Yeah, but it still takes another clock to tell you when it's right.
Jokes aside, I have a huge split on Trump.
1) He's a clown. Even without the Ad Hominem attack on him, he'd be a lousy President. He's got a specific skill set that serves him well as a CEO, but would make him pathetically ineffective as our President.
2) He's causing a severe shakeup in the candidacies on the Republican side, and methinks on the Democratic side. He's rich enough (he's very rich) to not have to kowtow to the Koch brothers, and that's causing huge consternation for the Republican base. I think bernie Sanders is getting a little bit of coattails that the nonstandard guy is leading the Republicans.
if APIs were copyrightable, Linux would be in jeopardy. Linus pretty much created Linux by looking at BSD man pages and implementing that. (At least initially) I remember - I had a bug in some code because Linux wasn't bug compatible with BSD. Linus actually implemented "send whats left in the time" for select(2), just as the man page said, just as BSD didn't do.
Verizon put the screws to Apple years ago. The Droid line was a reaction to the fact that AT&T had at that time an iPhone exclusivity agreement. Verizon didn't want to get left out in the cold with smartphones, and was one of the big pushers of Android early. This is nothing compared to that.
People go to Verizon because they have the best network. They know Verizon will screw them on price somehow, but they want the Verizon network. If it was a price sensitivity thing, they'd go AT&T, TMobile, Sprint, or any of a dozen MVNOs.
My wife and I have an iPhone each, and neither went through Verizon subsidies. My phone was paid off on purchase, and has always been TMobile. Her phone was paid off on purchase, and was initially Verizon because we felt we needed separate networks (I dabble in being a sysadmin, i liked the redundancy) until the TMobile price delta, and the ability to roam for free internationally, was too much better than what Verizon has to offer.
Deutsche did in fact shortly agree to sell T-Mobile to AT&T [wikipedia.org], which ultimately fell through due to FCC/antitrust objections.
When this deal fell through, AT&T had to give TMobile a nice parting gift.. of 3 Billion dollars and some roaming agreements. This is when TMobile started to become a force. Between having cash for towers and customer acquisition, and better effecgive networking, AT&T was the one that helped TMobile move forward.
Malware being #1, but another reason I use it is tracking. I have ghostery and i regularly see 10 or more tracking objects on a page. I don't see "better targeted ads" as a benefit.
If im buying something, I do a specific search for it on Google/DuckDuckGo/SomeOtherSearch or Amazon/NewEgg/SomeOtherPurchaseSite. Then I'm done. If I'm browsing, I don't need to see the random items I've searched for in the past week. Either I bought them already or I decided not to buy. I've never seen an ad combat that problem, turn a "targeted ad since I know what you looked for last week" into a sale. They think that more data, more intrusion, less privacy is the answer, but it's not.
So privacy being #2 reason, bandwidth and quality of browsing is #3 for me.
A while back we were on Verizon, with the implicit subsidy until we paid the phone off. Two years are up, well, we did pay the phone off, and then I asked if we could have a bill reduction because of that. I asked for them to take the subsidy off. The look on the person's face was as if i just peed on them. How dare you say subsidy! We don't have a subsidy!!
For long time, Verizon had this unmarked subsidy in their bill. A lot of people forgot about it, and then that became pure profit to Verizon. It was never marked as "phone paydown" or whatever. Since people never saw it as that they paid for months and months for something that was already paid off.
I applaud whatever is making them more overt. TMobile maybe? TMobile has it very clearly marked in your bill.
The jet fuel didn't. It actually burned off rather quickly. But it did start a fire. What were the Twin Towers? Massive office buildings, with massive paper stores. Paper burning hot for hours was able to weaken the steel.
Airplanes are one of the safer modes of travel. Why? Because we investigate all crashes thoroughly and try to prevent the same crash from happening again. If a plane crashes now it's an event, and one that had to have multiple failure modes because a single failure is no longer enough to take down a plane.
Also, some people thought the plane got hijacked, or flown to some secret desert base. Some subset of those people (but not all) may be convinced their family is truly gone, and be able to take next steps.
