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I've been to those conferences as well. And on one hand, yeah it blows when an AMAZING concept doesn't get recognition because the topic isn't as flashy or, conversely, the presenter isn't willing to make it 'flashy'. That being said I think flashy might be a misnomer. Part of being a scientist is sharing your ideas ...
It happens because school in its current form is just a test of how well you conform to a system with a rigid set of rules to abide by. They determined that the current rate of learning is acceptable for the majority of students. If you think about it, about half of students should be in grades higher than their own, f...
I have to wonder how she fairs in other aspects of her life. For example, Einstein would often forget where he lived and other daily tasks like whether he drove to work or rode the bus that day. All I'm saying is that we all excel at some things while we utterly fail at others. We as a society need scholars like her to...
Basically what they're doing is modifying or injecting messages into the car's CAN bus, which is the communications bus used between all control modules. They're not running arbitrary code or anything like that, just sending fake messages to make certain control modules respond in a certain way. There's no way to do th...
I remember going to the mall with my mother and grandmother, who wasn't that spry due to her age and standing outside of a Child World toy store waiting for it to open. Super Soaker 100's were going on sale that day. Unlike the way they do today, they weren't any main displays set up out front for it and nothing ment...
His/her post: >What reasonable person would ever think he was entitled to $70 million for inventing a squirter? This at face value, is trolling already... This person posted something that is obviously contrary to what the majority of people believe should be the correct. And not only is it contrary, it is also bel...
Yes, i'm sure patenting devices after your concurrent release them, or patenting using a touchscreen are actually normal attitudes and definitely brand new inventions Nothing about this accurately describes what happened . > Not withstanding either the fact that the computer GUI was invented by xerox like 50 years ...
I don't understand why they haven't usurped DNS in general to support their own DNS system that would be untouchable. It seems the most obvious answer. Think about it- a DNS system that is not controlled by ICANN- sure, they would still forward requests to ICANN DNS servers for domain names controlled by ICANN- but b...
As a rule of thumb, any "unit cost" you ever see on the internet is always the direct parts and sometimes the direct labor cost (the direct labor cost is generally very low, so it is negligible whether or not it is included). Nobody includes the many indirect costs associated with a product such as research and develo...
Fuck, I try to turn mine off but it turns out that I never have one. I was in the process joining google+, I'm glad I realized it half way that I don't have one, and just close my tab.
again word games to dodge answering my point. What word games? I asked for examples, you gave none. >Jeff Bezos started a website, did he actually do the building? Who are the rest, did they actually build anything, or did they just "own things". I am thinking the latter. Jeff Bezos founded and runs the most suc...
I don't believe that Net Neutrality is the solution. I think that we need to either classify the ISPs as common carriers Does not compute. The purpose of classifying them as common carriers would be to enforce net neutrality. The reason that the supreme court ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to enforce net n...
I find it outstanding that my interactions with any non-profit is nothing but them trying to get money out of me. I mean those organizations that send out volunteers to "spread their message". I would really like to find out more information about what those human rights, animal rights, pollution, etc. people on the ...
That is a straw-man. No one wants people to work for free, they just want charities to be efficient, expending most of the money into the mission, and that includes salaries of employees working towards the mission. If I have a manufacturing company that expends 95% of its income in management salaries while expendin...
People seem to think that employees of charities or non-profits in general work for free. This isn't the case at all. The people working there are earning a living, just like anyone else, so a large chunk of what they take in as donations end up going out as income because, just like any other company, paying people'...
I feel like this is going to be Fargo 2 someday. The CIA releases a movie about the CIA undermining Kim Jong Un. Then organize a cyber attack on Sony and quickly blame it on N. Korea (they denied doing it). The CIA pulls the strings to get it to headline the news. Then when the hype peaks they release it everywhere kno...
My city (Lexington, KY) has public WiFi, but you have to re-authenticate every ~25 minutes. Then that process is a crapshoot, and it all stops working around 12:30, so there's that. Can't even play one game of Hearthstone, let alone watch a movie with any sense of continuity.
