Now we have the choice between having our luggage effectively vandalized as the morons at TSA cut off locks... or having massively insecure locks to prevent the morons at the TSA from cutting off the locks.
Thanks a lot, assholes.
And, now, tell us... just how much scrutiny are the luggage handlers under while they work? Because between the opportunity for smuggling (which they've done) those guys have a better chance of putting a bomb on a plane than anybody else.
So much security theater, so little actual benefit.
Unless you do all your shopping in Amish country, just about every container of anything you buy, ink included, was filled by some patented machine.
Yes, sure... but even in Amish country Jedediah will sell you a funnel. And just because that container was filled via a patented, and the connector is probably patented... that doesn't make it the only way to put something into it.
Putting liquid into a fucking container is NOT a patentable process... hell, I can mostly fill a barrel with a drill, a hose, a funnel, a plug, and mallet... oh, wait... the Amish have all that technology as well.
"A system and methodology by which a liquid is placed into a container" is far too broad. At the end of the day, it better be a really well written patent to hold up in court.
IP has gotten to the point of silly if this patent isn't shot down.
1) Right of first sale. It's a physical object you buy. It's yours to do with as you please. 2) There is absolutely no act of "inject ink into container" which could possibly have anything to do with a patent.
This is asshole corporations misusing IP laws to try to lock in their customers.
And it's yet another reason why Lexmark can go fuck themselves, and why every nerd should be telling their family "don't buy from them, they're assholes".
This not only needs to be ruled to say that they can't do that, but there needs to be some censure which firmly establishes nobody should every try to do that. Because it's complete crap to claim a patent can prevent you from filling an ink cartridge.
Anyone who thinks we're ever going back to the 1950s economy, with vast numbers of well-paid manufacturing jobs for low-skilled workers, is either deluded, or a socialist. Oh, wait...
Or deluded and capitalist and claiming it's possible for companies to grow by 10% every year forever... or that somehow giving tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations makes everyone else's lives better... or that corporations are entitled to strip out the jobs from the parent society to maximize shareholder value.
Sorry, but in its current incarnation capitalism relies on just as much delusional fantasy and bullshit as communism ever did.
And it might surprise you that many countries have struck a nice balance between having private industry and pretending like you can have a functioning society if nobody pays for it.
But keep making it into your idiotic partisan position, and keep on demonstrating you're an idiot.
Why is it the idiotic response of law enforcement when confronted with dealing with a small problem always to create a big problem.
So, if the problem is there are a small amount of people who are breaking the law... we should constantly surveil all people at all times to find that small amount of people.
Yes, there exist people who rob banks. That doesn't mean you stop everybody and fingerprint and interrogate them in case they robbed a bank. If you have no probable cause, you shut the fuck up and don't do that. And yet time and time again law enforcement rushes to enact the totally fucking stupid "let's just stop everybody just in case".
And, in a digital world, since you already have that information for one purpose, then you really should use it for other purposes... you know, in case we need to protect children, or enforce copyright, or ensure nobody has called the police fucking idiots and fascists.
And when they say bullshit like ""The rest of the packet is ignored," he said. "We have no idea who it is registered to." this will either change over time, or get proven to have never been true.
Give us your fucking papers, comrade.
Honestly, I swear the police are either all fucking morons, or all actively trying to find ways to bypass laws which say "you can't fucking do that assholes".
Oh, I don't know... a picture showing what was on screen, a picture of you making your O-face, and a timestamp showing you were fapping to "teenage girls with donkey" when you should have been working might do it.
That it's taken this long actually surprises me.
Blackmail only works if the people care if you release the images or not... but in this case they've also probably locked you out of your phone.
The problem is that apps demand a lot of permissions they don't really need, and people just give it to them. I'm still waiting for Android give me the ability to have granular control on permissions... no, you may not read my fucking address book or change the network status.
That people trusted a porn app at all is mind boggling. That makes no sense at all.
Who's walking around with a phone that they're not prepared to wipe at a moment's notice anyway?
Oh come on... that question is so naive, simple, or stupid as to defy belief.
The percentage of tech-savvy, leery, paranoid people who distrust their phone and haven't built their lives around it is vanishingly small.
Everyone else doesn't know, doesn't care, and as long as they have shiny baubles and new games to play... doesn't give a shit about this stuff.
If you "don't get this" it's because you've allowed yourself to live in a bubble in which you actually believe people are tech savvy, knowledgeable, and actually give a damn.
And that level of willful ignorance defies belief, because you'd have had to avoid so much reality from the last decade as to not be credible.
