Boxes of unsorted papers piled into a bin at a storage facility don't have much value at all (other than as fire starter, which function they apparently did indeed fulfill.)
If they were real archives they would be kept somewhere that they could be indexed and studied. Papers would be scanned and put online for scholars to view.
Boxes in a garage (or garage equivalent)? Meh.
They suddenly become valuable to someone in hindsight. Sure it is. Just like the kids comic book collection that Mom threw out after telling him to clean up his room fifty times over the course of the previous week. If it's valuable, look after it. Otherwise, it ain't.
I have an old Android tablet that I haven't used in about a year. I fired it up the other day and it told me to log into my gmail/google account again. Ok, done.
Next I get an email from Google: You just activated a new device on your account.
Really? It's a device that I had activated on my account before.
I just stumbled across it the other day in the Centos NUX repository and it looks like it might be interesting, though I haven't installed it to play with yet.
There's lots of software around that doesn't show Google ads. Even web browsers!
You do realize that it's possible to sell software, or to get ads from other sources (or even sell advertising space yourself, heaven forfend!).
There's even something known as Free Software that has a whole ecosystem that's built up around the idea that software can be developed and distributed without requiring everyone to reach into his pocket and pull out a credit card.
The application for the warrant quickly made its way through the court.... I securely erased my computers and memory cards. I couldnâ(TM)t risk the police being able to identify sources from other stories, or finding passwords to access my email and instant messaging accounts which could compromise other peopleâ(TM)s sources.
So he is notified that he is the subject of a search warrant and immediately erases all of his data. Wouldn't that act alone get you a jail term in normal circumstances?
For a period of about 10 years in the early 1990's it was impossible to by a PC that did not include a MS Windows license.
That "ten years" is still ongoing today, unless you know something I don't know.
I can't walk into Staples and buy a computer without Windows. I might be able to get a desktop from a computer specialty store as a custom build. I certainly can't buy a new laptop in any retail store (that I'm aware of) without Windows.
The bowling alley here in town still uses a few Amigas to keep the score for each lane. I'm not entirely sure how it works or exactly what it does (since I don't know anything about bowling), but the machines somehow track the scores and post them on monitors over each lane.
The owner told me once that he has a whole pile of Amigas for spare parts in the back.
I have three or four little flash games that I have downloaded over the course of time, keep on my computer, and play occasionally. I could live without them, I suppose; they aren't anything super-spectacular. But I like them.
It would be nice to some kind of a local flash execution tool for that sort of thing. Right now I load them into Firefox to play them.
There are a lot (or at least more than a few) people who have significant assets but don't flaunt them in any way. Living in the little house on the corner, driving the ten year old car, etc.
Should these people be publicly "outed" so they become targets for everyone from burglars to scam artists to kidnappers? "Lets kidnap Mrs. Smith's grandkid -- she can afford to pay a big ransom!"
Why in the world would you want to spend you time doing free bug testing for a for-profit company that doesn't have your best interests in mind anyway?
I would rather put in my time fixing free software; at least I get something for my time there -- a good feeling of having contributed something to a worthwhile cause, not someone else's profit margin.
xforms isn't a moving target like gtk+, and it works with C. So I can write a program using xforms and look at it again in 20 years without having to rewrite it in the flavour-of-the-week.
I view it as the gui equivalent to ncurses, actually.
I've loved geany for my programming editor ever since I first came across it some years back. Mind you, I really only program in C with (usually) ncurses or (sometimes) the xforms toolkit, so maybe I'm just easy to please and not the target audience for the all-singing all-dancing IDE stuff. I use vim for general text editing where I'm just adding three lines to a configuration file or making a note of my dentist appointment since it's almost instantaneous and everything is just a keystroke away, but for programming it's nice to sit back in my chair with a full-screen geany session.
It would be a better solution technically, but Windows exists largely on support for legacy software. Microsoft would lose a lot of their lock-in. If I have to buy or write new software anyway, why wouldn't I run it on Linux instead?
After thinking about it, I just don't see a way for someone to place a call to your phone number and have it automatically routed to your telephone provider's voicemail without your telephone provider's cooperation.
Make two calls at once, one-half second apart. Hang up the first call before it starts ringing the phone. The second call will see that the line is engaged by the first call and go to voicemail.
You can still do this. Just keep repeating your message until the outbound message timer runs out, usually two minutes with most voicemail systems.
"I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that. This machine does not take messages. *short pause* I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that. This machine does not take messages. *short pause*..." continue until the outbound message timer runs out.
Anyone calling will hear that message repeated and figure that it's on an infinite loop and hang up before the end of the message.
