Like most things, it would benefit from being managed by Git :-)

This ea support chat screencap posted in one of the reviews seems worth sharing far and wide, and judging from the way it ends I would guess the owner doesn't mind my posting it here.

Because if it's possible to do something one way, adding a different way to accomplish the same thing will never affect outcomes. If people want something and there's any way whatsoever to achieve it they will always achieve it at the same rate regardless of what that way might be.

Oh, wait, that's not true at all.

Yep. I didn't understand why Apple went with 4:3 until I'd used both an iPad and a few 16:9 (or 16:10? don't remember) Android devices. 4:3 is better for pretty much every single task except watching movies, and it's not much worse for that. Web browsing especially is much nicer in 4:3; both orientations remain usable on most web sites, and there's rarely wasted space.

SSL is used on non-443 ports all the time. It's not just for HTTPS.

I'd assumed that's what encrypted Bittorrent traffic uses, though looking in to it farther it appears they use something else. It is used for encrypted peer-to-tracker communication, though. Either way, telling what a user's downloading over encrypted BitTorrent protocol is non-trivial without a peer connected to the same tracker.

Deep packet inspection versus SSL, who wins?

Seems more likely they'll have machines sitting around on popular trackers grepping for IP addresses from blocks they own. At least if they want it to be even sort-of effective.

or if you want a movie reference to back this up, how about humans can also defect on their own with large war machines...that is the basic Hunt for Red October lesson

Easy fix—prevent the drones from sending fewer than two pings.

I find a picture or two a day on vacation is plenty, personally. Just enough to jog memories, not so many that you have to put any effort in to pruning them, and it only takes a minute or two out of each day, at worst. Maybe one or two short videos over a week, quality is nearly irrelevant (phones are fine). Just enough to capture some voices, some movements, and some sounds around you.

Never capture more than you are willing to sort/store/tag/backup when you get home, and never enough that you have to dig to find what you're looking for, even if it's decades later.

It would take 4 lifetimes to review and edit out the 99% crap that you just will never care about (in your life time).

Seriously, it's easy enough to spend more time locating, prioritizing, and cataloging media than simply enjoying it without crap like this.

Music, movies, books, photos, etc. More media is definitely not what I need in my life. I'm drowning in it as it is, and enough of it is more interesting than what I did today that I doubt I'd run out of good media to enjoy (to say nothing of actual experiences in the real world) in a dozen lifetimes, even if no more were produced starting today.

People spend hundreds to thousands of hours and shitloads of money organizing, annotating, and preserving family photos and videos, largely to no long-term end (two generations later, "who the fuck are all these people?" *throws out several boxes of photo albums*).

If you want to record your life, be ready to spend all your free time editing it and adding metadata so it's useful, or before long it'll just be a bunch of files and a hopelessly-large chore to organize it all. If you're an early adopter of this sort of thing maybe it'll be preserved by others (certainly some things like this would be important to historians) but you won't get much use out of it personally unless you're willing to devote tons of time to it.

Ever edit a wedding video? Imagine that, but a billion times more boring.

But if the burglars are too busy stealing your guns, they might skip over your electronics.

So that advice made sense after all!

soory, but my best friend is a teacher...sources?

Sorry, but my best friend is a friend. Sources?

The funny thing is that not that long ago the stereotypical liberal response to a problem was to directly mandate behavior through legislation, while the stereotypical conservative response was to steer market forces through incentives and disincentives.

Now the liberals have adopted the old conservative positions, and the conservatives have decided that in no case ever can government accomplish anything, evidence be damned, so it should stop trying (unless it's blowing people up). At the same time people complain on a regular basis that our country's heading in to looney lefty socialist territory.

US politics are fucking weird.

Or they may decide that it now too expensive to do significant engineering in the US and move everything offshore where they can pay peanuts *and* get 80 hour weeks from their workers.

Why hasn't that happened in Europe, then? 4-6 weeks of vacation + several holidays, long-ass maternity/paternity(!!!) leave, developed-world salary levels, many (all?) countries in the EU having regulations on working hours per week, etc.

YES! UIDs three times as high as mine are now considered low! I knew this would happen one day!

... holy shit I've been on here too long.

I meant complement, of course.

Fucking almost-homophones.