It's all rumor and hearsay, with some agents saying it'll be fixed in an upcoming patch, others (like mine) saying they've never heard of it and are not allowed to look up news stories about it.
Eh?!?!?! That sounds quite Monty Pythonesque: "You're not allowed to enter the room . . . "
I've heard of all kinds of screwball restrictions on what support folks can do . . . but reading the news . . . ? Oh, my God . . . by reading the news, the support folks might learn the smarts! Then they will organize a union or form a pitchforks and torches gang!
Again, back to the Python: "I could be arguing in my spare time!" . . . "I could be reading the news in my spare time!"
It's all rumor and hearsay
Yeah, that pretty much sums up what the cell phone market is . . . and all it ever will be.
Legal hack back via MazeHunter is more than traditional incident response because the organization can run a payload on the infected machine to engage with the attacker even before the forensics part of the investigation is complete
Well, that might be enough for some primitive folks, but for folks expecting American Defense Quality, I want a system that will attack the hackers before they even think about hacking.
Yeah, sure, you haven't done anything yet, and you are still innocent, but the NSA/CIA/FBI AI models say you WILL be guilty sooner or later, so we might as well take you out right now.
Anyway, when I won my bets instead of getting my kumquats, I get these "quatloos". I want to exchange them for Bitcoin but how?
. . . just trot on up to the chick with the green hair, wearing the tinfoil bikini, armed with a giant can opener . . . she will handle your, . . . um, "exchange" . . .
"So, you're a field researcher? What do you study?"
"Great tits!"
. . . so don't worry about this thread getting labeled "Godwined" . . . with statements like those above, this thread has officiously been labeled "Weinsteined" . . .
I can only assume that $MSFT's lawyers got hired at some point and are trying to drag this thing out as long as humanly possible, hoping that the other side will just get sick of things and walk away.
. . . hey, maybe that is the new Windows Phone Strategy: "Get your two biggest competitors to duke it out court, and hope that one of them dies in the due process . . . "
. . . it would make room for a new Windows Phone . . .
The three Apple patents covered design elements of the iPhone such as its black rectangular front face, rounded corners, and colorful grid of icons for programs and apps.
All of these existed in other prior products, just not together.
I think the "Zero Gravity Toilet" in "2001: A Space Odyssey" had all three in 1968. . .
. . . but it morphed into being optimized for neural network inference (AI).
Gee, and here I was, thinking that the next NSA Vault 7 dumps would reveal that the chip morphed into being an embedded cell phone spy tool for the NSA, FBI, CIA and the Nuclear Boy Scouts of America.
Please forgive my ignorance but what exactly is a 'smart city' ?
Folks are getting dumber every day . . . just listen to the average person blabbing away innocuous nonsense very loudly on their cell phones in public.
So in order to maintain our level of economic prosperity and standard of living, our fearless leaders are making cities smarter to balance out the dumber people.
What GM can do . . . is influence the US government to force the US taxpayer to pay for their incompetence.
Has any American taxpayer thought about how much that bailout cost the average taxpayer, while the GM executives waltz with the Carl Levin family at the finest country clubs.
But GM thinks it can always play the "too big to fail" card.
It's time to call their bluff on that. The US economy will survive without GM, and enable fruitful alternatives to their old school crap.
But then again . . . GM has the lobbyist connections . . .
If a market has one or two dominant companies, then competition can be increased if the "little guys" consolidate to challenge them.
As an American, who grew up and lived there until the mid-80's, the lack of choice for mobile providers in the US has always baffled me. I went through the years when "Ma Bell" was broken up, and the reasons behind it. Where I live in Europe now, I can click on the search for providers button, and can't swing a dead cat around my head without getting at least five.
And the US has just TWO?
My SIM card is paid for by my employer, and we used to have Deutsche Telekom, which had excellent service. Now we use Vodafone which was apparently a better deal for my employer, but has less-than-the-best service. The PolygamousRanchChick uses O2, because they are dirt cheap . . . but have crappy service. So most folks pick and pay for the quality that they want.
