It's easy to track that a person voted while not tracking who they voted for.
Proving that the person running the voting app is actually the american citizen they claim to be is more difficult. It's not that I don't think it can be done. I just don't trust that our political figures have enough technical knowledge to choose software that is secure.
University education - not cheap but a helluvalot more affordable than your 'freedom' prices.
Some universities aren't that expensive. If you go to a public in-state university then it's not nearly as expensive as many of the private universities that prey on people, give them a crap education, and stick them with a lifetime of student loan debt. For example the University I went to is currently about $20-25k for a bachelors degree. That same degree from some of the private universities are over $100k. But the feds started to crack down on them and people are getting wise to the scam which is making it harder for these private universities to do it.
I recently updated my internet from 20Mbs to 40Mbs with Centurylink. Before I let the installer leave I verified the download speeds and found some interesting results:
1) many of the "speed tests" online were wrong. My PfSense firewall has a real time graph that measures traffic. I got anything from 10Mbps to 67Mbps on the speed tests while my firewall would consistently show the spike up to about 38Mbps where it would flat line until the test was done. 2) It takes a little over 21Mbps to stream a 4k nature video from YouTube. Star Wars Episode VIII from Netflix (1080p) was 6Mbps and my kids cartoon was 4Mbps (1080p).
So even though the ISPs had to drop the advertised speed it's still plenty of speed so long as you are actually getting that speed.
The kind of person willing to spend $1000 for a top-tier phone is not the kind of person who would be willing to keep the same phone for 7 years.
Yep, I treat my phones like I do my cars. I let some other idiot buy the "new shiny" phone and then I buy a top tier phone that's 1-2 years old for $200-$300 bucks. You're better off buying 3 used phones then keeping a $1000 phone for 7 years.
Everybody has the wrong idea and Facebook is doing it wrong.
Hear me out. From what I read it looks like their looking for a better way to integrate Facebook messenger with the bank's customer service. They have explicitly said that this is not a part of the main facebook and that they will not share that data with 3rd parties. I don't believe that any more then I believe any of those banks have customer service but this has turned into a, "Facebook bad!" mob.
I'm more concerned about Amazon or Google getting a hold of my banking information and then charging me more for products if I have more money or available credit. I don't trust Amazon's pricing system today.
However, if Facebook really wanted to integrate user's bank information then they should create a budgeting system which then users would want tied to their bank so that they can track transactions.
But it's not all crap. Yes, most the pop music is crap but when was that not the case? There are music gems of all genres for all times; including now.
I found that when I was buying music I was spending more money and listening to less "new" stuff, e.g. music I had not heard before. For example in the last couple weeks I discovered Green Day's When September Ends, came out in 2005 but because I was limiting myself to what I had in my library I didn't fall in love with that song until now. By using a streaming service I'm able to introduce myself to more music without having to buy it, yet I know/assume that the artists that I listen to frequently get paid more then those that I listen to only a couple times.
If you want to buy all your music that's fine. All that really matters to me is that the content creators get paid for what they produce. But there are valid reasons to prefer streaming over purchasing.
[...] emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon of gas. About five pounds comes from the extraction, production, and delivery of the fuel, while the great bulk of heat-trapping emissions—more than 19 pounds per gallon—comes right out of a car’s tailpipe.
How does one gallon of gas turn into 19 pounds of CO2? I was going to call BS but then I found the answer: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/fe...
I have had a very different experience with LinkedIn. Almost every contact I get is a fairly legitimate match and I suspect it's because I have my profile well filled out. Since you say "it bothers you about not[sic] having a photo" then I suspect your profile is a bit sparse. I would suggest that you either go all in and fill it out completely or shutdown your account. I've found it helpful more then once in finding a job.
Angling for tougher measures to fight that activity, the MPAA calls for "civil and criminal actions against creators of pirate add-on software and the repository web sites that host them, against distributors of the preloaded devices, and against the entities streaming the content." [...] The MPAA wants to see stronger charges against a broader range of infringing organizations.
I was trying to figure out their angle because the MPAA already has pretty sharp teeth to prosecute pirates IF they can get to them. I support the idea of being able to shut down these add-on's that are solely used for piracy but I worry that it opens the door to other things that are used for piracy but have legitimate uses as well.
In the end it will always come down to this. If it can be seen or heard it WILL be pirated. The best way to minimize piracy is to make the content easily available at an affordable rate. This has happened for a lot of content.
I suspect that there is a very good reason why Nintendo has not re-released some vintage games. Most likely they sold off, or never had, the rights to the game. Because Nintendo has made so many of their vintage games available I won't criticize them for going after companies who are illegally profiting from their copyrighted work.
That was my argument. I guess it's the inconvenience of having to make sure you have the cash. I also think there is some sort of social network aspect to using it that my wife likes. Again, I don't get it but she was pretty insistent.
