This wasn't the first and certainly not the last time they have used Stingray. The most worrying aspect is that they don't even keep records of its use! Nobody could ever tell when, where and how often it has been used.
It will indeed and it might cause quite a lot of people to leave Facebook (a cliché I know). What I do like about it, however, is that it's arms races like these that make huge technology leaps happen. It also forces us users and advertisers to answer certain lingering philosophical questions about ad blocking, which is equally good.
Maybe we'll soon be back to the Internet of 97-03 where a lot of sites were run by individuals dedicated to a subject. Many great communities formed around sites like these, and I haven't really seen it happen on modern sites any more.
That's just the thing, it's out of control at the moment. The US, for example, has supported or brought countless dictators to power by fixing or helping fix elections, or otherwise playing dirty. I'm sure the people of these countries feel the same way you do. The healing process begins at home.
There are no right directions in this kind of game any more. Nobody has any moral high ground left to call an end to it, which means it's an ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game. The agencies and politicians doing this should sober up and call an end to it. Make the world a safer place by blocking holes in software products, not create them.
I don't even... That sounds so insanely stupid. It should always be chip + PIN because that's the only realistic way of authenticating the actual card owner, or someone who has been authorized to use the card. Having a chip + signature makes the whole chip completely useless.
It's not as simple as to say that all 3.5mm jacks suffer the problems you described. The good ports cost a lot more and they won't put them where they're not thought to be under an active insert/remove cycle. For example many motherboards, even high-end ones, have shitty 3.5mm jacks because most people don't fiddle with the back-side connectors on a daily basis. You put your speakers or headphones in and they stay connected for even months at a time.
Then we have those good ports that last for ages. My '09 Sony Walkman has been in almost daily use since I bought it, and there's still no need to find 'sweet spots'. As a side not, I have to say the battery on that device has been amazing too as it hasn't degraded noticeably to this day.
Meaning of course the operators. And also to be more specific: population density and the cost of establishing sufficient LTE coverage don't correlate the way you think they do.
Your post makes absolutely no sense. Population density and LTE coverage do not correlate the way you think they do. There's fresh data about the subject you can search if you really want to know the truth. The reason people in the US have to pay so much for their mobile plans is because there's very little regulation that applies or is applied to them. There's an illusion of 'free markets' in the telecommunications markets when in fact the only freedom those markets have is the freedom to be anti-competitive. Small and innovative players are ousted from the markets. Fast.
I think Telia had one. Or if not Telia, you could always get yourself a subscription from Sonera, which I at least know has one (for ~27-30 euros per month). Should work in most Nordic Countries and at least in Estonia without any restrictions.
Around the Nordic Countries, I'm able to get *truly* unlimited LTE for around $30/mo. Hurts to think of all the fellow nerds across the pond who have to pay themselves sick for something like this.
It's about holding a dominant position in the computer OS markets and utilizing that to further entrench your dominance. The same applies for example to Google using their dominant position on the search engine markets to promote their own products at the expense of competitors' visibility in search results.
This *is* the general sentiment, but the fact is that there is only very few companies that can satisfy corporate needs in this area and all of these companies are ridden with identical problems. You'd essentially have to boycott them all.
As I recall, there's a sort of positive 'dead man's switch' in Qt, for example. The KDE project is heavily dependent on it and once Digia decided to sell the Qt project onwards, a clause to release all code under a FOSS license was included in the sale should the new owner go bankrupt or otherwise end the project. This gave the communities and companies currently using Qt a peace of mind.
Although it might sound a bit outlandish to suggest something like this to hardware, it might not be a bad idea at all! I can imagine they would likely try to circumvent laws like that by utilizing some sort of lease/subscription arrangements and similar, though. I mean, that's what Microsoft has been striving for with Windows, after all. Even back in the day, Microsoft officially considered the bought operating system discs to be "subscriptions" to their product (as described in the EULA). This didn't really hold up in the courts though, at least not in Europe.
I wanted a Chromebook especially because most of them have an ARM processor, which usually translates to a longer battery life and they also tend to be a lot cheaper than low-end x86 laptops. I've tried running Linux on my Chromebook, too, but I found out that for the things I use it for, I don't really even need a full-fledged Linux distro to do them!
My Chromebook is from circa 2013 and it still runs like new and even the heavier websites render smoothly nowadays. If I went to buy a cheap x86 laptop, it'd still cost me 50-150% more than this one and it wouldn't offer me personally any added value.
Most people have been using Chromebooks wrong. When you go out and buy a $500 laptop or tablet, you don't really expect it to run games or applications that require intensive graphics processing or physics computing. But for some reason, when it comes to $200 Chromebooks, people expect them to do everything a $3k gaming rig can do. I mean, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and it's been like this since their launch.
I'm happy with my slightly customized $200 Chromebook that has a good keyboard and touchpad, 6.5h battery life and it's very light and durable. I'm using it right.
I've eaten whale meat and I've also seen it being sold in Japan. Very few Japanese have ever tasted whale meat let alone liked it. It's not particularly good, and frankly you need to finish the whole experience with a vodka shot.
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So, is this just a remake of Elite or what?
Yes. Yes it is.
And to be more specific, not a remake, but a clone of Elite: Dangerous.
...what have you done?
This wasn't the first and certainly not the last time they have used Stingray. The most worrying aspect is that they don't even keep records of its use! Nobody could ever tell when, where and how often it has been used.
