Did you click to enable "porns ads blasting out of your sound bar"?
Imagine a world where a clickable dialog sourced from a web site doesn't produce the result it said it would. Or where a user might not carefully read a dialog from the OS.
I know it's difficult, but let's assume some other dimension, or perhaps through a wormhole.:)
There is still a notable difference between knowing you let the browser run on your computer, and knowing you let random websites reach out and meddle with your bluetooth devices.
Yeah, he did. The cloud is the perfect petri dish for fraud, and that's exactly how it's used most of the time, to suck money and/or information out of bewildered users.
"We'll just keep "your" music and "your" video in the cloud for you"
I'm paying about $140/mo for 30/5 with a static IP via DSL.
They're hanging fiber from the poles now (apparently burying it is too expensive), but I don't know if they'll actually offer us anything faster; there's only one pipe out of here. My middle son is on optical already, and he's running at a whopping 10/1. I think they're just tired of maintaining all that old copper. Lots of lightning here, keeps the repair people running hard all summer.
My family has to stack wood so we can emit a burst of one's and zero's with our signal fire. The baud rate is terrible, and we keep getting parity errors when the blankets burn through. The cost of enough cords of wood to keep the connection up is horrific.
To be fair, they did try to put a telegraph line in, but the Smith's down the road a ways cut and burned the poles trying to watch porn, and so that never came about.
If you believe your job is at risk (and it is, right now from mild automation and imported labor and exported roles, soon to be joined in spades by various machine learning technologies which will enable much more comprehensive automation), it's considerably more in your self-interest to vote Democrat in every election for a federal seat, because it's the Democrats that are generally in favor of social safety nets, and who will put SCOTUS judges in who will back those ideas the most effectively.
Voting Republican because you think you might lose your job... that's truly shooting yourself in the foot.
What you want -- if you want to eat and have a roof over your head -- is Democrats in strong majority across both houses of congress, the presidency, and the courts.
Of course, to understand this, one has to use reason and facts. Looking at the Trump demographic, that's not exactly a standout characteristic.
There's nothing "unsafe" about pointers. Compromises of safety occur as a result of using pointers *wrong*.
There's plenty unsafe about programmers who don't understand what they're doing, and/or are careless, and/or assume that libraries that are black boxes beyond the API level to them are inherently safe.
Unfortunately, the typical metric for hiring programmers is "do you have a degree" rather than "do you know what you're doing."
Bullshit, eh? Do you remember MechAssault? One of the most popular games for the XBox. Online community, many-person gaming via the XBox live servers, worked very well without anything even remotely resembling this kind of hurry-up-and-wait nonsense. Even downloads of new terrain and/or game types (which you chose to do) weren't much of a challenge. The Live interface was much easier to use, too. It was mostly about gaming, not about trying to turn the machine into some kind of Rube Goldberg nightmare.
Next, why should I want to leave a multiplayer game disconnected from the network?
Your position is either that I shouldn't be able to multiplayer-game, or that it's justified that if I do, Microsoft puts a huge time and convenience penalty on the experience, or that there is no significant inconvenience. I don't buy any of those arguments.
Sorry, I've seen the many-hours of no-gaming downside. It's real. It sucks. Not interested.
And hey, did you know MechAssault and MechAssault II both still work offline? I mean, hell, if I have to stay offline in order to keep Microsoft from ruining my day, I might as well do it with one of the most awesome games they ever produced.:)
...and then you find some genius who wants to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft for "fun" and see if the parachute works under real-world conditions.
They're pretty late to the party. The fourth amendment has obviously been a "it's just a piece of paper" issue to legislators and the legislation they create since the patriot act was squeezed out of the ass of congress. The rest of the bill of rights hasn't fared much better (3rd amendment excepted.) Lots of other unconstitutional legislation currently in play as well — eminent domain, commerce clause, ex post facto laws, etc. Perhaps I'm just too cynical because of where we are today, but it seems extremely unlikely to me that congress, with or without this... caucus... will get anything done that slows or stops the ongoing government extra-constitutional behaviors.
Well, I am neither brain-damaged nor a native speaker, and it is pretty clear to me that, while he does call the unbalanced comment style "brain-damaged", nowhere did he call *anyone*, not even those who like that style, brain-damaged.
That interpretation requires that comments have brains. They don't. So this particular remark can reasonably be read to impugn the author of the comments. However, it's also extremely likely that this is a case of hyperbole; in which case smiles are called for, not outrage.
One of their donuts is about the same price as a Twinkie, tastes like a kiss from a goddess, and it won't cause you to grow a third nipple, Fallout 4 -style.
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Oh, I agree, You don't want to do either one.
The argument that since one really bad thing exists, the other really bad thing is okay, though... I can't see that flying.
Technology expands (not always in a good way) and we bend over.
FTFY.
Oh, this'll stick, all right. It'll smell, too.
Imagine a world where a clickable dialog sourced from a web site doesn't produce the result it said it would. Or where a user might not carefully read a dialog from the OS.
