I had an Instagram account, which only consisted of my own photographs, disabled for "copyright infringement" There weren't even any pictures of objects on which copyright could be claimed. It was various animal and nature photography I had taken over the years, interspersed with photos of our puppies.
There was no way to reach support or challenge it in any way. I just got the notification that my account was shut down and that's it.
I wonder if they still turn around and license user content if they've deleted a user account.
Yup, and even if you go through and set up the settings that *can* be turned off, the next patch turns them right back on again by default. It has also changed my default apps like Notepad++ back to the MS equivalents after a patch too.
I do like some of the features of it, like on my tablet I can switch between a tablet UI and a full windows desktop for mouse and keyboard usage cleanly (much better than the nasty windows 8), but damn if the intrusiveness isn't a major downside.
That was two decades before the App Store came into being. The slice they take on that would make up for the hardware sales now easily. Windows 10 will pay for itself out of its own App Store and MS knows it.
Wow. What crawled up your ass and had the batteries die?
There's news, and then there's being given an advertisement under the guise of news. I just wondered if anyone else thought it seemed more ad than news article. There's a reason that 'slashvertisement' was coined.
I'm using Windows 10, but I'll use whatever is in front of me if it does the job. I gave my father my Mac mini when it was no longer fast enough for me, and he's required virtually no tech support in the years since, other than doing a fresh install of Mavericks for him.
What I'd like is to have OSX on my parts-built PC without doing a Hackintosh. Apple should know by now that opening up the OS to other hardware would mean making even more off the App Store.
My only caveat for friends who look at buying Mac is to never, ever buy first generation hardware. Wait six months. There's always something wrong with the first generation of the latest "hot and sexy" out of Apple. But they figure it out.
There is already enough wealth to eliminate poverty and inequality. It's just distributed and horded in such a way as that doesn't occur. No CEO is worth double digit millions of dollars while laying off thousands of employees at the same time to "cut operating costs".
If I put ads on a page, then I'd have to get around a thousand pairs of eyeballs on it to make a dollar with a lot of the CPM rates out there.
Yet Wired thinks that if you use adblock to protect your computer the amount of pages you read in a week on their site will be comparable. Or they just think that you should be subjected to a subscriber tax...
With Facebook backing them I expected it to be cheaper as well. I figured Facebook would have found a way to leverage the connection for mining data about the users to profit from, making the Rift a loss leader.
I thought it was kind of neat that for decades many toolboxes had a space perfectly sized for The Machinery Handbook. I found a couple of digital copies for my curiosity:)
If you're a white, well-off, adult male in a population that tends towards those people being in power (whether in politics or business) then you're not going to be hurt by a lack of oversight in the day to day operations of society.
If you're one of the groups sidelined by whatever the majority believes (whether that's racial supremacy, religious nuttery, etc) then having state protections can be good.
Making sure that the political machine has safeguards in place to prevent any group that ends up sidelined or in conflict doesn't become a target for abuse by the state also has to be a consideration.
It's a delicate balance.
I'd rather have a degree of protection for my neighbors who have a history of being stepped on, than an illusory freedom that lets robber barons run amok over us as well.
If we didn't have such a problem with greed / material wealth gathering, a lot of the issues that trickle out from that would likely end up with a society that has a lot fewer rules.
As Snowden pointed out in his interview the data they collect isn't useful for stopping terrorists. It just lets them create a historical profile of every person so that when they decide you are an enemy they can pick through your life and get the dirt on you.
It's a database of dirty deeds and associations. A machine made to discredit one's opponents.
A single bitcoin is likely to be a very common kind of transaction. Remember the Ashleigh Madison blackmailers who were asking for very specific amounts, which allowed multiple transactions to multiple bitcoin addresses to be grouped together by those investigating? It would be much harder to associate all those wallets if they were for an amount that's commonly used.
