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I don't think it is necessary capitalism itself, its more the nature of people. People derive more utility from gains to the personal self as opposed to gains that benefit all of society. Thus people act in their own self interest. One of those self interests is money, and thus that is why people care about profits. ...
So my point is, capitalism isn't inherently bad, it is the people who act within the system. So capitalism isn't bad until you introduce the human factor. But the human factor is literally impossible to avoid. How does that not lead you to the conclusion that capitalism is therefor, in effect, bad? If a system ig...
The material is copyrighted, correct. Copyright infringement is not a New Zealand Crime. He is being charges with a US crime having never done business on US soil. Even IF they get away with the Servers Crap they have given the judge, the violated his US rights with unlawful search and seizure, imminent domain la...
They somehow managed to break their own page in their redesign, if from that page with just the one video that never loads you click the home button and go to "full episodes" after the cutscene you can see some of them there, but these too appear broken now.
Ex-comcast rep spouse here. Before the company moved the office the Philippines they indeed did have unrealistic metrics forced on each rep. For every department in just about every situation. Retention/Call volume/Call length/sales. If you missed any of them you got a an earful/canned, and when the whole office starte...
I recently moved and called Comcast to get tv and internet (like it was been stated here, they are the ONLY option for Internet over 15 mb/s in my area) and I actually got what I considered to be a good deal and in about 30 minutes I was set up with a technician set to come in 8 days. 8 days without Internet is a lot f...
OK. Guys, I've seen this recording come by on reddit five times, on techdirt, arstechnica and slashdot (like people even read that site anymore. Unless you're a 45 year old programmer who has lost all trust in humanity and 'youngsters' . In that case, please stop reading and close this tab. Return to /. and shrug off t...
This is nothing new, about 3 years ago I cancelled a subscription with them when I moved out of an apartment. Well, conveniently they decided to ignore the fact that I cancelled it and decided to keep sending bills to my unoccupied apartment. When I eventually got word that the subscription was still active and that I ...
That's the best part, actually. My insurance would cover it, but I needed some sort of proof to verify I had paid for it. A receipt of some kind. So, when I paid (over the phone because I'm an idiot) I made sure the Comcast rep understood what I needed. He assured me a number of times that I'd be emailed a receipt. ...
As a former Verizon Wireless rep this practice is common and not just encouraged but MANDATORY for representatives. If you fail to use your "save attempts" you actually get written up and can lose pay/your job. When a customer calls in angry as balls and just wants to disconnect, if you fail to do your save attempts ...
Very good point, but if it's a very high probability case, there will always be a lawyer to take contingency, you just well have to call around. Also, their cut may be pretty high but the other option is you get nothing so....its still a good deal. Also, if this has caused the OP credit score damage and possible financ...
They (Comcast and others) give money to the people who make the laws, which basically make it impossible to start an ISP to compete with them. The rules essentially say that (the people who get paid off by Comcast and company) someone has to approve your ISP, then you've got to pay all these fees, along with the milli...
As if you guys haven't heard enough words of warning about Comcast in here, I'll give you one more. They royally screwed my credit up and due to my lack of consistent checking of my credit score (I was young and dumb in college) I didn't know until I went to go by a house and the mortgage broker told me that I wouldn't...
Tbh, nothing wrong with a retention bonus. Here in Brazil, I know of people working for Global Village Telecom and there is such a thing here. Convincing the costumer that staying on Gvt is better and fixing whatever problem the costumer has that makes them want to quit is their job. Too expensive? Here a special disco...
This is My Next, then The Verge, Polygon, and Vox have always incorporated art, culture, and political commentary into their narrative. I really enjoyed it when it was just these things, but over the past few months, all the sites have definitely become one-sided and a bit heavy handed. I was really disappointed when...
Ireland was under English control for about 800 years, almost all of England's colonization techniques were tested here first. That spawned a lot of groups in conflict (IRA being the most famous) we invented guerilla Warfare (check your "Flying Columns") after all that we had a civil war that did more damage in a few s...