We see this shit every day, and screech about it and add more layers of tinfoil. But not knowing the rest of the planet is oblivious means you haven't even tried to pay attention.
I'm betting the percentage of people ready to wipe their phone on short notice is less than 1 in 50. Possibly less than 1 in 100.
But for many many people a tablet is pretty much effective as a primary device. My mother in law doesn't use their computer at all, she uses her tablet for pretty much everything. Likewise she has friends who only use their tablets. Because it's a better form factor, more convenient and portable, and they don't need to feel like they have to fight with "the computer".
When I travel, I don't usually drag my laptop. I use my tablet for browsing stuff while I travel or for amusing myself in down times... it's also how I use Google and the talk app to call the wife when I travel.
I can use my tablet sitting in a comfy chair far from my desk.
Asking if you need or want one is a stupid question because it comes down to "what are you using it for?".
And for the things most people do on the internet most of the time.. email, read web sites, some banking at cat videos... a tablet is going to cover those tasks. I would say all of the non-technical people I know can (and do) about 95% of their stuff with tablets.
If you make your living with a computer, then you'll probably find you can't replace it. But for non-work stuff, or for travel, or for people whose tasks can mostly be done via Google's apps... those people simply don't need anything more.
But when I travel, I can have an RDP client, get access to my Outlook web mail via VPN, access my google mail, check the weather, check flight schedules, watch movies on a plane and tons of things for which a tablet is plenty good enough. I don't find myself thinking "gee, what I need is a big heavy laptop here".
I don't carry a smart phone, but I do find a fairly simple tablet covers a tremendous amount of use cases. Starting with my first gen iPad and then moving on to my Nexus 7 when my iPad was no longer usable... I've taken literally dozens of trips for business and pleasure.
And I find my tablet can do everything I need to do, and I want to have my tablet more than I'd bring my laptop. The convenience of a small device far outweighs anything else, and being small and lightweight means it's just easier to bring with me.
So, if you want to take a trip and "only" have the "legitimate uses" be "anything I can reach with a browser", a tablet really is a preferable choice. And if you aren't a heavy computer user or using it to earn your living, there's probably a lot of people who can do everything they'd ever do on their tablet.
For many people who are solely consuming content and maybe doing a few emails... the question is "why would they have a laptop or a desktop". In fact, I bet there's a growing segment of people who only have tablets.
My first gen iPad was suddenly not supported by Apple after 2.5 years. After they "upgraded" it to the point of being unusable and unstable. If they'd been honest and said "this update shouldn't be done on your device because it will render it so useless it isn't funny" I could have skipped that last update.
Companies routinely put out updates, push them to older devices, and essentially make those devices completely unusable as those machines. Because those devices can't come anywhere near keeping up with the new version.
It's not consumers driving this stuff, it really is companies who make devices obsolete in a year or two. They don't care about the device you've already bought.. they care about the next device you'll buy.
Either by design, or incompetence... in the tablet space, a several year old design is ancient.
I've got a Nexus 7 of that vintage, and expect sooner or later Google will fuck it up with an update. And I've got an iPod touch I bought a while back that I simply don't update because I fully expect Apple will do the same thing.
I miss the iPod classic which could keep running for years, because it didn't really have OS upgrades, because it didn't need them.
This style of consumerism you're bitching about is more or less what Wall Street and the stock market predicate their business model on... the idiotic belief that consumers have the money and inclination to re-buy everything they own every few years.
Technology companies seem to be actively trying to be sure you need to by making it impossible to use the older versions.
So, sooner or later this will get contaminated, or someone will mess with it... and then people are going to get some nasty things from these dispensers.
You can try to do nice things, but anything dispensing a liquid into the grubby hands of the general public is likely to go horribly wrong fairly quickly.
I'm betting in a few months some lab tests will tell us these things are just plain nasty.
It boggled my mind that the people who run such corporations and are in charge of the initial IPO scam are fucking stupid enough to pay that kind of money for corporations with no assets or revenue.
This is idiotic people running corporations thinking they have unlimited pretend money.
How is it that shareholders and analysts aren't looking at crap like this and asking how this could possibly be valued at these levels?
Oh, that's right, the big institutional investors who help do this shit know they'll just pawn it off on everybody else and siphon their billions out and leave everybody else holding the bag.
I swear, when I see corporations making transactions like this I'm forced to assume your average C-level executive is a fucking moron.
Not even sure what this is, but this might explain why I've started seeing spam messages telling me What's App sent me a message.
