While some of it definitely can be used productively, ultimately we are going to have to remove significant amounts from the atmosphere to limit climate change.
Haven't we debunked this enough times already? Where do you think the fuel comes from? And the power plant built around the reactors, that emits no CO2 either?
I keep hearing this claim that Google sells or trades your personal data. Seems utterly bizarre, it's the secret sauce that makes their products valuable and giving it to anyone else would destroy their business model. So I usually ask for some evidence, and then get modded down by google haters...
Google won't stop asking. Maybe it's only in the EU or something, but every time you use Google services for the first time it asks you for permission to use data. Every time you turn on some option that needs data, it asks you.
I recently set up a new phone for my wife, and lost count of the number of times I had to allow/deny some bit of data collection or even just a new use of some data they already had.
You can accuse Google of a lot of things, but not being absolutely clear or obtaining opt-in permission for all data use aren't examples.
Apple products aren't really comparable to Google ones though, in terms of quality. Compare Siri with Google Assistant, for example. Google Maps vs Apple Maps.
Part of it is just that Google has better tech, but part of it is also because Google has better data. Better aggregate data, and if you want all the bells and whistles better data about you specifically.
It's not just pay more vs. pay less, it's lesser services vs. better services in exchange for some amount of privacy.
What do you think I'm being dishonest about? Liking La-La Land? I mean, it was fun... Songs not that memorable perhaps, but enjoyable enough at the time.
I can't even follow your line of thinking here. All I did was point out that Rey was deemed a Mary Sue despite having far fewer of the traits of a Mary Sue character than Luke, and Luke wasn't. Therefore she has a reasonable complaint about being treated differently, although we can debate how much that is due to sexism and how much due to other factors.
I hope they checked the time on the fitness tracker. It says she died shortly before the guy left... Assuming that the fitness tracker data was correctly timestamped.
Superficially it sounds dubious... What would this chip do, exactly? It can't magically beam information back to China, it would have to have some kind of network access. That means integration with the network interface, so a connection to some internal bus like PCIe or the Intel peripheral bus. And it would generate traffic that would surely be discovered pretty quickly, especially since everyone has been watching for traffic to/from China as a standard part of intrusion detection.
Perhaps what they mean is that there is some kind of backdoor somewhere. Some code in the UEFI (which is stored in a flash memory chip, resulting in confused journalists), or some other ROM. Similar to Cisco hardware with their own service backdoors and NSA backdoors, for example. Or like Intel's hidden OS backdoor designed for remote system management.
According to Wikipeida around 85% of cervical cancer has this cause. Of course that's globally, in Australia it will be different due to different lifestyles. Other risk factors include smoking and multiple pregnancies, both declining in Aus. So their claim that at some point cervical cancer will be effectively eliminated (instances below some very low threshold) is credible.
VPNs are banned or blocked in some places. It's much harder to block HTTPS connections because that would break most web sites.
It is possible to exploit this fact to use Tor in places where it is blocked, like China. Route your data through an HTTPS connection to the Microsoft or Amazon cloud that is used by vast numbers of other sites and thus difficult to block entirely. Being cloud services the IP addresses rotate and change regularly.
These days a lot of sites share an IP address via services like Cloudflare that offer caching and load balancing. So IP addresses alone aren't nearly as useful as seeing the hostname in the DNS query.
Google claims that it doesn't log DNS requests. Legally it isn't required to do so in some jurisdictions, because the relevant laws only apply to ISPs. Same situation for VPN providers. I suppose that being evil they must be lying, but at least in theory they are able to offer greater privacy than your ISP who is legally required to log.
Window's version numbering is that way to avoid breaking apps that look for specific versions.
A lot of apps look for V6, and if they changed to V7 they would break because the developers were idiots. Same with going to Windows 10 instead of Windows 9, too many apps were looking for the "Windows9" string to detect 95/98 and broke.
Gotta be careful with point releases though. Is 1.9 or 1.10 the later version? Developers would probably say 1.10 is newer, but users used to normal maths and simple sorting algorithms might conclude that 1.9 > 1.1 so 1.9 is newer.
Chrome does use point version numbers. The current version is 69.0.3497.100.
The format is MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD.PATCH. Major is the bi-monthly release cycle with feature changes, minor is for stuff like emergency patches or minor updates and doesn't get used. Build is the build number you can refer to for build parameters, and the patch level is some internal development thing.
It's actually not a bad system because for users only the major version really matters and is easy to track.
