Moon was.... boring. The plot has about 20 or 30 minutes worth of story. To sit through another 70 or so minutes of plodding reveals while going on a trip into isolationist crazy just wasn't very intriguing.
If you think that the average republican or republican voter gives one tenth of one fuck for christian ideals, then you are a grade-A dumbfuck who cannot possibly be educated because you willfully ignore all evidence. BOMBS NOT BREAD is the republican motto. WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Don't take in those refugees, but BOMB THEIR COUNTRY... creating more refugees. There is nothing christian about republicans or their supporters. NOTHING.
Except for removing health care for women and making sure they pop out all fertilized eggs in 9 months, not a day sooner, on pain of death.
The US Postal Service scans all your mail - front and back. As in photographs and retains it. Opening mail and reading it goes all the way back to Ben Franklin, the original Postmaster General.
To tie it back to this moron congress critter's comments: The US post office should sell lists of everyone sending you mail (nothing important in there, like bank account, investment accounts, and people you keep in contact with outside of the internet.
This product does not have a problem. It's working exactly the way the people want it to, and with no bothersome password.
Because of this, nothing will change.
Rant aside, I think things will change as soon as it hooks up to a bank account or the like. Alexa will likely already change. I don't know or care, but that's because I'd not ever have an always on listening device in my house that I don't completely control.
Way way way back when, in the dark times, there was this release of OS/2 Warp with Voice Recognition. You trained it to recognize your voice (the trigger phrase in about 30-60 seconds) This really worked, and personalized the VR to you, a person a bit. Note that back then, it wasn't meant as security but as a way of dealing with voice tone, intonation, dialects, etc of the particular person using the computer. But some immediate fallout was that it didn't necessarily recognize other people speaking the trigger phrase. It's 20 years later, surely VR pattern recognition has been improved and could significantly reduce these types of incidents.
Lack of security features isn't an agreement to let others to use your product.
Let's just get to basics:
A) Was it speech?
B) You're advocating to restrict certain types of speech that aren't offensive because someone, somewhere, created a device that can respond to those types of speech and didn't put some type of lock on it?
C) Knowing that voice recognition has existed for decades, you'd think at least some initial VR on at least the triggering code would be part of the setup of such a device (addressing B above)
I think perhaps a reassessment of your principles is in order.
Replacing the HDD/SSD process is as simple as 2 common TORX drivers and a spooge, if you want to be technically safe. You can work without the latter if you're careful. And about 15 minutes from start to finish. I just did 3 this week, upgrades.
RAM is the big one, and the reason I won't buy the recent iteration of minis. The 2012 series were the last real computers, the current crop are web browsers, that's about it. And yes, I am recommending either buy older or wait until no later than spring 2018, I'm guessing it won't be any longer than that. Apple owned up to their Mac Pro mistake, I'm guessing the fallout will hopefully affect their mini rollout too. I'd love it if they made a mini half a base mac pro, same parts, and some upgradeability. I can dream.
I've got an in-attic antenna. Works great, and you get get more than 60 miles of reception with the better ones. It's my second house to have one. HD captures are easy enough, for any of the things you mention.
I ditched MS back in 93 after having "SmartDrive" overwrite my EISA CMOS config. I had a relatively brief period of MS usage between 96 and 99 where my job involved MS software and a learned exactly how screwed up and bad MS software truly is, to a degree I cannot fully reveal here. Needless to say, I've run other software ever since.
I haven't installed any Windows update since I bought an XP laptop with SP1 and Windows kept wanting to install an "important security update".
It was a very well known fact way back in 2000 that the best policy was to disable the windows update service as the first thing you did after logging in. Then you changed your password.
Now, as regards to NICs - all NICs are programmable as far as their MACs go. It was a requirement, you see, back from the days of DEC at least when software licenses were tied to MACs, and NICs used to go bad relatively frequently.
Honestly, a simple mac mini in the $500 range with a replaceable SSD, pluggable memory and a quad core or better processor will run circles around most win(blows) desktops.
