and that is VERY good advice indeed. I haven't heard of phones being stolen but you can pretty much bet it will be hacked and it will almost certainly be used to track you. I only know one person who travels over there these days and she takes a burner phone just for those trips. Why take a chance? End of the day it's often not just the Govt doing the attacking either, if they think you have something valuable that can be sold or you're somehow a target that could be damaged to help improve their competitiveness you're a target. Apparently companies over there DOS and attack one another all the time, it's just apparently part of doing business
Make sure you note the date on that article. This has been going on a long time! Another anecdote, company I knew manufactured DVD and CD, one of the contracts they bid on was to do the service manuals for the DOD but they kept getting underbid. They knew damn well there were VERY few US companies left that could do this and couldn't figure out how they were being underbid. They finally figured it out - a Chinese company was being used to make the media with a front company setup in the US. It took them ages to get the DOD to wake up and figure out they were sending the repair manuals for a ton of our shit over to China to have the damn DVD made. Good grief, why not have them produce our missiles too? Sheesh! Obviously years ago but man we've done some stupid stuff
Chances are the Chinese build the watches so the actual assembly is something they could get more easily at home but some of the specialized sensors are going to be much more difficult for them to figure out.
Anyone having anything built over there has to be damn careful! A friend has some automotive parts built over there. He intentionally designed the parts so it's not obvious what they will be used in and he designed them to fit more than one application with just some machining needed to fit one car or another. He told me that he bet it wouldn't be more than 3 months before they would be trying to sell his stuff. Sure enough parts showed up on Ali-Baba within 2 months! Jokes on them, they don't know about the needed machining he only did in-house and those parts aren't going to fit jack shit!:-) He had a good laugh over it but it was really surprising to see how fast they figured out what this was for and tried to sell it. There's a saying, their manufacturing plants run three shifts, two for you and one for them and it doesn't seem to be far from the truth...
I won't say what they manufacture but it's not electronics. Chinese company contacts them, says they want to buy some of their uber expensive stuff but could they come inspect it first? Sure thing! Several of the intended visitors unable to get visas... finally the TEAM of people shows up to inspect the product but want a TOUR of the factory. No sir, not allowed. Brings them to a room that's been walled off just for the inspection but members of this team keep trying to wander off and have to be corralled. Light no good, can't we do this somewhere else? Nope, here's more light! Table not flat enough for measurements don't you have someplace else we could do this? Nope, her'e s apiece of float glass deal. Finally they get frustrated and leave. Weeks later State Dept calls all freaked out by the team of scientists that visited - hmm! They explain the measures they took to the great relief of State Dept dude but he warns other folks might call and to just explain WTF. I ask friend about their network security - umm not good:( He tells me stories of employees plugging "music players" into production equipment USB ports to "charge them" and bringing the line to a halt as they got "infected". I swear sometimes we are our own worst enemy They did at least stop the direct physical inspection! I'm betting their network is owned up one side and down the other though...
I'm aware they can't be trusted and I don't think Trump's current efforts will lead to success but if it does somehow do so I'll be thrilled. Placating them in any way isn't likely to work and that's exactly what he's doing - giving him standing in his own country and the world stage. My point was your thinking they can't attack us is flawed if the only barrier you see is inability to loft a warhead on a missile. They have what's needed to attack us should they decide to be foolish...
Yes, it would be nice if financial planners could be trusted and we didn't have to educate ourselves as much. That's just a pipe dream though with laws no longer requiring planners to reveal their interests...
Do you truly believe that a rocket is the only way to deliver ordinance? North Korea has become more than adept at smuggling and they likely have at least two large countries assisting them that aren't friendly to the US. I wouldn't put too much faith in them being unable to attack us if they really truly wanted to. Lets hope it doesn't come to that!
Think about what happens when monthly pay-ins occur from companies. Think about what happens when companies dump in profit sharing or matching funds at the end of the year. Some companies don't do it that way but more than a few do including mine who OBTW will withold all matching if you leave before Jan 1st - cute huh? 401K haven't been around all that long, what happens when all of those folks who signed up when it began reach retirement age and begin withdrawing? As you pointed out, things are going to get weird. My worry is what happens when we begin to have a large portion of the population reach retirement age and we realize that maybe 10% are prepared for it? Being sighted in the land of the blind could be hazardous...
