Yep, well, having enjoyed:| early retirement because some idiot paid more attention to a mobile phone and that green light was for going straight ahead and not turning right into on coming traffic. Well, who knew you could get concussion of the spinal cord which makes you temporarily quadriplegic, oh well, concussion kept it at a distinct mental distance, whilst those minutes ticked by, so it wasn't that bad. What can I say but bring on the nanny state on roads, now, do not delay, in fact do it yesterday and any idiot that cheats, let them 'enjoy':| and extended custodial sentence
Yeah, well that is OK the first time around, a big ole tee hee whoopsee but the silly fuckers went back for seconds, after they knew the outcome and Google's attempt to block it. So from neat advertising trick to multi-million dollar fine, value of the ad space stolen, serious money and Google will demostrate it is serious about security and junk food is shit food, as such junk food companies are shit food companies, so no empathy for those fuckers. Google makes a bunch of money and a junk food company get punished, so this round of marketing will be even more beneficial, just not for 'Hungry Jacks', this time round for Google and the criminal justice system ( a big ole example of how naughty it is to hack computer networks no matter how insecure or how you do it, simply not a opportunity for federal prosecutors to miss, esepcially if they land some of them with short custodial sentences, months not years and a really, really big fine, millions)
It's to not blind stoners when they use Youtube on 65" smart TVs in a darkened room. That red is bad enough, when the glaring white kicks in, holy crap;D.
Look there is a much easier way. If you are going to do some serious file handling, just create a Linux dual boot give it access to the Windows partition and go nuts. Repairing windows is also much easier from with the Linux boot. You might not use it often but by far the best way to manage windows is from Linux. So many elements of Windows went from bad to reasonable to bad it just boggles the mind.
Why has the NSA found them and M$ hasn't, dude seriously, now tell me where is the profit for M$ to find and fix bugs in their software. Does it help them to sell the next version, hmm, NO. Does it make them profit to do so, paying coders to review code that just barely works, hmm, NO. Does it prevent M$ from being prosecuted for failing to secure systems (when the users of M$ do get prosecuted for failing to secure systems, which once windows has been installed, apparently can not be secured), hmm, NO. Why can't M$ find because there is no profit in doing so but there is a whole bunch of profit in not doing so. Any other questions?
Yes, the NSA is exploiting M$'s greed driven stupidity, just as the FSB does and just as MSS does (those guys and gals need to advertise more no one knows what those letters stand for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , catch up with that pompous dude from the CIA, c'mon China). When M$ and all the other software companies start getting fined for security bugs, just like the sucker companies that use that insecure software and get blamed for it, than M$ will fix their software, until then, well, that's what advertising is for, spread a layer of sweet smelling fertiliser across the foetid cesspool rotting below.
So why is it when companies use M$ software and get hacked they get fined but the suppliers of the software point to their non-warranty and say, see we acknowledge our software is shite and only warrant losses to the value of the software ie M$ software should only be used to secure stuff to the value of the M$ software licence and that it is categorically across the board unfit for any purpose (actually right in the warranty, "Microsoft excludes all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement."). So is a company liable for using M$ software, just by using it, based upon the M$ warranty and the declaration by M$ that it is unfit for use for any particular purpose in writing.
No, it is not something to laugh about. The way computer crime laws are written, it is not a purposeful attack upon the computer network between the end user of the product and Google in order to steal advertising space at the end users expence, network bandwidth and their right to enjoy the use of their product by subverting the use of their product in order to forcefully inject advertising onto the end user. The first attack they barely could get away with, the second attack is definitively prosecutable, the only defence, Google's laughable security with regards to securing that network between the user whose control of the device is being subverted and Google's servers which are being abused to steal commercial advertising space.
Will Google force civil or criminal prosecution, will this require a deep rethink over the security of voice activated devices and what they can and can not do without two factor authentication (especially when none what so ever is done on the first one, the voice of the user), at the very least OK Google et al has to die to be replaced with a compulsory user created voice command to use the device and next up whether a wearable device or the phone can be set up to be a second on two factor authentication commands.
The idiots at Burger King might well have done everyone a favour but the question is, should a legal example be made of Burger as Fast Justice to remind people not to attempt to hack other people's computer networks and that it is a criminal offence even when security is laughable low.
People want electric vehicles they can hook up to their solar panels and battery pack and charge for free, excluding of course up front capital cost. They get the added benefit of a long term ego boost of being less of a planet polluter, not just exhaust but also noise, as a bonus they also get to thumb their noses at a bunch of extremely disliked corporations. The message is, stop being anal retentive, accept the design losses and infernal combustion engine plant losses and make the switch. Do it early rather than late else be crushed in the infernal combustion engine collapse fall out. Make no mistake, if you do not make the jump, China will fuck you over bad, real bad (no real oil sources, they are developing renewable and nuclear energy independence, their cities are extremely polluted and their cars have not really entered the international market and going all electric is a very smart way to do that). Once China electric car manufacturers gain that market share, trying to claw it back will be really, really, hard.
