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I'm sure they have the same stance on downloading movies, however there would be more emphasis on the stealing part, rather than funding crime. Sort of like... you're ruining people's lives and forcing the movie companies to fire people! They just know that it's easier to vilify buying the physical DVDs, rather than directly attacking downloading... but to the people who this ad is directed at (i.e. those with no critical thinking skills), it probably all seems the same.
From the OPs article: > ... this administration has built up the copyright enforcement infrastructure, and publishes a newsletter about its efforts with language that compares copyright infringement to terrorism. The real danger here is the clear alignment between the RIAA/MPAA and the US government. The RIAA/MPAA is trying to create ever stronger IP legislation to preserve a dying business model instead of adapting to digital media concepts. The US government uses the ambiguous thread of terrorism to [implement misguided security policies]( that result in control of the masses without providing a sufficient return-on-investment.
The versatility of 3D Printers seems to know no boundaries. I use a FORTUS 360mc 3D Printer with a custom large building envelope to build functional vacuum molds for the molded pulp fiber packaging industry. I realize that doesn't sound impressive, but the material (ABS) is resilient enough to maintain its structure against 28 in-Hg of vacuum, and typically takes only 1/10th of the time to build than it would take to build a mold traditionally (read:from metal). So Even if it breaks, a replacement mold is only a few short hours away.
no, they will not get "everything". it has to be in the specific context of her job, or the lawsuit, and thats it, everything else is out, and unless it specifically states that its about the lawsuit or her job in some way, its out. Context is important here, since 99% of posts have no context(unless pictures), they cannot prove that they are expressly related, thus, those posts without definite context are out. The sad part, is that this would never have come up if the retarded woman would have just set her profile to "private" so that the law firm could not find her, and then set her posts to "friends only" so that the lawfirm could not see them. Having dealt with something similar, it can reasonably be inferred that if only your friends can see your page, and that most of your posts are selectivly "friends only", it means that any request would be overly broad because the jobs(or any) lawfirm would have no evidence to even begin suggesting things that "could" be on your facebook, and would get denied at overly broad.
And here's why. The user interface, while somewhat prettier than a menu, is objectively bad and a regression in design. [Here is a study.]( Windows has always represented the cutting edge in computing, a platform on which to do work and to get it done as quickly as possible. It has always put our programs first, and has worked well on every PC you put it on (except for tablets, and I'll get to that). It has always given us more features than any user could need, and many ways to do common tasks (if you didn't have a mouse, you could always limp the system along with just a keyboard, for instance). One thing it's never done is get in the way. The menus, for instance, were unobtrusive and intuitive- since Windows 95, each iteration of the Start menu has been an objective advancement, giving more and more features from the common launching point; from a simple list of programs to a list of programs and documents to a searchable list of programs and documents. There was no confusion (with a few exceptions, such as 'shut down' in Vista) as to "where something was on the menu"- because you could always find it there and in some other place. And now that's gone. The interface that anyone born in the era of non-text computers has ever known is suddenly discontinued for something that's both alien and objectively worse. The thing that would save Windows 8 in the eyes of many would be to boot to the desktop, and give its users the choice Microsoft is famous for (though the damage has already been done to developers and thrown serious doubt into the future of Windows as a do-it-all platform). Of course, there are those who don't see what we see. "It's just the learning curve," they cry, "the new system is better in every way!" Indeed, we all feel the pull to the something-new-and-different. But if the new-and-different is objectively worse and slower, what is the reason to support it? Even with Start8 (and others), why should Microsoft ever receive even a cent of my money that says "I support this new direction" when it leaves my hands? I, and many others, believe this is not an upgrade, so (even though it can be fixed) why should we show financial support? The issue is that it's bad news; that 40 million device users simply do not reject it enough to eliminate it. People tend to shoot bearers of bad news; or at the very least not upvote them simply because of how that system works.
you know, I hope that some of this is fake. Impressive, yes, but kinda scary. Especially the extended life thing. We humans are children given grown up toys. I feel that, before immortality, we should try to figure out how to stop members of our own species from gunning each other down in cold blood, or torturing and bombing children and innocents for oil.
I'll post what I just put up on Facebook when I found it there. I'm in the air traffic control business, by the way. >All right this is complete crap. The ADS-B, like the name implies is a surveillance system (A newer one). Basically all that they demonstrated was that it was possible to add in information to the air traffic controller's radar scope. AKA, create a ghost plane. One that's not really there. >This is stupid because that's a system in place that's trying to use some of the newer GPS stuff. Right now beacon codes are primarily used, and regular radar returns as well. Easy to ignore the anomalous information. >As far as the ACARS go. That's basically text messaging between the aircraft. So they were able to send a text message to an aircraft. Just because they sent a message saying, "fly the airplane in the ground" doesn't mean the pilots are going to follow that instruction. >Since the beginning of aviation radio communication has been the primary means of communication and keeping the air safe. Just like regular radio there is absolutely no security on this system. Anybody could transmit data over frequencies used by aviation which in a DDOS (if they had powerful enough transmitters) attack would be way way worse than sending a text to the airplane. >As far as I know the autopilot is a system that has absolutely no communication to it except the controls from the pilots. Which would make it as impossible to hack into as somebody trying to change the temperature of your refrigerator remotely from China.
Australian here. I think you are reading this from a US point of view, which is totally understandable, but as a result, are putting words in the commissioner's mouth. Guns here are different from the states - we have gun control legislation that works (I don't want to get into why it works or or whether copying our legislation is a good idea for the US because that's a huge, ugly can of worms). Guns are generally seen as things that are dangerous, but also have uses (including recreational ones). As such, they should be regulated like, say, dangerous chemicals are. Thus, there is a bunch of legislation concerning the quality and safety of firearms - just like there is a bunch of legislation concerning the quality and safety of chemicals. Homemade guns, obviously, bypass this all this, and thus are seen as a threat much the same way that a home chemicals works making sulfuric acid is a threat. This is why the commissioner was trying to discourage people from downloading, making and using this because it is a dangerous item. The other thing you need to be aware of is that there has been a surge of gun violence in Sydney recently. Nothing like the US, but its bad for Australia. The police have been coping a bit of flak for not getting on top of this. So the second half of this was getting people's expectations in the right place - this is a difficult (if not impossible) thing to police. That's why he made the connection with piracy - its a common, everyday thing that people can relate to. We recently had a big political battle over an internet filter in Australia, from 2008 - 2011. It was won pretty hard by the "No filter" side. At this stage, it would be tantamount to political suicide to suggest net filtering, unless there is a massacre or something with this guns. Given their build quality, I doubt that's possible. Now people do occasionally sacrifice their political careers to push for legislation they believe is correct, but I think that would be stretch to assert that this fellow is doing that.
Google news isn't a newspaper with editors and journalists that represent Google's opinion. It is a content mining service that gets their news from AP, NYT, CNN, and USA today. etc.. If you want to know Google's opinion, look at their policies toward online privacy. Listen to what Eric Schmidt says about politics. It's almost the same as GWB. Google is like most other corporations; they use the military industrial complex to help their own interests. Therefore, it doesn't surprise me when Schmidt says that cyber terrorism is the world's greatest threat. Because google will be making a lot money based on collecting data to fit terrorist profiles.
For the redditors that don't know what rm -rf / does, here is a simple breakdown. 'rm -rf /' is a Linux terminal command. The 'rm' is the name of the command while the '-rf' are flags and the / is a directory. 'rm' is usually the go to command for deleting files, folders, etc in Linux. The '-r' flag tells the rm program that we want to recursively delete everything in the listed directory. Even other directories and their contents. The '-f' flag tells it we want to force delete stuff, including the stuff we shouldn't delete (e.g. system files). In Linux there are no C:\ drives or B:\ drives or J:\ drives or what have you. Every mounted drive is listed as a folder. The root folder (or root directory as it is more commonly referred as) is /
Him being an obnoxious douchebag is a big part of it, don't get me wrong. But saying Megaupload is no different than legitimate services is disingenuous. Everyone here knows exactly what Megaupload was used for. It was for sharing copyrighted material. Dropbox/skydrive etc are mainly used for legitimate purposes and occasionally used for piracy, whereas MegaUpload was mainly used for piracy and occasionally used for legitimate purposes. You are lying to yourself if you think otherwise. They encouraged sharing copyrighted material by paying users for popular uploads. They did the bare-minimum when sent a DMCA request. Megaupload would scan for duplicates and save space on their disks but only take down the one link that was requested and not the other links they knew were pointing at copyrighted files on their servers. Kim Dotcom basically used legal loopholes to profit off of copyrighted material. And then when it gets shut down he calls himself a freedom fighter and compares himself to Martin Luther King Jr. He got rich off the work of others and I'm supposed to feel sorry for him when he gets his supercars impounded.
It's true. He picked a bad country if he thought that he could avoid court orders. But he never purported to do that. Indeed his own [privacy policy]( said that he'd comply with a valid court order: "Lavabit will not release any information related to an individual user unless legally compelled to do so." In fact, it's well documented that he has complied with court order before, including in the Snowden case. Avoiding US law wasn't his objective. But there's more wrong with what you say. First, it wasn't the only way. In Lavabit's [brief]( they explained that they proposed at least one alternative way to comply that did not require turning the keys over to the government. Among other things, he offered to "record and turn over the target’s “login and subsequent logout date and time, the IP address used to connect,” and “non-content headers … from any future emails sent or received using the subject account.” They didn't like that idea because it wasn't "real time." Second, even if it were, the brief does a good job articulating why turning over the private key isn't (and wasn't at the time) anything that had to be done. Lavabit's real problem here appears that he represented himself at the early stages. His new counsel seems pretty good. They note that none of the government's cited authority requires (or would permit) turning over the keys this way. Among other things: "The [Pen Register Statute]( requires only that a company provide the government with technical assistance in the installation of a pentrap device; providing encryption keys does not aid in the device’s installation at all, but rather in its use." The Pen Register Statute requires that an installation be done "unobtrusively and with a minimum of interference with the services." Lavabit's point: even if the PRS could require forking over the keys, it's not unobtrusive and certainly would impact the service to all its customers. Heck, under some data breach laws, Lavabit would now be in violation. Note that once it was disclosed that Lavabit's keys were in fact turned over, Lavabit's certificate was [revoked]( Seems pretty disruptive. "The Stored Communications Act , or information pertaining to a subscriber (which private keys are also, by definition, not). And at any rate it does not authorize the government to impose undue burdens on the innocent target business, which the government’s course of conduct here surely did." They make a 4th amendment argument that is a bit less persuasive: that the 4th amendment requires a "warrant to be founded on probable cause that a search will uncover fruits, instrumentalities, or evidence of a crime. But Lavabit’s private keys are none of those things: they are lawful to possess and use, they were known only to Lavabit and never used by the company to commit a crime, and they do not prove that any crime occurred." Less persuasive, because I think that the government is just using disclosure of the key to get to the part that they suspect was used in commission of a crime. I suggest you read at least the summary portions of the opening brief.
