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Question: I'm a Canadian and came home from university to find our internet connection was no longer secured. My mom said it just randomly happened. Tried to log-on to my modem and add a security but it wouldn't let me in. Called the support line posted on cisco's (my modem company) website. I went through a very simil... |
I got a few of these calls a few months ago. One time when I had nothing better to do, I played along. When he said the errors were caused by viruses, I told him that I knew about the viruses and I liked them. He said they were bad viruses, and he wanted to help me remove them. I explained that I didn't want to remove ... |
I did this exact thing when they called me - I was bored and had played around for about 45 minutes. Originally he had got me to the eventviewer by spelling it out, e for egg, v for vision etc. I started having 'issues' and started spellling out the errors to him - f for foxtrot, u for uniform, c for charlie etc. I ... |
The companies are doing just fine [digital music report 2012](
What we're finally seeing is an industry that realises it has to change its business model. The pressure for this change was brought by piracy. Where the industry has changed it has done extremely well. |
Overall music sales have fallen
Cite your source please. As far as I'm aware profits overall are up.
Physical sales are down because people now want to obtain their media online. This is a desire the media industry was fighting because they could inflate prices on physical media... Something that got them into very... |
Story time:
An artist uploaded his own videos. They were later blocked by his record label, apparently. He then contacted his label... and was told that they didn't block his videos, GEMA did because they were in conflict with YouTube. The artist then contacted GEMA and he was told that they in fact were in conflict ... |
The younger ones and those who actually spend a lot of time on the internet know the direness of this situation pretty well.
The older ones in contrary, those who don't use the internet so often, mostly don't know about this. This also leads to the situation that, when the topic is discussed, the "older generation" m... |
You don't sound like someone who knows security (especially for someone who supposedly attended BlackHat.
Bad runtime environment vulnerabilities have existed ever since the beginning. These generally can be easily mitigated by disabling browser plugins. So no they are hardly regarded as "major" vulnerabilities des... |
It is doubtful you can hang up in the time it takes to make the connection.
As a Brit, ages ago at uni, when playing with an imate-SP5 (a smartphone pre-iphone, that had 'apps') I'd been writing such an app in the free-for-all that was WM.
Slight bug in it stopped the lock screen from working, get distracted slam p... |
Gamestop and other physical game stores are gonna be hit hardest by this.
Good. I for one could care less if GameStop's empire burns to the ground. They've literally made hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars off of used games of which the developers haven't seen a single cent of. Publishers and Developer... |
No.](
This is a terrible misquote. It seems like it will work similarly to Arcade games. You buy a disc as an alternative to network installation, you install the game and link it to your GT. Since your console is associated with your GT, anyone on that console can play the game. If you log in from a different consol... |
You seem to think that official channels never had a chance to make the right choice, but they had several months before the encryption key for Manning's Wikileaks-dump was accidentally released by a journalist.
And "official channels" aren't typically going to do the right thing in the military. Official channels... |
The smart move would be for Microsoft, Facebook et al to release a press statement stating that they are unwilling to release any further press statements on the matter until they are permitted to tell the truth. Then hold their position.
Any further press releases can then be compared against what Snowden reveals ne... |
Uneducated? How are you not weary of the Kinect?? All the stuff it can do. Not what you can do with it, but what it can do. I appreciate the 'constructive' criticism. I am concerned though with how Microsoft is pushing the Kinect. Also, people forget you still have to check-in online with the XBox every 24 hrs w... |
I'm distraught though.
On the one hand, I've worked in government and saw first-hand that 80% of the people are incompetent and most of the systems are 80% broken. Despite being in an area of government that involved testing new "systems", those systems generally failed to meet the functionality the government order... |
What this comes down to is this:
Situation one:
The police can use stolen evidence in an investigation. If you steal a bunch of written transaction records and drugs and money from the crack house down the street, and hand it to the cops, the cops are allowed to use that as evidence. After all they didn't tell yo... |
It goes further than that. The FBI was alerted by the Russian FSB (successor of the KGB) what Tzarnaev was up to. See, a disproportionate amount of extremists get their training in Chechyna (which is a very Islamic region) and Tzar had been hanging around with some unsavory groups during his visit away from the US.
