Samsung just did something really annoying: They pulled an Apple with the Galaxy S8, and gave it a Samsung proprietary USB connector, instead of using the micro-USB connector that has been the defacto standard for portable devices for years now! So, if you want to charge you Samsung phone in your car, you either need to take your AC adapter cord with you everywhere, or buy more cords from Samsung! Samsung usually does things right... except when they try to copy Apple! (The USB-C standard should be fine for charging anything.)
The point is, the WIMP interface will eventually go the way of the rotary dial telephone. The younger generation is growing up using the multitouch interface, which is a lot more intuitive for certain actions like resizing or rotating things on screen.
Ok, I'm overstating the case; the IBM PC keyboard will be around for a long time, still doing the same tasks that people used to use typewriters and adding machines for: rapid entry of text or numeric input. And speech will replace the poorly conceived touch interface now being put in every automobile (pretty stupid to design a car with an interface you have to look away from the road to use!) A combination of touch and AI-assisted speech I/O will be used elsewhere. But I still prefer typing because i can type faster than I can talk, and it's is less awkward to fix my (frequent) mistakes when I'm typing.
Another prediction: the most important job skill in the future will be the ability to work well with AI. That's why I'm trying to train all my family and friends to talk to computers now, with Amazon Alexa, Google Home Advisor, and Siri being the training wheels used (Cortana is a lost cause.)
My daughter thought the MacBook Air was cute, but I thought the price/performance sucked compared to the MacBook Pro, so I got her a MacBook Pro instead. Personally, I think a 13" screen is too small, especially for older people with bad vision. I'd like my next laptop to be a 17", but it's hard to find those with 4K resolution, the 17" screen are usually 1920x1080.
It's named Veritas in exactly the same way that the Russian propaganda media giant is named "Pravda", the Russian word for "truth". Conservatives, they read Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual, and they are currently implementing neocon Newspeak. Libtards double plus ungood!
Actually deleted message take up less storage space. But I agree, "deleting" messages in no way removes them from the old backup tapes, for several obvious reasons.
As soon as you starting monitoring and interfering with the messages, you are no longer a common carrier, and you become LIABLE for the content of all the messages... legally, it's better to turn a blind eye to what is being said and insure your positive deniability.
What exactly is Twitter's business model? Do they make money off of selling advertising, like Google does? I think I created a Twitter account several years ago, but I haven't logged in since... so it's about as active as my MySpace account is.
Seriously, the single most important thing protecting my privacy is that it isn't worth paying someone even minimum wage to monitor my boring conversations... and by the way, I have 3 Google Home Assistants and 2 Amazon Echo Shows always listening in my house, so it would be trivially easy to "bug" me.
What kind of car are you buying that costs $1K/month? You can get a 2018 Camry or Corolla with no money down and $189/month, add $300/month for insurance, about $50/month for gas, another $50 for maintenance (mostly oil change every 5000 miles). My $300/month Prius came with a maintenance plan for 3 years, but then I pay $500/month for insurance because my 16-year old daughter immediately smashed up one car within days of getting her license, and the other car a month later... costing Farmer's insurance about $12,000.
Because it's obviously much more cost-effective to hire people in the U.S. to do tech support than it is to hire people in India with college degrees willing to work for one fourth the salary!
... and we should also go after lock pick manufacturers for burglaries, gun manufacturers for gun deaths, and car manufacturers for accidents, because if they didn't make these things, it wouldn't facilitate unlawful behavior. How about they go after the web sites actually sourcing the video?
Simply put, if you publicly embarrass the company, you should expect them to do whatever it takes to mitigate that embarrassment. The most straightforward way to demonstrate that your views do not reflect those of the company as a whole is to immediately fire your ass.
Last time I checked, "douchebag" was not a protected class in the USA. That being said, we should stop enumerating protected classes and just say that legally _nobody_ can be treated differently for differences that don't make a rational difference. He wasn't fired because Google discriminates against backwards white males, he was fired for making stupid bigoted comments that offended many of his coworkers and embarrassed the company as a whole. Rule #1 should be "Don't embarrass the company!", and if you violate that rule, you should expect to be looking for work elsewhere, regardless of whether or not it is explicitly stated in the employee manual.
