No it isn't. Windows failure to segment "Administrator" from "General Purpose User" for most of the last 25 years is.
"Windows killed my Pappy!"
MS fixed that shit almost 10 years ago. FFS, enough already.
Click through access does nothing for security whatsoever except make people feel good. The user gets used to clicking through without thinking and you have the same vulnerability anyway.
People are unlikely to "click through" ads, which is 100% the point here. YouTube is already ready for a post-Flash world. It's the advertising industry that needs a kick in the crotch (not that that will every be untrue, but here there's even more reason).
Most people do, they open up their MyFaceTinderFoxTwit app and see the latest story about how the $600 privacy enhanced device they bought has been falsely marketed because Hobbyist Tom discovered the circuit is still closed even with the off switch engaged. Then, they take their pos device back and buy a different one that Hobbyist Tom confirmed the off switch IS actually an off switch.
Oh the circuit is open, but that other circuit Tom didn't see, because the traces aren't on an inner layer of the circuit board, those are still closed. Also, Tom had an unfortunate accident while cleaning his gun.
What I want to see as standard in all devices is a very visible hard switch for camera and microphone that will physically turn it off. If I want to have a private conversation, turn off the microphone. If I don't want video of me walking around naked in the living room being on the Internet, then flip the switch. I don't trust software switches... because they can be remotely switched by hackers. I mean an actual physical switch that sits between the microphone and camera and the rest of the device.
The NSA also loves this idea. "Now he thinks he's switching off the camera."
Amazon's selection of "stuff you can watch without pay-per-view" is utter shit. The whole appeal of Netflix is that it's a monthly sub, not PPV. donotwantdog.jpg
Also, we need to close the loopholes that let companies hide earnings overseas instead of making it easier for them to profit from these arrangements.
Easy to say, unlikely to happen. Anyhow, we want the corporation to spen dthat money more than we want to tax that money, so there's an easy fix there.
Hmm, maybe instead of taxing corporate earnings, we could move to some form of taxing profits only when the cash is hoarded, giving a strong incentive to spend it or return it to stockholders (which gets it taxed).
Which goes to the point: it's not the abundance of CGI that's the problem, it's the lack of practical effects. Practical effects help bring the actors into the movie, which in turn helps bring the audience in.
The actors reacting appropriately to the effects is quite important (as any B-movie knows: if you can't afford the effect, just focus on the reaction and skip the shot). It's really hard for even good actors to react appropriately to something they can't see.
Ah, so you're not talking about "the wealthy", you're talking about corporations. Those corporation would spend that money immediately if they saw a way to get a return on it exceeding taxes. Couple of ways you could fix that, but I'd like to see tax-preferential treatment of dividends, to encourage companies to return profits to stockholders (the way things worked until to 70s or so). Also, we need to end the massive tax barrier to bringing overseas cash back to the US.
you missed 'Does upper management keeps more for the shareholders
Total earnings of all publicly held corporations in the US are roughly 7% of total salaries in the US, so they're keeping roughly 15% for shareholders. That hasn't changed much in the past 30 years. Harder to say for small businesses, but then it's harder to separate labor form capital there.
Another term for 'labor shortage' is 'salary increase', and nobody's seeing that happen.
Obviously false, as salaries are going up in some fields.
But we're looking at an average across a large population. Are fewer people going into fields that pay well? Is there less need for highly skilled workers? Are low-paying jobs paying less, and that's dominating? (I think that's true.)
But why are you getting less? Too many Grievance Studies majors? Companies seeking skilled labor, from developers to the skilled trades, are still see labor shortages, so why the disparity? Too few skilled workers? Too much immigration?
The UK in particular had a huge wave of immigration, which may have destroyed the ability to make a living wage from unskilled labor, and put a lot of pressure on semi-skilled workers. Is that the problem?
Or maybe we have a generation that never learned to stick it out through adversity to get to the goal? Maybe. Point is, everyone thinks they're getting screwed, but only losers rest behind "the man is keeping me down, and there's nothing I can do".
"Ethics", "scruples", and "moral law" are all synonyms, unless we're into the technical jargon of moral philosophy. You're arguing about the basis for ethical first principles, but the GPP never made any assertions about that, religious or otherwise.
Jobs that won't exist in the future: * truck driver - the trucks will be self-driving, including deliver trucks * cashier - stores and restaurants will be self-checkout * short order cook - a machine will do it * taxi driver * garbage man
Wrong on most of these, I think. * Truck driver - trucks that are anything beyond a van body will still have drivers, such as anything construction-related * Cashier - we've had good self-checkout for a decade now: what's going to change? * Short order cook - highly skilled labor (this is very different from fast food cooks) * Garbage man (partially) - the trucks already have lots of automation, and commonly there's just the driver now, but he does a lot of "exception management" - like a dump truck driver, not going away any time soon
Until 2003 the, the Turkish military actually had the constitutional power to dissolve the government. The military acting to restore a secular government is a long tradition in Turkey - this isn't a banana republic-style coup. This is part of the traditional (and until recently, constitutional) power of the Turkish military.
