**Russian** Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (***theguardian.com***) ----
That's all you need to know. Before you say it, I'm not right wing, I'm not even American.
The slant from theguardian and several others media outlets has gone full tilt left, not just slightly left, which for the most part I agree with but just left to the point of ridiculousness.
I love how one of the arguments of the election was "hacking! the Russians hacked, the whole election is a fraud!!"//EVEN IF// that was true, even if! The Russians supposedly didn't hack the election, what they/supposedly/ did was release incriminating evidence about Hilary, for goodness sakes. *IF* it was them at all, but because it was "hacks" the election was "stolen" - not that people were swayed by more realistic information about Hilary, no no no.
The Guardian articles are verging on utter clickbait at this point ARE YOU WHITE? DO YOU HAVE A PENIS? YOU'RE THE PROBLEM, Kill yourself now, to save the world problems......
A lot of goods are stolen by hijacked accounts in a quick hijack and pump scheme. Find an account with 99.9% feedback, hack into the account and start listing really nice goods just cheap enough to be an amazing bargain but still somewhat plausible a price.
This is pretty common, I've never been stung by one, but 2factor should be everywhere now, with apps like authy and google authenticator, sms etc - cmon?...
Curious to know - prices seem to stagnate lately, drops have really slowed of late. Picked up 5TB disks for $200 US nearly 3 years ago. There's occassionally deals which beat that but overall, its still a normal price sadly.
I've been chanting what this guy has been saying for YEARS.
Every point of his post is correct, FLAT colour, NO borders, NO defining lines, NO text labels, not even colour coded icons anymore, all one colour, it's a god damn sloppy disgusting joke that's HUGELY DIS-intuitive to me, I STILL double check what I'm clicking because I don't know what it is, BECAUSE IT'S NOT LABELLED!
Colour coded, labelled, borders make a massive difference. Modern design is awful. but hey, some moron gets to call it 'clean'
We're talking about a plug which is on possibly billions of devices.
This isn't just headphones and headsets, this is being able to plug into the analog port on amplifier, this standard is used on boom boxes 20 years ago, on audio 'in' ports for the past 20 or 30 years on a plethora of devices.
It's all fine and dandy for smarmy tools to say "oh shut up, get USB-C headphones!" but USB-C headphones won't work on my OTHER devices easily and I sure as shit don't see them changing any time soon, literally billions of devices over the world.
Although Apple didn't write it themselves, their fans and critics just have to write stupid bullshit like that, about how they've changed the landscape, how brave they were, blah blah.
At the end of the stupid fucking day, if Apple could have managed to make that screen have a speaker, all those cameras and sensors, without the bar, of COURSE THEY would have fucking done it!
Stupidity and fanboyism. Oh and I like home buttons and headphone jacks personally, no sale.
But I still prefer them over IMDB scores, which have been flooded with the lowest common denominator children / tweens and adhd style people who just think anything that's "ok" must be "uhhh I dunno? 9 or 10 I guess? it was ok!?"
Nope.
RT seems to more match my style, if a film is a 7.5 on IMDB and at least a 6.5 on RT, you can/probably/ rest assured, if it's a genre you enjoy, it's going to be an ok watch.
Man what are they thinking, fuck that facial recognition business, just nope, nope nope.
The headphone jack is on what? 15? 20 billion devices across the planet, but Apple still going to be Apple.
The only surprising thing is Qi charging, presumably they're using the industry standard and therefore you don't need an Apple mat to charge, any Qi dock would do ?
I basically don't log in anymore and NEVER on mobile*, yet I logged in recently and several people I would never ever consider not following, I was no longer following.
Furthermore, those people are still following me, so they didn't do the "block, then unblock" trick to stop me following them.
This has been going on for years. Very frustrating.
* (on the mobile web version, or app, it can be easy tho accidentally hit the unfollow button.
I know he's a smart guy with his heart in the right place but for fucks sake, I'm sick SICK of the media relaying all the fanciful shit he says which is either.
a> completely obvious to mildly intelligent people b> hyperbole c> fanciful bullshit (see also b really)
We get it, he's smart and wants to do the right thing, he's not the fucking saviour of the earth, please stop giving this guy media time. Argh
Your post is arguably selfish, but I can't say I disagree in the slightest.
