I don't eat at McDonalds because that's not 'food', it's 'food substitute', it's overpriced, undernourishing, and more or less complete garbage. I don't eat other so-called 'fast food' for similar reasons. There are few exceptions to this for me, those exceptions are few and far between, and when I do have to resort to it, the list of where is acceptable is painfully short, and I'm reminded at the pick-up window that what I'm paying for one pseudo-meal would pay for feeding me for several days otherwise, reinforcing all the above.
I don't have cats, smartass. I don't have time to take care of one, it wouldn't be fair to the cat.
If I want some slop out of a bag or box in the freezer or from a can I'll go to the grocery store and buy that for I'm sure a fraction of what these jokers are charging for a 'restaurant' 'meal'. Do not want, would not pay for it. If I'm eating out I want a human chef making me something special and nice not some shitty 'robot' making the equivalent of frozen food made in a factory somewhere. And of course what's already been in the works is firing all the waitstaff so all you do is deal with machines the entire time you're at their 'restaurant'. Screw that. There's nothing special about it, there's nothing value-added about it, why would I even bother going out to eat if that's all I'm going to get? May as well stay home and make my own food for the cost of ingredients and watch TV just like always.
More and more all these various 'cryptocurrencies' are starting to remind me of the 'limited edition gold coins' and 'collectible coins' sold on the x.2 and x.3 (and so on) broadcast TV channels. They're not really worth more than the metal they're made out of but they try to convince you they're going to be worth orders of magnitude more than you're paying for them.
It imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.
Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Google, I neither need, want, or will allow you to 'guide my behavior', so how about you go fuck yourselves, you fucking fucks?
Mad? Yes. If shit like this doesn't make you mad, then there's something wrong with you.
You want to win this game, people? DON'T PLAY AT ALL. Dump Google, dump so-called 'social media', and take your lives back. You don't need anyone to 'guide your behavior'. Google and others need to stay out of our lives.
Back in the early 90's, when I was trying to figure out the whole 'fitness' and 'weight loss' thing, before the Internet became an easily and cheaply accessible thing, access to good and recent information wasn't anywhere near as easy, so I got sent down the wrong roads by bad information or just a plain lack of information. I doubt I'm the only one who had that experience, either. Since the Internet however there is plenty of information available easily and quickly; sadly you have to have a 'let the buyer beware' attitude towards such information found on the Internet, but otherwise it's much easier to be healthier, fitter, and of course a better athlete because of ease of access to relevant information -- assuming you're driven enough to actually do it all and aren't just looking for a 'quick fix', and I say that because we've got an obesity problem in first-world countries and all sorts of health problems, but they're not because of lack of information, they're because of lack of desire to actually do anything about those problems if it requires thought or work, apparently.
What this does, successful or not, is show everyone in the country who gives a damn about the Internet and who doesn't, and more to the point, who gives a damn if the Internet is fair, free, and open for every citizen, or if it's just going to continue to be leveraged, monetized, and milked by corporations. Congresscritters will have to declare which side of the line they're on, no escaping it.
Fine. If it comes to that, then it's one more nail in Trump's political coffin, proving yet again that he doesn't give a rats' ass about common everyday citizens, is in the pocket of corporations (and who knows who else), and needs to go.
There may have been all of 15 minutes right at the beginning that it wasn't cancerous, but after that it was cancer 24/7/365. Just kill it all off and make it go away.
1. Companies like this 'Securus' shouldn't exist in the first place.
2. ALL companies that handle personally identifiable/sensitive data should have properly secured systems 100% of the time, no excuses.
3. Nobody's phone location data should be revealed unless there is a valid warrant.
When is this bullshit going to stop? As-is, you can't connect anything to the Internet without exposing yourself to massive amounts of risk of being hacked into either by criminals or the government, you can't carry a smartphone around for the same reasons (only worse), and it's getting to the point where even your bank isn't a safe place to keep your moeny because they're getting hacked, too. What do we do about all this? What is the way forward? How do we fix this?
Shit like this is why I don't have a smartphone, and why I pay cash for everything I buy in person: to reduce my exposure to this sort of risk. Neither I nor any one of us should have to do that.
All of what you said plus this: How much did that trash the motors and the drive electronics when they did that to it? Stunt or no stunt, if the car had to have it's drivetrain rebuilt after that then I'm not impressed.
"Microsoft to try to convince people that their half-assed piece of shit Windows tablets are somehow better than an iPad" ..and I don't even own any Apple products nor do I care to.
