At least the phone version, no question of it - it's done it to me within days of having the Android app installed, not an ad, DEFINITELY an actual follow of someone.
This has occurred to me at least 5 times now, I've stopped using the Android app, I'm sick of it.
In Australia we have a 3km/hr threshold on speeding fines. In a 100km/hr area, doing 104km will net you a 160$ fine.
Conversion for the Americans, doing 64.62m/hr in a 62m/hr zone will cost you 132$ US That's only 4% faster than the posted limit.
We also have a demerit point system, you can lose 1/3/6 or all 12 points depending how much more than the limit you were doing. On public holidays, Christmas and certain 'seasons' of the year where they want to make for 'nice holidays' - the demerit points and the fines are doubled. Penalties listed here http://www.arrivealive.vic.gov... [vic.gov.au]
I don't have a major issue with speeding fines in general, I have a major issue with 'permanent' speeding cameras which send you a letter for speeding, a week after you were speeding. If it's such a genuine offense, dangerous to others and yourself -then surely an officer should pull you over and explain the situation, perhaps your speedo is out? Perhaps you're in a bad mood and a warning (and fine?) will bring you back to reality. A letter in the mail does no such thing, it's a pure tax days after the offense occurred.
In fact, our threshold of getting a fine was around 10km/hr around 8 to 10 years ago but when people got so sick of paying fines thanks to permanent cameras, they stopped speeding so much. So they reduced the threshold to this low 3km/hr due to the government 'losing revenue'
An interesting story is a tunnel which was built around a decade ago which went underneath a river, the tunnel has multiple speed cameras in it which no one knew about, this new tunnel was extremely convenient and was heavily used in it's opening month. Thousands upon thousands of people used it daily not knowing about the cameras inside the tunnel. The speeding fine system was so overloaded from all the tickets to be sent to people that the delay was up to 30 days before receiving the fine (and demerit points) in the mail. There are many stories of people opening their mail a month after the tunnel opened to get a letter with a fine. Then the next day, the opened their mail to get a letter with a fine. Then the next day (you see where this is going) people lost their licenses and had thousands of dollars in fines, clearly their incredibly dangerous behaviour which should be stopped immediately was ok to be allowed to continue for a month...
We also have a default speed limit for suburban areas, which was 60km/hr if no speed was posted, this too was dropped to 50km/hr in the state, making drivers trip duration longer, yet the vast majority of fatalities are not at this speed. I personally recall when this was introduced, (near the same time as the 3km/hr threshold) that I found myself looking at my speedometer almost religiously, so worried about getting a fine it was becoming a distraction to driving.
I've also been told of a perm speed camera installation in New South Wales (NSW) in an area where NO ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED - a camera was put at the bottom of a large 'dip' on a large highway (no oncoming traffic) Many trucks and vehicles opted to 'speed up' for inertia to get up the other side of this large hilly area, it's significantly easier on the motor, fuel economy etc. Yet a camera was installed here to catch people speeding up.
Finally you can also see statistics on how significantly better the road toll is here. http://www.infrastructure.gov.... [infrastructure.gov.au] We've got more people on the road than ever, yet an incredibly low road toll, none the less for the sake of "safety" fines consistently are going up.
Consider yourselves lucky over there just how few speeding fines are actually issued and also how relatively easy it is to get out of them, over here it's near on impossible to get out of one.
I purchased the first 7200rpm disk available to consumers nearly 20 years ago now. The WD Expert, 18gb if I recall. http://www.prnewswire.com/news... I've always hated the performance of disks, big enthusiast primarily because I knew it was the biggest bottleneck by far.
Fast forward to today and I am utterly bamboozled why people continue to purchase the bastard things. I detest them. They run hotter, cost more, are slightly more likely to fail, are noisier and the performance difference is utterly negligible. You need only look at any older SSD review, where they include 3x5400rpm disks, 4x7200rpm disks and 5 SSD's - the graph is difficult to read because even the fastest hard disk is vastly slower than the slowest SSD.
