Just as someone providing the key to their house or car doesn't make it stealing if either is opened, logging into something isn't hacking!
Or to put it another way, when I log into my email, I'm not hacking into my email.
Either that, or if we're going to use "hack" for standard logging in, then we need a word for when you use subversive means to get around not having a password to achieve access that was meant to be prohibited.
Sign up for the Do Not Call list, I've not gotten marketing calls in years (or maybe decades).
Tone of voice gets lost in text miscommunication.
There was a study I recall pointing out most emoji are misinterpreted by the recipient. There's a whole new variety of smilies with stuff on their faces that I have no idea what it's supposed to represent, or what the user intended by it. They just get ignored completely. My SO I just tell I don't know what they meant. If it matters they explain.
But the big thing as I age, reading texts requires finding a pair of glasses. Instead of spending an hour back and forth, it's far easier to resolve all issues in a single two minute phone call.
Driving. I can legally be on a phone call whilst driving. Voice to text works well on Android, horribly useless on iOS.
You can actually drive two at a time, dividing the mileage between them, a weekend fun car and daily driver, or motorcycle if you dare, or whatnot. Interestingly insurance tends not to be much more since you can't drive both at once. Cars also don't do well stored and unused.
That is neither "insane" nor "hardcore", stuff continuing to work should be the norm (and is in many cases); insane is the opposite, that software is changed to not function anymore. It's ridiculous that simple things we used to be able to do are no longer capabilities.
Worse is systems/devices that used to have decades or hundreds of years of functionality are now being compromised by more software integration without a durable mindset.
We used to have search engines that provide every result, instead of just those Google thought you'd personally want to see. We used to be able to AND search terms to drill down to just the pages we wanted, instead of Google changing our searches to what it believes we meant.
We used to have web pages before we had walled gardens. Now you can't search something as basic as a forum, because the forum's design prevents access to outside searches. You can't search private services that compete with searches. Services don't want to be services, but traps that you never leave, and psychologically manipulate people to stay.
We used to have newsgroups, unified sources of topics you could go to find experts. Now we have an infinite amount of resources where we can find neophytes. It takes longer to find the resource that has the knowledge than it used to to find the knowledge!
We used to have manuals. Now things are designed to be as few buttons onscreen as possible. Oh, it has a prerequisite? You aren't allowed to know that. Oh, the prerequisite requires a different setting? Nope. Half a dozen emails traded with support to discover what should have been on the first page before one attempts to use the "simple" button.
Nowadays you can't even turn off a computer without already having the knowledge of how to turn off the computer. Computers used to come with basic operating info.
We used to worry that "form over function" was making things useless. Now "clean design" over info has made things unusable.
When I was a child, I was taught there were right and wrong ways of saying things, so I could communicate with others. That was decades ago.
Then I learned that language evolves, and what is spoken and permissible nowadays are totally different words and formats than from when I was a child--I've adapted so I can communicate with others.
That's what grown adults do, relate to those around them and their community, not try to enforce specific aberrations of speech or stay stuck in the past. If you can shift your clock forward in the Spring, you can stop calling it Daylight Saving Time and refer to it as everyone else does, Daylight Savings Time, which matches nicely with other "savings"; and fits with the plural aspect of it, as there are lots of different Daylight Savings times in various places with different starts and endings.
A man here got compensation for injury, not sure about vehicle damage, and speed bumps removed when he got tossed within his van enough to hit his head.
A dip that damages vehicles more than a pothole would be unlikely to last legal challenge here (not even get heard in court) and might be costly.
Stick phone, free (back when that was a thing), had it for years.
Samsung "Blade", offered 3G unlimited internet for $30/month back in the mid-2000s, replaced it just last year, not because anything was wrong with it, I just wanted to play Pokemon Go.
Grand total of ALL the phones I've spend money on over the past two decades? About $400.
One was top of the line, next nearly so and perfect for my use.
From the blurb, "...errors on energy expenditure......ranging from the lowest at 27.4% for the FitBit Surge to the highest error of 92.6% for the PulseOn device."
I already have a firewall and Hosts file on my phone to inhibit stuff talking to the world that I don't choose, but certain things I want to have 'net data access...
Obviously Android permissions are only so fine-grained and more and more users (particularly of younger generations) accept any of them.
A piece of tape over a webcam is one thing, but to disable a mic, not so easy to open things up nowadays to cut a wire!
...then remove ads at theaters, I'm not paying to watch ads.
...then lower the volume at theaters, I'm not paying to have my hearing damaged or remember to bring earplugs and their discomfort.
...then offer a pause button, I'm not paying to miss parts because of assorted reasons.
...then bring the theater closer to me, I'm not paying gas and an additional hour of time round trip to travel there.
...then create a new story, I'm not paying for another version of the seven basic plots I've already seen.
