"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.
Not to stand up for Microsoft, but I don't remember Office ever being free. Maybe some of the old DOS versions of Word/Excel, etc? But I do remember paying for a copy of Office '97 on CD-ROM(!)
I know a lot of the cheap clones like Packard Bell, et. al. would come with a copy of "Microsoft Works" (chuckle), which were incompatible file-format wise from Office.
What do you think any media is? Why do you think so many radio stations play music? Because it keeps the most listeners engaged long enough to get to the next commercial break. Do you really think television is designed to entertain you? Ha. It's there to make you feel as inadequate as possible until the advertisements play to sell you products that will fix your inherent inadequacy.
Nah, not nihilism. I'm not really sure what you call how I feel these days, but I've been fighting and screaming about corruption and collusion for so long and have really seen how deep and wide it goes, so much that HuffPo screaming bloody murder about corruption in the big mean oil companies makes me feel like I'm a kid watching Captain Planet and obsessing over someone littering or not recycling.
Journalists could expose real corruption and real "conspiracies", but that would be dangerous and they'd have to risk something to print it. A nice, safe story about oil companies is about as risque as wearing a bikini on Miami Beach.
The headline should read Widespread Corruption in Humans.
Find me one group of powerful people, be it ANY industry, ANY government, ALL of academia, ALL banking/financial, whatever sector you want to pick, one place where multiple people have stood to gain through backroom deals and collusion where is hasn't/doesn't consistently happen.
Humans work to benefit their own ends, Film at 11.
You know, for the children and because of terrorists and shit. Because before cellphones, absolutely NO ONE EVER stood by a payphone waiting for a call, usually from their counterpart calling from another payphone.
We can sit around and poke fun at vegans, Juggalos, PETA, and all the other groups that are super easy to/we love to hate. That's precisely why this article is propaganda, as you shouldn't think for a second that "political statements" like being pro-encryption, rooting for Apple, anti-authoritarian, or against a police state doesn't also land you on the same lists.
It's fun to joke around and all, but allowing any ridiculous-yet-innocuous activities be branded as terrorism just opens the door for the totalitarians to brand any common sense political leanings the same way. You know, I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Juggalo...or whatever.
I agree that is complete bullshit, but your experience mirrors every Linux experience I've had in the last decade. I try and try to get basic things to work, and they just never do. Actually, Linux worked *better* for me 10 years ago than it has in the last few, so I just stick to BSD. I don't dislike Linux by any means, it just doesn't work for me.
Because unlike FM Stereo, analog TV left a lot of room for improvement. FM Stereo, for most use cases, really actually is "good enough" considering the vast majority of people aren't audiophiles.
Also, the sketchy RF environment inherent in mobile use (such as in the car or handheld device) isn't well suited for digital. Where an analog signal fades for a split second or you get a moment of static, the digital drops out completely, tries to re-sync the stream and has to buffer before it continues playing.
Some things really are just better suited for a down-and-dirty analog connection.
Your brainpower must be exceedingly limited if you don't understand the length of time and scope of problem that a nuclear meltdown poses to the environment versus some "carbon", that arguably does or does not have a limited effect solely on the climate of the planet.
I was assured by the Slashdot elite, even weeks on from the earthquake/tsunami, that there had been no meltdown nor even any kind of breach of the nuclear fuel at all and to say otherwise was a tinfoil-hat-tier conspiracy.
Audio streaming apps (especially ones that are live streaming like TuneIn, etc.) seem to try and continue buffering the stream after you disconnect bluetooth or unplug the headphones. I don't dislike that feature, but it can really kill your battery if you, say, shut off your car and just grab your phone then go inside a building with little to no cell coverage. That few minutes of the cell radio struggling to maintain the audio stream under poor RF conditions can chew through some battery very quickly.
So yeah, I'll still be killing apps as I see fit. Why an Apple executive would even waste his breath telling people not to force-close apps is beyond me. Too many home buttons failing under warranty?
The only problem is that hate-speech, as such, is a fabrication of the weak minds of soft liberals. I see much of their rhetoric as hate-speech as well, the only difference being I am strong enough of mind to be able to handle having my views challenged without resorting to censorship.
Banning words IS just lazy, just not technologically. It's intellectually lazy to not be able to handle criticism of your ideals.
Sort of, if you live in some third-world banana republic where MMS is outrageously expensive, but for the rest of the civilized world can I get a resounding "Who gives a shit?".
No one in the real world uses this crap. Can you imagine if you told your boss you were going to send him a "WhatsApp" after the meeting? Or tell your girlfriend you're going to "WhatsApp" her where to meet for dinner. Maybe you can "Sextapp" her too while she's at work.
