I'm pretty sure I eventually invent time-travel, and spend the rest of my life carefully guiding myself to the discovery faster and cheaper than I had originally done. In fact, I bet soon I'll find a way to stop myself from writing this slashdot post.
I grew up in the trailer parks of Issaquah/Bellevue/Redmond. When I was in gradeschool we toured the MS campus in Redmond. They told us we were the future, not, over the past decade, I've found myself priced out of my hometown for miles in all directions..... These implants are bringing all the stupid-ass laws with them up from Cali too. I'm not even allowed to smoke in my own car anymore.
A few things that have happened over the past 5 years...
Tolling bridges to Seattle. Tripling of bus-fare. Sin-tax on booze a smokes. Sin tax on carbonated beverages. My rent has increased 40% Malls and shopping centers growing like weeds. Legalized recreational pot-smoking.
I'm hoping for another bubble busting so I can watch all of the hodey-hodey-ho Seattle tech workers forced back into that old job at McStarbucks so they can finally reap what they've sown.
Or maybe tightening of the foreign work visa programs so some local boys and girls can join in the fun. Seriously, Bellevue, and Redmond have become so predominately Indian it's hard to believe MS is even giving lip service to the rules. I have a few friends who have refused to move away (it really is a stunningly beautiful place to call home) and each and every one of them is contracting at various tech companies, constantly hunting for the next contract, and barley scraping by. These guys have degrees, portfolios, and experience. It makes no difference.
Seriously, even if I suddenly start pulling 1m+/year, I'll still not be able to afford a home across from the trailerpark I grew up in.
I really love the pacific NW, but I'm certain I'll soon be forced to leave, but hey, thanks for all the spiffy tech jobs.
I get so much garbage and adverts and timewasters in my free mailboxes that I almost never read any of it. They work great for notifications and stuff though. I like my gmail for all other features that come with it, and seamless integration into all of the neat free-for-usage-data googley communication things. My gmail address is one of the few extremely-short-no extra characters addresses, and I'm kinda proud of that, but for official business I keep theboss@mydomain.com clean and tidy for official communications. Maintaining them both allows me the flexibility to participate in online discussions like this one outside of official capacity.
In my experience, doing business over email has become a requirement, and presenting @gmail/@yahoo/@aol/@hotmail just screams tech lazy at best, and fly-by-night at worst. These free addresses are expected at the top of entry level job applications, and grade school PTA contact lists. When negotiating large sums of money, or working confidential deals, a real professional has (or is provided) his/her own uniqueID@legitimatedomain.tld.
Free email is not a dealbreaker, but I will go straight to the phone instead. I will also not send proprietary files, nor trade secrets, to freemium addresses.
The simple solution to OP would be to spin up a hosting account and grant yourself a better email address, then setup filters+forwarding for important stuff on the address with issues, and stop giving it out. It's way easier to do than you may think, and a half decent hosting company will have you checking your new email account within minutes of DNS propagation.
Sneakernet your drugs and pick up your whores at the tittie bar like everybody else. Buy your firearms privately, and your stolen creds directly from the supplier.
Sometimes, the old ways are best.
Maybe some entrepreneur should just setup a matchmaking site, complete with user reviews and ratings. Community vetting is perfectly legal, and you can charge a small fee per connection. Like a dating site for hustlers, pushers and pimps.....
hustlerspushersandpimps.com is available.......
User: 420man Interests: Cannibus Price:$$ Location: Las Vegas, NV. Contact: *Click here to create an account* User rating: *****
You're doing it wrong, or spreading FUD on purpose.
Connect through a decent privacy focused VPN and all your ISP or anyone between you and your VPN provider sees is an encrypted connection. Yer ship be sailin under bleedin fog cover, matey.
Use not-chrome to browse with. Seriously, Chrome is fast, but it's designed by the company that makes is bread by harvesting your data and selling it. Think about it. Arrr! Leaky ships sink, me buckos!
A decent private site wont get raided, as it's a small community of users on an invite only basis. Tough to find, hard to get into, and worth it 1000X over. If it does get raided then you can rest easy cuz you use a VPN and a unique alias when doing less than legal activities.. right? The crew dont take just any ol wet behind the ears landlubber sir, your gonna have to commit to me crew, and me crew has to believe it.
