I have been driving manuals for 30 years as well, and I use it correctly as you do. Although, I usually leave my car in neutral not in gear. I know it's modern and you have to depress the clutch to start it, it's just an old habit from back when you didn't have to do that, and could start the car with it in gear.
On rear-wheel drive cars handbrakes also have lots of fun uses when it's raining or snowing out. (I still haven't quite figured them out on front-wheel drive cars though)
However, I have always called it a "parking brake" and not a handbrake, simply because many parking brakes are foot operated. Personally, I don't really use them in our van because we don't live where it is particularly hilly, and also because it's not as obvious that you've set it. Ever drive away with the parking brake set? Much easier to do in a slushbox where you just put it in gear and jam the accelerator. One of the many reasons I will always drive a manual trans - you just are more connected to the vehicle.
I have a pretty good MP3 collection and I have bought maybe 5 albums over the past 10 years. I have rediscovered some older music/artists that I have really enjoyed lately. Radio is awful. Burn MP3s to CDs and listen to them in the car during drive time. Since there are many styles of music, I am mainly talking about hard rock stuff - Clutch, Monster Magnet, The Sword, Orange Goblin. I have some friends in bands, and they turn me onto some local/indie bands that can produce really good stuff (Resident Kings).
Honestly, I've tried last.fm and spotify... I just haven't been able to latch onto services. I want what I am in the mood for... some days it's old Sabbath, some days Queen, other days old Metallica (pre-Black) or The Black Crowes. A service can't tell my listening mood.
I've been in Software Testing/QA (NOT Q&A, unless you actually meant "question and answer") since 1993. I've been a manager in that field for 11 years. Here is the reality - in any reasonably sized project, bug-free software is a myth. And saying this to upper-management is a huge no-no that will likely get you pulled into multiple meetings and probably chastised for subverting the quality process or some such nonsense created by someone who never tested in their life. The whole key to it is prioritizing them correctly and knowing which battles to fight. I have seen entire releases of software get held up because someone found a bug, and it violated our quality metrics to ship software with any bugs that we introduced even if they are cosmetic. Insanity! We held up a release twice for this because this was a non-negotiable quality metric.
Why was this bug in there 13 years? I can think of many reasons - it wasn't worth fixing at any given time, there were higher-priority bugs, there were features to develop, there was turnover on the project. Maybe at some point there was discussion of deprecating the application, or re-writing it, or replacing it. Who knows, maybe they realized that vi is superior to Kate.;P
You should aspire to find and fix every bug, but the reality of software is that they exist. The criticality and the priority of fixing them depends on many factors. A solid QA process is only one part of the solution. You can't fix them until you find them, but just because you find them doesn't mean that you have to fix them.
the various agencies of the US Government tend to lie ( even to Congress ), I'm somewhat puzzled about why they even bother to ask questions of them anymore.
Perhaps Congress should forgo asking questions of the professional liars ( any intelligence agency ) and ask the tech world instead. I'm quite sure the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Google and many others ( assuming they're not secretly on the Governments payroll ) would have a much different perspective on the issue at hand.
Companies aren't on the payroll of the government, it's the other way around.
I know that they aren't on the top list, but they make some good unlocked phones that are a fraction of the price of the big names. I will definitely buy from them again.
FYI, I was 22 when Perot ran the first time, so I absolutely remember him. I have never personally seen an election where the (presumptive) candidates were so awful. And I never ever considered Perot to be a viable option.
Many times people choose sides because "the other side" is not what they want, or quite honestly because like religion - that is what they were taught growing up. I think our political system doesn't fit who we are anymore, or at least where we are headed. Some days I think our country is doomed, some days I have great hope for it. I think it's maturing pains. 240 years isn't very old in country-years. I think being neck-deep in the information age has an effect on that as well.
I still have the old brown-and-tan icon. I won't update it until this one stops working - which I am sure will be soon, since they now have financial incentive to get people on the new app.
