Is there any negative side to Hangouts? I though Hangouts was more of a social-networking thing where you lose privacy, not something I want for either my Mom or myself.
Love Google Voice. Lack of MMS was so frustrating too. I set my Mom up with GV on a tablet I gave her but the only way to send her pics was through e-mail. I can send from my MMS app to her mail, but the fact that every MMS message I sent was a separate e-mail for her was obviously not good.
I think the point that many are missing is that many people who lie are so inured to it that they aren't even aware of it anymore. It's just in their nature. They're way past the state of mind of being intentionally deceitful as other commenters say here. Those are the really scary people and often most difficult to detect. I honestly believe that the Clinton's are truly of this class. Scamming has become so wrote to them that it is literally integrated into their personalities at a fundamental level.
First thing I do when reading any comments is to drag the little sliders over to the "1" position. It helps substantially. Also best to never reply to any AC posts because others may also be filtering them out.
Lower class people like myself who struggle to survive cannot even imagine many of the warped ways the entitled classes waste their money. But it doesn't surprise me. America is mostly fucked and getting worse.
Universities have never been more than a bottom-line for-profit business that uses cult-like recruiting tactics and has absolutely no shame or loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves.
Not all. I take courses at an urban community college and these classes are inexpensive and high quality. The college offers 2-year associate degrees to many people who would otherwise find it difficult to get any degree, as well as offering numerous certificates and types of training, not to mention cultural and artistic enrichment which are also very important.
They are always struggling financially but they serve a vital function in the community.
Gee, maybe they should bring in 30 million more illegals, 3/4 of whom are illiterate. And when their kids fail to work the jobs "no one wants" and instead become gangbangers, draining massive community resources on law enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration, then just bring in 30 million more!
Seriously, what California is is a giant ponzi scheme perpetrated by political leaders at the behest of a corrupt oligarchy, who are nothing short of arch criminals engaged in wholesale betrayal of the American people.
And now see see city after city openly defying federal law in what amount to serious violations of the sovereignty of the US federal government. There's going to be a standoff and I sincerely hope Donald Trump cracks down as hard as possible, because we are losing this country fast...
In a stupid way. The script itself downloads the new version from the Wordpress web site. For this to work, the script (and therefore all scripts on the server) needs to have permission to overwrite files on the server. That's bad because in most cases that means *any* script can change *any* file on the site. Any little security hole in any script allows the bad guy to write whatever he wants, including his own software, and run it on your server. That's a bad idea. It's *possible* to set this up to be reasonably secure, but nobody does. PHP makes the more secure configuration much more difficult than it needs to be.
What about an installation on a shared-hosting environment where you only have user permissions? In such an environment you can never just run a sudo command to make a secure update.
As a side note, I just ran the exploit against one of my sites and tried to create a file using the exploit shell, but I then looked for the file and it does not exist anywhere on the server.
and 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
I agree wholeheartedly. Actually 2016 for me was the Year of the Great Revival of the Linux Desktop, with special thanks to Microsoft for pushing me over the edge with their telemetry and the general crap that Win10 is. I'm a Never-Win10'er - I will never use it in my life, guaranteed, and only have Win8 on one dedicated music system at home that runs a funky driver for a synthesizer I use. Other than that I'm all Linux and absolutely loving it.
Check out KDE Neon or Linux Mint Cinnamon. Check out Wine which has become so good that you can run a ton of stuff including Acrobat. Crossover Office now supports Office 2013. You can pretty much do everything on a Linux system now and much more happily.
I feel like this book more than any other is the one that really took me into the world of computer science in a clear, methodical, easy-to-follow way and has opened my mind to whole new realms of thinking. Another great book is "Starting out with Python" which is very similar, and I'm finding that reading them both together is helping me even more in understanding how different languages approach different things.
Some may find the methodical approach to perhaps be tedious as some points, but it is exactly this kind of gradual building chapter after chapter that gives you a strong sense of deliberate progression and certainty about your increasing knowledge that is so necessary when undertaking the monumental task of learning computer science.
There are a still a lot of AOSP-based custom ROMs and depending on your phone's maker modified stock ROMs. As usual, check xda-developers.com forum for your device...
I think the claim that Twitter is driving people away is overrated. Most of the accounts I'm aware of that were cut were engaging in outright abuse/insults of others. A lot of people think they're right in abusing others because of some claimed moral position. I actually think Twitter has done a good job with how to handle it.
