Looks like maybe providers need to make the content available to those countries who are watching that "pirated" content.
It really seems to me that this is more about content not being available, so people find ways to get it. While Netflix/Amazon may be available in some of those countries, do they get the full list of shows/movies, or just a pittance? I know it is likely due to copyright law restrictions, but that should serve as a wake up call that those restrictions are not helping the copyright holders.
They sure threw the word pirate around a lot in the article. It would be interesting to see a definition of what they call "pirated".
Indeed, it is in some cases a federal crime to disclose a wiretap without authorization, including not only the information obtained from the wiretap, but also the mere existence of a wiretap with an intent to obstruct it. With respect to intelligence wiretaps, there is an additional issue: They are always classified, and disclosure of classified information is also generally a crime.
Effectively, this is saying that if there was a wiretap and Trump disclosed it without authorization, he could have committed a crime. I have wondered if there were taps, maybe it was simply on the Russians and the fact that they were talking with Trump could have been a coincidence unrelated to the election. With all the shit Russia pulls, I would kind of hope our Gov was keeping tabs on them.
it's what I've used for years. I have a not so memorable story, take an event from that, and turn it into your password scheme.
[completely fabricated example] In 7th grade a girl I liked (Sarah) gave a presentation on Abraham Lincoln. She was wearing a blue dress. Four score and blue dress. FoScBlDr (8 characters, safe) Add in a number and a symbol, because some sites require it. FoScBlDr81? [I think it was in 1981]
So, there is my starting password. Password hint = Sarah Lincoln 81, maybe SL81 for short. 6 months later, you have to change your password. Hint becomes SL82 (FoScBlDr82?) You could cycle through to 89, then back to 81. Over time, you can morph it in other ways. Maybe put a $ in there instead of a ? for financial sites, or come up with a separate story for those.
The thing is, YOU make up the story and the cycling rules. You can even write down your password hints, nobody would ever think "Crush 88" was actually "FoScBlDr88?"
I have used one scheme/password since 1999, and it has morphed so much even if I told someone my original password, they couldn't guess what it is now... it's just jibberish.
This is pretty good, but it runs into the password re-use problem. Which is a real problem, because you don't have any say in how securely the password is stored in the service's database. If your yahoo password gets compromised, that's a real issue. But if your compromised yahoo password will also let people into your gmail and etrade accounts, it's a disaster.
You are correct. I alluded to but didn't make it clear that I can use the same scheme, but different password, for different sites. e.g. for one site it may be "99 Crush", which would be "?99FoScBlDr" (change the number, and move it and the ? to the front) I just posted off the top of my head anyway, if you put a little thought into it, it becomes more secure. And using your example, if someone cracked my yahoo password and it was "FoScBlDr82?", how would they ever figure out that my gmail password is "FoScBlDr88?" ? OK, so maybe they could decide to increment the number and get lucky. What if I make my scheme to rotate the number and the letter before it? FoScBlDr81?, FoScBlDs82?, FoScBlDt83?, etc.
My point is that it can be obscure and memorable, but only to you. Unless you share your made up algorithm, or expose a simple pattern, which can't really be figured out unless someone gets multiple versions of the password. I am not saying it's perfect, but I think it is a good way to do it. It's worked for me anyway.
I still remember a password that an intern at my first company used. He gave it to me when he left in case I needed it. It was "CIrpotb," He liked Pearl Jam, and it was from a lyric in one of their popular songs.
it's what I've used for years. I have a not so memorable story, take an event from that, and turn it into your password scheme.
[completely fabricated example] In 7th grade a girl I liked (Sarah) gave a presentation on Abraham Lincoln. She was wearing a blue dress. Four score and blue dress. FoScBlDr (8 characters, safe) Add in a number and a symbol, because some sites require it. FoScBlDr81? [I think it was in 1981]
So, there is my starting password. Password hint = Sarah Lincoln 81, maybe SL81 for short. 6 months later, you have to change your password. Hint becomes SL82 (FoScBlDr82?) You could cycle through to 89, then back to 81. Over time, you can morph it in other ways. Maybe put a $ in there instead of a ? for financial sites, or come up with a separate story for those.
The thing is, YOU make up the story and the cycling rules. You can even write down your password hints, nobody would ever think "Crush 88" was actually "FoScBlDr88?"
I have used one scheme/password since 1999, and it has morphed so much even if I told someone my original password, they couldn't guess what it is now... it's just jibberish.
Not surprising, some people today are just as ignorant about computers.
Though it scares me to think I may be ignorant about some FUTURE tech that comes out when I'm old.
Future? I feel that way about some current tech.
I tell you, I have been using computers since the TRS-80 model III in the mid 80s, and I still feel ignorant about computers some days. During one job interview I was asked about my experience on Linux. I said I have been using it as my home system since 1999, and I ran it and tested on it at a few jobs I had over the years. The interviewer said "oh, so you're an expert?" I replied "I think that the more I use it, and the more I learn about it, the more I realize how much I don't know about it. It's always evolving. I used to build my own kernel, and compile my own packages - and I still do that on occasion because I find it interesting. I can always dig in as deep as I want to go. But no, I don't think I am an expert and I never will be."
