Look, I don't need these excuses about "malware", although that, and the whole spying game, have certainly given ammunition to the users. I've hated ads since before the internet existed, and the internet once existed without ads. People have no intrinsic right to make money on the internet. The commercialization of the internet has done nothing except crowd out the people, and turned it over to corporations. Let's keep the internet free, and ad-free.
That's what I've been wondering - what's stopping them from pulling the hard drive (or whatever) and copying it? I think the FBI is just being lazy. Then there's the question of what they think they even need from the phone. After all, it's a network device, and most of what it does happens across the network. They have all that data already - phones calls, web activity, GPS, etc. Greedy and lazy.
Yeah, I've learned some things recently about Australia that kinda blew my mind. I had no idea it was such a conservative country. I certainly never got that impression from the Australians I've met.
Out of the folks on the right, he was (still is) the most sane one on offer.
Which is why his campaign is failing. The Right loves Trump because he eschews the dog whistle Republicans have using to lure the racist, the lunatic, and the paranoid into their party, the party of the rich. Instead, he's saying it out loud. The Republicans have long been throwing sops to these people, as they worked on their true agenda, but these people are not sitting quietly anymore. We, on the left, ought to take a cue from them.
Incidentally, I love how all these bills are given doublespeak titles: "Restoring Internet Freedom Act", "Right to Work", "Defense of Marriage", etc. It would be hilarious in a novel.
Unless you plan on packin' up and headin' up the mountain to enjoy life as a hand to mouth subsistence farmer, you should be backing their positions. You probably take your paycheck for granted, or consider it your god-given right, but every bit of that money comes from a corporation and anything you or anyone else does that hurts the corporation will also hurt you in the end. I get sick of all the people that fail to understand this because they're blinded by the smokescreen the liberals put out painting corporations as monsters. They're simply a vehicle to get money into your wallet. Treat them well and they'll return the favor.
Are you insane or trolling?
What's even weirder is he's suggesting Ayn Rand's right-wing fantasy to "the liberals". We have no such illusions about how the economy works, right-wing troll. We know that capitalists need workers more than workers need capitalists. After all, someone has to actually do the work.
My first thought was, "Hey, maybe here's a way to support web sites without looking at ads!" Whip up a plug-in that blocks ads on the page, but sends some clicks up the pipe at the same time. Voila! Everyone is happy, and the current internet model is saved!
You can barely consider the other two to be "options". AT&T's advertised top DSL speed is 6 Mbps, (0.75 megabytes per second), and satellite is expensive and comes with a ton of latency - impossible for gaming. You, like most people, really only have one option for high speed, (by American standards), internet in your area. Be glad your single choice is (so far) a good one.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't trust any ISP. Using an encrypted VPN is simply the smart thing to do, for so many reasons.
But the whole point of the 'security questions', is that you've lost your password. If you're using a password manager to store your passwords already, then there's no point using it to store your answers, because then you'd have your actual password, and wouldn't need the 'security questions'.
Right. All this extra "security" bullshit we have to put up with is because of the idiots who don't use password managers, (and password generators). It's the dumbing-down of security. I don't see how these people will ever learn if they're always having their hands held. Let them lose control of a few accounts. Then, maybe, they'll get with the program.
I haven't RTFA yet, but If the analysis is solely based on network delays, then a VPN company could simply introduce randomized delays to all it's users, even the local ones. Then an analysing service wouldn't be able to definitively say whether any given user is geo-spoofing or not. The best they could say is that the connecting service is likely a VPN.
From TFP: "To achieve high accuracy, CPV mitigates Internet path asymmetry using a novel method to deduce one-way application-layer delays to/from the client’s participating device, and mines these delays for evidence supporting/refuting the asserted location."
But, simply saying that the connection is through a VPN could be enough for some to refuse the connection. For instance, if content providers really got on Netflix and Hulu's ass about it, they might opt for this simpler solution of blocking VPNs. I'm kinda surprised they aren't already doing this.
A counter-revolution, to be more precise. Preferably, one that outlaws Islam - in the same way Communism was outlawed in Russia after 1991.
Score:4, Interesting? It is certainly an interesting idea.
