I just set up an email filter with the keyword GDPR on my inbox. Straight to trash.
I don't live in Europe. I have no protection, I don't care for the europeans and their stupid laws that don't apply to me, but fill my inbox with useless emails and the completely retarded "This site uses cookies" banners.
Not every piece of software needs to be the best, most elegant and beautiful solution to a problem. Stupid arguments like yours take us back 40 years. TeX may be the most perfect typesetting software, but I'd rather use Word whenever possible. Because I don't need to learn TeX commands to make a "OPEN" sign.
So to some of these people, it doesn't matter so much whether the earth is flat or round. They are there more to have a community of people they can relax with and feel good with. The science is secondary (or in this case, non-existent).
I'm a ham and in a radio club. I don't go to the radio club anymore. It's more a social club than anything else. People don't even have radios. They just gather for weekly dinners. All of them have valid radio amateur licenses but most of them haven't even touched a PTT since they took the exam.
Sigh. The a la carte bullshit again. Newsflash: a la carte is a cable company's wildest dream. They will sell you packs of 10 channels to your liking and charge you extra for the other channels.
And it's not the 90s anymore. We don't need a la carte cable. We have on-demand streaming. Grow up.
Most people use Wi-Fi. And wi-fi in real world conditions is not even close to saturating a 1Gbps link
Hell, Wi Fi can't saturate a 100mbit fast ethernet interface.
Why do you think ISPs are being so generous nowadays? Because 99% of people don't want wires. And they don't want to invest in a expensive router. So they use the shitty ISP-provided Router+AP Combo that won't give them even close to what their service is able to provide.
Not everyone is a nerd with a rackmount 10gbps switch and drops at every room. And most houses don't even need that.
It's like cars. Who needs a 500hp V8? And yet you see so many people driving those...
Where I live, my ISP doesn't force me to buy the cable service. But if I bundle Cable + Internet they give me a 50% discount. Cable only is $40. Internet only is $40 (50/6). Cable + internet is $80 with a 50% discount...
you can do offline transactions with handheld POS machines. you slide the card and do the transaction manually, then it prints the receipt with a longer blank area, place it above the card and rub something so the thermal paper picks up the embossed numbers. some debit cards, like most of the ones here in Argentina, don't have raised numbers. they very explicitly say, on the front of the card, ELECTRONIC USE ONLY. So if the system is down, it's done. You can't use the card.
Well yeah but this is for a different reason. Spammers ruin everything. Any form you put online WILL be hammered by spammers 24/7. Facebook takes care of that for you. And yes, there are things like Disqus too. The problem is that if Disqus became the standard of comment posting, Facebook or Google would buy them ASAP.
Yes but ethereum is very interesting in that it's not just "a cryptocurrency". It's a whole blockchain platform. You can base your blockchain product in that. Ethereum "coin" can tank and that won't affect you.
seriously, who wants this? I certainly don't. i like a solid, compact phone. No "module" bullshit. No one is going to "change the camera for a better one" or "have a high quality audio amplifier". Or even "remove the camera and give me a larger battery.
Batteries already take a lot of space in a phone. you don't get any significant improvement by adding a tiny battery module.
Also, moto-z style modules... who wants a 1" thick phone again?
Users in WhatsApp are identified by their phone number. If you join a public group (either because someone added you, or you clicked a link), the members that don't have you as a contact see your phone number.
You can't opt out of being added to a group. If someone adds you, that's it. You can remove yourself from the group, but there is no confirmation to add you.
We develop an app to respond to facebook comments and messages. Facebook won't give us the same user ID for "messenger" and for "page comments". They claim this is for protecting user privacy (dude their name and profile pic are there!)
The truth is: they give you app-scoped IDs so YOU can't mine data on their users.
But doing so, with our app we can't determine if you wrote to us in public before. So we have two open tickets from you: one for your public comment, one for private.... it's stupid.
And people are offended about facebook? I guess no one has ever read Twitter API. It's a joy for datamining. They even give you tweets in real time by location! give them latitude and longitude, and twitter just starts streaming tweets at you from that location!
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I just set up an email filter with the keyword GDPR on my inbox. Straight to trash.
I don't live in Europe. I have no protection, I don't care for the europeans and their stupid laws that don't apply to me, but fill my inbox with useless emails and the completely retarded "This site uses cookies" banners.
Fuck bureaucrats.
How about SABRE? The airline reservation system started in 1960 that is still running today?
Not every piece of software needs to be the best, most elegant and beautiful solution to a problem. Stupid arguments like yours take us back 40 years. TeX may be the most perfect typesetting software, but I'd rather use Word whenever possible. Because I don't need to learn TeX commands to make a "OPEN" sign.