There's two parts to the Google Apple feature war tick tock attack and defend. (lets ignore the courts for now, just focus on the actual features)
The tick is a new feature. The tock is seeing what's useful and copy it. This tock will be useful in me ignoring voicemails for the most part. Even a bad transcription can be useful if you pretty much already know what the calls going to be for.
I used to have Google voice. It made sense for a bit when I could have a second phone number mapped to my work phone. My work phone was a Blackberry, and as Google stopped working on the BlackBerry apps, it became less useful. Also we ended up having a SSL MITM appliance, and Google (wisely) does Cert Pinning, which broke the BlackBerry apps. I eventually dropped it and got a personal iPhone, but there were some things i missed.
Apple plugged some of the holes. Messages and Continuity allow me to type on my Mac with a real keyboard. But I missed the VoiceMail transcriptions. VoiceMail does kind of suck, and sometimes it was handy to be able to glance at a text and see what it's about. Google Voice didn't do that great of a job of transcription, but usually you'd have an idea of what someone was calling you about, and having a 60% transcription success rate was actually useful.
So, this is the last major gap with Google Voice for me. If this comes through in iOS 9.x some time, i'll be one of the first to turn it on.
Why isn't Africa progressing when so many other nations, often with much fewer resources and far less support, and coming from a much worse situation, managed to turn things around?
Far less support? Marshall Plan? You need to at least pull Europe from that list.
And we fundamentally broke Africa over generations, hundreds of years. We kind of broke Europe over the course of decades. Europe had decades to recover. Africa, we kind of let free a lot more recently than that.
I hope you're asking earnestly and not looking to point fingers. Real analysis of how things break and stay broken is hard, both to see the connections, and to push through people's initial perceptions. We need more people asking your question and trying to answer it.
So besides the mild irony of a Flash Video (and I'm sure Flash is not allowed on PureOS) the URL for the OS has both a typo AND a missing period. It's https://puri.sm/pureos/
And people have shown over and over that Free as in Speech takes a back seat to actually getting things done. I'm glad for the people releasing this, I hope they have fun, but it will be a small circle of people patting each other on the back as everyone else goes to mobile.
Old versions of Android are not only affected, but less sandboxed. Android phones don't get updates that often. There are huge numbers of phones 4.x, much less Lollipop.
not quite what you meant, but a tweet of a malicious video can do this.
Mild irony if Google becomes a vector for pwning android phones with bad videos. If I was a youtube engineer, i'd be working overtime to create a filter for bad filters.
I forgot to put something in my original rant... and Slashdot doesn't allow editing of comments, so I'll post this here.
Paul Ryan rails against people getting their entitlements. He calls people who take those entitlements freeloaders. Yet he himself took an entitlement. Why is he allowed to get his entitlement, yet others, who don't want to "leave anything on the table" bad? It's duplicitous. And technically, Ryan wasn't even entitled to it directly, it was his dad's SS benefits. Also, his family had enough cash to send him to college, but he took the government entitlement. Again, leave nothing on the table is fine, but that's not my point.
I don't mind either Rand nor Ryan taking benefits. I don't even think Ryan duplicitous for trying to dismantle the same program that spawned him - though I view it short sighted. What bugs me is people who take entitlements who rail against others taking entitlements. Either don't take any, or shut up about others taking the same help you took.
Not trolling here, but you assume a lot of people think all those are a bad thing.
My check from the government is my earned entitlement. Your check from the government is an amoral welfare. Paul Ryan hates Social Security, but when he drew Social Security to get to college, it was somehow fine. Even Ayn Rand drew government checks.
Also JEB Bush is redundant, like typing your PIN Number on an ATM Machine. J.E.B. is an acronym for John Elliot Bush. The Bush is redundant, much like Bushes in general;) Ok, that last part was a troll, but the first part not, I swear.
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Get X wallets together and pass around .00000001 bitcoin between them as fast as they can.
Yeah, but it still takes another clock to tell you when it's right.
Jokes aside, I have a huge split on Trump.
