If Google is in favor of something, you can be fairly sure it's not something you want as an free individual and z citizen - even without reading what it's about. Me, that's my metric for determining whether or not I should support something without delving into the details.
The airport's head of IT said the new robot "limits the number of bags in the airport terminal, helping us accommodate a growing number of passengers without compromising the airport experience inside the terminal
What the fuck is there to compromise in the airport experience?
Let's summarize shall we:
- Arrive at the airport. Park at the super-uber-overpriced airport parking lot - or pay the super-uber-overpriced cab driver.
- Enter the terminal. From here on, you can't smoke or vape - so sneak a quick one before entering.
- Find your friggin' check-in desk. Despite arriving 3h early, there's a million tourists with too many luggages and no mastery of english whatsoever already waiting in line.
- It's your turn: lift the fucking luggage onto the scale - pay an extra $100 because it's 2 grams overweight.
- Get entered into the airline database. Get issued a stupid e-ticket printed on 40g thermal toilet paper. Pray you don't lose it.
- Rush to the security area. There, the million tourists who were waiting in line to check in are now waiting in line to get groped by TSA perverts, like cattle at the slaughterhouse.
- It's finally your turn. You almost want to be groped at this point, to be done with it and go get a coffee.
- Find a coffee shop. Pay $15 for something black and watery the shop calls coffee.
- Find your gate. Sit at your gate with the million tourists who think it's the holiday of a lifetime.
- Realize the gate has changed, you didn't notice and your flight departs in 3 minutes 50 gates away.
- Rush like a madman. Find the gate closed. Miss your flight.
What is there to redeem in the airport experience? Really? The only people who have a nice airport experience are those who fly private jets, because they don't go through the fucking airport in the first place.
Why not? People should be able to understand there's an infrastructure to put in place and maintain for the data transfers to occur.
What I meant was, when you make people think about moving data in terms of using up that data, then it becomes easy to rape their wallets, because people instinctively have this feeling that they consume something that's being lost - which isn't what's happening at all.
*People* never thought is was a good idea: oil and automotive executives do, because hydrogen maintains a gas station-style distribution network. That's why they try so hard to sell it to you.
They hate nothing more than people charging up at home, on their own terms, with the electricity provider of their choosing, possibly with their own solar.
Hydrogen is an energy *vector*, not an energy source. The energy must come from somewhere - natural gas usually - and, as TFA's author points out, the efficiency of the entire chain from energy source to the wheels is quite insanely bad.
You just gotta love this: when the police does nothing more useful than stuff their face with donuts and coffee, people complain - and rightfully so. When they do something useful, like warning people about the evils of Facebook, people still get pissed off.
Come on dude, give the fuzz a break and encourage them to do this more often.
They're bad because any old file can be presented as coming from the encrypted device. It would be very easy for the fuzz to "plant evidence", so to speak. As in:
"Did you find this photo of the defendant wielding an ISIS flag on the defendant's phone Officer?"
"Yes your honor."
"How did you recover it?"
"I can't say your honor."
Good luck proving the phone only had lolcats on it.
The FBI director openly discussing how to subvert the justice system is yet another sign that the US is now a fully fledged totalitarian state.
This is the 21st century's equivalent of watching an execution, slowing down and creating a traffic jam to catch a glimpse of an accident on the freeway, or gawking at someone about to jump off the roof of a building. Nothing new here: human beings are disgusting voyeurs, irresistibly attracted to other people's misery, be it in online or on a sidewalk.
She reported someone she thought was suspicious. Fuck her right? But when the neighbors of the san benradino shooters didn't say anything it was all "why didn't they say anything".
The San Bernardino shooters weren't writing things on paper. You do know it's very hard to make paper explode with a pen, right?
When you report someone because they buy tons of sugar and potassium chlorate, you're doing the right thing.
When you report someone who buys a lot of firearms and talks about attacking the country, you're doing the right thing.
When you report someone for writing strange things on paper, you're both an idiot and a disgusting snitch.
At a minimum, stupid people should be shamed for being stupid.
That woman needs to be shamed for being stupid, but more importantly, for denouncing someone out of the norm to the authorities.
People used to do that in German occupied countries during WWII: they tipped off the Gestapo that this-or-that person looked or acted Jewish, or didn't seem to like the occupants, etc. That woman is as ugly as the WWII rats - and I might add, the authorities of today are increasingly similar to those of that era as well.
Haven't you noticed? People today are ignorant and uneducated. But what's new is, they are proud of it.
Ours is a world in which football players, reality TV stars and talentless singer bimbos earn hundreds of times more than Nobel prize-winning scientists, and represent what young people aspire to become when they grow up.
In a world of self-satisfied, militant, openly avowed crassness, writing equations onboard a plane instead of watching the latest episode of Game of Throne on one's tablet is seen as suspicious. That's more than a little sad.
