Look, this phone isn't locked into shit. It's rootable. And from what I have read, you aren't even required a carrier or a plan when you buy it. I'm personally very tempted as I have a crappy dumb phone and honestly, this is a steal. But I'm a poor person and $50 is a lot of money. But I have no idea why the fuck most of you are bitching about being locked into Amazon when that isn't even true. Slashdot used to be about people who knew shit and understood that pretty much every cellphone released today is rootable. But I guess either all the old peeps are senile or their kids use their accounts now.
tl;dr shit is rootable, you aren't locked into anything.
Truth is, Freedom of Speech is dead. We have news organizations that purposely change the message of new stories to fit their agenda. We have big internet companies pushing their political agenda via their services. We have the government watching everyone, under the guise of "our security and safety".
Everything you say is watched, everything you post is noted. If it doesn't fit the agenda of who's in charge, it will be deleted, shadowbanned or you'll get a visit from the authorities, or just as bad, a DMCA/Court order.
America was a nice place to live. Soon it might not be.
For example, the lawsuits from people who are suing because a mail deliver drone went out of control and crashed thru a huge window, or hit their 3 year old kid. What is the cost to find the drones that malfunction and crash in places that are hard to get to. They will need to recover the mail so it can still be delivered.
Sounds like a great idea, but honestly, doesn't seem like it's going to work as well as they want it to.
I have a dumb phone. Not because I don't like smartphones, only because I'm too poor to afford one. But my dumb phone doesn't have an ear phone jack either. And I had this samsung phone about 5 years ago, it didn't have a headphone jack either, had a dongle i'd have to plug into it's usb port.
So while you peeps with your fancy smartphone and iPhones are complaining, this isn't new at all.
I find it funny how when the FBI and the other letters always think that our losing our rights will stop future crimes. It won't. Because when something happens under their watch, they will just say once again, well, if we can access X without a warrant, we can keep this stuff from happening. Yet bad shit still happens anyways.
You want to stop terrorists? How about we stop making them and stop supplying them with weapons, stop giving them money for oil. Stop killing their family and friends with drones. How about we, the USA be the bigger fucking person and apologize for how we have treated the Middle East for that last 70 years. How about we stop fucking giving Saudi Arabia weapons and money.
And seriously, I'm not against guns at all, but we need smarter laws on purchasing them.
This is why there are trusted uploaders on torrent sites. These uploaders generally are trusted, as they have uploaded 1000's of files with no problems. But hey, I understand what is old is new again when you got youngsters just getting into the field.
We do not have a photo realistic 3D simulation that millions of people play at the same time. That would be nice, but we aren't even fucking close. We do have lot of great looking 3D simulations that people play in groups or by themselves. Maybe a few hundred on a server at a time, but that's it. We can't even get 1k people on the same server at the same time to have a serious deathmatch in any FPS. Shit, even WoW can't put that many people on a server at a time, and their graphics are cartoonish.
So Elon, you might know some things, but the current state of video games? You don't. And thinking it's the strongest reason for why we are living in a computer simulation only shows how much you don't know. I don't know shit, but come on dude.
Well, I think he's right. And he's actually one of those people with enough experience to say this, since programming doesn't require pesky interaction with the real world like, say, automated cars do, humans obviously suck at programming big time, and Gates is one of those people who have seen thousands of people suck big time at programming over multiple decades. So your argument actually supports him. Maybe that's the whole reason why he's so optimistic about making people redundant in the first place!
I think Bill Gates is a prick and his opinion on anything doesn't mean shit. It's okay with him if AI's take over peoples jobs, he doesn't have to worry about feeding his family when he can't get a job because AI's/robots are doing all the jobs you can get.
AI is a tool, just like a spreadsheet program. AI's by themselves aren't really the problem, who owns them and programs them are the problem. Corporations, whom some have shown a total greedy need for profit, even if it means breaking the law, will most likely be one of the major players in the AI industry. Governments are going to be another major player. History and news reports shows you how trustful governments are.
