The head nutjobs are saying "This is an innovative idea and I believe it will lead to not only arrests for having the app on your phone, but by poisoning the data we can catch even more infidels".
For xmas I got a bluetooth speaker. Like it quite a bit, except the damned USB cable it came with is 18" long. Which makes it a serious pain to charge, I can either put it on the floor to charge, or charge it in the kitchen or bathroom. Why don't I just buy another USB cable, you ask? Because the damned thing is a different sized micro USB connector. Neither my PS3 cable nor my phone cable will fit. So I don't know that I can buy a longer cable.
Which brings up the question, Why are all crockpot power cords so damned short?
All he has to do is get the NSA to work for good instead of evil. Problem solved with no additional money spent.
Oops, there's the problem. "No additional money spent" means a program will never get off the ground in Washington.
Evidently I said something you disagree with. What? Hellifino. All you did was insult me without bothering to say why.
I'm guessing it's the temperature thing. I speculated that 30 million K is twice the temp of the sun. Someone else pointed out the sun has gravity, which the Chinese reactor doesn't have. I'm perfectly willing to accept that, I'm not a nuclear physicist.
From what I have read China are claiming a significantly lower temperature than the recent German test, approx 30 million degrees K lower,
If memory serves, and google says it does, the temperature of the sun is around 15 million K. I'm not gonna bother googling it, but I'm pretty sure 15 million K is lower (much, much lower) than absolute 0. So the numbers flat out don't work.
Their currency is manipulated. Their stock market has 2 books, one set you can see, the other you can't. They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies. They have no respect for IP property. They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream. The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes.
I recently read a book called Naked Statistics that went over all this. It's a very informative and fun read. No, I'm not kidding. It's a math book with very little math that's entertaining to read.
I hate it when a summary says "frobozz version x.y.z has been released, this release has many new features and bugfixes", yet never tells me what frobozz does.
I also hate summaries along the lines of "Researcher discovers exploit in ABC using TSR algorithms tweaked with RNG enhancements. This can lead to new discoveries in FNG with QRZ and CDR possibilities". Then the summary never tells us what any of those acronyms mean.
Finally, remember this is news for nerds. Keep the BS articles (I'm looking at you Forbes) to a minimum.
Never mind the spyware. I had Win8.1 for 18 months before I "upgraded" to Win10. Since the upgrade I've had:
1) ctl + left mouse to move a window. Release the wrong button first and the window goes full screen instead.
2) Random mouse locations when clicking left button. Ex: in a web browser hit the back button, it goes full screen. In a web browser click a bookmark group, it minimizes. etc etc etc
3) Close laptop, go to bed. Get up in the morning, laptop has installed updates and rebooted, wants your permission to continue.
4) Default app behaviours change suddenly. Just this morning I opened a pdf on my hard drive and Edge opened it,, not the pdf file viewer I've used for the last few years.
5) Uptime seems to be a week. If it's not updating then when you open your laptop it just doesn't respond.
I bought this laptop November 2013, it came with Win 8.0 and I immediately upgraded to 8.1. Had no issues. Mistakenly "upgraded" to Win10 last summer, all the above issues have plagued me since. If I had to do it all over again I would, in order, stay 8.1 (I'm a gamer, need Windows), go Linux, go Mac, go Win10.
Have a 3 year old droid that, outside of a much shorter battery life, works well. Except the thing iisss slllooowwwwwiiinnnnggggg wayyyyyy dowwwwwnnnn. Games that, 2 years ago, played fine now take 5 minutes just to get to the start screen. Pull up the make a call screen and it's a minute to bring up the contacts list. We had a power outage yesterday, I pulled up the web browser to see if there was an ETA for my power, took 5 minutes to bring up a page. Then it did an auto refresh, which took another 5 minutes, at which time another auto-refresh hit, etc. Hell, a lot of times when I turn it on I get a blank screen with "loading..." for a good 30 seconds.
It's not a bunch of apps running, I have none but the bare minimum. It's not a lack of storage, all my apps are on a SDCARD.
This phone is barely on the edge of usability now due to it's slowness. Again, everything else works fine.
there really should be a way to correct time in a GPS satellite
1) Press and hold the Set Time button until the indicator lamp lights (5 seconds)
2) Press + or - until the correct time is reached
3) Release Set Time button.
The person in charge of me and my stuff when I'm gone knows 1 thing: as long as I'm dead I don't care what you do with me. Cremate me, bury me, donate me to science, chop me in pieces and toss me in the trash, I don't care. Just make sure I'm dead first.
