> No, but I tightly control what is disclosed in my/. posts. No such luck with Win10.
I'm sure you do *in the post*, but do you really know what's leaking from your browser when you simply visit./ ? Ever run Wireshark to look? You might be a bit surprised...
> There are 100s of murders a day nationwide. So we shouldn't worry about someone burglarizing your place until all of these other crimes are solved, right?
No, what I am suggesting is that even if there are local burglaries you shouldn't sit at home behind a piece of sheet metal with a shotgun, hopped up on stimulants waiting for the burglar.
It's a good thing you're posting this via snail mail from a compound in the desert then.
I'm betting that if we ever get a full look at the scope of all the online spying that goes on with people's every day internet use, Windows 10's telemetry won't even be in the top 100 of data harvesting schemes to worry about.
> You have a very low opinion of your driving ability.
Nope, but I have a very low opinion of the driving ability of many people I see on the roads every time I drive somewhere. Self driving cars are probably already better than the lower 30% of licensed drivers out there and will only get better whereas that 30% will get worse as they age and let their bad habits get worse.
> That video does not scare me one little bit, why would it apart form it being a massive waste of tax payer funds
Then you obviously weren't paying attention.
> Have a secure wallet for you phone, nowdays you don't wear the tinfoil hat, you phone does, turn it off and pack it away and you disappear, make use of their laziness to secure your privacy and if they are tracking you, annoying the crap out of them.
Hmm. Citizen rtb61 is engaging in obviously deceptive behavior. Knock 50 points off his Sesame Credit score for that for each month he engages in such anti-harmonious behavior.
> and on randomly while travelling, travel to a random location with it off and turn it back on again
What is this "travelling" you are talking about, Citizen rtb61? With a score as low as yours, you're not travelling *anywhere* your legs won't take you. City bus pass purchase privileges are revoked to say nothing of trains or planes. And owning a car? LOL. Come back after a couple of decades of being obedient and we'll talk.
I don't think you have any idea of how intrusive the Chinese state already is in their average citizens' lives. They've been working on this kind of big data stuff for decades and have it already at a near art form, and now they're taking it to the next level. There are people over there way smarter than you or I already looking at exactly the cute little crap you outlined and more, and crafting a proper method of coercion to either correct that, or ensure the perpetrator ends up being forcibly reeducated. Or worse. There are persistent rumors of dissidents being used as organ farms.
It's very bad. You should not be cheering this in any way, as its primary purpose is to groom the citizenry for compliance. I posted this elsewhere in these comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
That's how it will work. Like an even more invasive version of the Black Mirror episode on social networks. In a nutshell your score determines privileges like being able to travel, or in the next step, getting jobs, credit/mortgages, etc. If you post things critical of the government (even if - ESPECIALLY if - they are true) your score goes down. If you are friends with someone on social media who has a dropping score, you better drop that friend before your score goes down as a result of association, which is the true power. The 'government' won't even have to oppress you if you get out of line, your social circle will do it for them because they don't want their scores to go down.
Um, you missed the bit where all of Musk's stuff actually WORKS, like electric cars actually being out on the road and rockets that actually launch payloads and land again.
The Theranos majik blood tricorder never worked. Hence the fraud.
> These days a magazine is just a dead-tree version of a web site, despite what the publisher wants you to think.
Unlike you I have read a few magazines in the last 15 years and I really must say that's a very poor characterization indeed. Some cheap ass magazines that is true, but on balance the average magazine article is put together far better than 98% of the "articles" published to even major online only sites. Apartmenttherapy.com or inhabitant.com is like an 8 year old's essay compared to Architectural Digest's university level work, for example. In the tech sphere some sites like anandtech and tomshardware blur the lines more and are a meatier read but they still have the same lack of oversight, cohesion and access to resources for research that traditional print magazines have (for now), but for every tomshardware there's also 10 theregister.co.uk's or bluesnews.com where the articles are fast and loose, or they're literally just press releases with a bit of commentary. Not even close to the same as a magazine.
> but sooner or later it all hits the web.
Yep, and a lot of that hits the web behind a paywall so you're not seeing it without paying for access regardless. So I'll take mine in a nicely packaged fashion if I'm paying.
