I just use a flip phone. It makes phone calls. It has an address book to remember numbers. That's pretty much it.
Yep, I have to admit, I liked my old flip phone. No chance of getting infected, the batteries lasted forever, and it just worked. Plus they're rugged as hell. I with they made a good water-resistant flip phone.
At the same time though, I have to admit that there are times when I appreciate some of the stuff my new(er) phone can do. I recently moved from a Samsung Rugby Pro to a Samsung S5*, and I'm getting ready to root it so I can delete some of the extraneous junk it shipped with. That and I need to keep the #*&*$ "Home" button from turning the screen on all the damn time. But so far I like it enough that I'll probably keep it.
*Yes, I know, it's several versions behind the current offering...but that's the way I want it. Everyone else paid ~$650 for it new, mine was $200 new. Not too bad.
"The apps on your phone know what you looked at and when, and can tie that in to what you see on other devices you're also logged into their services on (like your work computer)."
No, they don't, because I don't load up my phone with all that useless bullshit. The apps that aren't in use get disabled and/or deleted.
"Meanwhile, you're leaving tracks out in the physical world -- not only the location history of your phone"
No, I'm not because I don't turn all that battery-sucking GPS and location crap. I also don't turn on wifi except in a few specific locations. Yes, they can track me via cell towers, but it's rarely going to tie my purchases to anything identifiable because most of the time I use cash. Track that, you fuckers.
"but also the trail of payments you leave behind you if you pay with a credit card, debit card, or app (as millions of us do)."
Millions might, but I'm not one of them. Suck it, Google.
Such individuals make up only a small portion of the population. It's just that social media greatly magnifies their impact.
Exactly. Social media is like a force amplifier for assholes and fucktards. And the worse they are the more coverage and attention they get. Is it any wonder it tends to bring out the worst people in the worst ways?
Or you could bypass this whole shitstorm-in-a-teacup by not having a Facebook account.
It's worked for me. I'm not bothered by endless pictures of people's breakfast burritos and their streams of mindless bragging about how awesome their new $_gadget is.
But to each their own, if someone likes Facebook, more power to them.
"Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know"
Fuck you, Mark. Stop trying to fiddlefuck your way into my good graces by telling me who I "should" know. Just go take your billions and fuck off to Fuckoffville.
I don't have a Facebook account and at this rate I'll beat anyone to death with a baseball bat who says I "gotta have one".
In closing, blow me, get off my lawn, and turn down that shitty music!
I think you may be right, lol. It was OS/2 I installed (I still have the install disks in their plastic binders). I'm not sure why I said Warp, but I think I tried that too at one point.
"As more groups get into the denial-of-service attack business they're starting to get in each other's way, according to a report released Thursday... There are only so many devices around that have the kind of vulnerabilities that make them potential targets for a botnet. That translates into a smaller average attack size, said Martin McKeay, senior security advocate at Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc. There are only so many devices around that have the kind of vulnerabilities that make them potential targets for a botnet."
I tried Warp back in the day, and I liked it a lot. The only thing that held me back was that it required a fairly powerful machine to make it practical.
At the time a PC with the speed and memory of that caliber was around $4000 to $5000. Anything less and it was painfully slow, lots of disk thrashing, etc. But it worked and you could run lots of DOS windows under it seamlessly.
I remember editing a doc, doing a download from a BBS with Telix, running a game, and formatting a floppy all at the same time....which was kind of amazing back then.
Not long after that Windows 3.0 came out and its main claim to fame was that it would run pretty well on much less powerful PCs.
Warp was technically better (it had true multitasking) but Windows took over the market and that was the end of that.
This is just another one of the many reasons I'll avoid Uber. Unless I'm desperate, I won't use them, and unfortunately, if I'm desperate their algorithms will probably fuck me extra hard in my time of need. Thanks, Uber.
Die, Uber, die. (That just means "The Uber, the", as Sideshow Bob will attest.)
when mueller finds there is no crime or collusion (as is obvious to anyone with a brain, who has looked in vain for actual verifiable evidence for any of that),
Really? So Trump ADMITTING on camera that he fired the FBI director to stop the investigation into his possible collusion with Russia isn't "evidence"?
Trump explained openly how he committed obstruction of justice. We all heard it. How is that not evidence of wrongdoing? If that was you or me we'd already be in handcuffs, and you fucking know it. Your blind partisanship is mind boggling and disgusting in the extreme.
Trump could rape and murder a 5 year-old boy on live TV and people like you would argue that "the kid had it coming".
"Your grammar needs improving and call me Sir" will get you laughed at. If my grammar needs improving then tell me that, don't go imposing your authoritarian power structures on me to do so.
I'm impressed with your awesome display of educational theory, and yes, I would like fries with that.
The students are the ones paying the professor's salary. So they can talk to him as appropriate to talk to "the help". In other words they can talk to the professor any way they damn please.
WRONG.
