This sounds like extortion for the digital era. What's left unsaid, but clearly implied, is that if you don't fork over big money to influences, your product will be trashed.
This is the typical response of a corporation: deny and obfuscate until caught with the pants down to the ankles. May more bad shit happen to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
I do not cheer any moves by Amazon because I hate the company and it's billionaire dictator, Jeff Bezos. However, this move is a good check against Oracle's influence.
It's news like this that proves competition is good. In areas where there are only one or two options for internet and TV, shit like this can happen almost unchecked. Unregulated monopolies are only good for one party, the corporation. Without competition, you get slow and shitty service.
This is hardly earth shattering at this point. I remember when the initial studies of the toxicity of social media first came out several years ago. Facebook just about encourages us to compare and judge our lives to that of our friends. This comparison can cause depression when we perceive our friends as having more success in career and family than we have. On top of that, add the constant cycle of bad political and world news and it just spirals downhill. The best thing I ever did was delete Facebook and Twitter. The more people that get off of these platforms the better their mental health would be.
As you may have heard China now has a social karma score. If your score is too low things get taken away like say air travel. You can see this coming a mile away: your internet access will be taken away if you speak unkindly of party officials.
At least we don't have this system yet. I don't even have any social media accounts anymore as I deleted Facebook and Twitter. I guess when the system comes to us, my social credit and monetary credit scores will be about equal; to zero that is.
Corporate media tries to prop up the interests of the wealthy. This no longer makes me furious because I've been woke for quite a while now and have been unable to fight the system.
I use this on my Android 8.1 device simply because it's convenient. As for my home network, I run my own DNS servers so I really don't have to worry much about DNS traffic being snooped by my ISP. If I were so inclined, I could also run all of my home network traffic over a VPN to my own cloud servers. But this initiative by CloudFlare is nothing more than a gimmick to make money. Instead of your ISP selling your data, CloudFlare now gets the piece of the pie.
In my youth, I would have no qualms with pirating software or videos. Today, I feel that it is wrong and I rather than using proprietary software, I just do everything open source. As for videos and entertainment, I can live without it altogether. For the little bit of TV that I do watch, the over the air programming is fine and dandy.
I just run Windows 10 in a VM. Otherwise everything I do desktop wise is either OpenBSD or Alpine Linux. I hate Windows 10 but occasionally I need it for something specific.
The downside to shortwave is the relatively low amount of available bandwidth. It works for high frequency trading because the amount of data transferred is very small. Another problem is that shortwave is subject to so much atmospheric and solar disturbances. I am a licensed Amateur Extra and I know the fun of sometimes getting long distance contacts and sometimes not.
If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports. If I were a ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, I would definitely be advocating for this to further my agenda because so many western countries are scrambling for telecommunications hardware being made by the two biggest Chinese networking gear manufacturers Huawei and ZTE. It's simple really: make it monetarily attractive to go with something other than Cisco while secretly incorporating spyware and backdoors into routing and switching products while delaying, obstructing, and obfuscating.
Unlike a lot of theories and accusations, this one isn't of the tin foil variety. The Chinese Communist Party is actually being commendably (sic) creative about the entire affair. They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit. So they may subsidize ZTE and Huawei allowing the two behemoths to sell their networking gear at (maybe?) less than cost if they include backdoors. Western government and industry gobbles this cheaper alternative up and the Chinese plutocracy can then just siphon off government, trade, and industry secrets.
Yes, this is stupid junk science. I love my coffee black and I am, in no way, psychopathic or sociopathic. In fact, I will be the first one to give someone whom needs help, the shirt off of my back.
The fact that Thelio users NVIDIA graphics kills it for me. NVIDIA had been really hostile towards open source as of late. That and no mention of running OpenBSD or FreeBSD on it.
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This is what happens when you put a billionaire in the White House. He has no idea that 10% is a huge amount for many people (let alone 25%!).
Next time, guys, put a poor person, or even a homeless person, in there. Someone who has some concept of the value of $1.
He's worth substantially less than 1 billion. Trump would like to believe his net worth is in the billions.
SSH is convenient but there is a fair amount of overhead so browsing can be slow.
This sounds like extortion for the digital era. What's left unsaid, but clearly implied, is that if you don't fork over big money to influences, your product will be trashed.
What about all that fossil fuel being burned to put the sulfates up there in the first place?