There's a big difference between an unpopular political party, and a religion. Don't forget, the Soviets, (and the Chinese), tried to ban religion. They were not successful. Trying to outlaw Islam in Iran would be much the same as trying to outlaw Christianity in the US. You'd have a much easier time outlawing the Republican and Democratic Parties, (a worthy goal). I don't know if you've noticed, but religions tend to outlast political institutions. What the people of Iran wanted, and tried to accomplish, was a more secular government. That is, a greater separation of mosque and state, and a government more responsive to the people. I'm no fan of religion, but your suggestion, (and comparison), is absurd.
No one is perfect. I find Single Jewish Women incredibly appealing, and can forgive many of their other faults. Unless you're speaking of Stupid Jingoistic Whites?
Pretty shit logical reasoning given that robots have never been in a position where they are capable of committing a massacre on that scale.
Not surprising when you consider that robots, (of the type people are imagining), only exist in Science Fiction. I think some people get a little too caught up in the movies they watch.
Humans killed 400+ civilians at My Lai, and 200+ civilians at No Gun Ri. Both massacres were the result of rage and fear. Robots don't feel those emotions, and have committed no massacres on that scale. I trust robots more than I trust humans.
A lot of people put their trust in nonexistent beings.
As for me, I want a bunch of those Sentry Guns on my lawn.
The RIAA performs a very important function - setting the equalization curve for phonograph records. Of course, now that that's done, I suppose they're no longer needed.
It sounds like "shayz". You've simply never heard it pronounced correctly, or didn't recognize it when you did. The "z" sound was dropped because it sounded like a plural form to English speakers. Or, as the OED puts it:
chaise, n.
(ez)
Also 8 chaiz, (shazess).
[a. mod.F. chaise (chaize Cotgr.), a phonetic alteration of chaire (so Pazis for Paris, etc.), established in the ordinary sense ‘chair’, whence by extension ‘sedan-chair’, and by transference a wheeled vehicle for travelling in. In this later sense alone chaise passed into English, notwithstanding that chair had itself here received the same development (see chair n.1 11, which however was not always an exact synonym of this word, but often used as the name of a particular sort of chaise). (Cathedra, chair, chaise, are thus all forms of the same word.) The vulgar take (ez) for a plural n., and form on it a singular (e) chay, shay. (The change of lingual r to z in French is a phenomenon widely exemplified. It appears fully established at Orleans in 15th c., but did not come down beyond 1620.)]
That's "chaise longue". French for "long chair". Chaise lounge is an English language folk etymology. You should at least know what you're talking about before you go correcting anybody.
Yep. My Bondi Blue Agfa scanner from the late 90s still works fine. Unfortunately, I can only use it with my laptop running an older OS, (10.6), and a third-party driver. When that much newer laptop dies, (CD/DVD drive already non-functional), I'll have no choice but to toss both. Obviously, they didn't intend for anyone to continue using it this long.
Only way to avoid getting positioned is to remove the battery. Don't trust flight mode or sim removal, especially not sim removal.
Actually, if you're out committing a crime, you should leave your phone on - at home. That way, you have plausible deniability. Even better if you can have a confederate send a couple of texts from your phone during that time. It's practically an alibi.
I don't know if you've been in a coma, but that all changed in the early 1960s, when northern Democrats dragged the Dixiecrats along with them to pass the Civil Rights Act. Naturally, the racists felt betrayed, and so the Party of Lincoln stepped into the vacuum. The Republicans have been the party for racists ever since. Not that the Democrats are much better, but they do make a show of supporting unions and will support civil rights, once a critical mass has been reached. The Republicans always continue dragging their feet on that issue. Things change. Liberals used to support gun rights, (I wish they still did - they certainly should, as liberals), while the first gun control laws came from the Right.
25Mbps doesn't cut it in a household with everyone using the Internet.
That's what I have, and I agree. If two of us are gaming at the same time, or one is trying to watch Netflix while the other is gaming, it's not cutting it. God help us if we ever rent out the third bedroom! I guess you can't blame the ISPs. After all, what's the point of having a local monopoly if you can't give lousy service at high prices? I'd be pissed, too. Google, I know you're reading this. Please come to my town and break their monopoly. Then you can look at all my data as it goes whizzing by! Amen.
More often, they're unironically denying to others what they already have. Such as taxpayer supported cadillac-level healthcare insurance. I'm sure these same six senators have gigabit broadband, and I bet it was a "gift", too. It's the rest of us who don't need it.