T... |
I didn't imply that Russia should just level all of Chechyna, merely that a big reason they didn't go full out was due in part to how stern we were acting about the loss of innocent life and, in general, civil rights.
And then we turn around and do stuff like this to Snowden, indefinitely detain people for no reason,... |
clickbait
[The register]( << N.B. That’s a link to the register, too, so don’t click it unless you want to, you know, go there.
Do you mean that you think I’m shilling for The Register,^* or do you mean something else?
^* (I’m not) |
An average 30 minute show is 21 - 23 minutes according to netflix and hour long shows tend to be 40-42 minutes. The figure is closer to about 30% of all airtime is commercials. I'm not very familiar with the average length of Hulu commercials, but they are definately less than cable breaks and I would expect the ad ti... |
It seems we have an opportunity now that many of us carry computers in our pockets. Say I walk over to a CA's headquarters. I can QR scan their public key printed on the side of their building. Next time I see my friend Clara we can bump phones to transfer this trusted CA key. If your phone keeps track of this web of ... |
Warning, incoming gi-fucking-gantic wall of text. Read it anyway.
Allow me to ELI5 what people seem to not be getting about all of this, and hopefully clear up some FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).
Imagine you have two really big numbers called keys, and they're mathematically linked. One is called a public ke... |
i'm not putting pedantry aside. i don't know if you're being vague because you really don't know wtf you're talking about, or if you're just confusing technologies and are hoping that something between mock-british and completely-fucking-ambiguous language makes you sound like you know something special. you sound like... |
All Isp's are the man in the middle, they route your traffic and establish your connection, they know what port your connecting on and where, if they wanted to they could establish your attempt to connect to your bank to a fake bank website and you would never know.
Any tcp traffic, but specifically ssl traffic requi... |
Traditionally, there was a one-year-plus-one-day time period after an attack during which, if the victim died as a result of his injuries, the attack could be considered murder. However, with advances in modern medicine most jurisdictions have removed that time limit, and now murder can be made out if the victim died a... |
they haven't oversubscribed their towers yet like ISPs and 3G have.
You had me up to here. Nobody can make this claim. The nature of wireless networks is that the load, and congestion, move around and can saturate a cell at any given time. Not only that, users often notice the consistent differences in LTE speed depe... |
I actually do something different now.
Every two years, I'm eligible for an iPhone.
Every once a year, I'm elgible for any phone except the iPhone. This can only be done through retention department.
So what you want to do is sign a two year contract with AT&T for an iPhone 5S. Then you sell that phone for $800-$... |
Mate, all I can say is welcome to what the rest of the world has to deal with along side capped internet connections. Btw, if you think it is bad we have Vodafone NZ have the cheek of not only having data caps but also charge an extra NZ$10 per month if you want your phone to get onto their (be it very limited) LTE net... |
I would just like to comment on sprint's "truly unlimited". I was a sprint customer out of south texas for about 5 years. I averaged 20 - 30gb a month until I received a cease and desist followed by a contract termination notice.
Evidently they do have in the fine print "acceptable usage" definitions which is about 5... |
Actually I think the reason they stopped offering unlimited data was because the general population stopped using phones primarily for making calls, which meant Verizon was losing a ton of money because a lot less people were not going over their allowed talk minutes anymore. That's why the same time they stopped offer... |
In certain age demographics, particularly the coveted 16-24 year old, definitely. But different demographics didn't have the same issues. My father is 54 years old. He's never pirated an album in his life. He used to buy 2-3 CDs every week; now he just cherry-picks iTunes.
