It's kind of futile to report them, isn't it? The US doesn't have any meaningful ability to deal with attackers in Nigeria, much less China or Russia. Or am I wrong? I'd be happy to tell my customers they have some recourse.
This kind of thing can go incredibly well, i.e. Homestuck. It can also create such a highly specialized plot that it'll be the best story ever...for the fifty people who stick through it, i.e. Deep Rise. In any case, I most certainly approve of anything that takes us away from the chicken McNugget script by focus group world we live in.
NSA is 100% abandoned as far as I know. I think the closest you can get that's being supported is the so called "hard mode" for ublock. I think medium and hard mode are good ideas. Problem is they're unbearably clunky on android and superfluous on Linux and PCs where noscript is alive and well, but ublock is. Still, ublock is in fact actively supported.
The Note 4 is quite good. Its sole flaws are the fingerprint sensor being quite poor and the whole issue with """"security"""" updates. More people than I have called it the last great Android smartphone. It's like the smartphone equivalent Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It will likely never be equaled in its category because the industry has moved on and no one is willing to try.
Quite right, and one of about five reasons I'm probably replacing my Note 4 with an Iphone 8. To be fair though you can download a reinstall of the OS for any given chromebook from google in the event of a virus. Yes, I've seen it happen. No, it wasn't a browser addon.
Forget Windows S, if they were to follow through and do this right, they could obliterate the entire retail Windows market. Of course, this is Google, so they won't follow through and they won't do it right.
Seriously though, it's nice to see cheap solid state machines with proper keyboards that can run a good range of applications. Raspberry Pi? What's that?
You get a much larger amount of thermal fluctuation, which is worse than running it with crap quality fans. You'll get condensation all over the place which is worse than running it with crap quality fans. As Alton Brown has said, fridges are designed to keep cold things cold, not make hot things cold.
Yes people have tried it, because every single person who builds their own systems has had this idea. Companies have tried and failed to meet this consumer demand with bloated $700 monstrosities that perform......worse than crap quality fans.
I agree with the overall sentiment, but the problem is that IoT is a category which encompasses essentially everything that has electrical power. My bathroom scale is online, and that's been quite handy. So boom, I'm technically participating in this stuff, even though I wholeheartedly agree that Alexa controlled lightbulbs are an insult to everyone who isn't disabled.
I get customers who feel similarly about smartphones. They say they aren't useful. An I'm like, any one or ten apps might indeed be useless, but you're saying the whole device category has nothing to offer to you? Having a gps, flashlight, alarm clock, diet tracker, todo list, calendar, web browser, camera, weather forecast device, pedometer, level, a thousand books, fingerprint payment system, calculator, and photo album in your pocket isn't useful to you? Really?
Just my opinion, but I think some point at a bunch of useless features and miss the useful ones. Having your phone alert you to a flooded basment is still just as iot as an iphone ceiling fan.
There have been times recently when it is rather difficult to find a good tv from a mainstream manufacturer that didn't spy on you and make you pay for the privilege.
This kind of thing is pretty much why my next phone will be an iphone (if it will fit in a proper case). Love my Note 4 to death, love Nova Launcher, but I'm flat out done with verizdroid. Since I have to pick my poison, I'll choose to be ripped off on the hardware but otherwise treated like an actual customer.
For a lot of companies that might work as a line of reasoning. But Google's bread and butter is data analysis of behaviors. Their ability to find this data is more powerful than anyone else's and they already have it and use it to make money. So, yes, it is literally their job.
Identifying gender pay disparity is the kind of project they used to knock off in an afternoon, release to the public, then abandon after three years because "only" a few million people used it.
Intel and I think HP did this too, and yes, it's a despicable way to force people to "quit" and deny them benefits. What isn't talked about as much is how much havoc it creates in the communities surrounding the offices. Employees desperate to keep benefits influx en masse, and a barn in a field becomes a $200,000 "home".
Virtually no NES emulator ever got the "bleep" menu noise in Final Fantasy right. That was literally my yardstick for choosing NES emulators. 90% of them sounded like a robot trying to fart quietly.
Run a fakespot.com check on any of Amazon's piece of shit "sponsored" products and you'll find every single one engages in deceitful review manipulation. I guarantee it. With uh...internet points.
