It is reasonable to conclude that they are somehow invested in this scam. I live in the middle of nowhere, have my own power and well, can hunt and fish, and a nice garden as well as wood heat. I will be okay for a while.
I bet you nailed it. I have nimble little fingers BUT I've been playing guitar for a lot of years. I assume it's the greater skin area (and perhaps EM field) that makes the stylus work better. But I bet it's the calluses. I'm going to try hitting them with an emery board and seeing what happens if I take some of the skin off. I used to emery board them back in the day to get them to grow even more callused.
Slashdot, helping people with the most inane problems since 1997.;) Thanks. I'll try it and have a go. I bough at cheap ass tablet to take with me on rougher adventures and just opened it up this weekend (even though I bought it like six months ago) and it didn't do any better (or worse) than any of the others. But now I'll have something to tinker with.
It wasn't a bad buy for $50. I got much more than I expected to. It's a off-brand, one I'd never heard of but had great reviews and specs for the price, at the time. It's a Dragon Touch y88x, quad core, crap RAM, but 8 GB internal and I put in a 32 GB SD card. So, we'll have to see if scraping my flesh to the bone will help. (No, not quite that bad. But I've got some skin that can certainly come off with no risks and no pain.)
Now come on, you know nobody was dumb enough to actually DO that, right? Right? If they did then they'll learn the most important lesson in security. Research before doing anything - especially entering random commands into the terminal.
Very interesting, thanks. And I'm glad my guess was wrong. I'd read posts from you before and you'd seemed fairly normal so I was confused.
Hmm... I'm not home or I'd give you the output readings from a multimeter. I don't have a lot of volts being output - very few. I don't recall the numbers. But, I'll try to go down the list and see what happens when I "think aloud."
I am reasonably healthy - I see a doctor on a regular basis and have had most things checked. I drink a lot of Gatorade. I'm not sure if that helps with the electrolytes - perhaps I'm on the end where I've too much of a good thing. I take a daily vitamin and eat reasonably healthy. No neuropathy, there's some history of it in my family though - more info to come. No anemia, my iron levels are pretty good. Spelling - sickle cell anemia is on the black part of my family (I am like 1/8 black.) Diabetes runs in my family - I'm not afflicted. No idea but I drank like a fish for 40 years. I haven't been drunk in over three. Kidney and liver function tests all check out. Doc says I have "the constitution of a horse." Lots of stress earlier in life, none now so much. Lots of alcohol abuse. None now. No clue. No clue. I do have low blood pressure but not far below norm and only impacting me at times when I stand up quickly. No, none of that stuff. Not that I know of.
LOL Anyhow, when I touch the screen it doesn't register. This is true on iPods, every Android tablet I've ever used, every phone I've ever used, etc... I have to hold and wiggle a little before it registers my touch. I keep losing my stylus and I am not a fan of the form factor so I'm usually at a bit of a loss if it needs doing in a hurry. I often resort to a phone with a slide-out keyboard.
Meh, it's just a curiosity. No particular finger works better or anything though my left side seems to work a little better than my right. I've absolutely no real data but it seems to. Some periods of time are worse than others. I've had some time pass where I could not register any clicks very well at all and then it has improved some time later. I've never actually taken measurements or anything. If it's a wide area - like a swipe, that works better and almost without fail.
On the other hand... (No pun intended...) If I've just washed my hands it seems even worse than otherwise. I have no idea why. I can only assume the grease is somehow conductive and that a buildup makes it work better for me? I wash my hands a few times a day, easily, and am not some OCD person doing so every few minutes. That could just be coincidence or I could just notice it and it is confirmation bias.
Ah well... Touch screens weren't meant for me. I can make them work, it just takes time. I don't use them enough to warrant a glove or anything. If I could stop losing my stylus then I'd be doing okay. I should probably just buy a box of 100 and keep them everywhere around me. I can lose stuff that's in my pockets though. I can even go through my pockets only to discover that it was actually in my pockets and I missed it - even though I emptied my pockets out.
Yeah... I get distracted thinking about stuff, often. I'm probably really OCD but I've never been diagnosed. Or insane... Often, I'll be doing math in my head for no reason and, by the time I'm done, I'll have forgotten why I was doing it. The doctor, and my therapist, tell me I'm sane. I see a therapist just to check and make sure and it's also good to be able to bounce ideas off of an objective person.
I wonder if age has any impact? Or if there's something else. I have a sibling who can't wear a battery powered watch. It always goes haywire and loses time or gains time. No brand has ever worked on her - including my trying out an expensive watch on her. Within a few days it's completely wrong. Maybe there's something there? I'm in my late 50s now so maybe that has something to do with it? I've no clue. Maybe we become more resistant with age.