It seems you should be running https://noscript.net/. So advertising channels are OK and some really suck, use noscript to control which ones gain access to your browser. After running just a few weeks, you will find the most annoying undesirable ads gone and the OK ones remaining. So I had no problem with the site. Manage your own rules for ads, so for me, not too intrusive and not full of rubbish products and no gambling and do not kill load times. Other than those, the rest can stay, sometimes they are useful and besides https://adnauseam.io/ (I wonder if it can click ads I don't even see).
Well no, gees dude, this is an obvious who gives a fuck what M$ does story. So more like, meh, news at 11, the arse holes at M$ playing catch up yet again but still leading at being arse holes, invading you privacy, windows watching you masturbate, forcing compulsory software installs, running ads on your computer at start up, breaking the functionality of your hardware, generally being a big ole bag of dicks and my haven't hey paid for it with their phone sales. The greedy arse holes having to sell android in order to be able to sell phones from their stores, what a pack of losers. So M$ desperate for a good news story, finally offering refunds from their store but no one cares (see that's all you need and no mom's basements involved).
PS it should also very politically incorrect to defame people who choose to live with the parents regardless of which room they choose to live in. Seriously, what you are saying is that every person who lives with the parents is a worthless piece of pathetic shit because they don't try to masturbate as many people as possible and they are unemployable religious fanatic scum. So what age do you define as appropriate for that constant derision. I find it interesting idea to understand at what age is it appropriate for the entirety of society to psychologically attack those people, extremely ruthlessly, day in and day out, from every possible media source "You are sick fucking scum if you choose to live with your parents and not masturbate as many people as possible or be masturbated by as many people as possible", this seems to be uniformly politically correct mind you and actively promoted by the majority SJWs (apparently no social justice for the vermin that live with their parents), main stream media marketing and every form of content imaginable. Ruthless sustained psychological attacks and you fuckers call them trolls.
So there is a class of people which current society decides is appropriate to attack at every opportunity, people who live with their parents, age is undetermined but seems that it is acceptable for society to attack them from mid teens on, it's for their own good apparently. It is acceptable by main stream society to attack those individuals by any and every psychological means possible and to do so relentlessly. If they respond in any way at all, they are anti-social trolls who should be criminally prosecuted. So who is the arse hole now.
Start playing wars with IP addresses and expect IP address conflicts because why bother to play nice if they wont let you play. What happens when they start using existing ones from other locales, kind of make a mess of the network.
The research will always be based upon the initial hypothesis. It will tend to hone in on the desired results and ignore alternatives. Measuring students with some latter classes is not the same as measuring students will all later classes, living in a latter starting society. Make the shift in class start across the board and the students sleep patterns will adjust and you will be back to square 1. The real valid hypothesis is the one everyone knows, starting the day with the sun shining is better physiologically than starting the day in the dark.
Students are there to learn and learning to function properly at the normal work start time would be important instruction. So better research would be, what is the most appropriate morning beverage to get a kick start on the day and to promote learning, with additional testing for negative outcomes like addictiveness and harm with excess consumption. So what is the best breakfast to start the day (I avoided a meal, as I felt slight hunger produced an edge and promoted alertness, think hungry hunter in the morning, preferring a bigger feed at morning smoko, unless I woke up much earlier than usual).
Speaking of Apple. In reality if you are finding it so difficult to switch to the wide open world of choice of Linux, just spend a bit extra, well, quite a bit extra and go Apple. The Linux switch is more complicated because you do have far more choice and far more control, the easist reduction in Linux choice is to go SteamOS. Lets be honest the majority of PC power user Windows choice is gaming, so fuck M$ and make the jump. For some time there will be a reduced number of choices, but older games lacking less HP will be able to function via a compatibility layer and new games will make the switch and quite simply Windows anal probe games, well, fuck em.
Probably Apple will come to the party and produce a machine that is more customisable (computer geeks need that) and more targeted at volume sales ie cheaper (it can be because volume sales) and make a switch in that direction much easier.
For gamers the more that jump on Steam OS the better it will become and there is powerful incentive to do so, no console fees, run all the other Linux apps, and basically Linux out of the box that works. Steam has every possible incentive to make StreamOS work and take it from being a gaming OS to more a main stream desktop OS and still Steam can work with Apple to tag team M$, because there is a chance to gut M$ and that means more than enough for both Steam and Apple.
So major trend and yet the M&M at Yahoo killed it all because it needed to steal ideas from employees to claim them as it's own, really lame, Yahoo reaching back to the last millennium through incompetence. You have to think how pissed off the Yahoo coders must have be, they had it and same lame arse peter principle bitch stole it, no wonder Yahoo crashed into a screaming heap, all those security lapses, very pissed off insider revenge, high level extremely skilled and well coordinated insider revenge (no trail left behind, none). I forgot how much fun working from home was, it was decades ago and to have that taken and they knew exactly why, well, there will be repercussions, bad repercussion pissing off thousands of staff because you are incompetent and need to steal other people's ideas to look good.
