is when you screen commercials from your environment, and then end up somewhere where you can't avoid it, it's astounding how incredibly annoying they are-- like standing without earplugs next to someone operating a jackhammer... Makes a ready reminder as to why you were avoiding them in the first place.
Vine was mildly amusing for about 10 minutes. But a short video loop is not a tweet-- you would see it over and over until you manually advanced to the next video. What is needed is a stream that, akin to a twitter feed, will play one loop after another in a continuous movie as new segments are posted. I want to just sit back and watch all my follows in a mashup, not have to constantly click to get to the next one...
Before shopping malls, you would periodically see picketers right outside the front door of businesses whose employees had a beef, because once upon a time, picketing could actually be effective. Once shopping malls came about, picketing was no longer useful because the malls were private property and the storefronts combined and enclosed, and you can't picket within the enclosed mall given its private property reduced status as a "public forum" (your state's laws may vary in this regard). So the best that can be done is to picket at the public street entrance to the mall where the specific store target of the picketing is obscured and non-targeted businesses can then be adversely affected. At that point, picketers have largely "gone the way of the dodo" as they say, though some no doubt are happy about that. Several court cases have come about regarding shopping malls as public forums, with mixed results. I recall in the 1950s and 1960s picketing was a lot more common to see than since retail businesses started circling the wagons and using private property arguments as a defense.
Yeah, I spent about a year on Facebook, and decided most of what people post that I know casually is crap. Those I'm close enough to to email, aren't spamming their friends with such crap, they target info based on what they know the recipient will be interested in and are fine with email. About a year ago, I got fed up with FB entirely and haven't looked back. I signed in once over that time just to see if anything had happened that was of any interest, and found there wasn't a single thing.
What about the "disk" space it takes to maintain the frozen state of the app? Does force quitting an app free that up? RAM is only one kind of memory on the device, and not the only one that may be in short supply...
So in other words, if someone *wants* to have their identity exposed for attacking CNN, all they have to do is attack CNN a little more. That should work nicely for CNN...
If eastlink goes out of business, I guess that would be OK then, it's only if they want to keep from going out of business by upgrading their software, it's an issue. I've had old addresses that went away because the companies who owned the domains went belly-up and stopped paying for those domains--or sold them to people who decided to use them for some other purpose. Get used to it, emails on SEDs (Someone Else's Domain) are subject to unexpected change.
If you want a laptop, buy a f**ing laptop. What I wanted was a tablet, and could give a shit how bad some add-on keyboard is, if I wanted an add-on keyboard I would have bought a laptop. I didn't buy it to write long-winded word processing documents. I've had mine for a good 4 years now, and it's been great. I have a laptop too. If I had to choose between the tablet and laptop, I'd pick the tablet, as the laptop I've hardly used. When I want to do a lot of writing, I use my desktop, because a laptop also makes a crappy desktop-- I've got a split ergo keyboard for my desktop, the crappy laptop keyboard gives me carpal tunnel pain.
People end up uploading their own information to public servers without realizing it. Or others, legitimately handling the information may end up not intending to make it public but store it in a location that ends up being insecure. This move by Google just sweeps it under the rug-- if it's publicly accessible, hiding it from search results doesn't make it suddenly inaccessible, it just means you can't use Google to find it. Only Google would think that makes it hard to find. If it's personal health information, it must have a "person" identified, and that person could, theoretically, be notified so they can "fix" the problem, or at least decide if they care...
Yes, who are we to stand in the way of the Darwin effect? If they want it and are idiots, let them have it and decrease the surplus population starting with said idiots.
I was afraid the Russians had infected Hillary Clinton and her team with mind-control technology that caused them to write a lot of incriminating emails and store them on an insecure server. It's a relief to know that all they did was execute a phishing campaign.
Where does the money come from? Well, let's let the rich pay for the programs they care about, and not burden the rest of us with them-- middle east misadventures, bank bailouts-- only the wealthy care about that, it should come out of THEIR taxes, not the rest of ours. And if they choose to cut their taxes, then the benefits they receive associated with those taxes get cut too. The rest of us don't get tax cuts, yet we're paying for shit we don't care about and not paying for things we don't care about, such as making sure our neighbors don't go postal because they can't find a decent job, or can't afford decent healthcare. I don't live in a gated community, and I don't want to see the people around me go without heathcare-- quite franky, it's not healthy to them as well as me. So allow me to earmark my taxes so that far less of it goes to counterproductive military efforts in foreign countries, and more of it goes to local programs that I actually will derive some benefit from. I'm not interested in paying taxes to the Saudis, for example, or Israel, or pretty much any cost that ends up wasted in/on the middle east-- let the wealthy who seem to be interested in that carry their own weight in that regard.
