I'm seriously doubtful of the claim that the poor disproportionately are users of streaming services, designed to augment or replace cable TV services, that require high bandwidth Internet connections.
Netflix et al can reasonably be described as luxury items as well - nobody needs them, they're an easy thing to cut if your budget demand them. After my child was born and we had a financial crunch due to the loss of my wife's income, streaming services were the first to go. We only kept Prime because of the free, fast, shipping which saved us money over all on a few important items.
Yep. I actually did some statistical analysis with it for a project for my Statistics GCSE (? Actually I can't remember but it was GCSE level. Anyway, that's off-topic...) using the version that came with the Amstrad PCW.
It worked very well for that, both providing list processing and making it relatively easy to draw graphs with the results. A modern spreadsheet is a hell of a lot easier, but I gained a real appreciation for an underrated, and poorly understood, programming language. If 1980s computers had come with Logo instead of BASIC I think we'd still be using it, and we'd have been a lot better off at the time.
We have these things called opinion polls that help us determine if anyone has rigged an election to the extent that the election result changed. Pretty much all opinion polls have showed that Clinton was ahead amongst Democratic voters over Sanders. If they rigged it, they didn't make any difference.
It sucks. I'd rather it have been the opposite too, but whatever (dubious) evidence there is that the DNC "rigged" anything, the reality is that the primaries reflected the will of the people.
Bear in mind that Clinton is seen as an experienced, level headed, leader who's worked at almost every level of government, while Sanders was seen, for the most part, as a wildcard, ranting and raving about injustices. Even with the polls showing Sanders as a better candidate to defeat Trump, it's not hard to believe that Clinton both had more natural Democratic support (especially amongst so-called Centrists) and that others were genuinely scared of Sanders.
Also ask yourself why the DNC was so heavily pro-Clinton. Is it possible that the DNC reflected the mood of the Democratic Party itself?
Sanders did well. His Republican equivalent would probably be Ron Paul, and Ron Paul never did anything like as well amongst Republicans. It was impressive, but it wasn't enough.
Yeah, outside of people trying to make your point - ie torturously trying to tie Nazism to left wing politics, pretty much nobody has ever described the Nazis as "progressive" or as an example of "progressive politics". Describing them thusly is like describing them as "Pro-Transit" because they used trains to... well, you know what they used trains for.
I'm trying to think of a way to maliciously use a hacked games console beyond wiping out someone's high score or doing a really specific DoS on one person.
Charter is a Cable TV provider, and were as such when they got their charter. Google is an ISP. The fact Charter has decided to compete in the space Google is also entering doesn't mean previous obligations concerning the provision of TV services are no longer valid.
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WfW didn't come with a TCP/IP stack. The bundled networking applications ran over Microsoft's SMB stack. It wasn't until 1994, nearly a year after the release of WfW, that Microsoft released an optional TCP/IP stack for WfW.
And unfortunately for your joke, the name of the stack was Wolverine...
Sorry, not trying to ruin your joke, just trying to avoid some minor misconception about a product that hasn't been sold now for 20 years and nobody uses or is ever likely to come across from ruining the minds of the readers of this website...
Hyperbole or not, it appears to offer nothing but hassle to end users, which probably means it's getting unpopular.
Virtually all US credit cards are chip and signature, offering little in improved security. It's slow. Most card readers have a slot but haven't had that feature activated (honestly, the only store around here that allows chip vs swipe is Wal-Mart. Publix, as one major example, doesn't) leading to confusion. The card readers themselves seem to be bug ridden, with some freaking out if you don't insert the card at the exact moment they expect it. Wal-Mart's even, until recently, made a noise like a submarine klaxon when the payment was accepted - someone and completely unnecessarily embarrassing.
Add to that the delays, and you have the least popular technology since GMX.
Here in Florida it's chip-and-signature (often without the signature.) Honestly, I've never even been given the chance to create a PIN number for my chipped credit cards.