> An app by itself that just presents the world of magazines as we know it, is nice but not very useful
You're making a pretty blanket statement based on your personal tastes. It may not be useful - to you - but many people would find it useful and more cost effective than buying magazines all the time. Also, have you actually looked at what's on offer for Texture, or are you just going by what you see at the supermarket as "the world of magazines"? I took a look a few minutes ago and was surprised to see there is a magazine devoted to beer, among other things.
I'm not sure this would be for me, but if I did get a subscription I can easily see myself reading Popular Mechanics, Make:, This Old House, National Geographic and PC World, among others while I'm on the train commuting. Would be a damn sight better than reading the fragmented snippets of news and social media I currently make do with on that trip.
If that's as far back as you remember, you haven't really been around here that long. Slashdot has always had some crap stories, and marketing stories, and political agenda stories. Why if you look at the Wayback machine and set it for April 1999 you'll see stories about the Wing Commander and Star Wars movies, as well as Apple buying rights to use the MP3 codec.
Also not sure how buying a magazine streaming service is "political" but it is of interest to some of us who have been consuming traditional print media on a screen for some time now.
Nice goalpost movement. Hey you remember back before the Internet existed and people used to write anonymous letters to the editor that were published all the time? Me neither, because it didn't happen. There's no fundamental right to shitpost anonymously.
> They are trying that but get into heat over subjects people need anonymity for.
Can you come up with a real world example of why someone would *need* anonymity to post to Facebook, for example? Private emails and the like can be encrypted, as well as sent from anonymized services, but I really don't think there is a *need* to post to any public forum anonymously. It's very open to abuse as we've seen. For every concerned diner that posts a bad review and mentions real unsanitary conditions at a restaurant, there's likely dozens of shitposters who are posting bad reviews because they didn't get a discount or thought their waiter didn't grovel enough.
Hell, just yesterday on Reddit there was a big post set up about some ongoing legal problem where the ongoing legitimate legal problems between a tenant and a flooring company that happened to own rental properties caused collateral damage where the poster mistakenly identified the wrong company as the property owner and The Mob took it upon themselves to brigade every review site (yelp, google reviews, etc) they could find and trash the reputation of the *wrong company*.
This shit has to stop, and there has to start being accountability for postings online. We're seeing damage from innocent people/companies being libeled, all the way to foreign propaganda affecting elections.
> the right to speak anonymously is part of free speech
Where is that enshrined? I don't see that in the constitution, only the right to speech without reprisal from the government. And even that has limits, and is only in the US, whereas the Internet is a global thing.
An alternative to blocking them: Requiring actual names and user registrations. Every account links back to a real person and their real name is beside every post. No more bots, no more offshore Texans from Russia.
Dating myself, but back in Ye Olde Days of BBSs, you had to apply and the SysOp would call you to verify your information before activating your account on their system. We used pseudonyms but the SysOp had a list of who everyone really was, and if someone acted like an ass on the message board or online games, the banhammer came. It tended to keep things relatively civil.
Pretty much yep. They did the same thing with Chromecasts and Apple TVs last year - and also banned 3rd parties from selling them on Amazon - because they didn't want big rivals selling their hardware that competes with the FireTV and Fire stick. Strangely they left Roku alone, but that's probably because they don't see Roku going the distance long term.
> Just because YOU declare something a "non-cost", doesn't make it so. There is a REAL, accountable cost associated with continuing to support older devices and OSes, whether you think so or not.
So, do tell. What "costs" are Apple going to absorb to keep Apple TV g1s working if they simply stop patching them and let them otherwise continue operating? They still sell movies in 1080p from their store, right? They still have the g1 versions of all the apps like Netflix, etc, right? All those downloads must be costing them tens of cents per day.
If native Hawaiians are freaking out over a telescope being built on a "holy mountain", what exactly do you think their reaction to tapping that holy source of heat would be?
> They didn't care one wit about which candidate won
Sure they didn't. That's why they were talking with the Trump campaign and trying to get him to drop the Maginitsky act after being elected, and why Trump isn't enforcing the sanctions. I'm suuuure that Clinton would have acted exactly the same.
