For an awful lot of stuff it's more likely to be retirements than commercialism. Who's maintaining those old servers? Do they know they are? Is it part of someone's job to migrate them onto new servers as old ones get aged out (hardware updates, OS updates or EOLs, etc.)?
If that system was up and running in the early 90's there's an excellent chance it was set up by someone on the computer science faculty who was probably in (statistically) his 30s or 40s at the time. 25 years later is that person still at the same school? Are they even still in academia?
"The suit revolves around the June 2016 decision to expand the size of Uber's board of voting directors from eight to 11, with Kalanick having the sole right to designate those seats. Kalanick would later name himself to one of those seats following his resignation, since his prior board seat was reserved for the company's CEO. The other two seats remain unfilled." and "Benchmark alleges that Kalanick pledged in writing -- as part of his resignation agreement -- that the two empty board seats would be independent and subject to approval by the entire board (something Benchmark says was the reason it didn't sue for fraud at the time). But, according to the complaint, Kalanick has not been willing to codify those changes via an amended voting agreement."
Basically Kalanick PERSONALLY (not as Chairman, CEO or anything else) has the potential to control 3/11ths of the board, and if he can convince 3 more board members to go along then he can control the board even if the remaining 5 original board seats disagree. Benchmark regards this as way too risky considering all the other crap he's pulled in the past.
I'm not saying that breakage WILL happen, but that it CAN and is fairly common (how many places are there in your area that can replace cracked/broken phone screens?).
Sure there's some impressive stuff that phones can do these days, but frankly I expect to never again purchase a phone that's priced higher than "midrange." I pay for my own devices, and I'm not so well off that $1k+ is something I'd consider pocket change or even a purchase I'd make without a second thought.
Phones get dropped. Phones get wet. Phones get things dropped or placed on top of them. Phones get left behind. Phones get stolen. Because of the size and having them always with you, it's even easier for any of these to happen to a phone than to a laptop.
Get what will meet your realistic needs for a year or two at 1/3 the price of the New Hotness, set it up so if you lose it it's not a catastrophe (online backup, remote wipe, etc.), and in a year or two do the same thing again. If you're lucky you'll be able to sell the old one, but given all the bad things that can happen to phones don't count on it - it's a consumable, not an investment.
Even if all his messages are stored online (unlikely), it's not about downloading them which is what comments seem to be focusing on. As everyone else has noted, there are tons of options for downloading or migrating your messages.
The bigger issue is all the places where he's either using that email address as a login (particularly ones where there's no provision for changing userid/email address) and the sites that he's registered on with some other ID but which also use that email address for messages, account recovery, etc. There's no real big technical issue with identifying and changing logins on those sites except that it's likely to be a hell of a lot of work under a deadline when he's already unusually busy (normal work + house purchase + "Cripes, now THIS???") and there's no real shortcut for the manual part of that.
This is affecting SAMBA, so that means Linux (and *BSD) boxes, but that may also include most NAS units and an awful lot of set-top boxes, streaming devices, etc. if they're accessible from Windows systems.
Comcast and multiple other cable companies are doing this in the US, and the biggest issue I'm aware of is that the boxes that they put in to do this apparently draw enough power that it adds up over the course of the year. They can get away with it in part because the capacity of the coax coming into your house or office is so high that you're not paying for all of it anyway, so the hotspot shouldn't have any impact on your available bandwidth.
The problem with what's described in this article is that they're doing it on DSL lines which are almost always bandwidth-restricted anyway, meaning that by having this enabled you're both paying for their hotspot's power consumption and getting poorer service for it.
Lyft may or may not have much standing regarding this, and it may not be worth pursuing for them.
The people who definitely do have standing are the ones who were definitely hurt and can likely prove it using Uber's records: the drivers who weren't driving for Lyft as well and who therefore got fewer rides and no bonuses. THOSE are the people who can go after Uber with a class-action suit attempting to get the earnings that they were denied through Uber's actions.
As for Uber vs Lyft, I suspect that there are a lot of people who choose Lyft *because* it allows tipping within the app. Because of the tipping capability Lyft also gets additional information that may not be as available to Uber: trendlines of driver quality (drivers who consistently get better tips) and some idea of how much more people are willing to pay for trips (because tippers are clearly willing to pay the fare+tip amount).
