I especially like the bit where they tried painting eyes on the drone. Reminds me of this radio talks show host: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For those unable to see the link allow me to quote: "Ahhhhhhh the eyes don't work the eyes don't work, ahhhhhh, get it off, the eyes don't work. Get mum get mum get mum ahhhhhhh."
I can't think of any worse a solution than simply delaying in the hope that those ISPs will get their arses into gear next time around, let's face it, they wont, we'll still be waiting on them in a year's time.
I can think of something worse: Technical workarounds. Stay tuned for DNSSEC-NAT
Based on what? Evidence? That's kind of my point. 500CE, 2500BC, 10000BC, first bipeds walking on land... we have nothing to go on the capabilities of people other than evidence that they were able to do something.
After the principles of flotation were published the requirement for evidence was greatly reduced when discussing people making floating things. A child's mind would extrapolate: We know how to send ships to the other side of the world carrying 100000T cargo, so they must have used ships!
An adult's mind, and an archaeologist's mind says: the exact principles of flotation were only described 2000 years after this. We know they used boats at the time, but lets look for evidence that they were both capable and actually did built a boat that was able to haul this specific cargo. We're talking about blocks where people are debating about how to physically move them in the first place, it's not a foregone conclusion that they not only moved them with ease but were also able to load and unload them on ships.
Exactly. There's pretty much nothing I can do that I can't fix in an hour on a Sunday plus a bit of an apology right as I die. Hell must be a lonely place.
The London tube and public transport in general was an early adopter of electronic ticketing. What purpose could they have tracking passenger's via MAC address when they can already track them via Oyster card? What are they hoping to achieve via this? Evidence that people are walking down the tunnels?
It would seem that if you know where a person gets on, gets off, and where your carriages are a simple bit of data analytics could get them the same information.
Many years ago I recall using the metro and local trains in Copenhagen when they were doing a survey.
The entire article seems to be pointless. London's metro system is electronically gated. They can easily track how passengers are moving between stops using their Oyster cards.
Slightly off topic - doesn't everyone turn off the phone wifi & bluetooth when not in use? -- doing so seems [in my experience -YMMV] to extend the time between charges by quite a useful margin.
I haven't done this since the first generation of smartphones. Especially Bluetooth I find makes zero difference to my battery life, and WiFi makes only a marginal difference compared to e.g. being in a low coverage zone and having the LTE radio blasting at full power trying to get a signal. In many cases if you're in a low coverage area having wifi on (and thus not using mobile data) is actually beneficial to your battery life.
Quite the opposite. No one wants video conferencing in proprietary apps using a proprietary protocols complete with the wonders of all modern technologies : data mining and ads.
No one uses WebRTC because it is in its infancy. In the mean time many of us are cheering this on from the sidelines.
1. 60m people call their lazy ISPs and the ISPs get their shit in gear / sued for causing an outage due to negligence. 2. 60m people stop relying on shitty ISP's DNS servers.
Accepting tyranny of minority is not the right way to handle internet infrastructure.
It's not just that. We paint God in man's image then make him infallible and spend the rest of our lives apologising for arbitrary things. Though some religions have a catch-all, apparently some Gods are all forgiving.
The only mystery is why anybody has such trouble understanding that ancient peoples weren't idiots.
You don't need to be an idiot to not understand something and to leave future people questioning if you were able to come up with the idea at all. There is a fundamental disconnect between building something and understanding something. Therefore we are able to only rely on physical records or evidence that people actually did something.
E.g. given a complete absence of any records before Christ, what would be your basis for belief that Egyptians could build barges? Archimedes didn't describe the principles about how flotation worked until the 3rd century. If you didn't have evidence that they were building and using boats over 2000 years earlier, what would be your basis for that belief? Or flip the argument around, do you believe the Egyptians knew the world was round and circled around the sun?
People are only as intelligent as the records show they were. Nothing more, nothing less.
50,000 people a year die on American roads, yet people still use them. Imagine that! They must be happy with the risk they incur by using American roads.
People die breathing pollution as well, yet people still breath. Imagine that! America is not the Netherlands. You can't just give up your car and go about your life, and technically most people in the Netherlands can't do that either.
People still use them because they have to regardless of the risks, not because they are happy or accepting about them.
I mean it has been 17 years since he retired as CEO and 3 years ago he even stopped being chairman of the board.
He could be using all the Linuxses at once in a virtual machine running on his Macbook pro and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to Microsoft.
Annnnd you were just talking about trolling, with some religious projection piled on top.
Yes and? Are you suggesting that Apple doesn't have a few rabbid fans that treat the company like a religion? For fuck's sake there's a Slashdot user here by the name of TheFakeTimCook. I'm not projecting anything, I'm making a general observation.
If you don't want to buy Apple's products....don't buy their products. It's not like Zombie Steve is out there holding a gun to your heads.
What I want or don't want, or buy or don't buy has nothing to do with the topic: The english language usage of the word "troll" as the GP has applied to TFS.
