“Every atom of uranium is like a bullet penetrating everything in path — metal, concrete, flesh. Chernobyl holds over 3 trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.”
"You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet."
I think this is a very reasonable thing to do. Now that we have the government looking hard at all this data collection, now is the time for Apple to step up and do something like this to help out the end user.
I'm not convinced with the whole anti-airgap argument. In the past news they were compromised because someone brought a USB from the parking lot to that network.
What airgapped networks need is a strict as hell policy that only allows fresh from a package USB drives to move data between networks. Or write only DVDs. Or something equally simple, but strict as hell, like that. If you can't enforce those rules easily, then you have 2 people who are the only ones with access/passwords, and they follow those rules, with one or two managers as backup.
Somebody said something about legally supply data to the public in realtime. If this is true, the laws need to change if network security is critical in that business.
Yeah, the amount the moon affects the dirt under our feet is really weird. My kid was very surprised when it was brought up in his grade school science class.
I wouldn't call it stupidity that makes people feel this way. Staying busy by walking or driving is much more fun than standing still in a line waiting for something boring to happen (light turning green, bag showing up, the giant truck in front of you blocking your vision moving) that will allow you to move on. Even worse when you are watching the conveyor belt pass the same 5 unwanted items over and over and over and your bag never comes through the little cat-door i mean bag-door.
I have a feeling it has more to do with sharing runways with more flights, sharing air traffic control with more flights, and sharing the air with more flights.
If you had 100 flights a day in the 1960s out of airport X, and now you have 5000 flights out of that same airport... somehow I don't think they expanded the airport enough to keep up.
It's probably more healthy for them to have most of this stuff up there. We have evolved to deal with microbes... remove them all, and problems probably will eventually arise.
I'm fine with Mozilla making some recommendations. I found the Waze app before it became a google thing due to some recommendation.
I mean, in general, yeah, I know what I want and need. But if I'm not looking for something, I am curious about any above average add-ons that might do something that I didn't know was even possible.
There's no need to paint cats as complete selfish bastards... I mean the occasional cat joke is great because there is that grain of truth there, but seriously, they are awesome pets.
"Some of them learned that me patting my lap means they are welcome to jump up but they struggle even with that."
What?! All of my cats since I can remember learn that patting something, or patting then pointing at something, means to go there. Lap, stairs, couch, bed, etc.
I wonder what in your environment or situation is causing some of the cats to not know what that means. It's been consistent for me and my close relatives from kid to college to adult over the course of 10+ cats.
"respond almost entirely only to food-based enticements."
Well, there is a grain of truth in that, but it's really not all food... my cats love to be petted. And our tomcat loves to sit on our lap or next to our feet. No food involved at all. Our youngest cat, 3 years old, was a little shy for the first 2 years, but now that she's mature she really loves to be petted. Just this morning she was hanging out near my daughter and me when we were near the bathroom sink. She kept meowing at us. I pointed at the counter, patted it, pointed, patted... she jumped right up and wanted to be petted. Yeah sure, sometimes they are begging for food, but she really just wants attention sometimes. Our tomcat always wants attention unless he is asleep.
And what about playing with the cats? Most cats really love to chase a toy, no food there.
Yep, my cats definitely know who I'm talking to and respond. Now when food is involved, my greedy cat will try to get in the way if he suspects I'm feeding our non-greedy cat. But outdoors with no food on the mind, you can get a good feel for what they understand in general.
I'll add to this: "Then say its actual name. If it swivels its ears or perks up its head, " OR if you see the tail go from no movement to a twitch very precisely and succinctly, but they otherwise ignore you unless you call them 3+ times, then they'll possibly look at you like, "Well damn it, I don't want to move over to you right now. Be quiet, when you say my name it makes me antsy."
Sicker than that... your good-hearted nerds with less than ideal social skills are going to get screwed by this system. Whoever helped China design this stuff should feel very bad about what they have done to a huge population of the world. This is a huge step backwards. Hell, didn't anybody watch a few Black Mirror episodes?!
No way would that work for the company I am at. I guess there is a niche spot for them, but it's going to cost. You still have to have hardware on the other side to run the stuff... why not get a real computer?
Yeah this is a tricky area. Oftentimes, you see lazy employees who want you to train them... if you do, you just make your life worse and potentially help a subpar employee stay employed. I think the idea of pointing them to learning videos is the way to go... if they are willing to learn they will, if they aren't, tough.
Seriously Apple, think about this. You are the richest company around. Do you need to become a shifty, lying cheat to survive? Do you think your reputation might get smeared a little, which will tank your business?
