Anything that makes "wearables" die out faster is good in my book.
Do you carry around a smartphone all the time? If you don't, many people do.
Isn't a wearable "just" a subset of an existing smartphone, or arguably an addition (due to using smartphone for communication with the wearable)?
I don't have any of the FitBit, etc., but they seem to have become reasonably popular for the early adopter crowd.
Basically, I don't see a need for a wearable currently either, but to completely throw out the idea seems ridiculous. It seems like just an extension of "more, comparatively powerful, personal electronics being used for specialized purposes to augment one's life".
They're trash because they don't do anything that isn't already:
A: Handled by your phone B: Handled much better by a dedicated device C: Both A & B
A good wearable device would be a blood glucose monitor for diabetics that shows real-time (or near-real-time) levels from an embedded sensor, removing the need for the person to sample and test periodically. Or what about a wearable device people have been using for ages? Bluetooth headsets.
Good wearable devices REDUCE your need to rely on or interact with other devices. Bad wearable devices (everything Samsung et alii are peddling) try to INCREASE your dependence on the device(s). I'm not throwing the idea out completely, I'm throwing out all the recent (and upcoming) forced attempts that don't actually have a use-case. These are the things currently being put out under the "wearables" buzzword. Nobody trotted out that term when Bluetooth headsets were being introduced. They didn't need to - people saw that they we useful and bought them up.
Is there ever a reason to actually register one of these products with your real name and info? Unless it's my bank, DL, or passport, I see no point in giving any of these companies real info.
His private emails were not private. They were public. Just like a governor's text messages are public record - another ruling from today. If you are on a project the public paid for, writing an email with time the public paid for, IT'S PUBLIC. Judge is wrong. Case law supporting this ruling is wrong.
Absolutely. What's more is that "case law" isn't an actual thing. There is law, and we interpret it to decide cases. Those decisions are not law. ALL cases are to be judged individually. Referencing past decisions can be helpful in balancing expediency and thoroughness, but past decisions are not to be used as law, even if coming from a higher court. When laws are unclear and interpretations are split, the higher courts hear appeals and decide. When a very high court hears a case the legislators pay attention and work to change the laws and make them more clear to prevent the contentious interpretations in the first place.
Of course, that only works if our government follows its own rules and does its own job.
Asking for vacation, sending in sick leave requests etc.pp. is all business, and none of them belongs to the public.
On the contrary - it's all publicly-funded business. The public has a right to know if their money is going to someone who is never at the office doing the job they're supposed to be doing. They don't need to know if he's got the flu or if he's in Maui, but that's what redaction is for, and it's why courts use 3rd parties to verify and sanitize shit during discovery.
Well then you're an ignorant fuck, because you can download all of that data now if you like. Get on google. It's been posted to Slashdot every single fucking time that the topic has come up. You ignorant fuck.
Goddamn know-nothing character assassins.
Except the very premise of the fucking court decision and FOIA request is that the data, the collection methodology, and the relevant communications Mann had about it are NOT available. We don't want a subset of the manipulated data, we want the full set of raw data. It will never be provided because, as everyone knows, the data was cherry picked, massaged, and outright fabricated in order to generate an alarming graph. Not even the most zealous of global warming proponents stand by the graph anymore - everyone knows it's bullshit.
No thanks - I already have a position in academia. I can tell you with complete certainty academia is the epitome of waste and self-congratulatory bullshit.
So basically they're just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks? I suppose that's one way to avoid choosing the wrong platform...
Anything that makes "wearables" die out faster is good in my book. Keep releasing different models all running different OSes and all doing different versions of nothing useful. Manufactured product pushes are like diarrhea. The sooner all the products exit the pipeline, the sooner corporate sees that marketing was blowing smoke up their ass when they told them "wearables" were going to be hot, the sooner I don't have to hear about them and, hopefully, the sooner that marketing dipshit is fired.
The same goes for the asshole who decided that Wendy's, Carl's Jr/Hardees, and Sonic all had to jump on the non-existent pretzel bun bandwagon. Oh wait, nobody actually wanted those? Better jump on the ciabatta bandwagon! That failed too?! Well what about brioche? Still no boost in sales? Revert back to our "classic" buns to save money and leverage our brand!
Martin and Erik Demaine are professors, not students.
Erik Demaine, in particular, is widely considered to be a genius, so perhaps it's fortunate that you have no administrative power over your alma mater.
Being professors just makes a much worse waste of time and money. Oh, he's a "genius", is he? Good for him.
