Impossible, in fact. So, "starting over" at one outfit means all the others they've sold data to, including your intrusive government will also erase it, once notified? How many suns are in the sky on your planet?
Even in places that have data privacy laws...the governments are very interested in keeping everything they can about you "for your safety" and so on - EU among them, and UK is about as bad as the US.
And then there are the credit agencies, which appear to be above all laws, and hating them has zero effect on their actual market. Do you think you can opt out of Equifax, Experian...or the governments OPM. Or the people who've hacked them? Get real. What "ought" ain't what is and will be.
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So...the only saving grace, as it always was, is to not be worse than the next person you're being compared against. An issue might be that now, those doing the choosing for who gets the job, the loan, whatever, now have a lot more to choose from and it'll be harder to stand above the crowd than before. But when things get tough...you know the rest. Welcome to reality, it sucks - but the only permanent way out sucks worse.
Heh, nope. The world comes to me, at my request, or I get privacy, also when I desire. When I quit touring as a musician, I stopped with saloons - they were a place of work for me, and I never really liked being in them, and well, brothel's aint my thing anyway. Since I'm not a con artist, I have no need for a flow of new people who aren't wise to a con yet. And no need to meet cons. I'd rather have a handful of actual good friends - the kind who help you move (or move the bodies) vs the city boy's zillion acquaintances that'll stab you in the back whenever it's handy, or just go missing when you need help.
Or con you. Different strokes, I guess.
I don't get tired of cops I know and who wouldn't bust me if I did doughnuts in the courthouse parking lot - or had an illegal smile.
I don't get tired of a local government myself and a few neighbors outnumber...and we know where they live and they know that.
I don't get tired of not having to lock stuff up.
I don't get tired of losers - the society out here ejects them like a Darwin function, so there's few to get tired of.
Get the idea?
where even stupid advertisers would subsidize this. The smarter among us live "out here" where this would never fly. Yeah, it's 26 miles round trip to the beer store. It's also a 45 minute drive to the nearest place crime happens. You can keep your cities. I'll take the fresh air, good food, good people, and lack of bullshit over that anyday. I can bring home a truckload of whatever and not need to go out all that much, all it takes is a plan.
Would mod funny if it weren't true and kinda sick (and well, I'm posting on this one)...insightful? Reality-based? Truly, it's about bucks. If we somehow made it clear we'd pay enough more for that write enable jumper (and the newly required increased support BS) - it'd be there, bet on it. And after awhile, it wouldn't need any more support than R&Ring an SD card - people do eventually learn the simple stuff if there's a benefit.
Depending on the eeprom, you might need a transistor or two in order to turn Vpp on and off - usually around 12v. And of course, some UV lamp to erase one first.
The thing is, it had to be a deliberate act to change that stuff - these days a coffee shop or a PC shop could do it as a service in between replacing broken phone screens.
Now, there's zero opportunity cost for some cracker to try and mess up your stuff.
If you want to, say, steal my tools, you have to show up - and I might shoot you - there's cost of getting here, and there's risk to you in trying.
With the internet, there's no cost to get here, and little risk of attribution. For the end user, the use of flash is a very bad tradeoff made for you by someone who doesn't take responsibility for the total costs.
Me too. This sort of thing should be brought back. Not that it will, since the current way allows vendors to "fix" sloppy code later without it being such a burden on customers, and save the price of a jumper - and physical access to one, to put into profit. And obviously, those who desire backdoors into our stuff like it as it is.
Methuselah wasn't always wrong, you know.
Yeah, I know. I'm one of those engineers, now retired, so I have some experience. Now living off-grid on power that's all home-grown one way or another.
All the pieces have lots of 9's. But since there are a lot of them...things all working at once - automatically, especially on a first test in an emergency, is noteworthy.
Why assume that? O could have appointed any manner of person, but he's the one who choose Pai. Period.
Remember, we all thought Wheeler was going to be a disaster, having been a cable lobbyist, but he turned out a lot better than anyone - including I'm sure the people who got him into the job - thought he would.
Just asking for some honesty and some understanding of how things work in the real world, but I guess partisan confirmation bias rules here with the kiddies - facts need not apply, and no one RTFM. Sigh.
