No, that sounds like cash. What Stallman objects to is people like Visa and Mastercard getting to monitor all your transactions. It's privacy from payment processors and from the kind of "automatic" surveillance that comes with it.
Cash is semi-anonymous. You don't have to reveal your ID for a lot of transactions with it, but sometimes do if you need stuff like delivery or are buying certain services. There are systems in place to make sure merchants don't cheat the system to avoid taxes or launder money too, although they might not be that effective. Bitcoin doesn't really improve on that, and neither does Taler.
What Taler does is scale and integrates with the law enough to be widely adopted by legitimate businesses, especially financial services like banks. It's also not tied to mining so doesn't waste vast amount of energy or act as a scam for early adopters.
You are missing the point of this. It's about preventing companies like Visa and Mastercaard monitoring all your transactions, and about making sure that the government has to follow legal process to get that information.
In other words it's like cash. Semi-anonymous, but the shops you spend it in can be regulated.
Admitted TFA isn't very good, but come on, SJW nonsense? You could at least try to understand it before throwing in such ridiculous claims.
GPS jammers are quite common and only need to be very low power as the signal is so weak, so are rarely detected. People use them to block trackers in rentals and commercial vehicles.
Actually, third party scripts can't trigger a redirect. It's part of the standard.
Also most browsers don't allow downloads to be triggered by redirects or Javascript, only direct user interaction. That's why sites started trying to trick users into clicking stuff rather than auto-downloading. And even that doesn't work very well because once you tricked the user they still have to click through multiple warnings and their AV software has to fail before your code gets to run.
The argument that modern browsers execute arbitrary code isn't very compelling. Most applications accept arbitrary data of some kind. We used to have fun crashing mail clients and IRC clients and even FTP servers with some dodgy data. It's rather fundamental to networked computers.
What is this mound of security bugs you refer to? Modern Firefox and Chrome are both incredibly secure, especially considering they spend all day handling arbitrary data and running arbitrary scripts.
We have had this panic several times before. Remember the Web USB API? That was going to be a security nightmare, massively abused and used to take over every poor sap's PC the moment it was deployed. Yet here we are, it's been around for years now, and somehow, presumably by blind luck rather than skill, they managed to make it secure.
If you refuse to give them credit where it is due they won't listen to your concerns this time.
The UK started having Black Friday a few years ago, mainly because people were getting exposed to the hype from America and retailers thought they could cash in. But then there were riots in shops and they decided not to do it again.
Thing about UK shops is that they have pretty much permanent sales. There might be the odd week there they don't, but it's literally days away from the next mid-season sale or other random event. So British people tend to view things like Black Friday and January Sales with suspicion. Often the shops jack up the prices a bit before, then have a fake sale at a more moderately inflated price, and then go back to the normal price later.
And if you miss one sale, the next is a few weeks away at most. It's no wonder UK retail is dying.
Step one: People start having to wait months for medical treatment because there aren't enough nurses, the economy starts to tank as the supply of labour dries up and natives still aren't taking those low pay jobs because they don't want to live like students at 40.
Step two: People are forced to use food banks or live on the street due to welfare cuts, creating extra costs to deal with the fallout (policing, mental health problems etc.) The next generation gets fucked too because they go to school hungry, don't learn and disrupt the other kids. You have created a downward spiral from which few escape.
Step three: People start getting screwed over due to lack of regulation. The collective protection we get from things like safety standards on products goes away. Most of the jobs created are shit, after all if they were not they could exist with some minimal protections in place. People with disabilities are particularly hard hit and forced to drop out of the workforce, becoming a cost to the state.
Step four: Now you cut all the benefits and support programmes people can't afford to get the new training they need. And going back to step one, no-one wants to do the crappy jobs because you sold them on the idea that a good job is the only way out of the poverty and misery you created for them.
It's actually a quite interesting concept once you get past the silly skins and other random crap they sell and which don't really affect the game at all.
Fortnight is a battle royale shooter game with up to 100 players. Everyone starts on an equal footing with minimal equipment and has to scavenge stuff from the map. They can build stuff too. The play area keeps shrinking to force people together so you don't get ridiculously protracted games where everyone is holed up in forts.
It's a nice variation on the typical team based online shooters. But also quite silly because selling silly skins are how they make their money.
The places in the photos all look like the owner put very little effort into the sign. Like Comic Sans, it appears to be the default that the sign-maker selects when you tell them you want a painted/oriental/wild-west effect.
You are stuck in this post-truth bullshit mindset where there are no objective facts and no outright lies. Overcome that and you will be able to understand that it's more than just a war between opposing bullshitters.
