Landlines are pointless these days. Fewer features and much more expensive than a mobile, and I'm going to have the mobile anyway.
Sometimes you need one just to get internet via ADSL, but for making/receiving calls they suck.
Also disable the voicemail on your mobile. Voicemail just wastes your time, text is better or email if they know you. Alternatively instead of just disabling it change the intro message to "I don't listen to these messages, send a text or email" and use it to filter out people who can't follow simple instructions (usually because they are marketers/recruiters).
I'd be more worried about the technology improving to the point where trusted human news anchors could be replaced by AI puppets and no-one would notice.
People are already falling for much simpler, easier to detect fakery, like that video Sarah Sanders posted.
Jordan Peterson and Project 100,000, aka cannon fodder to keep college applications up.
When you base your argument on such widely discredited sources you undermine it. It's a shame because there are some real issues here, but the real research gets buried because the conclusions are less definite and less useful than "we can use IQ to quantify your ability and potential as a single number", for example.
The UK has used experts making wild claims like a "one in a billion match" for DNA, when in fact it was closer to one in a million or worse, i.e. at least 60 other people in the UK alone who it could be.
I'm pretty sure this quite is fake. I can't find an original source for it, and Snowden's writing style would at capitalize the 'I', if not put quotes around "hi" and "hello".
He has mentioned OTR before, but not in reference to IronChat.
Most of the stuff you complain about isn't a detriment to have at all. Don't want a front facing camera? Okay, don't use it. Don't like the notch? Turn it off. Don't want biometric unlock? Don't enable it.
Also, what do you mean by "real GPS"? Even cheap phones these days have excellent GPS receivers, usually supporting multiple GNSS systems.
I wish the west would invest more in toilets. 99.9% of them here are just basic flush models, not even heated seats. Why the hell are we still using toilet paper, it's such a waste of resources and doesn't even clean that well. If you got faeces on any other part of your body you wouldn't wipe it off with a paper tower and call it job done.
Killbots might be worse than a human army. Turning humans against the ruling class requires many different tactics and is a prolonged process. Turning killbots against them is a single exploit, a buffer overflow leading to code injection somewhere.
We need to start building more storage. Big batteries. That will allow renewables to take on a larger proportion of the generation.
Still, even without that 20% over a year is impressive considering where we were a decade ago, and the dire predictions of flickering lights if we got this far.
King County Council Chairman Larry Phillips was at a Democratic Party office in Seattle on Sunday December 12, reviewing a list of voters whose absentee votes had been rejected due to signature problems, when to his surprise he found his own name listed. Phillips said he was certain he had filled out and signed his ballot correctly, and asked the county election officials to investigate the discrepancy.
If you are going to cheat to make sure the Democrats don't win, at least make sure you don't invalidate Democrat politician's votes. If anyone is likely to check, it's them.
The Republicans are more concerned about the ends, and use them to justify the means. Democrats prefer to take the high road ("they go low, we go high") and not compromise their values even if it means losing the goal.
Hopefully that will change. I don't mean full on gerrymandering and the like, but take the recent supreme court vacancy. Obama did the right thing, nominated someone uncontroversial and middle of the road, and the Republicans just outright refused to even hold a confirmation hearing. Constitution doesn't say they/have to/, right?
Obama could have forced the issue, just appointed the guy without confirmation, but he took the high road and kept complaining about it. Now the Republicans have got their guy on the bench, to further their goal of undoing Roe v. Wade.
Even worse they are busy preemptively accusing the Democrats of being obstructionists because they think it will force them to take the high road and try to work with Trump and the Senate. Agree the budget instead of shutting the government down, because they don't want to get down to the Republican's level.
It's time to focus more on the ends. Want to stop the wall? You are going to have to obstruct, to filibusterer and shut everything down until it's done.
The issue isn't really criticism, it's safety and privacy.
Many people would prefer that the fact they are elderly or disabled is not generally available to anyone with a couple of clicks, both because they are vulnerable to bad actors abusing that information and because medical privacy is important to them.
Seems like a risky move now that the Democrats control the house. They can make life difficult for Trump, and firing Mueller would just give them ammunition.
You can bet they will be inviting CNN to every event they possibly can too.
Hopefully the days of "they go low, we go high" are over.
Even the cloud servers running Linux are just hosting Microsoft Azure services for the most part. All.NET based, you don't touch the underlying Linux stuff, e.g. no filesystem or case sensitivity issues etc. All development done on Windows in Visual Studio.
I'm more inclined to do it when they post a link to back up their argument. I've noticed that a lot of bad-faith or conspiracy based arguments rely on links that don't support their claims. The theory seems to be that the mere presence of links makes people already inclined to believe them assume that there are real sources, but that they rarely actually check.
