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US legislature has tried several times already. Governments fail to understand that these measures can easily be circumvented with a proxy server on countries that do not block them. Fighting a war against proxy servers means fighting a war against bots because that's what the pirates are going to use to create them.
First you have to define intelligence, you don't need to make anything more intelligent than yourself, also you are implying that it will be the effort of a single individual, we only need an AI capable of learning and understanding concepts and form patterns within itself to better its capabilities (aka rebuild its ow...
So basically, no matter what decisions we make as individuals or as a species, the outcome in the end is pretty much the same.
simulated one per cent of the neuronal network And the complexity grows non-linearly. Don't even get me started on trying to understand the initial conditions for something like that.
Guessing it's too late for a new post to get noticed, but I haven't seen a post yet that conveys precisely how far this is from "simulating a human brain". When they "model a neuron", it's an extremely, extremely simplified notion of a neuron. I can't tell from the articles I found precisely which kind of model they'...
Haswell also gave a 10-50% boost in high-end emulation (Dolphin and PCSXII), compared to the 2% which was predicted based on figures, and the fact that the figures suggested Ivy would be 10-20% faster than Sandy, when it actually turned out to be the same speed. AVX2 etc. aren't applicable to a huge proportion of tasks...
Not a math major correct me if I'm wrong here. 40 minutes is 2400 seconds and that's for 1% so it's operating at 1/240,000th of the power of the human brains full potential. So if Moore's law holds true and we double our super computer processing power every 18 months. We're looking at roughly 18 iterations of 18...
We called Comcast, told them it was too expensive and we were leaving their service. They bumped our package to the next level up and lowered our bill by 20%.... I dunno how everyone screws up talking to reps, but it's the caller--Not the company
I had Comcast at my old apartment where I moved out of in September 2011. Canceled my service when I moved. Went to their Flint offices to pay my final bill and return all equipment. Upon hearing all the BS going on with them lately, I found myself lucky I never had any issues with them. Then two weeks ago. I got a p...
I had a stupid capacitor in one of the telephone jacks, repair guy removed it, speed went from around 10Mb/s to >20Mb/s, also some glitchy corrosion made the DSL reconnect when the weather was hot, repair guy fixed that too.
Possibly, though unlikely. I had TWC for 4 years and the only issue I ever had was some field engineer physically disconnected a customer from my complex but fucked it up and disconnected me by mistake. It took 4 days to get a tech out and was a simple 10 min fix. Since it violated my SLA to be down (guaranteed 99.9 up...
The original plan was to launch a giant rocket called the Nova, fly it straight to the moon, land, and then fly straight back to earth. The problem was that the mass required for flinging all that fuel around in and out of the various gravity wells meant that the rocket would be too big to build. Imagine a rocket so b...
Just one quote from the Sawan / Abdou paper cited above: "It is clear from the above discussion that both the required and achievable TBR values depend on many system physics and technology parameters. Many of these parameters are not yet well defined. In addi- tion, the rapidly decreasing tritium resources imply tha...
I second this. Granted everyone has a different mileage requirements for their vehicles. I've been tinkering with the idea of picking up a Tesla for the last year or so, and have made detailed notes of my car use for the last 6-8 months. The
suddenly they all upgrade by 2x, 3x, or even 6x their speeds - for free. This happened to me a couple months ago. My area qualified for Fiber the last week of October. and literally the next monday a Time Warner rep came by our house to let us know that they were going to bump our 25 mbps internet up to 100 mbps imme...
The PC component market is very competitive PC is the genericized version of IBM's PC which includes the derived architecture that allows for generic modular components. This is why your desktop motherboard is likely an ATX motherboard as it an eXtension from IBM's AT PC. Other computers are not inherently part of ...
When my wife and I tented an apartment in Lawton OK, we had already moved in when we real used that the complex had an ISP contract. When I called them to ask about service, the fastest speed they offered was 7mbps down, at $40 a month. But that's not all it cost, because in order to get internet access you had to ha...
