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First of all, you have to realize that the law does not necessarily reach all conduct that is deemed "not okay" by society. "Legal" is not synonymous with "moral" or "okay."
Second, I didn't say it was legal. I said it was legal under tort law, which is designed to cover egregious conduct (e.g. hitting people with your car, negligence by doctors, etc). Trying to sue Comcast on a tort theory is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Tort law was not designed to handle anticompetitive business behavior. If Comcast was a tiny company, they could purposely choose to erode their service. Tort law wouldn't care. It just wouldn't benefit them to do so.
We have antitrust law to prevent stuff like this. The only reason Comcast could theoretically lower Netflix speeds to 16 bits per second is because consumers have no alternative to Comcast. Antitrust law is supposed to prevent monopolists for acting in anti-competitive ways. It's also why we have a regulatory state. Theoretically, the FTC and FCC exist to protect us from being exploited by "common carriers" on which we rely. |
I don't know what that means if contracts and property laws aren't part of the deal. That's insane because it would mean the wealthy/powerful buy private "security" and enforce whatever they want, just like it was before unions existed and were protected by law. You have to have some form of government or you get to where business can't even conduct business among themselves without threat of force, nevermind the consumers. |
Had one of these in the shop for an issue. The issue cane about when the customer had somehiw messed up the password. Now this would have been fine, had it not been a local account only.
Normally we would reset the password with a netboot utility but this wouldnt work since it has no ethernet port. So then tried a usb boot utility. No luck... WHY?! So after some frustration, come to find out the EUFI boot is 32 bit only. Had never come accross this before. Couldnt find a 32 bit version of windows 8 to command line change the password and couldnt reinstall windows. So had to reset through the windows 8 recovery.
So just a warning. Would recommend a MS Account for this one. |
It's an increase. That means that, as a result of the red light cameras, there was an increase in injury accidents
The fact that it was only 5% still means there was an increase. This is not a benefit at all. It's like saying "This year we raised taxes 5%, but it's not significant, so it's a benefit for you!" |
The problem with this kind of analysis is that it relies completely on public data, and always seems to be written by someone who isn't active on G+ at all, so they don't have any perspective on what the private data look like. I actually have friends and family that use G+, and I post somewhat regularly, so I can provide a little perspective that's lacking from this article:
Almost nothing happens publically on G+. Which makes sense because the biggest reason people seem to choose G+ is for it's privacy controls. If I want to broadcast to a bunch of followers, I'd use Twitter, if I wanted to manage a business's page, I'd use FB, if I wanted to share images I'd use Instragram. The people who use G+ seem to want to share things with small, specific groups, and no one else.
Some people/groups/businesses do use G+ as a public platform, and they get wayyyy more activity on their pages then people who only share with a small group. Someone like MAKE magazine has millions of followers and posts a couple times a day. Most of the time I post, I only share with a few dozen people.
This article's analysis finds exactly that. Profiles that post publically have more followers and more views, profiles that don't post publically have fewer followers and fewer views. But it's basically impossible to make a conclusion about how many of those private profiles are active or not from this information.
Somehow I ended up with a lot (a few hundred) "public" followers recently, ie. people who I'm not friends with who will only see something if I post publicly. So I actually try to post publically occasionally now, but my public profile still looks mostly dead. It's a couple posts a month at most. My private activity is over 10x times as much, and that's with me actively trying to remember to post publically occasionally.
In 2013, if these consultants looked at my profile, they would've concluded that there was almost no activity (I almost never posted publicly). I would've been part of the 9% "active" users, but would've shown almost no activity. But they would've been severely under estimating my activity back then, I was in a couple private communities that were very active, and I was probably posting a couple times a day on average in 2013. I'm sure there were days when I was posting more in a single day privately than I did all year publically.
In the last year I look a lot more active because I actually post publically occasionally, but my overall activity is probably lower, and yet they would still be significantly underestimating my activity. |
My mom claims that she can "feel the wif waves" and that she gets a bad nights sleep when the wifi is on and good nights sleep when they are off... I did a spectrum analysis at her building and found that the 2.4 frequency is so crowded, she is getting half the bandwidth she should and when directly connecting over eth or 5GHz she gets her full speed yet she still claims when her router is off she gets better sleep.
When I was a kid I would test her claims by unpluging the router then asking how she slept on some nights while pluging it in and saying it was off on others. On nights when I asked about her sleep she said she had bad sleep when she thought it was on, if I told her I lied she would then retcon her own memory saying something like "well now that I think about it..." |
This is a bullshit story, which is odd for a magazine like Popular Mechanics.
>Early signs suggest the airplane in San Diego lost both engines before crashing in flames, which would have probably made it virtually impossible to control no matter what systems it had on board.
Then why was this artical written in the first place?
>Fly-by-wire technology is an essential component of high-performance jets such as the F-18 or the B-2 stealth bomber that crashed in February because such airplanes are built to be highly maneuverable
Ok, F-18=highly maneverable B-2=Flying brick(in good weather). |
If you are on cable, you share the stated bandwidth with up to 253 of your neighbors, depending on how many customers are plugged in to the node and how many of those have cable internet.
If you are on DSL, the stated bandwidth is dedicated to your connection.
Cable offers higher bandwidth because they know it's being shared, which means the up to accounts for your neighbors' activity and the general network conditions. DSL's up to only needs to account for the network conditions. |
Imagine creating a free global wifi based Internet. Where all you need to get on this "Internet" is to buy a specific kind of router that connects to any near by router of the same type, which connects to the other routers, creating a single network. Basically, a totally distributed wireless network among the users themselves.
This is an idea I had a while ago, I understand the problems with LoS, wireless range, and the possible speed issues of packet-switching across so many routers. But I wanted to get this out there and see if this is a totally retarded idea, or has some merit, if the proper research was done. Also, of course this would be a "second Internet" but hypothetically web-hosts could add something to their servers that connect to this network as well. |
Ex-copy repair guy here.
Yet another sensationalist overblown headline on Reddit with ton up upvotes by people that performed no research into the validity of the claim. Shocker.
Here is the deal. They do not have a counter that "breaks" the equipment. They have a counter that monitors maintenance cycles. SOME machines will stop working until the counter is reset and/or the scheduled maintenance is performed. Others will just flash the code and advise you to call for service, while still allowing you to print. Depends on the model. While this may be in part to extend revenue for the manufacturer, it is also to extend the life of your equipment. There are parts that do have an expected life span and require replacement. Picture this as preventative maintenance on your car. If you never change the oil in your motor, guess what will happen.There are lots of moving parts inside printers and they do wear out and get dirty.
In the vast majority of cases, I would show up when called out for a maintenance code, run through the maintenance checklist, clean what needed cleaning, replace what needed replacing, reset the counter, and your machine would be up and running again with very little cost to you (in fact, most businesses pay for a maintenance plan when they buy the equipment that covers the cost of the maintenance cycles and break downs up to a certain # of years).
Measuring by pages printed is the same thing as measuring miles on an odometer. After a certain number of pages printed, maintenance needs to be done on the equipment. Unless of course you would rather run your $10,000+ printer into the ground.
P.S. It is not just Xerox that does this - it is all commercial (and some non commercial) copy equipment manufacturers. |
I'm starting to think this is retaliation for the hacker lawsuits. Finding a weakness in one system is one thing. But a separate and distinct system, though related, means this was extremely targeted.
It may not have been Anonymous or the me |
While piracy is a problem, the way SOPA and the PROTECT IP acts go about doing it is comical in terms of actually stopping piracy.
It's so broadly written and so non defined that if a small company has a public comment area for people to post experiences with said company, a large corporation can come in, have someone post a link to a website that has pirated content on it, send a letter, and bam, that site is removed and, would you look at that, so is their competition.
There doesn't even have to be charges brought forward against that small company, or anyone who this would impact. It also impacts foreign users abroad who are in compliance with their countries laws regarding copyrights, but laws disagree with American laws. A vast majority of all DNS traffic is through America, even in other countries like in Europe use American DNS servers, which makes this legislation dictate our standards to them. Would we want French or German policy dictating what we should find acceptable on TV or on the radio?
That and people who have their stuff taken down illegitimately will have to file a suit to get it back, as (of the latest incarnation) there is no notice to that party required, like the DMCA notices we have now. You just wake up one day and bam, your webside no longer exists, and any ISP who takes it down based off a false claim isn't subject to any recourse, and can basically do so without expecting any backlash or legal ramifications.
Not to mention that it will end sites like Youtube, Reddit, Google (or any search engine really), any website that has a lot of traffic and an area to publicly comment on anything, but then they can just shut down the commenting areas and wow, would you look at that, suddenly we have no place to discuss anything on the internet that each comment isn't manually inspected and approved by a real person, and any forum that has the means to do so would not actually do so, because it would not be worth the money to actually undertake that investment. |
Lamar Smith represents the wishes of his people in his district, that is why they have elected him.
