It's available here (Switzerland) in organic shops.
It's even available unpasteurized - it's the closest thing to raw cow-milk fresh from the source you can get.
I've reduced my milk-consumption semi-recently (I eat yoghurt, butter, cheese and I'm not a calf, so I don't need to consume a combined half a liter every day) and the non-pasteurized milk goes bad in about three days. So, I don't buy it anymore because I don't drink enough of it before it goes bad. But it's delicious.
For infants, I'd boil it.
But when I was a kid, we used to get the raw milk directly from a farmer and I often consumed it raw, unboiled.
As the post from Solandri above points out: small scammers ask for 200 dollars. Those are easily caught because The Big G probably don't buy small quantities of anything.
But send an invoice for 3 million and... "Hey, I'm not supposed to tell you this but manager X needs this gear for this super-secret, super-important project. You know, he's reporting directly to Sergej and Larry on this one. No red tape, no fuzz. Now do the needful and approve the payment so we both don't get into trouble for delaying this thing any further. I'll tell Eric you saved the day the next time we go golfing."
Etc.
This man obviously knew how to press the right buttons with people. Hall of fame indeed.
Of course, as long as it was working, he couldn't quit.
I remember buying wireless cards from a seller on ebay (10-15 years ago). Those were Netgear cards (PCMCIA mostly) and they would work most of the time but fail regularly (the longer the more often...).
Turns out that the guy had sources in Asia who literally pulled these out of trash-bins at some recycler.
Netgear refused to honor any kind of warranty or responsibility for those cards.
I believe, the best way to reduce waste is to carefully consider if you actually need the product in question - and start from the assumption that you don't.
Then came an Acorn A 5000 - which, together with the RISC-PC 600 (later upgraded to StrongARM and then equipped with a daughter-board that housed an actual 486-SX to run Windoze) - actually taught me useful lessons that helped me understand computing from a more general point of view, without the narrow focus (and obsession) on DOS- (and Windows 3.1 / 95) idiosyncrasies that most of my fellow CS students had.
It also helped that almost no computer games were available for the that platform - you actually had to do something useful with it:-)
all those people having voice-activated "somethings" in their living room that aren't somehow trained to listen only to their voice - and not seeing a problem in it. They get what they deserve.
Everything else is just a dichotomy between Google and BK, where each profits from the actions of the other.
Not a single bank executive has seen jailtime for causing the 2008 crisis, even though the extent of damages makes scams like this seem like pickpocketing and it's quite clear that the banks knew exactly what they were doing.when they started creating collateralized debt obligations from the subprime loans to circumvent the credit rating system.
I think at least one of the CEOs of the three nationalized Icelandic banks is in prison.
It's an Icelandic prison, of course, so it's not quite the same as a US prison...
It's the City of Munich. They don't have a CRM. They don't have customers, they have subjects;-) And Exchange - how many of these people have a packed agenda that they need something like Outlook to shuffle around appointments?
GIS-software and other specialized software for all kinds of things (large and small) the city manages and runs is probably a bigger problem. IIRC, they run thousands of pieces of software altogether. Most of that only available on Windows. They could have (and did so, to some degree, AFAIK) run it on Terminal-servers or Citrix - but that probably still incurred significant CAL-costs... Also, only very recently has Linux started to get "Ok-ish" for mobile use.
That said, Linux on the desktop was never going to happen. It's an oxymoron. To succeed on the desktop, you need something like Apple's or Microsoft's development-models that are at the same time fundamentally opposite to what Linux is, at its core.
Though, some of the people in Munich welcoming this change (employees weren't exactly thrilled about Linux anyway) are going to have a rude awaking when they realize that their Windows 10 client has to be locked down to point where it barely exceeds the capabilities of a thin-client (or a Linux-Desktop) because the threat-landscape has completely changed while they were running Linux and LibreOffice. Back in the day, APTs, crypto-ransom threats existed but were very rare. They're everyday's business now.
Didn't download much during December - consequently only shows a single torrent.
Because my employer is also my ISP and we don't give a shit about American lawyers, these tickets that urge the ISP to warn or punish the user (or forward his details) just get deleted;-) Nobody has every presented a court-order.
You get these mails usually only when you download complete seasons of "hot" TV series - or a very new cinema-blockbuster.
I didn't realize that the CIA and FBI were now "bhutt hurt liberal media shills", thanks for clarifying that.
I honestly don't know how conservatives sleep at night, knowing that their system failed badly enough to put Trump in the White House (too many candidates spreading their support too thin, failing to counter his bullshit effectively)... I guess they are just happy that they can now ram through all their policies and are willing to overlook the rest of it.
They must be terrified over what Russian has on the GOP though. You can bet that if Putin's man in the White House ever goes rogue there will be some strategic leaks to neuter him.
