LOL. I think you've got your tin foil hat on a bit too tight. Loosen it up and let the blood flow to your brain.
What sort of effective surveillance would they get merely from a hello? Determining age and sex? Good luck with that. For some reason a human operator can't even get my sex correct after talking to me for 2 minutes (yeah, I don't have a deep "manly" voice, but it's not girly either). And polling to know what times you are available? I doubt home buglers are that sophisticated.
You want to know why you get dead phone calls? It's because even poorly paid telemarketers are wasting money when they're sitting there not doing anything but waiting for you to answer your phone. The autodialers are designed to call multiple phone numbers at a time and take the first one that answer, then either hang up on the others or try to keep them on the line long enough for the next telemarketer to be ready for a new call (which is why even when you do get a person, there is a long pause before they are there).
You are absolutely right though about why they use the same area code, and more recently also the same first 3 digits. It prevents you from manually "blocking" their calls. Though ironically I found their tactics more effective when they were ONLY matching the area code. I get legit calls from my own area code often, but I've NEVER had a legit call from a number with the same first 3 digits. So when they do that, it's now easy for me to just ignore it.
That's pointless advise, because there's no way to be careful with your data. You can't copy save games to a flash card, and there is no online save functionality either. So the person who is "careful" with their data is equally as susceptible as the person who doesn't give it a single thought.
Why does everyone assume he was fired because of the work-left balance issue? He told them on day 1 his wife had cancer. Presumably he was going to be getting medical insurance, including for his wife. Since there are no pre-existing condition clauses anymore, and since many large companies self-insure (not sure if this includes BAE or not), I think it's just as likely he was fired because they figured he was going to cause a big spike in their costs due to expensive cancer treatment. HR had probably been getting crap about doing what they can to reel in their health care expenses, they saw a big budget buster, and said HELL NO. Of course those may not be fair assumptions on their part (maybe she already has insurance from another source), but they can't exactly go asking too many questions without creating evidence of discrimination. So just play it safe and get rid of him right away.
It might cost you 85 cents to get it shipped from China, but meanwhile the 3 to 5 weeks (occasionally even more) that is typical for shipping from China is a long time to wait for someone that has something broken and just needs a damn resistor to fix it.
That PDF is a piece of work... From what I can tell the total award is $12,700,00? Anyone know what they mean by "work" here?
Slashdot say "Court Awards Massive Damages" and then completely fails to say what was awarded. Careful there, AC. I think this might be part of slashdot's "RTFA DRM", and your post may be considered circumvention measures.
Several times since I became a father, useful medications for children and especially for infants have been pulled off the market simply because of claims that parents are using wrong dosages...If infant tylenol cold and flu hadn't been yanked off the market for these ridiculous reasons years ago
I'm not sure what this "infant tylenol cold and flu" that you speak of is. I've never heard of it, and Google can't seem to find anything about it either.
What I do know is, when my first daughter (now 6 yo) was born we bought some Tylenol Infant concentrated drops. They were great since (like many kids) she didn't want to cooperate in taking her medicine. A few years later when it expired my wife went and bought some more. When I went to give it, I realized the dosage was way different and required giving her a ton more liquid to swallow. That sucked, since she was so uncooperative. I drove to like 10 different stores trying to find that same stuff before doing a google search. I was furious to discover that it was discontinued.
Then I thought a bit more about it. My wife bought the regular stuff thinking it was the same as the concentrated stuff. What if it had gone the other way...we started with the regular and then bought the concentrated accidentally. I always check the labels and dosages on kids stuff just to be 100% certain, but I'm extremely cautious. I bet a lot of people don't. Most people memorize dosages of stuff and just go by what they know. When I need to take a tylenol or my wife needs a benedryl, we don't check the labels for the proper dose. We know what the dose is and just take it. Most people do the same. And it totally wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people carry that habit over to their kids.
Acetaminophen is dangerous if not dosed properly (which is why, amusingly enough, the bottle of Kirkland brand acetaminophen that Costco sells says something like "this product contains acetaminophen" on the cap) . And I think it's a good idea removing the ability for someone to accidentally give their kid 2.5x the intended dosage, even if that means you now have to endure the more difficult task of getting them to swallow a greater quantity of it.
See how much effort it takes to clearly and fully rebuke a single statement? Now you expect me to preemptively do that for a dozen random things that he rattled off his brain? No...we'll start with the first and then work from there if necessary.
See this is the problem with spouting out bullshit. It takes you only 30 seconds to make up any sort of bullshit that you want when you dont need to be accurate or provide sources. It then takes the other party at least an order of magnitude more effort to provide a logical, coherent, and factual response. Its a very common tactic to just spout out so much bullshit that the other party can't reasonably have time to counter it all. Then they spend all their time just countering your bullshit and they've said nothing that they wanted to say, and effectively you've neutralized them.