We're entering the age now where even mid-to-basic level nerds have a NAS in the home. I'd wager a reasonable portion of people have SSD's in their main machines / laptops and some 'big dumb storage' in the rest of the house, be it USB storage or a NAS. YET HOWEVER,.... when I went to buy new disks last year, in a new size range (5TB) do you think I could find the 5400's? Nope, the fucking 7200's were the first available. Infact this trend has gone on for a few years now. You used to get 5400's in the new size first, then when the tech slightly improved, they'd do the 7200rpm model. This no longer seems the case. I actively DON'T want 7200rpm disks in my bloody NAS (which is now locked inside my kitchen cupboard, with a fan on it and ventilation door open to keep the damn noise low) My disks managed to hit 57c (134f) because I couldn't find god damn 5400rpm disks, hence the new fan install:/
7200's are pointless, it's like buying premium grease for the axle of your horse and cart. If you want performance, SSD, if you want space? Big, dumb, slow, cool, quiet 5400rpm disk. If you want to piss away money, 7200rpm disk. Bastard things. Really wish I didn't completely need to buy disks when I did, only 12 weeks after I got mine, the WD red and greens were out to buy:/ In conclusion, avoid Toshiba 7200rpm disks, they are not only hot, the bloody spindle motors are noisy to boot.
Look I would've thought so regarding the hours - but it's been 3 years of mechanicals now, you'd figure 6 months would be sufficient.
They are simply less forgiving with my... well "drunken master" (?) style of typing. I can type without looking at the keyboard but I certainly don't use the correct fingers, I use only index, middle and ring mostly, yet can still drop 80 to 100 WPM (accurate) on a rubber dome.
The thing is a light, accidental tap of the wrong key on a mechanical seems to set it off, whereas on the rubber dome, you need a deeper throw for contact. Were I to be extremely accurate and on a light keyboard with elegant fingers, I suspect a red would be a delight to type on - as it stands though, I recall really fucking up accuracy on a red, hence going to brown and then finally black and still not entirely satisfied.
I'm not going to get rid of them any time soon, but I'd certainly consider going back to a rubber dome. I really liked the shit out of the Samsung Pleomax PKB 8000 (IIRC) it's got a laptop style, scissor switch, short throw keys - fucking delight to type on - but the corners of each key was 'sharp' so in my typing style, every..... week a finger would literally catch under a key and throw the bastard off the keyboard. If it weren't for that, I'd totally have got 5 of them as spares. As it stands, I can't use that either.
The "feel" of the keys is precise, the noise is great in a.. distinct way - they feel professional for lack of a better word.
None the less, I can STILL wack out about 5 to 10% more WPM on a standard US layout HP or Dell 101 traditional rubber dome. There's something about the amount of springyness in the keys and my typing style which makes me make a tiny amount more mistakes on a mechanical and I just can't quite thrash the keyboard as well. I think the throw depth is different.
Only one I haven't tried is blue:/ can't be bothered. Also! My particular type style and depth throw when I hit keys, I manage to cause the keys to go haywire within 6 to 12 months. The black I'm typing on right now will double press certain keys fairly regularly (at least 3 to 5 times a day, it will result in something looking liike thiis more often than n ot)
Honestly, I don't hate my mechanicals but I'm just not convinced 3 years on after owning 5 of the things, that they are for everyone.
Ok firstly, I'm not cool with this blatant racism but far more important than racism is not targeting the fucking BLUE ones which are an abomination.
I once purchased a pack and every single one was blue, I was horrified, I washed the bastards in vinegar, then water, then let them dry on a towel*. Disgusting blue ones, ugh. *(I'm not joking)
I've dealt with the moderator people at Wikipedia myself. Thanks to that experience, I'll never ever donate to the Wikipedia foundation. They may as well just stop sending the ads - because I'm not interested.
I loved the shit out of that man as a kid, teenager and early adult. Then I listened to several of his interviews, his passion for film is virtually "show me the money" when it came to Indy 4, I recall him pimping it, I also recall him saying "ahh they'll fix shit in editing / post" kind of stuff. He hates the Han Shot first stuff and he frankly, comes off as a phony to me.