I think that's a representative example ... |
I see it as being the more viable of the cryptocurrencies because it's a joke. See, it starts out as a joke, and is stupid cheap so it becomes widespread. then, because it's perceived as funny and relatively worthless, people use it, building a micro economy on Reddit. Over time, I feel that this is actually going... |
They all basically do the same thing, that is provide an online digital currency unattached to any government or monetary policy. The reason we have different currencies in different countries is because those countries have set up borders and defined laws within those borders, including giving the government monopoly ... |
I think this is the dumbest idea. Bit coin will deflate like crazy if there can be dogecoins or whatever brand. Pick a fucking currency and be done. |
I'll try to do what the article didn't explain:
SystemD and UpStart are different systems in how the OS starts, manages, and stops running services.
The whole reasoning behind this debate is becuase something as basic as this can cause major problems down the road. Systems running newer versions will have different... |
Most datacenters don't use consumer SATA drives in their SAN arrays and a datacenter that does is just being cheap and sloppy with data. I certainly wouldn't buy service form them if I cared about my data. I want SAS, I want RAID arrays, I want tape backup, I want a real storage system. This isn't a cloud system though... |
I don't think Aereo actually worked that way (I don't remember this bit), I think you could have as many recordings scheduled at the same time as you wanted.
>That means, for EACH USER, they needed 50 (or however many channels you could get in say, Atlanta) antennas and more importantly, 50 video capture cards. Again... |
And the rest of the story...
Lets fast forward a week to the 20th. At around 1:30pm I get a message "You do not have access to this feature at this time." I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS AGAIN! The anger is so obvious at this point the woman in the cubicle next to me happened to walk past and made a comment ... |
i.s.o. = instead of (saving you a whopping 4 characters typed)
As a non-native English speaker, took me a few moments of hard thinking to figure out what he meant.
edit: or is it in spite of? (saving 5 characters typed)
edit2: no, in spite of doesn't fit the context |
While I support TPB's right to exist (have to download Wild Wild West from somewhere) I've never really felt that comparisons between Google and TPB were fair. TPB's user base mainly deals in the distribution of copyrighted material, TPB itself supplies meta-data links. If you go onto TPB and look at its top 100 torren... |
You gave the wrong person the argument. While the FCC makes the ruling there will be plenty of ways to combat the decision if it goes against our wishes. Firstly If legislation passed that directly or indirectly gives net neutrality a hold on a legislative basis that would over power the FCC ruling. If the fcc makes a... |
Not technically.
The Constitution basically says a state law cannot override a federal law.
However, we see blatant challenges to this with the current trend of marijuana legalization at the state level flying in the face of the federal government.
The verbage of the laws can also be very tricky, which we have se... |
On what planet do you think this is OK? Who in the hell are you or the government or anyone else for that manner to tell the bandwidth providers how they should set their pricing?
The internet is not a public good, it's a privately paid for technology these days. The days of ARPANET are long behind us and if you wa... |
You beat me to it. There's a strong opposition to the telescope among locals and especially Hawaii. There really is a fairly strong opposition or indifference to science in Hawaii, so a lot of people really don't understand why this should be built and just see it as a waste of money that's destroying nature. Petitions... |
are not real.
Do you have any actual proof that this as much a hoax as "we have discovered life on another planet", or are you making that false equivilency hoping I wouldn't see it?
Your example has nothing to do with the situation, they are completely unrelated occurences. Just because this article has the form t... |
For media. Duh.
[According to Nielsen,]( as of 2011, a combined 25% of Netflix's traffic came from either the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Given that number, I think it's safe to say that streaming media consumption is a huge use case for game consoles, and, therefore, a driving force in the purchase of consoles.
Besides, ... |
downvoted you for basically being incorrect, and callously lumping 'variant of iphone'.
Edit : I read 'generic variant of the iPhone' to mean the iPhone copies on the market - not the chinese iPhones, but the nokia/moto/sonye/blahfoo iPhonealikes - completely different devices. |
I didn't know Steve Ballmer was a Redditor. You should do an AMA!
Of course, Ballmer was pitching the idea of a subscription model instead of a penny a song model you're suggestion (the artists whine today their cut 99c brings, them, I'm sure they'd love 7% of a penny!).
