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Call data is not recorded unless and until a warrant is authorized. The government does not have access and the companies don't store it without legal process telling them to (caveat for any content recorded for a business purpose - voicemail for example). Emails and other data, on the other hand, are stored. Not by ...
Baby Jesus knows I tried spelling it and checking the spelling and googling it and then I gave up.
He was wondering what someone would use an RT for. Even though my tablet is capable of running x86 applications, I mainly use the Metro environment, which is what someone with an RT would use, and gave some examples of what I use it for.
I canceled my Comcast because I got fed up with dealing with them and just paid my neighbors to barrow their internet. After I graduated I moved back into my parents house who have AT&T. Our current coverage with ATT costs my parents close to $100/month for internet and phone and its only 6 mbs. A few weeks ago they re...
Spoiler tags don't work in this subreddit. This is the usual code for it on subreddit's where it's allowed. [spoiler text](/spoiler) This doesn't work The show is also old as hell and studies have shown that spoilering a show, movie, etc. doesn't have much detriment to your enjoyment.
Better than dealing with the lady who insisted that an outstanding work order to bury a cable would necessarily affect my connection from being intermittent, when the issue had been happening for several weeks before they replaced said cable, prompting that work order to even exist. She then proceeded to say "Sir what ...
Meh. Comcast probably didnt give them enough stuffs to stay in their good graces. Baltimore and the People's Republic of Merlin are fairly corrupt. [A D- as a grade from a public integrity group.]( There's a lot of lol moments to be seen. [Sheila Dixon](
1 Home Security Myth: Lock your doors People can actually pick locks and defeat this measure, so why bother? (
Not everyone works the same way. The new interface complements your style when using computers just as much as it hinders the style that others use. I tried the new interface and I didn't appreciate being pulled out of whatever I was doing on my desktop and into a full screen menu. It got in the way and slowed my wor...
What doesn't have high chance of going badly wrong? Not paying taxes would mostly caused even bigger uproar and held rest of the country as a hostage. And I don't actually think you could find your way out of your 2 party system, even with support of 50% Americans. Guns and revolt also seems like totally nuts idea (in ...
From the farmer to the end user, there are a few studies that show that ethanol has a higher carbon footprint compared to using fossil fuels. There are a few showing the opposite! With ethanol, the amount of energy required to run farm machinery, transport the matter, and then process it needs to be considered. With oi...
I'd imagine that would make it pretty difficult to sell now. Selling an account is against Twitter's ToS and i'td be pretty obvious now if he sold it, with how much exposure it has.
Hi, I also work in service provider networking. I too think that trying to build non-local mesh networks is dumb, or at least dumb if you're expecting anything that behaves comparably to the modern Internet. If you're going to disregard the opinions of anyone who has professional ties to Big Internet, you're going ...
It's not the routing method that is the issue - even if there was 0 overhead and every connection had a perfect route, the issue is in hardware. If a consumer router has 1 GB(yte)/s bandwidth, this is your bottleneck. However, most routers have listed Gb(it)/s rates - or 1/8 the amount. The reddit server likely uses ...
What happens when the phone loses power? nothing. normally the blocks are held on by permanent magnets. when you want to remove a block an electromagnet turns on polarized opposite to the permanent magnet, canceling out the field of the permanent magnet.
Here is the law]( Article 12: Service provider must keep the information about the subscribers and services provided up-to-date. The information must be kept for three years and be available to the authorized law enforcement agencies in article #3 remotely 24/7. It's effective starting from January 2006. It's the ...
It's always nice to generalize isn't it? Make life easier. Of course you omit the fact that you're a redditor yourself and that this idea of redditors trusting Russia is pretty unfounded.
Qwest is on my permanent shitlist. The sales guy told me mom that her new cellphone would work in Mexico, and if it didn't then she could cancel her plan, no problem. The phone didn't work in Mexico. Oh, they let her cancel. They also charged her $200 for ending her contract early. I don't remember if she paid it o...
