If being online is adversely affecting your health, sanity, and happiness, you probably suffer from chronic road rage as well. Stop getting overwrought by things beyond your ability to control or influence, and give up your impulse to correct every mistake and your tendency to be outraged by opinions you don't share.
2. Shouldn't the government have a track of all the email sent on its servers. And we just pull all of them that went to Clinton's server and we will know what sensitive information that went across.
This assumes that whoever sent the sensitive information to her wasn't using a non-government email service as well.
Well, as it turns out, "unthaw" is actually a word, and in North America, it means the same as "thaw" when it's used as a verb (as you did). When used as in the sentence "you can cook prawns from frozen by plunging them, unthawed, into boiling water", it means frozen. I hereby retract my snark. Credit to Oxford Dictionary.
TFA does not say much... as, for example, an "explosion" of what kind that was supposed to be. There aren't so many components usually built into washing machines that could "explode" on their own, with nobody adding highly energetic substances to the mix.
That's what I was thinking. Most washing machine explosions are connected to an idiot washing rags soaked in something flammable.
Are they still being made? I thought they died out somewhere in the early 1970s.
Of course they're still being made. They're popular with people who subscribe to the Netflix DVD service, buy their music on CDs, run Windows on their computers, and do their own driving.
Seriously, though -- 75% of washing machines in use in the US are top loaders, though the trend is in favor of front loaders. They're cheaper (by a factor of approximately 2), more flexible (try adding clothes to a front-loader after the cycle has started), less mechanically complex, less prone to produce vibration, and more ergonomically friendly (no bending way down to put clothes in or take them out). Front loaders use less water and spin faster. And, apparently, are on rare occasions subject to rapid unplanned disassembly.
Mmmmm... so you say we should stop all scientific advances until we solve all the other, more basic problems? We should concentrate the whole planet on working only to eliminate poverty?
Or maybe some of the advances we make at the top of Maslow's pyramid will someday serve the ones struggling for the bottom of it... I mean, like 3D printing. Right now, it's still a novelty, in use for a very small fraction humans. Someday, maybe it's going to be the cheapest way to have a hamburger, and our African friends will be able to have one everyday. Not that it won't cause other problems though, it it will solve one.
Also have a look at this, rethink your answer.
As the world goes forward in scientific advances, poverty recedes.
It's a good thing trickle-down problem-solving works, because it's common knowledge that trickle-down economics does not.
Go be fat, disgusting, lazy, undisciplined, uneducated and unhealthy somewhere else...like Mars. Since fat people don't do anything for the world in life, maybe they can contribute some small amount in death.
The ghosts of Winston Churchill, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Ben Franklin, Babe Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Thomas Aquinas, Queen Victoria, and Theodore Roosevelt would like a word with you. The rest of us are mildly curious about what you as an individual have done "for the world".
So what about other countries in the world? I know US thinks "we're #1" but since when are they the barometer against which all the worlds spending is compared? Is all online shopping in the world done in the United States? I hardly think so... I'd be interested to know if that 55% is the same in Canada, or China. I'd wager no.
TFS clearly states that the cited statistic is for the US. Here's an idea: why don't you do some research and submit your own article about the statistics in Canada or China or the world?
IIRC you have to have a kindle to be able to read a free ebook. The kindle app does not qualify.
Sorry; your recollection is not correct, at least not at this flaming instant in time. Just "bought for free" one of this month's selections, downloaded it to my phone, and skimmed the first few pages with the Kindle app.
"The police told me they'd be back if it happened again." For what crime? Is it normal for police in Canada to threaten to invade an innocent couple's home for doing something legal?
As someone else pointed out, Seattle WA; not Canada.
Anyway, there are a couple of other points to make here:
Knocking on the door and executing a legal search warrant is not what most reasonable people think of when they see words like 'raid' and 'invasion'.
If the couple keep operating the exit node and the police trace another child porn upload to them, they risk being prosecuted for facilitating a crime. It's a bit of a stretch, but still a real risk.
Honestly, 56k ? Does that still exist in any country also featuring Fiber ?
Best Buy lists a 56k dial-up modem priced at $50. 133 reviews, 4/5 stars. So yeah, that still exists. Gotta say, though, that some of the customer questions are pretty hilarious (or maybe just sad): "Will this connect DSL line to a cable modem router?" "Can we use this for a USB port on the router to use as a phone line?" And the winner: "Can I connect it to a led flat screen TV to surf the internet. By the way, the TV has Roku streaming connected to it."
In your eagerness to dismiss my comment, you may have missed the part where the TSA is already engaged in behavioral profiling despite not having any previous baselines to compare people's behavior to. Of course this means it's useless for detecting the emotions of random people in a TSA screening line, but that hasn't stopped the TSA from putting it in place.
Profiling based upon observable behaviors is not remotely similar to detecting emotions base upon RF detection. One requires calibration of an individual's "signature"; the other does not. This is not to claim that the TSA's method of behavioral screening is effective compare to, say, the methods used by El Al airline screeners; in fact, the TSA's general approach to providing security theatre as opposed to genuine security pretty much predicts that it won't be effective at all.