Can anyone explain why we continue to use the term "ride sharing" when Uber, Lyft, et al, have nothing to do with ride sharing? They're basic car-for-hire services. Ride sharing has always been used to mean "People who share a car to get to a common destination" (eg commuters who work together and live close by saving on gas, that kind of thing), and while Uber started by claiming that this was essentially what they were doing, it became obvious pretty quickly that the service resembles ride sharing in no way whatsoever.
I agree with most of what you say - though hard evidence is not a bad thing, there was a lot of "He said, she said" stuff before the leak proved the DNC was rotten on this issue - but the Turkey data dump was not a Wikileaks thing, despite early reporting suggesting it was. Snowden's almost certainly talking about the release of private information - credit card numbers, private phone numbers and home addresses of donors - that was also in the leak.
What modern-day journalist working for anything resembling a respectable newspaper has published the credit card numbers, home addresses, and private phone numbers of their subjects?
Snowden didn't state specifics, but the scandal around Wikileaks release of the DNC emails has generally focused on two things - the possibility it came from Russia (nothing to do with Wikileaks themselves or editing, so unlikely to have been Snowden's concern), and that it included private information about individual - often blameless - people that could cause them serious harm without having anything to do with holding them to account.
Everyone, to the best of my knowledge, is on board with the idea of Wikileaks leaking an email that says "Hi, DWS here! I need a list of ways in which we can secretly handicap Sander's campaign, but remember guys, technically this is illegal so mum's the word!". Fuck DWS. If she goes to prison over this, then nobody's shedding any tears beyond a few die hard Clinton worshipers.
What we're not on board with is "Oh, Jeff Atl called to donate $100 to the general election fund. Could you handle it? His credit card number is 4111 0291 3839 1212, expires 06/17, CVV 971. Address if you need it is 9821 SE Sunflower Rd, Trenton Gardens, NJ 19281." Even if the full email continues "I let him know that with his donation comes a 30 minute meeting with the Secretary of the Environment so he can deal with that little problem his factory is having with the inspectors", we'd at least expect the credit card details and street part of the address redacted.
While that may also have been what Snowden was referring to, it turned out not to be Wikileaks - despite early reporting claiming it was - that published that information.
It's not more secure than Windows 7. How can it be more secure if it leaks your information, without your knowledge, to a third party, AND if the software update mechanism is so user hostile (unrequested reboots, machine slowing to a crawl at random times) that the only workaround is to disable updates completely, either at the firewall or via hacks?
I like a lot about Windows 10, but it's less secure, more resource intensive, and less responsive. I'm keeping Windows 7 machines around in my home for a reason.
They're not prosecuting, they're investigating. And in terms of them being treated equally - they did investigate HRC, but found there wasn't enough wrongdoing to make it worth prosecuting.
And... it's unlikely the FBI will prosecute any of the hackers, albeit this time because the hackers are likely not within any US court's jurisdiction.
In context, with Trump denying the DNC hack was Russia trying to help Trump out, yes, this one can be seen as a very obvious joke. Just because he frequently makes horrific statements doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally also make jokes.
I don't think he's ever claimed that the wall comment was a joke. I don't think he ever will.
He was making a f---ing joke. He has brushed off the notion that Russia was doing the hacking in the first place. He made the comment at a press conference intending to ridicule the concept, not via a semi-secret text message to Vladimir Putin.
I'm no Trumpist, I mean, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton in November and you have NO IDEA how little I want to do that, but I'm in Florida, so my vote may make a difference between Trump or Clinton, and Trump really is THAT BAD. But, in this one instance, the collective left and political establishment has lost their minds, and apparently their sense of humor.
It also excludes the infrastructure cost. You don't pay $9 a month for Netflix. You pay for the cost of the Internet plus the cost of Netflix. With Cable TV, those costs still get paid, but they're rolled into one bill.
I believe "editing" in this context meant "Deciding what emails to publish", not "Changing the content of the published emails", so the DNC releasing the originals wouldn't help.
