Which spam filter would respond well to a "just mark it as spam" and not have an effect on your legitimate email?
Please keep in mind that I noted that, if you didn't care to ever work with the sender, you could blacklist them, but that's not the same as marking something as SPAM. I don't think a manually crafted procmail recipe would count either, because that's quite a bit more involved than "just mark it as spam". In all other cases, you're telling the spam filter software that messages that *look* like that one are to be considered SPAM. Since the example is of legitimate providers sending emails to your legitimate email address with legitimate content, and the only mistake is they think someone else has that email address, how will that not end badly if you start marking those all as SPAM?
For one, you said, "Why not just set up a filter to delete everything from him automatically and not worry about it?". So that example is more specific, which means he'd have to dig through all his spam, or disable the entire filter, not just the iTunes one. Secondly, that's an awful solution. If someone else starts requesting a bunch of password resets on my account somewhere, I want to see those notifications. I don't want them sent to spam.
This is why he's asking what other people do, because he doesn't want to just default all his email to spam and whitelist his friends and known contacts (he didn't even mention that, because it's pretty obvious that it's not an acceptable solution).
I was kinda hoping I had overlooked something, and maybe there was some simple way to block those but not block his legitimate email.
No, that's a bad idea. Training your spam filter to recognize otherwise legitimate looking email that is destined for your own email address as SPAM will train it to treat your own email as SPAM as well. Maybe you don't care about some of them because you'll never personally work with that contact, so blacklist that sender, but it's not SPAM, and you probably don't want gmail thinking email like that are SPAM.
Why not just set up a filter to delete everything from him automatically and not worry about it?
How would you do this? The email address is HIS address, and it's used as the destination (to) address. The source addresses could very well be places he also interacts with. How would you differentiate email that is actually for him versus for the person using the same address? On some of those, he could filter them if he chose not to ever communicate with that source/contact, by using a rule based on both TO and FROM address, or possibly the mailing list ID. However, he can't automatically filter everything from iTunes going to that email address if he also has an iTunes account, because it's the same address, right?
I don't think you understood the GP. From that very same link (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en):
Receiving someone else's mail If you're getting someone else's emails, check the reasons below to get help. * The email address has different periods or dots than mine If the sender added or removed dots from your email address, the message will still go to your inbox. Your email address is unique; people can't set up an identical account even with a different number or placement of dots.
For example, messages sent to these addresses will go to the same Gmail account:
johnsmith@gmail.com jo.hn.smith@gmail.com john.smith@gmail.com If you still think the message was meant for someone else, contact the sender to let them know they mistyped the email address.
Note: If you use Gmail through work, school, or other organization (like yourdomain.com or yourschool.edu), adding dots to your username changes your email address. To change the dots in your username, contact your admin.
Just to check, I tried to create a new gmail account. I used my existing username, and added a period/dot in a random position in the name. It then prints an error:
Someone already has that username. Note that we ignore periods and capitalization in usernames. Try another?
That's a server-specific feature. The standard is that the domain is case insensitive, but the local part (before the @) is case-sensitive. I was surprised to see that the wikipedia page on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address) says, "Although the standard specifies the local part to be case-sensitive, in practice the mail system at example.com may treat John.Smith as equivalent to JohnSmith or even as johnsmith". AFAIK, on virtually all other email servers, "john.smith" and "johnsmith" are two separate accounts, but maybe I'm just not aware of all the others that are ignoring periods. On gmail, those refer to the same account.
Lastly, I also tried logging into my existing email account with a username that included extra periods. That worked. That's news to me, and a bit surprising.
I may start using that to differentiate different types of sites I sign up for. I had tried doing this in the past using standardized subaddressing (ie. appending "+somestring" to the local part of the email address, such as "johnsmith+slashdot@example.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), but most sites reject that, and I'm not sure gmail handled it right either. Using the dot is something that should pass all forms, and pseudo-secretly allow me to categorize sources based on if/where the period was placed. Is anyone else doing this in practice?
And 8 ton elephant can do 40km/h (25mph) (http://www.speedofanimals.com/animals/elephant), and they can travel far distances at a relatively fast pace (compared to humans), so yes, I think a 4 ton predator could maintain a high enough pace to overtake a human without having a heart attack (elephants sure can: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-e...)
