But it still involves badly designed software. FAX isn't the big deal here, it's the blind obedience to the meta data in the FAX that is the problem.
I used to think that viruses in PDF files were bizarre myself because what self respecting PDF reader would actually write. Or what self respecting email viewer would decide to automatically run executable attachments? What self respecting web browser would rely upon third party scripts? Etc.
Security is the last concern of many products because it slow down development and gets in the way of profits (and they'd probably have to hire someone older than 25).
No, most jobs only require a social security number. Sometimes they require a social security card. They may ask for a driver's license for jobs that require driving. You may need a picture ID for some jobs that require an extra measure of security. But in general, it is rare to require a picture ID to get a job. For proof of identification there are other methods that may be used.
Canada does not have the same history of institutionalized racism that we had in the South. Many US states used various election rules as an attempt to restrict voting by minorities - this is basic grade school history. Such as requirements to have paid a poll tax (except if your grandfather voted), literacy tests, and so forth. The states pushing hardest for voter ID laws just happen to those that also engaged in disenfranchisement of minorities during segregation. To many people, any election move by a former unapalogetic segregationist state is viewed with high suspicion.
So based on history, any attempt to have a mandatory fee to vote or obtain a voting token is suspicious, or anything resembling past literacy tests, and so forth. Anyone who is surprised that minorities are wary of such moves has clearly not studied history.
I'd be happy if Youtube just stopped paying for views. The quality of the videos would go up and we'd have fewer people making their careers from posting fluff and begging for subscriptions.
The primary qualification to be appointed by Trump is to be wholely dedicated heart and soul to dismantling all regulations. These guys make Tea Party faithfuls seem tepid in comparison. Ajit Pai however is on a committee and he can't just dismantle via fiat, he has to get enough of the other members to go along with him. If he had his way, the airwaves would be controlled by whichever corporate trade association had the biggest guns, Shadowrun style.
Everything is always a couple of years from market. Sometimes the news might say it's a decade away from market but with an influx of capital it will soon be just a couple years away from market.
I just got a 6S. Old android phone died suddenly so went shopping. All the newer android stuff they had was overpriced and oversized. So looked at the prepaid iphones, which were cheaper and with a cheaper monthly rate (again showing a reason to head back to the phone store every year and demand to know if you're overpaying or not).
It makes phone calls, the primary concern for me as an old fogey. The phones basically got good enough several years back, there's not much reason to expect much else. Too small for TV so who cares about the resolution, not intended for a general purpose computing device so who cares how fast the chip is, and they all suck at taking good photos so I don't worry about that. Everything else is just silly social media.
Is it censorship when mama don't allow that sort of language in her home? What Facebook is blocking is in their own home. Is it censorship to stop illegal activities? What Facebook is blocking is illegal in many countries.
The US has a very strong border. There has been an effort to drive undocumented immigrants into dangerous desert crossings over the last few decades and it is working. It used to be a relatively safe crossing and now it's very dangerous, on purpose. We're not even letting many refugees into the US. We've outsourced ICE detention to private corporations whose profit motivation keeps their detention centers full. Obama deported more aliens than previous presidents, and Trump is prepared to break that record. Anyone who thinks we have a weak border security is either ignorant or is pushing a nativist political agenda.
Anyone who thinks the US doens't fight its enemies is just naive. Anyone who thinks immigrants, documented or not, are our enemies is naive and deluded.
The problemwith election commissions in the US are that they don't care so much about accuracy as they do about the budget and keeping drama to a minimum. So when they see a report of a clearly impossible number, their first instinct is not to investigate and see how this happened and try to correct it. Their first action is to try and make the perception of the problem go away, thus reducing the chance of drama occuring (recounts, bad press, the wrong party winning, etc).
So when the predicted problems with electronic voting machines showed up it was also predicatable that excuses would be made: we're out of budget since we just bought these election machines; at least they're better than the butterfly ballots; we'll look into it, honest; and "look, a Squirrel!!"
Would you apply this theory to phone service, or the roads?
But ignore whether or not this is ethical - customers are LEAVING the cable company's television services. They may be keeping the cable company's internet when they go and stream TV, but sometimes not. This should be a sign that the cable companies should do something to retain customers. It has always been good business sense to provide good customer service and provide the customer a product that they want. Instead cable companies provide terrible service and and product that the customers aren't happy with but keep only because it is a monopoly.
It depends where you live. My mother finally got a satellite dish because after the switch from analog to digital she only had one broadcast channel left. With analog it didn't matter if the signal wasn't clean you could still watch it, but with digital you get all or nothing instead of a gradually degrading picture.
