You can read any published paper from any "respected" journal and see from yourself. Slashdot has posted a number of articles over the last 18 months or so about how journals and peer review are broken and gamed. You can look there.
Yes, that's absolutely what they do. Peer review is useless. 90% of the time no one reads the paper. 9% of the time they read the paper but don't understand it and just give it a thumbs up because they don't want to reveal how useless they are. 1% of the time they hate the person who wrote it so they read it and tear it apart thoroughly.
Bullshit. At various times, the Get Windows 10 update was pushed as "important", thus installing it for everyone who had the settings as you described them. It was an "accident" each time.
The Windows Update settings panel does not distinguish between "critical" updates and "important" updates. You get important, recommended, and optional. You have the choice of automatically getting the "recommended" updates along with your important updates or not.
Shut the fuck you fucking hokum spewing troll. The price of beef has tripled or more where it counts - at the supermarket where the average person buys it.
Despite. The word you are looking for is despite. You wouldn't spitefully do someone's job for them. Even Samuel Clemens had to write characters has happy idiots in order for them to paint someone else's fence.
Property managers act on behalf of, and at the behest of, the property owners. Property managers posting notices is common. It doesn't mean they drafted them without the owner's approval.
5 years for an automobile? I'd accuse you of being a shill, but if you were you would have recommended 3 years (and stated it as "36 months"). You're just a fool. A car should last at least a decade.
My car is a 2003, but I'm likely to spend at least $650 when I upgrade my phone next year. Why? Because I don't have a car payment eating up my disposable income.
Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
This doesn't mean you have to buy a new one, but a nice 2013 off-lease car will be a FAR better place to put your money than a new iPhone.
From all points, safety, dependability, and environmentally.
You're an idiot, Starscream. You're literally suggesting that someone should ditch a perfectly capable car because it's 14 years old?
Safety standards haven't changed much. A newer vehicle isn't necessarily safer, and when they are they're only marginally so (side air bags) or only so for idiots (backup cameras, self braking).
If someone has no payment on a vehicle and no unusual maintenance costs, it's far, far, far cheaper to keep it than it is to buy a newer car for $$$$$.
Environmentally, keeping a car as long as possible is the best option. As long as it's passing smog certification, it's going to be orders of magnitude more friendly to the environment to run it than to junk it and manufacture another car. (And if he sells or buys used, that's just extending the chain with other people.)
All "Smart" TVs are trash. Just use a dedicated PC and hook it up to the TV. You can get a tiny PC for super cheap now. The only thing you lose out on is extra DRMd shit like surround sound on Netflix because they don't feed that through to a standard browser. Personally, I use a PS3 (soon to be PS4 once they reveal the revision) for Netflix.
2016 Vizios beat the pants off of 2016 Samsungs in terms of quality. At half the price. (I couldn't believe it either. I read all about it on AVS forum then I schlepped out to a Best Buy to see it for myself. 2016 Vizio P series.) If ads are their response, then it's over.
Project Bluebird, MKUltra, etc. Tuskegee Airmen Gulf War Syndrome Tracking via Cell Phones TSA body scanners Secret Courts, laws, watch lists, no fly lists Deflected asteroid attack on Buenos Aires Roswell Kennedy assassination AIDS Aurora Project Bay of Pigs Iran Contra Robot Al Gore Recording all cell phone meta data Monitoring all cell phone calls Recording every packet crossing over any pipe an American ISP owns Distributing crack to blacks 9/11 Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious How there's only ever one person working at the post office Watergate The DMV Steve Irwin Assassination Philadelphia Experiment Operation Northwood Project Grey Box Clipper chips / Palladium Terminator 3 Operation Rainfall Pan Am 103 Assassination of Lady Diana Fluoride Reptilian overlords Chem trails The red menace / McCarthyism Breaking Bad Season 6 Global warming Phantom time etc. etc.
Considering how many "crackpot" conspiracy theories turn out to be true, and often far worse than theorized, paranoia should be the default state.