Note, I already only attend matinées at reduced rates, so consider that in terms of what I'm willing to pay already.
(I've thankfully not been bothered by other rude patrons, and find films often enhanced by shared reactions, but for many people you'd have to eliminate the audience too.)
Music has changed to reduce the deeper tones not resolved in tiny earbud headphones, as fewer listen via speakers nowadays, perhaps movies should likewise adapt to how they are consumed?
Both my devices are rooted w/Cyanogenmod as it was easy for one (one-click installer) and I knew more for the other, I need access to install my custom Hosts file to block adds/Facebook, I also want a firewall, which you aren't getting without root (if there's a way, please let me know).
There are other capabilities that require root that I use regularly.
My devices came from Google, so weren't bloatware loaded thankfully, but having control to eliminate things that affect performance is required.
It's a tool for my use, not someone else's tool that I get to pay for and use for their purpose, thank you very much.
PS: LineageOS, the successor to CyanogenMod, is nearly up and running according to their latest blog post.
I started w/the C= 64 like so many others, 300 baud modem. Got a 1200 at some point.
But my claim to fame (in my own head) would be running what I believe might've been the first multiline BBS on a personal computer, an Amiga 2000 with four Supra 2400zi modems (as soon as they were available) with BB/OS software which was designed for multiline.
At the time PCs and Macs didn't generally have multiple serial ports, and the systems that offered multitasking aside from the Amiga were the NeXT and OS/2, Macs didn't, PCs didn't, I'm unsure of the Atari STs could have multiple serial ports then, but didn't know any BBSes run on those regardless.
The fun part was getting the phone company to cope with a personal residence having four more phone lines, I had to go through the commercial division and they created rates for me, it was all new to them too, heh.
Not sure if I should be happy or worried there's nothing there but my YouTube history considering how much I use Google+, Voice, Calendar, Search, Nexus tablet, and other services I don't even remember they've become so ubiquitous to my life.
...okay, so the entities that have us in a computer simulation likewise are living in a simulation of other entities, who are also living in a... *rollseyes There isn't infinite energy to sustain all that.
The issue is more that when I can fap to a virtual lover of my choosing, my DNA doesn't get into a human receptacle for procreation. I've had a virtual pet in a virtual world, it's "dead" now. It never evolved to generate simulations and virtual species.
Also, we had virtual worlds decades ago, which are no better than the best now (just shinier). The majority of folks still need to earn a living to eat. No matter how sophisticated, we can't eat pixels. 3D food printers will need to be refilled.
Well, they would likely low-ball, and they did, just offering a few hundred.
He has to high-ball, or he's at a disadvantage.
You don't start a negotiation with what it's worth, you start with beyond that, so when you meet in the middle, you've gotten value for both parties. The best deal is measured by one neither is completely happy with, but both want.
Ethically and morally it's also the correct starting point. If he figured his experience, years of training, equipment, talent, and costs were all worth X instead, suing for less than $2M, such that he finally gets compensated a fraction of X, indicates to companies who might seek to take advantage of the rights of others that they might get away with it, or be able to buy off others for lower values than they are worth. Part of setting such precedents is to dissuade future infractions. It would be unethical to sue for less, viewed in this manner, as it would be damaging to more people, with only the hotel financially benefiting, and other businesses taking advantage of the "little guys" in the future.
...the atmosphere, that's where the bad weather is. ...the oceans, that's where the garbage patches are. ...bacteria, that's where infections derive. ...brains, that's where ignorance thrives.
It's more hardware dependent, not software, so any device with an NFC antenna (mine's from 2013), which a few years ago got added to more and more devices for contactless payments and wireless charging. In stock Android it defaults to enabled (some users turn NFC off to limit battery drain). Just search your preferred app store for NFC, there are multiple apps that trigger actions and provide nfc tools.
For Apple, sorry, last I knew it wasn't available on their devices, new ones might have it for limited payments, but not available to developers yet according to a superficial google search. This is a case where the hardware might now start to be offered without software accessibility.
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Just as someone providing the key to their house or car doesn't make it stealing if either is opened, logging into something isn't hacking!
Or to put it another way, when I log into my email, I'm not hacking into my email.
Either that, or if we're going to use "hack" for standard logging in, then we need a word for when you use subversive means to get around not having a password to achieve access that was meant to be prohibited.
Sign up for the Do Not Call list, I've not gotten marketing calls in years (or maybe decades).
Tone of voice gets lost in text miscommunication.
There was a study I recall pointing out most emoji are misinterpreted by the recipient. There's a whole new variety of smilies with stuff on their faces that I have no idea what it's supposed to represent, or what the user intended by it. They just get ignored completely. My SO I just tell I don't know what they meant. If it matters they explain.
