Some things the media needs to wean off of and let fade away because the topics have long outlived any level of interesting that may have once existed:
1) Blaming Russia for everything wrong with the world 2) Hillary blaming everyone but herself for losing ( Why is she STILL in the news at all ? ) 3) Trump just being Trump ( He is what he is, you expected something different perhaps ? ) 4) North Korea ( Why would anyone take them seriously ? Wake me when they become relevant. ) 5) Syria and / or ISIS 6) Chinese South Sea Islands Stupidity 7) Bitcoin ( and by extension, any other crypto-currency ) 8) Incompetent / Corrupt Republicans / Democrats ( pick your favorite team and scandal, grab a pom-pom and cheer away ) 9) Don't care what Celebrity or Athlete X thinks or protests about. You're paid to amuse the masses, not critical think world affairs. 10) Black, Blue, Green, Red, Whatever Lives Matter ( They either all matter, or they don't. If you can't get that, well, you're a lost cause. ) 11) Brexit 12) Market, housing, pension, student loan bubbles ( yeah we know, ( Morbo Voice: DOOOOOOOOOM ). . . . stfu about it already ) 13) The $badguys are coming ! ( where $badguys = current boogyman flavor of the week ) 14) Man this list can go on forever . . . . .
You know what the media / news should do ? They should remove all the negative shit from their broadcast for just one day and focus on the positive stuff.
It might actually be worth watching again if they bothered to do so.
Try comedy.
The never-ending drama just isn't doing it for me anymore.
I can't swear on my memory, but it seems this is an issue with every single IOS update.
A month or so from now a patch will fix things right up.
Curious how Apple doesn't catch such things ahead of time.
Or ( dons tin foil head gear )
They DO know about it, but keep it quiet and release the IOS anyway vs pushing the release date out far enough so they can fix it.
Kind of how game developers work anymore. ( Which, coincidentally, is why I never buy games until they have been out for six months or longer. Saves a lot of headaches and frustration. )
Means they're either incompetent or untrustworthy.
You want me to let Walmart employees ( who are among the lowest paid workers there are ) into my home which is full of things that might be of financial interest to such a person ? Are you insane ? Even WITH live camera surveillance, not a fucking chance.
This is a burglars wet dream. Get inside, take a peek to see if anything is worth the trouble and come back later ( or get your buddies to do it for alibi reasons ).
As for the " smart lock ", more nope on that. If you haven't learned anything else, you need to learn that if it's internet connected, it's a security issue waiting to happen.
They like to use cost as an excuse for poor security. Cheapest hardware, outsourced IT personnel, and always slashing of the IT budgets. Security isn't an investment in their eyes, it's an expense. Is why they all like " The Cloud " because it offloads that responsibility onto anothers shoulders.
Not enough forward thinking to understand what happens to their stock price and / or litigation flooding when a serious breach goes public due to their negligence disguised as " cost savings ".
Start jailing the executives of these companies and they'll start taking things more seriously.
" The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary. "
IF the Hyperloop ever became operational ( not in our lifetime ) it would most certainly suffer from the same security theater that plagues airlines today.
The same lines, the same screening and silly restrictions / rituals, all the same fun will be applied in order to keep us " safe ".
Thus, while the mechanism to move us from point A to B will differ, all the shit we loathe about the current system will most certainly be there for our continued enjoyment.
The airlines themselves will push for it because " fairness ".
It will quickly become just as horrible an experience as flying is today.
What they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
"Furthermore, users tend to linger more on browser games and video streaming services, allowing the mining script to do its job and generate profits for the crooks."
Stick this code on any porn site or any high-traffic video site and consider how many folks stop by.
The prudent have already placed a security freeze on their credit with all three credit bureaus to prevent new accounts from being opened up. ( You should do this anyway since there is no need to run credit checks very often. Unfreeze when you need to )
Don't even bother trying to do it online unless you enjoy frustration. Just call them.
