If it's a human, they'll call out in confusion. If it's a robot, either they're silently waiting for audio (and will eventually hang up) or they'll launch into a spiel. And eventually hang up.
Detecting a premature call termination is trivially easy, and identifies you as a hot number (OMG WHY DO I GET SO MANY CALLS ensues). Let them hang up. Gag the volume, put the phone down, go back to whatever you were doing, and let the robot talk itself out. They give up quickly.
A few are advanced enough to open with a cheery "Hello! This is Michael." but you can usually tell. Real humans are confused at the odd silence and speak accordingly.
I thought I remembered seeing somewhere (an article) that wikipedia is not in any financial dire straits at all and they're just rattling a cup under your face, but don't quote me on that.
Aw, you say that dismissively. Your customers wanted signaling, and you achieved that. Mission complete. It's not like actually being effectual matters, just advertisers, who were getting I Want To See The Manager in their inboxes.
Part of me wanted to celebrate a decrease in garbage on Youtube, but then again, it's about as impressive as removing "All 1% milk cartons" from a landfill.
Naturally, website "journalism" likes to try and cause drama for more clicks; they'll deliberately incite escalation, try to be inflammatory. Places that are a few bare notches above Blog Aggregator. Scrolling up, I see this is a gizmodo piece, and stand by what I said.
The most newsworthy occurrence here is that they didn't bite, sending "editors" home in disappointment. Yet with deadlines to meet, to be stuffed with pseudodrama.
get a job as a broom sweeper and pay for your tuition! I guess Poe's Law applies in both directions. Good show old sport, a mockery so fine I really thought you an idiot.
Maybe there's another possibility: OP is not posting from 2019. Is that you, John Titor?
If handwashers cared about germs, they would not eat produce grown by others, food prepared by others, animals raised by others.
Or maybe you're full of shit and privacy/germs exist in spectrums, not a single binary state. Unfortunately that's a complicated reality to keep up with, since you're a dumbfuck.
Handwashing helps, whether or not it "solves" salmonella.
As if washing was a targeted protection.
I'll continue employing general defenses. You can continue bitching about how IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO DO THAT after you find out what the zettabytes of telemetry are being used for. Here's a hint: Profit, and the direction isn't towards you. How much? Enough that industries from every corner of every field are hiring six-figure employees to interpret the dumps.
Or maybe I made that up and there's no such thing as data specialists. Or maybe I'm making their salary up. Or maybe the money spawns from thin air, so it doesn't ultimately come from consumers. Those sound like pretty tall fairy tales, but I'm sure one would help you sleep at night.
There will be entirely new jobs created by automation. The future will need AI specialists. Mass data specialists. "People have to fix the machines."
All misdirection bullshit. Whatever it is - all of it, every fucking novel labor you can imagine in your wildest dreams, all of them combined - we won't need billions of them.
We're about to lose a whole fucking lost of musical chairs.
"We" not meaning you or I, of course. By comparison, our generation was fucking swimming in "people can offer to labor for their livelihood".
Oh, you mean outside of our Promoted offers? Well someone clearly needs reeducating!
There's nothing "worst" about three pages of suggested thumb drives. It's working quite well for us, thanks. And it's apparently working fine for surface dwellers.
As for you? Someone capable of spotting inferior products or gouge prices? Yeah, you're the outlier, bitch. Doesn't mean fuckall to the retailer's "optimal" practices.
"Only applies to un/important things, as decided by Our Betters."
This attitude seems benign in regard to what I too consider socnet drivel, but the same approach is used to arbitrarily axe, vilify, or even prosecute. Sometimes against a single person, sometimes upon a nation. Often it's Because Terrorists, Because Drugs, Think Of Children, etc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse)
Let's say that big boy word again because it's The Point: arbitrarily
>there was a lock on the bathroom doors in a public park >there was a lock on a door on property marked private
This analogy has always disingeniously leaned on a hidden implication.
A public facing server with no credentials or any "authorization" demand is intentfully and openly broadcasting files.
If your accidentally-posted spreadsheet says "For viewing by Supertech Inc employees only" at the top, I'm willing to acknowledge even that tiny shitstain as a mark of private property.
If you accidentally staple it to the park message board, unlabeled, your tantrums will fall on deaf ears, blame the guy with the stapler or better yet, your failure-inviting IT budget.
A coworker lamented his dead headphones on his way to babysit a late meeting.
"I should have charged" "Oh do you want to borrow mine?" "I don't even have a jack"
It was an unusual sensation. It gave me pause the way that someone might have experienced when they first heard of a watch that needs no winding or batteries. "That's a thing? That's different than how I've always done it."
We have created entire new and exciting problems for the man of tomorrow. Except my phone does the same things as his. I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of progress.
