California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
That's all fine and good but you really only need to bring up the weather to convince most people.
It's been too primitive to be very useful for much more than cropping screencaps for some time.
If it doesn't also soften, scale (without artifact generation), remove noise, adjust contrast, saturation, tint, and brightness, handle at least text as a separate, editable layer, and do blending colour replacement along with handling transparency... meh. It's also handy if it can directly handle multi-frame GIFs and ICO files.
Still, to this very day I use MSPaint for cropping screencaps because most of the workstations I end up on don't have any graphics software at all.
It's fine for pixel art... since pixel art doesn't require anything but magnification and a dropper tool.
You can "get work done on" a $200 compact laptop or even a $60 Raspberry Pi 3 bundle with keyboard, mouse, storage, and case. And you can use it at the same time that someone else in the household is using the PS4.
On the flip side, I can play a PC game while someone else in the family watches a movie. What's your point? (As a side note, this is also why I really like my Switch)
If you like couch gaming and you like a hassle-free experience, then I get it--a console is clearly your best value, and the PS4 is where it has been at this current generation. But if you like mods, private servers, backwards compatibility that lasts essentially forever, precise controls, getting buckets of games for practically nothing during Steam sales--not to mention entire genres of games that are unavailable on a console--then a PC is your best value.
AND you can write your resume on it, edit photos and video, do CAD, development projects, and post on Slashdot with a keyboard like God intended.
The vast majority of Android owners need to upgrade their phones every year or two just to be able to get more recent updates given how fast so many android makers drop support of their phones.
It's not really that fast in most cases. My nearly three-year old, $100 (when new) LG phone still gets updates (oh and it has a replaceable battery and micro SD slot). But it doesn't matter. The real way that people with Android get owned is by installing shady apps, some from Google Play, and blindly agreeing to the over-intrusive permissions.
The context of the posting. Come on, that was a really cheap attempt at dodging the question.
I don't care about the question. It could be 5% or 95% of affairs are found out and it doesn't change that fact that somebody broke his or her word and that harms those who depend on that person and, most of all, it harms the people directly involved.
But what is your guess about the number of affairs that nobody except those involved ever finds out about? You seriously think that is a low number? Got any evidence for that except wishful thinking?
Who said they had to be found out for there to be consequences?
The real con here is not a data breach, it is the fact that they systematically generated fake female accounts to lure in paying male customers. This is outright fraud and they get away with it.
The real con was convincing people they can have (or look for) affairs without consequences.
I feel dumb, I meant to say if you decide to peacefully protest your country, versus "conscientious objector" which means refuse compulsory military service.
Yes, and one country's method results in jail time if you decide to become a conscientious objector while the other results in a slow painful death from radiation poison. By all means, fight your country's injustices, but don't try to morally equate them.
It's idiotic to blame all hacking by Russians on the Russian government. Many of those people really just do it for personal profit.
When I went back to do my Masters, I didn't use any technology in the classroom. Instead, I printed out a copy of all of the lecture notes (the lecturers made them all available to download) and brought them with me with a pencil. I was then able to follow the notes along with the lecturer and make any additional notes I needed in the margins, highlight passages, etc.
I found this worked very well for me. I knew any sort of tech in my hand would lead me to being distracted (as it always the case when sent on courses for work), so I kept it simple and old school.
Sometimes these ways are the best. Technology is great it many many areas of life, but there are some areas where the lack of it can be more beneficial - lectures being one.
(One lecturer would actually tell anyone with a laptop or tablet out to put it away in their bags!)
I'd just end up doodling, which is the pen and paper equivalent of Buzzfeed, I guess. Unfortunately for me, if the lecture was not engaging I simply did not have the discipline to stay focused.
Point being - half the kids in college are just there because that's what they were supposed to do next - they're not trying to better themselves, so given a chance to fuck around, they're going to entertain themselves. There's a lack of discipline. If people want to see college kids performing better at academic pursuits, then colleges are going to have to invest in some.
Yes. Full stop.
If all of the middle-class-and-up kids without direction would stop clogging up colleges after high school and actually go get some real world experience, the educational landscape--and the job landscape--would be far better off. Some might return to college with a renewed drive and purpose, and others would never go and be 100% fine. Then again, that would require employers to stop expecting five years of experience for entry level jobs and do the work of finding and shaping young talent, because they don't.
I say this as someone who picked the wrong major and also is dumbfounded by how difficult it is to get on a decent career path. I thought by now I'd see through the haze, but 15 years in, it's still a freaking popularity contest.
Kaspersky should realise that their word that they aren't acting on behalf of the Russian government isn't worth shit.
Ditto for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, and all the other American companies vis-a-vis the US government.
Or German companies vis-a-vis the German government.
Or British companies vis-a-vis the British government.
Or French companies vis-a-vis the French government.
Welcome to reality.
The difference is that Russia is uniquely willing both to use malicious hacking as a first option and to apply unconventional pressure on its people. "What's that Eugene, you don't want to backdoor your software for us? Okay, well, we figured there was no harm in asking. By the way, doesn't your mother live near here? I wonder if we should stop by her place for a visit."
