Exactly. Even in America you only tend to get charged and tried for crimes you did do, not those you didn't do. I don't know, maybe this guy is black or poor or something.
If they're genuine users, they've already provided Microsoft with their phone number and post code when they did the install/setup. Presumably with real data. Quite why anyone would do that is beyond me - you just *know* you'll be reading about that data getting used in phishing exploits over the coming months/years. "Why does an OS need your phone number" people will ask. "What will the front end to a file manager do with your postcode"? It's like they want to train people to be more malleable phishing victims, like waiters in restaurants who say "I'm just taking your credit card over here, where you can't see what I'm doing with it".
> It's just one more exposure. The real problem is in actually being able to tell what -any- app is currently doing > on your device. And that kind of monitoring is no-where in sight.
Wrong, and wrong. With this, you can access all the memory on your phone. Clearly with this you CAN tell what's running, You can stop what's running. You can patch what's running. You can do whever you like, This is about as different to the average piece of malware as is possible to get.
He has a point. There's no evidence praying has any effect. In other words, you might as well not bother praying and you'll get the same effect for less effort. Your effort can then be spent doing something which has a chance of changing something. Practically any course of action is better than praying.
I'm on Jelly Bean. Not tried other browsers because...well, it has to work on chrome or I'm not using it, much like I never install apps to view websites when I can just view the website in a browser!
You should see the mobile site! I have a Galaxy S3 - the fastest smartphone in the world (I think, if not then one of the fastest) and it's unusable. You try and drag-scroll the screen but your finger leaves the content behind. Every action is really slow and painful, and a lot of the functionality is missing. I've tried leaving constructive advice but you get taken to some third party focus group type webpage with generic `how do you rate your experience` type questions, and not `in your own words explain the terrible, terrible problems you're having`. I keep seeing this notification icon but instead of showing me something useful like the last few replies to comments I get a bunch of stuff from 2 months ago - as if I'd ever want that flagged in red at the top of the main page!
> The system should be modified to be round based rather than real-time.
Why? Leave it as it is - it's not hurting anyone. You, as a consumer, can still research companies, stock prices, forecasts etc, and decide to buy which stock you want. When you're ready, buy it. A few milliseconds won't make any difference if you're going to be holding stock for months/years. If people want to get involved in all this millisecond stuff leave them to it.
As some retards have pointed out, I typed `Dropbox` instead of `Drive`. (Anyone with a reading age greater than 11 probably figured this out already though...)
Twatted? Is there a term for when a company decides to make more money at the expense of all of their customers? If not, now seem as good a time as any to coin one!
It means...nothing. Sometimes people get to the end of a project (Dropbox is done - you can store files in it and everything) and decide to do something different of their choice, not something different of their employer's choice. Confusing, huh?
Lines don't need to be drawn in defining art. Why would they?
John Cage's chance music doesn't necessarily convey emotion or a message - it just is. A lot of visual art is the same. What message does Kafka's The Trial convey. It's possibly my favourite book, but I wouldn't say it was meant to mean anything, and I don't think the author went to the great trouble it took to create with the intention of simply stimulating an emotion or two.
I don't know what information or emotion you're attempting to provoke with you last sentence, as I cannot parse it.
> it would be nice if there was at least one place where you could safely store public > files that won't be shut down.
Google Drive. DropBox. Perhaps the MS one, perhaps there are others. None of these have that stupid javascript nonsense where you have to wait 90 second, view ad for gambling websites etc. I'm not really with you with the XKCD thing is; brilliant as that site is, for downloaders you don't need to create an account. (Obviously you need to create an account as an uploader - I don't see a way around that, nor have a problem with it).
They keep showing the same advert for it in the UK over and over. It's a really blatantly American advert; no attempt has been made to produce a commercial for the UK market - so whenever it comes on it's like 30 odd seconds of a bizarre nerdy High School Musical/Honey BooBoo Child hybrid. It shows people throwing these odd little laptops with detachable keyboards (which are thinner than the display), but makes no attempt to explain what it is, what you'd do with it and why you'd want one. At least the bland, patronizing Apple commercials show you a bunch of apps and explain - very slowly - what you can do with it. I don't think I've ever seen a Google advert, but the OS doesn't seem to be suffering because of it, which tells you pretty much all you need to know about the efficacy of commercials.
