Pretty much, yeah. You can BUY 10 (yeah, 10) number blocks for like 5 bucks a month. Fuck them. I'm going to Magic Jack. I also got a call blocker from Amazon (Sentry II). Best $50 I ever spent in my life!
That, and simple laziness. Too lazy to load a real news app? Just scan Facebook. Too lazy to fact check what you hear? Hey, if it sounds right to me, it must be correct - who wants to bother with all that Googling, anyway?
Hard to tell which is greater - the laziness or the gullibility. Occam's razor doesn't seem to help here!
The point the author of the article WANTED to make, I believe, is that the quality of news is slipping on legitimate news sites (due to whatever., blah blah) and THAT is causing people to either seek out alternate news sources, or give those otherwise dubious sources credibility since they appear to be spewing the same BS as the legitimate sources are.
They started the bundled updated shit last month. I downloaded updates for one Win7 machine early in the month just after Patch Tuesday (The LAST ONE for me!) and did my other machine about two weeks later, and I noticed they had added the "October 2016 Rollup Update" for Windows and a similar-looking turdball for.NET.
That gives you local caller ID names, kind of a local whitelist. With landlines there is a "name service" that provides a number AND a name, usually (when not blocked, spoofed, etc.) but that doesn't get sent to the cell network, apparently. So, the latest version of Android has it half-baked in as a paid service feature or something.
AT&T is pulling that shit too, apparently My mother said something like "My caller ID names are gone, and it's just numbers now. It said something about the free trial being up." that must be what she was talking about, she just got a new Galaxy 7 Edge with AT&T service.
I'm on Verizon and I get names and numbers as part of basic caller ID service, AFAIK.
The problem was also present in later cars too, I think the Mustang and Crown Vic had the same issue, they sandwiched the gas tank vertically behind the differential pumpkin. That way in a rear end crash, it crushed the gas tank and ruptured it. They fixed it in later models by mounting the gas tank horizontally atop the pumpkin. The Pinto Wagon had problems with the gas filler neck too, IIRC.
I had a Fire Engine Red 1972 Pinto in high school. I had a "Danger: Flammable" bumper sticker on it as was the fashion at the time!
It was a great car, it's top speed was 77 MPH on a flat road, pedal to the floor and you couldn't redline the engine. The German 1600cc 4 cylinder engine was one of the best ever made. The Canadian 2300cc one was a bit more powerful, but the 1600 was more reliable.
Got many miles on it until it finally required a manual points adjustment (tune up) every week or so. I even had sex in that car, and man, that was very difficult, but not impossible!:D
As for the phone, I have an S7 Edge and it's great, no battery issues. They should have used the same ones in the Note, but they probably had to make it smaller for the pen storage area, I'm guessing.
This is great, I hope this happens more often. Maybe these shitbags will stop bothering to mine/phish/malware/etc. for identities and data once they find out they don't have the wealth of Croesus on their hands and no one wants to pay for it.
By "manufacturers" I meant either their marketing/sales forces or the agents they might employ like RightsCorp or whoever. Of course, all plausible deniability forces would be in play, so fingering the actual game publisher/mfr. would be difficult to impossible.
Poisoned or fake Downloads, Torrents, etc. is an old RIAA/MPAA favorite, either to waste the time of the downloader or to try and "teach them a lesson".
You realize those are usually put there by the game's manufacturer's, right? They are trying to put the "fear of God" into people (like you) downloading the cracks, etc. as their twisted form of anti-piracy.
Game crackers/release groups thrive on getting it out first, and doing it right, so why would they promulgate viruses? It would surely ruin the groups' reputation if it got out there.
Plus, all the anti-malware programs flag such stuff as harmless keygens all as "PUP" or worse, "trojans" or other unspecified malware. This doesn't help the confusion either, as you really don't know if it's benign or an actual piece of malware. Running in a VM is the only solution, and restore prior state after running the "crack", because you really don't know whether it did anything malicious or not.
Actually they did experiment with it, at least with VTOL planes, and they eventually gave up. They decided that not being able to see out the window while landing was an insurmountable problem.
Now, with computer assisted landing ability and closed-circuit TV, it's an achievable reality.
That's as bad as a Buick LaCrosse - that also means masturbation in Canada, where they rename the car to "Allure". Absolutely hilarious! Don't they do searches for this shit?
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Pretty much, yeah. You can BUY 10 (yeah, 10) number blocks for like 5 bucks a month. Fuck them. I'm going to Magic Jack. I also got a call blocker from Amazon (Sentry II). Best $50 I ever spent in my life!
Except the spammy douchebags are just spoofing local numbers to fool people into picking them up. They seem to change them weekly or so.
Isn't it the NSA that runs the Santa Tracker? NSA probably stands for Not Santa After all.
Oh, that was NORAD.
Never Mind!
No, I think he was using the "Queen's English" he spoke of.
