Other sources of pollution that people do not often mention, in relation to practically all (here, 'all' shall be taken to mean 6 or 7 9s worth) cars currently on the road. This does not exclude vehicles which are poorly maintained/malfunctioing:
Brake dust (all)
Tire dust/smoke (all)
Various greases, lubes, and hydraulic fluids (all)
Various consumables that are often discarded improperly, such as oil and batteries (anything with an ICE, but probably others too)
And for vehicles not possessing a sealed A/C system (excluding e.g. some electrics/hybrids, or basically anything with an electric A/C):
Freon and lubricants
If we can get to the point where these are the prime contributor to lifetime car pollution (vs. manufacturing and energy supply), then we'll be doing pretty damn good. If anyone has an argument that any of the things above could not possibly be an air pollutant, directly or indirectly, I'm all ears.
Story is anecdotal from someone I worked with.. but they bought a protection plan on a cheap keyboard, smashed it in the parking lot, went back in and got another one. In general, I've found MicroCenter is very good about not being excessively averse to accepting returns, especially if you buy one of their replacement plans.
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
STOP 0x69696969 PERMANENT_SHUTDOWN_COMPULSATOR_NOT_FOUND
The colors also used to be configurable (dunno about the graphical mode form of Win8+) via SYSTEM.INI. Potentially useful in a high security environment to make the screen unreadable, to make a specific machine more identifiable, or just for kicks.
Red screen of death (bootloader implosion), the bluish screen of death (windows 8/10 default), and a green screen of death in preview builds of 10. I'm not aware of any others in WindowsLand, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were.
Also, having followed the totally problem free release of Windows 10 fairly closely, I've seen a large number of threads detailing random issues and breakage with WSUS. Hopefully all fixed, it would be very nice to have.
Sadly we're stuck with the results of the previous management's purchasing decisions ("whatever's cheap at BestBuy"). I think we have 4 machines that have 'pro' versions of Windows now, so we're getting there. I guess it's my failing for not being able to implement the solution for lack of a time machine.
Not holding my breath, but hopefully this will result in something resembling sanity. Tired of the pollution of the internet with crap configurations that would have smelled funny even in 1997. In addition to regulations for manufacturers, the end user REALLY needs to become educated about the dangers of connecting stuff all willy-nilly.
It works, excepting that it doesn't always work quite right. Try administering it in a non-homogeneous hardware environment (in this case, spanning the entirety of the Intel i-series era; I've never used it on anything older). The biggest issues I've faced on it are:
It really, really wants to update. Seems like no less than 4, and often more than 10 man-hours of productivity down the toilet every work week across a couple dozen users.
Unnecessarily frequent hardware driver updates are a scourge; doesn't make the system unusable, but randomly losing peripherals is a nuisance.
Taskbar/startmenu is a buggy mess. It has gotten better, but random disappearance/non-responsiveness of same still persists.
Random bouts of extreme CPU and/or disk usage, especially on older hardware, that should still be highly performant (e.g. high-end Nehalem-era laptops).
None of these things are the end of the world, but Microsoft's inattentiveness to what are clearly common issues (speaking from my own experience, as well as dredging through forums and other resources in search of answers/solutions) is very bothersome.
Voiceprinting technologies have been around for quite a while, with efforts visible in the news in the 1960s (spectrograms, etc.) and possibly earlier (I'm too lazy to continue searching, sorry); however. in the late 70s, people started coming out against it as being not particularly useful (visual analysis of spectrograms seems quite fallible). Technology to support it has improved greatly since then. It does have its potential for abuses, just like everything else, but I have not heard of anything particularly terrible in recent history. This doesn't mean it doesn't/can't happen, and your concerns are not unfounded.
If I hadn't already been snarking on this post, I'd have modded this up; the universe is an (infinitely, imho) interesting place to observe and interact with. Within our lifetimes, there will never be *nothing* to do, and it doesn't take that much effort to find something. Risk-averse ACs can have fun lounging in their basements for something resembling fun, I guess.
Also @Google, if you can't understand this, and need an analogy, it's like using a remote control to turn on someone's TV through their window at 4AM. You just don't do that. Sad how aging companies often seem to regress in maturity.
Go fuck yourself. Automatically playing video on the loading of a page, when the page being loaded was not _explicitly_ intended to present a video (e.g. YouTube, you should know this!) is user-hostile, and, frankly, a total dick move. I'm on the verge of relegating Google searches to lynx on a VPS on some other planet, as the alternatives are slowly catching up in capability.
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Also note, I barely read the article title before posting.