More "'nam soldiers" died after the war by their own hand than during it. They also perpetrated atrocities/war crimes against civilians including rape and murder of children. I'm not sure they constitute any meaningful sort of control group upon which to rate the effect of drugs.
Amusingly, he's pointing out the truth, and you're the one flaming him. I'm not, although I have the same stimulus as yourself, suggesting that you are perhaps not one of those people who could use meth responsibly. More people are like you, so on the whole meth is harmful to society as a whole, but it's not fair to put the full blame on the drug, just like you can't blame alcohol for the actions of loads of really stupid drunk people.
Probably easier to have the laptop installed with a dual boot windows/linux (or even have 7 boot options - different versions of linux, 1 windows etc) just for show (and to waste their time) but carry a 16gig usb key which you boot into whenever you want to use your computer, accessing a large truecrypt file on one of the partitions if you need more storage. Having said that, if you're only there for a few days/weeks, you probably don't need more storage, and if you did you could just use a second/third usb key, again with a truecrypt file on it. Such a system, especially if all your surfing is done via vpn, should be rather safe.
If I were involved in trying to detect/defeat this sort of tampering, and I worked for (say) the American security services, I'd be offering to supply travelling westerners with clean partitions on the laptops and requesting a copy of them upon return to see what sort of crap gets installed.
Yeah, rebranded, and/or not used by regular people. Like I say, no-one had heard of them, and they just came out of nowhere, took the stage, and then faded as Samsung's star ascended.
Not sure - nobody's being straight with their figures.
I do know that nokia have a good reputation for hardware, and that if they sold quality android phones they'd quickly be up there with Samsung and HTC. People have heard of them. 2 year ago, *noone* had heard of HTC. If nokia aren't careful, nobody will remember them in 2 years time.
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Exactly. Even in America you only tend to get charged and tried for crimes you did do, not those you didn't do. I don't know, maybe this guy is black or poor or something.
Google can do what they want. This move improves security. Sometimes you have to force people to wake up so that they move their feet out of the fire.
If they're genuine users, they've already provided Microsoft with their phone number and post code when they did the install/setup. Presumably with real data. Quite why anyone would do that is beyond me - you just *know* you'll be reading about that data getting used in phishing exploits over the coming months/years. "Why does an OS need your phone number" people will ask. "What will the front end to a file manager do with your postcode"? It's like they want to train people to be more malleable phishing victims, like waiters in restaurants who say "I'm just taking your credit card over here, where you can't see what I'm doing with it".
> It's just one more exposure. The real problem is in actually being able to tell what -any- app is currently doing
> on your device. And that kind of monitoring is no-where in sight.
Wrong, and wrong. With this, you can access all the memory on your phone. Clearly with this you CAN tell what's running, You can stop what's running. You can patch what's running. You can do whever you like, This is about as different to the average piece of malware as is possible to get.
He has a point. There's no evidence praying has any effect. In other words, you might as well not bother praying and you'll get the same effect for less effort. Your effort can then be spent doing something which has a chance of changing something. Practically any course of action is better than praying.
I'm on Jelly Bean. Not tried other browsers because...well, it has to work on chrome or I'm not using it, much like I never install apps to view websites when I can just view the website in a browser!
You should see the mobile site! I have a Galaxy S3 - the fastest smartphone in the world (I think, if not then one of the fastest) and it's unusable. You try and drag-scroll the screen but your finger leaves the content behind. Every action is really slow and painful, and a lot of the functionality is missing. I've tried leaving constructive advice but you get taken to some third party focus group type webpage with generic `how do you rate your experience` type questions, and not `in your own words explain the terrible, terrible problems you're having`. I keep seeing this notification icon but instead of showing me something useful like the last few replies to comments I get a bunch of stuff from 2 months ago - as if I'd ever want that flagged in red at the top of the main page!
Who mentioned the NSA? Apart from you, I mean?
> The system should be modified to be round based rather than real-time.
Why? Leave it as it is - it's not hurting anyone. You, as a consumer, can still research companies, stock prices, forecasts etc, and decide to buy which stock you want. When you're ready, buy it. A few milliseconds won't make any difference if you're going to be holding stock for months/years. If people want to get involved in all this millisecond stuff leave them to it.
