If people would:
- only use lights when they actually need them
- switch lights off when their done with them
- take advantage of the giant free light source outside
But instead we'll trade inconvenience and lighting quality for carcinogens and neurotoxins?
Up here in HOLYFUCKINGSHITITSCOLD-ada, our dumbass government, in its ever present quest do demonstrate its continual disconnect with the people it rules, is doing the same thing. Extra irony points for doing it during one of the most frigid cold spells in recent memory, not realizing that the heat thrown off by incandescents is anything but wasted during this half of the year. During the other half, we have daylight from 6am to 10pm and should scarcely need artificial lighting at all.
CFLs work like shit, last like shit, look like shit, flicker like shit and are shit. Classic florescents are all the same and worse. LEDs are maybe a bit better, but aren't ready yet. All of them contain carcinogens and toxins going into our landfills, and are overpriced. God help you if one gets broken while it's powered on.
And what are we to do with all the specialized light fixtures that only accept specific incandescent light bulbs? Yeah, way to go... middle class citizens can totally afford to upgrade their lighting so that politicians can puff up their chests and look high and mighty while they spout whatever green coloured bullshit they think will win votes.
Am I to believe that other browsers -- Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE -- store their session and save data in an encrypted file or container? And even if they don't, so what? If someone has access to your browser's data folder, they can access your session data by, y'know, opening the browser with it pointed to the folder. Not to mention, that they have access to your files, which is a bigger problem in itself.
And please do explain to me how browsers' saved credentials should be stored in an encrypted manner without prompting the user for a master key.
If you're going to pillage the bank accounts of thousands (or millions) of people, you gotta do it through deceptive ponzi mortgage schemes and buying off market regulators to make it legal.
Have you even considered that they just don't give a shit about any inconveniences or hardships it causes you?
These are not people who think logically, critically, reasonably nor compassionately. They are "chain of command" drones; any such qualities are quickly hammered out in training. Add in a hearty dose of dominance complex and you have an uncaring, tyrannical asshole on your hands. It's not their job to care, so they don't.
All in all, I don't see how one could come out OK from such an encounter.
Um, yeah, that's kinda the point. They take away your stuff, so you're scrambling to get back up and running and, in your feverish haste, more likely to lick their boots on command.
It's like civil forfeiture laws: they take away all your stuff so you no longer have any means of affording a competent defense (plus, the cops get a bunch of cool new stuff for free). Oh, sure, you still technically have the right, but it's meaningless without the ability to actually exercise it.
HA! Right, because AT&T et al have been absolute saints when it comes to keeping customers' data private *cough*NSA lapdogs*cough*iPad email debacle*cough*
Once again, this is why communication infrastructure should be built with tax dollars, publicly owned and leased to ISPs fairly.
Sure, Google is all up in AT&T's shit now, but the enemy of my enemy is not my friend; don't think for a second that Google won't be in exactly the same position decades from now. We'll be dealing with this monopolistic protectionism and technological stifling as long as the lines are privately owned.
For the most part? Probably not. Six through ten, maybe skipping number seven, are generally good rules to live by...
6. Don't pop a cap in anyone's ass
7. Don't play hide the pickle with anyone other than your wife/husband and no boinking before marriage (pretty debatable, depending on your philosophy and any agreements between you and your spouse, etc.)
8. Don't take other people's shit
9. Don't be a lying asshole
10. Jealousy is a cruel mistress, green doesn't look good on anyone
Anything Android. Apple is not easy, it's just consistent. Android can be customized for the user to be wrapped around *their* paradigm of understanding. Apple just flips you the bird; it's their way or the highway.
Get something with at least a 10" screen. Maybe there are also accessibility apps that can "magnify" the screen globally enlarge text sizes.
Research and install the simplest launcher you can find; one where you can change the icon size and names. Remove as much abstractive association as possible., ie.: "Netflix" becomes "TV and Movies", whatever mail app it has becomes "email", "Chrome" becomes "Internet" (yes, I know, millions of nerds just cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced)... you get the idea. Everything should just be exactly what it says.
Cyanogenmod has a secondary "Car Home" launcher that is really just a launcher with big, customizable icons (in a 2x3 grid, IIRC, so that'll be huge on a 10" tablet)
This isn't about having the latest and greatest geekery, he obviously won't give a shit. This is about *you* being able to make this as simple as possible for him.
