Baloney. Have a unique default password generated for each device, print it on a sticker and paste it to the device. They've been doing that with routers for years already.
Basically, if you're not a local, they'll pull you over for some piss-ant, often fabricated infraction, claim that they "smell weed" (especially if your plates are CO or WA) threate-^h...extort you with some scary-sounding charges (which you'll be greatly disinclined to accept when you're a considerable distance from home, not wanting a huge ticket, points on your license and a trial that you'll lose in a kangaroo traffic court) and then miraculously offer to "make it go away" if you fork over whatever cash and valuables you've got in your car, which they get to use to pad their budget or their own fucking wallets (because it's untraceable and you're in the middle of dogfuck nowhere, who's gonna know, right?)
This is *literally* sanctioned and institutionalized highway robbery and they've gotten away with THOUSANDS of them.
Since 4chan, by design, only keeps a (fairly low) specific number of threads alive on each board and rotates them out as they lose popularity, this seems odd and superfluous.
Their response to any DMCA demand could be, "yup, it will be removed within the next day or two," without actually changing a thing.
Yup, I bought a 512GB Crucial MX100 for less than $250. It gives 90%+ the performance of Intel models I've used at 50% of the price, without using any nasty trickery like compression.
The more you think about it, the more it sounds like doublespeak.
You: oh, so that's why they remove useful features that everyone wants with every new release? That's why they shove a godawful UI that nobody wants down everyone's throat?
Hey, let's pick a minority group of people living with a misfortune through no fault of their own... what's something that will make it easy to play the sympathy card? Y'know, like it'll make everyone *else* look like the bad guys for opposing it? Wait... I got it... let's exploit the disabled!
Verizon has long been the poster child of corporate fuck-all-y'all evil, but I believe Satan just reserved a special place them in hell, probably as his right hand, to one day ascend to the fiery throne and command the world's evil, trident in hand.
In mere months, Australia has gone from as place that I avoided because every wild animal exists to make your life miserable or worse, to a place I'd avoid because the government is doing the same.
That is the issue on which this case hinges: there is no absolute guarantee against self-incrimination in the UK. You *can* be compelled to reveal your secret encryption keys that exist only in your mind.
Seems the founders of computing as we know it have lost their way.
I can't even imagine getting up at 7:00am every day, spending an hour putting myself together, running some shit through my hair, putting on a stuffy and uncomfortable suit and tie... only to walk in to some godawful nothing of a job where I'm expected to spend all day not only performing menial, make-work, soul-crushing bullshit work that could be done by robots, but navigate the minefield of social nuance. After all that, I'd be expected to piss away my evening on some social gathering to talk about some meaningless shit? Fuck all that noise.
I figured out a while ago that "normal" people manage to fulfill themselves in soul-sucking non-jobs by feeding their social needs throughout the day. I have little-to-no social needs and such work would leave me completely empty to the point of contemplating self-harm.
I love that I can roll out of bed at 9:00am, make my coffee and jump straight into work in my pyjamas, do my shit-shave-shower routine an hour later, grab another cup 'o joe and code till noon, have lunch, have my workout, then take my laptop out to the deck if it's a nice day and hack away until supper... all while not interacting with a single person, save for email and the occasional phone call. Maybe I'll the energy for some light social interaction in the evening, but that's all I need for a week.
There are more free, well-documented, cut-n-paste libraries than ever. Building a fancy website can literally be done using a number of Google searches for "$language library for doing $x" and a bit of know-how to put it all together.
Oh, you want it done properly without gaping security holes, bad usability, cheesy graphics and cookie-cutter design? Guess what, that requires skill and experience, just like accomplishing many things properly, quit your bitching.
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Baloney. Have a unique default password generated for each device, print it on a sticker and paste it to the device. They've been doing that with routers for years already.
Pretty sad, considering they went *far* out of their way to follow the letter of a bullshit law.
Isn't it incredulously absurd that engaging in this spy-game double life nonsense has actually become a completely rational behavior?
Fer crissake I just wanna live my life with a reasonable expectation of privacy.
They've been running this shake-down on Americans traveling out-of-state, too: http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
Basically, if you're not a local, they'll pull you over for some piss-ant, often fabricated infraction, claim that they "smell weed" (especially if your plates are CO or WA) threate-^h...extort you with some scary-sounding charges (which you'll be greatly disinclined to accept when you're a considerable distance from home, not wanting a huge ticket, points on your license and a trial that you'll lose in a kangaroo traffic court) and then miraculously offer to "make it go away" if you fork over whatever cash and valuables you've got in your car, which they get to use to pad their budget or their own fucking wallets (because it's untraceable and you're in the middle of dogfuck nowhere, who's gonna know, right?)
