I would love for gmail to give people the option of a random noise uuencoded.sig to be attached to each and every e-mail. Flood the world with random data and this issue goes away. No one would be able to say for sure what was encrypted or not. If done ubiquitously, it could bring all the STASI-like agencies to their knees.
Yeah, I always wanted to do a UK trip, but their crazy laws have always kept me away. Not even because I'm worried that I'll get caught up in them, so much as I look down on them as a people for institutiting them in the first place.
And no, the irony isn't lost on me that many do not want to visit America for the same reasons. I probably wouldn't either, if I weren't a native.
That would be my first assumption. Or what if you were using a key file, that you no longer have? I never really used PGP much, but I must have set it up a dozen times, with a different random password each time. And I certainly couldn't tell you what those passwords are now. It's barbaric to convict someone on this basis.
If anyone has broken the internet lately, it would be the NSA. Net neutrality is about given more power to the people behind that. And more power to the studio executives who have compromised that agency.
I suspect one day, the term Net Neutrality will be considered as "neutral" as the term Patriot Act is considered "patriotic." Once you empower the FCC on this front, they won't hold back.
Believe me, I understand its importance. It's very much a necessity to me. But hyperbole aside, I haven't seen any problems to date. The internet has been a wonder and still is. How will this legislation actually make things better than they are now?
Netflix was always smooth before, and now after the comcast deal, I finally have enough bandwidth to access the 3D content. That's the only change I've seen so far. If they start actually blocking my access to stuff, then I'll walk and they'll have to respond. But why would they risk that in the first place?
You say we shouldn't fuck it up and I very much agree. So why introduce regulations that weren't there to begin with? Do you really thing it will stop with simply making things more fair for the customer? This to me is a case of, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It works in the real world too, since it gave us the internet we have today. Everybody is trying to fix something that isn't broken and that never ends well.
So society encouraged me to be a computer geek?? Ahh...no. Just the opposite. I did it anyway because it appealed to me. And if it doesn't naturally appeal to you, then you won't have that lifelong instinct to learn more, that is required to make it in this field. What happens with these girls, when the money runs out?
Do you remember having to count your minutes on long distance calls, because it was so expensive? Even local calls were more expensive than they are today, without even having to account for inflation. And none of it came with free text messaging. Perhaps you ought to read a little history yourself.
It doesn't matter. It's the perception that counts. And when it comes to my phone, I always double-bag it.
I trust my home computer more because those open-source apps weren't designed with data harvesting in mind. Actually, I also stopped ordering anything from Windows computers years ago, because I couldn't trust them anymore either. I had more spyware/virus scanners than actual software, by the end.
As for sandboxing, that doesn't work so well once you root your phone. I can choose not to root, but then the phone wouldn't be nearly as useful to me.
I barely trust using my phone to log into a social network, let alone anything that might cost me money. With every app attempting to spy on each other, I would never trust my phone for financial transactions. Not for many years to come.
I worked for a big telecom company, in the 90s, that hired a senior engineer who didn't know how to use a mouse. He had to call someone over to explain it, as the rest of us watched on in awe.
He got over six months of salary before they finally let him go. He cried over it too, which I thought strange. He obviously had someone else do the phone interview for him, not sure what he was expecting the outcome to be.
Right there with you. That was the last regular FPS I played. Quick, fast, brutal action. One of my favorite games of all time. And having it on Linux meant I actually played it, rather than just have it sit on a shelf. All they needed to do was slightly improve on the UT2K4 concept.
I hope this works out, I'm very much looking forward to this.
Normally, I'd agree. But I just skipped the New Captain America movie, even though I wanted to see it, because I simply couldn't put up with the theater experience anymore. I'll wait for the BluRay.
I have no problem paying $5 to watch it 10 feet from a 133" screen at home (first-run), over having to drive down to the theater, a half-hour early, to get a decent seat, sit through endless previews, listen to everyone chatter on and continuously shove food into their mouths, for $10.
We have these at my office. I love them. Health benefits aside, these are ideal for code reviews. People don't have to crouch or drag chairs into an (already too small) cube.
Other benefits include: nobody sneaks up on you, while you're standing, and it helps wake me up after lunch.
That being said though, most people use them in sit down mode and forget to raise them, most of the time. Still, it's wonderful to have the option.
It has less apps on it than the other two. And there are actually many threads out there on the Nexus 7 battery problems (which I only discovered after running into the problem). It might be more limited to the 2013 models though.
