KDE has never made that mistake. KDE is still faithful as traditional desktop. KDE4 is part of KDE, official release, I'm not sure what were you implying to. You can't say the same with Cinnamon and MATE with their relation to Gnome.
Gee, a "faithful" Linux UI? Using Mate at the moment, and liking it, if it turns to shit, I'll just use something else.
That's the great thing about Linux. If something makes your blood boil, say systemd or unity, or even a GUI in the first place - there's always an option. And if nothing available suits, you can always roll your own. http://www.linuxfromscratch.or...
It's not "a bit old", it's "good enough and does what you want". It has the added benefit that Mozilla have decided to leave it alone, unlike Firefox which they're determined to keep fucking up more and more until their last users decide that since it's just a crappy copy of Chrome anyway they may as well use the real thing.
Leaving older software alone seems to be the best way to have software that works. I've been keeping a Windows 7 computer and an old Core 2 duo imac around because newer systems purposely break software, or in this case, are just Microsoft being Microsoft and screwing up.
Give to all the political parties over your geographical control, and you'll have a say in policy. Call it owning them, call it influence, call it gaining some power over your destiny. Whatever you call it, millennia of history show consistently putting a small amount to all the politicians is a wise business move.
I hope the city throws this out with the evidence presented by the owner of the self-driving car.
Self-driving cars can simply be programmed to follow all rules of the road. If a pedestrian breaks the rules (jay-walking or not crossing at a designated cross walk), then that's on the pedestrian, not on the car.
Next time you are coming to an intersection, and a pedestrian is walking against the light, accellerate and send that asshole flying - then tell the world your theory, and all his fault. Let us know how that works out for ya.
Self driving cars will eliminate accidents because humans aren't good drivers. All these accidents and that dead woman are simply fake news designed to impede the glorious future of perfectly safe transportation, by elimination of the human from the process.
Government ordered cyber offensives designed to change the leadership of a country are an act of war.
Espionage and covert activities are a normal part of government relations. Saying Russian ads on Facebook are an "act of war" is absurd.
This is a red herring. Espionage might be a side effect of the present situation, given that some efforts were made to use secure russian communications to keep the US intelligence community from knowing what was being communicated between Russia and the Trump White house Source: http://www.businessinsider.com... But it isn't legal, and those caught are punished.
But yeah - saying Russian ads on Facebook are the source of the concept of "Acts of war", and that we dumbass 'Murricans are only thinking of that as an act of war is bullshit. It discards everything else, and is worthy of a paranoid's conspiracy theory frame of mind. Cherry picking what supports one's argument and discarding the rest.
But let's get onto Acts of war. That is the wrong term. What everyone is looking for is Casus belli, not specifically acts of war . There is a relationship, but not a direct tit for tat. A Casus belli can be just about anything. The Bush II administration declared a Casus belli on Iraq for non-compliance with the cease fire in the 1990-91 war. Lame, but an example. WW1 started with the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and was a Casus belli. No direct attack happened.
Actual Acts of war are incidents like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. No questioning that. A few have been manufactured, like the Gulf of Tonkin false flag operation. But still, there is a difference between the two, and Russia and a company in England didn't physically attack the US. Now since physical acts of war preceded the internet - there might be additions to Acts of war given that we and other countries have been stupid enough to put things like the power grid on the internet.
But let's dig a little deeper.
So now we get to the hacking of both the Republican and Democrat servers, but the systematic release of only the Democrat party information. https://www.snopes.com/news/20... Interestingly a Republican from Texas also broke this, then retracted it a few moments later - which in some cases indicates the veracity of the original statement. https://www.mediaite.com/onlin... But that's pretty interesting - I wonder why the Republican data wasn't presented? And if people think that the DNC's marginalization of Bernie Sanders was bad, they conveniently forget how actively Republicans worked to destroy moderate Republicans in order to replace them with ideologically pure candidates.
So we have a really sketchy attempt to use Russian crypto equipment, selective hacked data disclosure, and an unfolding story of Russian money coming into NRA dark campaign campaign funds for the politicians they own, and more. Facebook is a blip on the screen, but disturbing on the whole because in some of the other countries it was involved in more violent activities.
Regardless, the whole Facebook issue is that Cambridge Analytica was caught once, supposedly deleted the data, didn't, then used it and more data again, and as it turns out, are a really slimey organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The shock of the whole thing was that it finally proved beyond doubt that Facebook is directly involved in the Cambridge Analytica malfeasance. That they will sell your data to organizations that are pathological in nature. That some people were naive enough to not think thair data would be used in such a fashion was hammered home.
