There are more things going on than just Google getting another dollar from another targeted ad. They are very open about their position on privacy on the net. In short, they believe that privacy on the net is dead. It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see where that kind of thinking could lead to without resistance.
I have been mainly using Bing for the last year or so and DDG for the last couple of months. As always, I try to use the best tool for the job. Bing does a good job for what I do. When I need a left handed crescent-hammer, Google is always available.
The closest I've heard of anything like this was a co-worker who received a letter from his ISP with a cease and desist. The letter listed the infringing files that he downloaded by name. It said something to the effect of "if you do this again you may be disconnected and/or sued". He still downloads things.
I completely agree with you. I went through this problem with my wife's machine (DDR2 and AGP). I built her a new one, but the old one became my media streaming PC in the TV room. It's not useless, but it couldn't handle standard web browsing any more.
Nobody can force someone to buy from Lenovo or Dell. The issue is that if the EULA allows for a refund if I decline the license, they should pony up the cash. I understand they have since changed their EULA and you can no longer reject just the windows license. That's fine.
All I ask is that companies at least stick to what is written in their very own documentation and agreements.
If we look at it the way you describe, for this particular argument it makes sense. If we looked no further it would seem like a good argument.
What of the some 200,000 Kurds that were killed? I guess they weren't a good enough reason to get rid of Saddam? If you could put a good number on exactly when enough is enough that would be wonderful. How many of the police were involved in those killing and how would you sort out the innocent from the guilty? Does it not seem better to remove all those from power and start from scratch?
I'm not saying everything was done perfectly. It wasn't. It seems to me that the loss of some books and buildings is insignificant versus stopping a genocidal murderer with control of police and an army.
Elections are coming up, don't give them any ideas for lofty goals that they might try to implement! I've seen them debate, they're all batshit crazy enough to try and do it.
I was on Wild Blue Satellite for 1 full year. They do a "rolling" average for bandwidth that depends on your package. I had 17GB per month. If I used 400MB today, that would "roll off" in 30 days thus making it available again.
My latency was a solid 2000ms or higher at all times. I lost connection any time there was heavy storms between Virginia and New York. I was paying somewhere around $70/mo. I had trouble staying connected to Steam, so I stopped using it and favored retail single player games for that year.
I'm now on a more restricted local ISP and haven't really looked back. Instead of being on a rolling average I'm on a hard 600MB/day plan. I am paying more than under satellite, but I'm able to achieve 30ms pings (the ISP is actually WISP).
My fondest memories of satellite are: turning off prefetching webpages, clicking a link and then waiting many seconds for anything to happen and often wondering if I actually clicked it, and checking the bandwidth monitor logs to make sure I wasn't about to go over my limit.
You need to look at complete picture when fixing bugs and vulnerabilities. There wouldn't be need for any SCADA system to begin with if U.S. fixed its prison system. Currently it's only making money for those who own prisons. It's mind blowing that something like prisons would be commercially run.
I don't think you know what SCADA is. I can assure you that there are uses for SCADA outside of prisons and the vulnerabilities that exist within prisons are the same for those outside of prisons. The main difference what happens if they do affect a prison.
To tie this back into tech talk though, SCADA is currently actively preventing a Linux file system creator from continuing his work. There's a conspiracy theory there, I'm sure.
So the only thing everyone has to do is change all their habits and re-buy things they already have in order to save power? Got it. You've definitely converted me, now you only have 6.999999999 billion to go.
The only thing stopping me from running cat5e in my home is not inertia, it's the large structure made of wood that runs up, down, and horizontally through the walls. Unless I wanted to cut holes in the walls so I could drill pass through holes between floors, there's no way to do it completely in the walls. Of course, you could put up molding in the corners and along the ceiling to hide everything. Some might even go under the carpet (which I did in one room).
Yes, there are many people just like OP. Many people even continue to use DVD on their HDTV, myself included. Roughly a third of the people I work with closely still use SDTV's and DVD's. One just bought his first HDTV about a month ago. Up until then he'd been watching Blurays on his 4x3 CRT.
I'm right there with you on this. I haven't bought a non-Steam game in quite a long time, and I'm even on limited bandwidth internet. There are plenty of other good games that I can play on Steam until when/if EA publishes to Steam.
I'm on a 600 MB/day limit on my home ISP. I just recently built a new computer for my wife. The GPU came with a free copy of a game. Based on our normal usage patterns, I'll have it downloaded from Steam sometime in the next six months using the leftover bits at the end of the day.
There are standards. Since this US citizen was outside of the US territories it required the level of attention of the governments of the USA and Yemen. He received the attention that he wanted.
I have a combined power plant experience of just about 15 years. 11 of that was nuclear power, the rest has been coal. I live about 5 miles from a nuclear plant.
In my personal opinion, we need more nuclear plants in the USA. Build the alternative power sources. Supplement what you can. Nuclear power is what we need right now until everything else becomes viable, if ever.
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I hope they fix all of their security holes, but it will never happen.
There are more things going on than just Google getting another dollar from another targeted ad. They are very open about their position on privacy on the net. In short, they believe that privacy on the net is dead. It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see where that kind of thinking could lead to without resistance.
I have been mainly using Bing for the last year or so and DDG for the last couple of months. As always, I try to use the best tool for the job. Bing does a good job for what I do. When I need a left handed crescent-hammer, Google is always available.
The closest I've heard of anything like this was a co-worker who received a letter from his ISP with a cease and desist. The letter listed the infringing files that he downloaded by name. It said something to the effect of "if you do this again you may be disconnected and/or sued". He still downloads things.
