I read the article, then the comments. I found it most interesting that while the levels of lead are higher than EPA regulations allow, they're lower than what everyone in the US was exposed to before 1995 from leaded gasoline.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but you might want to improve your sources. First, the EPA regulations for gasoline were set in 1978. Second, the new EPA regulations on lead date from 2008. So your 1995 data alone seems suspect, especially as only 0.6% of all gas sold in the US in 1995 was leaded.
"I've heard engineers often tout a 10x safety limit"
This is how American engineers worked for 100 years. From the first railroads and factories until the Japanese auto invasion. 'When in doubt, double the strength!'
They really didn't. They used rules of thumb, mostly, until sometime in the early-mid 1900s. Real analysis wasn't possible before then, and looking at senior engineering books from the 40s/50s will truly shock you in their lack of mathematical backing.
Zero racist reasons were implied. Therefore the racist implications are in your own head. You therefore, are the racist. There is no other truth here.
Stating related facts can be misleading to the point of racism. For instance you are posting on slashdot. Many trolling posters on slashdot live in their mom's basement. Many posters on slashdot are IT folks. Many IT folks are overweight. Some IT workers are unkempt slobs as they are introverts and like working alone in dark spaces where they don't have to deal with social situations.
The implication is that you are a trolling overweight introverted anti-social slob.
Now, none of things may be true of you, and in fact several are not even true in general. But the problem is the appearance of a stereotype that people readily identify with and then tar the rest of the categorized population. After all we all know the wonderful BOFH right?
Finally, to counter your statement, per the GPs assumed intended direction if you replace black with poor you'll come up with roughly equivalently true statements. Since black refers to race and making negative statements based on race is considered racism... qed.
Just to refresh, so we're on the same page (you were not the OP):
Fun fact, Chrome for Android sends the fine details of the device you're using in the user agent string, down to the device model, and as far as I can tell there's nothing you can do about this other than not using Chrome for Android.
Why are you surprised? You should assume that when using chrome any website you touch is reported back to google, including page links you hit, something they're extremely interested in.
Language hard! Let me give you a timeline:
It apparently is...
1. You made a misinformed comment about the nature and purpose of the UA header.
2. I called you out.
3. You responded with nothing other than a completely different complaint that Chrome mobile doesn't allow you to change the UA header
Up to now, since you were wrong on the assumption of #1, none of the rest matters. My point, since it appears to have flown over your head, is that UA headers, regardless of the original stated purpose, serve no useful purpose to the end user and 99.999% of website developers. So little use that you can arbitrarily change them in a browser and nothing untoward happens, again, for the 99.999% of website developers that weren't stupid enough to differentiate on UA headers.
With that known, does it surprise you that most browsers are a bit less forthcoming in what they send? Does that make sense to you now?
4. I called you out for changing the topic, and pointed out that you are misinformed about your new argument in (3) also.
5. Now, you call me out for... calling you out on the topic WHICH YOU changed to in (3)? Dude, you changed the topic. I'm not calling the kettle black if I respond to what you said.
You might want to go back to the OP that I responded to, because my comment doesn't exist in a vacuum, obviously having been a response to the OP comment. Check that ending clause on the OP's quoted comment, included for your benefit above. Since threading appears to not be your strong suite.
You are misinformed as to the nature of a UA header. It isn't even sent to Google.
What happens on every one of those google-analytics.com, googleapis.com, googletagservices.com, doubleclick.net, and other google domains that are referenced on many web pages multiple times? Or do those magically not send any info and all the hoopla about fingerprinting and tracking is just ephemeral fumes coming out of your backside, much like most of your "thinking" here? Come back after you've learned how to follow a rational conversation and mastered the admittedly difficult ability to follow a single comment/response process. Better yet, don't, sharpen your newfound skills elsewhere.
Well, since I never claimed anything about that, and it isn't even what we are talking about... no, I don't. I guess when you have no point any longer you try to change the topic? ...< promptly changes topic >
Sends a cold chill down my spine.
