So you're buying american made, packed with chinese shit then?
No I buy Dutch designed well made chinese products. The "shit" part of the sentence is not a given.
You should crack open a CFL or LED bulb one of these days then go look at the MTBF on the various components.
I have. The general quality of products I buy is quite high. The driving circuits are decoupled from heat generating elements. The components are well above average rating including 105C capacitors rather than those general 85C home depot pieces of garbage. The board has proper safety gaps on the line side, and SMT components are nicely assembled compared to what often looks like a homemade shit-job.
Boy will you be surprised when you discover the diodes are as cheap as they come with a MTBF of 250 hours.
I would be very surprised if anything I bought had a MTBF of 250 hours given most of the now very old bulbs in my house have been running for easily 20x that length. Incidentally good luck finding a diode with any kind of data from a vendor that shows MTBF of 250 hours. Making up random shit doesn't help your case.
Stop buying garbage and you won't have to live with garbage.
You see, if you have a website outside of the EU... snip... you are liable
I think you don't understand how laws work. No you are not liable.
you still have to do the work
You mean like customised code to identify Europeans and deliver them custom content like apology sites? How is that more difficult than just implementing off the shelf GDPR management code that 99% of sites out there did, or better still just disabling analytics while continue to serve adverts to european customers, or even easier: Just ignoring the law entirely since they wouldn't be liable anyway?
I understand the rationale. I am not angry at them
You should be angry at them. It's always worth being angry at stupidity when there are perfectly sensible solutions to the problem.
I've seen plenty of sites block EU visitors due to GDPR. None of them do it for any sensible reasons. In fact compliance with the GDPR probably would have been been just as easy (off the shelf management code for GDPR compliance) than flat out blocking.
Google should be shut out of the EU completely and forever.
No they shouldn't. They should be free to do business in the EU while at the same time complying with the laws of the country in which they do business or face fines as a result.
Google should stand up against retarded legislation (like this link tax). Google should be forced to follow non retarded legislation (like the GDPR). And above all, Google will not leave the EU (profit centre) and should not be forced to (because despite what angry nerd rage dictates they actually provide a large number of damn useful services).
because it's easier for them to block us than to comply with GDPR. Understandable business decision.
No it's not. It's 100% retarded kneejerkism. It would have taken more effort to code the blocking mechanisms than to simply comply with the GDPR requests. It certainly is one thing, but what it isn't is an understandable business decision.
I was working on a really important presentation in Impress for hours
And it sounds like what you learnt is to blindly trust someone else with your hard work. Maybe you should look to your own practices if you lost anything more than 10 minutes worth.
That one is easy to do. For companies which were on a constant upgrade stream anyway Office365 does not register as a cost increase. It does however come with a massive increase in integration with other Microsoft services, and that pesky "collaboration" thing.
You want a challenge? Convince that person still using Office 2010 that they need a 365 subscription.
You flipped the target of the argument. I couldn't give a shit about the existence of the Nazis (anymore) or the Chinese government. What is relevant here is the existence of us as a species healthy as a result of research which was already conducted.
By throwing it out you're not punishing the Chinese government. You're punishing the people who live due to the scientific advances. You're punishing the people who died by making their deaths irrelevant.
Yeah actually in the EU it is illegal which is why they got fined.
Well it's illegal in the USA as well. However the prosecutors don't go after companies for antitrust laws without actual proven dollar value impact on specified consumers, a bar which is incredibly high to meet.
Contrary to the ridiculous police claims... the Red Light Cameras and Speed Traps are a greedy money grab.
In the same way that people in the street ask for voluntary donations from a charity. You know you are entirely within control here right? You can easily not pay money to these people. In fact in order to pay money to these people you basically have to break the law.
I see it as the reverse. It wasn't the effort required to root that drove me away from rooting, but rather the reward for doing so. Back in the day rooting and installing a custom rom was absolutely essential. It was required for basic privacy control, it was required to mitigate horribly slow systems, it was required to unlock new features when vendors refused to roll out updates.
It's about privacy. If you're fine with Google knowing everything there is to know about you, then you're right, there's probably no chance.
If your custom ROM has the Play Store added then Google knows everything there is to know about you anyway. If you're happy without the Play store then you in no way need to root to get these privacy protections, simply don't attach your phone to a Google account.
I refuse to struggle to deal with artificial barriers
Which barriers? That is ultimately the question that matters to people. The barriers are few for many people.