I don't see what that has to do with anything. My point is Wheeler has apparently done a 180 against his former masters. I find it really hard to believe that there isn't an ulterior motive here. In order for congress to fight their perceived encroachment of the FCC, the FCC first has to overstep - they haven't yet, bu...
How can anybody prove an NDA violation. Who's to say some engineer learned shit at apple , gets hired somewhere else, and through collaborations with other engineers develops a battery just as good.
Not much they can do. These companies tend to be fly-by-night operations. They get an LLC on a post office box, run their racket for a few months, maybe a year. By the time the fraud complaints come through, they cash out and start up another one. Thanks to a nice little bit of the law, they can form the LLCs using a...
the gilded age Can we get an ELI5
But if you have the developers sitting next to HR, its just a clusterfuck of fails. Look don't laugh at me but I have came to this realization not so long ago because of a game followed by two weeks at work. I can't remember the name right now. It's in early access and it's a mix of the Sims and Game Dev Tycoon. It...
I tried to yesterday, but Reddit was being retarded. It may be that I'm reading you wrong, it may be that I read it too damn early (my two year old has decided sleeping with mommy and daddy is a fun game), but your first two posts just didn't seem to grammatically make sense to me. I got the jist of what you were tr...
Check out this page: All of their recent tax returns are there, along with audited financial statements and other relevant documents. Royalty fees are the primary source of revenue, and they flow through the Mozilla Corporation--a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation. This allows the Foundation to maintain not-f...
It's ironic to see a company which would not exist (at anything like its current size, anyhow) bemoan having to pay for acquiring users. I wonder what their cost-per-user-acquisition would be w/o fcbk?
Just wanted to add more. Yes it rapes your facebook account. I looked at the sources intel and Leo Laporte. I trusted them so I went for it. I also immediately disabled the facebook app after presentation and rescinded all rights. I totally understand people not wanting to take part (here's looking at you Sony). As f...
This encapsulates all of my concerns with 'Cloud Computing'. Although I like the idea of 'Always On' storage and applications, I have been in enough situations where a firewall, a dead-spot in 3G/4G coverage, or some other client-side problem prevented me from connecting to some online service. That's not even cover...
Ok, here's the rub, and why some consider the GPL to be "More free" than the BSD License. The Bill of Rights gives people Freedom of (political) Speech, which can't be taken away. This means that you lose the ability to "close" speech so you aren't offended by something someone else says. While it would be nice to ...
Say the NAME of my computer is HelterSkeletor and the CODE they gave me is PGPHA6724 These go on the computer that wants you to input the data into it. Not both computer names in each field or two codes or whatever. Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.
If you get a phone from a carrier, you're trusting the carrier not to embed spyware. (And they all violate that trust.) If you get an image from someone else, at WORST, you're trusting that person. But an open-source image gets compiled by multiple people and scrutinized closely, so there's a good chance, even the ...
Yes, I do. Intimately. Regulatory capture happens when regulatory bodies stop serving the public interest (in other words, they stop regulating in the public interest), and start serving private interest (in other words, they regulate in favor of private interest). So it's two parts. The first part is ending reg...
The difference here is the IP industries have no real costs to make instances of their goods. Trivial clones cost next to nothing to produce, while actual production of goods has high labour, energy, materials, machinery, transit and infrastructure costs.
You sound like you think that businesses are embodiments of evil that will do anything just to get money. In fact, businesses are just organizations that will do anything to get money. They're not evil. The situation right now is that because government has so much power, businesses can bribe government officials to ...
Thanks for the edit. I don't live in Sweden anymore and forgot that swedes commonly put 5 words together into one, cuz psh who needs spaces anyway?
If you went into a store and copied a music cd, the effect is the same. No one loses anything. the store loses the sale and would consider this stealing. You can't go into a CD store and burn a copy of a CD without paying anything. > They're presumably paid an hourly or monthly wage. If not, they're yet another gro...
