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If privacy all at once was gone and for everyone, then it would change us as a society probably for the better. The reality is privacy is only going to be left for the elite which will continue the blackmail and comprised world we live in today. Think about the toe tapping senator or the cheating politicians that have ...
The funny thing is, the headline is not exaggerating much at all. I understand your dislike of sensationalist titles and I respect and share that dislike. Your skepticism is entirely founded, especially if you are not familiar with these ongoing issues. But in this case, this event is significant enough that it is mo...
For those that don't remember, Lavabit was Edward Snowden's email provider, and they shut down their business rather than cooperating with a court order they claimed "would make them complicit in crimes against the American people." They were bound by a gag order and threatened with jail if they violated it. Today t...
There's a channel here that plays reruns of SG:1 and SG:Atlantis for as long as I can remember, and I still watch every episode I can even if it's for the umpteenth time, SG:1 is obviously not the same without O'neil in it's last seasons, and they seem to run out of ideas, but the team chemistry is still there with sev...
Actually 8 cubes, not hundreds. And self-assembling just means they stick together, not that they replicate.
Yeah....about that. I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one. It's [not the first time]( people have lost money from [bogus projects]( People seem to get the impression that Kickstarter/Indiegogo verify the project and check everything, and if they don't get their item then they get a refund. The truth is, these...
pushed Britney Spears to go nuts for the camera to increase sales. Actually, she legit suffers from mental illness. That's also why she is under a guardianship/trusteeship (ie: her parents need to make legal, financial, and even personal decisions for her since she was/is incapable of doing so). She was also out of t...
I'll try to keep this brief (and will probably fail). First, I tried to open the T-Mobile account/shift the AT&T account online. Kind of an involved process (since credit check is involved), took 20 minutes... got to final confirmation page and got an error saying I needed to go in store. Grumble grumble, whatever. ...
Its only limited because the big two want it to be limited. [Look up the 700Mhz A Block spectrum.]( Verizon purchased their 700Mhz Lower A Block spectrum in 2008. Yes, thats 6 years ago. To date, they have not deployed a single network on that spectrum, and recently sold of a couple billion of it to T-Mobile, for a pro...
The thing about Verizon that pisses me off the most is that, after 20 GB, the rate for any more data increases per GB,and you are forced to purchase 10 GB increments. So it's $10/2GB ($5/GB) from 2-20GB, but it becomes $75 to go from 20GB to 30GB ($7.5/GB). That is a 50% data rate increase that you get penalized w...
I was talking about my original comment in this thread, you jumped in halfway and started raging about one particular situation which was really just irrelevant to the topic at hand.
innocent civilians This phrase is so weird to me, but I hear it all the time. Why do people insist on constantly pairing the two words together as if they are necessarily overlapping? It bothers me for two reasons, the first is that is forces the assumption that all civilians are necessarily "innocent" and free fro...
It's true. But the problem with the Streisand Effect on a law like this is the fact that the sheer volume of deletion requests will make it hard for more stories like this to gain attention. Imagine if this trend continues, up to the point where every disgraced CEO, CFO, or high level banker forces Google to start scru...
The law doesn't require Google to take down everything just because some guy asks them too. On the other hand, Google are probably being very loose in their interpretation of the law, because it's in their interests to stir up indignation (they want to get it repealed). What's happening is: bad person asks Google t...
Yes, should have made a clearer distinction. There's information in the public domain - stuff that happens in public in real life, stuff you intentionally publish to the World ... and then there's information that is supposed to be private or anonymous - communications between individuals (email, IM, txt, phone), pse...
Except it's not the ISP's that route the traffic from Netflix to you. Completely and utterly wrong. Nobody even remotely competent with networking would make such a ridiculous statement. >It's Netflix that decides which CDN's to route that traffic from Netflix to your ISP's network The problem is not on Netflix'...
Weird. If you guys remember the Time Warner outage a few months ago I commented, jokingly, that I downloaded 16 gb of porn (which I actually did) and it must have shut it down. Now, whats fucking weird is I recently switched to Comcast and downloaded a bunch more porn last night. I'm sorry
The funny thing is that I have a below average sex drive and often go for days without masturbating. I just really get off on digital hoarding in general because I started off downloading warez in the 56k days. I still remember watching porn pictures fully load line by line or spending half a day to grab a single Neo-G...
