It's probably neither organization, rather instead it's a fake one pretending to be them. I get similar calls from the "Fraternal Order of Police and Firefighters", which is a real charity, but they don't solicit donations over the phone, which means the one making the calls is fraudulent.
The FCC ought to just make it optional for ISPs to classify themselves as common carriers, which means they have to comply with I.e. net neutrality. If they opt out of it, then they're liable for anything from acts of terrorism to copyright infringement to somebody using their network to solicit murder for hire, and this applies whether the customer uses encryption or not.
If you're on the do-not-call registry, then no cold call would be legitimate unless it's a political ad or a charity. Though I personally haven't heard of any legit charity that solicits donations in this manner. The only "charities" I've gotten cold calls from are fake ones. Avoiding political spam is easy: When you register to vote, just give them a random fax number.
Seriously. At least Microsoft makes shit that some people actually like to use. I've yet to meet one person that actually enjoys using the poorly engineered crap that discharges from Oracle's anus, and everybody who does use it only does so because they have to. The few things Oracle makes that are somewhat usable are things that they bought from some other company and haven't yet had the chance to wipe their ass with it.
And then worst of all, if you simply look at your oracle product the wrong way, they'll probably sue you for breaking the EULA.
I think Oracle is probably just annoyed because after winning all of their big lawsuits against their own costumers, they lost what is arguably the mother of all of their lawsuits, and it wasn't one of their customers this time
I'm still wondering why you can't just use a VPN instead. Do they throttle traffic that can't be classified or something? Or better yet, do they throttle HTTPS traffic? You can disguise anything as HTTPS traffic...
That looks like a reasonable list of most of the biggest US companies in computing today. You might have added a few more, notably Amazon, and perhaps the big PC manufacturers like Dell.
Yeah and some other heavyweights I didn't mention include IBM and Nvidia. The point is, there are a ton of big ones in the US, and very few elsewhere. Europe actually comes in somewhere third in this regard, with perhaps ARM Holdings and maybe Philips being their most well known tech brands, with Asia being second, i.e. Samsung, LG, Asus, Lenovo, etc.
Nope, what I said was that we're about as backwards as it gets in terms of using the metric system.
And what's backwards about it?
Since virtually all scientific research has moved to the metric system, perhaps we should jump waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead to the 1980's or so and do the same.
Tell me, when you pick up a bottle of tylenol, how are the doses measured? When you get blood lab work done, what measurements are used for all of the numbers written on the report? When you read an NIH whitepaper, how are all numbers they use measured?
We've been on metric for a lot longer than you think in all of the areas that actually matter.
The metric system has so many advantages that I really should have to detail them here.
Hence it's used when it's needed. The only countries that don't exclusively use the metric system for every single thing that every person does are typically authoritarian governments. In the UK they still use the pint and the stone for every day shit. Unless you want to argue that authoritarianism is the only system that isn't backwards, I'm not sure what your message is. A while back one of those whitehouse petitions was for us to switch to metric; do you happen to recall what the response was?
You may as well argue that we're also backwards for not switching to Esperanto as our national language.
I'm curious how somebody is scamming you by offering you links to pirated movies. I mean what, do these movies come in a.exe file or something? If so then call it malware.
Chandler is the home of the most advanced fab in the world. And yes, Intel still assembles parts in Singapore, among other places, I just listed them as an example.
In fact even some of the cheap crap electronics you buy from China are made from parts here. I live within miles of an Avnet plant where they make things like resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc, that are shipped straight to China for assembly into PCBs that later make their way back here inside of a smartphone or a refrigerator.
And that means what, exactly? Are you trying to say that North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela are somehow more technologically advanced because they measure their water using metric?
Just because the US is the only one of a few who do a particular thing doesn't really say a whole lot, especially because there are many things like that beyond a measurement system that many countries hold unique.
I have received many pay increases but I have never once participated in collective bargaining. In fact if I have it my way, I'll never work for a union in my entire life. Why? Because the one company I do business with that's unionized takes a god damn act of Congress just to get them off of their asses to fix shit that they're contractually obligated to do. No joke, they literally have to set out lawn chairs and umbrellas at a work site before they can begin. Why? Union mandate.