As a windows user more exposure to alternatives and linux in particualar is the thing I want the most. Why? Because I sure do remember the days of IE6 monopoly. Oh boy, those were dark times for users and web developers. Until a free fox came and rivaled IE, there were no plans (and no dev team) for IE7. That sucked. I feel like win8 isn't a very successful product, both in terms of personal experience and from market data. MS needs a shake up.
Usually, if it says they have one, that probably means they do have one... the display model. At least, that is how it is where I work, all laptops, furniture, and other things which have floor models have the floor models counted in inventory along with the boxed units available for purchase. The only time this is not the case is when the manufacturer provides a separate SKU (stock keeping unit) for a floor model, which is rare. source: I work at an office supply chain
You couldn't be any further from the truth, actually. It's said in the retail world that the biggest assholes are always the best sellers. Number one, this guy is shamelessly plugging his shitty blog as if being a blue link on reddit makes three paragraphs of dribble relevant. That in itself warrants a dickish response. People need to understand that, even though the projected inventory numbers is displayed on a machine, there's a very human element going into it. On paper, yes, the count should be accurate, but when you throw 80 employees and thousands of customers a day just at one location, things are bound to get lost/misplaced/stolen/etc. The thing is he chose to do this post-Black Friday. If you'll allow me to be frank, shit is all fucked up after Black Friday. For months. In order to get the store ready for Black Friday, almost EVERYTHING in the store is rearranged in some way. As things are moved, they get misplaced and lost, whether on the floor or in the warehouse. Black Friday is also the biggest time for theft... When the customers outnumber the employees 5:1, things are going to get stolen. It can take a store a month or more to fully recover and get an accurate inventory count. Regardless of any excuse I could offer up, this guy's lack of foresight is what lead him to this major inconvenience, and with that he has only himself to blame. If you're going to go trekking through Hoth-like conditions, you'd think he'd go to a little more trouble to make sure they actually had a product.
Might as well add in my story too My roommate played the stock market game in 8th grade and figured out that the exchange program they used was an hour behind the actual listings on Yahoo Stock. Being the advantageous investor he was, he'd check the site 10 minutes before class and figure out the 'hot stocks' that were going to do well and buy them up. You can see where this is going. Only after a couple days, he's in the clear lead in the class with daily returns of around 10 to 20 times what everyone else was getting in the class. But the story gets even better Everyone in the class knew my friend was going to win the simulation, but one kid we'll call Steven decides he was going to identically copy my friend and try to jump into 2nd place. I'm not sure if my friend didn't like Steven or if maybe he just wasn't too fond of a copycat, but the next day in class my friend purposely invested a small fortune of his sim money into a company that absolutely bombed in the markets. Steven, still thinking he'd have a chance to place in the top 3 went all in with his money on the bear stock and loses nearly everything. My friend still had enough money to win the class with just 1/10 of his stock wealth and the teacher gave him a gift card for doing so well.
It's not illegal at all, a pump and dump scheme is something entirely different. A pump and dump involves an investor taking a position in a company (usually a worthless shell company, or just a generic penny stock), then the investor hypes the stock to other people. If other people invest, the price of the stock goes up, and the original investor sells his stock for way more than what he paid. Another variation of this is when an investor specifically says a target price, like "this stock is going all the way to 50 cents a share!". Then, when the stock hits something like 40 cents, the investor dumps all of his shares, usually leading to the investor coming away with lots of profit and the stock value plummeting as other people try to dump their shares.
Shorting a stock requires people on the other end to purchase the shorts you enter into the market. By the time anyone who would be interested in buying a share at the 1900% mark up, they would likely have an idea of why it was inflated to those levels.
The Surface Pro 2 is proof that Mircosoft has poor communications between its suits and marketing offices. I spent some time researching cheap Cintiq alternatives when I learned about Tablet Pc's with Wacom digitizer hardware. Holy shit, this thing can easily dominate the hipster/starving artist market with its ability to work closely like a Cintiq without the 2000 dollar pricetag. Not to mention Microsoft never bothered to ship the SP2 with Wacom's WinTab drivers to boast the pressure accurate pen as a selling point. I honestly don't think There's an Apple equivalent for this device (I don't believe Wacom supports osx, but I think there's community-made driver support for Linux). Another bonus to the Surface is the Haswell processor and the integrated graphics which are enough to run low-mid range gaming. (From what I've seen, it can run Dark Souls without lag in Blighttown). I remember back in october, Microsoft was running ads for the SP2, citing none of the features that could sway artists and similar, and instead opting for an musical commercial where college students swapped SP2's and made clicky-clacky music with them. I don't think they even mentioned it was a full blown PC, which made me think it was just a mobile tablet with an outrageous price tag.)
I don't blame them. Take the shovel, it has been that way for hundreds if not thousands of years. Knowledge and design of the shovel has been passed down and subtly improved upon from generation to generation, and believe it or not, there was an art to it. People built their lives around using one the best way they could. Now imagine if someone decided to sell a shovel with a rake attached to the opposite end of the handle, and claim their stroke of genius was made for the sake of efficiency. Would such a tool sell? Perhaps, but probably not. Why not have separate a shovel and a rake? Imagine how frustrating it would be to use a shovel with a rake in the way. Some people might live with it, but would everyone embrace it? Would most embrace it? Now imagine if some insane elder god decided that half of all the shovels in his realm were to be rake shovels, and spontaneously changed them. Imagine the frustration and anger. How long would it take before people tried to mod ify their rake shovels to be shovels again. Would this elder god be angered by such ungratefulness? Would he try to correct their obvious mistake against his power? Would he smite the people and their blasphemous normal shovels?
I am computer literate. I know basic commands, I understand fragmentation, hell I can even properly utilize the lions share of diskpart commands to do advanced disk management. Windows 8 confuses me. Windows 8 is like taking your filing cabinet and lining it all up on a very large dining room table. It's all still there, sure, and it's even organized, but now I have to walk down the table and around eyeing everything until I spot the one I want. It used to be as easy as sliding open my filing cabinet, A-B-C-Dragon Age, Right-Click, Make a shortcut for Dragon Age, put filing cabinet away. Meanwhile I still have all desk space. Windows 8 be like "multitasking (desktop), back to metro, FULL SCREEN CALCULATOR, multitasking, multitasking, back to metro, FULL SCREEN PDF, metro, multitasking" etc, etc... There are a LOT of things I like about Windows 8, but if they ever installed it on my work computer I am 90% sure I would be fired for poor performance simply because trying to stay on the task of multitasking is so freaking difficult. I should not have to actively alter the OS to do so...
Not a fan of Win8 but thsi is an unfair comparison. Win 7 came after vista, which was godawful and avoided by all those with a choice. People stuck with XP during the shitty vista days, but Win7 tempted a lot to switch. THis means Win7 had a bigger uptake than Win8.
I kinda think Windows 8 suffers from some of the up/down vote mentality. Things that get upvoted a few times linger towards the top, and a few people upvote it here and there. After a while it's towards the top, it's funny, everyone sees it first, they laugh, and upvote it. It grows exponentially. There could likely be even funnier and better comments below, but the one at the top just keeps getting engorged with upvotes while good comments below slip by unnoticed. Point is: The things with the most upvotes aren't necessarily the best, they just won the popularity contest. I think downvotes follow a similar pattern, but to a lesser degree. Someone has an unpopular opinion, and it gets 3 downvotes. Someone sees that it has 3 downvotes and thinks "I agree with those other 3 people. Fuck that guy." and he downvotes to -4. That happens 20 or 30 more times. That comment wins the unpopularity contest.
My girlfriend and I saw a demo display of a laptop running 8. We took a stupid picture of ourselves with the built in camera. Then I noticed that our picture was thumb nailed on the metro home screen. I wanted to go look at phones at this point so she asked me to delete the photo. I did. Really I did. But our faces kept coming on the metro home page. I'm pretty computer savy but I stood there for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to delete a picture. IIRC it got cached somewhere.
What's carpel tunnel?/s Yes I would complain about a car company forcing me to start my car by have a seizure in my seat instead of just turning a key. Windows apps didn't exist until W8 so how can you complain about the change in the way you close a fucking app when this is literally the only way anyone has ever closed a windows app. Also, the swipe to close function is used on android and apple as well as windows. You do not have to use the windows apps. Dont like the Netflix app? Netflix.com. Don't like the email app? Use the website. Don't like any app? Don't use them. They don't force you to. One extra click to the desktop and a 3.0086409 second swipe from the right/shutdown/yes is nothing to really complain about this much. Especially since your obviously some kind of programmer/ coder who clicks/types thousands of things in a minute or two.
