Not true actually; I'd say everyone sees that pattern, and those who are cs geeks but aren't drug users have to be just as discrete. Of course, this ignores the part of the culture of people who's social skills are limited enough that they never even realize the drug use going on, as they're too focused on their own problem set to care.
Uhhh...what does the Internet have to do with anything? The average voter in the USA is 64 years old, they wouldn't know the Internet from a series of tubes, and thanks to the ever rising price of the Internet thanks to ISP gouging I bet if you looked at the numbers the majority of the poor don't even have Internet access, which of course makes the MSM overlords VERY happy as they are the only source of info and entertainment. Hell I live in a 95 unit apt building, know how many other here have the net? ONE, one guy, far end of the hall, has DSL, that's it. I'm rocking this cable line because there isn't another person on this block that has cable net and at $119 a month I know why.
so the net will NOT save us, in fact access is more restricted now than in the days of dialup. In the days of dialup if you could find an old 286 cheap you could at least afford to get on, now the ever rising ISP gouging has made it too high for the poor and the older folks simply don't see a use for it. last numbers I saw had the majority on the net between 25-45 and we cynical bastards don't vote because we know its a sham, so what good is the Internet gonna do, besides give you porn and memes?
No, it's not. And those who slip up while doing it eventually get found out and get in plenty of trouble -- usually beyond the "relocated after a paid vacation" type of penalty (but not always, if what they did was in "good faith").
When you get something that's not written to use a proprietary system like Java, then we'll talk. Till then, "freenet" really isn't "Free" and it's utter shit.
In the same vein, Apple computers are better than Microsoft computers because they can use more than 8.2 characters for filenames...
Really... you HAVE heard of OpenJRE, right? Besides that, ALL software runs on proprietary systems unless you've found a way to actually set up a system with fully open hardware, embedded software and firmware.
Sure, you can have paranoia regarding JRE having a back door in it somewhere... but you could say the same thing about the chips in your computer. It doesn't make Freenet any less "free" as in cost, and minimally so in speech.
Not that I've used it in the past 10 years... it's just not worth it.
Its NOT that "different is unelectable" its "different gets banned from the MSM by the corporate overlords" so that John and Jane Public never hear of it, simple as that.
If you don't believe me look up "John Stewart Ron Paul" and you'll find a video where he just strung together clips of the entire MSM treating Paul as "he who shall not be named" even going so far as to name one two and FOUR on a list but being DAMNED careful to avoid even saying the name who who came in third. The clip ends with a clip of a reporter actually saying to an anchor "We are here talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than in Paul who is climbing up in the polls and appearing here tonight" and the anchor gets a douchebag smirk and says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie let us know, you can keep the Paul stuff"
So its actually very simple, its no different than "free speech zones" a mile away from the nearest camera. Since the entire MSM is owned by a handful of billionaires THEY, not you, get to decide who runs, because they control the airwaves, they decide what clips to broadcast of any debate, they can make anyone who doesn't suck the corporate cock come off like a nut or even just make them magically disappear by not even acknowledging their existence.
30 years ago, music sharing was copying cassettes...in person. And sharing government secrets was done largely in person, too, spy to spy agency.
15 years ago, music sharing was Napster. Downloading from a centralized source. Ditto for Wikileaks.
Today, music sharing is "in the cloud", decentralized, private, and often encrypted. Seems only natural for Project Tyler (which desperately needs a new name) to do the same.
Sounds good, except Project Freenet came out around the same time as Napster (late 1999, early 2000), and does everything Project Tyler is attempting to do.
The downside to Freenet is that unused content will atrophy -- but supposedly this would work well for leaks, as you'd have a limited time to grab the information that was leaked, but unimportant stuff would eventually expire.
Plumbing can be done badly by someone without smarts; a proper plumbing job -- knowing when to use copper, when PVC, when something else, what the optimum grade for laying the pipes is, etc. is just as technical as anything a technologist or medical practicioner does.
Strongly disagree, and here's why. Any asshole with a book full of tables and instructions can do what a plumber does. Any asshole with a book full of tables and instructions is probably going to kill anyone they try to perform surgery on. "Technologist" doesn't mean anything. Probably anyone can be trained to administer a thing. Probably not everyone can be a successful all-encompassing systems administrator, who is a sort of digital renaissance [wo]man.
