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Would you rather have internet advertised at 500kb down/50kb up? ISPs are overselling too much, building too little infrastructure, and capping too low —but to expect to be able to have a connection that is as fast in a burst as you want, and be able to operate at that speed all the time, is simply not physicall...
I worked for Alienware for two years - I used to be the tech support supervisor for corporate and ALX (alienware luxury line of ultra-expensive computers, we're talking $6k computers ). During that time, I had to take care of some really, really messed up cases and more often than not, trying to make up for damage ...
Really, cause I went through quite a few hoops over borked wifi in my touch last year.
I Bought an M15X about 3 years ago. It was a gift, and I was 14 at the time, so it was understandable. Within the year it had screen issues. I sent it out from NY for repairs, a month later it was returned. Everything had been replaced with no backups except the Ribbon cable causing the problem in the first place. Appa...
It's Malcolm Gladwell, which means the piece is probably supposed to contradict the prevailing notions, but without the attendant research. The following article debunks the 10,000 hours myth as put forth in Outliers: > “The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any ...
While it's possible to take down super-large corporations like Sysco, Coca Cola, AT&T, Kraft Foods, Wal-Mart by voting with your wallet, it's HIGHLY HIGHLY probable it will fail. Reason being? So, you didn't buy that thing from wal-mart on principle; they'll be glad to know they really aren't missing out on much profit...
Well, they have shown themselves to be incredibly short sighted and pro-censorship. The only reason they pulled support was PR and money. Their internal stance didn't change. This is them trying to save face, not do the right thing for the internet. Giving them credit for just saying "We're sorry for doing that incre...
These are all symptoms of a broken political system in the USA. It goes like this: Elections cost millions to win due to high costs of national airtime for attack ads and an army of campaign supporters and organizers. Aspiring candidates take millions in donations and owe favors in return. Once in power sit...
When the government is making laws that allow media companies to keep solidly in the past and prevent innovation in distribution technologies, and those companies refuse to adapt whenever a superior technology comes around, I can look up to a guy who links to some torrents. True, they make money from other people's w...
Lol ok Enjoy not making a penny off your hard work. When you wake up and realize that its important to earn money from your work you will think much differently about your methods. Also calling me names etc...is absolutely pathetic, the fact that you take this personally and resort to insults etc...is proof you hav...
The other "to be fair" thing, though, that often comes up in these debates is that the US is such an incredibly decentralized country - whereas most European countries (partially due to the sheer difference in size compared to the US) have much higher relative population densities and are much more centralized. If you ...
Let me be the first (edit: not the first, as there are already downvotes) to say that you're just a little part ignorant, and a large part pretentious. Attacking my nationality instead of using actual debate techniques to debunk my stance or argument? Classic misdirection and avoiding the point. You're so caugh...
I am a musician in Austin, TX, and I couldn't agree more that the entertainment industry thrives on archaic, unfair, and dishonest tactics in the drive for money and power. As with many things, some degree of a resistance to change is a defense mechanism we all share at the base of who we are, and whether that is expre...
Providing a service comparable to piracy is the only way anyone will ever stop piracy. I can go on the Pirate Bay less than an hour after a show is aired and find a 720p rip of the episode. Where is the comparable service for that in America? I can download new-release, high-quality 1080p movies in less than thirty m...
For the past 5 years, I've been working my way up the studios in Hollywood. I'm an aspiring filmmaker and reddit lurker, but I've never posted until now. I just want to present my understanding of the studios' business and ask you all questions. Most studios are own by larger corporations who primarily deal with ot...
Well its like what NDT said on The Daily Show, the reason why we went to the moon was to show superiority in space over the Soviets because we felt threatened by them. It wasn't truly for the advancement for mankind, it was a dick measuring contest. If we want the budget for NASA to increase, if we want to go to Mar...
Actually, NASA is likely the most efficient government agency we have. The budget is tiny, and has been shrinking for awhile. The highest it has ever been is 4.41% of the federal budget (in 1966). It has been hovering below 1% since mid 70s, and is at its lowest point today. Granted, that's % of budget, and the pic...
