This is actually interesting because it sounds like these cryptocurrencies will be FDIC insured. The fact that it is backed by the US dollar means it is quite a bit more stable than the others out there.
I will be part of the 50% that do not (and never will) get a smart speaker. Given the IoT idustry's abysmal security record and the very real possibility that these devices will be used to spy on me, I will do without the damn thing. Too much technology isn't a good idea at all. I also refuse to buy smart TVs and smart appliances. The dumber my TV and appliances are, the better!
Tablets do not replace PCs and laptops. They just aren't as functional. Tablets are nice for reading and doing light work but for anything that requires real heavy-weight work, the PC reigns king.
This honestly sounds like change for the sake of change. I think too many corporations do this and to many managers do this to justify their salaries. Leave it alone! How about working to make Chrome more secure? If you're going to do something, do something productive and meaningful.
Mars colonization is many, many years away. Since we humans here on earth are belching out CO2 like it's going out of style, why don't we start doing some of that here? Let's make earth more inhabitable.
Well, why hasn't Trump gotten kicked off of Twitter. IMHO, he's already crossed that line several times over. What the hell is Twitter waiting for? It won't happen because The Donald is revenue generator for Twitter.
Just what we need: another wealthy baby boomer selling to criminalize more behavior and lock up more people. This seems to be more about class control than any real and tangible fear since the largest userbase are the poor and working classes. Passing laws like these just take freedoms away, and if you're wondering, I'm a Gen Xer and an anarchist.
Seriously, I'm thinking I should create a network of fake profiles and get myself recruited. There's nothing illegal about providing false intelligence to foreign agencies for compensation right?
Especially if you could get paid for the bad information! Then you could rat out the people paying you to the FBI in return for reward money. You'd get paid on both ends of the deal.
Corruption in the Baltimore City Police Department is absolutely endemic. I can understand citizens wanting more accountability and to root out the corruption but something like this needs to remain in the citizen's (not the P.D.'s) hands. If it remained outside the control of the state, I could see it being useful.
DST is an anachronism that just needs to go! There are no benefits too it. In fact, when the clocks get pushed ahead one hour, there are studies showing a correlation between this and increased heart attacks.
If Google is going to turn it into abandonware, they should provide software to unlock it and allow people to run whatever operating system they can get to install and run on it.
I self-host everything. I have a VM churning away on vultr.com and do all of my own email, web, blogging, and personal cloud storage stuff. I just use my gmail address as a throw-away now.
I am all for helping veterans but what about trying to help all people who are unemployed. I am 41, disabled, and have been looking for work for a while now but I haven't been able to find something that I am able to do. A lot of the lower skilled jobs have heavy lifting requirements or other things that I just cannot do right now. Well, what do I know?
The problem with Universal Basic Income is that it could push wages down and increase prices. If the government is going to give a certain amount of money, then the assumption by business is that people can afford to pay more for goods and services. Furthermore, businesses may assume that with UBI, they can pay their employees less. Therefore, any assistance that UBI offers will end up negating any advantage.
Reviews in general reflect one person's highly subjective opinion and reflects their individual bias and interests. Also there is a built in bias towards negative reviews. When people are angry, agitated or just disappointed, they're much more likely to leave a review. I will say this about movie reviews: I have to go to see a movie I am interested in myself because rotten tomatoes has trashed movies I've actually liked.
There are some public wifi hotspots that I wouldn't use without a VPN just to encrypt my traffic from casual sniffing. Then again, my Android handset does that automatically. For Free. The question is whether Verizon blocks this functionality just to sell this crippled $4/mo. service.
With a little know-how, it's trivial to do this yourself. I set up my own OpenVPN server and loaded the OpenVPN client on my phone and laptop. I don't have to pay no stinkin' 4.00 per month fee.
A VPN only really keeps you (somewhat) safe when you're on a public hotspot. At some point your data will need to exit the VPN and on to the regular internet. Any privacy or security vanishes once your data exits the VPN and enters the regular internet with the exception of https browsing. Educated consumers would probably not fall for this 4.00 "value-added" service. Really Verizon just uses fear of identity and/or data theft to scare you into buying this product.
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This is actually interesting because it sounds like these cryptocurrencies will be FDIC insured. The fact that it is backed by the US dollar means it is quite a bit more stable than the others out there.
I will be part of the 50% that do not (and never will) get a smart speaker. Given the IoT idustry's abysmal security record and the very real possibility that these devices will be used to spy on me, I will do without the damn thing. Too much technology isn't a good idea at all. I also refuse to buy smart TVs and smart appliances. The dumber my TV and appliances are, the better!