"We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?
Access to immortality will be decided by money. No need to get racist about it, although I do realise that the use of "white man" as a pejorative is perfectly acceptable in this day and age.
Immortality is not possible. If a person will never die because of illness, it doesn't mean that it will be impossible to die because of accident. And if a person has infinite lifespan - ignoring the likely heat death of the universe - In that infinity, there will be fatal accidents for all who choose to live forever.
As for the "white man" racist pejorative, in the near future, "white" as a race will shift into being a large minority in the US of A. I'm wondering if it will still be acceptable to be racist toward a minority at that time.
My money is on racism continuing as the new majority proves themselves to be just as nasty as the hated white man.
Barring an early demise, I'll be alive at that momentous changeover, and I'm curious.
I am enough of an expert on Elon Musk to give advice not to listen to him. You don't actually need to be very expert to see that.
Fighting the good fight on Slashdot to protect the proles for the dangers of old Musky. You bow to no one.
Ol Musky is a game changer, and some folks don't like that. He puts his money in some areas that some of the old guard doesn't like.
And its true that anyone like that will have detractors. Its why some revile Thomas Edison while elevating Tesla to demigod status.
Ol Musky isn't right about everything. I could not care less bout his views on IT. But he's a game changer, and at least he isn't using his money to devise better ways to kill people.
Then again, likely anther reason why some folks hate him. Many people do love their engines of destruction.
Accountants show companies creative accounting practices that while they might be illegal, the make money. Companies understand that.
IT people don't do that. And since there is no real punishment for giving away your customer's credit cards and other data, it is pretty simple accounting. that an accountant is a better investment for profit than an IT security person.
It never hurts to own the people who are making the laws, and I predict that after a thorough investigation, Markie will get a congressional Medal of Honor
Because the real bad actors can't register a PO Box, shell company, and Photoshop a fake ID? We're talking about intelligence agencies messing around with elections.
Guess then we'll figure out what Intelligence agency is running what ad then. If the front facing trail suddenly goes dark, it tells you just as much as putting an intel org's name on it.
a) built to be at least slightly robust, which generally means keeping the glass away from edges, not making things too thin, and using reasonably strong materials.
Well then - you go out and you buy twhatever device is up to your standards. If you are proven right - everyone will demand what you bought, and the non-functioningh ids which ap[p[arentlty don't work anyhow - will be thrown away. Or maybe sold to hipsters kids who will then fail because the ipads do not work.
b) are designed to be SERVICABLE, so that when we send them to a repair center for a cracked screen, or when a port bets broken off internally they can be repaired for much less than the cost of a new item.
Got it?
Tell me of the rates for sending a device to these service centers, As well just for your edification http://www.directfix.com/categ...https://www.unionrepair.com/ip... Lots more Apple Repare parts and facilities. . Seriously my good man. Keep it up, I can demolish any of your memes.
Meanwhile, I suppose Buffy and Billy simply don't have a device while their computer is at the repair shop?
The whole demand for fixing computing devices and it's aim at Apple is simply Windows fans who seem to think Apples are made from unobtanium and cannot be fixed.
Dooood! I fix the damn things for people now as a sideline, and an Ipad isn't a whole lot different than a Chromebook or from a Windows machine.
They're all a pain in the ass, and you need to be careful what you wish for - you might just get it. Simply put, the same things they can try to force Apple to do will be required of everyone.
They really aren't worth fixing anyhow. For the price people pay for computing devices, I can eat that up in afew hours. If they break, you might as well chuck-em.The latest ones I've fixed were either for sentimental value - like a woman who wanted her dead husband's laptop repaired - weird, huh, or data retrieval. Even a couple Chromebooks, more out of curiosity. Because that repair can easily cost more than a new device.
And no, such devices cost LESS than ipads - which is why chromebooks are so prevalent in schools now.
However, it seems you are so apple fixated that you cannot comprehend basics.. sad.
