I'm not on Twitter either, but I think you're being deliberately obtuse. The check mark indicates that an account is not someone posing as the ostensible owner. If I happen to successfully register "@SilvioBerlusconi" because no one had taken it yet, they'd make sure I was actually authorized by the Italian politician/businessman/crook to speak on his behalf before anointing the account with a check mark.
France went with a Matrix/Riot.impublic fork/derivative as their government encrypted messenger app. Why reinvent the wheel, when this is something that works at scale?
Do you have a previous post or two you could link me to where you critique the Bolt? I am interested in hearing the perspective of someone who owns one (and it sounds like you've had yours a while). It's a little disappointing that Chevy is not putting any further effort into the line.
Slight off-topic rant: Honestly, the thing that turns me off the most about the Tesla 3 is that giant tablet in lieu of a console. I understand that it makes UI a software-update away from new features, but I'm pretty used to tactile buttons.
... got into the system by compromising a customer support agent's credentials, according to the letter.
Emphasis mine. So that bloke and everyone else with his access level can read your address book, subject lines, and folder names... by design? WTF, Microsoft?
+1 Insightful. Also, "zipper merge" only works when (a) traffic is moving, and (b) there is sufficient road surface area in the target lane to accommodate the cars that need it.
Poor analogy warning: As someone who never intends to have contact with people infected with measles, do you think it made sense for me to get the vaccine? I think that your car being a little more expensive is a reasonable trade-off not to be struck by someone else driving smashed.
You're right about the slippery-slope thing, though.
So how does this thing identify addons? By their name? How hard can it be to download the addon package and modify the name before installing it locally or putting it back on the chrome store under a diff name so it gets re-signed.
It's by the identifier, which you can see in chrome://extensions. The one for uBlock Origin is "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm". Sure, someone could try to get the code in the Chrome Web Store (or whatever they call it) another time, but user installation is less likely if the blacklisted extension has 400k installs and the workaround copy has none.
This is why, for example, beer companies target younger audiences. If you are 35, you probably already have a preferred brand. If you are a new drinker (let's pretend you're 21) you are still figuring that out. But to get those new drinkers, you have to get your banding and ads to them.
I have many, many preferred beer brands. I have yet to see an ad for a single one of them.
If I understand correctly, in the United States, whistleblowers can share in the proceeds from the government's case against the company, at least in cases relating to bribery, defrauding the government, and securities-related crimes.
Zuckerberg sat in front of Congress last year and told them Facebook didn't use shadow profiles of non-users. It's funny that the company has been previously fighting Belgium over a practice they claim they don't use.
+1 Insightful
Under many circumstances I am usually one to trot out the old saw "don't attribute to malice...", but frankly I consider Facebook to be fundamentally malicious - and Zuckerberg to be fundamentally an evil person. I don't know how anyone who works for Facebook can live with themselves knowing that the world would be better off without them doing their job.
Much as I dislike Facebook and discourage everyone I know from using it, I don't think Zuckerberg is an "evil" person. I think he's an amoral person who is annoyed that people object to (and attempt to thwart) some of his monetization schemes.
to the rare click consonants found in southern Africa.
They're not actually that rare, it's a purely artificial scarcity caused by de Beers cornering the mining sources and creating artificial scarcity to drive up demand. For example they have entire vaults full of click consonants in the major trading centres in places like Europe, but only release them to approved buyers.
It sounds to me from TFA that Sussman annoys other editors until they do any editing that he is prohibited from doing. It sounds to me like an opportunity for automation, in the vein of CongressEdits. Find who he converses with on User:Talk pages, correlate it to edits by those users, and report the results.
The point is not going there, but going there are return -safe.
I don't completely agree with you. Just landing a (still-) living human on Mars would be an incredible feat. Practical? Maybe not. But still incredible, given the track record of things sent to the surface of Mars.
He's a well-known tech guy. He (and we) should be able to get someone to rig up a physical switch to make/break the battery contact connection, right? All the privacy/security people complain about this, but it seems like this would be a simple thing to agitate for.
Yeah, this is an especially odd comment coming from him, considering that he's been warning about a hostile AI takeover for awhile now.
And this has been his solution since I remember him first talking about it. You need to read some of the books he names his unmanned landing-pad boats after. They'll provide some context.
Can you provide any further detail about your set-up? Under what contexts are you able to see the camera feed? I'm particularly interested in whether you can receive notifications offsite, and if so, how.
The military already has a system where a drone can charge by hovering near a high-tension line. I'm not aware of any military program to develop a line-of-sight laser charging method like you describe.
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I'm not on Twitter either, but I think you're being deliberately obtuse. The check mark indicates that an account is not someone posing as the ostensible owner. If I happen to successfully register "@SilvioBerlusconi" because no one had taken it yet, they'd make sure I was actually authorized by the Italian politician/businessman/crook to speak on his behalf before anointing the account with a check mark.
