It's even worse for those of us who consume their news through the RSS feed. Every time a typo in a title or body gets corrected, that's a new entry in the feed. And they don't just update the article once, oh no no no! Every typo needs to be discovered independently of the others and warrants its own separate update. I see some articles fly by at least 5 times before the so-called "editors" decide it's finally good enough not to bother anymore, or too old for their readership to still give a fuck.
I can understand the occasional typo slipping through the cracks, but for fuck's sake, would it kill you to at least proofread it once before you hit "publish"?
No idea what this "this" was supposed to show, because you didn't bother describing the link, and the video is down now. When will people on forums learn to describe what they link to so that others who stumble upon it years (or in this particular case, days) from now at least can follow along?
You my friend are an idiot. Snooping? Find me a web server that doesn't contain logs, particularly for services that require authentication and don't specifically state they don't keep logs.
I think he was referring to this:
I caught him cheating on his wife based on computer forensics I did for her and some network traffic tapped on their network at her behest.
Although without further explaining the situation surrounding these "computer forensics I did for her" and "some network traffic tapped at her behest", it's hard to tell. If she's the customer and pays the bills for the network services you provide her, it's probably OK. Not sure if the users need to be warned that their traffic can be analysed though, as I'm not a legal expert. But I wouldn't be surprised to find that there's a legal obligation of notification, similar to legislation surrounding security cameras.
Did not bother to click it; the summary and the many comments saying "it doesn't work" make it sound like the site itself is click bait.
Nope, just new. My data is accurate, but only goes back to mid December. The way the site works is it participates in torrents on public trackers to get a list of peers. How else did you think they were able to access that data? And it appears they haven't been in business for very long, and aren't participating in all torrents yet.
But if you think this is cause for alarm: it's what copyright holders were already doing for a long time. They don't know anything about you that the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/... don't already know.
I use public trackers but my IP is blank. I only recently started using a VPN, so my public IP should have records. This is likely either new or some sort of honeypot.
I checked this site out of curiosity, and all they're doing is scraping trackers and recording the information. Nothing different than the publicly available data the movie and music studios have been gathering for years to issue infringement warnings. The only novel thing is they are making the archival information publicly available.
Exactly, amen. I was kinda bothered by the last part of the summary:
It's not clear whether this site is really revealing the information it claims to -- or whether it can filter out the fake IP addresses provided by many downloaders. But putting that aside, it does raise an important question. Is it technologically possible to build a site that tracks and reveals torrenting histories based on IP addresses?
Yeah, if you ignore the information that's clearly presented on the site, under the "About Us" section, then yeah, it's pretty unclear how they perform this feat of magic... Lazy editors.
ps: I can confirm, for my IP it also doesn't have anything past Dec. 17, 2016.
I think that was the first thing anyone with common sense thought when reading it. I half wonder about the people who came up with this though, must be so demotivating for the couple of "bright" folks in the room when it was announced that the votes had been cast and this was the winning entry...
Exactly. The test subjects are people who participate in studies. There's probably a reward attached for participation, over here it's usually free cinema tickets and stuff. They're not interested in the activity tracker, they're just interested in the free tickets. So is it any surprise they stop charging and wearing them once the rewards stop?
Now, for those who seek them out, do they actually work and get them to move more? Probably not or I wouldn't see so many fitbit owners who're still every bit as much overweight as two Christmases ago when they got 'em. These things do nothing more than remind you you should move more. Your scales already tell you that, and so does your doctor. So by that same logic one could also state that scales and doctors don' t work either.
You don't need to share your code. Only if you distribute the binaries do you have to. And then only to those you distribute it to, if I'm not mistaken, and not even proactively, just when/if they request it. But, since they have the same rights to further distribute, not publishing it openly makes little sense.
Just because you don't see the point of a certain feature doesn't mean there isn't one. It only means you're shortsighted.
I work for several different customers, each with their own set of URLs I need to be able to quickly jump between. Every customer gets their own tab group. Then there's the tab group for the various sites with documentation for the application they use. Then there's the tab group for my company's URLs such as my time sheets, internal issues etc. And finally, each of my personal projects gets a tab group as well, as does the personal non-work set of tabs. Yes, I could just bookmark everything, and then watch my productivity go down as I keep constantly closing the tabs for customer A so I can replace them with those for customer B. I switch customers on a daily basis; tab groups help me keep things logically organised and quickly accessible.
