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I do appreciate how nonchalantly emancipating the 17 year old was suggested tho. Too funny. Two Americas?


You can get eternal licenses (or an outright sale of rights), if you are willing to pay

Not for everything. When I can do that I do, but it’s getting harder and harder to avoid subscription fees for everything these days.


Yeah. I mean, technically if you walk into Adobe’s office with $1M in cash, they might make an exception, but that isn’t exactly practical.


I mean effectively you could. Do something like the following:

Take a subscription product that costs $10/mo right now as an example.

Let's say you want a license that lasts your whole life.

Estimate the time you have remaining in your life. Let's call it 50 years.

Now you can use an interest calculator to see how much it would cost to effectively buy a license until the end of your life.

Plug in $10/mo contribution, plus 4% annual interest to cover inflation and price increases, for an investment length of 50 years.

So you can effectively buy an "eternal" license for $18,714.61


You are right about the financial calculations, but the terms of the license might change, or it might no longer be available at all.


I guess the reason they don't do that is because a lot of people would choose competitor services if they were honest

Competitor services? Starlink aside, I have no options but what I have. I think many people at least in USA are in similar situation.


This reminds me of an upper level cs class I took in college. Can’t exactly remember the course but it was a lot of logic and terminal. We had this long syllabus and barely made it thru 2 assignments. It was a mess. Great school, great teacher too. The next year I had another cs prof pull me aside and ask me what the hell happened in that class. And I didn’t have answer. It was an unfocused mess. But that syllabus used in the course old. It wasn’t the first time the prof had used it. Something changed between my freshman and sophomore years, 2005-2007. When I first took cs, no one was in the class. By the following year they were adding intro cs classes. The next year a bunch of less passionate(for lack of better term) students ended up in higher level cs courses and maybe the course work was too rigorous. I still am unsure. Had some great programmers from the younger classes too.


I have a German shepherd. She’s 10. I’ve been buying the same toy for her for the last 10 years, jolly ball soccer ball in blue.

Probably average about 2 a year. My dog understands when it’s time for the new one. She’s ultra excited and all the sudden the old ball we have kicked and fetched every single day for 6 months, is non existent as we are on to the new one. I always get a kick out of it. She’s too funny about it.


I’ve seen this one other time. I don’t really want to provide links but I was on this lawyers website and there is a blog post about how he won $9mil. And I was just curious so I looked up the court documents and read them. And he totally lost the case. I sent it to various people(lawyer friends, more than 1 lol), to make sure I wasn’t reading the court stuff wrong. And that right there, me having no confidence in my reading comprehension, and not even trusting the word of one other law specialist but needing 2, is the reason people can lie about their outcomes in court and get away with it.


Shouldn't this lead to disbarment? Intentionally lying to the public about your legal accomplishments should be at least frowned upon by the legal profession.


Possibly. Someone could file an ethics complaint with the state Bar. Disbarment would be unlikely in a case like that.

https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Complaints-Claims


My mom is the same way. She’s really capable and smart, but she will also stop herself from plugging something in because she’s unsure.

I convinced her that she can figure out any remote and they are designed to be figured out. I told her at most there’s gonna be 5 buttons she doesn’t understand and it won’t break anything to hit them. Most of the buttons are numbers or volume and channel up down, power.

She got that. When her mom was sick and had different tvs because of different circumstances my mom would be like, “I did figure out the remote tho and was able to get the television working.”

I was with my 3 year old niece the other day and she turned on the receiver and then the television and I said , “wow, I’m impressed you figured that out.” And she said , “yeah when grandma watches me she doesn’t know how”. . .


Legend.


Off-topic, but I was watching this golf instructional video from the 70’s or 80s by Gary Player. And he’s talking about all the different golfers he’s played with and he mentions this blind golfer,

“Blind golfer offered to play me a round for $100/hole. He had two rules. We play his home course and we tee off at midnight.”


Initially when I made the comment I was hurrying and forgot the blind gentlemen’s name. It was Charley Boswell. Just thought his name deserved to be in my original comment but too late to edit ..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Boswell


Maybe someone here can enlighten me. I usually don't bring my phone into stores. But the other day I went to Home Depot and I had my phone on me. Despite my settings of "Do not connect to any wifi network", I look and I am shocked to find that my phone is connected to some random wifi network. Odd.

I get home and all the sudden my phone won't connect to my wifi and when I try to connect it to my home wifi, it says, "incorrect password" and its connection was intermittent. It would come back for a second if I turned the wifi on and off again.

Eventually I deleted every known wifi network from my phone and its been solid since. But what the heck happened at home depot?


I had that happen to me once as well - it was an AT&T Wifi network and the auto connection was triggered by something in the carrier settings.


This sounds right. But why would it cause my phone to give me “incorrect password” to only go on and connect later. My wifi password hasn’t changed in 10+years…


Your phone will do this automatically and will not show you you have been connected to a hotspot on the main screen, it will still show you as connected to cellular, this is most likely a carrier hotspot.


https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple

Best bet is to turn off WiFi/Bluetooth when not needed or off when you leave the house. Decent list below:

https://www.terranovasecurity.com/blog/wi-fi-pineapple-cyber...


>https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple

That doesn't explain how his phone auto connected to the network despite new connections being blocked, nor does it explain why it broke the saved configuration for his home network


Let’s say he’s a high value target. Put one at a place he goes regularly and 7 more outside his home to be stronger than the home network.

It’s the entry level MiTM. Routers have vulnerabilities that do not get patched. Idk what phone, VPN, or network setup he has.

Apple: Known networks will be joined automatically. If no known networks are available, you will be notified of available networks. Option 2: notified -> asked. Option 3: manually select a network.


Lol, can’t imagine I’d be a “high level target” but I appreciate the compliment..

I should have been notified when asked to join the network at hd, I didn’t consider it a known network. Only wifi network I’ve ever connected to is from home. Don’t trust the rest…


Depending on your home isp - some effectively turn some of their routers into a huge mesh network so that when you’re not home you can have WiFi provided by routers they own practically anywhere. I don’t think it uses homeowner routers but just business routers, though not sure.


Every xfinity home router is set up to do this by default.


Wi-Fi carrier offload via Hotspot 2.0 aka "Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint".

https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/carrier-wifi


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