I'm nearly 40, reasonably intelligent and I'm in a similar mental state as you, I am no longer perm employed, jobs seem hard to find, the economy and specifically tax codes (especially in my country) seem weighed AGAINST the average person.
To simply live a normal life IS becoming more difficult. If I had cash coming out of my ass (so to speak) sure I'd be more careful with purchasing more sustainable products or buying green energy (we can choose our provider here, on the fly in my country) but due to costs? Stuff that
Our society is a mess and it's only getting worse. Bad times are coming.
Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland. Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is.nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.
* Regarding litecoin, this one is.particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency? So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly.booming.insanely. in Mar 2017. Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)
That's not what this site is about and the moderation of the posts and comments about such topics, continues to show, we don't care about that shit. If anything you're making us backlash against it by bringing idiot politics into our simple, oldschool tech forum.
We don't need fancy code of conducts or any of that shit here. News for nerds, stuff that matters, not bullshit.
My post does not imply it's the only way people are getting money out of China, nor does it imply that it's the only reason BTC and digital currency is booming. I do however strongly believe it plays a big, big part in it.
Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland. Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is.nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.
* Regarding litecoin, this one is.particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency? So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly.booming.insanely. in Mar 2017. Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)
I'm not sure if I'm reading this many digits correctly, but I'm seeing a market cap of 68 billion dollars for it right now.
That may not define the ability to pull money out quickly but my understanding is, it can be pulled out quicker than it used to.
Also some may be opting to pull it out into gold or other things, there are now gold for bitcoin places, I know someone who buys his bitcoin mining stuff with, you guessed it, bitcoins.
Agree entirely however that the simple act of pulling it out, does reduce the value. Anyone who thinks they have 5 million US$ in bitcoin, I'd be surprised if they could pull out more than 3 million over the course of 6 months. (note: totally wild guess)
If I recall, it was along the lines of, the head of messaging applications should be brought out into the street and executed in front of his family or something like that.
Either way, I'm not normally one for firing people for mistakes, but after this many? Seriously? MANY MANY , staff, need to be fired, seriously. SERIOUSLY.
How can they be THIS BAD at messaging on their platforms? It's incredible. They STILL haven't copied iMessage, which is what most of us want. Utterly atrocious, like most of their changes in the past 5 years. Stop "fixing" things that aren't broken or canceling things which are good.
We are in a bad bad timeline for hardcore and even regular PC enthusiasts, the technological leaps have stagnated significantly, where people with 7 year old PCs need only double their memory and add an SSD (if they didn't already have one) and almost all tasks are fast enough.
The delay in shift from 14nm to 10nm has been pretty bad across the industry, in fact considering the performance improvements for processors, GPUs over the past 7 years, it seems quite apparent that the manufacturing process still plays a very heavy part in the performance boost between generations, just as much as architectural design of the processor.
I have a fairly specific use case, similar but not quite the same to gamers (I want a ridiculously fast PC for general use, I'm an extreme browser, exceeding 100-400 tabs at a time, but I don't game anymore, so I like mid to small ITX, quiet, professional looking machines) I almost always have open from 8 to 25 applications open of varying kinds. I really like a very responsive system at sub $5000 expense (a 64gb, quad channel, DDR4 4000 machine with 12 cores, liquid cooled, would be great, but the cost would be insane and honestly, a complete top of the line, but not HEDT machine would likely do what I need at easily 30 to 50% savings)
Unfortunately Intel is all over the place with product varieties, when you look around the Intel ARK site (the new one is awful, great job web developers, great job, another unecessary redesign) you can see just how many processors they make, from 6w to 150w across all kinds of segments. Sadly the days of a "preemo desktop" CPU being their primary bread and butter is over and that's why we see ridiculous things like this article is stating, they are diversified everywhere and the complexity seems beneficial to their bottom dollar.