I recorded the out of service SIT tone (the three rising beeps that you hear when you dial an out of service phone number) as the first thing on my outbound voicemail message. So my outbound message is "beep beep beep Hello this is me etc. etc.")
Most robodialers are programmed to hang up and remove the number from their dialing lists when they hear those three beeps.
Real people can still leave you a message, but it works amazingly well to keep spammers off of your voicemail.
You can download the sit tone from several places; just run the phrase "sit tone" through google and you'll find it.
I used to do that when I still had a fax machine. Any time I got fax spam (selling steel buildings, roofing, furnace cleaning services, work clothes, whatever) I would call the contact number on the fax and very politely work my way up as far as I could through their company or ordering people. After I got to a shift supervisor or the manager or someone else who thought I was extremely interested in buying a large quantity of their product, I would suddenly switch to very loudly yelling at them for sending me an unsolicited fax and demand that they take my number off of their list immediately.
Sometimes I would do that to a fax spammer three or four times in a row over the course of an afternoon.
I don't know if it really cut down on the fax spam that I received, but it certainly shocked some of the folks that were sending it.
Many copy protection schemes on the Commodore 64 floppy drive usually involved writing a deliberate error to one of the sectors. This would cause the read/write head to attempt to re-align itself and bang against the stop to attempt to read the bad sector. Over the course of time all of this hammering would cause the read/write head to go out of alignment, a common problem on 1541 floppy drives.
I've also heard of (but never personally seen) a floppy disk with a hole punched in it in an unused location so if you loaded the program normally nothing happened but if you tried to copy the entire disk the read/write head would drop into the hole and be torn off.
The article links this as being the dataset "consist[ing] of six downloadable zip files, with four containing around 10,000 profile photos each and two files with sample sets of around 500 images per gender."
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Live by the $150,000 sword, die by the same as the saying goes.
People who live in glass houses and all that.
Closed-source client software talking to a proprietary platform far away from where you are.
So you (or your independent expert panel) have tested and verified their marketing claims.... how, exactly?
Boxes of unsorted papers piled into a bin at a storage facility don't have much value at all (other than as fire starter, which function they apparently did indeed fulfill.)
If they were real archives they would be kept somewhere that they could be indexed and studied. Papers would be scanned and put online for scholars to view.
Boxes in a garage (or garage equivalent)? Meh.
They suddenly become valuable to someone in hindsight. Sure it is. Just like the kids comic book collection that Mom threw out after telling him to clean up his room fifty times over the course of the previous week. If it's valuable, look after it. Otherwise, it ain't.
I have an old Android tablet that I haven't used in about a year. I fired it up the other day and it told me to log into my gmail/google account again. Ok, done.
Next I get an email from Google: You just activated a new device on your account.
Really? It's a device that I had activated on my account before.
Deadpool is Fox, not Disney.
Has anyone tried Otter Browser?
I just stumbled across it the other day in the Centos NUX repository and it looks like it might be interesting, though I haven't installed it to play with yet.
There's lots of software around that doesn't show Google ads. Even web browsers!
You do realize that it's possible to sell software, or to get ads from other sources (or even sell advertising space yourself, heaven forfend!).
There's even something known as Free Software that has a whole ecosystem that's built up around the idea that software can be developed and distributed without requiring everyone to reach into his pocket and pull out a credit card.
The application for the warrant quickly made its way through the court.... I securely erased my computers and memory cards. I couldnâ(TM)t risk the police being able to identify sources from other stories, or finding passwords to access my email and instant messaging accounts which could compromise other peopleâ(TM)s sources.
So he is notified that he is the subject of a search warrant and immediately erases all of his data. Wouldn't that act alone get you a jail term in normal circumstances?
For a period of about 10 years in the early 1990's it was impossible to by a PC that did not include a MS Windows license.
That "ten years" is still ongoing today, unless you know something I don't know.
I can't walk into Staples and buy a computer without Windows. I might be able to get a desktop from a computer specialty store as a custom build. I certainly can't buy a new laptop in any retail store (that I'm aware of) without Windows.
I keep all of my bookmarks organized on a webpage that I call bookmarks.html. (Amazing, that.)
I have the home button on my web browsers all set to load ~/bookmarks.html.
So I can just click home, then search for the website I want and click on it.
Of course, the top entries bookmarks.html consist of the websites that I visit often.
Easy, cross-platform and fully portable between web browsers and machines.
On the occasion that I want to add a new bookmark I just write one into bookmarks.html with my handy dandy text editor.
If the movie studios kill the theatres then they (the movie studios) will become mere tv studios without an actual tv channel.
Television show production houses are a dime-a-dozen.
