Say what you want but there are positives about this: 1) they're being upfront with their intentions (though I still don't trust them) 2) If they can make money after the purchase of the TV then they have less incentive to design it will intentional obsolescence. (my biggest concern of any smart TV) 3) It may lower the price of TV's 4) I'm confident that while most people won't know how to block the ad-tracking, I'll still be able to allow the TV access to Netflix only and nothing else.
I haven't looked into it but you should be able to register multiple keys. I have three yubikeys linked to LastPass, my google account and anything else that I can link them to. My wife keeps one, I keep one and my safety deposit box keeps one. Of coarse, these aren't meant to replace a password, just augment it.
I don't understand why Oracle even exists given my experience with it.
Because it's a damn good database. The question isn't about it's capabilities, it's whether it's worth the cost. As for their other products I agree with you; it's way too sluggish. But I believe Amazon was just using their database.
Now Amazon moving away from Oracle is a good thing; as servers get faster and the open source alternatives get better Oracle's database is losing it's foothold. I for one won't be sad to see that happen.
I've met several people who supported the repeal and all of them for the same reason; the belief that internet access would be cheaper if ISP's didn't have the regulation to "bog them down". Not all of them were ignorant of technology either. It's for this reason I also suspect the 99% figure.
The FCC last November adopted a set of robocall rules that allowed telephone companies to proactively block calls from invalid, unassigned or unused numbers.
Can't imagine why that hasn't worked? It's not like they have a giant list of valid numbers to use as spoofing sources.
After any accident all sensor data should be made public so that it can then be used to further train AI systems. If it's not a law then companies will keep it to themselves so that they can only improve their AI and not their competitors. The net result is that different companies' AI's will have to "learn the same lesson" multiple times instead of once.
You are right that it is a journalist's job to form a story that people will read. It's a flawed system. However, alvinrod is also correct that for many it is the most accurate way get information. Even if you know someone on the inside then you have to asses how trustworthy they are. It's also likely they could lose their job if they talked about something like this to someone on the outside.
I find that I usually end up taking in data from multiple sources to form an opinion. I also found a website, https://www.allsides.com/unbia..., that tries to match publications up with the story in an attempt to balance out the polarization: e.g. showing the left, right and center story.
I disagree. A typical person should get upset, assuming the accusation is false. But a supreme court justice is one of the very few exception where I don't want their emotions to dictate their behavior. In other words, I want them to be more like Spock and less Kirk.
You're missing the point. I'm saying that it's totally rational for someone to choose to shovel sludge rather then work in sales or marketing. People are different and not all people are motivated by money. Here, watch this TED talk by Mike Rowe about Dirty Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In reality, sales and marketing at tech companies make as much or more as STEM people.
But these are not the same fields and attract very different personalities. I would rather shovel sludge in sewers then work in sales or marketing. Not that I have anything against those fields; but cold calling or schmoozing people to me is not something I enjoy.
However, I will make the argument that for a larger proportion of women the opposite is true. Thus it has more to do with what you enjoy and less to do with how much you get paid. I also believe this is one of the big contributing factors to why women, on average, make less then men for the same job; they tend to care more about the job and what they're doing then the actual pay while men are quicker to focus on the pay. (just my opinion)
Gas is dirty. I do not understand why you do not understand that. Climate change is real. Air Pollution is real. Also gas is expensive for the consumer.
Have you met the average consumer? If you tell them that this "clean energy" will only cost them twice as much most won't approve. It has to be directly cheaper then natural gas. For us engineers that's nuts, but then again I accepted long ago that most people are stupid and short sighted.
As a resident of Utah I enjoy pretty cheap power and solar is a very viable option with about a 10-year payoff rate. So it'll be a hard sell to convince people that it's worth the risk of putting in a Nuclear Reactor anywhere near them; regardless of how safe they say it is.
Everyone's chasing features, because that's what sells, so there's no time for efficiency/stability/security any more.
Interestingly, as much as we all hate subscription models from companies like Abode and Microsoft, those subscription models do give these companies more of an incentive to focus on stability, efficiency, and security instead of features. Of coarse, they will probably just profit more and do less overall development but stability and quality will get better with fewer new "features" added.
I'm sure that between this and all the money they made from people locking their credit score and all the money they made from selling identity theft protection plans and their stock price (which has almost completely recovered) I'm sure their security is top notch now.
Let this be a lesson to the rest of you companies who think you need to foolishly spend money on IT security.
Carriers in the US also collude but the argument I'm making is that with more competitors it's harder for them to collude. Right now it's not feasible to run your home internet from wireless carriers but I foresee that it might be after 5G is rolled out. What happens when other big players enter the field: Google, SpaceX, Apple, or Amazon? Maybe they'll all still provide crap service, maybe we'll all still get shafted, I don't know.
