Assuming that those options aren't problems from the code maintenance or security points of view, and if users haven't complained about them, then why remove them? I'm sure some people use them; in Pale Moon I have Tab Mix Plus set up to handle tabs in a way that most users would never even think of, and honestly, I'd be lost without it.
I know it's heresy to suggest that Chrome might actually be configurable to suit individual needs and tastes; that said, why can't they they just have a preferences setting to show or hide those items? There's a difference between taking the lowest common denominator into account, and catering exclusively to it; and I'm tired of features being stripped away from both software and hardware because the average non-demanding user isn't sufficiently sophisticated to make use of them.
These tractors from the Indian company are pretty good, all old school, old tech. No fancy nancy software controlled stuff. Simple rugged diesel engine and clearly understandable mechanical parts. Apparently it is competing well in South Africa with other global giant farm equipment companies, due to "fix it and run it in the bush several hundred miles from the nearest repair shop" ability. Sub compact models are available in USA too.
Sure - and even a simple bit of environmental legislation purchased by John Deere from yer friendly neighbourhood lobbyist will make these tractors illegal, at least until they live up to the emissions requirements that the JD tractors will meet, undoubtedly via VW-type software shenanigans. That will be followed by 'buy American' legislation, and foreign tractors will be shut out of the US market.
Think about it - even a paltry 20 years ago the gubmint would have stepped in and spanked John Deere for this egregious abuse, and now they're turning a blind eye, which in this case is tantamount to them supporting a mega-corp giving farmers the shaft. Pardon the pun, but the solution to this problem has to be 'home grown', and it involves 'grass-roots' action to utterly fucking destroy this corporate blockade. Doing end-runs and workarounds ain't gonna cut it - the system is badly broken, and it needs to be fixed.
Maybe someone has figured out to (expertly) disguise small explosives as batteries?
TFA says only that they have "banned the use of electronics on flights servicing the US", (italics mine). It doesn't say that they've banned the presence of the devices. So either the article is poorly worded and unclear, or the ban has nothing to do with bombs masquerading as electronic devices.
This may be like the "take off your shoes at the airport" bullshit, in that it may have nothing to do with security. It may have everything to do with exercising control, establishing reflexive obedience to authority, and fostering acceptance of American dominance over people of all nationalities anywhere in the world. Just the type of behaviour that a certain kind of bully tends to engage in.
For an entertaining 60's take on how it 'doesn't end well' for the 'gods', check out Norman Spinrad's novel Bug Jack Barron. When it comes to fears about and attitudes toward the subject of immortality for the rich and powerful, not much has changed in the past 50 years.
Came her to say this. The quote from TFS:
"Google Glass tells her what to do should she forget, for example, which part goes where."
A quote from 'Manna':
"It tells you exactly what to do. Like, It told me to get four new bags from the rack. When I did that it told me to go to trash can #1. Once I got there it told me to open the cabinet and pull out the trash can. Once I did that it told me to check the floor for any debris..."
I know that Google Glass isn't actually giving 'orders' in the same way that Manna is; but at this rate, can the day when that happens be very far off? For about a century now we've had public schools whose express purpose is to stunt intellectual and emotional growth in order to produce a pliant and compliant population suitable to be "human resources" which, just like "natural resources", are effectively raw materials for a production economy. Now those 'resources' are increasingly allocated and directed by the nascent AI's that are now ubiquitous and are approaching an unprecedented kind of autonomy. The use of Google Glass on the factory floor is just the thin edge of the wedge.
Who gives a shit what orientation the video is filmed in? Is this one of those things where people bitch about something only because other people are bitching about it too?
Damn! I have mod points, but I can't find the '-1 Clueless' selection that your post deserves.
Seriously, read at -1 at some point. If it weren't for the moderation system doing it's job you'd see that Slashdot is a cesspool of shit that makes 4chan look good.
I always read at -1, and it's surprising the number of posts at -1 that I mod up. Yes, there's a lot of crap in the basement, and never having visited 4chan I can't say how Slashdot stacks up. But honestly, I think it could be a lot worse. I wouldn't call this "a cesspool of shit", although it certainly does contain some nasty cesspools. Maybe I've just gotten used to it.
If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
Because customers who delivered their computers to Best Buy in good faith, might be visited by the FBI for material that only looked like evidence of wrongdoing but was in fact nothing of the kind. Also, $500 for each conviction might be enough of an incentive to manufacture evidence and place it on the computer - and even some Geek Squad members probably know enough to do so and successfully cover their tracks. When law enforcement pays outsiders for evidence, such evidence is automatically tainted as far as I'm concerned.
