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And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple. Which is exactly why Google will be better at this than you for a long while to come. So first off before I get to the meat of this issue, Apple is ...
I agree with most of everything you said except for a few things. You are missing the point. It's not that google is abusing all of the info it has on you. It's that with the right warrant, any governmental agency has access to it. This is what Cook is trying to say. Secondly, Apple isn't just a marketing compan...
How to you determine which reviews are dishonest, and which are not? With free speech, you have the right to be wrong, as long as you are not infringing on the rights of others. If the review site is owned by the company, they have the right to remove the review from their website. If the review site is third party,...
Everything is a Remix]( - no seriously. Go watch it. Also - piracy would probably not be nearly as prominent as it is (and it is far from as prominent as Hollywood makes it out to be last I checked around the internet) - if we had stuck to the original concept of the copyright and patent acts, which were a very limit...
I know this is selfish, and I feel bad for the all the people I have lied to about ad-blocking software's existence over the years, but... Everyone should just stop talking about ad-blocking. It should be an unwritten rule of the internet to never talk about ad-blocking software. It does none of us any good. The more p...
Oh I'm not debating that HTML5 isn't useful. But it's way more fragmented in terms of which browsers support which features, at a time when Flash just works anywhere (except of course on iOS which was an Apple instigated lockout). Try developing a hybrid app for mobile, and you'll inevitably run into cordova, which l...
Except he wasn't killing people, but they still wanted to put him away forever. "Hacking" has been elevated to a great crime. Why? Well, the explanation is that it can affect a lot of people -- really? Then if a banker or politician is found to be corrupt, shouldn't they be punished MORE than someone robbing a conven...
I'm sure it's Netflix covering their arse. When Netflix makes a piece of content available in only certain regions it's because that's where they've got license to do so. No values judgement here, but circumventing the region protection is essentially pirating from a legal standpoint since you're viewing the content...
liquidate my personal assets to bailout the company. That's not what's being suggested. The idea is that instead of the upper levels taking say a pay cut and having to live below their luxurious standards and live more like a normal person that they would instead be more likely to fire and/or fuck over everyone bel...
You may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service primarily within the country in which you have established your account and only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such movie or TV show. If you parse this carefully, I think they worded this as cleverly as possible to ...
I started doing that about 7 years ago. End result: my consumption of media has dropped to almost nothing. Realistically I won't pay 10 GBP to see 1 episode of the current season of a series even if it is to "buy" it - so I postponed until the season was complete, then until there was more year available, then I forgot...
The whole concept of money is just a big wish-wash of stupidity. Being able to have stuff because I have the money but you don't, so you can't have the same nice things as I can have because I have money and you don't so you have to be impoverished and have to choose between food that is bad for you or nice things. I c...
It baffles me this throttling nonsense comes up so often. Your ISP is almost certainly not "throttling" Netflix. They just have a congested peering point that happens to be on the short route to Netflix. Using a VPN is just forcing the traffic to take a less congested route. Its not some grand conspiracy. Think of ...
gets beaten by quad core i7 Beaten how? You're a single threaded obsessed game addict, then go with intel. If you're rolling out a VM host, 16 cores for cheap, that are "good enough" will be a massive advantage. Or if you want to do something that requires multi-threaded horsepower, I'd rather spend $500 with AMD f...
Since constitutions and laws are regularly batted aside by judges, maybe the people and currently graduated and studying generations need to flood the political scene with our own. What if judges just didnt give a fuck about these "sue the government" cases as the corps pursued them, and judges and panels and juries ju...
It is effective (not the most) and any effort helps a cause is better; as opposed to apathy. > I don't expect much from you kids See! You used it. He didn't generalize you useless old fuck (as opposed to kid right?), he left it open so that people could make a self judgment as to whether they are in the group u...
Thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for the following reason(s): The article is dated 2014/1/1. It is now 2015/4/22. There is absolutely a conversation to be had around the definition and handling of electronic 'crimes' by justice systems around the globe, but if we're going to hos...