I gotta' tell you, the bond funds I'm able to choose from in my 401K have done nothing but lose money for at least the last year. I leave a smidge in there just to see how quickly it goes down. When bonds begin to show some strength I'll consider buying into them but so far that's not been the case despite interest rates rising. Hopefully the orange idiot doesn't nuke the stock market, he sure seems to be trying!
Russell Large Cap Growth, Russell Small Cap, US Structured Research, S&P 500. Spread a little into the Euro/Asian funds and maybe choose one of the later retirement year funds so it's not sticking crap into bonds right now. Vanguard has good funds but man they make it hard to figure out what the tickers are for your companies funds when they use them for management!
Sadly, appartently very few are disciplined enough to actually invest money like that and would instead have spent that on things like a better car, bigger house, or a vacation vs investing it. Those fools need SS to be taken or they would truly be penniless. The numbers I see for 401K and savings balances are terrifying...
Federal Regulations?! Where have you seen that? I cannot imagine what regulation that could be and would love to know WTF. The last time I tried to use CarPlay in a car and Waze together it was a disaster and I'd decided I'd avoid it in my next car but if Waze will work I'm onboard! Hopefully it won't require firmware flashes of radcios because if it does this is a near worthless feature announcement!
Kodi I've got covered with multiple NUC, I'm interested in the drive you're using to rip the UHD BR:) I run Kodi at home (since the XBOX days), source compiled on one and one of their precompiled distro on another, and Plex on the road. I'm just wondering if there's a particular drive that's best for ripping this new media, I don't think my normal BD drive will do it right?
An ironic statement made in a posting about software that allows you to do EXACTLY that. RedFox aka SLySoft and MakeMKV as well as others allow you to rip the media just fine.
Ditto! I rip and store the originals - too much forced crap on disks these days. Here's an FBI warning, here's a preview, here's who knows WTF I don't want to see. I also buy my disks used as often as possible for as little as possible. Some movies that I really appreciate I'll pay for brand new but it's sure not too many with the cost of them.
Right there with you, I was a lifetime user and supporter of many years myself. Got others on the bandwagon and used their software to great success. Now suddenly it's Chinese software in posession of the full IP of the other company but they cannot honor my license? I should accept this? No thanks, I've moved on and there are other options.
I have a main set of tabs for news sites - Slashdot is one of them, CNN, BBC, Drudge, whatever I feel like monitoring - stocks for instance. This set includes pages to each of my web email accounts too. A second page full of tabs reaches to internal pages for various software setup for my home and HTPC type stuff - Plex, PlexPy, Webmin, my NAS, SAB, and a bunch of others to handle a few VMs. Sadly Chrome sux for ESX so I have some damned IE windows open for consoles and monitoring.
Then there's the other pages that vary wildly. I have a wide variety of interests. If I begin researching say wood flooring for my home that's a separate page or two filled with tabs. Do a google search on electrical wiring? Each result of interest is a new tab. Ditto' kitchen cabinets and other things. Then there's my various web forums for car interests, parts searches, research into various electronic projects, Youtube videos and well you get the idea. I tend to use a google search as an anchor and multiple tabs after as I dig in deeply.
Sessionbuddy allows me to keep these across sessions. My current largest saved session contains 517 tabs across 161 windows. This session is 24 windows and 114 tabs and I'm finding that it's not really too responsive right now 16gig memory and sadly cannot use more due to the OS version I'm running - grr! Oh my sessions are synched across hardware so my browsers all have the same plug-ins and I can pull window history too as needed.
I can use Sessionbuddy to find things of interest from past sessions if I close them to recover memory, I can hover over a minimized window to get a list of the windows and find a "project" and in general I find this works pretty well for me. IE cannot handle this, menu items disappear as memory runs low, FireFox used to just up and die losing my sessions, and Chrome simply handles it but has become slow and bloated over the past year or three. Hopefully they take note of FireFox's advances! Chrome, being more secure, is where I'll likely stay for a browser hoping that they trim some fat as FireFox has
So yeah, some of us find this pretty damned handy and use quite a few tabs. 1600 is pushing it but 500 was fine by me for sure:)
I'm sure he thinks he can broker a deal - the FSB will pinky swear promise that they won't spai and the CIA will do the same and go skipping into the sunset together arm in arm. Now those North Koreans are a little tricky but I'm sure with enough hand wringing he thinks he can get them to stop being meanies and put away their nuclear weapons. We might have to promise to buy them puppies or something but it'll be totally worth it for a safer world! What's that? Russia just invaded the rest of Ukraine?! But they prooomised not to do that!!!11! Maybe they needed the puppies more?
