Microsoft created this mess by making the systems hard to use if you didn't have administrative privileges.
That's just not true. On their 95/98/ME line, yes. On their NT-based line, that is their more secure/multiuser/real variant of the OS, they've always enabled non-admins to have the features you would expect. Including, for example, installing apps only for their use, or installing apps that wrote to config files in the user accounts. When they released XP, merging the NT/95 lines, they released documentation saying (a) they were willing to allow 95-style programs to continue their bad security practices requiring admin access; (b) that there was a better way to do everything those programs needed admin access for and instructions on how to do it and (c) the next version of Windows would not allow 95's expectation of admin access (see: Vista's UAC). I know, because we ported all our software to their new standards, and while companies like Autodesk/Photoshop had their software break with UAC on Vista, our software didn't miss a beat.
Yeah, most of my work is at small shops. They cannot afford to pay for that level of market research in an ongoing manner. I'm not saying "help AT&T whittle its cell service to the minimum allowable". I'm talking about "you've downbloaded a $0.99 app, what should we do next."
Hell, OSS has the smae problem, only witht eh added rub that most developers are doing it on their spare time, so they are going to work on whatever interests them.
How do I get honest feedback? I mean, I'm actively developing software, and adding new features. I would love to be told "most of your customers want X before Y" (or most of your on-the-fence non-customers). That seems to be a win-win for everyone (except those minority who want Y, but that would be true of any system that accurately measured).
Each of those 200+ people are owed around $5700 dollars for theirs shares
Alternatively, they could want to keep it. The people most okay with this are the people who are most upset when, for example, the government takes private land, bulldozes the house, and sells it to a developer to build a mall.
I don't believe in controlling my house over the Internet. A microphone that goes to a computer thats uses BLE or a separate network or X10, sure. But why is the internet in the picture. (I know it's for the data.) But all the more reason to insist on local processing before you adopt it.
That's over 1%. Your bank account's balance is less than 1% of your bank's assets (or liabilities), yet I think you would object to them just keeping it.
- iOS has 2 ratings. Current version rating and all time rating. I hate this as it's actually stifling innovation on the App Store.
I disagree. It's hard to make a lot of changes to an app, to bring a bad early release inline with what people expect, when you have to dig yourself out of a hole of bad reviews.
t, do you still think LavaBit failed to protect its customer's privacy?
Yes, I think they failed to effectively protect their customer's privacy.. LavaBit had the time to hire a lawyer (although I have no idea how much money he had) He was crushed in court cause he was an idiot who didn't take the0 proceedings seriously. And the judge found him in contempt because instead of fighting the subpoena, appealing it, etc, he acted like an ass.
All you're providing is reasons why LavaBit failed - not the actual charge that they did.
This is how I want tech companies to protect my privacy. With a four-year lawsuit designed to delay handing over my data (and it ultimately won!). Compare and contrast to Lavabit, which decided to shut down in 2013 after printing out its private keys in 2-pt. font.
As an old Brit, I admire many of our Victorian philanthropists
Hey, America produced some quality philanthropists as well. I'm thinking of the Carnagie mold, robber-barons who thought it was immoral to die with most of their money.
The first point is only true if you're building on OSS. In that case, you're paying for the existing code with your improvements. The second is a valid reason to open up your codebase.
So the point is that without the crappy Uber job, they are better off?
Yes. By imposing some limitations on the contractual agreements that can be formed, Uber will have to offer better jobs or go out of business because of a lack of drivers. This will make their employees better off.
I want to be able to go on Amazon or eBay and get the best product to the best price anyone will offer. That's how capitalism, competition, supply and demand and voting with your wallet is supposed to work
I'm not aware of anything in the academic descriptions of capitalism, competition, supply and demand or "voting with your wallet" that in any way implies you'll be able to go to Amazon/eBay and get the best product at the best price. In fact, I can point to numerous academic theories that point in quite the opposite direction.
It's exactly that. Leasing a car from Lyft seems a way better deal - they pro-rate your lease payment based on how much you drive for them, and if you drive the 40 hours a week they want (rush hour, bar closings, etc.) they comp the whole thing.
For 1, I think they are audited by a third party. But yeah, at some point you have to trust. You can see that there are no ids on the cookies they send, but they could be browser fingerprinting.
For 2, they see ads, not tracking. That is, if you search for lawn mowers, they show ads for lawn mowers, and get a kickback if you go to sears from the DDG search results and buy a lawnmower. If you search for ice cream, you'll get ads for ice cream. What they do NOT do, is show you lawn mower ads when you're searching for ice cream, just because you searched for lawn mowers recently (I suppose they may show chocolate sauce ads with ice cream, because they go together)..
People really believe that other people will treat them right when a) it's not in their interests and b) they're not being forced.
I tend to believe that of random people I meet. I don't believe that of people who have gone through a selection process where that kind of behavior is screened out (e.g. corporate executives). Although, to be fair, I would also expect to be treated well by most corporate executives in a social setting.
Yeah, your grandpappy could afford to buy a house, 2 cars, and raise 3 kids by swinging a hammer all day but that's over.
Actually, skilled construction trades are one of the few blue-collar jobs that are still viable, and will likely continue to be. It's impossible to outsource, and the situations are so dissimilar it's hard to automate. They tend to make good money (over 50k a yaer).
Well, not starving is high on people's lists. The fact that they are grateful for the work cuts against the 'they don't need the money' argument you're about to make.
But yes, children in sweatshops were also grateful for the work.