T.rex may not have been able to "run", but it could walk at about 12mph (according to this study). While the fastest man alive can sprint at just over 25mph, he won't be maintaining that speed for very long, and T.rex can cover some serious distance with those huge strides. It's also silly to reference Usain Bolt... T.rex would only need to catch slow to average speed people (if we had even been around then), and my money would still be on T.rex to win those races.
Somewhat in the same vein, I'd be worried about NOT having any cash, should I get mugged by someone that can and is willing to cause harm. What's he going to do with some useless plastic? Hand them a couple 20's and maybe save your keys, wallet, and health.
Maybe it's not so bright to regularly carry large amounts of cash (as in hundreds or more), but I don't see how anyone would think having a handful of 20's would hurt.
My girlfriend has been unsuccessfully mugged 3 times in NYC, in two different boroughs, and one of those times it was an old friend. So there's definitely evidence that you can safely escape a mugging, but it's also evidence that they're frequent enough that it's likely to happen to you at some point, assuming you frequent such areas.
How many ways are there to access HBO content legally/officially? I know of: * HBO GO (or now?) app, which is available on Android, Roku, AppleTV, and probably a bunch of others such as smart TV's and such. Wrapping them all in this bullet point cause that's still within their app. * Through Amazon as an add-on (why the hulu part is news? I have no idea), and thus on everything it's on. * Through Hulu as an add-on, and thus on everything it's on (if you update the app to version ??? I don't know)
In many ways, it's not a big deal. HOWEVER, 3rd party content aggregators have been hammered on for years. This is another means of quashing that. I'd love to have one interface that keeps track of what shows I watch and my progress in each, shows what new episodes are available, etc etc, and have it support backends to hulu, amazon, netflix, hbo, showtime, cinimax, sports things, etc etc. Most media centers make an attempt at that, but they're all pretty awkward IMO. If one streaming company could manage to pull in all the others as add-ons, then they could become the defacto interface and the one company grabbing your eyeballs with ads/etc.
HBO doesn't really care either way. Their business plan differs from most. The only ads you see are those for other programs of theirs, which is still annoying (almost more so, since I already paid for those, and may already be watching them). Anyway... they know they're not going to start streaming all the other channels content, but it doesn't hurt for them to be offered through hulu/amazon/etc (they probably make more money that way, due to not using their own bandwidth/servers).
I haven't tried the app. Coincidentally, I didn't try it because I rarely use SMS/MMS. If this were easy to get into hangouts, that'd be great. Ditto to other messaging apps (ex. signal, FB messenger, whatsapp, etc).
You filed a bug report, right? Where is that? (you didn't really provide enough info so that it could be found, even if it existed - like what hardware caused the bug?)
IMO, the fine is far too low. $20k and/or 10yr in prison for manslaughter? I suspect that fine amount was codified long ago and hasn't been adjusted for inflation.
For comparison, selling an ounce of weed carries a federal penalty of up to 5 years and/or $250k (http://norml.org/laws/item/federal-penalties-2). FWIW, I picked that offence cause I think those charges are generally too high, and I didn't want to take long looking for a reference.
Assuming there is an excess energy issue, desalinate (and maybe clean) the sea water first. That kills a second bird with the same stone. You still get to re-use some of that power later, and you get more clean drinking water in a drought ridden area. win/win?
Look for anything that costs too much due to energy use to be feasible, and do it. Ex. Open a steel mill and only run it when power is dirt cheap or free.
This is really a very very temporary problem. Giving away power for free will quickly find uses for it. Charge up cars during the day; put batteries or flywheels in each building to offset nightly usage; run CO2 sequestration services (CCS); turn waste into oil; run recycling plants; power a railgun to put stuff into orbit; etc.
Going directly back to the water pumping example, it's used because it's easy and well understood, but you could lift anything up and let it fall back down. Ship rocks up the side of a mountain on a conveyor belt or mining carts or whatever, and let them generate power on their way back down at night.
I suspect that the real truth is that it's not really excessive. There's a temporary imbalance, and they've found a sort of pressure relief. Later, they'll put that to use more effectively. Hopefully, no one builds a long term business around the prospect of this monetarily free energy.
Sorry, but I'm grabbing a quote out of context from you, cause I've heard similar things said less clearly before. I think you stated this very well:
the choice of the rest of society matters because that influences compatibility, amount of available software (and its price), and the pool of programmers and admins you can hire from.... So we're saddled with an inferior OS which self-perpetuates via inertia and sunk costs...
