I'm looking at SCOTUS because that's where the issue will inevitably lead. Big Business wants uninhibited rights to sift through our entire lives; they'd have cameras and microphones in our bedrooms if they thought they could get away with it, and make money from whatever 'information' they got there. Spook-types and LEOs would love that, too, 'for reasons of public safety' and 'for reasons of national security' and other such bullshit reasons. If/when/finally the American public wakes the hell up and sees what they've been giving away, and they start to demand it, there'll be a fight over it -- and it'll end in the SCOTUS, not Congress. Congress, if you haven't noticed, can't manage to get it's own head out of it's substantial ass. Also follow the money: they're bought-and-paid-for by corporations.
The few really good dedicated liquor stores disappeared, likely due to the recession. Whole Foods has about the most extensive selection -- including more selections of alcohol-free beer than anywhere else, which includes the offering from Guiness (which is pretty good). Being an athlete as well as a techie, there are times I'd like a beer or two but shouldn't have one because of the alcohol.
Why even bother with a computer-on-a-stick? Why not an SD or microSD card? Use a generic partition and filesystem on it so the technically inclined can easily take an image of the entire thing as a backup. Your TV gets bricked by an update? No problem, restore from the backup. Would also make fixing problems like Samsung created here easy to fix, if the TV has been sufficiently bricked that you can't install it the normal way: just ship affected people a new SD/microSD card.
While we're all dreaming: Bonus points: Make the TV's software all open-source. Then people who like to void warranties can sift through it, remove all the junk they don't want, add custom features, and so on.
..no, I wouldn't say that's true at all. I don't buy much at Whole Foods, but what I do buy, I buy there because they're things I can't find anywhere else, and that I can't substitute something else for. Also, if I want to try a really interesting bottle of beer, that's the best place to go. 95% of my other shopping is places like Winco (which is the best place to get generic things). If Amazon turns Whole Foods into just another generic Safeway-like grocery store, then that's how they'll be screwing up.
Sure thing buddy. That's why ransomware hackers asked for bitcoin instead of cash money, because it's so easily tracked to who it's going to compared to bank transactions.
Yeah, sure, because everyone who trafficks in cryptocurrency meets in person to physically exchange them.. oh wait no they don't, it's all done quietly over the Intenet! When cryptocurrency is as easily tracked and controlled as government issued money then I'll stop talking about it, but at that point there won't be a reason for it to exist -- and I don't think there was a reason for it to exist in the first place. It's been used almost exclusively for money laundering and crime and you all damned well know it's true, and it's been that way since day one.
A country of more than 1 BILLION people just had their highest court rule that people's privacy is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT; SCOTUS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU RIGHT NOW.
Then there's those of us who saw it the first time and thought "..gee, that's a great too for criminals to hide their illegal transactions, I'd be nuts to get involved in something like that!" and passed on the whole thing.
LOL, the so-called 'left' is going to be taking back quite a bit in the years to come because the so-called 'right' has been so completely 'wrong'. It'll probably take until I'm dead and made into ashes for all the damage that'll have been done can be repaired. Meanwhile we have to put up with all the 'jackbooted thugs' like them (and you), shooting your damn mouths off.
If the 'opt out clause' just means I have to go into settings and uncheck some boxes, and Mozilla otherwise isn't going to pull any Microsoft-level bullshit like quietly countermanding me again when I'm not looking, then that's fine.
If, on the other hand, they do something nasty, like remove the checkboxes entirely, and make you jump through a bunch of hoops to 'opt out', and then you have no way of independently verifying your 'opt out' choice has been taken seriously, then I say "screw you, you bastards, you have become everything you hate".
People who have to live in nursing homes should also not be required to submit to so-called 'binding arbitration', they too should have the right to sue a nursing home. #THANKSTRUMP
We drew too much attention from the media and the general public with our outlandish search warrant, so rather than take all the heat for what amounted to an overreach, we (quote-unquote) 'scaled back the request' so we don't look like the jackbooted thugs we actually are.
Pro-tip for you, guys: You still look like jackbooted thugs.
I don't have anything so important that I even bother. xD
Once in a while I'll take an image of the boot drive of my desktop. Otherwise there's nothing I really need to save.
But I think using 'cloud storage' for backups, considering how fickle these companies are, is not a viable long-term solution.
