Back in Nixon's time the joint chiefs of staff had a spy in his office so it's not unexpected that the toy soldiers in the NSA would be up to similar games with Obama.
Most people have something to hide. But Trump has been so public for so long, that anything even vaguely interesting was discovered and unveiled long ago.
So utterly clean and free of crime connections despite wallowing in cesspits like New York property development and Nevada casinos? Maybe he can sell you a bridge?
I would not go that far but it is making me angry that I cannot just depend on automatic updates any longer. Not long after I read this article I had to revert the install of Windows 10 on a machine. It appears that selecting the default on a Win7 install of "automatically install updates" is considered enough permission to put Win10 on the thing. It looks like there was a countdown timer to install on the machine I just reverted (there certainly was after I reverted) but nobody was around to see it and stop the install.
Some clueless fanboys may ask why I'm complaining and not just accepting the upgrade. The answer is the computers are only there to run applications and if those applications do not currently work in win10 then I do not want it. Win7 is quite nice but I couldn't upgrade to it either until it had been around for a couple of years (evil "security" dongle drivers that punish anyone that paid for the software are the main reason).
I've had electronic things break due to impacts, clog up with dust and overheat, corrode, have their plastic casing degrade by exposure to UV light but never killed by magic just because a date on the calendar has passed. Proposing magical thinking apart from in fiction is setting a bad example.
Win some lose some. That chip is a bit of a bottleneck for other things (USB, ethernet) and is the reason the Pi has a 1GB memory ceiling - so if you care about the video it's wonderful and if you don't care it's worth using something else if you want to use it for something that hits limits.
WinCE could do it but unless you are planning to only run a single application it's a pain. I've got a handy little WinCE box that runs as an X terminal (how weird is that) and it works well. I've got an ebook reader running WinCE that does not work well since it's a situation where multi-tasking would be nice (yes I know WinCE has been shown to multi-task in rigged toy demos but it doesn't get used in the wild) and it's sloooow handing over from the launcher application to the ereader functions. There are newer things descended from WinCE but they need a bit more resources.
In politics authoritarian rule is the lazy uncaring way to do things. In business it's nowhere near as sinister and I suspect it's all about not having to support three different desktop versions of MS Windows - so still the lazy uncaring way to do things especially since it appears a lot of people like what they have with Win7.
It hasn't self-installed yet, but it forces the download
At some point when small SSD drives were cheap I put together some machines for office workers that would do all of their legitimate tasks on network drives, so the local drive just needed MS Office and Win7. Despite having tiny disks the things are still downloading huge updates unasked, filling up, and failing in a variety of ways due to full disks - annoying. Those things are never going to have win10, they are too old and will get replaced by the time staff are used to the new windows interface (or hopefully the new windows interface will change to something more usable), so it's annoying that the patch software is too braindead to check for space before downloading a huge unwanted upgrade.
They have certainly tricked a few people into doing it. Funny how with all the popups (adobe, nvidia, ms, etc) the malware style ANNOYING attention seeking behaviour has gone mainstream. It makes an MS machine almost useless as a media PC and much less useful as a gaming platform. A few times I've been fighting some critter in Skyrim and the full screen window minimises to be replaced with the desktop and some annoying popup appears telling me some new software is ready to download.
So a guy doing CAD on a workstation is as easy to get going as drills, pipelines, water treatment, etc etc? Interesting perspective. Are you sure you put any thought in at all before composing your reply? Surely you know better than what you have written?
comparing a tech boss of a company with 10 people in it to oracle or google, or microsoft is just ridiculous
Sadly that's what some people have done and got away with being paid a fortune to run a small business and then fly off to crap on something else after the funds inevitably run dry.
Before flying off to fuck up Australian telecommunications Sol Trujillo was in such a tiny startup being paid as if he was running Pepsi instead of a tiny government funded group selling stuff to the intelligence community.
Since she accused Twentieth Century Fox of being communists she already couldn't tell the difference. It's fiction, but I suggest reading Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" to get an idea of what sort of society Rand really wanted us to go back to.
Actually the Saudis are trying (and succeeding) to drive the new shale oil and similar operations in the USA out of business. For a lot of reasons the Saudis can get oil out of the ground and to market for as low as $6 per barrel in costs while some new US operations were well over $50, and they borrowed a lot to get going. Nice friends we have, after attacking Iraq for them and everything.
But not from the USA since a shut down company with former employees scattered all over and the gear auctioned off or scrapped does not start up instantly with a wave of a magic wand. By the time somebody rebuilds from scratch a going concern elsewhere has already filled the niche.
As for electric cars, the entire point is to shift pollution. Lower costs for something else don't help if your local government tells you to get your SUV out of the place due to smog. China appears to be heading that way too for the same reasons so expect a lot of flimsy but dirt cheap electric vehicles in the next few years. Of course trains, busses, trams whatever in high pollution urban areas makes one hundred times more sense but governments want to shift costs onto vehicle owners instead of doing something that sensible.