My basic assumption is all buyers in the market are rational who have performed a cost-benefit analysis on all options and have settled on the best value proposition. I realize this basic assumption is crap because your average buyer is nowhere near aware of what options even exist (outside of GS5 and iPhone). And ne...
Without sharing all the details on our business plan (because I'm not certain I'm allowed to "publish" our pricing) I can say that our numbers were similar. We have 10 lines, all smartphones (a mix of android and iPhone 4s's) and two iPads with cell service. Six of our lines are tether-capable, and four of our employ...
I worry that if we force-combine the idea of Title II with Net Neutrality, the nuance of these two positions are permanently lost and they each become weaker. They're two different things. I, for example, am very pro Net Neutrality but against Title II as a path there. Especially because Title II doesn't ban fast lan...
I propose the branding of a term to define what net neutrality is fighting against – this would simplify the concept by providing an opposing side. “Stop Net Partisanship” – the separation of online traffic into tiers where Internet service providers create preference for sites that serve their own agenda, usually t...
much rather keep, net neutrality. But open internet is ok. a lot of people have heard the term net neutrality already, just a ton still dont understand what it means and why it is important. saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and someone saying "never heard of apples" it doesnt help further the id...
I sometimes use the word "retard" as in "they're trying to retard the internet." I believe that the internet could be the savior of mankind. There are more people on earth than forever before and we are depleting and misusing our resources. This is not a sustainable trend and may cause large portions of our populatio...
That's a limitation imposed for safety. I know it's not a winning idea, but I'd rather see an exchange of ideas take place to extend progress. It's what the internet is about after all: connecting people so we can talk more, share mode, trade more, know more, etc. I think the real problem here is that the current bus...
I'm sorry, but the reality of the situation is it's the responsibility of the people proposing a bill to sell the idea to both fellow congresspeople and the their constituents at large. Unfortunately the bulk of the population don't know enough about the internet to easily digest arguments, and sadly an even larger...
Frame it in a similar manner to power generation/distribution (the power grid). Net neutrality is "everyone shares the same power lines", but at the same time, "everyone is also free to CHOOSE their own power provider". The MOST EXPENSIVE part of any internet service is the last-mile (the cable that goes into t...
I’d say the term “Net Neutrality” is very poorly defined. The FCC says [this]( > The principle of the Open Internet is sometimes referred to as "net neutrality." Under this principle, consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use and are free to decide what lawful content they want ...
It is an American politician asking for help rebranding something she can take to the American congress. She isn't taking it to the UN. You start by getting one thing passed before tackling the next hurdle. Adding "for the whole world" adds an extreme amount of complications that could halt the whole process to beg...
But the opposition is taking the term under it's wing. Using it even to get persuade people to their side. You're right that it is also a generational barrier. But HOW do you get them to bother being educated about it? You can't just throw information at someone who doesn't care. That is another reason why it wou...
People don't want a calm and reasonable argument about policy, people would rather have the s*** scared out of them. net neutrality as a brand is failing because fairness, ... technology, blah blah ... zzz... sorry i almost fell asleep typing it. The target audience is not people who are reasonable and tech savvy. ...
that's really just one part of tor. you can have websites that are just inside the tor network, places like silk road. but you can also use tor to browse the regular old internet. except now all of your activity is anonymized through the tor network. let's say your wife is fairly savvy with computers and she works at...
So, they go around the world, dig out every single cable ever laid ever (additional ever) and shut down every single local ISP and guard/trash their devices. Then yes, that would be an option for local networks. Otherwise, the cables are all there, rebuilding it is little effort if there is no active police/military ...
Actually, having worked in the telecommunications business, the costs are heavy on the sales and administrative side. The costs for equipment are capital costs, and while a particular area may be paid for, they are always upgrading somewhere, so there is a steady flow of equipment costs too. Looking at their financi...
There are a few things wrong in all this. The people complaining are responding to more than the shirt. They are making a tacky shirt into an avatar for an issue. The ire directed at this scientist is not commensurate with the tackiness of the shirt, and I feel very bad for anyone whose clothing comes to represent some...