What could be worse than a video clip of "...you can grab 'em by the pussy"?
I never oder anything from Amazon. Or maybe once or twice per decade.
I also don't really listen to music (or anything else) at home. I enjoy the silence, after being inundated by sounds and voices all day around at work.
And I certainly don't want everything I say being transmitted to a server at some place and having it influence the products I get presented on my next visit to that web-page (or other web-pages, via ads and cookies).
People whose lives literally revolve around shopping online or offline should really question if they're making the most of it - and whether they'd fall in a depression if they for some reason couldn't do that anymore.
When it happens, it will hopefully be over very quickly.
That said, I live in Switzerland and my apartment-building has bunker in the basement, complete with steel-enforced concrete door, ventilation and chemical toilet.
Out of reflex, I'ld probably flee there and survive a couple of days until the fallout brings me an agonizing death.
I pay almost everything in cash here (where I live, it' still a cash-world, thank god, with almost no limit on the amount you can pay cash) and Apple Pay has only recently been introduced anyway - but if I would use Apple Pay, I'd be thankful that random apps can't access the secure enclave and access that payment data.
I use it to post the occasional picture from one of my bike-rides.
As I said, one of the plus-sides is that I don't need a FB login. The moment they're sold to FB, I'm out.
Ah - well, it was nice while it lasted (given I follow very few people and as such see very few drivel in my newsfeed - can't imagine what it's like following somebody with a million followers).
Somebody pointed out some time ago that WhatsApp "serves" a billion customers with 50-ish people (and around 50 (very, very big) servers), while Twitter needs 5000-ish people and much more servers to serve 100 million (or 200 million, I have no idea) - a bit of a skewed comparison, due to the underlying mechanics of the different services (also pointed out in the same tweet that WhatsApp runs Erlang on FreeBSD while Twitter runs Java on Linux...) - but the underlying argument is sound, IMO.
Instead of adding features (that people don't use), they should maybe look into cutting it back to the basics and run it with a team of 50 people (and 50-100 servers). They'd probably be profitable in a couple of quarters.
Because, think for a moment: what else could they leak?
There are just too many skeletons in the locker. They (Russians) probably have a good idea of just how corrupt every single elected official in most of the Western world is. And there's an election coming up not only in the US, but also in Germany.
E.g. people using the client having to pay a monthly fee? If you see a way of this happening, then there's a future for Twitter. Else, there isn't. But hey, I can subscribe to newsletters and receive updates there, too. I don't have any kinds of instant notifications set for my Twitter-App, so any updates I only see when I actually open the client. Which incidentally is the same as with my mail client.
Twitter is great way for companies to communicate with users (especially those that don't want to sign up to Facebook) to escalate stuff around useless L1-support or in case of a total service-breakdown (DDoS or whatever). I have trouble, though, imagining just how much (or how little) I would actually gladly pay for such a thing - and I can't believe I'm the only one.
I know it helps with water resistance ease of manufacturing, but when will phone manufacturers reconsider the whole non removable battery issue?
Never.
Elvis has left the building on that one.
Even if my iPhone had a user-replaceable battery, I'd still buy it from Apple.
A computer-magazine I read once ordered twelve replacement-batteries (from twelve different ebay-sellers) for some Samsung-phone. They were all fakes. Some very good, but all fake in the end.
We'd probably have more fires with user-replaceable batteries these days. Not less.
And try suing that Chinese ebay-seller operating from the basement of his aunts flat.
Reagan got the Teheran hostages free by promising to unfreeze some shah-assets.
They were actually released on election day - and that's just a very public example.
Also, it's pretty clear that Russia has sent a little warning in the form of the Shadow Broker files.
That's why the Obama-Administration is so tight-arsed about calling out Putin. The Russians probably know a lot more about a couple of very shady intelligence operations than they could ever have gained from Ed Snowden - and they made it clear that they can leak it anytime.
The Russians basically said: "We can play this game, too, you know? Don't rock the boat, be happy with your book-contracts, the Nobel-prize and your cushy 50000 USD/gig speaking engagements".
the Allo team.. decided.. was worth giving up privacy benefits
That is not for the dev team to decide. Let the user decide it.
Your idea of the "users" of Google is just wrong. Their users are the companies that pay for the ads. What you think are users are really the products that are sold to the actual users.
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It's available here (Switzerland) in organic shops.
It's even available unpasteurized - it's the closest thing to raw cow-milk fresh from the source you can get.
I've reduced my milk-consumption semi-recently (I eat yoghurt, butter, cheese and I'm not a calf, so I don't need to consume a combined half a liter every day) and the non-pasteurized milk goes bad in about three days.
So, I don't buy it anymore because I don't drink enough of it before it goes bad. But it's delicious.
