As somebody who is salaried, I get paid by my job whether I am at jury duty or not. However my only complaint about it is that the juror selection process sucks balls, at least at my local county courthouse. They make you sit and wait in a giant waiting room with nothing to do all day long on the off chance that you *might* get selected, and then all they compensate you with for it is $40.
In my case I didn't even get interviewed: Myself, along with a crowd of others, were just there til the day ended and then they said "thanks, but we don't need anymore" and sent us home. I think we all spent about 10 hours there just being bored. It was like waiting at the DMV, only worse.
Well, at least Firefox has some redeeming qualities, such as addon support. Why other mobile browsers don't support addons is a total mystery to me.
Firefox mobile is kind of crap though, half of the time its renderer flakes and the screen contents don't reflect what's actually on the page (i.e. tapping on a link doesn't do anything because the link isn't actually "there".) Or other weird things happen like you'll scroll down a page and it behaves as if there's nowhere to scroll in any direction, even though you're in the middle of the fucking page.
That, and its text editor for web forms sucks floppy donkey dick.
This is an interesting conspiracy theory, but Apple only accounts for around 1/3rd of all Webkit commits.
Uhhh...To which year are you referring? Perhaps half of the names in your link are listed under groups that don't develop webkit anymore. For example Chromium (which there are a lot of in your list) is on the Blink engine now, and has been for a while now. It doesn't appear that they ever purge this list of older maintainers.
Also, while IPv4 is structured in a way that one can determine the netmasks and determine how it is structured, and easily deduce the number (or at least maximum number) of boxes on the subnet, that's not even possible in IPv6.
No, not really (unless you're talking about the old classful addressing system? Nobody uses that anymore.) The only reliable way to determine who owns what IP ranges is to pull out your BGP looking glass (there are a bunch of them owned by major peering providers; google "bgp looking glass".) The same thing works for IPv6, by the way.
However none of that tells you anything about the internal (RFC1918) addresses they use beyond that. I.e. are they on a 10 net? A 172.16.x net? A 192.168.x net? Only way to know is to either have physical access or some kind of inside informer.
Also I'm not sure why people say you can't NAT with IPv6. Indeed you can, there's even an official RFC for it:
Though as you can read in the RFC, the IETF really frowns upon NAT, they only added it if your internal network MUST have privacy for whatever reason. (That is, you don't want outsiders to be able to uniquely identify the IP address of machines that are highly sensitive from a security perspective, and you certainly don't want any traffic to even be routable to them.) That address space is defined in RFC4193 and is FC00::/7, the "English" term for it being a Unique Local Unicast address.
I have a feeling it will come in demand one day for those trying to avoid e.g. ad trackers, which otherwise (in IPv6) have the ability to uniquely identify your machine without using cookies or anything, even if you e.g. hop on a Starbucks wifi. Why? Because your NIC's MAC address is (in the vast majority of cases) globally unique and shows up in the final/64 of an IPv6 address as part of NDP (the IPv6 version of ARP.)
I don't know about that, have you even looked at the voter representation of Europe lately? In France, 28% of the vote went to an actual Fascist party, whose members (quite a few of them) have a seat in the EU parliament.
Denmark has similar numbers, with 10 other EU countries sitting at about 18%. And that's JUST the hard right parties, it doesn't include the other right leaning parties.
This isn't recent either, it's been going on for at least about 20 years now. Most Europeans don't notice it because they spend a lot of time gawking at US news stories. Though pretty much everybody has their own personal filter bubble, described here:
In this case it's about US liberals and conservatives, but really everybody is this way, I don't care what country you're from.
If you read news about France for example, you might notice how people like to set one another's cars on fire on a somewhat routine basis. For example, one way to help your neighbor might be to set his car on fire so that his house stays warm on a cold winter night. Sometimes you just do it to celebrate, like at New Years this year, 930 cars were set on fire throughout the country, with similar numbers in prior years (2013 it was 1,193 cars.)
Pretty rare here though.