Sorry to be a naysayer, but can someone explain to me why this CISPA is bad? This guy just ranted about SOPA for a while, and then cited an EFF article that I can't freaking find and that the dude failed to link to. ಠ_ಠ However, online I find these articles: Don't get me wrong, I'm a freedom-loving an...
As often is the case with the government, there is a big difference between how things should be and how they actually are. There has been discussion of the "[Quantico Circuit]( since its existence was revealed in 2008 by a whistleblower (outlined in [this affidavit]( > Quantico Circuit > n. >A surveillance tap pr...
We created the first office with 100 desks and said "we won't have 100 people here any time soon, since it's just you and I." Five years later, we had seven employees, and laughed at how each staff had more than a dozen desks available to them. Then we were successful, and next thing we knew we had 180 people in th...
Well... Let's see if they're telling the truth... The crime did not take place on UK soil. It took place on tvshack.net's servers. The article doesn't say where tvshack.net's servers were hosted (good possibility that it was in the US). .NET is owned by Verisign. Verisign is based in [Reston, Virginia]( so...
The wireless spectrum is hard limited by the Shannon limit. It's a limit that is impossible to meet, but proves that we cannot increase the network ability cap arbitrarily large. We can increase the limit by having more bandwidth available, but the FCC directly controls those bands in the US and cell phones have to s...
I had a "Tech support" operator tell me that if I jammed a regular phone cord into the Cat5 slot on my modem and then into my computer it would still work, "It would just be slower because it has fewer wires." This was after having called them once a week for 3 months attempting to get my service working at the adver...
per NPR on the drive to work this morning, after every shift, the workers have to queue up in lines 200-300 people deep and go through metal detectors to ensure they are not stealing iPhones, parts, etc. The security guards that man these checkpoints have a reputation for insulting, berating, generally verbally abusin...
Having dealt with Apple Stores frequently over the last 4 years, I have a hard time believing this story, especially since you preface it with "I hate Apple". Here's an anecdote for you: took my friend to the Apple Store to try to get service on his 4S, jailbroken and with something on it called "Android Lock" that m...
It is not a thing you can comprehend... We might surprise you. > You represent chaos, we represent order. Every technological advancement must be patented in order to bring order to the chaos. It is inevitable. Without our intervention, consumers are doomed. We are your salvation. You're banning everything and t...
Do you need it? No. Does an android/smartphone help in unexpected ways? Yes. I live an aggressively boring regular life. But when we moved to a mountainous/canyon area, and my phone had zilch reception at the house, I loaded a free VOIP app so I can make calls easily. The 60+ year old neighbors keep chanting Magic ...
Actually when you think about it, people go ape shit for Apple news because it's all speculation and the company doesn't generally make public statements. All apple news comes from deep within forumns. Unlike everyone else's which generally comes direct from the horse's mouth.
High here so sorry for that Honestly that was so emotional for me because my brother and i's relationship was like that when we were younger (me being your brother). My heart goes out to you man and I wish you all the best. Much love bud. -psyche
Sorry for the text dump, but this is one of my interests. [puts on 3D expert hat] So here's the deal. 3D is not a 'gimmick'. It's a film making tool. It's not 'natural', but neither is any other part of cinema. The visuals of cinema (color, focus, panning, transitions, lighting, etc) are completely artificial a...
I think the word you're looking for is "POSIX" compliant and FWIW Windows 2000 and newer are POSIX "compliant" and we all know that doesn't make those systems equivalent. In regard to OSX, sure core-utils run and you've got a familiar shell to work in but from a performance and scalability perspective, OSX has a diff...
You explained nothing. Allow me to help you understand why people complain about it. PC gaming is its own animal, you spend a good 20-30 minutes installing and configuring the game to your liking. With a console you pop the disk in, it possibly loads some data to the hard drive, 5-10 minutes later you are up and runnin...
I won't speak to the Linux promise, but the PS2 games promise is one I can address. When the PS3 was first released it could play PS2 games. This was not accomplished through emulation (would have been difficult with a completely different processor) but through the inclusion of actual PS2 hardware in the box. This...
