Also there has been a costly policing situation outside the embassy as a result of his hiding away in there for the past seven years. That is British taxpayers' money, it's understandable that there will be a penalty for this whole situation.
Yeah, the gov't should penalize Assange for all the money the gov't wasted on this witch-hunt, because the gov't wasting tax payer's money was totally within Assange's control. That's justice!
None of what you said provides any explanation for why Bill Clinton received half a million dollars from Russia for "giving a speech" or why Russia donated $2.35 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
Nice hand waving though (these are not the droids you are looking for).
That's not strictly true... I've compiled and run plenty of command line executable apps on Android no problemo. It's when you want to make full fledged apps that draw graphics on the screen and are launchable from the Android home screen that you'll be compelled to compile as a library and use a dalvik launcher.
Even then, it's not strictly required, although Google would like you to believe it to be. "YAFT" (yet another framebuffer terminal) seems to do everything including drawing on the screen without any Java.
Someone has to eat it, else it would just keep growing and taking over more and more of the Earth until there was nothing but that plant species taking up all the space on this planet.
What you non-gardens haven't figured out is that plants actually ENCOURAGE bugs and animals to eat them. Yes, it's true. Take any plant and stress it out, like say, transplant it somewhere else. Stick it right next to a bunch of similar plants that aren't stressed at all. Slugs and bugs will come and devour the stressed plant while leaving the healthy plants right next to it alone.
Plants seem to be programmed to emit signals (I always assumed it was chemical scents, but these papers indicate sounds are possible too) that attract particular creatures as the plant decides it needs them. If a plant thinks it's dying, it sends out signals to herbivores to come take it down faster. Why? From the plants' perspective, the quicker a dead plant gets consumed and composted, the quicker the locked up resources will become available for other plants (which are likely it's offspring or siblings) to make use of.
Another example: I grew a bunch of strawberry plants indoors where there are no bugs. When the strawberry plants started flowering, an occasional ant found its way indoors to visit the strawberry flowers. The ants weren't interested in anything else in my house that I could see, they just came in to visit the strawberry plants' flowers.
FYI, it's not just Samsung devices. My Sprint Slate 8" tablets don't let me completely delete Facebook either. I've removed it as far as possible and then disabled it, but even still, somehow sometimes Facebook manages to re-enable and update itself later on from time to time. Very irritating!
Yes, plants use a little O2 at night, but that does NOT balance out with the O2 they liberated from CO2 during the day.
You're forgetting that as a plant grows, a large portion of the carbon taken from the air is locked up in its biomass. You won't get the balance in O2 consumption you seek until the plant's biomass has been fully decomposed away. And technically speaking, decomposition is not something that the plants do, that's the job of animals, insects, bacteria, and fungi that are eating the plants.
Plants don't use up oxygen. They re-generate oxygen from carbon dioxide... And they typically don't use nitrogen from the air, although some plants (peas, peanuts, etc) symbiotically live with bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air.
Some plants HAVE evolved ways of improving CO2 capture. It's just that the vast majority of the food crops people desire to eat are still using the old mechanism. Do some research on C3 vs. C4 and CAM photosythesis. Corn is one of the few food crops that uses the newer C4 photosynthesis engine. Corn's productivity is likely one reason why pretty much all of our cheap junk food today contains corn in some form or another.
Android by itself is quite good. Java blows, but Android did the best job they could with it. What I really enjoy is that I can port all my apps in Qt to run on Android without much fuss. It's really great fun being able to run my apps on such a tiny, portable piece of tech.
What I hate is all the vendor added crapware and hardware lockdown anti-features that third parties forced upon the users. We need more hackers breaking this stuff down so we can install tighter, cleaner, more up-to-date builds of Android on to our devices.
My Dad was happily using Windows 8, was forcefully upgraded to Windows 10 by accident. Hated Windows 10, downgraded back to Windows 8, then kept getting warning messages popping up from time to time about some DLL that got lost in all the shuffle. Didn't seem to do anything useful (app store DLL?) but annoying. Fed up with all that, he finally bite the bullet and switched to Ubuntu 18.04 this fall. Thanks Microsoft!