Ultimately this will just be another augment to automated monitoring, for use in any place where there is benefit to knowing people's emotions but a cost associated with having a human watch them all the time.
Like the TSA security check points at airports?
The TSA already tries to do behavioral profiling. I could see them jumping all over this as the latest magic cure-all to make up for the incompetence of their screeners who miss 95% of the things they're supposed to be watching for.
In your eagerness to point out the ineptness of the TSA, you may have missed the part where each individual's emotional responses have to be measured before subsequent emotional responses can be identified. Of course, this means it's useless for detecting the emotions of people who haven't been previously baselined, e.g., random people in a TSA screening line.
it is very easy, freedom of movement is fundamental for the tech companies which relies on recruiting labour from the whole continent. This is unlikely to be possible without having to go through a lot of red tape.
Last time we recruited from outside the EU, the red tape took close to 6 months to go through.
The Schengen area and the EU are different things. Does Brexit mean the UK is backing out of the Schengen treaty?
Yeah, good point. Why would someone pay fifty cents to get $1000 in wages now, instead of waiting a week or a month? Sounds crazy to me. Why isn't everyone like me?
So gig workers are making $1000/day? Why isn't everyone like them?
This, folks, is why you should pay attention to who runs for state attorney general.
Or maybe this is why you should learn to advocate effectively for yourself. Verizon tried to bill me for a data overage a little over a year ago. I called them, told the representative that I thought the bill was in error, and asked him to look at my data usage history over the previous two years. He did, and then not only reversed the overage charge, but gave me a "bonus" package that tripled my monthly data allocation for the next year to compensate me for my inconvenience.
I've gone through similar exercises quite a few times with cable providers, insurance companies, and other businesses that have reputations for always wanting to screw over the customer, and I've found that a calm but resolute approach, in combination with a little data, works wonders.
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If being online is adversely affecting your health, sanity, and happiness, you probably suffer from chronic road rage as well. Stop getting overwrought by things beyond your ability to control or influence, and give up your impulse to correct every mistake and your tendency to be outraged by opinions you don't share.
Oh, and oblig. xkcd.
Besides, worthwhile headphones don't come with an 1/8 inch jack anyway.
Correct. They come with a 1/8 inch plug.
2. Shouldn't the government have a track of all the email sent on its servers. And we just pull all of them that went to Clinton's server and we will know what sensitive information that went across.
This assumes that whoever sent the sensitive information to her wasn't using a non-government email service as well.
Also, intent matters when determining guilt.
I suggest you try, "Officer, I didn't see the sign" the next time you're pulled over for running a stop sign.
Maybe you should tell these people about it.
Well, as it turns out, "unthaw" is actually a word, and in North America, it means the same as "thaw" when it's used as a verb (as you did). When used as in the sentence "you can cook prawns from frozen by plunging them, unthawed, into boiling water", it means frozen. I hereby retract my snark. Credit to Oxford Dictionary.
Yes, Kindle First is the program. Free for Prime members; discounted for non-Prime, Kindle First subscribers.
TFA does not say much... as, for example, an "explosion" of what kind that was supposed to be. There aren't so many components usually built into washing machines that could "explode" on their own, with nobody adding highly energetic substances to the mix.
That's what I was thinking. Most washing machine explosions are connected to an idiot washing rags soaked in something flammable.
Are they still being made? I thought they died out somewhere in the early 1970s.
Of course they're still being made. They're popular with people who subscribe to the Netflix DVD service, buy their music on CDs, run Windows on their computers, and do their own driving.
Seriously, though -- 75% of washing machines in use in the US are top loaders, though the trend is in favor of front loaders. They're cheaper (by a factor of approximately 2), more flexible (try adding clothes to a front-loader after the cycle has started), less mechanically complex, less prone to produce vibration, and more ergonomically friendly (no bending way down to put clothes in or take them out). Front loaders use less water and spin faster. And, apparently, are on rare occasions subject to rapid unplanned disassembly.
Mmmmm... so you say we should stop all scientific advances until we solve all the other, more basic problems? We should concentrate the whole planet on working only to eliminate poverty? Or maybe some of the advances we make at the top of Maslow's pyramid will someday serve the ones struggling for the bottom of it... I mean, like 3D printing. Right now, it's still a novelty, in use for a very small fraction humans. Someday, maybe it's going to be the cheapest way to have a hamburger, and our African friends will be able to have one everyday. Not that it won't cause other problems though, it it will solve one. Also have a look at this, rethink your answer. As the world goes forward in scientific advances, poverty recedes.
It's a good thing trickle-down problem-solving works, because it's common knowledge that trickle-down economics does not.
And on that date in the future when they unthaw your brain you will see not one but TWO stories on /. about it.
But not until it's old news. And by the way, "unthaw"?