Even the physical media. I usually see a 3 year old game that used to be selling for $60 drop to $40. Sure, 33% is steep, but not when the sequel to that game has itself been out for a year. Meanwhile, games on the Play Store regularly go half-off. In fact, many of these sales are in effect immediately after their re...
right the opposite: whenever a used game is resold the developers don't make any additional money. If everyone has to buy their own brand new copy sales would explode and companies knowing that would exclusivly produce for this system. This results in Big Companies preferring the used-game-blocking system, the premium...
You're right about my card, but for $500 you can still build a PC that outperforms the listed specs on the PS4 by a long shot. The GTX 660Ti puts out 2.4 TFLOPS and costs $250 on sale. The HD 7870 regularly drops below $200 after rebates. Combine that with a cheaper AMD barebones kit with a 1045T, and you're pretty muc...
That's a horrible analogy, you're right. The level of work to get the hello world running was absurd, and it wasn't even stable. Instead, their removing Other OS caused others to actually exploit something more akin to what you're describing because in reality their security was actually terrible. The Other OS "ha...
If you read the bill youll see that all the oppositions concerns are addressed in it. Most importantly it has a provision that the government can not use personally identifiable information and it defines exactly what information can and cannot be shared. 1104.(C)'(4)PROTECTION OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS- The Fe...
You must have a magical device that I don't have. No one has developed something that what you want to my knowledge. Why is that? Oh, right: People would rather ask for someone name (again) instead of aiming a cellphone at them, which would prompt an explanation from the cellphone pointer person. Because it's fu...
Electoral systems can have amazing impacts on the behavior of candidates. I've never seen this idea brought up before. I don't like this proposal though because, for a rational voter, it is needlessly more complicated than an alternative that does the same thing called, incidentally, the [Alternative Vote]( method. I...
Just some theories as to what we're up against:- Governments change laws when it suits them. Look at big companies and tax laws. Big companies don't pay taxes because governments essentially collude with them. In exchange for information, governments give big businesses a pass on paying taxes. Governments could c...
absolutely no reason to upgrade. DirectX 11.1 and 11.2, faster boot times, and better performance overall are the reasons why I upgraded. After 2 weeks, I got accustomed to the changes in the UI and the new and useful shortcuts (Win+X, for instance) it comes with. Windows 7 is still strong, but I think the bigges...
Facebook engineer in privacy (infra, not design, though). Believe me, everyone thinks this when they first join the team. Large-scale change in privacy settings is a Bad Thing (TM). Whenever we make even small changes to our privacy settings, people think we're trying to trick them. Suddenly they feel [the need]( to ...
If you have a low number of friends, isn't whatever algorithm that populates your news feed going to have a harder time coming up with more socially significant events to use? That could be why trivial stuff keeps popping up for you. I have just over 600 friends, and the people whose posts I interact with the most ar...
I had the worst taxi experience in my life in Paris. I jumped in a cab and gave the driver the name of the hotel. She drove straight through the the area and past the hotel and then told me she didn't know where it was and started shouting at me that I should have given her the address. I told her that if she didn'...
I've spent 3 months in Paris the last year and although I used taxi only 3-4 times, I didn't have any problems. This is actually typical of Reddit...all this dude had was one bad experience and then in the
It's to curtail bots. If reddit finds a vote bot account they can flag it as such. If they didn't fuzz the votes then after voting the bot could just reload the page and check to see if its vote went through and if not, it would know that it was on the list, time for a new account. Instead they with the vote fuzzi...
Make no mistake: Google is purely in the business of data. It's their entire model. Any venture that collects data is of interest to Google for the sole purpose of selling that data to advertisers. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook can only wish they were as far ahead in the Big Data game as Google. The best ...
It's just my opinion and I'm clearly the minority here but Google is seriously starting to frighten me. It seems like that every month, we're reading about some crazy acquisition that Google makes, another acquisition that brings potential power...all through some "thing" to make our life more convenient. With Googl...
I'm not trolling it just seems like you think you have a better understating of what it takes to get around security measures than you actually do. Worst case scenario a pirate bay type server system could be set up where the video is decoded and truncated before it ever gets to the end users computer. It would be very...
Uh. The TCP/IP protocol is decentralized? The physical, wired infrastructure is not. You could use a P2P packet switching system, perhaps, in areas with large contiguous wi-fi networks. But for anything else, you're going to have to route traffic through a wire that is owned by a big company or start building wir...
