So basically your BRILLIANT plan is to just eat the cost and buy expensive electricity. Because it MIGHT make it cheaper... eventually. Because power need will NEVER go up, solar panes and wind turbines will NEVER wear out way faster than they'll ever make their money back, and all the massive subsidies for solar and wind power will ALWAYS be there.
This is exactly the problem with you fanatics. You always talk about what it MIGHT be eventually, yet you can't be bothered to EDUCATE YOURSELF in how it works NOW, so you didn't know that it DOESN'T work. Not for a national energy policy. Not now, now with what the tech we have, and not ANY time soon.
Honestly, this is just getting embarrassing for you green fanatics. You don't seen to understand at all how the grid works AT ALL.
The fact that you can just buy your power from a so called renewable resource power company doesn't mean that you're not still pulling power from the same coal fire power plants that are the BACK BONE of the US power infrastructure. They're not 'bottling up' that electrics and shipping it to the Google. You're just buying more expensive power so you can feel like you're doing something.
Well you say that, but from where I sit all of my Apple friends are actually getting very frustrated with Apple, especially given the new MacBook Pro and it's gimmick TouchBar. Hell... Apple straight up REMOVED features from the entry level MacBook, then added them back in an over priced 'Pro' model.
Digital Trends work worked out a while back that Apple makes about $288 in profit for each iPhone sold. The average Android device... well it varies very widely. But According to 'Pocketnow' it works out to only about $25 of actual profit per device.
Honestly... Apple is really REALLY screwing it's customer base by selling them last years hardware in every new phone and just pocketing the profits. And for some reason people STILL flock to them.
Not to be too much of a snarky prick, but that statement really is kind of a giant 'well no duh'. By it's very nature DRM is designed to allow software makers to control and limit how their products are used in a way to suits only the software maker's themselves. For good, of for bad. And to assume that software companies will always look out for the rights of their customers is a laughable proposition, at best.
Just confirmed this on my own system. This telemetry is all a part 'GeForce Experience'. People should just uninstall that crap anyway as there's really nothing of value in that product anyway.
Basically just don't use 'GeForce Experience'. Honestly unless you're just one of these weird-os that can't live without social medial integration of your games then you can avoid all of this by not installing Experience. And honestly, why would any one?
Of course then this will only probably work until they make it mandatory, as these companies always try to do.
Well that's the funny thing about the second amendment isn't it. It's not up for debate. And it especially isn't open for debate when people wander in and stat spewing some idiotic platitude about society and gun access.
And besides that, do you even remotely know how easy it is to build a gun out of just commodity pipe? In fact Canada and Australia is having kind of a problem with home made copies of the old MAC-11 9mm SMG. Gun access isn't the problem. It's uncontrolled urban crime. And that's not going to change until people stop trying to blame the 100 million otherwise legal gun owners for the acts street thugs in democrat controlled cities.
Too many people see guns are nothing more than a dangerous toy for redneck and right wing a-holes. That's far the reality of it, even if recreation is a part of gun ownership for many. Although I'll not here to try and proselytize the 2A or anything. My point is, is that a firearm is often a safety device as a properly handled weapon can sometimes be the only thing that keeps you alive.
And with that in mind we can also note that as a safety device the most important measure of that device is that it must be reliable as possible. Which is why all modern guns are still all mechanical I natural. Well mechanically and sometimes kind of pneumatic, if you count modern gas operated auto loading firearms. But ultimately there just isn't any technology out there that can make a gun that's both acceptably reliable enough to be deadly to your attacker and make sure that only you the one firing the weapon that you own.
The TL:DR version of this story was that someone trolled 'The Daily Beast' pretty hard by creating a lot of fake racist Pepe's under a pseudonym of 'Jared Taylor Swift'. To quote the article the Daily Beast ended up publishing was 'more or less a complete troll job,”
Good god, look at the number on this post already. Everyone's getting voted down as if it's an organized response... which it probably is! And hell I've read the reports of her paid trolls from multiple sources now.
We've seen a number of stories involving TSA agents being arrested for any number of crimes. Everything from assault, to child pornography, to murder. This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Which is not to say that all TSA agents ARE the scum that they tend to be made out to be. But it's a worrying program.
In terms of this kind of activities detailed in this story... well hell. I know from talking with a former TSA employee that this sort of thing is VERY common. I've even meet a former TSA agent that not only admits doing this at an airport in California. But he did it aallll the time. And he wasn't the only one doing it.
Not a member of the Canadian Forces nor am I even a resident of that nation. But I've several friends. The issue here is that most of the equipment that the Canadian military has is completely outdated and work out. Mostly because there is no political will to purchase replacement equipment. In times past the military has had serious issues keeping tired on their vehicles because everything is so old that they can't get replacement tires for them. They've slowly had to cannibalize their small fleet of jet fighters over the years because they can't get the government to authorize replacement air craft. Hell... in 2012 the crew of the HMCS Victoria made history for making their sub marine successfully fire. That's right... the sub is in such poor shape they've never been able to get it to WORK.
Of course I do realize that the entire reason for this new weapons system is to at least get better rifles into the hands of the soldiers up there. I just don't think it'll ever get through the politicized purchasing process.
