My phone numbers are on the do not call list. I get robocalls all the time; when I pick up these calls I tell them I'm on the do not call list so I know they're low life scammers (to which rather than disconnecting they start cussing me out, proving my accusation to be true) and invite them to consume copious amounts of strychnine, because suicide is far more honorable than being a fucking scammer and they'll be doing humanity a favor. Alternatively I'll play along and then after a bit I tell them I know they're scammers and while I've kept them tied up in a conversation I've kept them from scamming suckers. Another approach is to read Trumpster/Deplorable racist rants (based on their accent) I have bookmarked, hoping to demoralize them. Blocking their numbers doesn't work due to CID spoofing.
CID spoofing has become a big problem because it's trivially easy (in fact you can do it on most (all?) smartphones). I occasionally get calls from people claiming I called them marketing crap, so obviously someone used my phone # in their CID spoofing. No, I didn't call them. I tell them about caller ID spoofing and how it works but they are usually unconvinced. I end up blocking their numbers so I don't get repeated calls from people who choose to remain aggressively stupid.
Here no one runs pot grows in their basements to "hide" them but they're usually in the basement because it is a convenient use of unfinished space to put the grow tent there rather than in the living room or bedrooms.:D
If we had an administration which was working for The People rather tha Big Corp and Oligarchs, these companies would be fined big money for each and every individual HIPAA violation, and the fines would be measured at minimum in tens of billions USD.
Surprised they didn't claim at least $12,586,000,000,000.00 lost. Why? 100 copies of CDs sold at $17.98 times ~7 billion people, all of whom surely would have purchased at least one copy of each were it not for file sharing./s
Usability hasn't been an objective ever since "human factors engineers" who know nothing of human factors have been designing UIs. Exhibit A: Gnome Exhibit B: the Firefox redesign.
The title bar has a functional purpose: it's easy to click and grab to move a window around without mistakenly clicking on other UI elements which might modify your document. Sure, on some platforms (X on *nix) you can use a meta key (usually alt) to click anywhere on a window to drag it around but good luck getting Windows (or Mac) users to memorize that.
This. So much this. They know every serial number of every phone they sell. It's even on the receipt. This required very little effort from Apple. They failed, just as the police failed, and I hope the Garcias sue and win big from both the inept police department and from Apple.
As happened with 3D TVs, I waited for them to get the tech right, then put off a purchase because we were upgrading from an apartment to a house so we wanted to get a larger 3D set. By the time the house was ready 3D TVs were killed off and the ones with the specs I wanted were no longer available as "new old stock."
Now that I am going to be ready to upgrade from my Xbox 360 to an Xbox One along with other AV upgrades (mostly to get 4K capability) they're killing off the Kinect.
The universe hates me.:D
Obviously the solution is to buy now before stock runs out, but...
> there's a secret pedophilia ring under a pizza parlor....being run out of a basement that doesn't even exist (it turned out the pizza place is on just a slab, not over a basement).
“There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.” -Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes
And also, while health risks were suspected by many even back then, it was still being touted as a remedy for certain health issues at the time. (it does help treat some health issues, but causes far more problems than it solves).
I partially agree with this, but where you can only zoom so far digitally and it isn't always practical to "zoom out" using your feet, in a small room, etc. portrait/vertical shooting is the obvious solution.
What DOES need to die is the godawful trend of framing portrait/vertical videos with sidebars of blurred portions of the video; this kills the ability to properly enjoy the video; rotate it and you don't get much of a zoom, and you can't zoom in to the video in portrait mode because of the fucking blurry sidebars. Please shoot - to kill* - the hipster who started that fucking trend!
*please don't be a deplorable by shooting the fucking hipster.
I dunno. If a presidential candidate and his sons attempted treason and collusion with an enemy of state, and if I were a prosecutor, I would file treason and espionage charges even if they failed, for example, if someone were to try to leverage money laundering and real estate deals to get dirt on an opponent and ended up in the White House. I would absolutely file those charges and push for the maximum sentence allowed by the constitution, because the intent was clear, in this purely hypothetical case, that they tried to sell an entire nation out to the enemy for personal gain.
Sometimes an attempted crime is every bit as bad as one which was successful, and should be punished just as harshly to deter others from attempting the same.
Honestly that is far more reasonable than what the big three were doing previously to throttling (cutting off Unlimited customers for using "too much" data or switching them from unlimited to metered plans).
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> otherwise what's the point of leaving earth
Getting away from Republicans... oh wait, I see your point about cockroaches. nvm.
Scammers can go die in a fire.
My phone numbers are on the do not call list. I get robocalls all the time; when I pick up these calls I tell them I'm on the do not call list so I know they're low life scammers (to which rather than disconnecting they start cussing me out, proving my accusation to be true) and invite them to consume copious amounts of strychnine, because suicide is far more honorable than being a fucking scammer and they'll be doing humanity a favor. Alternatively I'll play along and then after a bit I tell them I know they're scammers and while I've kept them tied up in a conversation I've kept them from scamming suckers. Another approach is to read Trumpster/Deplorable racist rants (based on their accent) I have bookmarked, hoping to demoralize them. Blocking their numbers doesn't work due to CID spoofing.
