"I see. What does this have to do with slowing down the processor?"
"The batteries degrade like it always did, but we hide it by lying about 100%. At some point battery life sucks. But the customer might sue us for providing a crappy battery life with expensive replacement, and we sure as shit don't want to pay for dealer replacement ourselves, so rather than taking a quality black eye, we lie a second time by slowing the processor. It's not lies because we hide it in the fine print, I hope."
"Couldn't they just replace the battery themselves for $10?"
"No, it must be done at a dealer."
"Why? Is there soldering?"
"No, it's a normal battery plugin, but it is behind a warranty sticker."
"Why?"
"So we could charge a lot more. Android phones do this, too. The real goal is to make people throw up their hands and pay for the overpriced monthly infinite care package."
"What is that?"
"That's where we replace a phone with a returned one from an ever-growing pile of phones we don't know what to do with, as the phones age and people upgrade. But it looks premium to the customer."
Oooooh boy. The governmental weaponization of social ostracism.
It's bad enough in the west knee-jerk social lemmingism rules the day with fear. Here, it will be used by those in power as yet another lever to keep down challengers to their power.
They want to catch crooks. Meanwhile, billions in dictatorships are kept down with the assistance of breaking crypto.
Are we to sacrifice them so a prosecutor can get a notch or two on his belt once in a great while?
And what are those hundreds of millions of children living with a boot on their face...forever...worth?
Torture and murder some, you are a nasty criminal. Torture and murder hundreds of thousands, and people in free countries say you are practicing self-rule.
Back in the good old days you could force delete even OS stuff that would wreck the OS, and open files that would crash the computer. This made it easy to get rid of viruses.
Whether they changed this to stop OS problems, or to stop viruses from using it to install themselves, it made virus removal harder as virus writers coopted it to prevent their own removal, when the OS people no doubt thought they had the upper hand.
Politicians know all this and ignore it. When spending AKA borrowing, was increasing to near-WWII levels per capita, in good times, people wondered what would happen in the case of war or recession (or both). Clearly something would have to give.
Exactly. Mining by web browser hidden javascript is about the worst way to mine ths side of an old Basic interpreter. But if it isn't your electricicity and you have millions of people inadvertently doing it for you, it's very doable.
"...held a series of telephone calls with small Internet service providers across the country -- from Oklahoma to Ohio, from Montana to Minnesota..."
Just FYI, for those without a map handy, that covers 8 out of 50 states, all in the midwest: Montana to Minnesota = Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Oklahoma to Ohio = Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Again...just FYI.
He is, of course, attempting to be poetic, and thus sound clever, as he lies.
Ajit Pai is like that fat guy in the (original) Total Recall who stood there sweating, hoping against hope Arnie fell for it. Then he'd go collect a hundred million dollar salary in telecom somewhere later on.
I've poster a dozen times how ourbown government, wanting backdoors into everything, was instantiating 1984 for billions worldwide as dictatorships used it for its real purpose, to keep their political opponents down.
Yey, we catch a few crooks. For every notch in the fed's belt, envision 100,000,000 or more with a boot on their neck...forever.
It's also not in accordance with the design principles of the US government, where the Constitution is concerned with forbidding the tools of tyrrany to begin with.
To be honest, reducing unemplyment rates by removal of long-term unemployed was a Republican invention. My son would come home from jr. high loaded with talking points about how Bush was hiding the real unemployment rate, which he could quote. It wasn't such a fun talking point as it grew and grew under Obama.
We need something like 230k new jobs a month to keep up with population growth, so this month is a bare minimum of health. We need better for years to chip away at it and induce long term (and NEET) back to work.
"It's a great example of putting the precautionary principle into action."
Which is a great example of what's wrong with government. The People reserve freedom unto themselves and not that they get on their knees to beg those in power for permission to do things.
Government shouldn't be outlawing things without good reason, and the precautionary principle self-admittedly is not.
It isn't up to free people to prove to those in power why they should be free to do somethimg.
I will now await my downmod by those who want to hide challenges to their worldview. See my.sig.
Do not create plants whose job it is to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. As much as some don't want to hear it, sea rise over a century or three is an inconvenience and not a deadly threat.
Plants that get out into the wild are, as it (like other ameliorative efforts) could overshoot and induce an ice age. Given these come on in as little as a few years (you need just one cold summer where the snow doesn't melt) you will indeed kill billions.
Actually littering might get thrown out as speech, in this case the handing out of pamplets overrides this. This is why people who throw newspapers on your lawn can't be charged with littering, and that's your house.
There could be a danger violation here, but not a mundane littering charge.
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"I see. What does this have to do with slowing down the processor?"
"The batteries degrade like it always did, but we hide it by lying about 100%. At some point battery life sucks. But the customer might sue us for providing a crappy battery life with expensive replacement, and we sure as shit don't want to pay for dealer replacement ourselves, so rather than taking a quality black eye, we lie a second time by slowing the processor. It's not lies because we hide it in the fine print, I hope."
"Couldn't they just replace the battery themselves for $10?"
"No, it must be done at a dealer."
"Why? Is there soldering?"
"No, it's a normal battery plugin, but it is behind a warranty sticker."
"Why?"