While I agree wholeheartedly, the article is misguided and biased; I think you go too far in demonizing the author of this article. I am not going to make false assertions on the personal motivations of the author of this article.
Instead of name calling, can we just point out why SOPA is needed, and resist the urge for inflammatory name calling? |
So I've been considering the Cyanogen Mod for my D2G. Anyone care to |
NIMBYs and repressed people who think their far better educated kids won't work out a way to get around it all anyway.
It's like these people think they have a (normally god-given) right to control what I want to watch/listen to/do with my own fucking body. We should condemn them for what they are - controlling anti-choice, anti-argument, anti-freedom of speech/act/thought idiots who don't understand that people are all supposed to be different. |
It just makes it easier for you to manage your Routers settings when you're away from home. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but some people might really be able to use it.
Things being on the cloud is good in many ways for so many different things. For example, having game save-files on the cloud helps me continue a game on a different console/PC easily. Having text editors (like Google Docs) on the cloud makes it much easier to send/edit/view files without having to install bloatware and expensive software. |
Are these the same people that made [ |
In the UK at least, a contract term is considered unfair, (and therefore unenforceable), if it blatantly favours the creator of the contract and it can be shown that there was no opportunity to negotiate those terms.
This is especially true of services which would be denied were the service user to not accept those terms.
If you're really bored you can see this link for the exact wording: |
No patents = no disclosure. Companies/people give up disclosure of processes/ideas via patents. No patents mean that Edison could have hoarded his idea for light bulbs and only his company would have been providing light bulbs until the time someone reverse engineered his method. This would have choked the market for light bulbs and caused the price to go up. Patents are for the public good. There is a major difference between Coca-Cola keeping their cola making process a trade secret and Apple disclosing the technical components of something like a "swipe to unlock" function. Samsung chose not to license things like the "swipe to unlock" function and had to pay the price for not waiting until the period of protection that Apple received by being the first to invent the process/invention (although this is revised in the the new America Invents Act to "first to file" much like the rest of the world). |
Software design patents increase the cost of software development exponentially. Due diligence to ensure that a developer has not used computer instructions in a patented order or used a patented method for achieving a common end (like using the video display or caching memory or whatever) puts software development firmly into the realm of only (very) large corporations, effectively stifling innovation and competition. |
I was pretty much with you, up until this part:
>we can't just have tech companies straight up cloning each other either as that also hurts innovation.
I'd say the opposite is true. If designers are copying each other, and everyone knows this - then that will only make the competitors compete that much more and thus improve the quality of their products.
The same goes for your intellectual knowledge and when you go for a job interview. If you're in a particularly very competitive field, and you realize there are a large number of other candidates who probably have very similar qualifications, are you just going to sit back and do nothing about it? Or, are you going to stand out somehow? (be it by volunteering on the side, or taking extra courses... something, right?)
I digress.
Why should someone have a monopoly on an idea? If anything, that stifles innovation b/c they have no motivation to improve their design (compared to if they couldn't patent a design). Once they design something, they can just get a patent, sit back, and not worry about any direct competition w/ no incentive to improve their design. However, if they know someone can base their design off of theirs and improve it - you're darn right the first guy isn't going to rest on their laurels. They are going to stay competitive and continually look for ways to improve something - or die.
Competition is good for the consumer. Let them decide who the winners and losers will be - not artificially via some enforced monopoly.
edit: Patent laws are so arbitrary anyway. I mean, they're simply not applied across the board. It could very easily be argued that certain similar classes of Hondas and Toyotas or Lexus and Acuras or Mercedes and BMW's are clones and/or that they copy each other, yet neither company (thankfully) wastes judicial time taking each other to court. |
There are so many different categories of space disaster that could destroy this entire planet. Asteroids, comets, hot jets of gas, who knows what else. And people on this mudball are busy screaming at each other over who gets to control puddles of dead plankton and whether providing socialized medicine is a good idea or not. |
My first 360 was a cracked one (£350 for an Xbox 360 Pro and 20 games was worth it at the time). Microsoft bans consoles in waves at varying intervals. They didn't ban your Gamertag but instead the actual serial number of your console so even if you sold it on it couldn't connect to XBL. They use waves so that they can basically detect more people and, hopefully, improve their detection so that you don't get a false-positive and someone loses access even if they haven't done anything.
With the 360 i think (not exactly sure) that the first way to access pirated games was via replacing the firmware on the DVD Drive which meant you had to take apart the Xbox and hook up the DVD drive to your PC via a SATA cable, sounds awkward but was actually exceptionally easy. Microsoft did ban waves after that (i finally got banned a couple days into the Halo 3 beta, bought an Xbox and a copy of Crackdown that day so i guess they benefited) and also did things like replacing the DVD Drives with new ones but really that didn't slow the piracy much since they were re-flashed within weeks. This simply bypassed the drives "Is this a legit game" check, very simple in principle. Most people i knew just went out and bougt a secondhand console for cheap usually less than £50 which due to the ban wave system could last them between 6 months to a year of free games. From their perspective it was really economically viable as it was easy to just download a game and burn it too a dual layer DVD.
JTAG came next which allowed people to run things like custom dashboards and run other unsigned code, aswell as piracy ofcourse. This took a long time to arrive and is really really awkward. You had to have a less than a dashboard version in the first place and consisted of gutting your Xbox. Only did one once for a friend and it wasn't worth the hassle in my opinion.
I'm not sure what measures they have taken since then as i haven't kept track of these things since the PS3 got broken into and my attention was diverted (i'm a big fan of writing unsigned code, just like tinkering with stuff). Maybe they "fixed" it with the Xbox 360 Slim but i'm unsure. |
360 you can on some versions and no others, and it's a huge pain.
ps3 you can too, most of older games (more than 1 year). Anything more recent, good luck.
Both of them require a good amount of time and dedication to make them work, and both of them will get you banned from online services, so no multiplayer ever again. |
This is correct! got my mac air stolen(busted my car window two floors underground). apple couldn't help, cops couldn't help(fill out a police report online. no srsly). all was lost.
but then I remembered I had prey installed cause i heard it got a pal's laptop back. i went on it, ticked some checkboxes, and within thirty minutes, BAM! a hit! not too much at first. someone was using my computer. but it had an IP address and some wifi info. I was ecstatic. I called the cops again, and they told me to go fuck myself again. if I couldnt find an EXACT address in this slummy neighborhood, they couldn't go check it out.
So i sit on my thumbs for another thirty minutes and the next hit has a screenshot... with Jane(the junkie, from breaking bad!)'s iphone hooked up to itunes. her phone number exposed. this was it. i had a thief. I called the cops again. and again they told me to eat a dick. why send units out? they'll give me a call later this week. oh, and i shouldn't be pursuing this myself. no srsly.
so OF COURSE i called her number, camera recording the call just in case. her boyfriend picked up. he was obviously the guy who made the steal. i try to get tough, pinning his location as best I can and threatening to "call the cops," hoping he doesn't know they won't do anything. and he didn't. so he makes up some story about seeing it for sale on craigslist for $150 and after inspecting it, not buying it. when confronted with a webcam picture of his chick using the computer mere minutes ago, he offered no explanation.
BUT! BUT!!! He COULD... perhaps... call the craigslist guy who had it and pay him the $150 he wanted for it. But I would have to puny up $75, cause you know. it IS for me to get my laptop back. isnt that nice?
So OF COURSE i agree to pay it because WHO WOULD PAY IT? He tells me to meet him at a starbucks, then a mcdonalds, then a few places at the mall(it was an unusually rainy monday in san diego. i was running through an empty mall, yelling at my phone). he didn't want to get caught, and he didnt want me to bring the cops. he was paranoid.
so finally he tells me to run over to our local sears auto center and find the laptop under a white honda del sol. i did. in a nice computer bag he undoubtedly got from one of my neighbors cars. he told me to leave the $75 under there, and I couldn't WAIT to do that, but first I told him i had to check out the laptop first. my user was gone(there's a process to wipe just the bare user account info, which he found ion google, but it doesn't remove the installed programs. hope that C-word enjoyed photoshop). I was all "what's the password?" trying to be as panicky as i could inside the storefront of sears auto center, where one employee and zero customers looked at me with mild interest.
after a few more attempts, he begins blurting out passwords, and i begin writing them down. one of them unlocked her user. by this point he didnt want the money, he was just begging me not to call the cops. and fuck them anyways, right? So i look through her user and begin trying to find the doors to the keys he just gave me. one of them turned out to be her icloud password.
guess where all her iphone photos went? icloud. guess who had her bday reminder moved up up week by week for a few months straight? grandma. guess whose number has been replaced with that of the san diego PD? her boyfriend. how many times did she miss her laser hair removal appointment? four. guess who laughed at all the photos of their meth use and the video of them meth-victory fucking in front of my laptop? THIS GUY. |
They really made a point out of how it was almost an operating system consisting of two whole operating systems (the Touch/Metro/Modern/whatever style and the traditional desktop style).