Wikileaks have made it clear they haven't altered the content of the emails, and the fact real phone numbers and blameless people's names appear in the emails would seem to confirm that (If it turned out they were altered, but Wikileaks left in people's phone numbers, that'd be a spectacular PR own-goal on WL's behalf.)
WikiLeaks has shown great interest in anti-US material, and comparatively very little interest in anything that disparages Russia
I agree with much of what you say but this line is just silly. We all know that Putin's Russia is a corrupt, barely democratic regime with a autocratic strongman in charge (an ex-KGB boss no less.)
Leaking evidence that they're terrible would be a waste of time.
Also add to this that Assange is Wikileaks, and Assange has spent the last few years holed up on an embassy in an environment which would be stressful and intimidating even for someone not considered persona-non-Grata by some of the most powerful countries in the world. It's not hard to believe he'd be far more interested in the machinations of a political party whose leadership currently holds the Presidency of the country most likely to lock him in a dungeon for the rest of his life, than memos at a poisoned tip umbrella company owned by Vladimir Putin.
...but they need to create a standard for the replacement jack first. And no, Bluetooth is not it.
I don't think the 3.5mm jack is actually a panacea. It's limited to a single stereo output, and numerous incompatible hacks have been grafted on to allow it be used for microphone input and for phone or music controls.
But you can't just get rid of it without an adequate replacement at the ready, with cheap adapters available that you can easily just slot onto the end of a 3.5mm jack.
it was the *DEMOCRATS* who refused to sit some delegates simply because they were the wrong sex
Yeah, the Democrats have a policy concerning equal numbers of each gender which the Vermont delegation initially violated. Not seeing an example of sexism here, but an attempt to avoid it.
"Racist" is thrown out by the left so often it no longer has any meaning.
I'm pretty sure it does, it's just a sizable number of the right, particularly the alt-right, both understands that "being racist" is considered bad, but that they have no problems with a society that deals black people the short end of the stick, that they have an irrational fear of brown people, and even - in some quarters, most Republicans don't fit into this category, but many on the alt-right do - that they're worried about the influence of Jews.
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I'm seriously doubtful of the claim that the poor disproportionately are users of streaming services, designed to augment or replace cable TV services, that require high bandwidth Internet connections.
Netflix et al can reasonably be described as luxury items as well - nobody needs them, they're an easy thing to cut if your budget demand them. After my child was born and we had a financial crunch due to the loss of my wife's income, streaming services were the first to go. We only kept Prime because of the free, fast, shipping which saved us money over all on a few important items.
Vulgarity is the fool's fig leaf.
Yep. I actually did some statistical analysis with it for a project for my Statistics GCSE (? Actually I can't remember but it was GCSE level. Anyway, that's off-topic...) using the version that came with the Amstrad PCW.
It worked very well for that, both providing list processing and making it relatively easy to draw graphs with the results. A modern spreadsheet is a hell of a lot easier, but I gained a real appreciation for an underrated, and poorly understood, programming language. If 1980s computers had come with Logo instead of BASIC I think we'd still be using it, and we'd have been a lot better off at the time.
We have these things called opinion polls that help us determine if anyone has rigged an election to the extent that the election result changed. Pretty much all opinion polls have showed that Clinton was ahead amongst Democratic voters over Sanders. If they rigged it, they didn't make any difference.
It sucks. I'd rather it have been the opposite too, but whatever (dubious) evidence there is that the DNC "rigged" anything, the reality is that the primaries reflected the will of the people.
Bear in mind that Clinton is seen as an experienced, level headed, leader who's worked at almost every level of government, while Sanders was seen, for the most part, as a wildcard, ranting and raving about injustices. Even with the polls showing Sanders as a better candidate to defeat Trump, it's not hard to believe that Clinton both had more natural Democratic support (especially amongst so-called Centrists) and that others were genuinely scared of Sanders.
Also ask yourself why the DNC was so heavily pro-Clinton. Is it possible that the DNC reflected the mood of the Democratic Party itself?
