and found that the nannyware at my office blocks Orkut. FB and Twitter work fine, so it looks like Orkut was sabotaged by the nannyware clowns at WatchGuard.
>Blaming firearms for suicide is blaming firearms for mental illness
No it's not, though the gun-fondlers will make that claim. Guns make suicide much too easy, which denies these people a chance to recover from their depression.
Maybe you're just a deeply stupid person who hates the police, so anyone who isn't as clueless, paranoid,and maladjusted as you are appears to be what you're paranoid and fearful about.
The fact that you've been uprated to 3, Insightful just demonstrates the dumbing down and increasing paranoia of the/. user base as all the sane and smart people leave.
Correct. When I was clinically depressed and had a negative attitude toward life it was impossible to find a girl. Now that I feel great all the time and have joy to share instead of negativity, that situation has changed completely.
I stopped wearing a watch as soon as I had a phone with a clock.
I resumed wearing a watch as soon as I heard of the Basis fitness watch. It tracks heart rate, skin temp, perspiration, and movement. Unfortunately they chose to not include alarm functionality, so I wear a Fitbit next to the watch. I really like the silent alarm functionality on the Fitbit.
on topic:
A smart watch should do what the Basis does, it should also feature vibration alarm, visual notifications of incoming calls, messages, and social media with the notifications highly configurable by the user.
I think a watch with all these features would convince many people to start wearing a watch again.
Security at many banks is just as bad if not worse. Mine used to require login over http rather than https until they got their act together a couple of years ago.
Your point that they're not a bank appears to be completely irrelevent to the discussion.
>Even if you have a screen lock on your phone, have you ever lent your phone to a stranger to "make a call" or take a photo?
This does not allow the stranger to do anything but make a call or take a photo. Why would you think it does? The phone lock does just fine for securing the phone, and the ridiculous hoops you expect people to jump through instead would be harmful to the user experience while not increasing security at all. In short, your idea is terrible.
>Much better than today where the fight is typically for special rights and inequality.
No it's not. That's just something the ignorant conservatives claim as they see their white christianist privilege fading. Have you immersed yourself in the wingnut hate-radio/loon-blog/Fox News subculture?
You're right of course, and Tridus gets uprated to 5, insightful illustrating the problem with IT people perfectly. In many ways IT people are just as bad as your typical right-wing asshole. They do not want to see anything done to help marginalized people.
>Sounds like a brilliant strategy, and an epic demonstration of what can go wrong with the cloud.
No, it's just an example of what can happen to incompetent people. There's no reason to believe that these people would not have also failed to have offline backup with local servers. There was nothing to prevent them from keeping backups locally or on another cloud.
Blaming cloud computing for this is completely idiotic, and about what I expect on the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
>Do device "owners" really want phones that "accept only applications approved by the company".
Of course they do. You may not have heard of it, but there's a device called an iPhone that's tremendously popular, and this feature is one of the reasons.
Locked down devices are not for me, but one would have to really have their head in the sand to not notice that safer to use devices are popular with many, many people.
No, we can't treat with a goal of normality, but we can shoot for the goal of maximising happiness and increasing people's ability to not only function, but to excel in whatever environment they're in.
Presumably IP bans if anyone is caught editing for pay without disclosure. The policy has to be in place before they can enforce it and get rid of the corrupt editors as they're identified.
>Funny, I was expecting this crowd to have fantasies of crippling those apps' developers.
There is a lot of insanity and paranoia at/., But I haven't ever seen calls to cripple anyone.
>I mean seriously, $(app vendor), your app does not need access to my location and/or phone calls in order for me to do $(menial computation X)
No it doesn't have to, but a developer has the right to require whatever permissions they want in return for their (probably priced at $0) work. The user has the right to accept or reject those terms. This just got more complicated, but everyone still has their rights.
It's not at all bad once you install Classic Shell and disable Metro. It's still totally insane that we need to install a 3rd party tool to make the OS usable, but 8 is far superior to 7 once you install Classic Shell.
You got extremely lucky. At 25 the infection would normally have been much worst. I know someone who's basically physically handicapped and in pain for life due to nerve damage from the chicken pox virus. She went from healthy to moaning in pain all the time.
>Is machine sentience not only possible, but inevitable? Of course not.
The only thing that would stop it is the fall of civilization. There's no reason to believe that only machines made of meat can think. You didn't think your thoughts were based on fairy-dust, did you?
I think you're projecting your own behaviour out onto the rest of us. Everyone I know who bought tablets uses them all the time. They're very useful devices. I don't need to carry one because I have a 1080p Galaxy Note 3, but I have three tablets in daily use at home.
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and found that the nannyware at my office blocks Orkut. FB and Twitter work fine, so it looks like Orkut was sabotaged by the nannyware clowns at WatchGuard.
>Blaming firearms for suicide is blaming firearms for mental illness
No it's not, though the gun-fondlers will make that claim. Guns make suicide much too easy, which denies these people a chance to recover from their depression.
