I've had my laptop for 3-4 years now. It's got a fingerprint scanner. Does it have my fingerprint? Awww, hell no.
I can change a password. It's much harder, and more painful, to change my fingerprint.
Don't even get me started on how much harder, expensive, and painful it is to change my face. Trust me, I had a friend stay with me for a week after a facelift. Her face was a bruised mess that cost her 5 figures, and it took a good 6 months until she felt comfortable showing her face to people that didn't know she had a facelift.
Natural gas killed it. Cheaper, fewer emissions, fewer miners killed. Does't matter what the cheeto in charge wants or legislates, natgas has killed coal.
I remember as a kid dad driving past oil fields burning off natural gas. I couldn't believe it was cheaper to burn it off that to sell it. Still can't, to be honest.
I know 4-5 people on welfare. They all have cable TV ($140+/month). Most smoke cigarettes (around here, $4-$5 per cig).
It ain't the price of a laptop + internet keeping them offline, it is the want/need that needs to be addressed.
/ gonna go on a limb here, if you can afford cable TV you don't get welfare.
// if you smoke, you don't get welfare
///If you use EBT (food stamps) to buy anything but dried beans, rice, and canned tomatoes, you don't get welfare.
I may sound like a Trumper here, but I work and pay my taxes and I'm fucking tired of supporting these leeches.
From what I've seen the successful crowdfunding links to successful bloggers who got cancer, or those poor schmucks that got caught under a hail of bullets watching a country western concert.
Around 90/91 I got hauled into a project that was really late. I had nothing to do with that project until I got hauled into it. Seems I suddenly needed to show up at work at 8 AM for a group meeting on both Sat and Sun, or get fired. Guess what? I was young, and was still drunk at that time of morning. Lemme sleep in another couple hours I'd be glad to pitch in and help. But make me show up so early? I slept off the night before in my cube, on company time.
2 things I look for in a phone: A) headphone jack; B) SDCC card. With B I can kinda ignore the shovelware in the phone, and expand the internal 8 G (1.2G after shovelware) to 32G of stuff I care about, like videos, pictures, and MP3s. Headphone jack? Give me a break. I'm gonna spend $200 on easily lost doohickeys to replace perfectly usable $80 headphones?
Once again. No headphone jack, no sale. No SDCC card, no sale.
Just deleting Facebook, which I don't have an account on, gives me room for 2 more CDs, which I listen to a lot more often than I log into facebook. Sorry Zuck, I'm not one of your customers
But an we toss all the Cxx'x into prison for a few years, strip them of their assets, and make Equifax an example? They fucked up the rest of my life, one would hope the rest of their lives would be fucked as well.
Slideshows need to die, just like the blink tag of myspace needed to die. Slideshow? Close that tab and move on. Oh, you can be deslided? Someone else will do it. Somewhere on the page I can "display full article"? Not gonna look for it.
I first hit this in the 80's. Our company was the first to use microprocessors to replace walls of computers with boxes maybe 3 cubic feet (1x1x3), that by the way did 10 times the work the walls of computers did.
One quarter the defense budget got cut and we went from growing 40% to 20%. 20% growth sounds good to you and me. But to the bean counters it was a layoff. That got the expected profits for the quarter back in line at the expense of future growth and morale.
I have to admit, that first layoff got rid of a lot of deadwood. But the second, third, and fourth really killed the company. Those that were either marginal, or not good at politics, got canned. Those that were good at their jobs looked around, said "um, how about no", and left.
I got hit in the 4th layoff, and only got laid off again once since I learned the signs. The second time was a start up failing, I hadn't yet learned how to read a balance sheet.
MBAs don't understand the morale hit they take when they do a layoff. They may say they do, but they don't. I've survived several layoffs, each time morale went to hell and a lot of good people went searching for more stable pastures.
I first ran across them in the early 80s when I needed a clearance. Back then they were "No Such Agency". Given that, why would they and their research be deemed the golden standard? They're a spy agency ffs!
How is it there wasn't a community of, I dunno, open source crypto developers, paid for by, I dunno, college research grants across the globe to figure this stuff out?
tl;dr You rely on a spy agency for 30 years for your crypto protocols, don't be surprised they cheated. One word: Sucker!
The only reason for data retention is tracking. 3 months ago I was searching for info on what DVDs came out recently. Yesterday I searched for what DVDs came out recently.
My searches tend to be pretty random. Someone started showing The Incredible Hulk a few months ago. I searched for the show, Bill Bixby, the guy who played the reporter, and Lou Ferrigno. Why? Not cuz I want to buy them, but because I don't have it in me to just sit back and watch a TV show nowdays.
Hey, Hill Street Blues! Never caught it 30 years ago, let's google the hell out of it.
Hey, NYPD Blue! Never caught it 30 years ago, let's good the hell out of it.
