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That is a belief. You cannot take into account everyone/anything that uses scientific method. You cannot take into account how one understands. Maybe it works this way for you, but you are not the standard. It's ironic, because not only have you stated a belief in an attempt to state a fact, but your belief alienates...
Same here. I was actually kinda disappointed, but on the other hand I should know better since I spent quite some time in journalism. A lot of people don't go past the tittle (guilty...), so you have to improvize a bit. "Group of civilians get access to old NASA satellite" tells too much and it isn't mysterious eno...
What I'm talking about, I'm sure doesn't exist in the world..yet. Scenario: My computer is at my desk and the phone is kept next to it. I want to be able to use my fingers to physically pick the file up from my computer. Till I don't keep the file anywhere, it's in my hand; such that I can see an icon in my pal...
Your average lower class citizen, i.e. most citizens, isn't going to be trading on the stock market. They buy lotto tickets and do slots. I do know that addiction to investments is a real thing, but it effects far, far fewer people. It might be the same ratio, but the fact is that 10s or 100s of times more people play ...
The conspiracy section the guy was likely charged under (18 USC Chapter 63 §1349) was inserted into the US Code in 2002. The bill doing so was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 . It was passed in the Senate by a voice-vote (so no roll call was made and we can't tell who voted for or against it). Of the 90 "No" votes o...
IT Auditing is a security and privacy function, not a fiscal one. Err. Thats kinda both correct and incorrect. External Auditors typically only look at systems that impact financial statements as a part of the annual SoX financial statements audit. (in that sense, external audit of sox systems is a fiscal function ...
What ever, you are obnoxious and condescending. This ends here, enjoy the high chair. And you're angry at being told that you're horribly ignorant. Is there a substantive point in there? > Yeah just twist what i say to suit our argument that i fundamentally dont know what I'm talking about because i dont have a sol...
The main problem with CFL lightbulbs is that they contain mercury (about 5mg per bulb). What happens when these bulbs are finished with ? Landfill. It makes me weep for humanity that we could ever have let these things be sold, let alone legally forced their adoption on environmental grounds (as in the UK having banned...
All modern fluorescent lights (excluding some dirt cheap fixtures) use electronic ballasts which operate the lamps at very high frequencies. Where old fluorescent lights operated at 60 Hertz, modern ones operate at about 40,000 Hertz and thus you will never see them flicker unless something is wrong with them. This app...
Because this isn't an issue that Wikipedia can be neutral on, nor does it have it in its self interest to do so. SOPA would allow Wikipedia to be shutdown after one copyright complaint, and Wikipedia gets tons of copyright complaints. The point is that if SOPA passes, Wikipedia is dead, so it is better to cut off acc...
As someone who worked in advertising, I can say that this line is principally used in a pitch. It isn't meant to be taken literally (thought I'm sure everyone here realizes this). The adage (get it?) we used to use was "what do we want to say, to who, and where?". The biggest issue in advertising is in all truth those ...
The article you linked to plagiarized [this.]( From the original article: >Our next step is to faithfully playback the original sounds of dolphins by using the dolphin speaker. Once the dolphin speaker is completed it will enable us to playback a variety of dolphin sounds to dolphins, which will help to broaden the...
This misses the point. Typical Asian manufacturer claiming a bigger = better world first. Any monitor this wide that is not curved is wasted for desktop use. Your eyes are not equidistant from all parts of the screen so text and UI elements at the edges of a very wide screen become harder to read! I find myself rep...
I've seen this argument before, as it comes up fairly often when there is talk about HBO and pirating: HBO should just give the choice to instant legal downloads. With the choice of legal downloads there would be much less incentive of subscribing to HBO, and they make a lot of money through subscriptions. You couls ...
I suspect you'll get a lot of replies from DRM apologists as well as tin foil jokes but I'm right there with you. I make a respectable living and the cost of most media and the process of stripping DRM are trivial but I absolutely refuse to support that business model. At this point I won't even buy commercial music ...
The math just doesn't work out. $50/1000 pairs of eyeballs is generous in terms of an internet marketing campaign, but even with 10 million downloads (which is a crazy number because that easily exceeds the number of total TV viewers for most shows... i.e. walking dead has ~10mil viewers), you still only make $500k,...
