I like W10. I'm not all that well-versed in the supposed massive amount of surveillance and data mining it does, but in terms of functionality and ease of use it seems pretty good to me. Why do people supposedly hate W10 so much?
I liked how it worked - at first. Then Microsoft went Microsoft on us.
Aside from the surveillance, updates regularly make functioning computers not work. I've personally seen sound cards and sound software, Virtual serial ports, webcams, and Ethernet adapters. Here today, blow me tomorrow.
And unless you are using W10 Enterprise, you have no choice - you get the updates. BOHICA. And I've seen the OS change from delaying updates to automatic updates after a delayed update is finally installed.
I don't buy and use computers just to get them to work, then to get them to work again, then get them to work again. I ditched my W10 computer for a W7 install because I needed on I could depend on. The W7 install is 100 percent uptime so far.
You have a very dark sense of humor. Let me fix that for you so that it's clearer.
People who have no idea about how things work, but are armed and routinely used to casually pointing their loaded guns at everyone's faces, telling other people what to do.
No, I didn't LOL. Why would I LOL? This is a real thing happening, and it has victims, almost all of who are totally innocent.
Why does your reply to me have a quote not made by me. Your invisible friend perhaps?
Scot free. I would presume they still have their stock.
Of course. We little people don't understand that the banking industry answers to no one. Too big to fail, and the woman in charge of committing the fraud is now happily retired, and with more money than most of us will make in our lifetime.
Every time I read about some idiot scheme like this, I'm very tempted to write a program that will take a file and randomly (okay, for well known file types, randomly with a bit of intelligence) change a single bit in the file. Wonder if I could sell it for a buck a copy? Think I'd call it NeenerNeener.
Pretty much this. To put it at its simplest, most of the time, people want the file to be a certain way, and we can check for that. But the tiny changes are what the people who want to bypass the system want, while the people looking for purity of the file are only going to catch those stupid enough to pirate the originals.
If your response to everyone that gets mad at you for something you did is to shut them out of your life forever you're going to live a pretty lonely life. Doubly so if those people are your children. Shutting a child out of your life is an absolutely brutal thing to do. I have direct experience in my family of what this is like. Parents who do this for any reason other than self protection are assholes.
The funny thing about some folks on the internetz is they seem to have interesting conversations in their head about others, that fit into some preconception. Where on earth did you get the idea to change what I said to anyone who gets mad at me gets shut out of my life? I am not a bugaboo inside your brain that you have arguments with and conveniently recast what I say so that you can derail me with a smashing riposte
Yeah, if my son were to sue me for something, I would disown him. Why? Because if I found myself thinking of suing a family member, that's exactly what I would be doing. The act of suing someone is the disowning. The act of a family member suing me is disowning me first.
As far as my family life - glad you asked! Its nowhere near as big as it once was, but I was on great terms with the inlaws, and lived in the same area with my parents in order to help them out as they aged. Visited each one at least a couple times a week, except for the one who lived in Florida, and that was a couple times a year. My son and his wife and kids likewise get along great with us.
Based on your response that might be good thing. You sound unbalanced and I'm guessing you don't have children. You seriously believe that no matter how badly you behave the child should never be able to drag you in to court?
I have a son and his wife, and they have twins. We all get along great. We visit each other often - it tends to be at our place though, as I have a lot of room and the boys like to play in the big back yard. We have a very rich family life.
Some parents are terrible, abusive, mean, or manipulative. Some parents steal from their children or beat them or abuse them both physically and psychologically.
But you see, I am not abusive, nor mean, nor manipulative. Why are you trying to turn me into a microcosm of these other people?
A terrible parent who is mean manipulative or steals from me would be disowned by me really early. Given the general insulting tone of your commentary, and your rather overarching ability to write paragraphs from simple sentences, I must say, sjbe,if you are not actually projecting here, you might want to try a different approach, because it looks like you are projecting.
What exactly do the parents lose by taking the pictures down? Nothing. They are keeping them up just out of spite and/or disrespect for self indulgent reasons.
As I noted, we don't know what the dynamics of this situation are. Make no mistake, I'm not standing up for the parents.
At the same time, I don't care about my childhood photos being posted online, even the ones where I am, as my parents said "nekkid" - there are probably 2, and both on a changing table. Big damn deal.
As well, I wouldn't post any of my kid's photos online without his permission, even the ones when he was an adult and we played on the same Ice Hockey team.
