I'd suggest getting a 5 gallon bucket, filling it with concrete, and setting a pole in the center. Once the concrete cures, schedule the dish guy to come out and attach the dish to the pole. It's unsightly as fuck, which is a nice way of giving the finger back to the landlord. Once potential renters start telling him they're put off by all the ghetto looking satellite buckets, maybe he'll reconsider.
If you watch the video where it takes him 30 minutes to turn around in his driveway, you'll see the safety is built into the design. A car equipped with these tires can't move any faster than 1/2 km/h; you can stop abruptly by sneezing out the opposing window.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
I can imagine that the people who were tricked into installing Windows 10 and then used Messaging Everywhere are a bit sour about having that taken away from them.
Anyone running Windows 10 ought to get comfortable with the idea of things being taken away on a whim, and free things suddenly having a fee attached. Microsoft seems to have bet the empire on it.
I am logged into YouTube all the time though, that's one thing from Google that I need. But is it able to link everything to it for that reason?
Yes. Log out of YouTube, then click the Sign In link and look where it actually takes you: accounts.google.com. Logging in there sets a cookie for google.com, which can and will be read by google.com and its other subdomains, tying your activity together.
I'm just hoping this update gets rid of the ugly sprite trees. At some point the earth view of Google Maps stopped serving actual images where it thinks trees are, and started rendering sprites instead. So you try to zoom in and get these big ugly jagged vectors instead of image data.
The NBA finals game 7, as a topic, had plenty of posts from different subreddits on the front page of/r/all at the same time. One from/r/nba, one from/r/news, one from/r/sports, one from/r/clevelandcavs, etc. There weren't multiple posts from/r/nba there at the same time. When something newsworthy happens regarding Trump, you can see that plenty of times in/r/all as well, once from/r/The_Donald, once from/r/news, once from/r/politics, etc.
entirely possible (and easy) to disable all of the metrics and info that the software wants to send about you
I'm impressed. I tried to do this, but Windows 10 continued sending thousands of encrypted packets per day to different Microsoft servers. I have no idea what's in those packets. You apparently were able to decrypt them, inspect their contents, and determine they were benign. Would you mind sharing your analysis?
so that anything from their Trump subforums can't hit the front page
Bullshit. The Trump subreddit can still make the front page of/r/all, with one post at a time, same as any other subreddit. It's on there right now. What they can't do anymore is go on a voting brigade to take up a dozen slots on that page. Neither can the Sanders or Hillary subreddits, or the Sweden one, or any of a dozen others that have been annoying users lately.
I'm afraid you're correct. Once the framework is in place, we'll gradually see censorship moving from "radical ISIS propaganda" to "racist speech" to "questioning gender identity" to "consonants that make me uncomfortable today." It's already happening in some places; posting the term trigglypuff will get swallowed up by the memory hole on some sites, and get you outright banned from others.
In this case, the fact that it was a celebrity (FSVO "celebrity" - I never heard of the guy until he died) means the design flaw got national media attention. That's a good thing. But class actions happen all the time. What celebrity spurred the lawsuit against Red Bull? Which famous person should I thank for suing Capital One over millions of illegal robocalls? How about Truvia being sued for false "all natural" labeling? Commoners, as you say, initiated all of those suits. And they're initiating this one, too - the suit is not being brought on behalf of the actor or his family, but regular people who own the same type of vehicle.
Each Twitter account has a username, which can be changed anytime by the user, and a numeric ID which cannot be changed. The numeric ID is what's used to tie various database tables together, because it's immutable, so relationships between the account/tweets/friends/followers remain intact even if the username is changed. Much like Facebook, there's a way to access Twitter accounts using their numeric ID instead of their username by plugging the numeric ID into a URL. By iterating over the numeric IDs, fetching the corresponding URL for each one, you can determine the username that corresponds to each ID.
What the researchers here found interesting is that all of these bot-created Twitter accounts apparently correspond to two large blocks of numeric IDs which:
* Have no real user accounts inside them, which is odd, because real people are signing up for Twitter every second of every day. If these bot accounts were created by someone outside of Twitter using publicly available registration processes, you would expect some real users to be mixed in during the hours/days it took to create millions of bot accounts.
