You are also ignoring the value of your time, as you would put a fair bit of time in to recovering from either of those losses.
How does one value one's time, anyways? From reading the article it seems the poster's son is interested in stuff like this and likes running a Minecraft - server, so it would be a hobby for him and therefore any time spent on recovering from losses would still be within the limits of an educational hobby. Other people could use that time for e.g. watching the TV, but is that really any more a valuable way of spending one's time?
I actually liked Ron Paul right up to the point of reading this. Anyone who preaches smaller government, less control, more personal freedom, and a truly free economy and does this...Well that person is a hypocritical 2 faced..politician.
He's a politician. I mean, you've been naive if you didn't think he would do this kind of stuff. It's one thing to preach about things that don't affect him personally and a whole another thing when they do.
Gimme a break. The GGP was talking about OS X, which pretty much implies Safari, and then you DON'T come back with "Well, if you are using Safari, use THIS (like I did)", or "If you use FireFox, you might want to check into...".
No, I deliberately used the wording "a suitable browser" so that it would NOT rule out any specific one. I do not know about Safari's capabilities because I do not own any Apple device and I have no interest to start Googling about a browser I don't use, so that's why I chose to use such a wording.
No, instead you made a snarky, side-swipe at Safari, and got called-out on it.
You wish I did, but just look through my comment history and point me to where I had done such previously; I have no need to bash OSX or Safari or whatever, I don't care what people use, I just wanted to make a point about how to avoid some of the vulnerabilities of Flash. The fact that you attack me like a rabid troglodyte, however, says a lot about you.
So, it seems that FireFox is no more "suitable" without a Flash-Blocker plugin that Safari, eh?
Did I say so? I never even mentioned Safari in the first place. I only said "a suitable browser," something that does not imply any specific one, and used Firefox as an example. You are the one who apparently has a need to twist things.
I installed Flash, and it took me a few days to get used to the surprise of animated (and noisy) ads again.
Luckily, those are easy to circumvent if you just use a suitable browser. On Firefox the Adblock Plus - plugin generally manages to hide all ads and the likes, something that also includes most Flash - content, or you can use the Flashblock - plugin to disable Flash altogether on some sites or make it so that you must click on the item in question first before Flash gets loaded.
I have to add, though, that from the security perspective you should not run around without using Flashblock, there are still too many Flash - based attacks roaming the Internet and you never know when they land on your machine. An antivirus may help, but why let the virus/malware package on your machine in the first place?
Netflix uses Silverlight, something that sucks quite a bit. They do offer a dedicated app if you use Windows 8, but the app is surprisingly poorly designed, plus I don't really want Windows 8 on my desktop.
Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. ..
There are much easier ways to go about that than buying one of these. I can think of atleast 12 different ways of hiding Linux-powered computers with networking and video capabilities in plain sight.
It's not irrecoverably bricked. All he needs to do is open the laptop and disconnect the battery that refreshes the CMOS storage memory and wait a few seconds.
There was a time before GMail. Email came as part of the services of the ISP.
It still often does. But for example my ISP only offers 25MB inbox with max. 2MB attachments and a webmail-interface from the 90s. When I can choose between that or GMail the latter wins hands down.
And it wasn't data-mined.
That's an assumption. And anyways, these days even ISP-provided e-mails are definitely data-mined.
Why would you want ads when reading your email at all? This seems to be horrible mental gymnastics to try to maintain "Google good!" fanboism.
There's this fancy thing called money, and you might have heard of the saying going something about "no free lunch.." You see, the service provider must be able to generate revenue one way or another, and that's either going to be an e-mail service you have to pay for, or that's being paid for by ads. If you can point towards an e-mail service with as good uptime and accessibility as GMail and one which doesn't require payments nor shows any ads then go ahead!
How did it have the opposite effect? You responded. That was the effect they wanted.
I assumed the effect the OP was looking for was some sort of angry or distraught responses as trolls usually seek for. I found the post quite funny, plus I learned something new today by reading about this Eric S. Raymond, so that's not quite the same thing.
I don't know why someone would write something like that, but your post has quite the opposite effect of what you seem to aim for: I didn't know who this ESR - character was, but this comment prompted me to look him up and the kind of work he has done.
If you have to call friends and family instead of 911, then it is not life or death matter and nor truly an emergency.
