That's too long for some systems used where I work where the length has to be exactly 8 characters and not contain any "special" characters in order to allow the passwords to work also on some oddball systems.
Tell me about it. But sometimes it's simply shockingly bad security choices on the part of the company, as well. For instance: my old bank started requiring a fixed-length, 6-letter password that was case-insensitive and mapped to the corresponding phone digits to consolidate their dial-up and online logins...I have no idea if they still do that, since I abandoned ship shortly thereafter. I simply wasn't comfortable with having my banking access protected by, essentially, a 6-digit number.
To be fair, they did have some sort of device-based recognition checking in place, so if I wanted to log in from anywhere besides my home computer I had to practically scan my birth certificate and send it to them before they'd acknowledge that yes, this person typing in the ridiculous password and trying to access my account is actually me.
as a bonus, women will be much more interested in you also
Hmm...while your anonymous and cowardly concern for my welfare is truly touching, I should let you know that I don't swing that way...and I think my husband might object, even if I did.
Maybe this is 'the year' for us too...my husband couldn't care less, so long as he gets his 'toons, but my girlfriends and I really enjoy CFL games, and watching them after the fact just isn't the same...
Maybe if they stopped putting huge ads with flashing animations and sound overtop of the content, it would actually be worth watching some of their content.
At least that's why I cancelled my cable subscription.
^^^ THIS!
Oh my god, the trend towards advertising for the next show while I'm already watching a show on your damned channel drives me fucking insane! I realize it's an attempt to circumvent timeshifting via PVR, but that doesn't mean that it's right to do so. There are some channels that I simply refuse to watch anymore because of this, and if anything were to encourage me to cut the cord, it would be this practice. But...football (sigh).
That's communist talk there, mister communist talk would be 'you are required by law to buy 100 dollars a month' to make sure all the people who make tv shows stay employed.
And by did that....I mean my PHONE camera, because I would never leave a camera connected all the time to my desktop PC anyway.
BOTH cameras on my phone are covered by pieces of plastic that need to be moved aside physically in order to take pictures. Did that the very day I bought the phone.
However, I looked for actual products to do this....couldn't find a one. Not a single case with camera covers built in, not a single accessory available.....sad....very sad.
Hmm...apparently you fail at searching teh interwebs.
Mind you, these only seem to be available for iPhones, which sucks, although I did come across these which intrigue me. Maybe my days of electrical tape are over!
So I went to test your site, sure I wasn't going to find the books I wanted, and I found exactly what I was looking for.
Damn. Now I regret my Audible subscription.
Haha, yeah, I know. I am continually impressed with their selection myself, but I was lucky enough not to have fallen into the Audible honeypot before I found them...although I'll admit I was teetering on the edge. I was getting quite sick of buying physical media for my audiobooks! Now if Downpour doesn't have it, I simply go back to the disc hunt online.
Yes, and because people are people and people are assholes, everyone will set their own traffic to "maximum speed, all the time", essentially resulting in what we already have.
Prisoner's dilemma at its finest.
So basically, this is the 'Turbo' button for teh internets? Cool!
Protip: copy to computer, convert to mp3, chop into 10 minute segments with sequential numbers and you can easily transit between listening methodologies without worrying about being online.
...or you can simply buy/rent audiobooks from Dounpour and skip the hassle. Pro-protip: using Downpour instead of Audible-based stores also financially supports a DRM-free business model.
FWIW, I don't buy virtual media from anywhere that encumbers it with DRM. I'll tolerate it in streaming services like Netflix, but if I'm purchasing an ebook or music, I expect to be able to do what I want with it, same as if I purchased the plastic or dead-tree version. The first vendor that offers equivalent freedom for movies and TV shows at a reasonable cost will get my business (and my entertainment costs will go up sharply, I expect, but such is life). For now I'll stick with the hassles of Netflix for video, and just listen to/read my books offline.
That's the first thought that came into my mind, when I read that quotation. Although, I did not read the whole ruling. So the quotation may have been taken out of context.
True that, but who has time to RTFA? The hypocrisy outlined in the summary is just too delicious...;-)
I think the people you're looking for are the ones walking around with their phone constantly out and their eyes so glued to it they can't avoid common objects in front of them.