Now, in France they have the impression that everywhere you go, and at any given moment, there are bullets likely flying over your head because everybody has guns.
BS. All the studies that I've read say that when the private/charter schools are required to take *anyone*, not cherry-pick, they do NO BETTER, and frequently worse, than the public schools.
Uh...Ok? This is a government study using some pretty sound statistical methods, and unlike you I actually cited my source. So...your words are rather meaningless.
I base it on being an American and looking at the people around me. This place is full of fundies. Just go to any "non-denominational" Christian megachurch and listen to what they preach about.
So? According to this only 18% of them are young earth creationists:
Secondly, look at who we elect. The GOP controls most state governments plus Congress. One of its more popular candidates is a young-earth Creationist (and many of the others are likely Creationists too).
Just for perspective, in the last election in France, 28% of the vote typically goes to the official Fascist party, (Front National, source) which is quite higher than the confirmed number of young earth creationists in the US. Denmark also pushes similar numbers, and about 10 other European countries sit somewhere around 18%. That's JUST the fascist party, and doesn't include any other right leaning groups, or even the strong Muslim population out there which tends to be even more fundamentalist than US Christians. Seriously, you can repeat your comment with one word substituted and say about Europe "this place is full of fascists" and it would be more accurate.
That said, all of the hoopla you hear about the US being far right compared to Europe isn't exactly true, as in fact, a big portion of Europe is much further right. (And as a side note, in spite of Europeans constantly accusing the US of being the most racist country in the world, they actually have known racist people holding political office, and the US can't even claim that.)
The fact is, you have your own personal bubble (everybody does) where you typically only get exposed to the views that you want to acknowledge, and that includes views that you want to acknowledge in a negative way. It doesn't necessarily mean that represents the overall population.
That said, much like the EU, there are different demographics depending on the region you go to, and in the case of the internet, the websites you visit and your social media circle. Maybe there are megachurches where you live, however there aren't any (or at least, I'm not aware of any) in the particular region I live in, which is pretty well populated.
And you base that on what? Let me guess, Answers in Genesis website? In case you haven't noticed, they aren't primarily in the USA, and furthermore, most well known "bible has all answers" types aren't even in the USA. For example, remember the banana guy? Try New Zealand.
Anyways the continent I suspect would be most opposed to this would be Europe. Why? Well nobody else (besides Africa) has outright bans on known safe genetic modification of plant and livestock.
In fact the USA has been leading the way in this area since the 80's, which began with the creation of humulin, which requires genetically modified e. coli to produce, and has been a huge life saver for diabetics ever since.
If you ever peruse news comments, twitter, whatever, it becomes obvious after a while that it is in fact politically correct and in most cases generally acceptable to attack white males in ways that are considered "racist" against any other group. I myself (a white male) don't feel particularly oppressed (if they give me shit I'll give them shit back,) but that *may* not be the case for all:
We arrest people for DUI because they are driving while impaired. Apparently this woman has no symptoms with a BAC of.40, which is enough to put normal people in a coma (.50 is enough to kill a typical person.) Since she obviously has a very high tolerance for it, and thus isn't impaired, there's no sense in restricting her driving.
Yeah I've had similar bad experiences with HP. The last straw was when I ordered the HP Touchpad on their firesale, (wanted to give it to my dad as a gift) and they fucking canceled the order a few weeks after I made it because they wanted to bundle them with laptops at shitty Best Buy.
Who's been complaining about that? What language would you prefer they use?
When I read developer commentary on modern app development, they always complain about how long it takes to develop apps for Android vs other platforms, the chief reason cited is java.
As for what else they'd use? I don't know, I'm not a developer, but they often say nice things about c#. I know, Microsoft language, but it's both an ECMA and ISO standard (ECMA-334 and ISO/IEC 23270:2006, respectively) so there shouldn't be any lawsuit issues. And besides, Xamarin doesn't seem to have any problems with it. Even though I'm not a developer, I've played with c# (written a few small open source programs which you probably haven't heard of) and it is a pretty decent language that I can tell from my limited experience.