I'll get over it. And buy more stylus' too. (Stylii? Styluses? Spell check indicates the latter and Google is so very far away.)
I'm an alcoholic. Well, I haven't been drunk in three years and sixteen days. Either way, I'm not following your post.
For the record, I'm not one of those AA people. I have had alcohol since quitting - I drank for forty years after all. I just haven't been drunk. I've had up to two drinks at a time a half dozen times since I quit. Usually, I stop at one but sometimes that little glow from two drinks is kind of nice and it's nice to be able to stop now. I don't do three because, obviously, I have poor self control. So, I've consumed alcohol probably a handful of times since stopping my daily consumption.
I've heard the term "dry drunk" but that's usually just a description, pejorative even, for someone who's an asshole, ie. someone who acts like a drunken asshole even after they've quit drinking. I'd heard the term years ago when I'd tried that AA program. The AA program didn't help me, by the way. I was not really wanting to quit, I assume.
Also, for the record, true DTs suck as does withdrawal and the cravings. If you're seriously considering quitting drinking, unless it's really harming your life - don't. Fuck that. Keep drinking. It sucks to quit. I'd go back to drinking again but, well, I'm too good at drinking. I'd have to quit again and quitting sucks. It's some of the worst agony I've ever felt and it seems to last forever. Apparently, it's also potentially deadly. I did not know that. My doctor was quite pissed that I'd not gone through detox in a medical facility. I don't remember much of it except the agony. Meh... It goes away after a couple of weeks and is livable after about five days, maybe a week. Still, it sucks. Don't do it. Well, don't do it unless you really need to.
Anyhow, back on point... I don't recall anyone actually saying they were dry? Is this a term of phrase that I'm unfamiliar with? I shared the usage above. That's what I'm familiar with. I did a drug detox not so long ago and we were mixed with alcoholics. They used the term sober and the AA folks used the term "clean and sober" when they referred to drug and alcohol use. Dry was reserved for the afore mentioned folks. They called the behavior, 'stinkin' thinkin'' and that was that.
You know, you can write in a candidate or even vote third party. Stop blaming other people for your actions or, as it were, inactions. You have choices. Stop making excuses and do something. You have time enough to be here on Slashdot, you have time enough to try to make changes in the system. You, and so many others, expect there to be a social contract, a bargain, but absolutely refuse to do anything at all when it comes to upholding your end of that contract.
It's not just you. Look at this thread for myriad examples. The woe-is-me crap needs to stop if you really want change. It doesn't even require violence. It just requires that you make the effort to work within the system and that you are correct enough to get the attention of others who will join you. Chances are, you're not as correct as you think you are BUT - if you are - then there's so very many ways to make changes.
But no... Sit here on/. and say how bad the world is while doing nothing to change it is surely going to help. You're "raising awareness" much like hashtag warriors and twittertalions. If you want change then get up off your ass and work to make changes. You don't get to do nothing and expect the social contract to work in your favor.
You want rights? Those come with responsibilities. Failure to work to maintain those rights means they will be stripped away - that's exactly what laws do. Each and every legislative session is a group of people hell bent on taking away someone's rights. Get up, get off your ass, and go do something if you want something changed. No excuses. None. If you're right then people will listen and follow. Quitting is no excuse. I don't want to hear how hard it is, I want to hear how you're going to make changes, what changes you want to make, how you intend to make those changes, and what data you have that indicates those changes will be beneficial.
Compared to much of the world's population, we are veritable millionaires, each and every one of us. We're not going to revolt. You can pack that silly idea in your butt. It's not happening, not yet and not for a while. Everyone is too much a coward to do it. I see no reason to engage in violence. Most are distracted by their circuses and beer. Sure, some folks talk big on the internet but, really, they're just cowards and it just isn't bad enough for them to revolt. The great revolution that leads to the utopia isn't coming any quicker today than it was yesterday.
Will it happen? Most likely. When? When the common person is so disenfranchised that they've realized that they've got nothing left to lose. They'll struggle to hold on to everything they've got and keep at it for the longest time. Eventually that too is taken away. The revolution happens, a few people are minus a head, and the cycle begins anew. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
You might be on to something. It's like security through obscurity... I'll have to mull that one over. Currently, and this is short term thinking on my part - I've not really done any real thinking on this idea you present, I'd expect News At 7 to have a full half hour devoted to telling those afore mentioned lunatics what to look for so that they too can avoid the evils of genetically modified food!
