Let's assume that Basic Cable plus Internet is *NOMINALLY* $10/month cheaper than standalone Internet. Your Basic cable will probably have a bunch of "below the line fees" that could add up to more $10/month. Take a close look at your bill.
The Facebook app is on just about every smartphone, and slurps up data... *EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT*. Let's say you signed up as Jane Doe with phone # 555-987-6543 for 2-factor authentication. Let's say the several of your friends who do *NOT* have a FB account, have you listed in their contacts list as JOHN SMITH at phone # 555-987-6543.
The FB app on their phones will slurp up that data and "phone home". Now Facebook knows that phone # 555-987-6543 really belongs to John Smith, not Jane Doe. Phone numbers are unique; they have to be.
Facebook can pay millions to telcos and OEMs to include their app on smartphones. Given a list of phone numbers and names, and access to contact lists, it's a simple excercise to craft an SQL query to figure out who is in who's contact list... i.e. people you may know.
Suggestion, what if you get a second phone, a "burner phone" on a cheap Pay-As-You-Go plan, and do *NOT* share the phone number with anyone? Would that throw a wrench in the works? Do telcos sell subscriber data to Facebook?
* only 40% of missions have actually succeeded, i.e. not crashed
* microgravity will render astronauts helpless. I.e., unlike earth, there won't be anybody at the destination to carry you off on a stretcher and treat you back to health. (Bone loss and vision changes/glaucoma, low blood pressure, T-cell reductions). You need a rotating setup for centripital gravity.
* a piece of rock the size of a beebee can wreak enormous damage to the ship; think Apollo 13
* radiation; a solar flare would be fatal to astronauts.Van Allen belts mostly protect against charged particles. If a flare hits a mission outside the Van Allen belts, the astronauts will die eventually, unless the mission carries literally tons of lead shields. The moon missions were lucky to not get hit. A Hohmann transfer orbit takes approx 6 months to get from earth to Mars (or visa versa). You will get hit by solar storms
If we could get an "ion-drive" to get us there in a month, that will cut down the the bone loss, and exposure to radiation.
* Transit fares have gone up continuously; e.g. https://globalnews.ca/news/235... And pennies have been withdrawn from circulation in Canada
*A new 1974 Ford Maverick, V8, automatic transmission cost under $4,000 in Canada, and probably around $3,000 US. Try getting a 2018 Ford Focus for under $20,000 today.
* Food prices have kept rising continuously
* Rents and housing getting unaffordable here in Toronto
* Cable bills keep shooting upwards, which is why "cord-cutting" is now a thing
* A new 50 inch plasma TV was $3,500 in 2007 dollars. Today a 50 inch LED TV can be had for $300
* A basic IBM PC with 640 KILObytes of ram, 10 MEGAbyte disk drive, and 320x200 siaplay CRT came in at around $5,000 in 1983 dollars. Today's $1,000 machines walk all over it.
Problem... you can't live in a PC or TV; you can't eat a PC or TV; you can't ride to work in a PC or TV. The upper or upper-middle class are better off today (what's left of the middle class, but that's another story).
Meanwhile. a lot of ordinary people, especially those in minimum wage jobs, have extreme difficulty paying for basic necessities. Is there an inflation index for necessities, i.e. food/shelter/clothing and transportation? And by transportation, I mean local stuff. A flight to Hawaii might cost less today, but the average person is more worried about commuting to work, and getting around town.
> If a cord is physically severed, it becomes an antenna > and floods the area with a range of frequencies that > are within the bands allocated to cable providers.
And if pigs had wings, they could fly. You're talking about an abnormal condition. Note that Playboy TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... runs R-rated films, while the FCC tried to levy a $550,000 fine against CBS for the Janet Jackson "Wardrobe Malfunction" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which was later appealed in court. More recently, Game of Thrones shows scenes on cable that are not allowed on FCC-regulated OTA TV.