Sort of. They're targeting the entire species of mosquito that's prone to carrying malaria and ignoring the species that don't. But not all individuals in the species carry it, and they're not attempting to target just those individuals.
All females in the species can carry it, and that's why those specific 3 species are being targeted. Eradicating them wouldn't have too great an effect on the ecosystem as they don't feed on any particular other species (except humans) and don't serve as a major food source for any other species. Reverting them to a non-human bloodsucking state would be better, but that would be undoing hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and who knows what that might open up. better to let them go extinct or mutate to a non-human blood sucking state. Both solve the problem.
Then the answer has been in the special case above: buy a special purpose machine, and keep it air-gapped. Yes, that makes transfers a pain in the ass, but at least you won't be leaking patient records to the world.
But you absolutely can buy new computing hardware without windows as just a few examples. So there's no excuse for buying substandard security for any reason.
I don't understand tech people that still uses crap like Windoze...
...
Windows is the most common platform out there- of course a large number of tech workers are still going to be using it.
It's interesting then that in my world, the windows using tech worker is an exception. Hundreds of devs and tech workers I work with all use *nix of one flavor or another. Why? Because everything they do pretty much interacts with a *nix server. In fact, I can't recall touching a windows "server" in at least 5 years at a multitude of clients big and small.
Better yet: change browser. If a piece of software tries to screw the users over, users shouldn't have to find a way around it: they should junk it. That's what that software deserves.
OTOH, users shouldn't be expected to keep up with all the news about how their software is trying to screw them, because that would be like a full-time job these days. So let's avoid blaming the victims
Why? Why should we stop blaming people who only eat at McDonalds and supersize everything for being obese? That Google has been a data vacuum since 2005 is obvious and anyone who trusts them regarding privacy since then is an idiot. Google is in business to do one thing: sell advertising.
ah, but did you get doubleclick.net, or any of the 100s of other Google owned advertising domains? No? Well, a shit ton of good blocking google.com does you as far as tracking goes. Of course this isn't only true for Chrome.
Why are you surprised? You should assume that when using chrome any website you touch is reported back to google, including page links you hit, something they're extremely interested in.
Oh, I use Chrome, for the login to google for Android development I need. It's the only thing it's used for. That keeps my other browsers clean from google turds and easy to keep clean.
They hate their customers and actively work to screw them over. Why support them?
Companies "doing evil" is really pretty close to the bottom of the list of my concerns when shopping for a smartphone.
Generally, I'd agree. But Sony has been consistently very anti-consumer in their actions and activities, with things like the CD rootkit being truly notable as such activity was never legal.
I actually like both. I use the Sony Lifelogger app, although wish there was a better one out there (that one is too focused on fitness and they nerfed the timeline several years ago).
If there's a company more evil than tech company 'x', it's Sony, hands down. They hate their customers and actively work to screw them over. Why support them?
What I really want from Google is a way to set a percentage charge limit. There's no point to putting excess wear on my battery on days when I'm not going to need a 100% charge.
Well, there's a reason Android phones have "better" battery life than comparable iphones. There's also a reason most Android phones have user replaceable batteries.:)
The entire HTML/CSS rendering concept is flawed from the get-go, with piss poor standardization and failure to maintain boundaries within graphical elements. It's effectively a pinup board with no boundaries and no real rules on rendering. But it's Agile!;)
You just start coding. You don't do architecture or design until coding is complete, docs are written, and you have buy-in from all stakeholders.
1. Code
2. Document
3. Design
Really, what could be easier? The cool thing about Agile is if you screw up the design, it doesn't really matter, because you already have working code, and everybody is happy.
Straight over the cliff, like a waterfall.;) The cool thing about Agile is that the mess you create won't be yours, because you run away to the next project. Wait! You want maintenance and additional feature development? Hmm, maybe we should have thought about this a bit more at the beginning. Now we have an entire system that needs to be thrown away. Agile sure is cool.
I had a number of thoughts, and decided to just do a straight comparison:
List of impressive smartphone innovations:
- Skyrocketing prices for marginal incremental improvement
In lock step with Samsung's Galaxy and Note releases.
