All this "who needs men?" or "who needs women?" shit people spout off when talking about futures with artificial wombs or no need for sperm or whatever else they dream up is straight fucking stupid.
When a parent has a child they want to protect it. If they have a child in a society that's hostile toward their child they will fight against society to protect their child. Mixed race children, retarded children, gay children, little shitstain autistic millennials, children of the sex society "has no use" for in the future, etc. When pushed, parents will kill and die for their children.
Further, people like mating with people. Sexbots won't be as good as humans as long as you know you're fucking a sexbot. Even if the physical stimulation is better, you simply won't have the attachment to a robot that you would to a real meat puppet.
It'll take a lot longer than 34 years to reprogram society to prefer artificial mates, even if the technology for artificial mates was perfected today.
a few experts say marriage will be legal between humans and robots by 2050
Well then those "experts" are retarded.
Do you really think in 34 years we'll have robots that are accepted as humans both socially and legally? Even if you think we'll be granting robots personhood, how would owning one not be slavery?
Android is open source and there isn't shit they can do about how you use it
Android is not open source. You have to be a major OEM (Samsung, HTC, etc.) and pay big, big money to get Android source code, as well as agree to bundle in (and pay separately for) other shit like Google's Play store and dozens of Google services and apps. If you want access to the latest and greatest <dessert name> version of Android you need to agree to launch a flagship product with it and advertise that version of Android as being the next coming of Christ Himself, etc.
AOSP is open source, and it's fucking useless to 99.999% of people. You can't legally get any of the Google apps on it, and going forward that includes all the baked-in but needlessly-separate features Android phones will have. See the Pixel for examples - the Assistant, the Launcher, the customization UI, etc.
Not only is AOSP bare and useless, it's often simply fucking broken. It gets lip service support from Google and "lol fuck you" support from hardware manufacturers. The only way to get a free and open and usable Android experience is to do so illegally - use AOSP and inject Google's apps and services, maybe grab some firmware or blobs for specific hardware so the damn thing charges properly or the WiFi actually works, hack some more shit to maybe get Android Pay working or get WiFi calling enabled, and illegally download and share the updated APKs whenever there's a security patch (often), then cry because you have to reformat your phone to flash a new ROM with the latest Android security updates every month because even when someone on XDA uploads an OTA differential patch for your phone it never works quite right.
Android is fucked up in many, many ways and Google is making it worse every day. They're becoming the walled garden of iOS without the garden.
You're simply wrong. It's just bits on the same wire. The fact that a typical user doesn't know the code without the dongle just means it's prone to failure.
It's no different than having your child type in 12 extra characters that you don't know at the end of the password you do know. You're passing off the knowing to someone or something else doesn't make it more secure, it makes it less so than if you had simply used a unique, random password.
That's still something you know. You know the code. You aren't proving that you have the phone number - SMS is incredibly insecure, numbers can be rerouted to other devices, someone else could have your phone, etc.
A "second factor" presented as bits along the same wire as the bits of your password is not a second factor. They're both something you know. The only difference is you can lose the dongle and be fucked. You're still vulnerable to being phished or MITM'd or logging in via a pwned box or whatever else. The only thing time-based 2-factor approaches protect against is your own stupidity (reusing passwords or using bad passwords) and getting phished by a passive attacker who won't be using your credentials immediately.
We're already seeing what happens when people have multiple dongles to deal with - they want one dongle to rule them all, or one app that holds all the seeds to generate the keys for each site/service. This is the same thing as password reuse. If the app or dongle is hacked, you're fucked. We've also already seen the trusted, extra secure 3rd parties that hold the secret seeds for those "2 factor" solutions get hacked.
This never works for me. What happens is it then asks me to sign in, which I obviously can't do.
Offline mode for these titles only ever works if I preemptively trigger offline mode while Steam is online (and I am as well, obviously). Then I can play offline, for a time, before Steam asks me to reauthenticate. If I launch Steam again later while I have a network connection (internet connected or not) Steam reverts to online mode and prompts me to log in.
> Steam_Support hasn't tweeted anything since July 14.
Have you ever dealt with Steam Support? 5 months of silence is nothing. You're lucky if you ever get a reply beyond the first 2, which are always auto generated robo replies. I'm surprised they even have a twitter account.
