Currently, politicians and the powerful elites are rarely heard from in person, anyway. We get to see the results of their secret meetings and closed-door sessions through carefully crafted press releases and the societal changes we see every day. The controllers, I'm sure, positively love this technology, because it will give them an additional outlet to turn the screws on the little guys.
Think about it, ubiquitous mobile video was probably the last tool that was still on the side of the people. Now, when a powerful elite gets caught talking about how he feels about minorities or wants to bring groups of people "to heel", they can just say the video was compromised. And when one of us proles becomes too uppity and starts criticizing them, they can easily edit us into being a racist or sexist or whatever -ist they come up with this week to suit their "two minutes hate".
Please ignore the fact that you can't get iOS 10 on a 4 year old iPhone, while you can run Marshmallow, the latest fully released Android version (Nougat is only partially released atm), on 7 year old phones. It's the Android that's "unupgradeable", sure.
This might be the biggest [citation fucking really needed] I've ever posted.
Please show me which Android phone, released in 2009 (2009 + 7 = 2016, and 2016 is the current year in case you weren't sure) can run Marshmallow without hacking or running a custom ROM. Hell, please show me which Android phones (you did say phones, so please show at least two), released in 2009, can run Marshmallow WITH a hack or custom ROM. I'm serious, I want to know which underpowered single-core Android can be hacked into running Marshmallow so I can try it for myself just to see how usable it is. I'm genuinely curious.
As for Apple, sure, you can't run iOS on an iPhone 4S, but that was released in 2011 (5 years ago), which the iPhone 5, released in 2012 (4 years ago) has received the iOS 10 update WITHOUT hacks and is still very usable. You are misleading people and being disingenuous. Why? You compare apples to baseballs and somehow makes you feel Android is superior, and that's OK, but please, please don't try and mislead users into thinking that Android is the platform that will provide them with a stable, supported upgrade path more than a year or two into the future.
Need a scapegoat? Server's down but you're feeling great? Just blame it on The Russians(tm), your one-stop shop for plausible deniability!
Wife caught you in bed with the neighbor's daughter while she's home from college for the holiday? No problem, just tell her it was The Russians(tm) who made you do it. No one will question anything and whatever you did won't matter anymore because PUTIN!!
Police on your back about that thing you did last summer? You know which thing. Make it all go away and blame it on The Russians(tm)! Who could possibly care about that poor little boy and the hit and run after you scream about PUTIN'S HACKERS?
Just message them today, on the.ru dark web site of your choice. The Russians(tm). Your comrades in crime.
That the same advertisers and services that want to browbeat everyone for ever minor misstep are the absolute worst about "discriminating" when it comes to their targeting and demographic marketing. It's not outrageous, so what if I'm selling a product and think a certain market is going to buy more of them so that's who I target? Is this news to anyone?
The thing is, it's the hypocrisy of it all that bothers me. Well, that and the erasing of personal preference. I prefer not to date women with red hair, I don't find it attractive. Should I be called a hair-ist? She had no control over being born with red hair, should I be forced by law to date a redhead even if I don't find her attractive because "discrimination"? Where does it end?
If my business was now going to make more money, regardless of the reason why. More anticapitalist hate from the lefty-commies at Slashdot, nothing to see here.
I'd say it's time to go buy stock in some hotel chains doing business in and around New York, but then I remember that Cheetos and Mountain Dew aren't free so there probably isn't much extra liquidity floating around these parts to actually make any money off of, hence the capitalist hate.
Snopes is pretty much just a lady and her cat in a basement. But you choose to ignore that because their website seems to always fit your version of the truth right?
And I dont remember where, that any prediction that gives a sufficiently large amount of time before it is to be affirmed (5 years?) will be forgotten by enough people or vague enough in anyone's memory that it doesn't have to be based on facts at all.
I'm not talking about 3rd party ROMs like Cyanogenmod. That's why I said it can't be done "without rooting, etc.". Sure I can run a 3rd party ROM but then I lose VoLTE, that's the point.