There are times when I think it'd be nice to have a coworking space to use, but what Workbar is offering doesn't look like something I'd want unless it also had other things going for it such as available meeting & presentation rooms, a location that was convenient to places I was going to need to go, or good networking opportunities.
Maybe I'm spoiled being in the suburbs, but I'm really not seeing the advantage this has over any of several local libraries or a Starbucks, and I could work in either of those free or for about the same cost as Workbar.
A lot of municipalities also have (somewhat) on-demand or scheduled service available for seniors and the disabled and I'd expect this same kind of thing to start happening for some of those. I'm pretty sure my town (Chicago suburbs) maintains at least two small buses for this purpose along with maintenance, drivers, staffing for scheduling, etc. and I think for most things you have to schedule a day in advance and the hours are limited.
Subsidizing Uber or Lyft to provide those services instead might save the village money depending on details I don't know, but it could also provide much better service by being easier to utilize and better able to respond to demand changes.
The main thing mentioned that I care about is the new screen dimmer, but I've been using f.lux for years.
"Dynamic Lock" could be very handy (auto-lock when you walk away) and I've been looking into something to do that, but I'm looking at it for a scenario of PCs in exam rooms so pairing all of them to doctors' phones isn't really a viable option.
Not mentioned in the summary, but possibly important to readers here:
Improvements to control over updates, such as being able to prevent driver updates.
Improvements to privacy settings - Maybe not so relevant if you're using O&O ShutUp, but nice to have. Apparently includes the ability to see (and clear) the info that MS has, along with a reduction of the info sent when you're using "Basic" telemetry settings.
An upgrade to Windows Subsystem for Linux (will be bumped to Ubuntu 16.04 from the current 14.04) and better integration with Windows apps.
A navigation bar in the registry, which could actually be really handy.
If you use OneDrive on both a desktop with tons of storage (and everything local) and a laptop with an SSD smaller than what's in your OneDrive, now there will apparently be better behavior for files not local on the smaller system. Currently, you basically just modify in OneDrive Settings which folders are available on each system.
If he wasn't attempting to impose his preferences and was instead having a sex life with consenting partners and a consenting community, what business is it of the project or Buytaert?
There's a whole world of sexual preferences out there that may or may not offend some part of the community. Furries? Diapers/"adult infants?" Feet? Dominance/Submission (which I think is distinct from BDSM)? Homosexuality? Poly?
Heck, I'm not into that BDSM and even I know that there are wide variations even in the BDSM community, some of which Buytaert probably wouldn't even care about. Just offhand I know that there are people into spanking, piercings/body mods (is this tied in?), rope bondage, and probably things I've never heard of or considered along with the "traditional" portrayal of BDSM with restraints and floggers, crops etc.
I'm a vanilla white boy from the midwestern suburbs, but I'm pretty sure that taken as a whole those "alternative sexuality" communities are overall much more accepting of kinks (YKIOKBINMK) and also more sensitive to people being coerced or (involuntarily) mistreated than almost all of the Good Citizens that I went to High School with.
while destroying every other part of their economy.
This is glossed over too much. Part of the problem is that Venezuela implemented price controls on a lot of things including staples - price controls that in many cases are or were lower than the cost of producing those goods/crops. They then used oil money to subsidize imports, but local producers and farmers had no reason to produce because they were going to lose money, much like a saying that's been around in the USA for years ("Interviewer: 'What are you going to do with your lottery winnings?' Farmer: 'I reckon I'll just keep farming until it's gone.'")
Now that the oil money isn't there, neither are the basic production capabilities that would let them get back to being self-sustaining, and I suspect that even in places where you could go back to subsistence farming or even farming for sale it's very difficult to do due to looting and possibly remaining price controls. Venezuela's drowning, and even those trying to swim are being grabbed and pulled under by the desperate.
Forget HR, that's where you drop a quick message to whatever email address you have for the corporate attorneys asking "Hey, what's the company's liability if someone is injured when a manager requires that his office staff come to his house and do manual labor carrying packages of shingles up ladders to his roof?"
Because what he did right there is a multimillion dollar lawsuit waiting to happen, complete with multiple witnesses and probably documentation as well.
If you're working with offshore wind farms, this makes a great deal of sense - as part of the construction you add as many of these as appropriate and use them to stabilize the power output from the farm.
