They even say that one of these people could be the killer, so they're basically treating everyone as a potential suspect merely for having their phone turned on in the vicinity of the crime.
"They" is Motherboard, not the OPP.
Also, even if the OPP said "we're sending a text to everyone who was in the area hoping someone remembers seeing something, oh, and it's possible one of the numbers we text might even be the culprit", there's zero logical connective with "so they're treating everyone as a suspect". No. Even in that narrative, they're treating everyone as witnesses and acknowledging the statistical possibility that one of the numbers belongs to the killer. It's absolutely not the same as "we have this list of numbers, and one of you might have done it, so we're going to question each of you until you produce alibis."
When you have a tablet, you can do things like punch in what defense the other team just used to provide statistical analysis of what the next best play is, or what kind of defense to run if your opponent is doing X often. These are things a coach can know, or have on paper, but the ability to quickly look things up for an effective response or plan is probably very beneficial.
What I just heard is "coaches shouldn't be allowed tablets". Or binders.
Seriously, it's game/sport. Chess grandmasters aren't allowed to consult Watson in between moves. The players play the games. The role of coach mid-game should be more or less limited to deciding when to swap players, and arguing with referees over decisions. Coaching should be happening in between games. During the games it's time for playing.
Agreed. I get it that there are such a thing as "plays", which should really be called "gambits", but the game breaks down to: throw the ball, catch the ball, run. Less technology* getting in the way of throwing the ball, catching the ball, and running is a good thing.
Yes, yes, with the obvious exception of replay footage to double-check what refs can't necessarily see.
How do you get from a velocity of "a bit" to a velocity of "a fucking fucking bastard fucking lot" without accelerating?
Understand I do not believe the following to be true, but they are answers that fit...
1} We discover that the universe is a simulation and learn how to edit parts of it, like X/Y/Z coordinates.
2} We discover unforeseen properties of the universe below our current observable/theorized smallest qualities that allow bypassing conventional transit.
3} We discover access to what is best described as "parallel universes" and can step from one to another, selecting specific parameters as differences between them, such as "my location".
Again, I don't buy any of those as likely. And #2 is nebulous at best. But the point the OP was making is that our understanding of the universe is not yet complete and given a long period of time, the discoveries yet to be made may be very, very startling to someone of our time period. Things we currently think impossible may be possible, just because our understanding of possible is incomplete. This mindset isn't science-fiction... it's just being humble. Speculating precisely what discoveries will be made and how they will work... that's fiction. But believing that we don't have an exhaustive understanding of physics is just sensible.
"...it takes roughly 165 pounds of raw mined materials to make the average cell phone..."
In the meantime, it takes roughly 1996.3 pounds of labor-intensive grown food per year to grow the human brain that thought up this brainless argument.
Absolutely. Considering that of the 165 pounds of raw mined materials, 164.625 pounds were waste regardless. There's no way that a 6 ounce slab of plastic, copper, and rare earths is made out of 165 pounds of completely good stuff. Nobody's throwing out 164+ pounds of copper once they're done extracting a cell phone out of it, for instance.
No. Sorry. While the energy costs and dirty chemicals used in the process of creating the phones is a shame, fact is we're looking at 2 million times 6 ounces worth of useful materials. Or... a total of 750,000 pounds. 375 (US) tons. 256.7 Toyota Prius cars. A single (50-year-old model) Boeing 747.
That's right... the materials loss here is the equivalent of one jet airliner being lost/destroyed. Only without the presumed accompanying loss of human life.
That's kind of their business model. ESPN costs $7 a month (or whatever), and they give you 15 other channels for free along with it. If they didn't give you those channels, ESPN would still cost $7. Same deal with whatever channel you value.
If that was true, I'd still like an option for "pay $7 for just ESPN without the free channels", so I could express that I don't want them, free or not.
Since the sale to Dice,/. has continually gone down hill with an inexplicable hate on for Ms. Clinton.