Mine don't. Any game relying on Steam's DRM or Steam's multiplayer APIs, even if it's just social/matchmaking and not server hosting, is fucked. If I had known Steam was going to be down today I could have entered offline mode last night, had Steam generate a token for my client, and then have my client use that token so I could play games using Steam's DRM.
As it stands, all I have access to are games that can simply be launched by running the executable. Steam's offline mode really is nothing more than a UI to do that.
Steam sales haven't big a big thing for the past 2 years now, or whenever they stopped doing the flash sales / daily deals / etc.
Those deals are what drove traffic - everyone would sit on the page refreshing when the next deal was about to pop up. Steam stopped doing them because people simply waited for the shit they wanted to be offered in one of these deals, then bought other shit at the very end of the sale. This meant higher sales but lower revenues. People felt pressured to buy the daily deal because it was a time-limited offer at a deeper discount. So that title got more sales but ultimately, lower revenue. Further, with people being conditioned to wait for daily deals, they ignored the rest of the sale during the week because they were hoping for things to be priced lower during a daily deal. The regular sale items got ignored as a side effect.
1: They're not even accused of "hacking" the DNC. All of this amounts to nothing more than someone falling for a phishing scam. That's not a "hack", in my book.
2: Show me evidence that the RNC was "hacked" in any fashion, let alone by the Russians.
Actually the term Ransomware [wikipedia.org] is also known as Cyberextortion which is a criminal offence so if you as a CEO of a firm give in to extortion demands you are effectively guilty of Collusion [wikipedia.org] which is a criminal offence and if convicted can result in incarceration although in many cases just having the payment being made public is punishment enough since Customers and Shareholders alike don't like their money being used to pay criminals..
I disagree. Good stereo is great and yes, they'll always make sure it sounds good because they can't count on everyone having surround sound. But a decent surround setup adds a lot when playing games or watching movies.
When you're talking about $500 for a 5.1 system or $500 for a pair of stereo speakers, I'd wager most people would prefer the 5.1 system. Nearly everyone can instantly appreciate the difference between stereo and surround, but your average person won't be able to tell the difference between a $150 pair of stereo speakers and a $500 pair beyond the $500 being able to go louder.
I wouldn't knock anyone for making either choice after hearing both, but when people ask me for recommendations they're typically the type of person would would appreciate good surround over great stereo.
If you aren't familiar, it is a surround sound technology with a focus on immersion. Don't have compatible audio hardware? Don't worry -- the Windows-maker is promising a "virtual" Atmos experience too.
Atmos adds more surround channels. Typically this is 1 or 2 surround channels directly above you. No one sane has a setup that can support this. Even in the theaters it's pointless. It adds nothing (and I say this as someone who has a 7.1 setup instead of your typical 5.1).
Al the virtual shit Dolby puts out is awful, as well.
Don't give them money for this shit. Atmos is a (shitty) solution in search of a problem. When most people think a soundbar provides great audio, you know they're trembling in their boots. 99% of people will be well-served by a 5.1 HTiB for a few hundred bucks. Enthusiasts will go for more expensive receivers and amps (and the redundant preamp), and maybe to 7.1. Only morons go for anything beyond that, especially as there is no fucking content for it (and what little there is is gimmicky shit).
Um bullshit. Companies hire contractors at their own set rates. The ability to set your own rate has nothing to do with being a contractor.
This is an obvious fallacy as the contractors can always negotiate the rates and terms, regardless of how "set" a company says they are when going into the negotiations. With Uber, you cannot negotiate the rates. There is literally no mechanism for such a contract to be negotiated.
You know this and you intentionally made that post with that ridiculous fallacy. Your post is bait.
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If I start seeing drones filling the sky near my property, I'll take up falconry and train them to take the things the fuck out.
Fuck your shit.
When exactly did we confirm the existence of dark matter?
All this "who needs men?" or "who needs women?" shit people spout off when talking about futures with artificial wombs or no need for sperm or whatever else they dream up is straight fucking stupid.
When a parent has a child they want to protect it. If they have a child in a society that's hostile toward their child they will fight against society to protect their child. Mixed race children, retarded children, gay children, little shitstain autistic millennials, children of the sex society "has no use" for in the future, etc. When pushed, parents will kill and die for their children.
Further, people like mating with people. Sexbots won't be as good as humans as long as you know you're fucking a sexbot. Even if the physical stimulation is better, you simply won't have the attachment to a robot that you would to a real meat puppet.
