Konica Minolta printers are so cheap they are clearly subsidized solely by their cartridges. When your cartridge costs double or triple the purchase cost of the printer, something is wrong.
So far: Xerox, Canon and Epson are the printers I've had the least issues with.
Brother - their pickup wheels keep wearing out after 6m-1y. It's considered a consumable so no warranty replacements. The entire pickup mechanism is so badly made, by the time you have replaced your second pickup wheel, you have to replace the paper cassette and other mechanicals as well. According to one printer tech, they are the only printer that have designed them that way. Also, most of their models have the toner and drum in one unit, so the cost of a cartridge is artificially higher. HP - Very expensive cartridges. Very bad service. Always screwing around with their firmware. Oki - Their fuser unit is directly connected to the mains without a fuse or filter and they are very sensitive to any sort of line noise. It does have a software setting as well so once the fuser gets tripped it will refuse to work with the same fuser, there is a workaround which indicates it's not the hardware that fails. They are a consumable with 1 year warranty. Even plugging the printer into a power strip could cause you to lose your warranty and Oki will refuse to honor their warranty if you have more than one issue per year. Often times a fuser failing also fries the motherboard, again, a common issue which they won't honor because the fuser failing is 'your fault'.
A) they have to give you the source code to any GPL-based software they sell/distribute to you. That would include the Linux kernel at least, not sure about anything else within Android. B) in GPL you don't have to give the source code to entities that have not purchased your product or that you have not distributed to. The people you do give/sell it to are not obligated to release it to the public either.
The Apache license (Android) does allow you to distribute binaries without source code, whether or not that is a good business decision is another thing all together.
I meant a full blown general purpose desktop OS. Android is good enough for cursory Internet browsing and email and certain games as well as a single application system (e.g. a kiosk). For anything else, Android is a terrible choice with a useless UI.
Android x86 fills the niche where you need/want the Android software but you need a bit more powerful hardware (windowed 1080p playback, image/video composition). Most ARM devices on the market are absolutely terrible at doing anything high resolution beyond streaming very specific formats.
Embedded boards (minnowboard), Intel compute sticks, tablets... anywhere you don't want a General Purpose OS or you don't want to interact with the machine or perhaps an odd app.
I don't find it at all "Out of proportion". HER reaction is out of proportion to what happened. Sure you may have a month or so of being laughed at on the Internet and then Paris Hilton or whatever other fucktard releases a video or someone kills a gorilla and everybody forgets all about you and your stupid memes. I think it was Louis CK or Jim Gaffigan that said: if you don't like what people say about you online, stop googling yourself every 5 minutes.
It's not just a phone, it's a GPS, a computer, notepad, music player. Barometers, Bluetooth and wifi are used to give more accurate location info. It can also be used as a health tracker, a pedometer, collecting more accurate local weather information to feed into forecast models. There's apps for all that stuff.
There are certain things you just can't ever live down. If you murder someone, you don't get to change your identity and say you made a mistake and then live on. Many a politicians make mistakes that will live on forever. If she got an STD or a kid from the ordeal, she can't just move to Tuscany and forget about it. People make mistakes, some will follow you for the rest of your life, that's called being an adult.
The founding fathers were all atheists and agnostics. You're talking about the earlier settlers of America, the Puritans and other protestant groups. If you ever have the time to go to the Smithsonian, they had a nice little thing about those first time religious settlers. There is evidence the first group of Puritans that arrived became cannibals in winter, they blamed the "Indians" for their decimation when the next group arrived and then went out and massacred them. By the time the 'founding fathers' came around, the US was well established as a secular and free society and that's even enshrined in the Bill of Rights and Constitution (freedom from religion, no state influence in religion).
Religion in US politics is a 20th century thing, when politicians noticed that they could have religious leaders influence large groups of people (such as the black rights movement which was lead by religious ideals, not political).
Do you have any data to back up that statement? There are plenty if not more non-religious groups that do fund hospitals, shelters, donations, charities etc.
Most of the religious groups do NOT pay back what they get from society, not even in the slightest, most of them don't even do charity. I'd be all for giving any organization that does charity a tax break (which those tax breaks already exists by the way), but if an organization is run like a business and acts like a business, it should be taxed like a business.
In my area most charity is non-denominational. There are indeed churches that do charity, but the MAJORITY of them do not and a lot of them only do 'charity' for their own or if you join their services or whatever (Rice Christians).
The majority of churches are there to line their own pockets and that of their leaders. France tried to crack down on churches that did not do charity but still got tax breaks, suddenly all sorts of churches were joined together and got the EU to rule it's illegal for France to tax churches that are really businesses.