Why should *anybody* have to give up their money to "protect" everyone from threats that aren't all that serious? We spend TRILLIONS of dollars fighting "terrorism" when lack of decent healthcare is far more threatening to anyone living in the US (other than the wealthy) than terrorism. And most of the money goes to opportunists and incompetents who aren't delivering on their protection promise anyhow. Let the wealthy defend THEMSELVES from "terrorism", the rest of us might just prefer to spend our money on programs that actually benefit us, like keeping sick and homeless people off the streets, giving people a decent alternative to dealing drugs and committing petty crime (working at Walmart sure ain't it). If we can afford to spend all that money on mucking up the middle east, we can take enough of that money and instead devote it to universal healthcare and basic income-- it's a MUCH better investment that would actually pay off instead of just destroying more stuff and pissing more people off with bombs.
If proxy servers are still allowed, you don't need an alternative browser. I don't leave it up to the browser to "fix" what's wrong with the browsing experience.
Well, I'm not using the default iOS browser on my iPad-- and the alternative one I'm using provides a better experience-- so it's not like there's no room for improvement...
Several of my systems are using Windows versions no longer supported by Chrome. It nags about it, which is annoying but it isn't going to make me update my OS.
Firefox doesn't have that problem, you can still run old versions of Firefox that don't nag you about stuff that's not going to change. Try installing an old version of Chrome-- not quite so easy...
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is when you screen commercials from your environment, and then end up somewhere where you can't avoid it, it's astounding how incredibly annoying they are-- like standing without earplugs next to someone operating a jackhammer... Makes a ready reminder as to why you were avoiding them in the first place.
Vine was mildly amusing for about 10 minutes. But a short video loop is not a tweet-- you would see it over and over until you manually advanced to the next video. What is needed is a stream that, akin to a twitter feed, will play one loop after another in a continuous movie as new segments are posted. I want to just sit back and watch all my follows in a mashup, not have to constantly click to get to the next one...
So the solution clearly is, run two honeypots, one with Kaspersky, and another with Cisco.
Perhaps Kaspersky's software has been a bit too effective at blocking NSA malware...
Paranoia is what I *want* in a company offering security solutions.
Before shopping malls, you would periodically see picketers right outside the front door of businesses whose employees had a beef, because once upon a time, picketing could actually be effective. Once shopping malls came about, picketing was no longer useful because the malls were private property and the storefronts combined and enclosed, and you can't picket within the enclosed mall given its private property reduced status as a "public forum" (your state's laws may vary in this regard). So the best that can be done is to picket at the public street entrance to the mall where the specific store target of the picketing is obscured and non-targeted businesses can then be adversely affected. At that point, picketers have largely "gone the way of the dodo" as they say, though some no doubt are happy about that. Several court cases have come about regarding shopping malls as public forums, with mixed results. I recall in the 1950s and 1960s picketing was a lot more common to see than since retail businesses started circling the wagons and using private property arguments as a defense.
So who do you want controlling your access to the free market? Verizon, Comcast or AT&T?
Yeah, I spent about a year on Facebook, and decided most of what people post that I know casually is crap. Those I'm close enough to to email, aren't spamming their friends with such crap, they target info based on what they know the recipient will be interested in and are fine with email. About a year ago, I got fed up with FB entirely and haven't looked back. I signed in once over that time just to see if anything had happened that was of any interest, and found there wasn't a single thing.
What about the "disk" space it takes to maintain the frozen state of the app? Does force quitting an app free that up? RAM is only one kind of memory on the device, and not the only one that may be in short supply...
As long as rich people are getting these diseases, there will be money to develop effective treatments.
So in other words, if someone *wants* to have their identity exposed for attacking CNN, all they have to do is attack CNN a little more. That should work nicely for CNN...