Methods of storing power to be delivered when needed have always been the goal, what's changed more in recent years is more focus on the efficiency and cleanliness of the storage and delivery methods. If you change your thinking from "coal/oil/gas is a fuel" to "coal/oil/gas are energy storage mediums" it can change your thinking on a lot of these things.
Just to note, this is not all bumblebees, it's the Rusty Patched bumblebee that's been put on the endangered list. Other bumble bees are still around, though most other types have also been declining. The range for this particular type is a rough triangle from the Dakotas down to northern Georgia and up to central Maine.
If you want information including things that you might be able to do take a look at Bumble Bee Watch (http://www.bumblebeewatch.org/) or the Xerces Society page on bumblebees (http://www.xerces.org/bumblebees/). The University of Maine in Farmington has also been tracking the decline of several of the species native to Maine (http://mainebumblebeeatlas.umf.maine.edu/), and other state universities may have similar programs going on.
The FBI can't arrest, but they can work with enforcement agencies that do have jurisdiction (local, (Indian) state, (Indian) national) and provide resources and information.
The story itself talks about one of the senior local officials who won't talk much about the investigation, but "he will describe the raid, in loving, cinematic detail: How at 10 p.m., after the last of the call center staff had arrived for the night shift, 200 police officers streamed up the main staircase, blocking every exit and detaining all 700 people who worked inside." That's not 200 FBI agents, that's 200 local officers.
I haven't read the entire story yet, but part of the reason that the whistleblowers contacted the FTC (and through them the FBI) may be corruption - if they went through local channels and picked the wrong person, that person might have simply gone back to the leaders of this with their hand out and the information on the whistleblowers. The FBI may not have jurisdiction, but they also don't have a reputation for accepting bribes.
I'm not so concerned about it fitting in my wallet, but I'd really love to see a cross-manufacturer standard replaceable unit for "smart" TVs, because screens last a lot longer than the (secure, updated) usable life of the "smart" components. In not too many years there are going to be a lot of TVs around running the TV equivalent of Froyo or Gingerbread, on hardware that's just as aged as the OS will be.
It's not that they couldn't make them cool to teenagers, they couldn't make them cool to developers. I have one, and I don't feel like I got ripped off because it came with a year of Office 365 for less than the price I'd otherwise have paid. When they killed off their project for attempting to get Android apps working it pretty much marked the beginning of the end.
Seriously, browser support was a joke particularly in the early days of Edge. There are a few other browsers on there, but there's nothing that strikes me as being even as good as the native Android browser back in the 2.2/2.3 days. Decent text editor? No such beast. Decent ebook reader? No, not really.
I never did figure out what the hell they were thinking with file system security - I'm all for it, but it seemed like what they ended up with was something like what Palm used to have where every application had its own data storage and only its own data storage. They also locked a bunch of other stuff down so far and hard that it was literally not possible to have things that you might want. Don't like the messaging app? Tough, get a different phone, apps do not and will not have access to SMS. Want Gmail? Well, you can buy a third-party app, or you can try using IMAP, or you can hope that Edge doesn't crash on the site.
I actually did and do kind of like elements of their tile-based interface, which is a cross between resizable icons and Android widgets, but it just wasn't worth the rest of the limitations. I got the phone as a trial replacement for a Samsung that developed reception problems after a swim, but I found myself using the Windows phone as a hotspot that I could tether the Samsung to (WiFi worked fine) just to have access to usable apps that I'd come to depend on.
2008R2 is the equivalent of Windows 7 and has support for the more modern browsers, but Server 2008 is still supported until 2020 - but it's the server equivalent of Vista, so it runs IE9 and Chrome no longer gets updates, so Firefox is the only major browser still updated on it.
I probably ran into this at a client site on Friday, but I blamed it on the ancient WiFi router that they'd reconfigured to use as a switch. Ancient as in "hardware predates WPA2 and the plastic has faded to grey," wasn't handing out DHCP, and had nothing connected on the WAN side.
One cheap 5-port switch and a reboot after removing a couple of unrelated pieces of junkware that I noticed and the PC and printer were back up.