Most Mac users that I've met, self included, still like using Windows XP and Linux, are excited about Windows 7, and are quick to admit that the OS game is a matter of personal taste and experience. Then again, these aren't the ones that really talk about their computers unless they're sitting down at theirs, and som...
Downvoted for several reasons: There is no proof that any of this is going to happen. Just a rumor on gizmodo. Sensationalist headline. How is Apple Satan because another company wants DRM? If anything, Apple(as well as other distributors) would be key to working things to increase their sales. I'm pretty s...
Software ISN'T trivial, design ISN'T trivial, there aren't hoards of companies making this level of design. Don't say bumptop. Also, Bumptop. IN ANY CASE, the iPad OS are good at what they do, but what they do is simply not enough . There is a whole slew of features that EVERY tablet device should have, and the...
I like the part where they start summoning Ashton Kutcher. Otherwise it was kinda
But if you want to have the experience where somebody is taking control and supporting your online life and giving you really compelling games and helping connect gamers, you do have to give up some of the freedom to tinker with the piece of kit." That's for the courts to decide.
In general, your reply is correct... in the big scheme of things. But to explain why you are being downvoted: The definition of "conflict of interest" applies here simply because, as you said, she has the RIAA as one of her previous clients. Whether or not this conflict of interest is legitimate is another issue, as ...
Way to read the article. She ruled on copyright cases involving file sharing not on cases involving the RIAA. More specifically she ruled on one of the hundreds of lawsuits pornographers have been bringing en masse to file sharers lately. If you've been keeping up with those lawsuits you'll know that the majority o...
According to these figures . To put that into perspective, for the same year the Commodore 64 share was 39.5%, and the PC was 48.9%. By the time Win3.1 was released (1992), Apple were already down to 12.5% - by 2005, it was 2.5%. Today, OSX has made it to 7.5%.
Ok, I know a lot of ppl here are pushing windows, but I have to disagree. I think you should get a Mac. I've used windows machines for a long time, built my own desktops and had a few laptops over the years. I made the jump to Mac a few years ago and they really are much better. Windows machines require constant ba...
I had a similar experience with them over Christmas. My wife ordered a new home theater receiver for me as a present. Since she doesn't know a thing about this stuff, when the Amazon box arrived, she just wrapped it and stuck it under the tree. When I opened the gift on Christmas day, the seller has mislabeled a 200 ...
It's because of the kind of processor they're looking at giving it. The general kind of processor in your computer likely hasn't changed in a long time. A similar thing in the computer world was when Apple started using Intel processors instead of PowerPC. They do their binary math differently, if I remember correctly,...
Price point seems reasonable. I remember reading an article some time ago that they were looking at bringing the xbox 360 price point to $99 with a mandatory(and slightly more expensive) xbox live sub...exactly the way a cell phone works. I find it hard to believe they wouldn't try and do something like this with the n...
I don't know this article looks kinda sketch. On the other hand It looks like a legitimate pitch towards microsoft with reasons why a new console should be developed. the reason that the warning sirens are going off in my head is in all of the pages the information is repeated over and over again with no additional d...
A similar thing in the computer world was when Apple started using Intel processors instead of PowerPC. They do their binary math differently, if I remember correctly.... sigh.... They're completely different archetechtures, where different opcodes are assigned to different instructions, which may or may not operat...
You're missing the whole "set up time" aspect. Part of why I play on my xbox as much as I do is that the time from "not playing" to "playing" is minimal. When you want to play a console game, you stick the disk in, it plays. The console goes from off to in game in less than twenty seconds. OS updates are rare (someth...
Among many other factors, addressing just the one you bring up, the answer probably is: Margin and the continuing cost of support. When dealing with massive contracts like this, or anything bulk really, the margin (or profit) on a product drops significantly. This is where you hear arguments about volume economics. The...
AMD’s not perfect when it comes to Linux support for its video cards, but the consensus is that they’re definitely trying harder than Nvidia. AMD is the scrawny kid that is 'trying his best' to be athletic and Nvidia is the naturally built kid. Aside from it being a Binary blob Nvidia's drivers have been nothing but ...
