This comic pretty much sums up what I think of Google's "adblocker". Or as I like to call it, "ad-sieve" because it only weeds out those ads that don't pay protection money to Google.
If I want to play a second video, I open a second browser window and play the video. Care to inform me what I'd want about this contraption?
Only if you allow yourself to be and slavishly accept whatever any browser maker throws at you. There are alternatives. There are always alternatives. Yes, that means you have to take care of it yourself instead of simply accepting what's thrown your way.
Freedom doesn't just mean you can do what you want. It means that you must, because if you let others decide what you want, you'll get what they want.
What is "left"? What is "right"? A one-dimensional political spectrum is too coarse to properly represent political positions. I would at the very least use a two dimensional system, with the dimension being "social" and "economical" and the values on either being "restrictive" and "liberal". Anything else gets problematic.
Surgery isn't as hard as you make it out to be. It's just that you can't rollback a patient if you fuck up. At least not all of the time. Then again, with a really fucked up database, chances are that a simple rollback won't make it come alive either anyway.
I expect a person using a tool to be able to use this tool. Else it can get messy and even dangerous. There's a reason you don't see me operate power tools, I prefer scalpels. Much more personal.
It has less to do with being amazing or not being sucked into some eco-system, it's more that some people actually need a phone to, you know, make phone calls. Not as a fashion statement.
What makes a keyboard invariably more powerful and useful than a touchscreen is the tactile feedback. If I can FEEL the keys, I can type blind. I don't need to look at the phone to enter the pass code or call a number. Now try this with a touch screen.
Then I guess putting grades into a computer is asking for trouble. If I want to use complicated machinery, I should be able to pay the people working with them well enough to ensure proper operation. Either that or I should not use it.
Do you HONESTLY believe that the average murderer ponders "Hmm... for 5 years I'll kill him, but for 15, rather not..." before pulling the trigger? Seriously?
In over 95% of all bank robberies they have the culprit within 3 days. And in total it's almost 100%. And, at least in my country, armed bank robbery is getting really awfully close to murder when it comes to how much time you do (because it's considered taking hostages, threatening with a lethal weapon and a few other things on top of an armed robbery, and all those things carry a curiously high sentence to begin with... one has to wonder why). You rarely do less than 5 years and 10-15 is usual.
And? You think bank robberies cease to exist?
People planning to break the law don't ponder jail time. Never have, never will. That's not even part of their consideration. The only criminals who do take a potential punishment into account is those engaging in economic crimes, where the question whether to do it is solved by the inequation "if profit is higher than risk times fine, do it".
And curiously, the fines in THAT area are ridiculously low.
GB isn't the best example for pluralism in politics either. If you want to see something like this, you probably have to go to Skandinavia or central Europe where 3-5 major parties are the norm that offer the whole spectrum from left to right.
It's also interesting that "liberalism" is considered left in the US while it's mostly associated with the right in Europe, maybe because in the US when people think of liberalism, they think of the opposite to conservative while in Europe it's usually used in the context of economy with the agenda of lower taxes and fewer social programs. Yes, our liberals are riding on this agenda here.
This is probably why it's hard to make US and European people understand each other when it comes to political terms. "Liberal" alone is already pretty much the opposite of what the other one would expect from the label.
I consider everything under 10 rounds heavily insecure. Personally, I recently went and upgraded to 64, I had 32 before but curiously somehow Google still managed to break the encryption.
I think I'll upgrade to ROT26 soon. Allegedly you only need half the rounds for a similarly secure result.
Encrypt your mails to stop Google from reading them, sign them to keep Google from altering them, use exclusively GMail (or throwaway) addresses to avoid handing Google metadata that links back to the parties involved and if you feel paranoid enough use a VPN provider (or some onion routing) to connect to GMail.
1. Would you trust a teacher who is very obviously too stupid to be smarter than a kid to punish someone properly who already showed that he can best his teacher?
2. Even the best IT infrastructure doesn't keep an idiot from entering his credentials into a fake website. If your user is too stupid to read an URL, you're SOL.
3. If you require a flash drive to actually convict a 16 year old, your police force isn't much better than the teacher when it comes to IT.
4. Yes, this is going to solve anything. "Making an example to deter" has worked so greatly for killing people for murder, hasn't it?
5. The tools are useless if the ones supposed to teach with them are unable to even use them.
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And why would I want that video to play in a window I cannot control instead of another browser tab?
We should advance, but the direction matters. Ask anyone living next to a cliff.
You mean, like, having a browser window with YouTube open on one screen while reading an article in another browser window on the second screen?
Care to inform me what the huge invention is about the planned change? Get to the part where it actually offers me any benefit.
This comic pretty much sums up what I think of Google's "adblocker". Or as I like to call it, "ad-sieve" because it only weeds out those ads that don't pay protection money to Google.
If I want to play a second video, I open a second browser window and play the video. Care to inform me what I'd want about this contraption?
