One question I ask when picking ANY service provider is, "Will they be able to provide this service?" If the answer is, "No," I cease to consider them a service provider. I don't think these guys even have a road map on going from "brain pickling" to "mind uploading."
I'm not having an issue with it. Are you trying to access it from a connection that might filter out VPN providers? Pretty sure those were blocked at my last workplace. I'm assuming you're not in Iran or someplace weird where VPN providers are enemies of the state.
Results will either be messed up due to records corruption...
If this was a "mind-uploading service" that wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, this seems to be a service where they pickle your brain in hopes that some futurite will, under whatever motivation, magic you back to life.
OTOH, Gene Wilder may prefer my preserved brain to Abby's.
You've GOTTA trust your VPN provider. What choice do you have? You could choose to trust your ISP, but they don't even hide the fact that they're mining you.
It should surprise you how much darker it is, and, it should feel much more inviting and easier to fall asleep.
I have an ex who couldn't sleep without cartoons on, so for years I fell asleep to American Dad or Family Guy. Once I got used to it, I noticed no difference between the sleep I got with light and noise and the sleep I got with dark and quiet. I realize that TFA asserts otherwise, but I think it's more about mental state than light level. The latter can affect the former. For me, as long as I stick to Trevor Noah->Pills->Shave->Shower->Weed->Teeth, I'll drift off just fine. Low levels of light and noise that might be coming from the neighbors upstairs seem to have little effect. I had a roommate who would turn on the Grateful Dead's Box of Rain and be out before it's over.
...instead of getting yanked out of REM sleep by a buzzer...
I prefer my 80's pop-rock Pandora station. It's energetic without being jarring; it's familiar so it doesn't demand any focus; and it's hard to start a day on the wrong foot when it starts with Toto singing Africa. I get out of bed about 20 minutes after the music starts and it kicks the day off just fine for me.
We can all share what works for us, but effective sleep/wake routines differ widely from one person to the next.
...searching is the lie, installing software when you are not looking is the reality.
Do you have anything to back that up? Sounds paranoid.
They want to take you phone, simply refuse and catch the next flight...
Right. Because they're going to change the rules between the flight you booked and the next one. Let me know how that works out. I've got shit to do and I'm not going to explain to my customer that I'm a day late because I didn't want TSA to see my selfies.
I will not be tracked around town, so I turn down such offers or spoof them if I'm forced. sometimes there is no opt-out. I never share location data with web services.
FWIW, here's an except from an email MoviePass sent me late last night:
The MoviePass app currently uses standard location services capabilities on an opt-in basis. There are only two events that would prompt MoviePass to identify a member’s location. These include when a member requests to search for theaters nearby and when a member requests to check into a theater. Both events require both the app to be open and for the member to request the action.
MoviePass does not track and has never tracked or collected data on the location of our members at any point when the app is not active. In our recent update with Apple, we removed the the background tracking capabilities. MoviePass does not use and has never used this feature.
No one is so stupid as to think giving away personal data for cheap movie tickets is a good idea.
I'm that stupid. I also let my grocery store track my habits in exchange for slightly discounted goods and I traded my email address to the dispensary for slightly discounted weed. Some people treat their data as if it was sacred. That's fine for them, but I treat few things as sacred. I don't broadcast my info indiscriminately, but I occasionally trade pieces of it. If MoviePass wants to know that I was in the theater's parking lot immediately before the show, I'm willing to tell them that in exchange for my prepaid ticket. That's as much as I have to tell them to use their service. If I was lazy or just didn't care, I'd let them collect more.
I got a 1-year MoviePass subscription as a gift and have been enjoying the hell out of it. I've seen a couple of pictures that weren't worth my time for free (2 over the weekend - 'Gringo' & 'The Strangers' suck), but I've also seen a couple I would have missed like 'The Greatest Showman' and 'The Shape of Water' that I really enjoyed. If the price of that is letting MoviePass recommend a place to eat or offer me a coupon, so be it.
Is it against the TOS to use a burner phone for their service ?
If you're using it in order to share your account, then yes I'm pretty sure it's against their TOS. Entirely expoitable, but in violation of the TOS. If you want to use a burner phone and NOT share your account, I'm sure that's fine.
Fuckers like YOU who allow the corporations to track us...
I got a MoviePass subscription as a gift. I never would have bought it for myself, but now that I have it I really enjoy it and use it all the time. At the rate I'm going, my newfound movie habit will have cost my brother about $1.75/show. That saves me a little if the alternative is a full price ticket; it saves me nothing if the alternative is staying home. In either case, I'm willing to disclose to MoviePass that I'm in the theater parking lot immediately before the show in exchange for my prepaid ticket.