CID spoofing has become a big problem because it's trivially easy (in fact you can do it on most (all?) smartphones). I occasionally get calls from people claiming I called them marketing crap, so obviously someone used my phone # in their CID spoofing. No, I didn't call them. I tell them about caller ID spoofing and how it works but they are usually unconvinced. I end up blocking their numbers so I don't get repeated calls from people who choose to remain aggressively stupid.
Here no one runs pot grows in their basements to "hide" them but they're usually in the basement because it is a convenient use of unfinished space to put the grow tent there rather than in the living room or bedrooms. :D
" this breach is not capable of remedy."
Seems accurate, unless you have the Doctor and his TARDIS ready to bring a cure back from the distant future, to her past. >_>
We just discovered the one person in the world who uses their smartphone only as a phone.
Agreed! I keep my Precision M6400 going because of the 16:10 aspect ratio (and also the RGB-LED backlight).
a private corporation has a moral imperative to publicly tell Uncle Sam to get fucked.
If we had an administration which was working for The People rather tha Big Corp and Oligarchs, these companies would be fined big money for each and every individual HIPAA violation, and the fines would be measured at minimum in tens of billions USD.
Which Trump are you: Beavis or Butthead, er, I mean, Eric or Don Jr?
Surprised they didn't claim at least $12,586,000,000,000.00 lost. Why? 100 copies of CDs sold at $17.98 times ~7 billion people, all of whom surely would have purchased at least one copy of each were it not for file sharing. /s
The People elected him; people are a problem.
Usability hasn't been an objective ever since "human factors engineers" who know nothing of human factors have been designing UIs. Exhibit A: Gnome Exhibit B: the Firefox redesign.
The title bar has a functional purpose: it's easy to click and grab to move a window around without mistakenly clicking on other UI elements which might modify your document. Sure, on some platforms (X on *nix) you can use a meta key (usually alt) to click anywhere on a window to drag it around but good luck getting Windows (or Mac) users to memorize that.
GPU supercomputing cards are ideal for this:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/d...
This. So much this. They know every serial number of every phone they sell. It's even on the receipt. This required very little effort from Apple. They failed, just as the police failed, and I hope the Garcias sue and win big from both the inept police department and from Apple.
Better tried-and-true solution:
Don't make wiring with edible insulation.
As happened with 3D TVs, I waited for them to get the tech right, then put off a purchase because we were upgrading from an apartment to a house so we wanted to get a larger 3D set. By the time the house was ready 3D TVs were killed off and the ones with the specs I wanted were no longer available as "new old stock."
Now that I am going to be ready to upgrade from my Xbox 360 to an Xbox One along with other AV upgrades (mostly to get 4K capability) they're killing off the Kinect.
The universe hates me. :D
Obviously the solution is to buy now before stock runs out, but...
> there's a secret pedophilia ring under a pizza parlor. ...being run out of a basement that doesn't even exist (it turned out the pizza place is on just a slab, not over a basement).
“There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.” -Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes
And also, while health risks were suspected by many even back then, it was still being touted as a remedy for certain health issues at the time. (it does help treat some health issues, but causes far more problems than it solves).
I partially agree with this, but where you can only zoom so far digitally and it isn't always practical to "zoom out" using your feet, in a small room, etc. portrait/vertical shooting is the obvious solution.
What DOES need to die is the godawful trend of framing portrait/vertical videos with sidebars of blurred portions of the video; this kills the ability to properly enjoy the video; rotate it and you don't get much of a zoom, and you can't zoom in to the video in portrait mode because of the fucking blurry sidebars. Please shoot - to kill* - the hipster who started that fucking trend!
*please don't be a deplorable by shooting the fucking hipster.
I dunno. If a presidential candidate and his sons attempted treason and collusion with an enemy of state, and if I were a prosecutor, I would file treason and espionage charges even if they failed, for example, if someone were to try to leverage money laundering and real estate deals to get dirt on an opponent and ended up in the White House. I would absolutely file those charges and push for the maximum sentence allowed by the constitution, because the intent was clear, in this purely hypothetical case, that they tried to sell an entire nation out to the enemy for personal gain.
Sometimes an attempted crime is every bit as bad as one which was successful, and should be punished just as harshly to deter others from attempting the same.
Ack!
s/laptops/phones/
D'oh!
Bytes from PCs are bigger than from laptops, obviously, which is why they disallow tethering on the unlimited plans. /s
Honestly that is far more reasonable than what the big three were doing previously to throttling (cutting off Unlimited customers for using "too much" data or switching them from unlimited to metered plans).
Well, naturally, but PETA terrorists will protest if you describe bird feeders as what they are: cat food lures!