You're really passionate about this particular issue and a lack of involvement on snap chats part. The data available on the internet was clearly spelled out to you above by NYCL but you are continuing to double down on the derp. I'm a betting man. I feel reasonably comfortable making the claim that you're a snap chat employee.
I'm not a Snapchat employee, but this story smelled suspicious from the start. It really strains credibility that Snapchat would add a trophy for high high speed snapping. It would, of course, be a lawsuit waiting to happen. This doesn't appear under the lists of trophies that users have discovered and confirmed. Snapchat's official statement is also that this trophy doesn't exist. The only thing we have is word of one person after an accident who claimed that this was a trophy that existed and they drove recklessly because the app encouraged it. A convenient excuse.
I am planning on building a new house--and am planning on putting in the necessary connections to add solar in the future. The reason not right away is money (lots of other things are on the "to-add-later" list as well--let's get the house up w/o too much debt. Also, a few year later solar should be cheaper and better). The main reason for solar for me is those things that go by the name of "Katrina" and her sisters and brothers...down here you can lose power for weeks when they come for a visit.
Then make sure when you get the panels installed that you get a system that can do that for you! I'll be up front and clear about it, since I didn't discover this until after I had my panels installed: the typical solar panel installation is not hooked up to your house and cannot be used in the occurrence of a power outage. You might think that it would provide some amount of power for the house, then the street power would provide the rest, but the hookups on the side of your house are not nearly that flexible, and it would requite a very heavy-duty battery to make this possible. What you'll be doing is you'll be drawing all your power directly from the power company's grid, and your panels will be generating power and feeding it into the grid at the same time. If the grid is down, no power will flow, and your house will be dark.
Electrical components tend to need clean power at a constant voltage that doesn't rise or drop off, and the panels won't provide that. If Elon Musk's dreams of providing super-powerful home batteries that charge off of solar comes to fruition, then that might become a reality.
Here you tell us you are a racist and xenophobe, also known as a lack of self-esteem, something that is not helpful for any positive cause.
Racist and xenophobic? Diseases have always spread through large human migrations. As TFS flat-out states, there are regions in the world where these diseases still exist, and people bring disease with them where they go. It can happen with Malaria, it certainly happened to Western Hemisphere civilizations when European colonizers arrived. It's just one of the pitfalls of migration.
TowelRoot? That only worked on a handful of devices reliably. And yes, when I used it I got zero sleep for the rest of the week. A single click root? Not good folks, and clearly someone has taken on the task of using that for nefarious purposes.
Notice, though, how everyone is blaming hackingteam for this stuff, and not the NSA who likely knew about this long before them.
Yup. I used TowelRoot as well and decided at that point to never use my phone for anything truly useful. IE, to just assume my phone was compromised. Why? Because I needed root access, and TowelRoot was the name of the game when it came to the Galaxy S3 and S5 that I had. So now that S5 is running an old old version of Android with an exploit, because Google hired guys who found these exploits. Later versions of Android have been hardened, and it's currently a bit difficult to do on current versions. I'm not sure 5.1.1 / S5 / AT&T even has a working root at the moment. Since the carriers (and Google) hate it so much, root access is something not allowed to the device owners, so the only way to do it is to exploit a weakness before it's patched.
So thank you, and fuck you Google, AT&T, Samsung, whoever is involved in working so hard so ensure that a user is not allowed control over his own phone.
If you believe this (and I am not doubting it), then put it on your house.
I did, a year ago, paying up front for panels or installation. No complaints so far. It's not a choice I'd force on someone, but in my location it was a pretty good idea. In a way, I wish I'd done it sooner, but likely the panels just weren't as good when I moved into my current house.
This is false, unless by "lifetimes" you mean "unicorn farts". Solar companies in the west begin negotiations by asking what your current power bill is, then sell you a system that produces EXACTLY the amount of energy you need
Basically they sell you a system to reduce your bills, or at least try to hit the sweet spot before diminishing returns makes adding more capacity not make a lot of financial sense.
I went with a local contractor, paid cash up front for the improvement, and I'll get my money back through the reduced electricity bills in about seven years. Anything after that is gravy. If I move within that time, I'll take a loss, though some of that will be offset by improved home value.