If ever there was an election to vote for a third party, it is this one. Keep an eye on Gary Johnson from the Libertarian party. While I don't agree with his stance on every issue, he seems really solid. Which I can't even fathom saying for anyone else in the running. Want to upset the current system? Don't let either side win. Maybe they will finally wake up.
I RTFA. It was written by someone who read the information on reddit, which was posted by the this anonymous tester, who then deleted it 10 minutes later. That's it. Really, that is it.
I used to be on Slashdot daily back in the day (very late 90s), but got away from it for about the past 8 years or so. I just started re-reading it about a month ago, and I have been quite shocked with the poor quality. I don't know if it's an attempt to stay relevant or what, but this is sad.
Um.. OK. And why would they need to buy LinkedIn for that exactly? Microsoft already OWNS the office environment. And yet they still can't get it right. At the company I work for we are a Microsoft shop. In the last couple of years our IM switched from Lync to Skype and now we've just recently gone to Cisco Jabber. Mind you - we are a total Microsoft shop, and we went with one of their competitor for IM. Who knows, maybe Jabber was part of the deal when we switched from Lync/Skype for meetings to Webex. Because that didn't work well either. The one thing that Microsoft did do was get themselves embedded into companies and for years they really did a decent job of integrating things and making them work well together. I think they are struggling to keep up though.
I remember some fairly secure passwords from 20 years ago. We had an intern who left, and he gave me his unix password in case I needed it. It was CIrpotb, It was the first letter from each word in the lyric in the song Jeremy "Clearly I remember picking on the boy," and included the comma.
I have used a similar method. Here's how: 1. Pick something significant to you that you will not forget. Let's say you saw your first girlfriend's hot mom in the nude. Her name was Alice. Aliceboobs 2. Throw in some caps. AliceboobS. Then some numbers and punctuation. Aliceb00bS! Done So when you have to change it, bump up the 2nd number. Aliceb01bS! Aliceb02bS!... If you just go from 00 to 09 and back, you have 10 iterations. If you go to 99 you have 100. Need to keep a reminder on a post-it? write milf18! That means Aliceb18bS! Need to answer a security question? What was the name of your first pet? milf18! easy reminder You only need to modify a few characters to get a new secure password that only you know the story behind.
Find your own event, make up your own rules. Anyone can do it. I have had the same password scheme since 2000. The password now looks random because of modifications over the years.
(note: that is NOT the story behind my password, but the story is true):)
However... Businesses still use computers (personal and servers). And consider this - it makes no sense for Microsoft to do it, yet they want that CAPABILITY. They don't have the best track record when it comes to security. See where this could be going? Integrated ransomware, ripe for the picking.
Microsoft didn't just get the game, they got the rights to the BRAND. Minecraft merchandise is huge. I know, I have three kids who love it. What I like about it is that my kids all share 1 account... they don't go out on servers to play, they just build worlds and do all kinds of stuff locally. I even set up a server for them, but they don't use it. They just open their worlds up to LAN access and have fun.
I also like that it is set up (currently) so you buy the game and you are good. No paying for upgrades and things like that. Hopefully Microsoft won't change that, I was bummed when I heard they bought it. But there are tools like MultiMC that are fantastic. You can easily create instances for different versions and load mods with a few clicks. It makes taking backups for them pretty easy.
Personally - I don't get it. But they sure do, and love it.
Password security is system agnostic. It isn't just Microsoft. I applaud their efforts here, but they are just that. Nothing ground-breaking.
Here's an idea... teach people how to create better passwords! Don't just restrict them to X number of characters or say you have to use capitals and numbers.
I remember some fairly secure passwords from 20 years ago. We had an intern who left, and he gave me his unix password in case I needed it. It was CIrpotb, It was the first letter from each word in the lyric in the song Jeremy "Clearly I remember picking on the boy," and included the comma.
