These are domain names. It's like the Yellow Pages of the Internet. How does "censoring" a domain name prevent a particular form of expression?
I put that effective monopolies like Facebook are the bigger threat to free (as in speech) speech since voicing an unpopular opinion or posting a photo that SOMEBODY doesn't like to Facebook gets your account deleted. Enjoy the freedom!
But I have to wonder about reviews that I encounter about 10% of the time that are so outlandish that they can't possibly be true: "I ordered a mocha latte, but received a plain black coffee. And I waited 45 minutes for it!!11!!1" SRSLY?? You waited 45 minutes for a cup of coffee without saying anything or taking any action to speed things up?? Sure, that's entirely believable!
Or hotel reviews of the form: "The people at the check-in desk were very rude and ignored all of our requests. The bed was pilled to the ceiling with human feces and there were roaches completely filling up the coffee dispenser. We only stayed 5 days instead of our originally planned 6 days."
The problem with Yelp is that the buttons for rating reviews only allow for positive/upvotes. When there's obvious garbage there's no way to vote it down other than to report it, which I doubt does any good.
tl;dr Yelp is only moderately useful. Read reviews with a critical eye.
Despite having 16GB in this Windows 7 desktop machine that I built a year and a half ago, Firefox becomes much less usable when it exceeds about 1.2GB Working Set (as displayed by Task Manager processes). Right now as I'm typing this it shows 1.43GB Working Set memory and 1.33 Commit Size and seems to be operating smoothly enough with 2 FF windows open, one window with 2 tabs and the other with 8 tabs running moderate and lightweight stuff.
But if I do anything requiring heavy lifting like watching a bunch of YouTube videos or sites with lots of scripting and the memory consumption has approached 2 GB during that session FF becomes close to useless. Even shutting it down becomes an ordeal as it sometimes can take 3-4 MINUTES to wipe its butt and finally exit, as shown in Task Manager. Having all this RAM in the computer doesn't ever seem to pay off as the applications or memory/heap management in Windows doesn't do well with large memory consumption.
If Electrolysis can streamline the overall operation and make it more stable and secure, I'm all for it. I won't be the first in line to be a guinea pig, tho.
The most frequent occurrence is a brown out or voltage spike that glitches computerized electronics of all kinds: computers, Roku boxes, IoT devices powered by the a.c. mains. It's not about run time when the power goes clean out, it's about smoothing out the bumps on the a.c. mains that occur often enough in first world countries that they ARE a concern. Particularly for those with nearby industry that might put a big but brief hit on your feeder when they fire up a big motor or illuminated sign.
Don't be a guinea pig, don't be an ostrich: lay out less than $100 to buy a decent UPS to save yourself some needless, preventable headaches. I speak from experience.
A big source of trouble that is most overlooked is simply clean a.c. power. SO MANY PROBLEMS without ready explanation can be solved by providing clean u.p.s. power to the computer and yet too many home and small business users carelessly don't bother.
If it's a laptop or battery-operated handheld device that is not an issue, but for traditional desktop machines it certainly is.
The doddering old man named Google could just as easily break this "promise" whenever it chose to. Or just "forget" its promise as doddering old men are wont to do. What are you gonna do about it?
Not lately, no. I've been Ludditely gripping my ancient Samsung Galaxy S2 because I've modded it to suit my needs, it works, and don't want to go through the pain of mastering a new phone unless it will be a game-changer for me. That's why I have to find reviews and evaluations that cut through the noise of shiny new features and get to the meat of the matter to find out if the phone works *as a phone* and can withstand daily use.
If I were to get something other than a Nexus it would be a Samsung based on the build quality of this S2 and reports from others over the different models they have put out.
But I will be doing plenty of research first to ensure that it suits my needs. I have not begun that search yet, but if Google releases their next iteration of the Nexus/Gphone this October (based on their historic pattern) I will have to begin that search in earnest.
Nexus is a brand, not a specific device. Google contracts with whatever manufacturer gives them what they want so any given model could be good or it could be crap, sure enough. My comments were not referring to any particular model, just pointing out what matters to me instead of breathlessly drooling over a new iPhone because it's an iPhone or a new Nexus just because it's a Nexus like so many do.
You know what I find "exciting" in a phone? Something that actually works. A phone that - has good sounding transmit and receive audio, - is mechanically sound so something stupid like a 10 cent power button doesn't make it a brick, - has a decent viewable screen.
You can have your exciting "keeping up with the Samsungs" features, thank you very much. That's just chasing a feather in the wind.
The F.C.C. gave up regulating C.B. radio when the sheer number of users made it impractical and unprofitable to bother with. It looks like drones are headed that way, too. There will be so many drones flying around that regulations will be ineffective, so the only thing that will allow them to function will be controlled chaos.
I suppose we'll need an interoperable protocol by which they keep from crashing into each other; that will largely be worked out by the for-profit companies using them to make money. Perhaps the F.A.A. can act as mediator, but they seem so far behind the curve on this as to be insignificant. The charge forward is underway already.