AI isn't going to be bad in itself, but it's owners, well, ya, we are fucked.
at educating people on this topic, before giving up and letting people wallow in their own ignorance.
A dedicated OC3 costs about $7500/mo. 155 Mbps, 149 Mbps after you subtract overhead. That's what you need if you want 149 Mbps without any data caps. (Yes an OC3 is symmetric. Cable can be too, they just dedicate more bandwidth to downloads since people mostly download stuff. It is not an inherent limitation of the technology which makes it "different" from an OC3.)
How then are Comcast, AT&T, etc. able to offer you 50 Mbps for just $50/mo? By doing the equivalent of putting 150 customers on an OC3. $7500/mo / 150 customers = $50/mo per customer.
But this only works if none of those 150 people hogs up all the bandwidth. If one person has torrents running at 149 Mbps for the entire month, everyone else's Internet bandwidth is going to be seriously degraded. So how do you prevent someone from hogging up that much bandwidth? You implement a monthly data cap. 149 Mbps * 1 month = 49 TB. And 49 TB / 150 customers = 326 GB per customer. So if each of those 150 people used the same amount of bandwidth, you'd expect them each to use 326 GB per month.
Not everyone uses that much though, so you can make the cap a bit higher without everything falling apart. That right there is why most ISPs are setting their caps around 300-700 GB/mo. 1 TB/mo is actually pretty generous. And being able to remove the cap for an extra $50/mo ($30/mo for AT&T) is an incredibly good deal. $100/mo is a helluva lot better than the $2500/mo you'd have to pay for a partial OC3 giving you 50 Mbps.
Yet profit reports show that it's almost 99% profit on internet usage for the various Internet providers. So let me guess, you work for CentuaryLink or Comcast?
WTF? Seattle has multiple 1Gbps providers (3 I know of). Comcast, Wave, CenturyLink. Even if your claim of 1.5Mbps max were true, that is PLENTY to stream Netflix. Troll.
Yes they do. IF you are lucky enough to live in the very, very small areas where they offer it. For example, I'm on the edge of Capital Hill, the Downtown/South Lake Union edge. Can I get 1Gbps (you know bits are 8 less then bytes, right? so your Giga plan isn't actually a really GigaByte.) where I live? Fuck no. Comcast or CentuaryLink regular service only.
So it's nice you live in the 2 square block area where those services is offered, but 99% of Seattle doesn't.
I guess it's a slow Monday for good news stories. Because in all my years of being on slashdot, no one has ever gave a fuck about seeing stories about games that are being released for the consoles & PC. This shit isn't new, or even news.
80% of people who apply for programming courses at Universities fail in the first two semesters. Of the remaining 20%, over half of them can't create a proper mental model of what is going on and only get by with luck and determinism. Only 10% of people who even apply are useful, and those skills are power-curve distributed.
The real question should be, how long till we get decent enough A.I. to start writing code instead of humans? 10 years? 15 years? Less?
Soon humans won't be programming because it will done faster, cheaper & better by computers.
I live in Seattle, have Comcast and their Xfinity App streams the channels like shit. Some shows I would be unable to watch because it would keep dying out. And this is using a decent Comcast internet connection. Going thru the web was usually a bit better, but not much.
All in all, and a Comcast customer, I would not recommend using the Xfinity app, i would recommend using usenet service or torrent sites if you want to watch quality versions of the show.
Someone remind me what the word is when you purposely inaccurately describe something, because it will make your product sound more appealing than the accurate description will? I forget these days.
I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.
And where will it end? ID to buy box-cutters to close the box-cutter loophole? ID to buy nails because they're used in nail bombs? ID to buy pressure cookers?
No shit, most cities have a large portion of drug addicts that would have no problem buying cell phones using their ID's. Easier then shoplifting or panhandling for their drugs.
