sending all your conversations to amazon in the cloud is easier than using your stove timer which is washable?
what an age to be alive!
I could get behind smart voice recognition (i loved via voice back in the day), however the fact that it records everything youre saying all the time, and sends that data out to the internet, is extremely creepy! I don't know how people get around that mentally.
Using it as primary search for years, do tens of searches a day and have rarely any problem. I still use !i for google image search which i find useful, but other than that I am 100% DDG user for years.
Only problem i ever had is that it constantly prompts you to install the search bar for ddg. But i blame this on not accepting permanent cookies or noscript usage or some combination of the two. Google is even worse at trying to get you using chrome and the toolbars and all that, its beyond intrusive with them...
If they get better image search, i would never have to use google.
I actually read through the whole article and its great detective work. I get the feeling people were bragging to krebby because of how famous he is and they, being anonymous hackers, can never shut up and stop bragging. I love how the reddit account mentioned has recent postings (last one 3 days ago), hasn't been scrubbed, and links together many aspects of the guys life (his love for anime, the dorm he lives in at ruttegers, discussion of botnets and networking).
A life lived online is not very anonymous it seems! especially when you re-use handles and are young and really really like to brag.
Hopefully he made enough to buy a plane ticket away from the USA before the shoe drops on him. I'd be at the airport right now if i was him. Love how Jha says at the end "I don't think there are enough facts to definitively point the finger at me," Jha said. âoeBesides this article, I was pretty much a nobody. "
Well so were all the serial killers and other sociopaths of history... obviously! Someone did the detective work and now they are notorious, like you.
My advice? Run! The FBI surely has enough resources to get IP address for skype users, and reddit gives up their users at the drop of a hat. The FBI can easily take possession of his computer equipment with this kind of evidence. I doubt he was that careful and everything is tight and anonymous at the layer 3 level.
Expecting to see him arrested within days! FBI doesn't like to be made a fool of!
"So Windows 10 makes better use of RAM, avoids wearing out SSDs, can handle HDMI displays properly, and has some scheduling and memory management improvements that more-optimally leverage modern processors and high-speed disks."
I'll give you that multi monitor features are vastly improved (win10 on presentation laptops is a must), however win7 is still speedier, more responsive and less crash prone than windows 10 on the same hardware. I dont care how much more efficiently my memory is managed when i have to restart every other day, and have unblockable cumulative updates auto install and auto break certain things every 6 months.
That my ssd wears down in 50 years instead of 30... well its nice, but its not worth the costs that are associated with windows 10. For me those are the broken system of updates, the initial abuse of windows update to trick win7 users into upgrading, the increased frequency of clearly not quality controlled updates and the major stability problems and bugs that every new update introduces.
Then there are the simple daily annoyances. Things like how i cant reconnect a vpn connection without rebooting the computer, or how using REPLACE instead of UPDATE with GPO network drive mappings has a habit of breaking them in certain situations in win10. These are known issues since release, that still havent been fixed.
MS needs to freeze new features, and fix a current release as completely as possible, before throwing more half baked features into the next release. The rapid release cycle is why working with windows 10 is a never ending treadmill of headaches.
At the very least, they desperately need an LTS branch focused on stability of core features above all.
Automation works great, till it breaks or hits an edge case. Then you need people like me to fix it.
Infact I would say that most computer based automation is so full of flaws, that things need constant babysitting, code updates, etc. Its rare to find an automated system that just keeps on ticking for an entire year without some sort of intervention, let alone multiple years or decades.
And all the best automation costs tonnes of money. Sometimes its just cheaper to hire minimum wage people to do it. But I am all for a push for better and more all encompassing automation (who wouldn't be!). No one should be forced to do mundane or repetitive tasks in the 21st century.
"Or alternatively you could not buy a fucking internet fridge. "
Just like you can choose to not bank with a bank that uses interac flash... (hint they all use it)
Or get a phone thats not a smart phone. (all feature phones where i live are backordered, with an eta of never)
Or a TV thats not a smart TV. (commercial displays dont count, and they are all smart now anyway)
Or buy a fridge with fucking metal shelves in it! Seriously, they are all fragile glass and plastic now. Try and buy a new fridge with metal shelves inside.
If they can't even go back to a feature people do want, durable shelves that last 20 years, they sure as shit aren't going to let you buy one without wifi in it.