Where do you get the internet though? Streaming sucks if you resort to basic ADSL over copper to the phone company (or can badly suck depending on location). The cable companies have a lock on the internet as well. There may be a few competitors in some areas but it's spotty. AT&T with u-verse is ok, but they're also a "cable company" in many ways with the same bad character flaws, and the internet isn't as fast as cable for the same price. FIOS is only in a few places, and Google Fiber is in even fewer places.
So if the traditional cable companies lose enough subscribers, they'll just start raising internet rates to keep the profits up.
I'm in Silicon Valley - ie, engineers and stuff who know how this stuff works and who have been on the internet before it was called the Internet. And options here suck and are spotty. When I moved into my condo (around 2002) the cable was still analog with an A/B switch. If you wanted digital cable, you had a special box that combined the A+B into a digitial out. But I didn't want digital cable because after buying the place I couldn't afford the ridiculous $100/month cost. DirecTV at the time had digital TV for less than half the cost so that's what I used. Internet was DSL, because if you didn't have cable then the only alternatives were dialup and DSL.
Today, 16 years later or so, there are now finally two broadband internet/television companies, AT&T and Comcast and both suck (DirecTV went away and was swallowed and corroded by AT&T) For internet. When I ask people why they use Comcast, they never say anything good instead they say "It's bundled with tv, internet, and telephone so even though it sucks it is not as expensive as it could be". When I ask why people use AT&T they say "it sucks but at least it's not Comcast!". And AT&T internet is basically just a higher tier of DSL. You really never run across anyone who says "wow I really love my cable company!"
We can't get Google Fiber in the same county as Google. We can't get internet without the company spamming your mail and email about how you should bundle in their crappy television service. It's like we're in a black hole of sucky technology in Silicon Valley.
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But it still involves badly designed software. FAX isn't the big deal here, it's the blind obedience to the meta data in the FAX that is the problem.
I used to think that viruses in PDF files were bizarre myself because what self respecting PDF reader would actually write. Or what self respecting email viewer would decide to automatically run executable attachments? What self respecting web browser would rely upon third party scripts? Etc.
Security is the last concern of many products because it slow down development and gets in the way of profits (and they'd probably have to hire someone older than 25).
Because people can't read anymore, they have to watch a 20 minute video instead.
No, most jobs only require a social security number. Sometimes they require a social security card. They may ask for a driver's license for jobs that require driving. You may need a picture ID for some jobs that require an extra measure of security. But in general, it is rare to require a picture ID to get a job. For proof of identification there are other methods that may be used.
Canada does not have the same history of institutionalized racism that we had in the South. Many US states used various election rules as an attempt to restrict voting by minorities - this is basic grade school history. Such as requirements to have paid a poll tax (except if your grandfather voted), literacy tests, and so forth. The states pushing hardest for voter ID laws just happen to those that also engaged in disenfranchisement of minorities during segregation. To many people, any election move by a former unapalogetic segregationist state is viewed with high suspicion.
So based on history, any attempt to have a mandatory fee to vote or obtain a voting token is suspicious, or anything resembling past literacy tests, and so forth. Anyone who is surprised that minorities are wary of such moves has clearly not studied history.
Voting is a right, not a privilege.
I'd be happy if Youtube just stopped paying for views. The quality of the videos would go up and we'd have fewer people making their careers from posting fluff and begging for subscriptions.
The primary qualification to be appointed by Trump is to be wholely dedicated heart and soul to dismantling all regulations. These guys make Tea Party faithfuls seem tepid in comparison. Ajit Pai however is on a committee and he can't just dismantle via fiat, he has to get enough of the other members to go along with him. If he had his way, the airwaves would be controlled by whichever corporate trade association had the biggest guns, Shadowrun style.
Oh ya, it's existed for some time, it doesn't mean it's available to everyone and ISPs will call stuff slow than that "broadband".
I guess I don't have broadband after all.
Everything is always a couple of years from market. Sometimes the news might say it's a decade away from market but with an influx of capital it will soon be just a couple years away from market.
Ya, lasers. I could use some good thermal lasers in my phone.
I just got a 6S. Old android phone died suddenly so went shopping. All the newer android stuff they had was overpriced and oversized. So looked at the prepaid iphones, which were cheaper and with a cheaper monthly rate (again showing a reason to head back to the phone store every year and demand to know if you're overpaying or not).
