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The court decided the case should have been dismissed from the appellate court because the plaintiff did not properly certify the class. In a class action suit, the plaintiff must file a motion to have the class certified, often requiring discovery in order to determine if the proposed class meets the standard for certification. The problem is that appellate courts are not able to review the facts of a case. The facts are determined and laid out in the district court. If the district court's ruling is not in-line with the law, then you appeal to the appellate court and they review the facts as they've been previously laid out. No new discovery can take place. The appellate, and subsequently supreme, court can't review new facts. New facts were needed because the class was improperly certified. Case dismissed.
There are several things to consider with CPU power dissipation. I'm not an ASIC engineer but I work with them a fair amount since I am a mobile systems software engineer, What follows is what I have learned from them and university. In modern CPUs, GPUs, CMOS transistor logic families are used. They are great compared to the alternatives - they generally use acceptable power, are simple, etc (there are cases for other logic families and transistor type but usually they are for very specific applications). However, CMOS transistors still use power when they switch - that is go from a high voltage to a low voltage or vice versa. When the transistor voltage output is high it has an open connection to the power rail which normally then drives the gate of another transistor which has effectively infinite resistance - thus no current flow and therefor no power is used. In the alternate case, the transistor voltage is low and there is an open connection from ground to the gate of another transistor and again no power usage. However, the big problem arises when you go from a high output to a low output. Due to how the transistors are constructed there is briefly (few trillions of a second, depending on the size of the transistor [bigger ones take longer to charge/discharge]) a connection from power to ground. Current flows and power is used. But because it's such a short period of time its ok - nothing explodes or anything. Another major type of power dissipation is that transistors leak small amounts of current during their normal operation. Nothing you can really do about it and its not normally the end of the world, but it all adds up. There is a third but I'll get to that when I talk more about clocks. So this is where the performance comes in. If you want high performance that means you are doing lots of computations (adding, subtracting, loading memory, storing memory, etc, etc). The more computations, the more switching is done by the logic transistors. Not only that, your clocks (the logic that keeps everything in sync) has to switch more often, too - i.e. the higher "clock" speed: 1 GHz, 1.5 GHz, or what ever else your phone/tablet/computer says on its packaging. Not only that, the clock logic is extremely power intensive. Not only does it switch in the worst possible way (it goes on, off, on, off, effectively forever causing power usage twice on every cycle) it often has to travel across large amounts of the chip. This is the third major source of power dissipation - the longer the signal has to travel the more drive it drains current; there are lots of reasons for this in a chip but I am not an expert on it and for the most part its simple enough to say to longer the wire, the more it pulls current. Also, clocks tend to drive a lot of logic, so they have a high load and again, as a result, draw more power. So basically, if you want high performance you need high clocks and therefor a large amount of power is dissipated. However, there is an even more important factor: voltage. So far I have assumed a fixed voltage. However, mobile processors are extremely sensitive to voltage. The equation for power dissipation is as follows: P = I * V That is power equals current times voltage. Rewriting this: P = (V / R) * V = V^2 / R (since I = V / R - Ohms law) Thus, since current is not a constant, power usage scales as the square of the voltage (since resistance is fixed and constant (for all practical purposes)). This is important because at lower clock frequencies we can lower the voltage. The higher the voltage the faster the transistor will transition from high to low or low to high (at least the faster it gets to its sensitivity threshold - absolutely it may take just as long to switch - I'm not completely sure on this, but again, I am not an ASIC engineer). Therefor keeping the voltage lower - sometimes by as much as several hundred millivolts - a very noticeable amount of power can be saved. Another major power savings technique is called clock gating. You can effectively physically remove or disable a clock that is being fed to a particular circuit. A good example is GPUs in a mobile phone. You don't need the GPU to be on when you are just checking your email. So why spend all the effort sending a clock with a huge load on it to the GPU if its not being used? That, too, saves lots of power. So
This needs to be the top comment. Though we can shrink transistors and fit more of them into a smaller space, we've reached the point where we cannot run them at lower voltages. So we're squeezing in more, and feeding it the same levels of juice as we used to. Something's gotta give... Guess what? It's power consumption. While a desktop chip (or GPU) has a heatsink and can get away with consuming 150 Watts, a mobile graphics chip needs to keep it below 3 Watts.
No, it's not. 1366x768 = 1 MP, 1080p = 2 MP, 2560x1440 = 3.7 MP So about a factor of 2 between each resolutions, and mobile GPU's have been getting at least a factor of 2 in performance every year. So what I said was Crysis 2008-level in 2015 at 720p or so, then in 2016 at 1080p, and then 2017 at 2.5k for tablets. Now, the difference between 720p and 2.5k is 4x in frame rate. So if Crytek decides to bring Crysis to mobile in the year 2015, but at full tablet resolution of 2.5k, then it will not look as good as Crysis did in 2008 on PC at 720p/1366x766. To make it the level of Crysis 2008 at 720p, but at a 2.5k resolution on tablets, they need to wait until 2017. If they want to bring the same 720p Crysis we've seen in 2008, then it's doable for 2015, but I doubt they won't want want take advantage of the full resolution of the devices, so either they will serve 4x poorer graphics in 2015, but at full 2.5k resolution, or serve full graphics, but at native 720p resolution, and just scaled up for higher resolution devices.
I realize this may not be a popular opinion, and I'm CERTAINLY not defending Sallie Mae; I graduated College in 2003 and 10 years later, I've got about a grand left and my student loans are paid off. However: >Sure she was eligible for some financial aid due to her socio-economic status but it just never is enough is it? She shops long and hard and thinking her dreams of college are dashed finally her financial advisor, which was a free service through the school, lets her know that sallie mae is willing to finance her through college under federal student loans! Here's Carrie's first mistake: Not shopping around for scholarships. Now, I'm the pot calling the kettle black here; I only made about 2 grand in scholarships because I was also too lazy to shop around. I'm not sure if anyone in high school will read this post, but if you're looking into colleges, PLEASE LOOK INTO SCHOLARSHIPS. They are free money and they are TOTALLY worth your time. I made the same mistake Carrie did; thought that they were too much work and I would rather play video games than write some letters about why I deserve a scholarship. I regret it, and Carrie probably does too. >Carrie is now registring for classes, she has no interest in engineering, computer science, chemical engineering, medicine, law, or biology, she is a real history buff and decides she wants to be a World History major. This is Carrie's second mistake. I'm not trying to shit all over entire fields, but it is REALLY HARD to get a job with an arts degree. There are a lot of students that want to major in history or modern art or music, and there are a lot of financial institutions that are perfectly happy to pay for your classes, but outside of teaching (which pays far less than many teachers deserve), these jobs are hard to find and frequently require either social connections or being in the right place at the right time. You'll need to cast a wider net, possibly move to a different city if that's what it takes to get a job. When you're going into college, you really need to do your due diligence in determining what type of employment opportunities are out there and what type of credentials they're looking for. You also need to do your research when you're looking for schools, too. Focus on colleges that offer work study or internship programs. Job experience means A LOT MORE than a piece of paper does. Trust me on this one. >Carrie really buckles down and starts paying it, ignoring the statements long list of details and just looking at the number at the bottom of the sheet, total due. She can't even see the light of the tunnel and doesn't care to follow the journey through it. What carrie doesn't realize though is that sallie mae signed her up for loans that have an APR and over the past few years the interest rate has slowly crept to near 16%. And this is the nail in Carrie's coffin. Financial stuff can be VERY overwhelming for a teenager, especially if they're like Carrie (and me) and have middle class parents who want to be as supportive as possible in seeing you be the first person in the family to graduate college (my mom didn't even graduate high school) but don't know what "APR" means and how it works. Shit, I don't even really understand it, myself. The one-two punch of "not understanding interest terms" and "only paying the minimum due" is how you end up in a life of debt. I was unemployed for two years and was paying $50/mo on my loans; that just barely covered the interest and a little bit of principle. Every month I'd look at my balance and it looked like I might as well have been trying to dig through a mountain with only a spoon. But I was broke and I couldn't afford to pay more. I was barely paying my rent, I had the cheapest cell phone, TV, and internet plans that were available, and I was living off of ramen and macaroni. Eventually I got a good job in my field and could afford to start paying $100, $200... I currently throw $400/mo at it and it will be all done in three months. The light at the end of the tunnel is there. But man, do I remember the darkness in the middle.
There is no federal sales tax in the US. Each State, City, County, and Municipality can have a sales tax. Each of these taxes often exempt certain items. This is what makes collecting sales tax a nightmare. A retailer would need to track all state and local taxes for a particular customer as well as any exempted items. They would also need to apply for a sales tax license to collect the tax in each state and locality. Then they have to calculate and file in all of those different areas however frequently each area requires you to file. In addition to all of this some states require that you register your company in their state to do business in their state. This is sometimes required before you can obtain a sales tax license.
i want to play a hand as devil's advocate here: reddit loves to use the 'get a better business model' line whenever technology disrupts an industry and the entrenched players fight it. i now will say the same to all of you frustrated by these developments. sorry to tell you, but if someone with enough skills to get the job done is willing to do it for less money than you are they will get the job. the job is not worth what you think it is worth. the job is worth what the company will pay, and not one cent more. you are competing with a global workforce these days and if you think you are entitled to superior wages just because you happened to be born stateside i don't know what to tell you. if your skill set is such it can be easily replicated by a 3rd world grunt, your skill set isn't that special. many many tech jobs are really nothing more than glorified factory line gigs, the truly talented will find a way to get properly compensated (for the most part). either step your game up or lower your expectations of what you think you're worth, because bitching about it doesn't pay the bills. now this is me playing devli's advocate and while i don't believe it should be as cut and dried as i've laid out, it is the truth these days. you can adapt to that truth or you can perish.
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As a comp sci grad, I can tell you that a lot of my classmates can't fucking code at all.. They hate debugging and always need someone to help them whenever they are stuck. The problem here is that comp sci in general is not as well established as other curriculum like electric/chemical/mechanical engineering. A lot of times comp sci just teaches you very high level stuff and you expected to bridge the gap by learning multiple languages by yourself. As a result, you get a lot of comp sci grads that can recite the theorem very well, but if you give them a piece of code with bugs in there and ask them to fix it, they can't do it.