But their lifetime is rather longer than the amount of time anyone is likely to own the building, and (given the way real estate works) you can expect that they won't add much to resale value.
Uhhh, what? They certainly added to the resale value of my home. And the improvements my mom made to her house greatly increased its value as well.
No I couldn't imagine some city in Alabama doing this - Most of us who live in Alabama are smarter then this. If it made economic sense, business and builders would be doing this already.
Solar panels more than pay for themselves during their lifetimes, usually several times over with today's technology. What it illustrates is short-term thinking -- saving a small amount of money today instead of a larger amount tomorrow.
It's not necessarily that it's the government, but if the hacking group was the only one with the knowledge of the hack, and they knew the government was quite eager to have it, then they get to charge a premium. Name their own price. Obviously something one "One Billion Dollars" wasn't going to fly, but they found a price that the government was willing to give up.
The both of them engaged in play acting. The FBI wanted to oblige Apple to respond to thousands (or tens of thousands) of FISA requests a year. Also, Apple was happy to have a PR image of being secure while the FBI was happy if dumb criminals thought the iPhones were safe to store incriminating information on.
Citation, please, or STFU.
Well I can't respond to the "Apple was happy to..." blabla that is sheer speculation, but for the first part, Director Comey is on record for saying that he hoped the Apple case could set a precedent (after saying the case would not be used to set a precedent) and be used by other courts to order the unlocking of phones in ordinary criminal cases. Source
They are more aggresive with iTunes. Instead of just not updating it, they are updating it to make it worse. You are still supposed to get the hint though.
MORE aggressive with iTunes? Quicktime is the package that had a redesign that people hated so much the product basically forked itself, with the newer Quicktime 10 and the more-fondly-remembered Quicktime 7.
For one of the richest tech companies on the planet, Apple's software record is nothing short of disgraceful. We can all joke about how pathetic and shitty their win applications are, but let's be realistic, these are created by professionals. Perhaps it's time to farm out design and coding, and stick to icon design and repackaging other companies' off the shelf components.
You sound like someone who's had to deal with Mac ports to Windows. Quicktime for Windows and iTunes for Windows have always been dreadful, but they're pretty decent on the Mac side.
But, that can't be. Indiana isn't in the South, so it can't possibly have done anything like legislating pi. Only Southern states attempt to coerce nature (physis) with laws (nomoi).
Indiana is pretty much the South of the North. Always has been.
Feinstein having no clue about the simplest aspects of technology I understand, since shes 137 years old, but Burr is only 60 and has likely used a web browser. I think it's more about the "NSA telling them what to do" part than the morons part. More politicians that grew up with computers would certainly help, though.
Feinstein has a clue, but she has always, and always will, vote on the side of the NSA/FBI/government service over every other consideration, even if she gets pissy that they read her email.
We face a lot of these problems every election cycle, my "favorite" one being how there's always going to be a proposition on the ballot asking for a tax hike to help fund improving our schools.
Yeah, California loves to waste school money, but some of this problem would get fixed if the state funded schools statewide rather than tied it to property taxes in the district the school is in. Prop 15 ensures that funding remains low, and decreases in real dollars over time.
But yeah, the inabilty to hold a note is no impediment if a person is "hot" enough today.
I can't believe I actually miss Randy Jackson, judge on American Idol, and his "sorry, that was a little pitchy, dawg."
Confession time! I've watch a lot of auditions for the Idol and Got talent shows, and enjoyed him as well as most of th others. Except Posh Spice, she just didn't bring much to the table.
I like music, I've even liked American Idol and watched something like 10 seasons, and, especially since Simon Cowell left, I feel like Jackson brought very little to the table. Especially during the season when he was a mentor; that was an unmitigated disaster because he mentored those kids SO badly, and the judges were so bad that they couldn't give good critiques either, so when a bad singer got voted off by the public, they'd be blindsided by it and not understand why it happened. "America got it wrong!!"
But that would still require a mysterious force or undetectable phenomena to be keeping the earth abnormally cool, because a simple experiment demonstrates that CO2 is a greenhouse gas - and therefore more CO2 molecules in the atmosphere will lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.
And they'd tell you that you don't know what the hell you're talking about, that those effects from CO2 on a global climate have been far from proven, and that the Earth is hardly an environment comparable to a "greenhouse."