THANK YOU. I stopped reading at (paraphrasing) "a lot of companies still use Outlook and Excel to get stuff done." Sorry, but as a sys admin it drives me absolutely fucking NUTS that the old guys above me refuse to read anything that isn't in prettified-chart form. And more often than not they want the data in a form...
I find that the bigger problem with being skilled with certain aspects of technology within my field is that if I say I have an advanced skill with something, e.g. MS Word, the reader thinks of what is advanced from their skill set, such as using a bulleted list instead of manually creating such a list using hyphens an...
Then they simple have to shut the fuck up about the privacy issues and use facebook. It's not our service, it's theirs. Maybe their goal is to drive away all customers, do we know that? No. If you don't like it, leave, and stop whining. I'm not a fan of the lack of privacy on facebook, but nobody's forced to use it.
This assumes 1 main thing: that the person trying to crack your password has the password hashes. This is a very serious assumption. On a linux system you typically need root to gain access to them, which means that having your password hashes is going to be the least of your worries. However even if they get the pas...
We should be making infrastructure investments, not investing in the next bubble du jour. We need access to truly high speed Internet if we're going to compete in the future globalized economy (this language makes me think a run for office is immanent). Private industry has shown no initiative to get this done with...
No, this is tech. It's an "algorithm." But what I think Reso was saying is that it's not a simple formula. And really, he or she is right that even with all that, you don't have a formula in the sense that variable A + variable B = valuation X or anything, even far more complex than that that we or anyone else wi...
Initially, nothing really. ISPs have some stockpiles. However, when those stockpiles run out (figure a couple of months), ISPs wanting to sign up new customers will have the following options: require the customers to bring their own address space use multi-layer NAT (that is, they'll assign their customers non...
Sure, they have paid musicians.. but they have kept much more. You clearly do not understand the situation, why are you making a stance? The birth of file sharing has brought the artist a whole new medium of exposure. The labels used to have the power because they were the exposure. They had the money and connections t...
This is the inevitable outcome of software patents: Decades of US law pretending that Intellectual Property benefits society as much as actual innovation. Countries which don't respect IP will pull ahead through actual software innovation, even as the US burdens itself with more lawsuits. It's a race to see if the ...
Isn't it worse than that? Doesn't it suffice to patent the equivalent to a description of a mathematical equation, without actually giving the exact formula, which then enables you to sue everyone's unique implementation including variations of said formula (which you never actually gave)?
No, it really isn't. I can reduce any sentence into a series of words and any word into a series of letters but I can only describe a chair using words. I can't reduce a chair into letters and words because a chair isn't made of words or letters but of physical materials.
This is to prevent the trusting of compromised intermediate CAs which have been cross-signed by other root authorities. The main reasoning behind the knee-jerk distrusting of DigiNotar is the complete and total failure to provide information to the browser maintainers in a timely manner, including a list of compromised...
Based upon the article, it's the Justice Department that is actually looking for help in clarifying the definition and scope of Authorized Access, which is part of their job, so them asking the question isn't a terrible thing. It's in the media because part of that is/can be/has been construed to cover instances in so...
The OP's link description kind of takes the readers mind in one direction, which only happens to be part of what the article is talking about. It seems like the justice department is struggling with a clear definition of authorized access which to me sounds like something that should be going across the Supreme Court ...
Certainly smells like a linkbaiting article, in addition to the fact that the last moments of a great person are usually greatly exaggerated. However, if it is true that he worked until his death, I'm quite horrified by the fact that he chose not to spend his last moments with his family.
Industrially useful superconductors in the liquid nitrogen temperature range (there are a few, but they're expensive, hard to make, harder to work with, and just all around suck) would be tremendously useful. LN2 is dirt cheap, you can get it anywhere at ridiculously low prices.
If I'm on a crowded bus, I don't talk about such things! It's intuitive to see public chat room software like IRC as a 'crowded bus'. This is not the case for one-on-one IM. Remember, most people don't understand the technical details behind computers. > client-side logging... would be accessible by malware, other ...
