Who did people think were paying for the servers and bandwidth? If you're not paying, then you're not the customer. Real VPN providers are cheap; if you don't spring the couple bucks a year that one of them costs, well, you sort of deserve what you get.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead. You thought the national parks were bad? Just you wait!
That's nice, but donating one laptop seems...stingy? Very "thoughts and prayers"? A reasonable laptop is like $300, less for corporations, especially for a $90 billion dollar company.
That's basically it. The newer Fire TV stick is perfectly capable, unlike the laggy first gen. Install Kodi, use native apps for everything else, profit.
I'll just do exactly what I did before their family plan was cheap- use (Resilio) sync on all machines with my server as one of the peers, and an unlimited Crashplan subscription on the server backing up all of the sync directories. It's not necessarily quite as convenient as just having the Crashplan client on all of the machines, but it's pretty much set-and-forget, and still only $10/month.
Too bad too, I was just singing praises of Crashplan yesterday. Oh well.
I just cancelled my trial of Vue for the same reason. I basically got it for sports (I know, right?), and had to jump through hoops of "starting the playback from the DVR list and not the TV list", had to be very careful to not catch up to the present (which disables DVR functions), and then when the game ran over its "official" time slot (as every game does, ever) it dropped me into whatever after game program, and I couldn't rewind to see the 30 minutes I'd missed. Pass. I'd love to save the $50/mo from my satellite subscription, but if the service doesn't actually work, then I'm just wasting the entire $85.
ProtonMail already exists, has 2 million users, excellent security and architectural design, zero knowledge on the part of the provider, 2 factor authentication, optional two password setup (one for the account, another to decrypt the inbox), is located in Switzerland instead of the US, etc. It's also trivial to use, the importance of which can't be overstated.
In contrast, the new LavaBit is promising end-to-end encryption "later this year", as opposed to PM, which has always had it. It's concerning that a single SSL certificate was the only barrier between the users and total decryption. More competition is always good, but this looks like a significant step down from an existing service.
We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire YOUTUBE COMMUNITY. We know YOUTUBE COMMUNITY has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We're sad too.
There are two simple reasons for this: usage of YOUTUBE COMMUNITY has declined, and as a company we're pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.
Thank you again for using YOUTUBE COMMUNITY as your COMMUNITY platform.
Further to that topic, CGI lets you create camera moves which are not possible in real life, in the sense that even if there was a fantasy/sci-fi/action/whatever thing going on, there's nowhere that you could physically place a camera which would get that shot. It violates the logic of the universe, which breaks the illusion for many people.
I think you've got it in one, at least a lot of it. Once you start noticing that your viewpoint isn't quite natural, it's really hard to un-see, and it lends this feeling of unreality. I feel like the POV moves too quickly in some all-CGI shots as well, whereas with miniatures you're limited by how fast you can move matter around.
Just save yourself some disappointment and assume they've already been cancelled. You'd have to be a blinding idiot to start using any new Google app, especially a chat app. Like always, they'll get about 75% completed, then, like a small toddler, will get bored and wander off in search of the next shiny, while the app bitrots until someone finally notices and kills it.
As I'm not a cryptographer, I have to trust what experts tell me (source code doesn't really help with this). Given that the people at Open Whisper Systems, who are fanatical privacy and security researchers and advocates, and who built the protocol that's being used and helped WhatsApp implement it, are giving this their stamp of approval, I'm just going to have to trust them. At some point, you have to pick that trust point, and Open Whisper Systems seems like a good point.
Why do all of their voice-activated prompts require me to repeat the name of the corporation, over and over? I already know I'm using a Google phone, it says so right at the top of every screen, and I have to say their name every time I want to use voice search anyway. It's kind of creepy.
It might be safer in some situations, but you won't be able to buy an autonomous car that's programmed to break the law. The DoT will just never allow it, and I can't blame them.
Yeah, but how are you going to replace that funding? Increase funding from the state? Not in Wisconsin, zomg taxes. The state government is already doing its damnedest to gut higher education and running a large deficit, again thanks to tax cuts. I agree about patent licensing not really fitting into the vision of a public university system, but it's a reality that needs to be fixed as a unit, and that's really unlikely in many states.
Yep. Etherkillers have been around since forever. The oldest link I could find in 30 seconds is one one from 1999, but I'm sure I had one before than, and I certainly didn't come up with the concept. It's nice that he re-invented the etherkiller, but man, Google is your friend.
If there's anything that'll push forward legal restrictions on 3D printers/home CNC, it'll be assholes like this making a media push over how easy it is to make weapons and OMG THE CHILDREN. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Who did people think were paying for the servers and bandwidth? If you're not paying, then you're not the customer. Real VPN providers are cheap; if you don't spring the couple bucks a year that one of them costs, well, you sort of deserve what you get.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead. You thought the national parks were bad? Just you wait!
That's nice, but donating one laptop seems...stingy? Very "thoughts and prayers"? A reasonable laptop is like $300, less for corporations, especially for a $90 billion dollar company.