You can get mechanical boards that are very quiet. Cherry MX switches are good for that.
Filco make done nice ones, but lately I've been enjoying a Realforce board which uses slightly differently weighted keys in different locations. It really helps you keep position and also makes using your weaker fingers easier, although my problem as ever is that I didn't learn to type properly and use the wrong ones.
I have some nice membrane keyboards too. Elecom make the best I think, they have reliable wireless and the keys have decent tactile feedback but a nice muted membrane sound.
I used to use low travel laptop style keys but went back to full throw ones.
I wonder if these fixes really improve things for you anyway. Even if they get you hired, do they get you hired in a good job that you will thrive in, or something you are barely qualified for and where the boss only knows some buzzwords but not what they really need?
I get a lot of offers for stuff that is unsuitable because of keyword matches.
No, they are just asking that Google doesn't illegally discriminate against them. The EU found evidence that Google was down-ranking competing sites to page 4 or beyond, while ensuring that its own very similar site appeared at the top of page one.
Imagine, you want to look for a product online. You type the product into the Google search engine. What you will see right at the top of the page is a box with Google Shopping's results, with pictures and a selection of deals from different retailers. They are placed above the results that Google's generic search algorithms consider most relevant.
At the same time, Google has demoted rival comparison shopping services in its search results. The evidence shows that even the most highly ranked rival appears on average only on page four of Google's search results. Others appear even further down.
(emphasis mine)
Google abused its position as the dominant search engine by artificially down-ranking rivals and giving its own service top billing. In the EU this is illegal as it leads to massive monopolies and a lack of fair competition.
Note that the solution proposed by Google and accepted by the EU is to auction slots in the special shopping area at the top of the search results page, not to offer anything for free.
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Okay, but how is that worse than cash?
No, that sounds like cash. What Stallman objects to is people like Visa and Mastercard getting to monitor all your transactions. It's privacy from payment processors and from the kind of "automatic" surveillance that comes with it.
Cash is semi-anonymous. You don't have to reveal your ID for a lot of transactions with it, but sometimes do if you need stuff like delivery or are buying certain services. There are systems in place to make sure merchants don't cheat the system to avoid taxes or launder money too, although they might not be that effective. Bitcoin doesn't really improve on that, and neither does Taler.
What Taler does is scale and integrates with the law enough to be widely adopted by legitimate businesses, especially financial services like banks. It's also not tied to mining so doesn't waste vast amount of energy or act as a scam for early adopters.
You are missing the point of this. It's about preventing companies like Visa and Mastercaard monitoring all your transactions, and about making sure that the government has to follow legal process to get that information.
In other words it's like cash. Semi-anonymous, but the shops you spend it in can be regulated.
Admitted TFA isn't very good, but come on, SJW nonsense? You could at least try to understand it before throwing in such ridiculous claims.
Oh, and if the vehicle won't move without a GPS signal you are going to have a problem the first time you park underground.
GPS jammers are quite common and only need to be very low power as the signal is so weak, so are rarely detected. People use them to block trackers in rentals and commercial vehicles.
Actually, third party scripts can't trigger a redirect. It's part of the standard.
Also most browsers don't allow downloads to be triggered by redirects or Javascript, only direct user interaction. That's why sites started trying to trick users into clicking stuff rather than auto-downloading. And even that doesn't work very well because once you tricked the user they still have to click through multiple warnings and their AV software has to fail before your code gets to run.
The argument that modern browsers execute arbitrary code isn't very compelling. Most applications accept arbitrary data of some kind. We used to have fun crashing mail clients and IRC clients and even FTP servers with some dodgy data. It's rather fundamental to networked computers.
What is this mound of security bugs you refer to? Modern Firefox and Chrome are both incredibly secure, especially considering they spend all day handling arbitrary data and running arbitrary scripts.
We have had this panic several times before. Remember the Web USB API? That was going to be a security nightmare, massively abused and used to take over every poor sap's PC the moment it was deployed. Yet here we are, it's been around for years now, and somehow, presumably by blind luck rather than skill, they managed to make it secure.
If you refuse to give them credit where it is due they won't listen to your concerns this time.
The UK started having Black Friday a few years ago, mainly because people were getting exposed to the hype from America and retailers thought they could cash in. But then there were riots in shops and they decided not to do it again.
Thing about UK shops is that they have pretty much permanent sales. There might be the odd week there they don't, but it's literally days away from the next mid-season sale or other random event. So British people tend to view things like Black Friday and January Sales with suspicion. Often the shops jack up the prices a bit before, then have a fake sale at a more moderately inflated price, and then go back to the normal price later.