I got a Lenovo y510p last June. It shipped with Windows 8. I followed Lenovo's instructions on the 8.1 update to the letter. The Windows 8.1 update still caused all kinds of hardware problems, disabled/uninstalled some programs without asking, and made what I perceived as some bitchy/passive-aggressive moves (such as restoring IE as the default browser, putting a shortcut to it in all the default places). I took care of the immediately apparent problems, many of which just required updating drivers OR, in some cases, rolling them back. Months later, I'm still discovering things that stopped working exactly after the 8.1 update. My fanspeed/temperature monitoring software won't detect my GPU temps anymore, unless I roll back one of the aforementioned drivers--but doing so causes high temperatures. I have no idea why.
Windows 8 is great for touch devices all around (which most people don't have) That may be the case -- I don't own such devices. Either way, the OS should recognize whether my machine is touch capable or not and lock/unlock features accordingly. There is no good reason for it not to do this. Thats why W8 sucks. It puts Microsoft's dream of one-os-for-all-devices ahead of its users interests. >Those of you who 'can't be bothered' to use an extra shortcut or two and learn how to hit the windows key and type for search? Fuck you. My 65 year old father and 78 year old great-uncle needed constant help with their new Windows 8 machines. Guess what, it was a huge hassle for me dealing with their problems over the phone. My time is worth at least $100/hour so the unpaid and annoying tech support I had to provide permanently turned me off from W8. I will never like W8 from now until I die. I will never recommend it to a client -- in fact, I will ensure W8 is not installed on any client PC (I will reformat and install a pirated W7 if W8 comes pre-loaded) >Windows 8.1 is a perfect middle ground, but everyone wants to piggy back on the Windows 8.0 hate train. So congratulations, you have proven you can't handle minor changes in your life. It might be minor for you. And it might be minor for me as a personal, individual user. But as a professional, W8 has been a nightmare. I don't even pay for Microsoft software, but I still feel Microsoft owes me at least a $10,000 check for wasting so much of my time over their shitty software.
I'm the casual user you're talking about. I'm the most casual of casual users. I use my laptop for FB, Excel, photos, and browsing the internet. I've been using Windows since I was 10 years old in 1995. I got my new laptop this week. I started it and it started with "downloading your apps" or whatever. And you know what? That pissed me off right away. I don't want apps on my computer. And if I did I just got the damn thing so Windows doesn't know what "my apps" are. Sure enough, once it finished the set up process it takes me to some screen with a bunch of blocks with "skype" and "movies" and stuff on it. I'm a casual user. I don't know this is called metro. I know I'm totally confused because I want a desktop. I want to open a word doc so I can see if I like my new keyboard by typing some stuff. So I find the button that says "desktop." Okay, well this is dumb, I think. It's a computer, why do I have to hit a button to go to a desktop? I click it. YAY! My desktop. Awesome. I go to some button in the corner where start is so I can open a blank document to type in. I click that button in the corner. It takes me back to the screen with all the blocks with "skype" and stuff. I stare at it. And it pisses me off. I've never used Skype, I don't want a Skype button. I want a fucking desktop I can use like I have for 18 years. Click the desktop button again thinking I messed up. Click the "start" button down in the corner. Back to the screen with all the blocks. I'm like this is stupid. I'll be switching back to Windows 7 as soon as my husband gets a chance to switch it for me. He is a power user who is also sticking with Windows 7, btw. I'm a casual user who just wants to look at cat pictures and I found Windows 8 to be immediately frustrating. Okay so I know people will say I didn't give it a chance. I can customize it! I can get a start button if I download some doohicky. APPS ARE FUN RIGHT? No. I'm a casual user. I want to boot up Windows and click start and find my stuff. I don't like that it automatically downloaded all this crap I never wanted. I'm a casual user and you lost me in the first 5 minutes. I don't care about taking time to learn how to use it properly or whatever. It's a Windows system. I shouldn't have to learn how to use it properly or spend forever customizing it. I really resent your comments about forcing Metro on casual user. You can't force jack shit on me as long as I have Windows 7. I don't want a new pasture and I sure as hell don't want one that is "forced" upon me.
Please try to be civil in your discussion. If the question is "will the vision systems on the first level 4 driverless cars be able to detect and avoid potholes gracefully?", the response should be to talk about the state of the art of the different sensors and how they detect potholes today and how it might improve in the near future. I don't have the answers to those questions. But if we are nice to eachother, someone who knows a lot about Velodyne's lidar system or someone who understands the algorithms behind these systems might decide to chime in and add further value to the conversation.
The point I'm trying to make that it's a far cry from being "for everyone." It's all well and good to be a tech junkie obsessed with privacy, but the title is sensationalist and vastly underestimates the difficulty for those not as tech savvy. For example, some people don't like firefox. This is not for them. It's a cool idea, don't get me wrong, but it's very similar to Linux in that those in the know love it, but isn't something someone outside can get into.
Your best bet is to evaluate why you want an extra level of privacy on the Internet. If you need to mask your identity from an oppressive government, Tor (with well read precautions taken) would be your best bet. If you want to just be safer on the Internet the look into purchasing a VPN like the above poster mentioned. Keep in mind that there are different types of VPN services you can hire and all for a range of prices. To start if your looking to access a region locked service (American Netflix in Europe for example) you would want to look for a VPN that hosts out of the region you want to access. This will make the service think that they are getting requests from within the allowed region and would unlock those features. You may also want to use a VPN for general privacy. If that's the case then you probably want to find one that is known to boast high level privacy (this usually just means they don't keep connection logs) as well as a decent speed. Finally on VPN types you can also find free VPNs online DO NOT USE THESE if you want to expect any level of privacy. When using a VPN you are trusting a third party with your data, it is not in any places interest to offer this service for free with no strings attached. As for setting up you can either configure a VPN in your browser so only your browser's traffic goes through the VPN or you can push all the traffic on your computer through the VPN. Either way you when you go to configure the VPN settings you will only have to enter a username, password and host name, all of which will be provided by the VPN you signed up with.
Here's a proposal. Upvote this post if you'd participate, but please don't gild -- that does nothing for me :). It's on a throwaway, so I'm not karma whoring or anything. Also, reply or PM this account if you'd like notification when I decide whether or not participation would be significant enough to go through with it. I'm not a huge fan of the Google searches methodology for reasons that have probably been elaborated elsewhere in this thread. BUT there's a rock solid methodology that we could use to test this. Someone (I volunteer) could make an app that performs a comprehensive benchmark when opened, and uploads the results, along with device model, iOS version, and app version to a simple database (a heroku dev tier app should be entirely adequate for the database). Obviously the methodologically ideal behavior for the app would be to run on some ridiculously regular basis, but that would be an intrusive drag on performance, and I'm not even sure that it's possible with an un-jailbroken device. So we'll take an approach that employers and parole officers have been using for decades to "benchmark" their charge's drug use: random sampling. You'll get a push notification (something will show up in your notifications list, and the app will get a badge), requesting that you run the app, and this will happen on average about once a week (the actual sampling interval is open to debate, and could also be configurable within reasonable limits). The actual benchmarks should take less than, say, 10 seconds on the slowest devices out there (again, this number is open to debate), but will be comprehensive, possibly including and not limited to: Serial CPU speed Parallel CPU speed Memory access times, including cache Disk access times System call and API performance (this, I would imagine, would be Apple's easiest target when trying to slow the device down) App startup performance (another easy target) GPU / general graphics performance The final results won't be available until several iPhone or iPad releases from now (so years), but would be so worth the pie in a corporate face, not to mention the benefit to consumers. The only real obstacle, aside from lack of participation or interest among apple product users, would be rejection from the App Store. The app would have to follow the most scrupulous interpretation of the App Store rules (since I don't have much experience in this department, some help would be wonderful), and a rejection despite such adherence would be almost as valuable in terms of confirming this "conspiracy theory" as the results from the app itself. The first stage of implementation, after getting some validation from ya'll, would be a simple website that would describe the project and accept emails of people, or simple votes (based on device profile or cookies, so a straw poll, in a sense) to gauge support outside of this sub. This is because we would need a statistically significant number of people running the app in order to disprove our null hypothesis (that Apple isn't fucking with us). The second stage would be to set up a github account and repos, perhaps enlist some partners in crime, and write the app and database. The total implementation time, if I did it myself, would probably be 1-2 weeks (this thing isn't rocket science). Next, we would release a beta to the app store and go through a period of 1-4 months of collecting "provisional" data, during which period we would ensure that it works on all devices and the data being collected doesn't show any huge aberrations. Finally, we would just let the thing run, and wait through a few iThingy hardware releases. With each release, we would have greater statistical significance in our confirmation or rejection of this theory. Thanks, hope people are interested.
And they are infringing on a patent currently held by some university in scotland. I know this as I tried to market my invention of a straw that was clear until it came into contact with 9/10 date rape drugs at which point it turned bright fluoro pink. Found out I would be infringing on the patent and have to pay royalties. The patent is for any polymer or enamel in any state solid, liquid or gas that changes colour when exposed to X chemicals. The royalties they ask for are minimal but it ruined my plans as I wanted to provide the straws at a minimal price point to make it economical for bars to have them on hand and stupid young people to not scoff at buying them.
Oh, so because YOU'VE never heard of a news source, I shouldn't trust it. Gotcha. Guess we need to set up some sort of system where I'm constantly consulting you about whether I should trust a news source. P.S. - the metro, a newspaper with a daily circulation of 1.3 million, actually totally made their website JUST to lie about this one statistic. How did I not see it sooner.
I don't think they will find the royalties to be an issue. Here is an immediate gut reaction without doing any research (lots of assumptions). Straws are cheap. It is hard to ask someone (the bar manager) to pay for an expensive straw, especially for someone else (patrons). For the straws to work, you need to convince the purchaser (the bars) that they would benefit from purchasing said straws. That's a hard sale. From what I understand, bars do not face litigation if a patron slips something into another patron's drink. Nail polish is purchased by the end consumer. This end consumer happens to be the person who would be most affected by date-rape drugs. Nail polish is not cheaper than straws but it is a one time decision that would last for months. This increases the likelihood that someone would pay a higher premium on said product.
