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I'm sure they have the same stance on downloading movies, however there would be more emphasis on the stealing part, rather than funding crime. Sort of like... you're ruining people's lives and forcing the movie companies to fire people! They just know that it's easier to vilify buying the physical DVDs, rather than di...
From the OPs article: > ... this administration has built up the copyright enforcement infrastructure, and publishes a newsletter about its efforts with language that compares copyright infringement to terrorism. The real danger here is the clear alignment between the RIAA/MPAA and the US government. The RIAA/M...
The versatility of 3D Printers seems to know no boundaries. I use a FORTUS 360mc 3D Printer with a custom large building envelope to build functional vacuum molds for the molded pulp fiber packaging industry. I realize that doesn't sound impressive, but the material (ABS) is resilient enough to maintain its structure a...
no, they will not get "everything". it has to be in the specific context of her job, or the lawsuit, and thats it, everything else is out, and unless it specifically states that its about the lawsuit or her job in some way, its out. Context is important here, since 99% of posts have no context(unless pictures), they ...
And here's why. The user interface, while somewhat prettier than a menu, is objectively bad and a regression in design. [Here is a study.]( Windows has always represented the cutting edge in computing, a platform on which to do work and to get it done as quickly as possible. It has always put our programs first, ...
you know, I hope that some of this is fake. Impressive, yes, but kinda scary. Especially the extended life thing. We humans are children given grown up toys. I feel that, before immortality, we should try to figure out how to stop members of our own species from gunning each other down in cold blood, or torturing and b...
I'll post what I just put up on Facebook when I found it there. I'm in the air traffic control business, by the way. >All right this is complete crap. The ADS-B, like the name implies is a surveillance system (A newer one). Basically all that they demonstrated was that it was possible to add in information to the air t...
Australian here. I think you are reading this from a US point of view, which is totally understandable, but as a result, are putting words in the commissioner's mouth. Guns here are different from the states - we have gun control legislation that works (I don't want to get into why it works or or whether copying our ...
Google news isn't a newspaper with editors and journalists that represent Google's opinion. It is a content mining service that gets their news from AP, NYT, CNN, and USA today. etc.. If you want to know Google's opinion, look at their policies toward online privacy. Listen to what Eric Schmidt says about politics. I...
For the redditors that don't know what rm -rf / does, here is a simple breakdown. 'rm -rf /' is a Linux terminal command. The 'rm' is the name of the command while the '-rf' are flags and the / is a directory. 'rm' is usually the go to command for deleting files, folders, etc in Linux. The '-r' flag tells...
Him being an obnoxious douchebag is a big part of it, don't get me wrong. But saying Megaupload is no different than legitimate services is disingenuous. Everyone here knows exactly what Megaupload was used for. It was for sharing copyrighted material. Dropbox/skydrive etc are mainly used for legitimate purposes and ...
It's true. He picked a bad country if he thought that he could avoid court orders. But he never purported to do that. Indeed his own [privacy policy]( said that he'd comply with a valid court order: "Lavabit will not release any information related to an individual user unless legally compelled to do so." In fact, i...
As a windows user more exposure to alternatives and linux in particualar is the thing I want the most. Why? Because I sure do remember the days of IE6 monopoly. Oh boy, those were dark times for users and web developers. Until a free fox came and rivaled IE, there were no plans (and no dev team) for IE7. That sucked....
Usually, if it says they have one, that probably means they do have one... the display model. At least, that is how it is where I work, all laptops, furniture, and other things which have floor models have the floor models counted in inventory along with the boxed units available for purchase. The only time this is not...
You couldn't be any further from the truth, actually. It's said in the retail world that the biggest assholes are always the best sellers. Number one, this guy is shamelessly plugging his shitty blog as if being a blue link on reddit makes three paragraphs of dribble relevant. That in itself warrants a dickish respon...
Might as well add in my story too My roommate played the stock market game in 8th grade and figured out that the exchange program they used was an hour behind the actual listings on Yahoo Stock. Being the advantageous investor he was, he'd check the site 10 minutes before class and figure out the 'hot stocks' that we...