I'm a ham and in a radio club. I don't go to the radio club anymore. It's more a social club than anything else. People don't even have radios. They just gather for weekly dinners. All of them have valid radio amateur licenses but most of them haven't even touched a PTT since they took the exam.
LOL.
And you think they will charge you less for "only 10 channels"?
Now everyone is outraged because "hurrr i pay for a lot of channels i don't watch".
If they give you a la carte, everyone will be outraged because "hurrr they charge the same but now they give me only 10 channels!"
yes and your teenage daughter in the upstairs bedroom can hit 250mb wifi
COME ON.
You know damn well a synthetic speed test sitting next to the AP means nothing.
My ISP bundles cable+tv with a 50% discount.
It costs the same to get only cable, only tv, or both...
The FCC can very, very easily write some ruling along the lines of "no service provider shall make exclusivity arrangements with local governments".
There you go.
I was looking for this comment. Indeed.
It's even worse down here on the third world. ABS and airbags weren't mandatory. You had to pay your way up to safety.
Sigh. The a la carte bullshit again.
Newsflash: a la carte is a cable company's wildest dream. They will sell you packs of 10 channels to your liking and charge you extra for the other channels.
And it's not the 90s anymore. We don't need a la carte cable. We have on-demand streaming. Grow up.
And you really think anyone is using 1Gbps?
Most people use Wi-Fi. And wi-fi in real world conditions is not even close to saturating a 1Gbps link
Hell, Wi Fi can't saturate a 100mbit fast ethernet interface.
Why do you think ISPs are being so generous nowadays? Because 99% of people don't want wires. And they don't want to invest in a expensive router. So they use the shitty ISP-provided Router+AP Combo that won't give them even close to what their service is able to provide.
Not everyone is a nerd with a rackmount 10gbps switch and drops at every room. And most houses don't even need that.
It's like cars. Who needs a 500hp V8? And yet you see so many people driving those...
Where I live, my ISP doesn't force me to buy the cable service.
But if I bundle Cable + Internet they give me a 50% discount. Cable only is $40. Internet only is $40 (50/6). Cable + internet is $80 with a 50% discount...
you can do offline transactions with handheld POS machines. you slide the card and do the transaction manually, then it prints the receipt with a longer blank area, place it above the card and rub something so the thermal paper picks up the embossed numbers.
some debit cards, like most of the ones here in Argentina, don't have raised numbers. they very explicitly say, on the front of the card, ELECTRONIC USE ONLY. So if the system is down, it's done. You can't use the card.
Did you forget to check Post Anonymously before hit Submit? Usually trolls post anonymously.
Well yeah but this is for a different reason. Spammers ruin everything. Any form you put online WILL be hammered by spammers 24/7. Facebook takes care of that for you.
And yes, there are things like Disqus too. The problem is that if Disqus became the standard of comment posting, Facebook or Google would buy them ASAP.
Yes but ethereum is very interesting in that it's not just "a cryptocurrency". It's a whole blockchain platform. You can base your blockchain product in that. Ethereum "coin" can tank and that won't affect you.
How do you think the world works?
Bri-?..man you're old
seriously, who wants this?
I certainly don't.
i like a solid, compact phone. No "module" bullshit. No one is going to "change the camera for a better one" or "have a high quality audio amplifier". Or even "remove the camera and give me a larger battery.
Batteries already take a lot of space in a phone. you don't get any significant improvement by adding a tiny battery module.
Also, moto-z style modules... who wants a 1" thick phone again?
Are you dumb?
People don't ask for your phone number here. They ask for your WhatsApp.
And all telcos have "unlimited Whatsapp"
You have no idea how big WhatsApp is in Latin America and Europe
Users in WhatsApp are identified by their phone number. If you join a public group (either because someone added you, or you clicked a link), the members that don't have you as a contact see your phone number.
You can't opt out of being added to a group. If someone adds you, that's it. You can remove yourself from the group, but there is no confirmation to add you.
We develop an app to respond to facebook comments and messages. Facebook won't give us the same user ID for "messenger" and for "page comments". They claim this is for protecting user privacy (dude their name and profile pic are there!)
The truth is: they give you app-scoped IDs so YOU can't mine data on their users.
But doing so, with our app we can't determine if you wrote to us in public before. So we have two open tickets from you: one for your public comment, one for private.... it's stupid.
And people are offended about facebook? I guess no one has ever read Twitter API. It's a joy for datamining. They even give you tweets in real time by location! give them latitude and longitude, and twitter just starts streaming tweets at you from that location!