TPB is a big free-for-all, and useful for obscure files you can't find anywhere else. The things listed on the top 100 should be avoided at all costs, they are the perfect place for a snitch to join a swarm and harvest IPs. If using the TPB without a VPN, set your upload to nothing. It's bad form to leech like that, but it's also bad form to act as an easy honeypot. It is what it is. Guarded treasure!
Bit torrent over TOR is the best huh? How about you keep yer bleedin sailin advise to yerself if that the best ye got there, scallywag.
And GOT? Are they going to send 100k threatening letters a week? No chance. Not even the crown itself can field that many ships friend, but you can bet yer jack they be tryin ta make ye believe they can.
"Super-rich dude with vested interest says $1000+ for a fragile piece of spy(hard)ware is worth it."
Yeah. OK Woz. Sure. Say bud, think I can borrow a million bucks from you?
The wireless industry has you all so bamboozled that you are actually discussing the merits of a piece of tech that is designed to fail as fast as possible while locking you into their brand of shit via the proprietary app ecosystem.
I suppose when they collectively realized they had you all brainwashed into thinking their products are something you need, they went ahead and started working on making you think it's worth the crazy money they charge too.
We're talking about disposable tech you re-buy bi-annually for $1000+ that helps you forget how to use your brain, while promoting things like mental laziness, memory loss, social media fuckery, and commercial/domestic spying. Oh, and is made to be as fragile as fucking possible, just in case you happen to have $1000+ before the battery goes shit-house.
I'm not even going to start on the social problems of tech addiction. Just take away a random teenagers smartphone and observe.
Back when phones went for $300 and the internet was only on computers I'd say it was worth it, but even then as a convenient luxury. That was years ago now. Computers are supposed to get cheaper.
I suppose when they seize everything, you can no longer grease the hand that feeds you. OR Maybe he was a loudmouth asshole in a place where loudmouth assholes are often "found dead"?
Ether way, I imagine Tai prison is a special kind of hell.
Alright AC, wife's asleep, kids are gone, and I'm drinkin'. I just beat beat streetfighter III on 1 credit, HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
Aha, so in essence you're saying it's designed to fail from wearing out the connectors. Gotcha. Stupid
It's designed to teach. It's as if you unhappy with the plastic beach shovel because you can't dig the moat around your yard with it.
but I guess that's one way to sell more of them.
Don't be silly, 10M+ Sold. We buy more because we keep showing the kids how to build things.
"Kids having to pull the juice" has to be about the stupidest justification for not putting in a power switch ever. As if kids couldn't learn by pushing a button, designed for that purpose rather than pulling a cord. *scoff*
KID CANNOT PUSH THE BUTTON IF YOU DISABLE HIS HAND! j/k, you are obviously not a parent, and as such, are not expected to understand how incredibly stupid that statement reads. No worries buddy, I'm sure there is some angry old bitch out there looking for you too.
Secondly, "it's for education" cop-out is really getting old.
Tough shit buddy, we're going to keep teaching the next generation, like it or not. God-damn curmudgeon. There's a kid on yer lawn.
Thirdly, yeah the adapter bitch it's weak. It's so weak that it takes some rather dedicated mental filtering to browse the forums to not see all the people who run into problems because of flaky adapters or cables.
My 10 year old built a power-switch out of tin-foil, maybe he can help you out? Those stupid forums are for children anyway, right?
Finally, people who do neat and useful stuff with the PI does it despite its design, not thanks to it.
That's the whole idea you crotchety old fucker, you make to see if you can. Any fool can spin a LAMP server out of a pile of old dead computers, but it takes a special kind of maker to make dad a wifi coffee machine that remembers when and how I want it. Even if mom hates the look of it.
The contention never was that it's useless or can't be made to work - just like VHS was for many years fit for what it was used for, or the 640k - but that the margins are way too thin and the reasons given for cutting corners to the extent they are makes no sense neither from a cost nor from a usability point of view. In fact they are cut in a way which not only artificially limits its capabilities but as the proverbial cherry on top, creates a whole host of different problems
I agree with this entire statement. You and I can hangout after all. I knew you would come around, lets build another time machine.
for no good reasons at all.
It's like your not absorbing the things you've been reading. Maybe it's all of that shit between your ears?
In plain English, the trade offs are really not worth the insignificant or even imaginary cost savings.
