I know it is technically less secure but I still use a mag-swipe card and cash and they are both about as fast. Which is to say that they are both faster than the chip+pin cards and a lot faster than phone payments.... though, to be fair, the speed of phone payments do vary greatly depending on the method used (NFC, QR, BC, whatever), the premise equipment/system being used and the preparedness of the payer.
Every time I try to use a phone method it ends up taking me three to four times as long as it would have taken had I used cash.
Well, the problem here is that updates are not just for you. They are for everyone. To be anti-updates is sort of like being an anti-vaccine person.
The updates to your machine will help it stay closed to low hanging fruit exploits.
Now... I think the simple solution is to set the default to auto-updates but then allow users to turn them off via something advanced like a registry tweak or config file update. That will allow advanced users to get what they want while protecting the vast number of the herd...
What I don't understand is why they don't just use the existing functionality since Windows 7 (at least) which installs the updates but then doesn't reboot automatically until the user opts to. The exception for this would be if no interactive user is logged in, then the system will reboot immediately after updates are installed.
This is how we manage WU on our corporate computers and it works well.
Hulu doesn't have commercials for *some* content and only if you pay extra.
The sad thing is that even when you pay for the "Commercial free" service, you get commercials on some of the new network shows.... That just tells me that Hulu is priming the pump for graduated commercial insertion....
As for Amazon.... I guess I would rather not give them any more money than I need to...
It was my first introduction to Linux as well back in '97 or so. It was definitely a learning curve but I was young and eager.... I believe I may have gotten Enlightenment running for a brief time but mostly, I was interested in the server-side stuff so didn't really bother with a GUI.
Once Gentoo came out, I never looked back at Slackware and have long since ignored the milestone releases.
Slackware is a point of nostalgia to me and not much more.
Ok. I am all for calling out BS on the "missed goal is a loss" but 130 million is still "only" 1/3rd the population of the USA alone let alone the 7+ billion population of the world....
So, I think there is plenty of growth opportunity here...
I work a normal eight hours, go for a bike ride or walk, cook dinner and maybe have an hour to kill before bed which I usually spend tinkering on my computer, reading, cleaning, doing laundry or watching a show on Netflix.
Uh.... aren't you forgetting to include a very important element here?
Netflix doesn't have commercials. Period.
That is reason enough for me to have Netflix alone and no other streaming media nor cable nor satellite subscriptions.
I would rather find a back catalog of an old series that I have never seen before and binge on that for several months than to try to watch new content with ads.
My feeling is that it will eventually come to Netflix anyway.... and it always does seem that way.... in any case, I can't miss what I never had.
I was going to post something very similar to this.
Basically, do you due diligence and block the low hanging fruit so that the bar isn't *nothing* and then, when you find your kid accessing porn, just have a frank, judgement free conversation about it. Let them know that you are there to answer any questions they might have about it.
It's not about being a prude or not, it's about instilling a healthy sense of what sex and intimate contact is all about.
Sexual gratification should never be at the expense of another person. Porn is that.
I do have to point out the fact that most porn is not a depiction of sex but is rather a depiction of power.
Also, the men and women in a lot of porn are representative of a body ideal that is not achievable by most of the consumers of that porn. This continues to reinforce the unrealistic body ideals that people are holding themselves and potential partners to.
Also, if you are basing your personal sexual contact on what you have seen in porn, you and your partner are going to be left wanting in the bedroom.
And don't forget, just 1 trillion trillion trillion packs of space butter can contaminate an entire solar system's water supply so dispose of your space butter properly!
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I know what you mean.
I know it is technically less secure but I still use a mag-swipe card and cash and they are both about as fast. Which is to say that they are both faster than the chip+pin cards and a lot faster than phone payments.... though, to be fair, the speed of phone payments do vary greatly depending on the method used (NFC, QR, BC, whatever), the premise equipment/system being used and the preparedness of the payer.
Every time I try to use a phone method it ends up taking me three to four times as long as it would have taken had I used cash.
Well, the problem here is that updates are not just for you. They are for everyone. To be anti-updates is sort of like being an anti-vaccine person.
The updates to your machine will help it stay closed to low hanging fruit exploits.