Not a large percentage of the population but they're out there.
...and by the grace of Darwin, may there be less of them every year. Trouble is, Darwin just can't keep up to Murphy...
Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it responsible for negative reviews of businesses because it is based on user input,... Under federal law, the decision said, Yelp is not liable for content its users post...The appeals court said distributing the content does not make Yelp the creator or developer of the content
So my question is, how long before we can expect this ruling to be applied to torrent aggregators? When will KAT get their domain and database back? Will the feds issue an apology?
Seems just a bit two-faced to me. Oh, right, $$ == per^H^H^Hprosecution. Guess the locksmith just didn't have the green to buy the 'right' ruling...
>"Niantic does not and has no plans to sell Pokemon Go user data -- aggregated, de-identified or otherwise -- to any third party," Power wrote. The company also adds that data is shared with mobile app analytics companies and with marketing and analysis companies
We're not selling your personal info, we're selling ad space on your phone to marketers who have chosen to advertise to you based on your personal info which we gave them for free.
Totally different.
Ah, there we go. I was wondering why they'd give away the milk instead of selling it...well spotted!
"but the public is still clamoring for Thinner and Lighter"
Phones have been thin enough and light enough for 6 or 7 years. I think most people would rather a better battery than a thinner phone. I can't imagine anyone still thinks phones should be thinner- it'll get to a point where it makes them harder to hold.
"Get to"? As far as I'm concerned, we've been there for years now...especially with the apparent design hard-on for slippery-as-hell (but 'ooh shiny!') exteriors.
It got past editorial review and was entered into the fighting pits, just like many a crappy paper. And it was subsequently jumped on! I'm not sure there's any irony here at all.
An article that discusses the release of a peer-reviewed paper is in turn apparently not reviewed at all (peer or no)...are you sure your own irony meter isn't malfunctioning?;-)
The other thing I'd wonder about is what kinds of questions are they asking, and why do they need all that data? In the U.S., the census is only supposed to be for one purpose, enumeration of representatives in Congress, but they ask all sorts of nosy questions that have nothing to do with that.
^^ This. Why does name and address make this more 'useful' data? So they can figure out which street names tend to have the most people named 'John' living on them? How exactly could retaining and associating this particular data be used to determine anything that would actually be beneficial* to the poor slob compelled to give up their info?
Well, at least they're not pulling income information straight from the tax authority...I particularly like the claim that Stats Canada does it "to reduce the burden on Canadians". >:- /
* Note: I do not count 'targeted' advertising as beneficial to anyone besides the asshat trying to sell people as much shit they don't need as possible while spending as little as they can on advertising.
If you want to talk about comparisons, you are right, researchers should be searching for any and every way to make the auto industry look and work just like the airline industry.
...so you can't bring your home-brewed coffee into the car with you, you can only consume coffee that's purchased after you get in the car, at ridiculous markups?
I don't think I have room in my garage for the full-body scanner...
That's not what a strawman is. A straw man is reframing someone's argument in a way that makes it easy to knock down. A more apt phrase might be diversion or misdirection.
If only there were a phrase for this...something like a brightly coloured fish swimming in a school of drab, silvery fish...perhaps a fish belonging to the Clupeidae family...hmm.;)
Out of the box, battery life was terrible, but it improved markedly after the first 3-5 days. I don't know if that's because it finished a bunch of background updates, or if the battery optimization algorithm needed time to figure things out, but instead of starting at 6am and dying at 3pm, it started to last until 9-10pm. if I'd based my judgement on the first day or two's battery life, I would have returned the phone. Glad I didn't.
Hmm...that is interesting. In my experience, I've only ever had battery life go down over time, never increase.
Unfortunately, I only had about 36 hours to check it out before I couldn't swap it out with my provider (technically I was supposed to have a week, but I was out of town when it arrived and I was told that that's when the countdown started...as I picked it up 5 and a half days later). I had to evaluate based on observed performance in the 24-36 hours I had available, and since every other phone I have had has not had this battery calibration or whatever, I had to assume that was simply how the battery life was going to be, and I knew it would piss me off every time I saw the battery meter. Even charging once a day would be pretty annoying, though. I do like the fact that if I forget to throw my phone on the charger before hitting the sack at night, I will still have enough juice to get to my next sleep.
