Actually that sounds pretty standard for a lot of execs out there.
You have no idea how many support calls I took from crying secretaries because their boss told them to have it fixed today or they were fired. That's pretty rough, but it gets worse. The executive douche has the box locked, hasn't told the secretary what the password is, and can't be reached or won't answer the phone.
I'd get about 2 or 3 of those calls a month on the corporate support lines. I could do some pretty fantastic things over the phone with people that are marginally competent, but if they can't access the machine due to locks or passwords, there's nothing I can (legally) do about it. (When on a support call, even if you know a grey area way around the access issue, you don't even mention it. If they think of it on their own and do it, that's not your problem. Specifically where one company had to break down the door to the server room to get in and fix the server because the boss was out of the state on a 2 week vacation and took the only key with him.)
The writing skills of many of the so called journalists is even worse, so everything tends to be up for debate without enough independent sources to verify with.
Let's get some usable numbers here then. What percentage of the pollution in the air is actually caused by brakes and tires? I wonder what pollution he thinks regenerative brakes cause, especially since that system is very common in electric vehicles. As to the tires, what does he suggest, we all start driving on our rims?
Until we get some relevant numbers that show tires and brakes really are a huge problem, I'm just slapping him into the unreasonable and alarmist hype corner.
So when people use what they're paying for, things slow down. Well, it's not the users fault. It's the fault of the company that OVERSOLD IT'S NETWORK !
This is nothing new, the douchehats have been doing that for decades! Too bad they like to blame what's their fault on their customers though.
There is a right way and a wrong way to have multiple antivirus programs on the computer.
The right way: Only one of them can be using an active component that's looking out for viruses in realtime. You can manually run scans or schedule them, just make sure they don't overlap, those scans take time after all.
The wrong way: Any time you have scans overlap or have more than one realtime component running. They are trying to do the same thing with the same parts of the system, and that will usually slow your system, can cause obvious software issues, and can cause inobvious ones as well, like they don't work properly and miss things.
Warning: Antivirus programs have signatures of known viruses, and because of this they can have false positives on each other. Because of this you will have to set up each program to exclude the files and directories belonging to all the others, or you will probably get annoyed by lots of alerts from the false positives, and if they automatically quarantine or remove anything, they can eviscerate each other. You do NOT want that happening.
Honestly though, the improvement you get in antivirus security by using multiple programs is barely better than the best of the single best antivirus you're running, and may have no improvement at all. If they're free, hey, it's your system. But if you paid for them, you're wasting money.
(Years of testing and troubleshooting antivirus programs at a well known software company. Antivirus was my specialty. )
"Niantic pops up a warning saying "don't trespass" and "don't go to dangerous areas" when the game loads. I'm pretty sure they consider that enough to weasel out of any lawsuits. Because, as you point out, Niantic is a bunch of shits."
Perfectly normal warning, and anyone who goes against it is a stupid shit that shouldn't be playing in the first place. Take responsibility for your own actions.
I've done support for security software, and you'd be amazed how many people, admins in this case, have no idea just how many port scanners and other such bots are out there looking for possible entry points into your system. I had a special box set up to be outside our firewalls, but isolated from the company network just in case, that I used to keep an eye on some of the traffic and to generate logs I could show people. I know that sounds like something for marketing, but it wasn't. Some people are a bit paranoid, or just don't really understand what's going on out there and panic when they can suddenly see what used to be invisible to them. Especially if they put the security software in what I liked to call paranoid mode. Having those logs and current stats available made it much easier to calm people down and get them to put their settings on a more reasonable and functional threshold.
I have some sympathy for these guys, but the ones that set their antivirus software updates to every 3 minutes for 6000 machines and then freak when their network starts coughing up hairballs and then yells at us, well, they don't deserve any sympathy. No more than the ones that move their swap file to a ramdisk. Then of course there's the crashing email servers because some exec or whatever set his work email to forward to his personal email, and his personal email to forward to his work email. Then after saturating the thing with an infinite expanding email loop they somehow think it's being caused by our software. (Yeah, all these things are real, and far more common than you might expect.) But just because I think those types don't deserve sympathy for their creation of their own problems due to stupidity, it doesn't mean I won't be nice to them and help them as efficiently as I can.
So with all the arguments and the pulling out of Einstein, has anyone remembered that as particles increase towards lightspeed their apparent mass increases until they at light speed they'd have infinite mass, and thus never actually reach lightspeed? Light ALWAYS travels through the vacuum at lightspeed. And if you haven't noticed, nothing is getting smashed around by infinite mass.