You also have to take in the distribution of people. Hindu's for example make up a small percentage of people, mostly of Asian decent which, if you divide them by race, will also be in the top income and education brackets.
Catholic, mainline protestant and unaffiliated makes up the 'majority' of the US (Latino's and Whites) which make 'the average' income.
Historically Black Churches and Jehovah's Witnesses are some of the most staunch believers in the 'evils of higher education' and shun integration into the rest of society and thus they will always rank among the poorest income.
Who do you think writes the paychecks? Congress. Why? Because that's how your congress critters stay in power, it's the hand that feeds and it goes both ways. Look at every single election in the last few decades, especially this year you only get to be where you are if you play the game. Clinton through the Clinton Foundation and Trump pretty much admitted publicly to buying off the right people (including Clinton). It seems that through those two buffoons, a third party got some traction - it's been headline news for about a week on CNN that Gary Johnson goofed on Syria while any third party can't get any airtime unless they fulfill some impossible quota (an average of national polls that includes polls which don't even include a third option)
I'm saying that taping over your webcam is useless if you leave your microphone and your speakers (which can also act as microphones) untouched.
It's far more damaging and perhaps even easier (no indicator lights) for someone to be able to listen in surreptitiously than watch. A Flash vulnerability could easily turn on your camera and microphone but your indicator would still work. Your camera still has physical limitations (it can't watch around the room) while microphones will pick up anything from conversations to passwords being typed in.
If all you care is nobody catching you masturbating, then yes, the camera trick will do, for all other things, your other sensors are far more valuable.
Another thing would don't trust your corporate overlords with 'managing' your laptop and stop using Windows as an admin user or stop using Windows altogether.
Hacking a laptop is fairly hard to do if it's properly secured without remote access. Things like SELinux or Mac's Gatekeeper or any Unix-type OS can be set so that only specific applications have access to certain hardware.
If you want to use tape, you should also snip out your microphone and speakers, glue your USB ports shut and fully encrypt your system with a third party, open source encryption.
I'm member of two credit unions and 3 other banks, there are credit unions that are actively in the business of ripping their customers off, as soon as the account ceases it's use, I'll be closing it with that credit union.
I've seen 10 day delays for bank transfers when the account nears it's due date, no notifications of due payments until the day before (which is strictly speaking legal, but the mail takes 3 days to deliver), turning off automatic transfers whenever there is 'late' payment. I get my money back every time I yell at them, but it's a hassle.
When I was younger, I had an account at a coop bank. I got a credit card through them, was promised 0% rate and went traveling, the next month they found me not 'credit worthy' enough and had converted my credit card into a debit card, debiting my account for the $3000 charges I racked up. Instantly closed my account although I now had a 'huge debt' without credit, couldn't get a loan anywhere.
Then I have big bank credit card, the best credit card I've ever had, instant single-time CC numbers, instant online dispute, proactively calling me, holding a transaction when two subsequent payments are geographically too far separated. Even allows me to pay a month in advance so I can later turn it off and 'skip' a month.
I wouldn't trust any Harvard/Stanford research until it has been thoroughly confirmed, a lot of their "research" has historically been funded and the institution coopted by industry interests. How else do you get multi-billion dollar endowments.
I thought most modern devices have moved beyond LiIon to LiPo and all Li devices should maintain their charge due to memory effects, even in modern batteries.
Yes, because China and Russia are great examples of free countries where people have the constitutional freedoms of the US. It's gotten pretty far that people are now demanding or expecting the US government to act in a way a dictatorship does.
The indirect money stream is the true goal of this arrangement. The EU, US and it's members instated those laws in part to destabilize the Soviet governments, now it's back to bite them and they want to have their cake and eat it too.
A few decades ago, I remember the outrage when these laws were used to attract and prop up Poland and a number of Soviet satellites into the EU. Similar tax loopholes were instated to benefit Western European companies that "outsourced" labor to the recently annexed Eastern European countries.
A few years ago they wanted to pull the same trick on a Russian oil company that had stocked tax free Rubles in an arrangement dating from the Cold War, when the EU wanted to start taxing it they in turn turned the gas off on Germany, they didn't pursue it for very long.
The money Apple keeps in Ireland is used locally by banks and government to benefit the Irish economy. With both East and South EU states in trouble, they want every member to pay "their dues" in order to prop up those failed governments which is the only thing currently keeping Germany up (once the EU loses it's economic value, Germany is toast).
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Konica Minolta printers are so cheap they are clearly subsidized solely by their cartridges. When your cartridge costs double or triple the purchase cost of the printer, something is wrong.
So far: Xerox, Canon and Epson are the printers I've had the least issues with.