Ah well, I'm happy enough with my sammy, just had to put a little more effort into locking it down and neutering the Samsung bloat/spyware. Plus it's water resistant...and I do like reading ebooks in the shower:-)
You're an idiot if you think that is enough to properly gauge battery life. The battery sensors are not even calibrated at that point.
There are hundreds of screenshots by people easily lasting 3 days with their privs (and that is my personal experience as well).
I did go through a full charge/discharge cycle the previous evening, which is when the apparently rapid battery use first caught my eye (as in, when it died in my pocket while at a restaurant). That's why I was watching the battery closely the second day, to see how it performed during moderate use on wi-fi, not (maybe) searching for cell signals or something.
Funny how my Samsung (and my Sony before that) had absolutely no problem lasting 2-4 days right out of the box (2 days with moderate usage and setup, then 4 days easily on 'light' usage, i.e. texting and email only), no 'battery sensor calibration' needed. Perhaps I had a faulty battery in the Priv, but when I looked a little deeper into the reviews, they just seemed a little...frenetic in denying that there's anything wrong with the battery life. I mean seriously, methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Screen on-time is less and varies, obviously, but it is perfectly reasonable compared to the competition.
Sorry, I don't even know what you mean here. Do you mean if you minimize the screen-on time the battery life is longer? Well yes...as is the same for every smartphone. Differentce is, if I go into super-battery-scrimping mode on my S7, I can squeeze out 5 days or more, but even on regular ol' usage, I still get two days minimum. I tried using the Priv just like I've used any other smartphone I've owned, and it simply failed the longevity test.
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That's too long for some systems used where I work where the length has to be exactly 8 characters and not contain any "special" characters in order to allow the passwords to work also on some oddball systems.
Tell me about it. But sometimes it's simply shockingly bad security choices on the part of the company, as well. For instance: my old bank started requiring a fixed-length, 6-letter password that was case-insensitive and mapped to the corresponding phone digits to consolidate their dial-up and online logins...I have no idea if they still do that, since I abandoned ship shortly thereafter. I simply wasn't comfortable with having my banking access protected by, essentially, a 6-digit number.
To be fair, they did have some sort of device-based recognition checking in place, so if I wanted to log in from anywhere besides my home computer I had to practically scan my birth certificate and send it to them before they'd acknowledge that yes, this person typing in the ridiculous password and trying to access my account is actually me.
But...football (sigh).
hey white male
blah blah blah
as a bonus, women will be much more interested in you also
Hmm...while your anonymous and cowardly concern for my welfare is truly touching, I should let you know that I don't swing that way...and I think my husband might object, even if I did.
#Presumptuous-assholes-are-presumptuous
But...football (sigh).
Look into Kodi and something like Sportsdevil.
Thanks, I will!
Maybe this is 'the year' for us too...my husband couldn't care less, so long as he gets his 'toons, but my girlfriends and I really enjoy CFL games, and watching them after the fact just isn't the same...
Maybe if they stopped putting huge ads with flashing animations and sound overtop of the content, it would actually be worth watching some of their content.
At least that's why I cancelled my cable subscription.
^^^ THIS!
Oh my god, the trend towards advertising for the next show while I'm already watching a show on your damned channel drives me fucking insane! I realize it's an attempt to circumvent timeshifting via PVR, but that doesn't mean that it's right to do so. There are some channels that I simply refuse to watch anymore because of this, and if anything were to encourage me to cut the cord, it would be this practice. But...football (sigh).
That's communist talk there, mister
communist talk would be 'you are required by law to buy 100 dollars a month' to make sure all the people who make tv shows stay employed.
So...the BBC model, then?
And by did that....I mean my PHONE camera, because I would never leave a camera connected all the time to my desktop PC anyway.
BOTH cameras on my phone are covered by pieces of plastic that need to be moved aside physically in order to take pictures. Did that the very day I bought the phone.
However, I looked for actual products to do this....couldn't find a one. Not a single case with camera covers built in, not a single accessory available.....sad....very sad.
