I don't know how strong is your safe or how resistant it might be to thieves or cops. Microsoft data centers are likely to have security guards and require some due process before handing out the key to authorities. Admittedly they are more vulnerable to massive theft of keys from many users at once through software or insider attacks. On the other hand, you are keeping key and lock in the same house.
Regardless, you can switch to Win10 and NOT login with windows account. I think group a) just needs to be aware what implications of being able to reset a forgotten password and keep access to encrypted data are.
1. Encrypt the disk and login with Microsoft account 2. Forget the password, reset it from the web 3. Poof! You data is gone!
Maintaining strong security is not a joke. You have to memorize multiple long passphrases for different domains of protected data and never access stuff on devices that have ever left your custody. Like a laptop that has been left at home for NSA keylogger installation convenience. Be prepared to lose data and toss hardware on regular basis. I don't blame Microsoft for not making that the default setting, there is just no way to explain this to users who don't have specialized training.
No language choices, no reliable offline support (which should include installing app from an sd card if needed), no ability to downgrade the app or delay updates until problems are fixed. Plus massive performance, memory and functionality hit due to inflexibility and targeting lowest common denominator.
From what I understand, Mark Zuckerberg does intend to donate most of his personal money. As far as Facebook's money and labor of its employees, there obviously has to be something for the company to make a massive investment worthwhile. This does not make access to Wikipedia any less valuable to someone who would otherwise remain uneducated and access to Facebook itself is a benefit to someone who would otherwise not get to see family photos. Local competition will have much more luck once some folks teach themselves how to code and population is educated about benefits of Internet access in general.
There is no doubt that informational and education resources included with free basics are beneficial and even health/life saving to someone unable to afford a pay service. Net neutrality/anticompetitive concerns are also valid, but they are a 1st world problem. We have to solve them in due time, but not the expense of folks getting connected to their families and the world by someone who is willing to pay for it now.
Ad supported Internet has its own share of problems, including journalistic integrity. But no sane person would give up access to all the services until something perfect is created. We shouldn't be hypocrites and demand that of people in other parts of the world.
How about government of India and its world record number of billionaires provide fully open Internet access? Or are critics back at home willing to donate $19.99 per month for connecting the world? If not, they should let whoever is willing do some good.
First digitize using the best solution which is easily available to you now, like a good flat bed scanner, and then look for correcting software later. So long as you have the original JPEGs/PDFs, you can continue enhancing them without putting your documents in danger.
Seems preferable to waiting for perfect hardware/software while your archive deteriorates further.
There is no need for a charger or charging cable to understand external video. In fact, for security and price purposes, it's much better that they don't. Just define pins to supply electricity and let data cables have extra pins that evolve for all those other needs.
Just because a new technology comes along, the older one does not automatically become useless. There are often corner cases which are important for hundreds of thousands of users, or an established user base for which technology works good enough.
What tapes, floppies, Polaroid or Yahoo's curated internet directory could not fulfil is manyfold growth over short term expected by stock market. We live in a crazy world where a company can make a useful product, provide a living for tens of thousands of employees and post consistent year over year growth in profits. Yet, it gets forced into quality-killing cost cutting or unnecessary risks by shareholders who expect it to justify 100x price/earning ratio. Then it really dies because the product is crap, not because it's intrinsically useless.
The latest round of silliness is "PC is dying". Of course it is not. It is just been around for enough time for everyone to have one, and people are just in the market for a replacement every few years, where "few" can be as much as a decade for a desktop with a simple use case like balancing the books. But this is too boring for investors, so I am sure I will be forced into doing taxes on my watch when my laptop dies.
Do recipients of basic income spontaneously go to fix roads and build affordable housing? If not, you are fixing only a symptom of unbalanced labor market and not the problem itself. By putting people to work in public sector, you remove them from competition for private jobs and make it easier for remaining competitors to get good employment terms. Plus, fixing public infrastructure makes private sector stronger, able to support more jobs and offer goods for a smaller portion of average salary.
