I just want the stop button on the browser to stop everything in it's tracks. So often these days the text content I want to read is loaded and there's nothing more I want loaded on a page. And fewer and fewer browsers have easy ways to completely disable javascript.
I know there's a lucrative career in writing scripts for websites, but there are a lot of pages where it's unnecessary. Noscript is a good solution to most of it and it's heartening how much of the web just keeps working well with a script blocker in place. But disabling scripts is less of an option all the time, many browsers just don't support the feature in any way.
Maybe we should all live in bunkers surrounded by big mounds of cinder blocks. That would be the ultimate safety. It wouldn't even cost as much as all the 'safety' features the car dealers are eager to have as 'mandatory' to jack the sticker price up.
My Lumia isn't a low end phone. I've used crappy low end Android phones before. And I see people all the time with much more expensive phones than the ones I generally use, which are mid-range phones. I don't see them doing anything that I'm not also doing just as well. The main difference that notice is that they have big fat cases on their phones to 'protect the investment' whereas I carry my Gorilla Glass mid-range phone naked in my pocket.
I know, I know. You don't get laid when you flash a Lumia at Starbucks. Different priorities for different folks.
Imagine if you can think of a math problem and the answer instantly comes up for you? You want to look something up? There it is...
Math doesn't work that way. You can't 'plug in' knowledge in the form of chips. Sure, all sorts of facts can be installed into a body embedded reader of some sort. But you can also build that into the door of your refrigerator, or carry a 7" cellular tablet and get the same 'collection of facts.'
"Looking something up" is good for Quiz Shows, but it's not anything worth embedding in your body. The future I visualize is one where cellular-type wireless connections are ubiquitous, and cellphone/tablet like devices cost a few dollars and bandwith is free. That doesn't necessitate or even promote implantable devices, nor does it impart knowledge on humanity.
Your kid doesn't want to be chipped. Believe me. Kidnapping isn't that big a problem and the civil liberties tradeoff aren't worth it. I know I don't want the police to be able to easily 'find me' anytime they want. Political situations can change in a heartbeat, and the harness of power is easily turned on a citizenry that has that sort of an infrastructure in place. Probably we'll never be a mature enough species for it to ebe wise to give that power to the state.
My wife would pay good money for something that sent my farts away. Microsoft wouldn't want them, though. Nor do they want all the 'stuff' you're FUDing about, no matter how much shill slashdotters shriek about it. Microsoft doesn't monetize crap like that. You're thinking of Google, I bet.
I have an Asus Transformer Book actually. It cost about as much as the accessories for the new Maxipad, and includeed a full 'home and student' Office 2013 license, for under $300. And it runs Windows 8.1. I tried Windows 10 on it. Windows 10 sucks on tablets at this point, 8.1 is much better. It's a weird thing, Windows of the last few years. 8.1 is better on a touchscreen than a laptop or desktop, and they've made 10 worse on a tablet than 8.1 was. I wish they knew what they were doing a little better.
But I'd never want an iOS tablet. iOS is suited for 'mobile' devices, not anything bigger than a cellphone. Apple obsoleted me out of using the three iPod Touches I bought and I decided 'never again.'
Except the Surface Pro runs a real operating system, not a curated 'toy' consumer operating system. You can bid again when Apple puts OSX on one of their pads.
Anyway, I think you meant 'Surface RT' killer, but it's already dead, dude.
New people are born all the time. Some flakes will be eager to be 'chipped' but the infrastructure to 'chip all new births' will prove onerous and top-heavy and leaky and hopefully collapse. So we might 'all be chipped' for a generation or two of a really shitty dictatorship but it'll break down.
Also, why would they need to 'track you' if you had an implant that had all the information of the world in it? Surely you don't need to contribute to the environmental problems by moving, Citizen. You should stay where you are. You have access to everything. Your chip doesn't allow you in that sector you were trying to get into anyway.
My Lumia 635 Windows Phone was $79 right at Radio Shack (probably cheaper if you price shop, but walking into Radio Shack and buying it was nice and casual) and it's Virgin Mobile so I bought it outright and pay $35 a month for unlimited voice/text and 3G of data.
It's a low end Windows Phone, but decent. It's nice to have Microsoft Office on the phone, unlike having Squabblewrae(*) 'Office' on Android or being subject to using Google Docs and having all your documents in the cloud.
(* name may vary depending on which shitty Android 'office' you buy or get for free on the app store)
I wonder, though, if an always-connected build machine could have compromised object files pushed onto it mid-build. It's a theoretical risk, but not one that couldn't be accomplished by a determined foe. The build process is well characterized for many projects, knowing when to push a rogue object file into the build directory wouldn't be that difficult.
It means the penetrating entity would need to already have access to your system, but 'object pushing' would be a useful technique for escalating security breaches.
You can also carry around a wallet of microSD cards, and thus have hundreds of GB or even terabytes of content on hand, without needing to deal with the fumes from 'clouds.'
