I already ignore my 3 voicemail boxes. I can't stand youtube "articles" where they drone on for 20 minutes in what should have been a 2 paragraph piece of text.
I can scan over a few hundred emails in the time it takes to listen to a single voicemail, which is all this is.
The Republican Party and Democratic Party have all the same rights as the Liberatarian Party the Green Party and the American Nazi Party...
They're "private" parties who allow their registered members to cast a vote for their favorite candidate but ultimately the leaders in the party determine who has the best chance of winning and puts them forward as a presidential candidate.
The confusion here seems to be people thinking that political parties are government operated and that primaries are legitimate pre-voting or something.
People are ignorant, they get their "facts" from Facebook memes and yeah, kids have no idea what capitalism actually is or experience in the real world. You can poll the same kids and ask them "should everyone automatically receive $10,000/week in America" and they'd also say 'yes'.
I agree on the error codes, getting the same useless error for all error conditions sucks.
However, the reason pretty much everyone wants to do away with flash (besides all the exploits) is (mostly) because it doesn't support byte range requests. This sounds trivial but it leads to some huge headaches and inefficiencies that HTML5 cures.
Seeking videos in flash requires that the web server understand and act on the start=? parameter (where ? = seconds into a video for MP4, bytes for FLV). This means the server has to have the entire file (this is a huge problem for CDN providers), it has to read and understand the metadata (which may be at the END of the file), it has to then use that metadata to seek as far as the client requested into the video (which it may not have yet), then finally append a new header/metadata and start serving those bits to the client.
With HTML5 the client simply says 'give me this file starting at X bytes' via a HTTP range request. No metadata handling necessary, and no need for massive software infrastructure upgrades to handle new container formats. (For a CDN the range request can be directly passed through and handled by the midtier or origin that actually has the file)
TLDR; Flash makes web servers do stuff they shouldn't be doing, HTML5 video playing fixes that.
The thing is, they don't have to be. A housing unit is built, quality LED bulbs are installed and 20 something years later someone looks up in shock because the light didn't turn on this time.
The incandescent legislation is annoying but necessary. People are generally stupid and won't think 5 minutes ahead no matter how beneficial it is. The people that really want to keep incandescent bulbs for some reason can find them online (and it's not illegal to use/have/buy them, despite the extreme right wing crazies saying it is)
I've installed thousands of LED bulbs in businesses (thanks Xcel energy rebates!) as a side gig. None of them have gone out, nobody can tell they're LED and they've made a huge dent in the electric bills (A/C and raw lighting costs)
I completely agree. I grew up making mud pies, eating dirt, playing in the woods and generally living in the opposite of a clean home. The only allergy I have is cat scratches and dander -- my mother hated cats and refused to have any around.
Meanwhile I now live in Minneapolis and we've got all these tards talking about how there's "chemicals" in their food and they're "gluten intolerant" and they use their own and their bubble boy kids immune responses as evidence that they're right.
They don't have to search for it. Google does a lot of data storage, I'm sure they use deduplication. They have a list of known kiddie porn image hashes from the government which they check the dedup table for. Any accounts with messages matching those hashes would be reported.
Like it or not, they're still not reading your email.
Rain and snow definitely cause a fade in signal strength but if you've properly engineered the link you'll stay within acceptable signal levels. The WISP I worked for in Minnesota had to deal with plenty of rain and snow..
Anyone setting up commercial wireless links should know that they have to engineer for worst possible scenarios.
They're trying to protect Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, they've added restrictions on the upper band but removed the indoor restrictions on the lower (5.2ghz) band. A fair tradeoff in the opinion of someone that used to work at a WISP.
Unless your device is beaconing for networks in your saved networks list (WHICH ONLY HAPPENS for networks that do not transmit their SSID) a client *never* sends out probes, so there is no opportunity to randomize the MAC address.
If your device is listening for WiFi beacons and finds one in your saved network list, it *must* associate with your actual MAC address.
In other words, the teeny tiny percentage of the population with hidden SSIDs in their WiFi network list will benefit from this, nobody else. It would have been a lot better if they had done this with bluetooth.
You're missing the fact that Netflix is in all of those data centers. The problem is that Comcast is intentionally degrading their peering in those data centers meet-me rooms in an attempt to get more direct customers.
Furthermore, if you're large enough Netflix will actually supply servers that you can plug into your network to provide the top x percentile of content -- for free.
This is purely a Comcast wants more money and hates video competition issue.
The not-so-nice thing about the higher frequencies is that they tend to attenuate rapidly when the signal is going through something thicker than air.
Not necessarily a bad thing, since it means that you can have your strong local signals but don't pollute the spectrum in an entire neighborhood. We would have all been a lot better off if baby monitors, cordless phones, etc had all started in the mid GHz range.
