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Had the US government took a firm stance on nuclear energy and not cancelled all those plants from being developed in the late 70s and then continued to develop plants at a reasonable rate since then I think our energy and global warming problems would be easier to solve. Even if we went with todays inflated over the...
Blackhaze brings up my point. People have a right to not have their shit stolen, but pirating is different from that. I don't think it actually has any economic downsides, but IF it actually did drive any artists out of a job because they couldn't sell anything, and if it was somehow enforceable without intruding...
Well when I said that I was thinking of things like "back-alley abortions" and applying that logic to unsafe circumcisions. I just think more harm than good may come from it. I guess I should have explained myself better there. I certainly would not suggest what you thought I meant by this. I also wouldn't suggest...
Some things to consider: Netflix wants to get peering bandwidth at the lowest prices from Comcast. Netflix represents a large percentage of Comcast's total bandwidth Peering agreements usually mean sides share traffic; in this case, Netflix is dumping a ton of traffic on Comcast's network, and Comcast doesn't s...
Not particularly. If you don't trust drop box then the app shouldn't have read access to unencrypted files in the first place. Besides, the security hole is pretty small. The third party needs the file already, and they're only able to tell if DB has seen it somewhere on the network before. Its not a security iss...
PC is short for PC Clone. Which is a clone of the IBM 8088 architecture. People got lazy and stopped saying "clone". But PC continued to refer to clones. After a while MACs came along and people still called MACs MACs and PCs PCs. Then Apple eventually gave up on its processor market and uses Intel chips.
In the last decade, the USA has moved from a belief in "innocent until proven guilty" to one of "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" . This transformation has been sold to (aka, "forced on") the public under the guise of improving security without mentioning that the potential for abuse i...
I'm a robotic engineer. When I see video's like this, about how the robot is "learning", I'm always very skeptical. What I see is a pre-programmed robot picking up some stuff, and following its sequence. Sure, it has some feedback built in. Cup's location isn't exactly the same place it was before, and it self adju...
There's a difference between display ads (think banner ads that try to make you remember the brand) and these targeted social media ads. The primary advantage of an ad that appears on Facebook (versus a generic banner ad that might appear on CNN.com or something) is that they supposedly can not only find a niche targ...
In all the years Facebook has been around, I have clicked on an ad exactly once, and it was last month. The ad was for a performance of Philip Glass's 9th symphony by the L.A. Philharmonic. I bought a ticket and had a great time.
Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. I work in advertising, and have worked on several digital campaigns for specifically snack chips. Pringles gives a huge fuck if you click. A gigantic, grotesquely obscene hentai-style fuck. They have several senior level marketing execs making six figures monitoring a digital team of art dir...
There's clicks and impressions. Impressions don't require interaction, an ad need only load to qualify. Blockers don't allow load. Think about it like a magazine or newspaper. They're riddled with inserts and false covers and garbage you are forced to deal with. An ad blocker would be analogous to some entity that ri...
A point that I don't think anyone here has made is that large companies frequently share desktop screens so they can work on one machine from another without actually being there. A reason why the author thought that the company would be wasting more bandwidth with the better MBP is that all these 5.1 million pixels ...
No, he's being downvoted because what he says makes no sense. The idea behind image stabilization and a larger aperture (f/2.0 on the 920 vs 2.4 on the iPhone) is to be able to use longer shutter speeds to get a better exposure. The difference between 1/3s shutter speed and 1/15s that the iPhone used is negligible. Y...
Yes and No. I think of it more of a Dummy Tax. The only difference between the Windows and Mac edition is that the Mac one comes Pre-formatted in OSX Journaled. The Windows one (the one I bought at the time it was $50 less, $179 vs $229) comes formated in Fat32/NTSF. As seen in [this photo]( I have it split to handle b...
As a disgruntled ex-TWC employee who serviced the NYC region I can tell you with confidence, all the damn time. The problem isn't the rep on the phone or even a TWC technician. The issue is that TWC in NYC has contracts with about a dozen smaller companies that they pay to do smaller, simpler jobs. In this case swa...