The New Coke analogy doesn't make any sense. Software isn't based on a formula - it's closer to iterative art - it improves/evolves/adapts in cycles. Windows 8 is revolutionary, and even evolutionary changes frustrate people. 8.1 (Blue) and versions beyond that will refine the elements, and (more importantly) the people frustrated with change will adapt. Then we'll look back on all the shock & horror (media hype really) about Windows 8 like the people who complained about the loss of the Program Manager, the inclusion of the Ribbon toolbar in Office, Windows XP, etc.
Not relevant. App takes full screen, so you gotta either press Windows-key to bounce to home screen, Win+D for desktop, or alt-tab. This is incredibly silly for desktops since it means you can't track activity effectively without pop-ups, and I strongly desire to set fire to anyone suggesting pop-ups are a good thing.
You lost your secod amendment rights about 70 years ago. When the government started producing superior weapons than you could buy or own. What was originally a system of checks and balances where everyone was armed has now tilted woefully past any equalization. So sure you can have your pea shooter but your big brother has drones and hellfire missles and you've long gone past the time where you can do anything about it. You all can say :If ya want my guns come and get 'em." But the thing is, if they want your guns they will come and get them and there really ain't a damn thing you can do about it. Thing is they don't care about you, your lives or your guns.
I agree within the context of what you are saying. I'm not linking to this because of the movie, but to get people to take action for themselves. Think for themselves. I've seen the movie so I know what it's about, but that doesn't make some of the scenes in the movie less profound. Let's take the recent demonstrations in Turkey as an example. The violence that the police did, evoked an emotional response that made many people from all walks of life, ages or political persuation take action. They got mad as hell. They were not going to take it anymore. This is regular people taking responsibility in their own community.
You've got some good points, and I'm all for the downsizing of government. I would agree that it's too big as it is. However, at the same time, I do want security officials to have a reasonable amount of information available if they do need to conduct an actual investigation. Also inherent in your comment is the view that the police are trying to incriminate me. I've never really gotten the people that will go evangelize about "Don't ever talk to the police even if you're totally innocent!" I generally have a non-negative view of law enforcement (except - obligatory - fuck traffic cops and seatbelt tickets), so maybe that's why this doesn't set off a GIANT alarm for me. Although I can see how other people might be more concerned. Realistically, I don't think stuff like this will be used to incriminate people of petty crimes people might commit. Hell, if investigators want this kind of information they can get it otherwise through the law anyway.
First-past-the-post voting (which is what we have) is a terrible, fucked up system. It guarantees that you'll always have 2 parties to choose from. HOWEVER, we have a long history in this country of CHANGING WHICH TWO PARTIES. The current configuration has only been around for about 15 presidential elections. Major parties CAN and DO become obsolete. The Republicans are quickly becoming irrelevant as they're bogged down with the politics of religion. We're going to see them replaced as one of the two major parties. Stop fucking yourself because "BUT REPUBLICANS!!!" and vote for the policies you believe in.
Honestly who cares? so what they know who you called so could anyone who picks up your phone and lookes at recent calls does it really matter? are they telling everybody "oh hey! this guy's married but he calls some chick every other night!" no. They have phone records so what according to the article all they have is what numbers have been called by what numbers. Not that they record every call or even listen to what people are saying. Yeah they are keeping tabs on us but it's for the safety of us. The natural state of man is harsh and cruel and in order to coexist with other humans we have to learn to trust and hand over certai rights and freedoms to live in protection. America is the land of the free but that doesn't meanwe can do whatever the fuck we want. We can't lawfully murder, embezzel, or harm other people. We give up those freedoms so that the government can be relatively sure of our safety. I understand that it may not be perfect but it is much better than the alternative. If they can use records about who calls who to potentially protect lives then good. what harm are they going to do otherwise?
Just in case you never saw this, or even just forgot it... ](
copy paste from a little further up) When duckduckgo first came out, wasn't it just a reskinned Google? As in it would just redirect to a google page and have the duckduckgo banner instead. In fact, I just viewed the page source, ctrl+F "google", and found references to Google and Bing. Probably just the links on the bottom of the page, though.. I don't know how DDG works today, and without seeing their scripts I can't say definitively... but how do you know for a fact they're anonymous? Finding references to other search engines in just the HTML is a little odd. To me, it seems like it pulls its power from other search engines. I haven't had a web programming course since I got out of college, don't take my word for it.
The temptation is sky high for me right now. I really want to.... edit ok I gave in and did. It's lame and was a waste of my time. It was basically telling me I had to do work.
Let me clarify: I'm purchasing individual files for download. I assure you, my wallet is involved. However, even if what I meant was I'm exclusively using torrents, the point is that I'm not using my money on the medium that I disagree with. If I've misrepresented the theory of voting with my wallet , I'd love to be corrected. I don't mean to be ignorant on purpose. :-)
Let me clarify: I'm purchasing individual files for download. I assure you, my wallet is involved. However, even if what I meant was I'm exclusively using torrents, the point is that I'm not using my money on the medium that I disagree with. If I've misrepresented the theory of voting with my wallet , I'd love to be corrected. I don't mean to be ignorant on purpose. :-)
I would argue that the internet still has not been commercialized well. Thebest way for a startup to make money? To get bought out. There have been only a handful of truly successful online businesses: Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple (music store). These are businesses that are still growing; that are making money. The only one of these which subsists in advertising is Google.
I'm game for this, but on one condition. The ads themselves need to be legit, not some bullshit "weight loss" ad or "I made $x,xxx in a week;" not just that, but they can't be scams - too many ads out there pay out because they steal user information, or just scam people into buying some useless piece of shit (lets face it: one is too many). If there were a way to get legitimate ads from local businesses (this is important - I gotta know which little guys are trying to grow) and big businesses (walmart, target, coca-cola, etc.), I wouldn't have ad block plus on my computer. As others have stated though, you gotta be reasonable with your ads. If you have something that interrupts my web browsing, plays in the background, or forces me to watch in order to get to the content I wish to see, than you WILL get blocked, no questions asked. I don't care if you're Nikola Tesla advertising that you're back from the dead, you don't do that shit. Advertising is a means of feeling convenient space with images, text, and logos that represent another company. I don't mind having one or two in the sidebar, where there might be empty real estate. If you have an ad that displays over content (I'm looking at you, YouTube), in any way, shape, or form, even if it's a tiny banner ad, you're getting blocked (I'm a bit of a nazi about it, others might be more lenient). I didn't come here to see that I'm the one millionth customer, I came here to see how squeeze my own god damn orange juice. Advertisement itself isn't bad. I'm okay with having a banner ad along the side, or even a short clip at the end of a video. I'm okay with ads that provide accurate information for products or services that are worth my time and money. I'm not okay with ads that overlay themselves onto my screen, ads that flash, blink, or make any sort of an annoying visual cue, videos that autoplay, or videos that require 30 seconds of advertising. I'm also not okay with ads that mislead the audience or ads that scam the user. It's not to understand.
I'm sorry to say you have a fundamentally misguided view of what advertising is all about. >How many times have you bought something because of an ad? At best, you became aware of its existence. Action is only one (and the last) step in the advertisement life cycle of a product/service. Most ads don't have the goal of making you decide to go buy something right now. A product goes through the stages of 1. Unawareness (You have never heard of it) 2. Awareness (You've heard of it but don't know what it is) 3. Comprehension (You now understand the use of the product/service) 4. Conviction (You think the product is right for you) and 5. Action (You are buying the product). The point of well formed ad is to move a potential consumer just one step . So those ads where as you say, you become aware of its existence, have achieved their exact purpose. For big purchases, most people are aware houses exist, what they're fore and they are convinced they should own one. Many consumers will stay right there at the conviction phase until they are pulled into the action phase. Ads can help big time here. If you pay attention to the type of ads out there, at any given time you'll see ads for purchasing houses and tons of ads for cars. All are trying to convince you^1 it's the right time to buy (moving consumers into action). Your confusion with medium-price purchases & the "bragging" ads comes from the same reason why I put a ^1 next to the "you" in the last sentence. Not all ads are for you. In fact, most are not. When I said ads are trying to get people to buy houses & cars those ads are only targeting people in the conviction phase. Those ads do not care about people who are in the steps pre-conviction. In addition to separating consumers into their product awareness advertisers also separate consumers into a specific consumer segmentation. Targeted ads are much more effective. If you look at an add for the Surface and have those thoughts chances are you are not part of the target segment. They are targeted toward people to which money is not a large obstacle to overcome when they want to have the latest/coolest thing for appearances. Those BASF and PET bottle ads you are for sure not the target segment. Those are more likely for people who hold influence in business decisions. >I think that the sales/marketing complex are a scam. They are little more than rain-making shaman charlatans, having no effect. >Apple ads are the worst. And that's coming from a guy with a house and and office full of Apple gear. I've quoted these together to explain an awesome effect of marketing. As you should understand by now, those Apple ads are not for you. The Apple marketing team doesn't have to make ads for you to get you to buy Apple products. The last thing I'll share is an idea called the [diffusion of innovations]( Simply put, different people buy things at different times. The Apple ads are for people who are known as "Innovators". These Innovators set the path for the next group, the "Early Adopters". Because you have a house full of Apple stuff you're likely an Early Adopter. People in your group look at what has worked good for the Innovators and buy that, so all Apple has to do is direct ads to them.
