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While you might be correct and I've posed the same question myself at times, I believe the reasoning behind finding planets similar to our makeup is that it is known currently that these factors hold the key to being able to harbor life as we know it.
Not assuming this is still the case, BUT IT COULD BE. The user database had been compromised/sold at one point, and this could very possibly be the same thing.
What you are seeing is what happens when technology (HFT and algorithms) and hedge funds have squeezed out all the competition, and record levels of idle personal wealth have to seek rents from new and yet-unheralded ideas before the big boys crowd everyone else out like everywhere else, even if the "idea" is simply a ...
There is so much fail in this thread it's mind-boggling. The situation is nothing like you said. I'm a commercial litigator for a major firm. A huge part of my job is engaging in civil discovery of large organizations. Contrary to the EFF's PR, the NSA is not making a "novel" argument, it is related to an argument...
I agree that emotional causes are manipulated for votes. But I also think certain issues are just emotional by nature, for people on both sides of the issue and the aisle alike. Like, "another tragic school shooting - lets ban all the guns, and nobody will ever get shot again!", or "Another teenage girl got pregnant - ...
wow this is the most retarded thing ive read on Reddit today. Mojang, by its own admissions, [reported a profit of $100 million dollars last year]( So already we knew this guy is full of shit and has no idea what the fuck he is talking about. > Remember: 1) This is a game that has yet to release a sequel, 2) Only o...
A few days ago I would have completely agreed, but now I have a shred of doubt about AES after reading this presentation by Daniel Bernstein: Making Sure Crypto Stays Insecure (
I find it completely bizarre that the very people who get spun up into hysteria about Ebola! ISIS at the border! Al Queda! Weapons of Mass Destruction! are the same ones criticizing the FBI for using the best tools available to look for leads. We all need to take a pill, ignore the doom-sayers, and accept some risk o...
3) the government can issue a court order demanding Apple/Google hand over their code signing keys, similar to how they demanded Lavabit's SSL key. They could then use it to push an "update". 4) or your cell carrier's keys. 5) or they already have one of the ~200 keys trusted by Android and iOS by default. 6) May...
You can build a compromised compiler that inserts whatever sort of vulnerabilities/malware you want into programs when they're compiled, selected based on as specific or general criteria as you like. "Aha! I'll build the compiler clean from audited source", somebody might say. Unfortunately, the compromised compiler ...
The reason the complaint numbers are small is because the ISPs are adding caps one small community at a time. One city gets caps, and maybe the FCC will get a few dozen complaints, a few months later, they add caps to a different location, and the FCC get a few more complaints. By then, the first location has given ...
You know why the number of consumer complaints are small? It's simple. AT&T has its limit set at ~150 GB depending on the service. Problem is, a lot of their customers are dependent on the quality of line they have and the distance they are from a hub, meaning a lot of them likely have shit for speed. They're going t...
Not super on topic, but I wanted to share my experience with AT&T recently regarding data caps. About a week ago, my phone finally shit the bed and I couldn't make or receive phone calls. It was an old phone, so I figured I would go in to AT&T and get a new one since I was due for an upgrade about two months ago. Af...
The reason they never finish "stuff" is because they are always improving it. For example, remember "Google Wave". It was a fine product, in fact I used it during college to study for huge exams with my entire class. Well, it was always in "beta" and it eventually got canned. In my opinion it was a shippable and pr...
No, taxes funded upper-level management's bonuses and vacations business trips. But not a dime of it was spent on infrastructure upgrades. It's such horseshit and companies like Verizon, Comcast, Bank of America, and any other that received a check/grant/bailout need to be held strictly accountable. Personally, I'm...
I'll tell you a story about "unlimited data". My stupid ass cable company decided they didn't have time to bury my cable line so it was left run across my yard until I made another appt for them to come bury it. Needless to say i wasn't able to schedule another appt for a week and the line was run over by the lawn care...
doesn't help that people are unable to think critically about it. "Oh nice 5MB/s, *never mind the fact that: 5GB cap / 30 days = .1666GB/d .1666 / 24 hours = .00694/h .00694 / 60 mins = .0001157/m .0001157 /60 seconds = .0000019283 GB/s .0000019283 * 1000000000 = 1928 bytes / s that's a grand fucking total of 1.9...
