I had this EXACT experience. Wanted to purchase a battery, was asked for a bunch of personal information. I'm accustomed to politely declining when asked to provide such information in a store. I don't recall whether Radio Shack sold me the battery or not.
... the profile of a programmer's mind is pretty uncommon. As well as being highly analytical and creative, software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks.
Seriously, get the fuck over yourself. You're not that bloody special because you write code. Your subsequent comparisons to "brain surgery" and "structural engineering" are also entirely overblown.
You can learn to write a useful code after a few part-time courses at a community college. Do you think you could engineer a useful bridge with a similar amount of training?
There's absolutely nothing stopping someone from making a better search engine.
What a ludicrous statement. Do you have the slightest idea how much hardware alone it would require to build a search engine comparable to Google? The amount of capital investment required would be a far cry from "nothing".
Is it illegal if somewhere, buried in the EULA, there is a clause that you "agreed to" when you first installed Chrome?
If anything should be illegal, it's click-through licence agreements that no normal person should be expected to comprehend. I recall seeing some agreement regarding Apple's iOS that was more than sixty pages when displayed on my iPhone. Well, yes, I would like to keep my software up-to-date, but seriously?
Microsoft is... telling you that this is a Windows machine and you should be able to configure it the same way you can with any other Windows machines.
Where is Microsoft telling you that?
You don't think the big "S" in the name means anything? Did you also assume "98", "XP", "7", etc. would all behave identically?
... any time there is s good deal the computer starts jacking up the price until it's not so good anymore.
There is more to life than obsessing whether a particular price is the lowest possible price one could pay. Like, for example, the amount of time spent looking for the "best" price on everything.
A "good" price is whatever the buyer thinks an item is worth. When I shop online, unless it's a large ticket item, if the price seems reasonable for something, and if there's no apparent gouging for shipping costs, that's good enough. I order it and move on with my life.
Also agree. This movie is special to me for two reasons. Firstly, I love stories about the rights and feelings of intelligent robots. Secondly, I first saw Bladerunner after it was released on video, and wished that I could have seen it on the big screen. Years later it was re-released into theatres and I got my wish!
... you suspect it because it gives you a sense of superiority and a feeling of being much more intelligent that the stupid noobs.
No, I suspect it because it strikes me as a plausible explanation.
Me? I have no fucking clue what their setup is.
Which is perfectly fine, but then why feel the need to chime in?
But my self worth doesn't depend on assuming that everyone else are idiots.
Oh, I see, You're making some gigantic assumption about what motivates me and gives me a sense of self-worth. OK.
For my part, I'm not assuming the guy is an idiot. I'm making an assessment based on the published facts. Merely setting out to do what this guy did, competently or not, is a bit idiotic, don't you think?
Eventually, they traced the unauthorized access to Patel's second business laptop based on the device's "electronic fingerprint."
By "electronic fingerprint", I suspect they're referring to the MAC address of the laptop's WiFi adapter, in which case the guy is a bit of a noob for not spoofing it.
At what point will it cease to be considered news when computers beat humans at some game, especially when the game has a large computational element?
Machines beat us at all sorts of tasks. They're stronger, faster, more precise. Of course they will drive better than humans, play chess / checkers / go / poker better than humans, etc.
Would that it were so simple! I love a nice single-malt, but have been advised that whiskey before bedtime is not conducive to good sleep hygiene. For reference, consider this review that purports to have "for the first time consolidated all the available literature on the immediate effects of alcohol on the sleep of healthy individuals".
Quoting from the linked article:
... short-term alcohol use only gives the impression of improving sleep, and it should not be used as a sleep aid.
... alcohol on the whole is not useful for improving a whole night's sleep. Sleep may be deeper to start with, but then becomes disrupted. Additionally, that deeper sleep will probably promote snoring and poorer breathing. So, one shouldn't expect better sleep with alcohol.
I just saw Ghost In The Shell in from a comfy, ideally-centered seat that I reserved online, in IMAX 3D, with an incredible sound system. There is no movie experience outside of a theatre that can match that, and I am happy to make the "effort" of going.
I also enjoy seeing trailers for upcoming movies. When I've paid good money to see a movie and inflated prices for snacks, however, it really pisses me off to be subjected to TV commercials run through a shitty little VGA projector before the show.
I don't understand the apparent obsession that terrorists have with air travel. If one is a terrorist looking to harm Americans, for example, it's not hard to imagine easier and more effective means than trying to blow up an airliner.
Funny how the summary and the article both start by saying...
Microsoft describes Visual Studio Code as a source code editor that's "optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
But then the article goes on to say...
The underlying issue is with Chromium, which is a part of the Electron Shell (Visual Studio Code and others like Atom and Slack utilize this shell in their apps)"
and then...
Google Chrome product manager Paul Irish, posting to a thread on Hacker News, said, "Chrome is doing the full rendering lifecycle (style, paint, layers) every 16ms when it should be only doing that work at a 500ms interval. I'm confident that the engineers working on Chrome's style components can sort this out, but it'll take a little bit of work."
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I had this EXACT experience. Wanted to purchase a battery, was asked for a bunch of personal information. I'm accustomed to politely declining when asked to provide such information in a store. I don't recall whether Radio Shack sold me the battery or not.
... the profile of a programmer's mind is pretty uncommon. As well as being highly analytical and creative, software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks.
Seriously, get the fuck over yourself. You're not that bloody special because you write code. Your subsequent comparisons to "brain surgery" and "structural engineering" are also entirely overblown.
You can learn to write a useful code after a few part-time courses at a community college. Do you think you could engineer a useful bridge with a similar amount of training?
Am I the only one who had trouble parsing that?