You're quite wrong about me. I've made it a practice to own and use all manner of computers since the early 90's. Both professionally and personally. At work because of suits problems, and the IT people are afraid of them - both the suits and anything not Windows - and at home because it helps. They all have their foibles. For what it is worth, I personally recommend Chromebooks myself. They are cheap, reasonably electrically reliable - although you better keep them charged because they get pissy if you run them the whole way down. What's more, later on if you get kids who want to go further than simple - they run Linux nicely. But their main selling point is they don't suffer from update follies. Apples are my second choice - reliable. And Windows machines would be tied with Apples if Windows 10 wasn't such a hot mess. Which it is. Major driver issues. Might work almost OK if only Office was used, but for Music and art Windows 10 has a habit of deciding it knows better than the software you are using as far as drivers go, so you get an update and you are out of business. Windows 7 would be a much better OS. But that's not today's Windows.
This is a Microsoft product. So it is no surprise. Benn a very insecure week for them. But they are getting better at simply inviting the bad guy in. Black Hats are thankin' ya Mister Nutella.
That's actually one of the differences between working as an employee or a contractor. Everyone likes to trash talk contractor jobs, but if you're an employee then any IP you create belongs to your employer.
What is more, every contract I've signed gave them the right to all of my inventions forever, even after leaving the companies. Probably wouldn't hold up in court, but if there was enough money involved, I'm certain they'd all try to claim it.
Teenagers are always bored, always have been, and always will be. I was bored back in the late 60's, early 70's, my kid was bored in the 1990's, along with the rest of the millenials, and on and on.
If there is any difference, since the late 90's being bored was like a contest, where you came up with reasons why you were the most bored.
You still use the "wake word" to initiate the conversation. You just don't have to say it again at the beginning of each sentence during an ongoing conversation.
These home assistants use regular Wifi, and you can monitor the packets they transmit and receive.
Everybody loves using wireshark, My Grandma has a fine time sniffing packets. Darn - that sounded creepy!
There is no evidence that they are "recording everything you say". If they were caught doing that (and they would almost certainly get caught), they would face ruinous criminal charges and civil penalties, along with a PR disaster that would far outweigh any possible benefit.
The issue isn't that whether or not "they" are listening at this moment or not. The devices are very capable of listening full time. Or on really interesting trigger words. Or under a warrant. Or under a hack.
Go find a better conspiracy theory to glom onto.
You're smarter than that Bill. Conspiracy theories involve some convoluted logic and cherry picking of data/information, and discarding what doesn't fit your argument.
If someone is involved in a criminal or political activity that wants to monitor, or if some folks want to do fishing expeditions, access is only an update away. That isn't conspiracy, it's the nature of the device, and historical human activity.
People can opt in to this stuff if they want, and that''s okay. They should know the capabilities though. It isn't paranoia or conspiracy to have a piece of electrical tape on your webcam. Nor is it conspiracy to understand how software works - Someone savvy enough to know how to use a sniffer should be savvy enough to know that.
Most of her positions actually seemed kind of reasonable for a PETA type. If you watch any of her youtube videos though she's very wooden in her facial expression and posture. I'd bet the girl had been on a long-term stint of anti psychotics / anti depressants. Combine that with youtube demonetization and.. you hit unstable people in their pocketbook, a certain percentage of them are going to react in socially unacceptable ways.
Good point about the meds - her expression looked like the one on some guys I knew who were on thorazine.
This is a pretty random incident. Doesn't play to any of the narratives we hear about guns and workplace violence. Just a kook who became unhinged. And very strange that she took herself out with the gun. Women tend to commit suicide through non-violent means.
This is somewhat irrelevant to the point you're making, but the thing I like about Chromebooks is the ability for me to install a community-supported open source operating system. It's the same with the Nexus line and my iPod Classic. With phones especially, there is a limited time frame for security updates. With Chromebooks, Google only provides updates for a specific period of time just like with phones. And the iPod Classic stopped selling a long time ago (I'm using Rockbox on it).
Your post made me think about something. Until I wrecked my Chromebook, I had installed Ubuntu Mate on it, and loved it. Then I spilled a full cup of coffee on it and my ultra cheap Linux lappy died a horrible death. But I digress.
If we had a group of budding geeks in junior high, a chromebook to alter would be about as much fun as a technically inclined kid could have, don't you think? Of course, kids being kids, there would be a lot of wrecked OS instances. But a Chromebook is so easy to restore that no real harm happens.
So if a kid is interested in going further than the superficial, classes where they purchase a cheap Chromebook, make it dual boot, and learn how actual computers work sounds like something I would have loved back in Junior/Senior High school.