It's an evolution of the old link spam technique.
It also makes debunking easier because they have already provided the material you need and by using their own source against them they can't even argue that you are just picking some leftist commie propaganda fake-news site.
As you say it depends on the threat model. On-SSD encryption at least can't be compromised as easily as Veracrypt by malware running on the computer. With Samsung SSDs they lock out the firmware update once the drive is unlocked too, so you have to cold boot to do it.
I do both. OPALv2 on the SSD, and then additional Veracrypt containers for important stuff.
JAXA (Japan's space agency) has been doing similar experiments for a few years now. The plan is to develop the technology using the dive technique and then extend it to work in level flight.
Diving also has another advantage for testing. It's easier to go supersonic in a dive thanks to gravity assist, and you don't have to worry so much about control surfaces and stability in the tricky transition region which frees you up to concentrate on reducing the sonic boom.
It could even backfire, at least in the West where we have proper adversarial trials. The state will try to convince everyone that this technology is infallible, like fingerprints or DNA*, and then all the criminals need do is deliberately walk differently and suddenly the CCTV proves it wasn't them.
I heard that something similar was done with audio recordings. The police have a system where they record the 50Hz mains hum and claim to be able to detect it on recordings, thus providing a timestamp. It's useful for dating recordings they fine and for proving that they didn't edit recordings and stitch them together... Except that apparently now criminals are wise to it they add recorded 50Hz hum from times when they have a watertight alibi and use it to discredit the prosecution.
* I think everyone knows now, but just in case: neither fingerprints nor DNA are infallible. In fact both are often wrong, especially fingerprints that are often highly subjective.
I don't think many people will have sympathy for your intolerance of a car door closing when they have to live with far worse constantly. Few people have the luxury of living in a secluded enough area to regularly enjoy purely natural sounds, let alone all the time without interruption.
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Landlines are pointless these days. Fewer features and much more expensive than a mobile, and I'm going to have the mobile anyway.
Sometimes you need one just to get internet via ADSL, but for making/receiving calls they suck.
Also disable the voicemail on your mobile. Voicemail just wastes your time, text is better or email if they know you. Alternatively instead of just disabling it change the intro message to "I don't listen to these messages, send a text or email" and use it to filter out people who can't follow simple instructions (usually because they are marketers/recruiters).
I'd be more worried about the technology improving to the point where trusted human news anchors could be replaced by AI puppets and no-one would notice.
People are already falling for much simpler, easier to detect fakery, like that video Sarah Sanders posted.
Jordan Peterson and Project 100,000, aka cannon fodder to keep college applications up.
When you base your argument on such widely discredited sources you undermine it. It's a shame because there are some real issues here, but the real research gets buried because the conclusions are less definite and less useful than "we can use IQ to quantify your ability and potential as a single number", for example.
I don't see why we can't resell used used licences too. In any case, no-one buys a new Windows licence when they buy a second hand PC.
By "a little too coincidental", you mean that the Republicans behind the electoral fraud didn't do a very good job.
Problem is that they can do real damage even if they ultimately end up losing, and it is very hard to undo afterwards.
Also, why do right wing trolls always seem to have mod points? Oh right, it's because they cheat at that too.
The UK has used experts making wild claims like a "one in a billion match" for DNA, when in fact it was closer to one in a million or worse, i.e. at least 60 other people in the UK alone who it could be.
I'm pretty sure this quite is fake. I can't find an original source for it, and Snowden's writing style would at capitalize the 'I', if not put quotes around "hi" and "hello".
He has mentioned OTR before, but not in reference to IronChat.
Why not just buy an old Blackberry off eBay then?
Most of the stuff you complain about isn't a detriment to have at all. Don't want a front facing camera? Okay, don't use it. Don't like the notch? Turn it off. Don't want biometric unlock? Don't enable it.
Also, what do you mean by "real GPS"? Even cheap phones these days have excellent GPS receivers, usually supporting multiple GNSS systems.
Nothing to do with the free market really, this is about interstate trade.
One of the functions of the Single Market is to make sure every member plays fair. That way free trade between them is on a fair and level basis.
I wish the west would invest more in toilets. 99.9% of them here are just basic flush models, not even heated seats. Why the hell are we still using toilet paper, it's such a waste of resources and doesn't even clean that well. If you got faeces on any other part of your body you wouldn't wipe it off with a paper tower and call it job done.
Killbots might be worse than a human army. Turning humans against the ruling class requires many different tactics and is a prolonged process. Turning killbots against them is a single exploit, a buffer overflow leading to code injection somewhere.