I've upgraded a number of customer machines from HDDs to SSDs and the performance boost is profound, no doubt, and Intel is one of the best performers.
But what's kept me from upgrading my own machine is: encryption support.
The use of hardware computed compression in Intel and other Sandforce SSDs is reportedly at odds with software-based OTF (on the fly) encryption options like TrueCrypt because encrypted data is incompressible, so such benefits are lost. It will probably still be faster than an HDD, but not by nearly the same margin, so you're losing a lot of the performance you paid for.
There's also the question of MTBF because software OTF encryption needs to make a gigantic write operation to initialize an encrypted container and then makes more write ops than in non-encrypted systems.
And any files you place on the drive before setting up encryption are liable to be leaked by wear leveling mechanisms that throw and map pieces of files all over the place, so you always need to start from scratch if you want to be sure.
Some SSDs have hardware based encryption, but it's generally just so they can do a secure wipe by generating a new key. Any options available for user-managed keys are extremely rudimentary and not an acceptable solution. The best option I've heard of is the ability to use the BIOS HDD password as the key and then you're at the mercy of your motherboard and whatever leaks or insufficiencies it has (woohoo, 8 whole characters); not to mention, it really wasn't designed for this purpose.
... and the developers who actually *create* all the consumer stuff for tablets, phones, phablets, cloud and other consumery mobile bullshit will use what, exactly? And what about CAD, drafting, design, programming and other professionals?
Yeah, no, you didn't think that one through. The desktop is withering in the consumer market, sure, but it is not going anywhere anytime soon. People who use their machines for things other than dicking around still create a big demand (not that you could convince companies like Lenovo so they stop making a clusterfuck out of the ThinkPad, though)
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If people would:
- only use lights when they actually need them
- switch lights off when their done with them
- take advantage of the giant free light source outside
But instead we'll trade inconvenience and lighting quality for carcinogens and neurotoxins?
Up here in HOLYFUCKINGSHITITSCOLD-ada, our dumbass government, in its ever present quest do demonstrate its continual disconnect with the people it rules, is doing the same thing. Extra irony points for doing it during one of the most frigid cold spells in recent memory, not realizing that the heat thrown off by incandescents is anything but wasted during this half of the year. During the other half, we have daylight from 6am to 10pm and should scarcely need artificial lighting at all.
CFLs work like shit, last like shit, look like shit, flicker like shit and are shit. Classic florescents are all the same and worse. LEDs are maybe a bit better, but aren't ready yet. All of them contain carcinogens and toxins going into our landfills, and are overpriced. God help you if one gets broken while it's powered on.
And what are we to do with all the specialized light fixtures that only accept specific incandescent light bulbs? Yeah, way to go... middle class citizens can totally afford to upgrade their lighting so that politicians can puff up their chests and look high and mighty while they spout whatever green coloured bullshit they think will win votes.
Google Makes it Harder for the Competition to Collect User Data
Is this legal
When did they start giving a shit?
Am I to believe that other browsers -- Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE -- store their session and save data in an encrypted file or container? And even if they don't, so what? If someone has access to your browser's data folder, they can access your session data by, y'know, opening the browser with it pointed to the folder. Not to mention, that they have access to your files, which is a bigger problem in itself.
And please do explain to me how browsers' saved credentials should be stored in an encrypted manner without prompting the user for a master key.
If you're going to pillage the bank accounts of thousands (or millions) of people, you gotta do it through deceptive ponzi mortgage schemes and buying off market regulators to make it legal.
Then it won't come until... ever.
Have you even considered that they just don't give a shit about any inconveniences or hardships it causes you?
These are not people who think logically, critically, reasonably nor compassionately. They are "chain of command" drones; any such qualities are quickly hammered out in training. Add in a hearty dose of dominance complex and you have an uncaring, tyrannical asshole on your hands. It's not their job to care, so they don't.
All in all, I don't see how one could come out OK from such an encounter.
Um, yeah, that's kinda the point. They take away your stuff, so you're scrambling to get back up and running and, in your feverish haste, more likely to lick their boots on command.
It's like civil forfeiture laws: they take away all your stuff so you no longer have any means of affording a competent defense (plus, the cops get a bunch of cool new stuff for free). Oh, sure, you still technically have the right, but it's meaningless without the ability to actually exercise it.
Which is kinda the point.
