I hope retail lasts a while. Not because I particularly like shopping in person, but because online shopping is creepy from a privacy perspective. You have to use electronic payment and tie purchases to your identity and address. Meaning that the profile that retailers, marketeers, governments, and health insurers have on you gets even bigger.
Even if you have nothing to hide, assuming price restrictions and community rating on health insurance are repealed, how long before health insurers start billing you based on the food, drinks, and snacks you buy? The data will be out there and available to everyone who can buy it -- US has weak data-protection laws.
Fortunately, I'm moving to a part of my city that has a strong cash economy (due to immigrant population), so retail won't die there for another 30+ years...
A cheap Android phone bought on EBay. Have exactly NO data on it, but lock it with a long password. If they try to bully you into giving up the password, let the fucking pigs confiscate it.
Why? For $10 or $20, you can waste a lot of their time -- let them crack the encryption to yield exactly zilch. The best way to fight Trumpian authoritarianism is to gum up the system and overload the pigs who are "just doing their jobs" with unnecessary, wasteful work.
To be clear, it does also support Sharepoint, which some larger businesses have, so using the cloud is not mandatory. But not supporting local file storage might be OK on an iOS device where the file system is hidden from the user, but not on Android which has decent support for local and SD card storage.
Smacks of Microsoft wanting to own all of their users' data. I'll stick with Kingsoft Office or OpenOffice for Android, thanks very much. I really don't want to upload all of my private data to the Great Fluffy Mothership in Redmond, nor do I intend to pay for a license to run a Sharepoint server.
Shows how blind Microsoft is. Unlike iOS devices, Android comes with decent support for local file storage out of the box. Apparently, Mobile Office only currently supports opening files on SkyDrive/OneDrive. No support for local storage, so that email attachment that you downloaded with the native Android email client won't be readable unless you upload it to the mothership in Redmond first. Same goes with files created with other Android apps.
Nor does it have support for Dropbox, Box.net, or other cloud services that people use for business file sharing.
If you're running fiber to the premises (as basically all decently fast and non-latent Internet access entails), then it's trivial to include POTS functionality in the endpoint terminal at the home of business. Carriers should be required to maintain the POTS network until they come up with a better, non-wireless solution to replace it.
I think that, in general, the network will be maintained IN MOST areas for at least another 10-20 years. Too much legacy equipment that's dependent on it right now. Even in Verizon areas damaged by Sandy (Fire Island), Verizon is changing their mind about providing shitty wireless service only and will be providing FiOS service.
Yes, I care where they are, and they'd damn well better be stored locally in addition to online. Or not on the "cloud" at all if they're something which I care about the privacy of at all.
That's the difference between my PC (Macbook that also runs Windows) and my iPhone.
You're lucky -- I've have the displeasure of seeing several VERY infected Vista and Win 7 boxes. (Basically, the choice was to remove the HDD and use a clean computer running malware removal software to clean it, or to re-install entirely.)
(1) Split an account with your friends or office
(2) 20 free articles -- there's got to be a way to spoof that. Deleting cookies + changing IP #'s would probably do that.
(3) Fake referrers from search engines or Facebook, though they may have ways of verifying
Also, why doesn't NYT also have a daily option like their dead-tree version? You should be able to buy a copy, download the whole thing to your laptop or tablet, and be able to read it on the plane without being forced to pay for a 4-week period!
Fuck mandating self-driving cars - I like driving and riding motos. Fortunately, I live in NYC, so I don't have to commute by car so driving hasn't become a chore.
As far as bans having no effect, we've banned many things and people still do them. Perhaps the kind of people who NEED to use their cell phones right now as opposed to glancing at a text or picking up an occasional call will ignore the ban. The casual users who'll follow the ban paid less attention to the phone and more to driving before the ban.
-b.
That is an amazingly homophobic comment. Its offensive on so many other levels too.
Cheers +1. Yep, not only on that level. What if you love a woman who isn't able to have children? If you want to stay monogamous and not pay a surrogate, should you get a divorce just because she can't get pregnant?!? GP should get a life.
The fire and most casualties were from the combustion of the diesel fuel and other combustible materials in the structure, not from the hydrogen itself.
I thought most of the casualties were from people jumping -- the people who stayed with the wreckage as it settled to the ground were mostly ok.
Furthermore, if you can't find a suitable medium (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo, etc etc) other than alt.* for whatever group you wish to create, then chances are the group's intentions are illegal, since every legal cause for discussion is well supported with facilities tailored to every type of group.
Facebook, MySpace, LiveUrinal, etc aren't peer-to-peer media -- they're owned by someone with their own agenda. So, legal or not, speech on them isn't free. By your agenda, I can't have friends over my apartment for a party because I can find a "suitable" public venue for the party like a club or bar. After all, if the party is happening at my place, what we talk about there can't be "moderated", whereas in public it can.
