I suspect some of these guys are semi-legit, they just don't know that they're enabling others. Ie, a small IT support team is partnered with the real scammers who put up the malware. What they know is that the person on the other end of the phone has "requested" support, and so they walk them through the steps of installing several remote support tools, uninstalling the unapproved anti-malware, etc.
Installing can be a scam in itself. Ie, you click "ok, "ok", "ok", because that's how they know to install software. So one of the first things I do when I visit my mom is go uninstall Chrome because it gets automatically installed when updating software unless you manually unclick a box. This used to be how you got all those stupid helper bars on the browser though that scam seems to be gone.
My mom fell for this 3 times so far (and avoided one other). She doesn't understand the concept because these guys were helping her "for free". Every time I explained not to do this, and please always call me for help. I think though that she wants some amount of independence here.
Sun had products, income, etc. GitHub was just a repository. Was GitHub an actual business? I never used it but I always assumed it relied on donations and such to cover the cost of hosting. Buying a company with no revenue for $7.5B I would expect the actual value to Microsoft would be to spy on the software and copy the bits they like.
(or maybe Microsoft is trying to emulate Google by buying companies for 100 times what they're actually worth?)
I think all these stories are just marketing. Raspberry Pi is a commercial product. It has many competitors with essentially identical capabilities, some with lower prices. Is Slashdot providing free advertising here, or did they at least get a hefty check under the table?
Why not just say "Linux based single board computer", or "single board computer", or even "device"?
This seems similar to Arduino where it suddenly became a fad. I suspect this is due to lots of programmers who just suddenly discovered that you could put software on something other than a PC. They were amazed that 8-bit computers exist. and then surprised that 32-bit computer exist that can fit in your hand, and then suprised that 64-bit computer exist that fit in your hand, but still have not clued into the fact that these are not unique products.
When are some new "maker" stories going to show up where the base board computer was carefully evaluated amongst several alternatives and the result was not Arduino or Raspberry pi? Or do those people get ignored because they don't get past the Slashdot fad filters?
I replace capslock with control. which is how God intended the keyboard to be laid out. It's very simple to use control sequences that way, as long as you have a pinky finger.
I have learned that phones give the best voice quality, when we try to talk to a remote employee using skype or some other video chatting method it always sounds terrible. I think a lot of services devalue "voice" and don't focus on adding quality to it.
My landline was the spam catcher. It's the number I could give out when a clerk insisted I need one. I've had it since before mobile phone numbers were allowed to follow you if you changed service. Occasionally there's a useful voice mail on it, but it's never answered.
I get that problem, I get the same span ever day or so from my phone's prefix, as if they think I'm going to be fooled into thinking it's someone in my neighborhood (except it's a mobile phone number, duh). I should start counting them, with only 10000 numbers in that prefix they'll run out soon.
Next up, texting spam I presume. Haven't gotten that. If they do at least I have unlimited texting now, in the past I used to be charged to receive texts. American mobile phone pricing is asinine.
It's why we don't answer. For me, 99% of calls are spam. If I know the person and the phone shows the name, then I answer, if I see only a number then it's spam. This is for landlines (which became useless a long time ago because of telemarketers) as well as mobile phones (only became useless the last year or two). I have voice mail and will check it, so the voice isn't useless.
Why do we put up with it? We don't. We passed a do-not-call bill awhile back, which lasted about a year and it worked, until it either got overturned or ignored or was unenforced. (just about everyone out there can claim that they have a prior relationship with you and that do-not-call doesn't apply to them, and political robocalls were never restricted)
It's because so much stuff makes money from literally being advertising outlets. That means showing ads that aren't yours, or selling customer data to other people who want to show ads. There is an amazingly huge amount of economic activity related to advertising, enough so that I wonder if someday the economic activity from advertising will outstrip that of manufacturing. It's a screwed up system.d
They can say any picture you upload is theirs, but what gives them that right to claim it? A click-to-install button shouldn't automatically reassign copyright.
Potentially hostile code generally doesn't say "this code is potentially hostile" in the terms and services it has you click on.