She is fiercely pro-corporate supporting [...] nearly every pro-Hollywood copyright plan she sees
That's a very, very US liberal / Democratic thing to do. She's hardly alone on this, the Democratic Party is staunchly pro-entertainment industry, and very much on the side of government regulations protecting copyright and other 'IP.'
She's done a good job on a lot of things but she's got one wickedly bad weakness and that's she's scared of terrorists and criminals and is a true believer that government can be trusted with our personal information. She's willing to take away rights and grant government sweeping power over our personal lives to prevent terrorism and crime.
I wonder if any of this had to do with her being in the next room when Dan White assassinated SF Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. She was the one who called the police in that particular incident, and a trauma like that can really affect a person.
So homosexuals and their enablers will vote for her even if she starts running under the name "Darth Sidious" with her political platform as "Destroy every living human in the United States"
This wins the price for the most stupid, most prejudiced and most bigoted comment I've seen in a long time.
Eh, I wouldn't say that. I'm a gay dude in California, and I'm nodding thinking.. "eeh, he might have a point there. Maybe, it's hard to say." Sure, she's had some support within those communities. But even in California, the GLBT community isn't THAT large. Feinstein has a number of other political connections that make her almost untouchable in the state -- her defense connections make her more moderate than liberal, and she's -extremely- cozy with the entertainment industries. I always said Feinstein wouldn't act against Hollywood even if all the execs were caught in a child prostitution ring. She's that beholden to them. She's the real "senator from Disney." But not just Disney, naturally.
I have never been called a pinko before. One of these days, I'll get down to re-writing some of my views. Many people seem to think I'm an ultraconservative.
Oh, god damn. The commie pinko ultraconservatives are the absolute WORST.
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You're really passionate about this particular issue and a lack of involvement on snap chats part. The data available on the internet was clearly spelled out to you above by NYCL but you are continuing to double down on the derp. I'm a betting man. I feel reasonably comfortable making the claim that you're a snap chat employee.
I'm not a Snapchat employee, but this story smelled suspicious from the start. It really strains credibility that Snapchat would add a trophy for high high speed snapping. It would, of course, be a lawsuit waiting to happen. This doesn't appear under the lists of trophies that users have discovered and confirmed. Snapchat's official statement is also that this trophy doesn't exist. The only thing we have is word of one person after an accident who claimed that this was a trophy that existed and they drove recklessly because the app encouraged it. A convenient excuse.
I am planning on building a new house--and am planning on putting in the necessary connections to add solar in the future. The reason not right away is money (lots of other things are on the "to-add-later" list as well--let's get the house up w/o too much debt. Also, a few year later solar should be cheaper and better). The main reason for solar for me is those things that go by the name of "Katrina" and her sisters and brothers...down here you can lose power for weeks when they come for a visit.
Then make sure when you get the panels installed that you get a system that can do that for you! I'll be up front and clear about it, since I didn't discover this until after I had my panels installed: the typical solar panel installation is not hooked up to your house and cannot be used in the occurrence of a power outage. You might think that it would provide some amount of power for the house, then the street power would provide the rest, but the hookups on the side of your house are not nearly that flexible, and it would requite a very heavy-duty battery to make this possible. What you'll be doing is you'll be drawing all your power directly from the power company's grid, and your panels will be generating power and feeding it into the grid at the same time. If the grid is down, no power will flow, and your house will be dark.
Electrical components tend to need clean power at a constant voltage that doesn't rise or drop off, and the panels won't provide that. If Elon Musk's dreams of providing super-powerful home batteries that charge off of solar comes to fruition, then that might become a reality.
Here you tell us you are a racist and xenophobe, also known as a lack of self-esteem, something that is not helpful for any positive cause.
Racist and xenophobic? Diseases have always spread through large human migrations. As TFS flat-out states, there are regions in the world where these diseases still exist, and people bring disease with them where they go. It can happen with Malaria, it certainly happened to Western Hemisphere civilizations when European colonizers arrived. It's just one of the pitfalls of migration.
TowelRoot? That only worked on a handful of devices reliably. And yes, when I used it I got zero sleep for the rest of the week. A single click root? Not good folks, and clearly someone has taken on the task of using that for nefarious purposes.