Except she doesn't say "ON NO! What was it??" Instead she starts telling off the bartender, and while trying to back you up, yells at him that she saw him put the drug in the drink! Other bartenders listen up, since you didn't know this, but this bartender was actually kind of an asshole. Not the kind that WOULD slip anything in the drink, just the kind that wouldn't clean up right at night. But the bartender next to him, Steve we'll call him, sees this as a glorious opportunity to screw Tim (the first bartender) over. He yells for the boss who is at the back of the bar before you have a chance to explain. Everything unfolds in seconds, and Tommy (the boss) walks in super pissed off. Steve yells that a customer has seen Tim spike a drink! Tommy has zero patience, and reaches back behind the bar for the bat, and yells at Tim to GET THE FUCK OUT! (This is escalating quickly) You raise your hand to tell Tommy it was all a misunderstanding, but Tommy will hear none of it, he is super pissed, looks at you with beady eyes. You choke on your words as you realize he is still holding the bat. He does put it down though, and reaches back behind the till, and grabs a bunch of bills and gives them to you. He pleads for you not to tell anyone, because little did you know, that this bar was just a front and he doesn't want any trouble. You quietly walk out with your wife to the car, but you can hear Tim being kicked and punched repeatedly in the back of the bar. You can hear him plead for his life. You go home, morose, quiet. Not saying anything. Your wife is in a bit of shock over the whole incident. She quietly murmurs before bed "I can't believe he tried to drug you..." You tell her "No, honey...no it was a joke." She looks at you in disbelief, shaking her head. Seriously? Drugging someone is no joke honey. She goes to bed irritated. You never to hear about Tim again, and the bar closes down a few months later. You decide never to bring this up again during your whole life, but your joke might have gotten a person killed.
Heres a better way to point it out While not drunk, you say you wouldn't drink and drive You have a couple (alot) of drinks You go ah my house isn't far away and drive home while drunk While sobber you said you wouldn't do it, it's the good choice but while drunk that goes completely out the window, if you get caught by the police while driving drunk, your not going to get off because sober you said you wouldn't... what ever you do and say while drunk is the same, if you decide to have sex while drunk, and didn't the next day but if we go to actual date rape drugs, yes the offender is instantly the one at fault, no questions asked
I don't like how people assume this is a file format. I think Bono is literally talking about a music [format]( not a file format. The [Time article]( never even mentions the word "file". It is obvious this isn't just a file format for music. It is described as "an audiovisual interactive format for music that can't be pirated and will bring back album artwork in the most powerful way, where you can play with the lyrics and get behind the songs" . There are so many people in this thread who simply haven't even put the slightest effort in trying to understand what is going on. There are at least 10 comments circlejerking about how you can just rip sound and then you have got the music. This completely ignores that the article addresses that and specifically says that is why they are making it more than music and want to add an interactive art/lyrics experience. Then you are talking about executing code. It would be like me saying I am going to rip the music out of Skyrim, and that means I can now listen to Skyrim, which will give me the same experience as playing the game. Also, people are focussing on the piracy, as if they are doing this new DRM thing just to fuck with pirates. Not only does the article suggest the opposite by saying "[Bono] hopes that a new digital music format in the works will prove so irresistibly exciting to music fans that it will tempt them again into buying music" , but we are just taking a musicians word on it not being able to be pirated, when that very same musician says in the article they are working to make their product better so that people won't want to pirate it?
Well, I mean there is a lot you can do, it's just that all of it is completely useless. I mean there were so many thousands of people commenting and writing against ending Net Neutrality. The only real accomplishment there is that the decision got delayed for a bit. In the end they're still going through with it. And it affects everyone in a very big way, yet a handful of people that stand to benefits the most ultimately get the final say. So, while it is certainly true that spreading awareness is your greatest weapon, unfortunately for you there isn't anything at all you can do against the people that literally own popular media. You can't send this to a news station and ask them to do investigating reporting. That would be actual news and that has no place on a news channel especially if that time can be better spent scaring people.
But it looks like this make it more legal for the NSA to gather the data. The DoD(parent of NSA) is dancing around the very edge of its jurisdiction when it spies on totally internal US communication between citizens. However it's well within its jurisdiction to spy on communications with other countries (say, Ireland).
Well this was a very old Xeon server with 2 CPU's, the whole thing work but it was fairly old then (this happened about 6 or 7 years ago), the server was used and this guy got it from another guy who wasn't using it anymore, and this dude that sold him the server signed him a piece of paper that was some sort of guarantee of support, but it was handwritten which is something that I don't think would stand in a court in my country. Anyways this was not one of those new PSUs that only ever turn its fans on when it needs to (temperature rises above a certain number), this was one of those old PSUs that always had the fans running (the actual fan inside the PSU). I installed lmsensors (as I normally do in any server I setup) to warn me about temperature spikes, fan problems or any other detail that the chips in the motherboard and cards report to the OS. The day this happened I noticed that I had a constant warning on the server about a fan not working, I walked into the server site to check (this was an used server so the cover had already been open there were no seals to break or anything) I looked and I noticed the fan that wasn't working was the PSU fan, I when back to the manager and told him that the PSU had an issue and that we needed to replace it or do something before the server actually had a problem (at this point the call center could still make and receive calls), and then he pulled out his handwritten guarantee and said he didn't want to replace any part in the server because he didn't want to void his " guarantee ", I told him that a PSU wasn't really that expensive and replacing it only to make sure that was the problem wasn't going to cost him more than the server actually failing and having all his employees just sitting around with nothing to do, but he insisted and it was the end of my shift and I had to leave for school. They didn't call me or anything during the day so I assume they finished their day as usual, so the next morning I came in to work everyone was panicking because the phones weren't working I immediately thought to myself that the server had died, I went into the site and the server was still on, but the PSU fans weren't working there was no video output I tried getting it back to work, it was at that point that they decided to bring in a new PSU, and we tried that and that didn't work either, and I just couldn't take it anymore I had been unhappy at that job for months and I didn't want to have to deal with that I had warned them about it and they didn't listen and given their history that I described above I didn't want to stick around anymore so I quit and left, and I told the guy that if he got a new server I would go and set it up for free but that it didn't make any sense for me to stay if he didn't have anything for me to do. Long story short his guy didn't want to replace the server he wanted to fix the one he had sold and the manager didn't want to have his employees sitting around for that long so he bought a new one whilst the other dude tried working on the older server (which took him about a month), and the manager wanted to sue his seller under our own version of the BBB and wanted me to go to trial and give a testimony in his favor I said I couldn't and I didn't want to be involved in it, and then he threaten to sue me but at this point I knew too much about the way he worked and the laws he was breaking so I told him to do whatever made more sense for him and his business (he was obviously bluffing), a month goes by and the guy who sold him the server contacts me to ask how to get to run the call centers' services, and tells me he got the same box to run and had to replace the PSU and a memory.
Wrong. Just because you use a phone that is the property of your corporation does not give that corporation the permission to record and trace all the actions done by the employee outside of business hours. At best, you would have a clausule that allows for periodical checks when material has been lost, but even then it's very murky waters. This company deliberately uses it to track their employees in their private life, which is a privacy violation that's punishable by law.
When I was still in university, I worked managing an Asterisk server for a small call center in my city and soon I discovered they were pretty underground breaking every labor law in the book, not paying employees enough, I live in MX and the manager's story (which I think is total BS) was that it was an american call center from LA. Anyways is needless to say that I hated it, specially when they wantes me to start coding besides doing the sysadmin job I was hires for, for the same pay, I needed the job because I had to pay school so endured a couple of months, at one point the manager hired another IT guy (I think he was friends with him) and asked him to install a keylogger and remote desktop in every workstation, ITs included and what's worst he would let employees use the company's internet for personal stuff so he could read every password/private conversation, and he didn't tell me I just noticed when I came in to work the next day because someone had been moving things around my desk, I obviously disabled the key logger and not more than a couple of minutes I get called into his office where we had an argument over this, his wholr point was that I had to trust he wasn't going to read personal stuff. I stopped using the work station and I would walk to the server and type everything there or use my laptop, a few weeks go by and lmsensors starts telling me about a faulty fan in the server, I go check and it was the PSU, this was an used server so no real way to get a warranty to work and it was the one thing powering the whole callcenter so I immediately tell him that we need a new psu pronto, and he started telling me he want going to do it anf void whatever warranty he think he had on a hand written piece of paper, I clocked out went school and came back the next day and lo and behold nothing was working, there was no video output from the server he got a new psu right then but it didn't work anymore, I picked my stuff and quit.
You can buy an unlocked phone and use it on a CDMA or GSM network here in the states. But, you will pay for it. There is an "activation fee" (really punishment for not buying a phone in store) that is usually a couple hundred dollars.
You don't understand. I'm referring to the odd thing where people believe that one phone is amazing and all others are shit . The weird, genuine anger is fanboy vs. fanboy idiocy to a level that just looks stupid. The idea that anything Apple is merely a shiny toy or interactive tv is your problem; they're not. As a programmer, you probably have many valid reasons why you use what you use. Good for you , but not all work done on computers is engineering or programming, so if you're a copyrighter, or someone like me where almost every one of my peers and service providers uses Apple products, then they are wonderful things. Despite owning an iPhone, I have absolutely no desire to find a Droid owner and tell them how much their phone sucks and how kiddish and stupid they are for whatever blah blah blah. It's fucking juvenile and weird. You're not automatically a fanboy if you become a customer, as /technology seems to think.
As Timja is pointing out re: Amazon w/ free classics, B&N also has a pretty constant rotation of its classics series being offered for free. They just keep rotating which ones are free at the time and which ones are dirt cheap, so I watch my email alerts and pick up the ones I want when they come up free.
IR is not visible to the human eye, filters do not change the frequency of light, only block specific frequencies, sure the filters may allow IR to pass through but your eye still can not see IR.