Loved him in SW and the (only) 3 Indy movies made but the man isn't exactly into the universes of the films he creates. Don't believe me? Go seek out some of the interviews in the last 15 years.
I would suspect most disks used in this size range would be without much I/O, infact I'd go as far as to say (for me personally) fuck regular disks for high I/O. I'm still flabberghasted they sell 7200rpm HDD's for the desktop
If you want performance, just buy an SSD or SSHD.
I'd be happy with about 6 of these in my FreeNAS machine, I'm sure 6 combined would still turn over a decent data rate.
Really, a rootkit done once, a decade ago by some idiot in Sony music? Massive losses, more jobs lost, more people out of work, this economy even worse.
Hopefully they fix their security, behave better as a company and no one loses jobs, Hopefully idiot posts like yours don't come to fruition either.
Some of the rumoured files were financial data - even stuff like "Diaz - Cameron - Passport.PDF" for goodness sakes. More info is on one of the reddit threads but it's apparently VERY nasty.
That's an extreme case and I certainly don't use tabs as bookmarks, I have thousands of those. Regardless anonymous dipshit, the program USED to handle 150 tabs fine, 6 or 7 YEARS ago.
I believe the most abundant material on earth is not infact what they claim at all. I believe the most abundant material is actually these. http://virulentwordofmouse.fil...
Just a piece of advice- my personal profile is locked down you can't go to facebook.com/username and see my profile, you can't search for me. IF you're not logged in.
IF you're logged in though? Different story, even if you do not know me at all (I have a 'spare account') you can see my profile pic, profile name, background image etc. These companies might have look "zooskscraper" accounts that can see that bit more than a truly anonymous one. - Worth considering.
Well if you've set the info to open and something else scrapes it, then it's a, your fault for leaving too much info open but also b, the fault of the dating site - not facebook.
I wouldn't be surprised if some sleazier companies did this - but facebook probably don't need to stoop that low, yet.
Facebook are a bunch of shady assholes, I bet Zoosk are too - but dude, please apply Occams razor here, as if they just 'make' people a profile - bullshit. She's made one, got busted and is freaking out, simple as that.
Sorry, I'd feel like I'm doing myself a disservice by not hassling you. P.S The stability is getting better again but the performance goes to the utter shitter with 100 tabs, memory usage is bananas (I'm ok with that, to an extent) but it feels like a leak, not actually using the memory efficiently.
These fucking trolls kill me sometimes, jesus christ I laughed out loud "[ ] I have used SLASHDOT BETA to find a sex partner" ahahahah Klerck, you're out there in spirit little buddy
Mod this guy up, he's bang on. New google maps, less features than existing google maps Newer gmail - instead of a single, priority inbox, regular mailbox division ON A SINGLE PAGE, let's make the user check multiple tabs. Android phone, change the menu button to a soft roaming button, could move anywhere on the screen, no longer in a consistent location Android / other google products, stop labelling icons and make them textless, sure it saves you fucking translation time but it's/annoying as fuck/ for the users who don't know what the buttons do, I thank the fucking gods I don't work on technical support anymore, I would be 19'th level, earth destroying ropable if I had to guide users to textless icons for fucks sake.
However it certainly seems pretty robust to me, quite happy with it. Any ZFS performance improvements are definitely welcome, as long as very very good stability is maintained.
I've finally become someone who is happy to sit behind a few versions and wait. 9.2.1.6 FreeNAS here and I'm not moving to 9.3 until at least 3 months after it's settled.
No one gives a damn about it, the SJW crowd have informed us all we need to be FAR more focused on the shirt of one the crew for the lander. It's of dire importance we raise awareness about this mans shirt.......
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At least the phone version, no question of it - it's done it to me within days of having the Android app installed, not an ad, DEFINITELY an actual follow of someone.
This has occurred to me at least 5 times now, I've stopped using the Android app, I'm sick of it.
In Australia we have a 3km/hr threshold on speeding fines.
