Or you could just... Use another carrier and educated users so they could make an informed decision.
Also your anger is misplaced. You focus it on just one of the several parties involved.
If you are being tracked, you are visiting sites that knowingly deal with these people and get income from dealing with these people. So your actions would just harm the very sites you seem to want to visit so much.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to just not go to sites who use these ad companies? Not use the network of these carriers?
Ummm the customers and Verizon have a contract. It's either broken or it isn't. It's only corruption if they are breaking the contract and rigging the justice system so no one can get at them for breach.
I'd say it's much more likely people are just lazy and don't read any of the terms and conditions they agree to.
In many countries there are free/cheap isp's who work by injecting ads. Under net neutrality these wouldn't exist.
If they are injecting headers, that still won't work. Every http request will be identifying you. You need to browse in https and comfirm that your Verizon phone isn't using some dodgy built in Verizon CA.
It is always a good idea to browse in privacy mode, especially because bank sites and other sites could have flaws like cross site scripting.
So Verizon inject encrypted cookies that identify the user, then sell the decryption key to add companies, so they can track users.
I'd be reviewing the terms and conditions of the internet service. Surely they don't allow tampering?
People should shame Verizon publicly and leave them, but calls for net neutrality laws are misguided. Verizon makes money from this, so they should end up cheaper than competitors who don't do this. Customers are free to choose to have less privacy for a cheaper service. Regulation isn't needed.
They trick even smarter users. For example windows checked check boxes can be made to grey out looking like they are disabled, but they are still uncheckable. Plus if you choose standard install instead of custom, it can jump straight to installing the crap ware before you even realise the mistake.
Portable apps dot com is all I recommend for non geeks anymore. They recompile the open-source programs to leave nothing on your computer, and there is no installation bull crap. Has 99% of the free apps a typical user will need. Also comes with its own little start menu just for its programs. Plus the programs can be selected through a repository like select screen.
Several of them have.
Users need to trust them and/or only give then a small amount of currency and bit coins at a time, which is what pretty much everyone who isn't an idiot does.
Not coins have value because they have useful properties of money that facilitate trade. They can not easily be created/mined. They are easily divisible, easily transported, they don't rot or wear out. So they value for the same reason gold has value: their intrinsic properties are close to that of ideal money.
Tabasco sauce can easily be made, will go off, is annoying to divide and measure, and must be transported physically in a container. It is terrible for use as money.-
Money is meant to be something that can store wealth, in that people will accept it for wealth and give it when given wealth.
They are not banks, they are exchanges. A bit coin is basically a secret long number, you can store it however you want. Most people store them in a common file format that is encrypted called a wallet.
That's not what he is talking about. Apple 128gb iPhones have about 8th reserved for over provisioning, even with out the OS and courting in base whatever, you never get 128gb.
Apple is still on the right though, the box says that 128gb is the physical flash available on the chip. Actual space available is that, less provisioning, less formatting, less OS etc.
The real question is when will these morons be suing over a 8gb ram desktop not having 8gb ram available one Windows is running....
The number of people trying to make a buck of Apple's success is ludicrous.
You clearly know nothing about economics. If pay decreased because of scarcity, so would the price of things you spent your pay on. It's a complete myth that currency has to expand with the economy. Before modern fiat currencies when gold was money the economy out grew the mining of gold, wages deceased and goods decrease in price, economic growth continued.
Modern fiat currencies require no deflation because the currency is not moved but created as debt.
A lot of them have been done before. However they are all front wheel, with no pedal assist, and have external batteries.
Its interesting that there is a lot of mocking of the wheel on slashdot. Both copenhagen wheel and flykly have pre-sold over $1 million dollars worth each, and copenhagen has at least another $4 million in funders who are expecting a large profit.
E-bike sales are over 3 million per year, normal bike says are at 100 million per year. So 97% of people with bikes don't have e-bikes. One they start mass producing these wheels could come down to $299 or less.
I think eventually they will be standard on most bikes.
The problem with those kits is that they are not illegal. In most places on earth 200W is the limit, or 250W with pedal assist.
