If we're lucky, this will kick off a wave of forum sites coming up with clever hash systems allowing you to confirm that the message you posted on a forum has not been altered. And the best of these systems could trickle down into a way to confirm that a ballot you cast on an electronic voting machine has not been tampered with.
Digital signatures have existed as a publicly available component since Zimmerman's release of PGP back in... 92? No need to reinvent anything that already exists but multi-client support is not seamless at this stage, which probably kills it for many.
Search for 'OSX update fail' and ' "Windows 10" update fail' and report back on the differences in search results. That's going to return 11 versions worth of OSX update failures version just update failures for "Windows 10" which has not even been out 2 years yet. You'd think the OSX results would overwhelm the W10 results, but quite the opposite is true. You're buried in loads of various W10 updates that failed in some spectacular fashion, including MS pulling the update and releasing a new update afterwards. It's quite possible the forced update cycle compounds the effect of a bad update, but that is something MS decided to do on its own.
You are only partially correct. It's not Word that's the problem, but Windows printer driver configuration being driven (originally) through the GDI interface. Instead of rasterizing a document based on what you configured in software, Windows delegates things like font descriptions to the underlying printer driver. Thus Helvetica as printed natively on an HP laserjet may be just slightly different than a Xerox laser jet, and definitely different than a Canon inkjet. Meanwhile, in the world of the rational drivers (pretty much anyone else in the computer space) in layman's terms, the OS/app combination formats and sends a page with instructions to the printer services, then sending the pages to the printer driver which needs to print the page as sent. This means switching printers doesn't alter what's printed, since the OS/app has already formatted said page. This doesn't mean that an app can't format a page to a specific printer, but it does mean that by default what it shows on the screen will remain what's printed as long as the app uses the OS printer services.
It's just another case of an area where windows falls woefully short of anything anyone would expect a computing system to do.
I order a LOT of stuff from Amazon. Heck, most everything I buy for others for Xmas, will be bought and delivered by Amazon. I find more and more, almost anything I buy is online and most of it is from Amazon, so the Prime part is important for me.
My only hope is, that Amazon doesn't ever open a distribution or other brick and mortar physical presence in my state, and force me to start paying sales tax for purchases from them.
So you support the Walmart of the web? I buy as little as possible from Amazon, preferring to go so far as when I do find something on Amazon to seek out that vendor's (or a competitor's) web site and purchase direct from them.
And I was under the impression that Amazon taxed everyone at this point? Maybe not yet?
Hell, for years I just wanted a word processor that would actually print what I had specified on screen, no matter the printer. Fixed that issue by moving to non MS software across the boards.
This technology already all existed in 2005, before phones. It was only a matter of time after GPS and direct internet cellular data were incorporated into phones that the application to integrate into such systems would be written.
Strangely enough, I don't recall Colin Powell being a Presidential candidate last month. Why don't you stay on topic here instead of trying to derail the conversation.
Oddly enough, he was the Secretary of State prior to Hillary and engaged in the same behavior. We cannot judge the scale nor the violations, because it's all been conveniently purposefully deleted. (Sound familiar?)
... posting hyperlinks to pirated copies of material is only legal provided it is done without knowledge that they are unauthorized versions
How is a someone who has been taken to court over this but never knew that the content they linked to was infringing supposed to prove that they didn't know that the content was unauthorized?
Wrong question - the right question is "how do you know they knew it was infringing?" followed by "prove it".
Or, assuming that they are treated as innocent until proven guilty, how is the court supposed to prove that a person knew that the content they wanted to link to was unauthorized to get a conviction?
Still wrong premise, the court doesn't prove anything, the plaintiff has to prove it. Note that things like emails saying "post this link to blah from pirate site yarr and add this awesome ad so we make money" would likely be considered a smoking gun in this situation.
As opposed to the media failing to make clear that if anybody but Hillary! with access to classified information had done what she did, they'd be in jail?
As opposed to the media failing to point out that the lack of safeguards on Hillary!'s illegal private email server likely allowed every damn intelligence agency in the world access to it?
There MAY be "fake" news regarding Trump, but there is CERTAINLY a whole plethora of news about Hillary! that ISN'T fake, but the media refused to report it simply because it accurately cast her as a corrupt felon.
Yeah, I guess Hillary's email server wasn't all over the news and there was no Hatch Act violation about 11 days before the election about those same emails and a "renewed" investigation splattered all over the news. Revisionism of this magnitude borders on delusion.