Marketing "feature" collusion isn't forcing you into anything. It simply reduces the amount of options you have until there is only one option left.
Because of the 15% foreign buyers tax that vancouver instituted in sept, our HAM (hot asian money) has moved slightly south. I thought this was a well known fact so its a shame the article seems to have another hypothesis that is much less likely. Seeing as the spike almost exactly corresponds with the tax and not any massive hiring in the last 6 months.
Welcome to unaffordability seattle! probably a good time to buy property, hold it for a few months and flip, if the lower mainland BC is any indication of whats in store for you guys.
Copying code from a blog that uses horrible non keyboard quotation marks is the bane of my existence. So many times I have syntax errors caused by the almost identical looking "curly" quotes that some blogs use. Why? why use these stupid things, just to appear fancy? That people want to "save" them is like someone saying they prefer their software to have bugs in it.
"Ok, everybody who was *sic*effected*sic* by this raise your hands! Anybody?"
Short memory eh? A DDoS attack took down multiple services around oct ( https://www.wired.com/2016/10/... ). That one personally affected me as one of our dns providers went down, causing customers headaches for a day or two.
So yes, ddos attacks do *affect* people, in the real world, right now. And they are scary and newsworthy when they occur.
The end result should be that companies are law bound and forced to support IoT devices for ~15 years from the date of manufacture of the device. It should be no different than an auto recall where you receive a letter in the mail. You think companies do that out of their own good will? no, they were forced to by law. Why were they forced by law to do that? Because people became enraged and the media hyped up that rage so that laws were passed. The media publicizing these events is completely 100% necessary, if our goal is secure devices and an educated populace. I don't see any other way to combat these new IoT botnets, do you? Your solution of "just ignore them" is fanciful. Doesn't work with any sort of crime, so it won't work for botnets. You defend yourself, which in this case means educating manufacturers and your fellow man about a clear and present danger.
Corporate stooge: "We no longer want this item, so please add the plastic to the ocean!"
Opportunist Environmentalist: "But sir its a perfectly working device, surely we can sell it!"
Corporate stooge: "And tarnish our american overlords brand by selling a *USED* iphone! please go die now!"
Opportunist Environmentalist: "okay..."
Corporate stooge: "Now if you'll excuse me I have to switch over the lines to make pirated iphone parts so i can buy up property all over the world and make housing unaffordable for locals!"
*employer leaves room and opportunist pockets device*
Its not stealing if its trash. But this is capitalist china, so 10 years in jail for violating corporate rules (and not affording the requisite bribes) seems accurate.
This is why...cash should be used whenever possible.
so you can cheat on your taxes?
Whats all the love for tax cheats in america? In canada, its mostly immigrants who use all cash to specifically avoid paying taxes. I say lock em up! they are defrauding our society for their own gains.
"So, unless my math is wrong, that puts the GOP on the right side of Climate Change fully ten years before Al Gore and the Democrats"
I think you are confused because as much as i loathe reagan, conservatives used to believe in environmental protections. In fact i remember there being a broad consensus about the science of it in the 80s and 90s.
Face it, the so called republican party in the USA simply does not stand for the same things it did 30 years ago. Things are leaning much more to the authoritarian, anti science and pro-ignorance right than probably even classical republicans are comfortable with.
Very few countries have as much of a problem recognizing climate change as real as much as the USA seems to. It's probably going to be a very fascinating historical study, if we survive it. Most other countries at this point are capable of acknowledging AGW but then disagree over what to do about it. This includes conservatives in those countries. Outright denial though seems to be a purely american thing from what i have observed.
One of the first things OSX does after you install it is bitch at you about enabling location services and then forces you to create and link an apple ID to even get software updates for the OS. The level of cloud integration turned on by default on ipads is sickening as well.
So claiming OSX/IOS is better than windows as far as privacy is concerned is laughable. Microsoft is obviously playing catchup to OSX here but apple did start this BS first. Its just apple users crave loss of privacy because they dont have to worry about backups and things "just work(tm)". The reason they work is because of the tight control of apple corporate overlords.
"And to be honest, user-hostile is much harder to debug than any Linux problems you might have."
Lots of people saying "just use linux" not just you, but you are are the person i am replying to so here goes.
Simply accounting. Doesnt work in linux as far as i can search. Planetside 2, does not work in linux, as far as i can see.