This is the typical response of a corporation: deny and obfuscate until caught with the pants down to the ankles. May more bad shit happen to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
These two are the nation's shittiest ISPs.
There is no way in the shady side of hell would I ever let my employer implant anything in my body.
I do not cheer any moves by Amazon because I hate the company and it's billionaire dictator, Jeff Bezos. However, this move is a good check against Oracle's influence.
It's news like this that proves competition is good. In areas where there are only one or two options for internet and TV, shit like this can happen almost unchecked. Unregulated monopolies are only good for one party, the corporation. Without competition, you get slow and shitty service.
May it continue to sink and (hopefully) sink fast!
This is hardly earth shattering at this point. I remember when the initial studies of the toxicity of social media first came out several years ago. Facebook just about encourages us to compare and judge our lives to that of our friends. This comparison can cause depression when we perceive our friends as having more success in career and family than we have. On top of that, add the constant cycle of bad political and world news and it just spirals downhill. The best thing I ever did was delete Facebook and Twitter. The more people that get off of these platforms the better their mental health would be.
As you may have heard China now has a social karma score. If your score is too low things get taken away like say air travel. You can see this coming a mile away: your internet access will be taken away if you speak unkindly of party officials.
At least we don't have this system yet. I don't even have any social media accounts anymore as I deleted Facebook and Twitter. I guess when the system comes to us, my social credit and monetary credit scores will be about equal; to zero that is.
Corporate media tries to prop up the interests of the wealthy. This no longer makes me furious because I've been woke for quite a while now and have been unable to fight the system.
Google already has all your personal information.
No, it's really not. The US Government cannot (yet) do anything quite that dictatorial to its own citizens.
I use this on my Android 8.1 device simply because it's convenient. As for my home network, I run my own DNS servers so I really don't have to worry much about DNS traffic being snooped by my ISP. If I were so inclined, I could also run all of my home network traffic over a VPN to my own cloud servers. But this initiative by CloudFlare is nothing more than a gimmick to make money. Instead of your ISP selling your data, CloudFlare now gets the piece of the pie.
Read that as 22% of Americans are idiots!
Why try and develop the technology when you can steal it? I guess that is what the Chinese Government thinks.
In my youth, I would have no qualms with pirating software or videos. Today, I feel that it is wrong and I rather than using proprietary software, I just do everything open source. As for videos and entertainment, I can live without it altogether. For the little bit of TV that I do watch, the over the air programming is fine and dandy.
I just run Windows 10 in a VM. Otherwise everything I do desktop wise is either OpenBSD or Alpine Linux. I hate Windows 10 but occasionally I need it for something specific.
The downside to shortwave is the relatively low amount of available bandwidth. It works for high frequency trading because the amount of data transferred is very small. Another problem is that shortwave is subject to so much atmospheric and solar disturbances. I am a licensed Amateur Extra and I know the fun of sometimes getting long distance contacts and sometimes not.
Better yet, let's just do a wholesale block of all Chinese IP addresses. I do this for my servers.
If one stops to think about the idea, it makes sense for a plutocracy that believes in a surveillance state to build spyware into the products its communications industry exports. If I were a ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party, I would definitely be advocating for this to further my agenda because so many western countries are scrambling for telecommunications hardware being made by the two biggest Chinese networking gear manufacturers Huawei and ZTE. It's simple really: make it monetarily attractive to go with something other than Cisco while secretly incorporating spyware and backdoors into routing and switching products while delaying, obstructing, and obfuscating. Unlike a lot of theories and accusations, this one isn't of the tin foil variety. The Chinese Communist Party is actually being commendably (sic) creative about the entire affair. They know that in basic capitalist economies, people look for the least expensive option to maximize the most amount of profit. So they may subsidize ZTE and Huawei allowing the two behemoths to sell their networking gear at (maybe?) less than cost if they include backdoors. Western government and industry gobbles this cheaper alternative up and the Chinese plutocracy can then just siphon off government, trade, and industry secrets.
Yes, this is stupid junk science. I love my coffee black and I am, in no way, psychopathic or sociopathic. In fact, I will be the first one to give someone whom needs help, the shirt off of my back.
I don't trust Equifax to hand over my data securely. Hell, I don't trust any of them!
The fact that Thelio users NVIDIA graphics kills it for me. NVIDIA had been really hostile towards open source as of late. That and no mention of running OpenBSD or FreeBSD on it.