Apples to oranges. You are simply showing pure spending, not deficits. If a Democratic congress has a higher tax income it's fine for them to spend more. What ISN'T fine is giving 1.5 trillion to the top 5% and then raiding what's left of the social safety net and public works to partially pay for the tax cut and ringing up a massive deficit.
> I liked my LG G Pad 8.3 (the later LG models like the one you got weren't as good)
Honestly, my main bitch with my LG G pad III is the 16GB. If they'd offered a 32GB model I'd probably be happy as a clam with it. The screen is quite vibrant, and the full size USB slot at the top is an interesting gimmick that I've made use of a surprising number of times. Plus I've got an LG phone so being able to use the double tap on the screen to wake both of them up is nice.
> If you're willing to risk buying from a Chinese site, perhaps the Teclast T8
Actually, the Teclast T8 is sold through Amazon.ca as well, so that might be an option. Reviews there look OK, but always better to hear from an actual owner of one of their products. I might go for that, it's not too pricy and the spec looks great. Thanks for the tip!
I'd buy another. I remember buying the 2012 Nexus 7 for around $300 CDN thinking I wasn't sure what I'd use it for but it would be neat to have an Android device. Maybe use it for books. I ended up using that tablet nonstop on commutes, reading, watching videos and a ton of other activities. I had no idea how useful a tablet that size could be. Then 18 months later the 2013 Nexus was out and even better. I sold my 2012 Nexus to a coworker and bought the 2013 version - also for around $300, less then $175 I got selling the 2012 version made it a decently affordable upgrade.
The 2013 Nexus was great and worked well. I'd thought I'd do another sell/upgrade with the next Nexus to come out, but that wasn't to be. The new Nexus - the Nexus 9 when it came out was over $500 CDN and considerably larger. I wanted a pocket tablet, not that monstrosity. So I looked around and saw nothing compelling. There were some 7" - 8" Samsung tablets and other Asus tablets but their spec was hardly better than (or in some cases worse) than the 2013 Nexus I already had and their prices were more than what I paid for the Nexus so I stuck with that.
Eventually in early 2017 the flip sensor in the Nexus 2013 went on me and I had to flip orientation with an app. Annoying but not the end of the world. But it also made me look around for another tablet after another couple of years and to my surprise there *still* wasn't anything on the market that would replace the 2013 Nexus at anywhere close to a similar price point. Practically everything in the sub $300 CDN price range was STILL no better than the Nexus 7 and usually also had 16GB of storage to boot (compared to the Nexus 7's 32GB). I ended up getting an LG G pad III 8.0 because the phone carrier I am with has a "dollars" credit that accumulates and at the time they were planning on ending the program and said you needed to spend your dollars with them. I had no interest in a new phone or (another) case but they had the 8" LG G Pad III for $240 and with the credit I had I ended up getting it for $50 out of pocket. I've been using it now for about 6 months and while it has more oomph than the old Nexus by about 20%, and a brighter screen, it also is hampered by only having 16GB of storage. I have a MicroSD card in it but it still wants to run all apps off internal storage so that's always tight and causes issues.
The problems with the G Pad have had me looking around again, and there's just not much out there other than the Asus Zenpad lines but again, the price isn't commensurate with what it should be for the incremental bump in spec. So unless specs get a boost or prices get a chop I'm sticking with what I have.
> And car drivers will never know the joy of being in touch with your horse and guiding it into a corner by the slightest of nudges.
Bad analogy. See, an ICE car and an electric car are still both cars. A car and a horse are nothing alike. For example if I opened up a horse to have a look 'under the hood' it'd probably get very upset and might even die depending on how much looking around I did. Plus horses age, you can't just pack them up for a couple of years under a tarp while you're out of town (people get upset about that if you try), you have to feed them even if you're not using them for transport, etc. etc.
I also feel sad for those who say they want a sports car and then go do something boneheaded like buy an automatic.
Different experiences. Tesla drivers will never know the sheer joy of nailing a downshift into a turn, feeling the response of the engine through the shift lever as you round the turn and then punching the throttle on the way out and executing a perfect shift sequence as you accelerate away.
Slashdot Mirror
British Columbia. Driving here can be a blood sport sometimes.
> No, but I tightly control what is disclosed in my /. posts. No such luck with Win10.