France went with a Matrix/Riot.im public fork/derivative as their government encrypted messenger app. Why reinvent the wheel, when this is something that works at scale?
Un-AC bump with links.
Do you have a previous post or two you could link me to where you critique the Bolt? I am interested in hearing the perspective of someone who owns one (and it sounds like you've had yours a while). It's a little disappointing that Chevy is not putting any further effort into the line.
Slight off-topic rant: Honestly, the thing that turns me off the most about the Tesla 3 is that giant tablet in lieu of a console. I understand that it makes UI a software-update away from new features, but I'm pretty used to tactile buttons.
... got into the system by compromising a customer support agent's credentials, according to the letter.
Emphasis mine. So that bloke and everyone else with his access level can read your address book, subject lines, and folder names... by design? WTF, Microsoft?
+1 Insightful. Also, "zipper merge" only works when (a) traffic is moving, and (b) there is sufficient road surface area in the target lane to accommodate the cars that need it.
Poor analogy warning: As someone who never intends to have contact with people infected with measles, do you think it made sense for me to get the vaccine? I think that your car being a little more expensive is a reasonable trade-off not to be struck by someone else driving smashed.
You're right about the slippery-slope thing, though.
So how does this thing identify addons? By their name? How hard can it be to download the addon package and modify the name before installing it locally or putting it back on the chrome store under a diff name so it gets re-signed.
It's by the identifier, which you can see in chrome://extensions. The one for uBlock Origin is "cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm". Sure, someone could try to get the code in the Chrome Web Store (or whatever they call it) another time, but user installation is less likely if the blacklisted extension has 400k installs and the workaround copy has none.
This is why, for example, beer companies target younger audiences. If you are 35, you probably already have a preferred brand. If you are a new drinker (let's pretend you're 21) you are still figuring that out. But to get those new drinkers, you have to get your banding and ads to them.
I have many, many preferred beer brands. I have yet to see an ad for a single one of them.
"See Sharp"
If I understand correctly, in the United States, whistleblowers can share in the proceeds from the government's case against the company, at least in cases relating to bribery, defrauding the government, and securities-related crimes.
Zuckerberg sat in front of Congress last year and told them Facebook didn't use shadow profiles of non-users. It's funny that the company has been previously fighting Belgium over a practice they claim they don't use.
+1 Insightful
Under many circumstances I am usually one to trot out the old saw "don't attribute to malice ...", but frankly I consider Facebook to be fundamentally malicious - and Zuckerberg to be fundamentally an evil person. I don't know how anyone who works for Facebook can live with themselves knowing that the world would be better off without them doing their job.
Much as I dislike Facebook and discourage everyone I know from using it, I don't think Zuckerberg is an "evil" person. I think he's an amoral person who is annoyed that people object to (and attempt to thwart) some of his monetization schemes.
to the rare click consonants found in southern Africa.
They're not actually that rare, it's a purely artificial scarcity caused by de Beers cornering the mining sources and creating artificial scarcity to drive up demand. For example they have entire vaults full of click consonants in the major trading centres in places like Europe, but only release them to approved buyers.
Dammit. No mod points today.
It sounds to me from TFA that Sussman annoys other editors until they do any editing that he is prohibited from doing. It sounds to me like an opportunity for automation, in the vein of CongressEdits. Find who he converses with on User:Talk pages, correlate it to edits by those users, and report the results.
Also former government aides who repeatedly fall down while intoxicated until they die of a broken neck in a Washington DC hotel room.
I have it on good authority that motorcycles are much better than apples.
The point is not going there, but going there are return -safe.
I don't completely agree with you. Just landing a (still-) living human on Mars would be an incredible feat. Practical? Maybe not. But still incredible, given the track record of things sent to the surface of Mars.
He's a well-known tech guy. He (and we) should be able to get someone to rig up a physical switch to make/break the battery contact connection, right? All the privacy/security people complain about this, but it seems like this would be a simple thing to agitate for.
Or to pre-order.
Yeah, this is an especially odd comment coming from him, considering that he's been warning about a hostile AI takeover for awhile now.
And this has been his solution since I remember him first talking about it. You need to read some of the books he names his unmanned landing-pad boats after. They'll provide some context.
How well does that work on microphones?
+1 Insightful
Can you provide any further detail about your set-up? Under what contexts are you able to see the camera feed? I'm particularly interested in whether you can receive notifications offsite, and if so, how.
The military already has a system where a drone can charge by hovering near a high-tension line. I'm not aware of any military program to develop a line-of-sight laser charging method like you describe.
I'd be interested in links to either tech.
I believe you meant to say that you are 95% confident that the average statistician earns a #2 spot on the list.
Came here to find a post like this one. Was not disappointed.
I really like Dark Sky's future lows/highs display with the series of bars.