I've been using it full time personal computing for at least ten. full.time. Let me repeat that, I live on the laptop... full.time. Sure. My dad's been using Linux for about as long. He really likes tooling around with the OS and not having to deal with the crap from Microsoft. However, what I think Linux evangelis...
You guys do know that this is all based on a [RUMOR.]( "A rumor appeared from the heart of Beijing that due to the performance of its GPU architecture and its Linux drivers, NVIDIA was approached by one of the leading Chinese CPU teams to use an NV GPU in a pilot school PC project. The Linux would run on the Chinese ...
Apple user here: it's likely an implementation of Microsoft's shadow copy technology that's been kicking around for ages. This appears to be more about sticking a user-friendly UI and some consumer focused extras in, rather than anything radical.
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Written like a true video game journalist who knows nothing about finance. The executives of public companies have very specific restrictions about when they can sell stock for exactly the reasons this article implies -- so they can't capitalize on inside information. As such, the periods they can sell stocks are fi...
This selling was not under the insider trading restrictions. This stock was sold as a secondary public offering. A secondary public offering where all the shares were sold by insiders, none of the shares were sold by nor did any of the proceedings go to the company. These kind of secondary offerings are legal and ha...
Spotify's mistake was being so very successful in raising capital. They're paying more in licensing than pretty much anyone else in the market. It's why their losses are so huge ($42 million last year). If they don't drop the free tier, the labels will bleed them to death (they might do it anyway). Only 20% of their us...
is the US going to be able to access this site? Probably. The big thing that may change, is he will not use US servers to host the web site, or any part of the site. If the case is that the US in their idiocracy decide to block the domain, then there are a number of tools capable of bypassing the restrictions - Pro...
Everything you said in that title was absolutely revolting. Edit: If you disagree with me, tell me why instead of just downvoting. Edit 2: Since no one is replying to me and people keep downvoting, I'll just go ahead and explain myself. The title refers to people as "meat-bags" possessing the desirable characterist...
I didn't know any county had a blank media tax. There is not one in the states that I'm aware of. I'm not saying that the music industry is right in what they're doing. I think the whole setup is outdated and we as consumers need to find a way to pay artists for their work without padding the pockets of people who do...
Depends on what you want to get and how much you can afford. Sure I can pick up a new iPhone unlocked but as far as I know, even the decicion to but an unlocked iPhone was introduced very recently. Before this (at least when I was shopping for my iPhone 4) it simply wasn't possible to by one outside a contract. And i...
They already have ETFs for this. Expensive ones at that. Don't for one second think that carriers lose money off discounted phones when you break your contract. That kind of situation ended around the time smartphones became commonplace. The subsidy is built into everyone's bill, whether they use their discounted upgra...
You know what, I just read the actual ruling, it's not illegal to unlock phones, it's illegal to unlock NEW phones. any phone purchased before today is still able to be unlocked normally and the exemption is still in place. To quote the ruling: >The Register concluded after a review of the statutory factors that an exe...
As a tire guy his line about the tire size affecting speed readings struck me as particularly offensive. A smaller tire either will make no difference (if smaller wheel radius is made up for by the aspect ratio of the tire) or cause the vehicle to go slower than speedometer readings (e.g. actual speed being 52 when spe...
Ahh, orbiter. It helped me understand the terror of missing your target orbit, and zooming past the moon at full speed. All thrusters dry, no way to slow or correct course. And before me, the yawning gulf of interstellar space and an eternity to ponder my mistake.
Look to Japan. A significant portion of their roads are private. Alternately, look at the foreign owned companies buying up multi decade leases to taxpayer funded roads[1] here in the US. You get the tolls, the tax bill, and the monopoly. Or my favorite: force policy, which would be unconstitutional by federal statute,...
How many times are we going to have to have this conversation. You do not own your phone when on contract, hence the reason for a contract. If you want a phone that is unlocked from the beginning, then pay full price for the phone, they can't stop you from unlocking it at that point. This is why you have a cancellati...
