Based on the adverts I've seen for this service, it looks like it is first-and-foremost a browser-based keylogger anyway, with the copy editing features just being the hook to get people to install (and pay?) for the 'service'. The 'bug' is probably just that actors other than paying companies and intelligence agencies can get free access to the data.
Sounds like what Google themselves are offering in syncing with your phones. They also record and track everything you write on the internet, but it isn't spyware, it is a feature!
We trust all kinds of software with everything, or a reasonable approximation of everything, that we type. E.g. Office365, Google...
I am just so relieved that this commercial browser extension that effects, by my rough count, approximately 1 out of every 500 people on earth (assuming Grammarly's user counts are accurate) and offers a feature that just about everybody has no use for at all has been fixed.
A browser extension used by 1/500 people on earth??? That's pretty awesome market penetration.
Just being able to lift seniors in and out of bed, or readjusting the sheets, (without hurting the caregiver's back) would be a real boon to caregivers.
I'm a big guy myself, I know how to lift properly, but I still hurt myself taking care of my elderly mother (even though, home hospice care lent us a motorized hospital bed). And I can't imagine nurses doing this kind of work for very long if they hurt their lower back or get carpal tunnel syndrome after just a few weeks.
Great for those of us who assist disabled people too.
... I hope it's been improved since Apple took it over.
Beats took over MOG, which was great. Beats UI was horrible, so I dropped it (or rather didn't switch to it - they didn't even do a real migration) and went with Spotify.
This is a clear glimpse into the machinations of the corporatocracy wishing to impose their totalitarian vision of the future.
Give me a break. It isn't the "corporatocracy" that came up with idea of packing everybody into apartment blocks and getting rid of private cars, all in the name of enviro-benefits, planning, fairness, etc. It's just that previously they were envisioning buses.
This is the urban planner's wet dream. That Uber supports it because it benefits them is a minor detail.
msmash does the write up... absurd title (yeah, I guess you could say they "criticize" surveillance being abused to try to win and then to overturn an election)... the usual +5 "the real villains are the Republicans... er... somehow... " comments.
You're talking like every word in there is the God's honest truth. The guy who wrote it is a full-fledged climate-change denying Trump supporter. He could easily have written the same nonsense for Breitbart and released it instantly. However, as head of a House committee he was instead able write his partisan screed under its aegis, get it approved on party line votes, then turn around and play like his own committees' rules are some kind of giant conspiracy of silence.
When you click a link in your browser to navigate to a new site, the site you go on to visit receives the address of the site you came from, via the so-called "referrer value."
This is how the web has always worked and it's a public specification. There's nothing so called or nefarious here.
The why is simple - the flow for paying with PayPal is terrible. It involves logging in multiple times to multiple different services, being bounced off eBays web page, to pay pal's web page, all kinds of crazy shit going on. This lets ebay just have a sane payments form like every other eCommerce site ever.
The "crazy" flow is the whole point.
Instead of trusting every retailer on the internet with your "secret numbers" (plus the super secret number on the back of the card! lol), you just bounce to PayPal, and log in there with your - wait for it - PayPal secrets, on PayPal's own site. Then bounce back to the retailer to complete the transaction.
All you've authorized is the one transaction you are doing right now, and the retailer never gets your secrets that would allow them to charge your account anytime they want for as much as they want. Like they would get if you use a credit card.
A few seconds thought and even non-technical people can see how this is more secure, much more secure.
I don't want people to think they can get away with this crap because nobody wants to talk badly about somebody who also happened to do good things. If we did that the Cosby Show would still be in syndication.
And Bill Clinton would still be a respected politician and historical figure.
for moral absolutism. If we can't look back and say "That was wrong and they shouldn't have done it" then we don't really have a compelling argument against the behavior in question.
I assume that goes across cultures too... good.
So you care about the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. And with all the recent "refugees", right here in the West. You wouldn't tolerate improper treatment of women among them, would you? You are outraged about that too, right? I'll wait...
I look forward to your campaign to reform American rap music too.
Anyone care to explain how personal indiscretions affect his achievements in developing "a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history"?
Not 20 years ago Christian fundamentalists were mocked and pilloried
Yes... surely.
for ramming their morals down people's throats and following some stupid rule book.
Ah yes, I remember all that Christian theocracy we were subject to in 1998. Like it was yesterday;) People getting fired left and right, purges everywhere, hashtags galore, the prayers and hymns at the Emmys, the Oscars, ah, good times...
Mazda's engine achieves a compression ratio of 14 to 1 which I think is spectacular for a road going car. It's the same as their diesel which has evolved in the other direction.
Racecars can get higher compression but their idle is very high, which avoids low rev knocking and they use higher octane.
Come on guys, is nobody interested in the mechanics of this thing?
No, heretic! This is Slashdot, not some un-woke techie site!!
They intentionally lose money, and they use their market clout to enter new markets and drive existing competition under so they can capture marketshare, and so we assume they will raise prices once the competition is gone.
I keep hearing that, but the assumed last step never seems to happen.
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Based on the adverts I've seen for this service, it looks like it is first-and-foremost a browser-based keylogger anyway, with the copy editing features just being the hook to get people to install (and pay?) for the 'service'. The 'bug' is probably just that actors other than paying companies and intelligence agencies can get free access to the data.
Sounds like what Google themselves are offering in syncing with your phones. They also record and track everything you write on the internet, but it isn't spyware, it is a feature!
We trust all kinds of software with everything, or a reasonable approximation of everything, that we type. E.g. Office365, Google ...
