This has already been tried several times over the years and always with the same result: People discover that they don't like it being dark longer in the morning during the winter.
...which you can also compensate by changing working hours.
And several business have different opening hours during the seasons anyway (e.g.: due to reduced work force due to vacations in summer). So giving summer-specific opening hours that also happen to take into account the variation of sun time isn't that far fetched.
(E.g.: public transport has different time tables at different time of the year, public services tend to have reduced opening hours due to lots of them going into vacations, hospitals emergencies work in shifts around the clock anyway, movie schedule change each week with new release, work-from-home and artists put their own work hours anyway, university research team tend to have the most WTF work hours specially for PhD students (except for that guy who has Eukaryotik cell cultures. He needs to feed them every 32 hours no matter how out of sync it gets with any rational work schedule), etc. Shops are about the only things which seem to open at a constant timetable.)
It used to make sense to shift clocks back in the industrial era when most of the activities were dictated by fixed time schedules and nearly everybody needed to be in sync (factory working ours). Nowadays, in our mostly service-sector-based type of work, you need to check (e.g.: online on your smartphone) the opening hours and time schedule for probably around 7 out of 10 business. Supressing DST will simply make you check for the last remaining 3 too, instead of relying on fixed clock times.
He explicitly said that Nothing he does will be uploaded !" He never mentioned whether this uploading won't happen because there's no tracking happening at all, or whether this uploading won't happen because these companies already track you to the bone on the cloud and thus there's no extra tracking information that needs to be uploaded.
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The Firestick is an almost dumb device that displays remotely served content. It doesn't track much locally and doesn't upload much... because the Amazon Streaming server already tracks and knows everything about you.
Amazon Alexa runs entirely on the cloud. The Amazon Echo device, is only a glorified internet streaming microphone+speaker combo. Beside recognizing a keyword ("Alexa !") it doesn't do much and is certainly unable to do tracking on its own... because it's the giant AI behind Alexa on Amazon's cloud that knows everything about you up to your most secret desire.
Facebook on your computer is just basically HTML, just content. (I'm over simplifying) All the horrible stuff that fills Mark Zuckerberg's pocket with cash happen on their servers. Be it the creepy stuff like face recognition image processing that they run on each single photo of you, even if you don't have a profile. Or the massive online behaviour monitoring : that "like" button might be a simple static image, but knowing *for which webpage* the FB servers were asked to serve it is the most interesting breadcrumbs path ever.
Watch World War II documentaries and you are a neo-Nazi. Watch Wentworth (Prisoner Cell Block H) and you were a closet lesbian. God help you if you watched both.
In a sound bite obsessed media culture and a lazy electorate
Please notice the TFA is about the EU. Although we're undeniably on a downward slope on our side of the Atlantic too, things haven't devolved to the kind of shit show that they're having in the US.
Secondly, this would mean adding cables rated for 240V AC to devices that are supposed to supply 5V or maybe 12V DC. That's a waste of copper
Actually it doesn't work this way. The voltage has no impact on the rating of the cable (well, at least within a reasonable limit, like voltage found at home. Of course at 10kV, the insulation could fail). The *current* is the one that has an impact. (as the thermal loss is only proportional to the current (squared). That's why long distance current is transported at very high voltage : you could pass thus the same power using very little current and minimize your losses).
It's just happens that most house hold cable are rated for 10A (thus 2.5 kW), whereas most USB devices use 2A at most. (USB devices that need more than 10W usually rely on a protocole like USB-PD to politely ask a higher voltage - like 9V or 12V - while keeping the current low).
In theory you could go with a cheap tiny extension cord rated for only 0.1 A. But then, either you need to use a non standard connection at the wall wart (which then makes complicated to obtain cable, and requires more custom cables, raising the price again) - (that's the solution used by several "exchangeable" tips for wall-warts) Or you use a standard connector (like IEC 60320 C8 (figure 8) or C6 (mickey/cloverleaf) and risk that somebody plugs this cable into a laptop powerbrick that requires 2.5A and burns the cable - (most company then either opt for only "exchangeable tips" like Apple and older Ericsson, or actually pack a more expensive high rated cable that will work everywhere).
In Europe, the alternative is elongated wall warts that are the exact width as an Europlug and only rely on length for cooling and electronics size needs. (e.g.: some recent Apple, nearly everysingle 3rd party manufacturer like Hama, etc.) These will always fit in any space designed for a standard plug without "plugspreading".
You mean the power supply where you can remove the mains connector to reveal that it connects via a IEC 60320 C7/'figure 8' socket,
...and instead of using a standard IEC 60320 C5/'cloverleaf or mickey' socket to carry the grounding, relies on a weird nail-like nearby protrusion.
allowing a short cable to be installed moving the 'wart' to the middle of the length like you want?
- So either you need to buy some (expensive, because there's an Apple Logo on it) cable that uses t he "IEC 60320 C7 + nail" Apple contraption. - Or you need to get a cheap one from ebay/aliexpress, but risk discovering that under the plastic, the actual copper wire as so thin you couldn't even rate them for 0.1A, and the whole thing burst into flame whenever the laptop tries to pull 60W. - Or you plug a 2 pronged-only (Live + Neutral, no ground) cable into the "IEC 60320 C7/'figure 8'" socket which should work (usually does), but would violate several safety codes.
Most people in Europe (due to connector madness*with German Shuko CEE 7/3 type F, French CEE 7/5 Type E, Italian Type L, Swiss SEV 1011 type J, British BS 1363 Type G, etc.) go for the last option and use Europlug type C (and fuck the fuse safety in UK and Malta). You can improvise one out of Italian or Swiss plug by cutting a filing the ground pin.
--- *: I'm over exagerating a bit. Nowadays, most electronics use CEE 7/7 which is compatible with nearly everything. Countries like Italy nowadays installs sockets (such as Italian CEI 23-50 P 40) that are compatible (here:: with both italian type L and european CEE 7/7). These things even work in British wall socket if you decide to fuck both grounding and fuses (and help a bit with a screw driver). Switzerland is the only country in Europe were this doesn't work directly.