No thanks. I'm not willing trade even more privacy by paying Amazon $200 to listen in to everything I do just in case I might want it to display something on the screen for me.
Going into space is a dangerous endeavor. And there was bound to be looses. Hell they'll be MORE as time does by. Probably a LOT more. Either we can (collectively) give up now or learn from the loses and continue on.
As said this could be an interesting device. But I'm not really sure what this will allow anyone to do. Sure it's all well and good that you can collect data with it, but you'll have to be able to interpret this data into something that's useful. And that's not even touching the fact that this thing would be fragile as hell without a very well design and weather proofed case.
But as with any project like this I comment the designers for thinking up a new and interesting device. And who knows. Maybe the next generation of device might be useful.
That's pretty much the first though I had. I'm not willing to automatically call shenanigans as I just don't have enough of a grounding in how current flows around the ocean. But at first glance it does sounds kind of suspect.
So what you're saying here is that it's all well and good to 'teach your kids a lesson' by dropping them into a war zone and exposing them to potential harm. Be it from a stray rocket, random explosion, or imagery that may give them a LIFE TIME OF PTSD... all because some guy got all bhutt hurt that his kids like Call of Duty?
Makes me think more of the 'Smart Gun' from 'Aliens' more than anything. But then again make mostly because I'd rather have the smart gun more than an TrackingPoint.
Why thank you captain sarcasm. I REALIZED that the current generation of systems don't directly tie into engine management systems. However continually stick more and more crap into a system leaves for the potentiality of more and more problems. Hell, one day someone might actually make a virus that gets in there and screws with the in car systems.
Hell here's possibility: these systems become standardized. So instead of hardware hackers tinkering with the devices from one maker they all only have to learn how to mess around with the one most common system or OS. Well by general numbers a certain amount of those guys are going to be full on black hat and there's no telling what kind of 'fun' they'll have then. Personally I wonder what would happen if someone made a hack that locks the in car stereo at maximum. Or... hell... could someone make the display suddenly show a high rate flashing image that can trigger a seizure? That would cause all kinds of havoc.
I FREELY admit that these are all really out there concepts. However I still contend that this idea could lead to them actually becoming a reality. Especially if automakers end up being lazy with their code.
Well I personally take a rather... Fight Club look at it. The part at the beginning where Jack is talking to the lady on a flight about his job as a recall coordinator.
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So basically your BRILLIANT plan is to just eat the cost and buy expensive electricity. Because it MIGHT make it cheaper... eventually. Because power need will NEVER go up, solar panes and wind turbines will NEVER wear out way faster than they'll ever make their money back, and all the massive subsidies for solar and wind power will ALWAYS be there.
This is exactly the problem with you fanatics. You always talk about what it MIGHT be eventually, yet you can't be bothered to EDUCATE YOURSELF in how it works NOW, so you didn't know that it DOESN'T work. Not for a national energy policy. Not now, now with what the tech we have, and not ANY time soon.
Honestly, this is just getting embarrassing for you green fanatics. You don't seen to understand at all how the grid works AT ALL.
The fact that you can just buy your power from a so called renewable resource power company doesn't mean that you're not still pulling power from the same coal fire power plants that are the BACK BONE of the US power infrastructure. They're not 'bottling up' that electrics and shipping it to the Google. You're just buying more expensive power so you can feel like you're doing something.
That's not MS fault. That's just how patent law works. :/
Well you say that, but from where I sit all of my Apple friends are actually getting very frustrated with Apple, especially given the new MacBook Pro and it's gimmick TouchBar. Hell... Apple straight up REMOVED features from the entry level MacBook, then added them back in an over priced 'Pro' model.
Digital Trends work worked out a while back that Apple makes about $288 in profit for each iPhone sold. The average Android device... well it varies very widely. But According to 'Pocketnow' it works out to only about $25 of actual profit per device.
Honestly... Apple is really REALLY screwing it's customer base by selling them last years hardware in every new phone and just pocketing the profits. And for some reason people STILL flock to them.
Not to be too much of a snarky prick, but that statement really is kind of a giant 'well no duh'. By it's very nature DRM is designed to allow software makers to control and limit how their products are used in a way to suits only the software maker's themselves. For good, of for bad. And to assume that software companies will always look out for the rights of their customers is a laughable proposition, at best.
Just uninstall 'GeForce Experience'. The tracking is all inside of it.
Just confirmed this on my own system. This telemetry is all a part 'GeForce Experience'. People should just uninstall that crap anyway as there's really nothing of value in that product anyway.
Basically just don't use 'GeForce Experience'. Honestly unless you're just one of these weird-os that can't live without social medial integration of your games then you can avoid all of this by not installing Experience. And honestly, why would any one?
Of course then this will only probably work until they make it mandatory, as these companies always try to do.
Well that's the funny thing about the second amendment isn't it. It's not up for debate. And it especially isn't open for debate when people wander in and stat spewing some idiotic platitude about society and gun access.