These are not trade-offs clownshoe, nor are they done to save costs, but rather to force the user to adapt the board to his/her own needs. If it did have a powers-witch I bet you would be crying about how you always have to turn this damn thing on yourself.
Do yourself a favor. Meet a young person. Teach them the difference between this shit board, that shit board, and whatever you would use instead. Show them how to measure the voltage drop over a sub-par powercable. Explain to them exactly why it's better to spin up hardware with a powerswitch. Extol the virtues of the all holy barrel connector, even though all the young person knows is mini/micro USB and those godforsaken apple chargers. Show them how to write 640k worth of python or c or whatever you want. Lead that young person through your process of concept-design-build..... or you know.... don't.
It really does look like you are missing the point.
The whole idea behind the pie is to make not just cheap hardware, but really cheap hardware that the young are not worried about smoking. Every corner has been cut, not the just the expensive ones. It's designed from the start as an educational development board.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future.
We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun. We provide outreach and education to help more people access computing and digital making. We develop free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers, and train educators who can guide other people to learn.
You WANT the kid to have to pull the juice for every reset, and you want him to eventually come to the same point you made, and you want him to wire a momentary into the reset pin, or a slide to the +/-. Hell, you want the kid to make his own from popsicle sticks and tinfoil. It's cheap enough to let them fail on the basics.THAT'S the point you're missing. It says "Educational electronics kit" on the box for that very reason. GONE are the days of "DONT TOUCH THAT" that you and I grew up in.
If your building out a headless web-server for a production environment, the pi just aint for you. If, on the other hand, your teaching the local punk kid how to setup an auto nutrient system for his little underground grow op, the pi hits a sweet spot that nothing else can even come close enough to touch, and if nothing else comes of it, you might get a discount 3 months from now.... best case? You've just changed a life. Power is measured with more than multimeters and clock cycles.
If you ARE in a production environment, and need to setup a wireless or ethernet bridge to get the bosses thingimajigger talking on yet another network, it takes all of 10 minutes to spin up a bridge with the bosses cell charger.
And then there's Retropie....
Nintendo sure noticed that one... And then there's Adafruit tuts...
Maybe take a look, doubly so if you're a parent. Good shit there.... And then there's Thingiverse....
3D printing and dev boards go together like a mouse and keyboard; you can use each alone, but soooo much better together. Did you know you can build a rubberducky with a pi-zero? Security is fun.
Like I said above... the list goes on and on and on.... I love the little bugger, not for what it can do, but for what it's user can do LATER.
And for the record, I power an overclocked Pie 3 off the USB on my Samsung plasma pushing 4 player Bomberman, and Mariocart64- every weekend. Your adapter bitch is weak.
It's pretty great when a platform comes along and snares giant subsets of people across multiple disciplines.
The Pi has earned its place in pop culture, industry, creativity, criminal and business enterprise, education... the list goes on and on.
I've personally introduced a handful of very young people to the pi as both a robotics, and IoT platform, and watched them sprout from typical minecraft zombie, to budding bot-and-automation-expert in training.
And that price point? Pretty Amazing.
Kudos to the Raspberry Pie Foundation, they really are changing the world.
I just wish shipping and availability was not such an issue, but it's fine 80% of the time, and suppliers always make it right.... with time.
I get these calls all the time at work. I try to play along as long as possible. Sometimes I gush at them.
"I know right?, It's those damn kids and the all the porno... you can help me right? my computer says something about TOR and paying in bitcoin? Whats a TOR?"
"Sure! I'm so glad you called back! my computer says no boot device?"
"Bob! I've been trying to call you guys back! my case number is 34643245, I made my payment, but my computer is still broken, do I need to pay more?"
"I'm not sure, this is the accountants computer, can you still help me?"
"I pressed the start button and the screen went black....now there's a penguin in the corner....lots of white words? Says kernel panic? Who's Colonel Panic?"
"my screen says The quieter you are, the more you are able to hear"
"I don't have a desktop buddy, this here's a LAPTOP!"
I get a kick out of it, all those soul crushing years of call center tech support work come bubbling to the surface. "Where's your empathy statement buddy?"
Lawyers like to law, teach them to law better, and they are going to law all over the place.
Wrestlers like to wrestle, teach them to wrestle better, and will wrestle all over the place.
