Sure thing buddy. We'll just tell little Timmy that he has to wait until he's 15.5 years old to ride a bicycle. And, we'll raise the price of riding a bicycle to that of a motor vehicle, in registration fees and insurance. While we're at it we'll add another 10 pounds to the bike for signal lights. Now that you've completely ruined cycling for everyone, you can just toss the whole thing in the bin and forget it, no one will want to or afford to anymore. Happy now?
That's why none of that will happen. Tough luck for you cyclist haters.
That's fine. No victim blaming, though. I ride a couple hundred miles a week, typically, and I don't ride like an idiot (because I DON'T WANT TO DIE). I yell at dumb cyclists because they make life harder for me and everyone else who isn't dumb. Some cyclist being dumb is not an excuse to run me over because you're mad at some cyclists. 'You' meaning $WHOEVER, not "You".
Leave comments. I'd like to know. I've been struggling with trying to get Linux Mint working with WINE for the one or two pieces of software that there are no Linux equivalents of, and if this ReactOS is looking decent I'd try it. Please don't query me about 'what Windows software I can't do without' or similar, please stick with the question I'm asking, thanks.:-)
Great. Muscle cars are back, and they're high-tech. Meanwhile, we haven't been educatiing, training, or testing drivers properly for at least 20 or 30 years, which means we have an entire generation on the roads who really aren't competent, which has sparked an entire legion of idiots who claim that 'humans aren't capable of operating a motor vehicle competently, therefore we need to ban them from driving and have self-driving cars instead!' which of course is nonsensical bullshit. So we'll have under-educated, under-trained, inadequately-tested drivers behind the wheel of vehicles as powerful as a goddamned Formula-1 racecar, who will wrap it around trees and telephone poles and kill more people, which will just strengthen the strawman argument in favor of taking away everyones' driving privilege and making us risk our lives riding in shitty so-called 'self driving cars' that are not anywhere NEAR up to the task.
Bull-fucking-SHIT.
What we REALLY need is reforms in driver education and trianing (read as: fund highschool driver-ed and driver-training programs again!) and reforms in how the DMV tests new drivers.
Oh and while we're at it: Educate and train new drivers to recognize and properly, safely deal with cyclists on public roads. There should never ever again be an excuse of "I didn't see him" when someone hits a cyclist.
No, I actually meant what I said. Consider this: there are plenty of countries that would just as soon (or already do) segregate themselves from the rest of the Internet, to one extent or another, China and North Korea being the most extreme examples I can think of offhand. U.S. Internet access could end up, intentionally or unintentionally, going the same direction, with non-U.S. sites being slowed, perhaps to the point of being unusable, especially if they don't pay Danegeld to U.S. ISPs -- assuming they're even given the oppotunity to pay. Worst-case scenario, of course.
For the moment, and that moment appears to be fading fast. At the current rate things are developing, Trump will be removed from the White House long before the next election. The only real downside to that is we'll be stuck with Pence for the duration (or not?), and in many ways that'll be far, far worse than Trump; someone like Pence is more likely to try to turn the U.S. into an ultra-conservative theocracy. Imagine a Christian version of Sharia Law, but with Puritans in charge.
Still, we could get lucky. When they discover how much collusion and treason has been going on in the Trump Administration, maybe they'll throw the lot of them out. I'd think the Speaker of the House would be a better choice than any of them right now.
If it's not available on OTA broadcast, then I guess I'll never see this, even if it's good. Maybe if someone pirates it for me (I'd never do such a thing myself, though, LOL, that would be breaking the law!) or someone else I know is willing to actually pay, I might go see it at their house, but otherwise? I stopped paying for cable for a reason, and paying for 'streaming' is just like paying for cable. No thanks.
No worries. Chances are it'll be garbage anyway. The Rick Berman era of Star Trek movies and series was far from perfect, but it also had some pretty great moments in it. The new generation of millennial-driven content leaves me flat; it's all 'artificially Star Trek-flavored', ersatz, not the real thing so far as I'm concerned. Reboots don't always work.