So we know of all these tools the US has had at its disposal, but other than maybe Stuxnet and a few others, it's hard to pinpoint real world fallout from their use. You can't swing a dead cat in this world without hitting a server that "patriotic Russian hackers" have compromised.
My cellular phone has a charge that's measured in weeks, not hours. My cellular phone isn't a battery sucking brick that can't even have it's battery swapped. My cellular phone is for talking and on occasion texting. It was less than a hundred bucks and I spend very little on a monthly subscription. Your handheld computer (sold under the guise of being a telephone) may be "smart" but it makes fools of it's users.
My smartphone was $70 on Amazon, and the cheapest prepaid plans on Verizon include data now. If I only talked and texted the battery would probably last me 2-4 days, maybe longer. I think people spend way too much money on their phones, way too often (upgrading every year or two to top of the line models). I think you're right that a lot of people are changed for the worse by their devices. But it is not really any cheaper now to buy and use a dumb phone than a smart phone, because the market changed.
I am NOT going to rent my OS from Microsoft. Not now. Not EVER.
This is how enterprises already license their MS software--through an Enterprise Agreement. This is probably an attempt to scale down that licensing model to the home, small, and medium sized business (and, honestly, it will be easier for most businesses too small for much of an IT staff). It's not for you so you don't need to react so strongly.
Because if you sell a lot of items on a number of different platforms it makes more sense to upload the images once and then link to them from the various platforms.
Sounds like it makes more sense to learn the APIs.
1. Wait for something bad to happen.
2. Blame it on Russia.
3. Ask the US for money.
Well, let's see. 1. Russia and Ukraine are essentially at war. 2. Russia is one of the most capable countries when it comes to electronic espionage. 3. Russia has already been waging this campaign against Ukraine for years now. See Andy Greenberg's recent Wired article. The intrusions are well-documented.
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California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
That's all fine and good but you really only need to bring up the weather to convince most people.
Amazon is no longer reliably cheaper than some brick and mortar options. I have run into this trend more and more in the last couple years.
You don't use Amazon for the prices anymore, you use it for the selection and "free" shipping.
Pick two.
It's been too primitive to be very useful for much more than cropping screencaps for some time.
If it doesn't also soften, scale (without artifact generation), remove noise, adjust contrast, saturation, tint, and brightness, handle at least text as a separate, editable layer, and do blending colour replacement along with handling transparency... meh. It's also handy if it can directly handle multi-frame GIFs and ICO files.
Still, to this very day I use MSPaint for cropping screencaps because most of the workstations I end up on don't have any graphics software at all.
It's fine for pixel art... since pixel art doesn't require anything but magnification and a dropper tool.
That silly policy decision inherently limits the amount of verification that they can do, so even if they wanted to do more, they can't.
How? They are domain-verified certs that are issued by an automated process. How does changing their expiration date change anything?
Where does that leave people who like to mod their couch games?
Using a PC from the couch.
Plus you can actually get work done on the pc.
You can "get work done on" a $200 compact laptop or even a $60 Raspberry Pi 3 bundle with keyboard, mouse, storage, and case. And you can use it at the same time that someone else in the household is using the PS4.
On the flip side, I can play a PC game while someone else in the family watches a movie. What's your point? (As a side note, this is also why I really like my Switch)
If you like couch gaming and you like a hassle-free experience, then I get it--a console is clearly your best value, and the PS4 is where it has been at this current generation. But if you like mods, private servers, backwards compatibility that lasts essentially forever, precise controls, getting buckets of games for practically nothing during Steam sales--not to mention entire genres of games that are unavailable on a console--then a PC is your best value.
AND you can write your resume on it, edit photos and video, do CAD, development projects, and post on Slashdot with a keyboard like God intended.
Now add in a few games and the pc starts to look like a lot better value. Plus you can actually get work done on the pc.
The vast majority of Android owners need to upgrade their phones every year or two just to be able to get more recent updates given how fast so many android makers drop support of their phones.
It's not really that fast in most cases. My nearly three-year old, $100 (when new) LG phone still gets updates (oh and it has a replaceable battery and micro SD slot). But it doesn't matter. The real way that people with Android get owned is by installing shady apps, some from Google Play, and blindly agreeing to the over-intrusive permissions.
The context of the posting. Come on, that was a really cheap attempt at dodging the question.
I don't care about the question. It could be 5% or 95% of affairs are found out and it doesn't change that fact that somebody broke his or her word and that harms those who depend on that person and, most of all, it harms the people directly involved.
But what is your guess about the number of affairs that nobody except those involved ever finds out about? You seriously think that is a low number? Got any evidence for that except wishful thinking?
Who said they had to be found out for there to be consequences?
There are actually real tech storeis out there beyond your usual lazy "rivers on mars", "amazing batteries", and "tesla cars".
Lazy rivers on Mars? Sign me up.
The real con here is not a data breach, it is the fact that they systematically generated fake female accounts to lure in paying male customers. This is outright fraud and they get away with it.