Sanders did well. His Republican equivalent would probably be Ron Paul, and Ron Paul never did anything like as well amongst Republicans. It was impressive, but it wasn't enough.
Yeah, outside of people trying to make your point - ie torturously trying to tie Nazism to left wing politics, pretty much nobody has ever described the Nazis as "progressive" or as an example of "progressive politics". Describing them thusly is like describing them as "Pro-Transit" because they used trains to... well, you know what they used trains for.
I'm trying to think of a way to maliciously use a hacked games console beyond wiping out someone's high score or doing a really specific DoS on one person.
Charter is a Cable TV provider, and were as such when they got their charter. Google is an ISP. The fact Charter has decided to compete in the space Google is also entering doesn't mean previous obligations concerning the provision of TV services are no longer valid.
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WfW didn't come with a TCP/IP stack. The bundled networking applications ran over Microsoft's SMB stack. It wasn't until 1994, nearly a year after the release of WfW, that Microsoft released an optional TCP/IP stack for WfW.
And unfortunately for your joke, the name of the stack was Wolverine...
Sorry, not trying to ruin your joke, just trying to avoid some minor misconception about a product that hasn't been sold now for 20 years and nobody uses or is ever likely to come across from ruining the minds of the readers of this website...
Hyperbole or not, it appears to offer nothing but hassle to end users, which probably means it's getting unpopular.
Virtually all US credit cards are chip and signature, offering little in improved security. It's slow. Most card readers have a slot but haven't had that feature activated (honestly, the only store around here that allows chip vs swipe is Wal-Mart. Publix, as one major example, doesn't) leading to confusion. The card readers themselves seem to be bug ridden, with some freaking out if you don't insert the card at the exact moment they expect it. Wal-Mart's even, until recently, made a noise like a submarine klaxon when the payment was accepted - someone and completely unnecessarily embarrassing.
Add to that the delays, and you have the least popular technology since GMX.
Here in Florida it's chip-and-signature (often without the signature.) Honestly, I've never even been given the chance to create a PIN number for my chipped credit cards.
Can anyone explain why we continue to use the term "ride sharing" when Uber, Lyft, et al, have nothing to do with ride sharing? They're basic car-for-hire services. Ride sharing has always been used to mean "People who share a car to get to a common destination" (eg commuters who work together and live close by saving on gas, that kind of thing), and while Uber started by claiming that this was essentially what they were doing, it became obvious pretty quickly that the service resembles ride sharing in no way whatsoever.
I agree with most of what you say - though hard evidence is not a bad thing, there was a lot of "He said, she said" stuff before the leak proved the DNC was rotten on this issue - but the Turkey data dump was not a Wikileaks thing, despite early reporting suggesting it was. Snowden's almost certainly talking about the release of private information - credit card numbers, private phone numbers and home addresses of donors - that was also in the leak.
What modern-day journalist working for anything resembling a respectable newspaper has published the credit card numbers, home addresses, and private phone numbers of their subjects?
Snowden didn't state specifics, but the scandal around Wikileaks release of the DNC emails has generally focused on two things - the possibility it came from Russia (nothing to do with Wikileaks themselves or editing, so unlikely to have been Snowden's concern), and that it included private information about individual - often blameless - people that could cause them serious harm without having anything to do with holding them to account.
Everyone, to the best of my knowledge, is on board with the idea of Wikileaks leaking an email that says "Hi, DWS here! I need a list of ways in which we can secretly handicap Sander's campaign, but remember guys, technically this is illegal so mum's the word!". Fuck DWS. If she goes to prison over this, then nobody's shedding any tears beyond a few die hard Clinton worshipers.
What we're not on board with is "Oh, Jeff Atl called to donate $100 to the general election fund. Could you handle it? His credit card number is 4111 0291 3839 1212, expires 06/17, CVV 971. Address if you need it is 9821 SE Sunflower Rd, Trenton Gardens, NJ 19281." Even if the full email continues "I let him know that with his donation comes a 30 minute meeting with the Secretary of the Environment so he can deal with that little problem his factory is having with the inspectors", we'd at least expect the credit card details and street part of the address redacted.