How do people think our elected officials know what's going on in the world if not by spying? Has no one ever looked at the CIA World Fact Book? Does no one understand WTF that is and why that kind of thing is important to a Govt? Okay maybe not this President but others for sure understood it. When Syria promises not to gas their citizens and we spot them preparing to gas a hospital do you think we figured that out by getting a phone call ahead of time? When North Korea readies a missile did we know because their Govt warned us or because we did something sneaky? How about when we hear that some dumbass is planning to bomb a plane and a warning gets put out - should we not spy to figure that out? After all those terrorists have rights to privacy right?
Every country does this. Every. Single. Country. When the United States says they exported X amount of oil does no one think that other countries aren't double checking our numbers by gathering intel just like we do theirs? One difference is our agencies aren't chartered to do it for economic gain unlike say France which has been caught at it how many times? I swear to God sometimes people remind me of a DEFCON talk I listened to where some dumbass kid was talking about "prepping for the fall of civilization" telling everyone he didn't "like guns" and would simply be nice and barter for food. Naive dumbass, guess who's going to be dead first and everything taken? Does no one leave their basement or something? The real world isn't kittens and puppies, our leaders need to be informed with facts not simply told by other Govts what's going on so yeah that sometimes means people do sneaky things. Yeesh!/rant
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and that is VERY good advice indeed. I haven't heard of phones being stolen but you can pretty much bet it will be hacked and it will almost certainly be used to track you. I only know one person who travels over there these days and she takes a burner phone just for those trips. Why take a chance? End of the day it's often not just the Govt doing the attacking either, if they think you have something valuable that can be sold or you're somehow a target that could be damaged to help improve their competitiveness you're a target. Apparently companies over there DOS and attack one another all the time, it's just apparently part of doing business
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
Make sure you note the date on that article. This has been going on a long time! Another anecdote, company I knew manufactured DVD and CD, one of the contracts they bid on was to do the service manuals for the DOD but they kept getting underbid. They knew damn well there were VERY few US companies left that could do this and couldn't figure out how they were being underbid. They finally figured it out - a Chinese company was being used to make the media with a front company setup in the US. It took them ages to get the DOD to wake up and figure out they were sending the repair manuals for a ton of our shit over to China to have the damn DVD made. Good grief, why not have them produce our missiles too? Sheesh! Obviously years ago but man we've done some stupid stuff
Chances are the Chinese build the watches so the actual assembly is something they could get more easily at home but some of the specialized sensors are going to be much more difficult for them to figure out.
Anyone having anything built over there has to be damn careful! A friend has some automotive parts built over there. He intentionally designed the parts so it's not obvious what they will be used in and he designed them to fit more than one application with just some machining needed to fit one car or another. He told me that he bet it wouldn't be more than 3 months before they would be trying to sell his stuff. Sure enough parts showed up on Ali-Baba within 2 months! Jokes on them, they don't know about the needed machining he only did in-house and those parts aren't going to fit jack shit! :-) He had a good laugh over it but it was really surprising to see how fast they figured out what this was for and tried to sell it. There's a saying, their manufacturing plants run three shifts, two for you and one for them and it doesn't seem to be far from the truth...