Linux is awesome on the server, vmware, android.. But because I dont have time to dick around with compatibility problems i run windows 7 because it just works. And when i go to install a program and there is a problem, i dont have to second guess whether it is an incompatibility with the platform.
In 2020 we shall see if more games are cross platform (looks like wasteland 2 and wasteland 3 are, so thats great!). But still I would have trouble giving up programs like winamp, which i have been using since the 90s. And the main issue for me is that I know that programs will just work in windows. My wifes programs especially. I can work around UI differences and program incompatibilities, but my wife cannot. I also have been a windows only tech for 15 years and there is something to be said for using what you have to support. I can tell usually pretty quickly if an issue is a hardware or software problem, and i feel that a lot of that knowledge is windows specific. Sure the logging in 8000 times better in linux, but unless i start using linux regularly professionally i doubt I will install it at home. No one will give me a job maintaining linux workstations with no desktop linux experience, so its a catch 22 as far as my career is concerned.
Trump and clinton are the same. But trump is a reactionary megalomaniac who has zero impulse control and poor intelligence. Not someone you want to be leading the worlds most powerful military and having access to nuclear weapons.
From an outside perspective, both of your candidates are corrupt pro business conservatives. A proper alternative would be bernie sanders or ron paul, both of whom had great ideas but got stomped out by the establishment. Trump and clinton are the establishment! so I wouldn't expect any change, and with trump you have the added bonus of someone stupider and more reactionary than bush. This creates a real danger to the entire world.
Firstly, as you can see by this wikipedia article, later than 20 weeks is extremely rare (about 2%). However religious fundamentalists want to ban ALL abortion, so you can cherry pick parts of their argument where it fits you i guess but you are being disingenuous to the position.
All abortions should be a couple or the mothers decision, not the state. What we don't need in this world are more children brought up by uncaring people who didn't want to have children in the first place. It's the parents decision to have kids or not, not the state.
"We had a similar problem at a bluegrass festival with just 5000 people, 4 different free WiFi access points, all unusable because connections timed out due to being so overloaded."
4 access points for 5000 people? Yeah your gonna have a bad time. Most access points can support like 100 people on them max. In a temporary situation, I would have gotten at least 10, more like 20 APs for that amount of people and a wireless lan controller to manage them. We regularly use aprox 80 APs to cover a building with 5000 users. You completely underestimated how many APs you need for sure! I never covered a large outdoor space, but you usually do these things by number of people attending because each AP can only handle so many connections.
Stadiums on the other hand sometimes have thousands to tens of thousands of APs and as other people pointed out, concerts in those stadiums work ok. Someone also said that the wireless infrastructure was provided just for the benches (or whatever they are called). So the surfaces would have had thier own wireless network on the playfield. This makes sense as no one is going to use the same wifi network for public as for something as important as team tools.
Having used MS surface devices professionally, I can say that they are nice, but they are also quite buggy, so i would blame them and windows 10 for most of the problems. Bring some ipads in and see if they have the same problems, i bet they dont.
From anecdotal experience with my 13 windows 10 surface pro 3's and 4 devices, i would say its all three. The hardware has overheating problems, the software (windows 10) craps out randomly requiring power cycles (Which on the surface means holding down the power button for 30 seconds). They need firmware updates out of the box to be usable mostly. And occasionally some combination of the above locks up wireless requiring a reboot.
So i have no problem believing that the surfaces are the core of the issue. I see litterally none of the same problems with any ipad we have. I hate apple, but they are far far FAR more reliable than microsoft surface devices.
I do have a surface and i love it when im out and about and the touchscreen is useful, but the hardware itself does have problems and windows 10 is not quite ready for production (and getting miraculously LESS ready with every update...)
Funny, because as a canadian, i know several people who have VPNs soley to watch american netflicks. I dont personally watch so i cant compare it but I always thought the american library was more comprehensive becuase everyone always wants to get american netflix (which you need an american CC for and VPN). Seems like a lot of effort, maybe someone who has both could comment on the differences.
Not sure if you just cherry picked those two particular CPUs as they are almost identical in performance: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/co...
But i agree, upgrading from a 4 digit (2nd gen+ core i7 series cpu), to another core series i7 CPU is not going to give you any sort of performance increase. However, the newer chipset with 4x m2 support can drive a high end SSD over 2000MB/s (some over 3k now!). So upgrading from a core 2 quad was a good move for me. Even though the quad really did work fine.