Best Buy would have made a decent effort to please an upset customer by offering free Geek Squad support to the point of diagnosis / asking Chris to look into it (instead of Frank, who's just does sales), but not free repairs/upgrades. Best Buy would have jumped at the opportunity to upsell him some Geek Squad if possible after that first assessment.
Regardless of it being open, he can return it and get an exchange for the same item easily in the US, and for store credit fairly easily in the US. He can return for a full refund in whatever form of payment he initially made in many countries, including the one he's in.
I'm pretty sure I account for about 1% of those downloads from trying every fucking build multiple times to find one that fucking works (or breaks in different but more-tolerable ways) when opening various MS Office documents.
Fuel. You've been bitching about the use of the word "power" when you're the one who's using it wrong. The word you want is fuel.
Thermoelectrics generate power in the presence of heat. Internal combustion engines deliver power when shit explodes inside them.
Gasoline is a fuel, not a power source.
If you built a car engine that delivered power by causing fuel to explode, you'd change the world. Car engines work through deflagration, not detonation. Detonation releases way, way more power. It's hoped that it will be the replacement for scramjet engines... envision a jet being driven by a series of explosions. No one has admitted to successfully making one, though. I've spent years doodling different ideas about how you might make one if we had the materials necessary, but it's like building a space elevator... fun to think about, but you'd need materials far stronger than anything we have available.
Car engines run on boring old combustion. The difference in scale between combustion and detonation is not dissimilar to the difference between a compost heap and a bonfire.
An explosion is anything that involves an outward motion and accompanying noise. It comes from the Latin explodere. You can try to split hairs about burning, exploding, and whatever the fuck else you want, but ICEs run on exploding fuel. The expansion from the explosion is literally what drives them. You would have had a better chance if you had tried to correct my usage of the word "shit".
so if you went to bestbuy, bought the (physical) game box, took it home, installed it and figured out it wouldn't run, would you have called your c/c company to withhold the payment to bestbuy until you were able to run the game? What does Valve have anything to do with a game working or not working? It's not that physical stores allow you to take back opened software nowadays either...
If he had gotten it from Best Buy he'd have basic consumer rights to refund, a working product, etc. enforced by policy and executed by a human (be it a sales associate, manager, whoever). If he had gotten it from best Buy he would have received actual human interaction when first complaining about it. Best Buy may be a joke and the Geek Squad may be a ripoff, but the mere presence of a human being who has some idea of how to troubleshoot shit, or at least whose job it is to keep customers happy, is about 87 miles ahead of Steam's "support".
Steam support simply doesn't exist unless you threaten to issue a chargeback or sue. No human at Valve even SEES your support ticket until 2 automated "solutions" are generated and spit out - 1 blaming your ISP and 1 telling you to delete clientregistry.blob or reinstall Steam. After that they blame the developer and close your ticket.
Apparently you missed the cyrpto flaws in Android 's Java crypto library from last year that exposed private keys. Apparently writing things in Java guarantees jack and shit.
No, writing things in Java guarantees your shit will be jacked.
"Children today are retarded - physically, mentally, and emotionally, and they come from retarded parents." False, by every measure.
True, by every measure.
Look at rates of life-long diseases - from obesity to asthma to peanut allergies - and general fitness in children . After vaccinations for polio, mmr, etc. we should be raising the most fit generations of kids ever, yet here we are with kids who can't do a single pull up to pass the presidential fitness test because they spent their early childhood eating shit and staying inside.
Look at the rates of kids who have behavioral disorders - autism, add/adhd, anxiety, etc. An ever-increasing number of kids are simply unable to cope with the outside world, or are only able to do so while on mind-numbing drugs (which create all sorts of other problems).
Look at the pathetic math and language test scores and real-world abilities. Look at the pathetic life skills high school and college graduates end up with - the current generation of kids can't change a light bulb let alone a tire, can't manage a budget, can't file their taxes, and have mommy go to their fucking job interviews with them.
Children today are retarded - physically, mentally, and emotionally, and they come from retarded parents. The situation is going to get worse, not better, despite how many PSAs or "First Five" programs you trot out.
It takes a village to raise a child, but parents don't trust the village so they try to do it all themselves. Then they realize it's too much fucking work for 2 people, 2 people who both need to keep their jobs, 1 person (since single parents are more common than not), or 1 person who's working a full-time job (or two). So the kids get plopped in front of the TV, a tablet, etc. and vegetate. Outside is dangerous, so kids don't play, they Google Play and get fat. When they enter school, the state becomes the sitter. Education and social interaction are to be avoided - the goals here are to not get sued and to try and make money off of attendance records and performance on standardized tests.