Well let's see: Perhaps the biggest complaint about Uber drivers is the fact that they don't have proper insurance. That, and human drivers are inherently unsafe compared to what automated drivers are likely to be. This only stands to reason that there's less potential liability for the general public.
Why is this a bad thing? Believe it or not, there's plenty of other work out there. Uber was just the natural choice of many who already had a car and knew how to drive, but as one of people from TFA noted, it's not a good way to make a living.
Well that's your perspective, and it's not a terribly accurate one. The entire global technology infrastructure begins and ends with the United States. Oh but you think your Intel chip us made in Singapore because it says made in Singapore on it? Try again: The chip was fabricated in the US (specifically, Chandler Arizona) and was just packaged in Singapore. Intel, AMD, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Facebook.... All US companies.
Android and iOS make up 99% of the global smartphone market.
But not just information technology... Name any health condition you can think of, and chances are the top hospital for that condition resides somewhere in the US. Cancer, pediatrics, cardiology, neurology...
The same is true of other fields as well, such as aerospace.
We're not somehow backwards just because don't use fucking metric. We don't use it mainly because we haven't felt a pressing need for it, much like some countries drive on the left side of the road, which itself comes from feudal times when you would always pass on the left so that you could unsheathe your weapon from your right hand and have it ready for combat in case you passed an adversary.
Pigs and backwoods? Your thinking of somewhere else.
The thing I hate about PowerShell is the fact that its command set is so damn enunciated. But on the plus side, it's object oriented so there are often much shorter ways of manipulating text that don't require some gnarly sed, awk, or grep command syntax.
Overall I think I'm starting to prefer PowerShell over bash, but it still has a few inconsistencies that are hard to get over, like how in a script you have to preface a regular command with an ampersand whereas doing the same thing in a regular interactive shell doesn't need one.
On the rare occasion that I exceed my monthly data, I use the mobile image blocker addon on firefox and websites are pretty snappy, just no pictures (which in many cases actually improves the usability of the website.) And since music is zero rated, that still works fine.
Yeah I always hear that from verizon customers, especially when they say "it doesn't work over in bumblefuck nowhere" and I'm like "well, I don't ever go there so I'd rather just pay less than half of what you're paying and have it work everywhere I intend on being." That, and where I work I seem to get a better signal than anybody on AT&T or Verizon (and Sprint users get shit slow service no matter where they are.)
It doesn't matter if knox fuse is blown, all that does is void the warranty for knox. If however your USB port breaks (as is typical with even the expensive samsung shit) and you're rooted, they can't deny the claim to fix the USB port.
DSL has always been slower than cable, the only reason anybody ever thought otherwise is because the telcos spread FUD about cable being a shared medium. What they conveniently left out was the fact that the backbone is shared no matter what media is used, meanwhile DSL being on inferior voice grade copper has to use interleaving to prevent insane amounts of packet loss, which means retransmits that count against your rated speed with accompanying deliberate latency to compensate for jitter, in addition to the fact that they never heard of 802.1x, instead relying on PPP for authentication, which gave you about 15% layer 2 overhead that also counts against your rated speed.
Technically it is only supposed to be plural, and about 50 years ago anybody who read what you were writing likely would have been confused. It's only recently that "their" came to both mean "multiple people, possessive" in addition to "single person, unspecified gender, possessive".
It actually doesn't make any logical sense to write it this way instead of simply using "he" or "his" as the default pronoun, like what many other languages do, and is yet another inconsistency that contributes to the English language being extremely hard to learn as a second language.
But, this has been done all throughout the history of English as there's no central grammar Nazi authority similar to what other major world languages often have, so the language typically changes a lot in seemingly illogical ways.
We've also done a similar thing with "they" and them", i.e turning what's logically supposed to be a third person plural word into a third person singular word.
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It's probably neither organization, rather instead it's a fake one pretending to be them. I get similar calls from the "Fraternal Order of Police and Firefighters", which is a real charity, but they don't solicit donations over the phone, which means the one making the calls is fraudulent.