Any lawyers here? What would happen if every victim of throttling sued AT&T. According to our contract, AT&T won't allow a class action. It must either be small claims or arbitration. If we all file small claims, would AT&T be able to get court dates postponed due to not being able to be at all cases all the time,...
I believe the same thing happened when Cingular Wireless bought out AT&T Wireless, then after months of raping customers they decided to rebrand themselves AT&T again (because it's a brand that people trust and we are that stupid) only to keep providing the same shitty customer service). Former Customer Rep for AT&T Wi...
See, the problem with this is that the bar lowers rapidly. In order to be taken out of the pool to be throttled, people will switch over from unlimited to limited - lowering the bar further. After several rounds of this, you see people using low amounts of data hitting the 5% bracket.
Michael Geist sez And that's where I quit reading and scrolled to the bottom for a link to the article that wasn't written by (and apparently for) 12-year-olds.
Why is Apple fading? Part of it has to do with the way it's being covered in the press. After talking up Apple for years (and probably contributing to its success), the media have apparently decided that it's now time to run "Apple is doomed" stories, and lazy journalists are simply going with the trend. In the past ...
The only scary part about recreating neanderthals is that they are physically superior to us. They can take incredible punishment and are stronger.
Woo! time to un-lurk So.. They will not kill free Wi-Fi, they are planning on rolling out free Wi-Fi across the US. This is a move to make sure that small business are not offering out free Wi-Fi to their customers through third party services. Just so you know, where ever Wi-Fi is free - you are the product. Your ...
Well to be fair in the terms of who's lawyer you want to deal with between that of a multi-million/billion dollar company/artist or that of a 16 year old kid with a shitty nickelback song making 17 cents a day I'd err on the side of the original content owner and let the little guy fight the battle. Chances are more t...
Right, I'm not stupid Let me spell this out for you: I asked what part represents the subpoena information, not the warrant information. He said the envelope is a better example but the original 'car' example was contrasting and defining a subpoena VS a warrant and what information can be obtained from each.
Well, many of us who have been opposed to subsidies have been saying "Just wait and let the tech mature until it is commercially viable", and such a massive boost in efficiency would make this commercially viable. Assuming this pans out, and the manufacture isn't cost prohibitive, this tech in conjunction with the gr...
I work for one of the private educational companies (a big one) that will be using this database in the coming months, and most of the objections I'm reading here and in these articles show a total misunderstanding of what this data is for and why it's being collected. Some key points: This information is ALREADY b...
I like how all the people commenting to save this extremely important and informative comment are getting downvoted just because the elitist pc users think that they just ”must be too stupid to get RES” when in reality not everyone has a pc to install it to and have to rely on their local library for internet access, o...
I'll just shamelessly comment here to piggy back on the top comment, as I need to sleep and I probably won't be able to reddit until after the vote tomorrow. (1) Call offices, starting at 9a (maybe slightly before - some open by 8:30 - and messages ARE checked first thing in most). (2) Specifically, Tea Party R's n...
Are you sure it's because they were born here and not because they've worked their ass off and invested a good deal of cash for a degree in a field that they're unable to get work in? I know this is going to be a completely alien concept to you, but... you know... you are actually supposed to work your ass off to ...
Why are you recording/uploading a 60fps video? The max youtube supports is 30fps. You might as well just record it at 30fps. If we make the assumption that size scales linearly with FPS, then it should be about 10gigs per 30 mins. So you could upload about 90 minutes of footage. On top of that, you should be recordin...
I'm still reading the motion, but the core of the motion seems to be that Aereo hasn't taken concrete steps to launch its services outside Boston and New York, so declaratory judgment that their activity won't infringe a bunch of other cities is premature. Even if CBS said they will sue them everywhere, unless they'v...