The rumor is the coffee lake 6 core desktop processor won't work in the existing z170/270 chipset, despite the fact it's basically the same family as the last 2 CPUs for those boards (i7-6700 / i7-7700 etc) just 2 more cores 'glued on' We also don't know if this new processor was ever intended to come out at 14nm or it was originally 10nm. There's talk that the new chipset, Z370 isn't even any more than a re-badge of the z270! Which makes forcing people to use it even more ridiculous. There's a "z390" (?) is a cannonlake chipset or "PCH" - and it's coming out next year - but that chipset is only for cannonlake processors, except there are (apparently) none of those planned for desktop.
So, do you buy an i7-8700k now and put it on a z370, knowing that you might be missing out on some new features in 2018, like bluetooth 5 and wifi ac being built into the chipset itself?
The whole thing is messy and awkward to follow, it's only gotten worse the past few years. Honestly, I think the best thing to do, if you're capable is to stop reading the news about this stuff and just buy what's best when you need a new machine. It's endlessly time consuming and confusing to be an educated consumer with PC stuff. (I should know, I've wasted possibly years of my life googling / reading this rubbish since I first started building my own machines 20 years ago)
But the long and short of it is, stuff just isn't improving at a fantastic rate anymore. Even if you're silly rich, you can't buy a machine that utterly decimates other machines easily. People can get 60 to 80% of your performance for 1/4 or less.
Stopped using it due to these things. Reached a point where my opinion was likely going to cause people to start screeching if I was honest, so between Twitter censoring what I saw and self censoring myself to keep the peace, I'm very very glad I left.
It's just a total political whine great now and a circle jerk off let's feel good for whatever reason today stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Please elaborate how I didn't make a valid point, I thought my point was quite clear in the post.
Key things to note in the headline:
**Russian** Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (***theguardian.com***) ----
That's all you need to know.
Before you say it, I'm not right wing, I'm not even American.
The slant from theguardian and several others media outlets has gone full tilt left, not just slightly left, which for the most part I agree with but just left to the point of ridiculousness.
I love how one of the arguments of the election was "hacking! the Russians hacked, the whole election is a fraud!!" //EVEN IF// that was true, even if! The Russians supposedly didn't hack the election, what they /supposedly/ did was release incriminating evidence about Hilary, for goodness sakes. *IF* it was them at all, but because it was "hacks" the election was "stolen" - not that people were swayed by more realistic information about Hilary, no no no.
The Guardian articles are verging on utter clickbait at this point
ARE YOU WHITE?
DO YOU HAVE A PENIS?
YOU'RE THE PROBLEM, Kill yourself now, to save the world problems......
Yeah, no.
A lot of goods are stolen by hijacked accounts in a quick hijack and pump scheme. Find an account with 99.9% feedback, hack into the account and start listing really nice goods just cheap enough to be an amazing bargain but still somewhat plausible a price.
This is pretty common, I've never been stung by one, but 2factor should be everywhere now, with apps like authy and google authenticator, sms etc - cmon?...
Curious to know - prices seem to stagnate lately, drops have really slowed of late.
Picked up 5TB disks for $200 US nearly 3 years ago. There's occassionally deals which beat that but overall, its still a normal price sadly.
I've been chanting what this guy has been saying for YEARS.
Every point of his post is correct, FLAT colour, NO borders, NO defining lines, NO text labels, not even colour coded icons anymore, all one colour, it's a god damn sloppy disgusting joke that's HUGELY DIS-intuitive to me, I STILL double check what I'm clicking because I don't know what it is, BECAUSE IT'S NOT LABELLED!
Colour coded, labelled, borders make a massive difference.
Modern design is awful. but hey, some moron gets to call it 'clean'
We're talking about a plug which is on possibly billions of devices.
This isn't just headphones and headsets, this is being able to plug into the analog port on amplifier, this standard is used on boom boxes 20 years ago, on audio 'in' ports for the past 20 or 30 years on a plethora of devices.
It's all fine and dandy for smarmy tools to say "oh shut up, get USB-C headphones!" but USB-C headphones won't work on my OTHER devices easily and I sure as shit don't see them changing any time soon, literally billions of devices over the world.
Although Apple didn't write it themselves, their fans and critics just have to write stupid bullshit like that, about how they've changed the landscape, how brave they were, blah blah.
