Yeah, I un-subbed after YEARS (since the first DVD delivery days) of being a loyal subscriber for this very reason.
It's so awful that I'll sub for the months when House of Cards (won't now since Spacey got kicked) and Stranger Things drop to give my support, then I'll download/torrent the entire show to watch on my Plex server.
If they just let me disable that horrible feature, I'd willingly let my $10/month sub go on indefinitely.
Now there's a name I haven't heard of in a long time.
My first ever Unix account was on a Sequent Symmetry in 1990 for CS101 (RIP sage.cc.purdue.edu). The OS was Dynix, and I think the machine had six i386 cores.
Ah, those were the days, before shadowed passwords and TTYs with proper permissions. All via 9600-baud serial connections in the dorms. Fun stuff.
I still lament the fact that Desqview/Desqview-X never gained much traction. That shit was robust and multi-tasked circles around Windows 3 at the time.
In light of the buyout and subsequent announced RIF, anyone who went overboard on holiday shopping or vacations this year would be a certified dumb-ass.
Grow that emergency fund while you're solidly employed, folks. You can't bank 3-to-6 months of expenses in a couple of months.
I've owned a classic Big Berkey for about 10 years. The filters, while expensive, are the best of their class (gravity fed). You can see, taste, and smell the difference.
I don't know how impartial waterfilterlabs.com is, nor how rigid their testing methodology is, but the top of the line Berkey filters (the black plus the fluoride filters underneath) rank the highest on nearly every category. The systems were designed to filter questionable water in shitty, war-torn, 3rd-world environments, so they knock out pathogens, volatiles, and heavy metals.
Just because quacks may recommend a product doesn't necessarily mean it's snake oil.
One of those dating sites published some stats a while back. The data was interesting.
The take-away from the stats was that men tend to find average women attractive, whereas women only find above-average men attractive.
So, where a dude who's a five is fine with a woman who's a 5, the woman who's a 5 is only responding to the 8's in the pool.
80% of women are chasing the top 10% of men. And because even homely-looking ladies get carpet bombed by responses from dudes just hoping to get a nibble for a cast, they have inflated ideas of what their league actually is.
I quit Netflix after many years because of their annoying new auto/background play when you're simply trying to read the synopsis of a movie/episode. If they allowed that to be a user choice, I'd go back in a heartbeat.
As it stands now, Plex +/r/opendirectories is my friend.
Don't forget the dramatic montage sickness that infects otherwise decent shows. I'm convinced many montages with pop music are more about tossing fresh musical talent onto the wall to see what sticks more than anything.
Then you've got the signature Abrams Montage which pointlessly amps up drama in shows like LOST and Fringe or movies like his Trek reboots.
Wait a sec..."remotely controlled" and "has a control system in it" are 2 totally different things. Which is it?
I assume it's the latter, since if only "remote control" requires requires registration, then programmable or autonomous drones will become the next big thing in the consumer drone space.
So he went on record months before to approach the airline. Next, he tweets blatantly scary "what if" kinda things FROM A PLANE. Snoops snag the message, then snag him, snag his encrypted laptop, ask for keys, to which he says "warrant, or GTFO".
Maybe getting captured was part of his plan? Maybe he's gunning to get legal precedent set on the issue of crypto, passwords, the legal process, and self-incrimination. Bonus points for possibly exposing just how people are monitored online and if the feds can power through common disk crypto.
My guess is he did nothing wrong while on the airline, and even if he is legally compelled (via warrant or legal test case verdict), there will be no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.
Maybe the feds will finally show some of their cards?
Dude, just chill. Everyone knows WTF the reference is to, regardless of the scientific accuracy. It's referenced in literature, movies, TV. Just get over yourself.
If I had used "proverbial frogs" in my post, would that have not knotted your undies so badly?
There is no Spy vs Spy character hiding behind trash cans at your subway station watching your every move. This stuff is automated Big Data with a dash of expert system and AI wizardry sprinkled on top
We can agree to disagree about whether this stuff is a valid concern for the average individual. But when things like laws, public policy, and commercial interests (insurance rates, hiring practices, etc.) are heavily influenced by what the Eye of Sauron sees, everyone should be concerned about what is collected.
Reboots are old hat. Now we're *reviving* 1- to 2-decade old series.
First, we hear Twin Peaks will get a new season in 2016. Then that recent Friends movie. Now X-Files. With any luck, we'll get new seasons of Millennium, Dark Angel, and Space: Above and Beyond.
> It also won't tell you where someone's been who takes public transit, rides a bicycle, rollerblades, or walks. That's a good chunk of the population that is totally off the radar to this.
You're correct. "They" will just track your phone's WiFi MAC address around town, and your face with cameras.
You seem to be ignoring the incremental nature of us frogs and the increasingly hot water we're sitting in.
The more data sets available for correlation, the more accurate and complete a picture "they" can get.
You seem to be fine with this seemingly inevitable future we're racing towards. Some of us are concerned, if not outright worried.
Slashdot Mirror
You should see what they did with Heathers.
Yeah, I un-subbed after YEARS (since the first DVD delivery days) of being a loyal subscriber for this very reason.
It's so awful that I'll sub for the months when House of Cards (won't now since Spacey got kicked) and Stranger Things drop to give my support, then I'll download/torrent the entire show to watch on my Plex server.
If they just let me disable that horrible feature, I'd willingly let my $10/month sub go on indefinitely.
Screw that UI designers at Netflix.
Foie gras, anyone?
Does this mean the next release of The Matrix on whatever 4k/8k media will have the credits list The Wachowski Sisters instead of Brothers?
I'm a pretty liberal dude, but the fervor of pronoun discussions these past few years grates on me in a way I can't quite put my finger on.