Oh bah, never mind. I shouldn't post when I'm tired. It's bumblebees not honeybees. Their hives are tiny, and nobody's collecting honey from them. Duh:)
I don't see how they'll be able to prevent hive contamination with this method. The worker bees are as likely to track the pesticides back into the comb when they return from foraging as when they go out to the plants. Over time any contaminants introduced into a hive will build up in the comb wax, provided that it's a hive structure in which comb is reused. (Refer to Langstroth hives with frames mounted in supers, which are the most common types in the industry). Even if it's initially harmless at the dosed value, the presence over time will tilt the effective dosages. This is found in the treatment of varroa mites, which are treated with fumigants that are hung inside the super between the frames. Over time those fumigants that accumulate in the wax add on to the active dosage that should only affect the mites and not the bees, and you end up at the point where a mite treatment is killing the bees too. I also wonder if they intend for this to be strictly for "workhorse" colonies or for those used in honey for consumption. The pesticides of note might be harmless to humans, but could still be taken poorly by consumers.
Side note: It's not uncommon for various treatments to be used on hives outside of honey production season. But this one would need to be done during the time that bees are actively collecting nectar and pollen for their business to work.
Seinfeld's humor is hinged on seeing not-quite-likeable people in uncomfortable situations. John Cleese mentions taboo subjects in his interview about Fawlty Towers, though Seinfeld is less about the taboo and more about the release of stress you get from watching these painful social situations unfold.
And they don't stand the test of time, as noted below, because you've seen them and it doesn't cause the same reactions, or they're no longer relevant socially, or no longer relevant to you as a person.
If they never were relevant to someone, chances are that person never found them funny in the first place.
Since getting at game saves is not something the average user can easily do in most cases on mobile platforms, would this be a useful method for sharing save games? Just drop a URL to the desktop and now anyone can have full hearts, the champion sword, and the unobtainium underpants.
Slashdot Mirror
I had an Instagram account, which only consisted of my own photographs, disabled for "copyright infringement"
There weren't even any pictures of objects on which copyright could be claimed.
It was various animal and nature photography I had taken over the years, interspersed with photos of our puppies.
There was no way to reach support or challenge it in any way. I just got the notification that my account was shut down and that's it.
I wonder if they still turn around and license user content if they've deleted a user account.
It's who the people are that influences Apple's decisions:
In America the people are the consumers. They put the money in Apple's pockets. The government not so much.
In China the people are the workforce. The government puts the money in Apple's pockets by making them a very cheap workforce.
Of course they're siding with the Chinese government.
Yup, and even if you go through and set up the settings that *can* be turned off, the next patch turns them right back on again by default.
It has also changed my default apps like Notepad++ back to the MS equivalents after a patch too.
I do like some of the features of it, like on my tablet I can switch between a tablet UI and a full windows desktop for mouse and keyboard usage cleanly (much better than the nasty windows 8), but damn if the intrusiveness isn't a major downside.
You also read Slashdot, and probably get a lot of apps from GitHub, like I do.
But there are tons of people who like the convenience of app stores.
That was two decades before the App Store came into being. The slice they take on that would make up for the hardware sales now easily.
Windows 10 will pay for itself out of its own App Store and MS knows it.
Wow. What crawled up your ass and had the batteries die?
There's news, and then there's being given an advertisement under the guise of news. I just wondered if anyone else thought it seemed more ad than news article. There's a reason that 'slashvertisement' was coined.
Now have yourself a very pleasant enema :)
I'm using Windows 10, but I'll use whatever is in front of me if it does the job. I gave my father my Mac mini when it was no longer fast enough for me, and he's required virtually no tech support in the years since, other than doing a fresh install of Mavericks for him.
What I'd like is to have OSX on my parts-built PC without doing a Hackintosh. Apple should know by now that opening up the OS to other hardware would mean making even more off the App Store.
My only caveat for friends who look at buying Mac is to never, ever buy first generation hardware. Wait six months. There's always something wrong with the first generation of the latest "hot and sexy" out of Apple. But they figure it out.
That summary is worded distinctly like a press release. Slashvertisement?
There is already enough wealth to eliminate poverty and inequality. It's just distributed and horded in such a way as that doesn't occur.
No CEO is worth double digit millions of dollars while laying off thousands of employees at the same time to "cut operating costs".
Uh, they also have their own Linux distro.
The business opportunities wouldn't be in retail, but in manufacturing.
They would have a trained workforce available for pennies on the dollar.