- Devices costing $500-$1000 dollars lacking user replaceable batteries
And the Samsung Galaxy 8/9 are any better? At least I don't need to nuke or otherwise heat my iPhone to replace the battery.
- Removal of widely used physical interfaces for self-enrichment / courage
I don't know about self-enrichment, but I can agree it's annoying. It does save on space and thickness.
- Artificially low amounts of internal persistent storage completely out of whack with current technology coupled with refusal to provide SD expansion
However, refusing to provide SD expansion allows for waterproofing.
- Crummy battery life
Just a touch less than Samsung's without the flaming pocket problem.
- Phones so thin they snap like graham crackers in your pockets
I guess if they thickened them up a little, they could easily beat the battery life of the competing Samsung? But this hasn't really been an issue with most since the iPhone 6 Plus model. So this is purely an aesthetic issue.
- Lack of usability / physical buttons
I guess with Samsung selling a similarly priced flagship that people are just flocking to Samsung? Wait, Samsung's losing money because they're not selling as well. I guess this is a personal taste issue as well.
- eSIMs
Is this a bad thing? I'm seriously asking here. They still take SIMs IIRC.
- Locked bootloaders, operating systems and carriers
Yay, yay, and no
- Preloaded to the hilt with malware
Keep up the good work.
Give Google a break, they're trying very hard to only ship their own adware!
Imazing allows you to do a whole crap ton of things easily that are possible with iTunes, sometimes, or not. I'm sure there are others.
AFT for Android and the Android External Storage service are two things that are
A) unreliable
B) unstable
C) require an obscene amount of knowledge to use correctly to pull information off your phone and guarantee that it actually copies the right information
D) seem like they came straight out of MS's 1994 guide book of software architecture and cached app design (hint - MS had a horrible track record with caching apps in the mid 90s, not making any statements about today)
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I read the article, then the comments. I found it most interesting that while the levels of lead are higher than EPA regulations allow, they're lower than what everyone in the US was exposed to before 1995 from leaded gasoline.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but you might want to improve your sources. First, the EPA regulations for gasoline were set in 1978. Second, the new EPA regulations on lead date from 2008. So your 1995 data alone seems suspect, especially as only 0.6% of all gas sold in the US in 1995 was leaded.
"I've heard engineers often tout a 10x safety limit"
This is how American engineers worked for 100 years. From the first railroads and factories until the Japanese auto invasion. 'When in doubt, double the strength!'
They really didn't. They used rules of thumb, mostly, until sometime in the early-mid 1900s. Real analysis wasn't possible before then, and looking at senior engineering books from the 40s/50s will truly shock you in their lack of mathematical backing.
Zero racist reasons were implied. Therefore the racist implications are in your own head. You therefore, are the racist. There is no other truth here.
Stating related facts can be misleading to the point of racism. For instance you are posting on slashdot. Many trolling posters on slashdot live in their mom's basement. Many posters on slashdot are IT folks. Many IT folks are overweight. Some IT workers are unkempt slobs as they are introverts and like working alone in dark spaces where they don't have to deal with social situations.
The implication is that you are a trolling overweight introverted anti-social slob.
Now, none of things may be true of you, and in fact several are not even true in general. But the problem is the appearance of a stereotype that people readily identify with and then tar the rest of the categorized population. After all we all know the wonderful BOFH right?
Finally, to counter your statement, per the GPs assumed intended direction if you replace black with poor you'll come up with roughly equivalently true statements. Since black refers to race and making negative statements based on race is considered racism... qed.
Fun fact, Chrome for Android sends the fine details of the device you're using in the user agent string, down to the device model, and as far as I can tell there's nothing you can do about this other than not using Chrome for Android.
Why are you surprised? You should assume that when using chrome any website you touch is reported back to google, including page links you hit, something they're extremely interested in.
Language hard! Let me give you a timeline:
It apparently is...
