It's amazing how 20 years ago everyone looked down on anyone who sat at a computer on bulletin board systems all the time. Now everyone's doing it, it's OK. F*cking hypocrites.
Social media is not being social. I recently told someone this and they gave me a blank stare. You have to go out and meet people face-to-face and put your damn facebook app away. I'm personally not on facebook and never will be.
Although most jamming devices are manufactured for the purpose of disrupting the functioning of wireless cellular networks and low-power communication devices
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In Canada, radio apparatus, interference-causing equipment and terminal equipment are subject to Canadian regulations. Canadian consumers and others seeking to import radio transmitting equipment into Canada should verify that the equipment meets Industry Canada's technical regulations prior to making any purchases. Jamming devices may be detained or seized at the border, and the importer may, on prosecution, be liable to a fine or to imprisonment.
It is talking specifically about manufactured devices and importing said devices.
A building is not a device.
I agree though, it will have to be tested in court.
Incorrect. It's illegal to use a device (i.e. an active jamming device) to block signals. There's absolutely nothing regarding passive devices or regulations that apply to buildings.
If you think about it, including buildings is rather dumb. I know a lot of houses that have crappy cellular signals and I even rented an apartment almost a decade ago that had really poor cellular service unless you went outside on the balcony.
Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".
Here in Canada they're really pushing the "tap" feature which is bypassing the "security" for smaller purchases anyhow. So if someone steals your card they can nickel and dime you with many transactions. I check my card's transaction logs regularly (at least once a day) but if my card goes missing who knows how many dozens of transactions can be rung up before I notice.
Basically all you do is wave the card across the card reader, it is contactless. It does not require a pin or a signature.
Visa and Mastercard don't care about security, if they did they would not be pushing this "tap" feature. They want to make it easier to use.
I doubt it. I bought my Xbox One last year because I wanted to play a specific game and it was cheaper to buy a console than upgrade my PC.
That said, I told myself I wouldn't use it until I finished all the game on my 360 - I still have four of those left to finish. I only turned on the One to initially configure it, and I played a random game for about an hour. It's sat collecting dust since.
That reminds me, I should really finish those games on the 360!
I have fixed Lenovo, HP, Dell, LG, and Toshiba laptops that have had this issue. They were different models of Intel wifi cards, so I'm thinking there must be an issue with the wifi driver itself.
I even tried it on my old LG laptop with Intel wifi and it had the wifi disconnect/reconnect issue. Hell, on my laptop sometime it initially wouldn't even connect to wifi unless you rebooted it 3-4 times.
The laptops I looked at dropped wifi every 20-30 seconds. They all seem to be Intel wifi cards and no driver update was able to fix it. These users were complaining because they couldn't acutally *use* their computer.
Don't kid yourself. I just bought a barbecue recently, and after some research discovered pretty much all bbq manufacturers use China to manufacture, even the $1k+ grilles (I looked at Jackson, Weber, and Broil King grilles.) So I said screw it, if I'm going to get one from China anyway I'm not spending $1000 on one, and found a Char-Broil one for $400.
Back then it was mostly wifi related stuff like allowing new devices to connect. Cisco's wifi controller still has a wifi interface but I've mostly moved on to ssh for remote servers. Using VNC as someone else mentioned is a royal pain in the arse. Basic webadmin tasks is OK to do if you only have to do it once in a while.
One of the reasons I finally turfed my flip phone way back when and got the iPhone was primarily because I liked the idea of not lugging around my laptop. That didn't work out so well for me.
I had an iPhone, I feel the opposite: I love being able to use a different browser on my Android phone. You couldn't pay me to have an iPhone. Safari's rendering engine sucks, after I bought my iPhone many years ago I thought "Great! I don't need to lug my laptop around for web admin tasks!" - then found out that Safari wouldn't render pages properly. So I installed a different web browser and same thing.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
On Android, I actually use a different (non-stock) web browser using a non-Google rendering engine with adblock installed. Can't do that on iOS.
I was wondering where the displays will be, on the left and right a-pillar? Cause that would block your vision while making a left turn for sure, if there's someone in a crosswalk you won't see until it's too late.
If you adjust your mirrors properly there won't be a blind spot. I did this years ago and haven't looked back.
Tip: If you can see your car in the side mirror it's not set right. That mirror is for seeing what's beside you, not what's behind you. That's what the rear view mirror is for. Of course this doesn't work with work vans.
If there's a car in my "blind" spot it's usually in both my side and rear view mirror. If the car is too far forward to be in the side mirror, it's right beside me!
and the themes and compositing are downright beautiful
If it works. I tried plasma a few months back and was rewarded with kwin/plasma crashing every 30-60 seconds. Back to kde4 I went...