And then an ad for broccoli.
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen an ad for broccoli. It'd probably help if I watched television. Well no. It wouldn't help. But that's what I imagine television to be like after having seen it in the past.
Me? No, I wouldn't but I could see other people doing it. It's easy enough for them to host them elsewhere and they have nifty tools that make it simple. Myself? I'd go for a far more geeky and unworkable solution that didn't actually work for anyone but the person who followed my workflow. I can't say which is better. Probably not my way. At least I'd maintain some modicum of control with that.
If I were to put them up then I'd encrypt 'em locally before doing so and share the password via phone or something similar. I'd actually probably just build my own system and host it locally. But, I don't think most people will go that route.
I have been retired for a while and I'm kind of grateful for this because I'd be awfully confused. See, we did have proprietary, in-house, code and lots of intellectual property - a lot of it. Like, terabytes of data...
Now, I'm no expert - I'm usually pretty clear about this, so correct me if I'm wrong. But, when you give your data away it does't really belong to you any more, does it? I mean, yeah, you still legally own it, I'm sure. But if you take your data and put it into the 'cloud' then aren't you essentially relinquishing control of said data? You no longer control who does and who doesn't have access to that data. You can no longer ensure the validity of that data. You're explicitly allowing another party to access that data, to manipulate and store that data.
I don't get it... Email? Well, maybe - we didn't host email in the cloud, we had our own internal network for proprietary stuff and an external network for customers, etc... Hosting? Absolutely not... That stayed in-house. We're already running a giant server farm, adding a small blade server to handle internal and external hosting was pretty damned trivial and much more secure. I know - I hired people who told me it was. I trust them, that's why I hired them. They were good at their job.
I don't understand this trend. With compute cycles being as cheap as they are and storage being absurdly inexpensive - what's the benefit? What sort of things are these people putting into the cloud and why? We had cloud computing back in the day - it was dumb terminals and a mainframe and we had to rent time... *sighs* It wasn't a good idea then, really. It's not like we need to do that today? I've got more compute power in my phone than the entire network had, combined, back when I was in college. Hell, I've got more storage too.
Sure, I can see putting the kids pictures up there. I can see your personal email in the cloud (I use online hosting for email). I can see a website that's not got anything proprietary on it being relegated to a data center. But, your core business assets? I don't understand... It can't save money in the long run, can it? That and, well, even with an OC-48, I can't imagine how long it would take to upload data in the quantities needed. Encrypted backups makes some sense.
Maybe I'm missing something... It wouldn't be the first time.
See the post above? See that? You want draconian laws and further encroachment on your rights? Well, that is how you get draconian laws and fewer rights.
They may well have those laws because of the way people acted. I don't know, I've not researched. However, that's probably the case. Did you expect a different outcome?
They should and I agree - though privacy aspects should be relative to all of them, regardless of size. That said, and I'll say again, you'll find that your hobby is going to be really restricted because of the attitudes you (not you specifically) keep professing to have. Your failure to police and educate your own is going to result in draconian laws that limit your rights. Whining isn't going to stop that nor is assuming one has a right to use it wherever they want. Simply, you are going to get fucked. Hard.
Why do I care? Empathy. I absolutely abhor restrictions on rights that are pointless and abusive. I despise it. I care because I don't want YOU to lose YOUR rights. There's no way this will impact me - not at all. I don't own, want to own, or have a use for a remotely controlled toy capable of flight. I have nary a nickel involved but I do care about your rights and freedoms. I do care about draconian responses to things that could have been resolved easier and with less fanfare.
I'm afraid it's too late now. You probably should have started an online forum that was included in all manufacturer's documentation and offered some sort of voluntary online certification process (free certificates that they can print out) and gotten the buy-in from the OEMs. You should have encouraged club joining. You should have encouraged education and polite use. Instead, we get mouth drooling morons who think they can do whatever they want and the threads are full of them - it's not like I'm revising history here.
You probably should have done something to reassure the people who have complained about them instead of saying that you'll fly over their property if you want and record them doing anything they want - even if they're behind a fence and obviously want privacy. There was one guy here who wanted to scour the neighborhood for plant pots and reasoned that he could spy on them with binoculars and a tall ladder/building so it was okay to go ahead and do so with a R/C aircraft. And people agreed...
You're going to get spanked and have your toys taken away by people with guns and power. And you're going to complain... Instead of listening to reason you keep hearing about people doing the same shit, day in and day out. And you support them... And you minimize... And you emulate... And you'll get what you probably don't deserve but will, predictably, get. If you spit in the eye of a bully then you're probably going to get the shit kicked out of you. Don't spit in the eye of a bully. Well, unless you like getting the shit kicked out of you.