Inexplicable? Really? As a non-American unbiased observer, I'd like to inform you that there's plenty to hate about Mrs. Clinton. (She is still married, right?) There's also a whole bunch to hate about Mr. Trump as well, but the word "inexplicable" exposes the suggestion that you can't see grounds for disliking the Democratic candidate.
In the past 24 hours, this is the third anti-Clinton story that has been featured here.
To be fair, most of Clinton's wrongdoings - alleged or not - have been technology-related. Deleting work-related e-mail from a server that isn't supposed to have work-related e-mail on it... technology. Not being able to remember what classified materials look like... sort of technology-related. Telling banks and tech companies one thing while telling the public another? Technology-related.
Keep that in mind; Trump's failings have been of a different nature. They're primarily related to social issues, not tech issues. So an imbalance in coverage - if there is one - actually makes sense.
Time to get off the soapbox and focus on what this site is about - it's not about attacking a political candidate.
Otherwise, I'll get my "News for nerds and stuff that matters" somewhere else.
Come on. Scott Adams stories are appropriate here because bloody Dilbert, man. Just because he's speaking out against Clinton doesn't make his speaking out any less funny, or newsworthy than if it were any other topic he was taking a shot at.
Oh, one last comment in closing. Could you Americans please not elect either of those horrendous leading candidates? Thank you.
"Theft of secrets" seems correct to me, as once you divulge the information against their wishes it is no longer a secret. The information may still be there, but its secrecy is not.
Actually, that's an interesting point. By the same measure, the NSA stole the metadata of American citizens' communications for a few years.
Citizens stop acting like jackasses when they too are being filmed.
That I'm not so sure about. A rational citizen isn't likely to be voluntarily getting into an altercation with police to start with. They're naturally going to be intimidated and aware that they need to be on best behaviour regardless of cameras being present, to avoid unpleasant consequences. An irrational citizen (ie. one who is drunk, high, generally belligerent, angry, having medical/mental issues, or are just generally confrontational) isn't likely to suddenly become rational just because there's a camera present. They're still high, having a PTSD flashback, or livid because they got hit in the face with a frying pan by their significant other, who is busy screaming "he hit me".
Situations don't escalate as frequently.
Yup. But I suspect the majority of the change isn't on the side of criminals and normal citizens, which are who the police interact with most often.
I agree. Remember when the Wii came out and there was sudden hype that I was going to get people up and physically active? Yeah. Didn't happen. Turns out people who want to do sweaty activities do sweaty activities.
The fitness band product has two places: as a tool for people who ultimately don't need them, and in the same room as the dusty treadmills and weight sets people buy and never use.
I think if the patches are bundled together now - you basically have to treat them as one larger patch. In other words, nothing changes except any time you find you did one and it breaks something, you roll the whole collection back until it can be rectified.
To a certain degree, it's already that way.
This month, I have a customer with a Hyper-V cluster which one of the six patches screwed up iSCSI while backing up. And a customer with a Terminal Server which one of the six patches screwed up Terminal Services. And a customer with Exchange that one of the six patches broke Backup Exec being able to see inside the database to restore individual files.
Only in the case of the TS problem has it been tracked down to a single patch - by Microsoft. The other two batches, nobody knows which one is at fault. These are production machines and I don't have time to reapply patches one by one to help Microsoft isolate which one is bad. So yeah, after this unusually brutal month I'm okay with cumulative patches. I'm having to roll back batches anyway.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
Oh. I've heard this idea before. It's the "boycott X store by not shopping there" method of protest.
That's fine, but I have two responses (not arguments, just responses):
First, boycotting doesn't deliver any message to a place or business. If you just "do without", then there's no way for the business to be aware that the product they're selling is desired but that the packaging is offensive. Piracy is a long-standing issue that's been discussed and increasingly made known to be a symptom of a distribution and pricing model that is incompatible with obtaining maximized profits. Business will eventually learn, which wouldn't happen if people just "did without". Understand, I want to pay for digital stuff. Problem is the distribution model makes it artificially impractical to do so.