I have used a similar method. Here's how: 1. Pick something significant to you that you will not forget. Let's say you saw your first girlfriend's hot mom in the nude. Her name was Alice. Aliceboobs 2. Throw in some caps. AliceboobS. Then some numbers and punctuation. Aliceb00bS! Done So when you have to change it, bump up the 2nd number. Aliceb01bS! Aliceb02bS!... If you just go from 00 to 09 and back, you have 10 iterations. If you go to 99 you have 100. Need to keep a reminder on a post-it? write milf18! That means Aliceb18bS! Need to answer a security question? What was the name of your first pet? milf18! easy reminder You only need to modify a few characters to get a new secure password that only you know the story behind.
Find your own event, make up your own rules. Anyone can do it.
(note: that is NOT the story behind my password, but the story is true):)
No, but I consider pasta and bread to be poison. Potatoes and sweet potatoes only in small amounts on occasion. It has nothing to do with portion control. I know, because I used to think that. But nope, not at all.
Avoid grains or grain products Avoid sugar Eat as much healthy fat as you like (low-fat is bad for you). Animal fat, olive oil, butter, coconut oil, avocados, eggs Eat meat - the best sources you can get
Those four things will slim you down and reduce inflammation greatly. It will also help you get off the insulin roller-coaster. Once you get there, you will realize how bad you felt before, and will wish you would have started sooner. I also avoid nuts/legumes as well. Some people say avoid dairy, but I still eat cheese and full-fat dairy products. (no milk though) My health is better, my bloodwork is better. I just am ready for the medical establishment to realize their advice has been wrong all these years, and based off of bad or biased reporting of scientific studies.
Whoops sorry, I misread your comment... but you were close. FTFY
If you move to Windows 10 then you deserve all the security problems you will inevitably have. GUI and "principle" issues aside - it is not a smart move.
Please don't propagate this myth. It is simply not based on anything. It isn't calories, it's what you eat and comes down to HOW your body works. It's about hormones, largely insulin and how your body handles it. You cut calories without fixing how your body works because you've been abusing it, and you will simply be starving yourself. And that simply doesn't work and is unhealthy.
Cut out sugars and carbs. Eat natural (unprocessed) fats. (two other myths - fat doesn't make you fat, and don't cause heart disease)
It is THAT simple. But people refuse to believe it. Don't just trust a Slashdot post. Read the research papers - and read the criticisms about them, researcher bias, etc. Learn what we have been 'fed' about diet. Educate yourself. Look at the data around obesity, heart disease, diabetes. It is amazing to me how much info is available to us, yet people just want a quick fix. Take some time and read.
Good Calories Bad Calories The Primal Blueprint Grain Brain Many others.
I have been doing this for almost 4 years now, and in my mid-40s I am healthier than I have ever been. We have been an agriculture society for 10k years, but humans have been around and evolving for 2.5 million years. Do a visual comparison of those two numbers. Look at how little time we have been farming, then look at the Standard American Diet. Look at the sheer percentage of your diet that is grain and sugar based. Cut those things out. You will be much much healthier and that is what got us to where we are today.
First let me say I am likely older than you. I just say that because I was born in the late 60s. I grew up on farm, obviously didn't have internet, or even cable. I spent a lot of time outside, but as soon as I could get technology, I did. My kids will never know the feeling of riding your bike in the rain for miles with a pocket full of quarters to play arcade games. And that is OK. I am not nostalgic for "the good old days", nor am I angry at "this generation of kids" the way so many other people my age seem to be. I have been involved in technology since before I could drive, and am still amazed at it.
My oldest is turning 11 in a couple of weeks, and we are giving her one of our old phones. It will mainly be for texting/calling her friends, and keeping in touch with us as she will be going to middle school next year. All three of my kids have computers (all hand-me-downs from friends/family) and tablets (lower-end pretty inexpensive ones) and they are on them quite a bit. They have had their access taken away as they have tested the rules. But nothing too bad. They play a lot of Minecraft with each other locally, they don't really go out on servers. Their main internet influences are probably from youtube and those annoying fucking videos where gamers yak their heads off and you watch them play games. I don't get it. But my parents didn't get heavy metal or computers. But that's OK. I don't need to get what my kids do. I just need to help guide them. Just because they have these things doesn't mean that they can't have OTHER things. What I will help them do is learn how to use and manage this technology, and make good choices.
