It is not ok to reboot my laptop in the middle of the night. I don't care what security canard you dangle in front of me, do not reboot my laptop unless you ask, and I say OK. Waking up to a rebooted laptop is pure and simple bullshit. I'm pretty sure I saw it come out of the bull and hit the ground, it's bullshit.
Spying on your users is bad. You really should not be spying on your users. Yeah, I can turn the spying off. But you turning it back on everytime I get an "update"? Fuck you.
Remind me again why my figuring out how to restart a dead Explorer every 3 days or so makes your uptime impressive. Except for those times you decide to toss a mandatory update my way at 2 AM, when I'm asleep and I assume my laptop is also.
Why do I stay with you? Games. I sincerely hope Steam kicks your ever loving ass off to government TLA's or you go the way of buggy whip makers.
Cuz fuck you and the horse you rode in on, I fucking hate Win 10.
I get the flow. I like being in the flow, I get stuff done. When I'm in the flow human contact throws me out, but I can deal with email or text messages.
I don't have a facebook account, nor a linked in account, nor any other social media. When I'm in the flow I don't use WWW, unless it's to look up the interface to SomeAPII'veNeverUsedBefore(). When I'm in the flow I'm typically taken out of it by some dumass manager who couldn't manage their way to the coffee machine without help, or my CD (on a USB stick) ends and I realize I need to stretch, pee, and get more coffee, in that order.
If you don't realize social media fucks up your productivity, you're an idiot. Pure and simple, you're a fucking idiot.
CSB
Had a manager some 15 years ago. She was a micro-manager. She couldn't keep track of what anyone was working on at any given time. She would drop into my office to ask the stupidest questions. Finally got her to send email instead of bugging me. She would send me email, then show up in my office as I was replying to it to ask "did you get my email?".
She was a hella nice woman, bad engineer (we "co-wrote" some Linux device drivers, she sucked at it), and a horrendous manager.
I typically have 0 of these cards. After Christmas I've had as many as 6. So, what's the threshold for letting the cops scan my gift cards without a warrant? 1? 5? 99?
IMHO this is the slippery slope argument. I'll agree 99+ is questionable as hell, but if you let them do a warrantless search for 99 cards they'll cite that case to let them do a warrantless search for 1.
Reminds me of a decade or two back when they decided anyone carrying more than $10k in cash was a drug dealer and could confiscate it with no hope of you getting it back. Then it became $1k, now it's probably $250 or so. I typically hit the ATM when my cash gets below $100, this could hit me at some time.
I've never owned, much less flown a drone. But I get the impression they just might be able to carry 2 lbs payload. So, say 1 lb low energy explosive (cuz they can't get C4 and such), and 1 lb bbs.
Not seeing how that can do much damage, out side of the fear factor.
When I was young and stupid, and had a car that required refilling the radiator every 20 miles, I went to a Ford dealership and got sold an 87 Escort. Biggest pile of shit I've ever owned. Within 2 years I'd replaced every light bulb on the car. The cruise control installed by the dealer (Pearson Ford at Fairmont and El Cajon) kept coming unscrewed and would hang down as gravity took over. Battery died with no warning 2-3 years in, fortunately it was a manual clutch so I got a stranger to push start me. I'd never had comprehensive insurance, they sold me a 1 year plan for over $1k. After a year I went to renew it and found out that A) it only covered the car, not me, my passengers, nor any damage done; and B) I could have a proper insurance plan for $200. The car itself was shit. The floorpan rusted out, when it rained your feet got wet. At 80k miles the fanbelt squealed, mechanic pointed out the crankshaft pulley was wobbling, which is Never A Good Sign. The driver's seat broke so I was driving in a reclining position (this got a recall after I'd sold the car but before I bitched at the dealer for it).
Fuckers ripped me off, they closed some 10 years back and move to Miramar road.
Been driving imports (Infiniti rocks) ever since, I'll never buy an American car again.
With a few hundred of my like minded "get to work before traffic really sucks". Which targeted ad are you gonna show? I drive this 5 days a week and know where the billboards are, how you gonna make me look at them? Geocities type flashing and blinking? Good luck with that. I'm looking to pick a lane to get me to work 2 seconds faster, not looking at billboards..