I don't know if this is going to get downvoted to hell or not, but I think it's worth mentioning that it's really not that bad to have to see an ad for something. It's such a small thing that I don't understand at all why people start frothing when they are brought up. Ads keep things free. So what if Warby Parker wants to have a side-banner on your Google search? Besides the fact that you are only making things more expensive for the very companies who fund and in some cases, own the things we just take for granted free? This is not to say that there shouldn't be limits on what they can say. When Facebook started fibbing about my friends' liking different products, I was pissed. If terms from my emails started producing ad content, I'd be superpissed. But how many of you use Facebook? and how many would actually pay anything for it if it suddenly started costing money? TV is/was free because companies were willing to boot the cost in exchange for some time alone with us to talk about their exciting line of whatever. I say it's not a bad deal. You wanna know who the real bastards are? Hollywood. Fuck them, man. I love their shit and I'll never give it up, but Jesus, man. From the studios to the theaters, they are a greedy goddamn industry. The only ones that outsnake them are defense contractors. Theaters charge too much for the tickets and they charge way too much for the snacks and then they still show us fucking two sets of commercials. They sell us the movie and a week later the studio leaks that there's a hidden scene, ooh! and we go back and buy it again. We don't learn from that, though. Nope. When the home version comes out, we buy it, and when the Directors Cut (which used to mean something) we buy it again. Whatever.
If you look back at advertising history, it actually created a revolutionary business model that enabled lower income people to gain access to news and culture. News papers and magazines were very cost prohibitive to lower classes and catered only to wealthier people who could afford them. There was no radio or television either so poor people were just left in the dark about current events. By charging companies for ads, they were able to drive down the prices and increase circulation, making it available to virtually everyone. You are talking about going from $.30 to $.05 when wages were $2 a week. What is happening here is the reverse of that. The Vlogbrothers community has created a thing called Subabble ( ) to help fund expensive Youtube series that simply don't get enough views to make enough advertising dollars to cover expenses. More and more things will have to go to either a donation (like Wikipedia) or subscription model where you pay for every small website you wish to visit (things like blogs and web comics would be hit especially hard). The Internet would become more and more cost prohibitive and lose it's openness that has made it so great. You would also see big companies moving in to fund things that were free and individually owned before as well. Website conglomerates will be as common as those for television networks and radio stations. They also change content to fit what gets the most views and makes the most money at the cost of individual creativity which is not what the Internet is about. No one LIKES ads. Even people who create ads for a living don't like them most of the time. But they do allow us to enjoy tons of great free content that most of us would never be able to discover otherwise. That is why things like AdBlock Plus killing Internet ads is such a big deal.
When I block ads I do the advertisers a favor, not only do I know that I will never click an ad or buy anything from it, I would actively avoid products that annoy me with their ads. I don't watch a lot of "esports" but I especially loathe the companies that advertise there, if I see your banner or your gear you are blacklisted, if I see that you sponsor a team help you god, I don't want my money paying for a bunch of assholes playing games all day.
Welp, Thought i would drop my opinion in the bucket. Advertising Doesnt Have to be Evil and I support the Use of Advertising for content Creators on BLIP.TV or its ilk. I also support Idividuals site advertising, Especially companies like Project wonderful, Mostly due to their Related content (Webcomics) this is a case by case basis that only is applied temporarily when i visit sites that i support its my way of beign a discerning viewer i get to see my shows/the content and the Creator gets my Few pence of time to support themselves to make more (This became a very Real thing to me when Linkara from Channel Awesome Posted this Vid). Outside of these Instances use NoScript, Adblockers and every other thing I can plug into Firefox to strip out all the more obtrusive content. im posting in this because ive been doing this For a while. I mean a LONG while. I recently decided to use another persons PC in a unmodified chrome no plugins no blockers no script blockign etcetc. and the user experiance was night and day. You guys are Inundated with ad's i can see why theres a want to Eradicate every single one but like the Adblock pro guys theres GOOD ads liek the project wonderful ones i just mentioned they introduce me to new Comics that end up in my weekly Catchups and they really need the Per page views as that helps increase their popularity among other comic advertisers. SO please dont judge and Immediately hate every ad as they are good for keepign the trickle of real honestly funny or interesting content, Be smart, control how you are advertised to dont stand on one side or the other, Help shape and form the monetisation that costs you nothign more than seconds or a bit of screen spaceand make it work otherwise we will just get more agressive forms.
What browser are you using? I had chrome for years but this problem started occurring (because the way chrome uses flash) so I switched to Firefox. I have no issues with videos loading or rewinding a fully loaded video, ever. Even at work with my slow ass connection.
I have a [website]( that me and my wife run together to sell her crochet goods. I put two unobtrusive little google ads on the side and bottom of our blog posts to recoup server costs but I noticed once that some weird "DOWNLOAD THIS" and "iLivid" advertisements showed up. This made me very upset but I'm not really sure how to stop it. I wasn't sure if it was spyware on the public computer I was using at the time or something Google actually serves up.
The way you feel about the ads in the theater (and I agree with you) is how I feel about all the crap that I'm forced to watch on my DVDs. Honestly, it's the fact that I can't skip them that pushed me over the edge. But, I as the consumer have a choice. I don't have to buy the DVD. So, I don't. I can't remember the last time I bought a DVD. I just download it.
As someone who works in the digital advertising space, I'd like to add my two cents here. Are there a lot of ad formats that easily fall into the category of "obtrusive, annoying, downright ridiculous"? Absolutely. Do they deserve to be blocked? Without a doubt. But.... Believe it or not there are responsible companies and individuals out there, countless small businesses who rely on carefully planned, well targeted, and respectful unobtrusive advertising techniques to drive growth in their businesses and the economy as a whole. There are publishers, and providers of free online services who rely solely on ad revenue to provide a free product to users like yourselves. I have heard countless complaints from people who have come to expect any service on the internet to be free, and these are the same people who bitch and moan about any kind of advertising. These people do not have a fundamental understanding of how the digital ecosystem works and functions. We are all in this together and everything requires money to operate. Yup even free shit! The greater argument here is how can users, advertisers and publishers come together to determine a set of guidelines that everyone can live with. We all need to work together to keep the internet an open, inexpensive/free source of information and as much as you might hate it, Advertisers are an integral part of that. An all or nothing approach like Adblock offers is not even close to a suitable solution to this issue. Their monetization plan is a step in the right direction, but again, far from a viable solution that satisfies all parties involved.
I should have said could be better at generating power that internal combustion engines. Whether the current power infrastructure is or not, idk. But we'll have the chance to change it over the next few decades, and we should work to reduce the carbon footprint and other forms of pollution. Here's a good place to start wiht the research:
this method doesn't even work at all anymore if the recipient is a gmail user, gmail caches these images beforehand. you don't even know if they opened the email, let alone when or where. most email providers automagically block images by default, foiling this technique as well. then for the people using email providers that don't block images the location at least isn't going to be anywhere near accurate. they might find out in which city you opened the e-mail.
I work in internet marketing and this is not an issue like the article would have you believe. The incoming mail server determines what MIMEs to accept and serve back to users. Gmail and most modern systems block nearly every MIME and scriptlet outside of images and download links. Often we'll get spam or blacklist rejections for placing too many images in emails. Inbox filtering is getting to the point where honest marketing is becoming unfeasible.
The World Health Organization recognizes gender as being a separate individual characteristic to physical sex, and the American Psychiatric Association recognizes being Trans as legitimate - in fact, gender dysphoria for trans women & men is recommended as being treatable with genital reassignment surgery and hormone therapy by them.
While I admire people trying to recycle and keep these elements out of landfills, this article is misleading. Rare earth deposits are relatively common on land, no need to go out to space and mine asteroids or go down miles under the ocean to extract rare earths from the ocean floor - as the article intimates is necessary since there are no good deposits on land. Multiple deposits and old mines that still have tremendous amounts of rare earth exist in the U.S., Canada, Australia, India and South America to name a few. And new sources are being found all the time. Recently large deposits were found on one of Japan's islands that is projected to be able to supply Japan's current production needs for the next 200 years for example. Other relative large deposits have been discovered in Greenland and Afghanistan in the past several years. The main problem that is causing the, excuse the pun, rarity of rare earths is entirely geopolitical in nature, not a true lack of supply. A - hopefully brief history lesson - in the mid-nineties, China made use of the fact that they were a dominant supplier of rare earths and that they could take advantage of cheap labor and almost non-existant regulations and dumped rare earths on the market for below market value. This had the effect of pushing rare earth mines in the U.S. and other countries to close due to the price being held artificially low by the Chinese dumping. As soon as the mines outside of China closed up shop, the Chinese immediately restricted production and closed almost all exports of the raw ore, ostensibly to 'protect the environment' and to 'protect its internal supply chain'. This doesn't prevent them of course from telling companies that want to manufacture electronics and other goods that depend on rare earths from building manufacturing plants in China, majority state-controlled of course, in order to export finished products that other companies now could not produce outside of China due to the overly-tight export restrictions on the raw materials. And that in a nutshell is why almost all consumer and industrial electronics, devices, or anything else high-tech that requires rare earth components to now be manufactured in China.
Yea I live in centennial. Here the internet is absolutely horrendous. The max speed that I can get here is 30 mbps, and that costs an arm and a leg. Ive been a customer of quest, now century link, for as long as I had a stable internet connection. At the moment, I'm paying for 12 Mbps download and 5mbps upload.. I can only get this because the plans all above that cost too much. My internet drops out on a regular basis, and speeds drop all the way down to less than a megabyte download, and decimal number upload. It's ridiculous. When I play any fps or even Lol, my ping spikes up to over 900. Comcast is no better, and give us shitty quality internet for outrageous prices.. Now my hopes of fiber internet have been crushed. Only Denver and highlands ranch is getting it at the moment...
