Bet you five bucks that if Best Korea, somehow, manages to properly land something on the Moon, they proceed to claim the entire Moon for North Korea.
Contingency wager: Another five bucks says once they've claimed the Moon as their property, they announce plans to build a colony (read as: military base) on the Moon.
Aside from, as you allude to, everyone rummaging through our collective underwear drawers when we're not home? How about 'one-stop shopping' for hackers looking to score metric assloads of access and personal data?
You're aware that I literally don't give a fuck, right?
I'm sick to death of the government, corporations, and everyone else sticking their noses in my business, and I'm far from being alone in that. Oh and by the way can you even read? Did you bother to actually read what I wrote? I don't think you did!
I don't know about Australia, but here in the U.S., they shouldn't bother/insult people's intelligence with a 'census' anymore, they should just ask the NSA for access to their snooping database; don't they already know every little detail about every person, living or dead, within the U.S. now? Seriously, if they're going to treat us like some combination of convicts in a prison and animals in a zoo, they should at least use all that illegally/immorally-collected data instead of inconveniencing us with some stupid survey to fill out. Honestly, if they're going to spend my tax dollars to stick their little brown noses (and other body parts) into my business, they should at least make as much use of their ill-gotten data as possible and not bother me.
Anyone ever hear of a piece of software that will generate random HTTP requests to random websites? I want to generate huge amount of 'random noise' so Comcast loses any 'signal' they could get out of me. Doesn't need to load whole pages, just needs to do something like a basic GET of a page, throw the data away, then another, and so on, until you shut it down. I think hundreds of thousands or millions of random page requests per month will more or less screw any of their 'snooping'.
I'm not saying this would happen, but for instance: Who would have guessed that some little cable company called 'Comcast' would end up owning one of the Big Three television networks and Universal Studios? Microsoft is a big company with lots of assets. If Apple fucked up the wrong way, they could find themselves being bought out by Microsoft. Then there wouldn't be anyone else left that mattered. Of course, theoretically, the federal government wouldn't allow such an out-and-out monopoly like that.. but what if Microsoft instead decided to block as much interoperability with Apple's OSes as they could? Apple already runs on hardware that could run Windows. With the right combination of evil dick moves they could more or less, theoretically, force Apple and/or Apple users to use Windows.
Note again that I'm not saying any of this would actually happen. But it's not as far-fetched as one might think.
Of course I'd rather have NO computer than be forced to use some shitty OS that spies on me constantly, countermands my choices and decisions, and in general can be taken over completely by some asshole corporation like Microsoft, but sadly that's just me. My first computer was built with perfboard, a soldering iron, and my own nascent knowledge of electronics. I can live without one if I have to, or at least without any Internet-connected computers. But most people are hopelessly stuck with it all. We all just have to keep fighting the whole thing and never give up. Microsoft can't be allowed to become the de-facto owners of everyone's computers, and be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. It's just WRONG.
Will using TOR defeat their snooping? I'd think it would. Also I routinely use HTTPS Everywhere and Redirect Cleaner; or do they do man-in-the-middle attacks on my encrypted traffic so they can snoop on that, too?
At this point in time I feel I have every reason to believe that Microsoft wants to move towards hegemony over Linux in general, as part of a long-term plan to completely dominate the desktop OS market; they want ALL desktop OSes to be Microsoft OSes. You all complain about 'systemd' right now? Just wait until Microsoft gets done with Linux, it'll be the same malware/spyware/botnet that Windows is. This has to be fought tooth-and-nail to the last. This goes way beyond just hating Microsoft.
1. TVs are too complicated; nobody needs a goddamned 'smart TV' to start with, it's stupid. 2. People are getting dumber and lazier so it's no surprise they can't figure out how to run their TV.
That amounts to about the same thing though; I'm paying extra for privacy, and there's no guarantee that the VPN service isn't sifting my traffic, too. The only thing that would accomplish is not paying Comcast their Danegeld. Also if they're actually allowed to do that, then it's not a stretch at all for them to say 'using a VPN is a violation of Terms of Service'. They need to be firmly told 'NO!' to this, and also firmly told 'You will NOT spy on people's traffic'.
If they're legally allowed to do this, then I AM DONE with Comcast once and for all. I already dumped cable TV years ago, and only use Comcast still for internet because I'm too lazy to change it -- but if they're legally allowed to hold my privacy for ransom like this, then they'll get kicked to the curb so fast it'll make their heads spin. I don't even care if I have NO internet at home, I won't put up with protection-racket bullshit like that, no fucking way.
