It's a bit tricky to email a pizza, it depends on the physical size of your routers (hence the name "pizza box" for some equipment). But you can always simply fax a pizza! (from a German candid camera show)
I live in a trilingual area. When you buy a computer you have to decide which layout you will be most typing in and then stick with that. For many people who need to switch a lot between languages it would be nice to be able to set and see the keyboard layout according to the language used, like one can do on mobile phones and tablets. The same goes for shared computers at home (bilingual family here), in offices or on production floors.
Personally, I use Apple's english international keyboard layout as that gives me full access to the characters needed when coding, while allowing me to generate special characters (accentuated, grave, acute, umlauts) easily enough when needed, and I can't see myself switching keyboard layouts for different tasks.
Some other possible points:
- Applications with particular needs can offer special keybindings and display them on the keyboard directly.
- Some manufacturers sell their laptops only with the "national layout" - people who want that brand have to buy a new keyboard with the desired layout and then switch their laptop's keyboards (potentially voiding the warranty).
- Logistics for the manufacturer - it is no longer necessary to have different keyboard layouts for the major languages. That depends on the cost of the keyboard, though.
So, what should she do if her parents refuse to remove photos, including her "sitting on the toilet or lying naked in my cot"?
You're telling me it's "absurd" for her to sue, and she should "Grow The Fuck Up (tm)". But you're not telling me what she should actually do. What choices does she have other than suing?
Easy, she should post 500-odd embarrassing pictures of her parents to Facebook, make sure they are all properly tagged, and then wait for her parents' offer to mutually destroy all pictures.
On a more serious note, I find it sad that her parents value their social media status higher than the well-being of their daughter. If she doesn't want the photos online - whether she was sitting on the toilet or on a bench under a tree - her parents should respect her wish. Those who say she should "Grow The Fuck Up" should note that this is exactly what she is doing: Talking to her parents apparently didn't work; short of hacking into their account or taking resort to violent means, suing them looks like a "grown-up thing" to me. I'd never have done that myself, but then my parents are sensible persons that would never have put me in such a position.
They can fondle people's privates at will, compel old nannies to undress, publicly embarrass ladies with sex toys. I'd say at this point it is reasonable to assume the can do anything they please. Which includes seizing your phone/laptop/socks.
I have Telegram on various devices, and chats are always synced on all of them.
Did you sign up with the same phone number you used on the first device? This works very well on non-phones (laptops, tablets), too: a confirmation message containing a code is sent to your primary phone number. Once you insert that code on the device to be installed, all your chats on that device will be in sync with the chats on your "first" device.
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Probably less than one billionth of the amount of energy that's been used to view porn on the internet over the same period of time.
One of those two activities has eventually brought satisfaction to individuals. The other one has kept the hand-lotion-and-kleenex industry thriving for decades.
I remember the time when US Export Regulations prevented PGP to be exported legally. In order to lawfully bring PGP to other countries, the source code was printed in books which were then exported, scanned and OCRed. Interested parties could follow the progress on a website (# of pages scanned/OCRed/proofread). This went on until 1999, at which point export controls on cryptographic software were lifted.
There's actually an informative page about this which sports the same yellowish background I seem to remember from the nineties.
I have set up a few of these (Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with the camera module), and they work quite well and reliable.
You may want to install mjpg-streamer, which can be used to stream JPEG files over an IP-based network. That alone will already allow you to watch the camera's images as a stream over the local network. Make sure you limit access either by using mjpg-streamer's settings or by setting up a firewall/iptables.
You can then install motionEye, which is a web-based frontend for motion. There you can set up a number of IP cameras and define when and where you want the streams to be recorded. For example record camera1 between 22h and 06h, record camera2 whenever motion is detected, 24/7.
You can connect one camera module to each Raspberry, and a motionEye setup can - depending on the hardware it is installed on - support multiple cameras.
To the GP: It's true, the cost is slightly higher than going with a cheap IP cam, but the hardware can be used for other services, too. The video stream stays local (unless you open up your router or connect via VPN), and you are not depending on a 3rd party, which may or may not be available next year. The setup is straightforward and doesn't take much time.
I wouldn't use this solution in a professional environment, but it is more than enough to keep an eye on my garage, should the bastard who stole my bike ever decide to give it a second try.
I've been working as a contractor in industrial automation for the past 15 years; not in Silicon Valley, though. Purely based on personal experience by working daily on the production floor of a manufacturing plant (machines are developed, constructed and implemented in situ), I'd say that few people have been replaced by the technology that we create. Some people have retired and have not been replaced, some people have been let go, some job descriptions have changed - but most of the people are still there. Actually, technology has allowed the company to expand into new markets, and whole new departments and jobs have been created.