So I cannot speak to the dynamics of this, only to note that in my case, a lawsuit would nerely be a statement of "You are dead to me".
Some folks in this world live to fuck with each other. You see this with people who always have problems with their neighbors, go through a lot of marriages. I am not those people.
I do however, believe that you are very much one of those people. Way too much projection and assumptions about my personality. This happens a lot when people try to pre-judge what a person is, they don't realize they are seeing a reflection of themselves in a mirror. Good luck with that.
You would disown your own child because they took offense to some pictures you posted?
I bet your are a Christian. Would disown your own child if they came out gay.
You should re-read my post. I said I would do that if a child of mine sued me. Then again, I wouldn't put childhood photos of him on facebook or anywhere else either.
But if he found fit to take me to court, he would be disowning me the moment I got the summons.
And you must be new around here if you managed to to read me as a Christian, and concerned about who puts what thing where
But you're not telling me what she should actually do. What choices does she have other than suing?
How about ignoring it?
Or if she wanted to put a screeching halt to it, after her parents posted a photo, she should reply on Facebook, "You should post the ones you took after what you did to me next Daddy!"
My parents would not see me or their grand children again if they post pictures of me on Facebook. It is not a hard rule to follow.
And who knows how much of the story we are getting about this. There might be some strange dynamics going on. I had a wealthy uncle who used to control most of us with threatening to cut us out of his will.
When he tried that with me, I just said "bye!". Then when he did die, he gave it all to his prodigal son, who after a life of loose women and booze, found Jesus and "reconciled with his father. Gave the prodigal son the entire estate, which the son promptly gave to the church.
I fuckin' howled! I still tease my kissass relatives asking how they invested their inheritance from Uncle Bob.
Just because you have right to do something doesn't mean it is right to do it.
I'd take them down, then thar would be the last she ever heard of me. "You are no longer in our life, person - is that taking you seriously enough?"
You are correct about not knowing the dynamics of the situation. but if a child of mine ever sued me for anything, it would be the last contact they'd ever have with me.
The trouble is, Juncker seems to be just about crazy enough to actually follow through with this. If he does, it's probably going to create a lot of trouble for a lot of people and waste a lot of money before it ultimately fails.
Sales aren't the only area affected by the need to keep the money flowing. Research grants work the same way. In order to keep your job you have to produce the data the people with the money are looking for.
I've worked in sales with a quota. I've worked in research.
They don't remotely work the same way. The sales were sales, nothing particulary difficult. My sponsors wanted correct answers, not something that corresponded with their desires. There were no "wrong" outcomes, just abandoned avenues.
For the occasional rogue researcher, there's a path to find out their transgressions. Most take this very seriously, and disgrace can be forever http://time.com/3084494/japane...
Andrew Wakefield lost his career permanently after his conman anti vaccine conspiracy came to light.
Malcolm Pearce did fraudulent work on ectopic pregnancies - presumably transplanting the out-of place embryo into the uterus and resulting in a full term healthy infant A man who signed on as co-author because of being the head of the medical department where Pearce worked, one Geoffrey Chamberlain also lost his career in disgrace.
Dong Pyou Han was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail, and a fine/repayment of 7.2 million dollars.
Now if you will, let us compare disgrace ending in suicide, disgrace ending in lost careers, with the treatment of the head of the unit of Wells Fargo that was doing this sandbagging, Carrie Tolstedt. http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/...
She made the decision to retire after 27 years, and is getting 125 million. Nearly the amount of the fine levied against Wells Fargo. Toltsted profited off the sandbagging, and although Wells Fargo could have elected to demand the fraudulently received money in a device named "clawback", she is keeping the money that was illegally obtained.
And finally, who was punished? It's pretty difficult to call retiring with a 125 million bonus punishment. But the employees who fell to the pressure to do this industry standard dandbagging? Oh - they were fired. Seldom happens to the technicians involved in a research fraud case, unless they were highly complicit
Fscking identical treatment between scientists and the banking industry - damn near exact, eh? Meantime the stockholders are picking up the Wells Fargo tag.
And that's the really weird thing. A huge amount of fraud going on, and people committing the fraud getting away stock free, and people who might have an issue with scientists act like they should be lined up and shot for their malfeasance.Yet appear to think that the bank fraud is just business as usual. I dunno if that's you or not.
Yet you are as rabid as the most religious Apple followers.
