...OTA is the only way to accomplish secure centralized remote control over the car you are renting from the manufacturer in a seamless, comprehensive, and fully integrated manner.
FTFY, Mr. Beardslee!
In related news, the automotive sector officially announces that it has joined smartphone manufacturers, cellular service providers, appliance manufacturers, and producers of desktop operating systems and software, in the last push for complete corporate hegemony. Industry representatives say that very soon now, full-time monitoring and control of the population will be realized, and both true individual ownership, and personal autonomy, will be things of the past.
Exactly. Just as expressing time of day in Minutes, Hours, Seconds would be stupid. By the logic of "MM/DD/YYYY", Pi hour would occur at 14:03:16 instead of at 3:14:16.
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error.
I NEVER log in to YouTube - don't even have an account, except perhaps insofar as I have a Gmail account, (which I never use), because of Android. And I DO see the error message. It DOESN'T last the length of an ad - it lasts for a second or two. I'm running both Flashblock and Adblock Edge - Adblock for obvious reasons, and Flashblock because I often have multiple YouTube tabs open and only want one to play at a time. And I have a Greasemonkey script that automatically turns off Autoplay.
I don't think there is anything to be concerned about. They didn't engineer this bacterium, they discovered it. Yet we don't have a massive epidemic of credit-card-eating bacteria everywhere. Why? Probably because although they can eat it, it isn't their preferred food source. Now if someone knocks out some metabolic pathways so that they have to eat plastic to survive, then maybe we'll have something to worry about.
Aren't you concerned that some scientist will knock out those metabolic pathways? Or that natural mutations in that direction might occur merely because of a change from their natural environment to one which is rich in PET and scarce in their currently-preferred nutrients?
Snowden’s leaks have complicated the encryption issue, Obama said, by "elevating people’s suspicions" of government surveillance.
Duh! When a Peeping Tom gets caught looking in the neighbours' windows over and over again, the whole neighbourhood's suspicions are justifiably elevated. And when it's discovered that ol' Tom is taking pictures and sharing them with other voyeurs, the rest of the neighbourhood isn't just 'suspicious', it's both fearful and angry!
So Mr. President, are you saying that our neighbourhood would be better off if our good neighbour Ed simply hadn't told us what's going on? And, let me get this straight, you're saying that we ought not to be allowed BY LAW to put up blinds and drapes in our homes? Or that if we do have them, ol' Tom has a legal right to open them whenever he damned well pleases? It's certainly VERY difficult to interpret your words in any other way. And if you would disagree with my characterization of various government agencies as Peeping Toms, I'd very much like to hear your argument; frankly, I doubt that you can come up with anything even remotely convincing. As for our private information being "accessible by the smallest number of people possible for the subset of issues that we agree is important", well, that's more than a little vague, don't you think? Not to mention ambiguous, and ultimately meaningless as well. What you'd really like to say is "just trust us!"; but you realize on some level that you have already destroyed the trust you want from us, so you use weasel words to skirt the issue.
Barack Obama, I believe that you are being brazenly, foolishly, cynically disingenuous in a manner unbecoming of "the leader of the free world". You are drastically lowering the bar of leadership while you simultaneously debase and undermine the freedom you swore to protect. Shame on you, Mr. President.
If you're on some other Linux variant, (or on Debian or 'buntu for that matter), just run the install script available here: https://linux.palemoon.org/dow...
Really, it's not that hard. Hell, there's even a special version for the Raspberry Pi.
That's why I use Pale Moon. It's FireFox without the bloat. And it's also available in a 64-bit version.
Just commenting on this so the parent AC post becomes visible - more people need to know about Pale Moon. I use it too - installed it after FF came out with that Australis shit and I decided I'd had enough of Mozilla's attitude problem.
If enough users adopt Pale Moon, the developer may have enough sufficient resources to keep it alive, security updates and all, when FF inevitably goes down the drain around which it is circling more closely with each passing release.
It's time to bury Windows in a deep, dark hole, remember it for all the good stuff it brought to computing, try to forget about all the shit it foisted upon unsuspecting users, and move on to a less self-serving and traitorous alternative.
What's the alternative?
