Posts by matchbx 81 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2007
3. Just glom a good camera onto it, we really don't need fancy poofty gimmickry stuff such as slo-mo, or dual camera whatnots. Heck, I use my camera so seldom.
super high in cameras are mandatory. All of the Snapchat style apps are helping the Feds with Facial Recognition Technology.
Eventually every app you install will require access to camera.
1984 is here... but it's not just the government watching.... it's also Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Facebook....
The google play store is the worst. It's utterly impossible to find anything. Can't sort by anything, not price, not name, not rating, not downloads. Can't filter by anything, not by price range, not rating.....
can't search by permissions or lack there of....
I FRICKING HATE THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE.....WORST APP STORE EVER....
That reminds of a Dilbert Cartoon......
Dilbert drops off some Documents to Record Retention and informs the guy working there to to keep them on file for 5 years..
After he leaves, they guy promptly throws all of the documents in the trash.....
thought bubble: "This job got so much easier when I realized that nobody ever asks for anything back"
Most forums and comments are already setup to block most swear words, which is the reason folks started using s.w.e.a.r words.
If you train some new AI bot to block s.w.e.a.r words, then folks will simply starting using sVVear words....
They might as well be trying to push a 10 thousand pound boulder up hill with a twig.... during an ice storm.... at night....... while an earthquake is happening.....
If you insist on blaming the CRA, then you must explain why it only caused trouble from 2001 to 2008 even though it's been law since 1975 and remains in effect today.
easy.... when the act was passed in 75 by President Carter it had NO enforcement teeth. I.E. if the banks ignored the law (which they did) there were no penalties, no fines..... nothing happened to them.
President Clinton passed laws when he was in office that gave the CRA Enforcement Teeth... I.E. Fines and Penalties.....
Perhaps, but it didn't force them to repackage these loans in to blocks, lie about the risk inherent in them and the go through a cascading game of pass-the-promisory-loan as if it had value until the stack was finally called in (in which case many lenders found that they were backing their own loans with their own loans).......
I agree with you for the most part... They did it to minimize the risk (not saying it's right, but I do understand why).
This was a very complex issue with a lot of moving parts... The original comment that started this had 8 thumbs down with no comments on why. To truly understand what happened you have to go back and look at what happened on almost a day to day basis...
The thing to keep in mind IMHO is that this whole ball started rolling with Government Regulations.
"Regulation didn't force mortgagers to write duff mortgages. Greed did"....
But here's the rub... the Community Reinvestment Act that was passed by Jimmy Carter in 79 and given enforcement teeth by Bill Clinton prevented the mortgagers from questioning income information that was entered on applications....
the Community Reinvestment Act was specifically created to FORCE the mortgagers into loaning money to low income people....
"It was regulation that made what the bankers did the most rational choice. They were behaving rationally, given the conditions set forth by the US government. If the Community Reinvestment act, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae never existed, neither would the 2008 crash have existed. These things are caused by too much government, not too little."
I'm still astounded that people don't understand this. I guess all the down votes are from people who think this is an opinion....
Guess they'll down vote me too for agreeing with you.
years ago I was in the Navy with a guy who grew up on a farm working on old trucks..... he said he would constantly find extra nuts and bolts left over when he was finished putting everything back together.
Finally he caught his dad adding extra ones to his pile....
that the most interesting admission in the article was :
"According to Liang's admissions, when he and his co-conspirators realized that they could not design a diesel engine that would meet the stricter US emissions standards,"
This tells me the folks setting the standard have no clue about how the standards they set and how they impact the engine design process.
Tech1: hey Tech2... I got another "this might be spam email" from a user again.
Tech2: How many times have we told those #$%^&$ in Marketing not to do that.
Tech1: I don't know... I'm getting tired of this crap... they never listen us......
Tech2: To @#$%$^ with Marketing... tell the user it really is spam and to delete it... that might drive the point home....
Tech1: good idea....
"The judge also slaps the DEA for simple laziness: previous requests for warrants for cell phone data (such as carrier data about calls made and tower locations) in the case had been granted by magistrates, which “suggests strongly that the Government could have obtained a warrant to use a cell-site simulator, if it had wished to do so”
It's not about laziness..... it's about changing norm. if you can get just one case like this passed the right Judges then it forever changes the system.
Next time you need to purchase an Atlantis Computing product, just take your 3 year old kid with you to the store. Hand them the money and let them pay for it (video document this of course). then when you get to the EULA, have them click Accept button (again video document this).
Next review their product to your hearts content, if they attempt to sue you, just send them the videos. You're not the one who purchased it or did you accept the EULA.
Couldn't agree with you more. The first 13 to 18 years or so of education is just the starting point, you have to know (or retain) the basics otherwise you don't know enough to even ask the right questions.
You've got to know what you don't know, actually Clint Eastwood said it better - "A man's got to know his limitations"
Recent bubbles/crashes
The Dot Com Bubble - late 90's
Indian Property Bubble - 2005
Irish Property Bubble - 2005
Spanish Property Bubble - 2006
China Stock and Property Bubble - 2007
US Property Bubble - 2008
Romanian Property Bubble - 2008
Rhodium Bubble - 2008
Australian First Home Buyer Property Bubble - 2009
Bit Coin Bubble - 2013
There is another one coming that will pop eventually, the Advertising Bubble....
People are getting sick of this type of shit.
p.s. Personally, I've never heard of half of these bubbles, and the list did come from Wikipedia, so you can take the list with a grain of salt.
REALLY..... one of the main things I've heard during the last week and a half is:
"It wouldn't be the first time Apple has unlocked one of its devices in response to a government request"
so take a wild guess what would happen next..
Bill can take his "Wouldn't set a precedent" and shove it up his arse.....
I work with one of these geniuses..... He's a very knowledgeable developer, but he never tests anything and is often surprised when a bug occurs in his code. He lives and dies by the motto, how fast can I have this done. His code is usually overly complicated, cause it's a micro second faster to do it this way, but you waste hours trying to figure out what he wanted to accomplish.
I use him as an information source and a sounding board only. I NEVER follow his advice on how to implement any code routine.
A few years ago at Christmas, I almost bought him a t-shirt from thinkgeek:
"I don't often test my code, but when I do, I do it in Production."
anonymous..... cause he might be reading this.
and I'll say it again....
Back the 80's and 90's and continuing to this day, retail companies realized they could make more money putting you into debt than they could selling you their product. They no longer care about the products they sell, only the amount of debt you rack up on their charge cards.
Today software companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook... have I forgotten anyone) have realized they can make more money selling your online habits to the advertisers than they can selling software.
MS can suck it along with all the rest of them.
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