IMDB rating number these days is completely meaningless. Many complete trash films that deserve 2 or 3 stars at most end up with very high ratings because.... Disney owns the film.
Take Force Awakens, which has a very high 8.1 rating. However if you go into the User Review section, majority of reviews are very very scathing. And having watched the film, I agree that the movie was terrible. So why the disconnect between user review and user ratings?
My guess is that it's easier to game the user rating than it is to submit fake reviews, because writing a genuine-looking review is much harder than simply stuffing fake votes with a bot or (in Disney's case) simply paying for a higher number.
Sure, potato is hardly critical foodstuffs in Japan *now* when things are going swimmingly. But envision another WW2 type scenario. You are blockaded by US (or some other) navy, whole sections of the country is devastated by aerial bombardment and rice production has gone to shit. You need any and all foods you can get your hands on to keep your people alive. Potato is one of those foods that for small amount of land and other resources, you get quite a lot of calories, is easy to grow on your poor island soil and keeps well. That makes it strategically vital, unlike say guava or almonds, and it makes sense to keep domestic production of potato ongoing.
Agriculture isn't like software, you can't just start it up and have a viable product in a short amount of time.
Japan has protective trade policies (i.e. no imports) on many food items it considers strategically vital. Potato is one of them.
I agree with this for the most part, you don't wanna be at the mercy of your neighbors when fecal matter starts flying. Only the very shortsighted or stupid think all nations will get along singing kumbaya all the time. Ability to keep your population alive when international relations go south is pretty damn vital.
Those guys who take the apple logo sticker that came with their iPhones and stick it on the back of their cars... you know they're gonna be gasming bigly!
Also: the first 100 iCars will come with a permanent new car registration sticker, you will never have to put license plates on your car so you can park it in any handicapped spot, just like Mr. Jobs!
1l a day to survive if you're sitting around in a nice cool environment and not doing much exercise. A lot more than that in the desert and/or if you do any kind of physical labor.
In the prepper community, the general rule of thumb is to store 5 gallons of water per person per day. That's the bare minimum for drinking needs + food preparation + some (very) basic personal hygiene.
Yeah it's been bothering me for 500 years, how the shipbuilders and designers are never acknowledged, only guys who ride the ships like Columbus and Pizarro.
You wouldn't get your brain hacked, that's silly. It would just be a better version of the currently existing human interface (keyboard input, VGA output).
If your desktop gets hacked, you don't worry about someone hacking your fingers or eyeballs, do you? Well with this brain interface if your computer gets hacked, the worst thing would happen is that the hacker would beam annoying images directly to your brain (instead of displaying it on your VGA monitor) and maybe fuck around with your keyboard mappings so your brainwave commands to the computer don't work properly.
Solution to a hacked PC would be to disconnect it from your brain electrode and de-hack your PC manually, or get another PC.
Hopefully the connection from PC to your brain would be wireless, so a hacker can't actually zap your brain with electrical voltage. But even if it's wired, you could put a good mechanical fuse or circuit breaker in between the PC and your brain so only tolerable voltages are ever transmitted.
Does the eavesdropper actually have to physically tap a copper phone line and attach a listening device for it to be legally considered a wiretap?
I'm gonna guess "no" on that one.
Or how about this: the intelligence agencies are listening to a lot of people, all the time. Completely routine and well within their operational guidelines. Let's say they're listening to the cell phones of government employee X, Y and Z because these were of some interest to the intelligence agency for whatever reason. They might even have gotten a judge to sign off on it, making it totally legit.
One day, candidate Trump calls Y on the phone to discuss spray-on tans. This is not a weird coincidence, since the spooks are actually listening to a huge number of people. One of the spooks finds it interesting that Trump likes "Kinky Bondage Orange Tan", thinks it might be embarrassing and passes it on to DNC. Someone at DNC then passes it on further upstairs.
Few months later, Trump finds out that Obama administration staffers are laughing at his spray tan of choice and accuses Obama of wiretapping him. Obama replies, "Neither I nor anyone in my administration ordered a wiretap on Trump" with a straight face.
Who is right? Was it a wiretap or no? Or is it just a matter of semantics?