And it's thinking like this that continues to bury it. Look, we all know the US Government (and most governments around the world, for that matter) is a sputtering carcass of its former self, ripe with corruption and often utterly incompetent. Our democracy is broken, we know. But here is a chance for us to possibly af...
One deals with money. One deals with actual people being oppressed. It's easy to point to internment or Jim Crow laws and claim them to be oppressive and terrible. It's much harder to point to something like Citizen's United which, having the benefit of a politically coercive name, deals with something you can't touc...
That's pretty interesting, especially how much people pay annually. It kind of makes me depressed thinking about it lol. I probably waste so much money on my phone that I could be putting towards something else. I use T-mobile's PayAsYouGo with a Sidekick Plan. It's 15¢/minute and $1/day for unlimited e-mail, texting...
I agree, but some of that is better with the new BBs. The new BB app store takes care of #1 and part of #3 (it's not quite as good as apple's, but it's getting much better) Pocketbook is mostly crap, but with googlesync on top of it, it's not too shabby... I don't really use my address book on my computer too much ...
You asked, so here goes: By breaking an article into small segments on multiple pages, it does a couple things. Most importantly, it keeps any ads that appear on the site "above the fold". In other words, since the page isn't very long, all of the ads will actually be visible on the page immediately upon loading. T...
downlink data speeds can hit 100 megabits per second" Oh my, excess data charges. If you take one of Australia's wireless plans, with a "cap" of 200 megabytes and excess of 25 cents per megabyte: (200 megabytes) / (100 (megabits per second)) = quota gone in 16 seconds Run this connection at full speed for...
As far back as the 1950s, John von Neumann, the mathematician, is said to have talked about a “singularity” — an event in which the always-accelerating pace of technology would alter the course of human affairs. And, in 1993, Vernor Vinge, a science fiction writer, computer scientist and math professor, wrote a researc...
Yeah, it may just be. But that is with a track record of the storm and storm 2 which pretty much sucked as well as the bolds, which are good - for a targeted audience. Even if is their best phone, its still half as fast and half the screen resolution as every other flagship phone out right now. If RIMM really wants to...
I agree that sites like Facebook (and Reddit) are constantly at risk of becoming a thing of the past. Just look what happened to Digg--a couple bad moves in a short period of time, and now Reddit has assumed the social news throne. But the reasoning here is far from convincing. The fact that this author called the AO...
The point is that the deaf are completely ignored when it comes to our accessibility to basic things. Nobody says it would be fine if a shop discriminated against black people or gay people; the counterargument of "just don't shop there" is abhorred by anyone but the most hardcore Randroid. So why does the "just don't ...
That is an open legal question. It does at least to some degree but I am not an expert on ADA law so I'm not sure how it falls out. There is a rule of civil procedure that binds the lawyer who filed this case that says the case is "warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or rev...
Apple didn't "win." This title is misleading because Apple took out an injunction against Samsung selling their tablet in Europe. An injunction is a temporary measure that has immediate effect; a judge will usually grant an injunction if it maintains the status quo. If Samsung had already been selling their tablet, t...
If Windows has well-written drivers, the libraries don't fuck up. Even Windows Vista is stable and secure if the drivers are, which is the whole reason people were having bad experiences with it when it first came out (hint: Windows 7 uses these same drivers). On a Hackentosh, if the available drivers are funky the w...
Who cares? Apple ripped off alt-Tabbing, which is a great idea (technically it's been available for a long, long time through 3rd-party, even pre-OSX, and I think Apple actually bought it from a 3rd party OSX developer, like Cover Flow). It took them awhile, but they also took resizing from any window border in Lion fi...
Just because he wrote a statement that HIS Administration wont use it, doesn't mean future Administrations wont, also that statement doesn't make it any less of a law, its just something he put in there to cover his ass and if he redacts that statement there's nothing wrong with that. Imagine if Newt wins these elect...
It is because 0 based counting only makes sense for arrays in computer science. If I have three distinct items, most people would say item #1, item #2, and item #3. Arrays in C and other computer languages are really an abstraction of computer memory. An array access such as A[k] means "an object of size s bytes at l...