No, it's more like "fuck", as in "Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
Exactly. So far as I'm concerned, it's not an accident on the part of Microsoft. They want to own your computer, and pwn you in the process. Any competing OS must be destroyed utterly. Wouldn't at all be surprised if it not only deletes the affected partition(s), but overwrites them first, rendering anything on them unrecoverable. What's next, Microsoft? Virus hidden in the reserved section of the drive, that thwarts any attempt to remove Windows? Render your hard drive unusable if you uninstall Windows? Reprogram all the VR's on your motherboard and smoke the processor core and PCH if you attempt to install a dual-boot? Assholes.
I think the whole 'NEET' phenomenon is part of the problem, but I think a larger part of the problem, that comes before the money part, is social, or perhaps I should say anti-social in nature. So-called 'millennials' grew up with the Internet and so-called 'social media', and are more apt to be online than they are to be outside, actually interacting with people face-to-face; you're not getting laid being on the Internet all the time, plain and simple.
I don't have the math to understand all that on a deep level, but I'm somewhat pleased with myself to be able to at least follow what theyr'e doing there. I'm really not an RF guy so it never occurred to me that you could do both polarizations simultaneously like that, that's genius. H.265 isn't crappy digital video compression, either, which is mainly what I'd worry about; I still have a bitter taste in my mouth, even after all these years, after learning the Ugly Truth about cable television and what they do to so-called 'HDTV' to fit it all on the same wire.
I like this idea. I wish bars here in the U.S. would do this. If nothing else it'd be amusing to sit there drinking a beer and watching the socially inept millennials stumble through trying to communicate with each other without using Facebook or Instagram as an intermediary.
So in order to get that resolution in an OTA broadcast, do you start using several channels worth of bandwidth, or do you compress the living daylights out of it (with the resultant shitty picture quality, especially during motion), or both?
As someone else pointed out, this is kinda dumb, who is even going to notice the difference between 4K (which hasn't even really begun to roll out yet) and this? Also, as someone else pointed out, how many people are going to have the money or the room for a set big enough to display this? It all sounds kinda dumb.
REDMOND -- In what is sure to be judged by future historians to be a 'dick move' by Microsoft Corporation, the mega-corps' plans to fool, trick, and otherwise swindle the disabled into 'upgrading' to Windows 10 was revealed. "They don't know any better and generally don't have the mental awareness to realize the consequences of their actions.", says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking from his command and control lair located under Mt. St. Helens, "They're prime candidates to become part of the ever-growing Microsoft bot-net and data collection platform program, so we here at Microsoft are more than happy to give them a 'free' upgrade, muah ha ha ha!".
I'm voting for Gary Johnson, asshole, so fuck you and your binary political party choices sideways with a rusty, AIDS-infested chainsaw, then go chug a gallon of Drano. You dare to speak to me of 'ignorance' when you talk like there are only TWO political parties in this country, and that someone HAS to vote for one or the other? Oh, and you're OBVIOUSLY voting for Trump, which means it's outright amazing you can even manage to figure out how to post anything on Slashdot, what with your two-digit IQ and all. Or does someone at the group home help you write these? Really, we do need voter registration reform in this country. There needs to be a basic mental compentency test before they allow you to vote, otherwise it's just irresponsible to allow people who can't be responsible for themselves even, like you, to participate in making decisions for the rest of us. I'd recommend you stay home in November and weave your baskets and leave the voting for POTUS up to the Adults.
Also, just more evidence that apparently he has NOT read the Constitution.
Be against child porn? Absolutely. No problems with that, it's already against the law and is obviously harmful to children because it exploits them and damages them -- but all pornography? No. A legal adult viewing content created using legal adults is not anything that should be 'cracked down on'. You don't like it, don't watch it, but don't tell me or anyone else what we can and can't watch.
The question that needs answering here, is have they locked it down so thoroughly that you can't even bypass the need for drivers to be signed, like you could in Win7? Not that I want anything to do with Win10, but it would seem absurd for devs to not be able to test their own driver builds without getting them signed first.
Oh and by the way, even if your lame attempt at trolling was correct: Why the actual FUCK would I willingly let Microsoft stick their corporate dick into my asshole? They're a shit company making a shit product and I'm done with them and their crap. I'd rather have NO computer at all than Windows 10.
Nope. I don't use so-called 'social media' of any kind, and I don't use my real name anywhere. Official government records aren't anything I can do about any more than anyone else can, but casual searches for my legal name won't get you anything, never did, never will.
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Bet you five bucks that if Best Korea, somehow, manages to properly land something on the Moon, they proceed to claim the entire Moon for North Korea.
Contingency wager: Another five bucks says once they've claimed the Moon as their property, they announce plans to build a colony (read as: military base) on the Moon.
What could possibly go wrong?
