but I do NOT want the overreaching, poorly managed Federal Govt in charge of it.
you are pathetic and insincere.
SOMEONE is in control. you dislike the government. fine, I mostly agree with you there, but who else should control this? currently its the insurance companies and they are allowed mostly free control of this industry. they are entirely profit driven. the government is not; so that's a plus in the gov's favor. both have competancy issues, so that's a moot point for both.
does our current system work? not really. therefore, we have only 1 choice: CHANGE IT and make it less of an industry and more of a SERVICE to mankind.
other countries do this. almost all do, in fact. the US is a 3rd world hellhole when it comes to this issue.
are you SERIOUS? you are comparing the arab/israeli conflict to the mexico/america red-state race-hatred?
come on, now. don't sit there and tell me you see no difference between the 2 situations.
for those tuning in late, there is *actual war-like conflict* going on between the arab states and israel. the arabs have said, many many times, they want to see israel entirely eliminated. exterminated. wiped out. their god says that they either convert or deserve to die.
who, here, thinks that the mexico/america relationship shares *ANY* characteristics of the arab/israeli situation?
boggles the mind that anyone would even think to compare the two.
All I can assume is that it must be location based or something. I live in Wisconsin
bingo.
I'm in the bay area. I'm over 50 and have been doing software since my teens, commercially. been in the area for over 25 years and am american-born. in the bay area, that's the kiss of death. wish I was kidding, but everyone my age says the same thing, its not unique to me.
this area ONLY wants kids. if you are over 35, good luck to you.
and yeah, that's one huge reason why software and hardware from the bay area is sucking more and more. we sold ourselves out to h1b and kids; all because the CEOs save money on them.
by manually ensuring that you don't have that 'required space' ?
I bet there will be nag dialogs endlessly until you 'let them' do an update to your system.
man, I hate win10. we are forced to use it at work but thankfully I can do 99% of my daily stuff with linux. those who must use win10 - I feel sorry for you. its not a fun experience having to be the 'operator' of a computer you don't really own anymore..
its worse than bit rot. bit rot implies you had once a perfect copy; and in that case, you could have copied it to HD and others for backup.
vinyl and analog cassette NEVER let you get a perfect copy. each and every time you play it, it gets worse and different (both). can't avoid it unless you optically scan the LP; and no way to avoid degrading tapes (they stretch, have drop-outs, no redundancy, bleed-thru, HF loss, etc).
I have no idea what you are talking about. I grew up with that stuff, glad its gone, I do audio for a hobby and digital is the only way to go.
analog is for hipsters OR for those who have exceptional analog systems, and that's really rare, today.
just WHY does a hotel need to know your PASSPORT number?
that boggles the mind.
yesterday, I was talking to an indian friend and we were talking about privacy and how much info you are willing to give out. I give out NOTHING unless its really needed; he gives anything you ask. he didn't even understand why it would be a problem to not give out info. I think in india, they are so programmed into following the rules and not challenging authority. when they come here, they continue doing the same and the companies that invade your privacy probably LOVE this.
as an american, born and raised here, I continue to explain WHY you want to say no to almost all info request and to limit who gets what, but its an uphill battle. the 'Ive done nothing wrong...' argument is still strong with many kinds of people and we need to change this FAST or we'll continue to supply data to bad guys, who will wield it over us. (btw, the bad guys include local governments; they also can't be trusted with all the info we give them).
many foreigners don't understand even even born/raised americans are still not getting it. we need to change this but I'm not sure how we can teach people responsible 'info mgmt' behavior. with one breach after another, even that is not enough to show people that they need to say no to data from corps.
we were asked to install wechat at work (for talking to our chinese co-workers; its a chinese owned company) and when I saw the list of privs it wanted, I refused. I was one of the few who did not install this crap on my phone. now, looks like I made the right call.
also, a flashlight app?? this shit should be illegal, punishable by real jail time. this crap has got to stop!
the gig economy is making poor and even middle class people do things they would not normally do. the fact that uber/etc make you use your own car, your own insurance and you are NOT using commercial type, but personal type, which limits what you are supposed to be able to do or claim.
the gig econ puts the cost of business on YOU. the risk on YOU.
this is fucked up. but, well, the top percent that own everything are laughing so hard at us all, just trying to make ends meet.