For the last couple years I've been hitting their comics page daily, from there I'd sometimes go to finance and then regular news. Last month they nuked the comics page, and when I went to the finance page they had one of those annoying floating opaque ads that want you to click in them to make them go away. No thanks.
Haven't been to yahoo since. My reasons for going have been either A) removed; or B) made untrustworthy.
Icing on the cake? For about a week I kept trying to get the comics page, hoping it was a mistake. Then my google newsfeed told me that yahoo had deliberately deleted it. Not yahoo news, google news. Good job, yahoo.
Trump - blowhard asshole
Cruz - scary blowhard asshole
Rubio - no concept of privacy
Clinton - unindicted felon
Bush - aww hell no
Christie - not considered corrupt only by comparison to New Jersey
Fiorina - Enriches herself by firing people
Sanders is the only one out there who makes any sense, and he's an unabashed Socialist!
Not because there is any way in hell I'm going to let a surgeon 100 miles away get a knife anywhere near my Tender Bits (tm), but because the fallover effects mean I can play a Call of Duty game with sub 250ms lag.
Just think, good as I am now with CoD, how much better would I be with decent lag times?
I've been on the receiving end of court cases twice. First time was in '07, I got arrested for something I didn't do. Got a lawyer, he wanted $2500. Ok, I can do that. Then the DA decided to press charges. Lawyer wanted $25k, and said it would be at least $100k if it went to trial. I didn't have that kind of money, but also didn't want to go to jail. So I gave him $25k, and eventually the charges got dismissed. So I paid $27,500 to defend myself against something I never did. Can I sue the government to get my money back? Yeah, right. We won't mention the being booked into jail, and twice spending a night in jail over this BS (once when arrested, again when the DA filed charges and jacked up my bail. Oh, I didn't mention I had 100k tied up in bail for a year? my bad).
Then, last year. Neighbor decides I've been banging on her door all day, looking into her window at night, and all sorts of other random BS. Cops are called, I get the humiliating sit outside your apartment with 3 cops around you treatment. She files a restraining order against me, with a whole bunch of BS in the complaint. I've learned my lesson, I hired a lawyer for $1500. He got the trial delayed, then when the trial hit not only was her testimony 100% provable bullshit, but her witness, who she brought on her own accord, 100% contradicted her story. I wanted lawyer fees. Judge says flat out he doesn't want to dissuade harassed women from using the court system and gave me half fees. With no payment schedule. In other words, not only am I flat out of $750 to start with, I have no way to collect the other $750 from this lying sack of female shit.
Do I think lawyers are overpaid scum? Not sure, what's it worth to you to stay out of jail, or not get a BS restraining order issued against you. Do I think our legal system sucks ass? You betcha.
Look on the bright side? OK, I'm a middle aged white dude so I didn't get shot. And I could come up with $27,500 the first time, and $1500 the second time, to defend myself against bullshit.
Exactly. I've never heard of Linode and I run Linux on one of my machines. Is it too much to ask that you give a 1-2 sentence description of why I should care?
And no, I don't care enough to check wikipedia, nor google. Never heard of 'em, don't care, the summary gives me no reason to change my mind on either.
Still, it's pretty easy to see that the main advantage of the internet is that it provides education / information to billions of people who never had access to it before,
Too bad those billions of people would rather watch cat videos than educate themselves.
I don't do anything sensitive on my phone. That includes everything from banking all the way down to email. I just don't.
What that means is that I don't have a lock screen on my phone. You hit the power button, pull the ring up, and you're in. Why do I do this?
1) Much more convenient
2) Email on my phone is a major PITA
3) I don't trust my phone enough to access my money though it
4) If I lose my phone and it's found, the finder can open my phone and easily get my address/email (an app I wrote).
5) Want my contacts/schedule/apps I use? I don't care, none of that is sensitive.
Slashdot Mirror
5.) Tor slows down browsing significantly; adding additional users would exacerbate the issue.
This. I've tried to use Tor several times over the last 10 years, it's always been so slow I gave up on it before getting 3-4 pages.
The head nutjobs are saying "This is an innovative idea and I believe it will lead to not only arrests for having the app on your phone, but by poisoning the data we can catch even more infidels".
