I'd be fine with that, but I'm not really seeing this content. House of Cards ended on a bit of a damp squib, their original movies are extremely hit and miss and none have really stood out so far.
Is there anything coming down the pipeline I'm missing? I guess they will get all the new Star Trek stuff outside the US... American Vandal and Castlevania are okay, as is that Marie Kondo thing, but I'm struggling to think of stuff that I'm looking forward to this year apart from The Punish and Jessica Jones, which are both presumably finishing.
This only applies to their offices. They had multiple problems with sexual harassment (of both men and women) in the work environment, leading to lawsuits and suspending one of their execs.
One guy was apparently fond of touching his subordinate's balls. Honestly I think I'd make better games if the boss didn't try to touch by scrotum now and then.
They are trying to create a completely self contained environment in which plants and fruit flies can live, and observe the effects of low gravity on them.
Sure, we assumed it would be fine, but it's a good idea to prove that assumption before sending tonnes of soil and plants up there with a view to sustaining human life. It's also a useful test of the sealed environment idea and technology, in an environment subject to extreme temperature swings.
It's all in a sealed environment. The idea is to create a viable, self-contained environment with some plants and fruit flies.
In any case, that boat has probably already sailed as it seems that at least one of the Surveyor probes was contaminated. And you also have to ask if it's worth worrying about, given that we are fairly certain that the Moon is dead and not having to deal with it will make life a lot easier to establish a presence there.
Look at the person doing the complaining on twitter she outright stated, this incident amounted to sexual assault.
She did not say that. Obviously I can't prove a negative, so the onus is on you to provide a link to the tweet. I'm sure that someone on Reddit archived it, even if it has been deleted from Twitter.
Tell that to DICE. According to the comments yesterday about Battlefield 5, the poor sales which are now causing major problems at EA are entirely down to them pandering to SJWs. Surely after seeing such a disastrous outcome to being woke other corporations will not follow in their missteps.
Or maybe they had a genuine problem and either didn't want to get sued or, and I realize this is an outlandish theory, actually cared about fixing it.
Sure, it's Disney's fault, but Netflix have to accept that the value of their service is diminished by the loss of several of their biggest and best titles. At least it is for me.
And of course it works both ways. You can't expect people not to criticise you for something you said, even if it makes you feel bad and not want to carry on exercising your free speech any more.
- One person complained about the "boobies #metoo" - Another person complained about it - They eventually did something about it - First person complained that it took them too long to do anything
That's it. No mobs, no mass complaints or twitter storms, no accusations or campaigns. It's utterly bizarre, they sound like there was a huge drama when in reality they read a couple of emails and removed a sheet of paper from a wall.
$2 increase and they are cutting most of the best shows. Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist already cancelled, The Punisher and Jessica Jones probably will be too after their next seasons air.
There's no money in that though. Outrage is a massive industry now. I had a quick look on YouTube and there are already dozens of videos about this, most of them just rip-offs of other videos. Want to bet that their conference gets a big crowd funded cash injection from outraged anti-sjws now?
The only way we are going to get back to normality is to stop funding the outrage. Hopefully people will eventually get tired of it, but I don't see any signs of that. Look at the most popular stories on Slashdot over the past few years.
You should never use your ISP's email account. Aside from it being accessible by random ISP staff, if you ever leave that ISP your email address is going to die.
One of the established providers is probably reasonably stable (can you imagine the shitstorm if hotmail.com went away?) but obviously a domain is your best bet. Are there any services that allow non-technical people to register a domain and have email redirect to Gmail/Hotmail/etc. with a few clicks?
That's probably because you have 21496 emails in your inbox.
Gmail figures out what emails are important by seeing how long it takes you to read them, reply to them and archive them. If you leave them in your inbox it assumes you are not done with them (otherwise you would have archived), so they must be important and you intend to come back to them later.
"Archive" is a bit misleading here, all it does is move the email to your "All Mail" folder and they will still appear in search results by default.
My advice would be to disable the priority inbox stuff as you are not using it.
