I jumped on the HTC G1 Dream and modded it for years, but HTC never stood out for over the years. I never see an HTC flagship phone that wins on price or an stand out feature. Note was the big screen and pen, LG V series had a headphone dac and best noise canceling recording. Other won on price.
Essential was a neat idea, but way overpriced for the time.
I just cant remember when HTC had a flagship or price point to compare against any other phone. I dont even remember hearing about HTC phones for years.
Protect Washington Act - Relating to reducing pollution by investing in clean air, clean energy, clean water, healthy forests, and healthy communities by imposing a fee on large emitters based on their pollution;
Just what this state needs is more taxes, the new electric license plates cost 300 dollars and a monthly fee, sugar tax that includes soda water and diet soda but leaves the starbucks sugar sweet ass drinks sugar tax free...
The pot tax is one of the highest, the alcohol tax is crazy high, the gas tax is stupidly high, and when we get tabs affordable, switch to pay per mile and tax on car value.
Sorry, I don't know how much longer I can stay in this state, we have numerous bills to take our guns after they already gutted us to one of the harshed guns laws in the country. And Seattle is the fastest growing city in the USA, Yeah, read/r/seattle and see people complaining about 3k a month rents and light rail that wont be finished until I retire. (Kinda late). What does that 5k a year in property tax get you? Eating your retirement?
Not a big fan of Tesla using their own charging ports for level 2 and level 3 charging. We finally force mobile device vendors to use usb as a standard, and tesla is using its own charging port plugs. People are already complaining about compatible charging stations.
There's a reason Colleges are called billion dollar hedge funds. The saying is Harvard is a hedge fund with a college attached.
College tuition keeps going up, the colleges know they will get paid. Kids cant file for bankruptcy if they cant pay their loans because they can't find work.
Go to a local community college, its the same price of buying a car for 4 years, and people can generally make car payments. In state online 5k, in state 10k, out of state 20k, Private 30k, Harvard 45k (starting). While everyone wants a Tesla, some can only afford a Prius. Costs matter.
While I would agree mostly, that if you dont like a TOS go somewhere else, but google and apple phones use their own services.
Microsoft apps want to backup to microsoft drive. Google apps want to backup to gdrive. Apple to idrive. You get the idea.
It's very dishonest when a company owns a majority of a market like android phones, combines services then tries to tell you how to use it.
If they didn't like LGBT and started removing your LGBT apps would that be an issue? How about your hunting pictures, your state legal pot, your protest photos?
Damn slippery slope for the Internet generation. These companies are basically public services, if you own A PC, A MAC or a Android device, they are a defacto monopoly to their platform. You wouldn't want your ISP to block you, your Telecom to block you, your Power company to block you, why would you want your storage device to block you, your email app to block you, your social media site to block you, your free speech goes all along those lines.
Stallman was only partially correct, its not copyright that will be used to control you, its the Terms of Service.
Demand a free and open internet, free speech, free use, no censorship.
They sold users info to the DNC for Obama in 2012, They sold to DNC for Hillary in 2016, They been having been selling access for years, this is not new. Both the GOP and DNC now use it as a tool for elections. Governments are using it for spying at all levels. Countries are using it to oppress political opposition. Religious regimes are using it to track down posters to punish for blasphemy. Intel agencies and Police are using it thousands of times a day to spy on people.
Do you not follow WikiLeaks or Snowden? Come on, people. They been talking about this for YEARS...
Now because an agency Trumps campaign used goes viral on MSM, it's NOW an issue?! ITS BEEN AN ISSUE!
It's the old, "Don't care, if it doesn't happen to me" mentality.
Facebook is the only way to log into some applications and mobile apps, Spotify was that way for months, they removed your login and you had to use your facebook.
Seeing google SSO pop up, but facebook seems to be the king of SSO.
The paywalled articles are getting annoying, even slashdot had posted a few articles you couldn't even read.
Google is directing the narrative by what links it pushes when you search a topic, its getting crazy when you search for an article from 2012 on tariffs, and google is pushing trending news links ahead of the real search results.
I started using duckduckgo for searches, but they are getting over ran by people gaming the results for topic snow. Guess thats what happens when you start getting popular.
And for a paywall workaround, if they are referred by facebook the article is free. Post to facebook and read, or use an addon to change your refer.