FWIW to anyone, when I read the headline (followed immediately by the entire story) I saw the word scooter as a verb and not a noun; don't ask me what the verb people were doing to Venetian birds, though. xD
I think the real question here is: Why is it getting up your ass so much that you have to sperg out on Slashdot like this over it? If it doesn't pertain to you or where you live then let it go.
Just because you don't have an 'app' for your GPS location doesn't mean the chipset doesn't have a GPS receiver integrated into it. You might also be surprised to know it's got an FM broadcast receiver integrated into it too, but again no 'app' to access it. Even the cheap-ass plastic LG dumbphone that cost less than $50 has GPS in the chipset, just no 'app' to access it. But that doesn't mean the carrier can't access it, or the government, or a hacker.
You're making an assumption that any setting on your phone that ostensibly allows you to turn the GPS receiver 'OFF' actually does that, or can't be overridden remotely, which it most certainly can, and your phone would likely still show it as 'OFF'. The only way to actually disable it is to do as I said above: locate the antenna and short it to ground.
There's certainly been theories like that. I remember one where it was a meteor or an asteroid, carrying single-celled life to Earth. Also, haven't there been experiments on the ISS showing some microscopic life (Amoebas? Bacteria? I forget..) surviving in vacuum, going dormant?
FWIW it's not very difficult to physically disable GPS on your phone, just takes some electronics background and a phone you can safely disassemble/reassemble.
Imagine this: plume of water vapor erupts from deep within Europa, hundreds of miles high. Most of that never leaves the vicinity of Jupiter, but a little of it manages to escape, freezes, and floats around the solar system for a while.. eventually coming into the gravitational influence of a young Earth. It makes it through the atmosphere, eventually finding it's way into Earths' oceans, carrying the seeds of primitive life..
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I don't eat at McDonalds because that's not 'food', it's 'food substitute', it's overpriced, undernourishing, and more or less complete garbage. I don't eat other so-called 'fast food' for similar reasons. There are few exceptions to this for me, those exceptions are few and far between, and when I do have to resort to it, the list of where is acceptable is painfully short, and I'm reminded at the pick-up window that what I'm paying for one pseudo-meal would pay for feeding me for several days otherwise, reinforcing all the above.
I don't have cats, smartass. I don't have time to take care of one, it wouldn't be fair to the cat.
Aaaaaaaaa kiiiiiiiir aaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!
If I want some slop out of a bag or box in the freezer or from a can I'll go to the grocery store and buy that for I'm sure a fraction of what these jokers are charging for a 'restaurant' 'meal'. Do not want, would not pay for it. If I'm eating out I want a human chef making me something special and nice not some shitty 'robot' making the equivalent of frozen food made in a factory somewhere. And of course what's already been in the works is firing all the waitstaff so all you do is deal with machines the entire time you're at their 'restaurant'. Screw that. There's nothing special about it, there's nothing value-added about it, why would I even bother going out to eat if that's all I'm going to get? May as well stay home and make my own food for the cost of ingredients and watch TV just like always.
More and more all these various 'cryptocurrencies' are starting to remind me of the 'limited edition gold coins' and 'collectible coins' sold on the x.2 and x.3 (and so on) broadcast TV channels. They're not really worth more than the metal they're made out of but they try to convince you they're going to be worth orders of magnitude more than you're paying for them.
It imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.
Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Google, I neither need, want, or will allow you to 'guide my behavior', so how about you go fuck yourselves, you fucking fucks?
Mad? Yes. If shit like this doesn't make you mad, then there's something wrong with you.
You want to win this game, people? DON'T PLAY AT ALL. Dump Google, dump so-called 'social media', and take your lives back. You don't need anyone to 'guide your behavior'. Google and others need to stay out of our lives.
Back in the early 90's, when I was trying to figure out the whole 'fitness' and 'weight loss' thing, before the Internet became an easily and cheaply accessible thing, access to good and recent information wasn't anywhere near as easy, so I got sent down the wrong roads by bad information or just a plain lack of information. I doubt I'm the only one who had that experience, either. Since the Internet however there is plenty of information available easily and quickly; sadly you have to have a 'let the buyer beware' attitude towards such information found on the Internet, but otherwise it's much easier to be healthier, fitter, and of course a better athlete because of ease of access to relevant information -- assuming you're driven enough to actually do it all and aren't just looking for a 'quick fix', and I say that because we've got an obesity problem in first-world countries and all sorts of health problems, but they're not because of lack of information, they're because of lack of desire to actually do anything about those problems if it requires thought or work, apparently.
