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Edit: First of all I want people to know that being critical is important.
There doesn't need to be an extreme example like the one you pose for there to be a problem. Just a slight increase in aggressive behaviour in general which in normal circumstances may not have perceivable consequences. For example a slight increase in violence in the general population could lead to rash driving and thus an increase in traffic accidents.
The worst thing that could happen is not physical criminal violence but an acceptance within society that violence is justified or necessary in situations that do not necessarily warrant them. This leads to a slight bias towards violent solutions rather than peaceful ones.
We should also consider whether some people are more inclined towards violent behaviour because of violence in the media they consume. Is it a result of nature or nurture? We need answers to these questions in detail so we can provide help where necessary. The worthiness of the study should be decided based on the potential good it could do. |
Ok. I don't understand your point.
We are not talking about children. We talking about adults with fully developed brains and mental capacity. If they are unable to understand simple concepts explained in a clear and concise manner then they are unable to judge. Which, if you don't know, is forming an opinion on concepts explained in an unclear and verbose manner. |
Generally these rules are to prevent a malicious hotspot from being generated to capture traffic from anyone who falls for it.
I've got a neat little toy called a WifiPineapple and it's basically a wireless router designed to make that process insanely easy. If there is an unsecured network being near me that lots of potential targets are currently connected to, I can run 2 tools on my router and it will deauth them from the legitimate router them start mimicking all unsecured access points in the area so when the target devices try to re-authorize, they connect to me instead of the real one.
Once they are connected I could run SSL breaking tools to snoop on their secured sites, capture all the traffic transparently for analysis later or even inject malicious code into programs they are downloading.
The problem with these rules is that most of the issues can be solved simply by putting a password on your wifi network. If there is a key used in the handshake with the router then my WifiPineapple can't mimic it or really mess with it's traffic too easily.
So |
Network admin, here. I won't downvote you because this is not an irrational standpoint from a non-technical perspective, but should they have asked anyone with even 2 years' experience in this stuff, they would have learned otherwise.
1) There are multiple ways to prevent SSID switcheroos. Some procedural, and some are configured at the WAPs. At the very minimum, they could have an annoying banner ad or frame with customer info that sits in your browser whenever you're surfing on their network, and if the customer doesn't see it, they'll know something's up. Granted, that's not what I would do because that would cause compatibility concerns with different types of browsers and a whole slew of other issues, but I just mention it to show even the worst tech has several tools at their disposal to do this.
2) This type of hacking is very easy to detect with the proper configuration of the WAPs. In one of the locations I support, if someone were to light up a hotspot with the same or similar SSID even if it's not broadcast , I could have security to that location within 3 minutes, and have it pinpointed to a 30-40 square foot area.
3) Guests working with sensitive stuff utilize VPN when using shared networks, and if they aren't, they deserve to lose their data.
4) The amount of resources spent to do the type of interference they were using was not minor. Even a fraction of that being allocated to threat prevention or risk management would have been more than sufficient to lock these up. |
To be fair, it is their car, you are simply renting it from them.
People keep confusing property ownership with being king of one's own country.
If Hertz thinks that just because they own the car, they magically get to wiretap all conversations inside it and use those tapes for extortion and insider trading ---- sure it'd be profitable.
But still very very illegal.
Just because a landlord owns a chunk of land or a building or a car doesn't mean he's exempt from various laws (such as privacy laws; murder laws; insider trading laws; confidentiality laws; copyright laws; regulating airwaves(like landlords who tried to restrict WiFi access points), etc). |
Network Engineer here from a small, better, ISP.
Backbone:
There is no main backbone controlled by a closed group of 12. The closest thing would be the "Tier 1" ISPs that engage in settlement-free peering. All that means is they don't charge each other for traffic. Nothing prevents you from purchasing transit "internet" directly from the Tier 1s. Further, there is little reason to purchase from a Tier 1 when you can purchase from a Tier 2 with better peering. The only difference between a Tier 1 and 2 is the Tier 2's often have to purchase transit from a Tier 1 to reach a small part of the internet.
Further, Level 3 and "conxiant" did not have a fight. Level 3 and Cogent had a spat. During their spat traffic was only interrupted if you were single-homed to one or the other. If you were operating a properly multi-homed ISP you didn't see any downtime.
Cogent likes to skate on thin ice WRT their peering ratios and on top of that they are not burdened with a legacy network so they can undercut the Tier 1s by such a large amount that the Tier 1s get pissed off. Their growing pains are something you have to accept if you want their rockin price.
Local level: If you want to to run wire you can become a CLEC and start running wires. We are not at the point where regulatory issues crop up from too many physical cables in the ground.
If you can't afford the $5K for a lawyer to sort out the CLEC stuff and another $50K for fiber and installation you can pick up any of the Wimax/Pre-Wimax wireless gear and handle the last mile that way.
WRT Density, Small towns aren't the issue. Wiring up a few blocks is easy. The density issue comes in when you have one house every few square miles. |
They say software is cheap but don't forget you have to pay for the computer/monitor/peripherals/network/maintenance and now you have no resale value - all they provide is a link to download it from.
Software is massively expensive. For small businesses software is a problem. It costs a lot, there is the constant updating that costs, company's make hardware that works with the software redundant so as to force you to buy more hardware and software, it is very difficult to upgrade to newer OS's because you are not sure if it will all play nicely.
For them to protect their software after you have paid for it you are forced to buy a dongle which gets stolen, lost, broken and is the most expensive crap USB key on the market or sometimes you can get a password where you hope your software doesn't go down on the weekend because you cannot get a new password over the weekend as there is nobody working at software company on weekends. |
I can say that i can do nothing more then agree that you get a big feeling of hopelessness sometimes when you work with "that kind of people". I work as a IT-Technician and i do allot of support for my customers.
I had a customer in a couple of weeks ago that wanted help to get that (as the customer described it) "Bar-thingy thats blue and has a name in it"... I clicked the start-button.
Other great ones are: "The hard drive isn't supposed to click loudly?!",
"What is a backup?".
And i also had customers who brought the screen instead of the computer, installed windows 98 on a machine that should have windows vista/7 (no, it didn't even start), people who types the address into the searchbar and so on and so on.
Btw, my 1st comment =) |
This is maybe the most valid thing that I have read in this thread. jimstix, you're there to support and help the people at the company. Not to call them idiots for not knowing the basics. Rather than just helping them he should take 5 more minutes and explain it to them at a rate that they can understand.
I know it's annoying trying to teach a computer illiterate person how to do the basic stuff but generally once they have the ground work down they can do pretty much anything with a computer.
These a most likely adults that are afraid of the computers because they don't actually understand how to use them and they don't want to break them so they won't try out new things for themselves.
Honestly the best possible course of action that you can take is to teach them. If they forget write them a little memo with instructions on how to do it. |
Within the context of the other two announcements (OS X Lion and iCloud coming this summer) it sounds like they want to allow people to use their iPad/iPhone as their main computer which is awesome. However if I'm going to be using iOS 5 it will definitely not be on my 3GS. The battery life can't take that much uploading/downloading/push nofication. Plus its no use having sweet camera software with a mediocre camera with no flash. |
There are too much problem with Wiki:
First, they lost their principle.
Wikipedia used to be interesting for new user because they encourage them to be bold, but once they got popular, they got scared. The slightest criticism about it's inaccuracy get the utmost attention while people who spend a lot of hours working on getting actual content there are greets with skepticism to no end. When it get to the point where original creator or inventor of the content in question would feel that they can't contribute, nobody else can.
Second, they encourage going against their own principle
Wearing Deletionist as a badget of honor. Which, perhaps is not a bad thing except that those very idealistic are against their own principle. Often time we see community lost focus because of hurdles along the development got them distracted, but instead of pulling themselves together, they go further and further away from what got them there in the first place. At first Wikipedia was supposed to be resourceful, fun, bold, and quick. Now it is full of bureaucracy, endless meeting and pointless discussion. Those people think there is a flaw on Wikipedia and safe guard it from being broken more, they use dozens and dozens dozen of guidelines, twisting and interpreting them in a way that no new user can fully understand to justifies their behavior. In the end they would never realizes they are not on the same path as Wikipedia was found upon in the name of accuracy and and perfection.
Worst of all, the founding members have no real say to any of these. If they have just spoke up and clear up all the frustration and set guideline that are reasonable and innovative with potential, it would all be fixed overnight, but I fear that the damage is already done. Most of the people who would have provided content have already tried and grew frustrated with a system that doesn't work the way it promised you to: |
he was against it when he was trying to gain votes. Then Hollywood threatened to take away their financial support after he said he would veto SOPA. Money always wins. |
This is digital brutality, digital savagery-
Shutting down megaupload the day after the internet protests SOPA was a show of power. Its like they came out and said "We don't need SOPA to deal with piracy, SOPA is purely about censorship"
They are foolish however. They do not understand the exponential expansion of the internet. They do not understand that the internet has literally transformed humanity. In the same way each neuron in our brain plays its role in creating your intelligent consciousness, each human acts as a node or neuron in the hive mind of the internet.
