Know how every elevator has 'Door Close' button? That doesn't seem to actually be connected to anything, and therefore does nothing? That's what I think this will be: it'll clear what you and others can see, but not a single byte of what Facebook stores.
Yeah, I know, I know. In reality, if I got pissed off enough to dump wireless entirely, I'd probably end up using Skype. Not that that's a big improvement, then I'm part of Microsofts' bot-net again, and having to worry about them listening in on my conversations. Almost wish I had no need for it at all other than a few friends, in which case I'd just get them all encrypted radio transceivers.
Doesn't matter who is running what, the whole wireless 'industry' is a gigantic gang-rape session, and we're all the 'guests of honor'. Makes me want to go back to a landline.
You're not listening. How about we do something about ALL POLLUTION? Exhaust from internal combustion engines and fossil fuel burning power plants get into our water too, or didn't you notice? CO2 gets into the ocean and acidifies it, which is destroying reefs and ocean life, upsetting the balance of EVERYTHING, and also by the way making food from the sea unhealthy to eat. You want to focus on SMALL things when the BIG PICTURE affects everything simultaneously. How about we tackle ALL OF IT at the same time by focusing on the BIGGEST PROBLEMS first? Stop burning fossil fuels entirely. Bring back nuclear power, we can do it SAFELY now. More focus on creating less waste and more reusability. Stop putting quarterly profits ahead of the impact of things generations from now, when they won't be able to do ANYTHING about it.
No, it won't, none of that will work. Shit companies like Comcast and AT&T will just use a Starbucks-like strategy, saturate the market, offer loss-leader deals people won't turn down, and raise lease rates on the physical lines they own that the smaller companies have to use to provide their service. They drive the small guys out of business, buy them out for pennies on the dollar, sell everything off for scrap, and dominate the market. Rinse repeat. Has been happening for years. Why do you think there's only a few major ISPs and whoever is left has to lease lines from Comcast or AT&T?
What was a great idea has been perverted into something foul and cancerous. Get in your time machine and take it back. Dialup BBSs were bad enough, but at least they were local.
I stopped using cable TV about 10 years ago now and there's no way I'm going back. I've got more on my DVR from free broadcast HDTV than I have time to watch. I don't even use the Internet enough to give a damn about any 'speed boost', even if I was watching 'streaming' anything (which I am not currently and are not likely to start). Screw you Comcast/Xfinity, time for you to change your business model, not use use the stick to try to drive people to your not-so-tasty carrot.
How about this: We focus on all the above instead of just one thing, mmkay? We have 7.6 billion people on this planet, I think we can find enough people to work on fixing everything simultaneously. Unless nobody wants a planet they can live in a few hundred years, that is.
See, here's what bothers me about conversations like this one: The argument that "digital has better sound reproduction" is like saying "anyone playing an electric guitar should set their tone controls to precisely FLAT because that's accurate reproduction of the vibration of the strings". Everything would sound the same, there would be no tone to it. Same would go for using guitar pedals of any kind, or EQ between the guitar preamp and the mains amp. Yes, vinyl has a different tone to it than a CD or a high sampling rate (like 96kHz @ 24b) digital recording does; the needle only has a certain maximum slewing rate which limits both the overall frequency response as well as the cycle-to-cycle response. This colors the sound, producing what musicians would call a warm tone which some people find pleasant. Meanwhile, what seems to be ignored here is that all modern recordings that were 100% digital after the microphones/pickups and preamps, have been mixed, equalized, gone through companders, and had effects applied to them; all of this colors the final production sound, so nothing you're hearing is 100% 'accurate', for lack of a better term. Futhermore despite what audiophile types, spending tens of thousands of dollars want to believe, any sound system you play back these recordings on also imparts it's own color to the sound, because of the response characteristics of the system as a whole. So no recording you've ever heard is actually 'accurate', it's all been modified one way or another, whether intentionally or unintentionally. The bottom line is, if you want to hear something that's 100% like the original, then hire your favorite bands/artists/singer-songwriters/symphony orchestras/whatever to play in a studio setting, while you sit in your chair, drinking your favorite beverage, and listening with your own ears -- and try to not to think about how the room accoustics are 'coloring' the sound.:-)
Do all of you not see that so-called 'social media' is a cancer on our civilzation? Get it out of your life starting with today, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. No such thing as 'safe' social media, it will all be abused no matter how many laws they pass.