No, in the real world we use SMS and MMS, email, and at least at my place of business, iMessage. Occasionally we'll use Skype for an overseas call or a quick video call. But seriously? A facebook-owned kiddie message toy is dropping support for some devices that the kiddies aren't using anyway? Yawn, as with anything facebook or twitter related, who cares?
I believe in the ideal of American Exceptionalism, but in practice, it's an ideal we've tried to live up to and fallen short -- and it's been that way since its very founding.
I don't disagree. The unfortunate problem, at least for me, is I don't see any better way.
I can only go by the recounting of recent recorded history (say, the 1200's to present), but it seems that the basic tenets of free enterprise, liberty, and personal wealth/property is simply better than the antithesis of large-scale communal societies. Does socialism work? Yes, on the small level of communities, (yes) churches, people who know and trust one another.
Beyond that, you're better off just fending for yourself. And that's what makes it exceptional, if you're not just a completely useless piece of shit you can manage to get by on your own terms. No selling out necessary.
I also like how you turned a discussion about China into yet another America Sucks rant. We certainly have been short on those lately on Slashdot. Thanks for making up the shortfall.
On the contrary, I happen to be of the opinion that America is, in fact, exceptional*. That's precisely why I want us to live up to our ideals rather than throw them away for a bit of perceived security. We don't need a police state in America to be free.
* I know that's a bad word these days, but I stand by it. Nowhere else on Earth has seen the prosperity, personal wealth, and standard of living that we have achieved. And that was done through freedom and liberty, not because we acted like Stalin or Mao.
Shows just how far we've slipped down the hole to tyranny.
It used to be we would point to things done by the governments of China and other communist/repressive regimes and show our superiority that we maintain an orderly and law-abiding society without resorting to such nefarious, underhanded activities against our own citizens. Why, backdooring hardware, warrantless wiretapping, sneak and peek raids? Those are things done by tyrannies! Who would ever....in America??
Now, we ask why a private company won't give our own government the same things it gives to a repressive tyrannical regime. It should go without fucking saying why a private company would hold it's own, supposedly above board and representative government, to a higher standard than a third-world dictatorship! Are we all really so dense that the question even needs to be asked?!
Now, we can wax intellectual about whether the United States government has ever been a representative one or if freedom ever really has existed, but that's a philosophical conversation that has no place in this discussion. The fact remains is that the line we're all sold, since the day we're born, is that America is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, and our freedoms are the envy of the world and it's what makes us stand out as a beacon of liberty in an otherwise oppressive world. And now that an organization with a little bit of money and power is asking the powers that be to put their money where their mouth is, we get to see the true colors of the establishment, in all it's disgusting, ugly, hypocritical hues.
We have already solved the issue of making and receiving cellular calls indoors, it's called Wi-Fi calling. Every serious operator, at least here in the US, has implemented it. And Wi-Fi is carrier agnostic, so it doesn't matter which network you subscribe to, your Wi-Fi will work. Why do we need to add proprietary boxes from different providers, etc. using different spectrum when Wi-Fi calling works and even makes the cellular network extenders obsolete?
This is a few steps backwards from what we already have, and I don't even see where there is any profit motive from the carriers to do this. Support more hardware and infrastructure for this system when what we have already works? I don't think so.
Citizens broadband radio service sounds like it'll be a public free for all, anyway. I'm not sure I want greedy telcos coming in and somehow trying to monetize it. These articles are just astroturfing.
For any cheap/no-name/questionable IoT device: 0.0.0.0
There is no reason any of this crap needs to be able to communicate directly out to the open internet. If you need to access it from off-site, use a VPN. If have reason to believe the device may compromise other devices that DO have the ability to communicate outbound to the internet, then that device should be destroyed with fire and the manufacturer publicly shamed.
Ah, the drive-by "debunker". A poster whose first sentence is authoritative (always uses the word "debunked") and will put an end to all the rabble and their conspiracy theories.
There is no keylogger.
These are not the droids you're looking for, huh? Not only did you authoritatively state my conspiracy theory was debunked without any link or reference, you also refute the subject without any references. This tells me that the statement is usually pretty bunked!
If you have a packet capture that says otherwise, feel free to correct everyone that bothered to look into it.
Of course! Unless I can decipher the mounds of binary uploads Windows 10 provides to MS and show where the data is uploaded, I'm a liar. Then why hasn't PCWorld been sued for libel?
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"Lalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
People who can't defend their positions usually try to shut you up, and when that doesn't work they stick their fingers in their ears. You know, like a 5-year old would do.
If they serve me no ads and didn't use the emails to build a psychological advertising profile to sell to to marketers and the TLAs.
Not to stand up for Microsoft, but I don't remember Office ever being free. Maybe some of the old DOS versions of Word/Excel, etc? But I do remember paying for a copy of Office '97 on CD-ROM(!)