I won't say what they manufacture but it's not electronics. Chinese company contacts them, says they want to buy some of their uber expensive stuff but could they come inspect it first? Sure thing! Several of the intended visitors unable to get visas... finally the TEAM of people shows up to inspect the product but want a TOUR of the factory. No sir, not allowed. Brings them to a room that's been walled off just for the inspection but members of this team keep trying to wander off and have to be corralled. Light no good, can't we do this somewhere else? Nope, here's more light! Table not flat enough for measurements don't you have someplace else we could do this? Nope, her'e s apiece of float glass deal. Finally they get frustrated and leave. Weeks later State Dept calls all freaked out by the team of scientists that visited - hmm! They explain the measures they took to the great relief of State Dept dude but he warns other folks might call and to just explain WTF. I ask friend about their network security - umm not good :( He tells me stories of employees plugging "music players" into production equipment USB ports to "charge them" and bringing the line to a halt as they got "infected". I swear sometimes we are our own worst enemy They did at least stop the direct physical inspection! I'm betting their network is owned up one side and down the other though...
I'm aware they can't be trusted and I don't think Trump's current efforts will lead to success but if it does somehow do so I'll be thrilled. Placating them in any way isn't likely to work and that's exactly what he's doing - giving him standing in his own country and the world stage. My point was your thinking they can't attack us is flawed if the only barrier you see is inability to loft a warhead on a missile. They have what's needed to attack us should they decide to be foolish...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...
Yeah, the accumulation at the tippy top is pretty disgusting...
Yes, it would be nice if financial planners could be trusted and we didn't have to educate ourselves as much. That's just a pipe dream though with laws no longer requiring planners to reveal their interests...
Do you truly believe that a rocket is the only way to deliver ordinance? North Korea has become more than adept at smuggling and they likely have at least two large countries assisting them that aren't friendly to the US. I wouldn't put too much faith in them being unable to attack us if they really truly wanted to. Lets hope it doesn't come to that!
Undo? Fire up those smoke stacks and get back to the mines - we need to roll back the clock!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...
Agreed, something doesn't smell right...
Think about what happens when monthly pay-ins occur from companies. Think about what happens when companies dump in profit sharing or matching funds at the end of the year. Some companies don't do it that way but more than a few do including mine who OBTW will withold all matching if you leave before Jan 1st - cute huh? 401K haven't been around all that long, what happens when all of those folks who signed up when it began reach retirement age and begin withdrawing? As you pointed out, things are going to get weird. My worry is what happens when we begin to have a large portion of the population reach retirement age and we realize that maybe 10% are prepared for it? Being sighted in the land of the blind could be hazardous...
I gotta' tell you, the bond funds I'm able to choose from in my 401K have done nothing but lose money for at least the last year. I leave a smidge in there just to see how quickly it goes down. When bonds begin to show some strength I'll consider buying into them but so far that's not been the case despite interest rates rising. Hopefully the orange idiot doesn't nuke the stock market, he sure seems to be trying!
Russell Large Cap Growth, Russell Small Cap, US Structured Research, S&P 500. Spread a little into the Euro/Asian funds and maybe choose one of the later retirement year funds so it's not sticking crap into bonds right now. Vanguard has good funds but man they make it hard to figure out what the tickers are for your companies funds when they use them for management!
Sadly, appartently very few are disciplined enough to actually invest money like that and would instead have spent that on things like a better car, bigger house, or a vacation vs investing it. Those fools need SS to be taken or they would truly be penniless. The numbers I see for 401K and savings balances are terrifying...
Agree so long as it doesn't require flashing the radios. No doubt OEMs will charge an assload for it :(
Federal Regulations?! Where have you seen that? I cannot imagine what regulation that could be and would love to know WTF. The last time I tried to use CarPlay in a car and Waze together it was a disaster and I'd decided I'd avoid it in my next car but if Waze will work I'm onboard! Hopefully it won't require firmware flashes of radcios because if it does this is a near worthless feature announcement!
All the more reason not to support them it seems?
Kodi I've got covered with multiple NUC, I'm interested in the drive you're using to rip the UHD BR :) I run Kodi at home (since the XBOX days), source compiled on one and one of their precompiled distro on another, and Plex on the road. I'm just wondering if there's a particular drive that's best for ripping this new media, I don't think my normal BD drive will do it right?
An ironic statement made in a posting about software that allows you to do EXACTLY that. RedFox aka SLySoft and MakeMKV as well as others allow you to rip the media just fine.
Ditto! I rip and store the originals - too much forced crap on disks these days. Here's an FBI warning, here's a preview, here's who knows WTF I don't want to see. I also buy my disks used as often as possible for as little as possible. Some movies that I really appreciate I'll pay for brand new but it's sure not too many with the cost of them.