Actually... I can't help but notice you weren't following the conversation and dived straight into a defensive triad on the mere thought that someone was attacking Apple, which I wasn't. It can't be that.... OMG you ARE one of those rabbid religious fans!
On video, specifically, when did Quicktime Player support all formats under the sun with a plethora of options?
Two issues with your example:
a) Quicktime supported far more formats than the default media players of rival systems. In fact I fondly remember installing Quicktime on windows machines specifically because it could play other formats. You don't need to support every format under the sun, you just need to support the ones people will in general use.
b) Your conflating breath of features (supporting more video formats) with basic functionality of existing features. The issue here is that a full screen video player is absolutely daft in the way it handles full screen video. This isn't a feature missing. This is a feature fucked up.
Stop conflating piracy, net neutrality, and now somehow you managed to add a 3rd irrelevant issue: spectrum allocation.
On your last topic: where are we now? What FM station is repressed? I mean you're talking like the entire scenario has concluded with a dramatic cover-up of free speech rather than an isolated period which was rolled back shortly after and (I can't stress this enough) has fuck all to do with the topic at hand.
You can guess a lot of things, especially as a child. That doesn't make it practical until you know a great many details. Especially when you take the context of now to make your guess about the past.
I mean good rope sounds neat and all, but this was 4500 years ago. Incidentally almost 3000 years before Archimedes described the principles of flotation. But I'm sure your childhood guess would have just said the Pharaoh could look it up on Wikipedia too.
Nah, Pastafarian isn't a real religion. There's not enough guilt and self loathing for it to count as a religion. Maybe what you really need is some fundamentalists who run out and bomb all the infidels who don't like Italian food.
Microsoft comes with some bullshit in order to get our phone number (blah blah account abuse blah blah we need to send SMS)
Sounds like you didn't set a recovery email. Skype / Microsoft haven't asked for my phone number, though if there's anyone competent at MS they have it from my last RMA which was initiated using the support page linked to my Microsoft account.
It's a phone number. We used to put them in giant books with lists along with your home address. I can't say I really feel you're being oppressed here.
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All the wildlife there is out to kill you.
I especially like the bit where they tried painting eyes on the drone. Reminds me of this radio talks show host:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For those unable to see the link allow me to quote:
"Ahhhhhhh the eyes don't work the eyes don't work, ahhhhhh, get it off, the eyes don't work. Get mum get mum get mum ahhhhhhh."
I can't think of any worse a solution than simply delaying in the hope that those ISPs will get their arses into gear next time around, let's face it, they wont, we'll still be waiting on them in a year's time.
I can think of something worse: Technical workarounds. Stay tuned for DNSSEC-NAT
So, nobody built boats before about 500CE?
Based on what? Evidence? That's kind of my point. 500CE, 2500BC, 10000BC, first bipeds walking on land... we have nothing to go on the capabilities of people other than evidence that they were able to do something.
After the principles of flotation were published the requirement for evidence was greatly reduced when discussing people making floating things. A child's mind would extrapolate: We know how to send ships to the other side of the world carrying 100000T cargo, so they must have used ships!
An adult's mind, and an archaeologist's mind says: the exact principles of flotation were only described 2000 years after this. We know they used boats at the time, but lets look for evidence that they were both capable and actually did built a boat that was able to haul this specific cargo. We're talking about blocks where people are debating about how to physically move them in the first place, it's not a foregone conclusion that they not only moved them with ease but were also able to load and unload them on ships.
Exactly. There's pretty much nothing I can do that I can't fix in an hour on a Sunday plus a bit of an apology right as I die. Hell must be a lonely place.
The London tube and public transport in general was an early adopter of electronic ticketing. What purpose could they have tracking passenger's via MAC address when they can already track them via Oyster card? What are they hoping to achieve via this? Evidence that people are walking down the tunnels?
It would seem that if you know where a person gets on, gets off, and where your carriages are a simple bit of data analytics could get them the same information.
Many years ago I recall using the metro and local trains in Copenhagen when they were doing a survey.
The entire article seems to be pointless. London's metro system is electronically gated. They can easily track how passengers are moving between stops using their Oyster cards.
Slightly off topic - doesn't everyone turn off the phone wifi & bluetooth when not in use? -- doing so seems [in my experience -YMMV] to extend the time between charges by quite a useful margin.
I haven't done this since the first generation of smartphones. Especially Bluetooth I find makes zero difference to my battery life, and WiFi makes only a marginal difference compared to e.g. being in a low coverage zone and having the LTE radio blasting at full power trying to get a signal. In many cases if you're in a low coverage area having wifi on (and thus not using mobile data) is actually beneficial to your battery life.
Quite the opposite. No one wants video conferencing in proprietary apps using a proprietary protocols complete with the wonders of all modern technologies : data mining and ads.
No one uses WebRTC because it is in its infancy. In the mean time many of us are cheering this on from the sidelines.
Possible outcomes of moving forward:
1. 60m people call their lazy ISPs and the ISPs get their shit in gear / sued for causing an outage due to negligence.
