We cut our Verizon bill by about 50$/mo by switching out the five Verizon boxes for a bunch of TiVo boxes. All we needed from Verizon was one cable card (which we still pay something like 3$/mo for).
Well they can all switch to the aPhone - which is essentially any smartphone that is inserted into the rectum. Then these people will have the satisfaction of knowing they have their phones close by, and they are no longer disturbing anyone.
My wife and I haven't been to a movie in several years. There are several reasons for this - the main one is that the movies just suck these days, and the tickets and food are over-priced. Every once in a while, we will get something on-Demand at home, and usually about 20 minutes in we both decide that the movie sucks and we stop watching.
But the other thing I find exceptionally annoying is how they crank up the sub-woofer to rumble the entire room for every stupid noise - even for the "commercials" at the start of the movie.
Having some dimwit refuse to stop using his phone while the movie is playing just reinforces my determination to not bother with theaters.
By this I mean, are they being injured by this law? If not, then it seems like the courts might throw this out. But if they have been injured, then admitting that they have been injured is tantamount to admitting that they have received such orders, which they are expressly not allowed to do.
I don't know what happens if Microsoft is unable to state whether or not they have standing to sue or not. Admitting they aren't (which if they have not been subject to such orders - unlikely) would be legal. And refusing to say one way or another amounts to admitting that such orders exist, since if no such orders existed, they would be free to say so.
Said in reference to someone who has said or done something exceedingly stupid. But the real meaning is that anything that they say or do in the future will not be taken seriously since they are now regarded as a bozo.
That if you want to encrypt the video stream from the drone back to ground, that you might have a lot of latency as that could take some horsepower. But encrypting the navigation signals ought not create any problems with latency.
Dunno. My guess is that you can set up a mail client of some sort with IMAP pointing at the yahoo servers, and just download the whole thing.
I use my yahoo account when stupid websites want me to "register" when I don't want them to have my real email. If Yahoo went away tomorrow, I would barely notice. But for my personal use, I have my own domain, and I recently added spam@foo.com to my domain so that I have a fallback if yahoo goes away.
It is true that dependencies are unavoidable, but I have seen things reach the point where to build something, the build tools will have to hoover the Internet and download a bunch of gunk. What is it used for? You may know why your direct dependencies are present, but those dependencies may have other dependencies and it is all opaque as to why they are there.
What is the code quality for each module? Honestly you have no way of knowing with certainty. With something you purchased you might have higher expectations than for something that unknown individuals on the Internet might have written, but even that's no guarantee. I would bet that most people don't look at the source nor do they try and understand what the module does. They just accept it as another black box that their application needs and move on after letting the tooling download the binaries. And you might pay attention to reported bugs and/or security issues reported in modules that are your direct dependencies, but the dependencies of dependencies are another matter. There could be horrible bugs buried in there that you know nothing about.
And then you have version-hell issues. You might need version 1.2.5 of some package, but something you depend on uses version 1.2.6. And something else you depend on uses version 1.2.7. Some things like Felix try and keep things straight for you, but it just seems like laziness to me that people accept this sort of thing as normal.
It is more a deficiency of the underlying protocol than anything else. Spam and malware delivered by spam has become so pervasive that lots of people have given up on the thing. It wasn't that long ago that you could find open relays (perhaps there still are some out there), which permit anyone to send an email as anyone else.
And then there is the malware that hitches a ride on top of the automation interfaces that Microsoft has so generously provided. So once you get infected, your own machine starts sending out spam - all through your normal Exchange server.
I wouldn't fault the people who originally designed SMTP - back in the day, it served the purpose. But it was never replaced with something that had some level of authentication, so that when you get an email that says it is from a certain person, that you could have been sure that it is really from that person. And I get it - this is an extremely hard problem to solve in the general case, which is why nobody ever was able to do it.
In the meantime you have people communicating via Faceplant instead - in this case, you actually do have authenticated users sending messages to each other (at least until one of them gets malware that hijacks the browser to send facebook spam).