The last 3 Andoids I've used are VoLTE capable and enabled running stock ROMs, and my last 2 iPhones (6 and 7) are as well (both capable and enabled). Let me select the mode I wish to use and be done with it. All I get as a benefit from allowing legacy air interfaces to be an option is decreased battery life as the phone monitors a network I have no interest in using (and if I do need/want it, I'll select it manually).
This isn't something that can eavesdrop on LTE calls, it just forces the phone off of LTE back onto older more insecure air interfaces. But it does make sense now why no phone I've ever owned allows me to force LTE-only mode (without resorting to rooting, jailbreaking, or other hacking), they need to make sure the TLAs can backdoor us onto their stingrays at any given moment.
There's only one answer: Activate Homeland Security!
You know, the department established to thwart terrorists who plan on mass murdering people in spectacular displays like knocking down skyscrapers? The one plenty of us told you was going to be used for every crime in the book in addition to terrorism?
Nah, that kind of scope creep would never happen I was told...
The floppy drive made sense. Legacy/serial ports etc. too. The optical drive made sense. The headphone jack almost makes sense (under the right circumstances, but not for me so I won't be upgrading from my 6S+) Removing the physical home button is simply retarded. And the USB port?
Positively asinine. All the other ports were either obsolete or being replaced by other technologies. The USB port is a standard connector used by literally millions of devices. Hopefully, this is where Apple finally realizes they've jumped the shark, that removing more and more useful connections won't be bringing Jobs back from the dead, and they'll have to actually innovate or die.
I don't like Android's ecosystem for mobile devices. Google and their incessant spying just isn't my bag. But I'd rather see Apple die than continue to make stupid decisions over and over and over again to the point that their products end up being just a screen with content you do not control and an Apple logo on it that you are compelled by the EULA to stare at for 8 hours a day lest your license to stare at the device be revoked and the hardware is bricked. Because that's where it ends up.
Nah, no chance. I'm so sick and tired of these so-called "stars" and their ilk thinking they can dictate reality to the rest of the world. We pay their fucking salaries and they tell us how much better they are than us. All of Hollywood and the mass media can fuck straight off.
I mean for friends and family abroad, not random foreigners. Why? As both a friendly gesture to them, and a middle finger to the rent-seekers, that's why. I'm personally not affected by a cap, so that part's no big deal, and I can handle securing the network.
Although I agree, unsubbing sounds great in practice, and I'd absolutely do it in a heartbeat (Cable TV, too), except the whole family would have me strung up in the back yard about 5 minutes after I do it. I've found most people under the age of 30 in addition to many significant others don't give two shits about taking a stand, only that they get what they want.
To start running OpenVPN and letting anyone they know personally abroad connect in and view the content they want. My connection should be able to handle 2 or 3 more regular HD Netflix streams in and out. They block my IP? Big deal, I can convince the ISP's DHCP server to assign me a new one. Once they've blocked enough dynamic residential IPs to piss everyone off, they'll most likely just give up.
It's easy to play whack-a-mole when there are only a handful of very visible moles. Put millions of them underground and see how much effort the rent-seekers are willing to spend on blocking.
Try and deprive me of my personal property, for any legnth of time, because you're a whiny, self-serving little sniveling Hollywood scumbag and see how much money you continue to get out of me. I would walk away in a heartbeat and make sure everyone I know is aware of what a piece of shit you are.
"Everyone in the world should be recorded to make sure they don't say or do anything that constitutes wrong-think." "Except me, I'm special..."
Something's going on with these bots lately. They're posting coherent, intelligent, well thought out replies that just flatly have nothing to do with the original post or are just blatantly incorrect, or information like this (correct, but not news) but wants to sound so concerning. It's really strange. Like this "news" is almost exactly 5 years old to the day.
I wonder if it's some kind of code that's being hidden in plain view or something?
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Currently, politicians and the powerful elites are rarely heard from in person, anyway. We get to see the results of their secret meetings and closed-door sessions through carefully crafted press releases and the societal changes we see every day. The controllers, I'm sure, positively love this technology, because it will give them an additional outlet to turn the screws on the little guys.