- Privacy settings in your browser, especially Privacy Badger and uBlock
- Blocking Flash/WebGL/Canvas fingerprinting
- Disabling Javascript
- Using a VPN
- Especially using TOR
I find what triggers endless captcha loops is the regression of Google's search capability, such that I have to repeat the same basic query multiple times with different minor variations in attempts to bypass Google's belief that it knows what I want better than I do. At least once a week, and often several times per day, I get stuck doing Google captchas. I guess it doesn't help that I have a wide range of interests and the type and range of query I make can change dramatically in a short period of time.
Google really is gearing its results to the lowest common denominator among Internet users. It never used to be that way. If I had the opportunity to pay for the quality of search capability that Google provided a decade ago I would do so. But I guess they're not interested in receiving money from us, AKA "their products". They're only interested in monetizing us by selling our data, not in providing quality data to us.
but they didn't provide ANY indication of the exact questions asked, how they chose potential respondents, how they rejected potential respondents, how many results they threw away and under what criteria - you know, any of the important stuff that would allow the reader to actually evaluate whether or not the conclusions drawn have even a chance of reflecting the real state of affairs. The 'article' is a blatant, crude, substanceless, hit-and-run propaganda piece, and any thinking person should either take its conclusions with a whole cupful of salt, or dismiss them out of hand.
You'd just use error-correcting code. Store 3 copies (or 5 or 10 or whatever) and do comparisons...
Yeah, you're right - I guess with that high a data density you can afford to give some up for the sake of redundancy. Slows down the throughput a bit though.
Think of the amount of data you could store in a single copper BB if the atoms could be used as memory.
Yes, but how much shielding against stray radiation will be required to preserve the integrity of all that data? Not to mention protection against magnetic fields - I imagine it would be pretty easy to induce eddy currents that would provide 150mV worth of potential at the requisite 10 uA to flip a few bits. I'm sure they'll solve such problems, but I think we're a long way from seeing a practical implementation.
Management-speak, HR-speak, PHB-speak, flavour of the month bullshit. The scary thing is that decision-makers will actually try to implement and enforce programs based on this nonsense, and expect the troops to deliver on some hazy, ill-defined vision that some consultants dreamed up to enrich themselves. I'm continually amazed how corporate culture can pretend, so reliably and for so long, that the emperor is indeed wearing a spiffy new suit of clothes and not the ratty, sagging, pock-marked birthday suit he's most likely to be sporting on any given day.
Start our own equipment company, with full parts availability and no lock-in. They'll be selling like hotcakes!
Came here to say something similar - the comment subject was going to be "Time for some traitors". Basically, some companies already in various end-user-equipment manufacturing businesses should betray the brotherhood of pillaging corporations and take this opportunity to gain some market share.
As for the "start our own equipment company" idea, it's a good one. But going head-to-head with the large incumbents will require sizeable investment - and it's the "investors rule" mentality that leads companies to do everything they can to get ALL the additional revenue that goes along with failures among the products they sell. I fear that even a company founded on the principle that customers actually own the equipment they buy, and therefore have a right to repair it, will sooner rather than later cave in to investor pressure. It is, after all, a defining characteristic of Capitalism.
That was an insightful, informative, and well-written post - thanks for taking the time to write it.
Blurring the line between external and internal security is a radical, pseduo-conservative move that underlines a long and successful American tradition.
You understand that as long there has been life on this planet, it has been bathed in EM radiation, right?
Here I go being responding to your trolling again... Sure, ALL wavelengths, power levels, durations, proximities, and modulation envelopes of EM radiation, from hertz to terahertz, can be assumed to have the same effect, (or lack thereof), on human cell and tissues. NOT.
If that's the case, then the entire human race needs to move to the bottom of salt mines, because the amount of radiation being produced by the sun ought to fry our brains by the time we're six months old.
I'm pretty sure that by the time the sun's radiation reaches us, the amount of it that can penetrate more than a millimetre below the skin is vanishingly small. OTOH, the radiation from a cell phone, can and does penetrate much farther - as in all the way through.
The video shows off Kalanick's pugnacious personality and short temper, which may cause some investors to question whether he has the disposition to lead a $69 billion company with a footprint that spans the globe.
I thought investors loved assholes, given the number of them that are (supposedly) running major companies.
Probably not as convenient, nor as good, as a keyboard built into the phone, and there may be security issues as well. But it might be worth considering for those times when only a physical keyboard will do. Plus you also have the option of using it with a tablet if the need arises. Sucks to have to charge it separately though.
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Assuming that those options aren't problems from the code maintenance or security points of view, and if users haven't complained about them, then why remove them? I'm sure some people use them; in Pale Moon I have Tab Mix Plus set up to handle tabs in a way that most users would never even think of, and honestly, I'd be lost without it.
I know it's heresy to suggest that Chrome might actually be configurable to suit individual needs and tastes; that said, why can't they they just have a preferences setting to show or hide those items? There's a difference between taking the lowest common denominator into account, and catering exclusively to it; and I'm tired of features being stripped away from both software and hardware because the average non-demanding user isn't sufficiently sophisticated to make use of them.