Dad always complains his computer is slow, Sends it to a Computer repair shop. (Twice)......No fix. They sent it back with Ccleaner downloaded, he tries to use the internet..lol it wont even connect to our router they made it even worse. Fuckers So he finally gives me a try... i system restore it first, oh internet i...
Generally you can get that information from a user if you ask them what specifically is slow. If not, starting up the computer and opening a webpage would run you through most of those things. Most of the time it is simply windows rot, which usually indicates a lot of installing things has been going on, which could ...
I actually found this paragraph one of the more interesting of the article. I had never stopped to consider the thermal implications of putting a case on a phone. Since phones are passively cooled (there's no nice fan transporting cool air in and hot air out), the ability for heat to travel to the case, and from the ...
None, "gaming laptop" is not only oxymoronic but they simply don't exist as people expect them to. Instead of spending $1,000 on a "gaming laptop" you could spend $200 on a normal laptop for word processing/web browsing etc and $800 for a very decent gaming PC that would crush all current "next-gen" consoles and quit...
What a joke. The FBI policing the equation group? The equation group is the NSA's version of anonymous. They have access to all zero day exploits and have nearly unlimited resources. This will go nowhere and quickly.. State secrets and homeland security get to rubberstamp all crimes done for Uncle Sam. Hell, the ...
I understand that you're suggesting we wait to see what comes of the Oculus/Facebook venture, but I think that most of the people who have been watching Oculus from the beginning feel like the Facebook buyout stands in direct contrast to the values that gamers hold and to the ethics that Oculus seemed to preach. Ergo...
Because its an outside of the box thinking mechanism. It's to say, if something happens once, you should always strives to ensure that it never happens again. However it it happens again, something has failed, either something hasn't been stopped or there is something more sinister going on. Say you fall down the st...
My professor was a former Army intelligence officer and this was his story about U.S. intelligence. When the Berlin Wall was being built the Russians gave the command that if the U.S. and its allies gave or showed any sort of resistance that the wall cease construction. Pretty much the Berlin Wall would never have be...
However gathering all the calls prevents nothing. The mass of data is far to huge to cull actionable data from. You may be overstating this slightly. Our SIGINT agencies have some pretty sophisticated methods for streamlining analysis. I've done some academic work on this area, though admittedly only on international...
Here is a question: Do you believe in a free market? If yes, what do you say about the fact that Comcast has a legal monopoly? Does this change anything. I am more interested in your opinion about the fact that he can not get Comcast internet, at all, at any price. Comcast should have told him that he had hit the limi...
Any tech company that deliberately limits their customers as Comcast is doing, and then defends their actions by saying they are “meeting the demands of the average customer” is doing a disservice to the tech industry and to civilization as a whole. And it disgusts me that more Redditors do not see this. At one tim...
I had to switch back to Time Warner Cable internet from AT&T Uverse because it would take me at least 10 min just to load up netflix...then, after selecting something to watch, it would take another 10 minutes to load and repeatedly prompted with "the network connection is too slow..." then, after playing in ultra low...
Although I can see that it is a lot of spitting venom in the article, one point that I feel is made is the fact that the death of Steve Jobs would be approved by Steve Jobs. It's good publicity, and gives some drama for the company to cash in on. But at the same time, this isn't about Apple. This is about how the med...
I have lost respect for them over my time in college with a dell xps m1530. First every time something goes wrong and had to be replaced its a pain in the ass to get it done. Then usually takes more time to ship out parts and have w/e person come and replace the parts. 2nd reson being the blatant lies/stupidity the...
I don't see what the difference would be if 49% did this, or 51%. It's not like this is a vote. Majorities have little to do with anything in actual science. 50% is a nice round number, and we are conditioned to think it is important because we live in a democratic system, but it is an arbitrary threshold, and being...
