They are simply injecting it. Someone else is claiming that it's safe.

So, they're knowingly injecting toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the water supply. Thank you for the clarification.

I can bog down a core i7 with 16GB ram, with a SSD external drive for dedicated cache, etc.....in seconds with one decent render or Photoshop project with 4-8+ Smart Objects open.

And more and more...if you are even a decent hobbits photographer, you depend on post to do your magic and you can overload a computer pretty quickly even with decen cpu, gnu and ram.

That doesn't even get into having a nice monitor(s), wacom tablet...etc.

I'd put this group maybe in between the #2 and #3 you listed above.

In this case, it is people with wells on their properties.

People still do water that way...wells on their property??

If so...I'd guess it would have to be a very small minority these days, eh?

you are reinforcing my point. this is not 'broadcasting' since its priv'd info and radio bands have been blocked for about 20 years or so, now.

I remember buying a radio shack scanner that could do the 'diode trick' and you could easily unblock the analog phone bands. I never did that, I just read about it. yeah, read about it.

but now, even when the analog bands are no longer used for phones, the freq's are still on the block list, afaik.

and gear to decrypt digital phone rf data is NOT legal for regular people!

in no way am I 'broadcasting' where I am, other than to the technical limits of what is needed in order TO communicate.

am I walking around telling everyone that I'm about to drive on route 66 or that I'm now crosing state borders? the only ones who would know this are SPIES. if it takes a spy to know something, by definition I'm not 'broadcasting' anything.

weird to see people on this kind of forum taking the opposing view. are the shills THAT easy to buy off, these days? that many false flags registered here? must be, since no techie would be saying the anti-privacy things I'm reading (more and more) on this kind of forum.

at least they are easy to spot. they say batshit crazy things.

you're an idiot, then. only an idiot talks to cops unless under arrest.

talking to a cop can ruin your life even if you are fully innocent and have the best intentions. go watch the famous youtube video 'dont talk to cops'. you need to learn a few things.

oh, and btw, they train cops to lie and to weasel info out of you. its formal training. they know the game. shame that you are still ignorant of how its played.

btw, who DO I know that the cop is not trying to seek revenge against someone? lets say you are in a black neighborhood and a cop comes looking for a guy. you going to just give that info out? really?

bad idea all around. this is what warrants are for. get a warrant and we'll talk, but not until then.

This is not an issue of incapable hardware. That's proven both by the fact that there's no reason why Google couldn't have kept the minimum system requirements the same from 2.2 to 5, and the fact that plenty of manufacturers were already abandoning their 2.2 shit before 2.3 came out, let alone anything actually more advanced!

FYI, you'd be (in a similar sense) "broadcasting" your location when using your home landline too (i.e., the fact that you're at home). But they still need a fucking warrant for that!

if there is no privacy, in the future, all the privates wil get to SEE our privates!

eww. gross. I don't want to be part of that future.

OT joke: its been said of C++ that the concept of 'friends' is: friends can see each others' private parts. lol

anyway, privacy is CORE to the human race. it will never go out of style. its only the spooks and bad guys (ceos, etc) who try to connvince you (no, not a spelling error) that privacy is dead. of course, they all say that from their fenced in estates, with doormen and guards. they don't publish their emails or phone numbers or addresses. but of course, 'privacy is dead!'. right?

don't believe it and don't go easy into that good night.

'broadcasting' in the tech sense, yes, but NOT in the usual PUBLIC SENSE. convenient that you leave that part out.

to get your location, special equipment that The Public can't get (!) is needed. how is this 'broadcasting' then? its encrypted AND locked down so that only special people can see or tune it. that does not meet the definition of 'telling everyone around you where you are'. just the opposite!

why do you hate america and freedom? or, are you just trollin' ?

we can't answer this question, but take a guess: how do you think the framers of this country and its constitution would feel about this? you think they'd fine 'fine and dandy' with the government getting your 'person to person' conversations; the content, location, everything? you really think that would have approved of this?

of course not. we are not even close to the same spirit of freedom that STARTED this country. shame. damned shame, in fact. we once stood for something great.

still stuck on a nexus one with 2.2 os. no security updates AT ALL in years.

I'm not asking for gpu updates or new apps. I am asking that the google apps (gps, gmail, etc) WORK. they all crash and are not reliable on my N1. if I start out on a road trip, I have to be sure to reboot my phone so that gps won't crash. every day, several times a day, the touch screen locks up and buzzes at you (a day1 problem for n1 users which google has never even tried to fix).

the hardware is fine! it all still works. but its insecure as hell, apps don't often run right and I had to use another mail client to read my gmail mail (if that's not a slap in the face to google, I'm not sure what is. yes, gmail app on a google phone does not work and won't work from now on since its not supported anymore; nothing is 'supported' anymore on my phone).

why do I keep this phone? well, I now know google's story and this will be repeated again and again and again. if I buy something android it will fail in a year or two and I'll be abandoned again in short order after that. I'm already tired of the whack-a-mole mentality google has on their 'products'. they simply don't care. quality at google is a sorry joke. not sure when it all went to hell, but it surely has.

apple is not my cup of tea. windows, well, it USED to be the bad guy around town but now, I'm not sure its the worst thing out there anymore. but I'm not excited to spend any money on 'phones'. the whole subject matter is a sore area; all the players suck, the offerings are buggy and inconsistent, its more about money grabs than giving users good gear, and the spying - the spying by EVERYONE really gets me down.

back to fragmentation: its real, its makes google a laughing stock to those who know better and to say that you can't get kernel or ip-stack or security o/s updates because 'your gpu is too old' does not pass the smell test. it just is a bullshit excuse.

regular linux can be updated. phones are not regular linux. they all pretty much suck when you know how things COULD have been.

Just give each person a few programming tasks that should take ten minutes or so.

Yeah, but actually no. Each skill set is different. I could write you a PCB router in under an hour, or whip up an image processing mechanism, layered image editing, signal processing, write an FFT from scratch. I can do assembly coding as fast as I can type while higher up, I favor c and Python for their various and highly disjoint abilities. I'm good at documentation, and I can manage effectively -- without getting the team to hate me. But fizzbuzz? Sort of boggles me. I solve it very slowly. Perhaps because there's no point to it and I don't really give a flying crap. :) But perhaps also because it's just not my thing. I despise puzzles-for-the-sake-of-puzzles, and avoid them like the plague.

Bottom line, any type of interview question or test will sit poorly with some high quality programmer. Some don't know a language, some have an unusual process, some aren't great communicators, some don't function well with someone staring at them or under immediate pressure... there is no perfect interview method, and surely no way to determine programmer competence outside of their actual accomplishments -- which, even when you can pull it off, is not the same thing as measuring their skills against others, placing them in an objective relationship to the skills of others, either.

Personally -- and this is strictly anecdotal, but reflects many decades of experience -- I've had a lot better luck asking many-possible-answer questions about techniques and areas of knowledge in a friendly, low-pressure atmosphere where the interviewee is made to feel they are welcome and respected the moment they walk in the door.

Hell, you wouldn't ask a psychiatrist to give you an appendectomy, would you?

The only thing I'd ask a psychiatrist is "please leave."

Wow wow wow.

You probably want to get that turntable checked. One day it's only wowing, then suddenly tomorrow there's flutter, rumble, tracking error, and cookie crumbs blocking the strobe light.

I'm just needling you, of course.

Issues much?

Nah. Just perpetually amused. :)

You appear to be well supplied with strawmen, though. So there's that. :)

So a free market is bad when everybody is able to invest, but is good when a chosen few are able to invest?