The fundamental bad assumption here is that FaceBook would be happy about the user experience being streamlined and more efficient. If they're showing something to you it's *because they want you to see it*, even if (or especially if) it slows you down and means you have to click more and see things you didn't want to see. You didn't want to see it, but *they* want you to see it. This extension takes away their total control.
You aren't the customer, you are the product. The cow doesn't get to choose how it gets milked.
When your boss says you're going to launch on October 3 no matter what, you get whatever you've got.
I've occasionally (thankfully not often) had to turn out things I'm not proud of for customers who have no idea how to schedule and won't hear otherwise. Stuff like the front end/back end error handling is high up the chopping block.
Nobody should be running Java in browser. It's a blinking, gaping 'zero day me here!' for any drive-by malware and Oracle can't keep up with the exploits (though they still keep trying to re-enable their plugin on install, along with trying to install junkware, the evil bastards).
I do use Java for standalone apps, this is not an anti-Java thing - it's the browser plugin that is the problem.
Big slow institutions that are stuck using Java can pay the $100 and still get the extra drive-by protection. Everyone wins. Of course the baddies could still get a cert... but then we're back to 'don't run it in browser.'
Keep in mind that when you just quit you're hurting your co-workers. All your stuff is going to get dropped on them. Definitely short term, possibly long term. It will be much easier with a transition period. If the boss says 'Fine, get out now!', well, you tried. Or perhaps you hate them all!
I would definitely take the time to contact your good co-workers and tell them what happened and why ('Sorry, but...'). It's also a surprisingly small industry at times - word gets around more than you might expect. I keep running into people from 20 years ago!
I wouldn't stress about exactly two weeks if you miss by a day because the boss was out.
Still, I've never seen a Presidential Alert, so won't worry about it - presumably that's something really freaking important like 'Nukes are in the air.' If we ever get campaign messages or 'Flooding in [another state]' on it then I'm sure someone will figure it out.
WAP push messages let you buy ringtones, themes, etc and have them installed on your phone by 'pushing' them at your phone. Not so bad to have disabled. I think Gingerbread is too old to even have support for the super annoying Amber Alerts, so you'd only get them as normal SMS messages. Though I could be wrong.
I'll second (or fifth) the NoScript recommendation. Yes, NoScript can be a bit of a pain in the ass at times, but it sure trims down the the amount of crap that runs. JavaScript wasn't designed with security in mind, so it'll never be secure - they can only spackle over the cracks. Best you can do is minimize how much runs in the cesspit of the Internet. I also find that I only have to allow it for a few regular sites, so once you're past that there's not much maintenance. Most sites still work without it, even if you don't get all the features - for instance,/. is working fine with no javascript allowed at all.
If you don't want the hassle at least install Ghostery and turn off the GhostRank. Most sites are pulling in random JS from 6-12 other sites for tracking/ad/social purposes.
And since most browser malware is delivered by drive-by ads (often through legitimate ad networks who don't realize it), add Adblock to keep those out.
It's also a prophylactic prevention against whatever new zero-days come along since they very rarely can do anything without JS or Flash. I guess we'll see what happens with HTML5...
I'm always amazed when I see someone else go to the same sites I go to and there is SO MUCH CRAP that you can barely find the content. To me that also makes the NoScript hassle worth it.
Samsung software is just bad. Kies may be the single worst piece of desktop software I've used in a decade (I'm sure there's worse, but I haven't used it).
Whenever I get a new phone (currently an S3) I wait a couple days to see if anything has improved, then rip all the Samsung crap off it and it's like a whole new (har) phone with better performance and much better battery life. And it's stable. Uptime on my S3 is currently at 46 days; T-Mobile sends me a support text every week warning me to reboot it or it may be unstable - because they think I'm using the crap that came on it.
Next time I'm just going to get something with stock Android.
Man, this was epic. And I know that term is abused. But this is an epic in the true sense, and the first webcomic in 20 years that has had me spellbound. 'Come to bed!' 'No.. I can't. Actually, come here, let's watch this from the start.'
Even at $350, as someone who uses Windows primarily on desktop and laptop (okay, Linux on servers), I just can't see what I'd do with it. Drop the Surface Pro down to that price and now I'm interested.
