And thanks to "like" embedding in every other page on the net, they can use a cookie to follow you (nearly) everywhere you go without you needing an account.
It's pretty easy to enable Tracking Protection to block everything coming from Facebook.
It's hard to understand why, after all these years, local and state governments STILL haven't figured out why it's pointless to spend one thin dime of tax incentives on projects like this.
Because they can point to a single structure and say "I helped make this happen." Even if it's a losing proposition most voters will still feel that at least the politician is doing something. It's a lot harder to keep tax laws equal for all and point to the gains which get spread around to everybody and in a re-election campaign say that the small growth everyone is realizing is due to your policies.
the other sentence in the article that worried me was the mention that kids now have trouble memorizing even simple lines for a play, since they are used to information being easily always available so they aren't putting in the effort of learning it.
Isn't that the same argument for not allowing calculators in school?
I gave my daughter a earfull having my granddaughter use the ipad at 2 to keep her entertained.
I'm sure after she appreciated how that information is now helping her manage your granddaughter. Did she show you her appreciation by handing you an iPad?
The elephant in the room is that mental health services have been slashed for decades and even when people are identified as being unstable there is little that is or can be done to help them before they become violent.
That's because Hollywood loves portraying society's attempts at dealing with this difficult situation as nothing but mass screw-ups (think One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest). As a result, since no option is popular enough, the states have been forced to slowly back away from the problem and ignore it at all costs. A legislative body will get a little bit of flack for ignoring the problem, but receive a whole lot of damage if a nearly perfect system has a dramatizable misstep.
Today, if you would pit every civilian gun-owner in the US, with all their weapons, against the forces of a single aircraft carrier (one thenth of the aircraft carriers that the US government controls), the civilians would lose. Hellfire missiles beat automatic rifles every time.
Yes, but then there wouldn't be a tax base to supply the Aircraft carries. Once a large group of tax payers show up with weapons and say "We're willing to fight over this", policies start changing.
All a state would have to do is amend their constitution to proclaim that all their able bodied citizens are members of the state militia for defense of their lives, property, and the state if mustered into action. What can the feds do then?
Take away the guns from households where people have classifiable mental conditions, and aren't able bodied.
I didn't think those existed anymore. While the bullying is wrong, and the prosecution of gathering evidence is wrong, having a school that's about academics is not.
I still don't see what's inherently wrong with letting a culture die off. If people don't want to live a certain way, stop forcing them to do so. If people are finding a better way of life, let them live it. Perhaps one day as we as humans become more and more in contact with all humans across the globe will find less, and less reasons to fight each other because we'll see more similarities than differences. Let the differences die off!
Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life.
Hopefully those people will learn to get contract support for continued drivers, as part of future purchases, or since it's needed for the hardware, won't use that computer for 'normal' computer things, ie save personal data on it, or browse the web with it.
Given all of the hoops that the users in the article describe what they have to do to stay on XP, that sounds like a whole lot of work. If you want real security on any computer, don't run as the Administrator.
So the maker of a product is allowed to tell me just how long I may use his product?
The maker can say how long he's going to give a crap about how long he's going to care about you using his product. Once that time passes it will be considered 'end of life', not because it stops functioning at that second, but because it's just a matter of time until it stops functioning. Manufacturers say how long a warranty is: ie, the amount of time they'll work to ensure that the product behaves as advertised. Once that time passes they don't care any more.
I'm not saying that Windows has more capability than Windows, what I'm saying is that there's a different expectation of a baseline. One just expects certain things to be part of every installation of Windows. Even though things can be added later, the majority of users expect anything from any SKU to be there whenever they sit down at a Windows machine and tries to do something. I'm sure you saw the whoop and holler that happened when they announced that Windows 8 wouldn't come with DVD software. Even if the vast majority of Windows installs didn't use it, and it's available as a paid add-on, it still causes much consternation to many people thinking that something might not be there.
I don't know if you ever sat down at somebody else computer that had a starter or home edition of Windows, tried to do something, only to find that it didn't exist in that SKU. You probably muttered under your breath and shook your fist towards Redmond because of they created the SKU that existed on that computer, in Microsofts attempt to reduce the 'bloat' of specific Windows installs.
Set up a "multimedia desktop" for my parents in their lounge. The desktop startup/response time of the OS is orders of magnitude faster than any other computer in our family and yet it is on the oldest and slowest hardware.
I think that's one of the problems that Windows has. You were able to setup a specific device for a specific purpose. If there's anything not related to "multimedia desktop" you made sure it wasn't part of the device. If your parents try to do anything on that computer and they can't they'll just say "Well, this device wasn't made to do this". But with a Windows computer, everyone expects it to do something different. Windows has to deal with a really large baseline of functionality because it's expected to do that. Windows Server is different where there's more and more of turning on one feature at a time and having different SKU's with different feature sets, but the client OS can't pull that off.
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And thanks to "like" embedding in every other page on the net, they can use a cookie to follow you (nearly) everywhere you go without you needing an account.
It's pretty easy to enable Tracking Protection to block everything coming from Facebook.
they probably lack the communication skills to get reach me in an interview.
Doesn't everybody?
It's hard to understand why, after all these years, local and state governments STILL haven't figured out why it's pointless to spend one thin dime of tax incentives on projects like this.
Because they can point to a single structure and say "I helped make this happen." Even if it's a losing proposition most voters will still feel that at least the politician is doing something. It's a lot harder to keep tax laws equal for all and point to the gains which get spread around to everybody and in a re-election campaign say that the small growth everyone is realizing is due to your policies.