In this specific case, hardware and software is developed in-house, employees (and contractors!) that are willing to learn are nurtured and given opportunities to grow. No in-house gym or similar perks, just solid jobs, an open mind and a certain level of trust that people know how to do their jobs and don't need to be micromanaged. I thinks that's a good recipe. Of course a lot depends on the sector the company is working in.
that won't work and france knows it, they just want your data regardless. ordinary french citizens might still buy their phones and services in france and willingly cough-up their info[...]
This has been the rule in Italy for many years: want a SIM card, show your passport or ID card, a photocopy of which will be kept with the registration information. All owners of previously bought SIM cards had to provide the required information to their providers or their cards were deactivated. Citizens have not "coughed-up their info willingly", they were forced to do so.
Unfortunately, organized crime, crooks and the shadier parts of society (including some politicians) don't have to play by these rules. They simply submit(ted) somebody else's ID, either with or without their knowledge.
The family is now suing Florida Power and Light for allegedly failing to put up any warning.
If this is true, then speculation should be allowed whether finding himself in this situation was the plan from the beginning.
- Go diving in front of a power pant after mooring to the warning buoy, "check[ing] out three large shadows beneath the waves that looked like buildings". - Get "sucked" into a pipe after avoiding any safety measures. - Sue the plant.
I share your sentiment, I've been running a few websites since the late nineties, and I've never charged for any of them and never put ads on any page.
One of the websites (running since 2000) allows you to find port assignments. Nothing earth shaking, but apparently useful to some people. One day I found out that an intrusion analyser had integrated a lookup via my website into their desktop application. When I rewrote the website a few years later I made sure that all the old URLs would be rewritten automatically and served appropriately so that this functionality of their app wouldn't break. Not everything on the net needs to be monetized, and I'm happy to see that there's still a lot of people with a similar spirit.
Weight Watchers International weighted in on the discussion requesting the new kg to be defined at twice the weight of the current kg ("Yes Sandy, I lost half of my weight in the blink of an eye!"), while grocers all over the planet petitioned to divide the current value by four.
The details ore obviously classified, but unconfirmed sources claim that a former POTUS has been asked for spelling advice lately. Coincidence, you say?
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but what you describe is more of a problem with corruption and organized crime. In southern Italy, hospitals, bridges, and entire highways have been built by private companies - best bid - and paid for with public money (it's public infrastructure, after all). The hospitals are still unused, the bridges were left unfinished, and the highways were never opened. The companies have been closed (and reopened under other names), lather, rinse, repeat. Capitalism doesn't have an easy stand against crime, extortion and corruption. You can't honestly make a better offer when your competitor has bribed or coerced their way in.
Southern Italy is just an example - this stuff happens everywhere, sometimes on larger scale, sometimes smaller. I don't think that ghost cities in China are much different. Someone decided that there was money to be made, and money was made.
Here in Italy you can be signed up to costly "services" by simply and inadvertently clicking on an ad on your phone. No sign-up process - just click on an in-app ad and you receive an SMS "You have subscribed to [shady sex chat service]. Each message you receive has a cost of [x Euro]". No - the ad did not advertise any such service. And no, the app itself had nothing to do with it except for serving up ads - this crap comes from the ad networks. Then the messages start to roll in and your friendly phone company automatically bills you for each message you receive. This has happened to various friends and family members. How can someone you never willingly shared your phone number with start billing you via your phone company for a service you never requested in the first place? (rhetoric question) Usually, after complaining with your service provider they will block those messages, some will also pay back the amount. Until one happens to fat-finger the next ad and everything starts again.
Blocking ads is the only sensitive thing to do. Also, I prefer to pay for apps I'm interested in and avoid the free-but-with-ads apps.
I have no problem if a site won't let me view their content without ads -- I don't think they are being clever, but it's their rules on their playground. I'll simply leave and look for alternatives. This means I could never subscribe to such a site, even if they offered something interesting.
I'm not saying your idea sucks, I just find it to be similar to cookies, with the cookie ID in the URL.
If UniqueThing is the only way for the website to identify me, many websites will add any additional information they gather about me to this ID (e.g. my email address when I subscribe to notifications). Currently, when I share a link, I just copy and paste the URL from the browser's address line. If I happen to share a personalised link -- willingly or by mistake -- my preferences and collected information will be available to all visitors of said link. If some of these visitors like the site, they will change the preferences and add red sandals, vampire books, and "herbal remedies" to the already existing Python books and science fiction. Now I can go in there and reset the preferences to my desires, but some of the people I shared my link with will come back and add whatever it is that they prefer. I'll have to create a new UniqueThing. (Which is similar to purging my browser's cookies.)