I've tried telling Apple about the Sales of Goods Act - which provides more protection for the consumer than their standard warranty - and got politely told to fuck off. My girlfriend's iPhone 3GS stopped working one day, and went in to recovery mode. Trying to restore it prompts an error message, which some digging ...
On the surface of it, it would be very nice if the USA had these sorts of required warranty laws. However, I would argue that the lack of these warranties is what makes the American technology market so great. When a manufacturer is forced to include a longer warranty on its products, it's not going to grit its tee...
If the TVs are breaking in the US before they should, there are still plenty of laws that protect the consumer. They are not paying extra for the 2 year warranty, there is no such thing as free. The price of the TV is just higher in the EU as the warranty has to be included in the price instead of as an optional upgr...
You're the embodiment of what Y-Combinator will absolutely not accept into their program, or any tech incubator for that matter. The whole point of these startup programs is to build businesses that take basically no capital to start, and help as many of them as possible get through. Everyone going in has a clear ide...
Don't know anything about music but once was part of a project, that tried to film a web series on no budget (meaning around 5000$)and let me tell you, the basic equipment e.g. camera, sound and editing tools weren't the expensive part. We nearly got these for free, but other things like lights, food and travel expense...
So some parents gave their child unrestricted internet publishing abilities and everyone is surprised something bad happened. If I ever have a daughter she's not getting a computer or a smart phone until she's 18. This is why the Amish don't have telephones, because women gossip incessantly.
The standards in those cases are generally applied as follows: Fraser applies to speech made by students that would not be limited if it was an adult speaking. It is regularly held in almost all courts to be limited to only "indecent, vulgar, or lewd" speech, and the power of the school to restrict that speech does...
I almost got expelled from my middle school because I brought a pocket knife to the bus stop, I never took it on the bus, it was never on school grounds and they were half way through the paper work before I pointed that out and then all they did was suspend me for a week which I still don't get, they said that the bus...
Great analysis. Thank you. Typical law school professor - "
Late to the party, so this is going to get buried, but whatever... When I was in high school I got a job a t a movie theater near my school. It was my first job. One of the things I bought with my money was a paintball gun. I started playing here and there, and long story short, wasn't that good so I gave it up. I had...
Something similar happened to me at my school.my swim team had a group page just for the guys it was a "secret group" and a girl saw it on someones FB while he was on his phone saw something that upset her about a coach(think they called her a stupid coach) then since i had gotten in a fight with the a kid the day befo...
No judiciary due process $35 filing fee to appeal from an unclear independent person Puts burden of proof on subscriber Ominous 'education', eg calling making a copy of a file deceptively as 'theft'. At subscriber's expense. Higher subscriber costs It's tyranny. It's not happening immediately. Gra...
I have Cox now. They're way better than TimeWarner, who can't seem to route a packet in less than 30 hops. I couldn't run traceroute as a useful diagnostic for anything because it would give up without even getting out of TWC's infrastructure. This absurd routing frequently lead to pings of almost 1 second. The best ...
Apple has a weird stance on immoral or unapproved content--specifically their former stance on not allowing PDFs to be read on iOS because they believed all content on an non-jailbroken phone was representative of their views as a company. This means that if I like reading erotica on my iPhone, Apple therefore condones...
screening our internet activity watching for copyright" is almost as vague to me as saying "police are going to start screening for criminals" Can someone enlighten me with the technical details of this please? TFA says they Graduated Response to RIAA/MPAA requests but that is a totally different thing than screeni...
You see this all the time as technologies become more accessible. I carry no less than 4 cameras on me at all time (2 on my phone, 2 on my tablet) and sometimes as many as 6 (2 p&s, no slr)... I am not a professional photographer and I would never presume to be one. However... If you'll recall the mid 90's, there...
Come on, their entire day. Reddit hardly ever discusses the topic > And I also don't get why gathering information about their consumers so that they can make money while offering a free service is a bad thing. Even if you assume Google is an entirely virtuous organization, the information they gather is a honeypot...