My kids are smart. I know every parent may think that, but they are. I also know they are kids, and they are going to make mistakes. I know people who prevent their kids from using not only the internet, but computers. I worry about those people. There is shielding your kids from dangers, but that can be taken to the extreme and be damaging. You can't pretend that the world isn't changing. I think back when I had to do research and write papers in school. It was hard simply because information wasn't readily available. For reference, my senior year of college I wrote a paper for hardware design that was on the soon-to-be-released Pentium processor. My "research" consisted of a few magazine tech articles and comparisons with current architecture. The amount of information my kids have access to is mind-boggling. There will always be bad with the good, but I choose to focus on the good.
Look, I understand your fears for "their generation" but that happened to us, and to our parents, and their parents. You can try to avoid technology, but it's here. In just my lifetime SO much has happened especially on the technology front that I can't even fathom what my kids will face as they get into high-school, college, and beyond. All I can do is prepare them as best I can, and give them tools to be good people. Other than that - they are on their own. And they will most likely be better equipped to handle all of that than I will be.
(and if my daughter has a phone, then she will learn responsibility for it... when I was her age I didn't have responsibility for anything. And I can threaten to take it away from her! Viva la parenting)
I am a longtime FF user, as it was really the only browser that did what I wanted, how I wanted. Several years ago, it started bogging down, and really pissing me off. Add-ons kept breaking, and I really like mouse gestures. Memory leaks abound. I think it was flashplayer constantly breaking that pushed me over the edge, and I switched to Chromium for a while. It was ok. I didn't like the bookmarking at all. I was used to my mouse gestures and add-ons. But YouTube and other things worked so much better. But I got weary of just how Chromium was. Nothing wrong with it... it just wasn't FF. After about a year I switched back. I got my menus-in-the-bookmark-toolbar back. Things were where I liked them, and youtube worked again.
But lately, something happened. FF launches immediately... then sits... for 15, 20 seconds before it starts responding. Every time. It's maddening. I don't like leaving it up and running because of past trangressions (sudden extended bouts of CPU hogging). I know there are ways to clean things up and start fresh (e.g. removing browsing history) but I LIKE having my browsing history because I can search it. I use that often.
I don't care about skinning, or any of the other billion add-ons to FF. I want a few basic features (tabbing, mouse gestures, ABP, videodownloadhelper, bookmark toolbar), plenty of screen real estate, and for it to work. That's it. I really am looking forward to the next update, because the current version 46 just isn't working for me. At work I am on Win10, and IE11 sucks but we are a MS shop. I am amazed at how awful it is to "manage" favorites. I tried Edge exactly once... actually shockingly bad.
If the Dolphin browser for Android ever came to Linux I would probably be using it right now.
I have been using it for a few years now, a group of friends I have across the country invited me to a group chat and I use it mainly for that. I like it because I can catch up on the "conversations" that happen when I am not monitoring it. It also supports pictures, videos, and voice messages much better than normal texting. (e.g. higher size limits, multiple images more easily) I will often have normal texts that come through out of order, or get lost (t-mobile) but WA always works. They've made consistent improvements along the way as well.
The ability to use it on my browser is great. You may wonder why... but if I am at my computer I can get messages there, and if I have images that I want to share I can do so easily. Not sure why you would need a dedicated PC app since the web version does everything I need, but I run Linux so I guess I won't know.
I didn't know they were owned by FB, which makes me kind of sad as I have avoided that platform up to this point, but I will continue to use WA.
Really? What kind of shitty terrorist would be doing the math for his attack after he's already on the plane? What could he be calculating at that point?
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I have been driving manuals for 30 years as well, and I use it correctly as you do. Although, I usually leave my car in neutral not in gear. I know it's modern and you have to depress the clutch to start it, it's just an old habit from back when you didn't have to do that, and could start the car with it in gear.