PCI-x slots FFS, they're PCI e slots (PCI express), PCI-X (PCI eXtended) is a completely different standard. There's no hyphen, either, or a space. Just PCIe. > and the PCI-x slots aren't the same. there are different versions, always will be as the upgrade the slots every few years. Yeah, but the PCI e standard maintains physical and electrical compatibility throughout their revisions. Peripherals negotiate data & power with the host, so there shouldn't be any problems there either. Nota bene , however: cards built on PCIe 2.1 and up have had issues with some older 1.0/1.0a slots (possibly 1.1, too?), on certain motherboards; IIRC it has something to do with the way power states are managed in 2.1/3.0. Good news: it can generally be fixed with a motherboard BIOS update. Bad news: many older motherboards never got a BIOS revision to correct this error :/ (Check the motherboard manufacturer's website if you're in this situation, you might get lucky!) >PC upgradability lasts a few years and then you have to buy a new machine because the newest graphics cards won't work in older slots Bullshit. If the manufacturers of those cards (and motherboards) are following the spec, their cards should function normally (possibly at a reduced bandwidth). Hell, they're supposed to work even if you stick em in an x8 or x4 slot, with the rest of the pins just hanging off the end; I've never tried it, but the capability exists in the specification. Now, having said that, I know that nVidia cards will demand a minimum of an x8 link for SLI (which is strange as 3.0 x4 ≈ 2.0 x8, and there are no few problems running 3.0 cards in SLI on 2.0 x8 + x8), but that's a private decision made by nVidia, not part of the spec. It also, AFAIK, isn't required for single-card systems. > version 4 is coming soon and chances are there will be compatibility issues as well The 4.0 spec isn't even going to be finalised until late next year, and actual, purchasable, peripherals will lag behind that somewhat. The sky isn't falling just yet. As to your claims of incompatibility, I can only quote PCI-SIG: > PCIe 4.0 architecture is compatible with prior generations of this technology, from software to clocking architecture to mechanical interfaces. That is to say PCIe 1.x, 2.x and 3.x cards will seamlessly plug into PCIe 4.0-capable slots and operate at the highest performance levels possible. Similarly, all PCIe 4.0 cards will plug into PCIe 1.x-, PCIe 2.x- and PCIe 3.x-capable slots and operate at the highest performance levels supported by those configurations.
People who think that Music Freedom is good for consumers don't understand why Net Neutrality drives innovation. Imagine you're trying to start-up a company that doesn't just offer music streaming, but also music video streaming. T-Mobile refuses to allow you an exemption because music videos use more bandwidth than pure audio streams. Now you can't get any T-Mobile customers because, even if they think the music video streaming is awesome, they all prioritize the free streaming they get with other services, so none of them subscribe to your company. Your startup fails for a lack of customers, even though your idea and execution were terrific. Yes, net neutrality can stifle "innovation" in ISP's. But it does so to protect the innovation that we find across the entire Internet. Opposing net neutrality on the grounds of Music Freedom is like opposing standard 120 volt power sockets because a different power socket for each electrical appliance can, in theory, produce better, more efficient power for those appliances. But in the real world, the lack of a standard would have prevented manufacturers from creating all kinds of gizmos for fear that they wouldn't be able to sell enough to people who thought that their product was awesome but not awesome enough to justify calling an electrician to install yet another type of power socket just for that gizmo. Even today, manufacturing suffers from the lack of a single, international power socket. So you make a gizmo in America that plugs into American power sockets? Great, but you can't sell it to Europe, the UK, Asia/Pacific, etc. unless you either throw in a free transformer (expensive and ugly) or adapt your manufacturing process to also manufacture gizmos for European etc power outlets, which adds costs and is reflected in the cost of the product. Indeed, the only manufacturers who can absorb this cost well either make it up in massive volume (like smartphone sales) or in the already-high cost of the product (like refrigerators). What does a standard look like? It looks like USB, which has allowed affordable yet profitable gizmos for which it was never designed, like small fans that blow air in your face while sitting at the computer, reading/keyboard lights, additional power for cooler peripherals like keyboards, and even cup warmers. The manufacturers who make these gizmos can ship them all over the world and know that everyone can use them.
I work 60 hours a week in my chosen profession, the time im not working id like to spend with my family and friends, not spending my few free hours poring over a repair manual for a goddamn dishwasher. I pay the person whose chosen profession is to fix these devices and more than likely replace them.
32 year old father here with 3 kids. 14, 13 and 10 (I started early >.<) Anyways I have been in IT for over 10 years and I can pretty much crack open everything from cell phones to TV's and repair them or at LEAST diagnose the problem. What I do to my kids from time to time is I throw them a little curve ball. I started off by showing them how to INSTALL games/programs. I would then uninstall their favorite game/program while they were asleep. They would call out for me and I asked them to see if it was in their list of programs, if not to re-install. I rooted my 14 and 13 year olds cell phones and purposefully bricked their phones. Showed them how to re-install the operating system on the phones. Then bricked it again and let them figure it out. They didn't do so well and I had to help them again. And then a few weeks later I bricked it yet again. They now know how to usw TWRP recovery and flash their own rom. I dont even know what ROM they're on because they've just gone and did their own thing Speaking of operating systems, I've corrupted their computers and showed them how to re-install operating systems just the same way I did with their phones. I mess them up and fix them... I've also pulled out sticks of ram and disconnected their hard drives. Showed them how to listen out for the sounds and or look out for errors such as OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND etc. My son decided not to use his case for his phone and his screen cracked. Perfect opportunity to show him how simple the fix is. A few months ago my IT career finally came to an end and recently picked up programming. I've been on it for a couple months now hoping to land a decent career doing something. IDK what yet. Last night I had a family meeting. I told the kids they owed me 45 minutes of programming for every hour they played games. And all three sat down last night, chose their own language and went at it. My 10 year old daughter and 14 year old son chose Javascript and my 13 year old son chose Python. All were programming off CodeAcademy and right there I felt like they are headed in the right direction. About what this professor said, I can tell you first hand that any time their friends or friends parents have a problem, they either call me or they call my kids for help. I just need to teach my kids HOW to teach other people. That part I cant seem to do right. They grab the device and quickly fix the problem instead of showing their friends how to do it. To any parents reading this: Do not underestimate how quickly kids will learn LINUX when you've switched out their operating systems and are desperate to get back online. This is just one example but they will absorb it all because they rely so heavily on tech and are willing to do anything to get their stuff back. Use that to your advantage to teach your kids how to fix their own gadgets and devices.
Yes, but sadly the people who vote in this shit country go red or blue and that's it. So unless you got all the young people to vote third party it literally cannot work. Furthermore, people seem to forget we are not a democracy and we are that Republic bullshit. We have an electorate college. Our votes actually mean jack shit as the electorates of your state can vote however they please. They typically vote for who the population voted for, but they don't necessarily have to.
ok I never heard a thing about this, until you posted these videos, but the first one i clicked on with RES was over 30 min long so I'll summerize: 1st video [11:01 – Leo kisses photo he took of Sarah’s lips with his smartphone]( 1st video [21:30 – “Cross your legs” – Leo]( - in context it doesn't seem like she's offended.... 2nd video is highly edited an not worth watching,...as in every 3 seconds it cuts to a different clip, or an alarm bell, or horrible music plays ....and Sarah did 241 episodes of Ipad Today, and never had a problem, but they cut her show, and i watched the whole thing, it was garbage..... 3rd video leo says he gets hateful hateful hateful email about being a jerk, its only 1 minute long, nothing really to see about Sarah lane [without any context here is the video]( to his credit at the end he says go to his twitter and view his hate comments, it is the price he pays for being a jerk....and without context i don't know why he's a jerk??? 4th video Titled "A compilation of Leo Laporte's on-air abusive, misogynist and sexist remarks (1999-2014)"...here we go, this is going to be brutal.....probably.... 4th video from the late 90's on zdnet["...Maybe we can get over there with a camera crew and get pictures of you sliding down his pole"]( 4th video ["...Just talk into Morgan (Webb)'s chest"]( 4th video [ "...Just take off your top and everything will be fine"]( [“...You know that’s why women should always wear dresses. So they can shake their muff out”]( 4th video [“...I remember at Tech TV I got in trouble”]( he was reading viewer mail in context, and leo ad libbed something sexual about a fire fighter 4th video [“...It's not for you to choose” (Leo excoriates Sarah Lane)]( it was background state noise and its hard to tell who he was bitching at, but if it was Sarah, it wasn't abundantly clear. 4th video [Leo Laporte takes a photo of Sarah Lane's lips with his cellphone then kisses image.]( which we already visited in video 1 4th video [ "...Cross your legs"]( again which we already visited in video 1 4th video "...Don't be self conscious. You can’t see anything except just a dark triangle" .....maybe conveyed sexually...... 4th video [ "...You are a smart, intelligent, powerful woman, don’t let that Leo guy bring you down" (Leo mocks viewers)]( clip without context, and Sarah doesn't say fuck this im done???? 4th video [Leo Laporte verbally abuses Tech Guy call screener Heather Hamann]( this last one is total bs, because heather never puts up with leo's bs if you listen to his show, she will put him in his place, as you see in this video
My [Kenneth Cole watch]( costs roughly $160. A lot of my friends have watches from Movado, Invicta, or Oakley that cost well over $500. Should I even mention how much a Rolex costs? And all they do is tell time.
I was always disappointed at reddit users because they seem so passive at criticizing their own site. Reddit is already predominant form of the liberal online movement. Perhaps second after the Hufftingpost. I don't see how reddit may limit your free speech except what [burdenofknowledge!]( listed. The thing here is that reddit CEO isn't disconnected from the user base but she's using the user base to pursuit her personal/business agenda which in turn revolve around the liberal ideas like TwoXChromosomes getting to the default front page for example.
Even if you read the article, I can still see people coming to the conclusion they are. Reddit has always trumpeted itself as being a free speech platform. Consider what [then-CEO Yishan Wong said]( after the jailbait debacle in 2012: >"We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it." He also said: >"We will ban doxxing posted to Reddit." In essence, Wong and Pao are saying the same thing: Both want Reddit to be a place where people can "[express] ideas that aren’t consistent with everybody’s views" and both don't want Reddit to be used for doxxing. The difference is how they describe these ideals. Wong's approach is to declare Reddit a "free speech platform" except for a couple of clearly defined rules (ie no doxxing and no illegal activity). Pao's clumsy wording seems to go the opposite way, implying that making Reddit a "safe platform" is the primary concern. And that gets to the root of the issue people are having: >In other words, Pao isn’t ruling out the idea that Reddit could heavily moderate comments, but won’t give specifics on who or how. What the hell is a "safe platform?" What constitutes "harassment?" What defines something as "threatening" and makes someone feel "unsafe" to the point that posts are removed and users banned? If Pao and the admins are trying to clarify the foundation of Reddit, the clearest thing is how unclear they are in how they are doing it. This new direction - if it is indeed a new direction - is very ambiguous. And with "free speech's" priority ceding to "safety", it's easy to see why people are becoming concerned on where exactly the line will be drawn. Because we just don't know. A "free speech platform" is very easy to understand because we all have a pretty good understanding of what that means. Do we all have an equal understanding of what a "safe place" is?