I use pihole on my nas, opendns, and ublock origin, and fakespot is still my most useful tool when shopping.
I use Firefox as my main browser, and I understand the problems some people have with it. Thing is, I tend to see Firefox's flaws as emerging from using it with lots of addons as intended. Adblock + noscript + various EFF tools are bound to bork it from time to time. I'm kind of impressed it's as stable as it is. Not to mention I'm the kind of crazy person who has 300 tabs open right now.
I used to use Opera as my secondary, back before they dropped Presto and abandoned their very functional email/rss components. Now it's Chrome with adblock.
It might be ironic that my favorite mobile browser was Safari with adblock. Never had a single problem with it. Plus Apple for all their faults has been willing to tell bloatware peddlers to go hang themselves.
You are correct, I hadn't heard. I have heard a great deal of hand wringing about...well, every single food product giving me cancer. Everything from mcnuggets to organic potatoes grown in my own backyard. With the aforementioned chips, it'd be acrylamides that'd definitely maybe kill me. So, you know, whatever.
Vaping juice contains mostly the same components as your average medical inhaler cartridge plus some food grade flavorings. There's health concerns if you're dealing with one of the cloud chaser types, but for the most part it's healthier than your average handful of potato chips.
I can't really figure out the value miles cards. They obfuscate the value of the miles to the extent I assume they're nearly worthless. On the other hand there's numerous easy to understand cash back cards:
Amazon has two store cards that are 5% back on everything. (if you have prime, otherwise it's 3%)
Several 6% back on gas cards exist if you join an easy to enter credit union.
Fidelity and I think a few others have a card that's 2% back on everything everywhere into an investment account.
Amex has a 6% on all groceries card for $75 a year.
Near as I can tell miles cards don't even compete well with cash back cards on travel! There's TONS of cards that give big percentages back on travel expenses.
Buying a higher end printer can cut the cost per page quite a lot. And if you're paying 20 bucks for 400 page of ink, you really ought to think about it unless you go through less than a ream of paper a year. HP 940XP ink tanks give about 2200 pages for about 31 bucks after the rewards program my chain store offers. Before that there were the 88XLs which were pretty similar. Sure, the print heads don't last forever, but laser printers have drums, so I see little difference there. Kodak and Lexmark both have printers in the store where I work which also have a fairly low cost per page. Customers ask me what the benefits are between an inkjet and laser, and it's coming to the point where I can only suggest laser printers to people who need a heavy duty cycle out of the machine (more than 10k pages per month), or absolutely positively need the stuff they are printing to not have water soluble ink on it. Then again, maybe my store just offers crappy laser printers.
As for refills, the chain I work for is happy to sell those. They mark it up nearly as much and don't pay rewards on them, and there's a niche market for nitrile gloves as an add-onn there too, so the profit is actually better.
Respectfully, I don't think Lynch did such a terrible job. Especially given it was THAT Lynch. Adaptation is being asked to do neurosurgery with a chainsaw. I have never, ever seen it go bloodlessly, though I'd certainly welcome any exceptions you'd care to list.
Take "Sphere" for example. I liked the book, well enough anyway, and I'd say the film was perhaps the most faithful adaptation I've ever seen, with fairly decent actors to boot. Yet there's virtually no one who'd try to defend that steaming heap of a film. Yet I can't say I thought anyone involved with it did anything obviously wrong. Chainsaws and gray matter, make no mistake.
For those of you who hate what's been done to the books in the film, I'd suggest you dig up a copy of Frank Herbert's short story collection "Eye" and read his foreword. His situation and comments on the film version of "Dune" (By David Lynch no less), should be read by anyone who's seen a favored author's work get stuffed into cinematic form.
Most amusing difference between book and movie versions of dune:
Book: Maudib is the name of a mouse he saw get devoured by a hawk it never saw coming.
Movie: Maudib is some poetic nonsense about the shadows and the moonlight.
The author seems incredulous that the aliens would bother giving away knowledge for free. That comment reminded me of something Iain Banks wrote in one of his short stories: "Money is a sign of poverty." This was a proverb of the nearly omnipotent Culture, meaning that any society that needs to measure wealth is so destitute that it deserves compassion and pity.