I disagree; I think the internet is strangling religion for profit not religion as an idea; the amount of people that are reading older religious texts has skyrocketed as a percentage of society and so has the number of people willing to interprett this on their own becaus translation resources are abundant today. We...
Sorry about misunderstanding the printing press part, although I disagree that newspapers allow discourse. The Editors aren't going to print things they don't like unless there's profit involved. I don't think you're wrong about humans seeking leaders and conformity, but I think that's at least partly because they do...
You're limited by thinking Abrahamic religions are the only religions. Buddhism, for instance, has no gods. The man who laid the tenets of the belief system was subsequently revered to the point that Buddhists feel the words of the Buddha are as important as Christians feel the words of Christ are. Over time, char...
The fact that people are deconverting because if the Internet does not in anyway disprove what the above user said. This does not rule out reasons beyond misinformation for staying with your religion. I'm talking about a rather small population now, but in my former modern orthodox Jewish community, the number of...
I'm talking about the future. Reddit seems to be of the opinion that Netflix and others like it are going to replace the TV studios, which is a possibility. However, I get a little tired of the circlejerk about how awesome Netflix is because I don't think people realize that they only exist because the studios make t...
I'm talking about the future. Reddit seems to be of the opinion that Netflix and others like it are going to replace the TV studios, which is a possibility. However, I get a little tired of the circlejerk about how awesome Netflix is because I don't think people realize that they only exist because the studios make the...
The article here: from the OP doesn't list a name. You randomly come in and name "Elliot Rodger" which any rational person, with having ANY OTHER CONTEXT would assume you are talking about the person in the OP who just plead guilty to swatting. Then, you further orphan your pronoun by saying justice was done and t...
I got swatted FUCKING TWICE because of these shits! I want some fucking compensation for getting woken up to gunpoint twice. At least let me beat them until they can't see.
These people also fail to realize is: Google is a technology company. They are big and bloated and in their position it makes a lot of sense to invest a lot in creating technologies to help position themselves for their business models. The core Google business model is advertising. Anything else they do is not...
I work with many types of companies that are starting up as my day-to-day job. A lot of my time is spent doing risk and growth assessments on new startup companies. I agree with 37 Signals completely. A lot of reddit buys into them because of the following: reddit /r/technology is full of people who have never s...
Even Apple won't stoop that low. They try though. I recently deleted the mac partition on my macbook (to try to get it to dual boot windows and linux), it wouldn't boot even from cd, so just for fun I took it to the apple store to see if they could get it to boot from cd. They tried to tell me I had messed up the fir...
This whole thing is making me frustrated about reddit's fact checking. Neither this post nor the OP linked to the source, P3Droid at MyDroidWorld, the guy responsible for many of the Droid ROMs and basebands and roots. Here's the deal: P3 made it pretty clear in his post and that it's being used in a new way, makin...
I'm fucking going to scratch my eyes out if I see the abbreviation
They are afraid of this myth: Nobody wants an ultra-competitive environment. That's why people invest so much in "brands" and "intangibles" - otherwise the low margins reduce the ecosystem, then they depend on a single vendor who can in theory force competition back to them.
Apple is the closed system trying F me and you up the A. Google is trying to take some of the power from the hardware makers by giving them a free/open software solution that can compete with Closed System Apple. If you consider some decision by Apple equivalent to crapware (as I often do), then why choose to have l...
Sorry for the delay. I work with a lot of this particular model. You do have a x16 PCIe expansion slot available luckily. You will need a new PSU. That bundle has one! Good brand too. This card will also last you to your next computer... which will probably need to be sooner rather than later. DC 1.87 isn't much ri...
I can. Anecdotal strictly. I put in a fake e-mail address and name combined with an unused PO box (hasn't received mail in 8+ years). I started receiving junk e-mail on the new e-mail address and started receiving chase and capital one card offers for the fake name at the unused PO box. I'm guessing phone numbers ...
No, facebook is giving API access to it, to those apps you APPROVE and grant ACCESS to your phone number. Incorrect submission title. Learn to ensure what you say in the title is correct.
Anyone STUPID enough to put said information on the internet, more specifically FACEBOOK, deserve what they get. There is no expectation of privacy when those 1's and 0's leave your computer (although there should be).
To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the classifieds service in the Facebook Marketplace. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider’s privacy policy t...