Other sources of pollution that people do not often mention, in relation to practically all (here, 'all' shall be taken to mean 6 or 7 9s worth) cars currently on the road. This does not exclude vehicles which are poorly maintained/malfunctioing:
Brake dust (all)
Tire dust/smoke (all)
Various greases, lubes, and hydraulic fluids (all)
Various consumables that are often discarded improperly, such as oil and batteries (anything with an ICE, but probably others too)
And for vehicles not possessing a sealed A/C system (excluding e.g. some electrics/hybrids, or basically anything with an electric A/C):
Freon and lubricants
If we can get to the point where these are the prime contributor to lifetime car pollution (vs. manufacturing and energy supply), then we'll be doing pretty damn good. If anyone has an argument that any of the things above could not possibly be an air pollutant, directly or indirectly, I'm all ears.
Story is anecdotal from someone I worked with.. but they bought a protection plan on a cheap keyboard, smashed it in the parking lot, went back in and got another one. In general, I've found MicroCenter is very good about not being excessively averse to accepting returns, especially if you buy one of their replacement plans.
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
STOP 0x69696969 PERMANENT_SHUTDOWN_COMPULSATOR_NOT_FOUND
Those and cracked LCD backgrounds are always a blast...
The colors also used to be configurable (dunno about the graphical mode form of Win8+) via SYSTEM.INI. Potentially useful in a high security environment to make the screen unreadable, to make a specific machine more identifiable, or just for kicks.
Red screen of death (bootloader implosion), the bluish screen of death (windows 8/10 default), and a green screen of death in preview builds of 10. I'm not aware of any others in WindowsLand, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were.
I could've sworn the legacy console colors were black and not-quite-white. I've only seen the blue scheme in PowerShell.
I am bob. The greatest and biggliest
Yes. Probably. Maybe not, once your start ruling out the apps that you probably shouldn't be using in the first place.
Also, having followed the totally problem free release of Windows 10 fairly closely, I've seen a large number of threads detailing random issues and breakage with WSUS. Hopefully all fixed, it would be very nice to have.
Sadly we're stuck with the results of the previous management's purchasing decisions ("whatever's cheap at BestBuy"). I think we have 4 machines that have 'pro' versions of Windows now, so we're getting there. I guess it's my failing for not being able to implement the solution for lack of a time machine.
It is a terrifying prospect indeed...
Not holding my breath, but hopefully this will result in something resembling sanity. Tired of the pollution of the internet with crap configurations that would have smelled funny even in 1997. In addition to regulations for manufacturers, the end user REALLY needs to become educated about the dangers of connecting stuff all willy-nilly.
It works, excepting that it doesn't always work quite right. Try administering it in a non-homogeneous hardware environment (in this case, spanning the entirety of the Intel i-series era; I've never used it on anything older). The biggest issues I've faced on it are:
It really, really wants to update. Seems like no less than 4, and often more than 10 man-hours of productivity down the toilet every work week across a couple dozen users.
Unnecessarily frequent hardware driver updates are a scourge; doesn't make the system unusable, but randomly losing peripherals is a nuisance.
Taskbar/startmenu is a buggy mess. It has gotten better, but random disappearance/non-responsiveness of same still persists.
Random bouts of extreme CPU and/or disk usage, especially on older hardware, that should still be highly performant (e.g. high-end Nehalem-era laptops).
None of these things are the end of the world, but Microsoft's inattentiveness to what are clearly common issues (speaking from my own experience, as well as dredging through forums and other resources in search of answers/solutions) is very bothersome.
I'm in need of a shiny new bridge, the one the last guy sold me never showed up... still shows 'out for delivery' six years later.
The following represents the tears I have shed:
GI Joe says otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Voiceprinting technologies have been around for quite a while, with efforts visible in the news in the 1960s (spectrograms, etc.) and possibly earlier (I'm too lazy to continue searching, sorry); however. in the late 70s, people started coming out against it as being not particularly useful (visual analysis of spectrograms seems quite fallible). Technology to support it has improved greatly since then. It does have its potential for abuses, just like everything else, but I have not heard of anything particularly terrible in recent history. This doesn't mean it doesn't/can't happen, and your concerns are not unfounded.
Something resembling references/sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.scientificamerican...
https://books.google.com/books...
Why would he comply?
He has a lot to lose if it were to be made completely public.
If I hadn't already been snarking on this post, I'd have modded this up; the universe is an (infinitely, imho) interesting place to observe and interact with. Within our lifetimes, there will never be *nothing* to do, and it doesn't take that much effort to find something. Risk-averse ACs can have fun lounging in their basements for something resembling fun, I guess.
Nah, the current was of doing things seems to be this very simple program:
1: Try to get VC money, and failing that, try to get it through kickstarter
2: ???
3: Profit!!!
* No Man's Sky
Also @Google, if you can't understand this, and need an analogy, it's like using a remote control to turn on someone's TV through their window at 4AM. You just don't do that. Sad how aging companies often seem to regress in maturity.
Go fuck yourself. Automatically playing video on the loading of a page, when the page being loaded was not _explicitly_ intended to present a video (e.g. YouTube, you should know this!) is user-hostile, and, frankly, a total dick move. I'm on the verge of relegating Google searches to lynx on a VPS on some other planet, as the alternatives are slowly catching up in capability.