Ebay is even worse. I just went through the hell process of trying to unsubscribe. After adjusting it in my account settings and unsubscribing (I only made this new account so I could buy 1 item) nothing changed for over 14 days. I still received emails. So I tried marking it as spam. No luck because I was on Gmail. Then I tried to contact them to solve it, but their customer support sent me over to tech support who told me I needed to uncheck the little boxes in my account settings. Which I had done 14 days earlier... FFFFUUUUUUU. Beyond that they said they couldn't help me. so 17 days later I still received emails. I just deleted my account. And that took an extra 20 days to process before the emails randomly stopped.
It's not a Windows 7 term. That feature has been in task manager since Windows XP at least. But it's not even a Windows-specific term. Basically, your processor doesn't know this concept of "processes". It just knows that there's instructions for it to run. All the switching between stuff is done by your operating system. So the main system starts up. Then, that program starts up all your other programs. And those programs can start even more programs (a good example of this is Chrome, which starts a new process for every tab). This type of structure is referred to as a tree. The process you specify is the "root" of the tree and each time it spans a new process, it creates a new branch. If you kill a process without killing its children (the processes it's spawned), then those children become orphans and they get adopted by the main process (at least in Linux, not sure about Windows but I think it does something similar) until they finish. If they're waiting around for a signal from the parent, that means they'll be sitting wasting resources until you turn off the computer. Most child processes are smart enough to die on their own once the parent is gone.
I am in my early 30s, and I landed a tech job in the late 90s out of high school with zero education. I guess I am sort of a late product of the tech boom. I have gone from hardware technician, to network technician, to now Systems Administrator. I manage currently 14,000 Macs, 40 Servers, 600 iOS devices and about 30k users (public school system). We are looking at migrating everything to Google Apps, so we will eventually be in "the cloud." My thoughts are that the term "cloud," is so broad and general it cannot really be defined. It is a buzz word. That is why people like to write articles about it, because it gets their article clicks. So, cloud computing goes off and it is a big hit lets say. Companies are allowing all their users to store data in the cloud. This alone will create security IT jobs. Now, if a cloud data center is really to be successful it can have zero down time, and it must have solid redundancy. This will probably create several more jobs of people coding apps that access cloud data, network infrastructure, and server infrastructure (master/replica fail over and such), plus they need to be able to offer support and service. A company wants to call someone when shit breaks. This will create help desk jobs. Perhaps create isn't the right word either, it will shift maybe. It will not ruin IT though. Datacenter admin jobs are only one aspect of IT. You will still see companies having internal IT departments. The cloud doesn't replace your directory admin, your network admin, your help desk staff, and your engineer/techs. What happens when a client machine can't boot? Do they call the cloud? Then you have things like inventory and asset management, and I dunno like a plethora of other IT based responsibilities the cloud cannot perform. If anything it may hurt some current software solutions handling user data. That is OK with me because when I build infrastructure I use Linux/Unix anyway and try to stay away from products that lock me into a closed road map. Look at google apps. It can run on Windows/OS X/Linux/Unix/iOS/Android/blackberry and so forth. It is a product that mind you needs improvement, but it doesn't lock you into anything, it works across the board. It allows your IT and management to give users a choice of product, after all the more comfortable the end user is with the product the more productive they will be. I just see the cloud as a service that users will use and companies may or may not buy into. If user data is in the cloud they can be on any platform and access it anywhere as long as they are online. Otherwise, it is a buzz word that writers need to stop trying to rile people up with. Since we live in a supply and demand economy if the demand for a service goes up, then the supply must be there and that will create some jobs. Sure they may be outsourced, but it still will create them.
There are only a handful of LCD manufacturers Samsung, LG, AU Optronics and Chi Mei are the top ones (I don't know any others off the top of my head) Most ODMs (Acer, Dell, Apple etc.) will use a variety of panel sources, however, the higher-end spectrum is pretty much owned by LG and Samsung. Acer, who makes mostly low-end stuff, likely uses mostly AU Optronics and Chi Mei panels. Dell Ultrasharps and Apple cinema displays most likely use Samsung and/or LG displays, as they are both known for having stunning image quality. The kicker is that when you're buying low end LCD monitors, even with the same 'model number' they may have totally different panels inside. This episode happened a few years ago:
I had a problem with an Acer laptop a few years back and it took them five months to eventually replace it. I had to phone them about 40 times. A few years later the place I worked in bought me an Acer. I spilled some wine on the keyboard and it stopped working. I sent it off for repair and it was gone for about three weeks. I eventually called them and they said they weren't able to source a new keyboard, but that one was on the way and I'd have my laptop back within a week. Two weeks later I called them. Same answer. They make the fucking keyboards! Decided to fix it myself, so asked for it back. I ordered a replacement keyboard off eBay, which arrived in 4 days and had it fixed in about 20 mins.
This is debatable, and highly subjective. I do IT for a business that happens to have 5 MacBook Pros - 3 from 2008, and 2 unibody models. One of the (late) 2008 MacBooks has received a new logic board, new battery, new optical drive, new hard drive, and a new fan Another one of the 2008 MacBook Pros has received a new fan, and has a dying LCD backlight despite seeing very light use. The final MacBook Pro (2008 17" model) has had a logic board, battery, and hard drive all fail (that I know about). Another MacBook Pro (2010 unibody) that I worked on recently had an LCD that discoloured due to hot air being blown over it - Apple refused to repair it.
I have the transformer. It's a piece of crap. There's incredible lag on the keyboard, so I got rid of the keyboard. It's bulky. It fails at basic tasks. It zooms when I want to scroll. There are times when the touch screen plain old doesnt work until you power cycle the screen, or just lags so bad it may as well not work. It eats batteries and has a proprietary port/cable so I cant use the same charger as my droid or kindle. The keyboard, when I had it, had useless keys like screen brightness as opposed to useful shortcuts like Alt+tab for switching programs. The included remote desktop software reverses the multitouch controls, so scrolling is a pain. The honeycomb UI is just crap. /mnt/sdcard serves as the location of internal storage, so all android apps save everything there instead of the removable sdcard, while /mnt/removable/microsd is where the actual sd card is. The dock won't link up to another android device as external storage so I can trade files, which I can do with a windows computer, but it will link up with any flash drive. Videos won't stream over uPnP/DLNA, just audio. The default browser is such a piece of crap (opens everything in a new tab randomly, crashes constantly) that the dolphin browser is better, though its still got its bugs. The recent apps button is unreliable, widgets on the desktop take up too much space and the actual App list is too hard to get to. Oh and the wallpaper dimension requirements are wacky, so all your photos end up zoomed in and blurry. The only things I actually wound up using it for is reading comics and playing chess, both of which I rarely do.
IT Security Specialist here.... Use Truecrypt and create a hidden OS or a hidden archive within an archive. That way you can comply and divulge the non incriminating data and deny the existence of any further data. They will be fucked. You would want to do this on a linux system with a non journaling file system so that there wouldn't be disk transaction logs that can incriminate you. Likewise if you are on NTFS (Windows) - and you have programs that automatically wipe free space with random data - this will account for the the NTFS transaction logs on supposedly unused disk space. Some programs like Cyberscrub will also wipe the NTFS transaction logs. Bottom line is that if you have something to hide (or like myself just like security) you should use airtight security. Incidentally I also use scripts that create hundreds of small encrypted archives on my free space which if I left in place would provide a gigantic haystack of archives for which I do not have the key, further making any data recovery impossible (short of torturing me). If you are extra paranoid you can use a linux kernel hack that stores password keys in debugging registers instead of active memory to prevent cold boot attacks. Also you keep an old destroyed micro sd card and if asked, you can claim that the keys were on the drive and are now destroyed.
exactly. one there's not really lot's of party's it just appears that way. If 16 year olds could vote then maybe there'd be more chance for lib dems and green party but the UK is still very much a two horse race despite the coalition that is currently in government. Also couldn't agree more with infinite all of the above parties save (perhaps) the green party would have done this. As to any other party in existence in the UK they are not worth adding to the list despite their existence they will never be in power or in a position to be worth mention in a reddit post.
The right not to reach large audiences: absolutely. However, I think you've abandoned that right, at least to a extent, once you post your stuff on a public, non-password protected website. Again, that's the whole underlying point of the web: linking. All rights reserved means all rights reserved. It is illegal to rehost a copyrighted image without the author's consent, and Pinterest does in fact rehost the image (I just tested it out). Stringent usage rights is one of my favorite things about Flickr: by which I mean, it's very easy to upload under a CC license, and all rights reserved images have barriers like the anti-download code, and this anti-Pinterest thing, to prevent taking and rehosting. As for myself, I have it set so everything I upload to Flickr has a CC license (attribution/non-commercial/no deriv), precisely because I know sharing is important as a commercial artist. But not every author feels the same way, and their wishes should be respected. I can see why they wouldn't want people posting their stuff to Pinterest: Although it automatically links to the flickr page, it doesn't provide any attribution or copyright info on the Pinterest page It rehosts the image, which allows for easy download of the image, circumventing Flickr's anti-download protection According to Pinterest's terms of use gives Pinterest all sorts of rights to the image; a perpetual, worldwide, transferable(!), royalty-free right to distribute, modify(!), and even sell(!!!) the work. If you do not want strangers mucking around with your creation then those are some very dangerous terms! The reason why some content creators try to keep a tight lid on their work is because rehosting and the like dilutes their ability to keep tabs on their creation. Rehosting with a linkback leads to rehosting without attribution leads to rehosting with a 3rd party watermark... the more an author's ownership of the image become 'diluted', the more likely it is someone will come along, assume the image belongs to the aether, and use it for commercial purposes without any payment or attribution to the author. And to make matters worse, more rehosting makes it harder and harder for the author to even find out such theft has occurred in the first place.