1. You made a misinformed comment about the nature and purpose of the UA header. 2. I called you out. 3. You responded with nothing other than a completely different complaint that Chrome mobile doesn't allow you to change the UA header
Up to now, since you were wrong on the assumption of #1, none of the rest matters. My point, since it appears to have flown over your head, is that UA headers, regardless of the original stated purpose, serve no useful purpose to the end user and 99.999% of website developers. So little use that you can arbitrarily change them in a browser and nothing untoward happens, again, for the 99.999% of website developers that weren't stupid enough to differentiate on UA headers.
With that known, does it surprise you that most browsers are a bit less forthcoming in what they send? Does that make sense to you now?
4. I called you out for changing the topic, and pointed out that you are misinformed about your new argument in (3) also.
5. Now, you call me out for... calling you out on the topic WHICH YOU changed to in (3)? Dude, you changed the topic. I'm not calling the kettle black if I respond to what you said.
You might want to go back to the OP that I responded to, because my comment doesn't exist in a vacuum, obviously having been a response to the OP comment. Check that ending clause on the OP's quoted comment, included for your benefit above. Since threading appears to not be your strong suite.
You are misinformed as to the nature of a UA header. It isn't even sent to Google.
What happens on every one of those google-analytics.com, googleapis.com, googletagservices.com, doubleclick.net, and other google domains that are referenced on many web pages multiple times? Or do those magically not send any info and all the hoopla about fingerprinting and tracking is just ephemeral fumes coming out of your backside, much like most of your "thinking" here? Come back after you've learned how to follow a rational conversation and mastered the admittedly difficult ability to follow a single comment/response process. Better yet, don't, sharpen your newfound skills elsewhere.
Well, since I never claimed anything about that, and it isn't even what we are talking about... no, I don't. I guess when you have no point any longer you try to change the topic?
...< promptly changes topic >
Sends a cold chill down my spine.
Pot?
Sort of. They're targeting the entire species of mosquito that's prone to carrying malaria and ignoring the species that don't. But not all individuals in the species carry it, and they're not attempting to target just those individuals.
All females in the species can carry it, and that's why those specific 3 species are being targeted. Eradicating them wouldn't have too great an effect on the ecosystem as they don't feed on any particular other species (except humans) and don't serve as a major food source for any other species. Reverting them to a non-human bloodsucking state would be better, but that would be undoing hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and who knows what that might open up. better to let them go extinct or mutate to a non-human blood sucking state. Both solve the problem.
And you are aware that there are lots of ways to alter that header on just about any other system?
FUD much yourself?
Sheesh.
Then the answer has been in the special case above: buy a special purpose machine, and keep it air-gapped. Yes, that makes transfers a pain in the ass, but at least you won't be leaking patient records to the world.
But you absolutely can buy new computing hardware without windows as just a few examples. So there's no excuse for buying substandard security for any reason.
I don't understand tech people that still uses crap like Windoze...
...
Windows is the most common platform out there- of course a large number of tech workers are still going to be using it.
It's interesting then that in my world, the windows using tech worker is an exception. Hundreds of devs and tech workers I work with all use *nix of one flavor or another. Why? Because everything they do pretty much interacts with a *nix server. In fact, I can't recall touching a windows "server" in at least 5 years at a multitude of clients big and small.
You'd think HIPAA requirements would send that straight to a *NIX type machine, as Win anything is wholly incapable of meeting the security aspects.
Better yet: change browser. If a piece of software tries to screw the users over, users shouldn't have to find a way around it: they should junk it. That's what that software deserves.
OTOH, users shouldn't be expected to keep up with all the news about how their software is trying to screw them, because that would be like a full-time job these days. So let's avoid blaming the victims
Why? Why should we stop blaming people who only eat at McDonalds and supersize everything for being obese? That Google has been a data vacuum since 2005 is obvious and anyone who trusts them regarding privacy since then is an idiot. Google is in business to do one thing: sell advertising.
ah, but did you get doubleclick.net, or any of the 100s of other Google owned advertising domains? No? Well, a shit ton of good blocking google.com does you as far as tracking goes. Of course this isn't only true for Chrome.