My own experience of Comcast fail should have been a simple thing... Comcast through their own fault had damaged my cable so badly that I couldn't get any TV stations to come in cleanly. The original tech did the right thing -- he laid a new cable across my yard to replace the bad cable, and he scheduled to have someo...
I have a fun story for this. My parents were having problems with their internet. So they called me. I did the basic power cycle thing and see if that improves things. Couple days later, it hasn't improved. I have them check the connections, make sure nothing is loose. Then disconnect the power to the router. "Wh...
Before I get into my story, I always share what I always do in Comcast threads. If you have to call, immediately request the customer loyalty department. This is the group that gets shit done. If you deal with them you will most likely have a positive experience. You do not have to deal with their T1, just request ...
I'd love to hate Comcast as much as any other, but one statistical outlier does not a trend make. Statistics doesn't work that way. That's not to say there isn't some merit in the assertion there are real issues with Comcast's customer service, and how they resolve customer issues. But when you look at the hard stati...
Apps need permission for you to use the app to take a picture, or a video, or make a voice call this is not new. I smelled sensationalist clickbaity bullshit so I did some research: "Allows the app to record audio with microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation." ...
It's important to understand that if a company's product gets pirated, that doesn't necessarily mean a loss for the company. Hollywood loves to say "X amount of this movie got pirated so X * purchase price is the amount of money we lost! But that's simply not the case. A huge number of those who pirate a particular...
That's actually totally viable. We need two things first though. 1) Educate the american people. When the general person thinks of nuclear power they think of the simpson and dumping random toxic liquid into the water. Nuclear energy is very clean EXCEPT for the remaining, decaying material, which brings me to point 2)...
No they don't. Some do. The economy is essentially market democracy. At current prices Americans would rather have traditional power sources. How do I know? Because thats what the actually choose to use. Wind and solar have a way to go still. The more the better, but the propaganda is misleading. The problem with tha...
Ignorantly, Americans have delegated these power supplies as the most efficient. If we would skip the negative controversy of nuclear power, we could truly provide enough energy for our nation many times over. As a matter of fact, cars can be engineered to run purely on hydrogen via electrolysis. The only problem is su...
I think you would be quite surprised with just how far commercial solar has come. Here is a link to a house built in Oslo that uses solar power to power the house as well as charge an electric car. It's not the massive solar farm you seem to think it would be: Here is another link to a building that is on my high sch...
In addition, the Chernobyl reactor (RBMK) was a poor design to begin with. Soviet-designed RBMK reactors are pretty much the only reactor that can enter a positive feedback loop when it overheats, meaning if the reactor overheats the entire fuel core can continue to react with itself and melt. Literally every other ...
Contrary to popular belief uranium is an element found within the earth naturally. Granted only like .7% is uranium 235 the rest is uranium 238. You need to enrich uranium to make it usable in a nuclear reactor. Now the reason why nuclear power is great but terrible is in order to make one SQ (significant quantity, r...
Your last paragraph sounds bologna. I call schenanigans. 96 percent enrichment? That's not a thing unless its a crazy novelty. US fuel is 5 percent enriched tops. That blurb implying that you need to irradiate fuel for it to be radioactive? Yeah, that's definitely not a thing. Natural Uranium ore is radioactive. Deple...
Human error is pretty much the only reason I still lean against it, at least here in the U.S. Until we change our attitudes of "deregulate everything!" and "abolish the EPA!" I don't think we deserve such technology that requires such a responsibility. Our attitudes on money ,and that Americans are entitled to not make...
Just FYI to everyone here, renewable is the fastest growing electrical energy source by marketshare. So it's happening, but it's really expensive and will take some time.
Big ol' disclaimer: I'm not an expert by any means, I've just watched videos and read articles on the subject because I'm interested. That said, there were some videos in the "Th" documentary playlist that went over inherent problems with nuclear plants today. One of the biggest seems to be that they're cooled by wat...
As long as there isn't anything identifying (eg OP receives a soundbite with text that reads "Robert Paulson of Portland, 555-0134, wants Siri to hug him, is this correct?") I wouldn't put my tinfoil on yet. This immediately made me think of a task on mTurk (/r/mturk) in which you have to ask Siri (or Cortana or Goog...