MYTH: Any non-commercial use is fair. REALITY: Who's it hurting, right? That's a common argument, especially among vidders, remixers, and other creators in the online video environment, but the law doesn't in fact exempt non-commercial uses. The law does privilege such uses in some cases, but you will unfortunately today be in a grey zone if you lean exclusively on the fact that you're not selling your work. That's especially true in online situations, where you may not be making money off your work but somebody else is—usually an advertiser placing ads on a site, or a data miner. (There is no legal definition of “non-commercial.”) Besides, giving work away that contains valuable pieces of other people’s work can indeed hurt someone else’s pocketbook. If you have a legitimate fair use claim, that pocketbook problem can be overridden (depending on how severe it is). Simply not making money does not give you a fair use pass. "
Firstly, there hasn't been a decision yet. The article just sums up the Crown's arguments. Secondly, it has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with the laws of evidence. Under NZ law physical evidence needs to be retained, but it's fine to make a copy. Consider this scenario. A banker works in New Zealand and the United States. He's arrested and tried in New Zealand after having defrauded a number of companies in both countries. The New Zealand police raid his house and seize a number of financial documents. They photocopy those documents and give them to the FBI. Anything wrong with that? We have the same situation here. The law requires the police to hold on to the original physical evidence, but they can make copies.
For a simple summary, we have no idea what this guy received from a website. It's possible that the 1 million entries were fake, and he just gave a random website $5. It's also possible that this didn't even happen. It's also possible that Facebook just investigates any claim like this to be safe, whether or not the data he received was legitimate.
I'm a developer who has done some work on Facebook apps. Here's what happened from what I can tell: Facebook apps (games and other tools that let recognize you via your Facebook account) can request certain permissions before a user accesses them. Usually they say something like "This app will receive: Your basic info, Your email address, Your birthday". The format of this notification has changed over time. Facebook has made it less explicit/scary than it used to be. If you continue onto the app, the developer of that app now has access to that information. It's out of Facebook's hands at that point. They have some strict rules about what the developer can do with it, but they have no technological control over it. App development often involve multiple parties and contractors, especially in game dev, many of whom will be able to access the database. It would not surprise me if there were dozens or even hundreds of people at Zynga (using them as an example, I'm not suggesting they're the leak) who could access and download their user database. So it appears that someone took an apps user database, exported it to excel, and then started selling it online. The good news is that this database appears to only contain: Name, Last name, Profile ID and Email. The first 3 are publicly available information. Anyone could write a script to scan Facebook's user base for that info. So the leak here is the email address of anyone who used the offending app. That's bad, but not as bad as the full profile. Facebook wants that list because they can cross check it with their app installation data and figure out what app it was (it's definitely a violation of Facebook's terms of service for the developer). I've always thought it's been a mistake on Facebook's part to let apps access email addresses. I think they did it to cut down on their direct culpability for spam, but it made problems like these much more likely.
Just because your SSN isn't on there doesn't mean there is nothing of value. Marketers data mine your activities, your friends' activities, and your friends of friends' activities quite effectively. Just remember the old adage: "there's no such thing as a free lunch" If you're getting anything for "free", they are siphoning data 10x that value you receive from you.
member" likes "page". Is not "member" just liked "page" When you agree to let a page make posts on your wall. They will do so. Entire article is fucking bullshit.
I work in a school that has these for staff. Its not that the students are actively tracked wherever they are. The cards act as keycards and the students swipe in to class as they enter marking them as present. The cards do not actively track them. The school has absolutely no idea where the students are when they leave for the day. Nor can they track them inside the school unless they swipe in at a reader. There is no violation of rights or personal privacy.
Some profs are so shitty that it's best to do that. Source: had the worst Physics 201 teacher in college. I went to a private one and paid boatloads and yet the teacher taught by sitting down, assigning readings before the class and allowing students to ask questions--but only specific ones. If it seemed like "I don't understand concept X, can you explain this particular part of it?", he wouldn't answer. He had tenure and apparently was 3 years from retirement or something like that so he couldn't be fired without a hassle.
The part about "publicly supporting it" is fabricated by the father. He not only wanted his daughter exempted, but he wanted the whole program stopped. The school made accommodations for his daughter, but of course said that they weren't going to end the program for all students. He felt that her wearing any badge at that point would make it seem like he supported the overall program.
That article is errant. A battery for an actively sending radio, even a tiny RFID one would last one day at the most. Are these students to recharge their ID card daily with an expensive inductive charger? RFID radios can typically only be read from a matter of inches away. When used this way they require no power source as the radio request induces enough power in the RFID tag to power its reply. This makes the whole concept of using an RFID tag pointless if not passive. Other radios with much longer ranges such as zigbee and bluetooth would seem much better placed. The PASSIVE RFID tags this school is using costs less than $0.50; the entire ID card likely a few dollars. The active, battery powered, RFID chip talked about would likely cost $10 or more by its self and be a comparable price to better longer range radios.
Technically Darksim is correct here. student enters classroom A, it shows date, time, of entry to the classroom... if they checked to see where that student was, they'd see a record for Entry, but not for exit from Classroom A... so they'd know the student was in Classroom A. It's similar to how EZPass works (active readers) and how stores keep track of inventory. It creates a breadcrumb trail for each student, letting you "Track" their location down to the classroom / room that they are in based on walking through each doorway. The tag they carry, would log their entry / exit to each doorway of a building, and every doorway would have an antenna. This way they can actually keep track of where you are at all times as if you enter a classroom, and don't leave it, they'd know what class to find you in. Yes, it can be used to "track" an individual, and it's useful in the case of Fire emergencies, or events where each student needs to be taken account of (make sure nobody is left inside!).. but Sure, the privacy factor does come into play here. Do you really want your school administrators knowing that you like to take 5 shits a day and that you spend 10 minutes on average on the shitter? Some things are best left un-shared :p...
Are we really going to compare high school and prison? I understand some things can be ridiculous about it but the differences are staggering and making an emotional connection of high school is like prison is unwarranted. Yes I completely disagree with how this turned out but high school is still a good institution which allows people to learn. Edit: >I work in a school that has these for staff. Its not that the students are actively tracked wherever they are. The cards act as keycards and the students swipe in to class as they enter marking them as present. The cards do not actively track them. The school has absolutely no idea where the students are when they leave for the day. Nor can they track them inside the school unless they swipe in at a reader. There is no violation of rights or personal privacy. >
You are incorrect. These badges employ active RFID. Unless passive RFID tags that must be scanned by a reader, these contain batteries and actively transmit to a tracking system. > Unlike passive chips that transmit data only when scanned by a reader, these chips have batteries and broadcast a constant signal so they can track students’ exact locations on school property, down to where they’re sitting—whether it’s at a desk, in a counselor’s office, or on the toilet. (From [PC World Magazine]( Part of this is to generate more cash for the schools - from the Northside school district web page - "Through more efficient attendance management, schools can generate additional revenues by identifying students who are not in their seats during roll call but who are in the school and locate them. (Increased attendance = increased state revenues)" >
If anything was desensitizing us to monitoring it would social networking, where users actively participate in telling anyone who wants to know about whatever parts of their life they don't mind sharing. Twitter is one of the most extreme cases, people pull out their phones all of the time and Tweet minute-by-minute updates of where they are. Want something to really worry about? How about the cell phone you carry in your pocket with an on-board GPS? Just because you turn the GPS/ phone/ bluetooth off doesn't mean it really is, changing two lines of code is all it takes to make sure that switch in the software does nothing but control an icon. Also, RFID is really not much different than wearing a name tag, it can just be read electronically from a bit of a distance (generally a few feet) whatever they want to do and refuse admission/ employment/ access to anyone for any reason. Samsung ports these with the S3 and people were/are welcoming it, it is convenient and I wish my university had them for opening doors and checking in at places, they are so much more convenient than bar code reading or magnetic strip swiping, you just leave them in your wallet/purse and hold them up to a reader. [
Regardless of if the tag the school employs is active or passive (and it appears to be active) any rfid scanner in the students' environment is liable to pick up the signal unbeknownst to her ot anyone else and track/log said location. (This is where I digress ) All it would take would be broad range rfid scanners at intersections being installed and everyone with rfid chips could be tracked nationally/globally...(in real time?)
I swear this has all happened before. People didn't like mice when they were first announced. People didn't like iPads. People didn't like a lot of things that were successful. I have been running Windows 8 since the preview builds along side Windows 7 and XP for work, and out of all the different builds, Windows 8 is my favorite. It's faster, cheaper, and comes with more features than previous Windows builds. It's cleaner also. I really enjoy having my top apps in my Start screen. With [Pin Steam]( I get all of my Steam games in tile format, and it looks slick! While I don't own a touch screen monitor yet because they don't have many offerings, I plan on getting one. It's not something you need, but it can be useful in situations. Even without the touch interface, navigating becomes very easy. Even my wife (hated the idea of changing from Win7) has changed her mind about Windows 8 and now loves it! My brother was skeptical about changing over... Until he did. Now he is really enjoying the new interface. To add to the discussion, I think that hardware manufacturers are scared of Windows 8. Change scares them, because if the public rejects it they lose money on a failed platform. It's this fear that's holding back progress. If the manufacturers get on the ball and push hard on Windows 8, than the public would have a quality selection to choose from. Microsoft could help in making the learning curve easier. If they simply put the user through a "tutorial" at the beginning... Simply telling them "touch the corners" isn't enough. Reading online gave me lots of hotkeys that were essential for Windows 8 without a touch screen. The Windows key is actually very awesome.
I view Windows 8 as more of a stepping stone. It's very much ahead of it's time. Obviously it has its flaws, no one company can execute perfectly, especially on visions that are, like I said, ahead of it's time. I think Windows 8 does a perfectly fine job of maintaining backwards compatibility, while at a same time ushering in a new paradigm for computing devices. Some people don't view it like that, and see it as MS trying to shoehorn a tablet OS onto a Desktop, and fail to see the vision of the future that Microsoft see's. That's fine, I think those people will never stop using Windows 7. But they're going to be sorely disappointed when other big names start moving in the same direction though. And I'm one of those people that has a $2000 desktop and 24" monitor back home. I believe that at some point computing hardware gets "good enough". If you look at the current crop of AAA games not a single one of them couldn't run on the lowest common denominator, that currently being the Xbox 360. Point being that as far as gaming goes, yes there are always going to be people that want the latest and greatest graphics, and for them Desktops will always exist, but for most people there's going to be a platform that is "good enough". Right now that's the iPad, in the future it will be the same thin and light device that gets all day battery life but also has a Intel Core i5 running in it. Desktop gaming is such a niche market though that nobody is actively chasing that segment. Even Valve realized that and is moving Steam to Ubuntu, which oddly enough is itself moving towards a unified OS across devices and touchscreen support.