I blame "Family Matters" for telling an entire generation of black kids that they definitely don't want to grow up to be Steve Urkel (to the point that Steve transformed himself into Stefan Urquelle, the suave lady catching cool cat).
Bull. Palm/Handspring devices had a ton of apps around then, I had a Handspring Prism w/ GSM module that I could IRC, SSH, browse the web and whatever else from in 2000.
My Symbian phone not-too-long-after (Nokia 6600) had all the same apps in a more compact package. The whole 'mobile ecosystem' did NOT begin with Apple or Android.
The problem isn't the people having a conversation at a sensible level. The problem is the asshole that turns on speakerphone at full blast and yells at his phone as he's waving it around in the air just because he doesn't want to hold it up to his ear.
Think of every annoying thing you've ever seen people do on a call, then imagine being stuck sitting next to those people for a 3 hour flight.
I work for a hosting company, Drupal is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen, along with all the other CMS/"frameworks".
These people hire some cheap agency (usually outsourced), they throw something together with Drupal, then the customer screams and yells when it completely fails at actual high traffic loads.
Your Palo Alto firewalls only work because the (self signed) global wildcard certificate they use has been manually installed on every client on the network, and is trusted by those devices.
Unless you can trick a user on a public wifi hotspot into accepting your self signed global certificate their browser will not validate the connection or pass data without a big red warning screen.
This is precisely why I am not worried about outsourcing. Look at India, China, or any other 'cheap labor' country. The average income is increasing by leaps and bounds, their *standard of living* is increasing substantially. At some point it becomes too expensive to outsource and those jobs come back home.
No, money isn't the "divine paper, the one and true savior of all mankind" as a child post put it, but in the world we live in it's the best way to allow for fluid bartering between man hours and standards of living.
The hope (and reality) is that all "third world" nations will become educated competitors which increases the overall education and happiness of all mankind, quality of products, and technology in general. Too many Americans are liberal idiots that think that government handouts are the solution when there are many people in poorer nations that are hoping for the opportunity to *WORK* for a living and *EARN* their income.
Fuck the '99%', turn off your cable/cell phone/internet, sell your iPhone/PowerBook/designer clothes and get a real job.
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I already ignore my 3 voicemail boxes. I can't stand youtube "articles" where they drone on for 20 minutes in what should have been a 2 paragraph piece of text.
I can scan over a few hundred emails in the time it takes to listen to a single voicemail, which is all this is.
The Republican Party and Democratic Party have all the same rights as the Liberatarian Party the Green Party and the American Nazi Party...
They're "private" parties who allow their registered members to cast a vote for their favorite candidate but ultimately the leaders in the party determine who has the best chance of winning and puts them forward as a presidential candidate.
The confusion here seems to be people thinking that political parties are government operated and that primaries are legitimate pre-voting or something.
People are ignorant, they get their "facts" from Facebook memes and yeah, kids have no idea what capitalism actually is or experience in the real world. You can poll the same kids and ask them "should everyone automatically receive $10,000/week in America" and they'd also say 'yes'.
I agree on the error codes, getting the same useless error for all error conditions sucks.
However, the reason pretty much everyone wants to do away with flash (besides all the exploits) is (mostly) because it doesn't support byte range requests. This sounds trivial but it leads to some huge headaches and inefficiencies that HTML5 cures.
Seeking videos in flash requires that the web server understand and act on the start=? parameter (where ? = seconds into a video for MP4, bytes for FLV). This means the server has to have the entire file (this is a huge problem for CDN providers), it has to read and understand the metadata (which may be at the END of the file), it has to then use that metadata to seek as far as the client requested into the video (which it may not have yet), then finally append a new header/metadata and start serving those bits to the client.
With HTML5 the client simply says 'give me this file starting at X bytes' via a HTTP range request. No metadata handling necessary, and no need for massive software infrastructure upgrades to handle new container formats. (For a CDN the range request can be directly passed through and handled by the midtier or origin that actually has the file)
TLDR; Flash makes web servers do stuff they shouldn't be doing, HTML5 video playing fixes that.
The thing is, they don't have to be. A housing unit is built, quality LED bulbs are installed and 20 something years later someone looks up in shock because the light didn't turn on this time.
The incandescent legislation is annoying but necessary. People are generally stupid and won't think 5 minutes ahead no matter how beneficial it is. The people that really want to keep incandescent bulbs for some reason can find them online (and it's not illegal to use/have/buy them, despite the extreme right wing crazies saying it is)
I've installed thousands of LED bulbs in businesses (thanks Xcel energy rebates!) as a side gig. None of them have gone out, nobody can tell they're LED and they've made a huge dent in the electric bills (A/C and raw lighting costs)
I completely agree. I grew up making mud pies, eating dirt, playing in the woods and generally living in the opposite of a clean home. The only allergy I have is cat scratches and dander -- my mother hated cats and refused to have any around.