You're making the wrong assumption. Capitalism doesn't create the most efficient use of resources. Capitalism does create a more efficient use of resources then Socialism. The prime point, at which resources are used most efficiently will be somewhere in between these two extremes.
It was obvious to us when we started using it. The wife and I went back and forth quite a bit when she wanted to use it. She argued that the open transactions are a feature. If we wanted to keep a transaction private we'd use cash or paypal. She said it's a good thing to be able to see what other people paid our neighbors for babysitting. It's also a great place to leave a thank you or small message.
I personally don't get it but my wife wanted to use it and I didn't see it as any less secure then using paypal. Since it funnels through our debit cards we have that extra security through there.
I can assure you that Putin and his government have no real long term vision beyond maybe a couple of years, so that's definitely not it.
I disagree with this assessment. I argue that countries like China, Russia, and North Korea tend to look more long term then our representatives, who seem to only care about the time between now and the next election cycle. Here in the U.S. we do have the Supreme Court Justices who I believe do consider the long term ramifications but you're selling these other countries short to assume they only care about the short term.
There are plenty of inexpensive devices one can use for streaming, there is no reason to allow your smart TV to connect to the internet.
You missed half the sentence and he's right. You shouldn't connect your TV to the internet and instead use a Kodi media center or something like that that won't track your activity.
Agreed. As a teenager my dad sat me down and basically admitted he could do nothing to stop me from doing whatever I wanted. He said, "So don't disappoint me and know that I'm here to help if you need."
In another discussion, he agreed that if I was ever at a party and too drunk to drive home I could call him and he'd pick me up, no questions asked. His reasoning was that if I'm was responsible enough to call for a ride then I was responsible enough to drink. Never took him up on it but it meant a lot to me that he was putting the responsibility on me.
You can't. It was super easy to get porn before the internet. If the internet was around when I was a kid there would have been nothing my parents could have done to prevent me getting access to porn.
Best thing to do is explain to your kids what's out there so that they're not that curious about it. You don't have to get into heavy details, just as much as they can understand. If they don't learn it from you it'll be from friends at school or TV and both are probably worse then what you'll tell them.
It is up to you to explain how easy it is today to find yourself on some of those shady sites. Playing "Free" games or watching "free" movies on shady sites. Even watching an innocent YouTube videos can end up in crazy land that shocks us adults.
Honestly, that's all I think we as parents can do. I pull this from my experience not with my own parents but with my friends mother who was extremely blunt and was willing to explain to me anything I wanted to know. My parents, as much as I love them, were uncomfortable talking about things like that.
If there's one thing Linux users love, it's paying a subscription fee to use proprietary software.
As a Linux user I love options. There are plenty who will argue that everything should be open source but that doesn't work in the real world. Software is very expense to make and even more so if it's made well. So it only works when a piece of software is so critical to the business that they want to have a hand is how it's developed and therefor can justify the expense of having developers contribute. Think IBM, RedHat, Intel, etc.
It wasn't your point that got you modded down. If you had said instead: "Oh man, you Linux fans are being burned big time. Even toy tablets get full Photoshop and you guys are still stuck with GIMP." then you probably would not have been modded down.
But calling Linux fans "Linturds" and "pariahs" (which means outcast) and calling GIMP "Duh Gimp" makes you a troll.
The government argued that the deal would make the pay-TV market "less competitive and less innovative."
I would love to see this merger undone but I'm not actually that worried about the competitive market for film and TV. AT&T has Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and Disney/Fox to compete against. Even with the recent changes to HBO I expect that most the talent will switch to one of these other companies. Remember, after the merger, they're charging $5 more for DirectTV so that it now costs $35/mo. That's not exactly a competitive price. This merger may be just as damaging to consumers as the AOL/Time Warner merger was.
I do worry about them prioritizing their media through their internet network. Still, i don't think an appeal will happen because the judge didn't set any conditions for them to violate.
Yep, the study was paid for by Snaplogic who conveniently sells solutions to this problem. I've not dealt with Snaplogic at all so I can't really weigh an opinion; but I usually assume that the bigger the marketing department the bigger pile of shit they're compensating for. Good products sell themselves; just ask Linus.
It's also been my experience that if your quick to jump into the "new shiny" stuff then that same new shiny stuff from last year is now "outdated". There's value is slowly adapting new technologies to make sure the technology is going to stick around and not be a fad.
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You can also roll your 401k over to an IRA at any time. Then it's completely decoupled from your employer.
It's easy to track that a person voted while not tracking who they voted for.
Proving that the person running the voting app is actually the american citizen they claim to be is more difficult. It's not that I don't think it can be done. I just don't trust that our political figures have enough technical knowledge to choose software that is secure.
University education - not cheap but a helluvalot more affordable than your 'freedom' prices.