The real con was convincing people they can have (or look for) affairs without consequences.
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I feel dumb, I meant to say if you decide to peacefully protest your country, versus "conscientious objector" which means refuse compulsory military service.
The way this works in the US is:...
Yes, and one country's method results in jail time if you decide to become a conscientious objector while the other results in a slow painful death from radiation poison. By all means, fight your country's injustices, but don't try to morally equate them.
It's idiotic to blame all hacking by Russians on the Russian government. Many of those people really just do it for personal profit.
I'm not talking about how many "cyber" criminals reside in Russia, I'm talking about the very obvious state-sponsored groups.
When I went back to do my Masters, I didn't use any technology in the classroom. Instead, I printed out a copy of all of the lecture notes (the lecturers made them all available to download) and brought them with me with a pencil. I was then able to follow the notes along with the lecturer and make any additional notes I needed in the margins, highlight passages, etc.
I found this worked very well for me. I knew any sort of tech in my hand would lead me to being distracted (as it always the case when sent on courses for work), so I kept it simple and old school.
Sometimes these ways are the best. Technology is great it many many areas of life, but there are some areas where the lack of it can be more beneficial - lectures being one.
(One lecturer would actually tell anyone with a laptop or tablet out to put it away in their bags!)
I'd just end up doodling, which is the pen and paper equivalent of Buzzfeed, I guess. Unfortunately for me, if the lecture was not engaging I simply did not have the discipline to stay focused.
Point being - half the kids in college are just there because that's what they were supposed to do next - they're not trying to better themselves, so given a chance to fuck around, they're going to entertain themselves. There's a lack of discipline. If people want to see college kids performing better at academic pursuits, then colleges are going to have to invest in some.
Yes. Full stop.
If all of the middle-class-and-up kids without direction would stop clogging up colleges after high school and actually go get some real world experience, the educational landscape--and the job landscape--would be far better off. Some might return to college with a renewed drive and purpose, and others would never go and be 100% fine. Then again, that would require employers to stop expecting five years of experience for entry level jobs and do the work of finding and shaping young talent, because they don't.
I say this as someone who picked the wrong major and also is dumbfounded by how difficult it is to get on a decent career path. I thought by now I'd see through the haze, but 15 years in, it's still a freaking popularity contest.
Ditto for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, and all the other American companies vis-a-vis the US government.
Or German companies vis-a-vis the German government.
Or British companies vis-a-vis the British government.
Or French companies vis-a-vis the French government.
Welcome to reality.
The difference is that Russia is uniquely willing both to use malicious hacking as a first option and to apply unconventional pressure on its people. "What's that Eugene, you don't want to backdoor your software for us? Okay, well, we figured there was no harm in asking. By the way, doesn't your mother live near here? I wonder if we should stop by her place for a visit."
So we know of all these tools the US has had at its disposal, but other than maybe Stuxnet and a few others, it's hard to pinpoint real world fallout from their use. You can't swing a dead cat in this world without hitting a server that "patriotic Russian hackers" have compromised.
My cellular phone has a charge that's measured in weeks, not hours. My cellular phone isn't a battery sucking brick that can't even have it's battery swapped. My cellular phone is for talking and on occasion texting. It was less than a hundred bucks and I spend very little on a monthly subscription. Your handheld computer (sold under the guise of being a telephone) may be "smart" but it makes fools of it's users.
My smartphone was $70 on Amazon, and the cheapest prepaid plans on Verizon include data now. If I only talked and texted the battery would probably last me 2-4 days, maybe longer. I think people spend way too much money on their phones, way too often (upgrading every year or two to top of the line models). I think you're right that a lot of people are changed for the worse by their devices.
But it is not really any cheaper now to buy and use a dumb phone than a smart phone, because the market changed.
how many businesses will be happy with having to buy the same software over and over for eternity?
What, you've never heard of annual licensing? This is hardly new. Even monthly licensing has been done by Adobe and others for several years now.
HELL FUCKING NO!
I am NOT going to rent my OS from Microsoft. Not now. Not EVER.
This is how enterprises already license their MS software--through an Enterprise Agreement. This is probably an attempt to scale down that licensing model to the home, small, and medium sized business (and, honestly, it will be easier for most businesses too small for much of an IT staff). It's not for you so you don't need to react so strongly.
Yes, where I have used them I have automated the renewal process, but still what the fuck is the point of wasting my time with that shit?
I'm trying to figure out how an automated process wastes your time. Can you explain?
Because if you sell a lot of items on a number of different platforms it makes more sense to upload the images once and then link to them from the various platforms.
Sounds like it makes more sense to learn the APIs.
1. Wait for something bad to happen. 2. Blame it on Russia. 3. Ask the US for money.
Well, let's see.
1. Russia and Ukraine are essentially at war.
2. Russia is one of the most capable countries when it comes to electronic espionage.
3. Russia has already been waging this campaign against Ukraine for years now. See Andy Greenberg's recent Wired article. The intrusions are well-documented.