If I read the article propely, it's volume (cubic meter per TWh). So, it compares nuclear waste that are ultra dangerous and takes thousand years to become riskless, with lead, chromium, cadmium.
This comparizon is obviously entirely useless (and somehow stupid), unless it intend to mislead readers.
Having said that, recycling solar panel will soon be a challenge. Within next 10 years, we will have to replace a huge amount of panels that reached end of life.
"We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time"
No, kidding.. Good to know you are able to "hear" things:P
That's not an ideological point or anything, it's just that when I'm at work, believe it or not, I don't want my laptop to reboot and halt my apps. How come bright people at Microsoft thought I would feel different ?? Total mistery to me... WHat is the purpose of doing those unwanted reboots ? A taste to make my life harder ? A reminder to override with linux ? Seriously....
> They learned nothing from it. They don't give a fuck about their users, and they've proved it so many times that I've lost count.
They probably learned they could alienate their users THAT much without much trouble. This is amazing to me. I would not have bet a lot on their "success" down that path... It's almost like people think it _has_ to be thay way and there is nothing to do against, no matter how much it sucks.
Ok, cofee pause, my win10 laptop reboots for a security update...
Sure, the goold old technique that searches for viruses signature became uneffective long time ago.
Monitoring the filesystem activity is something I can imagine quite easily. This is not rocket science. On my PC, I don't know many program that need to open and write a lot of files, and I would not mind to be warned against them, every time. I may loose the first dozen files before the detection program fires the "unusual activity" alert, but that would at least prevent the program to destroy the next thousands files.
At the bare minimum, AV should have trapped a program writing.locky files since it's such a well known devastating virus for so long. Not rocket science either...
So, a stupid macro virus open thousand files on a PC at full speed, delete them, and create another one with.locky extension. No AV software has he capability to detect something unusual ? dangerous ? Suspect ? (I wonder how AV waste my CPU and disk IOs so badly...)
This locky shit has been around for a few month, and no AV can do anything about it ?? seriously ? They did not even bother changing the.locky file extension...
Well, yes. This is called "sandboxing". Microsoft should have made their macro run in a sandbox, with prominent prompts when the marco needs to access the filesystem, send data over the network, run an external program etc etc Anything that is not manipulating data in the current document.
But this is the the way microsoft dioes things, and it sucks hard.
Hm, that's right, it seems to be slightly different. I don't recall precisely what happens, but I clearly remebered the start button was visible with no effect whatsoever, and I think the desktop was replaced by the tile view. Looks like this 'feature' has numerous variations... Quite frankly, this is a small addition to my "I don't want windows anymore" long list, well after the absurd automatic "rebooting with opened apps" to install some vital updates when I wakeup my laptop to... well... work. Who's the genius that made this decision ? Enough Rant, I just need to install linux. MS lost me on that version, after some good fellings on windows seven.
Isn't it the infamous "tablet mode" that get automagically enabled ? Took me one hour to understand what happened and disable this damn shit, another hour to rant against yet another windows 10 crap.
I agree: sites hosting those like button are the ones we should blame hard, because they should protect their visitor's privacy. It's very easy for any web site to implement "safe" social buttons but they don't care for most.
I don't blame FB when they try to use any way they can to gather data. This is their business. I do think though there are some boundaries nobody should cross. Because there is no good technical answer yet does not mean we should just let them do anything. That's my opinion (and this is only an opinion). The french law set some of those boudaries in a way that seems balanced to me.
The french CNIL (I'm french) has ben setup long long time ago (back in the 70's) to ensure data privacy law is applied. They go after FB because FB violates a french law. In france, this is unlawful to collect data without signing a consent form. You also have to provide a way to remove any data to end users, on simple request. There are 5 ou 6 key points like that where FB violates the french law.
Again, "third party cookie" does not mean anything to most people. Granted, the checkbox is one clic away, but you need t know about cookies to use it. (or listen someone who told you "it's better this way"). Having this setting won't solve the large scale tracking issue (if we consider there is an issue here). This, at best, is a workaround for educated people.
"facebook will simply find a way to make people click accept to see any part of the page,"
FB does not control pages using their "like" button. Hence, prompting to "click somewhere" to see the page won't work, ok?