I also don't consider it free. Same shit router I've had for 5 years, internet always cuts out. Now I have to pay to rent the piece of shit. Uverse was one house away from me the last couple years and I tried to request it as often as I remembered. Finally they extended it a few more houses and I am getting it next wee...
This was a notorious problem at twc when I worked there. Unfortunately as tier 1 bitches we just got to deal with the brunt of the complaining and never had any real idea why shit was happening. Toward the end of my time there someone linked me to a page that showed all the pops, just so that I'd be forewarned if so...
Your whole region is just kicking ass in internet speeds, I guess. I live in Eau Claire, a small Wisconsin town, and my parents live in Minneapolis. Last year I paid $30 for 3.8 mbytes/s, they pay $55+ for 400 kbytes/s from Century Link. The only quick option for them is Comcast, who has such shit customer service tha...
The problem is that there's always a group on the extreme fringe. These guys are about the worst example we can come up with. What happens if we stop them? The next worst group will take up the mantle. Then we'll feel compelled to stop them, then the next, and so on. I hate the WBC. I've been following their activities...
No, just no. The court 'questioned' copyright, but it saw nothing wrong with France's copyright laws. The court said freedom of expression can be an issue in copyright infringement cases. And that is all. It does not say you cannot > be convicted just for breaking the copyright, they have to prove other criminal ac...
Here]( is a good article about it. The ruling is only in French, but it appears the ECHR did not find the EUR255,000 award overly punitive. >the European Court does not consider the fines and the substantial award of damages as disproportionate to the legitimate aim pursued... >There is indeed no indication that th...
Thats.... not actually how it works. For one, people weren't buying cars, in fact it had dropped by 37% - putting them into this position in the first place. Two, no they wouldn't be replaced, certainly not completely - and not in the US, at the very least. Much of the work would be moved elsewhere, and only a mi...
Picking a good target is critical I agree. However, I disagree with the method, it's a neat idea and I'm sure the execution would go pretty much as described, but in practice you're walking around with huge folded up sheet(s) of duct tape and a dowel. It's going to take ~10-20 minutes to prepare a single sheet and you...
Well, I made an international call using their "no worries" long distance calling plan. Instead of $0.10 per minute, they charged me $4.00. When I called, they old me not to worry, that they were "investigating it". I didn't worry, and continued calling my daughter in Germany. Two months later, the dunning calls star...
So, I wrote a really long reply and realised my baconit app (WP Client since reddit hasn't made a WP app) wouldn't let me post such a long reply, so I'm gonna do the cons (and what I miss from iphone first) The lack of proper client apps is quite irritating (Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Vine, Reddit are all ones that...
This is huge for the cases. Not only would it it lead to dismissals of the claims against defendants, but it is further (and damning) evidence of the fraud and unethical behavior Judge Wright wants sanctioned and investigated. For those curious about the implied license part: if someone provides their work for anothe...
OP's title is misleading, as is the title of the Softpedia article (which is sensationalist). The key phrase quoted from MS is this: > "We’re providing all of that data and information to our partners so they can do at least as well as we are," Stewart said. "The natural progression is that we will always be on the b...
The problem won't go away as long as the same companies providing cable television are also the ones providing internet access. Download caps aren't due to the cost of bandwidth (which is dirt cheap in the scheme of things), but to dissuade users from obtaining video media (some of the highest bandwidth-usage internet ...
Be very careful what you wish for here. Now, you might be thinking, "But DragonPup, I'm only going to get channels X, Y and Z because I love their programming". That's cool, but if those channels may not be very popular, so now chances are if everyone picks their own channel lineups they could easily come into less t...
classic desktop envs. I think I'll try LXDE first, as I prefer PCManFM to anything else these days. (I got my share of KDE 1.x, 2.x, Gnome 2.x... I ended up settling with IceWM for a while). I'll try with Xfce (again) if that fails, thanks. > updates, LTS Yup, that's my plan (as I'm using it on the office for p...
I now own a Mac because of windows 8. I never cared for the Mac OS, but after seeing PC laptop after PC laptop become bricks, I did not see the value in buying another one especially when I have to learn a new OS that is clunky and unfamiliar. I might as well dish out the extra money to have a reliable laptop that has ...