For xmas I got a bluetooth speaker. Like it quite a bit, except the damned USB cable it came with is 18" long. Which makes it a serious pain to charge, I can either put it on the floor to charge, or charge it in the kitchen or bathroom. Why don't I just buy another USB cable, you ask? Because the damned thing is a different sized micro USB connector. Neither my PS3 cable nor my phone cable will fit. So I don't know that I can buy a longer cable.
Which brings up the question, Why are all crockpot power cords so damned short?
and why should I care? Jeez people, is it really that hard to add a line to the summary to explain these esoteric things?
All he has to do is get the NSA to work for good instead of evil. Problem solved with no additional money spent.
Oops, there's the problem. "No additional money spent" means a program will never get off the ground in Washington.
Evidently I said something you disagree with. What? Hellifino. All you did was insult me without bothering to say why.
I'm guessing it's the temperature thing. I speculated that 30 million K is twice the temp of the sun. Someone else pointed out the sun has gravity, which the Chinese reactor doesn't have. I'm perfectly willing to accept that, I'm not a nuclear physicist.
No help to you though.
From what I have read China are claiming a significantly lower temperature than the recent German test, approx 30 million degrees K lower,
If memory serves, and google says it does, the temperature of the sun is around 15 million K. I'm not gonna bother googling it, but I'm pretty sure 15 million K is lower (much, much lower) than absolute 0. So the numbers flat out don't work.
There is no inherent reason to disbelieve them.
Their currency is manipulated. Their stock market has 2 books, one set you can see, the other you can't. They sell pet food that poisons pets. They sell baby formula that harms babies. They have no respect for IP property. They're poisoning their environment such that you can't see across the street due to air pollution, and can't drink the water because of some mining company upstream. The news media is censored so that non of their citizens know any of this, except what they can see with their own 2 eyes.
I tend to disbelieve them until shown proof.
I recently read a book called Naked Statistics that went over all this. It's a very informative and fun read. No, I'm not kidding. It's a math book with very little math that's entertaining to read.
I hate it when a summary says "frobozz version x.y.z has been released, this release has many new features and bugfixes", yet never tells me what frobozz does.
I also hate summaries along the lines of "Researcher discovers exploit in ABC using TSR algorithms tweaked with RNG enhancements. This can lead to new discoveries in FNG with QRZ and CDR possibilities". Then the summary never tells us what any of those acronyms mean.
Finally, remember this is news for nerds. Keep the BS articles (I'm looking at you Forbes) to a minimum.
Let me just say, "don't".
Never mind the spyware. I had Win8.1 for 18 months before I "upgraded" to Win10. Since the upgrade I've had:
1) ctl + left mouse to move a window. Release the wrong button first and the window goes full screen instead.
2) Random mouse locations when clicking left button. Ex: in a web browser hit the back button, it goes full screen. In a web browser click a bookmark group, it minimizes. etc etc etc
3) Close laptop, go to bed. Get up in the morning, laptop has installed updates and rebooted, wants your permission to continue.
4) Default app behaviours change suddenly. Just this morning I opened a pdf on my hard drive and Edge opened it,, not the pdf file viewer I've used for the last few years.
5) Uptime seems to be a week. If it's not updating then when you open your laptop it just doesn't respond.
I bought this laptop November 2013, it came with Win 8.0 and I immediately upgraded to 8.1. Had no issues. Mistakenly "upgraded" to Win10 last summer, all the above issues have plagued me since. If I had to do it all over again I would, in order, stay 8.1 (I'm a gamer, need Windows), go Linux, go Mac, go Win10.
Have a 3 year old droid that, outside of a much shorter battery life, works well. Except the thing iisss slllooowwwwwiiinnnnggggg wayyyyyy dowwwwwnnnn. Games that, 2 years ago, played fine now take 5 minutes just to get to the start screen. Pull up the make a call screen and it's a minute to bring up the contacts list. We had a power outage yesterday, I pulled up the web browser to see if there was an ETA for my power, took 5 minutes to bring up a page. Then it did an auto refresh, which took another 5 minutes, at which time another auto-refresh hit, etc. Hell, a lot of times when I turn it on I get a blank screen with "loading..." for a good 30 seconds.
It's not a bunch of apps running, I have none but the bare minimum. It's not a lack of storage, all my apps are on a SDCARD.
This phone is barely on the edge of usability now due to it's slowness. Again, everything else works fine.
Preferably by the neck.
there really should be a way to correct time in a GPS satellite
1) Press and hold the Set Time button until the indicator lamp lights (5 seconds)
2) Press + or - until the correct time is reached
3) Release Set Time button.
