Isn't Twitter owned by shareholders who will raise hell if the credibility of the service is trashed due to political biases of the employees operating it?
Fracking and alternative extraction technologies took the price of oil low enough that Saudi Arabia responded by dumping, to drive the new competitors out of the market.
The part that gets me about safety problems and lithium ion batteries are the schemes out there to take the batteries, when part of their useful life is gone, and make them stationary battery packs for power storage.
Yeah, that's a great idea. Take the aging batteries to end of life in massive banks inside people's homes. Where they gradually become more and more leaky until they rupture. Whoops. Another flare out on a house over on Elm Street. Call the fire brigade.
Ummm, I expect them to die. And everybody suffers from time to time.
I expect great-great-great-nephews and nieces to look back at our current 'Science Fiction' and say 'the stuff that was based around technology is real crap, but there was some pretty cool wondering when they weren't navel gazing at their gadgets.'
What sort of logic? I've seen TTL gates where there's a little void in the package (always plastic packaged stuff, ceramic packages split apart in that failure mode) where a puff of smoke had come out at some earlier point. CMOS can doubtless outgass, too, but latchups aren't as common as with good old bipolar.
Possibly the best thing that could come out of Trump or Sanders becoming President would be the radical snipping of the 'Executive Privileged' virus that would ensue. The creeping power of the Executive Branch has grown for decades. I see Congress and the Courts snipping that stuff off instantly when the Trump or Sanders administration takes control. They can stay in charge of the Post Office and the Army. Lots of other stuff can go.
I have this dream of Office Furniture and Equipment companies going bankrupt worldwide because of the surplus auctions of equipment from closed buildings in Washington.
When I was a kid there was an oil refinery near my grandparents' house. There was a tower that we called 'the fire flag.' That is, a tower with an eternal flame burning off some part of the fractured crude oil that they couldn't use. It was ever there and we thought of it sort of like a flag on a flagpole.
I'm sure there are still some forms of disposal like that still in use, but back in the old days it was blatant in ways people today can't imagine.
All evidence shows that Apple product (this older iPhone version) is indeed less secure than they claimed. Otherwise they wouldn't be throwing out ethical reasons not to load the new firmware.
It's marketing hype. I'm actually surprised that Apple is as good at it as this, but that's what it is.
There are a lot cheaper and shittier phones than a Moto E that you can use on a pay-as-you-go plan. But the Moto E was only $40 and it's vastly better than the 3G and 4G iPod Touches that I own but no longer use. You should get your kid something that isn't crap that Apple has forced into obsolescence. Maybe even with a replaceable battery.
Jealous of Apple crap?
I have NetBSD installed on one of my SE/30's. It's a good use of Apple hardware.
A cheap pay-as-you-go plan would work fine. But you'll never know. Keep flashing plastic at the Apple store if that makes you feel good.
One would hope that you'd help your mother-in-law. By 'easy' I meant that you don't have to root around in permissions to delete the folder. Before I learned of that easily located executable (that doesn't even need to be 'installed', simply downloaded and run-in-place) I tried to delete the folder and found even with admin access on my own box I couldn't.
So I would hope that you'll help your m-i-l and not just harp on her about 'Install Linux' or something really arcane and difficult.
There is a very easy way to remove that folder. Download GWX_control_panel.exe and run it, and check off several boxes. Then turn off automatic updates. Download the WSUS Offline Update tool and generate update rollups to install periodically.
Bullshit. There are degrees to everything. Rot13 encryption works if it keeps 12 year old Johnny's 9 yrar old sister Susan from reading his journal. It's effective encryption, because it prevents it'ss target from reading the journal. There is no such thing as absolute security. There are always only degrees of security
You've definitely gotten 4 years of value out of it if you've been able to use it to define peerage and hierarchy in your family. Little Jon, your youngest son, knows his place, and he'll probably turn out to be the nerd, since he always has to figure out ways around the aging problems in the fourth hand gadget.
In the online reviews of the Moto E when it came out over a year ago, it was a $150 phone. It's a hell of a deal now on the pay-as-you-go providers because the price has settled to $40.
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Isn't Twitter owned by shareholders who will raise hell if the credibility of the service is trashed due to political biases of the employees operating it?
Fracking and alternative extraction technologies took the price of oil low enough that Saudi Arabia responded by dumping, to drive the new competitors out of the market.
The part that gets me about safety problems and lithium ion batteries are the schemes out there to take the batteries, when part of their useful life is gone, and make them stationary battery packs for power storage.
Yeah, that's a great idea. Take the aging batteries to end of life in massive banks inside people's homes. Where they gradually become more and more leaky until they rupture. Whoops. Another flare out on a house over on Elm Street. Call the fire brigade.
Ummm, I expect them to die. And everybody suffers from time to time.