Some people actually use their browser for more than just Facebook, Twitter, youtube and slashdot, you dimwit.
Not sure how it works under the hood as I've never cared for it on that level of detail, but system apps do receive updates on Android. I assume they come in the form of binary overlays, as you have the option of uninstalling them, while this option is denied you for the actual app. Uninstalling the updates reverts the app to its original feature set.
And replying out of band here, but w.r.t. the i-naming for Apple products: never knew it stood for Internet (also should've been capitalised then), but whatever their reasons, it sure was catchier than prefixing everything with "mac". But in those days there was a lot of i-this, e-that, v-the-other-thing and x-whatever going on... For some reason only the i survived... Those guys in Cupertino know their marketing...
People don't use their watches while they sleep - charging every night in exchange for the extra functionality is a good deal for most people.
Depends on how you use it. I use my Pebble for sleep tracking, and it vibrates in the morning when my alarm goes off.
Yes, I could do without that; I just use it 'coz it's there. Then again, I can also do without all the "bloat" they seem to be adding to smart watches. Trading in the extra functionality for longer operational time between charges is a good deal to me. I don't need a miniature tablet on my wrist, I just want something that notifies me of incoming calls, SMS, emails and IMs, and calendar events, so I don't have to dig my phone out of my pocket every time it beeps for attention.
To be honest though, I haven't taken too close a look at other smart watch offerings. So maybe the extra functionality could be nice to have. It's just that at the moment, I can't envision anything I'd want to use my smartwatch for that I can't already do with the Pebble.
Yes, but not sure if you can reply from the watch on ios. For Android it's a recent addition. Google is your friend, or you can contact their support through the site, they're relatively responsive.
Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
For me, the main benefits my Pebble brings to the table are moving the notifications out of my pocket and onto my wrist. Incoming phone call? I can glance at my wrist to see who's calling, and with one button press reject the call to voicemail if I'm occupied. The phone is constantly on silent, doesn't even vibrate. All emails, text messages, hangouts conversations arrive on my wrist, very discreet. A simple glance tells me whether to dig the phone out of my pocket to reply, or if it can wait. Having your wristwatch vibrate and casting it a quick glance at it is also a lot less disruptive during conversations/meetings, as opposed having your phone make noises or vibrate in your pocket or on the desk. Especially once people realise you're wearing a smartwatch, and are not constantly checking the time because the conversation bores you.;)
With the new firmware version, it even allows you to respond right from the watch. I currently have the following templates defined: Driving, Meeting, Just call, Yup and Nope. I may need to finetune them (thinking of replacing the Yup with the more widely applicable OK), but I find them immensely useful for quick responses when I'm otherwise occupied and can't write a long reply. E.g. in the car, when someone starts a hangouts message, I can simply inform them that I'm driving so they know not to expect an immediate reply. Without creating dangerous situations by using an on-screen keyboard while driving. Sometimes people message me and I need to respond before arriving at my destination. Being able to tell them to just call me (have handsfree in the car for a reason), with just a few button presses is immensely useful. Of course, if I didn't have the Pebble, responses while driving would just have to wait. But it's convenient being able to respond right away without creating a dangerous situation.
Absolutely agree with you here, having had a lot of that "happy plate" stuff shoved down my throat (and more literally than you'd think, too). It's hell just to cut my meal size in half, because I'm so used to "eat until sated".
Gets easier as you go, though. What I found worked wonders for me was changing my diet to do a lot more with the wok. Mostly vegetables, with either some seafood or lean meat for the proteins. Not too heavy on the oil, and keeping the meat consumption low. That, and salads, but salads ain't everyone's cup of tea. And if you're gonna drown that salad in dressing to "add some taste" or put stuff like pasta in it, you might as well not bother with salads as I've actually managed to gain weight on salads before I discovered that.;)
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It's even worse for those of us who consume their news through the RSS feed. Every time a typo in a title or body gets corrected, that's a new entry in the feed. And they don't just update the article once, oh no no no! Every typo needs to be discovered independently of the others and warrants its own separate update. I see some articles fly by at least 5 times before the so-called "editors" decide it's finally good enough not to bother anymore, or too old for their readership to still give a fuck.