Another flaw that jumps out to me is these t... |
When, halfway down the article, I read
"Dear visitors from google...", thought "how daft
Can people be?", then saw the comment thread,
I must admit, I laughed and laughed and laughed
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A microcell is essentially a low power transceiver which one can purchase/rent from a carrier in order to improve cellular coverage from said carrier with in a small range (i.e. a house or several apartments). The issue here is that the device does not connect directly to the carrier's network; instead it must be conne... |
It would only be a trademark violation if someone was using the name to advertise a related, similar, or competing product. The use of the name at all under any circumstances is not protected. Target has a trademark on the name Target and the target logo, but people are still allowed to talk about targets and sell dart... |
If you read the cease and desist letter:
>Accordingly, Nutrilab and Dr. Allen demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of any of these marks. Continued, unauthorized use of any of these marks will result in legal action to protect said marks. Legal counsel has been copied on this letter. If y... |
okay, i'm all against facebook, but let's really break this critique down:
You Can't Delete Messages
First, the shittiness of this complaint and its being first on the list just speaks volumes. Why the fuck do I care whether or not I can delete messages? I have literally never once in my life deleted a message ... |
When it comes to piracy (having pirated in the past, but making an attempt to pirate as little as possible these days) I agree that stealing is stealing -- if someone creates a movie, or music, or a video game or what have you, that they deserve to be paid back for their hard work. However, I do not agree with the meth... |
There hasn't necessarily been "more" attacks than before. The same amount of malicious activity has been happening. Just now with the political sector concerned about it (read Net Neutrality), they are making sure that it gets reported more. It helps support their claims that the web is the new wild west and must be ta... |
I'm telling you if we destroy television everything will get better. Just let me destroy television. It's the reason we're not all pissed off together.
A very unfortunate percentage of US citizens get all their content from the tv. The same tv that's used to keep important thoughts out of your mind. Thoughts like... |
the government is a reflection of the fucking assholes who elected them. if you want to point fingers, the first place you need to point them is in your own direction.
democracy is a failure for the same reason reddit is a failure. idiocy rises to the top via the american idol voting system. we are an idiocracy pande... |
That's what I did...
Just a little bit at the end expressing the goings on in legislation recently being like some kind of authoritarian horror story, pleading they not let the nightmare come true.
And it is EXTREMELY easy to do your part everyone.
If r/atheism can clear $100,000 in donations for DWB, there's no... |
I think we're exaggerating a little bit here. Sure, we have a shitty political situation, and sure, we have corruption, but compare it to the corruption in politics elsewhere. Here, we're worried about having our representatives bought by big corporations. In many other places, even those ostensibly "democracies", the... |
Okay, now it's time to begin development on VLMC. I have been waiting for this project to show significant progress for the longest time now. From what is out so far, it looks great, but is missing the stability I am used to in VLC. |
Yeah, trying to do that results in an HTTP 502 error.
After reading up about this company, I feel like they're exacerbating the privacy problems with social networks. It's good in that it might spark more discussion about how bad privacy is with social networks, but these guys seem like dicks. I can't even opt out,... |
You don't have to buy domains, what's happening is Godaddy is taking advantage of the short-term "trial" period offered through the existing infrastructure to lock up domains. I believe the lock period is only something like 3 days, so in most cases after 3 days the domain will be released, and you can take your busine... |
Once again, you're completely off and you're clearly not reading my entire comment, who's the lazy one here?
I know exactly what Domain Tasting is and how it works, I was never saying that it didn't exist or that it wasn't what was going on here.
What I did say was that they obviously ARE NOT going to buy every god... |
The consequences in the US are pretty strong. Depending on how much money you have to throw at the problem and what state you are in you can lose your license for 12 months here too. I would argue that the problem is an underdeveloped public transportation system.
Whereas in many European countries you can walk home ... |
The conversation in this thread has been fantastic. The debate, suggestion of idea's even proving how googles cars will not grow sentient and wipe out mankind.
The internet points are meaningless now, 95% of the people who got involved in this discussion with me were a pure delight to debate with. |
Which is not an issue.
If you can automate all self-driving cars then traffic won't be a problem. Nor will you need to stop at intersections often.
