Oh, don't be so modest. The 'singular obsession' you're obsessed with is an invention of yours. The pond you're swimming in is absurdly tiny and, if you don't mind me saying, chuckle-worthy. I mean, really, are you that isolated from civilization that you haven't heard a decade's worth of jokes about internet porn popping up at unintentional times? Heh. Fun fun!
Hmm... now we're at me being offended by the sight of porn, but don't recall saying that. I guess that's an attempt on my credibility, I dunno. Even if I were sensitive to it, all that'd do is make me more knowledgeable about this topic. Not really helping your case there.
And, yes, I did offer proof even though it wasn't really necessary for someone of your age and experience, but because somehow you weren't around to witness that and the slew of pop culture references made about it for the proceeding decade, you've rejected it. Can't help ya there, bub. I'd quote Steve Martin, but you wouldn't get it.
"A Fairphone screen, a Foomeister I motherboard, a used Sorny RadioNIC that I found on eBay, a Brand X battery and oops I guess I didn't even bother with a camera on this one. Oh well, I didn't need one here. Wait, I just remembered have a 5 year old one sitting in a drawer, let's just throw that in." Later: "Shit, it got obsolete: time for a Foomeister II+ board, which has enough RAM to run the newest release of Netbuntroid."
Then you'd get a handheld the same way you get a desktop: go buy just the right parts for your situation....
I don't really understand why this sounds enticing. You have reminded me of why over the last few years I've avoided OS upgrades, kept lots of computers around, and hoarded tons of computer gear. I'm just not convinced that's how I want to manage a device I have higher expectations of in terms of up-time.
Yes. Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, and Yahoo regularly returned porn for quite a few not-porn searches. As did Hotbot and Lycos. Again, meta-tags and the rapid rise of Google. It was quite the annoyance for those who were there.
The question I asked was "when was this?"
Judging from a fairly lengthy era you missed I assume your patent led to a twenty year long coma.
I wanted to know when that era was, then you decided to have a go at me for my remark about search engines returning porn. Which... they did, and that abuse of meta tags led to Google quickly being favored when it came about because it actually returned results based on the content we saw, not based on the content they declared themselves to be a part of.
How you frolicked around the web for so many decades without being aware of that bit of history, instead choosing to assume I'm a caricature of Bud Bundy or something, I really don't know, but it is amusing.
Believe it or not, there was once a time when the internet had no ads...
When was this? When I first started getting on the net search engines were used to pick the information you need out of a sea of porn. The only ad-free time I had on-line was on independently run BBS's.
She said she was going to blow up the school with a bomb. I am not kidding. Go look it up.
I found a reference to an accusation in 2009 at a difference school, I don't see where she called in a bomb threat.
This has nothing to do with race. I don't even know what race this kid is. Muslim is not a race. If a white Christian kid came to school with that crap he would get the SAME treatment.
Even if your most extreme supposition about the kid's father turned out to be true, he proved it very effectively. Not that he needed to, Fox News is having fun conflating Muslim with t'rrist. Heck, look at the refugees in Europe... you're following that, right?
The entire family is a bunch of wackjobs.
Maybe so, maybe no, but either they are known trolls, in which case the response was inappropriate, or the authorities involved went overboard... which was inappropriate. Vilify the family all you want, but they're leaving... so we just point fingers and not move forward?
I can assure you his father IS saying that to himself.
If he's an activist because people make assumptions based on his skin color, religion, and/or last name, then you've said a lot more in that statement than you intended to.
Oh you didn't know his SISTER was also suspended for something similar?
Yeah? What specifically did she do that made them overreact?
Or his father is a well known activist, and well known Sudanese politician?
Yeah? How did his activism and being a politician influence the overreaction?
At the end of the day, you have been played by the media and Ahmed's who has counting on your typical anti-American prejudices to rise to the top.
Please pardon me for not hearing about this until after the kid was released, but how did the media or Anti-American sentiment cause him to be detained?
