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The way I see it, one has to look at any online service (or any company for that matter) with two points in mind: a) does it intend to be around for the short term or long term, and b) are customers happy to pay for it. Most people seem to be assuming Facebook wants to be Facebook for a long time to come, and that ...
I gave you an upvote because I don't need /sarcasm tags.
Comcast's actual level of cooperation with the RIAA] ( may be more accurately displayed in this article by CNET. Although, it's difficult to say, because the OP's posting is to a torrent site (obviously biased) and CNET is owned by CBS (which is also obviously going to be biased, but likely in the other direction). I'd...
Are we going to keep throwing that quote around here? To quote someone else here on r/tech "to say this case was about rectangles with rounded corners is the worst
can somebody just shoot this guy in the head already? No; as much as I disagree with this man's moral values and even motivations at times, I will fight for his right to express his will (and then argue against it). In America, or anywhere in the world, we will always find idiots and those individuals that seem to se...
Does anyone remember what happened when i phone first came out in big cities? Dropped calls! Lots of dropped calls! Why? Spectrum bandwidth and not having enough of it. As shitty and monopolistic as it is we either have a cell tower on every block, and micro cells on every floor for skyscrapers. Have a change in fcc po...
It's not actually anything to do with circumventing roaming charges. The GPS in the femtos exist for two reasons: e-911 location FCC frequency licensing For 1: Without the GPS in the femto, the carrier wouldn't know where you were when you dialed 911, making 911 location services useless to yourself or ...
Well my phone doesn't support either of those, the only reason I like to use AIM over facebook messenger is because facebook repeatedly doesn't send my messages without warning. I also like keeping my own chatlogs and not having to worry about reading messages without responding because the person can see I read the me...
There is theft yes. Truth is there wasn't much cable internet to start with - just satellite and dial up. In Kenya for instance, fibre networks are very recent thing but picking up .
I think what SniperGX1's point was, that in court, should the account holder be held accountable, they could chalenge by stating that they were not the only user of the IP address. Furthermore, with more recent tools, WEP encrypted wireless connections can be broken in a matter of minutes, and WPA can be cracked in h...
I think you're wrong here. First off, let me just say that I believe the U.S. legal system should, overall, be more accessible to laypeople in terms of subject matter, procedure, and cost. I will note, however, that many people do effectively represent themselves pro se, especially at the lower court levels and with ...
No, this is how power and class works in the justice system of America. Things that are criminalized and bring down prison time aren't just the most brutal crimes, but the offenses that poor people get prosecuted for, like writing bad checks or smoking pot. Because poor-people crimes are not civil offenses, the crimi...
Yeah, I realise it's not what the article says - I confess to not reading the article prior to commenting (was on the phone... and on the loo, ahem). Victim once again to foolishly relying on post titles -_-
Have you tried running it in compatibility mode for XP? If that doesn't work then DosBox Or you can grab a Windows XP ISO or disc, and install it on [VMware player]( which allows you to run XP as Virtual Mechine inside your existing modern Windows install.
What happens when you sell the house and the inspector balks at your ghetto rigged non-code solar setup? Now it actually hurts the value of your home. You're going to give the buyer a credit to get it removed, and yes, that probably involves lots of roof work as all the holes you punched in the roof need to be fixed. ...
You don't think we're poisoning the planet? you seem a little trollish but ok I'm still up... did you click the link to brushy forks, they're going to expand it to hold 2 billion more gallons of coal waste, what part of the planet isn't slowly succumbing to human pollution? I lived at a house where the water was or...
Interesting math, but the exact volume isn't relevant since a whole lot of compressing could be made. The NSA isn't going to save [Gangum Style]( 1.7 billion times on their servers when they can simply add a short code to each viewer's profile. Same with all browsing history and downloads. As for sensitive non-redund...
I'll try to explain this like you're five too. Yes it will work. The NSA is an extremely robust group of some of the best computer minds in the world. The "chip" they put in the computer is a permanent "backdoor" or open access to the computer. I'm guessing it gives each computer a Unique Identifier number. When ...