FWIW, I hate all the tie colors. They all work for big biz, just by different paths and with different spin. In fact, it's hard to see a hard policy change for quite a few administrations back now.... Obviously, like hitchhiker's guide, the president is just there to distract from the real power. Well, obvious to anyone old enough who paid attention since..Eisenhower. O was Shrub 2 for crying out loud...with more war - those peace prizes really help there.
The important thing is "what entity is liable" - example, self driving car wrecks, chemical plant explodes, some "AI" messes up and does damage - who is responsible? Would it be the guy in the driver's seat of the AI car who was instructed to pay attention anyway and resume control if something wasn't right? The maker of the car? The guy who set it to "auto", assuming there was a choice? The guy who made a sensor that failed? The outfit that wrote the software? The outfit that promised that it would work fine? We missed the boat on software generally - Bill Gates would be in Gitmo at best for the man-lives he's wasted by proxy - because as mentioned above, by the time the issue arose, there was too much money in it, and software gets away with zero liability even when the author was extremely negligent. Of course, it's not that simple or no one would write or release any code, but the current zero, wild west setup ain't so hot either.
This would be the same Ajit Pai Obama appointed? I was with you up to orange. Bureaucracy is a separate government and doesn't change much with the tie color of the putative leader.
instead of some drunk homophobe in flyover country whom no one's going to believe. I'm a physicist and would like to ask some questions about their transport methodology. Since that never happens....and as someone said above, since ubiquitous cameras, they seem to not be anywhere anymore...I think the idea of alien visits is pretty unlikely.
Old saw: Those who know don't talk, those who talk, don't know, or are talking their book. Why should BC be any different - the ripoff artists in the casino haven't changed one bit. Yes, you can make money in tulips, or maybe we've reached a "permanent high plateau", or maybe someone strikes gold. But in the gold rush, the guys who made money either got out quick, or sold supplies to the prospectors. Similar stories for every bubble. You have been warned. The exit ramp is going to be very very crowded...
Intel isn't often this stupid. I propose an alternate explanation - NSL by the TLA's demanded they add this backdoor. And can't talk about it. We know this happens to other firms. Occam's razor.
First to file. Patent reform. Prior art no longer key. Thanks to the previous administration. Really messed me up, I have to patent my own work now to keep someone else from doing it, just so I can give it away for free. If I didn't someone else could, and charge for what I did - even admit I did it, but still own my stuff. As usual, the new law favors the rich. And there you were thinking that was partisan. I go back to Eisenhower, and the trend is all help the powerful become more so. No exceptions.
Right now they do function locally, my chromebook does editing, cooking timer, calculator and a host of other minor things, including VNC to other machines on my LAN - all without internet. It's what makes the thing useful to me (and all those apps also work on my more-capable machines too, for a unified UE). Saying chromebooks will never catch on is kinda missing the fact that they already have for education and some other uses where sysadmining is too much hassle - it's nice they don't need it. Some people immediately "break" any other type of machine, it's hard to ruin a chromebook...and easy to reset to working status. .
If they remove the ability to work offline, it will seriously reduce the usefulness of these things...and I'll just put linux on mine instead.
No explosions here. It's just that most of the really nasty trolls - who never seem able to actually back up their crap - are also AC for reasons other than the cookie issue.
Mod parent up. Most people oversimplify the issues here. A carpenter may not be a good architect - the reverse is also true, few get both right. The vanity titles get tossed around far too much in lieu of pay and real perks.
Bad programmers can create write-only code in any language...I could name a few that are worse than perl, since they copied the regular expression engine and too-clever-by-half beginner people abuse the snot out of it. Is that what you mean? I don't know anyone who has troubles reading and maintaining my code in any language. Hmm...maybe it's not the language.
Real programmers just use it to get 'er done. I guess you feel embarrassed enough to want to hide your identity while displaying ignorance and intellectual laziness.
In that light, of the 3, why Pai? You're the one who needs to get some knowledge. The others didn't want the job because Pai is a troublemaker and no one wanted to be his boss. Don't worry, I've got knowledge. Trying to keep me from sharing the truth with others? Too bad if it spoils what you'd rather have be true.