Second, just because a law is on the books doesn't make it moral, or even right to defend. There is a long history of lawmaking that is eventually viewed as silly or morally wrong. Being lawful isn't necessarily a good thing. In the case of digital piracy, depending on the individual involved and the product involved, it is in many, many cases a victim-less crime. Indeed, I'll admit to having pirated a few e-books which have then inspired me to spend ridiculous amounts of money tracking down physical copies of all of the author's works. Same for music. I "stole" a costless copy of a product I was never going to independently purchase, only to discover I liked it, and then spent lots of money doing so. So yeah, while it's an anecdote, keep in mind that digital piracy isn't theft because the copy we "steal" doesn't have a cost associated.
They carry disease, eat infrastructure, chew holes in your house, shit and pee on your stuff, chew holes in your stuff, eat and contaminate your food, and many more things I can't fit into the margin of this book.
Yes, children are unpleasant little monsters, aren't they?
Barometers, Bluetooth and wifi are used to give more accurate location info.
And there we likely have the insight. The better Apple/Google/Microsoft/everyone can track your location, the better it is for them.
It can also be used as a health tracker, a pedometer, collecting more accurate local weather information to feed into forecast models. There's apps for all that stuff.
Yes, I'm sure that it's the missing spice in the recipe that will allow smartphones to finally stave off the tectonic-plate slide into obesity that is happening. I'm sure that "fitness tracking" applications are used entirely differently from home treadmills, stationary bikes, and weight sets. Surely people won't just buy them, try them, then lose discipline and abandon them. People just needed electronics to convince them that sweaty, tiring exercise is how they want to spend their time. Yup, unlike New Year's resolutions to eat properly, Apple's new barometer is the element that will get people to be fit.
Note: this is not intended to be critical of people who are not fit. I am speaking as someone that is at the very upper edge of their "healthy" weight-to-age-and-height measurements, and is happily sedentary. Instead, this is critical of the suggestion that a barometer is actually going to be useful to more people than a standards-compliant earphone jack. Because yeah, more people need to know their altitude so they can get thin than those who just like to listen to music.
Aside from atypical usage (cell sticks and laptops), what is the usage model on a smartphone that benefits from more than about 10Mbps? I understand some day more bandwidth will be useful, but is theoretical throughput an issue today?
unless ones tastes are very niche specific and peculiar, almost all the popular porn is freely available in quantities larger than anyone can consume.
so if one is not a pirate freeing all that for others, no point in buying anything at all, or even giving info to obtain access.
Much like any other form of art, some people feel that compensating creators and participants is a decent and honorable thing to do. Availability isn't everything. Patronage is a thing, even in porn.
The goal of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of the enemies. And for Islamist terrorism, that's pretty much the whole world. Yes, including Muslim countries for being not Muslim enough. No true Muslim country allows US military bases on its soil and all that.
The US sure are a main target, but by no means the only one. If anything, striking at other countries would make a lot more sense, the US are already quite successfully cowed into crapping their pants 'til it comes out the neck, it's the rest of the world that still doesn't fear Islamism enough.
I mean this in the nicest possible way: WOOOOOSH.
The government of the US believes that they are an exceptional target. They need the TSA when nobody else does. The boogeyman terrorists what dead Americans, and other countries not needing the TSA only demonstrates that those countries aren't as threatened as the US, not that the US isn't threatened.
Even if the TSA is practically useless, at least it scares away most people having bad intentions, including terrorists.
This is easily tested. Pick one major airport and remove TSA screening from it. Fall back to standard security such as metal detectors and explosive particle detectors as people walk through. Let people bring toothpaste and bottled water. Finally, count the number of successful terrorist bombings/hijackings that happen through that airport over the next year. If it's zero, expand the experiment.