Scumbag ISPs run the bus company: you buy a bus pass they still expect you pay every time you ride the bus IMO the bus system makes the best analogy to simplify the issue. To make a very simple analogy, the ISPs: sell 1000 bus passes assume only 25% of bus pass holders will ride at once buy 5 buses t...
Surprised no one has mentioned this (that i saw): Google for articles yourself, but the basic scenario is this: Updates to a phone's OS are handled by the hardware manufacturer and come in two flavors: Urgent/security/bugfix, and "feature" updates. The former are usually free/cheap to the cell provider, the latter mor...
It's just ignorant to rant about something like the point release for the software that powers your phone. Does it not work? Does it not do everything that it was advertised to do when you bought the phone? If someone is THAT concerned about the firmware on their smartphone, maybe they should have investigated whi...
What? Absolutely not, OSX is a fantastic platform and if anything, I've found the users to be slightly more capable than the baseline PC user. And THAT has not come through in your posts. In your posts that I've read you've come off as the opposite. >That doesn't change the fact that Android support for Mac is laug...
I am not a fan of /b/'s style or tactics. I love the anonymity and freedom of expression. And the LOL...cats This is legit, thanks glinsvad.
A resounding, uninformed, uneducated, misplaced replaced and in-place NO from me.
There is nothing wrong with the concepts of patents IMHO, although I know it's not a popular thing to say on Reddit. Before the patent system existed companies kept inventions to themselves and some got lost when the companies ceased to exist (or the inventor died). The patent system was created to give inventors/compa...
Totally agree with all your points - I think there was a TED talk about the role of IP within the fashion industry (can't easily search atm, on my phone). Essentially, there is no such thing as enforcement of IP within the fashion industry - many labels make a point of reworking clothing cuts that have gone before th...
This is a messy and complicated subject to think about. In an ideal world, there would be no need for patents, and R&D money would just grow on trees. Sadly, we do not live in said ideal world (mostly because people suck), so there has to exist some mechanism by which R&D funding can be secured reliably in order to pro...
This looks like a time of flight depth camera. They are much better for up close experiences like those displayed here. Microsoft owns the two pioneers of this technology, Canesta and 3DV, but does not use their technology in Kinect. They also own their patents. Have fun getting a licensing deal, Leap. (Look up Canesta...
A very simply way to think of e-ink is like an etch-a-sketch. It creates images by manipulating particles with electrical charges. Once an image is on the screen, the screen takes zero electricity. So a device like a kindle only uses power when you flip a page when you flip a page, once the page is refreshed, you cou...
i know its a Random Access Memory... however there is more than one way of using ram IE: loading a entire program or OS onto it and using it in a more of a traditional long term storage sense. Or acting as a copy of a ROM to speed up processing of the data that is located on the rom if needed, I have seen this in ...
Wrong. All of those 18921 people would need to somehow have seen (and remember perfectly) every copyrighted video in existence, as well as have heard every copyrighted song in existence. Furthermore, videos actually consist of frames - so they would have to have seen every copyrighted picture in existence as well. And...
why all the QQ, why doesn't reddit get a team of people together to create an OS. Windows has been failing since anything after XP. and linux is the obvious choice from here on out but, alot of people are to lazy to do the little extra work that goes into running linux or getting used to rather. Why do we just create a...
Just to give another perspective... I listed a property for rent on Craigslist, and then decided not to rent the property and deleted the ad. Unbeknownst to me, my ad had been scraped by padmapper.com and walkscore.com. Even though I didn't want to rent the property, I continued to get phone calls and drive-bys. I...
With complete control of all the crappiest memes we will rule the world! None shall be able to stop us, thouands will facepalm at our greatness. Millions will groan at the horror that is our memes that we will control forever.
So, you make a cute website, and you post some content. Some asshole comes along, scrapes all of your content, systematically and repeatedly, puts ads all over it, and somehow ends up higher in search ranking than you do. This kind of move by Google is an attempt to help those original content creators, and punish t...
This won't hurt pirates, it'll hurt people who run websites with user-submitted content and who don't censor the fuck out of it before it's even posted. i.e., Youtube would get NAILED under this if it wasn't run by Google.
China won't care about copyright law till enough of the Chinese companies start seeing lost profits as a result of infringement on their original ideas. When that happens they will start to complain to the government and things will change. You can even use the US as example of this course of action. During the colon...
