I was a high-ranking official in the state department. The FBI sent me a subpoena for my private email server because I used it to discuss classified government business, so I had my IT guy wipe my private email server before I handed it over to the FBI. Later he was discovered on Reddit and confessed to the FBI, but I made sure they couldn't trace the decision back to me.
I appreciate the changes SF has made, but in January I moved my web hosting from Sourceforge to my own infrastructure. Now I have HTTPS, can make outbound HTTP calls, have more control over the backend, and the web site is 10x faster. It does not cost much, and with reverse proxies, I was able to weather several huge traffic spikes without a blip.
Deduction creates a conclusion that is necessarily true through logic, but in this case machine learning comes to a conclusion that is only probably true.
It's elementary, my dear Watson.Elementary, my dear Watson
It's not just ads: financial companies track your transactions, and by default, they share your information with "partners." Scroll through your credit card usage, and you can quickly imagine how your trips to Starbucks can be used to build a valuable profile. To opt out, they make you mail a paper form because they hope you will be too lazy to find a stamp.
Of course, Facebook tracks everything.
I am still young and healthy, but my employer is too cheap to provide a standing desk without a doctor's note: this kind of attitude seems to have a short-term perspective considering the high, potential future costs of medical care.
Anyway, my cheap hack is to drink a lot of fluids---usually tea or water, so I am forced into walking breaks.
Sweetening the water significantly increases how much I drink, while making me feel like a lab rat. Using sucralose avoids growing bacteria in my water bottle and does not add calories.
SpiderOak is a cloud-based, zero-knowledge storage and backup system. It has clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, Andorid, and iOS. You can also access from the web, but you have to provide a password, which means it is no longer zero-knowledge.
I signed up a few years ago when large fires burned through my city, and I needed a secure, automated, off-site backup. The fires are gone, but now I still use it on Windows and Linux. The GUI is a little clunky, but it works. I stay in the first pricing tier by loading my old family photos (>>50GB) instead onto Google Nearline, which is cheaper but less convenient.
Not all 3.5M people want a feature phone. Benefits of feature phones include: cheaper phone, cheaper plan, smaller hardware, longer battery life, less distractions (e.g., email, social media, games), fewer privacy concerns (e.g., tracking, malware), and smaller target for theft. Also, it's much easier to text from my phone's slide-out keyboard than from a touchscreen.
According to Nate Silver in The Signal and the Noise, earthquake prediction has a long history of failure. Unlike weather, there is not much understanding or useful data. Many have claimed otherwise, but when applied to the future, their models failed.
Google Page Speed is like CloudFlare, which is an easy-to-use, free, sort-of-CDN/web-proxy with rewriting rules. I've been using it for a few months and haven't noticed any problems, and CloudFlare seems more matures. Each offers unique features: CloudFlare has security features to prevent some attacks and bots, while Google has some unique rewriting rules and sharding.
The home page has double HTML tags (and is in designed in FrontPage 6.0). Years ago, I reported the double HTML tags to the web master, but he said it wasn't feasible to fix.
I administered ~50 computers at a non-profit. We ran the latest OpenOffice.org (versions 1 and 2) for several years and even after I left the company.
Generally training and file format compatibility were not an issue. The initial draw to OpenOffice.org was not having to count licenses (so tedious!), and later it helped us switch half the systems to Linux (most on a terminal server).
One 'gotcha' was that the accountant needed Excel to use Quickbooks because it interfaces directly over a COM API.
The second in charge (an Apple fanboy ironically) wanted to switch to Microsoft. He didn't give a good case why.
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Were they offered bribes?
Which story's logo was on that bag?
For at least ten years, StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, and derivatives supported JavaScript and Python in the Calc spreadsheet.
In the book Brave New World the hypnotically-implanted mottos included "ending is better than mending" and "the more stitches, the less riches."
I was a high-ranking official in the state department. The FBI sent me a subpoena for my private email server because I used it to discuss classified government business, so I had my IT guy wipe my private email server before I handed it over to the FBI. Later he was discovered on Reddit and confessed to the FBI, but I made sure they couldn't trace the decision back to me.