Also, I'm far from convinced that you can trust any of them, regardless of any encryption, to not snoop.
At the very least Murphy's Law fully applies, at the absolute worst moment they'll bail on you and say "tough luck about your data, chump". I'll always advocate people securing and storing their own data instead.
Get yourself an external hard drive (or TWO of them if you're paranoid) and a safety deposit box at your bank (if you really want 'offsite' backup storage). Backup and store your own data. Now you'll never have to worry about some 'service' folding on you and taking your data with them, or ever having to worry about your data being stolen or snooped on.
They are richer than you, so they must have abandoned even the pretense of morals or conscience and just did whatever their selfish little black hearts desired.
Just go to Weather Underground instead, you don't need an 'app'. Or if you think that's too commercial and you're going to get tracked, then just go to the National Weather Service. Seriously, you don't need an 'app' for everything.
They're ignorantly taking a huge risk on the confidence of others who have managed to not have a fireball erupt in their garages. Sooner or later someone's house will burn down because of this.
Sure. When you start with nice new cells, but not with worn-out shitty old cells from old laptop battery packs. You're literally playing Russian Roulette when you do. You're underestimating what thermal runaway in a Li+ cell can cause; one internally shorted cell dumping it's entire charge can and will cause a cascade failure, setting off adjacent cells into thermal runaway also, which just continues until the entire bank is a fireball. Not. Worth. The. Risk.
If you're a 'manager' at any level and you can't even recognize whether your workforce is doing high quality work or not, then I say you're a poor manager and you're the one being overpaid and in need of replacement. Furthermore if you're a manager and you don't have some supervisors under you that do know how to do the work, and therefore ensure a high quality of the work done, then you're likewise screwing up and either need to up your management game or get replaced by someone who can. I grew up around the construction industry and my father was 'the boss' so I heard and saw more than enough of 'management' to have a pretty good idea of how that's supposed to work.
Yeah, we're seeing the same things. The problem with banks like that, is that if one cell goes catastrophically south on you, it 'triggers' adjacent cells, and so on, into a cascading failure that takes out the entire bank, and maybe your house with it, as the whole bank dumps it's entire total charge into one big fireball. Not theoretical, either, I've seen video taken of this sort of failure occurring in a lab setting.
You've got it pretty much covered; Li+ cells are finicky at best, you do anything to make them upset and they get very violent with you very quickly.
The main problem with using used cells from old laptop batteries is that they're not all the same age and therefore you have no way of judging what their true capacity or overall health is. If you were linking up the actual packs they're in, and using the built-on microcontroller-based charge-discharge controller to manage each pack, then it would be reasonably safe, but dismantling them from random packs and assembling them into huge banks? You're asking for disaster to happen. The best you could do there would be to have a very sophisticated management controller(s) monitoring smaller banks of cells, disconnecting them at the first sign of failure of any single cell in that bank -- and also a automated fire-supression system that can handle a catastrophic failure, and perhaps an explosion-proof enclosure for all the banks of cells. Li+ cells may be ubiquitos at this point in time, but they're still far from Amateur Night to work with, especially in the huge quantities these guys (who, according to the article) are indeed complete amateurs. From what I know of it (and I worked somewhere where I did quite a bit of research into the subject of building Li+ battery packs), if they were buying new cells in those quantities, the manufacturer might insist on seeing their controller design(s) before accepting the purchase.
LOL don't you think the trolls know that already, and furthermore know that regardless of what they do, the powers-that-be already have an agenda written down in ink and are going to implement it regardless of who does what? 'Fuck the police' is a thing, and they'll think that they may as well have their fun while they still can. Also, good luck to the UK Government, being drawn into an endless game of Whac-a-Mole (or perhaps 'Whac-a-Troll' is more appropriate here), because that's what it'll turn into: they can hide and pop up elsewhere faster than the cops can keep up; that's not even counting the 'word filtering' game of using creative and ever-changing codewords and abbreviations to get your meaning across. Where do you think 7334 (leet) came from? If the UK wants to take a fire axe to the entire UK Internet and destroy it, then that's what'll happen, they'll end up killing off any and all websites that you can possibly leave any sort of comments on. As usual, government and law enforcement types just don't understand the technology of the Internet.