Cloudflare has been informed on multiple occasions
So if I send an email to huffpost saying their editor is a bogeyman, "they were informed" and need to take down all his/her content, regardless of the authenticity of my informing.
If "regardless" is wrong, I'd like to know what measures of regard are required before a rando's email is established as proof of intent.
>the cost of your internet usage be proportional to how much you use
No, that's a different conversation. NN is packet priority, eg Comcast throttling Netflix to a crawl. In plain sight.
ISP billing residents on bandwidth consumption is up to ISPs. They can do that now. They can do it after NN.
Personally I'd be for it. I'm not a big fan of streamfags and the industry cajoling them along. Downloading the same content repeatedly. Inferior streaming quality. Passing the costs along (not that it costs fuckall, ISPs are just babies about spending a dime to deliver it).
But for some reason the ISPs aren't big on charging by traffic. They only react when comic book guy is eating up 10TB/mo. Otherwise they act docile and unlimited.
Maybe you've figured it out by now: They don't want a traffic model. They want to charge email-only-grandma the full $80/mo. They don't want to charge lightweights less.
Postscript: My post is not prescribing a defeatist stance. Rather, shotgun your defenses irrespective to known methods. Throw wrenches at the machines you see, then throw everything else for the ones you don't. Surveillance (benign or not) is not a binary condition; the goalpost is control, not extinction.
Remember when the mathfags at 4chan narrowed the location of a flagpole by studying the flight paths/times of a couple of planes that flew by? Ad groups will pay their teams to write celestial-navigation code if they have to.
>> If people paid for cable channels instead of wanting them for free, studios wouldn't be forced to fill them with ads. You thought it was quid quo pro but it was me, Profit!
Now put down the kool aid; they will screw the consumer exactly as far as they safely can.
Slashdot Mirror
I answer unknown numbers.
Muted.
If it's a human, they'll call out in confusion. If it's a robot, either they're silently waiting for audio (and will eventually hang up) or they'll launch into a spiel. And eventually hang up.
Detecting a premature call termination is trivially easy, and identifies you as a hot number (OMG WHY DO I GET SO MANY CALLS ensues). Let them hang up. Gag the volume, put the phone down, go back to whatever you were doing, and let the robot talk itself out. They give up quickly.
A few are advanced enough to open with a cheery "Hello! This is Michael." but you can usually tell. Real humans are confused at the odd silence and speak accordingly.
I thought I remembered seeing somewhere (an article) that wikipedia is not in any financial dire straits at all and they're just rattling a cup under your face, but don't quote me on that.
Aw, you say that dismissively. Your customers wanted signaling, and you achieved that. Mission complete. It's not like actually being effectual matters, just advertisers, who were getting I Want To See The Manager in their inboxes.
Part of me wanted to celebrate a decrease in garbage on Youtube, but then again, it's about as impressive as removing "All 1% milk cartons" from a landfill.
I work with "professional" IT that parrot lines like that. I sure as fuck believe Johnny Makeadeal is saying it to Joe Sixpack.
Saying Johnny isn't involved doesn't help your case. Now it's what Joe hears on the facetweet and snapgram and reddiblr.
You don't even have to leave here. We should be no more than a few clicks away from someone who's still saying "macs don't get viruses".
Someone Launches Video Streaming
Of course they are.
It'll be real news when the fragmentation is so fucked that they're losing money chasing increasingly divided slices of the pie.
Naturally, website "journalism" likes to try and cause drama for more clicks; they'll deliberately incite escalation, try to be inflammatory. Places that are a few bare notches above Blog Aggregator. Scrolling up, I see this is a gizmodo piece, and stand by what I said.
The most newsworthy occurrence here is that they didn't bite, sending "editors" home in disappointment. Yet with deadlines to meet, to be stuffed with pseudodrama.
get a job as a broom sweeper and pay for your tuition!
I guess Poe's Law applies in both directions. Good show old sport, a mockery so fine I really thought you an idiot.
Maybe there's another possibility: OP is not posting from 2019. Is that you, John Titor?
If handwashers cared about germs, they would not eat produce grown by others, food prepared by others, animals raised by others.
Or maybe you're full of shit and privacy/germs exist in spectrums, not a single binary state. Unfortunately that's a complicated reality to keep up with, since you're a dumbfuck.
Handwashing helps, whether or not it "solves" salmonella.
As if washing was a targeted protection.
I'll continue employing general defenses. You can continue bitching about how IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO DO THAT after you find out what the zettabytes of telemetry are being used for. Here's a hint: Profit, and the direction isn't towards you. How much? Enough that industries from every corner of every field are hiring six-figure employees to interpret the dumps.
Or maybe I made that up and there's no such thing as data specialists. Or maybe I'm making their salary up. Or maybe the money spawns from thin air, so it doesn't ultimately come from consumers. Those sound like pretty tall fairy tales, but I'm sure one would help you sleep at night.