Admittedly, that's a big problem. I use Xubuntu, but I realize there are lots of mission-critical applications for which there is no Linux alternative. One reason for that is that so many people simply don't understand or don't care about Microsoft shenanigans. If a majority of the people who use MS Office could be persuaded that Libre Office will do everything they need, for zero cost other than a relatively minor learning curve, that would be a good start. But then there are things like Photoshop, professional CAD programs, etc, that require Windows. But if enough people rejected Microsoft by using an alternative office suite, that might catch the attention of heavy-hitting software vendors. Then again, that kind of attention might just hasten the embracing, extending, and ultimate extinction of Linux...
Anyway, we probably won't get rid of Windows or its (probably equally abusive) successor, for the same reason we won't get rid of our various badly broken governments, electoral systems, corporatocracies, economies, etc. Inertia, apathy, and fear of the unknown are powerful forces. But it's nice to dream that we might collectively get beyond that, and a necessary early step is pointing how bad things currently are, and why.
When you have to resort to third-party programs to restore and control basic OS functionality, and to stop your own computer from spying on you, then said OS has truly and irrevocably jumped the shark. It's time to bury Windows in a deep, dark hole, remember it for all the good stuff it brought to computing, try to forget about all the shit it foisted upon unsuspecting users, and move on to a less self-serving and traitorous alternative. Die, Microsoft - just die. Please.
There's plenty of evidence that microwave radiation at the level of a cell phone increases cancer risk. Here's one repeated, peer-reviewed study: http://microwavenews.com/news-...
I'm not willing to pay for a copy of the research paper, (fuck Elsevier), but I'd like to read it. It's so easy to play games with numbers in order to arrive at 'statistical significance'. All too often a 'smoking gun' turns out to be the combination of a replica firearm and a puff of mist. I'm not saying there ISN'T a causal link between RF exposure and various kinds of biological harm; I'm only saying that it will take more than third-hand conclusions about a scientific study to convince me. (This in spite of my posting above regarding having felt the effect of cell phone radiation on my own head).
You must get really tired of frying the side of your head with your cell phone, then; its maximum transmit power is more than one watt, and if you're holding it to your ear, you're intercepting close to half of that power.
These same morons somehow thought it was better to wear an earpiece and keep the "radiation emitting" phone in their pocket or on a holster near their genitals instead.
If they were wearing a wireless earpiece, then they're probably not morons, and it probably WAS better. The power emitted by the phone in order to reach a cell tower is FAR greater than that emitted by a Bluetooth earpiece that's good for a few tens of feet at most. OTOH, if it was a WIRED earpiece, then it was probably a luck-of-the-draw thing as to how much RF energy was conducted / guided by the earpiece cable to the head.
You must get really tired of frying the side of your head with your cell phone, then.
In the days of analog-only cellular, I DID (somewhat) fry the side of my head with a cell phone. I was using my boss's (fairly) small hand-held unit - this was shortly before digital cellular came along IIRC. Whenever I used the phone for more than a minute or so, I would get a diffuse itching feeling inside my head near the phone antenna. When I switched sides, the itch moved to the other side, consistently and repeatedly.
I know, I know, correlation isn't causation, etc, etc, but this was utterly consistent and repeatable at will, and I never felt anything like that itch before using that phone nor after the boss got a new one. Also, I'm an electronics technologist who has spent A LOT of time doing RF work, including repairs of military radar and nav gear, so I'm both experienced with and not paranoid about RF energy.
Granted, modern education is too expensive to devote solely to mind broadening educational pursuit for its own sake (for most).
I agree one hundred percent. And I would ask "Why is it so expensive?". The professors I know don't make all that much money. Yes, the facilities are costly, and so are up-to-date equipment, books, etc. But it still seems to me that higher education costs MUCH more than the mere cost of keeping the institutions running.
However, that is begging the question of the purpose of education all over again. Its only a "waste of time" because the cost has skyrocketed, and that is because it is being sold as an "investment" in future income.
Yes. And instead of being viewed as an investment in future income, it should be viewed as an investment in future society, and therefore should be more heavily subsidized by society. Perhaps in return for that societal investment, students fresh out of college of university could spend a year or two 'giving back' in some capacity that would both extend their education and ease their transition into real-world paying jobs.
The problem is that job-training focused education actually de-values education generally by de-emphasizing exploration and discovery and stampeding students from one supposedly lucrative field to the next.
This probably is the result of our skewed aspirational values. We either conflate 'standard of living' and 'quality of life', or we judge the former to be somehow superior and more desirable. I think the increasing corporatization of society, (and of education), is largely to blame for these attitudes.