Both Microsoft and AMD have acknowledged some performance related issues, particularly with thread scheduling and core utilization, concerning Ryzen and Windows operating systems.
So, the answer is simple: use a real OS and not that creaky POS from MS.
I had a 7:45am class - differential equations. Never made it to class except to sit exams. I studied the material well enough to pass the class, but it's the only class from which I remember nothing - nothing at all.
You remember nothing because it was all hand-waving in thin air....;)
HTML5 using RTP is absolutely satisfactory, as that covers the connection and protocol portions. The payload is a different thing, and that's purely based on implementation. It should be easy enough to add some random data bits on a secondary data pass within the encrypted stream to completely confound such analysis. The real issue here is a crappy implementation that leaks data rather than any issue with encryption.
You know, this didn't even occur to me.. that drone wingmen might not just be sensor and force augmentation, but dogfighters. But my understanding is that auto-dogfighting is actually getting very good these days, so the ability to auto-dogfight without G-limits is no insignificant argument in favour of the conversion.
And then you add smaller compact and dense drones, and very soon you wind up with the ultimate drone
For those of us not as interested in illegality, there is also Netflix, YouTube Red (for normal YT content without ads plus some unique programming), Hulu Plus (a few things will have a very short, single ad at the beginning and end), and purchasing tv seasons and movies a la carte via any number of services (Amazon, Google, etc).
That's fine until you want to watch something that's not available on those services, in which case, ads it is. I personally have a subscription to both Netflix and HBO.
Both of your issues are you're locked into what the broadcasters and services want you to see. Look outside the box, and you'll find that it's quite easy and legal to setup your own DVR for almost all content available today, sent on any system. Now that you have it on your own personal DVR solution that you control, skipping ads is simple. That said, the Hulu solution isn't bad enough to bother with, personally. Broadcast TV however. You want a little content in between your ads?
Tell them to email you if they need an IM session....tell them that for some reason IM isn't working on your machine some times, etc...
I found my productivity has skyrocketed since I turned IM off....
Bah, just turn off all the notifications. No sounds, banners, popups, etc. It's there when I want to check it and poof - back to the back it goes. I do the same with email. Just because it says it's instant, doesn't mean you'll get an instant response. (Meetings, bathroom, lunch, boss talking to you, etc....)
I don't know how regular non-technical people can even use the internet any more. There have been rare occasions when I've had to turn off my protection, and the screen jumps around like it's having a seizure. I've said it before and stand by it, but if ad and script blockers are outlawed, I'll find something else to do with my time.
There'll be a plugin with an offline mode that accidentally *wink* rewrites all URLs to local and only goes 1 deep and doesn't download anything but 1st level javascript. Eventually someone will figure that out and the workaround, but for now it works well if you want to browse an entire site.
Unless you work in an industry where Adobe products are expected. Other than that, I'm right there with ya and that's exactly what I would be doing if I didn't work in such an industry. MacOS would be an option if Apple sold current-gen top-end hardware, or if I could run it on my own hardware; in fact, it would be a preference in my situation.
Adobe, how thou hast soured. Honestly, I run a relatively top end MBP and am truly surprised by how well it performs. It's desktop quality easily in most cases. I would have a Mac Pro, but the trash can, although super cool looking, just wasn't going to cut it, ever, thanks to lack of upgradeability and cost for a topped out model. I've considered springing for a 2012 Mac Pro with dual CPUs, but the hack I built on a whim on my formerly dedicated Linux platform runs well enough that I just haven't ever seen the need.
No... just, no... Google has never been a threat to Microsoft's OS.
Absolutely. Google's reach into search and web definitely threatened MS's business models. There's a reason MS hasn't really had success growing into any new related market that's opened up. Web - dead. Mobile - dead. Tablets - dead. Worse, email and documents are moving away from MS, because they no longer control the majority of devices people use to view and edit them with. They now have to be compatible with other OSes and apps, and if not, their market share will continue to shrink.