As the numbers of people connected, bandwidth, and information increases the reality of a supra-human consciousness draws nearer.
Anonymous is a self defense mechanism of the internet, in the same way you have neural networks that work to move your hand quickly off a hot burner, anonymous is a human network that responds to threats to the internet.
Wednesday was the beginning of a peak moment for the internet. The light of consciousness is expanding ever rapidly and the blackout is acting as a magnifying glass, polarizing our luminescence into laser like clarity.
They do not understand that we are more conscious than ever after the blackout, acts like censoring megaupload no longer instill fear, they instill contempt. Now that the masses are becoming engaged the "anti-humanity" humans don't stand a chance. |
This seems to be no improvement at all then.
I was at the Yokohama Landmark Tower last year, it used to have the world's fastest lift (12.5 m/s or 41.01 ft/s; 45.0 km/h or 28.0 mi/h) and getting up to the 69th floor took 45 seconds. Pretty cool and it was a smooth ride. EDIT: Speed [indicator]( inside the lift.
However way back in 2004 Taiwan built Taipei 101 they put in lifts that do 60.6 km/h or 37.7 mi/h). Never been there so don't know how they compare for comfort, but obviously they are faster than what this article speaks about.
Taipei 101 was knocked off the top spot when the UAE put up the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Elevators there have 18 m/s or 59 ft/s (64 km/h or 40 mi/h) speeds. |
Reddit was a libertarian experiment at the outset, figuring that the self-regulating nature of voting would take care of issues like that. Unfortunately they obviously didn't plan on the offending subreddits becoming popular enough to be a problem for them, having too much faith in the goodness of human nature, I guess. The admins operated within the boundaries of the law whenever they could, taking down the truly heinous and outright illegal stuff immediately. It's just that they allowed the grey area to proliferate since it wasn't technically illegal and they didn't want to step beyond their self-imposed boundary on banning content for reasons of discomfort to peoples sensibilities since they wouldn't want to get in the habit and extend the behavior to the rest of Reddit. |
With the copious amount of fresh porn being released daily, why would anyone want to sign in and bookmark the stuff? You can find new videos every day with fresh faces. Don't waste your time watching the same old stuff over and over again.
Sure we COULD watch Jenna Jameson get sent to pound town, but why not watch two midgets?... Or a tranny banging a redhead chick? Or just two girls? Or one girl and two machines replacing the need for man? The point is, don't risk your personal security by signing up. Just abuse the system. |
They're trying to make Windows like Zune / WP7, when they should be finding a happy medium of the two. I personally love Zune and I have a Verizon Trophy WP7, which is the best phone I've ever had, aside from the shittily empty Zune Marketplace.
I think the PC Zune application itself did a pretty good job of merging typical Windows with Metro, and W8 should be somewhat akin to that. |
It is a boring and pointless question on par with the submissions regarding cures for cancer or whatever. I'm not blaming you for not knowing about the world, but I want you to know that if you don't just reject videos like these using your own experiences you probably need to educate yourself some more. But hey, since you seem to be a nice guy so I'll explain why I think this these guys are full of shit.
The video provides little technical evidence for the concept, they don't say how much energy they can potentially harness nor show any data on how much they are currently harnessing. Why not? Wouldn't this kinda be, you know, the entire point if you wanted to tell people how awesome your system is? Take the thorium videos that have been circulating around Reddit for a while. There the guy shows you wonderful data on how much power is in thorium, how easy it to extract that energy, how much thorium there is in the world, working concepts of the technology and so on. The reason why he is able to do that is because he doesn't want to make money selling thorium reactors and isn't looking for investors himself, he wants others to know that the stuff he is promoting actually works and he wants people to look into thorium as a seriously energy production alternative.
It is full of cool looking shit to lure in investors who know nothing about engineering or science, people touching plasma globe, algebra on white board, men in hard hats hunching over measurement devices and so on. Just take the plasma globes. They can be bought at almost any novelty store and have virtually no use at all in seriously engineering. All it does is look cool, that's it. Why are they using it for their testing? Who knows, even a regular light bulb would perform the same function, expect it doesn't look as cool.
Perhaps it is possible to build a machine like this, I'm not going to argue against them on that point, however I can without a shadow of a doubt tell you that it won't be reliable or affordable simply because we are talking about a system that relies on specific weather conditions in order to generate power. Weather is about as predictable as as a roll of the dice. Even lightning bolts don't have a lot of energy in them, the only reason they appear to do so is because the time in which they release their energy are measured in tiny fractions of a second. Compare it to for example a burning wooden log which can release several times the amount of energy but over a long period of time which makes it appear to be less intense.
Even solar panels only really work if you live in a place where the sun is not blocked by clouds and stuff for a certain amount time of the year, I think it's around two thirds of the days of a year should be "sunny and almost cloudless" for many of these systems to work. That's why they are cool if you live in a place like for example northern Africa or California but not so awesome if you live in for example Sweden where even a sunny day is fairly damp and half of the year the amount of solar energy which reaches the ground is fairly low. Things like that are the reason why Sweden isn't investing heavily into solar for domestic use but rather into stuff like hydroelectric solutions, wind and other things which work far more predictably in their country. |
For web developers it used to matter a lot. when IE6 was king it was important to know it had such and such marketshare over FF so you knew to keep coding sites specifically for the fucking piece of shit IE6. Then IE7 came out and it was important to know if I could start coding for it rather than IE6. Then IE8 came out and it started rendering pages a lot better than 6/7 ever did and FF and Chrome were kicking some serious ass. So knowing what was top dog began to matter less because FF/Chrome/IE8/IE9 tend to render things fairly correctly across the board (although IE8 still has a few hiccups). |
Nope. Different network types. For a little more explanation on why Google chose not to make a CDMA/LTE version, check here: |
With paid versions of Google Apps you can use the [Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook](
It works transparently enough that my dad regularly tells people how great his iPhone syncs with iCloud by instantly updating his calendar/contacts/tasks on all his devices (iPad and Outlook basically).
As someone who uses Google apps for our primary mail server and forwards to exchange 2013 for on-site e-mail retention, I can assure you Google apps wins in a large number of use scenarios. Many business should stick to exchange solutions, but for specific-use reasons. With so many businesses lacking an adequate disaster recovery plan with failover sites, running Exchange is more of a liability than anything. Obviously, hosted exchange doesn't have this issue, but it does raise the obvious questions of compliance with whatever standards your business needs to meet. I do prefer OWA over Gmail's stupid-simple interface, which I don't feel is a view shared by many.
E-mail is the most important technical aspect of many companies today, so it's good to have competition. I find it repulsive when "computer guys" sell customers products simply because they can afford them, yet they are terrible solutions. I had to cleanup a mess where someone sold my brother's office a Sonicwall with crestron access points full open, with a couple other businesses nearby. It's sort of like business phones. We had a guy come out and change the time on Panasonic Digital hybrid phones at our house every 6 months or so. He'd put on this whole show hooking up to the PBX and then the VM module, leaving after an hour with a ~$150-20 invoice. It could be done on the phone in 30-90 seconds (depending on which direction CDST<->CST). Damn, that was a sam's club box of soapboxes huh? |
The amount of energy required to produce lift depends on how fast you need to be accelerating air in the opposite direction to where you want to apply thrust. Just how fast you need to accelerate that air mass depends on the inverse of how much air you have available to accelerate. What this means is that if you're trying to accelerate a small amount of air to produce lift, you need an enormous amount of power to do it. The larger the air mass you're using as a reaction mass, the less energy is required to hover. Things get more complicated if you want to do more than just hover as rockets illustrate in which case when you start getting close to or exceed the exhaust velocity, power requirements more closely follow an exponential (e^intended_v/exhaust_v ) relationship rather than a linear one. |
This still only seems to help entities that can afford to lose.
Knowing you are right does not necessarily increase your ability to prove your claim in court, nor does it mean that you have the ability to manage the new risks involved. |
flexibility, with it's various ports it can be made to do almost anything - the usb, video and internet are standard computer ports which obviously are exceptionally useful but really it's main feature is the GPIO port which stands for 'general purpose in out' this is a clever little array of pins which can be connected to sensors and devices to monitor or control their function -and all this can be done via coding languages which are easy learn such as Python or super-fast like C.
Basically what this means is if you want to build a system which records the temperature of your tea and alerts you when it's getting tepid then it's relatively simple procedure - you could then link this to a relay which turns on a kettle so you can make a new one, maybe you want to later enhance your system and fix a level sensor to see if the urn is empty then opens a valve on a water pipe until it is, then turns it on -that's easy, just get the sensors and wire them, add some code to your program and vola; maybe you can even add a button to your phone so you can start the earn while you're on your way home; which might tempt you to install a webcam to monitor the situation just in case...
basically it allows people to make their own computer controlled gadgets, and most importantly it allows people to share the plans and work on them together because it's based on reliable, cheap and fairly-easy standards such as the established software environments of Linux, Python, etc and for tinkerers the 5v (usb gadget standard) and the ability to use everything from the simplest analogue sensors to complex (but exceptionally useful) single wire digital sensors. |
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Easier said then done when the majority of your country cares more about Snookies baby then they do politics. Most Americans are complacent. As long as they can watch their reality TV, or sports they couldn't care less. Which is pretty depressing. |
I forgot to add that this is also something that big business wants us to think.