Frankly the TSA could continue to draw their paychecks by simply charging a "TSA-free" surcharge at the airports they're not at.
I'm a simple guy, but it's nerve-wracking passing through US airports simply because I realize that all it takes is someone to misunderstand a gesture, or to mis-hear something I say that rhymes with something naughty ("no, officer, I said 'get your Mom', not 'set your bomb'!") and I'll end up missing my flight, plus get stuck on some "person of interest" list for life. The most negative thing I have any interest in doing while in a US airport is leave the country, but still I'm nervous.
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
Why?
I'm playing devil's advocate because I'm more like you than like "most buyers", but again, why? Why do buyers NEED to ask themselves that question? What's the dire consequence of them perhaps wastefully spending some of their disposable income on redundant version++ hardware?
It's about as sensible a statement as saying "people need to stop wasting money on stadium tickets to football games, hockey games, and concerts." Gratification is gratification.
These days - aside from (hypothetical and inevitably blocked) ads - it's not images that are the root problem. It's the half gigabyte of javascript.
I'm sorry Mr. Went To School For Web Design, but the moving pull-down menus and dynamic sliding content and whatnot is just not needed (except to justify your career). When I visit a website, all I really need are maybe four buttons: "BUY OUR SHIT", "DOWNLOAD UPDATES FOR OUR SHIT", "READ DOCUMENTATION ABOUT OUR SHIT", and "CONTACT US FOR ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SHIT WE CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO PUT ON OUR WEB SITE".
Skip all the embedded activity tracking, metrics, demographics and dynamic content and we could go back to the golden days when web pages were under a megabyte on average without images.
Yeah about that....then WTF was it doing in a HOME OS, care to answer me that? Last I checked Windows Insiders are NOT testing Enterprise Products, all the Insiders get is the Home/Pro version.
That's easy. It's one ISO. There's been a progression over the last few OS generations that one image is used for multiple different editions. You unlock Home/Pro/Enterprise by supplying the appropriate key. Same thing for many server products.
And please do not forget it won't have been the first time MSFT has lied to our faces, remember "The Kinect is an integral part of the Xbox One, we can't just flip a switch" until they did exactly that?
Something something Occam. Last week it's "this executable is regarding Enterprise subscriptions" and this week it's "hey, we're announcing Enterprise subscriptions", and you think it's more likely both events are evidence that Home/Pro is (in the immediate future) going subscription than they are... exactly what they are?
I repeat, there are marketing trends that are valid as evidence that Windows will at some point gain "value-add" software-as-a-disservice un-features. The ass-tonnes of money being made by O365 are pretty weighty, evidence-wise. There's a huge incentive. But the executable from last week and the announcement that Enterprise is now available on a monthly basis in addition to via Volume License subscriptions... not evidence that that end.
I'm sorry but this past year with all the underhanded shit we have seen with Win 10 has proven to just about everybody that they simply cannot be trusted anymore, hell they have made Windows Update into a risk because "no means no" is something nobody has taught to MSFT. The sad part is I NEVER thought I'd see the day where I would actually miss Steve Ballmer but Nutella and all his underhanded crap pushing Windows 10 makes me actually miss the big sweaty monkey.
New word: rantagraph. Thank you for inspiring me.
BTW for those that want to lock in the "free upgrade" in case the hackers figure out a way to kill all the spying? Here is a tutorial on how to lock in the upgrade without actually installing win 10 which is a hell of a lot quicker than having to install then roll back to a decent version.
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They even say that one of these people could be the killer, so they're basically treating everyone as a potential suspect merely for having their phone turned on in the vicinity of the crime.
"They" is Motherboard, not the OPP.
Also, even if the OPP said "we're sending a text to everyone who was in the area hoping someone remembers seeing something, oh, and it's possible one of the numbers we text might even be the culprit", there's zero logical connective with "so they're treating everyone as a suspect". No. Even in that narrative, they're treating everyone as witnesses and acknowledging the statistical possibility that one of the numbers belongs to the killer. It's absolutely not the same as "we have this list of numbers, and one of you might have done it, so we're going to question each of you until you produce alibis."
