Robocalls can be stopped, it's just that the phone company doesn't want to stop them.
We can stop a DOS attack, right? How is this any different? One PBX somewhere suddenly starts launching a flood of calls. Disconnect that line upstream. Boom - done.
It's your fucking network - don't tell me you can't fix this.
What that means to us lay people is that the FBI has used it's resources to verify that information and found it to be credible. It lines up with the other information they possess. The FBI doesn't think he's lying.
So, if you'd wish to doubt it at this point, you would have to know more about the topics in the Mueller investigation than the FBI does, which is exceedingly unlikely.
we still should acknowledge that there are telemarketers who do have humanity to them and aren't out to just ruin your life.
If they are troubled by their public perception, then it falls upon the Telemarketing industry to remove the spammers and the scammers and improve the public appearance of their industry.
But only photogenic models in commercials actually try to do real work on tablets. Nobody else does.
It's not possible. They want you to think it's The New Thing, but it simply is impossible to do anything meaningful on a tablet. The ergonomics are all wrong. There will be of course one response to this post about someone who writes assembly code for his neural network on a tablet, but for 99.999% of humanity, the ergonomics of tablet-work are not possible.
Holding a tablet with one hand means you have to do all your input with another hand. And if you get a tablet stand - well guess what? You just reinvented the laptop computer. Actual work requires a real keyboard and a real mouse/trackball/Wacom pad, and both hands free.
Nobody in reality does anything much more with a tablet than Netflix and Facebook and app store candy games. Desktops are for creating content, tablets are for consuming it.
Well, I don't know about poor selection. My favorite band is prog-era Genesis, and I've found things from them on Youtube that I've never seen anywhere else. Never even heard of before Youtube. I'd never heard of It's Yourself or Spot the Pigeon, and Youtube introduced me to both.
Maybe you're on some super-elite mp3 site that gives you access to stuff more rare than this, or higher bitrates or whatever - but I'm pretty impressed with Youtube's catalog.
Between Youtube and Pandora, you can hear everything you want for free anyways. Streaming services have already pretty much killed piracy in the classical 1990's sense of the word.
This shows you haven't dug very deeply into his work. And I get it - at a surface glance it does appear to fly in the face of some things that are widely accepted now. But don't forget the luminiferous aether was widely accepted.
I think I can give you the gist of his argument, or at least maybe some food for thought.
The Casimir force arises from virtual particle pairs not being allowed to form in a small space in between two metal plates, making a sort of vacuum. The particle pairs on the outside are more numerous resulting in a net pressure.
Here's the important bit. At what range does this effect stop?
In other words, if the plates are a micron apart we have Casimir forces. Do we have them at a range of an inch? A foot? A light year? And if so what would the consequences be?
That's really all Dr. McCulloch's work is. What if Casimir forces are summed up over a Hubble scale?
I like to think of those kinds of bugs as Weeping Angels. They only move when you're not looking at them.
I have about a dozen years experience in MS Embedded CE. There is typically a Release build, and a Debug build. Release will macro out all the debug statements, which changes the execution timing. Enough so to where the bug that is biting you is often seen only in Release. Switch to Debug to chase it, and it goes away.
I had a similar experience recently with a PIC32 project. The devboard they sell has floating inputs on UART1. It never fails in the devboard. It does fail in the board I made. The floating inputs every so often will decide to twitch back and forth rapidly, firing a shitstorm of interrupt requests that crash the firmware. It never dies on the devboard. It occasionally gets twitchy and dies on our board, which is exactly derived from the schematic of the devboard. As an added plus, if you hook up an oscilloscope to the pins that changes impedance, and the float goes away, and the problem goes away. I have no idea how the devboard does not suffer from the same problem.
You're assuming that Microsoft wants to give you a good user experience. They do not. They want to make money. And since Candy Crush is paying them more than you are, this is the result.
Do you have any proof that the media is purposely withholding stories?
That would require a perfect conspiracy of everyone involved in the news cycle at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, USA Today, New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.
Now imagine what it would take to get everyone involved to shut up without scooping each other. News outlets get paid through advertising. If some amazing event occurs, the first outlet to report it gets the most eyes and the most advertising revenue. That is how it works. Your conspiracy theory runs counter to this.