Then don't put it on the network if you're concerned.
Well that kind of defeats the purpose of buying the TV in the first place, I use it to watch Netflix.
I suppose I can disconnect it from my wifi like you said and then get a Chromecast stick or some such plug-in device. But having the feature built-in was a lot more convenient, no need to boot up a second device or use a second remote controller, etc.
Also if my TV is infected, how do I know if it's really disconnected from wifi? I suppose I would have to get a packet analyzer and record all packets for like a week and see if the TV sent anything over the network.
I'll bet serious money this enrages Trump and he threatens to arrest and detain Assange.
Maybe. But at least his first reaction wasn't "Can't we just drone this guy?" *
*by drone she meant killing Assange with a Hellfire air-to-ground missile fired from a Reaper drone. Not referring to a consumer quadcopter drone like the DJI phantom. Quote is by Secretary of State Clinton
3) The CIA could use smart TVs to listen in on conversations that happened around them. One of the most eye-catching programs detailed in the documents is "Weeping Angel." That allows intelligence agencies to install special software that allows TVs to be turned into listening devices -- so that even when they appear to be switched off, they're actually on.
I'm pretty good with Windows and Linux desktops... there are steps I can take to check for spyware/malware and deal with them if found.
But my Samsung TV, I haven't the foggiest idea. I don't know how to type commands into it or even what kind of an OS it runs.
If women are really being paid less than men for the same work, wouldn't it make sense financially to hire women only? Even a small company of 50 employees can save a million dollars a year just by hiring women instead of men. As the owner it would go directly into my pocket. Who doesn't like to make an extra million dollars a year?
Employers will go to great lengths to hire the cheapest labor for any given task. They will even violate labor laws and risk prison by hiring illegal aliens, that's how much business owners love to save money (admittedly the risk of prison for hiring illegals was very small in the past, prior to Trump). Therefore if the gender gap is as real as the feminists claim, every CEO should be scouring the earth for all the women they could hire.
There have been numerous phones in the past with this feature. I've owned several. It is not a panacea; carrying around a charged spare battery and swapping it is not convenient to many people (including me). Studies have shown that only a tiny percentage of swappable-battery phone owners actually carried around a spare.
My iPhone 6 Plus came with iOS 8.0 factory installed. I kept up with the updates until 10 came out, at which point I've refused every update. So my phone sits at 9.35, likely forever.
Reason (aside from avoiding bugs like in this thread topic) is to avoid a bloated OS that eats your battery life and overtaxes the processor/gpu. On a previous Apple device, I noticed that as soon as you got to two OS revisions above what it came with originally, it gets painfully slow. On that particular device it was originally iOS 4, and when i updated it to 6 there was a dramatic slowdown in responsiveness and app loading time. I eventually updated it to 7 to see if that helped, but it did nothing aside from taking up more disk space. It became so unusable, I gave it away for free.
There is a problem with this strategy though. Apple will force you to update. No matter what you do to your phone setting, it will phone home and automatically download the latest update. Disabling "Settings: App Store Auto Update" has no affect on this whatsoever. There is no way to disable this, aside from:
1. Jailbreaking with Cyanogenmod.
2. Block Apple update server from your wifi router (your phone will only attempt to auto-download when on wifi and not when on cellular)
I went with option #2 since I did not want to deal with the hassle of jailbreaking. Simply go to your router config page and block these two URLs:
Slashdot Mirror
IMDB rating number these days is completely meaningless. Many complete trash films that deserve 2 or 3 stars at most end up with very high ratings because.... Disney owns the film.
Take Force Awakens, which has a very high 8.1 rating. However if you go into the User Review section, majority of reviews are very very scathing. And having watched the film, I agree that the movie was terrible. So why the disconnect between user review and user ratings?
My guess is that it's easier to game the user rating than it is to submit fake reviews, because writing a genuine-looking review is much harder than simply stuffing fake votes with a bot or (in Disney's case) simply paying for a higher number.