I have no idea what this app is, and I don't care... I'm sure it's one of the endless stream of shitware out there whose sole purpose us to collect your data and deliver ads. I'm sure it pretends to do something useful to, like they all do. But all these apps and social media crap are really about two things: collecting your data and delivering ads.
And in all likelihood will be full of security holes, untrustworthy in terms of a privacy policy, and just as likely to get hacked on their server side as anything.
Yawn, wake me up with the golf rush of this shit has ended. This is why I have no interest in this crap... because time and time again it proves itself to be broken, insecure, and run by shady people who only care about their profits.
Sorry, but that's not something I'm interested in. The only way to win is to not even play.
To hell with the wording.. I simply refuse to believe they'll obey it.
They'll do what they want, and claim jurisdiction. The local cops will still do it. If they get told they can't do it they'll demand the phone company does it for them.
Unless you start putting these clowns in prison with the rest of the crooks, simply telling their obligation under the law will not do a damned thing. They no longer care what the law says, only what they feel they should be able to do.
So I'm going to say the wording is irrelevant in the face of agencies who will continue to say "don't give a fuck".
And yet in Northern latitudes you can get only a few scant hours of daylight in the winter.
So, if you got sun, use it.. if you don't got sun, LEDs are what you need.
Oddly enough, there is no single solution which works everywhere. But apparently when you have an underground bunker in the UK, you can still find something which works
tells me she's quitting and training to become an "aesthetician" because she is sick and tired of (I paraphrase) being treated like shit because she is female
So now instead of working with assholes she'll have to look at them.
That she considers this an improvement says just how bad it must be.
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So this was kind of inevitable with a master key.
Now we have the choice between having our luggage effectively vandalized as the morons at TSA cut off locks ... or having massively insecure locks to prevent the morons at the TSA from cutting off the locks.
Thanks a lot, assholes.
And, now, tell us ... just how much scrutiny are the luggage handlers under while they work? Because between the opportunity for smuggling (which they've done) those guys have a better chance of putting a bomb on a plane than anybody else.
So much security theater, so little actual benefit.
Yes, sure ... but even in Amish country Jedediah will sell you a funnel. And just because that container was filled via a patented, and the connector is probably patented ... that doesn't make it the only way to put something into it.
Putting liquid into a fucking container is NOT a patentable process ... hell, I can mostly fill a barrel with a drill, a hose, a funnel, a plug, and mallet ... oh, wait ... the Amish have all that technology as well.
"A system and methodology by which a liquid is placed into a container" is far too broad. At the end of the day, it better be a really well written patent to hold up in court.
IP has gotten to the point of silly if this patent isn't shot down.
This (should) come down to two things:
1) Right of first sale. It's a physical object you buy. It's yours to do with as you please.
2) There is absolutely no act of "inject ink into container" which could possibly have anything to do with a patent.
This is asshole corporations misusing IP laws to try to lock in their customers.
And it's yet another reason why Lexmark can go fuck themselves, and why every nerd should be telling their family "don't buy from them, they're assholes".
This not only needs to be ruled to say that they can't do that, but there needs to be some censure which firmly establishes nobody should every try to do that. Because it's complete crap to claim a patent can prevent you from filling an ink cartridge.
It's predicated on impossible assumptions, and there are not enough resources to either make or have people be able to buy these products.
It's completely irrational the way the stock market works, because it's utterly impossible.
All it is in the near term is moving around resources to benefit corporations and maximize "shareholder value", and therefore "executive bonuses".
It's a fucking Ponzi scheme. It's a lie. It's a complete work of fiction.
Capitalism as it stands now simply cannot work and achieve the outcomes it claims.
No, humans do not, in fact, require some meat to be healthy.
Sorry, but please don't just make up facts on the spot.
Someone will call bullshit on you.
My dryers must have been defective over the years ... not once did stray panties appear in any of them.
I think that would make laundry day far more interesting if you could occasionally look forward to that.
I think you mis-spelled "crazy zealots".
LOL ... only someone who isn't a parent, has never encountered children, was raised in a lab, AND was a single child could ask that question.
Animals don't develop personalities like that.
Hell, even human twins can have wildly different personalities. Animals born years apart are simply not going to have the same personalities.
It really doesn't work like that.
You mean their own class A network ... or maybe do you mean "net worth"?
"Network" here seems like it's out of place.
Or deluded and capitalist and claiming it's possible for companies to grow by 10% every year forever ... or that somehow giving tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations makes everyone else's lives better ... or that corporations are entitled to strip out the jobs from the parent society to maximize shareholder value.
