Can I interest you in a jump to conclusions mat? Or did you out yourself as the doctor in question? It has to be one of those two since based on your ability to come up with that conclusion you either know, or think you know far more than the very little and only one sided information given in TFA.
... if someone would build a phone OS with something like containers. So you could give an app all the permissions it wants. To do whatever it wants. Inside its own little sandbox.
Resulting in what, a phone OS that confuses users with endless options which when they exercise cause random and hard to track breakage in individual app?
VPN's are the tech equivalent of burglar bars and a safe.
You may not have anything of value in there, but it looks like you do.
Actually it's the tech equivalent of a bank safety deposit box room. You may not have anything of value in there, but if someone goes looking they're overwhelmed with lots of boxes and wouldn't even know where the hell to begin.
So come at me bro, my IP address is: 185.220.70.138
False. Education hasn't worked. No sane person would be an anti-vaxxer unless exposed to a horrid echo chamber of lies, a chamber that discredits the very "education" and "science" you propose would fix the issue.
The best we can do is prevent people from finding these toxic environments. Only if we do that do we have any hope of sanity prevailing when presented with education.
Calm down. This the Germany we're talking about. Hardly the bastion of corporate protectionism, and a place where no one has yet been "stomped in the ground" for piracy.
That has to be the dumbest thing I've read on the internet. Literally no one has said that other than your hyperbole just now. Open your mouth, inhale, exhale, repeat. Take a yoga lesson or something before your brain fries.
Define "fine". The UK was an economic dump, reeling from recessions with major industries were shutting down. Their poor state got them significant pity concessions when they joined the EU, and is one of the reasons you've only ever been one of those "EU lite" members, never seriously part of the club in the first place, and the immediate benefit to the UK is one of the reasons your referendum held only 2 years later was overwhelmingly in favour of continued membership.
The USA was not brought to halt by Trump's presidency
The USA was brought down due to incredible complex systems in place to prevent the TRUMPOTUS from bringing down the country. Holy shit I shudder to think what it would be like of the President of the USA had the power some other countries afford their chiefs.
Likewise the UK will not crumble after Brexit, but it definitely will be (negatively) affected.
Define crumble and list a timeframe as well. Germany is currently an economic powerhouse and they lost a frigging world war. The UK won't crumble in the longrun, but a no-deal Brexit will definitely set them back many years at best, and actually cause harm to people at worst. The unworkable "red lines" during the negotiation are there to stop a civil war breaking out in the Kingdom. That's the kind of shit that shouldn't be just cast aside.
The UK made their decision weighting the benefits against the price, and found it did not worth it.
No they did not. The UK made a decision that they weren't happy with the status quo with clearly little knowledge of the benefits, and absolutely zero knowledge of the price. It's one of the reasons I am a big believer in a second referendum despite in generally thinking only one decision should ever have one referendum. Referendum shopping in undemocratic, but then so is making a decision when the facts were completely unknown.
The damage is effectively done, but I'm blown away at the stupidity of it all. I'm actually also surprised it was constitutionally allowed. Many other countries have rules on referendums that require such a monumental decision to be made on a clear majority rather than a slight, or like in Australia a representative majority (all states and territories need to vote the same way to prevent fragmenting the country), I was genuinely surprised that the result as it stood passed in the UK.
and the only reason to take their domains away is spite.
Actually there's a very good reason to take their domains away, and one that the UK should be all too familiar with given how they are experts in the topic: Bureaucracy.
"Hard brexit" just means "no deal brexit" which is what the UK citizenry voted for in the referendum.
The citizens voted for no single thing in the referendum other than change. It was a protest vote, and it was incredibly clear that no one had a fucking clue what Brexit would look like or what the implications were. They were literally voting for a great unknown.
The EU beaurocrats don't want this, because they can't make an example out of us.
What an utterly ignorant comment. The EU don't want this because it would cost the EU a shitton. Not nearly as much as the UK, but a shitton none the less. Hell if this did go through it would turn the UK into the very example you think the EU wants. The EU isn't making an example of anyone, but they aren't giving an inch either.