FB is specific by its size and the amount of data they control. They have acces to an absurd amount of data compared to anyone else. That does not make the other harmless, that makes FB a priority.
What you write is technically true. The thing is: a very tiny fraction of internet users has a clue about ways to protect their privacy. Most of them don't event think it matters. Because it's rather impractical to educate billions of users about this, some need to act to prevent big corporation to abuse their position. That's why french instances gave facebook a warn. Even though thay have no power to enforce anything seriously, I'm glag they took that position.
There is no "good" way to erase something on Internet. Hunting individual sites, caches, etc is known to be ineffective, hard, and often just impossible. Removing the links that lead to this content is effective, but we could question how [un]fair and [un]wise it is, endlessly. I have no strong opinion on this.
However, the motive that lead the french CNIL (which is an independant organism) to fight google on this point has little to do with some government agenda, I'm pretty sure of this.
At which point did you see a "government filtering" here? It's about citizen's right to be forgotten. No matter what you think about it, it make a hell of a difference. The domain based de-listing implemented by google is just a farce.
> So far, Windows 10 has reminded me repeatedly that I should: (1) Consider getting Office 365! (2) Consider installing Skype! (3) Should collect and use Bing Rewards! (4) That I should look into getting an Xbox! (5) That I should buy things from the Microsoft Store!
So far, windows has reminded me to install linux.
I kind of liked seven, was not entirely hateful against win8, but win10 is a no-go for me after giving it a try for the last 2 weeks. Very disapointed indeed. This telemetry shit is just one more thing I don't want to fight. Hunting for ways to disable/uninstall on windows sucks; I've better way to use my time and nerves. And thanks to have set EDGE as my default browser. No big deal, just a nice way to show how much you care about people choices.
> The legislation in question is a protectionist movement for jobs that will die anyways
Partly true, but not only. No mater what you think of cab service in France (I'm french; they're pretty bad), there is something else more important.
UBER business bypass social system almost entirely. You may love or hate what exist in France (employee protection; taxes ; etc), but you cant have businesses that bypass those rules, and others that pay for it. I myself run a business and know the amount of money we spend tu run this system. Sorry, I don't want to pay for UBER's guys. I don't mind if UBER shareholders make cash as long as we play with the same rules.
> Yes. Dynamic binding and loading is ugly and clunky
Really ? You mean: universally ugly and clunky ?
I've spent 10 years in programming Objective-C. I wrote myself an Objective-C compiler at a time none existed (not really a compiler, a parser that generates C and a runtime lib). In the company I used to work for, it helped a great lot more than it has hurt. It also made possible very sophisticated debugging and testing environments, thanks to the dynamic bindings of Objective-C. I don't find that ugly and clunky, not even in the language syntax details.
My point is that dynamic bindings and introspection are immensely powerful tools. They enable generic programming in a clean way as long as you know what you're doing. You may reach similar results with strict typing language, or code generators (thanks visual c), sure. I don't think it's that easy though.
You may hate it for the reasons you mention (Prone to errors because too much things pass the compiler task), which are perfectly valid. But writing it's inherently "ugly and clunky" seems really missing the point here. "Dangerous" is a better word maybe ?
In the other hand, I've seen many C++ programmers lost in their code that no one but the compiler could barely understand a few month after writing. I'm absolutely not saying c++ is inherently bad and/or difficult; it's just about the people who use it and the rules your team adopt to make it coherent and intelligible.
> At Lenovo, we make every effort to provide a great user experience for our customers > In our effort to enhance our user experience, we pre-installed a piece of third-party software, Superfish
PR words are beyond amazingness; when did this became a supreme art like that ? Is this message really usefull to... anything ?
After the Charlie event, I wondered how long it would take before politicians start speaking about stuff like that. It did not take too long, that was expected. They are so predictable... This event creates great opportunities for some to push a long standing agenda. Noting new here.
Hopefully, people in France remain really prudent about the "privacy vs security" debate, and viscerally attached to liberty (but not necessarily to privacy). I have seen some ex minister asking for a "french patriot act"... some other saying that "we could easily give up a few liberties [for the sake of better security]". But most of them seem to stay in the right side of the line [well, in my opinion].