The genius of Amazon wasn't that they were an online version of a mail order catalog, it was the fact that they would ship your item out extremely quickly compared to when you ordered it.
Maybe if you got prime, but for those without prime, Amazon sucks biggly for shipment time. Amazon purposely DELAYS shipment of items from time to time, probably in an effort to get you to sign up for their prime subscription.
For me, the only draw of Amazon is rock bottom prices and wide product range. The online customer reviews are fairly useful too. With Amazon charging sales tax and intentionally delaying my shipments, I tend to prefer buying from eBay whenever possible over ordering from Amazon, although I'll happily research an item on Amazon for the reviews.
I never made any reference to Chrome, who gives a f*** about Chrome? I was talking about Chromium. Chromium runs every bit as good as Chrome as far as I can tell, and actually, Chromium is better than Chrome, since third party developers can tweak and optimize it. For example, there is a Snapdragon optimized version of Chromium that outperforms Chrome (on Android). And there is an ad blocking/tracker filtering browser based on Chromium called "Brave" that I find very useful too.
Last time I checked, Google provides the source code to their web browser under a permissive open source license, which enables EVERYBODY to make use of their work under any OS you like. Contrast that with Microsoft and their proprietary closed source Edge browser that only runs on their Windows 10 keylogger OS.
Google is hands down the company we should hand the web over to, if we have to hand it over to any company at all. Firefox is fine and dandy, but it still has poorer performance compared to Chromium if you ask me. Both browsers are open source, so why beat yourself up using the slower one?
If YouTube really tweaked their HTML slightly to push users away from adopting Microsoft's crappy Edge browser, I say fantastic!! NOBODY (outside of Microsoft) wants to see us back in the bad old days of Internet Explorer predominance and being forced into using Windows as a result.
FLAC is nice, but it can't fix problems with the original source material being poorly produced. The loudness wars have resulted in really poor recordings nowadays. The dynamic range has been compressed and normalized to make everything sound as a loud as possible, because hey, louder will help the music sell better, right? And once you've got everything uniformly loud, why bother making sure musical nuances and details are kept intact since nobody is going to be able to hear them anyway? It doesn't matter if you switch from lossy data compression to lossless FLAC -- you can't fix bad source material.
So, I've pretty much given up on my FLAC collection... I've moved on to collecting MIDI files instead. Back in the old days, MIDI files sounded pretty lame, but nowadays with the massive processing power, storage, and RAM we have available on modern computing devices, I can use HUGE multi-gigabyte instrument sample sets that sound fantastic. Sure, there's no vocals, but then again I don't have to listen to Nicki Minaj talking about truffle butter and other repulsive lyrics.
So true regarding web bloat. The web needs a serious reboot. It wouldn't be that hard to write a new web browser that dumps all the bloat. The problem is getting all the web sites people want to visit to adopt this lightweight browser's reduced feature set. Even if you could do that, feature creep will eventually bring you right back to where we are today because people always want more...
Nope, the "popular" stuff is force fed to us, making it defacto popular rather than actually being of high quality. Today's recording industry sucks. It's created by a small handful of people who have developed a winning marketing strategy that maintains their monopoly, not a pool of creative, unique and talented musicians. You've been jedi-mind tricked into believing that they are the end-all, be-all of music.
Yes, there does exist plenty of amateur musicians that suck worse than the recording industry. But open your mind and do a little digging and weeding work of your own. You can find plenty of amateur musicians that rival and even far exceed the recording industry's best. YouTube has helped a lot with this -- once you break into a community of actual talent, word of mouth/referral links will help you expand your circle and find further high quality artists with less effort than the initial push you made.
