Anyone got a good solution for blocking YouTube ads on smart TVs?
Ads are served from the same servers as the content now, so the old trick of DNS blocking doesn't work any more. If you have an Android TV box you can get a hacked YouTube app (assuming you trust it), but for smart TVs there isn't really anything you can do.
YouTube Red is an option but isn't available in many places.
You can also use this to your advantage by telegraphing your true feelings while maintaining the an unimpeachable polite and calm veneer.
CSR: We have engineers looking into it now. You: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H You: Okay, thanks. Do you know when it will be fixed? CSR: We hope to have the issue resolved by tomorrow. You: You told me that yesterday you lyin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H You: Are you sure? I really need to get this resolved quickly. CSR: I'm sure sir, don't worry. You: OK Google take a screenshot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H You: OK Google post it to Twitter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H You: Thanks, I hope you are right.
May has said repeatedly that she wants out of the ECHR, mainly so she could be more xenophobic as Home Secretary but that's still her major motivation.
How do I insert the install disk into my phone? Many laptops don't even have an optical drive these days.
I haven't seen an ISP install disc for at least a decade. People expect to plug the modem in, use the default wifi password printed on it and start surfing. The days of ISP crapware are long gone, at least around here.
That's why Chrome is getting rid of the padlock icon (it's already tiny and grey and they removed the extra verification bit where it used to say the company name, because that was useless as well). I think I read that Mozilla are planning the same.
The new scheme is flag sites which don't have HTTPS, with encrypted being the new normal. For trust we are basically screwed, we have nothing right now that can reliably identify a public web site or its owner.
As we know from the Cambridge Analystica debacle Facebook APIs are not very secure. CA was able to pull a lot of data they were not supposed to have access to, and even when Facebook discovered it they didn't cut it off immediately.
It looks like the same thing happened here. They knew and did fuck all about it because they were getting paid. In Europe this is a massive violation of privacy laws at the very least, and possible other crimes due to the fact that the breech allowed our enemies to screw with our democracy.
Remember all the bitching about how environmentalists wanted the US to be poor and revert to a 3rd world standard of living? Of course it was completely bollocks.
That's why China is still on the increase. They, just like the US, can't be expected to immediately slash their emissions and do themselves economic harm. Instead they have set a target for where the peak will be. Actually there was a previous one but they vastly exceeded it, so the Paris one was much more aggressive. Still not enough, but aggressive.
The US is doing okay, despite Trump's best efforts to bring back coal and get rid of the regulations. Coal is dead no matter what now, even China peaked four years ago.
Savings are a good thing, but the majority of people can't save enough to pay for cancer treatment. More can afford to save up enough to cover periods of unemployment, but not all. And people at the bottom have far more to lose - if you are rich you probably won't lose your home, but if you are poor you may well do.
Socialism is insurance. Cheaper insurance than any commercial policy.
Access to the lucrative US and EU markets. Particularly for cars there are big barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
Trump can't sell cars. He wants to sell more cars to Japan and to the EU, but he doesn't know how to make it happen. China is the same, you see lots of EU and Japanese cars there but very few, if any American ones.
That's rather short sighted. China is coming up fast and is a vast market of consumers with increasing wealth to sell to.
In many ways now is a golden opportunity for foreign companies to make inroads in China. Take cars for example. There are Chinese brands and they make some good machines, but they are hardly known outside China because they can barely keep up with demand there at the moment. Eventually they will start to export in quantity, but for now there is high demand for foreign cars in China and many Japanese and European brands are establishing themselves. Many of the Japanese ones make China only models now.
The US "winning" will look like a temporary capitulation where China feels immense resentment and never stops trying to reverse the situation. You know, like how Trump feels about the current situation.
Better to build proper trade deals that both sides feel invested in.
Exactly. Rather than impeach it would be better if he gets bogged down in a legal quagmire where his own people abandon him and he can't do much damage. Then just wait the rest of his term out.
Politics in the US is incredibly polarized. Discontent made it ripe for a populist. Politics is dominated by money. The internet enabled fake news in a way people were unprepared for. Clinton had too much baggage. A lot of the progress made lately on things like same-sex marriage and rights was done via legal process rather than as a reflection of widespread changes in attitudes in every state. The Democrats were too concerned with doing the right thing instead of winning.
These things always correct themselves eventually, it's just a question of how long and how much pain.
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Maybe it's an American thing. In Europe wearing real fur is socially quite unacceptable to most people.
Netflix is also reasonably priced. £8/month for HD. YouTube Premium is £12/month!
That's just silly money. I'd happily pay £2/month for ad-free. Don't care about the original stuff or music.
Anyone got a good solution for blocking YouTube ads on smart TVs?
Ads are served from the same servers as the content now, so the old trick of DNS blocking doesn't work any more. If you have an Android TV box you can get a hacked YouTube app (assuming you trust it), but for smart TVs there isn't really anything you can do.
YouTube Red is an option but isn't available in many places.