So, O gets a pass when the world doesn't do it just so for him, but we laugh at a guy (admittedly a moron, like his predecessor) who doesn't get his way either because he's widely hated? I sense a double standard in the force. Just calling things as they really are is enough to damn the jerks - which would be ALL OF THEM.
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So...the only saving grace, as it always was, is to not be worse than the next person you're being compared against. An issue might be that now, those doing the choosing for who gets the job, the loan, whatever, now have a lot more to choose from and it'll be harder to stand above the crowd than before. But when things get tough...you know the rest. Welcome to reality, it sucks - but the only permanent way out sucks worse.
Heh, nope. The world comes to me, at my request, or I get privacy, also when I desire. When I quit touring as a musician, I stopped with saloons - they were a place of work for me, and I never really liked being in them, and well, brothel's aint my thing anyway. Since I'm not a con artist, I have no need for a flow of new people who aren't wise to a con yet. And no need to meet cons. I'd rather have a handful of actual good friends - the kind who help you move (or move the bodies) vs the city boy's zillion acquaintances that'll stab you in the back whenever it's handy, or just go missing when you need help. Or con you. Different strokes, I guess. I don't get tired of cops I know and who wouldn't bust me if I did doughnuts in the courthouse parking lot - or had an illegal smile. I don't get tired of a local government myself and a few neighbors outnumber...and we know where they live and they know that. I don't get tired of not having to lock stuff up. I don't get tired of losers - the society out here ejects them like a Darwin function, so there's few to get tired of. Get the idea?
where even stupid advertisers would subsidize this. The smarter among us live "out here" where this would never fly. Yeah, it's 26 miles round trip to the beer store. It's also a 45 minute drive to the nearest place crime happens. You can keep your cities. I'll take the fresh air, good food, good people, and lack of bullshit over that anyday. I can bring home a truckload of whatever and not need to go out all that much, all it takes is a plan.
Would mod funny if it weren't true and kinda sick (and well, I'm posting on this one)...insightful? Reality-based? Truly, it's about bucks. If we somehow made it clear we'd pay enough more for that write enable jumper (and the newly required increased support BS) - it'd be there, bet on it. And after awhile, it wouldn't need any more support than R&Ring an SD card - people do eventually learn the simple stuff if there's a benefit.
Depending on the eeprom, you might need a transistor or two in order to turn Vpp on and off - usually around 12v. And of course, some UV lamp to erase one first. The thing is, it had to be a deliberate act to change that stuff - these days a coffee shop or a PC shop could do it as a service in between replacing broken phone screens.
Now, there's zero opportunity cost for some cracker to try and mess up your stuff.
If you want to, say, steal my tools, you have to show up - and I might shoot you - there's cost of getting here, and there's risk to you in trying.
With the internet, there's no cost to get here, and little risk of attribution. For the end user, the use of flash is a very bad tradeoff made for you by someone who doesn't take responsibility for the total costs.
Me too. This sort of thing should be brought back. Not that it will, since the current way allows vendors to "fix" sloppy code later without it being such a burden on customers, and save the price of a jumper - and physical access to one, to put into profit. And obviously, those who desire backdoors into our stuff like it as it is. Methuselah wasn't always wrong, you know.
Yeah, I know. I'm one of those engineers, now retired, so I have some experience. Now living off-grid on power that's all home-grown one way or another. All the pieces have lots of 9's. But since there are a lot of them...things all working at once - automatically, especially on a first test in an emergency, is noteworthy.
Because insiders know how rare it is for something to do what it's supposed to do?
You piss yourself off? Yep, your hero is prison bound, not mine. Maybe you could keep her company.
It writes bad roots? Who pays the overdraft fee?
Why assume that? O could have appointed any manner of person, but he's the one who choose Pai. Period. Remember, we all thought Wheeler was going to be a disaster, having been a cable lobbyist, but he turned out a lot better than anyone - including I'm sure the people who got him into the job - thought he would. Just asking for some honesty and some understanding of how things work in the real world, but I guess partisan confirmation bias rules here with the kiddies - facts need not apply, and no one RTFM. Sigh. FWIW, I hate all the tie colors. They all work for big biz, just by different paths and with different spin. In fact, it's hard to see a hard policy change for quite a few administrations back now. ... Obviously, like hitchhiker's guide, the president is just there to distract from the real power. Well, obvious to anyone old enough who paid attention since..Eisenhower. O was Shrub 2 for crying out loud...with more war - those peace prizes really help there.