There will be entirely new jobs created by automation. The future will need AI specialists. Mass data specialists. "People have to fix the machines."
All misdirection bullshit. Whatever it is - all of it, every fucking novel labor you can imagine in your wildest dreams, all of them combined - we won't need billions of them.
We're about to lose a whole fucking lost of musical chairs.
"We" not meaning you or I, of course. By comparison, our generation was fucking swimming in "people can offer to labor for their livelihood".
1) Does phone work?
Yes: return phone to user
No: see 2
2) Contact gsx to obtain a Everything But The Case board.
Even bluetooth apologists will admit that kind of double-bagging sounds awful
If the coin is arbitrarily exchanged, sure.
If the coin is redeemed only through seed/leech mechanisms/priority/whatever, you might as well have a black market for internet points.
Well, okay, technically you can buy socnet likes and shit, but you get my point.
I know you're uncomfortable with our forward progress, but you need to think of the
*shuffles flash cards*
"Terrorists."
Yes, step aside, I need to ask about his macbook keyboard, he'll solve the whole fiasco by saying "mine is working fine"
It's EASY to find desired items, silly goose.
Oh, you mean outside of our Promoted offers? Well someone clearly needs reeducating!
There's nothing "worst" about three pages of suggested thumb drives. It's working quite well for us, thanks. And it's apparently working fine for surface dwellers.
As for you? Someone capable of spotting inferior products or gouge prices? Yeah, you're the outlier, bitch. Doesn't mean fuckall to the retailer's "optimal" practices.
"Only applies to un/important things, as decided by Our Betters."
This attitude seems benign in regard to what I too consider socnet drivel, but the same approach is used to arbitrarily axe, vilify, or even prosecute. Sometimes against a single person, sometimes upon a nation. Often it's Because Terrorists, Because Drugs, Think Of Children, etc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse)
Let's say that big boy word again because it's The Point: arbitrarily
>there was a lock on the bathroom doors in a public park
>there was a lock on a door on property marked private
This analogy has always disingeniously leaned on a hidden implication.
A public facing server with no credentials or any "authorization" demand is intentfully and openly broadcasting files.
If your accidentally-posted spreadsheet says "For viewing by Supertech Inc employees only" at the top, I'm willing to acknowledge even that tiny shitstain as a mark of private property.
If you accidentally staple it to the park message board, unlabeled, your tantrums will fall on deaf ears, blame the guy with the stapler or better yet, your failure-inviting IT budget.
A coworker lamented his dead headphones on his way to babysit a late meeting.
"I should have charged" "Oh do you want to borrow mine?" "I don't even have a jack"
It was an unusual sensation. It gave me pause the way that someone might have experienced when they first heard of a watch that needs no winding or batteries. "That's a thing? That's different than how I've always done it."
We have created entire new and exciting problems for the man of tomorrow. Except my phone does the same things as his. I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of progress.
Cloudflare has been informed on multiple occasions
So if I send an email to huffpost saying their editor is a bogeyman, "they were informed" and need to take down all his/her content, regardless of the authenticity of my informing.
If "regardless" is wrong, I'd like to know what measures of regard are required before a rando's email is established as proof of intent.
Required and ignored, in huffpost's accusation.
Punch cards
>the cost of your internet usage be proportional to how much you use
No, that's a different conversation. NN is packet priority, eg Comcast throttling Netflix to a crawl. In plain sight.
ISP billing residents on bandwidth consumption is up to ISPs. They can do that now. They can do it after NN.
Personally I'd be for it. I'm not a big fan of streamfags and the industry cajoling them along. Downloading the same content repeatedly. Inferior streaming quality. Passing the costs along (not that it costs fuckall, ISPs are just babies about spending a dime to deliver it).
But for some reason the ISPs aren't big on charging by traffic. They only react when comic book guy is eating up 10TB/mo. Otherwise they act docile and unlimited.
Maybe you've figured it out by now: They don't want a traffic model. They want to charge email-only-grandma the full $80/mo. They don't want to charge lightweights less.
Postscript:
My post is not prescribing a defeatist stance. Rather, shotgun your defenses irrespective to known methods. Throw wrenches at the machines you see, then throw everything else for the ones you don't. Surveillance (benign or not) is not a binary condition; the goalpost is control, not extinction.
Remember when the mathfags at 4chan narrowed the location of a flagpole by studying the flight paths/times of a couple of planes that flew by? Ad groups will pay their teams to write celestial-navigation code if they have to.
They. Will. Find. A. Way.
>> If people paid for cable channels instead of wanting them for free, studios wouldn't be forced to fill them with ads.
You thought it was quid quo pro but it was me, Profit!
Now put down the kool aid; they will screw the consumer exactly as far as they safely can.
The ones that say "BIGGER WANG 2FAST2DAY" double as Promo.