Because this is China, a communist country. You don't get to make the decisions there, the government gets to.
Wait, now I'm confused.
How could the government let these lazy kids play video games in the first place? Didn't the government decide that all happy citizens are citizens who contribute to the greater needs of the country? These kids need to be made an example of; ie disappear for 3 months and then come back to repay the government for their mis-deeds and beg for forgiveness. At least that is the next headline I expect to see.
Seriously, parents just watch what games your kid(s) are playing. Ie, raise you own kid(s), don't let some company decide whats best for you. If you don't think they should play that game, unstall/block it and tell your kid(s) why you blocked it.
As parents you should decide if your kid(s) playing Minecraft is teaching witchcraft or teaching abstract thinking. And since your decision only affects your kid(s), I'm free to parent how I like.
Why is it so hard to raise your own kid(s) instead of trying to find a technical solution that in the end just won't work to raise my kid(s)?
I had a similar experience. I was calling the support number on my DSL statement to see if I could get a higher download speed on my line.
Called, put in my phone number, confirmed details, sent to voice prompt roulette. Then clearly said "Upgrade DSL"; transferring to account inquiry. After being asked if I wanted to know what my last bill was, I said "no" and back into voice roulette. This time I said "DSL"; prompt couldn't understand; repeated "DSL"; transferring call. The person answering the call said thanks for calling DirectTv, please give me your account or phone number. Confused I said "no, I wanted to see if I could update my DSL service". The person said that the department was closed and the call was transfered to them. I asked them when does the office close, she said 8:00pm. Now I'm really confused, I looked at the clock just to double check before telling her that it wasn't even 7:30 yet. Slight pause on her end and she said, ohh, let me see if anyone is there. Few minutes later she came back, sorry nobody in that department can I get your number (I had already given it to her at the start by the way) and have them call you tomorrow. Not feeling in the mood for more voice roulette I asked the rep what number she was transferring me to, I wrote that down and hung up.
Now the next day was one of the best support calls I have ever made. The phone number she gave me rang like twice, an older guy answered saying he was Gary from San Diego and what he could do to help. I told him I wanted to see if I could upgrade my DSL, he asked for my phone number and zip code. He then tapped a some keys and then said it looked like I already had the fastest speed in my area. He then said to hold on a sec and he'd run a few speed tests. 30 seconds of typing later he comes back and says sorry I just uncapped your line and ran a few different speed test but didn't get anything better. So in less than 4 minutes I had my answer from a tech guy who probably broke the rules by uncapping my line to confirm it wouldn't help. I thanked him for checking and said I probably would be going with cable modem, he said sorry and wished me luck. No voice roulette, only need my info once, gave me a straight answer, and it only took a few minutes.
Can't tell you how many times I've heard that and thought, hmm why not hire more people to handle a 30+ minute wait time. Or, how about you just tell me when you lowest call volume is and I'll call back then. But, somehow I think your higher than normal is actually your normal call volume.
Last time I was experiencing a problem I called 7 days in a row, with each new person assuring me they would be the one to fix the issue. Finally on the 7th day the last person told me to not call back as it wouldn't help resolve the issue. So I haven't called back. Instead I took it upon myself to resolve the issue and found an alternative solution that didn't involve their services anymore. Now that I have an alternative, they are calling me to ask if I'm still experiencing problem. The last call they made to me was awesome, "are you still experiencing problems", nope I canceled your service about a week ago, "[click]".
We don't need trolls to do this, Hollywood has long been in the business of producing films to influence political opinion in the US. I guess if they push liberal agendas its ok (The First Purge, The Trump Prophecy, and Fahrenheit 11/9 are currently playing at the theater close to me).
But, personally my biggest complaints about the movie were just the shear number of times I was yelling at the screen for the characters to do the logical thing. You know, like tell the hot shot renegade and the whole crew you have a plan other than just sitting around. Or why didn't the empire just radio ahead and setup and ambush, you know like the police would do? Heck, why could the tie fighters engage the rebel fleet but the main ships couldn't get any more speed out, was Scotty on shore leave (sorry, mixing universes). The whole movie could be summed up as a very slow chase scene in space with explosions. I could go on but seriously who ever reviewed the script should not work in Hollywood again.