Of course, it's probably bad for other political reasons I'm not aware of, however that doesn't mean there aren't other options.
I don't quite get why Google doesn't address one of the app developer's longest standing complaints, and ditch Java completely. They don't have to do it right away, just next version of Android they should feature a new runtime based on something else, and over oh say 5 years, (when the old apps are probably not terribly relevant) they can hard compile all of the existing apps in the play store that haven't been updated to both ARM and X86 (for e.g. old games that the developer no longer maintains but people still want to play) and then remove the old runtime.
Same reason why that modified Silverado Suburban is called Hummer, even though it in no way resembles the HMMWV from which it got its namesake: Hipsters and wannabe veterans like to pretend they own military grade equipment when it is anything but.
Even if you do consider Windows 10 (or 8 for that matter) don't under ANY circumstances use a Microsoft account to log in. Recall not long ago during Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign, they were promising account privacy and that they'd never look into your account at all. Well sometime during all of that, they broke into a blogger's hotmail account (read: he was their own customer) to identify his leak source for future MS products, right after saying that "oh, well now we really mean it this time."
The problem with a Microsoft account is that your computer now answers to Microsoft's authentication servers, which means they ultimately hold the keys to unlocking your computer. In scenarios such as the above, or a government request, or social engineering, practically anybody could unlock your computer.
As I've said elsewhere, there's no practical benefit to having one (you can still download apps and whatnot without using a Microsoft account to log in to your PC) so why needlessly expose yourself to the above risk?
The Lumia lines have basically just been targeted at the entry, low and mid range smartphone market completely skipping over the high end and premium market. The new 950 sort of addresses the high end market, but makes a few compromises that ends up just short of a premium device.
What killer Windows phone apps ever made any waves? None.
They can't. The API set is so god damn restrictive that there's a lot of shit you just can't even do on the platform that you can on iOS/Android/Win32. Universal App slightly alleviated that problem, but barely.
Slightly off topic, but what's particularly annoying is the WP fan sites periodically name and shame different developers who either don't make an app or make one but don't add all of the same features, which typically results in a small but annoying flash mob on app developer forums about how they're assholes for not supporting WP and how they're going to boycott the developers of what is often a free app. Example, some derp shaming OpenVPN developers even though it's not possible to write an OpenVPN app for WP.
You mean on Windows ? Well, that does not really make sense to me. It is more the way mobile Apps work in our days...
Well look at for example, Adobe, who is making a lot of their tools (including photoshop) run in web browsers. Hell, Microsoft is doing the same thing with Office 365.
For Macs an Linux plenty of Desktop Applications get written
I'm sure they do for things that for some technical reason can't be done in a browser, which is especially true with Linux devs who are always pushing the envelope, but it's not like it used to be where *everything* that came out was a platform native app. Hell, even the pirates write webapps, look at sabnzbd, sickrage, couchpotato, rutorrent, etc.
IMO they'll keep failing at it too. Their current strategy (same applications run on all hardware) is riding on the idea that people will create desktop universal apps.
It's just not going to happen because, first of all, hardly anybody writes desktop applications anymore. If somebody wants to create an app for desktop users these days, it's almost always a web app that you interact with in your web browser.
Second of all, the few desktop apps that people write can't even be done in a universal app due to API restriction. For example, you couldn't create something like OpenVPN Connect for it because universal apps can't tunnel internet traffic (the best they can do is pass instructions to the built-in Windows VPN client, which won't support any VPN protocol that Microsoft hasn't specifically written for it.) So if they do write a desktop app, it's probably not going to run on anything except Windows for PCs, thus not being "universal".
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As somebody who is salaried, I get paid by my job whether I am at jury duty or not. However my only complaint about it is that the juror selection process sucks balls, at least at my local county courthouse. They make you sit and wait in a giant waiting room with nothing to do all day long on the off chance that you *might* get selected, and then all they compensate you with for it is $40.
In my case I didn't even get interviewed: Myself, along with a crowd of others, were just there til the day ended and then they said "thanks, but we don't need anymore" and sent us home. I think we all spent about 10 hours there just being bored. It was like waiting at the DMV, only worse.