Woah, Dr. Manhattan posts on Slashdot?? I guess that makes sense as you can replicate yourself. Are you banging someone right now too?
HA! Right, because AT&T et al have been absolute saints when it comes to keeping customers' data private *cough*NSA lapdogs*cough*iPad email debacle*cough*
Once again, this is why communication infrastructure should be built with tax dollars, publicly owned and leased to ISPs fairly.
Sure, Google is all up in AT&T's shit now, but the enemy of my enemy is not my friend; don't think for a second that Google won't be in exactly the same position decades from now. We'll be dealing with this monopolistic protectionism and technological stifling as long as the lines are privately owned.
Of course he's dangerous, he embarrassed someone with power.
For the most part? Probably not. Six through ten, maybe skipping number seven, are generally good rules to live by...
6. Don't pop a cap in anyone's ass
7. Don't play hide the pickle with anyone other than your wife/husband and no boinking before marriage (pretty debatable, depending on your philosophy and any agreements between you and your spouse, etc.)
8. Don't take other people's shit
9. Don't be a lying asshole
10. Jealousy is a cruel mistress, green doesn't look good on anyone
Anything Android. Apple is not easy, it's just consistent. Android can be customized for the user to be wrapped around *their* paradigm of understanding. Apple just flips you the bird; it's their way or the highway.
Get something with at least a 10" screen. Maybe there are also accessibility apps that can "magnify" the screen globally enlarge text sizes.
Research and install the simplest launcher you can find; one where you can change the icon size and names. Remove as much abstractive association as possible., ie.: "Netflix" becomes "TV and Movies", whatever mail app it has becomes "email", "Chrome" becomes "Internet" (yes, I know, millions of nerds just cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced) ... you get the idea. Everything should just be exactly what it says.
Cyanogenmod has a secondary "Car Home" launcher that is really just a launcher with big, customizable icons (in a 2x3 grid, IIRC, so that'll be huge on a 10" tablet)
This isn't about having the latest and greatest geekery, he obviously won't give a shit. This is about *you* being able to make this as simple as possible for him.
I've upgraded a number of customer machines from HDDs to SSDs and the performance boost is profound, no doubt, and Intel is one of the best performers.
But what's kept me from upgrading my own machine is: encryption support.
The use of hardware computed compression in Intel and other Sandforce SSDs is reportedly at odds with software-based OTF (on the fly) encryption options like TrueCrypt because encrypted data is incompressible, so such benefits are lost. It will probably still be faster than an HDD, but not by nearly the same margin, so you're losing a lot of the performance you paid for.
There's also the question of MTBF because software OTF encryption needs to make a gigantic write operation to initialize an encrypted container and then makes more write ops than in non-encrypted systems.
And any files you place on the drive before setting up encryption are liable to be leaked by wear leveling mechanisms that throw and map pieces of files all over the place, so you always need to start from scratch if you want to be sure.
Some SSDs have hardware based encryption, but it's generally just so they can do a secure wipe by generating a new key. Any options available for user-managed keys are extremely rudimentary and not an acceptable solution. The best option I've heard of is the ability to use the BIOS HDD password as the key and then you're at the mercy of your motherboard and whatever leaks or insufficiencies it has (woohoo, 8 whole characters); not to mention, it really wasn't designed for this purpose.
Nope, they're just not there yet.
Remind me, what were the wanted ones?
Spoiler alert: Brian dies.
(too soon?)
... and the developers who actually *create* all the consumer stuff for tablets, phones, phablets, cloud and other consumery mobile bullshit will use what, exactly? And what about CAD, drafting, design, programming and other professionals?
Yeah, no, you didn't think that one through. The desktop is withering in the consumer market, sure, but it is not going anywhere anytime soon. People who use their machines for things other than dicking around still create a big demand (not that you could convince companies like Lenovo so they stop making a clusterfuck out of the ThinkPad, though)
Did we need a study for this?
Right, because they shit *in* your house instead. Much better.
So what you're saying is, it's a total flight of fancy.
For the uninitiated, that's marketingese for "we have no fucking clue."
So the lesson here is... move to North Dakota?
... when they have to type in "thepiratebay.org" by hand into the address bar?
The cheque is in the mail
Of course I'm on the pill
We won't prosecute Assange
Wait... did I miss something? When did the government start giving half a fuck about the constitution?