From my own personal experience, I see the "Modern" style maybe 10% of the time I actually use my computer, and once you have an idea of what you want on there, its actually really useful. I'm gonna go right ahead and say that the metro/modern apps suck on a desktop. They have no place on a high-res screen in a desktop environment. I'm sure they're great, almost intuitive on a device like the Surface, but desktop usage is a no-no.
The start screen however, is fan-fucking-tastic. You are in no way forced to use the metro (fuck it, I'm calling it metro from now on) apps at all. I certainly don't, and have removed most of them. Pinning your own shortcuts to the start screen is awesome, in the sense that it makes the traditional start menu look kinda weedy, outdated, and harder to use at a distance and so on. Did I mention that search is stupendously fast? Just hit the windows key and start typing the app you want and shits instantaneous. The trick is to use the keyboard for most of the navigation. Arrow keys and so forth. In fact, referring back to the video, when they were going through the control panel fiasco, they could have saved themselves about 5 clicks and keystrokes by tapping the down arrow key to get onto the 'settings' field within the start menu.
Regarding desktop mode, its really just a faster, tightened up version of Windows 7, with the added accompaniment that is the start screen. Its not that bad all in all. After a while, you might even find its pretty great. You do start to learn WHY Microsoft decided to make such a big decision in terms of a design overhaul. The traditional desktop is dated, and the W8 changes in design are questionable, but for the better in the long run. |
I cannot access the video (for some weird reasons). Can you pls |
It definitely DOES cost the ISP money. Before the CDN, Netflix had to (directly or indirectly) pay a Tier1 network provider for transit since they were pushing out TONS more data than they are receiving. The ISPs on the receiving end of Netflixes data tsunami were then able to use this imbalance in incoming/outgoing traffic to in turn negotiate more favorable (i.e. cheaper) peering agreements for their own outgoing data. In this way, Netflix was indirectly paying for the cost of last mile delivery for the huge amount of data they were pushing onto ISP networks (a.k.a. the way the economics of the internet were designed to work).
Once your ISP agrees to host a Netflix CDN box, Netflix's data costs drop tremendously. However, your ISP loses a huge chunk of its negotiating power with Netflixes former Tier1 provider(s). Peering is now more expensive for the ISP, while the cost of last-mile delivery remains the same. If everyone subscribed to Netflix, this would all average out with time. However, in reality, a Netflix CDN just spreads the cost of providing Netflix bandwidth among ALL ISP customers. |
When did I ever say I wanted Gigabit speed? Oh wait... I didn't. GF is over 10 times faster than my internet at 100 mbps and if they actually deliver that rate, than they're closer to 15 times faster. I don't get why the fuck you or anyone would defend this nations ISP's. Any idiot can see the shady business going down in order to keep their profits high without more investment.
In this day in age, reliable internet is becoming a necessity just to maintain day to day activity. Whether it is work or play, an increasing amount of people require internet just to function within the demands of their employers. For example, I'm in college right now. Since my focus is in network administration, a great deal of my homework has to be done over vmware. This is a problem when the only internet providor available to me is TWC. I pay for 10 Mbps internet and I get around 6. Shitty, but not that big of a deal. However, every single day around 6pm or so when I get home and try to start on my homework, my internet inevitably goes down.
So not only am I paying a lot of money for speeds I'm not satisfied with, I don't even get anything half the time. But I keep paying, because what choice do I have? I pay my monthly fee and hold up my end of the bargain, but Time Warner doesn't give a shit. Why should they? They got theirs, and it's not like I can use another provider when there isn't one to speak of.
We as a nation need to begin looking at internet as a utility rather than a commodity. Having the available bandwidth that fiber would have many benefits far beyond just home internet connection. I think its pretty smart of KC to subsidize their internet. When other ISP's were given taxpayer money to improve infrastructure, they pocketed it. |
I would think that pretty rapidly (like within a few model years) the only ability the passenger in a driverless car would have in this situation is to hit some kind of kill switch which makes the vehicle merge safely to the shoulder, stop, and activate its emergency flashers.
The technology isn't going to do much good if the cars are like the ones in Demolition Man where the human can still take control. If this is the case, its going to have to be very selective when its allowed-and an emergency button the rest of the time. Maybe it allows the human to take control within a mile of home or similar, or when entering a parking lot to park (assuming of course the car doesn't know how to do this).
Otherwise people will take the car out of "autodrive" on places like the freeway, and then you are totally defeating the purpose anyway.
And until the vehicle is totally automated, or the human is driving in a very, very minimal role, fault and insurance rates aren't going to change. The only other factor will be to check to see if the computer was in command or the human in the vehicles involved, and knowing how insurance companies will be, if you have a 5 car pileup and only one car was in human control, guess who is getting blamed. |
If only it were that easy. Infrastructure is not a true free market, Time Warner and Comcast have state reps in their back pockets. They are limiting the competition, which is why we see no growth or increase of speeds, or price changes. |
That's for there quantum service though. I've got both a fiber and coax running to my house have used both services and preferred my 50mb fiber service(around 130$, but also had phone and digital TV with the HD package and sports packages) to the coax 35mb service that I received from Cox communications.
While it does matter how much bandwidth to the home you're getting, unless you're like me with the means and capabilities of installing fiber through your home ("to the desktop") you'll get bottled up at the fiber entry point(where the "last mile" terminated at your house) because more than likely you're still using cat/cat5e/coaxial(rg59 or rg-6) cables to distribute that service through the home. |
There's a lot of confusion and misconception around the caps thing. I was pretty heavily involved in fighting it - maybe I can help.
Canada has what we call 'the big three': Bell, Rogers, and Telus. These three companies control most of the country's Internet access. Even many of the smaller ISPs you see out there are actually just renting bandwidth from one of the big three.
There are a few exceptions, but their coverage area is so limited that they don't pose any kind of serious threat to the big three.
The bandwidth caps proposed by Bell, Rogers, and Telus were aimed not directy at the consumer, but at the re-sellers like Teksavvy who purchse bandwidth wholesale from a larger ISP and re-sell it at much better rates to customers. Enforcing a cap on re-sellers would force them to pass the costs on to their customers, which many of them did not want to do.
The big three have been imposing data caps on their direct customers for years, though the level to which they enforce them has varied. For those who couldn't abide by a cap, re-seller ISPs were the only option for truly unlimited plans. Imposing caps on the re-sellers would eliminate that option too.
The one 'unique' ISP I can think of is Manitoba Telecom. Like Sasktel, they used to be a Crown Corp but privatized in the late 90s. They bought out AT&T Canada (Now Allstream), so they are their own ISP with their own bandwidth and totally unlimited plans. They're not the fastest plans, especially as you move farther north, but they have been laying Fiber to the Home in a few communities over the last couple years. That's really nice to see. |
In France (but I remember that other countries do it too, like Canada for example), I have to pay an additional tax on all blank media (including USB keys, iPad, iPhones, smartphones, SD cards, CD-Rs, ...) that goes directly to the local RIAA because they are so poor and needs my money to compensate for the money (supposedly) lost due to pirates.
This money is (supposed to be) sent to the artists. But we know it's not true. And even if it was, I don't want to send my paycheck to any random artist because I want to backup my family photos.
Another thing to consider is that the law specifically allows me to backup what I buy, so why do I have to pay another tax for something that is allowed? Rights set by law should be free if those are really rights.
Last but not least, what happens if I, as an artist, burn a few CDs and give them (or sell them) to people around me? Do I get this money back? Where do I send an invoice? |
The change is in behavior of how apps are expected to interact with the user. And, to be clear, this is for data driven apps (like calendars and lists) rather than games or full-screen "experiences".
For the data driven apps in the WWDC video you can see how they talk about putting the user's data front most and de-emphasizing the interface. That's a big change that goes beyond new bitmaps. Lots of apps right now try to add lots of chrome and develop a whole custom looking "environment" which means less space for the data. It's this "data first" behavior change that is going to cause the biggest problems.
For example, I have two Craig's list apps on iOS 6. One looks like a physical newspaper that opens up and allows you to use gestures to navigate and save ads. The other looks has lots of chrome that makes it look like I'm sitting at a coffee table looking over the paper and is basically an elaborately decorated list view. I could care less about the "look" of either one.
So if the "data" of these apps is the list of ads, the first step is to strip as much unnecessary chrome as possible so that the emphasis is on the lists of ads rather than the newspaper or the coffee table.
If one app strips itself of the chrome, it will feel faster and it will look like it integrates into the default iOS look better.
If they both strip down their interfaces, they may be asking themselves "How am I going to differentiate my app from the other Craigslist apps out there?"