That's an interesting question. She is a princess and the rebellion seems to recognize that to some extent. But she seems to be more of a politician around the time of ANH. She is there at the major battles but seemingly not in a command role, more of a civilian oversight kind of thing. Which makes sense, as the Empire is essentially a kind of military coup and the rebels stand for the rule of law.
At some point between the end of RotJ and TFA she seems to have taken on a more active military role, or perhaps she was just landed with it because of her prior experience with superweapons and because by the time TLJ comes around there aren't many other people left.
It's a shame that she wasn't more involved in the finale of A New Hope, but they actually removed some of the female pilots whose footage was then used in Rogue One. I won't speculate why, except to point out that through the whole of the first trilogy Leia was the only woman with any significant screen time or lines and they never really developed any of her force powers or role beyond the damsel/love interest. So really TLJ did more for her character than all the other movies combined.
What happened to the freedom to choose who you listen to? If people don't want to listen to FEMA and/or Trump should they not have that option, no matter how dumb you think it is?
To be honest I'm not entirely sure. On the one hand, freedom, on the other hand it could end up like vaccine refusers causing everyone else to get ill.
When it's Linux introducing a Code of Conduct it must be resisted immediately because the assumption is that it will be abused eventually. Yet here we must give the benefit of the doubt, even though the administration has proven itself untrustworthy, and wait to see if that abuse actually happens before complaining.
I'm not picking you out personally, it's just a general observation that a lot of people here are willing to give the government the opportunity to prove it can be responsible, but not people they think are motivated by social justice or whatever.
No actually, they let you freely configure the DNS server of your choice. It seems to come with Google and Cloudflare pre-configured but there is an option to enter any server you like.
There is actually a screenshot of the configuration screen showing this in TFA.
It's almost like your model of treating a vast multi-faceted company like Alphabet/Google as a single monolithic block with entirely consistent behaviour and morals is somehow flawed.
Ah right, so you mean that it shit on the non-canon expanded universe stuff that the movies have specifically decided to leave behind because it would ruin all the surprises and most of it is complete BS anyway.
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While some of it definitely can be used productively, ultimately we are going to have to remove significant amounts from the atmosphere to limit climate change.
no carbon pollution at all
Haven't we debunked this enough times already? Where do you think the fuel comes from? And the power plant built around the reactors, that emits no CO2 either?
I keep hearing this claim that Google sells or trades your personal data. Seems utterly bizarre, it's the secret sauce that makes their products valuable and giving it to anyone else would destroy their business model. So I usually ask for some evidence, and then get modded down by google haters...
Google won't stop asking. Maybe it's only in the EU or something, but every time you use Google services for the first time it asks you for permission to use data. Every time you turn on some option that needs data, it asks you.
I recently set up a new phone for my wife, and lost count of the number of times I had to allow/deny some bit of data collection or even just a new use of some data they already had.
You can accuse Google of a lot of things, but not being absolutely clear or obtaining opt-in permission for all data use aren't examples.
Apple products aren't really comparable to Google ones though, in terms of quality. Compare Siri with Google Assistant, for example. Google Maps vs Apple Maps.
Part of it is just that Google has better tech, but part of it is also because Google has better data. Better aggregate data, and if you want all the bells and whistles better data about you specifically.
It's not just pay more vs. pay less, it's lesser services vs. better services in exchange for some amount of privacy.
Bloody paywalls. Thanks for providing that info.
Those cards turn up on eBay for peanuts, and TFA identifies the location of the chip. It should be possible to get one.
What do you think I'm being dishonest about? Liking La-La Land? I mean, it was fun... Songs not that memorable perhaps, but enjoyable enough at the time.
I can't even follow your line of thinking here. All I did was point out that Rey was deemed a Mary Sue despite having far fewer of the traits of a Mary Sue character than Luke, and Luke wasn't. Therefore she has a reasonable complaint about being treated differently, although we can debate how much that is due to sexism and how much due to other factors.
I hope they checked the time on the fitness tracker. It says she died shortly before the guy left... Assuming that the fitness tracker data was correctly timestamped.
Superficially it sounds dubious... What would this chip do, exactly? It can't magically beam information back to China, it would have to have some kind of network access. That means integration with the network interface, so a connection to some internal bus like PCIe or the Intel peripheral bus. And it would generate traffic that would surely be discovered pretty quickly, especially since everyone has been watching for traffic to/from China as a standard part of intrusion detection.