All I can think of is when Marty starts powering up the amp bigger than he is. Turning on all the switches and setting the drivers to 100%. Then plugs in the electric guitar and cranks it all the way up. Then pulls out the chrome pick and strums a chord. All resulting in the woofer blowing him across the room.
Most test scores only measure the ability for someone to remember the correct answer long enough to get it on paper.
Interest on the other hand determines what field people go into.
For example, I had A+'s in Art, but it never appealed to me. On the other hand I had B's in Math, which did interest me. Guess which career path I took?
Most on-site systems (ie desktops) don't have encrypted hard drives. In companies that do encrypt the drive they almost always have physical restrictions in place. Even an encrypted hard drive can be cracked, it just takes time. And if I have the drive I can take as long as I want, hours, days, months, years, it just depends on what I think is on it and how much time I'm willing to invest.
Now laptops are a different story, but if the IT team really cared about the data then you load the laptop to use a remote vpn connection back to a VM in a corporate data center, once the laptop is turned off (or taken in some case) the connection is cut and the thief has a generic laptop with no sensitive data. If you really wanted the laptop back you also load a phone home software that first finds the route out to some site like google, then e-mails that data back to some e-mail address on a regular basis. So now you can track down the ISP or locations it connects to the internet with and enlist the ISP or coffee shop in finding the thief.
But yes, usually a $1 wrench works wonders in decrypting things.
I wonder how many people mis-understood the question and answered yes?
The real question would be to ask how do you use your smart speaker? Unless they say: to answer questions and connect to voice activated services, then their smart speaker are probably just a set of normal speakers they connected to an ipod dock.
What about the man who show showed up armed at a supposed pizza joint owned by Hillary to rescue human trafficking victims? Or how about the pee video Russia held as blackmail against Trump?
No, the US isn't any better. There is no defense of mob mentality in India or the US. If you think someone has committed a crime, report it and give all the evidence you can, then let the judge and jury calmly make a decision about guilt.
On a side note, I really wish reporters here in the US would stop trying to incite action and do their job of reporting facts, not opinions.
Obviously it is impossible, for a price that anyone other than a Saudi prince can afford, to provide mobile data at high speeds that is truly unlimited AND delivers full speed at all times.
Then stop advertising things you can't promise! Instead they should say this is our 22GB data plan, not our "unlimited" plan.
What they mean by "unlimited" is you don't pay more for more data. As long as they only throttle when needed to avoid congestion and perhaps first to high usage users, this seems quite reasonable.
But isn't that the point, once he reached a datacap he was slowed down. When he then called to complain they offered to upgrade the datacap for a fee? So was this really a case of congestion, or just a money grab?
At this point, every person with at least two brain cells knows that 'unlimited' in mobile plans rarely means "full maximum bandwidth guaranteed 7x24 even if users actually use that bandwidth 7x24". People with only one or zero brain cells can just read the footnote that explains this.
Exactly, everyone now expects their phone plan to be a bold face lie. When did the meaning of "unlimited" change? If I can't use that bandwidth, then you shouldn't be able to advertise it or at the very least you should set a minimum limit. Footnotes are fine for listing exceptions, however then you can't call it "unlimited" because you just imposed a limit.
When did "Unlimited" start meaning we throttle speed or charge you more if you actually attempt to use what is promised?
If you sell me a 15Mbit connection I should be able to saturate the line at 15Mbit 24/7 for the entire month with no slow down and no extra charges.
Would you accept it if your "Unlimited" rental cars top speed was cut in half if you went more than 200 miles in a day? Or if after 300 miles you had to pay an extra millage charge.
So stop calling it "Unlimited" and call it what it really is, "Extra charges will apply". The argument I usually hear is that the network can't handle that kind of traffic and they "have" to slow your network speed. If that is the case then sell what you can support; stop over selling or stop under providing!
Party A: Some stereotypical group Noun/Verb: Pick any noun or verb you like
[Party A] only favor states rights when the states want to do something [Party A] agree with that federal government wants to do. When the federal government wants to do something [Party A] agree with the states don't want to do (like make [Noun/Verb] illegal), they are very much against states rights!
This is similar to just because you were at a store when it was robbed, doesn't mean you robbed it. Also, given the metaphor it you wouldn't expect the store to go after you to recoup some of the loss because you were there and might have been involved.