We have Firefox with its own cert store separate from the OS's. We have cert pinning in Windows. I don't know of a public service that tracks certs, but it could be done. You'd have to trust that service though, which is the same exact problem of trusting a cert authority.
Last month, when I established a relationship between another server to do our nightly data dumps (they changed servers, so we had to update certs). I'd not only be willing to do it for other things, I'd be first in line. From my banks to Slashdot.
The whole concept of a certificate authority is broken, by design. Use self-signed certs. Users must accept a cert on first use. Users must be presented with a dialog if it ever changes, showing the new cert's info, thumbprint, etc., with options to accept/reject. Individual certs can specify revocation lists if they want. Upon revocation, users should be presented with a dialog, as with a change to a cert.
Ideally, all of this would be bidirectional. Servers and clients authenticating each other. Yes, I would expect to have to walk into a physical business to establish this securely, offline. Exchange certs in meat space and then use them in cyber space. Unique certs for every client/server pair. Storage is cheap. Management is easy. Lost your cert? Reestablish in meat space. Less convenient, more secure.
Gawker didn't so anything wrong, except offend some rich racist bastard.
Gawker posted a sex tape of Hulk Hogan against his will.
If Fox News posted a sex tape of some female celebrity, and Peter Thiel funded the lawsuit against them, would you say "Fox News didn't so anything wrong, except offend some rich racist bastard."?
This isn't about the 1st Amendment. Nobody is stopping Gawker from saying these things. Nobody from Gawker is going to jail. They're just being held accountable for the direct damages they cause. Whether or not you agree with the amount awarded is another matter.
It's not "my" definition, it's the definition. Irony is about intent. You can't be unintentionally ironic. Irony has deception at its core - it comes from eiron, which means dissembler.
The only other thing it means is "made of iron" or "resembling iron".
Irony does not mean "unexpected". It's not even a stretch of the definition. It's applying the word to a completely different meaning. Irony's core meaning is derived from eiron, which means dissembler. Irony is 100% about intended meaning and definitions differing.
Note that using "irony" incorrectly is not itself ironic unless you specifically intend to use the word against its definition. You can't be ironic accidentally.
Next you'll try to trot out "common usage" or "language evolves". If we blindly follow common usage and accept errors as valid, our endgame will be filled with nothing but grunts and emoji. As language evolves, it also devolves.
Before you rush to Google, "dramatic irony" is simply irony applied to a dramatic work, wherein a character is unaware of the irony present in the plot. The audience may or may not be aware of the true meaning, though dramatic irony is typically pretty heavy handed so even a first timer will pick up on it.
Even limiting it to the US, they'd burn through their money mountain bribing the government just to get permission to set up towers. This is an established industry and there's no breaking into it cleanly. The government is all about maintaining (and worsening) the status quo lately. Hell, look at AT&T + DirectTV. Apple would gain precisely nothing by doing this, and they'd have to piss away an ungodly sum just to step into the ring.
A more realistic option would be to buy T-Mobile, but Apple wouldn't dare to be associated with a third-rate network. Apple's image demands that they're able to claim to be the best (regardless of whether or not they are).
No, they aren't. What you have is a keyboard that uses a single key to send different scan codes, or you have an OS/driver/application that overloads the scan codes.
There are various media key standards that aren't actually standard, and they are distinct from the function keys. We already dropped F13-F24 on most keyboards. I'm sure as hell not going to give up F1-F12.
Yes, I meant Jurassic World. I haven't seen Creed (yet). EU may have had a lot of good stuff, I wouldn't know because I didn't see any, but it's possible. The problem is that you have to take all the trash with it, if you want the whole picture, as it has the same level of validity.
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And where did you get the verification sig from? Did the developer meet with you in person and inject it into your brain?
Any blocking is over blocking.
You can read any published paper from any "respected" journal and see from yourself.
Slashdot has posted a number of articles over the last 18 months or so about how journals and peer review are broken and gamed. You can look there.