Charlie magazine people constantly fought for liberty, to death. Yes, they died for that; they knew they were a target for radical islamists. They were on police surveillance for that.
I don't think we need to answer their death with... less liberty. We need to assert our liberties more than ever, and global internet spying is not helping [in my opinion again].
> I tend to agree with most of what you said, but you should also keep in mind how many of those millions > of Muslims are sending money overseas to 'charities' that are really fronts for ISIS, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, > whatever. Certainly far more than a few hundred people
> BTW, the vast majority of the victims of radical islam are themselves muslims. Maybe it is time for muslims to stand up > and say, no, peeps, contrary to what political correctness suggest, we actually do have a problem in our religion,
I'm uncomfortable with this. Many public persons in my country (france), being journalists, politicians, whatever, make the same claim, urging muslim to react, clearly and loudly. I mean: *more* than other people. I was thinking the same way, but I recently realized it's a trap.
This indirectly suggests that muslim people have something to do with those barbarians asses. It even go further in the direction: "if you don't yell loud enough, you're with them and against us", and that's really really bad to my opinion.
We count million Muslims in our country, and a handful of dumb asses. Yes, a handful: a few hundred people have been filed as "potentially dangerous radical Islamist". The 2 that killed journalists a few days ago were in that list. Not high enough in the list apparently, but that's another story.
Is there really a "problem with islam" ? I feel like its more a problem with a really tiny proportion of incredibly dumb people giving no value to life. They occur to attach themselves a religion, and make it a meaning of life.
We have seen fanatics in every religion in the past, the religion of the day for those guys happens to be islam. That does not make muslims potential killers. That does not make them responsible for those assholes. We should know that Islam and those dudes have nothing in common but a name. We should not need Muslims to remind us this fact more than others.
Now, you may consider that islam has in its foundations the seeds for such violence. I just don't feel this way myself.
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... "I shot the sheriff"
I wonder what the google home would do in that situation.
> In what units?
If I read the article propely, it's volume (cubic meter per TWh).
So, it compares nuclear waste that are ultra dangerous and takes thousand years to become riskless, with lead, chromium, cadmium.
This comparizon is obviously entirely useless (and somehow stupid), unless it intend to mislead readers.
Having said that, recycling solar panel will soon be a challenge. Within next 10 years, we will have to replace a huge amount of panels that reached end of life.
Looks like those big buck services won't do the trick for yesterday's attack.
We all know how AV are useless on those things (and many others)
Maybe it's time to implement server-side filesystem monitoring and trottle file IO + raising alarms when unusual IO burst occurs.
Better slowdown/block legitimate trafic than messing huge file collections.
Easyer to say than to code obviously....
"We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time"
No, kidding.. Good to know you are able to "hear" things :P
That's not an ideological point or anything, it's just that when I'm at work, believe it or not, I don't want my laptop to reboot and halt my apps.
How come bright people at Microsoft thought I would feel different ?? Total mistery to me...
WHat is the purpose of doing those unwanted reboots ? A taste to make my life harder ? A reminder to override with linux ? Seriously....
If only cortana could remind itself to never show up again...
> They learned nothing from it. They don't give a fuck about their users, and they've proved it so many times that I've lost count.
They probably learned they could alienate their users THAT much without much trouble. This is amazing to me. I would not have bet a lot on their "success" down that path... It's almost like people think it _has_ to be thay way and there is nothing to do against, no matter how much it sucks.
Ok, cofee pause, my win10 laptop reboots for a security update...
Sure, the goold old technique that searches for viruses signature became uneffective long time ago.
Monitoring the filesystem activity is something I can imagine quite easily. This is not rocket science. On my PC, I don't know many program that need to open and write a lot of files, and I would not mind to be warned against them, every time. I may loose the first dozen files before the detection program fires the "unusual activity" alert, but that would at least prevent the program to destroy the next thousands files.
At the bare minimum, AV should have trapped a program writing .locky files since it's such a well known devastating virus for so long. Not rocket science either...
So, a stupid macro virus open thousand files on a PC at full speed, delete them, and create another one with .locky extension. No AV software has he capability to detect something unusual ? dangerous ? Suspect ? (I wonder how AV waste my CPU and disk IOs so badly...)