I know it's difficult, but let's assume some other dimension, or perhaps through a wormhole. :)
Yes, because the regular web can unlock your bluetooth door lock. And turn your bluetooth thermostat down and freeze your pipes.
Oh.
Wait.
There is still a notable difference between knowing you let the browser run on your computer, and knowing you let random websites reach out and meddle with your bluetooth devices.
Yeah, he did. The cloud is the perfect petri dish for fraud, and that's exactly how it's used most of the time, to suck money and/or information out of bewildered users.
"We'll just keep "your" music and "your" video in the cloud for you"
uh-huh...
You forgot "cloud."
Most light switches are digital. On or off. The correct term is "mechanical."
I'm paying about $140/mo for 30/5 with a static IP via DSL.
They're hanging fiber from the poles now (apparently burying it is too expensive), but I don't know if they'll actually offer us anything faster; there's only one pipe out of here. My middle son is on optical already, and he's running at a whopping 10/1. I think they're just tired of maintaining all that old copper. Lots of lightning here, keeps the repair people running hard all summer.
My family has to stack wood so we can emit a burst of one's and zero's with our signal fire. The baud rate is terrible, and we keep getting parity errors when the blankets burn through. The cost of enough cords of wood to keep the connection up is horrific.
To be fair, they did try to put a telegraph line in, but the Smith's down the road a ways cut and burned the poles trying to watch porn, and so that never came about.
First you say you've never had sex. Then you go on to tell us when "it is good."
Listen to yourself. You're trying to sell expertise on a subject where you have none.
If you believe your job is at risk (and it is, right now from mild automation and imported labor and exported roles, soon to be joined in spades by various machine learning technologies which will enable much more comprehensive automation), it's considerably more in your self-interest to vote Democrat in every election for a federal seat, because it's the Democrats that are generally in favor of social safety nets, and who will put SCOTUS judges in who will back those ideas the most effectively.
Voting Republican because you think you might lose your job... that's truly shooting yourself in the foot.
What you want -- if you want to eat and have a roof over your head -- is Democrats in strong majority across both houses of congress, the presidency, and the courts.
Of course, to understand this, one has to use reason and facts. Looking at the Trump demographic, that's not exactly a standout characteristic.
Underrated.
There's nothing "unsafe" about pointers. Compromises of safety occur as a result of using pointers *wrong*.
There's plenty unsafe about programmers who don't understand what they're doing, and/or are careless, and/or assume that libraries that are black boxes beyond the API level to them are inherently safe.
Unfortunately, the typical metric for hiring programmers is "do you have a degree" rather than "do you know what you're doing."
Earlier. Silver certificates.
Flickr is all I'm concerned about. Other than that, Yahoo is valueless to me.
Bullshit, eh? Do you remember MechAssault? One of the most popular games for the XBox. Online community, many-person gaming via the XBox live servers, worked very well without anything even remotely resembling this kind of hurry-up-and-wait nonsense. Even downloads of new terrain and/or game types (which you chose to do) weren't much of a challenge. The Live interface was much easier to use, too. It was mostly about gaming, not about trying to turn the machine into some kind of Rube Goldberg nightmare.
Next, why should I want to leave a multiplayer game disconnected from the network?
Your position is either that I shouldn't be able to multiplayer-game, or that it's justified that if I do, Microsoft puts a huge time and convenience penalty on the experience, or that there is no significant inconvenience. I don't buy any of those arguments.
Sorry, I've seen the many-hours of no-gaming downside. It's real. It sucks. Not interested.
And hey, did you know MechAssault and MechAssault II both still work offline? I mean, hell, if I have to stay offline in order to keep Microsoft from ruining my day, I might as well do it with one of the most awesome games they ever produced. :)
No. I've seen the XBox one in action. Hours for updates, insert game, hours more for updates... it's a terrible system.
Sticking with the older gear. Because you can actually play a game when you stick a disk in.
The console makers have completely lost sight of the customer.
...and then you find some genius who wants to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft for "fun" and see if the parachute works under real-world conditions.
No. Pavlov fell in the forest.
They're pretty late to the party. The fourth amendment has obviously been a "it's just a piece of paper" issue to legislators and the legislation they create since the patriot act was squeezed out of the ass of congress. The rest of the bill of rights hasn't fared much better (3rd amendment excepted.) Lots of other unconstitutional legislation currently in play as well — eminent domain, commerce clause, ex post facto laws, etc. Perhaps I'm just too cynical because of where we are today, but it seems extremely unlikely to me that congress, with or without this... caucus... will get anything done that slows or stops the ongoing government extra-constitutional behaviors.
That interpretation requires that comments have brains. They don't. So this particular remark can reasonably be read to impugn the author of the comments. However, it's also extremely likely that this is a case of hyperbole; in which case smiles are called for, not outrage.
Yes, English is annoying. Linus can be, too. :)
+1 funny. :)
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Let's talk about on-hold music