Think about it, ubiquitous mobile video was probably the last tool that was still on the side of the people. Now, when a powerful elite gets caught talking about how he feels about minorities or wants to bring groups of people "to heel", they can just say the video was compromised. And when one of us proles becomes too uppity and starts criticizing them, they can easily edit us into being a racist or sexist or whatever -ist they come up with this week to suit their "two minutes hate".
Please ignore the fact that you can't get iOS 10 on a 4 year old iPhone, while you can run Marshmallow, the latest fully released Android version (Nougat is only partially released atm), on 7 year old phones. It's the Android that's "unupgradeable", sure.
This might be the biggest [citation fucking really needed] I've ever posted.
Please show me which Android phone, released in 2009 (2009 + 7 = 2016, and 2016 is the current year in case you weren't sure) can run Marshmallow without hacking or running a custom ROM. Hell, please show me which Android phones (you did say phones, so please show at least two), released in 2009, can run Marshmallow WITH a hack or custom ROM. I'm serious, I want to know which underpowered single-core Android can be hacked into running Marshmallow so I can try it for myself just to see how usable it is. I'm genuinely curious.
As for Apple, sure, you can't run iOS on an iPhone 4S, but that was released in 2011 (5 years ago), which the iPhone 5, released in 2012 (4 years ago) has received the iOS 10 update WITHOUT hacks and is still very usable. You are misleading people and being disingenuous. Why? You compare apples to baseballs and somehow makes you feel Android is superior, and that's OK, but please, please don't try and mislead users into thinking that Android is the platform that will provide them with a stable, supported upgrade path more than a year or two into the future.
Need a scapegoat? Server's down but you're feeling great? Just blame it on The Russians(tm), your one-stop shop for plausible deniability!
Wife caught you in bed with the neighbor's daughter while she's home from college for the holiday? No problem, just tell her it was The Russians(tm) who made you do it. No one will question anything and whatever you did won't matter anymore because PUTIN!!
Police on your back about that thing you did last summer? You know which thing. Make it all go away and blame it on The Russians(tm)! Who could possibly care about that poor little boy and the hit and run after you scream about PUTIN'S HACKERS?
Just message them today, on the .ru dark web site of your choice. The Russians(tm). Your comrades in crime.
And my next car will be a used Kia because why spend $50k to replace a Lexus if you crash it when you can drive a $4k econobox instead?
That the same advertisers and services that want to browbeat everyone for ever minor misstep are the absolute worst about "discriminating" when it comes to their targeting and demographic marketing. It's not outrageous, so what if I'm selling a product and think a certain market is going to buy more of them so that's who I target? Is this news to anyone?
The thing is, it's the hypocrisy of it all that bothers me. Well, that and the erasing of personal preference. I prefer not to date women with red hair, I don't find it attractive. Should I be called a hair-ist? She had no control over being born with red hair, should I be forced by law to date a redhead even if I don't find her attractive because "discrimination"? Where does it end?
I bet by 2100 most of the Southwestern United States will be a desert, too! Oh, the humanity!
If my business was now going to make more money, regardless of the reason why. More anticapitalist hate from the lefty-commies at Slashdot, nothing to see here.
I'd say it's time to go buy stock in some hotel chains doing business in and around New York, but then I remember that Cheetos and Mountain Dew aren't free so there probably isn't much extra liquidity floating around these parts to actually make any money off of, hence the capitalist hate.
Snopes is pretty much just a lady and her cat in a basement. But you choose to ignore that because their website seems to always fit your version of the truth right?
And I dont remember where, that any prediction that gives a sufficiently large amount of time before it is to be affirmed (5 years?) will be forgotten by enough people or vague enough in anyone's memory that it doesn't have to be based on facts at all.
I'm not talking about 3rd party ROMs like Cyanogenmod. That's why I said it can't be done "without rooting, etc.". Sure I can run a 3rd party ROM but then I lose VoLTE, that's the point.
The last 3 Andoids I've used are VoLTE capable and enabled running stock ROMs, and my last 2 iPhones (6 and 7) are as well (both capable and enabled). Let me select the mode I wish to use and be done with it. All I get as a benefit from allowing legacy air interfaces to be an option is decreased battery life as the phone monitors a network I have no interest in using (and if I do need/want it, I'll select it manually).
