Everywhere you turn nowadays, there's always someone trying to nickel and dime you for every fucking thing under the sun. It passed "ridiculous" decades ago. At this point, people trying to turn things like automobile feature packages into rental items? How many automotive execs do I have to, repeatedly, shoot to convince them this is a STUPID FUCKING IDEA?
Also, if I buy a car with all these features, and then hack the car to get all the features for nothing...then what? They gonna sue me for what I do with my own car? What part of "Tongue-clean the darkest, nastiest, unwiped portion of my ass" would NOT come through in this message?
Win8 has some really concrete improvements under the hood. The biggest problem the OS has had was the idiotic decision to force people onto a tablet interface.
And you're not paying directly in bitcoin on most of these sites. You're paying into a service that immediately converts the bitcoin to real currency. So yeah, no "exchange of goods and services".
Most of the avenues of bitcoin-to-dollar conversion are a nasty morass of institutions waiting as long as humanly possible to actually part with real money, or shady scams.
There's also the conundrum of dumping a wallet that big.
Do you dump all at once and crash the market? Do you take forever and a day to dump it in the hopes of retaining cash value?
Seriously. The whole science of agriculture has rather drastically modified various food plants over the last few hundred years. Most of the stuff you eat, even if it hasn't been gene-spliced in a lab, is SIGNIFICANTLY different from the same plants your ancestors were eating 2-300 years ago.
What most of these no-GMO guys are flipping over is that it's now done by scientists in a controlled lab environment in weeks/months/years, rather than by some agricultural experimenter over the course of his entire life.
What the rest of them are up in arms about is the fact that these companies have patented these plants and effectively seek to hold the entirety of agribusiness hostage. Which, actually is a fair assessment, as physical control over plant reproductive cycles isn't exactly as easy to control in the real world as it is in a lab.
You could have simply uninstalled it from the GM's computer. You have a channel license. So they don't care who has the license installed.
I will agree that their update policy is bullshit. We have their 3 seat license. Once we paid for the upgrade literally 2 DAYS before they released a new version. They wanted us to buy the new version again "at a discount price". The discount being the upgrade price that was already available on the website which is only a few bucks cheaper than the retail new price.
This is an opinion, flavored by specific circumstance.
Faster? I dunno about that.
With TeamViewer, it's download, install, run, set a password and done.
How difficult is it to set up VNC on both the host and the client device?
Easier? Well, I'm not sure but I think TeamViewer has VNC beat on ease of install. Easier to use? I dunno. I've used TV for several years now. We can even get our most brain-dead, technophobic clients up and running in under 5 minutes (mostly because we have to talk them through how to open a browser and what to type and where in the browser interface).
And random client installs for support purposes? It doesn't get any easier than their Quick Support client. Download and run. Agree to allow remote access. How tough is it to get similar functionality for VNC and NOT get caught by their anti-malware scanners?
And I've only run into 5 or 6 people in the entire time for whom TV won't work. Mostly users in Very High Security setups. These are places where you're NOT going to be able to get someone in to install VNC in the first place.
So, about the only one you're being factual about is..."open source".
That's great and all. I love open source myself. For the majority of users out there, well, they don't give a shit.
A) Bring only a cheap, craptastic laptop that you're not going to be totally heartbroken if you lose. B) Use whole-disk encryption. C) Don't carry any sort of sensitive information on the machine whatsoever. That includes storing passwords. D) Push any data you must have through out-of-band methods. E) If you MUST store things on the machine, use things like Truecrypt containers to add additional layers of obfuscation to the fact that you have data at all.
As a citizen of the United States, I still feel these sorts of warrantless searche and seizure tactics are complete bullshit and completely in violation of the law.
But, apparently, there's going to need to be a civil war in this country before rights such as these can be restored, as the current faux-bipiartisan hegemony in this country has simply stopped giving a fuck about what's right or wrong anymore and is only interested in increasing their hold on power.