Okay, CDMA is a protocol used by the US military a while ago. They used it because at the time it was pretty secure. Back when I worked for Verizon (not too long ago) they continuously touted that they used CDMA because it was awesome and secure. Never mind that it's no longer secure by any real modern standard and nev...
Non-slideshow list: It's all about choice - >Having options available is always a good thing for tablet shoppers, and Windows has them. While other platforms running tablets have only one (Apple) or a few brands (Samsung, Google, etc.) to choose from, that's not the case with Windows tablets. >Nearly every major ...
carpal tunnel A small public service announcement It's not always Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or RSI; it could be Tendinitis or Tendinosis RSI is an umbrella term for any strain due to repetition. It might not be carpal tunnel syndrome unless you have numbness and tingling. It could be a repetitive strain injury o...
It would be great, if not for the hardware drivers and their frequently overly complicated configurations. Been using Ubuntu here for years now. Ubuntu was a great way to a new life to an older laptop or desktop. Unfortunately we are seriously considering returning back to Windows because of appalling Flash support. Wi...
Lemme help. I have ultra-sensitive skin, both to infections (acne, for example) and to mechanical irritants. I have to take an antibiotic to stave off as much acne as possible and keep what I can't stop showing up from turning into cysts, essentially. These hurt super bad and occasionally rupture under the skin and hav...
Sorry but you guys in north america have your priorities all wrong. 1.1 million plastic particles per square kilometre is an incredibly small amount . It is equal to 1.1 parts per square meter of water. Assume that depth of the lake is 1000 ft (350m, which is around the average depth of a lake). In a cube meter of wat...
I used to work in a deli, and every now and then, someone would lecture me about preservatives in cold cuts. They would act like I was the one who decides to add these preservatives, almost like I was trying to slowly poison them. It didn't really bother me, mostly because I felt bad for the people. If you can't figu...
This article concerns me on several levels. First, what it the concentration of beads that were found? But regardless of it was 1000 per gallon or 1 per gallon, how can a sewer treatment plant not remove something as big as 1.25 mm? Some of the comments here say that the plants here do "filter" these types of items ...
Actually the city didn't have a choice. A US Broadband Map search of Worcester, MA shows the usual 2 ISP options (Level 3 and Platinum Equity serve enterprise customers only; Verizon and AT&T are the only landline telco ISPs left, and their service areas never overlap): Charter and either Verizon or AT&T. Since Char...
You're joking, right? Because it's a public project, they'd have to allow contractors to bid on it, which would take months. Assuming a successful bid process isn't turned into a court case fiasco by rejected contractors or political accusations of bribery, improper process, etc (which could take months or years), only...
I agree that the author is suffering from severe internet attention disease, but the idea is genius. Hearing things like this coming out of Google is like a little sunrise in my soul, they do seem to genuinely want this game-changing tool of communication to belong to everyone (which is as it should be). This isn't T...
The store? Most of the games I play are available on the internet. Ever played CS Source? Heroes of Newerth, Savage2, Battle for Wesnoth? I bought UT2004 in stores, but that included a Linux version in the box.
The issue we have at the moment is the senior politicians and other people in power in Australia are all relatively conservative - mid-late 50s to mid 60s age group, who grew up in a more conservative time. This same generation and demographic is also one of the larger voting groups. The baby boomer generation, who a...
Don't act so persecuted. Perhaps in your mind what you wrote counts as a well-reasoned or thoughtful response, but let me assure you it isn't. You didn't get downvoted for pointing out Gruber's bias (which certainly exists, by the way). You got downvoted for how you said it. Rather than respond to mistercow in a rati...
Indeed. In a lawsuit based on infringement of a trade secret the minimum penalty includes "monetary damages for misappropriation plus court costs an attorney's fees". However , because Gizmodo most certainly acted in a willful manner then according to the Uniform Trade Secrets Act they would be also liable for puniti...