I'm sure you do *in the post*, but do you really know what's leaking from your browser when you simply visit ./ ? Ever run Wireshark to look? You might be a bit surprised...
> There are 100s of murders a day nationwide. So we shouldn't worry about someone burglarizing your place until all of these other crimes are solved, right?
No, what I am suggesting is that even if there are local burglaries you shouldn't sit at home behind a piece of sheet metal with a shotgun, hopped up on stimulants waiting for the burglar.
> that doesn't spy on me.
It's a good thing you're posting this via snail mail from a compound in the desert then.
I'm betting that if we ever get a full look at the scope of all the online spying that goes on with people's every day internet use, Windows 10's telemetry won't even be in the top 100 of data harvesting schemes to worry about.
I see you've never driven in Vancouver. In Vancouver the bad drivers ARE the crowd. Come on over and try it.
> You have a very low opinion of your driving ability.
Nope, but I have a very low opinion of the driving ability of many people I see on the roads every time I drive somewhere. Self driving cars are probably already better than the lower 30% of licensed drivers out there and will only get better whereas that 30% will get worse as they age and let their bad habits get worse.
> That video does not scare me one little bit, why would it apart form it being a massive waste of tax payer funds
Then you obviously weren't paying attention.
> Have a secure wallet for you phone, nowdays you don't wear the tinfoil hat, you phone does, turn it off and pack it away and you disappear, make use of their laziness to secure your privacy and if they are tracking you, annoying the crap out of them.
Hmm. Citizen rtb61 is engaging in obviously deceptive behavior. Knock 50 points off his Sesame Credit score for that for each month he engages in such anti-harmonious behavior.
> and on randomly while travelling, travel to a random location with it off and turn it back on again
What is this "travelling" you are talking about, Citizen rtb61? With a score as low as yours, you're not travelling *anywhere* your legs won't take you. City bus pass purchase privileges are revoked to say nothing of trains or planes. And owning a car? LOL. Come back after a couple of decades of being obedient and we'll talk.
I don't think you have any idea of how intrusive the Chinese state already is in their average citizens' lives. They've been working on this kind of big data stuff for decades and have it already at a near art form, and now they're taking it to the next level. There are people over there way smarter than you or I already looking at exactly the cute little crap you outlined and more, and crafting a proper method of coercion to either correct that, or ensure the perpetrator ends up being forcibly reeducated. Or worse. There are persistent rumors of dissidents being used as organ farms.
It's very bad. You should not be cheering this in any way, as its primary purpose is to groom the citizenry for compliance. I posted this elsewhere in these comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
That's how it will work. Like an even more invasive version of the Black Mirror episode on social networks. In a nutshell your score determines privileges like being able to travel, or in the next step, getting jobs, credit/mortgages, etc. If you post things critical of the government (even if - ESPECIALLY if - they are true) your score goes down. If you are friends with someone on social media who has a dropping score, you better drop that friend before your score goes down as a result of association, which is the true power. The 'government' won't even have to oppress you if you get out of line, your social circle will do it for them because they don't want their scores to go down.
Video from 2015 on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Very chilling.
Um, you missed the bit where all of Musk's stuff actually WORKS, like electric cars actually being out on the road and rockets that actually launch payloads and land again.
The Theranos majik blood tricorder never worked. Hence the fraud.
But we get it, you hate Elon Musk.
> These days a magazine is just a dead-tree version of a web site, despite what the publisher wants you to think.
Unlike you I have read a few magazines in the last 15 years and I really must say that's a very poor characterization indeed. Some cheap ass magazines that is true, but on balance the average magazine article is put together far better than 98% of the "articles" published to even major online only sites. Apartmenttherapy.com or inhabitant.com is like an 8 year old's essay compared to Architectural Digest's university level work, for example. In the tech sphere some sites like anandtech and tomshardware blur the lines more and are a meatier read but they still have the same lack of oversight, cohesion and access to resources for research that traditional print magazines have (for now), but for every tomshardware there's also 10 theregister.co.uk's or bluesnews.com where the articles are fast and loose, or they're literally just press releases with a bit of commentary. Not even close to the same as a magazine.
> but sooner or later it all hits the web.
Yep, and a lot of that hits the web behind a paywall so you're not seeing it without paying for access regardless. So I'll take mine in a nicely packaged fashion if I'm paying.