I'll step up as the only defender of apple. Yes, I own a couple macs, but I don't have an iphone, or any kind of smart phone, but I've seen and used quite a few. Take a look at the phone market before Apple came into the picture. There was very little innovation and the provider had all the power. Now we have iphone and android and this new windows mobile ... all very cool things. The fact is ... Apple changed the game when they introduced the iphone. It's hard to deny that. It's also hard to deny that, at least superficially, almost every new phone looks like an iphone now. So look at it from Apple's perspective. You take a huge gamble on producing a phone from top to bottom, and within a couple years everyone has basically cloned what you came up with. Yes, it happens all the time. And yes, they should continue to innovate and again find their way to the top. But do they get no credit for their advancements? Do they not deserve something, (i.e., financially), for the risk they took? Isn't that the whole point of patents?
If you're in a developed country with robust IP rights, like the U.S., this agreement means jack. Developed countries will push an agreement like this in a way so that their current laws already bring them into compliance. That's what most of the comments are aimed at in the document. However, if you're in a developing country in the WTO, and this becomes a requirement for WTO nations, this agreement is more significant, as it may require your country to pass more IP laws to come into compliance with WTO requirements. But there are many steps between that and where it's at now. If this becomes an independent agreement, it's basically pointless. The reciprocal rights afforded to members are the benefit, but if a country doesn't already pass the IP protection requirements, and unless they have an abundance of IP flowing from their nation, there is no incentive to join. Developing countries will be harmed by overly restrictive IP laws, and developed countries already have them.
Can anyone more tech (and possibly politically) savvy than I explain what will happen if google does pull out? I'm in Shanghai, and I use google in English, not Chinese. Before all this began, months ago, going to google.com or using the FF search bar automatically loaded in English, due to my computer's language settings, but currently it redirects to google.com.hk, which is in Chinese. Not what I want, as I can't read it. Hence, I use google.ca, because it will load in English. If google and China can't resolve their differences, will I still be able to do this? Or will all google sites stop working? This is, of course, assuming that China doesn't decide to actively block google, as it does youtube et al, but only that google closes down its .cn domain entirely. Sorry if the answers seem obvious, I'm not generally (this much of) a noob, I'm just missing some pieces to this particular puzzle.
I have a funny story about this. 2 years ago I was going on a camping trip with my dad and sisters. My gf and I arrived at camp early to find that the "gate" was still up (it was actually a thick piece of braided metal wire, way too thick to cut but her car was JUST short enough for me to lift it up and drive under). We then drove up a moderately long hill and through a little bit of woods to get to the camping area. A little while later I thought I heard a car so I told my gf "I think my dad is here" and I sprinted off down the hill (so I was out of sight to her). My father had in fact arrived, but he was driving a truck (which would not slip under the 'gate') and as soon as he saw that the gate was up, I could tell he was pissed. You see, this was family land owned by my mothers side, and my parents are divorced. We had permission to be here and my uncle had promised to leave the gate unlocked for us. Well... my father and uncle had been in a few spats so in addition to being displeased at the situation in general, my dad had nothing but bad things to say about my uncle. My dad decided to deal with this in the most sensible way possible; Pull out his Colt Python and put a few .38 bullets through the gate locks. 7 rounds later he had an unobstructed path to the top of the hill. Oh yeah, remember my gf? Yeah, she got a little freaked out when I ran off and 2 minutes later she hears rapid gunfire. So yeah, I have read the same article but can personally attest that the right gun against the average lock will do much more than leave just a dent.
Microsoft did its level best to apply exactly the kind of control you describe over the Windows environment and, later, over the internet through Explorer. The big difference was that most users really didn’t have a choice, because at work, WinTel was the de facto standard. AFAIK, very few people have the Apple environment forced on them. I agree with you, btw, about the incarceration of personal data in that way, and I am an Apple user. But you don’t have to use the calendar and contact apps (I don’t), and you do still have the choice to keep your data in forms that you can control. Keep the data in a form of your own choice, and on a web server. Do your e-mail through Google mail or another webmail service. On the iPhone, just store your phone numbers. Sorted.
Apple has more dedicated followers than some folds of the Christian faith. I think if there is a circle-jerk going on anywhere, it's a pro-Apple position (indeed there might be an app for that). You're basically saying that just because people "don't mind" something, someone else shouldn't care about it either. My grandmother just got an iPhone. This woman still uses AOL for her email. She doesn't mind her iPhone because she doesn't realize what it could be. She doesn't know that Apple basically has her locked into this device, which cannot be easily modified. She's not aware of why an alternative might be better, and therefore does not know to ask for one.
Bear with me here.... I wouldn't worry, Sprint hasn't turned a profit in 5 years but are still making moves. They have something like 8 billion in cash on hand. The problem affecting Sprint and profit the most was not just being last to get an iPhone, but mostly the fact they bend over backwards the past 4-5 years to make themselves 'best' in customer service and fix their rep. Instead they ended up with allowing people to bill phones to their account and then not pay. Sprint ends that..only company who was doing that. Sprint raised their early termination fee to $350...same as every carrier which at $200 for Sprint was ridiculous. I actually could have made money when I upgraded my phone last if I wanted to (cancelling and selling it). Sprint got rid of their 'premiere' program which pissed a lot of people off, but it wasn't cost effective to give good customers a new phone upgrade every year on a device that is costing them $600 or more. Sprint is moving all Nextel handsets onto their own push to talk network too now I believe, thus saving money on dual technologies needed to be in handsets (CDMA v TDMA in nextel..could be off it has been awhile). Sorry this last paragraph is a rant: Nevermind that Sprint already caters to the lowest form of customer which is the ones who constantly complain to get free perks purposely because they know Sprint will do it. Just go to any Sprint forum (Sprintusers.com) or go to Fatwallet and Slickdeals, just tons of people complaining about how they can figure out a way to use their Sprint employee referral plan they got for $30 to become upgraded to the point it works for their HTC EVO. I used to do the same thing, but I don't anymore. I know why people do it, and its fine...but they get so angry and worked up at the idea that Sprint might take it away from them and threaten to leave to VZW or anywhere else then. Honestly, majority wouldn't though and would pay the less then other carriers prices to stay with Sprint. If Sprint spent the money to audit out these people and who has these perks and freebies on their accounts and find out why they do, they could probably lose 65% of them as customers and still increase revenues. Sorry this last paragraph is a rant.
Firstly, electrocardiograms measure the heart. ([Wikipedia]( As to "controlling Siri": It's not hard to hook up a voice synth or pre-recorded voice clips to a voice recognition module. Speaker, meet microphone. They'll work at some accuracy depending on the parameters and on how much distortion occurs in the audio loop (feedback, noise). It's not hard to trigger an audio loop from an Arduino. You can buy ready-made solutions from Sparkfun for that, or from Adafruit if you want to solder it a bit first. It's not hard to read a voltage potential with a microcontroller, although with biosignals you likely need a properly designed instrumentation amplifier and some significant signal processing. You also need to deal with the safety issues involved. What's hard is using that few electrodes to read a useful number of brain states. And by hard, I mean physically not going to happen. Usefully distinguishing a grand total of two states is still going to need significant signal processing. It's also going to throw false positives and false negatives like nobody's business. It just doesn't have much information to work with. The Emotiv EPOC uses fourteen electrodes and represents the end product of significant engineering which wasn't really possible until very recently. The signal processing involved is far beyond what's possible on an Arduino, and with significant amounts of very clever machine learning to back it up...you get about half a dozen recognizable states, when the thing is working properly.
Oh yeah and next you're going to tell me that the sites name isn't related to internet piracy in the slightest... You know and I know that the site exists to help with the illegal piracy of copyrighted materials. Sure the site doesn't break any rules itself but it provides the means and actively assists the process of doing so. And I totally agree that SOPA is a load of BS however that doesn't mean that we should just ignore the root of the problem. Also the whole argument of trying to compete with piracy is completely idiotic. Capitalism only works from an economic view point if everyone plays by the rules and that's why there is a government in the first place to monitor the marketplace (or at least this is what it is suppose to do...). It is unfair (and uneconomical) to force a company bound by the restriction of the law to compete with someone who isn't. Furthermore companies like the pirate bay do net damage the economy and are only able to operate because competitors are bound by the law in the first place.
I made an account just to say this. What you have done I have not heard of before but it opens the door to something truly interesting. I am a PhD-student (not a janitor yet) working at a department with a team specializing in consumer behaviour. For those interested I can say that ethical consumption is a highly relevant topic in contemporary consumer behaviour research. One of the key issues of this research is the means (or the lack of means) the consumer has to determine whether his or her consumption can be qualified as ethical according to his or her definition of ethical. Your app is basically the embryo of a "Web 2.5" sollution to this issue. I could go on and on what this means to the theoretical framework of this research but I'll settle with suggesting a practical detail to your work. If you could effectivley "crowdsource" (or consumersource) your data on the corporations you'd basically reverse the power structure between consumers and producers famously identified by Karl Marx - on the communication/marketing level.
Had not seen it, thanks for the tip. From a web privacy perspective I'm highly interested in this for personal use. From a societal perspective it certainly has the potential for some interesting applications. One cannot help but to ask oneself how the discourse of corporate & government actors to be entitled to the information about private persons almost by "default" came about - as if their mere use of the internet was consent for being mapped in the manner occurring today. This application can be construed as a form of resistance to this phenomena.