Essentially no kit is really pedal assist. The whole point of this wheel is that its street legal and pedal assist, and all in one so you can swap between bikes quickly and easily.
It also has a compeditor in flykly.com which was on kickstart, both are trying to ship ASAP and beat each other.
The battery doesn't rotate, neither do the electronics, nor the stator. They are essentially fixed to the frame, only the wheel, the spokes and rotor rotate... The mass as the back is really no different than when people have rear bags.
There an EN standard that has been adopted almost everywhere (except the USA - kind of like the metric system!) which is that pedal assist bikes should go a maximum of 25km/hr.
They probably just decided to end the project. My experience is that it has been slowly dieing for a long time.
I have been heavily involved with truecrpyt and its source code for many years. I make programs to custom edit the boot screen and otherwise customise TC's appearance. My programs are not forks, rather they edit the actual binary code installed, so that users can easily use it on existing installations.
What you have to understand is that truecrypt has added very little functionality for a very long time. In particular they seem to have lost the key developers who did the code in the boot sectors. For those who don't know, along time ago the program was to big to fit into the boot sectors, and a special deflate algorithm was added to decompression the boot sector code. My code to unzip the boot program and edit its string display strings is still the same code from tc 5.0, and it still works on the latest edition. The guys who code this section appear to be long gone from the project, hence absolutely nothing done over UEFI. The changes that have occured look questionable, in that the people making them seem to have very limited assembly understanding and were hacking on bits instead of properly modifing the programs flow.
Secondly getting TC to work with operating systems is extremely complicated, especially for windows. It was micorosoft who eventually released the API's that were used to make truecrypt properly handle sleep/hibernate. These API's are not forthcoming to Win8 or beyond, and in all honesty - windows is the only market that matters.
I am going to guess that one of the last known developers knows there is a bug that they can not longer believe they have the experience or skill to fix properly, and hence has decided to shut it down.
This has nothing to do with wanting millions. Its because of the stupid pricing. Buying 16 million is only double the cost of buying 4096. The real question is why so many companies buy 4096 at such a high price.
The correlation between first place and more votes in the senate is essentially zero (actually its just less than 1% - with 16% needed to win a seat).
LDP has been around for decades and been on the senate ballot in the first place previously - so that doesnt explain it. There is no evdence at all people were confused. People did not mix up their names at all.
Australia has a long history of low government spending and low debt. Both sides of politics have ran campaigns promoting surplus and low debt. Libertarian leanings have grown recently due to the debt bringe and tax increases of the left Labor/Green alliance that have seen the fastest debt growth and biggest debt and deficit in Australias history.
The left are trying to down play the fact that Australians have voted in what will almost certainly be a majority right wing senate.
I Notice that no one Claims the Democratic Labor Party was mistaken for the Labor Party - as this wouldnt fit their view that Right only won this election by luck/stupidity/mistake.
The truth is the major left wing party suffered their lowest two party vote in over 100 years - and previously fringe right wing parties have benefitted.
What backs Gold? Nothing. Gold is used for money because its a substance that cannot be easily created, does not wear down and is easily divisible - this it is useful for trade. Bitcoin is the same. US currency had to be 'backed' by something because the US government can print as much as they want, just like they did with the Continental dollar.
Frankly your suggestion that USD dollar is going to value against bitcoin is laughable. The US dollar is being churned out trillions at a time. Bit coins are not. Bitcoin will value long term against the USD. Everyone has heard the same thing from people like you when bitcoin was $1 $5 $10 $20 $50.
Is not to use a service with terms and conditions you don't agree with.
You have no right to be tracked any more than you have 'right' to a job or a home as per the UN declaration of human rights. What they are really talking about isn't rights, but socialist ideals.
Enforcing rights like this just reduces competition. If you don't like what google does, go somewhere else. Forcing them not to track everyone just hurts those who benefit from tracking in terms of services remaining free and of high quality and speed. Why should they suffer because you are careless with your provacy?
What mac has is good vertical integration.
In 10 clicks you can encrypt your hard disk and have it automatically backing up to an encrypted external drive or NAS.
