I upgraded my Treo 600 to a 650 after slipping while crossing a very small stream on the beach. It did *not* like getting even a little wet.
Likewise, my Canon A70 became a Canon A670 after the "waterproof" housing leaked about a half-teaspoon of salt water snorkeling. It's amazing how fast salt water corrodes!
Each of those was a minor upgrade, but I did not in the slightest miss the Olympus 320L (and the 20second picture cycle times) when it jumped off the ski lift into several feet of the most beautiful powder I've had the pleasure of skiing in, never to be seen again (though I do wish I could have found the memory card and pictures --- if someone found one at Northstar/Lake Tahoe after the snow melted in '94...) Upgrading to a Nikon Coolpix 950 was a major improvement...
It really boggles my mind how people get upset over body parts, I mean just exactly how does it hurt anyone for the security people (or anyone else for that matter) to see you bare?
And yet none of the hoorah is over the trend towards police states everywhere.
1. Assuming that "freedom" means the freedom to do anything you want, regardless of others. That is simply not possible in any environment with more than one person. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to maximize freedom in a fair way though, or chide people for voluntarily giving it up, particularly when their decisions have side effects.
2. Perhaps some people are trying to compel Apple to open their product, and indeed, that is not freedom and that is not what I am suggesting. People choosing to give up freedom, causing a closed product to succeed, impacts the ability for those of us who *do* value freedom to obtain it, but my comment was much more general than that: in all parts of society, people are voluntarily throwing freedom away as fast as they can, and one day, they're going to wake up and wonder "how did we get here!?" and have only themselves to blame (not that they will...).
There would have had to have been an increase in accidents from such activities for banning them to have caused a reduction. If they were as dangerous as people make them out to be, accident rates would have skyrocketed over the last couple of decades, and I've seen no indication whatsoever that that is the case.
This is why I use a virtual card online (paypal offers them, and some banks do too) - generate a card, use it and then close it. It's also handy for sites that force you to subscribe when you only want a brief access (e.g. I'm only an occasional wow player, so I pay for a month, close the card, don't have to pay for the rest of the time when I don't have time to play).
Not everyone wants to fiddle with every little setting in an OS. I would say a majority just want to pick up the device and the device works.
They don't have to, even on OSX --- you can just fire it up and use it. But you can put the tools *you* want on it, if you want, and not just the ones Apple approves of. If that ever changes, one would hope it would be a big boost for Linux.
But all too many no longer seem to value freedom, and it's causing all of us to lose it (and in far more important ways than in just the use of a toy computer).
...especially if they've had the problem before! Although I've been using Paypal for over 15 years with no problems at all, I still don't let the balance there get too high for exactly this reason.
Actually, when I came here, I convinced everyone that we *should* be signing our mail and got everyone thawte certs. thawte's process for that was so painful that no one wanted to go through renewal a year later. Despite being a target of phishing scams, the practicalities of role based email mean that inertia is *still*, many years later, impeding routine use.
The corollary is the time it takes to make a change to a domain, something, as an ISP, we do a lot of. There's also having to integrate support into the tools we use to manage domains. I'm actually planning on doing it, but the more barriers there are, the more subtractions from priority...
I've been digitally signing all my email for about 15 years; I *tried* to encrypt all my mail, but I've run into two problems: inertia on the part of other people, and poor application support. Thunderbird in particular has had a bug report for "encrypt when possible" for years, complete with a detailed operation to address some of the issues, and no one who has development expertise in Thunderbird will implement it. With that, the people who have keys can start using it regularly and then there's a good reason to get other people to get keys and start using them. Without it, it's "ok, does this person have a key or not" and it's just too much bother for most. Thunderbird isn't the only one: I've looked at other mail programs, and it's always all or nothing. That should be a *choice* (it does have its place), but without a "when possible", there's no graceful transition option.
Then there's DNSSEC, which I've tried to implement. It's a voracious consumer of random numbers because of the vast number of keys you need (if you're hosting a large number of domains, as we do). I bought a usb dongle that is a hardware random number generator, and it *still* takes forever (days) to re-sign our domains, something you are supposed to do monthly.
I switched from AT&T to Sprint in 2004 because of coverage, and recently switched to Tmobile to get GSM and the Cliq. Now I'm trying to figure out the cheapest way to get a Sprint backup phone so I can at least have phone service at home (the cellular repeater I got isn't working out too well, though a directional antennae may help).
I like Tmobile as a company, and Sprint was fine too, but I've heard too many horror stories with Verizon and AT&T to even consider either.
Exactly! All additional tlds do is confuse end users and make it easier to for phishing scams to work. we should phase out everything but.net and the country code tlds, and keep those only because it makes it relatively easy to tell a given word is a domain vs something else..net for the global internet and the country codes for sites of regional interest.