> And you are composing mail in HTML, why? I read all of my mail as plain text.
Do you buy chicken? Why? I'm a vegetarian.
Uh..who gives a shit, mate. Keep your opinions to yourself. He wants to compose email in HTML, ok?
As some retards have pointed out, I typed `Dropbox` instead of `Drive`. (Anyone with a reading age greater than 11 probably figured this out already though...)
Twatted? Is there a term for when a company decides to make more money at the expense of all of their customers? If not, now seem as good a time as any to coin one!
It means...nothing. Sometimes people get to the end of a project (Dropbox is done - you can store files in it and everything) and decide to do something different of their choice, not something different of their employer's choice. Confusing, huh?
Not sure if serious... anything can be art, doesn't mean everything is art.
Lines don't need to be drawn in defining art. Why would they?
John Cage's chance music doesn't necessarily convey emotion or a message - it just is. A lot of visual art is the same. What message does Kafka's The Trial convey. It's possibly my favourite book, but I wouldn't say it was meant to mean anything, and I don't think the author went to the great trouble it took to create with the intention of simply stimulating an emotion or two.
I don't know what information or emotion you're attempting to provoke with you last sentence, as I cannot parse it.
> it would be nice if there was at least one place where you could safely store public
> files that won't be shut down.
Google Drive. DropBox. Perhaps the MS one, perhaps there are others. None of these have that stupid javascript nonsense where you have to wait 90 second, view ad for gambling websites etc. I'm not really with you with the XKCD thing is; brilliant as that site is, for downloaders you don't need to create an account. (Obviously you need to create an account as an uploader - I don't see a way around that, nor have a problem with it).
They keep showing the same advert for it in the UK over and over. It's a really blatantly American advert; no attempt has been made to produce a commercial for the UK market - so whenever it comes on it's like 30 odd seconds of a bizarre nerdy High School Musical/Honey BooBoo Child hybrid. It shows people throwing these odd little laptops with detachable keyboards (which are thinner than the display), but makes no attempt to explain what it is, what you'd do with it and why you'd want one. At least the bland, patronizing Apple commercials show you a bunch of apps and explain - very slowly - what you can do with it. I don't think I've ever seen a Google advert, but the OS doesn't seem to be suffering because of it, which tells you pretty much all you need to know about the efficacy of commercials.
More "'nam soldiers" died after the war by their own hand than during it. They also perpetrated atrocities/war crimes against civilians including rape and murder of children. I'm not sure they constitute any meaningful sort of control group upon which to rate the effect of drugs.
Amusingly, he's pointing out the truth, and you're the one flaming him. I'm not, although I have the same stimulus as yourself, suggesting that you are perhaps not one of those people who could use meth responsibly. More people are like you, so on the whole meth is harmful to society as a whole, but it's not fair to put the full blame on the drug, just like you can't blame alcohol for the actions of loads of really stupid drunk people.
Probably easier to have the laptop installed with a dual boot windows/linux (or even have 7 boot options - different versions of linux, 1 windows etc) just for show (and to waste their time) but carry a 16gig usb key which you boot into whenever you want to use your computer, accessing a large truecrypt file on one of the partitions if you need more storage. Having said that, if you're only there for a few days/weeks, you probably don't need more storage, and if you did you could just use a second/third usb key, again with a truecrypt file on it. Such a system, especially if all your surfing is done via vpn, should be rather safe.
If I were involved in trying to detect/defeat this sort of tampering, and I worked for (say) the American security services, I'd be offering to supply travelling westerners with clean partitions on the laptops and requesting a copy of them upon return to see what sort of crap gets installed.
Yeah, rebranded, and/or not used by regular people. Like I say, no-one had heard of them, and they just came out of nowhere, took the stage, and then faded as Samsung's star ascended.
Not sure - nobody's being straight with their figures.
I do know that nokia have a good reputation for hardware, and that if they sold quality android phones they'd quickly be up there with Samsung and HTC. People have heard of them. 2 year ago, *noone* had heard of HTC. If nokia aren't careful, nobody will remember them in 2 years time.
No, no problem using words instead of numbers. Numbers are boring. Also, you can get it wrong - windows 3,95,98,2000,7. Lol!
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