Why are you surprised? You should assume that when using chrome any website you touch is reported back to google, including page links you hit, something they're extremely interested in.
I use it, it doesn't do that at all, so I'm positive it's something specific on your computer. Perhaps some proper configuration would seriously help?
Oh, I use Chrome, for the login to google for Android development I need. It's the only thing it's used for. That keeps my other browsers clean from google turds and easy to keep clean.
Companies "doing evil" is really pretty close to the bottom of the list of my concerns when shopping for a smartphone.
Generally, I'd agree. But Sony has been consistently very anti-consumer in their actions and activities, with things like the CD rootkit being truly notable as such activity was never legal.
I actually like both. I use the Sony Lifelogger app, although wish there was a better one out there (that one is too focused on fitness and they nerfed the timeline several years ago).
If there's a company more evil than tech company 'x', it's Sony, hands down. They hate their customers and actively work to screw them over. Why support them?
What I really want from Google is a way to set a percentage charge limit. There's no point to putting excess wear on my battery on days when I'm not going to need a 100% charge.
Well, there's a reason Android phones have "better" battery life than comparable iphones. There's also a reason most Android phones have user replaceable batteries. :)
The entire HTML/CSS rendering concept is flawed from the get-go, with piss poor standardization and failure to maintain boundaries within graphical elements. It's effectively a pinup board with no boundaries and no real rules on rendering. But it's Agile! ;)
You just start coding. You don't do architecture or design until coding is complete, docs are written, and you have buy-in from all stakeholders.
1. Code 2. Document 3. Design
Really, what could be easier? The cool thing about Agile is if you screw up the design, it doesn't really matter, because you already have working code, and everybody is happy.
Straight over the cliff, like a waterfall. ;) The cool thing about Agile is that the mess you create won't be yours, because you run away to the next project. Wait! You want maintenance and additional feature development? Hmm, maybe we should have thought about this a bit more at the beginning. Now we have an entire system that needs to be thrown away. Agile sure is cool.
IP67, 1m. New iPhones are IP68, 2m.
List of impressive smartphone innovations:
- Skyrocketing prices for marginal incremental improvement
In lock step with Samsung's Galaxy and Note releases.
- Devices costing $500-$1000 dollars lacking user replaceable batteries
And the Samsung Galaxy 8/9 are any better? At least I don't need to nuke or otherwise heat my iPhone to replace the battery.
- Removal of widely used physical interfaces for self-enrichment / courage
I don't know about self-enrichment, but I can agree it's annoying. It does save on space and thickness.
- Artificially low amounts of internal persistent storage completely out of whack with current technology coupled with refusal to provide SD expansion
However, refusing to provide SD expansion allows for waterproofing.
- Crummy battery life
Just a touch less than Samsung's without the flaming pocket problem.
- Phones so thin they snap like graham crackers in your pockets
I guess if they thickened them up a little, they could easily beat the battery life of the competing Samsung? But this hasn't really been an issue with most since the iPhone 6 Plus model. So this is purely an aesthetic issue.
- Lack of usability / physical buttons
I guess with Samsung selling a similarly priced flagship that people are just flocking to Samsung? Wait, Samsung's losing money because they're not selling as well. I guess this is a personal taste issue as well.
- eSIMs
Is this a bad thing? I'm seriously asking here. They still take SIMs IIRC.
- Locked bootloaders, operating systems and carriers
Yay, yay, and no
- Preloaded to the hilt with malware
Keep up the good work.
Give Google a break, they're trying very hard to only ship their own adware!
Imazing allows you to do a whole crap ton of things easily that are possible with iTunes, sometimes, or not. I'm sure there are others.
AFT for Android and the Android External Storage service are two things that are
List of impressive smartphone innovations:
- Artificially low amounts of internal persistent storage completely out of whack with current technology coupled with refusal to provide SD expansion
That one's only an apple thing. They're thinking "different" all right.
512GB. Low? You have to trade external SD for waterproof, but I guess that ruins this rant.
So let's call Agile and Brooks complementary.
Let's not.