There are only 3 simple steps to solving this:
1: Stop having kids you when you can't handle kids (financially, mentally, temporally). 2: Stop having kids with people when you aren't both committed. 3: Stop wasting time coddling the broken kids in school - leave them behind in the bad schools and dumb classes and let decent kids get an education based on learning, not on administration.
Of course, none of this will happen because it involves people taking responsibility for themselves and their kids.
They're about strategy as much as rock paper scissor is about strategy. Actually, that's not fair. Rock paper scissors is balanced - SC2 is meta-balanced by blizzard to achieve a desired win ratio.
AKA nerf Terran every patch until no one wants to play them. It would be like making scissors break rock because more people choose rock.
If they have admin privileges on a box that all your workstations look to and trust for updates and can forge MS's cert, then it is in fact game fucking over regardless of SSL because they don't need to look at the traffic.
If they can MITM your network and inject traffic and can forge MS's cert, then it is in fact game fucking over regardless of SSL because with WSUS SSL only protects the update metadata.
You can scream "defense in depth" all you want, but you're talking about building a moat around your battleship.
They guarantee support for X years for shit when a SP is released. Since these updates aren't cumulative updates they aren't SPs, despite the significance of the changes they involve. Since they're not SPs, MS has no obligation to support shit for X years after releasing them.
Windows 9 will be Windows 8.1 Update 2. It will be out next year. The press will love it, and will stroke their own cocks furiously for successfully perpetuating the odd-numbered Windows release pattern.
If someone is inside your firewall and signing malicious versions of updates with forged MS certs and pushing them through your servers then SSL isn't going to do shit.
The only reason to SSL your WSUS shit is if you want to stop Jim from seeing that Pam's machine needs the latest definition updates for System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 (which is listed in the catalog as Forefront 2010...).
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Do you carry around a smartphone all the time? If you don't, many people do.
Isn't a wearable "just" a subset of an existing smartphone, or arguably an addition (due to using smartphone for communication with the wearable)?
I don't have any of the FitBit, etc., but they seem to have become reasonably popular for the early adopter crowd.
Basically, I don't see a need for a wearable currently either, but to completely throw out the idea seems ridiculous. It seems like just an extension of "more, comparatively powerful, personal electronics being used for specialized purposes to augment one's life".
They're trash because they don't do anything that isn't already:
A: Handled by your phone
B: Handled much better by a dedicated device
C: Both A & B
A good wearable device would be a blood glucose monitor for diabetics that shows real-time (or near-real-time) levels from an embedded sensor, removing the need for the person to sample and test periodically.
Or what about a wearable device people have been using for ages? Bluetooth headsets.
Good wearable devices REDUCE your need to rely on or interact with other devices. Bad wearable devices (everything Samsung et alii are peddling) try to INCREASE your dependence on the device(s). I'm not throwing the idea out completely, I'm throwing out all the recent (and upcoming) forced attempts that don't actually have a use-case. These are the things currently being put out under the "wearables" buzzword. Nobody trotted out that term when Bluetooth headsets were being introduced. They didn't need to - people saw that they we useful and bought them up.
Is there ever a reason to actually register one of these products with your real name and info? Unless it's my bank, DL, or passport, I see no point in giving any of these companies real info.
Nope. Rusty Shackleford every time.
His private emails were not private. They were public. Just like a governor's text messages are public record - another ruling from today. If you are on a project the public paid for, writing an email with time the public paid for, IT'S PUBLIC. Judge is wrong. Case law supporting this ruling is wrong.
Absolutely. What's more is that "case law" isn't an actual thing. There is law, and we interpret it to decide cases. Those decisions are not law. ALL cases are to be judged individually. Referencing past decisions can be helpful in balancing expediency and thoroughness, but past decisions are not to be used as law, even if coming from a higher court.
When laws are unclear and interpretations are split, the higher courts hear appeals and decide. When a very high court hears a case the legislators pay attention and work to change the laws and make them more clear to prevent the contentious interpretations in the first place.
Of course, that only works if our government follows its own rules and does its own job.
Asking for vacation, sending in sick leave requests etc.pp. is all business, and none of them belongs to the public.
On the contrary - it's all publicly-funded business.
The public has a right to know if their money is going to someone who is never at the office doing the job they're supposed to be doing. They don't need to know if he's got the flu or if he's in Maui, but that's what redaction is for, and it's why courts use 3rd parties to verify and sanitize shit during discovery.
Well then you're an ignorant fuck, because you can download all of that data now if you like. Get on google. It's been posted to Slashdot every single fucking time that the topic has come up. You ignorant fuck.