I posted this in the other Paperman thread... but I'd like to say it again. Maybe I'm hoping it will be a catalyst. Maybe I just want to get it off my chest. I don't really know, honestly. Sigh... This film does something to me when I watch it, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel. I'm a decent guy. A seven out o...
IGN is a bunch of idiots. Their article is totally wrong on the key point there. The game IS an MMO, in the context of its network needs/demands. The game servers run much of the simulation, feeding that data back to the client. It's not just "connect to see if you have a valid license", the gameplay logic is on t...
Co-op is generally accomplished on consoles / televisions by removing large areas of game rendering / changing aspect ratio; which means you are customarily playing together at one of the following: Combined screen, with restricted camera control Side-by-side using 8x9 ratio Top-bottom using 32x9 ratio Top-bo...
I usually just lurk, but I made an account because I have some firsthand experience working for AOL. I'm not a long-time employee or anything, but I was hired as a freelance photographer and writer when Patch was first getting started. I made about $12,000 in two months from my AOL checks doing rather minimal work. I...
Oh, its absolutely a shitty tactic. But here's the thing, and this is really the most important thing about why I never want to go to work for a large corporation, now matter how much money someone offers me, no matter the title, the benefits, the location: No one gives a shit about you . You are expendable. You are...
So the "fun" "cool" auto journey of the future involves my car becoming a small space without a bathroom full of strangers who've been selected for me by a computer? I fully agree with the author that "smart cars" will make make roads safer, quicker, and cleaner. I also think they'll make people more productive. All ...
I'm going to respond to you shortly using only hurricane Katrina as an example in the micro and branch out from there. I'm on a phone right now, so I can't do the rest justice. I would like to hit on your statement about "especially with the internet". This is the single most dangerous thing imaginable. You've he...
I work with products that replace mineral wool, which also is harmless as glass, but when made into micro strands of glass wool can go deep into your lungs and never come out. Hence your body will absorb it into tissue and you can get chronic lung irritation seemingly without an apparent cause. Then I read that most ...
I think Hardware isn't their main driver. Sure they make stuff like chromecast, and android tablets, but these aren't necessarily offerings designed to sell themselves. These are offerings to sell other google products. Chromecast is cheap as heck, but it's mostly designed to sell other google products like and...
While I understand everyone's frustrations they "missed the deadline" and are paying millions to keep support there are some things you are really skipping over. I work for another state agency that has hardly patch any of its windows XP machines. Did we know about it ahead of time? hell yeah. Why is it taking so lon...
This putz is complaining that he can't buy 100 watt light bulbs any more? Is he legally retarded?! The CFLs in all three of my bedrooms don't even equal that. Cripes, my quad core i5 uses half that. And he wants multiple 100W bulbs. And my CFLs have been running since ~2007; the first only burned out in late March 2014...
I know the guy in Maryland that received death threats for trying to sell these. He is a huge 2A proponent, and a nice guy as well. Why all the hate? Two reasons: Electronics in guns will fail when you need them. The red dot will fade, or the gun won't fire at all because the watch is not on your arm or the batteri...
Sometimes unabashed aggression helps. Not when it's unwarranted. You have a varying opinion of politics from other people, and on this forum (and outside of it), it's a minority opinion. If and when you choose to speak of your political philosophies, you must accept two things: First: you are, by default, the emb...
Peering is necessary because some internet sites or routes generate more traffic than the regular infrastructure can handle. Think of it like this: a delivery is contracted by a city to handle all their mail. Normally, they use ordinary transport networks to handle all the demand, but sometimes there's a lot of traff...
His "argument" (now edited) was that people who stream and download content with bandwidth they pay for arent having to pay more than he does- someone who simply trolls on reddit and reads the sunday afternoon funnies whilst getting paid to shill through technology news. This is why he "doesnt agree with net neutrality...
The ISPs have shitty networks that they refuse to upgrade because that would mean they couldn't keep as many billions of dollars. So when their networks get a lot of data transfer going on (which is requested from us, the users who PAY them for X MB/s service) their network gets backed up and we at the end start seeing...