Sure, potato is hardly critical foodstuffs in Japan *now* when things are going swimmingly. But envision another WW2 type scenario. You are blockaded by US (or some other) navy, whole sections of the country is devastated by aerial bombardment and rice production has gone to shit. You need any and all foods you can get your hands on to keep your people alive. Potato is one of those foods that for small amount of land and other resources, you get quite a lot of calories, is easy to grow on your poor island soil and keeps well. That makes it strategically vital, unlike say guava or almonds, and it makes sense to keep domestic production of potato ongoing.
Agriculture isn't like software, you can't just start it up and have a viable product in a short amount of time.
Japan has protective trade policies (i.e. no imports) on many food items it considers strategically vital. Potato is one of them.
I agree with this for the most part, you don't wanna be at the mercy of your neighbors when fecal matter starts flying. Only the very shortsighted or stupid think all nations will get along singing kumbaya all the time. Ability to keep your population alive when international relations go south is pretty damn vital.
Those guys who take the apple logo sticker that came with their iPhones and stick it on the back of their cars... you know they're gonna be gasming bigly!
Also: the first 100 iCars will come with a permanent new car registration sticker, you will never have to put license plates on your car so you can park it in any handicapped spot, just like Mr. Jobs!
1l a day to survive if you're sitting around in a nice cool environment and not doing much exercise. A lot more than that in the desert and/or if you do any kind of physical labor.
In the prepper community, the general rule of thumb is to store 5 gallons of water per person per day. That's the bare minimum for drinking needs + food preparation + some (very) basic personal hygiene.
Yeah it's been bothering me for 500 years, how the shipbuilders and designers are never acknowledged, only guys who ride the ships like Columbus and Pizarro.
Netflix allows 3 simultaneous logins per account, so theoretically you could have 90% of college students using Netflix and only 30% paying for it.
I'm guessing the 34% figure comes from the 4% loners who don't have any friends and still wanna watch Netflix so they pay for their own account.
if it was Obama he would just get that info straight from the alphabet intelligence folks. Obama had connections, Trump doesn't.
Elon sayid he wants to fly each rocket hundreds of times, so yeah it's safe to say they plan to use it again, if at all possible.
Maybe just listening to the awesome Russian music from the Tetris soundtrack has the same therapeutic effect.
what recent high-end phone from a major manufacturer has a removable battery? High-end meaning performance good enough to compete with iphone 7.
This is not a satirical question, I honestly don't know and would like to find out which of the latest iphone competitors has a removable battery.
You wouldn't get your brain hacked, that's silly. It would just be a better version of the currently existing human interface (keyboard input, VGA output).
If your desktop gets hacked, you don't worry about someone hacking your fingers or eyeballs, do you? Well with this brain interface if your computer gets hacked, the worst thing would happen is that the hacker would beam annoying images directly to your brain (instead of displaying it on your VGA monitor) and maybe fuck around with your keyboard mappings so your brainwave commands to the computer don't work properly.
Solution to a hacked PC would be to disconnect it from your brain electrode and de-hack your PC manually, or get another PC.
Hopefully the connection from PC to your brain would be wireless, so a hacker can't actually zap your brain with electrical voltage. But even if it's wired, you could put a good mechanical fuse or circuit breaker in between the PC and your brain so only tolerable voltages are ever transmitted.
So what you're saying is, decent movies are another casualty of globalization?
Does the eavesdropper actually have to physically tap a copper phone line and attach a listening device for it to be legally considered a wiretap?
I'm gonna guess "no" on that one.
Or how about this: the intelligence agencies are listening to a lot of people, all the time. Completely routine and well within their operational guidelines. Let's say they're listening to the cell phones of government employee X, Y and Z because these were of some interest to the intelligence agency for whatever reason. They might even have gotten a judge to sign off on it, making it totally legit.
One day, candidate Trump calls Y on the phone to discuss spray-on tans. This is not a weird coincidence, since the spooks are actually listening to a huge number of people. One of the spooks finds it interesting that Trump likes "Kinky Bondage Orange Tan", thinks it might be embarrassing and passes it on to DNC. Someone at DNC then passes it on further upstairs.
Few months later, Trump finds out that Obama administration staffers are laughing at his spray tan of choice and accuses Obama of wiretapping him. Obama replies, "Neither I nor anyone in my administration ordered a wiretap on Trump" with a straight face.