Brewers brew......
Soldiers soldier....
Politicians politic........and hackers hack.
And for the record, if unplugging the network cable after a secure handshake allows you to force a target to do something specifically opposite to what it was designed to do, such as dispense free candy, then it very much is a hardware exploit. Even if you left you Guy Fawkes mask at home.
This should have been a team building exorcise, and it would have been, had the suspects not been contractors, or it was up (down?) a few floors.
Hell, I bet they only really noticed when the machine stopped sending pictures and audio to c&c on the 13th floor.
One may also find those very same amazing direction giving people tend to not notice when the light turns green, as well as experience drastic drops in cognitive performance after long periods with no access to electricity.
You give something away for free and you quickly create the exception that it should be free.
I am confident that you are surrounded by counter examples to your argument as you read this. Look around and think about it for a minute, how much of what you are using everyday is offered gratis, but manages to support a business while remaining free for you?
So a better way to run his business would be to do what exactly?
He finds his work being traded illicitly online, and you would have him tangle with paying attorneys fees, and screwing around with rights management with all of the evils that go along with it? Maybe Sue his player-base? You must be a IP lawyer.
His work was already out there, he just put a smiley on it, and reminded people that he's not some mega-corp. He even mentions his own piracy and is giving back.
And now he's got the free publicity that is the software piracy counter culture on one of the biggest site in the scene, as well as all of us discussing on unrelated sites.
If you think this wont drive sales, I would like to point out the the grateful dead's policy on bootlegs in the 60s and 70s, Metallica's monumental rise to fame in the 80s via hand traded dubs and demos, the entire PC gaming shareware market in the 90s, and even the modern trend of free for personal use $$ for production fremium models of today.
Being a pirate, he knows first hand how silly it is to have to deal with sign ins, keys, and validation for a legit purchased software while watching the pirates skate fully functional by nothing more than a doubleclicked installer.
IP of all kinds is OFTEN given away for free, people are still buying it, and I doubt he came to this decision lightly.
I can personally guarantee that this dev got at least one sale out of this that he would not have had before.
While I've been arguing this very thing for years, I think this is such a hard thing to measure...I imagine smartphones in your pockets and such has about the same impact on general mental tasks as an opened window, or the school band practicing in the next room, or proximity to a personal attraction, etc...
Did the people running the study have phones in THEIR pockets?
Should have had the participants remember a few new phone numbers on the spot, or drive someplace new with just good directions; or write them for somebody else, or answer a few general knowledge questions from memory, or one of the many other basic things that smartphones do so well as to have become a crutch.
I would love to see more advanced studies on this topic.
The line has been clearly drawn since the first caveman traded his rock for a sharpened stick.
"If you trade for MY sharpened stick, you can harden it at my big fire for free, for the life of your stick."
If you wanna bundle value added services on your sharpened stick, and trade for my two rocks instead of just my one, just remember, you don't control my stick anymore, it's MINE. If I can come up with a way to take advantage of your value added stick services for the 2 smaller sticks I made by "hacking" my stick, well, you should have thought out your value added plans a little more than you did.
You don't get to tell me what I can and cannot do with my stick(s) unless you give me back my rocks, and if I'm happier with my sticks than I was with my rocks? Tough shit for you. You also don't get to control what fire I choose to use to harden my sticks, or who can re-sharpen them. Even if I've used your fire a few times before.
If you slot your stick for just the perfect rock, I'm still allowed to put my own rock on the top, even if your rock is just the best rock out there for sticks. You don't have to sell me your rocks, but you absolutely do not get to dictate what rocks I choose to use.
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I'm pretty sure I eventually invent time-travel, and spend the rest of my life carefully guiding myself to the discovery faster and cheaper than I had originally done. In fact, I bet soon I'll find a way to stop myself from writing this slashdot post.
If YOU made a time machine, would YOU tell anybody?
DIDN'T THINK SO.
+1 invisible modpoint. Say this again, LOUDER!
Smart people solving problems on both ends of the tool.
I grew up in the trailer parks of Issaquah/Bellevue/Redmond. When I was in gradeschool we toured the MS campus in Redmond. They told us we were the future, not, over the past decade, I've found myself priced out of my hometown for miles in all directions..... These implants are bringing all the stupid-ass laws with them up from Cali too. I'm not even allowed to smoke in my own car anymore.