As a New Zealander we kind of are as far as I'm aware due to the Berne convention and WIPO treaties. We have to observe the legality of U.S copyright law, not to mention they played a significant role in helping draft our recent copyright amendment bill, more or less including similar provisions as found in the DMCA. A...
In the "good old days" there was big competition between x86 processor makers (like Intel, AMD) to provide the most MHz (later GHz). The more cycles per second a processor had, the faster (better) it was. This was a direct correlary and it was easy to see the gains from faster clocks in pretty much everything a process...
Wait, wait - are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that the Republicans are the party of "Internet Freedom"? The same party as Lamar Smith (introduced SOPA to House of Representatives) or Lindsey Graham (senator that supported PIPA and general douche)? The same party that blindly supported Bush's eradication of the civil li...
How about this line of thought? While I will admit that the Republicans can and do tend to vote in lockstep, at least, more so than the Democrats, let's try to remember that there are politicians that we can support and others that we probably shouldn't. By thinking in terms of Democrats and Republicans, we lose si...
Politicians always have policy advisers on a vast array of topics. This bill was certainly not completely written by Lieberman and Collins or read in full by everyone that voted on it. Instead, it's likely that it was written by the advisers to Lieberman and Collins, reviewed by them for meaning, then passed around to ...
Occupy had a moment, however it had no Koch brothers-style huge cash infusion to astroturf it into solvency. The current political system requires a vast amount of money and resources. If the mainstream media is portraying the movement as having no real goals and it has no corporate backing or Fox News talking heads to...
Hi Redditors! My name is Daniela Perdomo and I run user growth at a NYC startup called Dashlane. I’m here to give the Reddit community an exclusive offer: free access to 1 year of Dashlane Premium! But before we get to that, what the hell are we? Dashlane is the most powerful password and personal data manager for ...
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Ah, my second to last line was explaining that I found an ultrabook at the same price with 128gb SSD and an i5. The same price, better storage, (maybe?) same processor (I'm afraid I don't have the specific model of i5 handy) and the i7 256gb version is heavier. I don't know how much the i5 version is but I believe it m...
The original iPod only had a 3 hour battery life and people still bought it. The original iPad had less functionality (and apps) than an iPod touch. Microsoft are chasing a business market where people will save photos and documents, neither of which take up much space. Those people will also not be using the surf...
Ipods are different entirely. When you buy an ipod, you're buying it according to how much space is available for songs. 8gb with 6 available should indeed be advertised 6Gb Personal computers on the other hand, aren't for the common idiot. If you buy a 64GB tablet, you're buying a tablet with a 64gb SSD inside. If t...
While I don't agree with the dramatic portrayal of the post you were responding to, I doubt that is the main reason for the mistake made at microsfot, what he describes is not far fetheched. Honestly it is painful banal. Picture Ballmer as a middle manger. The board, the manager above him in my analogy, does not spen...
a) male are vile, chauvinistic, insolent pigs with no regard to people's (womYn's feelings!) b) CS is a inbred society full of insecure, ugly males who couldn't talk to a girl for their life reminds me of a post i read a while back in a local subreddit. a woman was talking about how she hates the "creepers" at local ...
I find that women like Adria give other women a bad name. I'd agree, for the reason that I think she's stealing your agency for her own purpose. Reading her own account of the incident, it seems clear that Adria wasn't offended as a woman , but as a person - that is, she didn't feel offended for her gender, but be...
She was just attention whoring it seems. She also posted she was playing cards against humanity at pycon so clearly she is a hypocrite. She intended to get a few back patting retweets but now apparently is in hiding after she realized she really fucked up. It's already been over 6 hours so I guess in internet time ...
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate ...
thank you for asking. okay, i thought i was pretty clear, but apparently not, please allow me to elaborate, and i will answer your questions. > Why does there need to be more women in IT, computer science or networking? well, first and foremost, because (i'm american) if we as a nation, don't start making more sc...
