Even with it under Nazi control, you'd expect it to have been run by Kripo (police) exclusively. Two of the Nazi-era leaders were (as well as being SS), but the other two were purely SS.
In Nazi Germany, everything was under Nazi control. The idea that organisations like the army, police or Universities were somehow free from Nazi influence is something that people in the army, police or Universities tried to push after WW2 ended, for obvious reasons like not wanting to be hanged for war crimes..
Apparently, it turns out there were almost no Nazis in Germany at all.
I use whatapp on my 50$ fire and I had to use a used simcard to activate it, since apparently whatsapp "doesn't work on tablets" but I didn't know that.:-)
I had bought a a few dozen used prepaid simcards on ebay just for these purposes, to receive a single SMS before throwing it away.
Lots of sites have begun to use such systems and this is the way to circumvent that.
It's cheaper than burner phones.
By contrast, in the UK most people have either practically, or else actually unlimited texts (SMS) with their mobile phone contracts. (Unless you only have the bare minimum monthly payment option). The same is true of phone calls.
Whatsapp is still popular because you can send free videos/photos, and make free overseas calls, since monthly plans don't include limitless multimedia messages or calls abroad.
Didn't my phone come with one preloaded? Why on earth would I need to get a new app to do what my phone already supports?
It lets you make free internet phone calls. You can also send free text messages. If you have a basic plan, you don't get many free minutes/texts, so it's a useful free (as in beer) service if you have many people you want to call or text a lot.
The fact that they collect your data is hardly a surprise, and is no more or less sinister than facebook or google doing the same. If you want total privacy, don't use unencrypted messaging on the internet.
My favorite is that we went into Iraq for "oil". Well we went into Iraq TWICE in my living memory and didn't get one drop of oil or one square foot of ground from it. The FIRST time was to return the oil fields of Kuwait to Kuwait and make sure Iraq wouldn't quickly return. The USA didn't get any oil from the deal, but returned ALL the oil and the territory captured to it's original owners. The SECOND trip into Iraq was for different reasons, but again, even though we had thoroughly and completely conquered ALL of Iraq including it's oil fields, the USA returned them to Iraq along with all the territory taken.
No, I think the point was that the US was protecting its access to oil from friendly Middle Eastern countries, not that it wanted to conquer those countries and literally own the oil fields.
Lastly, 99% of all home invasions are done by drugged out violent criminals, not highly educated and skilled hackers.
Most malicious hackers are not highly educated or skilled. They're script kiddies running tools made by someone else.
So what? If the tools work you're not going to care whether you were fucked over by a 13 year old in his basement or Dr Evilgeniushacker in a lair beneath a volcano.
Just imagine someone monitoring the data feed from the house down the street where an attractive young woman lives by herself. After a few days, definitely after a month, a complete profile of her activities could be constructed.
Really? Like what? That she keeps her house at 65F? That she wakes up at 6:30 am and goes to bed ad 10 pm? That she does laundry twice a week, usually on a Thu and Sun? That she usually leaves for work at 8:00 am and returns at 5:30 pm? So what?
I think at least some of that information would be useful to a potential burglar or rapist, don't you?
This has good troll potential, but you need to tailor it to the slashdot crowd.
The usual method is to mock the Linux operating system and/or say how great Microsoft is and involve plenty of racism and gay sex to confuse everybody.
This is why manufacturer's love the idea so much. A fridge lasting 20 years is a terrible for sales.
Our family is on its third fridge (and third washing mahince) in a little over ten years. Maybe it's different if you buy a really high quality (expensive) machine?
We tend just to get the cheapest one with a name we've heard of.
Err, they do if they want their bread to keep longer than a few days before going stale.
Or they live in an area in which cockroaches make an appearance so regular fumigation of the building is necessary. When I lived in Texas the only things kept in my kitchen cupboards besides pots and pans and cutlery was canned goods. Everything else edible was stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
I think the Texas Tourist Board need to hire a new PR agency.
Err, they do if they want their bread to keep longer than a few days before going stale.
Is this a serious comment? Bread doesn't last longer than a couple of days before going stale regardless of what you do with it. Unless you are buying some weird, horrible, white chemical pudding instead of actual bread.
For toast, you can always slice some bread and keep it in the freezer. But actual bread needs to be fresh.
