Is it a minor hassle to update the card number on file with various merchants I do business with? Certainly....
I don't consider it a minor hassle to change the card number for all my auto-billing, but ok, I get what you're saying. Personally, I like using Paypal for online purchases because that way you only have one point of possible failure. Leaving your card numbers, along with your billing info, on dozens of servers is just asking for trouble, IMO. I have friends and relatives who are afraid to use their credit cards online, and I always tell them to use PayPal for everything, for the reasons I mentioned. I've been using it since 2003, and haven't had any problems with them. I do know people who are simply afraid to do some things online. But when I start explaining about AdBlock and Ghostery, VPNs, and password managers, (and not using your real name online!), you can see their eyes glaze over. It used to be that, if you had a computer, you were interested in computers and how they worked. Nowadays, everyone has one and it's just another appliance. People just want it to "work". You'll never be able to teach them good security practices.
I don't know who would attack a Google car, thinking it belonged to the police, but spying typically goes on under cover. For one thing, they wouldn't want people to figure out ways of avoiding their surveillance. It helps if you don't even know you're being surveilled. I also wonder what else they've got in the van. A Stingray? Antennas for capturing WiFi traffic? Thermal imaging? The Drug War and/or "the Terrorists" justify anything.
I live in the city and got tired of the ad barrage about government overreach. What Prop 1 would have done is not have regulations that apply to taxi drivers apply to them [...]
This is what torques me off about Uber/Lyft.
It's not ride-sharing. It's a taxi service.
Absolutely true. Thing is, though, taxis are over-regulated in almost every city. Requirements like chauffeur's licenses, (how is driving with a paying passenger different from driving with any passenger?), hugely expensive badges and medallions, and so on, promote the kind of near-monopolies we see in some cities. I'm glad someone found a way around that, brought in some competition, and lowered the bar for people to get in there and make some money. Why the hell shouldn't you be able to give people rides in your car and charge them for it? Now they want to fingerprint every driver because, what, one driver turned out to be a homicidal lunatic? Truck drivers go through all kinds of background checks, are heavily regulated, and in most cases, every move they make in that truck is recorded and uploaded via satellite. Yet there are truck drivers who turned out to be serial killers. You can't prevent every crime before it happens. I sympathize with taxi drivers, but what needs to change is the way taxis are over-regulated. It's just a ride in a car, for Pete's sake.
BTW, I also sympathize with you about the ads. I hate advertising so much I only listen to NPR on the radio, and don't watch TV at all. Political ads seem particularly annoying.
I subscribe to HBO. I own a TiVo. But HBO forces TiVo to prevent copying of HBO content off the TiVo and onto, say, a mobile device (note that this is not a problem with most TiVo content). Thus, if I want to watch an HBO show on the subway, I have no choice but to download it illegally.
"...pirates...can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO."
I've been dying to give HBO my money. I have no desire to watch shows on anything but my TV but, while the price is right, torrenting is a bit of a hassle. They, (or someone), promised to have an HBO Now app for PS4 by April of 2016. April has come and gone, with no word on it. I'm not going to buy another TV box, like Apple TV, just to use it for HBO Now, (and I'm sure as hell not going to get cable TV just to use HBO Go). The PS4 already does all of that, plus lets me play GTA. One box to rule them all, I say.
Look, it's not a big hassle to torrent G of T, but I'd rather not have to do that for topical shows, such as John Oliver's.
No, it's not theft, it's copyright violation. There's no good reason to confuse the two concepts.
I don't know if there's a good reason, but there's a useful reason. It allows people like the RIAA and MPAA to justify things like suing their customers, or installing ransomware on their computers.
You know, I just thought of a fun thing for developers to do. If someone inputs a known bogus serial to unlock your software - bam! - you install some ransomware! They've just authenticated for you when they installed, right? (unless they have the sense to install apps in their Home directory). Now you hold their data ransom for $15, or whatever, and fill their monitor with scary 8-bit graphics until they pay up. Hilarious, am I right?
It should be obvious that one can be ethnically Jewish, and not religiously Jewish. The whole matrilineal descent thing is not so much religious as cultural, i.e., there is no scriptural basis for that custom. This notion first shows up in the Mishnah. Prior to the Hellenistic period, patrilineal descent was the norm. You can renounce Judaism, but if your parents are Jewish, you are still Jewish. If your mother is Jewish, and your father is a goy, most Jews will consider you Jewish, but you can say you're half-Jewish if you like. So, just like one can renounce Catholicism, but not Irishness, one can renounce Judaism, but not Jewishness.