In the US, it seems that the choice is either crappy service from AT&T . . . or crappy service from Verizon.
It's time for Jeff Bezos to step in and buy a mobile provider with a motto of, "We will give you good service, at a reasonable price, and treat you nicely".
I'm guessing the duopoly in the US is due to a much too comfortable relationship between telecom lobbyists and government regulators in the US.
. . . you'll be voting for Zuck for President in a few years. Zuck will pay Russia to force Kaspersky to pay Facebook to support him.
. . . and no, Anonymous Coward, we shouldn't be talking about banning bump stocks. That will happen anyway. And you can bump a semi-automatic weapon with a rubber band anyway. And banned bump stocks will still be available anyway from your local crack dealer. The damn things are probably flying off the shelves of gun dealers now. There is nothing like the threat of a ban to increase consumer demand into a frenzy.
That's right. It is a repository for nuclear waste.
. . . and a home to the folks from SHADO (chicks in tinfoil bikinis and purple hair), who are protecting us from an alien invasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All in all, the Moon is a hoot and a half. So tell me Mr. Vice President Pence . . . why do you really want to go there . . . ? I'm guessing that it's NOT for the nuclear waste, chicks in tinfoil bikinis and purple hair or Nazis. I'm thinking that it's the last link . . .
Sure it only went "beep-beep-beep", but it was the first time something went "beep-beep-beep" up there and at least some science was conducted.
Yes, but the "beep-beep-beep" were actually mind control signals that were influencing US elections.
So it was more of a military weapon. The scientific bits were "fake news" measurements that Sputnik just pulled out of its random number generator ass. The scientific bits were just cover for its real mission.
. . . and now, the Russian satellite run by Kaspersky is %&/... carrier lost . . .
Of course, the noisy, crowded, attention-impossible "collaborative" open office trend is just fine.
Where I work, these "open orifices" tend drive folks to work from home whenever possible . . . achieving just the opposite of "collaboration". Folks who used to put in unpaid overtime in the office just don't do it any more. And some folks who have to be in the office camp out in the halls in chairs. If you are a programmer trying to concentrate, a chair in the hall is better than sitting next to a sales person blabbing on the phone all day.
The Age of Disruption will come to the telecom industry . . . when Jeff Bezos buys a telecom. And he won't buy one, until he has some ideas about what a sexy business model would look like.
The folks currently running the telecoms aren't going to come up with any sexy business models. They simply would like to charge customers more without offering anything that customers would really like to pay for.
And when Bezos buys a telecom . . . watch the stocks of other telecoms take a deep dive. Just like with Whole Foods and the other supermarket chains.
It's well known that the productivity difference between someone just starting in software development and someone who is proficient in the art of development can be as much as a factor of 20.
Oh, it gets worse than that. You can have folks who actually have negative productivity.
They build super ingenious bugs that require your best developers to find and fix. Thus, stealing their time from developing, and reducing the overall productivity of the entire project.
Also, these days, a salary of a million dollars is laughable: I want one million billion dollars!
Slashdot Mirror
That's a huge leap away from thermally or x-ray scanning you inside your house,
. . . that contract has already been outsourced to Amazon, but thanks for your interest.
You may apply for other contracts at a later date.
This happened to me. Anyone have a $50,000 a year job in IT in Beijing?
No, sorry, the last offers I saw there were for something like million billion dollars for top developers.
Either you'll have to accept more pay, or look elsewhere.
Wouldn't you want to inspect them before you shut them down?
Nope. You want to shut them down first. Then, the factory managers will be more accommodating as to your bribe money to let them re-open again.
Anyone have a $50,000 per year job for me in Silicon Valley in IT?
Does it have to be in IT . . . ? Otherwise $50,000 per year is what a good housekeeper in Silicon Valley expects.
Your experience at Tesla will be a big plus, since potential employers will think that you are capable of washing their model S . . .
It's all rumor and hearsay, with some agents saying it'll be fixed in an upcoming patch, others (like mine) saying they've never heard of it and are not allowed to look up news stories about it.