True to some degree. Except that any asshole with a book full of tables can't actually do what a plumber does, as they need to have an advanced enough level of abstract thought and general competence to grok the tables and instructions. Plus, good soldering takes practice. You do have a point in that anyone who knows their way around building up a circuit board (including routing, parts selection, soldering) can probably do the job of a plumber with ease, and many plumbers would never be able to build up a board. But the tasks really are equal -- they take patience, research skills, a good memory, a steady hand, decent eyesight and a solid understanding of the task at hand.
The problem is that when most people think "plumber" they think "guy who plumbs in a new sink". That's equivalent to calling a surgeon "the guy who cuts people open" or a circuit board designer "the guy who puts chips on a board". A real master plumber is someone who can design the entire water system and implement it at lowest cost and highest efficiency, in a way that it will last for over 30 years without problems. I've known a few of these guys, and they are just as sharp as the others we're discussing. There's a reason plumbers use the apprenticeship model, and don't just take a written and practical test to get their master's in plumbing.
After living for many years in Cambridge, I have become accustomed to this attitude. I want to make a T-shirt "I act like I am smarter than you because I am. I go to MIT".
I've always wondered about this particular attitude. People are supposed to go to school to learn and to make social connections.
This means that if you're going to MIT, by definition you still have something to learn. Therefore, there are people with more knowledge than you, and you are likely surrounded by people who are smarter than you in your areas of competence. This should be enough to kill the attitude, but it rarely is.
Oh man, I remember that experience--leaving college thinking that people would be LINING UP to hire me, fighting one another to get a piece of my brilliance....Only to have the reality hit that no one was nearly as impressed as I had expected them to be.
This is why co-ops and internships are so necessary as part of an education.
Plumbing can be done badly by someone without smarts; a proper plumbing job -- knowing when to use copper, when PVC, when something else, what the optimum grade for laying the pipes is, etc. is just as technical as anything a technologist or medical practicioner does. In fact, the parallels between plumbing and PCB layout are striking -- with the difference that you have to deal with gravity and environmental impact instead of RF interference, and have a wider selection of materials to choose from. There's also the fact that each plumbing job is done by hand instead of just having to do the layout and then sending it to the printer for replication.
If your "live stream" is only viewable by a select group of devices I don't consider that "live".
Lame way to get a more favorable audience for the initial views and reports.
If my production of Hamlet is only viewable by those who bought tickets, do you consider it "live"?
I think you're getting confused between "live" and "public". "Live" means real-time. It says nothing about accessiblity or who is watching (see C-SPAN).
Depends... if they're selling to the US, it could possibly be shut down, as the drugs wouldn't be FDA-tested, and so puchasing/delivering to the US is just as illegal as Cocaine.
If they're only selling to countries where their drugs are legal trade, then there shouldn't be a problem.
What they're forgetting to take into account is who subscribes to Newsweek: Doctors who often have patients waiting for an appointment. Who is going to subscribe to a Newsweek that can't be left out for patients to read while they wait for the doctor to see them?
The doctors of the future will have stacks of battered old iPad 2's on the table in the waiting area....
Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
Paypal is not a bank... eBay is not an auction... I admit to having accounts for both, but I haven't really used them in the past 5 years. Craigslist is a more important online marketplace than eBay. Hey... even Kijii is a more important online marketplace than eBay these days. There's almost no reason to try to buy/sell through eBay these days; others do both better. So the Paypal lock-in is irrelevant.
For Paypal, because they don't have banking protections, they're open to all sorts of interstate criminal offences if they make the wrong move. So while I somewhat agree with your view as far as corporate rights go, PayPal/eBay don't really stand up as an argument, as there are plenty of controls in place for them already.
For me, corporate rights aren't that big of a deal -- it's corporate protections that are a big deal. I really dislike that my tax money is going to protect/support an entity whose purpose is to extract as much money from me as possible. If I refuse to let them do this, they just grab it via the government instead (through a combination of laws, treaties, levies and bailouts).
“Gold solidi were extremely valuable coins and were not traded or exchanged on a regular basis. They would have been used for large transactions such as buying land or goods by the shipload.”
...and this entire hoard of these is now worth £100,000... where buying land will put you in the range of £250,000 at a bare minimum.
Coins just aren't worth what they used to be. I suggest he look elsewhere for a better exchange rate.
So you can only "Limit Ad Tracking" and not fully disable it? Ummm ok..