Your experience with spam is very strange. Normally Gmail is very good at not marking stuff as spam if you show any interest in it, and especially if you have the sender's email address in your address book. Clicking "not spam" pretty much whitelists that email address. The only real exception is if the mail is coming from a dodgy server that is using an IP address range known to be spewing spam, and it doesn't have SPF to differentiate itself.
Biometrics on phones are good enough. They can be fooled, but what is the threat model here? An attacker who goes to all the trouble of cloning your fingerprints or making a 3D model of your head?
Biometrics are perfectly adequate against the threats most people face - thieves and "friends"/family. Even against abusive law enforcement they aren't terrible, as most generally lock and require a password after a certain amount of time, and offer a "panic button" (press the power button several times quickly, or hold it down) to disable biometrics. Train yourself to use that function whenever the cops are near and you will be fine.
Some shops are moving the Windows 7 machines to remote desktop access only, isolated from the internet. Could be the old physical machines or multiple VMs. The just run the Windows exclusive apps and everything else runs locally on Linux client machines.
You can fully disable telemetry. You can go onto the slow update stream where only security stuff gets pushed regularly, everything else is delayed until it's been well tested by people running Home/Pro. All the built-in advertising and other random consumer oriented crap is disabled.
It's expensive but also compatible with AutoKMS/Microsoft Toolkit.
Has anyone done any proper tests with Blackbird? From the readme and the claims made on the website it sounds kinda sketchy.
For example they say it blocks hosts but doesn't use the hosts file or Windows firewall, so how does it work? I'm guessing some kind of virtual network driver that it funnels everything through, which sounds janky and doesn't work well with VPNs. In fact the readme notes that VPNs are an issue and it can break local network discovery.
The readme also notes that it breaks virtual desktops and Explorer will crash if you try to use them.
Seems like you have to break Windows just to fully disable the spyware, which isn't exactly ideal. I'm also not convinced that the domain based blocking will work reliably, because we know that Windows hard codes some IP addresses and doesn't use the normal DNS lookup services to avoid being hijacked.
The enormity of making your own 5G chipset is underappreciated I think.
First you need to licence all the necessary patents. Normally it doesn't cost you anything because you just licence your own patents in return, but Apple doesn't have any patents relevant to the owners of 5G tech so they will have to pay licencing fees.
Then you need to get the talent. Obviously such people are in high demand and their employers won't give them up easily.
Then you need to do the actual design and figure out how to fabricate at high volume, which means working closely with the Chinese or building a brand new factory and establishing supply chains.
Then come the regulatory hurdles, which are high for mobile chipsets. Several bodies involved for world-wide certification, and of course you need offices and engineers in each country. Maybe they could save some time by only going after the biggest markets, but since the EU and US are stagnant for sales they will want to target China and probably India too.
And finally you have to get the carriers to certify your hardware too. Just because the FCC said it was fine doesn't meant that ATT will let it on to their network.
Five years is probably about right if they are willing to throw serious money at the problem.
No-one is going to challenge Qualcomm for 4G. When 5G arrives it will be the Chinese manufacturers that are the main competition for performance AND cost, but some western governments are trying to scupper them with national security concerns.
Intel is unlikely to catch up and has a fairly weak 5G patent portfolio so won't even be able to licence their way in. They will stick to what they are good at, which is providing OEMs with parts that are decent but not the best.
So Qualcomm is in a very strong position now, because as long as politicians keep Huawei and others locked out of the market on security grounds they are the only choice if you want the best. Apple actually had to cripple the performance of Qualcomm parts to match the Intel ones in their phones, which is obviously extremely sub-optimal.
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I'd be fine with that, but I'm not really seeing this content. House of Cards ended on a bit of a damp squib, their original movies are extremely hit and miss and none have really stood out so far.
Is there anything coming down the pipeline I'm missing? I guess they will get all the new Star Trek stuff outside the US... American Vandal and Castlevania are okay, as is that Marie Kondo thing, but I'm struggling to think of stuff that I'm looking forward to this year apart from The Punish and Jessica Jones, which are both presumably finishing.