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It's kind of futile to report them, isn't it? The US doesn't have any meaningful ability to deal with attackers in Nigeria, much less China or Russia. Or am I wrong? I'd be happy to tell my customers they have some recourse.
This kind of thing can go incredibly well, i.e. Homestuck. It can also create such a highly specialized plot that it'll be the best story ever...for the fifty people who stick through it, i.e. Deep Rise. In any case, I most certainly approve of anything that takes us away from the chicken McNugget script by focus group world we live in.
NSA is 100% abandoned as far as I know. I think the closest you can get that's being supported is the so called "hard mode" for ublock. I think medium and hard mode are good ideas. Problem is they're unbearably clunky on android and superfluous on Linux and PCs where noscript is alive and well, but ublock is. Still, ublock is in fact actively supported.
The Note 4 is quite good. Its sole flaws are the fingerprint sensor being quite poor and the whole issue with """"security"""" updates. More people than I have called it the last great Android smartphone. It's like the smartphone equivalent Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It will likely never be equaled in its category because the industry has moved on and no one is willing to try.
Quite right, and one of about five reasons I'm probably replacing my Note 4 with an Iphone 8. To be fair though you can download a reinstall of the OS for any given chromebook from google in the event of a virus. Yes, I've seen it happen. No, it wasn't a browser addon.
Forget Windows S, if they were to follow through and do this right, they could obliterate the entire retail Windows market. Of course, this is Google, so they won't follow through and they won't do it right. Seriously though, it's nice to see cheap solid state machines with proper keyboards that can run a good range of applications. Raspberry Pi? What's that?
You get a much larger amount of thermal fluctuation, which is worse than running it with crap quality fans. You'll get condensation all over the place which is worse than running it with crap quality fans. As Alton Brown has said, fridges are designed to keep cold things cold, not make hot things cold. Yes people have tried it, because every single person who builds their own systems has had this idea. Companies have tried and failed to meet this consumer demand with bloated $700 monstrosities that perform......worse than crap quality fans.
I agree with the overall sentiment, but the problem is that IoT is a category which encompasses essentially everything that has electrical power. My bathroom scale is online, and that's been quite handy. So boom, I'm technically participating in this stuff, even though I wholeheartedly agree that Alexa controlled lightbulbs are an insult to everyone who isn't disabled. I get customers who feel similarly about smartphones. They say they aren't useful. An I'm like, any one or ten apps might indeed be useless, but you're saying the whole device category has nothing to offer to you? Having a gps, flashlight, alarm clock, diet tracker, todo list, calendar, web browser, camera, weather forecast device, pedometer, level, a thousand books, fingerprint payment system, calculator, and photo album in your pocket isn't useful to you? Really? Just my opinion, but I think some point at a bunch of useless features and miss the useful ones. Having your phone alert you to a flooded basment is still just as iot as an iphone ceiling fan.
There have been times recently when it is rather difficult to find a good tv from a mainstream manufacturer that didn't spy on you and make you pay for the privilege.
This kind of thing is pretty much why my next phone will be an iphone (if it will fit in a proper case). Love my Note 4 to death, love Nova Launcher, but I'm flat out done with verizdroid. Since I have to pick my poison, I'll choose to be ripped off on the hardware but otherwise treated like an actual customer.
For a lot of companies that might work as a line of reasoning. But Google's bread and butter is data analysis of behaviors. Their ability to find this data is more powerful than anyone else's and they already have it and use it to make money. So, yes, it is literally their job.
Identifying gender pay disparity is the kind of project they used to knock off in an afternoon, release to the public, then abandon after three years because "only" a few million people used it.
Intel and I think HP did this too, and yes, it's a despicable way to force people to "quit" and deny them benefits. What isn't talked about as much is how much havoc it creates in the communities surrounding the offices. Employees desperate to keep benefits influx en masse, and a barn in a field becomes a $200,000 "home".
With an infinitely fast computer I could code an apple pie from scratch.
Virtually no NES emulator ever got the "bleep" menu noise in Final Fantasy right. That was literally my yardstick for choosing NES emulators. 90% of them sounded like a robot trying to fart quietly.
Run a fakespot.com check on any of Amazon's piece of shit "sponsored" products and you'll find every single one engages in deceitful review manipulation. I guarantee it. With uh...internet points.