At the end of the day a whole community of Texans were frightened by a kid named Ahmed playing with electronics. Even if he were a master activist with the supernatural skills you wish he had so it'd fit your narrative, he'd still be saying: "Holy shit that went way better than I ever could have hoped!"
Kid experiments with electronics. Local government wrongly detains him and accuses him of being a t'rrist. President demonstrates that's exactly how we're not supposed to act by inviting him to the White House instead of a jail cell.
As pointed out before: The kid 'invented' a bigotry-detector.
Just for fun let's say your assumption is one hundred percent correct and that's exactly what happened. Guess who remains the bad guy of the story? I'll give you a hint: They ain't purchasing plane tickets.
Detroit has some nasty spots, but it is nothing like the Robocop 3 picture you're painting. I recently went on a 6-month long business trip there and it was quite pleasant.
Probably because AT&T is at 22, and Sprint is probably trying to one-up them. (No, I don't know where 22 came from, but it's loads better than when it was 5.)
When AT&T first started throttling, not only did they do it far below the amount of data a less expensive tier was offering, but they also made it so slow that it compared to landline-modem speeds. So while you were watching commercials of AT&T users watching videos on their phone, you found yourself barely getting email. Worse, if you had paid $5/mo LESS, you would have had an extra gig or two of the useful speed.
In short, AT&T set the tone that unlimited plans with throttling meant, for most practical purposes, there was a cap in place. In fact AT&T was recently slapped with a hugenormous fine over it. It's not surprising at all that any move that a carrier makes with regards to unlimited customers comes under scrutiny. Frankly I'm just glad people are paying attention to it.
I take it you're not the sort of person that wastes time sanitizing inputs. "If people are functioning correcly they'll never put their name down as Robert; DROP TABLE students."
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Qwerty? That's too sophisticated for me. Can someone distill it down to A9 for me?
So you're gonna buy an AMD card then?
Oh, don't be so modest. The 'singular obsession' you're obsessed with is an invention of yours. The pond you're swimming in is absurdly tiny and, if you don't mind me saying, chuckle-worthy. I mean, really, are you that isolated from civilization that you haven't heard a decade's worth of jokes about internet porn popping up at unintentional times? Heh. Fun fun!
To be fair, they just left out the phrase "in North America...", and for some reason title real-estate is at a premium.
Hmm... now we're at me being offended by the sight of porn, but don't recall saying that. I guess that's an attempt on my credibility, I dunno. Even if I were sensitive to it, all that'd do is make me more knowledgeable about this topic. Not really helping your case there.
And, yes, I did offer proof even though it wasn't really necessary for someone of your age and experience, but because somehow you weren't around to witness that and the slew of pop culture references made about it for the proceeding decade, you've rejected it. Can't help ya there, bub. I'd quote Steve Martin, but you wouldn't get it.
"A Fairphone screen, a Foomeister I motherboard, a used Sorny RadioNIC that I found on eBay, a Brand X battery and oops I guess I didn't even bother with a camera on this one. Oh well, I didn't need one here. Wait, I just remembered have a 5 year old one sitting in a drawer, let's just throw that in." Later: "Shit, it got obsolete: time for a Foomeister II+ board, which has enough RAM to run the newest release of Netbuntroid."
Then you'd get a handheld the same way you get a desktop: go buy just the right parts for your situation....
I don't really understand why this sounds enticing. You have reminded me of why over the last few years I've avoided OS upgrades, kept lots of computers around, and hoarded tons of computer gear. I'm just not convinced that's how I want to manage a device I have higher expectations of in terms of up-time.
Will 'vanilla Android' have the proper drivers for all those modules?
Yes. Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, and Yahoo regularly returned porn for quite a few not-porn searches. As did Hotbot and Lycos. Again, meta-tags and the rapid rise of Google. It was quite the annoyance for those who were there.
The question I asked was "when was this?"
Judging from a fairly lengthy era you missed I assume your patent led to a twenty year long coma.
I wanted to know when that era was, then you decided to have a go at me for my remark about search engines returning porn. Which... they did, and that abuse of meta tags led to Google quickly being favored when it came about because it actually returned results based on the content we saw, not based on the content they declared themselves to be a part of.