Ever been disappointed because something you saw in the trailer did not appear in the movie?
Do you consider that false advertising?
There's absolutely nothing stopping someone from making a better search engine.
What a ludicrous statement. Do you have the slightest idea how much hardware alone it would require to build a search engine comparable to Google? The amount of capital investment required would be a far cry from "nothing".
After all it was Putin who got him elected.
FTFY
Force feed? I wish I had a dime for every time I've had to opt out of installing Chrome.
Nobody cares about 2FA.
they shrug and accept the illegal intrusion
Is it illegal if somewhere, buried in the EULA, there is a clause that you "agreed to" when you first installed Chrome?
If anything should be illegal, it's click-through licence agreements that no normal person should be expected to comprehend. I recall seeing some agreement regarding Apple's iOS that was more than sixty pages when displayed on my iPhone. Well, yes, I would like to keep my software up-to-date, but seriously?
Microsoft is ... telling you that this is a Windows machine and you should be able to configure it the same way you can with any other Windows machines.
Where is Microsoft telling you that?
You don't think the big "S" in the name means anything? Did you also assume "98", "XP", "7", etc. would all behave identically?
you can get real PCI-E SSD for about $1/gig or less and you don't have to deal with any of the fake raid bs.
How do you define "real PCI-E SSD"? Would you include a $9,000 enterprise-grade PCI-E SSD from Intel with up to 850,000 IOPS 4K random reads?
Intel DC P3608
Guess what? It consists of two SSD's that are configured as RAID0 by Intel's RSTe driver software.
... any time there is s good deal the computer starts jacking up the price until it's not so good anymore.
There is more to life than obsessing whether a particular price is the lowest possible price one could pay. Like, for example, the amount of time spent looking for the "best" price on everything.
A "good" price is whatever the buyer thinks an item is worth. When I shop online, unless it's a large ticket item, if the price seems reasonable for something, and if there's no apparent gouging for shipping costs, that's good enough. I order it and move on with my life.
Remember a few years ago when testing revealed that more than three quarters of what is sold as honey in the US is not actually honey?
Starship Troopers -
Not to mention Denise Richards wasn't too hard to look at in that flick :)
Also agree. This movie is special to me for two reasons. Firstly, I love stories about the rights and feelings of intelligent robots. Secondly, I first saw Bladerunner after it was released on video, and wished that I could have seen it on the big screen. Years later it was re-released into theatres and I got my wish!
I'm pretty damned stoked about the upcoming sequel!
Fucking magnets. How do they work?
... you suspect it because it gives you a sense of superiority and a feeling of being much more intelligent that the stupid noobs.
No, I suspect it because it strikes me as a plausible explanation.
Me? I have no fucking clue what their setup is.
Which is perfectly fine, but then why feel the need to chime in?
But my self worth doesn't depend on assuming that everyone else are idiots.
Oh, I see, You're making some gigantic assumption about what motivates me and gives me a sense of self-worth. OK.
For my part, I'm not assuming the guy is an idiot. I'm making an assessment based on the published facts. Merely setting out to do what this guy did, competently or not, is a bit idiotic, don't you think?
Eventually, they traced the unauthorized access to Patel's second business laptop based on the device's "electronic fingerprint."
By "electronic fingerprint", I suspect they're referring to the MAC address of the laptop's WiFi adapter, in which case the guy is a bit of a noob for not spoofing it.
At what point will it cease to be considered news when computers beat humans at some game, especially when the game has a large computational element?
Machines beat us at all sorts of tasks. They're stronger, faster, more precise. Of course they will drive better than humans, play chess / checkers / go / poker better than humans, etc.
Would that it were so simple! I love a nice single-malt, but have been advised that whiskey before bedtime is not conducive to good sleep hygiene. For reference, consider this review that purports to have "for the first time consolidated all the available literature on the immediate effects of alcohol on the sleep of healthy individuals".
Quoting from the linked article:
... short-term alcohol use only gives the impression of improving sleep, and it should not be used as a sleep aid.
... alcohol on the whole is not useful for improving a whole night's sleep. Sleep may be deeper to start with, but then becomes disrupted. Additionally, that deeper sleep will probably promote snoring and poorer breathing. So, one shouldn't expect better sleep with alcohol.
I just saw Ghost In The Shell in from a comfy, ideally-centered seat that I reserved online, in IMAX 3D, with an incredible sound system. There is no movie experience outside of a theatre that can match that, and I am happy to make the "effort" of going.
I also enjoy seeing trailers for upcoming movies. When I've paid good money to see a movie and inflated prices for snacks, however, it really pisses me off to be subjected to TV commercials run through a shitty little VGA projector before the show.
As opposed to known zero-day vulnerabilities?
I don't understand the apparent obsession that terrorists have with air travel. If one is a terrorist looking to harm Americans, for example, it's not hard to imagine easier and more effective means than trying to blow up an airliner.
Microsoft describes Visual Studio Code as a source code editor that's "optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
But then the article goes on to say...
The underlying issue is with Chromium, which is a part of the Electron Shell (Visual Studio Code and others like Atom and Slack utilize this shell in their apps)"
and then...
Google Chrome product manager Paul Irish, posting to a thread on Hacker News, said, "Chrome is doing the full rendering lifecycle (style, paint, layers) every 16ms when it should be only doing that work at a 500ms interval. I'm confident that the engineers working on Chrome's style components can sort this out, but it'll take a little bit of work."
Fuck them. Fuck the SJWs from Silicone Valley. The Big Quake can't come soon enough if you ask me.
Nothing violent or extreme in that opinion. You know, just the catastrophic demise of a few million people.
If you're not just trolling you ought to calm down a notch.