Eh?!?!?! That sounds quite Monty Pythonesque: "You're not allowed to enter the room . . . "
I've heard of all kinds of screwball restrictions on what support folks can do . . . but reading the news . . . ? Oh, my God . . . by reading the news, the support folks might learn the smarts! Then they will organize a union or form a pitchforks and torches gang!
Again, back to the Python: "I could be arguing in my spare time!" . . . "I could be reading the news in my spare time!"
It's all rumor and hearsay
Yeah, that pretty much sums up what the cell phone market is . . . and all it ever will be.
Robot Dog Reportedly Announcing New Sony Next Month
Given how deep Sony has fallen in the past years . . . maybe a Robot Dog as the new CEO of Sony might not be such a bad idea . . .
Legal hack back via MazeHunter is more than traditional incident response because the organization can run a payload on the infected machine to engage with the attacker even before the forensics part of the investigation is complete
Well, that might be enough for some primitive folks, but for folks expecting American Defense Quality, I want a system that will attack the hackers before they even think about hacking.
Yeah, sure, you haven't done anything yet, and you are still innocent, but the NSA/CIA/FBI AI models say you WILL be guilty sooner or later, so we might as well take you out right now.
Anyway, when I won my bets instead of getting my kumquats, I get these "quatloos". I want to exchange them for Bitcoin but how?
. . . just trot on up to the chick with the green hair, wearing the tinfoil bikini, armed with a giant can opener . . . she will handle your, . . . um, "exchange" . . .
"So, you're a field researcher? What do you study?"
"Great tits!"
. . . so don't worry about this thread getting labeled "Godwined" . . . with statements like those above, this thread has officiously been labeled "Weinsteined" . . .
60,000 hits? That is amazing.
. . . those Cambridge Boys have got the smarts! They can figure out all the various forces shaping our universe, and important stuff like that.
Unfortunately, the Cambridge Boys seem to have vastly underestimated the power of the force of a good 'ole fashioned Slashdotting . . .
Stephan Hawking could post his toenail clippings, and the demand for those would be overwhelming . . .
I can only assume that $MSFT's lawyers got hired at some point and are trying to drag this thing out as long as humanly possible, hoping that the other side will just get sick of things and walk away.
. . . hey, maybe that is the new Windows Phone Strategy: "Get your two biggest competitors to duke it out court, and hope that one of them dies in the due process . . . "
. . . it would make room for a new Windows Phone . . .
All of these existed in other prior products, just not together.
I think the "Zero Gravity Toilet" in "2001: A Space Odyssey" had all three in 1968. . .
. . . but it morphed into being optimized for neural network inference (AI).
Gee, and here I was, thinking that the next NSA Vault 7 dumps would reveal that the chip morphed into being an embedded cell phone spy tool for the NSA, FBI, CIA and the Nuclear Boy Scouts of America.
Will the city still work if I don't plug it into the internet?
No.
DRM.
Please forgive my ignorance but what exactly is a 'smart city' ?
Folks are getting dumber every day . . . just listen to the average person blabbing away innocuous nonsense very loudly on their cell phones in public.
So in order to maintain our level of economic prosperity and standard of living, our fearless leaders are making cities smarter to balance out the dumber people.
That's really nice of them.
GM can't do it.
What GM can do . . . is influence the US government to force the US taxpayer to pay for their incompetence.
Has any American taxpayer thought about how much that bailout cost the average taxpayer, while the GM executives waltz with the Carl Levin family at the finest country clubs.
But GM thinks it can always play the "too big to fail" card.
It's time to call their bluff on that. The US economy will survive without GM, and enable fruitful alternatives to their old school crap.
But then again . . . GM has the lobbyist connections . . .
Why would it be unusual to see migratory birds going from north to south this time of year?
. . . are you suggesting that coconuts migrate . . . ? What would be the wind velocity, and could they grab it by the husk . . . ?
So I can't be hacked through my cell phone.
One day, you will wake up in your bathtub full of ice cubes, with your liver and kidneys missing, and replaced by cell phones.