It's not illegal at all, a pump and dump scheme is something entirely different. A pump and dump involves an investor taking a position in a company (usually a worthless shell company, or just a generic penny stock), then the investor hypes the stock to other people. If other people invest, the price of the stock goes ...
Shorting a stock requires people on the other end to purchase the shorts you enter into the market. By the time anyone who would be interested in buying a share at the 1900% mark up, they would likely have an idea of why it was inflated to those levels.
The Surface Pro 2 is proof that Mircosoft has poor communications between its suits and marketing offices. I spent some time researching cheap Cintiq alternatives when I learned about Tablet Pc's with Wacom digitizer hardware. Holy shit, this thing can easily dominate the hipster/starving artist market with its abili...
I don't blame them. Take the shovel, it has been that way for hundreds if not thousands of years. Knowledge and design of the shovel has been passed down and subtly improved upon from generation to generation, and believe it or not, there was an art to it. People built their lives around using one the best way they cou...
I am computer literate. I know basic commands, I understand fragmentation, hell I can even properly utilize the lions share of diskpart commands to do advanced disk management. Windows 8 confuses me. Windows 8 is like taking your filing cabinet and lining it all up on a very large dining room table. It's all still ther...
Not a fan of Win8 but thsi is an unfair comparison. Win 7 came after vista, which was godawful and avoided by all those with a choice. People stuck with XP during the shitty vista days, but Win7 tempted a lot to switch. THis means Win7 had a bigger uptake than Win8.
I kinda think Windows 8 suffers from some of the up/down vote mentality. Things that get upvoted a few times linger towards the top, and a few people upvote it here and there. After a while it's towards the top, it's funny, everyone sees it first, they laugh, and upvote it. It grows exponentially. There could likel...
My girlfriend and I saw a demo display of a laptop running 8. We took a stupid picture of ourselves with the built in camera. Then I noticed that our picture was thumb nailed on the metro home screen. I wanted to go look at phones at this point so she asked me to delete the photo. I did. Really I did. But our fac...
What's carpel tunnel?/s Yes I would complain about a car company forcing me to start my car by have a seizure in my seat instead of just turning a key. Windows apps didn't exist until W8 so how can you complain about the change in the way you close a fucking app when this is literally the only way anyone has ever ...
I got a Lenovo y510p last June. It shipped with Windows 8. I followed Lenovo's instructions on the 8.1 update to the letter. The Windows 8.1 update still caused all kinds of hardware problems, disabled/uninstalled some programs without asking, and made what I perceived as some bitchy/passive-aggressive moves (such as r...
Windows 8 is great for touch devices all around (which most people don't have) That may be the case -- I don't own such devices. Either way, the OS should recognize whether my machine is touch capable or not and lock/unlock features accordingly. There is no good reason for it not to do this. Thats why W8 sucks. It pu...
I'm the casual user you're talking about. I'm the most casual of casual users. I use my laptop for FB, Excel, photos, and browsing the internet. I've been using Windows since I was 10 years old in 1995. I got my new laptop this week. I started it and it started with "downloading your apps" or whatever. And you know w...
Please try to be civil in your discussion. If the question is "will the vision systems on the first level 4 driverless cars be able to detect and avoid potholes gracefully?", the response should be to talk about the state of the art of the different sensors and how they detect potholes today and how it might improve in...
The point I'm trying to make that it's a far cry from being "for everyone." It's all well and good to be a tech junkie obsessed with privacy, but the title is sensationalist and vastly underestimates the difficulty for those not as tech savvy. For example, some people don't like firefox. This is not for them. It's a ...
Your best bet is to evaluate why you want an extra level of privacy on the Internet. If you need to mask your identity from an oppressive government, Tor (with well read precautions taken) would be your best bet. If you want to just be safer on the Internet the look into purchasing a VPN like the above poster mentio...
Here's a proposal. Upvote this post if you'd participate, but please don't gild -- that does nothing for me :). It's on a throwaway, so I'm not karma whoring or anything. Also, reply or PM this account if you'd like notification when I decide whether or not participation would be significant enough to go through wit...