Aside from, as you allude to, everyone rummaging through our collective underwear drawers when we're not home? How about 'one-stop shopping' for hackers looking to score metric assloads of access and personal data?
How the ACTUAL FUCK does the above make me a troll!? Go fuck yourselves, whoever you are.
You're aware that I literally don't give a fuck, right?
I'm sick to death of the government, corporations, and everyone else sticking their noses in my business, and I'm far from being alone in that. Oh and by the way can you even read? Did you bother to actually read what I wrote? I don't think you did!
I don't know about Australia, but here in the U.S., they shouldn't bother/insult people's intelligence with a 'census' anymore, they should just ask the NSA for access to their snooping database; don't they already know every little detail about every person, living or dead, within the U.S. now? Seriously, if they're going to treat us like some combination of convicts in a prison and animals in a zoo, they should at least use all that illegally/immorally-collected data instead of inconveniencing us with some stupid survey to fill out. Honestly, if they're going to spend my tax dollars to stick their little brown noses (and other body parts) into my business, they should at least make as much use of their ill-gotten data as possible and not bother me.
Anyone ever hear of a piece of software that will generate random HTTP requests to random websites? I want to generate huge amount of 'random noise' so Comcast loses any 'signal' they could get out of me. Doesn't need to load whole pages, just needs to do something like a basic GET of a page, throw the data away, then another, and so on, until you shut it down. I think hundreds of thousands or millions of random page requests per month will more or less screw any of their 'snooping'.
Microsoft blocks downloads of Linux and FOSS as 'malicious software'
Don't tell me it won't happen because IT WILL.
Censorship by the government of Free Speech by deeming 'unwanted' material to be 'copyright infringing'
Don't tell me THAT won't happen, either.
I'm not saying this would happen, but for instance: Who would have guessed that some little cable company called 'Comcast' would end up owning one of the Big Three television networks and Universal Studios? Microsoft is a big company with lots of assets. If Apple fucked up the wrong way, they could find themselves being bought out by Microsoft. Then there wouldn't be anyone else left that mattered. Of course, theoretically, the federal government wouldn't allow such an out-and-out monopoly like that.. but what if Microsoft instead decided to block as much interoperability with Apple's OSes as they could? Apple already runs on hardware that could run Windows. With the right combination of evil dick moves they could more or less, theoretically, force Apple and/or Apple users to use Windows.
Note again that I'm not saying any of this would actually happen. But it's not as far-fetched as one might think.
Of course I'd rather have NO computer than be forced to use some shitty OS that spies on me constantly, countermands my choices and decisions, and in general can be taken over completely by some asshole corporation like Microsoft, but sadly that's just me. My first computer was built with perfboard, a soldering iron, and my own nascent knowledge of electronics. I can live without one if I have to, or at least without any Internet-connected computers. But most people are hopelessly stuck with it all. We all just have to keep fighting the whole thing and never give up. Microsoft can't be allowed to become the de-facto owners of everyone's computers, and be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. It's just WRONG.
Will using TOR defeat their snooping? I'd think it would. Also I routinely use HTTPS Everywhere and Redirect Cleaner; or do they do man-in-the-middle attacks on my encrypted traffic so they can snoop on that, too?
At this point in time I feel I have every reason to believe that Microsoft wants to move towards hegemony over Linux in general, as part of a long-term plan to completely dominate the desktop OS market; they want ALL desktop OSes to be Microsoft OSes. You all complain about 'systemd' right now? Just wait until Microsoft gets done with Linux, it'll be the same malware/spyware/botnet that Windows is. This has to be fought tooth-and-nail to the last. This goes way beyond just hating Microsoft.
I'm stuck with Comcast and I'm projecting like there's no tomorrow
That's what your shitpost reads like. Go grow some balls and actually DO something about your situation or STFU.
1. TVs are too complicated; nobody needs a goddamned 'smart TV' to start with, it's stupid.
2. People are getting dumber and lazier so it's no surprise they can't figure out how to run their TV.
That amounts to about the same thing though; I'm paying extra for privacy, and there's no guarantee that the VPN service isn't sifting my traffic, too. The only thing that would accomplish is not paying Comcast their Danegeld. Also if they're actually allowed to do that, then it's not a stretch at all for them to say 'using a VPN is a violation of Terms of Service'. They need to be firmly told 'NO!' to this, and also firmly told 'You will NOT spy on people's traffic'.
If they're legally allowed to do this, then I AM DONE with Comcast once and for all. I already dumped cable TV years ago, and only use Comcast still for internet because I'm too lazy to change it -- but if they're legally allowed to hold my privacy for ransom like this, then they'll get kicked to the curb so fast it'll make their heads spin. I don't even care if I have NO internet at home, I won't put up with protection-racket bullshit like that, no fucking way.
