"Wrong priorities man. Take over the world *first*, and then you can have others fix all your computer problems."
Not sure if this is a shot at humor, but I think you're bang-on with this.
Technology for me and many people on this site was a hobby once.
Sure, I can install a custom kernel to troubleshoot my hibernate issues, follow discussion forums for my laptop for audio issues, etc.. or I can do work.
To much abuse, ridicule and disbelief, I’ve posted here many times about my problems with Linux on the desktop...
This hasn’t been one of them. I have an Acer Cloudbook which gets 12-17h per charge. It can’t hibernate properly, crashes on resume from suspend, bit the fact that it gets such wicked battery life while ON, means I just leave it running in my bag all day.
Although my audio stopped working, no fricking clue why. Who has time to deal with this stuff?
The limitations of the technology are frustrating. It is hard to imagine how ipads are useful in a classroom environment, other than as a tool to buy and consume content, even if "educational materials".
Chromebooks are far more useful, but horrifying from a privacy standpoint.
Does anyone know what Apple and Google do with the EULA? Are parents sent EULAs to agree to on behalf of their children? Do they waive them because they're minors and have no legal choice but to sign?
They do die. I had a digitizer fail on an ipad mini, it was rarely used in the 2 years before it failed. Replacing the digitizer was difficult, but not impossible. These are common issues.
"...Jesus famously fed the hungry, but people also like to ignore that he said that people who do not work should not eat. It's a matter of personal responsibility and true fairness."
Your cherry-picking of paragraphs in the policy in isolation to describe your conclusion is not convincing to me. You also left out elipses on a sentence to indicate that you cut it off in the middle. I.e.,
"...Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device."
To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. Where available, location-based services may use GPS, Bluetooth, and your IP Address, along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations, and other technologies to determine your devices’ approximate location. Unless you provide consent, this location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, your device may share its geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.
Some location-based services offered by Apple, such as the “Find My iPhone” feature, require your personal information for the feature to work.
At some point, Apple is expecting this document to stand up in court. If, to support their secret nefarious activities, it has to be interpreted so selectively and creatively, they have to expect that a judge will side with them and say "hey, it doesn't matter what we said at the beginning of the paragraph, here it says that we could do anything we want! "
It seems like an absurd interpretation of the privacy policy.
It's not a perfect document, but it's much better than what you you carve it up, scramble, misquote and quote out of context.
"What does China care about the most? It's own economic development. How does it achieve that development? By exporting tons of stuff all over the planet."
China is a mostly benevolent dictatorship. Although the current regime is focused on the benefit of the country through economic development, it is unstable and at lower levels of government, a very corrupt system. Their motives are not always so clear and not always to the benefit of wider society, but to the benefit of the people in power.
Dictatorships are unstable. Some may go on for a very long time, but there are few checks and balances to power.
I mostly agree with your points, but don't doubt that China can do profoundly stupid things very quickly.
Trouble with deleting your profile is that somebody can trivially impersonate you by creating a new profile in your name.
Your shadow profile still exists too... everyone who has you in their contacts likely uploaded your phone number, email and possibly home address, your face is in people’s photos, the exif data puts you at specific places at specific times, etc.
All your old measages still exist in the profiles of the people you communicated with. Your social media footprint is still in their database.
I sometimes upvote stuff I disagree with. Usually after hovering on the downvote for a while. Then I think "No, I want everyone to see how stupid this person is."
I would be interested to hear ways to reduce sock puppetry and people with multiple accounts boosting their own posts. It should stick out like a sore thumb.
I like to hope it's a bunch of nerds in a hacklab "Hey this guy posted this thing, OMFG, I'm going to reply!" "dude, I have modpoints, I'll +1 you!"
"Unless they are sequestered, for example, by being buried and converted into peat, or for that matter, coal.:"
The problem is if you look at the tree narrowly, then yes, it will rot and release all its CO2. If you look at the forest, fresh growth will replace the rotted tree and continue the cycle.
Old forests will very slowly sequester carbon in new topsoil, but will otherwise be mostly neutral.
New forests would be needed, and yes, sequestering new growth should help (soil impact aside).
The most secure way I can think to sequester carbon is to use it in our buildings, furniture and other products. They're sheltered and have an economic incentive to not rot. They'll evnetually be recycled, landfilled, or otherwise destroyed, but there will always be a certain tonnage of wood used in the homes and offices of living people.
Thick wooden floors, thick wooden roofs,... thick panels of wood on walls. Hardwood if you can.