Now if you want to make the case that I was complicit because I didn't stop it; well then why didn't the ISP stop it, why didn't the backbone providers stop it, why didn't the other guy(s) ISP stop it.
No, the real problem is that content holders have the expectation that their product should cost a certain sum of money; now the consumer of that product doesn't see the same value and is unwilling to pay that. They then look for alternatives and if they are persistent will eventual find it for free, at which point the content holder cries foul that they didn't their cost point.
There is a saying in the housing market, if you house doesn't sell in 30 days, it's over priced.
Version [Insert Version] of [Insert Coding Language Here] is a ticking time BOMB! Support for critical patches ends on [Insert Date Here] leaving customers with buggy and unpatched software which will be exploitable.
------ There, that should work as a template. Seriously, all software that is not actively maintained is at risk (and honestly all software being maintained has a certain level of risk to it as well). If I remember correctly you have reached the end of the software life cycle when there are no more patches, which also means that no one should be using it anymore.
So nice of Apple looking out for the little guy and giving them additional revenue without taking their usual cut.
Oh wait, no it seems that they want their 30% cut of that too. So a product that has already been released and doesn't require users finding or downloading, Apple is going to take a 30% share of that too? Sheesh, why not just make a variable Apple tax that all users get charged each month so Apple makes their profit margin they want? Isn't 1Trillion enough for them?
Since Krikorian joined the DNC a year ago, the party has moved email and data storage to Google cloud and replaced most Windows computers with easier-to-defend Apple hardware and Google Chromebooks, he said.
Ahh, security by moving things into the cloud and using a different OS. That should fix everything. As we all know nobody has ever gotten a hold of cloud data and there are viruses/vulnerabilities for MAC; at least that's what my users tell me.
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Because this is China, a communist country. You don't get to make the decisions there, the government gets to.
Wait, now I'm confused.
How could the government let these lazy kids play video games in the first place? Didn't the government decide that all happy citizens are citizens who contribute to the greater needs of the country? These kids need to be made an example of; ie disappear for 3 months and then come back to repay the government for their mis-deeds and beg for forgiveness. At least that is the next headline I expect to see.
Seriously, parents just watch what games your kid(s) are playing. Ie, raise you own kid(s), don't let some company decide whats best for you. If you don't think they should play that game, unstall/block it and tell your kid(s) why you blocked it.
As parents you should decide if your kid(s) playing Minecraft is teaching witchcraft or teaching abstract thinking. And since your decision only affects your kid(s), I'm free to parent how I like.
Why is it so hard to raise your own kid(s) instead of trying to find a technical solution that in the end just won't work to raise my kid(s)?
I had a similar experience. I was calling the support number on my DSL statement to see if I could get a higher download speed on my line.
Called, put in my phone number, confirmed details, sent to voice prompt roulette. Then clearly said "Upgrade DSL"; transferring to account inquiry. After being asked if I wanted to know what my last bill was, I said "no" and back into voice roulette. This time I said "DSL"; prompt couldn't understand; repeated "DSL"; transferring call. The person answering the call said thanks for calling DirectTv, please give me your account or phone number. Confused I said "no, I wanted to see if I could update my DSL service". The person said that the department was closed and the call was transfered to them. I asked them when does the office close, she said 8:00pm. Now I'm really confused, I looked at the clock just to double check before telling her that it wasn't even 7:30 yet. Slight pause on her end and she said, ohh, let me see if anyone is there. Few minutes later she came back, sorry nobody in that department can I get your number (I had already given it to her at the start by the way) and have them call you tomorrow. Not feeling in the mood for more voice roulette I asked the rep what number she was transferring me to, I wrote that down and hung up.
Now the next day was one of the best support calls I have ever made. The phone number she gave me rang like twice, an older guy answered saying he was Gary from San Diego and what he could do to help. I told him I wanted to see if I could upgrade my DSL, he asked for my phone number and zip code. He then tapped a some keys and then said it looked like I already had the fastest speed in my area. He then said to hold on a sec and he'd run a few speed tests. 30 seconds of typing later he comes back and says sorry I just uncapped your line and ran a few different speed test but didn't get anything better. So in less than 4 minutes I had my answer from a tech guy who probably broke the rules by uncapping my line to confirm it wouldn't help. I thanked him for checking and said I probably would be going with cable modem, he said sorry and wished me luck. No voice roulette, only need my info once, gave me a straight answer, and it only took a few minutes.