Maybe schools could get windows 7 computers? I've had to get a lot of W10 computers running properly again when Windows screws the pooch on them. Windows 7 at least works well. But it's hard to imagine after all this time that we'd see a drop in W10 and an increase in W7 OS use.
I have W7 running in Bootcamp on my Mac and it's been 100 percent uptime. My Windows basic breakfast computer will update over insecure connections - ridiculous to have that little control - and my much more capable HP envy laptop has had update issues when W10 pro delayed updates decide to uninstall my drivers and replace them with non-functional ones they think are better.
Only problem with my iOS device updates was one battery use problem that was fixed in a coup[le days.
My wife has taught in 2 schools who had abandoned the failure that was iOS in education for a system that actually allows you to do basic things such as: what you need to rather than what the walled garden will permit you to.
Can you even name a single area of study they weren't able to do? Sounds more like the Hatorade Distortion Field in action. And if you absolutely, positively had to use a Windows program for some reason, you could install Microsoft Remote Desktop and use it as a remote app.
No Apple product has ever worked, and no Apple product ever will. In fact, thousands of youngsters are killed every year by exploding iPads. Even more were harmed by the poisonous glass and radioactive metal parts purposefully put in them.
The only cure comrades, is to stop buying Apple products, and only ust the Windows 10 devices, which al have 100 percent uptime, never have a problem, and never need any support. Perfection personified.
In recent tests, Windows OS devices were shown to increase student's IQ's by 25 points, unless they are using teh Surface devices, in which case it is a whopping 50 point increase.
A vegan and animal rights activist who had no trouble shooting people - who last time I checked, are also animals.
Well, anecdotal evidence, I know, but many vegan, animal activists I met think that animals are better than humans (there's no criminality among animals!!1!) and despise humans who do not care animals like they do.
You need to check out Chimpanzees. Anyhow, love of animals based on hatred of humans is a sure fire recipe for disaster.
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KDE has never made that mistake. KDE is still faithful as traditional desktop. KDE4 is part of KDE, official release, I'm not sure what were you implying to. You can't say the same with Cinnamon and MATE with their relation to Gnome.
Gee, a "faithful" Linux UI? Using Mate at the moment, and liking it, if it turns to shit, I'll just use something else.
That's the great thing about Linux. If something makes your blood boil, say systemd or unity, or even a GUI in the first place - there's always an option. And if nothing available suits, you can always roll your own. http://www.linuxfromscratch.or...
It's not "a bit old", it's "good enough and does what you want". It has the added benefit that Mozilla have decided to leave it alone, unlike Firefox which they're determined to keep fucking up more and more until their last users decide that since it's just a crappy copy of Chrome anyway they may as well use the real thing.
Leaving older software alone seems to be the best way to have software that works. I've been keeping a Windows 7 computer and an old Core 2 duo imac around because newer systems purposely break software, or in this case, are just Microsoft being Microsoft and screwing up.
Give to all the political parties over your geographical control, and you'll have a say in policy. Call it owning them, call it influence, call it gaining some power over your destiny. Whatever you call it, millennia of history show consistently putting a small amount to all the politicians is a wise business move.
It's called baksheesh.
I hope the city throws this out with the evidence presented by the owner of the self-driving car.
Self-driving cars can simply be programmed to follow all rules of the road. If a pedestrian breaks the rules (jay-walking or not crossing at a designated cross walk), then that's on the pedestrian, not on the car.
Next time you are coming to an intersection, and a pedestrian is walking against the light, accellerate and send that asshole flying - then tell the world your theory, and all his fault. Let us know how that works out for ya.
Self driving cars will eliminate accidents because humans aren't good drivers. All these accidents and that dead woman are simply fake news designed to impede the glorious future of perfectly safe transportation, by elimination of the human from the process.
Government ordered cyber offensives designed to change the leadership of a country are an act of war.
Espionage and covert activities are a normal part of government relations. Saying Russian ads on Facebook are an "act of war" is absurd.
This is a red herring. Espionage might be a side effect of the present situation, given that some efforts were made to use secure russian communications to keep the US intelligence community from knowing what was being communicated between Russia and the Trump White house Source: http://www.businessinsider.com... But it isn't legal, and those caught are punished.
But yeah - saying Russian ads on Facebook are the source of the concept of "Acts of war", and that we dumbass 'Murricans are only thinking of that as an act of war is bullshit. It discards everything else, and is worthy of a paranoid's conspiracy theory frame of mind. Cherry picking what supports one's argument and discarding the rest.