Why? Right now I can choose between Comcast or Centrylink for my home internet. If you add At&t, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint to that list then there are 6 carriers to choose from. We know that more competition is good. It's one thing for Comcast and Centrylink to "compete" in one field and At&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint to "Compete" in another. When all six are in one field then something tells me it's not going to be so easy for them all to keep treating customers like crap. Right now the cellular infrastructure can't handle the traffic load but once 5G becomes available it might allow for enough throughput the satisfy most people.
When I monitored the traffic usage on my home internet I found that streaming a 4k YouTube nature video took about 21Mbps; a HD movie from Netflix was 6.5Mbps, and my kids cartoon was 4.1Mbps. Seems to me that 40Mbps is plenty for most people, unless you plan on streaming multiple 4k videos at the same time?
According to Phoronix, the most common explanation for the bans "is a false-positive from Blizzard's anti-cheat technology having issue with DXVK."
I tell you what, I already had my cane in hand and ready to shake... but then paused long enough to actually read the explanation and this sounds very reasonable. It's obvious by their response that they have nothing against Linux or people using compatibility layers.
I use an app called "Should I Answer". In there it has an option to block any caller not in my contact list. If it's a known scammer it does nothing. If it's not sure then it will forward to voicemail. For voicemail I've got it set to forward to my google voice number. I then get a notification from the google voice app that I have a voicemail which was kindly transcribed and probably sold to marketers or used in AI training.
Before that I used an app called Mr. Number but they removed that feature so I removed their app.
it's not that simple, they spoof their number so that it looks like it came from your region. For example, if my number was 1-555-444-3333 they'll spoof the incoming number as 1-555-444-2324 because people are more likely to assume it's a local number.
I'm glad, it hope it gets worst. I'd say 90% of incoming phone calls I get are scams or telemarketing calls. The worst it gets the more likely the carriers will do something about it. Until then, I'll continue to set my blocking app automatically hang up if they're not in my contact list. I'd be even happier if i could send them to the Jolly Roger phone company with a simple button press.
Most rechargeable batteries do need to be recycled properly. You are correct that a lot of people who don't care will still throw away their old phones with the battery still attached.
This is why I buy the Blu-ray and rip it to my NAS; at least on shows I want to still have access to in 20 years. (Yes, I still have VHS tapes and a VCR)
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Say what you want but there are positives about this:
1) they're being upfront with their intentions (though I still don't trust them)
2) If they can make money after the purchase of the TV then they have less incentive to design it will intentional obsolescence. (my biggest concern of any smart TV)
3) It may lower the price of TV's
4) I'm confident that while most people won't know how to block the ad-tracking, I'll still be able to allow the TV access to Netflix only and nothing else.
I'm a Centrylink customer in Utah and I didn't see this popup. However, I also use PfSense's dns resolver so maybe that had something to do with it.
I haven't looked into it but you should be able to register multiple keys. I have three yubikeys linked to LastPass, my google account and anything else that I can link them to. My wife keeps one, I keep one and my safety deposit box keeps one. Of coarse, these aren't meant to replace a password, just augment it.
I don't understand why Oracle even exists given my experience with it.
Because it's a damn good database. The question isn't about it's capabilities, it's whether it's worth the cost. As for their other products I agree with you; it's way too sluggish. But I believe Amazon was just using their database.
Now Amazon moving away from Oracle is a good thing; as servers get faster and the open source alternatives get better Oracle's database is losing it's foothold. I for one won't be sad to see that happen.
I've met several people who supported the repeal and all of them for the same reason; the belief that internet access would be cheaper if ISP's didn't have the regulation to "bog them down". Not all of them were ignorant of technology either. It's for this reason I also suspect the 99% figure.
The FCC last November adopted a set of robocall rules that allowed telephone companies to proactively block calls from invalid, unassigned or unused numbers.
Can't imagine why that hasn't worked? It's not like they have a giant list of valid numbers to use as spoofing sources.
After any accident all sensor data should be made public so that it can then be used to further train AI systems. If it's not a law then companies will keep it to themselves so that they can only improve their AI and not their competitors. The net result is that different companies' AI's will have to "learn the same lesson" multiple times instead of once.
You are right that it is a journalist's job to form a story that people will read. It's a flawed system. However, alvinrod is also correct that for many it is the most accurate way get information. Even if you know someone on the inside then you have to asses how trustworthy they are. It's also likely they could lose their job if they talked about something like this to someone on the outside.
I find that I usually end up taking in data from multiple sources to form an opinion. I also found a website, https://www.allsides.com/unbia..., that tries to match publications up with the story in an attempt to balance out the polarization: e.g. showing the left, right and center story.
I disagree. A typical person should get upset, assuming the accusation is false. But a supreme court justice is one of the very few exception where I don't want their emotions to dictate their behavior. In other words, I want them to be more like Spock and less Kirk.
If TSMC 7nm plays out without production glitches
Now that's funny right there. But I agree, if I were building a new machine right now it would be AMD.
It's wasn't her accusation that turned me, it was his behavior through this.