If I can't block ads and restrict what any given application can access
Restricting on a per application basis is handled by the core OS already. Blocking adverts is restricted by the browser. For the most part everything else is just being too cheap to pay for apps. I don't see adverts, why do you?
This isn't me taking a dig at you, but rather pointing out why support will ultimately decrease and not increase for customising. In the past rooting and installing a custom ROM was an absolute necessity. These days... well I couldn't justify the effort which makes me wonder why anyone except an extremely niche market would. And being an extremely niche market doesn't bode well in the world of general purpose consumer electronics.
I would just like, say "Fuck you" to Flickr and leave
That's the ticket. You see it's your perogative to do just that because you, just like the other party in question don't have any contractual obligations whatsoever to each other.
And yet Flickr never deleted my photos and will keep more photos than any sane person would ever go through to look at on my account. Even with this move they have a lot in inherited trust from years of providing the service they do.
Are they my only storage of photos? Don't be stupid, Flickr is a photo sharing site, not your personal backup, and in that department they offer a better service than any amount of money I could pass in the direction of Amazon.
If all that AC drivel name calling truly reflects America today.. we're so fucked
He have always been this fucked. The difference is that platforms which provide anonymity as well as exposure have become more popular allowing people to unleash their inner arsehole.
and I fully suspect they are paid trolls. Whoever is doing the paying... get a refund, we see right through you.
What an absurd suspicion. Do you honestly think anyone in the world gives enough of a crap about us to pay someone to post something on Slashdot? A far more realistic suspicion: People have different opinions... wrong opinions, but then opinions nonetheless. You said it yourself, Slashdot has never been impartial so it stands to reason there are people out there impartial in a different direction.
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So you're buying american made, packed with chinese shit then?
No I buy Dutch designed well made chinese products. The "shit" part of the sentence is not a given.
You should crack open a CFL or LED bulb one of these days then go look at the MTBF on the various components.
I have. The general quality of products I buy is quite high. The driving circuits are decoupled from heat generating elements. The components are well above average rating including 105C capacitors rather than those general 85C home depot pieces of garbage. The board has proper safety gaps on the line side, and SMT components are nicely assembled compared to what often looks like a homemade shit-job.
Boy will you be surprised when you discover the diodes are as cheap as they come with a MTBF of 250 hours.
I would be very surprised if anything I bought had a MTBF of 250 hours given most of the now very old bulbs in my house have been running for easily 20x that length. Incidentally good luck finding a diode with any kind of data from a vendor that shows MTBF of 250 hours. Making up random shit doesn't help your case.
Stop buying garbage and you won't have to live with garbage.
You see, if you have a website outside of the EU ... snip ... you are liable
I think you don't understand how laws work. No you are not liable.
you still have to do the work
You mean like customised code to identify Europeans and deliver them custom content like apology sites? How is that more difficult than just implementing off the shelf GDPR management code that 99% of sites out there did, or better still just disabling analytics while continue to serve adverts to european customers, or even easier: Just ignoring the law entirely since they wouldn't be liable anyway?
I understand the rationale. I am not angry at them
You should be angry at them. It's always worth being angry at stupidity when there are perfectly sensible solutions to the problem.
I've seen plenty of sites block EU visitors due to GDPR. None of them do it for any sensible reasons. In fact compliance with the GDPR probably would have been been just as easy (off the shelf management code for GDPR compliance) than flat out blocking.
Google should be shut out of the EU completely and forever.
No they shouldn't. They should be free to do business in the EU while at the same time complying with the laws of the country in which they do business or face fines as a result.
Google should stand up against retarded legislation (like this link tax). Google should be forced to follow non retarded legislation (like the GDPR). And above all, Google will not leave the EU (profit centre) and should not be forced to (because despite what angry nerd rage dictates they actually provide a large number of damn useful services).
because it's easier for them to block us than to comply with GDPR. Understandable business decision.
No it's not. It's 100% retarded kneejerkism. It would have taken more effort to code the blocking mechanisms than to simply comply with the GDPR requests. It certainly is one thing, but what it isn't is an understandable business decision.
No one should want it, but Microsoft's marketing budget is at least 10 times their programming budget at this point.
And it needs to be for any successful business. Word of mouth rarely spreads beyond a bunch of geeks.
Is it the year of Linux on desktop yet?