If I put ads on a page, then I'd have to get around a thousand pairs of eyeballs on it to make a dollar with a lot of the CPM rates out there.
Yet Wired thinks that if you use adblock to protect your computer the amount of pages you read in a week on their site will be comparable. Or they just think that you should be subjected to a subscriber tax...
Shouldn't it be:
"Some software engineers just want to watch the world Halt and Catch Fire..."?
With Facebook backing them I expected it to be cheaper as well. I figured Facebook would have found a way to leverage the connection for mining data about the users to profit from, making the Rift a loss leader.
Flight Sim: DCS World. I don't think there's anything better out there for combat planes and helis.
Space: Elite Dangerous and Eve Valkyrie.
I thought it was kind of neat that for decades many toolboxes had a space perfectly sized for The Machinery Handbook. :)
I found a couple of digital copies for my curiosity
If you're a white, well-off, adult male in a population that tends towards those people being in power (whether in politics or business) then you're not going to be hurt by a lack of oversight in the day to day operations of society.
If you're one of the groups sidelined by whatever the majority believes (whether that's racial supremacy, religious nuttery, etc) then having state protections can be good.
Making sure that the political machine has safeguards in place to prevent any group that ends up sidelined or in conflict doesn't become a target for abuse by the state also has to be a consideration.
It's a delicate balance.
I'd rather have a degree of protection for my neighbors who have a history of being stepped on, than an illusory freedom that lets robber barons run amok over us as well.
If we didn't have such a problem with greed / material wealth gathering, a lot of the issues that trickle out from that would likely end up with a society that has a lot fewer rules.
As Snowden pointed out in his interview the data they collect isn't useful for stopping terrorists. It just lets them create a historical profile of every person so that when they decide you are an enemy they can pick through your life and get the dirt on you.
It's a database of dirty deeds and associations. A machine made to discredit one's opponents.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
A single bitcoin is likely to be a very common kind of transaction.
Remember the Ashleigh Madison blackmailers who were asking for very specific amounts, which allowed multiple transactions to multiple bitcoin addresses to be grouped together by those investigating?
It would be much harder to associate all those wallets if they were for an amount that's commonly used.
Oh bah, never mind. I shouldn't post when I'm tired. :)
It's bumblebees not honeybees. Their hives are tiny, and nobody's collecting honey from them.
Duh
I don't see how they'll be able to prevent hive contamination with this method.
The worker bees are as likely to track the pesticides back into the comb when they return from foraging as when they go out to the plants.
Over time any contaminants introduced into a hive will build up in the comb wax, provided that it's a hive structure in which comb is reused. (Refer to Langstroth hives with frames mounted in supers, which are the most common types in the industry).
Even if it's initially harmless at the dosed value, the presence over time will tilt the effective dosages.
This is found in the treatment of varroa mites, which are treated with fumigants that are hung inside the super between the frames. Over time those fumigants that accumulate in the wax add on to the active dosage that should only affect the mites and not the bees, and you end up at the point where a mite treatment is killing the bees too.
I also wonder if they intend for this to be strictly for "workhorse" colonies or for those used in honey for consumption. The pesticides of note might be harmless to humans, but could still be taken poorly by consumers.
Side note: It's not uncommon for various treatments to be used on hives outside of honey production season. But this one would need to be done during the time that bees are actively collecting nectar and pollen for their business to work.
Seinfeld's humor is hinged on seeing not-quite-likeable people in uncomfortable situations.
John Cleese mentions taboo subjects in his interview about Fawlty Towers, though Seinfeld is less about the taboo and more about the release of stress you get from watching these painful social situations unfold.
And they don't stand the test of time, as noted below, because you've seen them and it doesn't cause the same reactions, or they're no longer relevant socially, or no longer relevant to you as a person.
If they never were relevant to someone, chances are that person never found them funny in the first place.
Since getting at game saves is not something the average user can easily do in most cases on mobile platforms, would this be a useful method for sharing save games?
Just drop a URL to the desktop and now anyone can have full hearts, the champion sword, and the unobtainium underpants.
Funny how taxi companies seem to be more tightly regulated than banks.