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Look, I don't need these excuses about "malware", although that, and the whole spying game, have certainly given ammunition to the users. I've hated ads since before the internet existed, and the internet once existed without ads. People have no intrinsic right to make money on the internet. The commercialization of the internet has done nothing except crowd out the people, and turned it over to corporations. Let's keep the internet free, and ad-free.
"Toiletteroom offends our sensibilities, even though "toilette" was itself once a euphemism.
I'm with you, man. I'll be in the back seat reading a book, or dozing off. Wake me up when we get there, car!
That's what I've been wondering - what's stopping them from pulling the hard drive (or whatever) and copying it? I think the FBI is just being lazy. Then there's the question of what they think they even need from the phone. After all, it's a network device, and most of what it does happens across the network. They have all that data already - phones calls, web activity, GPS, etc. Greedy and lazy.
Yeah, I've learned some things recently about Australia that kinda blew my mind. I had no idea it was such a conservative country. I certainly never got that impression from the Australians I've met.
Out of the folks on the right, he was (still is) the most sane one on offer.
Which is why his campaign is failing. The Right loves Trump because he eschews the dog whistle Republicans have using to lure the racist, the lunatic, and the paranoid into their party, the party of the rich. Instead, he's saying it out loud. The Republicans have long been throwing sops to these people, as they worked on their true agenda, but these people are not sitting quietly anymore. We, on the left, ought to take a cue from them.
Incidentally, I love how all these bills are given doublespeak titles: "Restoring Internet Freedom Act", "Right to Work", "Defense of Marriage", etc. It would be hilarious in a novel.
Unless you plan on packin' up and headin' up the mountain to enjoy life as a hand to mouth subsistence farmer, you should be backing their positions. You probably take your paycheck for granted, or consider it your god-given right, but every bit of that money comes from a corporation and anything you or anyone else does that hurts the corporation will also hurt you in the end. I get sick of all the people that fail to understand this because they're blinded by the smokescreen the liberals put out painting corporations as monsters. They're simply a vehicle to get money into your wallet. Treat them well and they'll return the favor.
Are you insane or trolling?
What's even weirder is he's suggesting Ayn Rand's right-wing fantasy to "the liberals". We have no such illusions about how the economy works, right-wing troll. We know that capitalists need workers more than workers need capitalists. After all, someone has to actually do the work.
My first thought was, "Hey, maybe here's a way to support web sites without looking at ads!" Whip up a plug-in that blocks ads on the page, but sends some clicks up the pipe at the same time. Voila! Everyone is happy, and the current internet model is saved!
You can barely consider the other two to be "options". AT&T's advertised top DSL speed is 6 Mbps, (0.75 megabytes per second), and satellite is expensive and comes with a ton of latency - impossible for gaming. You, like most people, really only have one option for high speed, (by American standards), internet in your area. Be glad your single choice is (so far) a good one.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't trust any ISP. Using an encrypted VPN is simply the smart thing to do, for so many reasons.
But the whole point of the 'security questions', is that you've lost your password. If you're using a password manager to store your passwords already, then there's no point using it to store your answers, because then you'd have your actual password, and wouldn't need the 'security questions'.
Right. All this extra "security" bullshit we have to put up with is because of the idiots who don't use password managers, (and password generators). It's the dumbing-down of security. I don't see how these people will ever learn if they're always having their hands held. Let them lose control of a few accounts. Then, maybe, they'll get with the program.
I haven't RTFA yet, but If the analysis is solely based on network delays, then a VPN company could simply introduce randomized delays to all it's users, even the local ones. Then an analysing service wouldn't be able to definitively say whether any given user is geo-spoofing or not. The best they could say is that the connecting service is likely a VPN.
From TFP: "To achieve high accuracy, CPV mitigates Internet path asymmetry using a novel method to deduce one-way application-layer delays to/from the client’s participating device, and mines these delays for evidence supporting/refuting the asserted location."
But, simply saying that the connection is through a VPN could be enough for some to refuse the connection. For instance, if content providers really got on Netflix and Hulu's ass about it, they might opt for this simpler solution of blocking VPNs. I'm kinda surprised they aren't already doing this.
A counter-revolution, to be more precise. Preferably, one that outlaws Islam - in the same way Communism was outlawed in Russia after 1991.
Score:4, Interesting? It is certainly an interesting idea.