Just because something doesn't have mass, that doesn't mean it can't affect other things. Also, don't forget that the Photon is the Force Carrier for the Electromagnetic Field.
Though lets be honest here, this isn't a science site that argues hard physics, of which I'm only barely qualified to be a spectator, the same as the rest of you. There is some argument over the possibility of the photon having an unbelievably tiny mass when not at rest that may be some kind of error in a test or misunderstanding of how it works. After all, the photon is kind of weird. It's also the only force carrier we can directly sense, since I'm not including the graviton since we haven't found it and it might not even exist (It's existence is a whole different discussion, lets not go there today), and the Higgs which we indirectly experience as mass interaction with gravity and inertia.
So basically, let's stop swinging the dicks around. The main point is that saying they teleported an object when it was only a photon is far more clickbait and deceptive than saying the IRS Scam ran from India actually helped you with your taxes.
Having energy does not imply mass. Look at the tachyon, it's a massless particle, and it's speed is defined by it's energy, the less it has the faster it goes, so at zero energy it has infinite speed. Please not that the tachyon is still theoretical and has in no way been detected yet, or at least not as far as we know. (Sci-fi writers really love playing with things like tachyons, so you can blame the physicists for this one.)
"Fryer said there was no indication the malware had caused inaccurate radar readings, but police were being "over cautious" to maintain public faith in the system."
I don't know what "public faith" regarding those ticket cams he's talking about, I've never heard of anyone that likes them or has ever trusted them in the first place.
National Security, for a drug investigation, regarding microsofts data? Mwahahahah! Just because the CIA, FBI, or whatever 3 letter acronym don't understand computer geeks, it doesn't mean they're doing illegal drugs!
Besides, no way drugs are a "National Security" issue, unless the 3 letter agencies aren't getting their prescription meds again.
Nobody on my side of the family is in construction or considered any kind of handyman. People tend to run and scream when we get powertools out. And even we know that standard lumber isn't the size it's called. I was probably 6 when it was explained to me. Of course, there was no reason given, so I just assumed the lumber guys had gotten one too many chunks of high speed wood to the head.
That jerk may be trying to make a class action suit, but it will completely fail since it's been an industry standard for at least a 80 years. (That's older than me, but the old folks I talked to it as a kid say it's always been that way.) Besides, isn't them suing Home Depot for selling standard lumber for it's real dimensions kind of like suing Chevron because gasoline is flammable...
The continent is officially named Eurasia. The mistaken idea of Europe being a continent was apparently created by some cartographers centuries ago when they incorrectly thought that the Ural Mountains were an isthmus for some bizarre reason. Europe, India, and Asia are all parts of the same continent. I've heard India referred to as a "Sub-Continent", so I'm guessing you could use that same terminology for the other parts of Eurasia as well. The worldwide recognition of Eurasia was done way back in 1984, so if your teachers are still getting that wrong, kindly invite them to move up to the late 20th century, or if they can possibly make it, to the early 21st with the rest of us.
Microsoft is on a roll in that category. After all, they named the THIRD iteration of their platform "One". If anyone has been in a cave for the last decade or so, it was Xbox, Xbox 360, and then Xbox One. So the fourth will apparently be Xbox One X. Somebody ought to find out who's been naming these things and take them to a doctor because they obviously have brain damage.
Steam did, it's called the Steam Machine. Here's a link that has more info and the peripherals and the Steam Machines themselves. http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/
Actually it was the electors that picked him, and most of those are rather well educated in some of the finest institutes of racist learning and enabling of white supremacy, for the rich.
There's a lot of stuff, but lets limit it to something simple for you. They are who we buy most of our stuff from, including megatons of raw resources, and it's also the same for who we sell most of our stuff to, including entertainment.
Actually no. It's pretty easy to understand that countries can't be trusted if the treaties made by one of the temporary wearer of the big hats won't be upheld by the next one, especially when they come as quickly as every 4 years, and in this country never lasts more than 8 under any circumstances.
Whether you like it or not, it's the duty of the POTUS to uphold our treaties and agreements, even if he personally doesn't like them. If he has the power to voluntarily dismiss them, he has to do it by the means allowed for in the agreement. If he doesn't like that, he can bite off his own dick for all that matters, assuming he can find it.
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Actually that sounds pretty standard for a lot of execs out there.
You have no idea how many support calls I took from crying secretaries because their boss told them to have it fixed today or they were fired. That's pretty rough, but it gets worse. The executive douche has the box locked, hasn't told the secretary what the password is, and can't be reached or won't answer the phone.