I have an nvidia card using nouveau, and was told to use the nvidia binary drivers (which made no difference.) I also tried turning compositing completely off, it also didn't make any difference. I've masked all plasma and kde packages > 4 and will give them a couple more years to figure out how to make a desktop that doesn't crash constantly. I had flashbacks back to the kde4 transition mess.
I thought they meant the Classic phone for right-handed users only. I never got into the Blackberry crazy to begin with as the phone's ergonomics as a left-handed person was awful. Stupid thumb wheel.
After I experienced that stupid design I never, ever looked at Blackberry phones again. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
The locations mentioned generally do not have shitty weather like packed snow and ice - the testing sites are basically desert/very dry. I wonder how testing is going in that department. There are cases when road lines are not visible so unless there's something in the road telling the car where it is I don't think they'd be able to be used up north.
I'm curious to know if he had one of those new Dodge cars. There was an article (maybe even here?) saying the shift lever didn't operate like a standard automatic shifter and many people were shifting into neutral when they thought they were putting it in Park.
Disclaimer: I've been using Gentoo since 2002/2003.
I agree that Gentoo's build process is cumbersome, especially on slower processors. This is a lot less of an issue now as compared to when I started using it in '02/'03, when I probably had five-year-old hardware then. Larger packages like Firefox and LibreOffice have always had a binary package to install. (On my 2002-era machine libreoffice would take something like 9 hours to compile.) My machine now, which is around 8 years old compiles this same package in a bit over an hour.
However, Gentoo also has another huge benefit, and that is customizing packages to your needs using USE flags. These toggle build-time options, so as an example, when heartbleed came out I was able to remove the offending tls heartbeat component using a USE flag and rebuild the package until a fix was made available.
Another thing I've discovered is if you have similar hardware and similar configurations you can tell portage to build binary packages. If you share this directory via nfs export you can instruct portage to favour binary packages when all use flags and other build-environment options are the same. This has saved my poor celerons on my MythTV frontends quite some compile time.
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You need to look into multicast streaming, here's a starting point.
At least those ads don't install malware on your computer...
It's amazing how 20 years ago everyone looked down on anyone who sat at a computer on bulletin board systems all the time. Now everyone's doing it, it's OK. F*cking hypocrites.
Social media is not being social. I recently told someone this and they gave me a blank stare. You have to go out and meet people face-to-face and put your damn facebook app away. I'm personally not on facebook and never will be.
In link #2:
and
It is talking specifically about manufactured devices and importing said devices.
A building is not a device.
I agree though, it will have to be tested in court.
Incorrect. It's illegal to use a device (i.e. an active jamming device) to block signals. There's absolutely nothing regarding passive devices or regulations that apply to buildings.
Sources: #1, #2.
If you think about it, including buildings is rather dumb. I know a lot of houses that have crappy cellular signals and I even rented an apartment almost a decade ago that had really poor cellular service unless you went outside on the balcony.
Here in Canada they're really pushing the "tap" feature which is bypassing the "security" for smaller purchases anyhow. So if someone steals your card they can nickel and dime you with many transactions. I check my card's transaction logs regularly (at least once a day) but if my card goes missing who knows how many dozens of transactions can be rung up before I notice.
Basically all you do is wave the card across the card reader, it is contactless. It does not require a pin or a signature.
Visa and Mastercard don't care about security, if they did they would not be pushing this "tap" feature. They want to make it easier to use.
I saw it for ~$340 CAD and wanted to play Witcher 3. But then I found out Witcher 2 was on the 360 so I bought that and a couple other games.
I normally saw the console go for about $500, so I bought it.
and
How are you supposed to respond to an "emergency event" if you're not paying attention? This makes no sense.
I doubt it. I bought my Xbox One last year because I wanted to play a specific game and it was cheaper to buy a console than upgrade my PC.
That said, I told myself I wouldn't use it until I finished all the game on my 360 - I still have four of those left to finish. I only turned on the One to initially configure it, and I played a random game for about an hour. It's sat collecting dust since.
That reminds me, I should really finish those games on the 360!
I have fixed Lenovo, HP, Dell, LG, and Toshiba laptops that have had this issue. They were different models of Intel wifi cards, so I'm thinking there must be an issue with the wifi driver itself.
I even tried it on my old LG laptop with Intel wifi and it had the wifi disconnect/reconnect issue. Hell, on my laptop sometime it initially wouldn't even connect to wifi unless you rebooted it 3-4 times.