I have a rule of thumb I try to keep in mind. If your explanation requires a conspiracy to work, your explanation is almost certainly wrong. People talk.
It's going to be different this time. Yeah I know, that's been said before too.
The growth is exponential. The last 100 years or so have been exactly as you describe. Milkmen become refrigerator salesmen. So what?
But there is a ceiling. Name a profession that goes beyond automation engineer. Milkman to salesman to this to that...eventually you run out of space. That is happening, right now. Before much longer there will be robots, the people who build and program and service them...and nothing else. There isn't anything past that.
I'm not lamenting it, I'm just wanting us to be prepared for it. Because nobody takes it seriously and I have no idea why nobody takes it seriously. Things are due for a big change and we are amazingly unprepared for it.
I just don't see the point, I was hoping someone would explain why all the time and effort has been spent to build something that is not wanted, and not needed.
I think I can help.
The problem with your statement here is the "is not wanted and is not needed" part. This software is wanted and is needed.
Sure, you can buy a copy of Windows and run Windows software. You are correct - that need is fulfilled perfectly well.
By one vendor, and one vendor only. That is the important bit.
As a mental exercise, let's say that Microsoft does something completely odious in their next Windows 10 patch. All your personal data is collected and stored at Microsoft and sold to the highest bidder. Advertising everywhere. (Yes yes I know, people already feel this is happening. Bear with me.)
What now?
You're a small dev company writing an application. You have to write it for Windows because that's 90% of the market share, pretty much. You have years into development and it has to be for Windows because you don't have the resources to run it anywhere else. And now suddenly Microsoft is doing this terrible thing, and you don't want to be a part of it.
You could release your application on a ReactOS image. You get all the Windows functionality, and none of the "locked in to one vendor-ness" of Windows.
So long story short, choice is good. There is a metric ton of legacy code and applications that depend entirely on Windows, and having a single point of failure for all of it is untenable. This is why projects like ReactOS and WINE are valuable.
Toni Wilen, the programmer for WinUAE has different goals in mind other than creating an excellent gaming experience. He's trying to recreate the *entire* Amiga ecosystem in a single program. His web page usually has him asking for obscure boards and roms because he wants to emulate it all. I think this is a grand goal.
Every single board I used to drool over in the old Amiga magazines and wish I could buy, he wants to emulate. So for someone like me being able to run an Amiga Blizzard board or an accurate Amiga 4000 or some such...it's a way to scratch a very old itch.
Toni also got MMU emulation working, which made Amiga Linux possible. It was a HUGE kick to see the old m68k linux stuff come up in the emulator. Not everyone's cup of tea, obviously. But a lot of fun. Reading the EAB threads as the thing was coming closer and closer to boot was pretty exciting. I'm sure I'm a minority on that, but still, I thought it was a lot of fun.
But to your point, WinUAE can also provide an excellent and simple gaming experience. The first default configuration tab has default *stock* Amiga configurations right there. Just select an OCS Amiga 500, and 99% of your games will run. You don't have to drill down into the tech stuff and twiddle chipsets to make things work.
However, the police need to assess the situation on their own before taking action. That is part of their responsibility, and why they are supposedly trained in law enforcement.
Yes, this. Thank you.
Apparently you can pick up a phone, being absolutely anybody and make up a story - and police will storm a building and shoot people. No questions asked. They won't verify anything, they won't assess the situation when they arrive on the scene, they will never consider it's a prank call - none of this. They will kick in a door and start shooting.
You can pick up a phone and make this happen in this country. That's a strange thing, isn't it?
Is the prank caller culpable? Certainly. But nobody ever looks at the police that show up. Nobody ever asks if they might need a little more training before kicking in doors and shooting people.
I wonder why that is?
To my way of thinking, the cops are every bit as wrong as the prank caller and possibly more so. You would hope that police officers would do better. Ostensibly their profession is to serve and protect, I'm told. Perhaps they might want to focus on that aspect of it a bit, rather than using Judge Dredd comic books as source material and blasting anything that moves for thrills.