W7 does not have multimon taskbar by default. There are third party tools which try to enable it. My favourite was It even supports a start button on every screen. However, I found it imperfect and had random UI glitches sometimes. With W8 the feature is built in and feels more stable. You can mirror the task bar on every screen, or have a unique bar for the apps on each respective screen. If you install Start8, not only do you get your startbutton back, but you can have one on each screen if you like.
I guess you are not following IT market closely. What happened to MS with win8 is not different to what happened to Canonical with Ubuntu after they introduced Unity. Was unity nonfunctional? No. Was it preventing users to do what they did previously with Gnome2? No. But people did not like it. Including me. Lot of users move to Mint or other flavors of Linux. Both companies did the same. They introduced new UI in order to make their OS more touch friendly (this is a bit of simplification of course). And it hit them backfire. Users are pissed because number of reasons. 1 - People does not like change. They feel insecure by change. If your house elevation would have different colour every day you would get pissed too. 2 - People get frustrated when they are not listened. They do not want metro. They want their start button. End of story. If MS would not have monopoly on desktop market people would go elsewhere immediately. > I seriously have yet to hear anything I would consider a legitimate complaint that falls outside of personal opinion. But it is personal opinion what matters. Imagine Mercedes presents great car , with efficient fuel usage etc but ugly. If people refuse to buys it because it's visual disadvantage then it's not company business to argue with customers and tell them that it is only personal opinion.
I'm a huge Tesla fan and when I initially read the story about this NYT article I was on Tesla's side. However, now that I've had a chance to review everything, I'm not so sure. There are essentially two parts to Broder's article: That the car had difficulties making it through the journey from Delaware to Connecticut. He woke up in Groton with 25 mile range when the car previously had a 90 mile range the night before. Tesla has some good arguments regarding point #1 (that he lied about his speed, etc.). However, they fail at defending themselves on point #2 in my opinion. The car truly did lose 65 miles of range sitting overnight in the cold, even Tesla's data backs that up. True, Broder could have sat in Norwich for an extended period of time to fully recharge the car before heading back to Connecticut Milford, but the intention of the Norwich recharge was to simply condition the battery, not to fully recharge it. Plus, the entire NYT article was supposed to be a test of the new Supercharger network and the Norwich charge facility was third party. I also read somewhere that Tesla now recommends that the car be plugged in overnight if sitting in cold weather, in order to avoid this very problem. Broder didn't have that feature at the time. So that shows that Tesla knows this is an issue. I will probably be downvoted because Reddit is incredibly pro-Tesla. However I'd like to say, so am I. I love the Model S and I would buy one if I could. That being said, there are still some issues with the car. And I must say, I wonder how many Redditors actually read the NYT article fully.
As a person who works for a cable company and does the in house expansion of Internet, video on demand and broadcast (just regular channels) I can easily see why they charge so much. Everything from the equipment licences,the cable, the fiber, fittings, the labels and even the string I use to tie down the cable into the cable racks to hook up to the equipment is super expensive. Unfortunately it all adds up really quick, I've seen jobs come in at well over a million dollars just for maybe 15 square miles and that was just for the equipment and supplies not including the man hours it takes to get everything up and running. Its not a cheep business that's for sure. Service drops are a hard one to explain but they are avoided at all cost. The old saying goes anything that can go wrong will and its very true because most of the service drops are not human error its usually just a bad card in a router or something that will crap out or a transmitter (for fiber optics) will go bad things kinda run out of life after awhile and just give in but for the most part things get upgraded before that happens. Human error happens, not too often but it does like a bad fitting or the wrong level was set on the output of a piece of eq. or even cutting the wrong cable (I have done this and as a fellow person from the internet I am so sorry.). Its a BIG deal to drop service especially internet being as most phones are voice over IP we worry about dropping 911 calls which could really really ruin someones day. So we avoid dropping service but we have to sometimes generally really early on the morning from like 3-5am is our service window but that is part of the process of putting in bigger and better (more like smaller actually) eq. Things could be cheaper as far as what your paying but what the company is mostly after money so they like to spend as little as possible by cutting corners in some aspects but things could be built out to better standard being as they look for short term gain so they just build things to where it will fix capacity for now instead of building for future capacity demands, my coworker once said "They would rather spend a 1000 dollars now to make the minimum level of requirements instead of spending 2000 to go above and beyond and not have to keep paying $1000 over and over again just to make minimum." So by looking for the "now" money instead of the "then" money they are kinda screwing the costumer. That's all I know about how they could tighten up the cost of the builds, as far as how greedy they really are I have no clue I just work there.
Price fixing means the consumer has a choice between providers providing a service at roughly the same price, but can at least choose based on what other qualities they may get from the provider. (Good customer service and reliability being two easy examples) With territory agreements, you have no choice as it is a real monopoly for a given location. This way, they also don't have to compete on customer service, either.
My experience with TWC: So I pay for "high speed" internet due to the fact that my fiance likes his online gaming. Well his connection was really choppy and kept cutting off causing him to lose his games. My internet kept cutting on and off on my laptop as well. I called TWC a couple times to complain about the issue but they kept saying they could find nothing wrong on their end and would put me on the device watch list which monitors when my internet cuts off. The problem persisted, so taking personal responsibility we decided to upgrade our router to a high-speed gaming router in addition to upgrading to a higher speed internet. After several weeks of calling about the same issue, I was at wits end and decided if they weren't going to fix the issue, I would just cancel because $100+ a month for internet that barely worked wasn't worth it. So I called one night and explained my issue yet again. The first thing the tech said: "You can't get wireless internet because you don't have a wireless plan" WTF?! I didn't know what this man was talking about and had to explain that I do get wireless, it just cuts off a lot. The next thing he says: "I think the issue is with your router. You should call them." I explained that the issued wasn't with the router since we've gone through TWO brand new routers and had the same issue. I also explained that the lights on my modem were cutting on and off a lot. The guy said that they hadn't noticed anything wrong on their end so it wasn't the modem and that it was definitely my computer. I then explained that it wasn't my computer since I was frequently losing connection on both my computers and my ps3. Anyway after an hour on the phone with this guy, he finally said that he was going to add me to the device watch list. I told him that I had apparently been added to this list 3 times already and that I needed a solution or I was getting rid of TWC. He finally said I could take my modem into a store and try getting a new one. So I did this, got a new (and I use that term loosely) modem. This seemed to help my issue a lot. The frustrating thing about my experience was the lack of personal responsibility. I explained my situation to at least 5 different techs and it turns out the problem wasn't "my fault" like they'd tried to make it out to be. But since there's nothing else offered in my area, I guess it's just what I have to deal with.
I've had mixed experiences with Cox. When the service works it's fantastic, and yeah my speed rivals all of my friends when it comes to patching and downloading and torrenting. I have been dinged for torrenting by them once and told if I was caught again they'd take measure up to and including cancellation. Whenever we have a problem it takes multiple visits to fix and we end up fixing it ourselves. We had terrible problems with staying connected for months, it would drop every 10 minutes for long enough to interrupt a movie or boot us from an online game. Connection spurts like that are fine for web browsing but not for any sort of streaming. We finally had to go purchase a third party modem to fix the problem ourselves. Another time we had issues, much the same as before, but with speed problems and longer disconnects. We had them out so often that they gave us a direct line to one of the supervisors to call. One of the techs told us he thought it was the outside line, but that they wouldn't approve a work order for a problem like that without exhausting every other issue we could have. So months of this again and we ended up paying a ton to run high quality cable through our house to prove it wasn't a problem on our side by replacing the entire thing. The funny thing is after we did that they still tried to blame the problem on us and seriously said that we were getting too much signal. So they gave us a splitter and some sort of signal dampener to use and we spent weeks swapping cables back and forth between this splitter to balance our "signal issues". They finally came out and replaced the outside line for us and, lo and behold, our problems went away. We also didn't really get off on the right foot with them. We started with Cox High Speed the moment they were available in our region. At the time we were running Windows NT and apparently none of their installers or anyone at the company really was trained on Windows NT. We literally paid for 6 months of unusable internet because they couldn't figure out how to configure the computer once they installed it. I was far less computer savvy than than I am now, but I got frustrated and finally just started fiddling with the settings myself. It took me an entire weekend but I finally stumbled across the magic numbers to connect, so again we had to fix the problem ourselves. Don't get me wrong, they do try, but they are pretty incompetent when you have a problem. We've had installers in the house for full work days, 8 hours plus, some staying far beyond the time they were supposed to clock out. We've had others come in and just basically tell us it's our problem and leave after 10 minutes. It took them 10 hours to try to install my cable cards in my TIVO and she finally just left and told me to call for another appointment. That's another thing I managed to do myself with some Googling and the activation rep on the phone. They had apparently sent a cable installer to do my TIVO installation, not someone who knew how cable cards worked, because they were short staffed.
Oblig. Douglas Adams quote: ..."The people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?"
You are thinking about this the wrong way. Liken a game dev to a chef. AMD and Intel are equivalent to the people selling the chef produce and meat and whatnot. The AMD/Intel team is providing ever better quality ingredients and that is a good thing. It is then up to the chef (game dev) to make something of it.