I hear you, but that sounds like more of a band-aid than it does an actual cure; we're still talking about many many antennas and access points all over the place, even worse than cellular because WiFi has such a shorter distance.
Twitter and Facebook are private companies not owned or run by the government, jackass. Maybe if you weren't a racist sexist xenophobe misogynist transphobic fascist nazi posting your vitriolic nonsense in those plances then maybe they wouldn't have banned your trolling account(s) there.
Slightly off-topic, but the thought has occurred to me more than once: They keep having to put up more and more cell towers, festooned with as many antennas as it can hold, to meet consumer demand -- and apparently it's not enough, because if there's an emergency and everyone is trying to dial out simultaneously, the system gets overloaded and calls don't go through. Cellular base stations can only support so many simultaneous calls at once. When and where is the point of critical mass going to occur? Where I'm going with this is: What's the technology that's going to ultimately have to be developed to replace this technology? Something that doesn't require so many towers and so many antennas everywhere you look?
True facts:
Of all the engineers I've worked with my entire life, the best ones are almost always the ones who were technicians while they were working through college.
One of the best engineers I've ever worked with didn't even have a college degree, but a body of work (read as: real-life experience) that exceeded a college degree.
Having a college degree doesn't mean you actually know anything -- or that you know how to do anything. Experience is still King.
On the Internet, I've had conversations with (?) kids playing around with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis who thought that all 'analog electronics' was 'old-fashioned' and 'obsolete' and that 'nobody uses that stuff for anything anymore, everything is digital'. Imagine the denial and arguments that ensued when I started educating them that without so-called 'obsolete, old-fashioned' analog electronics, none of their microcontrollers would even exist.
Without intelligent, hard-working people willing to get their hands dirty, we wouldn't have houses to live in, roads to drive on, cars to drive on those roads, food to eat, clean water coming out of the tap, or pretty much anything else you care to name -- and without all the infrastructure, there wouldn't be any 'high tech' or much of anything else. We'd all be scratching in the dirt trying just to survive. I've met some pretty damned intelligent and creative people who aren't working in high tech fields, because they enjoy working with their hands. Looking down on someone who is 'blue collar' is ridiculous.
Don't give me that "you're not living in the real world" bullshit. I used to have dental insurance. I had some cavities filled. I had to go get a loan from my bank to pay my end of it. Then all the work is done, I think we're done with the whole deal, and they send me a bill. I say "What's this?" They tell me "your insurance didn't pay this, so you have to". I say "How the hell does that work?" They tell me "Your insurance told us they'd pay such-and-such amount. When we sent them the claim they said they're only paying so-and-so amount. Happens all the time. Nothing we can do about it". So I pay out of pocket on top of having to pay back the bank. Next time around I tell the dentist "Find out FOR SURE what they're paying this time so I know how much money I need to come up with!" They do the best they can, they go back and forth with the insurance company, but the same goddamned thing happens; they do the work on me, they send in the claim, expecting such-and-such amount paid, and the insurance company says "Oh well we're only paying this much, deal with it." This was Delta Dental by the way, not some fly-by-night company no one ever heard of before. So don't sit there and tell me I'm making this shit up. I don't bother with dental insurance anymore because of this sort of bullshit, if they're going to play con-artist games like this then it's not worth having at all.
There's a distinct difference between a symbiote and a parasite. American capitalism has been more and more resembling the latter rather than the former, and it's not good for the country. There needs to be a middle ground.
Just like that episode of The Orville. Who's to say that people don't make up shit about people they don't like so they can get their 'social credit score' dinged to ruin their lives for them? Who's to say that the Communist Chinese government isn't doing exactly that; making up shit about people who are 'inconvenient' or 'undesirable' to them but otherwise are fine, just to wreck them? We all know the best way to destroy someone is not killing them, that just creates a martyr (and you can't keep hurting someone who is dead); it's to discredit and disgrace them publicly, then they're a living reminder (and you can keep hurting them forever). The Communist Chinese government is a bunch of fucking assholes.
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The AC above you made me chuckle. You, sadly, made me facepalm. :-( Humor would be appreciated. ;-)
Know how every elevator has 'Door Close' button? That doesn't seem to actually be connected to anything, and therefore does nothing? That's what I think this will be: it'll clear what you and others can see, but not a single byte of what Facebook stores.