The problem with any direct connection to the brain is variability with neurons networks, entirely unique. Whilst broad cerebral manipulations are certainly doable, fine work is not, think waking and sleeping, happiness and sadness, really broad and dangerous brush strokes because you have no real idea the consequences on fine neuron networking detail. Then there is the extreme danger of hacking, whether corporate or government or just the idiot kid down the street with the wrong software. Even something as relatively safe as a sleep inducer can become very dangerous when triggered at the wrong times ie driving a car.
Easier to tap nerve bundles than the actual brain ie eyes, ears, spinal cord and they are also quite dangerous ie stimulation of data input versus extremes of pain stimulation.
For actual brain input, it would really have to be grown and the user and the system aligned, think useful brain tumour, with the tumour creating the communications links but the tumour also the idea representing the real risk involved.
The biggest problems are; Would the government hack it if they could, yes. Would Corporation hack it if they could, yes. Would individuals hack it if they could, yes. The temptation to hack if for total control, is far to great for it to be done, apart from very limited medical actions, sleeping being the obvious target for simple manipulation and a real warning about the risk ie putting someone to sleep when they are driving a car.
As a marketing point, having a city with clean air, would be seen as really valuable in the future, especially as many cities will not bother, preferring dirty kick backs to clean air. So the cost efficiency of clean air, also can take into account, liveability and promoting health, very serious health promotion ie Portland healthy city versus Los Angeles smog cancer city. Will it attract employers who as their first priority is cheating on local and state taxes, no. Well, that is the end of that then.
The only thing clean, healthy and safe can sell is retirement for those poisoned in shitty tax haven cities. It is a sick world we live in. Nations can get away with clean, safe and healthy because why would you leave a clean, safe and healthy nation to go to some crime ridden polluted quagmire unless you are really greedy and those people make for bad employees. Local regions unfortunately can not.
You kind of should belittle people who want that shit it it's current state, in opposition to the marketing that tells them they are special if they buy that shit. Counter marketing is fair and reasonable in today's market place. Purposeful hacking by Burger King, well, technically it is a computer crime, although the bar for security is exceedingly low, they still did intentionally hack and abuse a computer network, that network being between the consumer and Google, this done in order to steal advertisement time worth millions of dollars. So really quite naughty and a criminal offence, technically.
You want a real magical moment, it's one where you realise trying to keep up with marketing bullshit is insane. How much of that fun stuff is actually fun stuff, how much is just egoistic posing because that is what you have been sold on, why holiday to places where other people work and holiday from, why the need for so much shit. Cars, there is not car that I have ever had that I was not mah with after a month of ownership, same shitty roads, driving to the same places, paying for fuel and realising that the poseur shit is just marketing promoted peer pressure targeted manipulations. Easy example, which should you spend more on your car or your bed (mine now electric adjustable, latex mattress, bamboo cotton sheets, lambswool topper, cotton quilt, memory foam pillows, not the car the bed of course), so how much time do you spend in bed and how much time in the car and yet marketing poseur status demands much, much more be spent on the car (can not pose with your bed).
Luxury foods are just more marketing bullshit, it does not taste better because it is more expensive, people are just idiots paying for more expensive urine and faeces but marketing poseur demands.
Live frugally, fuck off, live sensibly. Nothing to do with living cheap, forget the marketing bullshit, money never buys happiness it can only ever rent it and for a very short time and it leaves you worse off after, miserable without happiness and needing more money to rent more happiness. Fancy clothes and jewellery, you are not a special person you are a gullible victim or purposeful peer pressure marketing, you are a sucker (real peer pressure grass roots marketing is coming, wear jewellery and you will look like and be treated like a gullible idiot).
Poseur status does not make you happy, seriously look at the idiots with it, look at their crazy crap behaviour, look how many of the idiots flood rehab centres of every description, look at them cutting themselves up with ugly plastic surgery. Only main stream media marketing keeps that bullshit going and they are losing. No matter what anyone says being a contented slacker is way more fun than a greedy freak poseur, demanding more and wasting more.
In this case, it is whether or not a group of marketing agencies can force the governments hands by repeatedly telling their business customers, all of them, how bad the end of net neutrality would be for them. Think a few million pissed of small and medium business persons, who could in combination remove all the Republican incumbents and replace them with new Republicans who will listen to them. Reality is the end of net neutrality is really, really bad for by far the majority of business. The vehicle analogy it would be like a couple of corporations owning all the roads and being able to decide who can access them and how much they allowed to and how much they have to spend to do so. It does not take much of an imagination to realise exactly how bad that would be.
It doesn't really happen that way not like homework. There is a real reward for working success, rather than an abstract reward. So you do the work. What you do is adjust you schedule. So wakeup, feel your mood, bright and snappy, put on some shorts and start working whilst considering breakfast, keeping going on a nice cup of tea. When a break moment comes into the work flow, stop and make yourself a nice breakfast, site back relax and enjoy, considering work to be carried out post breakfast. Than back at it. Similarly morning smoko, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and stuff like shopping just schedule in. Work does become much more fun, listening to tunes, nice long lunch breaks, the early morning jump on the days work (consider just the gains in commuting, then there is dressing and meal quality is great).