For infants, I'd boil it.
But when I was a kid, we used to get the raw milk directly from a farmer and I often consumed it raw, unboiled.
To the contrary: go big or go home.
As the post from Solandri above points out: small scammers ask for 200 dollars.
Those are easily caught because The Big G probably don't buy small quantities of anything.
But send an invoice for 3 million and... "Hey, I'm not supposed to tell you this but manager X needs this gear for this super-secret, super-important project. You know, he's reporting directly to Sergej and Larry on this one. No red tape, no fuzz. Now do the needful and approve the payment so we both don't get into trouble for delaying this thing any further. I'll tell Eric you saved the day the next time we go golfing."
Etc.
This man obviously knew how to press the right buttons with people. Hall of fame indeed.
Of course, as long as it was working, he couldn't quit.
I used to bike to work (~30 minutes, about 100m of altitude gain) in my normal clothes.
Not any more. First, it wears out normal clothes at a much faster pace and they become smelly faster.
Bike wear makes for a more relaxed ride.
I don't give a shit what others think. Especially if they are easily offended.
But then, 30% of the inhabitants in the city I work have no car at all.
I remember buying wireless cards from a seller on ebay (10-15 years ago). Those were Netgear cards (PCMCIA mostly) and they would work most of the time but fail regularly (the longer the more often...).
Turns out that the guy had sources in Asia who literally pulled these out of trash-bins at some recycler.
Netgear refused to honor any kind of warranty or responsibility for those cards.
I believe, the best way to reduce waste is to carefully consider if you actually need the product in question - and start from the assumption that you don't.
The first "thing" was a C64.
Then came an Acorn A 5000 - which, together with the RISC-PC 600 (later upgraded to StrongARM and then equipped with a daughter-board that housed an actual 486-SX to run Windoze) - actually taught me useful lessons that helped me understand computing from a more general point of view, without the narrow focus (and obsession) on DOS- (and Windows 3.1 / 95) idiosyncrasies that most of my fellow CS students had.
It also helped that almost no computer games were available for the that platform - you actually had to do something useful with it :-)
all those people having voice-activated "somethings" in their living room that aren't somehow trained to listen only to their voice - and not seeing a problem in it.
They get what they deserve.
Everything else is just a dichotomy between Google and BK, where each profits from the actions of the other.
I think at least one of the CEOs of the three nationalized Icelandic banks is in prison.
It's an Icelandic prison, of course, so it's not quite the same as a US prison...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
It would probably ruin the cityscape.
Congestion of housing has to be done very carefully or you end up with frightening ghettos.
That said, it's something all cities have to go through, it just takes time.
It's the City of Munich. They don't have a CRM. They don't have customers, they have subjects ;-)
And Exchange - how many of these people have a packed agenda that they need something like Outlook to shuffle around appointments?
GIS-software and other specialized software for all kinds of things (large and small) the city manages and runs is probably a bigger problem. IIRC, they run thousands of pieces of software altogether. Most of that only available on Windows. They could have (and did so, to some degree, AFAIK) run it on Terminal-servers or Citrix - but that probably still incurred significant CAL-costs...
Also, only very recently has Linux started to get "Ok-ish" for mobile use.
That said, Linux on the desktop was never going to happen. It's an oxymoron. To succeed on the desktop, you need something like Apple's or Microsoft's development-models that are at the same time fundamentally opposite to what Linux is, at its core.
Though, some of the people in Munich welcoming this change (employees weren't exactly thrilled about Linux anyway) are going to have a rude awaking when they realize that their Windows 10 client has to be locked down to point where it barely exceeds the capabilities of a thin-client (or a Linux-Desktop) because the threat-landscape has completely changed while they were running Linux and LibreOffice. Back in the day, APTs, crypto-ransom threats existed but were very rare. They're everyday's business now.
Didn't download much during December - consequently only shows a single torrent.
Because my employer is also my ISP and we don't give a shit about American lawyers, these tickets that urge the ISP to warn or punish the user (or forward his details) just get deleted ;-)
Nobody has every presented a court-order.
You get these mails usually only when you download complete seasons of "hot" TV series - or a very new cinema-blockbuster.
I didn't realize that the CIA and FBI were now "bhutt hurt liberal media shills", thanks for clarifying that.
I honestly don't know how conservatives sleep at night, knowing that their system failed badly enough to put Trump in the White House (too many candidates spreading their support too thin, failing to counter his bullshit effectively)... I guess they are just happy that they can now ram through all their policies and are willing to overlook the rest of it.
They must be terrified over what Russian has on the GOP though. You can bet that if Putin's man in the White House ever goes rogue there will be some strategic leaks to neuter him.
What could be worse than a video clip of "...you can grab 'em by the pussy"?