You've never heard of rural areas or other such where it takes longer for the ambulance to get there than friends or family, have you? Especially when time is of the essence and every second counts? Also, knowing how occupied emergency services are I much prefer to get to the hospital on my own if I can. Oh, and being able to call your employer you're not going to be able to get to work? Calling your friends to come and take care of your pets? Calling your kids that you won't be able to come and pick them up? Letting your partner know that you won't be able to come home and he/she must be able to handle things on his/her own? There's PLENTY of reasons to have a cell phone.
Just the exact opposite of the way nature intended it.
Hardly. In nature there's plenty of homosexuality, especially so among bats and penguins, and they're not homosexual because we have made them that way; they are homosexual because, well, that's their nature. As such it must be seen that the nature "intended" for these races to experience both heterosexual and homosexual traits. (As if nature could actually intend anything. It's not a sentient entity.)
No (non-hermaphroditic) animal species an this planet would ever survive to evolve and live on if all of their members were gay.
And? What's that got to do with anything I said? I didn't advocate for everyone to suddenly turn gay, all I said was that _I_ enjoy making other girls squirm in pleasure. Feel free to be boring in your hetero-normative world-view.
Exactly what does a cell get you that you cann't live without?
Access to emergency services and to other people when you're not at home and something bad happens. Having been in such a situation multiple times atleast I refuse to go anywhere without a working cell phone.
Google Glass is no more augmenting reality than a TV set is.
If it were rendering also the view behind it so there was no loss of vision, then it would be augmented reality. As it is it's the same as if you strapped your cell phone on an arm attached to your head a foot out or so.
This may come as a surprise to you....but it's transparent.
Later on in the thread someone said that clearing NVRAM is enough to fix the brick, ie. either remove the NvRAM battery or otherwise prevent it from refreshing the NvRAM for 30 seconds and you're golden. Granted, that still requires opening up the whole laptop.
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but I think of servers more in terms of ftpd or httpd.
Then you just haven't understood what the term really means.
You are also ignoring the value of your time, as you would put a fair bit of time in to recovering from either of those losses.
How does one value one's time, anyways? From reading the article it seems the poster's son is interested in stuff like this and likes running a Minecraft - server, so it would be a hobby for him and therefore any time spent on recovering from losses would still be within the limits of an educational hobby. Other people could use that time for e.g. watching the TV, but is that really any more a valuable way of spending one's time?
I actually liked Ron Paul right up to the point of reading this. Anyone who preaches smaller government, less control, more personal freedom, and a truly free economy and does this...Well that person is a hypocritical 2 faced..politician.
He's a politician. I mean, you've been naive if you didn't think he would do this kind of stuff. It's one thing to preach about things that don't affect him personally and a whole another thing when they do.
Gimme a break. The GGP was talking about OS X, which pretty much implies Safari, and then you DON'T come back with "Well, if you are using Safari, use THIS (like I did)", or "If you use FireFox, you might want to check into...".
No, I deliberately used the wording "a suitable browser" so that it would NOT rule out any specific one. I do not know about Safari's capabilities because I do not own any Apple device and I have no interest to start Googling about a browser I don't use, so that's why I chose to use such a wording.
No, instead you made a snarky, side-swipe at Safari, and got called-out on it.
You wish I did, but just look through my comment history and point me to where I had done such previously; I have no need to bash OSX or Safari or whatever, I don't care what people use, I just wanted to make a point about how to avoid some of the vulnerabilities of Flash. The fact that you attack me like a rabid troglodyte, however, says a lot about you.
So, it seems that FireFox is no more "suitable" without a Flash-Blocker plugin that Safari, eh?
Did I say so? I never even mentioned Safari in the first place. I only said "a suitable browser," something that does not imply any specific one, and used Firefox as an example. You are the one who apparently has a need to twist things.
I installed Flash, and it took me a few days to get used to the surprise of animated (and noisy) ads again.
Luckily, those are easy to circumvent if you just use a suitable browser. On Firefox the Adblock Plus - plugin generally manages to hide all ads and the likes, something that also includes most Flash - content, or you can use the Flashblock - plugin to disable Flash altogether on some sites or make it so that you must click on the item in question first before Flash gets loaded.
I have to add, though, that from the security perspective you should not run around without using Flashblock, there are still too many Flash - based attacks roaming the Internet and you never know when they land on your machine. An antivirus may help, but why let the virus/malware package on your machine in the first place?
Netflix uses Silverlight, something that sucks quite a bit. They do offer a dedicated app if you use Windows 8, but the app is surprisingly poorly designed, plus I don't really want Windows 8 on my desktop.