A few things that have happened over the past 5 years...
Tolling bridges to Seattle.
Tripling of bus-fare.
Sin-tax on booze a smokes.
Sin tax on carbonated beverages.
My rent has increased 40%
Malls and shopping centers growing like weeds.
Legalized recreational pot-smoking.
I'm hoping for another bubble busting so I can watch all of the hodey-hodey-ho Seattle tech workers forced back into that old job at McStarbucks so they can finally reap what they've sown.
Or maybe tightening of the foreign work visa programs so some local boys and girls can join in the fun. Seriously, Bellevue, and Redmond have become so predominately Indian it's hard to believe MS is even giving lip service to the rules. I have a few friends who have refused to move away (it really is a stunningly beautiful place to call home) and each and every one of them is contracting at various tech companies, constantly hunting for the next contract, and barley scraping by. These guys have degrees, portfolios, and experience. It makes no difference.
Seriously, even if I suddenly start pulling 1m+/year, I'll still not be able to afford a home across from the trailerpark I grew up in.
I really love the pacific NW, but I'm certain I'll soon be forced to leave, but hey, thanks for all the spiffy tech jobs.
I get so much garbage and adverts and timewasters in my free mailboxes that I almost never read any of it. They work great for notifications and stuff though. I like my gmail for all other features that come with it, and seamless integration into all of the neat free-for-usage-data googley communication things. My gmail address is one of the few extremely-short-no extra characters addresses, and I'm kinda proud of that, but for official business I keep theboss@mydomain.com clean and tidy for official communications. Maintaining them both allows me the flexibility to participate in online discussions like this one outside of official capacity.
In my experience, doing business over email has become a requirement, and presenting @gmail/@yahoo/@aol/@hotmail just screams tech lazy at best, and fly-by-night at worst. These free addresses are expected at the top of entry level job applications, and grade school PTA contact lists. When negotiating large sums of money, or working confidential deals, a real professional has (or is provided) his/her own uniqueID@legitimatedomain.tld.
Free email is not a dealbreaker, but I will go straight to the phone instead. I will also not send proprietary files, nor trade secrets, to freemium addresses.
The simple solution to OP would be to spin up a hosting account and grant yourself a better email address, then setup filters+forwarding for important stuff on the address with issues, and stop giving it out. It's way easier to do than you may think, and a half decent hosting company will have you checking your new email account within minutes of DNS propagation.
Alleged AlphaBay Owner Used Email Address For Both AlphaBay and LinkedIn Profile.
Sneakernet your drugs and pick up your whores at the tittie bar like everybody else. Buy your firearms privately, and your stolen creds directly from the supplier.
Sometimes, the old ways are best.
Maybe some entrepreneur should just setup a matchmaking site, complete with user reviews and ratings. Community vetting is perfectly legal, and you can charge a small fee per connection. Like a dating site for hustlers, pushers and pimps.....
hustlerspushersandpimps.com is available.......
User: 420man
Interests: Cannibus
Price:$$
Location: Las Vegas, NV.
Contact: *Click here to create an account*
User rating: *****
Reviews:
You're doing it wrong, or spreading FUD on purpose.
Connect through a decent privacy focused VPN and all your ISP or anyone between you and your VPN provider sees is an encrypted connection. Yer ship be sailin under bleedin fog cover, matey.
Use not-chrome to browse with. Seriously, Chrome is fast, but it's designed by the company that makes is bread by harvesting your data and selling it. Think about it. Arrr! Leaky ships sink, me buckos!
A decent private site wont get raided, as it's a small community of users on an invite only basis. Tough to find, hard to get into, and worth it 1000X over.
If it does get raided then you can rest easy cuz you use a VPN and a unique alias when doing less than legal activities.. right? The crew dont take just any ol wet behind the ears landlubber sir, your gonna have to commit to me crew, and me crew has to believe it.
TPB is a big free-for-all, and useful for obscure files you can't find anywhere else. The things listed on the top 100 should be avoided at all costs, they are the perfect place for a snitch to join a swarm and harvest IPs. If using the TPB without a VPN, set your upload to nothing. It's bad form to leech like that, but it's also bad form to act as an easy honeypot. It is what it is. Guarded treasure!