Some universities aren't that expensive. If you go to a public in-state university then it's not nearly as expensive as many of the private universities that prey on people, give them a crap education, and stick them with a lifetime of student loan debt. For example the University I went to is currently about $20-25k for a bachelors degree. That same degree from some of the private universities are over $100k. But the feds started to crack down on them and people are getting wise to the scam which is making it harder for these private universities to do it.
I recently updated my internet from 20Mbs to 40Mbs with Centurylink. Before I let the installer leave I verified the download speeds and found some interesting results:
1) many of the "speed tests" online were wrong. My PfSense firewall has a real time graph that measures traffic. I got anything from 10Mbps to 67Mbps on the speed tests while my firewall would consistently show the spike up to about 38Mbps where it would flat line until the test was done.
2) It takes a little over 21Mbps to stream a 4k nature video from YouTube. Star Wars Episode VIII from Netflix (1080p) was 6Mbps and my kids cartoon was 4Mbps (1080p).
So even though the ISPs had to drop the advertised speed it's still plenty of speed so long as you are actually getting that speed.
The kind of person willing to spend $1000 for a top-tier phone is not the kind of person who would be willing to keep the same phone for 7 years.
Yep, I treat my phones like I do my cars. I let some other idiot buy the "new shiny" phone and then I buy a top tier phone that's 1-2 years old for $200-$300 bucks. You're better off buying 3 used phones then keeping a $1000 phone for 7 years.
Everybody has the wrong idea and Facebook is doing it wrong.
Hear me out. From what I read it looks like their looking for a better way to integrate Facebook messenger with the bank's customer service. They have explicitly said that this is not a part of the main facebook and that they will not share that data with 3rd parties. I don't believe that any more then I believe any of those banks have customer service but this has turned into a, "Facebook bad!" mob.
I'm more concerned about Amazon or Google getting a hold of my banking information and then charging me more for products if I have more money or available credit. I don't trust Amazon's pricing system today.
However, if Facebook really wanted to integrate user's bank information then they should create a budgeting system which then users would want tied to their bank so that they can track transactions.
But it's not all crap. Yes, most the pop music is crap but when was that not the case? There are music gems of all genres for all times; including now.
I found that when I was buying music I was spending more money and listening to less "new" stuff, e.g. music I had not heard before. For example in the last couple weeks I discovered Green Day's When September Ends, came out in 2005 but because I was limiting myself to what I had in my library I didn't fall in love with that song until now. By using a streaming service I'm able to introduce myself to more music without having to buy it, yet I know/assume that the artists that I listen to frequently get paid more then those that I listen to only a couple times.
If you want to buy all your music that's fine. All that really matters to me is that the content creators get paid for what they produce. But there are valid reasons to prefer streaming over purchasing.
[...] emitting around 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases for every gallon of gas. About five pounds comes from the extraction, production, and delivery of the fuel, while the great bulk of heat-trapping emissions—more than 19 pounds per gallon—comes right out of a car’s tailpipe.
How does one gallon of gas turn into 19 pounds of CO2? I was going to call BS but then I found the answer: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/fe...
Turns out it's 19 pounds after Oxygen is added.
What is it going to take for people not to enrol in [...] sociology and do something society needs?
Am I the only one who see's the irony in that statement?
Yes too many people end up worse off by getting student loans to get a degree that isn't marketable.
I have had a very different experience with LinkedIn. Almost every contact I get is a fairly legitimate match and I suspect it's because I have my profile well filled out. Since you say "it bothers you about not[sic] having a photo" then I suspect your profile is a bit sparse. I would suggest that you either go all in and fill it out completely or shutdown your account. I've found it helpful more then once in finding a job.
Missing from the summary is:
Angling for tougher measures to fight that activity, the MPAA calls for "civil and criminal actions against creators of pirate add-on software and the repository web sites that host them, against distributors of the preloaded devices, and against the entities streaming the content." [...] The MPAA wants to see stronger charges against a broader range of infringing organizations.
I was trying to figure out their angle because the MPAA already has pretty sharp teeth to prosecute pirates IF they can get to them. I support the idea of being able to shut down these add-on's that are solely used for piracy but I worry that it opens the door to other things that are used for piracy but have legitimate uses as well.
In the end it will always come down to this. If it can be seen or heard it WILL be pirated. The best way to minimize piracy is to make the content easily available at an affordable rate. This has happened for a lot of content.
I suspect that there is a very good reason why Nintendo has not re-released some vintage games. Most likely they sold off, or never had, the rights to the game. Because Nintendo has made so many of their vintage games available I won't criticize them for going after companies who are illegally profiting from their copyrighted work.
That was my argument. I guess it's the inconvenience of having to make sure you have the cash. I also think there is some sort of social network aspect to using it that my wife likes. Again, I don't get it but she was pretty insistent.
who said anything about efficiency
Um, you did.