* Should have already been used up by the time these accounts were created. As an example, Slashdot is up to post IDs in the 52,000,000 range (yours is #52,365,077). If I was somehow able to make a million posts on Slashdot yesterday, it would be awfully strange if their post IDs turned out to be 6,000,001 - 7,000,000. Those IDs should have been taken by other peoples' posts a long time ago.
All of this hints at someone inside of Twitter being involved in creating these accounts, for whatever purpose.
There are already ambulances and police on site at any event of this size. Insurance requires it, the fire code likely requires it, common sense dictates it, and the artists usually have it in their contract (even if they're only thinking of themselves). Trying to get help sent from the outside will likely take longer than finding someone in a position of authority at the venue.
Imagine if we had a National Alcoholics Association. Sure, they'd fine the good fight on efforts to ban alcohol. But they'd also fight against drunk driving laws, selling alcohol to minors, try to simultaneously get people off from crimes because they were drunk, and generally call any attempt to limit anyone's consumption of alcohol as Prohibition and regulation.
Are you suggesting that the NRA lobbies against murder laws, or to repeal laws that prohibit firearm sales to minors? Do you believe the NRA hires defense lawyers for people who shoot other people, trying to get them acquitted? Because the NRA does none of those things, and if you believe they do, I'm afraid you've drank too much Kool-Aid. Maybe you could try a nice whiskey instead.
I do not have the ability to crush a media outlet I don't like.
And which media outlets have published secretly-recorded video of you or your friends engaging in sex acts? Gawker crushed itself by breaking the law, refusing a court order, and then having one of its executives make wisecracks during deposition.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd suggest getting a 5 gallon bucket, filling it with concrete, and setting a pole in the center. Once the concrete cures, schedule the dish guy to come out and attach the dish to the pole. It's unsightly as fuck, which is a nice way of giving the finger back to the landlord. Once potential renters start telling him they're put off by all the ghetto looking satellite buckets, maybe he'll reconsider.
How would it stop abruptly in case of emergency?
If you watch the video where it takes him 30 minutes to turn around in his driveway, you'll see the safety is built into the design. A car equipped with these tires can't move any faster than 1/2 km/h; you can stop abruptly by sneezing out the opposing window.
This operating system is brought to you by the letters N, S, and A.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
Why does Microsoft have such an obsessive hard-on for Skype?
I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with Skype's longstanding status as the NSA's wet dream [pdf warning].
I can imagine that the people who were tricked into installing Windows 10 and then used Messaging Everywhere are a bit sour about having that taken away from them.
Anyone running Windows 10 ought to get comfortable with the idea of things being taken away on a whim, and free things suddenly having a fee attached. Microsoft seems to have bet the empire on it.
I am logged into YouTube all the time though, that's one thing from Google that I need. But is it able to link everything to it for that reason?
Yes. Log out of YouTube, then click the Sign In link and look where it actually takes you: accounts.google.com. Logging in there sets a cookie for google.com, which can and will be read by google.com and its other subdomains, tying your activity together.
You'd think by now Google would know what kind of porn I liked, and could recommend the good stuff for me, wouldn't you?
That's what Bing is for. It is, hands down (or one-handed?), the best porn search engine on the internet.
Well, it has the highest property crime rate in the US.
I'm just hoping this update gets rid of the ugly sprite trees. At some point the earth view of Google Maps stopped serving actual images where it thinks trees are, and started rendering sprites instead. So you try to zoom in and get these big ugly jagged vectors instead of image data.
The NBA finals game 7, as a topic, had plenty of posts from different subreddits on the front page of /r/all at the same time. One from /r/nba, one from /r/news, one from /r/sports, one from /r/clevelandcavs, etc. There weren't multiple posts from /r/nba there at the same time. When something newsworthy happens regarding Trump, you can see that plenty of times in /r/all as well, once from /r/The_Donald, once from /r/news, once from /r/politics, etc.
entirely possible (and easy) to disable all of the metrics and info that the software wants to send about you
I'm impressed. I tried to do this, but Windows 10 continued sending thousands of encrypted packets per day to different Microsoft servers. I have no idea what's in those packets. You apparently were able to decrypt them, inspect their contents, and determine they were benign. Would you mind sharing your analysis?
they silently changed their algorithm
And by "silently" you mean they announced the change in a thread that got more than 11,000 comments?
so that anything from their Trump subforums can't hit the front page
Bullshit. The Trump subreddit can still make the front page of /r/all, with one post at a time, same as any other subreddit. It's on there right now. What they can't do anymore is go on a voting brigade to take up a dozen slots on that page. Neither can the Sanders or Hillary subreddits, or the Sweden one, or any of a dozen others that have been annoying users lately.