Hillary "Vote for me because I have a vagina" Clinton, or Bernie "Let's raise taxes and give everyone Totally Free Stuff*" Sanders?
Not that I think the R's are any better. I just don't see any good choice available.
Look Hillary, you and I both know this "raise the taxes" is bullshit. Yes, we will pay a slightly higher tax under Bernie, but we will NOT have to pay for healthcare, and that makes it so even with a higher tax, we are paying less a month then currently.
Let's do some math.
Let's say you currently pay $200 a month taxed and 400 a month for healthcare. $600 a month is what you are paying. Except under Bernie, taxes might be $300 but then you don't for healthcare. So what are you total cost under Bernie? $300. Which is $300 less then what you are currently paying.
So ya, fuck you Hilliary because you say you are for the people, but you want me to pay an extra $300 a month.
I don't think the Republicans were the ones responsible for suspending an account that pointed out the two faced nature of the Democratic candidate. I also don't think it was the commie Bernie. Maybe you need to look a little closer to home, either the Which herself or #WarlockBubba.
I find it funny you refer to Bernie as a commie, when it's been the last couple (plus the current) Presidents who keeps passing laws that are turning us more into commie russia then the freedom loving america we claim to be.
I still wonder how it is possible that the republicans can't come up with a single decent candidate. And this is not the first time that happened.
The playing field changed in the last 10 years. The kids that have been told were worthless are old enough to vote, and well, they don't feel worthless anymore.
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Look, this phone isn't locked into shit. It's rootable. And from what I have read, you aren't even required a carrier or a plan when you buy it. I'm personally very tempted as I have a crappy dumb phone and honestly, this is a steal. But I'm a poor person and $50 is a lot of money. But I have no idea why the fuck most of you are bitching about being locked into Amazon when that isn't even true. Slashdot used to be about people who knew shit and understood that pretty much every cellphone released today is rootable. But I guess either all the old peeps are senile or their kids use their accounts now.
tl;dr shit is rootable, you aren't locked into anything.
My guess is now a lot of people are going to be suing MS over this. While they deny they did any wrong doing, the court saw it otherwise.
Truth is, Freedom of Speech is dead. We have news organizations that purposely change the message of new stories to fit their agenda. We have big internet companies pushing their political agenda via their services. We have the government watching everyone, under the guise of "our security and safety".
Everything you say is watched, everything you post is noted. If it doesn't fit the agenda of who's in charge, it will be deleted, shadowbanned or you'll get a visit from the authorities, or just as bad, a DMCA/Court order.
America was a nice place to live. Soon it might not be.
For example, the lawsuits from people who are suing because a mail deliver drone went out of control and crashed thru a huge window, or hit their 3 year old kid. What is the cost to find the drones that malfunction and crash in places that are hard to get to. They will need to recover the mail so it can still be delivered.
Sounds like a great idea, but honestly, doesn't seem like it's going to work as well as they want it to.
I have a usb webcam that stays unplugged unless I need it.
But then, i have 2 tablets that have cameras & mics on it.
Fuck.
My 3DS has a mic & cameras on it.
Fuck.
I don't have enough tape.
I have a dumb phone. Not because I don't like smartphones, only because I'm too poor to afford one. But my dumb phone doesn't have an ear phone jack either. And I had this samsung phone about 5 years ago, it didn't have a headphone jack either, had a dongle i'd have to plug into it's usb port.
So while you peeps with your fancy smartphone and iPhones are complaining, this isn't new at all.
But it still sucks imo.
I find it funny how when the FBI and the other letters always think that our losing our rights will stop future crimes. It won't. Because when something happens under their watch, they will just say once again, well, if we can access X without a warrant, we can keep this stuff from happening. Yet bad shit still happens anyways.
You want to stop terrorists? How about we stop making them and stop supplying them with weapons, stop giving them money for oil. Stop killing their family and friends with drones. How about we, the USA be the bigger fucking person and apologize for how we have treated the Middle East for that last 70 years. How about we stop fucking giving Saudi Arabia weapons and money.
