California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
Why would you sue or jail IBM when it was the government agency itself that uploaded the database to a cloud server and then emailed it? It's in the fucking summary.
We have the biggest, most complicated tax code in the history of the universe. We are also the only country that taxes its citizens for income earned while living and working in another country... even after they pay that country's taxes.
lmao I own an iphone 6 plus and I'm doing everything humanly possible to PREVENT updates. Because Apple really really wants you to upgrade your OS to the latest version, the phone will automatically download a 2 GB update, by itself, with no warning. And there's nothing you can do to prevent this, no amount of fiddling in settings will prevent this auto-update. Only thing that can stop it is jailbreaking, but currently there is no jailbreak for iOS 9 (which my phone is on).
Since there is no way to prevent it from the phone itself, you have to stop it on the network level. Which I did, by blocking the Apple update server on my Linksys router (it has a rudimentary firewall function). Here are the URLs you need to block if you don't want your phone auto-updating:
appldnld.apple.com mesu.apple.com
Why would I want to prevent auto updating, you ask? Because after a certain point (usually 2 number versions later) your old(der) phone will choke on the bloated new OS and run like complete shit. I've had iphones and ipads that came with iOS 4 from the factory. Ran beautifully, very smooth and snappy. A year later iOS 5 comes out and you upgrade to it. You get some new features but you notice some jittery-ness and slower response and longer loading times for the browser and so on. Still usable, but definitely slower than before.
Then another year later (it's been 2 years now since you bought the phone) you upgrade to iOS 6. Now is when shit hits the fan, your phone runs like complete utter garbage to the point where you don't wanna use it for anything except taking phone calls.
It seems like iOS 6 was a particularly bad version. Apparently Safari got a major upgrade with a new rendering engine or something, so older hardware really struggled with it. There were lots of complaints, people asking how to revert to the older iOS version 5 (you can't). So Apple said they addressed the issue a year later when iOS 7 came out. I upgraded, hoping it would be better. Turned out iOS 7 was slightly better in app loading times, but still just as bad in terms of response and navigating (slow slow slow). At this point I just said fuck it, you win Apple, I'll sell my old iphone and ipad on Ebay for pennies on the dollar and pony up for new shiny Apple shit. And I bent over and spread wide.
Anyways my current iphone 6 came with iOS 8 from the factory. I upgraded to 9, and as expected noticed some slowing but still quite usable. But now I know better than to upgrade to 10 or 11 or whatever the fuck they're on. So my phone will stay on 9 until the day it dies.
If wanna get in on the billionaire insider action, just buy Berkshire Hathaway shares. Warren Buffet knows a lot of shit that you don't, he's got connections. So when he makes money, YOU make money.
MS didn't just "increase campaign contributions", that doesn't accurately describe how things went down.
MS had *zero* lobbyists and made *zero* political contributions. Bill Gates was a naive computer nerd who thought corruption and shakedowns only happened in poor countries. Then when his company started making too much money in the 90's, suddenly it started getting all kinds of government trouble.
Bill, being a quick learner, rectified the situation and now MS has an army of full time lobbyists in Washington and a whole department dedicated to disbursing large sums of money as "contributions". And yes, their government problems went away.
It's a buyer's market. Amazon could've bought any one of the big grocery chains and the news would've crushed the stocks of all the ones he didn't buy.
i agree with you on principle, but really this is just fraction of a peanut compared to the massive organized fraud known as Hollywood accounting (where massive hit blockbuster movies that rake in huge money and spawn countless sequels, are somehow reported as losing money).
AFAIK nobody ever got arrested or indicted for Hollywood accounting, it's all been just civil lawsuits and secret settlements.
I know there are many good liberal people in the general population, but the liberals who happen to hold power in places like Hollywood and TV networks are some of the most dishonest corrupt people on earth.
it went out the window as soon as Eric Schmidt was installed as CEO. You know, Mr. "if you have something to hide, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".
And of course the entire executive staff at Google from CEO down went all-in on Hillary Clinton, the most evil politician to grace our national government in a long time. Not only did they personally donate money to the DNC as private individuals, Google the company itself pretty much did everything it could to pull for Hillary without drawing the ire of the FEC.
