What happened is that the pop-up question happened while they were working, stole focus and diverted input to the question window, and "ate" the characters that they were typing. One or more of the characters was interpreted as a "yes" response, the question window disappeared, and the user never even saw it. They were reading what they were typing and not looking at the screen.
The result was "what happened to my typing?" and some re-typed text, but no awareness of accepting any such thing.
Microsoft is wrong, they just don't know it. They don't seem to test much nowdays. And they probably don't have any "naive testers" at all, anymore.
Facebook presents information in return for the customers attention. They then sell that attention to advertisers for money. Just because the customers don't pay in dollars doesn't mean there are no damages for fraud, it just makes it harder to calculate.
And don't get into "The law doesn't cover it so I can do what I want". The law is a "gentlman's agreement" about peaceful ways to solve arguments, if it breaks down you will be trying to out run a bullet!
Fox news got real popular real quick, when people found that it was a lot less biased than the mainstream news organizations. Who had dedicated themselves to the idea that the intellegent should lead the dumb masses by the nose. What the mainstream news didn't realise was that they themselves were not the "intellegent".
... Either way, here's a suggestion: allow citizens to vote for (or against) multiple candidates.
This is actually an excellent idea. It's called "approval voting" and it avoids all of the problems with "splitting" the vote. You can vote for all that you could stand, and not vote for all that you hate. No candidate would win just because people voted for a different candidate. Multiple parties would be encouraged.
It has been used by organizations such as the I.E.E.E for years, and works fine. But changing to it can be a mess because people have to be taught what it means.
And, of course, Incumbent politicians use the current system to keep new parties out.
You are right, virtually every news organization is guilty of trying to manipulate their readers/viewers. They should all be taken down "a peg or two".
News should be news, opinion should be marked as opinion. Slanting the news is fraud and lying, and should be marked as such! 8-P
Well, if Facebook is smart, they'll bring this up and drag the rest of the fuckers through the mud with them.
Yes, that makes it a good place to start "pulling the string" to untie this mess!
The FCC has rules about fraud and false news, but they have to be careful of "free speach" issues. Maybe they can find some crime in this, now. Or at least make it known that the news lies... 8-P
... "Lower cost areas" which is double-speak for "right-to-work states", where unions are much less powerful....
"Lower cost areas" which is double-speak for "right-to-work states", where unions are considered to be Yankee CarpetBaggers.
Fixed that for you!
I grew up in South Carolina. Even the workers don't like "foreigners" coming in to take over control. They consider the Unions to be worse than the Corporations.
Or, was the W7 code actually signed, until one of the Windows updates? Like, Oops that's not supposed to support that- lets take it back out to "fix" it. It's actually happened before, years ago in XP.
How is the real story here not that ASUS's Secureboot implementation is horribly broken and if that's the case WTF else is wrong with their BIOS?
I think they are saying that Windows 7 -did- support secure boot, until one particular Windows update installed a bootloader that was not signed. That sounds like "enemy action" to me.
As in: "Once is chance, twice is coincedence, but three times is enemy action!"
They could always, you know, check the hardware against a list of ASUS boards known to have issues, i.e. the ones with UEFI secure boot. Then if the user has said hardware, give them a warning that the update could cause the PC to not boot.
I think the answer to that is to quote an old saying: "If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the next woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
A few years back when they lowered all of the speed limits to 55 mph, there was serious talk of making auto manufacturers limit the speeds of the cars to 55 mph. Lucky for all of us it did not pass.
The Interstate highway is specified to allow 120 mph as a design point for banking and curve radius. Of course conjested areas are not expected to run that, but they still do the banking and radius as far as practical.
Imagine plodding around on a 120 mph highway at 55 mph... in an emergency like you wife is having a baby?
There should be a law against people who say "there should be a law" ! 8-)
Windows 10 now runs on 270 million computers. 260 million of them installed without permission. 250 million of them are trying to get their old system back...