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For an awful lot of stuff it's more likely to be retirements than commercialism. Who's maintaining those old servers? Do they know they are? Is it part of someone's job to migrate them onto new servers as old ones get aged out (hardware updates, OS updates or EOLs, etc.)?
If that system was up and running in the early 90's there's an excellent chance it was set up by someone on the computer science faculty who was probably in (statistically) his 30s or 40s at the time. 25 years later is that person still at the same school? Are they even still in academia?
"The suit revolves around the June 2016 decision to expand the size of Uber's board of voting directors from eight to 11, with Kalanick having the sole right to designate those seats. Kalanick would later name himself to one of those seats following his resignation, since his prior board seat was reserved for the company's CEO. The other two seats remain unfilled." and "Benchmark alleges that Kalanick pledged in writing -- as part of his resignation agreement -- that the two empty board seats would be independent and subject to approval by the entire board (something Benchmark says was the reason it didn't sue for fraud at the time). But, according to the complaint, Kalanick has not been willing to codify those changes via an amended voting agreement."
Basically Kalanick PERSONALLY (not as Chairman, CEO or anything else) has the potential to control 3/11ths of the board, and if he can convince 3 more board members to go along then he can control the board even if the remaining 5 original board seats disagree. Benchmark regards this as way too risky considering all the other crap he's pulled in the past.
Does anyone know if they've settled on a timeline for pulling all SSH into systemd as well?
I'm not saying that breakage WILL happen, but that it CAN and is fairly common (how many places are there in your area that can replace cracked/broken phone screens?).
Sure there's some impressive stuff that phones can do these days, but frankly I expect to never again purchase a phone that's priced higher than "midrange." I pay for my own devices, and I'm not so well off that $1k+ is something I'd consider pocket change or even a purchase I'd make without a second thought.
Phones get dropped. Phones get wet. Phones get things dropped or placed on top of them. Phones get left behind. Phones get stolen. Because of the size and having them always with you, it's even easier for any of these to happen to a phone than to a laptop.
Get what will meet your realistic needs for a year or two at 1/3 the price of the New Hotness, set it up so if you lose it it's not a catastrophe (online backup, remote wipe, etc.), and in a year or two do the same thing again. If you're lucky you'll be able to sell the old one, but given all the bad things that can happen to phones don't count on it - it's a consumable, not an investment.
Even if all his messages are stored online (unlikely), it's not about downloading them which is what comments seem to be focusing on. As everyone else has noted, there are tons of options for downloading or migrating your messages.
The bigger issue is all the places where he's either using that email address as a login (particularly ones where there's no provision for changing userid/email address) and the sites that he's registered on with some other ID but which also use that email address for messages, account recovery, etc. There's no real big technical issue with identifying and changing logins on those sites except that it's likely to be a hell of a lot of work under a deadline when he's already unusually busy (normal work + house purchase + "Cripes, now THIS???") and there's no real shortcut for the manual part of that.
This is affecting SAMBA, so that means Linux (and *BSD) boxes, but that may also include most NAS units and an awful lot of set-top boxes, streaming devices, etc. if they're accessible from Windows systems.
Comcast and multiple other cable companies are doing this in the US, and the biggest issue I'm aware of is that the boxes that they put in to do this apparently draw enough power that it adds up over the course of the year. They can get away with it in part because the capacity of the coax coming into your house or office is so high that you're not paying for all of it anyway, so the hotspot shouldn't have any impact on your available bandwidth.
The problem with what's described in this article is that they're doing it on DSL lines which are almost always bandwidth-restricted anyway, meaning that by having this enabled you're both paying for their hotspot's power consumption and getting poorer service for it.
Sounds like a loser proposition to me.
Lyft may or may not have much standing regarding this, and it may not be worth pursuing for them.
The people who definitely do have standing are the ones who were definitely hurt and can likely prove it using Uber's records: the drivers who weren't driving for Lyft as well and who therefore got fewer rides and no bonuses. THOSE are the people who can go after Uber with a class-action suit attempting to get the earnings that they were denied through Uber's actions.
As for Uber vs Lyft, I suspect that there are a lot of people who choose Lyft *because* it allows tipping within the app. Because of the tipping capability Lyft also gets additional information that may not be as available to Uber: trendlines of driver quality (drivers who consistently get better tips) and some idea of how much more people are willing to pay for trips (because tippers are clearly willing to pay the fare+tip amount).