While I love my Nexus 4 and especially the, now discontinued, Nexus 10, the 7 is a piece of junk, IMO. I run the same software on all of them (actually, less on the 7), and I have to charge it as often as the 4, which I use far more and is also receiving a cell signal.
The 10 is pretty sweet though. I can get almost two weeks, as compared to one/two days from the 7, with similar usage. I've wanted to throw the thing away myself. I don't blame Ubisoft.
After playing with this a bit more tonight on a projector, I'm noticing a lot more issues with it, when it comes to getting the Netflix stream up to full quality. Sometimes, it's as good as anything else, but much of the time, it looks like an interlaced DVD. On the flip side, the Roku 3 apparently auto-plays shows that aren't even on your watch list (despite having a much nicer interface), and I don't think I could live with that. It's bad enough when they jump to the next episode of a show I'm watching, without my input.
Long story short, the only reason to get a FireTV is if you already have Amazon Prime, as it's the only usable interface for that service. Otherwise, I'd return it in a heartbeat. Even the HDMI handshaking is wonky. I'll stick with my Roku 2, HDTV or built-in interfaces for everything else (absurd, I know). I may get a Chromecast to handle my Youtube decently, for crying out loud. At least until Miracast gets going on the FireTV later this year.
I was very disappointed that Voice Search didn't include Netflix, especially as I had returned a Roku 3, precisely for this "cross-search" feature.
That being said, I never used Amazon Prime Video much because every interface for it is so abysmal. And FireTV finally gets the Prime interface right. For instance, they now finally tell me where I left off in an episode, and which one is next. Now I can finally start using Prime for more than just shipping. And they seem to have a lot that Netflix doesn't.
I hestiate to call it a mess, because it works just as good as the Roku for me, and seems better at buffering Netflix (I can rewind a bit, without it having to rebuffer). I'm hoping it will improve over time, to do a fraction of what they claimed it would, but until Roku 4 comes out, this is the best streamer out there right now.
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I understand because we're in the same situation in the US. People have had plenty of time to wake up, they just don't care. It's depressing.
I would love for gmail to give people the option of a random noise uuencoded .sig to be attached to each and every e-mail. Flood the world with random data and this issue goes away. No one would be able to say for sure what was encrypted or not. If done ubiquitously, it could bring all the STASI-like agencies to their knees.
I believe cron job technology might be able to pull this off.
Yeah, I always wanted to do a UK trip, but their crazy laws have always kept me away. Not even because I'm worried that I'll get caught up in them, so much as I look down on them as a people for institutiting them in the first place.
And no, the irony isn't lost on me that many do not want to visit America for the same reasons. I probably wouldn't either, if I weren't a native.
That would be my first assumption. Or what if you were using a key file, that you no longer have? I never really used PGP much, but I must have set it up a dozen times, with a different random password each time. And I certainly couldn't tell you what those passwords are now. It's barbaric to convict someone on this basis.
If anyone has broken the internet lately, it would be the NSA. Net neutrality is about given more power to the people behind that. And more power to the studio executives who have compromised that agency.
I suspect one day, the term Net Neutrality will be considered as "neutral" as the term Patriot Act is considered "patriotic." Once you empower the FCC on this front, they won't hold back.
Believe me, I understand its importance. It's very much a necessity to me. But hyperbole aside, I haven't seen any problems to date. The internet has been a wonder and still is. How will this legislation actually make things better than they are now?
Netflix was always smooth before, and now after the comcast deal, I finally have enough bandwidth to access the 3D content. That's the only change I've seen so far. If they start actually blocking my access to stuff, then I'll walk and they'll have to respond. But why would they risk that in the first place?
You say we shouldn't fuck it up and I very much agree. So why introduce regulations that weren't there to begin with? Do you really thing it will stop with simply making things more fair for the customer? This to me is a case of, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It works in the real world too, since it gave us the internet we have today. Everybody is trying to fix something that isn't broken and that never ends well.
Touché.
So society encouraged me to be a computer geek?? Ahh...no. Just the opposite. I did it anyway because it appealed to me. And if it doesn't naturally appeal to you, then you won't have that lifelong instinct to learn more, that is required to make it in this field. What happens with these girls, when the money runs out?
Good point, I should have said the media.
Because once the next presidential election cycle is over, people will go back to not caring.