I did manage to skip a whole upgrade to core series around 2012 and waited it out till q1 2016. But the machine i would have bought at the time, a 2600k is still selling for a premium on ebay. CPU is still worth $150 USD last time i looked.
it may be that people need to revise their upgrade schedule to be more like 8 years as opposed to the old model of a 3-4 year cycle, but that doesn't bother me one bit.
"There is no reason to upgrade to chip cards except to benefit the card cartels."
Are you high? Chip and Pin, the standard for most of the world, works perfectly fine and the reason it is implemented is to protect the merchants! Right now if i go to USA and swipe my card, a fucking signature(!!!) is all the authentication that you need!
This isn't the 1970s, my god. I couldn't even believe how much fraud I could have done with basically zero effort down there. I can't believe that there isn't massive credit card fraud in the USA. Sure, chip cards can be cloned and pins can be captured with hidden cameras, but thats orders of magnitude more effort than simply stealing someones card number and faking their signature. It would be like vendors accepting personal cheques! Mag stripes are relics from a bygone age.
And if you cant program for chip and pin cards, you need to refresh your skills. Every POS software I have worked with in the last 5 years at least, is chip and pin. You get around all PCI compliance issues because cc numbers are never stored or transmitted in plain text anything at any point. The pin authorizes the card at the pinpad and simply transmits a pass or fail to the bank, encrypted. The payment processor has an agent installed on the PC if they are integrated. Or so I understand, i just service them, not a programmer. But the systems are ubiquitous.
Boats need constant repairs. You obviously never knew anyone who has owned a boat. I can't think of a worse platform to bet your long term survival on than a boat in fact! Well i guess a plane would be a worse idea, or a train.
You just need a remote, self sufficient, and most importantly completely obscured location. If you read the book "the road" when they discover the secret bunker that some survivalist has built and never occupied, they don't want to stay too long lest they get complacent and sloppy. Someone sees your smoke from your heated bunker in the winter, or smells your food cooking, and you can kiss your ass goodbye. The best take away from that book, was the safest people were those who were always moving and not at all desirable. The ones who were easily missed or ignored by others. The frail homeless person with their shopping cart, who was ignored by society both before and after the collapse. The entire book was all about not getting noticed by other people. If people noticed you they would enslave you or just straight up kill you, so there was a lot of hiding and being nomadic which i think is more realistic than any other apocalyptic future that fiction portraits.
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sending all your conversations to amazon in the cloud is easier than using your stove timer which is washable?
what an age to be alive!
I could get behind smart voice recognition (i loved via voice back in the day), however the fact that it records everything youre saying all the time, and sends that data out to the internet, is extremely creepy! I don't know how people get around that mentally.
Best not to think about it i guess.
Using it as primary search for years, do tens of searches a day and have rarely any problem. I still use !i for google image search which i find useful, but other than that I am 100% DDG user for years.
Only problem i ever had is that it constantly prompts you to install the search bar for ddg. But i blame this on not accepting permanent cookies or noscript usage or some combination of the two. Google is even worse at trying to get you using chrome and the toolbars and all that, its beyond intrusive with them...
If they get better image search, i would never have to use google.
I actually read through the whole article and its great detective work. I get the feeling people were bragging to krebby because of how famous he is and they, being anonymous hackers, can never shut up and stop bragging. I love how the reddit account mentioned has recent postings (last one 3 days ago), hasn't been scrubbed, and links together many aspects of the guys life (his love for anime, the dorm he lives in at ruttegers, discussion of botnets and networking).
A life lived online is not very anonymous it seems! especially when you re-use handles and are young and really really like to brag.
Hopefully he made enough to buy a plane ticket away from the USA before the shoe drops on him. I'd be at the airport right now if i was him. Love how Jha says at the end "I don't think there are enough facts to definitively point the finger at me," Jha said. âoeBesides this article, I was pretty much a nobody. "
Well so were all the serial killers and other sociopaths of history... obviously! Someone did the detective work and now they are notorious, like you.
My advice? Run! The FBI surely has enough resources to get IP address for skype users, and reddit gives up their users at the drop of a hat. The FBI can easily take possession of his computer equipment with this kind of evidence. I doubt he was that careful and everything is tight and anonymous at the layer 3 level.