Spot on. For example, years ago they had a big tax holiday to encourage companies to bring all those profits stored offshore tax-free back here. The argument was that it would trigger a new wave of investing, economic growth etc. But studies have shown that all it did was create a massive windfall in profts. Yet that same reasoning is being used now by corporate lobbyists.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's true that they'll happily abide by whatever tax laws are in place. But it's also true that bug business spends tens of millions of dollars lobbying to have extremely favorable tax treatment in the first place. They just don't like to talk about that part.
EDIT: [here's an article/podcast]( on the subject. Relevant quote:
> RAZ: The argument they're making to the government is this will be like a mini-stimulus. We'll bring this money back and it'll create jobs.
> DRUCKER: Yeah, that's the argument. I mean, you know, the thing about this proposed tax break is that this isn't totally theoretical. In 2004, Congress passed this identical break and companies brought home about $300 billion at a reduced rate of five-and-a-quarter percent. And basically, all the independent research on that break shows that that money was largely used to buy back company shares, something that, you know, increases their stock price. So, it wasn't really used to hire people. It wasn't used to invest in things. |
Sure, you the developer or maintainer of a particular package see the diffs of a code change, but what about some ancillary pidgin plugin that's maintained by random people off somewhere in the Internet? Do you think there are diff police out there that go and check the code changes of this ancillary plugin that in their last release just happens to snarf every IM conversation and jam it down to some server somewhere?
You're implying that each package maintainer has a level of trust, or that each package put into a repo has a level of trust and is audited.
It's also distro-dependent. Does Ubuntu have more strict package auditing than Suse? Does Ubuntu's rewritten code that's primarily only audited by Canonical get audited by a third party?
As an aside, I'm surprised a well-known F/OSS organization doesn't already exist that checks Linux security, where you can browse for a distro and a package and see the last time it was audited, even if the package is just fuzzed from time to time. |
Are you kidding me with this? Did anybody actually READ the link? Of course not, because nobody bothers to actually read these things, they just upvote when the title says something that reinforces their preconceptions. The ARBITRARY BLOG which OP linked to arrives at the outlandish claim quoted in the title after vaguely citing a bunch of secondhand information about allegations made by random people. His evidence literally includes a quotation of another person's reference to another source's citation of a "top secret power-point slide." WTF?!? That's not even secondhand information, that's FOURTH HAND INFORMATION ABOUT A POWER POINT SLIDE I guess that makes OP's post fifth hand information. I can't believe you all just eat this up. |
This actually happened with my father and I:
Him: I dropped off my computer at the shop because it needs Windows reinstalled again
Me: Why don't you try Ubuntu like I've asked you several times? You're wiping it anyway, give it a few weeks, you've got nothing to lose.
Him: I just can't lose our documents. I don't have time to learn.
Me: You won't. Even Mark (my brother who had a recent seizure and can't remember to take his own medicine) could figure it out. |
theres 2 different layers. a physical layer the CPU itself and the software layer. it makes no sense to do anything to the physical layer unless they had physical access to the machine, and even then it would be pretty useless. even the bios, maybe if they wanted to highjack a machine during boot, though i'm sure in the time it would take to do so people would noticed "hey why the fuck isn't windows loading". if they REALLY wanted access to peoples machines they would just install rootkits or have microsoft build in back doors (something im sure they are doing or have done) because at the point that windows is running the everything about the machine is active, theres access to hardware because the proper drivers are already loaded. unlike the bios level where if you replace the built in network card with something after market, its not going to know what it is, or how to communicate with that hardware. |
That's sounds pretty deep, but it's not very well thought out. If you believe in the "fall of man", and distrust the idea of "masters" then you've only seen half the problem.
He makes a good point about the importance of the inherent checks and balances of democracy....but makes no mention of the inevitable turn from Democracy to something more akin to Mob Rule . Just because you have a majority, doesn't ensure your positions are the best path.
Democracy degrades into a group of people acting in their own short-sighted interest against whoever the minority is. Short term goals, and instant gratification. 17 trillion dollars in debt because nobody would get a majority of votes with a grown-up plan and a real budget...cut spending and buckle down for several years ...create a better world for your grandchildren instead of burning your legacy for warmth.
It would be far better to behave in a responsible manner. But, you'll never get a democratic majority to support that. Not in a million years.
Democracy is better than most other options...but it's not a silver bullet. If most people are idiots and willing to disregard the future, then you're just as bad off as if you had a shitty master. Because all those people are the master. And the politicians will seek only to appease them and hold votes. |
The big telecoms plan on making money off of this by introducing internet service plans that follow a tiered pricing system, pay more, you can access more websites, faster. If they get their way, it will most likely end up that the telecoms will carve up the big sites(facebook, twitter, reditt, etc) and if you arent a subscriber to the right telecom, youll have to pay more to see the exact same content |
In the sense of routing, the Internet is already not neutral. What we think of as "the Internet" is really a bunch of networks that are interconnected, and these interconnections are owned by private telecommunications companies (think Verizon and AT&T). Routing at the points where one company's infrastructure meets another is done by a border gateway protocol (BGP). Normal routers advertise to their neighbors how congested they are, so that each router picks an efficient path. Because service providers make money based on traffic, they don't advertise congestion at these BGPs, which causes major inefficiencies at the parts of the Internet where traffic flow is heaviest. Additionally, providers can deny service to each other when they get into disputes. This has happened a few times and made the news. |
Net neutrality is basically this.
Right now, companies have to give all data fair and equal treatment. Youtube loads as fast as hulu loads as fast as vimeo.
Verison is making a claim that "we own the wires, therefore we should be allowed to control what goes across them, much like a newspaper controls what's printed." The entire argument relies on people not understanding that the internet in this case functions more like a delivery method than a newspaper.
So how does this impact the net/you?
Well, directly, it doesn't. You shouldn't be able to be throttled because of this law (though you're next on the bucket list no doubt). But the thing is, legislation like this is TOXIC. It means Verizon can pick and choose winners and losers in any sort of website competition.
Remember hulu and youtube all loading the same? Lets say we didn't have net neutrality. Now, version throttles all data coming from youtube. This means youtube now loads unacceptably slow for most users. People stop using youtube because hulu loads faster. Youtube shrivels because the large american chunk of their userbase has moved to a different site - one which Verizon chose not to throttle. Verizon was literally able to choose which site became the 'main video site' by degrading the user experience on one of the two.
They want this because they want to degrade ALL service unless you pay a fee. This wouldn't necessarily impact, say, Youtube or Google (they're both huge players and can afford the fee) but they really shouldn't be able to double dip. Youtube already pays for access to the wires, they shouldn't also have to pay another fee because they'll be throttled if they don't. This mostly affects the little people, with that new startup website "twitter" or something. Instead of being able to grow to an internet sensation, Verison will just choke them out, especially if their services conflict with one Verizon offers. |
This is the reason why. All this does is take the open source components that goes into making iOS and OSX and puts it on another set of hardware. I believe the Darwin open source bits are licensed under the [Apple Public Source License]( so there are no restrictions on derivative works outside of releasing the source code. |
This article is a little misleading, but it is still a very important step towards understanding stem cell differentiation and a huge step forward for showing the role of epigenetics in cell differentiation.
First of all, they did not just take red blood cells and turn them into stem cells. RBCs do not have any DNA in them so this would be rather unlikely to happen. They took multipotent stem cells and turned them into pluripotent stem cells. In layman's terms they took cells that can only turn into different types of blood cells and allowed them to change into many other cell types.
Multipotency to pluripotency is not a new thing. Researchers have been doing this for almost a decade. However, accomplishing this without altering the cell genome is very important. This shows that an external stimulus can cause dedifferentiation and will significantly contribute to the study of epigenetics.
So what does this mean? It may make stem cell treatments and research much easier because researchers don't have to alter genes to get to a different differentiation type. It also shows that similar mechanics involved in differentiation are at play in dedifferentiation. |
There's a bunch of replies here saying Google is anti net neutrality without saying why, so just for reference, [here it is]( I like Google and I would get Google Fiber in a heartbeat if I could, but yeah the |
I like Apple hardware and, really, competition in general. There is just a lot of cross-pollination going on between the different platforms. We need them all to succeed.