And before someone chimes in with, "They can't stop me!!!" Well, no... Laws don't work like that. They don't stop anyone or the laws against murder would mean nobody gets murdered. What they do is establish some really crappy penalties for your behavior and they WILL catch you. You're not that smart and they only need to be lucky once while you have to be lucky every time. Good luck with that.
So probably not my style... Sometimes I think I need to get out more and then I see threads like this. I'm kind of glad that I live in my bubble. The world out there is confusing and scary. I really have no idea if I've seen a picture of this woman. I imagine I might have but I'd not know it. Even if I decide to watch a football game, someone's usually streaming it without commercials. I don't have television at home but there's one in my hotel room. I've turned it on twice for background noise. Lately, I've had other distractions so the TV hasn't been on at all. Not even she has turned it on, I'm grateful.
I guess, really, it's nice in my bubble. I'm not without news and current events. I just pick and choose what I read and where I go for my news. I often rely on aggregation sites like this. They keep me in tune pretty well, I guess. Then again, I suppose I'd not know if they didn't? When subjects like this person comes up, I am lost. When television shows are discussed, I am also lost. I don't watch anything other than an occasional movie or documentaries. I like documentaries - I don't retain what I learn in them for very long. They're passive entertainment for me. The 'net is full of them so I'm content.
Public perception is influenced by lunatics. Personally, I'd be in favor of them labeling them. However, look at society... Yeah... We don't have informed people. We have hysteria, FUD, and media-influenced people who are too lazy to do their own research. I can understand and support not forcing it onto the label at this time. I wish things were different, they are not.
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I seem to recall that even Yamamoto (spelling?) declared it as a foolish idea - something about wakening the sleeping giant. They should have secured more oil resources first and, perhaps, finished off Australia as well. Getting the carriers would have been good, as well.
Either way, it was kind of brilliant in some regards and it did a huge amount of damage. The US was pretty industrious at that time and was able to overcome the damage in fairly short order. I doubt we could be so universally motivated again. Not even 9/11 has the same effect of a mostly-harmonious outlook. (I'm kind of glad that it did not, we had enough bad legislation stem from the terror attacks. Imagine if there had been no outcry at all.)
I might be an American, almost a proud American though I'm more proud of what we could be than what we are - so not that proud really, but I have to wager on Putin. I'll even give you 10:8 odds and take all comers. I mean, dude, it's Putin... So long as everyone else stays out of the ring, I'm assuming he'll grind Obama into little bits starting with working on the body in the first round and then concentrating on taking out one side or the other in the middle rounds, and finally going back to the body to finish him off in the closing rounds.
I'm assuming he's not going to go in and start at the head - he probably doesn't have enough power for that and I'm thinking he's probably slower than Obama. I expect he's got a pretty good jab and some stamina. Obama will be a flurry of punches at the start of each round so he'll need to sap his energy by taking out his core first thing. Then he can attack Obama's favored side. Between those he should be just fine to return to attacking the body and we probably won't even see the end of round 7.
So, Putin in 7 at 10:8 odds. Someone line it up. I've got betting to be done.
Better? That depends. What they do have is a verifiable history associated with them as a unique individual. Sure, it's still a pseudonym but it does have a history associated with it, a reputation associated with it, and is easily verified. One can judge based on that if they want.
Better? Worse? That's subjective. I can see the merits of both. I opt for pseudonymity because I like to be held accountable, it's how I learn. It also offers the feature of being able to track conversations more easily and enables me to learn from other people as well as be told that I'm a moron (and have it entered into the record) when I do something stupid. It's via this method that I learn and grow.
So, for me, it is better. It may not be true for others and they may have many reasons to do so. Perhaps they're not interested in being accountable? Perhaps they know everything they need to know and will not accept argument? Perhaps they just have some reason to try to hide who they are. Me? I've met hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people that I've known online. Attempting to hide would just be silly for me.
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It is reasonable to conclude that they are somehow invested in this scam. I live in the middle of nowhere, have my own power and well, can hunt and fish, and a nice garden as well as wood heat. I will be okay for a while.
I bet you nailed it. I have nimble little fingers BUT I've been playing guitar for a lot of years. I assume it's the greater skin area (and perhaps EM field) that makes the stylus work better. But I bet it's the calluses. I'm going to try hitting them with an emery board and seeing what happens if I take some of the skin off. I used to emery board them back in the day to get them to grow even more callused.