In the past, I have wondered whether we are seeing the death of the internet as we know it as it gets choked with more and more spam, malware, botnets, and other useless things. And by this I don't mean that people stop using it - just that people will retreat back into walled gardens, where they perceive that they are safer from these things.
The main thing the FBI needs is the signing certificate. Undoubtedly this is something that Apple keeps tight control over, but at the end of the day it is just a file on disk somewhere.
They wouldn't know a killer app if it bit them in the backside. They want other people to write the killer apps, and then sell them through their app store (where MS gets a percentage).
I would like to use my device to simultaneously flush every toilet in the building. And then after having done that, then I would like to use my device to book a different hotel for the evening.
I actually have some core memory sitting in a box. I have no recollection now many bits, but it isn't all that many. When you (carefully) remove the cover, you see how small the individual elements are. The stories I heard back at the time were of Asian women with small fingers threading the wires through these things by hand.
A few years back we were having our Sprint Review meeting. I was sitting at my laptop, ready to take control and do my part of the presentation. And while I was waiting, the machine suddenly decided that it needed to reboot to finish applying updates. I still don't know why it chose that moment - at the time I wasn't even aware of any pending updates. I am guessing that ITS shoved something down which caused the reboot.
I ended up going to a different machine and doing my presentation from there.
Since then I have learned to do "net stop Windows Update" when I am getting ready to make a presentation.
Let's say this argument succeeds. Then the FBI just asks for the signing certificate, and letting the FBI have the certificate is worse than what they were asking for before.
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We cut our Verizon bill by about 50$/mo by switching out the five Verizon boxes for a bunch of TiVo boxes. All we needed from Verizon was one cable card (which we still pay something like 3$/mo for).
Well they can all switch to the aPhone - which is essentially any smartphone that is inserted into the rectum. Then these people will have the satisfaction of knowing they have their phones close by, and they are no longer disturbing anyone.
You could just put an LCD screen in each toilet stall. The people that want to text can sit there.
My wife and I haven't been to a movie in several years. There are several reasons for this - the main one is that the movies just suck these days, and the tickets and food are over-priced. Every once in a while, we will get something on-Demand at home, and usually about 20 minutes in we both decide that the movie sucks and we stop watching.
But the other thing I find exceptionally annoying is how they crank up the sub-woofer to rumble the entire room for every stupid noise - even for the "commercials" at the start of the movie.
Having some dimwit refuse to stop using his phone while the movie is playing just reinforces my determination to not bother with theaters.
By this I mean, are they being injured by this law? If not, then it seems like the courts might throw this out. But if they have been injured, then admitting that they have been injured is tantamount to admitting that they have received such orders, which they are expressly not allowed to do.
I don't know what happens if Microsoft is unable to state whether or not they have standing to sue or not. Admitting they aren't (which if they have not been subject to such orders - unlikely) would be legal. And refusing to say one way or another amounts to admitting that such orders exist, since if no such orders existed, they would be free to say so.
This all makes my head spin..
For those people, Chromebook is probably a better choice.
Said in reference to someone who has said or done something exceedingly stupid. But the real meaning is that anything that they say or do in the future will not be taken seriously since they are now regarded as a bozo.
They will invent a laptop that has no screen.
But what about the Internet of Thongs?
I guess that already exists - I bet all you need to do is search for it.
The thought comes to mind that people could "seed" the their AI with really bad (or even non-sequitor code) - kind of like what people did with Tay.
That if you want to encrypt the video stream from the drone back to ground, that you might have a lot of latency as that could take some horsepower. But encrypting the navigation signals ought not create any problems with latency.
Dunno. My guess is that you can set up a mail client of some sort with IMAP pointing at the yahoo servers, and just download the whole thing.
I use my yahoo account when stupid websites want me to "register" when I don't want them to have my real email. If Yahoo went away tomorrow, I would barely notice. But for my personal use, I have my own domain, and I recently added spam@foo.com to my domain so that I have a fallback if yahoo goes away.