Goddamn know-nothing character assassins.
Except the very premise of the fucking court decision and FOIA request is that the data, the collection methodology, and the relevant communications Mann had about it are NOT available. We don't want a subset of the manipulated data, we want the full set of raw data. It will never be provided because, as everyone knows, the data was cherry picked, massaged, and outright fabricated in order to generate an alarming graph. Not even the most zealous of global warming proponents stand by the graph anymore - everyone knows it's bullshit.
No thanks - I already have a position in academia. I can tell you with complete certainty academia is the epitome of waste and self-congratulatory bullshit.
So basically they're just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks? I suppose that's one way to avoid choosing the wrong platform ...
Anything that makes "wearables" die out faster is good in my book. Keep releasing different models all running different OSes and all doing different versions of nothing useful. Manufactured product pushes are like diarrhea. The sooner all the products exit the pipeline, the sooner corporate sees that marketing was blowing smoke up their ass when they told them "wearables" were going to be hot, the sooner I don't have to hear about them and, hopefully, the sooner that marketing dipshit is fired.
The same goes for the asshole who decided that Wendy's, Carl's Jr/Hardees, and Sonic all had to jump on the non-existent pretzel bun bandwagon. Oh wait, nobody actually wanted those? Better jump on the ciabatta bandwagon! That failed too?! Well what about brioche? Still no boost in sales? Revert back to our "classic" buns to save money and leverage our brand!
Martin and Erik Demaine are professors, not students.
Erik Demaine, in particular, is widely considered to be a genius, so perhaps it's fortunate that you have no administrative power over your alma mater.
Being professors just makes a much worse waste of time and money.
Oh, he's a "genius", is he? Good for him.
Best Buy would have made a decent effort to please an upset customer by offering free Geek Squad support to the point of diagnosis / asking Chris to look into it (instead of Frank, who's just does sales), but not free repairs/upgrades. Best Buy would have jumped at the opportunity to upsell him some Geek Squad if possible after that first assessment.
Regardless of it being open, he can return it and get an exchange for the same item easily in the US, and for store credit fairly easily in the US.
He can return for a full refund in whatever form of payment he initially made in many countries, including the one he's in.
I'm pretty sure I account for about 1% of those downloads from trying every fucking build multiple times to find one that fucking works (or breaks in different but more-tolerable ways) when opening various MS Office documents.
Fuel. You've been bitching about the use of the word "power" when you're the one who's using it wrong. The word you want is fuel.
Thermoelectrics generate power in the presence of heat.
Internal combustion engines deliver power when shit explodes inside them.
Gasoline is a fuel, not a power source.
If you built a car engine that delivered power by causing fuel to explode, you'd change the world. Car engines work through deflagration, not detonation. Detonation releases way, way more power. It's hoped that it will be the replacement for scramjet engines... envision a jet being driven by a series of explosions. No one has admitted to successfully making one, though. I've spent years doodling different ideas about how you might make one if we had the materials necessary, but it's like building a space elevator... fun to think about, but you'd need materials far stronger than anything we have available.
Car engines run on boring old combustion. The difference in scale between combustion and detonation is not dissimilar to the difference between a compost heap and a bonfire.
An explosion is anything that involves an outward motion and accompanying noise. It comes from the Latin explodere.
You can try to split hairs about burning, exploding, and whatever the fuck else you want, but ICEs run on exploding fuel. The expansion from the explosion is literally what drives them.
You would have had a better chance if you had tried to correct my usage of the word "shit".
so if you went to bestbuy, bought the (physical) game box, took it home, installed it and figured out it wouldn't run, would you have called your c/c company to withhold the payment to bestbuy until you were able to run the game? What does Valve have anything to do with a game working or not working? It's not that physical stores allow you to take back opened software nowadays either...
If he had gotten it from Best Buy he'd have basic consumer rights to refund, a working product, etc. enforced by policy and executed by a human (be it a sales associate, manager, whoever).
If he had gotten it from best Buy he would have received actual human interaction when first complaining about it. Best Buy may be a joke and the Geek Squad may be a ripoff, but the mere presence of a human being who has some idea of how to troubleshoot shit, or at least whose job it is to keep customers happy, is about 87 miles ahead of Steam's "support".
Steam support simply doesn't exist unless you threaten to issue a chargeback or sue. No human at Valve even SEES your support ticket until 2 automated "solutions" are generated and spit out - 1 blaming your ISP and 1 telling you to delete clientregistry.blob or reinstall Steam. After that they blame the developer and close your ticket.