I plan to get Windows 10 when I get a new computer... in about six years. If Microsoft is still alive. 8-(
It's not like a test at school where you have to predict the winner. It's a count of how many like which ideas.
Votes for a lesser candidate are noticed by the other candidates, because voting is usually so close that those votes could cause them to win or loose. The ideas of the lesser candidate are picked up and examined as something the other candidates maybe should adopt. It influences the other candidates thinking, and that of the media and many others.
Always vote. Write in someone that is known, if you can't vote for one on the list.
There is a reason for the electoral college, "one person one vote" would leave the cities perminantly in charge. So the country would be run by the insane. Obviously no sane person would live in a big city! 8-P
Also, it has been proved mathematically that breaking the vote into sections actually gives each person more power to change the final outcome. Look it up...
... He learned english, german, an arabic dialect and farsi, an persian dialect. However, until he was about 6 he never spoke a single word. The parents thought he was mute.
At certain event, the persian cook sent him to tell his mother that she needs more potatoes from the cellar, from that moment on he spoke all 4 languages fluently and talked as if never anything was wrong.
Some kids do this, particularly if they have siblings that "translate" their needs for them, so they don't really have to talk at first.
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Ok, how about:
"There ought to be a law against people that say "there ought to be a law"! 8-)
Many people did not consent, at all.
What happened is that the pop-up question happened while they were working, stole focus and diverted input to the question window, and "ate" the characters that they were typing. One or more of the characters was interpreted as a "yes" response, the question window disappeared, and the user never even saw it. They were reading what they were typing and not looking at the screen.
The result was "what happened to my typing?" and some re-typed text, but no awareness of accepting any such thing.
Microsoft is wrong, they just don't know it. They don't seem to test much nowdays. And they probably don't have any "naive testers" at all, anymore.
Facebook presents information in return for the customers attention. They then sell that attention to advertisers for money.
Just because the customers don't pay in dollars doesn't mean there are no damages for fraud, it just makes it harder to calculate.
And don't get into "The law doesn't cover it so I can do what I want". The law is a "gentlman's agreement" about peaceful ways to solve arguments, if it breaks down you will be trying to out run a bullet!
Fox news got real popular real quick, when people found that it was a lot less biased than the mainstream news organizations. Who had dedicated themselves to the idea that the intellegent should lead the dumb masses by the nose. What the mainstream news didn't realise was that they themselves were not the "intellegent".
So in Trump's case, we know for sure who the rich guy -is-! That's a good thing.
Trump played the media like a cheap violin. 8-P
To quote an old saying:
"A competent crook will do less damage than an incompetent idealist."
If we can just prevent him from starting major wars...
... Either way, here's a suggestion: allow citizens to vote for (or against) multiple candidates.
This is actually an excellent idea. It's called "approval voting" and it avoids all of the problems with "splitting" the vote.
You can vote for all that you could stand, and not vote for all that you hate. No candidate would win just because people voted for a different candidate. Multiple parties would be encouraged.
It has been used by organizations such as the I.E.E.E for years, and works fine. But changing to it can be a mess because people have to be taught what it means.
And, of course, Incumbent politicians use the current system to keep new parties out.
Trump played the media like a cheap piano. He might not be as dumb as he looks...
You are right, virtually every news organization is guilty of trying to manipulate their readers/viewers. They should all be taken down "a peg or two".
News should be news, opinion should be marked as opinion. Slanting the news is fraud and lying, and should be marked as such! 8-P
If Congress is "considering" making a law, then they have the right to investigate. That's pretty wide...
The first ammendment does not protect fraud and lying. There are already laws against such, they just are not enforced much.
What Facebook did constitutes fraud, fooling people about the news in order to make money.
... Always good to have choice in this world and not have every country marching to the same band.
This is true. 8-)
Well, if Facebook is smart, they'll bring this up and drag the rest of the fuckers through the mud with them.
Yes, that makes it a good place to start "pulling the string" to untie this mess!
The FCC has rules about fraud and false news, but they have to be careful of "free speach" issues. Maybe they can find some crime in this, now.
