Oh, goodness gracious- you caught us. We're so embarrassed that we'll use this opportunity to sell you something else, like an overpriced battery. Aren't we just a bunch of naughty little rascals?
Hey, look over there- it's the iPhoneXs! The "s" is for "suckers", but you knew that, and we know you'll STILL buy it!
Every single time I've heard the phrase, "...does not reduce freedom in any way...." it ALWAYS turns out to be a lie. The context is almost irrelevant.
It's a red flag- if they're telling you they're "not doing XYZ" or that "XYZ won't affect you", you can usually bet your ass that they are in fact doing "XYZ" and/or it does indeed affect you in some way.
Much like net neutrality- Comcast would never ever throttle your connection or block certain sites, they just want the ability to do so, even though they would never ever do that. But they want to be able to anyway. Hmmm.
I don't find the current Bitcoin valuation rooted in reality.
Exactly.
Plus, a number of other equally serious problems also come into play, but I'm not going to bother to enumerate them here. Suffice it to say that it's a wonderful idea with a bunch of fatal flaws.
I'm not going to dabble in any cryptocurrency stuff, but if other people want to that's fine by me.
Oh my! I'm going to hang back, make some popcorn, step into some Tyvek coveralls, grab a hard-hat and safety goggles and enjoy the show!
LOL, I was going to say almost the exact same thing. Save me a seat if you would, I'll be along in a minute with some extra beers and a splatter-shield.
Net neutrality is going to be removed because doing so will allow large corporations to make a shitload of money, AND because it will stifle the free exchange of information (including important political news and information).
Politicians HATE the fat that ordinary people can use the internet to help track what our government does. They HATE the fact that millions of people can instantly find out what they're doing, and band together to try and effect some change.
This benefits NO ONE except the mega-corps and politicians, and so they're going to do it no matter what we mere mortals want.
Let Amazon place a sturdy 2'x3' steel locker somewhere on your property. This won't solve all of the unattended delivery issues but it will prevent random fuckers from being able spoof an access code and enter your home while you're not there.
Seriously, who in their right mind thinks it's okay to hang your home's security on an IoT device operated by random strangers who are allowed to enter your home?
This is nothing more than a disaster waiting to happen. Wait until the first burglaries, robberies, home invasions, rapes, and murders result from this brain-dead idea.
Will Amazon issue a press release that says, "Whoops, sorry about that- we didn't mean to let your whole family be murdered by a random nutjob who spoofed the access code to your home. This bug should be fixed in version 2.3.00.4.8, due out next month."
The bad news is that the attack "cannot be patched since it exploits fundamental features and the core design of the process loading mechanism in Windows."
Yes, I'd say that qualifies as "bad news". This is ungood, and yet another reason to switch to another OS.
Seriously, after all this time the fucknutz at Microsoft have managed to create a vulnerability that's baked in to every version of Windows, their flagship product?
Comcast: "We only want the option to throttle and block content...we would never, ever actually do that but we want the ability to do it even though we never would. Trust us, we'd never do that but we still want to be able to do it even though we'd never really do that, even though we want the ability to do it..."
It's like when my 5-year old son said he just wanted to "hold the candy" and he assured me that he wouldn't eat it, he just wanted to hold it...
It's a hive mind with herd and mob mentality when it comes to the comment section.
Can confirm.
If you voice an opinion that falls even slightly outside the groupthink of the Imgur community, you'll be innundated with downvotes, hate mail, and comments telling you to die. They have NO tolerance for anyone that doesn't hew to the Imgur party line, no matter how innocuous, true, or fair your comment is.
It's also been infested with astroturf accounts selling/promoting shit, and this is WITH the full knowledge and cooperation of the admins there (because they get a cut of the profits, of course). Imgur staff admitted it, and there were endless angry discussions about the fake accounts.
So yeah, it's pretty much a shitshow now, worse than ever before.