Problem is you say > Did I say it was inflection if one would transfer the concept to the information delivered by the word? yes. Which is flat false. And gender attributed insults can be misogynistic. So, you make a disanalogy, and then follow it up by failing at analytic decomposition.
This reminds me of the novel "Blood Music" by Greg Bear.
It not extortion or blackmail. If he owns the patents to 2 way auth and people are using it without his permission, how is asking them for compensation extortion? Its the same concept as if someone punches you in the face and you give them two options: help me punch the neighborhood bully OR I'll make you pay me mone...
Well, that will drive some ad revenue. Man I don't know how we got by with that anti-sensationalist nonsense when popular media was selling snake oil on healthcare. It's so much better to sell media to panicking people who don't question what they're reading. begin generic reddit tech media rant... We absolutely ...
In Sweden, you have the right to make copies of works you bought and distribute them to "friends and family". Aka, if I buy some digital music, I can legally send a copy to some friends, my mother or my brother etc. The definition is a little fussy on what a limited . The same goes for movies and etc. This is was the...
I'm personally willing to let a machine catch key words in my conversation if it means that people won't be killed violently I don't think this can be proved to be the case as alternate means were not explored. Given the breadth of powers of surveillance they had, why would they use other, more discriminatory tactics...
I'd just like to say that I think the "105 years in jail" is almost certainly a reporter screwing up federal sentencing. I'm not an expert in it, but I'll direct you to a couple posts at Popehat talking about how federal sentencing works. They are worth reading. [The first one, about a 67 year possible sentence for...
Well if you use double-buffer vsync and have a 120Hz display, it's not an issue. gsync's only(and quite) noticeable advantage is with 60Hz displays. What really dumbfounds me is how this is such an expensive solution, and proprietary ontop of that. It's like nVidia wants AMD or Intel to make a cheap open standard to ...
Like most knee jerk reactions, this feel-good move would be mostly ineffective. A domestic "German" internet would be almost completely worthless at halting government spying while creating massive costs to Germany and German industry. What about the servers and routers that connect the internet? Are the Germans go...
North American OTA is MPEG-2, and very rarely above 15Mbps (absolute limit if they got rid of all the subchannels is below 19Mbps). H.264 used by Netflix is 5-11x better compression for the same quality, depending on the amount of motion. So it would take less than 2Mbps to match the OTA.
Networks investing in interlaced HD equipment for entire production and post production pipelines when it was on the bleeding edge are to blame for 1080i. Switching to 1080p is not as simple as just doing it. Huge amounts of time and money were spent on implementing 1080i broadcast networks. Huge amounts of money were ...
H.264 used by Netflix is 5-11x better compression for the same quality, depending on the amount of motion. So it would take less than 2Mbps to match the OTA. You are being silly, 2Mbps would give you a 480SD stream on Netflix, not even HD. >
Get ready for a wall of text... HP is laying off a lot of people but it's not really laying someone off. What they do is they give you a 3 week grace period to find another job within HP, in a different tower, or you do get let go. The majority (about 99%) of the time the only people this happens to are those that ca...
My favourite HP India employee was a fellow that never listened to anyone on the conference calls. About 20 minutes in, you could rely on him to ask a question that was settled 10 minutes earlier. After we backtrack to cover what he didn't understand, he would then repeat our recommendations like they were his idea. ...
The comparison is made based on their existences as political entities, which all large organisations inevitably are to some extent. As political entities, they need to establish a base of relations and a culture that meshes with it. This is usually simply that of its creator; Yale and Harvard started in the US, so the...
I don't game besides PC and I don't follow the consumer console market besides blurbs like this I see on reddit. Honestly, I always though Wii U was Wii University. I had no idea it was a new console. Come to think of it, I have no idea why there would be a Wii University. Makes no sense. But I never really thought abo...
I think the wii platform had way more potential than nintendo was able to exploit. The controllers should have come with the wii-motion-plus built in. You couldn't do anything other than waggle the thing or use the IR without it, and 3rd party developers couldn't count on players owning the motion plus dongle.