If eastlink goes out of business, I guess that would be OK then, it's only if they want to keep from going out of business by upgrading their software, it's an issue. I've had old addresses that went away because the companies who owned the domains went belly-up and stopped paying for those domains--or sold them to people who decided to use them for some other purpose. Get used to it, emails on SEDs (Someone Else's Domain) are subject to unexpected change.
The fact it's connect to the INTERNET is the height of stupidity. If it wasn't it would matter all that much what OS it uses...
If you want a laptop, buy a f**ing laptop. What I wanted was a tablet, and could give a shit how bad some add-on keyboard is, if I wanted an add-on keyboard I would have bought a laptop. I didn't buy it to write long-winded word processing documents. I've had mine for a good 4 years now, and it's been great. I have a laptop too. If I had to choose between the tablet and laptop, I'd pick the tablet, as the laptop I've hardly used. When I want to do a lot of writing, I use my desktop, because a laptop also makes a crappy desktop-- I've got a split ergo keyboard for my desktop, the crappy laptop keyboard gives me carpal tunnel pain.
People end up uploading their own information to public servers without realizing it. Or others, legitimately handling the information may end up not intending to make it public but store it in a location that ends up being insecure. This move by Google just sweeps it under the rug-- if it's publicly accessible, hiding it from search results doesn't make it suddenly inaccessible, it just means you can't use Google to find it. Only Google would think that makes it hard to find. If it's personal health information, it must have a "person" identified, and that person could, theoretically, be notified so they can "fix" the problem, or at least decide if they care...
I for one, welcome our nanny state overlords. I'm anxiously awaiting the day when they start wiping our ass.
Yes, who are we to stand in the way of the Darwin effect? If they want it and are idiots, let them have it and decrease the surplus population starting with said idiots.
Just like any other snake-oil salesman.
I was afraid the Russians had infected Hillary Clinton and her team with mind-control technology that caused them to write a lot of incriminating emails and store them on an insecure server. It's a relief to know that all they did was execute a phishing campaign.
Where does the money come from? Well, let's let the rich pay for the programs they care about, and not burden the rest of us with them-- middle east misadventures, bank bailouts-- only the wealthy care about that, it should come out of THEIR taxes, not the rest of ours. And if they choose to cut their taxes, then the benefits they receive associated with those taxes get cut too. The rest of us don't get tax cuts, yet we're paying for shit we don't care about and not paying for things we don't care about, such as making sure our neighbors don't go postal because they can't find a decent job, or can't afford decent healthcare. I don't live in a gated community, and I don't want to see the people around me go without heathcare-- quite franky, it's not healthy to them as well as me. So allow me to earmark my taxes so that far less of it goes to counterproductive military efforts in foreign countries, and more of it goes to local programs that I actually will derive some benefit from. I'm not interested in paying taxes to the Saudis, for example, or Israel, or pretty much any cost that ends up wasted in/on the middle east-- let the wealthy who seem to be interested in that carry their own weight in that regard.
Why should *anybody* have to give up their money to "protect" everyone from threats that aren't all that serious? We spend TRILLIONS of dollars fighting "terrorism" when lack of decent healthcare is far more threatening to anyone living in the US (other than the wealthy) than terrorism. And most of the money goes to opportunists and incompetents who aren't delivering on their protection promise anyhow. Let the wealthy defend THEMSELVES from "terrorism", the rest of us might just prefer to spend our money on programs that actually benefit us, like keeping sick and homeless people off the streets, giving people a decent alternative to dealing drugs and committing petty crime (working at Walmart sure ain't it). If we can afford to spend all that money on mucking up the middle east, we can take enough of that money and instead devote it to universal healthcare and basic income-- it's a MUCH better investment that would actually pay off instead of just destroying more stuff and pissing more people off with bombs.
If proxy servers are still allowed, you don't need an alternative browser. I don't leave it up to the browser to "fix" what's wrong with the browsing experience.
Well, I'm not using the default iOS browser on my iPad-- and the alternative one I'm using provides a better experience-- so it's not like there's no room for improvement...
Several of my systems are using Windows versions no longer supported by Chrome. It nags about it, which is annoying but it isn't going to make me update my OS. Firefox doesn't have that problem, you can still run old versions of Firefox that don't nag you about stuff that's not going to change. Try installing an old version of Chrome-- not quite so easy...