I'd get about 2 or 3 of those calls a month on the corporate support lines. I could do some pretty fantastic things over the phone with people that are marginally competent, but if they can't access the machine due to locks or passwords, there's nothing I can (legally) do about it. (When on a support call, even if you know a grey area way around the access issue, you don't even mention it. If they think of it on their own and do it, that's not your problem. Specifically where one company had to break down the door to the server room to get in and fix the server because the boss was out of the state on a 2 week vacation and took the only key with him.)
At a place where spoofed messages are supposedly rather common, as well as phone cloning, and other such questionable acts?
But do those text messages he sent record when the receiver actually opened the message and supposedly saw it?
The writing skills of many of the so called journalists is even worse, so everything tends to be up for debate without enough independent sources to verify with.
If it's gwar, they probably covered it with floppy foam spikes.
Let's get some usable numbers here then. What percentage of the pollution in the air is actually caused by brakes and tires?
I wonder what pollution he thinks regenerative brakes cause, especially since that system is very common in electric vehicles.
As to the tires, what does he suggest, we all start driving on our rims?
Until we get some relevant numbers that show tires and brakes really are a huge problem, I'm just slapping him into the unreasonable and alarmist hype corner.
So when people use what they're paying for, things slow down.
Well, it's not the users fault.
It's the fault of the company that OVERSOLD IT'S NETWORK !
This is nothing new, the douchehats have been doing that for decades!
Too bad they like to blame what's their fault on their customers though.
There is a right way and a wrong way to have multiple antivirus programs on the computer.
The right way: Only one of them can be using an active component that's looking out for viruses in realtime. You can manually run scans or schedule them, just make sure they don't overlap, those scans take time after all.
The wrong way: Any time you have scans overlap or have more than one realtime component running. They are trying to do the same thing with the same parts of the system, and that will usually slow your system, can cause obvious software issues, and can cause inobvious ones as well, like they don't work properly and miss things.
Warning: Antivirus programs have signatures of known viruses, and because of this they can have false positives on each other. Because of this you will have to set up each program to exclude the files and directories belonging to all the others, or you will probably get annoyed by lots of alerts from the false positives, and if they automatically quarantine or remove anything, they can eviscerate each other. You do NOT want that happening.
Honestly though, the improvement you get in antivirus security by using multiple programs is barely better than the best of the single best antivirus you're running, and may have no improvement at all. If they're free, hey, it's your system. But if you paid for them, you're wasting money.
(Years of testing and troubleshooting antivirus programs at a well known software company. Antivirus was my specialty. )
"Niantic pops up a warning saying "don't trespass" and "don't go to dangerous areas" when the game loads. I'm pretty sure they consider that enough to weasel out of any lawsuits. Because, as you point out, Niantic is a bunch of shits."
Perfectly normal warning, and anyone who goes against it is a stupid shit that shouldn't be playing in the first place. Take responsibility for your own actions.
I've done support for security software, and you'd be amazed how many people, admins in this case, have no idea just how many port scanners and other such bots are out there looking for possible entry points into your system.
I had a special box set up to be outside our firewalls, but isolated from the company network just in case, that I used to keep an eye on some of the traffic and to generate logs I could show people. I know that sounds like something for marketing, but it wasn't. Some people are a bit paranoid, or just don't really understand what's going on out there and panic when they can suddenly see what used to be invisible to them. Especially if they put the security software in what I liked to call paranoid mode.
Having those logs and current stats available made it much easier to calm people down and get them to put their settings on a more reasonable and functional threshold.
I have some sympathy for these guys, but the ones that set their antivirus software updates to every 3 minutes for 6000 machines and then freak when their network starts coughing up hairballs and then yells at us, well, they don't deserve any sympathy.
No more than the ones that move their swap file to a ramdisk.
Then of course there's the crashing email servers because some exec or whatever set his work email to forward to his personal email, and his personal email to forward to his work email. Then after saturating the thing with an infinite expanding email loop they somehow think it's being caused by our software.
(Yeah, all these things are real, and far more common than you might expect.)
But just because I think those types don't deserve sympathy for their creation of their own problems due to stupidity, it doesn't mean I won't be nice to them and help them as efficiently as I can.
Nope, that's due to the energy, not the mass.
So with all the arguments and the pulling out of Einstein, has anyone remembered that as particles increase towards lightspeed their apparent mass increases until they at light speed they'd have infinite mass, and thus never actually reach lightspeed?
Light ALWAYS travels through the vacuum at lightspeed. And if you haven't noticed, nothing is getting smashed around by infinite mass.