But the big thing as I age, reading texts requires finding a pair of glasses. Instead of spending an hour back and forth, it's far easier to resolve all issues in a single two minute phone call.
Driving. I can legally be on a phone call whilst driving. Voice to text works well on Android, horribly useless on iOS.
Years of schooling only to be replaced by a tech and AI (if a tech is even needed for imaging)...
Where can I send my dick pics... I mean epidermal selfies?
You can actually drive two at a time, dividing the mileage between them, a weekend fun car and daily driver, or motorcycle if you dare, or whatnot. Interestingly insurance tends not to be much more since you can't drive both at once. Cars also don't do well stored and unused.
That is neither "insane" nor "hardcore", stuff continuing to work should be the norm (and is in many cases); insane is the opposite, that software is changed to not function anymore. It's ridiculous that simple things we used to be able to do are no longer capabilities.
Worse is systems/devices that used to have decades or hundreds of years of functionality are now being compromised by more software integration without a durable mindset.
Ironically, information!
We used to have search engines that provide every result, instead of just those Google thought you'd personally want to see. We used to be able to AND search terms to drill down to just the pages we wanted, instead of Google changing our searches to what it believes we meant.
We used to have web pages before we had walled gardens. Now you can't search something as basic as a forum, because the forum's design prevents access to outside searches. You can't search private services that compete with searches. Services don't want to be services, but traps that you never leave, and psychologically manipulate people to stay.
We used to have newsgroups, unified sources of topics you could go to find experts. Now we have an infinite amount of resources where we can find neophytes. It takes longer to find the resource that has the knowledge than it used to to find the knowledge!
We used to have manuals. Now things are designed to be as few buttons onscreen as possible. Oh, it has a prerequisite? You aren't allowed to know that. Oh, the prerequisite requires a different setting? Nope. Half a dozen emails traded with support to discover what should have been on the first page before one attempts to use the "simple" button.
Nowadays you can't even turn off a computer without already having the knowledge of how to turn off the computer. Computers used to come with basic operating info.
We used to worry that "form over function" was making things useless. Now "clean design" over info has made things unusable.
We were told this as children in the 70s, that in the future, if things didn't change between now and then, we'd pass the point of no return.
In the 80s, folks were distracted by the hole in the ozone layer.
In the 90s, folks in the US were distracted by war, a dying economy, and the prospect of globalization diminishing the standard of living.
By the 2000s, it was too late.
There's a reason I don't have kids. My condolences to future humanity, hopefully the end will be kinder than one might imagine.
When I was a child, I was taught there were right and wrong ways of saying things, so I could communicate with others. That was decades ago.
Then I learned that language evolves, and what is spoken and permissible nowadays are totally different words and formats than from when I was a child--I've adapted so I can communicate with others.
That's what grown adults do, relate to those around them and their community, not try to enforce specific aberrations of speech or stay stuck in the past. If you can shift your clock forward in the Spring, you can stop calling it Daylight Saving Time and refer to it as everyone else does, Daylight Savings Time, which matches nicely with other "savings"; and fits with the plural aspect of it, as there are lots of different Daylight Savings times in various places with different starts and endings.
A man here got compensation for injury, not sure about vehicle damage, and speed bumps removed when he got tossed within his van enough to hit his head.
A dip that damages vehicles more than a pothole would be unlikely to last legal challenge here (not even get heard in court) and might be costly.
Stick phone, free (back when that was a thing), had it for years.
Samsung "Blade", offered 3G unlimited internet for $30/month back in the mid-2000s, replaced it just last year, not because anything was wrong with it, I just wanted to play Pokemon Go.
Grand total of ALL the phones I've spend money on over the past two decades? About $400.
One was top of the line, next nearly so and perfect for my use.
From the blurb, "...errors on energy expenditure... ...ranging from the lowest at 27.4% for the FitBit Surge to the highest error of 92.6% for the PulseOn device."
I already have a firewall and Hosts file on my phone to inhibit stuff talking to the world that I don't choose, but certain things I want to have 'net data access...
Obviously Android permissions are only so fine-grained and more and more users (particularly of younger generations) accept any of them.
A piece of tape over a webcam is one thing, but to disable a mic, not so easy to open things up nowadays to cut a wire!
...then remove ads at theaters, I'm not paying to watch ads.
Note, I already only attend matinées at reduced rates, so consider that in terms of what I'm willing to pay already.
(I've thankfully not been bothered by other rude patrons, and find films often enhanced by shared reactions, but for many people you'd have to eliminate the audience too.)
Music has changed to reduce the deeper tones not resolved in tiny earbud headphones, as fewer listen via speakers nowadays, perhaps movies should likewise adapt to how they are consumed?