Slashdot, helping people with the most inane problems since 1997. ;) Thanks. I'll try it and have a go. I bough at cheap ass tablet to take with me on rougher adventures and just opened it up this weekend (even though I bought it like six months ago) and it didn't do any better (or worse) than any of the others. But now I'll have something to tinker with.
It wasn't a bad buy for $50. I got much more than I expected to. It's a off-brand, one I'd never heard of but had great reviews and specs for the price, at the time. It's a Dragon Touch y88x, quad core, crap RAM, but 8 GB internal and I put in a 32 GB SD card. So, we'll have to see if scraping my flesh to the bone will help. (No, not quite that bad. But I've got some skin that can certainly come off with no risks and no pain.)
*chuckles at moderation*
Now come on, you know nobody was dumb enough to actually DO that, right? Right? If they did then they'll learn the most important lesson in security. Research before doing anything - especially entering random commands into the terminal.
Very interesting, thanks. And I'm glad my guess was wrong. I'd read posts from you before and you'd seemed fairly normal so I was confused.
Hmm... I'm not home or I'd give you the output readings from a multimeter. I don't have a lot of volts being output - very few. I don't recall the numbers. But, I'll try to go down the list and see what happens when I "think aloud."
I am reasonably healthy - I see a doctor on a regular basis and have had most things checked.
I drink a lot of Gatorade. I'm not sure if that helps with the electrolytes - perhaps I'm on the end where I've too much of a good thing.
I take a daily vitamin and eat reasonably healthy.
No neuropathy, there's some history of it in my family though - more info to come.
No anemia, my iron levels are pretty good. Spelling - sickle cell anemia is on the black part of my family (I am like 1/8 black.)
Diabetes runs in my family - I'm not afflicted.
No idea but I drank like a fish for 40 years. I haven't been drunk in over three. Kidney and liver function tests all check out.
Doc says I have "the constitution of a horse."
Lots of stress earlier in life, none now so much. Lots of alcohol abuse. None now.
No clue.
No clue.
I do have low blood pressure but not far below norm and only impacting me at times when I stand up quickly.
No, none of that stuff. Not that I know of.
LOL Anyhow, when I touch the screen it doesn't register. This is true on iPods, every Android tablet I've ever used, every phone I've ever used, etc... I have to hold and wiggle a little before it registers my touch. I keep losing my stylus and I am not a fan of the form factor so I'm usually at a bit of a loss if it needs doing in a hurry. I often resort to a phone with a slide-out keyboard.
Meh, it's just a curiosity. No particular finger works better or anything though my left side seems to work a little better than my right. I've absolutely no real data but it seems to. Some periods of time are worse than others. I've had some time pass where I could not register any clicks very well at all and then it has improved some time later. I've never actually taken measurements or anything. If it's a wide area - like a swipe, that works better and almost without fail.
On the other hand... (No pun intended...) If I've just washed my hands it seems even worse than otherwise. I have no idea why. I can only assume the grease is somehow conductive and that a buildup makes it work better for me? I wash my hands a few times a day, easily, and am not some OCD person doing so every few minutes. That could just be coincidence or I could just notice it and it is confirmation bias.
Ah well... Touch screens weren't meant for me. I can make them work, it just takes time. I don't use them enough to warrant a glove or anything. If I could stop losing my stylus then I'd be doing okay. I should probably just buy a box of 100 and keep them everywhere around me. I can lose stuff that's in my pockets though. I can even go through my pockets only to discover that it was actually in my pockets and I missed it - even though I emptied my pockets out.
Yeah... I get distracted thinking about stuff, often. I'm probably really OCD but I've never been diagnosed. Or insane... Often, I'll be doing math in my head for no reason and, by the time I'm done, I'll have forgotten why I was doing it. The doctor, and my therapist, tell me I'm sane. I see a therapist just to check and make sure and it's also good to be able to bounce ideas off of an objective person.
I wonder if age has any impact? Or if there's something else. I have a sibling who can't wear a battery powered watch. It always goes haywire and loses time or gains time. No brand has ever worked on her - including my trying out an expensive watch on her. Within a few days it's completely wrong. Maybe there's something there? I'm in my late 50s now so maybe that has something to do with it? I've no clue. Maybe we become more resistant with age.
I'll get over it. And buy more stylus' too. (Stylii? Styluses? Spell check indicates the latter and Google is so very far away.)
I'm an alcoholic. Well, I haven't been drunk in three years and sixteen days. Either way, I'm not following your post.