So what would the plan be then, "law enforcement" backdoor, and require it by force of law? Seems pretty straightforward.
That's basically it. The newer Fire TV stick is perfectly capable, unlike the laggy first gen. Install Kodi, use native apps for everything else, profit.
I'll just do exactly what I did before their family plan was cheap- use (Resilio) sync on all machines with my server as one of the peers, and an unlimited Crashplan subscription on the server backing up all of the sync directories. It's not necessarily quite as convenient as just having the Crashplan client on all of the machines, but it's pretty much set-and-forget, and still only $10/month.
Too bad too, I was just singing praises of Crashplan yesterday. Oh well.
Oh god, don't give them ideas, before mandatory exploratory surgery becomes the next requirement!
I just cancelled my trial of Vue for the same reason. I basically got it for sports (I know, right?), and had to jump through hoops of "starting the playback from the DVR list and not the TV list", had to be very careful to not catch up to the present (which disables DVR functions), and then when the game ran over its "official" time slot (as every game does, ever) it dropped me into whatever after game program, and I couldn't rewind to see the 30 minutes I'd missed. Pass. I'd love to save the $50/mo from my satellite subscription, but if the service doesn't actually work, then I'm just wasting the entire $85.
"No."
See, that was easy! Technological solution to a sociological problem, and so on.
ProtonMail already exists, has 2 million users, excellent security and architectural design, zero knowledge on the part of the provider, 2 factor authentication, optional two password setup (one for the account, another to decrypt the inbox), is located in Switzerland instead of the US, etc. It's also trivial to use, the importance of which can't be overstated.
In contrast, the new LavaBit is promising end-to-end encryption "later this year", as opposed to PM, which has always had it. It's concerning that a single SSL certificate was the only barrier between the users and total decryption. More competition is always good, but this looks like a significant step down from an existing service.
There is, as yet, insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire YOUTUBE COMMUNITY. We know YOUTUBE COMMUNITY has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We're sad too.
There are two simple reasons for this: usage of YOUTUBE COMMUNITY has declined, and as a company we're pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.
Thank you again for using YOUTUBE COMMUNITY as your COMMUNITY platform.
Further to that topic, CGI lets you create camera moves which are not possible in real life, in the sense that even if there was a fantasy/sci-fi/action/whatever thing going on, there's nowhere that you could physically place a camera which would get that shot. It violates the logic of the universe, which breaks the illusion for many people.
I think you've got it in one, at least a lot of it. Once you start noticing that your viewpoint isn't quite natural, it's really hard to un-see, and it lends this feeling of unreality. I feel like the POV moves too quickly in some all-CGI shots as well, whereas with miniatures you're limited by how fast you can move matter around.
I imagine they're just going to contribute a bunch of slave labor.
Really, this is the best international collaboration you could announce?
Just save yourself some disappointment and assume they've already been cancelled. You'd have to be a blinding idiot to start using any new Google app, especially a chat app. Like always, they'll get about 75% completed, then, like a small toddler, will get bored and wander off in search of the next shiny, while the app bitrots until someone finally notices and kills it.
"Driver does something stupid and breaks expensive car, is in denial like all car owners, blames high-profile company and gets press coverage."
As I'm not a cryptographer, I have to trust what experts tell me (source code doesn't really help with this). Given that the people at Open Whisper Systems, who are fanatical privacy and security researchers and advocates, and who built the protocol that's being used and helped WhatsApp implement it, are giving this their stamp of approval, I'm just going to have to trust them. At some point, you have to pick that trust point, and Open Whisper Systems seems like a good point.
Why do all of their voice-activated prompts require me to repeat the name of the corporation, over and over? I already know I'm using a Google phone, it says so right at the top of every screen, and I have to say their name every time I want to use voice search anyway. It's kind of creepy.
It was tested while *mounted on* a German warship, not not tested *upon* a German ship. One of those readings is significantly less ominous!
It might be safer in some situations, but you won't be able to buy an autonomous car that's programmed to break the law. The DoT will just never allow it, and I can't blame them.
Oh god, no! Those poors were able to buy healthcare! This is truly the end of American democracy! :flail:
Wait, what were we talking about?
Yeah, but how are you going to replace that funding? Increase funding from the state? Not in Wisconsin, zomg taxes. The state government is already doing its damnedest to gut higher education and running a large deficit, again thanks to tax cuts. I agree about patent licensing not really fitting into the vision of a public university system, but it's a reality that needs to be fixed as a unit, and that's really unlikely in many states.
Yep. Etherkillers have been around since forever. The oldest link I could find in 30 seconds is one one from 1999, but I'm sure I had one before than, and I certainly didn't come up with the concept. It's nice that he re-invented the etherkiller, but man, Google is your friend.
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about this years ago ("True Love"), abeit in a much more entertaining fashion.
"I will say to her, 'I am Joe, and you are my true love.'"
If there's anything that'll push forward legal restrictions on 3D printers/home CNC, it'll be assholes like this making a media push over how easy it is to make weapons and OMG THE CHILDREN. This is why we can't have nice things.