I think that human-crewed crop-dusting planes will be replaced by crop-dusting drones. They will still run on avgas, not batteries. The energy density per pound still favours internal combustion, not to mention volume. A drone will replace a 175 pound pilot with a few pounds of electronics, leaving more capacity for fuel and chemicals; i.e. it'll be able to stay up longer and dust more. Also, trained/licenced pilots are expensive. Insurance costs will go way down. A crash into a field won't mean a dead pilot.
> Gay marriage doesn't lead to people marrying their dog, nor does > having open books on political spending automatically destroy lives. > Lots of people donate to politicians and they go to work day after day...
Speaking of... * gay marriage * public data on political spending * and going to work
>..so websites will support Safari less and less, if at all.
so websites will support browsers-that-report-user-agent-Safari less and less, if at all.
FTFY. Now I suppose that the next round consists of the advertisers' buying a judge to rule that falsely reporting a UserAgent contravenes the CFAA, and gets you several years in prison.
Pale Moon (and Firefox, I presume) allow you to block all cookies not in a whitelist. I have 20+ separate profiles, 1 for each site I frequent. In each profile, I whitelist the domain name, to allow login cookies, etc. Thus... * each profile only has the bare necessary cookies * you don't end up with doubleclick.net dropping cookies on profile A and profile B, and figuring out that person X on site A == person Y on site B
> but at such a breakneck pace with convoluted requirements that it's all > but impossible for a company without 10,000+ employees to keep up.
Cool story bro. Mozilla seemed to be able to find resources to do not only a mobile app, but an entire mobile OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And let's not forget developing a new programming language (RUST), Pocket, Hello, gratuitously changing the UI to Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H Australis, revamping/destroying their entire plugin architecture, etc, etc, etc. But waaah, waaah, waaah, we don't have enough resources to support ALSA on linux, waaaah, waaah, waaah.
Strangely enough, much smaller projects like Pale Moon still support ALSA.
* MSM newspapers have been all-in lib-left for years and supported Hillary to the hilt in 2016. Newspaper circulation is cratering.
* ESPN has gone all-in lib-left recently, e.g. honouring Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, and praising Colin Capernaek. ESPN subscription numbers are cratering.
* Hollywood has been all-in lib-left for years and supported Hillary to the hilt in 2016. Now they've started being more openly SJW/"inclusiveness"-agenda in their movies. Wonder-Woman is supposed to be female... but Ghostbusters? Movie attendance has cratered recently.
> Thatâ(TM)s because we got so royally fucked by free enterprises > that we have decided to gives ourselves a big government > that corrects the damage done by free entreprise.
That's historical revisionism. When the British Empire defeated France in the "Seven Years' War" of 1756 to 1763, they took over what is modern-day Quebec. To mollify the inhabitants, the British allowed Quebec to keep the French Civil Code.
Similarly civil law in Louisiana (i.e. contracts and torts) inherits a lot from French civil law. Remember that Louisiana was a French colony (like Quebec used to be until 1763) until the "Louisiana Purchase" of 1803.
> First I like it because it's another reason not to give your data to so-called 'social' sites.
Just because you don't post photos of your backyard swimmimg pool doesn't mean that Google won't. The City of Hamilton (in Canada) uses Google Maps to catch building code infractions. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
> To make matters worse, the videos are now HTML5 and many browsers haven't > baked in controls to disable autoplay html5 videos (Looking at you Metro-IE!).
In Pale Moon, go to "about:config" and set both "media.autoplay.allowscripted" and "media.autoplay.enabled" to "false" to kill HTML5 autoplay. The only downside/side-effect is that sometimes you have to click 2 or 3 times to get a Youtube video to play.
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news > would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared > that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, > to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had > previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Hillary Clinton whining about an internet "Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function"
Apparently CNN (Clinton News Network) wasn't winning the battle for hearts and minds, so the Democrats wanted to destroy Breitbart website... Hillary Campaign Vows To Destroy Opposition Website http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
Let's say your name is John Q Smith, and your friends know that your number is 555 234-5678 Does the particular email account or whatever say... "we are sending a confirmation request to Jane Doe @ 555 345-6789" or does it just say that "we are sending a confirmation request to your cellphone"? If I had so much depending on security, a separate, cheap Pay-As-You-Go phone and plan would be worth it.