That said, here's a trend I've noticed... The standard Apple fan/apologist will tell you why they love Apple. Sometimes they are misinformed, but the point is that the emotion is positive. Comparatively, those on the other side of the fence don't necessarily praise Microsoft, or Google or whatever. The will tell you why they hate Apple. Sometimes they are misinformed, but the emotion is negative. To m,e Apple fans aren't smug, they're more so just happy. And you know that if that sentence were a standalone post on reddit the top comment would be "ignorance really IS bliss. Lulz". Which is exactly my point. |
For my internet, I have two choices: Time Warner or AT&T. I've had AT&T come to my house over and try to convince me to switch to them. This last time when representatives came to my house I started the conversation with "I'm sorry, but all I want is cheaper and faster internet. You cannot give me this, so you are better off saving your time and going to the next house". Just like every time they come, they've try to sell me the packaged deal where I pay for services I don't want and slower internet. I realize these people have to try their best to sell people their plans, but the lengths they go utter piss me off. I have friends who use AT&T for their internet and they've all agreed it's awful. |
When I go to to the dmv I always find the employees friendly and helpful. The one bad experience I had there was when a guy ahead of me in line flipped out and started jumping up on counters and kicking monitors. They shuffled the rest of us outside until the cops arrived (it lasted several minutes; the guy was really committed to his tirade) then dragged him outside and tased him a few times. I've never seen so much schadenfreude out of a crowd of random people from all walks of life as then. |
Even at whole coins a GB, you'd have to be a serious power user / have an extremely low bill to pass the USD/GB mark where it is higher than your current bill. According to my ISP, this household only used 400 GB last month at .05$ per GB, that would be a 20$ bill. Even at 10 cents a GB it would STILL be less than the current bill. (and more than a kilowatt hour for us).
Usage based billing is seriously better, they are incentivized to provide us higher speeds.
Even if the traditional cable market went away, and ISPs ran TV over the wire, just to charge us per GB used, that would still be optimal to the current situation. Because if they did that, then the money we save by only buying a single thing from them (internet) as opposed to the "triple play" bundle (200$ for us) would still be cheaper, unless they are just not compressing it at all before sending it, but their infrastructure probably could not handle that. |
Necropost? Most of those links are dead, and the comments are from 4 years ago.
The only working links go to newer versions of the things in that list:
Google Shopper apparently isn't a thing(?), the link just goes to [Google Shopping](
Google Goggles goes to a websearch response liting of a [help page]( explaining how to use Google Goggles on Android.
Google Shared Spaces goes to [Google Hangouts](
Google News Timeline just links to plain old [Google News]( |
If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate the performance of the feature and improve it. |
I believe this is mostly true except for your justification about why they collect and transmit all data.
What /u/acr2001 said is important. It's entirely possible to listen for a trigger word locally and then begin recording and analyzing, this is how Siri and Google's voice recognition software works. I suppose some might ask how it would know when to stop listening but Siri and Google get around this by waiting for a full stop or timing-out. |
I can answer this- I have a bunch of stuff plugged in to my smart TV.
The media PC is what gets used most often, for watching Netflix and video files and listening to music on iTunes and Pandora and looking up the answers to arguments on Wikipedia.
The Blu-Ray player gets used for watching Blu-Rays, we never use any of the connected apps on it, but it's on the network for firmware updates.
The smart TV gets used for Netflix and Pandora if we can't be bothered to turn on the PC. Also, we have on occasion rented a 3D movie from Vudu, and just about the only way that works is if it is streamed directly to the TV.
The Chromecast gets used to stream YouTube videos that we find on Reddit. Seriously, that's just about all we use it for. Occasionally Netflix- if we were watching something on our phones it's easy to fling it over to the Chromecast, but it's really rare that we're watching something on a phone, on WiFi. |
If it doesn't how will it know when you're talking?
Samsung just told you that if you enable voice recognition then it will listen to you and that it uses a third party to translate that text which is useful.
It's not clear if voice recognition is on by default (note to self: check my TV when I get home) but clearly you can disable it.
If you thought you were getting voice recognition built into your TV that didn't require sending it out for processing that might have been wishful seeing as they don't have enough CPU to make their menus responsive. |
what's to stop it -
blocking outbound connections that you don't confirm at firewall/router from that device. I'm assuming, at this point anyways, that the address the voice commands are sent to would be separate than the update server, so you could block connections so the voice recognition ip's, although they could just make it difficult to tell which are which.
And for the paranoid (my job), as memory gets cheaper they could record and save, sending off file when updating. Don't forget that technically, speakers can function as microphones, so you can't just disable a mic unless you also disable the speakers on tv (are you sure that just outputting sound to a receiver means they can't use those speakers as microphones?). |
I have apps on my (older, dumber model) SmartTV, and the only use I use anymore is Hulu. I can connect my tablet or laptop via hdmi, but usually don't bother unless I really want to watch something I can't easily cast through my Chromecast. For example sometimes I have trouble casting direct from website in a Chrome tab on my laptop.
I use my Chromecast all the time. Through my phone: Netflix? Yes every day. Music? Pandora and Google Play All Access Music make this easy. I assume other Google Play stuff works super easy too. Hulu sometimes because the app interface is different on android than on the smartTV. Don't feel like watching/listening to anything? Well a black tv screen is boring, turn it on and set to the Chromecast input for a constantly changing screensaver, makes a nice background. I think there might even be apps to let you stream from your desktop but I haven't checked that out yet. |
I sold original cable TV door to door. No HBO or any other channels except what was already coming to you over the air. It was $5 a month. The only benefit was a perfect picture and no antenna on your roof you still got all the commercials.
Almost everyone bought it, in some neighborhoods my penetration rate was almost 70% after the first year.
HBO was a microwave relay network and it kinda sucked with no real good movies. Its main benefit was getting around local sports game blackouts. II did not become useful until time Warner bought it in the 1980's and put it in a satellite. That sold like crazy as well. |
well though out post. i have a friend who work in military acquisitions and he talked about this one part they had to buy (It was either a board or a chip) and the place that originally made it when out of business or just stopped making that one part, so some other company bought the equipment and charged a ridiculous rate for the part. he said it would have been just as cost effective to research a newer replacement part. |
Back in 2002 I actually tested/screened potential TSA employees. It was the summer after my senior year of college and I was leaving for a study abroad course to finish my language requirement in the fall and need something temporary. My supervisor was a 19 year old girl who only wore long denim skirts and had just graduated high school and a 65 year old high school educated woman who read Oprah magazine all day.
It was the most ridiculous job I've ever had. They were looking to hire about 2000 people in the Pittsburgh area alone and about 15000 people showed up to apply. The government rented out the entire Pittsburgh Convention Center and 6 floors of the adjoining hotel for 3 months to process everybody. The testing consisted of about 15 remedial testing stations. I was at the suitcase sorting exercise in which people had to take numbered suitcases and put them in the taped off area with the corresponding number. It was setup in the Presidential Suite of the hotel
I was paid $20/hour, time and half after 8, and usually worked at least 10 hours a day. My supervisors (2 per station) made $45/hr and stayed in the hotel (the whole hiring program they stayed on and traveled with it.) There was also probably about 20 other full time logistics people that traveled as well and probably made more than the supervisors. So total I would estimate they spent $44,000 a day just on labor and another $5,000 a day on lodging, plus the cost of the convention center and hotel suites which I'll guess was at least another $20,000 for a total of $69,000/day plus food to feed everyone because we couldn't leave. |
Pssssst. If you have an "injury" that prevents you from raising one/both of your arms/hands over your shoulders/head (can't make a hand diamond) then you are (hint) not allowed to go through the backscatter (hint) and you have (hint) to go through the metal detector.
Also, they are not allowed (hippa/ADA) to ask what it is exactly that causes your terrible condition, but they will ask if your terrible condition involves metal implants that would set off a metal detector.
For those people suffering from such conditions, there is no need to opt out, nor for the extra.... attention..... that opting out brings.
In the case of someone I know, that person asks for extra medical screening at the carry-on X-ray belt drop. Since this implies more work for the poor rushed TSA agent, they will be quick to ask why. When told that this person can't raise their arm over their head, they will be sure to judgmentally lecture the passenger that they actually DON'T need extra screening, the passenger just needs to step through the metal detector next to the agent.
The lecture will end with the passenger walking through the arch, while being told that in future they need not ask for extra screening, they just need to ask to use the metal detector.
Every time.
However, should the passenger ever just ask to use the metal detector from the beginning, even for medical reasons, the answer will be "no" followed by brief debate, followed by a supervisor (which could go either way), and ends with the agent just sending the passenger for extra "opt-out" attention.
Every time. |
from their [website](
> In the UK, and many of the developed countries worldwide, there is a shortage of scientists, engineers and mathematicians and we therefore urgently need our young people to be motivated to enjoy and study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects at school and then at university. The BLOODHOUND Project is endeavouring to be the catalyst through which young people will acquire the skills and develop innovative talents that will enable them to overcome the challenges we face on a global scale. |
Basically Braidwood is put in a slot, similar to your current RAM. The Intel P55 chipset motherboards that are coming out for Core i5 were supposed to have Braidwood support (the spot where a slot goes is visible on pre-production motherboard). However, for some reason the functionality was removed and Intel delayed introduction. |
Overreaction. Jesus. They APPLIED for a patent. That means they have not been granted ANYTHING. It also does not mean they have developed any technology. Apple (and all technology companies) patent many things that never make it to market for various reasons.
Either way -- its a pretty neat idea. If it seems like a different user is using the cellphone, a service could notify you or turn on GPS or wipe the phone. Seems like a fairly smart idea.