And once that happens you can set the speed limit at whatever's reasonable so long as the car can maintain control in case of an emergency. I'd say this depends on how ... |
At the moment the jobless are still a bearably small minority, but paying people to do something will become harder the fewer jobs there are.
Why? People who "work" could get better pay than those who live on welfare. Today, at least in the USA and Mexico, people on welfare can sometimes live better than those who wo... |
I used to work on this technology (not with organonovo) as a research project and have a few articles on the topic as well as a co-authored book chapter. I honestly regard some of the TED talks (Anthony Atala's) where researchers have printed kidneys and are already using 3D printed bladders seems to be the state of th... |
As an aside, Jet Set Radio is now legally available from Steam for the PC.
I was incredibly disappointed that I spent money on such a shoddy port. It barely runs (~5 FPS) on my brand new , $2000USD gaming PC, with plenty of horsepower.
Yet it runs fine on a virtual machine running on my MacBook; my "pirated"... |
The most artful thing about the statement isn't the petty point-scoring in the main body but the placing of the legally required message within a thicket of technical-looking jargon that acts like chaff to the reader.
The eye starts tripping over the words as the various Galaxy Tab model numbers are repeated and then... |
It's not an unusual punishment here. At least our legal system doesn't fry people with electricity or inject them with poison, while having rules against "cruel and unusual punishment". |
Because when you look at the two. The only thing redeemable about a mac is that it is user friendly, if you know nothing of computers, a mac is good for you. but a PC can do everything a mac can with better quality. the thing people have a problem with is that Macs are overpriced given their current state and all the i... |
I was fully planning on it...but then the OP of this thread did it for me in his edit. Honestly he did it in a far more humorous way than I could have done it.
My point was that it's not black and white. It's not simply a matter of losing a civil war. It's probably one of the most complex land disputes in modern hist... |
Starving"? Israel gives the Gaza strip truckloads of food and medicine on a daily basis. Do you understand the absurdity? Hamas bombs Israeli civilian centers on a regular basis, for more than 12 years, and Israel send humanitarian aid in return.
"Dehumanizing"? There is not a single Israeli soldier in Gaza since th... |
That's actually not the case in this conflict right now. Without going into the whole 100-odd year history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I'll try to explain what's going on here.
Israel took Gaza from Egypt during the [6-Day War in 1967]( Egypt eventually renounced their claim to the land, but that didn't chan... |
The current borders of Palestine and Israel were made through good old-fashioned civil war occurring in a mandate previously held by the British. The UN proposed separate Jewish and Arab States, which the Jews accepted and the Arabs didn't. Civil war broke out when Arabs attacked Jews and when the dust settled they wer... |
Osama himself stated that if the U.S. were to withdraw its military from the middle east then they would no longer have beef with us, and i concur. The U.S. should avoid entanglements with foreign powers, and for good reason. The more you fuck with other people, the more likely they will start to fuck with you. Sure, t... |
I basically agree with you. I'm bad at politics because I can see both sides and just sort of go around and around in circles and can never make up my mind. I'm just saying that's the obvious response to make; note that I said I didn't necessarily agree with it (because when I think about it, all that's doing is justif... |
Israeli forces, which represent a Democratic "westernized country" should be showing some type of proportional restraint and a measured response. Their Rules of Engagement do not need to include the line "If it isn't Israeli it is a target."
Just as the US learned in Iraq the hard way, because your bases are receivin... |
My counter-argument for this is identity verification. Many people online use aliases to cause trouble by trolling nonstop. YouTube was a haven for this. However, when confronted with their true identities being exposed, many trolls flee back into the shadows of 4Chan.
TechCrunch did something similar by requiring Fa... |
It works better on bigger images. There's not that much grey border usually. And the design is actually more efficient - a large image opens within the same page, so you don't have to go to another page any more, making the whole thing much faster. |
Wow downvotes from the ignorant I guess.
I use a lot of copyrighted music in videos I put up a few years back from games.
All that happens is they put adverts up, because even with a couple of hundred thousand views on some, I did not turn on adverts myself to profit from it.
