Oh you guys thing I was kidding when I said I'm going after you from the bottom up.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2Fgallery%2FmvbR...
I'm not. Also I'm a group. Also bullets and bombs are the next step.
Get out if you want to live. Just leave the troll farm before you get turned into rubble and carbon from fallen debris.
Firefox does it by default: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozilla.org%2Fen...
But you can disable it in Chrome too, by just putting this into the URL bar: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy and change the setting to what you want.
Fixed and updated for robocallers, thanks to you for having an amazing idea:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting robocalls. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Robocallers can easily use it to harvest phone numbers
( ) Legitimate phone uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop robocalls for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of phones will not put up with it
( ) Cell/Phone providers will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from robocallers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many phone users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Robocallers don't care about invalid numbers in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for CallerID
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching/brute forcing all phone numbers from any account
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in CallerID
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than CallerID to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by Service Providers
( ) Armies of worm riddled or cheap broadband-connected computers
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of robocalls
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with robocallers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of robocallers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending phone calls should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time phone numbers are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government tapping my phone calls
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Doing the Right Thing should not be preempted by making a buck.
I doubt they'd accept this deal but I think this would be an interesting solution to the "ISP doesn't put down new cable to all promised areas, if at all"
Let's keep the amount the same, and specify that all X areas must be built, say, in Y duration. Duration/area doesn't really matter and could be negotiated, but the next part does: all X areas must have FCC defined broadband speed (which is 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload) in Y duration; after Y duration, nothing happens until 1 week after Y: for every week that the project is not done, +2% of all income from the company will be fined. So 2% for week late, 4% at 2 weeks, 6% at 3 weeks, etc. Stops at 50 weeks because probably overkill for more than 100% income. The point is, they'll complete it on time, and any delays gets expensive really quickly after the due date.
Arch Linux. Doesn't have dependencies much at all so you can build whatever kind of system you want. You could also use Artix for the same but no Systemd, and Pulseaudio is completely optional in both (but apulse is required for Firefox and probably a few more applications)
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Oracle
Oh I didn't notice that one doesn't update anymore until just now, whoops. ProtonDB seems to be exactly like WineDB though, and gets updated by users.
Check Linux again, because Steam uses Proton (just their internal version of Wine/Windows emulator) to play Windows games now and it does it for you silently and quickly. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.protondb.com%2F https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com... You'll want to browse both of these lists. They're quickly expanding as people, Steam team and devs test it out.
Card processors charge too much to actually pay in pennies. They'll charge a fee starting at $1 for $0.30 just about. If you try to go lower than say $0.50 you'll get $0.01 at best or just plain nothing at worse. It mostly depends on what tier you get processed at. For any would-be competitor to PayPal or Square, it is always much higher than say a grocery store, which is why there's a large fee for both those companies already.
Citation, straight from the horses mouth: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mastercard.us%2Fcont... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusa.visa.com%2Fdam%2FVCOM%2F...
There's a very simple solution (pun intended) to roaches that I use. Take some water, add dish washing soap meant for the sink like for example Dawn brand. All insects die to this solution because normally, plain water just bounces off them or they walk on top of it. The dish soap breaks surface tension, and now they drown or suffocate in that water instead. I don't think there can be any evolution that won't work against that, because they have to somehow be immune to both water and dishwater now and that's a huge leap.
Except almost every substance on earth used for power is purposefully explosive, flammable, and/or destructive in some way: coal, gasoline, natural gas, nuclear, lithium ion batteries, etc.
The only thing that is remotely safe to build and use is wind power (they can still fail and break apart and hurt something/someone however) or solar panels, but storing power generated has to be stored using a battery, and the battery that is the biggest and can store the most power is lithium batteries.
Unless we discover/invent a miracle power generator AND power storage that isn't dangerous to use, handle, store, exist near or otherwise harmful in any way, we have to make do with danger and just keep strict safety compliance for each of the different types of generators and storage.
Except the very thing you are posting from wouldn't exist without NASA. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpl.nasa.gov%2Finfog... A lot of technology is from NASA itself. PS: that's why USA is rich, everything from NASA is licensed for earnings. Defunding NASA would mean there would be a lot less of those earnings, eventually.
"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." -- Dr. Seuss