That wasn't just an interview answer, I firmly believe that. Everything seems so much deeper today. The IT industry has grown so much. Cryptography, mobile, security, hacks, viruses/malware, gaming, containers, cloud, GPUs, etc etc. The industry has really matured in the last 25 years, which really is a short time compared to other industries, and it permeates so much. There is no doubt in my mind that I will continue to slip away from understanding it all.
1) The CIA has the ability to break into Android and iPhone handsets, and all kinds of computers.
That's part of the spying thing and has been for at least the last 2-3 decades.
Yep. I worked at Motorola in the early to late 90s, in the cellular division. We built the infrastructure platforms for bag/car/mobile phones. One fine day, there were some suits there for meetings. When we asked management what it was about, we were told it was a government project around Iridium (satellite phones) and it couldn't be discussed. Word around the office was that it was actually to make sure there were allowances built into our systems for wiretapping. I never saw any real evidence of it, but there wouldn't really be a way to know. I think then it was less around the handset and more about the infrastructure.
I think it would be naive to believe the government wouldn't do that, and even more so to think it wasn't still happening 20+ years later.
Wait. I don't mean the mainstream music industry. I don't stream music. I have a band I really like I have pre-ordered their last few CDs because they kick ass. (Clutch) For the most part, I have been finding new/old music on Youtube. I can find channels I like, find artists I like, get recommendations, etc. I can also rip channel playlists from youtube, burn them to a CD as mp3 so I can listen in my car. I have found plenty of stuff I like that way, and if I really like them I can buy their album on whatever site they list it on and support the artists. Hell, they might be in some other country. Or if it's old stuff, I can usually find the whole album on youtube and get it with tools like youtube-dl.
So I like the music industry that the internet created, the one that actually promotes music and supports artists.
First off, people in this thread seem to think that all the information people are saving is about them. I have lots of data as well, but most if it is about my kids and family. My kids are starting to hit their teens, and we still go back and watch old family videos. Most are short, under 2 min. They capture points of times in our lives that we won't get back. Our old house, in a different state... friends we had then, neighbors. Not like full documentaries on them, but fading memories. It's not important to anyone else. And if I leave that to them, they may keep it or destroy it. But that is their choice to make. With the ability to capture all of this with much more ease than the previous generation, why shouldn't we? I only have a few photos of my grandparents, and I would like to have more. But they don't exist. I don't have any videos of them at all.
It's not about being famous, or because you are important in the world's eye. There are entire professions dedicated to preserving that. It's about whatever YOU want to preserve. I once found a website that had information about my family name, I had never seen it anywhere before. Pictures and scans of documents, etc. I saved that information off, and about a year after that, the site went away. Since then, ancestry.com came to be, and I was able to use that information I saved to help stitch together our family tree.
We are in the information age, I don't understand why someone would be so opposed to preserving that. You sound very angry about something, you should probably figure out what that is before it's too late.
That is exactly what I did! No to all those questions. The questions are pretty ridiculous. Have you ever used tobacco? yes, yes I have. I have smoked cigarettes/cigars in my lifetime. I have never ever been addicted to tobacco or used it on any regular basis. But, I still answer NO on those questionnaires because if you say yes, it means you are a smoker to them.
What my story illustrates is that you can still answer NO to all the questions, but if some medical clerk checks the wrong box by accident, you could have your insurance company could force you to go to rehab or face huge penalties in insurance premiums.
That is insane and scary. I am planning to not fill out any of those questionnaires ever, and if I do - they will get the answers they want to hear.
True story. I went into the doctor for a regular checkup a few years ago. It was non-eventful. A week or so later, I got a letter from my insurance company, basically saying I had to check into drug rehab or risk losing my insurance. I knew my insurance agent pretty well, and called him up. He couldn't give me any information. I tried to call my Dr... they don't actually TALK to people on the phone, and nobody in that office would give me any information.
Eventually, my insurance agent told me that someone had noted on my questionnaire that I used marijuana - which I do not.
It took a couple of weeks of phone calls to my Dr's office, and me getting irate and coming just short of threatening legal action, and they reluctantly agreed to remove that from my record. And then my insurance company backed down.
It goes against the definition of computer software itself. There may be examples of instances that come close, but the question itself is fundamentally flawed. Well, I suppose it isn't really, because the question said if it could magically happen. So it's a thought-experiment, and isn't based in reality.
I will preface this by saying I grew up in the 80s, arcades, and even had 5 or 6 machines and about 30 boardsets in my day. I have burnt many a finger soldering up JAMMA or customized harnesses, and used to go to game auctions. It was a great time! I had friends that resurrected long-dead games from various ROMs they collected. I have seen and played one-of-a-kind games. I remember when people in the usenet community started building multi-game boardsets, it was very very exciting.