I like your Amazon example, this is something that happens to my wife and me, too. It would be great if Amazon could distinguish between the two of us; after all, although we share an account we're using different browser sessions and different laptops. Maybe we could think of a way to voluntarily inform websites about some of our interests. In the browser's settings, let me define keywords or select from a list of categories, and when the website I'm currently on sends a specific request (with the possibility for me to whitelist/blacklist any site), let them know about my preferences.
I use ad blocking, ScriptSafe and Ghostery, different browser profiles for various environments and needs (home, work, google, whatever). I don't click on ads. But I wouldn't mind if my browser informed any website that asked that I'm interested in Python, electronic components, and Stuart MacBride books. This would allow them to collect information about their audience's interests and adapt accordingly. It would allow Amazon to differentiate the shopping experience for my wife and me. Of course this would make some people more identifiable because of their unique interests, but browser-fingerprinting is already quite good at that.
I'm not claiming that my idea is better, just brainstorming here.
You go to a website. If you desire a personalized experience, "click here" and then bookmark.
Resulting page is site.tld/longRandomGeneratedUniqueThing/restofurl.whatever
All links on the resulting page are set that way now. The site is responsible for keeping that "thing" associated with your preferences and etc., as well as generating the right links on all the pages you visit there. That's doable.
As long as you come and go from such a formatted URL, the site knows it's the same person.
Not necessarily. If I share the link site.tld/longRandomGeneratedUniqueThing/restofurl.whatever and people open it, the website won't know it isn't me who is accessing it, and it will show them the page with all of my settings applied. You and the others around here might know we'd have to use the generic link site.tld/generic/restofurl.whatever, but most users will simply share their personalised link on their social media sites and in their mails.
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It's a bit tricky to email a pizza, it depends on the physical size of your routers (hence the name "pizza box" for some equipment). But you can always simply fax a pizza! (from a German candid camera show)
I live in a trilingual area. When you buy a computer you have to decide which layout you will be most typing in and then stick with that. For many people who need to switch a lot between languages it would be nice to be able to set and see the keyboard layout according to the language used, like one can do on mobile phones and tablets. The same goes for shared computers at home (bilingual family here), in offices or on production floors.
Personally, I use Apple's english international keyboard layout as that gives me full access to the characters needed when coding, while allowing me to generate special characters (accentuated, grave, acute, umlauts) easily enough when needed, and I can't see myself switching keyboard layouts for different tasks.
Some other possible points:
- Applications with particular needs can offer special keybindings and display them on the keyboard directly.
- Some manufacturers sell their laptops only with the "national layout" - people who want that brand have to buy a new keyboard with the desired layout and then switch their laptop's keyboards (potentially voiding the warranty).
- Logistics for the manufacturer - it is no longer necessary to have different keyboard layouts for the major languages. That depends on the cost of the keyboard, though.
Jesus is actually quite annoyed by all these "christians"... I loved John Niven's The Second Coming (not for the easily offended)
So, what should she do if her parents refuse to remove photos, including her "sitting on the toilet or lying naked in my cot"?
You're telling me it's "absurd" for her to sue, and she should "Grow The Fuck Up (tm)". But you're not telling me what she should actually do. What choices does she have other than suing?
Easy, she should post 500-odd embarrassing pictures of her parents to Facebook, make sure they are all properly tagged, and then wait for her parents' offer to mutually destroy all pictures.
On a more serious note, I find it sad that her parents value their social media status higher than the well-being of their daughter. If she doesn't want the photos online - whether she was sitting on the toilet or on a bench under a tree - her parents should respect her wish. Those who say she should "Grow The Fuck Up" should note that this is exactly what she is doing: Talking to her parents apparently didn't work; short of hacking into their account or taking resort to violent means, suing them looks like a "grown-up thing" to me. I'd never have done that myself, but then my parents are sensible persons that would never have put me in such a position.
They can fondle people's privates at will, compel old nannies to undress, publicly embarrass ladies with sex toys. I'd say at this point it is reasonable to assume the can do anything they please. Which includes seizing your phone/laptop/socks.
This is one of the few stories where I expect a lot of people to throw all long-established /. tradition overboard and rush to RTFA.
I have Telegram on various devices, and chats are always synced on all of them.