Can't tell you how many times I've heard that and thought, hmm why not hire more people to handle a 30+ minute wait time. Or, how about you just tell me when you lowest call volume is and I'll call back then. But, somehow I think your higher than normal is actually your normal call volume.
Last time I was experiencing a problem I called 7 days in a row, with each new person assuring me they would be the one to fix the issue. Finally on the 7th day the last person told me to not call back as it wouldn't help resolve the issue. So I haven't called back. Instead I took it upon myself to resolve the issue and found an alternative solution that didn't involve their services anymore. Now that I have an alternative, they are calling me to ask if I'm still experiencing problem. The last call they made to me was awesome, "are you still experiencing problems", nope I canceled your service about a week ago, "[click]".
We don't need trolls to do this, Hollywood has long been in the business of producing films to influence political opinion in the US. I guess if they push liberal agendas its ok (The First Purge, The Trump Prophecy, and Fahrenheit 11/9 are currently playing at the theater close to me) .
But, personally my biggest complaints about the movie were just the shear number of times I was yelling at the screen for the characters to do the logical thing. You know, like tell the hot shot renegade and the whole crew you have a plan other than just sitting around. Or why didn't the empire just radio ahead and setup and ambush, you know like the police would do? Heck, why could the tie fighters engage the rebel fleet but the main ships couldn't get any more speed out, was Scotty on shore leave (sorry, mixing universes). The whole movie could be summed up as a very slow chase scene in space with explosions. I could go on but seriously who ever reviewed the script should not work in Hollywood again.
Pft, 64 bit! You just moved the goal post a few feet, we need 128 bit or 256 bit watches now!
Until then, we are all doomed on Sunday, December 4th of 292,277,026,596!
All I can think of is when Marty starts powering up the amp bigger than he is. Turning on all the switches and setting the drivers to 100%. Then plugs in the electric guitar and cranks it all the way up. Then pulls out the chrome pick and strums a chord. All resulting in the woofer blowing him across the room.
Classic Rock and Roll baby!
Most test scores only measure the ability for someone to remember the correct answer long enough to get it on paper.
Interest on the other hand determines what field people go into.
For example, I had A+'s in Art, but it never appealed to me. On the other hand I had B's in Math, which did interest me. Guess which career path I took?
do you know cobol? IF so, there MIGHT be a job for you.
Yeah, sure let me get right on that. If, might; why not waste my time on vague promises?
I'll be waiting for you.
P.S. you may want to wear a Kevlar vest.
Most on-site systems (ie desktops) don't have encrypted hard drives. In companies that do encrypt the drive they almost always have physical restrictions in place. Even an encrypted hard drive can be cracked, it just takes time. And if I have the drive I can take as long as I want, hours, days, months, years, it just depends on what I think is on it and how much time I'm willing to invest. Now laptops are a different story, but if the IT team really cared about the data then you load the laptop to use a remote vpn connection back to a VM in a corporate data center, once the laptop is turned off (or taken in some case) the connection is cut and the thief has a generic laptop with no sensitive data. If you really wanted the laptop back you also load a phone home software that first finds the route out to some site like google, then e-mails that data back to some e-mail address on a regular basis. So now you can track down the ISP or locations it connects to the internet with and enlist the ISP or coffee shop in finding the thief. But yes, usually a $1 wrench works wonders in decrypting things.
Pull the hard drive, take home and decrypt at will. No known software or hardware patches have been released to fix this issue.
I wonder how many people mis-understood the question and answered yes?
The real question would be to ask how do you use your smart speaker? Unless they say: to answer questions and connect to voice activated services, then their smart speaker are probably just a set of normal speakers they connected to an ipod dock.
Wow, the pot calling the kettle black!
What about the man who show showed up armed at a supposed pizza joint owned by Hillary to rescue human trafficking victims? Or how about the pee video Russia held as blackmail against Trump?
No, the US isn't any better. There is no defense of mob mentality in India or the US. If you think someone has committed a crime, report it and give all the evidence you can, then let the judge and jury calmly make a decision about guilt.
On a side note, I really wish reporters here in the US would stop trying to incite action and do their job of reporting facts, not opinions.