Bit torrent over TOR is the best huh? How about you keep yer bleedin sailin advise to yerself if that the best ye got there, scallywag.
And GOT? Are they going to send 100k threatening letters a week? No chance. Not even the crown itself can field that many ships friend, but you can bet yer jack they be tryin ta make ye believe they can.
Are you kidding me?
"Super-rich dude with vested interest says $1000+ for a fragile piece of spy(hard)ware is worth it."
Yeah. OK Woz. Sure. Say bud, think I can borrow a million bucks from you?
The wireless industry has you all so bamboozled that you are actually discussing the merits of a piece of tech that is designed to fail as fast as possible while locking you into their brand of shit via the proprietary app ecosystem.
I suppose when they collectively realized they had you all brainwashed into thinking their products are something you need, they went ahead and started working on making you think it's worth the crazy money they charge too.
We're talking about disposable tech you re-buy bi-annually for $1000+ that helps you forget how to use your brain, while promoting things like mental laziness, memory loss, social media fuckery, and commercial/domestic spying. Oh, and is made to be as fragile as fucking possible, just in case you happen to have $1000+ before the battery goes shit-house.
I'm not even going to start on the social problems of tech addiction. Just take away a random teenagers smartphone and observe.
Back when phones went for $300 and the internet was only on computers I'd say it was worth it, but even then as a convenient luxury. That was years ago now. Computers are supposed to get cheaper.
Nice.
I suppose when they seize everything, you can no longer grease the hand that feeds you.
OR
Maybe he was a loudmouth asshole in a place where loudmouth assholes are often "found dead"?
Ether way, I imagine Tai prison is a special kind of hell.
I think I remember seeing this very tool in the "NSA catalog" type thing from the big ES leak.
Just more proof; if it's on a computer, its insecure.
Plan:
1. Graduate
2. Invent time machine.
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As if our broken education system needs anymore reach into the lives of our young people.
Alright AC, wife's asleep, kids are gone, and I'm drinkin'. I just beat beat streetfighter III on 1 credit, HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
Aha, so in essence you're saying it's designed to fail from wearing out the connectors. Gotcha. Stupid
It's designed to teach. It's as if you unhappy with the plastic beach shovel because you can't dig the moat around your yard with it.
but I guess that's one way to sell more of them.
Don't be silly, 10M+ Sold. We buy more because we keep showing the kids how to build things.
"Kids having to pull the juice" has to be about the stupidest justification for not putting in a power switch ever. As if kids couldn't learn by pushing a button, designed for that purpose rather than pulling a cord. *scoff*
KID CANNOT PUSH THE BUTTON IF YOU DISABLE HIS HAND! j/k, you are obviously not a parent, and as such, are not expected to understand how incredibly stupid that statement reads. No worries buddy, I'm sure there is some angry old bitch out there looking for you too.
Secondly, "it's for education" cop-out is really getting old.
Tough shit buddy, we're going to keep teaching the next generation, like it or not. God-damn curmudgeon. There's a kid on yer lawn.
Thirdly, yeah the adapter bitch it's weak. It's so weak that it takes some rather dedicated mental filtering to browse the forums to not see all the people who run into problems because of flaky adapters or cables.
My 10 year old built a power-switch out of tin-foil, maybe he can help you out? Those stupid forums are for children anyway, right?
Finally, people who do neat and useful stuff with the PI does it despite its design, not thanks to it.
That's the whole idea you crotchety old fucker, you make to see if you can. Any fool can spin a LAMP server out of a pile of old dead computers, but it takes a special kind of maker to make dad a wifi coffee machine that remembers when and how I want it. Even if mom hates the look of it.
The contention never was that it's useless or can't be made to work - just like VHS was for many years fit for what it was used for, or the 640k - but that the margins are way too thin and the reasons given for cutting corners to the extent they are makes no sense neither from a cost nor from a usability point of view. In fact they are cut in a way which not only artificially limits its capabilities but as the proverbial cherry on top, creates a whole host of different problems
I agree with this entire statement. You and I can hangout after all. I knew you would come around, lets build another time machine.
for no good reasons at all.
It's like your not absorbing the things you've been reading. Maybe it's all of that shit between your ears?
In plain English, the trade offs are really not worth the insignificant or even imaginary cost savings.