The important thing is "what entity is liable" - example, self driving car wrecks, chemical plant explodes, some "AI" messes up and does damage - who is responsible? Would it be the guy in the driver's seat of the AI car who was instructed to pay attention anyway and resume control if something wasn't right? The maker of the car? The guy who set it to "auto", assuming there was a choice? The guy who made a sensor that failed? The outfit that wrote the software? The outfit that promised that it would work fine? We missed the boat on software generally - Bill Gates would be in Gitmo at best for the man-lives he's wasted by proxy - because as mentioned above, by the time the issue arose, there was too much money in it, and software gets away with zero liability even when the author was extremely negligent. Of course, it's not that simple or no one would write or release any code, but the current zero, wild west setup ain't so hot either.
This would be the same Ajit Pai Obama appointed? I was with you up to orange. Bureaucracy is a separate government and doesn't change much with the tie color of the putative leader.
instead of some drunk homophobe in flyover country whom no one's going to believe. I'm a physicist and would like to ask some questions about their transport methodology. Since that never happens....and as someone said above, since ubiquitous cameras, they seem to not be anywhere anymore...I think the idea of alien visits is pretty unlikely.
Old saw: Those who know don't talk, those who talk, don't know, or are talking their book. Why should BC be any different - the ripoff artists in the casino haven't changed one bit. Yes, you can make money in tulips, or maybe we've reached a "permanent high plateau", or maybe someone strikes gold. But in the gold rush, the guys who made money either got out quick, or sold supplies to the prospectors. Similar stories for every bubble. You have been warned. The exit ramp is going to be very very crowded...
Intel isn't often this stupid. I propose an alternate explanation - NSL by the TLA's demanded they add this backdoor. And can't talk about it. We know this happens to other firms. Occam's razor.
First to file. Patent reform. Prior art no longer key. Thanks to the previous administration. Really messed me up, I have to patent my own work now to keep someone else from doing it, just so I can give it away for free. If I didn't someone else could, and charge for what I did - even admit I did it, but still own my stuff. As usual, the new law favors the rich. And there you were thinking that was partisan. I go back to Eisenhower, and the trend is all help the powerful become more so. No exceptions.
Right now they do function locally, my chromebook does editing, cooking timer, calculator and a host of other minor things, including VNC to other machines on my LAN - all without internet. It's what makes the thing useful to me (and all those apps also work on my more-capable machines too, for a unified UE). Saying chromebooks will never catch on is kinda missing the fact that they already have for education and some other uses where sysadmining is too much hassle - it's nice they don't need it. Some people immediately "break" any other type of machine, it's hard to ruin a chromebook...and easy to reset to working status.
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If they remove the ability to work offline, it will seriously reduce the usefulness of these things...and I'll just put linux on mine instead.
Agreed. At least the clown beats the murderous felon - barely.
No explosions here. It's just that most of the really nasty trolls - who never seem able to actually back up their crap - are also AC for reasons other than the cookie issue.
Mod parent up. Most people oversimplify the issues here. A carpenter may not be a good architect - the reverse is also true, few get both right. The vanity titles get tossed around far too much in lieu of pay and real perks.
Bad programmers can create write-only code in any language...I could name a few that are worse than perl, since they copied the regular expression engine and too-clever-by-half beginner people abuse the snot out of it. Is that what you mean? I don't know anyone who has troubles reading and maintaining my code in any language. Hmm...maybe it's not the language.
Real programmers just use it to get 'er done. I guess you feel embarrassed enough to want to hide your identity while displaying ignorance and intellectual laziness.
In that light, of the 3, why Pai? You're the one who needs to get some knowledge. The others didn't want the job because Pai is a troublemaker and no one wanted to be his boss. Don't worry, I've got knowledge. Trying to keep me from sharing the truth with others? Too bad if it spoils what you'd rather have be true.
So, O gets a pass when the world doesn't do it just so for him, but we laugh at a guy (admittedly a moron, like his predecessor) who doesn't get his way either because he's widely hated? I sense a double standard in the force. Just calling things as they really are is enough to damn the jerks - which would be ALL OF THEM.