There's no doubt that they make excellent products which has helped them gain a huge market share. But now they're exploiting this market share, while saying 'fuck you' to their customers and developers, with the sole aim of generating profits. It is definitely a company's duty towards its shareholders to make profits,...
whilst it would be ideal to live 100% of one's beliefs 100% of the time, unless all other things in the universe are equal, it will lead to a short and martyred life. so until then a strategy of compromising less valuable beliefs is efficient to maintain the more important ones. whilst open and transparent living is ...
However, it isn't an across the board increase in load on their servers. This only affects the search front end boxes. They probably serve an order of magnitude more ads and those aren't sent over SSL. Also, all the backend requests to generate the search results (which touch 1000 servers) wouldn't be encrypted. And fi...
Thank you, Reddit! Prior to Digg's laughable 'upgrade' they did me a great favor. Through the comments I was reacquainted with the wonderful & diverse webhole called Reddit. I admit to being a Digg refugee, and have found Reddit to be far superior in many aspects. Beyond the vastly more interesting content; notably i...
Okay, well the people arguing in favour of Facebook have been saying for the past while that it works FOR THEM, and while it may not work FOR YOU, it does work very well with the things they want from it. It's unfortunate that up until now I enjoyed the back and forth you had going on. But your whole mini-rant about Fa...
Facebook came around after I was done with school as well. I admit that it was nice getting in contact with some people I hadn't talked to in a while, but in the end I did not see enough advantages to keep it around. I'm sick of people thinking Facebook is the be-all-end-all form of communication. People will say the...
Although I agree with you 100%, there is one really important thing to note: Hong Kong is only 426 square miles and it is all urban. Laying infrastructure in a such a small area with a high density is much easier than the thousands (millions? billions?) of miles of cable that would required in the USA.
This kind of question / accusation indicates a lack of knowledge on the subject. Hong Kong is a very densely populated area, and the US is not. It is much easier to install and maintain infrastructure in a densely populated area. 1Gbps is simply not feasible in the US at this time; some people still don't even have ...
When it comes to necessities, they MUST be regulated by the government. The Internet has become a necessity that now needs regulation. Whenever you deregulate a commodity that people cannot viably function without, prices invariably go up. This has been proven time and again, because demand never goes down for nece...
It wouldn't be any more correct to say that they are Japanese, Chinese, etc. I also know many people from Asia that do not like to be called Asian. I try not to be insensitive, but some people take political correctness too far. (
if you wanted long winded articles on interesting subjects why are you reading gizmodo? i'm serious, every time i go on that site it's just some shit about a samsung 7inch tablet or something stupid about steve jobs..
I'm sensing a definite lack of appreciation for the humor latent in this article. I'm wondering if anyone actually read it... Anyway. Assuming we're taking this seriously, it's utterly ridiculous. We've created an age of high technology, and 'scientists' of all people are surprised and frightened that we are adapting...
No. Nuclear engineer here - why'd you have to ask about this on my Saturday morning? Not all uranium is created equal. Lets simplify things and say that there's two main "types", Uranium-238 and Uranium-235. They're both uranium, but the only difference is one is slightly heavier. If you mine uranium, what you ge...
This is what makes you an ass. He doesn't "attempt" to be a geek. He's just himself, and he talks about what he enjoys. Too bad that doesn't meet with your approval. You come across as a bitter hater because you think people should listen to you above Wil. He gets instant Geek Cred for being on Star Trek from most ...
Three strikes rule is in effect in France. IT IS STUPID. Here's how it has been done in France : Usually, the plaintiff need to prove that you were downloading and seeding, they have the burden of proof. Since it's almost impossible for them to prove that in piracy case (shared internet access accross a family, possi...
I work in tech support, and I'm sorry to say but there's nothing more frustrating than getting something along the lines of a epic BB error message which causes you to reload the OS I do like how flexible the OS actually is, and that its come this far as the basis for most of the other OS's out there, but seriously, ...
They relied on their corporate business thinking their encryption would carry them through. They apparently forgot consumers also have phones. I think the only thing they bothered to do once the iPhone hit was put out the Blackberry Storm. One of their very few touch screen phones. "Old people love our phones becau...
Because no matter what he has done in the past he doesn't deserve this. I don't like Dotcom at all, he's an obnoxious scumbag. But the actions taken against him are completely out of proportion to what(if anything) he has done. He may be fat and obnoxious but that doesn't mean all his basic rights should be shit on...