Both my devices are rooted w/Cyanogenmod as it was easy for one (one-click installer) and I knew more for the other, I need access to install my custom Hosts file to block adds/Facebook, I also want a firewall, which you aren't getting without root (if there's a way, please let me know).
There are other capabilities that require root that I use regularly.
My devices came from Google, so weren't bloatware loaded thankfully, but having control to eliminate things that affect performance is required.
It's a tool for my use, not someone else's tool that I get to pay for and use for their purpose, thank you very much.
PS: LineageOS, the successor to CyanogenMod, is nearly up and running according to their latest blog post.
I started w/the C= 64 like so many others, 300 baud modem. Got a 1200 at some point.
But my claim to fame (in my own head) would be running what I believe might've been the first multiline BBS on a personal computer, an Amiga 2000 with four Supra 2400zi modems (as soon as they were available) with BB/OS software which was designed for multiline.
At the time PCs and Macs didn't generally have multiple serial ports, and the systems that offered multitasking aside from the Amiga were the NeXT and OS/2, Macs didn't, PCs didn't, I'm unsure of the Atari STs could have multiple serial ports then, but didn't know any BBSes run on those regardless.
The fun part was getting the phone company to cope with a personal residence having four more phone lines, I had to go through the commercial division and they created rates for me, it was all new to them too, heh.
Not sure if I should be happy or worried there's nothing there but my YouTube history considering how much I use Google+, Voice, Calendar, Search, Nexus tablet, and other services I don't even remember they've become so ubiquitous to my life.
On Fetlife I'm...
On Literotica I'm...
On MyFreeCams I'm...
On Google+ I'm... (of course you aren't in my circle, but I do share publicly about once a week)
On Twitter you won't see activity ever since Google+ came on the scene.
On Youtube, oh wait, you didn't like the Fetlife stuff; you can't see the private stuff on Youtube anyway, been years since I posted a public video...
Makes me wonder if anyone's kink is learning others' kinks?
...okay, so the entities that have us in a computer simulation likewise are living in a simulation of other entities, who are also living in a... *rollseyes There isn't infinite energy to sustain all that.
The issue is more that when I can fap to a virtual lover of my choosing, my DNA doesn't get into a human receptacle for procreation. I've had a virtual pet in a virtual world, it's "dead" now. It never evolved to generate simulations and virtual species.
Also, we had virtual worlds decades ago, which are no better than the best now (just shinier). The majority of folks still need to earn a living to eat. No matter how sophisticated, we can't eat pixels. 3D food printers will need to be refilled.
Well, they would likely low-ball, and they did, just offering a few hundred.
He has to high-ball, or he's at a disadvantage.
You don't start a negotiation with what it's worth, you start with beyond that, so when you meet in the middle, you've gotten value for both parties. The best deal is measured by one neither is completely happy with, but both want.
Ethically and morally it's also the correct starting point. If he figured his experience, years of training, equipment, talent, and costs were all worth X instead, suing for less than $2M, such that he finally gets compensated a fraction of X, indicates to companies who might seek to take advantage of the rights of others that they might get away with it, or be able to buy off others for lower values than they are worth. Part of setting such precedents is to dissuade future infractions. It would be unethical to sue for less, viewed in this manner, as it would be damaging to more people, with only the hotel financially benefiting, and other businesses taking advantage of the "little guys" in the future.
"Uh oh–you've read all five of your free articles for this month."
Uh, no, I've yet to read a single one (and have fixed IP).
"Become an Insider for unlimited access to online stories for as low as $29.95/year."
Do you really think I'll pay $30 to folks who can't count to one!?
...the atmosphere, that's where the bad weather is.
...the oceans, that's where the garbage patches are.
...bacteria, that's where infections derive.
...brains, that's where ignorance thrives.
Ironic.
Yes, first disk change (in or out) provided "We made the Amiga." Second disk change swapped the text with, "They fucked it up."
It was that way in 1.2 and 1.3, removed in 2.0, changed to something like "always a champion" or something lame like that IIRC.
So we used to have a simple system, see http:/// on the URL bar, or see https:/// on the bar.
Then some idiot got the bright idea of hiding the start of the URL, so users could be ignorant or infuriated.
Now they are going to use another symbol to indicate the lack of an "s"?
Have I really got this right?
(Hopefully in the future the symbol will be clarified by replacing it with a sequence of letters.)
It's more hardware dependent, not software, so any device with an NFC antenna (mine's from 2013), which a few years ago got added to more and more devices for contactless payments and wireless charging. In stock Android it defaults to enabled (some users turn NFC off to limit battery drain). Just search your preferred app store for NFC, there are multiple apps that trigger actions and provide nfc tools.
For Apple, sorry, last I knew it wasn't available on their devices, new ones might have it for limited payments, but not available to developers yet according to a superficial google search. This is a case where the hardware might now start to be offered without software accessibility.