It makes phone calls, the primary concern for me as an old fogey. The phones basically got good enough several years back, there's not much reason to expect much else. Too small for TV so who cares about the resolution, not intended for a general purpose computing device so who cares how fast the chip is, and they all suck at taking good photos so I don't worry about that. Everything else is just silly social media.
iPhone had colors, and marketed that you had a choice of colors. Now they're boring again these days. Because boring is the new black.
But that theory won't bait anyone into clicking!
Giant mutant sharks of course: https://youtu.be/Fa7ck5mcd1o?t...
Is it censorship when mama don't allow that sort of language in her home? What Facebook is blocking is in their own home. Is it censorship to stop illegal activities? What Facebook is blocking is illegal in many countries.
The US has a very strong border. There has been an effort to drive undocumented immigrants into dangerous desert crossings over the last few decades and it is working. It used to be a relatively safe crossing and now it's very dangerous, on purpose. We're not even letting many refugees into the US. We've outsourced ICE detention to private corporations whose profit motivation keeps their detention centers full. Obama deported more aliens than previous presidents, and Trump is prepared to break that record. Anyone who thinks we have a weak border security is either ignorant or is pushing a nativist political agenda.
Anyone who thinks the US doens't fight its enemies is just naive. Anyone who thinks immigrants, documented or not, are our enemies is naive and deluded.
The problemwith election commissions in the US are that they don't care so much about accuracy as they do about the budget and keeping drama to a minimum. So when they see a report of a clearly impossible number, their first instinct is not to investigate and see how this happened and try to correct it. Their first action is to try and make the perception of the problem go away, thus reducing the chance of drama occuring (recounts, bad press, the wrong party winning, etc).
So when the predicted problems with electronic voting machines showed up it was also predicatable that excuses would be made: we're out of budget since we just bought these election machines; at least they're better than the butterfly ballots; we'll look into it, honest; and "look, a Squirrel!!"
I'm not sure. I picture a long line of ticks saying "rub my feet next", "no mine, he already did yours", "not all eight of them!"
They're reproducing on Eisenhower?
Sounded like he needed DirecTV to fix their property that he leaded from them.
Would you apply this theory to phone service, or the roads?
But ignore whether or not this is ethical - customers are LEAVING the cable company's television services. They may be keeping the cable company's internet when they go and stream TV, but sometimes not. This should be a sign that the cable companies should do something to retain customers. It has always been good business sense to provide good customer service and provide the customer a product that they want. Instead cable companies provide terrible service and and product that the customers aren't happy with but keep only because it is a monopoly.
It depends where you live. My mother finally got a satellite dish because after the switch from analog to digital she only had one broadcast channel left. With analog it didn't matter if the signal wasn't clean you could still watch it, but with digital you get all or nothing instead of a gradually degrading picture.
When you say "other developed nations" you seem to mistakenly lump America into that category.
For utilities, we usually have public utilities commissions that regulate them. More states need to lump cable companies under the PUCs and PSCs.
Where do you get the internet though? Streaming sucks if you resort to basic ADSL over copper to the phone company (or can badly suck depending on location). The cable companies have a lock on the internet as well. There may be a few competitors in some areas but it's spotty. AT&T with u-verse is ok, but they're also a "cable company" in many ways with the same bad character flaws, and the internet isn't as fast as cable for the same price. FIOS is only in a few places, and Google Fiber is in even fewer places.
So if the traditional cable companies lose enough subscribers, they'll just start raising internet rates to keep the profits up.
I'm in Silicon Valley - ie, engineers and stuff who know how this stuff works and who have been on the internet before it was called the Internet. And options here suck and are spotty. When I moved into my condo (around 2002) the cable was still analog with an A/B switch. If you wanted digital cable, you had a special box that combined the A+B into a digitial out. But I didn't want digital cable because after buying the place I couldn't afford the ridiculous $100/month cost. DirecTV at the time had digital TV for less than half the cost so that's what I used. Internet was DSL, because if you didn't have cable then the only alternatives were dialup and DSL.
Today, 16 years later or so, there are now finally two broadband internet/television companies, AT&T and Comcast and both suck (DirecTV went away and was swallowed and corroded by AT&T) For internet. When I ask people why they use Comcast, they never say anything good instead they say "It's bundled with tv, internet, and telephone so even though it sucks it is not as expensive as it could be". When I ask why people use AT&T they say "it sucks but at least it's not Comcast!". And AT&T internet is basically just a higher tier of DSL. You really never run across anyone who says "wow I really love my cable company!"
We can't get Google Fiber in the same county as Google. We can't get internet without the company spamming your mail and email about how you should bundle in their crappy television service. It's like we're in a black hole of sucky technology in Silicon Valley.