when do the pitchforks and fires come out, again? we're getting to that point. the gig econ is just a stepping stone to that, no doubt about it.
we control so little on the phone (the os, the hardware, the radio).
they track us, they spy on us, we can't even know if the mic and camera(s) are live. truly, we cannot know, and that's something that should scare everyone. yet, we ignore it completely.
apps are 'free' since they fucking SPY on you. you can't trust them.
the whole system is fucked up beyond fixing. needs a whole new re-do. new business model, new freedom policy, new encryption-by-design policy, new user-has-full-control policy. we NEED this. but I doubt we'll ever get it. the current broken model is too embedded in the culture. its quite sad what it could have been, but its now a spy, advertising and tracking tool for THEM.
I gave up on phones years ago. I use only the very bare minimum and even then, I feel unclean using one, knowing that each layer of hardware and software is actively working for SOMEONE ELSE, not me. bugs the crap out of me.
I check personal email, but not work email (work email is not 'safe' since they insist on using exchange and that forces me to use a client that grants their admin WAY too much privs (full wipe ability!) on my *personal* phone.)
I rarely do anything web based. even with a rooted adblocked phone, the web sucks badly on phones, for many reasons. I can usually wait until I'm on my safe linux box to do web things.
sometimes I take photos, but for things that matter, I use a proper camera.
the installed apps I have are probably less than 5. I don't believe in how the apps ecosystem works; its too privacy invading for my taste, so sadly, I force myself to avoid almost all apps. I'm the opposite of the classic millennial, I gravitate away from apps, not toward them. knowing that each app is likely trying to fuck me over in some way, just ruins whatever fun the app might bring.
an unrooted un ad-blocked phone? never. if that was my only option, I'd probably not own one. its why I won't own an apple phone, very few true user options and I don't typically play by anyone's rules when it comes to computing; I insist on having the thing do my bidding, not yours.
I was recently in an eye dr's office and every single kid there was playing with his phone. I guess that's ok, they are not running around and bothering anyone;) and most adults are glued to their phones, too. amazing. I was the only one who did not have that 'press on glass surface' gadget out. it really was not a problem to sit there and wait. the world did not come to and end by not having that glass thing to poke at and stare at.
the worst thing, though, is seeing people walking around (on streets, no less) with all attention to the phone and so little to what's going on around them.
overall, I do think we lost more than we gained with the current state of 'phones' and how they embedded themselves into our culture. and we won't really find out until this generation grows up and we see what they are like over their lifetimes. I don't think this attention-span limiter device is going to be a good thing in peoples' lives. long-term, I bet we will conclude this and future generations will not use the portable devices like we do.
my smart tv never EVER got an ip addr and never got an update.
if I don't like it OOTB, I won't buy it (as a TV). mostly I want it to be a monitor so I don't even bother trying to use it in any smart mode.
adding an ip addr just seems like a pandoras box. nothing good will come from it and the vendors are like wild west cowboys; they do whatever they want with no control over them. that's not something I will trust an internet endpoint to.
as for samsung, the rep is 'warranty plus one day'. things are meant to last as long as warranty and that's about it. I refuse to buy samsung unless its the only option. like sony, they are a bad actor and I refuse to support them with my $$.
the vizio that I have is kept dumb and the only bug is that the color is 'wrong' if I power the tv on while the pc has video turned off (due to pwr mgmt). if I wake up the pc first, then turn the tv on, the color calibration is correct. that's the only bug and I'm not willing to try to have that fixed at the expense of so many other things that DO work.
oh, and look for a tv that truly supports hdmi 2.0 and 120hz real rate. makes a big diff, and intel i3/5/7 series from skylake or even earlier do support 120hz mode out of hdmi. there are 35w i3 chips and even i5 chips, so you can make a truly fanless pc that has serious balls to it and is 100% silent.
zero reason to use tv's as anything smart. let your linux pc do that. works great and I have full freedom this way. even vlc on modern i5 chips is fully ok with software rendering, at any kind of encoding people may use for movies.
with the ability to run silent pc's, the idea of a 'smart tv' is beyond aburd to anyone here on this site.
