The local exchange knows the real number originating the call. If that caller wants to spoof a different number, they need to register with the local exchange. If there is no registered spoof number, then no spoofing.
Much simpler (but it will require the telcos to do some WORK) is just require legitimate businesses that want to spoof their legitimate head office number to register the spoofed numbers with the telco. The telco can then certify that the spoofed numbers are legitimate. Telcos could even charge money for this service.
I'm still using my Nexus 5. Works great. I can't see any reason to "upgrade". Runs all the latest protocols and the speed is just fine. I can watch movies, etc. I just replace screens and batteries as necessary. It's cheap to fix.
I don't know anyone who worships Nicola Tesla. However, he did invent a lot of useful stuff so it's hard to call him a failure. - AC motor / generator - AC power distribution system - fluorescent lights - radio (Marconi just stole Tesla's patents) - remote transmission of voice, pictures, data (i.e. smartphone)... and a bunch more stuff
Lots of things "work" on paper (math/physics) but making the leap to "really works in real life as a practical functioning object" is the hard part. Too bad Tesla ran out of money before he could test it.
More than 100,000 of the pre-orders have already been delivered. The rest are probably waiting on the $35,000 version. There might be a few people who put down $1000 and have no intention of buying but I don't know why they would do that.
This is the relevant part: Your data -- the abstract portrait of who you are, and, more importantly, of who you are compared to other people -- is your real vulnerability when it comes to the companies that make money offering ostensibly free services to millions of people. Not because your data will compromise your personal identity. But because it will compromise your personal autonomy. "Privacy as we normally think of it doesn't matter," said Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology [and a former Mozilla team leader]. "What these companies are doing is building little models, little avatars, little voodoo dolls of you. Your doll sits in the cloud, and they'll throw 100,000 videos at it to see what's effective to get you to stick around, or what ad with what messaging is uniquely good at getting you to do something...."
Reduced stress.... good Happier... good Don't have to find a shit job.... good
I should note that all of the people selected for the experiment were jobless at the start. Is it a surprise that they were jobless at the end? Some of them did find work in spite of being paid not to work.
I find my Tesla does a much better job of keeping me from speeding than I do on my own. I just set the autopilot for speed limit + 5 MPH and I never have to worry about picking up too much speed on a downhill. Also, it reads speed limit signs and adjusts the speed of the car. This is very useful as the main road around the lake has frequent speed limit changes between 25, 35 and 45 so it always adjusts.
(The +5MPH adjusts for the fact that all speedometers are calibrated to show a few miles greater than actual speed.)
They have an app for streaming local TV. Claim it's legal since they are a nonprofit and don't allow transmission beyond the local broadcast area. Should be interesting to watch.
You would think that some smart person would come up with a way to recycle this junk and reclaim the valuable minerals. I guess it's cheaper to exploit miners in third world countries to mine new minerals rather than exploit recyclers in third world countries to reclaim the minerals.
Except Germany has already closed a lot of coal plants and they now have an agreement to close the rest. The USA (we're number 1), OTOH, has promised to make coal great again (although they are running into a few economic barriers... it's just too expensive, and dirty.)
What most people don't realize is that nature performs millions/billions of genetic modifications daily. This includes mutations and also phage injections which can insert genes from other species. Most of these are a dead end. Sometimes an organism will be improved by the change. The selective breeding and GM efforts by humans are a vanishingly small percentage of genetic changes. I'm not worried about human or natural GM. These things will survive or fail on their merits and the fears of a "frankenfood" are unfounded.
I am worried about Monsanto's toxic chemicals glyphosate, etc. which do represent a real threat to human health.
The genetic modifications are unlikely to cause many problems. However, glyphosate (Round-Up) is used on these GM crops by the millions of tons and it is toxic. It ends up in all of our food. It causes cancer and endocrine disruption in humans and is decimating insects. Farmers spray it on crops during growing season to kill weeds then they spray again before harvest to dry out crops to make them easier to harvest.
Gates is not "donating" anything. He's asking for billions of dollars in government subsidies for his failed (and technically impossible) nuclear project. Kind of like when he "donating" Windows to schools and developing countries... just a scam to lock people into his POS OS.
The headline story is that it’s not so much about the nature of digital technology as about a new mutant form of capitalism that has found a way to use tech for its purposes. The name Zuboff has given to the new variant is “surveillance capitalism”. It works by providing free services that billions of people cheerfully use, enabling the providers of those services to monitor the behaviour of those users in astonishing detail – often without their explicit consent.
Depends on what you want to do... Most Windows computer users just run a web browser and email and word processing... maybe a spreadsheet now and then for "advanced" users. These functions can easily be replaced with a Chromebook at lower cost and better security. This includes most business users and most home users.
If you need games, you'd better stick with Windows.
If you need video processing and graphics, Mac is probably better
If you're a programmer, you're probably running Linux and a lot of what you do could be done on a Chromebook with Crostini. (If you're locked into some Microsoft development environment... well, then you're locked in... that was their plan and you fell for it.)
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The local exchange knows the real number originating the call. If that caller wants to spoof a different number, they need to register with the local exchange. If there is no registered spoof number, then no spoofing.
Much simpler (but it will require the telcos to do some WORK) is just require legitimate businesses that want to spoof their legitimate head office number to register the spoofed numbers with the telco. The telco can then certify that the spoofed numbers are legitimate. Telcos could even charge money for this service.