If you would have told me I could have a big, thin, relatively cheap monitor for a cabinet that replaced the CRT, without the downsides of screen burn, weight, or the distinct possibility of electrocution, I would have loved it. Yes, there is something about the original monitors, the smell when they get warmed up, the glow, the look, etc. But that's because that was the best we had at the time! Newer isn't always better, but in this case I believe it is.
I sold off my cabinets and boardsets about 10 years ago, it was sad to see them go. I am so glad that I got to grow up during that time. But I have a hard time being nostalgic for the CRT.
I am guessing he means making a JAMMA harness. For the most part, you could "JAMMAtize" almost all games. I think there were some that used different voltages besides the +5 -5 +12... but I could be wrong. I spent many many hours building JAMMA harnesses and soldering wires. All my cabinets are gone now.
My hard drive is less than a year old. My install of Mint 18 was a fresh install. I tried a new FF profile, new config files. Plenty of RAM (8 GB, less than 1GB used)
The issue was that FF would start up in the same time it always would, within a few seconds. However, it would sit and wouldn't take any kind of input for 30 seconds. CPU was quiet, RAM was quiet, disk was quiet. It even did this if I passed it a URL from the command line. It would sit for about 30 seconds, then would become responsive. It wasn't a degenerative thing... it just started doing it one day after a version update. I went through several updates, hoping it would get resolved. I tried everything I could think of to fix it, disabling and removing add-ons, of which I only had about 3 or 4. (Gestures, adblock plus, videodownload helper, may another)
I had tried Chromium in the past for a while, just didn't like it. Pale Moon to the rescue! I may go back and try FF some day, but as of right now I have no reason to.
I switched to it a few months ago from FF, and it seems much more responsive to me. It is especially better in startup-to-response time, where FF was taking 30 seconds.(no, I didn't have a ton of add-ons or customizations)
Speed really is only one piece of the puzzle. I was satisfied with the speed of chromium when I tried it for a while, but FF has the features I use. I much prefer the way FF does bookmarks, the bookmark toolbar, and tabs. That is why I have been very satisfied with Pale Moon... the features of FF I need without the bloat and dog-slow response.
Yes - it would show they knew what the hell I was talking about at least.:)
I used to ask "what shell do you prefer?" (bash/ksh/csh/sh) but I think bash has pretty much taken over. If they have Linux on there I can usually ask a few basic questions and know right away how much they used it. Lately it's just been some introductory course in school or they used it to run sql queries or something like that.
Trick questions are great - not to get a right answer, but to just see how they answer the question. I have interviewed many people in my career as a manager, from developers to QA to project managers.
One thing I always try to do is gauge their responses. I ask candidates to tell me about a time they failed, that they really screwed up. It is surprising how many people give some non-answer because they think you want to hear that they don't screw up. I love when people tell me a really good one, all the better if they seem to enjoy telling it. I am not hiring robots or infallible people. When getting interviewers together after the interview, one of the worst things to hear is "I couldn't get any real answers out of them." I would rather hear from candidates "I don't know, I'd probably Google that" than someone trying to bullshit me.
I love it when people say they have experience on Unix. "Vi or emacs?" I had one guy say "vi" with zero hesitation. If they look at me with a blank stare, I explain what vi and emacs are, and then their real level of experience comes out.
Of course, sticking with a diet loaded with saturated fat, salt and red meat will likely lead to heart disease, but hey, at least you'll be a skinny corpse.
What are you basing this assertion on? I really want to know. There has been no definitive link between saturated fat, salt, and red meat and heart disease. None. If you have information, please point it out. And don't give me the "everyone knows that", or "that is what the American Heart Association says". Tell me what scientific research you have read. I know what I have read, and none of it says that. All of these conclusions were made, and dietary direction has been given, DESPITE the scientific research on these topics. Here's a good intro for you: Dr Peter Attia on the limits of scientific research.
I can tell you, that link isn't there. And you forgot the other nugget of "conventional wisdom" that isn't supported by science either - that high cholesterol is a direct cause of heart disease. Because half - yes HALF - of people who have heart attacks have what is considered to be normal cholesterol. Yes, there is old standby that there is "good cholesterol and bad cholesterol" but it's much more complex than just that. And over 90% of the cholesterol in your blood does not come from what you eat - your body produces it. Now, what you eat can impact your blood cholesterol composition, but it does not come from eating saturated fat.
You talk about what we've learned in the last 100 years. Do you have any concept of how long humans have been around? 100 years is a blink of the eye. How do you think we got here? How did we not only survive, but thrive? By whatever you consider to be "healthy eating"? Let me guess.... low fat, high carb diet, lots of fiber, and filler like beans, fruits and vegetables. The reason obesity is so rampant, and people are looking to fads, is because of the misinformation we have all been given, and have been propagating, for years.
Science tells us the real story. Good Calories Bad Calories The Primal Blueprint Grain Brain http://eatingacademy.com/
And yes, I have bet my life in all of this. 4+ years of eating a high-saturated fat, low carb diet, minimal sugar, minimal inflammation foods. By choice. I am in my upper 40s and I have never felt better. It sounds daunting, but once you learn how your body works and why to eat certain things and not others it is not. It doesn't take will power either. Once you break that physical addiction to those things that put your body through the chemical roller-coaster, it is easy. And simple. And you'll wonder why nobody told you these things sooner.