Because I chose not to exploit the cop... |
It's a lot better, actually. I previously had 2007 an 2013 blows it out of the water. Word heavily relies on Skydrive, which I rely in heavily to share documents and pictures. There has been a drive to focus on minimalism as well, so there's a subtle beauty in having just a blank page to be filled up with words. Also, ... |
If it's free, it's because not everyone uses it. If everyone starts using it, it would cause an increase in phone package prices due to the additional bandwidth usage or to add Skype data usage to your data consumption. |
Hell no. Violation of one of our constitutional rights (not sure which amendment). The gov't can not legally search through anything like your texts, calls, iMessages, emails, etc. without a warrant. With that warrant they can do those things and more to find evidence. If they do so without a warrant and try to arrest ... |
Wikipida entry to the rescue: |
The article only glances over the 'One Algorithm' theory from Jeff Hawkins algorithm that is able to grok, hopefully, increasingly complex tasks. It doesn't make sense because AI is hard.
The idea uses recursion to find simple patterns at the finest grain of detail (edges, lines, color) that are to be categorized o... |
Its just 70,000 intel chips. Call me when its 100% chinese. Buying a bunch of intel equipment and glueing it together really isn't impressive, especially for a one-party state that can do as it pleases. Funny how you can build neat things when you don't have to worry about real politics, protests, being voted out, the... |
On top of [this]( I'll include a specific scenario.
Perhaps it's difficult/dangerous/deadly to break into your house and hold your parents hostage. Perhaps, however, someone has found it's very easy to update your phone's address book so that 'Mom & Dad' actually call a burner cell phone instead of your actual paren... |
Oh there is definitely value. As long as A) MtGox won't turn your butts into real money, preventing a hard crash B) speculators keep jacking with the price and C) cargo cultists keep manipulating the gap between buy and sell orders to stabilize the "value" of a random string of characters at new and impressive levels, ... |
My two cents, the stock indexes are at an all time high, everyone expects them to come down. A lot of investors who want to jump back in to the stock market aren't because of speculative pricing on all stocks. Things are being traded at 1000 times earnings when the norm is 10-20 times EPS.
Because of this a lot of cas... |
I always see a lot of cynics in these types of threads calling this type of deletion guide useless, and I feel in most cases, the arguments that they're making are strawmen.
Yes, for all intents and purposes, once information has been made public, it's largely out of your hands to ever completely remove. Yes, some se... |
I derail shit like you from poisoning the conversation. That's positive contribution, motherfucker. |
And yet, if you look at vimeo's content, the production quality is much much higher than youtube, and youtube's revenue sharing program don't generate much money unless you're part of a network. |
Picocells are not a groundbreaking technology and do not serve the same function as cell towers. While a great way of offloading data, they are impractical to deploy everywhere. In dense areas (or at home) you could create cellular Hotspot, but not in the same way we can with towers that cover miles of roads and subur... |
I keep seeing this same bullshit over and over again, and it is only marginally less disingenuous than "you wouldn't steal a car ."
The fact of the matter is that actual capabilities (including data transfer capabilities) should drive industries. You have to create a product that adds value given the current technol... |
And then the data your little snowflake algorithm receives is wrong, and now there's an extra branch on your formerly perfectly elegant snowflake that's there just to compensate for one type of bad data. Then a week later something else breaks because their data had a chinese character in it. Then a week later SQA deci... |
if the technology industry is truly a meritocracy, does it follow that the people with merit are overwhelmingly white and male?
For the last software dev job I applied to, the male applicants outnumbered the female applicants 10:1, yet the 20 positions were filled by 11 men and 9 women. Assuming a fair cross section ... |
Here is what I wrote them:
You know what? I wouldn't have a problem with most of these deals with fast lanes. No really, you read that right. I wouldn't IF I had choice in who provided me my internet. You see, where I live I have two choices. At&t or TWC. Most people in the US don't even have one choice. A lot... |
Who the hell wrote that title. Online data does have 4th amendment protection.
The 4th amendment:
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported... |
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