I completely agree with you. I went through this problem with my wife's machine (DDR2 and AGP). I built her a new one, but the old one became my media streaming PC in the TV room. It's not useless, but it couldn't handle standard web browsing any more.
If Google could write the code to bypass the security restriction, then so could someone with more nefarious purposes.
Thank them, then fix your flaw.
I live on the east coast. I have neither 3G nor 4G. I also do not have high speed internet access. It's not like people don't live here either.
Where I live, people aren't even as spread out as they are over the western wastelands.
Nobody can force someone to buy from Lenovo or Dell. The issue is that if the EULA allows for a refund if I decline the license, they should pony up the cash. I understand they have since changed their EULA and you can no longer reject just the windows license. That's fine.
All I ask is that companies at least stick to what is written in their very own documentation and agreements.
If we look at it the way you describe, for this particular argument it makes sense. If we looked no further it would seem like a good argument.
What of the some 200,000 Kurds that were killed? I guess they weren't a good enough reason to get rid of Saddam? If you could put a good number on exactly when enough is enough that would be wonderful. How many of the police were involved in those killing and how would you sort out the innocent from the guilty? Does it not seem better to remove all those from power and start from scratch?
I'm not saying everything was done perfectly. It wasn't. It seems to me that the loss of some books and buildings is insignificant versus stopping a genocidal murderer with control of police and an army.
Video of a ninja parade has been released.
http://www.theonion.com/video/ninja-parade-slips-through-town-unnoticed-once-aga,14181/
Elections are coming up, don't give them any ideas for lofty goals that they might try to implement! I've seen them debate, they're all batshit crazy enough to try and do it.
I was on Wild Blue Satellite for 1 full year. They do a "rolling" average for bandwidth that depends on your package. I had 17GB per month. If I used 400MB today, that would "roll off" in 30 days thus making it available again.
My latency was a solid 2000ms or higher at all times. I lost connection any time there was heavy storms between Virginia and New York. I was paying somewhere around $70/mo. I had trouble staying connected to Steam, so I stopped using it and favored retail single player games for that year.
I'm now on a more restricted local ISP and haven't really looked back. Instead of being on a rolling average I'm on a hard 600MB/day plan. I am paying more than under satellite, but I'm able to achieve 30ms pings (the ISP is actually WISP).
My fondest memories of satellite are: turning off prefetching webpages, clicking a link and then waiting many seconds for anything to happen and often wondering if I actually clicked it, and checking the bandwidth monitor logs to make sure I wasn't about to go over my limit.
Seriously, fuck satellite internet.
You need to look at complete picture when fixing bugs and vulnerabilities. There wouldn't be need for any SCADA system to begin with if U.S. fixed its prison system. Currently it's only making money for those who own prisons. It's mind blowing that something like prisons would be commercially run.
I don't think you know what SCADA is. I can assure you that there are uses for SCADA outside of prisons and the vulnerabilities that exist within prisons are the same for those outside of prisons. The main difference what happens if they do affect a prison. To tie this back into tech talk though, SCADA is currently actively preventing a Linux file system creator from continuing his work. There's a conspiracy theory there, I'm sure.
So the only thing everyone has to do is change all their habits and re-buy things they already have in order to save power? Got it. You've definitely converted me, now you only have 6.999999999 billion to go.
And now for more misleading statistics:
Windows 7 usage has surpassed all Linux and Macintosh usage*. Windows XP retains 15% share.
*statistics based on my household machine usage.
The only thing stopping me from running cat5e in my home is not inertia, it's the large structure made of wood that runs up, down, and horizontally through the walls. Unless I wanted to cut holes in the walls so I could drill pass through holes between floors, there's no way to do it completely in the walls. Of course, you could put up molding in the corners and along the ceiling to hide everything. Some might even go under the carpet (which I did in one room).
Yes, there are many people just like OP. Many people even continue to use DVD on their HDTV, myself included. Roughly a third of the people I work with closely still use SDTV's and DVD's. One just bought his first HDTV about a month ago. Up until then he'd been watching Blurays on his 4x3 CRT.
You're forgetting that we can't invent poor solutions to our problems with we don't continue to reinvent new problems to solutionize.
I'm right there with you on this. I haven't bought a non-Steam game in quite a long time, and I'm even on limited bandwidth internet. There are plenty of other good games that I can play on Steam until when/if EA publishes to Steam.
I'm on a 600 MB/day limit on my home ISP. I just recently built a new computer for my wife. The GPU came with a free copy of a game. Based on our normal usage patterns, I'll have it downloaded from Steam sometime in the next six months using the leftover bits at the end of the day.
Central Virginia.
Specifically Steam.
Secondly, some of my hardware isn't 100% supported. I could do without it, but it works fully in Win7 even though it was bought under XP.
Spherical pancakes are called doughnut holes.
Now, try to find the most efficient way to fit the most doughnut holes inside of your esophagus.
and I live in the USA with a 600 MB/day cap.
There are standards. Since this US citizen was outside of the US territories it required the level of attention of the governments of the USA and Yemen. He received the attention that he wanted.
I can only speak for US Navy Submarines. There are no connections to any reactor systems to any network of any kind.
I have a combined power plant experience of just about 15 years. 11 of that was nuclear power, the rest has been coal. I live about 5 miles from a nuclear plant.
In my personal opinion, we need more nuclear plants in the USA. Build the alternative power sources. Supplement what you can. Nuclear power is what we need right now until everything else becomes viable, if ever.