I switched to Sprint from AT&T years ago because of crappy coverage in the switch to digital, but recently caved and got a Cliq from Tmobile. I'd tried the G1 a year ago, and knew what I was getting into, resigning myself to buying a $300 cellular repeater just so I could use the phone at home. It's nice having the features in the Cliq (the options from Sprint were too limited for my tastes, and I travel internationally from time to time and wanted a phone that would work globally), and it works well when it *does* have coverage, but I find myself thinking about getting a cheap Sprint phone/plan just so I have a backup option.
I agree: while they should perhaps have some limited regulation, I've been using them for nearly as long as they've been around without any problem, for both personal and business. A really big plus is that I don't have to have the responsibility of dealing with credit card security. I would *never* enter paypal credentials into a random web site, but haven't looked at the new api yet to see if that's really what they're doing. It would be really stupid for them to do that. I'd venture to guess that fraud handling is already their biggest expense, and that would just make it worse.
You noticed someone driving recklessly that happened to be talking on their cell phone, as is nearly ubiquitous. People have been complaining about how other people drive since cars were invented. It just happens that now there's a symbol to attach the behavior to, except you don't notice that symbol in all the cases where you don't notice their driving first. And thus was a scapegoat born.
Like I said: if cell phones were as dangerous as people make them out to be, accident rates would be skyrocketing. There is no problem that needs a solution here. There are already careless and reckless driving laws, if someone is driving in an unsafe manner, then use them.
It doesn't matter what the actual case entailed, what matters is the perception surrounding the hoopla. "protecting the children" has become the modern witch hunt, and while many targets deserve to be targets, there is also a lot of collateral damage going on. I love kids, but as a gay man, I've avoided having anything to do with them my entire life because of misguided public perception and the fact that a simple accusation is enough to ruin someone's life. It's just been expanding to encompass the rest of the world over the last decade.
If they want paywalls to work, they have to make them painless. It's *not* the money stopping people (unless they're being outrageous, which is no doubt a factor for some of the sites)... I just don't see how they can be both secure and painless...
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I upgraded my Treo 600 to a 650 after slipping while crossing a very small stream on the beach. It did *not* like getting even a little wet.
Likewise, my Canon A70 became a Canon A670 after the "waterproof" housing leaked about a half-teaspoon of salt water snorkeling. It's amazing how fast salt water corrodes!
Each of those was a minor upgrade, but I did not in the slightest miss the Olympus 320L (and the 20second picture cycle times) when it jumped off the ski lift into several feet of the most beautiful powder I've had the pleasure of skiing in, never to be seen again (though I do wish I could have found the memory card and pictures --- if someone found one at Northstar/Lake Tahoe after the snow melted in '94...) Upgrading to a Nikon Coolpix 950 was a major improvement...
Fortunately, I like lemonade ;-)
Sounds like South Carolina has changed their primary crop of smoking material...
mobile devices of the future come with entangled "battery" pairs: plug one in at home an voila! no more recharging...
It really boggles my mind how people get upset over body parts, I mean just exactly how does it hurt anyone for the security people (or anyone else for that matter) to see you bare?
And yet none of the hoorah is over the trend towards police states everywhere.
Call me skeptical, but this has sounded like a software problem to me from the very beginning.
You make two classic mistakes:
1. Assuming that "freedom" means the freedom to do anything you want, regardless of others. That is simply not possible in any environment with more than one person. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to maximize freedom in a fair way though, or chide people for voluntarily giving it up, particularly when their decisions have side effects.
2. Perhaps some people are trying to compel Apple to open their product, and indeed, that is not freedom and that is not what I am suggesting. People choosing to give up freedom, causing a closed product to succeed, impacts the ability for those of us who *do* value freedom to obtain it, but my comment was much more general than that: in all parts of society, people are voluntarily throwing freedom away as fast as they can, and one day, they're going to wake up and wonder "how did we get here!?" and have only themselves to blame (not that they will...).
There would have had to have been an increase in accidents from such activities for banning them to have caused a reduction. If they were as dangerous as people make them out to be, accident rates would have skyrocketed over the last couple of decades, and I've seen no indication whatsoever that that is the case.
This is why I use a virtual card online (paypal offers them, and some banks do too) - generate a card, use it and then close it. It's also handy for sites that force you to subscribe when you only want a brief access (e.g. I'm only an occasional wow player, so I pay for a month, close the card, don't have to pay for the rest of the time when I don't have time to play).
Not everyone wants to fiddle with every little setting in an OS. I would say a majority just want to pick up the device and the device works.
They don't have to, even on OSX --- you can just fire it up and use it. But you can put the tools *you* want on it, if you want, and not just the ones Apple approves of. If that ever changes, one would hope it would be a big boost for Linux.
But all too many no longer seem to value freedom, and it's causing all of us to lose it (and in far more important ways than in just the use of a toy computer).
