I remember making perl scripts to strip all the crap out of Yahoo searches. Now days I have to do the same with Google (but use greasemonkey instead) results because they took away the filtering system they used to have.
There are certain domains that have nothing of value on them but tons of search hits, I have a nice set of filters that delivers clean and concise search results while destroying all the crap they intentionally let through nowadays.
Sadly there is no competition to dethrone google... I wish there was.
All the smart and talented people jumped ship already. All that is left is idiots that believed that the company was going anywhere but down. They have been less and less relevant every year for the past 10 years.
If the cops are killing people for speeding, they deserve all the bad press and assult. In fact ALL of the nation media is about cops murdering people or torturing them.
I have yet to see ONE media story about the scourge of cops doing their job in a professional manner and ticketing speeders. So your point is that cops don't want to enforce speeding laws because they can't murder people without people getting outraged?
Anyone that speeds in a residential area is the worst type of scumbag.
On an open highway, go for it, I think we should be allowed to go 100mph. Driving around people and kids only a few feet from their homes, they need a punch in the face to go along with the ticket.
Two wireless networks work perfectly, and 99% of the places that needs that kind of monitoring has 2 networks. hell I have 2 wireless networks at my house. Plus it could always use my wifi tether on my phone that is always active.
Just use the ESP-01 with NodeMCU and let it do the whole job on it's own. no need for anything else attached to it except power Works great for a tiny $7.00 (with power supply) wifi canary.
When the public wifi goes offline or has a problem getting out, it then connects to the private lan and then issues the email to tech support.
These systems are designed in a way that you can not sell service to a single customer until you are 80% complete, that means spending 900 Billion dollars to launch all those satellites and install all your ground station equipment before the FIRST customer can even be sold service.
What is needed is just a couple of Geosync birds over the USA and start having real competition to Hughesnet.
Apple IS way too consumer. They slit their throats when they turned Final Cut into imovie and Logic into garageband pro.
Both of those were well on their way to becoming a defacto standard in the industry and pro worlds. Before they destroyed Final Cut it was being used on many many TV shows and Movies..... Then came Final Cut X and everyone ran away from it as fast as they could back to AVID.
Logic was starting to gain traction taking over Pro Tools.... and then they blew that up.
They now only have ONE option for professionals the trash can. you cant even get any pro options in the iMAC line all for the sake of making it thinner. They could have offered the screaming nutty video card in the pro, a retina 27" screen, Allow for 4 SSD cards inside for raid speeds, etc... but no. no pro options so the only choice is the trash can.
Hell the iPad would have taken off faster if they offered Enterprise control over them from day one. Allow an ipad to be locked to only running one app and it starts by default, etc.... Instead it stays a consumer device.
And that right there is what can cause HUGE problems for Apple.
If someone get's Johnny Ives to leave Apple.. Suddenly a shitstorm of magnus proportions will start inside the company. I do think they have faltered a bit, but that is mostly because the guy who started the company is now gone.
This happens to all companies. Microsoft has been in a non stop turd fall since Gates left, HP, etc...
A hired CEO never has the love and drive for a company like the people that built it from nothing.
Yet old 50mhz police band works better than ANYTHING that can be bought today in the urban canyons as well as the spread out for thousands of miles states.
all this digital shit is only there to make a profit selling new gear. the old analog stuff works great and still does.
Slashdot USED to have a lot of top names and Celebs here regularly having a dialog on topics.
it's been YEARS since I have seen any of those people post, and looking at their username info, they haven't for good reason. Content has been dumbed way down to the point that what I see on slashdot is what I saw on other sites hours or days beforehand.
Insurance is the longest running legalized scam. And they have been getting steadily greedy. For example car insurance companies made RECORD PROFITS last year and they are raising rates because gas prices are too low.
It's time either they get heavily controlled by the government again or go away.
The farmers market around here is nearly identical in price as the supermarket plus I can haggle. "$1.00 each for these red bell peppers? I'll give you $2.50 for three of them.... DEAL!"
Avoid the trendy gentrification "markets" that are only there for the trendy rich people.
But it is free if you use real accounting, you no longer have to pay for employees, and those are far more expensive than automation The cost of a SINGLE automated checkout lane at a store is less than the cost of employing an employee for 1 year, and the checkout lane will operate for years. so every year after 1 is free money. and every normal checkout lane requires at least 4 employees to man it 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
You are thinking like an angry manager that does not understand money.... I have to spend $24,000 on this new checkout lane, my customer will pay dearly for this. Its the same stupid mentality that costs me $2.95 to pay a bill online but sending a check that an employee has to handle is free? the online payment costs them NOTHING, yet they scam me by charging a fee. The paper check costs them significantly more than $2.95 to process in employee time.
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I remember making perl scripts to strip all the crap out of Yahoo searches. Now days I have to do the same with Google (but use greasemonkey instead) results because they took away the filtering system they used to have.
There are certain domains that have nothing of value on them but tons of search hits, I have a nice set of filters that delivers clean and concise search results while destroying all the crap they intentionally let through nowadays.
Sadly there is no competition to dethrone google... I wish there was.
All the smart and talented people jumped ship already. All that is left is idiots that believed that the company was going anywhere but down. They have been less and less relevant every year for the past 10 years.