What this does, successful or not, is show everyone in the country who gives a damn about the Internet and who doesn't, and more to the point, who gives a damn if the Internet is fair, free, and open for every citizen, or if it's just going to continue to be leveraged, monetized, and milked by corporations. Congresscritters will have to declare which side of the line they're on, no escaping it.
I'm going to paint "FUCK THE POLICE" on the roof of my car in paint that only shows up in infrared.
Nah, he hasn't, he's still on dialup BBS's (Z80a=4MHz 8-bit)
Nope. I saw it for the cancer it is, from Day One.
Fine. If it comes to that, then it's one more nail in Trump's political coffin, proving yet again that he doesn't give a rats' ass about common everyday citizens, is in the pocket of corporations (and who knows who else), and needs to go.
There may have been all of 15 minutes right at the beginning that it wasn't cancerous, but after that it was cancer 24/7/365. Just kill it all off and make it go away.
Data breaches, Woody, data breaches everywhere!
Come on people, isn't enough enough already?
1. Companies like this 'Securus' shouldn't exist in the first place.
2. ALL companies that handle personally identifiable/sensitive data should have properly secured systems 100% of the time, no excuses.
3. Nobody's phone location data should be revealed unless there is a valid warrant.
When is this bullshit going to stop? As-is, you can't connect anything to the Internet without exposing yourself to massive amounts of risk of being hacked into either by criminals or the government, you can't carry a smartphone around for the same reasons (only worse), and it's getting to the point where even your bank isn't a safe place to keep your moeny because they're getting hacked, too. What do we do about all this? What is the way forward? How do we fix this?
Shit like this is why I don't have a smartphone, and why I pay cash for everything I buy in person: to reduce my exposure to this sort of risk. Neither I nor any one of us should have to do that.
Problem is that in the US, "excellence" is defined as being used like a $20 whore and then discarded.
Fixed that for you.
All of what you said plus this: How much did that trash the motors and the drive electronics when they did that to it? Stunt or no stunt, if the car had to have it's drivetrain rebuilt after that then I'm not impressed.
"Microsoft to try to convince people that their half-assed piece of shit Windows tablets are somehow better than an iPad"
..and I don't even own any Apple products nor do I care to.
Try reading more than the headline, fool.
FWIW to anyone, when I read the headline (followed immediately by the entire story) I saw the word scooter as a verb and not a noun; don't ask me what the verb people were doing to Venetian birds, though. xD
I think the real question here is: Why is it getting up your ass so much that you have to sperg out on Slashdot like this over it? If it doesn't pertain to you or where you live then let it go.
Problem? Is it a problem for a twentysomething to walk a single mile?
I dunno about Venice, but here in the U.S., apparently, it's hard enough to get people to even go outside let alone walk a mile, so yeah maybe it's a problem.
But my phone doesn't even have a GPS receiver.
Just because you don't have an 'app' for your GPS location doesn't mean the chipset doesn't have a GPS receiver integrated into it. You might also be surprised to know it's got an FM broadcast receiver integrated into it too, but again no 'app' to access it. Even the cheap-ass plastic LG dumbphone that cost less than $50 has GPS in the chipset, just no 'app' to access it. But that doesn't mean the carrier can't access it, or the government, or a hacker.
You're making an assumption that any setting on your phone that ostensibly allows you to turn the GPS receiver 'OFF' actually does that, or can't be overridden remotely, which it most certainly can, and your phone would likely still show it as 'OFF'. The only way to actually disable it is to do as I said above: locate the antenna and short it to ground.
There's certainly been theories like that. I remember one where it was a meteor or an asteroid, carrying single-celled life to Earth. Also, haven't there been experiments on the ISS showing some microscopic life (Amoebas? Bacteria? I forget..) surviving in vacuum, going dormant?
FWIW it's not very difficult to physically disable GPS on your phone, just takes some electronics background and a phone you can safely disassemble/reassemble.
Imagine this: plume of water vapor erupts from deep within Europa, hundreds of miles high. Most of that never leaves the vicinity of Jupiter, but a little of it manages to escape, freezes, and floats around the solar system for a while.. eventually coming into the gravitational influence of a young Earth. It makes it through the atmosphere, eventually finding it's way into Earths' oceans, carrying the seeds of primitive life..
I have no mod points today, would several of you mod this fellow up to "+5 Insightful", please? Thanks. :-)