It's just more oppression, from one of the worlds leading producers of oppression. They're creating their own reality, and writing their own narrative of people within that false, arbitrary reality.
<sarcasm>Absolutely no way this could be used for any corrupt purposes, though, like ruining the lives of anyone that criticizes the government as a whole, or for the personal vendetta of any government officials, no siree bob!</sarcasm>
I seriously wonder how much of this shit the Chinese people will put up with before there's a Civil War over it. Humans don't usually put up with being shit on forever, and the Chinese people have been getting shit on by their government for a long time now.
I'm sure all the clueless myopian companies that are lobbying for and bribing for this sort of legislation not only don't understand the technical problems, but they also probably expect humans to sit there and sift through terabytes of uploads to make sure there isn't a single copyrighted byte anywhere, and they couldn't care less what it costs to do that (so long as someone else foots the bill).
Putting it that way makes more sense. It also makes more sense to have Lifetime instead of paying by the month. Frankly, other than the larger outlay of cash, paying by the month for the Service never made sense to me (I've always had Lifetime Service), it's not like you can decide to do without it; TiVo essentially stops working without it, although theoretically you could use it like a VCR, programming channel/date/time manually for everything, although at that point 99% of the features don't work anymore.
Uh, I've had TiVo since Series 2 was on the shelves. So far as I knew you have to have Program Guide service regardless of what your signal source is, so I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "TiVo OTA version does not have a monthly subscription"? Granted, I currently and still using a Series 3 HD..
IDGAF what the Mechanism of Fuck-up was, I just want it to never happen again, no matter how many heads have to be severed to get the message across of how vitally important it is to LITERALLY EVERYONE.
Bring back the guillotine. Chop all their heads off, plant them on poles as a warning to the rest of the 'financial community' to NOT FUCK UP.
Like everyone else I'm sitting here wondering if the coin landed 'heads' or 'tails' so far as my entire identity having been stolen or not.
LOL you actually use a goddamned paint-stripping gun to do board rework? You're clearly and objectively either an amateur or a troll. Now go yell at your monitor some more, I'm done with you.
I've got around 30 years of experience working in all phases of electronics, including design. You're some jackass on the Internet making wild claims about things you clearly don't understand and have precisely ZERO experience with, otherwise you'd know what sort of equipment you need to deal with R&R of BGA type packages, because it is NOT a 'heat gun' (like you use for stripping paint, you idiot).
You're probably some kid who used the 'toaster oven' trick to fix the RRoD failure of your gaming console, and now you think you know about electronics. By all means keep embarassing yourself if you like.
BGA packaged devices had nothing to do with planned obsolescence or deterring people from repairing their own devices, it had to do with component density and PCB size, and you can spend the thousands of dollars that hot air rework equipment costs, and even get the training on how to use it, but it likely wouldn't benefit you because while it's simple enough to remove a BGA package IC, installing the replacement is an order of magnitude more difficult to do correctly, always carries a measurable chance of complete failure, and you literally have one shot at getting it right, after which you have to remove the device and start over with a new one, or send it out to have the solder balls replaced, and hope that the heat didn't damage or destroy it. This is why on a case-by-case basis it's not cost-effective to repair PCBs that use BGA packaged devices, it's only cost-effective in a large-scale assembly-line setting, more or less like the factory that assembled the PCB when it was new. You could conceivably use sockets for everything instead and make replacing devices simple, but then you'd have an iPhone that's 2 or 3 times as thick. Even when cutting-edge was QFP (quad flat pack) with hundreds of wire leads coming out all 4 edges, it wasn't trivial to remove and replace a device, and I've done it.
'Planned obsolescence'. If they thought it was a good idea, your iPhone (and lots of other things from lots of other companies) would just be a block of black epoxy underneath the outer shell, and when it stops working, you chuck it in the e-waste bin. Hell, if some companies had their way, there'd be a literal self-destruct timer built into things, and it'd just stop working after, say, 3 years (or 2, or 1), no 'repair' possible, you just toss it and get a new one.
Routing issues happen. Frankly it's a wonder that they don't happen more often than they do. Could have even been a DNS problem; did anyone, anywhere, try using a different set of DNS servers than what Comcast provides?
Microsoft has a history of seeking/creating a monopoly regardless of what dirty tactics they might use and this would be no different if true. They'd like nothing better than to be the sole source of all things computing, and to become the de-facto owner/operator of anything with a microprocessor in it.
LOL all they'd need to do is create a huge amount of Sarin and flood our atmosphere with it and they'd effectively sterilize the planet.
You're thinking about this wrong: First Contact with a starfaring alien race would probably save ours; good or bad, one way or the other, it'd more likely unify us, as as species.