Yep, I love this idea. Plastic has creeped into everything. My mom recently told me when she was a kid, there were few fast food places, but you could stop by certain places with delis. The delis would give you a glass to go plate... I take it you'd recycle the glass later.
Holy crap, I somehow forgot this age-old wisdom... damn it. Thank you for the reminder. I've been killing myself because the CFL light in my bathrooms are a REAL BITCH to change. They are part of the vent system, and I have to literally unhook the entire fixture, bring it down, unhook again, unplug the electric wires, then bring the whole thing outside to pry the lightbulb out and replace. I've broken at least one bulb because it is so hard to get out. All the while, I fanatically turn them off ASAP thinking I'll make them last longer. O_o
The life of a CFL is significantly shorter if it is turned on and off frequently. In the case of a 5-minute on/off cycle the lifespan of some CFLs may be reduced to that of incandescent light bulbs.
"Now a recent report from Bloomberg claimed Apple might be throttling Verizon's LTE performance with a Qualcomm modem in order to make it perform similarly to the Intel chip that's in other phones. The Qualcomm hardware is theoretically capable of a maximum 600 megabits per second for download speeds. Compared to the Intel modem that's topped out at 450 megabytes per second."
Really, 1 hour is nothing to adjust to... it takes all of a couple of days if anything. If you think adjusting an hour twice a year is bad, I guess you never travel to another timezone. Nothing is more hellish than being 5+ or 10+ hours off your internal clock, yet people do it frequently and the body will adjust soon enough.
Mod this up somebody! I have never lived in such a place, but I can see how it happens well from your description. I'm lucky some of my relatives in small towns had solid government retirement plans, otherwise they'd be in trouble just due to rising cost of living and healthcare. I can only imagine what those isolated towns have to deal with.
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.esquire.com/uk/lat...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
This new Chernobyl series says it all.
https://youtu.be/s9APLXM9Ei8
“Every atom of uranium is like a bullet penetrating everything in path — metal, concrete, flesh. Chernobyl holds over 3 trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.”
"You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet."
I think this is a very reasonable thing to do. Now that we have the government looking hard at all this data collection, now is the time for Apple to step up and do something like this to help out the end user.
I'm not convinced with the whole anti-airgap argument. In the past news they were compromised because someone brought a USB from the parking lot to that network.
What airgapped networks need is a strict as hell policy that only allows fresh from a package USB drives to move data between networks. Or write only DVDs. Or something equally simple, but strict as hell, like that. If you can't enforce those rules easily, then you have 2 people who are the only ones with access/passwords, and they follow those rules, with one or two managers as backup.
Somebody said something about legally supply data to the public in realtime. If this is true, the laws need to change if network security is critical in that business.
This seems like animal cruelty/crazy/mad scientist/you name it. Not a fan. WTF China?
Yeah, the amount the moon affects the dirt under our feet is really weird. My kid was very surprised when it was brought up in his grade school science class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wouldn't call it stupidity that makes people feel this way. Staying busy by walking or driving is much more fun than standing still in a line waiting for something boring to happen (light turning green, bag showing up, the giant truck in front of you blocking your vision moving) that will allow you to move on. Even worse when you are watching the conveyor belt pass the same 5 unwanted items over and over and over and your bag never comes through the little cat-door i mean bag-door.
I have a feeling it has more to do with sharing runways with more flights, sharing air traffic control with more flights, and sharing the air with more flights.
If you had 100 flights a day in the 1960s out of airport X, and now you have 5000 flights out of that same airport... somehow I don't think they expanded the airport enough to keep up.
It's probably more healthy for them to have most of this stuff up there. We have evolved to deal with microbes... remove them all, and problems probably will eventually arise.
I'm fine with Mozilla making some recommendations. I found the Waze app before it became a google thing due to some recommendation.
I mean, in general, yeah, I know what I want and need. But if I'm not looking for something, I am curious about any above average add-ons that might do something that I didn't know was even possible.
So what happens when Chrome when it's not an option to turn off anymore? A little worrying.
This is an evil invention. Do not support it, do not sell it, do not do it.
FUCK RENTING EVERYTHING for worse response times, worse feel, worse games. FUCK IT!
There's no need to paint cats as complete selfish bastards... I mean the occasional cat joke is great because there is that grain of truth there, but seriously, they are awesome pets.
"Some of them learned that me patting my lap means they are welcome to jump up but they struggle even with that."
What?! All of my cats since I can remember learn that patting something, or patting then pointing at something, means to go there. Lap, stairs, couch, bed, etc.