I think most of it comes from the fact that everybody eats -- and while almost any other subject will only address a fraction of people, foods and drinks are obviously part of everybody's life. So, there's talk about food every day in the newspaper, on the news cable channels...and now on Slashdot.
Trust me, people weren't always so obsessed with food as medicine as they are today. Another thing I can tell you as an older person: These "studies" that refute previous common wisdom come and go with some regularity. First we hear that "food X" is bad for you. Later, that "food X" is good for you. Live long enough, and you'll see it go back and forth a few times. Just eat food, people. You'll be fine. Whether it's drugs, alcohol, soda pop, or whatever - moderation is the key.
Hint: A movement who's leading spokes-person is a vacuous Playboy Centerfold with no scientific knowledge should be a leading indicator that something is amiss. Huh. People will figure that out.
How's that working out so far? I think you have seriously underestimated how truly fucking stupid people are.
I don't see the problem with showing the film in the first place. It would only bring attention to it so pointing to the fraud could be easily countered and illustrated when people start to fall for it.
Or is there a problem pointing to where it is wrong and illustrating that?
Yeah, I'm a little leery of censorship. I know how gullible people can sometimes be, yet ideas should be able to live or die on their own. I'm not sure how I feel about this. It seems a bit paternalistic, an implicit assumption that people won't be able to think for themselves. It certainly bothers me when people with unpopular ideas are prevented from speaking on college campuses. I'm not sure this is any different.
I could go on....but basically, reading the Bible in its original language completely destroys the founding doctrines of Fundamentalist Christianity. Or rather, it makes it clear that none of those doctrines are Biblical.
Please. We're talking about religion here, where anything goes. Literally, anything. It's a topic on which people are willing to be completely credulous about imaginary stuff. You can't talk about translations or accretions to people who believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, nor do they care where their doctrine came from, nor how contradictory their theology is. Logic has no place here.
You know, I guess it depends on where you live. My experience, having grown up in Chicago, and living in cities like San Francisco, was like yours. Then, I moved to a small town in North Carolina, where my house was broken into. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see the cops dusting for fingerprints! Nothing really expensive had been stolen, as I hadn't finished moving in yet. And, then they caught the dude! I never get tired of telling this story to my city-slicker friends.
What about gamers who need real video cards and a real gaming OS? Because Apple certainly has nothing to be smug about on that front.
Apples and oranges. If you want a gaming rig - buy a PC, (or a console). For almost everything else - buy a Mac. You don't expect a PC to be able to do everything, so why expect a Mac to? It's not about the hardware anyway, it's about the platform that games are designed to run on, (market-share, and all that). Mac has been Intel for a while now, so you can put any graphics card, or any other component, in there that you like. They're all the same architecture.
A solution would be a separate Internet on which commercial enterprises of any kind are strictly prohibited. Obviously, this is not going to happen at the physical layer or transport layer, but it would at least be possible to write a P2P network on top of IP that has a strong legal protection against company (ab-)use.
The easiest way to get rid of commercial outfits is to choke them to death with ad-blockers. It's beginning to work, already!
Unless you can steal the key or stay on top of the owner, the car won't re-start after you turn it off.
As long as you can get it to the chop shop, that's not a problem. Even if they weren't using the car merely for parts, I imagine this system could be replaced.
The keys and car respond as if the victim is standing next to their car.
Doesn't the owner have to press a button, though? It'd be kinda nuts if your car unlocked and/or started everytime you walked near it, (or a window facing your driveway). Sorry, I couldn't RTFA due to some kind of pop-up, but I don't get exactly how this works.
You know, I'm still trying to figure out exactly why you might want something to sit on the bottom of the ocean for months, then suddenly pop up and fly around. Is it doing something down there? Why not just start with the flying bit? I mean, it has to be brought there anyway. What am I missing?
They had 30 MB HDs in the seventies? Tell you what though, in the late eighties, I looked into getting a Mac, a scanner, and a laser printer. The whole rig came to around ten grand. I had to wait until the late nineties.
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Don't fly.
I agree. I avoid it whenever possible. I think I've flown twice since 9/11. I used to love flying.
Homeland Security Cuts Causing Extreme Delays and Missed Flights
No, security theater and the trumped-up terrorism panic are causing extreme delays and missed flights.
...it's a remote controlled origami in ice...
You will come to regret those words...after the singularity.
Is it a minor hassle to update the card number on file with various merchants I do business with? Certainly....
