The only reason I have Chrome installed at all is that for about a month, Google+ stopped working under Firefox/Iceweasel, forcing me to use Chrome to access it.
Guess what? He's not in elementary school, where everything he does gets a gold star. He's in the real world now, where people are free to dislike what he does, and to report on why they didn't like it.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Life isn't kind, it isn't pretty, and it isn't fair.
It's really sad to see so many posters saying that people don't have the right to try something risky because they wouldn't try it themselves.
Since when do you get to dictate that no one is allowed to skydive, climb mountains, scuba dive, or engage in other risky behaviours, even if they're just for "thrills"?
Absolutely true. Just because the "average" person wants a nanny state of warning labels and safety devices doesn't mean there are no risks to be taken in life. Kudos to those willing to take those risks. We all benefit in due time from their fearlessness (or what some would call their foolhardiness.)
Would there even be a US or Canada if Columbus and his peers had been afraid to sail? What if the astronauts of the Apollo program had said "No freakin' way you're sticking me on top of that king sized firecracker!" For that matter, how long would it take to get from New York to LA if the Wright Brothers were too afraid of crashing to take off?
No, I'm not a "welfare king." I'm disabled after working 30+ years, and have been for about four years now. It took a good long year to learn to live within my budget, but I did it -- even though that budget is roughly 25% of what I used to earn.
I completely disagree with giving things like free internet and free cell phones to people on welfare or disability. You can have those things if you get your priorities straight and give up the cigarettes, booze, and drugs.
Being bi-polar really sucks sometimes. It comes with a fair degree of paranoia during the manic phases at the best of times, and having something like this *actually happening* just sends me over the top and into nutbar land.
She wasn't hacked. She has a bad keyboard, a bad USB controller chip in the keyboard, or something similar happening.
I thought I was hacked a couple of years ago. It turned out to be a dead USB controller chip in my Logitech trackball that would periodically "stick" the mouse buttons in up/down positions and randomly move the mouse pointer around the screen. By sheer fluke, it would look like someone was remotely controlling the mouse and making menu selections, closing windows, and so on. But it was just that the mouse buttons were random-firing while the cursor moved about more slowly, so of *course* it would click on something sooner or later.
Being bi-polar and subject to paranoia as a result, I was really freaked out by the whole episode -- until I borrowed a test mouse, plugged it in, and all the problems went away.
That's not to say I've *never* been hacked, but hackers cover their tracks a lot better and don't tend to futz with things like remote-controlling a desktop. They just hit up the file system directly.
I'm on disabiliity in Saskatchewan, which is run by the same people as social services/welfare. I get an extra $200 a month compared to someone on welfare. I have a freezer full of food, wear nice (but not fancy name-brand) clothes, paid for my own glasses, and pay for an upgraded internet connection (mid-tier) as well as my landline. I have a modest single bedroom apartment, but not in one of the big apartment blocks where they gouge you on rent.
A friend of mine is also on disability, and gets the same, but is in subsidized housing so her rent is $200 a month cheaper than mine. Yet while I can afford my internet and have $100/month left over for spending money, she's perpetually broke. Why? She smokes like a chimney.
Most of the people I knew on social services or disability in Regina were also perpetually broke, because come pay day they'd buy a bottle of booze, a case of beer, and order a pizza instead of going shopping for food they could cook themselves.
I know for a fact you can get by on what the programs provide -- I've done so for years. There is no excuse for "suffering" and "having no food" or "not being able to afford the internet". You choose to party it up, go out to bars, and buy frozen foods instead of learning to cook.
We are no longer the agrarian society that was in place when DST was put in place to appease the farming community.
For the same reason, schools should not have "summer holidays" -- the farm kids no longer work the farm in the summer. Hell, it's not even legal for them to do so any more in a lot of jurisdictions.
What I see is people from every branch of politics blaming people who support every other branch of politics for everything wrong with the world, including you.
I don't like people being able to surreptitiously record things; I don't like the MPAA or RIAA on principle alone (they're leaches sucking blood from the artists.)
So I've no sympathy for either side in this debate. I think they're both wrong.
You damned straight I trust the issues admins are reporting experiencing with their systems over documentation that describes what should be happening. Especially when I've read dozens of people reporting that they can't put a systemd based system into production because the network initialization is unreliable, leaving them without a way to even ssh into the problematic system to fix it.
That is absolute bollocks. You have to go out of your way to put the init programs in the background with SysV init scripts -- they don't return until initialization is actually complete.
The idea of booting services in parallel is nice, but the problem is that apparently it doesn't have a way to specify that you need to wait for a dependant service to hold off until the initialization of the dependancy is complete. Systemd considers it "booted" as soon as it launches, which causes people problems with unreliable network initializations and such that have been resolved for Sys-V style init scripts for years (if not decades.)
The laws protecting citizen's rights in the Five Eyes nations are a sham. They just use the data collected by their partners to spy on their own citizens. They all do it, including Canada.
If a merchant won't accept my debit card, I'll shop elsewhere, plain and simple. I'm not about to buy a smartphone and pay monthly connection fees just so they can earn profit.
Mod parent up. This is the reality of modern industry. Instead of paying a fair share of taxes, they make a "charitable donation" and get a god-damned rebate.
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The only reason I have Chrome installed at all is that for about a month, Google+ stopped working under Firefox/Iceweasel, forcing me to use Chrome to access it.
So, yes, Google has done this before.
A Google website only working with Chrome.
I'm shocked, I tell you. Just absolutely shocked. *LOL*
Guess what? He's not in elementary school, where everything he does gets a gold star. He's in the real world now, where people are free to dislike what he does, and to report on why they didn't like it.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Life isn't kind, it isn't pretty, and it isn't fair.