I use pihole on my nas, opendns, and ublock origin, and fakespot is still my most useful tool when shopping.
I use Firefox as my main browser, and I understand the problems some people have with it. Thing is, I tend to see Firefox's flaws as emerging from using it with lots of addons as intended. Adblock + noscript + various EFF tools are bound to bork it from time to time. I'm kind of impressed it's as stable as it is. Not to mention I'm the kind of crazy person who has 300 tabs open right now.
I used to use Opera as my secondary, back before they dropped Presto and abandoned their very functional email/rss components. Now it's Chrome with adblock.
It might be ironic that my favorite mobile browser was Safari with adblock. Never had a single problem with it. Plus Apple for all their faults has been willing to tell bloatware peddlers to go hang themselves.
You are correct, I hadn't heard. I have heard a great deal of hand wringing about...well, every single food product giving me cancer. Everything from mcnuggets to organic potatoes grown in my own backyard. With the aforementioned chips, it'd be acrylamides that'd definitely maybe kill me. So, you know, whatever.
Vaping juice contains mostly the same components as your average medical inhaler cartridge plus some food grade flavorings. There's health concerns if you're dealing with one of the cloud chaser types, but for the most part it's healthier than your average handful of potato chips.
I can't really figure out the value miles cards. They obfuscate the value of the miles to the extent I assume they're nearly worthless. On the other hand there's numerous easy to understand cash back cards:
Amazon has two store cards that are 5% back on everything. (if you have prime, otherwise it's 3%)
Several 6% back on gas cards exist if you join an easy to enter credit union.
Fidelity and I think a few others have a card that's 2% back on everything everywhere into an investment account.
Amex has a 6% on all groceries card for $75 a year.
Near as I can tell miles cards don't even compete well with cash back cards on travel! There's TONS of cards that give big percentages back on travel expenses.
Buying a higher end printer can cut the cost per page quite a lot. And if you're paying 20 bucks for 400 page of ink, you really ought to think about it unless you go through less than a ream of paper a year. HP 940XP ink tanks give about 2200 pages for about 31 bucks after the rewards program my chain store offers. Before that there were the 88XLs which were pretty similar. Sure, the print heads don't last forever, but laser printers have drums, so I see little difference there. Kodak and Lexmark both have printers in the store where I work which also have a fairly low cost per page. Customers ask me what the benefits are between an inkjet and laser, and it's coming to the point where I can only suggest laser printers to people who need a heavy duty cycle out of the machine (more than 10k pages per month), or absolutely positively need the stuff they are printing to not have water soluble ink on it. Then again, maybe my store just offers crappy laser printers.
As for refills, the chain I work for is happy to sell those. They mark it up nearly as much and don't pay rewards on them, and there's a niche market for nitrile gloves as an add-onn there too, so the profit is actually better.
I feel certain the good folks at bigherbalschlongx1231xx.ru will be devastated by this harsh form of censure.
Respectfully, I don't think Lynch did such a terrible job. Especially given it was THAT Lynch. Adaptation is being asked to do neurosurgery with a chainsaw. I have never, ever seen it go bloodlessly, though I'd certainly welcome any exceptions you'd care to list.
Take "Sphere" for example. I liked the book, well enough anyway, and I'd say the film was perhaps the most faithful adaptation I've ever seen, with fairly decent actors to boot. Yet there's virtually no one who'd try to defend that steaming heap of a film. Yet I can't say I thought anyone involved with it did anything obviously wrong. Chainsaws and gray matter, make no mistake.
For those of you who hate what's been done to the books in the film, I'd suggest you dig up a copy of Frank Herbert's short story collection "Eye" and read his foreword. His situation and comments on the film version of "Dune" (By David Lynch no less), should be read by anyone who's seen a favored author's work get stuffed into cinematic form.
Most amusing difference between book and movie versions of dune:
Book: Maudib is the name of a mouse he saw get devoured by a hawk it never saw coming.
Movie: Maudib is some poetic nonsense about the shadows and the moonlight.
The author seems incredulous that the aliens would bother giving away knowledge for free. That comment reminded me of something Iain Banks wrote in one of his short stories: "Money is a sign of poverty."
This was a proverb of the nearly omnipotent Culture, meaning that any society that needs to measure wealth is so destitute that it deserves compassion and pity.
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