Also I feel the need to add this in addition to my other comment: the pill has SIDEFFECTS. Some pretty major ones at that. Common ones include mood changes and weight gain which really go together. But there are some much more major ones like on-period related bleed. That's right, you're on the pill and you can just bl...
I'm glad they are doing this, but as others have mentioned yea much rapage will occur unless they implement the different "model" crap which frankly changes nothing. The only way to come out on top is to listen to the consumer and/or a change in business model. One, they NEED to train their associates, and I mean rea...
Depends on what carrier you are on and what you want from your phone. If you are on AT&T or T-Mobile and want the true Android experience then get the Nexus 4. If you want/need a bigger screen and can utilize a pen then get the Note 2. If you want a blazingly fast phone without regard for anything else get a HTC One if...
They needed a stronger launch. Constantly they kept trying to make the point that "gaming enthusiasts" weren't going to be left out in the cold; and that Nintendo could cater to the casual market while keeping the enthusiasts satisfied. In the end they clearly valued the casual market heavier than the "fanboys" and the...
They're making Wii U consoles at a loss. No way they want to do that to kill time until new consoles come out. The idea of coming out a year earlier is to entice users into purchasing the console. Purchasing a video game console is making a commitment, because you don't buy a console without buying games to keep it w...
As a guy who loves NES and SNES games (with a few greats on N64) I don't need to pay inordinate amounts of money to retread similar ground in those universes when I can very easily play the originals, which were IMO more fun than the latest incarnations of their flagship franchises. In the cases where a new entry i...
Well, typically console companies have wanted to go with more niche processors to fit their own needs and desires for performance and certain features. The only exception before now is the original Xbox, which was made out of pretty much off-the shelf components in order to make it to market as fast as possible. Last...
6600 is good, but I have a feeling that the other posters claiming it is incredible have not attended grad school. A great deal of grad students in the US are on assistantship, which means they pay a reduced fee and get paid a stipend in exchange for work. The stipend is not a great salary by any stretch of the imagi...
No, you're missing my point. I'm asking how you design the test in such a way that it can't be abused. I agree that voters should be informed. The trick is finding a way to test the voters that can't be rigged by one party or the other to give their party a boost. Again: Imagine I'm a hardcore supporter of one part...
What is a firearm? A stock? Does it also work on a paintball 'gun'? Dual purpose? The reason I ask this is one part of my family are FFL dealers, another part of my family has worked in law enforcement for 20+ years. There's the nice theories you talk about, and how this shit really works in real life. From my unders...
Up until recently we only had mildly infuriating ones but now ARs and every other modern weapon under the son have been made illegal. Yet our pistol laws remain unchanged even though 90% of all firearm related violence and crimes occurs using one. Last year this could have been done but not now.
You realize pretty much 99.99999% of the population receives some sort of public benefit right? The only ones who don't are the people who go out to the middle of no where and live 100% off the grid/off the land. Do you mean direct money? How is that any different from things like special tax cuts or companies that r...
This is FUD. Traffic correlation on TOR is next to impossible unless very specific conditions are imposed. Tor actively randomizes and delays how packets traverse the network to counter traffic correlation. Likewise the influx of new users further increases the anonymity. This reminds me of the other two idiots ...
This is due to the design of the vest. There are tradeoffs made between weight, strength, and mobility. Most vests are designed so the load of the bullet is ultimately borne by the ribs and body, with many flexible connections that serve to hold the vest in place but not to take load off the body. The vest is there t...
This is incredibly stupid, short sighted, and more pork for some asshole rep's district. In real life, we are removing human operators because they're the limitation. We don't need pilots in planes because they limit what the plane can do. We're moving to drone/robotic warfare and 'robot suits' even if magically made...
Unless you change your bulbs seasonally, your situation is like most people's. More efficient bulbs won't provide as much heat-- but since they are functionally equivalent to the least-efficient heat source available, running your heater to make up the difference is at worst exactly the same, and could even be bette...