Actually I was thinking this is kind of like what happens when you ask a bunch of toddlers to vote on "What do you want for lunch?" The choice will almost always be 'candy' or 'cookies'. No, you don't ask toddlers open questions like this and give them free reign to choose whatever they want; [...]
Considering our rulers do exactly the same in real life (ask the public to choose and then do something else altogether), do I deduce from your comment that they consider their constituents to be immature toddlers?
You prove my point: don't you see how incredibly patronizing that is?
Boaty McBoatface is actually very representative of the "democratic" process in our societies: people vote, but ultimately their voice doesn't matter one jot, and the powers that be impose whatever the hell they want.
The inevitable conclusion, in politics as in silly internet ship-naming polls, is: why vote at all then? The deciders don't really need our opinion, now, do they?
I think people are mostly aware that FB is a dystopian nightmare coming true. But they keep using it because they're also quite aware that there is no trustworthy alternative.
In other words, the majority of people know the dystopia is global, and they have to submit to it if they want to continue socializing online. So... since they can't avoid it, they may as well choose the fullest-featured dystopia of them all.
Facebook - and Google, and Microsoft, and all the others - are the reason why I strictly refuse to be photographed by other people in social settings, and I actively avoid cameras when they insist on taking a group pictures.
Friends don't let friends use online applications to do offline jobs like text processing. Standalone office applications have no account hacking problems.
And how do you need 103 engineers for a hair dryer? I've done medium large projects for satellites with a dozen or so people and lots of computers and machines with blinky lights.
Ask yourself, what's harder: designing or satellite or creating a Donald Trump do? Do an FMEA analysis on both systems, and 103 engineers suddenly don't seem too many for the latter.
How hard can it be? Everybody and their dogs know Waze is a user profiler / tracker disguised as a useful app - like all Google products.
In fact. If you're worried about being tracked, don't use Google products. People should be more worried about what Google learns about them through Waze than what any potential hackers of that system could.
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If Google is in favor of something, you can be fairly sure it's not something you want as an free individual and z citizen - even without reading what it's about. Me, that's my metric for determining whether or not I should support something without delving into the details.
The airport's head of IT said the new robot "limits the number of bags in the airport terminal, helping us accommodate a growing number of passengers without compromising the airport experience inside the terminal
What the fuck is there to compromise in the airport experience?
Let's summarize shall we:
- Arrive at the airport. Park at the super-uber-overpriced airport parking lot - or pay the super-uber-overpriced cab driver.
- Enter the terminal. From here on, you can't smoke or vape - so sneak a quick one before entering.
- Find your friggin' check-in desk. Despite arriving 3h early, there's a million tourists with too many luggages and no mastery of english whatsoever already waiting in line.
- It's your turn: lift the fucking luggage onto the scale - pay an extra $100 because it's 2 grams overweight.
- Get entered into the airline database. Get issued a stupid e-ticket printed on 40g thermal toilet paper. Pray you don't lose it.
- Rush to the security area. There, the million tourists who were waiting in line to check in are now waiting in line to get groped by TSA perverts, like cattle at the slaughterhouse.
- It's finally your turn. You almost want to be groped at this point, to be done with it and go get a coffee.
- Find a coffee shop. Pay $15 for something black and watery the shop calls coffee.
- Find your gate. Sit at your gate with the million tourists who think it's the holiday of a lifetime.
- Realize the gate has changed, you didn't notice and your flight departs in 3 minutes 50 gates away.
- Rush like a madman. Find the gate closed. Miss your flight.
What is there to redeem in the airport experience? Really? The only people who have a nice airport experience are those who fly private jets, because they don't go through the fucking airport in the first place.
Why not? People should be able to understand there's an infrastructure to put in place and maintain for the data transfers to occur.
What I meant was, when you make people think about moving data in terms of using up that data, then it becomes easy to rape their wallets, because people instinctively have this feeling that they consume something that's being lost - which isn't what's happening at all.
Americans didn't "use" 10 trillion megabytes of data, they exchanged them.
Mobile carriers however like people to think they "use" data because then they can charge for usage more easily.
*People* never thought is was a good idea: oil and automotive executives do, because hydrogen maintains a gas station-style distribution network. That's why they try so hard to sell it to you.
They hate nothing more than people charging up at home, on their own terms, with the electricity provider of their choosing, possibly with their own solar.
Hydrogen is an energy *vector*, not an energy source. The energy must come from somewhere - natural gas usually - and, as TFA's author points out, the efficiency of the entire chain from energy source to the wheels is quite insanely bad.
Microsoft notes that they can be fully uninstalled and any promoted items removed from the Start menu for now
There. Fixed that for ya. If there's anything Microsoft taught us lately, is that whatever they say or promise cannot be trusted.