But let's get onto Acts of war. That is the wrong term. What everyone is looking for is Casus belli, not specifically acts of war . There is a relationship, but not a direct tit for tat. A Casus belli can be just about anything. The Bush II administration declared a Casus belli on Iraq for non-compliance with the cease fire in the 1990-91 war. Lame, but an example. WW1 started with the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and was a Casus belli. No direct attack happened.
Actual Acts of war are incidents like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. No questioning that. A few have been manufactured, like the Gulf of Tonkin false flag operation. But still, there is a difference between the two, and Russia and a company in England didn't physically attack the US. Now since physical acts of war preceded the internet - there might be additions to Acts of war given that we and other countries have been stupid enough to put things like the power grid on the internet.
But let's dig a little deeper.
So now we get to the hacking of both the Republican and Democrat servers, but the systematic release of only the Democrat party information. https://www.snopes.com/news/20... Interestingly a Republican from Texas also broke this, then retracted it a few moments later - which in some cases indicates the veracity of the original statement. https://www.mediaite.com/onlin... But that's pretty interesting - I wonder why the Republican data wasn't presented? And if people think that the DNC's marginalization of Bernie Sanders was bad, they conveniently forget how actively Republicans worked to destroy moderate Republicans in order to replace them with ideologically pure candidates.
So we have a really sketchy attempt to use Russian crypto equipment, selective hacked data disclosure, and an unfolding story of Russian money coming into NRA dark campaign campaign funds for the politicians they own, and more. Facebook is a blip on the screen, but disturbing on the whole because in some of the other countries it was involved in more violent activities.
Regardless, the whole Facebook issue is that Cambridge Analytica was caught once, supposedly deleted the data, didn't, then used it and more data again, and as it turns out, are a really slimey organization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The shock of the whole thing was that it finally proved beyond doubt that Facebook is directly involved in the Cambridge Analytica malfeasance. That they will sell your data to organizations that are pathological in nature. That some people were naive enough to not think thair data would be used in such a fashion was hammered home.
"We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?
Access to immortality will be decided by money. No need to get racist about it, although I do realise that the use of "white man" as a pejorative is perfectly acceptable in this day and age.
Immortality is not possible. If a person will never die because of illness, it doesn't mean that it will be impossible to die because of accident. And if a person has infinite lifespan - ignoring the likely heat death of the universe - In that infinity, there will be fatal accidents for all who choose to live forever.
As for the "white man" racist pejorative, in the near future, "white" as a race will shift into being a large minority in the US of A. I'm wondering if it will still be acceptable to be racist toward a minority at that time.
My money is on racism continuing as the new majority proves themselves to be just as nasty as the hated white man.
Barring an early demise, I'll be alive at that momentous changeover, and I'm curious.
I am enough of an expert on Elon Musk to give advice not to listen to him. You don't actually need to be very expert to see that.
Fighting the good fight on Slashdot to protect the proles for the dangers of old Musky. You bow to no one.
Ol Musky is a game changer, and some folks don't like that. He puts his money in some areas that some of the old guard doesn't like.
And its true that anyone like that will have detractors. Its why some revile Thomas Edison while elevating Tesla to demigod status.
Ol Musky isn't right about everything. I could not care less bout his views on IT. But he's a game changer, and at least he isn't using his money to devise better ways to kill people.
Then again, likely anther reason why some folks hate him. Many people do love their engines of destruction.
Elon is not an expert on that area. Ignore that B.S.
So what you are saying is that Elon is not an expert but you are so we should listen to your advice instead? Really?
If this was a 1960's movie, at this point the computer would start repeating "That does not compute, that does not compute!" and burn up.
They knew how to do AI back then. So much knowledge has been lost.
IT people don't do that. And since there is no real punishment for giving away your customer's credit cards and other data, it is pretty simple accounting. that an accountant is a better investment for profit than an IT security person.
It never hurts to own the people who are making the laws, and I predict that after a thorough investigation, Markie will get a congressional Medal of Honor
Because the real bad actors can't register a PO Box, shell company, and Photoshop a fake ID? We're talking about intelligence agencies messing around with elections.
Guess then we'll figure out what Intelligence agency is running what ad then. If the front facing trail suddenly goes dark, it tells you just as much as putting an intel org's name on it.
This isn't like present day US campaign funding where dark money is the norm. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/new...
I may have to give up all my stuff, and learn how to speak Amish.