This technically isnt extortion and IS NOT related to net neutrality. Many people seem to be confused about this, this is NOT a net neutrality issue. This is an issue of infrastructure. Verizon comcast etc do not have the infrastructure that Netflix would like to have in place. If one of those companies did it free...
Well the first and most important part of this - Both ends of every connection pay for bandwidth. This ends up covering the full cost. Much in the way your cell phone costs money to you, and to the person you call, even if you already "paid someone to make the call". You both pay for access to the network . That sai...
I don't think it's just you. They also want to sell shit to developers. Plus, if you think about it, automated cars, and google glass, or other wearable internet ready devices need heavy internet access. The faster fiber spreads the faster things like chromebooks, and such can also get out there. But I'm okay with ...
Never be too assumptious, my good friend. While by many, I would be considered to be upper middle class, or at the very least "well off," being the product of a multiracial marriage, I've had a chance to view life from two distinct outlooks. And so, I shall briefly digress--yes, I've interacted with individuals withi...
Obviously you have no idea of how kickstarted works, but the least you could do would be take a look at the Oculus Rift Kickstarter's page. I'm not happy with this acquisition either, but let's get it straight: They asked for funding in order to build development kits of the Rift and put them in the hands of develope...
Read the [original article].( >...we're going to continue operating independently , delivering what we've always wanted to deliver. This gives us a lot of resources to do what we've always wanted to do, but it doesn't change what we want to do.
By who/what, Welcome to the wide world of sociology, where we study society and what it says/influences and pushes on individuals. Did you know that Americans and Mexicans have different sociological ideas and believes? Did you know that these are not biological ingrained into the DNA of people? Congratulations, TMYK. ...
Sounds like the justices are just going for the
There's about a dozen reasons why this article is moronic, starting with the author's insistence on taking clearly sarcastic jokes out of context and pretending they're evidence of the Court's stupidity. But to address the main thrust of the article, it's not a problem of Supreme Court technological illiteracy so muc...
A few helpful hints: It's called "cross posting" and is encouraged by reddiquette It IS an honest title, and is the submission's given title. Changing that can and is often seen as "editorialization" and IS frowned upon by reddiquette If you try and correct someone but are wrong and look stupid by doing so, don...
We as in you or as collective? I'm from upstate ny and I don't throw it in my drive way because it kills grass but the government is all let's make it rain deer guts on these hoes and they eat it off the sides of the road cuz all their grass is dead and shit.
Exactly, it's a mostly empty threat. If they do this then they're going to find their protectionist laws they bought going up in smoke and local ISP's and community ISP's will move in. It won't take long either. With companies like Google proving that laying fiber doesn't have to be the ordeal AT&T and their ilk cla...
Ignore managers and business executives. They will continue to follow their incentives. If that means continuing to roll out network upgrades, that is what they will do. Remember, these people are not economists. This is essentially an AT&T executive putting their fingers in their ears and yelling "LALALA CANT HEAR YOU...
I won't trust you over the economists who teach economics courses; you do not convince. How about just recognizing the fundamental flaws in their reasoning? "X is a natural monopoly". That would mean that whoever arrives first with sufficient resources to do the job wins outright. That would be the definition of a ...
Ungrateful?! These bastards are robbing us blind, and I'm supposed to say "thank you?" I'm not even talking about super-inflated prices for so-called broadband "service" (using the term very loosely here.) In the past two decades since the mid-90s, ISPs have received hundreds of billions (that's right, with a "b")...
Ellen Pao is suing based on her time at Kleiner Perkings. Among the claims are limited opportunities to become senior partner and smaller shares of investment profits. That is about the best
Facebook is a data-mining company which also sells advertising, that uses a social network as a way to collect all your data and activity. Facebook is a data-mining company which also sells advertising, that uses social networks, search engines, email, and the Android Os as a way to collect all your data and activity...
So the best way I can form my argument is that I view the "Internet" as a public space like a giant park. Sure there are private areas but if someone sees you naked it's pretty much your fault. The Internet is no different to me. It's always been a public forum. At least in my mind. I have no ownership in any Interne...