You just gotta love this: when the police does nothing more useful than stuff their face with donuts and coffee, people complain - and rightfully so. When they do something useful, like warning people about the evils of Facebook, people still get pissed off.
Come on dude, give the fuzz a break and encourage them to do this more often.
Too many pornstars have crabs?
They're bad because any old file can be presented as coming from the encrypted device. It would be very easy for the fuzz to "plant evidence", so to speak. As in:
"Did you find this photo of the defendant wielding an ISIS flag on the defendant's phone Officer?"
"Yes your honor."
"How did you recover it?"
"I can't say your honor."
Good luck proving the phone only had lolcats on it.
The FBI director openly discussing how to subvert the justice system is yet another sign that the US is now a fully fledged totalitarian state.
They should rename the service Perish-scope, so viewers know what to expect.
This is the 21st century's equivalent of watching an execution, slowing down and creating a traffic jam to catch a glimpse of an accident on the freeway, or gawking at someone about to jump off the roof of a building. Nothing new here: human beings are disgusting voyeurs, irresistibly attracted to other people's misery, be it in online or on a sidewalk.
She reported someone she thought was suspicious. Fuck her right?
But when the neighbors of the san benradino shooters didn't say anything it was all "why didn't they say anything".
The San Bernardino shooters weren't writing things on paper. You do know it's very hard to make paper explode with a pen, right?
When you report someone because they buy tons of sugar and potassium chlorate, you're doing the right thing.
When you report someone who buys a lot of firearms and talks about attacking the country, you're doing the right thing.
When you report someone for writing strange things on paper, you're both an idiot and a disgusting snitch.
At a minimum, stupid people should be shamed for being stupid.
That woman needs to be shamed for being stupid, but more importantly, for denouncing someone out of the norm to the authorities.
People used to do that in German occupied countries during WWII: they tipped off the Gestapo that this-or-that person looked or acted Jewish, or didn't seem to like the occupants, etc. That woman is as ugly as the WWII rats - and I might add, the authorities of today are increasingly similar to those of that era as well.
This is what makes me retch, not her stupidity.
Weapons of Math instructions!!! I will remember that.
Remember what?
Haven't you noticed? People today are ignorant and uneducated. But what's new is, they are proud of it.
Ours is a world in which football players, reality TV stars and talentless singer bimbos earn hundreds of times more than Nobel prize-winning scientists, and represent what young people aspire to become when they grow up.
In a world of self-satisfied, militant, openly avowed crassness, writing equations onboard a plane instead of watching the latest episode of Game of Throne on one's tablet is seen as suspicious. That's more than a little sad.
Actually I was thinking this is kind of like what happens when you ask a bunch of toddlers to vote on "What do you want for lunch?" The choice will almost always be 'candy' or 'cookies'. No, you don't ask toddlers open questions like this and give them free reign to choose whatever they want; [...]
Considering our rulers do exactly the same in real life (ask the public to choose and then do something else altogether), do I deduce from your comment that they consider their constituents to be immature toddlers?
You prove my point: don't you see how incredibly patronizing that is?
Boaty McBoatface is actually very representative of the "democratic" process in our societies: people vote, but ultimately their voice doesn't matter one jot, and the powers that be impose whatever the hell they want.
The inevitable conclusion, in politics as in silly internet ship-naming polls, is: why vote at all then? The deciders don't really need our opinion, now, do they?
I think people are mostly aware that FB is a dystopian nightmare coming true. But they keep using it because they're also quite aware that there is no trustworthy alternative.
In other words, the majority of people know the dystopia is global, and they have to submit to it if they want to continue socializing online. So... since they can't avoid it, they may as well choose the fullest-featured dystopia of them all.
Facebook - and Google, and Microsoft, and all the others - are the reason why I strictly refuse to be photographed by other people in social settings, and I actively avoid cameras when they insist on taking a group pictures.
Friends don't let friends use online applications to do offline jobs like text processing. Standalone office applications have no account hacking problems.
And how do you need 103 engineers for a hair dryer? I've done medium large projects for satellites with a dozen or so people and lots of computers and machines with blinky lights.
Ask yourself, what's harder: designing or satellite or creating a Donald Trump do? Do an FMEA analysis on both systems, and 103 engineers suddenly don't seem too many for the latter.
Easy answer: use an offline satnav app.
How hard can it be? Everybody and their dogs know Waze is a user profiler / tracker disguised as a useful app - like all Google products.
In fact. If you're worried about being tracked, don't use Google products. People should be more worried about what Google learns about them through Waze than what any potential hackers of that system could.
Come to think of it, it does look like Trump's toupee.
Yeah, alien spacecraft can hover. Big whoop...