European here. No roaming cost inside Europe. So not unpossible. For now there are still costs for calling to another counyry, otherwise I would have taken a numberfrom somewhere else where it is cheaper.
What I read is "Your crack time just went from two days to two months" To me that means it is still possible and not as secure as people tend to say it is. If you are a person who want to keep things secret for whatever reason, two months is not a long time. 2 years would be a nice start. 200 woo;d be what I want for now
I tried explaining this to a guy who is a networking consultant. He said he would be going with cable when he moved. I asked him what his contract said about data limits. He said the sales person told him it was unlimited. I again asked what the contract was. He insisted it was irrelevant. So he got cut of after a few days and had to take an account that was more with what he needed and now pays 4 times as to what I pay. This so he can download a movie faster than I can. I still can download faster than I can watch DHe has all the bandwith and what get I in return? No data limit. 30M up and 70M down speed (he has 250M up and down I think). No port blocking instead of a;; closed below 1024. I am also with a much smaller company, so the support is better as they need to fight for each customer. With him he gets to an outsourced callcenter if he calls.
And all this because he thinks that bandwith is important. I know I would not hire him as a network consultant, but companies do and he makes a great living of it.
It is strange that people are still uncertain about climate change. I think we should go after those who fund the FUD around it for years. But where do we start? They are probably companies that have an investment in denying the climate change. But what companies would that be?
A nice start would be if they stop funding the FUD about climate change. If that would not have taken place, we would be much, much further with solving the problems.
My mom drove well past the point where she was a danger on the road. Luckily nobody got ever hurt. Once she told me she would not drive, I insisted of selling the cars ASAP, she she would not change her mind. Would self driving card been a thing, I would have suggested it at least 10 years earlier to buy one of those. It would have given them an even better life experience than what they already had. Now one of them was not allowed to have wine with their food or where restricted to close restaurants that they could walk to.
Plenty of those, but in the end it was just one. Walking 500 meters became a very difficult thing to do. As they lived in Spain, eating out for lunch few times per week is not that uncommon. Beats making your own food. And it being Northern Spain, after that lunch (at 15:00 or so) no dinner was needed.
That piece of paper only has value if it is enforces. It will only be enforced if there is punishment for those who break those laws. That ca only happen with accountability. No accountability? Then it might as well not exist.
If you live in a house that says "No cookies before dinner." and you eat cookies and mom only says that you should not do that, then I will keep eating cookies. Just saying that you will take away my allowance and then get it from dad means there is no accountability.
So you can call it whatever. You can point to the bible or the three laws of robotics or any thing written. If it is not enforced, it is basically fiction.
That is like saying that me not being allowed to take money from other people is an issue. So, it is NOT an issue. At most it is a subject you can discuss with friends over a nice beer. But certainly not an issue.
And the many places that say "We will be looking for women for the job of..." And these are mostly official jobs, ranging from school directors to politicians on a ballot. We need 50% woman in job X, regardless.
That means that people who are more capable will be ignored.
If you pull favors for one group, you will decline them for another. Can't have the cake and eat it too.
I have el cheapo 50EUR phones and they work great after 10 years. Put in a new battery and they just work. Why would they not? Electrons are not slower because of the age of the electric components.
As long as I can provide power to the phone, they work and I am still not able to play snakes very well. I can still use the phones to call and send and receive SMS.
The fact that people think it is normal that old hardware runs slower for some reason as if there is some mechanical deteriation, like with a car engine where you will lose some power over time, is an issue of and by itself.
And if you only talk about durable, those 50EUR phones are more durable than any thing that is cheaper, even if they are not a Nokia.
The patent swamp is a problem for that, but given how dependent the world is on secure digital hardware now, it's time to review the patent system. It may even become politically possible since it's to the point now where non-free hardware is hindering corporate profits.
The state wants to see your dick-picks and now you think they are wiling to not be able to do that? Many are looking for ways to require backdoors by law. Just because we need security does not mean we are going to get it.
There is however a difference between addiction and censorship.Music and violence is censorship. When pointed to kids, we already have censorship. In some places they are not allowed to hear bad words or to see female nipples.
Addiction is a different thing. People are warned about the issues with cigarettes and other addictive things are either regulated, age restricted or both or forbidden.
When it comes to addiction, I could see that there are several things that could be done. 1) Age restriction 2) Warnings 3) Combination of both.
The question obviously is if it is indeed addictive or not. The next thing is if you treat addiction as an illness or not. In the US the answert is no for many things. "Just stop it" seems to be the general idea on treatment.
Car example: I buy a car and CompanyX says I can't use it to transport bread. I still do and then suddenly they have a recall. They say I should sign that I can't transport bread or they won't install the system that could prevent me from dying in an accident.
And remember, just because you click OK at the AUP does not mean it is legal what they wrote. At least not in any normal country.
Salespeople will be working on a commission, most likely. These can vary from company to company and brand to brand. There also will be given an extra bonus if they sell X of that and Y of that.
So it could be that the kickback for that week or even month from another company was higher. Because if they would be honest, they would say to NOT buy a phone at all, as the one you have now is good enough to do what you need it to do if bought in the last 5 years or so. Just change the battery and move on.
I have seen phone salespeople not wanting to sell a specific phone, because it was work for them and they would get 1EUR out of it. Not worth their time.
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When it comes to California, I support them in times of drought financially by buying as much almond products from California as I can.
European here. No roaming cost inside Europe. So not unpossible. For now there are still costs for calling to another counyry, otherwise I would have taken a numberfrom somewhere else where it is cheaper.