What hardware player are you using? I might like to pick one up for future use :)
Jailed? No he was fined $30K or had to spend 6months in jail. Sorry, don't make this out like the guy didn't do just fine out of this.
Right there with you, I was a lifetime user and supporter of many years myself. Got others on the bandwagon and used their software to great success. Now suddenly it's Chinese software in posession of the full IP of the other company but they cannot honor my license? I should accept this? No thanks, I've moved on and there are other options.
I, a Chrome user, will happily answer.
I have a main set of tabs for news sites - Slashdot is one of them, CNN, BBC, Drudge, whatever I feel like monitoring - stocks for instance. This set includes pages to each of my web email accounts too. A second page full of tabs reaches to internal pages for various software setup for my home and HTPC type stuff - Plex, PlexPy, Webmin, my NAS, SAB, and a bunch of others to handle a few VMs. Sadly Chrome sux for ESX so I have some damned IE windows open for consoles and monitoring.
Then there's the other pages that vary wildly. I have a wide variety of interests. If I begin researching say wood flooring for my home that's a separate page or two filled with tabs. Do a google search on electrical wiring? Each result of interest is a new tab. Ditto' kitchen cabinets and other things. Then there's my various web forums for car interests, parts searches, research into various electronic projects, Youtube videos and well you get the idea. I tend to use a google search as an anchor and multiple tabs after as I dig in deeply.
Sessionbuddy allows me to keep these across sessions. My current largest saved session contains 517 tabs across 161 windows. This session is 24 windows and 114 tabs and I'm finding that it's not really too responsive right now 16gig memory and sadly cannot use more due to the OS version I'm running - grr! Oh my sessions are synched across hardware so my browsers all have the same plug-ins and I can pull window history too as needed.
I can use Sessionbuddy to find things of interest from past sessions if I close them to recover memory, I can hover over a minimized window to get a list of the windows and find a "project" and in general I find this works pretty well for me. IE cannot handle this, menu items disappear as memory runs low, FireFox used to just up and die losing my sessions, and Chrome simply handles it but has become slow and bloated over the past year or three. Hopefully they take note of FireFox's advances! Chrome, being more secure, is where I'll likely stay for a browser hoping that they trim some fat as FireFox has
So yeah, some of us find this pretty damned handy and use quite a few tabs. 1600 is pushing it but 500 was fine by me for sure :)
I'm sure he thinks he can broker a deal - the FSB will pinky swear promise that they won't spai and the CIA will do the same and go skipping into the sunset together arm in arm. Now those North Koreans are a little tricky but I'm sure with enough hand wringing he thinks he can get them to stop being meanies and put away their nuclear weapons. We might have to promise to buy them puppies or something but it'll be totally worth it for a safer world! What's that? Russia just invaded the rest of Ukraine?! But they prooomised not to do that!!!11! Maybe they needed the puppies more?
How do people think our elected officials know what's going on in the world if not by spying? Has no one ever looked at the CIA World Fact Book? Does no one understand WTF that is and why that kind of thing is important to a Govt? Okay maybe not this President but others for sure understood it. When Syria promises not to gas their citizens and we spot them preparing to gas a hospital do you think we figured that out by getting a phone call ahead of time? When North Korea readies a missile did we know because their Govt warned us or because we did something sneaky? How about when we hear that some dumbass is planning to bomb a plane and a warning gets put out - should we not spy to figure that out? After all those terrorists have rights to privacy right?
Every country does this. Every. Single. Country. When the United States says they exported X amount of oil does no one think that other countries aren't double checking our numbers by gathering intel just like we do theirs? One difference is our agencies aren't chartered to do it for economic gain unlike say France which has been caught at it how many times? I swear to God sometimes people remind me of a DEFCON talk I listened to where some dumbass kid was talking about "prepping for the fall of civilization" telling everyone he didn't "like guns" and would simply be nice and barter for food. Naive dumbass, guess who's going to be dead first and everything taken? Does no one leave their basement or something? The real world isn't kittens and puppies, our leaders need to be informed with facts not simply told by other Govts what's going on so yeah that sometimes means people do sneaky things. Yeesh! /rant