Did you sign up with the same phone number you used on the first device? This works very well on non-phones (laptops, tablets), too: a confirmation message containing a code is sent to your primary phone number. Once you insert that code on the device to be installed, all your chats on that device will be in sync with the chats on your "first" device.
What's a PTB?
Pointy-tailed Boss
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Probably less than one billionth of the amount of energy that's been used to view porn on the internet over the same period of time.
One of those two activities has eventually brought satisfaction to individuals. The other one has kept the hand-lotion-and-kleenex industry thriving for decades.
I remember the time when US Export Regulations prevented PGP to be exported legally. In order to lawfully bring PGP to other countries, the source code was printed in books which were then exported, scanned and OCRed. Interested parties could follow the progress on a website (# of pages scanned/OCRed/proofread). This went on until 1999, at which point export controls on cryptographic software were lifted.
There's actually an informative page about this which sports the same yellowish background I seem to remember from the nineties.
I have set up a few of these (Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with the camera module), and they work quite well and reliable.
You may want to install mjpg-streamer, which can be used to stream JPEG files over an IP-based network. That alone will already allow you to watch the camera's images as a stream over the local network. Make sure you limit access either by using mjpg-streamer's settings or by setting up a firewall/iptables.
You can then install motionEye, which is a web-based frontend for motion. There you can set up a number of IP cameras and define when and where you want the streams to be recorded. For example record camera1 between 22h and 06h, record camera2 whenever motion is detected, 24/7.
You can connect one camera module to each Raspberry, and a motionEye setup can - depending on the hardware it is installed on - support multiple cameras.
To the GP: It's true, the cost is slightly higher than going with a cheap IP cam, but the hardware can be used for other services, too. The video stream stays local (unless you open up your router or connect via VPN), and you are not depending on a 3rd party, which may or may not be available next year. The setup is straightforward and doesn't take much time.
I wouldn't use this solution in a professional environment, but it is more than enough to keep an eye on my garage, should the bastard who stole my bike ever decide to give it a second try.
I rather smell robort pr0n
TMI
I've been working as a contractor in industrial automation for the past 15 years; not in Silicon Valley, though. Purely based on personal experience by working daily on the production floor of a manufacturing plant (machines are developed, constructed and implemented in situ), I'd say that few people have been replaced by the technology that we create. Some people have retired and have not been replaced, some people have been let go, some job descriptions have changed - but most of the people are still there. Actually, technology has allowed the company to expand into new markets, and whole new departments and jobs have been created.
In this specific case, hardware and software is developed in-house, employees (and contractors!) that are willing to learn are nurtured and given opportunities to grow. No in-house gym or similar perks, just solid jobs, an open mind and a certain level of trust that people know how to do their jobs and don't need to be micromanaged. I thinks that's a good recipe. Of course a lot depends on the sector the company is working in.
But they get pissed if you call them "women" because that has "men" in the title...
If that's the case, what makes you think using the world "females" will raise your chances of survival?
that won't work and france knows it, they just want your data regardless. ordinary french citizens might still buy their phones and services in france and willingly cough-up their info[...]
This has been the rule in Italy for many years: want a SIM card, show your passport or ID card, a photocopy of which will be kept with the registration information. All owners of previously bought SIM cards had to provide the required information to their providers or their cards were deactivated. Citizens have not "coughed-up their info willingly", they were forced to do so.
Unfortunately, organized crime, crooks and the shadier parts of society (including some politicians) don't have to play by these rules. They simply submit(ted) somebody else's ID, either with or without their knowledge.
From TFA:
If this is true, then speculation should be allowed whether finding himself in this situation was the plan from the beginning.
- Go diving in front of a power pant after mooring to the warning buoy, "check[ing] out three large shadows beneath the waves that looked like buildings".
- Get "sucked" into a pipe after avoiding any safety measures.
- Sue the plant.
I share your sentiment, I've been running a few websites since the late nineties, and I've never charged for any of them and never put ads on any page.
One of the websites (running since 2000) allows you to find port assignments. Nothing earth shaking, but apparently useful to some people. One day I found out that an intrusion analyser had integrated a lookup via my website into their desktop application. When I rewrote the website a few years later I made sure that all the old URLs would be rewritten automatically and served appropriately so that this functionality of their app wouldn't break. Not everything on the net needs to be monetized, and I'm happy to see that there's still a lot of people with a similar spirit.
Weight Watchers International weighted in on the discussion requesting the new kg to be defined at twice the weight of the current kg ("Yes Sandy, I lost half of my weight in the blink of an eye!"), while grocers all over the planet petitioned to divide the current value by four.