And if you miss one sale, the next is a few weeks away at most. It's no wonder UK retail is dying.
We tried this, it doesn't work.
Step one: People start having to wait months for medical treatment because there aren't enough nurses, the economy starts to tank as the supply of labour dries up and natives still aren't taking those low pay jobs because they don't want to live like students at 40.
Step two: People are forced to use food banks or live on the street due to welfare cuts, creating extra costs to deal with the fallout (policing, mental health problems etc.) The next generation gets fucked too because they go to school hungry, don't learn and disrupt the other kids. You have created a downward spiral from which few escape.
Step three: People start getting screwed over due to lack of regulation. The collective protection we get from things like safety standards on products goes away. Most of the jobs created are shit, after all if they were not they could exist with some minimal protections in place. People with disabilities are particularly hard hit and forced to drop out of the workforce, becoming a cost to the state.
Step four: Now you cut all the benefits and support programmes people can't afford to get the new training they need. And going back to step one, no-one wants to do the crappy jobs because you sold them on the idea that a good job is the only way out of the poverty and misery you created for them.
The Chinese government aren't good guys either, but they don't have any jurisdiction over me either.
Of course I build my own network hardware these days.
Domestic spies can make my life much worse than ones who have no jurisdiction.
Even if we assume that the Chinese have a backdoor into that equipment, it's better than the NSA/GCHQ having a backdoor into it.
Also what is the alternative? Cisco? We know their gear is full of intentional backdoors even before the NSA ones are found.
It's actually a quite interesting concept once you get past the silly skins and other random crap they sell and which don't really affect the game at all.
Fortnight is a battle royale shooter game with up to 100 players. Everyone starts on an equal footing with minimal equipment and has to scavenge stuff from the map. They can build stuff too. The play area keeps shrinking to force people together so you don't get ridiculously protracted games where everyone is holed up in forts.
It's a nice variation on the typical team based online shooters. But also quite silly because selling silly skins are how they make their money.
The places in the photos all look like the owner put very little effort into the sign. Like Comic Sans, it appears to be the default that the sign-maker selects when you tell them you want a painted/oriental/wild-west effect.
Which prompts the next question: if you have a bad social credit score how easy is it to repair it?
Is it like social media where you can buy likes to boost your score?
The number key legends are upside down! Also what is with this trend of awful fonts on keyboards?
Also all keyboards should have a calculator key now.
You are stuck in this post-truth bullshit mindset where there are no objective facts and no outright lies. Overcome that and you will be able to understand that it's more than just a war between opposing bullshitters.
Link at the top of every page, and in the ad box.
You can get mechanical boards that are very quiet. Cherry MX switches are good for that.
Filco make done nice ones, but lately I've been enjoying a Realforce board which uses slightly differently weighted keys in different locations. It really helps you keep position and also makes using your weaker fingers easier, although my problem as ever is that I didn't learn to type properly and use the wrong ones.
I have some nice membrane keyboards too. Elecom make the best I think, they have reliable wireless and the keys have decent tactile feedback but a nice muted membrane sound.
I used to use low travel laptop style keys but went back to full throw ones.
That's why Google created an auction, same as they use for other advertising space. And also stopped down-ranking comparison sites in search results.
I wonder if these fixes really improve things for you anyway. Even if they get you hired, do they get you hired in a good job that you will thrive in, or something you are barely qualified for and where the boss only knows some buzzwords but not what they really need?
I get a lot of offers for stuff that is unsuitable because of keyword matches.
Getting colder. Keep trying.
No, they are just asking that Google doesn't illegally discriminate against them. The EU found evidence that Google was down-ranking competing sites to page 4 or beyond, while ensuring that its own very similar site appeared at the top of page one.
The EU's explanation of the ruling is quite enlightening: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-r...
Imagine, you want to look for a product online. You type the product into the Google search engine. What you will see right at the top of the page is a box with Google Shopping's results, with pictures and a selection of deals from different retailers. They are placed above the results that Google's generic search algorithms consider most relevant.
At the same time, Google has demoted rival comparison shopping services in its search results. The evidence shows that even the most highly ranked rival appears on average only on page four of Google's search results. Others appear even further down.
(emphasis mine)
Google abused its position as the dominant search engine by artificially down-ranking rivals and giving its own service top billing. In the EU this is illegal as it leads to massive monopolies and a lack of fair competition.
Note that the solution proposed by Google and accepted by the EU is to auction slots in the special shopping area at the top of the search results page, not to offer anything for free.
Yeah, that's Google Shopping. But normally there is also a box below the menu bar and above the search results with shopping links.
Obviously if you have an ad blocker you won't see it.