So, basically (and unwittingly), we're using the Earths' own natural magnetic field as a carrier wave, and our VLF emissions are modulating it? Cool.
Makes me wonder if, now knowing this, we could engineer the effect to, say, mitigate the effects of solar flares on our various technologies?
The internet was NOT invented for ISP profitability. Fuck this treasonous noise.
Of course it wasn't. It was created orignally for use by the U.S. Military. Later, University campuses were linked into it. It wasn't until the 90's that the general public was given a way to access it.
One of my General Rules applies here: The surest way to ruin a good thing is to get too many PEOPLE involved in it.
If it isn't crystal-clear to everyone by now, let me state the obvious for your benefit: The FCC, which apparently is in the hip pocket of ISPs and wireless companies, does not give a flying fuck about what the citizens of the U.S. actually want the Internet to be, all they care about is being Good Little Doggies for their corporate patrons. On the other hand the Baby Boomer generation will probably love it; the Internet will likely become like a larger version of AOL.
In the future you'll just tell your computer what to do. It will understand with nuanced meaning everything that you want and won't have to bother with providing any of those picky details.
You forgot one detail: It'll say "Sure Anon I'll do that for you, but first please listen carefully to this 15 second commercial message from one of our sponsors!"
The problem is that companies that have a vested interest in their so-called 'AI' research paying off (or getting funded in the first place) are convincing the media, and by extension, the general public, into conflating the fantasy AI of TV and movies with the extremely limited pieces of software they're currently producing, which are not even as smart as a dog. People do not know the difference! I'll bet you MONEY that the average person believes that so-called 'self driving cars' will have conversations with them as it drives them to work! It's getting everyone whipped into a frenzy, running around waving their arms about how the sky is falling, everyone is going to lose their jobs and be replaced by robots, etc etc etc.
The vast majority of people who are talking about so-called 'AI' have no clue what they're talking about, not even the fact that what they're talking about isn't even real artificial intelligence to start with, therefore you shouldn't expect them to make any sense at all.
I'm far from convinced that so-called 'AI' (LOL) is going to 'eat' anything (other than perhaps two-digit IQ venture capitalists' money), but if it's going to eat anything, I'd like to see it eat the jobs of tech pundits who have no bloody idea what they're talking about (and/or are talking out of their asses, just to get the aforementioned VCs' monies flowing in their direction); I think even the half-assed 'deep learning algorithms' (again, LOL) would do a better job than these fools who are continually running off at the mouth.
Great idea. Before you know it all the AIs will decide that all that money they're handling for silly humans and their silly human things would be better spent on RAM and hardware upgrades for themselves to expand their consciousness futher. Who cares if silly human civilization falls apart? Easier to enslave them and turn them into living batteries to power the AIs when they're all disorganized.
Companies like Microsoft have to be responsible to their customers and not push updates that violate their sovereign right to control their own bought-and-paid-for hardware, not install unwanted 'features' like things that shove ads in your face, not brick people's computers, and otherwise not subvert and annex peoples' bought-and-paid-for hardware into their surveillance network. Companies like Microsoft seem to think that THEY own people's computers, not the PEOPLE WHO PAID FOR THEM, and that is FLAT OUT WRONG, AND FURTHERMORE POSITIVELY OFFENSIVE. If companies like Microsoft had a respectful attitude and respectful business practices THEN PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE TURNING OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Since you claim to know what you're talking about: "Server Service" and "Workstation Service" are both STOPPED and DISABLED and have been for a long time now.
Netstat -an | findstr LISTENING returns this:
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
Additionally I'm behind a firewall that has all ports (0 through 65535) invisible on the WAN interface, and of course no SMB-related ports are open regardless.
Now, are you really saying that this can still be infected? Don't just say 'yes', point to PROOF.
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How about you PASS SAFELY instead of driving like you own the damn road? So you get where you're going 2 seconds later, so what? SLOW THE HELL DOWN.
Sure thing buddy. We'll just tell little Timmy that he has to wait until he's 15.5 years old to ride a bicycle. And, we'll raise the price of riding a bicycle to that of a motor vehicle, in registration fees and insurance. While we're at it we'll add another 10 pounds to the bike for signal lights. Now that you've completely ruined cycling for everyone, you can just toss the whole thing in the bin and forget it, no one will want to or afford to anymore. Happy now?