More upsetting to me, it is now possible for scammers to call me spoofing a caller id that matches the first 6 digits of my own, to try to trick me into thinking it's one of my neighbors. But of course, it a cell number that only indicates where i lived 15 years ago, so I don't actually know anybody with a number close to my own. But I still get the scammers calling me several times a week, in addition to getting calls from people I don't know asking me, "Why did you just call me?" when I never called them. So yes, the system should be designed to make it impossible to ever spoof a caller id. Or, we could set up our cell phones to always hang up and immediately call back anyone that calls us. Which brings up the question: why don't the 911 dispatchers do a call back to verify the number?
Based off an _internet_ phone call to 911; if they use any regular phone line, it's traceable and they get arrested for making a false report. But then, the cops did a welfare check on me based on an email my mentally ill sister forwarded to them. I never saw the email, but I can only conclude she falsified it. One problem with law enforcement is they feel they HAVE to send someone out on every complaint. My ex-wife taught my toddler daughter how to call 911, so of course she had to try it -- and despite my ex catching my daughter doing it and assuring the dispatcher over the phone that everything was ok, we quickly got a knock on the door from the boys in blue. But of course, when I call them for actual problems, they take several hours to show up!
Do they have the victim on bodycam video "reaching for his waistband" thus justifying the shooting, or is that just a lie the cops are going to tell every time they kill somebody now to make it sound justified? My understanding is that the cop had a body camera, but didn't turn it on before shooting someone... if you're not going to use it for hostage situations, when are you going to use it?
Apparently it allows you to make international phone calls for free. At 4pm today, my ex's phone lit up with continuous calls of people wishing her happy new year, to the point where she just shut if off. Yes, her friends all live in GMT and are incapable of doing the math to understand the PST is GMT -8 hours! Of course, I strategically avoid the problem of getting too many greetings by having zero friends.
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Samsung just did something really annoying: They pulled an Apple with the Galaxy S8, and gave it a Samsung proprietary USB connector, instead of using the micro-USB connector that has been the defacto standard for portable devices for years now! So, if you want to charge you Samsung phone in your car, you either need to take your AC adapter cord with you everywhere, or buy more cords from Samsung! Samsung usually does things right... except when they try to copy Apple! (The USB-C standard should be fine for charging anything.)
The point is, the WIMP interface will eventually go the way of the rotary dial telephone. The younger generation is growing up using the multitouch interface, which is a lot more intuitive for certain actions like resizing or rotating things on screen. Ok, I'm overstating the case; the IBM PC keyboard will be around for a long time, still doing the same tasks that people used to use typewriters and adding machines for: rapid entry of text or numeric input. And speech will replace the poorly conceived touch interface now being put in every automobile (pretty stupid to design a car with an interface you have to look away from the road to use!) A combination of touch and AI-assisted speech I/O will be used elsewhere. But I still prefer typing because i can type faster than I can talk, and it's is less awkward to fix my (frequent) mistakes when I'm typing. Another prediction: the most important job skill in the future will be the ability to work well with AI. That's why I'm trying to train all my family and friends to talk to computers now, with Amazon Alexa, Google Home Advisor, and Siri being the training wheels used (Cortana is a lost cause.)
Right... they just decided to be completely open and honest about their lack of honesty and openness!
Double plus good!
I, for one, welcome our new fascist overlords!
My daughter thought the MacBook Air was cute, but I thought the price/performance sucked compared to the MacBook Pro, so I got her a MacBook Pro instead. Personally, I think a 13" screen is too small, especially for older people with bad vision. I'd like my next laptop to be a 17", but it's hard to find those with 4K resolution, the 17" screen are usually 1920x1080.
It's named Veritas in exactly the same way that the Russian propaganda media giant is named "Pravda", the Russian word for "truth". Conservatives, they read Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual, and they are currently implementing neocon Newspeak. Libtards double plus ungood!
Actually deleted message take up less storage space. But I agree, "deleting" messages in no way removes them from the old backup tapes, for several obvious reasons.
As soon as you starting monitoring and interfering with the messages, you are no longer a common carrier, and you become LIABLE for the content of all the messages... legally, it's better to turn a blind eye to what is being said and insure your positive deniability.