While that may also have been what Snowden was referring to, it turned out not to be Wikileaks - despite early reporting claiming it was - that published that information.
It's not more secure than Windows 7. How can it be more secure if it leaks your information, without your knowledge, to a third party, AND if the software update mechanism is so user hostile (unrequested reboots, machine slowing to a crawl at random times) that the only workaround is to disable updates completely, either at the firewall or via hacks?
I like a lot about Windows 10, but it's less secure, more resource intensive, and less responsive. I'm keeping Windows 7 machines around in my home for a reason.
They're not prosecuting, they're investigating. And in terms of them being treated equally - they did investigate HRC, but found there wasn't enough wrongdoing to make it worth prosecuting.
And... it's unlikely the FBI will prosecute any of the hackers, albeit this time because the hackers are likely not within any US court's jurisdiction.
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In context, with Trump denying the DNC hack was Russia trying to help Trump out, yes, this one can be seen as a very obvious joke. Just because he frequently makes horrific statements doesn't mean he doesn't occasionally also make jokes.
I don't think he's ever claimed that the wall comment was a joke. I don't think he ever will.
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Smarter people than either of us have speculated on that before. Indeed, I've joked about it before...
He was making a f---ing joke. He has brushed off the notion that Russia was doing the hacking in the first place. He made the comment at a press conference intending to ridicule the concept, not via a semi-secret text message to Vladimir Putin.
I'm no Trumpist, I mean, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton in November and you have NO IDEA how little I want to do that, but I'm in Florida, so my vote may make a difference between Trump or Clinton, and Trump really is THAT BAD. But, in this one instance, the collective left and political establishment has lost their minds, and apparently their sense of humor.
It also excludes the infrastructure cost. You don't pay $9 a month for Netflix. You pay for the cost of the Internet plus the cost of Netflix. With Cable TV, those costs still get paid, but they're rolled into one bill.
I believe "editing" in this context meant "Deciding what emails to publish", not "Changing the content of the published emails", so the DNC releasing the originals wouldn't help.
Wikileaks have made it clear they haven't altered the content of the emails, and the fact real phone numbers and blameless people's names appear in the emails would seem to confirm that (If it turned out they were altered, but Wikileaks left in people's phone numbers, that'd be a spectacular PR own-goal on WL's behalf.)
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. .I agree with much of what you say but this line is just silly. We all know that Putin's Russia is a corrupt, barely democratic regime with a autocratic strongman in charge (an ex-KGB boss no less.)
Leaking evidence that they're terrible would be a waste of time.
Also add to this that Assange is Wikileaks, and Assange has spent the last few years holed up on an embassy in an environment which would be stressful and intimidating even for someone not considered persona-non-Grata by some of the most powerful countries in the world. It's not hard to believe he'd be far more interested in the machinations of a political party whose leadership currently holds the Presidency of the country most likely to lock him in a dungeon for the rest of his life, than memos at a poisoned tip umbrella company owned by Vladimir Putin.
I don't think the 3.5mm jack is actually a panacea. It's limited to a single stereo output, and numerous incompatible hacks have been grafted on to allow it be used for microphone input and for phone or music controls.
But you can't just get rid of it without an adequate replacement at the ready, with cheap adapters available that you can easily just slot onto the end of a 3.5mm jack.
Yeah, the Democrats have a policy concerning equal numbers of each gender which the Vermont delegation initially violated. Not seeing an example of sexism here, but an attempt to avoid it.
I'm pretty sure it does, it's just a sizable number of the right, particularly the alt-right, both understands that "being racist" is considered bad, but that they have no problems with a society that deals black people the short end of the stick, that they have an irrational fear of brown people, and even - in some quarters, most Republicans don't fit into this category, but many on the alt-right do - that they're worried about the influence of Jews.