Wow, you got a lot of dishonest stuff there yourself. So lets start by addressing the first one.
Under Obama, we stopped counting people as unemployed if they gave up looking for a job.
Can you provide some citations for your claim? Because the only thing I recall being change was Obama making our unemployment tracking MORE accurate, not less. Here's my citation (and select quotes):
"the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years to five years the upper limit on how long someone can be listed as having been jobless."
So it used to be after 2 years someone would stop counting against the unemployment figured, and during Obama it was changed so that they continued to count for 3 years more. The only affect that would have is to INCREASE the unemployment figures and make Obama look worse, but they did it anyway to be more accurate.
"Stacey Standish, a bureau assistant press officer, says the two-year limit has been used for 33 years."
So the previous 2 year limit (which I had often heard as attributed to Bush 43, but never looked up myself) apparently goes back to Carter (1977)
And if Obama and Democrats in congress push a health care plan directly modeled on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan (a plan which was considered a success by most Republicans), Republicans will be against it. This is not a new phenomenon, and it is not unique to one party or one president.
Yep those were all pretty terrible. And on the flip side, you couldn't even manage to name one good thing the foundation did. How many yuuuuuuge Hillary portraits did it commission? How many of Hillary's Universities...I mean Entrepreneur Initiatives did the foundation settle lawsuits for? How many of Hillary's golf courses did the foundation pay fines for? Can't you think of even ONE good thing they did?
until Trump got elected, promising to do... the exact same things Obama did
What? Are you confused? Trump was the guy who won, not the lady in a pantsuit who lost. I'm not sure if I can think of a single thing he promised to do the exact same as Obama.
Binging new content is one of the worst things about Netflix.
Shows become a chore to get through. You have to get through them soon or you risk getting spoiled and can't talk about it with other people.
Exactly. It's bad enough when I've got something going on with the family that it prevents me from watching Game of Thrones for 24 (or even 48) hours and now I've got to avoid spoilers being dropped everywhere. Having to do that for a few weeks would suck.
But aside from that...I'll admit I don't know much about the depth of writing for any of Netflix's shows, but I feel like there are lots of shows that would actually suffer from binge release. For shows that have plenty of depth involve, you want time to watch each episode, absorb what you saw, rewatch it again, discuss it with friends / family / coworkers / strangers on an internet forum, got back and look for what they saw, and THEN move onto the next episode. 1 episode per week works really well for that. But if they were binged dumped, you either lose the ability to discuss 90% of the mystery (because it's resolved before the end of the season), or you need to make pacts with other people to pace it out. And then if you make a pact, you've got to worry that they are honoring it. In cases where episodes were pre-leaked online, there are some people who I've been pretty suspicious about their "predictions" (I suspect they either watched it and pretended like they didnt, or they are passing along "theories" that they actually read online from someone who already watched). It seem to me that for these types of shows, the ratings/profitability of those types of shows would be negatively impacted from binge release.
Lol....apparently I hadn't been keeping up on the latest news, because after reading other replies, apparently this is exactly what has already come out.
Yeah just wait for the details to come in on this one. I'm sure it will be like the announcement that he saved Ford jobs, only to find out that the company had planned that over a year ago and it had nothing to do with Trump. Or like the Carrier announcement, where he claimed credit for jobs that were never being eliminated, and the rest of them have the big asterisk that Carrier is going to invest millions of dollars which we later discovered were going mostly to automation to eventually replace most of the jobs that were just "saved"
Fool me once*, shame on you. Fool me twice**, can't get fooled again. Fuck you Asus!
*with the Transformer Prime and it's shitty ass WiFi, and GPS so bad you actually expected me to use a dongle to get a usable GPS signal
**with the Transformer Infinity, and it's piece of shit software upgrades (and from what I understand to be somehow due to inferior memory bandwidth?) that render the thing slower and slower with every update, to the point that I can do a factory reset on my Inifinity, install absolutely no apps, and still have 5 to 10 second touch lag in chrome on a regular basis even after it has had 20 minutes to finish it's reboot, do whatever startup tasks it may need.
I would say it's more like: Congratulations! You thought you could undercut the professional taxi industry like a Chinese laborer. Well guess what....you're getting paid like a Chinese laborer. What, did you think you could have your cake and eat it too?