US is not stopping all/most Muslims from flying or visiting Disneyland, so there must have been something alarming about this particular family. Without knowing what is was, we can't say if the authorities made the right call. The only thing for sure is that airlines/hotels/amusement parks should be required to issue refund in such circumstances. And passengers involved should be given a chance to clear their name with an interview.
What kind of skill set is needed for toxic waste cleanup? Building and maintaining roads/affordable housing/solar farms/wind farms/bullet trains/spaceports? Growing healthy food with minimum pollution? Keeping every neighborhood in America safe?
All off those things are badly needed and have some jobs accessible to someone who would otherwise flip burgers. They also quickly benefit private sector far in excess of any taxes collected to pay salaries. If a neighborhood is safe, you can open a Safeway there because everybody eats. If people are not saddled with mortgage, they can buy your gadgets.
Again, it depends on supply and demand of labor. As long as there is healthy market for my skills, I get a nice paid vacation thanks to unemployment insurance and then another job which quite likely suits my needs better. In the meantime, if the employer is substandard compared to the market, everyone good will quit, taking their knowledge to competitors. And later, nobody with a talent will want to join and pull the weight for remaining underperformers.
And all that is needed to shift the balance is increased competition for labor from public sector (or new private sector players).
Why give basic income away for free when you can spend the same money and get recipients to do some useful work, especially work of a kind that improves private sector employee purchasing power and reduces need for government assistance in future? If you are saying that some people are not willing or able to do any useful work whatsoever and still should not starve, or that students who are making good progress should get a stipend, I agree. But addressing these corner cases is a lot easier and more affordable once everyone else is at work, making productive contributions to society in either private or public sector.
Why would not feeding your children be a consideration in a balanced labor market? If I leave a job, I can find another job in reasonable time, so both me and my employer have choices and incentive to treat each other well. Just like most people consider having some kind of cell phone a necessity, but have a choice of Apple, Samsung, LG and many others, so prices and features stay great.
It's said that most people never lived under such sane conditions, all while our public infrastructure is crumbling from disrepair.
We can bargain with megacorps quite effectively so long as supply and demand of labor is balanced. Compare your consumer experience when shopping for personal electronics (lots of competition, abundant supply) vs dealing with Comcast (monopoly). It's exactly the same with jobs - if you have a skill set which is in short supply, you will get great deals without any unions.
So the best solution for oversupply of labor is for government to hire part of the workforce away from private market and put them on projects that reduce fixed costs of living for everyone else and increase disposable impact to purchase privately made goods. That's why New Deal worked well for recovery from Great Depression. If we build good roads, affordable housing, public transportation and affordable domestically produced energy, we provide lots of jobs while freeing up most of people's paycheck to go into private economy rather than mortgage and gas bill.
So politics is a better direction to put your time in money than unions, although I guess the later is a useful stopgap measure and can be an organizing force for politics.
Everybody tried outsourcing and realized that it doesn't work. Creating a great product requires creativity and each contributor capable of saying no to superiors and standing up for their improvements to the solution. This mind set does not yet exist much outside Silicon Valley, let alone USA and huge lifestyle disparity between american bosses and outsourced coders would not allow it to flourish.
By the time developing countries have the kind of talent in greater quality/quantity than US, labor will not be that cheap anymore because employees will know their worth. At that point, I will just move there.
You got to realize that someone knowledgeable in physical locks can bypass them as easy as you can bypass Javascript right click popups. Yet both still reduce undesirable actions, such as your story being reposted in full on someone's blog without giving credit, link to the source or a chance for you to make money on ads.
It makes a difference when you at least communicate your wishes clearly. Not saying that copying is illegal, or implementing this behavior is best policy, just that it at least significantly reduces copying in practice. I see some other sites that automatically append a link to source to the end of copy buffer. That is probably a much wiser policy for retaining existing readers and acquiring new ones.
This estimate assumes that the world remains exactly same as today - no space missions, no solar and wind farms, no electric cars and buses. We already know that we have to do a lot of those things because of global warming, and countless things we don't know about will be invented during the next decade. A lot of them will require plenty of electrical design, construction and service.