I absolutely have to disagree with you. I've never purchased an iPod the only one I ever had was a shuffle that I got for free for opening my bank account. Cool. That being said I'm no apple fanboy either, but I do have to say the iPhone 5 is the best phone I've ever had the pleasure to use. I had a droid eris, Motorol...
this ruling comes just as President Barack Obama has announced his intention to cut down on "patent trolling" and lessen the frequency with which companies seek ITC bans on competitors' products.
AT&T has 266,500 or BP that can cover those court costs. No court is going to give those people that much money. They would lose out. Look at how much people usually make in class action lawsuits. They don't get much. Most goes to making lawyers rich, while the actual victims are left with pocket change. Literally....
The new destroyers are indeed impressive, as are the newly planned Cruisers, both of which are more effective than the Iowa class battleships for sure. I, however, don't think there will be a resurgence of battleship type vessels. The Iowa class is too old to be refurbished effectively to compete with missiles and r...
Why is /r/technology so rampantly pro piracy? Do you believe you should get everything in life for free or just media? It's not like movies or TV or books or music or games are particularly expensive. (In fact games are cheaper than the SNES era after adjusting for inflation.) Edit:
Guys. This title and this case are way out of line. Google did not do anything wrong. Every website tracks you around the web, it's neither illegal nor immoral. You can't sue Google for using cookies to improve your ad experience as you browse the web. Of course Google would defend itself from these frivolous laws...
Recognition I think a flaw is that not a lot of people know or care about Folding@home or World Community Grid profiles. Attaching points to a more well-known Google account might be more appealing for companies or consumers. Incentive > Yet there is no greater injustice than the double standard that exists betwe...
This is quite silly honestly. Just making a separate internet will do literally zero to protect the people within those new internets from the NSA, or the various versions of the NSA that exist. The reason why, is that these people assume that by not being connected to the old internet the NSA/etc has no connection t...
Summary B&O make expensive speakers amongst other things. Office for Internal Harmonization or OHIM is where you register for a Community Trade Mark or CTM to give your protection under the trade mark directive. In 2003 B&O tried to submit a trademark application for a three dimensional sign, the shape of their...
Yeah, Frontier might be "better" than Verizion, but they're hardly the standard of excellence. I live in WV, when we moved to our new house, it took them THREE MONTHS to hook up our internet and phoneline. We called them a good bit, trying to get them to come hook our stuff up, and nothing. They'd say the same thing ...
I used to work in a call center that fielded their technical support calls (and other ISPs) and their WV migration process was a nightmare to deal with, but honestly it was mostly on Verizon's end...not that Frontier was any better really. DSL is awful. Fiber is truly the way to go. Cable is an improvement over DSL...
well with reddit, lets say they do cache everything, then yes you would never see anything new. To solve this, they use a technique called cache invalidation. This is either done by affixing a timestamp on the cache keys that are stored in cache (cache keys are like a table of contents for a book, showing you where the...
Microsoft and their core services have died more times than Voyager has left the Solar System. I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of the MS zombie. Windows Phone is their best mobile OS yet and one-time market dominators like Palm and Blackberrry... well...
the app market is a bit crap I disagree. Even over a year ago when I was reviewing lists of Android and iOS "must have apps" year in review pieces, I found that the coolest functionality offered by the apps was baked into the OS (for example, the song recognition built into the search on WP vs. downloading Shazam)....
Windows Phone Doesn't Support Google Maps Because Google Doesn't Want It To -- Misspelling Windows Phone in user agent string allows it to work]( [According to Google, your Windows Phone is a feature phone -- Gmail renders using the mobile version for feature phones, not smart phones]( [Google Blocks Microsoft's Yo...
Fellow UK-er here, the following is complete guesswork: Our infrastructure is centralised with BT (or Openworld or whatever). All 10 (or 9) of those ISPs use the same physical infrastructure, at least between the exchange and your house BT's infrastructure is government regulated, since it was (is?) government ...