Go be fat, disgusting, lazy, undisciplined, uneducated and unhealthy somewhere else...like Mars. Since fat people don't do anything for the world in life, maybe they can contribute some small amount in death.
The ghosts of Winston Churchill, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Ben Franklin, Babe Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Thomas Aquinas, Queen Victoria, and Theodore Roosevelt would like a word with you. The rest of us are mildly curious about what you as an individual have done "for the world".
So what about other countries in the world? I know US thinks "we're #1" but since when are they the barometer against which all the worlds spending is compared? Is all online shopping in the world done in the United States? I hardly think so... I'd be interested to know if that 55% is the same in Canada, or China. I'd wager no.
TFS clearly states that the cited statistic is for the US. Here's an idea: why don't you do some research and submit your own article about the statistics in Canada or China or the world?
IIRC you have to have a kindle to be able to read a free ebook. The kindle app does not qualify.
Sorry; your recollection is not correct, at least not at this flaming instant in time. Just "bought for free" one of this month's selections, downloaded it to my phone, and skimmed the first few pages with the Kindle app.
How is that strange? Microsoft forced all Win 7/8 computers to upgrade.
I have a couple of computers that disagree. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of others as well.
"The police told me they'd be back if it happened again." For what crime? Is it normal for police in Canada to threaten to invade an innocent couple's home for doing something legal?
As someone else pointed out, Seattle WA; not Canada.
Anyway, there are a couple of other points to make here:
Honestly, 56k ? Does that still exist in any country also featuring Fiber ?
Best Buy lists a 56k dial-up modem priced at $50. 133 reviews, 4/5 stars. So yeah, that still exists. Gotta say, though, that some of the customer questions are pretty hilarious (or maybe just sad): "Will this connect DSL line to a cable modem router?" "Can we use this for a USB port on the router to use as a phone line?" And the winner: "Can I connect it to a led flat screen TV to surf the internet. By the way, the TV has Roku streaming connected to it."
On the upside, with only 28 websites they don't really need domain name services, right?
Are you suggesting they should use... HOST FILES?
No, not at all. I'm suggesting that in a few minutes a person could access and bookmark all 28 websites via IP address.
...is number of websites a good criteria to judge level of technology?
When 28 websites represents an entire fucking country in the year 2016, yes. Yes, it does.
Well, that, and an entire generation of shitty haircuts.
On the upside, with only 28 websites they don't really need domain name services, right?
In your eagerness to dismiss my comment, you may have missed the part where the TSA is already engaged in behavioral profiling despite not having any previous baselines to compare people's behavior to. Of course this means it's useless for detecting the emotions of random people in a TSA screening line, but that hasn't stopped the TSA from putting it in place.
Profiling based upon observable behaviors is not remotely similar to detecting emotions base upon RF detection. One requires calibration of an individual's "signature"; the other does not. This is not to claim that the TSA's method of behavioral screening is effective compare to, say, the methods used by El Al airline screeners; in fact, the TSA's general approach to providing security theatre as opposed to genuine security pretty much predicts that it won't be effective at all.
Ultimately this will just be another augment to automated monitoring, for use in any place where there is benefit to knowing people's emotions but a cost associated with having a human watch them all the time.
Like the TSA security check points at airports?
The TSA already tries to do behavioral profiling. I could see them jumping all over this as the latest magic cure-all to make up for the incompetence of their screeners who miss 95% of the things they're supposed to be watching for.
In your eagerness to point out the ineptness of the TSA, you may have missed the part where each individual's emotional responses have to be measured before subsequent emotional responses can be identified. Of course, this means it's useless for detecting the emotions of people who haven't been previously baselined, e.g., random people in a TSA screening line.
it is very easy, freedom of movement is fundamental for the tech companies which relies on recruiting labour from the whole continent. This is unlikely to be possible without having to go through a lot of red tape.
Last time we recruited from outside the EU, the red tape took close to 6 months to go through.
The Schengen area and the EU are different things. Does Brexit mean the UK is backing out of the Schengen treaty?
So by having the option of accessing your pay immediately by paying a fifty cent fee means that the workers aren't happy and carefree? What the fuck?
Having the option doesn't mean that. Needing to exercise that option, on the other hand, probably does.
Yeah, good point. Why would someone pay fifty cents to get $1000 in wages now, instead of waiting a week or a month? Sounds crazy to me. Why isn't everyone like me?
So gig workers are making $1000/day? Why isn't everyone like them?
This, folks, is why you should pay attention to who runs for state attorney general.
Or maybe this is why you should learn to advocate effectively for yourself. Verizon tried to bill me for a data overage a little over a year ago. I called them, told the representative that I thought the bill was in error, and asked him to look at my data usage history over the previous two years. He did, and then not only reversed the overage charge, but gave me a "bonus" package that tripled my monthly data allocation for the next year to compensate me for my inconvenience.
I've gone through similar exercises quite a few times with cable providers, insurance companies, and other businesses that have reputations for always wanting to screw over the customer, and I've found that a calm but resolute approach, in combination with a little data, works wonders.