Apple is working on a phone 1mm thinner than iPhone 6s, battery still lasts the same time! Some unhappy owners claim it slowly bends under its own weight.
I am pretty happy with Airmail on Mac and Gmail on Android. Clean UI, OS-integrated notifications, fast search, no issues with huge mailboxes.
But if you are looking for Linux/open source, Evolution and Kmail seems to be the only serious alternative to Thunderbird. People are moving away from e-mail to other channels of communication like chat and social, and most are satisfied with webmail for remaining use. So, without commercial incentives, only major desktop environments maintain an e-mail client for completeness sake.
It does not make much sense to compare various foods so long as we overeat like crazy and throw away half of the food we buy. Start by making sure everyone lives within walking distance of a supermarket. Then people don't have to buy gigantic portions on weekly trips and have half of it get spoiled. Said daily walking trips will also help you lose weight, and then you don't need as many calories to sustain the bulk of your body. AND less greenhouse emissions from driving.
A lot of time there are strong business reasons for unpopular decisions and reversing them has consequences. Maybe Philips had to cancel a new feature that was not working well with 3rd party bulbs, or they might release it anyway and have negative publicity from things breaking. Always good when company is responsive to customers, but things are often more complex than when they look to outsiders.
I think people who have specific plans to murder innocent civilians deserve more scrutiny than someone who just wants to score some pot.
As for clickbait, that can be addressed with warnings, as well as behaviour analysis. If you clicked and went on to post advice on making a good pressure cooker bomb, you are not so innocent anymore.
I can get behind this idea if enforcement does not involve wholesale spying on everyone's web traffic or banning https/tor/device encryption. We may not catch everyone this way, but plenty of opportunities to catch dumb would be terrorists would present themselves.
As for freedom of speech, I think we long established restrictions on specific calls to violence. If you are actively participating in forums on how to make a good suicide vest, you went way beyond speech. If you just clicked on someone else's link in slashdot and ended up on an arabic site you don't understand, there should certainly be a presumption of innocence.
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I don't know how strong is your safe or how resistant it might be to thieves or cops. Microsoft data centers are likely to have security guards and require some due process before handing out the key to authorities. Admittedly they are more vulnerable to massive theft of keys from many users at once through software or insider attacks. On the other hand, you are keeping key and lock in the same house.
Regardless, you can switch to Win10 and NOT login with windows account. I think group a) just needs to be aware what implications of being able to reset a forgotten password and keep access to encrypted data are.
Consider the alternative:
1. Encrypt the disk and login with Microsoft account
2. Forget the password, reset it from the web
3. Poof! You data is gone!
Maintaining strong security is not a joke. You have to memorize multiple long passphrases for different domains of protected data and never access stuff on devices that have ever left your custody. Like a laptop that has been left at home for NSA keylogger installation convenience. Be prepared to lose data and toss hardware on regular basis. I don't blame Microsoft for not making that the default setting, there is just no way to explain this to users who don't have specialized training.
No language choices, no reliable offline support (which should include installing app from an sd card if needed), no ability to downgrade the app or delay updates until problems are fixed. Plus massive performance, memory and functionality hit due to inflexibility and targeting lowest common denominator.
Doubt there are any women to meet them though, just Ashley Madison employees (who may or may not be female or human) to lead them on.
From what I understand, Mark Zuckerberg does intend to donate most of his personal money. As far as Facebook's money and labor of its employees, there obviously has to be something for the company to make a massive investment worthwhile. This does not make access to Wikipedia any less valuable to someone who would otherwise remain uneducated and access to Facebook itself is a benefit to someone who would otherwise not get to see family photos. Local competition will have much more luck once some folks teach themselves how to code and population is educated about benefits of Internet access in general.
There is no doubt that informational and education resources included with free basics are beneficial and even health/life saving to someone unable to afford a pay service. Net neutrality/anticompetitive concerns are also valid, but they are a 1st world problem. We have to solve them in due time, but not the expense of folks getting connected to their families and the world by someone who is willing to pay for it now.