Tablets do not replace PCs and laptops. They just aren't as functional. Tablets are nice for reading and doing light work but for anything that requires real heavy-weight work, the PC reigns king.
This honestly sounds like change for the sake of change. I think too many corporations do this and to many managers do this to justify their salaries. Leave it alone! How about working to make Chrome more secure? If you're going to do something, do something productive and meaningful.
I know when mine is spying on me: never. Because I don't have a smart TV.
Yup, I refuse to get a SmartTV as well. And when that is the only kind of TV you can buy, I will just stop watching it altogether.
Mars colonization is many, many years away. Since we humans here on earth are belching out CO2 like it's going out of style, why don't we start doing some of that here? Let's make earth more inhabitable.
Well, why hasn't Trump gotten kicked off of Twitter. IMHO, he's already crossed that line several times over. What the hell is Twitter waiting for? It won't happen because The Donald is revenue generator for Twitter.
Just what we need: another wealthy baby boomer selling to criminalize more behavior and lock up more people. This seems to be more about class control than any real and tangible fear since the largest userbase are the poor and working classes. Passing laws like these just take freedoms away, and if you're wondering, I'm a Gen Xer and an anarchist.
Seriously, I'm thinking I should create a network of fake profiles and get myself recruited. There's nothing illegal about providing false intelligence to foreign agencies for compensation right?
Especially if you could get paid for the bad information! Then you could rat out the people paying you to the FBI in return for reward money. You'd get paid on both ends of the deal.
Crooked cops are criminals and should be treated that way! Plain. And. Simple.
Corruption in the Baltimore City Police Department is absolutely endemic. I can understand citizens wanting more accountability and to root out the corruption but something like this needs to remain in the citizen's (not the P.D.'s) hands. If it remained outside the control of the state, I could see it being useful.
I don't want it! I think we should be on Daylight Savings Time year around. We don't need more light in the evening.
I want permanent DST all year long. And I voted for Trump.
Did I just melt your snowflake mind?
Proof that you can't fix stupid.
DST is an anachronism that just needs to go! There are no benefits too it. In fact, when the clocks get pushed ahead one hour, there are studies showing a correlation between this and increased heart attacks.
I don't really know. I just use NextCloud because an official package is provided for my preferred operating system, OpenBSD.
If Google is going to turn it into abandonware, they should provide software to unlock it and allow people to run whatever operating system they can get to install and run on it.
Personally, I hate Dropbox. I use NextCloud and do all of the hosting myself.
I self-host everything. I have a VM churning away on vultr.com and do all of my own email, web, blogging, and personal cloud storage stuff. I just use my gmail address as a throw-away now.
I am all for helping veterans but what about trying to help all people who are unemployed. I am 41, disabled, and have been looking for work for a while now but I haven't been able to find something that I am able to do. A lot of the lower skilled jobs have heavy lifting requirements or other things that I just cannot do right now. Well, what do I know?
The problem with Universal Basic Income is that it could push wages down and increase prices. If the government is going to give a certain amount of money, then the assumption by business is that people can afford to pay more for goods and services. Furthermore, businesses may assume that with UBI, they can pay their employees less. Therefore, any assistance that UBI offers will end up negating any advantage.
Reviews in general reflect one person's highly subjective opinion and reflects their individual bias and interests. Also there is a built in bias towards negative reviews. When people are angry, agitated or just disappointed, they're much more likely to leave a review. I will say this about movie reviews: I have to go to see a movie I am interested in myself because rotten tomatoes has trashed movies I've actually liked.
I loved Lotus Notes and Domino. Managing encryption keys was a snap and sending secure email was easy.
There are some public wifi hotspots that I wouldn't use without a VPN just to encrypt my traffic from casual sniffing. Then again, my Android handset does that automatically. For Free. The question is whether Verizon blocks this functionality just to sell this crippled $4/mo. service.
With a little know-how, it's trivial to do this yourself. I set up my own OpenVPN server and loaded the OpenVPN client on my phone and laptop. I don't have to pay no stinkin' 4.00 per month fee.
most VPN services omit the fact that you are not doing a goddamn thing but masking your IP
No, your data is encrypted in transit until it exits the VPN. Then it's fair game unless browsing to an https-enabled website.
A VPN only really keeps you (somewhat) safe when you're on a public hotspot. At some point your data will need to exit the VPN and on to the regular internet. Any privacy or security vanishes once your data exits the VPN and enters the regular internet with the exception of https browsing. Educated consumers would probably not fall for this 4.00 "value-added" service. Really Verizon just uses fear of identity and/or data theft to scare you into buying this product.