So we have a reaction to a technology that is neither patented nor developed that we don't even know the use cases of -- just that it maybe might do this thing we don't like. This is probably something you could turn off or not use.. like mobile me. |
This patent isn't describing a method to catch aliens. It's describing (in detail) a means to catch someone ("unauthorized user") doing something with the device that's out of the ordinary. Reading the claims section of the patent describes in moderate detail the means Apple intends to use to catch said "unauthorized user".
Yes, I understand fully that Apple frequently applies for patents it will never use. Another company or inventor could have applied for this exact patent and nobody would care. Why? The inventor would then use the invention as an opt-in service. Apple itself is the problem here; such a patent implies that they intend to use this technology, or at least would like to leave open the opportunity to use it. Knowing Apple's current product portfolio (and reiterating what other users have said), this is most likely intended to be an extension of MobileMe, a pay-to-play opt-in service.
What freaks the EFF out is that Apple seeks to apply for said patent with the intent to implement the invention (if awarded) for "security purposes". Lately, Apple has a horrendous track record with dealing with users' personal freedoms to run unauthorized software and modify their firmware (read: "jailbreaking"), even though such activity is permitted as an exemption to the DMCA, the law Apple cites most often to imply jailbreakers are committing a crime. The [patent]( explicitly describes in claim 4 that this invention could be used against jailbreakers or users who do not use the device in accordance with Apple's EULA.
Yes, this is a patent, not a product. There is no 'terms of service' associated with it, as it does not yet exist. Yes, the EFF is sensationalizing this patent, but for a reason: the EFF just won a huge battle in court over jailbreaking devices. They want the public to know that modifying your device is legal , despite what the company says. They also want people to know that if Apple seeks to use this patent against people rightfully using their devices within the law that they can take legal recourse on the people's behalf, but there would be biometric data collected that Apple could then use for malicious purposes (lawsuits/settlements get a lot cheaper when there is a bargaining chip).
It's not about what is likely to be done with the invention (which is nothing) that bothers people, it's what could be done with the collected personal data. It also bothers people (myself included) that Apple has even thought of such a wanton invasion of privacy, in the name of security. I guess Apple has taken a few lessons from the TSA. |
In terms of Solaris, it is more like delaying the free. Up until Oracle came along, OpenSolaris was months ahead of Solaris in terms of features. Oracle now wants to end that by closing down the semi-open development model and only releasing Solaris code once an RTM version of Solaris ships.
Aside from that, another issue is that the community doesn't have a method of contributing anymore. While opensolaris was never fully open, you could propose code changes, look at the bug database, submit bugs, etc. That all got shut down with the end of the opensolaris project.
The dirty secret here that nobody seems to mention is that Oracle is only obligated to release changes to the existing source code. If new features are added to the OS, those aren't required to have the code released. There may in the future be some killer features of the OS that will never make it to other OSes such as BSD or the opensolaris forks that are appearing. |
Can you blame them? And why would you "publish" anything on Facebook that you might hope to one day sell commercially anyways? They are responsible for the content that is attributed to Facebook, keep in mind. What if a terrorist group recruited on Facebook? Who would get sued for hosting the information (I will give you a hint, it's Facebook). Facebook, at the end of the day, is responsible for the content posted on their website.
Listen, I get the anti-corporation rhetoric on Reddit (for the most part). Politicians being bought by corporations, corporations sponsoring "grass roots" political movements, corporation cooperating with the government by granting warrantless wiretaps etc. I get it. But to call Facebook, which is arguably the most effective privately owned method of connecting people worldwide in the history of the world, a "thinly-veiled marketing survey" is ridiculous.
News flash you conspiracy loving assholes: you don't need to post information on Facebook, and even if you do, the worst thing that can happen to you for posting "private information" is banner ads that vaguely resemble something you might be interested based on your Activities and Interests in your profile. Ever have a job crunching data based on people's internet habits? Ever written an algorithm to make sense of internet data? Well I have, and let me tell you: there is nothing sinister about it. It is the equivalent of complaining about having television advertisements being marketed just for you. There is nothing sinister about it. Everything you do is a thinly veiled marketing survey, because that's how the fucking world works. Goddamn. I mean you are always being marketed to. Fuck. I can't go on. Don't blame Facebook because it is popular you stupid assholes. |
famous last words.
I have Sprint and I have a love hate relationship with them.
I have the unlimited plan but downgraded to the 69.99 (400 minutes) plan as opposed to the 99.99 (unlimited minutes). Right about this time, Sprint decided to change their rewards program so that anyone not paying at least $100 per month had to wait 2 years for an upgrade. [EDIT: instead of 1 year]
Also, I purchased an Evo 4 g without realizing my area had crappy 4 g coverage (that's my bad though). I'll admit it has gotten better, but mostly because I moved. It's hard to get a good connection, you have to pay a premium data charge, and switching to 3g when 4g is unavailable is slower than molasses in January. Driving through LA listening to Hype on Android, I'm lucky to stream 5 songs with no buffering.
Their website does not break down billing well, so you never actually know how much of what kind of data you consume. For Sprint this is ok, because you're paying for unlimited data anyway. For me, it seems unfair to be billed a premium data charge if I'm unable to use it. Perhaps I'm just being nitpicky.
Either way, the unlimited data does rock pretty hardcore, and if the rumors of iPhone 5 are true then I should brace myself for even slower internet speeds. don't be fooled by others, for anything other than basic CS questions (like billing or phone problems) customer service is useless. |
No, that video shows nothing of the sort. The video shows the android debug output, which includes the fact the Carrier IQ app receives events for keystrokes, page loads, and text messages. It does not show any logging of this data or what it uses these events for. It makes perfect sense for a usage tracking app to monitor these events without logging the data so it can count page views, messages sent, whether message sends failed, times that the power button was hit, etc. without logging specifics of the url, message content, or letter keys hit.
Show me information on what the program actually stores and transmits instead of a debug log output that shows what events it receives. Then I'll believe whether it is logging or not this information. For now, we have no idea what it is doing with the information except that what they state it does can still perfectly match with the event log shown. |
copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive
People that do this drive me insane. Even so called "IT experts" seem to have no clue how keyloggers work. It is like every time the word "keylogger" is used a little tiny part of everyone's brain is removed.
HTTP "keyloggers" install a network filter driver, capture POST packets, strip out the boring bits, compress them, and deliver them. This is so the login information contains context something that is hugely important when you're targeting at least tens of thousands of users.
Alternative methods that can defeat HTTPS include browser addons, spying on the windowing system and gathering windows messages aimed at certain kinds of objects (e.g. text fields) then combining it with the window's title for context.
While sometimes literal keyboard hooks are used, that is rare, and often times it is in combination with other methods. The biggest problem with literal keyboard hooks is that they fail to give context and thus when you include thousands of users or more you will have more information than you could realistically process. You want a nice database of username, password, and URL. |
The purpose of the economy is not to create economic growth, it's to create goods and services which people want, generating freedom from slavery and eventually drudgery.
Economic growth is an easy to measure indicator that in most cases tells you more goods and services are being created... Except in some specific cases, this is one of them - by halting fair use you halt the creation of derivative works.
Copyright should only grant a monopoly big enough to persuade artists to create art, not enough that they retire and stop producing.
It bugs me that more people don't spot the obvious ridiculousness in all of this, the economy may be served by activity which 'generates demand'. But society is in the main not. The economy is massively hurt by patent and copyright trolls since they both destroy production AND divert resources to non-productive activities. In the case of the "UK Entertainment industry" this accounts for the majority of their activity. |
I work refunds at a major retailer, with a relatively lax return policy. Let me give you a small example of what I see on a daily basis...
I have several people who would keep their electronics right until the end of the return policy, then return and buy a brand new one... now when you do this for a few years and you're buying a new laptop or tv every time, the unusable electronics just pile up. Several of those guys racked up a return history of over $50,000 in 3 years. And those are just the regular offenders.
I would see people return shoes, very well worn, just because they didn't like them any more. Had one guy return 3 year old shoes, covered in mud, because they were starting to wear out. After him screaming for about 20 minutes, the store manager just gave him his money back to get him out. The guy then had the nerve to ask for the shoes back since we were about to throw them away anyway, because they "were still comfortable".
One woman attempted to return a piece of furniture that was over 8 years old. Big crack in the top that was obviously made from someone STANDING on it. Now, since we HAVE this ID checking policy in place for ten years, we discovered she had returned over 90% of everything she had ever bought in the last ten years. When the store manager refused her, she threw the biggest fit. We had to escort her out.
I have a million more stories. My friends: this is a huge reason why prices are going up, which is why the ID checking is very useful.
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The sad thing about this conversation is that, when discussing BB's future, the course of their actions have been framed completely wrong.
A lot of commenters state that they just use Amazon, it's cheaper, etc.
Let me ask you this - why does BB not have a viable online store? It's because, simply, they don't want one. They made the decision to deal with customer service at each store, as opposed to dealing with it by phone / email. Part of the consequence of organizing your CS this way is dealing with fraudulent returns.
I'm not suggesting that online retailers don't have this issue. I'm saying that it is a fraction of a percent compared to traditional stores. Why? Shipping costs that the customer is responsible for. And the hassle of packaging, etc.