Got divorced a few years ago, when I moved my PC the power supply went nuts and took my motherboard with it. Transferred the contents of the hard drive to my laptop, bought a PS3, and learned to love gaming in my la-z-boy with my cat in my lap. Granted, FPS aren't as good. Granted, there are no strategy turn by turn games out there (beat Civ Revolution couple years ago). I will completely admit gaming on my ps3 is nowhere near as good at it was on my desktop. On the other hand, I'm in a comfy la-z-boy with a content cat in my lap, on a 42" monitor 4 feet away, and that has to count for something.
I travel a couple times a year, when I do I get a hotel that has HBO. I don't look for it, the hotels in my price range always have it. What I learn when I rent a hotel room with HBO is I really don't need HBO at home, it just shows the same crap over and over and rarely shows new stuff I might want to see.
I remember some 10 years ago, dad was in a hospital in OK with heart issues, mom was with relatives close by, and nothing was happening. Sis and I drove from San Diego to Tulsa OK, staying in hotels with HBO, when the Sopranos were going strong. I was getting the DVDs for past seasons from the library, sis hadn't seen any of them so she didn't care when I went from HBO to Movie of the Week.
Same goes for Showtime. My cable company charges me $180/month for cable, I call them once a year to bitch. They typically throw in Showtime/Skinemax and drop the price to $100. Showtime/Skinemax is nowhere near worth an extra $80/month, most of it I can get from the library a few month later for free.
Just think of how FB mines your FB page for data. Now think how it will mine your work FB page for data. You really think intelligent (yes, I had to preface what I'm about to say with that word) Cxx's will in any way let that into their company?
I don't need to think about what to do, my brain produces input and my fingers make it happen. Later on I can let my brain proofread, but my fingers still do what I want without me thinking about how to do it.
We have 2 candidates who are both unsuited to be president, yet one will become so. I'm voting for Gary Johnson, but I'm 99% convinced he won't win due to people afraid of throwing away their votes. Keep in mind, I don't think stoned Gary is fit for the office. But he sure as shit beats the 2 assholes he's running against.
Hillary is corrupt, dishonest, deceitful, duplicative, sneaky.
Trump is, well, Trump.
Fuck em both, for gods sake lets get a third party candidate into the oval office this time around.
My prediction? Whoever wins will be impeached within 4 years. Assuming of course Clinton/Trump win.
Oh, did I say the 2 assholes? Did I forget to mention Stein? She's courting the vaccine == evil vote, fuck her.
When I got my Trash 80 back in the 70s the first program I bought was a typing tutor. I've been touch typing for some 40 years ago and my fingers don't have any trouble keeping up with my brain. My mouth, not so much.
Maybe the white hats can help. Get the malware used in subverting the devices, then modify the payload so it changes the network settings to knock the device off the internet. If the owner is knowledgeable they can fix it, probably do so 3-4 times, then return the unit. Everybody else will just return the unit.
This costs the manufactures big $$$ and removes the threat.
Used to see a movie a week, until the theater going experience really started to suck. Last movie I saw in a theater was Return of the King, the second to last was The Two Towers.
NATO blew it by not controlling the idiots in the theater. Back then it was idiots talking over the movie, and unattended kids running around. For me the killer was when they started running ads before movies. I paid to see the damned movie, not a bunch of ads. About that time my home system was good enough that I didn't need to deal with the unwashed masses, just me, the wife, and cat. I really, really tried to get myself to see The Phantom Menace in a theater but couldn't do it. After renting the DVD I was glad I saved my money.
The other thing they did was replace unsweetened tea with raspberry flavored tea. I hate sweetened tea, I like it unsweetened.
Bought a car stereo a little over 2 years ago, the stereo system could either connect to bluetooth, or use a USB device. Connected my phone to bluetooth, it didn't sound right. Couldn't put my finger on it, but it sounded thin. Put the same music on a USB device, it sounds just fine.
Dunno what it is, but from where I stand bluetooth audio (or maybe Alpine stereo) needs some learnen.
SDC slot. Normal use, I've got different music on different cards. Every few months I'll decide I'm tired of Megadeth and want some Mozart. Vacation, fill up the card with pictures/videos, put another in. Back at the hotel both get emptied to the laptop and cleared.
Headphone jack. I can use that jack to plug my phone into my stereo. I can use that jack for a 20 year old pair of headphones that still sound pretty damned good. Or I can use that jack for earbuds when I'm trying to exercise my skinny ghost white legs outside of mom's basement.
Other than that, price is most important. Everything else falls into the "half inch screen vs 2 hrs battery" confluddle.