It doesn't disable it, because any time someone's using iAds, someone gets your connection info -- and anytime you browse websites, cookies are dropped and IPs and browser info are recorded. I can just imagine the lawsuits that would occur if they said they were disabling Ad Tracking and some site used an ad to successfully track someone.
What products is this spooking idiot users into buying again? Sophos doesn't sell to consumers, they sell to IT, and the only iOS apps they "sell" are free or bundled with some enterprise contract.... They might have spook articles on that blog, but this didn't seem to be one of them.
And I didn't know about IDFA, and it wasn't in the Security/Privacy sections where I'd expect it (I mean... About? Really? You hide an information security option in the About section, which should only have information "about" the product???).
As a result of this article, I'm now planning to go through the Settings app thoroughly after each iOS update from now on.
Mine was off as well, and I don't think I've ever seen that setting before. I got the "default on" from TFA, so maybe that isn't correct?
The TFA says "default off" -- that's kind of what the article was all about, other than discussing the fact that Apple is fostering confusion by making you "enable" the feature to disable a feature.
You don't use tablets for High Performance computing.
They will use the tech specs to show that their new device is faster than the old one. But not comparing it to another product. Why? First when you compare different architectures you are comparing apples with oranges.
Or in this case, apples with lemons?
But you're right. Tech specs make almost no sense on this level when dealing with appliances (and the tablets are definitely appliances). The quetions should be "what can it do?" and "what can I do?" along with "which is easier/more productive to use?"
All my devices are compatible too... they all have bluetooth and WiFi and apps (some built-in) that support integration over these transport systems.
I still remember the days of trying to get my RS232-only computer to transfer a file to my ethernet-only computer; luckily the ethernet-only one also had a built-in modem, so I created a null-modem link and transfered data at 56 baud.
The only time I plug my mobile devices into USB is when I want to charge them. Then the sync and transfer functions also kick in which is just an added bonus: after all, charging takes a lot longer than syncing, even over WiFi.
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Not true actually; I'd say everyone sees that pattern, and those who are cs geeks but aren't drug users have to be just as discrete. Of course, this ignores the part of the culture of people who's social skills are limited enough that they never even realize the drug use going on, as they're too focused on their own problem set to care.
Uhhh...what does the Internet have to do with anything? The average voter in the USA is 64 years old, they wouldn't know the Internet from a series of tubes, and thanks to the ever rising price of the Internet thanks to ISP gouging I bet if you looked at the numbers the majority of the poor don't even have Internet access, which of course makes the MSM overlords VERY happy as they are the only source of info and entertainment. Hell I live in a 95 unit apt building, know how many other here have the net? ONE, one guy, far end of the hall, has DSL, that's it. I'm rocking this cable line because there isn't another person on this block that has cable net and at $119 a month I know why.
so the net will NOT save us, in fact access is more restricted now than in the days of dialup. In the days of dialup if you could find an old 286 cheap you could at least afford to get on, now the ever rising ISP gouging has made it too high for the poor and the older folks simply don't see a use for it. last numbers I saw had the majority on the net between 25-45 and we cynical bastards don't vote because we know its a sham, so what good is the Internet gonna do, besides give you porn and memes?
...whoosh....
No, it's not. And those who slip up while doing it eventually get found out and get in plenty of trouble -- usually beyond the "relocated after a paid vacation" type of penalty (but not always, if what they did was in "good faith").
When you get something that's not written to use a proprietary system like Java, then we'll talk. Till then, "freenet" really isn't "Free" and it's utter shit.
In the same vein, Apple computers are better than Microsoft computers because they can use more than 8.2 characters for filenames...
Really... you HAVE heard of OpenJRE, right? Besides that, ALL software runs on proprietary systems unless you've found a way to actually set up a system with fully open hardware, embedded software and firmware.
Sure, you can have paranoia regarding JRE having a back door in it somewhere... but you could say the same thing about the chips in your computer. It doesn't make Freenet any less "free" as in cost, and minimally so in speech.
Not that I've used it in the past 10 years... it's just not worth it.
Its NOT that "different is unelectable" its "different gets banned from the MSM by the corporate overlords" so that John and Jane Public never hear of it, simple as that.