I was working on a really important presentation in Impress for hours
And it sounds like what you learnt is to blindly trust someone else with your hard work. Maybe you should look to your own practices if you lost anything more than 10 minutes worth.
Good luck convincing your boss
That one is easy to do. For companies which were on a constant upgrade stream anyway Office365 does not register as a cost increase. It does however come with a massive increase in integration with other Microsoft services, and that pesky "collaboration" thing.
You want a challenge? Convince that person still using Office 2010 that they need a 365 subscription.
You flipped the target of the argument. I couldn't give a shit about the existence of the Nazis (anymore) or the Chinese government. What is relevant here is the existence of us as a species healthy as a result of research which was already conducted.
By throwing it out you're not punishing the Chinese government. You're punishing the people who live due to the scientific advances. You're punishing the people who died by making their deaths irrelevant.
Yeah actually in the EU it is illegal which is why they got fined.
Well it's illegal in the USA as well. However the prosecutors don't go after companies for antitrust laws without actual proven dollar value impact on specified consumers, a bar which is incredibly high to meet.
GDPR violations mostly.
Nope. Google has had one GDPR fine and that isn't paid yet. They have been antitrust fines.
Yeah damn that completely voluntary update process that I could disable at any time. Damn it to hell!
Gets cold?
It hasn't gotten cold.
You mean those same CFL's that burn out in half the time of a incandescent
Sorry I don't buy chinese shit.
Contrary to the ridiculous police claims... the Red Light Cameras and Speed Traps are a greedy money grab.
In the same way that people in the street ask for voluntary donations from a charity. You know you are entirely within control here right? You can easily not pay money to these people. In fact in order to pay money to these people you basically have to break the law.
Fixed.
Just because the government is asking for a voluntary donation for the ability to break the law doesn't mean it's primary purpose is revenue raising.
Your expectation that this will work retrospectively means you didn't read the linked article.
I see it as the reverse. It wasn't the effort required to root that drove me away from rooting, but rather the reward for doing so. Back in the day rooting and installing a custom rom was absolutely essential. It was required for basic privacy control, it was required to mitigate horribly slow systems, it was required to unlock new features when vendors refused to roll out updates.
These days. ... I don't see the point.
It's about privacy. If you're fine with Google knowing everything there is to know about you, then you're right, there's probably no chance.
If your custom ROM has the Play Store added then Google knows everything there is to know about you anyway. If you're happy without the Play store then you in no way need to root to get these privacy protections, simply don't attach your phone to a Google account.
I refuse to struggle to deal with artificial barriers
Which barriers? That is ultimately the question that matters to people. The barriers are few for many people.
If I can't block ads and restrict what any given application can access
Restricting on a per application basis is handled by the core OS already. Blocking adverts is restricted by the browser. For the most part everything else is just being too cheap to pay for apps. I don't see adverts, why do you?
This isn't me taking a dig at you, but rather pointing out why support will ultimately decrease and not increase for customising. In the past rooting and installing a custom ROM was an absolute necessity. These days ... well I couldn't justify the effort which makes me wonder why anyone except an extremely niche market would. And being an extremely niche market doesn't bode well in the world of general purpose consumer electronics.
Europe is a free rider and net importer of security. How about sharing the burden? How about contributing instead of taking?
If I throw a brick at your head do I get to blame you for your endless taking of my bricks?
I would just like, say "Fuck you" to Flickr and leave
That's the ticket. You see it's your perogative to do just that because you, just like the other party in question don't have any contractual obligations whatsoever to each other.
I just don't trust "free" providers.
And yet Flickr never deleted my photos and will keep more photos than any sane person would ever go through to look at on my account. Even with this move they have a lot in inherited trust from years of providing the service they do.
Are they my only storage of photos? Don't be stupid, Flickr is a photo sharing site, not your personal backup, and in that department they offer a better service than any amount of money I could pass in the direction of Amazon.
If all that AC drivel name calling truly reflects America today.. we're so fucked
He have always been this fucked. The difference is that platforms which provide anonymity as well as exposure have become more popular allowing people to unleash their inner arsehole.
and I fully suspect they are paid trolls. Whoever is doing the paying... get a refund, we see right through you.
What an absurd suspicion. Do you honestly think anyone in the world gives enough of a crap about us to pay someone to post something on Slashdot? ... wrong opinions, but then opinions nonetheless. You said it yourself, Slashdot has never been impartial so it stands to reason there are people out there impartial in a different direction.
A far more realistic suspicion: People have different opinions