I guess I could see this being useful for some, but I am a diabetic and I have no need for this app. Most people who would need it just don't practice tight control with enough discipline. I know when to test, can tell by how I feel when things are off, and know how to adjust my diet and insulin as needed. I also don't think I like the potential for abuse with an app like this. Yes, I know there is HIPPA to protect privacy. For some reason that still doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about tracking my health or disorder with an app.
Except that they are not Facebook's customers. You're mistaken. FB's customers are the companies they sell the mined data to. Their users are the product, not the customer.
On one side I don't like people who hunt for entertainment and on the other hand I don't like PETA. Can anyone suggest a solution that pisses both sides off?
Simply support maximum freedom. Let hunters use drones to stalk and harass PETA members. Let hunters field armed drones to disable or shoot down PETA drones, so long as the hunter pay for any property damage. Let hunters hunting on private land pursue legal remedies for trespassing if PETA drones fly over the property. PETA is backed by big money from limo liberals so they will be able to outspend your average hunter in the battle.
Incidentally, whether or not you "like" the way other people exercise their freedoms is irrelevant so long as it doesn't encroach on your freedom.
The concern that led to this was that while PETA says they just want to 'monitor', the fear is that they will actually use these drones to chase off game and/or harass the hunters, thus infringing on the hunters' freedom to hunt.
Wow, an ad for a nVidia product posing as a slashdot article... this is, unfortunately, getting more and more common.:(
If stories about new tech devices isn't what belongs on/. then I don't know what is. You should think a bit more before you just blindly react in a knee jerk fashion. Sure, there are a lot of Slashvertistments these days, but this really isn't one of them. News of the next iPad will be posted as well. Stories about the next great CPUs from AMD and Intel will be too. Here, in the spirit of the holidays, I have a present for you. It's called a clue. Take it in the spirit is offered and then you get a clue.
The PC market is hardly dying. That's a tired old trope by now. They said the same thing about mainframes. Guess what? People still buy them. The landscape is changing for sure, but the PC market is not even close to 'dying'.
It's interesting in that it makes the difference between the Universe dying a cold death with nothing left but black holes and burned out stars, or essentially a 'big rip' where all baryonic matter ultimately decays.
Who said anything about cheap? I certainly didn't. I wouldn't recommend one of the cheap ones really, but something like a Nexus, Kindle Fire, or Asus Transformer makes a great tablet and is far more cost effective than an iPad. A man in his 70's is probably less likely to care about the only real reason to spend money on an iOS device, which is having the new shiny so one can look cool like the other kids in class.
Sure, an iPad, if the OP wants to spend twice the money that he has to. A decent Android tablet using large fonts or even a replacement launcher would be perfect.
Just being a non-US citizen doesn't make a person a foreign power. Spying on the governments of other countries, fine. Spying on the citizens of other countries is just as bad as spying on US citizens.
No, it's not. It's their job to spy. I have no problem with it. Who do you think the actors are in countries foreign to the US that our intelligence agencies are interested it? They are citizens of said foreign powers.
Bank of America is always looking for new ways to screw over their "customers", be it through fees, lying, or trying to steal their (paid off) houses through foreclosure (and blaming it on "computer error" when caught). They're probably drooling like hungry dogs over all the ways they can fleece people with Bitcoin...
I'm afraid that Bank of America is not the ONLY bank which screws their customers.
In fact, I have yet to find a bank which has failed to screw their customers.
I've never seen USAA do it. I'll be a customer for life. From their insurance products to their banking and my mortgage they've always acted with nothing but the highest standards of customer service.
It's a bit ironic that the summary mentions having strong passwords when it was a keylogger to blame. It wouldn't matter how strong the passwords are in that case.
I find that my Asus Transformer Prime 201 is just fine for the majority of tasks, and it works with my USB serial cable. Yes, I can console into firewalls, routers, switches, etc. with my tablet, and the fact that I have the optional keyboard dock makes it all the nicer.
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I've been living with it less than a year, and it took me all of a month to get things down.
Not at all. In some cases it is, in others there's a strong genetic component. I was 46 when I was diagnosed and I was quite fit, with a healthy diet.
It took me all of a month to get the hang of it, but if it helps you then by all means that's great. It's NOT at all hard to practice tight control.
I guess every US gov't department is interesting in backdooring whatever/whomever they can...
Hell, the IRS 'backdoors' me every April.
I guess I could see this being useful for some, but I am a diabetic and I have no need for this app. Most people who would need it just don't practice tight control with enough discipline. I know when to test, can tell by how I feel when things are off, and know how to adjust my diet and insulin as needed. I also don't think I like the potential for abuse with an app like this. Yes, I know there is HIPPA to protect privacy. For some reason that still doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about tracking my health or disorder with an app.