Notice, though, how everyone is blaming hackingteam for this stuff, and not the NSA who likely knew about this long before them.
Yup. I used TowelRoot as well and decided at that point to never use my phone for anything truly useful. IE, to just assume my phone was compromised.
Why? Because I needed root access, and TowelRoot was the name of the game when it came to the Galaxy S3 and S5 that I had. So now that S5 is running an old old version of Android with an exploit, because Google hired guys who found these exploits. Later versions of Android have been hardened, and it's currently a bit difficult to do on current versions. I'm not sure 5.1.1 / S5 / AT&T even has a working root at the moment. Since the carriers (and Google) hate it so much, root access is something not allowed to the device owners, so the only way to do it is to exploit a weakness before it's patched.
So thank you, and fuck you Google, AT&T, Samsung, whoever is involved in working so hard so ensure that a user is not allowed control over his own phone.
If you believe this (and I am not doubting it), then put it on your house.
I did, a year ago, paying up front for panels or installation. No complaints so far. It's not a choice I'd force on someone, but in my location it was a pretty good idea. In a way, I wish I'd done it sooner, but likely the panels just weren't as good when I moved into my current house.
This is false, unless by "lifetimes" you mean "unicorn farts". Solar companies in the west begin negotiations by asking what your current power bill is, then sell you a system that produces EXACTLY the amount of energy you need
Basically they sell you a system to reduce your bills, or at least try to hit the sweet spot before diminishing returns makes adding more capacity not make a lot of financial sense.
I went with a local contractor, paid cash up front for the improvement, and I'll get my money back through the reduced electricity bills in about seven years. Anything after that is gravy. If I move within that time, I'll take a loss, though some of that will be offset by improved home value.
But their lifetime is rather longer than the amount of time anyone is likely to own the building, and (given the way real estate works) you can expect that they won't add much to resale value.
Uhhh, what? They certainly added to the resale value of my home. And the improvements my mom made to her house greatly increased its value as well.
No I couldn't imagine some city in Alabama doing this - Most of us who live in Alabama are smarter then this. If it made economic sense, business and builders would be doing this already.
Solar panels more than pay for themselves during their lifetimes, usually several times over with today's technology. What it illustrates is short-term thinking -- saving a small amount of money today instead of a larger amount tomorrow.
It's not necessarily that it's the government, but if the hacking group was the only one with the knowledge of the hack, and they knew the government was quite eager to have it, then they get to charge a premium. Name their own price. Obviously something one "One Billion Dollars" wasn't going to fly, but they found a price that the government was willing to give up.
The FBI searched Alex Levin's home address in Norwood, Mass. and found child pornography on it.
That doesn't make him a pedophile...
A pedophile has sexual interest in the underaged. If he/she acts on his interest, it makes him a pederast.
The theory is that fapping to child porn makes you more likely to molest children.
The theory is that fapping to child porn is creating a market for child porn which facilitates and encourages the production of more child porn.
The both of them engaged in play acting. The FBI wanted to oblige Apple to respond to thousands (or tens of thousands) of FISA requests a year. Also, Apple was happy to have a PR image of being secure while the FBI was happy if dumb criminals thought the iPhones were safe to store incriminating information on.
Citation, please, or STFU.
Well I can't respond to the "Apple was happy to ..." blabla that is sheer speculation, but for the first part, Director Comey is on record for saying that he hoped the Apple case could set a precedent (after saying the case would not be used to set a precedent) and be used by other courts to order the unlocking of phones in ordinary criminal cases. Source
What's next, iTunes?
Oh please, oh please, oh pleeeeease.....
They are more aggresive with iTunes. Instead of just not updating it, they are updating it to make it worse. You are still supposed to get the hint though.
MORE aggressive with iTunes? Quicktime is the package that had a redesign that people hated so much the product basically forked itself, with the newer Quicktime 10 and the more-fondly-remembered Quicktime 7.
Gimping non-apple software on apple devices? Personally I have no idea. I don't touch apple shit, but it sounds exactly like something they would do.
So you're running at the mouth and trolling then. Good.
What's next, iTunes?
Oh please, oh please, oh pleeeeease.....