It's fairly trivial for me to prevent MoviePass from tracking me when I'm not in the theater parking lot. I'm baffled as to how MY MoviePass subscription allows corporations to track YOU.
You're saying someone is lying for free food. He's saying there's a way to not be tracked ***before and after*** purchasing a ticket.
He only mentioned the ability to block tracking as a means to sharing the account. He's suggesting violating the TOS and "lying" to MoviePass by pretending different people are one to get cheap movies. The two cases are a lot alike.
But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why...
If your life gets worse because there's something nice in someone else's, the problem is on your side of the fence. My brother makes a shitload more money than I do and outpaces about every perk I can buy myself. That doesn't remotely slow me down from enjoying what I have.
Real life example... Yes! Go ahead, help other being disappointed, too!
If you're disappointed in Paris because somebody else got a nicer picture of the Eiffel tower, you're Parising wrong. There are much better reasons to be disappointed with Paris. There are even pretty good reasons to enjoy it, which is where I'd try to focus.
What AI accomplishment has excited you the most? There always seem to be neat new advances in the area. I don't think we'll ever have "real AI" to satisfy the people who demand that the machine achieve sentience, but that shouldn't distract from impressive machine learning advances.
Social Media, tends to work better because you relate to people who are similar mindset you are in.
Even with differing mindsets, reviews are more meaningful when you're familiar with the source. Similar reviews, depending on the reviewer's preferences, can lead me to entirely different conclusions.
I've been through the radio show ten or a dozen times, so I've heard that piece exactly a million times. I didn't know the title until this morning. I only knew it was the Eagles because it was played as a bridge piece during an Eagles documentary. I grin every time I hear it; it would make a fine alarm.
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One question I ask when picking ANY service provider is, "Will they be able to provide this service?" If the answer is, "No," I cease to consider them a service provider. I don't think these guys even have a road map on going from "brain pickling" to "mind uploading."
All VPN's have CIA backdoors and are heavily monitored.
Even the ones not hosted in the US?
I'm not having an issue with it. Are you trying to access it from a connection that might filter out VPN providers? Pretty sure those were blocked at my last workplace. I'm assuming you're not in Iran or someplace weird where VPN providers are enemies of the state.
Results will either be messed up due to records corruption...
If this was a "mind-uploading service" that wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, this seems to be a service where they pickle your brain in hopes that some futurite will, under whatever motivation, magic you back to life.
OTOH, Gene Wilder may prefer my preserved brain to Abby's.
You've GOTTA trust your VPN provider. What choice do you have? You could choose to trust your ISP, but they don't even hide the fact that they're mining you.
I use Private Internet Access and have zero complaints. Easy to use, plenty fast, and about $40/yr. Well worth it.
Firefox is still the only browser I trust.
Well there's IE, Chrome, and Opera. Assuming of course that you trust MS, Google, and the Chinese.
It should surprise you how much darker it is, and, it should feel much more inviting and easier to fall asleep.
I have an ex who couldn't sleep without cartoons on, so for years I fell asleep to American Dad or Family Guy. Once I got used to it, I noticed no difference between the sleep I got with light and noise and the sleep I got with dark and quiet. I realize that TFA asserts otherwise, but I think it's more about mental state than light level. The latter can affect the former. For me, as long as I stick to Trevor Noah->Pills->Shave->Shower->Weed->Teeth, I'll drift off just fine. Low levels of light and noise that might be coming from the neighbors upstairs seem to have little effect. I had a roommate who would turn on the Grateful Dead's Box of Rain and be out before it's over.
...instead of getting yanked out of REM sleep by a buzzer...
I prefer my 80's pop-rock Pandora station. It's energetic without being jarring; it's familiar so it doesn't demand any focus; and it's hard to start a day on the wrong foot when it starts with Toto singing Africa. I get out of bed about 20 minutes after the music starts and it kicks the day off just fine for me.
We can all share what works for us, but effective sleep/wake routines differ widely from one person to the next.
I'm not sure the jobs of the future are going to center around making sprockets or cogs.
...the best material to darken windows is aluminum foil.
Also best to wrap your alarm clock if it uses an LED display. As a bonus, it's like opening a gift every morning when the alarm goes off.
...searching is the lie, installing software when you are not looking is the reality.
Do you have anything to back that up? Sounds paranoid.
They want to take you phone, simply refuse and catch the next flight...
Right. Because they're going to change the rules between the flight you booked and the next one. Let me know how that works out. I've got shit to do and I'm not going to explain to my customer that I'm a day late because I didn't want TSA to see my selfies.
I will not be tracked around town, so I turn down such offers or spoof them if I'm forced. sometimes there is no opt-out. I never share location data with web services.