Maybe you're just a deeply stupid person who hates the police, so anyone who isn't as clueless, paranoid,and maladjusted as you are appears to be what you're paranoid and fearful about.
/. user base as all the sane and smart people leave.
The fact that you've been uprated to 3, Insightful just demonstrates the dumbing down and increasing paranoia of the
Correct. When I was clinically depressed and had a negative attitude toward life it was impossible to find a girl. Now that I feel great all the time and have joy to share instead of negativity, that situation has changed completely.
I stopped wearing a watch as soon as I had a phone with a clock.
I resumed wearing a watch as soon as I heard of the Basis fitness watch. It tracks heart rate, skin temp, perspiration, and movement. Unfortunately they chose to not include alarm functionality, so I wear a Fitbit next to the watch. I really like the silent alarm functionality on the Fitbit.
on topic: A smart watch should do what the Basis does, it should also feature vibration alarm, visual notifications of incoming calls, messages, and social media with the notifications highly configurable by the user.
I think a watch with all these features would convince many people to start wearing a watch again.
Security at many banks is just as bad if not worse. Mine used to require login over http rather than https until they got their act together a couple of years ago.
Your point that they're not a bank appears to be completely irrelevent to the discussion.
>Even if you have a screen lock on your phone, have you ever lent your phone to a stranger to "make a call" or take a photo?
This does not allow the stranger to do anything but make a call or take a photo. Why would you think it does? The phone lock does just fine for securing the phone, and the ridiculous hoops you expect people to jump through instead would be harmful to the user experience while not increasing security at all. In short, your idea is terrible.
>Much better than today where the fight is typically for special rights and inequality.
No it's not. That's just something the ignorant conservatives claim as they see their white christianist privilege fading. Have you immersed yourself in the wingnut hate-radio/loon-blog/Fox News subculture?
You're right of course, and Tridus gets uprated to 5, insightful illustrating the problem with IT people perfectly. In many ways IT people are just as bad as your typical right-wing asshole. They do not want to see anything done to help marginalized people.
Maybe because the socially awkward arrested-development cases so common in IT don't want to face the fact their they're the problem.
>Sounds like a brilliant strategy, and an epic demonstration of what can go wrong with the cloud.
No, it's just an example of what can happen to incompetent people. There's no reason to believe that these people would not have also failed to have offline backup with local servers. There was nothing to prevent them from keeping backups locally or on another cloud.
Blaming cloud computing for this is completely idiotic, and about what I expect on the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
>Do device "owners" really want phones that "accept only applications approved by the company".
Of course they do. You may not have heard of it, but there's a device called an iPhone that's tremendously popular, and this feature is one of the reasons.
Locked down devices are not for me, but one would have to really have their head in the sand to not notice that safer to use devices are popular with many, many people.
No, we can't treat with a goal of normality, but we can shoot for the goal of maximising happiness and increasing people's ability to not only function, but to excel in whatever environment they're in.
Presumably IP bans if anyone is caught editing for pay without disclosure. The policy has to be in place before they can enforce it and get rid of the corrupt editors as they're identified.
Doctor Who fans have been building much better K-9's for decades now.
Why was this posted? Because Linux?
>Funny, I was expecting this crowd to have fantasies of crippling those apps' developers.
/., But I haven't ever seen calls to cripple anyone.
There is a lot of insanity and paranoia at
>I mean seriously, $(app vendor), your app does not need access to my location and/or phone calls in order for me to do $(menial computation X)
No it doesn't have to, but a developer has the right to require whatever permissions they want in return for their (probably priced at $0) work. The user has the right to accept or reject those terms. This just got more complicated, but everyone still has their rights.
It's not at all bad once you install Classic Shell and disable Metro. It's still totally insane that we need to install a 3rd party tool to make the OS usable, but 8 is far superior to 7 once you install Classic Shell.
You got extremely lucky. At 25 the infection would normally have been much worst. I know someone who's basically physically handicapped and in pain for life due to nerve damage from the chicken pox virus. She went from healthy to moaning in pain all the time.
+ 1 Funny to anyone who's worked with ANY large organization, and here I am out of mod points. Sorry Impy.
>Is machine sentience not only possible, but inevitable? Of course not.
The only thing that would stop it is the fall of civilization. There's no reason to believe that only machines made of meat can think. You didn't think your thoughts were based on fairy-dust, did you?
Sucks that you broke your back and died at your first 20 foot jump attempt.
Aren't you tired of the Betteridge posts? Did you really want to be that guy?
Khasim nails it. We can all get back to work now.
I think you're projecting your own behaviour out onto the rest of us. Everyone I know who bought tablets uses them all the time. They're very useful devices. I don't need to carry one because I have a 1080p Galaxy Note 3, but I have three tablets in daily use at home.
Christianity was founded by dirtbag pricks who did rotten stuff (spread superstition) to get ahead. How is that a prediction?