This is great news, especially for people who don't have to have/build the latest and greatest. I am still happily running an intel Core2 Quad Core. But this means that the price of lower end parts, and used parts, should go down accordingly. The top of the line parts of today will be the hand-me-downs of tomorrow. My kids all have hand-me-down computers that are very capable for the things they do.
That means the artists probably have to move somewhere else, which is fine I guess, unless it's only a matter of time before the new site gets too expensive to run and either dies or gets sold off.
Or... it's not a new site, and it all collapses into something like facebook. I am not on it, but it's harder to avoid it. I quit using instagram (for that reason, and because it's toxic) and I do use whatsapp to keep in touch with several friends in different states in a group chat. It does bother me that fb owns them though. It seems like only a few companies will 'own' the majority of the content of the internet, at least in terms of how the masses consume it.
And still... I don't want one. I am a gear-head, and I don't think I could ever get away from that. Electric vehicles don't interest me much, even though some are amazing from a performance perspective. I think it would take a very long time to replace what we have now anyway. I think it will happen, but hopefully not completely. I am all for progress, and I think that the leaps that technology have made in the automotive industry are pretty incredible. Just don't take away our rich automotive history by outlawing/banning it. I still want my computer-less cars and motorcycles. If we get to 90% clean vehicles that's great! Just let me keep my loud polluters that I love.
Exactly. And it isn't like the roads were unoccupied, there were roughly just as many cars as normal. Also, I have driven it on clear days where there is much less traffic - like Presidents Day or other holidays during the week that not everyone gets off. And the traffic patterns are the same.
There's always 2 or 3 people who need to go 10 mph faster than everyone else. I can be going 75 (15 over the limit, btw) in the left lane, with a series of cars in front of me, and some jackass will come flying up behind me, then swerve into the middle lane, then the right, pass a few cars on the right, swerve into the middle lane again, then cut someone off ahead of me by cutting into the fast lane of traffic. Then lots of brake lights. I am not saying that is the cause of all the traffic issues, but it sure doesn't help things. Not to mention that its usually pretty crowded, so it isn't like they get anywhere faster than anyone else.
Interesting idea that could have been 1/4 the length. I still don't get the premise, faster and better quality than a dot matrix? Clearly. Wireless? Not new. The print head and speed was impressive. But knowing how printer manufacturers screw you on things like ink, I can only imagine how many different cartridges are in that behemoth. For me, printer manufacturers have a long long way to go to rebuild trust in them and their products.
I am not really in favor of these cars, but consider this counter argument.
I have a 17 mile commute to work. The divided 2 and 3 lane highway is a mile from my house, and my office is right off the exit. So it is effectively all highway miles. I can usually make it in 20-23 minutes. Most of the trip is a 60MPH speed limit. Traffic is normally 70-75 MPH, with a few others on the margin of that. Pretty much what you stated.
But why does it take me 20+ minutes to get to work? Because when we aren't going 75, we are stopped. There are natural areas where it slows, like where it goes from 3 lanes to 2, or where onramps bring in more traffic. But there are other areas where we just come to a stop for no reason other than people jockeying for position, right-lane-passing, tailgating and braking.
One day it was snowing quite a lot, and mostly everyone was driving a bit more cautious. It was 60 MPH all the way to work. I didn't even need to touch my brakes until I exited for my office. People stayed in their lanes and it was so much less stressful. It took me 22 minutes door to door. So while the idea of self-driving cars still creeps me out, there is part of me that KNOWS it would be more efficient in some ways. It's a big leap to get to that point, and I personally don't see myself ever having a self-driving car... but who knows. I think it is worth testing it out.
"If it is not on Bing or Google, then we have effectively eliminated piracy. Great job everyone."
Bonuses will be rewarded, a few more jobs at MS/Google to monitor piracy claims. Lawyers will creep away and chase something else. But most of all - piracy will be dead!
OK, maybe not. It could curtail the casual infringer. It will not deter true pirates, or those who may operate in the gray areas.
What is a gray area? I think there are many. I once pre-ordered a CD from a band I really liked who had a new album coming out, two months ahead of the release. Release day came, and went. It was in stores, but I didn't have mine yet. After a week, I downloaded it. Another week passed, and my CD showed up.
I have purchased a DVD for my kids (many, actually) where I could not rip it to put on my media server. I was able to download it in less time that it would have taken to rip it.
I have a Roku, and I also have Charter cable. For a lot of the Roku channels I just have to log in with my Charter account to get access. Pretty painless process. However, for some of the channels (like Comedy Central) this doesn't work because they list multiple Charter providers, none of which are mine. So I am out of luck for those channels. It's not that big of a deal to me, so I don't download those shows. But I could see how that could piss some people off and why they might seek out to download them.
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Looks like maybe providers need to make the content available to those countries who are watching that "pirated" content.