Yeah, I know, I know. In reality, if I got pissed off enough to dump wireless entirely, I'd probably end up using Skype. Not that that's a big improvement, then I'm part of Microsofts' bot-net again, and having to worry about them listening in on my conversations. Almost wish I had no need for it at all other than a few friends, in which case I'd just get them all encrypted radio transceivers.
I think they should get with the State Department and get him extradited like any other criminal.
Doesn't matter who is running what, the whole wireless 'industry' is a gigantic gang-rape session, and we're all the 'guests of honor'. Makes me want to go back to a landline.
You're not listening. How about we do something about ALL POLLUTION? Exhaust from internal combustion engines and fossil fuel burning power plants get into our water too, or didn't you notice? CO2 gets into the ocean and acidifies it, which is destroying reefs and ocean life, upsetting the balance of EVERYTHING, and also by the way making food from the sea unhealthy to eat. You want to focus on SMALL things when the BIG PICTURE affects everything simultaneously. How about we tackle ALL OF IT at the same time by focusing on the BIGGEST PROBLEMS first? Stop burning fossil fuels entirely. Bring back nuclear power, we can do it SAFELY now. More focus on creating less waste and more reusability. Stop putting quarterly profits ahead of the impact of things generations from now, when they won't be able to do ANYTHING about it.
Monopolies are never good for anyone except The Rich, who own the companies with monopolies. Everyone else gets ass-raped.
No, it won't, none of that will work. Shit companies like Comcast and AT&T will just use a Starbucks-like strategy, saturate the market, offer loss-leader deals people won't turn down, and raise lease rates on the physical lines they own that the smaller companies have to use to provide their service. They drive the small guys out of business, buy them out for pennies on the dollar, sell everything off for scrap, and dominate the market. Rinse repeat. Has been happening for years. Why do you think there's only a few major ISPs and whoever is left has to lease lines from Comcast or AT&T?
What was a great idea has been perverted into something foul and cancerous. Get in your time machine and take it back. Dialup BBSs were bad enough, but at least they were local.
I stopped using cable TV about 10 years ago now and there's no way I'm going back. I've got more on my DVR from free broadcast HDTV than I have time to watch. I don't even use the Internet enough to give a damn about any 'speed boost', even if I was watching 'streaming' anything (which I am not currently and are not likely to start). Screw you Comcast/Xfinity, time for you to change your business model, not use use the stick to try to drive people to your not-so-tasty carrot.
Without looking, I think 'pristine' used in this context is a legal definition, not a dictionary definition.
How about this: We focus on all the above instead of just one thing, mmkay? We have 7.6 billion people on this planet, I think we can find enough people to work on fixing everything simultaneously. Unless nobody wants a planet they can live in a few hundred years, that is.
See, here's what bothers me about conversations like this one: The argument that "digital has better sound reproduction" is like saying "anyone playing an electric guitar should set their tone controls to precisely FLAT because that's accurate reproduction of the vibration of the strings". Everything would sound the same, there would be no tone to it. Same would go for using guitar pedals of any kind, or EQ between the guitar preamp and the mains amp. Yes, vinyl has a different tone to it than a CD or a high sampling rate (like 96kHz @ 24b) digital recording does; the needle only has a certain maximum slewing rate which limits both the overall frequency response as well as the cycle-to-cycle response. This colors the sound, producing what musicians would call a warm tone which some people find pleasant. Meanwhile, what seems to be ignored here is that all modern recordings that were 100% digital after the microphones/pickups and preamps, have been mixed, equalized, gone through companders, and had effects applied to them; all of this colors the final production sound, so nothing you're hearing is 100% 'accurate', for lack of a better term. Futhermore despite what audiophile types, spending tens of thousands of dollars want to believe, any sound system you play back these recordings on also imparts it's own color to the sound, because of the response characteristics of the system as a whole. So no recording you've ever heard is actually 'accurate', it's all been modified one way or another, whether intentionally or unintentionally. The bottom line is, if you want to hear something that's 100% like the original, then hire your favorite bands/artists/singer-songwriters/symphony orchestras/whatever to play in a studio setting, while you sit in your chair, drinking your favorite beverage, and listening with your own ears -- and try to not to think about how the room accoustics are 'coloring' the sound. :-)
Do all of you not see that so-called 'social media' is a cancer on our civilzation? Get it out of your life starting with today, and encourage everyone you know to do the same. No such thing as 'safe' social media, it will all be abused no matter how many laws they pass.