Seriously, the point to an SDC card is the company will advertise 32G storage. They won't advertise it's 3 gig OS, and 16 gig shovelware you can't delete unless you root your phone.
As to the music, when I'm thinking/designing a project I like mellow music, or prog like Genesis and Amplifier. When I'm coding, Megadeth and company are the way to go. Debugging depends on how well the schedule is going. It's not a conscious decision, it's what I feel like listening to at the time.
If these are the emergency alerts I think they are, I disabled mine after some Megan's law alert 3-4 years ago. It was at 3 AM. For something 500 miles away.
I was lucky in that I'd left my phone in the living room that night, but the internet was all over it and within 5 minutes I'd disabled those damned things.
In the mid-90s we had a department wide meeting discussing care and disposal of company confidential documents. Actually, it was the VP blathering along for some 30 minutes with the rest of us wishing smartphones had been invented already. At the end he asked for comments. I raised my hand, then said "It's hard to take it seriously when even the cafeteria weekly menu is marked confidential".
He said he'd look into it, nothing changed, when I left a few years later the menus were still considered company confidential.
grumpycatgood.jpg.
Send the CXX suite to prison for a few years, fine then the millions they made on the scam, and maybe it will slam on the brakes to other companies jacking up the price of generics that were discovered 50 years ago.
You've never been involved in a court case, have you? Doesn't matter who is responsible, what matters is who has money. The lawyers figure you'll decide it's better to give them half of what you've got as opposed to fighting until you're out of money, then when you fight they settle for nothing because you're broke, they get paid, and their client gets bupkis cuz your broke.
Trust me, I've been involved in our legal system a few times (president of a homeowners board, and a shitty neighbor when I bought a house). There is no truth involved, no justice, no logic. It's who can run the other guy out of cash first, maximizing the lawyer's fee.
Bitter? Yeah, this coffee is a bit bitter but I'll deal.
Slashdot Mirror
It is not ok to reboot my laptop in the middle of the night. I don't care what security canard you dangle in front of me, do not reboot my laptop unless you ask, and I say OK. Waking up to a rebooted laptop is pure and simple bullshit. I'm pretty sure I saw it come out of the bull and hit the ground, it's bullshit.
Spying on your users is bad. You really should not be spying on your users. Yeah, I can turn the spying off. But you turning it back on everytime I get an "update"? Fuck you.
Remind me again why my figuring out how to restart a dead Explorer every 3 days or so makes your uptime impressive. Except for those times you decide to toss a mandatory update my way at 2 AM, when I'm asleep and I assume my laptop is also.
Why do I stay with you? Games. I sincerely hope Steam kicks your ever loving ass off to government TLA's or you go the way of buggy whip makers.
Cuz fuck you and the horse you rode in on, I fucking hate Win 10.
I get the flow. I like being in the flow, I get stuff done. When I'm in the flow human contact throws me out, but I can deal with email or text messages.
I don't have a facebook account, nor a linked in account, nor any other social media. When I'm in the flow I don't use WWW, unless it's to look up the interface to SomeAPII'veNeverUsedBefore(). When I'm in the flow I'm typically taken out of it by some dumass manager who couldn't manage their way to the coffee machine without help, or my CD (on a USB stick) ends and I realize I need to stretch, pee, and get more coffee, in that order. If you don't realize social media fucks up your productivity, you're an idiot. Pure and simple, you're a fucking idiot.
CSB
Had a manager some 15 years ago. She was a micro-manager. She couldn't keep track of what anyone was working on at any given time. She would drop into my office to ask the stupidest questions. Finally got her to send email instead of bugging me. She would send me email, then show up in my office as I was replying to it to ask "did you get my email?".
She was a hella nice woman, bad engineer (we "co-wrote" some Linux device drivers, she sucked at it), and a horrendous manager.
I typically have 0 of these cards. After Christmas I've had as many as 6. So, what's the threshold for letting the cops scan my gift cards without a warrant? 1? 5? 99?
IMHO this is the slippery slope argument. I'll agree 99+ is questionable as hell, but if you let them do a warrantless search for 99 cards they'll cite that case to let them do a warrantless search for 1.
Reminds me of a decade or two back when they decided anyone carrying more than $10k in cash was a drug dealer and could confiscate it with no hope of you getting it back. Then it became $1k, now it's probably $250 or so. I typically hit the ATM when my cash gets below $100, this could hit me at some time.