Well, at least Firefox has some redeeming qualities, such as addon support. Why other mobile browsers don't support addons is a total mystery to me.
Firefox mobile is kind of crap though, half of the time its renderer flakes and the screen contents don't reflect what's actually on the page (i.e. tapping on a link doesn't do anything because the link isn't actually "there".) Or other weird things happen like you'll scroll down a page and it behaves as if there's nowhere to scroll in any direction, even though you're in the middle of the fucking page.
That, and its text editor for web forms sucks floppy donkey dick.
But again, the addons...
This is an interesting conspiracy theory, but Apple only accounts for around 1/3rd of all Webkit commits.
Uhhh...To which year are you referring? Perhaps half of the names in your link are listed under groups that don't develop webkit anymore. For example Chromium (which there are a lot of in your list) is on the Blink engine now, and has been for a while now. It doesn't appear that they ever purge this list of older maintainers.
Also, while IPv4 is structured in a way that one can determine the netmasks and determine how it is structured, and easily deduce the number (or at least maximum number) of boxes on the subnet, that's not even possible in IPv6.
No, not really (unless you're talking about the old classful addressing system? Nobody uses that anymore.) The only reliable way to determine who owns what IP ranges is to pull out your BGP looking glass (there are a bunch of them owned by major peering providers; google "bgp looking glass".) The same thing works for IPv6, by the way.
However none of that tells you anything about the internal (RFC1918) addresses they use beyond that. I.e. are they on a 10 net? A 172.16.x net? A 192.168.x net? Only way to know is to either have physical access or some kind of inside informer.
Also I'm not sure why people say you can't NAT with IPv6. Indeed you can, there's even an official RFC for it:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
Though as you can read in the RFC, the IETF really frowns upon NAT, they only added it if your internal network MUST have privacy for whatever reason. (That is, you don't want outsiders to be able to uniquely identify the IP address of machines that are highly sensitive from a security perspective, and you certainly don't want any traffic to even be routable to them.) That address space is defined in RFC4193 and is FC00::/7, the "English" term for it being a Unique Local Unicast address.
I have a feeling it will come in demand one day for those trying to avoid e.g. ad trackers, which otherwise (in IPv6) have the ability to uniquely identify your machine without using cookies or anything, even if you e.g. hop on a Starbucks wifi. Why? Because your NIC's MAC address is (in the vast majority of cases) globally unique and shows up in the final /64 of an IPv6 address as part of NDP (the IPv6 version of ARP.)
I don't know about that, have you even looked at the voter representation of Europe lately? In France, 28% of the vote went to an actual Fascist party, whose members (quite a few of them) have a seat in the EU parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Denmark has similar numbers, with 10 other EU countries sitting at about 18%. And that's JUST the hard right parties, it doesn't include the other right leaning parties.
This isn't recent either, it's been going on for at least about 20 years now. Most Europeans don't notice it because they spend a lot of time gawking at US news stories. Though pretty much everybody has their own personal filter bubble, described here:
http://www.journalism.org/2014...
In this case it's about US liberals and conservatives, but really everybody is this way, I don't care what country you're from.
If you read news about France for example, you might notice how people like to set one another's cars on fire on a somewhat routine basis. For example, one way to help your neighbor might be to set his car on fire so that his house stays warm on a cold winter night. Sometimes you just do it to celebrate, like at New Years this year, 930 cars were set on fire throughout the country, with similar numbers in prior years (2013 it was 1,193 cars.)
Pretty rare here though.
Now, in France they have the impression that everywhere you go, and at any given moment, there are bullets likely flying over your head because everybody has guns.
BS. All the studies that I've read say that when the private/charter schools are required to take *anyone*, not cherry-pick, they do NO BETTER, and frequently worse, than the public schools.
Uh...Ok? This is a government study using some pretty sound statistical methods, and unlike you I actually cited my source. So...your words are rather meaningless.