Because nothing out there really says anything worse than what you click on for installing Windows, or even the first time boot up on your phone. You really don't know at all up front what's going to be in the terms and services until after you've purchased the product, and no one will give you a refund if you get cold feet. The most this helps you with is free apps.
A better solution is to require an opt-in before any customer data can be sold, used, etc. Whcih will never fly, because it's regulation and the current administration is very anti-regulation There are people however who would actually opt in, I know someone who actually likes advertisements in the web browser, even on his work computer (ok, maybe he's crazy, but he can't be the only one).
Reading the "terms and conditions" isn't really about protecting privacy. When customers demand privacy, what they are saying is don't sell my data. Having terms and conditions that say "by the way, we will sell your data to Russia" does not satisfy the customer's demands and does not protect privacy.
It doesn't matter how easy or hard the terms are to read, what the customers want is to not share data.
Or issue class B shares with lesser voting powers, and class C shares who get in the back of the line when there's a bankruptcy, and so forth. These are all ways to keep the original invetors happy, or as ways to maneuver around dislodge the original owner, etc. This happens with private companies, since when becoming public you have to be much more transparent and follow external rules.
That's not really an acceptable alternative to purchasing. Renting is a dumb idea for software. I got the Windows 8 Pro for $14.95, complete. I have a Windows 10 Pro reserved copy (never downloaded), so if they're going to end-of-life W10Pro before my W8Pro is end-of-life, that's kinda dumb. Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, is how it was strongly marketed, now it seems it's used only as a transition to Windows-as-a-Service.
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What's iOS again? Was there some sort of announcement? What does that have to do with actual science being done here?
But most companies have a few PEs around to do the necessary sign-offs. The other engineers just need to know who these people are.
If there's one constant in software development, it's that nobody learns from the past. It's not a new problem either.
I suspect some of these guys are semi-legit, they just don't know that they're enabling others. Ie, a small IT support team is partnered with the real scammers who put up the malware. What they know is that the person on the other end of the phone has "requested" support, and so they walk them through the steps of installing several remote support tools, uninstalling the unapproved anti-malware, etc.
Installing can be a scam in itself. Ie, you click "ok, "ok", "ok", because that's how they know to install software. So one of the first things I do when I visit my mom is go uninstall Chrome because it gets automatically installed when updating software unless you manually unclick a box. This used to be how you got all those stupid helper bars on the browser though that scam seems to be gone.
My mom fell for this 3 times so far (and avoided one other). She doesn't understand the concept because these guys were helping her "for free". Every time I explained not to do this, and please always call me for help. I think though that she wants some amount of independence here.
I don't think this is necessarily a "software" issue per se, they're just using software to make it easier to do what they always have done.
Sun had products, income, etc. GitHub was just a repository. Was GitHub an actual business? I never used it but I always assumed it relied on donations and such to cover the cost of hosting. Buying a company with no revenue for $7.5B I would expect the actual value to Microsoft would be to spy on the software and copy the bits they like.
(or maybe Microsoft is trying to emulate Google by buying companies for 100 times what they're actually worth?)
Why would I want 5.1? Can't I just use 6 speakers? What good is one tenth of a speaker?
The summary itself was gibberish to me, it should have come with with a glossary.
I think all these stories are just marketing. Raspberry Pi is a commercial product. It has many competitors with essentially identical capabilities, some with lower prices. Is Slashdot providing free advertising here, or did they at least get a hefty check under the table?
Why not just say "Linux based single board computer", or "single board computer", or even "device"?
This seems similar to Arduino where it suddenly became a fad. I suspect this is due to lots of programmers who just suddenly discovered that you could put software on something other than a PC. They were amazed that 8-bit computers exist. and then surprised that 32-bit computer exist that can fit in your hand, and then suprised that 64-bit computer exist that fit in your hand, but still have not clued into the fact that these are not unique products.
When are some new "maker" stories going to show up where the base board computer was carefully evaluated amongst several alternatives and the result was not Arduino or Raspberry pi? Or do those people get ignored because they don't get past the Slashdot fad filters?