I *highly* doubt that Twitter is going away any time soon. Maybe the organization will change in some ways - I hope they aren't acquired - but there are tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
Much of recycling seems to be a failure in the United States. Strange since it's not in other countries. It's an indication not of logistical but of political failure, as per usual.
I'm actually surprised by the article. Because where I live - a major city that goes to great lengths to bill itself as being environmental - what you're supposed to do with e-waste is just throw it in the garbage. I'm not kidding. Also, much of what people think is getting recycled is also going to landfill. In fact one of the former mayors of the city worked as an attorney to defend the city against fines because it constantly exceeds its allocation of landfill space.
In my apartment building it sickens me every time I take out my compost to the compost bin and see plastic and general garbage dumped in there. The recycling company - controlled by a mafia-run monopoly that the city gave them for all waste removal - is supposed to notify the landlord when the compost is contaminated with regular waste, but of course that never happens. That didn't stop the city from making a big deal some years ago trying to force people to use its compost in their gardens, toxic though it is.
Basically waste removal is mostly a big mafia-based industry and much of what is claimed to be recycled is just dumped into landfill. Its a scam, just like so many other scams such as the promise of upgraded fiber to the home which never happened.
... and blocking all the Chinese who are rich off the dirty slave-labor money from buying our real estate - and arresting the corrupt local governments that are facilitating their taking over our land.
And I think its precisely because of twits like the woman from the UN in the video why Trump is saying fuck the Paris agreement because fuck all these twits.
Don't forget the thousands of coal mine deaths to fuel the factories that produce the inexpensive shit that the oligarchs want made there in order to sell cheaply in America.
And don't forget the Chinese multi-millionaires coming to the USA in throngs to invest their dirty profits buying up real-estate, which should be illegal.
If you think China is anything close to fair or treats people fair, watch this.
Very true. Many Americans are inured to what happened and how appalling it was. I was overseas at the time and when the torture pictures first came out the feeling was palpable, beyond words. In America everyone was probably just immediately subject to the usual manipulation and mind control. Not so where I was.
You can't be serious. They trespass into Japan's territorial waters on a regular basis. They threaten Taiwan. The heavily bombed Taiwan islands twice. They declared the air zone in international airspace to impose that other aircraft inform them. Their claims are outrageous.
Then there is Xinjiang where they basically crushed the peaceful, indigenous people there, imposing brutal, dehumanizing regulations and conditions upon them. Same thing in Tibet.
Chinese are fucked. Their argument that their totalitarian-style government is somehow necessary flies in the face that countries in the region like Japan and Taiwan are healthy, thriving democracies.
America is the clear winner in this. Chinese steal a drone exploration watercraft 50 mi. off the coast of the Philippines in an act no better than common criminal pirates.
Who looks desperate and pathetic as hell?
We lost a drone. They confirm that they are major loser thugs for the world to witness.
The article raises an important issue. Why is it that the best and brightest minds - people like ultra-entitled graduates from places like Stanford - go on to become the biggest parasites in society forming companies like Enron, instead of viewing it as their duty to use their talents to benefit their fellow man and/or serve their government?
It's not just about this one instance of people wanting more money, it's about a problem of societal rot that is draining America and causing it to split ever more intensely between the entitled and non-entitled classes.
I was just thinking yesterday about how more in more socially cohesive countries with much lower Gini coefficients than the US people take that cohesion for granted, whereas in America people aren't really even aware of the absence of such cohesion and its massive benefits, so used to its absence are they.
I admire anyone who chooses the relatively unglamorous path of serving in the military - especially in times like these when there are all these other, shiny, glamorous paths that can be taken. As much as people don't like war or militaristic foreign policies, that is quite a different thing than the actual people who spend their careers protecting our country.
Hopefully under Donald Trump the schism will decrease. It's interesting how traditionalist values of the AltRight fit into all of this. There's the yearning for the past - and I think back to the past when the most brilliant minds in the country considered it their privilege to serve our government and work on things like decrypting codes or designing bridges.
And isn't it funny that, while its totally incidental who or wtf Russia "favors" or not, what isn't incidental is wtf Russia actually does, which isn't being given nearly as much coverage in MSM. Meanwhile Hillary sells off 20% of US raw Uranium reserves to Russia but again, that's not covered in MSM.
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Is there any negative side to Hangouts? I though Hangouts was more of a social-networking thing where you lose privacy, not something I want for either my Mom or myself.
Love Google Voice. Lack of MMS was so frustrating too. I set my Mom up with GV on a tablet I gave her but the only way to send her pics was through e-mail. I can send from my MMS app to her mail, but the fact that every MMS message I sent was a separate e-mail for her was obviously not good.