Good point, but I really wasn't thinking of them as Luddites - I see them more as disgruntled late adopters. I don't think I'm a Luddite at all, but I'm also wary of technological change, even though I've spent my working life repairing and designing electronics hardware that's not that far behind the bleeding edge. Knowledge and logic aren't always immediate antidotes to irrationality and discomfort with change - sometimes it just takes time.
that I'm experiencing real cognitive dissonance right now. I've never liked their walled garden, and they were leaders in the 'you don't really own your hardware, we do' trend. But just recently they told the FBI to get stuffed, and now they're baking into their phones a warning when the user is being monitored. Apple as a 'good guy'? The sky is falling!
Part of me wonders if they're simply ahead of the curve, seeing a business opportunity in a populace fast becoming sick of having their privacy butt-raped over and over. Even if it is simply a case of anticipating and meeting market demand, here they are doing the right thing. So I have to say, (grudgingly), kudos to Apple for taking a stand against institutionalized invasion of privacy. Colour me conflicted...
It seems the powers-that-be in Britain are taking their cue from the Australian stance on science censorship. When are all these fucktards going to get over their childish 'all your marbles are belong to us' fixation? Possibly when the 'peasants' switch from the adjectival form to the verbal form of 'revolting'.
When the automobile first arrived on the scene, many of the people who shouted "get a horse" in the wake of a "stink wagon" likely would have expressed a fear of going for a ride in one. We humans tend to be conservative that way; up to a point, it's a survival trait.
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...OTA is the only way to accomplish secure centralized remote control over the car you are renting from the manufacturer in a seamless, comprehensive, and fully integrated manner.
FTFY, Mr. Beardslee!
In related news, the automotive sector officially announces that it has joined smartphone manufacturers, cellular service providers, appliance manufacturers, and producers of desktop operating systems and software, in the last push for complete corporate hegemony. Industry representatives say that very soon now, full-time monitoring and control of the population will be realized, and both true individual ownership, and personal autonomy, will be things of the past.
Only if I can use a picture of my actual asshole.
Your friend or significant other could also use a picture of his or her 'actual asshole' - and then Amazon would have an image of your face anyway!
Maybe the quality of comments and summaries will improve too, now that the site's owners are moving away from suckage and towards sense. Good job!
MM/DD/YYYY is just stupid.
Exactly. Just as expressing time of day in Minutes, Hours, Seconds would be stupid. By the logic of "MM/DD/YYYY", Pi hour would occur at 14:03:16 instead of at 3:14:16.
Where the giga-rich wipe their asses with the rest of us!
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error.
I NEVER log in to YouTube - don't even have an account, except perhaps insofar as I have a Gmail account, (which I never use), because of Android. And I DO see the error message. It DOESN'T last the length of an ad - it lasts for a second or two. I'm running both Flashblock and Adblock Edge - Adblock for obvious reasons, and Flashblock because I often have multiple YouTube tabs open and only want one to play at a time. And I have a Greasemonkey script that automatically turns off Autoplay.
I don't think there is anything to be concerned about. They didn't engineer this bacterium, they discovered it. Yet we don't have a massive epidemic of credit-card-eating bacteria everywhere. Why? Probably because although they can eat it, it isn't their preferred food source. Now if someone knocks out some metabolic pathways so that they have to eat plastic to survive, then maybe we'll have something to worry about.
Aren't you concerned that some scientist will knock out those metabolic pathways? Or that natural mutations in that direction might occur merely because of a change from their natural environment to one which is rich in PET and scarce in their currently-preferred nutrients?
Snowden’s leaks have complicated the encryption issue, Obama said, by "elevating people’s suspicions" of government surveillance.
Duh! When a Peeping Tom gets caught looking in the neighbours' windows over and over again, the whole neighbourhood's suspicions are justifiably elevated. And when it's discovered that ol' Tom is taking pictures and sharing them with other voyeurs, the rest of the neighbourhood isn't just 'suspicious', it's both fearful and angry!