And you are projecting. Finding the lack of a design feature that I don't and have never used, as inconsequential, and using a dongle to attach a legacy consumer headphone to it is remarkably in the not a fuck was given category. If I wanted to plug any of my pluggables in to the present iPhone, I'd have to have what you would call a dongle, because 1/4 inch plugs don't fit in any phone that I know of without an adapter. Even if I did want/have to do that, no shit would be given. It doesn't rise to any importance at all.
And I could use an Android phone with no problems other than the conveniences I have by using my iPhone with my Mac at home.
The sort of iTards that see their phone choice as a fashion accessory and a reflection of themselves are fanboys, most users just see it as a tool and have the exact same phone that iTards get so attached to.
You know what a lifeproof case is for an iPhone5? A doublebut ugly nasty looking waterproof thing that I put my iphone in because I do a lot of work around saltwater, and surf fish. I don't think that fits your fanboy iTard fantasy. And aside note is the case requires a special dongle to use any legacy headphone, because the caps over the jack have to have little O-rings to maintain the waterproofing. Fashion accessory my rosy red.
Ooooh your reading comprehension failure strikes again! Nowhere did I say nor imply that you were worried about the headphone jack, try again.
I do kind of expect this kind of thing from a person that is an anonymous Coward
Allow me to repeat to you what you wrote:
there's a difference between iPhone users and Apple fanboys, you're obviously the latter.And the latter are the ones that take criticisms of Apple and it's products as if they are being criticized personally. They defend everything Apple does even in the face of blatant stupidity, like labelling their own removal of the headphone jack as "courageous"
Don't be a dumbass, dumbass. If you lie, I'll call you out on it before ignoring you.
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It is pure bullying by her parents
We are all precious little snowflakes.so easily hurt, so vulnerable.
Victims are now becoming the bullies.
Can I get jazz hands?
I agree she's over reacting. But it's still a dick move on the part of the parents.
This is probably a family of dicks.
"Gave the prodigal son the entire estate"
Well, at least he was Biblical about it...
The other people who were suckups felt "known" in the biblical sense as well!
wow your simply awesome
At least my dog thinks so.......
I like W10. I'm not all that well-versed in the supposed massive amount of surveillance and data mining it does, but in terms of functionality and ease of use it seems pretty good to me. Why do people supposedly hate W10 so much?
I liked how it worked - at first. Then Microsoft went Microsoft on us. Aside from the surveillance, updates regularly make functioning computers not work. I've personally seen sound cards and sound software, Virtual serial ports, webcams, and Ethernet adapters. Here today, blow me tomorrow.
And unless you are using W10 Enterprise, you have no choice - you get the updates. BOHICA. And I've seen the OS change from delaying updates to automatic updates after a delayed update is finally installed.
I don't buy and use computers just to get them to work, then to get them to work again, then get them to work again. I ditched my W10 computer for a W7 install because I needed on I could depend on. The W7 install is 100 percent uptime so far.
You have a very dark sense of humor. Let me fix that for you so that it's clearer.
No, I didn't LOL. Why would I LOL? This is a real thing happening, and it has victims, almost all of who are totally innocent.
Why does your reply to me have a quote not made by me. Your invisible friend perhaps?
Scot free. I would presume they still have their stock.
Of course. We little people don't understand that the banking industry answers to no one. Too big to fail, and the woman in charge of committing the fraud is now happily retired, and with more money than most of us will make in our lifetime.
Most people on slashdot complaining about the removed headphone jack don't own an iPhone, and never will.
Annnnnnnnnnnd - exactly.
Wouldn't want to see another person fall prey to Grumpy Old Man syndrome.
Pffft, I was a Grumpy Old Man at 30.
There's a hipster joke in there somewhere....... 8^)
Every time I read about some idiot scheme like this, I'm very tempted to write a program that will take a file and randomly (okay, for well known file types, randomly with a bit of intelligence) change a single bit in the file. Wonder if I could sell it for a buck a copy? Think I'd call it NeenerNeener.
Pretty much this. To put it at its simplest, most of the time, people want the file to be a certain way, and we can check for that. But the tiny changes are what the people who want to bypass the system want, while the people looking for purity of the file are only going to catch those stupid enough to pirate the originals.
That's racist! check your privilege!
I checked it - it's still there - like always.
Oh, boy! Gee golly willikers! Great big enormous nigger penises!! MMmmMmmmm!
Biggest
Non
Sequitur
Ever!
Did you notice who's the one demanding the documents from the GOP FCC commissioners? It's not a Republican, FYI.
Republicans are big on law and order.
Except when they aren't.