I know a lot of the cheap clones like Packard Bell, et. al. would come with a copy of "Microsoft Works" (chuckle), which were incompatible file-format wise from Office.
What do you think any media is? Why do you think so many radio stations play music? Because it keeps the most listeners engaged long enough to get to the next commercial break. Do you really think television is designed to entertain you? Ha. It's there to make you feel as inadequate as possible until the advertisements play to sell you products that will fix your inherent inadequacy.
Nah, not nihilism. I'm not really sure what you call how I feel these days, but I've been fighting and screaming about corruption and collusion for so long and have really seen how deep and wide it goes, so much that HuffPo screaming bloody murder about corruption in the big mean oil companies makes me feel like I'm a kid watching Captain Planet and obsessing over someone littering or not recycling.
Journalists could expose real corruption and real "conspiracies", but that would be dangerous and they'd have to risk something to print it. A nice, safe story about oil companies is about as risque as wearing a bikini on Miami Beach.
As usual.
The headline should read Widespread Corruption in Humans.
Find me one group of powerful people, be it ANY industry, ANY government, ALL of academia, ALL banking/financial, whatever sector you want to pick, one place where multiple people have stood to gain through backroom deals and collusion where is hasn't/doesn't consistently happen.
Humans work to benefit their own ends, Film at 11.
Yes, the "D" stands for authoritarian Dickhole. The more you know!
You know, for the children and because of terrorists and shit. Because before cellphones, absolutely NO ONE EVER stood by a payphone waiting for a call, usually from their counterpart calling from another payphone.
We can sit around and poke fun at vegans, Juggalos, PETA, and all the other groups that are super easy to/we love to hate. That's precisely why this article is propaganda, as you shouldn't think for a second that "political statements" like being pro-encryption, rooting for Apple, anti-authoritarian, or against a police state doesn't also land you on the same lists.
It's fun to joke around and all, but allowing any ridiculous-yet-innocuous activities be branded as terrorism just opens the door for the totalitarians to brand any common sense political leanings the same way. You know, I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Juggalo...or whatever.
I agree that is complete bullshit, but your experience mirrors every Linux experience I've had in the last decade. I try and try to get basic things to work, and they just never do. Actually, Linux worked *better* for me 10 years ago than it has in the last few, so I just stick to BSD. I don't dislike Linux by any means, it just doesn't work for me.
I don't know the specifics of DAB, but the US standard (IBOC HD) does generally have two redundant streams with a delay.
Because unlike FM Stereo, analog TV left a lot of room for improvement. FM Stereo, for most use cases, really actually is "good enough" considering the vast majority of people aren't audiophiles.
Also, the sketchy RF environment inherent in mobile use (such as in the car or handheld device) isn't well suited for digital. Where an analog signal fades for a split second or you get a moment of static, the digital drops out completely, tries to re-sync the stream and has to buffer before it continues playing.
Some things really are just better suited for a down-and-dirty analog connection.
Your brainpower must be exceedingly limited if you don't understand the length of time and scope of problem that a nuclear meltdown poses to the environment versus some "carbon", that arguably does or does not have a limited effect solely on the climate of the planet.
I was assured by the Slashdot elite, even weeks on from the earthquake/tsunami, that there had been no meltdown nor even any kind of breach of the nuclear fuel at all and to say otherwise was a tinfoil-hat-tier conspiracy.
This is shocking to hear of a meltdown today!
Audio streaming apps (especially ones that are live streaming like TuneIn, etc.) seem to try and continue buffering the stream after you disconnect bluetooth or unplug the headphones. I don't dislike that feature, but it can really kill your battery if you, say, shut off your car and just grab your phone then go inside a building with little to no cell coverage. That few minutes of the cell radio struggling to maintain the audio stream under poor RF conditions can chew through some battery very quickly.
So yeah, I'll still be killing apps as I see fit. Why an Apple executive would even waste his breath telling people not to force-close apps is beyond me. Too many home buttons failing under warranty?
The only problem is that hate-speech, as such, is a fabrication of the weak minds of soft liberals. I see much of their rhetoric as hate-speech as well, the only difference being I am strong enough of mind to be able to handle having my views challenged without resorting to censorship.
Banning words IS just lazy, just not technologically. It's intellectually lazy to not be able to handle criticism of your ideals.
Stop being disingenuous, you know the GP obviously meant Fish Finger Sandwich.
Sort of, if you live in some third-world banana republic where MMS is outrageously expensive, but for the rest of the civilized world can I get a resounding "Who gives a shit?".