In the South in the USA we have the phrase "Bless your heart" which means the same thing.
There ya go, Russian to judgement...
Quite a few of them. In Vegas, they bet on EVERYTHING.
That, and simple laziness. Too lazy to load a real news app? Just scan Facebook. Too lazy to fact check what you hear? Hey, if it sounds right to me, it must be correct - who wants to bother with all that Googling, anyway?
Hard to tell which is greater - the laziness or the gullibility. Occam's razor doesn't seem to help here!
The point the author of the article WANTED to make, I believe, is that the quality of news is slipping on legitimate news sites (due to whatever., blah blah) and THAT is causing people to either seek out alternate news sources, or give those otherwise dubious sources credibility since they appear to be spewing the same BS as the legitimate sources are.
They started the bundled updated shit last month. I downloaded updates for one Win7 machine early in the month just after Patch Tuesday (The LAST ONE for me!) and did my other machine about two weeks later, and I noticed they had added the "October 2016 Rollup Update" for Windows and a similar-looking turdball for .NET.
So it begins...
That gives you local caller ID names, kind of a local whitelist. With landlines there is a "name service" that provides a number AND a name, usually (when not blocked, spoofed, etc.) but that doesn't get sent to the cell network, apparently. So, the latest version of Android has it half-baked in as a paid service feature or something.
AT&T is pulling that shit too, apparently My mother said something like "My caller ID names are gone, and it's just numbers now. It said something about the free trial being up." that must be what she was talking about, she just got a new Galaxy 7 Edge with AT&T service.
I'm on Verizon and I get names and numbers as part of basic caller ID service, AFAIK.
Still a turd floating in the basement of the Apple Outhouse.
Do not want, need, or desire, TYVM.
That's like falling into an outhouse and "discovering" all the turds down there.
Nice try, Apple. Sheesh.
I have had great luck with email hosting by 1and1. They are huge and based outside the USA, which is a plus these days too.
You've been looking at too many mammograms! You need to get out more...
And my all-time favorite, cosmic-rays.
Cosmic, man!
The problem was also present in later cars too, I think the Mustang and Crown Vic had the same issue, they sandwiched the gas tank vertically behind the differential pumpkin. That way in a rear end crash, it crushed the gas tank and ruptured it. They fixed it in later models by mounting the gas tank horizontally atop the pumpkin. The Pinto Wagon had problems with the gas filler neck too, IIRC.
I had a Fire Engine Red 1972 Pinto in high school. I had a "Danger: Flammable" bumper sticker on it as was the fashion at the time!
It was a great car, it's top speed was 77 MPH on a flat road, pedal to the floor and you couldn't redline the engine. The German 1600cc 4 cylinder engine was one of the best ever made. The Canadian 2300cc one was a bit more powerful, but the 1600 was more reliable.
Got many miles on it until it finally required a manual points adjustment (tune up) every week or so. I even had sex in that car, and man, that was very difficult, but not impossible! :D
As for the phone, I have an S7 Edge and it's great, no battery issues. They should have used the same ones in the Note, but they probably had to make it smaller for the pen storage area, I'm guessing.
I was thinking that too... I guess we'll see in the upcoming days.
This is great, I hope this happens more often. Maybe these shitbags will stop bothering to mine/phish/malware/etc. for identities and data once they find out they don't have the wealth of Croesus on their hands and no one wants to pay for it.
You mean mindlessly repeated buzzwords like "pivot point"?
By "manufacturers" I meant either their marketing/sales forces or the agents they might employ like RightsCorp or whoever. Of course, all plausible deniability forces would be in play, so fingering the actual game publisher/mfr. would be difficult to impossible.
Poisoned or fake Downloads, Torrents, etc. is an old RIAA/MPAA favorite, either to waste the time of the downloader or to try and "teach them a lesson".
You realize those are usually put there by the game's manufacturer's, right? They are trying to put the "fear of God" into people (like you) downloading the cracks, etc. as their twisted form of anti-piracy.
Game crackers/release groups thrive on getting it out first, and doing it right, so why would they promulgate viruses? It would surely ruin the groups' reputation if it got out there.
Plus, all the anti-malware programs flag such stuff as harmless keygens all as "PUP" or worse, "trojans" or other unspecified malware. This doesn't help the confusion either, as you really don't know if it's benign or an actual piece of malware. Running in a VM is the only solution, and restore prior state after running the "crack", because you really don't know whether it did anything malicious or not.
Actually they did experiment with it, at least with VTOL planes, and they eventually gave up. They decided that not being able to see out the window while landing was an insurmountable problem.
Now, with computer assisted landing ability and closed-circuit TV, it's an achievable reality.
As long as it can survive trip #2, it's all good...
That's as bad as a Buick LaCrosse - that also means masturbation in Canada, where they rename the car to "Allure". Absolutely hilarious! Don't they do searches for this shit?