How about equal focus on Colin Powell's email server and the 20+ million Bush era emails that are, well, how do we put this? Gone? And we're just to take their word for it that there was nothing classified on any of them?
2. A renewed effort into making journalism a trusted source to get information free of trying to push a political bias.
I would love to see #2
The Fairness Doctrine was killed by Republicans, and this current set of so far right they're falling off the plank group hates it. Wish I still had the links to the set of stories related to Trump, Breitbart, and some Trump supporters. The statements they made during a recorded interview are truly scary. Things like "the media reported 3 million illegals voted for Clinton" and other whacked out statements which, when all was said and done, were based only on Facebook posts. That FB is not a media source in the journalistic sense seems to be completely outside their understanding. And that is frightening. Goebbels is drooling right now.
You pushed me over the hump to buy a couple of the RTs.
As for hubs, when I picked up the wink, there weren't yet many choices. I haven't gone back to see what's there now. Plus, I had another requirement at the time, which no longer applies.
If Linux was more prevalent, you probably wouldn't have a job.
Hate MS all you want, but if your job there is to fix these problems. No problems = no job. Stop trying to make your job redundant, you should be praising MS for keeping food on your table.
And no, you aren't paying for it, you're paid to deal with it.
Actually, I do hate MS. I used to hold several certifications and several phone numbers. I haven't missed any of it in over a decade, and actively sought different employment. Even with all that said, I dipped back into the cesspool that is MS for 2 jobs in the last few years. It has not gotten better. In fact, they doubled down on their terrible architecture, so it will be unlikely that anything in that area will ever improve.
All that said, if the pay is right and I dictate the terms, I suppose I'll do another MS project. Until financial independence arrives, you take what most quickly gets you to your goals. Even then, pure pay isn't enough when MS is involved, because no one pays that high.
zwave thermostats still "require" outside access unless you hack it, unless things have changed relatively recently. I'm looking at acquiring a Radio Thermostat Company product for my needs, so corrections are particular pertinent. I'm looking to playing with my rooted wink hub this holiday season.
Quote the contrary - Net Neutrality still makes loads of sense, for everyone but the ISPs. They, of course, want to milk everyone using "their" network for as much cash as possible and double and triple charge on top of that. Once for your connection, once to your remote data service for the privilege of returning data you requested, and finally charge you again for going over your data threshold because you're not using their own competing service which has no data cap. And therein lies the real problem, ISPs that are more than ISPs and would like to charge you at least double for the privilege of daring to use a service they don't own.
I'm very unhappy with the likely shitcanning of Net Neutrality. Altering stock portfolio should have been done prior to the election, as in go cash, then once you know who won, place your bets.
I've owned several MBPs (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014) several personally. I can say that through this year, MBPs were some of the best laptops out there in terms of performance and quality constructions, despite the decreasing ability to fix things yourself. I have not compared the newest MBPs so I cannot speak to them. As for performance comparisons, I'm comparing it to a slightly older hex-core desktop outfitted with SSDs. The performance between the two is comparable for most work loads, which is pretty impressive for a laptop that will run 6-10 hours on a charge depending upon load.
Besides the fact that your understanding of currently stated physics is sadly off the mark, as others noted before me with more than adequate detail. The other aspect you completely miss is that the physics of the early universe as described in TFS followed different laws than the current laws we have, which means all assumptions you make using currently understood physics based relationships are most likely invalid.
Not my brand. And you'll note I'm critical where Apple deserves criticism. Sadly, that's in more and more areas of late. It may actually happen that I move onward to something else in the future, but Apple will need to fall further both in usability and reliability or the current crop of alternate hardware software will need some major improvements before I'd hop on their platforms. Android is still a mess, maybe with Google taking stricter control they may be able to wrestle something reasonable out of it.
I only know that the iOS bugs have been issues for me, personally, since iOS 9 came out. No, it's not just problems on older hardware, not withstanding the headphone jack going dead, which obviously can't happen on an iPhone7. iOS 10 looked like it fixed a few of the major ones, but that was only the first week or so of playing around with it. It appears the root bugs are still there, although they've been bandaided over so the occurrence is much less often. The major actual app failure I used to see has not appeared once in iOS 10, but that could be because they've traded GUI screen glitches and lockups with app crashes instead. Sure solved the GUI glitch/lockup issues.
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If we're lucky, this will kick off a wave of forum sites coming up with clever hash systems allowing you to confirm that the message you posted on a forum has not been altered. And the best of these systems could trickle down into a way to confirm that a ballot you cast on an electronic voting machine has not been tampered with.
