Fun distinction: If this was Reddit, your comment probably would have been removed for being "offensive."
Like how they removed all the comments for blood donation addresses after the Pulse Nightclub massacre. (Nothing says progressive, like censoring help for dying gay people!)
Because there's two types of use cases for encryption.
- Protection from their own government.
- Protection from everyone else.
Companies that want their teleconferences protected from everyone else, don't give a shit about the US government snooping on them. They just don't want their private information leaked to China, or other competitors, or prying journalists.
I mean, fucking duh people. If something "seems insane" maybe it's because you haven't bothered to understand it.
Phone calls drained more, but texts were practically free. It also had a FULL slide-out keyboard. I wrote faster on that phone than any subsequent touch screen Android I've had.
I once wrote a Python script that converts text messages sent from my phone through the Verizon gateway to my gmail, that then went out and scanned torrent sites for torrents and retrieved the results back as a text message. Then I could specify which # in the list for my main computer to start downloading. Fun times.
My "feature phone" cellphone I used to use before I had to get an android for work e-mails, lasted almost a WEEK with constant use.
If it were up to me, I'd have a shitty feature phone that ALSO had a hotspot support, and then I'd just use my laptop whenever I want.
Touchscreens are complete shit and the antithesis of productivity. I'm not writing comments online with a freakin' touch keyboard, it's a PITA--let alone anything productive on a cellphone. Other than checking e-mails, phone calls, and texts, there is nothing productive that comes from my phone. It's just dinking off viewing social media when I should be taking a shit.
Actually, and since every major update, Windows goes out of it's way to UNINSTALL CoreTemp and Win8Gadget (adds windows 7 gadgets back so I can have a CoreTemp gadget), and reset all my security and group policy settings... and Windows Classic Shell... I'm really not looking forward to having to reset all my manual settings.
I've got clients where their custom IE settings that are required for business apps to run, get reset every creators update and brings the entire system down. Why even have manual settings if you're just going to nuke them? HOURS of paid tech support with the IE team and CRM team, and they couldn't even tell me why it was happening.
If you've got time to worry what words people use, you're life is easier than 99% of people.
We're too busy trying to feed our children to give a shit whether your religion is inclusive of mine. People are different. That shouldn't surprise you. When someone says "Praise Allah" I don't lose my shit about how "exclusionary" it is to my Jewish beliefs.
I agree 100%. The only people who can possibly keep us safe... are located in a country with horrific human rights abuses and clear national-level spying and military intrusion against our country. We NEED those guys to 'protect' us!
And this is Slashdot. If you've got a virus on your machine, you're already 99% fucked. Stop downloading "Britney Spears Naked.exe" from Kazaa you blockheads. Download some FOSS shit like Clamwin and downloading stupid shit.
I mean, you're making out a SINGLE anti-virus company (with dubious links to Russia's government) to be some sort of White Wizard fighting against the dark arts. They're not Batman. If they take a night off, we don't all get strapped to a bomb by the Joker. It's a just fucking software company.
China is DEFINITELY a threat to us all. They make up a majority of all known hacking attacks. Election influence? Google Chinagate where it was proven beyond a doubt they were trying to influence our elections in the 90's. They have recently stolen BILLIONS of dollars in weapons research, nuclear sub technology, and nuke information. And they have the largest standing army in the world.
They are gearing up, and they are ABSOLUTELY enjoying the "OMG Russia!" distraction.
You mean FB, the company that vacuums up everyone's personal and private information... is going to require us to GIVE THEM ADDITIONAL private information every time they want you to "prove" you are yourself? They're going to have an entire compilation of your same face, with different lighting angles, different positions/age/makeup/etc.
I'm honestly at a loss for who is more evil at this point. Uber, Google, or Facebook.
That's literally what Slashdot has been since the election. Just a competition to see who can shoehorn the president into today's unrelated topic.
It's really quite pathetic. But it shouldn't be surprising when you realize all the industry experts have left Slashdot and moved to Hacker News.
No more John Carmack. No more Walter Bright (creator of D and dozens of compilers). They're all gone because the SNR of this site has gone from good, to parody.
1996 called. Bill Clinton wants his Telecommunications Act act back. It let 6 corporations own 90% of all media by 2012. You know, before Trump was ever elected.
But don't let facts get in the way of your soapbox.
If it's all security theater, then why the FUCK are we wasting time TRAINING these people for classes of criminals you say they will never encounter and are not designed to stop?
If we don't have the TSA to stop guns and drugs, then why are we "training" them, and paying them salaries worthy of people who detect guns and drugs? Why aren't we paying them the minimum wage they deserve? Why aren't we giving them the BARE MINIMUM training, number-of-meetings-a-week, et al? Why are the x-ray rape machines connected to monitors at all?
Oh yeah, because the TSA was "supposed" to safe us and has failed miserably. It is not some sort of magical 4-D chess that efficiently stops low-tier criminals and insane people. What it is, is a gigantic waste of taxpayer money that has YET (after a DECADE) to show any provable progress in solving ANY the goals it was set out to solve.