Another question for you: just because people could theoretically exchange packages of kiddie porn on the street, should we ban walking on the street?
Gimme a break and think about what you say before you post, please.
Ironically, when the Hindenburg (which was among a tiny minority of airships that actually crashed) wrecked, a scant few people were killed, a couple injured, and the rest survived. When an airliner crashes... well, survival chances are... not quite as good.
This was a crash upon landing -- i.e. the airship caught fire at an altitude of about 100 ft when approaching its docking tower. Your chances of surviving an airliner wreck from 35,000 feet are quite small -- your chances of surviving a crash or fire upon a (somewhat controlled) landing are much greater.
It could use hydrogen gasbags within an envelope filled with pure nitrogen to prevent mixing with air and combustion. Technology has come a long way since the Hindenburg, and hydrogen airships could be made safe. (BTW, some theories state that the Hindenburg accident wasn't caused directly by the hydrogen gas but by the fact that the ship was painted with a flammable aluminium-based paint).
Isn't the US Border Patrol wanting to use airships for a cheap surveillance platform. In which case, I HOPE this thing crashes and burns, so it destroys the reputation of airships for the next 100 years or so:)
Control does need to be exerted over the content of these groups, but outright censorship is not the way. I'd support an outright lack of service until the legitimate groups can be separated from the ones hosting illegal content in each jurisdiction.
Find the people creating the illegal content and shut them down. They're the ones who are *actually* physically harming the children, and if Usenet is shut down, those sick people will continue to do so and just post their products in another venue.
Funny you should complain on one of the most progressively and thoroughly moderated forums. Try moderating alt.* to get rid of the pedophiles.
Don't moderate it -- look for pedophiles attempting to abuse children. If they're raping children, feel free to pass a law to execute or neuter them if convicted. Porn? It's not nice, but pictures in and of themselves, as opposed to actions of the truly dangerous types should be very low on the list of priorities. (If anything, go after the creators, not the users.)
It might be worthwhile to do that if you're going to another carrier. But AT&T's standard unlimited data plan is $40/mo. The regular iPhone's is cheaper.
Nope. The old iPhones got the equivalent data plan to the smartphone plan, not the $40/mo Blackberry/handheld plan. The only difference between the two is that the $20/mo iPhone/smartphone plan doesn't give the phone a public routed IP no.
May it's just me but instead of killing the astronauts why don't they just disconnect the shuttle from the rocket boosters
Unlikely to be survivable, IMHO. The boosters can't be just switched off without blowing them up, and if they're "disconnected", they'll more likely than not veer into the Shuttle and kill the crew anyway. Worth a try, probably, but it's unlikely to affect the final outcome, unfortunately. Having said this, using solid rockets to launch humans is stupid. Go with solid-liquid rockets, or oxygen-hydrogen all the way. Solids are fine for missiles and unmanned payloads, but sitting humans on top of a giant firework that can't be throttled or turned off is not quite...
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Wrong logic -- if India were cleaner and safer, maybe its residents wouldn't be seeking as many opportunities abroad.
I hope retail lasts a while. Not because I particularly like shopping in person, but because online shopping is creepy from a privacy perspective. You have to use electronic payment and tie purchases to your identity and address. Meaning that the profile that retailers, marketeers, governments, and health insurers have on you gets even bigger.
Even if you have nothing to hide, assuming price restrictions and community rating on health insurance are repealed, how long before health insurers start billing you based on the food, drinks, and snacks you buy? The data will be out there and available to everyone who can buy it -- US has weak data-protection laws.
Fortunately, I'm moving to a part of my city that has a strong cash economy (due to immigrant population), so retail won't die there for another 30+ years...
A cheap Android phone bought on EBay. Have exactly NO data on it, but lock it with a long password. If they try to bully you into giving up the password, let the fucking pigs confiscate it.
Why? For $10 or $20, you can waste a lot of their time -- let them crack the encryption to yield exactly zilch. The best way to fight Trumpian authoritarianism is to gum up the system and overload the pigs who are "just doing their jobs" with unnecessary, wasteful work.
To be clear, it does also support Sharepoint, which some larger businesses have, so using the cloud is not mandatory. But not supporting local file storage might be OK on an iOS device where the file system is hidden from the user, but not on Android which has decent support for local and SD card storage.
Smacks of Microsoft wanting to own all of their users' data. I'll stick with Kingsoft Office or OpenOffice for Android, thanks very much. I really don't want to upload all of my private data to the Great Fluffy Mothership in Redmond, nor do I intend to pay for a license to run a Sharepoint server.
Shows how blind Microsoft is. Unlike iOS devices, Android comes with decent support for local file storage out of the box. Apparently, Mobile Office only currently supports opening files on SkyDrive/OneDrive. No support for local storage, so that email attachment that you downloaded with the native Android email client won't be readable unless you upload it to the mothership in Redmond first. Same goes with files created with other Android apps.