Who's going to pay $100 million dollars or more to make yet another made-for-tv movie?
The bowling alley here in town still uses a few Amigas to keep the score for each lane. I'm not entirely sure how it works or exactly what it does (since I don't know anything about bowling), but the machines somehow track the scores and post them on monitors over each lane.
The owner told me once that he has a whole pile of Amigas for spare parts in the back.
I have three or four little flash games that I have downloaded over the course of time, keep on my computer, and play occasionally. I could live without them, I suppose; they aren't anything super-spectacular. But I like them.
It would be nice to some kind of a local flash execution tool for that sort of thing. Right now I load them into Firefox to play them.
There are a lot (or at least more than a few) people who have significant assets but don't flaunt them in any way. Living in the little house on the corner, driving the ten year old car, etc.
Should these people be publicly "outed" so they become targets for everyone from burglars to scam artists to kidnappers? "Lets kidnap Mrs. Smith's grandkid -- she can afford to pay a big ransom!"
Why in the world would you want to spend you time doing free bug testing for a for-profit company that doesn't have your best interests in mind anyway?
I would rather put in my time fixing free software; at least I get something for my time there -- a good feeling of having contributed something to a worthwhile cause, not someone else's profit margin.
xforms isn't a moving target like gtk+, and it works with C. So I can write a program using xforms and look at it again in 20 years without having to rewrite it in the flavour-of-the-week.
I view it as the gui equivalent to ncurses, actually.
I've loved geany for my programming editor ever since I first came across it some years back.
Mind you, I really only program in C with (usually) ncurses or (sometimes) the xforms toolkit, so maybe I'm just easy to please and not the target audience for the all-singing all-dancing IDE stuff.
I use vim for general text editing where I'm just adding three lines to a configuration file or making a note of my dentist appointment since it's almost instantaneous and everything is just a keystroke away, but for programming it's nice to sit back in my chair with a full-screen geany session.
It would be a better solution technically, but Windows exists largely on support for legacy software. Microsoft would lose a lot of their lock-in. If I have to buy or write new software anyway, why wouldn't I run it on Linux instead?
This was a labour of love, so now give me money.
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There's a serious disconnect in there.
After thinking about it, I just don't see a way for someone to place a call to your phone number and have it automatically routed to your telephone provider's voicemail without your telephone provider's cooperation.
Make two calls at once, one-half second apart. Hang up the first call before it starts ringing the phone. The second call will see that the line is engaged by the first call and go to voicemail.
You can still do this. Just keep repeating your message until the outbound message timer runs out, usually two minutes with most voicemail systems.
"I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that. This machine does not take messages. *short pause* I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that. This machine does not take messages. *short pause*..." continue until the outbound message timer runs out.
Anyone calling will hear that message repeated and figure that it's on an infinite loop and hang up before the end of the message.
I recorded the out of service SIT tone (the three rising beeps that you hear when you dial an out of service phone number) as the first thing on my outbound voicemail message. So my outbound message is "beep beep beep Hello this is me etc. etc.")
Most robodialers are programmed to hang up and remove the number from their dialing lists when they hear those three beeps.
Real people can still leave you a message, but it works amazingly well to keep spammers off of your voicemail.
You can download the sit tone from several places; just run the phrase "sit tone" through google and you'll find it.
I used to do that when I still had a fax machine. Any time I got fax spam (selling steel buildings, roofing, furnace cleaning services, work clothes, whatever) I would call the contact number on the fax and very politely work my way up as far as I could through their company or ordering people. After I got to a shift supervisor or the manager or someone else who thought I was extremely interested in buying a large quantity of their product, I would suddenly switch to very loudly yelling at them for sending me an unsolicited fax and demand that they take my number off of their list immediately.
Sometimes I would do that to a fax spammer three or four times in a row over the course of an afternoon.
I don't know if it really cut down on the fax spam that I received, but it certainly shocked some of the folks that were sending it.
Many copy protection schemes on the Commodore 64 floppy drive usually involved writing a deliberate error to one of the sectors. This would cause the read/write head to attempt to re-align itself and bang against the stop to attempt to read the bad sector. Over the course of time all of this hammering would cause the read/write head to go out of alignment, a common problem on 1541 floppy drives.
I've also heard of (but never personally seen) a floppy disk with a hole punched in it in an unused location so if you loaded the program normally nothing happened but if you tried to copy the entire disk the read/write head would drop into the hole and be torn off.
The article links this as being the dataset "consist[ing] of six downloadable zip files, with four containing around 10,000 profile photos each and two files with sample sets of around 500 images per gender."
https://www.kaggle.com/scolian...
Which gives a 404.