These tractors from the Indian company are pretty good, all old school, old tech. No fancy nancy software controlled stuff. Simple rugged diesel engine and clearly understandable mechanical parts. Apparently it is competing well in South Africa with other global giant farm equipment companies, due to "fix it and run it in the bush several hundred miles from the nearest repair shop" ability. Sub compact models are available in USA too.
Sure - and even a simple bit of environmental legislation purchased by John Deere from yer friendly neighbourhood lobbyist will make these tractors illegal, at least until they live up to the emissions requirements that the JD tractors will meet, undoubtedly via VW-type software shenanigans. That will be followed by 'buy American' legislation, and foreign tractors will be shut out of the US market.
Think about it - even a paltry 20 years ago the gubmint would have stepped in and spanked John Deere for this egregious abuse, and now they're turning a blind eye, which in this case is tantamount to them supporting a mega-corp giving farmers the shaft. Pardon the pun, but the solution to this problem has to be 'home grown', and it involves 'grass-roots' action to utterly fucking destroy this corporate blockade. Doing end-runs and workarounds ain't gonna cut it - the system is badly broken, and it needs to be fixed.
Maybe someone has figured out to (expertly) disguise small explosives as batteries?
TFA says only that they have "banned the use of electronics on flights servicing the US", (italics mine). It doesn't say that they've banned the presence of the devices. So either the article is poorly worded and unclear, or the ban has nothing to do with bombs masquerading as electronic devices.
This may be like the "take off your shoes at the airport" bullshit, in that it may have nothing to do with security. It may have everything to do with exercising control, establishing reflexive obedience to authority, and fostering acceptance of American dominance over people of all nationalities anywhere in the world. Just the type of behaviour that a certain kind of bully tends to engage in.
This. The vain cunts fancy themselves as gods.
Can't see it ending well.
For an entertaining 60's take on how it 'doesn't end well' for the 'gods', check out Norman Spinrad's novel Bug Jack Barron . When it comes to fears about and attitudes toward the subject of immortality for the rich and powerful, not much has changed in the past 50 years.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Came her to say this. The quote from TFS:
"Google Glass tells her what to do should she forget, for example, which part goes where."
A quote from 'Manna':
"It tells you exactly what to do. Like, It told me to get four new bags from the rack. When I did that it told me to go to trash can #1. Once I got there it told me to open the cabinet and pull out the trash can. Once I did that it told me to check the floor for any debris..."
I know that Google Glass isn't actually giving 'orders' in the same way that Manna is; but at this rate, can the day when that happens be very far off? For about a century now we've had public schools whose express purpose is to stunt intellectual and emotional growth in order to produce a pliant and compliant population suitable to be "human resources" which, just like "natural resources", are effectively raw materials for a production economy. Now those 'resources' are increasingly allocated and directed by the nascent AI's that are now ubiquitous and are approaching an unprecedented kind of autonomy. The use of Google Glass on the factory floor is just the thin edge of the wedge.
...whenever Hyperloop comes up people actually seem to think that it is a pneumatic tube system...
1) Hyperloop Alpha is not a pneumatic tube system. The capsules are not pushed by pressure. Quite the opposite, the tubes are a partial vacuum.
So is it fair to say that Hyperloop sucks and a pneumatic tube system blows?
Who gives a shit what orientation the video is filmed in? Is this one of those things where people bitch about something only because other people are bitching about it too?
Damn! I have mod points, but I can't find the '-1 Clueless' selection that your post deserves.
Seriously, read at -1 at some point. If it weren't for the moderation system doing it's job you'd see that Slashdot is a cesspool of shit that makes 4chan look good.
I always read at -1, and it's surprising the number of posts at -1 that I mod up. Yes, there's a lot of crap in the basement, and never having visited 4chan I can't say how Slashdot stacks up. But honestly, I think it could be a lot worse. I wouldn't call this "a cesspool of shit", although it certainly does contain some nasty cesspools. Maybe I've just gotten used to it.
If you have nothing to hide, why should it matter either way?
Because customers who delivered their computers to Best Buy in good faith, might be visited by the FBI for material that only looked like evidence of wrongdoing but was in fact nothing of the kind. Also, $500 for each conviction might be enough of an incentive to manufacture evidence and place it on the computer - and even some Geek Squad members probably know enough to do so and successfully cover their tracks. When law enforcement pays outsiders for evidence, such evidence is automatically tainted as far as I'm concerned.
I find what triggers to endless captcha loops is:
- Privacy settings in your browser, especially Privacy Badger and uBlock - Blocking Flash/WebGL/Canvas fingerprinting - Disabling Javascript - Using a VPN - Especially using TOR
I find what triggers endless captcha loops is the regression of Google's search capability, such that I have to repeat the same basic query multiple times with different minor variations in attempts to bypass Google's belief that it knows what I want better than I do. At least once a week, and often several times per day, I get stuck doing Google captchas. I guess it doesn't help that I have a wide range of interests and the type and range of query I make can change dramatically in a short period of time.