The customer is always wrong... I hate Metro with the burning passion of a thousand Chipotle-shits, but Win8 is a much more solid OS. Better hardware utilization, better backwards compatibility with software, and better with multi-core and hyper-threaded processing. There are more pressing issues with Windows 8; howe...
My god most everyone in here sounds like whiny 80 year olds. Change is inevitable, folks. Just because you have to take 10 minutes to familiarize yourself with W8 doesn't mean it's bad. I use it with and without a touchscreen and love it. Yea it's taken some time getting used to but it's not so different from 7 that ...
Windows 8 is better.. with touch I’ve tried Windows 8 on a Surface, and it is absolutely better than Windows 7, but I’m not going to purchase a new device with a touchscreen just for Windows 8. Touch can be uncomfortable, so advantages can be lost when in a desktop environment I know someone who loves his Surface...
A good example of this is adding a printer. In Windows 7: you go Start, Devices and printers, add a printer, wifi or Bluetooth, searching for printer, you click the printer you want, then it searches windows update for the driver, finds it if the gods were smiling on you, downloads and installs the driver and then you ...
Mate, I don't even work in IT, and yet build presentations and spreadsheets and Word templates/forms and such for basic admin functions. I could seriously save my department hundreds of thousands a year if I could simply design things how I know people like to use them.
Personally id love it if they made a business model around paying what you feel it was worth. Say I just watched a movie and I found it a confusing pile of shit, was I entertained? No. So it had no value to me. But if I watch a movie and loved it to bits, what better way to fish for money than to poke a donation box un...
Ah fuck he juked us. /u/Newni just made us read a longer
How is he going to get evidence about every security researcher in the world's opinion? The bold claim was not made by him so he does not need to bring evidence.
You lose any potential credibility simply by suggesting that North Korea would deny something that they did. Do you even pay attention to their antics? They torpedoed a South Korean vessel, the entire WORLD said it was them, and they still tried to deny it. Just a few months later they claimed that they have a function...
I studied this case in my computer security class. Basically, the vulnerability is that they would execute some command on the filename like: $ decrypt vote.pdf What these researchers did was give a filename like: $ decrypt vote.($sh)pdf (not quite sure of the syntax) Which would give them a shell into the system.
Fighting piracy is a double-edged sword for Microsoft, and they're aware of it. Microsoft's revenue comes from selling software. On the other hand, their single most important strategic asset is dominance in the OS and Office suite markets. If you cannot buy a Windows or Office license, they would still strongly pref...
You know you're old when you see a post like this and realize that you have used every version of the software listed, and that you also used the pre-Windows versions too. MS-DOS through V5. PC-DOS, IBM OS/2, DR-DOS, others that I can't remember now. Back in the day you chose your OS when you bought the machine and u...
Read my [comment above.]( >Furthermore, the government squelches all sorts of dissenting opinion on internet boards in Korea. For example, during the Cheonan incident, there were people speculating that it wasn't North Korea, but SK's own government that had something to do with the ship's sinking. This is because be...
Furthermore, the government squelches all sorts of dissenting opinion on internet boards in Korea. For example, during the Cheonan incident, there were people speculating that it wasn't North Korea, but SK's own government that had something to do with the ship's sinking. This is because before major elections, NK scar...
Taxes are not theft. You can croon about it all you want but it's not theft. The 16th Amendment in the constitution grants said power. That power was created upon ratification. Ratification required consent of the states. State decisions were based on state legislatures. State legislatures were elected...and her...
Ha, good point. I meant you cant compare two countries as a whole. For example, it's no good to compare road quality average of the US versus Japan, since the US has far more roads and many out in the middle of nowhere that are hardly used. Same with our infrastructure, we are always going to bad spots because of how s...
I agree with your final point to a degree, but the "logic" you use to come to that conclusion is absurd. Top that off with the fact that you are attempting to argue about nothing. Here, lets take a look... >It is more dense than the U.S as a whole So which is it, more dense or less dense? >Feel free to compare Fi...
