The only example we know is Earth, and we know the criteria causing humans to become prominent on Earth, but we don't know for how long.
There are many traps on the way to fall in. Just because you have species with intelligence doesn't mean that they become technologically advanced. Dolphins are pretty smart, but don't use many tools. Crows are smart too and use tools temporarily to achieve a goal, but they don't carry them around everywhere.
Humans have the ability to predict plausible futures and can therefore know that if firewood is collected it help you staying warm in the winter.
I think that life isn't that rare, but intelligent life with a technological civilization is.
When I applied the Drake equation once I got a value of 0.8 on the number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way right now. I find that plausible considering how civilized humans are.
That's quite interesting and also explains the changes we have seen lately - transition from a company providing a necessity to a company that spies on the users.
The best protection is to avoid being flagged from the beginning as someone the government(s) may want to watch.
It's one thing to be politically incorrect and use profanities and politically incorrect wording and another to actually agitate and promote violent activities and organizations.
I think that the article already lists the viable alternatives. Personally I'd prefer Iceland, especially since it's a small country and most people know each other so it's hard to keep a secret.
Two problems with that. 1. Within the EU the home office of the worker can't change without proper procedure, often with unions involved. 2. If the office is changed then the travel is usually tax-deductible instead, so the employee may even benefit from it.
Uploading - it's something that you send from your computer to a server on the net. Downloading - it's something you get to your computer from a server on the net.
What M$ do is to trick your computer to download crap from their servers. Much like malware.
Never make such an assumption that people will understand the need to "configure it that way". It's outright rude, especially when you have to consider that there are many older people using computers and that don't know anything about what they can click OK on or not.
So the every other version still holds: NT 3.1 - Toy version so it don't really count. NT 3.51 - Meh, but not many suffered from it. NT 4 -OK 2000 - Meh. (not really bad, but not really good either) XP - OK Vista - Bad like a bitch on PMS. 7 - OK 8 - Bad like a bad LSD trip. 8.1 - OK 10 - Bad because it rapes your integrity.
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The only example we know is Earth, and we know the criteria causing humans to become prominent on Earth, but we don't know for how long.
There are many traps on the way to fall in. Just because you have species with intelligence doesn't mean that they become technologically advanced. Dolphins are pretty smart, but don't use many tools. Crows are smart too and use tools temporarily to achieve a goal, but they don't carry them around everywhere.
Humans have the ability to predict plausible futures and can therefore know that if firewood is collected it help you staying warm in the winter.
I think that life isn't that rare, but intelligent life with a technological civilization is.
When I applied the Drake equation once I got a value of 0.8 on the number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way right now. I find that plausible considering how civilized humans are.
In reality they can do whatever they want regardless of in or out of the US, they just need a good scapegoat.
That's quite interesting and also explains the changes we have seen lately - transition from a company providing a necessity to a company that spies on the users.
The best protection is to avoid being flagged from the beginning as someone the government(s) may want to watch.
It's one thing to be politically incorrect and use profanities and politically incorrect wording and another to actually agitate and promote violent activities and organizations.
I think that the article already lists the viable alternatives. Personally I'd prefer Iceland, especially since it's a small country and most people know each other so it's hard to keep a secret.
Realize that this as well applies to laser printers, not only inkjet printers.
Two problems with that.
1. Within the EU the home office of the worker can't change without proper procedure, often with unions involved.
2. If the office is changed then the travel is usually tax-deductible instead, so the employee may even benefit from it.
I'd pick a Toyota Corolla if I wanted just an ass-hauler to work.
Travel cost to workplace is tax-deductible in some countries.
How about good adblockers for edge?
With AdBlock active and preventing connections to tracker sites it's even better.
The taste of irony.
Reality: I built my first computer from actual ICs on a wire-wrapped board in the 80's.
So you found the magic key here - install some hardware that isn't supported by Win 10 and it won't consider a forced upgrade for now.
What? You must check what you mean.
Uploading - it's something that you send from your computer to a server on the net.
Downloading - it's something you get to your computer from a server on the net.
What M$ do is to trick your computer to download crap from their servers. Much like malware.
HP, Dell and the others get paid by Microsoft to promote Windows.
Sorry - I don't have mod points today.
funny- its now MS that abuses its own userbase. the hackers are now less of a worry to many of us.
Even more interesting is if the hackers are able to pick up the "telemetry" data transferred from your computer and make use of it.
I don't think that they get that at all, for all that we know they have a daily lemonparty at Microsoft.
Never make such an assumption that people will understand the need to "configure it that way". It's outright rude, especially when you have to consider that there are many older people using computers and that don't know anything about what they can click OK on or not.
That depends on what the original EULA did say.
Sooner or later they will do the same thing there.
"Proven"???
I have never admitted any permission to such a feature.
So the every other version still holds:
NT 3.1 - Toy version so it don't really count.
NT 3.51 - Meh, but not many suffered from it.
NT 4 -OK
2000 - Meh. (not really bad, but not really good either)
XP - OK
Vista - Bad like a bitch on PMS.
7 - OK
8 - Bad like a bad LSD trip.
8.1 - OK
10 - Bad because it rapes your integrity.