When the consequence of "inaccurately draw some suspicion towards yourself" is losing your liberty or your life, why take any risk?
Because some of us aren't sociopaths.
When you have a tablet, you can do things like punch in what defense the other team just used to provide statistical analysis of what the next best play is, or what kind of defense to run if your opponent is doing X often. These are things a coach can know, or have on paper, but the ability to quickly look things up for an effective response or plan is probably very beneficial.
What I just heard is "coaches shouldn't be allowed tablets". Or binders.
Seriously, it's game/sport. Chess grandmasters aren't allowed to consult Watson in between moves. The players play the games. The role of coach mid-game should be more or less limited to deciding when to swap players, and arguing with referees over decisions. Coaching should be happening in between games. During the games it's time for playing.
But that's just my opinion.
Agreed. I get it that there are such a thing as "plays", which should really be called "gambits", but the game breaks down to: throw the ball, catch the ball, run. Less technology* getting in the way of throwing the ball, catching the ball, and running is a good thing.
Yes, yes, with the obvious exception of replay footage to double-check what refs can't necessarily see.
How do you get from a velocity of "a bit" to a velocity of "a fucking fucking bastard fucking lot" without accelerating?
Understand I do not believe the following to be true, but they are answers that fit...
1} We discover that the universe is a simulation and learn how to edit parts of it, like X/Y/Z coordinates.
2} We discover unforeseen properties of the universe below our current observable/theorized smallest qualities that allow bypassing conventional transit.
3} We discover access to what is best described as "parallel universes" and can step from one to another, selecting specific parameters as differences between them, such as "my location".
Again, I don't buy any of those as likely. And #2 is nebulous at best. But the point the OP was making is that our understanding of the universe is not yet complete and given a long period of time, the discoveries yet to be made may be very, very startling to someone of our time period. Things we currently think impossible may be possible, just because our understanding of possible is incomplete. This mindset isn't science-fiction... it's just being humble. Speculating precisely what discoveries will be made and how they will work... that's fiction. But believing that we don't have an exhaustive understanding of physics is just sensible.
"...it takes roughly 165 pounds of raw mined materials to make the average cell phone..."
In the meantime, it takes roughly 1996.3 pounds of labor-intensive grown food per year to grow the human brain that thought up this brainless argument.
Absolutely. Considering that of the 165 pounds of raw mined materials, 164.625 pounds were waste regardless. There's no way that a 6 ounce slab of plastic, copper, and rare earths is made out of 165 pounds of completely good stuff. Nobody's throwing out 164+ pounds of copper once they're done extracting a cell phone out of it, for instance.
No. Sorry. While the energy costs and dirty chemicals used in the process of creating the phones is a shame, fact is we're looking at 2 million times 6 ounces worth of useful materials. Or... a total of 750,000 pounds. 375 (US) tons. 256.7 Toyota Prius cars. A single (50-year-old model) Boeing 747.
That's right... the materials loss here is the equivalent of one jet airliner being lost/destroyed. Only without the presumed accompanying loss of human life.
That's kind of their business model. ESPN costs $7 a month (or whatever), and they give you 15 other channels for free along with it. If they didn't give you those channels, ESPN would still cost $7. Same deal with whatever channel you value.
If that was true, I'd still like an option for "pay $7 for just ESPN without the free channels", so I could express that I don't want them, free or not.
Since the sale to Dice, /. has continually gone down hill with an inexplicable hate on for Ms. Clinton.
Inexplicable? Really? As a non-American unbiased observer, I'd like to inform you that there's plenty to hate about Mrs. Clinton. (She is still married, right?) There's also a whole bunch to hate about Mr. Trump as well, but the word "inexplicable" exposes the suggestion that you can't see grounds for disliking the Democratic candidate.