The ruling of "involuntary manslaughter" to me is an admission that we know that a large enough percentage of the cops we have are ill prepared for their jobs, poorly trained and/or have the wrong temperament for the job, and therefore dangerous in and of themselves.
Prequels? What do you mean? There weren't any prequels. I didn't hear anything about any prequels and I certainly didn't see any prequels. I don't know what you're talking about. No sir. That would be as bad of an idea as Highlander sequels. Which didn't happen and I didn't see either. So yeah, no idea what you're talking about.
Three elements must be satisfied in order for someone to be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter:
Someone was killed as a result of the defendant's actions.
The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life.
The defendant knew or should have known his or her conduct was a threat to the lives of others.
The interesting bit is "The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life."
We're admitting that simply having the cops show up is so inherently dangerous that it constitutes a reckless disregard for human life.
All that being said, I'm sure that this feature will be abused at some point in the future, and there will be a setting to turn it off, and your clueless parents/aunt/grandparents/whatever will call you and bug you about a little TV on your screen they can't make go away.
It's the IT circle of life. Advertiser wants feature to pester people with, people are pestered for a while, IT people turn off feature, advertiser wants new feature to pester people with...
Slashdot Mirror
...the Streisand effect?
PS: Thanks for the links to those two sites, didn't know about them before. I do now. :)
From TFA:
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said the agency reached settlements with four operations responsible for billions of illegal robocalls
And:
The fines the FTC imposed on the companies and their owners range from $500,000 to over $3 million.
And the translation is: We don't care that you're doing what you're doing, just so long as we get a cut.
Robocalls can be stopped, it's just that the phone company doesn't want to stop them.
We can stop a DOS attack, right? How is this any different? One PBX somewhere suddenly starts launching a flood of calls. Disconnect that line upstream. Boom - done.
It's your fucking network - don't tell me you can't fix this.
You are correct to be suspicious. Anyone can lie. A valid point, and one I wish more people would lead with.
However, Cohen was giving these interviews to the FBI. Mueller took that information, used his not-insignificant resources at the FBI, and determined the information provided to be credible.
What that means to us lay people is that the FBI has used it's resources to verify that information and found it to be credible. It lines up with the other information they possess. The FBI doesn't think he's lying.
So, if you'd wish to doubt it at this point, you would have to know more about the topics in the Mueller investigation than the FBI does, which is exceedingly unlikely.
And thank you.
we still should acknowledge that there are telemarketers who do have humanity to them and aren't out to just ruin your life.
If they are troubled by their public perception, then it falls upon the Telemarketing industry to remove the spammers and the scammers and improve the public appearance of their industry.
It's not my house to clean.
But only photogenic models in commercials actually try to do real work on tablets. Nobody else does.
It's not possible. They want you to think it's The New Thing, but it simply is impossible to do anything meaningful on a tablet. The ergonomics are all wrong. There will be of course one response to this post about someone who writes assembly code for his neural network on a tablet, but for 99.999% of humanity, the ergonomics of tablet-work are not possible.
Holding a tablet with one hand means you have to do all your input with another hand. And if you get a tablet stand - well guess what? You just reinvented the laptop computer. Actual work requires a real keyboard and a real mouse/trackball/Wacom pad, and both hands free.
Nobody in reality does anything much more with a tablet than Netflix and Facebook and app store candy games. Desktops are for creating content, tablets are for consuming it.
From this link:
Max Mem 1 TiB
Well, I don't know about poor selection. My favorite band is prog-era Genesis, and I've found things from them on Youtube that I've never seen anywhere else. Never even heard of before Youtube. I'd never heard of It's Yourself or Spot the Pigeon, and Youtube introduced me to both.
Maybe you're on some super-elite mp3 site that gives you access to stuff more rare than this, or higher bitrates or whatever - but I'm pretty impressed with Youtube's catalog.
Between Youtube and Pandora, you can hear everything you want for free anyways. Streaming services have already pretty much killed piracy in the classical 1990's sense of the word.
Little reasoning is provided.
This shows you haven't dug very deeply into his work. And I get it - at a surface glance it does appear to fly in the face of some things that are widely accepted now. But don't forget the luminiferous aether was widely accepted.