Banks / lenders will simply reissue new cards and / or change account numbers to be on the safe side. $$$ for them, but I suspect they're going to recoup those costs and then some in the lawsuit they're gonna hit Equifax with.
Maybe we should add a user modifiable pin to the SSN for all transactions that require it. ( Or, quit using the GD thing since for day to day ID as it was never supposed to be used for such purposes )
You should probably pull your free credit report from all three agencies asap if you haven't done so already so you have a baseline to work with going forward.
It has nothing to do with the inability to get folks off their smartphones and has everything to do with the following:
1) Hardware is expensive, bulky and requires fairly high end PC and / or specialized hardware just to run it 2) Resolution within the headset is sub-par at best. Picture doesn't even come close to what a mediocre monitor can do. 3) Developers are hesitant to go all in on VR because it's a niche platform with a limited audience atm and game development is damned expensive. 4) Exclusivity bullshit. Quit making exclusives for Playstation VR, Vive, Occulus, etc. You want cross-platform if you want this to survive. 5) Some folks can handle the motion without getting sick. Many cannot.
IF it survives its second coming, VR might be worthy of attention a few generations from now when more powerful / refined hardware is there to drive it and the headsets are slimmed down a bit. Drop the price on it and more folks will dabble with it. More folks interested in it means more developers might put some effort into making serious titles for folks to play.
Come down off of Mt. Olympus for a bit and take a good look around.
We're on the verge of another major World War already. Just off the top of my head and in no particular order:
North Korea Syria Afghanistan Saudi Arabia Iran India / China facing off China Sea bullshit Day to day terrorism Muslim refugees Race issues Wage inequality Economy issues Propped up stock markets
Basically, the whole world is sitting on a powder keg and the slightest of sparks will set the whole thing off.
All this and you're worried about AI ?
Do you really think places like China or Israel or India give two shits about any treaties or laws we might come up with concerning the creation of AI at any point in the future ?
All the flag waving is nice, but a pointless gesture I'm afraid.
Companies no longer consider training an employee to be an investment in the company, rather it's an expense to be cut.
They want the best talent they can buy at the cheapest price so you can do the job of three people before you burn out.
They could give a shit about " loyalty " because they'll just fire you and replace with another who will do the job for less.
Year after year your healthcare premiums continue to climb while wage increases are all but going in reverse. ( assuming you're lucky enough to even GET healthcare through your employer anymore )
Large swaths of employees are laid off just to satisfy stockholders who want to see an ever climbing profit margin. All the while paying executives yearly bonuses which exceed a regular employees lifetime earnings two or three times over.
I honestly fail to see why anyone would want to work for the typical American company these days considering the environment they have created.
Those of us that have first hand experience with PayPal's bullshit practices don't need to " get a grip ", we KNOW what PayPal does.
Which is why we refuse to use it.
One day you'll wake up to an email claiming your accounts have been frozen for ' security reasons ' and you'll begin the game of how to regain access to them.
Assuming you can. I gave up after two years and just wrote the account off as a loss.
Absolutely will not give them another dime by any means.
Utilize their unregulated services at your own peril, but never claim you weren't warned.
While AT&T is picky about where it deploys its high speed services*, if this lawsuit happens, where do you draw the line ?
Do you sue X for not building a local store in your neighborhood ? Perhaps Y for not having local franchises of your favorite restaurant ?
*AT&T is picky about where it deploys high speed services because they know that the number of households that will be able to afford or will use said service will not justify the cost of its deployment in the first place. Contrary to popular belief, the magic fiber fairy doesn't just show up, wave her wand and presto, fiber is now in the ground ready for use. The infrastructure required to support it is insanely expensive so you HAVE to be picky about where it's deployed.
It would be like building a Whole Foods Market in the worst / poorest neighborhood of any city, then wonder why that particular store has poor sales numbers.