That's a big deal for the app designer, but for me as a user I'll gladly take someone adding features that help me even if it means jettisoning the "experience" of reading a newspaper or being at a coffee table. |
Aside from the fact that they're expensive as hell to run and I don't believe that anyone in 2013 legitimately uses these as transportation?
I'd say you're a moron because you're sat on something with a mind of its own that you're statistically quite likely to fall off anyway. Add to that the fact that it is scared of automobiles yet you've taken it on the highway. It is also only capable of travelling sustainably at 5mph so you've put it in a position where it is going to be overtaken a lot.
I'd also fathom that the horse probably doesn't like walking on a hard surface, doesn't like having nails driven into its feet, doesn't like having some fat middle aged woman sat on it and doesn't like being whipped/kicked into motion. |
Members of the public also have first amendment rights; including the right to access communications services on a non-discriminatory basis.
If Verizon doesn't want the job, then they're free to exit the business so a provider who respects the public's rights can use the utility poles, conduits, cabling vaults and other public infrastructure that limit the number of carriers that can service each community. |
I can almost buy that argument. Almost. But heres the issue. Your right to free speech ends when it infringes on another persons rights.
Ok, heres and example. Anonymous. You can't deny that some of what they have done is illegal, can you? Data theft, malicious damage, etc. But their main argument is that they are exposing corruption and what not. Whatever right they have to use the internet to proclaim their cause, they are still committing crimes using the internet. Its no different if they just walked into the server rooms and stole the servers.
Another one? Silk Road. Not starting a drugs debate here, but the silk road is undeniably illegal. If its illegal doing it in person, its still illegal doing it online.
Ok but I think that was straying a little from your original point, being free speech.
I'll be honest, I haven't actually read the article nor will I, because I know that source will be heavily biased. But regardless, I'm talking about censorship in general.
You are right, censoring sets a precedent. But not censoring also sets one. Is the US government cracking down on political dissent in the streets? No. Will they crack down on political dissent online? I doubt it.
Now, I don't believe for a moment the tinfoil theories of the US government being an evil corporate machine that wants to enslave the people. (You know what I mean). So I don't buy the whole "control" argument. You should have the same rights on the internet as you do on the street. The government should have the same surveillance powers on the internet as they do on the street.
On the street, you can complain on the government all you want. You should be able to do the same on the internet.
However, if you are caught organizing bomb making for use against the government, you're gonna be locked up, right? Free speech or not. Same shit should apply to the internet.
Sorry if this is rambling a bit. Basically, the |
I think education is the second step, or maybe even the last. If the populace could care a little more about how to be intelligent, everything else would fall into place.
My thought processes:
You're wrong!! Everything starts with education. You can't form intelligent opinions without good information!
Crap, wait. The deeper problem with education is probably cultural. If intelligence was just more valued in society, we would be naturally inclined to get more informed!
But then who's job is it to teach culture, if not the schools? Can culture even be "taught"? Is it even possible to define what culture is ? Why do we like the things we like? Can we blame someone else for that? That would be awesome. |
well, we don't really want to remove lobbying, maybe fixing it, but without lobbying you don't have a voice in government either, as you yourself, whenever you advocate an issue to your representative, are a lobbyist. And it's not a bad thing that businesses can advocate for themselves either. I think the problem people have is that since businesses have more money, they have an undue amount of influence as lobbyists, because they can give perks to representatives. So lobbying itself is not bad. What we have just needs to be fixed. |
Well you know how Canada's voting system works, right?
This is for you out there who don't know.
Canada's voting system is a little something called "First Past the Post," where whichever party has the most votes in the end wins. This is a severely flawed system due to Canada's parties. The big three Canadians vote for are either Conservative, Liberal, or NDP (there is also Green, Bloc Québécois, and Independents, but the amount of seats they hold is insignificant in comparison). For easy mathematics, let's say there are 100 seats in the House of Commons to represent the 100 voting regions in Canada (there are actually 308 regions/seats). If the Conservative party has 34 seats, the Liberals has 33 seats, and the NDP has 33 seats, the Conservatives win, despite the fact that only one third of Canada's population voted for them. Unlike the US, which just has Republicans and Democrats which results in the need for a Majority Government (rule with seats than all other parties combined) to win, a Canadian party can rule with a Minority Government (rule with less seats than all other parties combined.
And then there is Caucus (pronounced "caulk-us"), an unwritten law that states "As a member of our party, you will vote with our party. If you wish to vote against our party, you will be released as an Independent" (the only exception being Free Vote, which the Prime Minister will call for when voting on emotionally sensitive topics, ie. removal of the death sentence and legalizing gay marriage).
The Conservatives have a Majority Government , and due to Caucus , Stephen Harper is technically a dictator; his MP's in the House of Commons (Lower House) have no choice but to vote with him on a bill (proposed law), and it will pass because of the Conservatives' majority. And when the bill is passed to the Senate (Upper House), it is passed through almost immediately because the Prime Minister appoints his Senators. Then the Governor-General gives the bill his/her "Seal of Approval" on behalf of the Queen and the bill becomes law.
Source: 16-year-old Canadian citizen currently taking Social Studies 11 which focuses on politics. |
I have this theory that Americans like to claim that their country is not democratic or is broken when decisions are made that they do not agree with. Right after Obama was elected, tons of Republicans were crying about how America is over and their democracy is broken. Same happened under Bush, but with Democrats.
This is of course a useful way of deflecting responsibility - after all, if you live in a non-democratic state, then it's not your fault that your representatives do shitty things. There's nothing that you could have done - and if you did do something, but it failed, then that's just proof that you're not in a democracy. After all, it's not as if there are other sets of legitimate interests out there that are organizing and mobilising against your position, and that, in a democracy, also have a right to be heard. No, there's just what you want, and your whiny disappointed anger that you didn't get it.
Shit, people, nothing's even happened. Anything in this TPP would have to go past Congress. Start organising to fight it there, if it's unacceptable. Don't moan about a decision that hasn't been made and start talking about armed rebellion. As if anyone here actually has the balls to do it. |
While there are genuine grounds to be concerned about more stringent intellectual property restrictions, this petition is full of factual bullshit.
the TPP is not an 'extreme censorship plan', it's a proposed free trade agreement motivated by economic interests. Cracking down on intellectual property infringements isn't the same thing as censoring the internet.
In many places, it's ALREADY a crime to download pirated material from the internet. Does that stop it from happening on a massive scale? Sure, theoretically people could be sent to jail for illegal downloading but this almost never happens, even in places where there are strong anti-piracy laws. It's too hard to enforce.
The TPP is an international agreement. That means that it is up to individual countries to adopt the agreement into their laws. It also means that if states are not happy with certain aspects of the agreement they can propose amendments to it. As a result, things that appear in the draft may be removed, or toned down by the final agreement. No one is forcing states to do anything.
There's every reason to be concerned about stronger intellectual property laws but this kind of shrill, misinformed click activism doesn't help anyone. |
U.S. courts have a habit of upholding EULAs, so I think you're wrong there.
But more importantly, what the heck do EULA's have to do with anything. As long as they made it clear to the user that emails go though their server then they should be fine (e.g. should gmail be illegal because some idiot might send medical documents via gmail?). Informing the user is not the same as a EULA. Their defense has nothing to do with a contract (that may or may not be legally binding.) They only need to inform the user. |
Tha'ts not the only thing Linked in does -- they asked me if I wanted to invite my contacts to LinkedIn -- I very carefully denied the request since I really didn't want them to do that. They emailed everyone on my contact list with an invite from me to be a contact on linked in! This would include wildly inappropriate people you would never do that with. I have discovered there is a class action of people like me suing them over this. |
The government can't make you unlock a door
I address this here: |
The financial institution you chose to store your money would have records of your trades, and any gain and loss information. If you really did lose a substantial amount of money in bad investments, it would be easy to show exactly where that money went.
Additionally and more importantly, there would be multiple points at which the money would enter and leave the banking system. The money enters the bank and stays there or is transferred to another bank. There would be no reason to cash the money out to transfer it; a check or ACH transfer would be sufficient. Even if you did transfer the money by cash, it would have to be deposited at another bank in order to make investments.
This focuses on stock, mutual fund, and ETF investments and ignores other kinds of investments. Those other kinds, such as, buying and selling of real estate, gambling, owning rental units, ect would still have a very long paper trail that would be easy to find.
My guess is the dude hid the money and the lawyer could prove this with bank transactions and statements. Now, while you can easily infer that the person hid the money it doesn't necessarily mean charges will be filed for tax evasion, money laundry, ect. So the judge, being like, "Hey yep he hid it we all know it, but only the Feds pursue tax evasion/money laundry cases. So I will order him to prove he lost the money in investments or provide the money he hid, and if he doesn't we will lock him up." |
What? How would sitting in a cell help you remember. There's no way this ruling is going to stand for even a few more months. No judge is going to potentially put someone in jail for life for forgetting a password and that would inevitably occur if that law is to stand. It's being appealed left and right all over the country in every case that is even remotely applicable. |
Which is why you should choose carefully the definition of "trivial" and "important".