Bzzt. I just signed up multiple accounts with different email addresses for one mailing address. So far, no notice at all that there are multiple email addresses monitoring the one single mailing address. So, your suggestion that the best way to prevent this is to be the first to sign up is bunk. This is a very flawed system, even the "online verification" questions were super easy to guess. Thanks a lot to USPS for making everyone's (ID thieves) lives easier...
I wouldn't write them off so flippantly. China has been making huge strides on quality, precision, etc. I remember buying Made in China stuff when I was a kid and being subsequently hugely disappointed in the results pretty much every time. Nowadays, things I buy from China on eBay very often exceed my expectations.
In a way, I'm kind of rooting for the Chinese to grab all the trade secrets they can so that they can produce higher quality stuff at amazingly low prices. The USA is so broken with backhanded gov't regulations, insane corporate management, bizarre public education, and other societal ills, etc that we may never be able to drive the prices down like they can.
Of course, the danger is that they will grab all those secrets and then close the door on trading with us, preventing us from benefitting from their economic efficiencies while they enjoy all the improvements our trade secrets provided.
The power company can put up a big solar farm and send you electricity so you don't have to put up solar panels of your own. But what about all the transmission line losses moving that energy from their array to your home?
Where I live (Arizona), the biggest expense for our home is keeping place cool. If you have solar panels on your roof, they absorb sunlight that would have previously dumped heat into the home. Just the act of putting panels on the roof redirects unwanted energy to the grid, preventing unwanted heat from entering the home even before running the A/C. You can not get that benefit from using the power company's solar array.
Frankly, I don't see how RIAA is going to survive in the future, barring backhanded tactics. I don't listen to the radio anymore and I don't intentionally listen to RIAA produced music at all. Instead, I jump on YouTube and seek out amateur musicians that actually sound quite good and listen to them. Sometimes just searching for a particularly good sounding piano make/model turns up some fantastic amateur musicians. Only middle man here is Google. Thank goodness Google hasn't gotten all censorshippy against amateur musicians yet.
Nah, it's far simplier than that: Grow your own food and you may not have to buy much at retail anymore. Right now, we've got piles of tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, peas, green beans, carrots, bell peppers, beets, corn, apples, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, rhubarb, basil, etc all waiting outside to pick 24/7. No waiting in lines, no fighting traffic, no third parties mishandling it, etc. Even people stuck in an apartment can grow some lettuce and herbs indoors hydroponically, thanks to all the advances made by potheads doing the same for their favorite 'herb.'
I used to enjoy ES File Explorer back in the Android 4.0 days, but today I can't stand all the constant updates with useless bloatware, adverts, and anti-features. Finally just uninstalled it for good.
Google themselves made third party file explorers pretty much worthless on unrooted Android, since apps do not have access to write to the SD Card anymore. It wasn't too big a deal when I could use official vendor supplied methods to root my device, but now vendors have locked things down so tight that I'd have to resort to using some Chinese rootkit tool (Kingroot) just to get my file explorer app working right. Thanks, but no thanks.
Surprisingly, my cheap LG G Pad F 7.0 Android tablet has a pressure sensitive screen, and it's way more than just three levels of pressure being sensed. While very few, if any, apps actually distinguish between pressure levels and do anything different, I still much prefer the pressure sensitive screen on this tablet over the non-pressure sensitive Sprint Slate 8 tablet. It just works better: fewer false positives on clicks I didn't intend, and fewer false releases when I'm trying to swipe through a long document or menu.
But there is one app that REALLY benefits from the pressure sensitive screen: my virtual piano app. Having a pressure sensitive screen means that I can hit my piano keys at different pressures and achieve appropriate piano key velocities for more expressive playing. SOOO much better than a non-pressure sensitive screen.
Where are the security improvements? When is the PSP being removed (AMD's 'management engine')? Instead they want to talk about cores and cache, as if I care about that over the more pressing issues of hardware security holes.
Not buying another PC until such blights are corrected.