How you frolicked around the web for so many decades without being aware of that bit of history, instead choosing to assume I'm a caricature of Bud Bundy or something, I really don't know, but it is amusing.
The reason I find this funny is that you're missing a crucial detail of how Google came to be.
You seriously don't remember when websites mainly presented porn. Heh.
Believe it or not, there was once a time when the internet had no ads...
When was this? When I first started getting on the net search engines were used to pick the information you need out of a sea of porn. The only ad-free time I had on-line was on independently run BBS's.
She said she was going to blow up the school with a bomb. I am not kidding. Go look it up.
I found a reference to an accusation in 2009 at a difference school, I don't see where she called in a bomb threat.
This has nothing to do with race. I don't even know what race this kid is. Muslim is not a race. If a white Christian kid came to school with that crap he would get the SAME treatment.
Even if your most extreme supposition about the kid's father turned out to be true, he proved it very effectively. Not that he needed to, Fox News is having fun conflating Muslim with t'rrist. Heck, look at the refugees in Europe... you're following that, right?
The entire family is a bunch of wackjobs.
Maybe so, maybe no, but either they are known trolls, in which case the response was inappropriate, or the authorities involved went overboard ... which was inappropriate. Vilify the family all you want, but they're leaving... so we just point fingers and not move forward?
I can assure you his father IS saying that to himself.
If he's an activist because people make assumptions based on his skin color, religion, and/or last name, then you've said a lot more in that statement than you intended to.
Oh you didn't know his SISTER was also suspended for something similar?
Yeah? What specifically did she do that made them overreact?
Or his father is a well known activist, and well known Sudanese politician?
Yeah? How did his activism and being a politician influence the overreaction?
At the end of the day, you have been played by the media and Ahmed's who has counting on your typical anti-American prejudices to rise to the top.
Please pardon me for not hearing about this until after the kid was released, but how did the media or Anti-American sentiment cause him to be detained?
At the end of the day a whole community of Texans were frightened by a kid named Ahmed playing with electronics. Even if he were a master activist with the supernatural skills you wish he had so it'd fit your narrative, he'd still be saying: "Holy shit that went way better than I ever could have hoped!"
Kid experiments with electronics. Local government wrongly detains him and accuses him of being a t'rrist. President demonstrates that's exactly how we're not supposed to act by inviting him to the White House instead of a jail cell.
As pointed out before: The kid 'invented' a bigotry-detector.
Would you have benefitted from more praise/recognition for your experiments while you were in school?
Just for fun let's say your assumption is one hundred percent correct and that's exactly what happened. Guess who remains the bad guy of the story? I'll give you a hint: They ain't purchasing plane tickets.
Definitely one of the more pitiful ways to assert dominance on Slashdot. I guess claiming you don't have a TV has gotten old.
Detroit has some nasty spots, but it is nothing like the Robocop 3 picture you're painting. I recently went on a 6-month long business trip there and it was quite pleasant.
Do you really think that if you were to ram someone's car the police wouldn't show up at your door?
We've already been through that phase. Turns out guns are preferred.
Probably because AT&T is at 22, and Sprint is probably trying to one-up them. (No, I don't know where 22 came from, but it's loads better than when it was 5.)
When AT&T first started throttling, not only did they do it far below the amount of data a less expensive tier was offering, but they also made it so slow that it compared to landline-modem speeds. So while you were watching commercials of AT&T users watching videos on their phone, you found yourself barely getting email. Worse, if you had paid $5/mo LESS, you would have had an extra gig or two of the useful speed.
In short, AT&T set the tone that unlimited plans with throttling meant, for most practical purposes, there was a cap in place. In fact AT&T was recently slapped with a hugenormous fine over it. It's not surprising at all that any move that a carrier makes with regards to unlimited customers comes under scrutiny. Frankly I'm just glad people are paying attention to it.
I take it you're not the sort of person that wastes time sanitizing inputs. "If people are functioning correcly they'll never put their name down as Robert; DROP TABLE students."