But sometimes a little baksheesh trumps the rule of law.
I already block them for that reason.
If your response to everyone that gets mad at you for something you did is to shut them out of your life forever you're going to live a pretty lonely life. Doubly so if those people are your children. Shutting a child out of your life is an absolutely brutal thing to do. I have direct experience in my family of what this is like. Parents who do this for any reason other than self protection are assholes.
The funny thing about some folks on the internetz is they seem to have interesting conversations in their head about others, that fit into some preconception. Where on earth did you get the idea to change what I said to anyone who gets mad at me gets shut out of my life? I am not a bugaboo inside your brain that you have arguments with and conveniently recast what I say so that you can derail me with a smashing riposte
Yeah, if my son were to sue me for something, I would disown him. Why? Because if I found myself thinking of suing a family member, that's exactly what I would be doing. The act of suing someone is the disowning. The act of a family member suing me is disowning me first.
As far as my family life - glad you asked! Its nowhere near as big as it once was, but I was on great terms with the inlaws, and lived in the same area with my parents in order to help them out as they aged. Visited each one at least a couple times a week, except for the one who lived in Florida, and that was a couple times a year. My son and his wife and kids likewise get along great with us.
Based on your response that might be good thing. You sound unbalanced and I'm guessing you don't have children. You seriously believe that no matter how badly you behave the child should never be able to drag you in to court?
I have a son and his wife, and they have twins. We all get along great. We visit each other often - it tends to be at our place though, as I have a lot of room and the boys like to play in the big back yard. We have a very rich family life.
Some parents are terrible, abusive, mean, or manipulative. Some parents steal from their children or beat them or abuse them both physically and psychologically.
But you see, I am not abusive, nor mean, nor manipulative. Why are you trying to turn me into a microcosm of these other people?
A terrible parent who is mean manipulative or steals from me would be disowned by me really early. Given the general insulting tone of your commentary, and your rather overarching ability to write paragraphs from simple sentences, I must say, sjbe ,if you are not actually projecting here, you might want to try a different approach, because it looks like you are projecting.
What exactly do the parents lose by taking the pictures down? Nothing. They are keeping them up just out of spite and/or disrespect for self indulgent reasons.
As I noted, we don't know what the dynamics of this situation are. Make no mistake, I'm not standing up for the parents.
At the same time, I don't care about my childhood photos being posted online, even the ones where I am, as my parents said "nekkid" - there are probably 2, and both on a changing table. Big damn deal.
As well, I wouldn't post any of my kid's photos online without his permission, even the ones when he was an adult and we played on the same Ice Hockey team.
So I cannot speak to the dynamics of this, only to note that in my case, a lawsuit would nerely be a statement of "You are dead to me".
Some folks in this world live to fuck with each other. You see this with people who always have problems with their neighbors, go through a lot of marriages. I am not those people.
I do however, believe that you are very much one of those people. Way too much projection and assumptions about my personality. This happens a lot when people try to pre-judge what a person is, they don't realize they are seeing a reflection of themselves in a mirror. Good luck with that.
You would disown your own child because they took offense to some pictures you posted?
I bet your are a Christian. Would disown your own child if they came out gay.
You should re-read my post. I said I would do that if a child of mine sued me. Then again, I wouldn't put childhood photos of him on facebook or anywhere else either.
But if he found fit to take me to court, he would be disowning me the moment I got the summons.
And you must be new around here if you managed to to read me as a Christian, and concerned about who puts what thing where
But you're not telling me what she should actually do. What choices does she have other than suing?
How about ignoring it?
Or if she wanted to put a screeching halt to it, after her parents posted a photo, she should reply on Facebook, "You should post the ones you took after what you did to me next Daddy!"
My parents would not see me or their grand children again if they post pictures of me on Facebook. It is not a hard rule to follow.
And who knows how much of the story we are getting about this. There might be some strange dynamics going on. I had a wealthy uncle who used to control most of us with threatening to cut us out of his will.
When he tried that with me, I just said "bye!". Then when he did die, he gave it all to his prodigal son, who after a life of loose women and booze, found Jesus and "reconciled with his father. Gave the prodigal son the entire estate, which the son promptly gave to the church.
I fuckin' howled! I still tease my kissass relatives asking how they invested their inheritance from Uncle Bob.
Point is, peeps be trippin'.
Just because you have right to do something doesn't mean it is right to do it.
I'd take them down, then thar would be the last she ever heard of me. "You are no longer in our life, person - is that taking you seriously enough?"