If your HDD dies and you put a new blank one, the Mac BIOS will automatically find and load the most recent back-up.
Secondly, macs backup itself is light-years ahead of anything else I have seen for the simple reason that they have built it into the file system. The mac knows which directories and files have been edited, it doesn't have to do crap like check timestamps or hash files (such as rsync does), the filesystem itself flags the writes.
Windows backup is so scary that no one uses it. It says it does "full backup when needed". There is no way to control when it does anything, and it randomly does complete system backups instead of incremental backups. And because it doesn't do hard-links like linux/osx does I continually find people confused and deleting things resulting in unable to restore from an incremental backup.
This reminds me of distributed.net and their pointless brute forcing of encryted string that they already know only contains A-Z ascii characters that form a message. I wonder how much CO2 emissions are pumped out of pointless activities like this.
Yeah and there nothing stopping me bottling air or sea water and selling it, except that because its has no scarcity it has no value! Free "as in freedom" goes hand in hand with free "as in beer" for any peice of intellectual property. Please name one major software company that relies on donationware that also operates under the GPL?
The appeal to authority here is sad. It doesn't matter what Linus or Stallman says. It matter what the GPL says and what a court says. A court will probably find if any of the source code is re-used it has to be GPL'd.
Yep, people don't realise how bitcoin actually works. Anyone can fork it and fork the currency. If google get a majority of users on their new client they can simply update the client to accept whatever rate of inflation they want, and the currency will fork, which usually causes the minority to follow.
Bitcoin is also fundamentally flawed because any government could crash it. Bitcoin cannot possibly be secure against attack unless more than 50% of the worlds available CPUs were all committed to non-colusion. At the moment its something like 0.0001%, even private companies would have the CPU power to take it down.
Also bitcoin is becoming a liability. If you have bit coin its in your interest to keep the blockchain ticking over, but people who do the calcs get so little reward they are not going to bother anymore, so you will have to give up CPU power just to maintain your wealth!
Bitcoin is certainly useful for short term online transactions, but anyone who stores wealth in it is insane.
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Or you could just... Use another carrier and educated users so they could make an informed decision. Also your anger is misplaced. You focus it on just one of the several parties involved. If you are being tracked, you are visiting sites that knowingly deal with these people and get income from dealing with these people. So your actions would just harm the very sites you seem to want to visit so much. Wouldn't it be a better idea to just not go to sites who use these ad companies? Not use the network of these carriers?
Ummm the customers and Verizon have a contract. It's either broken or it isn't. It's only corruption if they are breaking the contract and rigging the justice system so no one can get at them for breach. I'd say it's much more likely people are just lazy and don't read any of the terms and conditions they agree to. In many countries there are free/cheap isp's who work by injecting ads. Under net neutrality these wouldn't exist.
If they are injecting headers, that still won't work. Every http request will be identifying you. You need to browse in https and comfirm that your Verizon phone isn't using some dodgy built in Verizon CA. It is always a good idea to browse in privacy mode, especially because bank sites and other sites could have flaws like cross site scripting.
So Verizon inject encrypted cookies that identify the user, then sell the decryption key to add companies, so they can track users. I'd be reviewing the terms and conditions of the internet service. Surely they don't allow tampering? People should shame Verizon publicly and leave them, but calls for net neutrality laws are misguided. Verizon makes money from this, so they should end up cheaper than competitors who don't do this. Customers are free to choose to have less privacy for a cheaper service. Regulation isn't needed.
They trick even smarter users. For example windows checked check boxes can be made to grey out looking like they are disabled, but they are still uncheckable. Plus if you choose standard install instead of custom, it can jump straight to installing the crap ware before you even realise the mistake.
Portable apps dot com is all I recommend for non geeks anymore. They recompile the open-source programs to leave nothing on your computer, and there is no installation bull crap. Has 99% of the free apps a typical user will need. Also comes with its own little start menu just for its programs. Plus the programs can be selected through a repository like select screen.
And what does writel do?
Several of them have. Users need to trust them and/or only give then a small amount of currency and bit coins at a time, which is what pretty much everyone who isn't an idiot does.