I think maybe Dan misunderstands the issues at hand. So let me try to elaborate from a legal point of view. It all depends on your interpretation of the constitution. The idea that corporations are made up of people, so corporate entities themselves are people is an interesting one to think about. But when you...
When I learn of technological advances I apply the technology to the whole planet. This is shared tech regardless of patents or the country of origin. The implications restrictions and powers of this technology will affect all people on the planet, not just the US which my first comments could have been clearer on; I a...
Thing is that Google operating in the EU have to abide by the EU data protection laws, which are by and large much more stringent than in the US. Google themselves are pushing for more exposure on the requests made by FISA and the NSA and other three letter agencies, even going so far as to [publish a monthly transpare...
Psst, its a joke from a song (Team America: World Police) and in no way does it reflect my point of view. However, considering the joke reflects your view, I would have figured you agreed. Besides the price to pay for it, what exactly is freedom? Since you have to give up some of your 'freedoms' to any government in or...
Batteries are not a solution. They're also a negative-return thing. Essentially you could say your Tesla is coal-powered since that's where its juice comes from, the local coal-burning power plant. Solar cells? Same deal - they're cool and all, but it takes more energy to make and install them than you get back ove...
Because uranium is cheap (for now) and comfortably established. OPEX (OPerational EXperience) is a huge part of how nuclear reactors are run. If it's new and nobody has any OPEX with it, it's scary and potentially unsafe. It's also easier to enrich uranium than to reprocess plutonium and mix it into thorium. Thorium ...
Great, except how often do folks go on vacation? Or travel for the first time on business? Or anything else that takes them out of their default country? Maybe once every 20 years on average? Sounds like a sufficiently low number. So 1 day out of 7350 (365 * 20), any given user stands to get locked out of their ...
This. I have pirated media I was curious in, and bought some of it that I enjoyed. While one could argue I don't deserve to consume the media I didn't first pay for, they gained money from me they otherwise would have had zero of, and in the case of discussion, I will likely mention a title I really enjoyed. In the ev...
Really? Let's see... Google is offering gigabit speeds on upload and download, they are offering it at reasonable prices, and they are offering it to residential. You can argue that it's limited availability but that's only because it's a new service and you cannot compare a 1 year old roll-out to one that started 2...
I forgot about all the quality products available at my local WalMart Consumers choose Wal-Mart products over Mom & Pop stores. You can cry about it all you want, that's what they chose. > as well as their push to support their employees with livable wages, health benefits, and decency. If you don't like the comp...
Consumers choose Wal-Mart products over Mom & Pop stores. You can cry about it all you want, that's what they chose. Your reasoning for small businesses getting pushed out all but stated that WalMart offers a superior product which, in most cases, is just wrong. Consumers chose WalMart initially due to low prices and...
Yea, it's not like you just grab a couple banana caps and twist the fiber strands together like you would with copper. They have to very, very, carefully fuse each and every fiber strand together perfectly using a several thousand dollar fusion splicer in a temperature controlled van. One spec of dust, 1nm 1µm out of...
They are regulated through state runned Public Utility Comissions. These poles space are rented at regulated prices. The pole owners have responability to make a reasonable effort to replace the pole or one of the other companies that rent space the pole can replace and charge the owning company. This is the only wa...
As for education, I see massive price increases especially in the online portion. I've spent more money in college for online homework than my textbooks. And online homework doesn't even have to be produced once its coded, server traffic doesn't cost much. Not $7000 for a class of 100 students. And the reason the price...
Serious question. What job do mathematicians have the ability to go do or have ever had the ability to go do that no person with an education far enough into that they could be an engineer do not already have the ability to do? As far as I know, Math teacher/professor. They have jack shit of a system regardless. Also...
Could this come back to bite a company in the butt down the road? Extremely unlikely. The Texas law cited in the article seems to pertain to forensic investigation. I find the requirement to be completely ridiculous. By the time someone is sufficiently trained in data forensics, they are going to have a wealth of ...