Working from home is all about flexibility and technically spending more time at work but spending less time working and yet being more productive;). Never forget you are also avoiding company politics and SJWs and all the other shit that goes on. Productivity is so much better, don't be surprised when you do eight hours work in four hours. Even home chores become a saving, think roast chicken for lunch but that takes hours to cook but it only takes minutes to prepare, squeezed in between work. Get stuck, do the vacuuming, trouble with a problem take a shower, need a break do your clothes washing (forget the whiny women bull, the washing machine does the washing and it only takes minutes to load). Not only can you get all your 'work' done, you can squeeze in all your home chores, provding much more free time and in that free time, well, you can bank work to create gaps in the work day for other stuff.
It could never work desktop is not a tablet is not a phone. Completely different usage patterns and usage styles and it was a huge mistake. Canonical and Ubuntu lost of lot of ground and they tried way harder than they should have, which caused them to lose more ground but hey Redhat, SuSe et al all had their moments and that is the nature of choice in Linux land.
Mir will or will not survive based upon one thing and one thing only, how well it plays games. So Linux has communications tied up via android and TVs tied up via many manufacturers and servers tied up via many distributions. Now it's time for games via Steam. In fact you could imagine a three way play Ubuntu, Steam and Sony (this as a one time thing to basically kill windows). M$ is busily seriously pissing off power users so they are extremely vulnerable at this time.
No the numbers are a lie. Why are they are lie because edge is running all of the fucking time, whether you use it or not. So basically the fucking liars are comparing edge running in the background and foreground to edge running in the background and Chrome running in the foreground. A straight up marketing fucking lie. So yes, just running fucking edge uses less power than running edge and chrome, surprise, surprise, surprise. Want a real world comparison for edge versus chrome, compare edge on windows 10 to chrome on linux and then just for fun compare TCO, M$'s favourite total cost of ownership. So conduct a range of internet tasks and then look a data usage will edge on windows 10 not only consume more energy but also how much more network data will be wastefully created.
On Windows 10, the bulk of edge is now running in the background no matter what the fuck you do, you can not stop it wasting power, reducing performance and spying on you.
The old rule used to be get as much personal use of company devices as possible, the new rule is, leave them at work. The personal freedom you lose is not longer worth the perceived saving. That company phone is no longer a personal asset but a leash and collar used to control and monitor you. If they demand you carry it at all times, simply call forward to a personal device which they do not control.
So let me get this straight, some the fuck how, advertisers think people will buy their products when they force them sit through those busker screams. Oh yes I will buy your product after you force me, actively force me to watch you shit, now honestly is that true, talk about self delusion.
I don't know about other people but piss me off with a commercial and I likely will not only not buy your product but not buy if for a long time.
You might as well think it is worthwhile to punch people in the face because it really attracts their attention, so punch them in the face, scream about your products and then reinforce the message by kicking them in the genitals, oh yeah, they will remember your product but will they buy it? In a choice between watching content and watching some shit advert, I simply switch to alternate content, done and finished. So much choice, so little time, so meh. Google and Alphabet as run by the big shit are just full of it (total control, total power insanity). Never forget those fuckers were dicking around with search globally to secretly try to distort democracy and lets not be fooled, doing that globally as well.
The real goal is to run down all other aircraft to try to force the purchase of as many F35 Pigs as possible as fast as possible so that the Pig can be scrapped because it is shite and then everyone needs to buy the FX 10000 including vassal states because more profit. Reality is looking for ways to spend as much money as possible, claiming massive costs whilst carving as much as possible off as profits, less than 30% is now considered poor performance. Learn to eat, tanks, ships and planes because you will need to.
Tax cheats between earning income and investment returns are tied to many things. So if you are rich and own ten mansions, you claim those all as investment properties which you rent, to a holding company which rents them back to you, via another company, which enables you to write off the investment in your home, including maintenance and running costs. Then your personal incomes is changed from personal income, to income to one of those holding companies which pays you a wage but now carries tax deductions that regular folk never, ever get. The continually seek to shift every cent spent, no matter on what to holding companies, through which their income is funnelled, those holding companies employing them. Also they seek to increase the capital worth of the holding companies by creating pseudo depreciable capital investments from their income and on and on it goes. Transferring assets around, selling companies and buying companies internally, shifting assets offshore through tax havens and back again.
The US goes even further allowing luxury holiday charity tax fraud. Create a bullshit charity, dump tax deduction money in it and then your bullshit charity flies you and you family around the globe first class, to give charity talks, whilst giving a tiny amount from your charity fraud to real charities and this in reality a PR exercise, charity washing a reputation covered in shit to make in shine in main stream media. Insane greed knows no limits. Those arse holes should not be running the world they should be in asylums for psychopaths.