Yes, that's absolutely what they do. Peer review is useless. 90% of the time no one reads the paper. 9% of the time they read the paper but don't understand it and just give it a thumbs up because they don't want to reveal how useless they are. 1% of the time they hate the person who wrote it so they read it and tear it apart thoroughly.
Bullshit. At various times, the Get Windows 10 update was pushed as "important", thus installing it for everyone who had the settings as you described them. It was an "accident" each time.
The Windows Update settings panel does not distinguish between "critical" updates and "important" updates. You get important, recommended, and optional. You have the choice of automatically getting the "recommended" updates along with your important updates or not.
Shut the fuck you fucking hokum spewing troll.
The price of beef has tripled or more where it counts - at the supermarket where the average person buys it.
Despite. The word you are looking for is despite. You wouldn't spitefully do someone's job for them. Even Samuel Clemens had to write characters has happy idiots in order for them to paint someone else's fence.
That's not how any of this works.
Property managers act on behalf of, and at the behest of, the property owners. Property managers posting notices is common. It doesn't mean they drafted them without the owner's approval.
5 years for an automobile? I'd accuse you of being a shill, but if you were you would have recommended 3 years (and stated it as "36 months"). You're just a fool. A car should last at least a decade.
My car is a 2003, but I'm likely to spend at least $650 when I upgrade my phone next year. Why? Because I don't have a car payment eating up my disposable income.
Then you have spending priority problems, a 2003 car is no longer up to modern safety standards and likely will start costing you money to drive.
This doesn't mean you have to buy a new one, but a nice 2013 off-lease car will be a FAR better place to put your money than a new iPhone.
From all points, safety, dependability, and environmentally.
You're an idiot, Starscream. You're literally suggesting that someone should ditch a perfectly capable car because it's 14 years old?
Safety standards haven't changed much. A newer vehicle isn't necessarily safer, and when they are they're only marginally so (side air bags) or only so for idiots (backup cameras, self braking).
If someone has no payment on a vehicle and no unusual maintenance costs, it's far, far, far cheaper to keep it than it is to buy a newer car for $$$$$.
Environmentally, keeping a car as long as possible is the best option. As long as it's passing smog certification, it's going to be orders of magnitude more friendly to the environment to run it than to junk it and manufacture another car. (And if he sells or buys used, that's just extending the chain with other people.)
All "Smart" TVs are trash. Just use a dedicated PC and hook it up to the TV. You can get a tiny PC for super cheap now. The only thing you lose out on is extra DRMd shit like surround sound on Netflix because they don't feed that through to a standard browser. Personally, I use a PS3 (soon to be PS4 once they reveal the revision) for Netflix.
I didn't agree to any EULA or ToS. Even if I did click an "agree" button or some shit, neither are valid contracts.
2016 Vizios beat the pants off of 2016 Samsungs in terms of quality. At half the price. (I couldn't believe it either. I read all about it on AVS forum then I schlepped out to a Best Buy to see it for myself. 2016 Vizio P series.)
If ads are their response, then it's over.
Project Bluebird, MKUltra, etc.
Tuskegee Airmen
Gulf War Syndrome
Tracking via Cell Phones
TSA body scanners
Secret Courts, laws, watch lists, no fly lists
Deflected asteroid attack on Buenos Aires
Roswell
Kennedy assassination
AIDS
Aurora Project
Bay of Pigs
Iran Contra
Robot Al Gore
Recording all cell phone meta data
Monitoring all cell phone calls
Recording every packet crossing over any pipe an American ISP owns
Distributing crack to blacks
9/11
Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious
How there's only ever one person working at the post office
Watergate
The DMV
Steve Irwin Assassination
Philadelphia Experiment
Operation Northwood
Project Grey Box
Clipper chips / Palladium
Terminator 3
Operation Rainfall
Pan Am 103
Assassination of Lady Diana
Fluoride
Reptilian overlords
Chem trails
The red menace / McCarthyism
Breaking Bad Season 6
Global warming
Phantom time
etc.
etc.