>Only work as much as they want
Which may include over 40 hours a week. After all, most people convince themselves they want to do something if they are forced into the situation. And people tend to want to work over starve.
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I already have a Powerglove, but if you don't want your Hololens anymore, I might be persuaded to take it off your hands.
That's just not true. On their 95/98/ME line, yes. On their NT-based line, that is their more secure/multiuser/real variant of the OS, they've always enabled non-admins to have the features you would expect. Including, for example, installing apps only for their use, or installing apps that wrote to config files in the user accounts. When they released XP, merging the NT/95 lines, they released documentation saying (a) they were willing to allow 95-style programs to continue their bad security practices requiring admin access; (b) that there was a better way to do everything those programs needed admin access for and instructions on how to do it and (c) the next version of Windows would not allow 95's expectation of admin access (see: Vista's UAC). I know, because we ported all our software to their new standards, and while companies like Autodesk/Photoshop had their software break with UAC on Vista, our software didn't miss a beat.
Yeah, most of my work is at small shops. They cannot afford to pay for that level of market research in an ongoing manner. I'm not saying "help AT&T whittle its cell service to the minimum allowable". I'm talking about "you've downbloaded a $0.99 app, what should we do next."
Hell, OSS has the smae problem, only witht eh added rub that most developers are doing it on their spare time, so they are going to work on whatever interests them.
How do I get honest feedback? I mean, I'm actively developing software, and adding new features. I would love to be told "most of your customers want X before Y" (or most of your on-the-fence non-customers). That seems to be a win-win for everyone (except those minority who want Y, but that would be true of any system that accurately measured).
Alternatively, they could want to keep it. The people most okay with this are the people who are most upset when, for example, the government takes private land, bulldozes the house, and sells it to a developer to build a mall.
Everything old is new again. I was using one on my PC before the first iPhone.
I don't believe in controlling my house over the Internet. A microphone that goes to a computer thats uses BLE or a separate network or X10, sure. But why is the internet in the picture. (I know it's for the data.) But all the more reason to insist on local processing before you adopt it.
That's over 1%. Your bank account's balance is less than 1% of your bank's assets (or liabilities), yet I think you would object to them just keeping it.
I disagree. It's hard to make a lot of changes to an app, to bring a bad early release inline with what people expect, when you have to dig yourself out of a hole of bad reviews.
Yes, I think they failed to effectively protect their customer's privacy.. LavaBit had the time to hire a lawyer (although I have no idea how much money he had) He was crushed in court cause he was an idiot who didn't take the0 proceedings seriously. And the judge found him in contempt because instead of fighting the subpoena, appealing it, etc, he acted like an ass.
All you're providing is reasons why LavaBit failed - not the actual charge that they did.
This is how I want tech companies to protect my privacy. With a four-year lawsuit designed to delay handing over my data (and it ultimately won!). Compare and contrast to Lavabit, which decided to shut down in 2013 after printing out its private keys in 2-pt. font.
Hey, America produced some quality philanthropists as well. I'm thinking of the Carnagie mold, robber-barons who thought it was immoral to die with most of their money.
Why aren't the lights controlled by the theater? It knows the state of media playback...
The first point is only true if you're building on OSS. In that case, you're paying for the existing code with your improvements. The second is a valid reason to open up your codebase.
Yes. By imposing some limitations on the contractual agreements that can be formed, Uber will have to offer better jobs or go out of business because of a lack of drivers. This will make their employees better off.
Yes, and plumbing tends to require a trade education as well. It's not work I want to do (as a career, as a hobby, I enjoy carpentry)
Also good for setting an alarm and looking up conversions (USD to GBP or miles to km)
I'm not aware of anything in the academic descriptions of capitalism, competition, supply and demand or "voting with your wallet" that in any way implies you'll be able to go to Amazon/eBay and get the best product at the best price. In fact, I can point to numerous academic theories that point in quite the opposite direction.
You can save money building on OSS. Where is the benefit to opening it up in the first place?
It's exactly that. Leasing a car from Lyft seems a way better deal - they pro-rate your lease payment based on how much you drive for them, and if you drive the 40 hours a week they want (rush hour, bar closings, etc.) they comp the whole thing.
For 1, I think they are audited by a third party. But yeah, at some point you have to trust. You can see that there are no ids on the cookies they send, but they could be browser fingerprinting.
For 2, they see ads, not tracking. That is, if you search for lawn mowers, they show ads for lawn mowers, and get a kickback if you go to sears from the DDG search results and buy a lawnmower. If you search for ice cream, you'll get ads for ice cream. What they do NOT do, is show you lawn mower ads when you're searching for ice cream, just because you searched for lawn mowers recently (I suppose they may show chocolate sauce ads with ice cream, because they go together)..
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I tend to believe that of random people I meet. I don't believe that of people who have gone through a selection process where that kind of behavior is screened out (e.g. corporate executives). Although, to be fair, I would also expect to be treated well by most corporate executives in a social setting.
Actually, skilled construction trades are one of the few blue-collar jobs that are still viable, and will likely continue to be. It's impossible to outsource, and the situations are so dissimilar it's hard to automate. They tend to make good money (over 50k a yaer).
Well, not starving is high on people's lists. The fact that they are grateful for the work cuts against the 'they don't need the money' argument you're about to make.
But yes, children in sweatshops were also grateful for the work.
Which may include over 40 hours a week. After all, most people convince themselves they want to do something if they are forced into the situation. And people tend to want to work over starve.
Cause we're here on /. talking about it? I mean, why does anyone care why anyone thinks about anything?