I'm still using my Nexus 5. Works great. I can't see any reason to "upgrade". Runs all the latest protocols and the speed is just fine. I can watch movies, etc.
I just replace screens and batteries as necessary. It's cheap to fix.
I don't know anyone who worships Nicola Tesla. ... and a bunch more stuff
However, he did invent a lot of useful stuff so it's hard to call him a failure.
- AC motor / generator
- AC power distribution system
- fluorescent lights
- radio (Marconi just stole Tesla's patents)
- remote transmission of voice, pictures, data (i.e. smartphone)
Lots of things "work" on paper (math/physics) but making the leap to "really works in real life as a practical functioning object" is the hard part. Too bad Tesla ran out of money before he could test it.
More than 100,000 of the pre-orders have already been delivered. The rest are probably waiting on the $35,000 version.
There might be a few people who put down $1000 and have no intention of buying but I don't know why they would do that.
This is the relevant part:
Your data -- the abstract portrait of who you are, and, more importantly, of who you are compared to other people -- is your real vulnerability when it comes to the companies that make money offering ostensibly free services to millions of people. Not because your data will compromise your personal identity. But because it will compromise your personal autonomy. "Privacy as we normally think of it doesn't matter," said Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology [and a former Mozilla team leader]. "What these companies are doing is building little models, little avatars, little voodoo dolls of you. Your doll sits in the cloud, and they'll throw 100,000 videos at it to see what's effective to get you to stick around, or what ad with what messaging is uniquely good at getting you to do something...."
Reduced stress.... good
Happier... good
Don't have to find a shit job.... good
I should note that all of the people selected for the experiment were jobless at the start. Is it a surprise that they were jobless at the end? Some of them did find work in spite of being paid not to work.
Has Rosling said the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Living in the basement gives you a different perspective.
I find my Tesla does a much better job of keeping me from speeding than I do on my own. I just set the autopilot for speed limit + 5 MPH and I never have to worry about picking up too much speed on a downhill. Also, it reads speed limit signs and adjusts the speed of the car. This is very useful as the main road around the lake has frequent speed limit changes between 25, 35 and 45 so it always adjusts.
(The +5MPH adjusts for the fact that all speedometers are calibrated to show a few miles greater than actual speed.)
I have news for you. Every new car today tracks you. Best to get a 30 year old beater if you don't want to be tracked.
Also, you want to drive an unsafe car?
Check out Locast.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...
They have an app for streaming local TV. Claim it's legal since they are a nonprofit and don't allow transmission beyond the local broadcast area.
Should be interesting to watch.
I'm waiting for full self driving capability.
You would think that some smart person would come up with a way to recycle this junk and reclaim the valuable minerals.
I guess it's cheaper to exploit miners in third world countries to mine new minerals rather than exploit recyclers in third world countries to reclaim the minerals.
If they ever open, they will be closed soon.
Except Germany has already closed a lot of coal plants and they now have an agreement to close the rest.
The USA (we're number 1), OTOH, has promised to make coal great again (although they are running into a few economic barriers... it's just too expensive, and dirty.)
What most people don't realize is that nature performs millions/billions of genetic modifications daily. This includes mutations and also phage injections which can insert genes from other species. Most of these are a dead end. Sometimes an organism will be improved by the change. The selective breeding and GM efforts by humans are a vanishingly small percentage of genetic changes.
I'm not worried about human or natural GM. These things will survive or fail on their merits and the fears of a "frankenfood" are unfounded.
I am worried about Monsanto's toxic chemicals glyphosate, etc. which do represent a real threat to human health.
The genetic modifications are unlikely to cause many problems.
However, glyphosate (Round-Up) is used on these GM crops by the millions of tons and it is toxic. It ends up in all of our food. It causes cancer and endocrine disruption in humans and is decimating insects.
Farmers spray it on crops during growing season to kill weeds then they spray again before harvest to dry out crops to make them easier to harvest.
Gates is not "donating" anything. He's asking for billions of dollars in government subsidies for his failed (and technically impossible) nuclear project.
Kind of like when he "donating" Windows to schools and developing countries... just a scam to lock people into his POS OS.
Immigrants are much more likely to have been vaccinated than the ignorant antivaxers in Washington state.
Vaccines haven't contained mercury for many years. Fake news.
Vaccines don't cause autism. This has been extensively studies and debunked. Fake news.
Surveillance Capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
The headline story is that it’s not so much about the nature of digital technology as about a new mutant form of capitalism that has found a way to use tech for its purposes. The name Zuboff has given to the new variant is “surveillance capitalism”. It works by providing free services that billions of people cheerfully use, enabling the providers of those services to monitor the behaviour of those users in astonishing detail – often without their explicit consent.
I still have an 8 track player in my very old car... why can't I find any new music for it?
Depends on what you want to do...
Most Windows computer users just run a web browser and email and word processing... maybe a spreadsheet now and then for "advanced" users. These functions can easily be replaced with a Chromebook at lower cost and better security. This includes most business users and most home users.
If you need games, you'd better stick with Windows.
If you need video processing and graphics, Mac is probably better
If you're a programmer, you're probably running Linux and a lot of what you do could be done on a Chromebook with Crostini. (If you're locked into some Microsoft development environment... well, then you're locked in... that was their plan and you fell for it.)