Meanwhile I now live in Minneapolis and we've got all these tards talking about how there's "chemicals" in their food and they're "gluten intolerant" and they use their own and their bubble boy kids immune responses as evidence that they're right.
We were using it for IRC way back then, they're called channels.
What was old is new again.
They don't have to search for it. Google does a lot of data storage, I'm sure they use deduplication. They have a list of known kiddie porn image hashes from the government which they check the dedup table for. Any accounts with messages matching those hashes would be reported.
Like it or not, they're still not reading your email.
I would recommend this book to anyone, it's an easy read and thought provoking.
Holy shit, CHEMICALS! RUN FOR THE HILLS! The dihydrogen monoxide is going to kill you!
Rain and snow definitely cause a fade in signal strength but if you've properly engineered the link you'll stay within acceptable signal levels. The WISP I worked for in Minnesota had to deal with plenty of rain and snow..
Anyone setting up commercial wireless links should know that they have to engineer for worst possible scenarios.
With appropriate directional antennas you can actually go quite a distance (easily 5 miles) while observing all the regulations.
They're trying to protect Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, they've added restrictions on the upper band but removed the indoor restrictions on the lower (5.2ghz) band. A fair tradeoff in the opinion of someone that used to work at a WISP.
Unless your device is beaconing for networks in your saved networks list (WHICH ONLY HAPPENS for networks that do not transmit their SSID) a client *never* sends out probes, so there is no opportunity to randomize the MAC address.
If your device is listening for WiFi beacons and finds one in your saved network list, it *must* associate with your actual MAC address.
In other words, the teeny tiny percentage of the population with hidden SSIDs in their WiFi network list will benefit from this, nobody else. It would have been a lot better if they had done this with bluetooth.
You're missing the fact that Netflix is in all of those data centers. The problem is that Comcast is intentionally degrading their peering in those data centers meet-me rooms in an attempt to get more direct customers.
Furthermore, if you're large enough Netflix will actually supply servers that you can plug into your network to provide the top x percentile of content -- for free.
This is purely a Comcast wants more money and hates video competition issue.
Not necessarily a bad thing, since it means that you can have your strong local signals but don't pollute the spectrum in an entire neighborhood. We would have all been a lot better off if baby monitors, cordless phones, etc had all started in the mid GHz range.
I blame "Family Matters" for telling an entire generation of black kids that they definitely don't want to grow up to be Steve Urkel (to the point that Steve transformed himself into Stefan Urquelle, the suave lady catching cool cat).
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Bull. Palm/Handspring devices had a ton of apps around then, I had a Handspring Prism w/ GSM module that I could IRC, SSH, browse the web and whatever else from in 2000.
My Symbian phone not-too-long-after (Nokia 6600) had all the same apps in a more compact package. The whole 'mobile ecosystem' did NOT begin with Apple or Android.
Maybe they're trying to reCOUP their losses? (Eh? Ehh?)
I see what you did there...
The problem isn't the people having a conversation at a sensible level. The problem is the asshole that turns on speakerphone at full blast and yells at his phone as he's waving it around in the air just because he doesn't want to hold it up to his ear.
Think of every annoying thing you've ever seen people do on a call, then imagine being stuck sitting next to those people for a 3 hour flight.
I work for a hosting company, Drupal is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen, along with all the other CMS/"frameworks".
These people hire some cheap agency (usually outsourced), they throw something together with Drupal, then the customer screams and yells when it completely fails at actual high traffic loads.
The facts don't really matter, "You're holding it wrong" is still relevant and funny.
Your Palo Alto firewalls only work because the (self signed) global wildcard certificate they use has been manually installed on every client on the network, and is trusted by those devices.
Unless you can trick a user on a public wifi hotspot into accepting your self signed global certificate their browser will not validate the connection or pass data without a big red warning screen.
Does this remind anyone else about Hawat and the cat he has to milk daily to keep the Baron's poison from killing him?
This is precisely why I am not worried about outsourcing. Look at India, China, or any other 'cheap labor' country. The average income is increasing by leaps and bounds, their *standard of living* is increasing substantially. At some point it becomes too expensive to outsource and those jobs come back home.
No, money isn't the "divine paper, the one and true savior of all mankind" as a child post put it, but in the world we live in it's the best way to allow for fluid bartering between man hours and standards of living.
The hope (and reality) is that all "third world" nations will become educated competitors which increases the overall education and happiness of all mankind, quality of products, and technology in general. Too many Americans are liberal idiots that think that government handouts are the solution when there are many people in poorer nations that are hoping for the opportunity to *WORK* for a living and *EARN* their income.
Fuck the '99%', turn off your cable/cell phone/internet, sell your iPhone/PowerBook/designer clothes and get a real job.