In the past 24 hours, this is the third anti-Clinton story that has been featured here.
To be fair, most of Clinton's wrongdoings - alleged or not - have been technology-related. Deleting work-related e-mail from a server that isn't supposed to have work-related e-mail on it... technology. Not being able to remember what classified materials look like... sort of technology-related. Telling banks and tech companies one thing while telling the public another? Technology-related.
Keep that in mind; Trump's failings have been of a different nature. They're primarily related to social issues, not tech issues. So an imbalance in coverage - if there is one - actually makes sense.
Time to get off the soapbox and focus on what this site is about - it's not about attacking a political candidate.
Otherwise, I'll get my "News for nerds and stuff that matters" somewhere else.
Come on. Scott Adams stories are appropriate here because bloody Dilbert, man. Just because he's speaking out against Clinton doesn't make his speaking out any less funny, or newsworthy than if it were any other topic he was taking a shot at.
Oh, one last comment in closing. Could you Americans please not elect either of those horrendous leading candidates? Thank you.
"Theft of secrets" seems correct to me, as once you divulge the information against their wishes it is no longer a secret. The information may still be there, but its secrecy is not.
Actually, that's an interesting point. By the same measure, the NSA stole the metadata of American citizens' communications for a few years.
Police don't want to be filmed doing dumb shit.
Granted. That's completely sensible.
Citizens stop acting like jackasses when they too are being filmed.
That I'm not so sure about. A rational citizen isn't likely to be voluntarily getting into an altercation with police to start with. They're naturally going to be intimidated and aware that they need to be on best behaviour regardless of cameras being present, to avoid unpleasant consequences. An irrational citizen (ie. one who is drunk, high, generally belligerent, angry, having medical/mental issues, or are just generally confrontational) isn't likely to suddenly become rational just because there's a camera present. They're still high, having a PTSD flashback, or livid because they got hit in the face with a frying pan by their significant other, who is busy screaming "he hit me".
Situations don't escalate as frequently.
Yup. But I suspect the majority of the change isn't on the side of criminals and normal citizens, which are who the police interact with most often.
"Fitness bands" are a fad, anyway.
I agree. Remember when the Wii came out and there was sudden hype that I was going to get people up and physically active? Yeah. Didn't happen. Turns out people who want to do sweaty activities do sweaty activities.
The fitness band product has two places: as a tool for people who ultimately don't need them, and in the same room as the dusty treadmills and weight sets people buy and never use.
I think if the patches are bundled together now - you basically have to treat them as one larger patch. In other words, nothing changes except any time you find you did one and it breaks something, you roll the whole collection back until it can be rectified.
To a certain degree, it's already that way.
This month, I have a customer with a Hyper-V cluster which one of the six patches screwed up iSCSI while backing up. And a customer with a Terminal Server which one of the six patches screwed up Terminal Services. And a customer with Exchange that one of the six patches broke Backup Exec being able to see inside the database to restore individual files.
Only in the case of the TS problem has it been tracked down to a single patch - by Microsoft. The other two batches, nobody knows which one is at fault. These are production machines and I don't have time to reapply patches one by one to help Microsoft isolate which one is bad. So yeah, after this unusually brutal month I'm okay with cumulative patches. I'm having to roll back batches anyway.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
Oh. I've heard this idea before. It's the "boycott X store by not shopping there" method of protest.
That's fine, but I have two responses (not arguments, just responses):
First, boycotting doesn't deliver any message to a place or business. If you just "do without", then there's no way for the business to be aware that the product they're selling is desired but that the packaging is offensive. Piracy is a long-standing issue that's been discussed and increasingly made known to be a symptom of a distribution and pricing model that is incompatible with obtaining maximized profits. Business will eventually learn, which wouldn't happen if people just "did without". Understand, I want to pay for digital stuff. Problem is the distribution model makes it artificially impractical to do so.