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Yep, well, having enjoyed :| early retirement because some idiot paid more attention to a mobile phone and that green light was for going straight ahead and not turning right into on coming traffic. Well, who knew you could get concussion of the spinal cord which makes you temporarily quadriplegic, oh well, concussion kept it at a distinct mental distance, whilst those minutes ticked by, so it wasn't that bad. What can I say but bring on the nanny state on roads, now, do not delay, in fact do it yesterday and any idiot that cheats, let them 'enjoy' :| and extended custodial sentence
Yeah, well that is OK the first time around, a big ole tee hee whoopsee but the silly fuckers went back for seconds, after they knew the outcome and Google's attempt to block it. So from neat advertising trick to multi-million dollar fine, value of the ad space stolen, serious money and Google will demostrate it is serious about security and junk food is shit food, as such junk food companies are shit food companies, so no empathy for those fuckers. Google makes a bunch of money and a junk food company get punished, so this round of marketing will be even more beneficial, just not for 'Hungry Jacks', this time round for Google and the criminal justice system ( a big ole example of how naughty it is to hack computer networks no matter how insecure or how you do it, simply not a opportunity for federal prosecutors to miss, esepcially if they land some of them with short custodial sentences, months not years and a really, really big fine, millions)
It's to not blind stoners when they use Youtube on 65" smart TVs in a darkened room. That red is bad enough, when the glaring white kicks in, holy crap ;D.
Look there is a much easier way. If you are going to do some serious file handling, just create a Linux dual boot give it access to the Windows partition and go nuts. Repairing windows is also much easier from with the Linux boot. You might not use it often but by far the best way to manage windows is from Linux. So many elements of Windows went from bad to reasonable to bad it just boggles the mind.
Why has the NSA found them and M$ hasn't, dude seriously, now tell me where is the profit for M$ to find and fix bugs in their software. Does it help them to sell the next version, hmm, NO. Does it make them profit to do so, paying coders to review code that just barely works, hmm, NO. Does it prevent M$ from being prosecuted for failing to secure systems (when the users of M$ do get prosecuted for failing to secure systems, which once windows has been installed, apparently can not be secured), hmm, NO. Why can't M$ find because there is no profit in doing so but there is a whole bunch of profit in not doing so. Any other questions?
Yes, the NSA is exploiting M$'s greed driven stupidity, just as the FSB does and just as MSS does (those guys and gals need to advertise more no one knows what those letters stand for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , catch up with that pompous dude from the CIA, c'mon China). When M$ and all the other software companies start getting fined for security bugs, just like the sucker companies that use that insecure software and get blamed for it, than M$ will fix their software, until then, well, that's what advertising is for, spread a layer of sweet smelling fertiliser across the foetid cesspool rotting below.
So why is it when companies use M$ software and get hacked they get fined but the suppliers of the software point to their non-warranty and say, see we acknowledge our software is shite and only warrant losses to the value of the software ie M$ software should only be used to secure stuff to the value of the M$ software licence and that it is categorically across the board unfit for any purpose (actually right in the warranty, "Microsoft excludes all implied warranties and conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement."). So is a company liable for using M$ software, just by using it, based upon the M$ warranty and the declaration by M$ that it is unfit for use for any particular purpose in writing.
No, it is not something to laugh about. The way computer crime laws are written, it is not a purposeful attack upon the computer network between the end user of the product and Google in order to steal advertising space at the end users expence, network bandwidth and their right to enjoy the use of their product by subverting the use of their product in order to forcefully inject advertising onto the end user. The first attack they barely could get away with, the second attack is definitively prosecutable, the only defence, Google's laughable security with regards to securing that network between the user whose control of the device is being subverted and Google's servers which are being abused to steal commercial advertising space.
Will Google force civil or criminal prosecution, will this require a deep rethink over the security of voice activated devices and what they can and can not do without two factor authentication (especially when none what so ever is done on the first one, the voice of the user), at the very least OK Google et al has to die to be replaced with a compulsory user created voice command to use the device and next up whether a wearable device or the phone can be set up to be a second on two factor authentication commands.
The idiots at Burger King might well have done everyone a favour but the question is, should a legal example be made of Burger as Fast Justice to remind people not to attempt to hack other people's computer networks and that it is a criminal offence even when security is laughable low.
People want electric vehicles they can hook up to their solar panels and battery pack and charge for free, excluding of course up front capital cost. They get the added benefit of a long term ego boost of being less of a planet polluter, not just exhaust but also noise, as a bonus they also get to thumb their noses at a bunch of extremely disliked corporations. The message is, stop being anal retentive, accept the design losses and infernal combustion engine plant losses and make the switch. Do it early rather than late else be crushed in the infernal combustion engine collapse fall out. Make no mistake, if you do not make the jump, China will fuck you over bad, real bad (no real oil sources, they are developing renewable and nuclear energy independence, their cities are extremely polluted and their cars have not really entered the international market and going all electric is a very smart way to do that). Once China electric car manufacturers gain that market share, trying to claw it back will be really, really, hard.