And couldn't it be solved by giving the kids Google Glasses to prompt them while they're doing the play?
Professionals use Teleprompters.
the other sentence in the article that worried me was the mention that kids now have trouble memorizing even simple lines for a play, since they are used to information being easily always available so they aren't putting in the effort of learning it.
Isn't that the same argument for not allowing calculators in school?
I gave my daughter a earfull having my granddaughter use the ipad at 2 to keep her entertained.
I'm sure after she appreciated how that information is now helping her manage your granddaughter. Did she show you her appreciation by handing you an iPad?
If you can't get a couple of blocks to snap together, how are you going to deal with tying your shoes?
Fair point. Children have never had an issue learning how to tie shoes.
or provide any meaningful distinction between "good" technologies like verbal language and "bad" technologies like iPads.
Definition: Technology: Anything that was invented after I was born.
The elephant in the room is that mental health services have been slashed for decades and even when people are identified as being unstable there is little that is or can be done to help them before they become violent.
That's because Hollywood loves portraying society's attempts at dealing with this difficult situation as nothing but mass screw-ups (think One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest). As a result, since no option is popular enough, the states have been forced to slowly back away from the problem and ignore it at all costs. A legislative body will get a little bit of flack for ignoring the problem, but receive a whole lot of damage if a nearly perfect system has a dramatizable misstep.
Homicide rates in the United States have been dropping and are the lowest since 1906 or so.
There's a difference between homicides and mass killings. Think frequency and magnitude.
guns dont cause mass shootings
True, but they sure are catalysts for them. It would be really difficult to pull off a mass shooting without any guns.
Does he really think curtailing guns will stop mass killings?
It has worked before. Australia & Gun Control's Aftermath
Today, if you would pit every civilian gun-owner in the US, with all their weapons, against the forces of a single aircraft carrier (one thenth of the aircraft carriers that the US government controls), the civilians would lose. Hellfire missiles beat automatic rifles every time.
Yes, but then there wouldn't be a tax base to supply the Aircraft carries. Once a large group of tax payers show up with weapons and say "We're willing to fight over this", policies start changing.
All a state would have to do is amend their constitution to proclaim that all their able bodied citizens are members of the state militia for defense of their lives, property, and the state if mustered into action. What can the feds do then?
Take away the guns from households where people have classifiable mental conditions, and aren't able bodied.
I didn't think those existed anymore. While the bullying is wrong, and the prosecution of gathering evidence is wrong, having a school that's about academics is not.
I still don't see what's inherently wrong with letting a culture die off. If people don't want to live a certain way, stop forcing them to do so. If people are finding a better way of life, let them live it. Perhaps one day as we as humans become more and more in contact with all humans across the globe will find less, and less reasons to fight each other because we'll see more similarities than differences. Let the differences die off!
Or starting with a fresh new PC can be a really refreshing experience.
Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life.
Hopefully those people will learn to get contract support for continued drivers, as part of future purchases, or since it's needed for the hardware, won't use that computer for 'normal' computer things, ie save personal data on it, or browse the web with it.
Given all of the hoops that the users in the article describe what they have to do to stay on XP, that sounds like a whole lot of work. If you want real security on any computer, don't run as the Administrator.
So the maker of a product is allowed to tell me just how long I may use his product?
The maker can say how long he's going to give a crap about how long he's going to care about you using his product. Once that time passes it will be considered 'end of life', not because it stops functioning at that second, but because it's just a matter of time until it stops functioning. Manufacturers say how long a warranty is: ie, the amount of time they'll work to ensure that the product behaves as advertised. Once that time passes they don't care any more.
I'm not saying that Windows has more capability than Windows, what I'm saying is that there's a different expectation of a baseline. One just expects certain things to be part of every installation of Windows. Even though things can be added later, the majority of users expect anything from any SKU to be there whenever they sit down at a Windows machine and tries to do something. I'm sure you saw the whoop and holler that happened when they announced that Windows 8 wouldn't come with DVD software. Even if the vast majority of Windows installs didn't use it, and it's available as a paid add-on, it still causes much consternation to many people thinking that something might not be there.
I don't know if you ever sat down at somebody else computer that had a starter or home edition of Windows, tried to do something, only to find that it didn't exist in that SKU. You probably muttered under your breath and shook your fist towards Redmond because of they created the SKU that existed on that computer, in Microsofts attempt to reduce the 'bloat' of specific Windows installs.
MS promised that they would release a key or some sort of patch that would allow you to install without the server. Where is it?
Can you point out a public location of that promise?
Who decides when the "end of life" of a product is reached? Its maker, or its user?
The maker.
Set up a "multimedia desktop" for my parents in their lounge. The desktop startup/response time of the OS is orders of magnitude faster than any other computer in our family and yet it is on the oldest and slowest hardware.
I think that's one of the problems that Windows has. You were able to setup a specific device for a specific purpose. If there's anything not related to "multimedia desktop" you made sure it wasn't part of the device. If your parents try to do anything on that computer and they can't they'll just say "Well, this device wasn't made to do this". But with a Windows computer, everyone expects it to do something different. Windows has to deal with a really large baseline of functionality because it's expected to do that. Windows Server is different where there's more and more of turning on one feature at a time and having different SKU's with different feature sets, but the client OS can't pull that off.
... is to sell us shit that we do not need. If we 'needed' something, we would find a way to get it.
It's possible that wants sell better than needs.