For one of the richest tech companies on the planet, Apple's software record is nothing short of disgraceful. We can all joke about how pathetic and shitty their win applications are, but let's be realistic, these are created by professionals. Perhaps it's time to farm out design and coding, and stick to icon design and repackaging other companies' off the shelf components.
You sound like someone who's had to deal with Mac ports to Windows. Quicktime for Windows and iTunes for Windows have always been dreadful, but they're pretty decent on the Mac side.
But, that can't be. Indiana isn't in the South, so it can't possibly have done anything like legislating pi. Only Southern states attempt to coerce nature (physis) with laws (nomoi).
Indiana is pretty much the South of the North. Always has been.
I think you should google that phrase before assuming he was REALLY calling her a slut.
Feinstein having no clue about the simplest aspects of technology I understand, since shes 137 years old, but Burr is only 60 and has likely used a web browser. I think it's more about the "NSA telling them what to do" part than the morons part. More politicians that grew up with computers would certainly help, though.
Feinstein has a clue, but she has always, and always will, vote on the side of the NSA/FBI/government service over every other consideration, even if she gets pissy that they read her email.
We face a lot of these problems every election cycle, my "favorite" one being how there's always going to be a proposition on the ballot asking for a tax hike to help fund improving our schools.
Yeah, California loves to waste school money, but some of this problem would get fixed if the state funded schools statewide rather than tied it to property taxes in the district the school is in. Prop 15 ensures that funding remains low, and decreases in real dollars over time.
But yeah, the inabilty to hold a note is no impediment if a person is "hot" enough today.
I can't believe I actually miss Randy Jackson, judge on American Idol, and his "sorry, that was a little pitchy, dawg."
Confession time! I've watch a lot of auditions for the Idol and Got talent shows, and enjoyed him as well as most of th others. Except Posh Spice, she just didn't bring much to the table.
I like music, I've even liked American Idol and watched something like 10 seasons, and, especially since Simon Cowell left, I feel like Jackson brought very little to the table. Especially during the season when he was a mentor; that was an unmitigated disaster because he mentored those kids SO badly, and the judges were so bad that they couldn't give good critiques either, so when a bad singer got voted off by the public, they'd be blindsided by it and not understand why it happened. "America got it wrong!!"
But that would still require a mysterious force or undetectable phenomena to be keeping the earth abnormally cool, because a simple experiment demonstrates that CO2 is a greenhouse gas - and therefore more CO2 molecules in the atmosphere will lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.
And they'd tell you that you don't know what the hell you're talking about, that those effects from CO2 on a global climate have been far from proven, and that the Earth is hardly an environment comparable to a "greenhouse."
Climate science is not exactly their specialty.
She is fiercely pro-corporate supporting [...] nearly every pro-Hollywood copyright plan she sees
That's a very, very US liberal / Democratic thing to do. She's hardly alone on this, the Democratic Party is staunchly pro-entertainment industry, and very much on the side of government regulations protecting copyright and other 'IP.'
She's done a good job on a lot of things but she's got one wickedly bad weakness and that's she's scared of terrorists and criminals and is a true believer that government can be trusted with our personal information. She's willing to take away rights and grant government sweeping power over our personal lives to prevent terrorism and crime.
I wonder if any of this had to do with her being in the next room when Dan White assassinated SF Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. She was the one who called the police in that particular incident, and a trauma like that can really affect a person.
So homosexuals and their enablers will vote for her even if she starts running under the name "Darth Sidious" with her political platform as "Destroy every living human in the United States"
This wins the price for the most stupid, most prejudiced and most bigoted comment I've seen in a long time.
Eh, I wouldn't say that. I'm a gay dude in California, and I'm nodding thinking.. "eeh, he might have a point there. Maybe, it's hard to say." Sure, she's had some support within those communities. But even in California, the GLBT community isn't THAT large. Feinstein has a number of other political connections that make her almost untouchable in the state -- her defense connections make her more moderate than liberal, and she's -extremely- cozy with the entertainment industries. I always said Feinstein wouldn't act against Hollywood even if all the execs were caught in a child prostitution ring. She's that beholden to them. She's the real "senator from Disney." But not just Disney, naturally.
I have never been called a pinko before. One of these days, I'll get down to re-writing some of my views. Many people seem to think I'm an ultraconservative.
Oh, god damn. The commie pinko ultraconservatives are the absolute WORST.