If you want knowledge from someone who knows more than you about a given subject AND who you're paying to teach it to you, be polite. Any other course of action is just stupid and ineffective.
Millennials are the lamest, most inept generation I've ever seen, heard, or read about. Not all of them, of course, but by and large what you hear about them is true. They suck.
Attention Span: They can't hold a 5-minute conversation to save their asses but they can text for hours over trivial shit.
Other People: They have no real understanding of social interaction unless it involves swiping left or right. How they'll reproduce is still in question.
Task Management: They have difficulty managing even slightly complex tasks. Honestly, they're like brain-damaged babies. Never trust them with a serious project or anything with moving parts.
The World: In general, they have very little awareness of the world at large. If their "news" doesn't come via Facebook, they're blissfully unaware of it.
Restaurants: Take them to a nice restaurant and they might as well have been dropped in the jungle. Their only hope is if there are pictures and the dishes can be ordered by number.
Food: Most of them couldn't cook a meal if their lives depended on it. And NO, microwaving a burrito does not count as "cooking a meal".
Work: They expect to be promoted just for showing up. When they do show up, a lot of their time is spent on Facebook, Facetime, Pinterest, Instagram, Line, Tinder, Grindr, etc etc etc etc etc etc.Take away their cellphone and they start to shake like a junkie in rehab.
And on and on and on....
Yes, some Millennials function just fine in society, but there's no avoiding the fact that many of them are socially illiterate and would starve to death in a supermarket if left to their own devices.
They are, in my humble opinion, "The Saddest Generation".
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Fail, fail, fail. I'm not a millennial, not by a long shot. Try again, troll.
Kill anyone who approves or promotes this. Kill them, and make it painful.
You're doing things the hard way.
I just use a flip phone. It makes phone calls. It has an address book to remember numbers. That's pretty much it.
Yep, I have to admit, I liked my old flip phone. No chance of getting infected, the batteries lasted forever, and it just worked. Plus they're rugged as hell. I with they made a good water-resistant flip phone.
At the same time though, I have to admit that there are times when I appreciate some of the stuff my new(er) phone can do. I recently moved from a Samsung Rugby Pro to a Samsung S5*, and I'm getting ready to root it so I can delete some of the extraneous junk it shipped with. That and I need to keep the #*&*$ "Home" button from turning the screen on all the damn time. But so far I like it enough that I'll probably keep it.
*Yes, I know, it's several versions behind the current offering...but that's the way I want it. Everyone else paid ~$650 for it new, mine was $200 new. Not too bad.
"The apps on your phone know what you looked at and when, and can tie that in to what you see on other devices you're also logged into their services on (like your work computer)."
No, they don't, because I don't load up my phone with all that useless bullshit. The apps that aren't in use get disabled and/or deleted.
"Meanwhile, you're leaving tracks out in the physical world -- not only the location history of your phone"
No, I'm not because I don't turn all that battery-sucking GPS and location crap. I also don't turn on wifi except in a few specific locations. Yes, they can track me via cell towers, but it's rarely going to tie my purchases to anything identifiable because most of the time I use cash. Track that, you fuckers.
"but also the trail of payments you leave behind you if you pay with a credit card, debit card, or app (as millions of us do)."
Millions might, but I'm not one of them. Suck it, Google.
Well gee whiz, guess what brand of drone I won't be buying?
That's right, fuck you, DJI.
I also expect that this firmware bullshit will be hacked back into full functionality before very long.
Such individuals make up only a small portion of the population. It's just that social media greatly magnifies their impact.
Exactly. Social media is like a force amplifier for assholes and fucktards. And the worse they are the more coverage and attention they get. Is it any wonder it tends to bring out the worst people in the worst ways?
Or you could bypass this whole shitstorm-in-a-teacup by not having a Facebook account.
It's worked for me. I'm not bothered by endless pictures of people's breakfast burritos and their streams of mindless bragging about how awesome their new $_gadget is.
But to each their own, if someone likes Facebook, more power to them.
Whoever it was that told me "Don't get a Facebook account", thank you. That was more than 10 years ago and your advice is still sound.
Oh, wait....that was me who said, "Don't get a Facebook account". Thank you, me!
And here I thought it was annoying when Microsoft Word keeps thinking it *knows* what word I'm trying to type or how I want things formatted.
I have often said that the greatest impediment to creating documents in Microsoft Word is Microsoft Word.
"Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know"
Fuck you, Mark. Stop trying to fiddlefuck your way into my good graces by telling me who I "should" know. Just go take your billions and fuck off to Fuckoffville.
I don't have a Facebook account and at this rate I'll beat anyone to death with a baseball bat who says I "gotta have one".
In closing, blow me, get off my lawn, and turn down that shitty music!
Insert Matrix joke here....
Your long term memory is failing OldGuy.
I think you may be right, lol. It was OS/2 I installed (I still have the install disks in their plastic binders). I'm not sure why I said Warp, but I think I tried that too at one point.