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Moon was .... boring. The plot has about 20 or 30 minutes worth of story. To sit through another 70 or so minutes of plodding reveals while going on a trip into isolationist crazy just wasn't very intriguing.
If you think that the average republican or republican voter gives one tenth of one fuck for christian ideals, then you are a grade-A dumbfuck who cannot possibly be educated because you willfully ignore all evidence. BOMBS NOT BREAD is the republican motto. WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Don't take in those refugees, but BOMB THEIR COUNTRY... creating more refugees. There is nothing christian about republicans or their supporters. NOTHING.
Except for removing health care for women and making sure they pop out all fertilized eggs in 9 months, not a day sooner, on pain of death.
The US Postal Service scans all your mail - front and back. As in photographs and retains it. Opening mail and reading it goes all the way back to Ben Franklin, the original Postmaster General.
To tie it back to this moron congress critter's comments: The US post office should sell lists of everyone sending you mail (nothing important in there, like bank account, investment accounts, and people you keep in contact with outside of the internet.
This product does not have a problem. It's working exactly the way the people want it to, and with no bothersome password.
Because of this, nothing will change.
Rant aside, I think things will change as soon as it hooks up to a bank account or the like. Alexa will likely already change. I don't know or care, but that's because I'd not ever have an always on listening device in my house that I don't completely control.
Way way way back when, in the dark times, there was this release of OS/2 Warp with Voice Recognition. You trained it to recognize your voice (the trigger phrase in about 30-60 seconds) This really worked, and personalized the VR to you, a person a bit. Note that back then, it wasn't meant as security but as a way of dealing with voice tone, intonation, dialects, etc of the particular person using the computer. But some immediate fallout was that it didn't necessarily recognize other people speaking the trigger phrase. It's 20 years later, surely VR pattern recognition has been improved and could significantly reduce these types of incidents.
Of course, VR would need to be in the system...
Lack of security features isn't an agreement to let others to use your product.
Let's just get to basics:
I think perhaps a reassessment of your principles is in order.
Replacing the HDD/SSD process is as simple as 2 common TORX drivers and a spooge, if you want to be technically safe. You can work without the latter if you're careful. And about 15 minutes from start to finish. I just did 3 this week, upgrades.
RAM is the big one, and the reason I won't buy the recent iteration of minis. The 2012 series were the last real computers, the current crop are web browsers, that's about it. And yes, I am recommending either buy older or wait until no later than spring 2018, I'm guessing it won't be any longer than that. Apple owned up to their Mac Pro mistake, I'm guessing the fallout will hopefully affect their mini rollout too. I'd love it if they made a mini half a base mac pro, same parts, and some upgradeability. I can dream.
I've got an in-attic antenna. Works great, and you get get more than 60 miles of reception with the better ones. It's my second house to have one. HD captures are easy enough, for any of the things you mention.
I ditched MS back in 93 after having "SmartDrive" overwrite my EISA CMOS config. I had a relatively brief period of MS usage between 96 and 99 where my job involved MS software and a learned exactly how screwed up and bad MS software truly is, to a degree I cannot fully reveal here. Needless to say, I've run other software ever since.
I haven't installed any Windows update since I bought an XP laptop with SP1 and Windows kept wanting to install an "important security update".
It was a very well known fact way back in 2000 that the best policy was to disable the windows update service as the first thing you did after logging in. Then you changed your password.
Now, as regards to NICs - all NICs are programmable as far as their MACs go. It was a requirement, you see, back from the days of DEC at least when software licenses were tied to MACs, and NICs used to go bad relatively frequently.
Honestly, a simple mac mini in the $500 range with a replaceable SSD, pluggable memory and a quad core or better processor will run circles around most win(blows) desktops.
Both Microsoft and AMD have acknowledged some performance related issues, particularly with thread scheduling and core utilization, concerning Ryzen and Windows operating systems.
So, the answer is simple: use a real OS and not that creaky POS from MS.
It could be a grape... ;)
I had a 7:45am class - differential equations. Never made it to class except to sit exams. I studied the material well enough to pass the class, but it's the only class from which I remember nothing - nothing at all.