Not coins have value because they have useful properties of money that facilitate trade. They can not easily be created/mined. They are easily divisible, easily transported, they don't rot or wear out. So they value for the same reason gold has value: their intrinsic properties are close to that of ideal money. Tabasco sauce can easily be made, will go off, is annoying to divide and measure, and must be transported physically in a container. It is terrible for use as money.- Money is meant to be something that can store wealth, in that people will accept it for wealth and give it when given wealth. They are not banks, they are exchanges. A bit coin is basically a secret long number, you can store it however you want. Most people store them in a common file format that is encrypted called a wallet.
That's not what he is talking about. Apple 128gb iPhones have about 8th reserved for over provisioning, even with out the OS and courting in base whatever, you never get 128gb. Apple is still on the right though, the box says that 128gb is the physical flash available on the chip. Actual space available is that, less provisioning, less formatting, less OS etc. The real question is when will these morons be suing over a 8gb ram desktop not having 8gb ram available one Windows is running.... The number of people trying to make a buck of Apple's success is ludicrous.
You clearly know nothing about economics. If pay decreased because of scarcity, so would the price of things you spent your pay on. It's a complete myth that currency has to expand with the economy. Before modern fiat currencies when gold was money the economy out grew the mining of gold, wages deceased and goods decrease in price, economic growth continued. Modern fiat currencies require no deflation because the currency is not moved but created as debt.
A lot of them have been done before. However they are all front wheel, with no pedal assist, and have external batteries. Its interesting that there is a lot of mocking of the wheel on slashdot. Both copenhagen wheel and flykly have pre-sold over $1 million dollars worth each, and copenhagen has at least another $4 million in funders who are expecting a large profit. E-bike sales are over 3 million per year, normal bike says are at 100 million per year. So 97% of people with bikes don't have e-bikes. One they start mass producing these wheels could come down to $299 or less. I think eventually they will be standard on most bikes.
Good thing they are not selling only to boston then.
The problem with those kits is that they are not illegal. In most places on earth 200W is the limit, or 250W with pedal assist. Essentially no kit is really pedal assist. The whole point of this wheel is that its street legal and pedal assist, and all in one so you can swap between bikes quickly and easily. It also has a compeditor in flykly.com which was on kickstart, both are trying to ship ASAP and beat each other.
The battery doesn't rotate, neither do the electronics, nor the stator. They are essentially fixed to the frame, only the wheel, the spokes and rotor rotate... The mass as the back is really no different than when people have rear bags. There an EN standard that has been adopted almost everywhere (except the USA - kind of like the metric system!) which is that pedal assist bikes should go a maximum of 25km/hr.
They probably just decided to end the project. My experience is that it has been slowly dieing for a long time. I have been heavily involved with truecrpyt and its source code for many years. I make programs to custom edit the boot screen and otherwise customise TC's appearance. My programs are not forks, rather they edit the actual binary code installed, so that users can easily use it on existing installations. What you have to understand is that truecrypt has added very little functionality for a very long time. In particular they seem to have lost the key developers who did the code in the boot sectors. For those who don't know, along time ago the program was to big to fit into the boot sectors, and a special deflate algorithm was added to decompression the boot sector code. My code to unzip the boot program and edit its string display strings is still the same code from tc 5.0, and it still works on the latest edition. The guys who code this section appear to be long gone from the project, hence absolutely nothing done over UEFI. The changes that have occured look questionable, in that the people making them seem to have very limited assembly understanding and were hacking on bits instead of properly modifing the programs flow. Secondly getting TC to work with operating systems is extremely complicated, especially for windows. It was micorosoft who eventually released the API's that were used to make truecrypt properly handle sleep/hibernate. These API's are not forthcoming to Win8 or beyond, and in all honesty - windows is the only market that matters. I am going to guess that one of the last known developers knows there is a bug that they can not longer believe they have the experience or skill to fix properly, and hence has decided to shut it down.
This has nothing to do with wanting millions. Its because of the stupid pricing. Buying 16 million is only double the cost of buying 4096. The real question is why so many companies buy 4096 at such a high price.