There's a big difference between an unpopular political party, and a religion. Don't forget, the Soviets, (and the Chinese), tried to ban religion. They were not successful. Trying to outlaw Islam in Iran would be much the same as trying to outlaw Christianity in the US. You'd have a much easier time outlawing the Republican and Democratic Parties, (a worthy goal). I don't know if you've noticed, but religions tend to outlast political institutions. What the people of Iran wanted, and tried to accomplish, was a more secular government. That is, a greater separation of mosque and state, and a government more responsive to the people. I'm no fan of religion, but your suggestion, (and comparison), is absurd.
No one is perfect. I find Single Jewish Women incredibly appealing, and can forgive many of their other faults. Unless you're speaking of Stupid Jingoistic Whites?
Pretty shit logical reasoning given that robots have never been in a position where they are capable of committing a massacre on that scale.
Not surprising when you consider that robots, (of the type people are imagining), only exist in Science Fiction. I think some people get a little too caught up in the movies they watch.
Humans killed 400+ civilians at My Lai, and 200+ civilians at No Gun Ri. Both massacres were the result of rage and fear. Robots don't feel those emotions, and have committed no massacres on that scale. I trust robots more than I trust humans.
A lot of people put their trust in nonexistent beings.
As for me, I want a bunch of those Sentry Guns on my lawn.
The RIAA performs a very important function - setting the equalization curve for phonograph records. Of course, now that that's done, I suppose they're no longer needed.
...and Safari. Unfortunately, there are many other plug-ins/extensions which are only available for FireFox.
Falconry is still popular in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East.
It sounds like "shayz". You've simply never heard it pronounced correctly, or didn't recognize it when you did. The "z" sound was dropped because it sounded like a plural form to English speakers. Or, as the OED puts it:
chaise, n.
(ez)
Also 8 chaiz, (shazess).
[a. mod.F. chaise (chaize Cotgr.), a phonetic alteration of chaire (so Pazis for Paris, etc.), established in the ordinary sense ‘chair’, whence by extension ‘sedan-chair’, and by transference a wheeled vehicle for travelling in. In this later sense alone chaise passed into English, notwithstanding that chair had itself here received the same development (see chair n.1 11, which however was not always an exact synonym of this word, but often used as the name of a particular sort of chaise). (Cathedra, chair, chaise, are thus all forms of the same word.) The vulgar take (ez) for a plural n., and form on it a singular (e) chay, shay.
(The change of lingual r to z in French is a phenomenon widely exemplified. It appears fully established at Orleans in 15th c., but did not come down beyond 1620.)]
That's "chaise longue". French for "long chair". Chaise lounge is an English language folk etymology. You should at least know what you're talking about before you go correcting anybody.
Yep. My Bondi Blue Agfa scanner from the late 90s still works fine. Unfortunately, I can only use it with my laptop running an older OS, (10.6), and a third-party driver. When that much newer laptop dies, (CD/DVD drive already non-functional), I'll have no choice but to toss both. Obviously, they didn't intend for anyone to continue using it this long.
Only way to avoid getting positioned is to remove the battery. Don't trust flight mode or sim removal, especially not sim removal.
Actually, if you're out committing a crime, you should leave your phone on - at home. That way, you have plausible deniability. Even better if you can have a confederate send a couple of texts from your phone during that time. It's practically an alibi.
I don't know if you've been in a coma, but that all changed in the early 1960s, when northern Democrats dragged the Dixiecrats along with them to pass the Civil Rights Act. Naturally, the racists felt betrayed, and so the Party of Lincoln stepped into the vacuum. The Republicans have been the party for racists ever since. Not that the Democrats are much better, but they do make a show of supporting unions and will support civil rights, once a critical mass has been reached. The Republicans always continue dragging their feet on that issue.
Things change. Liberals used to support gun rights, (I wish they still did - they certainly should, as liberals), while the first gun control laws came from the Right.
25Mbps doesn't cut it in a household with everyone using the Internet.
That's what I have, and I agree. If two of us are gaming at the same time, or one is trying to watch Netflix while the other is gaming, it's not cutting it. God help us if we ever rent out the third bedroom!
I guess you can't blame the ISPs. After all, what's the point of having a local monopoly if you can't give lousy service at high prices? I'd be pissed, too. Google, I know you're reading this. Please come to my town and break their monopoly. Then you can look at all my data as it goes whizzing by! Amen.
More often, they're unironically denying to others what they already have. Such as taxpayer supported cadillac-level healthcare insurance. I'm sure these same six senators have gigabit broadband, and I bet it was a "gift", too. It's the rest of us who don't need it.