Someone should write a English compiler.
Your message wouldn't pass without a warning.
The details ore obviously classified, but unconfirmed sources claim that a former POTUS has been asked for spelling advice lately. Coincidence, you say?
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but what you describe is more of a problem with corruption and organized crime. In southern Italy, hospitals, bridges, and entire highways have been built by private companies - best bid - and paid for with public money (it's public infrastructure, after all). The hospitals are still unused, the bridges were left unfinished, and the highways were never opened. The companies have been closed (and reopened under other names), lather, rinse, repeat. Capitalism doesn't have an easy stand against crime, extortion and corruption. You can't honestly make a better offer when your competitor has bribed or coerced their way in.
Southern Italy is just an example - this stuff happens everywhere, sometimes on larger scale, sometimes smaller. I don't think that ghost cities in China are much different. Someone decided that there was money to be made, and money was made.
Mod this up.
Here in Italy you can be signed up to costly "services" by simply and inadvertently clicking on an ad on your phone. No sign-up process - just click on an in-app ad and you receive an SMS "You have subscribed to [shady sex chat service]. Each message you receive has a cost of [x Euro]". No - the ad did not advertise any such service. And no, the app itself had nothing to do with it except for serving up ads - this crap comes from the ad networks. Then the messages start to roll in and your friendly phone company automatically bills you for each message you receive. This has happened to various friends and family members. How can someone you never willingly shared your phone number with start billing you via your phone company for a service you never requested in the first place? (rhetoric question) Usually, after complaining with your service provider they will block those messages, some will also pay back the amount. Until one happens to fat-finger the next ad and everything starts again.
Blocking ads is the only sensitive thing to do. Also, I prefer to pay for apps I'm interested in and avoid the free-but-with-ads apps.
I have no problem if a site won't let me view their content without ads -- I don't think they are being clever, but it's their rules on their playground. I'll simply leave and look for alternatives. This means I could never subscribe to such a site, even if they offered something interesting.
I'm not saying your idea sucks, I just find it to be similar to cookies, with the cookie ID in the URL.
If UniqueThing is the only way for the website to identify me, many websites will add any additional information they gather about me to this ID (e.g. my email address when I subscribe to notifications). Currently, when I share a link, I just copy and paste the URL from the browser's address line. If I happen to share a personalised link -- willingly or by mistake -- my preferences and collected information will be available to all visitors of said link. If some of these visitors like the site, they will change the preferences and add red sandals, vampire books, and "herbal remedies" to the already existing Python books and science fiction. Now I can go in there and reset the preferences to my desires, but some of the people I shared my link with will come back and add whatever it is that they prefer. I'll have to create a new UniqueThing. (Which is similar to purging my browser's cookies.)
I like your Amazon example, this is something that happens to my wife and me, too. It would be great if Amazon could distinguish between the two of us; after all, although we share an account we're using different browser sessions and different laptops. Maybe we could think of a way to voluntarily inform websites about some of our interests. In the browser's settings, let me define keywords or select from a list of categories, and when the website I'm currently on sends a specific request (with the possibility for me to whitelist/blacklist any site), let them know about my preferences.
I use ad blocking, ScriptSafe and Ghostery, different browser profiles for various environments and needs (home, work, google, whatever). I don't click on ads. But I wouldn't mind if my browser informed any website that asked that I'm interested in Python, electronic components, and Stuart MacBride books. This would allow them to collect information about their audience's interests and adapt accordingly. It would allow Amazon to differentiate the shopping experience for my wife and me. Of course this would make some people more identifiable because of their unique interests, but browser-fingerprinting is already quite good at that.
I'm not claiming that my idea is better, just brainstorming here.
You go to a website. If you desire a personalized experience, "click here" and then bookmark.
Resulting page is site.tld/longRandomGeneratedUniqueThing/restofurl.whatever
All links on the resulting page are set that way now. The site is responsible for keeping that "thing" associated with your preferences and etc., as well as generating the right links on all the pages you visit there. That's doable.
As long as you come and go from such a formatted URL, the site knows it's the same person.
Not necessarily. If I share the link site.tld/longRandomGeneratedUniqueThing/restofurl.whatever and people open it, the website won't know it isn't me who is accessing it, and it will show them the page with all of my settings applied. You and the others around here might know we'd have to use the generic link site.tld/generic/restofurl.whatever, but most users will simply share their personalised link on their social media sites and in their mails.
A fanboi who doesn't own a smell phone of any kind? *LMAO*
A smell phone? This stuff exists? Does it require the user to wash their hands after each use?