For the record, I'm not one of those AA people. I have had alcohol since quitting - I drank for forty years after all. I just haven't been drunk. I've had up to two drinks at a time a half dozen times since I quit. Usually, I stop at one but sometimes that little glow from two drinks is kind of nice and it's nice to be able to stop now. I don't do three because, obviously, I have poor self control. So, I've consumed alcohol probably a handful of times since stopping my daily consumption.
I've heard the term "dry drunk" but that's usually just a description, pejorative even, for someone who's an asshole, ie. someone who acts like a drunken asshole even after they've quit drinking. I'd heard the term years ago when I'd tried that AA program. The AA program didn't help me, by the way. I was not really wanting to quit, I assume.
Also, for the record, true DTs suck as does withdrawal and the cravings. If you're seriously considering quitting drinking, unless it's really harming your life - don't. Fuck that. Keep drinking. It sucks to quit. I'd go back to drinking again but, well, I'm too good at drinking. I'd have to quit again and quitting sucks. It's some of the worst agony I've ever felt and it seems to last forever. Apparently, it's also potentially deadly. I did not know that. My doctor was quite pissed that I'd not gone through detox in a medical facility. I don't remember much of it except the agony. Meh... It goes away after a couple of weeks and is livable after about five days, maybe a week. Still, it sucks. Don't do it. Well, don't do it unless you really need to.
Anyhow, back on point... I don't recall anyone actually saying they were dry? Is this a term of phrase that I'm unfamiliar with? I shared the usage above. That's what I'm familiar with. I did a drug detox not so long ago and we were mixed with alcoholics. They used the term sober and the AA folks used the term "clean and sober" when they referred to drug and alcohol use. Dry was reserved for the afore mentioned folks. They called the behavior, 'stinkin' thinkin'' and that was that.
TL;DR: I don't get it.
You know, you can write in a candidate or even vote third party. Stop blaming other people for your actions or, as it were, inactions. You have choices. Stop making excuses and do something. You have time enough to be here on Slashdot, you have time enough to try to make changes in the system. You, and so many others, expect there to be a social contract, a bargain, but absolutely refuse to do anything at all when it comes to upholding your end of that contract.
It's not just you. Look at this thread for myriad examples. The woe-is-me crap needs to stop if you really want change. It doesn't even require violence. It just requires that you make the effort to work within the system and that you are correct enough to get the attention of others who will join you. Chances are, you're not as correct as you think you are BUT - if you are - then there's so very many ways to make changes.
But no... Sit here on /. and say how bad the world is while doing nothing to change it is surely going to help. You're "raising awareness" much like hashtag warriors and twittertalions. If you want change then get up off your ass and work to make changes. You don't get to do nothing and expect the social contract to work in your favor.
You want rights? Those come with responsibilities. Failure to work to maintain those rights means they will be stripped away - that's exactly what laws do. Each and every legislative session is a group of people hell bent on taking away someone's rights. Get up, get off your ass, and go do something if you want something changed. No excuses. None. If you're right then people will listen and follow. Quitting is no excuse. I don't want to hear how hard it is, I want to hear how you're going to make changes, what changes you want to make, how you intend to make those changes, and what data you have that indicates those changes will be beneficial.
No? Yes? It's not easy but it is your job.
Compared to much of the world's population, we are veritable millionaires, each and every one of us. We're not going to revolt. You can pack that silly idea in your butt. It's not happening, not yet and not for a while. Everyone is too much a coward to do it. I see no reason to engage in violence. Most are distracted by their circuses and beer. Sure, some folks talk big on the internet but, really, they're just cowards and it just isn't bad enough for them to revolt. The great revolution that leads to the utopia isn't coming any quicker today than it was yesterday.
Will it happen? Most likely. When? When the common person is so disenfranchised that they've realized that they've got nothing left to lose. They'll struggle to hold on to everything they've got and keep at it for the longest time. Eventually that too is taken away. The revolution happens, a few people are minus a head, and the cycle begins anew. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
Well, I am American not Unitedstatesian.
*whistles innocently and walks away*
I wonder what will happen to poor bromine?
You might be on to something. It's like security through obscurity... I'll have to mull that one over. Currently, and this is short term thinking on my part - I've not really done any real thinking on this idea you present, I'd expect News At 7 to have a full half hour devoted to telling those afore mentioned lunatics what to look for so that they too can avoid the evils of genetically modified food!
And then an ad for broccoli.
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen an ad for broccoli. It'd probably help if I watched television. Well no. It wouldn't help. But that's what I imagine television to be like after having seen it in the past.