If you don't believe me look up "John Stewart Ron Paul" and you'll find a video where he just strung together clips of the entire MSM treating Paul as "he who shall not be named" even going so far as to name one two and FOUR on a list but being DAMNED careful to avoid even saying the name who who came in third. The clip ends with a clip of a reporter actually saying to an anchor "We are here talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than in Paul who is climbing up in the polls and appearing here tonight" and the anchor gets a douchebag smirk and says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie let us know, you can keep the Paul stuff"
So its actually very simple, its no different than "free speech zones" a mile away from the nearest camera. Since the entire MSM is owned by a handful of billionaires THEY, not you, get to decide who runs, because they control the airwaves, they decide what clips to broadcast of any debate, they can make anyone who doesn't suck the corporate cock come off like a nut or even just make them magically disappear by not even acknowledging their existence.
Isn't the internet wonderful?
30 years ago, music sharing was copying cassettes...in person. And sharing government secrets was done largely in person, too, spy to spy agency.
15 years ago, music sharing was Napster. Downloading from a centralized source. Ditto for Wikileaks.
Today, music sharing is "in the cloud", decentralized, private, and often encrypted. Seems only natural for Project Tyler (which desperately needs a new name) to do the same.
Sounds good, except Project Freenet came out around the same time as Napster (late 1999, early 2000), and does everything Project Tyler is attempting to do.
The downside to Freenet is that unused content will atrophy -- but supposedly this would work well for leaks, as you'd have a limited time to grab the information that was leaked, but unimportant stuff would eventually expire.
Plumbing can be done badly by someone without smarts; a proper plumbing job -- knowing when to use copper, when PVC, when something else, what the optimum grade for laying the pipes is, etc. is just as technical as anything a technologist or medical practicioner does.
Strongly disagree, and here's why. Any asshole with a book full of tables and instructions can do what a plumber does. Any asshole with a book full of tables and instructions is probably going to kill anyone they try to perform surgery on. "Technologist" doesn't mean anything. Probably anyone can be trained to administer a thing. Probably not everyone can be a successful all-encompassing systems administrator, who is a sort of digital renaissance [wo]man.
True to some degree. Except that any asshole with a book full of tables can't actually do what a plumber does, as they need to have an advanced enough level of abstract thought and general competence to grok the tables and instructions. Plus, good soldering takes practice.
You do have a point in that anyone who knows their way around building up a circuit board (including routing, parts selection, soldering) can probably do the job of a plumber with ease, and many plumbers would never be able to build up a board. But the tasks really are equal -- they take patience, research skills, a good memory, a steady hand, decent eyesight and a solid understanding of the task at hand.
The problem is that when most people think "plumber" they think "guy who plumbs in a new sink". That's equivalent to calling a surgeon "the guy who cuts people open" or a circuit board designer "the guy who puts chips on a board". A real master plumber is someone who can design the entire water system and implement it at lowest cost and highest efficiency, in a way that it will last for over 30 years without problems. I've known a few of these guys, and they are just as sharp as the others we're discussing. There's a reason plumbers use the apprenticeship model, and don't just take a written and practical test to get their master's in plumbing.
After living for many years in Cambridge, I have become accustomed to this attitude. I want to make a T-shirt "I act like I am smarter than you because I am. I go to MIT".
I've always wondered about this particular attitude. People are supposed to go to school to learn and to make social connections.
This means that if you're going to MIT, by definition you still have something to learn. Therefore, there are people with more knowledge than you, and you are likely surrounded by people who are smarter than you in your areas of competence. This should be enough to kill the attitude, but it rarely is.
Oh man, I remember that experience--leaving college thinking that people would be LINING UP to hire me, fighting one another to get a piece of my brilliance. ...Only to have the reality hit that no one was nearly as impressed as I had expected them to be.
This is why co-ops and internships are so necessary as part of an education.
Plumbing can be done badly by someone without smarts; a proper plumbing job -- knowing when to use copper, when PVC, when something else, what the optimum grade for laying the pipes is, etc. is just as technical as anything a technologist or medical practicioner does. In fact, the parallels between plumbing and PCB layout are striking -- with the difference that you have to deal with gravity and environmental impact instead of RF interference, and have a wider selection of materials to choose from. There's also the fact that each plumbing job is done by hand instead of just having to do the layout and then sending it to the printer for replication.
I think that would be a porcine doll.
Who are you calling a doll?
If your "live stream" is only viewable by a select group of devices I don't consider that "live".
Lame way to get a more favorable audience for the initial views and reports.
If my production of Hamlet is only viewable by those who bought tickets, do you consider it "live"?
I think you're getting confused between "live" and "public". "Live" means real-time. It says nothing about accessiblity or who is watching (see C-SPAN).