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Also there has been a costly policing situation outside the embassy as a result of his hiding away in there for the past seven years. That is British taxpayers' money, it's understandable that there will be a penalty for this whole situation.
Yeah, the gov't should penalize Assange for all the money the gov't wasted on this witch-hunt, because the gov't wasting tax payer's money was totally within Assange's control. That's justice!
It's hard to believe that they thought they could get away with leaving the fiber two inches under the ground.
IKR? Why didn't they just stick with their fiber in sewers plan?
None of what you said provides any explanation for why Bill Clinton received half a million dollars from Russia for "giving a speech" or why Russia donated $2.35 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
Nice hand waving though (these are not the droids you are looking for).
That's not strictly true... I've compiled and run plenty of command line executable apps on Android no problemo. It's when you want to make full fledged apps that draw graphics on the screen and are launchable from the Android home screen that you'll be compelled to compile as a library and use a dalvik launcher.
Even then, it's not strictly required, although Google would like you to believe it to be. "YAFT" (yet another framebuffer terminal) seems to do everything including drawing on the screen without any Java.
Someone has to eat it, else it would just keep growing and taking over more and more of the Earth until there was nothing but that plant species taking up all the space on this planet.
What you non-gardens haven't figured out is that plants actually ENCOURAGE bugs and animals to eat them. Yes, it's true. Take any plant and stress it out, like say, transplant it somewhere else. Stick it right next to a bunch of similar plants that aren't stressed at all. Slugs and bugs will come and devour the stressed plant while leaving the healthy plants right next to it alone.
Plants seem to be programmed to emit signals (I always assumed it was chemical scents, but these papers indicate sounds are possible too) that attract particular creatures as the plant decides it needs them. If a plant thinks it's dying, it sends out signals to herbivores to come take it down faster. Why? From the plants' perspective, the quicker a dead plant gets consumed and composted, the quicker the locked up resources will become available for other plants (which are likely it's offspring or siblings) to make use of.
Another example: I grew a bunch of strawberry plants indoors where there are no bugs. When the strawberry plants started flowering, an occasional ant found its way indoors to visit the strawberry flowers. The ants weren't interested in anything else in my house that I could see, they just came in to visit the strawberry plants' flowers.
FYI, it's not just Samsung devices. My Sprint Slate 8" tablets don't let me completely delete Facebook either. I've removed it as far as possible and then disabled it, but even still, somehow sometimes Facebook manages to re-enable and update itself later on from time to time. Very irritating!
Yes, plants use a little O2 at night, but that does NOT balance out with the O2 they liberated from CO2 during the day.
You're forgetting that as a plant grows, a large portion of the carbon taken from the air is locked up in its biomass. You won't get the balance in O2 consumption you seek until the plant's biomass has been fully decomposed away. And technically speaking, decomposition is not something that the plants do, that's the job of animals, insects, bacteria, and fungi that are eating the plants.
Plants don't use up oxygen. They re-generate oxygen from carbon dioxide... And they typically don't use nitrogen from the air, although some plants (peas, peanuts, etc) symbiotically live with bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air.
Some plants HAVE evolved ways of improving CO2 capture. It's just that the vast majority of the food crops people desire to eat are still using the old mechanism. Do some research on C3 vs. C4 and CAM photosythesis. Corn is one of the few food crops that uses the newer C4 photosynthesis engine. Corn's productivity is likely one reason why pretty much all of our cheap junk food today contains corn in some form or another.
Android by itself is quite good. Java blows, but Android did the best job they could with it. What I really enjoy is that I can port all my apps in Qt to run on Android without much fuss. It's really great fun being able to run my apps on such a tiny, portable piece of tech.
What I hate is all the vendor added crapware and hardware lockdown anti-features that third parties forced upon the users. We need more hackers breaking this stuff down so we can install tighter, cleaner, more up-to-date builds of Android on to our devices.