But the UK citizenry do want this. This was the explicit outcome we voted on in the referendum. Leaving the EU with no access to the customs union, no freedom of movement, no EU court of justice, etc.
No, you didn't. A very tiny minority in insane fuckwits trying to sink the country want this. The vast majority of Brexiteers want "cakeism", to not be a member but still invited to all the parties.
Their leaflet said that they would negotiate the withdrawal before triggering Article 50.
Their leaflets can say a lot of things, but you have to realise that the UK's bureaucracy is rivaled only by that of the EU, and negotiating prior to triggering Article 50 wasn't legally possible. May did try that in 2016, the EU said no and pointed to their regulations. Her failed attempts at getting the negotiation started dominated the news for weeks.
Here's a quote for you: “I cannot go an inch beyond the ‘no negotiations without notification’ principle,” - Margaritis Schinas, Chief spokesman for Junker
May's red lines fucked the UK.
I'm no fan of May, but I can't hold this against her. Other parties have been repeatedly invited to come up with alternatives to the red lines only to spew back garbage, wishfull thinking, and legal impossibilities.
Her only plan seems to have been to negotiate a deal that she can claim delivers some perverse form of brexit, and then run down the clock until everyone panics and accepts it.
Now you're being too kind, implying that she had / has a plan.
Fortunately Parliament is fighting hard to stop her, but all the while it's damaging the UK. Even if it cancels right now, a lot of harm has already been done.
Sigh. Yeah. I do remember being woken up by my wife with news of Brexit and even in my groggy half sleepy stupor I was sane enough to reply "This won't end well".
What are you talking about, plenty of dutch people drown... intoxicated... after a night drinking Belgian strong ales... and then falling into a canal.
but there are so many better (and cheaper) ways to do that.
Well if your solution is to not buy Apple products then you can have just avoided the situation all together by not buying the original damn Apple product that requires you to bolt on a lot of non-Apple products to get basic functionality. .
No. If he cared about money then as an investor he wouldn't back bankruptcy a second time. The real conclusion you can draw from this: "Man with crap judgement declares his judgement remains crap after being burned."
Sigh. Do all Americans get hung up on names without bothering to even understand what the hell an agency actually does? Is that why governments spend so long coming up with catchy titles for legislation?
The CDC is your public health agency. Their remit is health, safety and security. Even within the health component they have a vastly wider scope than just diseases. They also tie in closely with OSHA for workplace safety. And the key one here: They *are* your premier research agency into trending of anything that is likely to impact your health, safety or security in any way.
If you want to be helpful please go after Facebook.
They already have. The CDC studied addiction to electronic devices a few years ago and noted the impact of social networks, but they are not a regulatory agency. To fix the problem you need to get your legislators involved.
Our study will show they occur during all times of the day.
...and we’ll keep playing with the numbers until it does.
I mean, if the CDC is studying this—and that’s not a bad thing—shouldn’t they wait until after the study is completed before telling us what it showed?
If I proposed a study with the words: "Our study will show that the sky typically appears blue during the day", would you question it? This is similar, the largest complaints about scooters that typically are shared are that they are a menace during peak hours and that there are many pedestrian related incidents. The fact that scooter incidents occur all times of the day is a foregone conclusion. The only question is, what is the severity and frequency of accidents related to time, and that will come out in the study.
You've already been given the purpose of the CDC, but missing is the fact that the: "CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction"
Falling off a bike or a scooter is not an unreasonable risk. It's user error during normal use of the device. Now if they were bursting into flames randomly, or electrocuting people as they try to unlock them then yeah the CPSC should definitely be involved.
But beyond that the CPSC gets involved once the problems are known. The CDC on the other hand are actually tasked with defining the scale and scope of the problem, so barring some obvious faulty manufacturing the CPSC would only get involved after the CDC found something of note.
Every physical layer that can actually carry 25 Mbps service can also carry 50 Mbps service with only minor changes to the equipment at either end.