I am just so relieved that this commercial browser extension that effects, by my rough count, approximately 1 out of every 500 people on earth (assuming Grammarly's user counts are accurate) and offers a feature that just about everybody has no use for at all has been fixed.
A browser extension used by 1/500 people on earth??? That's pretty awesome market penetration.
a feminist's wet dream, a world without male privilege where everyone is equal (because everyone is female and identical clones)
But who would they blame for everything???
Just being able to lift seniors in and out of bed, or readjusting the sheets, (without hurting the caregiver's back) would be a real boon to caregivers.
I'm a big guy myself, I know how to lift properly, but I still hurt myself taking care of my elderly mother (even though, home hospice care lent us a motorized hospital bed). And I can't imagine nurses doing this kind of work for very long if they hurt their lower back or get carpal tunnel syndrome after just a few weeks.
Great for those of us who assist disabled people too.
Zuckerberg for president! He would be so much better than the thin skinned narcissist we have now ... oh, wait.
... I hope it's been improved since Apple took it over.
Beats took over MOG, which was great. Beats UI was horrible, so I dropped it (or rather didn't switch to it - they didn't even do a real migration) and went with Spotify.
You get #metoo tweets displayed to you every time you look at something you shouldn't ...
This is a clear glimpse into the machinations of the corporatocracy wishing to impose their totalitarian vision of the future.
Give me a break. It isn't the "corporatocracy" that came up with idea of packing everybody into apartment blocks and getting rid of private cars, all in the name of enviro-benefits, planning, fairness, etc. It's just that previously they were envisioning buses.
This is the urban planner's wet dream. That Uber supports it because it benefits them is a minor detail.
msmash does the write up ... absurd title (yeah, I guess you could say they "criticize" surveillance being abused to try to win and then to overturn an election) ... the usual +5 "the real villains are the Republicans ... er ... somehow ... " comments.
Yep, good old Slashdot.
You're talking like every word in there is the God's honest truth. The guy who wrote it is a full-fledged climate-change denying Trump supporter. He could easily have written the same nonsense for Breitbart and released it instantly. However, as head of a House committee he was instead able write his partisan screed under its aegis, get it approved on party line votes, then turn around and play like his own committees' rules are some kind of giant conspiracy of silence.
What part of it do you think is false?
When you click a link in your browser to navigate to a new site, the site you go on to visit receives the address of the site you came from, via the so-called "referrer value."
This is how the web has always worked and it's a public specification. There's nothing so called or nefarious here.
Inevitable, but still spooky.
And yes, I'm horrified by the treatment of the refugees coming here. They're escaping genocide.
The "refugees" coming here mistreat women. It's literally their creed.
The why is simple - the flow for paying with PayPal is terrible. It involves logging in multiple times to multiple different services, being bounced off eBays web page, to pay pal's web page, all kinds of crazy shit going on. This lets ebay just have a sane payments form like every other eCommerce site ever.
The "crazy" flow is the whole point.
Instead of trusting every retailer on the internet with your "secret numbers" (plus the super secret number on the back of the card! lol), you just bounce to PayPal, and log in there with your - wait for it - PayPal secrets, on PayPal's own site. Then bounce back to the retailer to complete the transaction.
All you've authorized is the one transaction you are doing right now, and the retailer never gets your secrets that would allow them to charge your account anytime they want for as much as they want. Like they would get if you use a credit card.
A few seconds thought and even non-technical people can see how this is more secure, much more secure.
Ironically, they accept paypal too :p - https://www.adyen.com/pricing/...
Good - I hate trusting random sites with my payment details.
I don't want people to think they can get away with this crap because nobody wants to talk badly about somebody who also happened to do good things. If we did that the Cosby Show would still be in syndication.
And Bill Clinton would still be a respected politician and historical figure.
for moral absolutism. If we can't look back and say "That was wrong and they shouldn't have done it" then we don't really have a compelling argument against the behavior in question.
I assume that goes across cultures too ... good.
So you care about the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. And with all the recent "refugees", right here in the West. You wouldn't tolerate improper treatment of women among them, would you? You are outraged about that too, right? I'll wait ...
I look forward to your campaign to reform American rap music too.
Guess it's time to vilify him too.
But some animals are more equal than others ...
Anyone care to explain how personal indiscretions affect his achievements in developing "a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history"?
Because "social justice", heretic!!
Not 20 years ago Christian fundamentalists were mocked and pilloried
Yes ... surely.
for ramming their morals down people's throats and following some stupid rule book.
Ah yes, I remember all that Christian theocracy we were subject to in 1998. Like it was yesterday ;) People getting fired left and right, purges everywhere, hashtags galore, the prayers and hymns at the Emmys, the Oscars, ah, good times ...
Mazda's engine achieves a compression ratio of 14 to 1 which I think is spectacular for a road going car. It's the same as their diesel which has evolved in the other direction.
Racecars can get higher compression but their idle is very high, which avoids low rev knocking and they use higher octane.
Come on guys, is nobody interested in the mechanics of this thing?
No, heretic! This is Slashdot, not some un-woke techie site!!
I hate Trump and the FCC chairman. How do I know which to oppose on this? ;)
I hate neither, but you beat me to archly pointing out that heads like yours would explode, lol
Don't replace me with automation or I'll go on strike!?
It's that UPS can't implement this all at once. The union can still hurt them for awhile.
So, the Dems are reduced to the sales pitch of "we are easily phished"?
They intentionally lose money, and they use their market clout to enter new markets and drive existing competition under so they can capture marketshare, and so we assume they will raise prices once the competition is gone.
I keep hearing that, but the assumed last step never seems to happen.