I think I can give you the gist of his argument, or at least maybe some food for thought.
The Casimir force has been experimentally verified fairly well at this point. Would you agree with that statement? If so I have another related thought.
The Casimir force arises from virtual particle pairs not being allowed to form in a small space in between two metal plates, making a sort of vacuum. The particle pairs on the outside are more numerous resulting in a net pressure.
Here's the important bit. At what range does this effect stop?
In other words, if the plates are a micron apart we have Casimir forces. Do we have them at a range of an inch? A foot? A light year? And if so what would the consequences be?
That's really all Dr. McCulloch's work is. What if Casimir forces are summed up over a Hubble scale?
I like to think of those kinds of bugs as Weeping Angels. They only move when you're not looking at them.
I have about a dozen years experience in MS Embedded CE. There is typically a Release build, and a Debug build. Release will macro out all the debug statements, which changes the execution timing. Enough so to where the bug that is biting you is often seen only in Release. Switch to Debug to chase it, and it goes away.
I had a similar experience recently with a PIC32 project. The devboard they sell has floating inputs on UART1. It never fails in the devboard. It does fail in the board I made. The floating inputs every so often will decide to twitch back and forth rapidly, firing a shitstorm of interrupt requests that crash the firmware. It never dies on the devboard. It occasionally gets twitchy and dies on our board, which is exactly derived from the schematic of the devboard. As an added plus, if you hook up an oscilloscope to the pins that changes impedance, and the float goes away, and the problem goes away. I have no idea how the devboard does not suffer from the same problem.
This is not a good user experience, Microsoft.
You're assuming that Microsoft wants to give you a good user experience. They do not. They want to make money. And since Candy Crush is paying them more than you are, this is the result.
Do you have any proof that the media is purposely withholding stories?
That would require a perfect conspiracy of everyone involved in the news cycle at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, USA Today, New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.
Now imagine what it would take to get everyone involved to shut up without scooping each other. News outlets get paid through advertising. If some amazing event occurs, the first outlet to report it gets the most eyes and the most advertising revenue. That is how it works. Your conspiracy theory runs counter to this.
I have a rule of thumb I try to keep in mind. If your explanation requires a conspiracy to work, your explanation is almost certainly wrong. People talk.
Because your perception of things given to you by people who want you to distrust the media is incorrect.
It's going to be different this time. Yeah I know, that's been said before too.
The growth is exponential. The last 100 years or so have been exactly as you describe. Milkmen become refrigerator salesmen. So what?
But there is a ceiling. Name a profession that goes beyond automation engineer. Milkman to salesman to this to that...eventually you run out of space. That is happening, right now. Before much longer there will be robots, the people who build and program and service them...and nothing else. There isn't anything past that.
I'm not lamenting it, I'm just wanting us to be prepared for it. Because nobody takes it seriously and I have no idea why nobody takes it seriously. Things are due for a big change and we are amazingly unprepared for it.
I don't mean the bank - I mean that headline. "Company saves money by replacing people with a machine."
You're going to see variations on that headline over and over from here on out.
I just don't see the point, I was hoping someone would explain why all the time and effort has been spent to build something that is not wanted, and not needed.
I think I can help.
The problem with your statement here is the "is not wanted and is not needed" part. This software is wanted and is needed.
Sure, you can buy a copy of Windows and run Windows software. You are correct - that need is fulfilled perfectly well.
By one vendor, and one vendor only. That is the important bit.
As a mental exercise, let's say that Microsoft does something completely odious in their next Windows 10 patch. All your personal data is collected and stored at Microsoft and sold to the highest bidder. Advertising everywhere. (Yes yes I know, people already feel this is happening. Bear with me.)
What now?
You're a small dev company writing an application. You have to write it for Windows because that's 90% of the market share, pretty much. You have years into development and it has to be for Windows because you don't have the resources to run it anywhere else. And now suddenly Microsoft is doing this terrible thing, and you don't want to be a part of it.
You could release your application on a ReactOS image. You get all the Windows functionality, and none of the "locked in to one vendor-ness" of Windows.