Brother - their pickup wheels keep wearing out after 6m-1y. It's considered a consumable so no warranty replacements. The entire pickup mechanism is so badly made, by the time you have replaced your second pickup wheel, you have to replace the paper cassette and other mechanicals as well. According to one printer tech, they are the only printer that have designed them that way. Also, most of their models have the toner and drum in one unit, so the cost of a cartridge is artificially higher.
HP - Very expensive cartridges. Very bad service. Always screwing around with their firmware.
Oki - Their fuser unit is directly connected to the mains without a fuse or filter and they are very sensitive to any sort of line noise. It does have a software setting as well so once the fuser gets tripped it will refuse to work with the same fuser, there is a workaround which indicates it's not the hardware that fails.
They are a consumable with 1 year warranty. Even plugging the printer into a power strip could cause you to lose your warranty and Oki will refuse to honor their warranty if you have more than one issue per year. Often times a fuser failing also fries the motherboard, again, a common issue which they won't honor because the fuser failing is 'your fault'.
A) they have to give you the source code to any GPL-based software they sell/distribute to you. That would include the Linux kernel at least, not sure about anything else within Android.
B) in GPL you don't have to give the source code to entities that have not purchased your product or that you have not distributed to. The people you do give/sell it to are not obligated to release it to the public either.
The Apache license (Android) does allow you to distribute binaries without source code, whether or not that is a good business decision is another thing all together.
I meant a full blown general purpose desktop OS. Android is good enough for cursory Internet browsing and email and certain games as well as a single application system (e.g. a kiosk). For anything else, Android is a terrible choice with a useless UI.
Android x86 fills the niche where you need/want the Android software but you need a bit more powerful hardware (windowed 1080p playback, image/video composition). Most ARM devices on the market are absolutely terrible at doing anything high resolution beyond streaming very specific formats.
Embedded boards (minnowboard), Intel compute sticks, tablets... anywhere you don't want a General Purpose OS or you don't want to interact with the machine or perhaps an odd app.
I don't find it at all "Out of proportion". HER reaction is out of proportion to what happened. Sure you may have a month or so of being laughed at on the Internet and then Paris Hilton or whatever other fucktard releases a video or someone kills a gorilla and everybody forgets all about you and your stupid memes. I think it was Louis CK or Jim Gaffigan that said: if you don't like what people say about you online, stop googling yourself every 5 minutes.
It's not just a phone, it's a GPS, a computer, notepad, music player. Barometers, Bluetooth and wifi are used to give more accurate location info. It can also be used as a health tracker, a pedometer, collecting more accurate local weather information to feed into forecast models. There's apps for all that stuff.
There are certain things you just can't ever live down. If you murder someone, you don't get to change your identity and say you made a mistake and then live on. Many a politicians make mistakes that will live on forever. If she got an STD or a kid from the ordeal, she can't just move to Tuscany and forget about it. People make mistakes, some will follow you for the rest of your life, that's called being an adult.
Bush, Trump, Weiner ... I don't see them committing suicide. Trump has pinata effigies for crying out loud.
The founding fathers were all atheists and agnostics. You're talking about the earlier settlers of America, the Puritans and other protestant groups. If you ever have the time to go to the Smithsonian, they had a nice little thing about those first time religious settlers. There is evidence the first group of Puritans that arrived became cannibals in winter, they blamed the "Indians" for their decimation when the next group arrived and then went out and massacred them. By the time the 'founding fathers' came around, the US was well established as a secular and free society and that's even enshrined in the Bill of Rights and Constitution (freedom from religion, no state influence in religion).
Religion in US politics is a 20th century thing, when politicians noticed that they could have religious leaders influence large groups of people (such as the black rights movement which was lead by religious ideals, not political).
Do you have any data to back up that statement? There are plenty if not more non-religious groups that do fund hospitals, shelters, donations, charities etc.
Most of the religious groups do NOT pay back what they get from society, not even in the slightest, most of them don't even do charity. I'd be all for giving any organization that does charity a tax break (which those tax breaks already exists by the way), but if an organization is run like a business and acts like a business, it should be taxed like a business.
In my area most charity is non-denominational. There are indeed churches that do charity, but the MAJORITY of them do not and a lot of them only do 'charity' for their own or if you join their services or whatever (Rice Christians).
The majority of churches are there to line their own pockets and that of their leaders. France tried to crack down on churches that did not do charity but still got tax breaks, suddenly all sorts of churches were joined together and got the EU to rule it's illegal for France to tax churches that are really businesses.
You also have to take in the distribution of people. Hindu's for example make up a small percentage of people, mostly of Asian decent which, if you divide them by race, will also be in the top income and education brackets.