There are times when I think it'd be nice to have a coworking space to use, but what Workbar is offering doesn't look like something I'd want unless it also had other things going for it such as available meeting & presentation rooms, a location that was convenient to places I was going to need to go, or good networking opportunities.
Maybe I'm spoiled being in the suburbs, but I'm really not seeing the advantage this has over any of several local libraries or a Starbucks, and I could work in either of those free or for about the same cost as Workbar.
A lot of municipalities also have (somewhat) on-demand or scheduled service available for seniors and the disabled and I'd expect this same kind of thing to start happening for some of those. I'm pretty sure my town (Chicago suburbs) maintains at least two small buses for this purpose along with maintenance, drivers, staffing for scheduling, etc. and I think for most things you have to schedule a day in advance and the hours are limited.
Subsidizing Uber or Lyft to provide those services instead might save the village money depending on details I don't know, but it could also provide much better service by being easier to utilize and better able to respond to demand changes.
The main thing mentioned that I care about is the new screen dimmer, but I've been using f.lux for years.
"Dynamic Lock" could be very handy (auto-lock when you walk away) and I've been looking into something to do that, but I'm looking at it for a scenario of PCs in exam rooms so pairing all of them to doctors' phones isn't really a viable option.
Not mentioned in the summary, but possibly important to readers here:
Improvements to control over updates, such as being able to prevent driver updates.
Improvements to privacy settings - Maybe not so relevant if you're using O&O ShutUp, but nice to have. Apparently includes the ability to see (and clear) the info that MS has, along with a reduction of the info sent when you're using "Basic" telemetry settings.
An upgrade to Windows Subsystem for Linux (will be bumped to Ubuntu 16.04 from the current 14.04) and better integration with Windows apps.
A navigation bar in the registry, which could actually be really handy.
If you use OneDrive on both a desktop with tons of storage (and everything local) and a laptop with an SSD smaller than what's in your OneDrive, now there will apparently be better behavior for files not local on the smaller system. Currently, you basically just modify in OneDrive Settings which folders are available on each system.
If he wasn't attempting to impose his preferences and was instead having a sex life with consenting partners and a consenting community, what business is it of the project or Buytaert?
There's a whole world of sexual preferences out there that may or may not offend some part of the community. Furries? Diapers/"adult infants?" Feet? Dominance/Submission (which I think is distinct from BDSM)? Homosexuality? Poly?
Heck, I'm not into that BDSM and even I know that there are wide variations even in the BDSM community, some of which Buytaert probably wouldn't even care about. Just offhand I know that there are people into spanking, piercings/body mods (is this tied in?), rope bondage, and probably things I've never heard of or considered along with the "traditional" portrayal of BDSM with restraints and floggers, crops etc.
I'm a vanilla white boy from the midwestern suburbs, but I'm pretty sure that taken as a whole those "alternative sexuality" communities are overall much more accepting of kinks (YKIOKBINMK) and also more sensitive to people being coerced or (involuntarily) mistreated than almost all of the Good Citizens that I went to High School with.
(YKIOKBINMK = Your Kink Is OK But Is Not My Kink)
This is glossed over too much. Part of the problem is that Venezuela implemented price controls on a lot of things including staples - price controls that in many cases are or were lower than the cost of producing those goods/crops. They then used oil money to subsidize imports, but local producers and farmers had no reason to produce because they were going to lose money, much like a saying that's been around in the USA for years ("Interviewer: 'What are you going to do with your lottery winnings?' Farmer: 'I reckon I'll just keep farming until it's gone.'")
Now that the oil money isn't there, neither are the basic production capabilities that would let them get back to being self-sustaining, and I suspect that even in places where you could go back to subsistence farming or even farming for sale it's very difficult to do due to looting and possibly remaining price controls. Venezuela's drowning, and even those trying to swim are being grabbed and pulled under by the desperate.
I believe you misspelled both "corrupt dictatorships" and "damaged into non-sustainability"
Forget HR, that's where you drop a quick message to whatever email address you have for the corporate attorneys asking "Hey, what's the company's liability if someone is injured when a manager requires that his office staff come to his house and do manual labor carrying packages of shingles up ladders to his roof?"