And seriously, I'm not against guns at all, but we need smarter laws on purchasing them.
This is why there are trusted uploaders on torrent sites. These uploaders generally are trusted, as they have uploaded 1000's of files with no problems. But hey, I understand what is old is new again when you got youngsters just getting into the field.
We do not have a photo realistic 3D simulation that millions of people play at the same time. That would be nice, but we aren't even fucking close. We do have lot of great looking 3D simulations that people play in groups or by themselves. Maybe a few hundred on a server at a time, but that's it. We can't even get 1k people on the same server at the same time to have a serious deathmatch in any FPS. Shit, even WoW can't put that many people on a server at a time, and their graphics are cartoonish.
So Elon, you might know some things, but the current state of video games? You don't. And thinking it's the strongest reason for why we are living in a computer simulation only shows how much you don't know. I don't know shit, but come on dude.
Well, I think he's right. And he's actually one of those people with enough experience to say this, since programming doesn't require pesky interaction with the real world like, say, automated cars do, humans obviously suck at programming big time, and Gates is one of those people who have seen thousands of people suck big time at programming over multiple decades. So your argument actually supports him. Maybe that's the whole reason why he's so optimistic about making people redundant in the first place!
I think Bill Gates is a prick and his opinion on anything doesn't mean shit. It's okay with him if AI's take over peoples jobs, he doesn't have to worry about feeding his family when he can't get a job because AI's/robots are doing all the jobs you can get.
AI is a tool, just like a spreadsheet program. AI's by themselves aren't really the problem, who owns them and programs them are the problem. Corporations, whom some have shown a total greedy need for profit, even if it means breaking the law, will most likely be one of the major players in the AI industry. Governments are going to be another major player. History and news reports shows you how trustful governments are.
AI isn't going to be bad in itself, but it's owners, well, ya, we are fucked.
at educating people on this topic, before giving up and letting people wallow in their own ignorance.
A dedicated OC3 costs about $7500/mo. 155 Mbps, 149 Mbps after you subtract overhead. That's what you need if you want 149 Mbps without any data caps. (Yes an OC3 is symmetric. Cable can be too, they just dedicate more bandwidth to downloads since people mostly download stuff. It is not an inherent limitation of the technology which makes it "different" from an OC3.)
How then are Comcast, AT&T, etc. able to offer you 50 Mbps for just $50/mo? By doing the equivalent of putting 150 customers on an OC3. $7500/mo / 150 customers = $50/mo per customer.
But this only works if none of those 150 people hogs up all the bandwidth. If one person has torrents running at 149 Mbps for the entire month, everyone else's Internet bandwidth is going to be seriously degraded. So how do you prevent someone from hogging up that much bandwidth? You implement a monthly data cap. 149 Mbps * 1 month = 49 TB. And 49 TB / 150 customers = 326 GB per customer. So if each of those 150 people used the same amount of bandwidth, you'd expect them each to use 326 GB per month.
Not everyone uses that much though, so you can make the cap a bit higher without everything falling apart. That right there is why most ISPs are setting their caps around 300-700 GB/mo. 1 TB/mo is actually pretty generous. And being able to remove the cap for an extra $50/mo ($30/mo for AT&T) is an incredibly good deal. $100/mo is a helluva lot better than the $2500/mo you'd have to pay for a partial OC3 giving you 50 Mbps.
Yet profit reports show that it's almost 99% profit on internet usage for the various Internet providers. So let me guess, you work for CentuaryLink or Comcast?
WTF? Seattle has multiple 1Gbps providers (3 I know of). Comcast, Wave, CenturyLink. Even if your claim of 1.5Mbps max were true, that is PLENTY to stream Netflix. Troll.