At risk of opening a PDF? Why not automatically open the PDF in protected mode? Surely Edge is advanced enough not to open a PDF with full access permissions to running macros and such?? I mean, Edge can even do WebRTC so at long last Microsoft is catching up to the rest of the world. Surely security considerations can't be far behind. Right? GUYS??
That ease of PayWave sounds like it makes an ideal target for the attacks listed upthread. What's to stop someone with a hand-held RFID reader designed to lift data or even run fraudulent transactions as they pass you in a crowded store or subway or whatnot? You might even get a free grope if you keep your wallet in your back pocket.
It's not the tracking so much these days as the threat of malvertising. In the past I objected to advertising because they use my bandwidth and my cpu to do their dirty work for them.
But now the dirty work includes serving up malware via automated advertising servers, so there is more reason than ever to block ads.
I'd be happy to pay legitimate sites that I find worthwhile as long as that exempts me from ALL advertising served by their site and their "trusted" partners.
Google Maps seems to remove features with every successive release of Maps for Android.
You used to be able to measure distances on the mobile Maps app, but not any more.
You used to be able to plot a course or set waypoints on your desktop computer with its big screen where you could see a lot more, then pull up that route on your phone with the mobile app. Not any more.
I used to be able to publish a link to my location plotted on an embedded map on my personal web site so my friends could track me on road trips. They took that away claiming that idiots were forgetting about their public links and violating their own privacy. So to protect people from their own stupidity, ostensibly, they removed that feature.
I've forgotten all the features that they've removed just in the past couple of years.
In recent versions Maps INSISTS that you turn on wifi in order to get an accurate plot of your location even with GPS already enabled. This tells me that they continue to map wifi access points as you move around to add to their database. It has nothing to do with improving the accuarcy of your location, that's BS.
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These are domain names. It's like the Yellow Pages of the Internet. How does "censoring" a domain name prevent a particular form of expression?
I put that effective monopolies like Facebook are the bigger threat to free (as in speech) speech since voicing an unpopular opinion or posting a photo that SOMEBODY doesn't like to Facebook gets your account deleted. Enjoy the freedom!
Entirely possible.
But I have to wonder about reviews that I encounter about 10% of the time that are so outlandish that they can't possibly be true: "I ordered a mocha latte, but received a plain black coffee. And I waited 45 minutes for it!!11!!1" SRSLY?? You waited 45 minutes for a cup of coffee without saying anything or taking any action to speed things up?? Sure, that's entirely believable!
Or hotel reviews of the form: "The people at the check-in desk were very rude and ignored all of our requests. The bed was pilled to the ceiling with human feces and there were roaches completely filling up the coffee dispenser. We only stayed 5 days instead of our originally planned 6 days."
The problem with Yelp is that the buttons for rating reviews only allow for positive/upvotes. When there's obvious garbage there's no way to vote it down other than to report it, which I doubt does any good.
tl;dr Yelp is only moderately useful. Read reviews with a critical eye.
Despite having 16GB in this Windows 7 desktop machine that I built a year and a half ago, Firefox becomes much less usable when it exceeds about 1.2GB Working Set (as displayed by Task Manager processes). Right now as I'm typing this it shows 1.43GB Working Set memory and 1.33 Commit Size and seems to be operating smoothly enough with 2 FF windows open, one window with 2 tabs and the other with 8 tabs running moderate and lightweight stuff.
But if I do anything requiring heavy lifting like watching a bunch of YouTube videos or sites with lots of scripting and the memory consumption has approached 2 GB during that session FF becomes close to useless. Even shutting it down becomes an ordeal as it sometimes can take 3-4 MINUTES to wipe its butt and finally exit, as shown in Task Manager. Having all this RAM in the computer doesn't ever seem to pay off as the applications or memory/heap management in Windows doesn't do well with large memory consumption.
If Electrolysis can streamline the overall operation and make it more stable and secure, I'm all for it. I won't be the first in line to be a guinea pig, tho.
Wonderful! One word to refer to multiple types. That should go swimmingly.
The most frequent occurrence is a brown out or voltage spike that glitches computerized electronics of all kinds: computers, Roku boxes, IoT devices powered by the a.c. mains. It's not about run time when the power goes clean out, it's about smoothing out the bumps on the a.c. mains that occur often enough in first world countries that they ARE a concern. Particularly for those with nearby industry that might put a big but brief hit on your feeder when they fire up a big motor or illuminated sign.
Don't be a guinea pig, don't be an ostrich: lay out less than $100 to buy a decent UPS to save yourself some needless, preventable headaches. I speak from experience.
A big source of trouble that is most overlooked is simply clean a.c. power. SO MANY PROBLEMS without ready explanation can be solved by providing clean u.p.s. power to the computer and yet too many home and small business users carelessly don't bother.