Ad supported Internet has its own share of problems, including journalistic integrity. But no sane person would give up access to all the services until something perfect is created. We shouldn't be hypocrites and demand that of people in other parts of the world.
How about government of India and its world record number of billionaires provide fully open Internet access? Or are critics back at home willing to donate $19.99 per month for connecting the world? If not, they should let whoever is willing do some good.
First digitize using the best solution which is easily available to you now, like a good flat bed scanner, and then look for correcting software later. So long as you have the original JPEGs/PDFs, you can continue enhancing them without putting your documents in danger.
Seems preferable to waiting for perfect hardware/software while your archive deteriorates further.
There is no need for a charger or charging cable to understand external video. In fact, for security and price purposes, it's much better that they don't. Just define pins to supply electricity and let data cables have extra pins that evolve for all those other needs.
Just because a new technology comes along, the older one does not automatically become useless. There are often corner cases which are important for hundreds of thousands of users, or an established user base for which technology works good enough.
What tapes, floppies, Polaroid or Yahoo's curated internet directory could not fulfil is manyfold growth over short term expected by stock market. We live in a crazy world where a company can make a useful product, provide a living for tens of thousands of employees and post consistent year over year growth in profits. Yet, it gets forced into quality-killing cost cutting or unnecessary risks by shareholders who expect it to justify 100x price/earning ratio. Then it really dies because the product is crap, not because it's intrinsically useless.
The latest round of silliness is "PC is dying". Of course it is not. It is just been around for enough time for everyone to have one, and people are just in the market for a replacement every few years, where "few" can be as much as a decade for a desktop with a simple use case like balancing the books. But this is too boring for investors, so I am sure I will be forced into doing taxes on my watch when my laptop dies.
Do recipients of basic income spontaneously go to fix roads and build affordable housing? If not, you are fixing only a symptom of unbalanced labor market and not the problem itself. By putting people to work in public sector, you remove them from competition for private jobs and make it easier for remaining competitors to get good employment terms. Plus, fixing public infrastructure makes private sector stronger, able to support more jobs and offer goods for a smaller portion of average salary.
US is not stopping all/most Muslims from flying or visiting Disneyland, so there must have been something alarming about this particular family. Without knowing what is was, we can't say if the authorities made the right call. The only thing for sure is that airlines/hotels/amusement parks should be required to issue refund in such circumstances. And passengers involved should be given a chance to clear their name with an interview.
What kind of skill set is needed for toxic waste cleanup? Building and maintaining roads/affordable housing/solar farms/wind farms/bullet trains/spaceports? Growing healthy food with minimum pollution? Keeping every neighborhood in America safe?
All off those things are badly needed and have some jobs accessible to someone who would otherwise flip burgers. They also quickly benefit private sector far in excess of any taxes collected to pay salaries. If a neighborhood is safe, you can open a Safeway there because everybody eats. If people are not saddled with mortgage, they can buy your gadgets.
Again, it depends on supply and demand of labor. As long as there is healthy market for my skills, I get a nice paid vacation thanks to unemployment insurance and then another job which quite likely suits my needs better. In the meantime, if the employer is substandard compared to the market, everyone good will quit, taking their knowledge to competitors. And later, nobody with a talent will want to join and pull the weight for remaining underperformers.
And all that is needed to shift the balance is increased competition for labor from public sector (or new private sector players).
Why give basic income away for free when you can spend the same money and get recipients to do some useful work, especially work of a kind that improves private sector employee purchasing power and reduces need for government assistance in future? If you are saying that some people are not willing or able to do any useful work whatsoever and still should not starve, or that students who are making good progress should get a stipend, I agree. But addressing these corner cases is a lot easier and more affordable once everyone else is at work, making productive contributions to society in either private or public sector.
Why would not feeding your children be a consideration in a balanced labor market? If I leave a job, I can find another job in reasonable time, so both me and my employer have choices and incentive to treat each other well. Just like most people consider having some kind of cell phone a necessity, but have a choice of Apple, Samsung, LG and many others, so prices and features stay great.
It's said that most people never lived under such sane conditions, all while our public infrastructure is crumbling from disrepair.