Well, how about you read the fucking article if you find it hard to believe ? >new AMD survey that reveals the laptop as the most important electronic device among college students. and >The poll revealed that even though more than half of today's college students carry at least two devices at all times, the lapt...
I think you may be overestimating the fidelity of the phone system in your endeavor to use steganography in an audio format. Your encrypted content has no error correction traveling in this error prone technology. I do not know the audio bandwidth of an average cell phone but I'll wager it is probably not much wider ...
I'll bet this article (and others like it) are written only to lull people into a false sense of security. They think cops can't access their data, but here's what I think. I'll bet the encryption keys are all stored on Apple servers and can still be obtained by a warrant anyway. I don't trust encryption unless I do ...
256 bit aes encryption, results in 1.1 10^77 possible combinations to brute force your way through, presuming you only need to chew through 50% of them, you are still looking at 5.5 10^76 possibilities to hack your way through - an ugly proposition. A 32 character long password (comprised of numbers, letters, and...
If the NSA hadn't've decided that they could subvert the rule of law, we wouldn't've had to take technical measures to protect us regardless of the law. If they had worked within the law, I believe apple and Google would have complied with the law. Since they defeated the law, apple and Google can no longer depend o...
If you aren't willing to do such an easy thing, then you have no realistic need to avoid being spied on. And if your ideology falters at "boot a separate OS", chances are your principles regarding this aren't very strong either. Privacy is hard. Save yourself the trouble and don't waste money on "easy" solutions like...
I'm not a security expert, but what I know is that every security agency on the planet is running Tor exit nodes and is watching the unencrypted traffic going by them. You might be surfing anonymous, but every single bit that gets transferred unencrypted will be under surveillance, even more so than when you don't use ...
Over the last few years, Huffington post has lost more and more credibility with their articles. Devices slow down as a result of updates. Not just iPhones. I have an iPhone 4S myself, I haven't updated to iOS 8, and I don't particularly plan to. But this is the exact same thing with other things. Even most computers n...
I've never used the mobile site, so I don't know what it's like. As for reddit itself, it has changed a lot since I joined - many subreddits have become more forums indulging in popularity contests for karma, rather than places for genuine conversation and debate. I probably contribute to that problem; being somethin...
In essence they did fail, although some users Data may have been eavesdropped it is far below what was accepted to be a risk. Also due to the fact that the TOR network tests the new relays before they are allowed broad access it meant that they were shut down before they could steal tons of data.
Yes they actually are. You're reflecting your base knowledge on the matter in your various references that lead me to conclude that I don't have the time to illustrate every part that leads to how they are lying. If you missed it in my earlier message then I don't really see the point in explaining it to you.
Spotify requires you to be a band or artist to upload your own music, and you can't upload stuff you simply would like to find at any time. Sounds like a GOOD thing to me. Artists should be able to control what sites profit from their music, and be able to get paid for it. It's one thing if you want to upload music y...
I have kind of a funny related anecdote similar to this... i was hired to do some work on a house by a wealthy retired couple (no clue how much they were worth or what they even did...the guy gave me kind of a tony soprano-ish vibe though haha)... they bought a big new house in a new neighborhood development.... then ...
Think about this historically, dude. For the majority of mankind throughout our existence, we manifested this behavior simply... masses would have went to her house, clubbed/stoned her to death, burned it down, hung her, or some shit, to get across the message, if the people were upset enough about it. Nowadays, thin...
Well, keep in mind I don't work for any of the production crews, so I can't speak to how they did it on each site they went to for all the episodes, but for the one involving the company I worked for. This is all either stuff I personally witnessed, was privy to, or have pieced together after talking to some of the reg...
Adblock =/= Adblock Plus. Adblock is run on donations. Adblock Plus gets paid from advertising companies to show ads, you have to untick the "Allow some non intrusive ads" to make it work properly.