> This splintering of streaming services is really stupid. > > There is no way I am dealing with this. Team up with NetFlix, or go home. > I am not buying subscriptions for every content provider, it's just stupid.
There is such an option... it's called cable TV. The problem is that the bundle of stuff that *YOU* want is not the same as the bundle *I* want or the bundle that *YOUR NEIGHBOUR* wants. If you bundle in everthing that all people want, into one honking big package, you get "the 500-channel universe" for $200/month. That's what people are trying to get away from.
> Would using a provably safe language like Rust have prevented these bugs?
A programmer somewhere could have been bribed to do this deliberately. In that case, it doesn't matter whether it's COBOL/FORTRAN/C/C++/PYTHON/RUST/whatever. This was not a buffer overflow, or a null pointer. The program was WAD (Working As Designed). Someone on the design team accidentally or deliberately did this.
> The real fix is to push the liability where it belongs. The DMCA was not designed for > dealing with malware. Bring out a "anti-cyberwarfare" legislation that does the following: > > 1. Require all machines on the internet to be directly IPv6 connected, and discontinue > IPv4 usage by NAT systems. (eg IP4 devices may persist behind a dual stack router, but > ip4 traffic is not passed to over the consumer CPE unless there is a VPN endpoint.)
How many shares in various manufacturers do you own? The reason that the changeover is going slowly is that people don't want to junk nearly new IPV4-only equipment and pay for IPV6-compatable replacements. Right now my ADSL ISP sells IPV6-caoable router/modems. However, I have an almost-10-year-old Thomson SpeedTouch 546 that's still going strong. I want to run it into ground. I'm not an Apple-fanboi who lines up outside the store every year or two for the latest, newest, shiney toy.
> 2. Empower ISP's to block access to addresses that are > reported as malicious without notifying the customer first,
Wow, straight out of the DMCA; shoot first, ask questions later...
> 3. Hold equipment manufactures liable (IoT and CPE) if the device can not be > secured, require 100% refunds on equipment that becomes a malware zombie.
Actually, that should be standard consumer protection legislation, i.e. "product not fit for purpose".
> 4. Require CPE to whitelist devices and their classifications (eg mobile phone, > fridge, microwave, cordless phone, computer, game console, security system)
WTF?!? I am *NOT* white-listing "internet-enabled" crap. It's *MY* effing home network, and *I* decide which devices do/don't get to communicate withe internet. Actually, I'll go out of my way to not buy "internet-enabled" crap in the first place. And, oh yeah, I've got UPNP disabled on my router/modem.
> The batteries on older phones die after like 3 years.
Do you not check whether a phone has a user-replacable battery, before you buy it?
> I don't really have that much of a problem buying a new phone every couple of years,
I bet the greedy MBAs love you. Tell me, do you buy a new car every couple of years?
> I don't think I would appreciate this strategy for all > devices (i.e. desktop computer components, routers, etc),
My desktop, is a 9-year-old Core2 duo with 3 gigs ram, running linux, and still going strong. My ADSL router will be 10 years old this fall.
> but I think smartphones are in a different category. They are improving > so rapidly. Maybe if the rate of their improvement slows down, it'll > make more sense investing in longer lifespans for these devices.
Right now, they're adding bling, and removing the good stuff... * Apple removed the earphone jack * Apple removed microSD slot * Apple does everything it can to remove the possibility of jailbreaking
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Let's assume that Basic Cable plus Internet is *NOMINALLY* $10/month cheaper than standalone Internet. Your Basic cable will probably have a bunch of "below the line fees" that could add up to more $10/month. Take a close look at your bill.
The Facebook app is on just about every smartphone, and slurps up data... *EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT*. Let's say you signed up as Jane Doe with phone # 555-987-6543 for 2-factor authentication. Let's say the several of your friends who do *NOT* have a FB account, have you listed in their contacts list as JOHN SMITH at phone # 555-987-6543.