Digital signatures have existed as a publicly available component since Zimmerman's release of PGP back in... 92? No need to reinvent anything that already exists but multi-client support is not seamless at this stage, which probably kills it for many.
I kind of miss the days of the paranoid tin-foil hats
Search for 'OSX update fail' and ' "Windows 10" update fail' and report back on the differences in search results. That's going to return 11 versions worth of OSX update failures version just update failures for "Windows 10" which has not even been out 2 years yet. You'd think the OSX results would overwhelm the W10 results, but quite the opposite is true. You're buried in loads of various W10 updates that failed in some spectacular fashion, including MS pulling the update and releasing a new update afterwards. It's quite possible the forced update cycle compounds the effect of a bad update, but that is something MS decided to do on its own.
You are only partially correct. It's not Word that's the problem, but Windows printer driver configuration being driven (originally) through the GDI interface. Instead of rasterizing a document based on what you configured in software, Windows delegates things like font descriptions to the underlying printer driver. Thus Helvetica as printed natively on an HP laserjet may be just slightly different than a Xerox laser jet, and definitely different than a Canon inkjet. Meanwhile, in the world of the rational drivers (pretty much anyone else in the computer space) in layman's terms, the OS/app combination formats and sends a page with instructions to the printer services, then sending the pages to the printer driver which needs to print the page as sent. This means switching printers doesn't alter what's printed, since the OS/app has already formatted said page. This doesn't mean that an app can't format a page to a specific printer, but it does mean that by default what it shows on the screen will remain what's printed as long as the app uses the OS printer services.
It's just another case of an area where windows falls woefully short of anything anyone would expect a computing system to do.
That doesn't work for what we're talking about.
Windows runs virtually every IDE out there along with all the graphical and other creation tools
And all the stability bringing updates you could possibly want coupled with almost 0 control of your own environment
I order a LOT of stuff from Amazon. Heck, most everything I buy for others for Xmas, will be bought and delivered by Amazon. I find more and more, almost anything I buy is online and most of it is from Amazon, so the Prime part is important for me.
My only hope is, that Amazon doesn't ever open a distribution or other brick and mortar physical presence in my state, and force me to start paying sales tax for purchases from them.
So you support the Walmart of the web? I buy as little as possible from Amazon, preferring to go so far as when I do find something on Amazon to seek out that vendor's (or a competitor's) web site and purchase direct from them.
And I was under the impression that Amazon taxed everyone at this point? Maybe not yet?
Wordstar keyboard shortcuts
Hell, for years I just wanted a word processor that would actually print what I had specified on screen, no matter the printer. Fixed that issue by moving to non MS software across the boards.
This technology already all existed in 2005, before phones. It was only a matter of time after GPS and direct internet cellular data were incorporated into phones that the application to integrate into such systems would be written.
Strangely enough, I don't recall Colin Powell being a Presidential candidate last month. Why don't you stay on topic here instead of trying to derail the conversation.
Oddly enough, he was the Secretary of State prior to Hillary and engaged in the same behavior. We cannot judge the scale nor the violations, because it's all been conveniently purposefully deleted. (Sound familiar?)
Theoretically fine, except for this:
How is a someone who has been taken to court over this but never knew that the content they linked to was infringing supposed to prove that they didn't know that the content was unauthorized?
Wrong question - the right question is "how do you know they knew it was infringing?" followed by "prove it".
Or, assuming that they are treated as innocent until proven guilty, how is the court supposed to prove that a person knew that the content they wanted to link to was unauthorized to get a conviction?
Still wrong premise, the court doesn't prove anything, the plaintiff has to prove it. Note that things like emails saying "post this link to blah from pirate site yarr and add this awesome ad so we make money" would likely be considered a smoking gun in this situation.
As opposed to the media failing to make clear that if anybody but Hillary! with access to classified information had done what she did, they'd be in jail?
As opposed to the media failing to point out that the lack of safeguards on Hillary!'s illegal private email server likely allowed every damn intelligence agency in the world access to it?
There MAY be "fake" news regarding Trump, but there is CERTAINLY a whole plethora of news about Hillary! that ISN'T fake, but the media refused to report it simply because it accurately cast her as a corrupt felon.
Yeah, I guess Hillary's email server wasn't all over the news and there was no Hatch Act violation about 11 days before the election about those same emails and a "renewed" investigation splattered all over the news. Revisionism of this magnitude borders on delusion.
How about equal focus on Colin Powell's email server and the 20+ million Bush era emails that are, well, how do we put this? Gone? And we're just to take their word for it that there was nothing classified on any of them?