No, but I do sit 8 feet away from 133" projector screen. I can imagine the upside.
Do you remember having to count your minutes on long distance calls, because it was so expensive? Even local calls were more expensive than they are today, without even having to account for inflation. And none of it came with free text messaging. Perhaps you ought to read a little history yourself.
It doesn't matter. It's the perception that counts. And when it comes to my phone, I always double-bag it.
I trust my home computer more because those open-source apps weren't designed with data harvesting in mind. Actually, I also stopped ordering anything from Windows computers years ago, because I couldn't trust them anymore either. I had more spyware/virus scanners than actual software, by the end.
As for sandboxing, that doesn't work so well once you root your phone. I can choose not to root, but then the phone wouldn't be nearly as useful to me.
I barely trust using my phone to log into a social network, let alone anything that might cost me money. With every app attempting to spy on each other, I would never trust my phone for financial transactions. Not for many years to come.
I worked for a big telecom company, in the 90s, that hired a senior engineer who didn't know how to use a mouse. He had to call someone over to explain it, as the rest of us watched on in awe.
He got over six months of salary before they finally let him go. He cried over it too, which I thought strange. He obviously had someone else do the phone interview for him, not sure what he was expecting the outcome to be.
Right there with you. That was the last regular FPS I played. Quick, fast, brutal action. One of my favorite games of all time. And having it on Linux meant I actually played it, rather than just have it sit on a shelf. All they needed to do was slightly improve on the UT2K4 concept.
I hope this works out, I'm very much looking forward to this.
Normally, I'd agree. But I just skipped the New Captain America movie, even though I wanted to see it, because I simply couldn't put up with the theater experience anymore. I'll wait for the BluRay.
I have no problem paying $5 to watch it 10 feet from a 133" screen at home (first-run), over having to drive down to the theater, a half-hour early, to get a decent seat, sit through endless previews, listen to everyone chatter on and continuously shove food into their mouths, for $10.
We have these at my office. I love them. Health benefits aside, these are ideal for code reviews. People don't have to crouch or drag chairs into an (already too small) cube.
Other benefits include: nobody sneaks up on you, while you're standing, and it helps wake me up after lunch.
That being said though, most people use them in sit down mode and forget to raise them, most of the time. Still, it's wonderful to have the option.
It has less apps on it than the other two. And there are actually many threads out there on the Nexus 7 battery problems (which I only discovered after running into the problem). It might be more limited to the 2013 models though.
While I love my Nexus 4 and especially the, now discontinued, Nexus 10, the 7 is a piece of junk, IMO. I run the same software on all of them (actually, less on the 7), and I have to charge it as often as the 4, which I use far more and is also receiving a cell signal.
The 10 is pretty sweet though. I can get almost two weeks, as compared to one/two days from the 7, with similar usage. I've wanted to throw the thing away myself. I don't blame Ubisoft.
After playing with this a bit more tonight on a projector, I'm noticing a lot more issues with it, when it comes to getting the Netflix stream up to full quality. Sometimes, it's as good as anything else, but much of the time, it looks like an interlaced DVD. On the flip side, the Roku 3 apparently auto-plays shows that aren't even on your watch list (despite having a much nicer interface), and I don't think I could live with that. It's bad enough when they jump to the next episode of a show I'm watching, without my input.
Long story short, the only reason to get a FireTV is if you already have Amazon Prime, as it's the only usable interface for that service. Otherwise, I'd return it in a heartbeat. Even the HDMI handshaking is wonky. I'll stick with my Roku 2, HDTV or built-in interfaces for everything else (absurd, I know). I may get a Chromecast to handle my Youtube decently, for crying out loud. At least until Miracast gets going on the FireTV later this year.
I was very disappointed that Voice Search didn't include Netflix, especially as I had returned a Roku 3, precisely for this "cross-search" feature.
That being said, I never used Amazon Prime Video much because every interface for it is so abysmal. And FireTV finally gets the Prime interface right. For instance, they now finally tell me where I left off in an episode, and which one is next. Now I can finally start using Prime for more than just shipping. And they seem to have a lot that Netflix doesn't.
I hestiate to call it a mess, because it works just as good as the Roku for me, and seems better at buffering Netflix (I can rewind a bit, without it having to rebuffer). I'm hoping it will improve over time, to do a fraction of what they claimed it would, but until Roku 4 comes out, this is the best streamer out there right now.