Catholic, mainline protestant and unaffiliated makes up the 'majority' of the US (Latino's and Whites) which make 'the average' income.
Historically Black Churches and Jehovah's Witnesses are some of the most staunch believers in the 'evils of higher education' and shun integration into the rest of society and thus they will always rank among the poorest income.
Who do you think writes the paychecks? Congress. Why? Because that's how your congress critters stay in power, it's the hand that feeds and it goes both ways. Look at every single election in the last few decades, especially this year you only get to be where you are if you play the game. Clinton through the Clinton Foundation and Trump pretty much admitted publicly to buying off the right people (including Clinton). It seems that through those two buffoons, a third party got some traction - it's been headline news for about a week on CNN that Gary Johnson goofed on Syria while any third party can't get any airtime unless they fulfill some impossible quota (an average of national polls that includes polls which don't even include a third option)
I'm saying that taping over your webcam is useless if you leave your microphone and your speakers (which can also act as microphones) untouched.
It's far more damaging and perhaps even easier (no indicator lights) for someone to be able to listen in surreptitiously than watch. A Flash vulnerability could easily turn on your camera and microphone but your indicator would still work. Your camera still has physical limitations (it can't watch around the room) while microphones will pick up anything from conversations to passwords being typed in.
If all you care is nobody catching you masturbating, then yes, the camera trick will do, for all other things, your other sensors are far more valuable.
Another thing would don't trust your corporate overlords with 'managing' your laptop and stop using Windows as an admin user or stop using Windows altogether.
Hacking a laptop is fairly hard to do if it's properly secured without remote access. Things like SELinux or Mac's Gatekeeper or any Unix-type OS can be set so that only specific applications have access to certain hardware.
If you want to use tape, you should also snip out your microphone and speakers, glue your USB ports shut and fully encrypt your system with a third party, open source encryption.
I'm member of two credit unions and 3 other banks, there are credit unions that are actively in the business of ripping their customers off, as soon as the account ceases it's use, I'll be closing it with that credit union.
I've seen 10 day delays for bank transfers when the account nears it's due date, no notifications of due payments until the day before (which is strictly speaking legal, but the mail takes 3 days to deliver), turning off automatic transfers whenever there is 'late' payment. I get my money back every time I yell at them, but it's a hassle.
When I was younger, I had an account at a coop bank. I got a credit card through them, was promised 0% rate and went traveling, the next month they found me not 'credit worthy' enough and had converted my credit card into a debit card, debiting my account for the $3000 charges I racked up. Instantly closed my account although I now had a 'huge debt' without credit, couldn't get a loan anywhere.
Then I have big bank credit card, the best credit card I've ever had, instant single-time CC numbers, instant online dispute, proactively calling me, holding a transaction when two subsequent payments are geographically too far separated. Even allows me to pay a month in advance so I can later turn it off and 'skip' a month.
I wouldn't trust any Harvard/Stanford research until it has been thoroughly confirmed, a lot of their "research" has historically been funded and the institution coopted by industry interests. How else do you get multi-billion dollar endowments.
Violating net neutrality and having any bandwidth caps are all accounting measures and have no basis in real networking technology.
I thought most modern devices have moved beyond LiIon to LiPo and all Li devices should maintain their charge due to memory effects, even in modern batteries.
Yes, because China and Russia are great examples of free countries where people have the constitutional freedoms of the US. It's gotten pretty far that people are now demanding or expecting the US government to act in a way a dictatorship does.
So which is more polluting, increased fuel usage or increased CO emissions?
I'm sure someone will have a 'fix' for that. It's software after all, perhaps someone with the right tools can make a backup before doing the update.
Good bye and thanks for all the fish.
The indirect money stream is the true goal of this arrangement. The EU, US and it's members instated those laws in part to destabilize the Soviet governments, now it's back to bite them and they want to have their cake and eat it too.
A few decades ago, I remember the outrage when these laws were used to attract and prop up Poland and a number of Soviet satellites into the EU. Similar tax loopholes were instated to benefit Western European companies that "outsourced" labor to the recently annexed Eastern European countries.
A few years ago they wanted to pull the same trick on a Russian oil company that had stocked tax free Rubles in an arrangement dating from the Cold War, when the EU wanted to start taxing it they in turn turned the gas off on Germany, they didn't pursue it for very long.
The money Apple keeps in Ireland is used locally by banks and government to benefit the Irish economy. With both East and South EU states in trouble, they want every member to pay "their dues" in order to prop up those failed governments which is the only thing currently keeping Germany up (once the EU loses it's economic value, Germany is toast).