I base it on being an American and looking at the people around me. This place is full of fundies. Just go to any "non-denominational" Christian megachurch and listen to what they preach about.
So? According to this only 18% of them are young earth creationists:
http://ncse.com/rncse/30/3/ame...
Secondly, look at who we elect. The GOP controls most state governments plus Congress. One of its more popular candidates is a young-earth Creationist (and many of the others are likely Creationists too).
Just for perspective, in the last election in France, 28% of the vote typically goes to the official Fascist party, (Front National, source) which is quite higher than the confirmed number of young earth creationists in the US. Denmark also pushes similar numbers, and about 10 other European countries sit somewhere around 18%. That's JUST the fascist party, and doesn't include any other right leaning groups, or even the strong Muslim population out there which tends to be even more fundamentalist than US Christians. Seriously, you can repeat your comment with one word substituted and say about Europe "this place is full of fascists" and it would be more accurate.
That said, all of the hoopla you hear about the US being far right compared to Europe isn't exactly true, as in fact, a big portion of Europe is much further right. (And as a side note, in spite of Europeans constantly accusing the US of being the most racist country in the world, they actually have known racist people holding political office, and the US can't even claim that.)
The fact is, you have your own personal bubble (everybody does) where you typically only get exposed to the views that you want to acknowledge, and that includes views that you want to acknowledge in a negative way. It doesn't necessarily mean that represents the overall population.
That said, much like the EU, there are different demographics depending on the region you go to, and in the case of the internet, the websites you visit and your social media circle. Maybe there are megachurches where you live, however there aren't any (or at least, I'm not aware of any) in the particular region I live in, which is pretty well populated.
And you base that on what? Let me guess, Answers in Genesis website? In case you haven't noticed, they aren't primarily in the USA, and furthermore, most well known "bible has all answers" types aren't even in the USA. For example, remember the banana guy? Try New Zealand.
Anyways the continent I suspect would be most opposed to this would be Europe. Why? Well nobody else (besides Africa) has outright bans on known safe genetic modification of plant and livestock.
In fact the USA has been leading the way in this area since the 80's, which began with the creation of humulin, which requires genetically modified e. coli to produce, and has been a huge life saver for diabetics ever since.
And how useful is private education?
Here's a government report on the topic:
https://nces.ed.gov/nationsrep...
TL;DR: In some subjects, the private schools "significantly" outperformed public schools, but overall they're only slightly better.
There is actually one particular group that is being "come for", which are white males. A rather blatant example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you ever peruse news comments, twitter, whatever, it becomes obvious after a while that it is in fact politically correct and in most cases generally acceptable to attack white males in ways that are considered "racist" against any other group. I myself (a white male) don't feel particularly oppressed (if they give me shit I'll give them shit back,) but that *may* not be the case for all:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...
And this is exactly why I hate the terms "left" and "right" when describing politics.
We arrest people for DUI because they are driving while impaired. Apparently this woman has no symptoms with a BAC of .40, which is enough to put normal people in a coma (.50 is enough to kill a typical person.) Since she obviously has a very high tolerance for it, and thus isn't impaired, there's no sense in restricting her driving.
Yeah I've had similar bad experiences with HP. The last straw was when I ordered the HP Touchpad on their firesale, (wanted to give it to my dad as a gift) and they fucking canceled the order a few weeks after I made it because they wanted to bundle them with laptops at shitty Best Buy.
Who's been complaining about that? What language would you prefer they use?
When I read developer commentary on modern app development, they always complain about how long it takes to develop apps for Android vs other platforms, the chief reason cited is java.
As for what else they'd use? I don't know, I'm not a developer, but they often say nice things about c#. I know, Microsoft language, but it's both an ECMA and ISO standard (ECMA-334 and ISO/IEC 23270:2006, respectively) so there shouldn't be any lawsuit issues. And besides, Xamarin doesn't seem to have any problems with it. Even though I'm not a developer, I've played with c# (written a few small open source programs which you probably haven't heard of) and it is a pretty decent language that I can tell from my limited experience.