If she had become president, there's no doubt she would pull out all the stops and make every backroom deal necessary to make Google's Euro problem go away. But she lost, they bet on the wrong horse.
Now Google might still get off lightly. Trump is a dealmaker and he's been known to make deals with former enemies, so it's entirely possible he could help Google with their Euro problems if Google gives him something valuable. Maybe Google could promise to help him win reelection in 2020 (or at least stop pulling so hard for DNC like they did in 2016).
Majority of you are liberal environmentalists. There is nothing worse you can do for the environment than popping out another baby.
You can drive a gigantic diesel SUV and use plastic bags for everything and eat beef every day cooked over a coal fire, and as long as you didn't breed you'll be WAY greener than a Prius-driving tofu-eating vegan who bred.
You all should be admiring Japan's new achievement rather than fretting about how to help them grow their population.
I know a guy named Jim Chanos, he's been saying China's gonna crash for the past 5 years. People mock him because it didn't happen. I think it will though, eventually.
They fit in my cupholders and they are the cheapest way to buy spring water
What, you think the bottled water you buy comes from a fresh mountain stream? Well let's just assume for the sake of argument that it does. You can get just as clean (or better) water by simply running your tap water through a decent RO filter. It will cost you a lot less in the long run. And unless you live in a shithole place, your city's tap water is probably more than safe enough to drink right out of the faucet.
Anyways yeah, that's what I do, run tap water through a RO filter and put it in a sturdy water bottle. You can probably find one that fits in your cupholder.
btw I don't do this to save the earth, I do it because it's cheaper and because (I'm 99% certain) it's safer than trusting Nestle or Pepsico or whoever it was that bottled the "spring" water. And no I'm not against saving the earth, I would be all for it if it were in danger. But it's not.
Superior, FREE alternatives have existed for decades now
Well "decades ago", let's say year 2000, you had to do a lot of dicking around just to get simple shit like sound and wifi working on these free OSes. And half the time you couldn't get it right at all.
I will say that these days things have improved a lot in that regard. However if your #1 criterion for choosing an OS is the ability to run your custom applications, a free alternative that can't run them is hardly superior.
It's a good theory. Dogs = wolves in cuddly disguise. Wolves = meat eaters. Therefore dogs would do better eating only meat.
Unfortunately real life empirical data disproves this theory. Dogs eating nothing but supermarket dry dog food live far longer than any wolves.
If you want a more apples-to-apples comparison, take dogs than are given nothing but raw meat vs. dogs eating packaged dry dog food. Once again, meat eating dogs did not live any longer than dogfood eating dogs.
In 1929 when Joe Kennedy (JFK's dad) was getting his shoes polished, the shoe shine boy told him a tip about some hot stocks to buy. That's when he realized it was time to GTFO of the market, and so he remained a rich man and later was able to finance his son's career in politics.
What systems are affected? Windows and...? What is the attack vector, do you have to click on a suspicious link or is it like Wannacry where you don't have to do anything to get infected, just have a machine connected to the internet?
I did scanned TFA briefly but is skimpy on details.
Truly free communication is the greatest thing ever. It made the human race what it is and it's what could save us in the future.
What you see on Facebook (and the interwebz in general) is NOT free communication. It's a couple lines of text and emojis sent to people you've "friended" because you like them (meaning they think like you). It's an echo chamber of vacuous idle thoughts and social justice outrage.
Real free communication looks like... you sit down in face to face with a priest in a distraction and pressure-free environment and have a heart to heart talk, like confessing your sins. Or you're brainstorming in a workshop with your co-workers on an important project that you're all interested in succeeding.
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California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
Why would you sue or jail IBM when it was the government agency itself that uploaded the database to a cloud server and then emailed it? It's in the fucking summary.
We have the biggest, most complicated tax code in the history of the universe. We are also the only country that taxes its citizens for income earned while living and working in another country... even after they pay that country's taxes.