These are not trade-offs clownshoe, nor are they done to save costs, but rather to force the user to adapt the board to his/her own needs. If it did have a powers-witch I bet you would be crying about how you always have to turn this damn thing on yourself.
Do yourself a favor. Meet a young person. Teach them the difference between this shit board, that shit board, and whatever you would use instead. Show them how to measure the voltage drop over a sub-par powercable. Explain to them exactly why it's better to spin up hardware with a powerswitch. Extol the virtues of the all holy barrel connector, even though all the young person knows is mini/micro USB and those godforsaken apple chargers. Show them how to write 640k worth of python or c or whatever you want. Lead that young person through your process of concept-design-build..... or you know.... don't.
I bet this formatting is atrocious... SEND IT!
It really does look like you are missing the point.
The whole idea behind the pie is to make not just cheap hardware, but really cheap hardware that the young are not worried about smoking. Every corner has been cut, not the just the expensive ones. It's designed from the start as an educational development board.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future.
We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun. We provide outreach and education to help more people access computing and digital making. We develop free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers, and train educators who can guide other people to learn.
You WANT the kid to have to pull the juice for every reset, and you want him to eventually come to the same point you made, and you want him to wire a momentary into the reset pin, or a slide to the +/-. Hell, you want the kid to make his own from popsicle sticks and tinfoil. It's cheap enough to let them fail on the basics.THAT'S the point you're missing. It says "Educational electronics kit" on the box for that very reason. GONE are the days of "DONT TOUCH THAT" that you and I grew up in.
If your building out a headless web-server for a production environment, the pi just aint for you. If, on the other hand, your teaching the local punk kid how to setup an auto nutrient system for his little underground grow op, the pi hits a sweet spot that nothing else can even come close enough to touch, and if nothing else comes of it, you might get a discount 3 months from now.... best case? You've just changed a life. Power is measured with more than multimeters and clock cycles.
If you ARE in a production environment, and need to setup a wireless or ethernet bridge to get the bosses thingimajigger talking on yet another network, it takes all of 10 minutes to spin up a bridge with the bosses cell charger.
And then there's Retropie....
Nintendo sure noticed that one...
And then there's Adafruit tuts...
Maybe take a look, doubly so if you're a parent. Good shit there....
And then there's Thingiverse....
3D printing and dev boards go together like a mouse and keyboard; you can use each alone, but soooo much better together.
Did you know you can build a rubberducky with a pi-zero? Security is fun.
Like I said above... the list goes on and on and on.... I love the little bugger, not for what it can do, but for what it's user can do LATER.
And for the record, I power an overclocked Pie 3 off the USB on my Samsung plasma pushing 4 player Bomberman, and Mariocart64- every weekend. Your adapter bitch is weak.
It's pretty great when a platform comes along and snares giant subsets of people across multiple disciplines.
The Pi has earned its place in pop culture, industry, creativity, criminal and business enterprise, education... the list goes on and on.
I've personally introduced a handful of very young people to the pi as both a robotics, and IoT platform, and watched them sprout from typical minecraft zombie, to budding bot-and-automation-expert in training.
And that price point? Pretty Amazing.
Kudos to the Raspberry Pie Foundation, they really are changing the world.
I just wish shipping and availability was not such an issue, but it's fine 80% of the time, and suppliers always make it right.... with time.
For real. How do I get one of these red herring cards? Do I have to call the FBI?
Is it called something else? google loves to tell me all about credit card fraud, but nothing on a red herring card....
I get these calls all the time at work. I try to play along as long as possible. Sometimes I gush at them.
"I know right?, It's those damn kids and the all the porno... you can help me right? my computer says something about TOR and paying in bitcoin? Whats a TOR?"
"Sure! I'm so glad you called back! my computer says no boot device?"
"Bob! I've been trying to call you guys back! my case number is 34643245, I made my payment, but my computer is still broken, do I need to pay more?"
"I'm not sure, this is the accountants computer, can you still help me?"
"I pressed the start button and the screen went black....now there's a penguin in the corner....lots of white words? Says kernel panic? Who's Colonel Panic?"
"my screen says The quieter you are, the more you are able to hear"
"I don't have a desktop buddy, this here's a LAPTOP!"
I get a kick out of it, all those soul crushing years of call center tech support work come bubbling to the surface. "Where's your empathy statement buddy?"
This will only create a vacuum.