And they are infringing on a patent currently held by some university in scotland. I know this as I tried to market my invention of a straw that was clear until it came into contact with 9/10 date rape drugs at which point it turned bright fluoro pink. Found out I would be infringing on the patent and have to pay roy...
Oh, so because YOU'VE never heard of a news source, I shouldn't trust it. Gotcha. Guess we need to set up some sort of system where I'm constantly consulting you about whether I should trust a news source. P.S. - the metro, a newspaper with a daily circulation of 1.3 million, actually totally made their website JUST ...
I don't think they will find the royalties to be an issue. Here is an immediate gut reaction without doing any research (lots of assumptions). Straws are cheap. It is hard to ask someone (the bar manager) to pay for an expensive straw, especially for someone else (patrons). For the straws to work, you need to con...
Except she doesn't say "ON NO! What was it??" Instead she starts telling off the bartender, and while trying to back you up, yells at him that she saw him put the drug in the drink! Other bartenders listen up, since you didn't know this, but this bartender was actually kind of an asshole. Not the kind that WOULD slip...
Heres a better way to point it out While not drunk, you say you wouldn't drink and drive You have a couple (alot) of drinks You go ah my house isn't far away and drive home while drunk While sobber you said you wouldn't do it, it's the good choice but while drunk that goes completely out the window, if you ...
I don't like how people assume this is a file format. I think Bono is literally talking about a music [format]( not a file format. The [Time article]( never even mentions the word "file". It is obvious this isn't just a file format for music. It is described as "an audiovisual interactive format for music that can't b...
Well, I mean there is a lot you can do, it's just that all of it is completely useless. I mean there were so many thousands of people commenting and writing against ending Net Neutrality. The only real accomplishment there is that the decision got delayed for a bit. In the end they're still going through with it. And i...
But it looks like this make it more legal for the NSA to gather the data. The DoD(parent of NSA) is dancing around the very edge of its jurisdiction when it spies on totally internal US communication between citizens. However it's well within its jurisdiction to spy on communications with other countries (say, Ir...
Well this was a very old Xeon server with 2 CPU's, the whole thing work but it was fairly old then (this happened about 6 or 7 years ago), the server was used and this guy got it from another guy who wasn't using it anymore, and this dude that sold him the server signed him a piece of paper that was some sort of guaran...
Wrong. Just because you use a phone that is the property of your corporation does not give that corporation the permission to record and trace all the actions done by the employee outside of business hours. At best, you would have a clausule that allows for periodical checks when material has been lost, but even then...
When I was still in university, I worked managing an Asterisk server for a small call center in my city and soon I discovered they were pretty underground breaking every labor law in the book, not paying employees enough, I live in MX and the manager's story (which I think is total BS) was that it was an american call ...
You can buy an unlocked phone and use it on a CDMA or GSM network here in the states. But, you will pay for it. There is an "activation fee" (really punishment for not buying a phone in store) that is usually a couple hundred dollars.
You don't understand. I'm referring to the odd thing where people believe that one phone is amazing and all others are shit . The weird, genuine anger is fanboy vs. fanboy idiocy to a level that just looks stupid. The idea that anything Apple is merely a shiny toy or interactive tv is your problem; they're not. As...
As Timja is pointing out re: Amazon w/ free classics, B&N also has a pretty constant rotation of its classics series being offered for free. They just keep rotating which ones are free at the time and which ones are dirt cheap, so I watch my email alerts and pick up the ones I want when they come up free.
IR is not visible to the human eye, filters do not change the frequency of light, only block specific frequencies, sure the filters may allow IR to pass through but your eye still can not see IR.
Ebay is even worse. I just went through the hell process of trying to unsubscribe. After adjusting it in my account settings and unsubscribing (I only made this new account so I could buy 1 item) nothing changed for over 14 days. I still received emails. So I tried marking it as spam. No luck because I was on Gmail. Th...
It's not a Windows 7 term. That feature has been in task manager since Windows XP at least. But it's not even a Windows-specific term. Basically, your processor doesn't know this concept of "processes". It just knows that there's instructions for it to run. All the switching between stuff is done by your operating sy...