Me? No, I wouldn't but I could see other people doing it. It's easy enough for them to host them elsewhere and they have nifty tools that make it simple. Myself? I'd go for a far more geeky and unworkable solution that didn't actually work for anyone but the person who followed my workflow. I can't say which is better. Probably not my way. At least I'd maintain some modicum of control with that.
If I were to put them up then I'd encrypt 'em locally before doing so and share the password via phone or something similar. I'd actually probably just build my own system and host it locally. But, I don't think most people will go that route.
I have been retired for a while and I'm kind of grateful for this because I'd be awfully confused. See, we did have proprietary, in-house, code and lots of intellectual property - a lot of it. Like, terabytes of data...
Now, I'm no expert - I'm usually pretty clear about this, so correct me if I'm wrong. But, when you give your data away it does't really belong to you any more, does it? I mean, yeah, you still legally own it, I'm sure. But if you take your data and put it into the 'cloud' then aren't you essentially relinquishing control of said data? You no longer control who does and who doesn't have access to that data. You can no longer ensure the validity of that data. You're explicitly allowing another party to access that data, to manipulate and store that data.
I don't get it... Email? Well, maybe - we didn't host email in the cloud, we had our own internal network for proprietary stuff and an external network for customers, etc... Hosting? Absolutely not... That stayed in-house. We're already running a giant server farm, adding a small blade server to handle internal and external hosting was pretty damned trivial and much more secure. I know - I hired people who told me it was. I trust them, that's why I hired them. They were good at their job.
I don't understand this trend. With compute cycles being as cheap as they are and storage being absurdly inexpensive - what's the benefit? What sort of things are these people putting into the cloud and why? We had cloud computing back in the day - it was dumb terminals and a mainframe and we had to rent time... *sighs* It wasn't a good idea then, really. It's not like we need to do that today? I've got more compute power in my phone than the entire network had, combined, back when I was in college. Hell, I've got more storage too.
Sure, I can see putting the kids pictures up there. I can see your personal email in the cloud (I use online hosting for email). I can see a website that's not got anything proprietary on it being relegated to a data center. But, your core business assets? I don't understand... It can't save money in the long run, can it? That and, well, even with an OC-48, I can't imagine how long it would take to upload data in the quantities needed. Encrypted backups makes some sense.
Maybe I'm missing something... It wouldn't be the first time.
Actually, rm -rf / should do the trick - should work against future attacks as well.
That's good, what was your fix?
See the post above? See that? You want draconian laws and further encroachment on your rights? Well, that is how you get draconian laws and fewer rights.
They may well have those laws because of the way people acted. I don't know, I've not researched. However, that's probably the case. Did you expect a different outcome?
They should and I agree - though privacy aspects should be relative to all of them, regardless of size. That said, and I'll say again, you'll find that your hobby is going to be really restricted because of the attitudes you (not you specifically) keep professing to have. Your failure to police and educate your own is going to result in draconian laws that limit your rights. Whining isn't going to stop that nor is assuming one has a right to use it wherever they want. Simply, you are going to get fucked. Hard.
Why do I care? Empathy. I absolutely abhor restrictions on rights that are pointless and abusive. I despise it. I care because I don't want YOU to lose YOUR rights. There's no way this will impact me - not at all. I don't own, want to own, or have a use for a remotely controlled toy capable of flight. I have nary a nickel involved but I do care about your rights and freedoms. I do care about draconian responses to things that could have been resolved easier and with less fanfare.
I'm afraid it's too late now. You probably should have started an online forum that was included in all manufacturer's documentation and offered some sort of voluntary online certification process (free certificates that they can print out) and gotten the buy-in from the OEMs. You should have encouraged club joining. You should have encouraged education and polite use. Instead, we get mouth drooling morons who think they can do whatever they want and the threads are full of them - it's not like I'm revising history here.
You probably should have done something to reassure the people who have complained about them instead of saying that you'll fly over their property if you want and record them doing anything they want - even if they're behind a fence and obviously want privacy. There was one guy here who wanted to scour the neighborhood for plant pots and reasoned that he could spy on them with binoculars and a tall ladder/building so it was okay to go ahead and do so with a R/C aircraft. And people agreed...
You're going to get spanked and have your toys taken away by people with guns and power. And you're going to complain... Instead of listening to reason you keep hearing about people doing the same shit, day in and day out. And you support them... And you minimize... And you emulate... And you'll get what you probably don't deserve but will, predictably, get. If you spit in the eye of a bully then you're probably going to get the shit kicked out of you. Don't spit in the eye of a bully. Well, unless you like getting the shit kicked out of you.