At the end of the stupid fucking day, if Apple could have managed to make that screen have a speaker, all those cameras and sensors, without the bar, of COURSE THEY would have fucking done it!
Stupidity and fanboyism.
Oh and I like home buttons and headphone jacks personally, no sale.
But I still prefer them over IMDB scores, which have been flooded with the lowest common denominator children / tweens and adhd style people who just think anything that's "ok" must be "uhhh I dunno? 9 or 10 I guess? it was ok!?"
Nope.
RT seems to more match my style, if a film is a 7.5 on IMDB and at least a 6.5 on RT, you can /probably/ rest assured, if it's a genre you enjoy, it's going to be an ok watch.
Man what are they thinking, fuck that facial recognition business, just nope, nope nope.
The headphone jack is on what? 15? 20 billion devices across the planet, but Apple still going to be Apple.
The only surprising thing is Qi charging, presumably they're using the industry standard and therefore you don't need an Apple mat to charge, any Qi dock would do ?
I basically don't log in anymore and NEVER on mobile*, yet I logged in recently and several people I would never ever consider not following, I was no longer following.
Furthermore, those people are still following me, so they didn't do the "block, then unblock" trick to stop me following them.
This has been going on for years. Very frustrating.
* (on the mobile web version, or app, it can be easy tho accidentally hit the unfollow button.
^^^ THIS ^^^
Yes! Thank you!
I know he's a smart guy with his heart in the right place but for fucks sake, I'm sick SICK of the media relaying all the fanciful shit he says which is either.
a> completely obvious to mildly intelligent people
b> hyperbole
c> fanciful bullshit (see also b really)
We get it, he's smart and wants to do the right thing, he's not the fucking saviour of the earth, please stop giving this guy media time. Argh
Your post is arguably selfish, but I can't say I disagree in the slightest.
I'm nearly 40, reasonably intelligent and I'm in a similar mental state as you, I am no longer perm employed, jobs seem hard to find, the economy and specifically tax codes (especially in my country) seem weighed AGAINST the average person.
To simply live a normal life IS becoming more difficult.
If I had cash coming out of my ass (so to speak) sure I'd be more careful with purchasing more sustainable products or buying green energy (we can choose our provider here, on the fly in my country) but due to costs?
Stuff that
Our society is a mess and it's only getting worse. Bad times are coming.
Explains why some of this is going on.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
.
.
.
Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland. .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is
* .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency? .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Regarding litecoin, this one is
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)
Bonus evidence of how it's being spent, here, just found this morning.
http://i.imgur.com/aTGE6SV.gif
At least Apple is doing something right, curved displays can go to god damned hell.
So sick of them being forced on Samsung customers (so to speak) release both types or risk alienating customers
New Atom chips just came out.
https://ark.intel.com/products...
The 4 core and weaker ones sound like what you're after. I suspect we'll see some very competent little HTPC boxes soon.
That's not what this site is about and the moderation of the posts and comments about such topics, continues to show, we don't care about that shit. If anything you're making us backlash against it by bringing idiot politics into our simple, oldschool tech forum.
We don't need fancy code of conducts or any of that shit here. News for nerds, stuff that matters, not bullshit.
Thank you.
NOTE: I forgot to mention,
My post does not imply it's the only way people are getting money out of China, nor does it imply that it's the only reason BTC and digital currency is booming. I do however strongly believe it plays a big, big part in it.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
.
.
.
Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com... -- *(!!)
Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland. .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is
* .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency? .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Regarding litecoin, this one is
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)
I'm not sure if I'm reading this many digits correctly, but I'm seeing a market cap of 68 billion dollars for it right now.
That may not define the ability to pull money out quickly but my understanding is, it can be pulled out quicker than it used to.
Also some may be opting to pull it out into gold or other things, there are now gold for bitcoin places, I know someone who buys his bitcoin mining stuff with, you guessed it, bitcoins.
Agree entirely however that the simple act of pulling it out, does reduce the value. Anyone who thinks they have 5 million US$ in bitcoin, I'd be surprised if they could pull out more than 3 million over the course of 6 months. (note: totally wild guess)
But maybe it's worth it...