In a 100km/hr area, doing 104km will net you a 160$ fine.
Conversion for the Americans, doing 64.62m/hr in a 62m/hr zone will cost you 132$ US
That's only 4% faster than the posted limit.
We also have a demerit point system, you can lose 1/3/6 or all 12 points depending how much more than the limit you were doing.
On public holidays, Christmas and certain 'seasons' of the year where they want to make for 'nice holidays' - the demerit points and the fines are doubled.
Penalties listed here
http://www.arrivealive.vic.gov... [vic.gov.au]
I don't have a major issue with speeding fines in general, I have a major issue with 'permanent' speeding cameras which send you a letter for speeding, a week after you were speeding. If it's such a genuine offense, dangerous to others and yourself -then surely an officer should pull you over and explain the situation, perhaps your speedo is out? Perhaps you're in a bad mood and a warning (and fine?) will bring you back to reality.
A letter in the mail does no such thing, it's a pure tax days after the offense occurred.
In fact, our threshold of getting a fine was around 10km/hr around 8 to 10 years ago but when people got so sick of paying fines thanks to permanent cameras, they stopped speeding so much. So they reduced the threshold to this low 3km/hr due to the government 'losing revenue'
An interesting story is a tunnel which was built around a decade ago which went underneath a river, the tunnel has multiple speed cameras in it which no one knew about, this new tunnel was extremely convenient and was heavily used in it's opening month. Thousands upon thousands of people used it daily not knowing about the cameras inside the tunnel.
The speeding fine system was so overloaded from all the tickets to be sent to people that the delay was up to 30 days before receiving the fine (and demerit points) in the mail.
There are many stories of people opening their mail a month after the tunnel opened to get a letter with a fine.
Then the next day, the opened their mail to get a letter with a fine.
Then the next day (you see where this is going) people lost their licenses and had thousands of dollars in fines, clearly their incredibly dangerous behaviour which should be stopped immediately was ok to be allowed to continue for a month...
We also have a default speed limit for suburban areas, which was 60km/hr if no speed was posted, this too was dropped to 50km/hr in the state, making drivers trip duration longer, yet the vast majority of fatalities are not at this speed. I personally recall when this was introduced, (near the same time as the 3km/hr threshold) that I found myself looking at my speedometer almost religiously, so worried about getting a fine it was becoming a distraction to driving.
I've also been told of a perm speed camera installation in New South Wales (NSW) in an area where NO ACCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED - a camera was put at the bottom of a large 'dip' on a large highway (no oncoming traffic) Many trucks and vehicles opted to 'speed up' for inertia to get up the other side of this large hilly area, it's significantly easier on the motor, fuel economy etc. Yet a camera was installed here to catch people speeding up.
Finally you can also see statistics on how significantly better the road toll is here.
http://www.infrastructure.gov.... [infrastructure.gov.au]
We've got more people on the road than ever, yet an incredibly low road toll, none the less for the sake of "safety" fines consistently are going up.
Consider yourselves lucky over there just how few speeding fines are actually issued and also how relatively easy it is to get out of them, over here it's near on impossible to get out of one.
I purchased the first 7200rpm disk available to consumers nearly 20 years ago now. The WD Expert, 18gb if I recall.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news...
I've always hated the performance of disks, big enthusiast primarily because I knew it
was the biggest bottleneck by far.
Fast forward to today and I am utterly bamboozled why people continue to purchase the bastard things. I detest them. They run hotter, cost more, are slightly more likely to fail, are noisier and the performance difference is utterly negligible.
You need only look at any older SSD review, where they include 3x5400rpm disks, 4x7200rpm disks and 5 SSD's - the graph is difficult to read because even the fastest hard disk is vastly slower than the slowest SSD.
We're entering the age now where even mid-to-basic level nerds have a NAS in the home. I'd wager a reasonable portion of people have SSD's in their main machines / laptops and some 'big dumb storage' in the rest of the house, be it USB storage or a NAS. :/
YET HOWEVER,.... when I went to buy new disks last year, in a new size range (5TB) do you think I could find the 5400's? Nope, the fucking 7200's were the first available. Infact this trend has gone on for a few years now. You used to get 5400's in the new size first, then when the tech slightly improved, they'd do the 7200rpm model. This no longer seems the case.