I use the hobby i2s oled displays (common with arduino projects).
after 1 year of a calendar project being displayed on my oled single color display, there IS burn in.
this is a fact. you may not notice it but if you leave a pattern on oled, it DOES burn in. can't be helped with how oled works, today.
so, don't expect long life from them; and don't pay a lot for them since they WILL wear out. warranty won't cover it since displaying things on oled is destructive itself (like an old o'scope from tek that used phosphor for high persistence; that one kind of scope display destroyed itself a little each time you used it. LPs (records) are also like that. anything that wears down as you watch or listen to it - that's not long-term stable stuff, of course.
sticking it - to anyone who is not conservative. even if it hurts your own people, as long as the D's get some pain, the R team feels good about themselves.
yes, its that bad. this is why the country is tearing itself apart. we just barely get along (the two sides) and with the fucking russians meddling, it just pours gas on the fire.
if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, its very likely a duck.
this administration has been hell-bent on reversing every obama era decision and policy. they have also been doing all they can to side with the polluters and against any kind of environmental protection. pruitt was ousted but allowed IN, in the first place, and out kicked out when it became too much for even the R's to bear.
so, any change that trump makes has to be assumed to be that of a Bad Actor, and this is no exception. if he's signing his name to something, it will be bad for people and only good for his pay-masters.
anyone, here, saying that its not going to hurt us is a fucking shill, full stop.
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rich WHITE?
have you BEEN to any bay area campus?
(narrarator: most tech workers are indian and chinese; last I checked, that's not 'white' by definition).
keep sucking corporate cock.
*(sigh)*
assholes like you are what is wrong with this country.
but I do NOT want the overreaching, poorly managed Federal Govt in charge of it.
you are pathetic and insincere.
SOMEONE is in control. you dislike the government. fine, I mostly agree with you there, but who else should control this? currently its the insurance companies and they are allowed mostly free control of this industry. they are entirely profit driven. the government is not; so that's a plus in the gov's favor. both have competancy issues, so that's a moot point for both.
does our current system work? not really. therefore, we have only 1 choice: CHANGE IT and make it less of an industry and more of a SERVICE to mankind.
other countries do this. almost all do, in fact. the US is a 3rd world hellhole when it comes to this issue.
corps have TOO MUCH POWER.
this is an effort to try to give the little guy SOME power back.
clearly, you are a republican who thinks the big guys should control everything.
go fuck yourself!
all large corps are evil.
life sucks as you realize this.
life aint no disney movie.
oh, and humans generally suck.
that is all.
I don't follow your line of thinking AT ALL.
being fingerprinted and photo'd for booking is NOT the same as invading your whole life, which tends to be stored on your phone, these days.
are you SERIOUS? you are comparing the arab/israeli conflict to the mexico/america red-state race-hatred?
come on, now. don't sit there and tell me you see no difference between the 2 situations.
for those tuning in late, there is *actual war-like conflict* going on between the arab states and israel. the arabs have said, many many times, they want to see israel entirely eliminated. exterminated. wiped out. their god says that they either convert or deserve to die.
who, here, thinks that the mexico/america relationship shares *ANY* characteristics of the arab/israeli situation?
boggles the mind that anyone would even think to compare the two.
All I can assume is that it must be location based or something. I live in Wisconsin
bingo.
I'm in the bay area. I'm over 50 and have been doing software since my teens, commercially. been in the area for over 25 years and am american-born. in the bay area, that's the kiss of death. wish I was kidding, but everyone my age says the same thing, its not unique to me.
this area ONLY wants kids. if you are over 35, good luck to you.
and yeah, that's one huge reason why software and hardware from the bay area is sucking more and more. we sold ourselves out to h1b and kids; all because the CEOs save money on them.
by manually ensuring that you don't have that 'required space' ?
I bet there will be nag dialogs endlessly until you 'let them' do an update to your system.
man, I hate win10. we are forced to use it at work but thankfully I can do 99% of my daily stuff with linux. those who must use win10 - I feel sorry for you. its not a fun experience having to be the 'operator' of a computer you don't really own anymore..
how safe can your life be, if you are perceived to be that valuable or that dangerous to party A or B or C?
personally, I'm glad I don't know that much ;)
I'm guessing that every company that has a worthwhile target in their product offering, has a mole or two in their employ.