Keep in mind, speed!=bandwidth. Think of bandwidth as the number of lanes on a highway, and the speed as the speed limit which cars can travel. More lanes mean more capacity for data, more speed means individual data packets get there faster. This is why you can't stick a Comcast home service on the end of a big corpor...
I think you've got things backwards. mbps is a measure of bandwidth, not speed. 100mbps means that every second, 100 megabits of data can pass through the line. Speed, properly termed as latency, is the one ISPs have a hard time controlling because it is determined by how far and how many routers your data has to pass ...
If it doesn't save them money then why would they do it? Well, I can think of lots of reasons why they would do it even if it didn't save them money. If the other option was to continue to allow ISPs to funnel all their traffic down routes that were too congested to properly handle all their traffic. I mean, maybe t...
the current monopolistic companies will have to break down and start providing the fast speeds at low prices they should be, or another company/structure of ISP (local municipal services) will become the rule rather than the exception. or their lobbies get enough power to influence congress and the FCC to pass laws p...
As a veteran user of this game, I have to say, the point of minecraft isn't to just install a shit ton if mods and dick around. It's a rather simplistic game. Granted, they may not have majorly changed how convenient things are, but they have still done quite a bit. Maybe they should take advice from mod makers. Mayb...
Make a car that is 80% and people find fault with. Or make a car that is 95% that people accept it's faults as personal preference? Which do you think will be better on sales? Another question for you - release a car 'on time' with technical problems that result in massive recalls. Or delay and be 'late' and fix as...
new lights and stop signs Several decades ago, in my young and foolish driver stage, I was driving way, way too fast down a winding back road I had driven hundreds of times before. I see a new sign, saying "Stop sign ahead." I thinks to myself, "Myself? Why is that sign there? There are no stop signs on this winding...
I'd be very hesitant to throw out claims like that, especially considering the vast majority of what google has been working on in regards to its cars is image analysis. Now, in sunny day conditions, Visual Light spectrum cameras, much like people, can see things miles away. Unfortunately in low light conditions, vi...
Some providers make their routers have a [second network]( which is completely separate from your private network. This separate network can then be used by anyone, provided they have valid login details as provided by the providers. This separate network doesn't use up your data, and the router is setup in such a way ...
You said Title II doesn't do anything. It does. It gives the FCC teeth. More specifically it would allow them to enforce the FCC definition of broadband so overprovisioning on artificially max capped total bandwidth would be better. It would be better because you could sue them in addition to the FCC. So when all of th...
The best reason to not do that (and the reason Google's pushing away from SD cards as well, despite not making nearly as much money as Apple off of it) is that the quality and speed of SD cards are almost impossible to ensure. Even a fast SD card (class 10) only has to do 10MB/sec sequential to get that rating, compare...
These OS updates aren't "hulking beasts" they are just not optimized for 3 year old hardware. Apple knows most phone users will upgrade within 2-3 years so it actually doesn't affect these people. In addition to this there is nothing saying a user must upgrade their OS. Apple merely makes an effort to make the option...
It really already fits under the existing regulatory framework. If you 'hack' your standard ICE car so that it no longer functions safely or with the appropriate emissions controls it won't pass inspection and won't be allowed on the road. You can of course do whatever you want on private property. So really all we ne...
All the solar that's produced throughout the day is not stored. We put so much pressure on utilities to add utility scale solar storage that isn't commercially viable yet. If utilities bought the current expensive and inefficient utility-grade energy storage, the price for that technology will be spread to the util...
I have an office in Shanghai, and it's cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Even the chairman's office is that way. Indoor climate control is regulated in China (or so I've been told), and there's a wide temperature range that is considered normal for working conditions. Like the lady in the picture, when it's col...
Let's math this out. I have a slightly above average home usage of 1000 kWh a month. I want to go solar. No net metering in my state, so I can only build as much solar panels as I can consume on site. Currently that would mean a 2.9 KW system to ensure I consume all that is produced as it's produced. This system...