I'm probably in this camp... it's extremely embarassing.
Last night I mixed up the hostess of a party with staff. She's a friend of my wife's, so I don't know her *that* well... and she was standing next to the bar, wearing black.
I'm aware of it, and I guess I use a lot of strategies to get around it. which means not using names. She didn't notice, I pretended not to have made the mistake. That's normal for me.
Once she opened her mouth and made eye contact, of course I knew who it was. Body language, voice, it's all good.
I could write a dozen things I do to get around this. I didn't know it was even strange until I met somebody who's the opposite... he remembers and recognizes *everyone*. He can sit on the street for an hour at a coffee shop and recognize people who were going one way, coming back the other, and he'll remember that he saw them the other day the next time he's there.
"Creating this sunshade in space was estimated to cost in excess of US$5 trillion with an estimated lifetime of 50 years.[7] Thus leading Professor Angel to conclude that "[t]he sunshade is no substitute for developing renewable energy, the only permanent solution. "
And if you read the article and looked at the data, it would be clear that $300B was spent above and beyond the norm during Republican administrations dealing with hurricanes in 2005 and 2017.
Given the poor response to Katrina, and the issues re-establishing power in Puerto Rico I wonder where the money really went?
I was installing from CD on a 386 w RLL. The CDR was proprietary, and I had a Que book on UNIX to help me... I upgraded from 2M to 5M just to be able to run it... $200+ in RAM right there.
It took a month to get the install working... then everyone told me to spend more money on upgrades...
I wish I had more money as a kid. 12M on a DX2-66 would have been a dream for me. I was on a 12” paperwhite VGA display. And that was 1995...
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" the ozone hole was declared an emergency before a full solar cycle was observed with satellite"
Ozone measurements go back to balloon studies in the 1930s.
Solar cycles have been studied since the 1840s.
"Wrong priorities man. Take over the world *first*, and then you can have others fix all your computer problems."
Not sure if this is a shot at humor, but I think you're bang-on with this.
Technology for me and many people on this site was a hobby once.
Sure, I can install a custom kernel to troubleshoot my hibernate issues, follow discussion forums for my laptop for audio issues, etc.. or I can do work.
To much abuse, ridicule and disbelief, I’ve posted here many times about my problems with Linux on the desktop...
This hasn’t been one of them. I have an Acer Cloudbook which gets 12-17h per charge. It can’t hibernate properly, crashes on resume from suspend, bit the fact that it gets such wicked battery life while ON, means I just leave it running in my bag all day.
Although my audio stopped working, no fricking clue why. Who has time to deal with this stuff?
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Remember to use takeout.google.com to get your mbox before you shut down your gmail.
I’m so sick of these ‘free’ accounts.
Wag the dog predated the Clinton scandal.
Hard to believe, but true.
The limitations of the technology are frustrating. It is hard to imagine how ipads are useful in a classroom environment, other than as a tool to buy and consume content, even if "educational materials".
Chromebooks are far more useful, but horrifying from a privacy standpoint.
Does anyone know what Apple and Google do with the EULA? Are parents sent EULAs to agree to on behalf of their children? Do they waive them because they're minors and have no legal choice but to sign?
They do die. I had a digitizer fail on an ipad mini, it was rarely used in the 2 years before it failed. Replacing the digitizer was difficult, but not impossible. These are common issues.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980422034538/http://opensource.com:80/
But it's clearly an unrelated consultancy.
"...Jesus famously fed the hungry, but people also like to ignore that he said that people who do not work should not eat. It's a matter of personal responsibility and true fairness."
I was raised Christian. I would love to hear some quotes which support this. I can do a bit off Googling, oh here's one: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/tenets.
"One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason."
oops, that's satanism.
Christian life is one of giving. Your own suffering doesn't matter. It's all about eternal life, personal relationship with God, selfless love, etc.
It’s called prosperity theology and it’s well practiced in the current U.S. political climate.
”https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology”
It’s hard to otherwise explain the intensely unchristian position of religious conservatives towards the poor.
Your cherry-picking of paragraphs in the policy in isolation to describe your conclusion is not convincing to me. You also left out elipses on a sentence to indicate that you cut it off in the middle. I.e.,
"...Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device."
At some point, Apple is expecting this document to stand up in court. If, to support their secret nefarious activities, it has to be interpreted so selectively and creatively, they have to expect that a judge will side with them and say "hey, it doesn't matter what we said at the beginning of the paragraph, here it says that we could do anything we want! "
It seems like an absurd interpretation of the privacy policy.