Japan exported more than 1.6 million vehicles to America in 2015, while the U.S. sold less than 19,000 vehicles to Japan, accounted for about.03% of the five million cars and light trucks sold in Japan.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
I couldn't find the import limits, but remember seeing a limit on how many cars per maker was allowed. Not sure if thats still a trade issue.
Of course, the new theory is Americans gave up importing cars, because Japan has high tastes and want quality customer service and its too hard to serve them.
I've seen the city and county use hotels as a wallet for taxes, every few years they keep raising taxes on hotels, 10 bux here, 5 bux there, repeat on and on. And you wonder why a hotel is costing 150 a night for a dive. The sticker shock of renting a room and finding a city tax on top is disgusting.
AirBNB is the result of the overtaxing tourists as easy money.
Report it quickly to the SEC if you want the SOX whistleblower protection. If you wait on reporting it, you may not get whistleblower protections for waiting too long.
Maybe this will make people report crimes quicker and not wait until they are fired for a lawsuit, screwing over investors.
Why do I think this is mostly aimed at stopping the Pirate party. Life in prison in Sweden is 10 year, And proposed for piracy is 6? That sounds pretty political.
Also, It's not like Sweden would use politics, for let's say, to go after a person so they could try to extradite him to the US for leaking documents./s
Had my new Win10 machine, decided to put the latest version on. Kas put a man in the middle SSL scanner so it could scan SSL streams. After I told it not too and even disabled it, it still tried to scan all my SSL traffic and would block my browser. It just would not leave my SSL traffic alone even after specifically disabling web protection. This was the scanner only, i did not install the full protection suite.
So I uninstalled it. Rebooted, and it still left the SSL middleware installed. WTF is this amateur behavior at Kaspersky.
No idea wtf is going over there at Kaspersky, but its gone to hell. I don't care if one of the fastest, very low cpu usage, and great anti-virus detection. These stupid games like MITM SSL without my permission is downright unforgivable.
The problem with facebook, is facebook decides what you see. Its not like a newsgroup or forum, where every post is in order. Facebook goes out of their way to alter feeds instead of giving groups.
How about offering, friends, family, businesses, entertainment, groups. if I click the friends feed, I want all my friend's posts in order from new to last, not facebooks algorithm messing with my feeds. Facebook has many issues, but facebooks intentionally messing with my feeds, picking what I can see, that's the issue it has.
So how does facebook fix it? By again, continuing the same problem. Turn facebook back into a feed mechanism.
Mobiles are under title 4, and carriers already have multiple speed (fast lane) tiers. T-Mobile offers free and unlimited with its binge on service. FCC is not stopping from fast lanes or unlimited services. T-Mobile is also offering netflix for its customers.
Mobiles and sat are not comparable to fiber and cable for FCC control, FCC handles the airwaves, local government handle the land. FCC mostly controlled local ISP's on regulation for services, not with access. ACCESS is the problem, we got monopolies at the local level. Sat and LTE4/5 is already having an impact, and by 2020 will help more rural communities than cable/dsl has even done. (After they took billions to do just that!)
Now that the FTC is in charge, they handle the monopoly issues, the customer complaints.
I'm not buying that Google, Amazon and other tech giants are into net neutrality, google scaled back its fiber with no planned future deployment, facebook is only selling Internet access to overseas companies, Amazon is a content provider and not a ISP. They are worried about competition coming up and taking their business, they fear competition.
They don't give a damn about uncensored internet, Facebook/Twitter and dozens of other companies are censoring Iran access, vpn access. How fucking dishonest these corporations are, claiming bo be pro net neutrality when they are the worst offenders of censorship.
Slashdot Mirror
I jumped on the HTC G1 Dream and modded it for years, but HTC never stood out for over the years. I never see an HTC flagship phone that wins on price or an stand out feature. Note was the big screen and pen, LG V series had a headphone dac and best noise canceling recording. Other won on price.
Essential was a neat idea, but way overpriced for the time.
I just cant remember when HTC had a flagship or price point to compare against any other phone. I dont even remember hearing about HTC phones for years.
Net Neutrality isn't dead, its just not being reinforced by the FCC, the FTC now owns it.
FTC will have to handle bad throttling practices by mega corps of Comcast and ATT.
Comcast offers unlimited for 50 extra a month, so they can cover that loss in the NFL/ESPN sports ball licenses...
Binge netflix all you want. I'm too busy watching twitch.
Sigh, reading the bill.
https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets...