The FB app on their phones will slurp up that data and "phone home". Now Facebook knows that phone # 555-987-6543 really belongs to John Smith, not Jane Doe. Phone numbers are unique; they have to be.
Facebook can pay millions to telcos and OEMs to include their app on smartphones. Given a list of phone numbers and names, and access to contact lists, it's a simple excercise to craft an SQL query to figure out who is in who's contact list... i.e. people you may know.
Suggestion, what if you get a second phone, a "burner phone" on a cheap Pay-As-You-Go plan, and do *NOT* share the phone number with anyone? Would that throw a wrench in the works? Do telcos sell subscriber data to Facebook?
...for business method patent violation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
tldr;
* only 40% of missions have actually succeeded, i.e. not crashed
* microgravity will render astronauts helpless. I.e., unlike earth, there won't be anybody at the destination to carry you off on a stretcher and treat you back to health. (Bone loss and vision changes/glaucoma, low blood pressure, T-cell reductions). You need a rotating setup for centripital gravity.
* a piece of rock the size of a beebee can wreak enormous damage to the ship; think Apollo 13
* radiation; a solar flare would be fatal to astronauts.Van Allen belts mostly protect against charged particles. If a flare hits a mission outside the Van Allen belts, the astronauts will die eventually, unless the mission carries literally tons of lead shields. The moon missions were lucky to not get hit. A Hohmann transfer orbit takes approx 6 months to get from earth to Mars (or visa versa). You will get hit by solar storms
If we could get an "ion-drive" to get us there in a month, that will cut down the the bone loss, and exposure to radiation.
* Transit fares have gone up continuously; e.g. https://globalnews.ca/news/235... And pennies have been withdrawn from circulation in Canada
*A new 1974 Ford Maverick, V8, automatic transmission cost under $4,000 in Canada, and probably around $3,000 US. Try getting a 2018 Ford Focus for under $20,000 today.
* Food prices have kept rising continuously
* Rents and housing getting unaffordable here in Toronto
* Cable bills keep shooting upwards, which is why "cord-cutting" is now a thing
* A new 50 inch plasma TV was $3,500 in 2007 dollars. Today a 50 inch LED TV can be had for $300
* A basic IBM PC with 640 KILObytes of ram, 10 MEGAbyte disk drive, and 320x200 siaplay CRT came in at around $5,000 in 1983 dollars. Today's $1,000 machines walk all over it.
Problem... you can't live in a PC or TV; you can't eat a PC or TV; you can't ride to work in a PC or TV. The upper or upper-middle class are better off today (what's left of the middle class, but that's another story).
Meanwhile. a lot of ordinary people, especially those in minimum wage jobs, have extreme difficulty paying for basic necessities. Is there an inflation index for necessities, i.e. food/shelter/clothing and transportation? And by transportation, I mean local stuff. A flight to Hawaii might cost less today, but the average person is more worried about commuting to work, and getting around town.
> If a cord is physically severed, it becomes an antenna
> and floods the area with a range of frequencies that
> are within the bands allocated to cable providers.
And if pigs had wings, they could fly. You're talking about an abnormal condition. Note that Playboy TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... runs R-rated films, while the FCC tried to levy a $550,000 fine against CBS for the Janet Jackson "Wardrobe Malfunction" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which was later appealed in court. More recently, Game of Thrones shows scenes on cable that are not allowed on FCC-regulated OTA TV.
I think that human-crewed crop-dusting planes will be replaced by crop-dusting drones. They will still run on avgas, not batteries. The energy density per pound still favours internal combustion, not to mention volume. A drone will replace a 175 pound pilot with a few pounds of electronics, leaving more capacity for fuel and chemicals; i.e. it'll be able to stay up longer and dust more. Also, trained/licenced pilots are expensive. Insurance costs will go way down. A crash into a field won't mean a dead pilot.