Very good software was written for multiple platforms back when there was a small fraction of the number of users. The huge growth in availability and use of computers should make it far easier to support development of software for a wide variety of OS's and platforms, through separate companies/products, or cross platform work, as well as direct competition within the same OS/platform. The latter can even be seen in the summary, where MEDoc, which is tax accounting software, was apparently the initial attack vector. There's tons of competition within the same OS/platform for the same market. It's very rare that there is some field that isn't well represented across multiple OS's. Where there is, it's often such a specialized product that support for it would likely be enough to easily fund a port to other OS's, or a complete redesign by a competitor.
IE. that't not really true on this scale with respect to the top several OS's. If you're talking about BeOS or something more obscure, sure, the numbers can't easily support development of everything that exists for other mature OS's. But if you're talking Linux or MacOSX, the numbers are way larger than the entire industry from not that far back.
That said, if one is arguing that they must have MS Office, and only MS Office will due, or they must have MSIE, and only MSIE will do, that's an entirely different position. There are perfectly good alternatives, but they've included the product name as part of the requirements. FWIW, I've been guilty of this WTR products like Apache HTTP Server - I just don't want to redo my configs and relearn things, but that doesn't mean other products aren't as good or better.
You are exactly the person the GP was referring to. You acknowledge that you (or some business) has purposefully chosen software that ONLY runs under windows. That software goes out of its way to ensure you can not run it under emulation (as opposed to embracing those common libraries and making minor updates to make it compatible, as other providers have done). Then you embrace the hole you were shoved into, rather than finding software to avoid these endless recurring issues.
There was no mention of Linux anywhere in the GP post, but you dragged that in. You say you're a linux fan, but I don't buy it. You refer to this guy like he's a nutter, and then associate him with Linux. How is that something a Linux fan would do? Or maybe you referred to Linux because you believe it's secure and/or less vulnerable to these issues?
It's not like you simply don't remember the past, and so are condemned to repeat it. You know it, and still make that decision. Yep, you deserve what you know you are going to get. [Morrison] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
False. Also, gchat had even wider support since you could use any standard XMPP client.
Video and voice support. Screen sharing.
Don't need for chat, google had a better voice option, and there are far better screen sharing options (IMO).
Multi media support. Groups
GChat has these (AFAICT)
XMPP support : gchat only Federation support (use your own domain): gchat only Client tied to the browser (at least on my platform): hangouts (this is not a good thing IMO) Message delivery is reliable: gchat only (many many times, I'll get hangouts messages on one of my clients and not the other, or significantly delayed on all; ex desktop and phone) End-to-end encryption options: 3rd party clients on gchat made this trivial; hangouts, depends if you can get it to work with another client, and if that'll keep working.
Start sending the CEO's/CTO's/etc to prison when stuff like this happens, and I assure you that their prisons will start looking a lot nicer. Repeat and spread them out to improve all our prisons.
The perception of these companies is all about the last mile. Whomever is your USPS/UPS/FedEx driver(s), that's who is responsible for your opinion of all of USPS/UPS/FedEx.
I've had awful service from all of them at different home addresses. Currently, USPS is the worst for me. I'll get a notification of missed delivery, even those I work from home, have a dog that barks when someone touches the door, live on the ground floor (no excuse of steps), and they leave the mail for the the upstairs tenants in my mailbox downstairs to save themselves from walking up the stoop.
If that's not bad enough, there's a storage facility VERY near me, and I've started having my stuff delivered there. They always deliver it there no problem (as long as they're open). It feels an awful lot like a personal attack, but that's not the case. They're just not doing their job.
The UPS guy I have is awesome though. He's also a happy guy, and seems to even enjoy his job.
I don't think it matters which company logo they wear. There certainly is some value to the various routing systems they all use, but that's rarely the part that pisses me (and, apparently, most others) off.
Retailers just need to allow users to pick the company that will deliver their goods, and provide their actual cost so people can decide which deliver option is worth it to them.
IMO, GP is on the right track, but simply didn't explain it clearly.
We're mostly talking about deliveries in the USA (based on the summary, USPS, etc).
When you order from Amazon, you get a choice of when to have something delivered, but you do not get to choice the delivery company (USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc). How the fuck are they supposed to compete and improve if you don't give the consumer the choice to pay more for better service?!?!?!