I wouldn't necessarily say its the nature of inkjets that you have to print something every couple of weeks. I used to sell prints at art shows in the summer as a hobby. I owned a Canon IPF5000 wide format printer. Because of the seasonal nature of my business I would do a ton of printing for 3-4 months, and then shutdown and unplug the printer for the other 8-9 months. Each year, I would plug it back it, it would run through 1 cleaning cycle, and it worked beautifully without any clogs or other degredation. Granted, that is a more professional series printer, and it uses pigment based inks, but I'm just saying that it's certainly possible for a printer to work fine after long periods of inactivity.
For random everyday printing, I used a canon i950, and it too would do decent even when it went for a period without use. And it wasn't too bad consumable cost wise, as far as printers go. But I usually printed enough that I was having to replace the cartridge about twice a year for a cost over $100/year (and it did break once, and I replaced it with a refurb i960). 3 years ago I got dell multifunction color laser on sale for $250 shipped. Toner now costs about $10-$15/year, so the printer has just about paid for itself already (plus it's nice to have a scanner with a sheet feeder).
Thanks for doing some digging. I decoded it and saw the amazon URL, but didn't go any deeper, and I certainly don't have any familiarity with cloudflare's shady hosting.
I just posted again today. Got the same thing popup on slashdot today. I posted screenshots in that post, showing that chrome still thinks the website is on slashdot (must be some symptom of the "data" url that chrome doesn't realize the page has changed)
1) as I said, it was my android phone in chrome. And I'm pretty certain it isn't compromised. If it were, it would be very interesting because it's only happened 3 times, all this week, and only on slashdot. Slashdot accounts for about 1% of my browsing time, so thats either a very huge coincidence, or a very targetted virus.
Third time this week. I'm reading through slashdot comments on my mobile and get a popup ad with a "data:text/html;base64" url. Here's a couple screen grabs:
first photo shows the URL. second photo shows that chrome thinks the page is still on slashdot's website. The ad pops up and fills the screen on it's own, without me clicking on anything (so it's on some sort of setTimeout or something). It won't let me use the back button either. This crap is very invasive. Slashdot should not be showing these sort of ads
Slashdot Mirror
LOL. I think you've got your tin foil hat on a bit too tight. Loosen it up and let the blood flow to your brain.
What sort of effective surveillance would they get merely from a hello? Determining age and sex? Good luck with that. For some reason a human operator can't even get my sex correct after talking to me for 2 minutes (yeah, I don't have a deep "manly" voice, but it's not girly either). And polling to know what times you are available? I doubt home buglers are that sophisticated.
You want to know why you get dead phone calls? It's because even poorly paid telemarketers are wasting money when they're sitting there not doing anything but waiting for you to answer your phone. The autodialers are designed to call multiple phone numbers at a time and take the first one that answer, then either hang up on the others or try to keep them on the line long enough for the next telemarketer to be ready for a new call (which is why even when you do get a person, there is a long pause before they are there).
You are absolutely right though about why they use the same area code, and more recently also the same first 3 digits. It prevents you from manually "blocking" their calls. Though ironically I found their tactics more effective when they were ONLY matching the area code. I get legit calls from my own area code often, but I've NEVER had a legit call from a number with the same first 3 digits. So when they do that, it's now easy for me to just ignore it.
That's pointless advise, because there's no way to be careful with your data. You can't copy save games to a flash card, and there is no online save functionality either. So the person who is "careful" with their data is equally as susceptible as the person who doesn't give it a single thought.
Why does everyone assume he was fired because of the work-left balance issue? He told them on day 1 his wife had cancer. Presumably he was going to be getting medical insurance, including for his wife. Since there are no pre-existing condition clauses anymore, and since many large companies self-insure (not sure if this includes BAE or not), I think it's just as likely he was fired because they figured he was going to cause a big spike in their costs due to expensive cancer treatment. HR had probably been getting crap about doing what they can to reel in their health care expenses, they saw a big budget buster, and said HELL NO. Of course those may not be fair assumptions on their part (maybe she already has insurance from another source), but they can't exactly go asking too many questions without creating evidence of discrimination. So just play it safe and get rid of him right away.
It might cost you 85 cents to get it shipped from China, but meanwhile the 3 to 5 weeks (occasionally even more) that is typical for shipping from China is a long time to wait for someone that has something broken and just needs a damn resistor to fix it.
That PDF is a piece of work... From what I can tell the total award is $12,700,00? Anyone know what they mean by "work" here?
Slashdot say "Court Awards Massive Damages" and then completely fails to say what was awarded. Careful there, AC. I think this might be part of slashdot's "RTFA DRM", and your post may be considered circumvention measures.
Yup. They say "normal math symbols" and then include concatenation. Fucking horse shit.
What has slashdot come to when this type of horse shit gets modded insightful?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/C...