In the grand scheme of things, 12 GB of hardcore porn is trivial*. In the personal scheme of things, 12 GB of hardcore porn is important. If you have a 1 GB hidden volume at the free space of the 16 GB outer container that contains backup copies of all your PGP keys and the passwords to your asdfghjkl, well, no-one can prove that it exists and everyone over the age of 18 is well aware that both men and women can and do enjoy pornography and can and do take steps to hide the details of that. |
Those searches may not have been, as they had more cause than they would in the advice I gave. I did not say those searches were illegal.
Those cases may be about CP. Not everyone wanting to be safe is automatically like those cases. I do not like the implication that wanting to have your things encrypted and not have others go through it must mean child pornographer.
I didn't imply anything about those cases. I was not talking about those cases. You brought them up. You're the one fixated on them. I am talking about hypothetical issues, and how to avoid them. It is not different than telling someone to say "I do not consent to a search" when asked by an officer if he can search their vehicle, and you going on a rant about how cases of people not consenting were druggies.
This is NOT about prosecuting child pornography. That is not what I am or was talking about. That's just you picking a pet project to talk about or something. If that's what you are here to discuss, I have nothing further to say to you, as that is not what I was discussing or something I have any desire to discuss here. |
No, we are discussing whether the imprisonment is just or unjust. I am on the just side. The differences lying between He doesn't need to prove his innocence and There is no reasonable doubt that he didn't hide the money, and all variations thereof.
Now, I don't have the knowledge to say the judge did or didn't have the legal right to imprison him during divorce proceedings. My research before replying suggest it is a toss up, but leaning towards yes he can imprison the dude in some cases even during a civil trial. However, it will require more research before I take a position and argue it either way. Which I'm not going to do.
I will say that given that his imprisonment was continued for x number of years it would be legal and just. Or it suggest a massive falling of the justice system, his lawyer, and the public for allowing it to go on for so long.
The dude clearly valued his hidden money more than his freedom. |
I ride a motorcycle that's faster, more fun, and sexier than the Elio. I still found myself considering one for two reasons:
1) Getting groceries on a bike is a pain in the ass.
2) Inclement weather makes riding uncomfortable (I've been riding in ~35F weather for a few weeks of commuting... it sucks).
The only real obstacle to entry for me is that the [website]( looks like more hype than substance. I'd feel better if it had a standardized spec sheet, more detailed info about THE PRODUCT, and less of them trying to get you to fund their production line a la Kickstarter. |
The Geo Metro was lighter than modern cars due to the safety regulations being more lax back then. In other words, even with low power, it moved itself around better than a modern car with the same power. Not to mention the fact that car manufacturers have had to throw in everything from a radio (not that long ago, you could buy an Altima that didn't have a radio at all) to an iPod connection, to power doors, windows, etc. Feature bloat has set in because these are all features modern car buyers demand.
In 1991, the MSRP was around $7 grand. In today's money that's somewhere around 11 or 12 grand. Which is still above the $10 grand mark the other guy set.
In order to drop below that, you're going to have to give up something: Safety, the barest of features (cruise control, power locks, keyless entry, etc), reliability, quality, or price. For most Americans, price is the easiest ti give on, which is why most cars are $15000 and up. You want |
Just as a sidenote, black+white lists don't work terribly well from an administration point of view, because once you get there, it turns out it needs to be ever so more fine grained. Plus, content isn't permanent, it changes all the time. So this leads quickly to a situation where you end up with black+white+many shades of grey, and instead of being an improvement, the it's become a huge pain in the butt to administrate successfully. |
I'll put it differently. I was not looking for mellifluous honeysuckle dropped into my fucking ear, I was looking for a simple answer and perhaps extrapolation. An answer wrapped in the garnishings of the social maladroit is not only superfluous but also entirely pointless.
It took you more effort to type the extraneous than it did to write a normal answer, so either you value your time poorly or you value the need to feel superior to another person so highly that even a marginal opportunity to use your angry words and come across sanctimoniously is worth the extra 30-45 seconds. |
I'm quite excited as well. So far the only impression we can make about the windows mobile ecosystem is the phones Nokia makes and the OS itself, which has much-needed room for improvement. With multiple OEMs, we can begin to strip out what part of win8phone is microsoft's and which is the OEM's and find the real problem behind it.
Another benefit is one that Android has been able to cash in on for a long time: diversity. I can go buy any android phone from $100 to $600 and enjoy it for a good few years before i go and buy another with a whole new suite of features if i so choose. While the windows phones have some variety, it's still the same nokia phone, just with a more or less powerful camera/processor. If OEMs do their best to add some variety to the list of windows phones, I can see it become a viable 3rd option for consumers. |
While I'm all for the circlejerk/hatred towards Time Warner here, in all fairness I do have to report a positive experience (shocking!) with them this morning.
After noticing my internet loading ridiculously slow, and after a speedtest.net test showed 1Mbps download, a phone call and |
Funny thing is, in many parts of the world, it is! Many developed and even developing countries have either started out with fiber optics or have found it rather easy to switch to.
I have been in many countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan, UAE etc and have always found Internet with better and more consistent speeds in same price with the ones in USA. In fact, if ur speed dips, they fix it from their server within 5 mins or call a technician on ur time of leisure (on the same day)
I attribute this vast difference in speed and coverage quality to the market, almost all the countries I've been to, save for the US, have a myriad of telecommunications companies in heavy competition, where in the US there are a lot of local monopolies. |
I work for an ISP , Internet America, complete shit service. Especially the wireless, and ya the technology isnt really there yet, because its too expensive to be profitable and provide a decent service. On top of the major internet companies we just resell shit. Dont get me wrong internet companies are complete thieves, and I have to work for one and listen to customers cry and bitch. They need to call their congressmen and have internet infrastructure built by the gov or better antitrust laws.
On top of that they are a complete shit company to work for. I have got a week of vacation to use, and requested it off. As well I gave a two weeks notice. Previous tech just lied used vacation didn't tell them he had another job lined up and then started using sick time. I was like that's fucked, ill be a good person. Noooooope. Completely refused my vacation time. I worked consistent overtime for them at one point went 2 months with out a day off.
Yes I give shit customer support, because basically thats what their policy is. Piss the customer off but only so much that they dont cancel and have no other providers. They cant hold on to a fucking tech. CEO told us point blank you want better pay look for another job.
Sorry Im fucking furious this just happened. I hate ISP's from the inside out. |
BGP is a routing protocol that advertises routes externally, each large organization advertises some BGP routes at the edge of their network. Each edge device has a routing table with all the advertised BGP routes from around the internet.
There are hardware limitations on older models of these edge routers that can only hold 512k routes in their routing table, which is the number we hit today.
[ELI5 form Cisco on the topic, very interesting and well done.](
[Map showing Level 3 outages around the united states in real(ish) time](
For those who don't know level 3 is one of the seven [Tier 1]( providers that link the internet together, when they have trouble the whole internet has trouble.
[Primary source on the number of BPG routes]( |
I would tend to agree, and I would also point out that, while in its current state, CSS+HTML+jQuery does not rival native app development, I feel it will equal or outdo it before too long. Websites from the early 90's compared to today's most innovative sites are seriously like night and day. Huge improvements continue to be made, and more will continue to do so in future releases. Part of what drives the evolution of the webGUI is people's demands, and people will always demand "pretty." |
In the sense that people compare owning a samsung to owning a iPhone, so you do not own a Samsung. If someone is going to say iPhone then they should also specify the category of the Samsung device. If they didn't, the title would be "Samsung Owners Happier Than Apple Owners". |
iOS vs Android marketshare is not the same thing as population of a device. iPhones are [consistently top ranked selling handsets]( for a while now. |
This should be the top post in the thread.
Summary: These are old numbers taken from a survey released in May 2014, based on polling conducted from January to March of 2014. The iPhone 6, 6+, and even the Galaxy S5 and Note 4 were not included because they didn't exist yet. And if you look at the survey results for the most recent phones on the list, the iPhone 5S and 5C have scores of 83 and 84, while the Note III and GS4 have scores of 81 and 82. Not only that, but if you look at the trends, Apple's satisfaction ratings have been going up, whereas Samsung's have dropped quite a bit since the Galaxy Note II. And given how people have been reacting to the GS5 this year (not included in the survey), that trend will only continue further. |
It's an article citing a trend in customer satisfaction numbers. The fact that people can go all team Apple or Samsung and whine about the results does not mean the post should be removed. |
I thought many knew this was coming though. HR 658 has been around for awhile, and although its was in the news a bit a few years ago, there never seemed to be a huge uproar about it. |
confidential informants/anonymous informants are seemingly being enabled by lenient judges in our legal system right now, far beyond simply tolerated. It also doesn't necessarily require evidence at all, just being a "witness" is enough, so you can make up a story.