Signed boot image is trusted computing. TPM is a secured key store. They aren't related to each other at all. Trusted computing means that every piece of code that loads new code validates the new loaded code or refuses to run it. If you do this all the way from the first piece of code on the machine (in the ROM), ...
This article is really uninformed. First of all, regardless as to whether or not there is a TPM backdoor, TPM is an optional component. You can elect to enable or disable TPM functionality in your firmware (BIOS or UEFI). Speaking of firmware, you should probably update yours. Most of you are probably out-of-date. ...
Well, the private key used to secure the SSD would be stored in the TPM and only in the TPM. You would need the actual chip itself, and you'd have to rip it apart (in a very careful way) to obtain the private key. Encryption schemes like this work by using two keys. The first key is a symmetric key, used in a cip...
Cool article, indeed. I had every iPhone from 3G-5. I knew it was then't the best in a lot of areas (looking at you, apple maps and no background image for the longest time). But I didn't care, because it was an iPhone . I could get a better phone, but it wouldn't be as cool. And what if it's cheaper ? Can't have tha...
Censorship is just part of the liberal elitist culture we've been poisoned conditioned to embrace. Even reddit is a hypocrite in this regard, touting its intellectual freedom while censoring dissenting views. We still haven't learned the most important lesson of all; nobody trusts a coward who is afraid of [putting h...
Censorship is just part of the liberal elitist culture we've been poisoned conditioned to embrace. Even reddit is a hypocrite in this regard, touting its intellectual freedom while censoring dissenting views. We still haven't learned the most important lesson of all; nobody trusts a coward who is afraid of [putting h...
They aren't really related except that they both involve obfuscation of the code. Where's Richard Stallman when you need him.
The name doesn't make much sense though. While a descendant of the Romulan race would still technically be a descendant of the Vulcan race, they wouldn't call themselves a descendant of the Vulcans because they have little in common with them. Naming themselves Rumulans only makes sense if they want to associate thems...
This is my perfect area of expertise - Databases are just spreadsheets with special fields (for the ease of explaining). The data on them is almost always text, or binary (on/off, yes/no) slots. These are compressed when stored to remove extra-text and spaces. Our company makes medical records and in the database you c...
Read the fine print of the Google EULA regarding their OneDrive or whatever it is being called this week. Anything you put on your drive, you have given up any copyright protection, intellectual property rights are gone, you have lost any right to privacy and Google can utilize any of the information stored there f...
Medical data is protected by law. You can't just go upload it on someone else's server. In the US we have HIPAA which governs things like this and it would require google to sign an agreement that they will follow the correct data protection policies and disclosure requirements. In the US google refuses to sign tho...
Gates gave up pretty much all of his money Not yet he hasn't. He's the richest man in the world and lives on a $125 million estate. He has signed a pledge to give away the majority of his wealth. . .but so has Musk. The exact same [Giving Pledge]( in fact. > to make the world a genuinely better place, specifically ...
Actually the hard part will be designing and building a Mars transport ship with a form of artificial gravity (tethered, counter-weighted rotation most likely). Three months weightlessness results in nearly incapacitated astronauts, even at the bottom of a 1/3G gravity well. Look at guys returning from 5 months on ...
It is a complex question really, we have the technology to start the process but the issue comes down to how much money we put in and equipment we send. There are some plans that could change the atmospheric pressure to a point where we could walk outside comfortably (with the assistance of an oxygen supply like scuba ...
I work for AT&T. When I was at a clients office today closing a sale the client attempted to haggle the quoted price by threatening that she'd switch her company's service from AT&T to Comcast. When I informed her that Comcast was in fact rated worst company in the United States by consumer magazine she said I don't ca...
Not really, but mostly because the Standard Oil situation is completely mischaracterized by history and painted as being both evil and price gouging. What got people upset is that businesses that couldn't stand to Standard Oil fell and they felt cheapened. But Standard Oil is blameless to many of the things it attribut...