And besides that, do you even remotely know how easy it is to build a gun out of just commodity pipe? In fact Canada and Australia is having kind of a problem with home made copies of the old MAC-11 9mm SMG. Gun access isn't the problem. It's uncontrolled urban crime. And that's not going to change until people stop trying to blame the 100 million otherwise legal gun owners for the acts street thugs in democrat controlled cities.
Too many people see guns are nothing more than a dangerous toy for redneck and right wing a-holes. That's far the reality of it, even if recreation is a part of gun ownership for many. Although I'll not here to try and proselytize the 2A or anything. My point is, is that a firearm is often a safety device as a properly handled weapon can sometimes be the only thing that keeps you alive.
And with that in mind we can also note that as a safety device the most important measure of that device is that it must be reliable as possible. Which is why all modern guns are still all mechanical I natural. Well mechanically and sometimes kind of pneumatic, if you count modern gas operated auto loading firearms. But ultimately there just isn't any technology out there that can make a gun that's both acceptably reliable enough to be deadly to your attacker and make sure that only you the one firing the weapon that you own.
The TL:DR version of this story was that someone trolled 'The Daily Beast' pretty hard by creating a lot of fake racist Pepe's under a pseudonym of 'Jared Taylor Swift'. To quote the article the Daily Beast ended up publishing was 'more or less a complete troll job,”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/regression-to-the-meme-1473960707
Good god, look at the number on this post already. Everyone's getting voted down as if it's an organized response... which it probably is! And hell I've read the reports of her paid trolls from multiple sources now.
... then I'd like to be king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat. There's more chance of that happening than getting any real coin out of pirates.
We've seen a number of stories involving TSA agents being arrested for any number of crimes. Everything from assault, to child pornography, to murder. This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Which is not to say that all TSA agents ARE the scum that they tend to be made out to be. But it's a worrying program.
In terms of this kind of activities detailed in this story... well hell. I know from talking with a former TSA employee that this sort of thing is VERY common. I've even meet a former TSA agent that not only admits doing this at an airport in California. But he did it aallll the time. And he wasn't the only one doing it.
Not a member of the Canadian Forces nor am I even a resident of that nation. But I've several friends. The issue here is that most of the equipment that the Canadian military has is completely outdated and work out. Mostly because there is no political will to purchase replacement equipment. In times past the military has had serious issues keeping tired on their vehicles because everything is so old that they can't get replacement tires for them. They've slowly had to cannibalize their small fleet of jet fighters over the years because they can't get the government to authorize replacement air craft. Hell... in 2012 the crew of the HMCS Victoria made history for making their sub marine successfully fire. That's right... the sub is in such poor shape they've never been able to get it to WORK.
Of course I do realize that the entire reason for this new weapons system is to at least get better rifles into the hands of the soldiers up there. I just don't think it'll ever get through the politicized purchasing process.
No thanks. I'm not willing trade even more privacy by paying Amazon $200 to listen in to everything I do just in case I might want it to display something on the screen for me.
Going into space is a dangerous endeavor. And there was bound to be looses. Hell they'll be MORE as time does by. Probably a LOT more. Either we can (collectively) give up now or learn from the loses and continue on.
As said this could be an interesting device. But I'm not really sure what this will allow anyone to do. Sure it's all well and good that you can collect data with it, but you'll have to be able to interpret this data into something that's useful. And that's not even touching the fact that this thing would be fragile as hell without a very well design and weather proofed case.
But as with any project like this I comment the designers for thinking up a new and interesting device. And who knows. Maybe the next generation of device might be useful.
That's pretty much the first though I had. I'm not willing to automatically call shenanigans as I just don't have enough of a grounding in how current flows around the ocean. But at first glance it does sounds kind of suspect.
So what you're saying here is that it's all well and good to 'teach your kids a lesson' by dropping them into a war zone and exposing them to potential harm. Be it from a stray rocket, random explosion, or imagery that may give them a LIFE TIME OF PTSD... all because some guy got all bhutt hurt that his kids like Call of Duty?
Makes me think more of the 'Smart Gun' from 'Aliens' more than anything. But then again make mostly because I'd rather have the smart gun more than an TrackingPoint.
Why thank you captain sarcasm. I REALIZED that the current generation of systems don't directly tie into engine management systems. However continually stick more and more crap into a system leaves for the potentiality of more and more problems. Hell, one day someone might actually make a virus that gets in there and screws with the in car systems.
Hell here's possibility: these systems become standardized. So instead of hardware hackers tinkering with the devices from one maker they all only have to learn how to mess around with the one most common system or OS. Well by general numbers a certain amount of those guys are going to be full on black hat and there's no telling what kind of 'fun' they'll have then. Personally I wonder what would happen if someone made a hack that locks the in car stereo at maximum. Or... hell... could someone make the display suddenly show a high rate flashing image that can trigger a seizure? That would cause all kinds of havoc.
I FREELY admit that these are all really out there concepts. However I still contend that this idea could lead to them actually becoming a reality. Especially if automakers end up being lazy with their code.
Well I personally take a rather... Fight Club look at it. The part at the beginning where Jack is talking to the lady on a flight about his job as a recall coordinator.
Well I personally don't think it needs to be THAT simple. But trying to wire everything into an advanced computer probably isn't the answer either.