I don't consider it a minor hassle to change the card number for all my auto-billing, but ok, I get what you're saying. Personally, I like using Paypal for online purchases because that way you only have one point of possible failure. Leaving your card numbers, along with your billing info, on dozens of servers is just asking for trouble, IMO. I have friends and relatives who are afraid to use their credit cards online, and I always tell them to use PayPal for everything, for the reasons I mentioned. I've been using it since 2003, and haven't had any problems with them.
I do know people who are simply afraid to do some things online. But when I start explaining about AdBlock and Ghostery, VPNs, and password managers, (and not using your real name online!), you can see their eyes glaze over. It used to be that, if you had a computer, you were interested in computers and how they worked. Nowadays, everyone has one and it's just another appliance. People just want it to "work". You'll never be able to teach them good security practices.
I don't know who would attack a Google car, thinking it belonged to the police, but spying typically goes on under cover. For one thing, they wouldn't want people to figure out ways of avoiding their surveillance. It helps if you don't even know you're being surveilled. I also wonder what else they've got in the van. A Stingray? Antennas for capturing WiFi traffic? Thermal imaging? The Drug War and/or "the Terrorists" justify anything.
I live in the city and got tired of the ad barrage about government overreach. What Prop 1 would have done is not have regulations that apply to taxi drivers apply to them [...]
This is what torques me off about Uber/Lyft.
It's not ride-sharing. It's a taxi service.
Absolutely true. Thing is, though, taxis are over-regulated in almost every city. Requirements like chauffeur's licenses, (how is driving with a paying passenger different from driving with any passenger?), hugely expensive badges and medallions, and so on, promote the kind of near-monopolies we see in some cities. I'm glad someone found a way around that, brought in some competition, and lowered the bar for people to get in there and make some money. Why the hell shouldn't you be able to give people rides in your car and charge them for it?
Now they want to fingerprint every driver because, what, one driver turned out to be a homicidal lunatic? Truck drivers go through all kinds of background checks, are heavily regulated, and in most cases, every move they make in that truck is recorded and uploaded via satellite. Yet there are truck drivers who turned out to be serial killers. You can't prevent every crime before it happens.
I sympathize with taxi drivers, but what needs to change is the way taxis are over-regulated. It's just a ride in a car, for Pete's sake.
BTW, I also sympathize with you about the ads. I hate advertising so much I only listen to NPR on the radio, and don't watch TV at all. Political ads seem particularly annoying.
I subscribe to HBO. I own a TiVo. But HBO forces TiVo to prevent copying of HBO content off the TiVo and onto, say, a mobile device (note that this is not a problem with most TiVo content). Thus, if I want to watch an HBO show on the subway, I have no choice but to download it illegally.
"...pirates...can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO."
I've been dying to give HBO my money. I have no desire to watch shows on anything but my TV but, while the price is right, torrenting is a bit of a hassle. They, (or someone), promised to have an HBO Now app for PS4 by April of 2016. April has come and gone, with no word on it. I'm not going to buy another TV box, like Apple TV, just to use it for HBO Now, (and I'm sure as hell not going to get cable TV just to use HBO Go). The PS4 already does all of that, plus lets me play GTA. One box to rule them all, I say.
Look, it's not a big hassle to torrent G of T, but I'd rather not have to do that for topical shows, such as John Oliver's.
But this makes him merely a pseudonymous coward.
I agree, it hardly makes a difference. See my sig.
Someone should tell the US military.
No, it's not theft, it's copyright violation. There's no good reason to confuse the two concepts.
I don't know if there's a good reason, but there's a useful reason. It allows people like the RIAA and MPAA to justify things like suing their customers, or installing ransomware on their computers.
You know, I just thought of a fun thing for developers to do. If someone inputs a known bogus serial to unlock your software - bam! - you install some ransomware! They've just authenticated for you when they installed, right? (unless they have the sense to install apps in their Home directory). Now you hold their data ransom for $15, or whatever, and fill their monitor with scary 8-bit graphics until they pay up. Hilarious, am I right?
It should be obvious that one can be ethnically Jewish, and not religiously Jewish. The whole matrilineal descent thing is not so much religious as cultural, i.e., there is no scriptural basis for that custom. This notion first shows up in the Mishnah. Prior to the Hellenistic period, patrilineal descent was the norm. You can renounce Judaism, but if your parents are Jewish, you are still Jewish. If your mother is Jewish, and your father is a goy, most Jews will consider you Jewish, but you can say you're half-Jewish if you like. So, just like one can renounce Catholicism, but not Irishness, one can renounce Judaism, but not Jewishness.