It seems you should be running https://noscript.net/. So advertising channels are OK and some really suck, use noscript to control which ones gain access to your browser. After running just a few weeks, you will find the most annoying undesirable ads gone and the OK ones remaining. So I had no problem with the site. Manage your own rules for ads, so for me, not too intrusive and not full of rubbish products and no gambling and do not kill load times. Other than those, the rest can stay, sometimes they are useful and besides https://adnauseam.io/ (I wonder if it can click ads I don't even see).
Well no, gees dude, this is an obvious who gives a fuck what M$ does story. So more like, meh, news at 11, the arse holes at M$ playing catch up yet again but still leading at being arse holes, invading you privacy, windows watching you masturbate, forcing compulsory software installs, running ads on your computer at start up, breaking the functionality of your hardware, generally being a big ole bag of dicks and my haven't hey paid for it with their phone sales. The greedy arse holes having to sell android in order to be able to sell phones from their stores, what a pack of losers. So M$ desperate for a good news story, finally offering refunds from their store but no one cares (see that's all you need and no mom's basements involved).
PS it should also very politically incorrect to defame people who choose to live with the parents regardless of which room they choose to live in. Seriously, what you are saying is that every person who lives with the parents is a worthless piece of pathetic shit because they don't try to masturbate as many people as possible and they are unemployable religious fanatic scum. So what age do you define as appropriate for that constant derision. I find it interesting idea to understand at what age is it appropriate for the entirety of society to psychologically attack those people, extremely ruthlessly, day in and day out, from every possible media source "You are sick fucking scum if you choose to live with your parents and not masturbate as many people as possible or be masturbated by as many people as possible", this seems to be uniformly politically correct mind you and actively promoted by the majority SJWs (apparently no social justice for the vermin that live with their parents), main stream media marketing and every form of content imaginable. Ruthless sustained psychological attacks and you fuckers call them trolls.
So there is a class of people which current society decides is appropriate to attack at every opportunity, people who live with their parents, age is undetermined but seems that it is acceptable for society to attack them from mid teens on, it's for their own good apparently. It is acceptable by main stream society to attack those individuals by any and every psychological means possible and to do so relentlessly. If they respond in any way at all, they are anti-social trolls who should be criminally prosecuted. So who is the arse hole now.
Start playing wars with IP addresses and expect IP address conflicts because why bother to play nice if they wont let you play. What happens when they start using existing ones from other locales, kind of make a mess of the network.
The research will always be based upon the initial hypothesis. It will tend to hone in on the desired results and ignore alternatives. Measuring students with some latter classes is not the same as measuring students will all later classes, living in a latter starting society. Make the shift in class start across the board and the students sleep patterns will adjust and you will be back to square 1. The real valid hypothesis is the one everyone knows, starting the day with the sun shining is better physiologically than starting the day in the dark.
Students are there to learn and learning to function properly at the normal work start time would be important instruction. So better research would be, what is the most appropriate morning beverage to get a kick start on the day and to promote learning, with additional testing for negative outcomes like addictiveness and harm with excess consumption. So what is the best breakfast to start the day (I avoided a meal, as I felt slight hunger produced an edge and promoted alertness, think hungry hunter in the morning, preferring a bigger feed at morning smoko, unless I woke up much earlier than usual).
Speaking of Apple. In reality if you are finding it so difficult to switch to the wide open world of choice of Linux, just spend a bit extra, well, quite a bit extra and go Apple. The Linux switch is more complicated because you do have far more choice and far more control, the easist reduction in Linux choice is to go SteamOS. Lets be honest the majority of PC power user Windows choice is gaming, so fuck M$ and make the jump. For some time there will be a reduced number of choices, but older games lacking less HP will be able to function via a compatibility layer and new games will make the switch and quite simply Windows anal probe games, well, fuck em.
Probably Apple will come to the party and produce a machine that is more customisable (computer geeks need that) and more targeted at volume sales ie cheaper (it can be because volume sales) and make a switch in that direction much easier.
For gamers the more that jump on Steam OS the better it will become and there is powerful incentive to do so, no console fees, run all the other Linux apps, and basically Linux out of the box that works. Steam has every possible incentive to make StreamOS work and take it from being a gaming OS to more a main stream desktop OS and still Steam can work with Apple to tag team M$, because there is a chance to gut M$ and that means more than enough for both Steam and Apple.
So major trend and yet the M&M at Yahoo killed it all because it needed to steal ideas from employees to claim them as it's own, really lame, Yahoo reaching back to the last millennium through incompetence. You have to think how pissed off the Yahoo coders must have be, they had it and same lame arse peter principle bitch stole it, no wonder Yahoo crashed into a screaming heap, all those security lapses, very pissed off insider revenge, high level extremely skilled and well coordinated insider revenge (no trail left behind, none). I forgot how much fun working from home was, it was decades ago and to have that taken and they knew exactly why, well, there will be repercussions, bad repercussion pissing off thousands of staff because you are incompetent and need to steal other people's ideas to look good.
