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Just get them half-way there. Forever.
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Just like nobody wanted smart phones that slurped and shared everything from pictures to texts to location to e-mail contents. Yet everybody (almost) has one. It just becomes normalized and only us old farts are left yelling at the clouds. I'm hoping that my old truck will last as long as I can pass a drivers medical :)
...would have put a 7 on as VM
Just last week I created a VHD of an old Win7 machine using Disk2vhd from Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals. After creating a new VM on my Linux machine using the VHD I created, I was able to activate both Windows and Office 2010 via the "Activate Online" links without having to enter the licence keys. Both the Win 7 OS and Office 2010 suite were activated on the old machine when I created the VHD.
Ads bother me if they pop-up, block pages, interfere with my browsing experience, etc., but what really burns me is forcing me to watch an ad on a platform that I have paid for. If MS can't make enough money without ads in the OS, then charge a bit more for the product. Otherwise, show me ads but give me Windows products for free.
This is the same beef that I have long held with cable companies showing me ads in the same fashion as free1 OTA television.
1In CA there are no TV licencing fees, you just need an antenna.
I see this everywhere, not just with Microsoft. I envision it as an entire population of software developers that can't come up with anything truly innovative, so all they do is tweak perfectly good software in order to justify their employment. Sometimes good enough is good enough - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
"We take patient communication, confidentiality and data protection very seriously"
Well, no, you really don't.
Purely conjecture on my part, but I wonder if the person(s) responsible for sending the text message had a template already preloaded with the medical equivalent of "Moscow in flames, missiles headed towards New York, film at eleven" black-humour gag message.
And who would ever think it a good idea to send any kind of sensitive medical information via SMS?
My initial response was a hard no to this, but then I thought that it might be a way to comfort people suffering from dementia. If they could "talk" to a relative or close friend it might be less confusing than with a "stranger". Of course it would be best if no Alexa-type responses to buy stuff were allowed.
The Fitbit mobile app will not install on my cellphone, so I have been managing it using the desktop browser. Fitbit has already announced that desktop browser management will be discontinued in October, which means my watch will be an hour out of sync with local time when it switches from daylight to standard.
I'm not sure about the need for de-duplicating similar chargers. If I have two devices that both need charging, I need two chargers, and it doesn't really matter if they are the same connector style or not. The only advantage I see would be when retiring an older device it might be possible to re-use the older charger with a newer device, assuming that they have the same power requirements.
Nobody talks about CloudCoin. I don't know if they are a legitimate cryptocurrency alternative, but there is no blockchain (therefore no mining). There was a lot of noise when they first started up five or so years ago, but since then I never see them mentioned. Probably another scam, I suppose.
"Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices."
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
"..I see absolutely no reason to replace it."
I used to think that way until my banking app(s) became outdated, through no fault of the phone other than having an older OS (Moto G3 with Marshmallow). Now even that limited "luxury" is no longer possible, and the phone is now just a phone (and SMS/MMS) device.
I've always thought that Tesla chose "Autopilot" in order to prevent other manufacturers from using it to describe their own "assisted driving" technologies. One day it may be an actual functioning "hands-off" type of thing, and then the name "Autopilot" will actually be closer to the truth.
Just as the article stated:
"Although it is a big step in research 'n' development terms, it is not quite a commercial thing just yet: "The cabin of the plane was obstructed by two tons of lithium-ion batteries and cooling equipment, with little room for passengers. It certainly wasn't a cabin setup that would make any sense commercially," reported the newspaper.
I think it would be neat to experience flying in an e-plane that has no (or very little) engine noise.
I used to read ToC's, and if they sort of made sense then I accepted them as a condition of using whatever website, account, app, etc. But the other day I was waiting for a package from UPS, and was encouraged to open an account with them so I could get a more precise delivery window (other than "today").
There was a box to check next to the line "I was given enough time to read and understand the ToC's", so I took a look at them. 97 pages.
I didn't bother setting up the account.
I would love to see more people challenging random border searches esp. re: unlocking cellphones and/or laptops. I know it's not up to "regular folk" who can't afford the legal expenses individually, but having help from civil-liberty organizations is a way to go. Unfortunately this would paint a pretty big target on people's backs and make it tough traveling in the future.