LAUSD is one of the worst school districts in the country. The only thing they care about is money (and faking their numbers so they can get more money), so this would be the other shoe dropping.
This question has flamewar all over it, but I'll try to answer it practically.
Server: For my servers, it's Linux. Far easier to manage and configure than Window's reg entries with a dozen different inconsistent management apps. Is that setting in the firewall? Group policies? Computer management? Services? No app at all, manual reg setting?
Destop: I use Windows since it's the most flexible, configurable, consistent windows manager that doesn't involve programming it (scm). I can run linux and windows apps in their own windows, and everything's configurable if you know where to look (not always easy, but there are apps to simplify it). And it's far easier to emulate Linux under Windows than Windows under Linux (WINE). Plus, I like my games - Steam may change that, but not yet.
If I were using Mac OSX, I could run Windows, Mac,/and/ Linux programs using Parallels, but I haven't found anything OSX that I absolutely need, and the UI and apps constantly fighting me, thinking they know what's better for me, means it's a constant battle. Add that to the extra hardware cost for desktops and it's not worth it. Windows 8 would fall into the same category, but you can at least return it to Windows 7 levels of usefulness with Start8.
So basically, I'm a lazy whore (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ATI, whatever, whoever's best at the time) and Windows desktop gives/me/ the best combination of flexibility, configurability, consistency, and gaming with the least amount of effort. That's why I use Linux for servers too.
It's somewhat unfair in that the GbE stuff is random built-in crap and whatever switches were lying around, while I specifically specced the 10 GbE stuff to be high performance with hardware offloading of everything and large frame support. We have the Intel NICs since they seemed to have the best throughput and that was more important than latency.
We didn't put much effort into the 1 GbE because it can't possibly sustain the rates we need, so it was mostly used as a baseline. As I said above, I suspect if the 10 GbE equip was as cheap and ubiquitous as the GbE stuff is now, it would suffer as well.
Windows is Involved. Going Linux to Linux we can get faster, and Linux is the receiver, but this product requires Windows to be the sender.
It's quite possible we are doing it wrong, but even supposed network experts were unable to get the Windows boxes to go faster with commodity 1GbE motherboard ports. I'm the one who got 10 GbE working Windows -> Linux and that was pretty effortless (turn on large frame on both ends, turn on all offloading on both ends).
We have some of these at work where we do have the need for moving massive volumes of data around. We can get about 99.6% of theoretical throughput in actual use, thanks to the hardware offloading and large frame support. Besides the 10x faster to start with, that's way above any efficiency we get from the 1 GbE ports, though I expect if 10 GbE went commodity you'd lose all the hardware support and you'd be back to 80-90% range.
Note to sustain a data feed to one of these you at least need two SATA 6 gbps SSD drives in RAID0. On the receiving end we're not writing to disk, or you'd need ~3-4 RAIDed.
In our case we're feeding 4 10GbE ports on the same machine and using a 10 SSD RAID0 to supply the data with some headroom (we don't care if we lose the data if one fails, these aren't the master copies). We're just using software RAID, but thanks to all the DMA and offloading the CPU usage is quite low.
Now do I need this at home? Well, SSD speeds are far above the ~85 MB/sec 1GbE delivers, but so far the cost hasn't made it worth it. If I'm copying a gigabyte it takes 12 seconds, which I can live with.
No-kill shelters are expensive. PETA is a corporation. If it's a choice between a couple puppies or executive compensation, the puppies are gonna get offed. Just like BoA or Halliburton or AT&T or Google would do. The goody goody stuff is just the brand. 'Do no Evil' (TM).
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And of course in theory you can actually leave Facebook, though in practice the peer pressure works pretty damn well.
Let me just bury that metaphor under a rock somewhere.
Fascinating... okay, my metaphor sucks!
The fundamental bad assumption here is that FaceBook would be happy about the user experience being streamlined and more efficient. If they're showing something to you it's *because they want you to see it*, even if (or especially if) it slows you down and means you have to click more and see things you didn't want to see. You didn't want to see it, but *they* want you to see it. This extension takes away their total control.