I didn't say it takes Chicago to be corrupt. Simply that the Chicago Machine, even in it's gimped, modern incarnation, is one of the best examples of organized governmental corruption and out-of-control cronyism below the federal level.
He's right in one way. It's probably not going to change.
And then he pulls the boogie man out of his pocket.
"The next attack."
"The next attack."
So we're supposed to just huddle up in a corner and live in fear for the rest of forever. Just so that, MAYBE, some day, they catch another underpants bomber?
Uhm...
Not to put too fine a point on that, FUCK NO!
At some point, reality sets in and people need to realize that The Real World (not the stupid "reality TV show") is NOT a safe place. And NO amount of watching will curtail EVERY attempt.
Nor will throwing away our rights like a hot potato make us any safer.
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Because it can't be used universally.
Nor will it ever be free from regional or political constraint.
Anyone who thinks this is living in Fantasy Land.
So, basically a gun to people's heads while the other hand rifles through their pockets.
Greed. The one thing that's in truly infinite supply.
Everywhere you turn nowadays, there's always someone trying to nickel and dime you for every fucking thing under the sun.
It passed "ridiculous" decades ago.
At this point, people trying to turn things like automobile feature packages into rental items?
How many automotive execs do I have to, repeatedly, shoot to convince them this is a STUPID FUCKING IDEA?
Also, if I buy a car with all these features, and then hack the car to get all the features for nothing...then what? They gonna sue me for what I do with my own car?
What part of "Tongue-clean the darkest, nastiest, unwiped portion of my ass" would NOT come through in this message?
Pretty much this.
Win8 has some really concrete improvements under the hood.
The biggest problem the OS has had was the idiotic decision to force people onto a tablet interface.
Teamviewer works fairly well. But it's pricing structure is just crazy.
There's also AMMYY Admin. It's a similar product and, if you wish to pay for it, has a more reasonable pricing structure.
You used to be able to go to Tommy Bartlett's Robot World. A whole damn WORLD man! Not just a LAND!
Not anymore. Damn globalization!
Great. Terrorism is now the eternal go-to answer for all the government's problems with those pesky laws protecting us from government tyranny.
Can we just massacre our fucking corrupt government now and set up something more rational and less invasive in its place?
And you're not paying directly in bitcoin on most of these sites.
You're paying into a service that immediately converts the bitcoin to real currency.
So yeah, no "exchange of goods and services".
Can this stupid Ponzi scheme just crash and burn NOW so we stop seeing all the Slashvertisment for it?
Fuck Bitcoin.
Fuck "cryptocurrency" in general.
It's a damn pipe dream (something for nothing), and we'll all be better off when people wise the fuck up.
Basically point-and-tap headshots.
Most of the avenues of bitcoin-to-dollar conversion are a nasty morass of institutions waiting as long as humanly possible to actually part with real money, or shady scams.
There's also the conundrum of dumping a wallet that big.
Do you dump all at once and crash the market?
Do you take forever and a day to dump it in the hopes of retaining cash value?
Yes. Because an iPod is SO comparable to a PC!
Yep!
Uh huh!
This just in! People buy more milk than fighter jets! Fighter jets in trouble!
Wake me when this idiocy is over.
I have instituted a new ponz^H^H^H^cryptocurrency. I will be naming it Slashdolla.
Current valuation is $1,000,000,000 to one Slashdolla.
If you too want to get in on the goodness, while the gettin's good, head over here, download the client and get crackin'!
Seriously. The whole science of agriculture has rather drastically modified various food plants over the last few hundred years. Most of the stuff you eat, even if it hasn't been gene-spliced in a lab, is SIGNIFICANTLY different from the same plants your ancestors were eating 2-300 years ago.
What most of these no-GMO guys are flipping over is that it's now done by scientists in a controlled lab environment in weeks/months/years, rather than by some agricultural experimenter over the course of his entire life.
What the rest of them are up in arms about is the fact that these companies have patented these plants and effectively seek to hold the entirety of agribusiness hostage. Which, actually is a fair assessment, as physical control over plant reproductive cycles isn't exactly as easy to control in the real world as it is in a lab.