I can understand the occasional typo slipping through the cracks, but for fuck's sake, would it kill you to at least proofread it once before you hit "publish"?
No idea what this "this" was supposed to show, because you didn't bother describing the link, and the video is down now. When will people on forums learn to describe what they link to so that others who stumble upon it years (or in this particular case, days) from now at least can follow along?
You my friend are an idiot. Snooping? Find me a web server that doesn't contain logs, particularly for services that require authentication and don't specifically state they don't keep logs.
I think he was referring to this:
Although without further explaining the situation surrounding these "computer forensics I did for her" and "some network traffic tapped at her behest", it's hard to tell. If she's the customer and pays the bills for the network services you provide her, it's probably OK. Not sure if the users need to be warned that their traffic can be analysed though, as I'm not a legal expert. But I wouldn't be surprised to find that there's a legal obligation of notification, similar to legislation surrounding security cameras.
Did not bother to click it; the summary and the many comments saying "it doesn't work" make it sound like the site itself is click bait.
Nope, just new. My data is accurate, but only goes back to mid December. The way the site works is it participates in torrents on public trackers to get a list of peers. How else did you think they were able to access that data? And it appears they haven't been in business for very long, and aren't participating in all torrents yet.
But if you think this is cause for alarm: it's what copyright holders were already doing for a long time. They don't know anything about you that the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/... don't already know.
Thank you, but please learn to hyperlink. Makes it a lot more convenient for the others here.
Article on TorrentFreak
That's only true when your at home.
Please, fix your grammar.
I use public trackers but my IP is blank. I only recently started using a VPN, so my public IP should have records. This is likely either new or some sort of honeypot.
It's new; my history goes back to mid December.
I checked this site out of curiosity, and all they're doing is scraping trackers and recording the information. Nothing different than the publicly available data the movie and music studios have been gathering for years to issue infringement warnings. The only novel thing is they are making the archival information publicly available.
Exactly, amen. I was kinda bothered by the last part of the summary:
Yeah, if you ignore the information that's clearly presented on the site, under the "About Us" section, then yeah, it's pretty unclear how they perform this feat of magic... Lazy editors.
ps: I can confirm, for my IP it also doesn't have anything past Dec. 17, 2016.
I think that was the first thing anyone with common sense thought when reading it. I half wonder about the people who came up with this though, must be so demotivating for the couple of "bright" folks in the room when it was announced that the votes had been cast and this was the winning entry...
Exactly. The test subjects are people who participate in studies. There's probably a reward attached for participation, over here it's usually free cinema tickets and stuff. They're not interested in the activity tracker, they're just interested in the free tickets. So is it any surprise they stop charging and wearing them once the rewards stop? Now, for those who seek them out, do they actually work and get them to move more? Probably not or I wouldn't see so many fitbit owners who're still every bit as much overweight as two Christmases ago when they got 'em. These things do nothing more than remind you you should move more. Your scales already tell you that, and so does your doctor. So by that same logic one could also state that scales and doctors don' t work either.
And everyone's speculating how they will impact computing... Am I the only one even halfway curious about how they sound in an amplifier?
Termination of specimen advised.
Leprechauns are racists. I don't support racists.
Actually, if they paid you $7.99 to watch it, racists would support you.
How's the weather in Soviet Russia?
Then you didn't see Zombie Movie. It was the first released on steam as a movie... about 11 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You can probably find it on youtube.
Oh yes, that one was good. :)
Also, Kung Fury, another free one, also pretty hilarious if their particular brand of stupid humour appeals to you.
Same here, Belgium.
Or the speed of causality, as explained in this episode of pbs spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You don't need to share your code. Only if you distribute the binaries do you have to. And then only to those you distribute it to, if I'm not mistaken, and not even proactively, just when/if they request it. But, since they have the same rights to further distribute, not publishing it openly makes little sense.