The rest of your post concerning turning down business, etc is really not valid when re framing the conversation in this manner.
None of your post deals with the privacy issue that store and transmitting government identification creates.
The only thing that it addresses is the loss of revenue from the perspective of a business owner. |
the news articles are [here]( and [here](
Basically here's the story:
There's a nerf gun enthusiast named Martyn Yang who has a website promoting nerf guns. One day he gets a letter from Hasbro (who produces nerf guns) saying that they liked his website and would like to send him some nerf guns. Like any great fan he was excited and gave them a postal address.
No nerf guns came but a week later, a stinging letter arrived in his mailbox threatening legal action unless he took down 'copyrighted' images from his blog. Basically, Hasbro rep used a false offer of free merchandise to dupe Yang into giving up his street address.
His website had been offline for months as a result.
There were some further developments about a month later:
"On Sunday, Yang was told by his neighbours that some creepy people were hanging around his apartment. He confronted them, one of whom called herself “Christine”. They wanted to tape the conversation. Yang told Crikey he was ” so taken aback/shocked by the ambushing technique that I talked to them.”
“My neighbours were freaked out by the sight of the Baker & McKenzie ‘representatives’ lurking around our apartment building on a Sunday afternoon. Apparently they’d been hanging around all day waiting for me! I’ve asked around and been told that the people were probably private investigators engaged by Bakers and not Baker & McKenzie themself but I don’t think that that lets Hasbro or the law firm off the hook?—?ultimately they are responsible for making sure that the tactics that they use are reasonable.”
Martyn Yang's blog/website is called [Urban Taggers]( Lets show him some support against the corporate scums! |
NEWSFLASH! THIS JUST IN!
Apparently when you store data on a cloud server, and you agree to let the company own this data, they do! CALL THE CHIEF OF POLICE! |
they support it because they support stopping internet piracy and they stand a lot to lose.
i've also looked a lot into the bill and a recent amendment includes a provision "to permit federal lawsuits against the government for any violation of restrictions placed on the government’s use of voluntarily shared information, including the important privacy and civil liberties protections contained in the bill." |
Again you can't know. Scientist have hypothesized that human brain was enlarged by a birth defect that caused our jaws to lose their biting prowess.
Another hypothesis says early humans were forced to wear skins of other animals because louses totally destroyed our natural hair.
Look at Stephen Hawking. He suffers from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Would our species be better without someone like him? Humans greatest strength isn't purity of genes but ability to symphatsize with fellow man and helping them. By helping them others accumulate knowledge that may help other that have no such problems.
Because let's face it for right price who wouldn't want their child to be a blond, blue-eyed, muscle bound boy of superior intelligence, high obedience, superior willpower and increased resistance to pain (that glows in the dark). |
For my home machine: I'd say ability to get back up and running is key.
Now: it does act as a server. (Very very small time web server, file server, SSH for anything I need to do remotely without restrictions of corporate networks.)
But it is not important enough that I need to survive a hard drive failure without interruption. (e.g: in real time, I don't need it to alert me to a failure. The system can crash and burn and I can deal with it when the time comes.)
That being said: when I'm in front of the machine, getting back up and running needs to be as quick as possible. Hence my imaging of the OS/Apps plan.
Restoring data doesn't need to happen nearly as quickly (nor can it, with 2TB@7200RPM drives that's gonna take some time; whether that's rebuilding a RAID array or flat copying files)
I was thinking of investing in a solid RAID adapter (I've heard LSI has some fairly affordable ones that'll work well and not break the bank) - I would at the worst do mobo RAID, I wouldn't even bother with software RAID though.
You raise a good point about having drives not connected to the power supply, hadn't thought of that. I was hoping to mitigate some of that risk by using a UPS which should prevent any serious surges from getting to the system. (But the whole point of this plan is that shit happens ; I was just thinking this was an acceptable risk.)
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The data is worth quite a bit to me: most of it can be regained without much issue from various sources, but that's pretty much my go-to store for my entire professional and academic career. |
I think it is at least that easy to try , or to state your dissatisfaction in polls. I don't think the change itself would be easy.
But as it stands, a significant majority of the US electorate keeps demonstrating their ongoing support for the status quo by wavering back and forth between two slightly different right wing options, instead of increasingly showing their support for the least bad of the bunch and/or registering with third parties, even if they were to end voting for the current asshats in national elections.
We see it in ludicrous behavior such as people who talk about "punishing" the Democrats because a president belonging firmly to the right wing of the Democratic party (the reason he was electable in the first place) wasn't left wing enough for them, and who wants to do that by voting Republican. The irrationality is astounding. It's a bit like self-flagellating yourself to protest.
It is an electorate that just barely care enough to whine, and certainly not enough to try to change anything.
There's zero evidence that the US population in general care enough or is dissatisfied enough to even seek out or promote alternative parties in any significant numbers. Even if voting "third party" for Congress or President would be a "risk" with the current system (yet one that pays off - see the impact the semi-fascist neocons have had by going full retard and refusing compromises), if Americans really were so tired of this there should be tons more independents and third parties making good gains in county elections etc..
Where are they?
There won't be a nationwide revolution anytime soon, because Americans today don't care. Only 12% or so of the US workforce is even unionized. Most rarely vote. Third parties get pretty much ignored. Once and again there's an uproar over specific issues. When you do get widespread action, such as with the "tea party" it tends to support more ass hattery rather than change. Movements like "Occupy" remains miniscule. |
Let's think about what would happen if the patent system on commonplace hardware technology we're abolished.
The idea of a patent is that it prevents others (usually powerful companies) from stealing your inventions. But we have reached a point in our history where ANYONE can essentially program something or put together a computer with some prior training. Unless something truly revolutionary like a retina-scanner to unlock your phone were to be put onto the market, anything that is our there can essentially be hacked together by anybody. The swipe to unlock as a patent is ridiculous because anybody can make something work like that, just like anybody can make a phone square or rectangular shaped. None of the ideas are extremely monetarily beneficial to the initial creator of the product, and that is the most important thing. Something like a new over the counter drug, however, has so many possibilities, which is why patents are used.
The other part about drugs vs. computing technology Is that drugs are a specific combination of chemicals. There can be specific combinations in computers, like Apple's method of creating the Retina resolution screens.
The fashion industry doesn't have patents. Fashion designers work with materials that we humans have been working with for centuries. And the fabric is relatively cheap. Anyone could hash together a similar to Lois Vuitton bag, but their logo can't be copied, which is why they plaster it all over their stuff. Computers have reached the point, too, where all the materials for creation are easily attainable and only getting cheaper (Moore's law?) when someone can code the same swipe to unlock as a big company, there can't be patents on that. It stifles innovation. If everyone could legally hack together a mockup of the iPhone's general setup, it would force Apple to create new technology and software that is more and more unique. Owning a certain brand would no longer just be getting something because you like how it is designed. It becomes buying something because you trust how it is made.
Warrantees are also crucial to this - any person whose homemade computer breaks has no warrantee on the computer. They have to fix it themselves. But companies have the money and ability offer Warrantees. |
Windows 8 Edition Comparison .
Also, [it DOES come with a keyboard]( the only rumor was the price tag.
Surface may not be at the level of Ipad but it does take a giant step toward it, especially since it is possible to hack it for much more customization than the puny Ipad walled garden. |
Comes with a keyboard if you give them an extra $119" is not the same as "Comes with a keyboard", fanboi. Windows RT wouldn't have to be hacked to run Windows 8 programs if it did so in the first place, and you can hack an iPad too so I'm not sure what your point is. Just because I can hack Android onto a Touchpad doesn't mean you can say the Touchpad "Comes with Android," now does it? |
I hate and despise Google+, and am starting to hate and despise Google as well.
I had a Google account some years ago, but no longer needed it, and didn't keep my account info. Then Google+ comes along, and decides that it's OK to spam me with Google+ announcements.
There's a handy link at the bottom of each of these spams for opting out. But you need to log into your account to unsubscribe. Not having my account info, I can't do that. I tried answering their questions to retrieve my account, but failed.
Sorry, we don't believe you own this account, but we'll happily keep spamming the email account associated with it.
In the past, this sort of behavior has been used only by the slimiest of slimy spammers.
Ah, well:
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The article is stating that the XKCD(graphic) is wrong. Brute forcing hashes has gotten much faster over the last few years thanks to GPU based cracking and cloud networks.
This allows dictionary based attacks to operate exponentially faster and instead of trying a huge list of words, now they will try every combination of every word in the file. So if your password is batteryhorsestaple and the dictionary file has battery, horse, and staple anywhere in it the password would be cracked.
Here is where the article essentially says the same thing:
> The specific type of hybrid attack that cracked that password is known as a combinator attack. It combines each word in a dictionary with every other word in the dictionary....
> ..."The combinator attack got it! It's cool," he said. Then referring to the oft-cited xkcd comic, he added: "This is an answer to the batteryhorsestaple thing."
Edit: Since people seem to not know just how much faster cracking has gotten thanks to GPU Based Cracking.