What exactly is Twitter's business model? Do they make money off of selling advertising, like Google does? I think I created a Twitter account several years ago, but I haven't logged in since... so it's about as active as my MySpace account is.
Seriously, the single most important thing protecting my privacy is that it isn't worth paying someone even minimum wage to monitor my boring conversations... and by the way, I have 3 Google Home Assistants and 2 Amazon Echo Shows always listening in my house, so it would be trivially easy to "bug" me.
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What kind of car are you buying that costs $1K/month? You can get a 2018 Camry or Corolla with no money down and $189/month, add $300/month for insurance, about $50/month for gas, another $50 for maintenance (mostly oil change every 5000 miles). My $300/month Prius came with a maintenance plan for 3 years, but then I pay $500/month for insurance because my 16-year old daughter immediately smashed up one car within days of getting her license, and the other car a month later... costing Farmer's insurance about $12,000.
Because it's obviously much more cost-effective to hire people in the U.S. to do tech support than it is to hire people in India with college degrees willing to work for one fourth the salary!
... and we should also go after lock pick manufacturers for burglaries, gun manufacturers for gun deaths, and car manufacturers for accidents, because if they didn't make these things, it wouldn't facilitate unlawful behavior. How about they go after the web sites actually sourcing the video?
Republicans cheat because they no they are a shrinking minority that can't win without cheating.
Simply put, if you publicly embarrass the company, you should expect them to do whatever it takes to mitigate that embarrassment. The most straightforward way to demonstrate that your views do not reflect those of the company as a whole is to immediately fire your ass.
Last time I checked, "douchebag" was not a protected class in the USA. That being said, we should stop enumerating protected classes and just say that legally _nobody_ can be treated differently for differences that don't make a rational difference. He wasn't fired because Google discriminates against backwards white males, he was fired for making stupid bigoted comments that offended many of his coworkers and embarrassed the company as a whole. Rule #1 should be "Don't embarrass the company!", and if you violate that rule, you should expect to be looking for work elsewhere, regardless of whether or not it is explicitly stated in the employee manual.
Even if you are wearing a bulletproof vest, you can still get shot in the eye and die!
Bullshit. 70% of officers have NEVER fired their gun while on a call.
More upsetting to me, it is now possible for scammers to call me spoofing a caller id that matches the first 6 digits of my own, to try to trick me into thinking it's one of my neighbors. But of course, it a cell number that only indicates where i lived 15 years ago, so I don't actually know anybody with a number close to my own. But I still get the scammers calling me several times a week, in addition to getting calls from people I don't know asking me, "Why did you just call me?" when I never called them. So yes, the system should be designed to make it impossible to ever spoof a caller id. Or, we could set up our cell phones to always hang up and immediately call back anyone that calls us. Which brings up the question: why don't the 911 dispatchers do a call back to verify the number?
Based off an _internet_ phone call to 911; if they use any regular phone line, it's traceable and they get arrested for making a false report. But then, the cops did a welfare check on me based on an email my mentally ill sister forwarded to them. I never saw the email, but I can only conclude she falsified it. One problem with law enforcement is they feel they HAVE to send someone out on every complaint. My ex-wife taught my toddler daughter how to call 911, so of course she had to try it -- and despite my ex catching my daughter doing it and assuring the dispatcher over the phone that everything was ok, we quickly got a knock on the door from the boys in blue. But of course, when I call them for actual problems, they take several hours to show up!
Do they have the victim on bodycam video "reaching for his waistband" thus justifying the shooting, or is that just a lie the cops are going to tell every time they kill somebody now to make it sound justified? My understanding is that the cop had a body camera, but didn't turn it on before shooting someone... if you're not going to use it for hostage situations, when are you going to use it?
Apparently it allows you to make international phone calls for free. At 4pm today, my ex's phone lit up with continuous calls of people wishing her happy new year, to the point where she just shut if off. Yes, her friends all live in GMT and are incapable of doing the math to understand the PST is GMT -8 hours! Of course, I strategically avoid the problem of getting too many greetings by having zero friends.
If you are entertained by other people's tears, you just might be a terrible human being.