Maybe the people are just unclear about the idea of satellite photography? This is the popular press, after all, they might simply not realize that's how it works these days..
OneDrive is MS's consumer offering. Azure has some sort of storage offerings for business. And you should know you're being a dick if your consuming orders of magnitude more of a free service than most people do. Abusing the hospitality of your host is a poor life strategy.
It's all just virtue signalling. America now votes along class lines more than ideological lines. Trump represents working class people who (gasp!) likely didn't even go to college. Can't have that sort of embarrassment, no way, we must appear sophisticated above all else!
Thus far MS has been remarkably restrained about that sort of thing. Even Outlook.com does a very half-hearted sort of "ads based on your email", and they don't seem to be in the business of creepy-stalker tracking cookies like Google and Facebook. I think they have a different business model in mind.
It's really a shame MS burned all possibly goodwill with the WIn10 upgrade nonsense, as they could have been the one service you trusted not to creep into your privacy. Too bad, really, as I think that was their last chance to avoid Novell's fate
Obsessive pedantic nerds use language in a different way than normal people. English is not a programming language. Most normal people understand that "unlimited" means "but don't be a dick".
Any cloud storage service worth a shit stores your data in more than one datacenter, and possibly in more than one place in each DC (though for consumer cloud storage, probably only one of those levels). Plus the meta-data takes more space than you think. Plus there are only so many drivers per server, and those servers aren't doing anything else.
So, yeah, depending on how much redundancy the back-end has, $0.25/gig could be lower than reality. (BTW, 4GB drives are still the bulk buy of choice, and the big guys don't tend to buy the cheapest consumer drives, as replacing failed drives isn't free.)
Basic rule of thumb for "stored reliably with full redundancy" is 10x the cheapest storage you can buy at Fry's, though consumer cloud storage very probably has less redundancy.
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The standard practice in most places is to give the cop one more "pile-on charge" so he can ticket whoever he feels like for any reason.
No it isn't. Windows failure to segment "Administrator" from "General Purpose User" for most of the last 25 years is.
"Windows killed my Pappy!"
MS fixed that shit almost 10 years ago. FFS, enough already.
Click through access does nothing for security whatsoever except make people feel good. The user gets used to clicking through without thinking and you have the same vulnerability anyway.
People are unlikely to "click through" ads, which is 100% the point here. YouTube is already ready for a post-Flash world. It's the advertising industry that needs a kick in the crotch (not that that will every be untrue, but here there's even more reason).
IE just won't play flash unless you have the latest, as far as I can tell.
Edge will, well, no matter what it does you're still doing it on Edge.
Lynx has successfully blocked Flash since 1992 - everyone else is that far behind.
Most people do, they open up their MyFaceTinderFoxTwit app and see the latest story about how the $600 privacy enhanced device they bought has been falsely marketed because Hobbyist Tom discovered the circuit is still closed even with the off switch engaged. Then, they take their pos device back and buy a different one that Hobbyist Tom confirmed the off switch IS actually an off switch.
Oh the circuit is open, but that other circuit Tom didn't see, because the traces aren't on an inner layer of the circuit board, those are still closed. Also, Tom had an unfortunate accident while cleaning his gun.
What I want to see as standard in all devices is a very visible hard switch for camera and microphone that will physically turn it off. If I want to have a private conversation, turn off the microphone. If I don't want video of me walking around naked in the living room being on the Internet, then flip the switch. I don't trust software switches... because they can be remotely switched by hackers. I mean an actual physical switch that sits between the microphone and camera and the rest of the device.
The NSA also loves this idea. "Now he thinks he's switching off the camera."
Yes, I only see those google ads when I go to any google site, ot on TV, or buses, or billboards, but not my dreams!
They're forgetting the "iTunes lesson": you only make money when you compete successfully with torrents.
Amazon's selection of "stuff you can watch without pay-per-view" is utter shit. The whole appeal of Netflix is that it's a monthly sub, not PPV. donotwantdog.jpg
Also, we need to close the loopholes that let companies hide earnings overseas instead of making it easier for them to profit from these arrangements.
Easy to say, unlikely to happen. Anyhow, we want the corporation to spen dthat money more than we want to tax that money, so there's an easy fix there.
Hmm, maybe instead of taxing corporate earnings, we could move to some form of taxing profits only when the cash is hoarded, giving a strong incentive to spend it or return it to stockholders (which gets it taxed).
Which goes to the point: it's not the abundance of CGI that's the problem, it's the lack of practical effects. Practical effects help bring the actors into the movie, which in turn helps bring the audience in.