CPU (Computer Processor) and GPU (Graphics Processor) are fundamentally different in how they operate. A CPU has 4-8 cores while a GPU has hundreds. Cracking a password involves performing basic math that doesn't require any of the advanced functions a CPU Core provides; so a single core from a GPU and CPU complete the task in the same amount of time. The cores is what limits the processor from performing tasks simultaneously; so in the sense of cracking you want as many cores as possible because that will allow you to crack more passwords simultaneously.
So to give you an idea on how much this impacts performance, I found results from CPU and GPU for a NTLM based password [here]( The CPU cracked at 9.8 million/s while the GPU was 3.334 billion/s. Keep in mind the way a password is stored will greatly effect the speed of crack, these statistics were gathered with NTLM. |
My (great) aunt is literally computer illiterate. It's almost painful to watch her use a computer. I don't hold it against her, or at least I try not to. She just didn't grow up with computers, and never really adapted.
That said, however, a few years back I set her up with an old laptop of mine. I installed a mail client, gpg, and generated a keypair for her. Gave her my public key. After several weeks, she'd managed to learn how to use the email client, and now we regularly send emails back and forth to each other.
Her email client is now configured so that, if she has a trusted key to any recipient, outgoing email is encrypted by default. She doesn't have to do anything special, she just has to click compose, write how she's doing, and click send. All of her outgoing email messages are signed, too. So when she sends mail to me, it's automatically encrypted.
For all intents and purposes, she views the laptop as a magical communication portal. And honestly, she doesn't need to know how it works, just how to use it. That's all that matters. |
Are you asking how do they stay in business or how do they encrypt email in a way that they can not read it? They are based in Sweden not the U.S. They use openpgp with 2048 bit keys and using the customer's public key they run a cron job on their server that encrypts all the email in the inbox with that key. Obviously if the email arrived encrypted its already secure. You can also run a pgp dump on the email and confirm that they are only using the customer key not their own. |
However, Insertion sort benefits greatly
The risk of using insertion sort is not that it will work. It's due to another teammate coming on-board and publicly criticizing you for using insertion sorts. This is an on-going gripe I have about the software development industry: misguided adherence to the socially accepted way of doing things.
Allow me to list 3 types of coders.
Sloppy coder: no concern for algorithms and memory usage. They are code monkeys banging out inferior software who have become the bane of quality coders (type 2 and 3 below).
Canonical coder: always using the best general algorithm. They are engineers well versed in algorithms and data structures and have strong opinions on which are good and bad. For example, Quick Sort good, Insertion Sort bad. Sick of dealing with group 1 engineers, they have become vocal warriors exposing inferior work wherever they encounter it.
Precision coder: always using the optimal algorithm for the specific problem. This is the algorithm used by the well versed engineer who is solving a specific problem.
66% of engineers fall into group 1.
33% of engineers fall into group 2.
1% of engineers fall into group 3.
In your post you mentioned an example where you used an insertion sort because it was faster than quick sort. You were acting as a group 3 coder by tailoring your solution to the specific problem which is good work; however, to a group 2 coder your work appears to be the result of a group 1 coder choosing inferior algorithms out of ignorance.
They came to that conclusion because they've not performed the performance evaluations in the production environment where that software will live. You end up spending more time than you should need to defending your work to vocal group 2 engineers criticizing you for using "inferior" algorithms (/sarcasm). |
so who wants to |
This has nothing to do with Samsung so how can that be the |
You are ridiculous, you have pronounced him guilty without a trial.
I am not pronouncing anyone guilty, I am not a judge. But from a legal stand point it was pretty open shut. The prosecution was not going into this case thinking "This will be a tough sell", and it wasn't likely that there would be much deliberation. The jury would be left with proof that he committed the actions that were against the written words of the law, with nothing but a plea from Aaron that the law was unjust.
I get that you feel the kid was a good guy and didn't deserve to go to jail. Neither do I but I don't believe that he should go to jail because he didn't probably break the law, I believe he shouldn't go to jail because the law as written is batshit insane.
> You ever heard of this thing called "The Supreme Court?"
First of, lets review what had to happen for him to get to the supreme court: He had to go to court and appeal the obvious guilty ruling. I would have loved to see that. This is what civil disobedience is about, and the shitstorm that would have followed him being sentenced to likely multiple years of jail for something this insignificant would have been great for his cause (Well if that was truly his cause and not just an excuse to do as he pleased). And then he could repeal it as high as he could possibly get it, hopefully even to the supreme court.
Now secondly in the event that it actually got that high. The supreme court cannot repeal a law. No court can repeal a law, since the courts are not the entity that build and repeal laws. What they can do is to decide upon an interpretation that would let him get off, hold it unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable or issue an injunction against it for a multitude of reasons. The chance that they would do any of those things is pretty slim, but chances are that if he ever managed to get his case to these levels in the first place, the actual lawmakers would be reconsidering the law, and hopefully completely rewriting it or repealing it. |
Please take a moment to have a read of this chart.
Now obviously we should be avoiding this kind of radiation where possible, so the bracelets are stupid, but anyone with half a brain knew the bracelets were stupid pseudoscience bullshit even before it became known that they were "radioactive". |
I think of alternative medicine as, "Hey, i received treatment from someone other than an M.D."
Because institutions and Academia actually have a specific definition or mindset for what medicine should be considered( like Tums for heart burn will be called "medicine" but eating apples, and ingesting apple cider vinegar for sore throats is alternative to what Medicine is considered as.) If someone told you to drink that shit, you would not say its medicine, and kinda be mind boggled.
So when i hear alternative health, it just means you went and bought colloidal silver to kill toe fungus instead of receiving a prescription from your doctor.
Alternative health just means your choosing an alternative from the Norm., In this case since our society defines medicine to be one certain thing, when people say alternative, they are trying to exclude themselves from saying, I went to the doctor for help."..Thats at least what i understand when people talk about alternative medicine. Even though it might not be correct.
Would we consider smoking marijuana or ingesting THC to cure/help cancer patients as medicine or alternative health? Because establishment considers it as an alternative for the fact it is not a scientifically accepted method, compared to their treatments...SO technically it is alternative. |
if they have the root certs there's nothing you can do"
Not true. Forging a Google cert and signing it with a versisign cert will be incredibly obvious as the signing path will be different, the thumbprint will change, and the issuance date will change.
I believe chrome would throw a fit if that happened-- I dont know the full details but I believe they pin certs for a number of sites and restrict what constitutes a valid signing authority for those sites. |
I responded to a troll in the thread, but I'll state it again here - I'm not an IT professional. I, like most redditors, am the family-IT-guy because I've been working with computers since the DOS days.
Anytime I 'fix' someones computer, there is an informative class that goes along with it while I'm clicking and typing. I explain how they got in the situation they were in, why this ciononfigurat is better than their previous setup, how it will help them, and what they can do to avoid problems in the future. |
Yeah, there's no amount of money available for me to betray friends.
There is, however, an amount available for me to sell the company that I Fucking own while still retaining a majority control over my company.
All that said, Oculus did not get 2bn,they got 400 million and a lot of stock. Not worth shit in my opinion.
I can't believe they sold for so little, to a company that almost nobody actually likes. Yes, nearly 1/3 of the planet uses fb, but "not expecting such a negative response" just shows how short sighted and out of touch with their target demographic they are. |
seriously? your blaming them for setting themselves and their kid's kids up for life? reddit needs to put themselves in their shoes here. chances are, with facebook this thing will probably come out better than if they stuck to doing it solo. now they have the manpower and resources to get shit done. not only that but they are able to take this thing much farther than just video games. if they ignore videogames with this beauty the people in charge should be stabbed; but ONLY thinking about that aspect is single minded and, well, stupid. |
Alright . So I had gone to tmobile because they had a cheaper plan and I'm mostly in the city so the service is supposed to be good. Well I looked at the online map showing it had great service in my city and the other city where I work. So I get a phone and their service and low and behold 0 to 1 bar at my house and the same at my work. I'm supposed to have full bars with 4g lte service but I get 0-1 2g bars. So I go through a 3 month ordeal trying to figure it out with their "engineers". Nothing can be done. Sent in phone 3 times for them to charge me 20$ a pop each time to send me a new one. Well it wasn't the phone. So I figure out for some reason I'm not connecting to their tower in my city. I'm connecting to one in another state. Wtf right? So I tell them this and they finally just tell me there is nothing they can do. So I say take your phone and your service back. I want nothing to do with this. They say no ya gotta pay off the phone 480$ and the contract is non existent other than the phone. I kept saying no take it all back. As I was calling them and telling them the map I saw on their website said I'd have full service and I didn't. they just kept blowing me off by now and saying the map is just an advertisement of their signal and what cities they are in. so I turned them into the fcc since they were false advertising and I didn't get the service they advertised on their map I was free and clear. Sent in the phone and the fcc made them refund everything. even the 20$ they kept charging me . |
I want a free internet but I don't understand a lot of the terminologies going on. (I'm very ignorant) I called a HOR office to tell them one of the things I read in the comment section in another thread and I had no idea what I said to them. In short, I felt very stupid after I ended the call. Can someone explain what a "Title II" is? Why should the internet be a utility? Also, what I should tell my congressmen and what said things even mean. |
No, you may need to work on your reading comprehension as I clearly outlined my points in the first post.