2. 60m people stop relying on shitty ISP's DNS servers.
Accepting tyranny of minority is not the right way to handle internet infrastructure.
Says the person bringing up the FCC in a Hollywood lawsuit. Does your carer know you escaped your special needs school?
It's not just that. We paint God in man's image then make him infallible and spend the rest of our lives apologising for arbitrary things. Though some religions have a catch-all, apparently some Gods are all forgiving.
The writer for the FF extension I use just updated his.
Congratulations. I'm blowing one of those party whistles for you. Edge also has an extension. What's your point?
The only mystery is why anybody has such trouble understanding that ancient peoples weren't idiots.
You don't need to be an idiot to not understand something and to leave future people questioning if you were able to come up with the idea at all. There is a fundamental disconnect between building something and understanding something. Therefore we are able to only rely on physical records or evidence that people actually did something.
E.g. given a complete absence of any records before Christ, what would be your basis for belief that Egyptians could build barges? Archimedes didn't describe the principles about how flotation worked until the 3rd century. If you didn't have evidence that they were building and using boats over 2000 years earlier, what would be your basis for that belief? Or flip the argument around, do you believe the Egyptians knew the world was round and circled around the sun?
People are only as intelligent as the records show they were. Nothing more, nothing less.
Of course there is European DNA in Egypt - it was very much part of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Given Cleopatra's relationship to Julius Caesar this statement is true in several ways.
50,000 people a year die on American roads, yet people still use them. Imagine that! They must be happy with the risk they incur by using American roads.
People die breathing pollution as well, yet people still breath. Imagine that! America is not the Netherlands. You can't just give up your car and go about your life, and technically most people in the Netherlands can't do that either.
People still use them because they have to regardless of the risks, not because they are happy or accepting about them.
I mean it has been 17 years since he retired as CEO and 3 years ago he even stopped being chairman of the board.
He could be using all the Linuxses at once in a virtual machine running on his Macbook pro and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to Microsoft.
He has been out of the company as its head for some time now.
Understatement. Bill Gates hasn't been CEO for almost 20 years. Thankyou for making me feel really old now.
Annnnd you were just talking about trolling, with some religious projection piled on top.
Yes and? Are you suggesting that Apple doesn't have a few rabbid fans that treat the company like a religion? For fuck's sake there's a Slashdot user here by the name of TheFakeTimCook. I'm not projecting anything, I'm making a general observation.
If you don't want to buy Apple's products....don't buy their products. It's not like Zombie Steve is out there holding a gun to your heads.
What I want or don't want, or buy or don't buy has nothing to do with the topic: The english language usage of the word "troll" as the GP has applied to TFS.
Actually... .... OMG you ARE one of those rabbid religious fans!
I can't help but notice you weren't following the conversation and dived straight into a defensive triad on the mere thought that someone was attacking Apple, which I wasn't. It can't be that
On video, specifically, when did Quicktime Player support all formats under the sun with a plethora of options?
Two issues with your example:
a) Quicktime supported far more formats than the default media players of rival systems. In fact I fondly remember installing Quicktime on windows machines specifically because it could play other formats. You don't need to support every format under the sun, you just need to support the ones people will in general use.
b) Your conflating breath of features (supporting more video formats) with basic functionality of existing features. The issue here is that a full screen video player is absolutely daft in the way it handles full screen video. This isn't a feature missing. This is a feature fucked up.
Stop conflating piracy, net neutrality, and now somehow you managed to add a 3rd irrelevant issue: spectrum allocation.
On your last topic: where are we now? What FM station is repressed? I mean you're talking like the entire scenario has concluded with a dramatic cover-up of free speech rather than an isolated period which was rolled back shortly after and (I can't stress this enough) has fuck all to do with the topic at hand.
There's nothing in TFS or TFA to suggest they shouldn't or that they won't. Just that they've never decided on something like this before.
Please don't conflate differing issues. You just confuse people who already are struggling to make sense of all the things activists are asking for.
You can guess a lot of things, especially as a child. That doesn't make it practical until you know a great many details. Especially when you take the context of now to make your guess about the past.
I mean good rope sounds neat and all, but this was 4500 years ago. Incidentally almost 3000 years before Archimedes described the principles of flotation. But I'm sure your childhood guess would have just said the Pharaoh could look it up on Wikipedia too.
Nah, Pastafarian isn't a real religion. There's not enough guilt and self loathing for it to count as a religion. Maybe what you really need is some fundamentalists who run out and bomb all the infidels who don't like Italian food.
Microsoft comes with some bullshit in order to get our phone number (blah blah account abuse blah blah we need to send SMS)
Sounds like you didn't set a recovery email. Skype / Microsoft haven't asked for my phone number, though if there's anyone competent at MS they have it from my last RMA which was initiated using the support page linked to my Microsoft account.
It's a phone number. We used to put them in giant books with lists along with your home address. I can't say I really feel you're being oppressed here.
Too right! Actual beer. Not that weird yellow coloured water that the Americans drink too.