I find it very funny when someone says "believe me" after a huge and incredibly obvious lie. It seems to happen a lot.
I find it creepy as hell.
I think the point that many are missing is that many people who lie are so inured to it that they aren't even aware of it anymore. It's just in their nature. They're way past the state of mind of being intentionally deceitful as other commenters say here. Those are the really scary people and often most difficult to detect. I honestly believe that the Clinton's are truly of this class. Scamming has become so wrote to them that it is literally integrated into their personalities at a fundamental level.
First thing I do when reading any comments is to drag the little sliders over to the "1" position. It helps substantially. Also best to never reply to any AC posts because others may also be filtering them out.
Lower class people like myself who struggle to survive cannot even imagine many of the warped ways the entitled classes waste their money. But it doesn't surprise me. America is mostly fucked and getting worse.
Universities have never been more than a bottom-line for-profit business that uses cult-like recruiting tactics and has absolutely no shame or loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves.
Not all. I take courses at an urban community college and these classes are inexpensive and high quality. The college offers 2-year associate degrees to many people who would otherwise find it difficult to get any degree, as well as offering numerous certificates and types of training, not to mention cultural and artistic enrichment which are also very important.
They are always struggling financially but they serve a vital function in the community.
USA is failing big time. Major big time.
Mass third-world invasion, and this stuff.
Failing. Betrayal.
Gee, maybe they should bring in 30 million more illegals, 3/4 of whom are illiterate. And when their kids fail to work the jobs "no one wants" and instead become gangbangers, draining massive community resources on law enforcement, prosecution, and incarceration, then just bring in 30 million more!
Seriously, what California is is a giant ponzi scheme perpetrated by political leaders at the behest of a corrupt oligarchy, who are nothing short of arch criminals engaged in wholesale betrayal of the American people.
And now see see city after city openly defying federal law in what amount to serious violations of the sovereignty of the US federal government. There's going to be a standoff and I sincerely hope Donald Trump cracks down as hard as possible, because we are losing this country fast...
Any word on Wordpress? I ran the exploit and it worked on one of my sites so I took the unprecedented step of literally disabling all my WP sites.
b) How do Wordpress and Drupal update by default?
In a stupid way. The script itself downloads the new version from the Wordpress web site. For this to work, the script (and therefore all scripts on the server) needs to have permission to overwrite files on the server. That's bad because in most cases that means *any* script can change *any* file on the site. Any little security hole in any script allows the bad guy to write whatever he wants, including his own software, and run it on your server. That's a bad idea. It's *possible* to set this up to be reasonably secure, but nobody does. PHP makes the more secure configuration much more difficult than it needs to be.
What about an installation on a shared-hosting environment where you only have user permissions? In such an environment you can never just run a sudo command to make a secure update.
As a side note, I just ran the exploit against one of my sites and tried to create a file using the exploit shell, but I then looked for the file and it does not exist anywhere on the server.
and 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
I agree wholeheartedly. Actually 2016 for me was the Year of the Great Revival of the Linux Desktop, with special thanks to Microsoft for pushing me over the edge with their telemetry and the general crap that Win10 is. I'm a Never-Win10'er - I will never use it in my life, guaranteed, and only have Win8 on one dedicated music system at home that runs a funky driver for a synthesizer I use. Other than that I'm all Linux and absolutely loving it.
Check out KDE Neon or Linux Mint Cinnamon. Check out Wine which has become so good that you can run a ton of stuff including Acrobat. Crossover Office now supports Office 2013. You can pretty much do everything on a Linux system now and much more happily.
Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects 6th edition by Tony Gaddis.
I feel like this book more than any other is the one that really took me into the world of computer science in a clear, methodical, easy-to-follow way and has opened my mind to whole new realms of thinking. Another great book is "Starting out with Python" which is very similar, and I'm finding that reading them both together is helping me even more in understanding how different languages approach different things.
Some may find the methodical approach to perhaps be tedious as some points, but it is exactly this kind of gradual building chapter after chapter that gives you a strong sense of deliberate progression and certainty about your increasing knowledge that is so necessary when undertaking the monumental task of learning computer science.
There are a still a lot of AOSP-based custom ROMs and depending on your phone's maker modified stock ROMs. As usual, check xda-developers.com forum for your device...
I think the claim that Twitter is driving people away is overrated. Most of the accounts I'm aware of that were cut were engaging in outright abuse/insults of others. A lot of people think they're right in abusing others because of some claimed moral position. I actually think Twitter has done a good job with how to handle it.