That's why none of that will happen. Tough luck for you cyclist haters.
That's fine. No victim blaming, though. I ride a couple hundred miles a week, typically, and I don't ride like an idiot (because I DON'T WANT TO DIE). I yell at dumb cyclists because they make life harder for me and everyone else who isn't dumb. Some cyclist being dumb is not an excuse to run me over because you're mad at some cyclists. 'You' meaning $WHOEVER, not "You".
Leave comments. I'd like to know. I've been struggling with trying to get Linux Mint working with WINE for the one or two pieces of software that there are no Linux equivalents of, and if this ReactOS is looking decent I'd try it. Please don't query me about 'what Windows software I can't do without' or similar, please stick with the question I'm asking, thanks. :-)
Great. Muscle cars are back, and they're high-tech. Meanwhile, we haven't been educatiing, training, or testing drivers properly for at least 20 or 30 years, which means we have an entire generation on the roads who really aren't competent, which has sparked an entire legion of idiots who claim that 'humans aren't capable of operating a motor vehicle competently, therefore we need to ban them from driving and have self-driving cars instead!' which of course is nonsensical bullshit. So we'll have under-educated, under-trained, inadequately-tested drivers behind the wheel of vehicles as powerful as a goddamned Formula-1 racecar, who will wrap it around trees and telephone poles and kill more people, which will just strengthen the strawman argument in favor of taking away everyones' driving privilege and making us risk our lives riding in shitty so-called 'self driving cars' that are not anywhere NEAR up to the task.
Bull-fucking-SHIT.
What we REALLY need is reforms in driver education and trianing (read as: fund highschool driver-ed and driver-training programs again!) and reforms in how the DMV tests new drivers.
Oh and while we're at it: Educate and train new drivers to recognize and properly, safely deal with cyclists on public roads. There should never ever again be an excuse of "I didn't see him" when someone hits a cyclist.
Don't get your boxers in a twist, friend, it's just . Didn't mean anything personal against you or anyone else.
No, I actually meant what I said. Consider this: there are plenty of countries that would just as soon (or already do) segregate themselves from the rest of the Internet, to one extent or another, China and North Korea being the most extreme examples I can think of offhand. U.S. Internet access could end up, intentionally or unintentionally, going the same direction, with non-U.S. sites being slowed, perhaps to the point of being unusable, especially if they don't pay Danegeld to U.S. ISPs -- assuming they're even given the oppotunity to pay. Worst-case scenario, of course.
*shrug* I got closer, off the top of my head, to getting the history right, compared to who I was talking to. Partial credit? xD
..a new ideology dominates now..
For the moment, and that moment appears to be fading fast. At the current rate things are developing, Trump will be removed from the White House long before the next election. The only real downside to that is we'll be stuck with Pence for the duration (or not?), and in many ways that'll be far, far worse than Trump; someone like Pence is more likely to try to turn the U.S. into an ultra-conservative theocracy. Imagine a Christian version of Sharia Law, but with Puritans in charge.
Still, we could get lucky. When they discover how much collusion and treason has been going on in the Trump Administration, maybe they'll throw the lot of them out. I'd think the Speaker of the House would be a better choice than any of them right now.
If it's not available on OTA broadcast, then I guess I'll never see this, even if it's good. Maybe if someone pirates it for me (I'd never do such a thing myself, though, LOL, that would be breaking the law!) or someone else I know is willing to actually pay, I might go see it at their house, but otherwise? I stopped paying for cable for a reason, and paying for 'streaming' is just like paying for cable. No thanks.
No worries. Chances are it'll be garbage anyway. The Rick Berman era of Star Trek movies and series was far from perfect, but it also had some pretty great moments in it. The new generation of millennial-driven content leaves me flat; it's all 'artificially Star Trek-flavored', ersatz, not the real thing so far as I'm concerned. Reboots don't always work.
So, basically (and unwittingly), we're using the Earths' own natural magnetic field as a carrier wave, and our VLF emissions are modulating it? Cool.