For the wink, wink to happen, you would neet at least 8 people in front of those 4 screens. The..and chill part of netflix activities usually requires a minimum of 2 bodies.
If you're "securing communications" for people who then use it for child porn, you are opening yourself up to being accused of that no matter your alleged altruistic intentions.
Hey, you know, what else those evil child pornographer are using ? Digital photocamera, SD cards, computers, internet, printers, paper. They might even sometime wear clothes, and eat food ! Ban all of the above, because pedo-peddlers might by using it too !!!~~
The purpose of tools like Tor, GPG, OTR, Axolotl, etc. is to help guarantee privacy and secure communication. It might be abused by people with nefarious intention, but it also has tons of legitimate reasons (think find a away accroos the Chinese Great Firewall, think protecting from corporate espionage, think whistle blower who want to help journalist report on a scandal, etc.)
These are useful tools. You shouldn't deprive people from their everyday usefulness, just because the tools might fall in the hands of some criminal.
They {...} will use all manner of "persuasion" up to and including "facilitating child pornography" just because you believe in communications that are both convenient and secure.
Fuck you, {...etc...} PEDOPHILE!
It might be some random coprolalia-affected troll, but in the current context of this thread, there might by some "wooshing" sound that got lost somewhere.
Post should get some "+1, Funny" love by mods, in my humble opinion.
It's at the "editorial decisions, which are protected by the first amendment" level that it gets more messy.
From that point of view, Facebook isn't a newspaper, it's a tabloid.
Whereas newspaper will at least try to throw some considerations about informing their readership, and about journalistic integrity (checking source, doing full analysis, etc.) in whatever mix of reasons (besides advertisement money) leads them to a certain editorial decision, tabloids will just print whatever crap (including fabricated crap) as long as it attracts buyers.
Facebook is the same. There are not even human reviewing the system and taking actual "editorial decisions" (in the classical meaning of this term). There are only machine learning algorithms and other neural nets which are simply learning whatever gets the most clicks and which ever content keeps people the longest on facebook (where Mark Zuckerberg can earn lots of money by selling their eyeballs to advertisers and their personal data to whoever pays the most).
Which eventually (due to how human psychology works *) leads to people being kept in small bubble, where they get constantly presented with whatever crackpot conspiracy theory** is the most popular in the corresponding echo-chamber.
So basically, mindless tabloids, except Facebook is driven entirely by statistics, guaranteed human-free.
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* : fear is the best drive for attention. It had some evolutionary advantage (an animal that runs away more easily is less likely to get eaten by a predator), but has the modern disadvantage that exaggerated fear-mongering is the best media strategy. See numerous studies about fear and violence on TV.
** : Which in turn can easily be abused by any (e.g.: russian, etc.) troll wanting to sow discord and infighting by throwing oil into the flame-war, and then profit from the resulting mayhem. See controversies surrounding the impact of facebook ion US' elections.
But it's the bit before that which really matters:
You can’t clean a compromised system by using a virus scanner. To tell you the truth, a fully compromised system can’t be trusted. Even virus scanners must at some level rely on the system to not lie to them. If they ask whether a particular file is present, the attacker may simply have a tool in place that lies about it.
That why you don't try anything from within the compromised system. Either you try all your effort from a known clean bootdisk (CD, USB stick, etc), or even better, you disconnect the drive and connect it to a known clean machine.
A non compromised OS will not lie about what is on the disk of another system, even if that other (non-currently running system) happens to be compromised.
(The sole exception being malware like ransomware that encrypt your data. Then nobody except the hacker holding the decryption key can read that disk).
Reinstall from original installation media and pray to god that your system's onboard firmware is not compromised.
Well, the attack of firmware (UEFI) or "management chips" running their own firmware (Intel ME engine and co) is indeed an entirely different level of scary.
And given the almost total disappearance of socketed flashchips to hold these firmwares, any chance to recover from that becomes bleak.
A quick check on amazon.co.uk shows that I can get from Amazon themselves 512GB SD cards from SanDisk, Kingston and PNY.
A more thorough check would have made you notice that none of these (nor Samsung) does feature ECC recovery on their *consumer* cards. If you read the fine print, it's even worse. Even the "endurance" and "action cam" range of consumer product aren't actually recommended for continuous writing (you voided your warranty by putting into a continuously writing device a card that was exactly marketed for that ?!?)
You would need to go to the (much more expensive) *industrial* range of card to actually find ECC and cards that are recommended for continuous writing.
Transcend is currently the only brand I know of that actually provides ECC (and static wear-leveling) even on their *consumer* product range.
These spec have an important impact if you want to use these cards for hosting an OS on a single-board computer (Raspberry Pi), using more intensively the card on your smartphone (not only for "cold" media like old photos), use it on continuously writing devices like dashcam/actioncams/dronecams, as extra storage on a ultra-notebook, etc.
I've got a magic magnetick-repellant sticker that you can put on your phone, it will both keep the card confusion away and protect you from the evil mind-controlling microwaves. PM me and I'll send my new e-bay coordinates.
I can also get you incredible rebates on Monster Cables.
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Seriously, for people being actually victim of the scam about which the above poster jokes : use F3Tools to detect and file a complain and ask a refund with the online shop (ali express, ebay, etc.)
The market is full of 512gb memory cards right now, how far away do you think 2TB is?
From whom ? From asian noname companies on ebay and aliexpress, that sell you a card that will fail horrifically after a couple of weeks of use (or doesn't even actually contain the advertised amount of flash and will corrupt its own data).
From reputable brands that feature all type of wear levelling including passive, uses ECC to recover from corruption, etc ? Some of the most reputable brands haven't even moved to the 512 GB bandwagon yet.
As density increase (and thus feature size miniaturizes) and as technology moves from SLC -> MLC -> TLC -> etc... data gets less stable and more care should be spent making sure against corruption.