The atmosphere is very thin at height, and air has a much lower thermal capacity per unit volume then water, even at sea level, and air is a much worse conductor of heat then water. Additionally, although the ambient temperature at that height is low, the temperature of the air near the skin of the craft will be (much)...
HTS is a place where people come and ask questions, and we rightfully answer them. The one thing you failed to do there is to tell people who asked those questions. It wasn't a moderator, or anyone with some experience at all, I can tell you that. If I remember correctly those were all asked by people completely new to...
so at least I know for sure the money goes to road maintenance and isn't being funnelled through a backdoor into weapons research or something. Only 60% of fuel taxes get actually spent on road related things^[1] (and that was in 2007, things are likely worse, now). So tax income from gasoline is not used exclusively...
Early this morning Apple issued an update to its XProtect malware-handling system in OS X that updates the Web plug-in blacklist to include a more recent version of Oracle's Java plug-in. The update now will prevent all versions of the Java Web plug-in before version 1.7.11.22 from running on the system (previously the...
If you read carefully, you'll notice that not only does this HTML5 DRM scheme requires a CDM (content decryption module), but they provide no common API to make it. So instead of shitty silverlight you'll get a different much much shittier, buggier, and crashy silverlight clone installed for every different HTML5 DRM p...
you know how HTML5 doesnt require flash to play video? you just embed it in an html tag and the browser/os take care of rendering it. Well, that doesnt quite work for encrypted (i.e. DRM crippled) video, which requires flash and silverlight to un-DRM the content, report back to the DRM servers etc. So, Hollywood want...
A depression with upwards of 25% unemployment lasting for a decade is not better then 5 years of 7-9% unemployment (at least in my opinion). Reform is one thing (I'm all for it), but allowing banks to fail because you're angry would solve nothing and help no one. Such an action in 2008 would have caused tens of million...
I got me a nexus 7 because it's linux and I could hack (old-school definition, not cracking) stuff on it. I was so sure I'd have to root it. Turns out I can get busybox and do all my cool SSH stuff on it without even rooting the thing xD
Time did a short interview with them]( but the
Why should twitter reveal the names of these people, what's going to happen they release the names of these people. Then it's on-line for everyone to see and then everyone hunts these people down and beats the shit out of them. Then the UEJF is forced to apologise because it was them that wanted the names of the peop...
Verizon's coverage has been good and I haven't had any problems with them, but... Too expensive, my #1 compaint. My phone is $96/mo. Same with the girlfriends'. So we got a $200/mo bill. For two phones. And we don't use minutes often, so we don't need them. But they don't offer plans that are designed to fit our need...
When unlimited data was an option the only data phones were blackberries and palms which sipped data, now phones can gulp data. Also, with early upgrades, NE2 credits and contract exceptions they were making exceptions to get you a phone for a reasonable price. 5 years ago phones coat $100-$300 full retail now they cos...
Best IT fix at work I've had: (I'm not the IT guy, I'm a student intern that could do most of their jobs with my eyes closed and no arms) Dude says, "Hey you're young, I bet you can fix this!" He wants to get his music from his computer to his new phone. He got a brand new super nice Galaxy Note 2 with a 64 GB SD car...
I got called to fix several machines in our Music department at the end of one day; they all had mysterious hard disk errors, bad sectors - you name it. (This had been going on and getting worse and worse for months and there was no real explanation...) As luck would have it, with it being the end of the day, the Mus...
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the various visa quota systems in general. They restrict people's access to good education, good jobs, and force intense competition among skilled foreign laborers. This often leads to their exploitation, since an intelligent employee willing to work for less is usually more valuable to a com...
As a high school computer whiz, as in I can use a computer ad per this article and I can program in 5 languages and fluent in web page design, this is so apparent in my school. I know more than my computer science teacher who has a masters in his field. Kids will sit there claiming their computers are broken yelling at...
very true. in fact many people here say that he is pretentious and it does seem this way but the point that he makes stands. sure he explains it like an ass but its true that most people don't understand what happens when their computer doesn't function, or what to do in those situations. This is the reason why we have...
Well, the examples he cites are relatively common occurrences that I think they qualify as "use". However, the UI's on computers are generally so poorly designed that they don't make sense. I have never spent any quality time with an iPhone or an iPad, but I have with Android and my shiny new Surface Pro. Android, co...