It will indeed and it might cause quite a lot of people to leave Facebook (a cliché I know). What I do like about it, however, is that it's arms races like these that make huge technology leaps happen. It also forces us users and advertisers to answer certain lingering philosophical questions about ad blocking, which is equally good.
Maybe we'll soon be back to the Internet of 97-03 where a lot of sites were run by individuals dedicated to a subject. Many great communities formed around sites like these, and I haven't really seen it happen on modern sites any more.
That's just the thing, it's out of control at the moment. The US, for example, has supported or brought countless dictators to power by fixing or helping fix elections, or otherwise playing dirty. I'm sure the people of these countries feel the same way you do. The healing process begins at home.
There are no right directions in this kind of game any more. Nobody has any moral high ground left to call an end to it, which means it's an ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game. The agencies and politicians doing this should sober up and call an end to it. Make the world a safer place by blocking holes in software products, not create them.
I don't even... That sounds so insanely stupid. It should always be chip + PIN because that's the only realistic way of authenticating the actual card owner, or someone who has been authorized to use the card. Having a chip + signature makes the whole chip completely useless.
I misread it at first too, thought it said "manshield".
It's not as simple as to say that all 3.5mm jacks suffer the problems you described. The good ports cost a lot more and they won't put them where they're not thought to be under an active insert/remove cycle. For example many motherboards, even high-end ones, have shitty 3.5mm jacks because most people don't fiddle with the back-side connectors on a daily basis. You put your speakers or headphones in and they stay connected for even months at a time.
Then we have those good ports that last for ages. My '09 Sony Walkman has been in almost daily use since I bought it, and there's still no need to find 'sweet spots'. As a side not, I have to say the battery on that device has been amazing too as it hasn't degraded noticeably to this day.
I suppose Mozilla will be then getting that huge load of money they have been talking about. Or continue receiving it.
or is applied to them
Meaning of course the operators. And also to be more specific: population density and the cost of establishing sufficient LTE coverage don't correlate the way you think they do.
Your post makes absolutely no sense. Population density and LTE coverage do not correlate the way you think they do. There's fresh data about the subject you can search if you really want to know the truth. The reason people in the US have to pay so much for their mobile plans is because there's very little regulation that applies or is applied to them. There's an illusion of 'free markets' in the telecommunications markets when in fact the only freedom those markets have is the freedom to be anti-competitive. Small and innovative players are ousted from the markets. Fast.
I think Telia had one. Or if not Telia, you could always get yourself a subscription from Sonera, which I at least know has one (for ~27-30 euros per month). Should work in most Nordic Countries and at least in Estonia without any restrictions.
Around the Nordic Countries, I'm able to get *truly* unlimited LTE for around $30/mo. Hurts to think of all the fellow nerds across the pond who have to pay themselves sick for something like this.
It's about holding a dominant position in the computer OS markets and utilizing that to further entrench your dominance. The same applies for example to Google using their dominant position on the search engine markets to promote their own products at the expense of competitors' visibility in search results.
That's a long way of saying "this is junk science". :-)
These companies should be boycotted.
This *is* the general sentiment, but the fact is that there is only very few companies that can satisfy corporate needs in this area and all of these companies are ridden with identical problems. You'd essentially have to boycott them all.
Whatever the drug companies think is bad for their business, must be good for the consumers.
As I recall, there's a sort of positive 'dead man's switch' in Qt, for example. The KDE project is heavily dependent on it and once Digia decided to sell the Qt project onwards, a clause to release all code under a FOSS license was included in the sale should the new owner go bankrupt or otherwise end the project. This gave the communities and companies currently using Qt a peace of mind.
Although it might sound a bit outlandish to suggest something like this to hardware, it might not be a bad idea at all! I can imagine they would likely try to circumvent laws like that by utilizing some sort of lease/subscription arrangements and similar, though. I mean, that's what Microsoft has been striving for with Windows, after all. Even back in the day, Microsoft officially considered the bought operating system discs to be "subscriptions" to their product (as described in the EULA). This didn't really hold up in the courts though, at least not in Europe.
I wanted a Chromebook especially because most of them have an ARM processor, which usually translates to a longer battery life and they also tend to be a lot cheaper than low-end x86 laptops. I've tried running Linux on my Chromebook, too, but I found out that for the things I use it for, I don't really even need a full-fledged Linux distro to do them!
My Chromebook is from circa 2013 and it still runs like new and even the heavier websites render smoothly nowadays. If I went to buy a cheap x86 laptop, it'd still cost me 50-150% more than this one and it wouldn't offer me personally any added value.
Most people have been using Chromebooks wrong. When you go out and buy a $500 laptop or tablet, you don't really expect it to run games or applications that require intensive graphics processing or physics computing. But for some reason, when it comes to $200 Chromebooks, people expect them to do everything a $3k gaming rig can do. I mean, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and it's been like this since their launch.
I'm happy with my slightly customized $200 Chromebook that has a good keyboard and touchpad, 6.5h battery life and it's very light and durable. I'm using it right.
I've eaten whale meat and I've also seen it being sold in Japan. Very few Japanese have ever tasted whale meat let alone liked it. It's not particularly good, and frankly you need to finish the whole experience with a vodka shot.
Mind. Blown. +1
Probably they mean the usual business model of the websites. You know, advertisement revenue, Gold Accounts and such.
The 80's is calling.
The speeds will increase, but the old dinosaurs won't let go of their silly data caps.