The likely outcome of any action is predictable. By doing anything I meant why should I even get up in the morning and go to work? Why should we make scientific advancements? Why should we in any way improve on whats going on in the world? Eventually, whatever we do will cause harm to someone somewhere. Yes what the NSA has done is wrong, I'm not disagreeing with you on that. However, comparing the what the NSA has done with our digital records to what the Nazi's did to the Jews is complete and utter bullshit, and you know it. A piece of data that just says I made a call to such and such person at this time, without what the call was about, is not the same as the files the Nazi's had on their citizens with their ethnicity and beliefs. I really need to stop going into news articles on reddit, I don't know what the hell is wrong with people here, but every time someone makes a comment trying to point out something positive about the government, everyone turns into a completely and utter asshole acting like the person's a fool. I've got some advice for you: wake the hell up! This is the real world, your hipster vision of the world that everything the government does is an attack on the people is completely and utterly moronic. There is no conspiracy by the government to slowly take away your rights, there is no conspiracy to spy on you, there is no sinister plot going on. They do this kind of shit because, based upon the intel they have, the intel that WE really have no knowledge of, its the thing to do. Is spying on our calls and internet records wrong? You bet! Can I see though why it was justified? Yes, I'm not blind, I understand how a government works, I don't blind myself with the delusion that our government should do everything it does for us without in some way stepping on toes. Thats the price we pay for living in a governed society: we give up some rights for protection. We've done it throughout human history and we can expect it to continue. This isn't an attack on you, this isn't an attack on this thread, this is just honestly the point where I've had enough and need to put my foot down here. I came to reddit and thought I'd found a place where I could discuss politics with like-minded peers for once, but sadly I've found really its just one big anti-government, anyone-doing-something-against-the-man-is-good circle jerk, and that deeply saddens me. I don't care if you agree with what I'm saying, I expect this to get blown over and downvoted into fricking hell most likely, and its kind of gone way off topic from where it started, but I feel it had to be said.
About half way through the article, I noticed a few things that really bugged me about this article. The subject matter appeals to me, and the tone of the writing is similar to my views. What bugged me was that this turned into more of an opinion piece, mostly 'filler' writing. I even found myself saying ^source in my head a few times. Turned into a teacher. This article needs a
Everyone I know in EE found a job right after college. There is something wrong with the poster's story. Either he is lying, or has some social disorder, or just really bad at interviews and/or writing resumes. The story may be legit if he has bad credit, habitual smoker or a criminal record. Just about every company I've joined has done a background check and drug test.
If TOR was crackable without the malware then the malware wouldn't have been necessary. The government is VERY motivated to catch a lot of the people using TOR. The fact that they haven't been able to and were forced to run their own pedo site for 2 weeks is an enormous indicator that the TOR protocol is effective.
Key word here that most folk seem to overlook is sometimes. Amazon has offered me up some films I would have never found based on my previous buys. Pretty much all of the current UK sales chart would be of interest to me, so that's win for me as I get a new film and them as they get a sale. Where it becomes a bit sinister is on controversial or charged subjects. Imagine passionately held views, now say that the search engine of choice has extrapolated opinion on this from user history. It will present pages that have best chance of a click, because that's how it makes itself useful. The likelihood is you'll want to see the world through a bias filter that confirms your bias is right. Fox news gets stick for its fairly obvious bias, but this bias is everywhere, web articles, most people's choice of social circle etc. But... We learn and grow through having challenging ideas presented to us. The personalisation of web searches risks reinforcement of current opinions. That's an extreme case mind you. The personalisation I find most annoying is my Facebook news feed, I can see value if you have hundreds of friends as it will get too noisy. For me, with my friends posting habits, I'd just like it in posting order then I can scroll down until I'm caught up. For whatever reason even the chronological option doesn't simply provide this.
What else do we have to go off? If you're suggesting the news reports are complete fabrications then what is their motivation. If they're partial fabrications then what are you using to determine the fabricated part? And, again, what other data is there besides what's been reported to us? If the military wanted to give TOR a huge back door and were somehow able to HIDE IT IN THE OPEN SOURCE then surely they'd also have the power to hide their own involvement. You've imagined a matrix-esque conspiracy where the bad guys leave one enormous stinking clue within an otherwise perfect conspiracy.
The flaws are still not likely to be discovered for a long time. The most likely approach for the NSA would be to merely reduce the actual entropy in the algorithm to a small enough number that their massive super computer resources could decrypt it, but that people without a multi-billion dollar budget could not. This helps them maintain plausible deniability, sort of protects any US assets relying upon the weakened product, and still gives the NSA the ability to selectively decrypt targets of interest in a reasonable time frame (aka, not real-time).
Surface Pro is the best tablet out there. There are other tablets out there that can run a full OS, but none do it as smoothly as the surface. It just came into the game way to late and could not get the hype it deserved. If more people got to have a hands on experience with it then it probably would have done better. As a software engineer it is a god send. Whenever I get up from my desk I bring it with me. I can run code directly on the device or easily remote into any of my machines and deploy things from there. The touchscreen also allows for some of the best note taking. Being able to completely rest my hand on the screen while I write makes it feel natural. The best part of all is I can run the same apps I would run on my laptop or desktop and have it all just work. No need to worry about whether or not its in some app store.
This is all my opinion Personally, I hate Spotify. I don't like the interface, and sometimes it's difficult to find music from a particular artist. Spotify mixes up artists all the time, because it cant tell the difference between artists with the same name. It doesn't show the genre, which would make organizing easier. And, every once in a while, it won't even play a particular song. EDIT: It always buffers really slow, too. In spite of it's downsides however, it is nice to be able to search for music, from artists that know, that I have never heard before. I believe that if changes were made, I would consider using Spotify more often, but I just can't see all of my wishes for it coming true. With all that said, I find it much easier to organize my music in WMP, which I have either downloaded by torrent, or purchased through Bandcamp- which I can also listen to music for free on. When I want to listen to music that I haven't downloaded, YouTube and Pandora work flawlessly for me.
One of my comment replies from earlier) >Personally, I hate Spotify. I don't like the interface, and sometimes it's difficult to find music from a particular artist. Spotify mixes up artists all the time, because it cant tell the difference between artists with the same name. It doesn't show the genre, which would make organizing easier. And, every once in a while, it won't even play a particular song. EDIT: It always buffers really slow, too. In spite of it's downsides however, it is nice to be able to search for music, from artists that know, that I have never heard before. I believe that if changes were made, I would consider using Spotify more often, but I just can't see all of my wishes for it coming true. With all that said, I find it much easier to organize my music in WMP, which I have either downloaded by torrent, or purchased through Bandcamp- which I can also listen to music for free on. When I want to listen to music that I haven't downloaded, YouTube and Pandora work flawlessly for me.
I honestly believe you have mental disabilities. You know why I'm not citing a source? NO ONE RUNS STUDIES ON WHY PIRACY IS WRONG, you fucking retard. You haven't proven anything and you can't answer to even the simplest arguments. Many, many people here have proven you wrong time and time again. Being against piracy is common sense and all of my arguments are common fucking sense . You must have ZERO common sense (not surprised). You HAVE to be a troll. No one is this dumb. No one has arguments this ignorant. No one can possibly be as stupid as you. There is no way. Why didn't you just give up after the 3rd person shot down your dumb logic? Why do you have to keep going and embarrass yourself?
The guys doing the ruling just
Not an economist, but I've written my thoughts on the situation below. Even if cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner, etc.) will be celebrating in all the ridiculous new charges certain to be introduced, they will definitely be the only ones jubilant. Looking at these comments, I'm realizing that surely many people will drop their internet services simply because they can't afford it anymore. This will hurt Netflix, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Hulu, Steam, Yahoo, Wikipedia, let alone every other single website that exists, since they will have less visitors, viewers, contributors, and subscribers. They will all oppose such charges "in defense of their users", just like many opposed SOPA in 2012. Telecom companies will then try to buy them off by paying for their subscriber's fees, missed advertisement revenues, etc. If you enjoy the internet at all , then clearly you need to oppose this judicial precedent. I know I love my Netflix binging, and I don't need a cable company charging me beyond what internet already costs to be able to contact a specific company. If Comcast charges me additional fees to first visit a website, then stream a movie ("Oh, you want a higher download speed so you can watch the movie as it streams? That's an additional $20/month..."), and then cap my bandwidth because I happen to like watching reruns of How I Met Your Mother, would not only be abhorrent, but by my understanding, comparable to placing toll booths on public highways, and then also charging drivers for each additional mile/hour of speed AND placing a cap on how far they can drive. You want to get from Caribou, Maine to San Diego in less than a week? Tough luck.
Many people are counting on Google to save us. We need to save ourselves. Google is great and all, but it is still a corporation that can give and take when and how it wants. What we need is municipal broadband: Perhaps, we even need a larger version of that concept. Let's see if Vermont will be the first state to adopt a "single-payer broadband." :)
UPDATE, 9:53 AM: Verizon General Counsel Randal Milch assured broadband users today that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling overturning FCC net neutrality rules “will not change consumers’ ability to access and use the Internet as they do now. The court’s decision will allow more room for innovation, and consumers will have more choices to determine for themselves how they access and experience the Internet. Verizon has been and remains committed to the open Internet which provides consumers with competitive choices and unblocked access to lawful websites and content when, where, and how they want. This will not change in light of the court’s decision.” The company, and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, say that the ruling actually upholds the FCC’s authority to regulate the Internet. “While we fully expect some to rush to judgment about the fate of the open Internet, we should remember neither the adoption of the Open Internet Order, nor its partial repeal, has led or will lead to significant changes in how ISPs manage their networks,” NCTA chief Michael Powell — a former FCC chairman — says. “The cable industry has always made it clear that it does not – and will not – block our customer’s ability to access lawful Internet content, applications or services.”
When I moved to another country I couldn't find the information about the bandwidth limits. So I asked a colleague about it and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. They had never heard of such a thing as bandwidth limits.
That's just standard computing time, and if the even if the computer took a year to figure out the data then the information would still have traveled faster than the speed of light across 100ly. I know literally nothing about the data coding they would use though. This is just my educated reasoning so again feel free to disagree!