It is true that dependencies are unavoidable, but I have seen things reach the point where to build something, the build tools will have to hoover the Internet and download a bunch of gunk. What is it used for? You may know why your direct dependencies are present, but those dependencies may have other dependencies and it is all opaque as to why they are there.
What is the code quality for each module? Honestly you have no way of knowing with certainty. With something you purchased you might have higher expectations than for something that unknown individuals on the Internet might have written, but even that's no guarantee. I would bet that most people don't look at the source nor do they try and understand what the module does. They just accept it as another black box that their application needs and move on after letting the tooling download the binaries. And you might pay attention to reported bugs and/or security issues reported in modules that are your direct dependencies, but the dependencies of dependencies are another matter. There could be horrible bugs buried in there that you know nothing about.
And then you have version-hell issues. You might need version 1.2.5 of some package, but something you depend on uses version 1.2.6. And something else you depend on uses version 1.2.7. Some things like Felix try and keep things straight for you, but it just seems like laziness to me that people accept this sort of thing as normal.
It is more a deficiency of the underlying protocol than anything else. Spam and malware delivered by spam has become so pervasive that lots of people have given up on the thing. It wasn't that long ago that you could find open relays (perhaps there still are some out there), which permit anyone to send an email as anyone else.
And then there is the malware that hitches a ride on top of the automation interfaces that Microsoft has so generously provided. So once you get infected, your own machine starts sending out spam - all through your normal Exchange server.
I wouldn't fault the people who originally designed SMTP - back in the day, it served the purpose. But it was never replaced with something that had some level of authentication, so that when you get an email that says it is from a certain person, that you could have been sure that it is really from that person. And I get it - this is an extremely hard problem to solve in the general case, which is why nobody ever was able to do it.
In the meantime you have people communicating via Faceplant instead - in this case, you actually do have authenticated users sending messages to each other (at least until one of them gets malware that hijacks the browser to send facebook spam).
In the past, I have wondered whether we are seeing the death of the internet as we know it as it gets choked with more and more spam, malware, botnets, and other useless things. And by this I don't mean that people stop using it - just that people will retreat back into walled gardens, where they perceive that they are safer from these things.
The main thing the FBI needs is the signing certificate. Undoubtedly this is something that Apple keeps tight control over, but at the end of the day it is just a file on disk somewhere.
They wouldn't know a killer app if it bit them in the backside. They want other people to write the killer apps, and then sell them through their app store (where MS gets a percentage).
I am no fan of Republicans, and while there was an element of truthiness in the article you cited, in fact the article was satire.
With exactly this reasoning cited in the article.
Good idea. We should set up a Kicksquatter to try and get this done..
I would like to use my device to simultaneously flush every toilet in the building. And then after having done that, then I would like to use my device to book a different hotel for the evening.
I wonder whether someone like the FSB is the one that is selling the thing. It could make eavesdropping on people so much easier.
But as you say - the hotel was dumb enough to actually buy it.
It just seems daft to me that this is just pointless complexity.
I actually have some core memory sitting in a box. I have no recollection now many bits, but it isn't all that many. When you (carefully) remove the cover, you see how small the individual elements are. The stories I heard back at the time were of Asian women with small fingers threading the wires through these things by hand.
A few years back we were having our Sprint Review meeting. I was sitting at my laptop, ready to take control and do my part of the presentation. And while I was waiting, the machine suddenly decided that it needed to reboot to finish applying updates. I still don't know why it chose that moment - at the time I wasn't even aware of any pending updates. I am guessing that ITS shoved something down which caused the reboot.
I ended up going to a different machine and doing my presentation from there.
Since then I have learned to do "net stop Windows Update" when I am getting ready to make a presentation.
Let's say this argument succeeds. Then the FBI just asks for the signing certificate, and letting the FBI have the certificate is worse than what they were asking for before.