APK doesn't exist anymore, he was replaced by a swarm of machine learning bots which were trained on his insane rambling (see title !) and are currently imitating => him, troll posting in bold, calling each other ne'er-do-wells with fake names and complaining at each other for the impersonation.
The real APK died some years ago while trying to install his h o s t f i l e e n g i n e on his brainstem pacemaker, because he was persuaded that it was a better defence against his disease than actual medicine.
There's an efficient mod system on/. spam will rather quickly down voted to -1.
If you don't like the spam, browse at some higher level like 1 or 2 (and keep -1 and 0 hidden). If you're afraid of your eyes getting hurt by some spam, don't jump straight into a new article on the second it's published on/. , but wait a bit for the mod storm to settle down.
I personally find it absolutely remarkable that/. close to never deletes post. (the Scientology post being the first ever deletion). There's no actual censorship, only moderation. That bring some content more forward than other, depending on the current zeitgeist anong/.ers, but never deletes content, every voice could be heard if you decide to browse at level -1 or click on "show hidden comments". It's remarkable and should it kept this way.
Just ignore the troll you don't like. And don't feed them.
Also APK doesn't exist anymore, he was replaced by a swarm of machine learning bots which was trained on his insane rambling and are currently imitating him, troll posting, calling each other ne'er-do-wells with fake names and complaining at each other for the impersonation.
you claim socialized medicine somehow prevents opiod addiction from prescription meds. So go ahead, pretend this is an American only issue.
I think you might have missed the conditionals I've been using:
maybe lots of these addict would have been able to afford going to the doctor, would have had better managed problem and wouldn't be resorting to illegal channel and fueling the drug market.
Noticed ?
I don't claim that socialized medicine is magic wand that you can wave away prescription meds addiction.
I claim that is possible that maybe, by making medicine more affordable, some potential addicts will get their problem better treated, and this could help avoid these to try instead some botched forms of self-medication that turns into addictions.
i.e.: some of the addict are actually patients that started with chronic pain problems, but couldn't afford to have them correctly handled by a professional. And by correctly, I mean considereing *All the options* to manage pain (see randomly quickly googled ref, still corresponds to the complexity I've learned in my studies). The problems is that all of these solution cost time and money.
When it comes to taking opioids, the United States has the dubious honour of leading the world. For every one million Americans, almost 50,000 doses of opioids are taken every day. That's four times the rate in the UK.
and if you look about it, several of the listed problems boil down to "not enough resource in health care" (Pill being better re-imbursed than physiotherapy, US doctors earningn more money from kickbacks than salary, no ressource spent in proper pain-management training, etc.) though some are entirely cultural (population brainwashed by ads into "asking for {brand name} pill", unrealistic age-related expectations, online rating of doctors,...)
Public Health England is launching a review into the "growing problem" of prescription drug addiction. {...} PHE wants to avoid a situation like the one in the US, where there's been a massive increase in addiction to opioids.
. (i.e.: BBC and PHE thinks that though UK has a problem, it isn't as bad as US).
For years, "thermal camo" has basically boiled down to "a layer of very well insulating clothes" (and face paint, and gloves).
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot. You would need to undress a bit, which might not be practical in every situation.
If you are wearing a suit of this stuff I imagine you won't be wearing it a long time.
The whole point of this tech is that it's switchable between isolating and radiating mode. At a single button you can basically transform it from a wool sweater to sport T-shirt and back, without need to remove any layer of clothes (unlike classical thermo camo). You only turn it on where thermal camouflaging is necessary, instead of wearing an isolating layer for the whole time.
The novelty is that this camouflage is switchable. It can be turned on and off.
Otherwise, IR camouflage has been use for quite a long time in the military. (Basically, in an over simplified manner, it boils down to very well insulating clothes). In most country, most of the "green" stuff military wear is well isolated and doesn't radiate much heat. Even the emergency bandage comes with an extra IR-isolating (also painted green) over-laying band that can mask part of the IR radiation that the underlying wound and bloodied wound derssing could be giving of.
But all this is static (basically, well isolating cloths).
TFA's camo is switchable (between isolation and transmission).
Might have also some non-strategic application (sport clothes to adapt to external temperature ?)
Tramadol is like Ibuprofen++. {...} and used by people that are in actual pain
The only thing in common between tramadol and ibuprofen is that they both releive pain and that's about it.
Ibuporofen is a type of non-steroid anti inflammation drug (NSAID). Basically it's "aspirin++" with its own set of set-backs and advantages (it's hard on the stomach. Can also affect the kidneys)
Tramadol is an opioid, it work on the same pain receptors as morphine and heroin, and has a different set of drawbacks that it share with these substance (risk of addiction. Causes often constipation and can cause urinary globe).
- Because it's addictive, it's much more difficult to obtain a prescription. Some people in actual pain might resort to illegal channel to obtain what they need (whil avoiding a high doctor fee, eg.)
- Because it's addictive, if it's not managed correctly, it can lead to addiction, and some people need to constantly get doses to avoid pain (either the people who got it from above, or people who didn't manage it correctly while prescribed by a doctor). They'll use illegal channel to keep fueling their addiction.
- It's an opioid. Somebody is bound to find some dubious way to use it recreatively. They'll also use illegal channels to obtain it.
The same kind of thinking can be also applied to the other drugs. Xanax contains alprazolam, a type of benzodiazepine - a class of drugs that is used as tranquilizers (against stress, to help sleep, etc.) which is also highly addictive.
Overall, these aren't illegal drugs. They are perfectly normal pharmaceutical component, only very strictly regulated ones.
To me, it looks like a sizeable chunk of the illegal drug market that US gov agencies are fighting isn't only druggies that want to get high (LSD, shrooms, etc.) but also people with medical condition that weren't managed properly and slowly devolved into an addiction.
If the other side of the Atlantic pond didn't have such a joke of a healthcare and social welfare system, maybe lots of these addict would have been able to afford going to the doctor, would have had better managed problem and wouldn't be resorting to illegal channel and fueling the drug market.