You remember nothing because it was all hand-waving in thin air.... ;)
Some of us have even built such devices...
The rest of us come here because it's mildly more entertaining than going to an actual zoo.
This comment was enough reason to come here today. It was certainly more entertaining than the zoo, and only took 3 min
HTML5 using RTP is absolutely satisfactory, as that covers the connection and protocol portions. The payload is a different thing, and that's purely based on implementation. It should be easy enough to add some random data bits on a secondary data pass within the encrypted stream to completely confound such analysis. The real issue here is a crappy implementation that leaks data rather than any issue with encryption.
You know, this didn't even occur to me.. that drone wingmen might not just be sensor and force augmentation, but dogfighters. But my understanding is that auto-dogfighting is actually getting very good these days, so the ability to auto-dogfight without G-limits is no insignificant argument in favour of the conversion.
And then you add smaller compact and dense drones, and very soon you wind up with the ultimate drone
And then just wait until the US runs out of cruise missles or money to build them, whichever comes first.
Already lost the money battle as the USSR which caused them to dissolve. The first will not occur. Study history or be doomed to repeat it.
For those of us not as interested in illegality, there is also Netflix, YouTube Red (for normal YT content without ads plus some unique programming), Hulu Plus (a few things will have a very short, single ad at the beginning and end), and purchasing tv seasons and movies a la carte via any number of services (Amazon, Google, etc).
That's fine until you want to watch something that's not available on those services, in which case, ads it is. I personally have a subscription to both Netflix and HBO.
Both of your issues are you're locked into what the broadcasters and services want you to see. Look outside the box, and you'll find that it's quite easy and legal to setup your own DVR for almost all content available today, sent on any system. Now that you have it on your own personal DVR solution that you control, skipping ads is simple. That said, the Hulu solution isn't bad enough to bother with, personally. Broadcast TV however. You want a little content in between your ads?
Tell them to email you if they need an IM session....tell them that for some reason IM isn't working on your machine some times, etc...
I found my productivity has skyrocketed since I turned IM off....
Bah, just turn off all the notifications. No sounds, banners, popups, etc. It's there when I want to check it and poof - back to the back it goes. I do the same with email. Just because it says it's instant, doesn't mean you'll get an instant response. (Meetings, bathroom, lunch, boss talking to you, etc....)
I don't know how regular non-technical people can even use the internet any more. There have been rare occasions when I've had to turn off my protection, and the screen jumps around like it's having a seizure. I've said it before and stand by it, but if ad and script blockers are outlawed, I'll find something else to do with my time.
There'll be a plugin with an offline mode that accidentally *wink* rewrites all URLs to local and only goes 1 deep and doesn't download anything but 1st level javascript. Eventually someone will figure that out and the workaround, but for now it works well if you want to browse an entire site.
There's a half-page ad? Interesting.
Unless you work in an industry where Adobe products are expected. Other than that, I'm right there with ya and that's exactly what I would be doing if I didn't work in such an industry. MacOS would be an option if Apple sold current-gen top-end hardware, or if I could run it on my own hardware; in fact, it would be a preference in my situation.
Adobe, how thou hast soured. Honestly, I run a relatively top end MBP and am truly surprised by how well it performs. It's desktop quality easily in most cases. I would have a Mac Pro, but the trash can, although super cool looking, just wasn't going to cut it, ever, thanks to lack of upgradeability and cost for a topped out model. I've considered springing for a 2012 Mac Pro with dual CPUs, but the hack I built on a whim on my formerly dedicated Linux platform runs well enough that I just haven't ever seen the need.
No... just, no... Google has never been a threat to Microsoft's OS.
Absolutely. Google's reach into search and web definitely threatened MS's business models. There's a reason MS hasn't really had success growing into any new related market that's opened up. Web - dead. Mobile - dead. Tablets - dead. Worse, email and documents are moving away from MS, because they no longer control the majority of devices people use to view and edit them with. They now have to be compatible with other OSes and apps, and if not, their market share will continue to shrink.