It's similar to English Canadian. Now let's get you a name - Caleb has a nice ring.
But it isn't all bad, if google searches for "Amish Porn" are any indication.
Look - you just can't do this kind of crap without greasing the palms of the necessary politicians.
No, I am 'demanding' devices that are:
a) built to be at least slightly robust, which generally means keeping the glass away from edges, not making things too thin, and using reasonably strong materials.
Well then - you go out and you buy twhatever device is up to your standards. If you are proven right - everyone will demand what you bought, and the non-functioningh ids which ap[p[arentlty don't work anyhow - will be thrown away. Or maybe sold to hipsters kids who will then fail because the ipads do not work.
b) are designed to be SERVICABLE, so that when we send them to a repair center for a cracked screen, or when a port bets broken off internally they can be repaired for much less than the cost of a new item.
Got it?
Tell me of the rates for sending a device to these service centers, As well just for your edification http://www.directfix.com/categ... https://www.unionrepair.com/ip... Lots more Apple Repare parts and facilities. . Seriously my good man. Keep it up, I can demolish any of your memes.
Meanwhile, I suppose Buffy and Billy simply don't have a device while their computer is at the repair shop?
The whole demand for fixing computing devices and it's aim at Apple is simply Windows fans who seem to think Apples are made from unobtanium and cannot be fixed.
Dooood! I fix the damn things for people now as a sideline, and an Ipad isn't a whole lot different than a Chromebook or from a Windows machine.
They're all a pain in the ass, and you need to be careful what you wish for - you might just get it. Simply put, the same things they can try to force Apple to do will be required of everyone.
They really aren't worth fixing anyhow. For the price people pay for computing devices, I can eat that up in afew hours. If they break, you might as well chuck-em.The latest ones I've fixed were either for sentimental value - like a woman who wanted her dead husband's laptop repaired - weird, huh, or data retrieval. Even a couple Chromebooks, more out of curiosity. Because that repair can easily cost more than a new device.
And no, such devices cost LESS than ipads - which is why chromebooks are so prevalent in schools now.
However, it seems you are so apple fixated that you cannot comprehend basics.. sad.
You're quite wrong about me. I've made it a practice to own and use all manner of computers since the early 90's. Both professionally and personally. At work because of suits problems, and the IT people are afraid of them - both the suits and anything not Windows - and at home because it helps. They all have their foibles. For what it is worth, I personally recommend Chromebooks myself. They are cheap, reasonably electrically reliable - although you better keep them charged because they get pissy if you run them the whole way down. What's more, later on if you get kids who want to go further than simple - they run Linux nicely. But their main selling point is they don't suffer from update follies. Apples are my second choice - reliable. And Windows machines would be tied with Apples if Windows 10 wasn't such a hot mess. Which it is. Major driver issues. Might work almost OK if only Office was used, but for Music and art Windows 10 has a habit of deciding it knows better than the software you are using as far as drivers go, so you get an update and you are out of business. Windows 7 would be a much better OS. But that's not today's Windows.
And my native preference is UNIX. Got it?
This is a Microsoft product. So it is no surprise. Benn a very insecure week for them. But they are getting better at simply inviting the bad guy in. Black Hats are thankin' ya Mister Nutella.
That's actually one of the differences between working as an employee or a contractor. Everyone likes to trash talk contractor jobs, but if you're an employee then any IP you create belongs to your employer.
What is more, every contract I've signed gave them the right to all of my inventions forever, even after leaving the companies. Probably wouldn't hold up in court, but if there was enough money involved, I'm certain they'd all try to claim it.
If there is any difference, since the late 90's being bored was like a contest, where you came up with reasons why you were the most bored.
You still use the "wake word" to initiate the conversation. You just don't have to say it again at the beginning of each sentence during an ongoing conversation.
These home assistants use regular Wifi, and you can monitor the packets they transmit and receive.
Everybody loves using wireshark, My Grandma has a fine time sniffing packets. Darn - that sounded creepy!
There is no evidence that they are "recording everything you say". If they were caught doing that (and they would almost certainly get caught), they would face ruinous criminal charges and civil penalties, along with a PR disaster that would far outweigh any possible benefit.
The issue isn't that whether or not "they" are listening at this moment or not. The devices are very capable of listening full time. Or on really interesting trigger words. Or under a warrant. Or under a hack.
Go find a better conspiracy theory to glom onto.