Yes, but they can easily write a few lines of code to also log your name if you write a blacklisted word or link. Passive monitoring, but a human could still get your name since it is server-side. EDIT: Apparently you want clarification because you do not believe me and I am being downvoted, hivemind. It is very...
Becuase it's easier. I pay for spotify because it's easier than downloading music, making sure it's properly tagged, getting album art, and importing it into my library. If I didn't have a limited data plan it would be perfect for my phone too! (get on that)
I concur with Cragstone, your
I don't see this happening. While it would be nice, you must take in to consideration how much money HBO makes through the cable providers. Doing so, in their eyes, puts them at risk for losing money. Don't get me wrong, I love HBO and pay for the subscription, and personally I don't mind. HBO has consistently put out ...
Nice try, cable company person! The argument you put forth is self-contradictory. If HBO thought they could make MORE money with commercials and shitty programming, they'd be doing it already. In addition, they are ALREADY beholden to the month-by-month audience. If their content starts to suck, people will stop ...
I was addressing jabbathematt when he said: >When that generation is gone, I feel like things will start moving forward in general . In the specific case of HBOGO subscriptions, then yeah, I guess baby boomers are less likely to demand ala carte digital content than the current generation. It may just be that the...
You're right. And they will still profit much more than they would if they provided a for-pay service. I'm certainly not saying it's right , but HBO gets kick-backs from the Cable companies -- so they actually end up making more than $15 / month per user who subscribes to them.
This article seems to me very inaccurate. Civilian GPS spoofing is possible, but certainly not trivial. However, with access to encrypted and secure military GPS, it would simply be reckless for drones to depend on civilian GPS. If some drones actually somehow DO use civilian GPS, I doubt they will for long now. Seco...
Because it failed so quickly, you have a legitimate case for a refund. The sale of goods act says that if the goods are not fit for purpose, then you're entitled to a full refund or a replacement. If they fail to comply with your request, then call the citizens advice bureau. They'll either forward you to the relevant ...
I have, and yes I agree it is. However the example in this article is unfortunate because the top answer had a high score generated by a database query of known sayings. The other answers that scored very low were a product of the more advanced language understanding frameworks which this article goes on to describe. I...
While I believe that content is sometimes overpriced and inaccessible to some, I have to disagree with the fact that these points will end piracy. While obviously, no matter what (unless everything is free), there will be some residual amount of piracy, I think as content prices go down, piracy rates will remain const...
Huge post to address some points from your first paragraph... Let's consider the manufacturing process for a spatula. The startup costs to create the spatula, things like paying people to design the spatula and tooling machines prior to production, only happen once (or close enough to once that the length of the pr...
And people always say they would pay for GOT but what about all the other shows they produce that are not as popular. This is the major part that pisses me off about TV (and why I don't have TV); the dead weight content that I want nothing to do with. The viewers' voices only come in at the very end, so their effecti...
Personally, having lived in Asia for the 1st 15 years of my life I admit, I pirated most of the games I played because there was no other way for me to access those games. Availability and cost were both way out of my reach. Hell even regular businesses and local stores sold pirated copies of games... Similarly, the on...
are companies not allowed to have marketing strategies? Sure they are. But a strategy that's based on a variable (i.e. having control over when something is released elsewhere in the world) that isn't in line with reality is a crackpot strategy. Fact is, there are no regional markets anymore; you release something ...
Any technology with potential liberating uses will be developed (ex. If there is a colony slapped up on mars, having lag free communications between earth and mars would be useful over the long term. Especially for dealing with emergency situations) Any technology that is deemed interesting enough, will eventually ...
I agree, asymmetry of information is a real problem. So instead of being scared that the government has this information, we need to push for more transparency and ask for us to have all that information as well. And I will be honest with you, I already assume that someone can read every email I've ever written, ca...