Google really is gearing its results to the lowest common denominator among Internet users. It never used to be that way. If I had the opportunity to pay for the quality of search capability that Google provided a decade ago I would do so. But I guess they're not interested in receiving money from us, AKA "their products". They're only interested in monetizing us by selling our data, not in providing quality data to us.
but they didn't provide ANY indication of the exact questions asked, how they chose potential respondents, how they rejected potential respondents, how many results they threw away and under what criteria - you know, any of the important stuff that would allow the reader to actually evaluate whether or not the conclusions drawn have even a chance of reflecting the real state of affairs. The 'article' is a blatant, crude, substanceless, hit-and-run propaganda piece, and any thinking person should either take its conclusions with a whole cupful of salt, or dismiss them out of hand.
You'd just use error-correcting code. Store 3 copies (or 5 or 10 or whatever) and do comparisons...
Yeah, you're right - I guess with that high a data density you can afford to give some up for the sake of redundancy. Slows down the throughput a bit though.
Think of the amount of data you could store in a single copper BB if the atoms could be used as memory.
Yes, but how much shielding against stray radiation will be required to preserve the integrity of all that data? Not to mention protection against magnetic fields - I imagine it would be pretty easy to induce eddy currents that would provide 150mV worth of potential at the requisite 10 uA to flip a few bits. I'm sure they'll solve such problems, but I think we're a long way from seeing a practical implementation.
Management-speak, HR-speak, PHB-speak, flavour of the month bullshit. The scary thing is that decision-makers will actually try to implement and enforce programs based on this nonsense, and expect the troops to deliver on some hazy, ill-defined vision that some consultants dreamed up to enrich themselves. I'm continually amazed how corporate culture can pretend, so reliably and for so long, that the emperor is indeed wearing a spiffy new suit of clothes and not the ratty, sagging, pock-marked birthday suit he's most likely to be sporting on any given day.
Start our own equipment company, with full parts availability and no lock-in. They'll be selling like hotcakes!
Came here to say something similar - the comment subject was going to be "Time for some traitors". Basically, some companies already in various end-user-equipment manufacturing businesses should betray the brotherhood of pillaging corporations and take this opportunity to gain some market share.
As for the "start our own equipment company" idea, it's a good one. But going head-to-head with the large incumbents will require sizeable investment - and it's the "investors rule" mentality that leads companies to do everything they can to get ALL the additional revenue that goes along with failures among the products they sell. I fear that even a company founded on the principle that customers actually own the equipment they buy, and therefore have a right to repair it, will sooner rather than later cave in to investor pressure. It is, after all, a defining characteristic of Capitalism.
Blurring the line between reality and fiction since 1975!
That was an insightful, informative, and well-written post - thanks for taking the time to write it.
Blurring the line between external and internal security is a radical, pseduo-conservative move that underlines a long and successful American tradition.
Should that have been "undermines"?
Now my country is going down the tubes too. Corporatocracy wins again. Bastards.
You understand that as long there has been life on this planet, it has been bathed in EM radiation, right?
Here I go being responding to your trolling again... Sure, ALL wavelengths, power levels, durations, proximities, and modulation envelopes of EM radiation, from hertz to terahertz, can be assumed to have the same effect, (or lack thereof), on human cell and tissues. NOT.
Let me ask you. Can the body tolerate solar RF?
I thought you were just having an unreasonable knee-jerk reaction, but now I realize that you're trolling.
If that's the case, then the entire human race needs to move to the bottom of salt mines, because the amount of radiation being produced by the sun ought to fry our brains by the time we're six months old.
I'm pretty sure that by the time the sun's radiation reaches us, the amount of it that can penetrate more than a millimetre below the skin is vanishingly small. OTOH, the radiation from a cell phone, can and does penetrate much farther - as in all the way through.
The video shows off Kalanick's pugnacious personality and short temper, which may cause some investors to question whether he has the disposition to lead a $69 billion company with a footprint that spans the globe.
I thought investors loved assholes, given the number of them that are (supposedly) running major companies.
Why is this on Slashdot?
I dunno. Maybe because not enough people took 'a drink from the Firehose' and downmodded it?
PayPal is evil? Who knew?
Even the best on-screen keyboard on a phablet phone is not as good as a physical keyboard.
You might want to look into something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Wireles...
Probably not as convenient, nor as good, as a keyboard built into the phone, and there may be security issues as well. But it might be worth considering for those times when only a physical keyboard will do. Plus you also have the option of using it with a tablet if the need arises. Sucks to have to charge it separately though.