What they should do is play the theme from Jaws on the beach PA system, changing the tempo based on the shark's distance.
Except that now it sounds different. Instead of "dum-dum," it's "oh, hai"...
Oh, hai.
Oh, hai.
OH HAI OH HAI OH HAI OH HAI OH HAI...
Yeah. Nothing worse than an Ohio shark.
@UnsuspectingSwimmer #DunDunDunDunDunDun
Thanks for your supposed opinion (you're an AC, so I can never be sure it isn't a troll), I'll continue to respectfully disagree.
No, that's saying you, from a Chromebook, can support other devices.
But there doesn't appear to be any good way of remoting into a Chromebook itself.
You could have simply uninstalled it from the GM's computer.
You have a channel license. So they don't care who has the license installed.
I will agree that their update policy is bullshit.
We have their 3 seat license. Once we paid for the upgrade literally 2 DAYS before they released a new version. They wanted us to buy the new version again "at a discount price".
The discount being the upgrade price that was already available on the website which is only a few bucks cheaper than the retail new price.
Better?
This is an opinion, flavored by specific circumstance.
Faster? I dunno about that.
With TeamViewer, it's download, install, run, set a password and done.
How difficult is it to set up VNC on both the host and the client device?
Easier? Well, I'm not sure but I think TeamViewer has VNC beat on ease of install.
Easier to use? I dunno. I've used TV for several years now. We can even get our most brain-dead, technophobic clients up and running in under 5 minutes (mostly because we have to talk them through how to open a browser and what to type and where in the browser interface).
And random client installs for support purposes? It doesn't get any easier than their Quick Support client. Download and run. Agree to allow remote access.
How tough is it to get similar functionality for VNC and NOT get caught by their anti-malware scanners?
And I've only run into 5 or 6 people in the entire time for whom TV won't work. Mostly users in Very High Security setups. These are places where you're NOT going to be able to get someone in to install VNC in the first place.
So, about the only one you're being factual about is..."open source".
That's great and all. I love open source myself.
For the majority of users out there, well, they don't give a shit.
If you're crossing the border into/out of the US:
A) Bring only a cheap, craptastic laptop that you're not going to be totally heartbroken if you lose.
B) Use whole-disk encryption.
C) Don't carry any sort of sensitive information on the machine whatsoever. That includes storing passwords.
D) Push any data you must have through out-of-band methods.
E) If you MUST store things on the machine, use things like Truecrypt containers to add additional layers of obfuscation to the fact that you have data at all.
As a citizen of the United States, I still feel these sorts of warrantless searche and seizure tactics are complete bullshit and completely in violation of the law.
But, apparently, there's going to need to be a civil war in this country before rights such as these can be restored, as the current faux-bipiartisan hegemony in this country has simply stopped giving a fuck about what's right or wrong anymore and is only interested in increasing their hold on power.
I didn't say it takes Chicago to be corrupt. Simply that the Chicago Machine, even in it's gimped, modern incarnation, is one of the best examples of organized governmental corruption and out-of-control cronyism below the federal level.
He's right in one way. It's probably not going to change.
And then he pulls the boogie man out of his pocket.
"The next attack."
"The next attack."
So we're supposed to just huddle up in a corner and live in fear for the rest of forever. Just so that, MAYBE, some day, they catch another underpants bomber?
Uhm...
Not to put too fine a point on that, FUCK NO!
At some point, reality sets in and people need to realize that The Real World (not the stupid "reality TV show") is NOT a safe place. And NO amount of watching will curtail EVERY attempt.
Nor will throwing away our rights like a hot potato make us any safer.
He's a Chicago Machine politician.
Moral compass?
He don't need no STEENKIN' moral compass!
Seriously. How many times do people need to be beaten over the head with reality before they actually acquire the correct information.
We're a democratic republic.
We have democratic forms of selection for various public offices.
What we do NOT have is direct rule by the citizenry.