That's not true, or rather is true only from the theoretical maximum for each technology ignoring distances and losses. The fastest phone based internet system available at a distance of more than 1.5km from an exchange is VDSL2 which clocks in at 25Mbps. There's no upgrade there. There's no possibility of speed increase without fundamental infrastructure changes. On top of that the boost over ADSL2+ was marginal since at 1.5km that 16 year old service was already able to deliver 21Mbps.
This is precisely why pushing internet over phone is so expensive to upgrade, you either need to create many localised nodes to bring DSLAMs closer to the end user which requires rolling out of fibre for backhaul, or if you're already doing that you may as well just change the physical layer and roll out fibre to the user.
When there are so many issues that you have to prioritize them, maybe it's time to start looking at other brands that fit your needs.
When you make a judgement based on a number rather than a severity or impact of sets of problems maybe it's time to not be in charge of any product selection.
Why don't you just do what normal people do? If the product is crap, buy a different one rather than writing love letters about it.
Multiple reasons:
a) Vendor lockin. Switching from a Lenovo machine to a Dell machine both running Windows 10 with a slightly different clicky feel on they keyboard and a slightly different graphics card is orders of magnitude different than moving from an Apple *ecosystem* to a Windows / Linux one. Note that word ecosystem. You're not just changing laptops. You're affecting your other fixed devices, your portable devices, you're affecting your software, your existing files, you're changing the way of working, potentially the services you (or worse, your customers) use.
b) Because the product isn't crap, it just has a list of minor annoyances that prevent it from being perfect. So what device do you switch to? I'm no Apple fan but I can give a non-Apple example: I don't like that the Surface Pro only has 1 USB port. What should I do? Switch to a Lenovo Miix with it's horrible keyboard, inaccurate pen and poor quality kickstand? Get the HP Spectre X2, a device which my father has returned under warranty twice?
Apple fanbois really are a different sort of person.
Actually they are taking a completely thought out human approach to their predicament. Try to be less judgy.
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Can I interest you in a jump to conclusions mat? Or did you out yourself as the doctor in question? It has to be one of those two since based on your ability to come up with that conclusion you either know, or think you know far more than the very little and only one sided information given in TFA.
I should add that no one, literally NO ONE I know wants to continue with the DST bullshit.
So what you're saying is you literally don't know people representative across the population.
Resulting in what, a phone OS that confuses users with endless options which when they exercise cause random and hard to track breakage in individual app?
VPN's are the tech equivalent of burglar bars and a safe.
You may not have anything of value in there, but it looks like you do.
Actually it's the tech equivalent of a bank safety deposit box room. You may not have anything of value in there, but if someone goes looking they're overwhelmed with lots of boxes and wouldn't even know where the hell to begin.
So come at me bro, my IP address is: 185.220.70.138
Your logical fallacy is: the Slippery Slope
The right approach would be better education
False. Education hasn't worked. No sane person would be an anti-vaxxer unless exposed to a horrid echo chamber of lies, a chamber that discredits the very "education" and "science" you propose would fix the issue.
The best we can do is prevent people from finding these toxic environments. Only if we do that do we have any hope of sanity prevailing when presented with education.
This is America we're talking about. The fact that she hasn't already done so makes me believe she's guilty.
Calm down. This the Germany we're talking about. Hardly the bastion of corporate protectionism, and a place where no one has yet been "stomped in the ground" for piracy.
That has to be the dumbest thing I've read on the internet. Literally no one has said that other than your hyperbole just now. Open your mouth, inhale, exhale, repeat. Take a yoga lesson or something before your brain fries.
Define "fine". The UK was an economic dump, reeling from recessions with major industries were shutting down. Their poor state got them significant pity concessions when they joined the EU, and is one of the reasons you've only ever been one of those "EU lite" members, never seriously part of the club in the first place, and the immediate benefit to the UK is one of the reasons your referendum held only 2 years later was overwhelmingly in favour of continued membership.
The USA was not brought to halt by Trump's presidency
The USA was brought down due to incredible complex systems in place to prevent the TRUMPOTUS from bringing down the country. Holy shit I shudder to think what it would be like of the President of the USA had the power some other countries afford their chiefs.