You should try direct democracy if you're fed-up with the people in power constantly tyring to screw you. It might help when you the people ARE those in power.
but rather just the natural terrors that have arisen from places like The Congo and how the world is horribly unprepared for a repeat of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.
Indeed the flu is a good exemple (well save for the high mortality which was due to europe being post-war).
All it takes is WHO and the vaccine manufacturer to mis-predict which emerging new virus strains are likely to show up in that year's seasonal flu and produce a vaccine that's thus useless. And by random chance that missed strain being sufficiently different from anything else, so very few people happen to still have good antibodies laying around.
And as the flu isn't destructive, it won't immediately kill the first couple of patient and then stop spreading for lack of finding new victims within sneezing range. It will instead spread slowly, taking over the whole population. Once people start to get sick and overcrowding doctor's waiting rooms and hospitals, society will be slowed down at a crippling pace and won't work as nicely. (Who's gonna save you from your house burning down if all the firefighters are sick at home in their beds ?)
When someone says "Vaccines are safe,,," I find it fruitless to debate the issue on an Internet forum.
Sorry, I'm from medical professional background, I'm aware of the problems that anti-vaxers are causing to population health (herd immunity is what I'm talking about) and thus I tend to over-react.
But I invite you to do a little more digging. A book called Plague, by Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits PHD is a good place to start. And of course, there is so much more out there if you are willing to look.
Unlike publications in journals: - books don't undergo peer review - books don't have a mechanism for retraction (as long as it sells, it will get printed)
I'm not saying that this peculiar book is shit (haven't read it), I'm just saying that there's no way to easily know if any book in your hands contains known shit.
Books can bring attention to some not well enough considered problems, but problems needs to investigate using scientific methods.
The traditional sources (such as PubMed) may not show you the whole story. The medical research in this area has not always been controlled by the most ethical people, as Plague will spell out very plainly.
Yes, but did the articles get retracted following proof of result falsification or plain clumsiness b0rking the data analysis ? (as the famous "vaccine causes autism" article got). Did the missing conflict of interest got added where due ?
Did further attempts to replicate the result fail to reproduce them ? (One study's result is interesting, but replication is key point, other wise you might be facing a random fluke without knowing it).
What did meta-analysis determine is the general trend when reviewing all the published literature about a subject ? (That is the golden standard).
I'm not saying that science never makes mistake (it does). I'm saying that science has methods to eventually self correct mistakes.
That's why I'll rely more on what I read in scientific publication rather than in best-sellers.
To set the record straight, I am not anti vaccine. They can be a life saver.
Not only to you but to people around you who failed to develop immunity (the whole concept behind herd immunity).
But I am very much against the aggressive vaccine schedule today's children in the US endure. I am also against combination vaccines like DTAP, MMR, etc.
Keep in mind that your body is constantly exposed to a flux of new pathogens (viruses, bacteria, etc.) or of mutation in your body that needs to get eliminated (thing that would have had become cancer if your immune system didn't keep them in check). Even if you're not feeling sick, your body is constantly fighting aggressor, successfully (this success is the reason why you're not constantly sick despite the constant exposure). You only get sick once in a while when your body has managed to fight of the pathogens quickly enough. (Think of all the time you cut yourself in a non-sterile environment, say while preparing food, while working in your garage, etc. but didn't got an infection, only local redness)
Even against a single target (a single attacking pathogen, against a single vaccination) your body will produce multiple antibodies. You don't produce a single anti-body against disease X, you produce several different antibodies which will all target various parts (e.g.: different surface glyco-proteins) of the targets. You neighbor with the same vaccine might produce different anti-bodies (but which will also manage to stick on the same target, but maybe at other parts).
DTAP, MMR might sound scary to you, because it's *multiple target* in the same shot. - From the point of view of your body which is used to constantly fight of aggression, it's just business as usual. (Not much different from that other non-infected cut you got a few days ago while garden
Unlike publications in journals : - books don't undergo peer review - books don't have a mechanism for retraction
(i.e.: You could publish whatever shit you want, as long as it's not pure libel and/or xenophobic hate-incitement. As long as it sells, there will be a publisher ready to print, no matter how close the content of the book is to what is currently considered truth).
Books done by professional journalist are a good way to attract attention to some problem, but problems needs to investigate using scientific methods. i.e.: it's interesting if a journalist mention "that one study about {horrible thing} being caused by vaccines ! that THE BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY don't want you to hear about !"
But if no other studies has managed to replicate the same result, it's worth shit.
If a study turns out to have been done shodily (data manipulation) it can be retracted. Non-disclosed conflicts of interest can be added at a later point of view.
In the scientific world, you need replication, multiple studies (all done as peer-reviewed professional publication). (Because a fluke can always happen)
Then you need meta analysis : also peer-reviewed article that take the time to review all the various published studies up to there and look what's the most often found out come. You might found out that further studies mostly showed NO such {horrible thing} effect, there was one other result but it was due to the scientist having b0rked the data and got retracted, and only handful had actually the research receiving money from BIG PHARMA, the huge remaining part of studies are actually legit.
Science's final opinion : it's safe. End of story (or at least until new data comes out and is replicated and is meta-analyzed) Publisher's opinion : hey, the books sells ! keep the printing machine working !
It's a virus that constantly mutate, new strains coming up constantly (see overcrowded regions with livestock you mention). Pick a minor variant that isn't predicted by WHO and vaccine manufacturer to become spread, and isn't thus on the list of variants covered by the upcoming seasonal flu vaccine.
(e.g.: pick-up a minor variant that was quickly squashed and didn't get beyond a single farm, thanks to quick treatment of the farmer and quick killing of the sick livestock)
Cultivate that one, and secretely make your vaccine against that one. Vaccinate your troops with your secret vaccine, spread the "alternate-flu" on your adversaries.
Bonus point, as flu isn't extremely fatal, thus your enemy will have to divert resources away from war effort to take care of the over-flowing hostpitals.