It really seems to me that this is more about content not being available, so people find ways to get it. While Netflix/Amazon may be available in some of those countries, do they get the full list of shows/movies, or just a pittance? I know it is likely due to copyright law restrictions, but that should serve as a wake up call that those restrictions are not helping the copyright holders.
They sure threw the word pirate around a lot in the article. It would be interesting to see a definition of what they call "pirated".
Indeed, it is in some cases a federal crime to disclose a wiretap without authorization, including not only the information obtained from the wiretap, but also the mere existence of a wiretap with an intent to obstruct it. With respect to intelligence wiretaps, there is an additional issue: They are always classified, and disclosure of classified information is also generally a crime.
Effectively, this is saying that if there was a wiretap and Trump disclosed it without authorization, he could have committed a crime.
I have wondered if there were taps, maybe it was simply on the Russians and the fact that they were talking with Trump could have been a coincidence unrelated to the election. With all the shit Russia pulls, I would kind of hope our Gov was keeping tabs on them.
it's what I've used for years. I have a not so memorable story, take an event from that, and turn it into your password scheme.
[completely fabricated example]
In 7th grade a girl I liked (Sarah) gave a presentation on Abraham Lincoln. She was wearing a blue dress.
Four score and blue dress. FoScBlDr (8 characters, safe)
Add in a number and a symbol, because some sites require it. FoScBlDr81? [I think it was in 1981]
So, there is my starting password. Password hint = Sarah Lincoln 81, maybe SL81 for short.
6 months later, you have to change your password. Hint becomes SL82 (FoScBlDr82?)
You could cycle through to 89, then back to 81. Over time, you can morph it in other ways. Maybe put a $ in there instead of a ? for financial sites, or come up with a separate story for those.
The thing is, YOU make up the story and the cycling rules.
You can even write down your password hints, nobody would ever think "Crush 88" was actually "FoScBlDr88?"
I have used one scheme/password since 1999, and it has morphed so much even if I told someone my original password, they couldn't guess what it is now... it's just jibberish.
This is pretty good, but it runs into the password re-use problem. Which is a real problem, because you don't have any say in how securely the password is stored in the service's database. If your yahoo password gets compromised, that's a real issue. But if your compromised yahoo password will also let people into your gmail and etrade accounts, it's a disaster.
You are correct. I alluded to but didn't make it clear that I can use the same scheme, but different password, for different sites.
e.g. for one site it may be "99 Crush", which would be "?99FoScBlDr" (change the number, and move it and the ? to the front)
I just posted off the top of my head anyway, if you put a little thought into it, it becomes more secure. And using your example, if someone cracked my yahoo password and it was "FoScBlDr82?", how would they ever figure out that my gmail password is "FoScBlDr88?" ? OK, so maybe they could decide to increment the number and get lucky. What if I make my scheme to rotate the number and the letter before it? FoScBlDr81?, FoScBlDs82?, FoScBlDt83?, etc.
My point is that it can be obscure and memorable, but only to you. Unless you share your made up algorithm, or expose a simple pattern, which can't really be figured out unless someone gets multiple versions of the password. I am not saying it's perfect, but I think it is a good way to do it. It's worked for me anyway.
I still remember a password that an intern at my first company used. He gave it to me when he left in case I needed it. It was "CIrpotb,"
He liked Pearl Jam, and it was from a lyric in one of their popular songs.
it's what I've used for years. I have a not so memorable story, take an event from that, and turn it into your password scheme.
[completely fabricated example]
In 7th grade a girl I liked (Sarah) gave a presentation on Abraham Lincoln. She was wearing a blue dress.
Four score and blue dress. FoScBlDr (8 characters, safe)
Add in a number and a symbol, because some sites require it. FoScBlDr81? [I think it was in 1981]
So, there is my starting password. Password hint = Sarah Lincoln 81, maybe SL81 for short.
6 months later, you have to change your password. Hint becomes SL82 (FoScBlDr82?)
You could cycle through to 89, then back to 81. Over time, you can morph it in other ways. Maybe put a $ in there instead of a ? for financial sites, or come up with a separate story for those.
The thing is, YOU make up the story and the cycling rules.
You can even write down your password hints, nobody would ever think "Crush 88" was actually "FoScBlDr88?"
I have used one scheme/password since 1999, and it has morphed so much even if I told someone my original password, they couldn't guess what it is now... it's just jibberish.
Not surprising, some people today are just as ignorant about computers.
Though it scares me to think I may be ignorant about some FUTURE tech that comes out when I'm old.
Future? I feel that way about some current tech.
I tell you, I have been using computers since the TRS-80 model III in the mid 80s, and I still feel ignorant about computers some days.
During one job interview I was asked about my experience on Linux. I said I have been using it as my home system since 1999, and I ran it and tested on it at a few jobs I had over the years. The interviewer said "oh, so you're an expert?" I replied "I think that the more I use it, and the more I learn about it, the more I realize how much I don't know about it. It's always evolving. I used to build my own kernel, and compile my own packages - and I still do that on occasion because I find it interesting. I can always dig in as deep as I want to go. But no, I don't think I am an expert and I never will be."