On rear-wheel drive cars handbrakes also have lots of fun uses when it's raining or snowing out. (I still haven't quite figured them out on front-wheel drive cars though)
However, I have always called it a "parking brake" and not a handbrake, simply because many parking brakes are foot operated. Personally, I don't really use them in our van because we don't live where it is particularly hilly, and also because it's not as obvious that you've set it. Ever drive away with the parking brake set? Much easier to do in a slushbox where you just put it in gear and jam the accelerator. One of the many reasons I will always drive a manual trans - you just are more connected to the vehicle.
I'd like to see someone hatch a conspiracy or elaborate prank on the world, just to show that there are people who can do it.
Trump 2016
I have a pretty good MP3 collection and I have bought maybe 5 albums over the past 10 years. I have rediscovered some older music/artists that I have really enjoyed lately. Radio is awful. Burn MP3s to CDs and listen to them in the car during drive time. Since there are many styles of music, I am mainly talking about hard rock stuff - Clutch, Monster Magnet, The Sword, Orange Goblin. I have some friends in bands, and they turn me onto some local/indie bands that can produce really good stuff (Resident Kings).
Honestly, I've tried last.fm and spotify... I just haven't been able to latch onto services. I want what I am in the mood for... some days it's old Sabbath, some days Queen, other days old Metallica (pre-Black) or The Black Crowes. A service can't tell my listening mood.
I've been in Software Testing/QA (NOT Q&A, unless you actually meant "question and answer") since 1993. I've been a manager in that field for 11 years.
Here is the reality - in any reasonably sized project, bug-free software is a myth. And saying this to upper-management is a huge no-no that will likely get you pulled into multiple meetings and probably chastised for subverting the quality process or some such nonsense created by someone who never tested in their life.
The whole key to it is prioritizing them correctly and knowing which battles to fight. I have seen entire releases of software get held up because someone found a bug, and it violated our quality metrics to ship software with any bugs that we introduced even if they are cosmetic. Insanity! We held up a release twice for this because this was a non-negotiable quality metric.
Why was this bug in there 13 years? I can think of many reasons - it wasn't worth fixing at any given time, there were higher-priority bugs, there were features to develop, there was turnover on the project. Maybe at some point there was discussion of deprecating the application, or re-writing it, or replacing it. Who knows, maybe they realized that vi is superior to Kate. ;P
You should aspire to find and fix every bug, but the reality of software is that they exist. The criticality and the priority of fixing them depends on many factors. A solid QA process is only one part of the solution. You can't fix them until you find them, but just because you find them doesn't mean that you have to fix them.
the various agencies of the US Government tend to lie ( even to Congress ), I'm somewhat puzzled about why they even bother to ask questions of them anymore.
Perhaps Congress should forgo asking questions of the professional liars ( any intelligence agency ) and ask the tech world instead. I'm quite sure the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Google and many others ( assuming they're not secretly on the Governments payroll ) would have a much different perspective on the issue at hand.
Companies aren't on the payroll of the government, it's the other way around.
He always seemed to be the bad guy, a real asshole.
Only at the end did we realize that he had to be the one to kill Dumbledore.
I know that they aren't on the top list, but they make some good unlocked phones that are a fraction of the price of the big names. I will definitely buy from them again.
FYI, I was 22 when Perot ran the first time, so I absolutely remember him. I have never personally seen an election where the (presumptive) candidates were so awful. And I never ever considered Perot to be a viable option.
Many times people choose sides because "the other side" is not what they want, or quite honestly because like religion - that is what they were taught growing up. I think our political system doesn't fit who we are anymore, or at least where we are headed. Some days I think our country is doomed, some days I have great hope for it. I think it's maturing pains. 240 years isn't very old in country-years. I think being neck-deep in the information age has an effect on that as well.
I still have the old brown-and-tan icon. I won't update it until this one stops working - which I am sure will be soon, since they now have financial incentive to get people on the new app.
If ever there was an election to vote for a third party, it is this one. Keep an eye on Gary Johnson from the Libertarian party. While I don't agree with his stance on every issue, he seems really solid. Which I can't even fathom saying for anyone else in the running. Want to upset the current system? Don't let either side win. Maybe they will finally wake up.