That means this "anonymous informant" can be the DEA itself, which collected evidence illegally, once the tip is made to be at a place with actual admissible evidence. |
This isn't completely accurate. I'm on my cellphone so I will update this post later.
Edit: Alright. So lets cover the main points.
>Nobody can handle a DDos attack unless they have retarded amounts of networking/computing power to overpower the messages being received.
Completely wrong and it will be answered below.
>You may be able to use some workarounds such as ignoring all requests, but this just renders your network equally useless and is the entire point of a DDoS attack (but you will be able to transmit at least).
Not exactly. Upstream filtering (null routing the DDoS traffic) is the best way to deal with a DDoS attack. You can always deal with it by using geographical block policies (block the entire country of Russia for example). While blocking will help, you will still feel the force of the DDoS attack. Upstream filtering is the best way to deal with DDoS attacks although you can take steps to deal with it. With a proper network design, you can filter your own traffic.
>An extremely large company or ISP may be able to handle a DDoS attack
Generally large companies and ISPs handle the majority of DDoS attacks without even skipping a beat. It is only the really large DDoS attacks (400+ gbps) that pose a threat and even then, those can be mitigated with relative ease.
> it comes down to the scale of the attack compared to their bandwidth/computing power, as well as the amount of legitimate users. For example, Reddit may be able to handle a DDoS attack if no legitimate users were using the website, but if they are working at 75% capacity a relatively smaller DDoS could shut the site down for everyone.
A DDoS attack is generally going to do something. You are sucker punching someone essentially. Large DNS Amplification attacks can prove disastrous for websites. The real threat is a hacker being able to compromise you web facing servers and applications. Generally you will experience an outage from a DDoS attack, but it can be as little as 5 minutes if handled correctly.
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Nobody can handle a DDos attack unless they have retarded amounts of networking/computing power to overpower the messages being received. That is just the way TCP/IP is set up. You may be able to use some workarounds such as ignoring all requests, but this just renders your network equally useless and is the entire point of a DDoS attack (but you will be able to transmit at least).
>Yeah, hey, can you elaborate on why a school should be able to handle a DDoS?
Nobody expects them to.
>Or, more generally, why XXXX should be able to handle a DDoS?
An extremely large company or ISP may be able to handle a DDoS attack, but again, it comes down to the scale of the attack compared to their bandwidth/computing power, as well as the amount of legitimate users. For example, Reddit may be able to handle a DDoS attack if no legitimate users were using the website, but if they are working at 75% capacity a relatively smaller DDoS could shut the site down for everyone.
>Who shouldn't be able to handle a DDoS?
Pretty much everyone is susceptible to one. Like I said, there are methods to circumvent it somewhat, but with enough "zombies"- computers that a malware company has viruses on and can issue an "attack" command at any time- you can break any system. |
This is abit long a technical If you want a shorter response post over in ELI5.
Schools should be able to handle it because they actually have dedicated budgets and most have quality hardware. The government funds schools technology through a program called E-Rate. It provides ISP services, Firewalls, wireless, and other services deemed necessary for providing digital learning and protecting student information.
Further, since schools have HIPAA information they probably have to be PCI compliant and have disaster recovery plans. One of the scenarios covered in pretty much every PCI audit is DDoS mitigation and prevention.
Typically a school this size should have a 10gb/s (static route) Internet from a single provider or from multiple providers (BGP). Attacks in general always have a footprint. They are either attacking a specific IP address, or specific port in the range of ipaddresses. You can find the probably best IP address by doing a trace route from a network out. The first number that isn’t 10.X.X.X or 192.168.X.X or 172.16.X.X (source) is likely the firewall and weakest link in the chain.
The 2 most typical DDoS attacks are to try and overload the physical link traffic to site, or try to overload a single units capability. For instance you can attack a firewalls memory and cpu by trying to open VPN, SSH connections, HTTPS, connections to inside devices (devices that have a NAT). Or about a year ago the favorite was NTP and SNTP (time protocols)
To defeat a DDoS you need to have a flexible network. So every address needs to be ready to move to another address. You should properly hide critical infrastructure. Just because it is easy to manage remotely doesn’t mean it is right to do. You also need to have a good relationship with your ISP (which schools don’t typically use Comcast/TWC and the likes. They have special consortiums). So if you are getting say more than 1gb of traffic that is hitting your firewall you change the IP address to something else and then call the ISP and say Black List the destination IP address and my change my static route to X.X.X.X. Boom! Traffic gets dropped at the ISPs BGP edge networks. This is in the ISP best interest as well as it doesn’t overload their own transport network.
To Defeat a DDoS that is less than your physical throughput but causing system instability you can change the IP address of the service. You can add memory or cpu (easy in virtual environments). You can use fancy tools from most firewall vendors that can very accurately tell what is Legit traffic and What is not. There are several ways to mitigate it.
Now for discovery. Like I mentioned earlier schools typically have very good logs. Schools are required to keep Internet traffic logs for a very long time. I think it is 1 calendar month. So they have to know where every user on their network went for a month. This includes guest networks and user networks, this policy isn’t unique to schools either. Once you find out what BotNet attacked you. Which is as easy as pulling a log of incoming traffic and throwing it through some publically available lists. It will pop back the most likely offenders and what percentage of likelihood. You then go and find out how you can get ahold of that group. Check for their webpages, IRC, ETC. Once you figure out what their addresses are you go back to your NAT log and do a GREP (advanced CRT-F) and see if anyone went there. If you find a hit 1day to 30 minutes before your attack you have a very likely source of the target.
Like I mentioned earlier and got downvoted for… most of these sites that say they won’t expose your identity probably will. You trust them you are taking their word on what their logs are. You may already have records that could imply the relationship (this is the part I don’t get involved in I am NOT A LAWYER). I have seen MANY MANY times that kids use a proxy that they think is secret and they go to whitehouse.gov or some other site and say something stupid. Once the FBI and Secret Service get involved suddenly information comes pouring in not saying how they get it or anything. Just it doesn’t take long from when they get involved to I have explicit timestamps, ports, and IP addresses.(past lifes job). |
This is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard.
i envy you
>So your position is that it would actually be worthwhile to unravel coat hangers and add connectors to them if it weren't for the loss of audio quality?
yes. why buy speaker cable when 10 minutes of physical labor affords you the same?
>I'm going to pretend that I believe that this is based on evidence rather than audiophile dogma.
you can pretend to search the interwebs... maybe pretend to read this? www.passdiy.com/pdf/articles/spkrcabl.pdf
it even has cool pictures.
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Blood and toil, tears and sweat; never a moment to yourself, never the solace of a willing woman who has nae been paid; Aye laddie. A Systems support technicians life is a hard one indeed. Ye'll be cleaning out registries from the moment your feet hit the deck until you fall into your bunk at night. Not for you the lazy afternoons of boyhood learning the joys of buggery with your pals, not for you the rewarding career that brings recognition, status and love. Nay, you have chosen the hard and brutal path of systems support, the only career path that will take a fresh faced lad of promise and turn him into a doddering wreck inside of a year. |
PLEASE SANITIZE YOUR INPUT. ALL OF IT. FOR THE LOVE OF ANYTHING, PLEASE DON'T FORGET!!!
EDIT: This has nothing to do with voting. This is just retarded programming. |
This article is crap. Sure, you can go out to the boonies for work, if you want to work in a help desk call center, sitting in a big ol' warehouse all day with a headset on. It's certainly an option for breaking into the field, but the article is pretty much |
I concede your point. I was having a difficult time coming up with a catchy |
you say that i disregarded the point of your comment while completely ignoring my second paragraph:
> just because the police warned them that they were breaking the rules doesn't make the use of pepper spray on peaceful protesters ok. that needs to be decided on the merits without concern for whether or not they were warned.
it doesn't matter if they were breaking the law. it doesn't matter if they were warned. they did absolutely nothing to deserve being pepper sprayed.
they klnew they could be arrested because they were warned. they signed up for that. the problem is that the police made no effort to arrest them until after they pepper sprayed them.
that people generally agree that police shouldn't open with pepper spray isn't "the hivemind" at work. it's common fucking sense.
my situation was perfectly relevant. i have no right to punch you in the face and the police have no right to use pepper spray on peaceful protesters before attempting to arrest them. |
The magnet link will find peers who also have the .torrent file through a decentralized P2P network, [Kademlia]( This is built into all of the major bittorrent clients. It does not require any torrent trackers to bootstrap the connection.
By the way, in the link danielravennest provided, it actually does contain a number of torrent trackers that can be used to bootstrap magnetized transfer. These are not necessary, however.
The .torrent files may contain trackers, but yet another technology is built into all of the major torrent clients -- peer exchange. This is also a decentralized network (distributed hash table) for peer discovery, allowing for trackerless torrents.