That said, I don't see where they can call it ' unjust ' or ' unreasonable ' discrimination. There is a very justifiable / reasonable explanation as to why companies don't spend ridiculous amounts of money to bring high end services to neighborhoods that are unlikely to utilize them.
that you don't really own it. . . . it's more of a subscription plan type thing:D
They allow you to play with their shiny new toy ( for a fee of course ) but you'll play with it as you're told. If you don't, we'll take it away. And - there - is - nothing - you - can - do - about - it ( except not buy the damn thing in the first place )
I just love that feeling. . . . don't you ?
( It's like Microsoft. . . . or Adobe. . . or Autodesk . . . or Cable TV . . . or . . . damn this is pretty common these days huh ? ) - Come to think of it, do we really own anything anymore ? -
The sooner folks realize this, the faster DJI will cease to be anything meaningful in the world of quad-rotor aircraft. This realization will be the proverbial snowball getting kicked off the mountaintop.
Well, this got me asking myself the question " Just how accurate is wireless GPS data that is fed to the 911 systems ? "
Well, I can answer that actually since I can watch that data in real time as it traverses the 911 network.
That said, the GPS appears to report data that is accurate out to six decimal places. A random one a few moments ago near the Chicago area came across as: +40.769997 -87.739716
My understanding is six digits out gives us an accuracy of.1 meter ( or about four inches for us non-metric types ) but this degrades a bit the further away from the equator you go.
Still, FOUR INCHES ? If you can't find the damn caller within four inches, then you have a much bigger problem. Even with degradation, it should easily be within a couple of meters of the stated location. One of you super math types can probably calculate the deviation if you feel like it.
I understand the need for emergency services to have accurate information, but damn.
IF you can believe the intel ( WMDs in Iraq anyone ? ) NK is led by a bat-shit crazy type who likes to tell the rest of the world about how they're going to be destroyed. Almost daily.:|
Since China and Russia can't be bothered to give a shit, a difficult choice has to be made. Bet they would change their tune in a hurry if Captain Bat-Shit was threatening THEM with nukes.
Wait until he actually has the capability to follow through with his threats and watch millions die*, or deal with this beforehand in which case thousands may die.**
*Assuming a single missile can get through THAAD or any number of the Aegis based ABM interceptors in the area. Doubtful.
**Depending on how quickly we can neutralize all the conventional stuff pointed at SK. I would blanket the gun emplacements with submunition cruise missiles, but it would be near impossible to get them all.
but I'm pretty sure neither Trump nor any American citizen* has any issues with LEGAL Immigration. Go through the steps, do it right and we'll welcome you right in.
It's the illegal variety that we have issues with. Those people should be deported. Just like what would happen if I entered any other country illegally.
*Unless you're a member of the Klan or similar group.
They will fight tooth and nail for wage increases and adding new titles that fall under the Union umbrella.
It isn't because they are looking out for their members. It's because union dues are typically a percentage of a members base pay.
Thus, while the Union loves to claim it's fighting for YOU, the truth is they are really securing a pay raise for themselves. As union worker pay goes up, so too does the union dues.
You're just the proxy they're using so it isn't so obvious.
Is why they could give two shits about how expensive your health care has become. It's money out of YOUR pocket, not theirs. They get theirs regardless of how little remains for you.
Understand this concept and you'll be able to make a better decision about pushing for or joining a Union.
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Some things the media needs to wean off of and let fade away because the topics have long outlived any level of interesting that may have once existed:
1) Blaming Russia for everything wrong with the world
2) Hillary blaming everyone but herself for losing ( Why is she STILL in the news at all ? )
3) Trump just being Trump ( He is what he is, you expected something different perhaps ? )
4) North Korea ( Why would anyone take them seriously ? Wake me when they become relevant. )
5) Syria and / or ISIS
6) Chinese South Sea Islands Stupidity
7) Bitcoin ( and by extension, any other crypto-currency )
8) Incompetent / Corrupt Republicans / Democrats ( pick your favorite team and scandal, grab a pom-pom and cheer away )
9) Don't care what Celebrity or Athlete X thinks or protests about. You're paid to amuse the masses, not critical think world affairs.