Depends... if they're selling to the US, it could possibly be shut down, as the drugs wouldn't be FDA-tested, and so puchasing/delivering to the US is just as illegal as Cocaine.
If they're only selling to countries where their drugs are legal trade, then there shouldn't be a problem.
That is an overstatement. You have actually contradicted yourself.
(Gasp) How shocking!
Also, how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?
More voltage, more amps?
...and the modification to the standard: a switch from AC to DC, meaning less energy lost to heat in the higher-speed transfers.
doh! s/a switch from AC to/an addition of/
Also, how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?
More voltage, more amps?
...and the modification to the standard: a switch from AC to DC, meaning less energy lost to heat in the higher-speed transfers.
What they're forgetting to take into account is who subscribes to Newsweek: Doctors who often have patients waiting for an appointment. Who is going to subscribe to a Newsweek that can't be left out for patients to read while they wait for the doctor to see them?
The doctors of the future will have stacks of battered old iPad 2's on the table in the waiting area....
Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
Paypal is not a bank... eBay is not an auction...
I admit to having accounts for both, but I haven't really used them in the past 5 years. Craigslist is a more important online marketplace than eBay. Hey... even Kijii is a more important online marketplace than eBay these days. There's almost no reason to try to buy/sell through eBay these days; others do both better. So the Paypal lock-in is irrelevant.
For Paypal, because they don't have banking protections, they're open to all sorts of interstate criminal offences if they make the wrong move. So while I somewhat agree with your view as far as corporate rights go, PayPal/eBay don't really stand up as an argument, as there are plenty of controls in place for them already.
For me, corporate rights aren't that big of a deal -- it's corporate protections that are a big deal. I really dislike that my tax money is going to protect/support an entity whose purpose is to extract as much money from me as possible. If I refuse to let them do this, they just grab it via the government instead (through a combination of laws, treaties, levies and bailouts).
“Gold solidi were extremely valuable coins and were not traded or exchanged on a regular basis. They would have been used for large transactions such as buying land or goods by the shipload.”
...and this entire hoard of these is now worth £100,000... where buying land will put you in the range of £250,000 at a bare minimum.
Coins just aren't worth what they used to be. I suggest he look elsewhere for a better exchange rate.
So you can only "Limit Ad Tracking" and not fully disable it? Ummm ok..
It doesn't disable it, because any time someone's using iAds, someone gets your connection info -- and anytime you browse websites, cookies are dropped and IPs and browser info are recorded. I can just imagine the lawsuits that would occur if they said they were disabling Ad Tracking and some site used an ad to successfully track someone.
What products is this spooking idiot users into buying again? Sophos doesn't sell to consumers, they sell to IT, and the only iOS apps they "sell" are free or bundled with some enterprise contract.... They might have spook articles on that blog, but this didn't seem to be one of them.
And I didn't know about IDFA, and it wasn't in the Security/Privacy sections where I'd expect it (I mean... About? Really? You hide an information security option in the About section, which should only have information "about" the product???).
As a result of this article, I'm now planning to go through the Settings app thoroughly after each iOS update from now on.
Mine was off as well, and I don't think I've ever seen that setting before. I got the "default on" from TFA, so maybe that isn't correct?
The TFA says "default off" -- that's kind of what the article was all about, other than discussing the fact that Apple is fostering confusion by making you "enable" the feature to disable a feature.
You don't use tablets for High Performance computing.
They will use the tech specs to show that their new device is faster than the old one. But not comparing it to another product. Why? First when you compare different architectures you are comparing apples with oranges.
Or in this case, apples with lemons?
But you're right. Tech specs make almost no sense on this level when dealing with appliances (and the tablets are definitely appliances). The quetions should be "what can it do?" and "what can I do?" along with "which is easier/more productive to use?"
All my devices are compatible too... they all have bluetooth and WiFi and apps (some built-in) that support integration over these transport systems.
I still remember the days of trying to get my RS232-only computer to transfer a file to my ethernet-only computer; luckily the ethernet-only one also had a built-in modem, so I created a null-modem link and transfered data at 56 baud.
The only time I plug my mobile devices into USB is when I want to charge them. Then the sync and transfer functions also kick in which is just an added bonus: after all, charging takes a lot longer than syncing, even over WiFi.
"...there was unbiased info if you chose to look for it."
Translation: "...he included facts in his comparison."
The problem of course, is that facts can be misleading... depending on which facts you leave out, the narrative can look significantly different.