only are there APIs to create them, I've written my own implementation in a language we use at work. It's an open standard. How stupid so you have to be?
I've written my own implementation in a language we use at work. You are a liar, or ignorant, or both. Using an API in the Microsoft Office suite to write an OOXML file is different from implementing a software that supports OOXML. The specification alone is over 50 megabytes of text, that's several thosand pages, ...
Prohibited Uses > > You will not upload, post, transmit, transfer, distribute or facilitate distribution of any content (including text, images, sound, video, data, information or software) or otherwise use the service in a way that: > > depicts nudity of any sort including full or partial human nudity or nudity in n...
OP links the actual research article here's a [
I know this is likely an unpopular opinion: but I don't support this guy in the slightest. From the article, it seems as though: He was indeed knowingly profiting from uploaded copyrighted materials (which is a ripoff to the artists that have dedicated their lives to creating said materials) He bribed and greased h...