You say the structure is unsafe, I say you are not qualified to make that assessment based upon a visual "inspection."
My qualifications: forensic structural engineer with thirty plus years of experience.
Your qualifications: someone posting anonymously on the internet.
Lighten up, he was just adding some colour to his description, vandalism implies that there is no one guarding the site, it wouldn't have been as dramatic as saying he saw a "JimBob hearts SueEllen" piece of graffitti.
I was on Facebook for a few years (before getting disgusted by their evil machinations and closing my account). I can't imagine that participating in the insipid, mindless, superficial interactions there does anything but ACCELERATE cognitive decline.
I think they meant actually talking to real people face to face.
Just because it's called social media doesn't mean it's social engagement.
As any computer systems engineer knows, it's all about compute and storage. This article is about compute. But storage has been vastly improved for all of us. We now store or keep knowledge on the Internet instead of keeping it in our heads. The access time of this storage is very fast, too, compared to paper files and libraries. This access time is also of low variability, as it is in our pockets now.
Only trouble is that in terms of competitive advantage, the Internet is available to all. The best you can do is to learn how to use it slightly more effectively.
But in terms of the Slashdot headline, "You Can't Get Smarter," I disagree -- we've all gotten a lot smarter.
(That's right, I don't agree with those who say the Internet has made us dumber. I think the opposite.)
You have got to be kidding. Having fast access to huge volumes of information is irrelevant to intelligence, or else every 14 year old with a smartphone would be far smarter than Isaac Newton or Einstein
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Just because it's "Alabama" doesn't mean it's redneck. That's stereotyping at it's finest.
This should teach a useful lesson in tolerance to the citizens of that State.
Even with it under Nazi control, you'd expect it to have been run by Kripo (police) exclusively. Two of the Nazi-era leaders were (as well as being SS), but the other two were purely SS.
In Nazi Germany, everything was under Nazi control. The idea that organisations like the army, police or Universities were somehow free from Nazi influence is something that people in the army, police or Universities tried to push after WW2 ended, for obvious reasons like not wanting to be hanged for war crimes..
Apparently, it turns out there were almost no Nazis in Germany at all.
*whoosh*
No, I think the fucking smiley face shows he was joking.
I use whatapp on my 50$ fire and I had to use a used simcard to activate it, since apparently whatsapp "doesn't work on tablets" but I didn't know that. :-)
I had bought a a few dozen used prepaid simcards on ebay just for these purposes, to receive a single SMS before throwing it away. Lots of sites have begun to use such systems and this is the way to circumvent that. It's cheaper than burner phones.
Unless you're James Bond, who could be bothered?
If you aren't paying for a service, you aren't the customer. You're the product being sold.
So? No one's forcing you to use these free services.
Why is there this feeling that you are entitled to everything for free?
Until we turn into something like Iain M Banks's post-scarcity Culture there really are no free lunches.
Sadly, most people don't have any concerns about privacy and don't realise how they can be harmed and exploited through their data.
i dunno, i've been using the internet since it's inception and i've never been harmed. what exactly are you talking about?
You're probably not a drug dealer, paedophile or gun-smuggling terrorist, unlike most people on slashdot.
If you install a different OS, Google will not track you.
As we're talking about phones, the only alternative OS is Apple. And they track you worse than anyone.
Whatsapp is still popular because you can send free videos/photos, and make free overseas calls, since monthly plans don't include limitless multimedia messages or calls abroad.
Didn't my phone come with one preloaded? Why on earth would I need to get a new app to do what my phone already supports?
It lets you make free internet phone calls. You can also send free text messages. If you have a basic plan, you don't get many free minutes/texts, so it's a useful free (as in beer) service if you have many people you want to call or text a lot.
The fact that they collect your data is hardly a surprise, and is no more or less sinister than facebook or google doing the same. If you want total privacy, don't use unencrypted messaging on the internet.
You might just as well keep yourself woozy with brandy.
My favorite is that we went into Iraq for "oil". Well we went into Iraq TWICE in my living memory and didn't get one drop of oil or one square foot of ground from it. The FIRST time was to return the oil fields of Kuwait to Kuwait and make sure Iraq wouldn't quickly return. The USA didn't get any oil from the deal, but returned ALL the oil and the territory captured to it's original owners. The SECOND trip into Iraq was for different reasons, but again, even though we had thoroughly and completely conquered ALL of Iraq including it's oil fields, the USA returned them to Iraq along with all the territory taken.