We can bargain with megacorps quite effectively so long as supply and demand of labor is balanced. Compare your consumer experience when shopping for personal electronics (lots of competition, abundant supply) vs dealing with Comcast (monopoly). It's exactly the same with jobs - if you have a skill set which is in short supply, you will get great deals without any unions.
So the best solution for oversupply of labor is for government to hire part of the workforce away from private market and put them on projects that reduce fixed costs of living for everyone else and increase disposable impact to purchase privately made goods. That's why New Deal worked well for recovery from Great Depression. If we build good roads, affordable housing, public transportation and affordable domestically produced energy, we provide lots of jobs while freeing up most of people's paycheck to go into private economy rather than mortgage and gas bill.
So politics is a better direction to put your time in money than unions, although I guess the later is a useful stopgap measure and can be an organizing force for politics.
Everybody tried outsourcing and realized that it doesn't work. Creating a great product requires creativity and each contributor capable of saying no to superiors and standing up for their improvements to the solution. This mind set does not yet exist much outside Silicon Valley, let alone USA and huge lifestyle disparity between american bosses and outsourced coders would not allow it to flourish.
By the time developing countries have the kind of talent in greater quality/quantity than US, labor will not be that cheap anymore because employees will know their worth. At that point, I will just move there.
You got to realize that someone knowledgeable in physical locks can bypass them as easy as you can bypass Javascript right click popups. Yet both still reduce undesirable actions, such as your story being reposted in full on someone's blog without giving credit, link to the source or a chance for you to make money on ads.
It makes a difference when you at least communicate your wishes clearly. Not saying that copying is illegal, or implementing this behavior is best policy, just that it at least significantly reduces copying in practice. I see some other sites that automatically append a link to source to the end of copy buffer. That is probably a much wiser policy for retaining existing readers and acquiring new ones.
This estimate assumes that the world remains exactly same as today - no space missions, no solar and wind farms, no electric cars and buses. We already know that we have to do a lot of those things because of global warming, and countless things we don't know about will be invented during the next decade. A lot of them will require plenty of electrical design, construction and service.
Apple is working on a phone 1mm thinner than iPhone 6s, battery still lasts the same time! Some unhappy owners claim it slowly bends under its own weight.
I am pretty happy with Airmail on Mac and Gmail on Android. Clean UI, OS-integrated notifications, fast search, no issues with huge mailboxes.
But if you are looking for Linux/open source, Evolution and Kmail seems to be the only serious alternative to Thunderbird. People are moving away from e-mail to other channels of communication like chat and social, and most are satisfied with webmail for remaining use. So, without commercial incentives, only major desktop environments maintain an e-mail client for completeness sake.
It does not make much sense to compare various foods so long as we overeat like crazy and throw away half of the food we buy. Start by making sure everyone lives within walking distance of a supermarket. Then people don't have to buy gigantic portions on weekly trips and have half of it get spoiled. Said daily walking trips will also help you lose weight, and then you don't need as many calories to sustain the bulk of your body. AND less greenhouse emissions from driving.
A lot of time there are strong business reasons for unpopular decisions and reversing them has consequences. Maybe Philips had to cancel a new feature that was not working well with 3rd party bulbs, or they might release it anyway and have negative publicity from things breaking. Always good when company is responsive to customers, but things are often more complex than when they look to outsiders.
I think people who have specific plans to murder innocent civilians deserve more scrutiny than someone who just wants to score some pot.
As for clickbait, that can be addressed with warnings, as well as behaviour analysis. If you clicked and went on to post advice on making a good pressure cooker bomb, you are not so innocent anymore.
I can get behind this idea if enforcement does not involve wholesale spying on everyone's web traffic or banning https/tor/device encryption. We may not catch everyone this way, but plenty of opportunities to catch dumb would be terrorists would present themselves.
As for freedom of speech, I think we long established restrictions on specific calls to violence. If you are actively participating in forums on how to make a good suicide vest, you went way beyond speech. If you just clicked on someone else's link in slashdot and ended up on an arabic site you don't understand, there should certainly be a presumption of innocence.