If I recall, it was along the lines of, the head of messaging applications should be brought out into the street and executed in front of his family or something like that.
Either way, I'm not normally one for firing people for mistakes, but after this many? Seriously? MANY MANY , staff, need to be fired, seriously.
SERIOUSLY.
How can they be THIS BAD at messaging on their platforms? It's incredible.
They STILL haven't copied iMessage, which is what most of us want. Utterly atrocious, like most of their changes in the past 5 years. Stop "fixing" things that aren't broken or canceling things which are good.
Just fyi your signature damn near made my day, thank you.
We are in a bad bad timeline for hardcore and even regular PC enthusiasts, the technological leaps have stagnated significantly, where people with 7 year old PCs need only double their memory and add an SSD (if they didn't already have one) and almost all tasks are fast enough.
The delay in shift from 14nm to 10nm has been pretty bad across the industry, in fact considering the performance improvements for processors, GPUs over the past 7 years, it seems quite apparent that the manufacturing process still plays a very heavy part in the performance boost between generations, just as much as architectural design of the processor.
I have a fairly specific use case, similar but not quite the same to gamers (I want a ridiculously fast PC for general use, I'm an extreme browser, exceeding 100-400 tabs at a time, but I don't game anymore, so I like mid to small ITX, quiet, professional looking machines)
I almost always have open from 8 to 25 applications open of varying kinds. I really like a very responsive system at sub $5000 expense (a 64gb, quad channel, DDR4 4000 machine with 12 cores, liquid cooled, would be great, but the cost would be insane and honestly, a complete top of the line, but not HEDT machine would likely do what I need at easily 30 to 50% savings)
Unfortunately Intel is all over the place with product varieties, when you look around the Intel ARK site (the new one is awful, great job web developers, great job, another unecessary redesign) you can see just how many processors they make, from 6w to 150w across all kinds of segments.
Sadly the days of a "preemo desktop" CPU being their primary bread and butter is over and that's why we see ridiculous things like this article is stating, they are diversified everywhere and the complexity seems beneficial to their bottom dollar.
The rumor is the coffee lake 6 core desktop processor won't work in the existing z170/270 chipset, despite the fact it's basically the same family as the last 2 CPUs for those boards (i7-6700 / i7-7700 etc) just 2 more cores 'glued on'
We also don't know if this new processor was ever intended to come out at 14nm or it was originally 10nm.
There's talk that the new chipset, Z370 isn't even any more than a re-badge of the z270! Which makes forcing people to use it even more ridiculous.
There's a "z390" (?) is a cannonlake chipset or "PCH" - and it's coming out next year - but that chipset is only for cannonlake processors, except there are (apparently) none of those planned for desktop.
So, do you buy an i7-8700k now and put it on a z370, knowing that you might be missing out on some new features in 2018, like bluetooth 5 and wifi ac being built into the chipset itself?
The whole thing is messy and awkward to follow, it's only gotten worse the past few years.
Honestly, I think the best thing to do, if you're capable is to stop reading the news about this stuff and just buy what's best when you need a new machine. It's endlessly time consuming and confusing to be an educated consumer with PC stuff. (I should know, I've wasted possibly years of my life googling / reading this rubbish since I first started building my own machines 20 years ago)
But the long and short of it is, stuff just isn't improving at a fantastic rate anymore. Even if you're silly rich, you can't buy a machine that utterly decimates other machines easily. People can get 60 to 80% of your performance for 1/4 or less.
Whine fest, even.
Stopped using it due to these things. Reached a point where my opinion was likely going to cause people to start screeching if I was honest, so between Twitter censoring what I saw and self censoring myself to keep the peace, I'm very very glad I left.
It's just a total political whine great now and a circle jerk off let's feel good for whatever reason today stuff.
Shame, the breaking news was quite useful.
I'm considering this but I want one with that new AES-NI support that the PFsense devs have said will needed going forward.
It sounds like version 3.0 will be a big change.
I think the Denverton (C3xxx / C3000) upcoming chips might be perfect. Powerful and low powered, probably just the dual core version.