Now... I think the simple solution is to set the default to auto-updates but then allow users to turn them off via something advanced like a registry tweak or config file update. That will allow advanced users to get what they want while protecting the vast number of the herd...
What I don't understand is why they don't just use the existing functionality since Windows 7 (at least) which installs the updates but then doesn't reboot automatically until the user opts to. The exception for this would be if no interactive user is logged in, then the system will reboot immediately after updates are installed.
This is how we manage WU on our corporate computers and it works well.
Hulu doesn't have commercials for *some* content and only if you pay extra.
The sad thing is that even when you pay for the "Commercial free" service, you get commercials on some of the new network shows.... That just tells me that Hulu is priming the pump for graduated commercial insertion....
As for Amazon.... I guess I would rather not give them any more money than I need to...
It was my first introduction to Linux as well back in '97 or so. It was definitely a learning curve but I was young and eager.... I believe I may have gotten Enlightenment running for a brief time but mostly, I was interested in the server-side stuff so didn't really bother with a GUI.
Once Gentoo came out, I never looked back at Slackware and have long since ignored the milestone releases.
Slackware is a point of nostalgia to me and not much more.
Ok. I am all for calling out BS on the "missed goal is a loss" but 130 million is still "only" 1/3rd the population of the USA alone let alone the 7+ billion population of the world....
So, I think there is plenty of growth opportunity here...
I agree....
I work a normal eight hours, go for a bike ride or walk, cook dinner and maybe have an hour to kill before bed which I usually spend tinkering on my computer, reading, cleaning, doing laundry or watching a show on Netflix.
Uh.... aren't you forgetting to include a very important element here?
Netflix doesn't have commercials. Period.
That is reason enough for me to have Netflix alone and no other streaming media nor cable nor satellite subscriptions.
I would rather find a back catalog of an old series that I have never seen before and binge on that for several months than to try to watch new content with ads.
My feeling is that it will eventually come to Netflix anyway.... and it always does seem that way.... in any case, I can't miss what I never had.
I was going to post something very similar to this.
Basically, do you due diligence and block the low hanging fruit so that the bar isn't *nothing* and then, when you find your kid accessing porn, just have a frank, judgement free conversation about it. Let them know that you are there to answer any questions they might have about it.
It's not about being a prude or not, it's about instilling a healthy sense of what sex and intimate contact is all about.
Sexual gratification should never be at the expense of another person. Porn is that.
I do have to point out the fact that most porn is not a depiction of sex but is rather a depiction of power.
Also, the men and women in a lot of porn are representative of a body ideal that is not achievable by most of the consumers of that porn. This continues to reinforce the unrealistic body ideals that people are holding themselves and potential partners to.
Also, if you are basing your personal sexual contact on what you have seen in porn, you and your partner are going to be left wanting in the bedroom.
Outlaw all face coverings....
Cold out? TOO BAD!
Especially with upstarts like Ubiquiti Networks entering with ridiculously inexpensive hardware good features and easy to use management software.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon just buys them as their entry into the market.
+1 informative
Correct since perception == reality
My Google Home is used, among other things, as my alarm clock.
This morning, the alarm went off as normal, but after about the third tone it said "Sorry, something went wrong..."
Every attempt to activate it after that produced the same thing.
I even reset it. It would then respond, but when I asked it to play the news or music it went back to the "something went wrong" BS.
Figured I would troubleshoot when I got home today. Interesting to know that I am not the only one.
Well.... you are going to get the exact opposite of that:
Not avoiding sex with a single ugly man... enjoy!
I don't like you! ...... Ok.... Fine.... I like you....
Not sure about congress, but I believe that 1 trillion butter packs == 1 white house butter troll
And don't forget, just 1 trillion trillion trillion packs of space butter can contaminate an entire solar system's water supply so dispose of your space butter properly!
I too wish to know more about this "heated building"....
Why was it heated? How far about absolute zero was the heating? Were lasers used in this heating process?
Nevermind this outer space hooey, I need to know more about this building that allegedly has been heated to some degree...
+1 funny!
Try living in a paper bag in the middle of the lake and then talk to me about your resort shack!
I want to use the phrase that pays....
Now they will ask you to put a recording device in your trunk in order to determine where you live!
Does it run Gentoo?!