Absolutely! You are in luck, because ATI is stomping NVIDIA in the hash rates. First of all, forget the bitcoin clients->"generate coins" thingy. That is so utterly useless nowadays that I think it is being removed from the next release. For the quick start guide, I'll tell you my setup. There are other pools and o...
That's because it's not really dangerous. Bitcoins are effectively the same as physical cash. The coins are anonymous and untraceable such that there are no records to show that you gave X amount to person Y, all the transactions are done under-the-table so to speak. The potential added danger exists because it is ...
Okay, sorry. The post is, specifically, the one by "Raulo" on the first page. I don't see any reason why it would be specific to 10.10. He's explaining how to set up Stream SDK and the other packages you need to run poclbm.
This is indeed a very interesting article, trying to explain bitcoin for the masses. I think it is a bit too sensationalist though, that it is the most dangerous open source project demands a bit of clarification: It is not dangerous in itself, just that it takes the power to control money from elected/existing authori...
I think you are probably wrong. The danger is not (just) that they are untraceable, the danger is that governments lose their authority to (a) make money, (b) freeze accounts and (c) track how much money you have and impose taxes etc. The monopoly to print money is one of the most valuable assets of any country (whic...
but do you really need 300mph train service? sounds like something like Accella would make more sense and that rail infrastructure would support freight as well. my point is not that we shouldnt build infrastructure, but that we need to be rational and build infrastructure that makes sense rather than chasing some ...
How about this instead: Let us create the best game known to man using mods on older games. People have made GTA4 look like it was real life. Desert Combat was a necessary addition to bf1942. Mods usually make the game, so fuck them if they're gonna pull this shit, why don't we just make our own game? Let's make ...
Regardless of free speech, shes being a bitch, if stuff like this is legal, especially with small children near, then hitting her should be legal, or atleast physical action of some kind to get her the fuck out.
I don't think that defending it is the reason why you can't 'legally' claim resources in space -- there's just little (or no) framework set up for resource claims. AFAIK, the moon is treated as we treat Antarctica: international property. In terms of practical claims -- sure -- but since we're talking about legalitie...
The Declaration of Independence may claim that we have inalienable rights, but is that really true? Why do we inherently have any rights? This document, in fact, is establishing rights and freedoms, not dissimilar to the Bill of Rights.
They have existed for the better part of 20 years and have yet to be tested in a court of law. Wat? No. Edit : To clarify. There are two types of contracts involved in website account control. It's either a click-wrap contract or a browse-wrap contract. A click-wrap contract is what we are all used to with ...
To those new to law: A website stating that a particular legal sentence/paragraph will or will not do something is just as useful as one of your high school friends telling you what a particular phrase/paragraph will or will not do.
Well, in the common law there lays the idea that a contract can be void for public policy (i.e the idea used here in this clause is just bad for the public in general). But the Rehnquist court ruthlessly hunted down and killed this idea at every turn. The Roberts court has only improved upon their designs, allowing cor...
I haven't seen the damn thing in awhile, but its like someone tried to make it a "legal document" like a contract. BE IT KNOWN, that the following matter has been brought before this Internet Court of Reddit Justice: The matter of "Facebook Privacy Posts are Fucking Stupid", HEREIN known as "
The problem is that if you are locked in with a choice of 100% Microsoft or 0% Microsoft, once someone goes, it isn’t a baby step, they are gone. Wrong. I can't even begin to articulate how utterly wrong that statement is. In the history of wrong answers, this statement sits atop a golden throne, wearing a crown and ...
Wow. I've hated platform wars since about the time I left elementary school, but you seem so utterly unwilling to even consider an alternative viewpoint that it's scary you're the top comment. It's clear that you're in IT, and after a decade and half or so of Microsoft domination, it's obvious that you've got a bit o...
Comcast costs too much. Their CS is a joke if you actually need to call them for something. They have a monopoly in a lot of areas. I consider competition against the joke that is ATT Uverse a monopoly. But... The router is not your CPE termination, the modem is. If it is a combo fine, but call it a fucking mod...