Hmm...apparently you fail at searching teh interwebs.
Mind you, these only seem to be available for iPhones, which sucks, although I did come across these which intrigue me. Maybe my days of electrical tape are over!
So I went to test your site, sure I wasn't going to find the books I wanted, and I found exactly what I was looking for.
Damn. Now I regret my Audible subscription.
Haha, yeah, I know. I am continually impressed with their selection myself, but I was lucky enough not to have fallen into the Audible honeypot before I found them...although I'll admit I was teetering on the edge. I was getting quite sick of buying physical media for my audiobooks! Now if Downpour doesn't have it, I simply go back to the disc hunt online.
Yes, and because people are people and people are assholes, everyone will set their own traffic to "maximum speed, all the time", essentially resulting in what we already have.
Prisoner's dilemma at its finest.
So basically, this is the 'Turbo' button for teh internets? Cool!
Protip: copy to computer, convert to mp3, chop into 10 minute segments with sequential numbers and you can easily transit between listening methodologies without worrying about being online.
...or you can simply buy/rent audiobooks from Dounpour and skip the hassle. Pro-protip: using Downpour instead of Audible-based stores also financially supports a DRM-free business model.
FWIW, I don't buy virtual media from anywhere that encumbers it with DRM. I'll tolerate it in streaming services like Netflix, but if I'm purchasing an ebook or music, I expect to be able to do what I want with it, same as if I purchased the plastic or dead-tree version. The first vendor that offers equivalent freedom for movies and TV shows at a reasonable cost will get my business (and my entertainment costs will go up sharply, I expect, but such is life). For now I'll stick with the hassles of Netflix for video, and just listen to/read my books offline.
That's the first thought that came into my mind, when I read that quotation. Although, I did not read the whole ruling. So the quotation may have been taken out of context.
True that, but who has time to RTFA? The hypocrisy outlined in the summary is just too delicious... ;-)
I think the people you're looking for are the ones walking around with their phone constantly out and their eyes so glued to it they can't avoid common objects in front of them.
Not a large percentage of the population but they're out there.
...and by the grace of Darwin, may there be less of them every year. Trouble is, Darwin just can't keep up to Murphy...
FTS:
Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it responsible for negative reviews of businesses because it is based on user input, ... Under federal law, the decision said, Yelp is not liable for content its users post...The appeals court said distributing the content does not make Yelp the creator or developer of the content
So my question is, how long before we can expect this ruling to be applied to torrent aggregators? When will KAT get their domain and database back? Will the feds issue an apology?
Seems just a bit two-faced to me. Oh, right, $$ == per^H^H^Hprosecution. Guess the locksmith just didn't have the green to buy the 'right' ruling...
>"Niantic does not and has no plans to sell Pokemon Go user data -- aggregated, de-identified or otherwise -- to any third party," Power wrote. The company also adds that data is shared with mobile app analytics companies and with marketing and analysis companies
We're not selling your personal info, we're selling ad space on your phone to marketers who have chosen to advertise to you based on your personal info which we gave them for free.
Totally different.
Ah, there we go. I was wondering why they'd give away the milk instead of selling it...well spotted!
"but the public is still clamoring for Thinner and Lighter"
Phones have been thin enough and light enough for 6 or 7 years. I think most people would rather a better battery than a thinner phone. I can't imagine anyone still thinks phones should be thinner- it'll get to a point where it makes them harder to hold.
"Get to"? As far as I'm concerned, we've been there for years now...especially with the apparent design hard-on for slippery-as-hell (but 'ooh shiny!') exteriors.
oblig.
It got past editorial review and was entered into the fighting pits, just like many a crappy paper. And it was subsequently jumped on! I'm not sure there's any irony here at all.
An article that discusses the release of a peer-reviewed paper is in turn apparently not reviewed at all (peer or no)...are you sure your own irony meter isn't malfunctioning? ;-)
EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way
Ow ow ow, I think they just broke my irony meter!
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Give us a backdoor we promise we wont abuse it you can trust us we have your best interest at heart
You forgot the "please please pleeeze..."
Try giving him the movie?
That just makes too much toxic smoke...although it looks pretty in the microwave.