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This has already been tried several times over the years and always with the same result: People discover that they don't like it being dark longer in the morning during the winter.
...which you can also compensate by changing working hours.
And several business have different opening hours during the seasons anyway (e.g.: due to reduced work force due to vacations in summer).
So giving summer-specific opening hours that also happen to take into account the variation of sun time isn't that far fetched.
(E.g.: public transport has different time tables at different time of the year, public services tend to have reduced opening hours due to lots of them going into vacations, hospitals emergencies work in shifts around the clock anyway, movie schedule change each week with new release, work-from-home and artists put their own work hours anyway, university research team tend to have the most WTF work hours specially for PhD students (except for that guy who has Eukaryotik cell cultures. He needs to feed them every 32 hours no matter how out of sync it gets with any rational work schedule), etc. Shops are about the only things which seem to open at a constant timetable.)
It used to make sense to shift clocks back in the industrial era when most of the activities were dictated by fixed time schedules and nearly everybody needed to be in sync (factory working ours).
Nowadays, in our mostly service-sector-based type of work, you need to check (e.g.: online on your smartphone) the opening hours and time schedule for probably around 7 out of 10 business. Supressing DST will simply make you check for the last remaining 3 too, instead of relying on fixed clock times.
Not being tracked? Really?
He explicitly said that Nothing he does will be uploaded !"
He never mentioned whether this uploading won't happen because there's no tracking happening at all,
or whether this uploading won't happen because these companies already track you to the bone on the cloud and thus there's no extra tracking information that needs to be uploaded.
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The Firestick is an almost dumb device that displays remotely served content. It doesn't track much locally and doesn't upload much... because the Amazon Streaming server already tracks and knows everything about you.
Amazon Alexa runs entirely on the cloud. The Amazon Echo device, is only a glorified internet streaming microphone+speaker combo. Beside recognizing a keyword ("Alexa !") it doesn't do much and is certainly unable to do tracking on its own ... because it's the giant AI behind Alexa on Amazon's cloud that knows everything about you up to your most secret desire.
Facebook on your computer is just basically HTML, just content. (I'm over simplifying)
All the horrible stuff that fills Mark Zuckerberg's pocket with cash happen on their servers. Be it the creepy stuff like face recognition image processing that they run on each single photo of you, even if you don't have a profile. Or the massive online behaviour monitoring : that "like" button might be a simple static image, but knowing *for which webpage* the FB servers were asked to serve it is the most interesting breadcrumbs path ever.
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in other words : Woosh
Watch World War II documentaries and you are a neo-Nazi. Watch Wentworth (Prisoner Cell Block H) and you were a closet lesbian. God help you if you watched both.
Let me guess, you'd be officially outed as *being* Ilsa, the Werewolf Woman of the SS ?
In a sound bite obsessed media culture and a lazy electorate
Please notice the TFA is about the EU.
Although we're undeniably on a downward slope on our side of the Atlantic too,
things haven't devolved to the kind of shit show that they're having in the US.
Yet.
Secondly, this would mean adding cables rated for 240V AC to devices that are supposed to supply 5V or maybe 12V DC. That's a waste of copper
Actually it doesn't work this way.
The voltage has no impact on the rating of the cable (well, at least within a reasonable limit, like voltage found at home. Of course at 10kV, the insulation could fail).
The *current* is the one that has an impact. (as the thermal loss is only proportional to the current (squared). That's why long distance current is transported at very high voltage : you could pass thus the same power using very little current and minimize your losses).
It's just happens that most house hold cable are rated for 10A (thus 2.5 kW), whereas most USB devices use 2A at most. (USB devices that need more than 10W usually rely on a protocole like USB-PD to politely ask a higher voltage - like 9V or 12V - while keeping the current low).
In theory you could go with a cheap tiny extension cord rated for only 0.1 A.
But then, either you need to use a non standard connection at the wall wart (which then makes complicated to obtain cable, and requires more custom cables, raising the price again) - (that's the solution used by several "exchangeable" tips for wall-warts)
Or you use a standard connector (like IEC 60320 C8 (figure 8) or C6 (mickey/cloverleaf) and risk that somebody plugs this cable into a laptop powerbrick that requires 2.5A and burns the cable - (most company then either opt for only "exchangeable tips" like Apple and older Ericsson, or actually pack a more expensive high rated cable that will work everywhere).
In Europe, the alternative is elongated wall warts that are the exact width as an Europlug and only rely on length for cooling and electronics size needs. (e.g.: some recent Apple, nearly everysingle 3rd party manufacturer like Hama, etc.)
These will always fit in any space designed for a standard plug without "plugspreading".
You mean the power supply where you can remove the mains connector to reveal that it connects via a IEC 60320 C7/'figure 8' socket,
...and instead of using a standard IEC 60320 C5/'cloverleaf or mickey' socket to carry the grounding, relies on a weird nail-like nearby protrusion.
allowing a short cable to be installed moving the 'wart' to the middle of the length like you want?
- So either you need to buy some (expensive, because there's an Apple Logo on it) cable that uses t he "IEC 60320 C7 + nail" Apple contraption.
- Or you need to get a cheap one from ebay/aliexpress, but risk discovering that under the plastic, the actual copper wire as so thin you couldn't even rate them for 0.1A, and the whole thing burst into flame whenever the laptop tries to pull 60W.
- Or you plug a 2 pronged-only (Live + Neutral, no ground) cable into the "IEC 60320 C7/'figure 8'" socket which should work (usually does), but would violate several safety codes.
Most people in Europe (due to connector madness*with German Shuko CEE 7/3 type F, French CEE 7/5 Type E, Italian Type L, Swiss SEV 1011 type J, British BS 1363 Type G, etc.) go for the last option and use Europlug type C (and fuck the fuse safety in UK and Malta).
You can improvise one out of Italian or Swiss plug by cutting a filing the ground pin.