Considering how many "crackpot" conspiracy theories turn out to be true, and often far worse than theorized, paranoia should be the default state.
We have Firefox with its own cert store separate from the OS's.
We have cert pinning in Windows.
I don't know of a public service that tracks certs, but it could be done. You'd have to trust that service though, which is the same exact problem of trusting a cert authority.
Last month, when I established a relationship between another server to do our nightly data dumps (they changed servers, so we had to update certs).
I'd not only be willing to do it for other things, I'd be first in line. From my banks to Slashdot.
The whole concept of a certificate authority is broken, by design.
Use self-signed certs.
Users must accept a cert on first use.
Users must be presented with a dialog if it ever changes, showing the new cert's info, thumbprint, etc., with options to accept/reject.
Individual certs can specify revocation lists if they want. Upon revocation, users should be presented with a dialog, as with a change to a cert.
Ideally, all of this would be bidirectional. Servers and clients authenticating each other. Yes, I would expect to have to walk into a physical business to establish this securely, offline. Exchange certs in meat space and then use them in cyber space. Unique certs for every client/server pair. Storage is cheap. Management is easy. Lost your cert? Reestablish in meat space. Less convenient, more secure.
Gawker didn't so anything wrong, except offend some rich racist bastard.
Gawker posted a sex tape of Hulk Hogan against his will.
If Fox News posted a sex tape of some female celebrity, and Peter Thiel funded the lawsuit against them, would you say "Fox News didn't so anything wrong, except offend some rich racist bastard."?
This isn't about the 1st Amendment. Nobody is stopping Gawker from saying these things. Nobody from Gawker is going to jail. They're just being held accountable for the direct damages they cause. Whether or not you agree with the amount awarded is another matter.
It's not "my" definition, it's the definition. Irony is about intent. You can't be unintentionally ironic. Irony has deception at its core - it comes from eiron, which means dissembler.
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The only other thing it means is "made of iron" or "resembling iron".
Irony does not mean "unexpected". It's not even a stretch of the definition. It's applying the word to a completely different meaning. Irony's core meaning is derived from eiron, which means dissembler. Irony is 100% about intended meaning and definitions differing.
Note that using "irony" incorrectly is not itself ironic unless you specifically intend to use the word against its definition. You can't be ironic accidentally.
Next you'll try to trot out "common usage" or "language evolves". If we blindly follow common usage and accept errors as valid, our endgame will be filled with nothing but grunts and emoji. As language evolves, it also devolves.
Before you rush to Google, "dramatic irony" is simply irony applied to a dramatic work, wherein a character is unaware of the irony present in the plot. The audience may or may not be aware of the true meaning, though dramatic irony is typically pretty heavy handed so even a first timer will pick up on it.
Even limiting it to the US, they'd burn through their money mountain bribing the government just to get permission to set up towers. This is an established industry and there's no breaking into it cleanly. The government is all about maintaining (and worsening) the status quo lately. Hell, look at AT&T + DirectTV. Apple would gain precisely nothing by doing this, and they'd have to piss away an ungodly sum just to step into the ring.
A more realistic option would be to buy T-Mobile, but Apple wouldn't dare to be associated with a third-rate network. Apple's image demands that they're able to claim to be the best (regardless of whether or not they are).
Irony is the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.
No, they aren't. What you have is a keyboard that uses a single key to send different scan codes, or you have an OS/driver/application that overloads the scan codes.
There are various media key standards that aren't actually standard, and they are distinct from the function keys.
We already dropped F13-F24 on most keyboards. I'm sure as hell not going to give up F1-F12.
Yes, I meant Jurassic World. I haven't seen Creed (yet).
EU may have had a lot of good stuff, I wouldn't know because I didn't see any, but it's possible. The problem is that you have to take all the trash with it, if you want the whole picture, as it has the same level of validity.