One thing that irks me about this article is the deliberate disregard for the emergence of ease-of-use. The majority of the prose here gets into like.... how shitty everything is these days - and yet is "so easy". I cite the the references to placement of switches, toggles, the existence of error messages, etc. - all...
Ok I have to give my two cents. This guy makes an excellent point that individuals of the future will be worse at using computers as they currently are. This argument could have been made in the seventies and eighties that people will no longer understand computing because they don't have to punch it into a card. His p...
You're on the right path! Youtube your problems and remember how to solve them. After a while you'll get an abstract understanding of how the computer "thinks" and predict ui options before you get to them. It's pretty much how i got into computers when i was a kid... I got bored of waiting for parents to help. That ...
I have to say, I hate articles like this. I would never condescend to someone because they don't know how to do genetic knock-ins, yet my experience of computer people has always been like that, they're absolutely contemptuous of the general population's lack of knowledge, and they let you know the entire time they're...
And how does he expect his kid to learn Python or bash without the internet in the first place? "I want you to learn how to program. Here's a text file with 10,000 keys, only one of them correct. Here's the family desktop PC that you have monitored time on. It's hard-wired, but I installed a wireless card to try c...
I know this is a 15 hour old post, and that I'm typing this on my phone at 4am but I agree with this man 100%. I am only 15 years old and by the time I was 6 I had already built a computer and installed Windows off a floppy drive, all off a box of old computer parts. Since then I have built 2 other computers, one I sti...
It is cheaper for them to just have servers offsite and connect in. Except it's not. Hosting 5 Exchange servers across our ~2000 user MPLS network for 5 years amortises to about £2.08/month/user all-in. If we run it for more than 5 years (Like Exch 2003), then that number falls even further. There is not a cloud prov...
I am giving the mans post a spin certainly, and it could have been better written. He does though address the fact that there is a significant gap between what people think the digital natives can do, and what they can do.
this whole article comes off extremely sniddy. especially his
I'll just throw this out there: the
You can further buttress your argument with the example given of the car. You drive it everyday, and while you might not know how to rebuild your engine, you should absolutely know how to change a flat, fill various fluids, and other upkeep that requires a little knowledge of how a car works. Apologies if this argum...
I was thinking that the whole time. Right from the get-go, after his smart-ass introduction. Funny thing is, it was
I went ahead and took the
I read the
I thought so to; I felt like he was trying to make a statement. If he mislikes
Sorry, bounced off this article after reading that ridiculously pretentious
Seriously? this guys a tool. You are a professional, you have been trained. I don't see plumbers bitching about how you don't know anything about plumbing. Even the
You are clearly speaking as someone outside of the industry. I am an independent filmmaker and producer who has just released a film via self-distribution. In order to get on Netflix, you need an aggregator which basically represents you and your film. In order to get an aggregator to even talk to Netflix (and iTunes...
Beware of any article with "empower" in the title. It is likely to be long-winded, tangential and the content value will be inversely proportional to the number of words used.
I don't think so. I know somebody who works in a big company in the research department and the orders from up above are pretty clear. They have to deliver a product that will make profits, not a product that will do good for the environment or for anybody else, but the company. I once asked him why they don't do som...
I bought my first laptop 5 years ago from BB- cost about $900 at the time, needless to say, it was a pretty big purchase for me. The wifi didn't work properly, so I took it back, and you know what happened? The guy at the Geek Squad desk fiddled with it for a couple minutes, then called someone over to get me a new o...
Hi, I'm really late commenting in this thread but I just want to show you guys a possible way that you can use this incredible markup and [Best Buy Canada's lowest price guarantee]( to save some money. Ok so the rules of Best Buy's Lowest Price Guarantee are as follows: >Should you find a lower price in-store, in ...
However, it's not the voice of reason. The only way the "invisible hand" of the market works is by communication (written/word of mouth/whatever). This post is a perfectly example of the market working as it should...and ultimately Best Buy will drop their price because of lack of consumer demand, driven by this sort o...
If you want to see really creepy, on your Android phone go to your applications and uninstall updates to Google Play Services. Go to update it in the market and see all the new permissions it requires. This has an innocent intent: keep all Google apps up to date, even system apps. That means pretty much all phones ...
If you want to see really creepy, on your Android phone go to your applications and uninstall updates to Google Play Services. Go to update it in the market and see all the new permissions it requires. This has an innocent intent: keep all Google apps up to date, even system apps. That means pretty much all phones ...