Google. Facebook buying Oculus and Snapchat. AOL in the 90's buying Winamp. The list goes on, as corporations become so large they can no longer innovate (because innovating often requires changing an entrenched corporate culture) so they just start buying.
AAA studios have been out of ideas for awhile.
Hell, they always tell us "ideas are dime a dozen" and then you find out Hollywood paid $400,000 for a movie script. Hmm. Perhaps "dime a dozen" is just what they tell everyone to try and make people think their good ideas aren't worth shit to save some money.
I love that as much as Slashdotters hate Trump, they LITERALLY post about him in EVERY THREAD no matter how related or not he is to the discussion. And nobody ever mods them as off-topic.
It's like Reddit hating on Justin Bieber saying "they're shoving him down our throats" except the only time you ever even hear about him... is on Reddit.
I thought the entire problem was x86 (or the current chipsets) aren't well suited for phones? Maybe I'm just misremembering a poor discussion.
But Intel did make "mobile" processors. The Atom. And they (from experience) sucked absolute ass. For the first-gen models they chopped out the entire out-of-order scheduling (granted, it's a a LARGE chunk of die area) to lower the thermal/price/power usage. But it was slow as piss.
Then again, when I see benchmarks compare my Samsung Galaxy S5 to my... old chromebook running Linux with a Celeron. I think my netbook (that I paid $75 for--used) actually blows my flagship model phone out of the water.
So here I am, wasting everyone's time to come to the conclusion that, maybe I don't know as much as I think I do about the subject. It "seems" like Intel tried lower level CPUs.
ALSO, Microsoft Surface Tablets (minus the horrific blunder that is Windows RT) run on x86 processors. You can even get... i7's at 4 GHZ?! My brother literally runs games like Factorio from his surface. x86 for tablets yet.. Windows Phones ran on... ARM?! Why throw away your ENTIRE software library?!
How the hell Microsoft managed to bomb so many times in a row (Windows 8 Metro, Xbox One/Kinect 2.0's always-on-spy-on-your-childrens-naked-bodies mode on release day, Windows Phone/ARM) blows my mind.
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Fun distinction: If this was Reddit, your comment probably would have been removed for being "offensive."
Like how they removed all the comments for blood donation addresses after the Pulse Nightclub massacre. (Nothing says progressive, like censoring help for dying gay people!)
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Because there's two types of use cases for encryption.
- Protection from their own government.
- Protection from everyone else.
Companies that want their teleconferences protected from everyone else, don't give a shit about the US government snooping on them. They just don't want their private information leaked to China, or other competitors, or prying journalists.
I mean, fucking duh people. If something "seems insane" maybe it's because you haven't bothered to understand it.
Absolutely sure.
Phone calls drained more, but texts were practically free. It also had a FULL slide-out keyboard. I wrote faster on that phone than any subsequent touch screen Android I've had.
I once wrote a Python script that converts text messages sent from my phone through the Verizon gateway to my gmail, that then went out and scanned torrent sites for torrents and retrieved the results back as a text message. Then I could specify which # in the list for my main computer to start downloading. Fun times.
My Tandy 102 has over a week of battery life.
My "feature phone" cellphone I used to use before I had to get an android for work e-mails, lasted almost a WEEK with constant use.
If it were up to me, I'd have a shitty feature phone that ALSO had a hotspot support, and then I'd just use my laptop whenever I want.
Touchscreens are complete shit and the antithesis of productivity. I'm not writing comments online with a freakin' touch keyboard, it's a PITA--let alone anything productive on a cellphone. Other than checking e-mails, phone calls, and texts, there is nothing productive that comes from my phone. It's just dinking off viewing social media when I should be taking a shit.
Actually, and since every major update, Windows goes out of it's way to UNINSTALL CoreTemp and Win8Gadget (adds windows 7 gadgets back so I can have a CoreTemp gadget), and reset all my security and group policy settings... and Windows Classic Shell... I'm really not looking forward to having to reset all my manual settings.
I've got clients where their custom IE settings that are required for business apps to run, get reset every creators update and brings the entire system down. Why even have manual settings if you're just going to nuke them? HOURS of paid tech support with the IE team and CRM team, and they couldn't even tell me why it was happening.
I think I'll wait and let everyone else take the brunt of the damage.
Microsoft's new strategy: Crowdsourced bug testers!
If you've got time to worry what words people use, you're life is easier than 99% of people.
We're too busy trying to feed our children to give a shit whether your religion is inclusive of mine. People are different. That shouldn't surprise you. When someone says "Praise Allah" I don't lose my shit about how "exclusionary" it is to my Jewish beliefs.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
I'm still using it. And no, foobar doesn't do it all or as well.
The one advantage of foobar was playing esoteric media files like SNES music files.
I agree 100%. The only people who can possibly keep us safe... are located in a country with horrific human rights abuses and clear national-level spying and military intrusion against our country. We NEED those guys to 'protect' us!
And this is Slashdot. If you've got a virus on your machine, you're already 99% fucked. Stop downloading "Britney Spears Naked.exe" from Kazaa you blockheads. Download some FOSS shit like Clamwin and downloading stupid shit.