I also found that because Dell is used by a lot of companies there are a lot more used, broken laptops on ebay that you can salvage for parts.
You're missing the point. I'm saying that it's totally rational for someone to choose to shovel sludge rather then work in sales or marketing. People are different and not all people are motivated by money. Here, watch this TED talk by Mike Rowe about Dirty Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In reality, sales and marketing at tech companies make as much or more as STEM people.
But these are not the same fields and attract very different personalities. I would rather shovel sludge in sewers then work in sales or marketing. Not that I have anything against those fields; but cold calling or schmoozing people to me is not something I enjoy.
However, I will make the argument that for a larger proportion of women the opposite is true. Thus it has more to do with what you enjoy and less to do with how much you get paid. I also believe this is one of the big contributing factors to why women, on average, make less then men for the same job; they tend to care more about the job and what they're doing then the actual pay while men are quicker to focus on the pay. (just my opinion)
Gas is dirty. I do not understand why you do not understand that. Climate change is real. Air Pollution is real. Also gas is expensive for the consumer.
Have you met the average consumer? If you tell them that this "clean energy" will only cost them twice as much most won't approve. It has to be directly cheaper then natural gas. For us engineers that's nuts, but then again I accepted long ago that most people are stupid and short sighted.
As a resident of Utah I enjoy pretty cheap power and solar is a very viable option with about a 10-year payoff rate. So it'll be a hard sell to convince people that it's worth the risk of putting in a Nuclear Reactor anywhere near them; regardless of how safe they say it is.
Everyone's chasing features, because that's what sells, so there's no time for efficiency/stability/security any more.
Interestingly, as much as we all hate subscription models from companies like Abode and Microsoft, those subscription models do give these companies more of an incentive to focus on stability, efficiency, and security instead of features. Of coarse, they will probably just profit more and do less overall development but stability and quality will get better with fewer new "features" added.
I'm sure that between this and all the money they made from people locking their credit score and all the money they made from selling identity theft protection plans and their stock price (which has almost completely recovered) I'm sure their security is top notch now.
Let this be a lesson to the rest of you companies who think you need to foolishly spend money on IT security.
Carriers in the US also collude but the argument I'm making is that with more competitors it's harder for them to collude. Right now it's not feasible to run your home internet from wireless carriers but I foresee that it might be after 5G is rolled out. What happens when other big players enter the field: Google, SpaceX, Apple, or Amazon?
Maybe they'll all still provide crap service, maybe we'll all still get shafted, I don't know.
Why? Right now I can choose between Comcast or Centrylink for my home internet. If you add At&t, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint to that list then there are 6 carriers to choose from. We know that more competition is good. It's one thing for Comcast and Centrylink to "compete" in one field and At&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint to "Compete" in another. When all six are in one field then something tells me it's not going to be so easy for them all to keep treating customers like crap. Right now the cellular infrastructure can't handle the traffic load but once 5G becomes available it might allow for enough throughput the satisfy most people.
When I monitored the traffic usage on my home internet I found that streaming a 4k YouTube nature video took about 21Mbps; a HD movie from Netflix was 6.5Mbps, and my kids cartoon was 4.1Mbps. Seems to me that 40Mbps is plenty for most people, unless you plan on streaming multiple 4k videos at the same time?
According to Phoronix, the most common explanation for the bans "is a false-positive from Blizzard's anti-cheat technology having issue with DXVK."
I tell you what, I already had my cane in hand and ready to shake... but then paused long enough to actually read the explanation and this sounds very reasonable. It's obvious by their response that they have nothing against Linux or people using compatibility layers.
I use an app called "Should I Answer". In there it has an option to block any caller not in my contact list. If it's a known scammer it does nothing. If it's not sure then it will forward to voicemail. For voicemail I've got it set to forward to my google voice number. I then get a notification from the google voice app that I have a voicemail which was kindly transcribed and probably sold to marketers or used in AI training.
Before that I used an app called Mr. Number but they removed that feature so I removed their app.
it's not that simple, they spoof their number so that it looks like it came from your region. For example, if my number was 1-555-444-3333 they'll spoof the incoming number as 1-555-444-2324 because people are more likely to assume it's a local number.
I'm glad, it hope it gets worst. I'd say 90% of incoming phone calls I get are scams or telemarketing calls. The worst it gets the more likely the carriers will do something about it. Until then, I'll continue to set my blocking app automatically hang up if they're not in my contact list. I'd be even happier if i could send them to the Jolly Roger phone company with a simple button press.
It's totally fine to throw away most Alkaline batteries: https://qz.com/331854/fyi-its-...
Most rechargeable batteries do need to be recycled properly. You are correct that a lot of people who don't care will still throw away their old phones with the battery still attached.
This is why I buy the Blu-ray and rip it to my NAS; at least on shows I want to still have access to in 20 years. (Yes, I still have VHS tapes and a VCR)