Yes they do. IF you are lucky enough to live in the very, very small areas where they offer it. For example, I'm on the edge of Capital Hill, the Downtown/South Lake Union edge. Can I get 1Gbps (you know bits are 8 less then bytes, right? so your Giga plan isn't actually a really GigaByte.) where I live? Fuck no. Comcast or CentuaryLink regular service only.
So it's nice you live in the 2 square block area where those services is offered, but 99% of Seattle doesn't.
I guess it's a slow Monday for good news stories. Because in all my years of being on slashdot, no one has ever gave a fuck about seeing stories about games that are being released for the consoles & PC. This shit isn't new, or even news.
Get this shit the fuck off my lawn!
Pretty sure in the future we will probably be eating each other. Human will be the cheapest & readiest available meat to be found.
80% of people who apply for programming courses at Universities fail in the first two semesters. Of the remaining 20%, over half of them can't create a proper mental model of what is going on and only get by with luck and determinism. Only 10% of people who even apply are useful, and those skills are power-curve distributed.
The real question should be, how long till we get decent enough A.I. to start writing code instead of humans? 10 years? 15 years? Less?
Soon humans won't be programming because it will done faster, cheaper & better by computers.
Make the drugs legal and they won't be able to make money on it.
I live in Seattle, have Comcast and their Xfinity App streams the channels like shit. Some shows I would be unable to watch because it would keep dying out. And this is using a decent Comcast internet connection. Going thru the web was usually a bit better, but not much.
All in all, and a Comcast customer, I would not recommend using the Xfinity app, i would recommend using usenet service or torrent sites if you want to watch quality versions of the show.
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Someone remind me what the word is when you purposely inaccurately describe something, because it will make your product sound more appealing than the accurate description will? I forget these days.
Fraud.
I mean, no-one has ever faked ID. Or paid a kid $20 to go buy a couple of phones.
And where will it end? ID to buy box-cutters to close the box-cutter loophole? ID to buy nails because they're used in nail bombs? ID to buy pressure cookers?
No shit, most cities have a large portion of drug addicts that would have no problem buying cell phones using their ID's. Easier then shoplifting or panhandling for their drugs.
Who are you rooting for then?
Hillary "Vote for me because I have a vagina" Clinton, or Bernie "Let's raise taxes and give everyone Totally Free Stuff*" Sanders?
Not that I think the R's are any better. I just don't see any good choice available.
Look Hillary, you and I both know this "raise the taxes" is bullshit. Yes, we will pay a slightly higher tax under Bernie, but we will NOT have to pay for healthcare, and that makes it so even with a higher tax, we are paying less a month then currently.
Let's do some math.
Let's say you currently pay $200 a month taxed and 400 a month for healthcare. $600 a month is what you are paying. Except under Bernie, taxes might be $300 but then you don't for healthcare. So what are you total cost under Bernie? $300. Which is $300 less then what you are currently paying.
So ya, fuck you Hilliary because you say you are for the people, but you want me to pay an extra $300 a month.
Oh, to be young and naive again. Do you think Hillary isn't owned by the corporations too?
Did you believe Obama would really bring "hope and change" too?
Since the majority of the Mills seems to support Bernie, it's looking like young and naive aren't the insult it was.
I don't think the Republicans were the ones responsible for suspending an account that pointed out the two faced nature of the Democratic candidate. I also don't think it was the commie Bernie. Maybe you need to look a little closer to home, either the Which herself or #WarlockBubba.
I find it funny you refer to Bernie as a commie, when it's been the last couple (plus the current) Presidents who keeps passing laws that are turning us more into commie russia then the freedom loving america we claim to be.
I still wonder how it is possible that the republicans can't come up with a single decent candidate. And this is not the first time that happened.
The playing field changed in the last 10 years. The kids that have been told were worthless are old enough to vote, and well, they don't feel worthless anymore.
Flamebait? Really?
In middle school skids is what we called the stoners and burnouts who weren't going anywhere in life.
We called them scum rockers.