I think most of it comes from the fact that everybody eats -- and while almost any other subject will only address a fraction of people, foods and drinks are obviously part of everybody's life. So, there's talk about food every day in the newspaper, on the news cable channels...and now on Slashdot.
Trust me, people weren't always so obsessed with food as medicine as they are today. Another thing I can tell you as an older person: These "studies" that refute previous common wisdom come and go with some regularity. First we hear that "food X" is bad for you. Later, that "food X" is good for you. Live long enough, and you'll see it go back and forth a few times. Just eat food, people. You'll be fine. Whether it's drugs, alcohol, soda pop, or whatever - moderation is the key.
Hint: A movement who's leading spokes-person is a vacuous Playboy Centerfold with no scientific knowledge should be a leading indicator that something is amiss. Huh. People will figure that out.
How's that working out so far? I think you have seriously underestimated how truly fucking stupid people are.
Ha! Wait till he finds out about religion!
I don't see the problem with showing the film in the first place. It would only bring attention to it so pointing to the fraud could be easily countered and illustrated when people start to fall for it.
Or is there a problem pointing to where it is wrong and illustrating that?
Yeah, I'm a little leery of censorship. I know how gullible people can sometimes be, yet ideas should be able to live or die on their own. I'm not sure how I feel about this. It seems a bit paternalistic, an implicit assumption that people won't be able to think for themselves. It certainly bothers me when people with unpopular ideas are prevented from speaking on college campuses. I'm not sure this is any different.
I could go on....but basically, reading the Bible in its original language completely destroys the founding doctrines of Fundamentalist Christianity. Or rather, it makes it clear that none of those doctrines are Biblical.
Please. We're talking about religion here, where anything goes. Literally, anything. It's a topic on which people are willing to be completely credulous about imaginary stuff. You can't talk about translations or accretions to people who believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, nor do they care where their doctrine came from, nor how contradictory their theology is. Logic has no place here.
I had to learn that the hard way. But at least I got laid along the way.
You know, I guess it depends on where you live. My experience, having grown up in Chicago, and living in cities like San Francisco, was like yours. Then, I moved to a small town in North Carolina, where my house was broken into. I was absolutely flabbergasted to see the cops dusting for fingerprints! Nothing really expensive had been stolen, as I hadn't finished moving in yet. And, then they caught the dude! I never get tired of telling this story to my city-slicker friends.
But ok, this is the exception.
What about gamers who need real video cards and a real gaming OS? Because Apple certainly has nothing to be smug about on that front.
Apples and oranges. If you want a gaming rig - buy a PC, (or a console). For almost everything else - buy a Mac. You don't expect a PC to be able to do everything, so why expect a Mac to? It's not about the hardware anyway, it's about the platform that games are designed to run on, (market-share, and all that). Mac has been Intel for a while now, so you can put any graphics card, or any other component, in there that you like. They're all the same architecture.
My father has a Quadra 610, one of the last true Macs with a Motorola 68k processor.
Hope he's running System 7! It all began to go downhill with OS 8...
A solution would be a separate Internet on which commercial enterprises of any kind are strictly prohibited. Obviously, this is not going to happen at the physical layer or transport layer, but it would at least be possible to write a P2P network on top of IP that has a strong legal protection against company (ab-)use.
The easiest way to get rid of commercial outfits is to choke them to death with ad-blockers. It's beginning to work, already!
They stopped making these a long, long time ago
Interesting. The disappearance of Pudding Pops coincides with the disappearance of Quaaludes. Coincidence?
Unless you can steal the key or stay on top of the owner, the car won't re-start after you turn it off.
As long as you can get it to the chop shop, that's not a problem. Even if they weren't using the car merely for parts, I imagine this system could be replaced.
The keys and car respond as if the victim is standing next to their car.
Doesn't the owner have to press a button, though? It'd be kinda nuts if your car unlocked and/or started everytime you walked near it, (or a window facing your driveway). Sorry, I couldn't RTFA due to some kind of pop-up, but I don't get exactly how this works.
You know, I'm still trying to figure out exactly why you might want something to sit on the bottom of the ocean for months, then suddenly pop up and fly around. Is it doing something down there? Why not just start with the flying bit? I mean, it has to be brought there anyway. What am I missing?
They had 30 MB HDs in the seventies? Tell you what though, in the late eighties, I looked into getting a Mac, a scanner, and a laser printer. The whole rig came to around ten grand. I had to wait until the late nineties.
Haha! That crazy Bernie Sanders. He thinks that, just because the first world countries can do all that, we can do it in the US. What a nut!