If we assume that, we can equally assume his comment is genuine and yours is the attempt to falsify the truth.
If we assume that, we can equally assume his comment is genuine and yours is the attempt to falsify the truth.
I think there is a difference between being able to read a full ToS and being forced to use a click-through with the only option is accept/deny and where the ToS is most likely buried where the average user wouldn't have access to it. Further if the person accessing the informaiton like OP mentioned he heard kids askin...
Here is a transcript of my conversation with Siri on the subject: Me: "Siri are you recording everything I'm saying and sending it to Apple for quality control purposes?" Siri: We were talking about you, not me. Me: "Ohhh you're sidestepping the question." Siri: I don't really like these arbitrary categories, ...
I will spare you long story and just give you an example. Remember Windows 8 mess? Windows users were pissed because Metro was shoved down their throats and there was nothing they could do. Similar thing happened few years ago in Ubuntu land too (Ubuntu is a Linux flavour that I use). Canonical , company responsible ...
Ok, As Far As I Know - And I may be Wrong: Network Solutions was the first and generally is the ultimate registrar for domain names - that is, with a few exceptions, if you register with, say, GoDaddy, they're registering with Network Solutions. NS charges individuals around $50/y to register a .com - this is their...
I read all the comments where you are saying that we need POTS for emergency services and accessibility for those that can't get access to VoIP or Cell service. If you read the article, AT&T is not looking to shut down POTS tomorrow. They are petitioning the FCC to set a sundown date some time in the future. POTS i...
I had a Seagate disk fail on me a couple of years ago. I had been stupid and forgot to back up the important data stored on the disk. I contacted Seagates data recovery service and for $2,500 they got my data back for me. As soon as I got the new drive with the recovered data I made backups on 3 different drives. So ...
Actually, it's likely Apple that wrote the code. Though Adobe created the PDF format, Apple wrote their own interpretation for OS X, Preview and Safari. I presume this code was transferred to Mobile Safari.
For all those USB3 devices people use... Why the sarcasm? USB3.0 devices have just started to come to market. It's no surprise that there are not a lot of users, yet . USB3.0 has an advantage over thunderbolt in that it is backwards compatible with the old USB standards, so all your old USB devices will still work...
Right now, USB can drive displays, and there is hardware available to do that. There seem to be few devices that even use Firewire, especially since USB is faster anyway (except cameras, where Firewire seems to be superior). Plus, USB 3 is backward compatible with 2, so all your devices plug right in. USB pretty muc...
Back up your headers. Encryption works in blocks (typically 128 bits minimum for symmetric encryption these days). If a bit or byte on a block gets corrupted, you lose that block. Normally this will only cost you the file residing on that block. If, however, the block contains the volume header, you lose the enti...
Microsoft stated before WP7 was released that they were in it for the long term. Although initial sales were slow, that was expected since MS wanted to get it out the door as quickly as possible. However, WP7 is developing at an accelerated pace with the Mango update adding a bunch of new features. I do also love t...
I'm sorry, but you are blatently wrong. I addressed your points in my initial post, that yes WP7 is playing catch up, but the speed of their updates is much faster than either Android or iOS. Right now, it is not the better platform, but MS never intended it to be. However, MS wants it to be a long term developement...
The board is going to make a killing off of this. Meg will dismantle HP bit by bit and each board member and senior exec will rack in huge bonuses. They'll get bonuses from selling parts of HP's infrastructure. A whole division sells for $100M well then the board members take home $5M each, senior execs a few 100k and ...
This falls under a category of concerns I've been seeing quite frequently lately: a prototype project, built entirely as a proof of concept experiment, openly claiming to have no commercial value at the moment, being demoed purely to show off what they've accomplished, gets ridiculed by complaints that a consumer...
As long as you have an USB 2.0 Stick you should be fine ;)
When I moved into my new townhome a few years ago, I had been there for a week with Comcast working just fine. Out of the blue one day, it stops working. I called them up and apparently the previous tenant just canceled his service so they came and disconnected the line. They told me it'd be between 7 and 10 days be...