10) Black, Blue, Green, Red, Whatever Lives Matter ( They either all matter, or they don't. If you can't get that, well, you're a lost cause. )
11) Brexit
12) Market, housing, pension, student loan bubbles ( yeah we know, ( Morbo Voice: DOOOOOOOOOM ). . . . stfu about it already )
13) The $badguys are coming ! ( where $badguys = current boogyman flavor of the week )
14) Man this list can go on forever . . . . .
You know what the media / news should do ? They should remove all the negative shit from their broadcast for just one day and focus on the positive stuff.
It might actually be worth watching again if they bothered to do so.
Try comedy.
The never-ending drama just isn't doing it for me anymore.
My Galaxy S5 and its removable battery is still working very well. :)
I should probably locate a replacement battery while I can still obtain one.
I can't swear on my memory, but it seems this is an issue with every single IOS update.
A month or so from now a patch will fix things right up.
Curious how Apple doesn't catch such things ahead of time.
Or ( dons tin foil head gear )
They DO know about it, but keep it quiet and release the IOS anyway vs pushing the release date out far enough so they can fix it.
Kind of how game developers work anymore. ( Which, coincidentally, is why I never buy games until they have been out for six months or longer. Saves a lot of headaches and frustration. )
Means they're either incompetent or untrustworthy.
Let me get this straight:
You want me to let Walmart employees ( who are among the lowest paid workers there are ) into my home which is full of things that might be of financial interest to such a person ? Are you insane ? Even WITH live camera surveillance, not a fucking chance.
This is a burglars wet dream. Get inside, take a peek to see if anything is worth the trouble and come back later ( or get your buddies to do it for alibi reasons ).
As for the " smart lock ", more nope on that. If you haven't learned anything else, you need to learn that if it's internet connected, it's a security issue waiting to happen.
They like to use cost as an excuse for poor security. Cheapest hardware, outsourced IT personnel, and always slashing of the IT budgets. Security isn't an investment in their eyes, it's an expense. Is why they all like " The Cloud " because it offloads that responsibility onto anothers shoulders.
Not enough forward thinking to understand what happens to their stock price and / or litigation flooding when a serious breach goes public due to their negligence disguised as " cost savings ".
Start jailing the executives of these companies and they'll start taking things more seriously.
" The idea of getting from one city to another at 700 MPH without having to suffer through an airport and all that jazz is revolutionary. "
IF the Hyperloop ever became operational ( not in our lifetime ) it would most certainly suffer from the same security theater that plagues airlines today.
The same lines, the same screening and silly restrictions / rituals, all the same fun will be applied in order to keep us " safe ".
Thus, while the mechanism to move us from point A to B will differ, all the shit we loathe about the current system will most certainly be there for our continued enjoyment.
The airlines themselves will push for it because " fairness ".
It will quickly become just as horrible an experience as flying is today.
Nah.
These are the sorts of folks they'll actively seek to recruit.
Because if you can successfully attack their scenario, you can likely do it in the real world against an NSA target of choice.
What they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
"Furthermore, users tend to linger more on browser games and video streaming services, allowing the mining script to do its job and generate profits for the crooks."
Stick this code on any porn site or any high-traffic video site and consider how many folks stop by.
The prudent have already placed a security freeze on their credit with all three credit bureaus to prevent new accounts from being opened up.
( You should do this anyway since there is no need to run credit checks very often. Unfreeze when you need to )
Don't even bother trying to do it online unless you enjoy frustration. Just call them.
Equifax — 1-800-349-9960
Experian — 1-888-397-3742
TransUnion — 1-888-909-8872
Banks / lenders will simply reissue new cards and / or change account numbers to be on the safe side. $$$ for them, but I suspect they're
going to recoup those costs and then some in the lawsuit they're gonna hit Equifax with.
Maybe we should add a user modifiable pin to the SSN for all transactions that require it.
( Or, quit using the GD thing since for day to day ID as it was never supposed to be used for such purposes )
You should probably pull your free credit report from all three agencies asap if you haven't done so already so you have a baseline to work with
going forward.