Second, just because a law is on the books doesn't make it moral, or even right to defend. There is a long history of lawmaking that is eventually viewed as silly or morally wrong. Being lawful isn't necessarily a good thing. In the case of digital piracy, depending on the individual involved and the product involved, it is in many, many cases a victim-less crime. Indeed, I'll admit to having pirated a few e-books which have then inspired me to spend ridiculous amounts of money tracking down physical copies of all of the author's works. Same for music. I "stole" a costless copy of a product I was never going to independently purchase, only to discover I liked it, and then spent lots of money doing so. So yeah, while it's an anecdote, keep in mind that digital piracy isn't theft because the copy we "steal" doesn't have a cost associated.
They carry disease, eat infrastructure, chew holes in your house, shit and pee on your stuff, chew holes in your stuff, eat and contaminate your food, and many more things I can't fit into the margin of this book.
Yes, children are unpleasant little monsters, aren't they?
Barometers, Bluetooth and wifi are used to give more accurate location info.
And there we likely have the insight. The better Apple/Google/Microsoft/everyone can track your location, the better it is for them.
It can also be used as a health tracker, a pedometer, collecting more accurate local weather information to feed into forecast models. There's apps for all that stuff.
Yes, I'm sure that it's the missing spice in the recipe that will allow smartphones to finally stave off the tectonic-plate slide into obesity that is happening. I'm sure that "fitness tracking" applications are used entirely differently from home treadmills, stationary bikes, and weight sets. Surely people won't just buy them, try them, then lose discipline and abandon them. People just needed electronics to convince them that sweaty, tiring exercise is how they want to spend their time. Yup, unlike New Year's resolutions to eat properly, Apple's new barometer is the element that will get people to be fit.
Note: this is not intended to be critical of people who are not fit. I am speaking as someone that is at the very upper edge of their "healthy" weight-to-age-and-height measurements, and is happily sedentary. Instead, this is critical of the suggestion that a barometer is actually going to be useful to more people than a standards-compliant earphone jack. Because yeah, more people need to know their altitude so they can get thin than those who just like to listen to music.
I'm not trying to be sarcastic, asking honestly.
Aside from atypical usage (cell sticks and laptops), what is the usage model on a smartphone that benefits from more than about 10Mbps? I understand some day more bandwidth will be useful, but is theoretical throughput an issue today?
unless ones tastes are very niche specific and peculiar, almost all the popular porn is freely available in quantities larger than anyone can consume. so if one is not a pirate freeing all that for others, no point in buying anything at all, or even giving info to obtain access.
Much like any other form of art, some people feel that compensating creators and participants is a decent and honorable thing to do. Availability isn't everything. Patronage is a thing, even in porn.
No.
The goal of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of the enemies. And for Islamist terrorism, that's pretty much the whole world. Yes, including Muslim countries for being not Muslim enough. No true Muslim country allows US military bases on its soil and all that.
The US sure are a main target, but by no means the only one. If anything, striking at other countries would make a lot more sense, the US are already quite successfully cowed into crapping their pants 'til it comes out the neck, it's the rest of the world that still doesn't fear Islamism enough.
I mean this in the nicest possible way: WOOOOOSH.
The government of the US believes that they are an exceptional target. They need the TSA when nobody else does. The boogeyman terrorists what dead Americans, and other countries not needing the TSA only demonstrates that those countries aren't as threatened as the US, not that the US isn't threatened.
No need to do that. They could look at literally the rest of the world, most of which do not engage in the same security shenanigans as the US is.
Sure, except the rest of the world isn't the United States. They're an exceptional target, right?
To speed up the lines, get rid of the TSA.
Even if the TSA is practically useless, at least it scares away most people having bad intentions, including terrorists.
This is easily tested. Pick one major airport and remove TSA screening from it. Fall back to standard security such as metal detectors and explosive particle detectors as people walk through. Let people bring toothpaste and bottled water. Finally, count the number of successful terrorist bombings/hijackings that happen through that airport over the next year. If it's zero, expand the experiment.