This locky shit has been around for a few month, and no AV can do anything about it ?? seriously ? They did not even bother changing the .locky file extension...
Well, yes. This is called "sandboxing". Microsoft should have made their macro run in a sandbox, with prominent prompts when the marco needs to access the filesystem, send data over the network, run an external program etc etc Anything that is not manipulating data in the current document.
But this is the the way microsoft dioes things, and it sucks hard.
Hm, that's right, it seems to be slightly different. I don't recall precisely what happens, but I clearly remebered the start button was visible with no effect whatsoever, and I think the desktop was replaced by the tile view. Looks like this 'feature' has numerous variations... ... well ... work. Who's the genius that made this decision ?
Quite frankly, this is a small addition to my "I don't want windows anymore" long list, well after the absurd automatic "rebooting with opened apps" to install some vital updates when I wakeup my laptop to
Enough Rant, I just need to install linux. MS lost me on that version, after some good fellings on windows seven.
Isn't it the infamous "tablet mode" that get automagically enabled ? Took me one hour to understand what happened and disable this damn shit, another hour to rant against yet another windows 10 crap.
I agree: sites hosting those like button are the ones we should blame hard, because they should protect their visitor's privacy. It's very easy for any web site to implement "safe" social buttons but they don't care for most.
I don't blame FB when they try to use any way they can to gather data. This is their business. I do think though there are some boundaries nobody should cross. Because there is no good technical answer yet does not mean we should just let them do anything. That's my opinion (and this is only an opinion). The french law set some of those boudaries in a way that seems balanced to me.
The french CNIL (I'm french) has ben setup long long time ago (back in the 70's) to ensure data privacy law is applied. They go after FB because FB violates a french law. In france, this is unlawful to collect data without signing a consent form. You also have to provide a way to remove any data to end users, on simple request. There are 5 ou 6 key points like that where FB violates the french law.
Again, "third party cookie" does not mean anything to most people. Granted, the checkbox is one clic away, but you need t know about cookies to use it. (or listen someone who told you "it's better this way"). Having this setting won't solve the large scale tracking issue (if we consider there is an issue here). This, at best, is a workaround for educated people.
"facebook will simply find a way to make people click accept to see any part of the page,"
FB does not control pages using their "like" button. Hence, prompting to "click somewhere" to see the page won't work, ok?
FB is specific by its size and the amount of data they control. They have acces to an absurd amount of data compared to anyone else. That does not make the other harmless, that makes FB a priority.
What you write is technically true. The thing is: a very tiny fraction of internet users has a clue about ways to protect their privacy. Most of them don't event think it matters. Because it's rather impractical to educate billions of users about this, some need to act to prevent big corporation to abuse their position. That's why french instances gave facebook a warn. Even though thay have no power to enforce anything seriously, I'm glag they took that position.
You makes an interesting point here.
There is no "good" way to erase something on Internet. Hunting individual sites, caches, etc is known to be ineffective, hard, and often just impossible. Removing the links that lead to this content is effective, but we could question how [un]fair and [un]wise it is, endlessly. I have no strong opinion on this.
However, the motive that lead the french CNIL (which is an independant organism) to fight google on this point has little to do with some government agenda, I'm pretty sure of this.
At which point did you see a "government filtering" here? It's about citizen's right to be forgotten. No matter what you think about it, it make a hell of a difference. The domain based de-listing implemented by google is just a farce.
> So far, Windows 10 has reminded me repeatedly that I should: (1) Consider getting Office 365! (2) Consider installing Skype! (3) Should collect and use Bing Rewards! (4) That I should look into getting an Xbox! (5) That I should buy things from the Microsoft Store!
So far, windows has reminded me to install linux.
I kind of liked seven, was not entirely hateful against win8, but win10 is a no-go for me after giving it a try for the last 2 weeks. Very disapointed indeed. This telemetry shit is just one more thing I don't want to fight. Hunting for ways to disable/uninstall on windows sucks; I've better way to use my time and nerves. And thanks to have set EDGE as my default browser. No big deal, just a nice way to show how much you care about people choices.
> The legislation in question is a protectionist movement for jobs that will die anyways
Partly true, but not only. No mater what you think of cab service in France (I'm french; they're pretty bad), there is something else more important.