I am so jealous. If you see this, would you please be kind enough to test a non-local server? You can do this by clicking "new server" after your initial speedtest. Then you can go pick a server manually. Try something in New York City. I only ask because the 1ms ping is ridiculous. As in, if the server is more tha...
For most in the US they know of it, but they either think they live their lives clean enough 'they have nothing to hide' or they know there has always been people being J Edgar Hoover and if they have the determination and a little bit more resources than you they will eventually find dirt on you. The scale is larger,...
This is awesome news for enterprise applications that need consistent high write speeds, the average home user will likely not see a significant speed increase because sequential writes are rarely used in modern applications with the exception of content creation or large encoding jobs. It's the seek times and random 4...
Yeah, well, a lot of "evidence" against piracy is shit science made by people who support enhanced copyright to rationalize their position. >In counter, scoobidoo112 provided "evidence" which was shit science made by people who support piracy to rationalize their position, which regressively falls back under my origi...
It's a protocol; instead of routing your packets directly to the destination, they're sent through a bunch of randomly selected computers, part of the Tor network. At each step, the computers aren't telling one another who sent the packet before them, so there's no real way to trace who the packet originated from. Th...
I didn't just prove your point, you just failed to grasp mine. Watching porn doesn't make you a pervert. A recent study said that basically 100% of men do it. Women, slightly less. He could very well have been checking his bank account. That is still some thing you shouldn't do in a public space. My point...
People should realize that the "it shouldn't bother you if you have nothing to hide" mentality is fundamentally flawed because desiring privacy is natural for innocent folks. No, what is fundamentally flawed is privacy-obsessed loons who really believe that the rest of the populace want privacy online. The Facebook...
But you're thinking that people who say they're at the coffee shop are okay with everyone knowing where they are and what they're doing all the time. There's a reason they checked in at the coffee shop. They wanted people to know they were there at that time. There's a reason they didn't check in at Chipotle. The...
TOR was developed by the U.S. Navy. The reason that they opened it up to everyone was that if the only people seen leaving TOR exit nodes were government secret agents, then the use of TOR would be a dead giveaway. Now that TOR is open and you have tons of people using it, TOR doesn't look so suspicious anymore. If an ...
You still have the biggest problem of secret key encryption: giving the other party the secret key. Except now you tack on the problem of repeatedly giving the other party the secret key when the pad runs out. Sure, you could pass a program around that comes up with the pad so you don't have to keep passing out pads, b...
There are not many downsides to using a TV as a monitor, depending on what you plan on doing that is! If you're looking to do gaming and such on a TV, latency is going to be a big issue, while it seems odd to think about latency in a TV, it can adversely affect the quality of games. Most TV's have a latency of about ...
The problem with holding people in corporate positions legally liable is that who do you blame? Responsibility is typically diffused throughout the corporate chain of command making it hard to really hold any specific person as liable for actions (this is often done by intent). So if something illegal is done, who do...
But it signifies that internet is being slowly polarized. Its not about the technical prowess of the top 30 companies, but the fact that they have acquired enough clout to change rules to help them significantly. I guess the only way out is when everyone has fiber and can generate more content and run servers from thei...
Yes except if you are basing your opinions off of econ 101 then you are going to be wrong. A basic model may work like that, but you are ignoring other forms of taxes. For example this tax break encourages companies to spend on assets to lower their tax burden. Bonus Depreciation allows for one years depreciation t...
It's not that simple, either. Nobody was demanding touchscreen mobile devices a decade ago. Somehow Apple decided to expand and develop one anyway. No demand and yet expansion." You're looking at demand wrong. There wasn't necessarily a demand for a "touch screen", the was a demand for innovation in general, or somet...
But the bigger reason is the amount of money they don't put back into their infrastructure. Last year, their reported profits were $49 billion dollars. Then they complain that they need more money and push net neutrality as the reason they can't afford to expand their infrastructure, because they aren't charging people...