...especially if they've had the problem before! Although I've been using Paypal for over 15 years with no problems at all, I still don't let the balance there get too high for exactly this reason.
Actually, when I came here, I convinced everyone that we *should* be signing our mail and got everyone thawte certs. thawte's process for that was so painful that no one wanted to go through renewal a year later. Despite being a target of phishing scams, the practicalities of role based email mean that inertia is *still*, many years later, impeding routine use.
The corollary is the time it takes to make a change to a domain, something, as an ISP, we do a lot of. There's also having to integrate support into the tools we use to manage domains. I'm actually planning on doing it, but the more barriers there are, the more subtractions from priority...
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I've been digitally signing all my email for about 15 years; I *tried* to encrypt all my mail, but I've run into two problems: inertia on the part of other people, and poor application support. Thunderbird in particular has had a bug report for "encrypt when possible" for years, complete with a detailed operation to address some of the issues, and no one who has development expertise in Thunderbird will implement it. With that, the people who have keys can start using it regularly and then there's a good reason to get other people to get keys and start using them. Without it, it's "ok, does this person have a key or not" and it's just too much bother for most. Thunderbird isn't the only one: I've looked at other mail programs, and it's always all or nothing. That should be a *choice* (it does have its place), but without a "when possible", there's no graceful transition option.
Then there's DNSSEC, which I've tried to implement. It's a voracious consumer of random numbers because of the vast number of keys you need (if you're hosting a large number of domains, as we do). I bought a usb dongle that is a hardware random number generator, and it *still* takes forever (days) to re-sign our domains, something you are supposed to do monthly.
FWIW...
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I switched from AT&T to Sprint in 2004 because of coverage, and recently switched to Tmobile to get GSM and the Cliq. Now I'm trying to figure out the cheapest way to get a Sprint backup phone so I can at least have phone service at home (the cellular repeater I got isn't working out too well, though a directional antennae may help).
I like Tmobile as a company, and Sprint was fine too, but I've heard too many horror stories with Verizon and AT&T to even consider either.
Exactly! All additional tlds do is confuse end users and make it easier to for phishing scams to work. we should phase out everything but .net and the country code tlds, and keep those only because it makes it relatively easy to tell a given word is a domain vs something else. .net for the global internet and the country codes for sites of regional interest.
I switched to Sprint from AT&T years ago because of crappy coverage in the switch to digital, but recently caved and got a Cliq from Tmobile. I'd tried the G1 a year ago, and knew what I was getting into, resigning myself to buying a $300 cellular repeater just so I could use the phone at home. It's nice having the features in the Cliq (the options from Sprint were too limited for my tastes, and I travel internationally from time to time and wanted a phone that would work globally), and it works well when it *does* have coverage, but I find myself thinking about getting a cheap Sprint phone/plan just so I have a backup option.
One of the nuisances of reading a paper book is holding the thing open, now we get that inconvenience in an ebook too!
I'll stick with one page thanks.
Come back from a quick trip to pick something up:
Driver to car: start
car to driver: Please wait, download 1% finished estimated time 20 minutes...
I agree: while they should perhaps have some limited regulation, I've been using them for nearly as long as they've been around without any problem, for both personal and business. A really big plus is that I don't have to have the responsibility of dealing with credit card security. I would *never* enter paypal credentials into a random web site, but haven't looked at the new api yet to see if that's really what they're doing. It would be really stupid for them to do that. I'd venture to guess that fraud handling is already their biggest expense, and that would just make it worse.
You noticed someone driving recklessly that happened to be talking on their cell phone, as is nearly ubiquitous. People have been complaining about how other people drive since cars were invented. It just happens that now there's a symbol to attach the behavior to, except you don't notice that symbol in all the cases where you don't notice their driving first. And thus was a scapegoat born.
What solution(s) would you propose?
Like I said: if cell phones were as dangerous as people make them out to be, accident rates would be skyrocketing. There is no problem that needs a solution here. There are already careless and reckless driving laws, if someone is driving in an unsafe manner, then use them.
...has prohibition *ever* worked?
If cell phones were as dangerous as people like to make them out to be, accident rates would have skyrocketed over the last decade.
It doesn't matter what the actual case entailed, what matters is the perception surrounding the hoopla. "protecting the children" has become the modern witch hunt, and while many targets deserve to be targets, there is also a lot of collateral damage going on. I love kids, but as a gay man, I've avoided having anything to do with them my entire life because of misguided public perception and the fact that a simple accusation is enough to ruin someone's life. It's just been expanding to encompass the rest of the world over the last decade.
If they want paywalls to work, they have to make them painless. It's *not* the money stopping people (unless they're being outrageous, which is no doubt a factor for some of the sites)... I just don't see how they can be both secure and painless...
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