Likewise the UK will not crumble after Brexit, but it definitely will be (negatively) affected.
Define crumble and list a timeframe as well. Germany is currently an economic powerhouse and they lost a frigging world war. The UK won't crumble in the longrun, but a no-deal Brexit will definitely set them back many years at best, and actually cause harm to people at worst. The unworkable "red lines" during the negotiation are there to stop a civil war breaking out in the Kingdom. That's the kind of shit that shouldn't be just cast aside.
The UK made their decision weighting the benefits against the price, and found it did not worth it.
No they did not. The UK made a decision that they weren't happy with the status quo with clearly little knowledge of the benefits, and absolutely zero knowledge of the price. It's one of the reasons I am a big believer in a second referendum despite in generally thinking only one decision should ever have one referendum.
Referendum shopping in undemocratic, but then so is making a decision when the facts were completely unknown.
The damage is effectively done, but I'm blown away at the stupidity of it all. I'm actually also surprised it was constitutionally allowed. Many other countries have rules on referendums that require such a monumental decision to be made on a clear majority rather than a slight, or like in Australia a representative majority (all states and territories need to vote the same way to prevent fragmenting the country), I was genuinely surprised that the result as it stood passed in the UK.
and the only reason to take their domains away is spite.
Actually there's a very good reason to take their domains away, and one that the UK should be all too familiar with given how they are experts in the topic: Bureaucracy.
"Hard brexit" just means "no deal brexit" which is what the UK citizenry voted for in the referendum.
The citizens voted for no single thing in the referendum other than change. It was a protest vote, and it was incredibly clear that no one had a fucking clue what Brexit would look like or what the implications were. They were literally voting for a great unknown.
The EU beaurocrats don't want this, because they can't make an example out of us.
What an utterly ignorant comment. The EU don't want this because it would cost the EU a shitton. Not nearly as much as the UK, but a shitton none the less. Hell if this did go through it would turn the UK into the very example you think the EU wants. The EU isn't making an example of anyone, but they aren't giving an inch either.
But the UK citizenry do want this. This was the explicit outcome we voted on in the referendum. Leaving the EU with no access to the customs union, no freedom of movement, no EU court of justice, etc.
No, you didn't. A very tiny minority in insane fuckwits trying to sink the country want this. The vast majority of Brexiteers want "cakeism", to not be a member but still invited to all the parties.
Their leaflet said that they would negotiate the withdrawal before triggering Article 50.
Their leaflets can say a lot of things, but you have to realise that the UK's bureaucracy is rivaled only by that of the EU, and negotiating prior to triggering Article 50 wasn't legally possible. May did try that in 2016, the EU said no and pointed to their regulations. Her failed attempts at getting the negotiation started dominated the news for weeks.
Here's a quote for you: “I cannot go an inch beyond the ‘no negotiations without notification’ principle,” - Margaritis Schinas, Chief spokesman for Junker
May's red lines fucked the UK.
I'm no fan of May, but I can't hold this against her. Other parties have been repeatedly invited to come up with alternatives to the red lines only to spew back garbage, wishfull thinking, and legal impossibilities.
Her only plan seems to have been to negotiate a deal that she can claim delivers some perverse form of brexit, and then run down the clock until everyone panics and accepts it.
Now you're being too kind, implying that she had / has a plan.
Fortunately Parliament is fighting hard to stop her, but all the while it's damaging the UK. Even if it cancels right now, a lot of harm has already been done.
Sigh. Yeah. I do remember being woken up by my wife with news of Brexit and even in my groggy half sleepy stupor I was sane enough to reply "This won't end well".
What are you talking about, plenty of dutch people drown ... intoxicated ... after a night drinking Belgian strong ales ... and then falling into a canal.
but there are so many better (and cheaper) ways to do that.
Well if your solution is to not buy Apple products then you can have just avoided the situation all together by not buying the original damn Apple product that requires you to bolt on a lot of non-Apple products to get basic functionality. .
Not everyone likes buying scratched barely playable media.