Several times since I became a father, useful medications for children and especially for infants have been pulled off the market simply because of claims that parents are using wrong dosages...If infant tylenol cold and flu hadn't been yanked off the market for these ridiculous reasons years ago
I'm not sure what this "infant tylenol cold and flu" that you speak of is. I've never heard of it, and Google can't seem to find anything about it either.
What I do know is, when my first daughter (now 6 yo) was born we bought some Tylenol Infant concentrated drops. They were great since (like many kids) she didn't want to cooperate in taking her medicine. A few years later when it expired my wife went and bought some more. When I went to give it, I realized the dosage was way different and required giving her a ton more liquid to swallow. That sucked, since she was so uncooperative. I drove to like 10 different stores trying to find that same stuff before doing a google search. I was furious to discover that it was discontinued.
Then I thought a bit more about it. My wife bought the regular stuff thinking it was the same as the concentrated stuff. What if it had gone the other way...we started with the regular and then bought the concentrated accidentally. I always check the labels and dosages on kids stuff just to be 100% certain, but I'm extremely cautious. I bet a lot of people don't. Most people memorize dosages of stuff and just go by what they know. When I need to take a tylenol or my wife needs a benedryl, we don't check the labels for the proper dose. We know what the dose is and just take it. Most people do the same. And it totally wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people carry that habit over to their kids.
Acetaminophen is dangerous if not dosed properly (which is why, amusingly enough, the bottle of Kirkland brand acetaminophen that Costco sells says something like "this product contains acetaminophen" on the cap) . And I think it's a good idea removing the ability for someone to accidentally give their kid 2.5x the intended dosage, even if that means you now have to endure the more difficult task of getting them to swallow a greater quantity of it.
See how much effort it takes to clearly and fully rebuke a single statement? Now you expect me to preemptively do that for a dozen random things that he rattled off his brain? No...we'll start with the first and then work from there if necessary.
See this is the problem with spouting out bullshit. It takes you only 30 seconds to make up any sort of bullshit that you want when you dont need to be accurate or provide sources. It then takes the other party at least an order of magnitude more effort to provide a logical, coherent, and factual response. Its a very common tactic to just spout out so much bullshit that the other party can't reasonably have time to counter it all. Then they spend all their time just countering your bullshit and they've said nothing that they wanted to say, and effectively you've neutralized them.
Wow, you got a lot of dishonest stuff there yourself. So lets start by addressing the first one.
Under Obama, we stopped counting people as unemployed if they gave up looking for a job.
Can you provide some citations for your claim? Because the only thing I recall being change was Obama making our unemployment tracking MORE accurate, not less. Here's my citation (and select quotes):
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
"the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years to five years the upper limit on how long someone can be listed as having been jobless."
So it used to be after 2 years someone would stop counting against the unemployment figured, and during Obama it was changed so that they continued to count for 3 years more. The only affect that would have is to INCREASE the unemployment figures and make Obama look worse, but they did it anyway to be more accurate.
"Stacey Standish, a bureau assistant press officer, says the two-year limit has been used for 33 years."
So the previous 2 year limit (which I had often heard as attributed to Bush 43, but never looked up myself) apparently goes back to Carter (1977)
And if Obama and Democrats in congress push a health care plan directly modeled on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan (a plan which was considered a success by most Republicans), Republicans will be against it. This is not a new phenomenon, and it is not unique to one party or one president.
Yep those were all pretty terrible. And on the flip side, you couldn't even manage to name one good thing the foundation did. How many yuuuuuuge Hillary portraits did it commission? How many of Hillary's Universities...I mean Entrepreneur Initiatives did the foundation settle lawsuits for? How many of Hillary's golf courses did the foundation pay fines for? Can't you think of even ONE good thing they did?
No Pussy grabbed either. Yet.
I'm pretty sure that was the first executive order he signed.
until Trump got elected, promising to do ... the exact same things Obama did
What? Are you confused? Trump was the guy who won, not the lady in a pantsuit who lost. I'm not sure if I can think of a single thing he promised to do the exact same as Obama.
Binging new content is one of the worst things about Netflix.
Shows become a chore to get through. You have to get through them soon or you risk getting spoiled and can't talk about it with other people.
Exactly. It's bad enough when I've got something going on with the family that it prevents me from watching Game of Thrones for 24 (or even 48) hours and now I've got to avoid spoilers being dropped everywhere. Having to do that for a few weeks would suck.