We need to start building more storage. Big batteries. That will allow renewables to take on a larger proportion of the generation.
Still, even without that 20% over a year is impressive considering where we were a decade ago, and the dire predictions of flickering lights if we got this far.
Rookie mistake there:
King County Council Chairman Larry Phillips was at a Democratic Party office in Seattle on Sunday December 12, reviewing a list of voters whose absentee votes had been rejected due to signature problems, when to his surprise he found his own name listed. Phillips said he was certain he had filled out and signed his ballot correctly, and asked the county election officials to investigate the discrepancy.
If you are going to cheat to make sure the Democrats don't win, at least make sure you don't invalidate Democrat politician's votes. If anyone is likely to check, it's them.
The Republicans are more concerned about the ends, and use them to justify the means. Democrats prefer to take the high road ("they go low, we go high") and not compromise their values even if it means losing the goal.
Hopefully that will change. I don't mean full on gerrymandering and the like, but take the recent supreme court vacancy. Obama did the right thing, nominated someone uncontroversial and middle of the road, and the Republicans just outright refused to even hold a confirmation hearing. Constitution doesn't say they /have to/, right?
Obama could have forced the issue, just appointed the guy without confirmation, but he took the high road and kept complaining about it. Now the Republicans have got their guy on the bench, to further their goal of undoing Roe v. Wade.
Even worse they are busy preemptively accusing the Democrats of being obstructionists because they think it will force them to take the high road and try to work with Trump and the Senate. Agree the budget instead of shutting the government down, because they don't want to get down to the Republican's level.
It's time to focus more on the ends. Want to stop the wall? You are going to have to obstruct, to filibusterer and shut everything down until it's done.
The issue isn't really criticism, it's safety and privacy.
Many people would prefer that the fact they are elderly or disabled is not generally available to anyone with a couple of clicks, both because they are vulnerable to bad actors abusing that information and because medical privacy is important to them.
Seems like a risky move now that the Democrats control the house. They can make life difficult for Trump, and firing Mueller would just give them ammunition.
You can bet they will be inviting CNN to every event they possibly can too.
Hopefully the days of "they go low, we go high" are over.
Even the cloud servers running Linux are just hosting Microsoft Azure services for the most part. All .NET based, you don't touch the underlying Linux stuff, e.g. no filesystem or case sensitivity issues etc. All development done on Windows in Visual Studio.
At least that's how it was explained to me.
I'm more inclined to do it when they post a link to back up their argument. I've noticed that a lot of bad-faith or conspiracy based arguments rely on links that don't support their claims. The theory seems to be that the mere presence of links makes people already inclined to believe them assume that there are real sources, but that they rarely actually check.
It's an evolution of the old link spam technique.
It also makes debunking easier because they have already provided the material you need and by using their own source against them they can't even argue that you are just picking some leftist commie propaganda fake-news site.
As you say it depends on the threat model. On-SSD encryption at least can't be compromised as easily as Veracrypt by malware running on the computer. With Samsung SSDs they lock out the firmware update once the drive is unlocked too, so you have to cold boot to do it.
I do both. OPALv2 on the SSD, and then additional Veracrypt containers for important stuff.
JAXA (Japan's space agency) has been doing similar experiments for a few years now. The plan is to develop the technology using the dive technique and then extend it to work in level flight.
Diving also has another advantage for testing. It's easier to go supersonic in a dive thanks to gravity assist, and you don't have to worry so much about control surfaces and stability in the tricky transition region which frees you up to concentrate on reducing the sonic boom.
Some mods have no sense of humour it seems.
They couldn't keep it secret for very long because they would have to present the intercepted messages in court eventually.
It appears that weaknesses in the app are to blame here. It was a poorly designed app, basically snake oil.
It could even backfire, at least in the West where we have proper adversarial trials. The state will try to convince everyone that this technology is infallible, like fingerprints or DNA*, and then all the criminals need do is deliberately walk differently and suddenly the CCTV proves it wasn't them.
I heard that something similar was done with audio recordings. The police have a system where they record the 50Hz mains hum and claim to be able to detect it on recordings, thus providing a timestamp. It's useful for dating recordings they fine and for proving that they didn't edit recordings and stitch them together... Except that apparently now criminals are wise to it they add recorded 50Hz hum from times when they have a watertight alibi and use it to discredit the prosecution.
* I think everyone knows now, but just in case: neither fingerprints nor DNA are infallible. In fact both are often wrong, especially fingerprints that are often highly subjective.
I don't think many people will have sympathy for your intolerance of a car door closing when they have to live with far worse constantly. Few people have the luxury of living in a secluded enough area to regularly enjoy purely natural sounds, let alone all the time without interruption.