Just because you don't see the point of a certain feature doesn't mean there isn't one. It only means you're shortsighted. I work for several different customers, each with their own set of URLs I need to be able to quickly jump between. Every customer gets their own tab group. Then there's the tab group for the various sites with documentation for the application they use. Then there's the tab group for my company's URLs such as my time sheets, internal issues etc. And finally, each of my personal projects gets a tab group as well, as does the personal non-work set of tabs. Yes, I could just bookmark everything, and then watch my productivity go down as I keep constantly closing the tabs for customer A so I can replace them with those for customer B. I switch customers on a daily basis; tab groups help me keep things logically organised and quickly accessible. Some people actually use their browser for more than just Facebook, Twitter, youtube and slashdot, you dimwit.
Nice :-P
Not sure how it works under the hood as I've never cared for it on that level of detail, but system apps do receive updates on Android. I assume they come in the form of binary overlays, as you have the option of uninstalling them, while this option is denied you for the actual app. Uninstalling the updates reverts the app to its original feature set. And replying out of band here, but w.r.t. the i-naming for Apple products: never knew it stood for Internet (also should've been capitalised then), but whatever their reasons, it sure was catchier than prefixing everything with "mac". But in those days there was a lot of i-this, e-that, v-the-other-thing and x-whatever going on... For some reason only the i survived... Those guys in Cupertino know their marketing...
People don't use their watches while they sleep - charging every night in exchange for the extra functionality is a good deal for most people.
Depends on how you use it. I use my Pebble for sleep tracking, and it vibrates in the morning when my alarm goes off.
Yes, I could do without that; I just use it 'coz it's there. Then again, I can also do without all the "bloat" they seem to be adding to smart watches. Trading in the extra functionality for longer operational time between charges is a good deal to me. I don't need a miniature tablet on my wrist, I just want something that notifies me of incoming calls, SMS, emails and IMs, and calendar events, so I don't have to dig my phone out of my pocket every time it beeps for attention.
To be honest though, I haven't taken too close a look at other smart watch offerings. So maybe the extra functionality could be nice to have. It's just that at the moment, I can't envision anything I'd want to use my smartwatch for that I can't already do with the Pebble.
This can be seen as Nintendo just expanding into the casual market, but I remember what happened to Sega...
Yes, but not sure if you can reply from the watch on ios. For Android it's a recent addition. Google is your friend, or you can contact their support through the site, they're relatively responsive.
Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
For me, the main benefits my Pebble brings to the table are moving the notifications out of my pocket and onto my wrist. Incoming phone call? I can glance at my wrist to see who's calling, and with one button press reject the call to voicemail if I'm occupied. The phone is constantly on silent, doesn't even vibrate. All emails, text messages, hangouts conversations arrive on my wrist, very discreet. A simple glance tells me whether to dig the phone out of my pocket to reply, or if it can wait. Having your wristwatch vibrate and casting it a quick glance at it is also a lot less disruptive during conversations/meetings, as opposed having your phone make noises or vibrate in your pocket or on the desk. Especially once people realise you're wearing a smartwatch, and are not constantly checking the time because the conversation bores you. ;)
With the new firmware version, it even allows you to respond right from the watch. I currently have the following templates defined: Driving, Meeting, Just call, Yup and Nope. I may need to finetune them (thinking of replacing the Yup with the more widely applicable OK), but I find them immensely useful for quick responses when I'm otherwise occupied and can't write a long reply. E.g. in the car, when someone starts a hangouts message, I can simply inform them that I'm driving so they know not to expect an immediate reply. Without creating dangerous situations by using an on-screen keyboard while driving. Sometimes people message me and I need to respond before arriving at my destination. Being able to tell them to just call me (have handsfree in the car for a reason), with just a few button presses is immensely useful. Of course, if I didn't have the Pebble, responses while driving would just have to wait. But it's convenient being able to respond right away without creating a dangerous situation.
Absolutely agree with you here, having had a lot of that "happy plate" stuff shoved down my throat (and more literally than you'd think, too). It's hell just to cut my meal size in half, because I'm so used to "eat until sated".
Gets easier as you go, though. What I found worked wonders for me was changing my diet to do a lot more with the wok. Mostly vegetables, with either some seafood or lean meat for the proteins. Not too heavy on the oil, and keeping the meat consumption low. That, and salads, but salads ain't everyone's cup of tea. And if you're gonna drown that salad in dressing to "add some taste" or put stuff like pasta in it, you might as well not bother with salads as I've actually managed to gain weight on salads before I discovered that. ;)