My Dad was happily using Windows 8, was forcefully upgraded to Windows 10 by accident. Hated Windows 10, downgraded back to Windows 8, then kept getting warning messages popping up from time to time about some DLL that got lost in all the shuffle. Didn't seem to do anything useful (app store DLL?) but annoying. Fed up with all that, he finally bite the bullet and switched to Ubuntu 18.04 this fall. Thanks Microsoft!
The genius of Amazon wasn't that they were an online version of a mail order catalog, it was the fact that they would ship your item out extremely quickly compared to when you ordered it.
Maybe if you got prime, but for those without prime, Amazon sucks biggly for shipment time. Amazon purposely DELAYS shipment of items from time to time, probably in an effort to get you to sign up for their prime subscription.
For me, the only draw of Amazon is rock bottom prices and wide product range. The online customer reviews are fairly useful too. With Amazon charging sales tax and intentionally delaying my shipments, I tend to prefer buying from eBay whenever possible over ordering from Amazon, although I'll happily research an item on Amazon for the reviews.
I never made any reference to Chrome, who gives a f*** about Chrome? I was talking about Chromium. Chromium runs every bit as good as Chrome as far as I can tell, and actually, Chromium is better than Chrome, since third party developers can tweak and optimize it. For example, there is a Snapdragon optimized version of Chromium that outperforms Chrome (on Android). And there is an ad blocking/tracker filtering browser based on Chromium called "Brave" that I find very useful too.
Last time I checked, Google provides the source code to their web browser under a permissive open source license, which enables EVERYBODY to make use of their work under any OS you like. Contrast that with Microsoft and their proprietary closed source Edge browser that only runs on their Windows 10 keylogger OS.
Google is hands down the company we should hand the web over to, if we have to hand it over to any company at all. Firefox is fine and dandy, but it still has poorer performance compared to Chromium if you ask me. Both browsers are open source, so why beat yourself up using the slower one?
If YouTube really tweaked their HTML slightly to push users away from adopting Microsoft's crappy Edge browser, I say fantastic!! NOBODY (outside of Microsoft) wants to see us back in the bad old days of Internet Explorer predominance and being forced into using Windows as a result.
FLAC is nice, but it can't fix problems with the original source material being poorly produced. The loudness wars have resulted in really poor recordings nowadays. The dynamic range has been compressed and normalized to make everything sound as a loud as possible, because hey, louder will help the music sell better, right? And once you've got everything uniformly loud, why bother making sure musical nuances and details are kept intact since nobody is going to be able to hear them anyway? It doesn't matter if you switch from lossy data compression to lossless FLAC -- you can't fix bad source material.
So, I've pretty much given up on my FLAC collection... I've moved on to collecting MIDI files instead. Back in the old days, MIDI files sounded pretty lame, but nowadays with the massive processing power, storage, and RAM we have available on modern computing devices, I can use HUGE multi-gigabyte instrument sample sets that sound fantastic. Sure, there's no vocals, but then again I don't have to listen to Nicki Minaj talking about truffle butter and other repulsive lyrics.
So true regarding web bloat. The web needs a serious reboot. It wouldn't be that hard to write a new web browser that dumps all the bloat. The problem is getting all the web sites people want to visit to adopt this lightweight browser's reduced feature set. Even if you could do that, feature creep will eventually bring you right back to where we are today because people always want more...
Nope, the "popular" stuff is force fed to us, making it defacto popular rather than actually being of high quality. Today's recording industry sucks. It's created by a small handful of people who have developed a winning marketing strategy that maintains their monopoly, not a pool of creative, unique and talented musicians. You've been jedi-mind tricked into believing that they are the end-all, be-all of music.
Yes, there does exist plenty of amateur musicians that suck worse than the recording industry. But open your mind and do a little digging and weeding work of your own. You can find plenty of amateur musicians that rival and even far exceed the recording industry's best. YouTube has helped a lot with this -- once you break into a community of actual talent, word of mouth/referral links will help you expand your circle and find further high quality artists with less effort than the initial push you made.