Too much data is just as useless as not enough if you lack the means to read through it all.
A monumental failure on the intelligence community for not realizing this before implementing the systems designed to catch it all.
Congress can't even keep their own in house processes corruption free.
Get back to me about dictating what everyone else is doing when they get their own shit together.
Allow NASA to " fix " the Yellowstone Volcano threat per a recent story.
Watch as things don't quite go as planned.
Yellowstone does it's thing, goes all fire and brimstone and cools the entire planet off in the process. ( After cooking half the US )
Global warming solved. Global Cooling becomes the new buzz word.
It has nothing to do with the inability to get folks off their smartphones and has everything to do with the following:
1) Hardware is expensive, bulky and requires fairly high end PC and / or specialized hardware just to run it
2) Resolution within the headset is sub-par at best. Picture doesn't even come close to what a mediocre monitor can do.
3) Developers are hesitant to go all in on VR because it's a niche platform with a limited audience atm and game development is damned expensive.
4) Exclusivity bullshit. Quit making exclusives for Playstation VR, Vive, Occulus, etc. You want cross-platform if you want this to survive.
5) Some folks can handle the motion without getting sick. Many cannot.
IF it survives its second coming, VR might be worthy of attention a few generations from now when more powerful / refined hardware is there to drive it and the headsets are slimmed down a bit. Drop the price on it and more folks will dabble with it. More folks interested in it means more developers might put some effort into making serious titles for folks to play.
Come down off of Mt. Olympus for a bit and take a good look around.
We're on the verge of another major World War already. Just off the top of my head and in no particular order:
North Korea
Syria
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
Iran
India / China facing off
China Sea bullshit
Day to day terrorism
Muslim refugees
Race issues
Wage inequality
Economy issues
Propped up stock markets
Basically, the whole world is sitting on a powder keg and the slightest of sparks will set the whole thing off.
All this and you're worried about AI ?
Do you really think places like China or Israel or India give two shits about any treaties or laws we might come up with concerning the creation of AI at any point in the future ?
All the flag waving is nice, but a pointless gesture I'm afraid.
Companies no longer consider training an employee to be an investment in the company, rather it's an expense to be cut.
They want the best talent they can buy at the cheapest price so you can do the job of three people before you burn out.
They could give a shit about " loyalty " because they'll just fire you and replace with another who will do the job for less.
Year after year your healthcare premiums continue to climb while wage increases are all but going in reverse. ( assuming you're lucky enough to even GET healthcare through your employer anymore )
Large swaths of employees are laid off just to satisfy stockholders who want to see an ever climbing profit margin. All the while paying executives yearly bonuses which exceed a regular employees lifetime earnings two or three times over.
I honestly fail to see why anyone would want to work for the typical American company these days considering the environment they have created.
Simply impose the same requirements on Chinese goods. Problem solved.
Those of us that have first hand experience with PayPal's bullshit practices don't need to " get a grip ", we KNOW what PayPal does.
Which is why we refuse to use it.
One day you'll wake up to an email claiming your accounts have been frozen for ' security reasons ' and you'll begin the game of how to regain access to them.
Assuming you can. I gave up after two years and just wrote the account off as a loss.
Absolutely will not give them another dime by any means.
Utilize their unregulated services at your own peril, but never claim you weren't warned.
While AT&T is picky about where it deploys its high speed services*, if this lawsuit happens, where do you draw the line ?
Do you sue X for not building a local store in your neighborhood ?
Perhaps Y for not having local franchises of your favorite restaurant ?
*AT&T is picky about where it deploys high speed services because they know that the number of households that will be able to afford or will use said service will not justify the cost of its deployment in the first place. Contrary to popular belief, the magic fiber fairy doesn't just show up, wave her wand and presto, fiber is now in the ground ready for use. The infrastructure required to support it is insanely expensive so you HAVE to be picky about where it's deployed.