I bet there will soon be a whole host of .ca sites with tag lines like, "what google cant show you", "forbidden links", "unburned index"
Time to register some domains...
Lawyers like to law, teach them to law better, and they are going to law all over the place.
Wrestlers like to wrestle, teach them to wrestle better, and will wrestle all over the place.
Brewers brew......
Soldiers soldier....
Politicians politic.... ....and hackers hack.
And for the record, if unplugging the network cable after a secure handshake allows you to force a target to do something specifically opposite to what it was designed to do, such as dispense free candy, then it very much is a hardware exploit. Even if you left you Guy Fawkes mask at home.
This should have been a team building exorcise, and it would have been, had the suspects not been contractors, or it was up (down?) a few floors.
Hell, I bet they only really noticed when the machine stopped sending pictures and audio to c&c on the 13th floor.
Your probably right.
One may also find those very same amazing direction giving people tend to not notice when the light turns green, as well as experience drastic drops in cognitive performance after long periods with no access to electricity.
I feel the same.
I bought my license on GOG, double vote-with-the-wallet-whammy.
https://www.gog.com/game/parad...
You give something away for free and you quickly create the exception that it should be free.
I am confident that you are surrounded by counter examples to your argument as you read this. Look around and think about it for a minute, how much of what you are using everyday is offered gratis, but manages to support a business while remaining free for you?
So a better way to run his business would be to do what exactly?
He finds his work being traded illicitly online, and you would have him tangle with paying attorneys fees, and screwing around with rights management with all of the evils that go along with it? Maybe Sue his player-base? You must be a IP lawyer.
His work was already out there, he just put a smiley on it, and reminded people that he's not some mega-corp. He even mentions his own piracy and is giving back.
And now he's got the free publicity that is the software piracy counter culture on one of the biggest site in the scene, as well as all of us discussing on unrelated sites.
If you think this wont drive sales, I would like to point out the the grateful dead's policy on bootlegs in the 60s and 70s, Metallica's monumental rise to fame in the 80s via hand traded dubs and demos, the entire PC gaming shareware market in the 90s, and even the modern trend of free for personal use $$ for production fremium models of today.
Being a pirate, he knows first hand how silly it is to have to deal with sign ins, keys, and validation for a legit purchased software while watching the pirates skate fully functional by nothing more than a doubleclicked installer.
IP of all kinds is OFTEN given away for free, people are still buying it, and I doubt he came to this decision lightly.
I can personally guarantee that this dev got at least one sale out of this that he would not have had before.
While I've been arguing this very thing for years, I think this is such a hard thing to measure...I imagine smartphones in your pockets and such has about the same impact on general mental tasks as an opened window, or the school band practicing in the next room, or proximity to a personal attraction, etc...
Did the people running the study have phones in THEIR pockets?
Should have had the participants remember a few new phone numbers on the spot, or drive someplace new with just good directions; or write them for somebody else, or answer a few general knowledge questions from memory, or one of the many other basic things that smartphones do so well as to have become a crutch.
I would love to see more advanced studies on this topic.
Last I checked, FBI said to just pay the ransom.
Why bother even reporting it.
When dealing with ransomware myself, I do check the FBI for decryption-keys before I start restoring from backups, but reporting?
Soon as I'm on the payroll, Hoover.
The line has been clearly drawn since the first caveman traded his rock for a sharpened stick.
"If you trade for MY sharpened stick, you can harden it at my big fire for free, for the life of your stick."
If you wanna bundle value added services on your sharpened stick, and trade for my two rocks instead of just my one, just remember, you don't control my stick anymore, it's MINE. If I can come up with a way to take advantage of your value added stick services for the 2 smaller sticks I made by "hacking" my stick, well, you should have thought out your value added plans a little more than you did.
You don't get to tell me what I can and cannot do with my stick(s) unless you give me back my rocks, and if I'm happier with my sticks than I was with my rocks? Tough shit for you. You also don't get to control what fire I choose to use to harden my sticks, or who can re-sharpen them. Even if I've used your fire a few times before.
If you slot your stick for just the perfect rock, I'm still allowed to put my own rock on the top, even if your rock is just the best rock out there for sticks. You don't have to sell me your rocks, but you absolutely do not get to dictate what rocks I choose to use.
Cavemen figured this shit out a long time ago.