I'd go farther: a known set of moles and an unknown (to the company) set.
this includes the build system and binary modules. hardware has its analogs, too.
yes, we *are* post-snowden. and we damned well know it.
its worse than bit rot. bit rot implies you had once a perfect copy; and in that case, you could have copied it to HD and others for backup.
vinyl and analog cassette NEVER let you get a perfect copy. each and every time you play it, it gets worse and different (both). can't avoid it unless you optically scan the LP; and no way to avoid degrading tapes (they stretch, have drop-outs, no redundancy, bleed-thru, HF loss, etc).
I have no idea what you are talking about. I grew up with that stuff, glad its gone, I do audio for a hobby and digital is the only way to go.
analog is for hipsters OR for those who have exceptional analog systems, and that's really rare, today.
just WHY does a hotel need to know your PASSPORT number?
that boggles the mind.
yesterday, I was talking to an indian friend and we were talking about privacy and how much info you are willing to give out. I give out NOTHING unless its really needed; he gives anything you ask. he didn't even understand why it would be a problem to not give out info. I think in india, they are so programmed into following the rules and not challenging authority. when they come here, they continue doing the same and the companies that invade your privacy probably LOVE this.
as an american, born and raised here, I continue to explain WHY you want to say no to almost all info request and to limit who gets what, but its an uphill battle. the 'Ive done nothing wrong...' argument is still strong with many kinds of people and we need to change this FAST or we'll continue to supply data to bad guys, who will wield it over us. (btw, the bad guys include local governments; they also can't be trusted with all the info we give them).
many foreigners don't understand even even born/raised americans are still not getting it. we need to change this but I'm not sure how we can teach people responsible 'info mgmt' behavior. with one breach after another, even that is not enough to show people that they need to say no to data from corps.
if they provided goods or services FIRST, then you owe a debt.
cash is valid.
I'm done here.
security master - LOL!
we were asked to install wechat at work (for talking to our chinese co-workers; its a chinese owned company) and when I saw the list of privs it wanted, I refused. I was one of the few who did not install this crap on my phone. now, looks like I made the right call.
also, a flashlight app?? this shit should be illegal, punishable by real jail time. this crap has got to stop!
the gig economy is making poor and even middle class people do things they would not normally do. the fact that uber/etc make you use your own car, your own insurance and you are NOT using commercial type, but personal type, which limits what you are supposed to be able to do or claim.
the gig econ puts the cost of business on YOU. the risk on YOU.
this is fucked up. but, well, the top percent that own everything are laughing so hard at us all, just trying to make ends meet.
when do the pitchforks and fires come out, again? we're getting to that point. the gig econ is just a stepping stone to that, no doubt about it.
yup, same feelings here.
we control so little on the phone (the os, the hardware, the radio).
they track us, they spy on us, we can't even know if the mic and camera(s) are live. truly, we cannot know, and that's something that should scare everyone. yet, we ignore it completely.
apps are 'free' since they fucking SPY on you. you can't trust them.
the whole system is fucked up beyond fixing. needs a whole new re-do. new business model, new freedom policy, new encryption-by-design policy, new user-has-full-control policy. we NEED this. but I doubt we'll ever get it. the current broken model is too embedded in the culture. its quite sad what it could have been, but its now a spy, advertising and tracking tool for THEM.
I gave up on phones years ago. I use only the very bare minimum and even then, I feel unclean using one, knowing that each layer of hardware and software is actively working for SOMEONE ELSE, not me. bugs the crap out of me.
yeah, I do love having gps maps, live.
I check personal email, but not work email (work email is not 'safe' since they insist on using exchange and that forces me to use a client that grants their admin WAY too much privs (full wipe ability!) on my *personal* phone.)
I rarely do anything web based. even with a rooted adblocked phone, the web sucks badly on phones, for many reasons. I can usually wait until I'm on my safe linux box to do web things.
sometimes I take photos, but for things that matter, I use a proper camera.
the installed apps I have are probably less than 5. I don't believe in how the apps ecosystem works; its too privacy invading for my taste, so sadly, I force myself to avoid almost all apps. I'm the opposite of the classic millennial, I gravitate away from apps, not toward them. knowing that each app is likely trying to fuck me over in some way, just ruins whatever fun the app might bring.
an unrooted un ad-blocked phone? never. if that was my only option, I'd probably not own one. its why I won't own an apple phone, very few true user options and I don't typically play by anyone's rules when it comes to computing; I insist on having the thing do my bidding, not yours.