List of ISPs in my town: Hughesnet and DISH. That's it. No regular options, only satellite. Both suck, and are ridiculously expensive. $85/month with Hughesnet gives us 10Mbps of shitty satellite Internet, with a data cap of 10GB. Well, technically it's 20GB, but half of it can only be used from 2AM to 8AM. If we go ov...
I called their customer service line one day because I finally did a speed test. I was paying for 7mb internet and was getting 3mb speeds a few months after I got it. I talked to one of the support guys ( politely) and told them my issue. They really didnt have any clue what I meant as they were saying that the only s...
I also have had good CS from Uverse. My modem went bad one night around midnight. Called up AT&T the next morning and an hour later a tech was at my house with a new modem. My alternative is Time Warner, who can go to hell for all I care. I had them for 2 years and it was 2 years of shit internet service and shit cus...
Are you really saying that the US became the wealthiest country in the world because of wars pumping up the economy? No, I think I explained why I think the US became the currently wealthiest country in the world. Feel free to refer to the post you are replying to. >what about the classic liberalism priciples that ...
That was a subjective survey based on nothing more than what the physisian thinks. You can see it here with ,"Forty-two percent of US primary care physicians believe that patients in their own practice are receiving too much care;" The best part about this is it is a mail survey ," Between June and December 2009, we ...
Yeah. Pretty much. We use the parliamentary form of government which means once, and if, a party can form the official government they can pretty much act with impunity, well till the next election or there's a call of no confidence they can. And we've had a run of small c governments, with Harper being the latest an...
Frontier is a phone company. That's DSL service, which is inherently limited by the copper loop length from the central office. Since Frontier makes a point of serving rural areas (thus the name), it's got a good chance of being a very long loop. (Supporting evidence: /u/HuskeyG has no better option.) Note that as a gu...
Very good analogy, but there's one little fact that you didn't mention. "They're still making a profit, but its cutting things closer" The big ISPs like Comcast have a 97% margin. For every hundred dollars you give them, they get to keep as profit ninety seven. Internet infrastructure use costs are miniscule. Read ...
Why not water? Start with all-you-can-drink for a flat rate. Instead of metering water at the inflow, they install meters on every appliance. After all, your lawn is not as important as a bath which can be replaced with showers, none of which is as important as the tap that provides your life-sustaining liquid. The...
Oh, you young whippersnappers! The .com boom wasn't the first tech boom, you know. Personally, I started work with the super-minicomputer boom: the VAX 11/780 was just introduced (as was the VT100 terminal!); there was a huge opportunity for software developers in writing that software. But this was also the time w...
Or you have complete transparency and security goes out the window. For this reason and others, such as economic competitiveness, every country has secrets and programs run in secret. There is a naivety to demanding all the veils be lifted - if you think others wouldn't act on the revelations such as enacting counterme...
I am wrong that we are working with Germany to spy on their own citizens and they fake being upset that we spied on Merkel while they spy on any of any dignitaries who land on their soil or do the same to us? Did you know about the 14-Eyes group? Or how Germany was being "a little grumpy for not being invited to jo...
Once that threshold is crossed we've given up due process and our rights in general, there's a reason it's in place and we can't just give it up because their jobs are hard. You're right, in an increasingly technological world it is more difficult, but once again that doesn't make it legal . It has been difficult to...
You're being downvoted. I just wanted to point out to all the stupid people downvoting, why it is expensive. Google Fiber : Spent $84M to run fiber to 149k homes[^1]( $563 per home City of Longmont, Colorado : In 1997 spent $1.62M to run 17 miles of fiber along main roads: $95k per mile In 2012 ...
Seth's situation is WAY worse than what I've dealt with but I'd like to get 3 stories off my chest. 1: Back in 2000 I was looking for a new place to live, closer to work. I wound up choosing a place that wasn't as nice as the others because they promised me that they had cable broadband there while the other places d...