I never oder anything from Amazon. Or maybe once or twice per decade.
I also don't really listen to music (or anything else) at home. I enjoy the silence, after being inundated by sounds and voices all day around at work.
And I certainly don't want everything I say being transmitted to a server at some place and having it influence the products I get presented on my next visit to that web-page (or other web-pages, via ads and cookies).
People whose lives literally revolve around shopping online or offline should really question if they're making the most of it - and whether they'd fall in a depression if they for some reason couldn't do that anymore.
When it happens, it will hopefully be over very quickly.
That said, I live in Switzerland and my apartment-building has bunker in the basement, complete with steel-enforced concrete door, ventilation and chemical toilet.
Out of reflex, I'ld probably flee there and survive a couple of days until the fallout brings me an agonizing death.
Maybe evolution is smarter next time.
He later apologized and it looks like Steve Jobs forgave him (from Isaacson's biography).
I pay almost everything in cash here (where I live, it' still a cash-world, thank god, with almost no limit on the amount you can pay cash) and Apple Pay has only recently been introduced anyway - but if I would use Apple Pay, I'd be thankful that random apps can't access the secure enclave and access that payment data.
The agony would be shorter. ;-)
I use it to post the occasional picture from one of my bike-rides.
As I said, one of the plus-sides is that I don't need a FB login.
The moment they're sold to FB, I'm out.
Ah - well, it was nice while it lasted (given I follow very few people and as such see very few drivel in my newsfeed - can't imagine what it's like following somebody with a million followers).
Somebody pointed out some time ago that WhatsApp "serves" a billion customers with 50-ish people (and around 50 (very, very big) servers), while Twitter needs 5000-ish people and much more servers to serve 100 million (or 200 million, I have no idea) - a bit of a skewed comparison, due to the underlying mechanics of the different services (also pointed out in the same tweet that WhatsApp runs Erlang on FreeBSD while Twitter runs Java on Linux...) - but the underlying argument is sound, IMO.
Instead of adding features (that people don't use), they should maybe look into cutting it back to the basics and run it with a team of 50 people (and 50-100 servers). They'd probably be profitable in a couple of quarters.
Because, think for a moment: what else could they leak?
There are just too many skeletons in the locker.
They (Russians) probably have a good idea of just how corrupt every single elected official in most of the Western world is.
And there's an election coming up not only in the US, but also in Germany.
E.g. people using the client having to pay a monthly fee?
If you see a way of this happening, then there's a future for Twitter. Else, there isn't.
But hey, I can subscribe to newsletters and receive updates there, too. I don't have any kinds of instant notifications set for my Twitter-App, so any updates I only see when I actually open the client.
Which incidentally is the same as with my mail client.
Twitter is great way for companies to communicate with users (especially those that don't want to sign up to Facebook) to escalate stuff around useless L1-support or in case of a total service-breakdown (DDoS or whatever).
I have trouble, though, imagining just how much (or how little) I would actually gladly pay for such a thing - and I can't believe I'm the only one.
Hopefully, Facebook is next.
...when the Terminators want to take over.
The one-sided nature of the leaks suggests that either Wikieaks has an agenda, or it is the willing accomplice of someone who has an agenda.
I think that was the case from the beginning.
Are you coming to this realization just now?
Lock their kids' accounts on Steam. That'll teach them.
I know it helps with water resistance ease of manufacturing, but when will phone manufacturers reconsider the whole non removable battery issue?
Never.
Elvis has left the building on that one.
Even if my iPhone had a user-replaceable battery, I'd still buy it from Apple.
A computer-magazine I read once ordered twelve replacement-batteries (from twelve different ebay-sellers) for some Samsung-phone. They were all fakes. Some very good, but all fake in the end.
We'd probably have more fires with user-replaceable batteries these days. Not less.
And try suing that Chinese ebay-seller operating from the basement of his aunts flat.
Yeah - I was too lazy to look it up.
Reagan got the Teheran hostages free by promising to unfreeze some shah-assets.
They were actually released on election day - and that's just a very public example.
Also, it's pretty clear that Russia has sent a little warning in the form of the Shadow Broker files.
That's why the Obama-Administration is so tight-arsed about calling out Putin. The Russians probably know a lot more about a couple of very shady intelligence operations than they could ever have gained from Ed Snowden - and they made it clear that they can leak it anytime.
The Russians basically said:
"We can play this game, too, you know? Don't rock the boat, be happy with your book-contracts, the Nobel-prize and your cushy 50000 USD/gig speaking engagements".
the Allo team .. decided .. was worth giving up privacy benefits
That is not for the dev team to decide. Let the user decide it.
Your idea of the "users" of Google is just wrong. Their users are the companies that pay for the ads. What you think are users are really the products that are sold to the actual users.