Nor does it have support for Dropbox, Box.net, or other cloud services that people use for business file sharing.
If you're running fiber to the premises (as basically all decently fast and non-latent Internet access entails), then it's trivial to include POTS functionality in the endpoint terminal at the home of business. Carriers should be required to maintain the POTS network until they come up with a better, non-wireless solution to replace it. I think that, in general, the network will be maintained IN MOST areas for at least another 10-20 years. Too much legacy equipment that's dependent on it right now. Even in Verizon areas damaged by Sandy (Fire Island), Verizon is changing their mind about providing shitty wireless service only and will be providing FiOS service.
Yes, I care where they are, and they'd damn well better be stored locally in addition to online. Or not on the "cloud" at all if they're something which I care about the privacy of at all. That's the difference between my PC (Macbook that also runs Windows) and my iPhone.
You're lucky -- I've have the displeasure of seeing several VERY infected Vista and Win 7 boxes. (Basically, the choice was to remove the HDD and use a clean computer running malware removal software to clean it, or to re-install entirely.)
I.T. is a means of solving problems, it's not a religion. If it works well for the purpose, no need to upgrade. If it doesn't, then move on.
Betcha that a lot of reactors are still running Windows 2K or NT servers. OS upgrades tend to move very slowly in isolated automation/SCADA systems.
(1) Split an account with your friends or office (2) 20 free articles -- there's got to be a way to spoof that. Deleting cookies + changing IP #'s would probably do that. (3) Fake referrers from search engines or Facebook, though they may have ways of verifying Also, why doesn't NYT also have a daily option like their dead-tree version? You should be able to buy a copy, download the whole thing to your laptop or tablet, and be able to read it on the plane without being forced to pay for a 4-week period!
How long before someone nails the server hosting the banner, leaving Homeland Security with a fat bill for bandwidth?
Fuck mandating self-driving cars - I like driving and riding motos. Fortunately, I live in NYC, so I don't have to commute by car so driving hasn't become a chore. As far as bans having no effect, we've banned many things and people still do them. Perhaps the kind of people who NEED to use their cell phones right now as opposed to glancing at a text or picking up an occasional call will ignore the ban. The casual users who'll follow the ban paid less attention to the phone and more to driving before the ban. -b.
Cheers +1. Yep, not only on that level. What if you love a woman who isn't able to have children? If you want to stay monogamous and not pay a surrogate, should you get a divorce just because she can't get pregnant?!? GP should get a life.
-b.
I thought most of the casualties were from people jumping -- the people who stayed with the wreckage as it settled to the ground were mostly ok.
-b.
Facebook, MySpace, LiveUrinal, etc aren't peer-to-peer media -- they're owned by someone with their own agenda. So, legal or not, speech on them isn't free. By your agenda, I can't have friends over my apartment for a party because I can find a "suitable" public venue for the party like a club or bar. After all, if the party is happening at my place, what we talk about there can't be "moderated", whereas in public it can.
Another question for you: just because people could theoretically exchange packages of kiddie porn on the street, should we ban walking on the street?
Gimme a break and think about what you say before you post, please.
This was a crash upon landing -- i.e. the airship caught fire at an altitude of about 100 ft when approaching its docking tower. Your chances of surviving an airliner wreck from 35,000 feet are quite small -- your chances of surviving a crash or fire upon a (somewhat controlled) landing are much greater.
-b.
-b.
Isn't the US Border Patrol wanting to use airships for a cheap surveillance platform. In which case, I HOPE this thing crashes and burns, so it destroys the reputation of airships for the next 100 years or so :)
alt.andrew.cuomo.fucks.a.pig
Find the people creating the illegal content and shut them down. They're the ones who are *actually* physically harming the children, and if Usenet is shut down, those sick people will continue to do so and just post their products in another venue.
-b.
Don't moderate it -- look for pedophiles attempting to abuse children. If they're raping children, feel free to pass a law to execute or neuter them if convicted. Porn? It's not nice, but pictures in and of themselves, as opposed to actions of the truly dangerous types should be very low on the list of priorities. (If anything, go after the creators, not the users.)
-b.
Nope. The old iPhones got the equivalent data plan to the smartphone plan, not the $40/mo Blackberry/handheld plan. The only difference between the two is that the $20/mo iPhone/smartphone plan doesn't give the phone a public routed IP no.
-b.
Unlikely to be survivable, IMHO. The boosters can't be just switched off without blowing them up, and if they're "disconnected", they'll more likely than not veer into the Shuttle and kill the crew anyway. Worth a try, probably, but it's unlikely to affect the final outcome, unfortunately. Having said this, using solid rockets to launch humans is stupid. Go with solid-liquid rockets, or oxygen-hydrogen all the way. Solids are fine for missiles and unmanned payloads, but sitting humans on top of a giant firework that can't be throttled or turned off is not quite ...
-b.
Supposedly, the arming codes for US nukes were set to 00000000 for a long time...