There's also the problem of gravity-related health issues, as a lack of gravity for such an extended period of time would cause irreversible damage to the crew's bone densities. Exercise and proper nutrition could possibly slow down or nullify this effect, but I'm pretty sure the SpaceX Dragon is way too small to fit t...
People on reddit hate anecdotes presented as evidence. Turn your anecdote into something you heard on NPR, or read an article about, or something like that, and nobody will downvote you anymore. Reddit doesn't care as much about uncited data. I guess it's because anecdotes are automatically invalid, but uncited data is...
thats the point... the company loses a little money... like, the amount they would have spent on advertising by some other means, and it brings 10X as many people into the store for a day. So, advertising! Now a ton of people know exactly where you are located, what you do, and whether they like it or not. That can b...
Let's pause for a moment and look at a brief history of CISPA, starting with the history of the government's cyber-spying. Around 2003 it was revealed that the NSA was spying on all the internet traffic passing through a telephone relay station in San Francisco, infamously known as "Room 641a". It was soon discovered t...
That is inevitable, there is always a new flaw or vulnerability waiting to be exploited. This puts hackers one step ahead in every possible way. Even if cispa passes if we chose to protect ourselves they cant possibly investigate all of us.
something in the comments from OP's link that explains why MS stuck this in >Let me tell you how it works. If you offer a service. And that service questioned by anyone for legal issues, it does not matter what the eula says, you can file a class action lawsuit. But it does allow the service provider to suspend your ...
I used to work in the Microsoft Hardware support department and they had multiple PC controllers that had design flaws that caused them to simply stop working. Basically, if you had a USB joystick device such as the Microsoft Precision 2, the Microsoft USB Gamepad pro, or a couple others (memory escapes me) and left t...
There is nothing new under the sun. I used to work for EU agency project for about 3 years. To sum up project costs around 4 million euro and has 600 users. Project website (5 sub pages , rss feed plus downloading application) costs between 30k-50k euro. After project was outsourced company that took over was founded b...
I also have had dealings with the Federal Gov't as a small business. We sell and repair new/used data collection equipment and media(barcoding gear). Been in business 17 years, so we know what we're doing at this point. One of the Dept. of Defense Logistics branches needed very specific all weather yellow thermal tra...
Just to note, I didn't read the article, only the title (see: Reddit journalism) so make whatever opinion you want out of that. The reason it sucks isn't because of a specific person or people, but because it doesn't work. People forget that and move straight to blaming someone, which in the case of the government, wil...
I do web design at a major insurance company in the US, all the designers do the research and base designs from what would work from a user experience perspective. A good chunk of designs and interactions get shot down by business because they feel it would cost to much, even though it would be an overall better user e...
I used to work in sales and we conveniently had a spec sheet that would eliminate our competitors. "Oh you're thinking about buying a product for X? Well, let me help you out. Have you thought about A,B,C? No? Well here's a list of things we would recommend a product be able to do. " 1 month letter a RFQ would come...
This is a loose parallel, but this sounds like the same reason why CEOs hire the same 3 management consulting firms or the same 5 investment banks; if you hire these giant companies to handle an IPO or something and something gets screwed up, your board isn't going give you hell bc your hired the guys you were supposed...
This happens for two main reasons. The knowledge base regarding tech in the political environment is near to nothing. Politics have been inundated with autocrats for the last forty years. Nearly all politicians are lawyers or business professionals at the executive end of things. This means they either know how to ...
I don't think many people doubt the intelligence or hard work of many consulting firms and contractors (though there are some really bad ones, especially "international" contractors and consultants). The people I've met from McKinsey, BCG, BAH, and Deloitte are mostly not only quite sharp, but also very well organiz...
You don't understand how ios works. Just because something is in the multitasking view doesn't mean it is using resources. Any app you see there can have different states of being. They can be: Running: extremely rare and only for specialised apps that for instance require using bluetooth/hardware, playing music,...