The problem with any direct connection to the brain is variability with neurons networks, entirely unique. Whilst broad cerebral manipulations are certainly doable, fine work is not, think waking and sleeping, happiness and sadness, really broad and dangerous brush strokes because you have no real idea the consequences on fine neuron networking detail. Then there is the extreme danger of hacking, whether corporate or government or just the idiot kid down the street with the wrong software. Even something as relatively safe as a sleep inducer can become very dangerous when triggered at the wrong times ie driving a car.
Easier to tap nerve bundles than the actual brain ie eyes, ears, spinal cord and they are also quite dangerous ie stimulation of data input versus extremes of pain stimulation.
For actual brain input, it would really have to be grown and the user and the system aligned, think useful brain tumour, with the tumour creating the communications links but the tumour also the idea representing the real risk involved.
The biggest problems are; Would the government hack it if they could, yes. Would Corporation hack it if they could, yes. Would individuals hack it if they could, yes. The temptation to hack if for total control, is far to great for it to be done, apart from very limited medical actions, sleeping being the obvious target for simple manipulation and a real warning about the risk ie putting someone to sleep when they are driving a car.
As a marketing point, having a city with clean air, would be seen as really valuable in the future, especially as many cities will not bother, preferring dirty kick backs to clean air. So the cost efficiency of clean air, also can take into account, liveability and promoting health, very serious health promotion ie Portland healthy city versus Los Angeles smog cancer city. Will it attract employers who as their first priority is cheating on local and state taxes, no. Well, that is the end of that then.
The only thing clean, healthy and safe can sell is retirement for those poisoned in shitty tax haven cities. It is a sick world we live in. Nations can get away with clean, safe and healthy because why would you leave a clean, safe and healthy nation to go to some crime ridden polluted quagmire unless you are really greedy and those people make for bad employees. Local regions unfortunately can not.
You kind of should belittle people who want that shit it it's current state, in opposition to the marketing that tells them they are special if they buy that shit. Counter marketing is fair and reasonable in today's market place. Purposeful hacking by Burger King, well, technically it is a computer crime, although the bar for security is exceedingly low, they still did intentionally hack and abuse a computer network, that network being between the consumer and Google, this done in order to steal advertisement time worth millions of dollars. So really quite naughty and a criminal offence, technically.
You want a real magical moment, it's one where you realise trying to keep up with marketing bullshit is insane. How much of that fun stuff is actually fun stuff, how much is just egoistic posing because that is what you have been sold on, why holiday to places where other people work and holiday from, why the need for so much shit. Cars, there is not car that I have ever had that I was not mah with after a month of ownership, same shitty roads, driving to the same places, paying for fuel and realising that the poseur shit is just marketing promoted peer pressure targeted manipulations. Easy example, which should you spend more on your car or your bed (mine now electric adjustable, latex mattress, bamboo cotton sheets, lambswool topper, cotton quilt, memory foam pillows, not the car the bed of course), so how much time do you spend in bed and how much time in the car and yet marketing poseur status demands much, much more be spent on the car (can not pose with your bed).
Luxury foods are just more marketing bullshit, it does not taste better because it is more expensive, people are just idiots paying for more expensive urine and faeces but marketing poseur demands.
Live frugally, fuck off, live sensibly. Nothing to do with living cheap, forget the marketing bullshit, money never buys happiness it can only ever rent it and for a very short time and it leaves you worse off after, miserable without happiness and needing more money to rent more happiness. Fancy clothes and jewellery, you are not a special person you are a gullible victim or purposeful peer pressure marketing, you are a sucker (real peer pressure grass roots marketing is coming, wear jewellery and you will look like and be treated like a gullible idiot).
Poseur status does not make you happy, seriously look at the idiots with it, look at their crazy crap behaviour, look how many of the idiots flood rehab centres of every description, look at them cutting themselves up with ugly plastic surgery. Only main stream media marketing keeps that bullshit going and they are losing. No matter what anyone says being a contented slacker is way more fun than a greedy freak poseur, demanding more and wasting more.
In this case, it is whether or not a group of marketing agencies can force the governments hands by repeatedly telling their business customers, all of them, how bad the end of net neutrality would be for them. Think a few million pissed of small and medium business persons, who could in combination remove all the Republican incumbents and replace them with new Republicans who will listen to them. Reality is the end of net neutrality is really, really bad for by far the majority of business. The vehicle analogy it would be like a couple of corporations owning all the roads and being able to decide who can access them and how much they allowed to and how much they have to spend to do so. It does not take much of an imagination to realise exactly how bad that would be.
It doesn't really happen that way not like homework. There is a real reward for working success, rather than an abstract reward. So you do the work. What you do is adjust you schedule. So wakeup, feel your mood, bright and snappy, put on some shorts and start working whilst considering breakfast, keeping going on a nice cup of tea. When a break moment comes into the work flow, stop and make yourself a nice breakfast, site back relax and enjoy, considering work to be carried out post breakfast. Than back at it. Similarly morning smoko, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and stuff like shopping just schedule in. Work does become much more fun, listening to tunes, nice long lunch breaks, the early morning jump on the days work (consider just the gains in commuting, then there is dressing and meal quality is great).