1) He's a clown. Even without the Ad Hominem attack on him, he'd be a lousy President. He's got a specific skill set that serves him well as a CEO, but would make him pathetically ineffective as our President.
2) He's causing a severe shakeup in the candidacies on the Republican side, and methinks on the Democratic side. He's rich enough (he's very rich) to not have to kowtow to the Koch brothers, and that's causing huge consternation for the Republican base. I think bernie Sanders is getting a little bit of coattails that the nonstandard guy is leading the Republicans.
so, what to do...
you do realize the name of the F35 "F35 Lightning II"
the irony.
if APIs were copyrightable, Linux would be in jeopardy. Linus pretty much created Linux by looking at BSD man pages and implementing that. (At least initially) I remember - I had a bug in some code because Linux wasn't bug compatible with BSD. Linus actually implemented "send whats left in the time" for select(2), just as the man page said, just as BSD didn't do.
The rail gun was much more fun than typing out kill -TERM.
Verizon put the screws to Apple years ago. The Droid line was a reaction to the fact that AT&T had at that time an iPhone exclusivity agreement. Verizon didn't want to get left out in the cold with smartphones, and was one of the big pushers of Android early. This is nothing compared to that.
People go to Verizon because they have the best network. They know Verizon will screw them on price somehow, but they want the Verizon network. If it was a price sensitivity thing, they'd go AT&T, TMobile, Sprint, or any of a dozen MVNOs.
My wife and I have an iPhone each, and neither went through Verizon subsidies. My phone was paid off on purchase, and has always been TMobile. Her phone was paid off on purchase, and was initially Verizon because we felt we needed separate networks (I dabble in being a sysadmin, i liked the redundancy) until the TMobile price delta, and the ability to roam for free internationally, was too much better than what Verizon has to offer.
When this deal fell through, AT&T had to give TMobile a nice parting gift.. of 3 Billion dollars and some roaming agreements. This is when TMobile started to become a force. Between having cash for towers and customer acquisition, and better effecgive networking, AT&T was the one that helped TMobile move forward.
Malware being #1, but another reason I use it is tracking. I have ghostery and i regularly see 10 or more tracking objects on a page. I don't see "better targeted ads" as a benefit.
If im buying something, I do a specific search for it on Google/DuckDuckGo/SomeOtherSearch or Amazon/NewEgg/SomeOtherPurchaseSite. Then I'm done. If I'm browsing, I don't need to see the random items I've searched for in the past week. Either I bought them already or I decided not to buy. I've never seen an ad combat that problem, turn a "targeted ad since I know what you looked for last week" into a sale. They think that more data, more intrusion, less privacy is the answer, but it's not.
So privacy being #2 reason, bandwidth and quality of browsing is #3 for me.
A while back we were on Verizon, with the implicit subsidy until we paid the phone off. Two years are up, well, we did pay the phone off, and then I asked if we could have a bill reduction because of that. I asked for them to take the subsidy off. The look on the person's face was as if i just peed on them. How dare you say subsidy! We don't have a subsidy!!
For long time, Verizon had this unmarked subsidy in their bill. A lot of people forgot about it, and then that became pure profit to Verizon. It was never marked as "phone paydown" or whatever. Since people never saw it as that they paid for months and months for something that was already paid off.
I applaud whatever is making them more overt. TMobile maybe? TMobile has it very clearly marked in your bill.
people really don't know how hot aluminum burns. It's used in Thermite, a munition.
(911 Truther response)
The jet fuel didn't. It actually burned off rather quickly. But it did start a fire. What were the Twin Towers? Massive office buildings, with massive paper stores. Paper burning hot for hours was able to weaken the steel.
Airplanes are one of the safer modes of travel. Why? Because we investigate all crashes thoroughly and try to prevent the same crash from happening again. If a plane crashes now it's an event, and one that had to have multiple failure modes because a single failure is no longer enough to take down a plane.
Also, some people thought the plane got hijacked, or flown to some secret desert base. Some subset of those people (but not all) may be convinced their family is truly gone, and be able to take next steps.