Protect Washington Act - Relating to reducing pollution by investing in clean air,
clean energy, clean water, healthy forests, and healthy communities
by imposing a fee on large emitters based on their pollution;
Its really, the CLEAN out your wallet act.
Just what this state needs is more taxes, the new electric license plates cost 300 dollars and a monthly fee, sugar tax that includes soda water and diet soda but leaves the starbucks sugar sweet ass drinks sugar tax free...
The pot tax is one of the highest, the alcohol tax is crazy high, the gas tax is stupidly high, and when we get tabs affordable, switch to pay per mile and tax on car value.
Sorry, I don't know how much longer I can stay in this state, we have numerous bills to take our guns after they already gutted us to one of the harshed guns laws in the country. And Seattle is the fastest growing city in the USA, Yeah, read /r/seattle and see people complaining about 3k a month rents and light rail that wont be finished until I retire. (Kinda late). What does that 5k a year in property tax get you? Eating your retirement?
Stupidity...
Not a big fan of Tesla using their own charging ports for level 2 and level 3 charging. We finally force mobile device vendors to use usb as a standard, and tesla is using its own charging port plugs. People are already complaining about compatible charging stations.
https://chargehub.com/en/elect...
61% percent of congress both democrats and republicans said "Nah dawg, no way, no deal" so Obama did it without approval.
There's a reason Colleges are called billion dollar hedge funds. The saying is Harvard is a hedge fund with a college attached.
College tuition keeps going up, the colleges know they will get paid. Kids cant file for bankruptcy if they cant pay their loans because they can't find work.
Go to a local community college, its the same price of buying a car for 4 years, and people can generally make car payments. In state online 5k, in state 10k, out of state 20k, Private 30k, Harvard 45k (starting). While everyone wants a Tesla, some can only afford a Prius. Costs matter.
The whole thing is a racket, overpriced, scam.
Oh yeah, I'm currently at 5808 bogomips on my I7-7820HQ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While I would agree mostly, that if you dont like a TOS go somewhere else, but google and apple phones use their own services.
Microsoft apps want to backup to microsoft drive. Google apps want to backup to gdrive. Apple to idrive. You get the idea.
It's very dishonest when a company owns a majority of a market like android phones, combines services then tries to tell you how to use it.
If they didn't like LGBT and started removing your LGBT apps would that be an issue? How about your hunting pictures, your state legal pot, your protest photos?
Damn slippery slope for the Internet generation. These companies are basically public services, if you own A PC, A MAC or a Android device, they are a defacto monopoly to their platform. You wouldn't want your ISP to block you, your Telecom to block you, your Power company to block you, why would you want your storage device to block you, your email app to block you, your social media site to block you, your free speech goes all along those lines.
Stallman was only partially correct, its not copyright that will be used to control you, its the Terms of Service.
Demand a free and open internet, free speech, free use, no censorship.
They sold users info to the DNC for Obama in 2012, They sold to DNC for Hillary in 2016, They been having been selling access for years, this is not new.
Both the GOP and DNC now use it as a tool for elections. Governments are using it for spying at all levels. Countries are using it to oppress political opposition. Religious regimes are using it to track down posters to punish for blasphemy. Intel agencies and Police are using it thousands of times a day to spy on people.
Do you not follow WikiLeaks or Snowden? Come on, people. They been talking about this for YEARS...
Now because an agency Trumps campaign used goes viral on MSM, it's NOW an issue?! ITS BEEN AN ISSUE!
It's the old, "Don't care, if it doesn't happen to me" mentality.
Single Sign-on
Facebook is the only way to log into some applications and mobile apps, Spotify was that way for months, they removed your login and you had to use your facebook.
Seeing google SSO pop up, but facebook seems to be the king of SSO.
The paywalled articles are getting annoying, even slashdot had posted a few articles you couldn't even read.
Google is directing the narrative by what links it pushes when you search a topic, its getting crazy when you search for an article from 2012 on tariffs, and google is pushing trending news links ahead of the real search results.
I started using duckduckgo for searches, but they are getting over ran by people gaming the results for topic snow. Guess thats what happens when you start getting popular.
And for a paywall workaround, if they are referred by facebook the article is free. Post to facebook and read, or use an addon to change your refer.