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I'm looking at SCOTUS because that's where the issue will inevitably lead. Big Business wants uninhibited rights to sift through our entire lives; they'd have cameras and microphones in our bedrooms if they thought they could get away with it, and make money from whatever 'information' they got there. Spook-types and LEOs would love that, too, 'for reasons of public safety' and 'for reasons of national security' and other such bullshit reasons. If/when/finally the American public wakes the hell up and sees what they've been giving away, and they start to demand it, there'll be a fight over it -- and it'll end in the SCOTUS, not Congress. Congress, if you haven't noticed, can't manage to get it's own head out of it's substantial ass. Also follow the money: they're bought-and-paid-for by corporations.
The few really good dedicated liquor stores disappeared, likely due to the recession. Whole Foods has about the most extensive selection -- including more selections of alcohol-free beer than anywhere else, which includes the offering from Guiness (which is pretty good). Being an athlete as well as a techie, there are times I'd like a beer or two but shouldn't have one because of the alcohol.
Why even bother with a computer-on-a-stick? Why not an SD or microSD card? Use a generic partition and filesystem on it so the technically inclined can easily take an image of the entire thing as a backup. Your TV gets bricked by an update? No problem, restore from the backup. Would also make fixing problems like Samsung created here easy to fix, if the TV has been sufficiently bricked that you can't install it the normal way: just ship affected people a new SD/microSD card.
While we're all dreaming: Bonus points: Make the TV's software all open-source. Then people who like to void warranties can sift through it, remove all the junk they don't want, add custom features, and so on.
They can't know anything about me because I pay CASH when I go to Whole Foods. ;-)
..no, I wouldn't say that's true at all. I don't buy much at Whole Foods, but what I do buy, I buy there because they're things I can't find anywhere else, and that I can't substitute something else for. Also, if I want to try a really interesting bottle of beer, that's the best place to go. 95% of my other shopping is places like Winco (which is the best place to get generic things). If Amazon turns Whole Foods into just another generic Safeway-like grocery store, then that's how they'll be screwing up.
Sure thing buddy. That's why ransomware hackers asked for bitcoin instead of cash money, because it's so easily tracked to who it's going to compared to bank transactions.
Yeah, sure, because everyone who trafficks in cryptocurrency meets in person to physically exchange them.. oh wait no they don't, it's all done quietly over the Intenet! When cryptocurrency is as easily tracked and controlled as government issued money then I'll stop talking about it, but at that point there won't be a reason for it to exist -- and I don't think there was a reason for it to exist in the first place. It's been used almost exclusively for money laundering and crime and you all damned well know it's true, and it's been that way since day one.
A country of more than 1 BILLION people just had their highest court rule that people's privacy is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT; SCOTUS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU RIGHT NOW.
Then there's those of us who saw it the first time and thought "..gee, that's a great too for criminals to hide their illegal transactions, I'd be nuts to get involved in something like that!" and passed on the whole thing.
I'm rather partial to a woodchipper, myself. Feet first, of course.
Sad, isn't it? They want to drag us all back into the muck. It's like 'Crab Mentality' taken to the absolute extreme.
LOL, the so-called 'left' is going to be taking back quite a bit in the years to come because the so-called 'right' has been so completely 'wrong'. It'll probably take until I'm dead and made into ashes for all the damage that'll have been done can be repaired. Meanwhile we have to put up with all the 'jackbooted thugs' like them (and you), shooting your damn mouths off.
If the 'opt out clause' just means I have to go into settings and uncheck some boxes, and Mozilla otherwise isn't going to pull any Microsoft-level bullshit like quietly countermanding me again when I'm not looking, then that's fine.
If, on the other hand, they do something nasty, like remove the checkboxes entirely, and make you jump through a bunch of hoops to 'opt out', and then you have no way of independently verifying your 'opt out' choice has been taken seriously, then I say "screw you, you bastards, you have become everything you hate".
People who have to live in nursing homes should also not be required to submit to so-called 'binding arbitration', they too should have the right to sue a nursing home. #THANKSTRUMP
We drew too much attention from the media and the general public with our outlandish search warrant, so rather than take all the heat for what amounted to an overreach, we (quote-unquote) 'scaled back the request' so we don't look like the jackbooted thugs we actually are.
Pro-tip for you, guys: You still look like jackbooted thugs.
I don't have anything so important that I even bother. xD
Once in a while I'll take an image of the boot drive of my desktop. Otherwise there's nothing I really need to save.