I think what you're talking about is the true challenge of this idea. Ethics as you know is a topic which has challenged philosophers for millenia, I personally feel that for a database of ethical conduct to function one must first approach several very difficult problems... The pizza example is a good one, this is how a thing like this could work. You also use a good example in the way that it illustrates that one persons "ethics" is different from another persons "ethics". There is also a problem when one approaches the issue of responsibility, this becomes challenging when one for instance extrapolates the value chain. I have a good friend and colleague who studies ethical codes of conduct in the context of outsourced production using Swedish furniture giant IKEA as a case. IKEA has been extremely candid with her, and she's seen some of the problems associated with IKEA's use of labor in South East Asia. One persisting problem in this case is that IKEA purchases products at a certain stage of production - buying from a subcontractor of sorts, who in turn has purchased it from another subcontractor and so on and so forth. Sometimes the product can be traced through up to a hundred of steps to for instance a family owned business operating out in the jungle of a neighboring country where child labour is the norm and one of the few alternatives to prostitution, pretty larceny or begging. The problems here are manifold, but I'm sure they're pretty clear so I'll just boil it down to two central questions - How away from your value chain are you as a corporation responsible for what goes on and what/whose ethics apply? This is why I think that a system that is both "crowdsourced" and "crowdrefereed" is one of the most obvious ways to go. At this point we're basically talking about a wikipedia of corporate ethics with all its benefits and shortcomings. As a strategy one may start with the corporations who can be demonstrated to be guilty, "beyond reasonable doubt", of the offense of supporting SOPA and build from that.
To produce energy, it has to come from somewhere right? Not only does it have to come from somewhere, it can't suck energy up at a rate equal to or greater than the release of energy. You don't get something for nothing. What he describes is nuclear fission with something called a beta-voltaic cell. Now, I have never heard this term before, but I would assume he is talking about something that turns beta-decay into electrical voltage... Fancy science talk coming in 3... 2... 1... To try and give this kid a break, I will try and explain his idea. Beta decay is either electron or positron radiation. If you used beta decay to add electrons to one grid, and rejected the positrons, you could generate a current (electricity). Now let's stop qualifying and start quantifying. There are two goals of this "arc reactor" as far as I can tell: generate more electricity than a normal reactor, and be small like Iron Man's, because that is cool, and all anybody on Reddit cares about it things being cool, not factual, or you idiots would read my entire post rather than glossing over, and maybe even pick up a text book and figure this out yourself. Alright, now that we have insulted to lazy redditors, the rest of you can continue reading on. Back to my original point. It is all about energy. Now there is one basic number that we need. What is the energy output of standard fission reactors versus this "betavoltiac" thing. Check Wiki under Uranium-235 (the isotope the student mentions). There is a table that is a rundown of the energy output from the decay and instantaneous release of Uranium-235. Compare the beta decay energy with that of the standard fission reactor. I think I made my point.
Just to give you all an idea. For our beloved software/business patent area, the math works out to around 16 hours average for working a case in the Patent Office. This means the examiner only has two work days to gather resources and write up their response. With so little time, it's no wonder many granted patent have issues. And the best part? Other areas like telecommunication , digital processing have only 13 hours. Or the enclosure arts (ie shapes of a iPad device) have only 8 hours.
Reddit could be made such a better place if there were no record of personal karma. There's no reason for it and it causes people to post reposts and add irrelevant comments for the sake of gaining karma. Still obviously keep a record of post's score/karma, but the post itself should have no connection to the poster after he posts it.
But therein lies the problem. So many people think their comments are witty and humorous, but most of the time they are not. Maybe the joke was funny the first few times, but everyone who thinks they are a comedian runs that shit into the ground. Post a pic with a celebrity, every single time some idiot will post "hey celebrity, who's that other guy you're with?". It's just so very old and tired.
This is not the case. In actuality, corporations use and abuse government to get more power to further their power, reach, and profit. We naively believe giving government more power will somehow "stick it to the fat cats!". Corporations also often use their power to get the government to reduce its power over them. >And as we can see from our economic condition, that's clearly the case. That was the result of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act, a reduction in government power. >All you're doing is giving those corporations more surface area to latch onto and get even more influence. If we're letting them write the laws, yes. But if we actually as a society use our heads and return to a point where we have an educated electorate, we'll get government laws that are written specifically to avoid corporate interests and keep their power out of government. >For example, take the FDA. Many see them as the protectors of innocent and slayer of evil food corps. But their "benevolent regulations" are written by the very corporations they are meant to regulate. That's because a lot of people still see the FDA as what it used to be, It was a defender of regulations but the regulations, like in everything government that a corporation gets its hands on, ends up getting turned against anything new that may challenge their market. >Try and open your own cake baking business. Simple, right?? Fuck no. You have to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment just to do what you should be able to for a few dollars. This cost is a drop in the bucket for a corporation, but it acts to stamp out any attempt at grass-roots, local competition that could take a dollar from them. Yep. One wonders if they have a stake in the equipment required for such things though that may be my tinfoil hat being a tad too tight. Oh, how I miss the days where innovation was what happened instead of litigation, be it patent litigation, regulation litigation, whatever. Well, There is one field where innovation is still happening. Law. >
Funny. I don't recall saying, or implying that. The only way you could have come to that conclusion is if you only were aware of only two sets of options. Either "government = good and corporations = bad" Or "corporations = good and government = bad" This is not the case. In actuality, corporations use and abuse government to get more power to further their power, reach, and profit. We naively believe giving government more power will somehow "stick it to the fat cats!". And as we can see from our economic condition, that's clearly the case. All you're doing is giving those corporations more surface area to latch onto and get even more influence. For example, take the FDA. Many see them as the protectors of innocent and slayer of evil food corps. But their "benevolent regulations" are written by the very corporations they are meant to regulate. Try and open your own cake baking business. Simple, right?? Fuck no. You have to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment just to do what you should be able to for a few dollars. This cost is a drop in the bucket for a corporation, but it acts to stamp out any attempt at grass-roots, local competition that could take a dollar from them.
If everyone's traveling 10 miles over the speed limit together, and you're driving 5 under, you may like to think that you're obeying the law and being safe, but in reality, you're causing unsafe driving conditions for the others. I love how you're trying to push the blame from the people who are speeding to the people who are not here. If other people are so concerned with driving too fast that they endanger themselves by making unecessary passes, that is their fault , not mine. I am not endangering anybody by driving at the speed limit. It is everyone's responsibility to drive at or under the speed limit.
I'm a retard for observing how traffic is moving and driving in a consistent manner that doesn't cause obstructions? Are you seriously that dense? 70-75 in a 65 isn't going to cause any major issues. Speed limits vary from state to state, and from area to area. If traffic is moving at 75 miles an hour, and it's safe to do so, there are no issues. Most straightaways are usually pretty safe to go 75 in a passing lane. If you want to cling strictly to the law, and act like a sanctimonious douche, that's fine, but don't delude yourself into thinking that it doesn't cause issues when you disrupt the flow of traffic.
Notice that, as your speed increased above the average speed, the risk of accident increased, but as your speed decreased below the average speed, your risk of accident decreased.
I recently got rear-ended, and the person was being jerk and proceeded to call the cops (not a requirement in my state). He proceeds to tell me how he's going to tell the cop to charge me because I spiked my brakes or some crap (I was at a stop light). When the cop shows up this guy goes into a whole song and dance about how I was speeding for the light as it turned yellow and that I stopped short. The cop asked me if I wanted to challenge the story. I said, loud enough for the other guy to hear, that in the latest Prius, the black box tracks speed, brake status, inertia, and all other sorts of things that are easily pulled in the event of an accident (it really isn't that accessible, as I understand). Still, I told the cop I had no concerns about my version of the story, and then I asked if insurance fraud was a felony in this state. Oddly enough, the guy "remembered" things a bit more clearly after that. I long for a day both when these types of accidents will be less frequent, but also when I'll have dozens of sensors to truly back up my version of events.
Perhaps not as a dedicated device but picture it as a tablet plugged into your desktop to relay the input information in place of a keyboard and mouse. In a specific mode it could display a keyboard on screen a user could use without requiring an actual keyboard. This has more practical use when its combined as a companion piece of software to connect two pieces of hardware. It would make it interesting to share files between the two devices without requiring a dedicated USB host storage mode but like the novel approach of the Android/IOS apps that act as a pointing device when plugged into your PC (or wirelessly over WiFi and BlueTooth) it would involve consumers buying tablets but in the decline of the PC market this could be a way to bridge the gap from the desk unit that is the PC to the mobile one without having to actively switch between them as it would only require pairing in some way (wireless or threw a tether) currently the only company to come close to this type of interaction between PC and peripheral is Wacom and the knock-offs there of. Instead of treating it [the Cintique series] as merely an elaborate pointing device it bridges the gap as a second monitor, you could even have it display its own unique video feed if your graphics card supported it (a cheap USB device could preform the same task as well over either USB or DVI/HDMI out.) concerning the recent failings of W8 the bridging of tablet to PC could encourage some adoption instead of butchering the windows experience entirely by forsaking the conventional schema of input devices. Though I'm not a fan of Metro the biggest draw back is how its designed to be a fully functional operating system on both PC and mobile devices. Its simply not compatible with the PC staple: the venerable keyboard and Mouse.
I think you're right about Intel being able to reach ARM in terms of power consumption, but by the time they do it might not matter. I think if ARM gets "good enough" for desktop use well enough before Intel reaches similar power efficiencies then the house of cards will fall. That's why I think Intel is dumping so much money/time/effort into reducing power consumption - they know their days are numbered if they don't. But then there's another thing to consider - if ARM becomes a dominant player, then compilers will become less dependent on x86 code, coders become less dependent on platform-specific code, and all of a sudden software becomes more and more hardware agnostic. In that situation, a good VM like .NET or Java becomes really useful and well-positioned so programmers don't have to recompile some/all of their code. And in the meantime, there's still one more thing to consider: with web browsers doing what they are currently doing and attempting to replace desktop software with web-based software, all an operating system has to do is have a decent web browser - regardless of the hardware architecture - and it can run enough software that the user doesn't have to care. In any case, Intel needs to beat ARM ASAP in terms of power efficiency or they will become "another" manufacturer of "another" hardware architecture instead of "the" manufacturer of "the desktop hardware architecture. My bet is on ARM though, even with Intel's advances, simply because as Linux put it, it is easier to grow up than grow down and 64-bit ARM is now a thing.