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*: I'm over exagerating a bit. Nowadays, most electronics use CEE 7/7 which is compatible with nearly everything. Countries like Italy nowadays installs sockets (such as Italian CEI 23-50 P 40) that are compatible (here:: with both italian type L and european CEE 7/7).
These things even work in British wall socket if you decide to fuck both grounding and fuses (and help a bit with a screw driver).
Switzerland is the only country in Europe were this doesn't work directly.
(Is it 4 screens... It 4 people? Wink wink).
For the wink, wink to happen, you would neet at least 8 people in front of those 4 screens. ..and chill part of netflix activities usually requires a minimum of 2 bodies.
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If you're "securing communications" for people who then use it for child porn, you are opening yourself up to being accused of that no matter your alleged altruistic intentions.
Hey, you know, what else those evil child pornographer are using ?
Digital photocamera, SD cards, computers, internet, printers, paper.
They might even sometime wear clothes, and eat food !
Ban all of the above, because pedo-peddlers might by using it too !!!~~
The purpose of tools like Tor, GPG, OTR, Axolotl, etc. is to help guarantee privacy and secure communication. It might be abused by people with nefarious intention, but it also has tons of legitimate reasons (think find a away accroos the Chinese Great Firewall, think protecting from corporate espionage, think whistle blower who want to help journalist report on a scandal, etc.)
These are useful tools.
You shouldn't deprive people from their everyday usefulness, just because the tools might fall in the hands of some criminal.
They {...} will use all manner of "persuasion" up to and including "facilitating child pornography" just because you believe in communications that are both convenient and secure.
Fuck you, {...etc...} PEDOPHILE!
It might be some random coprolalia-affected troll, but in the current context of this thread, there might by some "wooshing" sound that got lost somewhere.
Post should get some "+1, Funny" love by mods, in my humble opinion.
It's at the "editorial decisions, which are protected by the first amendment" level that it gets more messy.
From that point of view, Facebook isn't a newspaper, it's a tabloid.
Whereas newspaper will at least try to throw some considerations about informing their readership, and about journalistic integrity (checking source, doing full analysis, etc.) in whatever mix of reasons (besides advertisement money) leads them to a certain editorial decision, tabloids will just print whatever crap (including fabricated crap) as long as it attracts buyers.
Facebook is the same. There are not even human reviewing the system and taking actual "editorial decisions" (in the classical meaning of this term). There are only machine learning algorithms and other neural nets which are simply learning whatever gets the most clicks and which ever content keeps people the longest on facebook (where Mark Zuckerberg can earn lots of money by selling their eyeballs to advertisers and their personal data to whoever pays the most).
Which eventually (due to how human psychology works *) leads to people being kept in small bubble, where they get constantly presented with whatever crackpot conspiracy theory** is the most popular in the corresponding echo-chamber.
So basically, mindless tabloids, except Facebook is driven entirely by statistics, guaranteed human-free.
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* : fear is the best drive for attention. It had some evolutionary advantage (an animal that runs away more easily is less likely to get eaten by a predator), but has the modern disadvantage that exaggerated fear-mongering is the best media strategy. See numerous studies about fear and violence on TV.
** : Which in turn can easily be abused by any (e.g.: russian, etc.) troll wanting to sow discord and infighting by throwing oil into the flame-war, and then profit from the resulting mayhem. See controversies surrounding the impact of facebook ion US' elections.
But it's the bit before that which really matters:
That why you don't try anything from within the compromised system.
Either you try all your effort from a known clean bootdisk (CD, USB stick, etc),
or even better, you disconnect the drive and connect it to a known clean machine.
A non compromised OS will not lie about what is on the disk of another system, even if that other (non-currently running system) happens to be compromised.
(The sole exception being malware like ransomware that encrypt your data. Then nobody except the hacker holding the decryption key can read that disk).
Reinstall from original installation media and pray to god that your system's onboard firmware is not compromised.
Well, the attack of firmware (UEFI) or "management chips" running their own firmware (Intel ME engine and co) is indeed an entirely different level of scary.
And given the almost total disappearance of socketed flashchips to hold these firmwares, any chance to recover from that becomes bleak.
A quick check on amazon.co.uk shows that I can get from Amazon themselves 512GB SD cards from SanDisk, Kingston and PNY.
A more thorough check would have made you notice that none of these (nor Samsung) does feature ECC recovery on their *consumer* cards.
If you read the fine print, it's even worse. Even the "endurance" and "action cam" range of consumer product aren't actually recommended for continuous writing (you voided your warranty by putting into a continuously writing device a card that was exactly marketed for that ?!?)
You would need to go to the (much more expensive) *industrial* range of card to actually find ECC and cards that are recommended for continuous writing.
Transcend is currently the only brand I know of that actually provides ECC (and static wear-leveling) even on their *consumer* product range.
These spec have an important impact if you want to use these cards for hosting an OS on a single-board computer (Raspberry Pi), using more intensively the card on your smartphone (not only for "cold" media like old photos), use it on continuously writing devices like dashcam/actioncams/dronecams, as extra storage on a ultra-notebook, etc.
I've got a magic magnetick-repellant sticker that you can put on your phone, it will both keep the card confusion away and protect you from the evil mind-controlling microwaves. PM me and I'll send my new e-bay coordinates.
I can also get you incredible rebates on Monster Cables.
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Seriously, for people being actually victim of the scam about which the above poster jokes : use F3Tools to detect and file a complain and ask a refund with the online shop (ali express, ebay, etc.)
The market is full of 512gb memory cards right now, how far away do you think 2TB is?
From whom ?
From asian noname companies on ebay and aliexpress, that sell you a card that will fail horrifically after a couple of weeks of use (or doesn't even actually contain the advertised amount of flash and will corrupt its own data).
From reputable brands that feature all type of wear levelling including passive, uses ECC to recover from corruption, etc ?
Some of the most reputable brands haven't even moved to the 512 GB bandwagon yet.
As density increase (and thus feature size miniaturizes) and as technology moves from SLC -> MLC -> TLC -> etc... data gets less stable and more care should be spent making sure against corruption.