No, I think the point was that the US was protecting its access to oil from friendly Middle Eastern countries, not that it wanted to conquer those countries and literally own the oil fields.
Crazy and rational are not mutually exclusive terms, they easily go hand in hand.
Only by some irrational definition of crazy.
Lastly, 99% of all home invasions are done by drugged out violent criminals, not highly educated and skilled hackers.
Most malicious hackers are not highly educated or skilled. They're script kiddies running tools made by someone else.
So what? If the tools work you're not going to care whether you were fucked over by a 13 year old in his basement or Dr Evilgeniushacker in a lair beneath a volcano.
My IoT device saved me several thousand dollars in renovation costs
Yes, but did it save them because it was connected to the internet?
Really? Like what? That she keeps her house at 65F? That she wakes up at 6:30 am and goes to bed ad 10 pm? That she does laundry twice a week, usually on a Thu and Sun? That she usually leaves for work at 8:00 am and returns at 5:30 pm? So what?
I think at least some of that information would be useful to a potential burglar or rapist, don't you?
The usual method is to mock the Linux operating system and/or say how great Microsoft is and involve plenty of racism and gay sex to confuse everybody.
This is why manufacturer's love the idea so much. A fridge lasting 20 years is a terrible for sales.
Our family is on its third fridge (and third washing mahince) in a little over ten years. Maybe it's different if you buy a really high quality (expensive) machine?
We tend just to get the cheapest one with a name we've heard of.
"Sane people don't put bread in the fridge."
Err, they do if they want their bread to keep longer than a few days before going stale.
Or they live in an area in which cockroaches make an appearance so regular fumigation of the building is necessary. When I lived in Texas the only things kept in my kitchen cupboards besides pots and pans and cutlery was canned goods. Everything else edible was stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
I think the Texas Tourist Board need to hire a new PR agency.
"Sane people don't put bread in the fridge."
Err, they do if they want their bread to keep longer than a few days before going stale.
Is this a serious comment? Bread doesn't last longer than a couple of days before going stale regardless of what you do with it. Unless you are buying some weird, horrible, white chemical pudding instead of actual bread.
For toast, you can always slice some bread and keep it in the freezer. But actual bread needs to be fresh.
I suppose it's just barely posible that they don't build nuclear power stations out of wood, but I'd want to see proof.
You say the structure is unsafe, I say you are not qualified to make that assessment based upon a visual "inspection." My qualifications: forensic structural engineer with thirty plus years of experience.
Your qualifications: someone posting anonymously on the internet.
Lighten up, he was just adding some colour to his description, vandalism implies that there is no one guarding the site, it wouldn't have been as dramatic as saying he saw a "JimBob hearts SueEllen" piece of graffitti.
"Experiments show that simply telling a group of low-performing students that intelligence is malleable led to higher test scores"
But only for students who knew what "malleable" meant...
Doesn't that mean that it gets better if you hit it with a hammer?
I was on Facebook for a few years (before getting disgusted by their evil machinations and closing my account). I can't imagine that participating in the insipid, mindless, superficial interactions there does anything but ACCELERATE cognitive decline.
I think they meant actually talking to real people face to face.
Just because it's called social media doesn't mean it's social engagement.
As any computer systems engineer knows, it's all about compute and storage. This article is about compute. But storage has been vastly improved for all of us. We now store or keep knowledge on the Internet instead of keeping it in our heads. The access time of this storage is very fast, too, compared to paper files and libraries. This access time is also of low variability, as it is in our pockets now.
Only trouble is that in terms of competitive advantage, the Internet is available to all. The best you can do is to learn how to use it slightly more effectively.
But in terms of the Slashdot headline, "You Can't Get Smarter," I disagree -- we've all gotten a lot smarter.
(That's right, I don't agree with those who say the Internet has made us dumber. I think the opposite.)
You have got to be kidding. Having fast access to huge volumes of information is irrelevant to intelligence, or else every 14 year old with a smartphone would be far smarter than Isaac Newton or Einstein