Could plants even grow in lunar soil? Not without something extra mixed in I would imagine. No nutrients, no moisture, no bacteria or animal life.
This only applies to their offices. They had multiple problems with sexual harassment (of both men and women) in the work environment, leading to lawsuits and suspending one of their execs.
One guy was apparently fond of touching his subordinate's balls. Honestly I think I'd make better games if the boss didn't try to touch by scrotum now and then.
They are trying to create a completely self contained environment in which plants and fruit flies can live, and observe the effects of low gravity on them.
Sure, we assumed it would be fine, but it's a good idea to prove that assumption before sending tonnes of soil and plants up there with a view to sustaining human life. It's also a useful test of the sealed environment idea and technology, in an environment subject to extreme temperature swings.
Much of that tech will be applicable to Mars too.
It's all in a sealed environment. The idea is to create a viable, self-contained environment with some plants and fruit flies.
In any case, that boat has probably already sailed as it seems that at least one of the Surveyor probes was contaminated. And you also have to ask if it's worth worrying about, given that we are fairly certain that the Moon is dead and not having to deal with it will make life a lot easier to establish a presence there.
Look at the person doing the complaining on twitter she outright stated, this incident amounted to sexual assault.
She did not say that. Obviously I can't prove a negative, so the onus is on you to provide a link to the tweet. I'm sure that someone on Reddit archived it, even if it has been deleted from Twitter.
You are saying that people should stop complaining about their boss touching their balls and farting in their faces?
I don't think many people would find that to be an unreasonable complaint.
Actually they are being sued over it: https://kotaku.com/current-and...
And suspended an exec for "repeatedly touching subordinates balls or butt or farted in their faces." https://kotaku.com/top-riot-ex...
Wokeness signaling is not a no-loss proposition.
Tell that to DICE. According to the comments yesterday about Battlefield 5, the poor sales which are now causing major problems at EA are entirely down to them pandering to SJWs. Surely after seeing such a disastrous outcome to being woke other corporations will not follow in their missteps.
Or maybe they had a genuine problem and either didn't want to get sued or, and I realize this is an outlandish theory, actually cared about fixing it.
Sure, it's Disney's fault, but Netflix have to accept that the value of their service is diminished by the loss of several of their biggest and best titles. At least it is for me.
And of course it works both ways. You can't expect people not to criticise you for something you said, even if it makes you feel bad and not want to carry on exercising your free speech any more.
I've done some more digging and it seems that:
- One person complained about the "boobies #metoo"
- Another person complained about it
- They eventually did something about it
- First person complained that it took them too long to do anything
That's it. No mobs, no mass complaints or twitter storms, no accusations or campaigns. It's utterly bizarre, they sound like there was a huge drama when in reality they read a couple of emails and removed a sheet of paper from a wall.
The other thing you can try is creating a filter based on the email address or a subject match. In the list of actions you can select "not spam".
$2 increase and they are cutting most of the best shows. Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist already cancelled, The Punisher and Jessica Jones probably will be too after their next seasons air.
There's no money in that though. Outrage is a massive industry now. I had a quick look on YouTube and there are already dozens of videos about this, most of them just rip-offs of other videos. Want to bet that their conference gets a big crowd funded cash injection from outraged anti-sjws now?
The only way we are going to get back to normality is to stop funding the outrage. Hopefully people will eventually get tired of it, but I don't see any signs of that. Look at the most popular stories on Slashdot over the past few years.
It seems like they just wanted an excuse to give it up. I mean what kind of snowflake would drop their entire conference over one complaint?
You should never use your ISP's email account. Aside from it being accessible by random ISP staff, if you ever leave that ISP your email address is going to die.
One of the established providers is probably reasonably stable (can you imagine the shitstorm if hotmail.com went away?) but obviously a domain is your best bet. Are there any services that allow non-technical people to register a domain and have email redirect to Gmail/Hotmail/etc. with a few clicks?
That's probably because you have 21496 emails in your inbox.