This is *literally* sanctioned and institutionalized highway robbery and they've gotten away with THOUSANDS of them.
Since 4chan, by design, only keeps a (fairly low) specific number of threads alive on each board and rotates them out as they lose popularity, this seems odd and superfluous.
Their response to any DMCA demand could be, "yup, it will be removed within the next day or two," without actually changing a thing.
Because fuck you, that's why.
Run any IBM servers? Next time they replacement, you'd be wise to dump them and look elsewhere.
Trackpads have always been meh, they're just a sucky and imprecise interface.
Give me clit mouse or give me death!
That's not even the worst part. You can switch them in the BIOS, so it's effectively a null point.
But, yeah, the keyboards are fucked, regardless.
Text nav keys splayed fucking everywhere, lack of F key groupings, F keys that *aren't* F keys, chiclet bullshit, slop and flex regions.
It's not even a damn ThinkPad anymore.
Yup, I bought a 512GB Crucial MX100 for less than $250. It gives 90%+ the performance of Intel models I've used at 50% of the price, without using any nasty trickery like compression.
As opposed to the risks of literally inducing chemical and radiation poisoning?
Yes
But the price is pretty bonkers
http://store.linksys.com/Links...
The more you think about it, the more it sounds like doublespeak.
You: oh, so that's why they remove useful features that everyone wants with every new release? That's why they shove a godawful UI that nobody wants down everyone's throat?
Your privacy: see summary
Open web: the EME debacle says otherwise
"Hey, I'm actually supposed to be getting *out* of prison today, so..."
"You're in the wrong line, dumbass!"
Hey, let's pick a minority group of people living with a misfortune through no fault of their own... what's something that will make it easy to play the sympathy card? Y'know, like it'll make everyone *else* look like the bad guys for opposing it? Wait... I got it... let's exploit the disabled!
Verizon has long been the poster child of corporate fuck-all-y'all evil, but I believe Satan just reserved a special place them in hell, probably as his right hand, to one day ascend to the fiery throne and command the world's evil, trident in hand.
The private prison industry, over-staffed militarized police departments and politicians/regulators/bureaucrats on the take would heartily disagree.
Outlawing protests, imprisoning journalists, instituting censorship...
In mere months, Australia has gone from as place that I avoided because every wild animal exists to make your life miserable or worse, to a place I'd avoid because the government is doing the same.
Ahhh, *now* it all makes sense.
Seems the founders of computing as we know it have lost their way.
Looking like an idiot is not the way to do it
And thank the almighty FSM for it!
... all while not interacting with a single person, save for email and the occasional phone call. Maybe I'll the energy for some light social interaction in the evening, but that's all I need for a week.
I can't even imagine getting up at 7:00am every day, spending an hour putting myself together, running some shit through my hair, putting on a stuffy and uncomfortable suit and tie... only to walk in to some godawful nothing of a job where I'm expected to spend all day not only performing menial, make-work, soul-crushing bullshit work that could be done by robots, but navigate the minefield of social nuance. After all that, I'd be expected to piss away my evening on some social gathering to talk about some meaningless shit? Fuck all that noise.
I figured out a while ago that "normal" people manage to fulfill themselves in soul-sucking non-jobs by feeding their social needs throughout the day. I have little-to-no social needs and such work would leave me completely empty to the point of contemplating self-harm.
I love that I can roll out of bed at 9:00am, make my coffee and jump straight into work in my pyjamas, do my shit-shave-shower routine an hour later, grab another cup 'o joe and code till noon, have lunch, have my workout, then take my laptop out to the deck if it's a nice day and hack away until supper
Thank the almighty FSM for programming!
The hell it is.
There are more free, well-documented, cut-n-paste libraries than ever. Building a fancy website can literally be done using a number of Google searches for "$language library for doing $x" and a bit of know-how to put it all together.
Oh, you want it done properly without gaping security holes, bad usability, cheesy graphics and cookie-cutter design? Guess what, that requires skill and experience, just like accomplishing many things properly, quit your bitching.
And different people have wildly varying abilities by nature. To say that this is a crisis is officially today's biggest crock of shit.
Can you imagine how this would sound coming from any other company?