The correlation between first place and more votes in the senate is essentially zero (actually its just less than 1% - with 16% needed to win a seat). LDP has been around for decades and been on the senate ballot in the first place previously - so that doesnt explain it. There is no evdence at all people were confused. People did not mix up their names at all. Australia has a long history of low government spending and low debt. Both sides of politics have ran campaigns promoting surplus and low debt. Libertarian leanings have grown recently due to the debt bringe and tax increases of the left Labor/Green alliance that have seen the fastest debt growth and biggest debt and deficit in Australias history. The left are trying to down play the fact that Australians have voted in what will almost certainly be a majority right wing senate. I Notice that no one Claims the Democratic Labor Party was mistaken for the Labor Party - as this wouldnt fit their view that Right only won this election by luck/stupidity/mistake. The truth is the major left wing party suffered their lowest two party vote in over 100 years - and previously fringe right wing parties have benefitted.
What backs Gold? Nothing. Gold is used for money because its a substance that cannot be easily created, does not wear down and is easily divisible - this it is useful for trade. Bitcoin is the same. US currency had to be 'backed' by something because the US government can print as much as they want, just like they did with the Continental dollar. Frankly your suggestion that USD dollar is going to value against bitcoin is laughable. The US dollar is being churned out trillions at a time. Bit coins are not. Bitcoin will value long term against the USD. Everyone has heard the same thing from people like you when bitcoin was $1 $5 $10 $20 $50.
Is not to use a service with terms and conditions you don't agree with. You have no right to be tracked any more than you have 'right' to a job or a home as per the UN declaration of human rights. What they are really talking about isn't rights, but socialist ideals. Enforcing rights like this just reduces competition. If you don't like what google does, go somewhere else. Forcing them not to track everyone just hurts those who benefit from tracking in terms of services remaining free and of high quality and speed. Why should they suffer because you are careless with your provacy?
What mac has is good vertical integration. In 10 clicks you can encrypt your hard disk and have it automatically backing up to an encrypted external drive or NAS. If your HDD dies and you put a new blank one, the Mac BIOS will automatically find and load the most recent back-up. Secondly, macs backup itself is light-years ahead of anything else I have seen for the simple reason that they have built it into the file system. The mac knows which directories and files have been edited, it doesn't have to do crap like check timestamps or hash files (such as rsync does), the filesystem itself flags the writes. Windows backup is so scary that no one uses it. It says it does "full backup when needed". There is no way to control when it does anything, and it randomly does complete system backups instead of incremental backups. And because it doesn't do hard-links like linux/osx does I continually find people confused and deleting things resulting in unable to restore from an incremental backup.
This reminds me of distributed.net and their pointless brute forcing of encryted string that they already know only contains A-Z ascii characters that form a message. I wonder how much CO2 emissions are pumped out of pointless activities like this.
Yeah and there nothing stopping me bottling air or sea water and selling it, except that because its has no scarcity it has no value! Free "as in freedom" goes hand in hand with free "as in beer" for any peice of intellectual property. Please name one major software company that relies on donationware that also operates under the GPL?
The appeal to authority here is sad. It doesn't matter what Linus or Stallman says. It matter what the GPL says and what a court says. A court will probably find if any of the source code is re-used it has to be GPL'd.
Yep, people don't realise how bitcoin actually works. Anyone can fork it and fork the currency. If google get a majority of users on their new client they can simply update the client to accept whatever rate of inflation they want, and the currency will fork, which usually causes the minority to follow. Bitcoin is also fundamentally flawed because any government could crash it. Bitcoin cannot possibly be secure against attack unless more than 50% of the worlds available CPUs were all committed to non-colusion. At the moment its something like 0.0001%, even private companies would have the CPU power to take it down. Also bitcoin is becoming a liability. If you have bit coin its in your interest to keep the blockchain ticking over, but people who do the calcs get so little reward they are not going to bother anymore, so you will have to give up CPU power just to maintain your wealth! Bitcoin is certainly useful for short term online transactions, but anyone who stores wealth in it is insane.