I loved my BB. I wish RIM would make a Note sized, android based phone, where the bottom size slides downs as a mega sized BB keyboard. If they could keep it think and add some aluminum parts and gorilla glass....oooh weee. My other idea is a traditional BB body with a iphone'd android interface and improved design features, keep the hardware strong enough that it can browse quickly but otherwise light enough so that it has good battery life.
I can attest that to Canadians in 2010 having a Blackberry was very desirable. People weren't accustomed to smart phones, so the idea of having a device that was touted as similar to an iPhone, but more affordable (both hardware and service wise), was quite enticing. In reality the Blackberry's of 2010 were a shell of a smartphone, their interface were atrocious, their app selection was minuscule, and the browser was simply unusable. Many people were willing to put up with this when smartphones weren't the norm, but instead seen as a luxury, but now that there are affordable options at every consumers finger tips no one seems willing to go back to the dismal time they had trying to load a webpage on BB OS, they'd rather trade up to people that have already gotten it right.
Before everyone jumps up calling bullshit. Keep in mind that we know Skype to be backdoored and we also know that the president and his people regularly use it. I am guessing that if anything this is probably true, but that the people involved want to take measures to separate themselves so that they don't end up in Guantanamo. I doubt that this security management apparatus was stolen but rather leaked by people involved who have a conscientious objection to the program.
Alright, most important quote from the article after the headline: >But in the Google Fiber forums, employees assure subscribers the rules aren’t meant to apply to Minecraft servers. And, in reality, Google Fiber probably won’t notice, let alone kick you off, for using a Slingbox or peer-to-peer software.
Yes, I am oversimplifying. The average user looks at the SMTP server as an outgoing mail server, and the POP or IMAP server as the incoming mail server. What you are using the SMTP server for is not what the SMTP protocol was designed for, and technically, internally, I'm sure that your SMTP server still treats that "incoming" mail the same as any other SMTP server; just because the destination happens to reside on the same physical machine doesn't mean it is not sending the mail.
8MB = 8388608 Bytes I am trying to see if the math checks out (because I have a deadline and I'm procrastinating), and I realized this is why we can't have nice things. Just look at some of the shit I have to choose from: How long is 1 line? Most will claim 80 chars and go about their lives. Not me. I <heart> accuracy. On Windows, the end of the line is marked by 2 more characters, so that's 82 chars per line. On most other operating systems, the end of the line is marked by 1 character (and they even disagree on WHICH character that is - fucking smartasses), so that gets us at 81 characters per line. Great. Now you can also show off your widescreen hipster code which has 120 characters per line, which, if you include the stupid line ending stuff is actually either 121 or 122 characters. So far so good. We've got these 'character per line' unit numbers: 80, 81, 82, 120, 121, 122. Let's just divide 8388608 Bytes by those and we've got ourselves 6 different results. Shit. But wait, why are you dividing 'bytes' by 'characters per line' to get lines? You can't do that. You need to convert characters to bytes, so that the division can be made. If the code was in ASCII character set, you've got 1 byte/character, if the code was using Unicode character set, you've got 2 bytes/character, so now you've got the following 'bytes per line' numbers: 80, 81, 82, 120, 121, 122, 160, 162, 164, 240, 242, 244. Finally, the 12 (!) possible results (of dividing 8388608 bytes by number of bytes per line to get line numbers) are as follows: 8388608 bytes / 80 bytes per line = 104,857 lines (standard naive ascii) 8388608 bytes / 81 bytes per line = 103,563 lines (standard nix ascii) 8388608 bytes / 82 bytes per line = 102,300 lines (standard win ascii) 8388608 bytes / 120 bytes per line = 69,905 lines (hipster naive ascii) 8388608 bytes / 121 bytes per line = 69,327 lines (hipster nix ascii) 8388608 bytes / 122 bytes per line = 68,759 lines (hipster win ascii) 8388608 bytes / 160 bytes per line = 52,428 lines (standard naive unicode) 8388608 bytes / 162 bytes per line = 51,781 lines (standard nix unicode) 8388608 bytes / 164 bytes per line = 51,150 lines (standard win unicode) 8388608 bytes / 240 bytes per line = 34,952 lines (hipster naive unicode) 8388608 bytes / 242 bytes per line = 34,663 lines (hipster nix unicode) 8388608 bytes / 244 bytes per line = 34,379 lines (hipster win unicode)
They missled stupid jurors as to the importance of the code. When a Judge later threw out this prison term and gave him time served, GS got the DA to charge him again with different charges over the same issue again saying he had stolen the 'secret sauce' of GS when the code was no such thing. Even though as admin he had access to all their trading software.
Yes. His behaviour had been the same CRIMINAL behaviour for years. What gives you the preposterous idea that as an employed programmer you have the right to backup your code to a repository outside the company-owned versioning systems? As enough lawsuits have established, YOU DO NOT OWN the code you write for company XY on their time, it is wholly theirs to disseminate, store and delete as they see fit. What that guy did is not only stealing (obvious), but also in direct violation to all of the NDAs he had to sign. He's a douche, and rightfully in prison.
How much did your university cost? How much? Because mine cost about $85k total. For a state university. Now mind you, i make about $100k/year now. However School is disgustingly expensive and you didn't have to pay that much for it. How about you wake the fuck up to the economic realities facing the younger generation - most of them are the result of your generation fucking things up. Don't sell us that personal responsibility shit, that is a smoke screen to hide the truth. Accurately attributing economic problems to their proper sources is not somehow being a lazy fuck, as you would imply it is.
In my experience (outsourcing for an investment bank via a consulting company), the bank is much more paranoid about what its "contingent workers" (consultants, contractors, etc.) do than its full-time employees. I'm sure part of it is my own company working hard to cover its ass, but we are always told never to send anything to an outside account, by email or any other method. We are also forbidden from from posting any information to forums or other websites. As a general rule, if you really need to you can read a forum page, but you never log in. Actually, periodically someone on the consulting company side will tell us that we're strongly discouraged from ever visiting outside web pages, but this is pretty much just more ass-covering as far as I can tell. The valuable part of it is for us to remember that they can and do monitor our network activity, so it's best to keep non-work browsing to a minimum. They've gone so far as to cripple the email program to disallow sending to outside servers for anyone who does not need to communicate with outside sources (data vendors, etc.), and at the very least we get a warning window pop up any time we include an email address with an outside domain in a new message.
The following are estimates. Debating about the precision is utterly pointless^1 when the definitions haven't been defined^2 and software source code varies wildly due to numerous factors. 10&dagger; lines per day @ 80 characters per line ~ 10,000 developer days 12&dagger; lines per day @ 80 characters per line ~ 8,3333 developer days It may be more precise to consider the average line length: 80/2 = 40 characters 10&dagger; lines per day @ 40 characters per line ~ 20,000 developer days 12&dagger; lines per day @ 40 characters per line ~ 16,667 developer days
Ok, let's start with this. Number one, you need to learn to chill some a little bit. Ok? I specifically stated, whether you read it or not, that I was using an extreme example. It was an EXAMPLE. It was not meant to be cited in a court of law, used as a source for your professor, or used as table talk with your mother. Further, and more importantly, this stuff has landed on Reddit and (back in the day when /. was popular) it landed on Slashdot. Made some pretty impressive waves. Google is your friend, do not fear it. You're trying to sound smarter than you are. You aren't helping your argument here and you are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
This article is missing quite a lot. The only reason there's a question of any sort of "IP transition" on the part of AT&T or Verizon or Comcast is precisely because it's unregulated; there's a lot of regulations in place to make sure they can't refuse sale of transit or things of that nature to competitive companies (thereby out of the phone network entirely) that they're anxious to rid of. This is why Verizon is trying to rid the US of net neutrality; they see an opportunity to monopolize the communications infrastructure of the country, and do it in the name of progress. That being said, packet switching has become somewhat of a problem for the phone network; realtime media transport over the IP protocol doesn't perform as well as the current generation of circuit switched phone networks. This is why standards like T.38 and RFC-2833 exist; they transport media that traditionally just goes as audio over the phone network on an out of band channel because the IP-based solutions can't reliably transport it as audio. It stands to reason if we're going to be shelling out a ton of money to replace an entire generation of hardware that resides in nearly every town across the United States, we should damn well make sure it's better suited to the task then what we have currently in place. As for the "efficiency" the article mentions, a circuit switched call uses 64 kbps of bandwidth. A SIP call using the same codec uses 100 kbps because of the overhead. I fail to see what the advantage is there. Also, fiber and circuit switching aren't exclusive from each other, not even in FiOS; in Verizon's current arrangement at Fire Island, you can choose to get service over fiber from the circuit switching equipment or the packet switching gear. Assuming it can hold up to the same reliability standards, a move to fiber is unquestionably a good thing, but that really isn't an excuse to get out of regulations or replace gear that works fine as it is. The article really isn't being fair.
Retail - the links will take you directly to the vendor. But lets frame the argument: "Apple sucks because I can build A PC better than this and save $xxx! Screw Apple & the Apple Tax! PC Master Race Forever!" For iMacs & Mac-Mini's this is true: [PCPartPicker part list]( / [Price breakdown by merchant]( / [Benchmarks]( Type Item Price CPU [Intel Core i5-4570S 2.9GHz Quad-Core Processor]( $197.99 @ Amazon Motherboard [Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150 Motherboard]( $109.99 @ Amazon Memory [Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory]( $66.95 @ Amazon Storage [Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive]( $59.98 @ OutletPC Video Card [EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card]( $244.98 @ SuperBiiz Wireless Network Adapter [Rosewill RNX-N250PCe 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter]( $20.99 @ Newegg Case [BitFenix Shinobi Window ATX Mid Tower Case]( $54.99 @ NCIX US Power Supply [Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply]( $39.99 @ Newegg Operating System [Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)]( $88.98 @ OutletPC Monitor [Dell S2240M 60Hz 21.5" Monitor]( $119.99 @ Microcenter Keyboard [Logitech MK550 Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard w/Laser Mouse]( $46.99 @ B&H Total Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available. $1051.82 Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-12-23 18:44 EST-0500 This build will save you $448 However: With the Apple Mac Pro - the inverse is true.