2. A renewed effort into making journalism a trusted source to get information free of trying to push a political bias.
I would love to see #2
The Fairness Doctrine was killed by Republicans, and this current set of so far right they're falling off the plank group hates it. Wish I still had the links to the set of stories related to Trump, Breitbart, and some Trump supporters. The statements they made during a recorded interview are truly scary. Things like "the media reported 3 million illegals voted for Clinton" and other whacked out statements which, when all was said and done, were based only on Facebook posts. That FB is not a media source in the journalistic sense seems to be completely outside their understanding. And that is frightening. Goebbels is drooling right now.
You pushed me over the hump to buy a couple of the RTs.
As for hubs, when I picked up the wink, there weren't yet many choices. I haven't gone back to see what's there now. Plus, I had another requirement at the time, which no longer applies.
The problem with that approach is they'll kill an entire industry. Imagine if everyone dropped facebook! What on earth will 200M morons do then?
If Linux was more prevalent, you probably wouldn't have a job.
Hate MS all you want, but if your job there is to fix these problems. No problems = no job. Stop trying to make your job redundant, you should be praising MS for keeping food on your table.
And no, you aren't paying for it, you're paid to deal with it.
Actually, I do hate MS. I used to hold several certifications and several phone numbers. I haven't missed any of it in over a decade, and actively sought different employment. Even with all that said, I dipped back into the cesspool that is MS for 2 jobs in the last few years. It has not gotten better. In fact, they doubled down on their terrible architecture, so it will be unlikely that anything in that area will ever improve.
All that said, if the pay is right and I dictate the terms, I suppose I'll do another MS project. Until financial independence arrives, you take what most quickly gets you to your goals. Even then, pure pay isn't enough when MS is involved, because no one pays that high.
zwave thermostats still "require" outside access unless you hack it, unless things have changed relatively recently. I'm looking at acquiring a Radio Thermostat Company product for my needs, so corrections are particular pertinent. I'm looking to playing with my rooted wink hub this holiday season.
Quote the contrary - Net Neutrality still makes loads of sense, for everyone but the ISPs. They, of course, want to milk everyone using "their" network for as much cash as possible and double and triple charge on top of that. Once for your connection, once to your remote data service for the privilege of returning data you requested, and finally charge you again for going over your data threshold because you're not using their own competing service which has no data cap. And therein lies the real problem, ISPs that are more than ISPs and would like to charge you at least double for the privilege of daring to use a service they don't own.
I'm very unhappy with the likely shitcanning of Net Neutrality. Altering stock portfolio should have been done prior to the election, as in go cash, then once you know who won, place your bets.
I disabled the Amber/Silver alert thing after the first one came in. Took all of 2 min to find and remove that annoyance.
I've owned several MBPs (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014) several personally. I can say that through this year, MBPs were some of the best laptops out there in terms of performance and quality constructions, despite the decreasing ability to fix things yourself. I have not compared the newest MBPs so I cannot speak to them. As for performance comparisons, I'm comparing it to a slightly older hex-core desktop outfitted with SSDs. The performance between the two is comparable for most work loads, which is pretty impressive for a laptop that will run 6-10 hours on a charge depending upon load.
Besides the fact that your understanding of currently stated physics is sadly off the mark, as others noted before me with more than adequate detail. The other aspect you completely miss is that the physics of the early universe as described in TFS followed different laws than the current laws we have, which means all assumptions you make using currently understood physics based relationships are most likely invalid.
Just about anything can be toxic if levels exceed our bodies ability to deal with them.
Moderation is key. I don't know of a single substance that an excess of won't kill you.
Not my brand. And you'll note I'm critical where Apple deserves criticism. Sadly, that's in more and more areas of late. It may actually happen that I move onward to something else in the future, but Apple will need to fall further both in usability and reliability or the current crop of alternate hardware software will need some major improvements before I'd hop on their platforms. Android is still a mess, maybe with Google taking stricter control they may be able to wrestle something reasonable out of it.
I only know that the iOS bugs have been issues for me, personally, since iOS 9 came out. No, it's not just problems on older hardware, not withstanding the headphone jack going dead, which obviously can't happen on an iPhone7. iOS 10 looked like it fixed a few of the major ones, but that was only the first week or so of playing around with it. It appears the root bugs are still there, although they've been bandaided over so the occurrence is much less often. The major actual app failure I used to see has not appeared once in iOS 10, but that could be because they've traded GUI screen glitches and lockups with app crashes instead. Sure solved the GUI glitch/lockup issues.