Bzzt. I just signed up multiple accounts with different email addresses for one mailing address. So far, no notice at all that there are multiple email addresses monitoring the one single mailing address. So, your suggestion that the best way to prevent this is to be the first to sign up is bunk. This is a very flawed system, even the "online verification" questions were super easy to guess. Thanks a lot to USPS for making everyone's (ID thieves) lives easier...
I wouldn't write them off so flippantly. China has been making huge strides on quality, precision, etc. I remember buying Made in China stuff when I was a kid and being subsequently hugely disappointed in the results pretty much every time. Nowadays, things I buy from China on eBay very often exceed my expectations.
In a way, I'm kind of rooting for the Chinese to grab all the trade secrets they can so that they can produce higher quality stuff at amazingly low prices. The USA is so broken with backhanded gov't regulations, insane corporate management, bizarre public education, and other societal ills, etc that we may never be able to drive the prices down like they can.
Of course, the danger is that they will grab all those secrets and then close the door on trading with us, preventing us from benefitting from their economic efficiencies while they enjoy all the improvements our trade secrets provided.
The power company can put up a big solar farm and send you electricity so you don't have to put up solar panels of your own. But what about all the transmission line losses moving that energy from their array to your home?
Where I live (Arizona), the biggest expense for our home is keeping place cool. If you have solar panels on your roof, they absorb sunlight that would have previously dumped heat into the home. Just the act of putting panels on the roof redirects unwanted energy to the grid, preventing unwanted heat from entering the home even before running the A/C. You can not get that benefit from using the power company's solar array.
Frankly, I don't see how RIAA is going to survive in the future, barring backhanded tactics. I don't listen to the radio anymore and I don't intentionally listen to RIAA produced music at all. Instead, I jump on YouTube and seek out amateur musicians that actually sound quite good and listen to them. Sometimes just searching for a particularly good sounding piano make/model turns up some fantastic amateur musicians. Only middle man here is Google. Thank goodness Google hasn't gotten all censorshippy against amateur musicians yet.
Nah, it's far simplier than that: Grow your own food and you may not have to buy much at retail anymore. Right now, we've got piles of tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, peas, green beans, carrots, bell peppers, beets, corn, apples, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, rhubarb, basil, etc all waiting outside to pick 24/7. No waiting in lines, no fighting traffic, no third parties mishandling it, etc. Even people stuck in an apartment can grow some lettuce and herbs indoors hydroponically, thanks to all the advances made by potheads doing the same for their favorite 'herb.'
I used to enjoy ES File Explorer back in the Android 4.0 days, but today I can't stand all the constant updates with useless bloatware, adverts, and anti-features. Finally just uninstalled it for good.
Google themselves made third party file explorers pretty much worthless on unrooted Android, since apps do not have access to write to the SD Card anymore. It wasn't too big a deal when I could use official vendor supplied methods to root my device, but now vendors have locked things down so tight that I'd have to resort to using some Chinese rootkit tool (Kingroot) just to get my file explorer app working right. Thanks, but no thanks.
Surprisingly, my cheap LG G Pad F 7.0 Android tablet has a pressure sensitive screen, and it's way more than just three levels of pressure being sensed. While very few, if any, apps actually distinguish between pressure levels and do anything different, I still much prefer the pressure sensitive screen on this tablet over the non-pressure sensitive Sprint Slate 8 tablet. It just works better: fewer false positives on clicks I didn't intend, and fewer false releases when I'm trying to swipe through a long document or menu.
But there is one app that REALLY benefits from the pressure sensitive screen: my virtual piano app. Having a pressure sensitive screen means that I can hit my piano keys at different pressures and achieve appropriate piano key velocities for more expressive playing. SOOO much better than a non-pressure sensitive screen.
Where are the security improvements? When is the PSP being removed (AMD's 'management engine')? Instead they want to talk about cores and cache, as if I care about that over the more pressing issues of hardware security holes.
Not buying another PC until such blights are corrected.