That wasn't just an interview answer, I firmly believe that. Everything seems so much deeper today. The IT industry has grown so much. Cryptography, mobile, security, hacks, viruses/malware, gaming, containers, cloud, GPUs, etc etc. The industry has really matured in the last 25 years, which really is a short time compared to other industries, and it permeates so much. There is no doubt in my mind that I will continue to slip away from understanding it all.
1) The CIA has the ability to break into Android and iPhone handsets, and all kinds of computers.
That's part of the spying thing and has been for at least the last 2-3 decades.
Yep. I worked at Motorola in the early to late 90s, in the cellular division. We built the infrastructure platforms for bag/car/mobile phones.
One fine day, there were some suits there for meetings. When we asked management what it was about, we were told it was a government project around Iridium (satellite phones) and it couldn't be discussed. Word around the office was that it was actually to make sure there were allowances built into our systems for wiretapping. I never saw any real evidence of it, but there wouldn't really be a way to know. I think then it was less around the handset and more about the infrastructure.
I think it would be naive to believe the government wouldn't do that, and even more so to think it wasn't still happening 20+ years later.
Wait.
I don't mean the mainstream music industry.
I don't stream music. I have a band I really like I have pre-ordered their last few CDs because they kick ass. (Clutch)
For the most part, I have been finding new/old music on Youtube. I can find channels I like, find artists I like, get recommendations, etc. I can also rip channel playlists from youtube, burn them to a CD as mp3 so I can listen in my car. I have found plenty of stuff I like that way, and if I really like them I can buy their album on whatever site they list it on and support the artists. Hell, they might be in some other country. Or if it's old stuff, I can usually find the whole album on youtube and get it with tools like youtube-dl.
So I like the music industry that the internet created, the one that actually promotes music and supports artists.
First off, people in this thread seem to think that all the information people are saving is about them.
I have lots of data as well, but most if it is about my kids and family. My kids are starting to hit their teens, and we still go back and watch old family videos. Most are short, under 2 min. They capture points of times in our lives that we won't get back. Our old house, in a different state... friends we had then, neighbors. Not like full documentaries on them, but fading memories. It's not important to anyone else. And if I leave that to them, they may keep it or destroy it. But that is their choice to make. With the ability to capture all of this with much more ease than the previous generation, why shouldn't we? I only have a few photos of my grandparents, and I would like to have more. But they don't exist. I don't have any videos of them at all.
It's not about being famous, or because you are important in the world's eye. There are entire professions dedicated to preserving that. It's about whatever YOU want to preserve. I once found a website that had information about my family name, I had never seen it anywhere before. Pictures and scans of documents, etc. I saved that information off, and about a year after that, the site went away. Since then, ancestry.com came to be, and I was able to use that information I saved to help stitch together our family tree.
We are in the information age, I don't understand why someone would be so opposed to preserving that.
You sound very angry about something, you should probably figure out what that is before it's too late.
That is exactly what I did! No to all those questions.
The questions are pretty ridiculous. Have you ever used tobacco? yes, yes I have. I have smoked cigarettes/cigars in my lifetime. I have never ever been addicted to tobacco or used it on any regular basis. But, I still answer NO on those questionnaires because if you say yes, it means you are a smoker to them.
What my story illustrates is that you can still answer NO to all the questions, but if some medical clerk checks the wrong box by accident, you could have your insurance company could force you to go to rehab or face huge penalties in insurance premiums.
That is insane and scary. I am planning to not fill out any of those questionnaires ever, and if I do - they will get the answers they want to hear.
True story.
I went into the doctor for a regular checkup a few years ago.
It was non-eventful.
A week or so later, I got a letter from my insurance company, basically saying I had to check into drug rehab or risk losing my insurance.
I knew my insurance agent pretty well, and called him up. He couldn't give me any information. I tried to call my Dr... they don't actually TALK to people on the phone, and nobody in that office would give me any information.
Eventually, my insurance agent told me that someone had noted on my questionnaire that I used marijuana - which I do not.
It took a couple of weeks of phone calls to my Dr's office, and me getting irate and coming just short of threatening legal action, and they reluctantly agreed to remove that from my record. And then my insurance company backed down.
It goes against the definition of computer software itself. There may be examples of instances that come close, but the question itself is fundamentally flawed. Well, I suppose it isn't really, because the question said if it could magically happen. So it's a thought-experiment, and isn't based in reality.
Carry on.
I will preface this by saying I grew up in the 80s, arcades, and even had 5 or 6 machines and about 30 boardsets in my day. I have burnt many a finger soldering up JAMMA or customized harnesses, and used to go to game auctions. It was a great time! I had friends that resurrected long-dead games from various ROMs they collected. I have seen and played one-of-a-kind games. I remember when people in the usenet community started building multi-game boardsets, it was very very exciting.