Software is supposed to improve with time. Newer software should run better on the same hardware, only slowing down if new functions are added. And "browse the web" is a pretty well-defined task.
Microsoft has somewhat reached that plateau. Windows 10 doesnât have greater hardware requirements than Windows 7.
I guess if you're running software made by the company who produced the hardware that would be different. They want to sell you the new stuff on a regular basis. There isn't a good 'fix' forthe problem, though. Android hardware vendors do the same thing in reverse: instead of pushing new software updates to make their hardware prematurely obsolete, they simply don't put out new software for it.
This probably won't change anytime soon, so 'everything just sucks.' We can learn how to avoid the entities that emit a louder sucking sound, though.
The real thieves are whomever specified and ordered all those Macbooks for school kids. Overpriced status hardware that will mean nothing to rooms full of impatient adolescents. The theft victims are the taxpayers. I'm sure there's an Apple sales rep involved and some school adminstrator who got nice swag out of the deal.
Why not more reasonably priced hardware? Chromebooks or even some 'doze laptops. Apple branded stuff, like Coach handbags is for snobby individuals, not semi-enterprise settings like a school.
As 'self-driving' becomes the norm, the human driver will become less and less experienced in driving the vehicle. Within a decade, people will be stranded in remote areas in vehicles, waving their arms and wailing like babes in their cribs.
New levels of hijacking and banditry will arise, hopefully (???*) with new levels of law enforcement.
My Houston Instruments analog X-Y pen plotter should be good enough for anything. If you want a particular pattern, set your function generators* to.5 hertz and choose your waveform!
(*you will need two signals, one for the X input and one for the Y input. Amplitude is nominal. the front end of the plotter has 1/2/5x amplitude settings for three or four decades.)
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I just want the stop button on the browser to stop everything in it's tracks. So often these days the text content I want to read is loaded and there's nothing more I want loaded on a page. And fewer and fewer browsers have easy ways to completely disable javascript.
I know there's a lucrative career in writing scripts for websites, but there are a lot of pages where it's unnecessary. Noscript is a good solution to most of it and it's heartening how much of the web just keeps working well with a script blocker in place. But disabling scripts is less of an option all the time, many browsers just don't support the feature in any way.
The means don't matter to you, just your hypothetical ends, That's kinda scary.
Has Musk really roped in thay many suckers, now? He should focus on selling cars to real people next.
Oh, he makes that claim. We'll see.
That's very utopian of you to say that. Will you next start specifying the 'safe' leisure activities we are permitted to engage in?
Um, your whole approach in this thread reeks of busy-body social planner. Again, fuck off.
expecting them do to better is really just folly. they need help.
Fuck off. We're not all as helpless as you assert yourself to be.
Maybe we should all live in bunkers surrounded by big mounds of cinder blocks. That would be the ultimate safety. It wouldn't even cost as much as all the 'safety' features the car dealers are eager to have as 'mandatory' to jack the sticker price up.
Turning off JavaScript makes baby webdeveloper cry.
The term Microsoft uses is that the free Windows 10 update 'consumes' the older Windows 7/8 license when the upgrade is made.
My Lumia isn't a low end phone. I've used crappy low end Android phones before. And I see people all the time with much more expensive phones than the ones I generally use, which are mid-range phones. I don't see them doing anything that I'm not also doing just as well. The main difference that notice is that they have big fat cases on their phones to 'protect the investment' whereas I carry my Gorilla Glass mid-range phone naked in my pocket.
I know, I know. You don't get laid when you flash a Lumia at Starbucks. Different priorities for different folks.
Imagine if you can think of a math problem and the answer instantly comes up for you? You want to look something up? There it is...
Math doesn't work that way. You can't 'plug in' knowledge in the form of chips. Sure, all sorts of facts can be installed into a body embedded reader of some sort. But you can also build that into the door of your refrigerator, or carry a 7" cellular tablet and get the same 'collection of facts.'
"Looking something up" is good for Quiz Shows, but it's not anything worth embedding in your body. The future I visualize is one where cellular-type wireless connections are ubiquitous, and cellphone/tablet like devices cost a few dollars and bandwith is free. That doesn't necessitate or even promote implantable devices, nor does it impart knowledge on humanity.
Your kid doesn't want to be chipped. Believe me. Kidnapping isn't that big a problem and the civil liberties tradeoff aren't worth it. I know I don't want the police to be able to easily 'find me' anytime they want. Political situations can change in a heartbeat, and the harness of power is easily turned on a citizenry that has that sort of an infrastructure in place. Probably we'll never be a mature enough species for it to ebe wise to give that power to the state.
My wife would pay good money for something that sent my farts away. Microsoft wouldn't want them, though. Nor do they want all the 'stuff' you're FUDing about, no matter how much shill slashdotters shriek about it. Microsoft doesn't monetize crap like that. You're thinking of Google, I bet.