So Mr. President, are you saying that our neighbourhood would be better off if our good neighbour Ed simply hadn't told us what's going on? And, let me get this straight, you're saying that we ought not to be allowed BY LAW to put up blinds and drapes in our homes? Or that if we do have them, ol' Tom has a legal right to open them whenever he damned well pleases? It's certainly VERY difficult to interpret your words in any other way. And if you would disagree with my characterization of various government agencies as Peeping Toms, I'd very much like to hear your argument; frankly, I doubt that you can come up with anything even remotely convincing. As for our private information being "accessible by the smallest number of people possible for the subset of issues that we agree is important", well, that's more than a little vague, don't you think? Not to mention ambiguous, and ultimately meaningless as well. What you'd really like to say is "just trust us!"; but you realize on some level that you have already destroyed the trust you want from us, so you use weasel words to skirt the issue.
Barack Obama, I believe that you are being brazenly, foolishly, cynically disingenuous in a manner unbecoming of "the leader of the free world". You are drastically lowering the bar of leadership while you simultaneously debase and undermine the freedom you swore to protect. Shame on you, Mr. President.
Really? Were Bonnie and Clyde "riddled with a bullet hole"? Come on, editors!
I'm getting a little worried about the slips the Mozilla foundation is making..
Said the uncontested Master of Understatement!
BTW, thanks for the heads up on Vivaldi - it's installing as I write this. It's been a while since I took a new browser for a spin...
Right!
# apt-get install palemoon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package palemoon
Pale Moon on Debian Jessie:
echo "deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepi... mepis12cr test" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mepis.list
apt-get update
apt-get install palemoon
If you're running a 'buntu variant, add the ppa: https://launchpad.net/~marian....
If you're on some other Linux variant, (or on Debian or 'buntu for that matter), just run the install script available here: https://linux.palemoon.org/dow...
Really, it's not that hard. Hell, there's even a special version for the Raspberry Pi.
That's why I use Pale Moon. It's FireFox without the bloat. And it's also available in a 64-bit version.
Just commenting on this so the parent AC post becomes visible - more people need to know about Pale Moon. I use it too - installed it after FF came out with that Australis shit and I decided I'd had enough of Mozilla's attitude problem.
If enough users adopt Pale Moon, the developer may have enough sufficient resources to keep it alive, security updates and all, when FF inevitably goes down the drain around which it is circling more closely with each passing release.
was "a batshitload of public attention".
It's time to bury Windows in a deep, dark hole, remember it for all the good stuff it brought to computing, try to forget about all the shit it foisted upon unsuspecting users, and move on to a less self-serving and traitorous alternative. What's the alternative?
Admittedly, that's a big problem. I use Xubuntu, but I realize there are lots of mission-critical applications for which there is no Linux alternative. One reason for that is that so many people simply don't understand or don't care about Microsoft shenanigans. If a majority of the people who use MS Office could be persuaded that Libre Office will do everything they need, for zero cost other than a relatively minor learning curve, that would be a good start. But then there are things like Photoshop, professional CAD programs, etc, that require Windows. But if enough people rejected Microsoft by using an alternative office suite, that might catch the attention of heavy-hitting software vendors. Then again, that kind of attention might just hasten the embracing, extending, and ultimate extinction of Linux...
Anyway, we probably won't get rid of Windows or its (probably equally abusive) successor, for the same reason we won't get rid of our various badly broken governments, electoral systems, corporatocracies, economies, etc. Inertia, apathy, and fear of the unknown are powerful forces. But it's nice to dream that we might collectively get beyond that, and a necessary early step is pointing how bad things currently are, and why.
When you have to resort to third-party programs to restore and control basic OS functionality, and to stop your own computer from spying on you, then said OS has truly and irrevocably jumped the shark. It's time to bury Windows in a deep, dark hole, remember it for all the good stuff it brought to computing, try to forget about all the shit it foisted upon unsuspecting users, and move on to a less self-serving and traitorous alternative. Die, Microsoft - just die. Please.
There's plenty of evidence that microwave radiation at the level of a cell phone increases cancer risk. Here's one repeated, peer-reviewed study: http://microwavenews.com/news-...
I'm not willing to pay for a copy of the research paper, (fuck Elsevier), but I'd like to read it. It's so easy to play games with numbers in order to arrive at 'statistical significance'. All too often a 'smoking gun' turns out to be the combination of a replica firearm and a puff of mist. I'm not saying there ISN'T a causal link between RF exposure and various kinds of biological harm; I'm only saying that it will take more than third-hand conclusions about a scientific study to convince me. (This in spite of my posting above regarding having felt the effect of cell phone radiation on my own head).