Expecting to see him arrested within days! FBI doesn't like to be made a fool of!
I'll give you that multi monitor features are vastly improved (win10 on presentation laptops is a must), however win7 is still speedier, more responsive and less crash prone than windows 10 on the same hardware. I dont care how much more efficiently my memory is managed when i have to restart every other day, and have unblockable cumulative updates auto install and auto break certain things every 6 months.
That my ssd wears down in 50 years instead of 30... well its nice, but its not worth the costs that are associated with windows 10. For me those are the broken system of updates, the initial abuse of windows update to trick win7 users into upgrading, the increased frequency of clearly not quality controlled updates and the major stability problems and bugs that every new update introduces.
Then there are the simple daily annoyances. Things like how i cant reconnect a vpn connection without rebooting the computer, or how using REPLACE instead of UPDATE with GPO network drive mappings has a habit of breaking them in certain situations in win10. These are known issues since release, that still havent been fixed.
MS needs to freeze new features, and fix a current release as completely as possible, before throwing more half baked features into the next release. The rapid release cycle is why working with windows 10 is a never ending treadmill of headaches.
At the very least, they desperately need an LTS branch focused on stability of core features above all.
Automation works great, till it breaks or hits an edge case. Then you need people like me to fix it.
Infact I would say that most computer based automation is so full of flaws, that things need constant babysitting, code updates, etc. Its rare to find an automated system that just keeps on ticking for an entire year without some sort of intervention, let alone multiple years or decades.
And all the best automation costs tonnes of money. Sometimes its just cheaper to hire minimum wage people to do it. But I am all for a push for better and more all encompassing automation (who wouldn't be!). No one should be forced to do mundane or repetitive tasks in the 21st century.
Just like you can choose to not bank with a bank that uses interac flash... (hint they all use it)
Or get a phone thats not a smart phone. (all feature phones where i live are backordered, with an eta of never)
Or a TV thats not a smart TV. (commercial displays dont count, and they are all smart now anyway)
Or buy a fridge with fucking metal shelves in it! Seriously, they are all fragile glass and plastic now. Try and buy a new fridge with metal shelves inside.
If they can't even go back to a feature people do want, durable shelves that last 20 years, they sure as shit aren't going to let you buy one without wifi in it.
Marketing "feature" collusion isn't forcing you into anything. It simply reduces the amount of options you have until there is only one option left.
Because of the 15% foreign buyers tax that vancouver instituted in sept, our HAM (hot asian money) has moved slightly south. I thought this was a well known fact so its a shame the article seems to have another hypothesis that is much less likely. Seeing as the spike almost exactly corresponds with the tax and not any massive hiring in the last 6 months.
Welcome to unaffordability seattle! probably a good time to buy property, hold it for a few months and flip, if the lower mainland BC is any indication of whats in store for you guys.
Copying code from a blog that uses horrible non keyboard quotation marks is the bane of my existence. So many times I have syntax errors caused by the almost identical looking "curly" quotes that some blogs use. Why? why use these stupid things, just to appear fancy? That people want to "save" them is like someone saying they prefer their software to have bugs in it.
I say burn them. Burn them with FIRE!
Short memory eh? A DDoS attack took down multiple services around oct ( https://www.wired.com/2016/10/... ). That one personally affected me as one of our dns providers went down, causing customers headaches for a day or two.
So yes, ddos attacks do *affect* people, in the real world, right now. And they are scary and newsworthy when they occur.
The end result should be that companies are law bound and forced to support IoT devices for ~15 years from the date of manufacture of the device. It should be no different than an auto recall where you receive a letter in the mail. You think companies do that out of their own good will? no, they were forced to by law. Why were they forced by law to do that? Because people became enraged and the media hyped up that rage so that laws were passed. The media publicizing these events is completely 100% necessary, if our goal is secure devices and an educated populace. I don't see any other way to combat these new IoT botnets, do you? Your solution of "just ignore them" is fanciful. Doesn't work with any sort of crime, so it won't work for botnets. You defend yourself, which in this case means educating manufacturers and your fellow man about a clear and present danger.
Corporate stooge: "We no longer want this item, so please add the plastic to the ocean!"
Opportunist Environmentalist: "But sir its a perfectly working device, surely we can sell it!"
Corporate stooge: "And tarnish our american overlords brand by selling a *USED* iphone! please go die now!"
Opportunist Environmentalist: "okay..."