Same here, I have work to do, and every IDE I've tried except the first(*) slowed me down either by design, or silly ergonomics, or bugs.
(*) UCSD Pascal was an IDE before the PC was introduced.
I replace capslock with control. which is how God intended the keyboard to be laid out. It's very simple to use control sequences that way, as long as you have a pinky finger.
It means it's a sub-shell running in an Emacs window.
I have learned that phones give the best voice quality, when we try to talk to a remote employee using skype or some other video chatting method it always sounds terrible. I think a lot of services devalue "voice" and don't focus on adding quality to it.
My landline was the spam catcher. It's the number I could give out when a clerk insisted I need one. I've had it since before mobile phone numbers were allowed to follow you if you changed service. Occasionally there's a useful voice mail on it, but it's never answered.
I have considered dropping it.
I get that problem, I get the same span ever day or so from my phone's prefix, as if they think I'm going to be fooled into thinking it's someone in my neighborhood (except it's a mobile phone number, duh). I should start counting them, with only 10000 numbers in that prefix they'll run out soon.
Next up, texting spam I presume. Haven't gotten that. If they do at least I have unlimited texting now, in the past I used to be charged to receive texts. American mobile phone pricing is asinine.
It's why we don't answer. For me, 99% of calls are spam. If I know the person and the phone shows the name, then I answer, if I see only a number then it's spam. This is for landlines (which became useless a long time ago because of telemarketers) as well as mobile phones (only became useless the last year or two). I have voice mail and will check it, so the voice isn't useless.
Why do we put up with it? We don't. We passed a do-not-call bill awhile back, which lasted about a year and it worked, until it either got overturned or ignored or was unenforced. (just about everyone out there can claim that they have a prior relationship with you and that do-not-call doesn't apply to them, and political robocalls were never restricted)
It's because so much stuff makes money from literally being advertising outlets. That means showing ads that aren't yours, or selling customer data to other people who want to show ads. There is an amazingly huge amount of economic activity related to advertising, enough so that I wonder if someday the economic activity from advertising will outstrip that of manufacturing. It's a screwed up system.d
They can say any picture you upload is theirs, but what gives them that right to claim it? A click-to-install button shouldn't automatically reassign copyright.
Potentially hostile code generally doesn't say "this code is potentially hostile" in the terms and services it has you click on.
Because nothing out there really says anything worse than what you click on for installing Windows, or even the first time boot up on your phone. You really don't know at all up front what's going to be in the terms and services until after you've purchased the product, and no one will give you a refund if you get cold feet. The most this helps you with is free apps.
A better solution is to require an opt-in before any customer data can be sold, used, etc. Whcih will never fly, because it's regulation and the current administration is very anti-regulation There are people however who would actually opt in, I know someone who actually likes advertisements in the web browser, even on his work computer (ok, maybe he's crazy, but he can't be the only one).
Reading the "terms and conditions" isn't really about protecting privacy. When customers demand privacy, what they are saying is don't sell my data. Having terms and conditions that say "by the way, we will sell your data to Russia" does not satisfy the customer's demands and does not protect privacy.
It doesn't matter how easy or hard the terms are to read, what the customers want is to not share data.
Or issue class B shares with lesser voting powers, and class C shares who get in the back of the line when there's a bankruptcy, and so forth. These are all ways to keep the original invetors happy, or as ways to maneuver around dislodge the original owner, etc. This happens with private companies, since when becoming public you have to be much more transparent and follow external rules.
But if they are dropping extended support for it, then you're forced to lease, no?
Actually, he gave me better computer support than Microsoft ever did!
That's not really an acceptable alternative to purchasing. Renting is a dumb idea for software. I got the Windows 8 Pro for $14.95, complete. I have a Windows 10 Pro reserved copy (never downloaded), so if they're going to end-of-life W10Pro before my W8Pro is end-of-life, that's kinda dumb. Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, is how it was strongly marketed, now it seems it's used only as a transition to Windows-as-a-Service.