I am in my early 30s, and I landed a tech job in the late 90s out of high school with zero education. I guess I am sort of a late product of the tech boom. I have gone from hardware technician, to network technician, to now Systems Administrator. I manage currently 14,000 Macs, 40 Servers, 600 iOS devices and abou...
There are only a handful of LCD manufacturers Samsung, LG, AU Optronics and Chi Mei are the top ones (I don't know any others off the top of my head) Most ODMs (Acer, Dell, Apple etc.) will use a variety of panel sources, however, the higher-end spectrum is pretty much owned by LG and Samsung. Acer, who makes mos...
I had a problem with an Acer laptop a few years back and it took them five months to eventually replace it. I had to phone them about 40 times. A few years later the place I worked in bought me an Acer. I spilled some wine on the keyboard and it stopped working. I sent it off for repair and it was gone for about thre...
This is debatable, and highly subjective. I do IT for a business that happens to have 5 MacBook Pros - 3 from 2008, and 2 unibody models. One of the (late) 2008 MacBooks has received a new logic board, new battery, new optical drive, new hard drive, and a new fan Another one of the 2008 MacBook Pros has recei...
I have the transformer. It's a piece of crap. There's incredible lag on the keyboard, so I got rid of the keyboard. It's bulky. It fails at basic tasks. It zooms when I want to scroll. There are times when the touch screen plain old doesnt work until you power cycle the screen, or just lags so bad it may as well not wo...
IT Security Specialist here.... Use Truecrypt and create a hidden OS or a hidden archive within an archive. That way you can comply and divulge the non incriminating data and deny the existence of any further data. They will be fucked. You would want to do this on a linux system with a non journaling file system so...
exactly. one there's not really lot's of party's it just appears that way. If 16 year olds could vote then maybe there'd be more chance for lib dems and green party but the UK is still very much a two horse race despite the coalition that is currently in government. Also couldn't agree more with infinite all of the a...
The right not to reach large audiences: absolutely. However, I think you've abandoned that right, at least to a extent, once you post your stuff on a public, non-password protected website. Again, that's the whole underlying point of the web: linking. All rights reserved means all rights reserved. It is illegal to ...
MYTH: Any non-commercial use is fair. REALITY: Who's it hurting, right? That's a common argument, especially among vidders, remixers, and other creators in the online video environment, but the law doesn't in fact exempt non-commercial uses. The law does privilege such uses in some cases, but you will unfortunately t...
Firstly, there hasn't been a decision yet. The article just sums up the Crown's arguments. Secondly, it has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with the laws of evidence. Under NZ law physical evidence needs to be retained, but it's fine to make a copy. Consider this scenario. A banker works in New Zealand a...
For a simple summary, we have no idea what this guy received from a website. It's possible that the 1 million entries were fake, and he just gave a random website $5. It's also possible that this didn't even happen. It's also possible that Facebook just investigates any claim like this to be safe, whether or not the...
I'm a developer who has done some work on Facebook apps. Here's what happened from what I can tell: Facebook apps (games and other tools that let recognize you via your Facebook account) can request certain permissions before a user accesses them. Usually they say something like "This app will receive: Your basic inf...
Just because your SSN isn't on there doesn't mean there is nothing of value. Marketers data mine your activities, your friends' activities, and your friends of friends' activities quite effectively. Just remember the old adage: "there's no such thing as a free lunch" If you're getting anything for "free", they are...
member" likes "page". Is not "member" just liked "page" When you agree to let a page make posts on your wall. They will do so. Entire article is fucking bullshit.
I work in a school that has these for staff. Its not that the students are actively tracked wherever they are. The cards act as keycards and the students swipe in to class as they enter marking them as present. The cards do not actively track them. The school has absolutely no idea where the students are when they l...
Some profs are so shitty that it's best to do that. Source: had the worst Physics 201 teacher in college. I went to a private one and paid boatloads and yet the teacher taught by sitting down, assigning readings before the class and allowing students to ask questions--but only specific ones. If it seemed like "I don'...