Corporate stooge: "Now if you'll excuse me I have to switch over the lines to make pirated iphone parts so i can buy up property all over the world and make housing unaffordable for locals!"
*employer leaves room and opportunist pockets device*
Its not stealing if its trash. But this is capitalist china, so 10 years in jail for violating corporate rules (and not affording the requisite bribes) seems accurate.
so you can cheat on your taxes?
Whats all the love for tax cheats in america? In canada, its mostly immigrants who use all cash to specifically avoid paying taxes. I say lock em up! they are defrauding our society for their own gains.
I think you are confused because as much as i loathe reagan, conservatives used to believe in environmental protections. In fact i remember there being a broad consensus about the science of it in the 80s and 90s.
Face it, the so called republican party in the USA simply does not stand for the same things it did 30 years ago. Things are leaning much more to the authoritarian, anti science and pro-ignorance right than probably even classical republicans are comfortable with.
Very few countries have as much of a problem recognizing climate change as real as much as the USA seems to. It's probably going to be a very fascinating historical study, if we survive it. Most other countries at this point are capable of acknowledging AGW but then disagree over what to do about it. This includes conservatives in those countries. Outright denial though seems to be a purely american thing from what i have observed.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me."
History repeats too much to have such a myopic attitude about world affairs.
Neve campbell is canadian already. I believe she has a house outside toronto.
One of the first things OSX does after you install it is bitch at you about enabling location services and then forces you to create and link an apple ID to even get software updates for the OS. The level of cloud integration turned on by default on ipads is sickening as well.
So claiming OSX/IOS is better than windows as far as privacy is concerned is laughable. Microsoft is obviously playing catchup to OSX here but apple did start this BS first. Its just apple users crave loss of privacy because they dont have to worry about backups and things "just work(tm)". The reason they work is because of the tight control of apple corporate overlords.
Lots of people saying "just use linux" not just you, but you are are the person i am replying to so here goes.
Simply accounting. Doesnt work in linux as far as i can search. Planetside 2, does not work in linux, as far as i can see.
Linux is awesome on the server, vmware, android.. But because I dont have time to dick around with compatibility problems i run windows 7 because it just works. And when i go to install a program and there is a problem, i dont have to second guess whether it is an incompatibility with the platform.
In 2020 we shall see if more games are cross platform (looks like wasteland 2 and wasteland 3 are, so thats great!). But still I would have trouble giving up programs like winamp, which i have been using since the 90s. And the main issue for me is that I know that programs will just work in windows. My wifes programs especially. I can work around UI differences and program incompatibilities, but my wife cannot. I also have been a windows only tech for 15 years and there is something to be said for using what you have to support. I can tell usually pretty quickly if an issue is a hardware or software problem, and i feel that a lot of that knowledge is windows specific. Sure the logging in 8000 times better in linux, but unless i start using linux regularly professionally i doubt I will install it at home. No one will give me a job maintaining linux workstations with no desktop linux experience, so its a catch 22 as far as my career is concerned.
Trump and clinton are the same. But trump is a reactionary megalomaniac who has zero impulse control and poor intelligence. Not someone you want to be leading the worlds most powerful military and having access to nuclear weapons.
From an outside perspective, both of your candidates are corrupt pro business conservatives. A proper alternative would be bernie sanders or ron paul, both of whom had great ideas but got stomped out by the establishment. Trump and clinton are the establishment! so I wouldn't expect any change, and with trump you have the added bonus of someone stupider and more reactionary than bush. This creates a real danger to the entire world.
Firstly, as you can see by this wikipedia article, later than 20 weeks is extremely rare (about 2%). However religious fundamentalists want to ban ALL abortion, so you can cherry pick parts of their argument where it fits you i guess but you are being disingenuous to the position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All abortions should be a couple or the mothers decision, not the state. What we don't need in this world are more children brought up by uncaring people who didn't want to have children in the first place. It's the parents decision to have kids or not, not the state.
4 access points for 5000 people? Yeah your gonna have a bad time. Most access points can support like 100 people on them max. In a temporary situation, I would have gotten at least 10, more like 20 APs for that amount of people and a wireless lan controller to manage them. We regularly use aprox 80 APs to cover a building with 5000 users. You completely underestimated how many APs you need for sure! I never covered a large outdoor space, but you usually do these things by number of people attending because each AP can only handle so many connections.