The laptops I looked at dropped wifi every 20-30 seconds. They all seem to be Intel wifi cards and no driver update was able to fix it. These users were complaining because they couldn't acutally *use* their computer.
Strange, all I hear are complaints and requests to put Windows 7 back on. The #1 complaint I've heard is that wifi stops working reliably in W10.
You mean Weber grills, who were sued for putting Chinese parts in a made-in-USA grill?
Don't kid yourself. I just bought a barbecue recently, and after some research discovered pretty much all bbq manufacturers use China to manufacture, even the $1k+ grilles (I looked at Jackson, Weber, and Broil King grilles.) So I said screw it, if I'm going to get one from China anyway I'm not spending $1000 on one, and found a Char-Broil one for $400.
Back then it was mostly wifi related stuff like allowing new devices to connect. Cisco's wifi controller still has a wifi interface but I've mostly moved on to ssh for remote servers. Using VNC as someone else mentioned is a royal pain in the arse. Basic webadmin tasks is OK to do if you only have to do it once in a while.
One of the reasons I finally turfed my flip phone way back when and got the iPhone was primarily because I liked the idea of not lugging around my laptop. That didn't work out so well for me.
I had an iPhone, I feel the opposite: I love being able to use a different browser on my Android phone. You couldn't pay me to have an iPhone. Safari's rendering engine sucks, after I bought my iPhone many years ago I thought "Great! I don't need to lug my laptop around for web admin tasks!" - then found out that Safari wouldn't render pages properly. So I installed a different web browser and same thing.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
On Android, I actually use a different (non-stock) web browser using a non-Google rendering engine with adblock installed. Can't do that on iOS.
I was wondering where the displays will be, on the left and right a-pillar? Cause that would block your vision while making a left turn for sure, if there's someone in a crosswalk you won't see until it's too late.
If you adjust your mirrors properly there won't be a blind spot. I did this years ago and haven't looked back.
Tip: If you can see your car in the side mirror it's not set right. That mirror is for seeing what's beside you, not what's behind you. That's what the rear view mirror is for. Of course this doesn't work with work vans.
If there's a car in my "blind" spot it's usually in both my side and rear view mirror. If the car is too far forward to be in the side mirror, it's right beside me!
If it works. I tried plasma a few months back and was rewarded with kwin/plasma crashing every 30-60 seconds. Back to kde4 I went...
I have an nvidia card using nouveau, and was told to use the nvidia binary drivers (which made no difference.) I also tried turning compositing completely off, it also didn't make any difference. I've masked all plasma and kde packages > 4 and will give them a couple more years to figure out how to make a desktop that doesn't crash constantly. I had flashbacks back to the kde4 transition mess.
It's under Mouse options in System Settings.
I thought they meant the Classic phone for right-handed users only. I never got into the Blackberry crazy to begin with as the phone's ergonomics as a left-handed person was awful. Stupid thumb wheel.
After I experienced that stupid design I never, ever looked at Blackberry phones again. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Does a car have two steering wheels and two sets of accelerator/brake controls? No? So no, you don't ever have a copilot in your car.
I'd rather take the laptop apart and unplug it. I still have an ancient laptop that I purposefully bought without a webcam.
The locations mentioned generally do not have shitty weather like packed snow and ice - the testing sites are basically desert/very dry. I wonder how testing is going in that department. There are cases when road lines are not visible so unless there's something in the road telling the car where it is I don't think they'd be able to be used up north.
I'm curious to know if he had one of those new Dodge cars. There was an article (maybe even here?) saying the shift lever didn't operate like a standard automatic shifter and many people were shifting into neutral when they thought they were putting it in Park.
Disclaimer: I've been using Gentoo since 2002/2003.
I agree that Gentoo's build process is cumbersome, especially on slower processors. This is a lot less of an issue now as compared to when I started using it in '02/'03, when I probably had five-year-old hardware then. Larger packages like Firefox and LibreOffice have always had a binary package to install. (On my 2002-era machine libreoffice would take something like 9 hours to compile.) My machine now, which is around 8 years old compiles this same package in a bit over an hour.
However, Gentoo also has another huge benefit, and that is customizing packages to your needs using USE flags. These toggle build-time options, so as an example, when heartbleed came out I was able to remove the offending tls heartbeat component using a USE flag and rebuild the package until a fix was made available.
Another thing I've discovered is if you have similar hardware and similar configurations you can tell portage to build binary packages. If you share this directory via nfs export you can instruct portage to favour binary packages when all use flags and other build-environment options are the same. This has saved my poor celerons on my MythTV frontends quite some compile time.