You don't want your incredibly nosy aunt to get to your pictures and show your parents and get in trouble for whatever reason. Then don't add her OR restrict her. > If you're a working adult who uses Facebook and whatsapp to communicate Sorry, you shouldn't be using Facebook/WhatsApp to communicate with clients/c...
Well they do indirectly. The prevalence of nexus products has certainly increased the amount of exposure to adsense that people are subjected to. Anyways I'm not trying to debate whether Google is a tech or ad company. My argument is that it's entirely besides the point. If I refer to Google as a tech company and you...
You used an email address to create the account. Anything that email is tied to elsewhere is now associated with your Facebook. Old posts from a forum you used that's associated with that email address, or a username similar to that are now connected to you. If you have a phone number associated with that account, now ...
Californian here who has done a bunch of research into desert solar panels. There is a company that recently made a solar installation and they spent millions and millions of dollars to protect the desert tortoises that live in the region. They even hired someone who was an expert on tortoise conservation to live on ...
It's not like that extra glass suddenly results in 50-60% less sunlight being reached. So don't worry too much about that. And in the future they will find out better solutions. Yes it's true, normal solar panels are way more efficient. However they are also not the answer on everything. A lot of dutch rooftops are p...
Okay, so there's a reason engineers are saying it's a silly idea, and as somebody who is an electrical engineer I can tell you why. The reason this is seen as a bad idea is it is over-engineered. That simple. It could work, yes, but there's no need for it to work. Let me give you an example. The light bulb solved a...
Ok, I get the militant negativity here. This is a pretty stark reminder of the shitty solar roads kickstarter thing. And maybe this ultimately won't work, but it looks like you're just going into the situation assuming it won't and looking for any flaw you can. I don't know what your qualifications on the matter are...
There are enough arguments in the "Solar Freaking Roadways" controversy that clearly explain why this is not feasible in any kind of scale that would earn you back the investment. Therefore IN THEORY this is a fun and great concept but as soon as you apply reality to it, it falls apart. The technology that you speak ...
As an individual who suffers from sleep apnea, I'd have to say I have encountered many sleep apnea related businesses that operate with very poor ethics. When I was first diagnosed, I had to have three separate sleep studies. Later I found that all of these studies could have been completed on one night. But the bigges...
The argument concerning the Instagram photos in this case is that since he framed the pictures with slightly-modified comments taken from Instagram, the juxtaposition of the photo with the modified comment creates a modified context and therefore this representation is a transformative use of the photo.
You are forgetting about (or don't consider) local networks and their local domains. Best practice for local domains is now to use the publicly accessible TLD (eg. .com) rather than .local or similar. This is fine if you want to host your own publicly accessible DNS server but that is in practice (unless you are an...
Sure, when they were the underdog. Sadly, while we're sympathetic to underdogs, they often have a bad habit of - just as soon as they stop being underdogs - becoming over dogs, and acting exactly as badly as the people we used to defend them against. Look at Apple. Look at Israel. Look at the phenomenon of the "...
Here is the Wikipedia article on the cone cell vision. In there you will see a graph of the responsivity of the human eye by wavelength. The human eye can see red out to about 700 nm at best. Certain people can see out to 750 nm (at best) if the power of the 750 nm light reaching the eye is excessively bright and al...
My take on it is that there really isn't enough information about the technology for me to have much useful input on it other than the article was probably written by someone who only has a very basic understanding of the topic. From what it describes there is effectively a film detector that detects light, then a si...
1) Success usually entails simply the accomplishment of a goal. 2) You stated: "I remember a time when cracking your gadgets was difficult. Yes you followed instructions from the internet, but there was always a chance it would work and you would break your system. This kept a lot of people from doing it." -- I bel...
This is awesome. Not that I've used it and found it intuitive or anything, but the idea is awesome. The shift to glass touch-surfaces brings the inevitable question: isn't inputting text worse than using a keyboard? From using iphones/ipads, my answer is 'yes, hell yes.' If we want a new paradigm of human computer ...