Fire all the executives and save a whole lot more money plus cutting dead weight that does nothing at all for the company.
If the cops are killing people for speeding, they deserve all the bad press and assult. In fact ALL of the nation media is about cops murdering people or torturing them.
I have yet to see ONE media story about the scourge of cops doing their job in a professional manner and ticketing speeders. So your point is that cops don't want to enforce speeding laws because they can't murder people without people getting outraged?
People have to justify their speeding. They hate it when people point out they are stupid for supporting it.
Anyone that speeds in a residential area is the worst type of scumbag.
On an open highway, go for it, I think we should be allowed to go 100mph. Driving around people and kids only a few feet from their homes, they need a punch in the face to go along with the ticket.
No you dont.
Two wireless networks work perfectly, and 99% of the places that needs that kind of monitoring has 2 networks. hell I have 2 wireless networks at my house. Plus it could always use my wifi tether on my phone that is always active.
Plus It's also a great way to get a Pirated copy of 7 to become a legit one. Works great if you have the right kind of pirated windows 7.
Why?
Just use the ESP-01 with NodeMCU and let it do the whole job on it's own. no need for anything else attached to it except power Works great for a tiny $7.00 (with power supply) wifi canary.
When the public wifi goes offline or has a problem getting out, it then connects to the private lan and then issues the email to tech support.
When I hear Bricking it means I have to toss the hardware or whip out a JTAG or EEPROM programmer.
Is this "bricking" real or just someone not understand what the word actually means and a initialize and reinstall of the OS will fix everything.
Access to space ships.
These systems are designed in a way that you can not sell service to a single customer until you are 80% complete, that means spending 900 Billion dollars to launch all those satellites and install all your ground station equipment before the FIRST customer can even be sold service.
What is needed is just a couple of Geosync birds over the USA and start having real competition to Hughesnet.
BINGO!
Apple IS way too consumer. They slit their throats when they turned Final Cut into imovie and Logic into garageband pro.
Both of those were well on their way to becoming a defacto standard in the industry and pro worlds. Before they destroyed Final Cut it was being used on many many TV shows and Movies..... Then came Final Cut X and everyone ran away from it as fast as they could back to AVID.
Logic was starting to gain traction taking over Pro Tools.... and then they blew that up.
They now only have ONE option for professionals the trash can. you cant even get any pro options in the iMAC line all for the sake of making it thinner. They could have offered the screaming nutty video card in the pro, a retina 27" screen, Allow for 4 SSD cards inside for raid speeds, etc... but no. no pro options so the only choice is the trash can.
Hell the iPad would have taken off faster if they offered Enterprise control over them from day one. Allow an ipad to be locked to only running one app and it starts by default, etc.... Instead it stays a consumer device.
And that right there is what can cause HUGE problems for Apple.
If someone get's Johnny Ives to leave Apple.. Suddenly a shitstorm of magnus proportions will start inside the company. I do think they have faltered a bit, but that is mostly because the guy who started the company is now gone.
This happens to all companies. Microsoft has been in a non stop turd fall since Gates left, HP, etc...
A hired CEO never has the love and drive for a company like the people that built it from nothing.
Yet old 50mhz police band works better than ANYTHING that can be bought today in the urban canyons as well as the spread out for thousands of miles states.
all this digital shit is only there to make a profit selling new gear. the old analog stuff works great and still does.
Most towns and counties in the USA you elect the sheriff.
Who said I shouldn't? I have 100% legal right to.
It's why they are not allowed to encrypt police and fire radio traffic.
Slashdot USED to have a lot of top names and Celebs here regularly having a dialog on topics.
it's been YEARS since I have seen any of those people post, and looking at their username info, they haven't for good reason. Content has been dumbed way down to the point that what I see on slashdot is what I saw on other sites hours or days beforehand.
They firmly believe that Slashdot needs to be redesigned to be more like facebook.
Call me when software can dig ditches and build roads all on it's own.
All insurance companies are the same. They all do whatever they can to avoid paying out.
Insurance is the longest running legalized scam. And they have been getting steadily greedy. For example car insurance companies made RECORD PROFITS last year and they are raising rates because gas prices are too low.
It's time either they get heavily controlled by the government again or go away.
The farmers market around here is nearly identical in price as the supermarket plus I can haggle. "$1.00 each for these red bell peppers? I'll give you $2.50 for three of them.... DEAL!"
Avoid the trendy gentrification "markets" that are only there for the trendy rich people.
But it is free if you use real accounting, you no longer have to pay for employees, and those are far more expensive than automation The cost of a SINGLE automated checkout lane at a store is less than the cost of employing an employee for 1 year, and the checkout lane will operate for years. so every year after 1 is free money. and every normal checkout lane requires at least 4 employees to man it 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
You are thinking like an angry manager that does not understand money.... I have to spend $24,000 on this new checkout lane, my customer will pay dearly for this.
Its the same stupid mentality that costs me $2.95 to pay a bill online but sending a check that an employee has to handle is free? the online payment costs them NOTHING, yet they scam me by charging a fee. The paper check costs them significantly more than $2.95 to process in employee time.
Back when Amazon.com had been in business for a few years I called their tech support to recover my password.
They read the password to me over the phone. That means passwords at that time were not stored as a hash but as clear text in their database.