I actively DON'T want 7200rpm disks in my bloody NAS (which is now locked inside my kitchen cupboard, with a fan on it and ventilation door open to keep the damn noise low) My disks managed to hit 57c (134f) because I couldn't find god damn 5400rpm disks, hence the new fan install
7200's are pointless, it's like buying premium grease for the axle of your horse and cart. :/
If you want performance, SSD, if you want space? Big, dumb, slow, cool, quiet 5400rpm disk. If you want to piss away money, 7200rpm disk. Bastard things.
Really wish I didn't completely need to buy disks when I did, only 12 weeks after I got mine, the WD red and greens were out to buy
In conclusion, avoid Toshiba 7200rpm disks, they are not only hot, the bloody spindle motors are noisy to boot.
Look I would've thought so regarding the hours - but it's been 3 years of mechanicals now, you'd figure 6 months would be sufficient.
They are simply less forgiving with my ... well "drunken master" (?) style of typing. I can type without looking at the keyboard but I certainly don't use the correct fingers, I use only index, middle and ring mostly, yet can still drop 80 to 100 WPM (accurate) on a rubber dome.
The thing is a light, accidental tap of the wrong key on a mechanical seems to set it off, whereas on the rubber dome, you need a deeper throw for contact. Were I to be extremely accurate and on a light keyboard with elegant fingers, I suspect a red would be a delight to type on - as it stands though, I recall really fucking up accuracy on a red, hence going to brown and then finally black and still not entirely satisfied.
I'm not going to get rid of them any time soon, but I'd certainly consider going back to a rubber dome.
I really liked the shit out of the Samsung Pleomax PKB 8000 (IIRC) it's got a laptop style, scissor switch, short throw keys - fucking delight to type on - but the corners of each key was 'sharp' so in my typing style, every..... week a finger would literally catch under a key and throw the bastard off the keyboard. If it weren't for that, I'd totally have got 5 of them as spares. As it stands, I can't use that either.
The "feel" of the keys is precise, the noise is great in a .. distinct way - they feel professional for lack of a better word.
None the less, I can STILL wack out about 5 to 10% more WPM on a standard US layout HP or Dell 101 traditional rubber dome. There's something about the amount of springyness in the keys and my typing style which makes me make a tiny amount more mistakes on a mechanical and I just can't quite thrash the keyboard as well. I think the throw depth is different.
Only one I haven't tried is blue :/ can't be bothered.
Also! My particular type style and depth throw when I hit keys, I manage to cause the keys to go haywire within 6 to 12 months. The black I'm typing on right now will double press certain keys fairly regularly (at least 3 to 5 times a day, it will result in something looking liike thiis more often than n ot)
Honestly, I don't hate my mechanicals but I'm just not convinced 3 years on after owning 5 of the things, that they are for everyone.
Ok firstly, I'm not cool with this blatant racism but far more important than racism is not targeting the fucking BLUE ones which are an abomination.
I once purchased a pack and every single one was blue, I was horrified, I washed the bastards in vinegar, then water, then let them dry on a towel*. Disgusting blue ones, ugh.
*(I'm not joking)
I've dealt with the moderator people at Wikipedia myself. Thanks to that experience, I'll never ever donate to the Wikipedia foundation. They may as well just stop sending the ads - because I'm not interested.
I loved the shit out of that man as a kid, teenager and early adult.
Then I listened to several of his interviews, his passion for film is virtually "show me the money" when it came to Indy 4, I recall him pimping it, I also recall him saying "ahh they'll fix shit in editing / post" kind of stuff. He hates the Han Shot first stuff and he frankly, comes off as a phony to me.
Loved him in SW and the (only) 3 Indy movies made but the man isn't exactly into the universes of the films he creates.
Don't believe me? Go seek out some of the interviews in the last 15 years.