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The other thing I'd wonder about is what kinds of questions are they asking, and why do they need all that data? In the U.S., the census is only supposed to be for one purpose, enumeration of representatives in Congress, but they ask all sorts of nosy questions that have nothing to do with that.
^^ This. Why does name and address make this more 'useful' data? So they can figure out which street names tend to have the most people named 'John' living on them? How exactly could retaining and associating this particular data be used to determine anything that would actually be beneficial* to the poor slob compelled to give up their info?
Well, at least they're not pulling income information straight from the tax authority...I particularly like the claim that Stats Canada does it "to reduce the burden on Canadians". >:- /
* Note: I do not count 'targeted' advertising as beneficial to anyone besides the asshat trying to sell people as much shit they don't need as possible while spending as little as they can on advertising.
If you want to talk about comparisons, you are right, researchers should be searching for any and every way to make the auto industry look and work just like the airline industry.
...so you can't bring your home-brewed coffee into the car with you, you can only consume coffee that's purchased after you get in the car, at ridiculous markups?
I don't think I have room in my garage for the full-body scanner...
That's not what a strawman is. A straw man is reframing someone's argument in a way that makes it easy to knock down. A more apt phrase might be diversion or misdirection.
If only there were a phrase for this...something like a brightly coloured fish swimming in a school of drab, silvery fish...perhaps a fish belonging to the Clupeidae family...hmm. ;)
As a male I don't need a lot of depth to fucking
I...I'm sorry to hear that. Props for being honest, tho.
Out of the box, battery life was terrible, but it improved markedly after the first 3-5 days. I don't know if that's because it finished a bunch of background updates, or if the battery optimization algorithm needed time to figure things out, but instead of starting at 6am and dying at 3pm, it started to last until 9-10pm. if I'd based my judgement on the first day or two's battery life, I would have returned the phone. Glad I didn't.
Hmm...that is interesting. In my experience, I've only ever had battery life go down over time, never increase.
Unfortunately, I only had about 36 hours to check it out before I couldn't swap it out with my provider (technically I was supposed to have a week, but I was out of town when it arrived and I was told that that's when the countdown started...as I picked it up 5 and a half days later). I had to evaluate based on observed performance in the 24-36 hours I had available, and since every other phone I have had has not had this battery calibration or whatever, I had to assume that was simply how the battery life was going to be, and I knew it would piss me off every time I saw the battery meter. Even charging once a day would be pretty annoying, though. I do like the fact that if I forget to throw my phone on the charger before hitting the sack at night, I will still have enough juice to get to my next sleep.
Ah well, I'm happy enough with my sammy, just had to put a little more effort into locking it down and neutering the Samsung bloat/spyware. Plus it's water resistant...and I do like reading ebooks in the shower :-)
I had it for approximately 24 hours
You're an idiot if you think that is enough to properly gauge battery life. The battery sensors are not even calibrated at that point.
There are hundreds of screenshots by people easily lasting 3 days with their privs (and that is my personal experience as well).
I did go through a full charge/discharge cycle the previous evening, which is when the apparently rapid battery use first caught my eye (as in, when it died in my pocket while at a restaurant). That's why I was watching the battery closely the second day, to see how it performed during moderate use on wi-fi, not (maybe) searching for cell signals or something.
Funny how my Samsung (and my Sony before that) had absolutely no problem lasting 2-4 days right out of the box (2 days with moderate usage and setup, then 4 days easily on 'light' usage, i.e. texting and email only), no 'battery sensor calibration' needed. Perhaps I had a faulty battery in the Priv, but when I looked a little deeper into the reviews, they just seemed a little...frenetic in denying that there's anything wrong with the battery life. I mean seriously, methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Screen on-time is less and varies, obviously, but it is perfectly reasonable compared to the competition.
Sorry, I don't even know what you mean here. Do you mean if you minimize the screen-on time the battery life is longer? Well yes...as is the same for every smartphone. Differentce is, if I go into super-battery-scrimping mode on my S7, I can squeeze out 5 days or more, but even on regular ol' usage, I still get two days minimum. I tried using the Priv just like I've used any other smartphone I've owned, and it simply failed the longevity test.