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There’s a lot of malware that just chills in the background and hides itself well (e.g., auto-shuts down whenever task manager is opened), and does little to impact you aside from using some of your system’s resources.
Think being part of a botnet used for DDOS attacks, or a cryptominer that runs whenever you aren’t using much of your hardware’s capabilities.
I don’t get what the point is except for investors.
People using it as a “retirement holdings” might try to sell and then find they can’t afford to live anywhere in retirement.
People saving property to leave an inheritance have kids waiting for their parents to die so they can afford a home to own.
I found that Reddit worked well for that (nowadays using old.reddit.com), and a lot of smaller English sites worked well (especially sites that didn’t have “porn” in the title).
There’s “The Big List of Porn”, I believe it’s called, and maybe you could check every site there? Lol
It’s actually pretty common to change a sentence into a question with rising intonation in speech, which is pretty much just adding a question mark.
“Fries.” is a statement of what something is or what someone wants. “Fries?” is asking if someone wants fries.
“I said that.” is a statement about something someone said. “I said that?” is a question about whether they said something.
Of course, we could add emphasis to any of those three words and end up with 3 different questions.
“I said that?” … No, I guess it was your partner, not you.
“I said that?” … Well, you sure IMPLIED it!
“I said that?” … Yes, verbatim. It’s even in the video from last night.
All from changing a “.” to a “?” in the sentence “I said that.”.
Here is a summary of the most important information from that meeting. Since there were two major topics, I’ve separated them into two paragraphs.
- It is a good morning today.
- Everyone is thanked for their time. Richard is looking forward to next week’s meeting.
The rest of the information was deemed irrelevant to you and your position.
Exactly.
I understand that they want Amber Alerts to go to everyone. But if I’m sleeping or working, I’m not going to go outside and interrogate everyone with a “White sedan last spotted 150km away from where you live 2 hours ago”.
If I’m walking around and get a plain old SMS (or even an alert from the app – respecting my device settings, of course), then yeah, I’ll keep my eye out.
Until they fix it, I’m keeping it off, and I won’t be able to contribute even if I were able to.
I opted out because they misuse the system.
Everything is sent at the presidential level, which is supposed to be reserved for “You are likely to die if you don’t take action, and maybe even if you do.”
Most Android devices (and presumably iOS too) have configurable toggles for the different levels. But they aren’t used in Canada.
If they ever stop abusing the system and use it as it was intended, I’ll opt myself back in.
They don’t assume we have unlimited money, they assume they’ll make enough sales to justify making it (and paying all the people who made it).
Yeah, some companies are making ridiculous profits and underpaying staff. This isn’t some pro-capitalism comment.
Taking things off of streaming platforms or not making old stuff otherwise available usually boils down to bureaucracy and legal stuff. Certain people need to be paid, or have the right to veto their content being sold, or stuff like that sometimes. And sometimes the companies have a legal obligation to either protect their IP or ensure things stay “offline”.
I don’t like it, but I know it’s not always simple.