And before someone chimes in with, "They can't stop me!!!" Well, no... Laws don't work like that. They don't stop anyone or the laws against murder would mean nobody gets murdered. What they do is establish some really crappy penalties for your behavior and they WILL catch you. You're not that smart and they only need to be lucky once while you have to be lucky every time. Good luck with that.
So probably not my style... Sometimes I think I need to get out more and then I see threads like this. I'm kind of glad that I live in my bubble. The world out there is confusing and scary. I really have no idea if I've seen a picture of this woman. I imagine I might have but I'd not know it. Even if I decide to watch a football game, someone's usually streaming it without commercials. I don't have television at home but there's one in my hotel room. I've turned it on twice for background noise. Lately, I've had other distractions so the TV hasn't been on at all. Not even she has turned it on, I'm grateful.
I guess, really, it's nice in my bubble. I'm not without news and current events. I just pick and choose what I read and where I go for my news. I often rely on aggregation sites like this. They keep me in tune pretty well, I guess. Then again, I suppose I'd not know if they didn't? When subjects like this person comes up, I am lost. When television shows are discussed, I am also lost. I don't watch anything other than an occasional movie or documentaries. I like documentaries - I don't retain what I learn in them for very long. They're passive entertainment for me. The 'net is full of them so I'm content.
Public perception is influenced by lunatics. Personally, I'd be in favor of them labeling them. However, look at society... Yeah... We don't have informed people. We have hysteria, FUD, and media-influenced people who are too lazy to do their own research. I can understand and support not forcing it onto the label at this time. I wish things were different, they are not.
kgiii@kgiii-laptop-6:~$ uname -a
Linux kgiii-laptop-6 3.19.0-30-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 22:08:41 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
kgiii@kgiii-laptop-6:~$
Yup, they got that one right too! ;-)
(Technically it's Lubuntu but it lies to me.)
I seem to recall that even Yamamoto (spelling?) declared it as a foolish idea - something about wakening the sleeping giant. They should have secured more oil resources first and, perhaps, finished off Australia as well. Getting the carriers would have been good, as well.
Either way, it was kind of brilliant in some regards and it did a huge amount of damage. The US was pretty industrious at that time and was able to overcome the damage in fairly short order. I doubt we could be so universally motivated again. Not even 9/11 has the same effect of a mostly-harmonious outlook. (I'm kind of glad that it did not, we had enough bad legislation stem from the terror attacks. Imagine if there had been no outcry at all.)
I might be an American, almost a proud American though I'm more proud of what we could be than what we are - so not that proud really, but I have to wager on Putin. I'll even give you 10:8 odds and take all comers. I mean, dude, it's Putin... So long as everyone else stays out of the ring, I'm assuming he'll grind Obama into little bits starting with working on the body in the first round and then concentrating on taking out one side or the other in the middle rounds, and finally going back to the body to finish him off in the closing rounds.
I'm assuming he's not going to go in and start at the head - he probably doesn't have enough power for that and I'm thinking he's probably slower than Obama. I expect he's got a pretty good jab and some stamina. Obama will be a flurry of punches at the start of each round so he'll need to sap his energy by taking out his core first thing. Then he can attack Obama's favored side. Between those he should be just fine to return to attacking the body and we probably won't even see the end of round 7.
So, Putin in 7 at 10:8 odds. Someone line it up. I've got betting to be done.
Companies are obligated to obey the law.
I really hope I'm wrong but weren't you just in a thread about Uber a few days ago and cheering them on? I really hope I'm wrong.
You should have found the manager who purchased it (or the vendor that provisioned it) and given them a mighty Scottish Kiss.
Oy, I didnae think ye fookin' larned yar lesson lad! Hares a bloody fookin' kiss fer ya ta remember me by - call't yer fookin' homework. *crunch*
Better? That depends. What they do have is a verifiable history associated with them as a unique individual. Sure, it's still a pseudonym but it does have a history associated with it, a reputation associated with it, and is easily verified. One can judge based on that if they want.
Better? Worse? That's subjective. I can see the merits of both. I opt for pseudonymity because I like to be held accountable, it's how I learn. It also offers the feature of being able to track conversations more easily and enables me to learn from other people as well as be told that I'm a moron (and have it entered into the record) when I do something stupid. It's via this method that I learn and grow.
So, for me, it is better. It may not be true for others and they may have many reasons to do so. Perhaps they're not interested in being accountable? Perhaps they know everything they need to know and will not accept argument? Perhaps they just have some reason to try to hide who they are. Me? I've met hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people that I've known online. Attempting to hide would just be silly for me.