Frankly the TSA could continue to draw their paychecks by simply charging a "TSA-free" surcharge at the airports they're not at.
I'm a simple guy, but it's nerve-wracking passing through US airports simply because I realize that all it takes is someone to misunderstand a gesture, or to mis-hear something I say that rhymes with something naughty ("no, officer, I said 'get your Mom', not 'set your bomb'!") and I'll end up missing my flight, plus get stuck on some "person of interest" list for life. The most negative thing I have any interest in doing while in a US airport is leave the country, but still I'm nervous.
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
Why?
I'm playing devil's advocate because I'm more like you than like "most buyers", but again, why? Why do buyers NEED to ask themselves that question? What's the dire consequence of them perhaps wastefully spending some of their disposable income on redundant version++ hardware?
It's about as sensible a statement as saying "people need to stop wasting money on stadium tickets to football games, hockey games, and concerts." Gratification is gratification.
the Number One indicator of Poverty is ... single parent homes. The Number one indicator of crime is poverty.
What I'm hearing you say is that if we want to reduce crime, we just need to pair up single parents and force them to live together?
These days - aside from (hypothetical and inevitably blocked) ads - it's not images that are the root problem. It's the half gigabyte of javascript.
I'm sorry Mr. Went To School For Web Design, but the moving pull-down menus and dynamic sliding content and whatnot is just not needed (except to justify your career). When I visit a website, all I really need are maybe four buttons: "BUY OUR SHIT", "DOWNLOAD UPDATES FOR OUR SHIT", "READ DOCUMENTATION ABOUT OUR SHIT", and "CONTACT US FOR ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR SHIT WE CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO PUT ON OUR WEB SITE".
Skip all the embedded activity tracking, metrics, demographics and dynamic content and we could go back to the golden days when web pages were under a megabyte on average without images.
In 2-3 years when it does happen, I will be here to remind you, that I did indeed tell you so.
Yeah, I get it. The result is likely. What I object to is the "evidence" that isn't anything to do with the topic.
Yeah about that....then WTF was it doing in a HOME OS, care to answer me that? Last I checked Windows Insiders are NOT testing Enterprise Products, all the Insiders get is the Home/Pro version.
That's easy. It's one ISO. There's been a progression over the last few OS generations that one image is used for multiple different editions. You unlock Home/Pro/Enterprise by supplying the appropriate key. Same thing for many server products.
And please do not forget it won't have been the first time MSFT has lied to our faces, remember "The Kinect is an integral part of the Xbox One, we can't just flip a switch" until they did exactly that?
Something something Occam. Last week it's "this executable is regarding Enterprise subscriptions" and this week it's "hey, we're announcing Enterprise subscriptions", and you think it's more likely both events are evidence that Home/Pro is (in the immediate future) going subscription than they are... exactly what they are?
I repeat, there are marketing trends that are valid as evidence that Windows will at some point gain "value-add" software-as-a-disservice un-features. The ass-tonnes of money being made by O365 are pretty weighty, evidence-wise. There's a huge incentive. But the executable from last week and the announcement that Enterprise is now available on a monthly basis in addition to via Volume License subscriptions... not evidence that that end.
I'm sorry but this past year with all the underhanded shit we have seen with Win 10 has proven to just about everybody that they simply cannot be trusted anymore, hell they have made Windows Update into a risk because "no means no" is something nobody has taught to MSFT. The sad part is I NEVER thought I'd see the day where I would actually miss Steve Ballmer but Nutella and all his underhanded crap pushing Windows 10 makes me actually miss the big sweaty monkey.
New word: rantagraph. Thank you for inspiring me.
BTW for those that want to lock in the "free upgrade" in case the hackers figure out a way to kill all the spying? Here is a tutorial on how to lock in the upgrade without actually installing win 10 which is a hell of a lot quicker than having to install then roll back to a decent version.