First, if your password is someone's birthday/anniversary/death day/pet name/kid name, a hacker targeting you has already tried it. Second, if you simply either A) think of a phrase and use every first letter for a password (my method); or b) think of 3-4 words and string them together (Randall Monroe's method), you ain't gonna get hacked via password guessing. Period.
Um, assuming the website you're using has basic security protocols in place, Which Equifax has just shown ain't the case.
I hate autoplay video. I never want to see them, and they suck up my bandwidth even when I set them to stop (they keep loading , thinking I'll change my mind).
Google, I know you own youtube. But FFS I don't want 99.999% of the videos websites want to push on me. I don't want them eating up my bandwidth. I don't want them sucking up my memory. I flat out do not fucking want auto play video to do anything but fail for me.
A) Equifax gets sued out of existence
B) The Equifax Security Cxx is held personally liable, and faces serious prison time
C) The other Cxx's are held personally liable, and get to eat based on how many cans they can dig out of trash dumpsters.
Until something like this happens you and I are fucked, while the 1% glide along with no problem.
At least on PCs I could figure out what was crap, and delete it. With my phone, I know what's crap but I can't delete it. Worse, that crap lives in internal memory, which is usually too small and too expensive compared to an easily installed SDCC card (why is a 64G SDCC card cheaper than a 16G internal storage upgrade?).
I've love to see a class action suit filed that would force Facebook, Groupon, Snapchat, and dozens of other apps I'll never use explain why they are taking up precious and expensive space in my phone.
Hopefully once that hurdle is cleared it will create a precedence for the other abuses.
I doubt there are many questions to be asked about it. Google any C question and you'll get a dozen answers, some of them right.
Not to mention, C/C++ programmers have been using those languages for 20-40 years. Python programmers are n00bs, most learning their first language.
That said, I love Python and have been using it off and on some 15 years now. I hate the whitespace instead of curly brackets convention, but that ship sailed years ago,
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Leave the package by the door,. let my cam catch any porch pirates. Let some Amazon drone into my house? Oh hell no. Not gonna happen.
I've had my laptop for 3-4 years now. It's got a fingerprint scanner. Does it have my fingerprint? Awww, hell no.
I can change a password. It's much harder, and more painful, to change my fingerprint.
Don't even get me started on how much harder, expensive, and painful it is to change my face. Trust me, I had a friend stay with me for a week after a facelift. Her face was a bruised mess that cost her 5 figures, and it took a good 6 months until she felt comfortable showing her face to people that didn't know she had a facelift.
Natural gas killed it. Cheaper, fewer emissions, fewer miners killed. Does't matter what the cheeto in charge wants or legislates, natgas has killed coal.
I remember as a kid dad driving past oil fields burning off natural gas. I couldn't believe it was cheaper to burn it off that to sell it. Still can't, to be honest.
I know 4-5 people on welfare. They all have cable TV ($140+/month). Most smoke cigarettes (around here, $4-$5 per cig).
// if you smoke, you don't get welfare
///If you use EBT (food stamps) to buy anything but dried beans, rice, and canned tomatoes, you don't get welfare.
It ain't the price of a laptop + internet keeping them offline, it is the want/need that needs to be addressed.
/ gonna go on a limb here, if you can afford cable TV you don't get welfare.
I may sound like a Trumper here, but I work and pay my taxes and I'm fucking tired of supporting these leeches.
From what I've seen the successful crowdfunding links to successful bloggers who got cancer, or those poor schmucks that got caught under a hail of bullets watching a country western concert.
You are the problem. You are not part of the problem, your demographic is the problem.
If you get most of your news from Facebook you need to shut the fuck up, because you are the uninformed idiot the rest of us laugh at.
Around 90/91 I got hauled into a project that was really late. I had nothing to do with that project until I got hauled into it. Seems I suddenly needed to show up at work at 8 AM for a group meeting on both Sat and Sun, or get fired. Guess what? I was young, and was still drunk at that time of morning. Lemme sleep in another couple hours I'd be glad to pitch in and help. But make me show up so early? I slept off the night before in my cube, on company time.
Number of times I wanted to listen to music in the past week? 3.
Number of times I wanted a translation in the past, Oh, I dunno, 50 years? 0.
And I'm 59, I'm afraid. Very afraid.
Anything Trump proposes at this point is sure to be worse than what we have now.
2 things I look for in a phone: A) headphone jack; B) SDCC card. With B I can kinda ignore the shovelware in the phone, and expand the internal 8 G (1.2G after shovelware) to 32G of stuff I care about, like videos, pictures, and MP3s. Headphone jack? Give me a break. I'm gonna spend $200 on easily lost doohickeys to replace perfectly usable $80 headphones?
Once again. No headphone jack, no sale. No SDCC card, no sale.
Just deleting Facebook, which I don't have an account on, gives me room for 2 more CDs, which I listen to a lot more often than I log into facebook. Sorry Zuck, I'm not one of your customers
But an we toss all the Cxx'x into prison for a few years, strip them of their assets, and make Equifax an example? They fucked up the rest of my life, one would hope the rest of their lives would be fucked as well.