Sorry, but in its current incarnation capitalism relies on just as much delusional fantasy and bullshit as communism ever did.
And it might surprise you that many countries have struck a nice balance between having private industry and pretending like you can have a functioning society if nobody pays for it.
But keep making it into your idiotic partisan position, and keep on demonstrating you're an idiot.
Why is it the idiotic response of law enforcement when confronted with dealing with a small problem always to create a big problem.
So, if the problem is there are a small amount of people who are breaking the law ... we should constantly surveil all people at all times to find that small amount of people.
Yes, there exist people who rob banks. That doesn't mean you stop everybody and fingerprint and interrogate them in case they robbed a bank. If you have no probable cause, you shut the fuck up and don't do that. And yet time and time again law enforcement rushes to enact the totally fucking stupid "let's just stop everybody just in case".
And, in a digital world, since you already have that information for one purpose, then you really should use it for other purposes ... you know, in case we need to protect children, or enforce copyright, or ensure nobody has called the police fucking idiots and fascists.
And when they say bullshit like ""The rest of the packet is ignored," he said. "We have no idea who it is registered to." this will either change over time, or get proven to have never been true.
Give us your fucking papers, comrade.
Honestly, I swear the police are either all fucking morons, or all actively trying to find ways to bypass laws which say "you can't fucking do that assholes".
Well ... I can say that hand sanitizer is a partly self correcting problem here if the issue is the nasty gunk which will end up on the dispenser.
Sunscreen, however, doesn't have antiseptic properties.
Oh, I don't know ... a picture showing what was on screen, a picture of you making your O-face, and a timestamp showing you were fapping to "teenage girls with donkey" when you should have been working might do it.
That it's taken this long actually surprises me.
Blackmail only works if the people care if you release the images or not ... but in this case they've also probably locked you out of your phone.
The problem is that apps demand a lot of permissions they don't really need, and people just give it to them. I'm still waiting for Android give me the ability to have granular control on permissions ... no, you may not read my fucking address book or change the network status.
That people trusted a porn app at all is mind boggling. That makes no sense at all.
Oh come on ... that question is so naive, simple, or stupid as to defy belief.
The percentage of tech-savvy, leery, paranoid people who distrust their phone and haven't built their lives around it is vanishingly small.
Everyone else doesn't know, doesn't care, and as long as they have shiny baubles and new games to play ... doesn't give a shit about this stuff.
If you "don't get this" it's because you've allowed yourself to live in a bubble in which you actually believe people are tech savvy, knowledgeable, and actually give a damn.
And that level of willful ignorance defies belief, because you'd have had to avoid so much reality from the last decade as to not be credible.
We see this shit every day, and screech about it and add more layers of tinfoil. But not knowing the rest of the planet is oblivious means you haven't even tried to pay attention.
I'm betting the percentage of people ready to wipe their phone on short notice is less than 1 in 50. Possibly less than 1 in 100.
Do you "need" a tablet? Probably not.
But for many many people a tablet is pretty much effective as a primary device. My mother in law doesn't use their computer at all, she uses her tablet for pretty much everything. Likewise she has friends who only use their tablets. Because it's a better form factor, more convenient and portable, and they don't need to feel like they have to fight with "the computer".
When I travel, I don't usually drag my laptop. I use my tablet for browsing stuff while I travel or for amusing myself in down times ... it's also how I use Google and the talk app to call the wife when I travel.
I can use my tablet sitting in a comfy chair far from my desk.
Asking if you need or want one is a stupid question because it comes down to "what are you using it for?".
And for the things most people do on the internet most of the time .. email, read web sites, some banking at cat videos ... a tablet is going to cover those tasks. I would say all of the non-technical people I know can (and do) about 95% of their stuff with tablets.
If you make your living with a computer, then you'll probably find you can't replace it. But for non-work stuff, or for travel, or for people whose tasks can mostly be done via Google's apps ... those people simply don't need anything more.
But when I travel, I can have an RDP client, get access to my Outlook web mail via VPN, access my google mail, check the weather, check flight schedules, watch movies on a plane and tons of things for which a tablet is plenty good enough. I don't find myself thinking "gee, what I need is a big heavy laptop here".
I don't carry a smart phone, but I do find a fairly simple tablet covers a tremendous amount of use cases. Starting with my first gen iPad and then moving on to my Nexus 7 when my iPad was no longer usable ... I've taken literally dozens of trips for business and pleasure.
And I find my tablet can do everything I need to do, and I want to have my tablet more than I'd bring my laptop. The convenience of a small device far outweighs anything else, and being small and lightweight means it's just easier to bring with me.