This, I have the SB6120 which is compatable with Comcast and is docsis 3.0. I have set up myself, my mother in law, and my friend with this same modem and none of us pay rental fees. At the time i bought it was $90 (still cheaper then the $100 modem that comcast wanted me to pay to keep their beat up shitty docsis 2.0 ...
hell yeah!! fuck cable tv! we used to have comcast for cable, but when we would try to watch a movie on demand, shit just wouldn't work at all. they charged us an arm and a leg and we never had satisfactory cable. needless to say, we ditched the cable tv. unfortunately, we still have them for internet (cheapest optio...
I lived in a 16X12 storage building on a friend's property for almost 6 months and Cox still hooked me up. Getting power was a bit more difficult, but I lied and said I was a contractor and built a temporary service that they hooked up. I just came off of that and went to my shack. I spent roughly $120 a month for ever...
I was a Comcast technician for four years, and then switched to becoming a Comcast salesperson for one year. I quit for two reasons: 1)I wanted to make more money by starting my own internet marketing business and 2)I was sick of being expected to be an unethical bastard to make sales. Comcast sales training was li...
FYI - I'm really, really new to reddit so my apologies in advance if I mess this up. I don't know if this relates to only to business or residential accounts but I can offer some advice/news/info on business accounts. Comcast is willing to reduce the fee to (almost) nothing for the modem rental. My first call to ...
It is extremely difficult to start from zero and compete with anything that is already in operation. Did you ever stop to think the copyright system allows for the creation of better products? This Kim guy is merely taking those products without paying, and distributing them for free. There is no unlaw barrier to...
Umm, Google paid one of the largest settlements in U.S. history as a result of a long term criminal investigation by the department of justice. Get your [facts straight]( From justice department regarding their investigation of Google: "Google conceded ... that it was on notice that online Canadian pharmacies were...
A couple things: Yes, you can get hacked/"snooped on" fairly easily by someone who's taken an interest in you. However, you're not important enough for anyone to actually care about you, unless they have personal reasons (girlfriend trying to catch you cheating, etc). alexthelateowl, you're making it sound like FB ...
I like it too. It has proven to be an invaluable tool. However I still think there is a better way to achieve the same ends. I'm currently following Diaspora. As useful as the tools are, it still feels so damn wrong to store all my private messages on another company's server. Especially when I'm not (directly) finan...
Keep up the fight, but keep in mind that this particular battle will be lost. Without corporate backing, there is really no chance of stopping this one. Can this war be won. No. Ultimately they will get the all laws they want. Throughout history, there has never been a frontier that is both heavily used by man, a...
Product liability. You can go after individuals if negligence is shown. Engineers have been sent to jail over lack of due diligence in cases of civil engineering that I know of when a structure collapses and it's been shown that certain parts of a design were not looked at correctly. It's difficult to show however as...
When I was around 14 I started my own eBay account and subsequently a PayPal account. I had my own bank account and everything because I've always been independent to a degree. I sold my iPod touch 3rd generation (which I bought with the money I earned from mowing lawns) on eBay. I was surprised to get a hefty 225 buck...
First off, that is a 100% unfounded claim. While he doesn't say what type of account he was using, Elliot has been running an online business for many years now and I am extremely confident that someone as successful as he is was using a Business PayPal account. Second, if you're going to start off your post as "
Look at it this way: any aspiring graphic artist can easily pirate Photoshop etc. He may be well versed in it by the time he enters college and will continue to use it. Photoshop et al (adobe) is so ubiquitous and accessible that it becomes the industry standard. When these awesome designers get jobs, the big compan...
1 you can purchase individual products. 2 if you are going to use the software (especially for commercial use) you have no justification for piracy.
if you want to make some money, you would cater to companies in my situation that just need file conversion services. that would be a proper example of a free market working properly. If a company saw a profit in this, they would create and market the tool. If a company like adobe has a monopoly on an industry, they ...