Data is not limited, bandwith is. Let's take a best case scenario. You're connected to a cell over LTE-A using 60mhz of spectrum. If you were doing this in a lab with perfect conditions that cell could provide 450mbit/s. Now back to reality. In most countries 60mhz would require aggregating 3 different bands. Where...
The patent trolls are a scapegoat here. Removing them won't fix the real problem. The real problem is that for basically anything you can build in the technology field, you WILL infringe many, many patents. 5.8 MILLION patents were filed in 2014 alone, and the grant rate is around 90%. Checking and "designing around"...
lakh is hindi. Most Indians know hindi. It's is also commonly used in Indian English ( ). The article is located on a website devoted to Indian news. This website's audience consists almost entirely of english speaking Indians who know what a lakh is.
It is certainly an anomalous artefact, but a sarcophagus? Not so sure. Yes, I agree in the context of Egyptian history, that item is commonly interpreted as a sarcophagus, if only out of the reluctance of Egyptologists to admit that they really don't know. The Cheops pyramid itself is a misnomer based on the shabby...
So...totally read that fuck you espeon and was sad cuz I love espeon psychic pokemon are awesome. Then I read the next part and was confused. Then I read "who cares if I'm out of cyan" and spent the next 15 seconds trying to figure out what item that was because I didn't remember it. Then in registered I'm pretty du...
I have been reading digital books on various devices for close to 10 years now. I've found that I can read faster on some than on others, and within a given device (currently my Palm TX) there are different programs and different setting with each program that affect reading speed. with any device there is a bit of an ...
It's not a per-phone issue, it's a problem with the design of the phone in general. The rundown: all phones have a signal drop when you cover the antenna. Even the iPhone 4's antenna, though it is harder to cover as it runs all the way around the phone. Completely as expected, and nothing to complain about. Howeve...
Just want to point out that big companies losing their ability to insert arbitration clauses means: They lose more money in lawsuits. Their breakeven points are higher. They have to charge more in order to keep above these breakeven points to continue their existence as a business. Consumers get charged more ...
Except that it isn't. IMHO it's exactly spot-on-the-money. My $600 Android Droid2 compares very well against the iPhone, no surprises. But a far cheaper Android phone (LG Optimus) compares very well against my Droid2! This puts the iPhone in a direct, head-to-head competition against Android phones available at much-...
You don't have a real complaint then. Stop reading news about new phones and suddenly your complaint about sensational new phones goes away. Fragmentation is no worse on Android than iOS. Theres only a few chipsets in use so many phone preform at pretty much the same rate. This year was almost nothing but snapdrag...
I know android is pretty good and almost feature matches the iphone in some ways while beating it in others. I'm just sick of the rampant fanboy-ism and dumbass business people with sensationalist headlines. I'm an iPhone user, but often consider switching, but just haven't been convinced by the experience that I would...
Oh look... the internets are coming with LOIC again. Be afraid, some geeks are going to sit at home and do something that in no way inconveniences the politicians that pass these laws, and may in fact help promote their agenda. Instead, how about writing to your representative. No, not an email. Not a facebook petiti...
On paper. And send it via post. (I know it's hard- involves actually doing something like leaving your home for five minutes to post a letter). >After you've done that, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Hell, write an article and see if they'll publish it. Meh. Both useless. Patently so. Mor...
This is probably going to get buried, but DesertRain covered this in good detail over at /r/netsec.
Unfortunately, it's not just the GOP. Bear in mind that quite a few of the DNC Presidential candidates used "censorship" (specifically cyber censorship) as cornerstone issues in their campaigns.
I have a problem with this: >These players have a genuine grievance, in that the internet poses an overwhelming threat to their old business model. The copyright-versus-technology debate is worth having, and soon. Every commentary on issues surrounding copyright gets this wrong. The rightsholders' business model a...
democracy: we vote some partys who vote some guy to speak for them at EU. You can tell everone on the world how the internet is in china and everyone whould say thats fucking horrible, i dont want that here but yet some of these guys at EU who should share our interests vote for something noone wants, I voted some ...