I RTFA. It was written by someone who read the information on reddit, which was posted by the this anonymous tester, who then deleted it 10 minutes later. That's it. Really, that is it.
I used to be on Slashdot daily back in the day (very late 90s), but got away from it for about the past 8 years or so. I just started re-reading it about a month ago, and I have been quite shocked with the poor quality. I don't know if it's an attempt to stay relevant or what, but this is sad.
Um.. OK.
And why would they need to buy LinkedIn for that exactly? Microsoft already OWNS the office environment. And yet they still can't get it right. At the company I work for we are a Microsoft shop. In the last couple of years our IM switched from Lync to Skype and now we've just recently gone to Cisco Jabber. Mind you - we are a total Microsoft shop, and we went with one of their competitor for IM. Who knows, maybe Jabber was part of the deal when we switched from Lync/Skype for meetings to Webex. Because that didn't work well either. The one thing that Microsoft did do was get themselves embedded into companies and for years they really did a decent job of integrating things and making them work well together. I think they are struggling to keep up though.
I remember some fairly secure passwords from 20 years ago. We had an intern who left, and he gave me his unix password in case I needed it.
It was CIrpotb, It was the first letter from each word in the lyric in the song Jeremy "Clearly I remember picking on the boy," and included the comma.
I have used a similar method. Here's how:
1. Pick something significant to you that you will not forget. Let's say you saw your first girlfriend's hot mom in the nude. Her name was Alice. Aliceboobs
2. Throw in some caps. AliceboobS. Then some numbers and punctuation. Aliceb00bS!
Done
So when you have to change it, bump up the 2nd number. Aliceb01bS! Aliceb02bS!...
If you just go from 00 to 09 and back, you have 10 iterations. If you go to 99 you have 100.
Need to keep a reminder on a post-it? write milf18!
That means Aliceb18bS!
Need to answer a security question? What was the name of your first pet? milf18! easy reminder
You only need to modify a few characters to get a new secure password that only you know the story behind.
Find your own event, make up your own rules. Anyone can do it. I have had the same password scheme since 2000. The password now looks random because of modifications over the years.
(note: that is NOT the story behind my password, but the story is true) :)
However...
Businesses still use computers (personal and servers).
And consider this - it makes no sense for Microsoft to do it, yet they want that CAPABILITY.
They don't have the best track record when it comes to security.
See where this could be going?
Integrated ransomware, ripe for the picking.
Microsoft didn't just get the game, they got the rights to the BRAND. Minecraft merchandise is huge. I know, I have three kids who love it.
What I like about it is that my kids all share 1 account... they don't go out on servers to play, they just build worlds and do all kinds of stuff locally. I even set up a server for them, but they don't use it. They just open their worlds up to LAN access and have fun.
I also like that it is set up (currently) so you buy the game and you are good. No paying for upgrades and things like that. Hopefully Microsoft won't change that, I was bummed when I heard they bought it. But there are tools like MultiMC that are fantastic. You can easily create instances for different versions and load mods with a few clicks. It makes taking backups for them pretty easy.
Personally - I don't get it. But they sure do, and love it.
In this day and age, it is still amazing to me that people say of cutting edge technology "Yeah, but whey do we need it? We'll never use it."
We will find a way to use it. We always do. "640K of memory..." and all that. Sheesh.
ecigs to help people quit smoking? *golf clap*
ecigs that are modified and/or used for "competitive vaping" *shrugs*
Idiots ruin everything, and lawyers soon follow. That may be redundant.
Password security is system agnostic. It isn't just Microsoft. I applaud their efforts here, but they are just that. Nothing ground-breaking.
Here's an idea... teach people how to create better passwords! Don't just restrict them to X number of characters or say you have to use capitals and numbers.
I remember some fairly secure passwords from 20 years ago. We had an intern who left, and he gave me his unix password in case I needed it.
It was CIrpotb, It was the first letter from each word in the lyric in the song Jeremy "Clearly I remember picking on the boy," and included the comma.