Whoa Whoa Whoa! If you're right then that means ARIN has the incorrect information on their page for requesting IP addresses! "STEP 7: FEES & REGISTRATION SERVICES AGREEMENT ARIN charges a one-time registration fee for each resource assignment, based on the size of the assignment"
A ton of Y2K bugs existed, and there would have been a massive headache at the very least. Fortunately people did their jobs and shelled out to get programmers to convert to 4 digit years. You don't hear of the crisis averted because this was a long period of time, a lot of people involved, and a lot of small changes. ...
Okay, I see where you're coming from now. Although, I still don't think the what-if game is a problem. No threat is so unlikely that there is no reason to try to prevent it; it's simply a matter of whether the impacts of the prevention outweigh those of the harm. For example, if there is a one-in-a-million chance t...
You should be looking for a new name, not a new logo. All of logo options are attractive, but unless you want people to call you "tp", which already has other associations in English, or mispronounce "Tahrir" all the time, you've got a problem. Plus, "The Tahrir Project" is a mouthful, and goes against the idea of twit...
The Tahrir Project" is just the full name (to distinguish it from the many other uses of the word "tahrir"), I expect people will abbreviate it to Tahrir. Pronunciation isn't terribly important for software apps, since most people are likely to communicate about it in written form. I mean think about it, many if not...
The thing that a lot of people looking at this aren't going to realize is HOW Cisco grows. Cisco grows in both size and depth mostly by acquiring new business. For example, Cisco recently bought Iron Port, most commonly known for their Proxy technology. They've bought companies like Linksys, Crescendo (Catalyst / Catos...
Being the skeptical type I wanted to test this. I selected freeware I already use and trust FreeCommander 2009.02b plan was to download from a trusted site (snapfiles.com) and compare with a download from download.com but damn - has download.com ever changed... I had to allow scripts I didn't trust and turn of...
I read the entire thing, and went "What a fucking dumbass!!"... came back here, read your comment, checked again..
My other response was a bit dismissive and after re-reading your post I wanted to take a minute to jump back onto my "Education YES" train. I used to think like you. I really did. In some ways I still do but I also started to see it for what it really is. I don't want to be long winded on this but I think I can co...
Consider it this way: you're taking it directly from a primary data source. Rather than collecting the data from news articles, journal articles, books, etc., you can point directly to a Reddit post and say "yeah, it's there." It's the same general concept as citing Wikipedia. Don't refrain from citing Wikipedia be...
Hmmmm, I think disciplinary conventions might be influencing how we talk about how Reddit might fit into academia. As a textual scholar, Wikipedia would be unacceptable because it's attempting to be a secondary source without the credentials, exactly as you say. It's summarizing "accepted" views on a given topic (oft...
I would absolutely not take a job that required me to surrender my Facebook login information. I work in social games development and I was very careful to define with my employers that my personal FB account was not going to be used in any way, shape or form for work purposes - I had an alt account specifically for ...
This statement alone paints you to be the very 'type' of American that draws so much ire from people on the outside looking in. But the rest of your words typify an attitude that angers so many in the greater world. Your whole statement is infused with bravado and that most American of responses: 'Fuck you' (isn't that...
Ok so I'd just like to say that while you are correct in a number of areas here (mainly the "Americans are people too" argument) and I do agree with you on a number of things you stated, I'd like to just ask your opinion on how the SOPA and PIPA bills were stopped. It would appear that you have suggested that it was Am...
Sadly, we don't even need real names anymore. Even your own profile is open, as a quick google-search for 'zdiggler' is unique enough to pull your profiles at Adobe, Twitter, etc. If I had the inclination, I could find out who you are. The internet is pervasive. We exist in multiple places and leave trails. Unless ...
Once DDoS are considered legal, I cringe to think of the botnets companies would create to thwart their rivals. Facebook: Hey a new social network has opened that doesn't sell its entire user database out. Lets just shut that down for a few days at a time until everyone gives up on it.
This seems like a bad idea. Assuming they aren't going to try and stop Anon from using it they -might- be ok, but also they might just get their website hacked and hacked and hacked by people that routinely take down and take apart much better and better protected databases. Also it could be a trap. What better way t...