It'll take a lot longer than 34 years to reprogram society to prefer artificial mates, even if the technology for artificial mates was perfected today.
a few experts say marriage will be legal between humans and robots by 2050
Well then those "experts" are retarded.
Do you really think in 34 years we'll have robots that are accepted as humans both socially and legally? Even if you think we'll be granting robots personhood, how would owning one not be slavery?
Android is open source and there isn't shit they can do about how you use it
Android is not open source. You have to be a major OEM (Samsung, HTC, etc.) and pay big, big money to get Android source code, as well as agree to bundle in (and pay separately for) other shit like Google's Play store and dozens of Google services and apps. If you want access to the latest and greatest <dessert name> version of Android you need to agree to launch a flagship product with it and advertise that version of Android as being the next coming of Christ Himself, etc.
AOSP is open source, and it's fucking useless to 99.999% of people. You can't legally get any of the Google apps on it, and going forward that includes all the baked-in but needlessly-separate features Android phones will have. See the Pixel for examples - the Assistant, the Launcher, the customization UI, etc.
Not only is AOSP bare and useless, it's often simply fucking broken. It gets lip service support from Google and "lol fuck you" support from hardware manufacturers. The only way to get a free and open and usable Android experience is to do so illegally - use AOSP and inject Google's apps and services, maybe grab some firmware or blobs for specific hardware so the damn thing charges properly or the WiFi actually works, hack some more shit to maybe get Android Pay working or get WiFi calling enabled, and illegally download and share the updated APKs whenever there's a security patch (often), then cry because you have to reformat your phone to flash a new ROM with the latest Android security updates every month because even when someone on XDA uploads an OTA differential patch for your phone it never works quite right.
Android is fucked up in many, many ways and Google is making it worse every day. They're becoming the walled garden of iOS without the garden.
You're simply wrong. It's just bits on the same wire. The fact that a typical user doesn't know the code without the dongle just means it's prone to failure.
It's no different than having your child type in 12 extra characters that you don't know at the end of the password you do know. You're passing off the knowing to someone or something else doesn't make it more secure, it makes it less so than if you had simply used a unique, random password.
That's still something you know. You know the code. You aren't proving that you have the phone number - SMS is incredibly insecure, numbers can be rerouted to other devices, someone else could have your phone, etc.
A "second factor" presented as bits along the same wire as the bits of your password is not a second factor. They're both something you know. The only difference is you can lose the dongle and be fucked. You're still vulnerable to being phished or MITM'd or logging in via a pwned box or whatever else. The only thing time-based 2-factor approaches protect against is your own stupidity (reusing passwords or using bad passwords) and getting phished by a passive attacker who won't be using your credentials immediately.
We're already seeing what happens when people have multiple dongles to deal with - they want one dongle to rule them all, or one app that holds all the seeds to generate the keys for each site/service. This is the same thing as password reuse. If the app or dongle is hacked, you're fucked. We've also already seen the trusted, extra secure 3rd parties that hold the secret seeds for those "2 factor" solutions get hacked.
This never works for me. What happens is it then asks me to sign in, which I obviously can't do.
Offline mode for these titles only ever works if I preemptively trigger offline mode while Steam is online (and I am as well, obviously). Then I can play offline, for a time, before Steam asks me to reauthenticate. If I launch Steam again later while I have a network connection (internet connected or not) Steam reverts to online mode and prompts me to log in.
Offline mode is basically useless to me.
Hardly surprising when you consider the fact that Amazon will send out a pack of AAA batteries in a 36"x24"x6" box with 2 more boxes inside it.
> Steam_Support hasn't tweeted anything since July 14.
Have you ever dealt with Steam Support? 5 months of silence is nothing. You're lucky if you ever get a reply beyond the first 2, which are always auto generated robo replies. I'm surprised they even have a twitter account.
Mine don't. Any game relying on Steam's DRM or Steam's multiplayer APIs, even if it's just social/matchmaking and not server hosting, is fucked. If I had known Steam was going to be down today I could have entered offline mode last night, had Steam generate a token for my client, and then have my client use that token so I could play games using Steam's DRM.
As it stands, all I have access to are games that can simply be launched by running the executable. Steam's offline mode really is nothing more than a UI to do that.