This is form over function. Simple as that. You want a trendy, lightweight, beautiful machine that will be a good travel buddy, social media cruiser, and email/word processing? Perfect, but be ready to pay for it. Two opposing viewpoints in this thread: 1. Why would I pay so much for so little? 2. This would litera...
ITT: People who think MacBooks are for anything besides note taking, email, and Facebook. Honestly guys, MacBooks are for college students, Apple knows this, and Apple makes billions off of it. This is the best laptop for college students in the world, long battery, compact form factor, and capable of completing 99% of...
A 290 won't handle Crysis 3 at 4K. My GTX 970 barely does Medium at 4K, a 290 wouldn't come close to that. [Here]( is a build with a 290 and the iMac's other specs, with basic Hackintosh compatibility. Currently costs $2,800 with the monitor. That is $50 more than the upgraded GPU RiMac. Seeing as a hackintosh is i...
I bought a higher end dell xps and it has given me nothing but trouble. Don't know how but it messes up saved documents (prob not dell), hardware crashes, bad mobo, bloatware, unresponsive keys. I had to send the first one back to Dell after explaining why they should honor their warranty since I owned the computer for...
Owning both a mac and a PC I can try to give some answers about that. People pay more for Apple products because of the overall experience they have, from the moment they order the product to the moment they use it, and that covers delivery, setup, hooking it up to the internet, work, media consumption and of course ...
Basically they are craving more content and are willing to pay for it, but there is no proper ways to purchase it, so they get the content however they can It is such a stupidly obvious problem/solution, but industry has no need to get with the times as they can just push laws with all their "freedom of speech" money...
You don't have to beat around the bush; it would be a whole lot faster just to come out and call me a liar (but I guess less entertaining). It wasn't lack of "gumption" that stopped me from pursuing this idea, it was more of a time/feasibility concern (school has kept me busy for the past few years). You're right in th...
I actually seriously considered designing something similar to this. The larger wheel would allow for better control over rougher terrain than smooth cement. (think road/pebbles/broken concrete etc.) Putting the bottom of the foot below the axle would allow for more stability and, hopefully, better control while sacrif...
Because I started this ridiculous thread. You are correct there would be reduced incentive to make games/movies. That incentive would not drop to 0 however. Things like product placement, product tie ins, other forms of advertising, donation based, pay before its made schemes, sales of hard copies, sales to people who ...
Unbuilt "concept" designs are little better than an 8-year-old drawing "kewl rockets!" on a piece of paper. The proof is in the pudding.
I actually just wrote a paper on net neutrality as a national issue, here it is, Would you let a car company sell you a car if you had to pay extra to drive on certain roads or visit certain gas stations? What if it was the only car company in town? What if your phone could only call to have pizza delivered from on...
One possible solution to the charging problem: equip cars with a "jump charge" feature, so that two private individuals can transfer energy from one car to another with a special jumper cable, similar to when someone's battery dies and you give them a jump start. Ensure you have the ability to measure how much energy...
Did you know it's more likely to die on the way to polls than to have your vote matter. I value my life more highly than I value the difference between a Republican and a Democrat for 1 of 500+ Congress positions.
Sorry, people that don't vote are fucking idiots. Especially, all the ones that don't vote during the general election and then claim that they didn't because they didn't like the options. Because 90% of the time the people complaining about the candidates in the general election never caucused or went to the ballot pr...
ok, so I'm going to reply to this considering the following options, hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, gas, coal. Now, I'm going to read/reply to your comments with these technologies in mind, and I'm going to try and judge what you've written in that light. >It's very expensive... To quote the article: "Money is not an...
Just to present the opposing view, here is why I am against the view that nuclear power is 'the' solution. It's taken from an older post where someone asked me to explain the reasons for my anti nuclear stance. (In a thread of unpopular views on reddit.) I am not uninformed. I have read a lot of conflicting informa...
Except civilian nuclear energy has never made a profit ever, anywhere. The Russians, Japanese, French, Chinese and of course the USA couldn't do it*. What it does do well is to serve as an adjunct to a military nuclear program, and offset liabilities in other energy sources, like oil. These countries see it as vital...