Gmail figures out what emails are important by seeing how long it takes you to read them, reply to them and archive them. If you leave them in your inbox it assumes you are not done with them (otherwise you would have archived), so they must be important and you intend to come back to them later.
"Archive" is a bit misleading here, all it does is move the email to your "All Mail" folder and they will still appear in search results by default.
My advice would be to disable the priority inbox stuff as you are not using it.
Your experience with spam is very strange. Normally Gmail is very good at not marking stuff as spam if you show any interest in it, and especially if you have the sender's email address in your address book. Clicking "not spam" pretty much whitelists that email address. The only real exception is if the mail is coming from a dodgy server that is using an IP address range known to be spewing spam, and it doesn't have SPF to differentiate itself.
Biometrics on phones are good enough. They can be fooled, but what is the threat model here? An attacker who goes to all the trouble of cloning your fingerprints or making a 3D model of your head?
Biometrics are perfectly adequate against the threats most people face - thieves and "friends"/family. Even against abusive law enforcement they aren't terrible, as most generally lock and require a password after a certain amount of time, and offer a "panic button" (press the power button several times quickly, or hold it down) to disable biometrics. Train yourself to use that function whenever the cops are near and you will be fine.
Some shops are moving the Windows 7 machines to remote desktop access only, isolated from the internet. Could be the old physical machines or multiple VMs. The just run the Windows exclusive apps and everything else runs locally on Linux client machines.
Kodi is probably your best bet. Raspberry Pi, USB HDD for storage (or NAS), some USB tuners/capture cards.
Try Windows 10 Enterprise.
You can fully disable telemetry. You can go onto the slow update stream where only security stuff gets pushed regularly, everything else is delayed until it's been well tested by people running Home/Pro. All the built-in advertising and other random consumer oriented crap is disabled.
It's expensive but also compatible with AutoKMS/Microsoft Toolkit.
Has anyone done any proper tests with Blackbird? From the readme and the claims made on the website it sounds kinda sketchy.
For example they say it blocks hosts but doesn't use the hosts file or Windows firewall, so how does it work? I'm guessing some kind of virtual network driver that it funnels everything through, which sounds janky and doesn't work well with VPNs. In fact the readme notes that VPNs are an issue and it can break local network discovery.
The readme also notes that it breaks virtual desktops and Explorer will crash if you try to use them.
Seems like you have to break Windows just to fully disable the spyware, which isn't exactly ideal. I'm also not convinced that the domain based blocking will work reliably, because we know that Windows hard codes some IP addresses and doesn't use the normal DNS lookup services to avoid being hijacked.
The enormity of making your own 5G chipset is underappreciated I think.
First you need to licence all the necessary patents. Normally it doesn't cost you anything because you just licence your own patents in return, but Apple doesn't have any patents relevant to the owners of 5G tech so they will have to pay licencing fees.
Then you need to get the talent. Obviously such people are in high demand and their employers won't give them up easily.
Then you need to do the actual design and figure out how to fabricate at high volume, which means working closely with the Chinese or building a brand new factory and establishing supply chains.
Then come the regulatory hurdles, which are high for mobile chipsets. Several bodies involved for world-wide certification, and of course you need offices and engineers in each country. Maybe they could save some time by only going after the biggest markets, but since the EU and US are stagnant for sales they will want to target China and probably India too.
And finally you have to get the carriers to certify your hardware too. Just because the FCC said it was fine doesn't meant that ATT will let it on to their network.
Five years is probably about right if they are willing to throw serious money at the problem.
No-one is going to challenge Qualcomm for 4G. When 5G arrives it will be the Chinese manufacturers that are the main competition for performance AND cost, but some western governments are trying to scupper them with national security concerns.
Intel is unlikely to catch up and has a fairly weak 5G patent portfolio so won't even be able to licence their way in. They will stick to what they are good at, which is providing OEMs with parts that are decent but not the best.
So Qualcomm is in a very strong position now, because as long as politicians keep Huawei and others locked out of the market on security grounds they are the only choice if you want the best. Apple actually had to cripple the performance of Qualcomm parts to match the Intel ones in their phones, which is obviously extremely sub-optimal.