Japan exported more than 1.6 million vehicles to America in 2015, while the U.S. sold less than 19,000 vehicles to Japan, accounted for about .03% of the five million cars and light trucks sold in Japan.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
I couldn't find the import limits, but remember seeing a limit on how many cars per maker was allowed. Not sure if thats still a trade issue.
Of course, the new theory is Americans gave up importing cars, because Japan has high tastes and want quality customer service and its too hard to serve them.
Obama even tried to fight for American imports into Japan.
https://www.detroitnews.com/st...
I've seen the city and county use hotels as a wallet for taxes, every few years they keep raising taxes on hotels, 10 bux here, 5 bux there, repeat on and on.
And you wonder why a hotel is costing 150 a night for a dive. The sticker shock of renting a room and finding a city tax on top is disgusting.
AirBNB is the result of the overtaxing tourists as easy money.
Report it quickly to the SEC if you want the SOX whistleblower protection. If you wait on reporting it, you may not get whistleblower protections for waiting too long.
Maybe this will make people report crimes quicker and not wait until they are fired for a lawsuit, screwing over investors.
https://www.sec.gov/whistleblo...
Good to know, report it quickly to the SEC if you want whisleblower protections. And if you wait until your fired, you prob won't be protected.
Maybe this will make people report the crimes quicker.
Why do I think this is mostly aimed at stopping the Pirate party. Life in prison in Sweden is 10 year, And proposed for piracy is 6? That sounds pretty political.
Also, It's not like Sweden would use politics, for let's say, to go after a person so they could try to extradite him to the US for leaking documents. /s
I thought we already paid ISP's to build out, they just kept the money and cities/states kept quiet.
Something along the line of the 200 billion scandal
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legac...
Wondering if any other storage company releases their HD failure rates?
Always reminds me of the Batman and Robin in the batcave.
The Critics and public seem to be disagreeing on many things.
The Orville, 20% critics vs 93% public.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
vs
STD - Star Trek Discovery, 82% critics vs 55% public.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
Had my new Win10 machine, decided to put the latest version on. Kas put a man in the middle SSL scanner so it could scan SSL streams. After I told it not too and even disabled it, it still tried to scan all my SSL traffic and would block my browser. It just would not leave my SSL traffic alone even after specifically disabling web protection. This was the scanner only, i did not install the full protection suite.
So I uninstalled it. Rebooted, and it still left the SSL middleware installed. WTF is this amateur behavior at Kaspersky.
No idea wtf is going over there at Kaspersky, but its gone to hell. I don't care if one of the fastest, very low cpu usage, and great anti-virus detection. These stupid games like MITM SSL without my permission is downright unforgivable.
The problem with facebook, is facebook decides what you see. Its not like a newsgroup or forum, where every post is in order.
Facebook goes out of their way to alter feeds instead of giving groups.
How about offering, friends, family, businesses, entertainment, groups. if I click the friends feed, I want all my friend's posts in order from new to last, not facebooks algorithm messing with my feeds. Facebook has many issues, but facebooks intentionally messing with my feeds, picking what I can see, that's the issue it has.
So how does facebook fix it? By again, continuing the same problem. Turn facebook back into a feed mechanism.
> They are welcome to inspect the "welcome to android" screen on my phone and "no bootable disk found" screen on my laptop.
Yeah, thats a red flag for "I like cavity searches"
Mobiles are under title 4, and carriers already have multiple speed (fast lane) tiers. T-Mobile offers free and unlimited with its binge on service. FCC is not stopping from fast lanes or unlimited services. T-Mobile is also offering netflix for its customers.
Mobiles and sat are not comparable to fiber and cable for FCC control, FCC handles the airwaves, local government handle the land. FCC mostly controlled local ISP's on regulation for services, not with access. ACCESS is the problem, we got monopolies at the local level. Sat and LTE4/5 is already having an impact, and by 2020 will help more rural communities than cable/dsl has even done. (After they took billions to do just that!)
Now that the FTC is in charge, they handle the monopoly issues, the customer complaints.
I'm not buying that Google, Amazon and other tech giants are into net neutrality, google scaled back its fiber with no planned future deployment, facebook is only selling Internet access to overseas companies, Amazon is a content provider and not a ISP. They are worried about competition coming up and taking their business, they fear competition.
They don't give a damn about uncensored internet, Facebook/Twitter and dozens of other companies are censoring Iran access, vpn access. How fucking dishonest these corporations are, claiming bo be pro net neutrality when they are the worst offenders of censorship.