There's two parts to the Google Apple feature war tick tock attack and defend. (lets ignore the courts for now, just focus on the actual features)
The tick is a new feature. The tock is seeing what's useful and copy it. This tock will be useful in me ignoring voicemails for the most part. Even a bad transcription can be useful if you pretty much already know what the calls going to be for.
I used to have Google voice. It made sense for a bit when I could have a second phone number mapped to my work phone. My work phone was a Blackberry, and as Google stopped working on the BlackBerry apps, it became less useful. Also we ended up having a SSL MITM appliance, and Google (wisely) does Cert Pinning, which broke the BlackBerry apps. I eventually dropped it and got a personal iPhone, but there were some things i missed.
Apple plugged some of the holes. Messages and Continuity allow me to type on my Mac with a real keyboard. But I missed the VoiceMail transcriptions. VoiceMail does kind of suck, and sometimes it was handy to be able to glance at a text and see what it's about. Google Voice didn't do that great of a job of transcription, but usually you'd have an idea of what someone was calling you about, and having a 60% transcription success rate was actually useful.
So, this is the last major gap with Google Voice for me. If this comes through in iOS 9.x some time, i'll be one of the first to turn it on.
Far less support? Marshall Plan? You need to at least pull Europe from that list.
And we fundamentally broke Africa over generations, hundreds of years. We kind of broke Europe over the course of decades. Europe had decades to recover. Africa, we kind of let free a lot more recently than that.
I hope you're asking earnestly and not looking to point fingers. Real analysis of how things break and stay broken is hard, both to see the connections, and to push through people's initial perceptions. We need more people asking your question and trying to answer it.
https://puri.sm/pureos/
Though actually not a lot there.
So besides the mild irony of a Flash Video (and I'm sure Flash is not allowed on PureOS) the URL for the OS has both a typo AND a missing period. It's https://puri.sm/pureos/
And people have shown over and over that Free as in Speech takes a back seat to actually getting things done. I'm glad for the people releasing this, I hope they have fun, but it will be a small circle of people patting each other on the back as everyone else goes to mobile.
Free of apps.. free of distractingly being able to do something constructive on your computer...
err, I have an Apple mighty mouse I use when logged onto unix machines. It not only has a right mouse, but a scroll wheel and some side click buttons.
Now, if you talk about a trackpad, they really should be tracking option or Command clicking.
Ad-ception... now I'm scared.
Old versions of Android are not only affected, but less sandboxed. Android phones don't get updates that often. There are huge numbers of phones 4.x, much less Lollipop.
not quite what you meant, but a tweet of a malicious video can do this.
Mild irony if Google becomes a vector for pwning android phones with bad videos. If I was a youtube engineer, i'd be working overtime to create a filter for bad filters.
I forgot to put something in my original rant... and Slashdot doesn't allow editing of comments, so I'll post this here.
Paul Ryan rails against people getting their entitlements. He calls people who take those entitlements freeloaders. Yet he himself took an entitlement. Why is he allowed to get his entitlement, yet others, who don't want to "leave anything on the table" bad? It's duplicitous. And technically, Ryan wasn't even entitled to it directly, it was his dad's SS benefits. Also, his family had enough cash to send him to college, but he took the government entitlement. Again, leave nothing on the table is fine, but that's not my point.
I don't mind either Rand nor Ryan taking benefits. I don't even think Ryan duplicitous for trying to dismantle the same program that spawned him - though I view it short sighted. What bugs me is people who take entitlements who rail against others taking entitlements. Either don't take any, or shut up about others taking the same help you took.
Not trolling here, but you assume a lot of people think all those are a bad thing.
My check from the government is my earned entitlement. Your check from the government is an amoral welfare. Paul Ryan hates Social Security, but when he drew Social Security to get to college, it was somehow fine. Even Ayn Rand drew government checks.
Also JEB Bush is redundant, like typing your PIN Number on an ATM Machine. J.E.B. is an acronym for John Elliot Bush. The Bush is redundant, much like Bushes in general ;) Ok, that last part was a troll, but the first part not, I swear.
Because there's never security holes in beta software...
Agreed, that statement from TFA is pretty stupid.