Where's my Chrome plugin to replace any instances of he/she to "ze" (or "it") already!
Now there's a name I haven't heard of in a long time.
My first ever Unix account was on a Sequent Symmetry in 1990 for CS101 (RIP sage.cc.purdue.edu). The OS was Dynix, and I think the machine had six i386 cores.
Ah, those were the days, before shadowed passwords and TTYs with proper permissions. All via 9600-baud serial connections in the dorms. Fun stuff.
I still lament the fact that Desqview/Desqview-X never gained much traction. That shit was robust and multi-tasked circles around Windows 3 at the time.
In light of the buyout and subsequent announced RIF, anyone who went overboard on holiday shopping or vacations this year would be a certified dumb-ass.
Grow that emergency fund while you're solidly employed, folks. You can't bank 3-to-6 months of expenses in a couple of months.
I've owned a classic Big Berkey for about 10 years. The filters, while expensive, are the best of their class (gravity fed). You can see, taste, and smell the difference.
I don't know how impartial waterfilterlabs.com is, nor how rigid their testing methodology is, but the top of the line Berkey filters (the black plus the fluoride filters underneath) rank the highest on nearly every category. The systems were designed to filter questionable water in shitty, war-torn, 3rd-world environments, so they knock out pathogens, volatiles, and heavy metals.
Just because quacks may recommend a product doesn't necessarily mean it's snake oil.
One of those dating sites published some stats a while back. The data was interesting.
The take-away from the stats was that men tend to find average women attractive, whereas women only find above-average men attractive.
So, where a dude who's a five is fine with a woman who's a 5, the woman who's a 5 is only responding to the 8's in the pool.
80% of women are chasing the top 10% of men. And because even homely-looking ladies get carpet bombed by responses from dudes just hoping to get a nibble for a cast, they have inflated ideas of what their league actually is.
I quit Netflix after many years because of their annoying new auto/background play when you're simply trying to read the synopsis of a movie/episode. If they allowed that to be a user choice, I'd go back in a heartbeat.
As it stands now, Plex + /r/opendirectories is my friend.
Don't forget the dramatic montage sickness that infects otherwise decent shows. I'm convinced many montages with pop music are more about tossing fresh musical talent onto the wall to see what sticks more than anything.
Then you've got the signature Abrams Montage which pointlessly amps up drama in shows like LOST and Fringe or movies like his Trek reboots.
All bets are off when we live in a world where "WARNING: Contains peanuts" is a thing on containers of peanut butter.
Muh safe spaces!
Plex is there. My home PC runs FreeBSD, and it serves Plex to my Rokus.
Wait a sec..."remotely controlled" and "has a control system in it" are 2 totally different things. Which is it?
I assume it's the latter, since if only "remote control" requires requires registration, then programmable or autonomous drones will become the next big thing in the consumer drone space.
Coprolites?
So he went on record months before to approach the airline. Next, he tweets blatantly scary "what if" kinda things FROM A PLANE. Snoops snag the message, then snag him, snag his encrypted laptop, ask for keys, to which he says "warrant, or GTFO".
Maybe getting captured was part of his plan? Maybe he's gunning to get legal precedent set on the issue of crypto, passwords, the legal process, and self-incrimination. Bonus points for possibly exposing just how people are monitored online and if the feds can power through common disk crypto.
My guess is he did nothing wrong while on the airline, and even if he is legally compelled (via warrant or legal test case verdict), there will be no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.
Maybe the feds will finally show some of their cards?
I look forward to a dramatized reenactment of events I witnessed as they unfolded. Makes for entertaining history.
I'd love to see similar movies about Hillary Rosen (RIAA attack dog) and Jack Valenti (MPAA attack dog) from an earlier era of internet culture.
Meh. Didn't AOL / Time-Warner try this crap, too? Look how that ended.
Info wants to be free and all that jazz. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Dude, just chill. Everyone knows WTF the reference is to, regardless of the scientific accuracy. It's referenced in literature, movies, TV. Just get over yourself.
If I had used "proverbial frogs" in my post, would that have not knotted your undies so badly?
Shaka, when the walls fell.
There is no Spy vs Spy character hiding behind trash cans at your subway station watching your every move. This stuff is automated Big Data with a dash of expert system and AI wizardry sprinkled on top
We can agree to disagree about whether this stuff is a valid concern for the average individual. But when things like laws, public policy, and commercial interests (insurance rates, hiring practices, etc.) are heavily influenced by what the Eye of Sauron sees, everyone should be concerned about what is collected.
Fine, he can use chia seeds. Or wheat bran. Whatever.
I'm a keto dude, and I add chia seeds to damned near everything.
The point is, a good bit of fiber in a meal helps you feel full, keeps traffic flowing nicely, and smooths out the sugar/insulin response spikes.
Reboots are old hat. Now we're *reviving* 1- to 2-decade old series.
First, we hear Twin Peaks will get a new season in 2016. Then that recent Friends movie. Now X-Files. With any luck, we'll get new seasons of Millennium, Dark Angel, and Space: Above and Beyond.
It could work, right?
> It also won't tell you where someone's been who takes public transit, rides a bicycle, rollerblades, or walks. That's a good chunk of the population that is totally off the radar to this.
You're correct. "They" will just track your phone's WiFi MAC address around town, and your face with cameras.
You seem to be ignoring the incremental nature of us frogs and the increasingly hot water we're sitting in.
The more data sets available for correlation, the more accurate and complete a picture "they" can get.
You seem to be fine with this seemingly inevitable future we're racing towards. Some of us are concerned, if not outright worried.
> shitweasels
Stephen King fan?