Consider yourself "hacked" . . . kinda sorta literally, actually.
If a market has one or two dominant companies, then competition can be increased if the "little guys" consolidate to challenge them.
As an American, who grew up and lived there until the mid-80's, the lack of choice for mobile providers in the US has always baffled me. I went through the years when "Ma Bell" was broken up, and the reasons behind it. Where I live in Europe now, I can click on the search for providers button, and can't swing a dead cat around my head without getting at least five.
And the US has just TWO?
My SIM card is paid for by my employer, and we used to have Deutsche Telekom, which had excellent service. Now we use Vodafone which was apparently a better deal for my employer, but has less-than-the-best service. The PolygamousRanchChick uses O2, because they are dirt cheap . . . but have crappy service. So most folks pick and pay for the quality that they want.
In the US, it seems that the choice is either crappy service from AT&T . . . or crappy service from Verizon.
It's time for Jeff Bezos to step in and buy a mobile provider with a motto of, "We will give you good service, at a reasonable price, and treat you nicely".
I'm guessing the duopoly in the US is due to a much too comfortable relationship between telecom lobbyists and government regulators in the US.
Just having two providers is no choice!
If you get most of your news from Facebook
. . . you'll be voting for Zuck for President in a few years. Zuck will pay Russia to force Kaspersky to pay Facebook to support him.
. . . and no, Anonymous Coward, we shouldn't be talking about banning bump stocks. That will happen anyway. And you can bump a semi-automatic weapon with a rubber band anyway. And banned bump stocks will still be available anyway from your local crack dealer. The damn things are probably flying off the shelves of gun dealers now. There is nothing like the threat of a ban to increase consumer demand into a frenzy.
That's right. It is a repository for nuclear waste.
. . . and a home to the folks from SHADO (chicks in tinfoil bikinis and purple hair), who are protecting us from an alien invasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
. . . and on the dark side of the Moon . . . we have the secret Nazi base: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
. . . and for shits and giggles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All in all, the Moon is a hoot and a half. So tell me Mr. Vice President Pence . . . why do you really want to go there . . . ? I'm guessing that it's NOT for the nuclear waste, chicks in tinfoil bikinis and purple hair or Nazis. I'm thinking that it's the last link . . .
Sure it only went "beep-beep-beep", but it was the first time something went "beep-beep-beep" up there and at least some science was conducted.
Yes, but the "beep-beep-beep" were actually mind control signals that were influencing US elections.
So it was more of a military weapon. The scientific bits were "fake news" measurements that Sputnik just pulled out of its random number generator ass. The scientific bits were just cover for its real mission.
. . . and now, the Russian satellite run by Kaspersky is %&/ ... carrier lost . . .
Of course, the noisy, crowded, attention-impossible "collaborative" open office trend is just fine.
Where I work, these "open orifices" tend drive folks to work from home whenever possible . . . achieving just the opposite of "collaboration". Folks who used to put in unpaid overtime in the office just don't do it any more. And some folks who have to be in the office camp out in the halls in chairs. If you are a programmer trying to concentrate, a chair in the hall is better than sitting next to a sales person blabbing on the phone all day.
But that's not a sexy business model.
The Age of Disruption will come to the telecom industry . . . when Jeff Bezos buys a telecom. And he won't buy one, until he has some ideas about what a sexy business model would look like.
The folks currently running the telecoms aren't going to come up with any sexy business models. They simply would like to charge customers more without offering anything that customers would really like to pay for.
And when Bezos buys a telecom . . . watch the stocks of other telecoms take a deep dive. Just like with Whole Foods and the other supermarket chains.
It's well known that the productivity difference between someone just starting in software development and someone who is proficient in the art of development can be as much as a factor of 20.
Oh, it gets worse than that. You can have folks who actually have negative productivity.
They build super ingenious bugs that require your best developers to find and fix. Thus, stealing their time from developing, and reducing the overall productivity of the entire project.
Also, these days, a salary of a million dollars is laughable: I want one million billion dollars!