Forget hacking, Someone is going to disguise it as a common place object and spy where they shouldn't. . .
There are much easier ways to go about that than buying one of these. I can think of atleast 12 different ways of hiding Linux-powered computers with networking and video capabilities in plain sight.
because what else is there that can be used for something like this anyway?
Well, *BSD are popular on small, closed devices, partially because there is no need to release or maintain any changes to the software, ever.
It looks like one, it walks like one, and it quacks like one. But then again, I'm not an ornithologist.
It's not irrecoverably bricked. All he needs to do is open the laptop and disconnect the battery that refreshes the CMOS storage memory and wait a few seconds.
There was a time before GMail. Email came as part of the services of the ISP.
It still often does. But for example my ISP only offers 25MB inbox with max. 2MB attachments and a webmail-interface from the 90s. When I can choose between that or GMail the latter wins hands down.
And it wasn't data-mined.
That's an assumption. And anyways, these days even ISP-provided e-mails are definitely data-mined.
Why would you want ads when reading your email at all? This seems to be horrible mental gymnastics to try to maintain "Google good!" fanboism.
There's this fancy thing called money, and you might have heard of the saying going something about "no free lunch.." You see, the service provider must be able to generate revenue one way or another, and that's either going to be an e-mail service you have to pay for, or that's being paid for by ads. If you can point towards an e-mail service with as good uptime and accessibility as GMail and one which doesn't require payments nor shows any ads then go ahead!
How did it have the opposite effect? You responded. That was the effect they wanted.
I assumed the effect the OP was looking for was some sort of angry or distraught responses as trolls usually seek for. I found the post quite funny, plus I learned something new today by reading about this Eric S. Raymond, so that's not quite the same thing.
I don't know why someone would write something like that, but your post has quite the opposite effect of what you seem to aim for: I didn't know who this ESR - character was, but this comment prompted me to look him up and the kind of work he has done.
everyone that i know uses windows 8 on intel i7 or Amd FX computers.
So, you don't know anyone besides yourself?
There's one at the faggot's rear end.
Wait, so straight people don't have one?! :O I guess that must be why so many of them talk so much shit!
Is that supposed to be a rebuttal of what I said or what?
If you have to call friends and family instead of 911, then it is not life or death matter and nor truly an emergency.
You've never heard of rural areas or other such where it takes longer for the ambulance to get there than friends or family, have you? Especially when time is of the essence and every second counts? Also, knowing how occupied emergency services are I much prefer to get to the hospital on my own if I can. Oh, and being able to call your employer you're not going to be able to get to work? Calling your friends to come and take care of your pets? Calling your kids that you won't be able to come and pick them up? Letting your partner know that you won't be able to come home and he/she must be able to handle things on his/her own? There's PLENTY of reasons to have a cell phone.
Just the exact opposite of the way nature intended it.
Hardly. In nature there's plenty of homosexuality, especially so among bats and penguins, and they're not homosexual because we have made them that way; they are homosexual because, well, that's their nature. As such it must be seen that the nature "intended" for these races to experience both heterosexual and homosexual traits. (As if nature could actually intend anything. It's not a sentient entity.)
No (non-hermaphroditic) animal species an this planet would ever survive to evolve and live on if all of their members were gay.
And? What's that got to do with anything I said? I didn't advocate for everyone to suddenly turn gay, all I said was that _I_ enjoy making other girls squirm in pleasure. Feel free to be boring in your hetero-normative world-view.
Exactly what does a cell get you that you cann't live without?
Access to emergency services and to other people when you're not at home and something bad happens. Having been in such a situation multiple times atleast I refuse to go anywhere without a working cell phone.
If you're a woman, instead of pressing that reply button, why not just go make yourself useful and pleasure a man?
Pfft, why would I? Pleasing other women is a much more fun and useful use of my time!
Google Glass is no more augmenting reality than a TV set is.
If it were rendering also the view behind it so there was no loss of vision, then it would be augmented reality. As it is it's the same as if you strapped your cell phone on an arm attached to your head a foot out or so.
This may come as a surprise to you....but it's transparent.
Luckily, my wife never heard of /. , so I can post the obvious solution to your need: a wife! :-)
I'm not terribly fond of high-maintenance appliances.
Later on in the thread someone said that clearing NVRAM is enough to fix the brick, ie. either remove the NvRAM battery or otherwise prevent it from refreshing the NvRAM for 30 seconds and you're golden. Granted, that still requires opening up the whole laptop.