^^^^ This, or so I heard. A friend of mine finally "made it to (national/international airline)" after umpteen years and it was the difference between his wife being the breadwinner and his wife staying at home with the kids.
And who knew that "National Geographic" was still around? That was the yellow-spined magazine college-educated boomers kept stacked in their houses for some reason.
Netflix won't be dead until it adds ads. If it ever goes there, my family will probably just let the 50% of viewing we do off of grey sources slide up to 100% (again).
^^^ This. I kind of thought the "exploding phone" bit would have killed the Galaxy brand, and they'd be hawking the "Quasar" or whatnot by now. Who knew they were still making them?
If you didn't have a "Ready for Hillary" bumper sticker in 2016 or wrote a post doubting Bush's embedded reporters in 2003 then you were behaving badly, citizen. Expect a, er, "tax audit" soon.
If you accept an underwater estate (because you want your parent's house or whatnot) you can be on the hook for debts. But you can also say "fuck that, keep it" and walk from any inherited debt, but you may need an attorney to swiftly tell people to pound sand. (I just did that not too long ago with a relative about half a million in the hole with medical debt - go USA; didn't pay a dime after taking attorney's fees right out of the cash left in the estate.)
Just make sure you never, ever tell anyone that "I'll pay for that" toward the end: remember medical pros have to provide some minimal amount of care, regardless of ability to pay.
>>A (Chinese) college in Beijing...bar a student because his father was on a government blacklist
As designed. Checks out. I half suspect this story was planted by the Chinese government to loudly advertise the fact that its blacklist will hurt doublethink offenders' kids too.
Wake me up when we get the story from America that someone's kid was denied entrance to a university because his/her dad spouted off with some pro-Trump or pro-socialist screed on social media.
>> Next thing you will tell us, it is not really worth it to
Hey editors, if you wanted a tech story for this audience, how about it might be that it's not the best idea to sign your managed service contracts while in the VIP room at a Vegas tech conference. Or that white papers (and anything else planted on Slashdot) are mostly bullshit developed by marketing departments with a friendly customers (who is usually getting a price break to put their name on a piece.) And also, hello and welcome to IT - we can tell you're new here!
I remember downloading the Guccifer 2.0 doc cache and looking at the Office metadata (e.g., in the XML). Most of the metadata was wiped, but there were some odd Cyrillic additions and font references scattered about as if some Russian had opened the docs and copied them back.
It would be nice to know what else was used to follow the trail here...
Serious question. I do a lot of dev on a Mac but my personal gaming rig is still a PC with a high-end internal video card (in a separate room to cut down fan noise, etc.).
^^^ This. My favorite locked-down machine trick is one where they "only" let you have admin access to Notepad, which is plenty of access once you open up Notepad's "file open" dialog and essentially get to have admin access to File Explorer.
>> Are you running Oracle on your laptop or something?
(blinks) No, but I'm a developer, so I value fast compiles, representative local virtual machines and real databases (just not Oracle's) on my machine. In addition, video conferencing apps continue to get even hungrier as time goes on, so I would value a computer that doesn't turn into a jet engine whenever I need to talk to Saneesh and Alixandor in the middle of the night.
TSA computers. The Compaq-looking things frequently plugged in with the stack of 4-6 USB slots facing outside the security area (so the TSA folks see the pretty faceplates and blinky-blink lights).
>> MacBook and MacBook Pro: Nothing but minor processor upgrades expected, and that only because we can't buy the old ones anymore. At least we didn't take away more USB slots - yet.
As expected.
Please, please spin off your MacBooks to a company that knows what's doing! (Signed: 79% of your users.)
If it's "blowing up their forums" and threatening to "break the Internet", let me be the first one to "clap back" and tell you that the sample size > 1.
1) Break up monopolies or any company large enough to get more than a third of a market 2) Outlaw unions that could disrupt public transportation/services (like this AT&T union), artificially drive prices (or the price of government services) up, influence elections, or drive companies out of the city/state/country
As a side benefit, this might also have the effect of removing a lot of money from politics (e.g., https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?cycle=2016)
You are probably thinking of: https://m.xkcd.com/1971/
That wasn't about "data unions" but it was about people not taking the initiative to learn what "personal data" was and what people could do with it. It's one of the weaker comics I've seen (too wordy, too preachy) from that corner, but every set needs some filler.
Slashdot Mirror
^^^^ This, or so I heard. A friend of mine finally "made it to (national/international airline)" after umpteen years and it was the difference between his wife being the breadwinner and his wife staying at home with the kids.
>> Cuba frowns on public dissent
Where "frowns" equals "has killed tens of thousands of people in the name of political correctness"
https://www.quora.com/How-many-deaths-was-Fidel-Castro-responsible-for
>> stumbled upon (Jupiter's) new moons while hunting for a mysterious ninth planet
I think I figured out why they didn't find the ninth planet: they were looking at the fifth.