I mean the FILE link listed on the webpage is broken. This one:
You can disable automated downloading of iOS updates by installing the following tvOS Beta Configuration Profile.
interesting technique, I wanna do it but the link is dead (404 site not found)
lmao I own an iphone 6 plus and I'm doing everything humanly possible to PREVENT updates. Because Apple really really wants you to upgrade your OS to the latest version, the phone will automatically download a 2 GB update, by itself, with no warning. And there's nothing you can do to prevent this, no amount of fiddling in settings will prevent this auto-update. Only thing that can stop it is jailbreaking, but currently there is no jailbreak for iOS 9 (which my phone is on).
Since there is no way to prevent it from the phone itself, you have to stop it on the network level. Which I did, by blocking the Apple update server on my Linksys router (it has a rudimentary firewall function). Here are the URLs you need to block if you don't want your phone auto-updating:
appldnld.apple.com
mesu.apple.com
Why would I want to prevent auto updating, you ask? Because after a certain point (usually 2 number versions later) your old(der) phone will choke on the bloated new OS and run like complete shit. I've had iphones and ipads that came with iOS 4 from the factory. Ran beautifully, very smooth and snappy. A year later iOS 5 comes out and you upgrade to it. You get some new features but you notice some jittery-ness and slower response and longer loading times for the browser and so on. Still usable, but definitely slower than before.
Then another year later (it's been 2 years now since you bought the phone) you upgrade to iOS 6. Now is when shit hits the fan, your phone runs like complete utter garbage to the point where you don't wanna use it for anything except taking phone calls.
It seems like iOS 6 was a particularly bad version. Apparently Safari got a major upgrade with a new rendering engine or something, so older hardware really struggled with it. There were lots of complaints, people asking how to revert to the older iOS version 5 (you can't). So Apple said they addressed the issue a year later when iOS 7 came out. I upgraded, hoping it would be better. Turned out iOS 7 was slightly better in app loading times, but still just as bad in terms of response and navigating (slow slow slow). At this point I just said fuck it, you win Apple, I'll sell my old iphone and ipad on Ebay for pennies on the dollar and pony up for new shiny Apple shit. And I bent over and spread wide.
Anyways my current iphone 6 came with iOS 8 from the factory. I upgraded to 9, and as expected noticed some slowing but still quite usable. But now I know better than to upgrade to 10 or 11 or whatever the fuck they're on. So my phone will stay on 9 until the day it dies.
Sometimes developers meet with Russians. This could sink your business if CNN finds out.
If wanna get in on the billionaire insider action, just buy Berkshire Hathaway shares. Warren Buffet knows a lot of shit that you don't, he's got connections. So when he makes money, YOU make money.
MS didn't just "increase campaign contributions", that doesn't accurately describe how things went down.
MS had *zero* lobbyists and made *zero* political contributions. Bill Gates was a naive computer nerd who thought corruption and shakedowns only happened in poor countries. Then when his company started making too much money in the 90's, suddenly it started getting all kinds of government trouble.
Bill, being a quick learner, rectified the situation and now MS has an army of full time lobbyists in Washington and a whole department dedicated to disbursing large sums of money as "contributions". And yes, their government problems went away.
Mike Ermantraut told me
It's a buyer's market. Amazon could've bought any one of the big grocery chains and the news would've crushed the stocks of all the ones he didn't buy.
I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east when the only thing they have that's of any value is suddenly without value?
Move to France, duh
Macron said refugees are welcome. Let's hope he's still alive and in power in 2040 so we can take him up on his word.
i agree with you on principle, but really this is just fraction of a peanut compared to the massive organized fraud known as Hollywood accounting (where massive hit blockbuster movies that rake in huge money and spawn countless sequels, are somehow reported as losing money).
AFAIK nobody ever got arrested or indicted for Hollywood accounting, it's all been just civil lawsuits and secret settlements.
I know there are many good liberal people in the general population, but the liberals who happen to hold power in places like Hollywood and TV networks are some of the most dishonest corrupt people on earth.
it went out the window as soon as Eric Schmidt was installed as CEO. You know, Mr. "if you have something to hide, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".
And of course the entire executive staff at Google from CEO down went all-in on Hillary Clinton, the most evil politician to grace our national government in a long time. Not only did they personally donate money to the DNC as private individuals, Google the company itself pretty much did everything it could to pull for Hillary without drawing the ire of the FEC.