To index the magnet links, you can either use thepiratebay over a proxy, or emerging technologies like Tribler which allow you to search a different P2P network for magnet links/torrents. |
Buy bitcoins when they aren't in the news
Wait for some news article to mention they can be used to buy drugs
Profit!!! |
I'm fairly certain he origionally showed her how to search for where to buy it (itunes, etc.). It seems rather vague exactly what she did and mainly my issue was that she probably didn't know the ethical issue of pirating. Her dad has some blame, not explaining it properly, but the issue I have with this scenario is that there was no warning. No one saw this as an unfortunate misunderstanding or a minor crime. They instead treated her like she was a major seeder, which is why people take such issue with these organizations. This in no way stopped piracy and unless we're all missing something it was all a mixup that was highly overacted to. |
I actually witnessed this first-hand the other day when two Finnish guys came into the bar I was tending. They stumbled in just before last call, and when you combined their inebriation with broken English couldn't even order a drink. By Washington State law, I can't serve anyone blatantly intoxicated. So they proceed to sit next to the only other table of women and just stare at them silently. The girls are creeped out, so I ask them politely to leave. Then it quickly escalates into an aggressive yelling match 3 inches from each other's faces. Understand that I have to wait until they touch me first before I can do anything to them. After that it's on camera and I can throw them through a window if I like. I've got all five senses, I'm sober, and usually have some sort of glass in my hand which puts me 7 up on them. They just did nothing. This standoff went on WAAAY too long to the point of just awkward. Most anyone from any country (even Canada) has done something by now to let me physically escort them out. Not these guys. Finally one of the girls had just had enough and shoved them right out the door before they even knew what was going on. We laughed for quite awhile and I bought my new hero a shot. |
It is ridiclous, that the copyright holders go after sharers.
They MAKE money from people sharing music.
Case in point :
I was 16. Just after Christmas, I heard one of my friends got Mike Oldfields TB2 for Christmas.
I really wanted to hear it, but, sadly all I got was socks, jumpers and coal.
Nah, only joking, I got some cool early 90's crap, but I still needed to hear that album.
Anyway;
I Heard a friend in school did get it, so, I slipped him a blank c90 (making sure no one seen us), and a few days later, I got a.. well I got a metal oxide tape back with the best approximation of the sound that was on the CD. (always looking over our shoulders to make sure that the feds haven't been tracking us).
Needless to say, I went out and bought the CD with my Christmas money.
I didn't buy the CD because I wanted better quality. I didn't by the CD because I was thinking of copyright.
I bought the CD because I liked it, and I wanted to own a physical, 'Offical' copy of things that I liked. I have a massive amount of music, in all forms; Vinyl first edition Stones, Beatles, Dr. Hook you name it, and most of that was from my parents. I didn't buy it all, the really early vinyl was inherited.
Now, if a new super group arrives, and I buy it digitaly, not only do I have no physical items to use as memorability memorbilia memorabilia, I also have no way to pass said items to my furture generations. The music 'pirates', in this case, are the publishers, that say, 'Yes you can have our music, and pay us for it; But when you die, it doesn't exist anymore. And you can't get a refund when we digitaly turn up to your account and take everything back.'
Well fuck you. Every thing I digitaly buy is stripped of DRM if it needs to be, (a BIG thanks to digital sellers that don't DRM, it's not going to stop me stripping it anyway). If it's something special, I'll make sure I have a physical copy anyway (best modern buy ever was Spiritualized, Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, with the blister pack of mini CD's. Never opened, but the only other copy I bought was the standard CD, after hearing a copy from someone else, that had a copy from someone elses copy.)
But I digress.
I WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE THOUGHT, of buying music, without the abilty, of getting a ferric oxide pirate copy, of Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells 2, in the first place.
/edit for the hell of making it sound slightly sane.
/edit again, to clarify, that I have bought all the vinyl versions of the originals AGAIN, in various formats, even though I already have originals. It's a bit tricky to listen to vinyl in a moving vehicle.
/edit for |
You're a conservative, aren't you? Anyway, theft does not equal copying. If I download some music to try out before making the decision whether the purchase is worth it, it doesn't mean I take away anything from the author. I simply made a copy. When it turns out I don't like the music, the author isn't getting any money of me regardless of whether I copied it or not.
What I'm saying isn't meant to defend piracy. It's just to educate ignorant people. Go watch this video and educate yourself.
As for the issue with piracy: It's piracy on one hand, people all over the world being criminalized for something that's originally meant to enhance the information-society; versus corrupt corporations on the other hand, known as the 'legal way' of obtaining media. You'd rather support a system where authors/artists get ripped off by huge corporations, gaining almost nothing in return? Hence, most of their profits come from concerts rather than sales, as the only party profiting from the hard work of the artist is the copyright organization or record label. Or both.
As it turns out, piracy is actually BENEFICIAL for artists. This is just one of many examples. No study performed by independent parties results in the opposite. It is only the desperate attempt of corporate media wishing to shove down more media down your throat in return for your wallet that claim otherwise without providing valid proof. Here's an example of data interpreted as bullshit by the RIAA:
What do you think happens with money gained from copyright lawsuits? Do you also really believe that money goes to the infringed artists? Haha, no. That money is used by the corporation who sued the infringing party. Just their wallet. The artist doesn't see any of it.
Then there's this. "Verizon Sued For Defending Alleged BitTorrent Pirates -
A group of adult movie companies is suing Verizon for failing to hand over the personal details of alleged BitTorrent pirates." Who's in the wrong here? Verizon? As much as I hate that company, they're in their full right to defend the privacy of their customers, whether or not it is only in their own interest. It's either that, or no privacy (and thus no freedom or security, as those 3 overlap each other), being enslaved by corporate media.
Another fun one. An artist, I don't recall the source for this unfortunately, had his work copied (not a bad thing) and claimed by someone else (thát is a bad thing). The work was submitted on iTunes by someone else. THAT is theft - claiming to be the original artist/'owner' of the work in question, gaining profits from the hard work of someone else. I as citizen downloading music for personal use am not hurting the original artist. It's people who do so to claim it as their own and make profit of it (Does this sound like record labels to you? Good, because it should). The original artist filed suits to iTunes/Apple to have his work removed, but the request was simply ignored, despite the time and effort spend in proving to be the original artist. Turns out [suprise alert] the 'record label', iTunes, Apple, doesn't give a remote shit about artists but only about money. Don't think its any different elsewhere in the corporate industry. The artist decided to release his music for FREE and as it turns out, made profit from that. (Sounds familiar now?)
There are so many more examples of how people like you are simply wrong, refusing to acknowledge the fact that copying does not equal theft, refusing to be critical about the true nature of that what you assumed was right, and so forth. I hope the above educated you, if not, I hope I did educate other people who aren't as naive.
And hell, even in the magic reverse-world where copying is theft, I'd be glad to be a thief rather than passive slave of the system. |
I'm not sure if I want to defend piracy either, but I do think this infographic draws on a pretty real arguement that people value convience over everything. I mean, look at how well digital distributers like Steam, iTunes, and Netflix do. It's cheaper to just pirate a game/song/movie, but if you make it more convient for me to buy it, I will.
I don't think piracy will ever go away (the people who produce all the cracks and DRM breaks are the same guys who build these systems in the first place), but you can definitely minimize the impact by being smart and respectful of your customers (again, look at the success of the Humble Indie Bundles). |
Is anyone else bothered by article stating GB (gigabyte) and MB (megabyte) throughput speeds? Sure it's quite possible, but how are they storing the content? 1 GBps is about 8Gbps. Do they have a local database server and a SAN/NAS in the car? Or all uploaded over wifi? Has anyone heard of 8Gbps wireless? How about latency from getting from point A to the remote database? |
I used this plan for quite a while. The 100 mins were never an issue, as I could make long calls over VoIP, which was even usable over mobile data so long as I wasn't in a car, train, etc. Coverage in SoCal was pretty good and data speeds were impressive for HSPA+.
But T-Mobile's prepaid coverage fucking sucks in the Midwest. For example, in Nebraska they cover Omaha and Lincoln. That's it. In Wisconsin, they cover Milwaukee and Madison and a couple spots along 94 toward MSP. It takes fifteen minutes to leave T-Mobile coverage. Sure, they have roaming agreements with all the 'locals', but for prepaid it's voice only. No data, not even EDGE. I'd be willing to deal with EDGE, but no data makes it pretty hard to look up addresses. (On T-Mo postpaid, I'd have 50-100mb of data per month off-network)
If I move back to SoCal, I might go back to T-Mobile, but the coverage here makes it worthless.
For $45-50 you can get unlimited talk/text and 1.5-4GB of data on one of AT&T's MVNOs or on one of T-Mobile's MVNOs that has EDGE data off-network. |
Just to note, I have written several letters to my congressmen. I recieved a response 100% of the time .