It would be like building a Whole Foods Market in the worst / poorest neighborhood of any city, then wonder why that particular store has poor sales numbers.
That said, I don't see where they can call it ' unjust ' or ' unreasonable ' discrimination. There is a very justifiable / reasonable explanation as to why companies don't spend ridiculous amounts of money to bring high end services to neighborhoods that are unlikely to utilize them.
that you don't really own it. . . . it's more of a subscription plan type thing :D
They allow you to play with their shiny new toy ( for a fee of course ) but you'll play with it as you're told. If you don't, we'll take it away.
And - there - is - nothing - you - can - do - about - it ( except not buy the damn thing in the first place )
I just love that feeling. . . . don't you ?
( It's like Microsoft. . . . or Adobe. . . or Autodesk . . . or Cable TV . . . or . . . damn this is pretty common these days huh ? )
- Come to think of it, do we really own anything anymore ? -
The sooner folks realize this, the faster DJI will cease to be anything meaningful in the world of quad-rotor aircraft.
This realization will be the proverbial snowball getting kicked off the mountaintop.
Wave goodbye to DJI -waves-
all the time is, if and when you really are telling the truth, you can't get anyone to believe you.
It is a simple lesson the US Government has failed to grasp.
I don't trust my own government any more or less than a foreign one at this point.
As a result, I've simply tuned it all out.
Well, this got me asking myself the question " Just how accurate is wireless GPS data that is fed to the 911 systems ? "
Well, I can answer that actually since I can watch that data in real time as it traverses the 911 network.
That said, the GPS appears to report data that is accurate out to six decimal places.
A random one a few moments ago near the Chicago area came across as: +40.769997 -87.739716
My understanding is six digits out gives us an accuracy of .1 meter ( or about four inches for us non-metric types ) but this degrades a bit the further away from the equator you go.
Still, FOUR INCHES ? If you can't find the damn caller within four inches, then you have a much bigger problem. Even with degradation, it should easily be within a couple of meters of the stated location. One of you super math types can probably calculate the deviation if you feel like it.
I understand the need for emergency services to have accurate information, but damn.
How much more accurate do you need it to be ?
That some subjects are too taboo to openly discuss in the US.
Regardless of how much data exists to back up or justify a claim, you dare not speak the words lest you get crucified for it.
Free speech is really only free as long as what you say coincides with popular opinion.
IF you can believe the intel ( WMDs in Iraq anyone ? ) NK is led by a bat-shit crazy type who likes to tell the rest of the world about how they're going to be destroyed. Almost daily. :|
Since China and Russia can't be bothered to give a shit, a difficult choice has to be made. Bet they would change their tune in a hurry if Captain Bat-Shit was threatening THEM with nukes.
Wait until he actually has the capability to follow through with his threats and watch millions die*, or deal with this beforehand in which case thousands may die.**
*Assuming a single missile can get through THAAD or any number of the Aegis based ABM interceptors in the area. Doubtful.
**Depending on how quickly we can neutralize all the conventional stuff pointed at SK. I would blanket the gun emplacements with submunition cruise missiles, but it would be near impossible to get them all.
but I'm pretty sure neither Trump nor any American citizen* has any issues with LEGAL Immigration. Go through the steps, do it right and we'll welcome you right in.
It's the illegal variety that we have issues with. Those people should be deported. Just like what would happen if I entered any other country illegally.
*Unless you're a member of the Klan or similar group.
Let me point something out about Unions.
They will fight tooth and nail for wage increases and adding new titles that fall under the Union umbrella.
It isn't because they are looking out for their members. It's because union dues are typically a percentage of a members base pay.
Thus, while the Union loves to claim it's fighting for YOU, the truth is they are really securing a pay raise for themselves. As union worker pay goes up, so too does the union dues.
You're just the proxy they're using so it isn't so obvious.
Is why they could give two shits about how expensive your health care has become. It's money out of YOUR pocket, not theirs. They get theirs regardless of how little remains for you.
Understand this concept and you'll be able to make a better decision about pushing for or joining a Union.