I don't know the technical merits of spraying water from skyscrapers to clean the air, but China doesn't have a great track record when it comes to environmental engineering. Do a search for 'Four Pests Campaign'.
Another way to say it is that Photoshop is really good, GIMP is fantastic too. GIMP is not a replacement of all the things Photoshop do. So if you want photoshop, pay the 1200€/year or whatever it cost now, and use Photoshop. People will still making great things with Gimp, because is a fantastic tool.
This is probably going to get buried but this article only tells one side of the story - the one that is easier to argue for. Now I went to school in the States for about 15 years and have lived in Korea for about the same time, So I kind of understand why some people are put off by the idea of censoring certain sites, blocking porn and what not. I think the idea that the Korean government seems to have about blocking porn because watching it makes everyone rapists is laughable and stupid. But as to blocking certain sites, banning people that support North Korean propaganda, and preventing false rumors from spreading online is something that is actually really needed. This all is due to the fact that South Korea is a very small country where everyone is heavily influenced by what is talked about on the internet. As a foreigner looking in, it's easy to argue against a straw-man, in the sense that 1. it's the fucking internet, people should be able to say what they want without the government breathing down their necks, and 2. people should have the freedom of speech and you can stop people from saying things just because you don't like it. While I agree in principle, it doesn't really work that way in Korea. The problem is that the Korean media (and the zeitgeist) is heavily influenced by word of mouth on the internet, that it is actually necessary to stop rumors before they even start. This is a country where a site called ilbe, similar in nature to 4chan, is talked about constantly on prime time news for about a year now. Is this even imaginable in countries like the US? No, specifically because it is buried by the sheer amount of other sites with equal or heavier traffic at the same time. The majority of the sites that Koreans often log into and debate are Naver, Daum, Nate, and not much else. Everything else is scattered into social media like Facebook (I would say cyworld is pretty much dead like myspace, unlike what the article seems to imply) and small communities (cafés) within the 3 major portal sites. It is like a small pond and the ocean. A rock thrown in the ocean doesn't make a ripple, but in a small pond it becomes a tidal wave. False rumors and debates about the government, and economy are more obscure, since each side has their own agenda. But in terms of general rumors such as celebrity gossip, this is, in fact, a huge problem and continues to be so today. Every celebrity (usually female) undergoes a massive scrutiny of the "public" eye whenever they gain attention and there will always be something that they did in the past which gets brought up and the entire nation gangs up on them, fueled by the sensationalistic media, until they apologize or someone new rises to fame. While these petty gossip may not seem like much to a western point of view, in a country that is so small (both literally and in terms of online diversity) that everyone looks at the same pictures and reads the same articles about everything, everywhere, this leads to some pretty big problems. Only until someone apologizes, cries, gets fired, or commits suicide does the public and media do a complete 180 and claim that these small groups of people posting negative, extremist posts should be prosecuted. You can't talk trash on the internet just because you can. The most infuriating thing is that when they actually do prosecute these people, most of them turn up to be your everyday Joes or young middle, highschool students who "didn't know better" and "just did it for the fun" and are "very sorry and will not do it again." Like I said, it may seem odd that a celebrity commits suicide just because a couple of people on twitter are being mean to them and spreading false rumors. And it's easy to say they were probably unusually sensitive, or suffered from depression before, or there was something else that was going on, etc. No. Everyday some famous person talks about wanting to kill themselves because of online rumors. The problem is spreading to normal, everyday people and companies, due to the sheer power of the internet, mostly because of its anonymous nature. This is more like Koreans trying to set boundaries on the freedom of speech, trying to create online etiquette, rather than fascist government censorship.
He's lucky he didn't get worse. The biggest no-no in all of this is that the prosecution was a minor. Effectively that boils it down to a black and white case of child porn. As far as the revenge stuff goes.. do not give consent for nude pictures to be taken. If you give consent for pictures to be taken of you then you simply do not own that photograph anymore. (situation changes when a minor is involved obviously) There's a reason Youtubers get people to sign release forms, and a reason people's faces get blurred on TV. Regardless of trust, DO NOT consent to the pictures being taken. Your partner can unwittingly at some point sign away his rights to that data by signing up for some app or some other bullshit. Give your gf/bf a polaroid.. it shows you care, there's no risk of it ending up somewhere you don't intend it to be, and hell it just seems more classy/romantic. Taking a selfie, when you haven't even read the TOS of the nigh unknown app developer, on a device that's permanently connected to the internet and let's face it, probably has a few security holes.. is stupid as fuck at this stage. Yeh I understand, people are young and stupid. It shouldn't cost them a lifetime of embarrassment. Well I'm sorry.. but it's not as if sending nude photos to your spouse is a human right. Don't get me wrong, your spouse/s.o is a complete waste of humanity for betraying your trust, but at the same time you're a complete fucking idiot. You are uploading naked pictures of yourself, to what to you is a magical box that is connected to the rest of world. What did you think would fucking happen? As I said, trust is not the issue. It's perfectly possible for your partner not to have divulged the pics to a website. You simply may have taken the picture with an app that has stipulated in the TOS that they own all your photographs regardless of content. Polaroids guys, I'm telling ya. Buy 'em you horny fucks.
Because when you understand Android and Google's update philosophy you would understand that every Major release 4.1 / 4.2 etc. isn't really finalized until the point release like. 4.1.2 ( which all the jb phones updated to and 4.2.2 ... Its a consistent fact that manufacturers skip the initial release and update to the point releases with all the bugfixes.
Our systems scan and index emails and some other user data for multiple purposes; this scanning is 100% automated and cannot be turned off. Scanning enables us to, for example, perform spam and malware detection, sort email for features like Priority Inbox, and return fast and powerful search results when users search for information in their accounts. The scanning and indexing that our systems run also enable us to display contextually relevant advertising, including in Gmail. If your domain disables ads, we will not use your data to display such advertising to your users. Domains using the free Standard Edition of Google Apps cannot disable ads. [
I've been with many of the big U.S. carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile) and the companies they each bought out (Nextel, Cingular, etc.). I have to say, T-Mobile has been the best. Verizon always hit me with bullshit charges and had terrible customer service; I was actually very close to a physical altercation with one particularly rude employee. Cingular was okay, I loved their rollover minutes; however At&t has always been similar to Verizon in that they would hit me with charges and had bad customer service/wireless service. When Sprint bought Nextel, I rode out with them for a bit, but I couldn't stand the service. T-Mobile was introduced to me by my girlfriend. I had heard their service wasn't up to the level of the others, so naturally I was a bit reluctant, at first. I didn't regret my decision to make the switch to T-Mobile; I've had them for 4 years now and I haven't had many problems and their customer service is awesome.
Sprint really is the worst cell provider I've ever had. My wife gets her Sprint phone service through her dad, but it's to the point that the frustration of trying use the phone outweighs paying for our own service (my boss pays mine). When I lived in the inland empire I would make calls while driving too and from work and dropped almost 90 calls in a month. They comp'd half my bill, and told me the network wad being upgraded and service should improve no later then the next three months. So I stupidly figured I'd wait it out... 5 months later and still having the same problems I call back in, tell them I've been avoiding using my phone at all because of the poor quality and they told me it wasn't bad enough to cancel my contact. If my experience wasnt bad enough to validate ending my contact they have a completely different idea is what I get for what I paid for.
Even if you never use Comcast, you would be better off having the additional competition in town. I live in an area where Fiber and OTA (Digis) are the only options. You can even get a 100/100 fiber connection. For a mere $150/month, after taxes. The ISP has 0 interest in competing, and I would love, love, love for Comcast to be here because they are actually cheaper per MB, if for no other reason than to force competition.
Well, it's not really like evolution. Evolution is a descriptive explanation for what we see in nature. It says, "things adapt to suit their environment, because the less adapted are worse at reproduction" - often summarized as "survival of the fittest". What you're talking about is prescriptive - a sort of moral ideology, like Social Darwinism, which mistakenly assumes that "survival of the fittest" is a "natural law" to be enforced, rather than an observed trend; this is, of course, a far cry from Darwin, and it's usually used by major asshats to justify pretty horrible shit. Like, for example, the Holocaust.
Actually]( Comcast has spent more on the Democratic party than the Republican Party. They are 61st on the list.
I think in some instances it would be nice if government involvement was completely uniform. However, just because it isn't does not equate or mean that therefore government should not be involved. Among other things, one of government's jobs is to provide basic services. They directly provide them in some instances and heavily regulate them in others. This has worked great for many instances such as the telephone. It is also important to note that without the FCC, we would originally only be receiving Internet through AT&T and their proprietary modem. This is how it was in the beginning of the internet before they opened it up to what we have today. I encourage you to look that up. I don't know about you, but I don't want my water supply cleaned by private companies that cut corners to increase profits-as businesses primary responsibility is to make as much profit as possible-or have the ambulance leave me behind because I'm uninsured, or have the financial industry unregulated (need we review what the banking folks are capable of?).
It's important to note that the three Democratic Party appointed FCC members voted to overturn these laws, while the two Republican Party appointed members voted to keep these laws. So I don't want to hear anymore crap about how the parties don't matter, voting doesn't matter, etc. all the same libertarian bullshit I read a lot in the Technology subreddit. Democrats are definitely not perfect, and they need to rid themselves of Third Way neo-liberal Wall Street'ers, but read some history and look what party has defended the right of the common person against corporations, and what party has chosen the side of robber baron industries for over 100 years.
They had a search warrant signed by a judge. That satisfies the constitutional requirements against unwarranted search and seizure.
This is true, except for the fact that I can't go to Best Buy and find a 6' Ethernet Cable for $2.00. No, I have to purchase the $12-14 dollar 6' cable. Where as I can go to Fry's and buy 50' for the same price. I feel like this argument doesn't matter. HDMI is more expensive to produce over Ethernet, the mark up on an ethernet cable is probably higher netting the company more profit, and as a result of this shift in technology, I'd expect a 6ft ethernet cable to sky rocket in price.

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