"As more groups get into the denial-of-service attack business they're starting to get in each other's way, according to a report released Thursday... There are only so many devices around that have the kind of vulnerabilities that make them potential targets for a botnet. That translates into a smaller average attack size, said Martin McKeay, senior security advocate at Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc. There are only so many devices around that have the kind of vulnerabilities that make them potential targets for a botnet."
Editing, you should.
I tried Warp back in the day, and I liked it a lot. The only thing that held me back was that it required a fairly powerful machine to make it practical.
At the time a PC with the speed and memory of that caliber was around $4000 to $5000. Anything less and it was painfully slow, lots of disk thrashing, etc. But it worked and you could run lots of DOS windows under it seamlessly.
I remember editing a doc, doing a download from a BBS with Telix, running a game, and formatting a floppy all at the same time....which was kind of amazing back then.
Not long after that Windows 3.0 came out and its main claim to fame was that it would run pretty well on much less powerful PCs.
Warp was technically better (it had true multitasking) but Windows took over the market and that was the end of that.
This is just another one of the many reasons I'll avoid Uber. Unless I'm desperate, I won't use them, and unfortunately, if I'm desperate their algorithms will probably fuck me extra hard in my time of need. Thanks, Uber.
Die, Uber, die. (That just means "The Uber, the", as Sideshow Bob will attest.)
"Facebook and Twitter 'Harm Young People's Mental Health'"
Brought to you by the Department of No Shit, Sherlock.
It was enough to get Nixon on the road to impeachment, I suspect that it will still hold true for Trump.
Only an extreme partisan could look at what he's done and go, "Yeah, nuthin' to see here."
And that's just ONE of the many things he's done that cross the boundaries of the law.
But I'm sure if Hillary or Obama had been in the exact same situation, you''d be fine with it, right? Of course you would.
Pizzagate
Bowling Green
Inauguration crowd sizes.
And don't forget, "Nobody knew healthcare was so complicated."
when mueller finds there is no crime or collusion (as is obvious to anyone with a brain, who has looked in vain for actual verifiable evidence for any of that),
Really? So Trump ADMITTING on camera that he fired the FBI director to stop the investigation into his possible collusion with Russia isn't "evidence"?
Trump explained openly how he committed obstruction of justice. We all heard it. How is that not evidence of wrongdoing? If that was you or me we'd already be in handcuffs, and you fucking know it. Your blind partisanship is mind boggling and disgusting in the extreme.
Trump could rape and murder a 5 year-old boy on live TV and people like you would argue that "the kid had it coming".
Well, learn how to fucking make them then. I'm too busy with the career kickstarted by a BSc from one of the world's top five business schools.
Lol, yeah, sure you are. And I just got hired by NASA to be a door gunner on the Space Shuttle.
But Trump said he'd make all those big companies keep their jobs here! Don't tell me he was fibbing!
"Your grammar needs improving and call me Sir" will get you laughed at. If my grammar needs improving then tell me that, don't go imposing your authoritarian power structures on me to do so.
I'm impressed with your awesome display of educational theory, and yes, I would like fries with that.
The students are the ones paying the professor's salary. So they can talk to him as appropriate to talk to "the help". In other words they can talk to the professor any way they damn please.
WRONG.
If you want knowledge from someone who knows more than you about a given subject AND who you're paying to teach it to you, be polite. Any other course of action is just stupid and ineffective.
The further on back you read, the harder it gets, 'cause the language evolved
Oh the irony.
Millennials are the lamest, most inept generation I've ever seen, heard, or read about. Not all of them, of course, but by and large what you hear about them is true. They suck.
Attention Span: They can't hold a 5-minute conversation to save their asses but they can text for hours over trivial shit.
Other People: They have no real understanding of social interaction unless it involves swiping left or right. How they'll reproduce is still in question.
Task Management: They have difficulty managing even slightly complex tasks. Honestly, they're like brain-damaged babies. Never trust them with a serious project or anything with moving parts.
The World: In general, they have very little awareness of the world at large. If their "news" doesn't come via Facebook, they're blissfully unaware of it.
Restaurants: Take them to a nice restaurant and they might as well have been dropped in the jungle. Their only hope is if there are pictures and the dishes can be ordered by number.
Food: Most of them couldn't cook a meal if their lives depended on it. And NO, microwaving a burrito does not count as "cooking a meal".
Work: They expect to be promoted just for showing up. When they do show up, a lot of their time is spent on Facebook, Facetime, Pinterest, Instagram, Line, Tinder, Grindr, etc etc etc etc etc etc.Take away their cellphone and they start to shake like a junkie in rehab.
And on and on and on....
Yes, some Millennials function just fine in society, but there's no avoiding the fact that many of them are socially illiterate and would starve to death in a supermarket if left to their own devices.
They are, in my humble opinion, "The Saddest Generation".