Posts by holmegm 327 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Aug 2018
The question is what is the difference between this scam and "real" cryptocurrencies.
I mean, there's no intrinsic reason that people couldn't use numbers just handed out (instead of "mined") as exchange media. That's essentially how not-so-crypto-currency works.
Except that not-so-crypto-currency at least has government force behind it, instead of in front of it ...
""For a company that provide service desk software, they don't really know how to service-desk...""
They really don't. They have this strange chat app for help, and it never feels like they really know how to do help desk and service.
Their help desk *software* for us, their customers, is serviceable, once you get used to it.
he was sent a direct message from Wikileaks during the election campaign about a new site that was about to go live at putintrump.org that purported to have evidence of misdoing between the Trump Campaign and Russian government. Wikileaks had correctly guessed the (terrible) admin password of putintrump.org - it was "putintrump" - and sent the password to Don Junior as a heads-up.
OK, I'm normally a bit of a hard*** about even the mildest "hacking", but seriously?
This is like glancing into an open cardboard box that has been left in a public commons.
Do you listen to yourself?
Perhaps we should just use law enforcement to investigate our political opponents, as we just *know* they are evil ... surely they'll find something ... if nothing else maybe they'll find something embarrassing and leak it.
And you think that's a *good* idea??
Well, re those tech platforms, if you actually live in the country in question, you *know* that the Russian "meddling" thereon didn't change anything.
If you disliked Hilary and business as usual, you didn't *need* a few ludicrous posts on Facebook to vote against her. The idea that the tiny Russian activity, in a sea of *real* issues and *real* domestic discussion, made the decisive difference is just laughable.
(If you really believe it though, find and hire those Russians; most amazing marketers *ever*.)
No, it's a gigantic tantrum, a gigantic fit of sour grapes. Alarmingly, the full weight of federal law enforcement was used for this tantrum.
It's embarrassing, sure, but not to whom you think or for the reasons you think,.
Well ... whether you believe it or not is up to you, but food laws in particular were repealed (or rather fulfilled, as with all Jewish ceremonial law):
https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Acts%2010.9-16
Just sayin', there are reasons that Christians don't observe Jewish dietary laws but do observer Jewish sexual laws. You don't have to believe the reasons, but it couldn't hurt to try to understand them.
It's not as though nobody noticed some big blooper here until some blog snarker did in 2019.
We prefer "non-conformists" ;)
In reality, it's more of a collective "meh". F works well enough.
0 and 100 are essentially the bounds within which any sane human would want to operate. Actually feels rather logical.
In addition to spanning a continent making the "need" to change seem less than pressing (it's not like we're constantly rubbing elbows with those using different units), technology makes the need less pressing all the time. We now all carry pocket computers for instant conversions, for all those occasions we need to convert anything (so basically "never" with perhaps a rounding error).
The problem is that "perfectly legal contacts with Russians" isn't justification for letting your political opponents use the FBI to investigate every inch of your life and then dump everything they dug up on the public, when even the supposed crime justifying it all (and which the aptly named "probe" wasn't limited to) didn't ever happen.
But to hell with fairness and justice and terrible precedents, because must-hate-Trump.
"For now, yes, we have mostly a few psychotics who would be probably dangerous anyway - but beware, the more people are subject to dangerous stimuli, the more higher the danger it becomes a collective attitude, not limited to a few weak minds."
I'd be worried first then about horror movies, which seem like they'd have way more impact than say, a Facebook post.
It had suddenly stopped accepting new data and the supplier had said it would take weeks and cost several grand to fix it as nobody had taken out a support contract with them.
To be fair, the supplier was probably given next to no details, and since there was no support contract, had to give a quote.
Been there ...
Lawmakers are reluctant to disrupt the enormous wealth creation machine that technology has turned out to be.
That's ... not a bad thing, in itself.
Obviously it can't be allowed to simply override all other concerns, but it's hardly an invalid concern of its own. Without enormous wealth creation machines you have poverty, which is best when avoided.
If I recall, the criminals in the core gang of bad guys in Robocop were all scruffy white guys, except for one black man. (At the time, that was probably rather daring; *all* the bad guys should have been white, lol.)
(There *was* a joke about the one black criminal using his, er, equipment to distract a white woman cop. But I'm sure that wasn't racist at all ...)
"I'd like a bigger screen. Phone is a pain for anything except some limited apps like banking."
I find it's good for a surprising number of things. *If* the app is designed well.
I wouldn't have thought that a language learning app would be good on a phone, for example, but Memrise is really well done. Phone version is even better than the web version, in my opinion.
Sure, there are many things that a desktop or larger display is better for, just saying that I was surprised how many things work on a small display, if designed well. That's the big "if".
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