But I think using 'cloud storage' for backups, considering how fickle these companies are, is not a viable long-term solution.
Also, I'm far from convinced that you can trust any of them, regardless of any encryption, to not snoop.
At the very least Murphy's Law fully applies, at the absolute worst moment they'll bail on you and say "tough luck about your data, chump". I'll always advocate people securing and storing their own data instead.
Get yourself an external hard drive (or TWO of them if you're paranoid) and a safety deposit box at your bank (if you really want 'offsite' backup storage). Backup and store your own data. Now you'll never have to worry about some 'service' folding on you and taking your data with them, or ever having to worry about your data being stolen or snooped on.
They are richer than you, so they must have abandoned even the pretense of morals or conscience and just did whatever their selfish little black hearts desired.
Fixed that for you, AC.
Just go to Weather Underground instead, you don't need an 'app'. Or if you think that's too commercial and you're going to get tracked, then just go to the National Weather Service. Seriously, you don't need an 'app' for everything.
They're ignorantly taking a huge risk on the confidence of others who have managed to not have a fireball erupt in their garages. Sooner or later someone's house will burn down because of this.
Sure. When you start with nice new cells, but not with worn-out shitty old cells from old laptop battery packs. You're literally playing Russian Roulette when you do. You're underestimating what thermal runaway in a Li+ cell can cause; one internally shorted cell dumping it's entire charge can and will cause a cascade failure, setting off adjacent cells into thermal runaway also, which just continues until the entire bank is a fireball. Not. Worth. The. Risk.
If you're a 'manager' at any level and you can't even recognize whether your workforce is doing high quality work or not, then I say you're a poor manager and you're the one being overpaid and in need of replacement. Furthermore if you're a manager and you don't have some supervisors under you that do know how to do the work, and therefore ensure a high quality of the work done, then you're likewise screwing up and either need to up your management game or get replaced by someone who can. I grew up around the construction industry and my father was 'the boss' so I heard and saw more than enough of 'management' to have a pretty good idea of how that's supposed to work.
Yeah, we're seeing the same things. The problem with banks like that, is that if one cell goes catastrophically south on you, it 'triggers' adjacent cells, and so on, into a cascading failure that takes out the entire bank, and maybe your house with it, as the whole bank dumps it's entire total charge into one big fireball. Not theoretical, either, I've seen video taken of this sort of failure occurring in a lab setting.
You've got it pretty much covered; Li+ cells are finicky at best, you do anything to make them upset and they get very violent with you very quickly.
The main problem with using used cells from old laptop batteries is that they're not all the same age and therefore you have no way of judging what their true capacity or overall health is. If you were linking up the actual packs they're in, and using the built-on microcontroller-based charge-discharge controller to manage each pack, then it would be reasonably safe, but dismantling them from random packs and assembling them into huge banks? You're asking for disaster to happen. The best you could do there would be to have a very sophisticated management controller(s) monitoring smaller banks of cells, disconnecting them at the first sign of failure of any single cell in that bank -- and also a automated fire-supression system that can handle a catastrophic failure, and perhaps an explosion-proof enclosure for all the banks of cells. Li+ cells may be ubiquitos at this point in time, but they're still far from Amateur Night to work with, especially in the huge quantities these guys (who, according to the article) are indeed complete amateurs. From what I know of it (and I worked somewhere where I did quite a bit of research into the subject of building Li+ battery packs), if they were buying new cells in those quantities, the manufacturer might insist on seeing their controller design(s) before accepting the purchase.
'Casus belli'
LOL don't you think the trolls know that already, and furthermore know that regardless of what they do, the powers-that-be already have an agenda written down in ink and are going to implement it regardless of who does what? 'Fuck the police' is a thing, and they'll think that they may as well have their fun while they still can. Also, good luck to the UK Government, being drawn into an endless game of Whac-a-Mole (or perhaps 'Whac-a-Troll' is more appropriate here), because that's what it'll turn into: they can hide and pop up elsewhere faster than the cops can keep up; that's not even counting the 'word filtering' game of using creative and ever-changing codewords and abbreviations to get your meaning across. Where do you think 7334 (leet) came from? If the UK wants to take a fire axe to the entire UK Internet and destroy it, then that's what'll happen, they'll end up killing off any and all websites that you can possibly leave any sort of comments on. As usual, government and law enforcement types just don't understand the technology of the Internet.