The part about "publicly supporting it" is fabricated by the father. He not only wanted his daughter exempted, but he wanted the whole program stopped. The school made accommodations for his daughter, but of course said that they weren't going to end the program for all students. He felt that her wearing any badge a...
That article is errant. A battery for an actively sending radio, even a tiny RFID one would last one day at the most. Are these students to recharge their ID card daily with an expensive inductive charger? RFID radios can typically only be read from a matter of inches away. When used this way they require no power sour...
Technically Darksim is correct here. student enters classroom A, it shows date, time, of entry to the classroom... if they checked to see where that student was, they'd see a record for Entry, but not for exit from Classroom A... so they'd know the student was in Classroom A. It's similar to how EZPass works (act...
Are we really going to compare high school and prison? I understand some things can be ridiculous about it but the differences are staggering and making an emotional connection of high school is like prison is unwarranted. Yes I completely disagree with how this turned out but high school is still a good institution wh...
You are incorrect. These badges employ active RFID. Unless passive RFID tags that must be scanned by a reader, these contain batteries and actively transmit to a tracking system. > Unlike passive chips that transmit data only when scanned by a reader, these chips have batteries and broadcast a constant signal so ...
If anything was desensitizing us to monitoring it would social networking, where users actively participate in telling anyone who wants to know about whatever parts of their life they don't mind sharing. Twitter is one of the most extreme cases, people pull out their phones all of the time and Tweet minute-by-minute up...
Regardless of if the tag the school employs is active or passive (and it appears to be active) any rfid scanner in the students' environment is liable to pick up the signal unbeknownst to her ot anyone else and track/log said location. (This is where I digress ) All it would take would be broad range rfid scanners at...
I swear this has all happened before. People didn't like mice when they were first announced. People didn't like iPads. People didn't like a lot of things that were successful. I have been running Windows 8 since the preview builds along side Windows 7 and XP for work, and out of all the different builds, Windows 8 is ...
I view Windows 8 as more of a stepping stone. It's very much ahead of it's time. Obviously it has its flaws, no one company can execute perfectly, especially on visions that are, like I said, ahead of it's time. I think Windows 8 does a perfectly fine job of maintaining backwards compatibility, while at a same time ush...
W7 does not have multimon taskbar by default. There are third party tools which try to enable it. My favourite was It even supports a start button on every screen. However, I found it imperfect and had random UI glitches sometimes. With W8 the feature is built in and feels more stable. You can mirror the task bar on...
I guess you are not following IT market closely. What happened to MS with win8 is not different to what happened to Canonical with Ubuntu after they introduced Unity. Was unity nonfunctional? No. Was it preventing users to do what they did previously with Gnome2? No. But people did not like it. Including me. Lot of us...
I'm a huge Tesla fan and when I initially read the story about this NYT article I was on Tesla's side. However, now that I've had a chance to review everything, I'm not so sure. There are essentially two parts to Broder's article: That the car had difficulties making it through the journey from Delaware to Connec...
As a person who works for a cable company and does the in house expansion of Internet, video on demand and broadcast (just regular channels) I can easily see why they charge so much. Everything from the equipment licences,the cable, the fiber, fittings, the labels and even the string I use to tie down the cable into th...
Price fixing means the consumer has a choice between providers providing a service at roughly the same price, but can at least choose based on what other qualities they may get from the provider. (Good customer service and reliability being two easy examples) With territory agreements, you have no choice as it is a r...
My experience with TWC: So I pay for "high speed" internet due to the fact that my fiance likes his online gaming. Well his connection was really choppy and kept cutting off causing him to lose his games. My internet kept cutting on and off on my laptop as well. I called TWC a couple times to complain about the issue b...
I've had mixed experiences with Cox. When the service works it's fantastic, and yeah my speed rivals all of my friends when it comes to patching and downloading and torrenting. I have been dinged for torrenting by them once and told if I was caught again they'd take measure up to and including cancellation. Wheneve...
Oblig. Douglas Adams quote: ..."The people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't peo...