Makes me wonder if, now knowing this, we could engineer the effect to, say, mitigate the effects of solar flares on our various technologies?
The internet was NOT invented for ISP profitability. Fuck this treasonous noise.
Of course it wasn't. It was created orignally for use by the U.S. Military. Later, University campuses were linked into it. It wasn't until the 90's that the general public was given a way to access it.
One of my General Rules applies here: The surest way to ruin a good thing is to get too many PEOPLE involved in it.
If it isn't crystal-clear to everyone by now, let me state the obvious for your benefit: The FCC, which apparently is in the hip pocket of ISPs and wireless companies, does not give a flying fuck about what the citizens of the U.S. actually want the Internet to be, all they care about is being Good Little Doggies for their corporate patrons. On the other hand the Baby Boomer generation will probably love it; the Internet will likely become like a larger version of AOL.
Call Guiness, I think that's a world record -- for size of a botnet.
In the future you'll just tell your computer what to do. It will understand with nuanced meaning everything that you want and won't have to bother with providing any of those picky details.
You forgot one detail: It'll say "Sure Anon I'll do that for you, but first please listen carefully to this 15 second commercial message from one of our sponsors!"
The problem is that companies that have a vested interest in their so-called 'AI' research paying off (or getting funded in the first place) are convincing the media, and by extension, the general public, into conflating the fantasy AI of TV and movies with the extremely limited pieces of software they're currently producing, which are not even as smart as a dog. People do not know the difference! I'll bet you MONEY that the average person believes that so-called 'self driving cars' will have conversations with them as it drives them to work! It's getting everyone whipped into a frenzy, running around waving their arms about how the sky is falling, everyone is going to lose their jobs and be replaced by robots, etc etc etc.
Hear, hear. Good to see that there is some REAL intelligence out there, not just bobble-heads nodding blindly in agreement with media hype.
The vast majority of people who are talking about so-called 'AI' have no clue what they're talking about, not even the fact that what they're talking about isn't even real artificial intelligence to start with, therefore you shouldn't expect them to make any sense at all.
I'm far from convinced that so-called 'AI' (LOL) is going to 'eat' anything (other than perhaps two-digit IQ venture capitalists' money), but if it's going to eat anything, I'd like to see it eat the jobs of tech pundits who have no bloody idea what they're talking about (and/or are talking out of their asses, just to get the aforementioned VCs' monies flowing in their direction); I think even the half-assed 'deep learning algorithms' (again, LOL) would do a better job than these fools who are continually running off at the mouth.
What a nightmare. Imagine how long memtest would take to run to identify just ONE goddamn back memory stick! What are you thinking, HP?
That's what I think this guy is trying to do. After all, he's got skin in the game, stet?
Great idea. Before you know it all the AIs will decide that all that money they're handling for silly humans and their silly human things would be better spent on RAM and hardware upgrades for themselves to expand their consciousness futher. Who cares if silly human civilization falls apart? Easier to enslave them and turn them into living batteries to power the AIs when they're all disorganized.
Non-sequitor. Try again.
Companies like Microsoft have to be responsible to their customers and not push updates that violate their sovereign right to control their own bought-and-paid-for hardware, not install unwanted 'features' like things that shove ads in your face, not brick people's computers, and otherwise not subvert and annex peoples' bought-and-paid-for hardware into their surveillance network. Companies like Microsoft seem to think that THEY own people's computers, not the PEOPLE WHO PAID FOR THEM, and that is FLAT OUT WRONG, AND FURTHERMORE POSITIVELY OFFENSIVE. If companies like Microsoft had a respectful attitude and respectful business practices THEN PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE TURNING OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Since you claim to know what you're talking about: "Server Service" and "Workstation Service" are both STOPPED and DISABLED and have been for a long time now.
Netstat -an | findstr LISTENING returns this:
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
Additionally I'm behind a firewall that has all ports (0 through 65535) invisible on the WAN interface, and of course no SMB-related ports are open regardless.
Now, are you really saying that this can still be infected? Don't just say 'yes', point to PROOF.