If you would have told me I could have a big, thin, relatively cheap monitor for a cabinet that replaced the CRT, without the downsides of screen burn, weight, or the distinct possibility of electrocution, I would have loved it. Yes, there is something about the original monitors, the smell when they get warmed up, the glow, the look, etc. But that's because that was the best we had at the time! Newer isn't always better, but in this case I believe it is.
I sold off my cabinets and boardsets about 10 years ago, it was sad to see them go. I am so glad that I got to grow up during that time. But I have a hard time being nostalgic for the CRT.
I am guessing he means making a JAMMA harness. For the most part, you could "JAMMAtize" almost all games. I think there were some that used different voltages besides the +5 -5 +12... but I could be wrong. I spent many many hours building JAMMA harnesses and soldering wires. All my cabinets are gone now.
My hard drive is less than a year old. My install of Mint 18 was a fresh install. I tried a new FF profile, new config files. Plenty of RAM (8 GB, less than 1GB used)
The issue was that FF would start up in the same time it always would, within a few seconds. However, it would sit and wouldn't take any kind of input for 30 seconds. CPU was quiet, RAM was quiet, disk was quiet. It even did this if I passed it a URL from the command line. It would sit for about 30 seconds, then would become responsive. It wasn't a degenerative thing... it just started doing it one day after a version update. I went through several updates, hoping it would get resolved. I tried everything I could think of to fix it, disabling and removing add-ons, of which I only had about 3 or 4. (Gestures, adblock plus, videodownload helper, may another)
I had tried Chromium in the past for a while, just didn't like it. Pale Moon to the rescue! I may go back and try FF some day, but as of right now I have no reason to.
I switched to it a few months ago from FF, and it seems much more responsive to me. It is especially better in startup-to-response time, where FF was taking 30 seconds.(no, I didn't have a ton of add-ons or customizations)
Speed really is only one piece of the puzzle. I was satisfied with the speed of chromium when I tried it for a while, but FF has the features I use. I much prefer the way FF does bookmarks, the bookmark toolbar, and tabs. That is why I have been very satisfied with Pale Moon... the features of FF I need without the bloat and dog-slow response.
Yes - it would show they knew what the hell I was talking about at least. :)
I used to ask "what shell do you prefer?" (bash/ksh/csh/sh) but I think bash has pretty much taken over.
If they have Linux on there I can usually ask a few basic questions and know right away how much they used it. Lately it's just been some introductory course in school or they used it to run sql queries or something like that.
Trick questions are great - not to get a right answer, but to just see how they answer the question.
I have interviewed many people in my career as a manager, from developers to QA to project managers.
One thing I always try to do is gauge their responses. I ask candidates to tell me about a time they failed, that they really screwed up.
It is surprising how many people give some non-answer because they think you want to hear that they don't screw up. I love when people tell me a really good one, all the better if they seem to enjoy telling it. I am not hiring robots or infallible people. When getting interviewers together after the interview, one of the worst things to hear is "I couldn't get any real answers out of them." I would rather hear from candidates "I don't know, I'd probably Google that" than someone trying to bullshit me.
I love it when people say they have experience on Unix. "Vi or emacs?" I had one guy say "vi" with zero hesitation. If they look at me with a blank stare, I explain what vi and emacs are, and then their real level of experience comes out.
Of course, sticking with a diet loaded with saturated fat, salt and red meat will likely lead to heart disease, but hey, at least you'll be a skinny corpse.
What are you basing this assertion on?
I really want to know.
There has been no definitive link between saturated fat, salt, and red meat and heart disease. None. If you have information, please point it out.
And don't give me the "everyone knows that", or "that is what the American Heart Association says". Tell me what scientific research you have read. I know what I have read, and none of it says that. All of these conclusions were made, and dietary direction has been given, DESPITE the scientific research on these topics. Here's a good intro for you: Dr Peter Attia on the limits of scientific research.
I can tell you, that link isn't there. And you forgot the other nugget of "conventional wisdom" that isn't supported by science either - that high cholesterol is a direct cause of heart disease. Because half - yes HALF - of people who have heart attacks have what is considered to be normal cholesterol. Yes, there is old standby that there is "good cholesterol and bad cholesterol" but it's much more complex than just that. And over 90% of the cholesterol in your blood does not come from what you eat - your body produces it. Now, what you eat can impact your blood cholesterol composition, but it does not come from eating saturated fat.
You talk about what we've learned in the last 100 years. Do you have any concept of how long humans have been around? 100 years is a blink of the eye. How do you think we got here? How did we not only survive, but thrive? By whatever you consider to be "healthy eating"? Let me guess.... low fat, high carb diet, lots of fiber, and filler like beans, fruits and vegetables. The reason obesity is so rampant, and people are looking to fads, is because of the misinformation we have all been given, and have been propagating, for years.
Science tells us the real story.