You do realize that libraries provide free internet access to those who can't afford it, right? And that they also offer ebooks, in addition to a huge collection of books that may not even be in print any longer? That they also offer free access to Journals and databases of research material (in electronic format, ev...
What a terrible article. It's obviously incredibly biased given that it's on TorrentFreak and written by a Pirate Party guy. But it's just so poorly written. The author never cites any sources to back up his claims, and spews logical fallacies left and right. >Lobbyist lie: A library can only lend its book to one per...
I'm glad Toyota is making improvements. But I'm skeptical since their claims are not substantiated nor is any explanation given as to how humans are improving production, only that they somehow are. This is especially confusing considering their "'Kaizen,' or continuous improvement" yet they somehow have lines operatin...
Depends on what you want to do with your "Jeep" though, doesn't it? Jeep brand Jeeps had this nifty niche where their vehicles could actually do off-roady things. Chrysler branded Jeeps seem to have lost their heritage and are now just over-bloated comfort vehicles. I mean, if you want to go fast and never turn, w...
Read about so many of these possible market ready prototypes which only need a few adjustments to production line and good to go... Been hoping for any at all to surface for mass production, yet I still got shitty lithium ion batteries. There were sugar based ones, organic based ones, many many, sick reading these, jus...
Slight correction, the major providers are waiting until the Net Neutrality debate is 100% done before actually implementing slow lanes. They are very eager to do so, but implementing them costs money, and they don't want to spend it if they still might need to scrap it in a year. Currently the YouTube and Netflix pr...
Theres nothing wrong with the 3.5 jack. The DAC should be in the device anyway. Analogue really has one 'protocol', a digital signal could have any number. A proprietary protocol means proprietary headphones. You are not free to purchase the headphones of your choosing, and use them on whichever devices you choose. The...
I'm not trying to conjure up crazy schemes here. Is there any reason for a letter like this to go out to any elected official? In the case it was just a stock letter that was forwarded why even include the part of "A stronger Comcast"? Beyond any of that the bottom line is this particular BGC has correspondence with ...
This is a terrible argument. You've said that the GUI is a failure, and because the GUI is the part of an OS an average consumer will actually use, that's pretty important. Windows Store is a pretty big feature of Win8, integrating heavily with the start menu tiles and metro UI (while other programs that could integ...
As a vendor employee that have dealt with some developer, I can asure you that their policy is very strict, but ONLY (emphazis on the ONLY) the other company make a claim of trademark/content breach of policy. Otherwise they dont care. I've dealth with the developer that made 3 apps that were breaching some company's...
Freedom of choice is a good difference. If every 'app' existed as a webpage that you could choose to save as an app, then for one thing, browser apps would start getting better optimized, and for another, we wouldn't have the problem that this thread exists about. If every app existed on the open internet, and phones...
I expected the actual answer to be somewhere near the top. I kept scrolling, and it kept not appearing. Then it became a task to check every comment just to be sure nobody posted it. And this will obviously be buried, bit I'm too far into it now. Microsoft has to be very gunshy about censoring what applications agree...
I can actually answer this. I didn't see a real answer posted to address your question. Background, I made Windows Phone 7 applications, at the rate of about 1 every 7 minutes. I made clone RSS reader applications. They were terrible, but I got paid. I got lazy on application submissions, and named some like "NBA L...
Mine just died. Shutdown my comp for the night, then that morning the dreaded "no media found" when I booted it up. The drive was a year old when it went. So I got no clue what's wrong plus I want to have the data recovered but they quoted me 6 grand to do it........ What.
Bwahahahaha. Right?!? Holy crap, when looking up those figures my mouth just dropped. I knew that their typical use would be lower than the perfect use of "only" 2% failure rate (which in itself is already not that reassuring) but 18%?!?
I've been on reddit for awhile, so I know downvotes are incoming. I participate in a lot of on-site interviews for a big tech company, and the fact is most people are useless. It's true that we can't hire enough software engineers - and it's not because we're trying to hire cheap ones, it's because most people are us...