When hating on Comcast, please, please do not forget to curse Time Warner as well! ...Those bastards left me on hold for 43 minutes in order to speak with a supervisor and then disconnected the call. I have a ridiculously intermittent signal, because they have way over split the cable connections at the terminal box...
Shit dude, depending on how much you pay and how Amish your neighbors are you might want to give a 4g hotspot from Verizon a try. I know Verizon is one of the devils on here but I know people getting 51 mbps on an iPhone 5. [Here's]( their coverage map. I threw in 16249 as a zip code for demonstration purposes and ther...
I also think that's an extremely naive strategy on Google's part You are assuming that Google is doing it to shake things up. I think they are doing it so that they can get more information about how people use the rest of the internet. Right now Google has zero insight into how people use Facebook, Amazon, Netfl...
There is a reason why Comcast is terrible in the Boston area, they have contractors who do all the work for them. No unions, no organised and skilled laborers. Only contractors who are in it for the money. A workforce based on a union(at least in Boston/in ISPs) is much better equipped to fix the problem. Verizon, whic...
I had to suffer Comcast while I was in Savannah, GA for 4 years and it was hands down the worst 4 years of internet, and any customer experience I have ever had (and I've been screwed over by BoA). We started out with 3 people in our house, 2 of us high internet users, we went with the highest available plan to us to...
Really? Because it is a great thing. The majority of the population isn't going to spent a little more on small things like soap in order to back the employees. Yes, working as a wal-mart employee is a horrible job. But then again, it's only a brief stop for anyone who works there. Anyone who works there minimum wage...
Wrong, wrong, wrong. When you set up a session with Google, the server you talk to at Google verifies it's identity by sending you a public key. That key is signed by a Root Signing authority (not an ISP). The ISP cannot fake being google.com, because the signature would be invalid.
Comcast is the worst. My OnDemand doesn't work and I spent two hours "chatting with a service tech" online only to find out that all he could do was verify that I could sign in. I HAD TO SIGN IN TO GET TO THE CHAT! Also, the people on the chat aren't the same people as when you call Comcast so they really can't be of m...
Wages are flat because those decisions (payroll) are often decided by higher-up management staff who have little to no understanding of the technical day-to-day skills of the typical IT worker. "knowledge-worker" jobs like IT/Sysadmin cannot be easily measured like the output of a factory-line worker or other "widget...
Protections against grabbing a single frame from the frame buffer and saving it as an image? Nope. Sorry. Windows screen grab implementation might be shit, but there are loads of options for doing exactly this. Never underestimate someone with a bit of technical expertise to make a work around, and then propagate it ...
Indeed. But I'm confident my idea is cool enough that in April, when I post it, a lot of people are going to say "Hey - this is really neat, and I like it, and so I'll click this upward facing arrow". And then you'll see it. (Because we both know you're still going to be on here in four months.) My mentioning it wa...
I’m not seeing this pretty big difference. If you are fired, people ask questions. Your next employer asks questions. Depending on your position the questions get trickier and are asked by the public, stockholders, journalists, or even criminal investigators. In this case, the person in question is an engineer that i...
Electric cars are not the way to go. It's a step, yes, but without cleaner power plants, this car is just as dirty as a combustible. This is simply not true. You can read a full report [here]( comparing the emissions cost of regular cars, hybrids and evs based on the source of the electricity. >Also, the power it ...
Exactly, at some point decisions have to be made. Nitrogen fertilizers are used currently and in order to switch to organic farming for everyone, people have to starve. Organic farming could only support around 2/3rd of the population (if we mostly used organic farming) and that would also involve a man power investm...
I'm going to really tear into this one...It's something that has been pissing me off for a long time. if you don't believe me after reading all this, scroll backup and check this sub Some of these accounts are listed as "1 year old" with LITERALLY NO OTHER POSTS. I call them out all the time. Sometimes, if you ask ...
The key point here is that ATT has specifically stated that they EXPECT to receive the same benefits and consideration that Google is receiving. However, we all know this not to be the case. Why you ask? Here is why... Google is giving free Gigabit internet to public infrastructure, such as public schools, libraries,...