Freedom of information is a powerful thing that should not be curtailed lightly in a free society, but I am curious about the numbers cited in your title. Surely the 6.7 billion people making up the 99.99% are not all equally situated, nor would the restriction of internet freedom affect them all equally. Altering inte...
It is tough to say, depending on what you want/expect from your computing experience. Windows is still the front runner in terms of enterprise software, and gaming, though Linux has made great strides in both of these areas in recent years. For sheer productivity, many argue that OSX has the perfect balance of intuit...
It's really only a problem if he were the type of person to abuse it." You just told us: He has access. He looks. He abuses it. People talk to their Doctors and their attorneys via videoconference. Is it really OK for this creep to sneak into people's confidential Doctors' visits and lurk and watch? Why? Be...
Not necessarily. It's possible for proprietary software to have it's source code made available while still being proprietary. Then again if we are taking the OSI definition of open source, there are plenty of licenses that don't qualify as open source, but still provide sufficient insurance that there is no eavesdro...
The first thing MSFT did was move all of the super nodes to their infrastructure, which in turn made Skype essentially non-distributed and provided a single point from which to eavesdrop. because before when you logged into skype and connected to their login/master server, when it authenticated you and directed you t...
thousands would have audited the code Haha... simply wrong. I've worked on dozens of open source projects. This is how it really works in 99.99% of cases : #1) Joe implements feature x. Nobody knows what Joe's true motivations are. We're just happy about the new feature. #2A) If feature x is desirable, wo...
This is important : If you get your own modem, pay attention to your bill and make 100% sure that Comcast (or whoever) doesn't continue charging you for the rental. I paid $7 monthly for a modem that I had physically turned into Comcast for six years before noticing that they had still been charging me for the damn...
Well, I'm working on qc now. I think qc is a big deal. I don't think THIS work is a big deal. Its an incremental improvement on D-wave's work with mapping problems to spin ising models. And the comment about dilution refrigeration is not at all moot. The operational costs of a quantum computer put it outside the budg...
Ok so heres my problem with comcast, I got them about 4 months ago when I moved into our new condo, We wanted WOW but they said they dont do condos (Dammit-_-) So! We go to comcast not really wanting to but not having a choice, So, I work at home off my PC and days where I use it alot, They shut it off for awhile, It i...
I got a call from them at 9:30 AM on Saturday. Guess who was hungover as shit? This guy. What do they want to tell me? Here's a brief summary... Comcast : "Sir, your plan is no longer being offered. I can offer you a new package for ~$50 a month more than you're paying now. And it includes a phone line, Stars and Enc...
Generally women targeted gadgets are driven purely with purchase statistics and data, and yes they sell a shit load to their target customer base as well. Which in turn reinforces their product strategy and brings more devices.
I hate to have to break this to you, but it looks like your reading comprehension needs work or you are simply misinformed. The Surface Pro guy was referring to has [shipped 400k units]( at last count. There is no such product as "The Surface". There is the Surface RT and there is the Surface Pro. Combined they've ...
I just finished federal jury duty in San Francisco where a patent holder was suing Sony for patent infringement on several claims of his 4 patents. He was asking for $84 million. We the jury not only found for Sony, but we invalidated his claims [of the patents] based on prior art. One thing that the jury kept wonder...
You could patent the isolation or insertion, if they were innovative in their field. More than likely though they use the same isolation and insertion techniques everyone else in that field does which makes it unable to be patented. Even if it was, it's almost completely unable to be enforced and offers no protection o...
So if I front all the costs to figure something out, and five other companies just copy my methods and basically push me out of competition because they can have a lower bottom line, what are my options? Don't get my wrong, I know it's an open ended question with no easy solution. I'm a scientist so I definitely like...
The transport layer's job is to provide a standard interface to the application layer while handling segmentation, controlling error and in the case of TCP, ensuring delivery. HTML is at the application layer, which is where you want all the application/protocol specific logic, which is what DRM is.