Admittedly, it's hard to resist poking some people with a stick, since they're so outrageously reactive, it's like they're cartoon characters, and my sense of humor tends towards the outrageous anyway; hard not to use phrases like 'dealth with' when it makes them rage so hard. After all, I learned from Sun Tzu that angry people make mistakes; I want to trip up some people, so they'll inadvertedly reveal who and what they truly are:-). Of course, unfortunately, you're sounding rather knee-jerk and over-reactive yourself; let's assume for the moment you're not? At least you're not posting as an AC, which is the only reason I'm even responding to you.
Free speech is free speech. That being said: If I or anyone else thinks what someones use of their 'freedom of speech' is bullshit, then our 'freedom of speech' is such that we're going to shout them down, and if they, you, or anyone else doesn't like that, then I turn your words back on you: "Seriously, are you one of those morons that think that the only way to have free speech is to restrict free speech for opinions you don't like?" It's a two-way street/double edged sort, friend.
You do realize that in that last half century that allowing nazi's/kkk/racists/whateverlabelyoubemoan to speak has had their numbers decreased?
Sure I do. And the reason for that is that people like me keep using their 'freedom of speech' to shout them down and expose their childish bullshit for what it is -- and we'll keep doing that. Despite how depressingly stupid and wilfully ignorant our species can be, I still manage to hold out hope that we'll not extinguish ourselves, and flourish instead.
I have a DVR (TiVo, and I've had more than one of them over the last 15 years). I don't see commercials.:-) Truth be told if I lost access to a working DVR and couldn't skip commercials, I'd probably stop watching television completely (mainly because I couldn't watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it). Paying for TV, regardless of whether it's cable or so-called 'streaming', is a non-starter. Just not worth it to me for another monthly bill that will inevitably get more and more expensive as the years roll by -- and it will. And you'll all get subjected to ads regardless, if not now then in the future. Live long enough and you see repeating patterns like this.
So long as its good, I don't care what prepared it.
It won't be, and when you discover that, you will. Also you apparently have no taste and probably wouldn't know good from bad if you were slapped in the face with it, probably think that drive-thru food is 'good'.
It needs to be a photo gallery, not just one representative picture. Include pictures of male and female, young and adult, from countries all over the world. Our species is too varied to have just one pair from one part of the world representative of all of us.
Alternative solution: Like the Voyager golden record, use a generic, line-drawn representation of male and female humans.
Alternative solution: Use morphing software to 'blend' images of male and female humans from all over the world into one homogenous pair of images.
My overall theme here, if you aren't getting it, is that it must be inclusive.This MUST NOT become a political issue!
It's called a "George Foreman Grill". You should probably just stay home and make your own burgers, you'll get better quality ingredients that way anyway.
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It's just more oppression, from one of the worlds leading producers of oppression. They're creating their own reality, and writing their own narrative of people within that false, arbitrary reality.
<sarcasm>Absolutely no way this could be used for any corrupt purposes, though, like ruining the lives of anyone that criticizes the government as a whole, or for the personal vendetta of any government officials, no siree bob!</sarcasm>
I seriously wonder how much of this shit the Chinese people will put up with before there's a Civil War over it. Humans don't usually put up with being shit on forever, and the Chinese people have been getting shit on by their government for a long time now.
I'm sure all the clueless myopian companies that are lobbying for and bribing for this sort of legislation not only don't understand the technical problems, but they also probably expect humans to sit there and sift through terabytes of uploads to make sure there isn't a single copyrighted byte anywhere, and they couldn't care less what it costs to do that (so long as someone else foots the bill).
Putting it that way makes more sense. It also makes more sense to have Lifetime instead of paying by the month. Frankly, other than the larger outlay of cash, paying by the month for the Service never made sense to me (I've always had Lifetime Service), it's not like you can decide to do without it; TiVo essentially stops working without it, although theoretically you could use it like a VCR, programming channel/date/time manually for everything, although at that point 99% of the features don't work anymore.
Uh, I've had TiVo since Series 2 was on the shelves. So far as I knew you have to have Program Guide service regardless of what your signal source is, so I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "TiVo OTA version does not have a monthly subscription"? Granted, I currently and still using a Series 3 HD..
There we go. We need a "WALL OF SHAME" for these types. Pictures, names, addresses and phone numbers. Never let them forget.
Oh for fuck's sake.. overly-literal much?
I'm PISSED OFF about this. Who in their right mind wouldn't be?
Go away. You're no fun at all.
IDGAF what the Mechanism of Fuck-up was, I just want it to never happen again, no matter how many heads have to be severed to get the message across of how vitally important it is to LITERALLY EVERYONE.
Bring back the guillotine. Chop all their heads off, plant them on poles as a warning to the rest of the 'financial community' to NOT FUCK UP.
Like everyone else I'm sitting here wondering if the coin landed 'heads' or 'tails' so far as my entire identity having been stolen or not.
RIP Dr. Hawking. You will not be forgotten.
Why aren't lat/lon coordinates good enough?
LOL you actually use a goddamned paint-stripping gun to do board rework? You're clearly and objectively either an amateur or a troll. Now go yell at your monitor some more, I'm done with you.