Yeah, nerds don't want to admit that Microsoft have actually improved their products in the last 20 years
Well, they've certainly improved the deeply intrusive user tracking and monitoring stuff, no argument there. The "Whoops something happened, Windows will now restart" error screen is also a more aesthetically pleasing shade of blue now.
If we can't afford it, we don't buy it, period. We pay off our card(s) in full at the end of every month.
We buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so we can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with us. If you use a debit card or pay with cash, you're at the mercy of the store if anything goes wrong.
I use credit cards almost exclusively. I pay them in full monthly.
That's exactly what my wife and I do. If we can't afford it, we don't buy it, period. We pay off our card in full at the end of every month.
But mainly we buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so we can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with us. If you use a debit card or pay with cash, you're at the mercy of the store if anything goes wrong.
1) I buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so I can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with me. You don't have that assurance with a debit card or with cash.
2) I also pay off my card(s) in full at the end of every month, so yes, I can afford it.:)
...and in a quiet, computer-filled room at Nordstroms' headquarters, a shadowy group sits back and breathes a collective sigh of relief at successfully sabotaging a competitor. "Good job, lads," says the Strike Team leader, "those fuckers at Macy's will never know what hit them."
I didn't offer to do that. I offered to explain some of the words to you. It would appear that your reading comprehension is as deficient as your sense of humor.
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Oh, goodness gracious- you caught us. We're so embarrassed that we'll use this opportunity to sell you something else, like an overpriced battery. Aren't we just a bunch of naughty little rascals?
Hey, look over there- it's the iPhoneXs! The "s" is for "suckers", but you knew that, and we know you'll STILL buy it!
Facebook is a cancer on the world and the internet.
See subject line.
three seconds later "Hey, here's how to pay us to remove this throttle we just added."
Exactly. "Pay us more for this new service, which is basically restoring the old service you had."
Every single time I've heard the phrase, "...does not reduce freedom in any way...." it ALWAYS turns out to be a lie. The context is almost irrelevant.
It's a red flag- if they're telling you they're "not doing XYZ" or that "XYZ won't affect you", you can usually bet your ass that they are in fact doing "XYZ" and/or it does indeed affect you in some way.
Much like net neutrality- Comcast would never ever throttle your connection or block certain sites, they just want the ability to do so, even though they would never ever do that. But they want to be able to anyway. Hmmm.
I don't find the current Bitcoin valuation rooted in reality.
Exactly.
Plus, a number of other equally serious problems also come into play, but I'm not going to bother to enumerate them here. Suffice it to say that it's a wonderful idea with a bunch of fatal flaws.
I'm not going to dabble in any cryptocurrency stuff, but if other people want to that's fine by me.
Oh my! I'm going to hang back, make some popcorn, step into some Tyvek coveralls, grab a hard-hat and safety goggles and enjoy the show!
LOL, I was going to say almost the exact same thing. Save me a seat if you would, I'll be along in a minute with some extra beers and a splatter-shield.
Let's face it- the fix is in.
Net neutrality is going to be removed because doing so will allow large corporations to make a shitload of money, AND because it will stifle the free exchange of information (including important political news and information).
Politicians HATE the fat that ordinary people can use the internet to help track what our government does. They HATE the fact that millions of people can instantly find out what they're doing, and band together to try and effect some change.
This benefits NO ONE except the mega-corps and politicians, and so they're going to do it no matter what we mere mortals want.
I run an hyper-Z omega secretive cloud that will take care of all your security needs, 100% hacker proof, guaranteed!
Can I upgrade to the 120% hacker-proof version for an extra $100??
IoT shit is insecure? Nooooooooo!
Shocking, I say! For further proof, this is my shocked face.
Let Amazon place a sturdy 2'x3' steel locker somewhere on your property. This won't solve all of the unattended delivery issues but it will prevent random fuckers from being able spoof an access code and enter your home while you're not there.