You must get really tired of frying the side of your head with your cell phone, then; its maximum transmit power is more than one watt, and if you're holding it to your ear, you're intercepting close to half of that power.
These same morons somehow thought it was better to wear an earpiece and keep the "radiation emitting" phone in their pocket or on a holster near their genitals instead.
If they were wearing a wireless earpiece, then they're probably not morons, and it probably WAS better. The power emitted by the phone in order to reach a cell tower is FAR greater than that emitted by a Bluetooth earpiece that's good for a few tens of feet at most. OTOH, if it was a WIRED earpiece, then it was probably a luck-of-the-draw thing as to how much RF energy was conducted / guided by the earpiece cable to the head.
You must get really tired of frying the side of your head with your cell phone, then.
In the days of analog-only cellular, I DID (somewhat) fry the side of my head with a cell phone. I was using my boss's (fairly) small hand-held unit - this was shortly before digital cellular came along IIRC. Whenever I used the phone for more than a minute or so, I would get a diffuse itching feeling inside my head near the phone antenna. When I switched sides, the itch moved to the other side, consistently and repeatedly.
I know, I know, correlation isn't causation, etc, etc, but this was utterly consistent and repeatable at will, and I never felt anything like that itch before using that phone nor after the boss got a new one. Also, I'm an electronics technologist who has spent A LOT of time doing RF work, including repairs of military radar and nav gear, so I'm both experienced with and not paranoid about RF energy.
Granted, modern education is too expensive to devote solely to mind broadening educational pursuit for its own sake (for most).
I agree one hundred percent. And I would ask "Why is it so expensive?". The professors I know don't make all that much money. Yes, the facilities are costly, and so are up-to-date equipment, books, etc. But it still seems to me that higher education costs MUCH more than the mere cost of keeping the institutions running.
However, that is begging the question of the purpose of education all over again. Its only a "waste of time" because the cost has skyrocketed, and that is because it is being sold as an "investment" in future income.
Yes. And instead of being viewed as an investment in future income, it should be viewed as an investment in future society, and therefore should be more heavily subsidized by society. Perhaps in return for that societal investment, students fresh out of college of university could spend a year or two 'giving back' in some capacity that would both extend their education and ease their transition into real-world paying jobs.
The problem is that job-training focused education actually de-values education generally by de-emphasizing exploration and discovery and stampeding students from one supposedly lucrative field to the next.
This probably is the result of our skewed aspirational values. We either conflate 'standard of living' and 'quality of life', or we judge the former to be somehow superior and more desirable. I think the increasing corporatization of society, (and of education), is largely to blame for these attitudes.
Good point, but I really wasn't thinking of them as Luddites - I see them more as disgruntled late adopters. I don't think I'm a Luddite at all, but I'm also wary of technological change, even though I've spent my working life repairing and designing electronics hardware that's not that far behind the bleeding edge. Knowledge and logic aren't always immediate antidotes to irrationality and discomfort with change - sometimes it just takes time.
Interesting point - if it was allowed I'd mod you up.
that I'm experiencing real cognitive dissonance right now. I've never liked their walled garden, and they were leaders in the 'you don't really own your hardware, we do' trend. But just recently they told the FBI to get stuffed, and now they're baking into their phones a warning when the user is being monitored. Apple as a 'good guy'? The sky is falling!
Part of me wonders if they're simply ahead of the curve, seeing a business opportunity in a populace fast becoming sick of having their privacy butt-raped over and over. Even if it is simply a case of anticipating and meeting market demand, here they are doing the right thing. So I have to say, (grudgingly), kudos to Apple for taking a stand against institutionalized invasion of privacy. Colour me conflicted...
It seems the powers-that-be in Britain are taking their cue from the Australian stance on science censorship. When are all these fucktards going to get over their childish 'all your marbles are belong to us' fixation? Possibly when the 'peasants' switch from the adjectival form to the verbal form of 'revolting'.
When the automobile first arrived on the scene, many of the people who shouted "get a horse" in the wake of a "stink wagon" likely would have expressed a fear of going for a ride in one. We humans tend to be conservative that way; up to a point, it's a survival trait.
When are you going to fire this idiot editor, whipslash?
Agitating to get someone fired while sitting in nice, cozy anonymity. Yup, classy behaviour indeed. Asshole.