No one in the real world uses this crap. Can you imagine if you told your boss you were going to send him a "WhatsApp" after the meeting? Or tell your girlfriend you're going to "WhatsApp" her where to meet for dinner. Maybe you can "Sextapp" her too while she's at work.
No, in the real world we use SMS and MMS, email, and at least at my place of business, iMessage. Occasionally we'll use Skype for an overseas call or a quick video call. But seriously? A facebook-owned kiddie message toy is dropping support for some devices that the kiddies aren't using anyway? Yawn, as with anything facebook or twitter related, who cares?
I believe in the ideal of American Exceptionalism, but in practice, it's an ideal we've tried to live up to and fallen short -- and it's been that way since its very founding.
I don't disagree. The unfortunate problem, at least for me, is I don't see any better way.
I can only go by the recounting of recent recorded history (say, the 1200's to present), but it seems that the basic tenets of free enterprise, liberty, and personal wealth/property is simply better than the antithesis of large-scale communal societies. Does socialism work? Yes, on the small level of communities, (yes) churches, people who know and trust one another.
Beyond that, you're better off just fending for yourself. And that's what makes it exceptional, if you're not just a completely useless piece of shit you can manage to get by on your own terms. No selling out necessary.
I also like how you turned a discussion about China into yet another America Sucks rant. We certainly have been short on those lately on Slashdot. Thanks for making up the shortfall.
On the contrary, I happen to be of the opinion that America is, in fact, exceptional*. That's precisely why I want us to live up to our ideals rather than throw them away for a bit of perceived security. We don't need a police state in America to be free.
* I know that's a bad word these days, but I stand by it. Nowhere else on Earth has seen the prosperity, personal wealth, and standard of living that we have achieved. And that was done through freedom and liberty, not because we acted like Stalin or Mao.
Shows just how far we've slipped down the hole to tyranny.
It used to be we would point to things done by the governments of China and other communist/repressive regimes and show our superiority that we maintain an orderly and law-abiding society without resorting to such nefarious, underhanded activities against our own citizens. Why, backdooring hardware, warrantless wiretapping, sneak and peek raids? Those are things done by tyrannies! Who would ever....in America??
Now, we ask why a private company won't give our own government the same things it gives to a repressive tyrannical regime. It should go without fucking saying why a private company would hold it's own, supposedly above board and representative government, to a higher standard than a third-world dictatorship! Are we all really so dense that the question even needs to be asked?!
Now, we can wax intellectual about whether the United States government has ever been a representative one or if freedom ever really has existed, but that's a philosophical conversation that has no place in this discussion. The fact remains is that the line we're all sold, since the day we're born, is that America is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, and our freedoms are the envy of the world and it's what makes us stand out as a beacon of liberty in an otherwise oppressive world. And now that an organization with a little bit of money and power is asking the powers that be to put their money where their mouth is, we get to see the true colors of the establishment, in all it's disgusting, ugly, hypocritical hues.
Was this comment meant to add to the discussion here in some way?
We have already solved the issue of making and receiving cellular calls indoors, it's called Wi-Fi calling. Every serious operator, at least here in the US, has implemented it. And Wi-Fi is carrier agnostic, so it doesn't matter which network you subscribe to, your Wi-Fi will work. Why do we need to add proprietary boxes from different providers, etc. using different spectrum when Wi-Fi calling works and even makes the cellular network extenders obsolete?
This is a few steps backwards from what we already have, and I don't even see where there is any profit motive from the carriers to do this. Support more hardware and infrastructure for this system when what we have already works? I don't think so.
Citizens broadband radio service sounds like it'll be a public free for all, anyway. I'm not sure I want greedy telcos coming in and somehow trying to monetize it. These articles are just astroturfing.
For any cheap/no-name/questionable IoT device: 0.0.0.0
There is no reason any of this crap needs to be able to communicate directly out to the open internet. If you need to access it from off-site, use a VPN. If have reason to believe the device may compromise other devices that DO have the ability to communicate outbound to the internet, then that device should be destroyed with fire and the manufacturer publicly shamed.
When in doubt, don't give it a route.
This has been debunked.
Ah, the drive-by "debunker". A poster whose first sentence is authoritative (always uses the word "debunked") and will put an end to all the rabble and their conspiracy theories.
There is no keylogger.
These are not the droids you're looking for, huh? Not only did you authoritatively state my conspiracy theory was debunked without any link or reference, you also refute the subject without any references. This tells me that the statement is usually pretty bunked!
If you have a packet capture that says otherwise, feel free to correct everyone that bothered to look into it.
Of course! Unless I can decipher the mounds of binary uploads Windows 10 provides to MS and show where the data is uploaded, I'm a liar. Then why hasn't PCWorld been sued for libel?
Intellectual property.
Of a keyboard. Yeah, ok.