It seems like there was a mix of issues. I think at the forefront of the problem is the fact that Nintendo did get caught up on bow successful they were with the Wii to the casual gamer. Here was a market where they were extremely successful and they didn't have to rely on the hardcore gamers and high end specs that ...
To any of you saying there is a bias, I have a question. Does some bias in the article somehow change that Nintendo had to cut their sales forecasts by 70%? Here's the thing, no matter how much you like the system and its games it is not selling well. Enjoy the games but don't try to rationalize this away. Ninten...
Only EA pulled their support because Nintendo doesn't "sell" their games. If you pay attention to E3 2012, ME3 was barely mentioned in their presentation and got about 3 seconds of screen time.
Licensing. Early games had publishers, but there weren't any agreements between the other rights holders on who was going to get paid if the game was redistributed decades in the future digitally on a different console. They just never considered it so who knows who gets the money? Obviously Nintendo won't get to kee...
Which one of the very few titles should I play? Pikmin? Great game but 10 hours of play time doesn't exactly make me overjoyed. Monster Hunter? Great game, lots of content hours of gameplay... Oh, that's third party and is also on the 3DS with the fourth installment also being on 3DS. Super Mario Bros Wii U? The exact ...
As someone who was never a really big nintendo fan... this kinda sorta makes me hurt inside. I am a gamer of the 90's generation, I remeber Sega and it's final mark in our most wonderful comunity. Is this what the Wii-U has become? The tombstone that marks it's empires grave? 3rd consecutive year end profits not on par...
Honestly if Nintendo failed or went third party it would be bad news for gaming. I disagree - forcing gamers to purchase multiple pieces of proprietary hardware just to experience a handful of titles that could easily work outside of those branded ecosystems is, in my mind, bad for gamers/gaming. Now, I just want t...
Game designer/developer here. Nintendo is an odd case.. for one they hold the belief that graphics aren't important to gameplay and having fun, which for the record I do agree with. I have loads of fun playing indie titles with little to no graphics. Then there is the fact that they only have a few "life jacket games,"...
I'm honestly not surprised at this. Nintendo has put too much stock into the casual gamer market. They think that by making more and more casual games and game hardware, that they will in turn get more and more customers. That philosophy is true to an extent, but it ends when the people they've lured into gaming realiz...
And that's a bad thing? Nintendo was generally always about exclusive titles, that's what got the systems to movie and that's where they got majority of their success from. One of the problems with the Wii U were the launch titles, besides Nintendo Land, NSBMU and Zombie U, majority of them were late multiplaform gam...
The software that runs these data centers is written by Microsoft in the US. Not runs on them, runs them. Not just Windows, Microsoft also writes the virtualization software that underlies all the other software that runs on these machines. This means that not only does Microsoft US have physical ownership of the...
Yes, however identity theft can be just showing up a false Id card, while social engineering is about talking to people and manipulate them into doing stuff that results into security breach.
As a programmer myself, I agree. This is stupid. I think we're getting caught up over the word "language". Programming languages are simply a way of abstracting human logic in a way that computers can process, so we can get computers to do the things we need them to do. We call them "languages" because that's the bes...
frankly, learning a foreign language has no value. mostly because the curricula sucks. the problem is that there is no value in learning transliteration for things you don't willfulyl use, or know about, but that is day one lesson. i saw my first chalkboard when i 17, but the word was taught in 'japanese', but they d...
I don't know too much about Esperanto. That said, as far as I can tell, Esperanto is more of a man-made creole than a traditional conlang. I've never studied Esperanto, I've never studied a Romance language, yet I can sort of get the gist of some Esperanto just because the grammatical structure feels somewhat familia...
The current system in America is hilariously bad. Over the weekend my visa debt card thing was rejected. I got home and noticed a bunch of transactions I didn't authorize - several thousand dollars of shit I didn't buy from places in Floridia (I live in NY). I callled the bank (BoA) and they told me that because t...
Not unless you're on Time Warner which is being bought by Comcast or have Google Fiber.