> Gay marriage doesn't lead to people marrying their dog, nor does
> having open books on political spending automatically destroy lives.
> Lots of people donate to politicians and they go to work day after day...
Speaking of...
* gay marriage
* public data on political spending
* and going to work
Have you heard of Brendan Eich? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If we can't automate hair dressers and telephone cleaners away, we could always send them away... in the "B" Ark.
> ..so websites will support Safari less and less, if at all.
so websites will support browsers-that-report-user-agent-Safari less and less, if at all.
FTFY. Now I suppose that the next round consists of the advertisers' buying a judge to rule that falsely reporting a UserAgent contravenes the CFAA, and gets you several years in prison.
Pale Moon (and Firefox, I presume) allow you to block all cookies not in a whitelist. I have 20+ separate profiles, 1 for each site I frequent. In each profile, I whitelist the domain name, to allow login cookies, etc. Thus...
* each profile only has the bare necessary cookies
* you don't end up with doubleclick.net dropping cookies on profile A and profile B, and figuring out that
person X on site A == person Y on site B
> If they want to change their ways, they can start by apologizing
> to Brendan Eich, the father of Javascript, whom they ousted.
Brendan Eich should apologize for inventing Javascript.
> but at such a breakneck pace with convoluted requirements that it's all
> but impossible for a company without 10,000+ employees to keep up.
Cool story bro. Mozilla seemed to be able to find resources to do not only a mobile app, but an entire mobile OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And let's not forget developing a new programming language (RUST), Pocket, Hello, gratuitously changing the UI to Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H Australis, revamping/destroying their entire plugin architecture, etc, etc, etc. But waaah, waaah, waaah, we don't have enough resources to support ALSA on linux, waaaah, waaah, waaah.
Strangely enough, much smaller projects like Pale Moon still support ALSA.
> I'm sure sparcs will fly over this.
Mind if I JOIN the pun cascade?
* MSM newspapers have been all-in lib-left for years and supported Hillary to the hilt in 2016. Newspaper circulation is cratering.
* ESPN has gone all-in lib-left recently, e.g. honouring Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, and praising Colin Capernaek. ESPN subscription numbers are cratering.
* Hollywood has been all-in lib-left for years and supported Hillary to the hilt in 2016. Now they've started being more openly SJW/"inclusiveness"-agenda in their movies. Wonder-Woman is supposed to be female... but Ghostbusters? Movie attendance has cratered recently.
Like I said... notice a pattern?
> Thatâ(TM)s because we got so royally fucked by free enterprises
> that we have decided to gives ourselves a big government
> that corrects the damage done by free entreprise.
That's historical revisionism. When the British Empire defeated France in the "Seven Years' War" of 1756 to 1763, they took over what is modern-day Quebec. To mollify the inhabitants, the British allowed Quebec to keep the French Civil Code.
Similarly civil law in Louisiana (i.e. contracts and torts) inherits a lot from French civil law. Remember that Louisiana was a French colony (like Quebec used to be until 1763) until the "Louisiana Purchase" of 1803.
> First I like it because it's another reason not to give your data to so-called 'social' sites.
Just because you don't post photos of your backyard swimmimg pool doesn't mean that Google won't. The City of Hamilton (in Canada) uses Google Maps to catch building code infractions. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
> To make matters worse, the videos are now HTML5 and many browsers haven't
> baked in controls to disable autoplay html5 videos (Looking at you Metro-IE!).
In Pale Moon, go to "about:config" and set both "media.autoplay.allowscripted" and "media.autoplay.enabled" to "false" to kill HTML5 autoplay. The only downside/side-effect is that sometimes you have to click 2 or 3 times to get a Youtube video to play.
Bill Clinton feared the open internet in 1995
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news
> would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared
> that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives,
> to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had
> previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Hillary Clinton whining about an internet "Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function"
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
Apparently CNN (Clinton News Network) wasn't winning the battle for hearts and minds, so the Democrats wanted to destroy Breitbart website... Hillary Campaign Vows To Destroy Opposition Website
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
Interviewer: Mr. Ghandi, what do you think about security for the Internet of Things?