Slideshows need to die, just like the blink tag of myspace needed to die. Slideshow? Close that tab and move on. Oh, you can be deslided? Someone else will do it. Somewhere on the page I can "display full article"? Not gonna look for it.
Slideshows need to FOAD ASAP.
It's FOSS, good for you. Hopefully your site won't exist in a year but if it does, good on you.
I'm not afraid of opposing ideas. I'm afraid of people afraid of opposing ideas.
I first hit this in the 80's. Our company was the first to use microprocessors to replace walls of computers with boxes maybe 3 cubic feet (1x1x3), that by the way did 10 times the work the walls of computers did.
One quarter the defense budget got cut and we went from growing 40% to 20%. 20% growth sounds good to you and me. But to the bean counters it was a layoff. That got the expected profits for the quarter back in line at the expense of future growth and morale.
I have to admit, that first layoff got rid of a lot of deadwood. But the second, third, and fourth really killed the company. Those that were either marginal, or not good at politics, got canned. Those that were good at their jobs looked around, said "um, how about no", and left.
I got hit in the 4th layoff, and only got laid off again once since I learned the signs. The second time was a start up failing, I hadn't yet learned how to read a balance sheet.
MBAs don't understand the morale hit they take when they do a layoff. They may say they do, but they don't. I've survived several layoffs, each time morale went to hell and a lot of good people went searching for more stable pastures.
I first ran across them in the early 80s when I needed a clearance. Back then they were "No Such Agency". Given that, why would they and their research be deemed the golden standard? They're a spy agency ffs!
How is it there wasn't a community of, I dunno, open source crypto developers, paid for by, I dunno, college research grants across the globe to figure this stuff out?
tl;dr You rely on a spy agency for 30 years for your crypto protocols, don't be surprised they cheated. One word: Sucker!
The only reason for data retention is tracking. 3 months ago I was searching for info on what DVDs came out recently. Yesterday I searched for what DVDs came out recently.
My searches tend to be pretty random. Someone started showing The Incredible Hulk a few months ago. I searched for the show, Bill Bixby, the guy who played the reporter, and Lou Ferrigno. Why? Not cuz I want to buy them, but because I don't have it in me to just sit back and watch a TV show nowdays.
Hey, Hill Street Blues! Never caught it 30 years ago, let's google the hell out of it.
Hey, NYPD Blue! Never caught it 30 years ago, let's good the hell out of it.
First, if your password is someone's birthday/anniversary/death day/pet name/kid name, a hacker targeting you has already tried it. Second, if you simply either A) think of a phrase and use every first letter for a password (my method); or b) think of 3-4 words and string them together (Randall Monroe's method), you ain't gonna get hacked via password guessing. Period.
Um, assuming the website you're using has basic security protocols in place, Which Equifax has just shown ain't the case.
I hate autoplay video. I never want to see them, and they suck up my bandwidth even when I set them to stop (they keep loading , thinking I'll change my mind).
Google, I know you own youtube. But FFS I don't want 99.999% of the videos websites want to push on me. I don't want them eating up my bandwidth. I don't want them sucking up my memory. I flat out do not fucking want auto play video to do anything but fail for me.
Questions: Are you surprised by this?
a) No
b) Yes
c) I'm a clueless asshat, can I read a story now?
You have a steady job, buy a phone. Lose the job, can't find another, manage to get food stamps. Voila, you have a phone and welfare.
Tell me a phone that doesn't have Facebook pre-installed, and you can't delete it.
And, by your own admission, if I replace the OS I could lose something important, like the ability to make phone calls.
You, sir, are a fucking asshole and can kindly fuck the fuck off.
A) Equifax gets sued out of existence
B) The Equifax Security Cxx is held personally liable, and faces serious prison time
C) The other Cxx's are held personally liable, and get to eat based on how many cans they can dig out of trash dumpsters.
Until something like this happens you and I are fucked, while the 1% glide along with no problem.
At least on PCs I could figure out what was crap, and delete it. With my phone, I know what's crap but I can't delete it. Worse, that crap lives in internal memory, which is usually too small and too expensive compared to an easily installed SDCC card (why is a 64G SDCC card cheaper than a 16G internal storage upgrade?).
I've love to see a class action suit filed that would force Facebook, Groupon, Snapchat, and dozens of other apps I'll never use explain why they are taking up precious and expensive space in my phone.
Hopefully once that hurdle is cleared it will create a precedence for the other abuses.
I doubt there are many questions to be asked about it. Google any C question and you'll get a dozen answers, some of them right.
Not to mention, C/C++ programmers have been using those languages for 20-40 years. Python programmers are n00bs, most learning their first language.
That said, I love Python and have been using it off and on some 15 years now. I hate the whitespace instead of curly brackets convention, but that ship sailed years ago,
Why am I ever bother writing a reply here?
A) You're drunk
B) You're "compiling"
C) You're putting off something you need to do but don't wanna