Of course, it's probably bad for other political reasons I'm not aware of, however that doesn't mean there aren't other options.
I thought George Lucas was just Stephen Spielberg's puppet, as documented here:
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/...
My theory is Hans Reiser.
I don't quite get why Google doesn't address one of the app developer's longest standing complaints, and ditch Java completely. They don't have to do it right away, just next version of Android they should feature a new runtime based on something else, and over oh say 5 years, (when the old apps are probably not terribly relevant) they can hard compile all of the existing apps in the play store that haven't been updated to both ARM and X86 (for e.g. old games that the developer no longer maintains but people still want to play) and then remove the old runtime.
Same reason why that modified Silverado Suburban is called Hummer, even though it in no way resembles the HMMWV from which it got its namesake: Hipsters and wannabe veterans like to pretend they own military grade equipment when it is anything but.
Even if you do consider Windows 10 (or 8 for that matter) don't under ANY circumstances use a Microsoft account to log in. Recall not long ago during Microsoft's "Scroogled" campaign, they were promising account privacy and that they'd never look into your account at all. Well sometime during all of that, they broke into a blogger's hotmail account (read: he was their own customer) to identify his leak source for future MS products, right after saying that "oh, well now we really mean it this time."
The problem with a Microsoft account is that your computer now answers to Microsoft's authentication servers, which means they ultimately hold the keys to unlocking your computer. In scenarios such as the above, or a government request, or social engineering, practically anybody could unlock your computer.
As I've said elsewhere, there's no practical benefit to having one (you can still download apps and whatnot without using a Microsoft account to log in to your PC) so why needlessly expose yourself to the above risk?
The Lumia lines have basically just been targeted at the entry, low and mid range smartphone market completely skipping over the high end and premium market. The new 950 sort of addresses the high end market, but makes a few compromises that ends up just short of a premium device.
Isn't that what the 950 XL is for?
What killer Windows phone apps ever made any waves? None.
They can't. The API set is so god damn restrictive that there's a lot of shit you just can't even do on the platform that you can on iOS/Android/Win32. Universal App slightly alleviated that problem, but barely.
Slightly off topic, but what's particularly annoying is the WP fan sites periodically name and shame different developers who either don't make an app or make one but don't add all of the same features, which typically results in a small but annoying flash mob on app developer forums about how they're assholes for not supporting WP and how they're going to boycott the developers of what is often a free app. Example, some derp shaming OpenVPN developers even though it's not possible to write an OpenVPN app for WP.
Blah, meant to say don't even put any Nokia branding on it.
Surface Phone::Windows 10 For Phones = Nexus Phone::Android
Isn't that what a Lumia already is? It is made by Microsoft after all, in fact they don't even put any branding on it.
You mean on Windows ? Well, that does not really make sense to me. ...
It is more the way mobile Apps work in our days
Well look at for example, Adobe, who is making a lot of their tools (including photoshop) run in web browsers. Hell, Microsoft is doing the same thing with Office 365.
For Macs an Linux plenty of Desktop Applications get written
I'm sure they do for things that for some technical reason can't be done in a browser, which is especially true with Linux devs who are always pushing the envelope, but it's not like it used to be where *everything* that came out was a platform native app. Hell, even the pirates write webapps, look at sabnzbd, sickrage, couchpotato, rutorrent, etc.
IMO they'll keep failing at it too. Their current strategy (same applications run on all hardware) is riding on the idea that people will create desktop universal apps.
It's just not going to happen because, first of all, hardly anybody writes desktop applications anymore. If somebody wants to create an app for desktop users these days, it's almost always a web app that you interact with in your web browser.
Second of all, the few desktop apps that people write can't even be done in a universal app due to API restriction. For example, you couldn't create something like OpenVPN Connect for it because universal apps can't tunnel internet traffic (the best they can do is pass instructions to the built-in Windows VPN client, which won't support any VPN protocol that Microsoft hasn't specifically written for it.) So if they do write a desktop app, it's probably not going to run on anything except Windows for PCs, thus not being "universal".