UBER business bypass social system almost entirely. You may love or hate what exist in France (employee protection; taxes ; etc), but you cant
have businesses that bypass those rules, and others that pay for it. I myself run a business and know the amount of money we spend tu run this
system. Sorry, I don't want to pay for UBER's guys. I don't mind if UBER shareholders make cash as long as we play with the same rules.
> Yes. Dynamic binding and loading is ugly and clunky
Really ? You mean: universally ugly and clunky ?
I've spent 10 years in programming Objective-C. I wrote myself an Objective-C compiler at a time none existed (not really a compiler, a parser that generates C and a runtime lib). In the company I used to work for, it helped a great lot more than it has hurt. It also made possible very sophisticated debugging and testing environments, thanks to the dynamic bindings of Objective-C. I don't find that ugly and clunky, not even in the language syntax details.
My point is that dynamic bindings and introspection are immensely powerful tools. They enable generic programming in a clean way as long as you know what you're doing. You may reach similar results with strict typing language, or code generators (thanks visual c), sure. I don't think it's that easy though.
You may hate it for the reasons you mention (Prone to errors because too much things pass the compiler task), which are perfectly valid. But writing it's inherently "ugly and clunky" seems really missing the point here. "Dangerous" is a better word maybe ?
In the other hand, I've seen many C++ programmers lost in their code that no one but the compiler could barely understand a few month after writing. I'm absolutely not saying c++ is inherently bad and/or difficult; it's just about the people who use it and the rules your team adopt to make it coherent and intelligible.
> At Lenovo, we make every effort to provide a great user experience for our customers
> In our effort to enhance our user experience, we pre-installed a piece of third-party software, Superfish
PR words are beyond amazingness; when did this became a supreme art like that ? ... anything ?
Is this message really usefull to
After the Charlie event, I wondered how long it would take before politicians start speaking about stuff like that. It did not take too long, that was expected. They are so predictable... This event creates great opportunities for some to push a long standing agenda. Noting new here.
Hopefully, people in France remain really prudent about the "privacy vs security" debate, and viscerally attached to liberty (but not necessarily to privacy). I have seen some ex minister asking for a "french patriot act"... some other saying that "we could easily give up a few liberties [for the sake of better security]". But most of them seem to stay in the right side of the line [well, in my opinion].
Charlie magazine people constantly fought for liberty, to death. Yes, they died for that; they knew they were a target for radical islamists. They were on police surveillance for that.
I don't think we need to answer their death with ... less liberty. We need to assert our liberties more than ever, and global internet spying is not helping [in my opinion again].
> I tend to agree with most of what you said, but you should also keep in mind how many of those millions
> of Muslims are sending money overseas to 'charities' that are really fronts for ISIS, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda,
> whatever. Certainly far more than a few hundred people
How many ?
> BTW, the vast majority of the victims of radical islam are themselves muslims. Maybe it is time for muslims to stand up
> and say, no, peeps, contrary to what political correctness suggest, we actually do have a problem in our religion,
I'm uncomfortable with this. Many public persons in my country (france), being journalists, politicians, whatever, make the same claim, urging muslim to react, clearly and loudly. I mean: *more* than other people. I was thinking the same way, but I recently realized it's a trap.
This indirectly suggests that muslim people have something to do with those barbarians asses. It even go further in the direction: "if you don't yell loud enough, you're with them and against us", and that's really really bad to my opinion.
We count million Muslims in our country, and a handful of dumb asses. Yes, a handful: a few hundred people have been filed as "potentially dangerous radical Islamist". The 2 that killed journalists a few days ago were in that list. Not high enough in the list apparently, but that's another story.
Is there really a "problem with islam" ? I feel like its more a problem with a really tiny proportion of incredibly dumb people giving no value to life. They occur to attach themselves a religion, and make it a meaning of life.
We have seen fanatics in every religion in the past, the religion of the day for those guys happens to be islam. That does not make muslims potential killers. That does not make them responsible for those assholes. We should know that Islam and those dudes have nothing in common but a name. We should not need Muslims to remind us this fact more than others.
Now, you may consider that islam has in its foundations the seeds for such violence. I just don't feel this way myself.
Anyway, just my one cent feeling.