OSes, games, none of that matters to me. This is the reason why I fucking hate mac. They blatantly rip people off. Worse off is the way they pump and exploit educational facilities for cash. One of my old schools I worked in converted one of their computer labs to a Mac lab. They got the computers at a decent rate but ...
What a stupid fucking op-ed. Seriously. Why doesn't the operator go back to the days prior to 1800, where if someone when more than 10 miles away, there was a very good possibility that you would never see nor speak to them again unless you were landed gentry or a fucking king. Where everybody lives next door to thei...
drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to torrents), you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone -- illeg...
They will probably go the Showtime route and offer their own streaming service just for their own content. What these idiots don't understand is that people want central hubs of content that has a large diverse wealth abundance of content. We don't want to go to umpteen different fragmented streaming services to see th...
After having run the test linked to in the article, I read the results. It's basically a steaming pile of Windows marketing bullshit. Number one I am running Firefox on Linux. So all there crap about protecting from access to Windows system files shouldn't even be counted.
If we disregard the complex looking figures and look only at what is claimed in the patent, the actual claims are very broad and full of vagaries, basically vaporware. It looks like a patent of a generic fuel cell that can regulate its output hooked up to a computer, without any engineering specifics. The patent does n...
My cable box comes with the option to watch porn. But I still have to pay to watch it. What the fuck!? IT COMES WITH IT! WHY CAN'T I ACCESS ALL THE THINGS AVAILABLE FOR SOMETHING I HAVE!
That would mean: Higher bitrate for equal quality Potential anti-trust issues Shitty framerates on phones and low powered computers because of lack of hardware acceleration for webm
He suggests boycotting the companies, which is great, but his point about how it's hard to know whether or not you're supporting a company means you basically have to withdraw from society to boycott anything. Boycott TimeWarner? For some people, that means no internet. Once you've effectively withdrawn from society, i...
Nike has contracts with all sorts of sports leagues though, like the NCAA, NFL, etc. And they're a major distributor of all kinds of athletic equipment besides just shoes -- they have independent lines for pretty much every major sport, and their new NFL contract makes them the exclusive distributor of authentic NFL j...
I totally agree, but in my situation, it seems like banging pots and pans is the only thing I can do. I'm not a US citizen (Australian), and I haven't voted in any election previously because of age (now 18). I'm even unworkably far away from my state capital/largest city, so a protest would have to coincide with other...
The problem is that if the government wants to do something then they do it. It doesn't matter what the populace wants, they'll do it. They could put it in a bill for better roads (and on the by no privacy) or they'll just do whatever the hell they want with the internet equivalent of black bagging dissenters.
The population of Denmark is less than that of New York City, and mainland Denmark is around one-quarter of the size of New York State. It's very easy to run a tiny country made up of mainly one ethnicity that shares a cultural heritage spanning more than a thousand years. You will cooperate very easily. This does no...
That's hard to say. Most would probably say yes of course it would be, but they are disregarding the full cost of the vehicle. Each car has thousands of component parts, most not even made in union shops, so that shouldn't make much of a difference. Assembly is (mostly) what we think of when we hear about the auto unio...
No. He always was a criminal. He started his hacking career by distributing stolen phone cards so people would upload warez and movies to his "house of cool", only to turn on his heel a few months later and rat out major contributors to the state prosecution in Germany. He defrauded investors by blatant insider tradin...
Most of the time, I find the left/right channel divide on Beatles songs annoying. Most of the time. I was having a pretty crazy DOC trip once, thinking about my friends, my family, my mother and father specifically. I was in a pretty weird headspace, finding my thoughts repeating in the 3 to 5 second loop that to m...
Your statement is false. It just means you can be sued by your carrier for unlocking the phone. it is not a crime that they can send feds or police to your house and prosecute you under federal law over.
Laws are bullshit and contracts are unread. Contracts should be made illegal instead of consumer being liable to ridiculous penalties for being ignorant to the contract they sign. Either that or every place that offers contracts should have a lawyer on stand by to go over the contract before you sign it.