I wonder what in your environment or situation is causing some of the cats to not know what that means. It's been consistent for me and my close relatives from kid to college to adult over the course of 10+ cats.
"respond almost entirely only to food-based enticements."
Well, there is a grain of truth in that, but it's really not all food... my cats love to be petted. And our tomcat loves to sit on our lap or next to our feet. No food involved at all. Our youngest cat, 3 years old, was a little shy for the first 2 years, but now that she's mature she really loves to be petted. Just this morning she was hanging out near my daughter and me when we were near the bathroom sink. She kept meowing at us. I pointed at the counter, patted it, pointed, patted... she jumped right up and wanted to be petted. Yeah sure, sometimes they are begging for food, but she really just wants attention sometimes. Our tomcat always wants attention unless he is asleep.
And what about playing with the cats? Most cats really love to chase a toy, no food there.
Yeah cats are cool.
Sony used to be a company I thought I could trust. Advertisements junking up everything? No thanks.
Yep, my cats definitely know who I'm talking to and respond. Now when food is involved, my greedy cat will try to get in the way if he suspects I'm feeding our non-greedy cat. But outdoors with no food on the mind, you can get a good feel for what they understand in general.
I'll add to this:
"Then say its actual name. If it swivels its ears or perks up its head, " OR if you see the tail go from no movement to a twitch very precisely and succinctly, but they otherwise ignore you unless you call them 3+ times, then they'll possibly look at you like, "Well damn it, I don't want to move over to you right now. Be quiet, when you say my name it makes me antsy."
Sicker than that... your good-hearted nerds with less than ideal social skills are going to get screwed by this system. Whoever helped China design this stuff should feel very bad about what they have done to a huge population of the world. This is a huge step backwards. Hell, didn't anybody watch a few Black Mirror episodes?!
No way would that work for the company I am at. I guess there is a niche spot for them, but it's going to cost. You still have to have hardware on the other side to run the stuff... why not get a real computer?
Yeah this is a tricky area. Oftentimes, you see lazy employees who want you to train them... if you do, you just make your life worse and potentially help a subpar employee stay employed. I think the idea of pointing them to learning videos is the way to go... if they are willing to learn they will, if they aren't, tough.
Good advice, and be sure you parents go outside with the kids at least half the time. They learn from their role models.
Seriously Apple, think about this. You are the richest company around. Do you need to become a shifty, lying cheat to survive? Do you think your reputation might get smeared a little, which will tank your business?
Yep, I love this idea. Plastic has creeped into everything. My mom recently told me when she was a kid, there were few fast food places, but you could stop by certain places with delis. The delis would give you a glass to go plate... I take it you'd recycle the glass later.
Holy crap, I somehow forgot this age-old wisdom... damn it. Thank you for the reminder. I've been killing myself because the CFL light in my bathrooms are a REAL BITCH to change. They are part of the vent system, and I have to literally unhook the entire fixture, bring it down, unhook again, unplug the electric wires, then bring the whole thing outside to pry the lightbulb out and replace. I've broken at least one bulb because it is so hard to get out. All the while, I fanatically turn them off ASAP thinking I'll make them last longer. O_o
Wikipedia backing you up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The life of a CFL is significantly shorter if it is turned on and off frequently. In the case of a 5-minute on/off cycle the lifespan of some CFLs may be reduced to that of incandescent light bulbs.
And this guy:
http://www.robaid.com/gadgets/...
And here:
https://richsoil.com/CFL-fluor...
Isn't this a win for consumers, or did I misremember the old Qualcomm antenna woes? Or old news?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/364...
https://www.cnet.com/videos/th...
Part of the cnet conversation:
"Now a recent report from Bloomberg claimed Apple might be throttling Verizon's LTE performance with a Qualcomm modem in order to make it perform similarly to the Intel chip that's in other phones. The Qualcomm hardware is theoretically capable of a maximum 600 megabits per second for download speeds. Compared to the Intel modem that's topped out at 450 megabytes per second."
Really, 1 hour is nothing to adjust to... it takes all of a couple of days if anything. If you think adjusting an hour twice a year is bad, I guess you never travel to another timezone. Nothing is more hellish than being 5+ or 10+ hours off your internal clock, yet people do it frequently and the body will adjust soon enough.
Mod this up somebody! I have never lived in such a place, but I can see how it happens well from your description. I'm lucky some of my relatives in small towns had solid government retirement plans, otherwise they'd be in trouble just due to rising cost of living and healthcare. I can only imagine what those isolated towns have to deal with.