Stadiums on the other hand sometimes have thousands to tens of thousands of APs and as other people pointed out, concerts in those stadiums work ok. Someone also said that the wireless infrastructure was provided just for the benches (or whatever they are called). So the surfaces would have had thier own wireless network on the playfield. This makes sense as no one is going to use the same wifi network for public as for something as important as team tools.
Having used MS surface devices professionally, I can say that they are nice, but they are also quite buggy, so i would blame them and windows 10 for most of the problems. Bring some ipads in and see if they have the same problems, i bet they dont.
From anecdotal experience with my 13 windows 10 surface pro 3's and 4 devices, i would say its all three. The hardware has overheating problems, the software (windows 10) craps out randomly requiring power cycles (Which on the surface means holding down the power button for 30 seconds). They need firmware updates out of the box to be usable mostly. And occasionally some combination of the above locks up wireless requiring a reboot.
So i have no problem believing that the surfaces are the core of the issue. I see litterally none of the same problems with any ipad we have. I hate apple, but they are far far FAR more reliable than microsoft surface devices.
I do have a surface and i love it when im out and about and the touchscreen is useful, but the hardware itself does have problems and windows 10 is not quite ready for production (and getting miraculously LESS ready with every update...)
Funny, because as a canadian, i know several people who have VPNs soley to watch american netflicks. I dont personally watch so i cant compare it but I always thought the american library was more comprehensive becuase everyone always wants to get american netflix (which you need an american CC for and VPN). Seems like a lot of effort, maybe someone who has both could comment on the differences.
Everything's a fucking travesty with you man!
Not sure if you just cherry picked those two particular CPUs as they are almost identical in performance:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/co...
But i agree, upgrading from a 4 digit (2nd gen+ core i7 series cpu), to another core series i7 CPU is not going to give you any sort of performance increase. However, the newer chipset with 4x m2 support can drive a high end SSD over 2000MB/s (some over 3k now!). So upgrading from a core 2 quad was a good move for me. Even though the quad really did work fine.
I did manage to skip a whole upgrade to core series around 2012 and waited it out till q1 2016. But the machine i would have bought at the time, a 2600k is still selling for a premium on ebay. CPU is still worth $150 USD last time i looked.
it may be that people need to revise their upgrade schedule to be more like 8 years as opposed to the old model of a 3-4 year cycle, but that doesn't bother me one bit.
Are you high? Chip and Pin, the standard for most of the world, works perfectly fine and the reason it is implemented is to protect the merchants! Right now if i go to USA and swipe my card, a fucking signature(!!!) is all the authentication that you need!
This isn't the 1970s, my god. I couldn't even believe how much fraud I could have done with basically zero effort down there. I can't believe that there isn't massive credit card fraud in the USA. Sure, chip cards can be cloned and pins can be captured with hidden cameras, but thats orders of magnitude more effort than simply stealing someones card number and faking their signature. It would be like vendors accepting personal cheques! Mag stripes are relics from a bygone age.
And if you cant program for chip and pin cards, you need to refresh your skills. Every POS software I have worked with in the last 5 years at least, is chip and pin. You get around all PCI compliance issues because cc numbers are never stored or transmitted in plain text anything at any point. The pin authorizes the card at the pinpad and simply transmits a pass or fail to the bank, encrypted. The payment processor has an agent installed on the PC if they are integrated. Or so I understand, i just service them, not a programmer. But the systems are ubiquitous.
Boats need constant repairs. You obviously never knew anyone who has owned a boat. I can't think of a worse platform to bet your long term survival on than a boat in fact! Well i guess a plane would be a worse idea, or a train.
You just need a remote, self sufficient, and most importantly completely obscured location. If you read the book "the road" when they discover the secret bunker that some survivalist has built and never occupied, they don't want to stay too long lest they get complacent and sloppy. Someone sees your smoke from your heated bunker in the winter, or smells your food cooking, and you can kiss your ass goodbye. The best take away from that book, was the safest people were those who were always moving and not at all desirable. The ones who were easily missed or ignored by others. The frail homeless person with their shopping cart, who was ignored by society both before and after the collapse. The entire book was all about not getting noticed by other people. If people noticed you they would enslave you or just straight up kill you, so there was a lot of hiding and being nomadic which i think is more realistic than any other apocalyptic future that fiction portraits.