The FCC ought to just make it optional for ISPs to classify themselves as common carriers, which means they have to comply with I.e. net neutrality. If they opt out of it, then they're liable for anything from acts of terrorism to copyright infringement to somebody using their network to solicit murder for hire, and this applies whether the customer uses encryption or not.
Sickrage works fine with nothing more than thepiratebay, and the only monthly fee you need to pay is for a VPN provider.
If you're on the do-not-call registry, then no cold call would be legitimate unless it's a political ad or a charity. Though I personally haven't heard of any legit charity that solicits donations in this manner. The only "charities" I've gotten cold calls from are fake ones. Avoiding political spam is easy: When you register to vote, just give them a random fax number.
Is there even a successor to ISS planned?
Seriously. At least Microsoft makes shit that some people actually like to use. I've yet to meet one person that actually enjoys using the poorly engineered crap that discharges from Oracle's anus, and everybody who does use it only does so because they have to. The few things Oracle makes that are somewhat usable are things that they bought from some other company and haven't yet had the chance to wipe their ass with it.
And then worst of all, if you simply look at your oracle product the wrong way, they'll probably sue you for breaking the EULA.
I think Oracle is probably just annoyed because after winning all of their big lawsuits against their own costumers, they lost what is arguably the mother of all of their lawsuits, and it wasn't one of their customers this time
I'm still wondering why you can't just use a VPN instead. Do they throttle traffic that can't be classified or something? Or better yet, do they throttle HTTPS traffic? You can disguise anything as HTTPS traffic...
That looks like a reasonable list of most of the biggest US companies in computing today. You might have added a few more, notably Amazon, and perhaps the big PC manufacturers like Dell.
Yeah and some other heavyweights I didn't mention include IBM and Nvidia. The point is, there are a ton of big ones in the US, and very few elsewhere. Europe actually comes in somewhere third in this regard, with perhaps ARM Holdings and maybe Philips being their most well known tech brands, with Asia being second, i.e. Samsung, LG, Asus, Lenovo, etc.
Nope, what I said was that we're about as backwards as it gets in terms of using the metric system.
And what's backwards about it?
Since virtually all scientific research has moved to the metric system, perhaps we should jump waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead to the 1980's or so and do the same.
Tell me, when you pick up a bottle of tylenol, how are the doses measured? When you get blood lab work done, what measurements are used for all of the numbers written on the report? When you read an NIH whitepaper, how are all numbers they use measured?
We've been on metric for a lot longer than you think in all of the areas that actually matter.
The metric system has so many advantages that I really should have to detail them here.
Hence it's used when it's needed. The only countries that don't exclusively use the metric system for every single thing that every person does are typically authoritarian governments. In the UK they still use the pint and the stone for every day shit. Unless you want to argue that authoritarianism is the only system that isn't backwards, I'm not sure what your message is. A while back one of those whitehouse petitions was for us to switch to metric; do you happen to recall what the response was?
You may as well argue that we're also backwards for not switching to Esperanto as our national language.
I'm curious how somebody is scamming you by offering you links to pirated movies. I mean what, do these movies come in a .exe file or something? If so then call it malware.
Chandler is the home of the most advanced fab in the world. And yes, Intel still assembles parts in Singapore, among other places, I just listed them as an example.
In fact even some of the cheap crap electronics you buy from China are made from parts here. I live within miles of an Avnet plant where they make things like resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc, that are shipped straight to China for assembly into PCBs that later make their way back here inside of a smartphone or a refrigerator.
And that means what, exactly? Are you trying to say that North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela are somehow more technologically advanced because they measure their water using metric?
Just because the US is the only one of a few who do a particular thing doesn't really say a whole lot, especially because there are many things like that beyond a measurement system that many countries hold unique.
I have received many pay increases but I have never once participated in collective bargaining. In fact if I have it my way, I'll never work for a union in my entire life. Why? Because the one company I do business with that's unionized takes a god damn act of Congress just to get them off of their asses to fix shit that they're contractually obligated to do. No joke, they literally have to set out lawn chairs and umbrellas at a work site before they can begin. Why? Union mandate.