Good Calories Bad Calories
The Primal Blueprint
Grain Brain
http://eatingacademy.com/
And yes, I have bet my life in all of this. 4+ years of eating a high-saturated fat, low carb diet, minimal sugar, minimal inflammation foods. By choice. I am in my upper 40s and I have never felt better. It sounds daunting, but once you learn how your body works and why to eat certain things and not others it is not. It doesn't take will power either. Once you break that physical addiction to those things that put your body through the chemical roller-coaster, it is easy. And simple. And you'll wonder why nobody told you these things sooner.
This is great news, especially for people who don't have to have/build the latest and greatest. I am still happily running an intel Core2 Quad Core. But this means that the price of lower end parts, and used parts, should go down accordingly. The top of the line parts of today will be the hand-me-downs of tomorrow. My kids all have hand-me-down computers that are very capable for the things they do.
That means the artists probably have to move somewhere else, which is fine I guess, unless it's only a matter of time before the new site gets too expensive to run and either dies or gets sold off.
Or... it's not a new site, and it all collapses into something like facebook. I am not on it, but it's harder to avoid it. I quit using instagram (for that reason, and because it's toxic) and I do use whatsapp to keep in touch with several friends in different states in a group chat. It does bother me that fb owns them though. It seems like only a few companies will 'own' the majority of the content of the internet, at least in terms of how the masses consume it.
And still... I don't want one.
I am a gear-head, and I don't think I could ever get away from that. Electric vehicles don't interest me much, even though some are amazing from a performance perspective. I think it would take a very long time to replace what we have now anyway. I think it will happen, but hopefully not completely. I am all for progress, and I think that the leaps that technology have made in the automotive industry are pretty incredible. Just don't take away our rich automotive history by outlawing/banning it. I still want my computer-less cars and motorcycles. If we get to 90% clean vehicles that's great! Just let me keep my loud polluters that I love.
Exactly. And it isn't like the roads were unoccupied, there were roughly just as many cars as normal.
Also, I have driven it on clear days where there is much less traffic - like Presidents Day or other holidays during the week that not everyone gets off. And the traffic patterns are the same.
There's always 2 or 3 people who need to go 10 mph faster than everyone else. I can be going 75 (15 over the limit, btw) in the left lane, with a series of cars in front of me, and some jackass will come flying up behind me, then swerve into the middle lane, then the right, pass a few cars on the right, swerve into the middle lane again, then cut someone off ahead of me by cutting into the fast lane of traffic. Then lots of brake lights. I am not saying that is the cause of all the traffic issues, but it sure doesn't help things. Not to mention that its usually pretty crowded, so it isn't like they get anywhere faster than anyone else.
Interesting idea that could have been 1/4 the length. I still don't get the premise, faster and better quality than a dot matrix? Clearly. Wireless? Not new. The print head and speed was impressive. But knowing how printer manufacturers screw you on things like ink, I can only imagine how many different cartridges are in that behemoth. For me, printer manufacturers have a long long way to go to rebuild trust in them and their products.
I am not really in favor of these cars, but consider this counter argument.
I have a 17 mile commute to work. The divided 2 and 3 lane highway is a mile from my house, and my office is right off the exit. So it is effectively all highway miles. I can usually make it in 20-23 minutes. Most of the trip is a 60MPH speed limit. Traffic is normally 70-75 MPH, with a few others on the margin of that. Pretty much what you stated.
But why does it take me 20+ minutes to get to work? Because when we aren't going 75, we are stopped. There are natural areas where it slows, like where it goes from 3 lanes to 2, or where onramps bring in more traffic. But there are other areas where we just come to a stop for no reason other than people jockeying for position, right-lane-passing, tailgating and braking.
One day it was snowing quite a lot, and mostly everyone was driving a bit more cautious. It was 60 MPH all the way to work. I didn't even need to touch my brakes until I exited for my office. People stayed in their lanes and it was so much less stressful. It took me 22 minutes door to door. So while the idea of self-driving cars still creeps me out, there is part of me that KNOWS it would be more efficient in some ways. It's a big leap to get to that point, and I personally don't see myself ever having a self-driving car... but who knows. I think it is worth testing it out.
"If it is not on Bing or Google, then we have effectively eliminated piracy. Great job everyone."
Bonuses will be rewarded, a few more jobs at MS/Google to monitor piracy claims. Lawyers will creep away and chase something else.
But most of all - piracy will be dead!
OK, maybe not.
It could curtail the casual infringer. It will not deter true pirates, or those who may operate in the gray areas.
What is a gray area? I think there are many.
I once pre-ordered a CD from a band I really liked who had a new album coming out, two months ahead of the release. Release day came, and went. It was in stores, but I didn't have mine yet. After a week, I downloaded it. Another week passed, and my CD showed up.
I have purchased a DVD for my kids (many, actually) where I could not rip it to put on my media server. I was able to download it in less time that it would have taken to rip it.
I have a Roku, and I also have Charter cable. For a lot of the Roku channels I just have to log in with my Charter account to get access. Pretty painless process. However, for some of the channels (like Comedy Central) this doesn't work because they list multiple Charter providers, none of which are mine. So I am out of luck for those channels. It's not that big of a deal to me, so I don't download those shows. But I could see how that could piss some people off and why they might seek out to download them.