Just because something doesn't have mass, that doesn't mean it can't affect other things.
Also, don't forget that the Photon is the Force Carrier for the Electromagnetic Field.
Though lets be honest here, this isn't a science site that argues hard physics, of which I'm only barely qualified to be a spectator, the same as the rest of you. There is some argument over the possibility of the photon having an unbelievably tiny mass when not at rest that may be some kind of error in a test or misunderstanding of how it works. After all, the photon is kind of weird. It's also the only force carrier we can directly sense, since I'm not including the graviton since we haven't found it and it might not even exist (It's existence is a whole different discussion, lets not go there today), and the Higgs which we indirectly experience as mass interaction with gravity and inertia.
So basically, let's stop swinging the dicks around. The main point is that saying they teleported an object when it was only a photon is far more clickbait and deceptive than saying the IRS Scam ran from India actually helped you with your taxes.
Having energy does not imply mass. Look at the tachyon, it's a massless particle, and it's speed is defined by it's energy, the less it has the faster it goes, so at zero energy it has infinite speed. Please not that the tachyon is still theoretical and has in no way been detected yet, or at least not as far as we know.
(Sci-fi writers really love playing with things like tachyons, so you can blame the physicists for this one.)
Not at all, he's just being objective...
"Fryer said there was no indication the malware had caused inaccurate radar readings, but police were being "over cautious" to maintain public faith in the system."
I don't know what "public faith" regarding those ticket cams he's talking about, I've never heard of anyone that likes them or has ever trusted them in the first place.
National Security, for a drug investigation, regarding microsofts data? Mwahahahah! Just because the CIA, FBI, or whatever 3 letter acronym don't understand computer geeks, it doesn't mean they're doing illegal drugs!
Besides, no way drugs are a "National Security" issue, unless the 3 letter agencies aren't getting their prescription meds again.
Nobody on my side of the family is in construction or considered any kind of handyman. People tend to run and scream when we get powertools out. And even we know that standard lumber isn't the size it's called. I was probably 6 when it was explained to me. Of course, there was no reason given, so I just assumed the lumber guys had gotten one too many chunks of high speed wood to the head.
That jerk may be trying to make a class action suit, but it will completely fail since it's been an industry standard for at least a 80 years. (That's older than me, but the old folks I talked to it as a kid say it's always been that way.)
Besides, isn't them suing Home Depot for selling standard lumber for it's real dimensions kind of like suing Chevron because gasoline is flammable...
The continent is officially named Eurasia.
The mistaken idea of Europe being a continent was apparently created by some cartographers centuries ago when they incorrectly thought that the Ural Mountains were an isthmus for some bizarre reason.
Europe, India, and Asia are all parts of the same continent. I've heard India referred to as a "Sub-Continent", so I'm guessing you could use that same terminology for the other parts of Eurasia as well.
The worldwide recognition of Eurasia was done way back in 1984, so if your teachers are still getting that wrong, kindly invite them to move up to the late 20th century, or if they can possibly make it, to the early 21st with the rest of us.
I kind of like Chains per Moment.
(Yes, those are both specific measurements, google them, but probably not together.)
I agree. It's the selection of desirable games that determines the medium to long term market potential of any console.
Microsoft is on a roll in that category. After all, they named the THIRD iteration of their platform "One".
If anyone has been in a cave for the last decade or so, it was Xbox, Xbox 360, and then Xbox One. So the fourth will apparently be Xbox One X.
Somebody ought to find out who's been naming these things and take them to a doctor because they obviously have brain damage.
Steam did, it's called the Steam Machine.
Here's a link that has more info and the peripherals and the Steam Machines themselves.
http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/
Actually it was the electors that picked him, and most of those are rather well educated in some of the finest institutes of racist learning and enabling of white supremacy, for the rich.
There's a lot of stuff, but lets limit it to something simple for you.
They are who we buy most of our stuff from, including megatons of raw resources, and it's also the same for who we sell most of our stuff to, including entertainment.
Actually no.
It's pretty easy to understand that countries can't be trusted if the treaties made by one of the temporary wearer of the big hats won't be upheld by the next one, especially when they come as quickly as every 4 years, and in this country never lasts more than 8 under any circumstances.
Whether you like it or not, it's the duty of the POTUS to uphold our treaties and agreements, even if he personally doesn't like them. If he has the power to voluntarily dismiss them, he has to do it by the means allowed for in the agreement. If he doesn't like that, he can bite off his own dick for all that matters, assuming he can find it.
Applying anything using "per capita" makes chinas numbers look tiny compared to anyone else except for india.