50% of the time, that response was written by their...helper people. The other 50%, were direct responses from the congressmen themselves.
The point I'm trying to make is, I hear people on reddit saying "oh yeah, like that'll do any good". I'm just sharing my own personal experiences with mailing my congressmen. I received responses 100% of the time. So, it's better than doing nothing .
BTW, 3 of them were all sent via email. I only sent a written letter to my congressman once. Al Franken was one of the people who took the time to personally email me back. That one made me feel happy inside.
Keep in mind I don't live in NYC or anything. I live in an area smaller than the big major cities across America. So I don't know how busy they are, or whatever. |
I will be putting up large posters to spread the word in densely populated areas, as well as contributing my art to corporate buildings such as banks, Wal-Mart's, and charter schools.
There are too many people who know little to nothing about what is going on. There are too many people that fear the law to disobey it. Wal-Mart and J.P. Morgan Chase will have no problem paying for some new paint. Someone will be paid to cover my art, so it will provide a job; as I will not be leaving ugly paragraphs of scrawled text on walls.
If anyone would like a copy of the poster format, I would be more then happy to share. More people need to be doing proactive things to stop this, whether you work or not. I don't care if you have to wake up at five, and go tack up posters for an hour before work in the morning; If I can do it, you can too.
Too many Americans are complacent about the things that our government is doing. Turkey rioted over a park demolition. A park.
How many parks, and forests has the US shut down or logged?
How many public schools will they shut down, and replace with charter schools?
How many people have no idea of the effect that charter schools will have?
Reddit has thousands of users, and if each one of you shared your opinion, and spoke up; telling them that "This is NOT ok with us." Then we CAN and WILL get something done. Screw the naysayers telling you to wait until "it" starts to participate.
It needs to start somewhere, and I'll do it all myself if you wont help me. "I have to work tomorrow, maybe ill do it on the weekend." is just a bullshit excuse that you give yourself because you are lazy and complacent; If you have to contribute to your cause on your commute then do it. I ride the ferry nearly every day and it will be a great place to spread the word; as I will be ordering, printing, copying, and distributing thousands of posters.
And as a note to the people who see almost everything: You will be judged for your actions. I do not fear you; for you are cowards, and cowards will never succeed. |
I will be putting up large posters to spread the word in densely populated areas, as well as contributing my art to corporate buildings such as banks, Wal-Mart's, and charter schools.
There are too many people who know little to nothing about what is going on. There are too many people that fear the law to disobey it. Wal-Mart and J.P. Morgan Chase will have no problem paying for some new paint. Someone will be paid to cover my art, so it will provide a job; as I will not be leaving ugly paragraphs of scrawled text on walls.
If anyone would like a copy of the poster format, I would be more then happy to share. More people need to be doing proactive things to stop this, whether you work or not. I don't care if you have to wake up at five, and go tack up posters for an hour before work in the morning; If I can do it, you can too.
Too many Americans are complacent about the things that our government is doing. Turkey rioted over a park demolition. A park.
How many parks, and forests has the US shut down or logged?
How many public schools will they shut down, and replace with charter schools?
How many people have no idea of the effect that charter schools will have?
Reddit has thousands of users, and if each one of you shared your opinion, and spoke up; telling them that "This is NOT ok with us." Then we CAN and WILL get something done. Screw the naysayers telling you to wait until "it" starts to participate.
It needs to start somewhere, and I'll do it all myself if you wont help me. "I have to work tomorrow, maybe ill do it on the weekend." is just a bullshit excuse that you give yourself because you are lazy and complacent; If you have to contribute to your cause on your commute then do it. I ride the ferry nearly every day and it will be a great place to spread the word; as I will be ordering, printing, copying, and distributing thousands of posters.
And as a note to the people who see almost everything: You will be judged for your actions. I do not fear you; for you are cowards, and cowards will never succeed. |
A guy that used to work for the NSA has said that the surveillance of Americans is much more widespread and pervasive than we thought, or that our government was telling us prior to him exposing it. |
Thank you. There is a lot of unjustified jubilation in this thread.
Software per se is not patentable in lots of places. It doesn't stop us (patent attorneys) from obtaining patents on software for clients. Why? Because in most of these places we can still claim the computer running the software.
Examples:
This is OK in the US, but not in many "anti-software patent countries (e.g., India):
A computer-readable medium having executable program code embodied therein, the executable program code being configured to, upon execution, cause a computer to:
do a first thing;
do a second thing.
See how this literally claims the software?
Compare that with this, which is OK nearly everywhere, even those countries that don't allow patents on software per se:
An apparatus comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory storing one or more modules executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to at least:
do a first thing;
do a second thing.
All this law is likely to accomplish is to disallow the style of the former claim, while doing nothing about the later. Moreover, as others have already pointed out, TRIPS (an international IP treaty, of which NZ is a signatory) mandate that result.
I agree there are plenty of issues with software patents, but this doesn't move the ball forward at all. |
Hijacking the top comment because I was too late to the party to correct the misinformation in this thread with any chance of it being seen.
There is a lot of unjustified jubilation in this thread.
Software per se is not patentable in lots of places. It doesn't stop us (patent attorneys) from obtaining patents on software for clients. Why? Because in most of these places we can still claim the computer running the software.
Examples: This is OK in the US, but not in many "anti-software patent countries (e.g., India):
A computer-readable medium having executable program code embodied therein, the executable program code being configured to, upon execution, cause a computer to:
do a first thing;
do a second thing.
See how this literally claims the software?
Compare that with this, which is OK nearly everywhere, even those countries that don't allow patents on software per se :
An apparatus comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory storing one or more modules executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to at least:
do a first thing;
do a second thing.
All this law is likely to accomplish is to disallow the style of the former claim, while doing nothing about the later. Moreover, as others have already pointed out, TRIPS (an international IP treaty, of which NZ is a signatory) mandates that result.
I agree there are plenty of issues with software patents, but this doesn't move the ball forward at all. |
No.
Your logic is flawed. In this new market, information = revenue.
They do not need direct sources like ads or membership fees in order to make money. Monetization comes from owning information. And the tween/teen market is the most important/valuable demographic to obtain this type of information from.
The selling of this private data is what is valued at billions, especially to companies like Google and Facebook, which dominate this type of data = money relationship.
If you can tie what is sent over an App like Snapchat to a real identity/profile like those of Facebook or Google, you have something very valuable corporations and government. |
You don't understand how rapid release works and why it is beneficial.
Hint: There's more to it than just jacking the number up every six weeks, and, yes, usable product updates do speed up accordingly.
The old model was to bundle everything up into a single major release a year or more down the line. Cool new tab functionality? Wait 1+ years. Memory re-architecture that improves performance? Wait 1+ years. New developer tool that improves quality of life? Wait 1+ years.
Rapid release means more features get out faster. Instead of waiting for the memory re-architecture to push the tab improvements you can roll those out in the next major update, and then roll the memory re-architecture out when it is ready.
You're less tied to these huge update milestones.
You may not agree with it, but to act like they simply have the version number increasing for no reason is ignorant and asinine. |
While I also despise Adobe Flash, blocking it by default would be harmful to Firefox and Mozilla.
For an alternative, HTML5 is a great start. However, that really only helps audio and video, and mostly targeted towards replacing flash video players. It can't do everything Flash can in terms of audio and video. For example, I have a seamless loop player in Flash. And don't forget the games.
Even if the flash games were possible on HTML5/6, companies won't use it, because their source code would be exposed. They will continue to compile into a proprietary format. |
Now if only they'd block Javascript by default too. It's been years since I've been bothered by an annoying Java applet; but javascript's a pain in the neck almost every day. Yes, I know about noscript; but a whole lot of sites are and will continue to be broken until some browser makes something noscript-like be the default. |
50 a month for 3gb speeds that test out at .65mb. |
Absolute size is irrelevant, it's population density that matters. |
Microsoft is just as bad, I never said they were better. Google used to be for the people, providing stellar search results to the point where people associate Google with every unknown question they have. "Google it" became the standard, but they're changing that into not whats the most relevant to you, but what makes them the most money. |
I am not a marketing expert or anything similar, but the last time a mobile company in my country did a "revolutionary" move (basically /spit on the face of the rest of the mobile companies by offering a really cheap deal for costumers from all social levels) it ended up backstabbing the newcomers a year later by tripling fees and such.
I don't live in the USA (I assume T-Mobile is based in USA), but what I'm trying to say is: have a backup plan, you never know when that particular company will change its policy. |
I actually went from a local credit union to Wells Fargo. The credit union still owes me $300 in unpaid interest on my savings account. They even gave me the tax documents saying it was paid, but nobody can find the money that was somehow put into my account. I've had nothing but good experiences with Wells Fargo, although I can understand that there are a lot of people who have. |
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