Only if you allow yourself to be and slavishly accept whatever any browser maker throws at you. There are alternatives. There are always alternatives. Yes, that means you have to take care of it yourself instead of simply accepting what's thrown your way.
Freedom doesn't just mean you can do what you want. It means that you must, because if you let others decide what you want, you'll get what they want.
That would actually be a pretty cool name for a Death Metal band.
What is "left"? What is "right"? A one-dimensional political spectrum is too coarse to properly represent political positions. I would at the very least use a two dimensional system, with the dimension being "social" and "economical" and the values on either being "restrictive" and "liberal". Anything else gets problematic.
Surgery isn't as hard as you make it out to be. It's just that you can't rollback a patient if you fuck up. At least not all of the time. Then again, with a really fucked up database, chances are that a simple rollback won't make it come alive either anyway.
I expect a person using a tool to be able to use this tool. Else it can get messy and even dangerous. There's a reason you don't see me operate power tools, I prefer scalpels. Much more personal.
It has less to do with being amazing or not being sucked into some eco-system, it's more that some people actually need a phone to, you know, make phone calls. Not as a fashion statement.
What makes a keyboard invariably more powerful and useful than a touchscreen is the tactile feedback. If I can FEEL the keys, I can type blind. I don't need to look at the phone to enter the pass code or call a number. Now try this with a touch screen.
But the key question remains unanswered: Why the fuck would I want that?
Then I guess putting grades into a computer is asking for trouble. If I want to use complicated machinery, I should be able to pay the people working with them well enough to ensure proper operation. Either that or I should not use it.
Do you HONESTLY believe that the average murderer ponders "Hmm... for 5 years I'll kill him, but for 15, rather not..." before pulling the trigger? Seriously?
In over 95% of all bank robberies they have the culprit within 3 days. And in total it's almost 100%. And, at least in my country, armed bank robbery is getting really awfully close to murder when it comes to how much time you do (because it's considered taking hostages, threatening with a lethal weapon and a few other things on top of an armed robbery, and all those things carry a curiously high sentence to begin with... one has to wonder why). You rarely do less than 5 years and 10-15 is usual.
And? You think bank robberies cease to exist?
People planning to break the law don't ponder jail time. Never have, never will. That's not even part of their consideration. The only criminals who do take a potential punishment into account is those engaging in economic crimes, where the question whether to do it is solved by the inequation "if profit is higher than risk times fine, do it".
And curiously, the fines in THAT area are ridiculously low.
That's the beauty of it, your browser can automagically decrypt ROT26. Honestly I have no idea how they do it, but it works flawlessly.
Then I guess it would be sensible to not operate machines they very obviously do not understand nor bother to learn to use properly.
Judging from what I can see, it's more like intelligence is punishment. At the very least it seems that ignorance is bliss.
GB isn't the best example for pluralism in politics either. If you want to see something like this, you probably have to go to Skandinavia or central Europe where 3-5 major parties are the norm that offer the whole spectrum from left to right.
It's also interesting that "liberalism" is considered left in the US while it's mostly associated with the right in Europe, maybe because in the US when people think of liberalism, they think of the opposite to conservative while in Europe it's usually used in the context of economy with the agenda of lower taxes and fewer social programs. Yes, our liberals are riding on this agenda here.
This is probably why it's hard to make US and European people understand each other when it comes to political terms. "Liberal" alone is already pretty much the opposite of what the other one would expect from the label.
I consider everything under 10 rounds heavily insecure. Personally, I recently went and upgraded to 64, I had 32 before but curiously somehow Google still managed to break the encryption.
I think I'll upgrade to ROT26 soon. Allegedly you only need half the rounds for a similarly secure result.
Yes. It also makes identifying spam trivial: Everything not encrypted is.
Encrypt your mails to stop Google from reading them, sign them to keep Google from altering them, use exclusively GMail (or throwaway) addresses to avoid handing Google metadata that links back to the parties involved and if you feel paranoid enough use a VPN provider (or some onion routing) to connect to GMail.
Did I miss something here?
More a returning product. But for a change that's what you want.
Right. Stealing your lunch is just like raping you. I hope someone proves it to you.
1. Would you trust a teacher who is very obviously too stupid to be smarter than a kid to punish someone properly who already showed that he can best his teacher?
2. Even the best IT infrastructure doesn't keep an idiot from entering his credentials into a fake website. If your user is too stupid to read an URL, you're SOL.
3. If you require a flash drive to actually convict a 16 year old, your police force isn't much better than the teacher when it comes to IT.
4. Yes, this is going to solve anything. "Making an example to deter" has worked so greatly for killing people for murder, hasn't it?
5. The tools are useless if the ones supposed to teach with them are unable to even use them.
I bet that the teacher is not going to be at least reprimanded for being stupid enough to be phished by a kid.
This is why security doesn't work. Being stupid is not being punished.
You mean like ufw?