One of the big advantages to home-size batteries is that they make wind and solar power feasible. At the moment, the biggest drawback those two forms of energy have is intermittency: the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow exactly in sync with our consumption, so we're either wasting energy when we have it or don't...
Ahhhhhh, that explains it. District heating is wonderfully efficient, particularly when it's actually the waste-heat from a generation process-- but more importantly, your heating doesn't show up in your electric usage. In the US, most heat is produced at the home, whether gas or electric. If you take out AC and he...
Why does everyone hate Steorn so much? Did they scam people out of money with this failed technology? As I understood it, they said "no investor until the vetting process is complete, so we don't even appear to be scamming anyone." I, personally, was rooting for their technology to work. Even if it somehow extract...
Something few people have mentioned is a Sony Walkman. If you want a simple player with phenomenal sound quality and a (somewhat) customizable equalizer, a Walkman is a great start. Depending on what you are used to, music can either be added through drag and drop or through Windows Media Player. Some of the shortcom...
It's worth noting that today, Microsoft is still the largest third party employer of Mac OS programmers, due to Office. The Flash/iPhone OS stuff gets all the press, but here's an even weirder conundrum: The current Apple / Adobe feud is much more interesting I think, especially considering the deprecation of Mac O...
The second edition of the OED, published in 1989 and consisting of twenty volumes, contains more than 615,000 entries, and the third, available online, is expanding all the time, with batches of 2,500 new and revised words and phrases being added in regular quarterly updates." From the Oxford English Dictionary websi...
That article says (and the Daily Mail implies): > "But there really is no threshold of low dose being OK. Any dose of X-rays produces some potential risk." That's generally used as the risk model for radiation; it's called "linear no-threshold." and extrapolating down to lower does, where you don't definitively k...
Current Microsoftie here (but posting on a throwaway account, because I like my job :p) Anyway, I find this news a bit humiliating. Microsoft is great when it's just getting on with the day-to-day business of making neat software, but every once in a while the fuckers upstairs with the suits decide that we need to do...
I use both, Gmail for work and Yahoo Mail for my main email. Gmail's conversation view is brilliant. And on the other hand, I like Yahoo Mail's tabbed interface. Which, you may look at and say browsers already have tabs, why do you need tabs in your tabs? Memes aside, you don't, but I like being able to switch betwee...
You're talking about one of the largest multinational corporations trying to make their brand a necessity for being on the net. I know full well what products and services they offer. That's how I also know that there are superior alternatives (at least for me) to use in the place of everything you mentioned. I do no...
Yep - Facebook has some serious flaws with regard to a lack of established policies pertaining to locked / disabled / removed accounts and Pages. As one example, they've got very specific guidelines on business promotions undertaken on Facebook Pages. These include such things as requiring that any contest or giveaw...
I think you'll find that the problem many companies have with the internet lies with their business models. Most businesses rely on some level of interaction with the general public in order to do business. Retailers and service providers have used things such as direct mailings or T.V. in the past, and because these m...
I don't care because: 1) I'm not doing anything illegal 2) I'm in the EU, so if they ever tried to use any information about me, they'd likely have a few problems regarding privacy, which the EU does take kinda seriously. So what if they know what my name is and what I look like, it doesn't even matter to me. I'm...
No, they were not terrorists. With all due respect your head is up your ass. A terrorist specifically targets civilians to spread fear and oppression. Whereas the revolutionary army and associated militiamen used what would be called guerrilla and saboteur tactics against the British Army and Navy. In all wars ther...
Seventh is a symbolic number as in "the seventh son of the seventh son" and a circuit is the booking schedule that comedians follow.
I'm not trying to sound like a fucking professional are you daft? A four year old can say things without knowing what they mean or why what's being said is important, they're like parrots real good at repeating shit. I can say Mitt Romney is a mother fucking scum sucking piece of shit idiot and mean it because I ha...
100 years? Don't be silly. Do you have any idea what the world will be like in 100 years? Let alone the technology we will have that will look like magic to us today? I give handheld laser weapons 40 years or less. Actually scratch that. 40 years before the military uses it as standard, I say they have existed for year...