I hear you, but that sounds like more of a band-aid than it does an actual cure; we're still talking about many many antennas and access points all over the place, even worse than cellular because WiFi has such a shorter distance.
Twitter and Facebook are private companies not owned or run by the government, jackass. Maybe if you weren't a racist sexist xenophobe misogynist transphobic fascist nazi posting your vitriolic nonsense in those plances then maybe they wouldn't have banned your trolling account(s) there.
Slightly off-topic, but the thought has occurred to me more than once: They keep having to put up more and more cell towers, festooned with as many antennas as it can hold, to meet consumer demand -- and apparently it's not enough, because if there's an emergency and everyone is trying to dial out simultaneously, the system gets overloaded and calls don't go through. Cellular base stations can only support so many simultaneous calls at once. When and where is the point of critical mass going to occur? Where I'm going with this is: What's the technology that's going to ultimately have to be developed to replace this technology? Something that doesn't require so many towers and so many antennas everywhere you look?
Completely off-topic, but I have to ask: Are you married to 'omnistacy'? xD
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True facts:
Of all the engineers I've worked with my entire life, the best ones are almost always the ones who were technicians while they were working through college.
One of the best engineers I've ever worked with didn't even have a college degree, but a body of work (read as: real-life experience) that exceeded a college degree.
Having a college degree doesn't mean you actually know anything -- or that you know how to do anything. Experience is still King.
On the Internet, I've had conversations with (?) kids playing around with Arduinos and Raspberry Pis who thought that all 'analog electronics' was 'old-fashioned' and 'obsolete' and that 'nobody uses that stuff for anything anymore, everything is digital'. Imagine the denial and arguments that ensued when I started educating them that without so-called 'obsolete, old-fashioned' analog electronics, none of their microcontrollers would even exist.
Without intelligent, hard-working people willing to get their hands dirty, we wouldn't have houses to live in, roads to drive on, cars to drive on those roads, food to eat, clean water coming out of the tap, or pretty much anything else you care to name -- and without all the infrastructure, there wouldn't be any 'high tech' or much of anything else. We'd all be scratching in the dirt trying just to survive. I've met some pretty damned intelligent and creative people who aren't working in high tech fields, because they enjoy working with their hands. Looking down on someone who is 'blue collar' is ridiculous.
Yeah, I'm beyond sick and fucking tired of "AI" this and "AI" that especially considering that it's not even real AI.
Then they shouldn't be allowed to refer to it as "dental insurance" because it's misleading!
I can't be bothered, especially for some Anonymous Coward. Go do your own research.
Don't give me that "you're not living in the real world" bullshit. I used to have dental insurance. I had some cavities filled. I had to go get a loan from my bank to pay my end of it. Then all the work is done, I think we're done with the whole deal, and they send me a bill. I say "What's this?" They tell me "your insurance didn't pay this, so you have to". I say "How the hell does that work?" They tell me "Your insurance told us they'd pay such-and-such amount. When we sent them the claim they said they're only paying so-and-so amount. Happens all the time. Nothing we can do about it". So I pay out of pocket on top of having to pay back the bank. Next time around I tell the dentist "Find out FOR SURE what they're paying this time so I know how much money I need to come up with!" They do the best they can, they go back and forth with the insurance company, but the same goddamned thing happens; they do the work on me, they send in the claim, expecting such-and-such amount paid, and the insurance company says "Oh well we're only paying this much, deal with it." This was Delta Dental by the way, not some fly-by-night company no one ever heard of before. So don't sit there and tell me I'm making this shit up. I don't bother with dental insurance anymore because of this sort of bullshit, if they're going to play con-artist games like this then it's not worth having at all.
There's a distinct difference between a symbiote and a parasite. American capitalism has been more and more resembling the latter rather than the former, and it's not good for the country. There needs to be a middle ground.
Just like that episode of The Orville. Who's to say that people don't make up shit about people they don't like so they can get their 'social credit score' dinged to ruin their lives for them? Who's to say that the Communist Chinese government isn't doing exactly that; making up shit about people who are 'inconvenient' or 'undesirable' to them but otherwise are fine, just to wreck them? We all know the best way to destroy someone is not killing them, that just creates a martyr (and you can't keep hurting someone who is dead); it's to discredit and disgrace them publicly, then they're a living reminder (and you can keep hurting them forever). The Communist Chinese government is a bunch of fucking assholes.