I was recently in an eye dr's office and every single kid there was playing with his phone. I guess that's ok, they are not running around and bothering anyone ;) and most adults are glued to their phones, too. amazing. I was the only one who did not have that 'press on glass surface' gadget out. it really was not a problem to sit there and wait. the world did not come to and end by not having that glass thing to poke at and stare at.
the worst thing, though, is seeing people walking around (on streets, no less) with all attention to the phone and so little to what's going on around them.
overall, I do think we lost more than we gained with the current state of 'phones' and how they embedded themselves into our culture. and we won't really find out until this generation grows up and we see what they are like over their lifetimes. I don't think this attention-span limiter device is going to be a good thing in peoples' lives. long-term, I bet we will conclude this and future generations will not use the portable devices like we do.
disable updates. sucks but it works.
my smart tv never EVER got an ip addr and never got an update.
if I don't like it OOTB, I won't buy it (as a TV). mostly I want it to be a monitor so I don't even bother trying to use it in any smart mode.
adding an ip addr just seems like a pandoras box. nothing good will come from it and the vendors are like wild west cowboys; they do whatever they want with no control over them. that's not something I will trust an internet endpoint to.
as for samsung, the rep is 'warranty plus one day'. things are meant to last as long as warranty and that's about it. I refuse to buy samsung unless its the only option. like sony, they are a bad actor and I refuse to support them with my $$.
the vizio that I have is kept dumb and the only bug is that the color is 'wrong' if I power the tv on while the pc has video turned off (due to pwr mgmt). if I wake up the pc first, then turn the tv on, the color calibration is correct. that's the only bug and I'm not willing to try to have that fixed at the expense of so many other things that DO work.
oh, and look for a tv that truly supports hdmi 2.0 and 120hz real rate. makes a big diff, and intel i3/5/7 series from skylake or even earlier do support 120hz mode out of hdmi. there are 35w i3 chips and even i5 chips, so you can make a truly fanless pc that has serious balls to it and is 100% silent.
zero reason to use tv's as anything smart. let your linux pc do that. works great and I have full freedom this way. even vlc on modern i5 chips is fully ok with software rendering, at any kind of encoding people may use for movies.
with the ability to run silent pc's, the idea of a 'smart tv' is beyond aburd to anyone here on this site.
I use the hobby i2s oled displays (common with arduino projects).
after 1 year of a calendar project being displayed on my oled single color display, there IS burn in.
this is a fact. you may not notice it but if you leave a pattern on oled, it DOES burn in. can't be helped with how oled works, today.
so, don't expect long life from them; and don't pay a lot for them since they WILL wear out. warranty won't cover it since displaying things on oled is destructive itself (like an old o'scope from tek that used phosphor for high persistence; that one kind of scope display destroyed itself a little each time you used it. LPs (records) are also like that. anything that wears down as you watch or listen to it - that's not long-term stable stuff, of course.
I repeat, you are dishonest or a shill.
why do you make excuses for this admin's bad behavior?
do you just like to troll? trolling or shilling, you are not adding value, here.
parent is a shill.
if you think the past rules will stay as is, you are deluded or a liar.
if the past rules would stay as-is, why make any change, then?
that's what the kids, today, call 'stigginit'.
sticking it - to anyone who is not conservative. even if it hurts your own people, as long as the D's get some pain, the R team feels good about themselves.
yes, its that bad. this is why the country is tearing itself apart. we just barely get along (the two sides) and with the fucking russians meddling, it just pours gas on the fire.
but keep stigginit, guys. that will SURELY help.
if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, its very likely a duck.
this administration has been hell-bent on reversing every obama era decision and policy. they have also been doing all they can to side with the polluters and against any kind of environmental protection. pruitt was ousted but allowed IN, in the first place, and out kicked out when it became too much for even the R's to bear.
so, any change that trump makes has to be assumed to be that of a Bad Actor, and this is no exception. if he's signing his name to something, it will be bad for people and only good for his pay-masters.
anyone, here, saying that its not going to hurt us is a fucking shill, full stop.
they're not mentally ill.
they are just EVIL AS CAN BE.
there is a huge difference.
the 'stigginit' crowd is happy as pigs in shit (almost literally). the rest of us are well aware of the regression policies being played out.
the middle flyovers really fucked us. thing is, they fucked themselves, too. we ALL breathe the same air. or(well) we used to.