FWIW, it wasn't always that way. They used to offer a choice. I used to have very good USPS service, and would always choose them. I currently have very shitty USPS service (frequently leave handwritten notes that they missed me while I was home the whole day, and I have a loud dog - they had to sneak that note onto my door!!!), and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to specify UPS! When I do find a site that lets me pick UPS, they often don't differentiate between what I would consider a typical UPS delivery, and UPS's "Smart Post", which uses USPS for the last leg of the delivery (which goes back to being awful for me).
JUST LET CONSUMERS DECIDE AND CHARGE APPROPRIATELY!
Regarding Amazon Prime - they could still offer that as an option, as they do today, and, on that option alone, they (amazon) could pick the delivery provider, since they're footing the bill (sort of). That said, if they do that, I'll probably drop prime. I'd rather pay for shipping and actually get my product delivered, than have delivery fail faster and have to walk a mile to the post office and stand in line for an hour, only to have them complain and try not to serve me because I don't have the "sorry we missed you" pink note that they never left for me.
If you have an SSD, and want to add a HDD, and just want to keep it in sync periodically, and you're running Linux... consider checking out MD raid1 using "write-mostly" on the HDD. For example: http://tansi.info/hybrid/ Using that, almost all reads will go to the SSD, and writes will go to both. It was originally added for mirroring over a (slow) network interface, which you could also add as a 3rd mirror if you prefer.
Before someone else says it, a mirror is not a backup. If you, or someone else using your computer, or through some program error, or through a virus/bug/etc, delete data, that deletion will sync to the mirror as quickly as you have it set to do so and you won't have a copy of it, unless you add some form of versioning or backup.
I'm sure everyone has their own preferences, but if you're starting from just your primary drive, and it's your personal computer (as opposed to work), then I'd recommend adding redundancy and backups in the following order of priority:
1. Offsite backup your most precious files. There are a TON of solutions for this. You can keep your file list short and limit it to small-ish files (ie. don't back up your DVD collection in this backup set, even if you consider it important). Possible solutions would include dropbox, crashplan, google drive, sync.com, spideroak, tresorit, mega, etc.
2. Local redundancy/mirror. This is the bit you're talking about. If I loose a drive due to hardware failure, I want to keep going ASAP, and this is the best way to do that.. just make sure you test it and can move over to it and back.
3. Local large/full backups. These can go to an external drive or two. Grab an external HDD with USB 3 that's plenty big (just get the biggest you can find within your budget - maybe a 4tb?). What software to use to make the backup... that's tricky, but there's lots of viable options, and a lot of it depends on how much effort you are able to put in up front. A lot of what this backs up will be fairly useless - do you really need a copy of all your OS files and game files and stuff you can just re-download later (and probably will, if you do need to do a completely rebuild)? Probably not, but just grab everything so you don't miss anything later on.
4. Offsite those full backups. Use multiple external drives. Take at least one offsite periodically. Take it to work, or a friends place, or a storage facility, or safe deposit box.
FWIW, crashplan can be used for all but #2 above. I don't work there; just a happy customer. It's free to back up to a local drive, or to another computer of your own (or friend/family/work).
My main PC is in a Corsair 800D case and weighs about 50 pounds. Nobody is walking away with it.
Did you miss a sentence where the PC is in a 10 ton safe/vault? I can easily carry a 50lb PC case to the van out front. I regularly carry a large bag of dog food and all my groceries over 1/2 mile (I live in a large city and walk to the grocery store) without any trouble at all, and I've moved apartments by myself a bunch of times. I don't think it's wise to rely on the weight of your case to save you.
Now... my ancient 8u rackmount case, that's mounted in a telco rack (which, for some unfathomable reason, the wife likes in the living room), would be impossible to steal without significant disassembly (the rack won't fit through the stairwell). That's still no reason to think it can't be stolen.
Where the fuck is the "fact" that, "Facebook users actually make use of the features (the Facebook app) offers"?!?!
The Facebook app was 32mb in 2013, and around 180mb last year. It's now 388mb. They haven't added that many features, and "Messenger" was split off to its own app (so the snapchat-ish/instragram-ish chat parts aren't part of the main app).
But then facts don't really fit in your narrative, do they?:-P
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Which spam filter would respond well to a "just mark it as spam" and not have an effect on your legitimate email?
Please keep in mind that I noted that, if you didn't care to ever work with the sender, you could blacklist them, but that's not the same as marking something as SPAM. I don't think a manually crafted procmail recipe would count either, because that's quite a bit more involved than "just mark it as spam". In all other cases, you're telling the spam filter software that messages that *look* like that one are to be considered SPAM. Since the example is of legitimate providers sending emails to your legitimate email address with legitimate content, and the only mistake is they think someone else has that email address, how will that not end badly if you start marking those all as SPAM?