Anyone smart enough to do any real damage in the name of anon will be smart enough not to buy into that sort of thing. The Bad thing about anon is anyone and everyone can call themselves anon and are indistinguishable from the real hacker types. The Great thing about anon is the real hacker types are indistinguisha...
The guy running this business has multiple products with Disney characters and iphones on them. [iphone]( Disney 1 I get the feeling he doesn't have permission from either Disney or Apple to use their IP considering how protective they both are of their trademarks.
You can't shut down anonymous. You can't trap them either. There is no leader to dissolve the group, and their is no order of it. Yes, if this man has a website it is going to shit the second he opens it. There are too many anons to actually get rid of them.
I know that, but who's to say that the reality is what's stated in that article? For all you know, a governmental organization might be using a fabricated identity and business and putting on a veil of apparent stupidity to provoke hackers from anonymous. No individual is stupid enough to do this; Not knowing about a...
Oh yeah, If he wants to eliminate a few hackers, sure. But keep in mind these few hackers mean nothing to anonymous, that was my point. My point was basically, if you take down these guys that get drawn in, they can be easily replaced by better ones. They were stupid enough to fall into the trap anyway.
they could use a uav for: scanning highways for speeders scan roadways for suspected dui's scan highways for dangerous debris in the road. (mattresses and surfboards find their way on our highways a lot) locate traffic accidents scan area's for missing persons when amber alerts are broadcast, u...
There are a bajillion reasons, here are a few off the top of my head: They are classless shitheads, for example one of their "journalists" (I apologize to any real journalist for using that term) faked having cancer on reddit for giggles. They dox reddit users (track down users in real life) for comments they m...
One doesn't measure the quality of an OS by how many companies are backing it. No, but you can correlate the rate at which it improves with it. >WP8 has everything going for it, except that it is lacking in 3rd party developers. Android is an inferior OS, but it has the (big) advantage of being popular. [See abov...
Someone hacked my paypal account and over the course of a couple weeks sold $10k worth of "stuff" and never shipped any of it. He got the money in paypal, xfered it to another account and proceeded to withdraw the money to a bank and erase his tracks. 6 months later I get a call from paypal asking how I plan to pay ...
Engineer here, some of these specs are marketing bullshit. GDDR5 is just DDR3 with a wider data bus, apart from that, they're nearly IDENTICAL. Here's the funny thing, both the PS4 and XBOX One have the same system memory width that, weirdly, is the same width as the GDDR5 spec. Also, the PS4 is inflating their numb...
GDDR5 is just DDR3 with a wider data bus, apart from that, they're nearly IDENTICAL. no. NO. NO I dont know what kind of engineer you are, but you are cerainly not a semi engineer. Basicly, GDDR5 is based on DDR3 but clockes higher. >Also, the PS4 is inflating their numbers. The quoted 5000Mhz speed is the eff...
Microsoft makes the ‘leading’ development tools, not just in terms of ease of development, but in compiler performance and GPU performance Debatable, some of their tools are good but it would be silly to paint them as the best > Xbox One is a unified architecture; however, you seem to think this means something tha...
This is fucking retarded. You have always been subject to wire taps with a warent. Except under Bush when you were subject to wire taps without a warent.
All this Obama hate is getting fucking ridiculous. Jesus christ people, has no one heard of the fucking Patriot Act? It's been around for almost 12 fucking years! It was passed into FEDERAL LAW. Does no one understand how the process of passing something into law works, and the clout it then holds? It's not like everyt...
Part of the issue is that even listening to answers directly from Snowden it's really unclear what the hell is actually happening. We know for example that cell phone companies record all sorts of metadata about your calls and that case law allows the government to access this data without a warrant. This is not new ...
The way the government provides 4th amendment protection is by widening the definition from just official Citizens to those allowed in the country, etc. US allies aren't just in NATO. Auzzies and Kiwis are protected too. Edit: I missed your enemy adjacent part. Currently the US doesn't really have enemies. Yes there ar...
If you are not a U.S. citizen, and you use any form of digitial or electronic communication, you can reasonably assume that at least SOME of that information is being captured. HOWEVER, what people do not know...and what is driving me bat-shit crazy on reddit the past couple weeks is that no one (because of confidentia...