Who is right? Was it a wiretap or no? Or is it just a matter of semantics?
This is why they are not allowed to act inside the US.
Which the CIA neatly sidesteps by having a "domestic agency" attached to an operation.
By domestic agency they mean one clueless newbie FBI agent tagging along with the tough seasoned elite operators of the "real" intelligence agency.
wait nevermind, it just occurred to me that i can check the wifi router's DHCP log and see if the smart TV connected.
Then don't put it on the network if you're concerned.
Well that kind of defeats the purpose of buying the TV in the first place, I use it to watch Netflix.
I suppose I can disconnect it from my wifi like you said and then get a Chromecast stick or some such plug-in device. But having the feature built-in was a lot more convenient, no need to boot up a second device or use a second remote controller, etc.
Also if my TV is infected, how do I know if it's really disconnected from wifi? I suppose I would have to get a packet analyzer and record all packets for like a week and see if the TV sent anything over the network.
I'll bet serious money this enrages Trump and he threatens to arrest and detain Assange.
Maybe. But at least his first reaction wasn't "Can't we just drone this guy?" *
*by drone she meant killing Assange with a Hellfire air-to-ground missile fired from a Reaper drone. Not referring to a consumer quadcopter drone like the DJI phantom. Quote is by Secretary of State Clinton
3) The CIA could use smart TVs to listen in on conversations that happened around them. One of the most eye-catching programs detailed in the documents is "Weeping Angel." That allows intelligence agencies to install special software that allows TVs to be turned into listening devices -- so that even when they appear to be switched off, they're actually on.
I'm pretty good with Windows and Linux desktops... there are steps I can take to check for spyware/malware and deal with them if found.
But my Samsung TV, I haven't the foggiest idea. I don't know how to type commands into it or even what kind of an OS it runs.
If women are really being paid less than men for the same work, wouldn't it make sense financially to hire women only? Even a small company of 50 employees can save a million dollars a year just by hiring women instead of men. As the owner it would go directly into my pocket. Who doesn't like to make an extra million dollars a year?
Employers will go to great lengths to hire the cheapest labor for any given task. They will even violate labor laws and risk prison by hiring illegal aliens, that's how much business owners love to save money (admittedly the risk of prison for hiring illegals was very small in the past, prior to Trump). Therefore if the gender gap is as real as the feminists claim, every CEO should be scouring the earth for all the women they could hire.
we just need to get Arnold Schwartzenegger's ass to Mars, he will take care of the rest
Video didn't show it going up though. Maybe it's because it can't.
There's a huge waiting list to buy their new G600 long-range luxury jet.
I thought about buying one but decided to get a used 757 instead... but no tacky gold letters
There have been numerous phones in the past with this feature. I've owned several. It is not a panacea; carrying around a charged spare battery and swapping it is not convenient to many people (including me). Studies have shown that only a tiny percentage of swappable-battery phone owners actually carried around a spare.
My iPhone 6 Plus came with iOS 8.0 factory installed. I kept up with the updates until 10 came out, at which point I've refused every update. So my phone sits at 9.35, likely forever.
Reason (aside from avoiding bugs like in this thread topic) is to avoid a bloated OS that eats your battery life and overtaxes the processor/gpu. On a previous Apple device, I noticed that as soon as you got to two OS revisions above what it came with originally, it gets painfully slow. On that particular device it was originally iOS 4, and when i updated it to 6 there was a dramatic slowdown in responsiveness and app loading time. I eventually updated it to 7 to see if that helped, but it did nothing aside from taking up more disk space. It became so unusable, I gave it away for free.
There is a problem with this strategy though. Apple will force you to update. No matter what you do to your phone setting, it will phone home and automatically download the latest update. Disabling "Settings: App Store Auto Update" has no affect on this whatsoever. There is no way to disable this, aside from:
1. Jailbreaking with Cyanogenmod.
2. Block Apple update server from your wifi router (your phone will only attempt to auto-download when on wifi and not when on cellular)
I went with option #2 since I did not want to deal with the hassle of jailbreaking. Simply go to your router config page and block these two URLs:
appldnld.apple.com
mesu.apple.com