Thought she got completely discredited, how in hell did she get another job making more than minimum wage?
love how my headline gets cut off.
Anywhoo, "Russian hackers phish everyone, some idiots in the DNC and Clinton campaign fall for it.
I've never owned, much less flown a drone. But I get the impression they just might be able to carry 2 lbs payload. So, say 1 lb low energy explosive (cuz they can't get C4 and such), and 1 lb bbs.
Not seeing how that can do much damage, out side of the fear factor.
Price with CEO: 4.8 Billion Price with punching Marissa Meyers in the face: 8.8 Billion.
When I was young and stupid, and had a car that required refilling the radiator every 20 miles, I went to a Ford dealership and got sold an 87 Escort. Biggest pile of shit I've ever owned. Within 2 years I'd replaced every light bulb on the car. The cruise control installed by the dealer (Pearson Ford at Fairmont and El Cajon) kept coming unscrewed and would hang down as gravity took over. Battery died with no warning 2-3 years in, fortunately it was a manual clutch so I got a stranger to push start me. I'd never had comprehensive insurance, they sold me a 1 year plan for over $1k. After a year I went to renew it and found out that A) it only covered the car, not me, my passengers, nor any damage done; and B) I could have a proper insurance plan for $200. The car itself was shit. The floorpan rusted out, when it rained your feet got wet. At 80k miles the fanbelt squealed, mechanic pointed out the crankshaft pulley was wobbling, which is Never A Good Sign. The driver's seat broke so I was driving in a reclining position (this got a recall after I'd sold the car but before I bitched at the dealer for it). Fuckers ripped me off, they closed some 10 years back and move to Miramar road. Been driving imports (Infiniti rocks) ever since, I'll never buy an American car again.
With a few hundred of my like minded "get to work before traffic really sucks". Which targeted ad are you gonna show? I drive this 5 days a week and know where the billboards are, how you gonna make me look at them? Geocities type flashing and blinking? Good luck with that. I'm looking to pick a lane to get me to work 2 seconds faster, not looking at billboards..
Subscribed to it for a decade, had a sad when it closed down. Now I just listen to CDs, depending on reviews to let me guess what I might like.
Got divorced a few years ago, when I moved my PC the power supply went nuts and took my motherboard with it. Transferred the contents of the hard drive to my laptop, bought a PS3, and learned to love gaming in my la-z-boy with my cat in my lap. Granted, FPS aren't as good. Granted, there are no strategy turn by turn games out there (beat Civ Revolution couple years ago). I will completely admit gaming on my ps3 is nowhere near as good at it was on my desktop. On the other hand, I'm in a comfy la-z-boy with a content cat in my lap, on a 42" monitor 4 feet away, and that has to count for something.
I travel a couple times a year, when I do I get a hotel that has HBO. I don't look for it, the hotels in my price range always have it. What I learn when I rent a hotel room with HBO is I really don't need HBO at home, it just shows the same crap over and over and rarely shows new stuff I might want to see.
I remember some 10 years ago, dad was in a hospital in OK with heart issues, mom was with relatives close by, and nothing was happening. Sis and I drove from San Diego to Tulsa OK, staying in hotels with HBO, when the Sopranos were going strong. I was getting the DVDs for past seasons from the library, sis hadn't seen any of them so she didn't care when I went from HBO to Movie of the Week.
Same goes for Showtime. My cable company charges me $180/month for cable, I call them once a year to bitch. They typically throw in Showtime/Skinemax and drop the price to $100. Showtime/Skinemax is nowhere near worth an extra $80/month, most of it I can get from the library a few month later for free.
Just think of how FB mines your FB page for data. Now think how it will mine your work FB page for data. You really think intelligent (yes, I had to preface what I'm about to say with that word) Cxx's will in any way let that into their company?
// zuckerberg can zuck off
/ don't have a FB page
I don't need to think about what to do, my brain produces input and my fingers make it happen. Later on I can let my brain proofread, but my fingers still do what I want without me thinking about how to do it.
I never got to that point with emacs.
We have 2 candidates who are both unsuited to be president, yet one will become so. I'm voting for Gary Johnson, but I'm 99% convinced he won't win due to people afraid of throwing away their votes. Keep in mind, I don't think stoned Gary is fit for the office. But he sure as shit beats the 2 assholes he's running against.
Hillary is corrupt, dishonest, deceitful, duplicative, sneaky.