I have an Asus Transformer Book actually. It cost about as much as the accessories for the new Maxipad, and includeed a full 'home and student' Office 2013 license, for under $300. And it runs Windows 8.1. I tried Windows 10 on it. Windows 10 sucks on tablets at this point, 8.1 is much better. It's a weird thing, Windows of the last few years. 8.1 is better on a touchscreen than a laptop or desktop, and they've made 10 worse on a tablet than 8.1 was. I wish they knew what they were doing a little better.
But I'd never want an iOS tablet. iOS is suited for 'mobile' devices, not anything bigger than a cellphone. Apple obsoleted me out of using the three iPod Touches I bought and I decided 'never again.'
Except the Surface Pro runs a real operating system, not a curated 'toy' consumer operating system. You can bid again when Apple puts OSX on one of their pads.
Anyway, I think you meant 'Surface RT' killer, but it's already dead, dude.
Advertisers will love having pre-screened access to the stupid people who spend the $100 extra to get the 'Apple' box over the Roku/Amazon/Chromecast.
Salespeople call that a 'line of suckers' and the ad rates will be significantly higher.
New people are born all the time. Some flakes will be eager to be 'chipped' but the infrastructure to 'chip all new births' will prove onerous and top-heavy and leaky and hopefully collapse. So we might 'all be chipped' for a generation or two of a really shitty dictatorship but it'll break down.
Also, why would they need to 'track you' if you had an implant that had all the information of the world in it? Surely you don't need to contribute to the environmental problems by moving, Citizen. You should stay where you are. You have access to everything. Your chip doesn't allow you in that sector you were trying to get into anyway.
Enjoy your bread and circuses, plebe.
Is that Microsoft OS/2 or the later, better, IBM OS/2?
Is it Warp? Does the Apple Pencil blend?
(will he need a whole gross of Apple Pencils to make the blend video interesting enough to bother watching?)
My Lumia 635 Windows Phone was $79 right at Radio Shack (probably cheaper if you price shop, but walking into Radio Shack and buying it was nice and casual) and it's Virgin Mobile so I bought it outright and pay $35 a month for unlimited voice/text and 3G of data.
It's a low end Windows Phone, but decent. It's nice to have Microsoft Office on the phone, unlike having Squabblewrae(*) 'Office' on Android or being subject to using Google Docs and having all your documents in the cloud.
(* name may vary depending on which shitty Android 'office' you buy or get for free on the app store)
NetBSD has the pkgsrc collection, which is fairly large, and it is never going to be polluted by systemd.
I wonder, though, if an always-connected build machine could have compromised object files pushed onto it mid-build. It's a theoretical risk, but not one that couldn't be accomplished by a determined foe. The build process is well characterized for many projects, knowing when to push a rogue object file into the build directory wouldn't be that difficult.
It means the penetrating entity would need to already have access to your system, but 'object pushing' would be a useful technique for escalating security breaches.
You can also carry around a wallet of microSD cards, and thus have hundreds of GB or even terabytes of content on hand, without needing to deal with the fumes from 'clouds.'
Software is supposed to improve with time. Newer software should run better on the same hardware, only slowing down if new functions are added. And "browse the web" is a pretty well-defined task.
Microsoft has somewhat reached that plateau. Windows 10 doesnât have greater hardware requirements than Windows 7.
I guess if you're running software made by the company who produced the hardware that would be different. They want to sell you the new stuff on a regular basis. There isn't a good 'fix' forthe problem, though. Android hardware vendors do the same thing in reverse: instead of pushing new software updates to make their hardware prematurely obsolete, they simply don't put out new software for it.
This probably won't change anytime soon, so 'everything just sucks.' We can learn how to avoid the entities that emit a louder sucking sound, though.
The real thieves are whomever specified and ordered all those Macbooks for school kids. Overpriced status hardware that will mean nothing to rooms full of impatient adolescents. The theft victims are the taxpayers. I'm sure there's an Apple sales rep involved and some school adminstrator who got nice swag out of the deal.
Why not more reasonably priced hardware? Chromebooks or even some 'doze laptops. Apple branded stuff, like Coach handbags is for snobby individuals, not semi-enterprise settings like a school.
Here's your TCO cue, shills.
'runaway cods moon' works better, although punctuation trolls will squee.
As 'self-driving' becomes the norm, the human driver will become less and less experienced in driving the vehicle. Within a decade, people will be stranded in remote areas in vehicles, waving their arms and wailing like babes in their cribs.
New levels of hijacking and banditry will arise, hopefully (???*) with new levels of law enforcement.
(*do we really want to need that??)
NetBSD. It even runs on my SE/30. A worthy upgrade from anything Apple on nearly any Apple hardware.
My Houston Instruments analog X-Y pen plotter should be good enough for anything. If you want a particular pattern, set your function generators* to .5 hertz and choose your waveform!
(*you will need two signals, one for the X input and one for the Y input. Amplitude is nominal. the front end of the plotter has 1/2/5x amplitude settings for three or four decades.)