He had the "smarts" to fail four times but Daddy's money plus well connected friends got him out of the hole and away from angry investors each time. You can succeed in property development and seedy casino deals without much intelligence if you have the resources to stop a well deserved kick to the backside from reality that should be hard enough to "smart" every time you sit down.
Considering I never advocated AGAINST any power type
So it's very obvious lies now as if that stuff you wrote above about local events and extrapolating stupidly to an entire continent is not there for people to read?
but keep up that tilting at windmills
A bit of an ironic attack from someone toeing the party line of attacking wind power. What is it about these issues that brings out a lack of morality and a desire to brainwash? This political shit is turning this place into the sort of utter luddite shithole that the circle jerk political sites have become.
You should be ashamed of attempting to manipulate the kiddies to the luddite view you are parroting from your political masters "comrade" but I doubt you are capable of shame.
Even better would be a default behavior of leaving WiFi off until the user does something that needs it. The desire of application providers to assume that their application is far more important than the desires of the user acts against it. Why turn WiFi on just because there is a known network in range? If the user is asleep for instance and has no desire to be woken by an instant messaging application or whatever then why waste battery doing nothing but polling the access point at intervals? On the device I mentioned it's that polling alone that reduces the time the device can run on a charge to less than one third. The downside is the time it takes to initiate a connection - if it needs to do that every time a user starts an application that desires a WiFi connection then that adds a few seconds, but I'd happily take a mode like that since the benefit is far more time between charges.
How about you defend your "models having nothing to do with science" since you are so keen on debating. I'd be interested to see how you debunk geology, fluid mechanics and a pile of other things as not being science.
That example keeps on coming up but if you look at raw (not sanitized) history it's for the wrong reasons. It was about "routing around damage". Hoover's infamously corrupt FBI was not going to deal with the mobsters but the IRS had not been paid off so the government of the day used them to deal with the problem. We still have lie detectors in use as a legacy of Hoover taking kickbacks.
This is a symptom of the sort of authoritarian shit that "pussy riot" was jailed for protesting against and has nothing much to do with bitcoin itself. Bitcoin is not seen as something ideal people do so it's being outlawed for being on the fringe - it really has nothing to do with whether bitcoin is a scam or not. It's a symptom of increased efforts to control.
I should add that we should not dismiss it as being an "only in Russia" problem since a tendency to authoritarian rule crops up all over the place. Think of it as "that could be us too if we are not careful" next time the TSA squeeze your balls. It's a difference of degree of control so things could get as bad as in Russia.
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Back in Nixon's time the joint chiefs of staff had a spy in his office so it's not unexpected that the toy soldiers in the NSA would be up to similar games with Obama.
So utterly clean and free of crime connections despite wallowing in cesspits like New York property development and Nevada casinos? Maybe he can sell you a bridge?
I would not go that far but it is making me angry that I cannot just depend on automatic updates any longer. Not long after I read this article I had to revert the install of Windows 10 on a machine.
It appears that selecting the default on a Win7 install of "automatically install updates" is considered enough permission to put Win10 on the thing. It looks like there was a countdown timer to install on the machine I just reverted (there certainly was after I reverted) but nobody was around to see it and stop the install.
Some clueless fanboys may ask why I'm complaining and not just accepting the upgrade. The answer is the computers are only there to run applications and if those applications do not currently work in win10 then I do not want it. Win7 is quite nice but I couldn't upgrade to it either until it had been around for a couple of years (evil "security" dongle drivers that punish anyone that paid for the software are the main reason).
I've had electronic things break due to impacts, clog up with dust and overheat, corrode, have their plastic casing degrade by exposure to UV light but never killed by magic just because a date on the calendar has passed.
Proposing magical thinking apart from in fiction is setting a bad example.
I've just had that on an Audio Visual PC - people went to use it and were confronted with a Win10 EULA and a changed multi-screen configuration.
Win some lose some. That chip is a bit of a bottleneck for other things (USB, ethernet) and is the reason the Pi has a 1GB memory ceiling - so if you care about the video it's wonderful and if you don't care it's worth using something else if you want to use it for something that hits limits.
WinCE could do it but unless you are planning to only run a single application it's a pain. I've got a handy little WinCE box that runs as an X terminal (how weird is that) and it works well. I've got an ebook reader running WinCE that does not work well since it's a situation where multi-tasking would be nice (yes I know WinCE has been shown to multi-task in rigged toy demos but it doesn't get used in the wild) and it's sloooow handing over from the launcher application to the ereader functions.
There are newer things descended from WinCE but they need a bit more resources.
What's the expected failure mode then?
As I thought, extrapolating bread in the fridge to electronics - what a loser.
In politics authoritarian rule is the lazy uncaring way to do things. In business it's nowhere near as sinister and I suspect it's all about not having to support three different desktop versions of MS Windows - so still the lazy uncaring way to do things especially since it appears a lot of people like what they have with Win7.