Er...what's the "news"?
And who knew that "National Geographic" was still around? That was the yellow-spined magazine college-educated boomers kept stacked in their houses for some reason.
Netflix won't be dead until it adds ads. If it ever goes there, my family will probably just let the 50% of viewing we do off of grey sources slide up to 100% (again).
^^^ This. I kind of thought the "exploding phone" bit would have killed the Galaxy brand, and they'd be hawking the "Quasar" or whatnot by now. Who knew they were still making them?
>> Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down, Turn Show Audio Up
For now. Once there are enough of these trinkets in the market, an upgrade will switch this around.
Stuff underground gets wet already, just in case you didn't know about "rain" and such.
>> Who defines bad behavior
If you didn't have a "Ready for Hillary" bumper sticker in 2016 or wrote a post doubting Bush's embedded reporters in 2003 then you were behaving badly, citizen. Expect a, er, "tax audit" soon.
If you accept an underwater estate (because you want your parent's house or whatnot) you can be on the hook for debts. But you can also say "fuck that, keep it" and walk from any inherited debt, but you may need an attorney to swiftly tell people to pound sand. (I just did that not too long ago with a relative about half a million in the hole with medical debt - go USA; didn't pay a dime after taking attorney's fees right out of the cash left in the estate.)
Just make sure you never, ever tell anyone that "I'll pay for that" toward the end: remember medical pros have to provide some minimal amount of care, regardless of ability to pay.
>> (State of Illinois), where I was voted Most Likely Recidivist
:)
Since you could spell that last word, I doubt it.
>>A (Chinese) college in Beijing...bar a student because his father was on a government blacklist
As designed. Checks out. I half suspect this story was planted by the Chinese government to loudly advertise the fact that its blacklist will hurt doublethink offenders' kids too.
Wake me up when we get the story from America that someone's kid was denied entrance to a university because his/her dad spouted off with some pro-Trump or pro-socialist screed on social media.
>> Next thing you will tell us, it is not really worth it to
Hey editors, if you wanted a tech story for this audience, how about it might be that it's not the best idea to sign your managed service contracts while in the VIP room at a Vegas tech conference. Or that white papers (and anything else planted on Slashdot) are mostly bullshit developed by marketing departments with a friendly customers (who is usually getting a price break to put their name on a piece.) And also, hello and welcome to IT - we can tell you're new here!
I remember downloading the Guccifer 2.0 doc cache and looking at the Office metadata (e.g., in the XML). Most of the metadata was wiped, but there were some odd Cyrillic additions and font references scattered about as if some Russian had opened the docs and copied them back.
It would be nice to know what else was used to follow the trail here...
Why would you try to game on a Mac?
Serious question. I do a lot of dev on a Mac but my personal gaming rig is still a PC with a high-end internal video card (in a separate room to cut down fan noise, etc.).
^^^ This. My favorite locked-down machine trick is one where they "only" let you have admin access to Notepad, which is plenty of access once you open up Notepad's "file open" dialog and essentially get to have admin access to File Explorer.
>> Are you running Oracle on your laptop or something?
(blinks) No, but I'm a developer, so I value fast compiles, representative local virtual machines and real databases (just not Oracle's) on my machine. In addition, video conferencing apps continue to get even hungrier as time goes on, so I would value a computer that doesn't turn into a jet engine whenever I need to talk to Saneesh and Alixandor in the middle of the night.
TSA computers. The Compaq-looking things frequently plugged in with the stack of 4-6 USB slots facing outside the security area (so the TSA folks see the pretty faceplates and blinky-blink lights).
>> a 12-inch MacBook
Congratulations, you invented the Notebook.
>> MacBook and MacBook Pro: Nothing but minor processor upgrades expected, and that only because we can't buy the old ones anymore. At least we didn't take away more USB slots - yet.
As expected.
Please, please spin off your MacBooks to a company that knows what's doing! (Signed: 79% of your users.)
Call me "not surprised" after passing umpteen machines in the security line with unprotected USB slots. One good boot and...
It's probably her "Tinder" app. Ask her about it tonight.
If it's "blowing up their forums" and threatening to "break the Internet", let me be the first one to "clap back" and tell you that the sample size > 1.
>> Danish Court
How does one take a judge or jury filled with jelly seriously?
OK, in my ideal consumer-first world, we'd both:
1) Break up monopolies or any company large enough to get more than a third of a market
2) Outlaw unions that could disrupt public transportation/services (like this AT&T union), artificially drive prices (or the price of government services) up, influence elections, or drive companies out of the city/state/country
As a side benefit, this might also have the effect of removing a lot of money from politics (e.g., https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?cycle=2016)
You are probably thinking of:
https://m.xkcd.com/1971/
That wasn't about "data unions" but it was about people not taking the initiative to learn what "personal data" was and what people could do with it. It's one of the weaker comics I've seen (too wordy, too preachy) from that corner, but every set needs some filler.