I've got around 30 years of experience working in all phases of electronics, including design. You're some jackass on the Internet making wild claims about things you clearly don't understand and have precisely ZERO experience with, otherwise you'd know what sort of equipment you need to deal with R&R of BGA type packages, because it is NOT a 'heat gun' (like you use for stripping paint, you idiot).
You're probably some kid who used the 'toaster oven' trick to fix the RRoD failure of your gaming console, and now you think you know about electronics. By all means keep embarassing yourself if you like.
Wow, you're totally and completely talking out of your ass, hilariously so.
BGA packaged devices had nothing to do with planned obsolescence or deterring people from repairing their own devices, it had to do with component density and PCB size, and you can spend the thousands of dollars that hot air rework equipment costs, and even get the training on how to use it, but it likely wouldn't benefit you because while it's simple enough to remove a BGA package IC, installing the replacement is an order of magnitude more difficult to do correctly, always carries a measurable chance of complete failure, and you literally have one shot at getting it right, after which you have to remove the device and start over with a new one, or send it out to have the solder balls replaced, and hope that the heat didn't damage or destroy it. This is why on a case-by-case basis it's not cost-effective to repair PCBs that use BGA packaged devices, it's only cost-effective in a large-scale assembly-line setting, more or less like the factory that assembled the PCB when it was new. You could conceivably use sockets for everything instead and make replacing devices simple, but then you'd have an iPhone that's 2 or 3 times as thick. Even when cutting-edge was QFP (quad flat pack) with hundreds of wire leads coming out all 4 edges, it wasn't trivial to remove and replace a device, and I've done it.
'Planned obsolescence'. If they thought it was a good idea, your iPhone (and lots of other things from lots of other companies) would just be a block of black epoxy underneath the outer shell, and when it stops working, you chuck it in the e-waste bin. Hell, if some companies had their way, there'd be a literal self-destruct timer built into things, and it'd just stop working after, say, 3 years (or 2, or 1), no 'repair' possible, you just toss it and get a new one.
Routing issues happen. Frankly it's a wonder that they don't happen more often than they do. Could have even been a DNS problem; did anyone, anywhere, try using a different set of DNS servers than what Comcast provides?
Microsoft has a history of seeking/creating a monopoly regardless of what dirty tactics they might use and this would be no different if true. They'd like nothing better than to be the sole source of all things computing, and to become the de-facto owner/operator of anything with a microprocessor in it.
LOL all they'd need to do is create a huge amount of Sarin and flood our atmosphere with it and they'd effectively sterilize the planet.
You're thinking about this wrong: First Contact with a starfaring alien race would probably save ours; good or bad, one way or the other, it'd more likely unify us, as as species.
Free speech is free speech. That being said: If I or anyone else thinks what someones use of their 'freedom of speech' is bullshit, then our 'freedom of speech' is such that we're going to shout them down, and if they, you, or anyone else doesn't like that, then I turn your words back on you: "Seriously, are you one of those morons that think that the only way to have free speech is to restrict free speech for opinions you don't like?" It's a two-way street/double edged sort, friend.
You do realize that in that last half century that allowing nazi's/kkk/racists/whateverlabelyoubemoan to speak has had their numbers decreased?
Sure I do. And the reason for that is that people like me keep using their 'freedom of speech' to shout them down and expose their childish bullshit for what it is -- and we'll keep doing that. Despite how depressingly stupid and wilfully ignorant our species can be, I still manage to hold out hope that we'll not extinguish ourselves, and flourish instead.
Get a better place to live, then. :-) I used to live in apartments, I'd never go back to that, it sucks in more ways than just that.
I have a DVR (TiVo, and I've had more than one of them over the last 15 years). I don't see commercials. :-) Truth be told if I lost access to a working DVR and couldn't skip commercials, I'd probably stop watching television completely (mainly because I couldn't watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it). Paying for TV, regardless of whether it's cable or so-called 'streaming', is a non-starter. Just not worth it to me for another monthly bill that will inevitably get more and more expensive as the years roll by -- and it will. And you'll all get subjected to ads regardless, if not now then in the future. Live long enough and you see repeating patterns like this.
Implying that your 'robot chef' is being sanitized properly every day.
So long as its good, I don't care what prepared it.
It won't be, and when you discover that, you will. Also you apparently have no taste and probably wouldn't know good from bad if you were slapped in the face with it, probably think that drive-thru food is 'good'.
It needs to be a photo gallery, not just one representative picture. Include pictures of male and female, young and adult, from countries all over the world. Our species is too varied to have just one pair from one part of the world representative of all of us.
Alternative solution: Like the Voyager golden record, use a generic, line-drawn representation of male and female humans.
Alternative solution: Use morphing software to 'blend' images of male and female humans from all over the world into one homogenous pair of images.
My overall theme here, if you aren't getting it, is that it must be inclusive. This MUST NOT become a political issue!
It's called a "George Foreman Grill". You should probably just stay home and make your own burgers, you'll get better quality ingredients that way anyway.