Obviously it is impossible, for a price that anyone other than a Saudi prince can afford, to provide mobile data at high speeds that is truly unlimited AND delivers full speed at all times.
Then stop advertising things you can't promise! Instead they should say this is our 22GB data plan, not our "unlimited" plan.
What they mean by "unlimited" is you don't pay more for more data. As long as they only throttle when needed to avoid congestion and perhaps first to high usage users, this seems quite reasonable.
But isn't that the point, once he reached a datacap he was slowed down. When he then called to complain they offered to upgrade the datacap for a fee? So was this really a case of congestion, or just a money grab?
At this point, every person with at least two brain cells knows that 'unlimited' in mobile plans rarely means "full maximum bandwidth guaranteed 7x24 even if users actually use that bandwidth 7x24". People with only one or zero brain cells can just read the footnote that explains this.
Exactly, everyone now expects their phone plan to be a bold face lie. When did the meaning of "unlimited" change? If I can't use that bandwidth, then you shouldn't be able to advertise it or at the very least you should set a minimum limit. Footnotes are fine for listing exceptions, however then you can't call it "unlimited" because you just imposed a limit.
When did "Unlimited" start meaning we throttle speed or charge you more if you actually attempt to use what is promised?
If you sell me a 15Mbit connection I should be able to saturate the line at 15Mbit 24/7 for the entire month with no slow down and no extra charges.
Would you accept it if your "Unlimited" rental cars top speed was cut in half if you went more than 200 miles in a day? Or if after 300 miles you had to pay an extra millage charge.
So stop calling it "Unlimited" and call it what it really is, "Extra charges will apply". The argument I usually hear is that the network can't handle that kind of traffic and they "have" to slow your network speed. If that is the case then sell what you can support; stop over selling or stop under providing!
Let me mad-lib this up for you:
Party A: Some stereotypical group
Noun/Verb: Pick any noun or verb you like
[Party A] only favor states rights when the states want to do something [Party A] agree with that federal government wants to do. When the federal government wants to do something [Party A] agree with the states don't want to do (like make [Noun/Verb] illegal), they are very much against states rights!
This is similar to just because you were at a store when it was robbed, doesn't mean you robbed it. Also, given the metaphor it you wouldn't expect the store to go after you to recoup some of the loss because you were there and might have been involved.
Now if you want to make the case that I was complicit because I didn't stop it; well then why didn't the ISP stop it, why didn't the backbone providers stop it, why didn't the other guy(s) ISP stop it.
No, the real problem is that content holders have the expectation that their product should cost a certain sum of money; now the consumer of that product doesn't see the same value and is unwilling to pay that. They then look for alternatives and if they are persistent will eventual find it for free, at which point the content holder cries foul that they didn't their cost point.
There is a saying in the housing market, if you house doesn't sell in 30 days, it's over priced.
Version [Insert Version] of [Insert Coding Language Here] is a ticking time BOMB! Support for critical patches ends on [Insert Date Here] leaving customers with buggy and unpatched software which will be exploitable.
------
There, that should work as a template. Seriously, all software that is not actively maintained is at risk (and honestly all software being maintained has a certain level of risk to it as well). If I remember correctly you have reached the end of the software life cycle when there are no more patches, which also means that no one should be using it anymore.
P.S., make BOMB all in caps, seems more dire.
Wow, you go dark fast!
So. . . the. . . point. . . is. . . that I should rip off the current version of the song or video that has been recently remastered?
Clearly the FBI has been watching too much CSI and Criminal Minds. How did these guys do their job before technology kept track of everyone?
So nice of Apple looking out for the little guy and giving them additional revenue without taking their usual cut.
Oh wait, no it seems that they want their 30% cut of that too. So a product that has already been released and doesn't require users finding or downloading, Apple is going to take a 30% share of that too? Sheesh, why not just make a variable Apple tax that all users get charged each month so Apple makes their profit margin they want? Isn't 1Trillion enough for them?
Since Krikorian joined the DNC a year ago, the party has moved email and data storage to Google cloud and replaced most Windows computers with easier-to-defend Apple hardware and Google Chromebooks, he said.
Ahh, security by moving things into the cloud and using a different OS. That should fix everything. As we all know nobody has ever gotten a hold of cloud data and there are viruses/vulnerabilities for MAC; at least that's what my users tell me.
There fixed the headline for you.