Except that they are not Facebook's customers. You're mistaken. FB's customers are the companies they sell the mined data to. Their users are the product, not the customer.
It's time to have PGP on facebook. I hope somebody creates a decent javascript tool to encrypt/decrypt stuff browser-side.
How about don't use Facebook at all, or if you do don't use it for anything private?
On one side I don't like people who hunt for entertainment and on the other hand I don't like PETA. Can anyone suggest a solution that pisses both sides off?
Simply support maximum freedom. Let hunters use drones to stalk and harass PETA members. Let hunters field armed drones to disable or shoot down PETA drones, so long as the hunter pay for any property damage. Let hunters hunting on private land pursue legal remedies for trespassing if PETA drones fly over the property. PETA is backed by big money from limo liberals so they will be able to outspend your average hunter in the battle.
Incidentally, whether or not you "like" the way other people exercise their freedoms is irrelevant so long as it doesn't encroach on your freedom.
The concern that led to this was that while PETA says they just want to 'monitor', the fear is that they will actually use these drones to chase off game and/or harass the hunters, thus infringing on the hunters' freedom to hunt.
If working conditions were that bad in China then people would be committing suicide at factories. Oh wait...
Wow, an ad for a nVidia product posing as a slashdot article... this is, unfortunately, getting more and more common. :(
If stories about new tech devices isn't what belongs on /. then I don't know what is. You should think a bit more before you just blindly react in a knee jerk fashion. Sure, there are a lot of Slashvertistments these days, but this really isn't one of them. News of the next iPad will be posted as well. Stories about the next great CPUs from AMD and Intel will be too. Here, in the spirit of the holidays, I have a present for you. It's called a clue. Take it in the spirit is offered and then you get a clue.
The PC market is hardly dying. That's a tired old trope by now. They said the same thing about mainframes. Guess what? People still buy them. The landscape is changing for sure, but the PC market is not even close to 'dying'.
It's interesting in that it makes the difference between the Universe dying a cold death with nothing left but black holes and burned out stars, or essentially a 'big rip' where all baryonic matter ultimately decays.
Nothing last forever. Absolutely nothing,
Protons might. Nobody has observed proton decay yet. They could well last forever.
That's your prerogative of course, but it's so easy, and a lot of fun, to cook simple, tasty, healthy meals.
A good case could be made for electing them to Congress.
They would be overqualified.
I wonder if that was long enough to produce lush gardens with apple trees.
That's silly. Everyone knows that happened only 6,000 years ago!
Twice the cores and twice the RAM for less money seems pretty damn cost effective to me.
Who said anything about cheap? I certainly didn't. I wouldn't recommend one of the cheap ones really, but something like a Nexus, Kindle Fire, or Asus Transformer makes a great tablet and is far more cost effective than an iPad. A man in his 70's is probably less likely to care about the only real reason to spend money on an iOS device, which is having the new shiny so one can look cool like the other kids in class.
Sure, an iPad, if the OP wants to spend twice the money that he has to. A decent Android tablet using large fonts or even a replacement launcher would be perfect.
I expect other nations to do the same, just like I expect the other team to try to score against mine. I'd be a hypocrite otherwise. Are you?
Just being a non-US citizen doesn't make a person a foreign power. Spying on the governments of other countries, fine. Spying on the citizens of other countries is just as bad as spying on US citizens.
No, it's not. It's their job to spy. I have no problem with it. Who do you think the actors are in countries foreign to the US that our intelligence agencies are interested it? They are citizens of said foreign powers.
Bank of America is always looking for new ways to screw over their "customers", be it through fees, lying, or trying to steal their (paid off) houses through foreclosure (and blaming it on "computer error" when caught). They're probably drooling like hungry dogs over all the ways they can fleece people with Bitcoin...
I'm afraid that Bank of America is not the ONLY bank which screws their customers.
In fact, I have yet to find a bank which has failed to screw their customers.
I've never seen USAA do it. I'll be a customer for life. From their insurance products to their banking and my mortgage they've always acted with nothing but the highest standards of customer service.
It's a bit ironic that the summary mentions having strong passwords when it was a keylogger to blame. It wouldn't matter how strong the passwords are in that case.
And of course it'll get posted again as if it were a new story.
I find that my Asus Transformer Prime 201 is just fine for the majority of tasks, and it works with my USB serial cable. Yes, I can console into firewalls, routers, switches, etc. with my tablet, and the fact that I have the optional keyboard dock makes it all the nicer.