Gheez, just admit you were mistaken/wrong.
For one, you said, "Why not just set up a filter to delete everything from him automatically and not worry about it?". So that example is more specific, which means he'd have to dig through all his spam, or disable the entire filter, not just the iTunes one. Secondly, that's an awful solution. If someone else starts requesting a bunch of password resets on my account somewhere, I want to see those notifications. I don't want them sent to spam.
This is why he's asking what other people do, because he doesn't want to just default all his email to spam and whitelist his friends and known contacts (he didn't even mention that, because it's pretty obvious that it's not an acceptable solution).
I was kinda hoping I had overlooked something, and maybe there was some simple way to block those but not block his legitimate email.
Why bother. Just mark it as spam.
I second that. ...
No, that's a bad idea. Training your spam filter to recognize otherwise legitimate looking email that is destined for your own email address as SPAM will train it to treat your own email as SPAM as well. Maybe you don't care about some of them because you'll never personally work with that contact, so blacklist that sender, but it's not SPAM, and you probably don't want gmail thinking email like that are SPAM.
Why not just set up a filter to delete everything from him automatically and not worry about it?
How would you do this? The email address is HIS address, and it's used as the destination (to) address. The source addresses could very well be places he also interacts with. How would you differentiate email that is actually for him versus for the person using the same address?
On some of those, he could filter them if he chose not to ever communicate with that source/contact, by using a rule based on both TO and FROM address, or possibly the mailing list ID. However, he can't automatically filter everything from iTunes going to that email address if he also has an iTunes account, because it's the same address, right?
I don't think you understood the GP.
From that very same link (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en):
Receiving someone else's mail
If you're getting someone else's emails, check the reasons below to get help.
* The email address has different periods or dots than mine
If the sender added or removed dots from your email address, the message will still go to your inbox. Your email address is unique; people can't set up an identical account even with a different number or placement of dots.
For example, messages sent to these addresses will go to the same Gmail account:
johnsmith@gmail.com
jo.hn.smith@gmail.com
john.smith@gmail.com
If you still think the message was meant for someone else, contact the sender to let them know they mistyped the email address.
Note: If you use Gmail through work, school, or other organization (like yourdomain.com or yourschool.edu), adding dots to your username changes your email address. To change the dots in your username, contact your admin.
Just to check, I tried to create a new gmail account. I used my existing username, and added a period/dot in a random position in the name. It then prints an error:
Someone already has that username. Note that we ignore periods and capitalization in usernames. Try another?
That's a server-specific feature. The standard is that the domain is case insensitive, but the local part (before the @) is case-sensitive.
I was surprised to see that the wikipedia page on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address) says, "Although the standard specifies the local part to be case-sensitive, in practice the mail system at example.com may treat John.Smith as equivalent to JohnSmith or even as johnsmith". AFAIK, on virtually all other email servers, "john.smith" and "johnsmith" are two separate accounts, but maybe I'm just not aware of all the others that are ignoring periods. On gmail, those refer to the same account.
Lastly, I also tried logging into my existing email account with a username that included extra periods. That worked. That's news to me, and a bit surprising.
I may start using that to differentiate different types of sites I sign up for. I had tried doing this in the past using standardized subaddressing (ie. appending "+somestring" to the local part of the email address, such as "johnsmith+slashdot@example.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), but most sites reject that, and I'm not sure gmail handled it right either. Using the dot is something that should pass all forms, and pseudo-secretly allow me to categorize sources based on if/where the period was placed. Is anyone else doing this in practice?
And 8 ton elephant can do 40km/h (25mph) (http://www.speedofanimals.com/animals/elephant), and they can travel far distances at a relatively fast pace (compared to humans), so yes, I think a 4 ton predator could maintain a high enough pace to overtake a human without having a heart attack (elephants sure can: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-e...)
T.rex may not have been able to "run", but it could walk at about 12mph (according to this study). While the fastest man alive can sprint at just over 25mph, he won't be maintaining that speed for very long, and T.rex can cover some serious distance with those huge strides. It's also silly to reference Usain Bolt... T.rex would only need to catch slow to average speed people (if we had even been around then), and my money would still be on T.rex to win those races.