It's really sad to see so many posters saying that people don't have the right to try something risky because they wouldn't try it themselves.
Since when do you get to dictate that no one is allowed to skydive, climb mountains, scuba dive, or engage in other risky behaviours, even if they're just for "thrills"?
Absolutely true. Just because the "average" person wants a nanny state of warning labels and safety devices doesn't mean there are no risks to be taken in life. Kudos to those willing to take those risks. We all benefit in due time from their fearlessness (or what some would call their foolhardiness.)
Would there even be a US or Canada if Columbus and his peers had been afraid to sail? What if the astronauts of the Apollo program had said "No freakin' way you're sticking me on top of that king sized firecracker!" For that matter, how long would it take to get from New York to LA if the Wright Brothers were too afraid of crashing to take off?
People vote the way they do because of brain damage. *LOL*
No, I'm not a "welfare king." I'm disabled after working 30+ years, and have been for about four years now. It took a good long year to learn to live within my budget, but I did it -- even though that budget is roughly 25% of what I used to earn.
I completely disagree with giving things like free internet and free cell phones to people on welfare or disability. You can have those things if you get your priorities straight and give up the cigarettes, booze, and drugs.
Being bi-polar really sucks sometimes. It comes with a fair degree of paranoia during the manic phases at the best of times, and having something like this *actually happening* just sends me over the top and into nutbar land.
She wasn't hacked. She has a bad keyboard, a bad USB controller chip in the keyboard, or something similar happening.
I thought I was hacked a couple of years ago. It turned out to be a dead USB controller chip in my Logitech trackball that would periodically "stick" the mouse buttons in up/down positions and randomly move the mouse pointer around the screen. By sheer fluke, it would look like someone was remotely controlling the mouse and making menu selections, closing windows, and so on. But it was just that the mouse buttons were random-firing while the cursor moved about more slowly, so of *course* it would click on something sooner or later.
Being bi-polar and subject to paranoia as a result, I was really freaked out by the whole episode -- until I borrowed a test mouse, plugged it in, and all the problems went away.
That's not to say I've *never* been hacked, but hackers cover their tracks a lot better and don't tend to futz with things like remote-controlling a desktop. They just hit up the file system directly.
I'm on disabiliity in Saskatchewan, which is run by the same people as social services/welfare. I get an extra $200 a month compared to someone on welfare. I have a freezer full of food, wear nice (but not fancy name-brand) clothes, paid for my own glasses, and pay for an upgraded internet connection (mid-tier) as well as my landline. I have a modest single bedroom apartment, but not in one of the big apartment blocks where they gouge you on rent.
A friend of mine is also on disability, and gets the same, but is in subsidized housing so her rent is $200 a month cheaper than mine. Yet while I can afford my internet and have $100/month left over for spending money, she's perpetually broke. Why? She smokes like a chimney.
Most of the people I knew on social services or disability in Regina were also perpetually broke, because come pay day they'd buy a bottle of booze, a case of beer, and order a pizza instead of going shopping for food they could cook themselves.
I know for a fact you can get by on what the programs provide -- I've done so for years. There is no excuse for "suffering" and "having no food" or "not being able to afford the internet". You choose to party it up, go out to bars, and buy frozen foods instead of learning to cook.
So suffer.
You'll not get one whit of sympathy from me.
We are no longer the agrarian society that was in place when DST was put in place to appease the farming community.
For the same reason, schools should not have "summer holidays" -- the farm kids no longer work the farm in the summer. Hell, it's not even legal for them to do so any more in a lot of jurisdictions.
And the lusers of the world pissed and moaned because the programmers still hadn't implemented a useful DoWhatIMean(x) function... *LOL*
If it turns your crank, get up an hour early. But DST is a hangover from the stone age and should be abolished.
What I see is people from every branch of politics blaming people who support every other branch of politics for everything wrong with the world, including you.
There. Fixed that for you.
An awful lot of programs prune 50% of the students every year by "grading on a curve". It's been that way since before the '80s.
I don't like people being able to surreptitiously record things; I don't like the MPAA or RIAA on principle alone (they're leaches sucking blood from the artists.)
So I've no sympathy for either side in this debate. I think they're both wrong.
You damned straight I trust the issues admins are reporting experiencing with their systems over documentation that describes what should be happening. Especially when I've read dozens of people reporting that they can't put a systemd based system into production because the network initialization is unreliable, leaving them without a way to even ssh into the problematic system to fix it.
That is absolute bollocks. You have to go out of your way to put the init programs in the background with SysV init scripts -- they don't return until initialization is actually complete.
The idea of booting services in parallel is nice, but the problem is that apparently it doesn't have a way to specify that you need to wait for a dependant service to hold off until the initialization of the dependancy is complete. Systemd considers it "booted" as soon as it launches, which causes people problems with unreliable network initializations and such that have been resolved for Sys-V style init scripts for years (if not decades.)
The laws protecting citizen's rights in the Five Eyes nations are a sham. They just use the data collected by their partners to spy on their own citizens. They all do it, including Canada.
Yeah, in the US, the FBI does it officially. Or did you miss the news about that fake newspaper site they put up?
If a merchant won't accept my debit card, I'll shop elsewhere, plain and simple. I'm not about to buy a smartphone and pay monthly connection fees just so they can earn profit.
Mod parent up. This is the reality of modern industry. Instead of paying a fair share of taxes, they make a "charitable donation" and get a god-damned rebate.
Given the cost of the payloads, even a 5% failure rate is unacceptable.