You forgot to mention all the Hot Grits posts....
> An app by itself that just presents the world of magazines as we know it, is nice but not very useful
You're making a pretty blanket statement based on your personal tastes. It may not be useful - to you - but many people would find it useful and more cost effective than buying magazines all the time. Also, have you actually looked at what's on offer for Texture, or are you just going by what you see at the supermarket as "the world of magazines"? I took a look a few minutes ago and was surprised to see there is a magazine devoted to beer, among other things.
I'm not sure this would be for me, but if I did get a subscription I can easily see myself reading Popular Mechanics, Make:, This Old House, National Geographic and PC World, among others while I'm on the train commuting. Would be a damn sight better than reading the fragmented snippets of news and social media I currently make do with on that trip.
If that's as far back as you remember, you haven't really been around here that long. Slashdot has always had some crap stories, and marketing stories, and political agenda stories. Why if you look at the Wayback machine and set it for April 1999 you'll see stories about the Wing Commander and Star Wars movies, as well as Apple buying rights to use the MP3 codec.
Also not sure how buying a magazine streaming service is "political" but it is of interest to some of us who have been consuming traditional print media on a screen for some time now.
Nice goalpost movement. Hey you remember back before the Internet existed and people used to write anonymous letters to the editor that were published all the time? Me neither, because it didn't happen. There's no fundamental right to shitpost anonymously.
> They are trying that but get into heat over subjects people need anonymity for.
Can you come up with a real world example of why someone would *need* anonymity to post to Facebook, for example? Private emails and the like can be encrypted, as well as sent from anonymized services, but I really don't think there is a *need* to post to any public forum anonymously. It's very open to abuse as we've seen. For every concerned diner that posts a bad review and mentions real unsanitary conditions at a restaurant, there's likely dozens of shitposters who are posting bad reviews because they didn't get a discount or thought their waiter didn't grovel enough.
Hell, just yesterday on Reddit there was a big post set up about some ongoing legal problem where the ongoing legitimate legal problems between a tenant and a flooring company that happened to own rental properties caused collateral damage where the poster mistakenly identified the wrong company as the property owner and The Mob took it upon themselves to brigade every review site (yelp, google reviews, etc) they could find and trash the reputation of the *wrong company*.
This shit has to stop, and there has to start being accountability for postings online. We're seeing damage from innocent people/companies being libeled, all the way to foreign propaganda affecting elections.
> the right to speak anonymously is part of free speech
Where is that enshrined? I don't see that in the constitution, only the right to speech without reprisal from the government. And even that has limits, and is only in the US, whereas the Internet is a global thing.
An alternative to blocking them: Requiring actual names and user registrations. Every account links back to a real person and their real name is beside every post. No more bots, no more offshore Texans from Russia.
Dating myself, but back in Ye Olde Days of BBSs, you had to apply and the SysOp would call you to verify your information before activating your account on their system. We used pseudonyms but the SysOp had a list of who everyone really was, and if someone acted like an ass on the message board or online games, the banhammer came. It tended to keep things relatively civil.
Pretty much yep. They did the same thing with Chromecasts and Apple TVs last year - and also banned 3rd parties from selling them on Amazon - because they didn't want big rivals selling their hardware that competes with the FireTV and Fire stick. Strangely they left Roku alone, but that's probably because they don't see Roku going the distance long term.
> You're just stupid.
> Just because YOU declare something a "non-cost", doesn't make it so. There is a REAL, accountable cost associated with continuing to support older devices and OSes, whether you think so or not.
So, do tell. What "costs" are Apple going to absorb to keep Apple TV g1s working if they simply stop patching them and let them otherwise continue operating? They still sell movies in 1080p from their store, right? They still have the g1 versions of all the apps like Netflix, etc, right? All those downloads must be costing them tens of cents per day.
If native Hawaiians are freaking out over a telescope being built on a "holy mountain", what exactly do you think their reaction to tapping that holy source of heat would be?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Mauna_Kea_Observatories
> They didn't care one wit about which candidate won
Sure they didn't. That's why they were talking with the Trump campaign and trying to get him to drop the Maginitsky act after being elected, and why Trump isn't enforcing the sanctions. I'm suuuure that Clinton would have acted exactly the same.