I would suspect most disks used in this size range would be without much I/O, infact I'd go as far as to say (for me personally) fuck regular disks for high I/O. I'm still flabberghasted they sell 7200rpm HDD's for the desktop
If you want performance, just buy an SSD or SSHD.
I'd be happy with about 6 of these in my FreeNAS machine, I'm sure 6 combined would still turn over a decent data rate.
Really, a rootkit done once, a decade ago by some idiot in Sony music? Massive losses, more jobs lost, more people out of work, this economy even worse.
Hopefully they fix their security, behave better as a company and no one loses jobs, Hopefully idiot posts like yours don't come to fruition either.
Some of the rumoured files were financial data - even stuff like "Diaz - Cameron - Passport.PDF" for goodness sakes.
More info is on one of the reddit threads but it's apparently VERY nasty.
That's an extreme case and I certainly don't use tabs as bookmarks, I have thousands of those.
Regardless anonymous dipshit, the program USED to handle 150 tabs fine, 6 or 7 YEARS ago.
I believe the most abundant material on earth is not infact what they claim at all. I believe the most abundant material is actually these.
http://virulentwordofmouse.fil...
I've even disabled 3/4 of my addons.
Rather than re-type my posts for internet karma, I'm just going to paste them at this point
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
and here
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
I gather, based on the fact I (and many) have whined about this for years now, I'd say they probably don't read slashdot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - That is a real, legitimate video from the same day he was shot.
Not implying he deserves to die or be shot but can we stop praising this like some innocent kid (300+lbs) on the street was randomly shot?
Just a piece of advice- my personal profile is locked down you can't go to facebook.com/username and see my profile, you can't search for me. IF you're not logged in.
IF you're logged in though? Different story, even if you do not know me at all (I have a 'spare account') you can see my profile pic, profile name, background image etc.
These companies might have look "zooskscraper" accounts that can see that bit more than a truly anonymous one. - Worth considering.
Well if you've set the info to open and something else scrapes it, then it's a, your fault for leaving too much info open but also b, the fault of the dating site - not facebook.
I wouldn't be surprised if some sleazier companies did this - but facebook probably don't need to stoop that low, yet.
Facebook are a bunch of shady assholes, I bet Zoosk are too - but dude, please apply Occams razor here, as if they just 'make' people a profile - bullshit.
She's made one, got busted and is freaking out, simple as that.
Subject sums it up really.
Truly an American icon.
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http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
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Sorry, I'd feel like I'm doing myself a disservice by not hassling you.
P.S The stability is getting better again but the performance goes to the utter shitter with 100 tabs, memory usage is bananas (I'm ok with that, to an extent) but it feels like a leak, not actually using the memory efficiently.
These fucking trolls kill me sometimes, jesus christ I laughed out loud
"[ ] I have used SLASHDOT BETA to find a sex partner"
ahahahah
Klerck, you're out there in spirit little buddy
Mod this guy up, he's bang on. /annoying as fuck/ for the users who don't know what the buttons do, I thank the fucking gods I don't work on technical support anymore, I would be 19'th level, earth destroying ropable if I had to guide users to textless icons for fucks sake.
New google maps, less features than existing google maps
Newer gmail - instead of a single, priority inbox, regular mailbox division ON A SINGLE PAGE, let's make the user check multiple tabs.
Android phone, change the menu button to a soft roaming button, could move anywhere on the screen, no longer in a consistent location
Android / other google products, stop labelling icons and make them textless, sure it saves you fucking translation time but it's
Paying UI guys for the sake of paying UI guys.
However it certainly seems pretty robust to me, quite happy with it. Any ZFS performance improvements are definitely welcome, as long as very very good stability is maintained.
I've finally become someone who is happy to sit behind a few versions and wait. 9.2.1.6 FreeNAS here and I'm not moving to 9.3 until at least 3 months after it's settled.
No one gives a damn about it, the SJW crowd have informed us all we need to be FAR more focused on the shirt of one the crew for the lander. It's of dire importance we raise awareness about this mans shirt.......