The private equity firm I work for specifically seeks out "High Potential Entry Level" employees. In a nutshell, they look for bright, untrained folks they can bring in at a lower salary, and train them up to do the job they were hired for. We only interview folks who score favorable on an SAT-like aptitude exam in ord...
Here's several [examples]( of solar power that provides energy after the sun is gone.
According to their 2013 annual report their net income for 2013 was 18 billion. Sounds like good business sense to me. Spend $80 million in refunds and $20 million in fines and make a boat load more over that of money from charging customers bogus fees. It doesn't sound like it was illegal at all, just sounds like ...
You don't want to be lectured, but you're basically wrong about most things you say. > Redditors want low cost internet, but wave the white flag of "net neutrality" The performance/cost of Internet in America is a joke. The monopoly of the providers demonstrates a ruthless capitalistic desire to squeeze every penny...
Well. I'll preface by saying that this is info I have from my roomate who studied this question for her ... you'd probably call it "essay" in US, maybe. There is no upper limit to memory because your head doesn't literally fill up with anything in particular. In order to access a memory you break it down, and then re...
Look, it seems to me they're building a better Wi Max system, kind of what it shouldve been but even better. Landlines are dead in everyone's eyes but Google because well, someone has to build and own and service the backbone but no one's actually doing it. Tmobile is putting together an alternative to comcast, why c...
I worked at MS as a contract (Orange Badge) employee working CSR in Product Support (MS-PSS) back from about '99-'01. I summarized my experience working with all the Blue Badges as, "the largest number of individual smart people whose collective intelligence drastically falls the more join a group."
I use Outlook 2007 with my Google Apps email account by choice - when I'm out of the office/house, I actually connect to my main workstation via Remote Desktop for email via Outlook. I switched a client from Eudora to Thunderbird - he ended up hating it (for a multitude of reasons, in part cause his RTC battery died,...
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I don't get it. Even if you work for the government, you need to socialize. I'd have to believe that there are some hackers on this website or 4chan or something that would kick the crap out of NSA's hackers. And if I worked on computers all day for the government, you'd bet that i'd have to come on Reddit every few...
My biggest pet peeve is single song people. I have always been an album fan. I might skip to that one 'single' I heard (metal/hardcore fan so not much airplay), but I always find that songs are so much better when they're grouped up by theme or song writing period like albums generally are by nature. Anyway, I hate it ...
Through that community I got contacted by a guy from a bunch of Louisville, KY bands that I liked. He turned out to be really awesome and was happy that someone was listening to all his old demos and such. Dude then started sending me new recordings whenever he got them....but it turns out that when he played a concert...
HARSH REALITY: Laser keyboards are fucking horrible and this phone will be nowhere near as cool as you think it will be. Yes, I'm sorry. No, a phone as functional as this phone will not be seen any time soon, regardless of how much you would pay for it. This was a video made by designers with absolutely no practical ...
I thought that the quote I pulled from the actual Wikipedia page was clear enough. Then... I also published the actual link so that he could go read for himself and "clarify" any misunderstanding in case he thought the quote was out of context... I mean... if you need clarification at that point... open the link or t...
It's not often that I do this, but I liked the article so much that I decided to email the author to tell her. CNET sure does make that a pain. They won't tell you her email address - they only give you a button. So I had to create an account, which requires approving them to send you their stupid newsletter. So then...
So if you can't afford food or medicine you shouldn't try to acquire it through illegal means? Are you fucking kidding me? Being alive isn't a fucking lifestyle choice because the alternative lifestyle choice would be being dead you fucking goon. Getting to play video games, or watch movies or TV, or listening...
I said nothing about "blaming" anybody for poverty. You're asserting poverty = "I can't play a new game," because that's what I'm talking about. All I'm implying is that if you can't support your lifestyle you shouldn't be breaking the law to support it. It sure is unfortunate for you, but it's also unfortunate wh...