Actually in the next architecture Intel is undoing the ties to the CPU. The reason behind this is that since the graphics processor was tied to the CPU clock as well, if the Processor didn't clock up the GPU lost power. The reason they synced all that wasn't uniformity anyway and had nothing to do with what is goin...
Dude, chill. No ones insulting your intellect. If iPhone is how you roll, its how you roll. Buying an iPhone is very streamlined and easy, you ever buy the newest, the last year, or the free two year old one. Size is the only other option. Android phones are completely different. Buying an Android phone isn't like ...
You are incorrect. The reason Winmodems came into existence is cost. At the time most of the hardware required to make an outbound 14.4k (or higher) connection was heavily patented and expensive. To work around the patents (and the expensive chips required as well), someone (Microsoft? I don't know who came up with ...
Then there should be no complaining about WinRT tablets then. This is Apple-Close, Apple-Proprietary Style. To their credit, Microsoft has improved security of their software -- exceeding even Apple AND Linux today. Strict security needs to be implemented right at pre-boot, otherwise, it's easy to hide rootkits...
HTML5 and JS? Sorry, but you're wrong. I have apps written in pure native code (C++ compiled to ARM machine code) published on the Windows Store running on the Surface RT. Visual C++ comes with an ARM backend. Windows RT has a substantial subset of the Win32 API adapted for ARM, just like Windows CE did before it. ...
There's a lot of misinformation about Secure Boot, especially from the Free Software Foundation and similar groups. This has made it hard to find info about what Secure Boot actually does, so I'll try my best to explain. Note that I have no personal experience with developing secure boot systems or anything like that; ...
I use android phones and I got my phone for free from Verizon due to not upgrading for nearly 2 1/2 years. My data plan costs $60/month for 1GB, the bare minimum. I also have Verizon's Home Fusion 4G internet for the home in which you get 10GB/month for $60, $90 for 20GB, and 30GB for $120. How can you explain why I ge...
I've not been a fan of mobile Internet and the way Verizon Wireless and other large companies treat their network by making it less appealing is keeping me from getting a smart phone. Short of going full blown prepaid which I will most likely do, Data is required. Call me old fashioned, I'd love to get a smartphone (so...
I say conservative because the 70B in fossil fuel subsidies includes the proportion of those subsidies which go into non power applications like gasoline for cars. If you don't like numbers being cushioned by conservative you can use my 6x evaluation instead but it's much harsher to the arguments for renewable energy. ...
First let me say I think Paypal is a pretty shitty operation. But they are a financial institution operating int he USA so they are governed by rules. The problem is that it feels like Paypals operating procedures are somewhat unclear and they do a piss poor job of informing users before hand and during disputes. ...
I'm putting my money and tinfoil on that we might very likely already have millimeter satellite fidelity, with infrared for multiple body tracking.
This is FUD. Traffic correlation on TOR is next to impossible unless very specific conditions are imposed. Tor actively randomizes and delays how packets traverse the network to counter traffic correlation. Likewise the influx of new users further increases the anonymity. This reminds me of the other two idiots ...
Intel is lying. They've been fudging their numbers. Their 22nm is more like 28 and 14nm more like 18. It's a marketing gimmick. Also, the chips are no faster or higher clocking. Half b/c they're too small (little insulation) and half b/c this is bulk (crap) finfet process. They're hyping this crap to you that they ma...
That could easily be an artifact of the way that wannabe-prophetic futurists read history. If you filter all data looking for exponential increase in something , then as long as not all of human civilization has hit its logarithmic level-off on the S-curve, you will find "evidence" of an exponential take-off.
OR, there are too many people for the economy too handle and everything crashes. No matter what, we will still have people dying from the common cold, flu or whatever. But let's for shits and giggles say that we magically eradicated ALL influenza and stuff like that; what happens to all the doctors and nurses that ju...