So, if you want to take a trip and "only" have the "legitimate uses" be "anything I can reach with a browser", a tablet really is a preferable choice. And if you aren't a heavy computer user or using it to earn your living, there's probably a lot of people who can do everything they'd ever do on their tablet.
For many people who are solely consuming content and maybe doing a few emails ... the question is "why would they have a laptop or a desktop". In fact, I bet there's a growing segment of people who only have tablets.
My first gen iPad was suddenly not supported by Apple after 2.5 years. After they "upgraded" it to the point of being unusable and unstable. If they'd been honest and said "this update shouldn't be done on your device because it will render it so useless it isn't funny" I could have skipped that last update.
Companies routinely put out updates, push them to older devices, and essentially make those devices completely unusable as those machines. Because those devices can't come anywhere near keeping up with the new version.
It's not consumers driving this stuff, it really is companies who make devices obsolete in a year or two. They don't care about the device you've already bought .. they care about the next device you'll buy.
Either by design, or incompetence ... in the tablet space, a several year old design is ancient.
I've got a Nexus 7 of that vintage, and expect sooner or later Google will fuck it up with an update. And I've got an iPod touch I bought a while back that I simply don't update because I fully expect Apple will do the same thing.
I miss the iPod classic which could keep running for years, because it didn't really have OS upgrades, because it didn't need them.
This style of consumerism you're bitching about is more or less what Wall Street and the stock market predicate their business model on ... the idiotic belief that consumers have the money and inclination to re-buy everything they own every few years.
Technology companies seem to be actively trying to be sure you need to by making it impossible to use the older versions.
So, sooner or later this will get contaminated, or someone will mess with it ... and then people are going to get some nasty things from these dispensers.
You can try to do nice things, but anything dispensing a liquid into the grubby hands of the general public is likely to go horribly wrong fairly quickly.
I'm betting in a few months some lab tests will tell us these things are just plain nasty.
It boggled my mind that the people who run such corporations and are in charge of the initial IPO scam are fucking stupid enough to pay that kind of money for corporations with no assets or revenue.
This is idiotic people running corporations thinking they have unlimited pretend money.
How is it that shareholders and analysts aren't looking at crap like this and asking how this could possibly be valued at these levels?
Oh, that's right, the big institutional investors who help do this shit know they'll just pawn it off on everybody else and siphon their billions out and leave everybody else holding the bag.
I swear, when I see corporations making transactions like this I'm forced to assume your average C-level executive is a fucking moron.
LOL .. that's possibly the best typo I'll make all wookie.
Not even sure what this is, but this might explain why I've started seeing spam messages telling me What's App sent me a message.
I have no idea what this app is, and I don't care ... I'm sure it's one of the endless stream of shitware out there whose sole purpose us to collect your data and deliver ads. I'm sure it pretends to do something useful to, like they all do. But all these apps and social media crap are really about two things: collecting your data and delivering ads.
And in all likelihood will be full of security holes, untrustworthy in terms of a privacy policy, and just as likely to get hacked on their server side as anything.
Yawn, wake me up with the golf rush of this shit has ended. This is why I have no interest in this crap ... because time and time again it proves itself to be broken, insecure, and run by shady people who only care about their profits.
Sorry, but that's not something I'm interested in. The only way to win is to not even play.
To hell with the wording .. I simply refuse to believe they'll obey it.
They'll do what they want, and claim jurisdiction. The local cops will still do it. If they get told they can't do it they'll demand the phone company does it for them.
Unless you start putting these clowns in prison with the rest of the crooks, simply telling their obligation under the law will not do a damned thing. They no longer care what the law says, only what they feel they should be able to do.
So I'm going to say the wording is irrelevant in the face of agencies who will continue to say "don't give a fuck".
And yet in Northern latitudes you can get only a few scant hours of daylight in the winter.
So, if you got sun, use it .. if you don't got sun, LEDs are what you need.
Oddly enough, there is no single solution which works everywhere. But apparently when you have an underground bunker in the UK, you can still find something which works
I for one welcome our new paralyzed, exoskeleton-wearing overlords.
No, seriously, this is pretty damned awesome.
So now instead of working with assholes she'll have to look at them.
That she considers this an improvement says just how bad it must be.
They sure as hell don't get it all from the sun .. London is further North than Green Bay Wisconsin.
Nobody is growing vegetables in greenhouses in Green Bay Wisconsin in the winter without some additional lighting.
And London is about 5 degrees further North.