Seriously, who in their right mind thinks it's okay to hang your home's security on an IoT device operated by random strangers who are allowed to enter your home?
This is nothing more than a disaster waiting to happen. Wait until the first burglaries, robberies, home invasions, rapes, and murders result from this brain-dead idea.
Will Amazon issue a press release that says, "Whoops, sorry about that- we didn't mean to let your whole family be murdered by a random nutjob who spoofed the access code to your home. This bug should be fixed in version 2.3.00.4.8, due out next month."
The bad news is that the attack "cannot be patched since it exploits fundamental features and the core design of the process loading mechanism in Windows."
Yes, I'd say that qualifies as "bad news". This is ungood, and yet another reason to switch to another OS.
Seriously, after all this time the fucknutz at Microsoft have managed to create a vulnerability that's baked in to every version of Windows, their flagship product?
It's pretty in two ways: pretty stupid, and pretty likely to stay that way.
"Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality"
No shit...what was your first clue, Captain Obvious?
Comcast: "We only want the option to throttle and block content...we would never, ever actually do that but we want the ability to do it even though we never would. Trust us, we'd never do that but we still want to be able to do it even though we'd never really do that, even though we want the ability to do it..."
It's like when my 5-year old son said he just wanted to "hold the candy" and he assured me that he wouldn't eat it, he just wanted to hold it...
It's a hive mind with herd and mob mentality when it comes to the comment section.
Can confirm.
If you voice an opinion that falls even slightly outside the groupthink of the Imgur community, you'll be innundated with downvotes, hate mail, and comments telling you to die. They have NO tolerance for anyone that doesn't hew to the Imgur party line, no matter how innocuous, true, or fair your comment is.
It's also been infested with astroturf accounts selling/promoting shit, and this is WITH the full knowledge and cooperation of the admins there (because they get a cut of the profits, of course). Imgur staff admitted it, and there were endless angry discussions about the fake accounts.
So yeah, it's pretty much a shitshow now, worse than ever before.
Yeah, nerds don't want to admit that Microsoft have actually improved their products in the last 20 years
Well, they've certainly improved the deeply intrusive user tracking and monitoring stuff, no argument there. The "Whoops something happened, Windows will now restart" error screen is also a more aesthetically pleasing shade of blue now.
So yeah, lots of great improvements.
If we can't afford it, we don't buy it, period. We pay off our card(s) in full at the end of every month.
We buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so we can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with us. If you use a debit card or pay with cash, you're at the mercy of the store if anything goes wrong.
I use credit cards almost exclusively. I pay them in full monthly.
That's exactly what my wife and I do. If we can't afford it, we don't buy it, period. We pay off our card in full at the end of every month.
But mainly we buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so we can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with us. If you use a debit card or pay with cash, you're at the mercy of the store if anything goes wrong.
then u cant afford 2 buy it anyway
WRONG.
1) I buy things on a credit card SPECIFICALLY so I can charge it back if there's a problem later on and the merchant won't deal fairly with me. You don't have that assurance with a debit card or with cash.
2) I also pay off my card(s) in full at the end of every month, so yes, I can afford it. :)
...and in a quiet, computer-filled room at Nordstroms' headquarters, a shadowy group sits back and breathes a collective sigh of relief at successfully sabotaging a competitor. "Good job, lads," says the Strike Team leader, "those fuckers at Macy's will never know what hit them."
Sinij is going to be *really* torqued off when he reads A Modest Proposal.
Yes, but who will he get to read it to him?
Yes, I want you to explain your behavior
I didn't offer to do that. I offered to explain some of the words to you. It would appear that your reading comprehension is as deficient as your sense of humor.
You are not helping, but actually harming the NN cause with your post. It is easy to point at your idiotic behavior and generalize.
I'm so so so so sorry if I offended your delicate sensibilities with what was obviously a bit of hyperbole.
(Let me know if you want me to explain any of those words to you.)