Somewhat in the same vein, I'd be worried about NOT having any cash, should I get mugged by someone that can and is willing to cause harm. What's he going to do with some useless plastic? Hand them a couple 20's and maybe save your keys, wallet, and health.
Maybe it's not so bright to regularly carry large amounts of cash (as in hundreds or more), but I don't see how anyone would think having a handful of 20's would hurt.
My girlfriend has been unsuccessfully mugged 3 times in NYC, in two different boroughs, and one of those times it was an old friend. So there's definitely evidence that you can safely escape a mugging, but it's also evidence that they're frequent enough that it's likely to happen to you at some point, assuming you frequent such areas.
How many ways are there to access HBO content legally/officially? I know of:
* HBO GO (or now?) app, which is available on Android, Roku, AppleTV, and probably a bunch of others such as smart TV's and such. Wrapping them all in this bullet point cause that's still within their app.
* Through Amazon as an add-on (why the hulu part is news? I have no idea), and thus on everything it's on.
* Through Hulu as an add-on, and thus on everything it's on (if you update the app to version ??? I don't know)
In many ways, it's not a big deal. HOWEVER, 3rd party content aggregators have been hammered on for years. This is another means of quashing that. I'd love to have one interface that keeps track of what shows I watch and my progress in each, shows what new episodes are available, etc etc, and have it support backends to hulu, amazon, netflix, hbo, showtime, cinimax, sports things, etc etc. Most media centers make an attempt at that, but they're all pretty awkward IMO. If one streaming company could manage to pull in all the others as add-ons, then they could become the defacto interface and the one company grabbing your eyeballs with ads/etc.
HBO doesn't really care either way. Their business plan differs from most. The only ads you see are those for other programs of theirs, which is still annoying (almost more so, since I already paid for those, and may already be watching them). Anyway... they know they're not going to start streaming all the other channels content, but it doesn't hurt for them to be offered through hulu/amazon/etc (they probably make more money that way, due to not using their own bandwidth/servers).
I haven't tried the app. Coincidentally, I didn't try it because I rarely use SMS/MMS. If this were easy to get into hangouts, that'd be great. Ditto to other messaging apps (ex. signal, FB messenger, whatsapp, etc).
You filed a bug report, right? Where is that? (you didn't really provide enough info so that it could be found, even if it existed - like what hardware caused the bug?)
Any others? That one has some concerning permission requests:
to start notification service on start up
these are for advertising
Why do they need to be able to place phone calls for ads? And where's the ad-free version?
IMO, the fine is far too low. $20k and/or 10yr in prison for manslaughter? I suspect that fine amount was codified long ago and hasn't been adjusted for inflation.
For comparison, selling an ounce of weed carries a federal penalty of up to 5 years and/or $250k (http://norml.org/laws/item/federal-penalties-2).
FWIW, I picked that offence cause I think those charges are generally too high, and I didn't want to take long looking for a reference.
Assuming there is an excess energy issue, desalinate (and maybe clean) the sea water first. That kills a second bird with the same stone. You still get to re-use some of that power later, and you get more clean drinking water in a drought ridden area. win/win?
Look for anything that costs too much due to energy use to be feasible, and do it. Ex. Open a steel mill and only run it when power is dirt cheap or free.
This is really a very very temporary problem. Giving away power for free will quickly find uses for it. Charge up cars during the day; put batteries or flywheels in each building to offset nightly usage; run CO2 sequestration services (CCS); turn waste into oil; run recycling plants; power a railgun to put stuff into orbit; etc.
Going directly back to the water pumping example, it's used because it's easy and well understood, but you could lift anything up and let it fall back down. Ship rocks up the side of a mountain on a conveyor belt or mining carts or whatever, and let them generate power on their way back down at night.
I suspect that the real truth is that it's not really excessive. There's a temporary imbalance, and they've found a sort of pressure relief. Later, they'll put that to use more effectively. Hopefully, no one builds a long term business around the prospect of this monetarily free energy.
Sorry, but I'm grabbing a quote out of context from you, cause I've heard similar things said less clearly before. I think you stated this very well:
the choice of the rest of society matters because that influences compatibility, amount of available software (and its price), and the pool of programmers and admins you can hire from. ... So we're saddled with an inferior OS which self-perpetuates via inertia and sunk costs...