This is because America's telecoms laws are fucked up, and has allowed ISPs and Cable companies to create local monopolies, and a general country-wide oligopoly. In the US, the person who owns the physical wiring/connection has the right to be the only person to sell internet or cable through that connection. In orde...
doesn't really demonstrate anything. one market isn't enough to pressure companies into action - it's a viable strategy for CC/TW to take a bath on subscriber rates/numbers in KC just to present the perception that Google Fiber doesn't threaten their revenue on a national scale, and thus they will not be forced into ...
This point exactly. I have no idea how people look at the cable industry and blame the government. It's really simple: Company A owns the last mile lines (the ones that connect to your house) and Company A provides service via those lines. You are a captured customer, why on earth would it make sense in a free market f...
You're acting like I give a shit whether Google gives a shit about me. They are trying to force ISP's to give us better service at lower prices and you complain about their intentions!? That's how the free-market works. Businesses adapt and change (something humans generally don't like to do) in an effort to appease th...
In my experience, a number of people have said things like "The Tesla S is too expensive at ~$70K, I'd rather buy the Volvo XC90 for $45K, because I get more car and it's cheaper." > Well, let's take a look at the lifetime costs of a car. To make the math easier, let's say you paid cash (or cash equivalent) for a $70...
The full quote: >In a letter to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, DHS wrote that they have "been actively investigating the emerging threat and criminal exploitation of virtual currency systems that further transnational criminal operations." ... >"The anonymity of cyberspace affor...
A streaming black box, beyond technical limitations of streaming the huge number of data being recorded on 90,000 airline flights a day, provides little more than instant gratification that people can speculate from preliminary black box findings. For one, in an emergency, a pilot's responsibilities and priorities ar...
while I agree that it's not 100% secure, we can't start second guessing every effort to harden individual areas of IT infrastructure. Rome wasn't built in a day. the reason blanket surveillance is because the vast majority of global internet traffic is in the clear. The first step is to get as much encrypted traffic fl...
I think it's fine if you really want it. What I don't like about a lot of Social Media is that they make it waay to easy to overshare without thinking about it. The thing is that unless you're really tech savy, it can be difficult to make those settings private enough to keep people out that you don't want there. I...
Because smartphones have to be made to run on infrastructure compatible with phones from the 90s. Telecom companies are starting to implement VoLTE (which makes use of newer, faster 4G/LTE towers to deliver higher quality voice calls) but it seems like the four big carriers can't agree on a new, higher quality standa...
Absolutely not! It's the inverse. The influence of money isn't confined to one nation or one government. It's universal. From dictators to socialist regimes to democratically elected bodies. Money rules them all. As long as people are chasing after money, it will always buy power. But the real problem isn't even mo...
The problem is, the government should NOT have a monopoly on use of violence, at least not in the United States. The founding fathers wanted NO standing military and they would call on militia to be an army in times of need. The government was supposed to work for the people, and if it did not, it was supposed to be at...
Phenomenons is also correct in English English is a weakly inflected, word order based language which lost most non-standard inflections as various different Germanic tribes who had different inflections dropped them and kept the few common ones (plurals for many words ending in s/es, possession, and past tense bein...
So Physics teacher here who loves relativity, hoping to give a reasonable explanation - Special Relativity does lots of crazy stuff to things going very fast, and there are a couple of ways of looking at accelerating up to the speed of light. When something (our engine) goes faster, Special Relativity says that its m...
I think the take-home lesson here is more about learning to control your penis, not the fact that you have one. It's amazingly shitty how everyone (men and women alike) didn't mind violating the privacy of these women again, and again, and again by viewing obviously stolen, private photos. Just because a person didn't ...
They'll chew up a but, but if they start rounding it, its usually a matter of not having it tight enough.
I recently went to a show in a hockey arena that prohibited tablets during the show. The security guard pulled my girlfriend's samsung tablet from her purse and told her she would have to leave because "ipads" weren't allowed into the venue. She replied with "that isn't an ipad". He looked at it and said "this here ...