Or at least make it known that the news lies... 8-P
... at what point are an intern and an engineer "scientists?"
When, and if, they follow the scientific method.
And also, Engineers know a lot more about what is real than any "scientist".
Of course, just because someone calls themselves an engineer, or a scientist, doesn't mean they really are.
... Is everybody driving a gasoline vehicle with an automatic transmission automatically "not a very good driver"?
Yes, actually!
And get off of my lawn! 8-P
... "Lower cost areas" which is double-speak for "right-to-work states", where unions are much less powerful....
"Lower cost areas" which is double-speak for "right-to-work states", where unions are considered to be Yankee CarpetBaggers.
Fixed that for you!
I grew up in South Carolina. Even the workers don't like "foreigners" coming in to take over control. They consider the Unions to be worse than the Corporations.
Or, was the W7 code actually signed, until one of the Windows updates? Like, Oops that's not supposed to support that- lets take it back out to "fix" it. It's actually happened before, years ago in XP.
I guess I better check my ASUS Mother Board...
How is the real story here not that ASUS's Secureboot implementation is horribly broken and if that's the case WTF else is wrong with their BIOS?
I think they are saying that Windows 7 -did- support secure boot, until one particular Windows update installed a bootloader that was not signed. That sounds like "enemy action" to me.
As in: "Once is chance, twice is coincedence, but three times is enemy action!"
They could always, you know, check the hardware against a list of ASUS boards known to have issues, i.e. the ones with UEFI secure boot. Then if the user has said hardware, give them a warning that the update could cause the PC to not boot.
I think the answer to that is to quote an old saying:
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the next woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
A few years back when they lowered all of the speed limits to 55 mph, there was serious talk of making auto manufacturers limit the speeds of the cars to 55 mph. Lucky for all of us it did not pass.
The Interstate highway is specified to allow 120 mph as a design point for banking and curve radius. Of course conjested areas are not expected to run that, but they still do the banking and radius as far as practical.
Imagine plodding around on a 120 mph highway at 55 mph ... in an emergency like you wife is having a baby?
There should be a law against people who say "there should be a law" ! 8-)
Windows 10 now runs on 270 million computers. 260 million of them installed without permission. 250 million of them are trying to get their old system back ...
I plan to get Windows 10 when I get a new computer ... in about six years. If Microsoft is still alive. 8-(
Running Antivirus or any other unneeded software on a critical medical computer is Wrong.
Connecting a critical medical computer to any network, that would make Antivirus necessary, is Wrong.
Having the Medical software crash because it could not access data is Wrong.
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Beware, it is not going to be long before companys, and even individuals, will be sued for things like this. It already happens in other fields.
Votes are never wasted !! 8-)
It's not like a test at school where you have to predict the winner. It's a count of how many like which ideas.
Votes for a lesser candidate are noticed by the other candidates, because voting is usually so close that those votes could cause them to win or loose. The ideas of the lesser candidate are picked up and examined as something the other candidates maybe should adopt. It influences the other candidates thinking, and that of the media and many others.
Always vote. Write in someone that is known, if you can't vote for one on the list.
There is a reason for the electoral college, "one person one vote" would leave the cities perminantly in charge. So the country would be run by the insane. Obviously no sane person would live in a big city! 8-P
Also, it has been proved mathematically that breaking the vote into sections actually gives each person more power to change the final outcome. Look it up...
... He learned english, german, an arabic dialect and farsi, an persian dialect. However, until he was about 6 he never spoke a single word. The parents thought he was mute.
At certain event, the persian cook sent him to tell his mother that she needs more potatoes from the cellar, from that moment on he spoke all 4 languages fluently and talked as if never anything was wrong.
Some kids do this, particularly if they have siblings that "translate" their needs for them, so they don't really have to talk at first.
... So...get rid of management? Because the two are mutually exclusive.
No, just the "pointy-haired managers", who are not actually managers at all!
Real managers are necessary and helpful.