You're smarter than that Bill. Conspiracy theories involve some convoluted logic and cherry picking of data/information, and discarding what doesn't fit your argument.
If someone is involved in a criminal or political activity that wants to monitor, or if some folks want to do fishing expeditions, access is only an update away. That isn't conspiracy, it's the nature of the device, and historical human activity.
People can opt in to this stuff if they want, and that''s okay. They should know the capabilities though. It isn't paranoia or conspiracy to have a piece of electrical tape on your webcam. Nor is it conspiracy to understand how software works - Someone savvy enough to know how to use a sniffer should be savvy enough to know that.
...hide the real and often scary number for a later 'confession'. This way people won't be upset...
I'm about equally upset by 87M as I was by 50M. Both numbers translate to "way too fucking many".
And apparently selling data to people who use hookers and lies to influence people is now called scraping.
Most of her positions actually seemed kind of reasonable for a PETA type. If you watch any of her youtube videos though she's very wooden in her facial expression and posture. I'd bet the girl had been on a long-term stint of anti psychotics / anti depressants. Combine that with youtube demonetization and.. you hit unstable people in their pocketbook, a certain percentage of them are going to react in socially unacceptable ways.
Good point about the meds - her expression looked like the one on some guys I knew who were on thorazine.
This is a pretty random incident. Doesn't play to any of the narratives we hear about guns and workplace violence. Just a kook who became unhinged. And very strange that she took herself out with the gun. Women tend to commit suicide through non-violent means.
This is somewhat irrelevant to the point you're making, but the thing I like about Chromebooks is the ability for me to install a community-supported open source operating system. It's the same with the Nexus line and my iPod Classic. With phones especially, there is a limited time frame for security updates. With Chromebooks, Google only provides updates for a specific period of time just like with phones. And the iPod Classic stopped selling a long time ago (I'm using Rockbox on it).
Your post made me think about something. Until I wrecked my Chromebook, I had installed Ubuntu Mate on it, and loved it. Then I spilled a full cup of coffee on it and my ultra cheap Linux lappy died a horrible death. But I digress.
If we had a group of budding geeks in junior high, a chromebook to alter would be about as much fun as a technically inclined kid could have, don't you think? Of course, kids being kids, there would be a lot of wrecked OS instances. But a Chromebook is so easy to restore that no real harm happens.
So if a kid is interested in going further than the superficial, classes where they purchase a cheap Chromebook, make it dual boot, and learn how actual computers work sounds like something I would have loved back in Junior/Senior High school.
Let's be honest, "iOS or Windows 10" is basically "turd burger or shit sandwich".
Look at this one - Windows 10 use is dropping!!
https://www.techrepublic.com/a...
Maybe schools could get windows 7 computers? I've had to get a lot of W10 computers running properly again when Windows screws the pooch on them. Windows 7 at least works well. But it's hard to imagine after all this time that we'd see a drop in W10 and an increase in W7 OS use.
I have W7 running in Bootcamp on my Mac and it's been 100 percent uptime. My Windows basic breakfast computer will update over insecure connections - ridiculous to have that little control - and my much more capable HP envy laptop has had update issues when W10 pro delayed updates decide to uninstall my drivers and replace them with non-functional ones they think are better. Only problem with my iOS device updates was one battery use problem that was fixed in a coup[le days.
Can you even name a single area of study they weren't able to do? Sounds more like the Hatorade Distortion Field in action. And if you absolutely, positively had to use a Windows program for some reason, you could install Microsoft Remote Desktop and use it as a remote app.
No Apple product has ever worked, and no Apple product ever will. In fact, thousands of youngsters are killed every year by exploding iPads. Even more were harmed by the poisonous glass and radioactive metal parts purposefully put in them.
The only cure comrades, is to stop buying Apple products, and only ust the Windows 10 devices, which al have 100 percent uptime, never have a problem, and never need any support. Perfection personified.
In recent tests, Windows OS devices were shown to increase student's IQ's by 25 points, unless they are using teh Surface devices, in which case it is a whopping 50 point increase.
A vegan and animal rights activist who had no trouble shooting people - who last time I checked, are also animals.
Well, anecdotal evidence, I know, but many vegan, animal activists I met think that animals are better than humans (there's no criminality among animals!!1!) and despise humans who do not care animals like they do.
You need to check out Chimpanzees. Anyhow, love of animals based on hatred of humans is a sure fire recipe for disaster.