I mean, you're making out a SINGLE anti-virus company (with dubious links to Russia's government) to be some sort of White Wizard fighting against the dark arts. They're not Batman. If they take a night off, we don't all get strapped to a bomb by the Joker. It's a just fucking software company.
Man, I'm disappointed in Slashdot. I laughed my ass off when I wrote that.
>but we really don't know what the nature of space beyond the sun's immediate influence looks like.
If only we could construct some sort of vehicle that could traverse space and send back signals...
but nobody seems to listen.
China is DEFINITELY a threat to us all. They make up a majority of all known hacking attacks. Election influence? Google Chinagate where it was proven beyond a doubt they were trying to influence our elections in the 90's. They have recently stolen BILLIONS of dollars in weapons research, nuclear sub technology, and nuke information. And they have the largest standing army in the world.
They are gearing up, and they are ABSOLUTELY enjoying the "OMG Russia!" distraction.
Wait.
You mean FB, the company that vacuums up everyone's personal and private information... is going to require us to GIVE THEM ADDITIONAL private information every time they want you to "prove" you are yourself? They're going to have an entire compilation of your same face, with different lighting angles, different positions/age/makeup/etc.
I'm honestly at a loss for who is more evil at this point. Uber, Google, or Facebook.
That's literally what Slashdot has been since the election. Just a competition to see who can shoehorn the president into today's unrelated topic.
It's really quite pathetic. But it shouldn't be surprising when you realize all the industry experts have left Slashdot and moved to Hacker News.
No more John Carmack. No more Walter Bright (creator of D and dozens of compilers). They're all gone because the SNR of this site has gone from good, to parody.
If Slashdot, Reddit, et al didn't have hypocrites, they wouldn't have any users at all.
A 1972 Volkswagen Beetle covertable in mint condition?
We want to give people in pain the right to die, but how DARE THEY try taking medicine that hasn't been fully vetted yet!
1996 called. Bill Clinton wants his Telecommunications Act act back. It let 6 corporations own 90% of all media by 2012. You know, before Trump was ever elected.
But don't let facts get in the way of your soapbox.
You're insane.
If it's all security theater, then why the FUCK are we wasting time TRAINING these people for classes of criminals you say they will never encounter and are not designed to stop?
If we don't have the TSA to stop guns and drugs, then why are we "training" them, and paying them salaries worthy of people who detect guns and drugs? Why aren't we paying them the minimum wage they deserve? Why aren't we giving them the BARE MINIMUM training, number-of-meetings-a-week, et al? Why are the x-ray rape machines connected to monitors at all?
Oh yeah, because the TSA was "supposed" to safe us and has failed miserably. It is not some sort of magical 4-D chess that efficiently stops low-tier criminals and insane people. What it is, is a gigantic waste of taxpayer money that has YET (after a DECADE) to show any provable progress in solving ANY the goals it was set out to solve.
(Snapchat was a typo from when I was building the comment.)
"Those who can't innovate, acquire."
Google. Facebook buying Oculus and Snapchat. AOL in the 90's buying Winamp. The list goes on, as corporations become so large they can no longer innovate (because innovating often requires changing an entrenched corporate culture) so they just start buying.
AAA studios have been out of ideas for awhile.
Hell, they always tell us "ideas are dime a dozen" and then you find out Hollywood paid $400,000 for a movie script. Hmm. Perhaps "dime a dozen" is just what they tell everyone to try and make people think their good ideas aren't worth shit to save some money.
I love that as much as Slashdotters hate Trump, they LITERALLY post about him in EVERY THREAD no matter how related or not he is to the discussion. And nobody ever mods them as off-topic.
It's like Reddit hating on Justin Bieber saying "they're shoving him down our throats" except the only time you ever even hear about him... is on Reddit.
I always have 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS) as a backup for when my local ISP DNS goes down.
I thought the entire problem was x86 (or the current chipsets) aren't well suited for phones? Maybe I'm just misremembering a poor discussion.
But Intel did make "mobile" processors. The Atom. And they (from experience) sucked absolute ass. For the first-gen models they chopped out the entire out-of-order scheduling (granted, it's a a LARGE chunk of die area) to lower the thermal/price/power usage. But it was slow as piss.
Then again, when I see benchmarks compare my Samsung Galaxy S5 to my ... old chromebook running Linux with a Celeron. I think my netbook (that I paid $75 for--used) actually blows my flagship model phone out of the water.
So here I am, wasting everyone's time to come to the conclusion that, maybe I don't know as much as I think I do about the subject. It "seems" like Intel tried lower level CPUs.
ALSO, Microsoft Surface Tablets (minus the horrific blunder that is Windows RT) run on x86 processors. You can even get... i7's at 4 GHZ?! My brother literally runs games like Factorio from his surface. x86 for tablets yet.. Windows Phones ran on... ARM?! Why throw away your ENTIRE software library?!
How the hell Microsoft managed to bomb so many times in a row (Windows 8 Metro, Xbox One/Kinect 2.0's always-on-spy-on-your-childrens-naked-bodies mode on release day, Windows Phone/ARM) blows my mind.