I'm afraid you're correct. Once the framework is in place, we'll gradually see censorship moving from "radical ISIS propaganda" to "racist speech" to "questioning gender identity" to "consonants that make me uncomfortable today." It's already happening in some places; posting the term trigglypuff will get swallowed up by the memory hole on some sites, and get you outright banned from others.
In this case, the fact that it was a celebrity (FSVO "celebrity" - I never heard of the guy until he died) means the design flaw got national media attention. That's a good thing. But class actions happen all the time. What celebrity spurred the lawsuit against Red Bull? Which famous person should I thank for suing Capital One over millions of illegal robocalls? How about Truvia being sued for false "all natural" labeling? Commoners, as you say, initiated all of those suits. And they're initiating this one, too - the suit is not being brought on behalf of the actor or his family, but regular people who own the same type of vehicle.
That's probably why it hasn't been fixed yet, maybe the Google employees working on Chrome like using the feature themselves.
or you share the car with another uber driver. i know a few and they make decent money.
Nice. So who's the named insured in these situations? What happens when one of the other people is driving and gets into an accident?
They call it "Windows 10."
Each Twitter account has a username, which can be changed anytime by the user, and a numeric ID which cannot be changed. The numeric ID is what's used to tie various database tables together, because it's immutable, so relationships between the account/tweets/friends/followers remain intact even if the username is changed. Much like Facebook, there's a way to access Twitter accounts using their numeric ID instead of their username by plugging the numeric ID into a URL. By iterating over the numeric IDs, fetching the corresponding URL for each one, you can determine the username that corresponds to each ID.
What the researchers here found interesting is that all of these bot-created Twitter accounts apparently correspond to two large blocks of numeric IDs which:
* Have no real user accounts inside them, which is odd, because real people are signing up for Twitter every second of every day. If these bot accounts were created by someone outside of Twitter using publicly available registration processes, you would expect some real users to be mixed in during the hours/days it took to create millions of bot accounts.
* Should have already been used up by the time these accounts were created. As an example, Slashdot is up to post IDs in the 52,000,000 range (yours is #52,365,077). If I was somehow able to make a million posts on Slashdot yesterday, it would be awfully strange if their post IDs turned out to be 6,000,001 - 7,000,000. Those IDs should have been taken by other peoples' posts a long time ago.
All of this hints at someone inside of Twitter being involved in creating these accounts, for whatever purpose.
What happens if there is an emergency?
The cell towers and 911 system don't get overloaded by 10,000 people trying to call simultaneously, that's what.
There are already ambulances and police on site at any event of this size. Insurance requires it, the fire code likely requires it, common sense dictates it, and the artists usually have it in their contract (even if they're only thinking of themselves). Trying to get help sent from the outside will likely take longer than finding someone in a position of authority at the venue.
If it does what I want it to do, I really don't care about what's happening behind the curtain.
The entire topic is about when it stops doing what you want it to do, and it needs to be repaired.
Imagine if we had a National Alcoholics Association. Sure, they'd fine the good fight on efforts to ban alcohol. But they'd also fight against drunk driving laws, selling alcohol to minors, try to simultaneously get people off from crimes because they were drunk, and generally call any attempt to limit anyone's consumption of alcohol as Prohibition and regulation.
Are you suggesting that the NRA lobbies against murder laws, or to repeal laws that prohibit firearm sales to minors? Do you believe the NRA hires defense lawyers for people who shoot other people, trying to get them acquitted? Because the NRA does none of those things, and if you believe they do, I'm afraid you've drank too much Kool-Aid. Maybe you could try a nice whiskey instead.
I do not have the ability to crush a media outlet I don't like.
And which media outlets have published secretly-recorded video of you or your friends engaging in sex acts? Gawker crushed itself by breaking the law, refusing a court order, and then having one of its executives make wisecracks during deposition.
Nothing to do with Peter Thiel, either, but accuracy isn't a quality I've come to expect from Gawker headlines.