If it's a laptop or battery-operated handheld device that is not an issue, but for traditional desktop machines it certainly is.
As always, the difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.
The war to fight before this is the naming war:
() parenthesis
{} braces
[] brackets
I'd be happy if coders could simply get those right.
Then we can move on to the unwashed masses calling the slash / as in slashdot and web URLs a "backslash". You have to pick your battles.
The doddering old man named Google could just as easily break this "promise" whenever it chose to. Or just "forget" its promise as doddering old men are wont to do. What are you gonna do about it?
Not lately, no. I've been Ludditely gripping my ancient Samsung Galaxy S2 because I've modded it to suit my needs, it works, and don't want to go through the pain of mastering a new phone unless it will be a game-changer for me. That's why I have to find reviews and evaluations that cut through the noise of shiny new features and get to the meat of the matter to find out if the phone works *as a phone* and can withstand daily use.
If I were to get something other than a Nexus it would be a Samsung based on the build quality of this S2 and reports from others over the different models they have put out.
But I will be doing plenty of research first to ensure that it suits my needs. I have not begun that search yet, but if Google releases their next iteration of the Nexus/Gphone this October (based on their historic pattern) I will have to begin that search in earnest.
Nexus is a brand, not a specific device. Google contracts with whatever manufacturer gives them what they want so any given model could be good or it could be crap, sure enough. My comments were not referring to any particular model, just pointing out what matters to me instead of breathlessly drooling over a new iPhone because it's an iPhone or a new Nexus just because it's a Nexus like so many do.
You know what I find "exciting" in a phone? Something that actually works. A phone that
- has good sounding transmit and receive audio,
- is mechanically sound so something stupid like a 10 cent power button doesn't make it a brick,
- has a decent viewable screen.
You can have your exciting "keeping up with the Samsungs" features, thank you very much. That's just chasing a feather in the wind.
The F.C.C. gave up regulating C.B. radio when the sheer number of users made it impractical and unprofitable to bother with. It looks like drones are headed that way, too. There will be so many drones flying around that regulations will be ineffective, so the only thing that will allow them to function will be controlled chaos.
I suppose we'll need an interoperable protocol by which they keep from crashing into each other; that will largely be worked out by the for-profit companies using them to make money. Perhaps the F.A.A. can act as mediator, but they seem so far behind the curve on this as to be insignificant. The charge forward is underway already.
Would a man-in-the-middle attack on Tinder amount to a 3-way?
every 5 minutes:
"Do you miss me?"
"When are you coming home?"
"What do you wanna do tonight?"
"Do you still love me?"
"WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME??!!"
T-Mobile is good for you.
Until you leave the city or the interstate highway.
That would require Intrepid-class starships for the really useful and good holodecks, so that's quite some time into the future.
At risk of opening a PDF? Why not automatically open the PDF in protected mode? Surely Edge is advanced enough not to open a PDF with full access permissions to running macros and such?? I mean, Edge can even do WebRTC so at long last Microsoft is catching up to the rest of the world. Surely security considerations can't be far behind. Right? GUYS??
I can't believe Shatner is still alive!
"You're dead, Jim."
That ease of PayWave sounds like it makes an ideal target for the attacks listed upthread. What's to stop someone with a hand-held RFID reader designed to lift data or even run fraudulent transactions as they pass you in a crowded store or subway or whatnot? You might even get a free grope if you keep your wallet in your back pocket.
is more popular than oxygen. Millions have already switched!!
You should never deny Slashdot the satisfaction of posting an over-the-top headline to attract CLICKZZZ!!
It's not the tracking so much these days as the threat of malvertising. In the past I objected to advertising because they use my bandwidth and my cpu to do their dirty work for them.
But now the dirty work includes serving up malware via automated advertising servers, so there is more reason than ever to block ads.
I'd be happy to pay legitimate sites that I find worthwhile as long as that exempts me from ALL advertising served by their site and their "trusted" partners.
They will sell the fact that you are a paying subscriber to their trusted partners.
FIXED!
So when will Apple bring their maps to Android?
Google Maps seems to remove features with every successive release of Maps for Android.
You used to be able to measure distances on the mobile Maps app, but not any more.
You used to be able to plot a course or set waypoints on your desktop computer with its big screen where you could see a lot more, then pull up that route on your phone with the mobile app. Not any more.
I used to be able to publish a link to my location plotted on an embedded map on my personal web site so my friends could track me on road trips. They took that away claiming that idiots were forgetting about their public links and violating their own privacy. So to protect people from their own stupidity, ostensibly, they removed that feature.
I've forgotten all the features that they've removed just in the past couple of years.
In recent versions Maps INSISTS that you turn on wifi in order to get an accurate plot of your location even with GPS already enabled. This tells me that they continue to map wifi access points as you move around to add to their database. It has nothing to do with improving the accuarcy of your location, that's BS.