Trump is, well, Trump.
Fuck em both, for gods sake lets get a third party candidate into the oval office this time around.
My prediction? Whoever wins will be impeached within 4 years. Assuming of course Clinton/Trump win.
Oh, did I say the 2 assholes? Did I forget to mention Stein? She's courting the vaccine == evil vote, fuck her.
When I got my Trash 80 back in the 70s the first program I bought was a typing tutor. I've been touch typing for some 40 years ago and my fingers don't have any trouble keeping up with my brain. My mouth, not so much.
Maybe the white hats can help. Get the malware used in subverting the devices, then modify the payload so it changes the network settings to knock the device off the internet. If the owner is knowledgeable they can fix it, probably do so 3-4 times, then return the unit. Everybody else will just return the unit.
This costs the manufactures big $$$ and removes the threat.
Jeebus Christo, it should have been the default all along.
Used to see a movie a week, until the theater going experience really started to suck. Last movie I saw in a theater was Return of the King, the second to last was The Two Towers.
NATO blew it by not controlling the idiots in the theater. Back then it was idiots talking over the movie, and unattended kids running around. For me the killer was when they started running ads before movies. I paid to see the damned movie, not a bunch of ads. About that time my home system was good enough that I didn't need to deal with the unwashed masses, just me, the wife, and cat. I really, really tried to get myself to see The Phantom Menace in a theater but couldn't do it. After renting the DVD I was glad I saved my money.
The other thing they did was replace unsweetened tea with raspberry flavored tea. I hate sweetened tea, I like it unsweetened.
Bought a car stereo a little over 2 years ago, the stereo system could either connect to bluetooth, or use a USB device. Connected my phone to bluetooth, it didn't sound right. Couldn't put my finger on it, but it sounded thin. Put the same music on a USB device, it sounds just fine.
Dunno what it is, but from where I stand bluetooth audio (or maybe Alpine stereo) needs some learnen.
SDC slot. Normal use, I've got different music on different cards. Every few months I'll decide I'm tired of Megadeth and want some Mozart. Vacation, fill up the card with pictures/videos, put another in. Back at the hotel both get emptied to the laptop and cleared.
Headphone jack. I can use that jack to plug my phone into my stereo. I can use that jack for a 20 year old pair of headphones that still sound pretty damned good. Or I can use that jack for earbuds when I'm trying to exercise my skinny ghost white legs outside of mom's basement.
Other than that, price is most important. Everything else falls into the "half inch screen vs 2 hrs battery" confluddle.
Seriously, the point to an SDC card is the company will advertise 32G storage. They won't advertise it's 3 gig OS, and 16 gig shovelware you can't delete unless you root your phone.
As to the music, when I'm thinking/designing a project I like mellow music, or prog like Genesis and Amplifier. When I'm coding, Megadeth and company are the way to go. Debugging depends on how well the schedule is going. It's not a conscious decision, it's what I feel like listening to at the time.
If these are the emergency alerts I think they are, I disabled mine after some Megan's law alert 3-4 years ago. It was at 3 AM. For something 500 miles away.
I was lucky in that I'd left my phone in the living room that night, but the internet was all over it and within 5 minutes I'd disabled those damned things.
In the mid-90s we had a department wide meeting discussing care and disposal of company confidential documents. Actually, it was the VP blathering along for some 30 minutes with the rest of us wishing smartphones had been invented already. At the end he asked for comments. I raised my hand, then said "It's hard to take it seriously when even the cafeteria weekly menu is marked confidential".
He said he'd look into it, nothing changed, when I left a few years later the menus were still considered company confidential.
grumpycatgood.jpg. Send the CXX suite to prison for a few years, fine then the millions they made on the scam, and maybe it will slam on the brakes to other companies jacking up the price of generics that were discovered 50 years ago.
You've never been involved in a court case, have you? Doesn't matter who is responsible, what matters is who has money. The lawyers figure you'll decide it's better to give them half of what you've got as opposed to fighting until you're out of money, then when you fight they settle for nothing because you're broke, they get paid, and their client gets bupkis cuz your broke.
Trust me, I've been involved in our legal system a few times (president of a homeowners board, and a shitty neighbor when I bought a house). There is no truth involved, no justice, no logic. It's who can run the other guy out of cash first, maximizing the lawyer's fee.
Bitter? Yeah, this coffee is a bit bitter but I'll deal.