After drying cloths, the next steps are washing clothes and showering people like the sonic showers on Star Trek.
Correlation with the rise of smartphones, tablets, social media, video on demand, ubiquitous porn, and poor interpersonal skills?
I appreciate the changes SF has made, but in January I moved my web hosting from Sourceforge to my own infrastructure. Now I have HTTPS, can make outbound HTTP calls, have more control over the backend, and the web site is 10x faster. It does not cost much, and with reverse proxies, I was able to weather several huge traffic spikes without a blip.
I set up OpenDNS Family Shield on the router. It's OK but I prefer to try the ISP
I live in the USA, and I wish my ISP offered this for myself, even if I had to call to opt in.
I would use it even if I didn't have three kids, which I do. Also, I would use this to supplement, not replace, good parenting.
I want a simple way to stream Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon using one remote control, but I don't need any more features---web browser, ads, etc.
Deduction creates a conclusion that is necessarily true through logic, but in this case machine learning comes to a conclusion that is only probably true.
It's elementary, my dear Watson.Elementary, my dear Watson
It's not just ads: financial companies track your transactions, and by default, they share your information with "partners." Scroll through your credit card usage, and you can quickly imagine how your trips to Starbucks can be used to build a valuable profile. To opt out, they make you mail a paper form because they hope you will be too lazy to find a stamp. Of course, Facebook tracks everything.
I am still young and healthy, but my employer is too cheap to provide a standing desk without a doctor's note: this kind of attitude seems to have a short-term perspective considering the high, potential future costs of medical care.
Anyway, my cheap hack is to drink a lot of fluids---usually tea or water, so I am forced into walking breaks.
Sweetening the water significantly increases how much I drink, while making me feel like a lab rat. Using sucralose avoids growing bacteria in my water bottle and does not add calories.
SpiderOak is a cloud-based, zero-knowledge storage and backup system. It has clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, Andorid, and iOS. You can also access from the web, but you have to provide a password, which means it is no longer zero-knowledge. I signed up a few years ago when large fires burned through my city, and I needed a secure, automated, off-site backup. The fires are gone, but now I still use it on Windows and Linux. The GUI is a little clunky, but it works. I stay in the first pricing tier by loading my old family photos (>>50GB) instead onto Google Nearline, which is cheaper but less convenient.
Among popular cards, American Express uniquely has 15 digits. (VISA, Mastercard, and Discover have 16 digits.)
Not all 3.5M people want a feature phone. Benefits of feature phones include: cheaper phone, cheaper plan, smaller hardware, longer battery life, less distractions (e.g., email, social media, games), fewer privacy concerns (e.g., tracking, malware), and smaller target for theft. Also, it's much easier to text from my phone's slide-out keyboard than from a touchscreen.
According to Nate Silver in The Signal and the Noise, earthquake prediction has a long history of failure. Unlike weather, there is not much understanding or useful data. Many have claimed otherwise, but when applied to the future, their models failed.
55% female according to the linked paper
Google Page Speed is like CloudFlare, which is an easy-to-use, free, sort-of-CDN/web-proxy with rewriting rules. I've been using it for a few months and haven't noticed any problems, and CloudFlare seems more matures. Each offers unique features: CloudFlare has security features to prevent some attacks and bots, while Google has some unique rewriting rules and sharding.
Who takes advice from these people? :)
Generally training and file format compatibility were not an issue. The initial draw to OpenOffice.org was not having to count licenses (so tedious!), and later it helped us switch half the systems to Linux (most on a terminal server).
One 'gotcha' was that the accountant needed Excel to use Quickbooks because it interfaces directly over a COM API.
The second in charge (an Apple fanboy ironically) wanted to switch to Microsoft. He didn't give a good case why.
To increase compatibility reading OpenXML, install odf-converter-integrator. To understand how it works, read "A Better Docx Converter".
It's called Wirth's Law
Are you using the Ubuntu OpenOffice.org edition? For all its goodies, it has some bugs too. I always use the vanilla OOo edition from http://www.openoffice.org/ . I have no problems with slide shows of your size.
Wait until the next MSO version comes out. Then your MSO 2007 will have ads.