It's not a perfect document, but it's much better than what you you carve it up, scramble, misquote and quote out of context.
"What does China care about the most? It's own economic development. How does it achieve that development? By exporting tons of stuff all over the planet."
China is a mostly benevolent dictatorship. Although the current regime is focused on the benefit of the country through economic development, it is unstable and at lower levels of government, a very corrupt system. Their motives are not always so clear and not always to the benefit of wider society, but to the benefit of the people in power.
Dictatorships are unstable. Some may go on for a very long time, but there are few checks and balances to power.
I mostly agree with your points, but don't doubt that China can do profoundly stupid things very quickly.
No, they're saying they voted for a racist.
Trouble with deleting your profile is that somebody can trivially impersonate you by creating a new profile in your name.
Your shadow profile still exists too... everyone who has you in their contacts likely uploaded your phone number, email and possibly home address, your face is in people’s photos, the exif data puts you at specific places at specific times, etc.
All your old measages still exist in the profiles of the people you communicated with. Your social media footprint is still in their database.
Better to keep the profile and lose your login.
He would be better than the shriveled northeastern leopard frog at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
I sometimes upvote stuff I disagree with. Usually after hovering on the downvote for a while. Then I think "No, I want everyone to see how stupid this person is."
I would be interested to hear ways to reduce sock puppetry and people with multiple accounts boosting their own posts. It should stick out like a sore thumb.
I like to hope it's a bunch of nerds in a hacklab "Hey this guy posted this thing, OMFG, I'm going to reply!" "dude, I have modpoints, I'll +1 you!"
Beta 2.0 seems like the next logical step. I'll sign up for the alpha.
Seriously though, no.
It's our duty to the environment. Every house should have a certain carbon offset tonnage of wooden furniture required for ownership.
"Unless they are sequestered, for example, by being buried and converted into peat, or for that matter, coal.:"
The problem is if you look at the tree narrowly, then yes, it will rot and release all its CO2. If you look at the forest, fresh growth will replace the rotted tree and continue the cycle.
Old forests will very slowly sequester carbon in new topsoil, but will otherwise be mostly neutral.
New forests would be needed, and yes, sequestering new growth should help (soil impact aside).
The most secure way I can think to sequester carbon is to use it in our buildings, furniture and other products. They're sheltered and have an economic incentive to not rot. They'll evnetually be recycled, landfilled, or otherwise destroyed, but there will always be a certain tonnage of wood used in the homes and offices of living people.
Thick wooden floors, thick wooden roofs,... thick panels of wood on walls. Hardwood if you can.
I'm probably in this camp... it's extremely embarassing.
Last night I mixed up the hostess of a party with staff. She's a friend of my wife's, so I don't know her *that* well... and she was standing next to the bar, wearing black.
I'm aware of it, and I guess I use a lot of strategies to get around it. which means not using names. She didn't notice, I pretended not to have made the mistake. That's normal for me.
Once she opened her mouth and made eye contact, of course I knew who it was. Body language, voice, it's all good.
I could write a dozen things I do to get around this. I didn't know it was even strange until I met somebody who's the opposite... he remembers and recognizes *everyone*. He can sit on the street for an hour at a coffee shop and recognize people who were going one way, coming back the other, and he'll remember that he saw them the other day the next time he's there.
I think we just discovered the oldest human fossil outside Africa.
Wait until somebody tells them about the Lagrange points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
"Creating this sunshade in space was estimated to cost in excess of US$5 trillion with an estimated lifetime of 50 years.[7] Thus leading Professor Angel to conclude that "[t]he sunshade is no substitute for developing renewable energy, the only permanent solution. "
oops.
It's like 1996 all over again! Let's ask Michael Dell what he would do with Apple?
They're seriously in danger of losing their position as the most profitable company in the world. https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/20/apple-global-fortune-500/
And if you read the article and looked at the data, it would be clear that $300B was spent above and beyond the norm during Republican administrations dealing with hurricanes in 2005 and 2017.
Given the poor response to Katrina, and the issues re-establishing power in Puerto Rico I wonder where the money really went?
I was installing from CD on a 386 w RLL. The CDR was proprietary, and I had a Que book on UNIX to help me... I upgraded from 2M to 5M just to be able to run it... $200+ in RAM right there.
It took a month to get the install working... then everyone told me to spend more money on upgrades...
I wish I had more money as a kid. 12M on a DX2-66 would have been a dream for me. I was on a 12” paperwhite VGA display. And that was 1995...