No, It would be better. Remember that it is not paranoia if you actually are followed.
What I read is "Your crack time just went from two days to two months"
To me that means it is still possible and not as secure as people tend to say it is.
If you are a person who want to keep things secret for whatever reason, two months is not a long time. 2 years would be a nice start. 200 woo;d be what I want for now
I tried explaining this to a guy who is a networking consultant. He said he would be going with cable when he moved. I asked him what his contract said about data limits. He said the sales person told him it was unlimited. I again asked what the contract was. He insisted it was irrelevant. So he got cut of after a few days and had to take an account that was more with what he needed and now pays 4 times as to what I pay.
This so he can download a movie faster than I can. I still can download faster than I can watch DHe has all the bandwith and what get I in return?
No data limit. 30M up and 70M down speed (he has 250M up and down I think). No port blocking instead of a;; closed below 1024.
I am also with a much smaller company, so the support is better as they need to fight for each customer. With him he gets to an outsourced callcenter if he calls.
And all this because he thinks that bandwith is important. I know I would not hire him as a network consultant, but companies do and he makes a great living of it.
It is strange that people are still uncertain about climate change. I think we should go after those who fund the FUD around it for years. But where do we start? They are probably companies that have an investment in denying the climate change. But what companies would that be?
A nice start would be if they stop funding the FUD about climate change. If that would not have taken place, we would be much, much further with solving the problems.
My mom drove well past the point where she was a danger on the road. Luckily nobody got ever hurt. Once she told me she would not drive, I insisted of selling the cars ASAP, she she would not change her mind.
Would self driving card been a thing, I would have suggested it at least 10 years earlier to buy one of those.
It would have given them an even better life experience than what they already had. Now one of them was not allowed to have wine with their food or where restricted to close restaurants that they could walk to.
Plenty of those, but in the end it was just one. Walking 500 meters became a very difficult thing to do. As they lived in Spain, eating out for lunch few times per week is not that uncommon. Beats making your own food. And it being Northern Spain, after that lunch (at 15:00 or so) no dinner was needed.
That piece of paper only has value if it is enforces. It will only be enforced if there is punishment for those who break those laws. That ca only happen with accountability.
No accountability? Then it might as well not exist.
If you live in a house that says "No cookies before dinner." and you eat cookies and mom only says that you should not do that, then I will keep eating cookies.
Just saying that you will take away my allowance and then get it from dad means there is no accountability.
So you can call it whatever. You can point to the bible or the three laws of robotics or any thing written. If it is not enforced, it is basically fiction.
I was once asked to leave a lesbian bar, because I was male.
Appartheid.
We already do not trust the US and their produrs, so this would not make it worse.
That is like saying that me not being allowed to take money from other people is an issue. So, it is NOT an issue. At most it is a subject you can discuss with friends over a nice beer. But certainly not an issue.
One does not exclude the other.
And the many places that say "We will be looking for women for the job of ..." And these are mostly official jobs, ranging from school directors to politicians on a ballot.
We need 50% woman in job X, regardless.
That means that people who are more capable will be ignored.
If you pull favors for one group, you will decline them for another. Can't have the cake and eat it too.
What I do not get is why there are no thick Android phones available from alternative brands.
I have el cheapo 50EUR phones and they work great after 10 years. Put in a new battery and they just work. Why would they not? Electrons are not slower because of the age of the electric components.
As long as I can provide power to the phone, they work and I am still not able to play snakes very well. I can still use the phones to call and send and receive SMS.
The fact that people think it is normal that old hardware runs slower for some reason as if there is some mechanical deteriation, like with a car engine where you will lose some power over time, is an issue of and by itself.
And if you only talk about durable, those 50EUR phones are more durable than any thing that is cheaper, even if they are not a Nokia.
Not sure how much they do, but 1.000 to 1.400 per second worldwide looks not like much.
The state wants to see your dick-picks and now you think they are wiling to not be able to do that? Many are looking for ways to require backdoors by law.
Just because we need security does not mean we are going to get it.
If what they claim is valid or not I do not know.
There is however a difference between addiction and censorship.Music and violence is censorship. When pointed to kids, we already have censorship. In some places they are not allowed to hear bad words or to see female nipples.
Addiction is a different thing. People are warned about the issues with cigarettes and other addictive things are either regulated, age restricted or both or forbidden.
When it comes to addiction, I could see that there are several things that could be done.
1) Age restriction
2) Warnings
3) Combination of both.
The question obviously is if it is indeed addictive or not. The next thing is if you treat addiction as an illness or not. In the US the answert is no for many things. "Just stop it" seems to be the general idea on treatment.
Compared to other companies, their evilness can be compared to a Mini-Me.
Car example:
I buy a car and CompanyX says I can't use it to transport bread. I still do and then suddenly they have a recall. They say I should sign that I can't transport bread or they won't install the system that could prevent me from dying in an accident.
And remember, just because you click OK at the AUP does not mean it is legal what they wrote. At least not in any normal country.
With me it started when they raped DejaNews.
You must be new here.
Salespeople will be working on a commission, most likely. These can vary from company to company and brand to brand. There also will be given an extra bonus if they sell X of that and Y of that.
So it could be that the kickback for that week or even month from another company was higher. Because if they would be honest, they would say to NOT buy a phone at all, as the one you have now is good enough to do what you need it to do if bought in the last 5 years or so.
Just change the battery and move on.
I have seen phone salespeople not wanting to sell a specific phone, because it was work for them and they would get 1EUR out of it. Not worth their time.