Steam sales haven't big a big thing for the past 2 years now, or whenever they stopped doing the flash sales / daily deals / etc.
Those deals are what drove traffic - everyone would sit on the page refreshing when the next deal was about to pop up. Steam stopped doing them because people simply waited for the shit they wanted to be offered in one of these deals, then bought other shit at the very end of the sale. This meant higher sales but lower revenues. People felt pressured to buy the daily deal because it was a time-limited offer at a deeper discount. So that title got more sales but ultimately, lower revenue. Further, with people being conditioned to wait for daily deals, they ignored the rest of the sale during the week because they were hoping for things to be priced lower during a daily deal. The regular sale items got ignored as a side effect.
The status page of Steam
The Steam status pages are down. https://steamstat.us/ is not "the status page of Steam". That site is not affiliated with Valve at all.
Click on the fucking link and read the line in the big Zoidberg box at the top.
SteamDB is not affiliated with Valve Software. This is a third party website brought to you by xPaw.
1: They're not even accused of "hacking" the DNC. All of this amounts to nothing more than someone falling for a phishing scam. That's not a "hack", in my book.
2: Show me evidence that the RNC was "hacked" in any fashion, let alone by the Russians.
So because the CIA got Irak wrong (under a republican administration, by the way) they forever only tell lies & nonsense generated by incompetents?
Yup. That was the only flub in the history of the CIA. They've never been involved in huge fuckups or covert plots against the American citizenry.
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I'm more concerned that a domestic party nearly got away with doing the same thing.
IF you believe the Russian hacker bullshit (and we have seen ZERO evidence of it), all they did was expose truth.
Actually the term Ransomware [wikipedia.org] is also known as Cyberextortion which is a criminal offence so if you as a CEO of a firm give in to extortion demands you are effectively guilty of Collusion [wikipedia.org] which is a criminal offence and if convicted can result in incarceration although in many cases just having the payment being made public is punishment enough since Customers and Shareholders alike don't like their money being used to pay criminals..
Actually, no. Not at all.
I disagree. Good stereo is great and yes, they'll always make sure it sounds good because they can't count on everyone having surround sound. But a decent surround setup adds a lot when playing games or watching movies.
When you're talking about $500 for a 5.1 system or $500 for a pair of stereo speakers, I'd wager most people would prefer the 5.1 system. Nearly everyone can instantly appreciate the difference between stereo and surround, but your average person won't be able to tell the difference between a $150 pair of stereo speakers and a $500 pair beyond the $500 being able to go louder.
I wouldn't knock anyone for making either choice after hearing both, but when people ask me for recommendations they're typically the type of person would would appreciate good surround over great stereo.
If you aren't familiar, it is a surround sound technology with a focus on immersion. Don't have compatible audio hardware? Don't worry -- the Windows-maker is promising a "virtual" Atmos experience too.
Atmos adds more surround channels. Typically this is 1 or 2 surround channels directly above you.
No one sane has a setup that can support this. Even in the theaters it's pointless. It adds nothing (and I say this as someone who has a 7.1 setup instead of your typical 5.1).
Al the virtual shit Dolby puts out is awful, as well.
Don't give them money for this shit. Atmos is a (shitty) solution in search of a problem. When most people think a soundbar provides great audio, you know they're trembling in their boots. 99% of people will be well-served by a 5.1 HTiB for a few hundred bucks. Enthusiasts will go for more expensive receivers and amps (and the redundant preamp), and maybe to 7.1. Only morons go for anything beyond that, especially as there is no fucking content for it (and what little there is is gimmicky shit).
I don't even dignify him with a copypasta of whatever his string is anymore. I just know it's 11...10...10.
Um bullshit. Companies hire contractors at their own set rates. The ability to set your own rate has nothing to do with being a contractor.
This is an obvious fallacy as the contractors can always negotiate the rates and terms, regardless of how "set" a company says they are when going into the negotiations.
With Uber, you cannot negotiate the rates. There is literally no mechanism for such a contract to be negotiated.
You know this and you intentionally made that post with that ridiculous fallacy. Your post is bait.
Just here to remind everyone not to feed 1100100100 - he is a troll and his post is bait.
In other news, brat has tantrum.
Film at 11.
Yup. This is just CYA bullshit designed to make them look less incompetent. We're all made typos, right?
It coudl happent o anyone!