Backhoe delay is still something sysadmins (or network admins today) need to factor into their calculations.
Some things never change. They may scale, but they don't change.
I'm pretty sure that, when I sober up, I can buy another 5'th of vodka tomorrow. Yet I can't watch your video today.
The person in charge of me and my stuff when I'm gone knows 1 thing: as long as I'm dead I don't care what you do with me. Cremate me, bury me, donate me to science, chop me in pieces and toss me in the trash, I don't care. Just make sure I'm dead first.
For the last couple years I've been hitting their comics page daily, from there I'd sometimes go to finance and then regular news. Last month they nuked the comics page, and when I went to the finance page they had one of those annoying floating opaque ads that want you to click in them to make them go away. No thanks.
Haven't been to yahoo since. My reasons for going have been either A) removed; or B) made untrustworthy.
Icing on the cake? For about a week I kept trying to get the comics page, hoping it was a mistake. Then my google newsfeed told me that yahoo had deliberately deleted it. Not yahoo news, google news. Good job, yahoo.
Trump - blowhard asshole
Cruz - scary blowhard asshole
Rubio - no concept of privacy
Clinton - unindicted felon
Bush - aww hell no
Christie - not considered corrupt only by comparison to New Jersey
Fiorina - Enriches herself by firing people
Sanders is the only one out there who makes any sense, and he's an unabashed Socialist!
Recruits that find out the reality is 72 virgin sheep
Sheep hell. 72 virgin men is what awaits them.
Not because there is any way in hell I'm going to let a surgeon 100 miles away get a knife anywhere near my Tender Bits (tm), but because the fallover effects mean I can play a Call of Duty game with sub 250ms lag.
Just think, good as I am now with CoD, how much better would I be with decent lag times?
I've been on the receiving end of court cases twice. First time was in '07, I got arrested for something I didn't do. Got a lawyer, he wanted $2500. Ok, I can do that. Then the DA decided to press charges. Lawyer wanted $25k, and said it would be at least $100k if it went to trial. I didn't have that kind of money, but also didn't want to go to jail. So I gave him $25k, and eventually the charges got dismissed. So I paid $27,500 to defend myself against something I never did. Can I sue the government to get my money back? Yeah, right. We won't mention the being booked into jail, and twice spending a night in jail over this BS (once when arrested, again when the DA filed charges and jacked up my bail. Oh, I didn't mention I had 100k tied up in bail for a year? my bad).
Then, last year. Neighbor decides I've been banging on her door all day, looking into her window at night, and all sorts of other random BS. Cops are called, I get the humiliating sit outside your apartment with 3 cops around you treatment. She files a restraining order against me, with a whole bunch of BS in the complaint. I've learned my lesson, I hired a lawyer for $1500. He got the trial delayed, then when the trial hit not only was her testimony 100% provable bullshit, but her witness, who she brought on her own accord, 100% contradicted her story. I wanted lawyer fees. Judge says flat out he doesn't want to dissuade harassed women from using the court system and gave me half fees. With no payment schedule. In other words, not only am I flat out of $750 to start with, I have no way to collect the other $750 from this lying sack of female shit.
Do I think lawyers are overpaid scum? Not sure, what's it worth to you to stay out of jail, or not get a BS restraining order issued against you. Do I think our legal system sucks ass? You betcha.
Look on the bright side? OK, I'm a middle aged white dude so I didn't get shot. And I could come up with $27,500 the first time, and $1500 the second time, to defend myself against bullshit.
Exactly. I've never heard of Linode and I run Linux on one of my machines. Is it too much to ask that you give a 1-2 sentence description of why I should care?
And no, I don't care enough to check wikipedia, nor google. Never heard of 'em, don't care, the summary gives me no reason to change my mind on either.
Still, it's pretty easy to see that the main advantage of the internet is that it provides education / information to billions of people who never had access to it before,
Too bad those billions of people would rather watch cat videos than educate themselves.
I don't do anything sensitive on my phone. That includes everything from banking all the way down to email. I just don't.
What that means is that I don't have a lock screen on my phone. You hit the power button, pull the ring up, and you're in. Why do I do this?
1) Much more convenient
2) Email on my phone is a major PITA
3) I don't trust my phone enough to access my money though it
4) If I lose my phone and it's found, the finder can open my phone and easily get my address/email (an app I wrote).
5) Want my contacts/schedule/apps I use? I don't care, none of that is sensitive.