The actors reacting appropriately to the effects is quite important (as any B-movie knows: if you can't afford the effect, just focus on the reaction and skip the shot). It's really hard for even good actors to react appropriately to something they can't see.
Ah, so you're not talking about "the wealthy", you're talking about corporations. Those corporation would spend that money immediately if they saw a way to get a return on it exceeding taxes. Couple of ways you could fix that, but I'd like to see tax-preferential treatment of dividends, to encourage companies to return profits to stockholders (the way things worked until to 70s or so). Also, we need to end the massive tax barrier to bringing overseas cash back to the US.
you missed 'Does upper management keeps more for the shareholders
Total earnings of all publicly held corporations in the US are roughly 7% of total salaries in the US, so they're keeping roughly 15% for shareholders. That hasn't changed much in the past 30 years. Harder to say for small businesses, but then it's harder to separate labor form capital there.
No one is sitting on a big pile of cash except drug dealers. Where do you get these ideas?
Another term for 'labor shortage' is 'salary increase', and nobody's seeing that happen.
Obviously false, as salaries are going up in some fields.
But we're looking at an average across a large population. Are fewer people going into fields that pay well? Is there less need for highly skilled workers? Are low-paying jobs paying less, and that's dominating? (I think that's true.)
But why are you getting less? Too many Grievance Studies majors? Companies seeking skilled labor, from developers to the skilled trades, are still see labor shortages, so why the disparity? Too few skilled workers? Too much immigration?
The UK in particular had a huge wave of immigration, which may have destroyed the ability to make a living wage from unskilled labor, and put a lot of pressure on semi-skilled workers. Is that the problem?
Or maybe we have a generation that never learned to stick it out through adversity to get to the goal? Maybe. Point is, everyone thinks they're getting screwed, but only losers rest behind "the man is keeping me down, and there's nothing I can do".
"Ethics", "scruples", and "moral law" are all synonyms, unless we're into the technical jargon of moral philosophy. You're arguing about the basis for ethical first principles, but the GPP never made any assertions about that, religious or otherwise.
Jobs that won't exist in the future:
* truck driver - the trucks will be self-driving, including deliver trucks
* cashier - stores and restaurants will be self-checkout
* short order cook - a machine will do it
* taxi driver
* garbage man
Wrong on most of these, I think.
* Truck driver - trucks that are anything beyond a van body will still have drivers, such as anything construction-related
* Cashier - we've had good self-checkout for a decade now: what's going to change?
* Short order cook - highly skilled labor (this is very different from fast food cooks)
* Garbage man (partially) - the trucks already have lots of automation, and commonly there's just the driver now, but he does a lot of "exception management" - like a dump truck driver, not going away any time soon
Until 2003 the, the Turkish military actually had the constitutional power to dissolve the government. The military acting to restore a secular government is a long tradition in Turkey - this isn't a banana republic-style coup. This is part of the traditional (and until recently, constitutional) power of the Turkish military.
Oh, no, no, you naive one. We're no where near peak dystopia. No where near.
Maybe the people are just unclear about the idea of satellite photography? This is the popular press, after all, they might simply not realize that's how it works these days..
OneDrive is MS's consumer offering. Azure has some sort of storage offerings for business. And you should know you're being a dick if your consuming orders of magnitude more of a free service than most people do. Abusing the hospitality of your host is a poor life strategy.
It's all just virtue signalling. America now votes along class lines more than ideological lines. Trump represents working class people who (gasp!) likely didn't even go to college. Can't have that sort of embarrassment, no way, we must appear sophisticated above all else!
Thus far MS has been remarkably restrained about that sort of thing. Even Outlook.com does a very half-hearted sort of "ads based on your email", and they don't seem to be in the business of creepy-stalker tracking cookies like Google and Facebook. I think they have a different business model in mind.
It's really a shame MS burned all possibly goodwill with the WIn10 upgrade nonsense, as they could have been the one service you trusted not to creep into your privacy. Too bad, really, as I think that was their last chance to avoid Novell's fate
Obsessive pedantic nerds use language in a different way than normal people. English is not a programming language. Most normal people understand that "unlimited" means "but don't be a dick".
Any cloud storage service worth a shit stores your data in more than one datacenter, and possibly in more than one place in each DC (though for consumer cloud storage, probably only one of those levels). Plus the meta-data takes more space than you think. Plus there are only so many drivers per server, and those servers aren't doing anything else.
So, yeah, depending on how much redundancy the back-end has, $0.25/gig could be lower than reality. (BTW, 4GB drives are still the bulk buy of choice, and the big guys don't tend to buy the cheapest consumer drives, as replacing failed drives isn't free.)
Basic rule of thumb for "stored reliably with full redundancy" is 10x the cheapest storage you can buy at Fry's, though consumer cloud storage very probably has less redundancy.