Both sides are equally bad, amirite?
Apples to oranges. You are simply showing pure spending, not deficits. If a Democratic congress has a higher tax income it's fine for them to spend more. What ISN'T fine is giving 1.5 trillion to the top 5% and then raiding what's left of the social safety net and public works to partially pay for the tax cut and ringing up a massive deficit.
> I liked my LG G Pad 8.3 (the later LG models like the one you got weren't as good)
Honestly, my main bitch with my LG G pad III is the 16GB. If they'd offered a 32GB model I'd probably be happy as a clam with it. The screen is quite vibrant, and the full size USB slot at the top is an interesting gimmick that I've made use of a surprising number of times. Plus I've got an LG phone so being able to use the double tap on the screen to wake both of them up is nice.
> If you're willing to risk buying from a Chinese site, perhaps the Teclast T8
Actually, the Teclast T8 is sold through Amazon.ca as well, so that might be an option. Reviews there look OK, but always better to hear from an actual owner of one of their products. I might go for that, it's not too pricy and the spec looks great. Thanks for the tip!
I'd buy another. I remember buying the 2012 Nexus 7 for around $300 CDN thinking I wasn't sure what I'd use it for but it would be neat to have an Android device. Maybe use it for books. I ended up using that tablet nonstop on commutes, reading, watching videos and a ton of other activities. I had no idea how useful a tablet that size could be. Then 18 months later the 2013 Nexus was out and even better. I sold my 2012 Nexus to a coworker and bought the 2013 version - also for around $300, less then $175 I got selling the 2012 version made it a decently affordable upgrade.
The 2013 Nexus was great and worked well. I'd thought I'd do another sell/upgrade with the next Nexus to come out, but that wasn't to be. The new Nexus - the Nexus 9 when it came out was over $500 CDN and considerably larger. I wanted a pocket tablet, not that monstrosity. So I looked around and saw nothing compelling. There were some 7" - 8" Samsung tablets and other Asus tablets but their spec was hardly better than (or in some cases worse) than the 2013 Nexus I already had and their prices were more than what I paid for the Nexus so I stuck with that.
Eventually in early 2017 the flip sensor in the Nexus 2013 went on me and I had to flip orientation with an app. Annoying but not the end of the world. But it also made me look around for another tablet after another couple of years and to my surprise there *still* wasn't anything on the market that would replace the 2013 Nexus at anywhere close to a similar price point. Practically everything in the sub $300 CDN price range was STILL no better than the Nexus 7 and usually also had 16GB of storage to boot (compared to the Nexus 7's 32GB). I ended up getting an LG G pad III 8.0 because the phone carrier I am with has a "dollars" credit that accumulates and at the time they were planning on ending the program and said you needed to spend your dollars with them. I had no interest in a new phone or (another) case but they had the 8" LG G Pad III for $240 and with the credit I had I ended up getting it for $50 out of pocket. I've been using it now for about 6 months and while it has more oomph than the old Nexus by about 20%, and a brighter screen, it also is hampered by only having 16GB of storage. I have a MicroSD card in it but it still wants to run all apps off internal storage so that's always tight and causes issues.
The problems with the G Pad have had me looking around again, and there's just not much out there other than the Asus Zenpad lines but again, the price isn't commensurate with what it should be for the incremental bump in spec. So unless specs get a boost or prices get a chop I'm sticking with what I have.
> And car drivers will never know the joy of being in touch with your horse and guiding it into a corner by the slightest of nudges.
Bad analogy. See, an ICE car and an electric car are still both cars. A car and a horse are nothing alike. For example if I opened up a horse to have a look 'under the hood' it'd probably get very upset and might even die depending on how much looking around I did. Plus horses age, you can't just pack them up for a couple of years under a tarp while you're out of town (people get upset about that if you try), you have to feed them even if you're not using them for transport, etc. etc.
I also feel sad for those who say they want a sports car and then go do something boneheaded like buy an automatic.
Different experiences. Tesla drivers will never know the sheer joy of nailing a downshift into a turn, feeling the response of the engine through the shift lever as you round the turn and then punching the throttle on the way out and executing a perfect shift sequence as you accelerate away.