Apparently you missed the cyrpto flaws in Android 's Java crypto library from last year that exposed private keys. Apparently writing things in Java guarantees jack and shit.
No, writing things in Java guarantees your shit will be jacked.
Fuel. You've been bitching about the use of the word "power" when you're the one who's using it wrong. The word you want is fuel.
Thermoelectrics generate power in the presence of heat.
Internal combustion engines deliver power when shit explodes inside them.
Gasoline is a fuel, not a power source.
"Children today are retarded - physically, mentally, and emotionally, and they come from retarded parents."
False, by every measure.
True, by every measure.
Look at rates of life-long diseases - from obesity to asthma to peanut allergies - and general fitness in children . After vaccinations for polio, mmr, etc. we should be raising the most fit generations of kids ever, yet here we are with kids who can't do a single pull up to pass the presidential fitness test because they spent their early childhood eating shit and staying inside.
Look at the rates of kids who have behavioral disorders - autism, add/adhd, anxiety, etc. An ever-increasing number of kids are simply unable to cope with the outside world, or are only able to do so while on mind-numbing drugs (which create all sorts of other problems).
Look at the pathetic math and language test scores and real-world abilities. Look at the pathetic life skills high school and college graduates end up with - the current generation of kids can't change a light bulb let alone a tire, can't manage a budget, can't file their taxes, and have mommy go to their fucking job interviews with them.
Still in bed, the two of them. Just like two old lovers, they push away but then relent and then the old in-out continues.
But who's the top and who's the bottom?
Intel Inside
Microsoft.
Oh.
Children today are retarded - physically, mentally, and emotionally, and they come from retarded parents.
The situation is going to get worse, not better, despite how many PSAs or "First Five" programs you trot out.
It takes a village to raise a child, but parents don't trust the village so they try to do it all themselves.
Then they realize it's too much fucking work for 2 people, 2 people who both need to keep their jobs, 1 person (since single parents are more common than not), or 1 person who's working a full-time job (or two). So the kids get plopped in front of the TV, a tablet, etc. and vegetate. Outside is dangerous, so kids don't play, they Google Play and get fat. When they enter school, the state becomes the sitter. Education and social interaction are to be avoided - the goals here are to not get sued and to try and make money off of attendance records and performance on standardized tests.
There are only 3 simple steps to solving this:
1: Stop having kids you when you can't handle kids (financially, mentally, temporally).
2: Stop having kids with people when you aren't both committed.
3: Stop wasting time coddling the broken kids in school - leave them behind in the bad schools and dumb classes and let decent kids get an education based on learning, not on administration.
Of course, none of this will happen because it involves people taking responsibility for themselves and their kids.
In short, the 2nd amendment favors the rich because they can arm themselves to the hilt, should they wish. Not very equal, is it?
Did you just make a "life isn't fair" argument?
Nope. I didn't. Read it again.
Yup. You did. Think for once.
Money laundering, theft, gross negligence. I'm sure there's plenty more.
Let's assume the premise. You want the US to now arrest people for crimes committed in Japan?
Team America World Police was satire.
That's still miles better than going after non-criminals in other countries for non-crimes, or just drone striking them.
Dogecoin is best coin.
They're about strategy as much as rock paper scissor is about strategy.
Actually, that's not fair. Rock paper scissors is balanced - SC2 is meta-balanced by blizzard to achieve a desired win ratio.
AKA nerf Terran every patch until no one wants to play them.
It would be like making scissors break rock because more people choose rock.
If they have admin privileges on a box that all your workstations look to and trust for updates and can forge MS's cert, then it is in fact game fucking over regardless of SSL because they don't need to look at the traffic.
If they can MITM your network and inject traffic and can forge MS's cert, then it is in fact game fucking over regardless of SSL because with WSUS SSL only protects the update metadata.
You can scream "defense in depth" all you want, but you're talking about building a moat around your battleship.
They guarantee support for X years for shit when a SP is released.
Since these updates aren't cumulative updates they aren't SPs, despite the significance of the changes they involve.
Since they're not SPs, MS has no obligation to support shit for X years after releasing them.
Windows 9 will be Windows 8.1 Update 2. It will be out next year. The press will love it, and will stroke their own cocks furiously for successfully perpetuating the odd-numbered Windows release pattern.
If someone is inside your firewall and signing malicious versions of updates with forged MS certs and pushing them through your servers then SSL isn't going to do shit.
The only reason to SSL your WSUS shit is if you want to stop Jim from seeing that Pam's machine needs the latest definition updates for System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 (which is listed in the catalog as Forefront 2010...).
Since when was Server 2012 R2 unsupported?