How do you know that the "facts" are facts in the first place?
Indeed. "Fact checking" groups/sites are always going to be biased towards someone/some group. There is no such thing as an unbiased independent "fact checking" anything.
Might as watch the horrid unashamedly biased news sites like CNN and Fox News who are two different sides of the same coin.
Only if someone accuses a Nintendo Switch of making sexual threats and harassments towards them. Or is it when someone sexually harasses a Nintendo Switch? I forget.
In some ways this reminds me of gaming online on several BBS way back when your mom decided she needed to make a phone call on the line your modem was connected to just when you had discovered the player in first place and was ready to take them down.
Don't laugh. Soon there will be the equivalent of an MS "Facebook" baked into Windows 10 too.
Can just imagine it now - you're working on some code, a document, or playing that awesome game when all of a sudden a window pops over your active one and shows you all the food and kid pictures of other Windows 10 users around the world with the request that you "Like" them.
Agreed. Just thinking about looking at my router's logs make me twitch because there is so much activity from IP addresses of that region it hurts the mind.
Don't you know that md5 isn't safe? You should use sha256 instead:
Bah, amateurs! ROT13 is the most secure!
(This is a joke of course. I'm stating this because I just know someone is going to take this post seriously, lol.)
I also get the term "modem box" frequently, in reference to the tower.
Heh, that reminds me of something a friend of mine told me once that happened about 10-12 years back. She worked in tech. support for a local ISP. One day a call came in and someone told her they were having trouble accessing the internet. Well, as my friend started asking questions to the caller like type of computer and operating system version, the callers' problem became very clear to my friend. Turns out the caller had no computer.
Apparently, the caller saw a (dialup)modem in a store, bought it, then subscribed to the ISP thinking that was all that was needed to use the internet. The caller didn't own any computer.
On a slightly unrelated note, she told me that the ISP had setup networked Doom so that all the tech. support people could play Doom between (and no doubt during) calls. After that call she was probably taking her frustrations out on every other support member playing, lol.
Heh, another situation: My father worked for a university in the computer support department. In the early 90's he used to get frequent calls from the university library people to come and remove CD's that students were forcing into 5" floppy disk drives because the students thought they were CD-ROM drives.
if I were to overwrite all of my information with crap and manually delete each pic, would they still have backups of my information?
Unfortunately, they would.
I'd like to think I can at least partly delete my information!
Well... you see once something is on the internet (ie. through a web site, Usenet post, email list archive, web forums, etc.) it's pretty much there for good. Not too much you or I can do about it. That's why it's a good thing to always think about stuff before you post it or put it on a website.
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Saw a trend in the comments and I had to run with it with my first computer. :-P
What have I done better? I went out and bought a Commodore 64 to use instead!
How do you know that the "facts" are facts in the first place?
Indeed. "Fact checking" groups/sites are always going to be biased towards someone/some group. There is no such thing as an unbiased independent "fact checking" anything. Might as watch the horrid unashamedly biased news sites like CNN and Fox News who are two different sides of the same coin.
30,000 factory robots connected to the internet they want? What could possibly go wrong!
Only if someone accuses a Nintendo Switch of making sexual threats and harassments towards them. Or is it when someone sexually harasses a Nintendo Switch? I forget.
In some ways this reminds me of gaming online on several BBS way back when your mom decided she needed to make a phone call on the line your modem was connected to just when you had discovered the player in first place and was ready to take them down.
Better yet, rot 13 each character twice.
Hmm, maybe. But I'd argue it'd be more secure if each character was rot 13 four times each!
That why I always use Password123
Pfft, that's nothing - I just use "Password"!
I pictured a captcha image challenge where it gives you assorted piles of crap and you try to guess which ones came from a bull.
So, would this type of captcha technically be a "crapcha"? ;-)
Speak for yourself. Insofar as Google knows, I am a dog.
Incoming dog food and related products advertising when you visit Google now in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1 ;-)
Don't laugh. Soon there will be the equivalent of an MS "Facebook" baked into Windows 10 too.
Can just imagine it now - you're working on some code, a document, or playing that awesome game when all of a sudden a window pops over your active one and shows you all the food and kid pictures of other Windows 10 users around the world with the request that you "Like" them.
There just pointing fingers right now to try and hide the fact that they're just as guilty.
Oops, supposed to be "They're" not "There". There, I grammar nazi'd myself. How about that?
There just pointing fingers right now to try and hide the fact that they're just as guilty.
Agreed. Just thinking about looking at my router's logs make me twitch because there is so much activity from IP addresses of that region it hurts the mind.
http://www.contiki-os.org/
Don't you know that md5 isn't safe? You should use sha256 instead:
Bah, amateurs! ROT13 is the most secure! (This is a joke of course. I'm stating this because I just know someone is going to take this post seriously, lol.)
Ditto. But on the plus side, it did give me a reason to change my password to something much stronger than it used to be.
Agreed. Did so here too.
There will be mass hysteria, cats and dogs will dance the lambada,
Oh, now *that's* scary as heck.
I also get the term "modem box" frequently, in reference to the tower.
Heh, that reminds me of something a friend of mine told me once that happened about 10-12 years back. She worked in tech. support for a local ISP. One day a call came in and someone told her they were having trouble accessing the internet. Well, as my friend started asking questions to the caller like type of computer and operating system version, the callers' problem became very clear to my friend. Turns out the caller had no computer.
Apparently, the caller saw a (dialup)modem in a store, bought it, then subscribed to the ISP thinking that was all that was needed to use the internet. The caller didn't own any computer.
On a slightly unrelated note, she told me that the ISP had setup networked Doom so that all the tech. support people could play Doom between (and no doubt during) calls. After that call she was probably taking her frustrations out on every other support member playing, lol.
Heh, another situation: My father worked for a university in the computer support department. In the early 90's he used to get frequent calls from the university library people to come and remove CD's that students were forcing into 5" floppy disk drives because the students thought they were CD-ROM drives.
Darn you! Now I want an Okudagram LCARS inspired GUI for my word processor! ;-)
How about employing someone to proof-read your posts and check the links?
Are you serious? The lack of proof-read is what makes this place Slashdot! ;-)
is invent/patent a cologne/perfume that smells like a lie and poof profit?????????
No, you invent one that smells like the truth. Much bigger profit then. Especially from politicians. ;-)
if I were to overwrite all of my information with crap and manually delete each pic, would they still have backups of my information?
Unfortunately, they would.
I'd like to think I can at least partly delete my information!
Well... you see once something is on the internet (ie. through a web site, Usenet post, email list archive, web forums, etc.) it's pretty much there for good. Not too much you or I can do about it. That's why it's a good thing to always think about stuff before you post it or put it on a website.