"So we could charge a lot more. Android phones do this, too. The real goal is to make people throw up their hands and pay for the overpriced monthly infinite care package."
"What is that?"
"That's where we replace a phone with a returned one from an ever-growing pile of phones we don't know what to do with, as the phones age and people upgrade. But it looks premium to the customer."
Oooooh boy. The governmental weaponization of social ostracism.
It's bad enough in the west knee-jerk social lemmingism rules the day with fear. Here, it will be used by those in power as yet another lever to keep down challengers to their power.
top 5% only see doctors
How is the work down on the docks, comrade?
I have Tramadol, and it sucks compared to 800 ibuprofen, the prescription strength.
2 weeks of that will kill bursitis in your shoulder. Try it out.
Anyway I don't take 800 except rarely but I will take 200 or 400 once a day.
They want to catch crooks. Meanwhile, billions in dictatorships are kept down with the assistance of breaking crypto.
Are we to sacrifice them so a prosecutor can get a notch or two on his belt once in a great while?
And what are those hundreds of millions of children living with a boot on their face...forever...worth?
Torture and murder some, you are a nasty criminal. Torture and murder hundreds of thousands, and people in free countries say you are practicing self-rule.
Back in the good old days you could force delete even OS stuff that would wreck the OS, and open files that would crash the computer. This made it easy to get rid of viruses.
Whether they changed this to stop OS problems, or to stop viruses from using it to install themselves, it made virus removal harder as virus writers coopted it to prevent their own removal, when the OS people no doubt thought they had the upper hand.
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views'
Which puts it firmly in 5th place after China, Russia, the US, and, for some reason, anti-Star Wars The Last Jedi fans on Rotten Tomatoes..
Net neutrality does not mean you get to copy copyrighted material. If you do that, stop having an iot thermostat.
Politicians know all this and ignore it. When spending AKA borrowing, was increasing to near-WWII levels per capita, in good times, people wondered what would happen in the case of war or recession (or both). Clearly something would have to give.
Nope! Heave it all onto the debt.
Exactly. Mining by web browser hidden javascript is about the worst way to mine ths side of an old Basic interpreter. But if it isn't your electricicity and you have millions of people inadvertently doing it for you, it's very doable.
And the number one topic this year: "That Anya chick from Split feet", just edging out "That black-hair chick from Riverdale feet".
"...held a series of telephone calls with small Internet service providers across the country -- from Oklahoma to Ohio, from Montana to Minnesota..."
Just FYI, for those without a map handy, that covers 8 out of 50 states, all in the midwest:
Montana to Minnesota = Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Oklahoma to Ohio = Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Again...just FYI.
He is, of course, attempting to be poetic, and thus sound clever, as he lies.
Ajit Pai is like that fat guy in the (original) Total Recall who stood there sweating, hoping against hope Arnie fell for it. Then he'd go collect a hundred million dollar salary in telecom somewhere later on.
Pounding the hell out of functions with random (and thus lying) input is one of my best tricks.
How am I gonna save the Enterprise if everyone knows the secret?
I've poster a dozen times how ourbown government, wanting backdoors into everything, was instantiating 1984 for billions worldwide as dictatorships used it for its real purpose, to keep their political opponents down.
Yey, we catch a few crooks. For every notch in the fed's belt, envision 100,000,000 or more with a boot on their neck...forever.
It's also not in accordance with the design principles of the US government, where the Constitution is concerned with forbidding the tools of tyrrany to begin with.
That they may be identical suggests they are the exact same phenomenon, which is cooler than everything else put together.
The FCC guy is right, though. Millions of fake comments had no bearing on the outcome at all, which was preordained.
To be honest, reducing unemplyment rates by removal of long-term unemployed was a Republican invention. My son would come home from jr. high loaded with talking points about how Bush was hiding the real unemployment rate, which he could quote. It wasn't such a fun talking point as it grew and grew under Obama.
We need something like 230k new jobs a month to keep up with population growth, so this month is a bare minimum of health. We need better for years to chip away at it and induce long term (and NEET) back to work.
or whatever that one smart speaker that uses Cortana is called
MeeToo(tm)
"It's a great example of putting the precautionary principle into action."
Which is a great example of what's wrong with government. The People reserve freedom unto themselves and not that they get on their knees to beg those in power for permission to do things.
Government shouldn't be outlawing things without good reason, and the precautionary principle self-admittedly is not.
It isn't up to free people to prove to those in power why they should be free to do somethimg.
I will now await my downmod by those who want to hide challenges to their worldview. See my .sig.
If a private org wants to censor, fine. Let them brag about it on their signup page.
And we serve those cups of STFU as unregistered baristas -- unregistered bikini baristas.
Do not create plants whose job it is to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. As much as some don't want to hear it, sea rise over a century or three is an inconvenience and not a deadly threat.
Plants that get out into the wild are, as it (like other ameliorative efforts) could overshoot and induce an ice age. Given these come on in as little as a few years (you need just one cold summer where the snow doesn't melt) you will indeed kill billions.
Actually littering might get thrown out as speech, in this case the handing out of pamplets overrides this. This is why people who throw newspapers on your lawn can't be charged with littering, and that's your house.
There could be a danger violation here, but not a mundane littering charge.