Because what he did right there is a multimillion dollar lawsuit waiting to happen, complete with multiple witnesses and probably documentation as well.
If you're working with offshore wind farms, this makes a great deal of sense - as part of the construction you add as many of these as appropriate and use them to stabilize the power output from the farm.
Methods of storing power to be delivered when needed have always been the goal, what's changed more in recent years is more focus on the efficiency and cleanliness of the storage and delivery methods. If you change your thinking from "coal/oil/gas is a fuel" to "coal/oil/gas are energy storage mediums" it can change your thinking on a lot of these things.
Nobody could figure out how to pronounce AlloDuoWave+HangoutsTalkVoice?
If you want information including things that you might be able to do take a look at Bumble Bee Watch (http://www.bumblebeewatch.org/) or the Xerces Society page on bumblebees (http://www.xerces.org/bumblebees/). The University of Maine in Farmington has also been tracking the decline of several of the species native to Maine (http://mainebumblebeeatlas.umf.maine.edu/), and other state universities may have similar programs going on.
The FBI can't arrest, but they can work with enforcement agencies that do have jurisdiction (local, (Indian) state, (Indian) national) and provide resources and information.
The story itself talks about one of the senior local officials who won't talk much about the investigation, but "he will describe the raid, in loving, cinematic detail: How at 10 p.m., after the last of the call center staff had arrived for the night shift, 200 police officers streamed up the main staircase, blocking every exit and detaining all 700 people who worked inside." That's not 200 FBI agents, that's 200 local officers.
I haven't read the entire story yet, but part of the reason that the whistleblowers contacted the FTC (and through them the FBI) may be corruption - if they went through local channels and picked the wrong person, that person might have simply gone back to the leaders of this with their hand out and the information on the whistleblowers. The FBI may not have jurisdiction, but they also don't have a reputation for accepting bribes.
Fling them through the windows of members of Parliament? Perhaps the increased licensing fees from the commercial interests can cover new glass.
I'm not so concerned about it fitting in my wallet, but I'd really love to see a cross-manufacturer standard replaceable unit for "smart" TVs, because screens last a lot longer than the (secure, updated) usable life of the "smart" components. In not too many years there are going to be a lot of TVs around running the TV equivalent of Froyo or Gingerbread, on hardware that's just as aged as the OS will be.
It's not that they couldn't make them cool to teenagers, they couldn't make them cool to developers. I have one, and I don't feel like I got ripped off because it came with a year of Office 365 for less than the price I'd otherwise have paid. When they killed off their project for attempting to get Android apps working it pretty much marked the beginning of the end.
Seriously, browser support was a joke particularly in the early days of Edge. There are a few other browsers on there, but there's nothing that strikes me as being even as good as the native Android browser back in the 2.2/2.3 days. Decent text editor? No such beast. Decent ebook reader? No, not really.
I never did figure out what the hell they were thinking with file system security - I'm all for it, but it seemed like what they ended up with was something like what Palm used to have where every application had its own data storage and only its own data storage. They also locked a bunch of other stuff down so far and hard that it was literally not possible to have things that you might want. Don't like the messaging app? Tough, get a different phone, apps do not and will not have access to SMS. Want Gmail? Well, you can buy a third-party app, or you can try using IMAP, or you can hope that Edge doesn't crash on the site.
I actually did and do kind of like elements of their tile-based interface, which is a cross between resizable icons and Android widgets, but it just wasn't worth the rest of the limitations. I got the phone as a trial replacement for a Samsung that developed reception problems after a swim, but I found myself using the Windows phone as a hotspot that I could tether the Samsung to (WiFi worked fine) just to have access to usable apps that I'd come to depend on.
2008R2 is the equivalent of Windows 7 and has support for the more modern browsers, but Server 2008 is still supported until 2020 - but it's the server equivalent of Vista, so it runs IE9 and Chrome no longer gets updates, so Firefox is the only major browser still updated on it.
I probably ran into this at a client site on Friday, but I blamed it on the ancient WiFi router that they'd reconfigured to use as a switch. Ancient as in "hardware predates WPA2 and the plastic has faded to grey," wasn't handing out DHCP, and had nothing connected on the WAN side.
One cheap 5-port switch and a reboot after removing a couple of unrelated pieces of junkware that I noticed and the PC and printer were back up.