You are thinking about this the wrong way. Liken a game dev to a chef. AMD and Intel are equivalent to the people selling the chef produce and meat and whatnot. The AMD/Intel team is providing ever better quality ingredients and that is a good thing. It is then up to the chef (game dev) to make something of it.
The likely outcome of any action is predictable. By doing anything I meant why should I even get up in the morning and go to work? Why should we make scientific advancements? Why should we in any way improve on whats going on in the world? Eventually, whatever we do will cause harm to someone somewhere. Yes what the NS...
About half way through the article, I noticed a few things that really bugged me about this article. The subject matter appeals to me, and the tone of the writing is similar to my views. What bugged me was that this turned into more of an opinion piece, mostly 'filler' writing. I even found myself saying ^source in my ...
Everyone I know in EE found a job right after college. There is something wrong with the poster's story. Either he is lying, or has some social disorder, or just really bad at interviews and/or writing resumes. The story may be legit if he has bad credit, habitual smoker or a criminal record. Just about every company I...
If TOR was crackable without the malware then the malware wouldn't have been necessary. The government is VERY motivated to catch a lot of the people using TOR. The fact that they haven't been able to and were forced to run their own pedo site for 2 weeks is an enormous indicator that the TOR protocol is effective.
Key word here that most folk seem to overlook is sometimes. Amazon has offered me up some films I would have never found based on my previous buys. Pretty much all of the current UK sales chart would be of interest to me, so that's win for me as I get a new film and them as they get a sale. Where it becomes a bit sinis...
What else do we have to go off? If you're suggesting the news reports are complete fabrications then what is their motivation. If they're partial fabrications then what are you using to determine the fabricated part? And, again, what other data is there besides what's been reported to us? If the military wanted to g...
The flaws are still not likely to be discovered for a long time. The most likely approach for the NSA would be to merely reduce the actual entropy in the algorithm to a small enough number that their massive super computer resources could decrypt it, but that people without a multi-billion dollar budget could not. Th...
Surface Pro is the best tablet out there. There are other tablets out there that can run a full OS, but none do it as smoothly as the surface. It just came into the game way to late and could not get the hype it deserved. If more people got to have a hands on experience with it then it probably would have done better. ...
This is all my opinion Personally, I hate Spotify. I don't like the interface, and sometimes it's difficult to find music from a particular artist. Spotify mixes up artists all the time, because it cant tell the difference between artists with the same name. It doesn't show the genre, which would make organizing easi...
One of my comment replies from earlier) >Personally, I hate Spotify. I don't like the interface, and sometimes it's difficult to find music from a particular artist. Spotify mixes up artists all the time, because it cant tell the difference between artists with the same name. It doesn't show the genre, which would make...
I honestly believe you have mental disabilities. You know why I'm not citing a source? NO ONE RUNS STUDIES ON WHY PIRACY IS WRONG, you fucking retard. You haven't proven anything and you can't answer to even the simplest arguments. Many, many people here have proven you wrong time and time again. Being against ...
The guys doing the ruling just
Not an economist, but I've written my thoughts on the situation below. Even if cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner, etc.) will be celebrating in all the ridiculous new charges certain to be introduced, they will definitely be the only ones jubilant. Looking at these comments, I'm realizing that surely many people ...
Many people are counting on Google to save us. We need to save ourselves. Google is great and all, but it is still a corporation that can give and take when and how it wants. What we need is municipal broadband: Perhaps, we even need a larger version of that concept. Let's see if Vermont will be the first state to ad...
UPDATE, 9:53 AM: Verizon General Counsel Randal Milch assured broadband users today that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling overturning FCC net neutrality rules “will not change consumers’ ability to access and use the Internet as they do now. The court’s decision will allow more room for innovation, and consumers will...
When I moved to another country I couldn't find the information about the bandwidth limits. So I asked a colleague about it and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. They had never heard of such a thing as bandwidth limits.
That's just standard computing time, and if the even if the computer took a year to figure out the data then the information would still have traveled faster than the speed of light across 100ly. I know literally nothing about the data coding they would use though. This is just my educated reasoning so again feel free ...