B-b-b-b-but host files!
APK doesn't exist anymore, he was replaced by a swarm of machine learning bots which were trained on his insane rambling (see title !) and are currently imitating => him, troll posting in bold, calling each other ne'er-do-wells with fake names and complaining at each other for the impersonation.
The real APK died some years ago while trying to install his h o s t f i l e e n g i n e on his brainstem pacemaker, because he was persuaded that it was a better defence against his disease than actual medicine.
There's an efficient mod system on /. spam will rather quickly down voted to -1.
If you don't like the spam, browse at some higher level like 1 or 2 (and keep -1 and 0 hidden). /. , but wait a bit for the mod storm to settle down.
If you're afraid of your eyes getting hurt by some spam, don't jump straight into a new article on the second it's published on
I personally find it absolutely remarkable that /. close to never deletes post. (the Scientology post being the first ever deletion). /.ers, but never deletes content, every voice could be heard if you decide to browse at level -1 or click on "show hidden comments".
There's no actual censorship, only moderation. That bring some content more forward than other, depending on the current zeitgeist anong
It's remarkable and should it kept this way.
Just ignore the troll you don't like. And don't feed them.
Also APK doesn't exist anymore, he was replaced by a swarm of machine learning bots which was trained on his insane rambling and are currently imitating him, troll posting, calling each other ne'er-do-wells with fake names and complaining at each other for the impersonation.
you claim socialized medicine somehow prevents opiod addiction from prescription meds.
So go ahead, pretend this is an American only issue.
I think you might have missed the conditionals I've been using :
Noticed ?
I don't claim that socialized medicine is magic wand that you can wave away prescription meds addiction.
I claim that is possible that maybe, by making medicine more affordable, some potential addicts will get their problem better treated, and this could help avoid these to try instead some botched forms of self-medication that turns into addictions.
i.e.: some of the addict are actually patients that started with chronic pain problems, but couldn't afford to have them correctly handled by a professional. And by correctly, I mean considereing *All the options* to manage pain (see randomly quickly googled ref, still corresponds to the complexity I've learned in my studies). The problems is that all of these solution cost time and money.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43304375
From the exact same source (BBC) : :
- Why opioids are such an American problem. In addition to the title
and if you look about it, several of the listed problems boil down to "not enough resource in health care" (Pill being better re-imbursed than physiotherapy, US doctors earningn more money from kickbacks than salary, no ressource spent in proper pain-management training, etc.) though some are entirely cultural (population brainwashed by ads into "asking for {brand name} pill", unrealistic age-related expectations, online rating of doctors, ...)
- 'Growing problem' of addiction to prescription drugs probed says :
. (i.e.: BBC and PHE thinks that though UK has a problem, it isn't as bad as US).
You radiate IR for some very good reason.
Yup, you're losing thermal energy.
For years, "thermal camo" has basically boiled down to "a layer of very well insulating clothes" (and face paint, and gloves).
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot.
You would need to undress a bit, which might not be practical in every situation.
If you are wearing a suit of this stuff I imagine you won't be wearing it a long time.
The whole point of this tech is that it's switchable between isolating and radiating mode.
At a single button you can basically transform it from a wool sweater to sport T-shirt and back, without need to remove any layer of clothes (unlike classical thermo camo).
You only turn it on where thermal camouflaging is necessary, instead of wearing an isolating layer for the whole time.
The novelty is that this camouflage is switchable. It can be turned on and off.
Otherwise, IR camouflage has been use for quite a long time in the military. (Basically, in an over simplified manner, it boils down to very well insulating clothes). In most country, most of the "green" stuff military wear is well isolated and doesn't radiate much heat.
Even the emergency bandage comes with an extra IR-isolating (also painted green) over-laying band that can mask part of the IR radiation that the underlying wound and bloodied wound derssing could be giving of.
But all this is static (basically, well isolating cloths).
TFA's camo is switchable (between isolation and transmission).
Might have also some non-strategic application (sport clothes to adapt to external temperature ?)
Tramadol is like Ibuprofen++. {...} and used by people that are in actual pain
The only thing in common between tramadol and ibuprofen is that they both releive pain and that's about it.
Ibuporofen is a type of non-steroid anti inflammation drug (NSAID). Basically it's "aspirin++" with its own set of set-backs and advantages (it's hard on the stomach. Can also affect the kidneys)
Tramadol is an opioid, it work on the same pain receptors as morphine and heroin, and has a different set of drawbacks that it share with these substance (risk of addiction. Causes often constipation and can cause urinary globe).
- Because it's addictive, it's much more difficult to obtain a prescription. Some people in actual pain might resort to illegal channel to obtain what they need (whil avoiding a high doctor fee, eg.)
- Because it's addictive, if it's not managed correctly, it can lead to addiction, and some people need to constantly get doses to avoid pain (either the people who got it from above, or people who didn't manage it correctly while prescribed by a doctor). They'll use illegal channel to keep fueling their addiction.
- It's an opioid. Somebody is bound to find some dubious way to use it recreatively. They'll also use illegal channels to obtain it.
The same kind of thinking can be also applied to the other drugs. Xanax contains alprazolam, a type of benzodiazepine - a class of drugs that is used as tranquilizers (against stress, to help sleep, etc.) which is also highly addictive.
Overall, these aren't illegal drugs. They are perfectly normal pharmaceutical component, only very strictly regulated ones.
To me, it looks like a sizeable chunk of the illegal drug market that US gov agencies are fighting isn't only druggies that want to get high (LSD, shrooms, etc.) but also people with medical condition that weren't managed properly and slowly devolved into an addiction.
If the other side of the Atlantic pond didn't have such a joke of a healthcare and social welfare system, maybe lots of these addict would have been able to afford going to the doctor, would have had better managed problem and wouldn't be resorting to illegal channel and fueling the drug market.
Yes, I know, we "evil-euro-communist"...
You should try direct democracy if you're fed-up with the people in power constantly tyring to screw you.