You can also use this to your advantage by telegraphing your true feelings while maintaining the an unimpeachable polite and calm veneer.
CSR: We have engineers looking into it now.
You: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
You: Okay, thanks. Do you know when it will be fixed?
CSR: We hope to have the issue resolved by tomorrow.
You: You told me that yesterday you lyin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
You: Are you sure? I really need to get this resolved quickly.
CSR: I'm sure sir, don't worry.
You: OK Google take a screenshot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
You: OK Google post it to Twitter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
You: Thanks, I hope you are right.
Indeed, now we have GDPR the fine they can face could be pretty substantial. This kind of breech will be taken extremely seriously.
What part of "The US is doing okay" are you disagreeing with?
May has said repeatedly that she wants out of the ECHR, mainly so she could be more xenophobic as Home Secretary but that's still her major motivation.
How do I insert the install disk into my phone? Many laptops don't even have an optical drive these days.
I haven't seen an ISP install disc for at least a decade. People expect to plug the modem in, use the default wifi password printed on it and start surfing. The days of ISP crapware are long gone, at least around here.
That's why Chrome is getting rid of the padlock icon (it's already tiny and grey and they removed the extra verification bit where it used to say the company name, because that was useless as well). I think I read that Mozilla are planning the same.
The new scheme is flag sites which don't have HTTPS, with encrypted being the new normal. For trust we are basically screwed, we have nothing right now that can reliably identify a public web site or its owner.
Actually we are signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, a mandatory requirement of EU membersh... Oh.
As we know from the Cambridge Analystica debacle Facebook APIs are not very secure. CA was able to pull a lot of data they were not supposed to have access to, and even when Facebook discovered it they didn't cut it off immediately.
It looks like the same thing happened here. They knew and did fuck all about it because they were getting paid. In Europe this is a massive violation of privacy laws at the very least, and possible other crimes due to the fact that the breech allowed our enemies to screw with our democracy.
Remember all the bitching about how environmentalists wanted the US to be poor and revert to a 3rd world standard of living? Of course it was completely bollocks.
That's why China is still on the increase. They, just like the US, can't be expected to immediately slash their emissions and do themselves economic harm. Instead they have set a target for where the peak will be. Actually there was a previous one but they vastly exceeded it, so the Paris one was much more aggressive. Still not enough, but aggressive.
The US is doing okay, despite Trump's best efforts to bring back coal and get rid of the regulations. Coal is dead no matter what now, even China peaked four years ago.
When your theory only works if the other guy is basically Trump...
Savings are a good thing, but the majority of people can't save enough to pay for cancer treatment. More can afford to save up enough to cover periods of unemployment, but not all. And people at the bottom have far more to lose - if you are rich you probably won't lose your home, but if you are poor you may well do.
Socialism is insurance. Cheaper insurance than any commercial policy.
Days of yore, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and software came on punched stone tablets.
Access to the lucrative US and EU markets. Particularly for cars there are big barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
Trump can't sell cars. He wants to sell more cars to Japan and to the EU, but he doesn't know how to make it happen. China is the same, you see lots of EU and Japanese cars there but very few, if any American ones.
In Communist Europe we do safety nets collectively. It's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than what the US has.
Socialism FTW.
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Fortunately in my country spam calls are illegal and the rules are enforced. I don't get spam calls or texts, and cost is irrelevant.
That's rather short sighted. China is coming up fast and is a vast market of consumers with increasing wealth to sell to.
In many ways now is a golden opportunity for foreign companies to make inroads in China. Take cars for example. There are Chinese brands and they make some good machines, but they are hardly known outside China because they can barely keep up with demand there at the moment. Eventually they will start to export in quantity, but for now there is high demand for foreign cars in China and many Japanese and European brands are establishing themselves. Many of the Japanese ones make China only models now.
The US "winning" will look like a temporary capitulation where China feels immense resentment and never stops trying to reverse the situation. You know, like how Trump feels about the current situation.
Better to build proper trade deals that both sides feel invested in.
Exactly. Rather than impeach it would be better if he gets bogged down in a legal quagmire where his own people abandon him and he can't do much damage. Then just wait the rest of his term out.
The nature of the modern world is that low skill manufacturing jobs were going away no matter what. If it wasn't China it would be robots.
The only option is to evolve. Switch to more white collar jobs, and take manufacturing high end like Germany did.
China knows it, that's why it isn't planning to be doing low skill labour for much longer.
Looks like cloud cover, or maybe smog. Because it's always at night it's hard to tell.
Trump is a result of many things.
Politics in the US is incredibly polarized. Discontent made it ripe for a populist. Politics is dominated by money. The internet enabled fake news in a way people were unprepared for. Clinton had too much baggage. A lot of the progress made lately on things like same-sex marriage and rights was done via legal process rather than as a reflection of widespread changes in attitudes in every state. The Democrats were too concerned with doing the right thing instead of winning.
These things always correct themselves eventually, it's just a question of how long and how much pain.