Very good software was written for multiple platforms back when there was a small fraction of the number of users. The huge growth in availability and use of computers should make it far easier to support development of software for a wide variety of OS's and platforms, through separate companies/products, or cross platform work, as well as direct competition within the same OS/platform. The latter can even be seen in the summary, where MEDoc, which is tax accounting software, was apparently the initial attack vector. There's tons of competition within the same OS/platform for the same market. It's very rare that there is some field that isn't well represented across multiple OS's. Where there is, it's often such a specialized product that support for it would likely be enough to easily fund a port to other OS's, or a complete redesign by a competitor.
IE. that't not really true on this scale with respect to the top several OS's. If you're talking about BeOS or something more obscure, sure, the numbers can't easily support development of everything that exists for other mature OS's. But if you're talking Linux or MacOSX, the numbers are way larger than the entire industry from not that far back.
That said, if one is arguing that they must have MS Office, and only MS Office will due, or they must have MSIE, and only MSIE will do, that's an entirely different position. There are perfectly good alternatives, but they've included the product name as part of the requirements. FWIW, I've been guilty of this WTR products like Apache HTTP Server - I just don't want to redo my configs and relearn things, but that doesn't mean other products aren't as good or better.
When everything is racist having a conversation about race and calling people racist is retarded and a waste of time.
(emphasis mine) What a perfectly fitting reply! How much longer before we have to open the fourth box of liberty?
You are exactly the person the GP was referring to.
You acknowledge that you (or some business) has purposefully chosen software that ONLY runs under windows. That software goes out of its way to ensure you can not run it under emulation (as opposed to embracing those common libraries and making minor updates to make it compatible, as other providers have done). Then you embrace the hole you were shoved into, rather than finding software to avoid these endless recurring issues.
There was no mention of Linux anywhere in the GP post, but you dragged that in. You say you're a linux fan, but I don't buy it. You refer to this guy like he's a nutter, and then associate him with Linux. How is that something a Linux fan would do? Or maybe you referred to Linux because you believe it's secure and/or less vulnerable to these issues?
It's not like you simply don't remember the past, and so are condemned to repeat it. You know it, and still make that decision. Yep, you deserve what you know you are going to get.
[Morrison] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Support for every possible platform.
False.
Also, gchat had even wider support since you could use any standard XMPP client.
Video and voice support.
Screen sharing.
Don't need for chat, google had a better voice option, and there are far better screen sharing options (IMO).
Multi media support.
Groups
GChat has these (AFAICT)
XMPP support : gchat only
Federation support (use your own domain): gchat only
Client tied to the browser (at least on my platform): hangouts (this is not a good thing IMO)
Message delivery is reliable: gchat only (many many times, I'll get hangouts messages on one of my clients and not the other, or significantly delayed on all; ex desktop and phone)
End-to-end encryption options: 3rd party clients on gchat made this trivial; hangouts, depends if you can get it to work with another client, and if that'll keep working.
Start sending the CEO's/CTO's/etc to prison when stuff like this happens, and I assure you that their prisons will start looking a lot nicer. Repeat and spread them out to improve all our prisons.
The perception of these companies is all about the last mile. Whomever is your USPS/UPS/FedEx driver(s), that's who is responsible for your opinion of all of USPS/UPS/FedEx.
I've had awful service from all of them at different home addresses. Currently, USPS is the worst for me. I'll get a notification of missed delivery, even those I work from home, have a dog that barks when someone touches the door, live on the ground floor (no excuse of steps), and they leave the mail for the the upstairs tenants in my mailbox downstairs to save themselves from walking up the stoop.
If that's not bad enough, there's a storage facility VERY near me, and I've started having my stuff delivered there. They always deliver it there no problem (as long as they're open). It feels an awful lot like a personal attack, but that's not the case. They're just not doing their job.
The UPS guy I have is awesome though. He's also a happy guy, and seems to even enjoy his job.
I don't think it matters which company logo they wear. There certainly is some value to the various routing systems they all use, but that's rarely the part that pisses me (and, apparently, most others) off.
Retailers just need to allow users to pick the company that will deliver their goods, and provide their actual cost so people can decide which deliver option is worth it to them.
IMO, GP is on the right track, but simply didn't explain it clearly.
We're mostly talking about deliveries in the USA (based on the summary, USPS, etc).
When you order from Amazon, you get a choice of when to have something delivered, but you do not get to choice the delivery company (USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc). How the fuck are they supposed to compete and improve if you don't give the consumer the choice to pay more for better service?!?!?!