Please explain to me again how Capitalism organizes the economy for the most efficient use of resources
You're making the wrong assumption. Capitalism doesn't create the most efficient use of resources. Capitalism does create a more efficient use of resources then Socialism. The prime point, at which resources are used most efficiently will be somewhere in between these two extremes.
It was obvious to us when we started using it. The wife and I went back and forth quite a bit when she wanted to use it. She argued that the open transactions are a feature. If we wanted to keep a transaction private we'd use cash or paypal. She said it's a good thing to be able to see what other people paid our neighbors for babysitting. It's also a great place to leave a thank you or small message.
I personally don't get it but my wife wanted to use it and I didn't see it as any less secure then using paypal. Since it funnels through our debit cards we have that extra security through there.
Adding "Modern Life Services" to the list of buzzwords that mean nothing.
I can assure you that Putin and his government have no real long term vision beyond maybe a couple of years, so that's definitely not it.
I disagree with this assessment. I argue that countries like China, Russia, and North Korea tend to look more long term then our representatives, who seem to only care about the time between now and the next election cycle. Here in the U.S. we do have the Supreme Court Justices who I believe do consider the long term ramifications but you're selling these other countries short to assume they only care about the short term.
If you have not seen it, I recommend watching "Rules for Rulers" by CGPGray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's based on a book, "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" https://www.amazon.com/Dictato...
These have helped me not get so angry at politics in general and has given me a much better understanding as to why different leaders do what they do.
There are plenty of inexpensive devices one can use for streaming, there is no reason to allow your smart TV to connect to the internet.
You missed half the sentence and he's right. You shouldn't connect your TV to the internet and instead use a Kodi media center or something like that that won't track your activity.
Agreed. As a teenager my dad sat me down and basically admitted he could do nothing to stop me from doing whatever I wanted. He said, "So don't disappoint me and know that I'm here to help if you need."
In another discussion, he agreed that if I was ever at a party and too drunk to drive home I could call him and he'd pick me up, no questions asked. His reasoning was that if I'm was responsible enough to call for a ride then I was responsible enough to drink. Never took him up on it but it meant a lot to me that he was putting the responsibility on me.
More people in this world need a dad like mine.
You can't. It was super easy to get porn before the internet. If the internet was around when I was a kid there would have been nothing my parents could have done to prevent me getting access to porn.
Best thing to do is explain to your kids what's out there so that they're not that curious about it. You don't have to get into heavy details, just as much as they can understand. If they don't learn it from you it'll be from friends at school or TV and both are probably worse then what you'll tell them.
It is up to you to explain how easy it is today to find yourself on some of those shady sites. Playing "Free" games or watching "free" movies on shady sites. Even watching an innocent YouTube videos can end up in crazy land that shocks us adults.
Honestly, that's all I think we as parents can do. I pull this from my experience not with my own parents but with my friends mother who was extremely blunt and was willing to explain to me anything I wanted to know. My parents, as much as I love them, were uncomfortable talking about things like that.
If there's one thing Linux users love, it's paying a subscription fee to use proprietary software.
As a Linux user I love options. There are plenty who will argue that everything should be open source but that doesn't work in the real world. Software is very expense to make and even more so if it's made well. So it only works when a piece of software is so critical to the business that they want to have a hand is how it's developed and therefor can justify the expense of having developers contribute. Think IBM, RedHat, Intel, etc.
It wasn't your point that got you modded down. If you had said instead: "Oh man, you Linux fans are being burned big time. Even toy tablets get full Photoshop and you guys are still stuck with GIMP." then you probably would not have been modded down.
But calling Linux fans "Linturds" and "pariahs" (which means outcast) and calling GIMP "Duh Gimp" makes you a troll.
The government argued that the deal would make the pay-TV market "less competitive and less innovative."
I would love to see this merger undone but I'm not actually that worried about the competitive market for film and TV. AT&T has Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and Disney/Fox to compete against. Even with the recent changes to HBO I expect that most the talent will switch to one of these other companies. Remember, after the merger, they're charging $5 more for DirectTV so that it now costs $35/mo. That's not exactly a competitive price. This merger may be just as damaging to consumers as the AOL/Time Warner merger was.
I do worry about them prioritizing their media through their internet network. Still, i don't think an appeal will happen because the judge didn't set any conditions for them to violate.
Yep, the study was paid for by Snaplogic who conveniently sells solutions to this problem. I've not dealt with Snaplogic at all so I can't really weigh an opinion; but I usually assume that the bigger the marketing department the bigger pile of shit they're compensating for. Good products sell themselves; just ask Linus.
It's also been my experience that if your quick to jump into the "new shiny" stuff then that same new shiny stuff from last year is now "outdated". There's value is slowly adapting new technologies to make sure the technology is going to stick around and not be a fad.