The simplified version from [HERE]( seems to be the equivalent of: Generate a new private/public key pair for every connection (using a method that Quantum Computers can't crack) but DON'T STORE IT ON DISK, keep it in RAM This is signed using the usual private key, for authentication purposes only (RSA, QC will...
Except you described how it 'can be' based entirely off of your own subjective opinions on a single product.
I also bought a Samsung Transform. IDk Y I should have learned from the 1st debacle with Sam. But the phone keeps not reading my SD card and I have to reboot it take out the card and reinsert it to get it to read. Today in fact it earsed all my pictures on it, so Sam needs to test their shit out more before making s...
Trying to track down the source of this information has turned into a bit of a rabbit hole. OP's extrahardware.com article . After some digging, it appears that the original source is this [article on chinese.vr-zone.com]( There were no valid search results on the English-language vr-zone.com site. I applied [...
I had one horrible experience with U-haul at the same time another friend had a horrible experience with U-haul when we were moving in together. That one time was bed enough for me to never use them again. Since then I have used other providers and been very happy. I doubt U-haul will ever give me a reason to give t...
I love Tesla but American Performance Cars have been about awesome performance at great prices. For 100k you can have a last gen Corvette ZR1 that will threaten most cars twice its cost and the only in price competition is the GT-R which splits track times with the Vette depending on track layout. For enthusiasts the T...
from wikipedia: As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest,[14] including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors.[15]
Kinda depends on where it's used. If it's on online multiplayer games then it's good, it'll hopefully clean up the community a bit. If it's in singleplayer then it's bad because why should a person be penalized for swearing at a game in their own private homes with no one else to hear it? Microsoft/Xbone are not th...
Congress doesn't have to provide for every new technology. When necessary I think it's fine for Congress to step in but I don't consider it the US's dramatic failing that we didn't buy at the level of the federal government. Other things to point out is that China is a net coal exporter which means they are having tr...
You've said this multiple times now in multiple threads. Firstly, most people don't record phone calls. This makes any and all statements regarding communication by phone hearsay and something you will not accept as evidence. Further any recording posted to youtube can be attributed as "not really yelp and just a l...
In general, people take advice of random people/trolls on the internet only as a last result when no other better source of information is available, so they may be stuck using it when traveling, but locally I imagine a combination of word of mouth and experimentation rule. We go out to eat 2 times a week for dinner/...
a bad experience at a business generates something like 7x the talk as a positive experience. say, for example, you eat at subway 4x a week (seriously, why are you doing this). you've been going there for 8 months, and every sandwich is, well, subway-standards good. then you notice an eyelash in one of your sandwiches,...
I'm baffled that people still use Yelp for restaurants. You can use it to find places to eat, as in, "Hey this place exists, we should try it," but it's not a reliable indicator of quality. The two major problems with Yelp are the quality of the reviewers and the practices of the site itself. The first problem is tha...
I think he is trying to say that you are more likely to get molly from a trusted vendor on SR than you are from trying to get it from the first person who says they can. Often people sell one thing as another, molly is a great example of when that happens. The customers on SR are probably more intelligent and aware dru...
There's no guarantee for any of these cities. Google is asking municipal officials to do the following: >Provide detailed, accurate maps—e.g. of existing infrastructure like utility poles, conduits, and water, gas, and electricity lines. As a civil engineer who has seen the utilities information regarding all that ...
AT&T employee here who actually deals with "Free Microcell" requests. Please don't call in demanding a free Microcell because you heard someone on the internet say that they got a free one. It just will not happen. Back when we first launched the Microcell, there was a program that people could receive free ones to es...
What makes me a kid? And, in my situation, not having cell service in my own home was a dealbreaker for me in dealing with Sprint. Thus I called and asked them if there was anything they could do for me, and if there wasn't then when my contract was up I would switch. They responded my sending me one for free. So congr...
I swear this will be the cause of the second US Civil War. We're just that first world. [ Egyptian Uprising ]( "Grievances of Egyptian protesters were focused on legal and political issues including police brutality, state of emergency laws, lack of free elections and freedom of speech, corruption, and economic ...