You are correct about not knowing the dynamics of the situation. but if a child of mine ever sued me for anything, it would be the last contact they'd ever have with me.
Well, no one would go to the forbes links.
That's racist! check your privilege!
I checked it - it's still there - like always.
The trouble is, Juncker seems to be just about crazy enough to actually follow through with this. If he does, it's probably going to create a lot of trouble for a lot of people and waste a lot of money before it ultimately fails.
I cannot disagree.
People who have no idea about how computers and files work, trying to tell people how they will work.
Sales aren't the only area affected by the need to keep the money flowing. Research grants work the same way. In order to keep your job you have to produce the data the people with the money are looking for.
I've worked in sales with a quota. I've worked in research.
They don't remotely work the same way. The sales were sales, nothing particulary difficult. My sponsors wanted correct answers, not something that corresponded with their desires. There were no "wrong" outcomes, just abandoned avenues.
For the occasional rogue researcher, there's a path to find out their transgressions. Most take this very seriously, and disgrace can be forever http://time.com/3084494/japane...
Andrew Wakefield lost his career permanently after his conman anti vaccine conspiracy came to light.
Malcolm Pearce did fraudulent work on ectopic pregnancies - presumably transplanting the out-of place embryo into the uterus and resulting in a full term healthy infant A man who signed on as co-author because of being the head of the medical department where Pearce worked, one Geoffrey Chamberlain also lost his career in disgrace.
Dong Pyou Han was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail, and a fine/repayment of 7.2 million dollars.
Now if you will, let us compare disgrace ending in suicide, disgrace ending in lost careers, with the treatment of the head of the unit of Wells Fargo that was doing this sandbagging, Carrie Tolstedt. http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/...
She made the decision to retire after 27 years, and is getting 125 million. Nearly the amount of the fine levied against Wells Fargo. Toltsted profited off the sandbagging, and although Wells Fargo could have elected to demand the fraudulently received money in a device named "clawback", she is keeping the money that was illegally obtained.
And finally, who was punished? It's pretty difficult to call retiring with a 125 million bonus punishment. But the employees who fell to the pressure to do this industry standard dandbagging? Oh - they were fired. Seldom happens to the technicians involved in a research fraud case, unless they were highly complicit
Fscking identical treatment between scientists and the banking industry - damn near exact, eh? Meantime the stockholders are picking up the Wells Fargo tag.
And that's the really weird thing. A huge amount of fraud going on, and people committing the fraud getting away stock free, and people who might have an issue with scientists act like they should be lined up and shot for their malfeasance.Yet appear to think that the bank fraud is just business as usual. I dunno if that's you or not.
Yet you are as rabid as the most religious Apple followers.
And you are projecting. Finding the lack of a design feature that I don't and have never used, as inconsequential, and using a dongle to attach a legacy consumer headphone to it is remarkably in the not a fuck was given category. If I wanted to plug any of my pluggables in to the present iPhone, I'd have to have what you would call a dongle, because 1/4 inch plugs don't fit in any phone that I know of without an adapter. Even if I did want/have to do that, no shit would be given. It doesn't rise to any importance at all.
And I could use an Android phone with no problems other than the conveniences I have by using my iPhone with my Mac at home.
The sort of iTards that see their phone choice as a fashion accessory and a reflection of themselves are fanboys, most users just see it as a tool and have the exact same phone that iTards get so attached to.
You know what a lifeproof case is for an iPhone5? A doublebut ugly nasty looking waterproof thing that I put my iphone in because I do a lot of work around saltwater, and surf fish. I don't think that fits your fanboy iTard fantasy. And aside note is the case requires a special dongle to use any legacy headphone, because the caps over the jack have to have little O-rings to maintain the waterproofing. Fashion accessory my rosy red.
Ooooh your reading comprehension failure strikes again! Nowhere did I say nor imply that you were worried about the headphone jack, try again.
I do kind of expect this kind of thing from a person that is an anonymous Coward
Allow me to repeat to you what you wrote:
there's a difference between iPhone users and Apple fanboys, you're obviously the latter.And the latter are the ones that take criticisms of Apple and it's products as if they are being criticized personally. They defend everything Apple does even in the face of blatant stupidity, like labelling their own removal of the headphone jack as "courageous"
Don't be a dumbass, dumbass. If you lie, I'll call you out on it before ignoring you.
There will be more of this happening, as desperate people make bad decisions in order to keep their jobs.