So long story short, choice is good. There is a metric ton of legacy code and applications that depend entirely on Windows, and having a single point of failure for all of it is untenable. This is why projects like ReactOS and WINE are valuable.
Toni Wilen, the programmer for WinUAE has different goals in mind other than creating an excellent gaming experience. He's trying to recreate the *entire* Amiga ecosystem in a single program. His web page usually has him asking for obscure boards and roms because he wants to emulate it all. I think this is a grand goal.
Every single board I used to drool over in the old Amiga magazines and wish I could buy, he wants to emulate. So for someone like me being able to run an Amiga Blizzard board or an accurate Amiga 4000 or some such...it's a way to scratch a very old itch.
Toni also got MMU emulation working, which made Amiga Linux possible. It was a HUGE kick to see the old m68k linux stuff come up in the emulator. Not everyone's cup of tea, obviously. But a lot of fun. Reading the EAB threads as the thing was coming closer and closer to boot was pretty exciting. I'm sure I'm a minority on that, but still, I thought it was a lot of fun.
But to your point, WinUAE can also provide an excellent and simple gaming experience. The first default configuration tab has default *stock* Amiga configurations right there. Just select an OCS Amiga 500, and 99% of your games will run. You don't have to drill down into the tech stuff and twiddle chipsets to make things work.
However, the police need to assess the situation on their own before taking action. That is part of their responsibility, and why they are supposedly trained in law enforcement.
Yes, this. Thank you.
Apparently you can pick up a phone, being absolutely anybody and make up a story - and police will storm a building and shoot people. No questions asked. They won't verify anything, they won't assess the situation when they arrive on the scene, they will never consider it's a prank call - none of this. They will kick in a door and start shooting.
You can pick up a phone and make this happen in this country. That's a strange thing, isn't it?
Is the prank caller culpable? Certainly. But nobody ever looks at the police that show up. Nobody ever asks if they might need a little more training before kicking in doors and shooting people.
I wonder why that is?
To my way of thinking, the cops are every bit as wrong as the prank caller and possibly more so. You would hope that police officers would do better. Ostensibly their profession is to serve and protect, I'm told. Perhaps they might want to focus on that aspect of it a bit, rather than using Judge Dredd comic books as source material and blasting anything that moves for thrills.
The ruling of "involuntary manslaughter" to me is an admission that we know that a large enough percentage of the cops we have are ill prepared for their jobs, poorly trained and/or have the wrong temperament for the job, and therefore dangerous in and of themselves.
Prequels? What do you mean? There weren't any prequels. I didn't hear anything about any prequels and I certainly didn't see any prequels. I don't know what you're talking about. No sir. That would be as bad of an idea as Highlander sequels. Which didn't happen and I didn't see either. So yeah, no idea what you're talking about.
There will be a movie about power droid before they're done.
The charge is involuntary manslaughter.
From that link:
Three elements must be satisfied in order for someone to be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter: Someone was killed as a result of the defendant's actions. The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life. The defendant knew or should have known his or her conduct was a threat to the lives of others.
The interesting bit is "The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life."
We're admitting that simply having the cops show up is so inherently dangerous that it constitutes a reckless disregard for human life.
First off, it's not enabled just yet. You have to jump through some hoops to enable it. You have to go through all this, at the moment:
In chrome://flags enable the following flags:
#enable-experimental-web-platform-features
#enable-surfaces-for-videos
#enable-picture-in-picture
Download and extract the extension zip file.
In chrome://extensions toggle Developer mode (upper-right corner) if it is not already on.
To load the extension, click Load Unpacked.
In the dialog box that appears locate and select the src/ folder from the directory where you unpacked the zip file.
Navigate to any YouTube video and click the extension browser icon to toggle Picture-in-Picture for the current video.
And if you want to see what all that gets you, it looks like this.
All that being said, I'm sure that this feature will be abused at some point in the future, and there will be a setting to turn it off, and your clueless parents/aunt/grandparents/whatever will call you and bug you about a little TV on your screen they can't make go away.
It's the IT circle of life. Advertiser wants feature to pester people with, people are pestered for a while, IT people turn off feature, advertiser wants new feature to pester people with...
Children occasionally do things their parents would rather them not do, you know.