Perhaps what they mean is that there is some kind of backdoor somewhere. Some code in the UEFI (which is stored in a flash memory chip, resulting in confused journalists), or some other ROM. Similar to Cisco hardware with their own service backdoors and NSA backdoors, for example. Or like Intel's hidden OS backdoor designed for remote system management.
According to Wikipeida around 85% of cervical cancer has this cause. Of course that's globally, in Australia it will be different due to different lifestyles. Other risk factors include smoking and multiple pregnancies, both declining in Aus. So their claim that at some point cervical cancer will be effectively eliminated (instances below some very low threshold) is credible.
VPNs are banned or blocked in some places. It's much harder to block HTTPS connections because that would break most web sites.
It is possible to exploit this fact to use Tor in places where it is blocked, like China. Route your data through an HTTPS connection to the Microsoft or Amazon cloud that is used by vast numbers of other sites and thus difficult to block entirely. Being cloud services the IP addresses rotate and change regularly.
These days a lot of sites share an IP address via services like Cloudflare that offer caching and load balancing. So IP addresses alone aren't nearly as useful as seeing the hostname in the DNS query.
Google claims that it doesn't log DNS requests. Legally it isn't required to do so in some jurisdictions, because the relevant laws only apply to ISPs. Same situation for VPN providers. I suppose that being evil they must be lying, but at least in theory they are able to offer greater privacy than your ISP who is legally required to log.
Window's version numbering is that way to avoid breaking apps that look for specific versions.
A lot of apps look for V6, and if they changed to V7 they would break because the developers were idiots. Same with going to Windows 10 instead of Windows 9, too many apps were looking for the "Windows9" string to detect 95/98 and broke.
Gotta be careful with point releases though. Is 1.9 or 1.10 the later version? Developers would probably say 1.10 is newer, but users used to normal maths and simple sorting algorithms might conclude that 1.9 > 1.1 so 1.9 is newer.
Chrome does use point version numbers. The current version is 69.0.3497.100.
The format is MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD.PATCH. Major is the bi-monthly release cycle with feature changes, minor is for stuff like emergency patches or minor updates and doesn't get used. Build is the build number you can refer to for build parameters, and the patch level is some internal development thing.
It's actually not a bad system because for users only the major version really matters and is easy to track.
I think everyone learned from Microsoft's Windows 95 mistake. Now they are screwed after another 84 versions.
That's an interesting question. She is a princess and the rebellion seems to recognize that to some extent. But she seems to be more of a politician around the time of ANH. She is there at the major battles but seemingly not in a command role, more of a civilian oversight kind of thing. Which makes sense, as the Empire is essentially a kind of military coup and the rebels stand for the rule of law.
At some point between the end of RotJ and TFA she seems to have taken on a more active military role, or perhaps she was just landed with it because of her prior experience with superweapons and because by the time TLJ comes around there aren't many other people left.
It's a shame that she wasn't more involved in the finale of A New Hope, but they actually removed some of the female pilots whose footage was then used in Rogue One. I won't speculate why, except to point out that through the whole of the first trilogy Leia was the only woman with any significant screen time or lines and they never really developed any of her force powers or role beyond the damsel/love interest. So really TLJ did more for her character than all the other movies combined.
What happened to the freedom to choose who you listen to? If people don't want to listen to FEMA and/or Trump should they not have that option, no matter how dumb you think it is?
To be honest I'm not entirely sure. On the one hand, freedom, on the other hand it could end up like vaccine refusers causing everyone else to get ill.
I sense a double standard here.
When it's Linux introducing a Code of Conduct it must be resisted immediately because the assumption is that it will be abused eventually. Yet here we must give the benefit of the doubt, even though the administration has proven itself untrustworthy, and wait to see if that abuse actually happens before complaining.
I'm not picking you out personally, it's just a general observation that a lot of people here are willing to give the government the opportunity to prove it can be responsible, but not people they think are motivated by social justice or whatever.
No actually, they let you freely configure the DNS server of your choice. It seems to come with Google and Cloudflare pre-configured but there is an option to enter any server you like.
There is actually a screenshot of the configuration screen showing this in TFA.
It's almost like your model of treating a vast multi-faceted company like Alphabet/Google as a single monolithic block with entirely consistent behaviour and morals is somehow flawed.
Ah right, so you mean that it shit on the non-canon expanded universe stuff that the movies have specifically decided to leave behind because it would ruin all the surprises and most of it is complete BS anyway.
Well she has a point, Luke was much worse than Rey for being brilliant at everything instantly. There does appear to be a double standard there.