It might help when you the people ARE those in power.
but rather just the natural terrors that have arisen from places like The Congo and how the world is horribly unprepared for a repeat of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.
Indeed the flu is a good exemple (well save for the high mortality which was due to europe being post-war).
All it takes is WHO and the vaccine manufacturer to mis-predict which emerging new virus strains are likely to show up in that year's seasonal flu and produce a vaccine that's thus useless.
And by random chance that missed strain being sufficiently different from anything else, so very few people happen to still have good antibodies laying around.
And as the flu isn't destructive, it won't immediately kill the first couple of patient and then stop spreading for lack of finding new victims within sneezing range.
It will instead spread slowly, taking over the whole population.
Once people start to get sick and overcrowding doctor's waiting rooms and hospitals, society will be slowed down at a crippling pace and won't work as nicely.
(Who's gonna save you from your house burning down if all the firefighters are sick at home in their beds ?)
When someone says "Vaccines are safe,,," I find it fruitless to debate the issue on an Internet forum.
Sorry, I'm from medical professional background, I'm aware of the problems that anti-vaxers are causing to population health (herd immunity is what I'm talking about) and thus I tend to over-react.
But I invite you to do a little more digging. A book called Plague, by Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits PHD is a good place to start.
And of course, there is so much more out there if you are willing to look.
Unlike publications in journals :
- books don't undergo peer review
- books don't have a mechanism for retraction
(as long as it sells, it will get printed)
I'm not saying that this peculiar book is shit (haven't read it), I'm just saying that there's no way to easily know if any book in your hands contains known shit.
Books can bring attention to some not well enough considered problems, but problems needs to investigate using scientific methods.
The traditional sources (such as PubMed) may not show you the whole story. The medical research in this area has not always been controlled by the most ethical people, as Plague will spell out very plainly.
Yes, but did the articles get retracted following proof of result falsification or plain clumsiness b0rking the data analysis ? (as the famous "vaccine causes autism" article got).
Did the missing conflict of interest got added where due ?
Did further attempts to replicate the result fail to reproduce them ? (One study's result is interesting, but replication is key point, other wise you might be facing a random fluke without knowing it).
What did meta-analysis determine is the general trend when reviewing all the published literature about a subject ? (That is the golden standard).
I'm not saying that science never makes mistake (it does).
I'm saying that science has methods to eventually self correct mistakes.
That's why I'll rely more on what I read in scientific publication rather than in best-sellers.
To set the record straight, I am not anti vaccine. They can be a life saver.
Not only to you but to people around you who failed to develop immunity (the whole concept behind herd immunity).
But I am very much against the aggressive vaccine schedule today's children in the US endure. I am also against combination vaccines like DTAP, MMR, etc.
Keep in mind that your body is constantly exposed to a flux of new pathogens (viruses, bacteria, etc.) or of mutation in your body that needs to get eliminated (thing that would have had become cancer if your immune system didn't keep them in check).
Even if you're not feeling sick, your body is constantly fighting aggressor, successfully (this success is the reason why you're not constantly sick despite the constant exposure).
You only get sick once in a while when your body has managed to fight of the pathogens quickly enough.
(Think of all the time you cut yourself in a non-sterile environment, say while preparing food, while working in your garage, etc. but didn't got an infection, only local redness)
Even against a single target (a single attacking pathogen, against a single vaccination) your body will produce multiple antibodies. You don't produce a single anti-body against disease X, you produce several different antibodies which will all target various parts (e.g.: different surface glyco-proteins) of the targets. You neighbor with the same vaccine might produce different anti-bodies (but which will also manage to stick on the same target, but maybe at other parts).
DTAP, MMR might sound scary to you, because it's *multiple target* in the same shot.
- From the point of view of your body which is used to constantly fight of aggression, it's just business as usual. (Not much different from that other non-infected cut you got a few days ago while garden
Unlike publications in journals :
- books don't undergo peer review
- books don't have a mechanism for retraction
(i.e.: You could publish whatever shit you want, as long as it's not pure libel and/or xenophobic hate-incitement.
As long as it sells, there will be a publisher ready to print, no matter how close the content of the book is to what is currently considered truth).
Books done by professional journalist are a good way to attract attention to some problem, but problems needs to investigate using scientific methods.
i.e.: it's interesting if a journalist mention "that one study about {horrible thing} being caused by vaccines ! that THE BIG PHARMA INDUSTRY don't want you to hear about !"
But if no other studies has managed to replicate the same result, it's worth shit.
If a study turns out to have been done shodily (data manipulation) it can be retracted.
Non-disclosed conflicts of interest can be added at a later point of view.
In the scientific world, you need replication, multiple studies (all done as peer-reviewed professional publication).
(Because a fluke can always happen)
Then you need meta analysis : also peer-reviewed article that take the time to review all the various published studies up to there and look what's the most often found out come.
You might found out that further studies mostly showed NO such {horrible thing} effect, there was one other result but it was due to the scientist having b0rked the data and got retracted, and only handful had actually the research receiving money from BIG PHARMA, the huge remaining part of studies are actually legit.
Science's final opinion : it's safe. End of story (or at least until new data comes out and is replicated and is meta-analyzed)
Publisher's opinion : hey, the books sells ! keep the printing machine working !
Actually, flu is indeed the best bio-weapon.
It's a virus that constantly mutate, new strains coming up constantly (see overcrowded regions with livestock you mention).
Pick a minor variant that isn't predicted by WHO and vaccine manufacturer to become spread, and isn't thus on the list of variants covered by the upcoming seasonal flu vaccine.
(e.g.: pick-up a minor variant that was quickly squashed and didn't get beyond a single farm, thanks to quick treatment of the farmer and quick killing of the sick livestock)
Cultivate that one, and secretely make your vaccine against that one. Vaccinate your troops with your secret vaccine, spread the "alternate-flu" on your adversaries.
Bonus point, as flu isn't extremely fatal, thus your enemy will have to divert resources away from war effort to take care of the over-flowing hostpitals.