You aren't the customer, you are the product. The cow doesn't get to choose how it gets milked.
When your boss says you're going to launch on October 3 no matter what, you get whatever you've got.
I've occasionally (thankfully not often) had to turn out things I'm not proud of for customers who have no idea how to schedule and won't hear otherwise. Stuff like the front end/back end error handling is high up the chopping block.
We already know the NIST has crippled some of its standards in response to NSA pressure.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/stop-using-nsa-influence-code-in-our-product-rsa-tells-customers/
It was assumed for years, but we never had proof till recently.
Nobody should be running Java in browser. It's a blinking, gaping 'zero day me here!' for any drive-by malware and Oracle can't keep up with the exploits (though they still keep trying to re-enable their plugin on install, along with trying to install junkware, the evil bastards).
I do use Java for standalone apps, this is not an anti-Java thing - it's the browser plugin that is the problem.
Big slow institutions that are stuck using Java can pay the $100 and still get the extra drive-by protection. Everyone wins. Of course the baddies could still get a cert... but then we're back to 'don't run it in browser.'
And right after they'd managed to finger Lee Harvey Oswald.
Coincidence? Follow the money, sheeple!
... would be about half the articles, wouldn't it?
Let's call it Sabbath. As a bonus, Ozzy is 115 this year.
Keep in mind that when you just quit you're hurting your co-workers. All your stuff is going to get dropped on them. Definitely short term, possibly long term. It will be much easier with a transition period. If the boss says 'Fine, get out now!', well, you tried. Or perhaps you hate them all!
I would definitely take the time to contact your good co-workers and tell them what happened and why ('Sorry, but...'). It's also a surprisingly small industry at times - word gets around more than you might expect. I keep running into people from 20 years ago!
I wouldn't stress about exactly two weeks if you miss by a day because the boss was out.
I haven't tried - I suspect you'd have to root.
Still, I've never seen a Presidential Alert, so won't worry about it - presumably that's something really freaking important like 'Nukes are in the air.' If we ever get campaign messages or 'Flooding in [another state]' on it then I'm sure someone will figure it out.
WAP push messages let you buy ringtones, themes, etc and have them installed on your phone by 'pushing' them at your phone. Not so bad to have disabled. I think Gingerbread is too old to even have support for the super annoying Amber Alerts, so you'd only get them as normal SMS messages. Though I could be wrong.
On iOS: settings -> notifications -> Government Alerts down at the bottom. You can turn off just Amber alerts.
On Android: open the Android messaging /application/, then menu -> settings -> emergency alerts -> disable Amber alerts.
I'll second (or fifth) the NoScript recommendation. Yes, NoScript can be a bit of a pain in the ass at times, but it sure trims down the the amount of crap that runs. JavaScript wasn't designed with security in mind, so it'll never be secure - they can only spackle over the cracks. Best you can do is minimize how much runs in the cesspit of the Internet. I also find that I only have to allow it for a few regular sites, so once you're past that there's not much maintenance. Most sites still work without it, even if you don't get all the features - for instance, /. is working fine with no javascript allowed at all.
If you don't want the hassle at least install Ghostery and turn off the GhostRank. Most sites are pulling in random JS from 6-12 other sites for tracking/ad/social purposes.
And since most browser malware is delivered by drive-by ads (often through legitimate ad networks who don't realize it), add Adblock to keep those out.
It's also a prophylactic prevention against whatever new zero-days come along since they very rarely can do anything without JS or Flash. I guess we'll see what happens with HTML5...
I'm always amazed when I see someone else go to the same sites I go to and there is SO MUCH CRAP that you can barely find the content. To me that also makes the NoScript hassle worth it.
Samsung software is just bad. Kies may be the single worst piece of desktop software I've used in a decade (I'm sure there's worse, but I haven't used it).
Whenever I get a new phone (currently an S3) I wait a couple days to see if anything has improved, then rip all the Samsung crap off it and it's like a whole new (har) phone with better performance and much better battery life. And it's stable. Uptime on my S3 is currently at 46 days; T-Mobile sends me a support text every week warning me to reboot it or it may be unstable - because they think I'm using the crap that came on it.