The government does not care what the states laws are, a perfect example of this is how states with medical marijuana laws are still raided by the DEA, as federal laws trump those of the states - even with the 10th amendment.
Secondly, there are already laws that require a warrant to obtain phone and email information yet they clearly violate the 4th amendment and call it 'just metadata'.
So what makes you believe that if this law were to pass that the government would suddenly go "oh ok, I guess we can't read email and phone calls from Missouri"? Answer: Nothing, because they will continue on. |
First I never said they deserve 15 an hour. Never came out of my mouth so there you are making assumptions again.
And yes while some have made bad choices to be in that spot plenty have not. There are degree holders working fast food because "there are no jobs available" or so we are told. Or they have impossible requirements. Again you and assumptions. Would you rather then collect welfare and not do anything? Then you could really get up on your soap box. |
Comcast tech support agent, here. I understand that I'm 'the enemy' here, and will get downvoted because of it.
I understand most of you are technically minded, and have no problems managing your own equipment. I have no problems talking to you on the phones whatsoever; the most you need is a bootfile push, and verification if there's noise on the line. After that, you're able to sort your own home network without our assistance. Out of the 150 or so calls I take a week, they're my absolute favorite.
The problem is, you don't hear the remaining 149 calls I get. Most of the users have no concept or idea how a network 'works', other than magic pixie dust being their closest guess. These people are non-technical in the extreme, and setting a router to use just AES encryption over WPA2 because their brand new Samsung smart TV freaks out when it sees TKIP and won't connect just confuses the living hell out of them. They panic when they fat-finger their network password. They can't even find the modem to powercycle it. They require someone to manage that network for them.
That is what that fee pays for.
They pay Comcast to manage their home network for them. All they have to do is plug stuff in, and it works. When it doesn't, they call a phone number, and the tech on the other end listens to the problem, and just makes the change for them. Period.
On Comcast-owned hardware, using SNMP, I can modify and change 90% of the settings on their modem/router for them. The remaining 10%, I can have them connect a computer to it, remote into that computer, and make the changes for them. I can dig in and even change their wireless password (though, I can't see what it is currently set to). I can see what devices are connected, and even get speed tests to that hardware on their LAN to help troubleshoot slow wireless performance. All the stuff you'd pay a system administrator to do in a business environment.
I will not defend the oligopoly Comcast has created. I will not defend their marketing push stating the speeds they offer are 'good enough'. I will not defend many, many things dealing with Comcast's higher-level business practices. What I will defend is a $120/year charge to luddite customers to have what amounts to a network admin for their home network that's on-call 24/7, and access to all the tools they need to do that job for the customer. |
It really isn't that complicated though.
Running MythTV on a VM is unnecessary. It can run on the same PC as XBMC, I only chose to do it this way because I wanted to re-use under-powered PC's in the bedrooms and have another excuse to leave my PC running constantly. Plus it's nice to have centralized media storage.
But even running XBMC is unnecessary. As someone else has pointed out, using Windows Media Center is practically idiot proof. Like, seriously, plug it in, look at the first two paragraphs of the "getting started" guide that came with the HDHomeRun, and follow the on-screen instructions from there.
Using your own modem can be a pain...if you want to keep using the Verizon Set-top Boxes (STB's) and get Video on Demand (VOD) and Electronic Program Guides (EPG's), but since I don't care about that because of the HDHomeRun...and I got the VZ Tech's to turn up the network port on the Optical Network Termination (ONT), it was also plug-and-play. |
I personally feel that the whole modem rental thing is complete crap. I just got comcast and I wanted the triple play, phone,internet, and tv. I had gone to the store and bought one of the surfboard modems that say they work with comcast. Well anyway when the guy from comcast shows up, he says that it won't work. I asked him why and he said that it won't work for the phone. I ended up having to rent a modem, after doing some research online I found out that you can't buy a modem with the phone capability from anywhere. I saw that some people sell there old comcast modems. But those are most of the time not returned aka stolen. It's a bunch of crap... |
Why, as a consumer, can I not make an agreement with the producer of the product?
I can do this for:
Farms
Computer electronics
Clothing
Art
The list goes onwards. Why are cars the exception: If I want to buy from tesla, I should be allowed to buy RIGHT FROM the factory. No middle man. No bullshit.
If the manufacturer of goods wants to put a minimum order quantity - fine, that is THEIR CHOICE.
No law should protect a business model that is antiquated. There are at least 3 big business that are more or less litigating to keep their jobs - and they are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
Big Media Corps
Car dealerships
Private (auto) insurance companies
Media is going digital, and we want to consume it on demand, through digital. And we want it the day it is released. Staggered releases are no longer acceptable. Region locking is no longer acceptable to a growing size of the market. And buying through a dealer is rapidly becoming antiquated. Insurance? Depending on where you live - you MUST have car insurance. And if driving is more or less necissary for efficient transportation, then guess what - litigation is in place that protects the business model.
Insurance should be a single payer system. Base rate + personal modifier based purely on risk as proven from experience. It does not need to be for profit, in fact, it would be better if it was aiming at net 0.
Car dealerships should be looking at an add value model, servicing of the vehicle so on to draw customers, not pushing litigation to stop buying direct. But then again, I don't trust dealerships as a rule - too many bad experiences.
Media needs to be single, reasonable price, marketed globally within a month or two of it's first release to theater. No staggered releases - global, day one. If openings are not simaltanious - that is fine. Stagger them within that month or two time frame. Then get it to people's shelves.
Why is this the case? Governments job within any society is to protect the interests of the people and state. And there are a few truths to keep in mind:
The more money people have up to a certain point, the more they will spend back into the economy - thus stimulating growth through demand.
The more money business owners have, up to a certain point, the more money they have reason to invest to insure a successful business.
Mandating private business be profitable incentivizes buying out competition over improving service, and increasing prices to what the market will bare.
The last one is a truth of the supply and demand system. Because their is an artificially high demand for the service, the price is artificially inflated. Insurance is important, but needs to have prices that reflect the importance and the fact that the supply (of cash within the system) equal to the demand of that system - it is proportional. Profit rate is then tacked on top of this, with costs divided as an additional added cost on top of that. (I've known a number of people within the insurance industry, and a number of people fed up with the way it works as a business).
Basically: There is no reasonable large incentive to reduce rates without a massive amount of competition. |
It's not a matter of caring vs. not caring. I care about dying in a car crash but I don't avoid driving because the chances of dying that way are pretty small. Likewise, I think all of the things you're describing are pretty unlikely because they require a few unlikely things to happen at the same time.
Looking at the things you mentioned specifically, I think the chance that Google will start selling my private information in a way that I have no control over is sort of small, but lets say that there's a 20% chance of that happening. The chance that that happens while I'm looking for a job makes that chance even smaller and the chance that that happens so consistently that I can't ever find work is almost negligible. Likewise, the chance that I will be sued is small, so the chance that Google will start selling my information to someone who is trying to sue me is even smaller. People who plan to scam me is the most likely scenario, but as I mentioned elsewhere I consider the already existing advertising to me kind of like trying to scam me and I think the chances that they will sell my information to anyone who wants to do anything more aggressive than try to sell me something is very small again.
All told, I think the chances of any of these things actually happening is less than 1%. An off the cuff guess at a worst case scenario is that I might loose as much as $100,000 from any of the siturations that you've mentioned. Given that penalty and my estimation of the likelihood of suffering that penalty, the [expected cost]( of using Googles services is 0.01*$100,000=$1,000. Assuming that Googles services are worth $20/mo for me, I need only use Google for 50 months with this much benefit before my realized benefit exceeds my expected loss. I would estimate that I've been getting more like the $50/mo benefit for the last few years and some smaller benefit before that such that the benefit that I've already accrued is more like $50 36+$30 12+$5*72=$2520 and is currently increasing at $50/mo. |
First of all if Google gets hacked, then you probably lost all your money in your bank account... similar difficulties in technology so privacy would be the least of my worries
I realize that google has their shit together. But it doesn't mean they are bulletproof. Sure the chances of this happening are small, but it is just another reason for me to feel uneasy about them storing my info.
>Secondly, no one who has the technology to hack Google would spend time telling your perspective employer your search history. That's like breaking into the White House to see what colors the carpets are.
Not directly, no. But I could totally see them releasing data dumps of the info Google has on you. Apples and oranges, but look at the recent Sony Pictures hack. One of the things the hackers leaked was the personal information of over 3000 people that worked there. |
They specifically forked Adblock Edge for a reason.
It's not that it's a simple change, it's that there is a concept of 'acceptable ads' in an ad blocking program in the first place. |
This really cracked me up, and so I wanted to share it. (Most of my friends wouldn't appreciate/get it.)
Also, I'm not actually an Apple hater—their products don't make sense to me, but that's because I'm not the type of consumer they're after. The design choices this video is criticizing the new MacBook were all things that puzzled me when I first heard about them, but after thinking about it I think that Apple knows their customers and knows what their customers want (a simple experience and a premium feel). But regardless, I laughed way too much at this video! |
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