If she had become president, there's no doubt she would pull out all the stops and make every backroom deal necessary to make Google's Euro problem go away. But she lost, they bet on the wrong horse.
Now Google might still get off lightly. Trump is a dealmaker and he's been known to make deals with former enemies, so it's entirely possible he could help Google with their Euro problems if Google gives him something valuable. Maybe Google could promise to help him win reelection in 2020 (or at least stop pulling so hard for DNC like they did in 2016).
Majority of you are liberal environmentalists. There is nothing worse you can do for the environment than popping out another baby.
You can drive a gigantic diesel SUV and use plastic bags for everything and eat beef every day cooked over a coal fire, and as long as you didn't breed you'll be WAY greener than a Prius-driving tofu-eating vegan who bred.
You all should be admiring Japan's new achievement rather than fretting about how to help them grow their population.
didn't take no guff
water ought to be clean and free
so he fought the fight and he set things right
with his openBSD
sounds like another company called Hanergy
I know a guy named Jim Chanos, he's been saying China's gonna crash for the past 5 years. People mock him because it didn't happen. I think it will though, eventually.
Did the communist party ban all news outlets from viewing the launch? Confiscate cell phones from people in the area?
Otherwise it's hard to imagine how they launched such a big expensive rocket and not one person recorded it.
They fit in my cupholders and they are the cheapest way to buy spring water
What, you think the bottled water you buy comes from a fresh mountain stream? Well let's just assume for the sake of argument that it does. You can get just as clean (or better) water by simply running your tap water through a decent RO filter. It will cost you a lot less in the long run. And unless you live in a shithole place, your city's tap water is probably more than safe enough to drink right out of the faucet.
Anyways yeah, that's what I do, run tap water through a RO filter and put it in a sturdy water bottle. You can probably find one that fits in your cupholder.
btw I don't do this to save the earth, I do it because it's cheaper and because (I'm 99% certain) it's safer than trusting Nestle or Pepsico or whoever it was that bottled the "spring" water. And no I'm not against saving the earth, I would be all for it if it were in danger. But it's not.
Superior, FREE alternatives have existed for decades now
Well "decades ago", let's say year 2000, you had to do a lot of dicking around just to get simple shit like sound and wifi working on these free OSes. And half the time you couldn't get it right at all.
I will say that these days things have improved a lot in that regard. However if your #1 criterion for choosing an OS is the ability to run your custom applications, a free alternative that can't run them is hardly superior.
It's a good theory. Dogs = wolves in cuddly disguise. Wolves = meat eaters. Therefore dogs would do better eating only meat.
Unfortunately real life empirical data disproves this theory. Dogs eating nothing but supermarket dry dog food live far longer than any wolves.
If you want a more apples-to-apples comparison, take dogs than are given nothing but raw meat vs. dogs eating packaged dry dog food. Once again, meat eating dogs did not live any longer than dogfood eating dogs.
In 1929 when Joe Kennedy (JFK's dad) was getting his shoes polished, the shoe shine boy told him a tip about some hot stocks to buy. That's when he realized it was time to GTFO of the market, and so he remained a rich man and later was able to finance his son's career in politics.
What systems are affected? Windows and...? What is the attack vector, do you have to click on a suspicious link or is it like Wannacry where you don't have to do anything to get infected, just have a machine connected to the internet?
I did scanned TFA briefly but is skimpy on details.
Maybe it was md5 hashed. Nearly the same thing as plaintext.
Truly free communication is the greatest thing ever. It made the human race what it is and it's what could save us in the future.
What you see on Facebook (and the interwebz in general) is NOT free communication. It's a couple lines of text and emojis sent to people you've "friended" because you like them (meaning they think like you). It's an echo chamber of vacuous idle thoughts and social justice outrage.
Real free communication looks like... you sit down in face to face with a priest in a distraction and pressure-free environment and have a heart to heart talk, like confessing your sins. Or you're brainstorming in a workshop with your co-workers on an important project that you're all interested in succeeding.