FWIW, here's an except from an email MoviePass sent me late last night:
The MoviePass app currently uses standard location services capabilities on an opt-in basis. There are only two events that would prompt MoviePass to identify a member’s location. These include when a member requests to search for theaters nearby and when a member requests to check into a theater. Both events require both the app to be open and for the member to request the action.
MoviePass does not track and has never tracked or collected data on the location of our members at any point when the app is not active. In our recent update with Apple, we removed the the background tracking capabilities. MoviePass does not use and has never used this feature.
No one is so stupid as to think giving away personal data for cheap movie tickets is a good idea.
I'm that stupid. I also let my grocery store track my habits in exchange for slightly discounted goods and I traded my email address to the dispensary for slightly discounted weed. Some people treat their data as if it was sacred. That's fine for them, but I treat few things as sacred. I don't broadcast my info indiscriminately, but I occasionally trade pieces of it. If MoviePass wants to know that I was in the theater's parking lot immediately before the show, I'm willing to tell them that in exchange for my prepaid ticket. That's as much as I have to tell them to use their service. If I was lazy or just didn't care, I'd let them collect more.
I got a 1-year MoviePass subscription as a gift and have been enjoying the hell out of it. I've seen a couple of pictures that weren't worth my time for free (2 over the weekend - 'Gringo' & 'The Strangers' suck), but I've also seen a couple I would have missed like 'The Greatest Showman' and 'The Shape of Water' that I really enjoyed. If the price of that is letting MoviePass recommend a place to eat or offer me a coupon, so be it.
Is it against the TOS to use a burner phone for their service ?
If you're using it in order to share your account, then yes I'm pretty sure it's against their TOS. Entirely expoitable, but in violation of the TOS. If you want to use a burner phone and NOT share your account, I'm sure that's fine.
It's almost as if it would be better to make a much larger device...
Or maybe reformat the content. If we can solve that problem, soon we might see newspapers with their own websites.
I wonder how successful would be a man suing to be admitted into a women-only college/university or a women-only club. Equal justice under the law?
How do you feel about gym memberships?
...a picture of a steaming pile of fresh human feces... It's the one thing we all have in common...
There's a song by an artist named 'Mr. Hankey' that you might be interested in.
Fuckers like YOU who allow the corporations to track us...
I got a MoviePass subscription as a gift. I never would have bought it for myself, but now that I have it I really enjoy it and use it all the time. At the rate I'm going, my newfound movie habit will have cost my brother about $1.75/show. That saves me a little if the alternative is a full price ticket; it saves me nothing if the alternative is staying home. In either case, I'm willing to disclose to MoviePass that I'm in the theater parking lot immediately before the show in exchange for my prepaid ticket.
It's fairly trivial for me to prevent MoviePass from tracking me when I'm not in the theater parking lot. I'm baffled as to how MY MoviePass subscription allows corporations to track YOU.
You're saying someone is lying for free food. He's saying there's a way to not be tracked ***before and after*** purchasing a ticket.
He only mentioned the ability to block tracking as a means to sharing the account. He's suggesting violating the TOS and "lying" to MoviePass by pretending different people are one to get cheap movies. The two cases are a lot alike.
But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why...
If your life gets worse because there's something nice in someone else's, the problem is on your side of the fence. My brother makes a shitload more money than I do and outpaces about every perk I can buy myself. That doesn't remotely slow me down from enjoying what I have.
Real life example... Yes! Go ahead, help other being disappointed, too!
If you're disappointed in Paris because somebody else got a nicer picture of the Eiffel tower, you're Parising wrong. There are much better reasons to be disappointed with Paris. There are even pretty good reasons to enjoy it, which is where I'd try to focus.
...exciting field...any questions...
What AI accomplishment has excited you the most? There always seem to be neat new advances in the area. I don't think we'll ever have "real AI" to satisfy the people who demand that the machine achieve sentience, but that shouldn't distract from impressive machine learning advances.
Social Media, tends to work better because you relate to people who are similar mindset you are in.
Even with differing mindsets, reviews are more meaningful when you're familiar with the source. Similar reviews, depending on the reviewer's preferences, can lead me to entirely different conclusions.
I've been through the radio show ten or a dozen times, so I've heard that piece exactly a million times. I didn't know the title until this morning. I only knew it was the Eagles because it was played as a bridge piece during an Eagles documentary. I grin every time I hear it; it would make a fine alarm.
If there's only a 50% chance I'll get my data back, I should only have to pay 50% of the ransom.
I paid double the ransom so I have a credit ready for next time.
You can make more money by sending the kidnapping victim back in installments.