This isn't something that can eavesdrop on LTE calls, it just forces the phone off of LTE back onto older more insecure air interfaces. But it does make sense now why no phone I've ever owned allows me to force LTE-only mode (without resorting to rooting, jailbreaking, or other hacking), they need to make sure the TLAs can backdoor us onto their stingrays at any given moment.
There's only one answer: Activate Homeland Security!
You know, the department established to thwart terrorists who plan on mass murdering people in spectacular displays like knocking down skyscrapers? The one plenty of us told you was going to be used for every crime in the book in addition to terrorism?
Nah, that kind of scope creep would never happen I was told...
Snopes...yeah. Reliable source.
Solidify my decision not to use your products! I avoid all things Samsung like most people would avoid a rabid dog or a disease-infested needle.
Trump needs to do what? Get a GTA V mod video pulled from YouTube using a DMCA complaint? Make a GTA V mod video with exploding Note 7's?
Um, sure...I'll see if they can get right on that, and I'm not prying but aren't you supposed to take your meds today?
You sound like a broken record. You aren't the kind of person I'd interact with, anyway.
Apple is removing a standard port.
The floppy drive made sense. Legacy/serial ports etc. too.
The optical drive made sense.
The headphone jack almost makes sense (under the right circumstances, but not for me so I won't be upgrading from my 6S+)
Removing the physical home button is simply retarded.
And the USB port?
Positively asinine. All the other ports were either obsolete or being replaced by other technologies. The USB port is a standard connector used by literally millions of devices. Hopefully, this is where Apple finally realizes they've jumped the shark, that removing more and more useful connections won't be bringing Jobs back from the dead, and they'll have to actually innovate or die.
I don't like Android's ecosystem for mobile devices. Google and their incessant spying just isn't my bag. But I'd rather see Apple die than continue to make stupid decisions over and over and over again to the point that their products end up being just a screen with content you do not control and an Apple logo on it that you are compelled by the EULA to stare at for 8 hours a day lest your license to stare at the device be revoked and the hardware is bricked. Because that's where it ends up.
There are no good guys.
Nah, no chance. I'm so sick and tired of these so-called "stars" and their ilk thinking they can dictate reality to the rest of the world. We pay their fucking salaries and they tell us how much better they are than us. All of Hollywood and the mass media can fuck straight off.
Trump can't win now
If you repeat a lie often enough, or something along those lines...right?
That's about the gist of it these days, isn't it?
I mean for friends and family abroad, not random foreigners. Why? As both a friendly gesture to them, and a middle finger to the rent-seekers, that's why. I'm personally not affected by a cap, so that part's no big deal, and I can handle securing the network.
Although I agree, unsubbing sounds great in practice, and I'd absolutely do it in a heartbeat (Cable TV, too), except the whole family would have me strung up in the back yard about 5 minutes after I do it. I've found most people under the age of 30 in addition to many significant others don't give two shits about taking a stand, only that they get what they want.
To start running OpenVPN and letting anyone they know personally abroad connect in and view the content they want. My connection should be able to handle 2 or 3 more regular HD Netflix streams in and out. They block my IP? Big deal, I can convince the ISP's DHCP server to assign me a new one. Once they've blocked enough dynamic residential IPs to piss everyone off, they'll most likely just give up.
It's easy to play whack-a-mole when there are only a handful of very visible moles. Put millions of them underground and see how much effort the rent-seekers are willing to spend on blocking.
Try and deprive me of my personal property, for any legnth of time, because you're a whiny, self-serving little sniveling Hollywood scumbag and see how much money you continue to get out of me. I would walk away in a heartbeat and make sure everyone I know is aware of what a piece of shit you are.
"Everyone in the world should be recorded to make sure they don't say or do anything that constitutes wrong-think." "Except me, I'm special..."
Yep, go fuck yourself.
Something's going on with these bots lately. They're posting coherent, intelligent, well thought out replies that just flatly have nothing to do with the original post or are just blatantly incorrect, or information like this (correct, but not news) but wants to sound so concerning. It's really strange. Like this "news" is almost exactly 5 years old to the day.
I wonder if it's some kind of code that's being hidden in plain view or something?