I expect great-great-great-nephews and nieces to look back at our current 'Science Fiction' and say 'the stuff that was based around technology is real crap, but there was some pretty cool wondering when they weren't navel gazing at their gadgets.'
What sort of logic? I've seen TTL gates where there's a little void in the package (always plastic packaged stuff, ceramic packages split apart in that failure mode) where a puff of smoke had come out at some earlier point. CMOS can doubtless outgass, too, but latchups aren't as common as with good old bipolar.
Not just politicians. Lots of other people, many of them squirting out babies quite regularly.
You shouldn't necessarily drink a quart of water where the percentage of arsenic has been rounded down to zero.
All due respects to Douglas Adams, but you do know that he was being rather silly a lot of the time. He even knew this, rumor has it.
You're clinging to the bible quite a bit for a non-believer.
Would you ask us to take just as serious a criticism of a book of Theoretical Physics if the person criticizing knew very little about Physics?
I think you meant to type it doesn't look good for the SciFy channel. At least the prop department that makes the rocket ships, to start with.
The rest of us, we need to settle down and assess what good things we have and how to conserve and keep them going well.
Possibly the best thing that could come out of Trump or Sanders becoming President would be the radical snipping of the 'Executive Privileged' virus that would ensue. The creeping power of the Executive Branch has grown for decades. I see Congress and the Courts snipping that stuff off instantly when the Trump or Sanders administration takes control. They can stay in charge of the Post Office and the Army. Lots of other stuff can go.
I have this dream of Office Furniture and Equipment companies going bankrupt worldwide because of the surplus auctions of equipment from closed buildings in Washington.
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
When I was a kid there was an oil refinery near my grandparents' house. There was a tower that we called 'the fire flag.' That is, a tower with an eternal flame burning off some part of the fractured crude oil that they couldn't use. It was ever there and we thought of it sort of like a flag on a flagpole.
I'm sure there are still some forms of disposal like that still in use, but back in the old days it was blatant in ways people today can't imagine.
ISIS is so backwards their memory is probably first generation ECL. They need a whole data center to keep their one gigabyte of memory cool.
In the era of STASI, people couldn't type out their opinion on a piece of paper and not fear imprisonment for handing it out to other people.
So get over the idea that anything about the 'repression' of electronic communications today is anything close to equivalent.
All evidence shows that Apple product (this older iPhone version) is indeed less secure than they claimed. Otherwise they wouldn't be throwing out ethical reasons not to load the new firmware.
It's marketing hype. I'm actually surprised that Apple is as good at it as this, but that's what it is.
There are a lot cheaper and shittier phones than a Moto E that you can use on a pay-as-you-go plan. But the Moto E was only $40 and it's vastly better than the 3G and 4G iPod Touches that I own but no longer use. You should get your kid something that isn't crap that Apple has forced into obsolescence. Maybe even with a replaceable battery.
Jealous of Apple crap?
I have NetBSD installed on one of my SE/30's. It's a good use of Apple hardware.
A cheap pay-as-you-go plan would work fine. But you'll never know. Keep flashing plastic at the Apple store if that makes you feel good.
One would hope that you'd help your mother-in-law. By 'easy' I meant that you don't have to root around in permissions to delete the folder. Before I learned of that easily located executable (that doesn't even need to be 'installed', simply downloaded and run-in-place) I tried to delete the folder and found even with admin access on my own box I couldn't.
So I would hope that you'll help your m-i-l and not just harp on her about 'Install Linux' or something really arcane and difficult.
You are so Daddy Warbucks about Trump that it's clear you also believe Hillary isn't totally in the pockets of the rich.
Bitch is a former member of the board of WallMart. How can people forget stuff like that?
The kleptocrats will protect Hillary. They have too much money riding on her now for her to be charged with those felonies.
Is Google skimming anything off of the data routed through their pipe while the "bad guys" are running the DOS attack?
There is a very easy way to remove that folder. Download GWX_control_panel.exe and run it, and check off several boxes. Then turn off automatic updates. Download the WSUS Offline Update tool and generate update rollups to install periodically.
Bullshit. There are degrees to everything. Rot13 encryption works if it keeps 12 year old Johnny's 9 yrar old sister Susan from reading his journal. It's effective encryption, because it prevents it'ss target from reading the journal. There is no such thing as absolute security. There are always only degrees of security
It's a data recovery operation, not forcing secrets out of this iphone. The phone is owned by a government organization.
And you know this because you've consulted with LG about developing something?
You've definitely gotten 4 years of value out of it if you've been able to use it to define peerage and hierarchy in your family. Little Jon, your youngest son, knows his place, and he'll probably turn out to be the nerd, since he always has to figure out ways around the aging problems in the fourth hand gadget.
In the online reviews of the Moto E when it came out over a year ago, it was a $150 phone. It's a hell of a deal now on the pay-as-you-go providers because the price has settled to $40.