First few worlds, so you mean around level 30? Really? All of those levels can be passed 9 times out of 10 by simply counting one drop ahead. There's a harder batch of level around level 100, and 150-200 are really tricky. Sure, there's a lot of luck involved, but if you can see dual candies or black candies even one...
you obviously don't understand a thing about networking. I understand that throttling in a router for no good reason is moronic and takes more effort than just pushing everything through as fast as you can. Why would Verizon be wasting their memory and processing in a petty feud with Netflix? It's in their best inter...
Simply put, you're wrong. Millions of other businesses exist, allowing people to complain infinitely about their services online, without blaming the customers for being "completely unreasonable". I stayed in Manhattan recently and did extensive research online to find awesome local restaurants that weren't just g...
Not fucked at all. Trust me. I owe Chase thousands, as well as a few other companies. My credit score is absolute shit. The only thing they care about is whether or not you have previous student loans that have defaulted due to non-payment, which, just last year, I did. I paid like $80/month for nine months until my st...
Like water passing through a net. That's the problem with their strategy. 4chan is a medium, or to stick to the analogy, a single stream or river. The people that frequent the site do so because that is their single most efficient path to do so that they are aware of. They assume people that are going to these websit...
It's more conspiracy than anything else. Certain ex-moderators claim to have been stripped of their power and that new, SJW mods were chosen in place of them. These claims, like most things on 4chan, are posted anonymously and without source. The talk came from bans and thread removal being made over the discussio...
You an' I seem to be trying to solve different problems. Making rational arguments doesn't help when you're drowned out by the hateful cacophony of anti-feminist bigots, caught in a self-affirming feedback loop because they have driven away competing ideas through intimidation. Rational people are generally on the side...
Dude, what you are saying isn't an unpopular opinion. It is objectively wrong. Saying the Earth is flat isn't an unpopular opinion, it is flat out wrong. The thing is, I agree with most of what you have been saying--but you need to use more narrow terms. You can't artificially limit what a word applies to to fit your...
So, for the sake of debate, lets assume that "feminist" powered censorship is indeed taking place. The difference between this moralistic censorship and internet slow lanes is basically just that. One is done on the basis of creating internet forums which do not encourage harm either physically or psychologically. Busi...
The problems that solar creates for the grid are unique to solar problems, not "haven't been upgraded in 40 years" problems. The problems it creates would need specialized equipment that even the smartest non-solar-integrated grid would lack. So basically the argument on one side is "Add on to your grid that we only ...
This isn't hard to update to. Doctors and medical coders (the people inputting patient data, not coder as in developer) are extremely resistant to change and have been using old shitbox applications forever. Our latest insurance portal you type out the description and auto fill shows a list of matches. You click the ...
Still, they should maybe, y'know, spend some money on fixing the Palestinian territories they've been so intent on turning into massive craters for the last couple of decades.
I'm sure YOU were a special snowflake and if only you'd been encouraged we'd have flying cars and orgasms that cure cancer. What I actually said was that my education made me associate learning with being bored and being told what to do. Our education system fosters confomity. Standardized testing is a gross fall...
My post was written more to lament the chunkiness of the average Flash implementation seen currently. Furthermore, in my experience, Flash is undeniably slow, both in loading and execution, especially with the limitations found on most mobiles (poor connection speed, low RAM, no/low video acceleration).
But but but... I thought the atom bomb won the war! Weren't the allies on the precipice of defeat before we dropped those nukes and that caused all the axis to simultaneously surrender? Right? Right?
You don't know how happy that made me. Now I'm a little sad because little things like the sound of a floppy drive make me happy. Now I'm perplexed that my emotions are like a roller coaster due to a internet forum. Now my mind's gear box is jamming because I'm over thinking thinks too much.
CPU SIMD has very little to do with performance on these benchmarks. It's just that the A5 is a lot better design by Apple: ( "The A5 package contains 512 MB of low-power DDR2 RAM clocked at 1066 MHz.", which explains the huge fillrate and overall great performance. Poor memory bandwidth has been a problem in the mob...
This is fucking retarded. If I buy a pirated movie (something I've never done; why would I pay for it?) that I would otherwise not have purchased, I'm actually creating jobs. Buying pirated goods is actually better for the economy than buying used goods, as new materials had to be purchased and "employees" had to be ...