I *highly* doubt that Twitter is going away any time soon. Maybe the organization will change in some ways - I hope they aren't acquired - but there are tens or hundreds of thousands of users.
Much of recycling seems to be a failure in the United States. Strange since it's not in other countries. It's an indication not of logistical but of political failure, as per usual.
I'm actually surprised by the article. Because where I live - a major city that goes to great lengths to bill itself as being environmental - what you're supposed to do with e-waste is just throw it in the garbage. I'm not kidding. Also, much of what people think is getting recycled is also going to landfill. In fact one of the former mayors of the city worked as an attorney to defend the city against fines because it constantly exceeds its allocation of landfill space.
In my apartment building it sickens me every time I take out my compost to the compost bin and see plastic and general garbage dumped in there. The recycling company - controlled by a mafia-run monopoly that the city gave them for all waste removal - is supposed to notify the landlord when the compost is contaminated with regular waste, but of course that never happens. That didn't stop the city from making a big deal some years ago trying to force people to use its compost in their gardens, toxic though it is.
Basically waste removal is mostly a big mafia-based industry and much of what is claimed to be recycled is just dumped into landfill. Its a scam, just like so many other scams such as the promise of upgraded fiber to the home which never happened.
... and blocking all the Chinese who are rich off the dirty slave-labor money from buying our real estate - and arresting the corrupt local governments that are facilitating their taking over our land.
But, but "China took the leadership on climate change many years ago" !
And I think its precisely because of twits like the woman from the UN in the video why Trump is saying fuck the Paris agreement because fuck all these twits.
This is what you get with low cost manufacturing!
Trump is right china is gaming the system.
Don't forget the thousands of coal mine deaths to fuel the factories that produce the inexpensive shit that the oligarchs want made there in order to sell cheaply in America.
And don't forget the Chinese multi-millionaires coming to the USA in throngs to invest their dirty profits buying up real-estate, which should be illegal.
If you think China is anything close to fair or treats people fair, watch this.
Very true. Many Americans are inured to what happened and how appalling it was. I was overseas at the time and when the torture pictures first came out the feeling was palpable, beyond words. In America everyone was probably just immediately subject to the usual manipulation and mind control. Not so where I was.
You can't be serious. They trespass into Japan's territorial waters on a regular basis. They threaten Taiwan. The heavily bombed Taiwan islands twice. They declared the air zone in international airspace to impose that other aircraft inform them. Their claims are outrageous.
Then there is Xinjiang where they basically crushed the peaceful, indigenous people there, imposing brutal, dehumanizing regulations and conditions upon them. Same thing in Tibet.
Chinese are fucked. Their argument that their totalitarian-style government is somehow necessary flies in the face that countries in the region like Japan and Taiwan are healthy, thriving democracies.
America is the clear winner in this. Chinese steal a drone exploration watercraft 50 mi. off the coast of the Philippines in an act no better than common criminal pirates.
Who looks desperate and pathetic as hell?
We lost a drone. They confirm that they are major loser thugs for the world to witness.
The article raises an important issue. Why is it that the best and brightest minds - people like ultra-entitled graduates from places like Stanford - go on to become the biggest parasites in society forming companies like Enron, instead of viewing it as their duty to use their talents to benefit their fellow man and/or serve their government?
It's not just about this one instance of people wanting more money, it's about a problem of societal rot that is draining America and causing it to split ever more intensely between the entitled and non-entitled classes.
I was just thinking yesterday about how more in more socially cohesive countries with much lower Gini coefficients than the US people take that cohesion for granted, whereas in America people aren't really even aware of the absence of such cohesion and its massive benefits, so used to its absence are they.
I admire anyone who chooses the relatively unglamorous path of serving in the military - especially in times like these when there are all these other, shiny, glamorous paths that can be taken. As much as people don't like war or militaristic foreign policies, that is quite a different thing than the actual people who spend their careers protecting our country.
Hopefully under Donald Trump the schism will decrease. It's interesting how traditionalist values of the AltRight fit into all of this. There's the yearning for the past - and I think back to the past when the most brilliant minds in the country considered it their privilege to serve our government and work on things like decrypting codes or designing bridges.
And isn't it funny that, while its totally incidental who or wtf Russia "favors" or not, what isn't incidental is wtf Russia actually does, which isn't being given nearly as much coverage in MSM. Meanwhile Hillary sells off 20% of US raw Uranium reserves to Russia but again, that's not covered in MSM.
MSM is the enemy. Period.