Funny story, I had a few acquaintances in high school who would on occasion play monopoly together. The one guy I was actually really good friends with at the time was a bit of a hot head. He didn't like to lose. The other one barely spoke English(his only language is English but he mostly talked in grunts). The la...
Hey, I have heard Reddit complain so many times about how these financial criminals get off too easy and they should be treated like the rest of the criminals in the criminal justice system. Well here you have it. The fact is he broke the law (a law you and I and Reddit might disagree with) and is being treated as such...
You're wrong. We can stop them. But it won't be easy. All we have to do is get everyone who agrees with our principle in one place. The principle is freedom. The cause is "Stop government oppression now". Let's pick a medium sized city somewhere, (a place with plenty of water and good weather), find a bunch of people w...
However, that being said, Dotcom and his employees were not only fully aware of the illegal material stored on their service, but were also guilty of uploading and sharing some of it. Sure, the CEO of UPS knows that his company makes money off of illegal activities, but he doesn't participate in said illegal activities...
oh can you do this?" Sound like a honest question if the person doesn't use iOS stuff. "oh we were able to do this before you!" Well, they did. But fanboy's versus fanboy's facts matter. Facts are never a bad thing. It's what separates fanboys from people that can take criticism. And Apple fanboy's think something...
Because it's a scanner, not a guitar. I remember my father (who used to work on old tube computers back in the day) told me about how the engineers (programming was engineering back then) could make the UNIVAC "sing" because the tubes resonated at different frequencies.
Throw away account here, but just wanted to pitch my two cents: I am a sex offender for something that I did four years ago. I've been through the counseling/therapy with no incident, I was never declared a threat to the society, I register on time, and my crime involved no interaction with other human beings. Porn thi...
I did not say that I pirate music. I have to disclose, I did pirate frequently back in the days when Napster was king, but that was before all the RIAA shit hit the fan, and before most of us really thought about it much. I haven't really pirated anything since then. What I actually said was, I find an alternate way ...
Actually, Pris' face painting won't fool the computers. Most of the face detectors these days (the ones you find in your phones, pocket cameras, etc.) first check if the assumed eye area in the image is darker than your cheek area, then proceed with a bunch of similar checks. Kind of. Google Viola-Jones and look at the...
If you are buying remotely, you are giving your home address to a stranger online who sells drugs. If you are buying face to face, cash is basically untraceable and easier to exchange. Admit it, cash is, and always will be, far more convenient than crypto-currencies for buying drugs.
AT&T has made a deal with Verizon so that only the AT&T iPhone can do both. In not-locked-down-for-silliness-land, Verizon LTE devices and some 3G devices can do simultaneous voice and data. LTE devices definitely can, since data will go over LTE, and voice will go over CDMA. VoLTE solves all problems, and a handful ...
Can confirm part of this. My family is trying to save money by ditching the AT&T Home Phone at $75/m with terribly basic DSL at $20/m and trying a VoIP provider (Ooma. ) ATT's offering was, for just basic DSL ala cart, it skyrockets to $35/m. Not to mention I live in a suburb, with an ATT tower in the town center (re...
What age does one become an adult in regards to this survey? Because the only teens that are driving are (maybe) 16, 17, 18, and 19. Many states consider 18 as an adult. If the survey considered this, then only two ages are both teens and drivers.
But... Assuming 500 people in each age category (I cannot assume otherwise because this article reports no actual raw data) the results are not significant. It was underpowered to detect a difference that small (again, unless I see more data I can only very roughly estimate how "significant" these results are.
28 years old. Zero accidents/collisions of any type. I use my signal when I need it. The difference being that I actually know when I need it and you guys use it regardless because you turn your brain off when you drive. Why do you signal when no one is around you? Because you don't actually know if someone is around...
Oh god, I'm 20 and my Dad is 49. He is fucking terrible about texting and driving. Worse off is he has an iPhone so he's trying to pull that bullshit with a touchscreen, with family and friends in the car. It's fucking obtuse and offensive, I've literally had to scream and take it away from him (I'm a man by the way) y...