I have used a similar method. Here's how:
1. Pick something significant to you that you will not forget. Let's say you saw your first girlfriend's hot mom in the nude. Her name was Alice. Aliceboobs
2. Throw in some caps. AliceboobS. Then some numbers and punctuation. Aliceb00bS!
Done
So when you have to change it, bump up the 2nd number. Aliceb01bS! Aliceb02bS!...
If you just go from 00 to 09 and back, you have 10 iterations. If you go to 99 you have 100.
Need to keep a reminder on a post-it? write milf18!
That means Aliceb18bS!
Need to answer a security question? What was the name of your first pet? milf18! easy reminder
You only need to modify a few characters to get a new secure password that only you know the story behind.
Find your own event, make up your own rules. Anyone can do it.
(note: that is NOT the story behind my password, but the story is true) :)
No, but I consider pasta and bread to be poison. Potatoes and sweet potatoes only in small amounts on occasion.
It has nothing to do with portion control. I know, because I used to think that. But nope, not at all.
Avoid grains or grain products
Avoid sugar
Eat as much healthy fat as you like (low-fat is bad for you). Animal fat, olive oil, butter, coconut oil, avocados, eggs
Eat meat - the best sources you can get
Those four things will slim you down and reduce inflammation greatly. It will also help you get off the insulin roller-coaster. Once you get there, you will realize how bad you felt before, and will wish you would have started sooner. I also avoid nuts/legumes as well. Some people say avoid dairy, but I still eat cheese and full-fat dairy products. (no milk though) My health is better, my bloodwork is better. I just am ready for the medical establishment to realize their advice has been wrong all these years, and based off of bad or biased reporting of scientific studies.
Whoops sorry, I misread your comment... but you were close. FTFY
If you move to Windows 10 then you deserve all the security problems you will inevitably have. GUI and "principle" issues aside - it is not a smart move.
Please don't propagate this myth. It is simply not based on anything.
It isn't calories, it's what you eat and comes down to HOW your body works. It's about hormones, largely insulin and how your body handles it.
You cut calories without fixing how your body works because you've been abusing it, and you will simply be starving yourself. And that simply doesn't work and is unhealthy.
Cut out sugars and carbs. Eat natural (unprocessed) fats. (two other myths - fat doesn't make you fat, and don't cause heart disease)
It is THAT simple. But people refuse to believe it. Don't just trust a Slashdot post. Read the research papers - and read the criticisms about them, researcher bias, etc. Learn what we have been 'fed' about diet. Educate yourself. Look at the data around obesity, heart disease, diabetes. It is amazing to me how much info is available to us, yet people just want a quick fix. Take some time and read.
Good Calories Bad Calories
The Primal Blueprint
Grain Brain
Many others.
I have been doing this for almost 4 years now, and in my mid-40s I am healthier than I have ever been. We have been an agriculture society for 10k years, but humans have been around and evolving for 2.5 million years. Do a visual comparison of those two numbers. Look at how little time we have been farming, then look at the Standard American Diet. Look at the sheer percentage of your diet that is grain and sugar based. Cut those things out. You will be much much healthier and that is what got us to where we are today.
First let me say I am likely older than you. I just say that because I was born in the late 60s. I grew up on farm, obviously didn't have internet, or even cable. I spent a lot of time outside, but as soon as I could get technology, I did. My kids will never know the feeling of riding your bike in the rain for miles with a pocket full of quarters to play arcade games. And that is OK. I am not nostalgic for "the good old days", nor am I angry at "this generation of kids" the way so many other people my age seem to be. I have been involved in technology since before I could drive, and am still amazed at it.