But aside from that...I'll admit I don't know much about the depth of writing for any of Netflix's shows, but I feel like there are lots of shows that would actually suffer from binge release. For shows that have plenty of depth involve, you want time to watch each episode, absorb what you saw, rewatch it again, discuss it with friends / family / coworkers / strangers on an internet forum, got back and look for what they saw, and THEN move onto the next episode. 1 episode per week works really well for that. But if they were binged dumped, you either lose the ability to discuss 90% of the mystery (because it's resolved before the end of the season), or you need to make pacts with other people to pace it out. And then if you make a pact, you've got to worry that they are honoring it. In cases where episodes were pre-leaked online, there are some people who I've been pretty suspicious about their "predictions" (I suspect they either watched it and pretended like they didnt, or they are passing along "theories" that they actually read online from someone who already watched). It seem to me that for these types of shows, the ratings/profitability of those types of shows would be negatively impacted from binge release.
You've been impressed by him taking credit for a bunch of stuff that he mostly had absolutely nothing to do with? I guess you are easily impressed.
Lol....apparently I hadn't been keeping up on the latest news, because after reading other replies, apparently this is exactly what has already come out.
Yeah just wait for the details to come in on this one. I'm sure it will be like the announcement that he saved Ford jobs, only to find out that the company had planned that over a year ago and it had nothing to do with Trump. Or like the Carrier announcement, where he claimed credit for jobs that were never being eliminated, and the rest of them have the big asterisk that Carrier is going to invest millions of dollars which we later discovered were going mostly to automation to eventually replace most of the jobs that were just "saved"
Green screen? Like the video production technique? I welcome error screens that allow us to composite in Godzilla destroying our unsaved documents.
Fool me once*, shame on you. Fool me twice**, can't get fooled again. Fuck you Asus!
*with the Transformer Prime and it's shitty ass WiFi, and GPS so bad you actually expected me to use a dongle to get a usable GPS signal
**with the Transformer Infinity, and it's piece of shit software upgrades (and from what I understand to be somehow due to inferior memory bandwidth?) that render the thing slower and slower with every update, to the point that I can do a factory reset on my Inifinity, install absolutely no apps, and still have 5 to 10 second touch lag in chrome on a regular basis even after it has had 20 minutes to finish it's reboot, do whatever startup tasks it may need.
I would say it's more like: Congratulations! You thought you could undercut the professional taxi industry like a Chinese laborer. Well guess what....you're getting paid like a Chinese laborer. What, did you think you could have your cake and eat it too?
I wouldn't necessarily say its the nature of inkjets that you have to print something every couple of weeks. I used to sell prints at art shows in the summer as a hobby. I owned a Canon IPF5000 wide format printer. Because of the seasonal nature of my business I would do a ton of printing for 3-4 months, and then shutdown and unplug the printer for the other 8-9 months. Each year, I would plug it back it, it would run through 1 cleaning cycle, and it worked beautifully without any clogs or other degredation. Granted, that is a more professional series printer, and it uses pigment based inks, but I'm just saying that it's certainly possible for a printer to work fine after long periods of inactivity.
For random everyday printing, I used a canon i950, and it too would do decent even when it went for a period without use. And it wasn't too bad consumable cost wise, as far as printers go. But I usually printed enough that I was having to replace the cartridge about twice a year for a cost over $100/year (and it did break once, and I replaced it with a refurb i960). 3 years ago I got dell multifunction color laser on sale for $250 shipped. Toner now costs about $10-$15/year, so the printer has just about paid for itself already (plus it's nice to have a scanner with a sheet feeder).
To confirm, you mean you've seen it while viewing slashdot, correct?
Thanks for doing some digging. I decoded it and saw the amazon URL, but didn't go any deeper, and I certainly don't have any familiarity with cloudflare's shady hosting.
I just posted again today. Got the same thing popup on slashdot today. I posted screenshots in that post, showing that chrome still thinks the website is on slashdot (must be some symptom of the "data" url that chrome doesn't realize the page has changed)
https://slashdot.org/comments....
1) as I said, it was my android phone in chrome. And I'm pretty certain it isn't compromised. If it were, it would be very interesting because it's only happened 3 times, all this week, and only on slashdot. Slashdot accounts for about 1% of my browsing time, so thats either a very huge coincidence, or a very targetted virus.
I just posted about it again today, with screenshots:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Third time this week. I'm reading through slashdot comments on my mobile and get a popup ad with a "data:text/html;base64" url. Here's a couple screen grabs:
http://imgur.com/a/E4fuR
first photo shows the URL. second photo shows that chrome thinks the page is still on slashdot's website. The ad pops up and fills the screen on it's own, without me clicking on anything (so it's on some sort of setTimeout or something). It won't let me use the back button either. This crap is very invasive. Slashdot should not be showing these sort of ads