FWIW, it wasn't always that way. They used to offer a choice. I used to have very good USPS service, and would always choose them. I currently have very shitty USPS service (frequently leave handwritten notes that they missed me while I was home the whole day, and I have a loud dog - they had to sneak that note onto my door!!!), and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to specify UPS! When I do find a site that lets me pick UPS, they often don't differentiate between what I would consider a typical UPS delivery, and UPS's "Smart Post", which uses USPS for the last leg of the delivery (which goes back to being awful for me).
JUST LET CONSUMERS DECIDE AND CHARGE APPROPRIATELY!
Regarding Amazon Prime - they could still offer that as an option, as they do today, and, on that option alone, they (amazon) could pick the delivery provider, since they're footing the bill (sort of). That said, if they do that, I'll probably drop prime. I'd rather pay for shipping and actually get my product delivered, than have delivery fail faster and have to walk a mile to the post office and stand in line for an hour, only to have them complain and try not to serve me because I don't have the "sorry we missed you" pink note that they never left for me.
If you have an SSD, and want to add a HDD, and just want to keep it in sync periodically, and you're running Linux... consider checking out MD raid1 using "write-mostly" on the HDD. For example: http://tansi.info/hybrid/
Using that, almost all reads will go to the SSD, and writes will go to both. It was originally added for mirroring over a (slow) network interface, which you could also add as a 3rd mirror if you prefer.
Before someone else says it, a mirror is not a backup. If you, or someone else using your computer, or through some program error, or through a virus/bug/etc, delete data, that deletion will sync to the mirror as quickly as you have it set to do so and you won't have a copy of it, unless you add some form of versioning or backup.
I'm sure everyone has their own preferences, but if you're starting from just your primary drive, and it's your personal computer (as opposed to work), then I'd recommend adding redundancy and backups in the following order of priority:
1. Offsite backup your most precious files. There are a TON of solutions for this. You can keep your file list short and limit it to small-ish files (ie. don't back up your DVD collection in this backup set, even if you consider it important). Possible solutions would include dropbox, crashplan, google drive, sync.com, spideroak, tresorit, mega, etc.
2. Local redundancy/mirror. This is the bit you're talking about. If I loose a drive due to hardware failure, I want to keep going ASAP, and this is the best way to do that.. just make sure you test it and can move over to it and back.
3. Local large/full backups. These can go to an external drive or two. Grab an external HDD with USB 3 that's plenty big (just get the biggest you can find within your budget - maybe a 4tb?). What software to use to make the backup... that's tricky, but there's lots of viable options, and a lot of it depends on how much effort you are able to put in up front. A lot of what this backs up will be fairly useless - do you really need a copy of all your OS files and game files and stuff you can just re-download later (and probably will, if you do need to do a completely rebuild)? Probably not, but just grab everything so you don't miss anything later on.
4. Offsite those full backups. Use multiple external drives. Take at least one offsite periodically. Take it to work, or a friends place, or a storage facility, or safe deposit box.
FWIW, crashplan can be used for all but #2 above. I don't work there; just a happy customer. It's free to back up to a local drive, or to another computer of your own (or friend/family/work).
My main PC is in a Corsair 800D case and weighs about 50 pounds. Nobody is walking away with it.
Did you miss a sentence where the PC is in a 10 ton safe/vault? I can easily carry a 50lb PC case to the van out front. I regularly carry a large bag of dog food and all my groceries over 1/2 mile (I live in a large city and walk to the grocery store) without any trouble at all, and I've moved apartments by myself a bunch of times. I don't think it's wise to rely on the weight of your case to save you.
Now... my ancient 8u rackmount case, that's mounted in a telco rack (which, for some unfathomable reason, the wife likes in the living room), would be impossible to steal without significant disassembly (the rack won't fit through the stairwell). That's still no reason to think it can't be stolen.
Thanks for taking a quote out of context, adding nothing of value to the conversation, and ignoring the facts yet again.
The Facebook app grew from 180mb to 388mb in a year. They haven't added a corresponding amount of features. Are you claiming they have?
There's no point to answering that. As others have shown, the vast majority of the added content is assets and frameworks, not features.
Where the fuck is the "fact" that, "Facebook users actually make use of the features (the Facebook app) offers"?!?!
The Facebook app was 32mb in 2013, and around 180mb last year. It's now 388mb. They haven't added that many features, and "Messenger" was split off to its own app (so the snapchat-ish/instragram-ish chat parts aren't part of the main app).
But then facts don't really fit in your narrative, do they? :-P