Working from home is all about flexibility and technically spending more time at work but spending less time working and yet being more productive ;). Never forget you are also avoiding company politics and SJWs and all the other shit that goes on. Productivity is so much better, don't be surprised when you do eight hours work in four hours. Even home chores become a saving, think roast chicken for lunch but that takes hours to cook but it only takes minutes to prepare, squeezed in between work. Get stuck, do the vacuuming, trouble with a problem take a shower, need a break do your clothes washing (forget the whiny women bull, the washing machine does the washing and it only takes minutes to load). Not only can you get all your 'work' done, you can squeeze in all your home chores, provding much more free time and in that free time, well, you can bank work to create gaps in the work day for other stuff.
It could never work desktop is not a tablet is not a phone. Completely different usage patterns and usage styles and it was a huge mistake. Canonical and Ubuntu lost of lot of ground and they tried way harder than they should have, which caused them to lose more ground but hey Redhat, SuSe et al all had their moments and that is the nature of choice in Linux land.
Mir will or will not survive based upon one thing and one thing only, how well it plays games. So Linux has communications tied up via android and TVs tied up via many manufacturers and servers tied up via many distributions. Now it's time for games via Steam. In fact you could imagine a three way play Ubuntu, Steam and Sony (this as a one time thing to basically kill windows). M$ is busily seriously pissing off power users so they are extremely vulnerable at this time.
No the numbers are a lie. Why are they are lie because edge is running all of the fucking time, whether you use it or not. So basically the fucking liars are comparing edge running in the background and foreground to edge running in the background and Chrome running in the foreground. A straight up marketing fucking lie. So yes, just running fucking edge uses less power than running edge and chrome, surprise, surprise, surprise. Want a real world comparison for edge versus chrome, compare edge on windows 10 to chrome on linux and then just for fun compare TCO, M$'s favourite total cost of ownership. So conduct a range of internet tasks and then look a data usage will edge on windows 10 not only consume more energy but also how much more network data will be wastefully created.
On Windows 10, the bulk of edge is now running in the background no matter what the fuck you do, you can not stop it wasting power, reducing performance and spying on you.
The old rule used to be get as much personal use of company devices as possible, the new rule is, leave them at work. The personal freedom you lose is not longer worth the perceived saving. That company phone is no longer a personal asset but a leash and collar used to control and monitor you. If they demand you carry it at all times, simply call forward to a personal device which they do not control.
So let me get this straight, some the fuck how, advertisers think people will buy their products when they force them sit through those busker screams. Oh yes I will buy your product after you force me, actively force me to watch you shit, now honestly is that true, talk about self delusion.
I don't know about other people but piss me off with a commercial and I likely will not only not buy your product but not buy if for a long time.
You might as well think it is worthwhile to punch people in the face because it really attracts their attention, so punch them in the face, scream about your products and then reinforce the message by kicking them in the genitals, oh yeah, they will remember your product but will they buy it? In a choice between watching content and watching some shit advert, I simply switch to alternate content, done and finished. So much choice, so little time, so meh. Google and Alphabet as run by the big shit are just full of it (total control, total power insanity). Never forget those fuckers were dicking around with search globally to secretly try to distort democracy and lets not be fooled, doing that globally as well.
The real goal is to run down all other aircraft to try to force the purchase of as many F35 Pigs as possible as fast as possible so that the Pig can be scrapped because it is shite and then everyone needs to buy the FX 10000 including vassal states because more profit. Reality is looking for ways to spend as much money as possible, claiming massive costs whilst carving as much as possible off as profits, less than 30% is now considered poor performance. Learn to eat, tanks, ships and planes because you will need to.
Tax cheats between earning income and investment returns are tied to many things. So if you are rich and own ten mansions, you claim those all as investment properties which you rent, to a holding company which rents them back to you, via another company, which enables you to write off the investment in your home, including maintenance and running costs. Then your personal incomes is changed from personal income, to income to one of those holding companies which pays you a wage but now carries tax deductions that regular folk never, ever get. The continually seek to shift every cent spent, no matter on what to holding companies, through which their income is funnelled, those holding companies employing them. Also they seek to increase the capital worth of the holding companies by creating pseudo depreciable capital investments from their income and on and on it goes. Transferring assets around, selling companies and buying companies internally, shifting assets offshore through tax havens and back again.
The US goes even further allowing luxury holiday charity tax fraud. Create a bullshit charity, dump tax deduction money in it and then your bullshit charity flies you and you family around the globe first class, to give charity talks, whilst giving a tiny amount from your charity fraud to real charities and this in reality a PR exercise, charity washing a reputation covered in shit to make in shine in main stream media. Insane greed knows no limits. Those arse holes should not be running the world they should be in asylums for psychopaths.