My oldest is turning 11 in a couple of weeks, and we are giving her one of our old phones. It will mainly be for texting/calling her friends, and keeping in touch with us as she will be going to middle school next year. All three of my kids have computers (all hand-me-downs from friends/family) and tablets (lower-end pretty inexpensive ones) and they are on them quite a bit. They have had their access taken away as they have tested the rules. But nothing too bad. They play a lot of Minecraft with each other locally, they don't really go out on servers. Their main internet influences are probably from youtube and those annoying fucking videos where gamers yak their heads off and you watch them play games. I don't get it. But my parents didn't get heavy metal or computers. But that's OK. I don't need to get what my kids do. I just need to help guide them. Just because they have these things doesn't mean that they can't have OTHER things. What I will help them do is learn how to use and manage this technology, and make good choices.
My kids are smart. I know every parent may think that, but they are. I also know they are kids, and they are going to make mistakes. I know people who prevent their kids from using not only the internet, but computers. I worry about those people. There is shielding your kids from dangers, but that can be taken to the extreme and be damaging. You can't pretend that the world isn't changing. I think back when I had to do research and write papers in school. It was hard simply because information wasn't readily available. For reference, my senior year of college I wrote a paper for hardware design that was on the soon-to-be-released Pentium processor. My "research" consisted of a few magazine tech articles and comparisons with current architecture. The amount of information my kids have access to is mind-boggling. There will always be bad with the good, but I choose to focus on the good.
Look, I understand your fears for "their generation" but that happened to us, and to our parents, and their parents. You can try to avoid technology, but it's here. In just my lifetime SO much has happened especially on the technology front that I can't even fathom what my kids will face as they get into high-school, college, and beyond. All I can do is prepare them as best I can, and give them tools to be good people. Other than that - they are on their own. And they will most likely be better equipped to handle all of that than I will be.
(and if my daughter has a phone, then she will learn responsibility for it... when I was her age I didn't have responsibility for anything. And I can threaten to take it away from her! Viva la parenting)
I am a longtime FF user, as it was really the only browser that did what I wanted, how I wanted. Several years ago, it started bogging down, and really pissing me off. Add-ons kept breaking, and I really like mouse gestures. Memory leaks abound. I think it was flashplayer constantly breaking that pushed me over the edge, and I switched to Chromium for a while. It was ok. I didn't like the bookmarking at all. I was used to my mouse gestures and add-ons. But YouTube and other things worked so much better. But I got weary of just how Chromium was. Nothing wrong with it... it just wasn't FF. After about a year I switched back. I got my menus-in-the-bookmark-toolbar back. Things were where I liked them, and youtube worked again.
But lately, something happened. FF launches immediately... then sits... for 15, 20 seconds before it starts responding. Every time. It's maddening. I don't like leaving it up and running because of past trangressions (sudden extended bouts of CPU hogging). I know there are ways to clean things up and start fresh (e.g. removing browsing history) but I LIKE having my browsing history because I can search it. I use that often.
I don't care about skinning, or any of the other billion add-ons to FF. I want a few basic features (tabbing, mouse gestures, ABP, videodownloadhelper, bookmark toolbar), plenty of screen real estate, and for it to work. That's it. I really am looking forward to the next update, because the current version 46 just isn't working for me. At work I am on Win10, and IE11 sucks but we are a MS shop. I am amazed at how awful it is to "manage" favorites. I tried Edge exactly once... actually shockingly bad.
If the Dolphin browser for Android ever came to Linux I would probably be using it right now.
I have been using it for a few years now, a group of friends I have across the country invited me to a group chat and I use it mainly for that. I like it because I can catch up on the "conversations" that happen when I am not monitoring it. It also supports pictures, videos, and voice messages much better than normal texting. (e.g. higher size limits, multiple images more easily) I will often have normal texts that come through out of order, or get lost (t-mobile) but WA always works. They've made consistent improvements along the way as well.
The ability to use it on my browser is great. You may wonder why... but if I am at my computer I can get messages there, and if I have images that I want to share I can do so easily. Not sure why you would need a dedicated PC app since the web version does everything I need, but I run Linux so I guess I won't know.
I didn't know they were owned by FB, which makes me kind of sad as I have avoided that platform up to this point, but I will continue to use WA.
Really? What kind of shitty terrorist would be doing the math for his attack after he's already on the plane? What could he be calculating at that point?