Well let's see: Perhaps the biggest complaint about Uber drivers is the fact that they don't have proper insurance. That, and human drivers are inherently unsafe compared to what automated drivers are likely to be. This only stands to reason that there's less potential liability for the general public.
Why is this a bad thing? Believe it or not, there's plenty of other work out there. Uber was just the natural choice of many who already had a car and knew how to drive, but as one of people from TFA noted, it's not a good way to make a living.
Well that's your perspective, and it's not a terribly accurate one. The entire global technology infrastructure begins and ends with the United States. Oh but you think your Intel chip us made in Singapore because it says made in Singapore on it? Try again: The chip was fabricated in the US (specifically, Chandler Arizona) and was just packaged in Singapore. Intel, AMD, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Facebook.... All US companies.
Android and iOS make up 99% of the global smartphone market.
But not just information technology... Name any health condition you can think of, and chances are the top hospital for that condition resides somewhere in the US. Cancer, pediatrics, cardiology, neurology...
The same is true of other fields as well, such as aerospace.
We're not somehow backwards just because don't use fucking metric. We don't use it mainly because we haven't felt a pressing need for it, much like some countries drive on the left side of the road, which itself comes from feudal times when you would always pass on the left so that you could unsheathe your weapon from your right hand and have it ready for combat in case you passed an adversary.
Pigs and backwoods? Your thinking of somewhere else.
Though if it's open source, it's hard to take it away so the extinguish part may not be possible. It really depends on the license.
The thing I hate about PowerShell is the fact that its command set is so damn enunciated. But on the plus side, it's object oriented so there are often much shorter ways of manipulating text that don't require some gnarly sed, awk, or grep command syntax.
Overall I think I'm starting to prefer PowerShell over bash, but it still has a few inconsistencies that are hard to get over, like how in a script you have to preface a regular command with an ampersand whereas doing the same thing in a regular interactive shell doesn't need one.
I think realistically you never actually got above 90kbit on those.
On the rare occasion that I exceed my monthly data, I use the mobile image blocker addon on firefox and websites are pretty snappy, just no pictures (which in many cases actually improves the usability of the website.) And since music is zero rated, that still works fine.
Yeah I always hear that from verizon customers, especially when they say "it doesn't work over in bumblefuck nowhere" and I'm like "well, I don't ever go there so I'd rather just pay less than half of what you're paying and have it work everywhere I intend on being." That, and where I work I seem to get a better signal than anybody on AT&T or Verizon (and Sprint users get shit slow service no matter where they are.)
It doesn't matter if knox fuse is blown, all that does is void the warranty for knox. If however your USB port breaks (as is typical with even the expensive samsung shit) and you're rooted, they can't deny the claim to fix the USB port.
Nokia phones were solid until they tried to install windows on them, and then they crashed and burned.
DSL has always been slower than cable, the only reason anybody ever thought otherwise is because the telcos spread FUD about cable being a shared medium. What they conveniently left out was the fact that the backbone is shared no matter what media is used, meanwhile DSL being on inferior voice grade copper has to use interleaving to prevent insane amounts of packet loss, which means retransmits that count against your rated speed with accompanying deliberate latency to compensate for jitter, in addition to the fact that they never heard of 802.1x, instead relying on PPP for authentication, which gave you about 15% layer 2 overhead that also counts against your rated speed.
Technically it is only supposed to be plural, and about 50 years ago anybody who read what you were writing likely would have been confused. It's only recently that "their" came to both mean "multiple people, possessive" in addition to "single person, unspecified gender, possessive".
It actually doesn't make any logical sense to write it this way instead of simply using "he" or "his" as the default pronoun, like what many other languages do, and is yet another inconsistency that contributes to the English language being extremely hard to learn as a second language.
But, this has been done all throughout the history of English as there's no central grammar Nazi authority similar to what other major world languages often have, so the language typically changes a lot in seemingly illogical ways.
We've also done a similar thing with "they" and them", i.e turning what's logically supposed to be a third person plural word into a third person singular word.