No, it's more like "fuck", as in "Microsoft is fucking over anyone who puts another OS on their computer."
Exactly. So far as I'm concerned, it's not an accident on the part of Microsoft. They want to own your computer, and pwn you in the process. Any competing OS must be destroyed utterly. Wouldn't at all be surprised if it not only deletes the affected partition(s), but overwrites them first, rendering anything on them unrecoverable. What's next, Microsoft? Virus hidden in the reserved section of the drive, that thwarts any attempt to remove Windows? Render your hard drive unusable if you uninstall Windows? Reprogram all the VR's on your motherboard and smoke the processor core and PCH if you attempt to install a dual-boot? Assholes.
I think the whole 'NEET' phenomenon is part of the problem, but I think a larger part of the problem, that comes before the money part, is social, or perhaps I should say anti-social in nature. So-called 'millennials' grew up with the Internet and so-called 'social media', and are more apt to be online than they are to be outside, actually interacting with people face-to-face; you're not getting laid being on the Internet all the time, plain and simple.
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I don't have the math to understand all that on a deep level, but I'm somewhat pleased with myself to be able to at least follow what theyr'e doing there. I'm really not an RF guy so it never occurred to me that you could do both polarizations simultaneously like that, that's genius. H.265 isn't crappy digital video compression, either, which is mainly what I'd worry about; I still have a bitter taste in my mouth, even after all these years, after learning the Ugly Truth about cable television and what they do to so-called 'HDTV' to fit it all on the same wire.
I like this idea. I wish bars here in the U.S. would do this. If nothing else it'd be amusing to sit there drinking a beer and watching the socially inept millennials stumble through trying to communicate with each other without using Facebook or Instagram as an intermediary.
So in order to get that resolution in an OTA broadcast, do you start using several channels worth of bandwidth, or do you compress the living daylights out of it (with the resultant shitty picture quality, especially during motion), or both?
As someone else pointed out, this is kinda dumb, who is even going to notice the difference between 4K (which hasn't even really begun to roll out yet) and this? Also, as someone else pointed out, how many people are going to have the money or the room for a set big enough to display this? It all sounds kinda dumb.
REDMOND -- In what is sure to be judged by future historians to be a 'dick move' by Microsoft Corporation, the mega-corps' plans to fool, trick, and otherwise swindle the disabled into 'upgrading' to Windows 10 was revealed. "They don't know any better and generally don't have the mental awareness to realize the consequences of their actions.", says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking from his command and control lair located under Mt. St. Helens, "They're prime candidates to become part of the ever-growing Microsoft bot-net and data collection platform program, so we here at Microsoft are more than happy to give them a 'free' upgrade, muah ha ha ha!".
I'm voting for Gary Johnson, asshole, so fuck you and your binary political party choices sideways with a rusty, AIDS-infested chainsaw, then go chug a gallon of Drano. You dare to speak to me of 'ignorance' when you talk like there are only TWO political parties in this country, and that someone HAS to vote for one or the other? Oh, and you're OBVIOUSLY voting for Trump, which means it's outright amazing you can even manage to figure out how to post anything on Slashdot, what with your two-digit IQ and all. Or does someone at the group home help you write these? Really, we do need voter registration reform in this country. There needs to be a basic mental compentency test before they allow you to vote, otherwise it's just irresponsible to allow people who can't be responsible for themselves even, like you, to participate in making decisions for the rest of us. I'd recommend you stay home in November and weave your baskets and leave the voting for POTUS up to the Adults.
Also, just more evidence that apparently he has NOT read the Constitution.
Be against child porn? Absolutely. No problems with that, it's already against the law and is obviously harmful to children because it exploits them and damages them -- but all pornography? No. A legal adult viewing content created using legal adults is not anything that should be 'cracked down on'. You don't like it, don't watch it, but don't tell me or anyone else what we can and can't watch.
The question that needs answering here, is have they locked it down so thoroughly that you can't even bypass the need for drivers to be signed, like you could in Win7? Not that I want anything to do with Win10, but it would seem absurd for devs to not be able to test their own driver builds without getting them signed first.
Oh and by the way, even if your lame attempt at trolling was correct: Why the actual FUCK would I willingly let Microsoft stick their corporate dick into my asshole? They're a shit company making a shit product and I'm done with them and their crap. I'd rather have NO computer at all than Windows 10.
Nope. I don't use so-called 'social media' of any kind, and I don't use my real name anywhere. Official government records aren't anything I can do about any more than anyone else can, but casual searches for my legal name won't get you anything, never did, never will.