Because people with bad judgement typically continue to make bad judgments?
No. If he cared about money then as an investor he wouldn't back bankruptcy a second time. The real conclusion you can draw from this: "Man with crap judgement declares his judgement remains crap after being burned."
Sigh. Do all Americans get hung up on names without bothering to even understand what the hell an agency actually does? Is that why governments spend so long coming up with catchy titles for legislation?
The CDC is your public health agency. Their remit is health, safety and security. Even within the health component they have a vastly wider scope than just diseases. They also tie in closely with OSHA for workplace safety. And the key one here: They *are* your premier research agency into trending of anything that is likely to impact your health, safety or security in any way.
If you want to be helpful please go after Facebook.
They already have. The CDC studied addiction to electronic devices a few years ago and noted the impact of social networks, but they are not a regulatory agency. To fix the problem you need to get your legislators involved.
Our study will show they occur during all times of the day.
...and we’ll keep playing with the numbers until it does.
I mean, if the CDC is studying this—and that’s not a bad thing—shouldn’t they wait until after the study is completed before telling us what it showed?
If I proposed a study with the words: "Our study will show that the sky typically appears blue during the day", would you question it? This is similar, the largest complaints about scooters that typically are shared are that they are a menace during peak hours and that there are many pedestrian related incidents. The fact that scooter incidents occur all times of the day is a foregone conclusion. The only question is, what is the severity and frequency of accidents related to time, and that will come out in the study.
You've already been given the purpose of the CDC, but missing is the fact that the: "CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction"
Falling off a bike or a scooter is not an unreasonable risk. It's user error during normal use of the device. Now if they were bursting into flames randomly, or electrocuting people as they try to unlock them then yeah the CPSC should definitely be involved.
But beyond that the CPSC gets involved once the problems are known. The CDC on the other hand are actually tasked with defining the scale and scope of the problem, so barring some obvious faulty manufacturing the CPSC would only get involved after the CDC found something of note.
Every physical layer that can actually carry 25 Mbps service can also carry 50 Mbps service with only minor changes to the equipment at either end.
That's not true, or rather is true only from the theoretical maximum for each technology ignoring distances and losses. The fastest phone based internet system available at a distance of more than 1.5km from an exchange is VDSL2 which clocks in at 25Mbps. There's no upgrade there. There's no possibility of speed increase without fundamental infrastructure changes. On top of that the boost over ADSL2+ was marginal since at 1.5km that 16 year old service was already able to deliver 21Mbps.
This is precisely why pushing internet over phone is so expensive to upgrade, you either need to create many localised nodes to bring DSLAMs closer to the end user which requires rolling out of fibre for backhaul, or if you're already doing that you may as well just change the physical layer and roll out fibre to the user.
When there are so many issues that you have to prioritize them, maybe it's time to start looking at other brands that fit your needs.
When you make a judgement based on a number rather than a severity or impact of sets of problems maybe it's time to not be in charge of any product selection.
Why don't you just do what normal people do? If the product is crap, buy a different one rather than writing love letters about it.
Multiple reasons:
a) Vendor lockin. Switching from a Lenovo machine to a Dell machine both running Windows 10 with a slightly different clicky feel on they keyboard and a slightly different graphics card is orders of magnitude different than moving from an Apple *ecosystem* to a Windows / Linux one. Note that word ecosystem. You're not just changing laptops. You're affecting your other fixed devices, your portable devices, you're affecting your software, your existing files, you're changing the way of working, potentially the services you (or worse, your customers) use.
b) Because the product isn't crap, it just has a list of minor annoyances that prevent it from being perfect. So what device do you switch to? I'm no Apple fan but I can give a non-Apple example: I don't like that the Surface Pro only has 1 USB port. What should I do? Switch to a Lenovo Miix with it's horrible keyboard, inaccurate pen and poor quality kickstand? Get the HP Spectre X2, a device which my father has returned under warranty twice?
Apple fanbois really are a different sort of person.
Actually they are taking a completely thought out human approach to their predicament. Try to be less judgy.