At some point when small SSD drives were cheap I put together some machines for office workers that would do all of their legitimate tasks on network drives, so the local drive just needed MS Office and Win7. Despite having tiny disks the things are still downloading huge updates unasked, filling up, and failing in a variety of ways due to full disks - annoying. Those things are never going to have win10, they are too old and will get replaced by the time staff are used to the new windows interface (or hopefully the new windows interface will change to something more usable), so it's annoying that the patch software is too braindead to check for space before downloading a huge unwanted upgrade.
They have certainly tricked a few people into doing it.
Funny how with all the popups (adobe, nvidia, ms, etc) the malware style ANNOYING attention seeking behaviour has gone mainstream. It makes an MS machine almost useless as a media PC and much less useful as a gaming platform. A few times I've been fighting some critter in Skyrim and the full screen window minimises to be replaced with the desktop and some annoying popup appears telling me some new software is ready to download.
So a guy doing CAD on a workstation is as easy to get going as drills, pipelines, water treatment, etc etc?
Interesting perspective. Are you sure you put any thought in at all before composing your reply? Surely you know better than what you have written?
It's a big world out there - think of that when you say "every" and only mean whatever fuckup is in front of you instead of obvious success elsewhere.
Sadly that's what some people have done and got away with being paid a fortune to run a small business and then fly off to crap on something else after the funds inevitably run dry.
Before flying off to fuck up Australian telecommunications Sol Trujillo was in such a tiny startup being paid as if he was running Pepsi instead of a tiny government funded group selling stuff to the intelligence community.
Since she accused Twentieth Century Fox of being communists she already couldn't tell the difference.
It's fiction, but I suggest reading Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" to get an idea of what sort of society Rand really wanted us to go back to.
Actually the Saudis are trying (and succeeding) to drive the new shale oil and similar operations in the USA out of business. For a lot of reasons the Saudis can get oil out of the ground and to market for as low as $6 per barrel in costs while some new US operations were well over $50, and they borrowed a lot to get going.
Nice friends we have, after attacking Iraq for them and everything.
But not from the USA since a shut down company with former employees scattered all over and the gear auctioned off or scrapped does not start up instantly with a wave of a magic wand. By the time somebody rebuilds from scratch a going concern elsewhere has already filled the niche.
As for electric cars, the entire point is to shift pollution. Lower costs for something else don't help if your local government tells you to get your SUV out of the place due to smog. China appears to be heading that way too for the same reasons so expect a lot of flimsy but dirt cheap electric vehicles in the next few years. Of course trains, busses, trams whatever in high pollution urban areas makes one hundred times more sense but governments want to shift costs onto vehicle owners instead of doing something that sensible.
He had the "smarts" to fail four times but Daddy's money plus well connected friends got him out of the hole and away from angry investors each time.
You can succeed in property development and seedy casino deals without much intelligence if you have the resources to stop a well deserved kick to the backside from reality that should be hard enough to "smart" every time you sit down.
So it's very obvious lies now as if that stuff you wrote above about local events and extrapolating stupidly to an entire continent is not there for people to read?
A bit of an ironic attack from someone toeing the party line of attacking wind power.
What is it about these issues that brings out a lack of morality and a desire to brainwash? This political shit is turning this place into the sort of utter luddite shithole that the circle jerk political sites have become.
You should be ashamed of attempting to manipulate the kiddies to the luddite view you are parroting from your political masters "comrade" but I doubt you are capable of shame.
A dead link as something to cite? What a disgusting shell game you are playing.
Even better would be a default behavior of leaving WiFi off until the user does something that needs it. The desire of application providers to assume that their application is far more important than the desires of the user acts against it.
Why turn WiFi on just because there is a known network in range? If the user is asleep for instance and has no desire to be woken by an instant messaging application or whatever then why waste battery doing nothing but polling the access point at intervals? On the device I mentioned it's that polling alone that reduces the time the device can run on a charge to less than one third.
The downside is the time it takes to initiate a connection - if it needs to do that every time a user starts an application that desires a WiFi connection then that adds a few seconds, but I'd happily take a mode like that since the benefit is far more time between charges.
How about you defend your "models having nothing to do with science" since you are so keen on debating.
I'd be interested to see how you debunk geology, fluid mechanics and a pile of other things as not being science.
News today on that topic - "heart attack victim" had a lot of blunt trauma to the head.
That example keeps on coming up but if you look at raw (not sanitized) history it's for the wrong reasons.
It was about "routing around damage". Hoover's infamously corrupt FBI was not going to deal with the mobsters but the IRS had not been paid off so the government of the day used them to deal with the problem.
We still have lie detectors in use as a legacy of Hoover taking kickbacks.
This is a symptom of the sort of authoritarian shit that "pussy riot" was jailed for protesting against and has nothing much to do with bitcoin itself. Bitcoin is not seen as something ideal people do so it's being outlawed for being on the fringe - it really has nothing to do with whether bitcoin is a scam or not.
It's a symptom of increased efforts to control.
I should add that we should not dismiss it as being an "only in Russia" problem since a tendency to authoritarian rule crops up all over the place. Think of it as "that could be us too if we are not careful" next time the TSA squeeze your balls. It's a difference of degree of control so things could get as bad as in Russia.