Mahatma Ghandi: I think it would be a good idea.
Let's say your name is John Q Smith, and your friends know that your number is 555 234-5678 Does the particular email account or whatever say... "we are sending a confirmation request to Jane Doe @ 555 345-6789" or does it just say that "we are sending a confirmation request to your cellphone"? If I had so much depending on security, a separate, cheap Pay-As-You-Go phone and plan would be worth it.
> This splintering of streaming services is really stupid.
>
> There is no way I am dealing with this. Team up with NetFlix, or go home.
> I am not buying subscriptions for every content provider, it's just stupid.
There is such an option... it's called cable TV. The problem is that the bundle of stuff that *YOU* want is not the same as the bundle *I* want or the bundle that *YOUR NEIGHBOUR* wants. If you bundle in everthing that all people want, into one honking big package, you get "the 500-channel universe" for $200/month. That's what people are trying to get away from.
> Would using a provably safe language like Rust have prevented these bugs?
A programmer somewhere could have been bribed to do this deliberately. In that case, it doesn't matter whether it's COBOL/FORTRAN/C/C++/PYTHON/RUST/whatever. This was not a buffer overflow, or a null pointer. The program was WAD (Working As Designed). Someone on the design team accidentally or deliberately did this.
> The real fix is to push the liability where it belongs. The DMCA was not designed for
> dealing with malware. Bring out a "anti-cyberwarfare" legislation that does the following:
>
> 1. Require all machines on the internet to be directly IPv6 connected, and discontinue
> IPv4 usage by NAT systems. (eg IP4 devices may persist behind a dual stack router, but
> ip4 traffic is not passed to over the consumer CPE unless there is a VPN endpoint.)
How many shares in various manufacturers do you own? The reason that the changeover is going slowly is that people don't want to junk nearly new IPV4-only equipment and pay for IPV6-compatable replacements. Right now my ADSL ISP sells IPV6-caoable router/modems. However, I have an almost-10-year-old Thomson SpeedTouch 546 that's still going strong. I want to run it into ground. I'm not an Apple-fanboi who lines up outside the store every year or two for the latest, newest, shiney toy.
> 2. Empower ISP's to block access to addresses that are
> reported as malicious without notifying the customer first,
Wow, straight out of the DMCA; shoot first, ask questions later...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
> 3. Hold equipment manufactures liable (IoT and CPE) if the device can not be
> secured, require 100% refunds on equipment that becomes a malware zombie.
Actually, that should be standard consumer protection legislation, i.e. "product not fit for purpose".
> 4. Require CPE to whitelist devices and their classifications (eg mobile phone,
> fridge, microwave, cordless phone, computer, game console, security system)
WTF?!? I am *NOT* white-listing "internet-enabled" crap. It's *MY* effing home network, and *I* decide which devices do/don't get to communicate withe internet. Actually, I'll go out of my way to not buy "internet-enabled" crap in the first place. And, oh yeah, I've got UPNP disabled on my router/modem.
> The batteries on older phones die after like 3 years.
Do you not check whether a phone has a user-replacable battery, before you buy it?
> I don't really have that much of a problem buying a new phone every couple of years,
I bet the greedy MBAs love you. Tell me, do you buy a new car every couple of years?
> I don't think I would appreciate this strategy for all
> devices (i.e. desktop computer components, routers, etc),
My desktop, is a 9-year-old Core2 duo with 3 gigs ram, running linux, and still going strong. My ADSL router will be 10 years old this fall.
> but I think smartphones are in a different category. They are improving
> so rapidly. Maybe if the rate of their improvement slows down, it'll
> make more sense investing in longer lifespans for these devices.
Right now, they're adding bling, and removing the good stuff...
* Apple removed the earphone jack
* Apple removed microSD slot
* Apple does everything it can to remove the possibility of jailbreaking
That's "deprovement", not "improvement".