Next time I'm just going to get something with stock Android.
Man, this was epic. And I know that term is abused. But this is an epic in the true sense, and the first webcomic in 20 years that has had me spellbound. 'Come to bed!' 'No.. I can't. Actually, come here, let's watch this from the start.'
Even at $350, as someone who uses Windows primarily on desktop and laptop (okay, Linux on servers), I just can't see what I'd do with it. Drop the Surface Pro down to that price and now I'm interested.
(the extended course in language butchery)
I'm not using 'Clinkle' any more than I was willing to use 'Beenz'.
LAUSD is one of the worst school districts in the country. The only thing they care about is money (and faking their numbers so they can get more money), so this would be the other shoe dropping.
This question has flamewar all over it, but I'll try to answer it practically.
Server: For my servers, it's Linux. Far easier to manage and configure than Window's reg entries with a dozen different inconsistent management apps. Is that setting in the firewall? Group policies? Computer management? Services? No app at all, manual reg setting?
Destop: I use Windows since it's the most flexible, configurable, consistent windows manager that doesn't involve programming it (scm). I can run linux and windows apps in their own windows, and everything's configurable if you know where to look (not always easy, but there are apps to simplify it). And it's far easier to emulate Linux under Windows than Windows under Linux (WINE). Plus, I like my games - Steam may change that, but not yet.
If I were using Mac OSX, I could run Windows, Mac, /and/ Linux programs using Parallels, but I haven't found anything OSX that I absolutely need, and the UI and apps constantly fighting me, thinking they know what's better for me, means it's a constant battle. Add that to the extra hardware cost for desktops and it's not worth it. Windows 8 would fall into the same category, but you can at least return it to Windows 7 levels of usefulness with Start8.
So basically, I'm a lazy whore (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ATI, whatever, whoever's best at the time) and Windows desktop gives /me/ the best combination of flexibility, configurability, consistency, and gaming with the least amount of effort. That's why I use Linux for servers too.
It's somewhat unfair in that the GbE stuff is random built-in crap and whatever switches were lying around, while I specifically specced the 10 GbE stuff to be high performance with hardware offloading of everything and large frame support. We have the Intel NICs since they seemed to have the best throughput and that was more important than latency.
We didn't put much effort into the 1 GbE because it can't possibly sustain the rates we need, so it was mostly used as a baseline. As I said above, I suspect if the 10 GbE equip was as cheap and ubiquitous as the GbE stuff is now, it would suffer as well.
Windows is Involved. Going Linux to Linux we can get faster, and Linux is the receiver, but this product requires Windows to be the sender.
It's quite possible we are doing it wrong, but even supposed network experts were unable to get the Windows boxes to go faster with commodity 1GbE motherboard ports. I'm the one who got 10 GbE working Windows -> Linux and that was pretty effortless (turn on large frame on both ends, turn on all offloading on both ends).
We have some of these at work where we do have the need for moving massive volumes of data around. We can get about 99.6% of theoretical throughput in actual use, thanks to the hardware offloading and large frame support. Besides the 10x faster to start with, that's way above any efficiency we get from the 1 GbE ports, though I expect if 10 GbE went commodity you'd lose all the hardware support and you'd be back to 80-90% range.
Note to sustain a data feed to one of these you at least need two SATA 6 gbps SSD drives in RAID0. On the receiving end we're not writing to disk, or you'd need ~3-4 RAIDed.
In our case we're feeding 4 10GbE ports on the same machine and using a 10 SSD RAID0 to supply the data with some headroom (we don't care if we lose the data if one fails, these aren't the master copies). We're just using software RAID, but thanks to all the DMA and offloading the CPU usage is quite low.
Now do I need this at home? Well, SSD speeds are far above the ~85 MB/sec 1GbE delivers, but so far the cost hasn't made it worth it. If I'm copying a gigabyte it takes 12 seconds, which I can live with.
No-kill shelters are expensive. PETA is a corporation. If it's a choice between a couple puppies or executive compensation, the puppies are gonna get offed. Just like BoA or Halliburton or AT&T or Google would do. The goody goody stuff is just the brand. 'Do no Evil' (TM).